Sherlock Holmes - The Greek Interpreter

<v Speaker 1>Sammy, Sammy, Capital my dear Watson, let us return to
<v Speaker 1>our humble other.
<v Speaker 2>Two two one be Vaker Street, please carriat from London.
<v Speaker 3>We present The Greek Interpreter, a Sherlock Holmes story by
<v Speaker 3>Sir Arthur Kernhean Doyle, dramatized for radio by Michael Hardwick.
<v Speaker 2>The Greek Interpreter. Of course, I.
<v Speaker 4>Quite agree with your homes any individual as a great
<v Speaker 4>deal of his gifts if he has in it to
<v Speaker 4>his ancestry, look heredity. But what about your own case,
<v Speaker 4>my case, Watson. But from all you've ever told me.
<v Speaker 2>It seems obviously your remarkable faculties of observation and deduction,
<v Speaker 2>Come Holmeston, tell it from your own systematic training. You
<v Speaker 2>didn't inherit them, now, now, did you? To some extent? Yes?
<v Speaker 2>I think so.
<v Speaker 1>Or my ancestors were a country square. They led much
<v Speaker 1>the same life as the rest of their task. But
<v Speaker 1>remember what's in my grandmother as a sister of their name.
<v Speaker 1>The French artist who's.
<v Speaker 2>There going to do with it? Ah art in the
<v Speaker 2>blood is liable to take the stranger's form.
<v Speaker 5>Agreed, But what makes you think that in your case
<v Speaker 5>it is the county for such unusual gifts, because my
<v Speaker 5>brother Micraft possesses them too, Your brother did.
<v Speaker 2>Holmes. In all the time we've known one another, this
<v Speaker 2>is the first mention you've ever made of having a brother. Really,
<v Speaker 2>perhaps I should have referred to him before home. So
<v Speaker 2>shall I ever get used to your ways?
<v Speaker 6>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Micraft has my gifts and had to a greater degree.
<v Speaker 2>I think that's about the first time I've heard you
<v Speaker 2>being modest, not at all. Nothing was further from my intention.
<v Speaker 1>I cannot agree with those who ranked this day amongst
<v Speaker 1>the virtues. When I say that Mycroft has better parts
<v Speaker 1>of observation than I, you may take it that I'm
<v Speaker 1>speaking the exact and literal truth. It's also true that
<v Speaker 1>he has neither the energy nor the ambition to use.
<v Speaker 2>Them in the way I do. It Is he your
<v Speaker 2>junior certain years? My senior? How comes it the one
<v Speaker 2>never heard anything about him? Oh? He's very well known
<v Speaker 2>in his own circle, well well in his club for example.
<v Speaker 1>Oh look here, just six o'clock. Now, Microft's always there
<v Speaker 1>from a quarter to five till twenty to eight. If
<v Speaker 1>you care for a stroll this beautiful evening, Watson, I'll
<v Speaker 1>be very happy to introduce you.
<v Speaker 4>Why will meet your brother Holmes set the mirring rob
<v Speaker 4>boots and I'm ready right away.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, my dear Watson, this is my brother Miccraft, Micraft,
<v Speaker 1>my friend and associate.
<v Speaker 7>Dr Watson, delighted to meet you out and I'm glad
<v Speaker 7>to meet you, Dr Watson of Charlock everywhere since you
<v Speaker 7>became his chronic Hoy will now and let us all
<v Speaker 7>have a seat by the window, anyone who wishes to study, then,
<v Speaker 7>kind this is the spot.
<v Speaker 2>It's suddenly splendid view of the street.
<v Speaker 7>Yes, look at the magnificent types in it. And look
<v Speaker 7>there those two men coming along.
<v Speaker 1>Now you mean the billiard marker and the other billiard
<v Speaker 1>marker homes How can you tell that the chalk.
<v Speaker 2>Marks on his waistcat of course. Oh and I'll told
<v Speaker 2>you too, I disease rarely, now, you fellows, this is
<v Speaker 2>too much, Shirley Watson.
<v Speaker 1>It isn't hard to say that the man with that
<v Speaker 1>bearing and expression of authority as a soldier.
<v Speaker 7>By the way, Sharlocke, I've had something quite after your
<v Speaker 7>own heart. Oh, yes, quite as singular problems come my way,
<v Speaker 7>my dear my Craft, I've been delighted to hear it
<v Speaker 7>I'll just scribble a note for the potter. There would
<v Speaker 7>be so good as to touch that bell, Doctor Watson Leason,
<v Speaker 7>This won't take a moment.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, give this to mister Mead, ask please, Yes, sir,
<v Speaker 2>he's good.
<v Speaker 7>I've asked mister Meads to step in here. He's a
<v Speaker 7>Greek by extraction. His lodge is on the floor above me.
<v Speaker 7>But I only know him slightly. I understand he's a
<v Speaker 7>remarkable linguist. He as he's living by interpreting in the
<v Speaker 7>law courts and acting as a guide to wealthy orientals. Ah,
<v Speaker 7>and here is mister Mead. Ass how would have you
<v Speaker 7>to step in? My DearS, allow me to introduce my
<v Speaker 7>celebrated brother, mister Sherlock Holmes and his associates, Dr Watson.
<v Speaker 2>How do you do?
<v Speaker 6>True, my dear mister Holmes, I cannot say how delighted
<v Speaker 6>I am to meet you, and you told Dr Watson,
<v Speaker 6>I am honored, gentleman, honor, and I love.
<v Speaker 1>My brother was beginning to tell us about a most
<v Speaker 1>singular problem when he paused to summon you, and I
<v Speaker 1>can only assume that you are in some way concerned.
<v Speaker 2>And ah, yes, yes, alas if you wish to submit
<v Speaker 2>the details to me.
<v Speaker 6>I shall be only to have it listen to them
<v Speaker 6>to tell you the truth, mister Holmes, I believe I
<v Speaker 6>shall be able to rest much more easily after telling
<v Speaker 6>this strange tale to you and doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 2>Then I am all attention. This is Wednesday evening.
<v Speaker 6>Well, then it was on Monday night that all this happened.
<v Speaker 6>Perhaps mister Microft Holmes has told you. I am an
<v Speaker 6>interty years. I am often sent for at strange hours
<v Speaker 6>on behalf of foreigners who get into difficulties. So I
<v Speaker 6>was not very surprised on Monday night when a very
<v Speaker 6>fashionably dressed young man came up to my rooms.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Miller, my name is Latimer.
<v Speaker 8>I've had a rather unexpected visit from a Greek gentleman
<v Speaker 8>with whose firm I have some business dealings.
<v Speaker 2>I see it. Well, the trouble is he can't speak
<v Speaker 2>anything but Greek. Yes, well it's a bit late.
<v Speaker 8>I realized that, well, he's a complete stranger to London,
<v Speaker 8>and I must do what I can for and straight away,
<v Speaker 8>you know, fix him up with a hotel for tonight
<v Speaker 8>and so on.
<v Speaker 2>So I took the liberty of coming to see if
<v Speaker 2>you'd help it all well, of course, thank you. Oh
<v Speaker 2>but tell me, mister Latimer. Have you your friend with
<v Speaker 2>you now? Well? No, actually silly organized, of course.
<v Speaker 8>But when he was pretty tired and I left him
<v Speaker 8>at my place, and without thinking, really, I just jumped
<v Speaker 8>into a cab and came here.
<v Speaker 2>But it's only this end of Kensington, and I wondered
<v Speaker 2>if I could impose on you to come back with me.
<v Speaker 2>Why I suppose the CAB's outside, it's not far at all.
<v Speaker 6>Very well, then, mister Latimer, I shall be very pleased
<v Speaker 6>to help you, or perhaps you will help yourself to
<v Speaker 6>one of the cigarettes while I put.
<v Speaker 2>On my thieves. You were lucky, I think, to find
<v Speaker 2>the vehicle as pleasant as this for your errand mister Lettimer.
<v Speaker 8>Yeah, these old four wheelers are getting faded at the edges,
<v Speaker 8>but give me them sooner than a handsome any time.
<v Speaker 2>I like some brillaty when I drive him.
<v Speaker 6>Are very convenient at time. But look, good, cook, our
<v Speaker 6>cave has made some mistake. He must know this is
<v Speaker 6>not the way the Kensing turns it. I think he
<v Speaker 6>has misharved your directions, mister Latimer. I'm afraid he hasn't.
<v Speaker 2>What are you doing.
<v Speaker 8>Oh why are you drawing the blanks, mister Latimer, What
<v Speaker 8>is the meaning of this? I'm sorry to cut off
<v Speaker 8>your view, mister Milers. The fact is we're not going
<v Speaker 8>to Kensington, and I prefer you not to know where
<v Speaker 8>we are going.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, you, sir, I insist on leaving this carriage
<v Speaker 2>at once. Shut down, mister Miller.
<v Speaker 8>I have a life preserver here and I shan't hesitate
<v Speaker 8>to use it if you cry out or try anything
<v Speaker 8>on you think you can do this. Remember, mister Miller,
<v Speaker 8>no one knows you are here. This Cabby will ask
<v Speaker 8>me question. But you're in here or in the place
<v Speaker 8>I'm taking you to your equally in my tower. You understand,
<v Speaker 8>I understand, And sit still, keep quiet, and remember that
<v Speaker 8>no harm will come to you if you continue to
<v Speaker 8>do everything I say.
<v Speaker 6>We drove on like that for something like two hours,
<v Speaker 6>mister Holmes. It was ten minutes to nine by my watch.
<v Speaker 6>When we came to a stand still. I was hurried
<v Speaker 6>out of the carriage and through a low arched doorway
<v Speaker 6>with a lamp burning above it.
<v Speaker 2>I had a vague.
<v Speaker 6>Impression of lawn and trees on each side, and then
<v Speaker 6>I was inside the house I was shown straight into
<v Speaker 6>a room.
<v Speaker 2>There was a middle aged man with glasses sitting in
<v Speaker 2>a velvet chair. He turned towards us as I was
<v Speaker 2>brought into the room.
<v Speaker 9>Ah, hell, is this the gentleman, mister Millers? Yes, well done,
<v Speaker 9>well done. No ill will Miss Millers, I hope, but
<v Speaker 9>we just couldn't get on about you. If you deal
<v Speaker 9>fair with us, you will not regret it. But if
<v Speaker 9>you try, and I.
<v Speaker 6>Protest more strongly against this illegal detention, the police shall
<v Speaker 6>know of it.
<v Speaker 2>I warrant you. What we ask of you is simplicity itself.
<v Speaker 2>We want you to ask a few questions of a
<v Speaker 2>Greek gentleman who is visiting us.
<v Speaker 9>And tell us his answers. Harold, perhaps you'd ask the
<v Speaker 9>gentleman to step in here? Well, nothing, Sinsnette, mister Miller.
<v Speaker 2>Sister, why this disgraceful conduct towards me? Answer? That's up?
<v Speaker 2>Regret it, sir, regretted. Now let us look at it
<v Speaker 2>this way. You were ready enough to accept an evening's commission.
<v Speaker 9>In return for your usual fee. You will have your fee,
<v Speaker 9>mister Miller's, and double You will carry out your commission
<v Speaker 9>in exchange. You will then be taken back to London.
<v Speaker 2>Very well, I am here. I will do as you ask,
<v Speaker 2>so long as it accords with my normal services, and
<v Speaker 2>nothing more, though you you understand, agreed, Ah, And now
<v Speaker 2>there will be no more waste of time. Here is
<v Speaker 2>Harold with a gath.
<v Speaker 6>At that moment, mister Holmes, the other man let him
<v Speaker 6>her came back. He was leading a gentleman wearing some
<v Speaker 6>sort of loose dressing gown. As this man came slowly
<v Speaker 6>forward into the dim circle of.
<v Speaker 2>Light, I was horrified at his appearance. He was deadly,
<v Speaker 2>pale and emaciated.
<v Speaker 6>He had the protruding eyes of one whose spirit is
<v Speaker 6>greater than his strength. But what shocked me more than
<v Speaker 6>anything else, there was a great pad of sticking plaster.
<v Speaker 2>Over his mouth.
<v Speaker 6>Again, yes again, I see pray, continued mister Miller. The
<v Speaker 6>younger man gave him a chair and then put a
<v Speaker 6>slate and a slate pencil into his heads. Then the
<v Speaker 6>old one gave me questions to ask him, and he
<v Speaker 6>was to write the answers on the slate.
<v Speaker 2>Can you remember them very well? Splendid?
<v Speaker 6>But I must first tell you something, mister Holmes. As
<v Speaker 6>I was about to begin, a happy thought came to
<v Speaker 6>me yes. As the other two men in the room
<v Speaker 6>obviously knew nothing of the Greek language, I decided that
<v Speaker 6>I would be quite safe in interpolating questions of my
<v Speaker 6>own among those I was directed to ask.
<v Speaker 2>By this means, I might be able to find out
<v Speaker 2>who the captive was and why he was there, and
<v Speaker 2>I might even have been able to help him capital
<v Speaker 2>capital he might die. You you'll be pleased by that. Jaruk.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Mills isn't invaluable with missus Dad he is. Indeed,
<v Speaker 2>let us proceed. Mister Milass you were to ask questions,
<v Speaker 2>he was to write the answers. I will try to
<v Speaker 2>give you the regist of the interview.
<v Speaker 6>So far as these significant parts went, I began as steric.
<v Speaker 6>I am directed to ask whether you are prepared to
<v Speaker 6>sign the papers?
<v Speaker 2>Are no conditions? You know what is in store for you?
<v Speaker 2>Then the property can never be yours. What is your name?
<v Speaker 2>You shall go free if you sign? Where are you from?
<v Speaker 6>Then?
<v Speaker 2>I warn you again what house is this? I found
<v Speaker 2>that his name.
<v Speaker 6>Was Kratidis and that he came from Athens. He didn't
<v Speaker 6>know where he was, and they were starving him another
<v Speaker 6>five minutes. Mister Holmes and I might have succeeded in getting.
<v Speaker 1>The whole story out of him. You did remarkably well,
<v Speaker 1>mister Melas. I congratulate.
<v Speaker 2>Then. Then, yes, I thought I should discover it all
<v Speaker 2>under their very noses.
<v Speaker 6>Only at that instant the door opened and a woman
<v Speaker 6>stepped into the room.
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't see her very clearly in the dim light,
<v Speaker 2>but I think she was tall and dark and wearing
<v Speaker 2>a sort of rose white gown. And I couldn't stay
<v Speaker 2>very longer. It is so long you done old a
<v Speaker 2>herald quick.
<v Speaker 9>To you now, Well, mister Milus, I'm sorry we couldn't
<v Speaker 9>have sped to that distressing scene. But whatever you're thinking
<v Speaker 9>about all this, you're quite wrong, quite wrong, I assure you.
<v Speaker 9>Here Ah five sovereigns.
<v Speaker 2>Take them now. The carriage will take her back to time.
<v Speaker 9>But remember one word of this to a human soul,
<v Speaker 9>and don't think we haven't her means of knowing. If
<v Speaker 9>you talk, we'll soon know.
<v Speaker 2>And that is all, gentlemen.
<v Speaker 6>I was bundled into the carriage and it drove off
<v Speaker 6>at a great rate. It was much too dark to
<v Speaker 6>see anything outside. After a long time, it stopped and
<v Speaker 6>I was told to get down. But before I could
<v Speaker 6>look round me. The coachman was back into his seat
<v Speaker 6>and whipping up the horse.
<v Speaker 2>I was left alone. How did you get back home? Then?
<v Speaker 2>I walked for a while, doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 6>Then I met a man who told me I was
<v Speaker 6>on Onsworth Common and pointed out the way to Clapham Junction.
<v Speaker 2>I got there in time for the last train to Victoria.
<v Speaker 2>Next day.
<v Speaker 6>I told the whole story to mister Mycroft Holmes here, Well,
<v Speaker 6>my craft isn't thing to add?
<v Speaker 2>Do me this in to day's daily news.
<v Speaker 7>Anybody supplying any information as to the whereabouts of a
<v Speaker 7>Greek gentleman named Paul Katidis from Ethens, who is unable
<v Speaker 7>to speak English, will be rewarded. A similar reward will
<v Speaker 7>be paid to anyone giving information about a Greek lady
<v Speaker 7>whose first name is Sophie.
<v Speaker 2>About Stanber, etcetera, etcetera. And I had that put it
<v Speaker 2>all the day. There is no answer, though, how about
<v Speaker 2>the Greek location? They know nothing? Awa they have been policed.
<v Speaker 2>Then he sure not has all the energy of the family.
<v Speaker 7>Who see, gentlemen, will you take over the case by
<v Speaker 7>all means, my dear, rather let me know if you
<v Speaker 7>do any good.
<v Speaker 1>Certainly a word of warning there is to be less.
<v Speaker 1>I should certainly be on my guard if I were you.
<v Speaker 1>They have seen those advertisements, they'll know you portray them.
<v Speaker 1>I should be very careful. Indeed, yes, let me ah
<v Speaker 1>splendid missus Hudson has left us a fine father, great
<v Speaker 1>heavens my craft.
<v Speaker 10>How did you get here? I handsome passed you on
<v Speaker 10>the way. But we don't come in and make ourselves comfortable, gentlemen. Yeah,
<v Speaker 10>you don't expect such energy from me, do you shall?
<v Speaker 10>As a type of uncharacteristic.
<v Speaker 7>The fact is I've had an answer your advertisment, Yes,
<v Speaker 7>came just after you who had left.
<v Speaker 2>I thought you'd want to see it once we do.
<v Speaker 2>Indeed here it is written with a J.
<v Speaker 7>Penn On wild cream paper by a middle aged man
<v Speaker 7>with a weak constitution. Sir, he says, in answer to
<v Speaker 7>your advertisement of today's date, I beg to inform you
<v Speaker 7>that I have met the young lady in question several times.
<v Speaker 2>In this district. She is still living, to the best
<v Speaker 2>of my knowledge, at the markles Beckonum yours basfullly. J. Devenport.
<v Speaker 2>Sure King you might be able to tell you something
<v Speaker 2>more interesting.
<v Speaker 1>Dear Micraft, I'm most grateful to you and mister Davenport
<v Speaker 1>for that matter. But I think we'll see him later.
<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, we know that a man has been
<v Speaker 1>gradually done to death, and the sooners we get to him,
<v Speaker 1>the better.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you will go straight through the muffles in. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>come along, Watson. Are you coming? Micraft?
<v Speaker 7>Well, if you don't mind, I think not. It's it's
<v Speaker 7>rather late for you thirty for excuses. I understand ready
<v Speaker 7>on wasn't.
<v Speaker 2>I think I'll take my revolver. It sounds a dangerous lot,
<v Speaker 2>and I think we'll call at the yard inspect that
<v Speaker 2>Gregson should be interested in this. Perhaps we'd be wise
<v Speaker 2>to pick up mister Neil has two holms. We may
<v Speaker 2>need an interprene quite.
<v Speaker 11>Bread goodbye, then, Mike Cart, good bye. We'll keep you involved. Yes, gentlemen,
<v Speaker 11>we should like a word.
<v Speaker 2>But mister Miles, please, I'm afraid mister We expected to
<v Speaker 2>be back from his cub by now.
<v Speaker 12>Yes, sir, he came back an hour or more ago,
<v Speaker 12>but he's gone again, gone gone out, sir. Carry a carriage.
<v Speaker 12>You don't mean a cathy, sir, Definitely a carriage. A
<v Speaker 12>gentleman called for mister Lee lesson they went off together,
<v Speaker 12>mister Latimer. If didn't get his name, sir, but if
<v Speaker 12>you like to wait a moment, I'll find out.
<v Speaker 2>No, no, never mind, good night to you. Good night sir.
<v Speaker 2>They got for to be less again. What it looks
<v Speaker 2>like it? That means two lives in danger? Now scon
<v Speaker 2>of as fast as you can come, well, becon it.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, the house is in darkness, instector, looks as though
<v Speaker 1>our birds have flown on the next empty doctor watching?
<v Speaker 2>Is it worth going in? It's always better to take
<v Speaker 2>a look. You will never know what you may pick up. Hm.
<v Speaker 1>I can't see much through this window. The place has
<v Speaker 1>that deserted air about it, though you can feel it somehow.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, you know what you mean. Hello, well's film he
<v Speaker 2>was he had a minute ago, must be taking a
<v Speaker 2>parlor on? Ah, there he is? Where have you been, homes?
<v Speaker 2>I've got a window open round here. Come on. It's
<v Speaker 2>a good job you're on the side of the FoST
<v Speaker 2>mister Holmes. My little Jimmy has saved me a few
<v Speaker 2>bruised shoulders in my time. Now in don't know court,
<v Speaker 2>and now I'll follow you. Hmm, so far so good.
<v Speaker 2>Now what have we here someone had a meal in
<v Speaker 2>a hurry.
<v Speaker 1>There on the table a meal for two two plates,
<v Speaker 1>two glasses that they be significant.
<v Speaker 2>Toomed. What's that that room in there? No zones right,
<v Speaker 2>try huse what's left? I got to get in open
<v Speaker 2>the window two to it there? Can you can you
<v Speaker 2>get them out quick?
<v Speaker 6>Leave it come and.
<v Speaker 2>The room will see now it'll soon clear. Now how
<v Speaker 2>do you feel, Watson?
<v Speaker 13>I'm all right, drafts soon clear it away, just in
<v Speaker 13>time for these so I think, well, not just in time?
<v Speaker 2>Are they both? This is me less? He's a word,
<v Speaker 2>I think, yeah, it's dead, Critidis, poor devil's been tarred
<v Speaker 2>to a skillet. Here's he kind of headlong's last. Thank you?
<v Speaker 1>Well, honestly, then we do get in for the time being,
<v Speaker 1>and us just get across to the nearest police station
<v Speaker 1>and get things moving behind this.
<v Speaker 2>Let them on the other we've little enough to go
<v Speaker 2>on at the moment.
<v Speaker 14>I dow and if you'll send someone out here to
<v Speaker 14>get poor critidious body, Dr Watson, and I will take
<v Speaker 14>this to me loss back to make the street for us.
<v Speaker 14>A few more questions when he comes around properly might
<v Speaker 14>give us something more to welcome.
<v Speaker 2>Very good I'll see you later at Baker Street.
<v Speaker 6>Mister Holmes, doctor Watson, I don't know how to begin
<v Speaker 6>thanking you, but for your timely arrival.
<v Speaker 1>Pray, try to pray it from your mind to me
<v Speaker 1>less we did arrive in time. Now, what have you
<v Speaker 1>to tell us about your second kidnappy?
<v Speaker 6>On this occasion, I was not persuaded to go to
<v Speaker 6>that house a life presser who was presented to my
<v Speaker 6>head and I was ordered to go. I was forced
<v Speaker 6>to interpret yet another interview with that poor Cratidis. He
<v Speaker 6>was much weaker, who could scarcely hold the slave pencil.
<v Speaker 6>It was impossible for me to communicate secretly with him
<v Speaker 6>this time.
<v Speaker 2>What did they want?
<v Speaker 6>He said, said too yes, But the grave fellow refused
<v Speaker 6>every threat. But they finally saw it was useless and
<v Speaker 6>bundled him roughly out of the room. Then they turned
<v Speaker 6>on me over the newspaper advertisement. I wonder if your
<v Speaker 6>brother was not a little history putting that in, mister Holmes,
<v Speaker 6>possibly her, but.
<v Speaker 1>Remembered mister Mills. But for the answer which came so suddenly,
<v Speaker 1>we should certainly never.
<v Speaker 2>Have found you.
<v Speaker 6>Ay, yes, well, they left me in no doubt as
<v Speaker 6>to their intentions. But they were going to kill Cratidis
<v Speaker 6>and me had ma pot their own escape, and I
<v Speaker 6>suppose because they thought they should never leave.
<v Speaker 2>To tell it to anyone else. They told me their
<v Speaker 2>unsavory story.
<v Speaker 1>Ah, Watson, will you begger enough to take a note
<v Speaker 1>of this, Inspector Gregson may had it invaluable.
<v Speaker 6>Well, there is not much to it really. They told
<v Speaker 6>me that the young lady is Sophie. He came from
<v Speaker 6>a wealthy Grecian family, and that she had been on
<v Speaker 6>a visit to some friends in England. Over here she
<v Speaker 6>had met the younger of the two villains, had Letimer,
<v Speaker 6>and he had persuaded her to elope with him. Her
<v Speaker 6>friends had immediately informed her brother Paul Kratidis in Athens.
<v Speaker 6>He had come over here at once, but unfortunately for him,
<v Speaker 6>had fallen into the power of Lettimer and his associate.
<v Speaker 2>His name, by the way, was Wilson Kemp.
<v Speaker 1>Stem that rogue and then the foulest Antecedents. This will
<v Speaker 1>make Gregson's task easier, oh well. But the kratdis got
<v Speaker 1>into the power of these two, and they set out
<v Speaker 1>to starve.
<v Speaker 6>Him into agreeing to sign papers making over his own
<v Speaker 6>and his sister's property to them, as I thought they
<v Speaker 6>had kept him prisoner without the girl's knowledge, and when
<v Speaker 6>she saw him when I first went there, it was
<v Speaker 6>the first time she knew of his presence.
<v Speaker 2>They immediately put her under lock and key too.
<v Speaker 6>Then, when they saw the newspaper advertisement and knew their
<v Speaker 6>secret was out, they decided to make a final attempt
<v Speaker 6>through me to get cratedis to sign. He wouldn't, so
<v Speaker 6>he and I were to be left to die while
<v Speaker 6>they took the girl away with them and got well
<v Speaker 6>clear of the country.
<v Speaker 1>Here the country that'll give us some leaders to their
<v Speaker 1>route the channel board zones. Yes, Watson, take your notes
<v Speaker 1>and offer you to see Gregson as fast.
<v Speaker 2>As you can go. Daddy, be kind to head why Gregson?
<v Speaker 2>This is fortunate.
<v Speaker 1>Indeed, God rand as soon as I could. Gentlemen, good morning,
<v Speaker 1>mister Melas. How are you feeling, sir?
<v Speaker 2>Oh much better, Thank you, Inspector, and happy to meet
<v Speaker 2>you at another one who helped to save me.
<v Speaker 1>Don't mention it, sir, Wells the hold inspector, Doctor Watson here,
<v Speaker 1>we're just about to hurry around to see you. The
<v Speaker 1>villains gave mister meet as a complete account of this affair. Well,
<v Speaker 1>I saved your journey, doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 2>Early. In any case, it would have been a pity
<v Speaker 2>to waste your time. Waste my time, inspector.
<v Speaker 1>But you've got them already in a manner of speaking, zone, Come, come, Inspector,
<v Speaker 1>no riddles, pa, you see. The bodies of the two
<v Speaker 1>men were found in their carriage on the outskirts of
<v Speaker 1>Folkston in the early hours of this morning. They had
<v Speaker 1>both been stabbed several times stopped.
<v Speaker 2>The girl not to be seen, nor the coachman, though
<v Speaker 2>from the way.
<v Speaker 1>His hat was found at the roadside and tracks led
<v Speaker 1>off across a muddy field. He had bolted for his life,
<v Speaker 1>afraid of getting the same as his masters, and the
<v Speaker 1>knife lying in the carriage between the two bodies.
<v Speaker 2>It quarreled.
<v Speaker 6>Perhaps yes, and perhaps Sophie Crattidisa the coachman both ran
<v Speaker 6>away in different directions while.
<v Speaker 2>Those two murdered one another.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you could put it that, Perhappers, the hat said,
<v Speaker 1>But better if it were put down to something along
<v Speaker 1>those lines, Inspector, much better, mister Holmes, very much better,
<v Speaker 1>because it's our duty to look for that girl. Sophie crities.
<v Speaker 1>She might know a somewhat different version of what happened,
<v Speaker 1>if she could be persuaded to tell us, yes, all
<v Speaker 1>the same, I think we shall allow one or two
<v Speaker 1>cross channel steamers to sail before we begin looking being
<v Speaker 1>too hard for agreed.
<v Speaker 3>Mister Holmes agreed. Inspector agreed. That was the Greek interpreter.
<v Speaker 3>The radio play was dramatized by Michael Hardwick from the
<v Speaker 3>story by Sir Arthur Kerman. Doyle Carlton Hobbes played Shelock
<v Speaker 3>Holmes and Norman Sherry doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 2>The production for the BBC was by Martin C. Webster