Sherlock Holmes - The Valley of Fear

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the BBC The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
It makes sense.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Watson's fare is Danger Douglas now at Burlston House, Birlston.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Inspector McDonald's here, sir, come in, Come in.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I hear this means that there is some mischief afoot.
Great headens, I wasn't a thriller that paper. Those names
just a little cipher. Dr Watson and I have been
amusing ourselves with. What I came here to tell you
was that mister Douglas of Billstone Manor House, Bidlestone was
muddered late last night. It was a good coincidence. Watson's

(00:54):
my name, Dr Watson, privileged.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
To share the adventures of Sharlock Holes. I'll tell you about.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
The value of fear, which began with home being rather bad.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Mallard. You'll see what I mean in a moment.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Hmm, I'm inclined the thing I should do, so Watton.
I came myself one of the most long suffering immortals
with them. But what's my dear Watson, Well, guess you're
you're ready to crying at times. You'll sit there eye
on breakfast untasted.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
If Poorlock's writing, there can be no doubt of it.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
The Greeky with a peculiar tough fladish is distinctive.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Then who is poorock Er Pollock?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh, Paulock Watson is an under plum and their identification
mark behind it lies a shifty evasive personality.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
They knew something in common. Whoever he is. The point
is taken.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
A Pollack is an important man one well, not for himself,
but for the great man with whom.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
He's in touch. You heard me speak of professor Moriarti.
Heard of Moriarti. He must be about as famous one Crooks.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
He's the greatest schema of all time, the controlling brain
of the underworld.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
But look here you were talking about this champ Paula.
Oh yes, the so called Pollock is my link. And
this letter is something of the same kind of don't
that only we had the key to the cipher cipher then.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
He will look at the letter, so you know, Oh,
thank you? Name groups of figures into a three name. No,
not you sending a cipher message to someone who hasn't
the key?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Five key four C two thirteen twenty seven four Douglas
venteen twenty six, Birdstone forty six Birlstone m it's clearly
a reference to the words in the page of some book.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well then, why hasn't he indicated what book it is?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
My dear Watson, your native shrewdness, that innate cunning, which
is the delight of your friends, would surely prevent you
from enclosing both the message and it's key in the
same mondolaw and I shall be surprised at our second person, lemen,
Missus Hudson, the second hostess of come to Holmes a

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letter for you, sir as I expected.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Thank you, Missus s nothing for you.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Dr Watsons, Oh well, thank you, thank you, gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
I think this button the same, yes, by getting on. Oh,
dear me, this is very disappointing. I trust Paula won't
come to any harm. Why what do you say, dear
mister Holmes. I will go no further in this matter.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I can see that he suspects me.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I had actually addressed this envelope to send you the
key to the cipher, but he came on me quite unexpectedly,
and I was only just able to cover it up.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Pull him.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Please burn the cipher message. It can be of no
use to you now, Paulack.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I presume the other hours moriarty, when any of that
party talk about he, you know whom they mean.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Anyway, Friend Paulocke is evident, plea scared out of his wits.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's pretty bad. Leave me at homes to think.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
That maybe an important secret hidden on this piece of paper.
And we haven't the part of penetry. Yes, but then
I wonder, but yeah, the cipher message begins with a
large five three four. We take it as a working
hypothesis that five hundred and thirty four at the page
to which the cipher affairs. So our book has already
become a large book.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well what else is? The next sign is C two?
But you make of the book chapter two? No, hardly
if the page number is given.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
The chapter numbers in material. In any case, a page
five hundred and thirty four only finds us in the
second chapter. The first chapter must have been August intolerable.
Oh column then column too, brilliant, Watson, you're scintillating this morning.
Those thanks, So now we begin to visualize a large

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book printed in double columns.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, have we reached the limits of what reason can
supply raso book? Shureley, you do yourself an injustice. If
the volume had been an unusual one, he would have
sent it to me. So, don't you see he used
a book he thought I'd have no difficulty in finding
for myself, a very well known book Watson, large.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
And printed in double columns, a book in very common
use the Bible.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Good Batson word that's not, if I may say so,
quite good enough.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Why, even if I accepted the compliment for myself, I
could hardly name any volume less likely to lie at
the elbow of one of Mariati's associates.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Besides the editions of earlier riticerent humorous.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
But he could hardly suppose that two copies would have
the same page content. No, this is clearly a standardized book.
He knows for certain that his page five three four
will exactly agree with mine. The Almanac are the Almanac excellent?
Watson excellent? May be does anything? It has a large

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number of pages, Yes, and it's a double column if
I remember correctly, It's reserved in its early vocabulary, but
becomes quite garrulous towards the end.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Well, let's quiet home. Yes, n here is page fifty
first thirty four, column two. Word number thirteen is there,
But it done. Wasn't there the.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Word twenty seven is there is yes that and next
we have we have dinger. This is hit Watson, I'm
sure of it. The word Douglas comes next, Yes, and.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Then sixteen sixteen seventeen, the seventeenth word now twenty one,
twenty five, twenty six act.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yes, there is danger Douglas now at oh at Burst
and the word comes next, Inn. There's another number then
then Boston again. Right, what forty s for four forty
five forty sixth house? It makes sense, botsm there is
danger Douglas now at Burston House.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
First. Well, well, Holmes, we did it. We did, indeed,
my dear Watson, we did. Indeed. Oh McDonald's here, sir,
come in, come in and eli today.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Watson, harmonying inspector.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
I fear this means that there is some mischief a footing.
Great heavens, I wasn't an area that paper those names.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Eh? Oh, this is this just a little cipher. Doctor
Watson and I have been amusing ourselves with We exhausted
it possibility just before you came into Hell. I hate
to spoil your pleasure, gentlemen. Only Yes, what I came
here to tell you was that mister Douglas of Bidlestone
Manor House, Biddlestone was muddered late last night.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
What remarkable, remarkable, and the reason I came to tell
you of it is that her own.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
We close so far as a card found beside the
body with what appears to be a cipher written on it,
the letters the the three four one, And I know
your interest in ciphers, mister Holmes, mister mac I receive
a communication from a quarter which I know to be important.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
It walls me the danger threatens a certain person.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Within the hour I learned that this danger has actually
materialized and that the person is dead. I was going
down to Billstone this spawning. How it seems we might
perhaps be doing better work in London.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Poso.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, since I take it that end applying there is
the one your message came in your egal eye noted
it was Persted in Kemberware exactly. Well, i'd better tell
you at once. My correspondence name is Paulock. It's an
assumed name. I promised when he first wrote that I
wouldn't try to trace it. Do you think there's someone

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behind him?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I know there is. This professor has heard dimension exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
I might have known, And mister Wrongs, I won't consume
from you that we in the c idea inclined to think.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
You may have a wee bit.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Of a a bee in your bonnet over this professor
chap Oh, Dear mister Meck, you've read about Jonathan Wilde.
I take it there, yes, yes, sir, some sort.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Of criminal in the old days.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Everything comes in circles, mister mec even Professor Moriarty. Jonathan
Wilde was the hidden force of the London criminals in
the seventeen fifties.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Are there about? He sold them his brains and his
organization on a fifteen percent commission.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
The old wield turns and the same spoke comes up
some time when you were here or two.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
To spare mister Meck, I commend to you the study
of Professor Moriarty very well.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
He'll keep in the meantime of what really accounts is
that remark of yours about some connection between the professor
and this claim at Middlestone. Mariarti rules his people with
a rod of iron.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
There is only one punishment in it code. It is dead.
So we might suppose that.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
This murdered man, this Douglas head in some way betrayed
the chief Paula could know he was about to be punished. Well,
that's an idea. Or Mariati may have been engaged to engineer.
If I'm the promise of a part of the spoils,
either as possible and everything, it could be something entirely different.
Whatever it may be, we must look for the solution
down at Bolsters.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Then let's be going. Oh, good lord, it's later than
I thought.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
You've got five minutes to get ready, gentlemen, little do
what'sn't be good enough? Touring for our boots right away
while I changed out of this pressing gown. Oh, mister
mac the temptation.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
To form premature theories is the bait of our profession.
So let's make a bargain about that from the start, Jowy,
no theory is from me. I can support them with
the theater very well, a bargain with the homes. God. Now,
I can only see two things.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
For certain at present, a great train in London and
a dead man in Sussex.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
It's the chain between that were good to trace. Oh passively,
that dear stalker.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
There's a good fellow Watson, and I don't get a
trip into the country.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Everything. I please to see you and mister Holmes locing watter.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Meet mister White's Mason cheap detective of this Sussex contabulary.
I'm glad to have you with us, gentlemen, very glad,
indeed ru downright snort that we have on our hands
here and no mistakes.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Well, there's a carriage outside and sage of us and
waiting and he's the local man down here posting on
this business and he can give us the details as you.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's it, so come on, gentlemen, I'll lead the ways. Excellent, excellent, well, gentlemen.
It was eleven forty five last evening. The first word
reached me at my house. It was mister Barker competing
like mad at the bell and told me there'd been
a horrid murder of the matter of mister Barker Prey

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and mister Cecil James Barker, Sir of Hale's large hamsteads,
were particular as I got.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
He's well known down here, often comes.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Down to start the manner with mister and missus Douglas,
thank his Admilson the big Yes, mister Holmes.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Well, there was a little past twelve When I got there,
the signs were hale standing about in the hall proper
shake and they looked. I see well, justin.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Dr Woods from the villager road, and mister Barker led
us into the room where the buddy lay. It was
mister Douglas's study. You find you outen straight into the halls.
Just a moment, Sagan. When you say mister Barker led
us into the room, the room accepted. Does the ass
prefa adjust me? And doctor Woodson?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Oh? And Eames the butler, he has he come.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
In the eye us and closed the door after you'll
stop the maid servants see and what did you teeth?
Has it with the sea sleigh in the center of
the room, Sir. He was on his back with his
arms and legs outstretched. He was wearing only a pindressing
gown with his nine seams undreds. There were carpet slippers
on his bare feet. His head had been barely blown
to pieces.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Have wants some learn about them? Something shocking, sir? Any weapon?
I guess?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
There was a shot gun lying across his chest. The
barrels have been sawn off short, and the figures were
wired together so they'd go off together. Doctor said he'd
had the locks pray in his face.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Go through and this job, sir, as you will see.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, while doctor would went upstairs to see them, Missus Douglas,
I got me notebook out and asked mister Barker a
few questions.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
I got the notes with re air. Yes, this is
it now.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
First of all, I harsh whether anything I had been
touched since the business was discover.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
If anything has been touched since this business was discovered?

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Nothing has been touched in this room thousand You see
it exactly as I found it?

Speaker 2 (15:13):
And what exactly was that? So it was just half
past eleven? How long from hearing the report before you
entered the room? Thirty seconds?

Speaker 3 (15:22):
At the outside thirty card Douglas was lying just as
you see him.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
His bedroom candle was burning on the table.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I see the lamps burning those, heir, That was little later,
no doubt the lamp ah, yes, sir, I let that
humans after I came into the room.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Did you see anyone, sir? No one.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
I heard Missus Douglas coming down the stairs, and I
rushed out to prevent her from seeing this dreadful sight.
Missus Allen, the housekeeper came and took her away. The
butler Ames had arrived and we.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Ran back into the room again together.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
I say, Ames came with you then, yes, Constable sideand
the Goodlins. I know this moke that runs right round
the house. Here, Yes, woke the drawbridge across be hop
or down at the time. It was that until I
loaded myself to come and get shoes out.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
And see. Ah, you're wondering how anyone could have got
away from my house after shooting mister Douglas. Wow, sir,
less unless mister Douglas shot himself. Oh no, that is
out of the question.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
If you'll step over to this window, yes, sir, when
I called back to this captain, you'll.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
See the window. It's poor and it's just how him
and I are. And here on the window ledge a
smear of blood and.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
This marks, my guest, best mark made by the soul
of someone's.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Boot if he was getting out wall. See what you mean, sir,
God Joe, here's the long why it across to be
what you see? And I closed the cerain again. Windows
quite screened up. Now can you tell me, sir what
time the job bridge would have been raised for the night?

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Ms good head of that And it was nearly six o'clock.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
If anyone come from outside, they must have got in
across the bridge before six and here it somewhere, s
will mister Douglas come into the road and the man
was waiting for him in here he shut Mister Douglas
left the gun behind him and got away through the window.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
That's how I read it, Sergeant, Very likely, very likely,
doctor would how is she, missus Douglas.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Oh, she's being up remarkably will in the circumstances, i'd say, oh, hell,
the sergeant, you will found something?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, this faster dead man's shoulder. You haven't spotted it? Why?

Speaker 1 (18:03):
No?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
I never noticed it at all. But what's that written
on it? The the three four one screable? And what
on earth can that mean?

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Beyond me for the moment, sir. Oh by the way, sergeant,
is this hammer on the rugs here? I wanted me
to examine. It might just be a bloodstain, you know, hmmm, Yeah,
this looks quite clean.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Though to me.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Put it back on the rug where you've found it, please,
doctor oil cassidy if anything's gotten long before the detectives
got here.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
For I'm sorry, sergeants, I should have known better. I
wonder what it was dream on the floor.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Mister Douglas was also in the pictures yesterday. That's the
hammer he was using that song. I see, well the
pets have make a close and look over the body.
New mass of violence is what the head would never
know though, right you are, doctor, No, I had better
think a good.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Look around this Roy too, Yes, but i'd have thought, ah,
what is it? Silent Master? Where here? Mark goose Joe?

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (19:08):
But why were these cards be gone last night?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
And the four o'clock said when the lamps were lit?
And that is a bad argmentary, doesn't it a bad lab?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Perhaps? I say, you never seen a mark like this before?
What have you found? Doctor? Yea, let me see well
sort of tattoo that's m bull inside the circle? Yes, sir,
many a time I've seen that mark when the Master
rolled his teas up to watch. He never told me.

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But where strike me? Ms? I do beg pardon, sir
Mosa the Master's wing me. It's gone. Good Lord, you're
sure about that designs no doubt at all.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Tageant always worried that ring with the rough nuggets on
it was a pudget Now quite right.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Am just a minute, now, just a minute. Did you
say the nugget ring was always wore above the wedding.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Ring, always never changed. But that means the murderer or
whoever it was, took that nugget ring off him to
steal the wedding ring, and then put the nugget ring
back on again.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
There's the nugget, the wedding ring's gone. Well, that makes
sister rummis Jewel I ever struck. They said to you,
too thick for the lights of me, And I did.
And that's about as fair as I can report to you, gentlemen.
For remarkable must remarkle.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Do you know I can hardly recall any case in
my experience where the features have been more protused.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I rather thought you'd say that we're well up with
the times in Stutis. You can see. Yes, I arrived
to take over from Sargon Wison between three and four
this morning. I examined the gun. There's no complete his
name on it, just the first three letters on the
fluting between the barrels, the rest being cut off by
the sword. But three letters pree n. I can't think

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of what that comes from.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Pennsylvania Small Arms Company, American. First I heard about saw
those shotguns in the States. It might mean the chap
who broke in and killed Douglas was an American, sir.
There is one other thing, yes about America, sir, But
he ceased in his wife spent a long time living
there in California.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
No, that's interesting an any sudden. I was just that
mister Sistel Barker was an America too, he told me
was a friend of mister Douglas there. Oh, by the way,
mister houns Ames says he's never seen a gun of
this sort in the house. Before the gun was made
to conceal it would fit into readit box.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
But why would a murderer carry a shotgun in with him?
If he'd any sense, he'd choose the.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Quietest weapon he could find, something he can kill with
and not make a sound.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Be through the moat and roll clear of the place
ours before anyone find what's happened. You're right there, ah,
I think if this is our destiny, this is Boston,
manor I say, the place then the seventeenth century.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Most of it. They told me. That's our celebrated merch.
Muddy looking mud.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
The water brings down the clay generally about this color,
you know, a.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Tamping the drowning, and couldn't he never spull him under
the not much likelihood of that? Oh, not more than
a foot deep near the edges, and prove the most
in the middle.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, then here we are, yeah, sardon Wilson, Sir, you
can take the carriage and get away home.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Because some red Thank you, mister mea why brought two
sings last night? All right? Then how's we get close
the door? Will you please him? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Inspector McDonald and mister Holmes would like to ask you
a few questions.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
And I understand you to have said that you often
saw this mark on your late master's forum frequently, s
you never had anyone refer to its meaning, never serve.
I noticed that a small piece of pluster at the
angle of the deceased job here do you see? Yes,
I I see it, Sir. She cut himself shaving yesterday morning?

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Did he? If you're nervous at all? Could that be
why he cut himself? It struck me he was a
little restless and excited. So that mister Holmes anything to
add thank you?

Speaker 3 (23:40):
As this card will VB three four one scrolled on
the Sir, I noticed that in this room there is
only blacking in the inquies always.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
But this writing is purplish in color.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
It's been done with the broad page and the ones,
and here fine obviously that he wasn't written in here?

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Point can you make anything of the inscription? Names? Nurse
are nothing? It makes me think want to some society
or of us, And.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
I'm inclined to agree with you, Doctor Russon. What about
that mister Holmes, an agent from this society, get into
the house, waits for Douglas to kills him, and escaped
by way of the boat. But he leaves miss Carr behind,
so that when the case is reported in the papers,
the other members of the society will know the deeds
be done vengeance or something plausible.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
But why this clumes a weapon? Well? And why the
missing ring? And why no arrest its past two? Now?
I think it that since.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Dawn, every comfortable within forty miles radius has been out
looking for signs of a wet stranger.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
They certainly hard mister Holmes, unless he's got to hide
away nearby or a change of clothes, they can hardly listen.
And yet they have missed him up to now. Well,
aims I think that is all. I think you're saying
to serve well one moment gains Yes, mister her what
is this under the five table?

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Those are mister Douglas's Dumbdell's for exercise dumb bell.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
I think you mean there's only one there were to sir,
they are I must be somewhere about. I haven't noticed
the dumblans one dumb bell very well.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Their names, Bett says, oh, mister Barker's na names. Yeah,
I'm gentlemen, but by all means, mister Barker, I don't
wish to interrupt you, but not at all. So your
fellows are found a bicycle where in a clump of evergreens,
not one hundred yards from the hold door, obviously hidden,

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Night saying, now that's a new line of right, come
on the soon we'd better take a look at once.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yes you coming, mister.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Holmes, of course. Now what in the name of all
this wonderful make the chap leader behind? And how well
they got away? We don't seem to get a game
of light in this case, doing, mister Holmes, doubt famous
to me, I wonder I won. The Venios Fear was

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one of the stories about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur
Kerlan Doyle. We're presenting it in three parts. You've just
been listening to part one in real life. My name
is Norman Sheddy. My friend Carton Hobbs played Sherlock Holmes,
and I was doctor Watson. Michael Hardwick read our script

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for this BBC production from London. When you look forward
to the pleasure of your company again very soon for
part two of the Valley of Fear, The Adventures of

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Sherlock Hols.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
I remember one saying, in particular the value of fear. Fear, Yes,
he said more than once. I've been in the Valley
of Fear. I'm not answer a kid. Of course. You
asked him what he meant by that, Oh I did.
He would only shake his head and tell me it
was bad enough for one of us to have been
an ex shadow. He once said, Please God, it shall

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never fall upon you.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yere for the beautiful missus Douglas. The shadow had fallen
in the shape of murder, and it was still a
mystress for my friend Holmes.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
My name is.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Watson, doctor Watson, and it was my privilege to sell
the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. If I may summarize the
case so far, I will then tell you what happened next.
In the valet of fear, I sat down exactly what
Homes said in my note books, My dear, what I

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can hardly recall any case where the features have e
more peculiar. My friend fell at Holmes said to me
down bare fling, I have said. Holmes had received a
warning from an informer the danger of saddened the man called.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Douglas, and both in Sussex.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Within a few moments we'd had Inspector McDonald the scotton
yard around to tell us that one John Douglas of
Boston Manner had been murdered, and a sort of code
message left on a card beside the body.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Vv. Three four one. It had said just Vv. Three
four one.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
When we got to Boston, we learned that the dead
man had been found with his face almost blown the
bits and an American sawn out shotgun across his body.
The murderer had taken the wedding ring from his finger,
but to do so he'd had to remove another ring,
which Douglas had been wearing a buet.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
And yet this other ring was still on the dead
man's finger when he saw him. Well, there were a
clues of.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
A sort of brand mark on the dead man's arm.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Or in the home seemed to be interested that one
of a pair of dumbbells was missing from the room
currently why though, And then Douglas's friend, Cecil Barker, who
found the body, came in to tell us at the bicycle.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Had just been found hidden near the manor house, as
though the murder had meant to get away and it
would help we had a little bit. There was nothing
to help us, common enough, mate, nothing in the saddle bag.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
So we went back into the house and Inspector Mason
of this that it's in February rating for the butler
aim coming on through.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh excuse me, gentlemen, Oh you heard the chas and
mister Rains is round with the kitchen garden for a minute.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Can I do anything? Oh?

Speaker 3 (30:46):
This is missus Allen, the house keeper, Inspector McDonald Scotland
yard out, mister Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. The wonder
word with you later. But now if you no, no,
never mind for the moment we speak to missus Allen.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Know she's here. Take a seat, ma'am. Oh, yes, sir,
thanks you, sir. No, Missus Allen, take you came and
tell us what happened here last night? Where you working? Then? Yes, sir, well,
I was in my room when the bell rang.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
It rang very violently, so that was the first sound
you heard. Yes, mister Hubbs, I didn't hear the gun
go off.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Is that's what you mean? My room's right at the
back of the house, I see. Did you notice the
time when the bell rang? No, sir not.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Then I came out to see what it was about,
and I met mister Ames coming from his pantry.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
At the back of the house. Go on, then, Missus Allen.
We came up to the front of the house together.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Just at the foot of the stairs, we saw Missus.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Douglas coming down in a hurry, No, just walking normally.
Then mister Barker came rushing out of the study with
this room. He rushed up to Missus Douglas and said,
for God's sake, go back to your room. Poor Jack
is dead. You can do nothing. For God's sake, go back.

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Did you think, No, sir, didn't scream or anything. Mister
Barker turned to me and told me to take her
back to her room and I did, missus Allen, you're
quite sure you have no sound.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Of a gun going off, nothing which you might have
thought at the time, of something else, Nothing at all, sir,
as I saved.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
My room's a long way back, and I'm a little
hard of hearing. Quite Oh, I did hear something a
while before, and like your a door slamming, and thought
of the time, How long before? Oh? Half an hour
before the bell rang? I see easily half an hour
without a doubt.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Any more questions, mister Holmes, No, thank you, well, thank you.
Then I'm perhaps you'll ask mister Barker.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
To step this way. Oh very good, sir hm singularly interested. Oh,
thank you, mister Butcher. It doesn't as much to what
we've already heard from your good but we have to
have ours. I understand that, mister Barker.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
I understand that mister Douglass emigrated from Ireland to America
and eventually reached California.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Where you met him. You became partners in.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
A successful mining venture at a place called the Nito Kenyon.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
That is so, mister Douglas was a widower. I believe
he was now. When mister Douglass left America to come home.
Was it a Southern decision? Yes?

Speaker 1 (33:49):
It was.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
And the more I think about it, mister Holmes, the
more I'm convinced that secret society idea has got something
to tell us about all this, some port of fuel
perhaps agreev them from the days who we're marrying? That maybe,
doctor I understand thatter. Douglas's marriage took place in this
country about five years ago.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Have you returned here by then? I was his best man,
I see. Did you know missus Douglas before of marriage?

Speaker 3 (34:14):
No?

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I did not. But you've seen a good deal of
her since.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
I've seen a good deal of him since, mister Barker,
did mister Douglas entirely approve of.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Your friendship with his wife? If you are nothing, I
have had to do nothing.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
We only want to fight some inquiries. Are our cancers
are not meant to be said? I must repeat my question.
I must refuse to answer. You can refuse to answer,
but that might be taken as an answer in itself. Now,
did mister Douglas approve your friendship with his wife?

Speaker 2 (34:46):
You can take it from me, gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
No man ever had the more lying, faithful wife. But
I can pay no friend of them are loyal than
I was. You're away said that the dead man's wedding
ring has been taken from his finger.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
So it appears under the circumstances, it wouldn't it.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Appear to most people that don't make this on link
between the marriage and the mother.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
I cannot profess to say what it suggests. There is
one more small point, mister Baker.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
When you entered the room last night, there was only
a candle lighted on the table was under that is,
so you ran for help at once?

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yes, and it's a ride very still with an a
minute or so.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
And yet, according to AIM's estatement to the police sergeant,
when he arrived in the room, the candle was out and.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
The lamp been lit. Why did you pause to do
all that as such a startling cresity before you?

Speaker 3 (35:39):
I have, Well, the candle threw a very bad light.
The lamp was on the table, so imt it and
blew out the candle. Yes, we better see missus Douglas. Yes, yes,
of course I'll fetch her oil. Have you.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Nothing yet, ma'am? Well, we're pressing ahead with our inquiry
is set Uh, every possible effort must be made.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Oh, rest ashured, ma'am, it would help us if you
could answer a few questions now, Oh, thank you, missus Douglas.
We've had from.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Mister Baker that you didn't enter this room after the
tragedy of Captain. No, he turned me back on the stairs.
He begged me to go back to my room. That's
quite so, you had had the shot and you had
come down at once.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yes, how long would it be after hearing the shot
that you were stopped from the stairs by mister Baker?

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Oh, it may have been the couple as minutes.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
It's so hard to reckon the time exactly.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
It was all like some dreadful dream, of course, But
can you give us any idea how long your husband
had been downstairs before you had the shot?

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Right, I can't say I didn't hear him lee as
his dressing room. He did the rhymes of the house
every night.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
He was so nervous, nervous, ma'am, nervous of what while far?
Anything else? No? Nothing, Why should there be During the five.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Years you weren't married to him, did you ever hear
him speak of anything that happened in America.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Something that might still bring danger to him?

Speaker 5 (37:26):
Well?

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yes, I wasn't thought.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
There was something, well, something dangerous hanging over him. I
asked him about it more than once, but he wouldn't
tell me anything.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
But he knew I knew. How did you know, Missus Douglas.
Oh how did a woman know there's something on a
ausband's mind?

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (37:47):
I knew it by the way he wouldn't talk about
past of his life in America.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
I knew it by the way he looked as unexpected strangers.
I knew it by words he'd let fall. Might I
ask what the words?

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Well, Missus Douglas, I remember wanting, in particular the valley
of fear value.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Oh, yes, he said, more than once. I've been in
the Valley of fear. I'm not out of a kid.
Of course. You asked him what he meant better? Oh,
I hed.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
He would only shake his head and tell me it
was bad enough for one of us to have been
in a shadow.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
You once said, Please God, it will never fall upon you.
Nothing more, No, nothing more, Missus Douglas.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
No doubt you've had about this strange business of yet
late husband's wedding green.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
Oh God, it's been taken from his finger. Yes, it's
certainly a most extraordinating.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Why he couldn't even get it off himself.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
It was much too tight. It suggests nothing to you, No, no,
nothing at all.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Well, missus Douglas. We won't detain you any longer, No, don't.
It'll be some other points later, but we can refer them.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
To you as they arrived. Thank you, gentlemen, Thank you.
I'd like to see Ames again, mister Mack.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
If you don't mind, or write mister home, I'll ring.
She is as lovely woman. Yes, and this fellow Barker
been down here a good deal. He's a man who
might be attractive to women.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
You yis?

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yes, Sames, I'd like you to recall for me what
mister Barker had on his feet last night when you
joined him. Is yeah, after the crime, sir, that's right,
why he had his bedroom slippers, arm sat, I remember
I brought him his boots to go for the police.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Aware are the slippers now? You don't under the chair
in the hall. Mister Holmes saw them just a while.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
But sir, it's important for us to know which marks
may be made by mister Barker's feet and which are
from someone else.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Always see Lisa, I.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
May say sir, that I noticed mister Barker's slippers were
pained with blood.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
So were mine when I looked at them later.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Best natural enough, considering the condition of the room. Oh,
by the way, where is mister Barkerer? He's out in
the gardens. Well they're just ain't bothering him. Perhaps you
just bring those slippers in here before you go certain lessa.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
What's all this about? Homes? Have you got? Lad?

Speaker 3 (40:39):
We must leave no possible clue unsifted madea w ah,
thank you ames, they're probably all. We'll replace the slippers ourselves,
Very good, sir.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Now let's have a look at these slippers. It's strange.
That is strange, indeed. And now let's have a look
at that window full this stepper over the state, and

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it's exactly looking. Never done of it then definite came
from the bottom and sleeper.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
But what's the game, mister hob Time, mister Howes, what's
the game? And doctor Watson's left.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
My colleague stood for a little while. I would I
take a turn around the garden if it is the
garden I'm hearing from, yes right, keeping on his heads
till just down there there were that for you, I
see there's a break in the heads there, pleasy, Thank you, very.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
H Scott, Doctor Watson, mister Barker, Missus Douglas, Doctor Watson,
Missus Douglas and I were just sitting here talking with
this terrible business.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Over, and would you be so good as to come
and have a word.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
With a lady for a moment, little will if you wish,
I have no doubt heard is laughing now, I'm afraid
you're thinking me challous and hard.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
It is no business of mind memory. Perhaps someday, doctor
you'll give me more justice. Oh if only you real life.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Maybe there is no reason why doctor Watson should realize,
as he says, it is no business of his exactly.
And so I'll go leave to resume my wafers.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
One moment, doctor him, there's one question you can answer
with more authority than anyone else in the world, and
it may make a great difference to me to care
It's all right, settle, doctor Watson, please hear me. Well,
you know mister Sherlock Holmes better than anyone else. And
now supposing supposing a matter of walk confidentially to his knowledge,

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is it absolutely necessary him to pass it on to
the detectives it would.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Not conceal from them anything which would help bring a
criminal to justice.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
That, maam, I'm not prepared to go. If you want
full of information, might prefer your with.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Mister Sherlock Holmes himself now, if you will be kind
enough to excuse me him.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
And I will be on my way. No, Watson, I
want none of their confidence. You know I order you
wouldn't you? Actually quite correctly? No confidence is.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
And they can prove mighty awkward and it comes to
an arrest for conspiracy and murder.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
You think it's going to come to at home?

Speaker 3 (44:33):
My dear Watson, when I had exterminated this fourth egg,
I will be ready, will put you in put for
the whole situation?

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Are you you fell them? Little way in?

Speaker 3 (44:47):
I don't say we've felled them, it's exact and far
from it. But when we placed that missing dumbbell, you
see dumbbill, one dumb beaill.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Once consider an athlete put on one dumb bell. The
picture to us of the unilateral.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Development the imminent danger of a spinal curvature through using
one dumb bell shot an a nice quiet type. Oh
WA's it all about them?

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Ma'am?

Speaker 3 (45:26):
A lie Watson what Barker's whole story is a great, big,
something obtrusive, uncompromising lie. But it's corroborated by missus Douglas.
Therefore at both side and.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
In a conspiracy rye.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
According to the story we've been given, the murderer had
less than a minute after he'd committed the crime to
take that type fitting ring from Douglas's finger, and that
meant taking the.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Toppling off first and putting it back in. He had
to do all that and get Pean out of it
before Barka came in. I said it was impossible, and
impossible now about the.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Candle, with all the other things he had to do,
would the murderer also blow out the candle and light
the lamp before leaving?

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Hardly?

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Indeed, bark is lying when he says he lit the
lamp after he found the body.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
It was little already.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Well, I hears your rooms, except Ames, he was in
the tantrail also, he said, we'll accept that.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
For the moment James says he heard no sound. We'll
accept that. Also, the pantry is a long way.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Back, and there are several doors between it and his room.
But the housekeeper's room isn't so far. I've been down
to see it, and there's no reason for not hearing
the two barrels of a shotgun fired here in the
study from there.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Yeah, she's rather death thones if she should told us.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Even so, she also told us she remembered hearing a
sound like a door slamming half an hour before the
alarm was given.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
That would be a quarter to eleven. There's no doubt
in my mind that it was the.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Actual shot she had and death at the time it
was fires a quarter to a little. I don't quite
follow homes. Both Barker and Missus Douglas admit they heard
the shot. How if it was half an hour before
Barker gave the alarm, what.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Were they doing all the time, assuming they are the
actual murderers? Exactly what were they doing? Now? I'm hanged?
I can give them the midius of the doubts. What
innocent woman would sit there laughing like I saw her
and heard a few hours after her husband had been murdered.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
No, it was badly stage managed, but if there had
been nothing else, this would have been enough to suggest
conspiracy to my mind. Then you say, homes of Barker
and Missus Douglas are definitely the murderers. If you put
it that Missus Douglas and Barker know the truth about
the murder and are conspiring to conceal it.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Then I'm in full agreement.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
But just for the mental exercise, let's suppose that there
was a guilty secret, a really shameful secret.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Of some kind in this man Douglas's life. This leads
to his murder by someone from outside, an.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
Avenger perhaps, or so this avenger murders him before he
gets away.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Barker and Missus Douglas reach the room.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
The murderer convinces them that any attempt to arrest him
will lead to the publication of some hideous scandal.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
They let him go. They may even have lowered the
drawbridge going to escape by her, and then raised it again.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Yes. Well, now, after the murderer has gone, they realize
that they placed themselves in a position where it may
be difficult to prove.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
That they were not the murderers. So they go to
work quickly and rather clumbs so lay to cover up.
They mark the window.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Silver Barker's blood tain slapper to indicate how the murderer
is supposed to have escaped. Then missus Douglas creeps back
to her room. Barker stays downstairs and raises the alarm
half an hour after the gun was actually fired.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Now, Watson, how will that suit you? Very good? Homes,
very good?

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Indeed, yes, the only thing to do after building up
such an elaborate supposition, of course, is to prove it
and Himn's name when you do that, well, I think
an evening alone in the study will help me.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Evening alone now, while I've already arranged it to the.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Estimable aim, I shall sit in the study and see
if its atmosphere brings me inspiration.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Oh my god, home you laugh, friend Watson, Well we
shall see.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
By the way, you have that big umbrella of yours
with you?

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Have? You know?

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yes I have. I'll borrow it by me. I'll remind
me to collect it this evening before I shut myself
away with you.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
So, and meanwhile, we'd nothing much to do but wait
for our colleagues to come back from Tunbridge Worlds, where
they've been trying to get bicycle identified.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
I'm afraid they're shooting in the back.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
I don't admitting we were taking a shot in the
dark mister Holmes, But we've hit our target all the same.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
You know, I dentified the bicycle impact that we.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Have Dr Watson, and got a description of our man,
great and gratulations. Well, we started from the fact that
mister Douglas had been in Tunbridge well the day before
the murder.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
He've seemed nervous the morning after he'd been there, and
it seemed possible that while they had become conscious of
some danger.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Very sound reasoning, indeed, well, we took the bicycle over
with us and did the rounds of the hotels. It
was identified at once yes by the manager of the
Eagle Commercial said it belonged to a man named Hargrave
who had taken a room the two days before.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
The landlord had no doubt that chat was an American. Well, well, you've.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
Done some really solid work while I've just been sitting
here spinning theories with my friend. That's just bites the homes.
Practical measures are what get the results.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Says, remain sitting with your serisms. That may be, but
let's hear the end. How about his descriptions the neck, Oh,
I've got it here such as it is a hugual Nobody.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Seems to have taken much notice of him, about five
foot nine in high page, about fifty here, slightly grizzled,
grayish mustache, curd knowing over rather forbiddings on to face
the record. He'd been seem to wear a heavy gray
soup with a reef of jacket, in a short overcoat
yellowish and a soft cup.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
What about the shotgun?

Speaker 3 (51:46):
And no one saw that it could have fitted in
his valise or under each overcoat quite easily.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Well, mister mat how do you think this bears on
the general case? Well, my recond he may have cycled
over here. That morning.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
They hung about keeping an eye on the house, hoping
mister Douglas would come out. You see, mister Holmes, I
reckon he intended using that shotgun outside the house, not
in doors. Oh, no, one had said twice about a
sporting gun going off in these parts then he could indeed,
mister Neck, he.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Wasn't twin obvious conding of it. Well, mister Douglas didn't appear.
What was hard great to do?

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Next?

Speaker 3 (52:29):
He left his bicycle and approached the house at twilight.
The drawbridge was down and nobody about. He took a
chance and slipped across and into the first room he
came to. No one saw him, all right, so far
keet it, pray go home. He got in behind the
curtains and waited there till quarter past eleven when mister
Douglas came in.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
He shot him and got clear.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
He thought the bicycle might be identified, so he left
it and made straight off to London, off some other
place where he got.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
A safe hiding place.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Very good and clear so far as it goes, Eh,
So you mean my versions a different ending?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'm afraid ohefully it has has it will let hear it?
Remember bug In, mister meht No theory is until I
had the text to support job. But no, mister Mack,
I intend to go ahead with a little investigation of
my own tonight.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
It's just possible it may contribute something to our common cause.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Want us to help, anything to get us on a bit?
Do I know? Thank you? I want are simple darkness
and Dr Wuston's umbrella. What's that? I don't know what
you're talking about, mister Holmes, do you, Doctor Watson? I
haven't the plain this idea. No, well, there's not much
to it really, just a few lines of thought leading

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back to one basic question, and what's that?

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Then? Why should have the athletic man develop his frame
but so unnatural? An instrumental, a single dumb there? Oh yeah, well,
perhaps I shall find out tonight. Have The Value of

(54:19):
care was one of the stories about Sherlock Holmes by
Sorothacan Doyle, representing it in three parts.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
You just heard part two in real life.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
My name's Norman Shelley and it was my friend Carlton
Hobbes who played Sherlock Holmes. I was Doctor Watson and
Michael Hardwick wrote the script for this BBC production from London.
I hope you may have the pleasure of your company
again very soon for that third and last part of

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the Valley of Fear, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Me too.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
It might be so bad if you'd tell us what
we've been doing here for the past two hours, mister
Holme basons gentlemen's statient.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Before as to what it is. We ah, that, gentleman,
is what we've been waiting for. We need what what's
happening in my cousin? Yes, as someone started to walk
about in that lighted room, then that what means to.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Holmes, that's it. That room is the standish for the
matter was dat let's see what happens here. Sometimes it
was cold as well as puzzling, sharing adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Watson's my name, Dr Watson, and they'll be first some
of events so far, and then I won't tell you

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the astonishing solution to the.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Valley of Fear. Polices were as careful as I was.
Over the murder at Birlston Manor in Sussex.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
A current message v the three four one beside the
corpse he's waiting taken.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
There really been wearing above it, carefully replaced by the murderer.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
And there was something that he fishy going on between
the window and the deceased best friend, Cecil Barker.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Watson.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
Holmes said to me their line they're in a conspira
said alive, had struck me too. But Holmes wouldn't be
don't wanted to spinning any more theories, and he got
some more facts in his hands.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
He just kept on dropping hints about a.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Bressed dumbbell who was missing from the murdered man's study.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Onody knows what. He was giddy at his latest idea.
I was to spend an evening alone in the study
and think things out. Why he needed my umbrella though
with my guard thing on the way to the local
police station. Next morning.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
He wouldn't say a word about it, but I knew
he'd found something out.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
I'd seen that look in his eyes before. Good morning doing,
mister Holmes, Good morning you sit, bicyclist. What is the
latest news? That ruption? Oh? What a pile of correspondence,
because just to look at it let us telegram. Do

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you know what they are?

Speaker 3 (57:55):
I think I can guess the post of this murder
about having been seen in the tones of this country.
Oh dear me, now, mister Meck and you, mister white Mason,
I wish to give you a very earliest piece of advice.
Advice what advice? A bend in the case? Now look here,

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mister Holmes, you're holding something by now Now.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Mister mec you know my methods. Once I've verified my details,
I'll make my bar and return to London.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
My findings will be entirely at your service than the
credit will be yours. I owe you too much prey
to me any other way. In all my experience, I
cannot recall a case that's interested me more so.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Sorry I was.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
Sharp, but it's all clean beyond me. We talked to
you when we got back from Tunbridge Wells last night,
and your idea seemed to match up pretty well with.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Old That's right. What happened since then to give you
a completely new idea? Well? Since suppressed me? Yes? Oh,
by the way, I've been reading a short but very
interesting account of the manner.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
Oh I got him for one day from the local
the Bacons. Here it is, you know, mister mec it
ad no end to the zest of an investigation when
one is in conscious sympathy with the historical atmosphere of
once surrounded.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Oh no, oh, pray, don't.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
Look so impatient, even so bold, on account as this
can raise quite a digit picture of the.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Past in one's mind. If they give you an example.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
There is a minute pass here erected in the fifth
year of the reign of James the First. The manor
Huse Burston is one of the finest surviving examples of
the molded jack of the end RESI.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
You're playing games with us, mister Holmes, Well, I won't
read itservative since you feel so strong, ants, ain't you? No?

Speaker 3 (59:41):
I'll simply tell you that there's some accounts in here,
the taking of the place by Parliamentary Colonel in sixteen
forty four, of the concealments of Charles for some days
in the Civil War, and finally of a visit there
by George the second. Do you see, as you'll admit,
there are plenty of interesting associations with the old place.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
But there are no business of our Oh, oh they not.
You get your points simmer or later. But you've had
du sit round the corner way of doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Very well, I'll drop past history and get out of
a present dayffect good. I left Watson at that hotel
last night and visited the manor house. I didn't see
either Missus Douglas or Barker. I saw no necessity to distern.
My visit was made especially to the good mister Ames,
who allowed me, without reference to anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Else, to sit alone for a time in the studying.
What were you doing? Well? Not to make a mystery
of so simple a matter. I was looking for the
missing dumb bell. Oh not that again. It was always
about rather large in my estimate of the case. I
ended by finding it well home, Ah, well, it's Greek

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to me. We're bound to take you in your own towns.
We know that. But when it comes to telling.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Us to abandon the case at least in trouble to
trace the mysterious gentlemen whose bicycle got left behind, it
won't tell.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
And what do you suggest?

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
I suggest you take a nice, cheery conclude walk what
they can get the views over the wheels.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
That's quite remarkable, though, that you could get lunch at
some suitable fustory, though my ignorance of this part of
the world prevents me from recommending here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Then in the evening tired, But let's just getting past
a joke if you think Bason and I've got nothing
better to do than sit here and let me to
you going on, dear me, mister Macca, I'm sorry if
I've offend you there.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Will spend the day as you like, but meet me
here before dusk without faith. Now that sounds more to
the point, mister Holmes, Oh so over the rest of it.
But I didn't insist you take it, so long as
you're here when I need you, I agreed, mister math
Very well, mister Holmes. Now before me part, i'd like
you to do something for me. Well, I'll dictate a

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note to mister Barker.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
I want you to write it right you are again,
dear sir. It has truck me that it is our
beauty duty.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
To drain the moat in the hope. But that's impossible,
mister Holmes, it can't be drained.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Never mind that. Please go on inspect that I'm with
you up to drain the moat.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
Drain the moat in the hope that we may find something,
something which may bear upon our investigation. Investigation, all right,
the workmen will divert the stream, not mister Holmes.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
It just can't be done. Divert the stream early tomorrow tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
So I thought it best to explain matters beforehand, before hand.
That's all right, And now get this sent up right away. No,
wait a little, please send it by hand about four o'clock.
Is our not befall so to me, don't forget to
sign it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
And I think four o'clock would be an admirable time
for us all to meet here at the police station. Again,
this is all beyond me.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
Cheer up, mister mc take my advice today in this
bracing winter, ever, do you more good than worrying? Over
that pile of reports. But please yourself come along, Muttons
came for a brisk walk.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Like spend it. Then we'll see you here at four o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Now, gentlemen, it's a chilly evening and I don't know
how long our expedition's got to last.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
You'd better wear your warm MiSTings.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
And what expedition may this be, mister Holmes, I'll ask
you all to go get me now to the outer
bounds of the manor house park. That's a gap in
the ratings where we can get through to the shrubbery
near the opposite the main door of the drawbridge.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
That's where I'm afraid we must spend.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
A good deal of this exceptionally chilly evening already, of course,
so well then let.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Us be alive. I'm perished me too.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Mightn't be so bad if you'd tell us what we've
been doing here for the past two hours, mister Holt
Grayson's gentleman's statience.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Oh as to what it is with that, gentleman, is
what we've been waiting for. Need from what's happening in I.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
Come, yes, Let someone started to walk about in that
lighted room there, that's what who means to homes. It
said that room is the study for the murder is done,
and let's see what happens next.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
It's a man. He's coming to the window. He's opening it.
What's he doing now? He's been looking out? No, he's
looking down down into the mood. He's leaning out.

Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
Please listen, sis your part, little one.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Just as very you leave the property staff, I would
be talking free times. Listen, sir, I'll go away.

Speaker 5 (01:05:55):
Come on my wife Undy, believe me.

Speaker 6 (01:06:03):
This the far homes still going on, say Bursted like this,
but be came to find something in a hot half
here it is a bottle consuming Why this bundle you've
just fished.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Up from the bottom of the boat waiting down.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Gentlemen, with this dumb bear worked gone, yeah, admitting dumb
bell turns up at last? How in dunder as you
know about this comfortable? I put it there shore well,
I should say I replaced it there. You'll remember, gentlemen,
I was rather stuck by the extence of the other
half of that bear of dumbbells. I did draw your
attention to it there, for so many other things on

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your mind, you had hardly the time to consider it.
But how did you read warfare is near and awaited missing?
Mister Mason, it's not too far this to wonder if
something has been soaked in the water. The idea was
worth testing at Illert. So with the help of dames
were busied me to this room and the crook of
doctor Watson's umbrella, I was able to fish up this
bundle last night and inspect.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Well, I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
So of course it was most important to be able
to prove who has sunk it there on the first place.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
We accomplished this by the very simple device of announcing
that the.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Moat will be drained tomorrow, so that whoever he was
would have to act on the cover of darkness tonight
to get it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Out before it was part. Very clever, very clever. Indeed,
it's a bit you didn't know. We couldn't have drained
the motive. We tried, mister barfo what's in the bottles?
I as show you first the dumb bell. We can't
eat that it more.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Now here we had a pair of boots note for
toecaps distinct the American.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Then this knife and it nasty looking object and it shut.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
And finally this tolling a complete set in fact, socks underglows,
grape wheat soup commonplace enough.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
But this overcurt, this yellow overcurt. Now this is full
of suggestive pat Hello, what's done in the lining? But
nothing in the lining, mister MACKI, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
Just a special part long enough to accommodate that sawn
of filing pieces are already familiar devil that is. And
though here at the neck is the tailor's tab meal outfitter,
the mister Usa, the Missa, the the mister Delli, if
I'm not mistaken? And what was it on that visiting

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card beside the body VB three four one VD, the
Missa Deli, I.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Wonder ah, but I'm forgetting you, mister Arthur. I mustn't
stand on the way of your explanations, that's so. But
all I have to say is that if there is
any secret here, it isn't my secret. If that's the
line you want to take, it will be my duty,
and that damn pree, Please no, no, please keep out

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of this.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
Please.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
You've done enough. Whatever's going to come a bit, You've
done enough enough and more than enough. Missus Douglas.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
I think the moment has come to me to urge
you to take the police into your comforts.

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
I am at fought myself.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
And not taking up the hint you passed through my
friend doctor Watson, or you might have come forward.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Then.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
The fact is I had every reason to believe you
were directly concerned in the crime. Now, I'm sure this
is not just a moment, mister Holmes, missus Douglas. There
remains a good deal that is unexplained of this case.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
I would strongly.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
Recommend that we should hear it in his own words
from mister Douglas.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
Homes is right, dagly, my dear, who his best way?
I know it is, mister mister Douglas. I am John Douglas.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
But how long if you've been looking towards the five
page you go seeing for yourself inspectim, I am mister math.
You would not read that excellent look compilation which told
the story of Charles.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
The seconds confimers, would you?

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
People didn't hide in those days without reliable hiding places.
I persuaded myself we should find mister Douglas under this
very route, So you let.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Us waste their time subject for some ni that one.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
Instant was wasted, my dear, mister Meth I did not
for my views of this case completely.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Till last night. They could not be put to the
proof until this evening, so I invited you and your
colleague to take a day off. What more can I do?

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Then? Do we understand that this man's been hiding just
off this room for the past two days. That's correct,
and that it's the time I wanted to sing out
and set you right, Very considered, inspector, I understand what
you must be feeling about me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Let me tell you my story very well, sir, But
there's just one thing I'd like to know first from
mister Holmes. Well, mister men, you knew mister Douglas was.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
Alive all the time, But how known you all the
time by any means? Not until I found the suit
of clothes in the mood They were obviously those are
the see cyclist from Tunbridge World. So it was fairly
obvious to me at once that the body for today
mister Douglas was really better for the seen. Then I
see what had did.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
He determined then, was where mister Douglas could be. The
balance of.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Probability was that with the connivements of his wife and
his best friend, he was concealed in this house, waiting
for quieter times when he could make his escape. Quite right,
mister Holmes, well all right for the moment. And mister Douglas,
I ought to caution himself that anything you say, Agenster,
I give you nothing but the truth. Well, at the
beginning of the beginning. There are some men who good

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call to hate me. Oh that's the way they see it.
It goes back to my days in America. We're all
tied up with mining rights and my breaking the code
of the brotherhood, a secret society. It's right, the ancient
order of freemen large three for one. But mister Valley,
mister Holmes, gets right there. Well, the mine was all

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about labor reckets. They will intrigue their sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Kind of does it work for seeing it smiles as form.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
In this country over there, the stakes us so high
they'll kill to make things go their way. And there
are some phonetics who will hunt a man to the
world's end to shut his mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
Hope, But I give it you in detail in writing.
Find yoursel. We'll need that later. Write where he's gone.
When I left the States, I changed my name, married
and brought my wife to live in this out of
the waste spot.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
After a while everything seemed so peaceful, I thought they'd
given me up. Then the day before all this happened here,
I was over Tunbridge Wells. I got a gimpse of
a man in the street. I recognized him at once,
a man called Hardgrave.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
He was the worst of a lot. I'd no doubt why.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
He happened to be in these parts, or what did
you do? Simply came back here and stayed indoors all
next day. There was still a chance he wouldn't be
able to track me down to the house itself. Well
he did, yes, doctor Watson. When nothing happened all that day,
and once the drawbridge was up and the doors and windows.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Locked in evening, I felt much more secure.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
But when I made my rounds of the house before
going to bed, I always went around myself.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
I smelt danger the moment I came into this study.
What did you notice? Danger? Nothing is pressed? And then
I spotted the two of a boot sticking out under
the curtain. Are I just the one candle that was
in my hand? But there was a good light coming
through the doorway from the hall.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
I put the candle down and jumped straight for the
hammer i'd left lying after I'd hung some pictures.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
At the same moment he sprang out at me with
a knight. We'd caught up the little lays hardly well,
this kind of made it funny. Come, let's your time,
Come your life. Oh God, Jack Brazes is up. Listen.

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He came off straight in his face were we were faking?
He managed to pull that gun out of his pocket,
the trigger about pulling her to Which of us did
it gusty or was it wasn't there from America? I
knew they'd catch up with me school or later. God

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id no idea those coming of a stick. I wanted
to do what has me? A man has been shocked
a terrible size. He's broken in here. I promise I'll
come and tell you about it as soon as I
can look you. I'm quite all right. I'll go back upstairs,
so he he is, and not a word to a

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soul till I'd be love to see you. Say well,
but but how soon is I will? Jack? What do
you make of this?

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
Yeah? White is safe for now? A brand bark the
same as yours, and trying on a setter where it's
not surprising. We're all headed, just red it. Yes, I
can't hear anything. That's just it. No one else is string,
No one.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
But idea high her well. No one knows what's happened
here but the fears Jack. We've got to work quickly, unsafe,
what you're talking about? Don't you see?

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
The fellow's face is unrecognizable. He's about your height and building.
He's got the same brand mark on his arm. Off
you go upstairs, get summers on night joes and addressing them.
But what are you high? And don't get anyone see you.
It's all his clothes. Wait the bundle with this dumb

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and drop it down into the mart. Where's her card?
He added his book? Four? One thing is here, you
better put it under the body, tend to one of

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the ideas for it to get mentioned in the newspaper reports.
So they had proved their mend in his dog right.
What about the rings? Rings? Your rings?

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
You're waiting even the one would a nugget, and you
don't believe it's you without those aims are shorter, notice
because I had to put them on him.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
And there's the nuggies right done. Afraid this waiting ring
will never come off. Hasn't been a since the dates
put on mother? What I have to do with just
the other one? Then nothing else? That's how I look
at your Ah, What is it that's plaster on your chin?

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Cut yourself to shaving this morning? Yes? Better let me
have it right right? Put it on him a past?

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
How long has it take us? Yeah? Now, Jack, you
go into the secret room buying the fireplace.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
Then I'll give myself five minutes to tell I what
it's all about before I raise the alarm. As no
one else heard the shot, it won't matter. It's as
holy day. Ye at this time sess that I.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
I have to thank you properly. Data When all this
is cleared up, I am still pretty to day. I
think nothing of it. In a few days you'll be
able to get away somewhere safe. I'll bring Ida to
join you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
You change your name, and again again you'll think Hardy
did is job and disappeared.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
Off I disappeared.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
Now, well that's how it was, Inspector, I see, but
perhaps you'd better hear the rest from mister Barker. Yes, peace, well,
I just made a mark on the windows hill, and
having planted that false clue. I rang the bell like
mad when missus Douglas came down again as arranged. That's

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old genda. Every word you've heard is the truth. Yes,
it's the truth. This matter will have to go forward officially.
You understand her.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
It will get into the papers. Whoever they are, they'll know,
so do or later how you trick them? I understand that, inspector.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
We make our preparations to leave the country, and the
minutes it's all over, we can get away.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Oh she is a very appear forever myke dog, Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
Helms sailed by now, and no one but ourselves, and
mister Barcco.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Knows wat I wonder, Watson?

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
I wonder, Oh, surely homes after all those precautions, to
all intents and purposes. When he walked under that a
size court of free men, the earth opened and swallowed
him up. You forget who we're dealing with, Watson. It's
my guess he was underresponsible for tracking Douglas down.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Do you think the engage my ardy to help him,
and now you're asking him to.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
Do the whole job he did? Any agree that they don't.
You'll have read by now how his work has been wasted. Ah,
missus Hudson.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
There's a lot for you, mister hawkson how it pushed
under the street door. Thank you, missus Hudson. Now what's
every here? Written with a j pain on expensive paper,
cultivated but disguised head. Oh, who's problem?

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
There's no signature.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
He doesn't need one, It simply says dear me, mister Holmes,
dear me Moriarty exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
Can't you make any move against him? On what grounds?
But what proof?

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
Must he always have the opening gambit while you follow
a move behind. That's sick Watson. But I shall beat
him in the end, Never do that.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
There have been devils like Mariarty loose in the world
since a long before our time, and they always will be,
and someone's always got the better of.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
Them, sooner or later. Always been a sull comes about eh.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
And the doctor Watson complete of course that the vital
umbrella along, my dear Watson, pass me my standard area.
And you like the film, well, now you've heard part three,

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you'll know the ending of the Day of Fear. It
is one of the stories of Shelock Holmes, from the
inspired pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My name My
real name is Norman Shelley bel friend Carlton Hobbes stayed
Shelock Holmes, and I was Dr Watson. Michael Hardwick wrote

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our script for this BBC production from London, and of
course I look forward as a pleasure of your company
again soon for more.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
Of the adventures of Charlock Holmes.

Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
What were you sa