Speaker 1: And now let's drop in on the good doctor Watson,
Speaker 1: who's waiting for us in his California ranch house.
Speaker 2: Good evening, doctor, good.
Speaker 3: Evening was to Foreman, come in and make yourself a.
Speaker 1: Turned Thank you, doctor, sitting here with the lights off,
Speaker 1: I see, have you been getting yourself in the mood
Speaker 1: for the night Sherlock home story.
Speaker 3: No, my boy, I was watching the sunset. It's quite
Speaker 3: a beautiful tonight.
Speaker 2: Doctor, the sun set over an hour ago.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know that, young fellow.
Speaker 3: I know that, but at my age, a fellow's entitled
Speaker 3: to take a little snooze after dinner's and.
Speaker 2: He, of course he is doctor.
Speaker 1: And now that we've settled that, how about tonight's story.
Speaker 4: Well, a very beautiful.
Speaker 3: Girl figured prominently in this adventure, mister Foreman.
Speaker 4: Her name was Jasmine la Fleur.
Speaker 2: Huh you say that again.
Speaker 3: Doctor, please, I know, my boy, but that was her
Speaker 3: stage names when she was a magician's assistant. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 3: never had the opportunity of seeing Jasmine la Fleur in
Speaker 3: the theater, but I'm told that she was a fascinating.
Speaker 4: Figure in tight and spangles. Holmes and I first met her.
Speaker 3: However, she was dressed a little more conventionally, and the
Speaker 3: name then Diana Venering, Lady Venering.
Speaker 1: Lady Venering, say those tights and spangles really paid off,
Speaker 1: didn't they? Well, how did you and Sherlock Holmes come
Speaker 1: to meet up with her?
Speaker 2: Doctor?
Speaker 4: In rather spectacular style, mister Foreman.
Speaker 3: Miss Lafleur became something of a femme fatale in the
Speaker 3: early nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 4: First of all, she married Signor Rossoni, the magician for
Speaker 4: whom she was working.
Speaker 3: On the wedding night. He was mysteriously stabbed to death.
Speaker 3: A few months later. Madame Rossone ver a fetching in
Speaker 3: her widow's weeds. I'm sure let Sir Wilfrid vennering, and
Speaker 3: after a world wind courtship.
Speaker 4: She mad at him.
Speaker 2: Don't tell me he got murdered.
Speaker 4: Too, He did, mister Foreman.
Speaker 3: Also on the night of the wedding, but this time
Speaker 3: the police found a suspect. It was a certain Major Beckworth,
Speaker 3: cousin of the dead man and an ardent suitor of
Speaker 3: the fair Diana.
Speaker 4: The trial at the.
Speaker 3: Old Bailey was one of the most sensational I ever remember.
Speaker 3: Sherlock Holmes and I been caught on the closing days
Speaker 3: the jury was still considering their very Holmes.
Speaker 4: The jury has been out of great hours. I bet
Speaker 4: you they can't agree on a verdict.
Speaker 2: There'll be neutrial, I think not, Old Chap, Look how
Speaker 2: they come now. You know there's a strong probability of guilt,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure they'll agree that there's insufficient evidence to
Speaker 2: convict you.
Speaker 4: Abutu a right. Just look at lady Venory down there
Speaker 4: ahead of it. What a what a stunning.
Speaker 2: Woman, Yes, and a woman of break poison courage. Here
Speaker 2: it comes, gentlemen of the jury, have you arrived at
Speaker 2: a verdict?
Speaker 5: We have mill I'll say you you're paying the defendant head.
Speaker 6: Are not guilty?
Speaker 4: Not guilty?
Speaker 2: Exactly? Come on, Watson, let's get a breath of pressure.
Speaker 2: I was coming.
Speaker 4: Perhaps we shouldn't go over and congratulated a venery.
Speaker 2: What the fact that our husband's murderer has not been found?
Speaker 4: I suppose you're.
Speaker 2: You haven't read the Book of Chevid Watson Turban.
Speaker 4: I don't think so, when we're published.
Speaker 2: Alttle before our time. Old Yeah, it's a no Testament story.
Speaker 4: Whatever made you think of it this moment?
Speaker 2: Well, it's so remarkably opposite for the case of Lady Fring.
Speaker 2: It deals with the highly peculiar series of murders, seven
Speaker 2: of them. Remember correctly, who's the murderer, a jealous demon
Speaker 2: by the name of Asthma Daeus who strangled husbands on
Speaker 2: their wedding nights.
Speaker 3: Well, judging by the verdict, just now make you beck
Speaker 3: with this and the Emadus whoever you call him, in
Speaker 3: this same.
Speaker 2: Right here, Thank you God, thank you. It quite far.
Speaker 4: Well, what's it sir?
Speaker 2: All right? There we are. There's no this. Lady Nring,
Speaker 2: widow of the murdered man, says that you will marry
Speaker 2: at the suspect. Lady Nring told newspaper reporters the South
Speaker 2: Noon that a major Beckworth is acquitted. She will marry
Speaker 2: him before we get us out from her soul homes.
Speaker 4: There's a positive sparkle in your eyes you read it.
Speaker 2: I must admit the lady fascinates me. Ol Chap. I
Speaker 2: hope before she becomes involved in any further tragedies, that
Speaker 2: we may have the opportunity of meeting them. And something
Speaker 2: tells me that we will.
Speaker 3: Sunday papers are certainly having a field there with the
Speaker 3: veteran case home.
Speaker 4: Did you read them? Oh?
Speaker 2: I didn't want.
Speaker 3: There's a complete the life history of Lady Vernering in
Speaker 3: one of them, with photographs.
Speaker 4: It's of interesting. Really, what are you doing over their
Speaker 4: home the window?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 4: Yes, you expecting anybody home? A clergyman.
Speaker 2: That's a very agitated one, for the way he's pacing
Speaker 2: up and down and looking up at our window too,
Speaker 2: Jo what I yes, there's a fanatical look about him
Speaker 2: which suggests either the martyr at the stake or the
Speaker 2: inquisitor lighting the faggots.
Speaker 3: Missus Hudson's letting him in now, well, I'll be interested
Speaker 3: to know what he's come.
Speaker 4: To us about. And your footsteps on the stairs, I'll don't.
Speaker 2: Have a look.
Speaker 4: Come along in, won't you. It's all right, thank you,
Speaker 4: Missus Hudson. I am.
Speaker 2: This is my colleague, doctor Watts.
Speaker 6: My name is Whyleen, the Reverend Arthur Whalen.
Speaker 2: How s down you and tell me what I.
Speaker 4: Can do for you? Thank you, mister Holmes.
Speaker 6: This this is a very difficult subject to broach.
Speaker 5: In fact, it's only after intense personal conflict that I've
Speaker 5: been able to force myself to come to may.
Speaker 6: I ask you are you familiar with a book of Toby.
Speaker 4: You're talking about that yesterday.
Speaker 2: I see that you've come to consult me about the
Speaker 2: Veneran case.
Speaker 4: But that's amazing.
Speaker 6: How did you know has Lady van been in touch
Speaker 6: with you?
Speaker 2: No, sir, but I'm familiar with the Book of Tobit,
Speaker 2: and Lady Venring's case firstly resembles that of the woman
Speaker 2: Sarah and the Old Testament story more closely than you.
Speaker 6: Realize, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: Did you know that before each one of Lady Vernerring's
Speaker 5: husbands was killed, they received a threatening note?
Speaker 2: Yes, I recall that from the trial, signed in some
Speaker 2: sort of gibberish.
Speaker 4: Who went no doctor?
Speaker 5: Yesterday I was permitted for the first time to examine
Speaker 5: one of these books. The parent gibberish was, in reality
Speaker 5: ancient Hebrew writing.
Speaker 2: Indeed, will you ever to translate it?
Speaker 6: Yes, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: In effect, it said, if you go through with this marriage,
Speaker 5: your hours are numbered, and it was signed as Mordeus,
Speaker 5: the name.
Speaker 2: Of the jealous demon whose strangled husbands in the Book
Speaker 2: of Tobit. Exactly just why have you come to Mesa.
Speaker 6: I want you to talk to Diana, to Lady Vernering.
Speaker 5: To tell her she must not go through with this
Speaker 5: new marriage. Mother is stalking her, mister Holmes.
Speaker 6: I have argued with her, prayed with her, implored her
Speaker 6: to realize her danger, but she is adamant.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I should feel extremely presumptuous in giving her
Speaker 2: mad That.
Speaker 4: Is no, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: I have prepared the way for you you could, I'm sure,
Speaker 5: and have realized her danger, and she's willing to see,
Speaker 5: if you say, willing and anxious very well.
Speaker 2: But I'd like to ask you if you questions first anything,
Speaker 2: mister Holmes, what is your interest in her?
Speaker 5: She's a member of my flock. She needs my guidance,
Speaker 5: I think for that. No, mister Holmes, I believe that you.
Speaker 2: Performed the llage ceremony at both of her previous winnings. Yes,
Speaker 2: are you proposing to officiate the ceremony if she marries
Speaker 2: Major Beckwith Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm hoping that marriage will never take place, and so
Speaker 6: I want you to help me. Mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: Where does the lady live? Forty seven back is square?
Speaker 2: Any doctor Watson and I will call on out of
Speaker 2: this afternoon.
Speaker 5: I doubt if I can be there myself. In fact,
Speaker 5: Diana might speak more freely if I'm not, but here's
Speaker 5: my card.
Speaker 2: You know where to get in touch.
Speaker 6: With me if you want to. And it was good
Speaker 6: day to you, Joan, and I'm greatly in your debt.
Speaker 4: Good day, strange business homes.
Speaker 3: I can't believe that mister Whylan's motives are entirely impersonal.
Speaker 2: Nor can I Old Chap.
Speaker 4: Mm We'll love you about I was thinking of the
Speaker 4: Book of tobd once.
Speaker 2: In that the role of protector, of the role I
Speaker 2: have just been asked to take, was played by the
Speaker 2: archangel Raphile can't help feeling Watson that I'm making distinct
Speaker 2: strides in my profession.
Speaker 7: Mister Sherlock Holmes, I'm so glad.
Speaker 2: To meet you, and you do, Lady Nring. May I
Speaker 2: introduce my old friend, doctor Watson.
Speaker 7: How are you, doctor.
Speaker 4: Watson, to meet you.
Speaker 7: Let's it down, Shell, you're just in time for tea.
Speaker 2: You know why we're here, of course.
Speaker 7: Naturally, mister Whalen came around here as soon as he'd
Speaker 7: left you. You would have persuaded me to look after
Speaker 7: my mortal affairs while he takes care of my immortal ones.
Speaker 1: Isn't that it?
Speaker 7: May I said, mister Holmes that I'm flattered that a
Speaker 7: man of your eminence should be sufficiently interested to bother
Speaker 7: about you?
Speaker 2: Wonder estimate your learn important vein Ring, though I may
Speaker 2: mention that if your problem had been as simple as
Speaker 2: mister Whaler made it up to be, I might have
Speaker 2: been otherwise engaged for being.
Speaker 7: Very frank and a little mysterious? Are you suggesting that
Speaker 7: mister Whalen didn't tell you everything?
Speaker 2: I am, and I hope you will be more candidate.
Speaker 7: Sherlock Holmes. I like you. You're most refreshing, milk and
Speaker 7: sugar in your team.
Speaker 2: Here you are?
Speaker 4: How about you?
Speaker 2: Doctor?
Speaker 7: What's I?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 7: And now, mister Holmes, perhaps you'll tell me why you
Speaker 7: think that you haven't been told everything before?
Speaker 2: I answer that a lady Nring. I wonder if I
Speaker 2: might ask you some questions, but of course anything. When
Speaker 2: your first husband, see Sonia, was killed, did the police
Speaker 2: find any suspect?
Speaker 7: A yes, one Fernand Gautier, a young man who had
Speaker 7: been an assistant in our meticians act. A stupid, good
Speaker 7: looking boy who thought he was in love with me.
Speaker 7: But of course inspect Lestrade had to release him. There
Speaker 7: was no evidence.
Speaker 4: You can bet that if he arrested him. The boy
Speaker 4: was a warning note.
Speaker 2: Was found among your husband's text, wasn't it?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 7: And it was signed in Hebrew with the name as Moudeus.
Speaker 7: But perhaps you're not familiar with the Book of toe Oh, yes,
Speaker 7: yes i am.
Speaker 2: I'm familiar with it, Lady Enring. How did you know
Speaker 2: then that the Hebrew letters signified that name.
Speaker 7: Mister Whelan translated them for me and also read me
Speaker 7: the Book of Tobit. He's always been particularly fond of
Speaker 7: that book, perhaps because it illustrates his own ideas on
Speaker 7: the dangers of teld.
Speaker 4: Us that he hasn't seen one of the warning notes.
Speaker 2: Yesterday precisely, Lady Henry, I read in the papers that
Speaker 2: you intend to marry Major Beckwith, a man who has
Speaker 2: just been tried for your late husband's murder. Yes, mister Holmes,
Speaker 2: when do you get to marry a may? I ask?
Speaker 4: But it pleases me.
Speaker 2: Doesn't it occur to you that a great deal of
Speaker 2: comment will becaused also that Major Beckwith's life is in
Speaker 2: obvious danger.
Speaker 7: Of course it occurs to be, my dear man, that's
Speaker 7: because of two tragic marriages, and I just spend the
Speaker 7: rest of my life alone. As mister Waylan would have
Speaker 7: me do. I'm young alive, Peter, what are you doing here?
Speaker 4: I just arrived back in England today, Diana.
Speaker 2: What's this I read about you marrying beck with Peter?
Speaker 7: I have guessed mister Sherlock, Holmbs and doctor Watson. This
Speaker 7: is Macombs, one of our most promising young.
Speaker 2: Painters, Diana.
Speaker 4: Is true?
Speaker 2: When I left England you love me?
Speaker 4: And are you?
Speaker 2: I come back? And what do I find?
Speaker 6: You're planning to marry.
Speaker 2: Beckw But I won't stand for it. If you think
Speaker 2: you can throw me over like some silly boy, you're
Speaker 2: very much mistaken. I can tell things, you know, I
Speaker 2: can tell lots of things.
Speaker 7: Get out of here, Peter, get out, Diana, and don't
Speaker 7: come back until you've learned manners and discretion.
Speaker 4: Diana, get out.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, gentlemen, whether any more questions you wanted to
Speaker 7: ask me? Mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: One, lady Nring, where is your fiancee mijor Beckwith He's upstairs.
Speaker 7: I'm letting him stay here until the scandal of the
Speaker 7: trial has died down.
Speaker 2: I mus see him at once and once for my Holmes.
Speaker 4: He's in no danger till the marriage takes place.
Speaker 2: The manage has taken place, Watson us, I'm very much mistaken.
Speaker 2: You are much to discrete an intelligent lady, nring to
Speaker 2: let him take here in your house unless you were
Speaker 2: already married.
Speaker 7: We were married this morning, but we plan to keep
Speaker 7: the factor secret for a few months until the scandal
Speaker 7: had died down.
Speaker 2: Tim.
Speaker 7: Please, I'll ring for the butler and ask him to camy.
Speaker 4: I ask madam who married you?
Speaker 3: And all the time he talked to us today and
Speaker 3: you perfect world, this marriage had taking place.
Speaker 4: You must have just come from it. I don't trust
Speaker 4: that man home.
Speaker 7: Oh there you are, Hudson, I just.
Speaker 2: Rang for you. Will you ask me to be lady?
Speaker 6: I was just on my way to telephone the police.
Speaker 7: The police.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 6: It's Major beckwith mi lady.
Speaker 4: He's been stabbed to death in his bath. It's Beckworth murdered.
Speaker 7: Too, Hudgson. I'll telephone the police and now I'm rather
Speaker 7: well acquainted with inspeculist rad.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, my dreadful business. Herm the third husband murdered
Speaker 4: on his wedding. What a woman?
Speaker 6: What's she?
Speaker 2: Super magnificence?
Speaker 4: What on earth do you mean her?
Speaker 2: What courage? What unconquerable spirit in the face of a
Speaker 2: fresh tragedy. What she fascinates me. I haven't seen such
Speaker 2: a splendid female since we solved that case for the Kili.
Speaker 1: Doctor Watson's story will continue in just a few seconds
Speaker 1: time enough to remind you that the easiest way to
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Speaker 1: food with a swell Petree wine. And there are two
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Speaker 1: now back to tonight's new Sherlock Holms's adventure, the famous
Speaker 1: detective and his old friend doctor Watson have become involved
Speaker 1: in the affairs of thrice married Diana, one time Magicians assistant.
Speaker 1: Each of her husband's has been mysteriously murdered on his
Speaker 1: wedding day, the latest murder occurring on the same day
Speaker 1: that Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson are brought into the case.
Speaker 1: As we rejoin our story, it's a month later, and
Speaker 1: for some obscure reason, Sherlock Holmes seems to have lost
Speaker 1: interest in the case, though not in the beautiful Diane.
Speaker 2: Mister Romes, yes, the start.
Speaker 8: It's over a month now since Major Bekfast was murdered
Speaker 8: and we haven't found a single clue to you expect.
Speaker 2: Me to supply the deficiencies of stuttant Yard world.
Speaker 8: It's unlike you not to help us, Miss Robes. And
Speaker 8: after all, you and Dr Watson we are in the
Speaker 8: house when it happened. If you ask me, the murderers
Speaker 8: either Macombus, the Irish painter or the clergyman Wayde What
Speaker 8: do you think?
Speaker 2: So far as I'm concerned, the case is closed, Lestard,
Speaker 2: and I wish you'd stop bothering me, But I think
Speaker 2: I am nothing but a detecting machine. Mister Romes, whatever's
Speaker 2: come over you, Holmes?
Speaker 4: You're not getting out again this evening.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid, so old Chap with the fourth night in a.
Speaker 4: Rose, hoping that we might have a nice quiet evening.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Watson, but I promised to take Diana to
Speaker 2: the host show at Olympia. I should be home by midnight. Mister,
Speaker 2: mister Whalen, you're seeing.
Speaker 6: Altogether too much of Diana. She seems to be completely
Speaker 6: under your spirit.
Speaker 2: You're introduced me to her in the first place with
Speaker 2: the request that I keep an Eyana.
Speaker 6: I made a great mistake as her spiritual protector.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I must ask you to stop seeing her.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I must ask you, sir, the mind your
Speaker 2: own business.
Speaker 3: I said, Holmes, have you seen the paper that that
Speaker 3: Violence Is II is playing at the Albert Hall?
Speaker 2: To no, I haven't looked at the paper today.
Speaker 4: Perhaps we might do long.
Speaker 2: I can't hold chap. No, I'm taking Diana to the
Speaker 2: French maide A Delius there that I hear it's a
Speaker 2: charming musical comedy.
Speaker 4: Look here home.
Speaker 3: We've been friends for a good many years now. I
Speaker 3: think I'm entitled to speak to you straight from the shoulder.
Speaker 2: Of course you are, Watson, very.
Speaker 3: Well, then this Diana Beckworth, it's your own business as version.
Speaker 3: I can't better see I'm making such a fool of you.
Speaker 3: You've elected your work and tell us that you matter.
Speaker 3: You get about as over young fellow twenty, what's come
Speaker 3: over you?
Speaker 2: And stop to stop pacing about old chat when you
Speaker 2: want sit down. In fact, it might be a good
Speaker 2: idea if you fortifide yourself with a nip of brandit
Speaker 2: from the cantle astack. What I'm about to tell you
Speaker 2: maybe something of a shock. And what's.
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: Diana and I are getting married tomorrow?
Speaker 4: What did you tell?
Speaker 2: And I'm getting married tomorrow? But that's not pretty clapping?
Speaker 2: What'sn't anyway? I don't see why you should be so
Speaker 2: surprised you you you yourself married and left Baker Street once,
Speaker 2: didn't you?
Speaker 4: The you homes of confirmed woman know what?
Speaker 2: Indeed, no, you will remember in our adventure that you
Speaker 2: titled a scandal in Bohemia, I met a lady that
Speaker 2: I have often referred to.
Speaker 4: As the woman you mean, I really had love. But
Speaker 4: she was a criminal exactly.
Speaker 2: And yet Diana has the same magnificent characteristics keen intelligence, courage,
Speaker 2: and unconquerable spirits.
Speaker 3: At home, three of her husband's murdered on their wedding
Speaker 3: nights you're proposing.
Speaker 2: To be the fall rubbish, my dear fellow, because tragedy
Speaker 2: has attended her previous marriages. You should go through life alone,
Speaker 2: homes you.
Speaker 4: You really mean it, don't you?
Speaker 2: Of course I do.
Speaker 4: I think I will have a liver Brenna.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't take it so bad. Your fellow will continue
Speaker 2: to see a lot of each other. Diana's very fond
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Who's going to perform the ceremony, Not the reverend mister
Speaker 3: Waylo Luna.
Speaker 2: We decided, in view of Diana's previous marriages, that he
Speaker 2: might prove to be appliful. Well, I'm lucky. A lerchman
Speaker 2: named Verney will officiate when, and of course insists on
Speaker 2: being present of the same.
Speaker 4: What time is the wedding? Mark? Oh?
Speaker 2: One, I should have mentioned this before. I hope your
Speaker 2: cutaway coat and top hat are in a good state
Speaker 2: of preservation. You will be a pretty prominent figure at
Speaker 2: the ceremony, you know, do you mean that?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: I mean that if Sheilock Holmes gets married, who else
Speaker 2: could be his best man but his old friend Dr Watson,
Speaker 2: his elementary, My dear fellow, elementary.
Speaker 9: I now pronounced men and wife and those whom God
Speaker 9: had joined together.
Speaker 2: Let no man put asunder.
Speaker 4: Hannah, I'm going to claim the privilege of the best man.
Speaker 7: And if you ki, of course you shall doctor.
Speaker 4: You home. It's lucky fuller, of course I am jack sure.
Speaker 7: I'm going upstairs to change my dress now, Diana, I'll
Speaker 7: be up shortly. I see you later, Doctor Watts.
Speaker 4: Very well, missus Holmes. I never thought i'd.
Speaker 2: What's no, I'm worried.
Speaker 4: Worried today, fellow, what's the better? Well?
Speaker 2: Just before the ceremony, I received one of those warning
Speaker 2: notes signed by as Mon Deus.
Speaker 4: Oh you better be careful home, and I think I'll.
Speaker 2: Slip out and have a pipe or two on the letter. Yes,
Speaker 2: look after my guests for me. Will you keep your
Speaker 2: eyes open?
Speaker 4: Indeed, very warms to well. Would you care for gasses?
Speaker 4: You have pain or punch or something earlier? Thank you?
Speaker 5: No, doctor, I'm in no mood for celebration. I'm certain
Speaker 5: that Diana has made a shocking mistake. I only came
Speaker 5: here in the last minute attempt to dissuade her.
Speaker 6: Now that I've failed, I shall leave.
Speaker 4: Good day, sir doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: Oh, hold on the course, where's mister Holmes, he's.
Speaker 3: Back in a few minutes. Would you care for a
Speaker 3: glass of champagzir?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 2: I should like to drink a toast to the pear.
Speaker 2: I've been in love with Diana for years, you know,
Speaker 2: but she wouldn't marry me, and well, I suppose I
Speaker 2: might as well make the best of it. I must say,
Speaker 2: a French shellow home seems like a splendid fellow.
Speaker 4: He is, indeed, mccermis. In fact, I may say, what
Speaker 4: excuse me, sir? Howright, Holmes, I'm coming.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a matter how hollow we locked the door
Speaker 2: behind you. Allow me to introduce you to the demon
Speaker 2: Asthma Dea Swatson. Unfortunately, at the moment she's in a faint.
Speaker 2: Good Lord, Diana exactly, always an impetuous woman. She made
Speaker 2: the mistake of trying to stab me with that knife,
Speaker 2: so I bent her for to trap up a suitcase.
Speaker 2: She didn't allow for the wall mirror in which I
Speaker 2: was watching her. Do you mean you suspected to all
Speaker 2: the last sighted old fellow probably was to find the
Speaker 2: poof I first suspected her when I knew that she
Speaker 2: had been a magician's assistant. The key to the profession
Speaker 2: of magic is misdirection, and these murders have been a
Speaker 2: perfect example of misdirectioned motive.
Speaker 4: How do you mean?
Speaker 2: Well? By creating assodaas? Thanks to the well meaning stories
Speaker 2: of the Reverend mister Whalen, whose theological libraries she must
Speaker 2: have copied the Hebrew signature, she focused the murders on jealousy,
Speaker 2: concealing the fact that the one person with a perfect
Speaker 2: motive was herself, the widow who was to inherit. Why
Speaker 2: hadn't you been caught before? She was devilishly clever. She
Speaker 2: left no clues except an indirect one that I had
Speaker 2: once spotted that the likeliest person to be able to
Speaker 2: approach a bridegroom unsuspected and stab In is his bride.
Speaker 2: And now I wish you'd see if you can revive
Speaker 2: her old pillow when the police get here. I should
Speaker 2: like missus Holmes to be in full possession of all
Speaker 2: her faculties.
Speaker 3: Who Holmes, I must say, I never expected to be
Speaker 3: driving back with you the Vega Street on your wedding day.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you, dear Old, what you really thought
Speaker 2: that I deserted? You didn't joke.
Speaker 4: Actually, I wish you'd told me the truth.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't tell anyone, not even you, if the faintest
Speaker 2: shadow of suspicion at the ended, I mind, I'd never
Speaker 2: a call her.
Speaker 3: Or it seems to be you paid to play high
Speaker 3: price homes. You told me you made a will in
Speaker 3: her favor, supposing something happened to you. But before her
Speaker 3: trial she'd get the money.
Speaker 2: You know who the will on or that was worth
Speaker 2: this night, Diana, there was a holographic will, and perfectly
Speaker 2: that it? Well, what on earth is a holographic and
Speaker 2: a will drawn up in that one's own handwriting on
Speaker 2: a piece of perfect plain paper. Such a document is
Speaker 2: quite legal. But I drew mine up on a paper
Speaker 2: with well without that head that made it inval it.
Speaker 4: Well, I see the The fact remains that you are married.
Speaker 2: Home, I really fooled you completely didn't die watching. I
Speaker 2: didn't the name of the clergyman who married us suggest
Speaker 2: anything to you.
Speaker 4: Leveren Verney, No, and whe I should it?
Speaker 2: Well Verney was a French painter of some note. He
Speaker 2: also happens to have been a great uncle of mine
Speaker 2: and my cops, you mean that that your brother Microft
Speaker 2: was a clergyman I mean that Micraft was dispised as
Speaker 2: a clergyman, and a very convincing job he did too,
Speaker 2: A more satisfactorc Clergman than the Reverend Mister Whaler knows
Speaker 2: whose possible complicity may compell him to answer some very
Speaker 2: awkward questions.
Speaker 3: You're not married, put myself home, said, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know what I suggest that you say nothing, my dear Chad.
Speaker 2: Let's just sit back quietly as two good friends can
Speaker 2: and OOO about the mutability of human affair.