October 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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greatest ever written. Wilkie Collins the Moonstall our Star, mister
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(00:40):
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And now Autolite presents the concluding portion of Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone, starring mister Peter Lawford. Hoping once again to
keep you in suspense.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Tell me, mister Blake, the diamond that belonged to your uncle.
Speaker 8 (02:08):
Yes, Sergeant Cuff, his will stated that I was to
give it to his niece Rachel on her birthday.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And you say this, Moonstonlee, not a curse on it.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
It has been said, Yes, visit's believed he took it
from an idol, an Indian moon guard.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And those Indian gogglers you saw at the Gaye, you
believe they stole it.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
Yes, they were in the garden outside the house when
the diamond was given to Rachel.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But I've shown you our prison records, mister Blake. Indians
couldn't have stolen it. They were behind bars or last night?
Who else was at the party?
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Let's see Rachel, her mother, Lady Juli, Arrinda, our cousin,
god Fabel, White, doctor Candid, their family, physician.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Than the servants.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
What of them? Betridge? And a new housemaid? And I
I believe is Rosanna?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
All right, mister Blake, we'll look into it. Ah, there
they are.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
As soon as we entered the house. Sergeant cup went
into Rachel's sitting room, hardly bowling with the cabinet from
where the moonstone had been stolen. His eyes seemed to
be much more taken with the door Rachel had painted
and decorated with Cupid the afternoon of her birthday.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Hmmm, quite good work. There's a Smudgjohn, one of the cupids.
Pity anyone know how it happened, mister Pettidge, one.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Of the maid's petticoats with all the commotion this morning?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Pity? Thanks dry Huh does anyone know which petticoat did it?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
I don't think any of them. Sergeant.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
That part of the door was the last to be painted.
Couldn't have happened this morning?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You're quite sure, mister Blake.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
I watched her finish it about four yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I would have dried in about ten hours, about two
in the morning. Then you may have put something valuable
in our ends, mister Blake. The smeared petticoat or whatever
will bring us to the truth.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
You think it was worn by the thief.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I think it was worn by someone. There's no evidence
of fevery as yet, only that the diamond is missing.
Mister Betteridge, would you tell Lady Veranda I like ten
minutes of her time, please.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Preposterous, sergeant, All my servants have been with me for years.
If I allow you to search their clothes, it means
I suspect them. They're as honest as you are.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I'm here, they are, your Ladyship. It's only a question
of their help, the women, especially now, if they knew
I was going to inspect the wardrobe of everyone from
your ladyship downwards.
Speaker 10 (04:48):
Certain this is necessary.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Before we can make another step. I've also asked mister
Betteridge to get me the washing book to account for
all the linen in case the article was sent to
the wash and destroyed, and to ask your daughter for
her wardrobe keys.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Where will you start with mister.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Blake here if you're content, of course.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Don't forget me, Sergeant. I'm in the next room.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Then we'll do you next, mister abel White.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
And when you finished, may I leave for London.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh it's a mere formality. You'll all be free to go.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Here's the washbook, sergeant.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Thank you, mister Bettery, and miss Verinder's keys.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
My young lady refuses to have her.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wardrobe examine, aha Betridge.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Was it explained to her? Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
She started to cry and said I won't because I won't.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You may return the washbook, mister Betterid, mister abel White,
you may leave at any time, Thank you, Sergeant. That
will be all, mister Bettrid.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Then you aren't going to serve all or none? So
why should Rachel? I don't understand her.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Pardon my being personal, mister Blake. Would it be wrong
to say you're in love with miss Verinda?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
No, it wouldn't be wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Love blinds do a great extent.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Look here you implying at August moment?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Are there? Won't you come in?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Rosanna? Excuse me?
Speaker 11 (06:08):
I was looking for mister Beckridge.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I was told he was here.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He just left my girl. Excuse me, Rosea Rosanna Spierum,
and that's it.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
You know her.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I've seen her once before, mister Blake, about five years ago,
in prison.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Perfect in prison. Well there's the answer.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well it's not the old answer, mister Blake. Will you
promise to hold you a temper if I see sense
in what you say? All right? Tell me why does
miss Verinder refuse to cooperate? Grab a ward go back down?
Because she because exactly because she knows more about the
diamond than she's willing to tell. Couple that with Rosanna Spearman,
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who was a thief. He knows how to raise money
and pledge you're valuable without questions.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Now that is preposterous. Why should Rachel need money for
a reason.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
She doesn't want to discuss something that would force her
to go to great length scandal if.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Your pardon the words, this is a detective's mind. Isn't
it suppose.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Miss Verinder were to suddenly decide to leave this house
refuse point blank to help as I think she will.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I'm sorry, sergeant, you don't know her.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
At a dirty little world, mister Blake, and I've had
a deal of experience. I'll be the first to admit it.
If I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
The night came on in a heavy, muffled mood of
suspicion settled over the house.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Rachel stayed locked in her rooms and would speak to
no one.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
The sergeant was wrong about her, he had to be.
But I couldn't push the torture of his logic from
my mind.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I was afraid, deeply afraid of the coming day.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
The first news that terrible morning was that Rachel was
going to leave the house. The Colonel's vengeance was working
in ways he never dreamed.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's Vlinder. I'd like to say once more, you're leaving
is a great obstacle to the recovery of you a diamond.
Now knowing that you're still intend to believe I.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Do, Rachel. Please, Rachel, you can't. I have nothing to
say to you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Motive lay drive on.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
I stood there helplessly watching her girl. There was nothing
left but the truth of Sergeant Cuff's words, a scandal,
some terrible secrets she dare not tell.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I had to find out if I was going to.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Help Rosanna, if she had helped Rachel plot the theft,
she would also know her secret. I went to the
servants' hall, only to find Betridge and Sergeant Cup ahead
of me.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
One of the godless city. We saw her running toward
the beach walk.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Then there's a hiding place down there, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Hiding place. It's almost all quicksand.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The duell have to be kept somewhere, possibly the stained
article of clothing too. Miss Verinder's accomplice recovers the diamond
to take to her later. N we'd better hurry, will
you join me, mister Blake?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
We raced down the walk to the beach.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Rosanna was nowhere in sight, only a footprints they let
us find into the very edge of the quicksand look
as we might, there were no footprints. Returning at almost
the same moment, the terrible meaning dawned on us.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Both did she know there was Quicksand.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Yes, Sergeant she knew first time I saw was here.
She walked into that mock deliberately.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Ah, Rosanna wasn't the kind to scare mister Blake. We
must have had her own good reason.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Back at the house, the news of Rosanna's death deepened
the unhappy pause. That afternoon, Sergeant Kov was dismissed from
any further investigation, and Lady Julia left for London to
join Rachel. Later, I left the house myself, feeling terribly
depressed and useless. I would have given my life to
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help Rachel, there was no avenue left open. I took
ship for the continent the next morning, hoping that time
and distance would let me forget.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Almost a year was to pass before I returned.
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Speaker 6 (12:55):
I returned to London in June eighteen forty nine.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
I was in fom on of all that had happened
in the year that I'd been away by the family.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Lawyer, mister Brave.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Rachel's mother had died some months ago, and Rachel had
been engaged to marry Godfrey Abelwhite.
Speaker 12 (13:11):
He broke off, of course, right after Lady Brinda died.
Seems he was only interested in Rachel's money.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Where is Rachel, mister Broth.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
Here in London, living the guardian appointed by her mother.
As she ever spoken of me, not once.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
To my college.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
As for the Moonstone, we've all respected her silence on there.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Why does she resent me, mister bra I think it
was your attempt to help in an affair she once
kept secret.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Whatever her reason, I just can't believe that Rachel stole
her own diamond.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I'm going to find out who did.
Speaker 12 (13:48):
I won't presume to stop you, but how will you
go about it?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I'll start where it all took place, the house in Yorkshire.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Why the Lord Harry, Mister Franklin. It's good to see you.
It hasn't been very happy here since you.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
I know, Bettridge. That's why I'm back.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The Moonstone, Sir? Don't you think you should leave a
sleeping dog lacer? Suppose you find miss Rachel.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Had it won't make me stop loving her.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
That's all I wanted to know, Sir, so I don't
see how my helping you can be wrong.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Do you remember that.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Poor girl of ours, Rosanna Spearman?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
How could I forget?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
You left a coat here, Sarah, and I found a
letter in one of the pockets, rest to you from
Rosanna here it is, sir, Please follow the enclosed instructions.
Do it when you're not observed. Go to the shivering
sand at the turn of the time.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
There's a rock ledge covered with seaweed, and attached to
the rock is a chain which drops into the quicksand
pull up the chain.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
There's the ugly priest tides almost out. There's only one
rock ledge.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
You go ahead, sir. The note said do it alone.
That's her grave too. I'd like to humor her.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I went under the rock ledge.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
The last surge of the sea fell away, and I
walked out, gingerly on the edge of the quicksand getting
down on all floors, I fell under the glistening seaweed.
After a moment my hand touched the rusty lynks of
a chain came up easily. Attached to the end was
a rusted metal box. I forced it open. It was
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filled with a white cloth, on top of which was
another letter.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Bearing my name. I carried it all to the dry
beach and unroll the cloth. It was a night shirt.
On its sleeve was a smear of pain from Rachel's sitting.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Room, and I recall the words of Sergeant Cuff.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Find the smeared article of clothing, and you will know
who took the diamonds. I looked to see if it.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Was marked with the owner's name. Finding the mark, I
read rankedon blake, my own name. I looked again, my
own name, plainly marked with my own name. The next
thing I remember was being back in Bettridge's room with
a drink of.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Whiskey in my hand.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
One thing for sure, that nightgown's a liar, a pure liar.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
It's my nightgown, Betridge. I couldn't have taken the diamond,
but it's my nightgown, and.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
It's owl play. That's how I read it.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What about Rosanna's letter, sir?
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Yes, sir, I have a confession, A confession of my
own misery in three words, I love you mean?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
What does she mean? That's what the.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Servant believes her. They used to see her mooning at you,
puttering around your room every chance she could.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Yes, I remember that. It never ended my mind. What
more does she say?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I will be dead and gone the morning.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
The moonstone was stolen, I went to do my work
in your room. Your nightgown lay across your bed, and
I saw the stain of paint. I hate miss Rachel,
because you love her. It was hard to believe you
had stolen her diamond. I had once been a thief,
in being in prison for it. The nightgown is my
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only bond with you. I could have helped you, but
I dared not speak outright, fear in your anger that
I knew your secret.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Miss Rachel has left.
Speaker 11 (17:52):
You will soon be leaving too. I know there is
no chance your ever returning my love, but I will
keep your secret. I go now to the shivering sands
which have always drawn me. Remember me kindly, for.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
I was at a complete lass. My search for the
thief had led directed to myself. So now Rachel's attitude
was no longer a mystery. She had left because she
believed I had stolen the diamond. I went back to
London and tell mister Braff everything.
Speaker 12 (18:34):
I suggest you do something for me, mister Blake, And
what's that, sir? I received a letter this morning from
doctor Kennedy. He was at the birthday party the night
the diamond was stolen. If you remember, diving home from
the party that night, he nearly caught his death in
the rain.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
He's been ill ever since. His letter suggests he.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Has something of great importance to discuss with you. Will
you please go see him? Good of you to come
out of your way to see me, mister Blake.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Thank you, doctor, you're looking well. I like to apologize
to you, mister Blake. Apologizer.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
The night of Miss Finda's party, you and I sat
next to each other. There was some joking about the
diamond you recall.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Not distinctly as just something unpleasant. Lie.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I told you I suspected you hadn't been sleeping well
and to let me give you a course in medicine.
I don't think I had been sleeping well. I decided
to prove my medicine to you. If I could give
you a good night's sleep without you knowing it what
I was going to come back the next day and
ask you how you slept. You would have said fine
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and without Madsen, And I was going to say, ah,
But you did have madsene there.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Doctor Candy. Did you give me something that night?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
It was a dose of lautinum, a part of the
opium family, in your night cap. I hope you'll accept
my apology, mister Bay.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But if I.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Tucked the diamond, what did I do with it? I
feel I owe you all the help I can give.
Are you willing to try an experiment?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I do anything. Doctor.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
There's a chance that, under the right conditions of taking
a similar dose of laudanum, you might repeat exactly what
you did the night of the birthday. You might very
well have hidden the diamond somewhere in the house with
witnesses to what it would prove your innocence. Yes, but
it would have to be done at the Veranda House. Well,
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I'll write to miss Rachel with your permission, telling her everything.
I'm sure she wants your innocence proved as much as
you yourself.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Very nervous time for me waiting for Rachel's answer with
great relief, her letter came, saying she accepted doctor Candy's explanation,
the house was at her disposal, and she wish us
all success for the experiment. I wrote mister Braff, asking
him to be one of the witnesses, and Doctor Candy
and I left for the Verinda House.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Ready, mister Blake, of course, doctor get on. Want my opinion.
The whole thing is humble, all right, mister Bruff. We
have your opinion. Hmmm.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Forty minims laudanum in week Brandy and Suda.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Here your witnessing, mister Broff, I'm witnessing. Eh yeah, drink it,
mister Bleak. Waste of time. Oh, mister Blake, you may
retire to your bid. How long before did he's supposed
to work? Not before midnight? Look, Boston, Indian devils in
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the house, Jill Rachel.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
He's getting up.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
In that chapel, Lockey. I'll take it.
Speaker 13 (22:35):
He's going out of the take off your boots. Come on,
we'll right to the cabinet.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Amazing. There's a piece of crystal to simulate the diamond
in the drawer he's found. It doesn't look like he
knows what to do. He dropped it going over to
that so far now he couldn't have done that before.
M This citative effect is coming on. He slumped on
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the couch. It's all over. You can sleep there.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
When I awoke the next morning, they told me what
I had done. I approved only the doctor Kennedy's joke.
That caused was caused by my unconscious behavior.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
But now, and what.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Had happened afterwards was still a mystery. We had come
to another blank war. It was a month later an
item in the newspaper caught my eye. Some East Indian
jugglers had been in a fight in a tavern in
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one of the lowest parts of London. One of them
had been stabbed, the others had escaped. Almost at the
same moment, I received an urgent message from mister Bruff
to meet him at the Wheel of Fortune, the tavern
mentioned in the news despatch.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Up these stairs, mister Blake, quickly, what is it, mister Brown?
In this room here, good lord, oh Nurse Dunford.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
Though figure.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
On the bed lay a man dressed in sailor clothes.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
On the floor next to him was a small wooden box,
open and empty, the box that had held the moonstone.
I looked down at the man's face. There was a
brown mark beneath on the bed sheet. I saw that
his dark skin was only stained.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
I looked hard. Beneath the stain, and the heavy growth
of beard was the face of Godfrey Abelwhite.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Hullo Garden. Godfrey surprised. Captain Godfrey, you took the diamond,
good joke. Saw you come out of Rachel's sitting room.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
You dropped it. I picked it up, the book, and
you kept it. I like money.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
For better reason, those Indians have been after me free
year or I could fool them, didn't did I? Monstone
fascinating jewel, exquisite almost worth You're alive.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
It was some months later that a small news item
appeared on an inner page of the Times.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
It stated that the worshippers.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Of an ancient four handed moon god were rejoicing over
the return of a fabulous yellow diamond to a recess
in their idol's forha. It was a small item. I
doubt if many people read it.
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Next week, it will be our pleasure to present the
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Speaker 1 (02:04):
Tell me, mister Blake, the diamond that belonged to your uncle.
Speaker 8 (02:08):
Yes, Sergeant Cuff, his will stated that I was to
give it to his niece Rachel on her birthday.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And you say this, Moonstonlee, not a curse on it.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
It has been said, Yes, visit's believed he took it
from an idol, an Indian moon guard.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And those Indian gogglers you saw at the Gaye, you
believe they stole it.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
Yes, they were in the garden outside the house when
the diamond was given to Rachel.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But I've shown you our prison records, mister Blake. Indians
couldn't have stolen it. They were behind bars or last night?
Who else was at the party?
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Let's see Rachel, her mother, Lady Juli, Arrinda, our cousin,
god Fabel, White, doctor Candid, their family, physician.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Than the servants.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
What of them? Betridge? And a new housemaid? And I
I believe is Rosanna?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
All right, mister Blake, we'll look into it. Ah, there
they are.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
As soon as we entered the house. Sergeant cup went
into Rachel's sitting room, hardly bowling with the cabinet from
where the moonstone had been stolen. His eyes seemed to
be much more taken with the door Rachel had painted
and decorated with Cupid the afternoon of her birthday.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Hmmm, quite good work. There's a Smudgjohn, one of the cupids.
Pity anyone know how it happened, mister Pettidge, one.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Of the maid's petticoats with all the commotion this morning?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Pity? Thanks dry Huh does anyone know which petticoat did it?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
I don't think any of them. Sergeant.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
That part of the door was the last to be painted.
Couldn't have happened this morning?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You're quite sure, mister Blake.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
I watched her finish it about four yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I would have dried in about ten hours, about two
in the morning. Then you may have put something valuable
in our ends, mister Blake. The smeared petticoat or whatever
will bring us to the truth.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
You think it was worn by the thief.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I think it was worn by someone. There's no evidence
of fevery as yet, only that the diamond is missing.
Mister Betteridge, would you tell Lady Veranda I like ten
minutes of her time, please.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Preposterous, sergeant, All my servants have been with me for years.
If I allow you to search their clothes, it means
I suspect them. They're as honest as you are.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I'm here, they are, your Ladyship. It's only a question
of their help, the women, especially now, if they knew
I was going to inspect the wardrobe of everyone from
your ladyship downwards.
Speaker 10 (04:48):
Certain this is necessary.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Before we can make another step. I've also asked mister
Betteridge to get me the washing book to account for
all the linen in case the article was sent to
the wash and destroyed, and to ask your daughter for
her wardrobe keys.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Where will you start with mister.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Blake here if you're content, of course.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Don't forget me, Sergeant. I'm in the next room.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Then we'll do you next, mister abel White.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
And when you finished, may I leave for London.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh it's a mere formality. You'll all be free to go.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Here's the washbook, sergeant.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Thank you, mister Bettery, and miss Verinder's keys.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
My young lady refuses to have her.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wardrobe examine, aha Betridge.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Was it explained to her? Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
She started to cry and said I won't because I won't.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You may return the washbook, mister Betterid, mister abel White,
you may leave at any time, Thank you, Sergeant. That
will be all, mister Bettrid.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Then you aren't going to serve all or none? So
why should Rachel? I don't understand her.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Pardon my being personal, mister Blake. Would it be wrong
to say you're in love with miss Verinda?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
No, it wouldn't be wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Love blinds do a great extent.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Look here you implying at August moment?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Are there? Won't you come in?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Rosanna? Excuse me?
Speaker 11 (06:08):
I was looking for mister Beckridge.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I was told he was here.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He just left my girl. Excuse me, Rosea Rosanna Spierum,
and that's it.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
You know her.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I've seen her once before, mister Blake, about five years ago,
in prison.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Perfect in prison. Well there's the answer.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well it's not the old answer, mister Blake. Will you
promise to hold you a temper if I see sense
in what you say? All right? Tell me why does
miss Verinder refuse to cooperate? Grab a ward go back down?
Because she because exactly because she knows more about the
diamond than she's willing to tell. Couple that with Rosanna Spearman,
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who was a thief. He knows how to raise money
and pledge you're valuable without questions.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Now that is preposterous. Why should Rachel need money for
a reason.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
She doesn't want to discuss something that would force her
to go to great length scandal if.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Your pardon the words, this is a detective's mind. Isn't
it suppose.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Miss Verinder were to suddenly decide to leave this house
refuse point blank to help as I think she will.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
I'm sorry, sergeant, you don't know her.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
At a dirty little world, mister Blake, and I've had
a deal of experience. I'll be the first to admit it.
If I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
The night came on in a heavy, muffled mood of
suspicion settled over the house.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Rachel stayed locked in her rooms and would speak to
no one.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
The sergeant was wrong about her, he had to be.
But I couldn't push the torture of his logic from
my mind.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
I was afraid, deeply afraid of the coming day.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
The first news that terrible morning was that Rachel was
going to leave the house. The Colonel's vengeance was working
in ways he never dreamed.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's Vlinder. I'd like to say once more, you're leaving
is a great obstacle to the recovery of you a diamond.
Now knowing that you're still intend to believe I.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Do, Rachel. Please, Rachel, you can't. I have nothing to
say to you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Motive lay drive on.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
I stood there helplessly watching her girl. There was nothing
left but the truth of Sergeant Cuff's words, a scandal,
some terrible secrets she dare not tell.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I had to find out if I was going to.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Help Rosanna, if she had helped Rachel plot the theft,
she would also know her secret. I went to the
servants' hall, only to find Betridge and Sergeant Cup ahead
of me.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
One of the godless city. We saw her running toward
the beach walk.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Then there's a hiding place down there, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Hiding place. It's almost all quicksand.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The duell have to be kept somewhere, possibly the stained
article of clothing too. Miss Verinder's accomplice recovers the diamond
to take to her later. N we'd better hurry, will
you join me, mister Blake?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
We raced down the walk to the beach.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Rosanna was nowhere in sight, only a footprints they let
us find into the very edge of the quicksand look
as we might, there were no footprints. Returning at almost
the same moment, the terrible meaning dawned on us.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Both did she know there was Quicksand.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Yes, Sergeant she knew first time I saw was here.
She walked into that mock deliberately.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Ah, Rosanna wasn't the kind to scare mister Blake. We
must have had her own good reason.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Back at the house, the news of Rosanna's death deepened
the unhappy pause. That afternoon, Sergeant Kov was dismissed from
any further investigation, and Lady Julia left for London to
join Rachel. Later, I left the house myself, feeling terribly
depressed and useless. I would have given my life to
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help Rachel, there was no avenue left open. I took
ship for the continent the next morning, hoping that time
and distance would let me forget.
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Almost a year was to pass before I returned.
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Speaker 6 (12:55):
I returned to London in June eighteen forty nine.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
I was in fom on of all that had happened
in the year that I'd been away by the family.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Lawyer, mister Brave.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
Rachel's mother had died some months ago, and Rachel had
been engaged to marry Godfrey Abelwhite.
Speaker 12 (13:11):
He broke off, of course, right after Lady Brinda died.
Seems he was only interested in Rachel's money.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Where is Rachel, mister Broth.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
Here in London, living the guardian appointed by her mother.
As she ever spoken of me, not once.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
To my college.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
As for the Moonstone, we've all respected her silence on there.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Why does she resent me, mister bra I think it
was your attempt to help in an affair she once
kept secret.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Whatever her reason, I just can't believe that Rachel stole
her own diamond.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I'm going to find out who did.
Speaker 12 (13:48):
I won't presume to stop you, but how will you
go about it?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I'll start where it all took place, the house in Yorkshire.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Why the Lord Harry, Mister Franklin. It's good to see you.
It hasn't been very happy here since you.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
I know, Bettridge. That's why I'm back.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The Moonstone, Sir? Don't you think you should leave a
sleeping dog lacer? Suppose you find miss Rachel.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Had it won't make me stop loving her.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
That's all I wanted to know, Sir, so I don't
see how my helping you can be wrong.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Do you remember that.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Poor girl of ours, Rosanna Spearman?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
How could I forget?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
You left a coat here, Sarah, and I found a
letter in one of the pockets, rest to you from
Rosanna here it is, sir, Please follow the enclosed instructions.
Do it when you're not observed. Go to the shivering
sand at the turn of the time.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
There's a rock ledge covered with seaweed, and attached to
the rock is a chain which drops into the quicksand
pull up the chain.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
There's the ugly priest tides almost out. There's only one
rock ledge.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
You go ahead, sir. The note said do it alone.
That's her grave too. I'd like to humor her.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I went under the rock ledge.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
The last surge of the sea fell away, and I
walked out, gingerly on the edge of the quicksand getting
down on all floors, I fell under the glistening seaweed.
After a moment my hand touched the rusty lynks of
a chain came up easily. Attached to the end was
a rusted metal box. I forced it open. It was
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filled with a white cloth, on top of which was
another letter.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Bearing my name. I carried it all to the dry
beach and unroll the cloth. It was a night shirt.
On its sleeve was a smear of pain from Rachel's sitting.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
Room, and I recall the words of Sergeant Cuff.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Find the smeared article of clothing, and you will know
who took the diamonds. I looked to see if it.
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Was marked with the owner's name. Finding the mark, I
read rankedon blake, my own name. I looked again, my
own name, plainly marked with my own name. The next
thing I remember was being back in Bettridge's room with
a drink of.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Whiskey in my hand.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
One thing for sure, that nightgown's a liar, a pure liar.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
It's my nightgown, Betridge. I couldn't have taken the diamond,
but it's my nightgown, and.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
It's owl play. That's how I read it.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What about Rosanna's letter, sir?
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Yes, sir, I have a confession, A confession of my
own misery in three words, I love you mean?
Speaker 6 (17:02):
What does she mean? That's what the.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Servant believes her. They used to see her mooning at you,
puttering around your room every chance she could.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Yes, I remember that. It never ended my mind. What
more does she say?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I will be dead and gone the morning.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
The moonstone was stolen, I went to do my work
in your room. Your nightgown lay across your bed, and
I saw the stain of paint. I hate miss Rachel,
because you love her. It was hard to believe you
had stolen her diamond. I had once been a thief,
in being in prison for it. The nightgown is my
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only bond with you. I could have helped you, but
I dared not speak outright, fear in your anger that
I knew your secret.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Miss Rachel has left.
Speaker 11 (17:52):
You will soon be leaving too. I know there is
no chance your ever returning my love, but I will
keep your secret. I go now to the shivering sands
which have always drawn me. Remember me kindly, for.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
I was at a complete lass. My search for the
thief had led directed to myself. So now Rachel's attitude
was no longer a mystery. She had left because she
believed I had stolen the diamond. I went back to
London and tell mister Braff everything.
Speaker 12 (18:34):
I suggest you do something for me, mister Blake, And
what's that, sir? I received a letter this morning from
doctor Kennedy. He was at the birthday party the night
the diamond was stolen. If you remember, diving home from
the party that night, he nearly caught his death in
the rain.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
He's been ill ever since. His letter suggests he.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Has something of great importance to discuss with you. Will
you please go see him? Good of you to come
out of your way to see me, mister Blake.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Thank you, doctor, you're looking well. I like to apologize
to you, mister Blake. Apologizer.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
The night of Miss Finda's party, you and I sat
next to each other. There was some joking about the
diamond you recall.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Not distinctly as just something unpleasant. Lie.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I told you I suspected you hadn't been sleeping well
and to let me give you a course in medicine.
I don't think I had been sleeping well. I decided
to prove my medicine to you. If I could give
you a good night's sleep without you knowing it what
I was going to come back the next day and
ask you how you slept. You would have said fine
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and without Madsen, And I was going to say, ah,
But you did have madsene there.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Doctor Candy. Did you give me something that night?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
It was a dose of lautinum, a part of the
opium family, in your night cap. I hope you'll accept
my apology, mister Bay.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
But if I.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Tucked the diamond, what did I do with it? I
feel I owe you all the help I can give.
Are you willing to try an experiment?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I do anything. Doctor.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
There's a chance that, under the right conditions of taking
a similar dose of laudanum, you might repeat exactly what
you did the night of the birthday. You might very
well have hidden the diamond somewhere in the house with
witnesses to what it would prove your innocence. Yes, but
it would have to be done at the Veranda House. Well,
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I'll write to miss Rachel with your permission, telling her everything.
I'm sure she wants your innocence proved as much as
you yourself.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Very nervous time for me waiting for Rachel's answer with
great relief, her letter came, saying she accepted doctor Candy's explanation,
the house was at her disposal, and she wish us
all success for the experiment. I wrote mister Braff, asking
him to be one of the witnesses, and Doctor Candy
and I left for the Verinda House.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Ready, mister Blake, of course, doctor get on. Want my opinion.
The whole thing is humble, all right, mister Bruff. We
have your opinion. Hmmm.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Forty minims laudanum in week Brandy and Suda.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Here your witnessing, mister Broff, I'm witnessing. Eh yeah, drink it,
mister Bleak. Waste of time. Oh, mister Blake, you may
retire to your bid. How long before did he's supposed
to work? Not before midnight? Look, Boston, Indian devils in
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the house, Jill Rachel.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
He's getting up.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
In that chapel, Lockey. I'll take it.
Speaker 13 (22:35):
He's going out of the take off your boots. Come on,
we'll right to the cabinet.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Amazing. There's a piece of crystal to simulate the diamond
in the drawer he's found. It doesn't look like he
knows what to do. He dropped it going over to
that so far now he couldn't have done that before.
M This citative effect is coming on. He slumped on
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the couch. It's all over. You can sleep there.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
When I awoke the next morning, they told me what
I had done. I approved only the doctor Kennedy's joke.
That caused was caused by my unconscious behavior.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
But now, and what.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Had happened afterwards was still a mystery. We had come
to another blank war. It was a month later an
item in the newspaper caught my eye. Some East Indian
jugglers had been in a fight in a tavern in
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one of the lowest parts of London. One of them
had been stabbed, the others had escaped. Almost at the
same moment, I received an urgent message from mister Bruff
to meet him at the Wheel of Fortune, the tavern
mentioned in the news despatch.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Up these stairs, mister Blake, quickly, what is it, mister Brown?
In this room here, good lord, oh Nurse Dunford.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
Though figure.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
On the bed lay a man dressed in sailor clothes.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
On the floor next to him was a small wooden box,
open and empty, the box that had held the moonstone.
I looked down at the man's face. There was a
brown mark beneath on the bed sheet. I saw that
his dark skin was only stained.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
I looked hard. Beneath the stain, and the heavy growth
of beard was the face of Godfrey Abelwhite.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Hullo Garden. Godfrey surprised. Captain Godfrey, you took the diamond,
good joke. Saw you come out of Rachel's sitting room.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
You dropped it. I picked it up, the book, and
you kept it. I like money.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
For better reason, those Indians have been after me free
year or I could fool them, didn't did I? Monstone
fascinating jewel, exquisite almost worth You're alive.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
It was some months later that a small news item
appeared on an inner page of the Times.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
It stated that the worshippers.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Of an ancient four handed moon god were rejoicing over
the return of a fabulous yellow diamond to a recess
in their idol's forha. It was a small item. I
doubt if many people read it.
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