August 8, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
And he's just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The horrible smile on.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
His face looks in human that almost come down to
fight together. Then again, so was the sign of the
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foe again to be the sign of death. A further mystery,
my friend shallock home. My name is Watson, doctor Watson,
and I was privileged to share the adventures of Sherlock Holme. First,
I will refresh your memory on the case so far,
and then I will tell you what happened next in
(01:10):
our investigation of the sign of the form, tell us
very important concerning the disappearance of her father, Captain Marston,
ten years earlier. Each year since then she had been
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receiving through the post a single.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Large pearld and now the anonymous sender who's supposed to
wish to meet her. We accompanied her to the rendezvous
and heard him.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Eccentric fellow said, dear Santo, how his father and Captain
Marston had gained a fabulous pleasure which had disappeared after
both their deaths Now it had been rediscovered by his brother, Barthololter,
whom we were to visit to play in Miss Marston's
rightful shell. Arriving at Batholomew's house, we found him sitting in.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
A chair, a horrible smile on his face, and quite
quite deep. Oh what on earth does it on meals?
To homes? It means murder matter. Ah, just as I expected.
Here Watson stuck.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
In the skin just about his ears, a long dark thorn.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Be careful, he's poising poisoned.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh what a fantastic mystery rooms on the country, my
dear Watson. I only require a few missing links.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And I shall have an entirely connected Oh. Oh, the shoulder,
what is it? The pleasure? It's gone? Are you sure? Oh?
I'm having a hole in the cey. We lowered it
through I helped you to do it. I left to
be here last night and I heard him lock the door.
The prison was not in this room with him. What
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how did you leave? It was ten o'clock. Oh, dear me.
Now the police will suspect me of having a hand.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
If you take my advice, mister Charter, drive down to
the police station and report the message the police Charter
to assist them in every way.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We shall wait here until you return. Please do as
I say. It will be for the best both.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Suppose you know best? Do now what we have a
little while to ourselves.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Let it make good use of it.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
In the first place, I just consider how these folks
came and how they went Charter written, the door hasn't
been opened since last night. Then how about the window?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's fastened on the inside, solid framework.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I just nick hmm, no water part there, roof quite
out of reach. A man mounted by the window.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
How do you know? Here it's the principal foot of
the mold upon the sill. And here it's a circular
muddy mark.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
See here again on the floor, and here again by
the tables on the footmarks. Is something much more valuable
to us? These are the impressions of a wooden stump,
a wooden leg man that there's been someone else here?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Could you scale that for yourself? Let's see who?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Certainly not a good sixty feet from the ground and
lo a foothole all away. But supposing you had a
friend up here who lowered you that goods type rope
which I see in.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The corner, then if you were an active man, you
might swarm up wooden leg and all of course you
depart in the same passion, and your ally would draw.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Up the rope, shut the window, secure it from the inside.
And depart in the way that he originally came here.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
How did this accompliss How did he get in? The doors? Locked?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Windows inaccessible? Did you come down the chimneys the great muster?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Small? Well? Then, how my dear Watson? How often have
I said to.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You that, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth. He didn't come through
the door, the window, or the chimney. He couldn't have
been concealed in the room. If there is no concealment possible,
then where did he come from?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Through the hole in the roof? Of course he did. Now,
if you will have the kindness to hold the lamp
for me, which can I stand out of the searches
to the secret room above where the pleasure was found?
Can you can you manage to get up? I? Thank you?
I can just get up on this roster? God, now
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I'm coming up too. U there? Who you see? Oh
there's a flat wall leading out under the roof. I
fancy I can press it back. Yes, And the roof
slopes at a gentle angle. Ah, this is how he
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got in.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Now, let's see if we can find some other places
of this clan and abdure. It doesn't look as this
place has been into for years. I'll just a been
able dust has its uses to be his foot place
as clear as we could wish, the teeth of the
principal child's naked foot home as a child's dumb this
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hollid scene. Come along, Watson. There's nothing more to be
learned here. If my memory hasn't failed.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Me, I should have been able to forestall this. Where
do I put my lens head? Oh? Thank you? M
m hmmm? Where certainly? In luck? What does it now?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Our native footed friend has had the misfortune to tread
in dis pre act.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That has leaped out of the cowboy there in the corner.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You can see the outside of the edge of his
small foot here or then why we've got him?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's all I.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Knew a dog that would follow that scent of a
world's end. Hallo, here come the accredited representatives of the law.
Not before they come, Watson. Just put your hand here
on this poor dead fellow's arm, here, and here on
his leg.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yes, what you feel?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Muscles were as hard as a board, Quite so that
in a state of extreme complexion five seeding the usual
rigor mortis coupled with this distortion of the face.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What conclusion would it suggest to your mind? Oh, death
from some powerful vegetable alkaloid, some.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Streaty like substances which produce tenderness. As you saw, I
discovered a pawn which had been driven or shot with
no great force into the scalp. You observed that the
part struck is that which would be turned towards the
hole in the ceiling if the men were erecked in
his chair. Now examine the thorn, you go, fir, looks
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there are some gummi sumbstance has dried on it quite sir.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
But is that an English thorn?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No, it certainly is not. And with all these data
you should be.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Able to draw some inferest here of the regular So
the old cilia, he forces me beat on the tree.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Heres a pretty business. The house seems to be as
full as a rabbit one. Oh, mister Jo you must
recollect me, indeed I do. It's mister Shellock Hols, the theorist.
Remember you, I'll never forget the business. Get jewel case. Ah,
but what's all this bad business? Stern facts?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Here? Know who?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But here is lucky? I happen to be out at
normal on another case?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Or do you think the man died of Oh this
is hardly a case for me to theorize them.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No, no, so we can't night that you hit the
maid on the head.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Sometimes a door locked, I understand, jewels worth half a
million missing. I was the window fastened, but there our
footmarks on the sill where it was fastened. They could
have had nothing to do with the matter. Oh, I see, Ah,
I've got it. These fleshies come upon me at times.
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Just ab outside, Sergeant Tester, and you please, mister Shodow.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh very well, I should come bad and I shall
compad is. Doctor. This is my friend, doctor Watson. He's
assisting me. May he you remain?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yes, I suppose now, mister Holmes, Shelter was with his
brother last night. The brother died in a fit, and
Shelter walked over the treasure. How's that upon which the
dead man very considerately got up and locked the door
on the inside. Yes, yes, the floor there you are
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not in profestible effect. This splinter of wood, which I
had every reasona believe to be poisoned, was in the
man's scalp where you still see the mark there is
he ah, yes, this card inscribed the sign of the
four was on the table. How does all debt sits
in tea theory? If this splinter's poisonous, then DearS.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Me will of made murderous use of it?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
The card is some focus focus of blind as I
did not I see. The only question is old there
is a question.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The question is how did he get out?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Oh? Of course there's a hole in the roof there see,
facts better than theory is out all.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
There's a track.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Door communicating with the roof, and it's partly open eye
opened it you know.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh, well, no matter. It shows how our gentlemen got away.
Sargeant ask mister Charlton to step this way.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's lease, mister, their DearS showdo yes, it's my jujeday
form you that anything which you say may be used
against you.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I arrest you in the Queen's name as being concerned
in the death of your brother. Oh didn't I tell
you what they would say here in prop.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yourself, mister Salta, I think I can engage to clear
you of this charge.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You can soon promise too much, mister dearest. You may
probably a harder matter than you think. Not only will I.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Clear him, mister Jones, but I'll make you a free
present of the name and description of one of the
two people who were in this.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Room last night. His name, I have every reason to believe.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Is Jonathan Small. He's small and active, with his right
leg off and wearing a wooden stump which.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Is worn away on the inner side. He's been a convict.
As for the other man, are the other man?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
He is.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
A rather curious person.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I hope before very long to be able to introduce
you to the pair of them.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Away with you, Watson, te coming home? Watson, You, mister Scott,
Miss Morston's home. Who's delight?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Then? I want you to go to number three Pinchin Lane,
down near the water's edge at Lambeth. The third house
on the right hand side is a bird suffer's.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Sherman is the name. Knock a sherman up and tell
him with my.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Compliments that I want Toby at once. You'll bring Toby
back in the cab with you. Toby a queer mongrel
with the most amazing power of scent. I'd rather have
Toby's help than that of the whole the technic walk
of Mons.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But I want a dog, mister Sherlock.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Holmes, a friend of mister Sherlock is always welcome and
step in, sir, just keeps hearing of the bag, you says,
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be vice.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And now say what was it, mister Sherlock, olss got it?
You wanted a dog of yours? Ah, that will be Toby.
Toby was then Toby lives at number seven on the
lip here. Thank you well, mister Sam, and I am
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much origed. Go away. I had a good pillow. Are
you heaven? Then? Watson, leave the dog here and come up. Yes,
I have been a time this better size bird. Oh boy,
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I'm prepresenting Brucesney Toby and I understand one another.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh, Sergeant LeAnn, I just kick off my boots and socks.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh Watson, just carry them for me where.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You get well too, I'm going to do a little clanny, yes,
and I must step by handkerchief into this clear set.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, that'll do. Now come up through a hole in
the ceiling with me for a mother. Do you observe
anything noteworthy about these footmarts? They belonged to a child
or small woman.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Apart from the size, what's the chief difference? Well, all
toes were all crammed together. The other prints each toe
you step to separated.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
That is the point. Now, would you kindly step over.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
To that roof window and smell the edge of the woodwork.
I shall stay over here as I had this hankschief
in my head.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes, uh, yes, this is a strong tar smell.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That's where he put his foot in. Getting asked if
you can trace him, I should think Toby will had no.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Definitely, thank you. Now while I get out.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Onto the roof, you run downstairs and wait for Toby
in the garden below.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Very well, thank you, Watson. Yes, well, I let him
lose this a wight feel pretty smile yes, and let
care carefully? Oh do be careful? Oh well done, I
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f a.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Hu it was.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It was easy to follow his cross across the roof.
No one ah tiles rah, we're loosened to her way.
Oh yes, you need honey. He dropped this and some
sort of a pouch made out of beer. Isn't the
insern ah? Some more of those forms and the Finnish things?
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That wasn't it your leg? Stand the stick? Smile? Trudge
that's there says here you are, don't you?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Whoa whoa go don't teby snay heaby, Spanny. We'll go
to show your home to Hankchifu the creers out on
it and watch.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Him goes what come on?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
What he's going to set us a siff face?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Well, I said, I think we can allow ourselves a breather.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
They've heard no over the heavy ramses yesterday they had
twenty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
High, but their central still life on their own homes.
How would you describe a wooden lady may with such confidence?
The simplicity itself. Few officers were in commanded a convict guard.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Learn important secret is to very treasure. A mess is
wrong for them by an English from named Jonathan Small.
You Small, you remember we saw the name of the clark.
This most concerned us. Oh that's right, Yes, Small had
signed it on behalf of himself and his associates a
fine before he's somewhat dramatically called ah, well, aided by
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this child, the officers or one of them gets the
treasure and brings it to injured. Now, then why didn't
Jonathan Smaller get the treasure himself?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The answer is obvious. Oh you haven't a pistol with you?
Have you have my stick? I shall leave Jonathan to you,
but if the other turns.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Nasty, I shall shoot him dead. Come along now, Toby
is anxious to be getting on.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Oh he's therefore again, and I'm at the river from here. Yes,
but out of luck they've taken to a boat of stone. No,
these fellows are sharper than I expected.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh, dear, look.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Set a fine child.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Is that here? I do you know my name?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
But the sign boarder you a though, Lordicai Smith. Oh
that a ways he. I wanted to speak to mister Smith.
We've been away since yesterday morning, sir. But if it
was about the boat serin, maybe I could serve as well.
I see from the ball that he has a steam launch.
That's what I like, Great sir, it's in the steam
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launch that is gone, that's what puzzles me. I know
thereat Moore coliner that would take it to about Woolington beg.
He might have bought some of the wolfs down river.
We might serve, but the words is away.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Many a time I've heard him go on about the
prices they charged with a few rods bags.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Besides, I don't like that wooden legged man with his
ugly station at glandish talk a wooden legged man roused
him up yesterday night, he did. Oh, then, I I'm unlucky,
missus Smith. I wanted a steam launch, and I've heard
good reports of the You see what is her name,
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the Aurora. She's not an old green launch for the
yellow line, very broad on the beam we do. Indeed,
she's as trim a little thing as any on the
river Black the two red stream parties. Yes, yes, well,
I hope you'll soon hear from mister Smith. I'm going
down the river. If I should see anything of the Aurora.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I shall let him know that you're uneasy a black funnel,
you say, no shirt black with a white band, of course.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yes, the sides which were black. Well, good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
M's the main thing with people of that sort, does
never let them think their information can be of the
slightest importance to you.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
If you do the instantly shut up like an oyster. Well,
our course, he is pretty clear now comfort you would
do that, though, I would engage a launch and go
down to the Roman.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Traculi Aurora, my dear fellow. It would be a colossal castle.
She may have sent any wharf on either side of
the stream between here and Grillage.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Police said, worse and worse, and what are we to do? Then?
I want you to take a Princeton and return to
Vitor his owner with my confidence.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Then drive home, have some breakfast and get on our sleep.
It's quite on the cars that we may be afoot tonight. Again,
very well, I will send a war to whom you remember,
the biggest street irregulars, whom I employed in our study
in Scarlett.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Here, oh, those little ragamuffin, just that they might be invaluable.
The war will be to my best little liftenant Wigan.
I expect he and his gang will be with us
before I have time to finish my breakfast. In future
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they can afford to you, Wiggins, and you to me.
I cannot head the house invaded in this way either.
It's just as well that you should all hear the instructions.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I want to find the whereabouts of a steam launch
called the Aurora Black with two red streaks. Follow Black
with a white band, owner Mordecai Smith.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
She's down river somewhere, Is that clear? Yes, Governor? The
old scale of pay, And again into the boy who
finds the version. Oh, here's a day in advanced nasir
thank you, governor. Come on, you got all.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Horrible revel al right, if the launches above water Vale
find her in the meanwhile.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
We can do nothing. You're going to be at homes. No,
I'm not tired. I never remember feeling tired by work.
The idleness exhausts me completely. Now I'm going to think over.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
This queer business to which our fair clients has introduced us.
Wooden legged men are not so common, but I should
think the other man must be absolutely unique. The other
men again, diminutive footmarks, toes never fettered by boots, naked feet,
great agility, small poisoned darts.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And what you make of all this?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
We have?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
These were of those Indians who associate who is jos
and small harder that some Indians are small men, but
none could have less us master as that.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Now, let's consult the gazetteer.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
A then what every year? And turning revos to furs
and these now and of An Islands.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Situated through one hundred and forty miles to the north
of Sumata and the Bay of Being Gore, the moist climate,
coralie shots convict there are the Aborigines of the end
of An Islands.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
May perhaps claimed the distinction of being the smallest race
upon this earth.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
The average height is rather below four feet. There are fierce,
morose and intractable people. They are capable of forming the
most diverted friendships. Now, then listen to this. Their feet
and hands are remarkably small. They've always been a terror
to shipwrecked cruise, braining the survivors with their stern headed
clubs or shooting them with their poisoned data. Allow, Watson,
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you will have done. Why not lie down there on
the seat and see if I can put you to sleep?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Eh? How I know by the being I could do
with a few weeks. Oh, oh, oh, my dear, what
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you've said? Suddenly I was afraid I talked? Would wake
you talk? Don't I think?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Wiggins has just enough to report. He says, no trace
can be found of the loans. Can I do anything?
I'm perfect depression.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Now we can only wait. If we got ourselves, the
message might come in our absence and let be cause delayed.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
But well, you can do what you will, Watson, But
I must remain on God. Oh then I shall run
over the camel will and call on missus. Cecil Forester.
She uh asked me to yesterday on Missus Cecil Forester.
I see well, of course on Missus Marston too. They
were anxious to hear what's happened.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I understand I wouldn't tell them too much. Then women
are never able to be entirely trusted, not the best
of the trouper sentiment. Holmes third be too late back,
my dear Watson, I expect to hear something definite about
the lights. The Sign of the Four was one of
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the Sharlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. We're
presenting it in three parts, and you've just been listening
to part two. My name is Norman Shelley.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
My friend Carson Hobbs played the part of Sherlock Holmes,
and I was up to Watson. Michael Hardwick wrote the
script for this BBC production from London, and of course
I look forward to the pleasure of your company again
very soon for the third and last part of The
Sign of the Falls and
And he's just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The horrible smile on.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
His face looks in human that almost come down to
fight together. Then again, so was the sign of the
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foe again to be the sign of death. A further mystery,
my friend shallock home. My name is Watson, doctor Watson,
and I was privileged to share the adventures of Sherlock Holme. First,
I will refresh your memory on the case so far,
and then I will tell you what happened next in
(01:10):
our investigation of the sign of the form, tell us
very important concerning the disappearance of her father, Captain Marston,
ten years earlier. Each year since then she had been
(01:34):
receiving through the post a single.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Large pearld and now the anonymous sender who's supposed to
wish to meet her. We accompanied her to the rendezvous
and heard him.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Eccentric fellow said, dear Santo, how his father and Captain
Marston had gained a fabulous pleasure which had disappeared after
both their deaths Now it had been rediscovered by his brother, Barthololter,
whom we were to visit to play in Miss Marston's
rightful shell. Arriving at Batholomew's house, we found him sitting in.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
A chair, a horrible smile on his face, and quite
quite deep. Oh what on earth does it on meals?
To homes? It means murder matter. Ah, just as I expected.
Here Watson stuck.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
In the skin just about his ears, a long dark thorn.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Be careful, he's poising poisoned.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh what a fantastic mystery rooms on the country, my
dear Watson. I only require a few missing links.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And I shall have an entirely connected Oh. Oh, the shoulder,
what is it? The pleasure? It's gone? Are you sure? Oh?
I'm having a hole in the cey. We lowered it
through I helped you to do it. I left to
be here last night and I heard him lock the door.
The prison was not in this room with him. What
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how did you leave? It was ten o'clock. Oh, dear me.
Now the police will suspect me of having a hand.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
If you take my advice, mister Charter, drive down to
the police station and report the message the police Charter
to assist them in every way.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We shall wait here until you return. Please do as
I say. It will be for the best both.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Suppose you know best? Do now what we have a
little while to ourselves.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Let it make good use of it.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
In the first place, I just consider how these folks
came and how they went Charter written, the door hasn't
been opened since last night. Then how about the window?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's fastened on the inside, solid framework.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I just nick hmm, no water part there, roof quite
out of reach. A man mounted by the window.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
How do you know? Here it's the principal foot of
the mold upon the sill. And here it's a circular
muddy mark.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
See here again on the floor, and here again by
the tables on the footmarks. Is something much more valuable
to us? These are the impressions of a wooden stump,
a wooden leg man that there's been someone else here?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Could you scale that for yourself? Let's see who?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Certainly not a good sixty feet from the ground and
lo a foothole all away. But supposing you had a
friend up here who lowered you that goods type rope
which I see in.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The corner, then if you were an active man, you
might swarm up wooden leg and all of course you
depart in the same passion, and your ally would draw.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Up the rope, shut the window, secure it from the inside.
And depart in the way that he originally came here.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
How did this accompliss How did he get in? The doors? Locked?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Windows inaccessible? Did you come down the chimneys the great muster?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Small? Well? Then, how my dear Watson? How often have
I said to.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You that, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth. He didn't come through
the door, the window, or the chimney. He couldn't have
been concealed in the room. If there is no concealment possible,
then where did he come from?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Through the hole in the roof? Of course he did. Now,
if you will have the kindness to hold the lamp
for me, which can I stand out of the searches
to the secret room above where the pleasure was found?
Can you can you manage to get up? I? Thank you?
I can just get up on this roster? God, now
(05:50):
I'm coming up too. U there? Who you see? Oh
there's a flat wall leading out under the roof. I
fancy I can press it back. Yes, And the roof
slopes at a gentle angle. Ah, this is how he
(06:12):
got in.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Now, let's see if we can find some other places
of this clan and abdure. It doesn't look as this
place has been into for years. I'll just a been
able dust has its uses to be his foot place
as clear as we could wish, the teeth of the
principal child's naked foot home as a child's dumb this
(06:36):
hollid scene. Come along, Watson. There's nothing more to be
learned here. If my memory hasn't failed.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Me, I should have been able to forestall this. Where
do I put my lens head? Oh? Thank you? M
m hmmm? Where certainly? In luck? What does it now?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Our native footed friend has had the misfortune to tread
in dis pre act.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That has leaped out of the cowboy there in the corner.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You can see the outside of the edge of his
small foot here or then why we've got him?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
That's all I.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Knew a dog that would follow that scent of a
world's end. Hallo, here come the accredited representatives of the law.
Not before they come, Watson. Just put your hand here
on this poor dead fellow's arm, here, and here on
his leg.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yes, what you feel?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Muscles were as hard as a board, Quite so that
in a state of extreme complexion five seeding the usual
rigor mortis coupled with this distortion of the face.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What conclusion would it suggest to your mind? Oh, death
from some powerful vegetable alkaloid, some.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Streaty like substances which produce tenderness. As you saw, I
discovered a pawn which had been driven or shot with
no great force into the scalp. You observed that the
part struck is that which would be turned towards the
hole in the ceiling if the men were erecked in
his chair. Now examine the thorn, you go, fir, looks
(08:10):
there are some gummi sumbstance has dried on it quite sir.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
But is that an English thorn?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No, it certainly is not. And with all these data
you should be.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Able to draw some inferest here of the regular So
the old cilia, he forces me beat on the tree.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Heres a pretty business. The house seems to be as
full as a rabbit one. Oh, mister Jo you must
recollect me, indeed I do. It's mister Shellock Hols, the theorist.
Remember you, I'll never forget the business. Get jewel case. Ah,
but what's all this bad business? Stern facts?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Here? Know who?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But here is lucky? I happen to be out at
normal on another case?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Or do you think the man died of Oh this
is hardly a case for me to theorize them.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
No, no, so we can't night that you hit the
maid on the head.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Sometimes a door locked, I understand, jewels worth half a
million missing. I was the window fastened, but there our
footmarks on the sill where it was fastened. They could
have had nothing to do with the matter. Oh, I see, Ah,
I've got it. These fleshies come upon me at times.
(09:27):
Just ab outside, Sergeant Tester, and you please, mister Shodow.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh very well, I should come bad and I shall
compad is. Doctor. This is my friend, doctor Watson. He's
assisting me. May he you remain?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yes, I suppose now, mister Holmes, Shelter was with his
brother last night. The brother died in a fit, and
Shelter walked over the treasure. How's that upon which the
dead man very considerately got up and locked the door
on the inside. Yes, yes, the floor there you are
(10:02):
not in profestible effect. This splinter of wood, which I
had every reasona believe to be poisoned, was in the
man's scalp where you still see the mark there is
he ah, yes, this card inscribed the sign of the
four was on the table. How does all debt sits
in tea theory? If this splinter's poisonous, then DearS.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Me will of made murderous use of it?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
The card is some focus focus of blind as I
did not I see. The only question is old there
is a question.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The question is how did he get out?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Oh? Of course there's a hole in the roof there see,
facts better than theory is out all.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
There's a track.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Door communicating with the roof, and it's partly open eye
opened it you know.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh, well, no matter. It shows how our gentlemen got away.
Sargeant ask mister Charlton to step this way.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's lease, mister, their DearS showdo yes, it's my jujeday
form you that anything which you say may be used
against you.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I arrest you in the Queen's name as being concerned
in the death of your brother. Oh didn't I tell
you what they would say here in prop.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yourself, mister Salta, I think I can engage to clear
you of this charge.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You can soon promise too much, mister dearest. You may
probably a harder matter than you think. Not only will I.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Clear him, mister Jones, but I'll make you a free
present of the name and description of one of the
two people who were in this.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Room last night. His name, I have every reason to believe.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Is Jonathan Small. He's small and active, with his right
leg off and wearing a wooden stump which.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Is worn away on the inner side. He's been a convict.
As for the other man, are the other man?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
He is.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
A rather curious person.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I hope before very long to be able to introduce
you to the pair of them.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Away with you, Watson, te coming home? Watson, You, mister Scott,
Miss Morston's home. Who's delight?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Then? I want you to go to number three Pinchin Lane,
down near the water's edge at Lambeth. The third house
on the right hand side is a bird suffer's.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Sherman is the name. Knock a sherman up and tell
him with my.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Compliments that I want Toby at once. You'll bring Toby
back in the cab with you. Toby a queer mongrel
with the most amazing power of scent. I'd rather have
Toby's help than that of the whole the technic walk
of Mons.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But I want a dog, mister Sherlock.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Holmes, a friend of mister Sherlock is always welcome and
step in, sir, just keeps hearing of the bag, you says,
(13:47):
be vice.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And now say what was it, mister Sherlock, olss got it?
You wanted a dog of yours? Ah, that will be Toby.
Toby was then Toby lives at number seven on the
lip here. Thank you well, mister Sam, and I am
(14:09):
much origed. Go away. I had a good pillow. Are
you heaven? Then? Watson, leave the dog here and come up. Yes,
I have been a time this better size bird. Oh boy,
(14:34):
I'm prepresenting Brucesney Toby and I understand one another.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh, Sergeant LeAnn, I just kick off my boots and socks.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh Watson, just carry them for me where.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You get well too, I'm going to do a little clanny, yes,
and I must step by handkerchief into this clear set.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, that'll do. Now come up through a hole in
the ceiling with me for a mother. Do you observe
anything noteworthy about these footmarts? They belonged to a child
or small woman.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Apart from the size, what's the chief difference? Well, all
toes were all crammed together. The other prints each toe
you step to separated.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
That is the point. Now, would you kindly step over.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
To that roof window and smell the edge of the woodwork.
I shall stay over here as I had this hankschief
in my head.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yes, uh, yes, this is a strong tar smell.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
That's where he put his foot in. Getting asked if
you can trace him, I should think Toby will had no.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Definitely, thank you. Now while I get out.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Onto the roof, you run downstairs and wait for Toby
in the garden below.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Very well, thank you, Watson. Yes, well, I let him
lose this a wight feel pretty smile yes, and let
care carefully? Oh do be careful? Oh well done, I
(16:28):
f a.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Hu it was.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It was easy to follow his cross across the roof.
No one ah tiles rah, we're loosened to her way.
Oh yes, you need honey. He dropped this and some
sort of a pouch made out of beer. Isn't the
insern ah? Some more of those forms and the Finnish things?
(16:55):
That wasn't it your leg? Stand the stick? Smile? Trudge
that's there says here you are, don't you?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Whoa whoa go don't teby snay heaby, Spanny. We'll go
to show your home to Hankchifu the creers out on
it and watch.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Him goes what come on?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
What he's going to set us a siff face?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Well, I said, I think we can allow ourselves a breather.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
They've heard no over the heavy ramses yesterday they had
twenty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
High, but their central still life on their own homes.
How would you describe a wooden lady may with such confidence?
The simplicity itself. Few officers were in commanded a convict guard.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Learn important secret is to very treasure. A mess is
wrong for them by an English from named Jonathan Small.
You Small, you remember we saw the name of the clark.
This most concerned us. Oh that's right, Yes, Small had
signed it on behalf of himself and his associates a
fine before he's somewhat dramatically called ah, well, aided by
(18:04):
this child, the officers or one of them gets the
treasure and brings it to injured. Now, then why didn't
Jonathan Smaller get the treasure himself?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The answer is obvious. Oh you haven't a pistol with you?
Have you have my stick? I shall leave Jonathan to you,
but if the other turns.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Nasty, I shall shoot him dead. Come along now, Toby
is anxious to be getting on.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Oh he's therefore again, and I'm at the river from here. Yes,
but out of luck they've taken to a boat of stone. No,
these fellows are sharper than I expected.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh, dear, look.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Set a fine child.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Is that here? I do you know my name?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
But the sign boarder you a though, Lordicai Smith. Oh
that a ways he. I wanted to speak to mister Smith.
We've been away since yesterday morning, sir. But if it
was about the boat serin, maybe I could serve as well.
I see from the ball that he has a steam launch.
That's what I like, Great sir, it's in the steam
(19:30):
launch that is gone, that's what puzzles me. I know
thereat Moore coliner that would take it to about Woolington beg.
He might have bought some of the wolfs down river.
We might serve, but the words is away.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Many a time I've heard him go on about the
prices they charged with a few rods bags.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Besides, I don't like that wooden legged man with his
ugly station at glandish talk a wooden legged man roused
him up yesterday night, he did. Oh, then, I I'm unlucky,
missus Smith. I wanted a steam launch, and I've heard
good reports of the You see what is her name,
(20:10):
the Aurora. She's not an old green launch for the
yellow line, very broad on the beam we do. Indeed,
she's as trim a little thing as any on the
river Black the two red stream parties. Yes, yes, well,
I hope you'll soon hear from mister Smith. I'm going
down the river. If I should see anything of the Aurora.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I shall let him know that you're uneasy a black funnel,
you say, no shirt black with a white band, of course.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yes, the sides which were black. Well, good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
M's the main thing with people of that sort, does
never let them think their information can be of the
slightest importance to you.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
If you do the instantly shut up like an oyster. Well,
our course, he is pretty clear now comfort you would
do that, though, I would engage a launch and go
down to the Roman.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Traculi Aurora, my dear fellow. It would be a colossal castle.
She may have sent any wharf on either side of
the stream between here and Grillage.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Police said, worse and worse, and what are we to do? Then?
I want you to take a Princeton and return to
Vitor his owner with my confidence.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Then drive home, have some breakfast and get on our sleep.
It's quite on the cars that we may be afoot tonight. Again,
very well, I will send a war to whom you remember,
the biggest street irregulars, whom I employed in our study
in Scarlett.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Here, oh, those little ragamuffin, just that they might be invaluable.
The war will be to my best little liftenant Wigan.
I expect he and his gang will be with us
before I have time to finish my breakfast. In future
(22:05):
they can afford to you, Wiggins, and you to me.
I cannot head the house invaded in this way either.
It's just as well that you should all hear the instructions.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I want to find the whereabouts of a steam launch
called the Aurora Black with two red streaks. Follow Black
with a white band, owner Mordecai Smith.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
She's down river somewhere, Is that clear? Yes, Governor? The
old scale of pay, And again into the boy who
finds the version. Oh, here's a day in advanced nasir
thank you, governor. Come on, you got all.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Horrible revel al right, if the launches above water Vale
find her in the meanwhile.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
We can do nothing. You're going to be at homes. No,
I'm not tired. I never remember feeling tired by work.
The idleness exhausts me completely. Now I'm going to think over.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
This queer business to which our fair clients has introduced us.
Wooden legged men are not so common, but I should
think the other man must be absolutely unique. The other
men again, diminutive footmarks, toes never fettered by boots, naked feet,
great agility, small poisoned darts.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And what you make of all this?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
We have?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
These were of those Indians who associate who is jos
and small harder that some Indians are small men, but
none could have less us master as that.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Now, let's consult the gazetteer.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
A then what every year? And turning revos to furs
and these now and of An Islands.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Situated through one hundred and forty miles to the north
of Sumata and the Bay of Being Gore, the moist climate,
coralie shots convict there are the Aborigines of the end
of An Islands.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
May perhaps claimed the distinction of being the smallest race
upon this earth.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
The average height is rather below four feet. There are fierce,
morose and intractable people. They are capable of forming the
most diverted friendships. Now, then listen to this. Their feet
and hands are remarkably small. They've always been a terror
to shipwrecked cruise, braining the survivors with their stern headed
clubs or shooting them with their poisoned data. Allow, Watson,
(24:43):
you will have done. Why not lie down there on
the seat and see if I can put you to sleep?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Eh? How I know by the being I could do
with a few weeks. Oh, oh, oh, my dear, what
(25:12):
you've said? Suddenly I was afraid I talked? Would wake
you talk? Don't I think?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Wiggins has just enough to report. He says, no trace
can be found of the loans. Can I do anything?
I'm perfect depression.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Now we can only wait. If we got ourselves, the
message might come in our absence and let be cause delayed.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
But well, you can do what you will, Watson, But
I must remain on God. Oh then I shall run
over the camel will and call on missus. Cecil Forester.
She uh asked me to yesterday on Missus Cecil Forester.
I see well, of course on Missus Marston too. They
were anxious to hear what's happened.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I understand I wouldn't tell them too much. Then women
are never able to be entirely trusted, not the best
of the trouper sentiment. Holmes third be too late back,
my dear Watson, I expect to hear something definite about
the lights. The Sign of the Four was one of
(26:25):
the Sharlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. We're
presenting it in three parts, and you've just been listening
to part two. My name is Norman Shelley.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
My friend Carson Hobbs played the part of Sherlock Holmes,
and I was up to Watson. Michael Hardwick wrote the
script for this BBC production from London, and of course
I look forward to the pleasure of your company again
very soon for the third and last part of The
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