Speaker 1: And now for our weekly visit with the good doctor Watson.
Speaker 1: May I come in, doctor?
Speaker 2: You know me better than that.
Speaker 3: Of course you can come in.
Speaker 4: I'm expecting you.
Speaker 2: I always look forward to these Monday evenings together.
Speaker 4: You know me too, doctor.
Speaker 1: In fact, I always say, this is the one doctor's
Speaker 1: appointment that never scares me.
Speaker 3: My boy, you have to turn to make you so comfortable.
Speaker 1: Thanks, and what prescription do you have in mind for
Speaker 1: us tonight?
Speaker 3: Doctor?
Speaker 2: Let me see take one measure of subterranean peril, one
Speaker 2: of aristocratic lady in distress, a sprinkling of assorted villains,
Speaker 2: a corpse or two, and a little more than a
Speaker 2: dash of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Take the mixture well,
Speaker 2: and you have the case of the out of date murder?
Speaker 1: Or how did the adventure begin? Doctor?
Speaker 4: Was there enough?
Speaker 2: It was in September of nineteen hundred. I remember that
Speaker 2: Holmes and I went to Eastbourne for a much needed rest.
Speaker 2: First couple of days we spent in soothing idleness. On
Speaker 2: the morning of a third day, homes a dash of
Speaker 2: car back in his cheek and the hint of the
Speaker 2: old sparkle in his eye suggested that you should go
Speaker 2: and call on his good friend Evan Whitnell, curator of
Speaker 2: a nearby museum. And so just after lunch on that
Speaker 2: September day, found the two of us talking to Professor
Speaker 2: Evan Whitnell in his private office at the museum.
Speaker 4: It only seems, yet, with all your recent discoveries in
Speaker 4: this part of England have made you world famous instead
Speaker 4: of just nationally famous. My congratulations, professor, I do wish
Speaker 4: you tell me your discovery with pleasure to doctor Watson.
Speaker 4: There less than two months ago I was excavating on
Speaker 4: the Downlands in this neighborhood, when I was fortunate enough
Speaker 4: to discover a number of underground caves, caves saturated with
Speaker 4: a heavy deposit of line that gave clear evidence of
Speaker 4: having the property of rapidly mummifying any flesh human or
Speaker 4: animal deposited in them.
Speaker 2: Interesting. In what treasures have you unearthed?
Speaker 4: We are a number of mummified specimens of animals carely
Speaker 4: belonging to bygone eras. My prize specimen is the body
Speaker 4: of a large wolfhound. The inscription on its collar identified
Speaker 4: the animal as having belonged to some local squire in
Speaker 4: the year seventeen hundred and forty eight.
Speaker 5: Amazing.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that limestone has qualities of preservation.
Speaker 4: Come in, come in, yes, allan, what is it lady Clavering?
Speaker 3: Professor you asked me to tell you that she was
Speaker 3: in the museum.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, yes, sir, sure up here will you allan?
Speaker 4: Very good as God. I'm most anxious for you both
Speaker 4: to meet her, and she, in turn is even more
Speaker 4: anxious to meet you.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I dined with her last night. When I told her
Speaker 4: that you were coming here today, she insisted on meeting
Speaker 4: No wit.
Speaker 3: No use scoundaled with a twinkle in your eye.
Speaker 4: I suspect that Lady Clavering has yet consulted me in
Speaker 4: my professional capacity, and that you engineered the meeting. Perhaps
Speaker 4: I might have dropped a head.
Speaker 1: I own you.
Speaker 2: Professor Holmes can't become involved in another case.
Speaker 3: He's completely run down.
Speaker 4: Well, don't worry, doctor. All that Lady Clavering.
Speaker 3: Requires is a little advice.
Speaker 4: I knew you wouldn't mind. Homes Ah, helen and mind
Speaker 4: dear there you are, come along in, Thank you, Adam.
Speaker 4: Now need to introduce Lady Tlavin, Mister Sherlock Holmes, and
Speaker 4: doctor you are, my dear. Sit down here, I may
Speaker 4: as well tell you, Helena that our little pot has
Speaker 4: already been discovered.
Speaker 6: Oh, dear, and I was just getting ready to exert
Speaker 6: all my feminine wild in an attempt to persuade you
Speaker 6: to help me.
Speaker 2: Mister horn I'm certain that you find it ut irresistible.
Speaker 4: Lady Clavering, you flattened me.
Speaker 3: I mean it.
Speaker 4: The professor tells me that you're in need of a
Speaker 4: little advice, Lady Clapping.
Speaker 6: Yes, mister Holmes, I have my question Simply, five years ago,
Speaker 6: my husband, Sir George Clavering left me. This is me
Speaker 6: I haven't I've seen or heard tell him since I
Speaker 6: now wish to remarry, But of course I couldn't do
Speaker 6: that without having my husband declared legally.
Speaker 4: Did my dear Lady Clavering, I can't help dealing with
Speaker 4: the lawyer as the proper americansult not a detective.
Speaker 2: But you're suggesting that there was fould playing connection with
Speaker 2: your husband's disappearance.
Speaker 6: Oh no, doctor Watson. The Claverings are a strange family,
Speaker 6: self willed and headstrong. George and I were not happy together.
Speaker 6: I think he disappeared.
Speaker 4: Deliberately parted disappearance to the police. Of course, yes, mister Holmes.
Speaker 4: But they've never been able to trace him. This kind
Speaker 4: of thing has happened in the family before. Holmes tell
Speaker 4: him about Sir Nigel Helena.
Speaker 6: He was one of my husband's ancesters. He walked out
Speaker 6: one day in seventeen seventy seven was never.
Speaker 3: Seen again, disappearing.
Speaker 6: Knew the legend. They often threatened to do the same
Speaker 6: thing himself.
Speaker 4: But your problem, Lady Clavering, is not that of your
Speaker 4: husband's fate, but rather of your own freedom.
Speaker 6: Yes, mister her Well, I'm.
Speaker 4: Afraid my advice can be of little consolation to you.
Speaker 4: The law has specified a number of years that must
Speaker 4: have leaped before any one disappearing could be declared legally dead.
Speaker 4: I would suggest that you possess your soul in patience
Speaker 4: until that period has elapsed.
Speaker 6: Oh dear, and I was hoping you'll be able to
Speaker 6: think it's some terribly clever way of getting round the law, mister.
Speaker 4: Holmes, Lady Clavering, sometimes perhaps my methods may be unorthodox,
Speaker 4: but I assure you that getting around the law, as
Speaker 4: you put it, is a procedure.
Speaker 3: I do not indulge in.
Speaker 2: Oh dear me.
Speaker 6: I've oftend you miss your hon and it's the last
Speaker 6: thing on earth I meant to do. I was sure, my.
Speaker 2: Friends, a little touch about matters concerning his professional honor.
Speaker 3: Nonsense, my dear Watson, I'm not touching. I'm not offended.
Speaker 3: And now may I.
Speaker 4: Suggest we all examine the professor's made his treasures, and
Speaker 4: after that, perhaps you'll take us for a stroll on
Speaker 4: the downs. I'm most anxious to examine those lime pits
Speaker 4: of his. The lime pits are about a mile from here.
Speaker 4: It's a nice walk across the cliptops.
Speaker 2: I'm final, Little Curring didn't want to come with us,
Speaker 2: this charming woman, even though though she did rub you
Speaker 2: up the wrong way.
Speaker 4: A beautiful woman, Watson, but I must confess her charm
Speaker 4: and mute me alext concern about her husband's fate seemed
Speaker 4: completely unnatural and not if you'd known her husband, Sir
Speaker 4: George Tavern. He was a tyrant and a bullet, both
Speaker 4: in his whole life and in the village.
Speaker 3: Well, who's this coming towards us?
Speaker 4: It's air Timmy death Timmy, they call him in these parts.
Speaker 4: He isn't quite right in the head, poor fellow, but
Speaker 4: he's perfectly harmssed. Has two passions in life, birds and bonfires.
Speaker 5: Hello, Timmy, I've got something beautiful to show you.
Speaker 4: Oh it's so beautiful. Well what is it, Timmy? Look
Speaker 4: it's in my camp. See.
Speaker 5: Oh, isn't it lovely?
Speaker 3: Robin's egg?
Speaker 5: I found it when I was burn nesting. Did you
Speaker 5: ever see such a blue egg?
Speaker 3: It's beauty to me?
Speaker 2: Where did you find it?
Speaker 5: Mama?
Speaker 4: Gone by the line?
Speaker 3: Bits. Oh, I'm going to build.
Speaker 5: A lovely fire on the tonight. I'll let you come
Speaker 5: and watch it if you give me a shilling.
Speaker 4: Now, you'll be careful, Timmy, or you'll be in trouble again.
Speaker 5: Timmy doesn't get in trouble anymore now, not since he
Speaker 5: has George carried away.
Speaker 4: So George Tavern used to Timmy when he found him
Speaker 4: on the land. Timmy, tell me, how did you have,
Speaker 4: sir George, as you put it, carried away?
Speaker 5: I told my birds about him. I told them how
Speaker 5: he used to to beat poor Timmy. And they said
Speaker 5: they'd carry him off and drop him over the cliffs.
Speaker 5: And that's what they did, because he never came back again.
Speaker 4: Oh Lord, here comes Harris Gordos.
Speaker 1: Brother.
Speaker 4: Now there'll be trouble, Timmy. You've got a run, no, Timmy,
Speaker 4: CON's run.
Speaker 3: Her bread is pretty blue.
Speaker 4: Eh, Kenny, get off my land. I catch you here again.
Speaker 3: I'll take my riding.
Speaker 5: Timmy hasn't done anything.
Speaker 4: On beyond you.
Speaker 1: You're here.
Speaker 4: I'll tell my birds about you. That's what I'll do. Book,
Speaker 4: don't forget my bunfire Bernald's scoundrel.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Harry.
Speaker 4: Have you met Shlock Holmes and Dr Watson? Oh? Sherlock
Speaker 4: Holmes the professional nosey Parker.
Speaker 3: Eh, yes, yes, Helen. I was just telling me about you.
Speaker 4: I'm very angry with her, but talking to you about
Speaker 4: my brother private affair.
Speaker 3: And I intended to remain one understand.
Speaker 2: He pull myself.
Speaker 3: What's double with your brother, sir?
Speaker 4: And with you? I'd advise you to remember that you're
Speaker 4: not addressing a half witted village.
Speaker 3: Oh can't defend himself. If you know what's good for you,
Speaker 3: you'll do what I say.
Speaker 2: Certman Bruce, he spoke to you if you were stable
Speaker 2: by home.
Speaker 3: He was quite refreshing.
Speaker 4: I'm reminded of an opposite quotation of my young friend
Speaker 4: James l Roy Flecker, dying impudence, have a monstrous beauty,
Speaker 4: like in the behind quarters of an elephant. He's almost
Speaker 4: as much disliked as his brother of the poem tell
Speaker 4: me you, does he succeed to the title when his
Speaker 4: brother is the care legally dead. Yes, and what's more,
Speaker 4: he's Helena's unofficial can't say it worse luck I see. Personally,
Speaker 4: I'm beginning to get a trifle board with the affairs
Speaker 4: of the Clapping family.
Speaker 3: Let's go on to the line case showing these caves
Speaker 3: are amazing.
Speaker 2: It must be fifty people on the level of the ground.
Speaker 3: Aren't we not?
Speaker 4: Well? More than that, I should say formation, it's most
Speaker 4: unusual a series of caves connected by a vertical honeycomber tunnel. Yes,
Speaker 4: I think i'll light the lantern now. It's to be
Speaker 4: dark in here. And I haven't explored this particular cave before,
Speaker 4: and so I got a wall cave in on me
Speaker 4: a couple of times. So you'd better watch where you're walking. Ye,
Speaker 4: Now we can see better. Let's go deeper, shall we?
Speaker 3: But do watch your stirf hmm?
Speaker 4: Given here and now.
Speaker 3: What does the courage yet.
Speaker 2: Looks like a mummified bird of some kind.
Speaker 4: It is a beautiful specimen, judging by its markings of
Speaker 4: black streak here and bars white.
Speaker 3: Author said with a pelgree.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what it is. A falcon taking back a
Speaker 4: couple of hundred years, I should say, and in a
Speaker 4: perfect state of preservation. This is a treasure. But come on,
Speaker 4: let's explore.
Speaker 2: Deeper another cave over here, old land and have a
Speaker 2: little old Oh.
Speaker 3: Lord, the whole wall collapse? What's never hurt?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: How? Time?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Why you run earthed another cave? Dr Watson less coda.
Speaker 4: I think we can just manage to call through.
Speaker 3: Right color. I don't believe mind quick, this is a pressure. Indeed,
Speaker 3: I don't think it preserved.
Speaker 4: Body dressed in aching sentory costume putteed with him all yes,
Speaker 4: and there's no mistaking who it is at that typical reap. Profially,
Speaker 4: it's a Clavering and it isn't hard to identify which
Speaker 4: one do you mean? The one the lady Helen had
Speaker 4: told us about this afternoon. Exactly without doubt, this is
Speaker 4: the body of Sir Nigel Clavering, who disappeared in seventeen
Speaker 4: hundred and seventy seven. Let's search his pocket through my
Speaker 4: crime has some identification. He has a stop box of
Speaker 4: the period and some coins.
Speaker 2: The inscription of George the third is still visible on them. Hello,
Speaker 2: here's here's his Dirrey. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: What are you up to, homes but examining the body, Watson,
Speaker 3: This man was murdered, murdered.
Speaker 4: This wound just about the hut, obviously inflicted with a
Speaker 4: sharp instrument poppaper dagger. This is interesting, an italed you
Speaker 4: experience for me, the opportunity of solving an unsuspected murder committed.
Speaker 3: Well over one hundred years ago. Fan that die watch
Speaker 3: when he won't check. Let's see if the part devil suspected.
Speaker 4: His feed m.
Speaker 2: Hard to read.
Speaker 4: All the essays look like the peaciliarity of the eighteen
Speaker 4: century writing.
Speaker 2: They are paying saying they are paying in the coffee half.
Speaker 2: But my brother Harry have been coverting my wife.
Speaker 4: This is amazing. See how history repeats itself. It's an
Speaker 4: exact parallel of the situation existing today. Harry is coverting
Speaker 4: his father's wife Helena, and Sir George has not been
Speaker 4: seen for hid.
Speaker 3: One extronic instance if it were one.
Speaker 4: As it is, it's one of the most ingenious frauds
Speaker 4: I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Dolding appears authentic.
Speaker 4: Sort of the coins and made the ink the paper
Speaker 4: of the dari and due to the peculiar mummification of
Speaker 4: the body, it would be almost impossible to say how
Speaker 4: long it's been here. Nonetheless, I'm convinced that this is
Speaker 4: a recent cause, and undoubtedly that of Sir George Tavern.
Speaker 3: What makes you so sure?
Speaker 4: How writing the diary it can century used an S
Speaker 4: it looks like an F. It is true, But never
Speaker 4: at the end of the word you will recall Watson
Speaker 4: that you were reading H A F half or H
Speaker 4: A S hand that's perfect the two I was, well,
Speaker 4: that would be incorrect in genuine eighteenth century writing.
Speaker 3: Now, obviously this is an extremely clever.
Speaker 4: Attempt to disguise the comparatively recent murder of Sir George Flavering.
Speaker 3: It's an incredible pose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe you're right. I'm sure of it.
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 4: Do you and I?
Speaker 3: Al Chapel have gone over the body? You, my dear,
Speaker 3: with all if you don't mind, will be good enough
Speaker 3: to go to catch the police. Homes God Jack, what
Speaker 3: are you supposed to keeping the police?
Speaker 4: Witnow must have gone over and now the lantern with him.
Speaker 2: Here we are clutching the darkness, smelly cave to pick
Speaker 2: it under the cliffs to the monified corps.
Speaker 1: Who I do?
Speaker 4: Ahh, Here comes Alund to mister.
Speaker 3: W I'm the pacho.
Speaker 4: That you.
Speaker 2: That's blinding me.
Speaker 1: That doctor Watson's story will continue in just a second,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to take that second to ask you
Speaker 1: what you think of when I.
Speaker 4: Say good food. When you say good food.
Speaker 1: To me, I can see myself really going down on
Speaker 1: a piece of fried chicken, but really fried, you know,
Speaker 1: crisp and sort of a light brown. When I see
Speaker 1: that chicken, I sure want to see some Petri Kelli
Speaker 1: so turned, because, believe me, Petree so Turned, there is
Speaker 1: a white wine that's the wine for chicken. That Petrie
Speaker 1: so turn has a delicate kind of flavor, delicate like
Speaker 1: its pale gold colored. What a flavor?
Speaker 4: What a wine?
Speaker 1: If you want to swell white wine, you certainly want
Speaker 1: Petree so Turned try it and see. And now back
Speaker 1: to doctor Watson and tonight's story, the case of the
Speaker 1: out of date murder. Well, doctor you certainly had me
Speaker 1: on the edge of my chair during the first part
Speaker 1: of the story. Say what happened when Sherlock Holmes yelled
Speaker 1: out at you in the.
Speaker 2: Can I was struck from behind with a spade and
Speaker 2: knocked out. A second later, the same thing happened to homes.
Speaker 2: You see, we were blinded by the lantern and couldn't
Speaker 2: protect ourselves. When we came to, we found we were
Speaker 2: at the bottom of a pit. The wolvesman thatwin butt con.
Speaker 3: I saw no earthly way about getting out of the
Speaker 3: trap but his usual home. It's robbing.
Speaker 4: Never mind that for the moment or chat put the
Speaker 4: coat off and the shirt come on off with it.
Speaker 4: I've already removed and I and tied them together. Oh
Speaker 4: dear me, that blow on your head must have been
Speaker 4: unusually the year.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to make a kind of rope wots in
Speaker 3: a rope to get us out of here.
Speaker 2: Someone on the ledge of bobus to hold us up.
Speaker 2: Still think you've performed in the Indian rope tree.
Speaker 3: There's no time for your rather heavy handed you are.
Speaker 4: Why do you keep whistling out there?
Speaker 2: You've been doing it for about twenty minute.
Speaker 3: I'm whistling for help.
Speaker 4: Why not shout whistle carries burgh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's gonna hear that?
Speaker 4: That to me?
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 4: Remember he was having a bonfire on the tip top night.
Speaker 4: I whistle as that a nightingale, a song unheard in
Speaker 4: Susset this time of the year, does answered.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it'll bring him down here.
Speaker 2: I hope you are right.
Speaker 3: It seems to me that.
Speaker 2: Whit please will never find us here. We shall mammify,
Speaker 2: just as a filty murderer intends kill carriage.
Speaker 4: What it's worked.
Speaker 3: It's Timmy getting a burning log.
Speaker 4: But I'm here, Tony, I can jail.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Burn down there, Timmy. I've tied these clothes together to
Speaker 4: make a rope. I'm gonna throw them up, ready to catch.
Speaker 6: Bird.
Speaker 5: He's called it.
Speaker 4: Jimmy, lower it to us. Oh I shouldn't do this.
Speaker 4: They'll whip me.
Speaker 3: No, no, nobody will with you.
Speaker 4: Timmy, and we both want to give you a shilling
Speaker 4: to come up and see your bunker.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, that's different.
Speaker 4: Two shiny shillings. Hill lower the rope. There comes h.
Speaker 3: You purson.
Speaker 4: Oh right, Jimmy, pull away, there you go, splend it.
Speaker 3: I'm a pump a you all right, I got it.
Speaker 4: I got com ah ah, thank goodness.
Speaker 2: We've got out of that place, all right.
Speaker 5: I don't see the nightingale. Oh you must have him
Speaker 5: inside your coat. Well, well, never mind, we'll all go
Speaker 5: up to my bonfire.
Speaker 4: And get warm. It's such a pretty bonfire. Did you
Speaker 4: ever see a finer bonfire?
Speaker 6: Never?
Speaker 3: To me, it's lovely comforting inside.
Speaker 2: I've seen the last couple of.
Speaker 4: Hours just one thing's battle.
Speaker 5: Somebody tried to burn a book in my lovely fire.
Speaker 5: Must have been and I was off getting more wood.
Speaker 5: I found it when I came back, and I pulled
Speaker 5: it out of the fire and stamped on it.
Speaker 4: See here it is, Hello. It's the guy that we
Speaker 4: found on the body in the lime pits, precisely, Watson.
Speaker 3: Now I begin to see daylight.
Speaker 4: People shouldn't burn books. Books are nice. Books are like
Speaker 4: birds and bonfires, but then.
Speaker 3: Nice to be near.
Speaker 4: Oh God, lighting game must be called. I get some
Speaker 4: more twisted burn.
Speaker 2: That fellow's gone away for a moment. I can see
Speaker 2: why we'll retep tonight. Murmurer knew that we were going
Speaker 2: to the cave. He was afraid that his devilish plot
Speaker 2: wouldn't stand up under your scout.
Speaker 3: New so he watched it.
Speaker 2: When we discovered the body and sent whitt a lot
Speaker 2: to the police.
Speaker 4: He knew he'd gotta get rid of us.
Speaker 3: And who do you think that's somebody is odor?
Speaker 5: Well, that's easy.
Speaker 2: Any one pusts fall enough to not just poised out
Speaker 2: and shifted our bodies the gad, Sir George's brother, hurry.
Speaker 3: Clavering, I think servis. We entered the caves, the pick
Speaker 3: axes and wheelbarrows were much in evidence. That's right they were.
Speaker 3: Strength was not required under the circumstances.
Speaker 4: We were extremely vulnerable in the darkness. Any man with
Speaker 4: a modigamuth cunning could have disposed of us, or any
Speaker 4: woman for that.
Speaker 3: Good lord, you're you're not suggesting that?
Speaker 4: Oh no, why your favor? I've had the police with me.
Speaker 4: We'll ask time if we couldn't find you. He went by.
Speaker 3: I left true with no.
Speaker 4: I want you in the police to take me to
Speaker 4: Lady Tavering's house at once. After that, I wished to
Speaker 4: lodge information and make a charge of assault and possibly
Speaker 4: a charge of murder. And that's, Lady Calavering, is the
Speaker 4: story of how we found your husband's body.
Speaker 3: Horrible, hor much.
Speaker 4: Whoins thunder could have planned such a devilish plot? Why
Speaker 4: did the murder attack you? And Watson?
Speaker 3: There, my dear, But no, you have the key to
Speaker 3: the murder identity.
Speaker 4: The man who so cunningly conceived and executed the murder
Speaker 4: of Sir George could never have bungled the job of
Speaker 4: disposing of Watson and myself unless he had meant to
Speaker 4: bungle it.
Speaker 3: You mean he didn't mean to kill it exactly. He
Speaker 3: merely wished us out of the way while the incriminating
Speaker 3: evidence was removed. You mean the d of course I do.
Speaker 4: You will recall we found it partially burnt in Timmy's bonfire.
Speaker 3: It was Timmy. No, no, no, my dear fellow.
Speaker 4: Surely it's obvious one person and only one. You the
Speaker 4: Padari was the key to the murder's identity. The man
Speaker 4: who was present when we discovered it and detected.
Speaker 3: The floor, Great Scott, Professor Whitnock Witnell, You murdered my brother,
Speaker 3: heaven you?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I did it because I love you, Helenah.
Speaker 4: All these years, There's been nothing in my life that
Speaker 4: meant anything but you. How could I thought that, if
Speaker 4: George were out of the way, I could make you
Speaker 4: care for me. And when I realized that you loved Harry,
Speaker 4: I I was mad with jealousy. So I planned to
Speaker 4: conceal George's body forever. It was a rover plan, you
Speaker 4: said to yourself, Holmes hadn't been for you. But work, yes,
Speaker 4: but diabolically clever withdre But I'm afraid that no amount
Speaker 4: of levin is now can prevent you from paying for
Speaker 4: your crime. Sir George, I suggest that you instruct the
Speaker 4: police to come in. Our work is done.
Speaker 2: Look there on the point, him is Banfi, still burning away.
Speaker 3: Him is a simple fellow with simple tastes. Why are
Speaker 3: you so gloomy? You saw the case presently, my.
Speaker 4: Fellow, my feek in human nature has been said, is
Speaker 4: shaken all heaven. Whit More was a good friend and
Speaker 4: an old one heart instrumental in sending him.
Speaker 3: To the gallows richly deserves it. I know it is.
Speaker 3: That's quite true, But it's depressing just the same. Come
Speaker 3: on continue. I walk home across the downs, her offering
Speaker 3: you a fee?
Speaker 4: Did you take it? No? I didn't, But I did
Speaker 4: accept his offer of an acre of land on the
Speaker 4: downs Over there, near the abbey ruins. You can see
Speaker 4: them silhouetted against.
Speaker 3: The sky, naked plan. What on earth would you do
Speaker 3: with that?
Speaker 4: Well? When I retire, and I shall retire, soon. I've
Speaker 4: often thought of bee far. This would be a heavenless
Speaker 4: part for such a venture.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine you be keeper.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 3: After a life spent on raveling the tangled affairs of human.
Speaker 4: Beings, it would be soothing in the twilight of one's
Speaker 4: days to study the exact and predictable behavior.
Speaker 3: Of bees, singing masons building roofs of gold. Oh well,
Speaker 3: one day, perhaps, perhaps one day