Sherlock Holmes - The Sussex Vampire

<v Speaker 1>Capable, my dear Watson, let us return to humble a Vos.
<v Speaker 2>Two to one bee Baker to meet his carriage from London.
<v Speaker 1>We present The Sussex Vampire, a play for radio based
<v Speaker 1>on a short story by Sir Arthur Urnham Doyle, The
<v Speaker 1>Sussex Vampire.
<v Speaker 3>It was an evening of a dull fogy November day,
<v Speaker 3>Following our usual custom.
<v Speaker 2>Shearlock, Holmes and Eye had.
<v Speaker 3>Taken a stroll about the streets adjoining Regent's Park. With
<v Speaker 3>the poisonous brown air had driven us back thankfully the
<v Speaker 3>warmth and comfort of the sitting room at two to
<v Speaker 3>one bee Vaga Street. As I stretched out my toes
<v Speaker 3>to the welcoming plays, Holmes read Chaffley a note which
<v Speaker 3>the last post had brought him.
<v Speaker 2>Then, with a.
<v Speaker 3>Dry chuckle, which was his nearest approach to a laugh,
<v Speaker 3>he tossed it over to me.
<v Speaker 1>But a mixture of the modern and the medieval are
<v Speaker 1>the practical and the wildest sensible.
<v Speaker 2>I think death is surely the limit what you make
<v Speaker 2>of it wasn't. Let's see.
<v Speaker 4>Forty six sold Jury, November the nineteenth Sir, our clients
<v Speaker 4>mister Robert Ferguson of Ferguson werehead tea brokers and mincing
<v Speaker 4>Lene has made some inquiry from us in a communication
<v Speaker 4>of even date concerning.
<v Speaker 2>Vamper vampires go on.
<v Speaker 3>As our firm specializes entirely upon the assessment of machinery,
<v Speaker 3>the matter hardly comes within our purview, and we have
<v Speaker 3>therefore recommended mister Ferguson to call upon you and lay
<v Speaker 3>the matter of a foil.
<v Speaker 1>We answer fifthly yours Morrison, Mrrison and Dog. The post
<v Speaker 1>scriptum to that letter which you failed to read out,
<v Speaker 1>my dear advices us that the gentleman himself will be
<v Speaker 1>calling upon us at tennis lot tomorrow morning. I fancy
<v Speaker 1>he may be able to throw some light upon what
<v Speaker 1>he's worrying.
<v Speaker 2>Oh what, you.
<v Speaker 1>Don't look quite the man you did when I threw
<v Speaker 1>you over the ropes into the crowd at the old
<v Speaker 1>Deer Park.
<v Speaker 5>Ha Ferguson, it's you. Well, I never one instant connected
<v Speaker 5>the name. It's big Bob Ferguson, Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>How do you do fines?
<v Speaker 1>Three point of Richmond ever had in those days? I
<v Speaker 1>paid for that Watson. You amaze me. There's no limity
<v Speaker 1>or versatility. You could scarcely picture me playing Rugger as
<v Speaker 1>you see me, know, mister Holmes, no Watson, But say
<v Speaker 1>it down, mister Ferguson, and tell us what brings you
<v Speaker 1>to us?
<v Speaker 2>Thank you now.
<v Speaker 1>Now that's where you live, Lumberless, Sussex, south of Harsham.
<v Speaker 1>The house is called Cheeseman's. I know that part pretty
<v Speaker 1>well full of old houses.
<v Speaker 3>Called out to the men who Builton Oddler's, Harveys, Cantons, Cheesemans.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that's so watsome, but they I am not here
<v Speaker 2>on my own behalf. Oh no, I'm acting for a friend.
<v Speaker 1>I see her pay left has had the particular Yes,
<v Speaker 1>this gentleman married some five years ago a Peruvian lady.
<v Speaker 1>He'd met her during a business trip to South America.
<v Speaker 1>She is very beautiful, but well, what with her alien
<v Speaker 1>ways and so on, it seems as though there are
<v Speaker 1>sides of her character that he can never hope to explore.
<v Speaker 1>In short, he's come to regard their union as a mistake.
<v Speaker 2>I see.
<v Speaker 1>He remains as loving and devoted a wife as a
<v Speaker 1>man could wish for. But at the same time she's
<v Speaker 1>begun to show some curious traits quite unlike her general
<v Speaker 1>nature of what kind Well, my friend had been married before.
<v Speaker 1>There's a son of fifteen by the first marriage, a
<v Speaker 1>charming and affectionate lad, unfortunately partially crippled in a childhood accident. Now,
<v Speaker 1>on two occasions, my friend's pleasant wife had been caught
<v Speaker 1>in the act of assaulting this poor lad in the
<v Speaker 1>most unprovoked way.
<v Speaker 2>Good helms.
<v Speaker 1>There's also child of the present marriage, a dear little
<v Speaker 1>boy just under a year old. On one occasion, about
<v Speaker 1>a month ago, this child had been left by its
<v Speaker 1>nurse for a few minutes. A loud cry from the
<v Speaker 1>baby caught her back. As she ran into the room,
<v Speaker 1>she saw her employer, my friend's wife, leaning over the
<v Speaker 1>baby and apparently biting its neck. Horrible there was a
<v Speaker 1>small wound in the neck, from which a stream of
<v Speaker 1>blood ran down. The nurse was so horrified that she
<v Speaker 1>started to call for the husband, but the lady implored
<v Speaker 1>her not to, and actually gave her five pounds to
<v Speaker 1>keep silent.
<v Speaker 2>I continue, mister Persian.
<v Speaker 1>As you can imagine, this made a terrible impression on
<v Speaker 1>the nurse's mind, and she began to keep a close
<v Speaker 1>watch on her mistress. It began to seem to her
<v Speaker 1>that even as she watched the mother so the mother
<v Speaker 1>watched her, and that every time she was compelled to
<v Speaker 1>leave the baby, the mother was waiting to get at it.
<v Speaker 1>Day and night the nurse covered the child, and day
<v Speaker 1>and night the watchful mother seemed to be lying in.
<v Speaker 2>Wait as the wolf waits for a lamb.
<v Speaker 1>Incredible, Yes, that's how it must sound to you, Watson.
<v Speaker 1>Yet I am not exaggerating when I say that a
<v Speaker 1>child's life and a man's sanity may depend on it.
<v Speaker 1>My friend well remembers the day when the nurse's nerve
<v Speaker 1>gave way and she told him everything. To him, it
<v Speaker 1>seemed as wild a tale as it may now.
<v Speaker 2>Send to you.
<v Speaker 1>He knew his wife to be a loving wife and
<v Speaker 1>a loving mother, then why should she assault her steps
<v Speaker 1>and wound her own dear little baby. He told the
<v Speaker 1>nurse that she was dreaming that such libels upon her
<v Speaker 1>mistress were not to be tolerated. Whilst they were talking,
<v Speaker 1>a sudden cry of pain was held. The nurse and
<v Speaker 1>master rushed to the nursery together. Imagined his feelings as
<v Speaker 1>he saw his wife rise from a kneeling position beside
<v Speaker 1>the cot, and saw blood upon the child's exposed neck
<v Speaker 1>and on the sheet with a cry of horror. He
<v Speaker 1>turned his wife's face to the light, and salt blood
<v Speaker 1>all round her lips. It was she, beyond all questions,
<v Speaker 1>who had drunk the.
<v Speaker 2>Poor baby's blood. Great heavens, So who matter stands?
<v Speaker 1>And and my friend appeals to you, mister Holmes. His
<v Speaker 1>wife is now confined to a room. He himself is
<v Speaker 1>half demented. Eight it's vampiresm mister Holmes, mister Ferguson, I
<v Speaker 1>will examine your case with pleasure. My oh, no, no answer.
<v Speaker 1>This agency is not a home for the weak minded.
<v Speaker 2>I see.
<v Speaker 1>It's no use my pretending to be anyone's deputy. It
<v Speaker 1>is simpler to deal direct. Forgive me, mister Holmes. You
<v Speaker 1>can imagine how difficult it is when you're speaking of
<v Speaker 1>the one woman you're bound to protect. Help I understand? Then?
<v Speaker 1>What am I to do? How am I to go
<v Speaker 1>to the police with the story like this? And yet
<v Speaker 1>I must protect those youngsters? Is it a mad miss,
<v Speaker 1>mister Holmes, something in her blood? Have you experience of
<v Speaker 1>any case like it? For pity's sake, give me some advice.
<v Speaker 2>I'm at the wits end.
<v Speaker 1>Now sit here and pull your.
<v Speaker 2>Set together, Mister Ferguson, and just give me a cute,
<v Speaker 2>clear answer. Yes, yes, of course.
<v Speaker 1>I can assure you that I am very far from
<v Speaker 1>being at my wits end, and I am confident we
<v Speaker 1>shall find some solution. Tell me what happened after you
<v Speaker 1>discovered your wife in the sect. We had a dreadful scene.
<v Speaker 1>I suppose I raved at her. She seems horrified. She
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't even speak.
<v Speaker 2>She only looked.
<v Speaker 1>At me in a wild, despairing sort of way. Then
<v Speaker 1>she rushed to her room and locked herself in. Since
<v Speaker 1>then she's refused to see me. Who attends to her
<v Speaker 1>once a maid delorys also beloved. Yes, she's been with
<v Speaker 1>my wife for some years. She's more a friend than
<v Speaker 1>a servant. And the child, the baby, the nurses sworn
<v Speaker 1>to me that she will not he night or day.
<v Speaker 1>As for poor Jack, the inoffensive little cripple, I only
<v Speaker 1>hope if she comes out of her room, he won't
<v Speaker 1>happen to be near the hand. What exactly is his
<v Speaker 1>complaint for some injury to the spine? He can get about,
<v Speaker 1>but only in a limited sort of way. And yet
<v Speaker 1>you say, your wife, who is that the loving disposition
<v Speaker 1>has assaulted him twice in what way she struck him savagely.
<v Speaker 1>This made the larees had been with your wife even
<v Speaker 1>before your marriage.
<v Speaker 2>I take it. Oh, yes, quite some time. Then she
<v Speaker 2>might know more about your wife's character.
<v Speaker 1>Than you yourself. I suppose so.
<v Speaker 2>Well.
<v Speaker 1>I fancy I may be of more use at Lamberley
<v Speaker 1>than here. It's eminently a case for personal investigation. If
<v Speaker 1>the lady remains in her room, our presence cannot annoy
<v Speaker 1>or inconvenience. It's what I'd hope to hear you say,
<v Speaker 1>mister Holmes. There's an excellent tree from Victoria too, If
<v Speaker 1>you could manage it with pleasure?
<v Speaker 2>What comes well us?
<v Speaker 1>Of course, of course, there are just one or two
<v Speaker 1>points I should like to be sure about before we start. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>this unhappy lady, as I understand it, has appeared to
<v Speaker 1>assault both her own baby and your son. That's so,
<v Speaker 1>But the assaults have taken different forms. Did she give
<v Speaker 1>no explanation why she'd beaten your son, only that she
<v Speaker 1>hated him? Oh, it's not uncommon among stepmothers, you know.
<v Speaker 2>I know there's never been any love between them. Is
<v Speaker 2>your wife jealous by nature? Highly?
<v Speaker 1>But the boy he's fifteen, I understand, yes, and probably
<v Speaker 1>very developed in mind, since his body has been circumscribed
<v Speaker 1>in action, didn't he explain the assaults? He could find
<v Speaker 1>no reason to see, no doubt you and the boy
<v Speaker 1>were great comrades before this second marriage. Oh yes, indeed
<v Speaker 1>he was my greatest comfort after the loss of my
<v Speaker 1>first wife, and the boy remained devoted to the memory
<v Speaker 1>of his mother.
<v Speaker 2>Most devoted, Most interesting lad. Now I have one final
<v Speaker 2>inquiry to make of you.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, were the strange attacks on the baby and the
<v Speaker 1>assaults on your son made at the same time?
<v Speaker 2>Yes?
<v Speaker 6>Ah.
<v Speaker 1>In the first case, that is, it was as if
<v Speaker 1>as if some friends he had seized her, and she
<v Speaker 1>vented her rage on both of them. But on the
<v Speaker 1>second occasion, when she attacked my son, she made no
<v Speaker 1>attempt on the baby. Oh well, that certainly complicates mathis
<v Speaker 1>I don't quite follow you personally, Not one forms provisional
<v Speaker 1>theories and waits for time or fuller acknowledgment displurred them. However,
<v Speaker 1>I'll only say at this stage that your problem does
<v Speaker 1>not appear to me to be insoluble. The entrance from
<v Speaker 1>Horse in which Bob Ferguson.
<v Speaker 3>Dwelt proved to be a large, straggling place, very old
<v Speaker 3>in the center very new wings.
<v Speaker 1>An odor of.
<v Speaker 3>Age and decay pervaded the whole crumbling building. The large
<v Speaker 3>central room into which Ferguson letters was a most singular mixture.
<v Speaker 2>The half paneled walls.
<v Speaker 3>May well have belonged to the original Yeoman farmer of
<v Speaker 3>the seventeenth century. They were ornamented, however, on the lower
<v Speaker 3>part by a line of world chosen modern watercolors, while above,
<v Speaker 3>where a yellow plaster took the place of oak, there
<v Speaker 3>was hung a fine collection of South American weapons, which
<v Speaker 3>had been brought no doubt by the peruvial lady.
<v Speaker 1>Holmes, with that.
<v Speaker 3>Quick curiosity which sprang from his eager mind, examined them
<v Speaker 3>with some care, and then turned his attention to a
<v Speaker 3>spaniel which came slowly forward from its basket in the corner.
<v Speaker 3>It walked with difficulty to Ferguson and licked his hand.
<v Speaker 1>Dear me, what's the matter with your dog, mister Pergson.
<v Speaker 1>That's what's puzzling the bight. A sort of paralysis, spinal meningitis,
<v Speaker 1>he thought. But it's passing, isn't it.
<v Speaker 2>Boy. You'll be all right soon.
<v Speaker 7>Cowly did it come on suddenly and a single night,
<v Speaker 7>how long ago, about four months, very remarkable, very suggested.
<v Speaker 1>What you mean, mister Holmes, It confirms what I'd already thought.
<v Speaker 2>For Heaven's sake, what do you think? Look here?
<v Speaker 1>This may be just an intellectual puzzle to you, but
<v Speaker 1>it's life and death to me. My wife would be murderer,
<v Speaker 1>my child in constant danger. Don't play with me home.
<v Speaker 1>I'm afraid there is pain for you, mister Ferguson. Whatever
<v Speaker 1>the solution may be, I would spare you all I can.
<v Speaker 1>I can say no more for the moment. But before
<v Speaker 1>I leave this house, I hope I may have something
<v Speaker 1>definite right, Please God, you may I ask your pardon,
<v Speaker 1>mister Holmes, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I'll go up
<v Speaker 1>to my wife's room and see if there's been in
<v Speaker 1>a change.
<v Speaker 8>Come on, Carlo, Well, homes a charming our room, Watson.
<v Speaker 1>Just look at those out beads, magnificent homes.
<v Speaker 9>See that arm past me sixteen seventy, and all these
<v Speaker 9>fascinating weapons and trickies, and this interesting collection.
<v Speaker 6>My dear Holmes, I do wish to do you, sir,
<v Speaker 6>please me, Yes you are doctor, sir, I am, oh
<v Speaker 6>my mistress, very ill.
<v Speaker 1>She know what food? Very ill she need? Doctor? You
<v Speaker 1>are delorded? Would your mistress see this gentleman she needs? Sir,
<v Speaker 1>she see him? I say so, But you will not
<v Speaker 1>see mister Percy. Sir.
<v Speaker 2>But there's of course how girl? Will you have any us?
<v Speaker 1>Sir? I thank you? Wait thousand times? You follow me? Now, sir? Quick? Oh? Oh,
<v Speaker 1>she like that one day?
<v Speaker 6>Okay, I've already she died, lorriss.
<v Speaker 1>Is that you the other?
<v Speaker 2>Who are you? I am a doctor? Man? Hey? Doctor?
<v Speaker 1>Did my husband send for you? Where is he? He's
<v Speaker 1>in the house. He's only waiting for you to say
<v Speaker 1>you will see him?
<v Speaker 2>No, No, I will not. Oh what shall I do?
<v Speaker 1>What shall I do.
<v Speaker 2>In this thing?
<v Speaker 7>This demo?
<v Speaker 2>Madam? I'm here to help you. No, I'm gonna it
<v Speaker 2>is finished?
<v Speaker 1>Tolling this true? Ever I do?
<v Speaker 2>This is true? No, madam, Your husband loves you dearly.
<v Speaker 2>He is deeply grieved at what has happened. Do I
<v Speaker 2>not love him?
<v Speaker 1>Then?
<v Speaker 6>Do I not love him enough to sacrifice myself rather
<v Speaker 6>than break.
<v Speaker 1>His dear heart?
<v Speaker 2>Yes?
<v Speaker 1>Doctor, that is how I love him.
<v Speaker 6>And yet he can think such things of me, speak
<v Speaker 6>of me in such a way.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, ma'am. He doesn't understand. He does not understand, but
<v Speaker 2>he should trust me.
<v Speaker 1>No, No, I cannot forget those terrible words, nor we
<v Speaker 1>look on his face. But I can promise you, mad no,
<v Speaker 1>I will not see him go away. You can do
<v Speaker 1>nothing for me. Well tell him only one thing.
<v Speaker 6>I want my child.
<v Speaker 2>I have a right to my child.
<v Speaker 1>That is the only consent to do. Oh the diffult?
<v Speaker 1>Can I send the child to her? How do I
<v Speaker 1>know what you might do to it? Well, I'll never
<v Speaker 1>never forget seeing her beside it with its blood on
<v Speaker 1>her lips.
<v Speaker 2>No child stays with missus Mason.
<v Speaker 1>Where you see? Oh, Daddy, Jackie, my boy, come in, lad,
<v Speaker 1>I didn't know you were home yet, Daddy, I'd have
<v Speaker 1>been here to meet you.
<v Speaker 2>That's all right, old Chad.
<v Speaker 1>I came home early because my friends mister Holmes and
<v Speaker 1>doctor Watson have come to spend an evening with us. Hello, Jackie,
<v Speaker 1>is that mister Holmes the detective?
<v Speaker 2>None other? My boy? How do you do, Jackie?
<v Speaker 1>And what about your other child? At the Peginston I
<v Speaker 1>make the acquaintance of the baby. Come on, Oh what
<v Speaker 1>big pardon sir? Wait, no wait, missus Mason, don't go
<v Speaker 1>very good sir, I just bought baby phrase.
<v Speaker 2>Good night, Sir.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't know he was engaged here he is, mister Holmes,
<v Speaker 1>your requested dain do in an instant?
<v Speaker 2>Isn't he a fine little failure? Je mister Holmes home?
<v Speaker 2>What do you think of it?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>My word? Yes? Yes, his father miniature? Do you think so? Hey?
<v Speaker 2>Whatsn't well? Well? Jackie?
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure you like your little brother. Jackie has a
<v Speaker 1>very strong likes and dislikes. Luckily I am one of
<v Speaker 1>his likes?
<v Speaker 2>Am I not glad you know you are? Daddy? Thank you,
<v Speaker 2>missus Mason, sir, good night, little one.
<v Speaker 1>You'll keep him safe, dear little thing.
<v Speaker 2>Fancy anyone having the hat to hurt him? Right right now?
<v Speaker 1>Go along, Jackie. These gentlemen and I have important letters
<v Speaker 1>to discuss.
<v Speaker 2>All right, Daddy, don't be too long? Oh I won't
<v Speaker 2>h poor boy.
<v Speaker 1>If mister Holmes, I'm beginning to feel that I brought
<v Speaker 1>you on a fool's land? What can you possibly do?
<v Speaker 2>Say? Give me your sympathy.
<v Speaker 1>This whole affair must appear the most exceedingly delicate and complex.
<v Speaker 1>It is certainly delicate, but I haven't been struck up
<v Speaker 1>to now. But its complexity, have you not. It's been
<v Speaker 1>a case for intellectual deduction. But when this intellectual deduction
<v Speaker 1>is confirmed by point, by quite a number of independent incidents,
<v Speaker 1>then we can say confidently that we have reached our
<v Speaker 1>girl reached, Sir, I had in fact reached it before
<v Speaker 1>we left Baker Street. The rest has merely been observation
<v Speaker 1>and confirmation. For Haydn's sake, Holmes, if you can see
<v Speaker 1>the trust in this matter, don't keep me in suspense.
<v Speaker 1>What's it all come to? What shall I do about it?
<v Speaker 1>I don't give a hang how you've found your facts?
<v Speaker 1>So long as you really have found them, Well, certainly
<v Speaker 1>I owe you an explanation, and you shall have it.
<v Speaker 1>But you'll permit me to handle the matter in my
<v Speaker 1>own way.
<v Speaker 2>But I don't say. Is missus Ferguson capable of seeing
<v Speaker 2>a Spotson?
<v Speaker 1>Well, she's ill that she's quite rational.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, very good.
<v Speaker 1>It's only in her presence that we can clear the
<v Speaker 1>matter up.
<v Speaker 2>Let's go for her.
<v Speaker 1>But she won't see me, Oh yes she will. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>excuse me one moment, mister Ferguson, my life, Just right
<v Speaker 1>this Watson, You at least have the old tray, have
<v Speaker 1>the goodness to give the lady this note, mister Ferguson,
<v Speaker 1>and I will follow in two or three minutes. I
<v Speaker 1>fancy she'll be ready enough to receive us by then.
<v Speaker 2>Come in, gentlemen, please come in see you darling.
<v Speaker 1>No you're not but home all in good time, mister Ferguson. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>I think we can dispense what the lauries. No, she
<v Speaker 1>must stay or you must go.
<v Speaker 2>Very well, madam, that is what you wish now, mister Ferguson.
<v Speaker 1>I'm a busy man with many calls on my time,
<v Speaker 1>and my methods had to be shortened direct The swiftest
<v Speaker 1>surgery is the least painful. That they first say, what
<v Speaker 1>will ease your mind?
<v Speaker 2>Your wife is.
<v Speaker 1>A very good, a very loving, and a very ill
<v Speaker 1>used woman. Mister Holmes, prove that I'm in your date
<v Speaker 1>for life. I will, But in doing so I must
<v Speaker 1>wound you deeply in another direction. Why I don't care
<v Speaker 1>so long as you cleared my wife. Everything else on
<v Speaker 1>else is insignificant.
<v Speaker 2>Prior to that.
<v Speaker 1>Then, let me tell you the train of reasoning which
<v Speaker 1>passed through my mind in Baker Street. The idea of
<v Speaker 1>a vampire was absurd to me. Such things do not
<v Speaker 1>happen in criminal practice in England. And yet your observation
<v Speaker 1>was precise. You had seen the lady rise from beside
<v Speaker 1>the child's caught with blood on her lips. I did.
<v Speaker 1>Didn't it occur to you that a bleeding wound may
<v Speaker 1>be sucked for other reasons than to draw the blood
<v Speaker 1>from it? What wasn't there a queen in English history
<v Speaker 1>who sucked such a wound to draw poison from it?
<v Speaker 2>Poison? Here?
<v Speaker 1>It was a South America household. My instincts felt the
<v Speaker 1>presence of those weapons on your walls downstairs before my
<v Speaker 1>eyes ever saw them. It might have been some other poison,
<v Speaker 1>but that was what occurred to me when I saw
<v Speaker 1>that little empty quiver beside the bird bow down there.
<v Speaker 1>It was just what I expected to see. What do
<v Speaker 1>you say if the child were pricked with one of
<v Speaker 1>those arrows dipped in currari or some other devilish drug,
<v Speaker 1>it would mean death if the venom were not sucked down,
<v Speaker 1>I don't understand. And the dog, if one were to
<v Speaker 1>use such a poison, wouldn't one try it first in
<v Speaker 1>order to see that it hadn't lost its power? I
<v Speaker 1>didn't foresee the dog, but at least I understood why
<v Speaker 1>he was crippled, and he fitted into my reconstruction. Now
<v Speaker 1>do you understand your wife feared such an attack. She
<v Speaker 1>saw it made and saved the baby's life, and yet
<v Speaker 1>she shrank from killing you all the truth. But she
<v Speaker 1>knew how you loved the boy and feared it might
<v Speaker 1>break your heart. The boy, Jackie, I watched him as
<v Speaker 1>you fondled the baby downstairs just now. His face was
<v Speaker 1>clearly reflected in the glass.
<v Speaker 2>Of the window where a shutter from the background.
<v Speaker 1>I saw such jealousy, such cruel hatred, as I have.
<v Speaker 2>Seldom seen in a human face.
<v Speaker 1>Why Jackie, mister Ferguson, It's more painful for you because
<v Speaker 1>it is love, a distorted, niacal, exaggerated love that has
<v Speaker 1>prompted his action, love for you and possibly for his
<v Speaker 1>dead mother. Oh, his very soul is consumed with hatred
<v Speaker 1>for that delightful baby. It's health and beauty are a
<v Speaker 1>contrast to his own weakness.
<v Speaker 2>It's incredible. Have I spoken the truth, Madam? How could
<v Speaker 2>I tell you the truth?
<v Speaker 1>Bob?
<v Speaker 2>I knew what blow it would be to you. I
<v Speaker 2>could not. I could not tell you.
<v Speaker 1>I understand, Oh, my Darling, I hadn't the feast.
<v Speaker 2>To trust you. I suspected you at once.
<v Speaker 1>I accused you call you those vile names no more, dear, But.
<v Speaker 2>You were not to know.
<v Speaker 1>I think a year at sea would be my prescription
<v Speaker 1>for Master Jackie. Mister ferguson By, You're right. Only one
<v Speaker 1>thing puzzles me still, Madam. Yes, how could you dare
<v Speaker 1>to remain silent and leave your baby open to another attack?
<v Speaker 6>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>I had told missus Mason everything she knew.
<v Speaker 1>Ah, I thought this much, by Darling, What a dreadful
<v Speaker 1>experience for you and you.
<v Speaker 2>I did not know what to do. Who am Watson?
<v Speaker 1>This I fancy is the time for our exit. If
<v Speaker 1>you will take one elbow the two faithful dolorss what
<v Speaker 1>are you doing to me?
<v Speaker 2>I will take the other.
<v Speaker 1>I think we may leave your friend and his wife
<v Speaker 1>to settle the.
<v Speaker 2>Rest between.
<v Speaker 3>I have only one further note of this case gives
<v Speaker 3>the letter which Holmes wrote in final answer to that
<v Speaker 3>with which my narrative began. It realm Us.
<v Speaker 1>Baker Street, November twenty first read Vampires, Sir. Referring to
<v Speaker 1>your letter the nineteenth, I beg to state that I
<v Speaker 1>have looked into the inquiry of your client, mister Robert
<v Speaker 1>Ferguson of Ferguson and mer Head Tea Brokers of Mincing Lane,
<v Speaker 1>and that the matter has been brought to a satisfactory conclusion.
<v Speaker 1>But faiths for your recommendation, I am Sir faithfully yours,
<v Speaker 1>Sherlock Holmes. That was The Sussex Vampire by Michael Hardwick,
<v Speaker 1>based on the short story by Sir Arthur Kernan Doyle.
<v Speaker 1>Sherlock Holmes was laied by Carlton Hobbs and Dr Watson
<v Speaker 1>by Norman Shelley. Production for the BBC was by Graham Gould.