Speaker 1: And now for our weekly visit with our good friend
Speaker 1: and host, doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: Good evening, doctor, Good.
Speaker 3: Evening, mister bout heels A bit late.
Speaker 4: I've been keeping some dinner hot fire here, pull up
Speaker 4: your chair and join me.
Speaker 1: That's very nice of you, thanks doctor. How are you
Speaker 1: all set with the nice story?
Speaker 3: Yes, my bar, I'm all set, as you call it.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I was going.
Speaker 5: Over my notes on the case just before you arrived,
Speaker 5: and last week you hinted that a beautiful girl figured
Speaker 5: prominently in your adventure. I have to quite right, mister Bartell,
Speaker 5: an extremely beautiful girl. In fact, I often used to
Speaker 5: say to Sherlock Holmes that if I had been a
Speaker 5: little younger at the time, I might Oh well, you
Speaker 5: haven't come here to listen to my personal reminiscences. You
Speaker 5: want to hear the story that I called the Problem
Speaker 5: of toll Bridge. That's what you promised this doctor.
Speaker 1: How did it begin?
Speaker 4: On a window morning in October in eighteen nineties, was
Speaker 4: as I was dressing I observed how a last remaining
Speaker 4: leaves were being whirled away from the solitary plane tree
Speaker 4: which graced the yard behind our Baker Street house.
Speaker 5: I descended to break. I was prepared to find my
Speaker 5: companion into pressed spirits, for like all great artists, he
Speaker 5: was easily impressed by surroundings. But to my surprise he
Speaker 5: was in an unusually gay mood.
Speaker 3: As I answered the room, he looked up at me
Speaker 3: and with her with a smile.
Speaker 2: Hope except well splendidly, Hank Term, I'm so glad.
Speaker 5: Were you versileist us this morning? I think he was
Speaker 5: to have got a new case?
Speaker 3: Am I right?
Speaker 6: The faculty of deductionist set in their contagious Yes, I
Speaker 6: have a new case. After a month of trivialities and stagnation,
Speaker 6: the wheels revolved once more.
Speaker 5: Good tell me all about it. Well, yet, there's much
Speaker 5: to tell. Have you ever had of Neil Gibson. Neil Gibson,
Speaker 5: who else has something to do with gold mining?
Speaker 2: Isn't he a great deal to do with the boy there, fellow?
Speaker 6: In fact, he's considered the greatest mining magnet in the world,
Speaker 6: not by us. Go he bought a largest state in
Speaker 6: Hampshire that you've read of the tragic death of his wife, of.
Speaker 3: Course, I remember the case now.
Speaker 4: She was murdered by jealous governess who was in her employee,
Speaker 4: wasn't you.
Speaker 6: That point will be decided, and the lady in question,
Speaker 6: Grace Dunbar, I believe her name is, comes up a
Speaker 6: try that the forthcoming winches to the sizes. In any case,
Speaker 6: it's hard for me to see what I can do
Speaker 6: for my tent at this late date.
Speaker 2: Your client, Oh, yes, I forgot. I hadn't told you why.
Speaker 2: I'm getting into your involved habit of telling a story backwards.
Speaker 2: That'll read. This letter came this morning.
Speaker 3: So look.
Speaker 5: Here, mister Sherlock Holmes, Missus Dunbar is innocent. I can't
Speaker 5: see the finest woman in the world go to her
Speaker 5: death without doing everything possible to save her.
Speaker 3: I shall call on you at ten thirty tomorrow morning
Speaker 3: to discuss the matter.
Speaker 4: Yours faithfully, Neil Gibson gets me.
Speaker 2: Hey, you have it, Watson, that is the gentleman.
Speaker 5: I wait, do you know anything about his dead wife?
Speaker 2: Only what I've been reading in the papers.
Speaker 6: Apparently she was past her prime, which was the more
Speaker 6: unfortunate as this Miss Dunbar, who superintended the education of
Speaker 6: the two young children, is reputed to be a very
Speaker 6: attractive young lady.
Speaker 4: The eternal trianglar. Well, where did the murder take place.
Speaker 2: On Gibson's estate in Hampshire. His wife was.
Speaker 6: Found in the grounds, nearly half a mile from the
Speaker 6: manor house, late at night, clad in her dinner dress,
Speaker 6: with a shawl over her shoulders and a revolver bullet
Speaker 6: through her brain.
Speaker 3: Any weapon foul near her?
Speaker 2: Oh? No clues found that the scene of the crime.
Speaker 3: What made them suspect the governess.
Speaker 6: Well, in the first place, there was some very incriminating evidence.
Speaker 6: A revolver with one discharged chamber, the caliber corresponding with
Speaker 6: a bullet in the dead woman's head was found on
Speaker 6: the floor in missus Dunbar's wardrobe.
Speaker 3: Oh was it pretty damaging evidence homes till.
Speaker 6: The coroner thought, And to make the case even blacker
Speaker 6: against miss Dunbar, the dead woman had a note on
Speaker 6: her making an appointment of that very spot, and the
Speaker 6: note was signed by the Governess.
Speaker 3: It seems obvious that the girl's guilty and the motives clear.
Speaker 3: Gibson be a great catch for a young girl.
Speaker 4: Love, fortune, power, all dependent.
Speaker 6: On one life, possibly Watson, But circumstantial evidence can be
Speaker 6: very misleading at times. AH As a gentleman in question
Speaker 6: of this, I'm very much mistaken considerably before his time.
Speaker 3: I can see him from the window here, formidable looking
Speaker 3: for her. Must be well over six foot.
Speaker 2: Tall, judging by the way he's renting at that door
Speaker 2: bell is a man with a temper.
Speaker 3: Missus Hudson's opening the door to him.
Speaker 2: Now meet him on the stairs. When he won't happen,
Speaker 2: you'll say, Missus Hudson, the journey.
Speaker 3: Joe appear, sir. Thank you all right, are you, mister
Speaker 3: Sherlock holme?
Speaker 4: No, no, indeed, I Miss Polly, Doctor Watson come along in, won't.
Speaker 2: You, Mister Neil Gibson. I presume that's right.
Speaker 7: See all the great Sherlock owned.
Speaker 6: The adjective is your own, mister Gibson, he said that,
Speaker 6: won't you bither way? You miss speak quite freely.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to doctor Watson.
Speaker 8: Well, I may as well begin by telling you that
Speaker 8: money means nothing to me in this case. You can
Speaker 8: burn it if it's any use to you in lighting
Speaker 8: the truth. Miss Dunbar is innocent and it's up to
Speaker 8: you to prove it. Just name your feet, and.
Speaker 6: Mister Gibson, my professional charges I'm on a fixed scale.
Speaker 6: I don't vary them except when I omit them altogether
Speaker 6: very well.
Speaker 8: I imagine that you read the newspaper reports of the coroner's
Speaker 8: in quest.
Speaker 2: Yes, very thoroughly.
Speaker 8: I don't see that I can add anything that will
Speaker 8: help you, But if there any questions you'd like to ask,
Speaker 8: I'll answer them.
Speaker 2: No, thank you.
Speaker 6: First, What are the exact relations between you and miss Dunbar?
Speaker 8: I suppose you're within your right in asking such question,
Speaker 8: mister Hone, we.
Speaker 2: Will agree to suppose, so, shall we?
Speaker 8: Then I can assure you that my relations with Miss
Speaker 8: Dunbar were always those of an employer to ord the
Speaker 8: young lady with whom he never conversed or even saw
Speaker 8: except in the company of his children.
Speaker 6: Oh, another a busy man, mister Gibson. I have no
Speaker 6: time or taste for aimless conversation. I wish a good morning.
Speaker 7: What the devil do you mean by this, mister Home.
Speaker 6: My dear sir, The case is difficult enough without your
Speaker 6: giving him a false information that I I was trying
Speaker 6: to express it as difficultly as possible. That if you
Speaker 6: insist on the word, I won't contradict you. Why you
Speaker 6: can found not being noisy, mister Gibson, Please don't denoise you.
Speaker 6: I find that after breakfast evehen, the smallest argument is unsettling.
Speaker 6: I suggest that a stoll in the morning air and
Speaker 6: a little quiet thought.
Speaker 2: Will be great to deal at Dantee.
Speaker 8: I suppose I can't make you take the case. But
Speaker 8: you've done yourself low good this morning, mister Holmes. I've
Speaker 8: broken stronger men than you. No man never crossed me, and.
Speaker 2: It was the better word carning. Mister Gipson, you have
Speaker 2: a great deal yet to learn.
Speaker 3: On mysel home. You run useless severe with him.
Speaker 6: I just like liars Watson, and I cannot tolerate arrogance,
Speaker 6: particularly when it's coupled with great Now.
Speaker 5: How did you know about his relations with the governor?
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 4: It was pure bluff, bluff.
Speaker 3: It certainly worked. I think you've come back.
Speaker 2: Of course he will. He needs my help too badly.
Speaker 6: He'll probably change his mind for his halfway down the stairs.
Speaker 6: Come in, ah, mister Gibson, just saying to Dr Watson
Speaker 6: that I was certain you'll be back.
Speaker 8: I've been thinking it over, mister Holmes, and I feel
Speaker 8: that perhaps I was hasty and taking your remarks amiss.
Speaker 8: Just to say I can assure you that the relations
Speaker 8: between Miss Dunbar and me really don't affect this case.
Speaker 2: Surely that is for me to decide. Mister Gibson, you.
Speaker 3: To give him. My friend is like a doctor.
Speaker 4: He wants every symptom before he can give his diagnosis.
Speaker 3: Far away.
Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, what is it you want to know?
Speaker 2: The truth?
Speaker 7: I can give it to you in very few words.
Speaker 8: To begin with, I met my wife when I was
Speaker 8: gold mining in Brazil.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Your wife was positioned by birth, wasn't you, sir? Yes, doctor,
Speaker 4: and very beautiful.
Speaker 7: Well, to make a long story short, I fell in
Speaker 7: love and married her and brought her to England.
Speaker 8: Half a few years, I realized that we had nothing,
Speaker 8: absolutely nothing in common.
Speaker 2: And then I suppose this young governess, Miss Dunbar, arrived
Speaker 2: on the scene.
Speaker 8: That's right, mister Holmes. Well, the story should be obvious
Speaker 8: to you. From there you will fall in love with
Speaker 8: this girl. I suppose who could help it that you'd
Speaker 8: suggest marriage to her? Yes, though I knew that my
Speaker 8: wife would never divorce me.
Speaker 6: I see, And then you made an utterly insincere proposition
Speaker 6: to her. Now look here, mister Holmes, I came to
Speaker 6: one a question of evidence, not of morals.
Speaker 7: I'm not asking for your criticism.
Speaker 6: It's only the young lady's sake. Fit turn forces me
Speaker 6: to touch your case at all. Now tell me, sir,
Speaker 6: what is your own opinion as to Miss Dunbar's guilt.
Speaker 7: It's very black against her. I can't deny.
Speaker 8: That one explanation of the tragedy did come.
Speaker 7: Into my head. Mister Holmes. I give to you for
Speaker 7: what it's worth.
Speaker 2: Pray continue, Miss Gibson.
Speaker 7: My wife was bitterly jealous. She was half crazy with hatred.
Speaker 8: She might have planned to murder Miss Dunbar, or we'll say,
Speaker 8: to threaten the girl with the revolver and so frighten
Speaker 8: her into leading us. There might have been a struggle
Speaker 8: in which the gun exploded and gone off and shot
Speaker 8: my wife who was holding it.
Speaker 6: On that possible, It has already occurred to me. It's
Speaker 6: the only obvious alternative to deliberate murder.
Speaker 4: Harbor Holmes was found on the floor the Governess's wardrobe.
Speaker 6: Mister Gibson, I should like to examine your house in.
Speaker 2: The scene of the murder as soon as possible.
Speaker 7: Siftly, mister Holmes, sudden coventry.
Speaker 8: The local police is still down there. He'll give you
Speaker 8: any help you may need.
Speaker 6: Excellent, what's the old foe out of the time table.
Speaker 6: We're catching the next past train to Winchester.
Speaker 5: So if I have to someone else on the case,
Speaker 5: I'd rather have you, mister Elmes. The yard gets called
Speaker 5: in and then we local police loses all credit for success,
Speaker 5: generally gets blamed for the failures. Though I've heard that
Speaker 5: you play straight.
Speaker 6: I appear in a matter at all, Sergeant Coventry, if
Speaker 6: I can clear it up.
Speaker 2: I don't ask you. You even have my name mentioned, say
Speaker 2: some of you.
Speaker 5: I'm sure I know your friend doctor Watson can be
Speaker 5: trusted too.
Speaker 4: I don't worry, my dear fellow. We won't steal any
Speaker 4: of your thunder.
Speaker 5: It's nice and friendly of you, doctor. But come on, gentlemen,
Speaker 5: I'll walk get down to the bridge. That's where we
Speaker 5: found missus Gibson's body. It's not far from the house here.
Speaker 4: Well, I must say, mister Gibson has a beautiful estate.
Speaker 3: It must be sixty or seventy.
Speaker 5: Acres or nearly twice.
Speaker 7: That doctor.
Speaker 5: The what's back of the us there belongs to him too,
Speaker 5: mister Dolms, Yes, Hutgen, there's a question I'd like to
Speaker 5: ask you question. I wouldn't ask anyone else, and please
Speaker 5: ask it. Don't you think there might be a case
Speaker 5: against mister Gibson hisself? Sir, I've been considering that possibility,
Speaker 5: But they're miss dunboss a bit of all right, if
Speaker 5: you ask me. Wanted his wife out of the way.
Speaker 5: In the pistol she was shot with? Was his pistol?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Was that factor, Pruben? Yes, doctor, it was one.
Speaker 2: Of a pair that he had one a pair. Where's
Speaker 2: the other?
Speaker 5: Well, mister Gibson has a lot of firearms. We never
Speaker 5: quite matched that particular pistol, but the box was made
Speaker 5: for two.
Speaker 4: Well, if it was one of a pair, surely you'd
Speaker 4: be able to mention it.
Speaker 5: Well, we have them more laid out at the house
Speaker 5: if you want to look him.
Speaker 2: Over, and we'll do that later. Ah. This I presume
Speaker 2: is toll Bridge. That's right, sir.
Speaker 5: Found missus Gibson's body lying right here at the approach
Speaker 5: to the bridge.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 6: I gathered from the newspaper reports the shop was started
Speaker 6: very close quarters, Yes.
Speaker 2: So very close in the right temple. Wasn't it just
Speaker 2: behind itsself?
Speaker 5: How did the body lie sergeant, we inspect doctor. No
Speaker 5: trace of a struggle, no march, no weapon. The note
Speaker 5: from miss Dunbar was clutched in her left hand. Clutched,
Speaker 5: you say, yes, so we could already open the fingers
Speaker 5: to get at it.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's the greatest importance.
Speaker 6: It excludes the idea that anyone could have placed the
Speaker 6: note there after death in order to furnish a false clue.
Speaker 3: What did the note say?
Speaker 5: Little enough? Doctor just said I will be at toll
Speaker 5: Bridge at nine o'clock and it was assigned Grace Dunber.
Speaker 2: Miss Dunbar admit writing it.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, sir.
Speaker 2: What was her explanation?
Speaker 5: She wouldn't say nothing. Said she was saving her defense
Speaker 5: for the trial.
Speaker 6: Yes, it seems odd that missus Gibson was still touching
Speaker 6: that note.
Speaker 3: Seems perfectly natural to me.
Speaker 2: Come over, fellow, give the thing out. Logically, if the.
Speaker 6: Letter is genuine, it was certainly received sometime before the tragedy,
Speaker 6: see an hour or two. And why then, was the
Speaker 6: dead woman still clasping it in her left hand? Why
Speaker 6: should she carry it so carefully? She certainly didn't need
Speaker 6: to refer to a note at all at the interview.
Speaker 2: Doesn't it strike you as rather strange.
Speaker 4: Well, are you put it that way? It does seem
Speaker 4: a little peculiar.
Speaker 2: Hello, did you notice this, Gargeant?
Speaker 5: Oh, you mean that chip out of that stone on
Speaker 5: the under side of the parapet.
Speaker 3: Of the bridge.
Speaker 5: Sir, Yes, I noticed it. Didn't think nothing.
Speaker 3: Of it, though it's a very large chip.
Speaker 2: Yes, but it's been on recently the stone work. It's
Speaker 2: quite just yet it took some balance to do that,
Speaker 2: Ami a king once man.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 5: Yes, the hard knuck and in a curtious place too,
Speaker 5: But it's fifteen feet from where we found the body
Speaker 5: misted out.
Speaker 4: Yesters, I don't see how it could have any connection.
Speaker 2: With missus Gibson, and it hasn't, but it's a point
Speaker 2: worth noting. There were no footprints, who says sergeant.
Speaker 5: No, mister Elms. The ground was as odd as are
Speaker 5: and he's been a very dry summon.
Speaker 7: We have no.
Speaker 2: Argent, how much obliged you? And now I think we'll
Speaker 2: get back to the.
Speaker 5: House, says our share where the firearms are?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 2: Oh, who says I.
Speaker 5: Funny kind of a bloke Brazilian here Brasiliona like this is,
Speaker 5: Gibson asked mister Elms. Because from the same time that
Speaker 5: she does, as a matter of fact, something very fishy
Speaker 5: about him, if you ask me. Now, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen,
Speaker 5: I'm going to take a little stroll around the grounds.
Speaker 5: You started me on a new train of thought in
Speaker 5: this case, mister.
Speaker 6: Ellmers, I'm the right head, Sergeant. Get back to the house.
Speaker 6: I see, and these are.
Speaker 2: All the firearms in mister Gibson's possession.
Speaker 1: He says I, except for the revolver that is missing
Speaker 1: from the kiss.
Speaker 2: Yes, I see him.
Speaker 4: I've never seen such a collection of guns and revolvers
Speaker 4: in my life.
Speaker 1: Mister Gibson had many enemies, Senor. He always sleep with
Speaker 1: a laudid pistol beside his bed. She is a man
Speaker 1: of great violence. There have been times when all of
Speaker 1: us were afraid of him.
Speaker 2: If you have witness physical violence towards missus Gibson.
Speaker 1: No, Senor, I cannot say that I have. But I
Speaker 1: have heard him saying many terrible things to her. She
Speaker 1: would taunt her in front.
Speaker 2: Of we servants.
Speaker 1: I have heard them do it many times.
Speaker 2: Thank you, says I.
Speaker 5: That will be all go inter vain, Senor. You know, Holmes,
Speaker 5: I do think the case against miss Dunbar looks very black.
Speaker 6: I should agree with you if it were not for
Speaker 6: one fact, the finding of the rabota in her wardrobe.
Speaker 3: So Holmes, that seems too MESI the strongest evidence.
Speaker 2: Of all I think, not, old Chap.
Speaker 6: We must look for consistency where there is a want
Speaker 6: of it. We must suspect deception.
Speaker 3: I know quite follow you.
Speaker 6: Suppose for a moment that we've visualized you in the
Speaker 6: character of a woman who, in cold premeditated fashion, is
Speaker 6: about to murder a rival. You've planned it, a note
Speaker 6: has been written, the victim has come. You'll have a weapon.
Speaker 6: The crime is well done. There's been workmen I can complete.
Speaker 6: You need to tell me that, after carrying out their craft,
Speaker 6: your crime, you would be so stupid as to forget
Speaker 6: to bring the incriminating revolver at the bottom of the stream,
Speaker 6: or perhaps in the dense read that border it would
Speaker 6: you carefully carry it home and put it in.
Speaker 2: The first place that would be searched your wardrobe.
Speaker 3: Wer perhaps in the excitement of the moment.
Speaker 2: One, my dear Chap, I won't admit that's even possible.
Speaker 6: When a crime is coolly premeditated, then the means of
Speaker 6: covering it are coolly premeditated or so?
Speaker 4: Then if miss Dunbar didn't shoot missus Gibson, who the
Speaker 4: devil did?
Speaker 6: I hope I can give you the answer to that question, Watson,
Speaker 6: when we've made one further visit.
Speaker 3: Oh Lord, where are we going now?
Speaker 2: To prison? Old chap Prison.
Speaker 6: Yes, We're going to Winchester Prison to call on miss Dunbar.
Speaker 6: I'm certain that the key to this strange mystery lies
Speaker 6: in her hands.
Speaker 1: You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
Speaker 1: a few seconds, Just time enough for me to remind
Speaker 1: you that the easiest way to make good food taste
Speaker 1: better is to serve that good food with a good
Speaker 1: Petree wine. If you like a red wine, well you
Speaker 1: want a Petree California Burgundy. If you'd rather have a
Speaker 1: white wine, then you want a Petrie California So Turned.
Speaker 2: But red or white.
Speaker 7: Petrie Burgundy or Petrie so Turned.
Speaker 1: You're choosing a dinner wine that sure to turn a
Speaker 1: simple meal into a feast. Your whole family and all
Speaker 1: your friends will love Petrie, the wine that.
Speaker 2: Makes good food tastes better.
Speaker 1: And now back to doctor Watson and tonight Sherlock Holmes adventure,
Speaker 1: the problem of tour Bridge. Well, doctor, did you go
Speaker 1: to Winchester Prison and see miss Dunbar?
Speaker 3: We did just about. And how later if I'm the
Speaker 3: two of us.
Speaker 4: Sitting in a cold gloom yourself talking to one of
Speaker 4: the most beautiful girls that I've ever seen. Her bright
Speaker 4: flashing eyes and her air of quiet confidence seemed sadly
Speaker 4: out of place in such a setting. Holmes spoke to
Speaker 4: her quietly, Bob.
Speaker 2: The hilloth of your true relations with the dead woman.
Speaker 9: She hated me, mister Holmes. She hated me with all
Speaker 9: the passion of her distorted mind.
Speaker 6: Please tell us exactly what happened on the evening of
Speaker 6: missus Gibson's death.
Speaker 9: Well, I received a note from her in the morning,
Speaker 9: a note imploring me to meet her at the bridge
Speaker 9: after dinner that night. She said she had something important
Speaker 9: to say to me.
Speaker 3: Did you keep that note, Mis Dunbar, No.
Speaker 9: Doctor, she well, she asked me to destroy the note,
Speaker 9: so I burned it in the schoolroom grade. I saw
Speaker 9: no reason for such secrecy. But when I did as.
Speaker 6: She asked, hmm, and yet she kept your applying very carefully.
Speaker 6: It's interesting, I mean, what happened when you met her
Speaker 6: that night.
Speaker 9: When I reached the bridge, she was waiting for me.
Speaker 9: I won't tell you what she said, but she poured
Speaker 9: out her whole wild fury and burning horrible words. I
Speaker 9: did not say.
Speaker 7: I couldn't.
Speaker 9: It was dreadful even to look at her. She was
Speaker 9: like an insane woman, standing there screaming disgusting insults at me.
Speaker 9: I put my hands to my ears and rushed away.
Speaker 3: Where was she, Stanning when you left her?
Speaker 9: Within a few yards of a spot where her body
Speaker 9: was found later, and.
Speaker 2: Yet presuming she met her death shortly after you left her?
Speaker 2: You heard no shot?
Speaker 9: No, no, I heard nothing, But I was so upset,
Speaker 9: mister Holmes, that I rushed straight back to my room.
Speaker 2: Did you leave it again that night? Yes.
Speaker 9: When the alarm came that missus Gibson was dead, I
Speaker 9: ran up with the others.
Speaker 3: Did you see mister Gibson?
Speaker 9: Yes, doctor he had just returned from the bridge when
Speaker 9: I saw him. He had sent for the doctor and
Speaker 9: the police.
Speaker 2: This pistol that you found in your room, have you
Speaker 2: ever seen it before?
Speaker 9: Never, mister Holmes, I sweat. Where was the fire next
Speaker 9: morning when the police made their search. It's on the
Speaker 9: floor of my wardrobe where I keep my shoes. You
Speaker 9: had no idea how long it had been there, But
Speaker 9: it hadn't been there the morning before.
Speaker 2: How do you know?
Speaker 9: Because I had tidied up the wardrobe that day.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 6: Then someone must have come into your room and placed
Speaker 6: the fiscol there in order to incriminate you.
Speaker 9: I'm certain nothing.
Speaker 3: Oh well, well could they have done there?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 9: It could have been at neo times or when I
Speaker 9: was in the school room with the children.
Speaker 6: Yeah, miss Dunbar, I'm examining, examining the scene of missus
Speaker 6: Gibson's death.
Speaker 2: I noticed that a piece of stone work on the
Speaker 2: on the side of the tearapet of the bridge have
Speaker 2: been broken away? Can you suggest any possible explanation for that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: Surely it must have been a mere coincidence, mister.
Speaker 6: Hossibly, But why should it appear at the very time
Speaker 6: of the tragedy and at the very place?
Speaker 2: Could it possibly be there?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, idiot? Why didn't I think of it before?
Speaker 2: Come on, Watson, where are we going home? Back to
Speaker 2: Fort Bridge over Fellow as fast as we can get there.
Speaker 9: What have you found out, mister Holmes?
Speaker 6: The answer to this mystery. I hope, my dear young lady,
Speaker 6: he will get news before the day is out. And meanwhile,
Speaker 6: take my assurance that the clouds are lifting, the light
Speaker 6: of proof is breaking through.
Speaker 5: Well, mister Elves here soon back here.
Speaker 2: What have you found here?
Speaker 3: In a few moments?
Speaker 2: Have you got my message?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, here you are all a twice what you
Speaker 5: wanted for a cordilation.
Speaker 2: And as soon see Sergeant and Watson.
Speaker 6: I have some recollection that you usually go armed on.
Speaker 2: These excursions of ours. Yes, I'm carrying my v give
Speaker 2: it to me old chapter. No thanks.
Speaker 6: I believe you're a revolver and they have a very
Speaker 6: intimate connection with the mystery we're investigating. What's my very
Speaker 6: serious test to make the test is successful, Miss Dunbar
Speaker 6: will be free before nightfall, and the test will depend
Speaker 6: on the conduct.
Speaker 2: Of this revolver of yours. I take the precaution of
Speaker 2: unloading it. H there we are now, Argeant, ball of pine.
Speaker 3: Please shure I do what you was up to, sir.
Speaker 6: I tie one into the twine like this to the
Speaker 6: handle of the revolver. So, Sargeant, see if you can
Speaker 6: find me a heavy stone, will you.
Speaker 3: Want to rut yours, homes.
Speaker 2: What are you doing trying to reconstruct the killing of
Speaker 2: missus Gibson that you've seen miss the mark before, Watson.
Speaker 6: I have an instinct for such things, and yet it
Speaker 6: has sometimes.
Speaker 2: Played me false.
Speaker 6: It seemed a certainty when he first splashed across my
Speaker 6: mind and was done bar Cell. But one drawback of
Speaker 6: an active mind is that one can always conceive alternative
Speaker 6: explanations which would make us sent a false one.
Speaker 2: And yet, oh well we can, but try is nice still,
Speaker 2: thank you, Sergeant.
Speaker 6: Now I tie the other end of the twine to
Speaker 6: the stone.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, like that?
Speaker 6: Splend it, sergeant, Will you please take the stone and
Speaker 6: stretch the twine across the parapet of the bridge there
Speaker 6: so that the stone will swing just clear of the
Speaker 6: water on the other side of the bridge. Right, I'll
Speaker 6: stand on the spot where Missus Gibson's body was found,
Speaker 6: I said, Sergeant, over the parapet.
Speaker 3: Was that mister Rose stole swaying about eight feet above
Speaker 3: the water.
Speaker 6: Splend it now, Watson, watch closely. I raised the revolver
Speaker 6: to my head.
Speaker 3: Careful, homes, careful, nobody.
Speaker 2: Old Jab's not loaded.
Speaker 6: Now let us imagine I am the late Missus Gibson,
Speaker 6: I raised the revolver to my head and pirate instantly
Speaker 6: my figures released that Griffin. Thanks your answer, Watson.
Speaker 3: Great coffer.
Speaker 4: Revolver flashed back out of your hand, struck the paraphet's
Speaker 4: bridge and then the way to the stone, flipped it
Speaker 4: over into the water.
Speaker 2: But however, a more exact demonstration, Colonel fell.
Speaker 7: Off, you have the dish of mister Robes. That's what
Speaker 7: you want.
Speaker 6: Serve the second ship on the stonework, the parapet here
Speaker 6: same size as the first.
Speaker 4: And the murder of Missus gibson't murder.
Speaker 6: At all at the suicide, but we can follow the
Speaker 6: various steps quite clearly. A note was extracted very cleverly
Speaker 6: from miss Dunbar, note which made it appear that she
Speaker 6: had chosen the scene of the crime. Missus Gibson, in
Speaker 6: her anxiety that the note should be discovered somewhat overdid
Speaker 6: it by holding it.
Speaker 2: In my hand.
Speaker 6: The last that alone should have excited my suspicions earlier
Speaker 6: than it did.
Speaker 4: She stole one of her husband's revolvers, the other one
Speaker 4: in Miss Dunbar's water, exactly after discharging one of the cartridges.
Speaker 6: Which you could easily do in the woods without attracting suspicion.
Speaker 6: She then went down to the bridge, where she contrived
Speaker 6: this exceedingly ingenious method of getting rid of her weapon.
Speaker 2: When Miss Dunbar appeared, she used her last breath.
Speaker 6: In pouring out her hatred, and then, when the girl
Speaker 6: had left, carried out her.
Speaker 5: Terrible purpose in the misery war.
Speaker 2: You'll find it with.
Speaker 6: The aid of a grappling hook at the bottom of
Speaker 6: the stream, and also the stone in the string with
Speaker 6: which this vindictive woman attempted it to disguise her own
Speaker 6: crime and fasten a charge.
Speaker 2: Of murder on an innocent victim.
Speaker 4: Yes, sergeant, and don't forget why you're at it that
Speaker 4: my revolver was down there too.
Speaker 5: Don't worry, doctor, I'll get some grappling hooks right away.
Speaker 3: I must stay homes. You saw this case brilliantly, quite brilliantly.
Speaker 6: I disagree, o, chep, and I fear that you will
Speaker 6: not improve my reputation by adding the case of the
Speaker 6: toll Bridge mystery to your annimal nonsense.
Speaker 3: Was that ridiculous?
Speaker 2: Oh no, it is, no boy.
Speaker 6: I've been sluggish in my mind and wanting in that
Speaker 6: mixture of imagination and reality, which is the very basis
Speaker 6: of my art. I confess that the chip and the
Speaker 6: stonework was a sufficient clue to suggest the true solution,
Speaker 6: and I blame myself and not having attained it sooner.
Speaker 3: Well, I was personally. I agree with the sergeant's opinion
Speaker 3: of you.
Speaker 2: Oh how was that olful?
Speaker 4: You're a blooming magician, mister Olmes. That's what you are,
Speaker 4: a blooming magician.