Speaker 1: Please come in from London.
Speaker 2: We present The Retired color Man, a play for radio
Speaker 2: based on the short story by Sir Arthur Cohan Doyle,
Speaker 2: The Retired color Man. It was late one summer afternoon.
Speaker 3: I returned from my club to two to one B
Speaker 3: Baker Street to find Sharlock Holmes's gaunt figure stretched in
Speaker 3: his deep chair. I recognized his melancholy and philosophic mood,
Speaker 3: his alert, practical nature of a subject to such reactions.
Speaker 2: Well, my dear Watson, did you see him?
Speaker 1: Who? Oh, the old fellow just gone out?
Speaker 2: Precisely I met him at the door. What did you
Speaker 2: think of him?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Pathetic, futile, broken picture exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But
Speaker 2: is not all life pathetic?
Speaker 1: Computer?
Speaker 2: Isn't history a microcosm of the whole? We reach, we grasp,
Speaker 2: and what is left in our hands at the end
Speaker 2: a shadow or worse than the shadow? Misery?
Speaker 1: Or come home? He one of your class?
Speaker 2: Well, I suppose I they call him so?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Who is he anyway? Mister Josiah Amberley? He says he
Speaker 2: was junior partner of BitFall and Amberley, manufacturers of artists materials.
Speaker 2: You'll see their names upon pink buses. He made his
Speaker 2: little pile, retired at the age of sixty one, bought
Speaker 2: a house at Lewisham and settled down to rest after
Speaker 2: a life of ceaseless grind.
Speaker 1: Sounds a comfortable prospect.
Speaker 2: He retired in eighteen ninety six. Early in eighteen ninety
Speaker 2: seven he married a woman twenty years younger than himself.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, good looking too, if her photographersn't flat at a competence,
Speaker 2: a wife leisure. It looked like a straight robe before him.
Speaker 2: Yet within two years he's reduced to the broken and
Speaker 2: miserable creature you've.
Speaker 1: Just seen the one's captain.
Speaker 2: Home the old story Watson, a treacherous friend and a
Speaker 2: fickle wife. It seems that Amberley has one hobby in
Speaker 2: his life chess. Not far from him Atluis there is
Speaker 2: a young doctor, doctor Ray Ernest, who is also a
Speaker 2: chess player. Ernest was frequently an Amberley's house and an
Speaker 2: intimacy between him and Amberley's wife.
Speaker 1: As a result, I doesn't surprise me. Your card doesn't
Speaker 1: look like a paragon of the graces.
Speaker 2: Well, the couple went off together last week destination. So
Speaker 2: far I'm traced. What's more, the woman carried off the
Speaker 2: old man's deed box by way of personal luggage. He's
Speaker 2: had a good part of his life savings in him,
Speaker 2: Sir Watson, can we find the lady? Can we save
Speaker 2: the money.
Speaker 1: At a commonplace? Or the case to bother you with helms.
Speaker 2: In it, but vital enough for poor Jessiah Amberley. Well
Speaker 2: that's sir.
Speaker 1: What do you do then?
Speaker 2: What will you do? My dear Watson? Hey, if you
Speaker 2: would be good enough to understudy me? That is? You
Speaker 2: know how preoccupied I am with this case of the
Speaker 2: two Coptic patriarchs. It should come to a head today. No,
Speaker 2: I really haven't time to go out to Lewisham, and
Speaker 2: yet evidence taken on the spot says a special value.
Speaker 3: Well, by all means, I I confess, I don't see
Speaker 3: that can be much service.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to do my best.
Speaker 2: Capital. By the way, the name of his house is
Speaker 2: the Haven. The old fellow was quite insistent that I
Speaker 2: should go, but I explained my difficulty. He's quite prepared
Speaker 2: to meet a representative.
Speaker 4: I hardly expect that so humble an individualist myself would
Speaker 4: merity the complete attention of so famous a man as
Speaker 4: mister Sherlock Holmes, especially after my heavy financial loss.
Speaker 5: And I'm going to show you, mister Ambler, that the
Speaker 5: financial question is not a ry.
Speaker 4: No, of course, it's art for art's sake. With him,
Speaker 4: I understand still, even on the artistic side of crime,
Speaker 4: he might have found something here to study. And human nature,
Speaker 4: doctor Watson, the blacking.
Speaker 2: Gratitude of it all.
Speaker 4: Tell me when did I ever refuse one of her requests?
Speaker 2: Was ever a woman so pamphus and that young man he.
Speaker 4: Might have been my old son, had the run of
Speaker 4: my house? And see how.
Speaker 1: They've treated mister Amber.
Speaker 3: I said, dreadful, world, dreadful, dreadful?
Speaker 2: Did you say something? I was never going to point
Speaker 2: out that if you continue to wave your pain.
Speaker 1: Pushion back like that, it wouldn't be long before did
Speaker 1: your clothing on this too? But I'm afraid the damage
Speaker 1: is done.
Speaker 4: Oh dear me, you see how this business has distracted me.
Speaker 4: I'm in the middle of painting this hall. Who seemed surprised?
Speaker 4: Doctor what must do something to ease an aching heart?
Speaker 4: I started painting the house only the day before they disappeared.
Speaker 4: I thought I might as well carry on. Yes, fair
Speaker 4: sent but pray step into my sectum away from this
Speaker 4: paint smell. Ah, that's better, Yes, yes, pray take a
Speaker 4: seat you good?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: Then where shall I begin my account with my retirement
Speaker 4: on marriage? Perhaps not, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: Miller requested certain details, for example, the events of the
Speaker 5: actual evening of your wife's disappearing.
Speaker 4: Oh, how shall I ever forget them to think that?
Speaker 4: I prepared a special treat for the shameless creature the
Speaker 4: Haymarket Theater, the two upper circle seats, a gay evening.
Speaker 4: I thought, perhaps a little supper somewhere, But no, she
Speaker 4: complained of a headache and refused to.
Speaker 2: Go see here. I had it here, her theater.
Speaker 4: Ticket, unused, seat thirty one, row B.
Speaker 1: And then you had to go on.
Speaker 2: I did there. I sat all through the performance, her empty.
Speaker 4: Seat beside me, and little did I realize what an
Speaker 4: ear omen it was.
Speaker 1: You returned to find her gone just so.
Speaker 4: But that was not all you see this store, it's
Speaker 4: iron painted to look like wood. It's my strong room,
Speaker 4: safe as a bank, I always thought, But not where
Speaker 4: she was concerned.
Speaker 1: Ah, as your deed box was taken.
Speaker 4: I believe deed box caresh securities about seven thousand pounds worth.
Speaker 4: She must have had a duplicate key prepared. I've heard
Speaker 4: no word from or about us. I left to go
Speaker 4: to the theater that faithful evening, leaving her alone here
Speaker 4: with her headache. Not one single word doctor Watson. And
Speaker 4: her seat number at the Haymarket theater was thirty one.
Speaker 4: You say, Watson, you're quite.
Speaker 1: Sure positive my old school number. Excellent?
Speaker 2: Then his own seat was either thirty or thirty two.
Speaker 1: Roby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Watson, have you told me all?
Speaker 1: I think so? Oh?
Speaker 5: Did I mention the detour up a photograph of his
Speaker 5: wife in my presence?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: He never wished to see her damn place again, he cried,
Speaker 1: no doubt.
Speaker 2: Still, I fensied the loss of his money took precedence
Speaker 2: over velos of his wife, without a doubt. But let
Speaker 2: us get down to what is practical. And I must
Speaker 2: admit that a case which seemed to be so absurd,
Speaker 2: as simple as to be hardly worth my notice, is
Speaker 2: rapidly assuming a very different aspect.
Speaker 1: It's true in your mission you've.
Speaker 2: Missed everything of importance. Yet even those things which have
Speaker 2: obtruded themselves upon your notice kape rise to serious thought.
Speaker 1: What do I miss?
Speaker 2: Oh, don't be hurt, my dear fellow. No one else
Speaker 2: would have done better. But clearly you have missed some
Speaker 2: vital points. What do the neighbors think about Amberley and
Speaker 2: his wife? What did doctor Ernest? Was he the gala
Speaker 2: pario one would expect? Surely these are of importance. Well,
Speaker 2: and with your natural advantages, Watson, every lady is our
Speaker 2: helper and accomplish. What about the girl at the post office,
Speaker 2: or the greengrocer's wife, or even the lady at the
Speaker 2: blue anchor?
Speaker 1: All this you've left undone. It can still be done.
Speaker 2: It has been done. Thanks for the telephone and the
Speaker 2: help of Scotland Yard, I can usually get my essentials
Speaker 2: without leaving this room. As a matter protect my information
Speaker 2: confirms Ambley's own story. He has the local reputation of
Speaker 2: being a miser as well as a harsh and exactly husband.
Speaker 2: It's also certain that he had a large sum of
Speaker 2: money in that strong room. Whoa, and it's common gossip
Speaker 2: that young doctor Ernest played chess for the Amberley and
Speaker 2: probably played the fool with his wife. It all seems
Speaker 2: plain sailing and yet and yet it was the difficulty,
Speaker 2: oh in my imagination perhaps well lead that there wasn't
Speaker 2: let us escape from this weary, workaday world by the
Speaker 2: side door of music Carina sings tonight at the Albert Hall.
Speaker 2: We still have time to dress, dime and enjoy.
Speaker 5: The next morning, I was up early, but found a
Speaker 5: note from Homes on the breakfast table telling me that
Speaker 5: he'd gone de Lursium to see Ambulon, that he hoped
Speaker 5: to be backed by three o'clock.
Speaker 6: Oh there you are, unt all of the minutes. Well,
Speaker 6: what news has Emberly been here?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: Emble?
Speaker 2: No, I'm expecting him. Oh, come in, Yes, Missus Hudson.
Speaker 4: There's mister Amble to see you, sir.
Speaker 2: Ah show him in, Missus Hutton.
Speaker 4: Very good, sir, in here, mister Joseph Amberley, pray step insider.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Missus Hutton.
Speaker 4: Mister Holmes, I've had a telegram I could make nothing
Speaker 4: of exactly.
Speaker 2: I see it.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Come at once without fail, can give you information as
Speaker 2: to your recent loss. Elman the Vicarage dispatched at twelve
Speaker 2: to ten from little Pearlington. Oh Watson, hand down my
Speaker 2: Cropford's directory. You place right Little Pearlington's in ethics, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's not far from Printon. Uh here you are.
Speaker 2: Oh it's you then he he h Elman, Yes, here
Speaker 2: we have him J. C. Elman, m a living of
Speaker 2: moussmore come little Pearlington. Well, mister Embily, you must start
Speaker 2: at once when you look up a trained for our
Speaker 2: friend Watson.
Speaker 4: Yes, good fellow, mister Holmes, will you kindly tell.
Speaker 5: Me Liverpool Street, five homes excellent.
Speaker 2: You'd best go with mister Amberley Watson. He may need
Speaker 2: help or advice. It's clear we've come to a crisis
Speaker 2: and there.
Speaker 4: But he's perfectly absurd, mister Holmes. What can this country
Speaker 4: vicker possibly know what's occurred? It's a waste of time
Speaker 4: and money.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't have telegraphed you if he didn't know something.
Speaker 2: You should wire him at once that you're coming. I
Speaker 2: don't think I should go, mister Amberley. It would make
Speaker 2: the worst possible impression, both on the police and upon myself.
Speaker 2: If you should refuse to follow up so obvious a clue,
Speaker 2: we should feel that you were not really in earnest
Speaker 2: and misinvestigation. I of course I go. If you look
Speaker 2: at it that way.
Speaker 4: On the face of it, it seems absurd to suppose
Speaker 4: that this Saparson knows anything but if you.
Speaker 2: Think I do think, Oh now, hurry along, sir, and
Speaker 2: doctor Watson will catch you up at the telegraph office
Speaker 2: at the corner.
Speaker 4: Oh very well, then a waste of time and money
Speaker 4: in my opinion, hoorry money.
Speaker 2: Down the drain, Watson, whatever you do, see that he
Speaker 2: really does go. If he breaks away from your orders,
Speaker 2: hides to return, get to the nearest telegraph office and
Speaker 2: send a single word booted. I'll arrange here the digital
Speaker 2: reach me wherever I am.
Speaker 5: The weather was hot, the train slow, my companion sullen
Speaker 5: and silent. When we at last reached little Pellington station,
Speaker 5: it was a two mile drive before we came to
Speaker 5: the vicarage, where a big, solemn, rather pompous kerghman received
Speaker 5: us up in his study.
Speaker 1: A telegram lay before him. Well, gentlemen, what can I
Speaker 1: do for you?
Speaker 2: We came in answer to your wa mister Reelman.
Speaker 3: My wire.
Speaker 2: I sent no telegraphic communication.
Speaker 5: I mean the one you sent to mister Josah Embley
Speaker 5: about his wife and his money.
Speaker 1: If this is a joke, size is a very questionable one.
Speaker 7: I've never heard of the gentleman who name, and I
Speaker 7: have not sent a telegram to anyone.
Speaker 2: I knew it would be a fool's head.
Speaker 1: Well, must be some mistake. And the other two vicarages.
Speaker 1: Perhaps there is.
Speaker 3: Only one vicarage side, only one vicar.
Speaker 5: The telegram you refer to is obviously a scandalous forgery,
Speaker 5: the origin of.
Speaker 2: Which will certainly be investigated by the police. The wild gentleman,
Speaker 2: I can see no possible object in prolonging this interview.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, homes. Is that you homes? Well, they aren't homes.
Speaker 1: The vicar never said any such. Why you're very annoyed? Home?
Speaker 7: Are you thereas there is no return tonight?
Speaker 2: What I may contemt you to the horrors of a country, what.
Speaker 1: You can commune with?
Speaker 2: Thank, thank you very much, homes, good night. Well what
Speaker 2: did he say?
Speaker 1: He said it was the most remarkable business.
Speaker 4: Remarkable, I should prefer the word expansion, a railway, fair.
Speaker 1: Bird, class wife.
Speaker 2: Hey more, And now I hope Bill it's monstrous, monstrous.
Speaker 4: I shall have a word to say to mister Sherlock
Speaker 4: Holmes tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Oh very well, sir, We've drived directly to Baker Street
Speaker 8: from the station tomorrow, and now we better make arrangements
Speaker 8: for the night, I warned Holmes, by.
Speaker 2: Telegram at the time of our arrival at Baker Street
Speaker 2: next day.
Speaker 3: But when we got there we found a message to
Speaker 3: say that he was at Lursham and would expect us there.
Speaker 1: This was a surprise to me, but.
Speaker 5: An even greater one was to find that Holmes was
Speaker 5: not alone at Embley's house.
Speaker 1: In the sitting room, a turn looking, well built.
Speaker 9: Man sat beside him, a dark, heavily mustached man wearing
Speaker 9: tinted sunglasses and sporting a large Masonic pin in his tie.
Speaker 2: Ah, gentlemen, allow me to introduce my friend, mister Barker,
Speaker 2: mister Amberley. Dr Watson, how did richoe a Mister Barker
Speaker 2: has been interesting start in your business too, mister Amberley.
Speaker 2: We've been working independently one another, you understand, but we
Speaker 2: both have the same question to ask you a question?
Speaker 1: What question, jo miss?
Speaker 2: What did you do with the bodies?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: Get hold Watson.
Speaker 8: It No, you shan't make me answer you shall He's
Speaker 8: trying to sallow something.
Speaker 2: Stop him right, get holding literally, Well done, Bacher. No
Speaker 2: short cuts, Ambly, things must be done decently, and in
Speaker 2: order I have a cab at the door, I may
Speaker 2: as well take him straight to the police station. Could
Speaker 2: I tell you, Inspector that jolly coming along you want
Speaker 2: to examine this house sooner or later. I don't say
Speaker 2: you won't object to meeting me here.
Speaker 1: Very well, I'll come back with him.
Speaker 8: I'll come on you and anymore nonsense and I'll have
Speaker 8: your arm out of it.
Speaker 11: So well, there was a homes which's a poison capsule.
Speaker 10: Look, Ah, Holmes, this a buker, my hated rival upon
Speaker 10: the suage or Ah, his methods are irregular like my own.
Speaker 2: We irregular as are useful sometimes, you know. Well, Holmes,
Speaker 2: let's hear what it is all about. It all in
Speaker 2: good time, my dear Boson, the inspector will be along
Speaker 2: shortly for the same account. In the meantime, I shall
Speaker 2: enjoy a few minutes qua smooth. I just want to
Speaker 2: make this clear before you begin, mister Holmes, I don't
Speaker 2: imagine that we hadn't formed our own views of this case.
Speaker 11: And that we wouldn't have played our hands the men.
Speaker 11: And so you'll excuse us for feeling sore when you
Speaker 11: jump in with methods which we can't use, and so
Speaker 11: rob us at the credit. There will be no such robbery.
Speaker 11: Inspector McKinnon. Nowell, I assure you that I effaced myself
Speaker 11: from now on.
Speaker 2: Now. As to mister Barker here, he has done nothing,
Speaker 2: said what I told him.
Speaker 11: That's quite great. Well, that's pretty handsome of you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 11: Praise or blame can matter little to you.
Speaker 2: But it's different for the police when the newspapers start
Speaker 2: asking questions.
Speaker 1: Quite so.
Speaker 2: But when an intelligent and enterprising reporter asks you what
Speaker 2: the exact points were which are out your suspicion and
Speaker 2: finally gave you a certain conviction as to the lay
Speaker 2: of death.
Speaker 11: Well, well, we don't seem to have got any real
Speaker 11: facts yet.
Speaker 1: What facts have you?
Speaker 2: Have you arranged for a search, and there are two
Speaker 2: constables on their way, Then you'll soon get the clearest
Speaker 2: fact of all. Huh, the bodies cannot be far away,
Speaker 2: try to sell us, and it shouldn't take long to
Speaker 2: dig up the likely places. This house is older than
Speaker 2: its water pipes, so there must be a disused well somewhere.
Speaker 2: Why you're not there? But how did you know that
Speaker 2: been murdered? Yes, Holmes, how is it done? Well, I'll
Speaker 2: show you first hyphers done, inspector, and then i'll give
Speaker 2: the explanation, which is due to you, and even more
Speaker 2: to my long suffering friend, doctor Watson, who has been
Speaker 2: invaluable throughout. I say, but first, I'd like you to
Speaker 2: consider this man Amble. His mentality so that very unusual one,
Speaker 2: so much so that I think his destination is more
Speaker 2: likely to be broad more than the scaffold.
Speaker 1: Is that, so go on.
Speaker 2: He has to a high degree the sort of mind
Speaker 2: one associates with the medieval Italian nature rather than of
Speaker 2: the modern Britain. He was a miserable miser who made
Speaker 2: his wife so wretched by his niggardly ways that she
Speaker 2: was already to pray for any of them. Such a
Speaker 2: one came upon the scene, and the person of this
Speaker 2: chest playing doctor embly excelled at chess. One indication Watson
Speaker 2: the scheming mind. Like all misers, he was a jealous man,
Speaker 2: and his jealousy became a frantic mania. Rightly or wrongly,
Speaker 2: he suspected an intrigue. He determined to have his revenge,
Speaker 2: and he planned it for diabolic for cleverness. Have a
Speaker 2: look here this is his so called strong room. Oh
Speaker 2: what an awful smell of plaint. That was our first clue.
Speaker 2: You can thank doctor Watson's observation for that, though he
Speaker 2: failed to draw the inference. It set my foot on
Speaker 2: the trail.
Speaker 1: Him.
Speaker 2: Well, ask yourself, Watson, why should this man at such
Speaker 2: a time be fill in his house of strong odors?
Speaker 2: Obviously to cover some other smell which he wished to conceal,
Speaker 2: some gift smell which might excite suspicions.
Speaker 1: And you mean decomposition.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, nothing of that sort. Then
Speaker 2: came the idea of a rooms such as you see
Speaker 2: here with a sealed armed door. Put the two texts together,
Speaker 2: and where do they lead?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, blessed if I know?
Speaker 1: No, me too, Oh.
Speaker 2: Well, let it pass from now. I was already certain
Speaker 2: of the case was serious, because I had examined the
Speaker 2: box office chart at the Haymarket Theater, another of doctor
Speaker 2: Watson's bull eyes. It showed that neither the two seats
Speaker 2: B thirteen nor thirty two of the upper circle had
Speaker 2: been occupied on the nineteen question. They lied. I mean,
Speaker 2: he never went to the theater, and so his alibi
Speaker 2: fell to the ground. He made a bad slip when
Speaker 2: he showed you his wife's unused ticket. Watson. Yes, the
Speaker 2: only way I could satisfy my suspicions about the smell
Speaker 2: of paint and the existence of the sealed room, was
Speaker 2: to examine the house myself. The question was how was
Speaker 2: I to achieve this? I know that now I see it, Yes, Spatson,
Speaker 2: I sent an agent to the most impossibly remote village
Speaker 2: I could think of, and summoned Amberley to go there
Speaker 2: at such an hour that he couldn't possibly get.
Speaker 1: Back the same day, and send me will him to
Speaker 1: make sure he really went.
Speaker 2: At the good dicker's name, I simply got out of
Speaker 2: my Crockford's directory, masterly brilliant the veil here of interruption.
Speaker 2: I proceeded to burgle the house. Burglary has always been
Speaker 2: an alternative profession, if I'd care to adopt it, and
Speaker 2: I have little doubt that I should have reached the
Speaker 2: front rank of war anyway. See what I found? And
Speaker 2: then you see this.
Speaker 12: Yes type along the skirting board here, girl, very good.
Speaker 12: It rises the angle of the wall, and there's a
Speaker 12: tap in the corner. Now follow me into the strung room.
Speaker 12: You see that plaster rose in the center of the ceiling. Well,
Speaker 12: the pipe finishes there with an open end at any
Speaker 12: moment by turning the outside tap.
Speaker 2: This room could be flooded with gas with its door
Speaker 2: closed and the tap full arm. I wouldn't give two
Speaker 2: minutes of consciousness to anyone shut in here by what
Speaker 2: devilish device he decoyed them in here? I don't know,
Speaker 2: But once inside they were at his musty. Oh, I
Speaker 2: think I've seen enough of this place. Yes, let's get
Speaker 2: out of here.
Speaker 1: So he started painting the house to cover a various
Speaker 1: smell of gas.
Speaker 2: Afterwards honed because I said he came to have started
Speaker 2: painting the day before. That disappears that he should have
Speaker 2: said the day after. Ah well, what happened? Then then
Speaker 2: came an incident which I hardly expected. I was slipping
Speaker 2: out again through the pantry window in the early dawn today,
Speaker 2: and I felt a hand grabbed my collar and a
Speaker 2: voice said, now, your rascal, what have you been doing
Speaker 2: in there? And I could twist my head round. I
Speaker 2: recognized my friend and rival, mister Barker. So just where
Speaker 2: do you come into this, mister Barker? When I say
Speaker 2: I've been engaged by the family of doctor A Earnest
Speaker 2: to make some investigation, I cut the conclusion.
Speaker 1: Of beefoul play. Like mister es.
Speaker 7: I've been watching this house for several dazed, I knocked
Speaker 7: you down, doctor Watson, as one of the most suspicious
Speaker 7: characters to visit the place. Still I could hardly detain you.
Speaker 7: But when I saw a man actually climbing out of
Speaker 7: the pantry window this morning, I couldn't restrain myse out.
Speaker 2: And there you are, Inspector. You have all the particular
Speaker 2: I hand them over to you and step right out
Speaker 2: of the gate.
Speaker 11: Well, in the name of the course, I thank you,
Speaker 11: mister Holmes. It seems a clear case. The way you
Speaker 11: could it.
Speaker 2: You will get results, Inspector, by always putting yourself in
Speaker 2: the other fellow's place and thinking what you would do yourself.
Speaker 2: They take some imagination, but it pays hm.
Speaker 1: Helms. What about the missing money and the security.
Speaker 2: Or with all they found in some safe place where
Speaker 2: Embiy hid them post no robbery?
Speaker 1: Ah, well, you've met every point home.
Speaker 2: The only one last thing puzzles me.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, Embily couldn't avoid notifying the police of his
Speaker 5: wife's so called disappearance.
Speaker 2: But why was he fool enough to go to you
Speaker 2: as well?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: Pure swank. He felt so tever and so sherd of
Speaker 2: himself that he imagined no one could touch him. He
Speaker 2: could say to any suspicious neighbor, if the steps I've taken,
Speaker 2: I consulted not only the police, but even Sherlock Holme, or.
Speaker 11: Well, I'll have to forgive you that, even Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's as workmen like a job as I can remember.
Speaker 2: That was The Retired color Man by Michael Hardwick, based
Speaker 2: on the short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock
Speaker 2: Holmes was played by Carlton Hobbs and god to Watson
Speaker 2: by Norman Sherley. Production for the BBC was by Graham
Speaker 2: Gauld