WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 Now, Roma wines present. 00:10.000 --> 00:12.000 Suspense! 00:15.000 --> 00:19.000 Tonight, Drury's Bone, starring Boris Karloff. 00:23.000 --> 00:27.000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma wines. 00:27.000 --> 00:30.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 00:34.000 --> 00:37.000 To your happiness and entertaining guests. 00:37.000 --> 00:40.000 To your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:40.000 --> 00:43.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant. 00:43.000 --> 00:46.000 As Roma wines bring you... 00:46.000 --> 00:48.000 Suspense! 00:48.000 --> 00:52.000 This is the man in black, here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 00:52.000 --> 00:56.000 Who tonight from Hollywood bring you as star, Mr. Boris Karloff. 00:56.000 --> 00:59.000 In the remarkable history of a Scotland Yard inspector, 00:59.000 --> 01:04.000 who found himself in surely the most ironic predicament ever to confront an officer of the law. 01:04.000 --> 01:09.000 And so with Drury's Bones, and with the performance of Boris Karloff, 01:09.000 --> 01:12.000 we again hope to keep you in... 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 Suspense! 01:14.000 --> 01:19.000 The events that are covered in this report began on the night of December 28th, 1910. 01:19.000 --> 01:22.000 Although I didn't know it at the time. 01:22.000 --> 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. 01:30.000 --> 01:33.000 Thunder was ripping the skies apart, 01:33.000 --> 01:37.000 and the sheets of rain that were pouring down on the streets of London. 01:37.000 --> 01:18.540 And the 01:18.540 --> 01:23.540 The events that are covered in this report began on the night of December 28th, 1910. 01:23.540 --> 01:26.540 Although I didn't know it at the time. 01:26.540 --> 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. 01:34.540 --> 01:37.540 Thunder was ripping the skies apart, 01:37.540 --> 01:43.540 and the sheets of rain that were pelting on my unprotected body had soaked me to the skin. 01:43.540 --> 01:48.540 My head was aching unbearably. 01:48.540 --> 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. 01:54.540 --> 01:58.540 I reached up, the feel of my head. 01:58.540 --> 02:02.540 My hair was a mass of dotted blood. 02:02.540 --> 02:05.540 In my numb mind I could feel only one urge. 02:05.540 --> 02:10.540 I had to find a lighted building somewhere where someone could get me water. 02:10.540 --> 02:15.540 It seemed hours before finally I saw an office building in which a light was burning, 02:15.540 --> 02:20.540 and graciously stumbled in its direction. 02:23.540 --> 02:25.540 Listen to this, Peters. 02:25.540 --> 02:27.540 There's a report from the... 02:27.540 --> 02:30.540 Why, who are you? 02:30.540 --> 02:32.540 I beg your pardon. 02:32.540 --> 02:34.540 Great Hiddens, man. 02:34.540 --> 02:36.540 Come over here by the fire. 02:36.540 --> 02:40.540 Here, here, I'll give you a hand. Here, let me help you. That's it. 02:40.540 --> 02:42.540 Good Lord. 02:42.540 --> 02:44.540 Look at that head. Peters. 02:44.540 --> 02:45.540 Yes, sir. 02:45.540 --> 02:46.540 You better call the doctor. 02:46.540 --> 02:47.540 Right, sir. 02:47.540 --> 02:50.540 Oh, let's get some of these wet clothes off, eh? 02:50.540 --> 02:51.540 Easy now. 02:51.540 --> 02:53.540 This is very kind of you. 02:53.540 --> 02:56.540 Now, now the trousers. 02:56.540 --> 02:58.540 There, that's it. 02:58.540 --> 02:59.540 Hmm. 02:59.540 --> 03:01.540 Roved, eh? 03:01.540 --> 03:03.540 I suppose. 03:03.540 --> 03:06.540 Suppose? 03:06.540 --> 03:09.540 Yes, you see, I don't know. 03:09.540 --> 03:12.540 Oh, come, sir, you must know whether or not you had a pocketbook. 03:12.540 --> 03:14.540 There's nothing here now, certainly. 03:14.540 --> 03:16.540 There's nothing? 03:16.540 --> 03:17.540 Who are you, by the way? 03:17.540 --> 03:18.540 Huh? 03:18.540 --> 03:20.540 I say, let's have your name. 03:20.540 --> 03:22.540 I'm... 03:22.540 --> 03:24.540 My name is... 03:24.540 --> 03:26.540 My name? 03:26.540 --> 03:29.540 I don't know my name. 03:29.540 --> 03:33.540 I don't know my name. I don't know. 03:33.540 --> 03:37.540 I must have fainted, because the next thing I knew, 03:37.540 --> 03:40.540 I was lying on the couch in the office, 03:40.540 --> 03:44.540 covered with warm blankets and slowly returning to consciousness. 03:44.540 --> 03:48.540 My benefactor and the doctor were talking in hushed voices near the bed. 03:48.540 --> 03:51.540 You say no identification on him, eh? 03:51.540 --> 03:54.540 Nothing except these. I found them under his hat band. 03:54.540 --> 03:55.540 Hmm. 03:55.540 --> 03:59.540 Two ticket stubs, Drury Lane Theatre, December 24th, 1910. 03:59.540 --> 04:01.540 Have you checked there? 04:01.540 --> 04:03.540 There's no possible way to trace them. 04:03.540 --> 04:05.540 I'll have to call him something. 04:05.540 --> 04:06.540 Yeah. 04:06.540 --> 04:08.540 Drury, that's it, after the Drury Lane. 04:08.540 --> 04:11.540 And Terrance after you, Inspector Terrance. Drury. 04:11.540 --> 04:13.540 Oh, very well. 04:13.540 --> 04:16.540 How long do you suppose this condition will last? 04:16.540 --> 04:18.540 Amnesia. No way of knowing. 04:18.540 --> 04:22.540 I should get a bit of rest and then some kind of absorbing work. 04:22.540 --> 04:23.540 Not strange, of course. 04:23.540 --> 04:25.540 You mustn't be allowed to brood, you see. 04:25.540 --> 04:29.540 Danger and this sort of thing lies in a man's working himself into a genuine psychosis from worry. 04:29.540 --> 04:31.540 I see. 04:31.540 --> 04:34.540 I say, Carruthers, why don't you put him to work here? 04:34.540 --> 04:36.540 At least until you locate his family. 04:36.540 --> 04:40.540 After all, you can't very well turn your back on the chap now that he's named after you. 04:40.540 --> 04:44.540 As a matter of fact, it happens that I could use the new man around here very nicely. 04:44.540 --> 04:46.540 Oh, there you are. 04:46.540 --> 04:49.540 And as to forgetting one's worries and absorbing work, 04:49.540 --> 04:54.540 I can't think of a better place in the world for a man to do that than Scotland Yard. 05:05.540 --> 05:09.540 Tonight for Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Mr. Boris Karloff, 05:09.540 --> 05:14.540 whom you've heard in the prologue to Harold Swanton's radio play, Drury's Bones. 05:14.540 --> 05:19.540 Tonight's tale of Suspense. 05:24.540 --> 05:27.540 This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 05:27.540 --> 05:33.540 When you listen to the friendly advice of Miss Elsa Maxwell about hospitality and gracious living, 05:33.540 --> 05:38.540 you realize that here is an authority who talks plain common sense all the time. 05:38.540 --> 05:40.540 I'm talking to men as well as women. 05:40.540 --> 05:46.540 When I say that the finest hospitality is always simple, sincere, moderate, and natural. 05:46.540 --> 05:47.540 Never the opposite. 05:47.540 --> 05:54.540 And so I am always emphasizing that the nicest, simplest, most sincerely flattering hospitality 05:54.540 --> 05:57.540 is to serve your guests some Roma sherry. 05:57.540 --> 06:01.540 With its golden amber color, its delicious tangy nut-like flavor. 06:01.540 --> 06:06.540 It's not only supremely enjoyable before dinner or in the afternoon, 06:06.540 --> 06:11.540 it's smartly correct, a genuine compliment to your friends and to yourselves. 06:11.540 --> 06:14.540 And please don't worry about special glasses. 06:14.540 --> 06:18.540 It is perfectly correct to use any nice glasses that are handy. 06:18.540 --> 06:23.540 Well, Miss Maxwell speaks more authoritatively than I can, but I will add this. 06:23.540 --> 06:30.540 Roma sherry, like all famous Roma wines made from California's magnificent sun-ripened grapes, 06:30.540 --> 06:34.540 brings you all their fine flavor, aroma, and color. 06:34.540 --> 06:41.540 It's unvaryingly good, always enjoyable, thanks to the age-old wine skill of Roma's noted wineries 06:41.540 --> 06:44.540 located in the choicest vineyard areas of California. 06:44.540 --> 06:49.540 Yet all this goodness and pleasure is yours for only pennies a glass. 06:49.540 --> 06:55.540 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 06:55.540 --> 07:00.540 Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 07:00.540 --> 07:05.540 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our soundstage Boris Karloff, 07:05.540 --> 07:10.540 as Inspector Terrence Drury, who resumes his report on the case entitled, 07:10.540 --> 07:16.540 Drury's Bones, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 07:16.540 --> 07:28.540 It was an amazing stroke of fate that brought me to the London office of Scotland Yard 07:28.540 --> 07:32.540 on that dreadful night of December 1910. 07:32.540 --> 07:36.540 For I'm sure that nowhere else could I have had more kindness and understanding. 07:36.540 --> 07:40.540 Of course, at first the strain was almost unbearable. 07:40.540 --> 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. 07:49.540 --> 07:52.540 Or was it 40? Or 20? 07:52.540 --> 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. 07:59.540 --> 08:02.540 And he was ingenious in providing interesting work for me. 08:02.540 --> 08:09.540 During the days that followed, I became so absorbed in the tide of fascinating cases that flowed across my desk 08:09.540 --> 08:12.540 that I had no time for thought or reflection on my plight. 08:12.540 --> 08:17.540 My own dossier at last week was called the inactive file and was gradually forgotten. 08:17.540 --> 08:25.540 In short, my present and my future became so interesting that I came to regard my past as a closed book. 08:25.540 --> 08:34.540 And so it was, as a full-fledged inspector, I reported one day in May of 1930 to Chief Inspector Carabbers. 08:34.540 --> 08:39.540 Oh, hello, Drury. Have a chair. 08:39.540 --> 08:40.540 Thanks. 08:40.540 --> 08:41.540 Cigar? 08:41.540 --> 08:43.540 Yes, I will, thank you. 08:43.540 --> 08:49.540 Mm, Havana, eh? Decently prosperous for a Scotland yardman, Inspector. 08:49.540 --> 08:52.540 Sure you're not involved in a scandal of some sort? 08:52.540 --> 08:57.540 I'm sorry, old boy. Gift from my niece. Have a light. 08:57.540 --> 09:01.540 Only one other conclusion, then. You're about to cancel my holiday. 09:01.540 --> 09:03.540 Well, as a matter of fact... 09:03.540 --> 09:05.540 Murder in Soho, I suppose. 09:05.540 --> 09:08.540 No, not in Soho. In Clovelly. 09:08.540 --> 09:12.540 Clovelly? Clovelly? 09:12.540 --> 09:14.540 It's a fishing village in Devon. 09:14.540 --> 09:17.540 That's it. Bit of a resort town, too, you know. 09:17.540 --> 09:20.540 Thought you might be able to combine business with pleasure. 09:20.540 --> 09:22.540 I do need a rest, you know. 09:22.540 --> 09:26.540 I have here a letter from a Mr. John Stanhope who resides in Clovelly. 09:26.540 --> 09:32.540 It seems he unearthed a human skeleton in his backyard, apparently buried there for years. 09:32.540 --> 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. 09:39.540 --> 09:43.540 Then you can pop down to Torquay and bask in the sun for a few days. 09:43.540 --> 09:45.540 Ever been in North Devonshire? 09:45.540 --> 09:48.540 I avoid it religiously. I'm allergic to moors. 09:48.540 --> 09:50.540 Well, what do you think of it? 09:50.540 --> 09:53.540 Well, if it were anyone else but you, carobbers. 09:53.540 --> 09:57.540 I suppose I'd better write this all down. John Stanhope, right? 09:57.540 --> 09:59.540 Do you have his address? 09:59.540 --> 10:03.540 There's no such thing as an address in Clovelly. There's only one street. 10:03.540 --> 10:05.540 But you won't have any trouble finding it. 10:05.540 --> 10:11.540 What I hear, the townspeople will be quick enough to tell you all about the place where the bones are buried. 10:25.540 --> 10:27.540 How do you do, sir? Welcome to Clovelly. 10:27.540 --> 10:30.540 How do you do? My name is Drury, Scotland Yard. 10:30.540 --> 10:32.540 You'll want a single, I expect. 10:32.540 --> 10:33.540 Yes, if you have one. 10:33.540 --> 10:35.540 Just sign the register, please. 10:35.540 --> 10:37.540 Very well. There. 10:37.540 --> 10:41.540 I understand that Mr. John Stanhope was to leave a message here for me. 10:41.540 --> 10:44.540 Oh, you must be here about the bones. 10:44.540 --> 10:45.540 Yes. 10:45.540 --> 10:48.540 Some excitement they've caused, I'll tell you. 10:48.540 --> 10:52.540 What with the Ashley Norton's disappearance, a dark mystery these twenty years and all. 10:52.540 --> 10:54.540 Who were the Ashley Norton? 10:54.540 --> 10:57.540 Lived in that house twenty years ago, they did. 10:57.540 --> 11:02.540 That would be just about the time the body was buried, wouldn't it, sir? 11:02.540 --> 11:04.540 Yes. Did you know them? 11:04.540 --> 11:06.540 Never did see her. 11:06.540 --> 11:08.540 Saw her in once or twice. 11:08.540 --> 11:10.540 Strange pair they was. 11:10.540 --> 11:12.540 Unsociable. 11:12.540 --> 11:16.540 Keeping themselves to themselves night and day in that house on the cliff. 11:16.540 --> 11:20.540 No telling what went on behind them doors. 11:20.540 --> 11:22.540 What do people think went on? 11:22.540 --> 11:26.540 The son that thinks that what went on was murder. 11:26.540 --> 11:28.540 Murder? Why? 11:28.540 --> 11:31.540 There's those who knows the reasons better than I. 11:31.540 --> 11:34.540 I'll leave it to them to tell. 11:34.540 --> 11:38.540 Very well. Let's see, I signed this book too, don't I? 11:38.540 --> 11:42.540 Oh, no, sir. That's our permanent register for new guests. 11:42.540 --> 11:44.540 But you've been here before. 11:44.540 --> 11:49.540 I? Why, no. No, I've never been here before in my life. 11:49.540 --> 11:52.540 Oh, that's odd. 11:52.540 --> 12:01.540 For a moment I thought I'd seen you here before sometime. 12:14.540 --> 12:15.540 Mr. Stanhope? 12:15.540 --> 12:16.540 Yes? 12:16.540 --> 12:18.540 Inspector Drury, Scotland Yard. 12:18.540 --> 12:20.540 Oh, happy to see you, Inspector. Come in, please. 12:20.540 --> 12:21.540 Thank you. 12:21.540 --> 12:25.540 I must apologize for the condition of the place, Mr. Drury. 12:25.540 --> 12:28.540 Events of the past few days have been a bit upsetting, to say the least. 12:28.540 --> 12:30.540 I should think so. 12:30.540 --> 12:32.540 Like a spot of sherry. 12:32.540 --> 12:35.540 Why, thanks, yes. 12:35.540 --> 12:40.540 I had rather an enlightening conversation with Mrs. Tumly at the inn last night. 12:40.540 --> 12:44.540 Seems the townspeople are quite certain it was a case of murder 12:44.540 --> 12:46.540 involving some people named Ashley Norton. 12:46.540 --> 12:50.540 Yes, yes, Roger Ashley Norton. His wife was named Sarah. 12:50.540 --> 12:51.540 Did you know them? 12:51.540 --> 12:54.540 No, no, no, no, I'd never met them. Very few people had. 12:54.540 --> 12:56.540 You see, that was 20 years ago. 12:56.540 --> 12:58.540 The house originally belonged to my brother. 12:58.540 --> 13:02.540 He died in 1925 and I didn't come into the property until after that. 13:02.540 --> 13:08.540 I know it's natural to jump to the conclusion of murder when one uncovers human bones, 13:08.540 --> 13:12.540 but is there any reason to suspect the motive? 13:12.540 --> 13:14.540 Did anybody disappear suddenly? 13:14.540 --> 13:17.540 No one but the Ashley Nortons. 13:17.540 --> 13:18.540 I see. 13:18.540 --> 13:23.540 There's nothing to go on but gossip, and it's all highly circumstantial, of course. 13:23.540 --> 13:28.540 You see, my brother was renting this house to them furnished by the year, payable in advance, 13:28.540 --> 13:30.540 and so he rarely had occasion to call on them. 13:30.540 --> 13:34.540 But when the regular check failed to arrive on time, he paid them a visit. 13:34.540 --> 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. 13:40.540 --> 13:42.540 Your brother made inquiries, of course. 13:42.540 --> 13:47.540 Oh, yes, yes. No one had seen or heard from them for at least two months before. 13:47.540 --> 13:50.540 And what date was that, Stanup? 13:50.540 --> 13:54.540 Oh, now let me see. That was December of 1910. 13:54.540 --> 13:56.540 I'm sorry. 13:56.540 --> 13:57.540 Oh, it's quite all right. 13:57.540 --> 13:58.540 Oh, here, let me... 13:58.540 --> 14:01.540 No, no, no, no. The maid will attend to it. Let me get you another. 14:01.540 --> 14:03.540 Not right now, thanks. 14:03.540 --> 14:05.540 Well, would you like to examine the garden? 14:05.540 --> 14:06.540 The garden? 14:06.540 --> 14:09.540 Yes, where the bones were discovered. 14:09.540 --> 14:12.540 Oh, oh, yes, yes, of course. 14:12.540 --> 14:16.540 Up through the French window. Here to the side, I take it. 14:16.540 --> 14:18.540 Yes. 14:18.540 --> 14:22.540 Here we are. Just over here, Inspector. 14:22.540 --> 14:26.540 Hey, and the trees stood about here, eh? 14:26.540 --> 14:27.540 The what? 14:27.540 --> 14:30.540 The holly tree. 14:30.540 --> 14:33.540 I must admit you're a jolly fine detective, sir. 14:33.540 --> 14:38.540 The gardener discovered the body while removing the dead holly tree, all right, but I... 14:38.540 --> 14:50.540 I wasn't aware that I mentioned the fact of Scotland Yard. 14:50.540 --> 14:55.540 It was in my room and the inn late that night that I first began my notes. 14:55.540 --> 15:00.540 I include them now in this report, just as I wrote them then. 15:00.540 --> 15:06.540 Clavelly, Devon, May 18, 1930. 15:06.540 --> 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. 15:14.540 --> 15:19.540 And the terror that grips me when I think of the future makes rational thought very difficult. 15:19.540 --> 15:27.540 Nevertheless, I have resolved to pursue the investigation until I am certain that there is no further doubt. 15:27.540 --> 15:35.540 I must discover someone who knew Ashley Norton intimately, his profession, his habits, his personality. 15:35.540 --> 15:40.540 I think I must risk tomorrow another talk with Mrs. Tumly. 15:40.540 --> 15:53.540 Meanwhile, I shall withhold any further report to Caruthers. 15:53.540 --> 15:59.540 Now, Mrs. Tumly, you said yesterday that there were some people here in Clavelly who knew the Ashley Nortons rather well. 15:59.540 --> 16:00.540 Did I? 16:00.540 --> 16:01.540 Yes, Mrs. Tumly. 16:01.540 --> 16:05.540 Well, it might have been Effie Wilkes I had in mind. 16:05.540 --> 16:06.540 Who was Effie Wilkes? 16:06.540 --> 16:09.540 She was the Ashley Norton's servant maid, sir. 16:09.540 --> 16:11.540 And where is Effie Wilkes now? 16:11.540 --> 16:13.540 Oh, she disappeared, sir. 16:13.540 --> 16:14.540 She disappeared? 16:14.540 --> 16:22.540 At the same time they did, sir, and not a sight nor sound of her since not these twenty years. 16:22.540 --> 16:26.540 Who else? Who else knew the Ashley Nortons? 16:26.540 --> 16:31.540 Only the other one I could think of would be Ben Sykes, Blind Ben they call him now. 16:31.540 --> 16:33.540 But he could see them right enough. 16:33.540 --> 16:34.540 And where is he? 16:34.540 --> 16:37.540 Oh, he's hereabouts, gone to Bidifford with his nephew today. 16:37.540 --> 16:41.540 But he'll be back Wednesday if you'd care to speak with him, sir. 16:41.540 --> 16:43.540 Did he work for the Ashley Norton? 16:43.540 --> 16:49.540 In a manner of speaking, sir. He helped out with the experiments. 16:49.540 --> 16:50.540 Experiments? 16:50.540 --> 16:57.540 Oh, yes, sir. Mr. Ashley Norton was quite the scientist, or so he said. 16:57.540 --> 17:00.540 What did Ben Sykes have to do with these experiments? 17:00.540 --> 17:03.540 Oh, he got things for them, sir. 17:03.540 --> 17:04.540 What sort of things? 17:04.540 --> 17:06.540 Live things, sir. 17:06.540 --> 17:07.540 Live things? 17:07.540 --> 17:12.540 Rabbits, animals, such like things, sir. 17:12.540 --> 17:13.540 Is that all? 17:13.540 --> 17:18.540 No, sir. If you ask me, that wasn't all. 17:18.540 --> 17:20.540 What else? 17:20.540 --> 17:22.540 There was human beings, sir. 17:22.540 --> 17:23.540 Human beings? 17:23.540 --> 17:25.540 Yes, sir. 17:25.540 --> 17:27.540 What human beings? 17:27.540 --> 17:32.540 Why, I would say, sir, the nearest ones that came to end. 17:32.540 --> 17:34.540 What do you mean? 17:34.540 --> 17:39.540 Oh, I'm sure you know much more about this than I do, sir. 17:39.540 --> 17:51.540 But they do say those bones were the bones of a woman. 17:51.540 --> 17:56.540 Caruthers wired today that he expects to locate the serving girl if he wills within a matter of hours. 17:56.540 --> 17:59.540 That means at least that she's alive. 17:59.540 --> 18:03.540 And it also means that our testimony will complete the case. 18:03.540 --> 18:08.540 And I can no longer deceive myself as to the outcome. 18:08.540 --> 18:13.540 I don't quite know why I sent Caruthers the information about if he wills, 18:13.540 --> 18:18.540 knowing as I do that I'm endangering myself by that action. 18:18.540 --> 18:22.540 Perhaps there's something of which I'm still just a little proud. 18:22.540 --> 18:26.540 I'm still primarily a detective. 18:26.540 --> 18:33.540 Well, I shall pursue this investigation impersonally and logically until the very last link in the chain. 18:33.540 --> 18:39.540 That link is Ben Sykes, blind Ben. 18:39.540 --> 18:43.540 There is only one fact in which I can take some faint hope. 18:43.540 --> 18:47.540 Ashley Norton was a scientist, presumably a doctor. 18:47.540 --> 18:54.540 I can find no faintest memory in myself of any specialized scientific knowledge whatsoever. 18:54.540 --> 18:59.540 Or Ben Sykes' nephew is going over to Biddeford today to bring the old man home. 18:59.540 --> 19:03.540 I shall go along and talk to him on the ride there. 19:06.540 --> 19:08.540 So you're Ben Sykes? 19:08.540 --> 19:10.540 Aye, blind Ben they call me. 19:10.540 --> 19:14.540 But eyes are known. I can keep up with the best of them. 19:14.540 --> 19:16.540 What's your business in Clovalley, sir? 19:16.540 --> 19:19.540 Come to ask you some questions about Mr. Ashley Norton. 19:19.540 --> 19:22.540 Haven't we met before, sir? 19:22.540 --> 19:25.540 Not that I remember, Ben. 19:25.540 --> 19:27.540 Your voice is, uh... 19:27.540 --> 19:31.540 Oh well, what sort of questions, sir? 19:31.540 --> 19:33.540 Perhaps about the experiments. 19:33.540 --> 19:38.540 I'll say not the experiments, sir. They were the Master's private business. 19:38.540 --> 19:44.540 Very well. Did you know Mrs. Ashley Norton? Sarah Ashley Norton? 19:44.540 --> 19:48.540 I did, sir, and no finer woman ever walked the earth. 19:48.540 --> 19:50.540 Did? Did he love her? 19:50.540 --> 19:53.540 He loved her more than life itself, but... 19:53.540 --> 19:54.540 But what? 19:54.540 --> 19:57.540 Well, she helped him with his experiments. 19:57.540 --> 20:02.540 He was condemned hereabouts for that, but she helped him all through these long months until... 20:02.540 --> 20:04.540 Until? 20:04.540 --> 20:07.540 Until she went away. 20:07.540 --> 20:09.540 Either! Look out! 20:09.540 --> 20:12.540 The plough is on the road! 20:12.540 --> 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. 20:17.540 --> 20:21.540 I must have hit my head on something and lost consciousness just for a moment. 20:21.540 --> 20:23.540 Help me with it! 20:23.540 --> 20:24.540 Lotto! 20:24.540 --> 20:28.540 Oh, I see his nasty gash on his leg there. What about the other? 20:28.540 --> 20:30.540 Take care of Ben. I'll look to the inspector. 20:30.540 --> 20:32.540 Right. You all old fellow now. 20:32.540 --> 20:33.540 Inspector! 20:33.540 --> 20:35.540 Inspector, you've got to be careful. 20:35.540 --> 20:37.540 I'll be right back. 20:37.540 --> 20:42.540 I'll go and look to the inspector. 20:42.540 --> 20:44.540 Inspector, you all right? 20:44.540 --> 20:46.540 I believe so. 20:46.540 --> 20:48.540 Here we are. Here we are, sir. 20:48.540 --> 20:50.540 Thank you. Is Ben all right? 20:50.540 --> 20:51.540 He's hurt. 20:51.540 --> 20:53.540 His leg. I'll set for the doctor. 20:53.540 --> 20:55.540 Let me have a look at it. 20:55.540 --> 20:59.540 No, don't throw it back. Now get me a knife. 20:59.540 --> 21:00.540 Here you are. 21:00.540 --> 21:03.540 Now help me with this. Here. 21:03.540 --> 21:05.540 That's it. 21:05.540 --> 21:07.540 It's bleeding pretty badly. Have you a handkerchief? 21:07.540 --> 21:09.540 Quite clean enough for a bandage. 21:09.540 --> 21:11.540 It isn't a bandage. Now get me a small stick. 21:11.540 --> 21:15.540 That's it. Now around here, just below the patella. 21:15.540 --> 21:19.540 Now hold on to that and relax it when I tell you. 21:19.540 --> 21:20.540 Yes, sir. 21:20.540 --> 21:22.540 Tibia and fibula, both compound. 21:22.540 --> 21:25.540 Dislocation of the talus. Need x-ray immediately. 21:25.540 --> 21:28.540 What? I didn't know you was a doctor, sir. 21:28.540 --> 21:32.540 Huh? What? 21:32.540 --> 21:35.540 Neither did I. 21:43.540 --> 21:44.540 How do you feel, Ben? 21:44.540 --> 21:47.540 Much better, Mr. Drury, thanks to you. 21:47.540 --> 21:50.540 She twitches now and then. 21:50.540 --> 21:52.540 You'll be all right once it's set. 21:52.540 --> 21:54.540 Lucky you was with us, sir. 21:54.540 --> 22:00.540 Ben, you were going to tell me about the last time you saw Mr. Ashley Norton. 22:00.540 --> 22:01.540 Do you remember? 22:01.540 --> 22:03.540 Yes, sir. I remember it well. 22:03.540 --> 22:06.540 He was going up to London, to the theatre, he said. 22:06.540 --> 22:08.540 Was he going alone? 22:08.540 --> 22:13.540 Yes, sir. Mrs. Ashley Norton had gone on ahead to do some shopping, he said. 22:13.540 --> 22:17.540 Ben, do you remember when? What theatre? 22:17.540 --> 22:21.540 Yes, sir. It was Christmas Eve. 22:21.540 --> 22:25.540 And the theatre was Drury Lane. 22:25.540 --> 22:30.540 Yes, yes, I know. 22:30.540 --> 22:33.540 I guess I knew it always. 22:33.540 --> 22:40.540 Asking your pardon, sir, I'm an old man, and I can say things without anyone getting angry about them. 22:40.540 --> 22:41.540 Yes, Ben, what is it? 22:41.540 --> 22:46.540 Well then, sir, you seem like a man who's running away from something. 22:46.540 --> 22:48.540 Oh, run away. 22:48.540 --> 22:52.540 I wouldn't run away from it any longer, sir, if I was you. 22:52.540 --> 23:00.540 Ben, I believe you're the only one of us who isn't blind. 23:10.540 --> 23:14.540 Hello, Drury. Well, welcome back. I say, though, the chief's been trying to get a hold of you all day. 23:14.540 --> 23:16.540 Yes, I know. Is Chief Corruptus in? 23:16.540 --> 23:19.540 No, no, he had to meet someone at the train. He'll be back soon, though. 23:19.540 --> 23:24.540 When he wants me, I'll be in my office, finishing my report. 23:24.540 --> 23:30.540 Oh, that's so. You've been on a case. Murder, wasn't it? Did you catch the fellow? 23:30.540 --> 23:38.540 Yes, I caught him. 23:38.540 --> 23:43.540 There's little now that needs to be added. Christmas Eve, Drury Lane theatre. 23:43.540 --> 23:49.540 And Ashley Norton went alone, he said, because his wife Sarah had gone on ahead. 23:49.540 --> 23:54.540 And the medical training, it came back to me when I needed it as though it had been my life. 23:54.540 --> 23:56.540 My former life. 23:56.540 --> 24:00.540 There can be only one conclusion to this report. 24:00.540 --> 24:05.540 Sarah Ashley Norton was murdered by her husband. 24:05.540 --> 24:10.540 The case is closed. Signed. 24:10.540 --> 24:16.540 Roger Ashley Norton, formerly Terence Drury. 24:16.540 --> 24:30.540 Oh, come in, Drury. I've been expecting you. 24:30.540 --> 24:32.540 Yes. Here's my report, sir. 24:32.540 --> 24:34.540 There's time enough for that. 24:34.540 --> 24:39.540 If you don't mind, I'd rather you read it now. I'd like to get it over with. 24:39.540 --> 24:44.540 Yes, but you know, we finally traced the serving girl, Effie Wilkes. 24:44.540 --> 24:46.540 Yes, if you don't mind. 24:46.540 --> 24:48.540 And through her, we traced someone else. 24:48.540 --> 24:50.540 Does it really matter now? 24:50.540 --> 24:59.540 I think perhaps it does. You may show him the witness, Peters. 24:59.540 --> 25:06.540 Yes. Yes, it is. Roger. Roger. 25:06.540 --> 25:10.540 I beg your pardon, but who? 25:10.540 --> 25:13.540 Roger, don't you remember me? 25:13.540 --> 25:16.540 Remember you? 25:16.540 --> 25:21.540 I only remember that you were someone who was once very dear to me. 25:21.540 --> 25:23.540 And now it's too late. 25:23.540 --> 25:28.540 No, no, Roger. No, it isn't too late. I'm, I'm... 25:28.540 --> 25:30.540 Sarah. Sarah. 25:30.540 --> 25:34.540 Oh, darling. 25:34.540 --> 25:39.540 You see, Drury, or rather Mr. Ashley Norton, 25:39.540 --> 25:45.540 it seems you and your wife did go to the Drury Lane Theatre on that Christmas Eve 20 years ago. 25:45.540 --> 25:49.540 And that very night, you were both to go on to Paris. 25:49.540 --> 25:54.540 Then at the last moment, you ran into some chap who begged you to deliver a lecture the next day. 25:54.540 --> 25:57.540 You agreed, and Mrs. Ashley Norton went on ahead. 25:57.540 --> 26:00.540 You were to meet her in Paris in two days. 26:00.540 --> 26:01.540 Oh. 26:01.540 --> 26:04.540 And when you didn't come, I checked with the steamship company, 26:04.540 --> 26:06.540 and they said your ticket had been used. 26:06.540 --> 26:09.540 The thief who robbed you must have used it. 26:09.540 --> 26:13.540 But I couldn't know that. I thought you must be somewhere in France. 26:13.540 --> 26:16.540 The French police tried to trace you for years. 26:16.540 --> 26:19.540 Then I, I thought you must be dead. 26:19.540 --> 26:21.540 Oh, Roger. Roger. 26:21.540 --> 26:23.540 My dear. 26:23.540 --> 26:29.540 Oh, Sarah, do you, well, do you suppose you could call me Terrence? 26:29.540 --> 26:31.540 I've got used to it, you know, and... 26:31.540 --> 26:34.540 Oh, very well, Terrence. 26:34.540 --> 26:37.540 You haven't changed very much, really. 26:37.540 --> 26:39.540 I suppose you haven't either. 26:39.540 --> 26:42.540 By the way, I had excellent taste in women in those days. 26:42.540 --> 26:44.540 Oh, my dear. 26:44.540 --> 26:48.540 Oh. Oh, and can you ever forgive me? 26:48.540 --> 26:50.540 Forgive you? For what? 26:50.540 --> 26:51.540 The bones. 26:51.540 --> 26:54.540 Oh. The bones. 26:54.540 --> 26:55.540 Yes, I... 26:55.540 --> 26:58.540 Well, I suppose if that Mrs. Tumley hadn't been so nosy, 26:58.540 --> 27:00.540 I wouldn't have done it. 27:00.540 --> 27:03.540 But I was afraid if they found it in the house, it would look even worse. 27:03.540 --> 27:05.540 So that's why I did it. 27:05.540 --> 27:07.540 Did? Did what? 27:07.540 --> 27:12.540 Buried your demonstration skeleton in the backyard, under the holly tree. 27:12.540 --> 27:31.540 What? 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