Sherlock Holmes - Blarney Stone

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure our good friend doctor Watson's ready for us.
<v Speaker 1>Let's go in and join it.
<v Speaker 2>Oh there you are, mister bart It.
<v Speaker 1>Doctor, say, where are the puppies of Selings?
<v Speaker 3>Mister, don't think it's about time you began to refer
<v Speaker 3>to them as the dogs are almost a year old?
<v Speaker 1>You know, I stand corrected.
<v Speaker 2>Where are the dogs? Well, they had.
<v Speaker 4>Another furious battle with a dead seal on the beach.
<v Speaker 3>Today my housekeeper, Missus West is giving them a much
<v Speaker 3>needed bond.
<v Speaker 1>They certainly haven't aversion to seals, don't they. Well, doctor,
<v Speaker 1>are you already with the nice news shell like CON's adventure?
<v Speaker 3>Yes, my boy, And as yesterday it was from Patrick's day.
<v Speaker 3>I decided to tell you a story that took place
<v Speaker 3>in Ireland a few years before the turn of the century.
<v Speaker 4>I imagine that you've heard of kissing the blarnistone.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, doctor, though I've never understood exactly what it meant.
<v Speaker 3>Well, let me explain it to you, because the ceremony
<v Speaker 3>plays a very important part in the story tonight. Blanid
<v Speaker 3>Castle is an imposing fifteenth century ruin a few miles
<v Speaker 3>outside the town of Cork. The castle is many his
<v Speaker 3>stories high, and in the foremost tower, the famous blonistone
<v Speaker 3>is situated.
<v Speaker 1>What's supposed to be the point in kissing it, Doctor,
<v Speaker 1>The stone.
<v Speaker 3>Is considered a powerful talisman, and the legend runs at
<v Speaker 3>whoever kisses it is endowed with eloquence for life.
<v Speaker 1>To say, doctor, if I ever get over to Ireland,
<v Speaker 1>I'll certainly kiss that stone. But you're such a storyteller yourself. Doctor,
<v Speaker 1>how about you've kissed it?
<v Speaker 2>No, it's about it. I'm I've had quite enough courage.
<v Speaker 1>Courage made Cottagetonne.
<v Speaker 3>Because the Blonistone is set in a most inaccessible position
<v Speaker 3>on the outside wall, to kiss it discustom me to
<v Speaker 3>luwer the candidate for eloquence over the rampart Head forest
<v Speaker 3>with a friend hanging on to his heels.
<v Speaker 1>From the top of the castle. That sound dangerous, Doctin
<v Speaker 1>It was my boy, so much so that in recent
<v Speaker 1>years a great robant Spikes has put round the parapet
<v Speaker 1>to prevent an accident, though of course, at the time
<v Speaker 1>to Night's story took place, there was no such guard,
<v Speaker 1>and I have feeling that an accident did take place.
<v Speaker 3>Telling me tell you the story from the beginning. Sherlock
<v Speaker 3>Holmes and I were staying in the city of Cork,
<v Speaker 3>where the Great Manager saw the singular affair, which the
<v Speaker 3>local press had referred.
<v Speaker 2>To as Epricorn murders.
<v Speaker 3>A few days before departure for England, we paid a
<v Speaker 3>visit to Blannet Castle. I must confess that I had
<v Speaker 3>a certain desire to test the mileculous powers attributed to
<v Speaker 3>the blondistone. I changed my mind, however, as Holmes and
<v Speaker 3>I stood there high on the turrets of blod A
<v Speaker 3>Castle and watched to terrify this ship being hauled up
<v Speaker 3>by his ankles and.
<v Speaker 4>Yelling at the top of his voice, pull me up,
<v Speaker 4>Pull me up, Wiki, I think I'm going to faith.
<v Speaker 3>Scott had no idea of kissing the Barani stone was
<v Speaker 3>such a hazardous proceeding years.
<v Speaker 1>It would seem that eloquence could be more easily obtained
<v Speaker 1>than by hanging suspended by one's ankles from a battlement
<v Speaker 1>with one hundred foot dropped below and kissing a piece
<v Speaker 1>of stone.
<v Speaker 2>Never do that again. I don't blame the puller.
<v Speaker 1>And yet my dir chat on our way over here,
<v Speaker 1>you expressed a sneaking desire to kiss the stone yourself.
<v Speaker 1>I don't be very happy to hold your ankles if
<v Speaker 1>you want to try the experiment than after witnessing the
<v Speaker 1>servant chased Roman, then I suggested we make our way
<v Speaker 1>back downstairs. I don't think there's much more to be
<v Speaker 1>seen up here.
<v Speaker 4>Well by the way homes.
<v Speaker 3>Do you know the origin of the superstition regarding the blantone.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I do o chat the stone was done. The
<v Speaker 1>stone dates back to the middle of the fifteenth century.
<v Speaker 1>A certain Cormack McCarty called the Strong. I descend him
<v Speaker 1>of the ancient kings of Munster, builder of this castle.
<v Speaker 1>Chance one day to save an old woman from drowning.
<v Speaker 1>Her gratitude, she off at Cornack a golden tongue which
<v Speaker 1>would have a power to influence men and women, friends
<v Speaker 1>and foes. As he willed, She told him to mont
<v Speaker 1>the battleman kiss a certain stone in the wall five
<v Speaker 1>feet below the gabrier running around the top. He putry
<v Speaker 1>directions and obtained all the fluent e suasiveness she had promised.
<v Speaker 2>The story is spread in the Barnis Stone.
<v Speaker 1>There has been a magnet of pilgrims over sudden that
<v Speaker 1>person's legend homes.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, old Chap, Tomorrow's Patrick's day.
<v Speaker 3>I bet there'll be quite a bit of excitement in
<v Speaker 3>the village tonight.
<v Speaker 4>Don't you think it'd be rather fun to play a
<v Speaker 4>visit to one of the local inns.
<v Speaker 1>Splendid idea old jab our rather arduous work here in
<v Speaker 1>Nowland is concluded, and I think we're more than entitles.
<v Speaker 1>Would it be gayety.
<v Speaker 2>In lovel.
<v Speaker 1>Pretty today?
<v Speaker 2>But I first met with lame along.
<v Speaker 1>Charming my charming awater and seeing it is working very
<v Speaker 1>well too, just the same, I wish someone would come
<v Speaker 1>and take an hour of.
<v Speaker 2>Oh there's a bombad. I'll see if I can catch her.
<v Speaker 5>Hi, miss miss?
<v Speaker 1>Would you gentlemen be after what and something?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, my dear, my friend, and I would like a
<v Speaker 2>little refreshment. And what would you suggest?
<v Speaker 4>What would I suggest?
<v Speaker 2>You?
<v Speaker 5>Runner, o, big good?
<v Speaker 6>There is but one drink a gentleman like yourself should
<v Speaker 6>be after pouring down you.
<v Speaker 4>And that's the cream of carning Bora whiskey.
<v Speaker 2>It is soft, near.
<v Speaker 6>Hurting, a natia glow with a good feeling, so so
<v Speaker 6>that the little people of the after visiting you.
<v Speaker 1>F sounds delightful, bring two glasses, we.
<v Speaker 4>Know, yes, yes, your honner.
<v Speaker 3>I must say I never heard an English bombad go
<v Speaker 3>into such rhapsodies over in Nipper Whist.
<v Speaker 1>The Irish are distinctive or colorful in their speech. It's
<v Speaker 1>an interesting fact, though, Watson, that the Irish are curiously
<v Speaker 1>unrewarding in the critical world. England, Scots, America, Australia have
<v Speaker 1>all produced classics of crime, but the Irish murder is
<v Speaker 1>almost without exception, the purely physical affairs of hot You
<v Speaker 1>said that rather regretfully homes nobody a chat. No, no, no,
<v Speaker 1>that's what's look This rather florid gentlemen coming towards our
<v Speaker 1>table looks to me.
<v Speaker 2>As if he's a little under the weather.
<v Speaker 1>You fellows have got to have a drink with me.
<v Speaker 2>Oh thank you, sir, thank you. But we've just ordered one.
<v Speaker 1>I've gotta have it with me. I went to the
<v Speaker 1>races at Corked today and made a killing. I'm going
<v Speaker 1>by all the drinks. Certain I'm afraid that you're afraid of.
<v Speaker 1>I'll sit down with you for a moment. My name's Hanking,
<v Speaker 1>Jeffrey Hanking. What's your man is Holmes? And this is
<v Speaker 1>my friend, doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 2>Yea.
<v Speaker 1>Then he went into I'm paying for these here half
<v Speaker 1>a crown and you can keep them.
<v Speaker 6>Change blessings on you you well.
<v Speaker 3>If you insist on paying for drinks, mister Hankin, here's
<v Speaker 3>your very good health.
<v Speaker 1>Indeed you're both English, yes, sir, so amne. It's certainly
<v Speaker 1>a relief to hear English voice again. If you don't
<v Speaker 1>like the Irish, little sir, i'mbearers personally, I've had a
<v Speaker 1>rather chary It wouldn't if you had to live with
<v Speaker 1>it all the time. Sometimes I think that if I
<v Speaker 1>hear one more Irish tenor singing Molly Malone, or one more.
<v Speaker 2>Reference to the little people.
<v Speaker 1>I should be raving to live in Lanson. I have
<v Speaker 1>to I own a half interest in the treatment here.
<v Speaker 1>You see. In any case, my wife's hourish and he
<v Speaker 1>thinks there's no other country in the.
<v Speaker 2>World socas I'm stuck here.
<v Speaker 1>See that couple sitting at the table over there.
<v Speaker 2>You mean the fellow was a very beautiful girl.
<v Speaker 1>Is man's Michael Corker and my partner.
<v Speaker 2>The girl's absolutely ravishing.
<v Speaker 1>He'd like to meet her, like, well, what's in the
<v Speaker 1>combination of my natural curiosity and your taste pro pretty
<v Speaker 1>paste would seem to suit the occasion that probably I
<v Speaker 1>might as well warn you, doctor that the pretty face
<v Speaker 1>belongs to my wife, your wife to me. You better
<v Speaker 1>bring your glasses with you, My my dear, I want
<v Speaker 1>you to meet two English friends of mine, mister Holmes
<v Speaker 1>and Dr Watson.
<v Speaker 5>Mister Holmes, Doctor Barton, won't you sit down and join it?
<v Speaker 1>And this is my partner, Michael Corker. How do you
<v Speaker 1>do miss Cochran? How I'm glad to meet you. Please
<v Speaker 1>be seated, gentlemen, how are you visiting her? Yes? This
<v Speaker 1>is akin, but we're returning to eat them in a
<v Speaker 1>few days.
<v Speaker 5>You've been to Blarney Castle, I hope.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, we would have at noon?
<v Speaker 5>And did either have you had the courage to kiss
<v Speaker 5>the Blarney Stone?
<v Speaker 2>Oh no we didn't.
<v Speaker 4>I'm fred it's an athletic feat that.
<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of rubbish, that's what it is, Sladow Stone.
<v Speaker 1>Have you the courage to do it? Jeffrey, I want
<v Speaker 1>to make a fool of myself.
<v Speaker 2>Where's the bomb?
<v Speaker 1>Man? Deathly? I'll make a way to Jeffrey. But you
<v Speaker 1>haven't the courage to kiss the stone at your bet Michael,
<v Speaker 1>and weigh your a ten pound note on. It takes
<v Speaker 1>a bet, and you, fellows witness this ll kiss the
<v Speaker 1>blony stone at noon tomorrow and you'll be ten parts
<v Speaker 1>of poorer. Michael, and I suggested mister Holmes and doctor
<v Speaker 1>Watson be present as well, late Lass referees.
<v Speaker 5>Jeffrey, dear, don't get to excited.
<v Speaker 1>I don't like it when Michael suggests I don't have courage.
<v Speaker 1>You want some more dat, mister Henrison, thank you.
<v Speaker 4>No, no, no, no no, And you've had enough. You'll
<v Speaker 4>tell me when I've had enough.
<v Speaker 7>Money In Dublin Spear City, their no not that perfect, and.
<v Speaker 2>I find.
<v Speaker 1>Jeffrey quiet.
<v Speaker 7>You wanted me to sing in this.
<v Speaker 1>Song, My honor would like you to shut up that
<v Speaker 1>filthy cattle boy. Sean.
<v Speaker 5>Please go on with your singing.
<v Speaker 7>In Dublin Spear City.
<v Speaker 2>You heard me, great.
<v Speaker 1>Show, Jeffrey.
<v Speaker 5>I'm leaving here this once. Michael, please to take me home.
<v Speaker 1>It would be my pleasure money.
<v Speaker 6>You're an ugly man, mister Hankin knocking down poor Sean
<v Speaker 6>when he was singing just like a bird.
<v Speaker 2>Devil with him.
<v Speaker 4>Love you, no irishman will.
<v Speaker 6>Be after forgiving you for this night's work. No, not
<v Speaker 6>the little people of old Ireland either. You've made more enemies,
<v Speaker 6>mister Hankin than you'll ever see. Would you'll be knowing
<v Speaker 6>there there you can't find.
<v Speaker 4>Me super Irish superstition.
<v Speaker 2>Well, bless my soul. That was a charming little party,
<v Speaker 2>I must sir.
<v Speaker 1>Englishmen like Hankin are a disgrace to the country. Fortunately
<v Speaker 1>they're not representative.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I must say, curse put on me like that
<v Speaker 3>barmaid laid on him.
<v Speaker 1>Watson. Yeah, did you see the glances which mister Hankins's
<v Speaker 1>partner and his wife exchanged as the brawl started. There
<v Speaker 1>was more menace to him in those glances than in
<v Speaker 1>all the threats of all the little people in Ireland.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I thought that there was something between them. I
<v Speaker 4>say home, that better.
<v Speaker 3>About Hankin kissing the Blarneystone at noon tomorrow?
<v Speaker 1>Do you nothing? But there are forces at work here
<v Speaker 1>that I don't like. I think Watson, that you and
<v Speaker 1>I will be at the Blandystone at noon tomorrow. It's
<v Speaker 1>possible that the bet made tonight is all part of
<v Speaker 1>a depth plan, and I have a feeling that the
<v Speaker 1>bet is still on Cui Winny up here today, or
<v Speaker 1>fellow at the top of the tier, isn't it?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it's just past noon. I wonder if that man
<v Speaker 2>Hankin is going.
<v Speaker 4>To keep the terms of his death.
<v Speaker 1>We will soon learn in the meanwhile, Are you sure
<v Speaker 1>that you wouldn't like to change your mind and kiss
<v Speaker 1>the blandets down herself?
<v Speaker 2>I'm quite sure they got here.
<v Speaker 1>They come now, Yes, and kin as his partner, mister Copperhan.
<v Speaker 1>The bet is on Watson. Good day you gentlemen. Oh huh,
<v Speaker 1>it's my friends from last night.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I see you're going through the betsn.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, yes, Jeffy said his mine and the's ten pounds
<v Speaker 1>of mine. Your wife didn't become here, mister Hankin, No
<v Speaker 1>she didn't. I'm afraid I'm rather in disgraceful. My behavior
<v Speaker 1>last night boy made me go around and see that
<v Speaker 1>way a fellow that I had, I offered him money,
<v Speaker 1>but he wouldn't take it. Did you offer him an apology?
<v Speaker 1>Apologize to a waited I should say?
<v Speaker 2>No.
<v Speaker 1>Well, come on, let's get this strip it fast over
<v Speaker 1>with eh. Are you sure?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? Your nerves can stand it?
<v Speaker 1>Jeffrey. It's a drop of one hundred feet or more. Below.
<v Speaker 1>You don't worry about me, Michael. Just gol on my ankles, tightling,
<v Speaker 1>then like go, I'll climb out of the power.
<v Speaker 2>Bet. There we are.
<v Speaker 1>Now, hold on to my feet, Michael, lower me gently.
<v Speaker 1>I'm holding you.
<v Speaker 2>Jeffrey right, you are, Jeffrey good.
<v Speaker 3>I wouldn't do that for one hundred pounds, sliding head
<v Speaker 3>burst on a vertical wall.
<v Speaker 4>Oh his boots, they're slipping from the fingers.
<v Speaker 2>I can't hold it out him. Hold on to me,
<v Speaker 2>hold on to him.
<v Speaker 4>Oh he's gone.
<v Speaker 2>I just couldn't hold him away.
<v Speaker 4>Heavens, no man could survive that drop.
<v Speaker 1>It's a cochormant. You deliberately let your partner slip to
<v Speaker 1>his death. This is murder, which I don't understand. I'm
<v Speaker 1>a strong man. But he just vanished out her hands
<v Speaker 1>leg like a grease peak. Let me see your hands,
<v Speaker 1>mister Cochorman's dreadful, dreadful. Now's grease on your hands. Greee
<v Speaker 1>and with a faint trace of bootplacking.
<v Speaker 2>Good lord home.
<v Speaker 1>That means Watson. But someone knowing that Hankin was going
<v Speaker 1>to kiss the bonistone smear his boots with grease so
<v Speaker 1>that he would slip out of the grasp of whoever
<v Speaker 1>was holding him. There's clever a method of indirect long
<v Speaker 1>distance murderers ever I've encountered.
<v Speaker 2>You hear the.
<v Speaker 1>Remainder of Doc Watson's story in just a second. So
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to remind you that Patrick California's sherry is
<v Speaker 1>not only wonderful before dinner, but it's good almost any time.
<v Speaker 1>If you had to choose just one wine for almost
<v Speaker 1>any occasion, that wine would be Petrie sherry. Petrie sherry
<v Speaker 1>is a perfect wine to serve in the afternoon or
<v Speaker 1>in the evening. It's good before dinner, yes, but it's
<v Speaker 1>swell after dinner too. In fact, with a bottle of
<v Speaker 1>Petrie sherry on your shelf, you got practically a small
<v Speaker 1>sized wine side. So get a bottle of Petrie sherry soon.
<v Speaker 1>And remember you can't miss with any wine that has
<v Speaker 1>the letters P E, T R I on the label,
<v Speaker 1>because all Petrie wine is good wine. But doctor Watson,
<v Speaker 1>this is quite a story you're telling us tonight. What
<v Speaker 1>happened next? I suppose you went down into the castle
<v Speaker 1>grounds and looked for the dead man's bottle.
<v Speaker 3>We tried to mister Boutell, but the athologies were curiously
<v Speaker 3>and cooperative. It refused to let a search, insisting of
<v Speaker 3>the police be called first.
<v Speaker 2>And so mister Botel.
<v Speaker 3>Half an hour after the tragedy, Holmes and I found
<v Speaker 3>ourselves standing in the Talley.
<v Speaker 4>Police station as we told the story for the local sergeant.
<v Speaker 1>Sure the stands be prayers, mister Holmes, this is a
<v Speaker 1>terrible story you've told me. Tomorrow I'll be after resting
<v Speaker 1>Sean O'Flaherty. He's a waiter at the end, the one
<v Speaker 1>who sings that he is, that he is any things
<v Speaker 1>like a breath of spring. I'm sorry to see him hang.
<v Speaker 1>Good to you. No proof that he was possible for
<v Speaker 1>the murder, proof, you say, sir, But I can't arrest
<v Speaker 1>a big man of factory man like mister Copper, can I?
<v Speaker 4>Or a fine lady like missus Hank.
<v Speaker 1>But you can't arrest a man without any evidence of guilt.
<v Speaker 1>I can't, can't. I then suppose I tell you that
<v Speaker 1>Shan o. Faddy cleans the boats at the hotel where
<v Speaker 1>mister Hank can be staying.
<v Speaker 3>They then he had the perfect opportunity for the greasing
<v Speaker 3>of Hankins boots this morning.
<v Speaker 2>And we know he had a motive for harming him.
<v Speaker 1>Your r sir, and for what I have hoarded the
<v Speaker 1>dead man's behavior. Last night half a dozen people could
<v Speaker 1>have heard him make the bet that he'd kissed the
<v Speaker 1>blinding stone. Today, shan oh, faddy's a man, I'd have
<v Speaker 1>to rest far tomorrow. What good heavens man? Aren't you
<v Speaker 1>going to do something today? A murders at large?
<v Speaker 4>Today? Bless a Saint Patrick's Day?
<v Speaker 1>Should let the poor fellow have the day? He said, Oh,
<v Speaker 1>he won't run away.
<v Speaker 2>My your son?
<v Speaker 1>Will you come back with me to the castle, and
<v Speaker 1>said for the body they refuse to let me do
<v Speaker 1>the lane and Saint Patrick's Day that I will not.
<v Speaker 4>We would need a crew of helpers.
<v Speaker 1>Where will I be after getting them on? They said,
<v Speaker 1>Patrick's Day?
<v Speaker 4>No, No, we'll do that tomorrow too.
<v Speaker 1>Not today's a day for celebrating. Your methods are stound, missage,
<v Speaker 1>Do they know? Sir? Now threaten about me? Just injoire
<v Speaker 1>yourself today tomorrow we'll see what can be done about it. Well,
<v Speaker 1>good day to you, gentlemen.
<v Speaker 2>I never scene. Since you're having a lucky policeman in
<v Speaker 2>the light.
<v Speaker 1>Infuriating you only have a lot to examine Hankins, you
<v Speaker 1>can get to the bottom of this.
<v Speaker 2>Well, what are you going to do now? Please?
<v Speaker 1>Won't help us, then we mistake the lawn of our
<v Speaker 1>own hands. I think we'll stand off by going to
<v Speaker 1>be hotel and seeing what we can find out from
<v Speaker 1>Sean of party.
<v Speaker 7>As I was going to bury you already, I will
<v Speaker 7>remember for the view the legs and Lessons one and
<v Speaker 7>fifty of November with a marine day and a marine
<v Speaker 7>you do the Dado yourna would be after speaking to
<v Speaker 7>me Sean O clarity?
<v Speaker 1>Perhaps yes, Sean, did you know that mister hank And,
<v Speaker 1>the man who's truck you last night was dead dead? Well,
<v Speaker 1>if you were a man deserved to be beneath the side.
<v Speaker 7>Was Jeffrey Hankin himself.
<v Speaker 1>A mean, ugly man? This md to be praised that
<v Speaker 1>he's gone. How did he die?
<v Speaker 2>Sir?
<v Speaker 4>He was murder.
<v Speaker 1>Murdered, but be dead. I'm not surprised to hear it
<v Speaker 1>who murdered him, sir? At the mumbured The police seem
<v Speaker 1>to think that you are the culprit meself, Well, how
<v Speaker 1>would I be after murdering the man? Sir? And I
<v Speaker 1>don't even know how he died?
<v Speaker 2>He died when he fell.
<v Speaker 3>From the top of Planet Castle as he was trying
<v Speaker 3>to kiss the stone.
<v Speaker 1>He fell because mister cockran and his partner couldn't hold
<v Speaker 1>on to his feet. His boots have been greased, and we.
<v Speaker 2>Know that you have been cleaning his boots, Sean.
<v Speaker 1>That I have, Sir, I cleaned him this very mining,
<v Speaker 1>but I put no grease on him. If that's which
<v Speaker 1>you'd be after suggestion, I'm suggesting nothing. I am trying
<v Speaker 1>to establish a few facts. Do you know Kathleen the barmad.
<v Speaker 7>Oh In Why shouldn't I know her, sir, to be
<v Speaker 7>me wife before the winter sits him?
<v Speaker 1>She pronounced a curse on the dead man last night,
<v Speaker 1>just after he had knocked you down. It's possible that
<v Speaker 1>she let if.
<v Speaker 6>You Shan mc darling. What are the fine gentlemen.
<v Speaker 1>Doing, Katleen?
<v Speaker 7>They've come to ask me questions about the death of
<v Speaker 7>mister Hankin. He fell off Blannet Castle today and got
<v Speaker 7>himself murdered.
<v Speaker 1>They say, the saints be praised, But what is there
<v Speaker 1>to do with you, my darling?
<v Speaker 7>But the gentleman tell me that the village police think
<v Speaker 7>that I might have greased his boots, so he slipped
<v Speaker 7>his death.
<v Speaker 6>The village police is as stupid is my father's big
<v Speaker 6>sou If mister Hankin fell to his death today because
<v Speaker 6>his boots were greased, I can tell you who did it?
<v Speaker 1>Who the little people?
<v Speaker 6>Are you warning mister Hankin last night that the little
<v Speaker 6>people would be after him?
<v Speaker 1>He insulted the iro.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, come, come, come, mader. You don't share the expects
<v Speaker 3>to believe in the little people?
<v Speaker 6>And why not, your honor, we have them here. There's
<v Speaker 6>no say the fairy is well he did, but I
<v Speaker 6>know different. I've seen them. When I was a slip
<v Speaker 6>of a girl. Close to where I lived, there was
<v Speaker 6>a rat that's a fort, you know, and the wrath
<v Speaker 6>was the fairies for it. We never dare touch it
<v Speaker 6>with a spade, or or put down a tree grow
<v Speaker 6>in honor to carry away a stone. We put our
<v Speaker 6>ear to the ground at knighton and we could hear
<v Speaker 6>the fairy music rising up from under the ground.
<v Speaker 1>Ah.
<v Speaker 6>They're gentle people most of the time, but they greased
<v Speaker 6>the boots of a man like mister Hankin. If they
<v Speaker 6>didn't like them, that they would, your.
<v Speaker 4>Honor, Holmes.
<v Speaker 1>I'm certain that we're wasting your time here, I guess,
<v Speaker 1>said Watson got the whole thing turned on the greazing
<v Speaker 1>of those boots. If only I could have the boots
<v Speaker 1>in my hands, if only I could make laboratory tests.
<v Speaker 1>But until that, don't of the police. But of course
<v Speaker 1>I haven't, Watson, you have on her, he answered, I
<v Speaker 1>hope get hold of missus Hankin and mister Cochran, have
<v Speaker 1>them meet me in the Blandest Tone Tower in half
<v Speaker 1>an hour. You where you going to the police station
<v Speaker 1>to try and convince the sergeant that, even in Saint
<v Speaker 1>Patrick's dates, his duty to help me trap a murderer.
<v Speaker 1>You know, mister Holmes, you're an obstinate man. It's pleas
<v Speaker 1>to Saint Patrick's day, and yet you insist that we
<v Speaker 1>meet here on the top of Blardie Castle. What do
<v Speaker 1>you think you can prove woo murder Jeffrey Hankin best?
<v Speaker 1>But why to Marley and I have to.
<v Speaker 5>Be here, yes, mister Holmes, and poor Jeffrey's body is
<v Speaker 5>still lying somewhere, belows.
<v Speaker 1>Missus hank Here, mister Cochran, I asked doctor Watson to
<v Speaker 1>bring you here for a good reason. I assure you. Ready, Watson,
<v Speaker 1>quite ready, home good soganty. Yes, sir, you asked if
<v Speaker 1>why I've assembled the three of you here. I'm going
<v Speaker 1>to reconstruct the crime. I shall play the part of
<v Speaker 1>the victim. My friend doctor Watson will represent you, mister Cochran.
<v Speaker 1>Now I straddled a part of it. So Watson, hold
<v Speaker 1>on of my female.
<v Speaker 2>I've got him home.
<v Speaker 1>Lay him around the face of the wall. Bete you up,
<v Speaker 1>homes Hon'll take to the wall.
<v Speaker 2>Can't push yourself back.
<v Speaker 4>The murders tried to get you.
<v Speaker 2>You're coming in Greece, have I pas? I've come home?
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's a.
<v Speaker 1>Near thing, devilish plot, sergeanten that heavily carried out, and
<v Speaker 1>my boot were ungreased. I entered the castle and yet
<v Speaker 1>someone has been able to apply Greece to them, not
<v Speaker 1>my knowledge, within the last few minutes. Sure, how is
<v Speaker 1>that possible, Sir? I don't know, Sergeant, I must confessed.
<v Speaker 4>Holmes.
<v Speaker 3>You stumble as you came up the Dartin's staircase.
<v Speaker 2>Do you remember that?
<v Speaker 1>As to Wilshab, I've forgotten, and you, missus Hankin and you,
<v Speaker 1>mister Cochran, were kind of not to assist me to
<v Speaker 1>my feet. An excellent opportunity to apply the grease. Now
<v Speaker 1>we know that one of you two is the murder.
<v Speaker 1>I must have a job of Greece somewhere and aston,
<v Speaker 1>will you search the lady while I searched, mister cochran.
<v Speaker 2>But this is ridicious, of course it is.
<v Speaker 5>How could we be guilty?
<v Speaker 4>Well, if your teams you've got no objection to being searched.
<v Speaker 1>On my word, here are your person, missus Hackness, a
<v Speaker 1>job of Greece. Now what have you to say to yourself?
<v Speaker 1>Can't you say, Sergeant, except that she engineered her husband's
<v Speaker 1>murder and try to engineer mine.
<v Speaker 5>Oh no, no, are you nothing about Jeffrey's murder? Oh,
<v Speaker 5>Michael Darling, I swear to you.
<v Speaker 1>Won't worry, my darling, I'll not not the butter. I'm
<v Speaker 1>telling you you're wrong, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 2>I I wish the murderer.
<v Speaker 5>Oh no, Michael, you mustn't sacrifice.
<v Speaker 2>Yourself for ning.
<v Speaker 1>This little play acting is done far enough, mister Cochran.
<v Speaker 1>You have just offered us and what you think we
<v Speaker 1>will accept as a false confession. But I've established the
<v Speaker 1>one thing I wish to know. That you love your
<v Speaker 1>late partner's wife, and she you and proud to admit that,
<v Speaker 1>mister Holmes, and now that she's a widow, I can
<v Speaker 1>safely opened. But what how are you implying that you
<v Speaker 1>murdered your partner but put the grease on your own boot, Sir?
<v Speaker 1>I just found a jar with missus Hank. That's my
<v Speaker 1>discargeon was all part of my little plan. As to
<v Speaker 1>the grease on my boots, I can diss I placed
<v Speaker 1>it there myself, just as I planted the jar of
<v Speaker 1>grease in your bag. Miss Afoard accomplished two ends. It
<v Speaker 1>forced you, mister Cochran, into a portrayal of your love.
<v Speaker 1>But what was more important to from what Dr Watson's
<v Speaker 1>natural reactions were that a man holding the greased boots
<v Speaker 1>could not fail to realize that fact at once, you
<v Speaker 1>brazenly committed murder. Pa Paulaverty eyes mister Cochran, hoping to
<v Speaker 1>appear as a person victim of another's plot. If theory
<v Speaker 1>is an ingenious one, siphone, But how can you prove it?
<v Speaker 1>I can clean that my hands are unusually insensitive, not
<v Speaker 1>the delicate fingers of a doctor like your friend. Yes
<v Speaker 1>he's right, sir. How can you prove it when with
<v Speaker 1>your kind cooperation, Sergeant. We find the body of mister
<v Speaker 1>Hankin and examine it. I shall study his boots. If
<v Speaker 1>the grease was applied at the hotel, as it would
<v Speaker 1>have been if Sauma plowed had done it, the boots
<v Speaker 1>will reveal dust from the walk here. If there is
<v Speaker 1>no dust, the grease must have been applied as you
<v Speaker 1>grabbed your partner's boots with grease smeared hands. Mister Cochran,
<v Speaker 1>you should know best what my tests ahead. I don't
<v Speaker 1>please don't buy money Medland, great scutty he jumped off
<v Speaker 1>the packet. Now, mister Holmes, you can see that I
<v Speaker 1>was right, sir, wasn't that? What do you mean, sergeant?
<v Speaker 2>Oh?
<v Speaker 1>And waiting until tomorrow to get the touch party. Now
<v Speaker 1>we can be after finding both parties at the one time. Doctor,
<v Speaker 1>that was really an unusual story.
<v Speaker 3>No, I get a bit of a shutow when I
<v Speaker 3>think of that afternoon at the castle.
<v Speaker 1>You don't blame you, doctor. You know something earlier this
<v Speaker 1>evening I said that if I ever got to Ireland,
<v Speaker 1>i'd certainly want to kiss the Blarney stone. Remember, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Well I've changed my mind. No more want to hang
<v Speaker 1>by my heels kiss that.
<v Speaker 2>Stone, and.
<v Speaker 1>Well, just let's forget, my boy, I don't forget.
<v Speaker 3>If you kiss that stone, you get the gift developments.
<v Speaker 3>You'd be the most convincing fellow in the world. So
<v Speaker 3>so well, whenever you talked about Petree wine, you'd really
<v Speaker 3>do people a favor because they wouldn't be able to
<v Speaker 3>resist trying it.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, talking about Petri wine as an important doctor, the
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<v Speaker 1>They've been making wine for generations, and all the things
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<v Speaker 1>That's why whenever you want to swell wine for any occasion,
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<v Speaker 1>took time to bring you good wine. Well, doctor Watson,
<v Speaker 1>what new Sherlock call story are you planning to tell us?
<v Speaker 3>Let me see next week, mister Bartel, I'm going to
<v Speaker 3>tell you a story in which that arch criminal Professor.
<v Speaker 4>Moriarty had played the most important part.
<v Speaker 3>It deals with the theft of a famous painting, of
<v Speaker 3>a strange night that Sherlock Holmes and I spent trapped
<v Speaker 3>in the interior of a giant metal vault, and of
<v Speaker 3>mysterious bloodstains an empty room.
<v Speaker 1>Tonight. Sherlock Holmes Adventure was written by Dennis Green and
<v Speaker 1>Anthony Boucher, and was suggested by an incident in this
<v Speaker 1>Arthur Conan Doyle's story, A Case of Identity. Music is
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