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cheerful pilot study of the famous Doctor Watt, who's
relating his delightful Sherlock Holmes adventure.
Good evening, Doctor. You look a bit irritated, if you
pardon my. Thing.
Good evening, Mr. Manning. Good evening.
Yes, I am a bit annoyed, and with good reason.
I don't know if I've told you that Holmes has been listening
in to these reminiscences. Well, here's the letter I
received from him after last week's story.
Read it. All right, my dear Watson, I
noticed that in your last broadcast you gave way to your
regrettable habit of emotionalizing your story
detection. My dear fellow is, or ought to
be, an exact science so tinged with Romanticism is like
introducing a love story into the 5th proposition of Euclid.
As ever, Sherlock. Holmes.
Well, what do you think of that? But the emotion was there.
You couldn't tamper with the truth.
Holmes has always maintained that the truth is not in what
you say, but in the impression you create in the other person's
mind. Well, Holmes always complained
that I overstress the the human element in recording his cases.
How well I remember the attitude with which he received the
publishing of my first book about his adventure.
It was a cold morning in early spring.
We were sitting on either side of a cherry fire in our rooms
and vacancies. A thick fog rolled down between
the Dun coloured houses. Our gas was lit.
It's shone on the white cloth and glimmered on the coffee cups
and on the sofa. The breakfast table had not yet
been cleared away. Holmes had been silent all the
morning working his long cherry wood pipe, which usually
displaced his favorite clay. When he was in a disputatious
mood altogether, he was not in the Best of Temple.
Matches. Matches.
What are the matches? Look at that confounded fog.
What happens to all the matches in this house?
I'd like to know. My dear Holmes, why not use the
tongues and the live cold if you want to relight your pipe?
Oh, I burned myself. The heavens saying Holmes, stop,
stop. Something's annoying you.
Why not get it off your chest? It's that confounded book of
yours. Sensationalism, Watson rank
sensationalism in all this. Placing the emphasis on the
crime. Crime is common.
Logic is rare. You should stress the logic.
You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures
into a series of tales. Oh really, Holmes?
That's not logical. You're always complaining that
crime is falling off. You say there are no first class
criminals left. Quite.
Therefore, if you depend on the crime to hold your readers, you
will soon be a back number. Criminals last all their
enterprise and originality. My practice seems to be to
generating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and
giving good advice to young ladies from boarding service.
Advice to the love law there? Well, little bit.
This note, it came by the board, This morning's post.
Yeah, the last draw. That's what it is read.
It Let's have a look. Dear Mr. Holmes, I'm very
anxious to consult you as to whether I should or I should not
accept a situation which has been offered me as a governor.
I shall call at 10:30 tomorrow if I do not inconvenience you.
Yours faithfully, Violet Hunter, it's. 11 now.
Exactly, she's late. Just like a woman.
This is for your young lady now walking briskly up the street.
See brisk, purposeful manner, nice, bright, intelligent face.
She's stopping at our door. Maybe something in this case
after all, my dear Watson, she's not the hysterical sort that
makes a fuzz over nothing. Yes, she is.
Come in. How do you do this?
Is Mr. Sherlock Holmes? Quite.
And this is my colleague, Doctor Watson.
How do you do? I trust you'll excuse my
troubling you Mr. Holmes, but I've had a very strange
experience and if I have no relations of any sort to advise
me, I thought I'd best come to you.
I. Shall be very happy to do
anything that I can. Well, I I've been a governor for
five years in the family of Colonel Stanford Monroe.
He's been transferred to Nova Scotia so that for the last few
months I've been without a situation.
Why I advertise and answered advertisements, but without
success. See, the money I had saved began
to run out, and I was at my whip in indeed.
Indeed, and go on well. Yesterday I called in at a well
known employment agency run by a Miss sofa.
When I arrived, the outer office was filled with young ladies
looking for situations I I was told to wait.
I did sound. After about half an hour my name
was called out. Well, the door to Miss Sofa's
private office was a jar, he said.
Beside it was a contiguously stout man with a round, smiling
face and a heavy chin. Oh, his eyes were like 2 little
slips I advanced for the door of my knees trembling.
Oh Mr. Holmes, if you know how I needed that work.
Come in, my dear. Come in, Mr. Ruka thought.
This is Miss Oh, what is your name, my dear?
Miss Hunter. Violet Hunter.
Oh yes, Miss Hunter. I couldn't ask for anything
better. I'm sure you'll do, Miss Hunter.
I hope so Mr. Ruka. You're looking for a situation
as the governor, Yes. And what you, what salaries you
are. Well, I had 4 lbs a month in my
lastly. 4 lbs. Sweating.
Rank. Sweating.
How anyone could have the audacity to offer that to a lady
with such attraction, such accomplishment?
A lady pitted to the rearing of a child who may someday play a
considerable part in the history of this country.
Your salary, Madam would commence at 100 lbs.
A beer. A. 100 OH Mr. Rucassel.
Furthermore, it is my custom to advance my young ladies half
their salary beforehand. May may I ask where you live Mr.
Rucassel? Hampshire the charming rural
spot, the couple of beaches is the name of the place 5 miles
north of Winchester or the dearest old house and.
And what would be my duty? One child, a dear little run for
age 60, You could see him killing cockroaches with a
slipper Smith. He's gone before.
You could wait. My duty then, to take care of
this. Well, I I'm sure your good sense
would suggest that you obey any little commands which my wife I
give, provided, of course, that they were such as a lady might
obey with propriety. You see no difficulty.
Oh, I should be happy to make myself.
Beautiful oh. By the way, in dress for example
with fatty people. Fatty, be kind hearted now, now
if you were asked to wear a particular dress that we might
see you, you, you, you wouldn't object to our little women.
No. Or to sit here or there, that
wouldn't be offensive to you. Why not?
Or to cut your hair short before you come to them.
My, my. Hair.
Oh yes, it is quite essential. It's a little fancy of my wife,
you see. And lady spent his night.
Dear Miss Hunter must be consulted.
My, my hair. Oh no.
I I know I couldn't. No.
Oh, oh, what a pity. Well, in that case, Mr. But I
best inspect a few more of your young ladies.
Good day then, Miss Hunter. I'm afraid you must consider
yourself struck from Alice. You can.
Hardly. Expect us to assert.
Ourselves to find another such opening for you?
Good day, Miss Hunter. Let's not be too hard on the
young lady. After all, my request was a
little sudden. Perhaps, Miss Hunter, you would
like 24 hours in which to consider the matter and view the
fact that you have particularly beautiful hair.
I might be willing to raise the salary to £120 a year to
recompense. You Unusual.
Most unusual, My dear Miss Hunter.
What do you make of it? What?
Perhaps the gentleman's wife is a lunatic and he wishes to
humour her offences in order to prevent an outbreak.
Possibly. What?
Possibly. In any case, it doesn't seem a
nice household for a young lady, but.
The money, Mr. Holmes the money. And I need it so.
Well, yes, the pay is good. Too good.
Why should they give you 120 lbs when they can have their pick
for 40? There must be some strong
reason. But I have no choice.
And you've made-up your mind to accept.
Yes, I must. I thought if I told you the
circumstances, you would understand.
Afterwards, if I wanted your help at home, I should feel so
much stronger if I knew you were behind me.
Suddenly you may carry that feeling away with you, and if at
any time you should find yourself in danger, what?
Danger could they be? My dumbest hunter, you could
cease to be a danger if we could define it.
But remember, at any time, day or night, just Telegraph me and
we'll come to your help. Thank you.
It's been almost a week since
that charming Miss Hunter called.
Conditions must be pretty good at the copper beaches or we'd
heard from her. Never know what?
Never know. She may not be able to get to a
Telegraph office. I think very dreadful can happen
out in the open country like this.
That's where you're wrong Watson.
My experience that the vilest alleys in London do not present
a more dreadful record of sin, and does the smiling beautiful.
Countryside. Oh, Julie creeps.
What do you mean? The pressure of public opinion
is greatest in the towns. There is no lane so vile that
the screen of a tortured child or the thought of a drunkard's
blow does not beget sympathy and assistance from the neighbours.
But the countryside idea was filled with its lonely houses.
Think of the hellish. Cruelty, the hidden wickedness.
I may go on year in, year out in such places and no one the
wiser. Had our young friend gone to
Winchester, I should not have had this fear for her safety.
It's the five miles of country which makes the danger see
whether it is Watson. Oh.
Thank you, Sir. Telegram View her.
Give it to me. It's from Miss Hunter.
Oh, what's she say? Come at once to meet you at the
Black Swan Hotel, Winchester at 3:00 this afternoon and at my
wit's end. Don't fail me.
What you suppose has happened? Hurry, Watson, we've no time to
lose. There's a train from Waterloo
station in half an hour if we can only get to her in time.
In just a moment we will follow Sherlock Holmes and Doctor
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quinine, coal habit. Yes, there's the Black Swan
opposite the station. Yes, and if I'm not mistaken,
that's Missus Hunter waiting for us on the doorstep, pale and
shaky at home. Yeah, well, girl is obviously.
Frightened. Kind of.
You become you too, Doctor Watson.
Can't tell you. Can't tell you how anxious.
There now, Miss Hunter. Perhaps if we go inside they can
give us a private sitting room. Yes, I've ordered tea this way.
Ah yes, that's better. Nice fuzzy fire. close the door,
Billy Watson. That's right.
Now then, you let the doctor do the pouring while you tell the
story. First of all, how do you like
your? Tea 2 lumps in.
The middle tea. Thank you, Doctor Watkins.
Yes, and now well. First of all, I've had no, no
actual I'll treatment for Mr. Newcastle, but I think it's
frightened me. However, I've had that begin at
the beginning. Yes, that is generally a good
place to start. Well.
Mr. Hunt Super Beaches is a large looking house almost
completely surrounded by woods that it suppressed me From the
moment of my arrival. I was mad at the door by Mr.
Newcastle and his wife. And.
Is she? She's not mad, I see.
She's a small, pale faced woman, much younger than Mr. Newcastle.
In fact, I gather that she's his second wife.
You see, that was a good daughter by the first marriage,
a girl now over 20, but she's not living at the house.
Mr. Newcastle said that she couldn't get along with her
stepmother, so he sent it to America to Philadelphia.
And does Mrs. Newcastle strike? He was a difficult woman to get
along. With Oh no, she's shy and rather
quiet, more than one to surprise her in tears.
At first I thought it might be worry over the disposition of
her child. What's the matter with his
disposition? Badly spoiled, he has an
ungovernable temper and seems to take great delight in torturing
birds and small animals. Pleasant little bee.
And the rest of the household. Well, there's only 17.
Taller. Is his name rough?
Uncouth man with a perpetual smell of drink.
About him. Why they keep him, I don't know,
except perhaps because he's the only one who can manage.
Carlo Carlo. Yes, Carlo's a huge underpaid
masters, has kept chained in the table during the day, but at
night they let him out. Terrible beast.
Even Mr. Rukasso is afraid of him.
I'm sure you dare. Any tractors of the bits?
I wonder why Mr. Root Council desires such ferocious
protection. I'm.
Sure. I don't know.
Unless. Unless there's something on the
top floor of The West Wing that he wants to protect.
The West Wing, eh? Yes, the door that leads into it
is opposite my room and it's kept securely locked it.
Looks nasty to me. Please.
Watch some teeth don't interrupt.
Me. Well, the second day after my
arrival, immediately after breakfast, Mr. Root Castle asked
me to put on a dress which had been laid out for me on my bed.
What was it like? This wasn't a new dress, Mr.
Holmes, but the material was excellent and have a
particularly brilliant shade and electric view.
Put it on and went down to the living room.
Mr. Luke, after had placed the chair for me by the front
window, he asked me to sit there with my back to the window and
to read to him from a French novel.
Well, I read for an hour, and at the end of that time he said I
might go upstairs and change. Strange.
This experience has been repeated every morning since
then, well as time. Plus I became more and more
curious. Why were they so careful?
To keep my face turned away from the window?
Naturally, I was consumed with the desire to see what was going
on behind my back. So today I divide the means.
I noticed at breakfast that Mister Lucas has had quite a few
dreams. Happy thought sees me.
My hand mirror had been broken, so I concealed a piece of it in
my handkerchief and later in my book, feeling sure that Mister
Lucas was too drunk to notice. Holding the book up, I was able
to see everything behind me. And what did you see?
And at first there was nothing. At the second glance, however, I
saw a young man in a grey suit leaning against the railing
which bordered our field. He was looking earnestly in my
direction. Mr. Rucassel must have noticed
my surprise, for he burst out angrily.
Really, Miss Hunter, Your attention must be wondering.
That's the second time did you play Dead Passage?
Furthermore, there's an impertinent fellow up the road.
He's staring at you. Is your friend of yours.
Oh no, Mr. Woodcastle. I don't know anyone.
Around. Well, can you turn around?
And most need to go away wouldn't.
It be better not to notice. Than do what I still you really
don't encourage you to have any. Followers.
Very well. Mr. Woodcastle there.
Person and follow that will. Be also this morning, Miss
Hunter, you may go to your room. Go to your.
Room, I say. And after that, you didn't
bother. To wear that blue dress here.
What a fight for puzzle. If I can only get away from
here. It's also depressing.
But if you left the key in the door to the Red Wing, you must
be drunk. I wonder what's inside.
Oh yeah. Wouldn't I have to take just one
note? Oh, dark it is.
Lucy. Wait. 3 doors.
Where the middle one is barred at the end of the node.
I'm bitter. I wonder why.
Oh, but if it's fucking in here. What was that?
Oh, you have to be the best. Someone's in there.
Or maybe it's something I can't stand.
Too eerie. I've got to get out of here.
I've got to get out. Oh, dear.
They come. Mr. Lucas.
Message, dear. I'm Mr. Lucas.
Was you then I thought it was even I saw the daughter, young
lady. And what surprised me?
You. I was foolish enough to go into
that fake wing, but it was so lonely and hearing and the bat
swooped down into my feet. Is that all?
What else could? That be And why do you suppose
that I keep that door off I'm. Sure.
I don't know. To keep people out, to have no
business there, you see, I'm. Sure, if I know.
Well, you know now, my dear young lady, and if you ever put
your foot over that threshold again, I'll throw you.
What a dreadful experience. I feel sure there's someone lost
in that room. Someone who's unhappy, perhaps.
Tortured. Oh good heavens, it's almost
five. I promise to be back by 6.
Mr. Newcastle are going out. If Mr., Newcastle should
discover where I'd. Been He acted like a brave and
sensible girl. Miss Hunter, do you think you
could do one more thing? I can try, Mr. Holmes, Doctor
Watson and I will be at the copper beaches by 7.
The new castles will be gone by that time and I don't imagine
the mastiff will be let loose until they return.
Oh no, Mr. Holmes. It would be too dangerous for
them to get back to the. House Good.
We will hope the toilet is still drunk.
At any rate, you must get us into the house.
You must explore The West Wing. How?
Do my best, Mr. Holmes. Now I must hurry.
Goodbye. Goodbye.
Well, my dear Holmes, what do you make of the door?
Blue dress and the man in front of the house.
Obviously they've had someone ever impersonating someone, one
young, whose hair has been cut off during an illness.
That someone is probably the person imprisoned in The West
Wing. Sinister.
That is not the most sinister part of Miss Hunter's story.
Oh, what is it? The unpleasant disposition of
the child. What's that got to do?
With it idea what? As a medical man, you know that
a child's tendencies can be discovered by a study of the
parents. But heredity is a sound.
Could be worked back with as well.
And get a good insight into the character of the parents by
studying the children. This child is cruel, abnormally
cruel, probably inherited from one of his parents.
I only hope nothing serious happens before 7:00 tonight.
What a knife First thunderstorm of the season.
He's in an ugly temper. Listens to the house.
With this group. Of copper beaches and
thunderbicks. Yes, yes, yes, Miss Hunter
waiting for us in the doorway and.
Coast must be clear. Oh.
You'll rather wait for yourself. Be careful, you know you'll be
catching. Toler.
He was just going out to release the dog.
I sent him to the wine cellar, then locked.
Him in blended. I managed to get Tolly's keys
off him too. He was quite drunk.
They are duplicates of Mr. Ruka. Better than better, But come
along upstairs, There's no time to wait.
Have you got your revolver handy, Watson?
Yes, good heavens, that lightning must have hit quite
near. Here, one of the top our
beaches, no doubt, no? Which key?
Oh, this one. That's right.
Nothing here. Come along.
Listen to that rain on the roof the.
Middle door. You said hello in there.
I want that. I don't like that.
Watch them. Hope you'll remove this
bedstead, will you? That's right.
All right. Hide it.
One side. Yeah.
A cup of rope. That's it.
The door is locked. Oh, we.
Must break it open then come on one. 2.
Hello, there's no one here. As villain Root Castles has made
away. With the prisoner may be right.
He's probably been carried off, Yes, but how?
Who's the skylight still open? Shut that table.
Over here. What are you?
Going to do hand. On it, of course, yes, yes,
there's a footprint and some ladder resting against ease, so
that's. How he did it.
But that's not possible. The matter wasn't there when the
root castles went away. Then he must have come back.
He's a dangerous and clever man. Listen, yes, I think I get his
steps on the stairs. I thought I'd find you here.
What have you done with your daughter?
I'm the one that I've caught you in my path.
I'll fix you. If you're trying to get the dog,
we'll be trying to shred. Watch him we'll.
Just close to my door. I drive home.
Let. Me let me out Mr. Rucas.
And loose the door. Just get.
Mr. Rucas look. Quick, quick, quick.
It'll be too late. Come.
On, it'll be teased. Let him out.
No, it's Carlo. You've got Mr. Rukasso by the
snow. Rick Watson.
Give me a revolver. Careful you don't hit the man by
mistake. Shut up and stand back, Watson.
Oh my God, thank heavens you've killed Carlo.
I thought it was too late. It's so horrible, I think.
I. You watching until?
I bring Rukasso. Into the house, will you?
Oh, you're. So strange.
Please, please. It's.
All over. Just you go upstairs and pack
your bag. Doctor Watson and I are going to
take you back to town with us on the 9:00 train,
so you'll think Watson, the term Blue Castle will live.
I'm afraid to home I'm so. Glad to get away from that
principle. I say home, Just what did happen
to the prisoner in The West Wing?
Who was it? It's also disgusting this
simple. My dear Watson is Blue Castle's
daughter. That I suspected Seems that she
had inherited money from my mother, who was New Castle's
first wife, and she threatened to get married and take a small
fortune with her. Her father tried to get her to
sign a paper giving the money to him.
She wanted her until she got brain fever and had to have all
her hair cut off. Oh, what a fruit.
I got all these details until her.
Still, her young man stuck to her and cheated him.
After that, Mister Lucas locked his daughter up and brought his
hunter down from London in order to impersonate her, get rid of
the persistent suitor. This young gentleman, however,
was a persevering champion. Having breezed Toler's palm very
thoroughly, he learned the full state of affairs.
With the help of Toler and a long stepladder, he rescued his
fiance and I'm headed for Southampton with a special
license. And this time this whole castle,
or rather Mrs. Fowler is really going to American on our
honeymoon. You're a regular old woman.
Well, I'm glad we were able to help the poor thing, but I
wouldn't go back to that house again.
Not for twice the. Salary.
Oh, that reminds me, Miss Hunter.
I was talking to a friend of mine about you the other day.
She's a private school in Walsall, I believe, She said.
She had an opening for you. Oh, Mr. Holmes.
Oh no. My dear, there's quite some
consequences. Oh really?
No. Shut up, Watson.
Well, Doctor Watson, you suddenly had some exciting times
when you were living with Sherlock Holmes.
I. Certainly did, Mr. Manning.
Those were the days. Tell me no.
No, but a dull moment, yes. But I think of the thrilling
experiences that that homes brought into my life.
I can almost forgive him for being so abusively critical.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, before Doctor Watson tells us
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next week? 'S well, next week we shall hear
about the noble bachelor who finally married and whose wife
disappeared between the wedding and this bridal Bristol so.
This bachelor had a wife, eh? Even Holmes will have trouble
explaining that. Not at all, Mr. Money.
Not at all. You'll hear all about it next
week. The most peculiar story it is.
Too, you have been listening to a Sherlock Holmes adventure
adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story The Copper Beaches,
starring Dazzle Wrath on A Sherlock Holmes and Nigel.
Bruce says Doctor Watson. The dramatization was by Edith
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