Speaker 1: It capital, My dear Wasson, let us return to humble
Speaker 1: abod to two one d Baker ain't his cane.
Speaker 2: From London. We present The Missing three Quarter, a play
Speaker 2: for radio by Michael Hardwick, based on the short story
Speaker 2: by Sir Arthur Kernan Doyle. The Missing three Quarter.
Speaker 3: Things had indeed been very slow with us. I had
Speaker 3: learned to dread such periods of inactions. I knew by
Speaker 3: experience that Charlotte Holmes's brain was so abnormally active that
Speaker 3: it was dangerous to leave.
Speaker 4: It without material upon which to work.
Speaker 3: For years, I had gradually weaned him from that drug media,
Speaker 3: which had threatened once to check his remarkable career.
Speaker 4: But he was well aware that.
Speaker 3: The fiend was not dead, but only sleeping. Therefore I
Speaker 3: blessed the hour on a gloomy if every morning, some
Speaker 3: seven or eight years ago, that a telegram arrived at
Speaker 3: Baker Street with an enigmatic message to break that dangerous
Speaker 3: calm which brought more peril to my friend than all
Speaker 3: the storms of his tempestuous life. It says he's awake
Speaker 3: there terrible misfortune right wing free quart A missing indispensable tomorrow, signed.
Speaker 4: Overton, let me see thank you plan first mark and
Speaker 4: despatch ten thirty six. I don't know a doubt. The
Speaker 4: telegram was sorted, the hollowed by the sender renounce proper yard.
Speaker 4: Mister Hams inspected Stanley Hopkins had died with the can't
Speaker 4: see you, and he said, so far as he could see,
Speaker 4: the case is more in your line than that. Regular
Speaker 4: police then placed it down. Mister Everton, and tell miss
Speaker 4: slowly and quietly, exactly what it is that has occurred,
Speaker 4: and how you desire that I should help you. This
Speaker 4: is way, mister Holmes. I'm the skipper of the Cambridge
Speaker 4: fifteen and godfrist Staunton is our best man. Mollow. We
Speaker 4: play Offsford. Yesterday we all came up and we settled
Speaker 4: at Bence's private hotel. At ten o'clock. I went round
Speaker 4: and saw that all the fellows had gone to roost.
Speaker 4: This morning, the porter comes to me in a great
Speaker 4: state of agitation. Sir, good heaven man, what on earth
Speaker 4: is mister Thornton, Sir, he's golden God. This room's empty,
Speaker 4: his bed has not been slept in. I don't follow
Speaker 4: you ie things here, Oh, here's the sill in his room.
Speaker 5: But we went off to last night, sir, is it
Speaker 5: towards us strand with another fellow?
Speaker 6: I see him?
Speaker 4: Girl? What other fellow? Roughlegan chat with a beard? He
Speaker 4: called him with an oe from mister Salton. I took
Speaker 4: it up to him. I thought he was going to
Speaker 4: find after he's ready. Hey, yes, it fell back in
Speaker 4: his chairs. If you've been poor x, I'll give a
Speaker 4: drink of water. And then he said it was all right,
Speaker 4: and he come down here where the fellow was. Then
Speaker 4: made a few words and also went to war to
Speaker 4: Sclam how much running they were? And what did you
Speaker 4: do when you heard this disturbiton? Why to Cambridge to
Speaker 4: find out if anything I'd been heard of him? That?
Speaker 4: Could he have got that to Cambridge? Yes there's a
Speaker 4: late friend, but no one has seen him. Incredible just
Speaker 4: before the barsady match? What did you do next to him?
Speaker 4: I wired Lord Man James. Quite to Lord Man James,
Speaker 4: god is morphan Lord Man James his nearest relative, his
Speaker 4: uncle I Wiliam. Indeed, was this frost new light upon
Speaker 4: the matter. Lord Mount James is one of the richest
Speaker 4: men in England. So Godfreys is there and the old
Speaker 4: boys nearly ate it. Cram Full of God too. They
Speaker 4: say he could talk his billiard cue it is not
Speaker 4: called forthroll. He is an absolute miser. Have you heard
Speaker 4: from Lord mount Jane? Now? Oh, well, I have a
Speaker 4: clear day and I shall be happy to look into
Speaker 4: the matter. Now let us step round together to this
Speaker 4: hotel and see if the portrait can throw any fresh
Speaker 4: light upon him. Can you describe the man with a
Speaker 4: beard for me? Well? He was about fifty. What a gentleman,
Speaker 4: but not a worthy man? If you see what I mean?
Speaker 7: Sir?
Speaker 4: What sacred you say? This bearded man was in calm, excited.
Speaker 4: He's very pale, very pale, indeed, And though I did
Speaker 4: notice when I'll give him the note to take up,
Speaker 4: his hand was shaking something terrible. Did you take any
Speaker 4: other message to mister Thornton? Yes, sir telegraph ah what
Speaker 4: time was this?
Speaker 7: About?
Speaker 4: Six? I took it to him in his room? Were
Speaker 4: you present? But he opened it? I waited while he
Speaker 4: were at the answer. Did you take the reply?
Speaker 7: No, sir?
Speaker 4: He said, all right, porter, I'll take this myself. What
Speaker 4: did he write it with a penza? Have you buy
Speaker 4: any chance a pair of telegraphic forms on which you
Speaker 4: wrote this meant? Yes? Sir here they are, sir good,
Speaker 4: they haven't been used since Tha cure. Now, then if
Speaker 4: I hold this form up to the window, hmmm, hear me.
Speaker 4: It's a pity he didn't write. And I rejoiced to
Speaker 4: perceive that that he wrote it with a double pointed
Speaker 4: quill pen. And I can hardly doubt that we will
Speaker 4: find some impression upon his blocking paper. I think the
Speaker 4: time has come for us to visit our between gentlemen's room. Yes,
Speaker 4: I can say this is what they're looking for. Hold
Speaker 4: it up to the mill and mister oh, that's unnecessary
Speaker 4: to open. The paper is thin and the reverse will
Speaker 4: give the message you see, stand bios for God's sake.
Speaker 4: So these six words are the tail end of the
Speaker 4: telegram which God Pristaunton dispatched for a few hours before
Speaker 4: he disappeared.
Speaker 3: Stand Biers for God's Sake sounds pretty desperate.
Speaker 8: Home.
Speaker 4: Evidently he saw a formidable danger approaching from which someone
Speaker 4: else could protect him, as he says, stand by us, yes, Watson,
Speaker 4: So another person is involved, man with a bear. Then
Speaker 4: what is the connection between God Pristaunton and the bearded man?
Speaker 4: And what is the third source from which they sought
Speaker 4: help against that pressing danger.
Speaker 5: We'll always have to find as to whom the telegram
Speaker 5: was addressed exactly, My dear Watson.
Speaker 4: Your reflection, though profound, head, already crossed my mind. But
Speaker 4: I dare say it may have come to your notice
Speaker 4: that if you walk into a post office and demand
Speaker 4: to see the counterfoil of another man's message, there may
Speaker 4: be some disintination on the part of the officials to
Speaker 4: oblige you. Really. Meanwhile, I should like you your presence,
Speaker 4: mister Overton, to go through those papers which had been
Speaker 4: left upon the table, certainly.
Speaker 9: M letters from Bill's mostly no nothing.
Speaker 4: Here by the way, Yeah, I suppose your friend was
Speaker 4: a healthy young fellow. Nothing of this with him some
Speaker 4: bell m Hepsey was not so strong as you suppose.
Speaker 4: With your assent, I have a foot on or two
Speaker 4: of these papers in my pocket in case they should
Speaker 4: pay upon our future. Enquire one moment, Well, moment, who
Speaker 4: are you, sir by? What right do you touch this
Speaker 4: gentleman's papers? I am a private detective and I'm endeavoring
Speaker 4: to extend his disappearance. No you are, are you then?
Speaker 4: Who is strucked you this gentleman? Mister Thompson's friend was
Speaker 4: referred to it by scottland Yard. Then who are you?
Speaker 4: I am so overton Sa. Then it was you who
Speaker 4: sent me a tilligram.
Speaker 9: My name is Lord Mount James.
Speaker 4: I came around the quickly.
Speaker 9: Is that there is water bush would bring me?
Speaker 4: So you have been strucked and detective, yes?
Speaker 10: And are you prepared to beat the costs?
Speaker 4: I have no doubt, sir. My friend Godfrey, when we
Speaker 4: find him, will.
Speaker 9: Be prepared to do that.
Speaker 4: But if he's never found it, who answered me?
Speaker 7: There?
Speaker 4: That is no that is happening.
Speaker 10: If that of the shorts happened, don't look to me
Speaker 10: for a penny. No, not a penny. I am all
Speaker 10: the remedy that this young man has gone, and I
Speaker 10: tell you that I am not responsible. If you understand that, mister.
Speaker 4: Detective, I quite understand your position. Perhaps you don't quite
Speaker 4: understand mine. God Pristonson appears to have been a poor man.
Speaker 4: If he's been kidnapped, it could not have been for
Speaker 4: anything which he himself possesses. The fame of your wealth
Speaker 4: has got a broad Lord Man James, and it is
Speaker 4: entirely possible that again thieves has secured your neview in
Speaker 4: order to gain from him some information as to your houses,
Speaker 4: your heabits, and your treasure. Don't what an hydia. I
Speaker 4: never thought of such a.
Speaker 10: Brillionnaire working human rogues there are in the world. But
Speaker 10: Godfrey is a fine head, a stanch levender. Nothing would
Speaker 10: induce him to give his old auncle away. I'll have
Speaker 10: the bit moved over to the belt, and in the meantime,
Speaker 10: to spare no pains, mister distive to bring him safely
Speaker 10: back if he has to many a little.
Speaker 4: So far as a fiver of evil tenor goes, you
Speaker 4: can always look to me. A good day to you,
Speaker 4: generous well Hans. What's next? I'm afraid we must plead
Speaker 4: you now, Miss sahn't hear from you before the met
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I very much doubt you. There's the lug anyway,
Speaker 4: Thank you doctor.
Speaker 5: Now, isn't there anything we can do about that telegram homes?
Speaker 4: It's worth trying, wasn't of course? With a warrant we
Speaker 4: could demand to see the counterfoil, But we did not
Speaker 4: reached that stage yet. I don't suppose they remember faces
Speaker 4: and so busy a places at post office? Yet's venture?
Speaker 4: It can I help yourself. Oh, I'm so sorry to
Speaker 4: trouble you. There's some small mistake about a telegram I
Speaker 4: sent yesterday. I had no answer, and I very much
Speaker 4: fear that I'm not so permitted to put my name
Speaker 4: at the end. Could you tell me with this? So?
Speaker 4: What time was it? A little after six?
Speaker 9: And whom was it to?
Speaker 7: The last words in it were For God's sake, I'm
Speaker 7: pretty anxious at getting no answers.
Speaker 4: Oh, let me see here it is. Oh, there is
Speaker 4: no name at the end. Then there's a cross accounts
Speaker 4: from my getting no answer. Oh.
Speaker 5: Well, good morning miss and Liddie, thanks for having relieve
Speaker 5: my vine.
Speaker 8: Good morning, well homes we progress, my dear Watson, we progress.
Speaker 4: I had certain different schemes for getting a glimpse of
Speaker 4: that telegram, but I could hardly help to succeed the
Speaker 4: very first time.
Speaker 9: And what are your gainst it?
Speaker 4: Tell it? What have I gained? A starting point for
Speaker 4: our investigation? Pace that day? Wat a team's cross station.
Speaker 4: We are a journey then, yes, I think we must
Speaker 4: run down the game bridge together.
Speaker 9: Doctor Leslie Armstrong.
Speaker 4: I have heard your names to Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 6: I am also aware of.
Speaker 11: Your profession one of which I by no means approved.
Speaker 4: In that doc way, you will find yourself in agreement
Speaker 4: with every criminal and the conflict. And may I introduce
Speaker 4: my friend, doctor Watson. How do you do so?
Speaker 9: Of course I am delighted to meet one of the heads.
Speaker 4: Of our Professor Holmes.
Speaker 6: So, father, your efforts are directed towards the suppression of crime,
Speaker 6: they must have the support of every reasonable member of
Speaker 6: the community.
Speaker 11: That I cannot doubt if the official machinery.
Speaker 6: Is ample suppresion for the purpose. Where your calling is
Speaker 6: more open to criticism is when you pry into the
Speaker 6: secrets of private individuals, when you break up family matters
Speaker 6: which are better hidden, and when, incidentally you wish what's
Speaker 6: the time of men who are.
Speaker 4: More busy than yourself, no doubt, doctor, But I may
Speaker 4: tell you that we are doing the reverse of what
Speaker 4: you better just say play, and that we're endeavoring to
Speaker 4: prevent public exposure of private matter, which must follow when
Speaker 4: once the cases in the hands of the official police.
Speaker 4: I've come to ask you about mister Godfrespont. What about him?
Speaker 4: You know him, do you not? He is an intimate
Speaker 4: friend of mine. You're aware that he has disappeared. Indeed,
Speaker 4: he left his hotel last night. He has not been
Speaker 4: heard of since.
Speaker 6: No doudge she will return tomorrow. Is a vast dead
Speaker 6: football match. I have no sympathy with these childish games.
Speaker 6: The young man's fate interests me deeply, since.
Speaker 4: I know him and like him.
Speaker 6: The football match does not come within my horizon at all.
Speaker 4: I claim your sympathy, then, in my investigation of missus
Speaker 4: Thornton's faith, do you know where he is? Certainly not?
Speaker 4: Was mister Thornton a healthy man? Absolutely? Did you ever
Speaker 4: know him?
Speaker 7: Ill?
Speaker 4: Never? And perhaps you will explain this receiated bill for
Speaker 4: thirteen paid by mister Godfris Thornton last month to doctor
Speaker 4: Leslie Armstrong's Cambridge I picked it up from among the
Speaker 4: papers on his desk. I do not feel there is
Speaker 4: any reason why I should.
Speaker 6: Render an explanation to you who mister Holmes very well,
Speaker 6: if you prefer public explanation, it must come sooner or later.
Speaker 4: You would really be wiser to take me into your
Speaker 4: complete confidence. I know nothing about it. Did you hear
Speaker 4: from mister Thornton in London? Certainly not? Dear me, dear
Speaker 4: me the first office again, I must agent telegram has
Speaker 4: dispassed to you from London by God Chris Thornton at
Speaker 4: six fifteen yesterday evening, And yet you will not head it.
Speaker 4: I shall certainly go down to the office here and
Speaker 4: registered campaign.
Speaker 6: I will trouble you to walk out of my house,
Speaker 6: and you can tell your empire Lord Bud James, that
Speaker 6: I do not wish to have anything to do either
Speaker 6: with him or with his agents.
Speaker 12: Doctor Leslie Armstrong has set me a man of energy,
Speaker 12: wasn't I have not seen a man who he turned
Speaker 12: his tell hims that way was more calculated to fill
Speaker 12: the gap left by the illustrious Mariarty.
Speaker 4: From what happens now? Oh, my poor ones, But if
Speaker 4: you would engage a room in that little inn just
Speaker 4: opposite Armstrong's house, I may have time to make a
Speaker 4: few inquiries. Home is where have you been all the time? Oh?
Speaker 4: Here on there, here on there?
Speaker 7: Ah?
Speaker 4: What's death that be seen?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 4: Carried on a pair of graves outside the doctor's door.
Speaker 4: It's been out three hours starting a halp us six and.
Speaker 9: Guaranteed back again. That gives a radius of ten o'
Speaker 9: pounds miles. And he does it once or sometimes.
Speaker 4: Quite a day, not handing on you're over a doctor
Speaker 4: in practice. But Armstrong is not really a doctor in practice.
Speaker 4: He's a lecturer and consultant. Why then, does he make
Speaker 4: these long journeys? And who is it that he visited?
Speaker 4: But how am I trying his church? My dear? What
Speaker 4: can you doubt that I have already done there? I
Speaker 4: don't know whether it came from his own innated cavity
Speaker 4: or from the promptings of his master, but he was
Speaker 4: rude enough to set a dog at me. All that
Speaker 4: I have learned I got from a friend in naked
Speaker 4: in the yard of our own inn. It was he
Speaker 4: who told me of the doctor's headed to these daily journeys.
Speaker 4: While he was speaking, the doctor's carriage came round to
Speaker 4: the door. Couldn't you follow them? Excellent fashion? You are
Speaker 4: scintillating this evening. The idea that did cross my mind
Speaker 4: there is, as you may have observed, a bicycle shop
Speaker 4: next to our inn. Yes, into this, I rushed, engaged
Speaker 4: the bicycle and was able to get started before the
Speaker 4: carriage was out of sight, and he had got well
Speaker 4: out on the country road when a somewhat mortifying incident occurred.
Speaker 4: The carriage stopped the doctor alighted, walked swift the deck
Speaker 4: where I had also halted, and told me in an
Speaker 4: excellent sardonic fashion that he cleared the road was narrow,
Speaker 4: and that he hoped his carriage did not impede the
Speaker 4: passage of my bicycle. Found cheek, Oh, nothing could have
Speaker 4: been more admirable than he way of putting in. I
Speaker 4: once rode past the carriage and went on for a
Speaker 4: few miles. Then I halted in a convenient place to
Speaker 4: see if it would passed me.
Speaker 5: There was no sign of it gone off down the
Speaker 5: side road. Evidently you think he knows where Staunton is homes.
Speaker 4: I'll spare it, and if he knows, then it will
Speaker 4: be our own thought. If we cannot manage to know,
Speaker 4: alcer No, I shall not be satisfied untilized made the
Speaker 4: matter clear, Ippcy, A good new may depend upon what
Speaker 4: the morning will bring or coffee homes.
Speaker 7: No, thank you, wasn't.
Speaker 4: I've had a note from the doctor. Okay, listen, sir,
Speaker 4: I can assure you that you are wasting your time
Speaker 4: in dogging my movements. No spying upon me can in
Speaker 4: any way help mister Godfreys Thornson, and I am convinced
Speaker 4: that the best service you can do to that gentleman
Speaker 4: is to return at once to London and to report
Speaker 4: to your employer that you are unable to place him.
Speaker 4: Yours Faifthly Leslie Armstrong. That man has the cheek of
Speaker 4: the devil, an outspoken on his antagonists. The doctor. Oh well,
Speaker 4: he excites my curiosity, and there's really no more before
Speaker 4: I leave him, I said, carriage is his door? Now? Huh?
Speaker 4: There he is stepping into it. Yes, our window. Now
Speaker 4: supposing I try my luck on a bike phone? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: my dear, what with all respect to your natural acumen,
Speaker 4: I do not think that you're quite a mess for
Speaker 4: the worthy doctor. I think that possibly I can attain
Speaker 4: and by some independent explorations of my own.
Speaker 9: You're not going to leave me triddling my thumbs in
Speaker 9: his place again?
Speaker 4: Are you hanging? I'm afraid so, But I have to
Speaker 4: bring back a more favorable report to you before nightfall.
Speaker 4: Very well, Homed, I only hope you do.
Speaker 9: Blame I'm afraid Watson. Oh, I don't know it.
Speaker 4: Where have you been? Having got the doctor's general direction,
Speaker 4: I visited all the villages upon that side of Cambridge,
Speaker 4: I covered some ground I can tell you Chesterton Hists
Speaker 4: and water Beach Oakins and oh wondering comparing notes for
Speaker 4: publicans and other local news agencies. Nothing well. By the way,
Speaker 4: is there a telegram for me? Oh? Yes, ah, I
Speaker 4: opened it.
Speaker 3: I didn't understand it though it says asked for Pompey
Speaker 3: from Jeremy Dickson.
Speaker 4: Trinity College.
Speaker 9: Mean any of you?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's clear enough. It's from our friend Overton. In
Speaker 4: answer to a question from me, I'll just sent random
Speaker 4: note to mister Jeremy Dixon, and then I have no
Speaker 4: doubt that our luck will turn. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 4: the news of a match, Oh, yes, yes, see the
Speaker 4: local paper has an excellent a country's last edition.
Speaker 9: Oxford won.
Speaker 4: I've gone two trials. Do you want to hear anything
Speaker 4: of it? M I'll just read you the last sentence.
Speaker 9: The defeat of the.
Speaker 3: Light Blues may be entirely attributed to the unfortunate absence
Speaker 3: of the crack international god Chriss Thaunton, whose one prosculitivey
Speaker 3: instant of the games.
Speaker 4: Then I'll tend to Overton spot birdis have been justified. Personally,
Speaker 4: I'm in agreement with doctor Armstrong and football does not
Speaker 4: come within my horizon. More's the pity for you home
Speaker 4: at inner it. Let us follow the example of a
Speaker 4: footballer and take an early night and death. I perceive
Speaker 4: that tomorrow may be an eventful day. Homes, where have
Speaker 4: you been this time? And what are you doing with
Speaker 4: that hypodermic syringe? Don't come you don't don't tell, my
Speaker 4: dear fellow. There's no course for now. It is not
Speaker 4: the instrument of evil, of pontess occasions on this syringe.
Speaker 4: I base all my hopes. I've just returned from a
Speaker 4: small scutting expedition, and everything is favorable. Eat a good
Speaker 4: breakfast pot. I propose to get up on doctor Armstrong's
Speaker 4: trail today, and once on it, I will not stop
Speaker 4: for rest or food until I run into his brother.
Speaker 4: In that case, you must carry off breakfast with us.
Speaker 9: He's making an earlier stuff. The carriages at the door already.
Speaker 4: Never mind, let him go. He'll be clever as you
Speaker 4: can drive what I cannot follow him. Or when you've finished,
Speaker 4: come downstairs with me and I'll introduce you to a
Speaker 4: detective who is a deady eminent specialist and the worst
Speaker 4: that lies before. What didn't he introduce you to Pumpy
Speaker 4: the love of drag hounds. No very great flyer is
Speaker 4: his bills will show but a staunch hound on the scent. Well, Pumpty,
Speaker 4: you may not be fast that I speck. You will
Speaker 4: be too fast for a couple of middle aged London gentlemen.
Speaker 4: So I'll just take the liberty of passing this letter.
Speaker 4: Leash to your power. Aby, come along and show what
Speaker 4: you can do. He'll run us off our legs. This race,
Speaker 4: what have you done? Homes a threadbare and venerable device,
Speaker 4: but useful on occasion. I walked into the doctor's your
Speaker 4: heart this morning and shot my syringe full of any
Speaker 4: seed over the hind with of his carriage. A draghund
Speaker 4: will follow any seed from here that John mcgirts, he's
Speaker 4: turning off into the lane home. It goes back amost
Speaker 4: in the dress of the oh, the cunning rascal. This
Speaker 4: is how he gave it to slip the other night.
Speaker 4: This day to her has been entirely for our denited tendon.
Speaker 4: No wonder my quaries among these diligence led to nothing.
Speaker 4: I very much like to know the reason why all
Speaker 4: this elaborate deception. This should be the village of Trumpington
Speaker 4: to the rightness. Quite true, here's the prom coming around
Speaker 4: the corner.
Speaker 13: Thick what and Chris Wop are done into the fielding.
Speaker 4: Did you get a glimpse of Armstrong?
Speaker 7: And I did it? Sunk on his hands the image
Speaker 7: of distress.
Speaker 14: I'd say, I feel there is some dark ending to
Speaker 14: our quest. Thumb Publy, he's making for the cottage and
Speaker 14: the fun.
Speaker 4: Now we shall see what we shall see. Listen, what's fair?
Speaker 4: The doctor is coming back home that we must see
Speaker 4: what it means before he comes.
Speaker 7: Who are you?
Speaker 4: Are you mister god Wisconsin, Yes, as I am, But
Speaker 4: you're too late. She's then.
Speaker 7: You can see for yourselves. She was very beautiful and
Speaker 7: very consumption home without a doubt. We did our best
Speaker 7: to keep it from everyone.
Speaker 4: As a whisper gets about. So, gentlemen, you have attained
Speaker 4: your end. You have certainly chosen a delicate moment for
Speaker 4: your intuition, not rare in the presence of death. But
Speaker 4: I can assure you that if I were a younger man,
Speaker 4: excuse me, doctor Armstrong, I think.
Speaker 7: We have a little of cross purposes.
Speaker 4: If you could step into the next room with us,
Speaker 4: we might each be able to give some life to
Speaker 4: the other upon.
Speaker 7: This miserable affair, very will well, Sir, I wish you.
Speaker 4: To understand, in the first place, that I am not
Speaker 4: employed by Lord mount James, and that my sympathies in
Speaker 4: this matter are entirely against that nobleman. When a man
Speaker 4: is lost, it is my duty to assert in his fate.
Speaker 4: But having done so, the matter in so far as
Speaker 4: I am concerned, If, as I imagine, there is no
Speaker 4: breach of the law in this matter, you can absolutely
Speaker 4: depend upon my discretion and my co operation in keeping
Speaker 4: the facts out of the papers.
Speaker 6: Mister Holmes, you are a good fellow. I had mistrutched you,
Speaker 6: and my apologies to you too, sir.
Speaker 7: Not at all, Doctor Alstom.
Speaker 6: A yard ago, Godfrey Staunton married his landlady's daughter.
Speaker 4: She was good, beautiful and intelligent.
Speaker 7: No man need be ashamed of such a wife.
Speaker 6: But Godfrey was the heir to this crabbed old nobleman,
Speaker 6: and it was certain that the news would have meant.
Speaker 4: The end of his inheritance.
Speaker 11: I did all I could to have him to keep
Speaker 11: things straight.
Speaker 6: Thanks to this learner cottage in his own discretion, Godfrey
Speaker 6: has up to now succeeded, but at last there.
Speaker 7: Came the terrible blow of this virulent illness.
Speaker 6: The poor boy had took her for London to play
Speaker 6: this match, but he could not get out of it
Speaker 6: without explanations which would expose the secrets.
Speaker 7: He sent me a.
Speaker 11: Wire, imparing me to do all I could.
Speaker 7: This was the telegram which you would bear to have seen.
Speaker 11: I did not tell him how urgent the danger was.
Speaker 11: But I sent the truth to the girl's father, and
Speaker 11: he very.
Speaker 6: Injudiciously communicated it to Godfrey. The result was that he
Speaker 6: came straight away and has remained kneeling at the end
Speaker 6: of her bed until this morning. Death put an end
Speaker 6: to her sufferings.
Speaker 7: That is all, mister Holmes.
Speaker 11: I am sure that I can rely upon your discretion
Speaker 11: and let of your friend.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, in needs.
Speaker 7: Come Watson, let us be on our way.
Speaker 2: That was The Missing three Quarter by Michael Hardwick, based
Speaker 2: on the short story by Sir Arthur Kernham, Royal
Speaker 4: Sherlock Holmes was play by Carton Hobbs.