Speaker 1: And now I'm sure Doctor Watson's waiting for us, so
Speaker 1: let's drop in and see.
Speaker 2: Good evening, doctor.
Speaker 3: Mister Botel drow up your usual chair.
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: Did you enjoy the Christmas holidays?
Speaker 1: Well I've I've had a whale of a time, thank you,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I can face a turkey or
Speaker 1: immense pie for at least another year.
Speaker 2: How about you?
Speaker 3: Doctor boy had a very pleasant week too, My boy
Speaker 3: Pocky visitors a fettering number of Christmas messages to be answered.
Speaker 2: I say, you got a new pipe? Is that a
Speaker 2: Christmas present?
Speaker 5: You pipe?
Speaker 3: You tobacco pouch and a pound of my favorite tobacco,
Speaker 3: all of them sent me from London bin old pounds
Speaker 3: and a friend of mine to Ian.
Speaker 2: Dunbar, no client.
Speaker 1: Huh, Well do you mean he was one of your patients?
Speaker 1: Or was he someone that you and the Great Sherlock
Speaker 1: Holm's health.
Speaker 6: The letter mister bout.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, it was receiving this gift
Speaker 3: that reminded me of the I've decided to tell you
Speaker 3: tonight the history in which Ian Dunbar played.
Speaker 5: A prominent fut And how did it begin.
Speaker 3: The day before New Year's even eighteen hundred and nine
Speaker 3: to nine, Charlock Holmes and I sat in opposite corners
Speaker 3: of a first class world carriage. We sped towards Edinburgh
Speaker 3: in the Flying Scotch.
Speaker 2: What's that you and Sherlock Horn's up there? Doctor? It
Speaker 2: started off as a holiday business battle.
Speaker 3: My old friends of Water Dunbar asked Homes and me
Speaker 3: to spend a few days with him at Dunbar Castle,
Speaker 3: about twenty miles outside Edinburgh. After we left King's Cross Station, Holmes,
Speaker 3: his sharp, eager face framed in his dear'stocking cap, dipped
Speaker 3: into the bundle of fresh papers and she bought with him.
Speaker 3: We left Bedford far behind us before he thrashed the
Speaker 3: last one of them under the seat, leaned across and
Speaker 3: offered me his cigar.
Speaker 2: Careless Garb's no go hullo.
Speaker 5: I'll stick to the pipe. Flying Scotsman's living up to
Speaker 5: its name, and they're going splendidly. Half person put his
Speaker 5: three and a half miles an hour.
Speaker 2: Oh, I hadn't noticed the quarter mile phone.
Speaker 5: Nor have I, but the telegraph posts on this line
Speaker 5: sixty yards a path the aid of a watch. The
Speaker 5: calculation is a simple one. What's my death alone. We
Speaker 5: have several hours ahead of us. Now, tell me more
Speaker 5: about Walter Dunbar. I have a feeling that he's in
Speaker 5: some kind of trouble if you haven't wanted to talk
Speaker 5: about him.
Speaker 3: It's not executive trouble homes. But there's a strange problem
Speaker 3: that confronts the Dunbar the problem that will be settled
Speaker 3: at midnight tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: A few years even he is exactly.
Speaker 3: But to really appreciate the story, I have to begin
Speaker 3: by telling you the death of old Sir Thomas Dunbar,
Speaker 3: the father of the present. He was severely wounded in Waterloo,
Speaker 3: though he managed to last that long enough to get
Speaker 3: back to Dunbar Castle. The story goes that as he
Speaker 3: lay there on his death said, he told his wife
Speaker 3: of his plans.
Speaker 7: Yeah, didn't agree of last touched the baronetcy home from Waterloo.
Speaker 7: But if I wound as well, I'm not afraid to die.
Speaker 7: How that? See the child you bear? So what will
Speaker 7: Scott know? Coming here? Hey, Jenny, he visit the death
Speaker 7: bed of his old friend.
Speaker 8: Who's there?
Speaker 6: Don't you send him a doc? Alright?
Speaker 5: It's me.
Speaker 7: I'm leaving an unborn sound behind me when I die now,
Speaker 7: I don't trust women or children or thanks for that matter.
Speaker 7: Put the best part in the wealth of gold in
Speaker 7: the big iron box you'll find under the bed. The
Speaker 7: money is there.
Speaker 8: I am something else for rainy day.
Speaker 7: You have to keep that boxing trust for me. Sunday
Speaker 7: you can turn it down to my boy and the
Speaker 7: New Year's Eve before his twenty first birthday, and he'll
Speaker 7: be a man and wise.
Speaker 8: Enough to know how to use it.
Speaker 7: Do you understand, Sunday rights, I suppose your burn's.
Speaker 2: A girl girl.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you it'll be a boy, and we'll name
Speaker 8: him Walter, my good friend, so Scott.
Speaker 5: Any interesting story, Watson, And that child, of course, is
Speaker 5: the gentleman we are going to see now. So wata done?
Speaker 6: Bar exactly?
Speaker 5: And the first Daronet was a friend of Sawalter Scott,
Speaker 5: while his son convosed to your acquaintance my a family singular,
Speaker 5: rich and literary friendship.
Speaker 3: And it's not going to pull it home.
Speaker 8: Continue.
Speaker 3: I suppose you can guess what happened. Thomas Keff drew
Speaker 3: up a document of stressify the New Year's Eve before
Speaker 3: the baronet's.
Speaker 5: Twenty first birthday, and the poor child was born on
Speaker 5: purpose spenty ninth the leap year some fours, and Walter
Speaker 5: is waiting for his arm box for a goal. He'll
Speaker 5: be eighty four next year, and yet legally with only
Speaker 5: one birthday every four years and the eyes below.
Speaker 6: Twenty one.
Speaker 5: Most amusing situation, though I'm afraid Sir Walter finds it
Speaker 5: far from entertaining. The lawyers must have been extremely scrupulous
Speaker 5: and abiding by the letter of the document.
Speaker 3: Who standing Burdock is dead now? Of course that he
Speaker 3: too is a great grandson, William Murdock, who still handles
Speaker 3: the Dunbar estate. You'll meet the castle tonight to formally
Speaker 3: hand over.
Speaker 6: The iron buck.
Speaker 5: I'm delighted to accept the holiday importation, said Walter. My
Speaker 5: dear fellow, I've needed a rest, but I've always loathed
Speaker 5: two strict the ones. This situation may pose a nice
Speaker 5: little problem from me problem. Yes, I'm reasonably certain the
Speaker 5: agents of water Dunbar will get his iron box full
Speaker 5: of gold on this New Year's Eve. There, but we
Speaker 5: will be old bellow.
Speaker 9: We shall see.
Speaker 2: Doctor Watson. I'm glad to see you and mister Holmes
Speaker 2: here at the castle.
Speaker 3: Thank you, my boy Holmes. This is Ian Dunbar. The
Speaker 3: Walters trends.
Speaker 5: How do you do, mister dun Dune.
Speaker 2: I'm very proud to meet you, mister Holmes, I've heard.
Speaker 1: All about you.
Speaker 2: My grandfather will be down in a few moments. Let's
Speaker 2: go into the library, shall we.
Speaker 3: I imagine the world is quite excited about.
Speaker 2: That term, isn't he? Wouldn't you be if you'd waited
Speaker 2: sixty three years too long for an inheritance? Thank the Lord.
Speaker 2: I had the force to be born on the Prosaic
Speaker 2: day in August and twenty first.
Speaker 5: You're going to be your grandfather of death. You were
Speaker 5: be the next bannonet a Jacob.
Speaker 2: Yes, mister Holmes. You see my father was killed two
Speaker 2: months ago at Mappick.
Speaker 3: Yes, if I read about it in the papers, my boy,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna sorry.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Doctor.
Speaker 2: The opening of the box isn't going to be the
Speaker 2: only ceremony at midnight. Dorothy and I are announcing an engagement.
Speaker 2: Dorothy Dorothy Small. He and her father are staying here too,
Speaker 2: My congratulations.
Speaker 3: Yes, is indeed here indeed, mane too.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's it's in christ battle with a paddle.
Speaker 2: He's a businessman and isn't impressed with titles. When he
Speaker 2: ant accompanied by a suitable income. But when we told
Speaker 2: him about the inheritance, Peter lented and gave his consent. Ah,
Speaker 2: here's Dorothy, now, Dorothy Darling, I want you to meet
Speaker 2: two friends of mine, mister Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: How do how do you have?
Speaker 1: Small?
Speaker 2: How are you, my dear?
Speaker 3: From what this young man's been telling you? The congratulations
Speaker 3: in order thank you?
Speaker 10: I finally persuaded father that Ian would make away the
Speaker 10: sun in law. For a while, I was afraid we'd
Speaker 10: have to look to greet the bean leave in a
Speaker 10: cottage on bread and cheese and law, and raise the
Speaker 10: parental rash, just as they do in the story book.
Speaker 5: Oh so, Walter, there you are. What my dear boy,
Speaker 5: how are you?
Speaker 11: And this must for your friends?
Speaker 5: How do you do about that?
Speaker 12: We're a well for a young nigher who'll be twenty
Speaker 12: one at midnight?
Speaker 11: Oh, gentlemen, may I introduce mister Herbert.
Speaker 6: Smile.
Speaker 3: I believe that we have congratulated you on the engagement.
Speaker 5: Of your daughter.
Speaker 11: Hmmm. That was the pose to remain a secret until midnight.
Speaker 11: The dunbar Bart was finally out in law. Dinna be
Speaker 11: Ger out to you Herbert.
Speaker 12: The children are in law and I'm going to settle
Speaker 12: money on Ian and it's.
Speaker 2: New Year's egon.
Speaker 12: Let's enter into the spirit of the occasion. Bringote the
Speaker 12: glasses in. I've had some bottles of my special pride.
Speaker 12: It's not highest port in Scotland. The cream of Dunbar
Speaker 12: laid the first bottle down the year before it was born,
Speaker 12: and the drink of the brew will surely warm the cockers.
Speaker 11: You have my mouse working your will, Wolters, where is
Speaker 11: this a lawyer? Fellow, Young Murdoch, any care any moment.
Speaker 12: As soon as he arrives dinner that will be ready
Speaker 12: for the evening ceremony.
Speaker 5: You're bringing the famous iron box with him some water.
Speaker 12: If he doesn't, they won't get any dinner homes in past.
Speaker 6: The glasses are on.
Speaker 11: My by Ah, there you are believe. Oh you've got
Speaker 11: the box. We see now the party is complete.
Speaker 6: Let means to reduce you.
Speaker 11: It's Small, her father, mister Small, my grandson Ian. You know,
Speaker 11: Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson.
Speaker 12: I laid, Sir Walter, my train was delayed. Oh that's
Speaker 12: all right, my doc. You're here and you brought the box.
Speaker 11: That's all that matters.
Speaker 3: Here you are, young lawyer, a drink here, I'll help
Speaker 3: you for it. I must say that this is our
Speaker 3: exciting arms of famous iron box with its inheritance of gold.
Speaker 5: Yes, and from the size of the box of the
Speaker 5: rough yes, as you estimate it's cubic content in gold,
Speaker 5: if around five thousand pounds. It's not about some have
Speaker 5: to a businessman like mister Small, but a windfall to
Speaker 5: an impecuniar Scotch that I will do a strong young man, mister.
Speaker 3: Murdoch, I'd have mean strong hum.
Speaker 2: A box that signs.
Speaker 5: Full of golden sovereigns would weigh considerable a mount, And
Speaker 5: yet the lawyer carried it single handed.
Speaker 12: No, that we're all assembled, I'm going to proposal to
Speaker 12: don't still some ores off yet, let's drink.
Speaker 11: The new year means a lot to some others. Nineteen
Speaker 11: we should.
Speaker 13: Chose more than just nineteen hundreds of water. We should
Speaker 13: drink to the new century that's about to begin.
Speaker 2: But I did.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid that wouldn't be quite appropriate.
Speaker 6: Miss moll.
Speaker 3: The accurate The twentieth century won't begin until January the first,
Speaker 3: nineteen hundred and one, not nineteen hundred.
Speaker 1: Of course that's it, do they. I'm afraid your wedding
Speaker 1: can't take place some.
Speaker 13: Time yet, father, What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: I read an article The God and the other day
Speaker 1: that said just the same thing as you, doctor Watson.
Speaker 1: And what's more, it said something even more important. It said,
Speaker 1: the nineteen hundred is not a lypia.
Speaker 11: Rubbish sleepier comes every four years.
Speaker 12: There was one in eighteen ninety six, and obviously nineteen
Speaker 12: hundred is one.
Speaker 2: I think mister Small may be right, But you say,
Speaker 2: mister Wuce.
Speaker 5: You know well. I hope no one would bring up
Speaker 5: this point. But it's the little problem I referred to
Speaker 5: on the train.
Speaker 6: My dear, what would remember Wales?
Speaker 11: For Heaven's sake?
Speaker 6: Answer?
Speaker 12: He is nineteen hundred of the leap heer or no,
Speaker 12: I'm afraid it's not so.
Speaker 5: No, because of a slight imbalance that would otherwise and
Speaker 5: be produced in the calendar of the even century years,
Speaker 5: only those divisible by four hundred are leap yeers. In
Speaker 5: other words, sixteen hundred was alypier. The year two thousand
Speaker 5: will be a lypyer. But eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred
Speaker 5: are not sleepiers.
Speaker 12: Then you have no birthday next year, so Walter, and
Speaker 12: I'm afraid I can't open the bux.
Speaker 13: Tonight and the dunbars won't get their enhaitans.
Speaker 1: You, my dear, don't marry for a few four years
Speaker 1: if I won't alive with marya pauper.
Speaker 2: Mister Hormes, he is sure of your fact.
Speaker 5: I'm very much afraid that I am. Man.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is terrible. I can of stund anymore.
Speaker 5: And don't take it too bad to swalder.
Speaker 6: Here here, drink this.
Speaker 11: It.
Speaker 5: After all, you only have to wait in a four years.
Speaker 12: Another four years at my age, young man, at my age,
Speaker 12: I shall never.
Speaker 7: Live that long.
Speaker 5: Hey, what is it?
Speaker 6: Angus miserable meal home?
Speaker 3: The wolter who's gone to his room, The young lovers,
Speaker 3: Andre Milli and Tiers, the small and the lower murder seemed.
Speaker 6: To be positively gloating.
Speaker 5: Yes, and the atmosphere which welcome the new year. But
Speaker 5: let us at least make the best of it. I
Speaker 5: think I'll go and have a talk with sir Walter,
Speaker 5: and you might get you up. Why not try and
Speaker 5: cheer up the young folks, and of your experiences in India,
Speaker 5: it's quite.
Speaker 6: Join you in the library.
Speaker 2: Call me a few if you want me.
Speaker 3: Ah, there you are, my dews, all alone in front
Speaker 3: of the fire.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid we are not in very good spirits.
Speaker 6: Oh nevertheless, I'll sit down here and join you if
Speaker 6: you don't mind.
Speaker 3: Misery loves company.
Speaker 13: You know, so very kind of. I was just trying
Speaker 13: to persuade the end alope with me. But he's being
Speaker 13: mostown gallants. You won't even considerable.
Speaker 2: How can I, darling, I've got under two hundred pounds
Speaker 2: a year of my own right, how could we live
Speaker 2: on that? I was counting money the grandfather was going
Speaker 2: to give us to get me started.
Speaker 3: Now now I'm as small and a little earlier you
Speaker 3: talked to break the green and bread and cheese and
Speaker 3: loving a cottage.
Speaker 6: Yes, there's a lot to be said for it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I had to be said for it, Yes, doctor, But
Speaker 2: have you ever tried it?
Speaker 6: Not the room a boy?
Speaker 3: But I tell you that we're married and my wife
Speaker 3: and I was just married.
Speaker 6: I had a little money.
Speaker 11: In fact, my income was just about the son that
Speaker 11: you mentioned, and.
Speaker 6: We were very happy.
Speaker 12: Bah.
Speaker 2: But you have a profession, doctor, Look at me. I've
Speaker 2: been trained for nothing except to be lead of Dunbar. Castle.
Speaker 2: I can't support the wife on tradition, but.
Speaker 13: Ye are young and you can get some kind of position.
Speaker 13: I'm sure, of course.
Speaker 3: Of course, as a matter of facture I think that homes.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 3: What's wrong?
Speaker 2: That's Devil's worker.
Speaker 5: Fort Watson, come with me Overton and you, mister Dunbar,
Speaker 5: mister Walter.
Speaker 1: His road.
Speaker 2: It was in darkness, but in the moon.
Speaker 5: I saw two figures struggling by the open case, one
Speaker 5: of them mister Walter. As I entered, he disappeared from sight,
Speaker 5: his attacker that pushed him out of the window into
Speaker 5: the moat. The other an angle away in the darkness
Speaker 5: with keeph lanterns and go out for most at once. Though,
Speaker 5: I'm very much afraid, mister Dunbar, that your grandfather is
Speaker 5: beyond our help.
Speaker 1: Doctor Watson will be back in just a second, so
Speaker 1: i'd just like to remind you that if you want
Speaker 1: server wine over the holidays, that you're sure.
Speaker 11: The ladies will enjoy.
Speaker 12: Sir.
Speaker 1: Patrie California Muscatel Patrie musketell is a golden wine with
Speaker 1: a wonderful flavor, the flavor of big.
Speaker 11: Plump muscat grapes.
Speaker 1: And you know what a flavor that I'm sure you'll
Speaker 1: find that Patrie musketell is the favorite wine of all women,
Speaker 1: just as petri Port is the favorite wine with men.
Speaker 1: And incidentally, if you're not sure which to get Petrie
Speaker 1: Muscatel or petri Port, don't buy one by two, get
Speaker 1: them both and you'll be sure.
Speaker 2: To please everyone.
Speaker 1: Now, to get back to our story, someone had first
Speaker 1: poor old Sir Walter out of his bedroom window and
Speaker 1: enter the moat below.
Speaker 11: Isn't that right, doctor Watson?
Speaker 3: Yes, of course we grabbed lentons as first we couldn't
Speaker 3: rush outside, but it was a hopeless cast. The water
Speaker 3: was eight or ten feet deep, and it seemed obvious
Speaker 3: that the elderness of water wouldn't have a chance of
Speaker 3: saving himself if we searched on the thicker, bobbing lentons,
Speaker 3: The cutting figures in the frosty moon light forming a.
Speaker 4: Weird bringing answer over here, sir, can you see anything home?
Speaker 11: Ah thing?
Speaker 1: I don't see why your friend doesn't call the police,
Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, accomplishing nothing.
Speaker 3: He told them out their chance of finding the old
Speaker 3: man alive. Mister Small, he wants to avoid a scandal
Speaker 3: if possible, fassake, Sir, as well as the Dunbar scandal.
Speaker 1: Can't touch me or Dorothy over this. That engagement was
Speaker 1: never announced and.
Speaker 3: To make criticize to think some new blood in your
Speaker 3: family would be a great improvement or being confoundly impertinent
Speaker 3: and you already confound the heart to sir well Holmes,
Speaker 3: have you given up hope?
Speaker 5: Paper will never find him? In that dragness and grappling hooks?
Speaker 5: I have to call the police. What time is it,
Speaker 5: sir Ian? You know the time?
Speaker 2: What did you call me, mister Holmes? So, yeah, ye,
Speaker 2: you're here.
Speaker 3: You seem a bit your homes but of course you're
Speaker 3: right if your poor grandfather is dead, mister Dunbar, you're
Speaker 3: a baronet now.
Speaker 2: And the time, sir Ian, it's it's a quarter to twelve,
Speaker 2: mister Hart brought out.
Speaker 5: Of an hour to the new year. So yeah, doesn't
Speaker 5: that that suggest something to you?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes it does. So I'm the new burner. They
Speaker 2: will there will be no more talk of the police
Speaker 2: for fifteen minutes. I want all of you to come
Speaker 2: back to the castle with me as the last time
Speaker 2: of midnight brings out. I shall have a statement to
Speaker 2: make a statement that I want you all to hear.
Speaker 3: What you brought it over here for home?
Speaker 6: Something very funny going on.
Speaker 5: I tell you I don't like Pollokovin, and I watchn't
Speaker 5: like to look at it very much.
Speaker 6: If you wouldn't be sa desh, mysterious.
Speaker 8: What are you up to?
Speaker 3: You haven't taken a stip yet towards finding the murderer.
Speaker 5: And I wonder what causes the perspiration on mister Small's
Speaker 5: brow more you mean it's small. I wonder what causes
Speaker 5: the singular look of apprehension on the face of murder
Speaker 5: the young lawyer. You remember, of course, on my remarking
Speaker 5: how easily he carried the large iron buckers got here.
Speaker 3: And you took a strong man to throw the water
Speaker 3: out of the window.
Speaker 5: Years approaching.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. In view of our recent tragedy, this
Speaker 2: is one New Year's Eve when none of us feels
Speaker 2: like song and jollity. But there still remains a ritual
Speaker 2: duty for me to perform. Mister Murdock, open the iron
Speaker 2: box please.
Speaker 6: But but I can't do that.
Speaker 2: It was only to be open for your grandfather. No,
Speaker 2: mister Murdock. The phrase was that it was to be
Speaker 2: opened on the New year's eve before the baronet's twenty
Speaker 2: first birthday. I am now the baronet, and I shall
Speaker 2: be twenty one next year on August twenty first. Open
Speaker 2: the box, please, mister.
Speaker 13: Murdock in Darling, I tety're glad.
Speaker 5: I hope you think it, But Sen murderck open that
Speaker 5: box very well, tell you, but I'm a fray.
Speaker 7: You're in for something of.
Speaker 6: A shock, all right, scuty.
Speaker 5: The box is empty except for a sheet of notepaper
Speaker 5: in the bottom.
Speaker 2: What's the meaning of this murder? Read that paper, Severe
Speaker 2: and you'll understand. I owe you four thousands of maverign
Speaker 2: and it signed Alexander Murder on behalf of murdered murder Lawyers,
Speaker 2: you'd better explain this.
Speaker 12: It's the family skeleton Seren. That notice signed them A
Speaker 12: great grandfather, the one that witnessed the original deconcern.
Speaker 6: In the box.
Speaker 10: As soon as the.
Speaker 12: Water was born on that February of twenty nine, my
Speaker 12: great grandfather realized the money wouldn't have to be produced.
Speaker 2: For eighty four years, and so he stole it.
Speaker 11: He bothered it.
Speaker 2: He always intended to pay it back, but he was
Speaker 2: never able to. When he died, he told my father
Speaker 2: of his secret.
Speaker 11: My father in turn.
Speaker 12: Told me, we've always planned to put back the money, Seren,
Speaker 12: but we've never been able to miss is daylight robbery.
Speaker 12: You would prosecute me and the firm still in business.
Speaker 1: You can ruin them, You can sue them for everybody
Speaker 1: they have.
Speaker 2: Mister Small, you've already shown a marked version from my family.
Speaker 2: I suggest you allow me to handle their affairs. Now
Speaker 2: tell you, gody o your no one's going to their room.
Speaker 2: No one's leaving here until the police arrives. I'm convinced
Speaker 2: that one of you murdered my grandfather tonight.
Speaker 3: If you ask me, it's obvious who that someone is.
Speaker 2: Who doctor, what's used to murder?
Speaker 3: You came here killed Pearls because you never intended to
Speaker 3: open that box. You thought that your seat would die
Speaker 3: with him.
Speaker 6: That's a lie.
Speaker 12: Are you going to tell him everything and then ask
Speaker 12: for time pay the money?
Speaker 2: I didn't kill Gosse He didn't.
Speaker 11: There's your murderer. You your Sophian father.
Speaker 12: What are you saying?
Speaker 11: I'm saying that he and the murderer.
Speaker 1: He saw that the box wasn't going to be opened
Speaker 1: for another four years. He realized how the money couldn't
Speaker 1: marry Dorothy, so he killed his grandfather and then order
Speaker 1: the box open.
Speaker 2: You're trying to cover yourself. You'll push grandfather out of
Speaker 2: that window tonight. You thought that if he died, the
Speaker 2: box would never be opened. Dorothy couldn't marry me.
Speaker 3: You can't, gentlemen, beacon my soul homes. You seem remarkably calm,
Speaker 3: and there wasn't.
Speaker 5: I must say, I'm absolutely fascinated by listening to three
Speaker 5: people and accusing each other of murder, and each of
Speaker 5: them producing perfectly sound motives. It's a remarkable example of
Speaker 5: the dangers of reasoning from motive alone. We should profit
Speaker 5: by experience.
Speaker 13: Was mister Holmes, how can you be so calm? There's
Speaker 13: a murderer in.
Speaker 5: This lad is getting a little out of hand.
Speaker 2: This small let's conclude it. You'd come out now, it's moving.
Speaker 2: Happy new Year for your grandfather.
Speaker 6: So what am I see you go?
Speaker 11: And what kind of a game have you been played?
Speaker 11: It's a bunny game that Holmes and I invented. You
Speaker 11: might call it forcing the issue.
Speaker 12: I was determined to have the box open before the
Speaker 12: next four years were rude, whilst there was still.
Speaker 11: Alive to look inside it.
Speaker 12: But the prickery of your family murderer has made me
Speaker 12: a very happy.
Speaker 11: Mass or water.
Speaker 12: I shall pay back the money in a few years,
Speaker 12: I swear I will. It'll be too late to do
Speaker 12: me in a good but I'll take care of that.
Speaker 12: Didn't get it half a mind to prosecute grandfather.
Speaker 2: The money isn't important now that you're all.
Speaker 11: You were content on it just the same, my boy.
Speaker 11: So that you got married Dorothy, I know she will
Speaker 11: never marry a pauper.
Speaker 13: I will alive it when I'm twenty one. You can't
Speaker 13: stop me, father, and I am going to marry Ian
Speaker 13: Me quiet what happen.
Speaker 11: It's a very unsavory business.
Speaker 1: I think that you owe us an explanation of your
Speaker 1: behavior to night. You tell them Holmes, I parcy a
Speaker 1: wee drop a crim of dunbar.
Speaker 11: Watching your search from a body in the motor.
Speaker 5: Has made me pay. The explanation is a very simple,
Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen. When you arrived here to night, mister Murdock,
Speaker 5: I knew from the way you handled the box that
Speaker 5: it could not contain the sum of gold, the supposed gold,
Speaker 5: and so.
Speaker 3: You suspected fraud and devised the plan to.
Speaker 6: Post the opening of the box.
Speaker 5: Yes, and sir Walter was an eager conspirator.
Speaker 11: Of course. I was Ian is twenty one next August.
Speaker 12: So Posina had died after he came of age and
Speaker 12: before my next birthday four years. Hence the box would
Speaker 12: never have been.
Speaker 5: Open, and so we invented the fake Miti story. By
Speaker 5: the way, Ian, I must congratulate you for grasping the
Speaker 5: possibilities of the situation so speedily. If you hadn't demanded
Speaker 5: the opening of the box, the Murdoch's secret might still
Speaker 5: be a secret.
Speaker 3: The curd of plan hom Is it too bad that
Speaker 3: it had had such.
Speaker 6: A miserable ending?
Speaker 5: I'm not sure that we had finished for the matter.
Speaker 5: And mister Murdoch, Yes, mister Holmes, you wou say that
Speaker 5: your family took four thousand pounds from that box, Yes,
Speaker 5: mister curious, I would have sworn from its size that
Speaker 5: it would hold closer to five thousand. And in your
Speaker 5: account of the legend, Watson, you told me that Sir
Speaker 5: Thomas Dunbar stated of his deathbed that.
Speaker 2: He had put something else in the something for a
Speaker 2: rainy day. Did the Murdocks find.
Speaker 11: That extra something No, mister homes they found.
Speaker 2: But the gold, and that's very odd.
Speaker 5: I can't take a closer look at that box have
Speaker 5: been on mine.
Speaker 13: Since this seems to be a night of telling secrets.
Speaker 10: I think you might as well know, father, But if
Speaker 10: you don't give your consent, I shall a note with you.
Speaker 5: Such thing my other solution, young lady, and that I
Speaker 5: had that it will be necessary.
Speaker 2: What do you mean home?
Speaker 5: Permit me to show you all the pressure of the
Speaker 5: dun bars.
Speaker 2: What are your phone home?
Speaker 5: See something for a rainy day?
Speaker 2: That old sir Thomas.
Speaker 5: God you see, since the cubic contents of the box
Speaker 5: obviously differed from my calculations, I deduced the existence of
Speaker 5: a false bottom. I was correct, and in that space
Speaker 5: I found this manuscript right.
Speaker 2: So the manuscript of the book.
Speaker 5: Look at the title page and see the author's name just.
Speaker 3: Through the Dunbar family I saw Scott.
Speaker 5: I think so well that an original and unpublished manuscript
Speaker 5: by your distinguished namesake would prove worth several times the
Speaker 5: gold that is missing from that box.
Speaker 11: The for his homes, My boy, God bless you.
Speaker 12: This has been a stranger new year ever I knew,
Speaker 12: but it's turned out to their bunny one.
Speaker 11: Thanks to your home, we'll fill up their glasses. We're
Speaker 11: going to drink a toss to.
Speaker 6: The new year.
Speaker 2: By yoh.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir Walter, this is really a happy occasion, and.
Speaker 5: Let's complete it by singing the traditional song of the season.
Speaker 5: All I'm signed, And in this case when we sing,
Speaker 5: should old acquaintance be forgot? I feel that in our
Speaker 5: hearts we should be thinking of Walter Scott. We died
Speaker 5: over sixty years ago. He's made us all very happy.
Speaker 2: Sure love God.
Speaker 1: Well, doctor, that turned out to be a very happy
Speaker 1: new year for all concerned.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's one new year that I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: Well, I sure hope you'll always remember this one too.
Speaker 3: Oh just a tecon, my boy that calls for a
Speaker 3: glass of porn. Fine the world to to a happy
Speaker 3: new year of a boy for you and for our
Speaker 3: many friends listening in and.
Speaker 1: To you, doctor, that's good. Doctor has indeed been a
Speaker 1: pleasant association for me. You're the best storyteller I've ever known.
Speaker 1: And the Patrick family makes the best wine I've ever
Speaker 1: tasted up. But just as they've been making wine for
Speaker 1: generations in the past, the Patrick family will continue to
Speaker 1: make fine wine.
Speaker 3: In the future, mister Boutell, I know that you will
Speaker 3: always be here to tell us just how.
Speaker 1: Good that too I do, and you'll always be right
Speaker 1: here beside me to tell another swell story about mister.
Speaker 3: Doctor.
Speaker 1: What new adventure you planning to tell next week?
Speaker 3: Next week, mister Bartel, I'm going to tell you a
Speaker 3: weird story. It starts for a series of murders on
Speaker 3: Hampstead Heath and then the battle to the death in
Speaker 3: the burning waxworks. I call it the Strange Case of
Speaker 3: the
Speaker 5: Murderer in Wax