1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Now, Roma wines present. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Tonight, Drury's Bone, starring Boris Karloff. 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma wines. 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 7 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 To your happiness and entertaining guests. 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,000 To your enjoyment of everyday meals. 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant. 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 As Roma wines bring you... 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Suspense! 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 This is the man in black, here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 13 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Who tonight from Hollywood bring you as star, Mr. Boris Karloff. 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,000 In the remarkable history of a Scotland Yard inspector, 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,000 who found himself in surely the most ironic predicament ever to confront an officer of the law. 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,000 And so with Drury's Bones, and with the performance of Boris Karloff, 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 we again hope to keep you in... 18 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Suspense! 19 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,000 The events that are covered in this report began on the night of December 28th, 1910. 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Although I didn't know it at the time. 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:30,000 But it was on that night that I opened my eyes to discover that I was lying behind some trash barrels in a dark London alleyway. 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Thunder was ripping the skies apart, 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 and the sheets of rain that were pouring down on the streets of London. 24 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:18,540 And the 25 00:01:18,540 --> 00:01:23,540 The events that are covered in this report began on the night of December 28th, 1910. 26 00:01:23,540 --> 00:01:26,540 Although I didn't know it at the time. 27 00:01:26,540 --> 00:01:34,540 But it was on that night that I opened my eyes to discover that I was lying behind some trash barrels in a dark London alleyway. 28 00:01:34,540 --> 00:01:37,540 Thunder was ripping the skies apart, 29 00:01:37,540 --> 00:01:43,540 and the sheets of rain that were pelting on my unprotected body had soaked me to the skin. 30 00:01:43,540 --> 00:01:48,540 My head was aching unbearably. 31 00:01:48,540 --> 00:01:54,540 As I automatically tried to rise, I found I was so dizzy that I had to hold on to the barrels for support. 32 00:01:54,540 --> 00:01:58,540 I reached up, the feel of my head. 33 00:01:58,540 --> 00:02:02,540 My hair was a mass of dotted blood. 34 00:02:02,540 --> 00:02:05,540 In my numb mind I could feel only one urge. 35 00:02:05,540 --> 00:02:10,540 I had to find a lighted building somewhere where someone could get me water. 36 00:02:10,540 --> 00:02:15,540 It seemed hours before finally I saw an office building in which a light was burning, 37 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:20,540 and graciously stumbled in its direction. 38 00:02:23,540 --> 00:02:25,540 Listen to this, Peters. 39 00:02:25,540 --> 00:02:27,540 There's a report from the... 40 00:02:27,540 --> 00:02:30,540 Why, who are you? 41 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:32,540 I beg your pardon. 42 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:34,540 Great Hiddens, man. 43 00:02:34,540 --> 00:02:36,540 Come over here by the fire. 44 00:02:36,540 --> 00:02:40,540 Here, here, I'll give you a hand. Here, let me help you. That's it. 45 00:02:40,540 --> 00:02:42,540 Good Lord. 46 00:02:42,540 --> 00:02:44,540 Look at that head. Peters. 47 00:02:44,540 --> 00:02:45,540 Yes, sir. 48 00:02:45,540 --> 00:02:46,540 You better call the doctor. 49 00:02:46,540 --> 00:02:47,540 Right, sir. 50 00:02:47,540 --> 00:02:50,540 Oh, let's get some of these wet clothes off, eh? 51 00:02:50,540 --> 00:02:51,540 Easy now. 52 00:02:51,540 --> 00:02:53,540 This is very kind of you. 53 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:56,540 Now, now the trousers. 54 00:02:56,540 --> 00:02:58,540 There, that's it. 55 00:02:58,540 --> 00:02:59,540 Hmm. 56 00:02:59,540 --> 00:03:01,540 Roved, eh? 57 00:03:01,540 --> 00:03:03,540 I suppose. 58 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:06,540 Suppose? 59 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:09,540 Yes, you see, I don't know. 60 00:03:09,540 --> 00:03:12,540 Oh, come, sir, you must know whether or not you had a pocketbook. 61 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:14,540 There's nothing here now, certainly. 62 00:03:14,540 --> 00:03:16,540 There's nothing? 63 00:03:16,540 --> 00:03:17,540 Who are you, by the way? 64 00:03:17,540 --> 00:03:18,540 Huh? 65 00:03:18,540 --> 00:03:20,540 I say, let's have your name. 66 00:03:20,540 --> 00:03:22,540 I'm... 67 00:03:22,540 --> 00:03:24,540 My name is... 68 00:03:24,540 --> 00:03:26,540 My name? 69 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:29,540 I don't know my name. 70 00:03:29,540 --> 00:03:33,540 I don't know my name. I don't know. 71 00:03:33,540 --> 00:03:37,540 I must have fainted, because the next thing I knew, 72 00:03:37,540 --> 00:03:40,540 I was lying on the couch in the office, 73 00:03:40,540 --> 00:03:44,540 covered with warm blankets and slowly returning to consciousness. 74 00:03:44,540 --> 00:03:48,540 My benefactor and the doctor were talking in hushed voices near the bed. 75 00:03:48,540 --> 00:03:51,540 You say no identification on him, eh? 76 00:03:51,540 --> 00:03:54,540 Nothing except these. I found them under his hat band. 77 00:03:54,540 --> 00:03:55,540 Hmm. 78 00:03:55,540 --> 00:03:59,540 Two ticket stubs, Drury Lane Theatre, December 24th, 1910. 79 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:01,540 Have you checked there? 80 00:04:01,540 --> 00:04:03,540 There's no possible way to trace them. 81 00:04:03,540 --> 00:04:05,540 I'll have to call him something. 82 00:04:05,540 --> 00:04:06,540 Yeah. 83 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:08,540 Drury, that's it, after the Drury Lane. 84 00:04:08,540 --> 00:04:11,540 And Terrance after you, Inspector Terrance. Drury. 85 00:04:11,540 --> 00:04:13,540 Oh, very well. 86 00:04:13,540 --> 00:04:16,540 How long do you suppose this condition will last? 87 00:04:16,540 --> 00:04:18,540 Amnesia. No way of knowing. 88 00:04:18,540 --> 00:04:22,540 I should get a bit of rest and then some kind of absorbing work. 89 00:04:22,540 --> 00:04:23,540 Not strange, of course. 90 00:04:23,540 --> 00:04:25,540 You mustn't be allowed to brood, you see. 91 00:04:25,540 --> 00:04:29,540 Danger and this sort of thing lies in a man's working himself into a genuine psychosis from worry. 92 00:04:29,540 --> 00:04:31,540 I see. 93 00:04:31,540 --> 00:04:34,540 I say, Carruthers, why don't you put him to work here? 94 00:04:34,540 --> 00:04:36,540 At least until you locate his family. 95 00:04:36,540 --> 00:04:40,540 After all, you can't very well turn your back on the chap now that he's named after you. 96 00:04:40,540 --> 00:04:44,540 As a matter of fact, it happens that I could use the new man around here very nicely. 97 00:04:44,540 --> 00:04:46,540 Oh, there you are. 98 00:04:46,540 --> 00:04:49,540 And as to forgetting one's worries and absorbing work, 99 00:04:49,540 --> 00:04:54,540 I can't think of a better place in the world for a man to do that than Scotland Yard. 100 00:05:05,540 --> 00:05:09,540 Tonight for Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Mr. Boris Karloff, 101 00:05:09,540 --> 00:05:14,540 whom you've heard in the prologue to Harold Swanton's radio play, Drury's Bones. 102 00:05:14,540 --> 00:05:19,540 Tonight's tale of Suspense. 103 00:05:24,540 --> 00:05:27,540 This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 104 00:05:27,540 --> 00:05:33,540 When you listen to the friendly advice of Miss Elsa Maxwell about hospitality and gracious living, 105 00:05:33,540 --> 00:05:38,540 you realize that here is an authority who talks plain common sense all the time. 106 00:05:38,540 --> 00:05:40,540 I'm talking to men as well as women. 107 00:05:40,540 --> 00:05:46,540 When I say that the finest hospitality is always simple, sincere, moderate, and natural. 108 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:47,540 Never the opposite. 109 00:05:47,540 --> 00:05:54,540 And so I am always emphasizing that the nicest, simplest, most sincerely flattering hospitality 110 00:05:54,540 --> 00:05:57,540 is to serve your guests some Roma sherry. 111 00:05:57,540 --> 00:06:01,540 With its golden amber color, its delicious tangy nut-like flavor. 112 00:06:01,540 --> 00:06:06,540 It's not only supremely enjoyable before dinner or in the afternoon, 113 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:11,540 it's smartly correct, a genuine compliment to your friends and to yourselves. 114 00:06:11,540 --> 00:06:14,540 And please don't worry about special glasses. 115 00:06:14,540 --> 00:06:18,540 It is perfectly correct to use any nice glasses that are handy. 116 00:06:18,540 --> 00:06:23,540 Well, Miss Maxwell speaks more authoritatively than I can, but I will add this. 117 00:06:23,540 --> 00:06:30,540 Roma sherry, like all famous Roma wines made from California's magnificent sun-ripened grapes, 118 00:06:30,540 --> 00:06:34,540 brings you all their fine flavor, aroma, and color. 119 00:06:34,540 --> 00:06:41,540 It's unvaryingly good, always enjoyable, thanks to the age-old wine skill of Roma's noted wineries 120 00:06:41,540 --> 00:06:44,540 located in the choicest vineyard areas of California. 121 00:06:44,540 --> 00:06:49,540 Yet all this goodness and pleasure is yours for only pennies a glass. 122 00:06:49,540 --> 00:06:55,540 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 123 00:06:55,540 --> 00:07:00,540 Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 124 00:07:00,540 --> 00:07:05,540 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our soundstage Boris Karloff, 125 00:07:05,540 --> 00:07:10,540 as Inspector Terrence Drury, who resumes his report on the case entitled, 126 00:07:10,540 --> 00:07:16,540 Drury's Bones, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 127 00:07:16,540 --> 00:07:28,540 It was an amazing stroke of fate that brought me to the London office of Scotland Yard 128 00:07:28,540 --> 00:07:32,540 on that dreadful night of December 1910. 129 00:07:32,540 --> 00:07:36,540 For I'm sure that nowhere else could I have had more kindness and understanding. 130 00:07:36,540 --> 00:07:40,540 Of course, at first the strain was almost unbearable. 131 00:07:40,540 --> 00:07:49,540 I had absolutely no recollection of my past, had no idea who the man was who lived the first 30 years of my life. 132 00:07:49,540 --> 00:07:52,540 Or was it 40? Or 20? 133 00:07:52,540 --> 00:07:59,540 I never knew, but Karloff has judged me to be about 30, so I came to regard that as my official age. 134 00:07:59,540 --> 00:08:02,540 And he was ingenious in providing interesting work for me. 135 00:08:02,540 --> 00:08:09,540 During the days that followed, I became so absorbed in the tide of fascinating cases that flowed across my desk 136 00:08:09,540 --> 00:08:12,540 that I had no time for thought or reflection on my plight. 137 00:08:12,540 --> 00:08:17,540 My own dossier at last week was called the inactive file and was gradually forgotten. 138 00:08:17,540 --> 00:08:25,540 In short, my present and my future became so interesting that I came to regard my past as a closed book. 139 00:08:25,540 --> 00:08:34,540 And so it was, as a full-fledged inspector, I reported one day in May of 1930 to Chief Inspector Carabbers. 140 00:08:34,540 --> 00:08:39,540 Oh, hello, Drury. Have a chair. 141 00:08:39,540 --> 00:08:40,540 Thanks. 142 00:08:40,540 --> 00:08:41,540 Cigar? 143 00:08:41,540 --> 00:08:43,540 Yes, I will, thank you. 144 00:08:43,540 --> 00:08:49,540 Mm, Havana, eh? Decently prosperous for a Scotland yardman, Inspector. 145 00:08:49,540 --> 00:08:52,540 Sure you're not involved in a scandal of some sort? 146 00:08:52,540 --> 00:08:57,540 I'm sorry, old boy. Gift from my niece. Have a light. 147 00:08:57,540 --> 00:09:01,540 Only one other conclusion, then. You're about to cancel my holiday. 148 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:03,540 Well, as a matter of fact... 149 00:09:03,540 --> 00:09:05,540 Murder in Soho, I suppose. 150 00:09:05,540 --> 00:09:08,540 No, not in Soho. In Clovelly. 151 00:09:08,540 --> 00:09:12,540 Clovelly? Clovelly? 152 00:09:12,540 --> 00:09:14,540 It's a fishing village in Devon. 153 00:09:14,540 --> 00:09:17,540 That's it. Bit of a resort town, too, you know. 154 00:09:17,540 --> 00:09:20,540 Thought you might be able to combine business with pleasure. 155 00:09:20,540 --> 00:09:22,540 I do need a rest, you know. 156 00:09:22,540 --> 00:09:26,540 I have here a letter from a Mr. John Stanhope who resides in Clovelly. 157 00:09:26,540 --> 00:09:32,540 It seems he unearthed a human skeleton in his backyard, apparently buried there for years. 158 00:09:32,540 --> 00:09:39,540 It'll just be a matter of securing a routine report on the case, perhaps questioning this Mr. Stanhope and possibly a few of the local residents. 159 00:09:39,540 --> 00:09:43,540 Then you can pop down to Torquay and bask in the sun for a few days. 160 00:09:43,540 --> 00:09:45,540 Ever been in North Devonshire? 161 00:09:45,540 --> 00:09:48,540 I avoid it religiously. I'm allergic to moors. 162 00:09:48,540 --> 00:09:50,540 Well, what do you think of it? 163 00:09:50,540 --> 00:09:53,540 Well, if it were anyone else but you, carobbers. 164 00:09:53,540 --> 00:09:57,540 I suppose I'd better write this all down. John Stanhope, right? 165 00:09:57,540 --> 00:09:59,540 Do you have his address? 166 00:09:59,540 --> 00:10:03,540 There's no such thing as an address in Clovelly. There's only one street. 167 00:10:03,540 --> 00:10:05,540 But you won't have any trouble finding it. 168 00:10:05,540 --> 00:10:11,540 What I hear, the townspeople will be quick enough to tell you all about the place where the bones are buried. 169 00:10:25,540 --> 00:10:27,540 How do you do, sir? Welcome to Clovelly. 170 00:10:27,540 --> 00:10:30,540 How do you do? My name is Drury, Scotland Yard. 171 00:10:30,540 --> 00:10:32,540 You'll want a single, I expect. 172 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:33,540 Yes, if you have one. 173 00:10:33,540 --> 00:10:35,540 Just sign the register, please. 174 00:10:35,540 --> 00:10:37,540 Very well. There. 175 00:10:37,540 --> 00:10:41,540 I understand that Mr. John Stanhope was to leave a message here for me. 176 00:10:41,540 --> 00:10:44,540 Oh, you must be here about the bones. 177 00:10:44,540 --> 00:10:45,540 Yes. 178 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:48,540 Some excitement they've caused, I'll tell you. 179 00:10:48,540 --> 00:10:52,540 What with the Ashley Norton's disappearance, a dark mystery these twenty years and all. 180 00:10:52,540 --> 00:10:54,540 Who were the Ashley Norton? 181 00:10:54,540 --> 00:10:57,540 Lived in that house twenty years ago, they did. 182 00:10:57,540 --> 00:11:02,540 That would be just about the time the body was buried, wouldn't it, sir? 183 00:11:02,540 --> 00:11:04,540 Yes. Did you know them? 184 00:11:04,540 --> 00:11:06,540 Never did see her. 185 00:11:06,540 --> 00:11:08,540 Saw her in once or twice. 186 00:11:08,540 --> 00:11:10,540 Strange pair they was. 187 00:11:10,540 --> 00:11:12,540 Unsociable. 188 00:11:12,540 --> 00:11:16,540 Keeping themselves to themselves night and day in that house on the cliff. 189 00:11:16,540 --> 00:11:20,540 No telling what went on behind them doors. 190 00:11:20,540 --> 00:11:22,540 What do people think went on? 191 00:11:22,540 --> 00:11:26,540 The son that thinks that what went on was murder. 192 00:11:26,540 --> 00:11:28,540 Murder? Why? 193 00:11:28,540 --> 00:11:31,540 There's those who knows the reasons better than I. 194 00:11:31,540 --> 00:11:34,540 I'll leave it to them to tell. 195 00:11:34,540 --> 00:11:38,540 Very well. Let's see, I signed this book too, don't I? 196 00:11:38,540 --> 00:11:42,540 Oh, no, sir. That's our permanent register for new guests. 197 00:11:42,540 --> 00:11:44,540 But you've been here before. 198 00:11:44,540 --> 00:11:49,540 I? Why, no. No, I've never been here before in my life. 199 00:11:49,540 --> 00:11:52,540 Oh, that's odd. 200 00:11:52,540 --> 00:12:01,540 For a moment I thought I'd seen you here before sometime. 201 00:12:14,540 --> 00:12:15,540 Mr. Stanhope? 202 00:12:15,540 --> 00:12:16,540 Yes? 203 00:12:16,540 --> 00:12:18,540 Inspector Drury, Scotland Yard. 204 00:12:18,540 --> 00:12:20,540 Oh, happy to see you, Inspector. Come in, please. 205 00:12:20,540 --> 00:12:21,540 Thank you. 206 00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:25,540 I must apologize for the condition of the place, Mr. Drury. 207 00:12:25,540 --> 00:12:28,540 Events of the past few days have been a bit upsetting, to say the least. 208 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:30,540 I should think so. 209 00:12:30,540 --> 00:12:32,540 Like a spot of sherry. 210 00:12:32,540 --> 00:12:35,540 Why, thanks, yes. 211 00:12:35,540 --> 00:12:40,540 I had rather an enlightening conversation with Mrs. Tumly at the inn last night. 212 00:12:40,540 --> 00:12:44,540 Seems the townspeople are quite certain it was a case of murder 213 00:12:44,540 --> 00:12:46,540 involving some people named Ashley Norton. 214 00:12:46,540 --> 00:12:50,540 Yes, yes, Roger Ashley Norton. His wife was named Sarah. 215 00:12:50,540 --> 00:12:51,540 Did you know them? 216 00:12:51,540 --> 00:12:54,540 No, no, no, no, I'd never met them. Very few people had. 217 00:12:54,540 --> 00:12:56,540 You see, that was 20 years ago. 218 00:12:56,540 --> 00:12:58,540 The house originally belonged to my brother. 219 00:12:58,540 --> 00:13:02,540 He died in 1925 and I didn't come into the property until after that. 220 00:13:02,540 --> 00:13:08,540 I know it's natural to jump to the conclusion of murder when one uncovers human bones, 221 00:13:08,540 --> 00:13:12,540 but is there any reason to suspect the motive? 222 00:13:12,540 --> 00:13:14,540 Did anybody disappear suddenly? 223 00:13:14,540 --> 00:13:17,540 No one but the Ashley Nortons. 224 00:13:17,540 --> 00:13:18,540 I see. 225 00:13:18,540 --> 00:13:23,540 There's nothing to go on but gossip, and it's all highly circumstantial, of course. 226 00:13:23,540 --> 00:13:28,540 You see, my brother was renting this house to them furnished by the year, payable in advance, 227 00:13:28,540 --> 00:13:30,540 and so he rarely had occasion to call on them. 228 00:13:30,540 --> 00:13:34,540 But when the regular check failed to arrive on time, he paid them a visit. 229 00:13:34,540 --> 00:13:40,540 The house was vacant, and it was immediately clear that no one had lived in the place for the last few months. 230 00:13:40,540 --> 00:13:42,540 Your brother made inquiries, of course. 231 00:13:42,540 --> 00:13:47,540 Oh, yes, yes. No one had seen or heard from them for at least two months before. 232 00:13:47,540 --> 00:13:50,540 And what date was that, Stanup? 233 00:13:50,540 --> 00:13:54,540 Oh, now let me see. That was December of 1910. 234 00:13:54,540 --> 00:13:56,540 I'm sorry. 235 00:13:56,540 --> 00:13:57,540 Oh, it's quite all right. 236 00:13:57,540 --> 00:13:58,540 Oh, here, let me... 237 00:13:58,540 --> 00:14:01,540 No, no, no, no. The maid will attend to it. Let me get you another. 238 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:03,540 Not right now, thanks. 239 00:14:03,540 --> 00:14:05,540 Well, would you like to examine the garden? 240 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:06,540 The garden? 241 00:14:06,540 --> 00:14:09,540 Yes, where the bones were discovered. 242 00:14:09,540 --> 00:14:12,540 Oh, oh, yes, yes, of course. 243 00:14:12,540 --> 00:14:16,540 Up through the French window. Here to the side, I take it. 244 00:14:16,540 --> 00:14:18,540 Yes. 245 00:14:18,540 --> 00:14:22,540 Here we are. Just over here, Inspector. 246 00:14:22,540 --> 00:14:26,540 Hey, and the trees stood about here, eh? 247 00:14:26,540 --> 00:14:27,540 The what? 248 00:14:27,540 --> 00:14:30,540 The holly tree. 249 00:14:30,540 --> 00:14:33,540 I must admit you're a jolly fine detective, sir. 250 00:14:33,540 --> 00:14:38,540 The gardener discovered the body while removing the dead holly tree, all right, but I... 251 00:14:38,540 --> 00:14:50,540 I wasn't aware that I mentioned the fact of Scotland Yard. 252 00:14:50,540 --> 00:14:55,540 It was in my room and the inn late that night that I first began my notes. 253 00:14:55,540 --> 00:15:00,540 I include them now in this report, just as I wrote them then. 254 00:15:00,540 --> 00:15:06,540 Clavelly, Devon, May 18, 1930. 255 00:15:06,540 --> 00:15:14,540 The feeling that this is all a book that I have read or a play I've seen somewhere in the past has taken hold of my very soul. 256 00:15:14,540 --> 00:15:19,540 And the terror that grips me when I think of the future makes rational thought very difficult. 257 00:15:19,540 --> 00:15:27,540 Nevertheless, I have resolved to pursue the investigation until I am certain that there is no further doubt. 258 00:15:27,540 --> 00:15:35,540 I must discover someone who knew Ashley Norton intimately, his profession, his habits, his personality. 259 00:15:35,540 --> 00:15:40,540 I think I must risk tomorrow another talk with Mrs. Tumly. 260 00:15:40,540 --> 00:15:53,540 Meanwhile, I shall withhold any further report to Caruthers. 261 00:15:53,540 --> 00:15:59,540 Now, Mrs. Tumly, you said yesterday that there were some people here in Clavelly who knew the Ashley Nortons rather well. 262 00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:00,540 Did I? 263 00:16:00,540 --> 00:16:01,540 Yes, Mrs. Tumly. 264 00:16:01,540 --> 00:16:05,540 Well, it might have been Effie Wilkes I had in mind. 265 00:16:05,540 --> 00:16:06,540 Who was Effie Wilkes? 266 00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:09,540 She was the Ashley Norton's servant maid, sir. 267 00:16:09,540 --> 00:16:11,540 And where is Effie Wilkes now? 268 00:16:11,540 --> 00:16:13,540 Oh, she disappeared, sir. 269 00:16:13,540 --> 00:16:14,540 She disappeared? 270 00:16:14,540 --> 00:16:22,540 At the same time they did, sir, and not a sight nor sound of her since not these twenty years. 271 00:16:22,540 --> 00:16:26,540 Who else? Who else knew the Ashley Nortons? 272 00:16:26,540 --> 00:16:31,540 Only the other one I could think of would be Ben Sykes, Blind Ben they call him now. 273 00:16:31,540 --> 00:16:33,540 But he could see them right enough. 274 00:16:33,540 --> 00:16:34,540 And where is he? 275 00:16:34,540 --> 00:16:37,540 Oh, he's hereabouts, gone to Bidifford with his nephew today. 276 00:16:37,540 --> 00:16:41,540 But he'll be back Wednesday if you'd care to speak with him, sir. 277 00:16:41,540 --> 00:16:43,540 Did he work for the Ashley Norton? 278 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:49,540 In a manner of speaking, sir. He helped out with the experiments. 279 00:16:49,540 --> 00:16:50,540 Experiments? 280 00:16:50,540 --> 00:16:57,540 Oh, yes, sir. Mr. Ashley Norton was quite the scientist, or so he said. 281 00:16:57,540 --> 00:17:00,540 What did Ben Sykes have to do with these experiments? 282 00:17:00,540 --> 00:17:03,540 Oh, he got things for them, sir. 283 00:17:03,540 --> 00:17:04,540 What sort of things? 284 00:17:04,540 --> 00:17:06,540 Live things, sir. 285 00:17:06,540 --> 00:17:07,540 Live things? 286 00:17:07,540 --> 00:17:12,540 Rabbits, animals, such like things, sir. 287 00:17:12,540 --> 00:17:13,540 Is that all? 288 00:17:13,540 --> 00:17:18,540 No, sir. If you ask me, that wasn't all. 289 00:17:18,540 --> 00:17:20,540 What else? 290 00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:22,540 There was human beings, sir. 291 00:17:22,540 --> 00:17:23,540 Human beings? 292 00:17:23,540 --> 00:17:25,540 Yes, sir. 293 00:17:25,540 --> 00:17:27,540 What human beings? 294 00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:32,540 Why, I would say, sir, the nearest ones that came to end. 295 00:17:32,540 --> 00:17:34,540 What do you mean? 296 00:17:34,540 --> 00:17:39,540 Oh, I'm sure you know much more about this than I do, sir. 297 00:17:39,540 --> 00:17:51,540 But they do say those bones were the bones of a woman. 298 00:17:51,540 --> 00:17:56,540 Caruthers wired today that he expects to locate the serving girl if he wills within a matter of hours. 299 00:17:56,540 --> 00:17:59,540 That means at least that she's alive. 300 00:17:59,540 --> 00:18:03,540 And it also means that our testimony will complete the case. 301 00:18:03,540 --> 00:18:08,540 And I can no longer deceive myself as to the outcome. 302 00:18:08,540 --> 00:18:13,540 I don't quite know why I sent Caruthers the information about if he wills, 303 00:18:13,540 --> 00:18:18,540 knowing as I do that I'm endangering myself by that action. 304 00:18:18,540 --> 00:18:22,540 Perhaps there's something of which I'm still just a little proud. 305 00:18:22,540 --> 00:18:26,540 I'm still primarily a detective. 306 00:18:26,540 --> 00:18:33,540 Well, I shall pursue this investigation impersonally and logically until the very last link in the chain. 307 00:18:33,540 --> 00:18:39,540 That link is Ben Sykes, blind Ben. 308 00:18:39,540 --> 00:18:43,540 There is only one fact in which I can take some faint hope. 309 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:47,540 Ashley Norton was a scientist, presumably a doctor. 310 00:18:47,540 --> 00:18:54,540 I can find no faintest memory in myself of any specialized scientific knowledge whatsoever. 311 00:18:54,540 --> 00:18:59,540 Or Ben Sykes' nephew is going over to Biddeford today to bring the old man home. 312 00:18:59,540 --> 00:19:03,540 I shall go along and talk to him on the ride there. 313 00:19:06,540 --> 00:19:08,540 So you're Ben Sykes? 314 00:19:08,540 --> 00:19:10,540 Aye, blind Ben they call me. 315 00:19:10,540 --> 00:19:14,540 But eyes are known. I can keep up with the best of them. 316 00:19:14,540 --> 00:19:16,540 What's your business in Clovalley, sir? 317 00:19:16,540 --> 00:19:19,540 Come to ask you some questions about Mr. Ashley Norton. 318 00:19:19,540 --> 00:19:22,540 Haven't we met before, sir? 319 00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:25,540 Not that I remember, Ben. 320 00:19:25,540 --> 00:19:27,540 Your voice is, uh... 321 00:19:27,540 --> 00:19:31,540 Oh well, what sort of questions, sir? 322 00:19:31,540 --> 00:19:33,540 Perhaps about the experiments. 323 00:19:33,540 --> 00:19:38,540 I'll say not the experiments, sir. They were the Master's private business. 324 00:19:38,540 --> 00:19:44,540 Very well. Did you know Mrs. Ashley Norton? Sarah Ashley Norton? 325 00:19:44,540 --> 00:19:48,540 I did, sir, and no finer woman ever walked the earth. 326 00:19:48,540 --> 00:19:50,540 Did? Did he love her? 327 00:19:50,540 --> 00:19:53,540 He loved her more than life itself, but... 328 00:19:53,540 --> 00:19:54,540 But what? 329 00:19:54,540 --> 00:19:57,540 Well, she helped him with his experiments. 330 00:19:57,540 --> 00:20:02,540 He was condemned hereabouts for that, but she helped him all through these long months until... 331 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:04,540 Until? 332 00:20:04,540 --> 00:20:07,540 Until she went away. 333 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:09,540 Either! Look out! 334 00:20:09,540 --> 00:20:12,540 The plough is on the road! 335 00:20:12,540 --> 00:20:17,540 The last I remember was the sickening sway of the wagon as it overturned in the ditch to the left of the road. 336 00:20:17,540 --> 00:20:21,540 I must have hit my head on something and lost consciousness just for a moment. 337 00:20:21,540 --> 00:20:23,540 Help me with it! 338 00:20:23,540 --> 00:20:24,540 Lotto! 339 00:20:24,540 --> 00:20:28,540 Oh, I see his nasty gash on his leg there. What about the other? 340 00:20:28,540 --> 00:20:30,540 Take care of Ben. I'll look to the inspector. 341 00:20:30,540 --> 00:20:32,540 Right. You all old fellow now. 342 00:20:32,540 --> 00:20:33,540 Inspector! 343 00:20:33,540 --> 00:20:35,540 Inspector, you've got to be careful. 344 00:20:35,540 --> 00:20:37,540 I'll be right back. 345 00:20:37,540 --> 00:20:42,540 I'll go and look to the inspector. 346 00:20:42,540 --> 00:20:44,540 Inspector, you all right? 347 00:20:44,540 --> 00:20:46,540 I believe so. 348 00:20:46,540 --> 00:20:48,540 Here we are. Here we are, sir. 349 00:20:48,540 --> 00:20:50,540 Thank you. Is Ben all right? 350 00:20:50,540 --> 00:20:51,540 He's hurt. 351 00:20:51,540 --> 00:20:53,540 His leg. I'll set for the doctor. 352 00:20:53,540 --> 00:20:55,540 Let me have a look at it. 353 00:20:55,540 --> 00:20:59,540 No, don't throw it back. Now get me a knife. 354 00:20:59,540 --> 00:21:00,540 Here you are. 355 00:21:00,540 --> 00:21:03,540 Now help me with this. Here. 356 00:21:03,540 --> 00:21:05,540 That's it. 357 00:21:05,540 --> 00:21:07,540 It's bleeding pretty badly. Have you a handkerchief? 358 00:21:07,540 --> 00:21:09,540 Quite clean enough for a bandage. 359 00:21:09,540 --> 00:21:11,540 It isn't a bandage. Now get me a small stick. 360 00:21:11,540 --> 00:21:15,540 That's it. Now around here, just below the patella. 361 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:19,540 Now hold on to that and relax it when I tell you. 362 00:21:19,540 --> 00:21:20,540 Yes, sir. 363 00:21:20,540 --> 00:21:22,540 Tibia and fibula, both compound. 364 00:21:22,540 --> 00:21:25,540 Dislocation of the talus. Need x-ray immediately. 365 00:21:25,540 --> 00:21:28,540 What? I didn't know you was a doctor, sir. 366 00:21:28,540 --> 00:21:32,540 Huh? What? 367 00:21:32,540 --> 00:21:35,540 Neither did I. 368 00:21:43,540 --> 00:21:44,540 How do you feel, Ben? 369 00:21:44,540 --> 00:21:47,540 Much better, Mr. Drury, thanks to you. 370 00:21:47,540 --> 00:21:50,540 She twitches now and then. 371 00:21:50,540 --> 00:21:52,540 You'll be all right once it's set. 372 00:21:52,540 --> 00:21:54,540 Lucky you was with us, sir. 373 00:21:54,540 --> 00:22:00,540 Ben, you were going to tell me about the last time you saw Mr. Ashley Norton. 374 00:22:00,540 --> 00:22:01,540 Do you remember? 375 00:22:01,540 --> 00:22:03,540 Yes, sir. I remember it well. 376 00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:06,540 He was going up to London, to the theatre, he said. 377 00:22:06,540 --> 00:22:08,540 Was he going alone? 378 00:22:08,540 --> 00:22:13,540 Yes, sir. Mrs. Ashley Norton had gone on ahead to do some shopping, he said. 379 00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:17,540 Ben, do you remember when? What theatre? 380 00:22:17,540 --> 00:22:21,540 Yes, sir. It was Christmas Eve. 381 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:25,540 And the theatre was Drury Lane. 382 00:22:25,540 --> 00:22:30,540 Yes, yes, I know. 383 00:22:30,540 --> 00:22:33,540 I guess I knew it always. 384 00:22:33,540 --> 00:22:40,540 Asking your pardon, sir, I'm an old man, and I can say things without anyone getting angry about them. 385 00:22:40,540 --> 00:22:41,540 Yes, Ben, what is it? 386 00:22:41,540 --> 00:22:46,540 Well then, sir, you seem like a man who's running away from something. 387 00:22:46,540 --> 00:22:48,540 Oh, run away. 388 00:22:48,540 --> 00:22:52,540 I wouldn't run away from it any longer, sir, if I was you. 389 00:22:52,540 --> 00:23:00,540 Ben, I believe you're the only one of us who isn't blind. 390 00:23:10,540 --> 00:23:14,540 Hello, Drury. Well, welcome back. I say, though, the chief's been trying to get a hold of you all day. 391 00:23:14,540 --> 00:23:16,540 Yes, I know. Is Chief Corruptus in? 392 00:23:16,540 --> 00:23:19,540 No, no, he had to meet someone at the train. He'll be back soon, though. 393 00:23:19,540 --> 00:23:24,540 When he wants me, I'll be in my office, finishing my report. 394 00:23:24,540 --> 00:23:30,540 Oh, that's so. You've been on a case. Murder, wasn't it? Did you catch the fellow? 395 00:23:30,540 --> 00:23:38,540 Yes, I caught him. 396 00:23:38,540 --> 00:23:43,540 There's little now that needs to be added. Christmas Eve, Drury Lane theatre. 397 00:23:43,540 --> 00:23:49,540 And Ashley Norton went alone, he said, because his wife Sarah had gone on ahead. 398 00:23:49,540 --> 00:23:54,540 And the medical training, it came back to me when I needed it as though it had been my life. 399 00:23:54,540 --> 00:23:56,540 My former life. 400 00:23:56,540 --> 00:24:00,540 There can be only one conclusion to this report. 401 00:24:00,540 --> 00:24:05,540 Sarah Ashley Norton was murdered by her husband. 402 00:24:05,540 --> 00:24:10,540 The case is closed. Signed. 403 00:24:10,540 --> 00:24:16,540 Roger Ashley Norton, formerly Terence Drury. 404 00:24:16,540 --> 00:24:30,540 Oh, come in, Drury. I've been expecting you. 405 00:24:30,540 --> 00:24:32,540 Yes. Here's my report, sir. 406 00:24:32,540 --> 00:24:34,540 There's time enough for that. 407 00:24:34,540 --> 00:24:39,540 If you don't mind, I'd rather you read it now. I'd like to get it over with. 408 00:24:39,540 --> 00:24:44,540 Yes, but you know, we finally traced the serving girl, Effie Wilkes. 409 00:24:44,540 --> 00:24:46,540 Yes, if you don't mind. 410 00:24:46,540 --> 00:24:48,540 And through her, we traced someone else. 411 00:24:48,540 --> 00:24:50,540 Does it really matter now? 412 00:24:50,540 --> 00:24:59,540 I think perhaps it does. You may show him the witness, Peters. 413 00:24:59,540 --> 00:25:06,540 Yes. Yes, it is. Roger. Roger. 414 00:25:06,540 --> 00:25:10,540 I beg your pardon, but who? 415 00:25:10,540 --> 00:25:13,540 Roger, don't you remember me? 416 00:25:13,540 --> 00:25:16,540 Remember you? 417 00:25:16,540 --> 00:25:21,540 I only remember that you were someone who was once very dear to me. 418 00:25:21,540 --> 00:25:23,540 And now it's too late. 419 00:25:23,540 --> 00:25:28,540 No, no, Roger. No, it isn't too late. I'm, I'm... 420 00:25:28,540 --> 00:25:30,540 Sarah. Sarah. 421 00:25:30,540 --> 00:25:34,540 Oh, darling. 422 00:25:34,540 --> 00:25:39,540 You see, Drury, or rather Mr. Ashley Norton, 423 00:25:39,540 --> 00:25:45,540 it seems you and your wife did go to the Drury Lane Theatre on that Christmas Eve 20 years ago. 424 00:25:45,540 --> 00:25:49,540 And that very night, you were both to go on to Paris. 425 00:25:49,540 --> 00:25:54,540 Then at the last moment, you ran into some chap who begged you to deliver a lecture the next day. 426 00:25:54,540 --> 00:25:57,540 You agreed, and Mrs. Ashley Norton went on ahead. 427 00:25:57,540 --> 00:26:00,540 You were to meet her in Paris in two days. 428 00:26:00,540 --> 00:26:01,540 Oh. 429 00:26:01,540 --> 00:26:04,540 And when you didn't come, I checked with the steamship company, 430 00:26:04,540 --> 00:26:06,540 and they said your ticket had been used. 431 00:26:06,540 --> 00:26:09,540 The thief who robbed you must have used it. 432 00:26:09,540 --> 00:26:13,540 But I couldn't know that. I thought you must be somewhere in France. 433 00:26:13,540 --> 00:26:16,540 The French police tried to trace you for years. 434 00:26:16,540 --> 00:26:19,540 Then I, I thought you must be dead. 435 00:26:19,540 --> 00:26:21,540 Oh, Roger. Roger. 436 00:26:21,540 --> 00:26:23,540 My dear. 437 00:26:23,540 --> 00:26:29,540 Oh, Sarah, do you, well, do you suppose you could call me Terrence? 438 00:26:29,540 --> 00:26:31,540 I've got used to it, you know, and... 439 00:26:31,540 --> 00:26:34,540 Oh, very well, Terrence. 440 00:26:34,540 --> 00:26:37,540 You haven't changed very much, really. 441 00:26:37,540 --> 00:26:39,540 I suppose you haven't either. 442 00:26:39,540 --> 00:26:42,540 By the way, I had excellent taste in women in those days. 443 00:26:42,540 --> 00:26:44,540 Oh, my dear. 444 00:26:44,540 --> 00:26:48,540 Oh. Oh, and can you ever forgive me? 445 00:26:48,540 --> 00:26:50,540 Forgive you? For what? 446 00:26:50,540 --> 00:26:51,540 The bones. 447 00:26:51,540 --> 00:26:54,540 Oh. The bones. 448 00:26:54,540 --> 00:26:55,540 Yes, I... 449 00:26:55,540 --> 00:26:58,540 Well, I suppose if that Mrs. Tumley hadn't been so nosy, 450 00:26:58,540 --> 00:27:00,540 I wouldn't have done it. 451 00:27:00,540 --> 00:27:03,540 But I was afraid if they found it in the house, it would look even worse. 452 00:27:03,540 --> 00:27:05,540 So that's why I did it. 453 00:27:05,540 --> 00:27:07,540 Did? Did what? 454 00:27:07,540 --> 00:27:12,540 Buried your demonstration skeleton in the backyard, under the holly tree. 455 00:27:12,540 --> 00:27:31,540 What? 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