June 29, 2025 • 27 mins
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1926 publication of “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” was dramatized by the BBC for radio broadcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
He was hurrying up the beach towards the party. Just
as I caught sight of him, he began to stagger.
His legs just buckled, and he gave a dreadful cry.
We heard it.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He collapsed, as I know.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Beside him. He muttered two or three words, then half
rayed himself from the ground, some sort of convulsion, it appeared,
and then collapsed.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
There's nothing I can do. I'm afraid he's dead.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Stick as you say, he spoke a few words. What
were they Well, they were.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Slurred and indistinct, and yet absurd as it may seem,
I'd swear he said the Lion's Maid.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Old detectives never die. Death willn't even let Holmes retire.
I am doctor Watson, whose privilege it was to share
the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and though they were now
drawing to a close, I must just tell you what
happened in the case of the Lion's Mane.
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Speaker 6 (02:17):
In the late summer of nineteen hundred and two, I
left Number two to one b Baker Street for the
last time, and that Oughtumn married.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
My dear's second wife.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
The following year, Shellock Holmes persuaded our faithful landlady and housekeeper,
Missus Hudson, to dispose of the Baker Street rooms and
set up a new home for him in Sussex, on
that part of the Downs which stretches from Brighton to Eastward.
An occasional brief visit was the most day ever saw him.
It was during one of these, in July nineteen o
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seven that their chance to arise, a problem as abstruse
and unusual as anything I'd recorded at any stage of
Holmes's career.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Splendid, my dear Watson, splendid.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Home.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You chose your place well.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
All these miles of beach and cliffs not are sold
in disturb you peace.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And quiet to pursue my studies and farm my bees
with the anticipation of the next visit from my friend
and former colleague, your colleague, Still, I hope, What more
could I desire? You're not trouble my trippers from full
ward phone, not at all.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And this school what's the man's name?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Is Tackhurst? No? No, the Gables is merely a place
for special coaching at Kramers. No more than a couple
of dozen young fellows preparing for various professions, a handful
of tutors. Why look there I go Stackhurst himself. Good morning, Stackhurst,
morning with a home.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
What i'd see you about on such a day going
for a swim. I see at your old tricks again, Yes,
but person started at it. I expect i'll find him
down there.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
There'll be excellent swimming today. These storms leave lagoons after
the tide turns.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Is Macpherson a member of Stackhurst.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Stuff the Science Master, A fine upstanding young fellow, unfortunately
crippled by half trouble after rheumatic fever. But he excels
in any exercise that doesn't strain him too far. Summer
and winter. He takes his swim and I.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Stackhurst?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Come, Watson, this path?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh? Are you there?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That Stackhurst comming? Stack Hurst? Quickly, Watson, I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
With your helm.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Along here. It's poor Macpherson. My friends are doctor, Thank goodness, No, no, no.
He was hurrying up the beach towards the path. Just
as I caught sight of him. He began to stagger.
His legs just buckled, and he gave a dreadful cry.
As we heard it, he collapsed, as I know for
side him. He muttered two or three words and then
half raised himself from the ground some sort of convulsion,
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it appeared, and then collapsed.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There's nothing I can do. I'm afraid he's he's dead.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Dead.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, I feared as much as you say. He spoke
a few words. What were they Well.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
They were slurred and indistinct, and yet absurd as it
may seem, I'd swear he said, the lion's man homes.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Come here, look at this?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Or what have you found?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Look at his back?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
See the wheels all over it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
This poor devil has been flogged, flogged, But that's absurd,
with all.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Respects, doctor, see your soul side some kind of thin
wise scourge, in my opinion, See where the strokes have
curved around your shoulders and ribbed. This coupled with the
signs of agony in the features, is it?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Ah, Murdoch, there's been a tragedy.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
What who oh, oh Macpherson.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I'm afraid, sir, he's dead.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh, poor fellow.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Poor fella. What can I do?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
How can I help?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Mister Murdoch? You went with McPherson then, No, I.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Was late this morning. I wasn't on the beach at all.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I've just come down from the school.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I saw you all here, and good lord, those marks?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
What what scene did that to him?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Mister Murdoch? If you will be so kind any please
go straight to the police station at Fulbert, report the
matter and tell them I shall remain here, of course,
at once. Now, Watson, I observed that, in your commendable
haste to examine the body, you rearranged the clothing somewhat.
Will you please tell me exactly how.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Mcperston was dressed him Well, pretty strangely, just that overcoat,
his trousers and candle shoes unlaced.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I noticed.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It's a dreadful business. But those marks on him, I
don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
If I'm not mistaken Stackhurst. Wasn't there some trouble in
the past between macpherson and murder.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
There was an incident I considered.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It closed concerning McPherson's dog. I believe well, it irritated.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Murdoch in some way and he hurled it through a window.
He has these ferocious outbursts. They're by no means connected
only with poor McPherson. I prefer to overlook them. He's
a very valuable man.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Quite no bathing costume homes he wasn't wearing one another.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, it's quite secluded here, doctor, no spectators, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yet instead of swimming he threw on his clothes and
shoes in some haste.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You mean to say that someone had come down to
the water's edge.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
And flogged him those signs of a struggle in the sands.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No, but this lagoon is almost in tallly, surrounded by
rock and shingle. Now let me examine his coat pocket.
If there's anything in them. Ah, Yes, the handkerchief, no markings,
large folding knife. And in the card case from which
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from which this slip of paper is projecting, bearing writing
in a scrolling feminine hand reading I will be there.
You may be sure more day. Does this lady's name
convey anything to use Texas? No?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And yet I shouldn't like to.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Say very well. Then I propose that, as soon as
Murdoch returns with the police, we go up to the
school and, with your permission, examine the contents of mcperson's rule.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
By all means, if there has.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Been one letter, there may have been more. Let us
hope that they may provide at least one clue to
this quite singular problem.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
They are all the letters I can find, Holmes, and
quite sufficient to establish the poor Macpherson was carrying on
quite the an intimate relationship with miss Maud Bellamy. Yeah,
I thought it might be so, but it was none
of my business.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Miss more Bellamy, a member of your staff is to
Texas og gracious.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No, No, she's the daughter of old Tom Bellamy, who
owns all the boats and bathing huts are forward.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Oh, she's a beauty Watson. She'd draw attention anywhere. Her
father is quite a man of substance, isn't he dead?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Indeed he used to be a fisherman, but he's come
up a long way.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
See shall you be going to see miss Bellamy?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Holmes Watson is a rare connoisseur beauty stacker. I fancy
it would be a form of cruelty not to do
as he suggests, Now Holmes, Yes, my dear Watson, we
shall go immediately to see the lady.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Here's Bellamy's place, Ah haven not bad is it for
a man who started with nothing? But by Jove.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Murdoch coming out, Murdoch, Miss stackh has not confounded.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
What were you doing in there?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Murdoch?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I beg your pardon. You heard me very well. I
demand to know what you are up to.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I am your subordinate under your roof, sir, I am
not aware that I owe you any account of my
private actions.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
That is pure impertinence.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Mister Murdock, your question might come under that sane heading.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
This is not the first time I've had to suffer
your insubordinate ways. It will certainly be the last. You
will kindly make fresh arrangements for your future as speedily
as you can.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I had intended to do so.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
I have lost today the only person who made the
place habitable. I shall not trouble you further with my presence.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
See Holmes, is he not an impossible intolerable man?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yet his connection room that person and now with the
Bellamy household could prove of vital importance. Stackhors. When we've
done here, you must return at once to your establish
and persuade Murdoch by threat or apology, to remain in
your employment at least until this inquiry is completed.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I'm sorry, Holmes, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Realize never mind, my dear fellow.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh it's you, mister Shurst.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yes, mister Bellamie, I I've come. We've come. Oh, this
is mister Shelock, Holmes and Dr Watson, mister Bellamy, we've come.
I'm afraid with some was there some distressing news concerning
your daughter.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh, I know about that. You're mister Murdocker has just
been here.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He told you, Bellamy. It's quite understandable that mister Murdoch
should have felt moved to break the news to you,
but it was hardly techtful without the full knowledge of
the particulars. Mister tech has has brought us here so
that we may answer any questions, Miss Bellamy, and they
wish to ask you.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Want no questions, no particulars. To my mind, this Macpherson's
attentions to my mode world nothing less of an insult.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Insult, yes, sir, father, Please Miss Bellamy.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Father, how can you stand discussing things like this practically
in the street? Please, gentlemen, will you come inside?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Thank you, Let's take a seat.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I'm sorry, missus Saghurst, but you know my feelings are.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Please, father, gentlemen, I know that Fitzroy Macpherson is dead.
Do not be afraid to tell me the particulars.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
May I ask what mister Murdoch has already told you,
Miss Bellamy, only that he.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Was found on the beach and that it was as
if as if he'd been flogged to death.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'm afraid, Miss Bellamy that there's every appearance of a
crime having been committed as to who might have responsible.
That's one of the reasons why we hastened to you,
mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
If I can help to show who did it, it
is the least I can do.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Miss Bellamy. Might I have a word with you alone?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I tell you, boy, don't get mixed up in this.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Mister Bellamy. The whole world will know the facts present here,
so there can be no harm if I discuss them here.
I should have preferred privacy, but if you will not
allow it, you must share the deliberations. I'm sorry, Miss Bellamy. This, sir,
this note is bound to be produced at the inquest.
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May I ask you to throw any light upon it
that you can? What notes that I wrote it?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Agreeing to meet mister Macpherson?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Why you little?
Speaker 8 (13:45):
I see no reason for mystery now he's dead. We
were engaged to be married. The note you found on
him for me was in answer to this one of
his dearest the old place on the beach, just after
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sunset on Tuesday. It is the only time I can
get away.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
This never came through the post. How did you get it?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
I I would rather not answer that mister Holmes. It
has nothing to do with this your.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Investigation, Miss Bellamy.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
The these people who might have done this thing had
mister McPherson.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
In the enemies, not that I know it, but you yourself,
Miss Bellamy, had you any other particular admiters?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh, now look here.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Sir, I I have had mister Holmes, so I can imagine.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
May I ask if mister Ian Murdock is one of them?
Speaker 8 (14:43):
There there was a time when I thought he was,
but that was all changed when he when he understood
the relations between Fitzroy and me.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I see. Thank you, Miss Bellamy for your frankness. We
have a tangled skein in our hands, but this visit
may have given me a glimpse of one free end
of it. Come Watson, we must proceed without further inquiries,
without delay.
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Speaker 3 (16:11):
It will, but these.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Aren't our Baker sweet days anymore. You kept me here
over a week now away from my practice.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
My wife Idea, Watson, you'd never forgive me where I
to let you go? Now depend on it. In all
your chronicles, your readers will find no case which brought
me so completely to the limit of my power.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Well, my so called readers wouldn't credit us for trying
very hard if they could see us scrawled here in
front of the fire, this delicious aroma of dinner wafting
wall around.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Oh that's the good lady responsible.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I was not about to say, Missus Hudson, if that
dinner tastes one half as good as it smells, you may.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Judge that for yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
In just fifteen minutes time, sir, if I may lay
the table us not like.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Baker Street, there Missus Hudson meals at all ours. Never
forget that time, mister Holmes. Don't we be back for
dinner at seven point thirty.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
The day after tomorrow, during the the Mazarin Stone affair,
wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Hmm? I think it was, sir, Well, I remember that
case very well, quite amusing, I thought, not at all
like this sad matter.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And now this business about mister McPherson's dog.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Do you mean the time that man Murdock throw it
through a window?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh? No, sir, I mean today, missus Hudson. What about
Macpherson's dog?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Why dead, sir, died of grief for its master?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Who told you this? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Everyone's talking of it, sir, Down on the beach, at
the very place where it's master, at his end, at
the day place. Yes, yes, that the dog should have
died of grief is consistent with the beautiful, faithful nature
of dogs. But at the very place. Could it be
possible that something's building in my mind? I must catch
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it before it disintegrates again? Get your coat, Oh, mister Howe,
we're going out now Stackhurst to see this poor animal
for ourselves. If it's fair, then to the beach. But
it will soon be dark at your dinner, Christinham. Before
the one who we've had escapes, I hear we are, Watson.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
What do you hope to find homes? I'm blessed if
I can think, yes, here.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And here, Yes, the marks made by that faithful little
dog searching round the spot where his master had laid
see even down to where he'd been about to take
that last bay. What does it tell you? I don't know, Watson,
I don't know. Do you remember the agony of Macpherston's death?
Remember the agony? We saw a written plain on the
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features of that faithful little creature.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Just now you see a connection.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I see similarities which suggest a connection. What this might be?
Come along? We must forgetting her.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I'm sure missus Hudson won't have let that dinner run.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Dinner, perhaps Watson later, But the first research no use, Watson,
it doesn't here.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
It strikes me as just by every other blessed book
that they would be published years.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I was compelled to discard the portion of my library
and I left Baker Street. I hesitated at the time.
This has brought my folly home to me. All information
is likely to be useful at some time, Well.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It just can't be helped home.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And now I really think I know Stackhurst has a
splendid library if we're in luck, he'll have the very work.
How much home?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Would you realize what time it is?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Huh no, but it's nearly eleventh.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Stackhurst Establishment will be in peace and darkness by now.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Do you realize that poor woman.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Missus Hudson is sitting out there in her kitchen waiting
for the.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Word to serve the remains what promised to be a
splendid dinner.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh hear me, Watson, I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
This is hot, sung, We're going to dine and then
enjoy our night's sleep. Homes Stackhurst Library con perfectly will
wait until the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
If the scent cools, Watson, yours will be the blade.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh very well, I must say, Holmes.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I hope you're somewhere near the right track.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh this book perhaps, thank you? Uh no, Now, if
only the author's name hadn't escaped me, it had a
chocolate colored binding.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I feel sure and did as you requested. I'm persuaded
Murdock to stay on here. I'm getting to wish I hadn't.
I feel sure the police are on the point of
arresting him. You won't do much for this establishment so
far as reputation goes, You know.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
My dear Stacker's not even the local police would arrest
Murdoch on the evidence they have. They have your testimony
that when you discovered Macpherston in agony, that beach was
quite empty. They had the word of Watson and myself
as well as yours, that Murdoch approached us along the
beach from a direction he couldn't possibly have come if
he attacked McPherson only moments before. Besides which where Shirley
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agreed as to the impossibility of his having inflicted the
outrage single handed, even on a man who was party crippled.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Hell good helps me.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Murdoch. Randy, that's.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Very carefully now, I had it gently here from Brandy.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Get that done?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
More an oil?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Oil?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Anything to the pain?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oil?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
What do you mean bringing more brand? Watson the memory
I have been seeing his return to me. Get this
man's jacket off gently.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
All right, another froggy.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I noticed his clothes were all all right, just as McPherson's.
Good Lord, now drink this murder. He meant oil to
soothe his wounds. Now at what's attend to him? I
fancy we shall learn that he suffered this in exactly
the same part of the beach as Macpherson's. And if
this man's heart had been weak as mcphurston's was, he
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wouldn't be heard now the beach.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well, yes, of course I saw him setting off for
a swim a little while ago, precisely.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Now give him plenty of brandy. If my memory serves
me as I think it does at last, it's the
prime remedy. You'll be all right, Capital. We'll pay another
visit to the beach ourselves, where we shall see if
I can't deliver our murderer into your hands, Tactus the murderer,
and we'll take with us, assuming that you possess it
the book which we've been so haphazardly seeking. I've remembered
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its name. It's Out of Doors by J. G Ward.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh, yes, I had that. Excellent.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Let's do what we can do. Is this poor fellow's
pain here we are now, gentlemen. Could anything be more
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deceptively innocent than this crystal lagoon?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
It certainly looks innocuous to me. What are we supposed
to be looking for him?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I can't see anything except except what I too can see. Taxers,
What were on that rocky shelf? Watson? Yeah, can't you
see a somewhat hairy looking creature lying there under the water.
I grip great heaven, sort of sort of tangled, massive
yellow hair, streaks of silver amongst it, like a lion's mane,
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perhaps by jove Homes, I can see it breathing, pulsating,
revolting looking thing, and one which has done mischief enough.
I fancy we're justified in ending its murderous career with
this tone. Nowaday, oh, William does hear and square, so
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our mystery is solved.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
What was the thing? I'm a native of the Sussex coast,
but I never saw such a thing before. It doesn't
belong to these parts, just as well for Sussex.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It may have been the southwest gale that brought it
up the night before Macpherston died. Now where's this book?
I here we are now, the author writes of an
encounter with such a creature while swimming once off the
coast of kent Ah. Yes, the very section. Now listen,
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if the bather should see a loose, roundish mass of
tawny membranes and fibers, something like very large handfuls of limes,
mane and silver paper, let him beware, for this is
the fearful stinger Cyania capillata. I've never heard of it.
Wood goes on to describe height radiates, almost invisible filaments
to a distance of some fifty feet. Even at that distance,
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the effect when they touched him was almost fatal.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
He says.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
The multitudinous threads caused light scarlet lines upon the skin,
charged as it were, with red hot needles making their
way through to the nerve.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And leaving the appearance of a flogging.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Precisely, he says that had he not had immediate access
to brandy by the by he came to a gout
down a whole bottleful, He's certain he would have expired.
So great was the pain and its effect on his heart.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yes, quite ugly remarkable.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I've no doubt that Macpherson saw it floating on the
water after it had stung him. The phrase he used
was the one by which he could convey to us
the cause of his death.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Well, thank heavens it solved and he clears Murdock.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
But what about his jealousy of Macpherson over miss Bellamy
As a lifelong expert upon the psychology of love and
romance spots, wouldn't you think that once Murdock realized that
the woman he desired had come to prefer his best friend,
his only wish was to serve her happiness, no doubt,
as go between and message carrier in their concealed relationship.
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Well perhaps so, Holmes, dear me, Yet I fancy I'm
not far from the truth.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Well we must set Murdock's mind addressed, and miss bellamis.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You know, had the body been found in the water,
I could hardly have missed the truth. I allowed myself
to be misled by a dry towel. The poor fellow
had not paused to dry himself, and I assumed that
he'd never been in the water. That was where I
went sadly astray. No, gentlemen, I have often charted the
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official police in my time for lack of imagination. But
the Lion's maid Cyenia capillata very nearly avenged Scotland yards.
He was hurrying up the beach towards the party. Just
as I caught sight of him, he began to stagger.
His legs just buckled, and he gave a dreadful cry.
We heard it.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He collapsed, as I know.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Beside him. He muttered two or three words, then half
rayed himself from the ground, some sort of convulsion, it appeared,
and then collapsed.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
There's nothing I can do. I'm afraid he's dead.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Stick as you say, he spoke a few words. What
were they Well, they were.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Slurred and indistinct, and yet absurd as it may seem,
I'd swear he said the Lion's Maid.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Old detectives never die. Death willn't even let Holmes retire.
I am doctor Watson, whose privilege it was to share
the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and though they were now
drawing to a close, I must just tell you what
happened in the case of the Lion's Mane.
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Speaker 6 (02:17):
In the late summer of nineteen hundred and two, I
left Number two to one b Baker Street for the
last time, and that Oughtumn married.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
My dear's second wife.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
The following year, Shellock Holmes persuaded our faithful landlady and housekeeper,
Missus Hudson, to dispose of the Baker Street rooms and
set up a new home for him in Sussex, on
that part of the Downs which stretches from Brighton to Eastward.
An occasional brief visit was the most day ever saw him.
It was during one of these, in July nineteen o
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seven that their chance to arise, a problem as abstruse
and unusual as anything I'd recorded at any stage of
Holmes's career.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Splendid, my dear Watson, splendid.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Home.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You chose your place well.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
All these miles of beach and cliffs not are sold
in disturb you peace.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And quiet to pursue my studies and farm my bees
with the anticipation of the next visit from my friend
and former colleague, your colleague, Still, I hope, What more
could I desire? You're not trouble my trippers from full
ward phone, not at all.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And this school what's the man's name?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Is Tackhurst? No? No, the Gables is merely a place
for special coaching at Kramers. No more than a couple
of dozen young fellows preparing for various professions, a handful
of tutors. Why look there I go Stackhurst himself. Good morning, Stackhurst,
morning with a home.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
What i'd see you about on such a day going
for a swim. I see at your old tricks again, Yes,
but person started at it. I expect i'll find him
down there.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
There'll be excellent swimming today. These storms leave lagoons after
the tide turns.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Is Macpherson a member of Stackhurst.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Stuff the Science Master, A fine upstanding young fellow, unfortunately
crippled by half trouble after rheumatic fever. But he excels
in any exercise that doesn't strain him too far. Summer
and winter. He takes his swim and I.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Stackhurst?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Come, Watson, this path?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh? Are you there?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That Stackhurst comming? Stack Hurst? Quickly, Watson, I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
With your helm.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Along here. It's poor Macpherson. My friends are doctor, Thank goodness, No, no, no.
He was hurrying up the beach towards the path. Just
as I caught sight of him. He began to stagger.
His legs just buckled, and he gave a dreadful cry.
As we heard it, he collapsed, as I know for
side him. He muttered two or three words and then
half raised himself from the ground some sort of convulsion,
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it appeared, and then collapsed.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
There's nothing I can do. I'm afraid he's he's dead.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Dead.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, I feared as much as you say. He spoke
a few words. What were they Well.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
They were slurred and indistinct, and yet absurd as it
may seem, I'd swear he said, the lion's man homes.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Come here, look at this?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Or what have you found?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Look at his back?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
See the wheels all over it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
This poor devil has been flogged, flogged, But that's absurd,
with all.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Respects, doctor, see your soul side some kind of thin
wise scourge, in my opinion, See where the strokes have
curved around your shoulders and ribbed. This coupled with the
signs of agony in the features, is it?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Ah, Murdoch, there's been a tragedy.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
What who oh, oh Macpherson.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I'm afraid, sir, he's dead.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh, poor fellow.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Poor fella. What can I do?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
How can I help?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Mister Murdoch? You went with McPherson then, No, I.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Was late this morning. I wasn't on the beach at all.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I've just come down from the school.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I saw you all here, and good lord, those marks?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
What what scene did that to him?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Mister Murdoch? If you will be so kind any please
go straight to the police station at Fulbert, report the
matter and tell them I shall remain here, of course,
at once. Now, Watson, I observed that, in your commendable
haste to examine the body, you rearranged the clothing somewhat.
Will you please tell me exactly how.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Mcperston was dressed him Well, pretty strangely, just that overcoat,
his trousers and candle shoes unlaced.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I noticed.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It's a dreadful business. But those marks on him, I
don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
If I'm not mistaken Stackhurst. Wasn't there some trouble in
the past between macpherson and murder.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
There was an incident I considered.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It closed concerning McPherson's dog. I believe well, it irritated.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Murdoch in some way and he hurled it through a window.
He has these ferocious outbursts. They're by no means connected
only with poor McPherson. I prefer to overlook them. He's
a very valuable man.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Quite no bathing costume homes he wasn't wearing one another.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, it's quite secluded here, doctor, no spectators, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yet instead of swimming he threw on his clothes and
shoes in some haste.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You mean to say that someone had come down to
the water's edge.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
And flogged him those signs of a struggle in the sands.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No, but this lagoon is almost in tallly, surrounded by
rock and shingle. Now let me examine his coat pocket.
If there's anything in them. Ah, Yes, the handkerchief, no markings,
large folding knife. And in the card case from which
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from which this slip of paper is projecting, bearing writing
in a scrolling feminine hand reading I will be there.
You may be sure more day. Does this lady's name
convey anything to use Texas? No?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And yet I shouldn't like to.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Say very well. Then I propose that, as soon as
Murdoch returns with the police, we go up to the
school and, with your permission, examine the contents of mcperson's rule.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
By all means, if there has.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Been one letter, there may have been more. Let us
hope that they may provide at least one clue to
this quite singular problem.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
They are all the letters I can find, Holmes, and
quite sufficient to establish the poor Macpherson was carrying on
quite the an intimate relationship with miss Maud Bellamy. Yeah,
I thought it might be so, but it was none
of my business.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Miss more Bellamy, a member of your staff is to
Texas og gracious.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No, No, she's the daughter of old Tom Bellamy, who
owns all the boats and bathing huts are forward.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Oh, she's a beauty Watson. She'd draw attention anywhere. Her
father is quite a man of substance, isn't he dead?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Indeed he used to be a fisherman, but he's come
up a long way.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
See shall you be going to see miss Bellamy?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Holmes Watson is a rare connoisseur beauty stacker. I fancy
it would be a form of cruelty not to do
as he suggests, Now Holmes, Yes, my dear Watson, we
shall go immediately to see the lady.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Here's Bellamy's place, Ah haven not bad is it for
a man who started with nothing? But by Jove.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Murdoch coming out, Murdoch, Miss stackh has not confounded.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
What were you doing in there?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Murdoch?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I beg your pardon. You heard me very well. I
demand to know what you are up to.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I am your subordinate under your roof, sir, I am
not aware that I owe you any account of my
private actions.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
That is pure impertinence.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Mister Murdock, your question might come under that sane heading.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
This is not the first time I've had to suffer
your insubordinate ways. It will certainly be the last. You
will kindly make fresh arrangements for your future as speedily
as you can.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I had intended to do so.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
I have lost today the only person who made the
place habitable. I shall not trouble you further with my presence.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
See Holmes, is he not an impossible intolerable man?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yet his connection room that person and now with the
Bellamy household could prove of vital importance. Stackhors. When we've
done here, you must return at once to your establish
and persuade Murdoch by threat or apology, to remain in
your employment at least until this inquiry is completed.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I'm sorry, Holmes, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Realize never mind, my dear fellow.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh it's you, mister Shurst.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yes, mister Bellamie, I I've come. We've come. Oh, this
is mister Shelock, Holmes and Dr Watson, mister Bellamy, we've come.
I'm afraid with some was there some distressing news concerning
your daughter.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh, I know about that. You're mister Murdocker has just
been here.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
He told you, Bellamy. It's quite understandable that mister Murdoch
should have felt moved to break the news to you,
but it was hardly techtful without the full knowledge of
the particulars. Mister tech has has brought us here so
that we may answer any questions, Miss Bellamy, and they
wish to ask you.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Want no questions, no particulars. To my mind, this Macpherson's
attentions to my mode world nothing less of an insult.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Insult, yes, sir, father, Please Miss Bellamy.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Father, how can you stand discussing things like this practically
in the street? Please, gentlemen, will you come inside?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Thank you, Let's take a seat.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I'm sorry, missus Saghurst, but you know my feelings are.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Please, father, gentlemen, I know that Fitzroy Macpherson is dead.
Do not be afraid to tell me the particulars.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
May I ask what mister Murdoch has already told you,
Miss Bellamy, only that he.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Was found on the beach and that it was as
if as if he'd been flogged to death.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I'm afraid, Miss Bellamy that there's every appearance of a
crime having been committed as to who might have responsible.
That's one of the reasons why we hastened to you,
mister Holmes.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
If I can help to show who did it, it
is the least I can do.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Miss Bellamy. Might I have a word with you alone?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I tell you, boy, don't get mixed up in this.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Mister Bellamy. The whole world will know the facts present here,
so there can be no harm if I discuss them here.
I should have preferred privacy, but if you will not
allow it, you must share the deliberations. I'm sorry, Miss Bellamy. This, sir,
this note is bound to be produced at the inquest.
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May I ask you to throw any light upon it
that you can? What notes that I wrote it?
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Agreeing to meet mister Macpherson?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Why you little?
Speaker 8 (13:45):
I see no reason for mystery now he's dead. We
were engaged to be married. The note you found on
him for me was in answer to this one of
his dearest the old place on the beach, just after
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sunset on Tuesday. It is the only time I can
get away.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
This never came through the post. How did you get it?
Speaker 8 (14:15):
I I would rather not answer that mister Holmes. It
has nothing to do with this your.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Investigation, Miss Bellamy.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
The these people who might have done this thing had
mister McPherson.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
In the enemies, not that I know it, but you yourself,
Miss Bellamy, had you any other particular admiters?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh, now look here.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Sir, I I have had mister Holmes, so I can imagine.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
May I ask if mister Ian Murdock is one of them?
Speaker 8 (14:43):
There there was a time when I thought he was,
but that was all changed when he when he understood
the relations between Fitzroy and me.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I see. Thank you, Miss Bellamy for your frankness. We
have a tangled skein in our hands, but this visit
may have given me a glimpse of one free end
of it. Come Watson, we must proceed without further inquiries,
without delay.
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Speaker 3 (16:11):
It will, but these.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Aren't our Baker sweet days anymore. You kept me here
over a week now away from my practice.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
My wife Idea, Watson, you'd never forgive me where I
to let you go? Now depend on it. In all
your chronicles, your readers will find no case which brought
me so completely to the limit of my power.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Well, my so called readers wouldn't credit us for trying
very hard if they could see us scrawled here in
front of the fire, this delicious aroma of dinner wafting
wall around.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Oh that's the good lady responsible.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I was not about to say, Missus Hudson, if that
dinner tastes one half as good as it smells, you may.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Judge that for yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
In just fifteen minutes time, sir, if I may lay
the table us not like.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Baker Street, there Missus Hudson meals at all ours. Never
forget that time, mister Holmes. Don't we be back for
dinner at seven point thirty.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
The day after tomorrow, during the the Mazarin Stone affair,
wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Hmm? I think it was, sir, Well, I remember that
case very well, quite amusing, I thought, not at all
like this sad matter.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And now this business about mister McPherson's dog.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Do you mean the time that man Murdock throw it
through a window?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh? No, sir, I mean today, missus Hudson. What about
Macpherson's dog?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Why dead, sir, died of grief for its master?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Who told you this? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Everyone's talking of it, sir, Down on the beach, at
the very place where it's master, at his end, at
the day place. Yes, yes, that the dog should have
died of grief is consistent with the beautiful, faithful nature
of dogs. But at the very place. Could it be
possible that something's building in my mind? I must catch
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it before it disintegrates again? Get your coat, Oh, mister Howe,
we're going out now Stackhurst to see this poor animal
for ourselves. If it's fair, then to the beach. But
it will soon be dark at your dinner, Christinham. Before
the one who we've had escapes, I hear we are, Watson.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
What do you hope to find homes? I'm blessed if
I can think, yes, here.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And here, Yes, the marks made by that faithful little
dog searching round the spot where his master had laid
see even down to where he'd been about to take
that last bay. What does it tell you? I don't know, Watson,
I don't know. Do you remember the agony of Macpherston's death?
Remember the agony? We saw a written plain on the
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features of that faithful little creature.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Just now you see a connection.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I see similarities which suggest a connection. What this might be?
Come along? We must forgetting her.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I'm sure missus Hudson won't have let that dinner run.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Dinner, perhaps Watson later, But the first research no use, Watson,
it doesn't here.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
It strikes me as just by every other blessed book
that they would be published years.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I was compelled to discard the portion of my library
and I left Baker Street. I hesitated at the time.
This has brought my folly home to me. All information
is likely to be useful at some time, Well.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It just can't be helped home.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And now I really think I know Stackhurst has a
splendid library if we're in luck, he'll have the very work.
How much home?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Would you realize what time it is?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Huh no, but it's nearly eleventh.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Stackhurst Establishment will be in peace and darkness by now.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Do you realize that poor woman.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Missus Hudson is sitting out there in her kitchen waiting
for the.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Word to serve the remains what promised to be a
splendid dinner.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh hear me, Watson, I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
This is hot, sung, We're going to dine and then
enjoy our night's sleep. Homes Stackhurst Library con perfectly will
wait until the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
If the scent cools, Watson, yours will be the blade.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh very well, I must say, Holmes.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I hope you're somewhere near the right track.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh this book perhaps, thank you? Uh no, Now, if
only the author's name hadn't escaped me, it had a
chocolate colored binding.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I feel sure and did as you requested. I'm persuaded
Murdock to stay on here. I'm getting to wish I hadn't.
I feel sure the police are on the point of
arresting him. You won't do much for this establishment so
far as reputation goes, You know.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
My dear Stacker's not even the local police would arrest
Murdoch on the evidence they have. They have your testimony
that when you discovered Macpherston in agony, that beach was
quite empty. They had the word of Watson and myself
as well as yours, that Murdoch approached us along the
beach from a direction he couldn't possibly have come if
he attacked McPherson only moments before. Besides which where Shirley
(21:10):
agreed as to the impossibility of his having inflicted the
outrage single handed, even on a man who was party crippled.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Hell good helps me.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Murdoch. Randy, that's.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Very carefully now, I had it gently here from Brandy.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Get that done?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
More an oil?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Oil?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Anything to the pain?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oil?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
What do you mean bringing more brand? Watson the memory
I have been seeing his return to me. Get this
man's jacket off gently.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
All right, another froggy.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I noticed his clothes were all all right, just as McPherson's.
Good Lord, now drink this murder. He meant oil to
soothe his wounds. Now at what's attend to him? I
fancy we shall learn that he suffered this in exactly
the same part of the beach as Macpherson's. And if
this man's heart had been weak as mcphurston's was, he
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wouldn't be heard now the beach.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well, yes, of course I saw him setting off for
a swim a little while ago, precisely.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Now give him plenty of brandy. If my memory serves
me as I think it does at last, it's the
prime remedy. You'll be all right, Capital. We'll pay another
visit to the beach ourselves, where we shall see if
I can't deliver our murderer into your hands, Tactus the murderer,
and we'll take with us, assuming that you possess it
the book which we've been so haphazardly seeking. I've remembered
(22:53):
its name. It's Out of Doors by J. G Ward.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh, yes, I had that. Excellent.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Let's do what we can do. Is this poor fellow's
pain here we are now, gentlemen. Could anything be more
(23:22):
deceptively innocent than this crystal lagoon?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
It certainly looks innocuous to me. What are we supposed
to be looking for him?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I can't see anything except except what I too can see. Taxers,
What were on that rocky shelf? Watson? Yeah, can't you
see a somewhat hairy looking creature lying there under the water.
I grip great heaven, sort of sort of tangled, massive
yellow hair, streaks of silver amongst it, like a lion's mane,
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perhaps by jove Homes, I can see it breathing, pulsating,
revolting looking thing, and one which has done mischief enough.
I fancy we're justified in ending its murderous career with
this tone. Nowaday, oh, William does hear and square, so
(24:21):
our mystery is solved.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
What was the thing? I'm a native of the Sussex coast,
but I never saw such a thing before. It doesn't
belong to these parts, just as well for Sussex.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It may have been the southwest gale that brought it
up the night before Macpherston died. Now where's this book?
I here we are now, the author writes of an
encounter with such a creature while swimming once off the
coast of kent Ah. Yes, the very section. Now listen,
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if the bather should see a loose, roundish mass of
tawny membranes and fibers, something like very large handfuls of limes,
mane and silver paper, let him beware, for this is
the fearful stinger Cyania capillata. I've never heard of it.
Wood goes on to describe height radiates, almost invisible filaments
to a distance of some fifty feet. Even at that distance,
(25:23):
the effect when they touched him was almost fatal.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
He says.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
The multitudinous threads caused light scarlet lines upon the skin,
charged as it were, with red hot needles making their
way through to the nerve.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And leaving the appearance of a flogging.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Precisely, he says that had he not had immediate access
to brandy by the by he came to a gout
down a whole bottleful, He's certain he would have expired.
So great was the pain and its effect on his heart.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yes, quite ugly remarkable.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I've no doubt that Macpherson saw it floating on the
water after it had stung him. The phrase he used
was the one by which he could convey to us
the cause of his death.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Well, thank heavens it solved and he clears Murdock.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
But what about his jealousy of Macpherson over miss Bellamy
As a lifelong expert upon the psychology of love and
romance spots, wouldn't you think that once Murdock realized that
the woman he desired had come to prefer his best friend,
his only wish was to serve her happiness, no doubt,
as go between and message carrier in their concealed relationship.
(26:30):
Well perhaps so, Holmes, dear me, Yet I fancy I'm
not far from the truth.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Well we must set Murdock's mind addressed, and miss bellamis.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You know, had the body been found in the water,
I could hardly have missed the truth. I allowed myself
to be misled by a dry towel. The poor fellow
had not paused to dry himself, and I assumed that
he'd never been in the water. That was where I
went sadly astray. No, gentlemen, I have often charted the
(27:03):
official police in my time for lack of imagination. But
the Lion's maid Cyenia capillata very nearly avenged Scotland yards.
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