1 00:00:28,359 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,960 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,920 going to introduce the first part of a four part 4 00:00:43,039 --> 00:00:47,640 adaptation of the novel The Moonstone. But first, I do 5 00:00:47,759 --> 00:00:50,399 want to encourage you, if you are enjoying the podcast, 6 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:54,600 to follow us using your favorite podcast software. And if 7 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,679 you've not already, I do want to encourage you to 8 00:00:56,759 --> 00:00:59,079 check out my ebooks. All I needed to Know I 9 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,320 learned from Columbus Oh, and All I need to Know 10 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,079 I Learned from Dragnet. Each examined the careers and histories 11 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,239 of seven great fictional detectives and policemen, and life lessons 12 00:01:09,239 --> 00:01:12,280 that can be learned from them. They are available as 13 00:01:12,439 --> 00:01:16,439 ebooks wherever find e books are sold, or through audible 14 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,879 dot Com or the Apple Store. So we'll talk first 15 00:01:20,879 --> 00:01:25,920 about The Moonstone and second about the series that adapted it. 16 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:33,159 The Moonstone was written in eighteen sixty eight by Wilkie Collins. 17 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:38,040 It was an epistolary novel, holding a series of letters 18 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:44,000 and journal entries by various characters. The novel is really 19 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:48,439 a landmark in the world of detective fiction. It came 20 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:54,040 after Edgar Allen Poe's famous short stories in the eighteen forties, 21 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,719 but it established many precedents as a long form peace 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:04,719 and receive very high praise. Dorothy Sayers, famous for creating 23 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:10,360 Lord Peter Whimsey, praised it as probably the very finest 24 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:16,680 detective story ever written. G. K. Chesterton, who created Father Brown, 25 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:21,319 calls it probably the best detective tale in the world. Now, 26 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:26,159 of course, because it was first, it's a little different 27 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,319 than effective stories we might be used to, but still 28 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,280 it's a landmark story and it's going to be great 29 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:35,719 to bring it to you again. Now I should mention 30 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:41,360 that we did actually play a two part adaptation that 31 00:02:41,719 --> 00:02:46,240 was produced in Hollywood for the radio series Suspense. I'm 32 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,360 intrigued by this one because I think it is very 33 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,719 hard to condense a novel like The Moonstone and all 34 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:00,080 that it has going on in it down to two episodes, 35 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:06,199 and so this one is going to be four episodes long. Now. 36 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,000 This was part of the series The World's Great Novels. 37 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:16,439 This series originated in Chicago on station WMAQ and was 38 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,680 syndicated on other NBC stations. The series was part of 39 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:27,560 nbac's University of the Air and NBC worked in cooperation 40 00:03:27,879 --> 00:03:31,319 with the University of Louisville, the University of Tulsa, and 41 00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:38,120 Washington State University to present these adaptations and then listeners 42 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:42,400 could sign up for a correspondence course and get college 43 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,039 credit for listening, and they could also buy a study 44 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,719 guide to go along with the adaptation. So we are 45 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,080 back in Chicago for the second time this season, and 46 00:03:53,319 --> 00:03:58,280 I mentioned on the last episode that Chicago based old 47 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,639 time radio is kind of rare in the detective genre 48 00:04:02,919 --> 00:04:06,599 and in general. Back when we did Hot Copy, I 49 00:04:06,639 --> 00:04:09,719 do want to correct one thing I said. While it 50 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,400 is rare, there was a Chicago series in addition to 51 00:04:14,479 --> 00:04:18,399 Hot Copy and the Crime Files of LeMond that we featured, 52 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:23,720 and that was Crime on the Waterfront. That series starred 53 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,920 Myron Wallace, who is better known as Mike Wallace, who 54 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:34,480 became the famous newsman on Sixty Minutes. That series was 55 00:04:34,519 --> 00:04:38,079 recorded in Chicago, did not make it beyond the audition stage, 56 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:42,160 but we did feature it back in season three. So 57 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,480 this is I think our fourth visit to Chicago on 58 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,240 Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. Now, I will say 59 00:04:50,319 --> 00:04:54,560 that this was towards the tail end of the World's 60 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,839 Great novels being produced in Chicago. In the fall, the 61 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,600 series War would be moved to Hollywood as the NBC 62 00:05:03,879 --> 00:05:08,519 University Theater and would feature Hollywood actors, and we played 63 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,680 a few episodes from the NBC University Theater, both on 64 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,600 Great Detectives and on the Amazing World of Radio. Finally, 65 00:05:17,639 --> 00:05:21,000 I do want to caution that the audio quality has 66 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,680 some issues. It's not the greatest, but I think it 67 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:27,160 is still listenable. As always, we do the best we 68 00:05:27,319 --> 00:05:32,000 can with these, but if you have trouble listenings, I apologize. 69 00:05:32,759 --> 00:05:36,399 But with all that out of the way. From April second, 70 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,319 nineteen forty eight, here is The Moonstone, part one. 71 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:52,759 Speaker 2: The world's Great novels. 72 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 3: Many years ago, according to an ancient Hindu legend, a 73 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,000 large yellow diamond set in the forehead of an idol 74 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,560 to represent the moon. A diamond as large as a 75 00:06:02,639 --> 00:06:05,680 plover's egg, was so revered by the holy men who 76 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,720 guard it at night and day that it became known 77 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:21,079 as the Moonstone. The National Broadcasting Company presents another great novel, 78 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,759 The Moonstone, not only as an outstanding classic, but one 79 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,839 which has contributed greatly to the technique and style of 80 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,879 crime fiction as we know it today and now the 81 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,600 first episode in the four part dramatization of the Moonstone, 82 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,360 another in our series of books that live the world's 83 00:06:40,399 --> 00:06:42,560 great novels. 84 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:59,319 Speaker 4: Yes, the three Indian priests who guarded the Moonstone, I 85 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,879 shuddered the very mention of the name guarded it well. 86 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,240 But one day war came and the glittering Moonstone was 87 00:07:08,319 --> 00:07:13,680 stolen from the forehead of the idol. It passed through 88 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,279 many hands until finally one day it was seized by 89 00:07:17,319 --> 00:07:22,720 one John Herncastle during the Siege of Syringapatam in seventeen 90 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,240 ninety nine. It had been set into the handle of 91 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:30,040 a dagger by that time, and in seizing it, Herncastle 92 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,920 killed three engines who had been present in the room 93 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,519 where the dagger had been kept. As he died last, 94 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,519 these engines gasped out. 95 00:07:39,839 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 5: The Moonstone will have its ventuance yet on you and yours. 96 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 4: Now. I am Gibriel Bettich. For many years more than 97 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,800 I care to remember, I have been house stirred to 98 00:08:03,839 --> 00:08:09,439 my mistress, Lady Julia Vallnder, sister of the ruthless John Pencastle, 99 00:08:10,279 --> 00:08:13,000 hit her family seat on the Yorkshire coast near Frissinghall, 100 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,360 and I was present when the Moonstone came into our 101 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,839 immediate family as a legacy to my lady's daughter, Miss 102 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:26,040 Rachel Vlender, on the occasion of eighteenth birthday. Now, in 103 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,000 telling the story of the Moonstone, I shall be compelled 104 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,519 by circumstances to speak for others who know more of 105 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,919 the Moonstone than I, and whose knowledge has come to 106 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:45,799 my head. I yes, I will go back to two 107 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:49,480 years ago when Miss Rachel and young mister Franklin Blake 108 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:52,039 were painting the door to her sitting room. 109 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 6: You have a genius for dabbling. You just dabble in everything. 110 00:08:58,639 --> 00:09:01,279 Is this rarely what you call decorative painting? 111 00:09:01,639 --> 00:09:04,639 Speaker 7: And now, cousin, don't knock me, but I'm done with 112 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:05,600 the painting of this door. 113 00:09:05,639 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 8: You'll see how nice it will look. 114 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 6: And will the new design on the paneling reflect the 115 00:09:10,159 --> 00:09:14,200 places from which you've just returned? Might now let me 116 00:09:14,279 --> 00:09:17,879 see you've been to Germany, to France and to Italy. 117 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:24,080 Just which of these languages are you painting in? Which language? 118 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,440 Franklin French? 119 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:29,519 Speaker 7: Now stand aside Rachel. I'll never finish my brushwork if 120 00:09:29,519 --> 00:09:30,399 you keep it my way. 121 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,799 Speaker 6: And so intent upon his brushwork. 122 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 8: Yes, and if you don't look out I'll paint your nerves. 123 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,000 I will, Franklin, don't know. 124 00:09:38,159 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 6: Please, I'll get out of your way better you lit it. 125 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 8: I'd like to dub your nose a bit. Oh, you 126 00:09:44,639 --> 00:09:46,559 wouldn't dare in the interest of science. 127 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 7: Of course, that new paint mixture of yours, Rachel, it 128 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,600 is not a new paint mixture. It is a new 129 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,879 mixture to moisten paint with. I call it a vehicle. 130 00:09:59,759 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 6: It's smells. 131 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 7: Nevertheless, it will dry in twelve hours that I maintain 132 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:05,320 as a record. 133 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:11,919 Speaker 6: Just imagine only twelve hours to dry. Franklin, Blake, You're wonderful. 134 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:16,759 Speaker 8: I accept the tribute. You know, this sliff and I'm 135 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:20,240 painting isn't coming out so well. I'll give him just 136 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,120 a bit more neck of Franklin. 137 00:10:23,159 --> 00:10:25,799 Speaker 6: I can hardly wait for the party tonight. It'll be 138 00:10:25,879 --> 00:10:29,759 such fun. And then, of course I'll be wearing a 139 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,720 moonstone for the first time. Oh, Franklin, wasn't it sweet 140 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,159 of Uncle John to leave it to me? 141 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 9: My dear? 142 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 7: The Colonel was anything but a sweet man. Sometimes I 143 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:43,919 wonder that his motive been leaving. 144 00:10:43,639 --> 00:10:47,799 Speaker 8: It to you? Why whatever do you mean? Well, come, Franklin, 145 00:10:47,879 --> 00:10:49,960 don't frown like that tell me. 146 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,639 Speaker 7: In the first place, I suspect the colonel had no 147 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:54,799 great love for your mother. 148 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:56,519 Speaker 6: She was his sister. 149 00:10:57,039 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 7: True that even a sister's affection would be somewhat text 150 00:11:01,039 --> 00:11:03,559 and having to deal with a man like John Herncastle 151 00:11:04,759 --> 00:11:07,879 sometimes I think your inheritance of the moonstone is a 152 00:11:07,919 --> 00:11:10,399 monstrous joke played by a spiteful. 153 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 8: Fellow, oh, frank Lynn. 154 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 7: And secondly, there are ugly stories connected with the diamond. 155 00:11:15,639 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 6: But how fascinating? What are these stories? 156 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:19,759 Speaker 4: Oh? 157 00:11:19,919 --> 00:11:23,879 Speaker 10: The bound up in an old Hindu superstition is something 158 00:11:23,879 --> 00:11:27,240 to do with three fanatical priests, guardians of the Moonstone, 159 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,799 you might say, who are sworn to recover their treasure during. 160 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,519 Speaker 6: I imagine that it makes cold chills run down your spine. 161 00:11:36,879 --> 00:11:39,519 Speaker 8: So I confess to a goose pimple or two on mind. 162 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,879 Speaker 6: And you will be leaving soon to fetch the moonstone 163 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:43,840 from the bank at frizzing. Also, I may wear it 164 00:11:43,879 --> 00:11:44,840 at the party tonight. 165 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 8: Yes, Rachel, I'll be leaving in a few minutes, and I. 166 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,159 Speaker 6: Have a new white dress to show off the moonstone. 167 00:11:51,879 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 8: Franklin, do you. 168 00:11:53,039 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 6: Think you can fix it for me so that I 169 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:55,240 may wear it? 170 00:11:55,279 --> 00:11:58,639 Speaker 8: His approach, I think a bit of silver wire will 171 00:11:58,639 --> 00:11:59,080 do the trick. 172 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,519 Speaker 6: Oh, and then when the guests are all assembled at 173 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,559 the table, I'll make a grand dramatic entrance, a great 174 00:12:05,759 --> 00:12:08,240 yellow diamond glittering at my throat. 175 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 7: For the edification, I suppose of your esteemed cousin, mister 176 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:18,120 Godfrey Ablewhite. Oh now, Franklin, Ah, Yes, mister Godfrey Ablewhite, 177 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,919 a barrister by profession, a ladies man by temperament, and 178 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,799 the good Samaritan by choice. 179 00:12:25,879 --> 00:12:28,399 Speaker 8: That's what Gabriel says about him. Well, I think you're 180 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:29,879 both unfair to Godfrey. 181 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 6: After all, he does engage in charitable works. 182 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 8: Oh he does. Yes. 183 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:39,919 Speaker 7: Indeed, female benevolence and female destitution could do nothing without him. Yes, 184 00:12:40,759 --> 00:12:43,600 wherever you will find a committee of good ladies in council, 185 00:12:44,159 --> 00:12:46,759 there you'll find mister Godfrey keeping the temper of the 186 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:50,559 committee and leading the dear creatures along the fary ways 187 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:51,200 of business. 188 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 6: Well that sounds like Gabriel again. Anyhow, you must admit 189 00:12:56,279 --> 00:12:59,360 Godfrey is a very handsome man. Oh, no better than 190 00:12:59,399 --> 00:13:02,919 six feet it's all a beautiful complexion and a head 191 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:04,879 of lovely flaxen hair. 192 00:13:04,759 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 8: Which falls languidly around his nose. Franklin, I think you'll 193 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:10,840 just be yes, Rosanna, what is it? 194 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:12,279 Speaker 4: What? 195 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 6: Don't just stand? They're staring with your mouth open? 196 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:16,519 Speaker 8: Speak up? 197 00:13:17,399 --> 00:13:20,759 Speaker 6: Oh oh your your pardon, miss Rachel. 198 00:13:20,799 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 8: But but your. 199 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:28,799 Speaker 6: Mother, I mean, I mean, lady Veron'd like to see you. 200 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,639 Thank you, Rosanna, and you can tell her. I'll be 201 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,440 up directly, Rosanna. 202 00:13:35,759 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 8: Did you hear me? 203 00:13:37,639 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 6: Why are you staring like that? Oh? Oh yes, miss Rachel, 204 00:13:42,519 --> 00:13:49,559 I'm going huh Franklin Blake, I think you've made a 205 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,320 conquest in our poor Rosanna. 206 00:13:52,039 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 8: Oh nonsense, Rachel, why hang it all? I'm scarcely ever 207 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:56,120 looked at the girl. 208 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 6: Maybe that's it, after all, she's a cripple, shy and 209 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:07,840 sensitive and hoping to be noticed. Hmm, well, Franklin, I 210 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:09,080 don't want to keep mother with. 211 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 8: Yes, yes, of course, Rosa, our girl. I wonder what 212 00:14:16,919 --> 00:14:18,799 she seasonally to surprise her. 213 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,519 Speaker 4: I suppose it's your continental education. 214 00:14:23,279 --> 00:14:26,559 Speaker 8: Oh it's you, Gabriel, Yes, sir, what were you saying? 215 00:14:27,039 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 4: Just remarkings to Franklin that there's some which are impressed 216 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:33,919 with the varnish foreign parts. 217 00:14:34,879 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 7: Yes, and at any rate, Gabriel, I'm glad you're here. 218 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,120 There are some matters i'd like to discuss with you. 219 00:14:42,279 --> 00:14:46,360 Such is well, I've I've been rather uneasy these past 220 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,840 few days. I told you that just before I arrived 221 00:14:49,879 --> 00:14:52,080 here from London, I had been under the observation of 222 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:55,039 a certain dark stranger. Yes, I managed, however, to give 223 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:55,600 him the slip. 224 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,879 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I recole. You told me he appeared to 225 00:14:58,919 --> 00:14:59,840 be an engineers. 226 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,919 Speaker 8: Yes, yes he did. And now I understand from your 227 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,720 daughter Penelope that there were three injines about the house today. 228 00:15:07,919 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 4: Oh, yes, yes, I've found them standing near the terrace. Well, 229 00:15:11,799 --> 00:15:13,840 I promptly showed them the gate. 230 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 8: Penelope said they were chocolers and had a little English 231 00:15:17,279 --> 00:15:17,919 boy with them. 232 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 4: Yes, and it was my impressions that the boys seemed 233 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,559 to be under their influence. He acted as if will 234 00:15:25,799 --> 00:15:27,159 as if bewitched. 235 00:15:28,279 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 7: Yes, well, oh, Gabriel off to Frizingal and the bank 236 00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:34,279 to fetch the moonstone. 237 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 4: I don't like that, mister Franklin. I don't like it. 238 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,320 Any bequest from the wicked colonel is best left alone. 239 00:15:41,879 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 7: I feel the same way, But I am acting for 240 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,799 my father, who is the executor for the Colonel's estate. 241 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,799 Speaker 8: I have no other choice. I'll be back shortly. 242 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 4: Don't take too long, to Franklin. The guests will soon 243 00:15:54,559 --> 00:15:56,480 be here for Miss Rachel's birthday party. 244 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 8: The guests. 245 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 4: Yes, Soon after mister Franklin's departure, the guests began arriving. 246 00:16:05,399 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 8: Did me see now? 247 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 4: They were quite a number, yes, twenty four in all 248 00:16:10,279 --> 00:16:15,320 old doctor Candy, the family physician. Then there was mister Mirthwaite, 249 00:16:15,399 --> 00:16:18,840 quite famous as an expert on engine affairs. And of 250 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:23,240 course the tall and elegant mister Godfrey Abrilwhite came, bringing 251 00:16:23,279 --> 00:16:26,919 with him his two large and lively sisters, whom I call. 252 00:16:28,279 --> 00:16:29,279 Speaker 8: The bouncers. 253 00:16:29,759 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 4: They're the kind who just can't be still for a moment. 254 00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:36,399 And there were others, to be sure, too numerous to 255 00:16:36,519 --> 00:16:39,720 name all the guests that assembled in the drawing room. 256 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,240 When mister Franklin returned, I spoke to him in the hall, Eh, 257 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:49,320 mister Franklin, Yes, have you the diamond secured safely? 258 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:49,519 Speaker 3: Sir? 259 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 8: Oh? Yes, Gabriel, have it here in the breast pocket 260 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:52,879 of my coat. 261 00:16:54,559 --> 00:16:56,519 Speaker 4: Have you seen anything of the engines? 262 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,399 Speaker 8: Not a glimpse of them? I say, where is Lady 263 00:16:59,399 --> 00:17:03,559 Bednder in the drawing room? I'd like to have a 264 00:17:03,639 --> 00:17:07,119 talk with her or we put the moonstone on display. 265 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,839 Speaker 4: And then crossing the hall. About half an hour afterward, 266 00:17:11,759 --> 00:17:14,279 I was brought to a sudden stand still by an 267 00:17:14,279 --> 00:17:18,319 outbreak from the drawing room. I can't say I was 268 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:21,480 a tall alarmed, for I recognized it as that form 269 00:17:21,559 --> 00:17:26,519 of ketter walling peculiar to the bouncers. I entered the room, 270 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,680 and there at the table stood missus Rachel, like a 271 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:34,119 person fascinated. She held the kernel's unlucky diamond in her hand. 272 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 8: Look, Gabriel, Oh Lord, bless me, miss Rachel. 273 00:17:38,039 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 4: Such a diamond. Why it's as large as a plover's ache? 274 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,839 Speaker 6: Gabriel, did you ever see such brilliance? 275 00:17:46,319 --> 00:17:49,519 Speaker 4: Never in my life. It's like the light that shines 276 00:17:49,559 --> 00:17:50,640 from the harvest moon. 277 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 6: And what do you think of it? 278 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:53,319 Speaker 8: Girls? 279 00:17:53,319 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 6: Oh, Rachel, it's out is a vine? 280 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 8: Oh is it? Godfrey? 281 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 6: What's your opinion of my lovely moonstone? 282 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:04,079 Speaker 8: Exquisite? 283 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 11: Exquisite, my dear Rachel, quite exquisite. 284 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,519 Speaker 8: I think he means to say exquisite, Rachel. Isn't that 285 00:18:11,559 --> 00:18:12,079 what you meant? 286 00:18:12,079 --> 00:18:12,279 Speaker 4: God? 287 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 6: Oh? 288 00:18:13,039 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 8: Yes, Franklin, isn't that what I said? 289 00:18:16,319 --> 00:18:17,319 Speaker 6: And what do you think of it? 290 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 8: Mother child? 291 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,599 Speaker 6: Yes, it's quite beautiful? 292 00:18:25,839 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 4: Well, yes, Penelope, what is it? 293 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,839 Speaker 6: I'd like to talk to you privately in the hall? 294 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 4: Oh, will come come here? 295 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 8: Ye? 296 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 4: Now what is it? 297 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:38,319 Speaker 8: Well? 298 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,039 Speaker 6: The first I have something special for you, A kiss 299 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:44,240 for your bald head. 300 00:18:45,319 --> 00:18:46,640 Speaker 4: Did you interrupt me? Just for that? 301 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 6: Father, I have the most wonderful news. Miss Rachel has 302 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:52,359 refused him. 303 00:18:52,839 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and who is him? 304 00:18:55,839 --> 00:19:01,079 Speaker 6: Theast by the latest committee? Man, Father, that must life. 305 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 4: You mean, mister Godfrey, Abel White? 306 00:19:03,559 --> 00:19:08,559 Speaker 6: Of course, Oh how I hate it? But a plant, mister. 307 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,640 Speaker 4: Franklin, how do you know all this? 308 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 6: I saw mister the Worse garden. I know because I 309 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:20,119 waited behind. 310 00:19:19,799 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 4: The hollywy Now do you know she refused him. 311 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 6: Because they strolled into the garden arm in arm and 312 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:27,160 they were both laughing. 313 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:27,599 Speaker 8: Yes. 314 00:19:28,279 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 6: When they came back, they walked separately, neither one looking 315 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,079 at the other. Father, I was never so happy in 316 00:19:35,079 --> 00:19:37,759 my life. At least there is one woman in this 317 00:19:37,839 --> 00:19:41,400 world who can resist the precious mister god for the Abel. 318 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,279 Speaker 4: White, well, you seem to know all about it. You're 319 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,559 somewhat like your mother, bless her Everie in that respect. 320 00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 6: Wait a minute, father, that's not all I know. 321 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:55,559 Speaker 8: But now I've. 322 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 6: Discovered something about looking house. 323 00:19:57,799 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 8: Need what about? 324 00:20:00,599 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 12: Well, little about for it fell in love with mister 325 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:17,079 and at first mind you, I never ceased to marvel. 326 00:20:24,079 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 4: No, my dear, excuse me, I must see to the 327 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,960 company for dinner. 328 00:20:29,559 --> 00:20:32,319 Speaker 6: And look at this wonderful broach Franklin made for my 329 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,920 moonstone with only a little strand of silver wire, isn't 330 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:36,960 it clever? Oh? 331 00:20:37,039 --> 00:20:42,079 Speaker 8: Yes, yes, very thank you Godfrey. Well, mister Mirthwaite, I 332 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,039 understand you passed much of your life and injured. I've 333 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:47,400 never been there, but they tell me it's quite a 334 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,559 fascinating place. At least it has a fascination for me. 335 00:20:50,799 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 6: Oh, I'd love to go there if you ever. 336 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,319 Speaker 11: Do, go to injure, miss Vander, don't take your uncle's 337 00:20:57,319 --> 00:21:00,920 birthdayket with your A Hindu diamond is sometimes a part 338 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:05,079 of a Hindu religion. I know a certain city and 339 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:09,440 in that city a certain temple where bessed as you are, 340 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,559 your life would not be worth five minutes purchase. 341 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 8: Heaven. 342 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,920 Speaker 6: I'm almost tempted to take off for India this very minute, mister. 343 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,599 And what do you think about my moonstone, doctor Candy? 344 00:21:26,279 --> 00:21:28,519 Speaker 8: What's that I say? What do you think. 345 00:21:28,279 --> 00:21:30,160 Speaker 6: About my moonstone, doctor Candy? 346 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 8: Oh? 347 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,759 Speaker 13: My dear, if you will heed my advice, you will 348 00:21:35,839 --> 00:21:42,440 let me take it home and ban its certain we 349 00:21:42,519 --> 00:21:47,440 would first heed it to do such and such a degree, 350 00:21:47,839 --> 00:21:51,079 and then we would expose it to a current of air. 351 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 14: And and so little by little, with a puff and puff, 352 00:21:58,839 --> 00:22:02,960 we would evaporate the diamond, and thus spare the world 353 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:07,039 of anxiety and the safe keeping of so valuable a stone. 354 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,599 Speaker 15: It seems I'm being confronted by all sorts of desperate alternatives. 355 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:15,279 Speaker 8: What's that? 356 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 7: By the sound of everything, I'm not a mistaken it's yes, 357 00:22:20,519 --> 00:22:24,839 and it seems to be coming from the terrace just outside. 358 00:22:25,319 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 8: Everybody. 359 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 13: We're all going out to the terras Indian three. 360 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 8: Of them flows. They're going to do tricks for us. 361 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,720 What a loveless wow. 362 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,279 Speaker 6: And that's a pretty little boy they have with him. 363 00:22:43,759 --> 00:22:45,680 I'm asking it a great big kiss. 364 00:22:45,799 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 7: Root, get on the other side of miss Rachel. No, Rachel, 365 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:56,039 don't go too near them. Stay here, Rachel. 366 00:22:56,079 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 8: I wish you hadn't come out here wearing that cursed moonstone. 367 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,440 I'm sure those Indians have seen it. 368 00:23:00,599 --> 00:23:06,599 Speaker 4: Mister Franklin. Yes, look look at mister Merthwaite. He's speaking 369 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,799 to the Injins apparently in their native tone. 370 00:23:12,079 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 7: Obviously, the leader doesn't seem to like what our friend 371 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:15,960 Mirthwaite is saying. 372 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 8: No he doesn't. In fact, the fellow seems quite shaken. 373 00:23:19,519 --> 00:23:23,039 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, he's motioning his companions to leave. 374 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 6: Now. 375 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 4: The little boy is passing the head around. 376 00:23:31,839 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 8: Glad the beggars are leaving. 377 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:40,279 Speaker 7: The exhibition is over, Rachel, I think you had better 378 00:23:40,279 --> 00:23:41,359 go inside with the others. 379 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 8: Why I want to talk to. 380 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,799 Speaker 7: Mirthwait there, Oh, you stay here with me, Gabriel, Yes, sir, 381 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:54,279 I say, Mirthwaite, here's mister Blake. Mister Mirthwait, just what 382 00:23:54,319 --> 00:23:55,880 was it you said to the jugglers? 383 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 11: Chugglers? And those three engines are no more jugglers? 384 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 4: Then you and I are what Why, mister Mirthwaite, did 385 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,480 you ever see those rogues before? 386 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 11: No, never, Gabriel, I merely know what engine juggling really is. 387 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,160 What you have seen tonight is a very bad and 388 00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:16,960 clumsy imitation. 389 00:24:16,519 --> 00:24:20,160 Speaker 8: Of the genuine article. But Mirthway, what did you say 390 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:20,839 to the engines? 391 00:24:21,279 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 11: I charged them with being disguised? Unless I miss my guess, 392 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,759 those men are high caste Brahmans of the Hindu religion. 393 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:35,759 You know there's a mystery about their conduct. I can't explain. 394 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:40,880 What do you mean They've doubly sacrificed their cost first 395 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,680 in crossing the sea to England, secondly in disguising themselves 396 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:49,480 as jugglers. I'm positive there must be some very serious 397 00:24:49,599 --> 00:24:52,680 motive at the bottom of it, Quite positive. 398 00:24:53,079 --> 00:24:58,079 Speaker 4: Will I think you're right, sir? Yes, Gabriel, what about tonight, 399 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,039 mister Franklin. Suppose the Indians come back? 400 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 11: They want this coming back tonight? The direct way is hardly, ever, 401 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:09,240 the way they take to do anything. Gabriel, I'd suggest 402 00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:12,200 you let the dogs loose, eh. Have you a big 403 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:12,960 dog about the yard? 404 00:25:13,319 --> 00:25:15,759 Speaker 4: Tutor mastiffened bloodhound? 405 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,799 Speaker 11: Excellent? I'd turn them loose if I were you. Turn 406 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:24,839 them loose. Yes, both breeds have one great merit. They 407 00:25:24,839 --> 00:25:27,359 are not likely to be troubled with your scruples about 408 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:33,759 the secretary of human life. 409 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 4: As the dinner got on, I became aware little by 410 00:25:44,279 --> 00:25:49,079 little that this festival was not like others in the past. 411 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,079 Although I apply the whole company well with wine, the 412 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,920 cursed diamonds seemed to have cast a blight upon them. 413 00:25:58,279 --> 00:26:02,839 I do remember, however, how doctor Kenny and mister Franklin 414 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,079 Blake fell to arguing. 415 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 13: Now, then, Franklin, you acknowledge you sleep very badly at night? Yes, Doctor, 416 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,240 from that, I judge your nerves to be out of order. 417 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 16: Now, then i'd prescribe the course of medicine value immediately. 418 00:26:23,279 --> 00:26:26,559 Speaker 8: In my opinion, doctor, your course of medicine is just 419 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,880 another name but growthing in the dark. 420 00:26:29,079 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 16: Oh, we have a cynic and a scopper within our 421 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,680 midst Oh, Godfrage, Godfrey, tell me what do you think 422 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,880 of Franklin's inability to sleep? 423 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:40,839 Speaker 4: Why? 424 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 11: See, he's the one who's growing in the dark for sleep. 425 00:26:48,039 --> 00:26:50,920 But you're quite right, doctor Kendy, he should take some 426 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,119 medicine for his affliction. 427 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 16: Hell, at least I have one support in my friend 428 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:56,599 god Rage. 429 00:26:57,079 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 8: Hell, it's getting late. I think we should be making 430 00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:07,039 our good nights. It was a fine party, Lady Vernda. 431 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 11: But I think I just the. 432 00:27:09,759 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 6: Others assume doctor. 433 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,839 Speaker 9: Oh, yes, I'm still a practice that requires my attention. 434 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:25,279 Good night, Rachel, and Rachel, don't forget what I said 435 00:27:25,319 --> 00:27:30,039 about the moon still anytime you want, I'll burn it. 436 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:30,279 Speaker 8: Up for. 437 00:27:31,759 --> 00:27:38,519 Speaker 6: Good night, Rachel. That reminds me where are you going 438 00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:42,880 to put your diamond for tonight? My mother on my 439 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,440 dressing table, of course, along with the other thing. Oh no, 440 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,359 it's not a very good idea. It might take to 441 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,519 shining in the dark and say that would terrify me. 442 00:27:55,559 --> 00:27:57,359 You better find some other place then. 443 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:00,039 Speaker 5: I have it. 444 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 6: How about putting the moonstone in my Indian cabinet in 445 00:28:03,559 --> 00:28:06,440 the cabinet in your sitting room. Yes, that's the one, 446 00:28:06,839 --> 00:28:09,599 my dear. Your Indian cabinet has no lock to it. Well, 447 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,759 good heavens, Mamma, is this a hotel? 448 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:12,599 Speaker 8: Ah? 449 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,880 Speaker 15: There are thieves in the house. Now, Rachel, be reasonable? 450 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,759 Why not let me keep the diamond for you tonight? 451 00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:23,279 Speaker 6: Now, Mother, I'm eighteen years old and perfectly capable of 452 00:28:23,319 --> 00:28:26,759 taking care of my own property. You may come up 453 00:28:26,799 --> 00:28:28,839 to my sitting room if you wish, right now and 454 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,599 watch me put the diamond. 455 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:30,839 Speaker 8: In the cabinet. 456 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,039 Speaker 6: Oh very well, my dear. 457 00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 15: We won't discuss it any more, and I think it 458 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,079 would be a good idea of all of us retired 459 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:41,319 for the night, Godfrey Franklin, Yes, Aunt Julia, I was 460 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,359 just telling Rachel it was time we went to bed. 461 00:28:43,799 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 4: Are you and God for ready? 462 00:28:46,079 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 8: Suppose I might as well? Though I've been getting precious 463 00:28:49,039 --> 00:28:51,079 little sleep of late, Franklin. 464 00:28:51,119 --> 00:28:53,519 Speaker 11: Why not take my advice and indulge in a little 465 00:28:53,559 --> 00:28:55,319 brandy and water before retiring. 466 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 8: It would do you a world of good. I'm sure now, 467 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:01,000 Thank you, gud Fray. I think I would rather do 468 00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:05,200 without it, very well, very well. I was only suggesting 469 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,079 it for your own. 470 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 6: Good gentlemen, are ready. 471 00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 8: Yes, Julian, I'm ready to go up if everyone else is. Oh, 472 00:29:13,119 --> 00:29:14,640 you'll be sure and let the dogs lose. 473 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 4: Gabriel, Yes, yes, yes, yes, mister Franklin. 474 00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 6: And Gabriel, you'll take extra precaution about locking up. Will leady, 475 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 come mother, We'll go directly to my sitting room and 476 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,640 put the moonstone in the drawer of the Indian cabinet. 477 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 4: Gabriel, good night, Miss Rachel, good night, good night, good night, 478 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:37,240 good night. I can't says, I'm sorry to see this 479 00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:38,119 day come to a na. 480 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 8: Oh. 481 00:29:42,599 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 4: It reminds me i'd better relieve the dogs. 482 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:54,839 Speaker 17: Of the colors Ariel Oh, yes, mister Franklin, Yes, coming, sir, coming, 483 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:55,720 Where are you? 484 00:29:56,039 --> 00:29:57,119 Speaker 8: I'm up here on the landing. 485 00:29:57,559 --> 00:29:59,039 Speaker 4: Yes, what can I do for you? 486 00:29:59,160 --> 00:29:59,359 Speaker 7: Sir? 487 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,519 Speaker 8: I made my mind about the Brandian water. Perhaps I 488 00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:04,440 may want some in the night. You have some sun 489 00:30:04,519 --> 00:30:05,640 up to my room please. 490 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:09,079 Speaker 4: Yes, mister Franklin, thank you, Gabriel, good night, Good night, sir, 491 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:15,000 and sleep well er, sleep well. 492 00:30:15,839 --> 00:30:16,319 Speaker 6: Mm hmmm. 493 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,279 Speaker 4: The worries of the day had been too much for me. 494 00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,519 I suppose, at any rate I had a touch of 495 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:27,079 mister Franklin's malady that night. It was sunrise before I 496 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,799 bent off at last into sleep. About half past seven, 497 00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:34,039 I awoke and opened my window. On a fine, sunshiny day. 498 00:30:35,079 --> 00:30:37,359 I bustled about for a few minutes, and then a 499 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,200 short while later, as the clock was striking eight. I 500 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,799 remember I was on my way downstairs to chain up 501 00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:47,519 the dogs. Then suddenly I stopped short because Penelope came 502 00:30:47,519 --> 00:30:48,880 plying down the stairway after me. 503 00:30:50,119 --> 00:30:51,759 Speaker 6: Heaven six, come upstairs right away. 504 00:30:52,079 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 8: The diamond has gone. 505 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 4: Are you out of your mind? 506 00:30:55,799 --> 00:30:58,119 Speaker 6: Gone gone, I tell you, And nobody knows how I'll 507 00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:58,960 come up and see. 508 00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:03,759 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, child, come, I'm not as young as I 509 00:31:03,839 --> 00:31:04,680 once was a child. 510 00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:11,759 Speaker 6: I see the drawers pulled all the way out by myself. 511 00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:14,519 So Miss Rachel put the diamond into that drawer last. 512 00:31:14,359 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 4: Night, Miss Yes, the drawer is empty. 513 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:19,519 Speaker 8: Miss Rachel. 514 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,599 Speaker 6: Wasn't I here last night when you put the diamond away. 515 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 4: Is Rachel? Is this true? 516 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 8: The diamond is gone, That is all she said. 517 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,119 Speaker 4: Then Miss Rachel withdrew into her bedroom and locked the door. 518 00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:41,519 I couldn't understand it. 519 00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 8: The Moonstone had vanished. 520 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 4: And yet here was the young lady acting as if 521 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,359 it had been not the least bit of a surprise 522 00:31:50,519 --> 00:31:51,240 to her. 523 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,759 Speaker 3: The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins is one of the World's 524 00:32:11,759 --> 00:32:14,759 Great novels, brought to you each week by the NBC 525 00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:18,359 University of the Air. 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Them was 535 00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:03,119 composed by Amil Soderstrom, and the orchestra was directed by 536 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,839 Bernard Burquist. The entire production was under the direction of 537 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:11,880 Homer Heck Sherman Marx is featured as Gabriel Betteridge, Charles Mountains, 538 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,240 Franklin Blake, and Geraldine Kay as Rachel Barrender. 539 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:18,119 Speaker 8: The part of Lady Baronder is played by Arma Platz. 540 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 3: A Nowopee by Jane Elliott, Rosanna by Ruth Shames, Godfrey, 541 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:26,119 Abel White by Sidney Breeze, Doctor Candy by Arthur Peterson, 542 00:33:26,559 --> 00:33:30,039 Mister Merthwaite by Boris Applin, and the Bouncers by Margaret 543 00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:31,359 Brayton and Ruth Shames. 544 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 8: This is John Conrad. 545 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,799 Speaker 3: This program comes to you from Chicago and is a 546 00:33:35,799 --> 00:33:51,880 presentation of the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations. 547 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,799 Your help is desperately needed now. 548 00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 8: It's needed more than. 549 00:33:58,839 --> 00:34:01,079 Speaker 3: Ever by the people of yours who are hungry and 550 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,920 cold this winter. Without your health, many thousands of children 551 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:09,400 and adults face starvation and death by exposure. Care is 552 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,599 ready to help you help them. For ten dollars, you 553 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:15,840 can send a nonprofit care food or textile package to 554 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,440 anyone you select. Care will hurry your package to Europe. 555 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:22,199 The amount of your ten dollars is received. Senate took 556 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,840 Care fifty Broad Street, New York for New York. This 557 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,840 is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. 558 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. A bit different from our typical episode as 559 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,480 we don't have the crime committed until the end, but 560 00:34:42,519 --> 00:34:47,280 there's a lot of atmosphere and scenes setting and establishing 561 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,159 characters that is really important in this story. And because 562 00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:54,480 the world's Great novels had four episodes to do this, 563 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:57,159 and they did it this way, and I think it 564 00:34:57,199 --> 00:35:00,239 makes sense in many ways. It reminds me of how 565 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,599 the BBC Mattsch used to adapt to Paul ro novel. Overall, 566 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:09,960 this episode does a good job reflecting the characters and 567 00:35:10,039 --> 00:35:14,559 their attitudes and setting up what's going on in this story. 568 00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:19,559 As always, I love Gabriel betteredge kind of surprised he 569 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,519 hasn't dropped a Robertson Crusoe reference. I mean, that was 570 00:35:24,559 --> 00:35:28,639 his thing in the book, but the adaptation is still 571 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:33,480 young and kind of him expecting one at any moment 572 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,840 as a plot point. It's weird that if you were 573 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,639 traveling all the way to England to appersonate jugglers that 574 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,840 you wouldn't actually figure out how to do it well. 575 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,760 So a bit of a mark against the mysterious Indian 576 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,480 priests in disguise, but nobody's perfect, I guess, and they 577 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,039 may just have been betting on ignorance, which is usually 578 00:35:56,079 --> 00:35:59,400 a safe bet. All right, well, now it's time to 579 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,760 think our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want 580 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,880 to go ahead and thank Harold, Patreon supporter since September 581 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:09,280 twenty seventeen, currently supporting the podcast at the Master Detective 582 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,360 level of fifteen dollars more per month. Thank you so 583 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,920 much for your support, Harold, And that will do it 584 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,320 for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us 585 00:36:18,599 --> 00:36:22,440 using your favorite podcast software. And if you're enjoying the 586 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,199 podcast on YouTube, be sure to lock the video, subscribe 587 00:36:26,199 --> 00:36:29,960 to the channel, and mark the notification bell. We will 588 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,639 be back next Thursday with part two of the Moonstone. 589 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,840 But join us back here tomorrow for yours truly Johnny 590 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:39,719 Dollar ware. 591 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 18: But not belong Durrangle, Durragle. It's Johnny Dollar. 592 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,679 Speaker 6: Kay outside that you young Gorman? This here? 593 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,880 Speaker 18: Nos, Wait a minute, you're not Drango. I came here 594 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,280 to see the wrangle. Army Dollar. 595 00:36:58,519 --> 00:37:01,440 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well your rend way here? 596 00:37:01,679 --> 00:37:05,199 Speaker 18: Now look you you shut up tactics drive away from here, 597 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:12,079 you see you shut up? Purty drive away after you've 598 00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:13,880 blown a hole on one of my tires. 599 00:37:14,039 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 600 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:21,800 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 601 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,039 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 602 00:37:26,039 --> 00:37:32,920 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 603 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,119 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.