1 00:00:28,399 --> 00:00:35,359 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,119 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,119 going to bring you the second episode of World's Great 4 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:47,840 Novels adaptation of The Moonstone. But first, I do want 5 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,520 to encourage you. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow 6 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:56,240 us using your favorite podcast software. I do want to 7 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,119 encourage you to check out my wife's business, a Sheerer 8 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:04,480 clips as dot com slash a Shira. There you'll find 9 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:09,439 a wide variety of different hair clips, hairpins, and headbands 10 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,799 to suit a wide variety of different styles and taste. 11 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,599 That's at Lyla Rose l l l A Rose dot 12 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:24,400 com Slasher Shira s h Ira. Well Now from April ninth, 13 00:01:24,799 --> 00:01:30,640 nineteen forty eight, here is World's Great Novels with part 14 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:32,599 two of The Moonstone. 15 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 2: The World's Great Novels. In the middle of the nineteenth century, 16 00:01:47,439 --> 00:01:52,560 Wilkie Cullins, along with his famous contemporary Charles Dickens, exercised 17 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,719 a strong influence on the literature of his day. His 18 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,200 most famous work, The Moonstone, is still regarded as a 19 00:01:59,239 --> 00:02:02,640 classic in de active fiction. For Wilkie Collins was one 20 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,519 of the very first to develop the technique of mystifying 21 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:10,520 the reader by deaf manipulation of situation and effect. The 22 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:13,919 National Broadcasting Company presents the second episode in its three 23 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,560 part dramatization of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, another in 24 00:02:18,599 --> 00:02:19,360 a series. 25 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:35,159 Speaker 3: Of books that Live the World's Great Novels. When first 26 00:02:35,199 --> 00:02:39,960 I saw the moonstone, that legendary and fabulous diamond glittering 27 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,639 at the throat of my young ladyme is Rachel Berenda, 28 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:45,240 in whose home I had for many years performed the 29 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:50,680 duties of majordomo. I said to myself, Abriel Preterich, here 30 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,520 is a duel tainted by centuries of evarice and violence, 31 00:02:55,439 --> 00:02:57,800 but still on that featful moaning of which I now 32 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,120 tell I was hardly prepared for what I heard from upstairs. 33 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,919 It was my daughter Penelope. She came flying down the 34 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:05,680 stairway after me. 35 00:03:06,879 --> 00:03:09,439 Speaker 4: Heaven's sakes, come upstairs right away. The diamond is gone. 36 00:03:09,479 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 3: Were you out of your mind? 37 00:03:11,199 --> 00:03:13,039 Speaker 4: It's gone gone, and nobody knows how. 38 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:16,759 Speaker 3: Oh, come up and see. Yes is the one girl, Father, 39 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,439 You're head faster, that is young miss. Everyone was go ahead, girl. 40 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,199 Speaker 4: See see the drawer. The Indian Cabinet is pulled all 41 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,159 the way out. I myself. So miss Rachel put the 42 00:03:29,159 --> 00:03:33,000 diamond hinto that drawer last night? Let me see. Yes, 43 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,680 the draw is empty, Miss Rachel. Wasn't I here last 44 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:38,039 night when you put the diamond away? 45 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 3: Miss Rachel? Is this true? 46 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:46,639 Speaker 5: The diamond is gone? 47 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 3: But miss Rachel, Lady Verner, I'm glad you've come. 48 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,719 Speaker 5: I heard a scream. What is it? 49 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:55,199 Speaker 6: Oh? 50 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 3: The drawer, Yes, my lady, it is empty. 51 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 5: I mustpeak to Rachel. Where is she? 52 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: She's retired to her bedroom. She's locked herself in. 53 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 5: I must speak with her immediately, Rachel, Rachel, let me in. 54 00:04:07,879 --> 00:04:11,319 It's mother, Rachel. 55 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:11,919 Speaker 6: It's gone. 56 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 3: Mon stone gone. What are you talking about, Gabriel, moonstone gone, yes, 57 00:04:26,759 --> 00:04:39,360 mister Abel, right gone, Yes, mister Blake, it's true. 58 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 6: What's true? 59 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,519 Speaker 3: The moonstone has been stolen. 60 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 7: That Gabriel, my dear fellow. That's impossible. It's right over 61 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:50,000 here in the. 62 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 6: Why it's gone? And Julia, where's Rachel? I must see her. 63 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but the loss of the moonstone has quite 64 00:05:01,879 --> 00:05:05,319 stunned her. She shrieks in the strangest manner from speaking 65 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,600 of it even to me. But Julia, it's impossible for 66 00:05:07,639 --> 00:05:09,000 you to see her for the present. 67 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 3: From the very beginning, it was obvious that Superintendent Seagrave, 68 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,759 our local police chief, was not the man to conduct 69 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,279 an investigation on so serious a matter as the disappearance 70 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:31,959 of the Moonstone, and he was very quickly replaced, at 71 00:05:31,959 --> 00:05:35,720 the request of Franklin Lake by England's most celebrated detective, 72 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,319 Sergeant Cuff. The sergeant was a lean, elderly man with 73 00:05:40,439 --> 00:05:43,000 a face as sharp as a hatchet. The skin of 74 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,680 it is yellow and withered as an autumn leaf. He 75 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:50,560 hunted men, and he loved roses, oh yes, And frequently, 76 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,600 when preoccupied he whistled his favorite song, the Last Rose 77 00:05:54,639 --> 00:05:57,399 of Summer. In the days that followed, I was to 78 00:05:57,439 --> 00:06:00,920 hear him whistle his tune many a time. And now 79 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:03,959 the Sergeant Cuff stood by the engine cabinet, his steely, 80 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,120 light gray eyes seeming to miss no detail. 81 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 6: He turned to me and spoke, this, you say, is 82 00:06:10,959 --> 00:06:11,879 the sitting room? 83 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,319 Speaker 8: Yes, sir, nothing has been disturbed here since the disappearance. 84 00:06:15,759 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 6: Of the Moonstone. Oh nothing, sir, I hope, So yeah, 85 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:25,399 what's it? 86 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 3: I beg your pardon? 87 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,319 Speaker 8: This This small paintsmere beneath the lock on the door, 88 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:33,879 the door was recently painted. 89 00:06:34,199 --> 00:06:37,639 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, it was, sir, by mister Franklin Blake, with 90 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,800 the help of Miss Rachel Vender. Mister Blake loves to 91 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,800 indulge his fancy's decorative painting is one of them. 92 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,639 Speaker 6: So it is it is. I would like to talk 93 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,759 to mister Blake easy about Yes, sir, yes, I bring 94 00:07:02,199 --> 00:07:04,959 you are mister Franklin Blake. Yes I am. I am, 95 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:06,439 Sergeant Cuff. How do you do? 96 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 8: Can you tell me about this door you painted? I 97 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,399 believe you were assisted by miss Velinder, that's correct. When 98 00:07:13,439 --> 00:07:14,959 did you finish painting the door? 99 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:20,439 Speaker 7: Oh about three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, and the moonstone 100 00:07:20,439 --> 00:07:21,399 disappeared that night. 101 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 8: Yes, that would be two days ago, mister Blake. Can 102 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,240 you tell me how long you protect the paint on 103 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:29,120 that door to dry? 104 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 7: I can tell you exactly, a Sergeant Cuff. You see, 105 00:07:32,519 --> 00:07:35,319 I prepared the mixture, a mixture I call a vehicle, 106 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:37,839 and poured it into the paint, which caused the paint 107 00:07:37,879 --> 00:07:39,160 to dry in twelve hours. 108 00:07:39,199 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 6: Twelve hours, you say, twelve hours? Sergeant. 109 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 8: Let us reckon back mister Blake. At three on Wednesday afternoon, 110 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:48,680 that bit of painting was completed right. 111 00:07:49,199 --> 00:07:50,959 Speaker 6: The vehicle dried it in twelve. 112 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 8: Hours, that is to say, by three o'clock on Thursday morning. 113 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,000 Does anyone here know just what caused that small paint 114 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:00,279 smear beneath the lu. 115 00:08:00,759 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 3: Oh well Superintendent Seegrave, the police officer who has retired 116 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,399 from the case. He said one of the women's servants 117 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:12,399 petticoats had smeared it when they came in this room 118 00:08:12,439 --> 00:08:13,519 to be examined by himself. 119 00:08:13,519 --> 00:08:16,839 Speaker 8: A servant's petticoat is not responsible for the paint smear 120 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,319 because when the superintendent conducted his investigation, that paint was 121 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:26,399 already eight hours dry. My thanks to you, mister Blake. 122 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,959 It's quite in the cards that you have put the 123 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,720 clue in our hands. 124 00:08:31,079 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 3: Well, oh, Sergeant, this is missus Rachel Verinder. 125 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:38,799 Speaker 9: Did you say, sergeant, that this man here has put 126 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:40,080 the clue into your hands? 127 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 6: I should say, Miss Verinder, that mister Franklin Blake. 128 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 8: Has possibly put the clue into our hands. And now 129 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,159 I should like to ask a question. Observe this smear 130 00:08:50,279 --> 00:08:53,279 on the painting of your door. Do you know when 131 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:54,639 it was done or who did it? 132 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:57,279 Speaker 5: Will you follow a young lady's advice? 133 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,799 Speaker 6: Sergeant I shall be glad to hear it. Mister, then do. 134 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,519 Speaker 9: Your duty by yourself and don't allow this man here, 135 00:09:03,639 --> 00:09:05,759 mister Franklin Blake, to help you. 136 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 5: That is my advice, Sergeant. 137 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:13,919 Speaker 6: Hm. 138 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 8: Mister Verinder appears to be out of tempo over the 139 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,639 loss of her diamond. The moonstone, is, I know, a 140 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:25,519 most valuable jewel. Natural enough, naturally enough. 141 00:09:25,879 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 7: She appears to hold me responsible for the loss of 142 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:29,320 the moonstone. 143 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,519 Speaker 6: Well, so you must remember a young lady's tongue is 144 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:32,879 a privileged member. 145 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 7: So it seems well, tell me, sergeant, are you prepared 146 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,279 to say who has tolen the moonstone? 147 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 6: I am not. Perhaps later on? 148 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 7: Then not even then, does the sergeant mean he will 149 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,799 never discover the identity of the person who stole the moonstone? 150 00:09:48,240 --> 00:10:00,200 I mean this, mister Blake, nobody has stolen the moonstone. 151 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 3: Then Sergeant Cuff asked to speak to my lady. I 152 00:10:05,159 --> 00:10:08,279 found Lady Verinder in her own sitting room and explained 153 00:10:08,279 --> 00:10:12,159 the sergeant's wishes. To my surprise, she displayed great reluctance 154 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,919 to see him, saying that her nerve seemed a little 155 00:10:14,919 --> 00:10:17,559 shaken and that there was something in Sergeant Cuff that 156 00:10:17,639 --> 00:10:20,879 she recoiled from She said she had a presentiment that 157 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,960 he was bringing trouble and misery with him, But she 158 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,840 rallied and said she would see him, though she insisted 159 00:10:26,879 --> 00:10:29,720 I remain in the room with him. Well, when I 160 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,559 ushered the sergeant into her sitting room, I declare she 161 00:10:32,639 --> 00:10:34,840 turned a shade paler at the sight of him. 162 00:10:35,519 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 5: Lady Verinder, Sergeant Cuff, I speak to you only because 163 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:44,360 my Steward Gabriel betteredge urges me. What have you to say? 164 00:10:44,879 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 8: I have already formed an opinion on this case, Lady Verinder, 165 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,200 I beg your Ladyship's permission to keep it to myself 166 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:51,799 for the present. 167 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:58,159 Speaker 6: Very well, two things are certain. One, the moonstone is 168 00:10:58,200 --> 00:10:59,240 missing out of the drawer. 169 00:10:59,039 --> 00:11:03,519 Speaker 8: Of the Indian cabinet. Two, the marks from the smear 170 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,279 on the painted door were surely caused by a dress 171 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,080 which brushed against it. And therefore, before we go a 172 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,480 step further, we must discover the dress itself. 173 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,799 Speaker 5: And I presume such a discovery would imply the discovery 174 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:17,320 of the thief. 175 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 8: Your pardon, my lady, I have not said the moonstone 176 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,799 is stolen. I merely say it is missing. That is 177 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:26,840 why I wish to find the paint stained dress. 178 00:11:27,279 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 5: How do you propose to do so. 179 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 8: By examining the washing book, which lists the household laundry. 180 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 6: A missing article of dress might indeed be significant. 181 00:11:36,799 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 5: Very well, Gabriel, kindly bring for Rosanna and have her 182 00:11:40,399 --> 00:11:47,120 fetch the washing book. Yes, Sergeant Cuff, My good servants, 183 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,399 who have been with me for years have already had 184 00:11:49,399 --> 00:11:52,799 their boxes and rooms searched by that other officer, that seagrave. 185 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,559 I cannot and will knock and it them to be 186 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,360 insulted a second time. Keep that in mind, sergeant. 187 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 6: I shall dame you rang for me, mister Betrick. 188 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 3: Yes, Rosanna, bring the washing book, the washing book, yes, yes, yes, 189 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:10,679 if you please, my girl. 190 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:11,799 Speaker 6: Oh yes, sir. 191 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,919 Speaker 8: I hesitate to trouble your ladyship again, but I must 192 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:20,600 ask one last question. 193 00:12:21,159 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 5: You are sure it will be the last, Sergeant. 194 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 8: Your housemaid was just here. I believe her name is 195 00:12:27,039 --> 00:12:30,919 Rosanna's pierman. Has she been in your employment as long 196 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,799 as the other servants? 197 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 3: Why do you ask? The sergeant appeared not to notice 198 00:12:40,399 --> 00:12:44,799 my lady's question. Instead, his lips puckered into a whistle 199 00:12:44,879 --> 00:12:48,759 as his keen eyes rolled the room. I was overtaken 200 00:12:48,799 --> 00:12:51,559 by a mountain, feeling as though I were watching a 201 00:12:51,639 --> 00:12:56,679 bloodhound running swiftly behind his elusive cory. Then Rosanna returned 202 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:57,559 with the washing book. 203 00:12:58,360 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, here's the book. 204 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 3: Thank you, Rosanna. Here you are, sergeant, thank you. 205 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:05,919 Speaker 5: Yes, Rosanna, you may go. 206 00:13:06,639 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 6: Thank you, my lady. Oh, thank you. 207 00:13:09,639 --> 00:13:13,279 Speaker 5: Sergeant Cuff. A moment ago you asked how long Rosanna 208 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,679 had been employed in my household. Why did you. 209 00:13:15,639 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 8: Ask, because, Lady Venanda, the last time I saw miss 210 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:23,720 Rosanna's peerman, she was in prison for theft. 211 00:13:25,919 --> 00:13:32,399 Speaker 3: H pity that Sergeant Cuff was right. Although Rosanna had 212 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:36,879 indeed served determined prison. My good sweet mistress was determined 213 00:13:36,919 --> 00:13:39,039 that the poor girl with the crippled shoulder should have 214 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,879 a better chance in life, and so had given her employment. 215 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,159 Then Miss Rachel reappeared and refused permission to have a 216 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,080 wardrobe examined in the search for the Princemere dress. After 217 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:52,799 she had again locked her self in her room, I 218 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,919 had glanced deprehensively at Sergeant Cuff. 219 00:13:58,519 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 6: Hey, Gabriel, yes, sergeant, come out to the garden. We'll 220 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:10,679 have a look at the rosies. Life, Gabriel can be 221 00:14:10,759 --> 00:14:14,639 most strange. Man's ambition can be a simple one. 222 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 8: Yet so easily denied. I have always wanted to be 223 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,440 a gardener. Yet here I am a detective. 224 00:14:22,919 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 6: Well, hello, what is it? Such? 225 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:27,879 Speaker 8: I thought it wasna spearman hiding back. There have a 226 00:14:27,919 --> 00:14:28,919 hidy clumpish shoppery. 227 00:14:29,159 --> 00:14:30,519 Speaker 6: Oh, poor creature. 228 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 3: I'm not surprised, my daughter of Penelopus, is that Rosanna 229 00:14:33,879 --> 00:14:36,840 has recently conceived an attachment from mister Blake, who often 230 00:14:36,879 --> 00:14:39,919 walks in this part of the garden for the epsid 231 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,080 suits of fancy to have a look at him. 232 00:14:42,639 --> 00:14:45,159 Speaker 8: Falling in love with the gentleman and mister Franklin. Blake's 233 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,720 manner and appearance doesn't seem to me to be the 234 00:14:47,759 --> 00:14:51,039 maddest part of her conduct by any means. 235 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 6: That noise, someone's coming through the shrubbery. 236 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:55,559 Speaker 3: Oh it's mister Blake. 237 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:56,799 Speaker 6: Oh there you are. 238 00:14:58,759 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 7: I'm glad I found the two of you together, Say Gabriel, 239 00:15:01,919 --> 00:15:04,519 Yissa did one of the trades. When yesterday met Rosanna 240 00:15:04,639 --> 00:15:08,159 on the path from Shivering Sand to pre single Town, I. 241 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:09,879 Speaker 6: Forgot what's it? Why? Yes? 242 00:15:10,519 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 7: And at that time she was supposed to have been 243 00:15:12,519 --> 00:15:13,240 ill in her room. 244 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:14,519 Speaker 6: Isn't that right, Gabriel? 245 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:16,399 Speaker 3: So she said yesterday. 246 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 7: Obviously her attack of illness was merely a blind to 247 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,639 deceive us. She had some guilty reason, the secret leg 248 00:15:23,639 --> 00:15:27,159 going to town, the paint stained dresses, address of hers. 249 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:28,639 Speaker 6: Yes, it's my belief. 250 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,799 Speaker 7: Rosanna Spearman has stoleed on the moonstone. 251 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,879 Speaker 6: Didn't Lady Verinder know of this? Not just yet, mister Blake. 252 00:15:34,879 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 7: I must say, Sergeant, the workings of a policeman's mind 253 00:15:38,399 --> 00:15:39,480 are too mysterious for me. 254 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 6: Then, sir, let me enlighten you. 255 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 8: If you went to inform Lady Verinder what you know 256 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,720 about Rosanna, she would only tell her daughter. 257 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,519 Speaker 6: It's richual am I to understand? You forbid me? 258 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:54,399 Speaker 8: Yes, you take it upon yourself to devoulge vital information 259 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,519 to Lady venandor anyone else without my leave, I will 260 00:15:57,519 --> 00:16:04,200 throw up the case very well, Sarchelton. Well, and now, Gabriel, 261 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,159 I have a request to make of you. 262 00:16:06,639 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 3: Oh yes, what is it? 263 00:16:07,519 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 8: Zach, show me the way to Shivering sand Beach. Shivering 264 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,480 you say yes to look at the path Rosanna Spearman 265 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:24,600 took yesterday when she said she was in her room. 266 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:28,039 Speaker 3: Even a man is resolute to Sergeant Cuff could scarcely 267 00:16:28,159 --> 00:16:30,919 repressed the shadow which seized him when he caught his 268 00:16:30,919 --> 00:16:36,240 first glimpse of shivering sand scum slime shone faintly here 269 00:16:36,279 --> 00:16:39,279 and there on the quicksand, and far out beyond could 270 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,559 be seen the rhythmic heave of the ocean. Sergeant Cuff spoke, is. 271 00:16:43,519 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 8: You're sea shore here considered a fine specimen of marine landscape? 272 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:48,679 Speaker 6: Gabriel, Yes, sir, it is, sir. 273 00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 8: I'm looking at it from my point of view. I 274 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,519 never saw a marine landscape I had mine. Unless oh, 275 00:16:54,159 --> 00:16:58,039 a treacherous place, Gabriel. No sign of anyone having been 276 00:16:58,039 --> 00:17:01,240 along here yesterday. Perhaps we better walk a bit. 277 00:17:01,799 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 3: Yes, sir. 278 00:17:06,799 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 8: Eh how does the fishing village bear from where we 279 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:09,759 are now? 280 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,279 Speaker 3: Well, sir, they call it cobs Hole, and it is 281 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,359 due south in the direction we're walking. 282 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 8: Can we get to cobs Hole now that it's low 283 00:17:18,279 --> 00:17:20,759 water on the beach, Yes, sir, Well, then, if you'll 284 00:17:20,759 --> 00:17:23,200 excuse my suggesting it, we'll step out briskly. 285 00:17:26,519 --> 00:17:28,599 Speaker 3: We had walked, i should say, a couple of hundred 286 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,480 yards toward cobs Hole when SuDS and Cuffs suddenly went 287 00:17:32,519 --> 00:17:35,640 down on his knees on the beach. Tall appearances seized 288 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,799 with a sudden frenzy for seeing his prayers. 289 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:41,839 Speaker 8: There's something that we said for your marine landscape after all, yeah, Gabriel, 290 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,119 on a woman's footsteps. 291 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,319 Speaker 3: Yes, and leading directly to the village. 292 00:17:46,559 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 8: Rosanna Spearman, I imagine has friends at cobs Hole. 293 00:17:49,799 --> 00:17:52,279 Speaker 3: Oh, yes, sir, of course, where they fisherfolk by the 294 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:55,440 name of Yelland she's quite friendly with her daughter, who 295 00:17:55,519 --> 00:17:58,559 is afflicted with the misshapen foot and known as limping Lucy. 296 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,279 Speaker 8: Sir, Then, Gabriel, I think we must drop in on 297 00:18:01,319 --> 00:18:01,680 the Yell. 298 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 9: Sure you won't have another top of the Dutch gin, 299 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,680 mister cuff, No, thank you, mister, We say any friend 300 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,319 of Rosanna's is a friend of ours. 301 00:18:14,839 --> 00:18:18,079 Speaker 6: I do feel quite sorry for her. She'll never get 302 00:18:18,079 --> 00:18:20,960 on in her present place. My advice to her would 303 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,000 be to leave it. 304 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 5: True, bless your heart alive, sir. She is going to 305 00:18:25,559 --> 00:18:26,000 leave it. 306 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 3: Oh, surely, missus yelling you must be mistaken. 307 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:30,039 Speaker 6: Mistaken. 308 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 9: Why only an hour ago she bought some things from 309 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:36,519 me that she wanted for cleveling, And only last evening 310 00:18:36,599 --> 00:18:39,400 she came here and said, poor dear, I want to 311 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,000 write a letter to a friend, and I can't do 312 00:18:42,079 --> 00:18:45,039 it for the peeping and prying at the house. And 313 00:18:45,079 --> 00:18:48,319 then she went upstairs and wrote the letter in Nucy's room. 314 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:50,759 Speaker 5: But who she wrote it to I'll never know. 315 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:55,839 Speaker 3: H Eh, excuse me, sir, but isn't it about time 316 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:57,920 we took our leave? Oh? Oh, what way? 317 00:18:58,039 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 9: Then in our wait just a moment, No, oh, this 318 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:05,000 this pile of rubbish? 319 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:07,279 Speaker 5: Ah, here it is? 320 00:19:08,319 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 3: Wait this in your hands, sir? 321 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,319 Speaker 6: Why? Why it's a dog chain and the heavy one 322 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:14,319 of that is. 323 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:15,799 Speaker 3: Quite out of the ordinary. 324 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,079 Speaker 9: I gave two of them just like this to Rosanna. 325 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,759 I asked her why she wanted them, and she said 326 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,640 they'll go around my tin box quite nicely. 327 00:19:24,839 --> 00:19:27,319 Speaker 5: You see, I had already given her a tin box, 328 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:28,480 so you. 329 00:19:28,519 --> 00:19:32,759 Speaker 6: Gave her a tin box and chain ropes cheaper? 330 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 5: I said, chain is better, said she. 331 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,640 Speaker 9: Now I ask you, mister Cuff, what would she be 332 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,440 wanting with such heavy chains? 333 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,599 Speaker 8: Thank you, missus, yolland we've bothered you enough many thanks 334 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:45,559 and good. 335 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 5: Night, Oh good night, sir. 336 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 3: I could scarcely credit my senses. Hasanna preparing to steal 337 00:19:53,960 --> 00:20:00,400 away from mouse? We changed a tin box m Upon 338 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,720 returning home, we were met with a new sensation, which 339 00:20:03,759 --> 00:20:05,440 came from Lady Velender herself. 340 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 5: Sergeant Cuff, I am obliged to inform you that my daughter, 341 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,240 Miss Rachel, intends to stay with her aunt. This is 342 00:20:12,279 --> 00:20:15,119 able White a frizzing hole. She has arranged to leave 343 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:16,200 early tomorrow morning. 344 00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:19,279 Speaker 8: May I ask your ladyship when Miss Vender first thought 345 00:20:19,319 --> 00:20:19,880 of going. 346 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 5: To her aunt about an hour ago. 347 00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 6: I had no claim to control Miss Rachel's actions. 348 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 8: All I can ask is that your daughter put off 349 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,839 her departure, if possible, until later in the day. I 350 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,920 must go to Frizzing Hall myself tomorrow morning to investigate 351 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:35,880 the matter of the three Indians now in prison. 352 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,759 Speaker 6: There. I shall be back by two o'clock, if not before. 353 00:20:39,319 --> 00:20:42,039 Speaker 8: Is if Miss Benndar can be kept here until about 354 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:45,559 that time, it is imperative that I say two words 355 00:20:45,599 --> 00:20:48,599 to her unexpectedly before she goes. 356 00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 3: That night, no sleep came to banish the thoughts which 357 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,440 braged my mind. But like a man racing chalk marks 358 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,720 from the slate, as fast as I rubbed out one riddle, 359 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:16,680 another made its appearance. First the strange behavior Franklin Blake, 360 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:23,319 second the mysterious maneuverings of Rosanna Spearmen, and last the 361 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,200 sudden disclosure that Miss Rachel was to leave for a 362 00:21:26,279 --> 00:21:31,960 visit with her aunt at Frizzing all Ah. Finally, the 363 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,519 long night gave way to morning when I witnessed a 364 00:21:35,599 --> 00:21:38,920 sharp encounter between Sergeant Cuff and mister Franklin Brake. 365 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 6: Well, what do you want, mister Blake? Be pleased to remember? 366 00:21:43,519 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 8: I am an officer of the law, acting under the 367 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:46,960 sanction of the Mistress of the house. 368 00:21:47,559 --> 00:21:50,079 Speaker 7: It would seem to me the worthy sergeant uses his 369 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,000 authority something in the manner of a man wielding a bludgeon. 370 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 8: No matter, under these circumstances, is it or is it 371 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,680 not your duty to assist me with any special information 372 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:01,839 you may happen to possess. 373 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 7: I possess no special information. 374 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 8: You would deny that one of the female servants spoke 375 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,440 to you privately, Sir last night. 376 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 6: I have nothing to say. 377 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,039 Speaker 8: You needn't be afraid of harming the girl, mister Blake. 378 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,400 On the contrary, I recommend you to honor me with 379 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,160 your confidence if you feel any interest in Rosanna Spearman. 380 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 7: I take no interest whatever in Rosanna Spearman. 381 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 3: No sooner had Sergeant Cuff set off a friezing hole. 382 00:22:38,319 --> 00:22:41,839 When my daughter Penelope informed me that Rosanna Spearman was 383 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,599 now in a state of extreme melancholy. Having overheard mister 384 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,680 Blake's disavowal of her to Sergeant Cuff, I yielded to 385 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,599 Penelope's persuasion and would offer to see what I could 386 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,759 do to raise the spirits of the sensitive girl. Yes, 387 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:02,240 mister Beatrix, cheered up, Prousanna. I'm sure mister Blake intended 388 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:05,400 you no disrespect when he told Sargeant Coffee took no 389 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,799 interest in you. He merely lost his patience with the sergeant. 390 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:16,079 Speaker 10: Mister Franklin Blake is very kind and considerate. Please to 391 00:23:16,279 --> 00:23:19,920 thank you, and now I must get on with my sweeteps. 392 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,960 Oh come, come, my girl, this is not like yourself. 393 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:26,640 You have something on your mind. Now I'm your friend. 394 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,519 Speaker 3: Make a clean breast of it, Rosanna, Come, come, make 395 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:34,119 a clean breast of it. Yes, I'll make a clean 396 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:39,319 breast of it. To Lady Verinder, to mister Blake. Then yes, 397 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,759 to mister Blake, Rosanna, why not take my advice and 398 00:23:43,799 --> 00:23:46,480 speak to Lady Verinder, who has always been kind to you. 399 00:23:46,519 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 5: No, I have a better way of relieving my mind 400 00:23:50,279 --> 00:23:50,680 than that. 401 00:23:51,279 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 3: What is it, Rosanna? 402 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 6: What is it? 403 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:54,759 Speaker 3: Girl? Please? 404 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 5: Let me go on with my work. 405 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,559 Speaker 4: Cleannna, Oh, why must you be like rest? 406 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:07,039 Speaker 3: Leave me alone alone? The poor girl ran from me, 407 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,480 and then Miss Rachel was about to leave the house. 408 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,519 Sergeant Cuff returned from Frizzing Hall. He healed me at 409 00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:15,160 the front door. 410 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,559 Speaker 8: I've seen the three Indians. They will be set free 411 00:24:20,599 --> 00:24:23,359 next Wednesday. Although there isn't a doubt in my mind 412 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,720 that they came to steal the moonstone. I can tell 413 00:24:25,759 --> 00:24:28,599 you one thing, Gabriel, we haven't heard the last of 414 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:29,680 those three jugglers. 415 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,599 Speaker 6: If we don't find the moonstone, they. 416 00:24:32,519 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 3: Will well did anything else turn upside? 417 00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 8: I learned what Rosanna bought when she slipped away to 418 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,279 freezing all that Thursday. 419 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:43,279 Speaker 6: What's that? 420 00:24:43,599 --> 00:24:46,559 Speaker 3: Why, sir? That would be Miss Rachel leaving in her carriage. 421 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:55,599 Speaker 6: Cartman, What is it you want, Sergeant? Before you go, 422 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,720 Miss Rachel, one word, be quick about it. 423 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,759 Speaker 8: I can't presume to stop you for visiting your art. 424 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,359 I can only venture to say that you're leaving us 425 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,119 as things now stand, put an obstacle in the way 426 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,759 of my recovering your moonstone. Please understand that, now go 427 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:17,039 or stay drive off. 428 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,799 Speaker 3: I had hardly recovered from my disappointment at Miss Rachel's 429 00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:26,359 abrupt departure. When the special Officer detailed to keep an 430 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,960 eye on Rosanna's spayman reported he had lost trek of her. 431 00:25:30,559 --> 00:25:33,680 I informed Sergeant Kuff of this and of my conversation 432 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:37,839 with Rosanna a short time before. Without a word, it turned, 433 00:25:38,279 --> 00:25:40,640 dashed out of the house and set off in the 434 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,559 direction of Shivering Sand. I sent our little Irish serving 435 00:25:44,559 --> 00:25:47,160 boy along with him, and when within the half hour 436 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:51,240 the boy returned asking for one of Rosanna's boots, I 437 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:57,839 had a premonition. I knew even before I knew. Running 438 00:25:57,839 --> 00:26:01,160 as fast as I could, I myself carried Rosanna's shoe 439 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,039 to Shivering Sand. The clouds gathered black on the horizon 440 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,880 as though they knew, and a hard driving rain came 441 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,960 pelting down. The tide is running in the angry sea 442 00:26:13,079 --> 00:26:16,920 returned the thunder above. I looked at the south spit 443 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,640 a ledge of rock which rises high above the quicksand, 444 00:26:20,039 --> 00:26:23,680 and on it stood a black, solitary figure, sagean cop. 445 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,519 I hurried to him. He pointed to a footprint of 446 00:26:28,559 --> 00:26:32,279 the sand. Then, without a word, he took Rosanna's shoe 447 00:26:32,319 --> 00:26:35,079 from my trembling hand and knelt to fit the boot 448 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:35,920 within the footmark. 449 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 6: It fits no paramage. Rosanna made this footprint and the other. 450 00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:44,319 You see the direction in. 451 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 3: Which they point Aye, They pointed straight to the ledge 452 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:55,839 of rock, and they offul dropped below into the quicksand Eh, 453 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,119 I can't see er. Yes, it's mister Yellen, the fisherman. 454 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:00,960 How you phone the last? 455 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 6: No, only these footprints. Ah, Then the poor girl is done. 456 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 8: Mister Arran an hour ago before the tide came in. 457 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,640 How much water would there be. 458 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 3: Below this rock one hour ago now to enough to 459 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,200 drown a kitten? 460 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 8: Do you think there's any chance of finding her when 461 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,200 the tide ebbs again? 462 00:27:18,519 --> 00:27:20,559 Speaker 6: None? What does sand get? 463 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 3: The sand keeps forever, Rosanna's fiam and diad. She had 464 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,119 taken her own life through but she had been driven 465 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,799 to it, Yes, driven by the evilness of the yellow diamond, 466 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:45,519 the Moonstone. From the very moment. Miss Rachel received the 467 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:49,599 Moonstone as a legacy from my uncle, the notorious John Hencastle. 468 00:27:50,519 --> 00:27:54,279 Its curse hung over all our heads and now. 469 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 6: Teath. 470 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,559 Speaker 2: A Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is one of the world's 471 00:28:19,599 --> 00:28:22,640 great novels, brought to you each week by the NBC 472 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,400 University of the Air. Listen next week to the third 473 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,799 episode of this four part radio version of The Moonstone, 474 00:28:30,559 --> 00:28:33,200 and remember that your local public library can be a 475 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,000 constant source of information and entertainment. To add to your 476 00:28:37,079 --> 00:28:40,079 enjoyment of this series, we recommend the Handbook of the 477 00:28:40,079 --> 00:28:43,039 World's Great Novels, which you may obtain by sending twenty 478 00:28:43,039 --> 00:28:46,480 five cents to World's Great Novels Post Office Box, thirty 479 00:28:46,559 --> 00:28:50,079 Station JAY, New York, twenty seven, New York. It's post 480 00:28:50,079 --> 00:29:03,319 office box thirty Station J, New York, twenty seven. The 481 00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:07,160 Moonstone is adapted for radio by Robert Saxon. The music 482 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,359 was composed by Amol Souderstrom, and the orchestra was directed 483 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,119 by Bernard Berkwist. The entire production was under the direction 484 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,039 of Homer Heck. Sherman Marx is featured as Gabriel Betteridge 485 00:29:18,519 --> 00:29:22,079 and Arthur Sedgwick as Sergeant Kupp. Rachel was played by 486 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:27,200 Geraldine Kay, Lady Barnder by Almah Platts, Rosanna by Ruth Shames, 487 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,119 Penelope by Jane Elliott, and missus Yollan by Mignon Shriver. 488 00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:35,279 Franklin Blake is played by Charles Mountain, Godfrey, Abel White 489 00:29:35,279 --> 00:29:38,240 by Sidney Breeze, and mister Yallen by Les Spears. 490 00:29:38,799 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 6: This is John Conrad. This program comes to you from. 491 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 2: Chicago and is a presentation of the National Broadcasting Company 492 00:29:45,799 --> 00:30:02,839 and its affiliated independent stations with Spring officially here. Many 493 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,160 people are taking to the woods for picnics and steak fries, 494 00:30:06,559 --> 00:30:10,640 thereby increasing the dangers of forest fires. Don't be a 495 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,440 potential firebug. Prevent fires by following these four simple rules. 496 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,680 Crush out cigarettes, break matches in two after using drown 497 00:30:20,759 --> 00:30:26,319 all campfires thoroughly, and find out the law before using fire. 498 00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:39,240 This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. 499 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 1: Welcome back. This really brought to my mind how much 500 00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:47,559 I enjoyed Sergeant Cough when I read The Moonstone so 501 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:52,680 many years ago. He's wonderfully realized here by Arthur Sedgwick, 502 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,200 and I was just so delighted by the performance. Sergeant 503 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,640 Cuffs a figure no one talks about when you think 504 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,640 about important detectives, and there can be some good reason 505 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,079 for that as we see the plot play out, But nevertheless, 506 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,559 you really see the sorts of traits and characteristics and 507 00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:16,200 approach to investigation in him that have been borrowed consciously 508 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,279 or unconsciously by so many later authors and have helped 509 00:31:20,319 --> 00:31:25,160 define so many detectives. And again this just does bring 510 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,720 home the importance and influence of the Moonstone informing this 511 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,960 genre that we love and celebrate here every day. Well, 512 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,799 now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we 513 00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:42,799 have a comment on our listener survey from San Diego, California. 514 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,519 Listener rits love the show. Please if you can have 515 00:31:46,599 --> 00:31:50,319 a few episodes of the Whistler. Thank you well, thank 516 00:31:50,359 --> 00:31:54,160 you so much. I appreciate the comment. Most episodes of 517 00:31:54,319 --> 00:31:58,680 the Whistler don't really fit with the Great Detectives podcasts 518 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:04,519 since they're more sort of mystery prime drama sort of 519 00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:09,640 stories rather than detective stories that have a true detective. 520 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,319 We did feature one episode on this podcast all the 521 00:32:14,359 --> 00:32:20,119 way back during our Jackweb Centennial week in April of 522 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,960 twenty twenty, back on episode three to one oh four 523 00:32:25,319 --> 00:32:29,359 s so around sixteen hundred episodes or so ago, give 524 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,640 or take. We have actually featured quite a few episodes 525 00:32:33,799 --> 00:32:38,319 of the Whistler on The Amazing World of Radio, including 526 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,440 the very first episode, which was an episode of the 527 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:47,480 Whistler from Chicago. But we had a Whistler New Year's Special, 528 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:54,400 a Whistler Christmas Special, another Whistler special that tied into 529 00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:59,720 the Amazing World of Radio Checkweb Centennial series, and then 530 00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:04,720 we had an entire mini series that we did several 531 00:33:04,799 --> 00:33:12,440 years back where our Spring series was recently unearthed episodes 532 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,839 of the Whistler that hadn't been in circulation, although I 533 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,640 think this was back in twenty twenty one now, so 534 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,079 not all that recent these days. But those are the 535 00:33:22,079 --> 00:33:25,480 times we've shared the Whistler, and in addition, we have 536 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,960 done them for various app extras, and we did do 537 00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:33,440 one for our Patreon extras with Betty Lugerson a few 538 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,880 months back. I enjoy The Whistler, but it's one of 539 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,960 those things where I don't think I could do it 540 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,839 every week. I just find that if I listen to 541 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,160 it too much, it's one of those shows that does 542 00:33:44,359 --> 00:33:45,799 mess with my moods a bit. 543 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:46,599 Speaker 6: If you want to. 544 00:33:46,599 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 1: Hear a lot more Whistler, then I would encourage you 545 00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:56,279 to check out Andrew Ryne's Mystery a podcast otnetcast dot 546 00:33:56,359 --> 00:34:01,079 com slash Mystery where he has many many more episodes 547 00:34:01,119 --> 00:34:04,440 of the Whistl are posted. Thanks so much, appreciate the comment, 548 00:34:05,119 --> 00:34:08,079 and now it is time to thank our Patreon supporter 549 00:34:08,119 --> 00:34:09,440 of the day, and I want to go ahead and 550 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,559 thank Rich. Rich has been one of our Patreon supporters 551 00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:16,239 since March twenty twenty, currently supporting the podcast at the 552 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:19,880 Shawmus level of four dollars or more per month. Thanks 553 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,039 so much for your support, Rich, and that will do 554 00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:25,679 it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow 555 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:30,480 us using your favorite podcast software. And if you are 556 00:34:30,559 --> 00:34:34,199 enjoying the podcast on YouTube, be sure to lock the video, 557 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,400 subscribe to the channel, and mark the notification bell. We'll 558 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:44,199 be back next Thursday with episode three of the Moonstone. 559 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,239 But join us back here tomorrow for yours truly. 560 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,280 Speaker 11: Johnny Dollarware, So you ensured two million worth of diamond 561 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,400 marbles over the phone. 562 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:52,800 Speaker 6: I did. 563 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 11: And you say you weren't naive a look a remote 564 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,960 launch an eccentric old man some expensive bobbles. 565 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:01,039 Speaker 6: I am a tarker. Get at him. 566 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 12: You haven't listened to me, Johnny. You've missed the point entirely. 567 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,360 I wouldn't care to be left the diamonds lying out 568 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,920 on a front doorstep. I ensured those diamonds solely against 569 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,119 theft by persons or things unknown on this earth. That's 570 00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:18,840 the exact wording of the policy. 571 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,760 Speaker 6: And now they're gone. Yes, Saul, someone took them. Prove 572 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:22,760 it what. 573 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,079 Speaker 12: Someone and not something. 574 00:35:27,119 --> 00:35:29,639 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 575 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:35,000 send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, 576 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,360 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 577 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:45,000 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from 578 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,639 Boise Alohol. This is your host, Adam graham Son and Off.