Speaker 1: Tonight's story the Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, And so
Speaker 1: once again we raised the familiar brass door actor of
Speaker 1: doctor John Watson.
Speaker 2: Well, well, mister Stark, come in, come in. This is
Speaker 2: indeed a pleasure. I've been told we'll have to get
Speaker 2: along with a substitute for mister Harris for a few weeks.
Speaker 2: But I had no idea he'd turned out to be
Speaker 2: an old friend.
Speaker 3: I Uh, while I wore my clipper Craft's suit, doctor
Speaker 3: Watson saw one seemed too strange in this program.
Speaker 4: What's on the agenda for tonight, Well.
Speaker 2: It concerns the strange and slightly horrendous affair at Shoscomb
Speaker 2: Old Place, in which Holmes investigated the graves in an
Speaker 2: ancient verio crypt.
Speaker 4: Hmmm, sounds promising, and on earth.
Speaker 2: The fact that certain bones had been disposed of in
Speaker 2: the furnace.
Speaker 4: Wow, my hair is beginning to stand up on end already.
Speaker 2: Yes, The adventure began placidly enough one rainy morning. Holmes
Speaker 2: and I had just finished an excellent breakfast in our
Speaker 2: rooms in Baker Street. I was gazing idly through the
Speaker 2: sporting columns, trying to decide what horse to back in
Speaker 2: the fork I mean Derby and Holmes Homes was pottering
Speaker 2: around with a low piled microscope doing some sort of
Speaker 2: an experiment. The devil quoted his favorite day up and
Speaker 2: atom odds ten to one, just con prince forty to
Speaker 2: one when the bos brought the odds down on that horse.
Speaker 4: Glue Watson, it's glue.
Speaker 2: Jack Horner and break a day. And what did you say, Holmes?
Speaker 4: I was manly telling you the phenomenal fact that the
Speaker 4: microscope showed that there's glue and this bit.
Speaker 2: Of dust blue. What difference does it made? Blue? Or
Speaker 2: paste or even sticking plaster? Can't you see? I'm busy,
Speaker 2: lucky lady, ride of cornwall and the fact that.
Speaker 4: There is glue in this dust is going to cost
Speaker 4: a man his life.
Speaker 2: And I say, cost a man's life. Glue.
Speaker 4: Now you're interested, day Watson. We'll come over here and
Speaker 4: take a pek through this microscope.
Speaker 2: All right, nothing but a blur to me.
Speaker 4: Wait, let me adjust it there. What do you see now?
Speaker 2: Some long matted airs.
Speaker 4: Those are infinitesimal fibers from a tweed cap, the criminal's
Speaker 4: tweed cap. The irregular gray masses are dust. These are
Speaker 4: epithelial scales. On the left.
Speaker 2: Yes, But what are those shiny amber colored crystals in
Speaker 2: the center? That is the glue he's been How does
Speaker 2: a man's life depend on those?
Speaker 4: In the Saint Pancras case, you may remember that a
Speaker 4: cap was found beside the dead policeman. The accused man
Speaker 4: denies it's his. The stuff under the microscope was taken
Speaker 4: from one of the scenes of that cap and proves
Speaker 4: the man was lying. But how the man is a
Speaker 4: picture frame maker who habitually handles glue. Well, that case
Speaker 4: is closed. I had a new client who is due
Speaker 4: to call at ten. He's late. By the way, Watson,
Speaker 4: you have some knowledge of horse racing, I believe.
Speaker 2: Well I ought to. It's cost me about half my
Speaker 2: year's pension.
Speaker 4: Good. Then you can be my handy guide to the turf,
Speaker 4: as I believe you call your racing bible.
Speaker 2: Well, what would you like to know?
Speaker 4: Does the name Sir Robert Norberton mean anything to you? Oh?
Speaker 2: Rather, he lives at Shoscomb Old Place. It is the
Speaker 2: man himself what seemed like tall, muscular as a devil
Speaker 2: of a temper. He wants horse with Sam Brewer the
Speaker 2: Curtain Street money lander on Newmarket, Heath.
Speaker 4: Interesting is he often indulged in such pastimes.
Speaker 2: Well, he has the reputation of being a dangerous man,
Speaker 2: the most dead devil rider in Europe. See when the
Speaker 2: Grand National a few years back. One of those men
Speaker 2: who have missed the true generation. He would have been
Speaker 2: a buck in the days of the regency, a boxer,
Speaker 2: a heavy gambler, a devil with the ladies, and a
Speaker 2: first class.
Speaker 4: Shot capital Watson, a perfect thumbnail sketch. Now can you
Speaker 4: give me some idea of Shoscom Old Place?
Speaker 2: Well, not much, Only it is very ancient and situated
Speaker 2: in the central Shoscombe Park, and that the famous Shoscombe
Speaker 2: stables and trading waters are to be founder and the.
Speaker 4: Head trailer is John Mason.
Speaker 2: I say, how did you deduce that?
Speaker 4: I didn't have to? John Mason's my most recent client.
Speaker 4: This letter asking for an appointment. It's from him. But
Speaker 4: to go on? What else is the reventest about the
Speaker 4: place world?
Speaker 2: Are the famous shoscumb spaniels. You hear of them in every.
Speaker 4: Dog show Spaniels?
Speaker 2: Eh, they are the special pride of the lady of
Speaker 2: Shostcumbe Old Place, Sir Robert's wife. No, Sir Robert has
Speaker 2: never married. He lives with his widowed sister, Lady beets Folder.
Speaker 4: I mean she lives with.
Speaker 2: Him, and not at all I said what I meant
Speaker 2: the place belonged to her late husband. Lady Beetris has
Speaker 2: only a life interest. It reverts at her debt to
Speaker 2: her husband's brother and her husband's brothery meantime, she draws
Speaker 2: the rents.
Speaker 4: Every year and brother Roberts spends them.
Speaker 2: That's about the size of it. They're always quarreling, and
Speaker 2: yet I have heard that devoted to each other. But
Speaker 2: what's a miss at Shoscoll.
Speaker 4: That's just what I'd like to know, and that, if
Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken, is the man who can tell us
Speaker 4: the trainer, John Mason. Yes, here he comes up the stairs.
Speaker 4: Come in, Come in, ah, mister Mason, I am Sharlock Holmes,
Speaker 4: says Thrones read my note. Yes, this is my friend
Speaker 4: and colleague, Dr Watson. Mister John Mason. I so please
Speaker 4: be seated now, mister Mason. That's the difficulty or note.
Speaker 4: Explain nothing. Her metters too delicate for me to put
Speaker 4: on paper, much too complicated. I had to see your
Speaker 4: face to face. We are at your disposal, mister Olmes.
Speaker 4: I think my employer has gone mad. My dear mister Mason.
Speaker 4: This is Baker Street, not Harley Street. We do not
Speaker 4: pretend to be brain specialists.
Speaker 5: Well, gentlemen, a man does one queer thing, or even two,
Speaker 5: but when everything he does is queer, well, I believe
Speaker 5: shoskumb prints and the Derby have turned his brain.
Speaker 2: Sostgum, Prince. That's the coat you're running, isn't it, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: the best in England.
Speaker 5: If I do say so, I'll be playing with you
Speaker 5: because I know you're a gentleman of honor, and it
Speaker 5: won't go beyond this room. Sir, Robert has got to
Speaker 5: win the derby. He's up to his neck in debts. Well,
Speaker 5: it's his last chance. Everything he can raise or borrows
Speaker 5: on that horse. If Prince fails him.
Speaker 4: Is done for sounds like a desperate gamble, but that
Speaker 4: doesn't necessarily mean the man's insane. Where does the madness
Speaker 4: come in? First of all, his looks, sir, his eyes
Speaker 4: are wild. I don't believe he.
Speaker 2: Sleeps at nights.
Speaker 4: He's down at the stables at all hours.
Speaker 5: And so there's his conduct to his sister, Lady Beatrice.
Speaker 5: She loved the horses as much as he did. Every
Speaker 5: day she'd drive out to see him, and above all
Speaker 5: she loved prints. He'd trick up his ears when he
Speaker 5: heard the wheels of a carriage on the gravel, and
Speaker 5: out he trot to get his lump of sugar.
Speaker 4: But that's all over. Now she drives by every morning.
Speaker 5: Without so much as a good day to you think
Speaker 5: there's been a quarum, Yes, a bitter.
Speaker 4: Savage one it must have been.
Speaker 5: Why else would he give away a pet spaniel that
Speaker 5: she loved as if he were a child.
Speaker 4: To whom did he give it to?
Speaker 6: Old Barnes?
Speaker 4: What keeps the green dragon three miles away? Crindle curious
Speaker 4: a watson?
Speaker 5: Of course, with her weak heart and drops he you
Speaker 5: couldn't expect her to get about much with her brother.
Speaker 5: But Sir Robert spent two hours every evening in her room.
Speaker 5: Now he never goes nearer. He's taking it to Archie,
Speaker 5: has Sir brooding and sulky and drinking, mister Olmes, drinking
Speaker 5: like a fish.
Speaker 4: Did she ever do that before this estrangement?
Speaker 5: Where she took a glass regular every evening, But now
Speaker 5: as often as not its own bottle. There's something rotten
Speaker 5: about it mister Holmes. Then there's the goings on down.
Speaker 4: At the old church crypt at night. They haunted crypt.
Speaker 4: We call it's haunted. Here's mister Romes.
Speaker 5: There's an old, ruined chapel in the park so old
Speaker 5: nobody can fix its date, and under it there's a crypt,
Speaker 5: a crypt were all the ancestors of Lady Beatrice's husband libraried,
Speaker 5: including the man himself.
Speaker 4: Well, sir, that crypt has got a bad name among us.
Speaker 4: It's dark and damp.
Speaker 5: Enough by day, with the weeds breaking through everywhere, but
Speaker 5: at night it's worse. Standing there in the moonlight, it's
Speaker 5: broking arches, gleaming like ghosts. There's not many in the countryside,
Speaker 5: and have the nerve to go near it at night.
Speaker 4: I got you did, or there'd be no story.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
Speaker 5: Me and the butler, Stephens, we was taking a walk
Speaker 5: in the moonlight, smoking a pipe before going to bed,
Speaker 5: when all of a sudden we notices a light, sort
Speaker 5: of pale and unearthly like, shining in the old chapel.
Speaker 5: There we stood Stephens, and the quaking in the bushes
Speaker 5: like two bunny rabbits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see that, Mason. It's a light in the
Speaker 2: old chapel. Someone's in there for something. I don't like
Speaker 2: the look of it. It isn't natural.
Speaker 4: What's going on in the chapel this time of night? Oh,
Speaker 4: we best go and find out for he's sake.
Speaker 2: No, maybe it's something evil.
Speaker 7: Some bad spirit said it's light there to lure some
Speaker 7: poor fell up to his death.
Speaker 4: See that shadow moving against the fire wall. That's a
Speaker 4: man's shadow, that is, or a devil's.
Speaker 2: It looks more than life size to me? Isn't that
Speaker 2: a taily's switching around behind him?
Speaker 4: Nonsense? Rope, he's in his head?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 5: It's pi, Lady Beatrice Suspaniel. He's probably outside of the
Speaker 5: old Willhouse, Owland at the moon He was there all
Speaker 5: last night, Owland.
Speaker 4: Don't wait the deal.
Speaker 2: I don't say that. Maybe that's just what he's doing.
Speaker 7: Maybe that's what he's done, waked all the corpses in
Speaker 7: the crypt, and they're having a ghost he.
Speaker 4: Beating Rabbish Stevens. We don't really believe in ghosts. Why
Speaker 4: when you think about all this, tomorrow morning you'd be
Speaker 4: a sham.
Speaker 2: But that's tomorrow morning and to night's tanding here in
Speaker 2: the moonlight. Well, I ain't so sure.
Speaker 4: There's one way to find out. Come on, I have
Speaker 4: a look at who's in that chveel you.
Speaker 2: We're not going over there, Mason.
Speaker 4: You can stay here alone with your life. Stay here
Speaker 4: by myself. Well, then go back to the house and.
Speaker 2: Passed by that well house and then howl and dog
Speaker 2: all alone.
Speaker 4: It's only pitt.
Speaker 2: Now I'm coming with you. At least there'll be two
Speaker 2: of us.
Speaker 4: Come along. Then, don't crackle the bushes anymore. You can help.
Speaker 2: Confound their beast.
Speaker 5: Hello, lights disappearing down the stairs into the See, there's
Speaker 5: no one in here.
Speaker 2: There's a good of us cut do Look.
Speaker 5: There's a crek and the stone floor over there where
Speaker 5: the streak of lights coming from.
Speaker 4: See we can get over to it without being heard.
Speaker 4: Maybe we can see what's going on down below.
Speaker 2: I wish I was safe in my bed.
Speaker 4: We lets crawl along in our stomachs. Easy, does it?
Speaker 4: Here's the crek.
Speaker 2: By George, You're right, it's too men.
Speaker 7: That first one with a thin yellow face, I've never
Speaker 7: seen him before, I'd swear to that. But the big
Speaker 7: chef in the black cloak, kneeling down, there's something familiar
Speaker 7: about him. If I could only see her face.
Speaker 4: He's standing up by the Lord Harry. It's the Master himself,
Speaker 4: Sir Robert.
Speaker 2: What's he up to down here in the dead of night?
Speaker 4: What said?
Speaker 5: He's got under his arm so careful now he's holding it.
Speaker 4: Up to the night.
Speaker 8: He's ahead the head of a mummy. What an eerie experience,
Speaker 8: mister Mason.
Speaker 4: Then it was doctor Watson.
Speaker 5: I'd have given me notice the next day, except that well,
Speaker 5: I didn't want to leave Lady Beatrice alone at the
Speaker 5: mercy of that ruffian. I tried to see her, ladyship
Speaker 5: and tell her what was going on, but she wouldn't
Speaker 5: see me. Said add word by our maid, Carrie Evans.
Speaker 5: She wasn't feeling well enough. Not feeling well enough, here's
Speaker 5: mister Olms.
Speaker 4: But she was well enough to go out driving. All
Speaker 4: the same. How long has this made? Carry Evan's been
Speaker 4: with Lady Beatristmas Mason going on five years and she's devoting.
Speaker 4: She's devoted, all right. I won't say to room, I
Speaker 4: can't be creating scandal. You don't have to, Sir Robert's
Speaker 4: reputation with the ladies is, shall we say, the trifle shady.
Speaker 5: Yes, scandal's been clear for a long time. I'm afraid,
Speaker 5: I say Holmes.
Speaker 2: Perhaps that's the cause of the quarrel between the brother
Speaker 2: and sister. Being an invalid, she has no way of
Speaker 2: enforcing her will, So the hated maid is still at Shascum.
Speaker 2: Lady Beerter sulks and takes to drink. Sir Robert becomes
Speaker 2: angry and gives away her pet spaniel. That explains everything,
Speaker 2: doesn't it?
Speaker 4: Everything but the nocturnal visit to the crypt, who the
Speaker 4: yellow face stranger was, and why Sir Robert was holding
Speaker 4: a skull in his arms? Just a few trifling emissions, Watson,
Speaker 4: we'll go to blazes quite not, inst Mason. You say,
Speaker 4: Sir Robert gave his sister spaniel away to the proprietor
Speaker 4: of the Green Dragon. Yes, mister Arms. When is that
Speaker 4: a week ago, sir? Day after we saw him in
Speaker 4: the crypt, the very day Sir Robert left for London.
Speaker 4: Oh he left for London, did he? Yes, sir? And
Speaker 4: has he come back? We're expecting him back Tomorrow's. And
Speaker 4: has Lady Bertrice been taking her morning drives the same
Speaker 4: as usual? Yes, mister Arms. Eleven o'clock sharp, She and
Speaker 4: Kerry go out together. I'm not quite clear what you
Speaker 4: expect me to do with this battle of mister Mason.
Speaker 4: Maybe this will make it more definite, sir. Yes, I've
Speaker 4: been wondering much you had in that paper bundle.
Speaker 5: It's something Harvey is. One of my lads found in
Speaker 5: the furnace up at the Big House when he was
Speaker 5: writing at the cinders.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, a bone badly charred. I say, where is it? Watson?
Speaker 4: Your knowledge of anatomy is more accurate than mine.
Speaker 2: That's part of a female, a human bone.
Speaker 4: Exactly when does this lab tend to the furnace every night?
Speaker 4: He makes it up and leaves it. Anyone could visit
Speaker 4: it during the night, Yes, sir, you don't think, Sir Rodson,
Speaker 4: you forgets Robert's supposed to be in London. He's a
Speaker 4: deep waters mister Mason, deep and rather dirty. But I'm
Speaker 4: beginning to see to the bottom. How is the fishing
Speaker 4: in the neighborhood of Truscom case the fishing, mister, Yes,
Speaker 4: the Doctor and I are famous fishermen and we haven't
Speaker 4: had an opportunity to show our prowess this season. Hey, Watson, if.
Speaker 5: It's fishing you're after, there's nothing can come up to
Speaker 5: the trout in the mill stream.
Speaker 6: Good.
Speaker 4: You may address us in future at the green Dragon.
Speaker 4: We shall reach there tonight. And now that you have
Speaker 4: mister Holmes.
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Speaker 4: And now to return to our story, doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: Well, suppose we pick up after Holmes and I had
Speaker 2: settled ourselves at the Green Dragon. Mid morning, founders tramping
Speaker 2: down the road leading towards Soskoville Place, carrying rods and
Speaker 2: reels and all the rest of the trout fishermen's paraphernalia.
Speaker 2: Holmes also had a shaggy black spanielin tow Ah splendid
Speaker 2: weather for fishing a Watson, the trunk should be fairly
Speaker 2: jumping at the book. Yes, I shall have a good
Speaker 2: opportunity to try that new fly of man that doesn't
Speaker 2: found did dog doesn't scare the fish away? What in
Speaker 2: thunder made to bring that spaniel along?
Speaker 6: You mean? Pip?
Speaker 4: Yes? Down, boy down. I saw him tied up in
Speaker 4: the front hall of the inn. Mine host says that
Speaker 4: they have to keep him on a leash or he
Speaker 4: runs straight back to his old home. Easys O boy,
Speaker 4: good dog seemed to want to go walking, so I
Speaker 4: said I'd take him.
Speaker 2: Yes, but a dog on a fishing jawgle really homes you.
Speaker 4: Now, if we were going hunting, it a bit different, yes,
Speaker 4: but it's not the hunting season. You never know, we
Speaker 4: may get in a little hunting before we get to
Speaker 4: our fishing. Ah.
Speaker 2: That is the entrance gate to shaskan Ol Place. I
Speaker 2: presume hand some old iron work and tackle lot too.
Speaker 2: Dear Sir Robert is very jealous of his privacy.
Speaker 4: You would be too, if you had a horse you
Speaker 4: expected to win the derby. I understand he's very vicious
Speaker 4: with touts or any stranger he catches. Snooping around his property.
Speaker 2: And say, look here comes a big yellow open Baruche yes.
Speaker 4: Lady Beatrice, returning from her mornings dry. I fancy, I
Speaker 4: thought we should have some hunting this morning.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Pip and I go to hide behind his headge when
Speaker 4: the footman gets down to unlock the gates. I want
Speaker 4: you to engage him in conversations.
Speaker 2: But they don't understand. Homes, homes, Where are you? Where
Speaker 2: did you go? Here?
Speaker 4: Behind the hedge, trying to keep this confounded don quiet.
Speaker 2: Here they come. I say. The old girl must be
Speaker 2: a million years old, all bundled up in shawls and
Speaker 2: veils and things that must be carried beside her, the
Speaker 2: one with the suspiciously blonde hair. It's stopped. The footman's
Speaker 2: getting down off the box. The gates are swinging open
Speaker 2: after him.
Speaker 4: What's after him?
Speaker 2: Hello? I say, my good man, can you tell me
Speaker 2: how to get to the mill?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 2: How'll you go? Old boy?
Speaker 4: It's your mistress? After a boy, after a There he goes.
Speaker 4: He gets into the carriage, onto his mistress's lap. By jove,
Speaker 4: he's smiling. He's trying to bite the woman.
Speaker 2: Climb on, climb on, come on, it did excy to
Speaker 2: kick your well?
Speaker 4: Never mind, old boy, Well Watson, that's done it. He
Speaker 4: expected to see is miss Christ and he found the stranger.
Speaker 4: Dogs don't make mistakes. It was the voice of the Exactly,
Speaker 4: our little hunting party was quite a success. We flushed
Speaker 4: our bird. Now come along, Watson, the fisher waiting.
Speaker 2: For us here, homes. You're not going to give up
Speaker 2: this clue.
Speaker 4: Not exactly. Our hunting must be postponed until after dark. Then,
Speaker 4: I promise you it will be for big game.
Speaker 2: Here Holmes. That storm is going to break any minute now.
Speaker 2: Hadn't we better get.
Speaker 4: Back to the no rubbish, We can reach the chapel
Speaker 4: before we get too wet.
Speaker 2: Yes, but how did we get home again?
Speaker 4: Running a suspect, you may get wet. I told the
Speaker 4: vandor to have some of the trout we caught this afternoon,
Speaker 4: and a stilton cheese salad and a hot toddy waiting
Speaker 4: for us.
Speaker 2: Then let's get back now.
Speaker 4: I said, we wouldn't be back before half past ten.
Speaker 4: But if we weren't back by then, to rout out
Speaker 4: the local police. You you think it's as bad as
Speaker 4: all that. I don't know. It all depends on what
Speaker 4: we find in that crypt.
Speaker 2: There. That must be the chapel up ahead. I saw
Speaker 2: it in the last flash of lightning.
Speaker 4: Here comes the rain. Run, Watson, run, I.
Speaker 2: Said, no, gonna say fast, good lord, it's as black
Speaker 2: as the inside of my pocket. I've lost the chapel.
Speaker 6: No, no, there it is.
Speaker 2: I'm here, Watson.
Speaker 4: Over here, there's entrance side.
Speaker 2: Oh great under kind of so to the skin. It's
Speaker 2: it's turning down in Torrents.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 4: This must be the stairs leading down to the crypt.
Speaker 2: I say, homes, you have eyes like a cat.
Speaker 4: I can't say a blasted t Take my hand, easy now, easy,
Speaker 4: don't fall and break your neck. There you can like
Speaker 4: the lantern.
Speaker 2: As if I can find a match that's dry enough
Speaker 2: to light. You'll FEELI spaghetti. Uh whew, what is suppoko place?
Speaker 2: Look at all those vaults. I had no idea Lady
Speaker 2: Berts's husband.
Speaker 4: Had so many ancestors. Yes, some of those graves taken
Speaker 4: back before the Norman invasion. Look for Saxon names, Adelbert, Harold,
Speaker 4: and heard of the Normans long line of Hugos and
Speaker 4: Odors and purses. But it's this leaven coffin we're interested in.
Speaker 4: I imagine, notice how the dust around it's been disturbed.
Speaker 4: Handed that Jimmy Watson.
Speaker 2: You're not going to open it, hopes. This's get out
Speaker 2: of here, all these coffins, hundreds of dead ancestors. I
Speaker 2: feel like a ghoul myself hanging into their long secrets rubbish,
Speaker 2: and have this lid off in no time. One keep
Speaker 2: away from that coffin back, I said, I'll you to well.
Speaker 4: Well, if it isn't sir Robert Norberton himself, this is
Speaker 4: a surprise, allow me to present myself.
Speaker 2: I am Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 6: You don't have to tell me. I heard how you
Speaker 6: tried to frighten my sister this morning.
Speaker 4: I'll clear out your sister.
Speaker 2: Yes, my sister.
Speaker 6: What is your motive. What are you doing here? Answer
Speaker 6: me to your hair?
Speaker 4: I too have some questions to ask, sir Robert, what
Speaker 4: have you done with your sister?
Speaker 6: My sister? My sister's home in bed?
Speaker 4: Of course, if your sister's home in bed? Would you
Speaker 4: mind telling me whose body is inside this coffin? Throw
Speaker 4: back the lid? Watson? Yeah, sir Robert, is that the
Speaker 4: body of your sister? Or isn't it?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 6: But you're not the official police. What business is it
Speaker 6: of yours? Anyway?
Speaker 4: My business is that of every good citizen to uphold
Speaker 4: the law.
Speaker 6: But you mean you'll have the police? Good lord, this
Speaker 6: is terrible. I know appearances are against me, but I
Speaker 6: couldn't do anything else. I'll let me explain.
Speaker 4: Your explanations must be to the police, I'm afraid, but
Speaker 4: that will.
Speaker 6: Ruin me, don't you understand? I've always been dependent on
Speaker 6: my sister, Lady Beatrice, by everything. I'm deeply in debt.
Speaker 6: If it were known that my sister were dead, my
Speaker 6: creditors would come down many like bulsons. Everything would be
Speaker 6: seized by stables, my horses, shafts. Comprince would never run
Speaker 6: the derby to mister Holmes, my sister did die just
Speaker 6: one week ago. She died of propsy, which had long
Speaker 6: afflicted her. That will be for the coroner to the side.
Speaker 6: I was faced with absolute ruined. If I could only
Speaker 6: keep her death hashed up until day after tomorrow when
Speaker 6: the derby is run, I'll make a fortune.
Speaker 4: If your horse wins, he will, he must, My.
Speaker 6: Good name depends on it. On the first night after
Speaker 6: my sister's death, Norloch, who was Carrie Evans's husband and
Speaker 6: an actor, helped to carry her body out to the
Speaker 6: old well house. We were followed, however, by her pet spaniel,
Speaker 6: who howled all night long. I finally had to get
Speaker 6: rid of him.
Speaker 4: And it was nor that the actor who impersonated your sister.
Speaker 6: This last week, Yes, mister Holmes, this last week, I've
Speaker 6: lived the life of the damned. My conscience has given
Speaker 6: me no peace. Later, we buried my sister's body here
Speaker 6: and what is still consecrated ground one of the tombs
Speaker 6: of her husband's ancestors.
Speaker 4: After having endeavored to destroy the ancestors bones in the furnace.
Speaker 6: I don't know how you know that, but it's true.
Speaker 6: Now it's for nothing, all for nothing, I've ruined mister
Speaker 6: Holmes ruined.
Speaker 4: Not necessarily, What do you mean? After all, the derby
Speaker 4: is only the day after to morrow. Of course we
Speaker 4: must lay the case before the local authorities. But I
Speaker 4: still have a little influence here and there.
Speaker 6: Would you would you use it?
Speaker 4: It's not altogether impossible. And I answer, did Sherlock Holmes
Speaker 4: use his influence in Sir Robert's behalf? Yes?
Speaker 2: Indeed, mister staff. We went back to the inn and
Speaker 2: Holmes routed the local constable and coroner out of bed.
Speaker 2: They discussed matters over the trout and coffee and cheese.
Speaker 2: Luckily our catch had been a fairly big one. Moreover,
Speaker 2: the creditors were all Londoners, and Sir Robert was a
Speaker 2: local man, pride of county, you know. And besides, the
Speaker 2: constable and the coroner had both placed bets on Shoskin Prince,
Speaker 2: and they wanted to see him win. And did he
Speaker 2: He did, and that it his owner eighty thousand pounds.
Speaker 2: So Robert paid his debts and bought a small plate
Speaker 2: in the neighborhood of Shoscombe, where he threatens to end
Speaker 2: his days in an honored old age. I and Holmes
Speaker 2: have become great friends Holmes often visits him when he
Speaker 2: wants a bit of trout fishing.
Speaker 4: Well, all this talk of trout and salad and cheese
Speaker 4: has given me the most tremendous appetite.
Speaker 2: I had hoped it would. I have a special treat
Speaker 2: in store for you tonight. Just ring the bell, will you.
Speaker 2: I received two of the most beautiful trout from Sir
Speaker 2: Robert just this morning I met in. My housekeeper has
Speaker 2: them in the pan.
Speaker 4: Ban o frying in butter with hammonds sprinkled on the top,
Speaker 4: and the.
Speaker 2: Fish green salad and stilton cheese.
Speaker 4: But but lock here, isn't it a bit out of season? Patrout?
Speaker 2: Nothing is out of season these days, mister Stark, So
Speaker 2: Roberta has what is called a deep freeze.
Speaker 4: You know, yes, I know. But what have you in
Speaker 4: mind to tell us next week? Doctor Watson?
Speaker 2: When next week, mister Stark, I think I tell you
Speaker 2: of the vicious robberies and bludgeonings that occurred in Boston Yard.
Speaker 2: The criminal, you know, was a cat named Peggy. Holmes
Speaker 2: always called it the Adventure of the wooden Claw.