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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Discordant Bells Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Con · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, you were going to tell us
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: of the adventure of the discordant bells.
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: So I was, mister Harris. And it begins properly near Eastbourne,
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: at a place called Beechy Head on the Channel coast
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: in the South Downs country. There atop of Browning Cliff
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: stood Blanford Abbey, built for the first Lord Blentford centuries ago,
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: along with the famous Blandford bells in the bell tower.
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: These bells were not only historic but priceless, in a
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: material set studied with jewels and encrusted with gold filigriff.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: Then one afternoon Lord Blanford and the abbe trustee, Charles Easterly,
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: were in council at the abbey when they received a visitor.
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: My name is Olgate, Lord Blentford, William Algate.
• 0:51
  Speaker 4: You know the name, yes, Holgate, I know the name
• 0:53
  Speaker 4: Mount Welly's lordship.
• 0:55
  Speaker 5: Should eh mister easily look here.
• 0:56
  Speaker 6: Holgate, if you're going to enter that ridiculous family claim
• 0:59
  Speaker 6: of yours.
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: To the play and for bill their mine, Lord Blandford.
• 1:02
  Speaker 5: Do you hear their mine? My family right?
• 1:05
  Speaker 4: My ancestor Christopher Lgate cast those bells for Lord Peter
• 1:08
  Speaker 4: Blandford in the seventeenth century. He was never paid for
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: his work, He was cheated, died in debtors jail.
• 1:15
  Speaker 7: And I suppose you expect me to pay you for
• 1:17
  Speaker 7: the bells, hey hogate my.
• 1:18
  Speaker 4: Rightful inheritance, Lord Blandford. My father tried to collect it
• 1:22
  Speaker 4: from your family, and my grandfather before him.
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: And his father too. But I'll not be put aside.
• 1:28
  Speaker 5: As they were.
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  Speaker 8: Who won't you, Holgate?
• 1:30
  Speaker 7: Let me tell you this, You have no legal right
• 1:32
  Speaker 7: to collect anything, and I'll not submit the blackmail.
• 1:36
  Speaker 8: Now get out.
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  Speaker 3: Very well, Lord Blandford, But believe me you'll regret this.
• 1:41
  Speaker 5: You haven't heard the last of this yet.
• 1:44
  Speaker 6: Hm, a very unpleasant fellow, your lordship, Yes, isily, that
• 1:49
  Speaker 6: word unpleasant reminds me I have a very unpleasant duty to.
• 1:52
  Speaker 8: Perform at the bell tower this evening.
• 1:54
  Speaker 7: Yes, I must tell Oliver Mudge, the bell ringer, that
• 1:58
  Speaker 7: his services are no longer required.
• 2:09
  Speaker 9: But why why, your lordship?
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: Why why are you giving me the set?
• 2:14
  Speaker 8: Tim?
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  Speaker 7: Sorry MUDs, but your conduct forces me into it. Twice
• 2:17
  Speaker 7: you've reported to the bell tower here and your cups
• 2:20
  Speaker 7: disgracefully drunk, and three times you have rung the cuff
• 2:23
  Speaker 7: you later.
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  Speaker 8: But your Lord, I don't propose to argue the point. Mudge.
• 2:27
  Speaker 8: Tonight you ring the bells for the last time.
• 2:29
  Speaker 9: No, no, Lord Branfred, you will not separate me from
• 2:34
  Speaker 9: my beautiful children up there in the belfry, from father
• 2:38
  Speaker 9: to son. My family has run those bells ever since
• 2:42
  Speaker 9: they was hung in the belfry.
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  Speaker 8: You can't give me the sight.
• 2:46
  Speaker 7: I can, and I will, Mudg I've already engaged a
• 2:49
  Speaker 7: new bell ringer, Halfred Riggs.
• 2:52
  Speaker 8: You be here tomorrow to'll take your.
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, Lord, gimu lord, no.
• 3:01
  Speaker 10: Mm hmm.
• 3:03
  Speaker 9: You come, my babies up there, my wee babies. You
• 3:08
  Speaker 9: your tongues are still. Come Little Davy, Big George, and
• 3:13
  Speaker 9: beautiful Betty.
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  Speaker 3: Open your brown mouths and cry you come.
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  Speaker 5: Big George.
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  Speaker 9: Awake, weep, my winsome Betty. Weep, girls, weep with the tears,
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  Speaker 9: for this is our time of Parton came little Davy,
• 3:43
  Speaker 9: and now all of you cry, cry sing seen has
• 3:56
  Speaker 9: had sung my beloved advance.
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: Move your tongues, my.
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  Speaker 9: Babies, move your tongues, pour your tears from your throats.
• 4:08
  Speaker 8: I will have my revenge.
• 4:10
  Speaker 5: I will if they steal you from me.
• 4:13
  Speaker 9: Hey, oll ever watched the bell ringer who will have
• 4:17
  Speaker 9: his rend.
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: Well, now my bronze beauty is up there.
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  Speaker 4: You've got a new master, now me Alfred Greek, the
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  Speaker 4: best bell ringer in all of England. Just as soon
• 4:44
  Speaker 4: as I can light this lentn we'll ring out.
• 4:46
  Speaker 5: The curfew in.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you Greggs.
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  Speaker 11: In the bellow. I can't see, no, no, take your
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  Speaker 11: hands away from my throat. I can't read.
• 5:10
  Speaker 4: Oh no.
• 5:23
  Speaker 6: Well as the Holmes, Doctor Watson, I've given you what
• 5:25
  Speaker 6: facts I possess. After the new bell ringer Griggs was
• 5:28
  Speaker 6: found dead, and knowing that Lord Blandford was in mortal danger,
• 5:31
  Speaker 6: I came post Haster Baker Street.
• 5:32
  Speaker 8: Here I see, Benny. Why is decision mysteries today?
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  Speaker 2: You say this bell ringer Griggs was found hanging from
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: the center bell rope.
• 5:39
  Speaker 12: Yes, Dr Watson and the official police, what's their view
• 5:42
  Speaker 12: of this father peculiar phenomenon?
• 5:43
  Speaker 8: Missteries today?
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  Speaker 5: Suicide?
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  Speaker 8: And see that? I take it you are not so sure, well,
• 5:47
  Speaker 8: mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 6: And view of Hoggetts claim to the bells and the
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  Speaker 6: attitude of the original bell ringer Oliver Mudge.
• 5:52
  Speaker 8: Quite fair.
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: It seems to be a Holmes. A man like this
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  Speaker 2: bell ringer might resent getting the second of.
• 5:56
  Speaker 12: We cannot spring to any conclusion at this time, my
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  Speaker 12: dear Watson. The first rule of investigation ascertain the facts,
• 6:02
  Speaker 12: then form the conclusion.
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  Speaker 6: Then you'll come to Beachyhead and look into the situation
• 6:05
  Speaker 6: as to home.
• 6:06
  Speaker 12: By all means, this particular problem has certain peculiar and
• 6:09
  Speaker 12: bizarre facets that I find impossible to resist.
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  Speaker 8: Watson. Yes, sir, I believe it's a noon train for the.
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  Speaker 12: South Downs country. We shall make it a point to
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  Speaker 12: be aboard right help you will accompany.
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  Speaker 8: Us, mister easterday.
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  Speaker 6: I know, mister Holmes, I have some rather urgent business
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  Speaker 6: here in London that will keep me overnight.
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  Speaker 12: As you wish, mister Eies today, we shall meet you
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  Speaker 12: at beachy Head tomorrow.
• 6:40
  Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, I had no idea that mister easterleig Our
• 6:43
  Speaker 7: Abbey Trustee had summoned you here to beachy Head.
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  Speaker 8: But now you have arrived, I bid you welcome.
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  Speaker 2: I's very kind of you, Lord Blandford, and I must
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: say it was a very pleasant journey.
• 6:53
  Speaker 8: Lord Blandford. Yester A few questions if you please, of course,
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  Speaker 8: do you believe the verdict of the official police that
• 6:59
  Speaker 8: Alfred Griggs had himself. I have no reason to believe otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: What about the bells, your lordship? I suppose they will
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  Speaker 2: remain silent now.
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  Speaker 7: Not at all, doctor Watson. For three centuries the blands
• 7:09
  Speaker 7: of bells have rung every day. They have told their
• 7:12
  Speaker 7: warning through the south downs of danger, the coat of arms,
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  Speaker 7: of public meetings for emergency in calmer times. They have
• 7:19
  Speaker 7: faithfully rung the curfew, and they will go on doing so. Indeed,
• 7:24
  Speaker 7: how the dead man's son, Peter Griggs, has courageously volunteered
• 7:27
  Speaker 7: to step into the breach and replace his father.
• 7:30
  Speaker 8: He will ring the bells for curfew tonight. I see.
• 7:32
  Speaker 12: But now, Lord Banford, where can we find the discharged
• 7:35
  Speaker 12: bell ringer Oliver Mudge?
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  Speaker 8: And I'm afraid you have some trouble there, mister Holmes.
• 7:39
  Speaker 8: Mudge has disappeared. Disappear, eh, Yes, the police visited his
• 7:43
  Speaker 8: cottage yesterday and found the place empty.
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: Significant, don't you think.
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  Speaker 8: Perhaps, Watson? Perhaps? And this man Holgate, the man who
• 7:49
  Speaker 8: claims he owns the bells, where can we find him?
• 7:51
  Speaker 8: He lives on Peddick Lane, just above High Street. Excellent?
• 7:54
  Speaker 12: Come Watson will be off to Peddick Lane and have
• 7:56
  Speaker 12: a few words with mister Holgate. Holgate, I think it
• 8:06
  Speaker 12: you knew the original bell ringer on of a munch.
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: NI I knew him, mister Olmes, perhaps you could tell
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: us where we had low kid him.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that, doctor Watson. My mind my own
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  Speaker 3: business I do, and I let Mudge mind it.
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  Speaker 8: And I presume your business is entering a claim to
• 8:19
  Speaker 8: the Blanford bell.
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: Aye, but they should be called the Hulgate bells.
• 8:22
  Speaker 2: Mister Hope, is I understand you approached Lord Blandford with
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: your claim on several occasion?
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  Speaker 5: Nay, so I have.
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  Speaker 3: I've approached his lordship. He's thrown me out of the
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: abbey every time he has.
• 8:33
  Speaker 8: And mister Easterly, I presume you've talked to.
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  Speaker 4: Him too, I've done that too. But him and Lord
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  Speaker 4: Blandford they're two peas in a part. And here I
• 8:42
  Speaker 4: am with not a shilling and those bells up there
• 8:45
  Speaker 4: worth a fortune. I must confess, whole Gate. I can
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: understand your feelings in this matter.
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  Speaker 8: Aye.
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  Speaker 5: And they'll not take down the bells. They'll keep him
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  Speaker 5: off in the tower.
• 8:55
  Speaker 4: Well let them, says I. They won't sound a note
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  Speaker 4: what with Alfred Griggs dead, are not ring.
• 9:00
  Speaker 12: Now on the Countrary holgates, they will be what do
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  Speaker 12: you mean? The dead man's son, Peter Griggs has volunteered
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  Speaker 12: to stand by as bell ring on.
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: I see young Peter, eh.
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  Speaker 8: Exactly the come Watson, we must be off well too. Ho.
• 9:15
  Speaker 8: It's rapid to getting dark, Watson, and I should like
• 9:17
  Speaker 8: to inspect.
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  Speaker 13: That bell tower, Hosey's where.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: In blazes are we? There is so dark I can't
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  Speaker 2: see a thing.
• 9:37
  Speaker 8: We're very near the bell tower, Watson.
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  Speaker 12: In a few moments we shall pass through the bland
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  Speaker 12: part graveyard at the rear of the abbey, and thence
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  Speaker 12: to the tower and graveyard.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, I must confess it goes with the mood of
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: those bells.
• 9:47
  Speaker 8: Listen to them, told, yes, mournful, aren't they? Watson?
• 9:52
  Speaker 5: Here is more like at homes.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds as though they're ringing out a funeral in
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: the night.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously they are. Young Griggs has taken this opportunity to
• 9:59
  Speaker 8: ring out a requie for his dead father.
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I wish he'd change to something more cheerful. That
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: blust and tolin is beginning to get on my nerves.
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: Hose grit stuck.
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  Speaker 9: Listen to those berel gets bat some something gone wrong,
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  Speaker 9: so there is no young Griggs has suddenly gone there quick.
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  Speaker 8: No time for talk. Now to the bell tower, Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: Watson through the door, the only way to get into
• 10:31
  Speaker 8: the belt house.
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  Speaker 5: Ms hos.
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  Speaker 2: Look it's Peter Griggs, the bell ringer.
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  Speaker 12: Y's Watson hanging by his neck on the bell rope,
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  Speaker 12: swinging back like a grotesque pendulum.
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• 12:01
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• 12:29
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• 12:38
  Speaker 8: And now let's return to our story, doctor Wise.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris Holmes and I stood there for a moment,
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: spill bound in powder, watching the limp figure hanging by
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: the nick Sway Beck and Forth, Beck and Fourth in
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: a wide arc in the built up for all the world,
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: like a gruesome human pigeon. We'd seen no one enter
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: leave the bell tower. Then, while I held the bell
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: ringer's lantern, high Homes seized young Griggs's body and gently
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: brought it to a stop.
• 13:20
  Speaker 12: Then, he pointed out, Watson, this door is the only
• 13:23
  Speaker 12: entrance or exit to the bell tower. Yet this bell
• 13:26
  Speaker 12: ringer was strangled and hung upon that rope not one
• 13:28
  Speaker 12: minute ago, Homes. I mean that the murderer may still
• 13:31
  Speaker 12: be in this belltower. What, Watson, you have your service
• 13:33
  Speaker 12: revolver over you?
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, I took it along, Homes, but give it to me.
• 13:36
  Speaker 8: But why what's your revolver?
• 13:37
  Speaker 11: Holmes?
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: What are you going to do?
• 13:38
  Speaker 8: Hold that bell ringer's latern high? Watson? I intend to
• 13:41
  Speaker 8: climb that ladder and have a look into the belfry.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: Did you see anyone up their homes now, Watson?
• 13:51
  Speaker 8: The belfry them here? Holmes.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: Perhaps it was suicide.
• 13:54
  Speaker 8: After all, Rubbish.
• 13:55
  Speaker 12: We found the cork swinging back and forth on a
• 13:57
  Speaker 12: wide arc, did we not. Then we may make an
• 14:00
  Speaker 12: elementary deduction. A man who hanged himself on a rope
• 14:03
  Speaker 12: would be found in a stationary position, obviously being dead
• 14:06
  Speaker 12: and suspended in midair.
• 14:07
  Speaker 8: He could not swing himself to and fro two homes.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: It's quite clear now someone must have been present to
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: give the corpse of push.
• 14:13
  Speaker 12: Exactly a murderer. Watson, with a fiendish sense of the dramatic.
• 14:17
  Speaker 12: I U huh, Holmes, what is it to kill?
• 14:19
  Speaker 8: Watson?
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  Speaker 2: On the floor, On the floor, I can't say I
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: see anything.
• 14:24
  Speaker 12: Here's your eyes, man, with your eyes of third notpe
• 14:26
  Speaker 12: the tiny grains of sand on the stone surface, somewhat
• 14:30
  Speaker 12: moist to the touch.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: What of it?
• 14:31
  Speaker 12: You recall, Watson that we came to this bell tower
• 14:33
  Speaker 12: along a flagstone walk.
• 14:35
  Speaker 8: Moreover, the entire abbey here is surrounded by a thick
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: lawn by this reasoning for homes. Someone is coming, that's what.
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, oh oh, it's you, mister Holmes, doctor Watson.
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: I heard the bells and I good, Lord Griggs, young
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: Peter Griggs. He's he's quite How did it happen?
• 15:03
  Speaker 12: That is what we hope to ascertain mysteries today. I
• 15:06
  Speaker 12: must say that your appearance here is somewhat of a surprise.
• 15:10
  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
• 15:11
  Speaker 12: You told Watson and me at Baker Street that you
• 15:13
  Speaker 12: would not return to Beachy Head until the morrow. It
• 15:17
  Speaker 12: seems that your plans would suddenly changed.
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: I yes, yes, As a matter of fact, I did
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: finish earlier, caught the night train back.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: But enough of that.
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: It's these hideous murders, I assure you mister Holmes, I
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: shall have something extraordinary to say to Lord Blandford in
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: the morning.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Ah up that last day, Watson in morning elves you
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: seem to have left the hotel early.
• 15:50
  Speaker 12: I didn't need Watson, and after reinforcing myself with an
• 15:53
  Speaker 12: excellent breakfast of kippers, scrambled eggs, toast and marmalade and tea,
• 15:57
  Speaker 12: I took the liberty of examining the abbey premises in
• 16:00
  Speaker 12: broad daylight.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: And particularly the bell towers.
• 16:03
  Speaker 12: On the contrary, Watson and I studiously avoided the bell
• 16:05
  Speaker 12: tower at the moment, surrounded by a crowd of the
• 16:08
  Speaker 12: morbidly curious. The local constable's hard put to keep the
• 16:11
  Speaker 12: onlookers at their distance. For my part, I found the
• 16:14
  Speaker 12: graveyard adjacent to the tower far more interesting.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: You did wire.
• 16:19
  Speaker 12: The stones and the main mausoleum itself are built entirely
• 16:22
  Speaker 12: of sandstone and house. The last remains of the Branford
• 16:25
  Speaker 12: family are far back into antiquity. After that, I visited
• 16:29
  Speaker 12: the bank and exchanged amenities with several of the.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Local trade foundations homes. You sound like a tourist with
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: a baby. After all, we're dealing with murder here, you know.
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: Come in.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Doctor Watton.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: Yes, couchmen in the service of Lord glentor well, if
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: Lordship request.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Your presence at the Abitur on a matter of urgent important.
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: The homes. I have decided to ask Doctor Watson yourself
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: not to pursue this case any longer, have you? Indeed,
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: Lord Blandford, may I ask why I do this?
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: Only at the earnest recommendation of mister Easterly, the abbey trustee.
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: He insists that I close the Blamford belltower, remove the bell.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Do you mean silence them forever?
• 17:19
  Speaker 12: Your lordship, Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Hm Raber's
• 17:22
  Speaker 12: sudden decision. I must say, true, mister Holmes. True, but
• 17:26
  Speaker 12: these tragedies, they've been too much. We've just been forced
• 17:30
  Speaker 12: to rope off the grounds to keep them.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: Morbidly curious at the distance Belltower become a house of
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: murder death.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: Why what is it, mister Holmes? What are you staring at?
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: What's in army? The use of your pocket handkerchief.
• 17:44
  Speaker 12: Of course, Lord Blandford seems to have a red smudge
• 17:48
  Speaker 12: on his left shoulder.
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: Huh, came off quite easily. Forgive the interruption, your lordship.
• 17:54
  Speaker 12: That smudge was a jarring note in an otherwise fastidious appearance.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Pray proceed?
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: Who sent you up? Going? But in heaven tones?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Listen the bells?
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: Yes, Watson, seems that the tower has a new bell ringer.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: After all, I don't understand it. Who could be ringing
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: those bells?
• 18:09
  Speaker 15: Suppose to be hurried to the bell tower and see
• 18:11
  Speaker 15: for ourselves, your lordship, Here we are homes.
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: Yes, Watson will be inside the tower in the moment.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: Why don't understand it, mister Holmes, I don't understand it.
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: Who could be ringing those bells? We shall see the
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: moment we walk through this door. Whoever it is, don't
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: sp a profession man.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: That's Mudge, all of the mudge.
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: Interestingly, what then, said Didy? The original bell ringer comes
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: back to us?
• 18:45
  Speaker 16: Nut, Then, don't don't alone your he No, you'll not
• 18:51
  Speaker 16: drive me away this time, your lordship. You'll not drive
• 18:55
  Speaker 16: me away from my children. I hear you are going
• 18:58
  Speaker 16: to take them down from the tower. But I'll not
• 19:00
  Speaker 16: let you do it. Will I like children much? I
• 19:04
  Speaker 16: order you to fellow all my babies. Open your brandsmer
• 19:08
  Speaker 16: green sing crying to.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: The country's high.
• 19:12
  Speaker 16: Well'll never take you away from me? Will they know
• 19:16
  Speaker 16: higher and higher my fall? And you, sister, tell them
• 19:20
  Speaker 16: you'll stay, tell them you'll never leave this stow.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: But forgot pole to sell a bell. The big one
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: is falling, Mudge.
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: Mudge, mister Holmes, is he dead? Yes, your lordship, he is.
• 19:42
  Speaker 12: Indeed, that heavy bell hurtling downward, hit un a solid
• 19:45
  Speaker 12: blow killed him into what.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: The juice is going on? This is the third time
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: a man has been struck down on this tar, Holmes,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Where are you going.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: Up into the peltry Watson?
• 19:54
  Speaker 12: This time I hope to find some very pertinent answers
• 19:57
  Speaker 12: to this hideous riddle.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Holmes, I say, up their home, Yes, Watson, tell anything
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: up there in the belfrey I.
• 20:13
  Speaker 12: Had indeed, Watson, first of all, the feeling responsible for
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: these monstrous crimes used a hacks or on the metal
• 20:19
  Speaker 12: support of the big center bell, saught it almost.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Completely through anything else up there with the home.
• 20:25
  Speaker 12: Yes, yes, indeed, Lord Lamdford, what is it? The murderer
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: left his footprints and the dust of the belfry, And
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: in doing so, your Lordship, I might add, he left
• 20:33
  Speaker 12: his death. Warrant Watson his hose.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: We'll return to the.
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: Belfry here tomorrow morning with the proper apparatus to take
• 20:39
  Speaker 12: casts of these footprints. After that, I'm willing to wager
• 20:42
  Speaker 12: that the villain will be apprehended and the case clothes.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Oh hose, where the juice of you've been all livening?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: You've been gone on the inns in his late this afternoon,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I've been making the rounds of every cub in beechy
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: hair what every public in the name of Heaven Holmes.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: Wire not to qup the native ale, I assure you
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: want them, but rather to.
• 21:06
  Speaker 12: Disseminate gossip than spread news. By this time, my dear fellow,
• 21:10
  Speaker 12: does not a man, woman or child who does not
• 21:12
  Speaker 12: know those footprints in the tower.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Belfra, if you have a dash it homes, you'll warn
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: the criminal that we're going to take casts of his
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: footprints tomorrow.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: Precisely wants them. And that's why you and I are
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: going to visit Blanford Belltower tonight. I mean, the fiend
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: of the Bell Tower.
• 21:26
  Speaker 12: Will be there tonight to wipe away the evidence before
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: we get there in the morning, but.
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: We shall steal a march on him, my dear fellow.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: We shall be waiting there in the dark of the
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: night to meet him. It's three o'clock home did indeed, Watson.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: The friend doesn't appeared a jet, I must say, I'm
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: getting use to Lyne pronou this Belfrid law. If you
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: had some idea who this fellow is?
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: I have Watson. His identity is quite obvious. So too
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: is his method of exit and entrance into the tar,
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: and so is his motive that these idiots crimes we.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Dash at homes.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Why don't you.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Tell me what's my host?
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: A friend has arrived to me? Who have your lave
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: already deserves a hesh. You'll be climbing the ladder up
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: here to Belfrey in a moment.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Then he comes up the ladder.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: If what's drink?
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: Back in the walls.
• 22:43
  Speaker 12: And where you are, Lord dan part side Joe Blanford,
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: don't hook your lordship.
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: Doctor Watson has a revolver. I pointed at you, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: I assure you he'll use it if necessary. I see
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: then you know that I am Lord Danford. I knew
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: some time ago, but pa ha, I thought i'd be
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: eager the criminal.
• 23:00
  Speaker 12: Mind your lordship. Your crimes were far from perfect to
• 23:04
  Speaker 12: a careful analyst. First of all, you were careless enough
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: to leave grains of sand on the floor, moist sand.
• 23:10
  Speaker 12: That sand could not have come from the ground, since
• 23:12
  Speaker 12: they consisted entirely.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: Of lawn and flagstone walks with homes.
• 23:15
  Speaker 12: I don't know, momentary, my dear Watson, elementary moist sand
• 23:18
  Speaker 12: meant's hand from underground. We did not see his lordship
• 23:22
  Speaker 12: come out of the doorway, you recall. Therefore, he must
• 23:24
  Speaker 12: have left the tower from within through some sort of
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: tunnel dug underground. And I believe there is a tunnel
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: leading into this tower from the mausoleum, is there not,
• 23:33
  Speaker 12: Lord Ventfor you hid in your ancestors mausoleum, came in
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: through the tunnel, hanged those unfortunate bellringers, and returned to
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: the mausoleum.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: How did you know I was in the mausoleum?
• 23:42
  Speaker 12: The tomb is a soft red handstone, and you had
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: a red smudge on your shoulder, which I wiped off
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: on doctor Watson's handkerchief. Here that smudge also proved to
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: be sandstone, Lord.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Blantard, why did you commit these horrible haste?
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: Money, doctor Wattson, I needed moneys, so I aspertained at
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: the bank and by two, talking to various pavesmen, here
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: in the village to your lordship.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: You were heavily in debt through some unfortunate stock tan
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: back shoes, and you needed to recoup from the bells.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: What was the answer with you?
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Here?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: The bell?
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: If I could get them out of the tower, they'd
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: be mine. I could sell them for thousands of palms.
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: But you couldn't dismantle the bells without facing an aroused
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: citizen rate, could you, Lord Lamford?
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: You you the South downs folk would never let you
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: tear down that tower. So dear that them that traditions. Yes, yes,
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: that's correct.
• 24:25
  Speaker 12: So you fell upon this English scheme to make the
• 24:28
  Speaker 12: power of death tap and thus have a legitimate excuse
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: to dismantle a Landford bell.
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: Oh yes, I count it upon the notoriety, Watson.
• 24:36
  Speaker 12: Go to the village and get it comfortable. I'll wait
• 24:39
  Speaker 12: here with Lord Lanford, and I promise him all the
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: notoriety he wants in every news paper in England.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Well's actor Watson man, that certainly was an excite.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, mister Harris.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I might add here that Holmes was true to his promise.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Lord Blandford's photograph appeared in every newspaper in Britain, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: he was speedily sentenced and.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: Sent to the Gallants and the Blandford Bells Doctors.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: As far as I know, mister Harris, they are still
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: ringing out the curfew at Beachy ahead to this very day.
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: I see. Well, what about next week's adventures, Doctor wats.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Well, next week I shall relate to you the case
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: of the well advertised murder. It concerns a woman's desperate
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: fights to keep from becoming a homicidal media