1 00:00:28,559 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,119 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,840 going to bring you the concluding episode of The Moonstone. 4 00:00:43,039 --> 00:00:46,159 But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're 5 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:51,320 enjoying the podcast, to follow us using your favorite podcast software. 6 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,039 And I do want to encourage you, if you've not already, 7 00:00:54,079 --> 00:00:56,399 to check out my ebooks. All I needed to know 8 00:00:56,679 --> 00:00:59,320 I learned from Dragonet and all I needed to know 9 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,640 I learned from Colombo. Each examines the careers and history 10 00:01:03,719 --> 00:01:07,319 of seven great fictional detectives and policemen, and life lessons 11 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,239 that can be learned from them. They are available where 12 00:01:10,239 --> 00:01:13,640 re fine ebooks are sold, or as audiobooks through audible 13 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,879 dot Com or the Apple Store now from April twenty third, 14 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,480 nineteen forty eight. From World's Great Novels, Here is The Moonstone, 15 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,000 Part four the. 16 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 2: World's Great Novels. 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 3: Before the publication of The Moonstone in the middle of 18 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,840 the last century, Wilkie Collins had already won fame as 19 00:01:44,879 --> 00:01:48,040 one of the ranking novelists of his day. He is 20 00:01:48,079 --> 00:01:51,439 best remembered, however, for The Moonstone, which brought him special 21 00:01:51,439 --> 00:01:55,439 recognition as a writer who concentrated on a dominant motif, 22 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,000 which he developed by the introduction of strange and unexpected element. 23 00:02:01,799 --> 00:02:04,879 The National Broadcasting Company now presents in a series of 24 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 books that Live the fourth and final episode of The 25 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:13,479 Moonstone by Workie Collins, one of the world's great novels. 26 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 4: I Gabriel Betteridge, how steward Miss Rachel Verinder, I myself 27 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:34,840 witnessed the experiment to determine whether Franklin Blake was indeed 28 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,680 the person who had stolen the Moonstone. In one respect, 29 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,520 the experiment had been a success, and in another a 30 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,479 complete failure, for under the influence of a drug which 31 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:50,000 had been administered him. In the experiment, Franklin Blake had 32 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,840 risen from his bed and had taken the piece of 33 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:57,759 crystal supposed to represent the long missing diamond Moonstone from 34 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,319 the drawer of the Indian cabinet. All this, mind you, 35 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,520 was exactly as Miss Rachel Verinder, its owner had observed 36 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,400 him to do the night a year before, when the 37 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:13,439 jewel itself had disappeared. But this time, overcome by the 38 00:03:13,439 --> 00:03:15,919 effects of the drug, he had dropped the Moonstone on 39 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,800 the floor and collapsed. The first time However, he had 40 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,280 walked from the room and out of Miss Rachel's sight, 41 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:27,960 still carrying the moonstone. Well being drugged, Mister Blake had 42 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,599 no memory of either act. So what he had done 43 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,879 with the gem after leaving Miss Rachel's room on that 44 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,280 night a year ago was still a mystery, and it 45 00:03:37,319 --> 00:03:40,639 was a harassed, worried Franklin Brake who met soon after 46 00:03:40,719 --> 00:03:42,759 with mister Bruff, the Verander family lawyer. 47 00:03:43,759 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 5: Let me. 48 00:03:45,639 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 6: Let me say first of all, mister Blake, that I'm 49 00:03:48,759 --> 00:03:51,599 sorry the experiment turned out no better than it did. 50 00:03:52,439 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 7: I was willing to try anything, anything to prove to 51 00:03:55,919 --> 00:03:58,120 Rachael that I was not consciously to blame for the 52 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:02,840 disappearance of the moonstone. At least the experiment was successful 53 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,159 in that Rachel and I are soon to be married. 54 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 5: Oh good. I am grateful to Wes R. Jennings for 55 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:09,080 his experiment. 56 00:04:09,439 --> 00:04:11,879 Speaker 7: That I cannot rest until the moonstone is found and 57 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:13,599 all possible suspicion removed from the. 58 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,639 Speaker 6: Name I I might as well tell you what I 59 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,360 told Ezra Jennings. I have my own theory in regard 60 00:04:21,439 --> 00:04:23,839 to the pleasant whereabouts of the moonstone. 61 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 5: Oh, you have a. 62 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 6: Theory supported by fact or rather by facts which cannot 63 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:34,560 be disputed. Go on, mister Broun, The moonstone is in 64 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:39,120 possession of the bankers of a notorious money lender, a 65 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:44,600 man who calls himself mister Septimus Luca. Oh yes, Sartan 66 00:04:44,639 --> 00:04:46,879 Kaff spoke of him in connection with the suicide of 67 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,240 Rosanna Spearman. He is ostensibly a dealer in gems and 68 00:04:50,319 --> 00:04:55,240 objects of art and has long been established in London. Yes, yes, however, 69 00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:59,959 his most successful dealings have been conducted with thieves Swindler 70 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:01,519 and Charlatan's. 71 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:02,959 Speaker 5: But actually, mister Broth. 72 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 7: What proof have you that the moonstone now reposes in 73 00:05:05,439 --> 00:05:06,639 mister Luca's special bank. 74 00:05:06,879 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 6: Well, now, first, let me point out that he's been 75 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:13,480 the subject of considerable attention on the part of the 76 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,079 three Indians who appeared here a year ago in what 77 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,800 was obviously an attempt to seize the moonstone. 78 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I heard about that. 79 00:05:22,639 --> 00:05:24,759 Speaker 7: Luca complained to the police that they had been hanging 80 00:05:24,759 --> 00:05:26,759 about his shop and asked protection against them. 81 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 6: Oh yes, yes, but perhaps you didn't know this, And, 82 00:05:29,959 --> 00:05:35,800 believing that his professional services were in demand, the worthy 83 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,839 mister Luca tells me he paid a visit to a 84 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:44,240 strange London address. He was conducted into a handsome apartment 85 00:05:44,519 --> 00:05:48,959 by an apparently most respectable gentleman, who then withdrew. Then 86 00:05:49,079 --> 00:05:54,519 suddenly Luca was overwhelmed from behind by assailants, assailants he 87 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,879 never even saw and searched. But certainly these ruffians, the 88 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,360 three Indians or whoever they were, didn't expect to find 89 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:04,680 the moonstone on mister Luca's person. I hardly think so. 90 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:08,079 But they did take something from him. 91 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 5: What was that? A receipt? 92 00:06:10,439 --> 00:06:13,879 Speaker 6: A receipt, yes, one which acknowledged that on that very 93 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:18,000 day mister Luca had deposited with his private bankers are 94 00:06:18,199 --> 00:06:20,079 valuable of great price. 95 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,639 Speaker 7: But if these men took a receipt for this valuable 96 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,639 why didn't they go to the bank and claim it. 97 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:28,439 Speaker 6: Oh because they're too clever, too cunning to expose their 98 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:29,480 hand in such fashion. 99 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 5: Oh no, no, mister Blake. 100 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 6: These men, and I believe they were the same, three Indians, 101 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,399 merely wish to ascertain the place where the moonstone is 102 00:06:39,439 --> 00:06:40,399 being kept. 103 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 5: What do you think they'll do next? 104 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 6: They'll wait, I'll wait until such time as the illustrious 105 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:47,439 mister Luca will have to come to the bank and 106 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:50,800 remove the Moonstone and hand it over to his client. 107 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:51,879 Speaker 5: When will that be? 108 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,199 Speaker 6: The moonstone was stolen a little more than a year ago, 109 00:06:55,399 --> 00:06:58,279 and now it's a well established custom that valuables left 110 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,399 with private bankers are redeemed before the year has elapsed. 111 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 7: Then any day now Luca will go to the bank 112 00:07:04,079 --> 00:07:06,879 to get the moonstone, and the three Indians will certainly 113 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:08,360 make another attempt to get it from him. 114 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 6: They'll either try to take it from mister Luca himself 115 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,240 or the person to be hands it over, in short, 116 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,920 the person who stole the moonstone. 117 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 7: And if we discover this person, I will have been 118 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:22,759 be indicated and my Conston's cleared. 119 00:07:22,839 --> 00:07:24,879 Speaker 8: Correct, mister Blake, we must act quickly. 120 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 5: Here's what we'll do. We'll have a watch. 121 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 6: Put on mister Septimus Luca. Then when he goes to 122 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,040 the bank to withdraw the moonstone, we shall be on hand, 123 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,519 even though we must reckon with the three Indians themselves. 124 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,759 I tell you, Gabriel, this is the last desperate throw 125 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,000 of the dice. And if we don't play the game 126 00:07:52,079 --> 00:07:54,600 bold lays skillfully and with ever a resource in our command, 127 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,720 we will lose. And this time for good. 128 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 8: No no, no, no, no, my. 129 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 4: Boy, this is a time of a peace, Robinson Crusoe, 130 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:02,319 which I am. 131 00:08:02,279 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 7: Sorry, Gabriel, but I'm not much interested in what your 132 00:08:04,519 --> 00:08:06,839 mister Crusoe would have to say on the subject of patience. 133 00:08:07,199 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 5: I'm tired of death, of waiting. 134 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 4: H There's a great deal you could learn from Robinson Crusoe. 135 00:08:13,639 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 7: I have an idea I could learn much more from 136 00:08:15,639 --> 00:08:17,560 another person, a living person. 137 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:21,199 Speaker 8: Have you anyone particular in mind, mister Brake. 138 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 7: Yes, the finest police officer that England ever had, Sergeant 139 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:26,639 cuff Old. 140 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 5: Sergeant Cuff, yes. 141 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 4: But he went into retirement when he left his last year. 142 00:08:31,639 --> 00:08:34,639 Now his only concern is his garden of roses. 143 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,039 Speaker 7: I know, I know, but I eventually hasn't forgotten the Moonstone. 144 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,759 I'll wager that he's still smarts from his failure to 145 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:43,840 recover it. But to get him out of a happy retirement, 146 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:46,559 I do. Mister Brake, where are you're going to send 147 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,759 a telegram to Sergeant Cuff asking that he meet me 148 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:49,720 in London immediately? 149 00:08:59,799 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 5: You ask a great deal, mister Blake. Among my beautiful roses, 150 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,399 I find peace and serenity, whereas before I only ne lies, 151 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:20,200 deception and skull duggery. 152 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 7: Then I cannot induce you to reenter the case. Sergeant Cuff, 153 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,600 what's that you said, mister Blake. Sargeant Cuff, will you 154 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,000 help me apprehend the criminal who stole the Moonstone? 155 00:09:34,279 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 5: Yes, mister Blake, I will. Oh, thank you, Sargeant. It's 156 00:09:38,039 --> 00:09:40,159 just occurred to me that I'll enjoy my roses ever 157 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,679 so much more when I finally laid the ghost of 158 00:09:42,759 --> 00:09:48,279 the Moonstone to rest. I think I'll begin with our 159 00:09:48,440 --> 00:10:00,200 money lending friend, mister Septimus Luca. 160 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 9: My Sergeant Cafew are most persistent. It is indeed a 161 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,440 pity you've retired from active police work. 162 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 5: Mister Luker. I've emerged from retirement time again a police officer. Oh, 163 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:13,639 just as. 164 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 9: You'd begin to cultivate the art of leisure that is 165 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,759 so desirable, you know, and the laugh of me. I 166 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:24,519 can't understand what would induce you to neglect those beautiful 167 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:25,320 roses in. 168 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 5: Darking the moonstone, mister Lucre. 169 00:10:29,759 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 9: Moonstone again, Well, I just can't comprehend your interest in 170 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:35,919 such a bobble. 171 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,279 Speaker 5: A most valuable bobble, mister Lucer. 172 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,279 Speaker 9: But it would seem to me there are other things 173 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:46,039 just as valuable to be sure, don't you think so, 174 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:55,480 Sergeant good heavens man, you have to sit there eyeing 175 00:10:55,639 --> 00:10:56,639 me as if I were some. 176 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,279 Speaker 2: Reptile a lizard. 177 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,039 Speaker 5: Well, now you mention it, mister Luca, there is a 178 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:03,080 certain resemblance. 179 00:11:04,399 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 9: Now you're insulting. You know you're insulting, don't you insulting? 180 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,039 Speaker 5: Mister lucre. I'm merely following your. 181 00:11:12,919 --> 00:11:15,799 Speaker 2: Advice with What are you talking about. 182 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 5: About cultivating the art of leisure? 183 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:32,159 Speaker 2: Ye? Stop whistling that in full tune? Good de vicious? 184 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,519 Do you intend the city all die with your mouse fuckered. 185 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 5: Up into a whistle? 186 00:11:38,039 --> 00:11:44,799 Speaker 9: Stop it, sergeant, stop it, please, Sergeant cuff. 187 00:11:45,639 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 5: Please, yes, mister Luca. 188 00:11:49,519 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 9: Ah, I would like you to stop whistling, that is, 189 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:56,360 if you wouldn't really mind. 190 00:11:57,679 --> 00:11:59,399 Speaker 5: May I ask a few questions, mister Luker. 191 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 9: I'll answer your questions, that is, to the best of 192 00:12:04,759 --> 00:12:05,519 my ability. 193 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,919 Speaker 5: That's much better, mister Luca. Now I wish to know 194 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,960 how you came into possession of the Moonstone. Well, a 195 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:14,799 certain person. 196 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 9: For the time being, I'll call that person X if 197 00:12:19,399 --> 00:12:20,559 that's agreeable to. 198 00:12:20,519 --> 00:12:22,399 Speaker 5: You, sir, Yes, for the time being. 199 00:12:23,879 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 9: This is our began about a year ago on the 200 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,480 evening of the twenty third of June, X came to 201 00:12:30,519 --> 00:12:35,279 me with a diamond such as I'd never seen before. First, 202 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:36,519 I was asked, would. 203 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:37,519 Speaker 2: A buy the diamond? 204 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,159 Speaker 5: And your answer it was no. 205 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 9: Then I was asked, would I undertake to sell it 206 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:45,360 on commission and to. 207 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 2: Pire some down on the anticipated result? 208 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,519 Speaker 5: X as for an advance on the sale of the moonstone? 209 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:53,759 Speaker 2: That is correct, sir? 210 00:12:53,879 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 5: And what was your answer to that proposal? I've no answer. 211 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,919 Speaker 9: Instead, I asked a question of melne. I said to X, 212 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,679 how did you come by this duel? 213 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 5: Yes? 214 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 9: Well, X began a story, a perfectly preposterous story. 215 00:13:10,799 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 2: Ohh, that just won't do, I said. 216 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 9: I then ranged for our servant and instructed him to 217 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,399 show my guest to the door. 218 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 5: What happened then? Oh well, then. 219 00:13:21,399 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 9: X, saying a different tune, and told me what I 220 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:29,039 believed and still believed to be the true story. It 221 00:13:29,159 --> 00:13:33,279 seems that X was in great financial difficulties, that a 222 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,200 large sum of money was needed to make restitution and 223 00:13:37,279 --> 00:13:43,679 so prevent exposure. Yes, I could well understand that such 224 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:47,159 a situation is not infrequent among my clients. 225 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 5: So I imagine, yes. 226 00:13:49,879 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 9: Well, therefore I agreed to accept the moonstone in pawn. 227 00:13:54,039 --> 00:13:56,039 Speaker 5: And how much did you advance to X well. 228 00:13:55,919 --> 00:13:59,519 Speaker 2: In all some of twenty thousand pounds. 229 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 5: So far, so good, mister Luker. And now tell me 230 00:14:02,879 --> 00:14:05,200 how did the moonstone come into the possession of X? 231 00:14:05,639 --> 00:14:06,919 Was that information revealed you? 232 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 9: Yes, Sergeant Cuff, it was the moonstone was given to X. 233 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,799 Speaker 5: What, mister Luker, In all my years of experience as 234 00:14:16,799 --> 00:14:18,759 a police officer, I've never heard such an absurd and 235 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,279 utterly ridiculous thing. Nevertheless, Sir R, speak the truth. I 236 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,039 warn you once and for all, mister Luker, that you're 237 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:28,039 in a perilous position. You were trafficking and stolen goods admitted. 238 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 9: Again, I repeat, the moonstone was given to X. 239 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 5: Mister Luker, I order you to disclose the identity of 240 00:14:34,399 --> 00:14:36,039 this person X instantly. 241 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 9: Shad you have me, Sergeant Cuff, I would indeed be 242 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:42,039 a great fool if I did not know my rights. 243 00:14:42,519 --> 00:14:47,120 I believe that my client ex spoke the truth, and 244 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:52,600 I respect the truth. You cannot alter my position, and 245 00:14:52,679 --> 00:14:56,879 I'll challenge your authority to do so, Sergeant Cuff. 246 00:14:57,279 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 4: Good Dy, it was a completely bewildered Franklin Blake who 247 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:16,200 faced Sergeant Cuff in the office of mister Bruff, the lawyer. 248 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 8: He collapsed weekly in a chair and said. 249 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 7: Sergeant, this news you bring now is the sheerest fantasy. 250 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:25,159 Speaker 5: Do you mean to say this? 251 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 7: Luca Fellow actually told you that the moonstone was given 252 00:15:27,879 --> 00:15:28,840 to this ex person. 253 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 5: He did, mister Blake, and he convinced me that he 254 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,440 believes it to be the truth. I think mister Bruff 255 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,600 here is well acquainted. Receptor, Miss Luker. What's your opinion? 256 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 2: Uh? 257 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:40,759 Speaker 5: I know this much about him. 258 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 6: He likes to stand on safe ground, and when he does, 259 00:15:44,519 --> 00:15:46,200 the devil himself can't shake him. 260 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,279 Speaker 5: There's only one thing left to do. Then keep up 261 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:51,360 out vigil at the bank. I presume, mister Bruff, you 262 00:15:51,399 --> 00:15:55,000 have mister Lucer under the closest observation. I have, Sergeant 263 00:15:55,159 --> 00:15:57,399 the man you have watching him? Is he dependable? 264 00:15:57,759 --> 00:16:01,559 Speaker 6: Sergeant Cuff, Young mister Goosebrey is the most dependable man 265 00:16:01,639 --> 00:16:04,360 I know, and he can outsmart the cleverest fox that 266 00:16:04,399 --> 00:16:10,080 ever around the course. Gentlemen, this is my man Gobred. 267 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:11,799 Speaker 8: How do you? 268 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,039 Speaker 5: Oh? What is it? Goesbred? 269 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,559 Speaker 10: Mister Luca has just left his own in Lamberth in 270 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:17,279 a cab. Say, and two men were. 271 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,679 Speaker 5: With him, and they're on their way to the bank. 272 00:16:18,799 --> 00:16:21,279 Speaker 10: I bet, I'm sure I talked to the cab driver 273 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,519 before they came out of the house to the bank, then. 274 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 7: Gentlemen, and it's a big enough bank, Mister bro hope 275 00:16:33,879 --> 00:16:37,399 we don't lose mister Luker in the crowd. Sure I 276 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:40,440 not a sign of the three engines, miss, they're lucky 277 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,759 in one of the bank vaults, Sergeant Coff. 278 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,879 Speaker 10: Sir, Yes, mister Lucas still in the bank. Told one 279 00:16:46,919 --> 00:16:48,879 of the guards I had a message for the blighter. 280 00:16:48,919 --> 00:16:51,799 I did, he said, mister Luca was still back there 281 00:16:51,799 --> 00:16:52,679 in the inner chamber. 282 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 2: Good lad Owl knows about a bit. 283 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,159 Speaker 8: More quick as lightning, that boy, Sergeant cop. 284 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 5: Look over there, a tall docsil Yes, yes, I've been 285 00:17:02,879 --> 00:17:07,279 observing him. Perhaps the three Indians not daring the venture 286 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:10,559 in the bank are using him as their spy right parts. 287 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,240 But I'm much more interested in that short stubs fellow 288 00:17:14,279 --> 00:17:16,240 over there, one in the gray suit. 289 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 8: Yes, I see the man. He seems quite nervous. 290 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,519 Speaker 6: Too, I'd wage you to give me he's waiting for 291 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:23,599 mister Luca to come out. 292 00:17:24,279 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 10: Yes, goosebray, what is it, mister b Mister Lucas on 293 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:28,839 his way out of the inner chamber. 294 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 6: Yes, here he can stand with the two plain clothesmen, 295 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:34,759 one on each side. 296 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,599 Speaker 8: Looks the man in the gray suit is moving toward them. 297 00:17:37,759 --> 00:17:40,799 Speaker 5: Here they come. Good, We close in on them. Keep 298 00:17:40,799 --> 00:17:46,839 her shopping. That fool got in my way just as 299 00:17:46,839 --> 00:17:48,240 I was leaving the bank. 300 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,519 Speaker 7: Yes, and I'm sure I saw mister Luca pass something 301 00:17:50,519 --> 00:17:50,960 over to the. 302 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:51,799 Speaker 5: Man in the gray suits. 303 00:17:51,799 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 8: I'm sure I did do. 304 00:17:53,519 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 2: The man in the gray. 305 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 5: Suit is getting away. He's running. Let us throw there, 306 00:17:56,279 --> 00:18:00,440 let us through, make a way. I'm last better in 307 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:01,000 a gray suit. 308 00:18:01,519 --> 00:18:03,279 Speaker 2: The thief. Stop him, Stop thief. 309 00:18:22,079 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 7: Well, it looks as though we've lost our friend mc 310 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:25,000 gray suit. 311 00:18:25,319 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 6: We would have had him, mister Blake, if that infernal 312 00:18:28,599 --> 00:18:30,200 cart hadn't gotten in our way. 313 00:18:30,839 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 5: Slow down, driver, there's a little course for hate now. 314 00:18:35,279 --> 00:18:37,279 Speaker 7: And now we'll never find the moonstone of the man 315 00:18:37,279 --> 00:18:40,720 who stole it. It looks to me as though we 316 00:18:40,839 --> 00:18:44,240 finally come to the end. Sargeant Cuff, no happy end. 317 00:18:44,279 --> 00:18:49,400 I'd say, I'll get you where Cabby, where is. 318 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:51,319 Speaker 2: The woman in the great shake. It's going into the 319 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:51,920 chemist shop. 320 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 5: It certainly stopped the car, all right, gentlemen into that 321 00:18:56,839 --> 00:18:59,680 chemist shop right, oh, well right behind your sergeant, now 322 00:19:00,519 --> 00:19:11,400 the way all right, you in the gray suit me mesa, yes, 323 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,359 you hand it over and be quick about it. 324 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 2: End it over. 325 00:19:14,599 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 7: Don't play the idiot with us. We want the moonstone. 326 00:19:17,079 --> 00:19:17,759 We mean to have it. 327 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 5: What moonstone man? We saw mister Luca pass you with 328 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,279 something as you were leaving the bank. Give up the 329 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,359 diamond this minute. 330 00:19:24,799 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 10: Mister Luca didn't give me any diamond. He he just 331 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,960 gave me his card. I asked him for it. 332 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 8: Who eat it is? 333 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:33,599 Speaker 5: Well? 334 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 10: Yes, for some time I've been trying to see him 335 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,640 on a very important business matter. I've got a chance 336 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,839 to see him in the buying today, so I approached. 337 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 5: I don't believe this sight and such him. Oh you know, 338 00:19:44,759 --> 00:19:48,839 I think I'm going to He's fainted. 339 00:19:58,559 --> 00:20:01,599 Speaker 7: Sergeant Cuff, pardon my sending for you early in the morning. 340 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:04,359 I wanted to thank both you and mister Bruff here 341 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:05,519 for your efforts yesterday. 342 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,039 Speaker 5: Not at all. Oh, we're only sorry. Our efforts to 343 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,599 run successful. Obviously the man in the gray suit had 344 00:20:11,599 --> 00:20:14,400 been planted to mislead it. It couldn't be helped. 345 00:20:15,039 --> 00:20:17,839 Speaker 7: But the moonstone is still missing. So long as it 346 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,519 is I cannot fully clear my name. Now, my boy, 347 00:20:20,799 --> 00:20:23,799 I took the moonstone. Rachel saw me take it, and 348 00:20:23,839 --> 00:20:25,599 then on the night of the experiment, I was seen 349 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,160 to go through the act of stealing it again. 350 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 5: You took it, yes, but you did not steal it. 351 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 7: Now, But it's all the same, so Rachel knows I 352 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,240 didn't take it of my own volition. Still it isn't found. 353 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,119 For yesterday's dismal failure at the bank, I've become wholly discouraged. 354 00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:43,359 I'm ready to give up a search. I'm going away 355 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,119 for a long time. 356 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 5: Oh nonsense, my. 357 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,559 Speaker 8: Boy, Goodsebury, mister Bruff, I found our men. 358 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 5: Found him, you say, found who? Why? 359 00:20:52,279 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 10: The tall dark sailor, of course, the one with a 360 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,759 big black beard we saw on the bank yesterday. I 361 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,920 followed him while the rest of you were chasing after 362 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,640 a little fat man in the gray suit, because I 363 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,599 saw mister Luca and something to him. 364 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,559 Speaker 5: There's something in that small colors, goes Brie, and it 365 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:09,440 isn't cottonwheel. 366 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 10: And then the sailor ailed a cab and I held 367 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,440 on behind it and let it pull me along. Oh, 368 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,240 I don't run dreadfully fast. 369 00:21:17,279 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 5: I did. 370 00:21:18,319 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 10: And then the cab stopped at the tower wharf, and 371 00:21:20,799 --> 00:21:22,960 Asilo went in and spoke to the steward of the 372 00:21:23,039 --> 00:21:25,240 rock of ham boat. Why did the sailor want to 373 00:21:25,319 --> 00:21:27,640 go aboard and sleep on his berth overnight as the 374 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:28,559 ship was to take. 375 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 5: Off the next morning? Ah, go on, Well, the. 376 00:21:32,079 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 10: Steward said he couldn't sleep on that their boat because 377 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:37,720 it was being cleaned. So the sailor stopped at an 378 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,880 eating house in the neighborhood for a bite. And while 379 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,400 he was inside, I noticed a very strange, peculiar looking 380 00:21:45,519 --> 00:21:48,720 man righting around outside. 381 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,279 Speaker 5: With this man fine and looking. Have you been an 382 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:52,440 Indian for example? 383 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 8: Why yes, mister coffee dead lock that way, go on, 384 00:21:55,559 --> 00:21:55,720 go on. 385 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,039 Speaker 10: The sailor came out of the eating house and then 386 00:21:58,079 --> 00:22:00,599 went to the Wheel of Fortune teven and has a room. 387 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,440 He was shown upstairs and immediately retired for the night. 388 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,759 And then then the man who looked like an Indian 389 00:22:06,839 --> 00:22:09,279 came along, and soon he went upstairs. 390 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 5: Did he take a room for the night, Oh no, sir, 391 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,079 He slipped upstairs, and soon there was the most horrible 392 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:16,079 rumpus going on. 393 00:22:16,599 --> 00:22:19,559 Speaker 10: The landlord called mister Indian, who is now pretending to 394 00:22:19,559 --> 00:22:21,759 be drunk and throw him out on the street. 395 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 5: This was last night, you think, Yes, sir, gentlemen, I 396 00:22:25,559 --> 00:22:27,319 believe the case of the Moonstone is about to come 397 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,720 to an end. Come along, we leave for the Wheel 398 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:38,960 of Fortune tavern. You know it's most peculiar. Should be 399 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,480 walking to speak to the sailor, Sir. I've been trying 400 00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:44,079 to arouse him all morning. His room is just down 401 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,200 all a bit, you say. He instructed you to call 402 00:22:46,279 --> 00:22:48,799 him at seven this morning. Yes, and it's long passet 403 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:56,119 now it is the room white locked from the inside. 404 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,799 Fetch your cotton to landlord. We'll have to break in there. 405 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,160 There all right, gentlemen, we may enter. 406 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 4: Now. 407 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 11: Look at him, poor sailor, all stretched out there on 408 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:21,720 the bed like he was having a fit. 409 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,079 Speaker 8: And there's always all wide and staring, and the poor man. 410 00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 5: He's having no fit. He's dead. Sent for the police, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. 411 00:23:34,519 --> 00:23:38,559 What happened was he? Yes, mister Blake. It's a murder, 412 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,720 murdered by suffocation. I dare say they used a pillow, 413 00:23:44,319 --> 00:23:48,160 they sergeant, Who do you mean the three Indians, mister Brade? 414 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:51,519 Speaker 10: But sir, if the room was locked, how did they. 415 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 5: Get in look up there or. 416 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 10: Trap door in the ceiling. 417 00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 8: Oh, those clever blighters. 418 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,559 Speaker 5: Well, mister Blake, do you recognize the sailor? Recognize him? Sergeant? 419 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:11,880 Why no? Come closer, stand here beside his bedside, examine 420 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:18,680 his features carefully. I don't know him. You should. He's 421 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,319 the man to whom you gave the moonstone, to whom 422 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,960 I get shut and cuff. You're mad. 423 00:24:24,559 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 7: I never saw this sailor in my life. I never 424 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,319 gave the moonstone to this sailor, mister Blake. I didn't 425 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,319 say you gave the moonstone to this sailor. I merely 426 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:32,559 said you gave it to this man. 427 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,039 Speaker 5: But a moment ago you said, I, mister Blake, I 428 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,799 refer to your cousin, mister Godfrey Ablewhite. 429 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,559 Speaker 7: But this sailor is not my cousin. And besides, I 430 00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:44,400 never gave the moonstone to Godfrey abel White. 431 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 5: Oh, yes, you did. The experiment proved you did almost, 432 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,839 I should say, for had the experiment been carried but 433 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,759 one step forward, we would have learned the truth. What 434 00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:57,880 do you mean. On the night of the experiment, the 435 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,880 drag which had been administered was too strong, and overcame 436 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,680 you too soon. I don't understand. On the night the 437 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,920 moonstone disappeared, you went to the Indian cabinet under the 438 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,920 influence of the drug and took the moonstone from the drawer. 439 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,680 That is right. But then you returned to your room, 440 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,799 still under the effects of the drug. Godfrey Ablewhite, your cousin, 441 00:25:19,839 --> 00:25:20,559 had the room. 442 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 8: Next to yours, yes, sir, I remember, and in. 443 00:25:24,279 --> 00:25:27,319 Speaker 5: Your delirium, and because you were oppressed by worry over 444 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,960 the responsibility of the moonstone, you must accord to him. 445 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:33,839 He entered your room. You then handed it over to 446 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,839 him for safe keeping. A natural enough association of ideas. 447 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,119 Since your father owned the bank in Frizzing Hall where 448 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,960 you had originally deposited the diamond, you gave the moonstone 449 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,319 to mister Ablewhite. Now, mister Bruff tells me that recent 450 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,880 investigation shows mister Ablewhite was leading a double life, and 451 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:57,279 in order to secure funds for his indiscretions, he had 452 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:02,319 mismanaged a trust fund. Desperately needing money to stave off exposure, 453 00:26:02,599 --> 00:26:07,200 Godfrey Ablewhite took the moonstone and said nothing. But Godfrey 454 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,119 wouldn't do a thing like that, my own cousin. And 455 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,960 when he realized that no one knew he had the moonstone, 456 00:26:13,079 --> 00:26:18,400 he pondered to mister Septimus Luker. So Godfrey was ex exactly. 457 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,119 I'm sure all of this is true, but Luca knows 458 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,160 the straight of it, and we will verify my deductions 459 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,119 through reference to him. Later. Yesterday your cousin redeemed the moonstone. 460 00:26:28,319 --> 00:26:30,839 The three Indians followed him here to this inn, murdered 461 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,799 him and made off with the moonstone, as you can 462 00:26:33,839 --> 00:26:35,960 see by the empty wooden jewel box that stands by 463 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,599 his bed. Well, yes, but. 464 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 7: This sailor with the long black beard cannot be my cousin, 465 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:41,200 Godfrey abl White. 466 00:26:41,839 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 5: But he is mister Blake. Shall I strip him of 467 00:26:45,519 --> 00:26:53,119 his disguise and his beard and prove it to him? There? Oh, 468 00:26:53,319 --> 00:26:54,359 do you believe me? Now? 469 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 8: It is Godfrey cousin, Godfrey Ablewhite. 470 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 4: Mister Luca did verify Sergeant Kuff's deductions in every particular. 471 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,160 And now the moonstone is gone, and with it its 472 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,559 evil curse, the yellow diamond, burdening our lives of tragedy, 473 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:28,039 would never return again, that I know. Or from mister Mirthwaite, 474 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,559 that eminent authority and Oriental customs, we received news of 475 00:27:32,599 --> 00:27:36,640 a strange event recently transpiring in the Katiawa province of India. 476 00:27:38,839 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 11: I saw thousands of natives prostrating themselves in holy reverence 477 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,960 before the shrine of their sacred forearmed God. Suddenly, like 478 00:27:48,039 --> 00:27:51,799 the voice of the wind moaning at night, a great 479 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:57,319 cry went up, no expression of sorrow, but rather one 480 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,839 of great exaltation. 481 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 5: Or on the brow of their sacred. 482 00:28:01,759 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 11: Moon God gleamed once again in all its dazzling brilliance. 483 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:19,039 The Great Yellow Diamond The Moonstone. 484 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 3: The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins is one of the World's 485 00:28:32,279 --> 00:28:34,839 Great novels, brought to you each week by the NBC 486 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,359 University of the Air. Listen next week to the first 487 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,079 episode of a three part treatment of Kidnapped by Robert 488 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,000 Lewis Stevenson, and remember that your local public library can 489 00:28:46,039 --> 00:28:49,559 be a constant source of information and entertainment. To add 490 00:28:49,559 --> 00:28:52,400 to your enjoyment of this series, we recommend the Handbook 491 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,359 of the World's Great Novels, which you may obtain by 492 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,799 sending twenty five cents to World's Great Novels Post Office 493 00:28:58,799 --> 00:29:02,960 Box Thirtyation Jay, New York, twenty seven, New York Post 494 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:14,519 Office Box thirty Station Jay, New York, twenty seven. The 495 00:29:14,559 --> 00:29:18,200 Moonstone was adapted for radio by Robert Saxon. The music 496 00:29:18,279 --> 00:29:21,200 was composed by Amo Suderstrom, and the orchestra was directed 497 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,759 by Bernard Burkewist. The entire production was under the direction 498 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,480 of Homer Heck. Arthur Sedgwick was featured as Sergeant Cupp 499 00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:32,039 and Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake. Mister Bruff was played 500 00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:36,519 by Donald Gallagher, Gabriel by Sherman, Marx, Luker by Jonathan Hole, 501 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,039 Gooseberry by Dick York, Mister Merthwake by Boris Aplon, the 502 00:29:41,119 --> 00:29:43,680 Man in the Gray Suit by Marvin Pisner, and The 503 00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:44,960 Landlord by Ted Lysz. 504 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:46,799 Speaker 5: This is John Conrad. 505 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,799 Speaker 3: This program comes to you from Chicago and is a 506 00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:54,200 presentation of the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations. 507 00:30:01,519 --> 00:30:05,200 Every three minutes, someone in this country dies of cancer. 508 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,519 This terrible disease strikes one out of every two families. 509 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,240 You can help in the fight against cancer. 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As to 520 00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:03,799 The Moonstone itself, I think that it really wrapped up 521 00:31:03,799 --> 00:31:08,519 in a satisfying way. Even if we didn't get an 522 00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:14,200 apprehension of the criminals, we did have closure provided and 523 00:31:14,359 --> 00:31:17,799 peace of mind to both Franklin Blake as well as 524 00:31:17,799 --> 00:31:22,240 Sergeant Cough and I think that as an adaptation, this 525 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:26,680 production did a great job capturing everything that made the 526 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,599 novel great, as well as discarding some elements that really 527 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:36,119 would not have carried over as well, such as the 528 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:41,880 caricature of Drusilla Klack, who was a very annoying narrator 529 00:31:42,039 --> 00:31:46,039 in the novel for several chapters, and really nothing is 530 00:31:46,119 --> 00:31:49,799 lost from the core story by her not being included, 531 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,319 which does show that her presence in the novel was 532 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,000 just a bit of a digression, albeit a very very 533 00:31:57,039 --> 00:32:01,000 long one. I will say that Wilkie Collins did choose 534 00:32:01,039 --> 00:32:06,680 some interesting names for this final section. You got Gooseberry, 535 00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:12,319 that's certainly one. Then we have Septimus Luker, a bit 536 00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:16,440 on the nose for a money lender, although I'm of 537 00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:19,119 the age where that does sound like it might have 538 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,160 been a name of a character from the Transformer's cartoon. 539 00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:25,680 And yes, we did get to hear Dick Yorke, best 540 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:30,200 remembered as the first Darren on Bewitch, but who also 541 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:33,839 spent a few years in Chicago radio at the start 542 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,000 of his career, going back to the time when he 543 00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:40,960 became the lead on the radio sitcom That Brewster Boy. 544 00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:45,640 But again, I hope you enjoyed this adaptation. Now let's 545 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,440 go ahead and thank our Patreon supporter of the day. 546 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,519 And I want to thank Pat, Patreon supporter since September 547 00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:55,200 twenty twenty, currently supporting the podcast at the rookie level 548 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,519 of two dollars more per month. Thanks so much for 549 00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:00,599 your support, Pat, And that'll do it for today. If 550 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,319 you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your 551 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:09,279 favorite podcast software. And if you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, 552 00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:12,839 be sure to lock the video, subscribe to the channel, 553 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,359 and mark the notification bell, all those great things that 554 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,319 help YouTube channels to grow. Next Thursday, we will have 555 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:25,799 one final correction episode. But join us back here tomorrow 556 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,920 for yours truly, Johnny Dollar Ware. 557 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:33,279 Speaker 12: I'll show you and tell you everything I know. Oh, 558 00:33:33,759 --> 00:33:35,759 our living quoters down this car. 559 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember. 560 00:33:37,319 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 12: After you and mister Swarm left us yesterday, Leon and 561 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,640 I went to work immediately to replace the rocket fuel 562 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,279 additive we had lost in the accident you investigated. Yes, Oh, 563 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,960 if only i'd paid attention when he told me about 564 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,640 the man he'd seen in Fort Myers the day before, 565 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,400 But we were so busys. 566 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 5: Wait a minute, what man? 567 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 12: Someone he'd known in Europe during the war, A man 568 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,640 he's suspected of now working for Well, for those who'd 569 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,880 like to sabotage our go on, doctor, Look, mister dollar 570 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,000 this is my room, and this right next to it 571 00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:10,960 is Layons shot. 572 00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 5: Great Scott. 573 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 12: Yes, there must have been a terrible struggle. 574 00:34:17,559 --> 00:34:20,800 Speaker 5: And doctor, this looks like blood on the floor. Now 575 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:21,440 what happened? 576 00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:24,679 Speaker 12: Well, it was early this morning, before dawn. I heard 577 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,599 voices in here. At first I thought Leon was shouting 578 00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:30,239 in his lead, but then he began to call for help, 579 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,199 and I heard the furniture being knocked about. 580 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 5: Well, didn't you come in here. 581 00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:37,559 Speaker 12: Something had been shoved against my door. This table, I 582 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:40,480 couldn't open it. Then I heard the shot. I heard 583 00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:44,440 Leon scream with pain, then another shot. Oh terrible, terrible. 584 00:34:44,599 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 5: Come on. 585 00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:47,519 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 586 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:52,519 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 587 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,199 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 588 00:34:57,199 --> 00:35:04,920 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives From Boise, Idaho. 589 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,519 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.