He's got hold of between twenty and thirty papers and instructions in as many different jobs, and some as to putting a man or two out of the way and he's gradually completing chains of evidence which, if we let him go on, will reach to me as sure as the sun will rise. For more information on eScripts, please visit our (HOLMES makes a quick turn to her, with sudden exclamation under breath. After holding on for two good years just for this and now the time comes and she's blocked us! Ze cellaire of zat house. PRINCE: I consider that you've treated me damned outrageous, that's wot I do, and ye won't hear the last of this very soon. HOLMES (goes to WATSON above table. ), (MADGE repeats slight affirmative motion. HOLMES (mutters after nodding): A trifle! Oh well! Enter PARSONS.). CRAIGIN (low, deep voice, intense): You'll 'ave to wait a bit, Mr. 'Olmes. LARRABEE: No! LARRABEE (looking at HOLMES across the table): I selected this places Mr. Holmes, because I thought you might not be disposed to take such liberties here as you practised in my own house last night. MADGE (without looking up from paper): Which maid was it? (Sneeringly.) Suddenly catches sight of revolver on table pause and putting hat on table.). WATSON suddenly enters and sees PRINCE in centre door and stops, with a bottle in his hand, and looks at PRINCE.). LARRABEE (angrycrossing to desk): Well, what about pleasing me? All the proofs everything. He might not want , PRINCE (turning to her,): I tell yer, 'e'll come into anything that gives 'im a chance at 'Olmes he wants ter trap 'im that's wot is an just what he'll do (Resumes work), (PRINCE works rapidly, drill going in suddenly as if he had one hole sunk. (She turns and starts to go. ), MORIARTY (passionately but in a low tone): You will never bring me to see it. Wot's the pay if 'e didn't? BILLY: Yes, sir! HOLMES rises, moves his chair back a little, standing with his hand on it.). LARRABEE: Stay where you are and you'll see them very soon. WATSON takes letter and up to lamp. Of course, you do not imagine there is anything more (She does not look at him as she says this). I can find another place; eet eez not so difficult. (Turns back), (Enter TRESE She comes into and stands a little way inside the room). Cue, as MORIARTY looks at BASSICK.). This page was last modified on 1 December 2018, at 19:56. He mutters to himself) Enter FORMAN quietly. LARRABEE: Ha! Since you last came that night and asked me to give them to you, I have thought of what you said. Neither of the other men take notice of PRINCE. MADGE comes to her. BILLY: Yes, sir, thank you, sir. MORIARTY (turns and points as if at something directly over footlights) And that door? by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I don't find anything wrong. Force of habit in their intense excitement.). But do not tell her that I know this packet and its contents to be counterfeit. CRAIGIN: Well then I'll 'ave to give you one same as I did yer right-'and man this afternoon. (Moves easily about recalling dear old times.) HOLMES: If you can! MADGE and LARRABEE start back with subdued exclamation. I was more than anxious to come, only the doctor has forbidden me seeing anyone but when Cousin Freddie said I might come, of course that fixed the responsibility on him, so I have a perfectly clear conscience. Various odd things are hung about. Do this to-night in Baker Street! Their dialogue since opening of safe has dropped to low excited tones, almost whispers, as they would if it were a robbery. (To TRSE) Be so good Mademoiselle as to listen to every word. Pause. Enter LARRABEE, with a revolver in his hand, followed by MADGE. You will find (He stops, recollecting himself as HOLMES looks at him changes to quieter tone.) SIR EDWARD: After your positive assurance! Enter SID PRINCE. Use it only for what you wish! LEARY: Who was the last you put the gas on? to the character in a play." Megan Mooney - Blogto.com July 2008. (Business at safe.) +1 (212) 540-9330 (Looks about.) Get them out! (PARSONS puts portmanteau down as indicated.). HOLMES (turning and interrupting): Yes, she did, Watson. (All turn in surprise and look at MORIARTY.) ), LARRABEE: It was over there Homburg was the place. (Turns back to WATSON. I fear me zere is trouble Messieurs ze butlair you assesstant ze one who sent me to you . (HOLMES nods "Yes" to WATSON. (Suddenly seeing cigarettes on desk.) She clung to me I could feel her heart beating against mine and I was playing a game! You must give me some reason! Keep quiet there till he gets in the house then come round to the front. There's somebody 'urt, sir, an' they're a-wantin' you! LARRABEE: Oh it isn't so specially dark. MADGE gives a quick glance about and at HOLMES who is lighting a cigarette at the gas, and apparently not noticing anything. He tries a few tools in it and quickly starts another hole with drills. WATSON looks at him surprised. (Sneer.) MORIARTY (perfectly quietlooks at LARRABEE an instant): I am not so sure but I shall be able to do that as well. They wanted the things out of the way. I'll give you a turn next time that'll take it out of you. BILLY: 'E can't come up, sir 'e's a-watchin' a man in the Street. Sherlock Holmes and The Emerald of Alcazar by Geoff Bamber PRINCE: Oh, then you won't need me 'ere again. FORMAN (speaks always very quietly): Pardon, ma'am, but one of the maids wishes to speak with you. BASSICK goes to MORIARTY'S desk at once and stands. You can't tell! Looking off quietly. PARSONS all through this Act closes the door after his exit, or after showing anyone in. (ALICE looks in his face a moment longer and then down.). Slight pause.). LARRABEE reads the note hastily.). Some very choice pictures and etchings hang on the walls here and there, but the pictures do not have heavy gilt frames. (Moves towards opening.) WATSON, after short pause, looks round room, not observing that window shades are up. WATSON: That's singular. So when this girl up an' dies of it all, these letters and things all fall into the 'ands of the sister which is the one my friends 'ere has been nursin' all along together with 'er mother. Price. Quieter and more orderly. 70 likes, 0 comments - Long Beach Playhouse (@longbeachplayhouse) on Instagram: "OPENING THIS WEEKEND! Sherlock Holmes on stage. Now that this is all over, I suppose you imagine that your room will no longer be required. Pulls out watch and glances at it. ha! (Motion of head towards desk. Solve the Egyptian equation; witness the Montague murders; fear the Legend of Loch Logarth and close Holmes' final chapter.All four original Sherlock Holmes scripts of 'The Holmes and Watson Series', written in the style of the classic Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce films.'The Sherlock Holmes Scripts' also features a bonus additional scene, 'Mrs Hudson Speaks' and an introduction by Holmes . JOHN drops handkerchief. (Takes PRINCE by the arm. Looks crooked at the start! PRINCE: But if I do 'ear the two whistles? (The two look at one another an instant. You understand! Don't let anyone see it! ), WATSON: An ugly bruise, but not dangerous. But I know as well what I am and what you are , (ALICE begins to draw nearer to him gradually, but with her face turned front. I see from many things that you are not untidy in the least, and therefore I am compelled to conclude that the failure of Trse is due to something else. The scoundrels are hot on my track. LARRABEE does not see FORMAN at first, but happening to turn discovers him standing there and speaks a warning word to MADGE under his breath. (Listensspeaking into tube.) WATSON moves toward SIR EDWARD and the COUNT at the back of HOLMES. It's too bad. (Rings bell.). Sit down and be quiet. LARRABEE: Well hardly! Good evening, sir. (The three men retire. MORIARTY: This is an absolute certainty. You managed to strike down one of your assailants with a stone or piece of timber and escaped from the others in the dark crawling out through a coal grating. You are totally uninformed on every subject! PROFESSOR MORIARTY'S underground office. EDDIE MARSAN Sherlock Holmes, eh? HOLMES (after a pause): We'd better have a look at that man, Billy, show him up. BASSICK: What did you do when you discovered this? PRINCE: Well, then, if she's got the thing out of the box there ain't it quite likely she's sent 'em along to the girl as 'e wants to marry. Melodramatic. 3 Act II 3.1 Scene 1 : PROFESSOR MORIARTY'S Underground Office. PARSONS: No, sir. ), MADGE: Yes, next time (HOLMES is looking at them.) At the sound of the bolts LARRABEE looks round at door very sharply, realizing that they are all locked in. LARRABEE: Well, he did get them, but he passed them back to the Faulkner girl. Do look in on her a moment it will please her so much. Here's something, sir. ALICE is looking at HOLMES with astonishment and horror. BASSICK: But this meeting to-night at twelve, to trap Holmes in the Gas Chamber in Swandem Lane. MORIARTY has stopped with right hand near his throat, seeing HOLMES' business with revolver. Let me assure let me assure you (voice trembles) that the worst is yet to come. I beg your pardon but (Goes to her and takes her hand delicately looks at red marks on her wrist. pp Agitato), (Hold this an instant where they stand looking at one another, ALICE beginning to see she has been trapped.). PRINCE: Nothing whatever, except I've got a job on as I wants to see 'im about in the mornin' Read it yourself. They've put Holmes on the case! She gives slight cry of pain. ), HOLMES (screaming after him): Then bring your cab in here. HOLMES: Very much indeed, Miss Faulkner, but I am sorry to see (placing chair near her) you are far from well. PRINCE: That different. CRAIGIN is sitting on a box. If not, permit me to wish you a very good evening. WATSON: Be careful to make no mistake about the medicine. I'm not sure that! Door communicating with bedroom or dining-room. A thrilling, funny, fast-paced contemporary reimagining of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Go away now, boys, there's no more work for you to-night. (Eyes front.) To-night at twelve o'clock I meet Mr. Larrabee and purchase from him the false bundle of letters to which you just now heard us refer, as you were listening at the keyhole of the door. ), (FORMAN bows slightly and goes. You must think us very untidy, I'm sure. Surely, sir, you do not mean by that, that there is a possibility you may not be able to recover them! (Strolling about laughing.) Scene 1: PROFESSOR MORIARTY'S Underground Office. Any little thing that you've got, that you want? HOLMES (rising): Mr. Larrabee, strange as it may appear, my time is limited as well as yours. HOLMES (rising..): I am glad to somewhat repair my shattered reputation, and as a reward, will Miss Faulkner be so good as to play me something of which I am particularly fond? MADGE goes a step to him with extended hand. HOLMES (during business): Who sent him down? Cast: Minimum of 5F, 7M, 8 Either. MORIARTY comes slowly forward. I have heard that you are planning to take a little trip you and your friend here a little trip on the Continent. HOLMES (writing cigar in mouth): That's very kind of him, I'm sure. What fool would . I must have that. (Motionless pause all round. ), an investigation that shall certainly take place if you or your wife presume further to interfere with my business (Turns to FORMAN.) (LEARY turns and swings the lantern near window so that MORIARTY can see.). ALICE: I knew it. I saw that myself, sir. B String.). SIR EDWARD (excitedly): This packet contains nothing not a single letter or paper that we wanted. Books, music, violins, tobacco pouches, pipes, tobacco, etc., are scattered in places about the room with some disorder. PARSONS appears outside door, showing some one to the room. No sound of bell heard, the music supposed to make it inaudible. Door communicating with doctor's inner medicine room. ALICE: Yes. (At door.) And now, at the close of April, I find myself placed in such a position through your continual interference that I am in positive danger of losing my liberty. LARRABEE seeing HOLMES start toward door of cupboard springs up to head him off), (But HOLMES has the door torn open and ALICE FAULKNER out before LARRABEE gets near.). All I want of you is to go down on the corner below and let me know when he comes. ), (CRAIGIN. Pause. HOLMES remains standing. BILLY: Yes sir! He is very pale. (Rises.). HOLMES: Unless I am greatly mistaken the said communication is at hand. LEARY is sitting on table his feet on the chair in front of it. (Points up, back to audience. Sherlock Holmes 10 Minute Plays - The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia It fell off the table an' everything down there is blazin', sir. HOLMES just above table stops taking off his dressing gown, slips it back on shoulders again. No! LARRABEE (step or two up): What business is this of yours, I'd like to know? ALICE (stops before him): You wouldn't dare to keep me here. 90 minutes. All this dialogue in very low tones, but distinct and Impressive. ), (VON STALBURG gives an exclamation or look with foregoing.). She'll be there I'll be here! An' if there's a slip and the police get wind of it there ain't never any 'old on 'im. PARSONS (trying to recollect): I can't say as I recollect 'avin' seen 'er before. Help page. Short Story Lesson - "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" Helen Stoner asks Sherlock Holmes for his assistance after she began hearing a whistle in the middle of the night; the same whistle her twin sister heard before she mysteriously died. Door does not close. HOLMES: Quite so. (Pointing over shoulder.) You'd be in the way. Do you imagine I would take a house, and bring this girl and her mother here and keep up the establishment for nearly two years without protecting myself against the chance of petty blackmail by my own servants? LARRABEE: Yes and you'll find out in a very short time that it isn't safe to meddle with me! MORIARTY: Something like six hundred short on that last haul, isn't it? You don t know how you've encouraged me! MADGE: It's all right, Jim. FORMAN: Yes, sir! It didn't look like anything serious. Pause. He stands near door a moment. ALICE (with some timidity): Is this is this Doctor Watson's room? Enter it and the driver will bring you to my friend's house. That girl! CRAIGIN (threateningly): Werry sorry sir but I cawn't wait till morning Its got to be settled to night. The Sherlock Holmes Short Stories | Collections | Lit2Go ETC (Music. (As he holds ALICE.) He's Professor Moriarty's confidential man. ), LARRABEE: Why, I've been offered four thousand for this little. He is a middle-aged man, with massive head and grey hair, and a face full of character, overhanging brow, heavy jaw. LARRABEE: Ha! (Starting as if to go. This movement is only a step or two. (ALICE at once looks at the card in her hand. WATSON (approaches HOLMES): Breakfast is food. Speaks to LARRABEE from door): You understand, sir, we're on this floor just around the far turn of the passage so 'e won't see us as 'e's commin' up. MADGE (hesitating): But I I may be of some use doctor. It's Doctor Watson, sir. He deed not come back. MADGE: I'm really most charmed to meet you although it does look as if you had made me come down in spite of myself, doesn't it? On the 4th of January you crossed my path on the 23rd you incommoded me. (Looking toward BASSICK).
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