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- 0:00Speaker 1: And now I'm sure our good friend doctor Watson's expecting us.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Let's not keep him waiting. Good evening, doctor.
- 0:08Speaker 3: Good evening, mister Barter, you give me I don't get up,
- 0:11Speaker 3: won't you? My boy?
- 0:12Speaker 2: Of course? Actor? What's the matter? A touch of rheumatism?
- 0:15Speaker 3: Prete eighteen holes of golf.
- 0:17Speaker 1: I hope that when i'm your age, doctor, I can
- 0:19Speaker 1: be half as brightly.
- 0:20Speaker 4: Oh so you, if you don't mind me, won't discuss
- 0:23Speaker 4: the question of my age. So drop your chair, make
- 0:27Speaker 4: yourself comfortable. I'll get on with tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Well, from the hints you gave us last week, it
- 0:33Speaker 1: sounded like quite a spooky story.
- 0:34Speaker 3: It was, tell it. It certainly was.
- 0:37Speaker 4: Towards the end of November and the eighteen hundred and
- 0:40Speaker 4: ninety five against Yellow Fog could settled down over London
- 0:44Speaker 4: for four or five days. It was impossible from our
- 0:46Speaker 4: rooms and vacer s feet to see the outcline of
- 0:48Speaker 4: the houses up.
- 0:49Speaker 2: A real London peace Soper, huh doctors, my boy.
- 0:52Speaker 4: And it came most resting the first day at homes
- 0:55Speaker 4: that's spent in cross index thing is huge book of
- 0:58Speaker 4: criminal references. The second and third had been patiently occupied
- 1:02Speaker 4: for the subject which he recently made his hobby, the
- 1:05Speaker 4: music of the Middle Ages.
- 1:07Speaker 3: If when on the.
- 1:08Speaker 4: Fourth day, are pushing back our chairs after breakfast we
- 1:10Speaker 4: saw the greasy, heavy browns swirl still drifting past us
- 1:14Speaker 4: and condensing in oily drops upon the window panes, Jolock
- 1:17Speaker 4: Holmes is impatient and active nature to endure this drab
- 1:20Speaker 4: existence no longer. He paced restlessly about our sitting room,
- 1:25Speaker 4: chafing against the enaction. After several minutes of these pambulations.
- 1:30Speaker 3: He turned to me.
- 1:31Speaker 4: But having an interest in the paper, watching us revolution,
- 1:36Speaker 4: possible war, and an infending change in the government. Nothing
- 1:40Speaker 4: to interest you, though crimes have.
- 1:44Speaker 5: Very important London criminal is certainly a double and unenterprising
- 1:47Speaker 5: fellow these days. Out of the window, Watson, see how
- 1:50Speaker 5: the figures loom up a dimnes scene and then blend
- 1:52Speaker 5: once more.
- 1:53Speaker 6: Into the foggy depths.
- 1:54Speaker 5: What a day of people. A murderer you get roam
- 1:57Speaker 5: London as the tiger does the jungle, unseen until he pounces,
- 2:01Speaker 5: and then evident only to his dictim.
- 2:03Speaker 4: Cheerful thought, I must be hello.
- 2:06Speaker 5: There is probably a visitor for missus.
- 2:08Speaker 6: Hudson law.
- 2:10Speaker 5: Perhaps the local pomer has finally condescended to pay some
- 2:12Speaker 5: attention to the faulty gas jet in our hallway.
- 2:15Speaker 3: I don't think you're right on either account.
- 2:16Speaker 4: I can hear Missu Hudson's footsteps on the stairs.
- 2:20Speaker 5: Allen, Allen, Yes, Missus Hudson, what is it?
- 2:24Speaker 7: Excuse me, mister, but there's a gentleman to see says
- 2:27Speaker 7: it's most important, and he asked me to give you
- 2:30Speaker 7: this coun.
- 2:33Speaker 3: Eh urn up.
- 2:34Speaker 5: He's Missus Hudson, very Mortimer, and who is he. I've
- 2:38Speaker 5: not had the pleasure of meeting him personally, but I'm
- 2:40Speaker 5: quite familiar with his scientific repetition scientific. Oh I I
- 2:47Speaker 5: suppose why Michael purch him is one of the greatest
- 2:49Speaker 5: authorities on all matters connected with the UK out Do you.
- 2:52Speaker 4: Mean the fellow devils and supernatural stuff and all that
- 2:54Speaker 4: sort of thing?
- 2:56Speaker 5: I mean, media Watson, that Fatimahale is an extremely religion
- 3:00Speaker 5: my mother soroughly comprehensive and sculling and knowledge of his field,
- 3:03Speaker 5: and an intense belief in the existence of the supernatural force.
- 3:09Speaker 6: And here he has to speak to themselves.
- 3:10Speaker 8: Are come in Halley.
- 3:12Speaker 6: Thank you, Missus Hudson.
- 3:14Speaker 2: You're mister Sherlock.
- 3:15Speaker 6: Ho sir, this is my colleague, doctor Watson.
- 3:17Speaker 3: How do you do, Holle? How do you do? Doctor?
- 3:21Speaker 6: Thank you?
- 3:22Speaker 7: Well, you fellas are probably wondering who I am and
- 3:25Speaker 7: what's brought me here.
- 3:26Speaker 3: We're not wondering who you are, mister Harley.
- 3:28Speaker 4: My friend Holmes was just telling me of your scientific eminence.
- 3:31Speaker 2: I'm better that you know of me homes just the same.
- 3:33Speaker 7: You're wondering why I'm here naturally, sir, Well, since you
- 3:37Speaker 7: know I'm a student to be a cult I'll get
- 3:39Speaker 7: right down to my.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Problem, mister Holmes.
- 3:41Speaker 7: Have you ever heard of the Headless Monk of the
- 3:45Speaker 7: Venice Chapel?
- 3:45Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, indeed, mister Halley, an apparition to be counted
- 3:48Speaker 5: among our more intangible national treasures.
- 3:52Speaker 4: I should say, I'm sorry, stupid, but I've never heard
- 3:55Speaker 4: of the Headless Monk or whatever it is chapel.
- 3:57Speaker 2: Well, then let me tell you about it, doctor. To
- 4:00Speaker 2: Venice Manor in Cornwall was once an abbey.
- 4:03Speaker 7: It was expropriated during the reign of Henry the eighth
- 4:06Speaker 7: and several of the monks were killed in some of
- 4:08Speaker 7: the year. Some of the minor difficulties attendant on such
- 4:11Speaker 7: an act. But one of the murdered monks, a certain
- 4:14Speaker 7: brother Hugh, the chapel organist, was persistent. He still wants
- 4:19Speaker 7: the chapel today. He still placed the organ constancy was beheaded.
- 4:23Speaker 6: He always appeared.
- 4:26Speaker 4: Charming little legends, but you don't expect us to believe
- 4:29Speaker 4: it's anything but a legends.
- 4:31Speaker 7: Hooray, how about you?
- 4:33Speaker 5: So, I'm extremely curious to know why you've come to
- 4:36Speaker 5: see me, miss Darling.
- 4:37Speaker 2: I'll tell you why.
- 4:38Speaker 7: I have a rare opportunity to investigate the phenomena. You see,
- 4:42Speaker 7: the son of an old friend of mine, young fellow
- 4:44Speaker 7: by the name of Leonard Miles, is secretary to the
- 4:47Speaker 7: owner of the Venice Manor. He asked me to stay there,
- 4:49Speaker 7: and I find the invitation irresistible, particularly since the phenomena
- 4:54Speaker 7: have furiously increased.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Of late mister Holmes, or almost as those some more mot.
- 5:00Speaker 6: Agency, we're motivating them now.
- 5:02Speaker 5: Now I see why you've come to me, mister Halley.
- 5:04Speaker 8: I knew you would.
- 5:05Speaker 6: Holmes.
- 5:05Speaker 7: You see, I'm like my good friend and fellow investigator Karanaki.
- 5:09Speaker 2: I believe in being.
- 5:10Speaker 7: Prepared to meet phenomena on either the natural or with
- 5:12Speaker 7: the supernatural plane. If the phenomena are real, they may
- 5:16Speaker 7: fall legitimately in my field.
- 5:18Speaker 5: Whereas if done as I'm sure you suspect being contrived
- 5:22Speaker 5: by human pauses, then you think that's more of my
- 5:25Speaker 5: department here, Holley, exactly when.
- 5:26Speaker 4: You say, homes a little ply a nice few days
- 5:30Speaker 4: we published escape.
- 5:31Speaker 5: The fog down there places where the weather Watson, I'm
- 5:35Speaker 5: much more concerned with the pug that surrounds the appearances
- 5:37Speaker 5: of the hitless monk of Pravenice Chapel and mister Harley,
- 5:39Speaker 5: I accept your invitation with pleasure. Still time to catch
- 5:42Speaker 5: the Cornish Express. We can be a pravenous manner before
- 5:45Speaker 5: the moons up.
- 6:01Speaker 3: Well, who's this fine looking far coming down the steps? Doorg?
- 6:04Speaker 8: I didn't hear this?
- 6:05Speaker 6: Under his footsteps?
- 6:06Speaker 7: I believe it with a psychic manifestation, certainly looks as.
- 6:09Speaker 2: If he came from beyond the great Boby.
- 6:12Speaker 4: Gentlemen, we'll be going the person you tell us who
- 6:15Speaker 4: you are first, my good man, he'll be I I
- 6:18Speaker 4: be David ben Dragon, sir, That's who I be, stable
- 6:20Speaker 4: and here at the manor.
- 6:21Speaker 8: And I ask you, gentlemen again, where you be going.
- 6:24Speaker 2: We're staying at the manor, and we're just going to
- 6:26Speaker 2: take a look at.
- 6:26Speaker 8: The chap Oh don't he do that, sir? People are
- 6:29Speaker 8: going there don't often come out the way they go in, Sir,
- 6:32Speaker 8: don't he do it? Gentlemen?
- 6:33Speaker 3: What are you talking about, my good fellow?
- 6:35Speaker 9: I be talking about the ghoulies and the ghosties and
- 6:38Speaker 9: the organ music that comes out of the nowhere.
- 6:41Speaker 2: You've heard it close.
- 6:42Speaker 8: I heard it, sir, just like I seen the poor
- 6:44Speaker 8: monk walking around without his head on.
- 6:46Speaker 2: Take us into the chapel? Will you and I show
- 6:48Speaker 2: us where you saw it?
- 6:49Speaker 8: I hate that I will not, sir, not for all
- 6:52Speaker 8: the golden port call.
- 6:53Speaker 9: Will I go back and chance seeing the poor lost
- 6:55Speaker 9: soul wondering about without his head on?
- 6:58Speaker 8: You, gentlemen, know what's good for him. You're not going
- 7:01Speaker 8: there either, mark my words? Don't he go in that chapel?
- 7:06Speaker 3: Lord that you seems really frightened in the place.
- 7:09Speaker 7: Yes, but it's more than blind superstition that accounts for
- 7:13Speaker 7: as reluctant.
- 7:14Speaker 6: Say, let's go in, Jerry, I suppose it to run.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Great Scott, listen to that the organ go spraying. We
- 7:30Speaker 2: are extremely fortunate a psychic manifestation. Listen as we enter.
- 7:34Speaker 4: Remarkable psychic manifestation. Rubbish, Look who's sitting at the keyboard as.
- 7:39Speaker 3: Homes homes that what's the matter? You frighten us to death?
- 7:46Speaker 3: To her?
- 7:47Speaker 2: Speaking for myself, doctor, he disappointed me.
- 7:49Speaker 3: I thought it was a genuine phenomenon. What do you
- 7:51Speaker 3: think you're doing? Homes, I thought you were still behind us.
- 7:54Speaker 5: I'm sorry about frightening you once. I'm curious about this organ.
- 7:59Speaker 5: I slipped him out the side door ahead of you
- 8:01Speaker 5: and tested the instrument. It's an astonishingly good condition for
- 8:05Speaker 5: a disused chapel, mentioning Holley, he is I do, Holmes,
- 8:09Speaker 5: one might reasonably presume that.
- 8:10Speaker 6: Someone tends it with great care.
- 8:12Speaker 5: In fact, I have a good further look, say, what
- 8:15Speaker 5: are you doing in here? We are guessed at the
- 8:18Speaker 5: manor house, and we decided to pay a visit to
- 8:19Speaker 5: the chapel before we paid our respects to our host.
- 8:22Speaker 6: Oh, my father is your host.
- 8:25Speaker 10: I'm Dorothy Brown.
- 8:28Speaker 6: My name is sir Holmes. And these gentlemen I have
- 8:30Speaker 6: to watch them, mister Harley, Mister Harley.
- 8:34Speaker 10: I heard the organ music and I was terribly frightened.
- 8:37Speaker 8: You've heard of the legend.
- 8:38Speaker 4: I suppose you mean about the headless monk and he
- 8:40Speaker 4: goes to the organ music, miss bandler, doctor.
- 8:43Speaker 10: And it's more than a legend, I assure you. That's
- 8:46Speaker 10: why I rushed over here as soon as I heard it.
- 8:48Speaker 10: It must have frightened all the servants within hearing distance.
- 8:51Speaker 10: Why were you playing the organ?
- 8:52Speaker 5: I'm curious to see whether it was in good repair.
- 8:55Speaker 10: Obviously it is mister Holmes well my father, and is
- 8:58Speaker 10: secret to mister Miles' expect you, I know. Let's walk
- 9:01Speaker 10: over to the house, shall we. I'm sure you've seen
- 9:03Speaker 10: enough of the chapel for the night.
- 9:15Speaker 4: Father.
- 9:16Speaker 10: This is mister Shella Coles and doctor Watson.
- 9:19Speaker 3: How do you do?
- 9:19Speaker 2: How do you do?
- 9:21Speaker 8: This is my secretary, Leerd and mild.
- 9:24Speaker 6: Doctor Watson.
- 9:25Speaker 3: I haven't paid.
- 9:26Speaker 2: Mister Brown is rather angry with me.
- 9:27Speaker 1: I hadn't told him that you were an expert on
- 9:29Speaker 1: psychic phenomen of mister Harley.
- 9:31Speaker 7: I failed to see why the knowledge of that fact
- 9:32Speaker 7: could make you angry.
- 9:33Speaker 5: Mister Brown, I don't want you herting about into this
- 9:36Speaker 5: so called ghost business. There's been enough trouble in the
- 9:39Speaker 5: neighborhood already. It's almost impossible to keep servants, and these
- 9:43Speaker 5: cornish people are incredibly superstitient. You haven't seen the ghost yourself,
- 9:46Speaker 5: mister Brown.
- 9:46Speaker 8: No, of course, not to listen to any ghosts. I
- 9:48Speaker 8: tell you you heard the mysterious organ playing.
- 9:50Speaker 5: Hmmm, uh well no, no I haven't, and I don't
- 9:54Speaker 5: want to talk about it anymore. Yes, yes, what is it?
- 9:59Speaker 3: Dragon?
- 10:00Speaker 8: Even to see your pen dragon?
- 10:03Speaker 3: Very well?
- 10:04Speaker 8: Tell him to come in?
- 10:05Speaker 6: Yes, what does he want? I wonder?
- 10:08Speaker 4: That's the fellow we met outside of the chapel.
- 10:10Speaker 3: Isn't very colorful character.
- 10:12Speaker 5: He's a superstitious old fool, if you ask me, But
- 10:15Speaker 5: he is a good groom.
- 10:16Speaker 8: Yes, pen Dragon, what is it? Begging your pardon?
- 10:19Speaker 6: Sir?
- 10:20Speaker 9: But there'll be trouble at the chapel again tonight, I
- 10:22Speaker 9: says to myself, David, tis.
- 10:24Speaker 8: Your duty to go to the master. I won't never
- 10:26Speaker 8: mind the mind.
- 10:27Speaker 5: What's the trouble?
- 10:28Speaker 8: The moon was hanging low tonight, sir. Oh, he is
- 10:31Speaker 8: the organ a plane.
- 10:32Speaker 3: But that was mister Rams, my good many.
- 10:34Speaker 6: That's what he thinks.
- 10:35Speaker 9: Maybe what I says to myself is what made him
- 10:38Speaker 9: play the organ. Then this very night I saw the
- 10:41Speaker 9: endless Monk with my own eyes I saw that poor
- 10:44Speaker 9: soul with his head off, wondering in the moonlight.
- 10:46Speaker 8: I saw that, so with my own eyes, I did, Oh,
- 10:48Speaker 8: get out of here. You're bothering, old fool.
- 10:50Speaker 5: And I'm warning you, if I hear any more nonsense
- 10:53Speaker 5: about this ghost, you'll lose your job.
- 10:55Speaker 8: You understand. Now, come along and be off with you, sir, begging.
- 10:58Speaker 5: Your pardon, sir, Come on, I'll give you a chapter dream.
- 11:02Speaker 4: Mister Browner seems absolutely rabbit on the subject of the ghost.
- 11:05Speaker 6: Yes, suspiciously.
- 11:07Speaker 7: So what he's trying to hide and whatever it is,
- 11:10Speaker 7: I don't think you'll be successful in your professional homes.
- 11:13Speaker 8: You know that murder will out.
- 11:15Speaker 6: It's true in my profession.
- 11:16Speaker 7: Also try to suppress them as you may, gentlemen, Ghosts
- 11:20Speaker 7: will out, well homes.
- 11:35Speaker 4: This place may be haunted, but I swear that I
- 11:37Speaker 4: never spent a better night anywhere.
- 11:38Speaker 5: All right, Good morning, mister Halleck, Good morning, good morning,
- 11:41Speaker 5: good morning.
- 11:42Speaker 2: I'm glad to see I'm not the only late, right
- 11:44Speaker 2: you are, late Tusor, Yes, I was, doctor.
- 11:46Speaker 7: I decided to ignore the veiled threats of mister brown
- 11:49Speaker 7: And so I did a little investigating in the chapel
- 11:53Speaker 7: it's a do you mind.
- 11:53Speaker 5: Person that you put and Papa the results of your investigations.
- 11:56Speaker 7: Mister Hollick, Well, there was no psychic manifestation, you understand.
- 12:00Speaker 2: But I'm sure of one thing.
- 12:02Speaker 7: That chapel is evil, evil to the hearts of its stones,
- 12:07Speaker 7: and I'll swear.
- 12:08Speaker 2: That evil does not them from the hapless monk who
- 12:10Speaker 2: was murdered there.
- 12:11Speaker 5: You can run certain suspicions aroused by my own investigations
- 12:15Speaker 5: last night. There is evil heares to Hally, and I
- 12:17Speaker 5: think I know it's nature. Unless I mistake every sign
- 12:20Speaker 5: and reaction. Someone has been initiating the local peasantry to
- 12:23Speaker 5: the evils of the mass.
- 12:27Speaker 8: Good Lord, I was a shocking thought.
- 12:29Speaker 7: My own sensations last night confirm your theory. Homes there
- 12:32Speaker 7: is a covern here. I swear it hiding its own
- 12:35Speaker 7: obscene practices under cover of the haunting.
- 12:38Speaker 3: That sounds quite feasible.
- 12:39Speaker 4: After all, the people are so superstitious that their people,
- 12:42Speaker 4: who far away as possible from the chapel when.
- 12:44Speaker 3: They when they heard the organ playing.
- 12:46Speaker 5: Problem falls into both our fields highly. The practice of
- 12:49Speaker 5: black magic is a criminal offense just as well.
- 12:52Speaker 3: The old laws against witchcraft are still in forced.
- 12:54Speaker 5: Imagine, mister Harley, that you have your own methods of
- 12:57Speaker 5: combating such posses as we're up against two years homes
- 13:00Speaker 5: op mine are not.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Connected with the legal aspect of the case.
- 13:02Speaker 7: Well, ask what you plan to do so well. I
- 13:05Speaker 7: have several elaborate preparations to make doctor. It will take
- 13:08Speaker 7: me most of the day, I'm afraid, however, I shall
- 13:11Speaker 7: explain them to you.
- 13:11Speaker 2: All after dinner tonight.
- 13:25Speaker 4: O's pleasant to sit here after a good dinner with
- 13:28Speaker 4: a superb brand.
- 13:29Speaker 3: It one's over. Listen to the piano being so.
- 13:35Speaker 8: I want to play something.
- 13:36Speaker 4: Moms.
- 13:38Speaker 8: Are you enjoying your stay down here?
- 13:40Speaker 5: Very much? Thank you? Mister Harry, and I have found
- 13:42Speaker 5: the local folklore extremely interesting. Let's see, you fellas haven't
- 13:45Speaker 5: been investigating the heart of chattel business again, have you?
- 13:48Speaker 8: Oh?
- 13:48Speaker 5: Okare if you have? I should be pretty angry. It's
- 13:50Speaker 5: abusing my hospitality. I told you distinctly I didn't want
- 13:53Speaker 5: any more talk of ghosts.
- 13:54Speaker 7: I'm not talking of ghosts, my dear mister Brownley. I
- 13:58Speaker 7: have something even more important that I must fight now.
- 14:01Speaker 7: It's possibly a little hard to imagine me as a crusader.
- 14:05Speaker 7: Me these steep little man beside the four of you.
- 14:09Speaker 2: As toweringly tall a quartet of men as I have
- 14:11Speaker 2: ever faced. And yet I am your saint George.
- 14:15Speaker 8: What on earth are you talking about, Sir?
- 14:17Speaker 7: I'll tell you in secrecy, and this mustn't reach the
- 14:20Speaker 7: ears of the peasantry.
- 14:22Speaker 8: I'll reply to.
- 14:22Speaker 7: Myself as Saint George, because I go to wipe out
- 14:26Speaker 7: an evil that lives in your midst, a living modern
- 14:29Speaker 7: dragon man. To rid you all of this fiend, I
- 14:35Speaker 7: must cleanse the chapel, purify it, exercise it, remove its
- 14:39Speaker 7: residue of psychic evil.
- 14:43Speaker 2: That, gentleman, this is my mission tonight, fainted.
- 14:49Speaker 5: Get some smiling shots quickly and afraid you a little
- 14:51Speaker 5: too graphic as to Harma.
- 14:52Speaker 7: I'm sorry by frightening the young lady, but I'm sure
- 14:55Speaker 7: that after tonight she will have no further grounds for
- 14:58Speaker 7: fear in forra venous manner.
- 15:15Speaker 3: Homes.
- 15:16Speaker 6: Yes, O, chat, did you hear anything? Nothing but the
- 15:19Speaker 6: owls and the fox tack in midnight?
- 15:23Speaker 3: I'm getting off of a jumper.
- 15:26Speaker 8: What do you suppose Holly is up to?
- 15:27Speaker 5: I can imagine his procedure midnight A crucial hour rights
- 15:31Speaker 5: version is endeavors. I wish him luck. My own plans
- 15:34Speaker 5: are not nearly as clear. Unfortunately, the sense of guiding
- 15:37Speaker 5: force here that.
- 15:38Speaker 6: I lack the clues.
- 15:40Speaker 8: There is something Holmes.
- 15:41Speaker 4: Listen, wait, heavens, it's the organ in the chapel, and
- 15:47Speaker 4: Holler is in that alone alone, Listen to the healing Pockets.
- 15:50Speaker 3: Mad this, come on, Watson.
- 15:51Speaker 5: Something has gone hollowly wrong.
- 16:06Speaker 2: You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
- 16:08Speaker 2: a second.
- 16:09Speaker 1: You know, a moment ago, I told you how much
- 16:11Speaker 1: I thought you'd like Petrie California sherry. But I didn't
- 16:14Speaker 1: tell you that Petrie sherry is the all round all
- 16:17Speaker 1: American wine. You cannot only serve Petri sherry before dinner.
- 16:21Speaker 2: It's good after dinner.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Too, and of course later in the evening when you're
- 16:25Speaker 1: listening to the radio with some friends, a glass of
- 16:27Speaker 1: Petrie sherry is just the thing. And say Petrie makes
- 16:31Speaker 1: two kinds of sherry, the regular and Petree Pale dry.
- 16:34Speaker 2: To make sure you get the one that you like best.
- 16:37Speaker 8: Do what I do.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Don't buy one, buy two, but remember always by Petrie.
- 16:44Speaker 2: Doctor Watson. That was a heck of a place to
- 16:45Speaker 2: break off your story, and.
- 16:46Speaker 4: Its continued to speed you as possible, my boy. As
- 16:50Speaker 4: soon as we heard that devilish organ music homes and
- 16:52Speaker 4: I rushed out of the house and raced in the
- 16:54Speaker 4: moon lock down the path leading to the ruined chapel.
- 16:57Speaker 4: By the time we reached the entrance, the organ music
- 16:59Speaker 4: could see, and the tall, gangling figure of David Pendragon
- 17:03Speaker 4: was standing in our path.
- 17:05Speaker 8: You gentlemen be wanting it this time night? What are
- 17:08Speaker 8: you doing here?
- 17:09Speaker 9: I be here because the gentleman gave me five shillings
- 17:11Speaker 9: to stand outside here and see that no one disturbed him.
- 17:13Speaker 8: That's why I be here, and nobody did come or go.
- 17:16Speaker 4: He's still be there, he be when you heard that
- 17:17Speaker 4: organ music, Why the devil didn't you.
- 17:19Speaker 8: Go in organ music? I heard no organ music.
- 17:28Speaker 5: Great heavens, look at him too late for devil the
- 17:32Speaker 5: night through his heart's obvious.
- 17:34Speaker 3: Who did it?
- 17:34Speaker 8: Well?
- 17:35Speaker 3: A dragon?
- 17:35Speaker 8: I can't grab him.
- 17:38Speaker 6: This nervous, planned, with devilish, cunning.
- 17:40Speaker 4: Curious thing is the sign of a struggle at all.
- 17:43Speaker 4: He just stood here and allowed himself to be stabbed.
- 17:46Speaker 5: Here is a chalk marks with which the body is surrounded.
- 17:49Speaker 5: They're known as a pentagram. I believe he thought it
- 17:51Speaker 5: would protect him completely from the supernatural forces.
- 17:55Speaker 3: Once his researchers went too far.
- 17:57Speaker 5: Yes, because they touched not on the supernatural but upon
- 18:00Speaker 5: natural evil. And remember what's in that Only three people
- 18:03Speaker 5: besides ourselves and David Pendragon knew of this vigil.
- 18:06Speaker 3: Yes Brownley, his daughter and young Miles.
- 18:08Speaker 5: And texture exactly. Go back to the house, will you,
- 18:11Speaker 5: and bring them here. Perhaps we can lay a ghost
- 18:15Speaker 5: by trapping a murderer.
- 18:27Speaker 8: And that's all I know.
- 18:28Speaker 6: Mister.
- 18:28Speaker 4: You've got established much of our homes. Three of them
- 18:31Speaker 4: more swear they were asleep and that they didn't hear
- 18:33Speaker 4: the organ.
- 18:34Speaker 5: Yes, then you can't prove otherwise. I think I can
- 18:36Speaker 5: prove that one of you was not only awake, but
- 18:38Speaker 5: also murdered more Harley.
- 18:39Speaker 10: Where should any of us want the poor man?
- 18:41Speaker 5: Did?
- 18:41Speaker 6: Young lady?
- 18:42Speaker 3: I can test that.
- 18:43Speaker 5: I find it hard to conceive a motive implying that
- 18:45Speaker 5: mister Browne and I might have one.
- 18:47Speaker 4: Myles, you must admit that you're responsible for mister Harley
- 18:50Speaker 4: coming here.
- 18:50Speaker 5: You, mister Brownley, mister admit that you did everything in
- 18:53Speaker 5: your power to prevent the dead man from carrying out
- 18:55Speaker 5: his investigations. Why but you're trying to hide nothing. It's
- 18:59Speaker 5: just that I wanted to sell the manor house. All
- 19:01Speaker 5: this talk about ghosts was giving the place a bad
- 19:04Speaker 5: name had gone on. I've never had dispose of the
- 19:07Speaker 5: profitle Well. Speculation can get us nowhere.
- 19:10Speaker 6: Let's get on effects.
- 19:12Speaker 5: Is there any other entrance to this chapel besides the
- 19:14Speaker 5: two doors?
- 19:15Speaker 3: None?
- 19:16Speaker 10: There was an old smuggler's cave which came out near
- 19:18Speaker 10: the organ loft, but father had he pricked up some
- 19:20Speaker 10: years ago.
- 19:20Speaker 5: I had to the tourists kept cralling it if you
- 19:22Speaker 5: don't examine it when he watched no chap if you don't.
- 19:26Speaker 8: Mind my saying so, mister horns and seemed obvious.
- 19:28Speaker 5: He who told us David pent Dragon admitted that no
- 19:31Speaker 5: one went in or out as he's took God, he
- 19:34Speaker 5: must have been it himself.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Oh, the man's half witted and superstitious.
- 19:37Speaker 10: He might have killed me at Harley because he was attending.
- 19:39Speaker 5: To afear with the ghost and then played with the
- 19:41Speaker 5: organ to celebrate the occasion. I think you overestimate David
- 19:44Speaker 5: Pendragon's capabilities, Miss Brownley. Mister Miles, Yes, pen Dragon is
- 19:48Speaker 5: waiting outside. Would you be kind of not to ask
- 19:50Speaker 5: him to come here?
- 19:50Speaker 6: For a moment.
- 19:50Speaker 5: Please, uh want to find out Watson.
- 19:55Speaker 4: Well, it's easy to see where it was bricked up,
- 19:57Speaker 4: but it's a stolid wall.
- 19:58Speaker 3: Now. No one could get in that way.
- 20:00Speaker 5: But if no one came in out, who else could
- 20:03Speaker 5: have killed Harley except Penn Black? The ghost, or rather
- 20:06Speaker 5: the person disguised as a ghost. The dead man expected
- 20:10Speaker 5: a psychic manifestation when he when he saw the first
- 20:14Speaker 5: ghost coming towards him. I've had no resistance, He believed
- 20:18Speaker 5: that the magical pentagram would protect him.
- 20:20Speaker 8: Ah, David here, I'd be, sir, But I don't know
- 20:24Speaker 8: nothing more than what I told you.
- 20:26Speaker 5: I don't pick fighting pen dragon. All we want is
- 20:28Speaker 5: the truth. That's what I told you, sir, And tell
- 20:31Speaker 5: us a little more, will you. When you said no
- 20:34Speaker 5: one had entered the chapel tonight, you meant that no
- 20:36Speaker 5: motto man had entered.
- 20:37Speaker 6: Didn't you that I did, sir?
- 20:39Speaker 9: How could I say I'd seen the ghost when mister
- 20:41Speaker 9: Brownlear had told me I'd lose.
- 20:43Speaker 8: My job if I spoke of the ghost again, and I.
- 20:45Speaker 3: Were getting some out. So you did see the ghost,
- 20:47Speaker 3: oh I did, sir.
- 20:48Speaker 9: The poor soul walking through the moonlight with no head
- 20:51Speaker 9: on his body. It's clearly as I sees you now, sir,
- 20:55Speaker 9: that thought was he would you would you mind? Standing
- 20:58Speaker 9: against the walls has caught. He was as tall as well.
- 21:03Speaker 9: His shoulders come to just where your shoulders come.
- 21:06Speaker 3: No, they're a tall man, then.
- 21:07Speaker 4: So we narrow it down to either you, mister Brownlee,
- 21:10Speaker 4: or you, mister mild.
- 21:11Speaker 8: This is utterly ridiculous. Of course, a kid on the country.
- 21:14Speaker 5: Gentlemen, the case is solved.
- 21:15Speaker 3: Which one of them was at home either?
- 21:17Speaker 8: Remember that the ghost is headless.
- 21:19Speaker 5: That means that the impost I must have built up
- 21:21Speaker 5: bake shoulders covering the head. On either of these men,
- 21:24Speaker 5: they would have brought their shoulders to the level of
- 21:27Speaker 5: my head. Great home, I didn't think you catch me, Dorothy. No,
- 21:35Speaker 5: I don't bound me on one way?
- 21:38Speaker 4: Do any of you come near me?
- 21:39Speaker 2: Did you see I have a revolver, Dorothy, for Heaven's sake,
- 21:42Speaker 2: take me and Kevin.
- 21:45Speaker 10: You thought I was a sweet little girl, didn't you.
- 21:48Speaker 2: Father?
- 21:50Speaker 10: You didn't know your dear Ti your daughter could.
- 21:52Speaker 9: Murder a man, did you?
- 21:53Speaker 5: Why did you kill Mona Mahale?
- 21:56Speaker 10: For months? I've been practicing black metal here for months.
- 21:59Speaker 10: I've been lilling up the legend of the headless monks
- 22:01Speaker 10: and the organ music. It made me so wonderfully alone,
- 22:05Speaker 10: so gloriously free to practice the right.
- 22:08Speaker 2: And then he came here.
- 22:11Speaker 10: I let him live the first night because I thought
- 22:12Speaker 10: he was a fool. But on the second, when he
- 22:15Speaker 10: said he was going to exercise this chap to purify this,
- 22:18Speaker 10: he said, he signed his death warrant.
- 22:26Speaker 5: If you could have seen his face, if you could
- 22:29Speaker 5: only have stayed his stupid toddle face as I flung
- 22:33Speaker 5: the knife into him, if less.
- 22:36Speaker 3: So beautiful, she's mad as a hat.
- 22:39Speaker 4: What are we going to do that?
- 22:41Speaker 10: Revolver and let you take me to prison order asylum.
- 22:44Speaker 2: No, you'll never text me.
- 22:46Speaker 3: She's tucking up the stairs leading to the organ. Come back.
- 22:50Speaker 8: Readings, bandel and turn my head.
- 22:54Speaker 2: Oh no, this your home thoroughly, my poor little girl.
- 23:07Speaker 5: Mister Brownley, the powers of evil are frightening. Your daughter
- 23:12Speaker 5: had killed one man, and Madi cold more. He was insane,
- 23:16Speaker 5: hopelessly insane.