Speaker 1: Oh two two one b Baker Seats kebby.
Speaker 2: The BBC presents The Noble Bachelor Ya Sir Arthur Kernan Doyle,
Speaker 2: adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick, with Cotton Hobbs as
Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Doctor Watson.
Speaker 1: It was a few weeks before my marriage in eighteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven, during the days when I was still sharing
Speaker 1: rooms with Sherlock Holmbs in Baker Street. I had remained
Speaker 1: indoors all day, for the weather had taken a sudden
Speaker 1: turn to rain with igh autumnal winds. The Jesl bullet,
Speaker 1: which I had brought back in one of my limbs
Speaker 1: as a relic of my Afghan campaign, throbbed with dull persistency.
Speaker 1: With my body in one easy chair and my legs
Speaker 1: upon another, I had surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers,
Speaker 1: and when at last I had saturated myself at the
Speaker 1: news of the day, I tossed them all aside and
Speaker 1: laid listeners, speculating lazily upon the huge question monogram on
Speaker 1: the envelope upon the table which awaited my friend's return.
Speaker 1: Well Holmes had a fashionable epistle, Oh this looks like
Speaker 1: one of those social submences which call upon a man
Speaker 1: either to be bored or to life. Couple coming, they
Speaker 1: proved me something of interest after all. Wow, not social, distinctive,
Speaker 1: professional and from a noble clients, one of the highest
Speaker 1: in England. I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the
Speaker 1: status of my client is a matter of less moment
Speaker 1: than of the interest of his case. Of course, of course,
Speaker 1: it's just possible, however, that that also may not be
Speaker 1: wanting in this new investigation. You've been reading the papers diligently,
Speaker 1: of mate, have you not? Looks like it? I have
Speaker 1: had nothing else to do. Well, it's fortunate you will
Speaker 1: perhaps be able to post me up. I read not
Speaker 1: the except criminal news in the agony column. The letter
Speaker 1: has always instructed, But if you followed recent events so closely,
Speaker 1: you must have read about Lord since Simon and his wedding.
Speaker 1: Oh here's the deepest interest. And the letter which I
Speaker 1: held in my hand is from Lord since Simon. This
Speaker 1: is what he says, My dear mister Sharllock Films. Lord
Speaker 1: Backwater tells me that I may place implicit reliance upon
Speaker 1: your judgment and discretion. I have determined therefore to call
Speaker 1: upon you and to consult you in reference to the
Speaker 1: day painful event which has occurred in connection with my wedding.
Speaker 1: Mister Lestrade of Scotland Yard is acting already in the matter,
Speaker 1: but he assures me that he sees no objection to
Speaker 1: your co operation, and that he even thinks that it
Speaker 1: might be of some assistance. I will call at four
Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon, and should you have any other
Speaker 1: engagement at that time, I hope you will postpone it,
Speaker 1: as this is a matter of paramount importance your late etcetera.
Speaker 1: Dated from grosven dimensions and written with a quill pen. Ah,
Speaker 1: the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a
Speaker 1: sneer of ink upon the outer side of his right
Speaker 1: little finger. He said, four o'clock past three. Now, then
Speaker 1: I have just time, with your assistance to get clear
Speaker 1: upon the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the
Speaker 1: extracts and their order of time. The Buddhist party, miss,
Speaker 1: oh you are, and I have will take an account
Speaker 1: as to who our clients.
Speaker 3: Is one, yes at all, Ah, Yes, here he is
Speaker 3: Robert Walsingham de Veres and Simon, second son of the
Speaker 3: Yugo Go Tomorrow born eighteen forty six.
Speaker 1: That makes him forty one years of age mature for manage.
Speaker 1: There was under Secretary for the Colonies and later administration
Speaker 1: m M yeah. They inherit pantational blood by directors sent
Speaker 1: and qu down the distaste style. It was as nothing
Speaker 1: very instructive in all this, I mustand to you Watson
Speaker 1: for something more solid. I've had very difflute finding what
Speaker 1: you want. In fact, for quite recent there was a
Speaker 1: paragraph from one of the society papers and headed there
Speaker 1: will soon be a call for protection in the manage
Speaker 1: market for the prison free trade principle appears to tell
Speaker 1: heavily against our home product. One by one, the management
Speaker 1: of the noble houses of Great Britain is passing into
Speaker 1: the hands about their cousins from across the athletic lords.
Speaker 1: And Simon, who has shown himself for over twenty years
Speaker 1: proof against the little God's arrows, now definitely announced his
Speaker 1: approaching marriage with Miss Etty Doran, the fascinating daughter of
Speaker 1: a Californian millionaire. Miss Doran is an only child, and
Speaker 1: it is currently reported that her day will run to
Speaker 1: considerably over six figures. Indeed, as it is an open
Speaker 1: secret that the Duke of bell Moral has been compelled
Speaker 1: to sell his pictures within the last few years, and
Speaker 1: as lords Examon has no providence if the smallest liut
Speaker 1: of Birtimore. It is obvious that the Californian heiress is
Speaker 1: not the only gainer by the alliance. Everything more, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: and yes, there's a note here to say the marriage
Speaker 1: would be an absolutely quiet, honest sat George's hand of
Speaker 1: a square, and that the party would return to the
Speaker 1: furnished house at Lancster Gate, which has been taken by
Speaker 1: the Sloethius Doham. Two days later Westminster zt Let's wins
Speaker 1: in the last October the ses there's a curt announcement that
Speaker 1: the wedding had taken place. All those were all the
Speaker 1: notices that appeared before the disappearance of the bride, before
Speaker 1: the vanishing of the leader. When did she vanish that
Speaker 1: at the wedding breakfast? Indeed, oh, this is more interesting
Speaker 1: than it promised to be, quite dramatic. In fact, yes,
Speaker 1: his structure is being a little out of the common,
Speaker 1: and they often vanished before the ceremony and occasionally during
Speaker 1: the honeymoon. But I cannot call to mind anything quite
Speaker 1: so prompt as this. Ah. But there's a ring of
Speaker 1: the bell, and as the club makes it a few
Speaker 1: minutes after four, I have no doubt that this will
Speaker 1: prove to be our noble client. No, don't dream of going, Watson.
Speaker 1: I very much prefer having a witness, if only as
Speaker 1: a check to my own memory. I wouldn't have missed
Speaker 1: this caseful word, good day, lords, and silent, Oh, pray
Speaker 1: take the basket chair. This is my friend and colleague,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson. I go up a little and we saw
Speaker 1: talk this matter over. The most painful matter to me,
Speaker 1: because you can most readily imagine this homes I have
Speaker 1: been cut to the quick. I understand you have already
Speaker 1: managed several delicate cases of this sort. So do I
Speaker 1: presume that they were hardly from the same class of society. No,
Speaker 1: I am descending. I beg your pardon. My last client
Speaker 1: of the thought was a king. I have no idea
Speaker 1: at which king, the King of Scandinavia. What has he
Speaker 1: lost his wife? You can understand that I extend to
Speaker 1: the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which
Speaker 1: I've promised to you in yours, of course, but it right, right,
Speaker 1: How do I beg your pardon as to my own case?
Speaker 1: I am ready to give you any information which may
Speaker 1: assist you in forming an opinion. Thank you. I've already
Speaker 1: learned something of it from the public prints. Nothing more.
Speaker 1: I think I may arrive at my text most directly
Speaker 1: by questioning you. Pray do so? Now? When did you
Speaker 1: first meet miss Hattie Ordan in San Francisco a year ago?
Speaker 1: Did you become engaged? Then? No, but you were on
Speaker 1: a friendly footing. I was amused by her society, and
Speaker 1: she could see that I was amused. Her father is
Speaker 1: day rich. He has said to be the richest man
Speaker 1: on the Pacific Slope. And how did he make his
Speaker 1: money in mining? He had nothing a few years ago,
Speaker 1: and his truck gold invested it and came up by
Speaker 1: leaps and bounds. My wife was twenty before her father
Speaker 1: became a rich man. During that time she ran free
Speaker 1: in a mining camp, so that her education has come
Speaker 1: from later rather than from the schoolmaster. She is what
Speaker 1: we call in England, I leave a tomboy. Quite she
Speaker 1: is impetuous volcanic. I was about to say, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, I would not have given her the name
Speaker 1: which I had the honor to bear, had I not
Speaker 1: thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. The
Speaker 1: young lady came to London then, and you were you,
Speaker 1: you Oda paints. Yes, her father brought her over for
Speaker 1: this last season. I met her several times. We became engaged.
Speaker 1: I have now married her. She brought I understand a
Speaker 1: considerable diary, no more than as usual in my family.
Speaker 1: And this, of course remains to you, since the marriage
Speaker 1: is the faka called tea. I really have made no
Speaker 1: inquiries on the subject enough. On the morning of the wedding.
Speaker 1: Was she in good still? It's never met her. She
Speaker 1: was as bright as possible until after the semony. And
Speaker 1: did you observe any change in that? Then? Well, then
Speaker 1: tell the truth I saw then the first times with
Speaker 1: her temper was a little sharp. The incident was too
Speaker 1: trivial to relate. You have no possible bearing on the case.
Speaker 1: They let us have it for all that. It's tish.
Speaker 1: She dropped her bouquet as we went towards the vestry.
Speaker 1: She was passing the thunk pure at the time, and
Speaker 1: it fell over into the pool. There was a moment's delay,
Speaker 1: but the gentleman in the pool handed it up to
Speaker 1: her again. It didn't appear to be the worse for
Speaker 1: the fall. Yet when I spoke to her about it,
Speaker 1: she answered me abruptly in the carriage on our way home.
Speaker 1: She seemed absurdly agitated over so priflic a call. Indeed,
Speaker 1: you say there was a gentleman in the pew. Some
Speaker 1: of the general public were a person, then, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: it's impossible to exclude them with a treaty open This
Speaker 1: gentleman was one of your wife's friends. No, no, I
Speaker 1: called him a gentleman by critic him. He was quite
Speaker 1: a common looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. Really,
Speaker 1: I think we're wandering rather far from the point at
Speaker 1: generate ladies and Simon returned from the wedding in a
Speaker 1: less cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it.
Speaker 1: And what did she do on re entering her father's house.
Speaker 1: I saw her in close conversation with her maid, Alice,
Speaker 1: a confidential servant, a little too much so. She is
Speaker 1: an American. She came from California with her. It seemed
Speaker 1: to me that her listeners allowed her to take great liberties.
Speaker 1: Instead of course, in America they look upon these things
Speaker 1: in a little way. You did not overhear what they said, ladies,
Speaker 1: and simon something about jumping a claim she was accustomed
Speaker 1: to using slag of that kind. No idea admit m
Speaker 1: American slag is that he expressed it sometimes. And what
Speaker 1: did your wife do next? She went into the breakfast
Speaker 1: room an arm no alone. She was very independent in
Speaker 1: little matters like that. Then after we had sat down
Speaker 1: for ten minutes or so, she rose, hurriedly, muttered some
Speaker 1: words of apology, and left the room. She never came back.
Speaker 1: Her maid says she went to her room, covered her
Speaker 1: bride's dress with a long outstair, put on a bonnet,
Speaker 1: and went out. One of the footmen remembered seeing a
Speaker 1: lady Lee, but he refused to credit that he could
Speaker 1: have been his mistress. He naturally believe she was inside.
Speaker 1: Quite so afterwards, my wife is that who had been
Speaker 1: seen walking to Hyde Park with the woman who had
Speaker 1: caused the disturbance earlier on the disturbance. Uh, Yes, after
Speaker 1: we had returned from the church, this woman apparently tried
Speaker 1: to follow us into the house. She had to be
Speaker 1: objected by the butter of the football. But why should
Speaker 1: she want to force a way to Holmes. She claimed
Speaker 1: that she and I oh trove. Her name is Flora Miller.
Speaker 1: She used to be a dancers of the Inegro. I
Speaker 1: have not treated her jealously, and she's no just cause
Speaker 1: to complain against people who know what women in armies told.
Speaker 1: She wrote big, dreadful letters when she heard I was
Speaker 1: to be added. In fact, the reason I had the
Speaker 1: marriage celebrated so quetly was because I feared there might
Speaker 1: be a scandal at the church. Did your wife hear this?
Speaker 1: The servant? No, thank goodness, you didn't. And yet she
Speaker 1: was seen walking with this deady woman art. But yes,
Speaker 1: and mister Lestrade of Scotland Yard looks upon it as
Speaker 1: very serious. It is course to plaua decoyed my wife
Speaker 1: out and made some terrible trap for her. I understand
Speaker 1: that she's now in custody. Well, it's a possible supposition,
Speaker 1: do you think so true? I don't think Flora would
Speaker 1: hurt a fly. I didn't say a probable one. Still,
Speaker 1: jealousy is a strange pransformer character playday Lords and Simon,
Speaker 1: what is your own theory as to work to place? Oh? Really,
Speaker 1: I came to seek a fairy, not to propound one
Speaker 1: since you asked me, it has occurred to me that
Speaker 1: the excitement, the consciousness that she had made so immense
Speaker 1: a social stride may have caused some little nervous disturbance
Speaker 1: to my wife. In short, that she had become suddenly deranged.
Speaker 1: When I consider that she has turned her back. And
Speaker 1: I will not say upon me, but upon so much
Speaker 1: that many have aspired to without reason, I can hardly
Speaker 1: explain it in any off. Well, that is certainly a
Speaker 1: conceivable hypotheses. And now, Lord, since Simon, I think I
Speaker 1: have nearly all my data. Oh, may I ask whether
Speaker 1: you and your wife were seated at the breakfast table
Speaker 1: so that you could see out of the window. We
Speaker 1: could see the other side of the road and the park.
Speaker 4: Quite so, then, I do not think I need to
Speaker 4: take you any longer.
Speaker 1: I will communicate with you, should you be fortunate enough
Speaker 1: to solve this problem. Oh, I have solved it. What
Speaker 1: was that? I say?
Speaker 4: I have solved it? Where then is my wife? That
Speaker 4: is a detail which I shall speedily supply.
Speaker 1: I am afraid it will take wiser heads than yours
Speaker 1: and mine. Good day to you, Good day, sir, it's
Speaker 1: very good Lord's And Simon to honor my head by
Speaker 1: putting it on a level with his own. Well, I
Speaker 1: think I shall have a whiskey and turn down a
Speaker 1: cigar for all that crossest in food. I have formed
Speaker 1: my conclusions. Cestif the case before our counts nearly done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have several similar cases. Oh, as I remarked before,
Speaker 5: none of them are quite as pot My holy examination.
Speaker 1: Has turned my conjecture to a certain day. Circumstantial evidence
Speaker 1: is occasionally very convincing, if I've heard all you without, however,
Speaker 1: the knowledge of pre existing cases, which tells me so well.
Speaker 1: There was a parallel instance in Evideen some years back,
Speaker 1: and there was something under the musk the same lines
Speaker 1: at Unich the.
Speaker 4: After the frank Opassion war is one of these cases.
Speaker 4: Oh but hello here isn't this strange?
Speaker 1: You will find an extra tumble on the sideboard under
Speaker 1: the cigars in the box to stay thank you? Even
Speaker 1: doctor Watson, Well, what's up? Then?
Speaker 6: You look dissatisfied? Feel satisfied? This infernos and signed marriage case.
Speaker 6: I can't make headlold tail of the business.
Speaker 1: Really you surprised me? Oh, do sit down?
Speaker 6: You heard of a mixed affair? It recluse seems to
Speaker 6: slip through my fingers. I've been at work on it
Speaker 6: all day and they'll wet. It seems to have made
Speaker 6: you and I've been dragging the serpent time. It's its
Speaker 6: nable before looking for the body of Leggers and Simon,
Speaker 6: have you dragged the basement of the Trafalgar Square fountain?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Because I've just as good a
Speaker 1: chance of finding this lady there as in the serping tonight.
Speaker 1: I suppose you know all about it. Well, I really
Speaker 1: just heard the facts, but my mind it's made up.
Speaker 6: Indeed, then you think that the certain time plays no
Speaker 6: part in a manner.
Speaker 1: I think it's very unlikely.
Speaker 6: Perhaps you'll kin'dly explain how to if we've found these
Speaker 6: nearly I have him.
Speaker 1: Here in my bag. Yeah, there's a little nut for
Speaker 1: you in the Crackmas's arms. Oh, indeed, see Watson a
Speaker 1: wedding dress, white setting shoes, and the bride's wreath and
Speaker 1: veil and the wedding ring. You dragged these from the
Speaker 1: serpent time?
Speaker 6: No, they were found the other bank by a park keeper.
Speaker 6: They ever identified as her clothes. It seemed to me
Speaker 6: that if the clothes were there, the body wouldn't be
Speaker 6: far off by.
Speaker 1: The same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be
Speaker 1: found in the neighborhood of his wardrobe. And pray, what
Speaker 1: did you hope to arrive at through this some evidence
Speaker 1: implicating Flaura Miller in the disappearance, and said, you'll find
Speaker 1: it difficult. Well, you're indeed now, and I'm afraid mister
Speaker 1: hearns as.
Speaker 6: You are not very practical with your deductions in your inference.
Speaker 6: This place does implicate Miss Laura Miller. And how in
Speaker 6: the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a cardcase.
Speaker 6: In a card case is a note. Little you will
Speaker 6: see me when all is ready, come at once. F hm.
Speaker 6: Now my theory all along has been the latest assimon
Speaker 6: was decoyed away by Flora Miller.
Speaker 1: No doubt was convenerates her initials on this note. It
Speaker 1: was no doubt slipped into the bride's hands the door
Speaker 1: and inlured her into their reach. Very goodness, straight, you
Speaker 1: know you really are very fine. Indeed, ah, this is
Speaker 1: indeed important. You'll find it down extremely. I congratulate you,
Speaker 1: warm me. Then you're looking on the wrong side on
Speaker 1: the country.
Speaker 6: This is the right side, the right side bad the
Speaker 6: note's written in pencil on the back.
Speaker 1: Quiet and over here is what appears to be a
Speaker 1: fragment of a hotel bill. It interests me deeply. There
Speaker 1: was nothing in it. I looked at it before. I've
Speaker 1: seen nothing in that not it's most important all the
Speaker 1: same as to the note. It's important also, or at
Speaker 1: least the initials are, so I can get lead you
Speaker 1: again time enough. I don't believe in hard work. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: by the flower spinning series. We shall say, who gets
Speaker 1: to the bottom of this first good diamond? Harm? Just
Speaker 1: one into you in the state. I will tell you
Speaker 1: the true solution of this matter. Ladies, Saint Simon is
Speaker 1: a myth. There is not, and there has never been
Speaker 1: any such person. You're mad man, But there is something
Speaker 1: about the fellow says about outdoor work. I think, what's
Speaker 1: I must leave you to your papers. Well, well, Watson,
Speaker 1: they've laid the supper in my absence. Passage that I
Speaker 1: didn't know what it was all about. The confection of
Speaker 1: men said it all. Uncle would got pedal phograph. She's
Speaker 1: an exciting looking bottles said it had been paid for
Speaker 1: in order to this address. Capital's laid for five Who
Speaker 1: seem to expect company. Yes, I fancy we may have
Speaker 1: some company dropping in. I'm surprised, Lord, since Simon has
Speaker 1: not already arrived. Ah, I fancy I hear you step
Speaker 1: on the stairs now. Oh so my message reached you then,
Speaker 1: Lords and time. Yes, and I must confess the contents
Speaker 1: startled me beyond measure. Have you good authology for what
Speaker 1: you say? That that's possible? What will the Duke say?
Speaker 1: What he to think when he hears that one of
Speaker 1: the family has been subjected to such humiliation? It's the
Speaker 1: purest accident. You look on these things in a different way.
Speaker 1: I can hardly see how the lady could have acted otherwise.
Speaker 1: Her abrupt method of believe was undoubtedlitedly regretted. But having
Speaker 1: no mother, she had no one to advise her at
Speaker 1: such a crisis. It was a slight, Sir, a public flight.
Speaker 1: You must make a laws for this poor placed in
Speaker 1: so unprecedented the position. I will make no allowance. I'm
Speaker 1: very angry. Indeed, I have been simply used as there's
Speaker 1: the bell. If I cannot persuade you to take a
Speaker 1: lenient view, Lords and Simon, I have brought an advocate
Speaker 1: here who may be more successful. Probably, Please do Lords
Speaker 1: and Simon allow me to introduce you to mister and
Speaker 1: missus Francis Multon. The lady, I think you have already
Speaker 1: met good Lord. Hurry, angry Robert.
Speaker 7: Oh well, I guess you have every cause to be.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I know I treated you real bad. I
Speaker 7: should have spoken to you before I went, But well,
Speaker 7: I was kind of rattled from the time I saw
Speaker 7: Frank here again. I just don't know why I was
Speaker 7: the one or saying. I only wonder I didn't fall
Speaker 7: down into a paint right.
Speaker 1: There before the old Perhaps you would like my friend
Speaker 1: and me to leave the room while you explain this matter.
Speaker 1: I may give an opinion.
Speaker 4: We've had just a little too much secrecy over this
Speaker 4: matter already. My part, I'd like all Europe and America
Speaker 4: to hear the right.
Speaker 7: Then I'll tell our story right away. Frank and I
Speaker 7: met in eighty one in mcquire's camp near the Rockies,
Speaker 7: where Paul was working a claim. We were engaged, Frank
Speaker 7: and I, but one day Pau struck a rich pocket
Speaker 7: and made a pile while poor Frank here had a
Speaker 7: claim that came to nothing, and the richer PA grew
Speaker 7: the poor Frank got so last. Paul wouldn't hear of
Speaker 7: our engagement lasting any longer, and he took me away
Speaker 7: to Fristoe. Frank wouldn't throw in his hand, though, you
Speaker 7: bet Frank followed me and he saw me without Paw knowing.
Speaker 7: He said he'd go back and he'd make his pile too,
Speaker 7: and he wouldn't come to claim me till he had
Speaker 7: as much as Paul. So I promised I'd wait for
Speaker 7: him till the end of time, and not to marry
Speaker 7: anyone else as long as he lived.
Speaker 1: So I said, why shouldn't we be married straight away?
Speaker 4: Then then I'll feel sure of you, but I won't
Speaker 4: claim to be your husband that I come back. Well,
Speaker 4: we talked it over see, and we just went to
Speaker 4: a clerguremen and did it right there.
Speaker 1: Good loss.
Speaker 7: Well, the next day I heard of Frank. He was
Speaker 7: in Montana, and then in New Mexico, and then there
Speaker 7: was a newspaper story about how a miner's camp had
Speaker 7: been attacked by Apache.
Speaker 8: Indians and there was Frank's name among the killed. I
Speaker 8: was sick for months, but there was never another word
Speaker 8: of Frank after that, You see, I Alan, dear well,
Speaker 8: I felt all the time that no man on this
Speaker 8: earth could ever take Frank's place in my heart.
Speaker 7: But I meant to make Robert just as good a
Speaker 7: wife as it was in.
Speaker 1: Me to be.
Speaker 7: Oh, you imagine what I felt. First, as I came
Speaker 7: to the old horay, there was Frank standing looking at
Speaker 7: me out of the first purel. I thought it was
Speaker 7: as ghost at first. I looked again, and there he
Speaker 7: was still. Oh, a kind of a question in his eyes.
Speaker 7: Oh well, I didn't know if to stop the service
Speaker 7: and make a scene of the church. What the clergyman
Speaker 7: was saying was just like a bee buzzing in my ears.
Speaker 1: I scribbled her note.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm on the way out again. I saw the
Speaker 7: piece of paper in hand, and I knew it was
Speaker 7: for me. So I passed the pew and I dropped
Speaker 7: my bouquet over, and he slipped the note into my
Speaker 7: hands when he gave it back.
Speaker 1: You never does it for a moment that your first
Speaker 1: duty now was to hit Of course, Well.
Speaker 7: I told my maid to say nothing, get a few
Speaker 7: things packed. I've made up my mind to run away
Speaker 7: and explain afterwards.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 7: I hadn't been at the table ten minutes when I
Speaker 7: saw Frank out on the road and I slipped out
Speaker 7: and I followed him into the park. Or some woman
Speaker 7: came up talking something about Lord Saint Simon, but I
Speaker 7: managed to get away from her. I caught up to Frank.
Speaker 7: We took a cab to his place in Gordon Square.
Speaker 7: And oh, and that was my true wedding after all
Speaker 7: those years.
Speaker 4: You see, i'd been in prisoner with those patches all
Speaker 4: the time. When I got back to Frisco, I saw
Speaker 4: on a paper, but was on the wedding. I just
Speaker 4: got to England in time.
Speaker 7: Frank was also being open and telling what had happened. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but I was so ashamed thinking of all those lords
Speaker 7: and ladies waiting at that table for me to come back.
Speaker 7: So Frank took my wedding things and he dropped them
Speaker 7: anywhere in the park you thought they wouldn't be found.
Speaker 7: We were off to Paris, France tomorrow. Only only this gentleman,
Speaker 7: mister Holmes, came around. Yes, well, Robert, you've heard it all.
Speaker 7: I'm very sorry if I've given you any pain. I
Speaker 7: hope you don't think very meanly of me.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, but it isn't my custom to discuss my
Speaker 1: most intimate personal affairs in this public manner.
Speaker 8: Oh, then you won't forgive me, You won't shake hands
Speaker 8: before I go?
Speaker 1: Oh, certainly should'll give you any pleasure. Ah, I had
Speaker 1: hoped that you would have joined us in a friendly supper.
Speaker 1: I think that there you ask a little too much.
Speaker 1: I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent developments.
Speaker 1: I can hardly be expected to make many of them.
Speaker 1: I think the with your permission, I will now wish
Speaker 1: you all a very good nut, and I trust that
Speaker 1: you at least will honor us that your company is
Speaker 1: from missus Milton. It is always a joy to be
Speaker 1: to meet an American, mister Multin.
Speaker 4: Why that's nice of you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: Well Watson. The case has been an interesting one. It
Speaker 1: shows how simple the explanation may be of an affair
Speaker 1: which seems almost inexplicable at first sight. You had no
Speaker 1: doctor from the first two fats, but obvious to me
Speaker 1: one was that the lady was quite willing to undergo
Speaker 1: the marriage ceremony. The other was that she had repented
Speaker 1: of it within a few minutes of returning home. But
Speaker 1: she could not have spoken to anyone when she was out,
Speaker 1: for she'd been in the company of the bridegroom. Had
Speaker 1: she seen someone then If she had, it must have
Speaker 1: been someone from America. Then who could this American be?
Speaker 1: He might be a lover, he might be a husband.
Speaker 1: Vincent Simon told us the man and the pew, and
Speaker 1: the change in her manner, and that transparent device of
Speaker 1: dropping her bookuet where it all became absolutely clear, especially
Speaker 1: in view of that illusion of hers too clane jumping,
Speaker 1: which in Miner's talk means taking possession of that which
Speaker 1: another person has a fire claimed to. It was clear
Speaker 1: to me that she'd gone off for the man, and
Speaker 1: the chances were in favor of his being a husband.
Speaker 1: How in the world did you find them? Friendless? Trade
Speaker 1: held information in his hands and didn't know the value
Speaker 1: of it. The initials on the note were of the
Speaker 1: highest importance, of course, but it was more valuable still
Speaker 1: to know that within a week the man had settled
Speaker 1: his bill as one of the most select London hotels.
Speaker 1: How did you deduce the select hmm? By the select
Speaker 1: prices eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for a
Speaker 1: class's Shelly pointed to one of the most expensive hotels.
Speaker 1: There were not many in London of rich charge of Bepray.
Speaker 1: In the second one, I visited in Northumberland Avenue. I
Speaker 1: learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton,
Speaker 1: and American gentleman, had left only the day before. On
Speaker 1: looking over the entries against him, I came upon the
Speaker 1: very items I'd seen in the duplicate bill. His letters
Speaker 1: were to be forwarded to two hundred and twenty six
Speaker 1: Gordon Square. So that I traveled. The loving couple were
Speaker 1: fortunately at home, and I ventured to give them some
Speaker 1: paternal advice. I invited them to meet Lords and Simon
Speaker 1: here and to make that position a little clearer. Were
Speaker 1: no very good results? Is connorcherdly not very gracious? Oh,
Speaker 1: my dear Watson, Perhaps you would not be very gracious either, if,
Speaker 1: after all the trouble of wooing and wedding, you find
Speaker 1: yourself deprived in an instant of wife and fortunate. I
Speaker 1: think we made judge, Lords and Simon very immersively, and
Speaker 1: thank our stars that Vernetta likedly to find ourselves in
Speaker 1: the same position. Now draw up your chair, oh.
Speaker 2: In The Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Kernan Boyle, the
Speaker 2: part of Sherlock Holmes was played by Carton Hobbs, Doctor
Speaker 2: Watson by Norman Shelley, Lord Saint Simon by William Eagle,
Speaker 2: and Lestrade by Frederick Leaves. The story was adapted to
Speaker 2: radio by Michael Hardwick and produced in London by Frederick
Speaker 2: Bradnam