Speaker 1: Carry it, hey capital, my dear Watson, let us return
Speaker 1: to our humble a bone two to one be Baker Street, Kevin.
Speaker 2: From London. We present Shoscombe Old Place by Sir Arthur
Speaker 2: Kenan Doyle, adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick, with Carton
Speaker 2: Hobbs as Shellock Holmes and Norman Shelley as doctor Watson.
Speaker 1: You know something of racing, don't you, Watson?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 1: Or do I pay for over about half the wool pitrool?
Speaker 4: Then I'll make you my handy guide to the third.
Speaker 4: Does the name Sir Robert Norburton recall anything actiously? He
Speaker 4: lives a shostom Old Place. My summer quarters were down
Speaker 4: there one then, But you know Norberton Nelly came within
Speaker 4: your province once.
Speaker 1: Oh how is that?
Speaker 4: It was Whinny Horseman, Sam Brow Curtain Street money lender
Speaker 4: on New Morgan.
Speaker 1: He he killed him. He sounds interesting because he often
Speaker 1: indulged in that way.
Speaker 4: He has the name of being a dangerous man, one
Speaker 4: of those fellows who overshot that true generation. He should
Speaker 4: have been a Regency buck, a great eye for the ladies,
Speaker 4: boxer athlete and about the most dead evil rider.
Speaker 1: In the country. Came second in the Grand National a
Speaker 1: few years back.
Speaker 4: They say that what he's lost on the turf has
Speaker 4: got himself far down Queer Street.
Speaker 1: Did you may never find his way back again?
Speaker 4: Capital Watson an admirable thumb nail sketch. Now can you
Speaker 4: give me some idea of susk place? Well, only this
Speaker 4: is in the middle of Shoskhmbe Park in Berkshire. The
Speaker 4: Fostan started in training quarters of that, and.
Speaker 1: The head trainer is John Mason the England's surprise, My
Speaker 1: dear Watson, he was due, yes, some minutes ago. But
Speaker 1: do let us have some more about suscan I seem
Speaker 1: to have struck a rich maid. Well of the Shastan
Speaker 1: stammals you hear of him whatever he does.
Speaker 4: They're the special pride of the lady of foscom Old
Speaker 4: place for Robert Norburton's wife. Oh no, no, he's never married.
Speaker 4: Just as well as think considering his prospect. He lives
Speaker 4: with his widow's sister, Lady bertru Spoulder. Matter of fact,
Speaker 4: the place belonged to her late husband Norburton has no.
Speaker 1: Claim on it at all. When she dies, it reverts
Speaker 1: to her husband's brother, so she only has a life
Speaker 1: interest in. That's right.
Speaker 4: She draws the rents and Norburton spends them.
Speaker 5: Still i've heard she's a verted to him.
Speaker 1: But what's the miss austen Home. Ah, that's just what
Speaker 1: I want to do. And here I expect is the
Speaker 1: man who can tell us that's amazing. This is my venom, colleague,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson. Already do sir? What do you know? You
Speaker 1: had my note with Ron, Yes, but it explains nothing.
Speaker 1: It's too delicate thing to put the details on paper,
Speaker 1: too complicated. Well, here we are at your disposals. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, mister Romes, I think my employer, Sir
Speaker 1: Robert norburn And has gone mad. This is Baker Street,
Speaker 1: mister Bison, not Harley Street. But why do you say that? Well, sir,
Speaker 1: when a man does one odd thing or two odd things,
Speaker 1: there may be a meaning to it. But when everything
Speaker 1: he does is odd and he begins to wonder, I reckon.
Speaker 1: The Showscombe Prince and the Derby have turned his brain
Speaker 1: between him. Showscomb Prince is a coach. The Robin is entered.
Speaker 1: It's the best in England. An if you'll know, if
Speaker 1: anyone does know, I be playing with you gentlemen now,
Speaker 1: because I know this won't go beyond the room, Sir.
Speaker 1: Robert has got to win this derby. He's up to
Speaker 1: his neck. This is his last chance. Everything he can
Speaker 1: raise or borrow is on that horse, and a fine
Speaker 1: odds too. That's but how's that, mister Mason of the horse?
Speaker 1: As good as that? Well, the public don't know how
Speaker 1: good he is, doctor Watson. So Robert's too clever for
Speaker 1: the text. He is the Prince's art right for spins,
Speaker 1: he can't tell him apart, but there are two lengths
Speaker 1: in the prolong between. Then when it comes to a gallop, know, Sir,
Speaker 1: his whole life is on the Prince. If he fails him,
Speaker 1: he's done. It seems not a desperate gamble. But where
Speaker 1: does the madness coming? Well, first of all, he's only
Speaker 1: got to look at him. He's always a while, He's
Speaker 1: turned the stables at all hours. And there's the way
Speaker 1: he behaves to Lady Beatrice. But they've always been the
Speaker 1: best of friends. She loves the horses as much as
Speaker 1: he does. Well, he shows come Prince. When he heard
Speaker 1: her coming, he tron out of the carriage for his
Speaker 1: number sugar every time her. But that's all over now.
Speaker 1: But she seems to have lost all interest for a
Speaker 1: week now, she's just driven past the stables. Well so
Speaker 1: much as a good morning? Do you think there's been
Speaker 1: a quarrel? A bitter quarrel, if you ask me, sir,
Speaker 1: what else would he give away her pet spaniel? She
Speaker 1: loved it as if it were a child. But he
Speaker 1: gave it away a few days ago to old bards.
Speaker 1: What keeps the green dragon down at Crendle? Of course,
Speaker 1: with her weak heart and drops he she couldn't get
Speaker 1: a bat with the Robert, but he used to spend
Speaker 1: a couple of hours with her in her room every evening.
Speaker 1: That's all over to He never goes near her. She
Speaker 1: takes it to Archer. It's all changed, mister Holmes. Everything's changed,
Speaker 1: and something going on, mark my words. There's something more
Speaker 1: then that. There is her. Night after night the Master
Speaker 1: sneaks home down to the crypt of the old church.
Speaker 1: Oh it's an old, ruined chapel in the park, all right,
Speaker 1: d damn place. It is too bad enough by day.
Speaker 1: There's not many in our parts. But think of going
Speaker 1: there by night haunted, no doubt all you might he smile,
Speaker 1: mister Holmes, Which has had a bad name amongst us
Speaker 1: for generations. Any Wait, there he goes every night. Wait
Speaker 1: or fine, you interest me more, monster Mason. But how
Speaker 1: do you know? Well it was my head. Lad Stevens
Speaker 1: knows him sneaking out first of all, and told me
Speaker 1: it's none of our business. Perhaps you'll say, but we
Speaker 1: went after him. We waited behind him, Bush saw them
Speaker 1: go inside the crypt. Does this jumping work all right? Fred?
Speaker 1: Could be a bad job worth of these spots.
Speaker 6: There's no respector of persons when he gets started.
Speaker 1: Still, I mean see this out. Oh, you can't see
Speaker 1: much from here. I think we can go inside and
Speaker 1: take a.
Speaker 6: Look on your life. Here is for sure much we
Speaker 6: can do, then, said, follow him home again.
Speaker 1: We'll never know. You might be carrying something to give
Speaker 1: us some idea, and watch help. He's coming out now.
Speaker 1: They will keep down in you'll come past this. But
Speaker 1: you'll like, well, his ends were empty, So where does
Speaker 1: that get it? We don't know. We could We could
Speaker 1: take a look inside now he's gone inside. Oh I
Speaker 1: don't know, Oh, John, I one' mind. Come on, the
Speaker 1: master can go in there, I reckon. We can.
Speaker 6: Might not rest easy till we get to the bottom
Speaker 6: of this wait out here for me if you.
Speaker 1: Like, I'll come. Well, she's no want here, don't want nothing.
Speaker 1: We can we get him picked he what's that over there? Huh?
Speaker 6: When here?
Speaker 1: Well, that's funny. It's boone boone, and its cause he
Speaker 1: just too. You've been down here before, Fred, once or twice,
Speaker 1: and in daylight. No, And I was here some time
Speaker 1: back when Master sent Tiggins to see those shipsies one
Speaker 1: camping out in the place, and these weren't here? Then
Speaker 1: are you sure? Starting John? Might be itsy? You don't reckon?
Speaker 1: No o. They're old bones. These will be un years
Speaker 1: old where they come from. Oh should anyone drag them
Speaker 1: out and leave them lying around? This beats me, Fred,
Speaker 1: It beats me, and beat both of us. Who did
Speaker 1: mister Rooms? You left the bones then, hi, lying in
Speaker 1: a corner with a bit of old board over them
Speaker 1: and armisted rooms. Take a look at this, huh? A
Speaker 1: piece of the bones? No, sir, not them. This was
Speaker 1: a day or two later. There's a peaching furnace under
Speaker 1: Lady Birch's room. It had been off for some time,
Speaker 1: but Sir Roberts started complaining about the coal, so we
Speaker 1: started up again. And the other morning and one of
Speaker 1: the boys was raking out the cinders he found this bone.
Speaker 1: You can see it's been burnt. What do you make
Speaker 1: of this, Patson? Hm, well, it's.
Speaker 4: Human, all right, you have a condyle of a human
Speaker 4: female exactly. And mister Mason put anyone who wanted to
Speaker 4: visit the fence.
Speaker 1: Hi, sir, there's a door from outside, and there's another
Speaker 1: tword step from a passage where Lady Birch's room is.
Speaker 1: It was the Roberts at home the night before the
Speaker 1: boy found this bone. Er No, sorry, won't he gone
Speaker 1: off to London?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 1: Whoever was burning burns? If it's not he, that's trouser. Well,
Speaker 1: these are steep waters, indeed deep and rather dirty. Have
Speaker 1: you think, Martster tell me no, sir, I think, sir,
Speaker 1: that's about all Robert a few questions. Then, when did
Speaker 1: Sir Robert give away his sister's gone just a week ago?
Speaker 1: To date her? It was hardy outside the old wellous
Speaker 1: and so Robert was in one of his tantrums that
Speaker 1: day he caught it up. I thought he'd have killed it,
Speaker 1: but he gave it to one of the jockeys and
Speaker 1: said to take it to all bars of the green Dragons.
Speaker 1: He said he never wanted to see it again. Thank you. Now,
Speaker 1: who keeps lady Diatris fold her company most of the time?
Speaker 1: Lets her maid Carrie. She's been with her about five years,
Speaker 1: and he's new. That diverted to our mistress. Well, she's
Speaker 1: devoted enough, but I'd rather not say who too. Well,
Speaker 1: I can't tell table that thoughts her and Cledoni the
Speaker 1: stay from doctor Watson's description of Sir rober Dyckon realize
Speaker 1: that no woman is safe from him. Don't you think
Speaker 1: the quarrel between brother and sister may lie there? Oh,
Speaker 1: this has been pretty clear for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but she may not have seen it before. However, this guest,
Speaker 1: the accounts to Charred Bones and these mysterious visits to
Speaker 1: the crypt is a good fishing in that thought of
Speaker 1: Berkshire fishing. Fishing, mister Mason, will they retract on the
Speaker 1: mill stream and fike in you all lake? That's good
Speaker 1: on them. Watson and I are famous fisherman, are we not, Watson?
Speaker 4: Well, precisely, in fact, you may address us in future.
Speaker 4: At the Green Dragon. I think you said it was
Speaker 4: called amazing. We should reach it tonight. And he'd hardly
Speaker 4: say that we'd better not be seen with you down there,
Speaker 4: but a note will reach us if you want us. Yes,
Speaker 4: thank you, mister Barnes. My friend and I are very comfortable,
Speaker 4: indeed very comfortable. Hey, what do you think about the
Speaker 4: whole lake and the chance of a fight.
Speaker 1: It's all? Oh no, all that one talter that or
Speaker 1: you might chance to find yourselves in the lake before
Speaker 1: you were done. Well, it's sir Robert Norburton, Sir, he's
Speaker 1: terrible jealousy out big pardon sir, But a few two
Speaker 1: strangers were near his training quarters. Is that he'd be
Speaker 1: after you? Sure is right? He ain't taken no chances,
Speaker 1: Sir Robert. Bit I think I did hear that he
Speaker 1: has a horse entered for the dob Ah, And how
Speaker 1: good cult it isn't all he's carrying all our money,
Speaker 1: and Sir Roberts too. By the way, gentlemen begging your pardon?
Speaker 1: That is I suppose you ain't on the turf yourselves.
Speaker 4: Oh no, indeed, that's two weary Londoners who said it
Speaker 4: needs some good box.
Speaker 1: Well you're in the right place for that. It's a
Speaker 1: good David at nine about But mind what I said
Speaker 1: about put strokes first and speaks after. Well, thank you, gentlemen. Oh,
Speaker 1: mister Barnes, I wanted to ask you what breed is
Speaker 1: that beautiful spaniel I saw in the passage just now?
Speaker 1: I say that's the real shock, gum breed. That there
Speaker 1: ain't out better in England than that. Really, I'm quite
Speaker 1: a dog fancy on myself. If it's a fair question,
Speaker 1: what price would a dog like that castle? Oh? More
Speaker 1: than I could pay her? It was, Sir Robert himself
Speaker 1: will give me this what No, that's why you saw
Speaker 1: he was toyed up. He need be off backed doll
Speaker 1: in a jiffy before give him his head. Well, now
Speaker 1: where you'll excuse me, gentlemen, Well.
Speaker 6: Watson may get you some cards in my hands and
Speaker 6: we may see our way in a day or two.
Speaker 1: We're moblingly there from London soon possibly. I think we
Speaker 1: might do well to enter the sacred domain tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: Infect it'll reduce the risk of bodily assault with hinstill
Speaker 1: away and.
Speaker 7: That I want two points, I should I reassure, have
Speaker 7: you any see her homes only this Something happened a
Speaker 7: week or two ago which has cut deep into the
Speaker 7: life of the Shoscombe houself, Oh what was it?
Speaker 1: We can only get at it from its effect, and
Speaker 1: they seem to be of a curiously mixed character. But
Speaker 1: that should surely help us. It's only the colorless, uneventful case,
Speaker 1: which is hopeless true enough as well, let us consider
Speaker 1: our data. The brother no longer visits the belaved invalid's sister.
Speaker 1: He gives away her favorite dog, her dog Watson. Does
Speaker 1: that suggest nothing to you? Nothing with the brother's spite?
Speaker 6: Well it might be so, or well there is an alternative.
Speaker 1: But to continue our review of the situation from the
Speaker 1: time of the quarrel began, the lady keeps her room, walters,
Speaker 1: her habits, is not seen save when she drives out
Speaker 1: with her maid, and refuses to stop at the stables,
Speaker 1: even to greet her favorite horse.
Speaker 6: That covers the case.
Speaker 1: Does it not saver the business in the crypt?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, the crypt. But let us suppose it is
Speaker 1: nearly a scandalous supposition, a hypothesis put forward for argument's sake.
Speaker 1: But let us suppose that Sir Robert Norburton has done
Speaker 1: away with his sister. My dear home is down of
Speaker 1: the question that it possibly wasn't that it. Possibly he's
Speaker 1: a man of honorable stock, but you do occasionally find
Speaker 1: a carrion crow among the eagles. Let us argue upon
Speaker 1: this supposition for a moment. Old he's utterly in debt
Speaker 1: and may at any moment be sold up in his
Speaker 1: racing stable, seized by his creditors. That he's a daring
Speaker 1: and desperate man. He derives his income from his sister.
Speaker 1: His sister's maid is his willing tool. So far we
Speaker 1: seemed to be out fairly safe ground, do we not grandon?
Speaker 1: But he could not fly the country until he had
Speaker 1: realized his fortune, and that fortune could only be realized
Speaker 1: by bringing off his wind's shostkun Prince. Therefore, if he
Speaker 1: had disposed of his sister, he would still have to
Speaker 1: stand his ground. He would have to get rid of
Speaker 1: her body in some way, with the maid as his confident.
Speaker 1: Don't that would not be impossible. The body might be
Speaker 1: conveyed to the crypt, which is so seldom visited, and
Speaker 1: it might later be secretly destroyed at night in the furnace,
Speaker 1: leaving behind it such evidence as we have seen.
Speaker 3: Let's say you to that mll. It's all possible if
Speaker 3: you've got the original supposition. But that's monstrouls. I think
Speaker 3: there's a small experiment which we might try tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It may throw some lighte on the letter. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: if we intend to keep up our characters, I suggest
Speaker 1: be called for a glass of wine and pulled some
Speaker 1: high contrasts upon eels and bays. And that's what the.
Speaker 8: Morning, gentlemen. Why mister Barnes, you're a fish and longer
Speaker 8: for this? Well, as a matter of fact, mister Barnes,
Speaker 8: my friend here for rather foolish.
Speaker 1: We forgot to pack our spoon bait for Jack and
Speaker 1: as we gathered there's none of the had hereabouts. We'll
Speaker 1: just have to forget about.
Speaker 4: It was only an excuse to get away from London
Speaker 4: Rail who we shot miss it?
Speaker 1: Well, perhaps you'll think of taking a walk instead, some
Speaker 1: very nice walking in these parts there is, as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, that's just fucked there off to do now.
Speaker 1: I was wondering to my friend, but you mightn't be
Speaker 1: persuaded to let us take that dog of yours along
Speaker 1: with us. Well, I don't see why not at all, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: If you could be bothered with him, I wouldn't. He'll
Speaker 1: be glad of the exercise. I don't seem to get
Speaker 1: ten minutes to call me on these days. It will
Speaker 1: be a pleasure. I think we need the exercise as
Speaker 1: much as the dog does.
Speaker 4: This is the FaceTime ages. Yeah, those are the gates,
Speaker 4: the entrance to shost them old place. I learned that
Speaker 4: the old lady's carriage comes from here almost precisely every
Speaker 4: midday as she starts out for her drive, you having
Speaker 4: from Gin there. More than that, the carriage has to
Speaker 4: slow down while the gates are being open for her.
Speaker 4: Now when it comes through them, before I gather speed again,
Speaker 4: I want you to stop the coachman in some question.
Speaker 4: I shall stand behind this holly bush and see what
Speaker 4: I can see, and I think I shall also accidentally
Speaker 4: loose my hold of this good dog's lead.
Speaker 1: But quickly, Watson, I can see the carriage and the byway.
Speaker 1: Now I do know what to do for them. Oh no, Mike,
Speaker 1: I say, pardon me. Let her couldn't tell me he's
Speaker 1: the Robert Normanton at home to day. I sorr, I
Speaker 1: ain't back from London yet. I see right there, Wait, good,
Speaker 1: right on by a way? You come here, boy, come here,
Speaker 1: you are too valuable for lose. Well, Watson, that's done.
Speaker 4: It cause no excitement. Well what did you see? There
Speaker 4: just seemed to be two of them in there? They
Speaker 4: made perhaps some of the old lady in Ye, yes, Watson,
Speaker 4: well the dog exactly. He recognized his mistress's carriage, but
Speaker 4: found a stranger inside it. Dogs don't make mistakes. But
Speaker 4: did you notice anything else?
Speaker 1: I did think that voice, the one that called him
Speaker 1: to drive on, sounded remarkably like a man, and revetted
Speaker 1: one more card to my hand. But it needs careful
Speaker 1: playing all the same. I think we'll arrange for another
Speaker 1: rondeble this evening with our friend mister John Mason. And
Speaker 1: what better place than the crypt I can't stay very long,
Speaker 1: mister Wones. Robert inspect him back any minute. Oh very well,
Speaker 1: mister Nason. But before you go, could you show us
Speaker 1: the bones you still call hire In this corner you
Speaker 1: were showing your lantern, notter Watson saying it's queer. They
Speaker 1: call as I expected. I don't understand her. I don't
Speaker 1: say the ashes of them might even have we found
Speaker 1: in that Pennie who told us about why in the
Speaker 1: world would anyone want to burn the bones? And the
Speaker 1: man has been dead, maybe older for a year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what we're here to find out. It made me
Speaker 1: in a long set and we need not detain you.
Speaker 1: I don't see. We shall get our solution before morning. Then,
Speaker 1: good sir, and I'll be off if you don't mind.
Speaker 1: I don't want master to for me missing. Thank you,
Speaker 1: mister Nation. You'll hear from it soon enough. Now, Watson,
Speaker 1: let us have a closer look at some of these tools.
Speaker 1: What do you hope to find? Homes? I said, what
Speaker 1: do you hope to find? Ah?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Every year? A coffin.
Speaker 4: Little legs a little bit and unless I'm very much
Speaker 4: mistaken recently tempered with, just let me get my legs
Speaker 4: to it. Ah, Yes, as I thought, when someone has
Speaker 4: tried and succeeded, I should say, Hm, I think I
Speaker 4: think we shall now do the same, with the assistance
Speaker 4: of my trusty Jimmy.
Speaker 5: Now just a poor Waton, if you please send me
Speaker 5: heavy now this oh, this is an ancient corpse homes.
Speaker 5: This is listen, someone's coming and.
Speaker 1: Who's the devil? May you ben? What are you doing
Speaker 1: on my propaly? I also had a question to ask you, sir,
Speaker 1: Robert Nordton, who are you, I say, out with it
Speaker 1: or by by me? Is Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes. Possibly
Speaker 1: it is familiar to you, But in any case, my
Speaker 1: business is that of every other good citizen to uphold
Speaker 1: the law. It seems to me that you have much
Speaker 1: to answer forsa rabbit. No it does. For instance, whose
Speaker 1: buddy is this? And what is it doing here? Very well,
Speaker 1: mister Holmes, everything can be explained. I'll show you. Everything's
Speaker 1: all right. I'm pleased to hear it.
Speaker 9: Appearances are against me, I'll admit, but I could act
Speaker 9: no otherwise.
Speaker 1: I should like to think.
Speaker 9: So, oh, come up to the house, pleace, and you
Speaker 9: can judge for yourself how things tan. You have gone
Speaker 9: pretty deeply into my affairs and to homes, doctor Watson.
Speaker 9: I should not have found you where I did. So
Speaker 9: you know in all probability that I'm running a dark
Speaker 9: horse for the Darby. But everything depends on my success.
Speaker 9: If I win, all is easier. If I lose, well,
Speaker 9: I dare not think of that. I understand the position.
Speaker 9: I am dependent upon my sister Lady Bertrice for everything,
Speaker 9: because if I'm not mistaken, her interest in the estates for.
Speaker 6: Her life only you know that to them, well, it
Speaker 6: is so.
Speaker 1: For my own part, I'm deeply in the hands of
Speaker 1: the money lenders. I've always known that if my sister
Speaker 1: were to die, my creditors would be onto my estate
Speaker 1: like a flock of budgers. Everything would be seized, my stables,
Speaker 1: my horse is everything Well, mister Holmes, my sister did
Speaker 1: die a week ago, and you tell no one, no,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson, I told no one.
Speaker 9: How could I If one word had got out, absolutely
Speaker 9: ruined would have descended upon me within a matter of ours.
Speaker 9: I know these money lenders and their methods only too well.
Speaker 9: You see, if I could only stake things off until
Speaker 9: for Darley, all would be well.
Speaker 4: If your horse wins, well if it doesn't, in any case,
Speaker 4: surely your bets on the race and your expectations.
Speaker 9: From it would hold good, even if your creditors did
Speaker 9: also be part of my estate. And my chief creditor
Speaker 9: happens to be the same rascally fellow, Sam Breuer, My
Speaker 9: once was compelled to horsewhip on new Market Heath. Give
Speaker 9: a vote, he would try to save me, Oh, doctor Watson.
Speaker 9: If he got possession of a horse, it's simply to
Speaker 9: draw him from the race. My bets will be boyed
Speaker 9: and my ruin would be complete. Robert, Now, what did
Speaker 9: your sister die? Nott sa it was plainer for years?
Speaker 9: Has a doctor certified to editate? And surely it is
Speaker 9: the Colonisy designed not you. I catch your meaning, mister Holmes.
Speaker 9: But I assure you many doctor would certified at her end,
Speaker 9: had been in no doubt for months now.
Speaker 1: But did it care? Just too soon for you? Well?
Speaker 1: What did you do? Ah? Yes? Carry come in, come
Speaker 1: in knowledge, mister Holmes.
Speaker 9: This is my late sister's maid, carry missus Norlif I would,
Speaker 9: and this is her husband knowledge. These are the two
Speaker 9: people up an earth who can substantiate what I say
Speaker 9: very well well. As I told you, it occurred to
Speaker 9: me that if I could only stain things off until
Speaker 9: after the dobby, all would be well. And obviously the
Speaker 9: body couldn't remain in the house, even though there was
Speaker 9: no need for anyone going to her room but the maid.
Speaker 10: So on the first night, norll it and I carried
Speaker 10: it out to the old well house. I disclaim all
Speaker 10: responsibility as I might expect. However, responsibility is not yours
Speaker 10: at all. It happens you concealed the body in the
Speaker 10: well house.
Speaker 1: Yes, then there was a complication over my sister's spannel.
Speaker 1: It used to follow her everywhere, turned up at the
Speaker 1: well house doors, stood there, yapping continuously, wouldn't go away.
Speaker 1: So you got rid of it, to the landlord of
Speaker 1: the Green Bregon, Yes, Even so, I felt that.
Speaker 6: Some more secure place was needed for her body and
Speaker 6: all it, and I carried it.
Speaker 9: By night to the cryptic. And there was no indignity
Speaker 9: or in reverence. Mister Holmes, I do not feel I've
Speaker 9: robbed the dead.
Speaker 1: Well. I can picture your thoughts. Perhaps you you would
Speaker 1: have felt differently in my position, one.
Speaker 9: Cannot see all one's hopes and plans shattered to the
Speaker 9: last moment, and make no effort to save them. It
Speaker 9: seemed to me that it would be no unworthy resting
Speaker 9: place if we put up for some time in one
Speaker 9: of the coffins of her late husband's ancestors.
Speaker 1: They lie in what is still.
Speaker 9: Consecrated ground roll it and I I disclaim all right.
Speaker 9: We opened the coffin, removed the contents, and placed my
Speaker 9: sister inside, as you have seen her. As to the
Speaker 9: old relics, they were burnt in the central furnace at night.
Speaker 9: Seemed better than to leave them lying there for intruders
Speaker 9: to disturb.
Speaker 1: After that, it was but a case of arranging for
Speaker 1: someone to ride daily in your late sister's carriage, wearing
Speaker 1: her clothes and keeping up the appearance that she was
Speaker 1: still alive. And will your so only me see who
Speaker 1: could that be?
Speaker 4: Mister knowleet, I imagine you disdain all responsibility in this
Speaker 4: as well. I'd like to know what you think that
Speaker 4: will knowledge. You're quite right, mister Holmes. He impersonated my
Speaker 4: sister and rode each day beside his wife here, deceiving
Speaker 4: everyone except an unhappy dog who wondered where his mistress
Speaker 4: had got to.
Speaker 1: And you, it seems it is my disiness not to
Speaker 1: be deceived. It was my duty to bring the pets
Speaker 1: to light, and there I was leaving. As to the
Speaker 1: morality or decency of your own conduct, it is not
Speaker 1: for me to express in the opinion. Oh there you are, Watson.
Speaker 1: I thought I had you grow out a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1: But our papers will be delivered before long, aren't they? Homes?
Speaker 1: I wanted one the born. Really, Watson, you've been uncommonly
Speaker 1: excited all afternoon. Is now you're looking as smug as
Speaker 1: a well filled cat.
Speaker 11: Pray, let me into your teacher or today's home. Today, today, Christmas,
Speaker 11: Eastern's and spadings. I see nothing remarkable about it. It's
Speaker 11: derby day. The derby was run this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Really is never all I should his say, the boy
Speaker 1: with the particulars. The derby was won by a horse named.
Speaker 4: Shoscombe, Prince of which will douctas heard he carried within
Speaker 4: the blessing of my month's wound pension.
Speaker 1: That is all. The name is familiar. Good, My dear Watson,
Speaker 1: you come and give it the benefit of your opinion
Speaker 1: upon this specimen. Really, if it go not to the microscope,
Speaker 1: I do not believe we should achieve half the results
Speaker 1: we managed to. That was Shoscombe Old Place. A Sherlock
Speaker 1: Holmes story adapted from Saratha Conan Doyle by Michael Hardwick
Speaker 1: Wiscarton Hobbes as Holmes, Norman Shelley is Doctor Watson, Frederick
Speaker 1: Trees as John Mason, and Godfrey Kempson as Sir Robert Norburton.
Speaker 1: Production by Frederic Bradnam for the b d C.