Speaker 1: Sammy, Sammy, Capital my dear Watson, let us return to
Speaker 1: our humble other.
Speaker 2: Two two one be Vaker Street, please carriat from London.
Speaker 3: We present The Greek Interpreter, a Sherlock Holmes story by
Speaker 3: Sir Arthur Kernhean Doyle, dramatized for radio by Michael Hardwick.
Speaker 2: The Greek Interpreter. Of course, I.
Speaker 4: Quite agree with your homes any individual as a great
Speaker 4: deal of his gifts if he has in it to
Speaker 4: his ancestry, look heredity. But what about your own case,
Speaker 4: my case, Watson. But from all you've ever told me.
Speaker 2: It seems obviously your remarkable faculties of observation and deduction,
Speaker 2: Come Holmeston, tell it from your own systematic training. You
Speaker 2: didn't inherit them, now, now, did you? To some extent? Yes?
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 1: Or my ancestors were a country square. They led much
Speaker 1: the same life as the rest of their task. But
Speaker 1: remember what's in my grandmother as a sister of their name.
Speaker 1: The French artist who's.
Speaker 2: There going to do with it? Ah art in the
Speaker 2: blood is liable to take the stranger's form.
Speaker 5: Agreed, But what makes you think that in your case
Speaker 5: it is the county for such unusual gifts, because my
Speaker 5: brother Micraft possesses them too, Your brother did.
Speaker 2: Holmes. In all the time we've known one another, this
Speaker 2: is the first mention you've ever made of having a brother. Really,
Speaker 2: perhaps I should have referred to him before home. So
Speaker 2: shall I ever get used to your ways?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, Micraft has my gifts and had to a greater degree.
Speaker 2: I think that's about the first time I've heard you
Speaker 2: being modest, not at all. Nothing was further from my intention.
Speaker 1: I cannot agree with those who ranked this day amongst
Speaker 1: the virtues. When I say that Mycroft has better parts
Speaker 1: of observation than I, you may take it that I'm
Speaker 1: speaking the exact and literal truth. It's also true that
Speaker 1: he has neither the energy nor the ambition to use.
Speaker 2: Them in the way I do. It Is he your
Speaker 2: junior certain years? My senior? How comes it the one
Speaker 2: never heard anything about him? Oh? He's very well known
Speaker 2: in his own circle, well well in his club for example.
Speaker 1: Oh look here, just six o'clock. Now, Microft's always there
Speaker 1: from a quarter to five till twenty to eight. If
Speaker 1: you care for a stroll this beautiful evening, Watson, I'll
Speaker 1: be very happy to introduce you.
Speaker 4: Why will meet your brother Holmes set the mirring rob
Speaker 4: boots and I'm ready right away.
Speaker 1: Oh, my dear Watson, this is my brother Miccraft, Micraft,
Speaker 1: my friend and associate.
Speaker 7: Dr Watson, delighted to meet you out and I'm glad
Speaker 7: to meet you, Dr Watson of Charlock everywhere since you
Speaker 7: became his chronic Hoy will now and let us all
Speaker 7: have a seat by the window, anyone who wishes to study, then,
Speaker 7: kind this is the spot.
Speaker 2: It's suddenly splendid view of the street.
Speaker 7: Yes, look at the magnificent types in it. And look
Speaker 7: there those two men coming along.
Speaker 1: Now you mean the billiard marker and the other billiard
Speaker 1: marker homes How can you tell that the chalk.
Speaker 2: Marks on his waistcat of course. Oh and I'll told
Speaker 2: you too, I disease rarely, now, you fellows, this is
Speaker 2: too much, Shirley Watson.
Speaker 1: It isn't hard to say that the man with that
Speaker 1: bearing and expression of authority as a soldier.
Speaker 7: By the way, Sharlocke, I've had something quite after your
Speaker 7: own heart. Oh, yes, quite as singular problems come my way,
Speaker 7: my dear my Craft, I've been delighted to hear it
Speaker 7: I'll just scribble a note for the potter. There would
Speaker 7: be so good as to touch that bell, Doctor Watson Leason,
Speaker 7: This won't take a moment.
Speaker 2: Yes, give this to mister Mead, ask please, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: he's good.
Speaker 7: I've asked mister Meads to step in here. He's a
Speaker 7: Greek by extraction. His lodge is on the floor above me.
Speaker 7: But I only know him slightly. I understand he's a
Speaker 7: remarkable linguist. He as he's living by interpreting in the
Speaker 7: law courts and acting as a guide to wealthy orientals. Ah,
Speaker 7: and here is mister Mead. Ass how would have you
Speaker 7: to step in? My DearS, allow me to introduce my
Speaker 7: celebrated brother, mister Sherlock Holmes and his associates, Dr Watson.
Speaker 2: How do you do?
Speaker 6: True, my dear mister Holmes, I cannot say how delighted
Speaker 6: I am to meet you, and you told Dr Watson,
Speaker 6: I am honored, gentleman, honor, and I love.
Speaker 1: My brother was beginning to tell us about a most
Speaker 1: singular problem when he paused to summon you, and I
Speaker 1: can only assume that you are in some way concerned.
Speaker 2: And ah, yes, yes, alas if you wish to submit
Speaker 2: the details to me.
Speaker 6: I shall be only to have it listen to them
Speaker 6: to tell you the truth, mister Holmes, I believe I
Speaker 6: shall be able to rest much more easily after telling
Speaker 6: this strange tale to you and doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: Then I am all attention. This is Wednesday evening.
Speaker 6: Well, then it was on Monday night that all this happened.
Speaker 6: Perhaps mister Microft Holmes has told you. I am an
Speaker 6: interty years. I am often sent for at strange hours
Speaker 6: on behalf of foreigners who get into difficulties. So I
Speaker 6: was not very surprised on Monday night when a very
Speaker 6: fashionably dressed young man came up to my rooms.
Speaker 2: Mister Miller, my name is Latimer.
Speaker 8: I've had a rather unexpected visit from a Greek gentleman
Speaker 8: with whose firm I have some business dealings.
Speaker 2: I see it. Well, the trouble is he can't speak
Speaker 2: anything but Greek. Yes, well it's a bit late.
Speaker 8: I realized that, well, he's a complete stranger to London,
Speaker 8: and I must do what I can for and straight away,
Speaker 8: you know, fix him up with a hotel for tonight
Speaker 8: and so on.
Speaker 2: So I took the liberty of coming to see if
Speaker 2: you'd help it all well, of course, thank you. Oh
Speaker 2: but tell me, mister Latimer. Have you your friend with
Speaker 2: you now? Well? No, actually silly organized, of course.
Speaker 8: But when he was pretty tired and I left him
Speaker 8: at my place, and without thinking, really, I just jumped
Speaker 8: into a cab and came here.
Speaker 2: But it's only this end of Kensington, and I wondered
Speaker 2: if I could impose on you to come back with me.
Speaker 2: Why I suppose the CAB's outside, it's not far at all.
Speaker 6: Very well, then, mister Latimer, I shall be very pleased
Speaker 6: to help you, or perhaps you will help yourself to
Speaker 6: one of the cigarettes while I put.
Speaker 2: On my thieves. You were lucky, I think, to find
Speaker 2: the vehicle as pleasant as this for your errand mister Lettimer.
Speaker 8: Yeah, these old four wheelers are getting faded at the edges,
Speaker 8: but give me them sooner than a handsome any time.
Speaker 2: I like some brillaty when I drive him.
Speaker 6: Are very convenient at time. But look, good, cook, our
Speaker 6: cave has made some mistake. He must know this is
Speaker 6: not the way the Kensing turns it. I think he
Speaker 6: has misharved your directions, mister Latimer. I'm afraid he hasn't.
Speaker 2: What are you doing.
Speaker 8: Oh why are you drawing the blanks, mister Latimer, What
Speaker 8: is the meaning of this? I'm sorry to cut off
Speaker 8: your view, mister Milers. The fact is we're not going
Speaker 8: to Kensington, and I prefer you not to know where
Speaker 8: we are going.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you, sir, I insist on leaving this carriage
Speaker 2: at once. Shut down, mister Miller.
Speaker 8: I have a life preserver here and I shan't hesitate
Speaker 8: to use it if you cry out or try anything
Speaker 8: on you think you can do this. Remember, mister Miller,
Speaker 8: no one knows you are here. This Cabby will ask
Speaker 8: me question. But you're in here or in the place
Speaker 8: I'm taking you to your equally in my tower. You understand,
Speaker 8: I understand, And sit still, keep quiet, and remember that
Speaker 8: no harm will come to you if you continue to
Speaker 8: do everything I say.
Speaker 6: We drove on like that for something like two hours,
Speaker 6: mister Holmes. It was ten minutes to nine by my watch.
Speaker 6: When we came to a stand still. I was hurried
Speaker 6: out of the carriage and through a low arched doorway
Speaker 6: with a lamp burning above it.
Speaker 2: I had a vague.
Speaker 6: Impression of lawn and trees on each side, and then
Speaker 6: I was inside the house I was shown straight into
Speaker 6: a room.
Speaker 2: There was a middle aged man with glasses sitting in
Speaker 2: a velvet chair. He turned towards us as I was
Speaker 2: brought into the room.
Speaker 9: Ah, hell, is this the gentleman, mister Millers? Yes, well done,
Speaker 9: well done. No ill will Miss Millers, I hope, but
Speaker 9: we just couldn't get on about you. If you deal
Speaker 9: fair with us, you will not regret it. But if
Speaker 9: you try, and I.
Speaker 6: Protest more strongly against this illegal detention, the police shall
Speaker 6: know of it.
Speaker 2: I warrant you. What we ask of you is simplicity itself.
Speaker 2: We want you to ask a few questions of a
Speaker 2: Greek gentleman who is visiting us.
Speaker 9: And tell us his answers. Harold, perhaps you'd ask the
Speaker 9: gentleman to step in here? Well, nothing, Sinsnette, mister Miller.
Speaker 2: Sister, why this disgraceful conduct towards me? Answer? That's up?
Speaker 2: Regret it, sir, regretted. Now let us look at it
Speaker 2: this way. You were ready enough to accept an evening's commission.
Speaker 9: In return for your usual fee. You will have your fee,
Speaker 9: mister Miller's, and double You will carry out your commission
Speaker 9: in exchange. You will then be taken back to London.
Speaker 2: Very well, I am here. I will do as you ask,
Speaker 2: so long as it accords with my normal services, and
Speaker 2: nothing more, though you you understand, agreed, Ah, And now
Speaker 2: there will be no more waste of time. Here is
Speaker 2: Harold with a gath.
Speaker 6: At that moment, mister Holmes, the other man let him
Speaker 6: her came back. He was leading a gentleman wearing some
Speaker 6: sort of loose dressing gown. As this man came slowly
Speaker 6: forward into the dim circle of.
Speaker 2: Light, I was horrified at his appearance. He was deadly,
Speaker 2: pale and emaciated.
Speaker 6: He had the protruding eyes of one whose spirit is
Speaker 6: greater than his strength. But what shocked me more than
Speaker 6: anything else, there was a great pad of sticking plaster.
Speaker 2: Over his mouth.
Speaker 6: Again, yes again, I see pray, continued mister Miller. The
Speaker 6: younger man gave him a chair and then put a
Speaker 6: slate and a slate pencil into his heads. Then the
Speaker 6: old one gave me questions to ask him, and he
Speaker 6: was to write the answers on the slate.
Speaker 2: Can you remember them very well? Splendid?
Speaker 6: But I must first tell you something, mister Holmes. As
Speaker 6: I was about to begin, a happy thought came to
Speaker 6: me yes. As the other two men in the room
Speaker 6: obviously knew nothing of the Greek language, I decided that
Speaker 6: I would be quite safe in interpolating questions of my
Speaker 6: own among those I was directed to ask.
Speaker 2: By this means, I might be able to find out
Speaker 2: who the captive was and why he was there, and
Speaker 2: I might even have been able to help him capital
Speaker 2: capital he might die. You you'll be pleased by that. Jaruk.
Speaker 2: Mister Mills isn't invaluable with missus Dad he is. Indeed,
Speaker 2: let us proceed. Mister Milass you were to ask questions,
Speaker 2: he was to write the answers. I will try to
Speaker 2: give you the regist of the interview.
Speaker 6: So far as these significant parts went, I began as steric.
Speaker 6: I am directed to ask whether you are prepared to
Speaker 6: sign the papers?
Speaker 2: Are no conditions? You know what is in store for you?
Speaker 2: Then the property can never be yours. What is your name?
Speaker 2: You shall go free if you sign? Where are you from?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 2: I warn you again what house is this? I found
Speaker 2: that his name.
Speaker 6: Was Kratidis and that he came from Athens. He didn't
Speaker 6: know where he was, and they were starving him another
Speaker 6: five minutes. Mister Holmes and I might have succeeded in getting.
Speaker 1: The whole story out of him. You did remarkably well,
Speaker 1: mister Melas. I congratulate.
Speaker 2: Then. Then, yes, I thought I should discover it all
Speaker 2: under their very noses.
Speaker 6: Only at that instant the door opened and a woman
Speaker 6: stepped into the room.
Speaker 2: I couldn't see her very clearly in the dim light,
Speaker 2: but I think she was tall and dark and wearing
Speaker 2: a sort of rose white gown. And I couldn't stay
Speaker 2: very longer. It is so long you done old a
Speaker 2: herald quick.
Speaker 9: To you now, Well, mister Milus, I'm sorry we couldn't
Speaker 9: have sped to that distressing scene. But whatever you're thinking
Speaker 9: about all this, you're quite wrong, quite wrong, I assure you.
Speaker 9: Here Ah five sovereigns.
Speaker 2: Take them now. The carriage will take her back to time.
Speaker 9: But remember one word of this to a human soul,
Speaker 9: and don't think we haven't her means of knowing. If
Speaker 9: you talk, we'll soon know.
Speaker 2: And that is all, gentlemen.
Speaker 6: I was bundled into the carriage and it drove off
Speaker 6: at a great rate. It was much too dark to
Speaker 6: see anything outside. After a long time, it stopped and
Speaker 6: I was told to get down. But before I could
Speaker 6: look round me. The coachman was back into his seat
Speaker 6: and whipping up the horse.
Speaker 2: I was left alone. How did you get back home? Then?
Speaker 2: I walked for a while, doctor Watson.
Speaker 6: Then I met a man who told me I was
Speaker 6: on Onsworth Common and pointed out the way to Clapham Junction.
Speaker 2: I got there in time for the last train to Victoria.
Speaker 2: Next day.
Speaker 6: I told the whole story to mister Mycroft Holmes here, Well,
Speaker 6: my craft isn't thing to add?
Speaker 2: Do me this in to day's daily news.
Speaker 7: Anybody supplying any information as to the whereabouts of a
Speaker 7: Greek gentleman named Paul Katidis from Ethens, who is unable
Speaker 7: to speak English, will be rewarded. A similar reward will
Speaker 7: be paid to anyone giving information about a Greek lady
Speaker 7: whose first name is Sophie.
Speaker 2: About Stanber, etcetera, etcetera. And I had that put it
Speaker 2: all the day. There is no answer, though, how about
Speaker 2: the Greek location? They know nothing? Awa they have been policed.
Speaker 2: Then he sure not has all the energy of the family.
Speaker 7: Who see, gentlemen, will you take over the case by
Speaker 7: all means, my dear, rather let me know if you
Speaker 7: do any good.
Speaker 1: Certainly a word of warning there is to be less.
Speaker 1: I should certainly be on my guard if I were you.
Speaker 1: They have seen those advertisements, they'll know you portray them.
Speaker 1: I should be very careful. Indeed, yes, let me ah
Speaker 1: splendid missus Hudson has left us a fine father, great
Speaker 1: heavens my craft.
Speaker 10: How did you get here? I handsome passed you on
Speaker 10: the way. But we don't come in and make ourselves comfortable, gentlemen. Yeah,
Speaker 10: you don't expect such energy from me, do you shall?
Speaker 10: As a type of uncharacteristic.
Speaker 7: The fact is I've had an answer your advertisment, Yes,
Speaker 7: came just after you who had left.
Speaker 2: I thought you'd want to see it once we do.
Speaker 2: Indeed here it is written with a J.
Speaker 7: Penn On wild cream paper by a middle aged man
Speaker 7: with a weak constitution. Sir, he says, in answer to
Speaker 7: your advertisement of today's date, I beg to inform you
Speaker 7: that I have met the young lady in question several times.
Speaker 2: In this district. She is still living, to the best
Speaker 2: of my knowledge, at the markles Beckonum yours basfullly. J. Devenport.
Speaker 2: Sure King you might be able to tell you something
Speaker 2: more interesting.
Speaker 1: Dear Micraft, I'm most grateful to you and mister Davenport
Speaker 1: for that matter. But I think we'll see him later.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we know that a man has been
Speaker 1: gradually done to death, and the sooners we get to him,
Speaker 1: the better.
Speaker 2: I mean, you will go straight through the muffles in. Yes,
Speaker 2: come along, Watson. Are you coming? Micraft?
Speaker 7: Well, if you don't mind, I think not. It's it's
Speaker 7: rather late for you thirty for excuses. I understand ready
Speaker 7: on wasn't.
Speaker 2: I think I'll take my revolver. It sounds a dangerous lot,
Speaker 2: and I think we'll call at the yard inspect that
Speaker 2: Gregson should be interested in this. Perhaps we'd be wise
Speaker 2: to pick up mister Neil has two holms. We may
Speaker 2: need an interprene quite.
Speaker 11: Bread goodbye, then, Mike Cart, good bye. We'll keep you involved. Yes, gentlemen,
Speaker 11: we should like a word.
Speaker 2: But mister Miles, please, I'm afraid mister We expected to
Speaker 2: be back from his cub by now.
Speaker 12: Yes, sir, he came back an hour or more ago,
Speaker 12: but he's gone again, gone gone out, sir. Carry a carriage.
Speaker 12: You don't mean a cathy, sir, Definitely a carriage. A
Speaker 12: gentleman called for mister Lee lesson they went off together,
Speaker 12: mister Latimer. If didn't get his name, sir, but if
Speaker 12: you like to wait a moment, I'll find out.
Speaker 2: No, no, never mind, good night to you. Good night sir.
Speaker 2: They got for to be less again. What it looks
Speaker 2: like it? That means two lives in danger? Now scon
Speaker 2: of as fast as you can come, well, becon it.
Speaker 1: Yes, the house is in darkness, instector, looks as though
Speaker 1: our birds have flown on the next empty doctor watching?
Speaker 2: Is it worth going in? It's always better to take
Speaker 2: a look. You will never know what you may pick up. Hm.
Speaker 1: I can't see much through this window. The place has
Speaker 1: that deserted air about it, though you can feel it somehow.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know what you mean. Hello, well's film he
Speaker 2: was he had a minute ago, must be taking a
Speaker 2: parlor on? Ah, there he is? Where have you been, homes?
Speaker 2: I've got a window open round here. Come on. It's
Speaker 2: a good job you're on the side of the FoST
Speaker 2: mister Holmes. My little Jimmy has saved me a few
Speaker 2: bruised shoulders in my time. Now in don't know court,
Speaker 2: and now I'll follow you. Hmm, so far so good.
Speaker 2: Now what have we here someone had a meal in
Speaker 2: a hurry.
Speaker 1: There on the table a meal for two two plates,
Speaker 1: two glasses that they be significant.
Speaker 2: Toomed. What's that that room in there? No zones right,
Speaker 2: try huse what's left? I got to get in open
Speaker 2: the window two to it there? Can you can you
Speaker 2: get them out quick?
Speaker 6: Leave it come and.
Speaker 2: The room will see now it'll soon clear. Now how
Speaker 2: do you feel, Watson?
Speaker 13: I'm all right, drafts soon clear it away, just in
Speaker 13: time for these so I think, well, not just in time?
Speaker 2: Are they both? This is me less? He's a word,
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, it's dead, Critidis, poor devil's been tarred
Speaker 2: to a skillet. Here's he kind of headlong's last. Thank you?
Speaker 1: Well, honestly, then we do get in for the time being,
Speaker 1: and us just get across to the nearest police station
Speaker 1: and get things moving behind this.
Speaker 2: Let them on the other we've little enough to go
Speaker 2: on at the moment.
Speaker 14: I dow and if you'll send someone out here to
Speaker 14: get poor critidious body, Dr Watson, and I will take
Speaker 14: this to me loss back to make the street for us.
Speaker 14: A few more questions when he comes around properly might
Speaker 14: give us something more to welcome.
Speaker 2: Very good I'll see you later at Baker Street.
Speaker 6: Mister Holmes, doctor Watson, I don't know how to begin
Speaker 6: thanking you, but for your timely arrival.
Speaker 1: Pray, try to pray it from your mind to me
Speaker 1: less we did arrive in time. Now, what have you
Speaker 1: to tell us about your second kidnappy?
Speaker 6: On this occasion, I was not persuaded to go to
Speaker 6: that house a life presser who was presented to my
Speaker 6: head and I was ordered to go. I was forced
Speaker 6: to interpret yet another interview with that poor Cratidis. He
Speaker 6: was much weaker, who could scarcely hold the slave pencil.
Speaker 6: It was impossible for me to communicate secretly with him
Speaker 6: this time.
Speaker 2: What did they want?
Speaker 6: He said, said too yes, But the grave fellow refused
Speaker 6: every threat. But they finally saw it was useless and
Speaker 6: bundled him roughly out of the room. Then they turned
Speaker 6: on me over the newspaper advertisement. I wonder if your
Speaker 6: brother was not a little history putting that in, mister Holmes,
Speaker 6: possibly her, but.
Speaker 1: Remembered mister Mills. But for the answer which came so suddenly,
Speaker 1: we should certainly never.
Speaker 2: Have found you.
Speaker 6: Ay, yes, well, they left me in no doubt as
Speaker 6: to their intentions. But they were going to kill Cratidis
Speaker 6: and me had ma pot their own escape, and I
Speaker 6: suppose because they thought they should never leave.
Speaker 2: To tell it to anyone else. They told me their
Speaker 2: unsavory story.
Speaker 1: Ah, Watson, will you begger enough to take a note
Speaker 1: of this, Inspector Gregson may had it invaluable.
Speaker 6: Well, there is not much to it really. They told
Speaker 6: me that the young lady is Sophie. He came from
Speaker 6: a wealthy Grecian family, and that she had been on
Speaker 6: a visit to some friends in England. Over here she
Speaker 6: had met the younger of the two villains, had Letimer,
Speaker 6: and he had persuaded her to elope with him. Her
Speaker 6: friends had immediately informed her brother Paul Kratidis in Athens.
Speaker 6: He had come over here at once, but unfortunately for him,
Speaker 6: had fallen into the power of Lettimer and his associate.
Speaker 2: His name, by the way, was Wilson Kemp.
Speaker 1: Stem that rogue and then the foulest Antecedents. This will
Speaker 1: make Gregson's task easier, oh well. But the kratdis got
Speaker 1: into the power of these two, and they set out
Speaker 1: to starve.
Speaker 6: Him into agreeing to sign papers making over his own
Speaker 6: and his sister's property to them, as I thought they
Speaker 6: had kept him prisoner without the girl's knowledge, and when
Speaker 6: she saw him when I first went there, it was
Speaker 6: the first time she knew of his presence.
Speaker 2: They immediately put her under lock and key too.
Speaker 6: Then, when they saw the newspaper advertisement and knew their
Speaker 6: secret was out, they decided to make a final attempt
Speaker 6: through me to get cratedis to sign. He wouldn't, so
Speaker 6: he and I were to be left to die while
Speaker 6: they took the girl away with them and got well
Speaker 6: clear of the country.
Speaker 1: Here the country that'll give us some leaders to their
Speaker 1: route the channel board zones. Yes, Watson, take your notes
Speaker 1: and offer you to see Gregson as fast.
Speaker 2: As you can go. Daddy, be kind to head why Gregson?
Speaker 2: This is fortunate.
Speaker 1: Indeed, God rand as soon as I could. Gentlemen, good morning,
Speaker 1: mister Melas. How are you feeling, sir?
Speaker 2: Oh much better, Thank you, Inspector, and happy to meet
Speaker 2: you at another one who helped to save me.
Speaker 1: Don't mention it, sir, Wells the hold inspector, Doctor Watson here,
Speaker 1: we're just about to hurry around to see you. The
Speaker 1: villains gave mister meet as a complete account of this affair. Well,
Speaker 1: I saved your journey, doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: Early. In any case, it would have been a pity
Speaker 2: to waste your time. Waste my time, inspector.
Speaker 1: But you've got them already in a manner of speaking, zone, Come, come, Inspector,
Speaker 1: no riddles, pa, you see. The bodies of the two
Speaker 1: men were found in their carriage on the outskirts of
Speaker 1: Folkston in the early hours of this morning. They had
Speaker 1: both been stabbed several times stopped.
Speaker 2: The girl not to be seen, nor the coachman, though
Speaker 2: from the way.
Speaker 1: His hat was found at the roadside and tracks led
Speaker 1: off across a muddy field. He had bolted for his life,
Speaker 1: afraid of getting the same as his masters, and the
Speaker 1: knife lying in the carriage between the two bodies.
Speaker 2: It quarreled.
Speaker 6: Perhaps yes, and perhaps Sophie Crattidisa the coachman both ran
Speaker 6: away in different directions while.
Speaker 2: Those two murdered one another.
Speaker 1: Well, you could put it that, Perhappers, the hat said,
Speaker 1: But better if it were put down to something along
Speaker 1: those lines, Inspector, much better, mister Holmes, very much better,
Speaker 1: because it's our duty to look for that girl. Sophie crities.
Speaker 1: She might know a somewhat different version of what happened,
Speaker 1: if she could be persuaded to tell us, yes, all
Speaker 1: the same, I think we shall allow one or two
Speaker 1: cross channel steamers to sail before we begin looking being
Speaker 1: too hard for agreed.
Speaker 3: Mister Holmes agreed. Inspector agreed. That was the Greek interpreter.
Speaker 3: The radio play was dramatized by Michael Hardwick from the
Speaker 3: story by Sir Arthur Kerman. Doyle Carlton Hobbes played Shelock
Speaker 3: Holmes and Norman Sherry doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: The production for the BBC was by Martin C. Webster