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- 0:03Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, who rode in Doctor Winthrop's notorious carriage.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris. This adventure with homes occurred in the
- 0:11Speaker 2: early nineteen hundreds. It began backstage at one of London's
- 0:15Speaker 2: most famous theaters. It was in the dressing room of
- 0:18Speaker 2: Margaret Ashley, an exquisite and very popular young actress.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Her performance for that evening.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Had ended, and Margaret had a visitor, a doctor Charles Winthrop.
- 0:30Speaker 4: I made up my mind, Charles.
- 0:31Speaker 5: I'm going to your wife.
- 0:33Speaker 4: I'm going to see Elizabeth.
- 0:34Speaker 5: Are you, Margarets.
- 0:35Speaker 4: I shall tell her that I adore you, that you
- 0:37Speaker 4: and I have been sweethearts all these months. I shall
- 0:40Speaker 4: ask her to give you your freedom. I think she
- 0:42Speaker 4: will too.
- 0:43Speaker 5: Well. It's very touching and very foolish. Why do you
- 0:48Speaker 5: say that, my words, You have an appalling self centered mind, Margarets.
- 0:53Speaker 5: Like many women, you believe it's simply because you want something,
- 0:55Speaker 5: you'll automatically get it. My wife would not be struck
- 0:59Speaker 5: at all by the magic of our romance. To her,
- 1:03Speaker 5: this would be a rather cheap, sordid business, an insult
- 1:07Speaker 5: to her ego. Being a mature and poised woman, she'd
- 1:11Speaker 5: take this with an air of dignity and tolerance, but
- 1:14Speaker 5: in her heart of hearts.
- 1:15Speaker 4: I'm afraid she'd be furious for the letter be Are
- 1:19Speaker 4: you satisfied with these desperate, dangerous meetings. You're coming to
- 1:22Speaker 4: my flat if and when you can find the time,
- 1:24Speaker 4: if and when you can somehow lie to.
- 1:25Speaker 5: Elizabeth it has been difficulty has I'm sick of it.
- 1:28Speaker 4: I sha'n't tolerate.
- 1:29Speaker 5: We must face it, Margaret. We must do as best
- 1:32Speaker 5: we can.
- 1:32Speaker 4: I'll tell you are tired of her, that you love me,
- 1:35Speaker 4: that you see her only as a dowdy, bedraggled housewife,
- 1:38Speaker 4: that your marriage was wrong to begin with. It's nothing
- 1:40Speaker 4: more or less than an exercise in boredom.
- 1:42Speaker 5: Now look, Margaret, I want you to control yourself, control.
- 1:45Speaker 4: Myself, and Heaven's name why I want you? And I'm
- 1:48Speaker 4: going to fight to keep you. When a thing is wrong?
- 1:51Speaker 4: Must you go on and on and on with it?
- 1:53Speaker 5: I said, you will not tell Elizabeth.
- 1:55Speaker 4: Nothing on earth could stop me.
- 1:58Speaker 5: I will.
- 2:01Speaker 2: What do you mean?
- 2:02Speaker 5: You knew I was married, Margaret, You knew the terms
- 2:05Speaker 5: of the bargain, you accepted them gladly. But we love
- 2:07Speaker 5: each oille, do we? I listened to me. You made
- 2:12Speaker 5: a great romance out of this. I didn't you wanted
- 2:14Speaker 5: to believe I was in love with you, that I
- 2:16Speaker 5: couldn't live without you, simply to please yourself, to cover
- 2:20Speaker 5: up the truth, what truth, that this has all been
- 2:23Speaker 5: just a lock for me. That I was attracted to
- 2:25Speaker 5: you because you're very beautiful, and that's all, and that
- 2:29Speaker 5: is all, Margaret. It begins and ends there.
- 2:32Speaker 4: I don't think it does.
- 2:33Speaker 5: Oh yes, It's taken years for me to become a
- 2:36Speaker 5: reputable physician, Margaret. It's taken every ounce of strength, in
- 2:39Speaker 5: every moment of time I had to achieve a position
- 2:42Speaker 5: in my profession, end in society. I'm a well ordered household.
- 2:47Speaker 5: I've a decent, honest wife who who loves me. You're
- 2:52Speaker 5: not going to place a bomb under that structure?
- 2:55Speaker 4: Oh yes I am, Charles. Now that you've told me
- 2:58Speaker 4: how you really feel, I'll give your taste of my vengeance.
- 3:01Speaker 4: I'll wreck your home, in your life, and I don't
- 3:03Speaker 4: think for one moment that I can.
- 3:05Speaker 5: You'll do nothing of the sort. And you know why,
- 3:08Speaker 5: do you know why you won't say a word to
- 3:10Speaker 5: my wife? Go on tell me, because if you do,
- 3:16Speaker 5: I'll kill you.
- 3:18Speaker 4: He'll never do that. You could never get away with it.
- 3:21Speaker 5: You underestimate me, Margaret. I haven't an ordinary mind. I
- 3:26Speaker 5: have a way, a wonderful way. Remember that, and remember
- 3:30Speaker 5: if you go to Elizabeth, I'll murder you.
- 3:45Speaker 6: I believe me, Miss Ashley.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Shall I call a cab for you?
- 3:48Speaker 7: Miss?
- 3:49Speaker 6: Yes, Peter, it might be a bit difficult, misssorwfully late.
- 3:52Speaker 2: You're the last to believe in this. Hte it.
- 3:54Speaker 4: I want to avoid the crowd that's always here at
- 3:56Speaker 4: the stage door of Peter. I'm exhausted. I couldn't possibly
- 4:00Speaker 4: write an autographer smile at anyone.
- 4:03Speaker 6: Your gentleman. Coola hasn't been here in a few days. Amen, No,
- 4:08Speaker 6: he hasn't answered to your fine gentlemen. I certainly miss
- 4:12Speaker 6: those tips of his art.
- 4:14Speaker 5: Cab people, please, I.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Heard a carriage coming down. It's a cab and.
- 4:21Speaker 8: You'll be having a talk with a Bobby will rubbing
- 4:23Speaker 8: down the alley.
- 4:24Speaker 9: And that's mere.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Look at miss, he's at answer. You got to stop.
- 4:34Speaker 2: Come back here, you stop.
- 4:36Speaker 10: Stop.
- 4:38Speaker 3: Who's killed her?
- 4:39Speaker 2: Who's killed.
- 4:52Speaker 5: Elizabeth? I must speak to you. Yes, it's about this
- 4:58Speaker 5: item of the newspaper.
- 4:59Speaker 11: One of your patience in trouble read that please? Oh yes, yes,
- 5:05Speaker 11: I heard about that terrible accident. And Margaret Ashley was
- 5:09Speaker 11: such a lovely young actress. It was a horrible premature
- 5:13Speaker 11: of death for Elizabeth Darling.
- 5:14Speaker 5: I I don't know how to tell you this, but
- 5:17Speaker 5: I must. I what should to try to understand?
- 5:21Speaker 11: Understand what? Charles Darling? You seem so distraught? What's wrong
- 5:25Speaker 11: with you?
- 5:26Speaker 5: But there'll be an investigation. The police will be after
- 5:29Speaker 5: the driver of that carriage, the man who locked her
- 5:31Speaker 5: down and then drove off.
- 5:31Speaker 11: Well, yes, of course they will, and I hope they'll
- 5:33Speaker 11: find them too insane brutal to drive so carelessly.
- 5:36Speaker 5: Will the police suspect that it wasn't an accident? The
- 5:39Speaker 5: doorman testified that the driver of the carriage seemed to
- 5:41Speaker 5: go deliberately out of.
- 5:42Speaker 9: His way to hit her.
- 5:44Speaker 11: They suspect murder?
- 5:46Speaker 5: Yes, yes, they'll pro very deeply. The most intimate details
- 5:51Speaker 5: of Margaret Ashley's life will be exposed to public. Hue,
- 5:53Speaker 5: And so, Elizabeth, before you find out some other way,
- 5:58Speaker 5: I must tell you.
- 6:00Speaker 4: Tell me what, dear I.
- 6:03Speaker 5: Knew Margaret Ashley. Oh yes, it wasn't a passing acquaintance.
- 6:09Speaker 5: I was seeing her regularly. I visited her flat whenever
- 6:12Speaker 5: I heard the chance she was in love with me.
- 6:16Speaker 11: Oh you were sweetheart's child?
- 6:21Speaker 2: Is that it?
- 6:22Speaker 9: Yes?
- 6:23Speaker 5: I I've no excuse. It's it's just just some mysterious
- 6:30Speaker 5: element in the chemistry of a marriage that does that
- 6:33Speaker 5: to a man. I'm prepared to do whatever you say, Elizabeth.
- 6:37Speaker 11: Well, Charles, it's sir, it's quite hard for me to
- 6:40Speaker 11: say anything at all. It's very difficult for me to
- 6:45Speaker 11: face it.
- 6:45Speaker 10: Dear I.
- 6:46Speaker 5: I I'm so sorry, Elizabeth, terribly sorry.
- 6:53Speaker 11: Have you any idea who might have killed her?
- 6:56Speaker 5: I know, Charles, Yes, Charles, did you kill Margaret Ashley?
- 7:04Speaker 2: Of course not.
- 7:06Speaker 5: How could you think such a thing?
- 7:08Speaker 11: Child, don't lie. Don't try to live with a lie
- 7:09Speaker 11: like that. You you've told me some of the story.
- 7:12Speaker 11: Please tell me the rest. I've got to know, Charles, Please, please?
- 7:15Speaker 5: Did you kill her?
- 7:15Speaker 11: Did you drive the carriage that awful light?
- 7:17Speaker 2: No?
- 7:18Speaker 5: No, I did not.
- 7:20Speaker 2: I did not listen to me.
- 7:22Speaker 11: I might try to forgive an escapade of yours, but
- 7:24Speaker 11: I couldn't forgive murder.
- 7:25Speaker 5: Now you must tell me.
- 7:26Speaker 3: You cald me.
- 7:27Speaker 5: You're out of your mind accusing me you did kill her.
- 7:30Speaker 5: I can sense it in your eyes.
- 7:32Speaker 11: Your hands are trembling. I've never seen an expression on
- 7:35Speaker 11: your face like that before.
- 7:36Speaker 5: I get hold of yourself. Don't ever say that again.
- 7:41Speaker 5: Is that clear? If you ever say that again, you
- 7:45Speaker 5: won't live to say another word.
- 7:57Speaker 11: I had to tell you my story in mister Holmes,
- 7:59Speaker 11: I quite understand, Missus Wintrop. My husband has lost his
- 8:02Speaker 11: love for me. He's betrayed me. I have no reason
- 8:05Speaker 11: to defend him, and lately he's been impossible. He behaves
- 8:08Speaker 11: like a sadistic lunatic.
- 8:10Speaker 3: Why haven't you told the police, Missus.
- 8:12Speaker 11: Winter Because doctor Watson, I have no formal charge to make.
- 8:15Speaker 4: I can't prove a thing.
- 8:16Speaker 11: It's it's just my instinct. I feel that he killed
- 8:19Speaker 11: that poor girl, and I will not harbor a killer.
- 8:23Speaker 11: I need your help, mister Holmes.
- 8:24Speaker 9: Well, the secondstances of the accident, Missus Wintrup, make it
- 8:27Speaker 9: almost impossible to prove wilful homicide. Where does your husband
- 8:31Speaker 9: say he was On the evening of Margaret Ashley's death, He'd.
- 8:33Speaker 11: Had a call an emergency quite far out of town.
- 8:36Speaker 11: He claims that he left the carriage at home and
- 8:38Speaker 11: took a cab. He was too tired to drive himself.
- 8:41Speaker 11: He claims that when he reached the address given him,
- 8:44Speaker 11: there was no such place, so he came home aty.
- 8:47Speaker 3: It's very flimsy.
- 8:49Speaker 2: Did you give you the name of the patient who
- 8:50Speaker 2: had called him on this wild goose?
- 8:52Speaker 11: Chase Perkins, Missus Thomas Perkins. I did some investigating on
- 8:57Speaker 11: my own. I telephoned every Thomas Perkins in the directory.
- 9:01Speaker 11: None of them ever heard of doctor Winthrop.
- 9:03Speaker 9: Did your husband mention this supposed patient to vanish?
- 9:06Speaker 11: Not a word. But mister Holmes, you must find the
- 9:08Speaker 11: evidence quickly. He knows I suspect him, and I am
- 9:11Speaker 11: afraid of what he might do.
- 9:12Speaker 9: I shall move as quickly as possible. Missus Winthrop, come, Watson.
- 9:15Speaker 9: We shall speak first with Peter the dorman, the witness
- 9:18Speaker 9: to the accident. I'm ready, hope we shall move very cautiously, Watson,
- 9:21Speaker 9: if we var you our own lives. But this is
- 9:24Speaker 9: an allusive murderer of Greek talent, a talent for slaughter
- 9:28Speaker 9: in a sudden and surprising way.
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- 11:11Speaker 1: Dr Watson, Doctor Watson, you and mister Holmes were racing
- 11:14Speaker 1: to speak with Peter the dormond backstage of the theater
- 11:17Speaker 1: where Margaret Ashley died.
- 11:19Speaker 2: There's mister Harris for the enchanting. Margaret was killed by
- 11:22Speaker 2: a passing carriage that night. Holmes and I stood in
- 11:25Speaker 2: the dark custed valley by the stage door, under a
- 11:28Speaker 2: pale moon, talking with the door.
- 11:32Speaker 9: You say, Peter, you had a glimpse of the driver
- 11:34Speaker 9: of that carriage, Yes, mister Jones, I did.
- 11:37Speaker 3: He was wearing an eye at in the cape.
- 11:40Speaker 2: The cape was purple. I could see it flying in
- 11:42Speaker 2: the wind.
- 11:43Speaker 9: Did you see his face?
- 11:44Speaker 4: Now?
- 11:44Speaker 2: It was too dark and he passed like fury?
- 11:48Speaker 9: Did you recognize the carriage?
- 11:50Speaker 3: At first?
- 11:50Speaker 2: I didn't you mean that?
- 11:51Speaker 3: You remember it?
- 11:52Speaker 2: Now we're in a way, Dr Watson.
- 11:54Speaker 8: He looked to me that, well, it isn't very discreet
- 11:59Speaker 8: of me, but this is so serious a matter. It
- 12:02Speaker 8: looked to me like the carriage of a certain gentleman
- 12:05Speaker 8: were often comes to see miss Ashley.
- 12:07Speaker 2: Oh you know the gentleman, Peter.
- 12:09Speaker 8: No, I'm sorry, doctor, you never told me his name.
- 12:12Speaker 8: And whenever he stepped out of the carriage, he was
- 12:14Speaker 8: carrying all kids for miss.
- 12:16Speaker 7: Ashley, and he yelled them up in front of his face,
- 12:19Speaker 7: you see.
- 12:20Speaker 2: And he held the cape up.
- 12:21Speaker 5: Too, a purple cape sometimes miss Jones.
- 12:24Speaker 2: Yet he didn't want anyone to recognize.
- 12:26Speaker 7: In my guess it must have been one of those
- 12:29Speaker 7: romances what you read about in the papers. You know,
- 12:32Speaker 7: maybe he was a cabinet minister or sam I Makim
- 12:35Speaker 7: Mack who was in love with Miss Ashley.
- 12:36Speaker 9: Yes, that's quite would you know the gentleman were you
- 12:39Speaker 9: to see.
- 12:39Speaker 3: Him, not by his face, mister Ums. It's even more
- 12:42Speaker 3: difficult at homes.
- 12:43Speaker 9: More than you would imagine, Watson. Even if the dorman
- 12:45Speaker 9: here did recognize our men, that wouldn't prove the accident
- 12:48Speaker 9: was deliberate. Peter, After the accident, did you notice anything
- 12:52Speaker 9: curious about the body, or the street, or any of
- 12:55Speaker 9: the other circumstances.
- 12:56Speaker 5: I found a flower fell out of the carriage and
- 13:01Speaker 5: all kids.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Well, again an indication of our man.
- 13:03Speaker 8: I say it's him all right, he sirr, I don't
- 13:06Speaker 8: like to send a man to the gallows just on
- 13:08Speaker 8: my face.
- 13:08Speaker 9: No, no, no, thank you, Peter, you've been rather helpful.
- 13:11Speaker 3: We're tons every forest.
- 13:13Speaker 9: In the district. Watson, we have the rope. We must
- 13:16Speaker 9: now draw the noose tighter and tighter.
- 13:31Speaker 2: That's the draw to doctor Winthrop's house, hose.
- 13:33Speaker 9: Let's just keep an eye on it.
- 13:35Speaker 5: Missus.
- 13:35Speaker 9: Winthrop said he'd be leaving about this. Ah. Once he's gone,
- 13:38Speaker 9: we can speak to her and look at the house
- 13:39Speaker 9: and search for crews. But we must have him out
- 13:42Speaker 9: of the way.
- 13:42Speaker 2: First, Homes at Florest he recognized the photograph of doctor Winthrop,
- 13:46Speaker 2: so he always bought flowers there. But he wasn't there
- 13:49Speaker 2: the night of Margaret Ashley's death. You seem very impressed,
- 13:52Speaker 2: homes confounded was.
- 13:54Speaker 9: Look, Watson, there he goes. He's leaving his wife. Now
- 13:56Speaker 9: see this.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Is going down the street. She's waving goodbye to him
- 14:00Speaker 2: from the door. Attractive bland, isn't she? Why should he
- 14:04Speaker 2: lose interest in her the sake of their actress.
- 14:07Speaker 9: Fascinating as that province may be, Watson, it is not
- 14:09Speaker 9: within the bounds of my territory. Now come across the
- 14:13Speaker 9: streets out of side.
- 14:21Speaker 3: I'll ring Holmes.
- 14:27Speaker 5: Well, mister Holmes, doctor Watson, he's just left.
- 14:30Speaker 9: Will you return shortly?
- 14:31Speaker 11: No, No, we've time. Come in.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Well, lovely home, Missus Winthrop.
- 14:37Speaker 11: It was doctor Watson until the shadow fell across it.
- 14:40Speaker 11: But I've been living in this house with a man
- 14:42Speaker 11: I know as a murderer.
- 14:43Speaker 9: That is your husband's consulting room, Missus winterrom.
- 14:45Speaker 11: Oh, yes, yes, he does all his work down here.
- 14:48Speaker 11: The drawing room and the bedrooms are upstairs. Maybe go up, yes, certainly,
- 14:52Speaker 11: But mister Holmes, you must find the evidence.
- 14:54Speaker 5: I can't stand it. I'm so afraid all the time he's.
- 14:57Speaker 11: Going to kill me too. You know, I saw him
- 14:59Speaker 11: alone in his office last night. He didn't know that
- 15:01Speaker 11: I could see him in the mirror. He'd a scalpel
- 15:04Speaker 11: in his hand and he was fingering it sight like.
- 15:10Speaker 5: Then there's another thing.
- 15:11Speaker 11: The night before we took the underground to go to
- 15:13Speaker 11: the theater, I was on the edge of the platform.
- 15:16Speaker 11: I realized that just in time, he was standing directly
- 15:18Speaker 11: close behind me. He could easily have pushed me in
- 15:21Speaker 11: front of the train. Then there are poisons here in
- 15:25Speaker 11: this cabinet. He opened the cabinet just before he left.
- 15:28Speaker 11: He must have stood gazing at it for a full
- 15:30Speaker 11: five minutes. He'd never done that before.
- 15:32Speaker 9: Mister calmly, Missus Winsford, calmly, from along Watson, we shall
- 15:36Speaker 9: search every inch of these quarters.
- 15:46Speaker 2: By George hosebyth We've gone through every room. No letters
- 15:50Speaker 2: from miss Ashley, nothing at all on a scrap of evidence.
- 15:53Speaker 9: Missus Winthrope, in which wardrobe does your husband keep his clothes?
- 15:56Speaker 10: Oh?
- 15:56Speaker 11: Here, mister Holmes, but you'd better hurry. This has taken
- 15:59Speaker 11: a great deal of time in back soon looking.
- 16:01Speaker 3: For the altfit you while the night he drove the
- 16:03Speaker 3: carriage house.
- 16:04Speaker 9: Ah, the purple cake trousers, double breasted jacket to match,
- 16:09Speaker 9: and on this shelf a high silk hat.
- 16:11Speaker 5: So please be careful. I never touch his things.
- 16:14Speaker 11: If he suspects that anyone's been in his wardrobe, you
- 16:16Speaker 11: have another one of his fits.
- 16:17Speaker 9: I see well. I believe this concludes the search. Missus Winthrop.
- 16:21Speaker 11: Yes, but have you found anything?
- 16:23Speaker 9: We'll discuss it downstairs. Then we can slip out of
- 16:25Speaker 9: the back door.
- 16:26Speaker 2: Should we risk Missus Winthrop's life again for another night?
- 16:29Speaker 2: Wouldn't you advise her to leave on some pretense until
- 16:32Speaker 2: you have the facts that you want.
- 16:34Speaker 9: I have the facts, Watson, facts which prove I killed
- 16:39Speaker 9: Margaret Ashley.
- 16:40Speaker 5: Doctor Wintlop, Charles, I didn't hear you come in. I
- 16:42Speaker 5: came in very quietly through the front door, Elizabeth. I
- 16:45Speaker 5: heard voices upstairs. I kept very still and waited for you. You
- 16:51Speaker 5: steaming conliving you break my eyes. I just want to
- 16:55Speaker 5: keep you close to me, that's all. If you move,
- 16:57Speaker 5: mister Holmes or doctor Watson, I'll take his scalpel I
- 17:00Speaker 5: have in my other hand, and I'll drive it into
- 17:03Speaker 5: my wife's back.
- 17:03Speaker 11: Charles, please listen to me. It won't help to kill me.
- 17:06Speaker 11: Mister Holmes will see that you die for it, because
- 17:08Speaker 11: he knows how you send.
- 17:09Speaker 5: For him, didn't you You wouldn't believe my story. I'd
- 17:13Speaker 5: like to kill you slowly, Elizabeth. You should suffer a bit,
- 17:18Speaker 5: need strokes of the scalpel to cause unbearable pain, but
- 17:22Speaker 5: a slow death, the same slow death you've given me,
- 17:26Speaker 5: with your suspicion, your accusations.
- 17:28Speaker 9: Killing your wife now would accomplish nothing, Doctor Winthrop.
- 17:31Speaker 3: It would to me.
- 17:33Speaker 5: I don't care about the consequences.
- 17:34Speaker 9: I said, killing your wife would not be necessary, Doctor Wintrop.
- 17:38Speaker 9: His majesty's hangman will do that. What I said, his
- 17:42Speaker 9: Majesty's hangman will do that?
- 17:44Speaker 5: Well, I I don't know what you mean.
- 17:46Speaker 9: He dropped his scalpel. Watson quickly pick it up. I
- 17:50Speaker 9: I wanted to be sure you didn't pick it up
- 17:51Speaker 9: missus Winthrop, since you drove doctor Winthrop's notorious carriage, since
- 17:55Speaker 9: you killed Margaret Ashley I did.
- 17:57Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, that's preposterous both at all and got it well, yes, right,
- 18:02Speaker 5: elizit why my wife killed Margaret?
- 18:05Speaker 9: Precisely? Doctor. When Watson and I visited the forest where
- 18:09Speaker 9: you regularly purchased orchids for Margaret, he told us that
- 18:12Speaker 9: you hadn't been in his shop on the night of
- 18:13Speaker 9: her death. It struck me as odd. Perhaps you purchased
- 18:17Speaker 9: the orchids elsewhere. Eh.
- 18:19Speaker 3: Of course Holser doesn't prom Watson.
- 18:22Speaker 9: The driver of the carriage dropped an orchid on the
- 18:24Speaker 9: cobblestones to the alley. The dorman told us that would
- 18:28Speaker 9: a man stop to purchase orchids for miss Ashleigh when
- 18:30Speaker 9: he knew he wouldn't see her, but intended to run
- 18:32Speaker 9: her down with the carriage. Definitely not but you accused
- 18:35Speaker 9: me exactly who else would have borrowed your husband's carriage
- 18:39Speaker 9: in the bedroom. You told us that you never touched
- 18:41Speaker 9: your husband's things, but you had, Missus Winthrope.
- 18:44Speaker 11: You're guessing, mister Holmes, you're unable to prove one.
- 18:47Speaker 9: I open your husband's purple cape, identified by the dorman,
- 18:50Speaker 9: was draped over his double breasted jacket.
- 18:53Speaker 5: The jacket was neatly buttoned.
- 18:55Speaker 9: You see it was buttoned, Missus Winthrop, to the left,
- 18:58Speaker 9: not to the right, where a woman wears such a jacket. Elizabeth,
- 19:02Speaker 9: You out of blonde, Missus Winthrop, and in the lining
- 19:05Speaker 9: of your husband's high silk hat, I noticed a long
- 19:08Speaker 9: blonde hair. You called your husband that night, Missus Wintrop,
- 19:12Speaker 9: to get him out of the house. You were a
- 19:14Speaker 9: non existent Missus Thomas Perkins. You gave him a false
- 19:17Speaker 9: address far on the outskirts of London. Then you put
- 19:20Speaker 9: him into a cab, convincing him that he was too
- 19:22Speaker 9: tired to drive himself. You put on his clothes, You
- 19:25Speaker 9: took his carriage. You purchased orchids. You killed Margaret Ashley,
- 19:29Speaker 9: being careful to make the cake very conspicuous, and to
- 19:32Speaker 9: drop an orchid, so the dorman's testimony would indict Charles.
- 19:36Speaker 11: You're quite right, mister Holmes.
- 19:38Speaker 5: She wasn't satisfied with Margaret's death. She wanted to see
- 19:42Speaker 5: me died too, to hang for the murder.
- 19:44Speaker 9: Yes, she painted a vivid portrait of you as a murderer,
- 19:46Speaker 9: Doctor Winfrop. Remember Watson, the underground, the medicine cabinet, all lies.
- 19:51Speaker 5: And Elizabeth Hugh. You knew all along about Margaret for months, Charles.
- 19:56Speaker 11: It just took a bit of time to plan my
- 19:58Speaker 11: vengeance on both of you.
- 20:00Speaker 9: Call the aunt Watson, come and fetch a prisoner. Now,
- 20:03Speaker 9: my dear Missus Winthrop, I observed you once the proving
- 20:07Speaker 9: this was wilful homicide was almost impossible, I should have added,
- 20:12Speaker 9: but nothing short of genius could accomplish it.
- 20:27Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, that was a very astonishing development to
- 20:30Speaker 1: find that Missus Winthrop had driven the doctor's carriage.
- 20:33Speaker 2: Well, if surprises are your dish, mister Harris, then use
- 20:36Speaker 2: something to look forward to in the adventure. I shall
- 20:38Speaker 2: relate next week.
- 20:39Speaker 9: And what do you call that memoir? Doctor?
- 20:41Speaker 2: Next week, mister Harris, I shall relate to you the
- 20:44Speaker 2: Adventure of the Curious crit It concerns a bow legged man,
- 20:49Speaker 2: a weird laugh, and a taste in silver.