Speaker 1: Now, doctor, back to the charming lady who was named
Speaker 1: for this verdant man May.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was rather late in May, as I remember.
Speaker 2: The year was nineteen nine or ten.
Speaker 3: I believe Holmes had retired to a small coperty he'd
Speaker 3: acquired on the coast of Sussex, and was deep in.
Speaker 4: Beea culture, leaving you alone and deserted.
Speaker 3: Except for a delightful and devoted little wife. Yes, exactly Well,
Speaker 3: at the beginn of the beginning I had I'd gone
Speaker 3: down to Sussex for a long weekend of fresh air
Speaker 3: and relaxation.
Speaker 1: Now you might have known better than to expect relaxation
Speaker 1: around Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 3: Doctor, How right you are, mister Harris Wit. It was
Speaker 3: Saturday morning. Holmes and I were finishing a leisurely breakfast
Speaker 3: which had been served up on the East tennice overlooking
Speaker 3: the Channel. I had just filled my pipe and was
Speaker 3: offering my tobacco pouch to Holmes. Went to my surprise,
Speaker 3: he refused, never touched the stuff. Never touched tobacco homes,
Speaker 3: you prevaricator. When I think of the tons I've watched
Speaker 3: you consume a regular inferno just the same I've given.
Speaker 2: It up or anything wrong with your health.
Speaker 4: No, I've given up nicotine because my bees don't like it.
Speaker 4: You know, you go out among the hives wreaking of
Speaker 4: nicotine and see what happens to you.
Speaker 2: Watson, I have no intention of going near the silly things.
Speaker 4: Bees, My dear Watson, are not silly. If the human
Speaker 4: race conducted its affairs with half the discipline and intelligence,
Speaker 4: we'd have fewer fools like the latter day Jihu, who
Speaker 4: is at this moment scorching up the cliff road in
Speaker 4: this direction.
Speaker 2: Oh, you mean the chat driving the automobile. I take
Speaker 2: it naturally.
Speaker 4: The blithering idiot must be caughting death at close to
Speaker 4: forty miles an hour.
Speaker 3: Homes is coming in here, make a turn on two wheels.
Speaker 3: It's a wonder you misticket close. Who look at the
Speaker 3: dust he's picking up? Well, at least he didn't manage
Speaker 3: to stop the juggernaut. For a moment I thought he
Speaker 3: was going right on through the kitchen.
Speaker 5: Well, well, this is a bit of luck. I'd hope
Speaker 5: to see homes of Dorsma to find Watson as well.
Speaker 4: A dear fellow. The pleasure is mutual, isn't it, Watson?
Speaker 2: Eh?
Speaker 5: You know Holmes.
Speaker 2: I don't believe the old boy remembers me. How can
Speaker 2: I tell if I remember, you're not all gone up.
Speaker 4: In that cap and goggles. My dear Dilly, you'll have
Speaker 4: to forgive Watson. I'd never been able to teach him
Speaker 4: to recognize people by their immutable features, the shape of
Speaker 4: the ears, the set of the jaw.
Speaker 2: Dilly, don't tell me it's old Peter Dillinghurst.
Speaker 4: Now the Reverend Doctor Dillinghurst, rector of Basham Church.
Speaker 5: I believe, yes, worse luck, That's what I've come to
Speaker 5: consult you about, Holmes. Things have been happening at Basham
Speaker 5: Church every morning. There are fresh roses on the late
Speaker 5: Lady Elfrida's tomb, and the old bell in the tower
Speaker 5: started a ring again.
Speaker 2: I would look here at Dillinghurst.
Speaker 3: People often place flowers on tools, and church bells are
Speaker 3: quite frequently wrung, you know.
Speaker 5: Yes, But the people didn't place the roses, Watson, and
Speaker 5: people didn't ring the bell. Matter of fact, the bell
Speaker 5: hasn't been wrung for five years, not since the time
Speaker 5: of hit by lightning and bed the craked. The stairs
Speaker 5: to the bell tower destroyed by fire at that time
Speaker 5: and never replaced no one can reach the robe. Well,
Speaker 5: it's those confounded roses that are rarely the most disturbing phenomenon.
Speaker 2: Homes.
Speaker 5: There's some churches looked up. It's locked up every night
Speaker 5: after evensong. I attend to the locking up myself every night.
Speaker 5: When I make the rounds to extinguish the candles, I
Speaker 5: notice the day's spray of yellow roses on Lady Alfrida's tomb,
Speaker 5: and every night they are faded and drooping.
Speaker 3: Yellow roses always seem to be particularly perishable.
Speaker 4: Homes on it to Rut Watson.
Speaker 5: The next morning, when I unlocked the door and ail
Speaker 5: out the church, there are the roses as fresh as
Speaker 5: though they'd just been plucked, and no one is at
Speaker 5: foot inside the church. Amazing homes, My dear Dillinghurst, What
Speaker 5: makes you so positive that no one had entered the church?
Speaker 4: I'm not a fool.
Speaker 5: Homes. On several occasions I have scattered ashes not only
Speaker 5: around the doors, but around Lady Elfrida's tomb as well.
Speaker 5: There has never been so much as a muss track
Speaker 5: through them.
Speaker 2: Hey jove.
Speaker 5: Furthermore, a group of schoolboys who've joined that new organization
Speaker 5: er or what is it they call oh yes, the
Speaker 5: boys scouts, Oh, I've heard of them, Homes remarkable lads.
Speaker 2: They can up two sticks together and nick a fire.
Speaker 2: Don't you know that.
Speaker 4: They didn't invent the process? Go on Recturn.
Speaker 5: Well, as I was saying, the boys and their scout master,
Speaker 5: the local librarian, volunteered to spend the night in Basel
Speaker 5: Church to see if they could find out who was
Speaker 5: responsible for the blooming roses and the ringing bell.
Speaker 4: What did they discover?
Speaker 5: Nothing? Homes, absolutely nothing. At exactly midnight, the bell rang
Speaker 5: and the roses bloomed afresh. Nobody, absolute clean, nobody was
Speaker 5: within arm's reach of either. Why are you so perturbed
Speaker 5: about all this today? Because, well, because this occurrence is
Speaker 5: killing me. The present lady Danesfield May was the late
Speaker 5: rector's daughter Homes. I've known her since she was a child,
Speaker 5: and I came to bash them to act as her
Speaker 5: father's curing mayors. Of course, much younger than Sir Albert
Speaker 5: and Elfrida his first wife. In fact, I think May
Speaker 5: was always afraid of Elfrida, who was a strange coal
Speaker 5: Crowback to our Danish ancestors, it's on me, the May's account,
Speaker 5: that I ask you to investigate the smile homes.
Speaker 4: Well, what do you say, Watson, shall we take a
Speaker 4: run over to Basham and did his new fangled perambulator, go.
Speaker 5: And get my coat and he you you won't need
Speaker 5: the Watson. I've brought along caps and dusters for both
Speaker 5: of you.
Speaker 4: Come along.
Speaker 5: We shall have to drive like the devil if we're
Speaker 5: going to get back in time for choir practice. Hans,
Speaker 5: I never realized that utter imbecility of barnyard foul until
Speaker 5: I started to drive a car.
Speaker 2: Do you look out, there's a boy on a bicycle.
Speaker 5: Never touched him.
Speaker 4: Tell me Diddinghurst first, about the church bell. We say
Speaker 4: it sounds at midnight? How often has this occurred? Every night?
Speaker 5: Since Lady Elfrida's birthday? The day those confounded yellow roses
Speaker 5: were placed on our tomb, that's nearly two weeks ago.
Speaker 4: Yellow roses? Is there any significance to yellow roses?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yess. Sir Albert Damesfield's first wife, dy Elfrida, came from
Speaker 5: Castle Odo, which is famous for its yellow roses. When
Speaker 5: the Lady Elfrida married Sir Albert, she brought along a
Speaker 5: half dozen of the rose bushes and the family gardener
Speaker 5: to plant them.
Speaker 4: What happened to him?
Speaker 5: Hugo that's his name, still lives at the hall, although
Speaker 5: he must be well over eighty by now. But he
Speaker 5: was always particularly devoted to Elfrida, and somehow he always managed,
Speaker 5: whether the season was early or late, to have those
Speaker 5: rose bushes covered with blossoms for Lady Elfrida's birthday. And
Speaker 5: every year after his mistress died, on her birthday, he'd
Speaker 5: bring a sheaf of yellow roses to Sir Albert would
Speaker 5: carry them to Bashm Church and place them on her tomb.
Speaker 4: But every year up to now the roses have withered
Speaker 4: in due course of time. Well not every year.
Speaker 5: Homes, that is, the Lady Elfrida has been dead over
Speaker 5: ten years. Three years ago, when Sir Albert decided to
Speaker 5: take a young wife, he well, you know how it is,
Speaker 5: he sort of neglected to keep up the custom of
Speaker 5: decorating his first wife's grave on her birthday.
Speaker 2: Thoughtless of their homes.
Speaker 5: Possibly well, this year, on Elfrida's birthday, Oh you go,
Speaker 5: stop Sir Albert his young wife as they came out
Speaker 5: to take the morning stroll in the gardens.
Speaker 7: Good morning you go, ohhgo, how beautiful look al but
Speaker 7: the lovely yellow roses are there for me.
Speaker 6: You go, no, mo'am begging your ladyship's pardon. There for
Speaker 6: her whose birthday this is here, for her who loved
Speaker 6: intended them, and who lies in her grave and Basham
Speaker 6: Church buried there before a time was due.
Speaker 2: That you go.
Speaker 6: If you take my advice, sir, you'll not forget to
Speaker 6: take her the flowers.
Speaker 2: He love this day.
Speaker 6: The lady Elfrida was not one to take a slight
Speaker 6: without getting her own back.
Speaker 4: Rubbish. You can't bully Rugby. You go.
Speaker 6: Life is for the living, but we all must die
Speaker 6: sometimes surround.
Speaker 7: Give me the flowers, you go, I'll see their placed
Speaker 7: on Lady Elfrida's grave.
Speaker 6: Thank your ladyship, and may Heaven protect you better than
Speaker 6: it did her.
Speaker 7: My dear, this is a bit ridiculous, Albert. I'd like
Speaker 7: to put these on Elfrida's grave. They're beautiful, is here
Speaker 7: and it means so much to poor old h'll go.
Speaker 8: Are you sure that's why you're doing it, my dear?
Speaker 9: What do you mean?
Speaker 8: Are you sure it's not because you're still a bit
Speaker 8: afraid of Elfrida?
Speaker 7: Well maybe it's for both reasons.
Speaker 4: Albert that's the second time, Dillinghurst that you've mentioned the
Speaker 4: lady May was afraid of her predecessor.
Speaker 5: That's not as startling as it sounds. Home, Oh confound.
Speaker 4: That man with his sheep?
Speaker 2: Does he have to take up the entire road?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 5: What was I saying?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, everyone was terrified of Elfrida. She was a cold
Speaker 5: forbidding sort of woman. Even in her fections. She should
Speaker 5: have had children. That my made a difference. You see,
Speaker 5: she knew how desperately her husband wanted them, and well
Speaker 5: when the years went by and there were no heirs
Speaker 5: to carry on Albert and Robert Cole towards.
Speaker 2: Her and feeling of him hehmes. I have often.
Speaker 5: Suspected that Lady Elfrida's drowning and seacrete that runs past
Speaker 5: the hall wasn't.
Speaker 4: As accidental as we were led to believe.
Speaker 2: You mean, do you think it was suicide?
Speaker 5: There was no autopsy, I suppose, good lord, No, they
Speaker 5: just pulled her out of the weeds. She'd been missing
Speaker 5: for three days before the greppling hooks founder. They were
Speaker 5: afraid she'd done away with herself when they found the note,
Speaker 5: what did it say?
Speaker 4: I have gone to answer the call. You say that
Speaker 4: May was always afraid of Lady Elfrida. What was the
Speaker 4: older woman's attitude toward the girl? Did she suspect her
Speaker 4: husband felt an attachment for her? Oh, good heavens.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 5: May was only twelve years old when Lady Elfrida drowned.
Speaker 5: She was nineteen monstyle, but asked her to be a
Speaker 5: second wife. You say they've been married three years? Are
Speaker 5: they happy? I suppose so? Of course Alberts disappointed again
Speaker 5: there are no children.
Speaker 3: Maybe it wasn't. And then guy of the Lady of
Speaker 3: Frieda's fault the first time.
Speaker 4: Don't interrupt, Watson. Then Sir Albert's family may die out with.
Speaker 5: Him, don't know, Holmes. There's Robert Albert's brother, a half
Speaker 5: brother as a matter of fact. He's much younger, but
Speaker 5: he's rarely at home, always off hunting big game in India,
Speaker 5: Africa or some other Arplandish places. He's just returned from
Speaker 5: Canada about six weeks ago. How does he get on
Speaker 5: with Sir Albert's new wife. Hardly has a word to
Speaker 5: say to her, just keeps looking at her with those strange,
Speaker 5: black burning eyes of his. His mother was Spanish, you though,
Speaker 5: they do say, he takes after her.
Speaker 3: I say, look at that magnificent sunset there over him,
Speaker 3: back of that steeple.
Speaker 5: That's the steeple of Basam Church. Watson, we're nearly home.
Speaker 5: The town begins on the other side of the railroad
Speaker 5: tracks to put up the next decline.
Speaker 2: Would you care to drive for the church immediately home?
Speaker 2: I say, control.
Speaker 4: Yourself, Watson, I know you're famished. Suppose we pay a
Speaker 4: visit at the local inn, first killing Hurst and postpone
Speaker 4: our investigation of Basham Church and till the witching out
Speaker 4: of midnight.
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Speaker 1: It is a few moments before midnight the good Rector,
Speaker 1: followed by two silhouettes, one toad and lank. The other,
Speaker 1: rather more substantial, is picking his way through the moss
Speaker 1: covered tombstones by the light of an old fashioned.
Speaker 5: Light, careful watching one of the headstones has fallen over.
Speaker 5: Some of the graves are very old, and the families
Speaker 5: have died out. The more important families, of course, have
Speaker 5: their tombs and vaults inside the church proper, where the
Speaker 5: local historical society cares for them.
Speaker 2: Dashed the democratic a, Holmes.
Speaker 4: What difference does it make when you're dead?
Speaker 5: Now up these steps, just a moment to lie. Find
Speaker 5: the key to the side door.
Speaker 2: I say, listen to the wheel. Sounds like a lost soul.
Speaker 5: Here we are. I'll go first and right the way.
Speaker 4: A hinge could do with a bit of oil.
Speaker 3: Dimminghurst, good lord, whew, simply just swooped past my face.
Speaker 4: Probably of bath Watson. Old churches are often inhabited by them. Yes,
Speaker 4: there's another hanging from that clear story up there this way.
Speaker 3: Holmes, you see the old place looks much bigger and
Speaker 3: gloomier from the inside at homes.
Speaker 5: Quite now we are standing directly under the beltry. If
Speaker 5: you look up you can see the bell and the
Speaker 5: rotted end of the bell cord up there, completely out
Speaker 5: of reach.
Speaker 3: He's right, homes no human hen could ring that bell? Hello,
Speaker 3: I slipped on something. Yes, there seemed to be quite
Speaker 3: a few pebbles here on the floor. Fit's and masonry
Speaker 3: are always coming loose. I'm fraid one of them are
Speaker 3: a ruined. The postmistresses to bonnet. The Damesfield bolts up
Speaker 3: this way to the left of the chance. Basham Church
Speaker 3: is one of the oldest in all England. Here at
Speaker 3: the entrance to the choir lies the daughter of Canoe,
Speaker 3: folded in her golden hair. It's still growing, they say.
Speaker 3: Remember one hundred years or so they opened up the
Speaker 3: tomb and cut a link of it off.
Speaker 2: I say, do you believe that?
Speaker 5: I don't know, Watson, I wasn't here at Basham at
Speaker 5: the beginning of the century.
Speaker 2: I'll let you know.
Speaker 4: Oh, in the year two thousand, at that ancient altar,
Speaker 4: Harold knelt before setting sail on his ill fated voyage
Speaker 4: to Normanday. Here we are the entrance to the Damesfield Bolt,
Speaker 4: one of the oldest family of volts in the entire church.
Speaker 4: It was completely filled long ago. The more recent members
Speaker 4: have been buried in the floor beside it. This is
Speaker 4: lady Elfrida's tomb here with the wilted roses lying against
Speaker 4: the wall. Yes, keep it that lantern.
Speaker 2: Rector Holmes, what are you doing with your.
Speaker 4: Sneak testing the wall behind Elfrida's grave? Yes, quite solid.
Speaker 4: And the door leading down into the vault this hasn't
Speaker 4: been opened for years, I should say, no rust or
Speaker 4: dust on the grating. The grill works sound as the
Speaker 4: date was made.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 5: Those old dames could teach us a thing or two
Speaker 5: about down working home.
Speaker 4: Yes, suppose we take up our places in the first
Speaker 4: few over there. It's nearly midnight. We may as well
Speaker 4: wait in comfort for this phenomenon of the roses. I
Speaker 4: have the strangest feeling that someone is watching us, considering
Speaker 4: all the ancestors who lie buried here, Is it any wonder,
Speaker 4: oh homes, Really sit down, Watson and stop fidgeting. Let's
Speaker 4: see twenty seconds to midnight. This church is, of course
Speaker 4: one of the old foundation that's right home. Ten seconds.
Speaker 4: The important thing is to watch the roses. Don't take
Speaker 4: your eyes off them. Five seconds. I hope this occurs
Speaker 4: on time three seconds two one now.
Speaker 2: Midnight exactly, hose look at the roses. They're fresh, they
Speaker 2: are absoluted, blooming.
Speaker 3: So they are let's to brook them.
Speaker 4: Did either of you take your eyes off them, just
Speaker 4: for a second, perhaps when the bell rang?
Speaker 5: I'm afraid I am guilty of that laps.
Speaker 4: As well, lucky hours of arm assuring us of at
Speaker 4: least one person who can concentrate. Yes, these roses are
Speaker 4: as fresh as they look. Remarkable. I think I'll take
Speaker 4: this one along for my button hole looks. Tomorrow morning, Director,
Speaker 4: I think we shall take a look at the bushes
Speaker 4: that are supposed to have produced these very remarkable roses
Speaker 4: that can be arranged home excellent, You know, Watson, there's
Speaker 4: only one thing more remarkable than the freshness of this rose.
Speaker 4: What's then the time it chose to renew itself?
Speaker 2: But it was midnight, exactly as Director tell.
Speaker 5: That's right, Homes, you yourself said it was midnight, by
Speaker 5: your own work.
Speaker 4: That's what makes it so remarkable, My director, You see,
Speaker 4: my watch is five minutes fast.
Speaker 11: It's very good of you, mister Holmes, to take such
Speaker 11: an interest in our little problem of the everlasting roses.
Speaker 11: But after all, I imagine a person of your reputation
Speaker 11: is many more important crimes to investigate.
Speaker 4: It's not the importance of a case that interests me primarily. Albert,
Speaker 4: the Shah of Persia might be murdered in cold blood
Speaker 4: in Trafalgar Square and I should probably pass by without
Speaker 4: a glance. But if a well known member of a
Speaker 4: county family should, shall we say, go about popping off
Speaker 4: his neighbour's top hats with a sling shot, I might
Speaker 4: just possibly consider that worth investigating.
Speaker 11: What a droll fellow you are, mister Holmes, am I,
Speaker 11: Sir Albert, Oh, yes, here we are. These are my
Speaker 11: former wife's yellow rose bushes, mister Holmes, now quite bare
Speaker 11: of blossoms, as you could see.
Speaker 4: I thought they might be. Yes, let me see. It's
Speaker 4: basically a rugosa with a later grafting of something. Yes,
Speaker 4: I rather imagine the rose these bushes produce resembles that
Speaker 4: early flowering yellow rose now called the father Hugo. Yes,
Speaker 4: mister Holmes, that's absolutely correct. By the way, Sir Albert,
Speaker 4: you have a gardener named Hugo.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, old Hugo. He's feeling first.
Speaker 8: I'm afraid this business of the yellow room uses is
Speaker 8: preying on his mind almost as much as on my wife's.
Speaker 4: And my favorite roads at the fround Rushki, which blooms
Speaker 4: about now. It's a pure white rose as you know.
Speaker 4: And sudmento, I agree, I great agree. People who have
Speaker 4: forever crossed breeding and grafting.
Speaker 2: Are you sure?
Speaker 9: Are you sure?
Speaker 10: You didn't hear it? Last night?
Speaker 9: Had called again just shortly before dawn. It was done
Speaker 9: by the bend of the sea Creek where they found Elfreda.
Speaker 9: It was a woman's voice, and it kept calling my name.
Speaker 9: I had an almost irresistible hurge to go to it.
Speaker 10: What brought me?
Speaker 4: You must have been dreaming.
Speaker 9: It wasn't the first time I heard that voice. It
Speaker 9: called to me three nights ago, Oh Robert, I was terrified.
Speaker 9: I'm not on the Albert's door, but he didn't answer.
Speaker 9: Then I not on yours, but you didn't hear me either.
Speaker 9: And all the time that that voice kept calling to me.
Speaker 4: The men in this household must be remarkably heavy sleepers, Robert,
Speaker 4: some confounded dropper on the other side of the head.
Speaker 11: May my dear come round the headshirt a moment and
Speaker 11: bring Robert.
Speaker 2: I want you.
Speaker 11: To meet two distinguished guests, mister Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson,
Speaker 11: my wife, and my half brother Robert.
Speaker 4: We've come to solve the riddle. Are the yellow roses? No? No,
Speaker 4: leave her alone? Leave her alone, all of you.
Speaker 3: Why you drag me out here, homes Just sit in
Speaker 3: this blasted, insect ridden duck blind in the middle of
Speaker 3: the night that racked the blasted things.
Speaker 2: It's not even the dut hunting season.
Speaker 4: Exactly. Our object, my dear Watson, is to discover who
Speaker 4: and why someone's trying to frighten the lady may out
Speaker 4: of her wits.
Speaker 3: Then you don't agree with her husband and her brother
Speaker 3: in law that the voice calling to her from the
Speaker 3: water was only a dream.
Speaker 4: The ringing bell and the other blooming roses want to dream, Watson.
Speaker 2: Very well, then one not solved that mystery first?
Speaker 4: Or but it is solved, Watson. It's been solved since
Speaker 4: five minutes to midnight last night. How Sir, I was
Speaker 4: quite convinced that the trick of the bell and the
Speaker 4: roses were not two but one. Any slight of hand
Speaker 4: artists knows that the important thing is to divert his
Speaker 4: audience's attention at the moment his stunt is pulled. Hence
Speaker 4: the bell. I don't understand, my dear Watson. Those smooth pebbles,
Speaker 4: one of which unbalanced you. Those were what rang the bell.
Speaker 4: They were projected by a noiseless weapon, in short, a
Speaker 4: powerful slingshot. Our slight of hand artist aimed his pebble
Speaker 4: through the grating of the Danesfield Family vault. A second
Speaker 4: later he shoved the fresh roses through with his foot
Speaker 4: as he picked up the old ones with his hand,
Speaker 4: very quick, very neat.
Speaker 3: But how did he get inside of the vault? You
Speaker 3: saw the ashes around the entrance, there were no footprints.
Speaker 4: But our Vassian churches, I said before, belongs to the
Speaker 4: old foundation. The Danesfield vault was undoubtedly used as a
Speaker 4: priest's hole during the religious wars. There's another entrance from
Speaker 4: the fields directly under the chancel.
Speaker 3: And you deliberately ticked the fellow into going off half
Speaker 3: hot five minutes ahead of time.
Speaker 2: Homes, You are a.
Speaker 4: Wonder Yes, I rather imagine will be no further nonsense
Speaker 4: in Basham Church. But that doesn't mean that lady May
Speaker 4: is out of danger. The roses were meant to telefy her,
Speaker 4: you know. The poor woman's on the verge of a
Speaker 4: nervous breakdown or worse there. Why not let me take over, No, Watson,
Speaker 4: not until we can prove who it is who's threatening her.
Speaker 2: Why you, of course the brother.
Speaker 3: He wants out of the way, so there could be
Speaker 3: no possible air except himself.
Speaker 4: The roses by the way were white roses dyed yellow
Speaker 4: inasmuch as the yellow rose bushes had ceased to move.
Speaker 2: Good Lord home, did you hear that?
Speaker 4: Yes? I suspected as much. It's coming from the marshes
Speaker 4: on the other side of the stream. The tides high, now,
Speaker 4: the stream's deep. He would wait for that.
Speaker 2: Here she comes, now, the leady maid.
Speaker 4: She's all in white homes. She looks as if she
Speaker 4: were sleepwalking.
Speaker 2: Look, she's heading for that boot tag to the landing.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, someone's following her into the shadows.
Speaker 2: It's Robert, the half brother. He's carrying a gun, Holmes.
Speaker 2: We must stop him before he does it any harm.
Speaker 4: Even alone, Watson, he knows what he's doing. The lady
Speaker 4: May is getting into the rowboat. She's pulling it out
Speaker 4: into the stream.
Speaker 2: She's in trouble, Holmes.
Speaker 4: Yes, there were fresh holes bored just above the water line.
Speaker 4: When she stepped into the boat, it started to fill homes.
Speaker 4: We must save her, honey, Relax, Watson, Robert's going after her.
Speaker 4: The situations were in hand. That's what I was waiting for. Now, Watson,
Speaker 4: we can go home. But you heard that scream and
Speaker 4: then we shot over there in the marshal plight. It
Speaker 4: was Sir Albert who was luring his second wife to
Speaker 4: her death by the same means he used to do
Speaker 4: her world at his first He was shot by the
Speaker 4: one person who suspected that death was not suicide. When
Speaker 4: he saw him tried again, he killed him.
Speaker 2: But Robert couldn't have sought his brother Holmes. He left
Speaker 2: his gun on the bank when he went to rescue
Speaker 2: the lady May.
Speaker 4: Right, Watson, Yes, I think that when Sara al bodies discoboard,
Speaker 4: we found he was shocked by his own fowling piece
Speaker 4: at close range. The coronel will probably decide it was
Speaker 4: a hunting accident. Well, the lady May was rescued. I
Speaker 4: take a doctor.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, mister Harris.
Speaker 4: But why did her husband want to do away with her?
Speaker 3: Because she, like his first wife, had produced no sons,
Speaker 3: and because he suspected his brother had fallen in love
Speaker 3: with her. As a matter of fact, that lady may
Speaker 3: marriage Sir Robin, and in due course of time they
Speaker 3: had five bouncing offspring, all boys.
Speaker 1: Well good for her, But doctor who did shoot Sir Albery.
Speaker 3: Holmes took no interest whatever in solving that mystery. Of course,
Speaker 3: I always had nice suspicion.
Speaker 1: You mean the old boy who had the same name
Speaker 1: as the yellow roses.
Speaker 2: Possibly mister Harris. Possibly, I see.
Speaker 4: And now, doctor Watson, what story are you going to
Speaker 4: tell us next?
Speaker 5: Let me see.
Speaker 3: Next week, I think I'll tell how Sharlock Holmes outwitted
Speaker 3: two of Europe's most famous duel thieves and confidence trixters
Speaker 3: by beating them at their own game on the platform
Speaker 3: at Waterloo Station. Yes, the story concerns a missing parrot
Speaker 3: and a lady who played a nest to click on
Speaker 3: me by means of her false teeth. I call it
Speaker 3: the case of the Accommodating Valise.