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The Honour of Israel Gow: A Castle Full of Clues That Make No Sense | Father Brown · Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton Detective Stories

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  Speaker 1: The Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton.
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  Speaker 2: We present the honour of Israel Gowd.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Adapted by John Scottney, with Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.
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  Speaker 3: It's a.
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  Speaker 4: Very sour look, sir.
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  Speaker 5: There's a care for the people.
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  Speaker 6: The people?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the people. The soup and all that is excellent. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: have I somehow.
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  Speaker 5: The people, Father.
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  Speaker 4: It's what you English call the bagpipe. Oh, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm afraid I was hitting a bit you.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's a slum clearance business.
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  Speaker 8: You see, you invite me up here to Glasgow to
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  Speaker 8: talk to you at a conference, and heaven knows why,
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  Speaker 8: except I suppose I'm a Catholic, but I work in
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  Speaker 8: the London.
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  Speaker 7: Slum, and then for two days we talk and talk,
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  Speaker 7: and now it's over, and nothing, nothing, the tenements, the.
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  Speaker 8: Despair, the physical and spiritual desperation. I.
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  Speaker 4: I am sorry, we weren't introduced. McKinley, Superintendent McKinley. Oh, Brown,
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  Speaker 4: Father Brown. Father Brown. Now, would you know Jimmy Bagshaw, Father?
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  Speaker 4: Inspector Bagshaw.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I do know him.
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  Speaker 10: I say, Piper, must pipe in the.
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  Speaker 4: Haggis, you know. Man for a man for all that.
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  Speaker 4: I know. Father, you look as though you could do
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  Speaker 4: with a couple of days of good fresh air. And
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  Speaker 4: I have on my hands a mystery that's baffling me.
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  Speaker 4: It might be just off your street, and it would
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  Speaker 4: rest your mind a bit. Could you spare a couple
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  Speaker 4: of days? Yes, well... Let me try to intrigue you.
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  Speaker 4: There's an old castle, a mad laird, his death, solitary servant.
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  Speaker 8: I hope it doesn't include a murder. I've been involved
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  Speaker 8: with two murders recently.
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  Speaker 4: You're not a servant.
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  Speaker 9: How do you eat this?
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  Speaker 4: With a claymore in one hand and a ski and
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  Speaker 4: do in the other. Father, as for your question about murder,
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  Speaker 4: it might, but equally there could be no crime at all.
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  Speaker 9: So, Farrell Brown. It is you, Farrell Brown, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it is.
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  Speaker 10: I thought you would be.
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  Speaker 4: Seeing as you're the only one to get off the train.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Sergeant Johnson. Oh, how do you do? Let me
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  Speaker 4: take your bag. Thank you so much. You're wise to
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  Speaker 4: bring an umbrella.
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  Speaker 10: The superintendent asked me to meet you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, he was right about the air, wasn't he?
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  Speaker 7: Somehow, I imagine Bradgrave Castle would be up north in
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  Speaker 7: the Highlands, not here.
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  Speaker 9: In the south.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all, sir. That nonsense, that old Scotland's romance
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  Speaker 4: is up there. Sir Walter Scott, he knew better.
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  Speaker 10: It's here on the form of Scotland. The great abbeys, Jedburgh, Melrose,
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  Speaker 10: the border wars, the forest of Ettrick where the Bruce
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  Speaker 10: wintered his armies.
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  Speaker 4: How interesting.
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  Speaker 9: I am Ettrick Archer, who.
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  Speaker 10: Died like heroes at Loddonfield.
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  Speaker 9: You'll know the pipe tune, sir. Yes, you're a local man, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I am, sir.
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  Speaker 10: The Johnsons like the Red Grahams, both old riding families.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, it's a strange name, Red Graham.
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  Speaker 4: It's a corruption of Red Graham.
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  Speaker 10: Red Willie Graham, the reaver.
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  Speaker 4: He built the castle. The pony and trap's just here.
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  Speaker 4: Your ticket, sir. What? Oh. Oh, yes, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 9: Now, wait, just a moment. I have, um.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. Very good, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Yes, please.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: Your umbrella. Oh, yes, mustn't forget.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Well, now, what I don't understand is, Superintendent McCandless said,
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  Speaker 7: that the present Earl Radgrave simply disappeared last.
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  Speaker 9: Week, isn't it? That's it.
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  Speaker 4: Disappeared. Believed dead.
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  Speaker 10: Giddy-up there.
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  Speaker 4: Mind you, he always was a recluse.
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  Speaker 10: We never saw him from one month to the next.
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  Speaker 4: And he's just the one servant. Old Israel Gow.
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  Speaker 10: And he's deaf as a post. Always has been.
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  Speaker 4: And a wee bit strange. Israel was a gardener.
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  Speaker 8: Groom?
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  Speaker 1: Everything.
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  Speaker 4: What exactly happened?
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  Speaker 10: Well, last week, Israel came into the village, gibbering in
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  Speaker 10: the way he has, and dragged the provost and the minister, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Baker, that is, over to the castle. And he, well.
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  Speaker 10: It seemed that Israel had taken on himself another job.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, which was? Grave a-digger.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: There was no sign of a laird. And Gow took
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  Speaker 4: them to the old ruined chapel.
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  Speaker 10: That's inside the castle. And showed them what looked like
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  Speaker 10: a fresh dug grave.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, and what.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, they couldn't get any sense out of Gow.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody ever can. I telephoned the superintendent. He came down himself.
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  Speaker 10: And he's just got permission to disinter the corpse.
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  Speaker 4: That is, if there is one. But that was not
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  Speaker 4: the only thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you'll see.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the castle now. It's a grim place, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Built on fear and blood, as the old ballad says.
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  Speaker 9: Fear and blood?
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Now, am I.
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  Speaker 9: Am I to stay here at the castle, Sergeant?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, not at all, sir. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.
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  Speaker 9: No, no.
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  Speaker 10: You and the superintendent, you're both staying at Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: MacDonald's.
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  Speaker 10: They're fishing in in the village.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 10: It's a cosy wee place, and she's a good, cheery body,
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  Speaker 10: is Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: MacDonald.
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  Speaker 4: Good, good.
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  Speaker 9: Right, then.
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  Speaker 5: Here we are.
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  Speaker 10: I've got the key here.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: Good afternoon, gentlemen. Oh, suppose then that you're back already.
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  Speaker 4: Here we are, sir. One peepish feast. Oh, dear Lord,
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  Speaker 4: as requested. Ah, Father Brown, welcome. I'm sorry I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: travel down with you.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, not at all, not at all. Sergeant Johnston here
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  Speaker 7: has been telling me some of the local history.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, he's a great man for that. And no doubt
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  Speaker 4: he's told you that we poor Highlanders are not a
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  Speaker 4: patch on the covenanting lowland place.
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  Speaker 7: Well, if you call these hills lowlands, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 7: I'd wish to try the highlands, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Father Brown. How strange. What, Father?
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  Speaker 7: I was just putting my umbrella in the stand when
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  Speaker 7: I saw these things.
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  Speaker 9: Bumble canes with splintered tops.
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  Speaker 10: That's nice, compared with some of the other weird things
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  Speaker 10: in this house.
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  Speaker 4: That's very true. I just put the kettle on to
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  Speaker 4: mash some tea whilst we're waiting for it. I might
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  Speaker 4: as well show you some of the other curiosities. Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: We'll try the great hall first.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Through here, Father.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: And this half-light is whose gay spirit. I say.
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  Speaker 6: You seem to have found a geological museum here, Superintendent.
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  Speaker 9: All these gemstones, what have you.
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  Speaker 4: Lying about? One thing we have discovered here, Father, is
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  Speaker 4: that the old lair was some kind of miniatur. Ah, here,
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  Speaker 4: just listen to Sergeant Johnson's list of the things he
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  Speaker 4: found lying about in the house. Well, we'll need a candle.
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  Speaker 10: Do you notice the twilight early in here, with only
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  Speaker 10: the musket ports for windows?
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  Speaker 4: Have you found any candles among your oddities?
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  Speaker 10: Aye, as a matter of fact, we have. Twenty-five candles,
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  Speaker 10: and not a trace of a candlestick.
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  Speaker 4: They're just behind you, sir, on the mantelpiece. Oh, I
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  Speaker 4: get them, yes. Oh, what's this little heap of brown dust?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's snuff.
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  Speaker 4: Aye, snuff, father. There's piles of it all over the place. Here,
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  Speaker 4: I'll light the candles, and I'll stick them in these
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  Speaker 4: old bottles. Oh, dear. There, that's it. It's a draughty
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  Speaker 4: old place, this. I've got the inventory here. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that was found, loose and unexplained, in the castle.
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  Speaker 10: First item, a very considerable.
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  Speaker 1: Hoard of precious stones.
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  Speaker 9: Ah, yes, that's fair.
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  Speaker 10: Nearly all diamonds, and all of them loose, without any
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  Speaker 10: setting or device. The rat Grahams would seem to have
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  Speaker 10: kept their family jewels loose.
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  Speaker 9: In their pockets, like coppers.
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  Speaker 4: He's searching.
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  Speaker 9: Second item, heaps and heaps of loose snuff.
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  Speaker 7: Indeed.
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  Speaker 10: Not kept in snuff boxes, but lying loose on mantelpieces,
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  Speaker 10: the sideboard, the piano.
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  Speaker 3: Third item.
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  Speaker 4: Here and there about the house, little heaps of minute
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  Speaker 4: pieces of metal, wheels, cogs and springs, as though a
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  Speaker 4: mechanical toy had been gutted.
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  Speaker 5: Fourth item, the.
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  Speaker 10: Candles, with nothing to stick them in. Of course, Father.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a few.
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  Speaker 4: Ideas of my own. Hey, Sergeant. The kettle must be
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  Speaker 4: boiling by now.
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  Speaker 2: Aye.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Father. Jimmy Boggs sure swears you have a genius
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  Speaker 4: for solving mysteries.
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  Speaker 3: Quickly.
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  Speaker 4: How was your salmon, gentlemen?
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: It was fresh out of the Graham water today.
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  Speaker 5: Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: MacDonald, that was indeed a very proper bit of boat salmon.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Aye.
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  Speaker 9: Aye.
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  Speaker 4: Poached in more senses than one, I'll be bound.
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  Speaker 3: Father, did you know it.
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  Speaker 7: Was written into the indentures of the castle servants that they.
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  Speaker 10: Wouldn't have to eat salmon more than three times a week?
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  Speaker 9: Because the salmon was so common in the season.
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  Speaker 4: That'll do, Sergeant, that'll do. That's enough local history. I'll
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  Speaker 4: buy you a glass if you hold your peace.
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 4: Will you take one, Father? Oh, yes, that would be
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  Speaker 4: very nice. Well, we'll take it in the bar, Father.
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  Speaker 4: This way, Father. Yes, thank you. You can clean away now, Mr. McDonald.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you once again.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You're in good voice tonight, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get the drink.
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  Speaker 10: You know, Father, there's an old song about the laird's
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  Speaker 10: best-known ancestor.
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  Speaker 4: Though it's not very flattering to him. Really, I'd like
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  Speaker 4: to hear it.
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  Speaker 10: Would you?
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  Speaker 4: Will you give us another song, Jamie? Robbie, another glass
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  Speaker 4: for Jamie. Yes, there was, Mr Johnson. A glass for
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  Speaker 4: the singer. What will it be, then? Talk of the side? No, Jamie. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: the board, the widow's lament. And neither will her red
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  Speaker 4: Willie Graham. Who pays the piper? I don't know. I'll
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  Speaker 4: sing her one song.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I in the ear of your neat Willie Graham. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: it be a disarray to his red blood, her red flame.
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  Speaker 5: There be spear, fire, and flame while he reaps his
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  Speaker 5: red gold. And with fear and with blood builds his
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  Speaker 5: castle of power. And, oh, as the green sap to
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  Speaker 5: the green summer tree, as the red, red gold to
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  Speaker 5: red woolly, oh, he'll brand ye barn, he'll brand ye hay,
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: the deals ain't kindness, woolly grain.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he'll grant me bond, he'll grant me aim. The
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  Speaker 2: tears in him, so easy.
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  Speaker 3: It's true they had a terrible hunger for gold.
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  Speaker 5: For what?
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  Speaker 4: For gold.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose that was your idea, Johnson, the musical interlude. Oh, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: it was mine.
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  Speaker 3: The devil's own kin, yes.
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  Speaker 9: But why all the references to fire and blood?
• 13:35
  Speaker 10: Well, you'll know the word blackmail, Father. I'll wager you
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  Speaker 10: didn't know it came from these parts.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, please.
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  Speaker 10: It means black and red. And Willie Graham and his cousins,
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  Speaker 10: the English Grahams, they were the leading exponents of it.
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  Speaker 10: If you didn't pay, they burnt first your barn, then
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  Speaker 10: your house. If you did pay, they protected you from
• 13:54
  Speaker 10: the other reavers, like the Johnsons, for instance.
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  Speaker 4: I will spare me, spare me, Sergeant. I'm going outside
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  Speaker 4: to finish my cigarette.
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  Speaker 10: It was said that in the whole of the debatable land,
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  Speaker 10: no one paid or asked for proper rent.
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  Speaker 9: In fact, the good Bishop Radgrave, he was one of...
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  Speaker 9: Excuse me. Good Bishop Radgrave?
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  Speaker 4: Aye, aberrations do occur, even in the worst of families.
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  Speaker 10: The bishop said if he could find just one man
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  Speaker 10: in the debatable land who took his exact due and
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  Speaker 10: no more, he'd give him all the gold in the
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  Speaker 10: Radgraeum coffers.
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  Speaker 4: And needless to say, he didn't find one. So he
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  Speaker 4: cursed the lot of them with the great cursing.
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  Speaker 10: I curse their head and all the hairs on their head.
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  Speaker 4: I curse their face, their ear, their mouth, their nose,
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  Speaker 4: their ear. I curse you if you don't get home, Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: It's a strange night out there. Still no rain, but
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: you can feel the storm ready to break any moment. Now, home, Johnson,
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: don't forget. We have to be the resurrection men tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 7: Aye.
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  Speaker 4: Aye. Good night, gentlemen. Oh, good night, sir. Thank you
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  Speaker 4: so much, Sergeant. Resurrection men? Ah, yes, Father. We have
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  Speaker 4: to dig up the corpse in the old chapel. Resurrection
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: men was the name they used in Edinburgh for the
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: body snatchers. Men like Burke and Hare, who used to... Oh,
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: so help me. It's catching. I'm starting to sound like Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: I'd best get to bed. Good night, Father.
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  Speaker 3: Six.
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  Speaker 7: At last I've started.
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  Speaker 4: I must apologize, Father.
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't invite you down here to play Ludo in
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: a damp, drafty castle with two bored policemen.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, why?
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  Speaker 4: Why did the weather have to break today? Bad enough
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  Speaker 4: having to dig up a weak old corpse without having
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: to do it in this. You sure it'll clear by
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  Speaker 4: this afternoon? Aye, it always does, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, another six.
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  Speaker 4: Could you not find a pack of cards anywhere in
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  Speaker 4: the castle, Johnson? No, sir, just the ludo. The laird
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't have cards in the house.
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  Speaker 10: He disapproved of all forms of gaming, unlike his forebears.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Poor.
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  Speaker 4: Unlike his forebears.
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  Speaker 9: You know, he was obsessed by them, but he hated
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  Speaker 9: them for their evil ways.
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  Speaker 7: The only one he resembled was the bishop.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, yes. Tell me, why have.
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  Speaker 9: We seen nothing of Israel Gow, the deaf servant? Oh,
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: but we have seen him.
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  Speaker 10: He was digging potatoes outside his cottage when we came
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  Speaker 10: from our station.
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  Speaker 4: We tried questioning him by writing down the questions on
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: a piece of paper. But it seems he can hardly
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: read or write.
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  Speaker 9: Really? I wonder how his master communicated with him. How
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: did he come to work here?
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  Speaker 8: That's a curious tale.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, two. It was when the lad was already becoming
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  Speaker 7: a wee bit strange.
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  Speaker 9: Israel was a boy. He wasn't quite to.
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  Speaker 4: Death then, but he was still a solitary child. Very religious.
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  Speaker 7: A good Presbyterian.
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  Speaker 4: Most of us are.
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  Speaker 7: Round here, but he was the.
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  Speaker 10: Anyway, one day, this deaf and seemingly senseless child brought
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: the laird a telegram that had gone astray.
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  Speaker 7: Israel lived in a village about a dozen miles away.
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  Speaker 9: The laird, now, he was never a very generous man
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  Speaker 9: in small things.
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  Speaker 1: Though he gave a good deal to charity.
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  Speaker 7: He gave the boy a new farthing.
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  Speaker 4: Or so he thought.
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  Speaker 9: Later, he realised he'd given him not a farthing, but
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  Speaker 9: a sovereign.
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  Speaker 10: In the middle of the night, he was knocked up
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  Speaker 10: by this deaf idiot.
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  Speaker 7: And it was a night as rough as the weather
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: is now.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: He was so impressed, he took the boy in.
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  Speaker 4: He brought the sovereign back? No.
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  Speaker 10: Nineteen shillings and eleven pence, three farthings.
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  Speaker 4: Aye, keeping the farthing he was owed. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure it'll clear up, Sergeant?
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Here we are now, sir. It's a well-made coffin. I'll
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: give go of that. Right, sir. I'm ready to open up. Right, here. Here, Johnson.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: You best have a swig of this first.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, sir.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Aye, aye, I'll have a drum. Father! Father! Oh, I'm sorry,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: There's a prayer proper to these occasions.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I was just reciting it to myself. Would you like
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: a drum? Oh, no, no whiskey, thank you. Here goes.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's tough.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Here, make me healthy, Johnson. Thank you.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Let's get the lid off.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: My God, my God.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, that dark as hell.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: In here. Oh, dear, sir. Some more candles. We're getting
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: through them pretty fast. Never mind. We need as much
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: light as we can get. I can't understand it. There
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: was no head. Why did the corpse have no head?
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: It certainly doesn't seem to fit into an idea I
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: was thinking about.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Now, did you say there was some evidence I haven't seen? Oh, yes, yes,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: of course. Completely went out of my mind. And it's
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: one of the reasons I asked you down. Would you
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: show Father Brown the missiles, Josh?
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: They're over here.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Missiles?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I thought the old fellow.
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: Was a Protestant.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Aye, he wasn't. But these are rather special, you see.
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: They date back to the late Middle Ages.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's relevant.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: They seem to have been mutilated. What?
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: You see, the illustrations, illuminations, you call them.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Aye.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Oh. Oh, now, this is serious. Yes. Oh.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: This is not spilled snuff or loose pebbles. They might
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: be there.
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: For a hundred reasons.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Aye, aye. There's only one reason for this being done.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: It goes down to the roots of the world.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Like where, Father? Look here.
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: In every place, look here.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Aye.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: Where the great ornamented name of God appears in the
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: old illuminations. And there, it's been elaborately taken out.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Aye.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Sure it has.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: And you see, the only other thing that's been removed
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: is the halo.
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: Around the head of the child Jesus.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Aye.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Aye.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: Before that business about the head, and more particularly before
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: I saw this, I thought I had an answer. An
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: mundane enough answer, but now.
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: How did that song go?
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: The devil.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: The deal's own king.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: His own king, yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: But why the head?
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Aye, why the head, father? Why the head?
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: All I can think of is that when the Knights
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: Templars were suppressed, they were accused of some evil practice
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: involving their heads.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: Now, that is interesting.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: The Templars never were suppressed in Scotland. Oh, what can
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: it mean, Father?
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Then, it could mean.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: It could mean that the great devil of the universe
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: may be sitting on the topmost tower of this castle
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: at the moment, as big as a hundred elephants and
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: roaring like the apocalypse.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Father Brown? Father Brown, are you there?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Are you there?
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Doesn't seem like it, Superintendent.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Aye, he wasn't at breakfast. You'd best use your passkey, Mrs. MacDonald. Oh,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: It's all right.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I'll take responsibility.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Very well, Superintendent.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I'll go first. Well. Come in. Come in. It's all right.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: It's nothing. Everything's neat and tidy. But no priest. Another mystery. Now,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I must be getting to the castle for I'm to
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: meet Sergeant Johnson there. If Father Brown should turn up,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: you'll tell him.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: I will.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I hope he's all right. Johnson.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: Aye.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Have you searched the castle thoroughly?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Aye, sir.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: There's no sign of Father Brown. Where can he be?
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Sir.
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: Do you know anything about exorcism?
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Exorcism? But you don't think... What else do you.
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: I don't know what to think, superintendent.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Look.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Look there, you see? Coming up the path. There with
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: the bucket. Oh, for heaven's sake. And who are those
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: two with him?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: That is strange.
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: The tall man with a beard, that's Mr.
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: Dacre, the minister.
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: But the other fellow with him, he's the Malcolm Cochran,
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: the piper from the village.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Father Brown!
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Dacre! We have searched everywhere for you. We were worried sick, man.
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: I'm so sorry. I should have thought of telling you.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Well, Father would be.
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: I had no intention of worrying you. It's just that
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: it's such a beautiful morning after the.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: You decided to go out and pick mushrooms with Mr.
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: Dacre and Malcolm.
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: Is that what you've got in that bucket?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Here, let's have a look.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: Well, um.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God, what's... It's not a pleasant sight, is it, Sergeant?
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: It's not, Mr.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: Dacre.
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: You see, I should have warned you. Israel Gow, he
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: had it in his meat safe.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Here, let me see.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, it certainly isn't a pleasant sight. Ah, well, there's
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: no doubt now. It's murder. Look at the state of
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: that jaw. How did you find the head, Father?
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: Oh, Gow told me where it was. He told you? Oh, yes, yes,
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: we had a long chat.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: A chart?
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: Yes, he thinks it'll be a good year for potatoes.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, come along, Father, a chart.
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: Oh, I see what you mean. Yes, how did we speak? Well,
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: with our hands. Deaf and dumb language, you see. I
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: find it very useful in my work. It was invented
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: by a priest, in fact. You know, you're quite wrong.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: It wasn't murder.
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: The old earl died a perfectly natural death.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: What are you doing here, Mr. Deacon? Oh, Father Brown
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: came to see me. Aye, with his grisly burden. Paul
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Israel Gow wanted the head buried with the rest of
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: the body.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: He insisted there should be.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: A lament played. So we went and got Malcolm. If
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: you don't mind now, I'd like to get the service
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: over with. I have other duties today. Aye, right. This way.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: This way.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Tell me, Father Brown, what made you think of deaf
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: and dumb language?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, Mr.
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: Dacre, you see, I thought the master and servant must
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: have been able to talk somehow.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: And so I decided to.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: Pop over and see Gow and try.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: And it worked.
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: It seems the old earl learnt it from a book
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: and taught Gow.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: But did he explain about the snuff, the jewels and
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: all the other things?
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, yes. You yourself said the earl was obsessed
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: by his family's past.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Well, in Gow he found the one man who fulfilled
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: the old bishop's requirement of.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: Taking only his exact due. The one farthing out of
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: the sovereign, yes? I see. So he carried out the
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: bishop's promise and left that man all the red-grain gold.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: Gold.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Are you sure, Father?
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, I've seen the will.
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: And, of course, that's exactly what Gao took.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: The gold snuff boxes, but not the snuff. The gold candlesticks,
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: but not the candles. Yes, the gold tops of the
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: walking canes, but not the canes themselves. The gold watch cases,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: but not the works. The gold of the rings, but
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: not the jewels. The gold leaf.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, and here I.
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: In fact, I may rather be fooled myself. Yes, the
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: gold leaf from the illuminations in the missile.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Well, here we are. We shall change our vile body,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: that it may be like unto his glorious body, according
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: all things himself.
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: Malcolm?
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Malcolm!
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: Aye, sir.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Father, I meant to ask you, why did old Gow
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: cut off the head and remove the jaw?
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: The earl had a considerable number of gold teeth, sir.
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: Gow had to take the head home to remove them.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he made rather a mess of it. I'm
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: surprised he's not here himself, Gow.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, no, no.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: When I told him there'd be five of us, he
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: said he wouldn't. He doesn't like crowds. In fact, he
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: asked me to bury the head quietly myself.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I said no.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Aye, father.
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: It would be a pity, wouldn't it, when the dead
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: are raised on the great day of judgment, if the
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: Earl was a Protestant from the neck down and a
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: Catholic from the neck up?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: In The Honour of Israel Gow by G.K. Chesterton, the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: part of Father Brown was played by Andrew Sachs, McCandlish,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Henry Stamper, Johnston, Graham Blocky, Mrs. MacDonald, Alan McIntosh, Old Jamie,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: James Bryce, Dacre, David Sinclair, Barman and Waiter, Guy Holden.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Other parts were played by members of the cast. The
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: piper was Brian Supples. The Honour of Israel Gal was
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: adapted by John Scottney and directed in Bristol by Alec Reid.