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Speaker 1: And now for the weekly visit with our good friend
Speaker 1: and host, doctor Watson. Tonight we find him on the
Speaker 1: stage of the Paramount Theater in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: Good evening, Doctor, Good evening, mister bouto.
Speaker 3: If you've bought a victory bond, you're welcome.
Speaker 2: I have, Doctor.
Speaker 1: Now, what's the recipe for tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure?
Speaker 4: Well, to see, take equal parts of beautiful English country
Speaker 4: stars and black mil and mix them and a dash
Speaker 4: of romance, a sprinking of day season well with the
Speaker 4: usual theatrical condiments, and you have the Case of the
Speaker 4: Accidental Murders.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a tasty dish. How did the story begin?
Speaker 3: Docting on a beautiful summer day?
Speaker 4: In eighteen hundred and ninety five, Holmes had just concluded
Speaker 4: his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Puska,
Speaker 4: an inquiry which was carried out at the express desire
Speaker 4: of his fullness, the Pope, and.
Speaker 3: In consequence the great Man felt for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Rest in the heart of warwicks Show would be a
Speaker 4: pleasant change after our rather strenuous adventures in Italy. And so,
Speaker 4: mister Bartel, we went to Stratford on Avon, the home
Speaker 4: of Shakespeare.
Speaker 3: Huh, quite right, my boy. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: that was the reason that decided us to go there.
Speaker 4: Holmes was a great lover of the drama, you know,
Speaker 4: and at the time my story begins, the Shakespearean.
Speaker 3: Festival was in full swing. For the first week my life,
Speaker 3: there was calm and peaceful.
Speaker 4: During the daytime, we visited the local pieces of interest,
Speaker 4: such as Anne Hathaway's cottage and Shakespeare's birthplace.
Speaker 3: And the evening found us at the theater.
Speaker 4: It was on a Tuesday, I remember, during our second
Speaker 4: week's stay, It's a trouble again.
Speaker 3: Holmes and I had gone for a walk through the
Speaker 3: nearby forest of Avon.
Speaker 4: He was in unusually good spirits that morning, and there
Speaker 4: was a distant, distinct, I mean twinkle.
Speaker 5: In his eye as he as he said, once I
Speaker 5: begin to wish that I were a man of wealth,
Speaker 5: and what makes you say that homes the beauty of
Speaker 5: this place? All fellow, I'm perfectly certain, like the happy
Speaker 5: in retirement here, pressing to think that in a week
Speaker 5: or two, the solid necessity of making money able to
Speaker 5: demand my return to Baker Street.
Speaker 2: In the world of criminals, I must say that.
Speaker 3: An environment like this, it is a little hard to
Speaker 3: think of crime.
Speaker 4: How does the old saying go, where every prospect pleases
Speaker 4: an only.
Speaker 3: Man is vile? Yes?
Speaker 2: But Shakespeare puts it even better.
Speaker 3: I know what he said.
Speaker 6: I'm sure you remember the speech, and as you like it.
Speaker 6: We saw the productions nights ago.
Speaker 3: I don't remember the speak. How did it go?
Speaker 2: In this setting? It's very remarkably opposite?
Speaker 6: Aren't these woods more free from field than the envious
Speaker 6: court here?
Speaker 2: Feel we but the penalty of Adams the season's difference,
Speaker 2: don't you remember? Sweet?
Speaker 6: Are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly
Speaker 6: and venomous, wears a precious jewel in his head.
Speaker 2: And this our life exempt from public.
Speaker 6: Haunt finds tongues in trees, books, in the running brooks,
Speaker 6: sermons and sums, and good in everything.
Speaker 2: I would not change it.
Speaker 3: My soul. You read that much from the follow on
Speaker 3: the stage of that.
Speaker 6: Don't tell me I adopted the wrong professional barson. Oh,
Speaker 6: dear me, wait a minute. Far seems to end here.
Speaker 6: Nothing the dense trees ahead of us.
Speaker 3: There's another path over there. I think it leads down
Speaker 3: to the river.
Speaker 6: Then let's follow it.
Speaker 3: The great Scott that was up Ah, homes homes you hurt?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 6: Yes, I think I am. Bullet hit my shoulder. I
Speaker 6: think it's only grazed it.
Speaker 3: Well, get off your cut quickly.
Speaker 2: Let's have a lot on your scratch. First.
Speaker 6: Let's find out where it was fired from. I heard
Speaker 6: the third of the thought of a bullet in the
Speaker 6: tree behind me. Yes, here we are, give me a penknife.
Speaker 3: Follow?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Thanks. Do you suppose that that shot was deliberate?
Speaker 2: Well, I can't imagine someone mistaking me for a rabbit Watson.
Speaker 6: And by the way, little a curious echoed at the
Speaker 6: shot right, don't know whether you've noticed it. Uh huh.
Speaker 6: Here's the bullet let. Me see, I was tending there.
Speaker 6: A line from this bullet hole in the trees the
Speaker 6: spot where I was standing would indicate that the shot
Speaker 6: was fired from that custer of trees of the bear.
Speaker 6: Come on, Watson, let's see what a search discloses.
Speaker 4: I wish you'd let me look at that shoulder before
Speaker 4: you start galloping all over the countryside homes.
Speaker 3: You're bleeding quite profuse.
Speaker 2: Plenty of time to look at it. When we hello.
Speaker 2: Look over there a man and.
Speaker 3: Woman running towards us across the clarry.
Speaker 2: Yes, and carrying guns.
Speaker 3: Hees.
Speaker 6: It looks as if it was an extent after anyone
Speaker 6: hurt here, sir, my friend was hitting the shoulder, gets
Speaker 6: a dad wound, a scratch, Madam, I I hope, but
Speaker 6: I put the blood on your coat. Well, just how
Speaker 6: did this, well, this accident happened their? Well, we were
Speaker 6: we were out rabbit shooting. I was teaching my wife
Speaker 6: to use a rifle.
Speaker 7: I saw a rabbit scurry across the carring. I raised
Speaker 7: the rifle and fired. It seemed to me, Jeffrey, that
Speaker 7: as I did so, you joked my arm.
Speaker 8: I'm afraid I did, Alice.
Speaker 6: I was going to fire too, But as I raised
Speaker 6: my rifle, I jotd your elbow and send you a
Speaker 6: shot wild. I can't tell you how sorry I am, sir.
Speaker 6: Here here's my card. Of course, we'll take care of
Speaker 6: any expenses that may be introl.
Speaker 4: Nothing to do is to find out how much damage
Speaker 4: has been done. You'd better take your coat off or fallow.
Speaker 2: I I don't know the guy care.
Speaker 8: Oh he's badly hurt.
Speaker 3: No, it's just but oh the man sainted.
Speaker 2: This is beadful. I have a horse and trap down
Speaker 2: the road and give you a hand with him, whim.
Speaker 3: I must get him to hospital is as fast as possible, Holmes, Holmes,
Speaker 3: are you feeling any better?
Speaker 2: Has the nurse gone?
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes, he's bringing the house surgeon and the
Speaker 6: man and his wife down.
Speaker 4: In the hospital waiting. I found out their name. It's
Speaker 4: it's Markham.
Speaker 2: Then we're alone.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes, so fall In that case, I can
Speaker 6: stop behaving as if I were a death's door.
Speaker 4: Holmes, you mean that you you share that collapsed yours?
Speaker 2: Yes, I did.
Speaker 6: What little video whichat my shoulders confabed it painful?
Speaker 2: I assure you I'm sure it is.
Speaker 3: But what made you pretend to faint?
Speaker 6: I recognize this missus Markham, and I think you recognize me.
Speaker 6: It's important to assume I'm out of action.
Speaker 2: For a while.
Speaker 6: Oh, missus, Well, missus Malcolm is in reality the notorious
Speaker 6: Missus Dangerfield. You remember the danger Colo case danger great God, Yes,
Speaker 6: she was tried for the murder of her husband by poisoning, wasn't.
Speaker 2: Yes, she was all along.
Speaker 6: She was acquitted when the jury decided she was an
Speaker 6: habitual arsenic addict who happened to take an accidental overdose.
Speaker 3: Didn't you have some connection?
Speaker 6: It was I who tracked down the sale of the
Speaker 6: arsenic she claim to have bought for cosmetic purposes. Well,
Speaker 6: if you asked me that shot at you is no excellent?
Speaker 6: Of course it wasn't. I'm certain that I was recognized.
Speaker 6: And in case her record is a bad one. Prior
Speaker 6: to her husband's death, there was an episode in which
Speaker 6: her uncle was killed in a shooting accident on a
Speaker 6: grassmoor in Scotland.
Speaker 2: And uncle who left her a large fortune on his death.
Speaker 4: And I suppose Missus Dangerfield was a member of the
Speaker 4: shooting party when the accident.
Speaker 6: Heaven, yes she was. And she's something of a fem fetalbo.
Speaker 6: I must planned my actions very cautiously. I'm up against
Speaker 6: a dangerous opponent.
Speaker 4: Well, you have to stay in the hospital until your
Speaker 4: wounds being examined.
Speaker 6: And dressed as allow, and while the local staff are
Speaker 6: taking care of that, I want you to shadow the
Speaker 6: marcom stick close to them, an fellow, make them believe
Speaker 6: that I'm going to be kept here for some days.
Speaker 6: Find out as much as you can, and then report
Speaker 6: to me.
Speaker 3: Right. I'll do my best, Hike.
Speaker 4: It's off the kind of humors as Markham to insist
Speaker 4: on having me back to your house for.
Speaker 7: Lunch, my dear doctor Watson, after injuring the famous mister Holmes.
Speaker 7: It's the least I could do, of course, it is,
Speaker 7: y dear. Will you bring us some sherry day to
Speaker 7: day off?
Speaker 2: You know? Really well?
Speaker 8: Ellis there's anyone else coming to lunch?
Speaker 7: Only Dennis Bromney?
Speaker 2: Oh Lord that Fellows used to live here. Hell go
Speaker 2: and get the.
Speaker 7: Sherriff sit down, won't you?
Speaker 2: Doctor Watson?
Speaker 3: Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 7: You you say that you think mister Holmes will be
Speaker 7: in the hospital for some day.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid so. The wold wasn't serious. He lost quite
Speaker 4: a bit of blood.
Speaker 7: I feel perfectly dreadful about it.
Speaker 3: You mustn't blame yourself too much, madam.
Speaker 7: It was an accident, yes, but I might easily have
Speaker 7: killed him.
Speaker 4: Well you haven't, and that's all that matters. H Did
Speaker 4: you say that Dennis Romney was coming to lunch? Is
Speaker 4: that the actor fellow from the Memorial Theater?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 7: Have you seen him on the stage, Yes.
Speaker 3: Several times. Holmes and I have been going to the
Speaker 3: festival regular since we came down here.
Speaker 7: A fine actor, isn't he a shame they're getting such
Speaker 7: poor power. Imagine I'm letting that pricefl dads of grand
Speaker 7: play handle at last night while they's only played laoties.
Speaker 7: Hennis is three times a better actor. He's coaching me
Speaker 7: and acting. Oh yes, he thinks that I may be
Speaker 7: able to get small part here next season. I've always
Speaker 7: had a great edge to go on the stage, but
Speaker 7: no one's ever encouraged me before. Oh here's Jeffrey.
Speaker 8: This show is rather special. Doctor. Here is de la Frontier.
Speaker 2: Only a few bottles left.
Speaker 3: It's very nice of us.
Speaker 7: Let it not be Dennis. I've got let him in.
Speaker 6: We might just might as well have a drink. Your
Speaker 6: final will help making this actor fellow more tolerable.
Speaker 4: I take it, mister Markham, that you're not an admirer
Speaker 4: of mister Dennis Romney.
Speaker 6: He's always quoting Shakespeare and behaving generally as if he
Speaker 6: were another irving.
Speaker 2: He's got Alice completely fooled.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7: I want to introduce you to doctor Watson.
Speaker 3: How do you doing, mister Romney, how do you do? Sir?
Speaker 2: Hello, Jeffrey, Thanks, that would be very nice. Are you
Speaker 2: a disciple of the theater, doctor Watson?
Speaker 4: Well, hardly a the sile servant. I have been attending
Speaker 4: the festival during the last week. I enjoyed your performances
Speaker 4: at the men Stiff says.
Speaker 2: Oh you, mad doctor. Here's a sherry Dennis.
Speaker 7: Don't protty Jeffrey, and please with another. The Dennis is
Speaker 7: our guest.
Speaker 9: It's all right, Alice. I know that Jeffries bark is
Speaker 9: a good deal worse than his bike.
Speaker 3: And what play are you peering in tonight, mister Romney?
Speaker 9: King Lear, I shall once again portray the thankless role
Speaker 9: of the King of France.
Speaker 2: An incredibly bad actor.
Speaker 9: Battle Grant has a multitude of passions to tatters, and
Speaker 9: his rendition of Lear, oh horrible, horrible, most honorable.
Speaker 7: I thought he's cannon was atrocious last night.
Speaker 9: And it wasn't it When he came to his final line,
Speaker 9: the rest is silence was as much as I could
Speaker 9: do to prevent charing.
Speaker 8: I felt rather the same way when you were killed
Speaker 8: in the Jeweled.
Speaker 7: And it's Jeffy, you're being intolerably rude. Why don't you
Speaker 7: take doctor Watson upstairs and show him your butterfly collection.
Speaker 7: There at least you'll know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8: Interested in butterflies, doctor, I have quite a rare collection.
Speaker 3: Really, I like you very much.
Speaker 8: Morning.
Speaker 2: I think we just got time before lunch.
Speaker 7: Try and bring yourself down with a few better nanos.
Speaker 6: Jeffrey dear, I'm really quite an easy going man, doctor,
Speaker 6: But the arrogance that fellow Rodney infuriator, I.
Speaker 3: Must say it does seem have rather a good opinion
Speaker 3: of him. So don't don't.
Speaker 6: Put too much weight on that balcony rail. It's absolutely
Speaker 6: full of wormholes. Part of the attraction we know old house.
Speaker 6: My wife tells me that I regard it as confoundedly dangerous.
Speaker 8: And this is my little museum.
Speaker 6: In these cases, I think you'll find some of the
Speaker 6: finest specimens of lepid docter you've ever seen. It's my hobby,
Speaker 6: and I may say that with the exception of the
Speaker 6: natural History Museum.
Speaker 8: If you'll find a final collection.
Speaker 3: It must have taken you years to collect them.
Speaker 6: Murders, many years, many disappointments, and a great deal of patience.
Speaker 6: Look at this fellow, he is my priest specimen. A
Speaker 6: North American monarcy.
Speaker 3: North American mark, beautiful view.
Speaker 6: And this is an admiral, and it is a perfect
Speaker 6: bee hawk moth. And here's an emperor. Ever see more
Speaker 6: exquisite markings.
Speaker 4: Never tell me, mister Markham, when you capture the butterfly,
Speaker 4: how do you pull it without marking.
Speaker 3: It in any way with poison? Oh? What poison?
Speaker 8: Cyanide?
Speaker 3: Not arsenic? Are you?
Speaker 8: Let me say syni dot.
Speaker 4: That's the only reason I mentioned it isn't a friend
Speaker 4: of mine collected by the flies once, and I'm certain
Speaker 4: that he always used arsenic to kill him.
Speaker 6: Don't you keep talking abouarsenic. You're trying to hint at something.
Speaker 6: My dear fly is just curious at all. He is right,
Speaker 6: we're too curious. Perhaps there's the luncheon gong. Let's go downstairs,
Speaker 6: sum And I didn't mean to offend you, of course
Speaker 6: you didn't, But my nerves are a little on edge today.
Speaker 6: There must be that accident to your friend. That's upsetting.
Speaker 6: I really must get that balcony rail mended.
Speaker 8: Sh What is it, sir?
Speaker 2: My wife, young Robbie look mean duch. Listen, darling, why
Speaker 2: won't you understand?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 6: Doctor, they say that listeners never hear good of themselves.
Speaker 6: You know, sometimes I wonder if my wife wouldn't let
Speaker 6: me out of the way.
Speaker 8: And let's go down to lunch, Shelby.
Speaker 6: And so Holmes, that's the story up to now, really
Speaker 6: interesting one to Watson. So you think that missus Markham
Speaker 6: is planning to kill her husband name Well, it's obvious.
Speaker 4: She's in love with the actor Forll Dennis Romney. Her
Speaker 4: husband's in the way.
Speaker 3: And if she doesn't want to use poison.
Speaker 4: This time as a perfect setting for murder in that
Speaker 4: crumbling balustrade on the landing, one push when.
Speaker 3: He wasn't looking would be the end of him, and no.
Speaker 6: One could prove that you did a charming household. And
Speaker 6: mister Markham became very evasive, you say, when he wasn't arsenic.
Speaker 4: Yes, I said it to Liberty, of course, to see
Speaker 4: how he'd react if you ask me. He knows that
Speaker 4: his wife has asked to clars he was trying to
Speaker 4: protect her.
Speaker 6: If exerted your charms sufficiently were arranged to see them again,
Speaker 6: I'd try, Well, this is matterfa I have there.
Speaker 4: Taking a picnic key in going voting on the air
Speaker 4: from this afternoon, They aspittagem.
Speaker 3: Of course I agreed. We'll just rush back here to
Speaker 3: the hospital to talk to you first.
Speaker 2: You've got splended it. What'sn't sprended there?
Speaker 4: But I've been so busy to tell you what I've
Speaker 4: found out that I haven't asked you about you.
Speaker 6: And I feel my final flo what does the house
Speaker 6: surgeon discovered? And then the interesting fact? Look in the
Speaker 6: drawer beside my bed, will you.
Speaker 3: Great Scott it it's a.
Speaker 6: Bullet, a bullet that the house surgeon removed from my shoulder.
Speaker 3: But we found a bullet in the tree also.
Speaker 2: Precisely therefore two bullets were fired.
Speaker 3: But good lord, that mean it means old chapter.
Speaker 6: We have a dangerous task ahead of this, not to
Speaker 6: solve a murder, but to prevent one.
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Speaker 1: happened next? We left you at Sherlock Holmes bedside in
Speaker 1: the hospital. Did the picnic with mister and missus Markham
Speaker 1: prove an exciting one?
Speaker 6: No? No, it was rather thunpleasant. As a matter of fact.
Speaker 6: The three of them kept scrubbing all the time, and
Speaker 6: just as we were coming home, something unforeseen occurred. Mister
Speaker 6: Markham fell into the river.
Speaker 1: We'll pardon the old question, doctor, But did he fall
Speaker 1: or was he pushed?
Speaker 3: It's hard for me to say. I had my back
Speaker 3: to him when he fell.
Speaker 4: Of course, we fished him out and rattled him back
Speaker 4: home in the trap as fast as we could. He
Speaker 4: changed his clothes at once, and as we scround the
Speaker 4: file a little later, I could see if he caught
Speaker 4: a kill. In fact, I recommended that you go to
Speaker 4: bed and stare. Miss Markham agreed.
Speaker 7: Will yes, dear, I do wish you followed Doctor Watson
Speaker 7: to drive and go to bed.
Speaker 6: For the fifth time, Alice, I will not go to bed.
Speaker 6: I'm perfectly all right. No, it's not thanks to you
Speaker 6: and Dennis.
Speaker 2: What do you mean by that? From Mark? Jeffrey, you know.
Speaker 8: Perfectly well what I mean. It wasn't an accident that
Speaker 8: I fell in the river. Just now.
Speaker 6: One of you two pushed me when I was struggling
Speaker 6: with the pump hoole in the long read.
Speaker 7: Jeffy, your topic uppish am.
Speaker 3: I you were in the boat.
Speaker 8: Dr Watson didn't juice what happened?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't say my back returned to you when
Speaker 3: you fell in.
Speaker 6: Well, then we'll call it an accident, an accident that
Speaker 6: happened by a curious coincident, just where the river is
Speaker 6: deepest in the reeds, sittest.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey, I don't like your tone.
Speaker 9: You can accuse me of anything you like, but when
Speaker 9: you start suggesting that I don't like the way I
Speaker 9: talk to my wife.
Speaker 8: I suggested you don't come to my house and don't get.
Speaker 7: A scarf a'ntilly, doctor Watson, I I must apologize for
Speaker 7: my husband's behavior. I don't know what to come over.
Speaker 2: I quite understand what I wish I did.
Speaker 9: I don't mind yelling at me, but he's being so
Speaker 9: abominably rude to you, Alice.
Speaker 2: The last couple of weeks, it's been getting worse than
Speaker 2: ever I know.
Speaker 7: Ever since we had that argument about the insurance policies,
Speaker 7: he's been unbearable.
Speaker 3: Insurance.
Speaker 7: Yes, doctor, we took out quite large policies on each
Speaker 7: other's lives recently.
Speaker 2: You didn't tell me that, Alice.
Speaker 7: Well, it was his idea, and yet when the insurance
Speaker 7: then came here, you would have thought I was forcing
Speaker 7: him into taking out the policy.
Speaker 3: Insurance, great, Scott, are you what?
Speaker 2: Doctor?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 9: Nothing sounds as if you don't approve of insurance.
Speaker 2: Sir.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's not that rum there, and it's just that
Speaker 3: I can denby.
Speaker 7: I wasn't expecting anyone answer the door, Dennis.
Speaker 2: Will you as if Jeffer has already done so?
Speaker 8: Alice, we have a visitor Holmes.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't be up if you think missus Mackhalm.
Speaker 7: Hello Watson I'm delighted to see you, mister Holmes, so
Speaker 7: I under it stood to me, your friend, that you
Speaker 7: would be in the hospital for several days.
Speaker 6: Constitution of an ox and the obstinacy of a mule,
Speaker 6: two characteristics of mine, have combined in making possible an
Speaker 6: early departure from the hospital.
Speaker 2: How do you do, mister Rodney, I think I've seen
Speaker 2: you the theater? My name Michelle. Come, how do you do?
Speaker 3: So? You say?
Speaker 7: The supper?
Speaker 2: I hope if it's not inconvenient, missus Markham.
Speaker 3: Of course it.
Speaker 7: Isn't, I'll go in and arrange for it.
Speaker 3: Upon my soul homes. I'm glad to see you, and.
Speaker 2: Are you all?
Speaker 6: Let's take a stroll on the telet showing it's on
Speaker 6: the warm inside this evening.
Speaker 8: You can go out through the French windows.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you, Miss Malcolm.
Speaker 3: Oh are you quite sure? Joe well enough to go
Speaker 3: walking about.
Speaker 2: As I am?
Speaker 6: Miss Tommy Watson? What the latest developments are in the meantime,
Speaker 6: I myself have not been idle?
Speaker 2: Yes? What's in?
Speaker 6: I think our stage is said that I have a
Speaker 6: feeling that I make a tribute to a rather dramatic
Speaker 6: mass deck curtain.
Speaker 3: A delightful meal, Missus Markham, thank.
Speaker 7: You, doctor, mister Holmes. You're not eating very much.
Speaker 6: My appetite is de lightful, Jady is the mental fencing
Speaker 6: that we have indulged in during the meal has been
Speaker 6: somewhat disturbing.
Speaker 7: I don't understand you.
Speaker 2: Oh, come now, madam. I know that you were once
Speaker 2: Missus Gingerfield, and you know that I know it. Why
Speaker 2: I keep up the pretense any longer?
Speaker 7: Very well, mister Holmes, but we needn't converse in lower voices.
Speaker 7: I'm sure that you told doctor Watson whatever there is
Speaker 7: to know, and perhaps more.
Speaker 2: I admire your courage, Madam Jeffrey Dennis.
Speaker 7: I want you to listen to this. Missus Shellick. Holmes
Speaker 7: knows that I was once Missus Dangerfield. He's apparently under
Speaker 7: the impression that this is a dark secret of mine.
Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, Jeffrey knew and loved me before I ever
Speaker 7: married mister Dangerfield.
Speaker 2: Of course I did, Holmes.
Speaker 7: He stood by me during the horrible trial after my
Speaker 7: first husband's death, and I told Dennis about the whole
Speaker 7: miserable business months ago. So I really don't see that
Speaker 7: you've uncovered any great secrets yet.
Speaker 2: Missus Malcolm. But I have a feeling that it's only
Speaker 2: a matter of moments.
Speaker 8: So you haven't got any secrets from Tennessee though.
Speaker 7: Eh, no need to shot, Jeffrey.
Speaker 6: I don't need for Dennis to be in my house.
Speaker 6: Get out, Romney and stay out.
Speaker 8: This business between you and Alice has.
Speaker 3: Gone far enough.
Speaker 2: I'll go when Alice tells me to.
Speaker 6: Well, if you won't go, and I'm not going to
Speaker 6: sit here, I'm I'm going upstairs or shaking like.
Speaker 2: A leaf stair. You've got a fever, and don't you
Speaker 2: think you'd better go to bed?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 6: Need your own business, Believe missus Marcum, I really think
Speaker 6: you should persuade your husband to go upstairs and lie down.
Speaker 7: Don't wear in his homes. I know how to handle him.
Speaker 7: I'll take him up. Put an armor on my shoulder. Jeffrey,
Speaker 7: come along.
Speaker 3: We should follow them homes.
Speaker 4: They have to pass that crumbling banister on the landing
Speaker 4: with him in that stage, she might try to be suggestion.
Speaker 2: Not just come and watch both of you. You can
Speaker 2: observe them both from me. Put them stairs here.
Speaker 3: You're on the Mandy, she's on the outside. Look look, look, look,
Speaker 3: hor comes tumble against her.
Speaker 2: He's pushed against the railings. Look out, Alice, are you
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 8: And yet we try to push me through the railings.
Speaker 2: It isn't, sir. The three of us were watching it
Speaker 2: from below, but.
Speaker 3: For railing held I don't understand.
Speaker 2: I can explain that, Watson.
Speaker 3: This afternoon, while.
Speaker 6: You were all at your picnic, I came here with
Speaker 6: a local carpenter. You had informed your fellow that it
Speaker 6: was the maid's day off, and I took the liberty
Speaker 6: of reinforcing that decaying would work the places you think
Speaker 6: you've been up to home, preventing murders her and finding
Speaker 6: the true solution to the danger bill case.
Speaker 7: Do you mean me to hear the true solution?
Speaker 2: Surely it's obvious to you, missus Markham.
Speaker 6: We have told us that your present husband led you
Speaker 6: before you married as to dangerfield. Was he who accidentally
Speaker 6: killed your uncle so that you might inherit a fortune.
Speaker 2: It was he who accidentally gave.
Speaker 6: Your first husband an overnesse of arsenic arkednik that.
Speaker 2: He obtained for the purpose of destroying Butterfly.
Speaker 3: Who's here?
Speaker 4: You tried to send you to your death for pushing
Speaker 4: you through those railings and all the time.
Speaker 6: Missus Markham, I thought that you was the potential you
Speaker 6: fellows who got hold of the wrong end of the sick.
Speaker 6: All I've been trying to do is to seal the
Speaker 6: fact that my wife was a murderous shift.
Speaker 2: How can you see that and not too with him?
Speaker 3: Miss Talkers?
Speaker 6: All very dramatic, miss happens. But I wonder how you're
Speaker 6: going to be able to do wants. Mister Romney and
Speaker 6: I were testified to the attempt that you've just made
Speaker 6: on Missus Markham's life.
Speaker 3: Listen, what about the tempt on your life?
Speaker 4: Holmes opposite, it was Markham who fired at you in
Speaker 4: the woods, but my wife.
Speaker 8: Was already admitted firing the shot.
Speaker 3: Woos Her.
Speaker 2: But two shots were fired.
Speaker 6: The one that your wife fired we founded the tree.
Speaker 6: The one that you fired was extracted from my shoulder
Speaker 6: in the hospital, and.
Speaker 3: The two shots were fired simultaneously.
Speaker 6: You remember, Watson that I commented at the time on
Speaker 6: a curious echo, and Missus Markham told us that her
Speaker 6: arm was jilted as she pulled the trigger.
Speaker 2: That was when the other rifle was fired.
Speaker 6: Mister Markham didn't want me on the scene when he
Speaker 6: staged his latest accident, and so he tried to kill me.
Speaker 7: What kind of the devil if I been living with all.
Speaker 2: These years, I think I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 6: Welcome, kill your wife up and leave him to the
Speaker 6: love courts, mister Romney. British justice may be slow, as
Speaker 6: indeed was in the danger Field case, but in the
Speaker 6: long run it you're sure we'll find that out. Mister
Speaker 6: Markham on the gallows? Well tell me, doctor, did.
Speaker 2: Mister Markham finally end on the gallery?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: She did, And it might interest you to know that
Speaker 4: missus Markham and Dennis Romney were married.
Speaker 3: A nice chairpan and a fine act to that boy.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what I should have been, an actor to
Speaker 2: be or not to be? That is the question? Is
Speaker 2: no in the mind to suffer? What's the matter? Doctor?
Speaker 2: Don't you like it?
Speaker 4: Word's beautiful, but the delivery of them not good?
Speaker 3: Huh? Not good?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'd rather talk about pattere wine anyway.
Speaker 3: Now there's something to really talk about.
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Speaker 3: That's a fact.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The Petrie family started making Petrie wine generations ago, way
Speaker 1: back in the eighteen hundreds, so they've had the time
Speaker 1: to develop the art of wine making, and they've been
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Speaker 2: In those letters P. E. T. R.
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Speaker 2: It's got to be.
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Speaker 1: doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes story are you going
Speaker 1: to tell us next week?
Speaker 3: It's your next week, mister about him.
Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you an exciting adventure Holmes and
Speaker 4: I head in North Africa. It begins at the headquarters
Speaker 4: of the Foreign Legion and ends with a strange death
Speaker 4: in the cafe of a thousand size. I call the
Speaker 4: story Murder in the Casper.
Speaker 3: Tonight.
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes's adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
Speaker 1: and was suggested by an incident in the Miaster.
Speaker 2: Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The.
Speaker 1: Adventure of Black Peter Music, is by Dean Fosterling. Mister
Speaker 1: Rathborne appears through the courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and
Speaker 1: mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they
Speaker 1: are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petri
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