Sherlock Holmes - The Reigate Squires

<v Speaker 1>Vy she capital, my dear Watson, let us return to
<v Speaker 1>our humble a two.
<v Speaker 2>To one b Baker eight carin.
<v Speaker 3>From London. We present The Reigate Squires, A day for
<v Speaker 3>Radio by Michael Hardwick, based on a short story by
<v Speaker 3>Sir Arthur Kernan Doyle, The Reigate Squires.
<v Speaker 4>I see from my notes that it was on the
<v Speaker 4>fourteenth of April eighteen eighty seven that I received a
<v Speaker 4>telegram from Lyons telling me that Sherlock Holmes was lying
<v Speaker 4>ill there.
<v Speaker 1>Within twenty four hours I was in his sickroom. His
<v Speaker 1>iron constitution had broken down under the strain of a
<v Speaker 1>two month's investigation.
<v Speaker 2>And when I got him back to two to one Bee.
<v Speaker 1>Baker Sweet three days later, it became obvious to me
<v Speaker 1>that for all his love of London, you will be
<v Speaker 1>better off for a change in the country.
<v Speaker 2>Well, how are we.
<v Speaker 1>Feeling today, eh, I don't mind admitting it's left me
<v Speaker 1>feeling a bit knocked up.
<v Speaker 2>A bit knocked up.
<v Speaker 1>You'll be working on fifteen hours day average through Watson through.
<v Speaker 2>And now you're paying a penalty.
<v Speaker 1>Exhausted Still, I speard, all this is some compensation work there,
<v Speaker 1>all these telegrams. Congratulations still coming in by the bucket
<v Speaker 1>for those now really homes.
<v Speaker 2>You succeed where the police of three continents have failed.
<v Speaker 1>You outl over the most, the country's swindler in Europe
<v Speaker 1>at every point, and all you can say is oh though,
<v Speaker 1>let the politicians and the financiers do the rejoicing. The
<v Speaker 1>Netherlands Sumatra Company and its affairs are things of the
<v Speaker 1>past for me now. All I want, Watson, is a
<v Speaker 1>good rest.
<v Speaker 5>Well, I uh, a matter of homes. That's just what
<v Speaker 5>I wanted to have a word with you about Colonel
<v Speaker 5>Hayn old friend Deana mccre in Afghanistan. Well, he's taking
<v Speaker 5>my house down there, right it. He keeps asking us
<v Speaker 5>to go down for a bit of a break anytime
<v Speaker 5>we like. He's just reinge the invitation.
<v Speaker 2>And I thought a week or self springtime in the
<v Speaker 2>country might be just the thing on about it. Eh.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure your friend means very well, Watson, springtime and
<v Speaker 1>sorry delightful. But can you see me lounging about on
<v Speaker 1>sofas being fussed to death by will meaning.
<v Speaker 2>It's a bachelor establishment home. Well, then hit of the
<v Speaker 2>final soda in the world.
<v Speaker 1>Talk whole night if you want to go Oh my,
<v Speaker 1>but loads when to keep out of the way and
<v Speaker 1>leave a man in.
<v Speaker 2>Pieces, that's what he prefers.
<v Speaker 1>How are you say, homes, you suppose his breakfasts come
<v Speaker 1>up to my standards? Oh, homes, Well, you'll come with
<v Speaker 1>Pavier Watson, just as soon as you can arrange to
<v Speaker 1>transport these weary old burdens of mind between baker streets.
<v Speaker 2>And ragged ah. What about this Dellinger Watson?
<v Speaker 1>A beauty here, one with a magnificent thing.
<v Speaker 2>He isn't it? I don't, I say? Hither you gather
<v Speaker 2>quite an armory bushel heavy hum. Yes, the most impressive
<v Speaker 2>collection I think, so, eh, well, never know when it
<v Speaker 2>might come in handy in these parts. I mean. Well,
<v Speaker 2>we've been having quite a scare lately.
<v Speaker 1>Watson, oct, one of our local squires, had his house
<v Speaker 1>burned into last Monday. No great damage, you know, but
<v Speaker 1>the fellers are still at.
<v Speaker 2>Clark, no clues. Colonel her not so.
<v Speaker 1>Far renton sect his library, turn the whole place upside down.
<v Speaker 2>Didn't get much of their pains though. What then? Well,
<v Speaker 2>if I can remember, and it'll.
<v Speaker 1>Make your love is two? Play did candlesticks and I
<v Speaker 1>will let her wait? Small operometer.
<v Speaker 2>A board of twine. Who is a volume of Pope's Homer?
<v Speaker 1>Well, the county police ought to be able to make
<v Speaker 1>something of that.
<v Speaker 2>What surely it's of no, No, you're here for a risk,
<v Speaker 2>remember dear me, Watson. Well, I suppose I've got to
<v Speaker 2>do what you tell me for a change. Yes, that's right.
<v Speaker 2>Holmes had this treatment for.
<v Speaker 1>Him in the front eary. You know regular Martinez is Watson. Well,
<v Speaker 1>thanks Bickness. Things were shifted.
<v Speaker 2>Then I'll see your left in peace. It's going to
<v Speaker 2>be a lovely yes, Charles, A big parton, sir, I
<v Speaker 2>was just going to ring for you. Well, what's a
<v Speaker 2>mether man?
<v Speaker 1>Have you heard the US at the cunninghams Not another
<v Speaker 1>burglary murderer?
<v Speaker 2>Jo? Who the JP is so on? Neither sir? It
<v Speaker 2>was William the coachman shot through the art. Who shot him? Oh?
<v Speaker 2>It was a burglars got clean away. It just fought
<v Speaker 2>the country window, they say, when William disturbed him, shot
<v Speaker 2>him dead and made of it was his Charles. Well,
<v Speaker 2>last night, sir, somewhere about twelve.
<v Speaker 1>Dead business all right, Charles, these things were now I
<v Speaker 1>ring for you later, very good, sir. Poor Cunningham leading
<v Speaker 1>squire about here. Decent fellow can be cut up about this.
<v Speaker 1>You know the men have been in hisself a year
<v Speaker 1>might be one of the same times that broke into
<v Speaker 1>the other place.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I defended some local chapmans off.
<v Speaker 1>Ecton's and Cunninghams are just the places he would go
<v Speaker 1>for largest in these parts, you know.
<v Speaker 2>And the riches, well they ought to be. They've had
<v Speaker 2>a lot of the blood suck out of him in
<v Speaker 2>recent years. Oh, how's that.
<v Speaker 1>Well, they've had a law suo gragging on for no
<v Speaker 1>end of time. Old Exton has some claim on half
<v Speaker 1>of Cunningham's. His take, the lawyers have been heated with
<v Speaker 1>both heads. Well, if it's a local man, there shouldn't
<v Speaker 1>be much difficulty in running into her. Inspector follister, Oh,
<v Speaker 1>come in, inspector the morning knd of hate morning. I
<v Speaker 1>hope I don't intrude her. But we hear mister Holmes
<v Speaker 1>of Vegas streets here.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there he is inspector, and this is doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 2>I know he's the major.
<v Speaker 1>Gentlemen, we we wondered if we could ask you to
<v Speaker 1>step across, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>You've heard the news, I expect. Now look here inspector.
<v Speaker 2>As a medical man, I must tell you that my
<v Speaker 2>friend is far from haha.
<v Speaker 1>The fates are against Gill Watson. We were chatting about
<v Speaker 1>the matter and you came in, inspector. Perhaps you'd care to
<v Speaker 1>let us have a huge.
<v Speaker 2>Detail, ye won't you take a sitar, inspector.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, thank you sir. Well, mister Holmes, we had no
<v Speaker 1>clue in the acton affair, but we've plenty to go
<v Speaker 1>on this time.
<v Speaker 2>Uh. The man was seen ah.
<v Speaker 1>When the alarm broke out, mister Cunningham had just got
<v Speaker 1>into bed, and mister Alick Conningham, that's his son, was smoking.
<v Speaker 2>A pipe in his dressing room. They both heard.
<v Speaker 1>William the coachman called to help, and mister Alick ran
<v Speaker 1>down in.
<v Speaker 2>His dressing gown.
<v Speaker 1>The that door was open, and as he got the
<v Speaker 1>foot of the stairs he saw the two men wrestling
<v Speaker 1>together outside. One of them private shot, the other dropped
<v Speaker 1>to the ground, and the murderer was off across the
<v Speaker 1>garden over the hitch. Mister Cunningham saw him too from
<v Speaker 1>his bedroom window as he reached the road. Couldn't young
<v Speaker 1>Erick catch him?
<v Speaker 3>No?
<v Speaker 2>It stopped to.
<v Speaker 1>Do what he could for William, so the followed got
<v Speaker 1>clean away a middle sized man dressed in some dark stuff.
<v Speaker 1>That's the description we've got. E did William sailing before
<v Speaker 1>he died?
<v Speaker 3>No, not a word.
<v Speaker 1>I suppose he walked up from the lodge to make
<v Speaker 1>sure everything was all secure.
<v Speaker 2>Frightful fellow, you know, sir, Yes, yes, this acton business
<v Speaker 2>certainly had us all.
<v Speaker 1>On our guard, and he called the chepard handed.
<v Speaker 2>It seems like it dot there. But one thing we
<v Speaker 2>did get was this inspector. I see that for these certainly,
<v Speaker 2>mister Holmes. It seems to be.
<v Speaker 1>A fragment of paper torn from a larger sheet. It
<v Speaker 1>was between the dead man's finger and thumb. So either
<v Speaker 1>the other chef tore the wrist of the paper out
<v Speaker 1>of William's head, or William tore this bit from a
<v Speaker 1>sheet he was holding.
<v Speaker 3>It.
<v Speaker 1>Can't see what Eiram was doing waving sheets of paper about.
<v Speaker 2>All right.
<v Speaker 1>If you look at the words, though, it reads as
<v Speaker 1>if it's been some sort of appointment. Looks her at
<v Speaker 1>quarter to twelve. Then down here it says, learn what.
<v Speaker 2>This writing is of extraordinary interest?
<v Speaker 1>These are much deeper waters than I've thought. How's that,
<v Speaker 1>mister Holmes?
<v Speaker 2>Do you reckon.
<v Speaker 1>There was some sort of understanding between William and the burglar.
<v Speaker 1>William was to let him in, but they had a
<v Speaker 1>quarrel instead. It's not entirely impossible, but this writing, no,
<v Speaker 1>there's something about it that fascinates me. Hey, colonel, if
<v Speaker 1>you will permit me, I'll leave Watson and you will
<v Speaker 1>step dound to the inspector to put one or two
<v Speaker 1>little senses of mind of the test.
<v Speaker 2>You'll do nothing of the sort. I shall let you
<v Speaker 2>never fear Watson.
<v Speaker 1>Now deliver myself up to you in half an hour precisely,
<v Speaker 1>not a minute longer.
<v Speaker 2>Come along, Inspector. Let's be getting along.
<v Speaker 1>Well. And about time, Inspector half an hour mister Holmes said,
<v Speaker 1>that was exactly an hour and a half ago.
<v Speaker 2>Where is it?
<v Speaker 1>I have a few words to say to him, Well,
<v Speaker 1>doctor Watson as an actress.
<v Speaker 2>Fact, he's not come back when you was anything, sir,
<v Speaker 2>And mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 1>Sent me back here to ask you gentlemen to join
<v Speaker 1>him in the field outside. He was walking up and
<v Speaker 1>down there when I left him. He wants us all
<v Speaker 1>to go up to mister Cunningham's house together.
<v Speaker 2>What on earth for?
<v Speaker 1>Well, I have no idea Colonel between ourselves, Dr Watson,
<v Speaker 1>I think you're right to be concerned about mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>He seems to be well all excited. I don't like
<v Speaker 2>him with it all.
<v Speaker 1>I've seen him behaving some pretty odd ways at times
<v Speaker 1>when there's generally been some method behind his madness. Come on,
<v Speaker 1>hayd let's go to you mout this lunatic of ours.
<v Speaker 1>What my dear, Hello, I've had a charming morning this conflict.
<v Speaker 1>That idea of yours was a capital suggestion.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you've been up with to see the crime. I understand. Yes.
<v Speaker 1>Indeed, Colonel the inspector here and I made quite a
<v Speaker 1>little reconnaissance together as we did any luck way over. Well,
<v Speaker 1>we saw some very interesting things. I'll tell you what
<v Speaker 1>we did as we walked.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I don't walk too far us.
<v Speaker 1>First of all, we saw the body of the unfortunate William.
<v Speaker 1>There's no doubt that he died from a revolver. I
<v Speaker 1>didn't know there was any question about that.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, it's as well sub test everything, Colonel.
<v Speaker 1>Our inspection wasn't wasted. Well, then we had an interview
<v Speaker 1>with this Cunningham and his son. They were able to
<v Speaker 1>point out the exact spot that the murderer broke through
<v Speaker 1>the garden here.
<v Speaker 2>In his flight. That was of great interest. So what
<v Speaker 2>your investigation dared up to them?
<v Speaker 1>The conviction of the crime is a very peculiar one.
<v Speaker 1>Perhaps our visit now may do something to make it
<v Speaker 1>less obscure. Well, let's hope so inspect that. I think
<v Speaker 1>they both agreed that the fragment of paper in the
<v Speaker 1>dead man's hand is of extreme importance. Well, mister Holmes,
<v Speaker 1>it has got the very hour of death written.
<v Speaker 2>On it precisely? Whoever wrote that note of the man
<v Speaker 2>who brought William out of his bed at dead Are?
<v Speaker 2>But where's the rest of that sheet of paper? I
<v Speaker 2>examine every ench of the ground nearby for it. It
<v Speaker 2>was pawn out of the dead man's hands. Why was
<v Speaker 2>someone so anxious to get possession of it? Because it
<v Speaker 2>incriminated him just so? And what would he do with it?
<v Speaker 1>Thrust it into his pocket, most likely never noticing that
<v Speaker 1>the corner had been left in the rip.
<v Speaker 2>Of the corpse. Then again, the man who wrote it
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't have written it if he could have delivered the
<v Speaker 2>message by word of mouth. So who brought it or
<v Speaker 2>did it come through the post?
<v Speaker 1>Now that I can tell you, sir, we found out
<v Speaker 1>that William did get a letter by the afternoon post.
<v Speaker 1>It seems to have thrown the envelope away, though, Capital
<v Speaker 1>inspect that it's a pleasure to work with you.
<v Speaker 2>Well, thank you, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 1>Ah and here's the house here a Cunningham and other
<v Speaker 1>Cunningham nasty business, nasty.
<v Speaker 2>Business, good day hate ah Dr? What's my presumer? This
<v Speaker 2>is my son Eric? How do you do sir? How
<v Speaker 2>do you know they're still? Edit?
<v Speaker 1>Mister Holmes, it's me for you London as I could
<v Speaker 1>have a player. Oh, you must give us a little.
<v Speaker 2>Time, you know. Well, mister Cunningham, we have found one
<v Speaker 2>thing there was he think it right away? You feeling
<v Speaker 2>all right now? Jack? I can't apologize enough mister Cunningham.
<v Speaker 2>I'm afraid it's another of these confounded nervous attacks. Yes, Dr,
<v Speaker 2>what has been telling us? How ill you'll be? Wanted
<v Speaker 2>to call my tat for you? Well, perhaps in a
<v Speaker 2>little while you'd better be getting back homes. Since I
<v Speaker 2>am here, there's one little point i'd like to be
<v Speaker 2>sure about. We can easily verify. Oh very well, I.
<v Speaker 1>Should like to ask mister Ellick Cullingham where he was
<v Speaker 1>sitting when he heard William.
<v Speaker 2>Call for help. I was smoking in my disting room.
<v Speaker 1>The lamps were lit, the yes, And doesn't it strike
<v Speaker 1>you as extraordin that the burglar should break into a
<v Speaker 1>house at a time and he could see from the
<v Speaker 1>lights that the family was still at foot. A bit
<v Speaker 1>of a cool customer, perhaps, possibly, Well, we'll leave their
<v Speaker 1>speculation for the moment.
<v Speaker 2>There's something I'd like you to do, mister Cunningham, anything
<v Speaker 2>at all. Mister Holmes, I should like you to offer
<v Speaker 2>a reward.
<v Speaker 1>I've jutted down the bording here if you wouldn't mind
<v Speaker 1>reading it and sinning, fifty pounds would be quite enough.
<v Speaker 2>I think, certainly. I'll let me see it.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, thank you, I tell you, mister Holmes, I'd willingly
<v Speaker 1>make it five hundred for that bumpinesss No, this is fine.
<v Speaker 2>But there's one little mistake.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, I scribbled into the hurry you begin, whereas at
<v Speaker 1>about quarter to one on Tuesday morning, and a tempt
<v Speaker 1>was made, et cetera, et cetera.
<v Speaker 2>Will as a matter of fact, it was a quarter
<v Speaker 2>of the twill. Yeah me, of course, you're right.
<v Speaker 1>I don't allow myself to make elementary mistakes like that,
<v Speaker 1>mister Cunningham, do forgive me.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, quite all right, I'll correct it. No, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 2>I have a pencil here, Thank you Holmes. I must
<v Speaker 2>instid know, my dear Watson, I still have a few reserves. Letter.
<v Speaker 2>Now I suggest we all go over the house together. No,
<v Speaker 2>I feel much better, oh, mister Cunningham. I'll just have that.
<v Speaker 1>Note from my pocket book. This is, of course, of course,
<v Speaker 1>thank you. And now let us take a good look
<v Speaker 1>right well now, mister Holmes, this is my big here.
<v Speaker 1>I see my son the next all with the dressing
<v Speaker 1>room in between. Ah, yes, I should like to glance
<v Speaker 1>into the dressing room if you please. Of course, if
<v Speaker 1>you like, I should just like to see where the
<v Speaker 1>windows fast. Now with your permission, very well, m yes,
<v Speaker 1>I see, thank you.
<v Speaker 2>Now I think that is all. Yes, we can go
<v Speaker 2>down up. Oh, no, after you, my dear sir, thank you, Oh,
<v Speaker 2>my Colmes, it thank here.
<v Speaker 1>I'm afraid but you must have swept that the can't
<v Speaker 1>hold for the quick man before the carpet.
<v Speaker 2>Stay here, I use my hand, No no, no, I
<v Speaker 2>use mine. I can't think how it happened. I'll help
<v Speaker 2>you never mind, never mind, I'll ring for one of
<v Speaker 2>the servants to mop it up. What up? I think?
<v Speaker 2>Went home to the pair room? What's going down? The
<v Speaker 2>General's gentlemen.
<v Speaker 1>Restrect hollow murder of that coachman, I say, home, don't
<v Speaker 1>you get too far? No, colonel, Hater, if they who've
<v Speaker 1>gone to par this piece of paper will assure you
<v Speaker 1>that it's.
<v Speaker 2>A missing piece where you find it? It was where
<v Speaker 2>I was certain it must be. Look how he's gonna do?
<v Speaker 2>Drop that ad better? Ho, Miss Holmes says that something
<v Speaker 2>in what you say. I'll be able to make the
<v Speaker 2>home appelear you in a little while. Colonel, I suggest
<v Speaker 2>you and Watson go home now.
<v Speaker 1>Suddenly inspect them and I need a few words with
<v Speaker 1>our prisoners, and then i'll rejoin you.
<v Speaker 2>If it's quite convenient. You may expect me that for luncheon.
<v Speaker 2>There's glass a shady waiting boy. Oh stay too right anyway?
<v Speaker 2>Can I knows you? Good day, Hater? I hope you
<v Speaker 2>don't mind. Holmes asked me to come.
<v Speaker 1>I wanted mister Ax and a bit present while I
<v Speaker 1>demonstrated this small method to you.
<v Speaker 2>He has some call to be interested in the detail.
<v Speaker 1>I must say with all eager for this demonstration, homes Watson,
<v Speaker 1>and I was just agreeing with Haven't some destin different
<v Speaker 1>clue between us?
<v Speaker 2>To begin with?
<v Speaker 1>I must remind you that it is the highest importance
<v Speaker 1>in the arts of detection to be able to recognize
<v Speaker 1>which facts are incidental and which I'll vite quite close.
<v Speaker 1>Now I haven't the slightest dust, but the key of
<v Speaker 1>this whole mathe must be looked for in that scrap
<v Speaker 1>of paper from the dead man's hands.
<v Speaker 2>I have it here. Now I have another look at it, gentlemen,
<v Speaker 2>don't you observe something very were dealing about it?
<v Speaker 1>I can't say that I can. It's a pretty regular
<v Speaker 1>sort of hand exactly. Of course he's better at in
<v Speaker 1>my method.
<v Speaker 2>No, No, there cannot be the.
<v Speaker 1>Least start in the world that the note was written
<v Speaker 1>by two persons doing alternate words.
<v Speaker 2>Eh.
<v Speaker 1>Now, look at the torn portion of the note bearing
<v Speaker 1>the words at quarter of the twelve. Observe the strong
<v Speaker 1>teas of act and two. Compare them with those in
<v Speaker 1>quarter and twelve.
<v Speaker 2>By jove, I see what you mean.
<v Speaker 1>But why should two men write a letter like this?
<v Speaker 1>Obviously one of them distrusted the other. The idea was
<v Speaker 1>that each of them should have an equal hand in
<v Speaker 1>the business.
<v Speaker 2>Ah.
<v Speaker 1>Of the two, i'd say the one who wrote Act
<v Speaker 1>and two with the ringleader. However, can you say that
<v Speaker 1>we might did you.
<v Speaker 2>Sit familiar character the one hand as compared to the other,
<v Speaker 2>if we had more assured reasons than that.
<v Speaker 1>Now, if you examine the scrap with attention, he will
<v Speaker 1>come to the conclusion that the man.
<v Speaker 2>With a stronger hand wrote all his word first and
<v Speaker 2>left blanks for the other. That they're love. I see
<v Speaker 2>the blank spent always big enough. No, look here, the second.
<v Speaker 1>Man had squeezed, you see, to get the word quarter
<v Speaker 1>in between the act and the two. So we conclude
<v Speaker 1>that the man who wrote his words first planned the
<v Speaker 1>whole affair.
<v Speaker 2>Ahvo home. Magnificent bit of deduction, but very superficial. We
<v Speaker 2>come down to a point which is of real importance.
<v Speaker 2>You may be aware that the deduction.
<v Speaker 1>Of a man's age from his writing is one which
<v Speaker 1>has been brought to considerable accuracy by expert No indeed,
<v Speaker 1>oh yes, mister Acton. In normal cases one can place
<v Speaker 1>a man in his true decade with tolerable confidence. Remarkable,
<v Speaker 1>I say normal cases because ill health and physical weakness
<v Speaker 1>reproduced the signs.
<v Speaker 2>Of old age, even when the invalid is young.
<v Speaker 1>In this case, looking at the bold, strong hand of
<v Speaker 1>the one and the rather broken backs appearance of.
<v Speaker 2>The other, we can say that the one was a
<v Speaker 2>young man and the other was advanced in years without
<v Speaker 2>being positively decretic. Well, I never heard anything to touch this.
<v Speaker 2>Did you read anything else in the hand writing? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, we were at least twenty three other dedas, but
<v Speaker 1>they'd be a voyant as to experts from the you colonels,
<v Speaker 1>except perhaps that some of them revealed quite clearly that
<v Speaker 1>the two writers were blood relative early. Oh, I've no
<v Speaker 1>doubt at all that the family mannerism can be traced
<v Speaker 1>in these two specimens of writing.
<v Speaker 2>It may be obvious to you in the Greek ease,
<v Speaker 2>but to me there are many small points which indicate
<v Speaker 2>the same thing.
<v Speaker 1>Did you connected with the cunninghams inn? They naturally came
<v Speaker 1>pretty quickly too my mind, Watson. Well, then I went
<v Speaker 1>up to the house for the inspector and saw all
<v Speaker 1>that was to be seen.
<v Speaker 2>The start brill, there was.
<v Speaker 1>The bullet wound, and the dead man. What about that
<v Speaker 1>it had been caused by a shot from at least
<v Speaker 1>four yards away. There was no powder blackening on the clothes.
<v Speaker 1>Alec Cunningham had lied when he said the two men
<v Speaker 1>had been.
<v Speaker 2>Struggling when the shots was side. Ah.
<v Speaker 1>Then both father and some agreed about the place where
<v Speaker 1>the man had escaped into the road. There's a broadish
<v Speaker 1>ditch at that point, moist at the bottom, but there
<v Speaker 1>were no signs of marks anywhere. I was not na
<v Speaker 1>sure that both the cummingoms had lied, but there'd be
<v Speaker 1>no unknown man on the scene at door.
<v Speaker 2>Did you mean to say that one of these shot
<v Speaker 2>Williams find Hymn's name what they want to do there?
<v Speaker 2>That was what I asked myself.
<v Speaker 1>I began to think about the original burglary at your house,
<v Speaker 1>mister egg, and I.
<v Speaker 2>Remembered the colonel here telling us about a long standing
<v Speaker 2>lawsuit between you and the Cunninghams. Yeah, yeah, that's right enough.
<v Speaker 2>I have the clearest possible claim upon half their present
<v Speaker 2>a sixth and by breaking into your library