The Original and Immortal Stories of Sir Arthur Colan Doyle dramatized Daniel with Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson and Sir John Gielgud in the role of Sherlock Holme.

I shall never forget.

That April morning when I asher be is Helen Stoner into our city room.

She's the most attractive young lady, dressed in black when heavenly veiled and appeared much districted.

It's not the cold to make this ship, mister Holmes fhear terror.

I can stand this train no longer.

I should go mad if it continues.

I no want to turn to Even my fiance believes in my imagination, must have.

Fear will soon set matters to write.

So I no doubt my name is Helen Stoner.

When I'm living with my step father, who is the last survivor one of the oldest families in England, the Royal ut of Stoke, Moran on the western border of.

Study, the name is familiar to me in them.

The family used to be very rich.

Now there is nothing left say the few acres and an old house crushed under a heavy mortgage.

Eight years ago, when my mother died was your mother a wealthy woman.

She had a fortune of some thousand pounds a year, which she bequeathed to doctor Roylet entirely so long as we resided with him, with the provision that a certain annual son should be allowed to both Julia and myself if either it us should marry.

But tell me, did doctor Roylot continue to practice after your return to England.

No?

Not.

After the death of my mother.

He took my sister and me to live with him at Stoke, Moran, and for a time we were quite happy together.

But a terrible change began to come over our stepfather.

He shut himself up and came up to indulge in violent quarrels with his neighbors.

He's ended by becoming literally feared in the village.

He has no friends at all but the wandering bands of gypsies he allows to camp.

In his grounds.

He's a collector of strange animals.

He has an Indian cheetah and a baboon which wander freely over the estate, and was feared by the villagers almost.

As much as he is.

No servant would stay with us.

We had to do all the work of the house.

He could imagine what it was like for my sister me and when she died.

Though she was only thirty, Julia's hair had begun to turn white.

Even his mind had.

Nor sister bar just two years ago, soon after she has become engaged to be married, only a fortnight before the wedding, she died in terrible secnten.

Did your stepfather offer any objection I married.

No, he didn't appear to.

The circumstances of your sister's death.

It please be precise at the detail.

It's easy to be so, for every event of that dreadful time is feared into my memory.

As I said, the manor house is very old, and only one wing is now use.

The bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, first my stepfather's, then my sisters and then mine.

There's no communication between them, but they open on the same carri door and look out out of the same lawn.

That night, Doctor Roylost, my stepfather.

Had gone to his room early, but was not yet.

Asleep, for my sister was troubled by the strong smell.

Of his Indian cigar.

She left her room and came into mine.

Where she sat chatting about her coming wedding.

Well, Helena, how are you getting back to bed?

He must be asleep by now, my way.

Have you ever heard a strange whistle in the dead of night?

A whistle?

No?

Why did?

The last few nights about three in the morning, I've been wakened by a low, clear whistle.

I haven't heard it, But then I sleep more heavily than you do, boy, and it's of no consequence.

Good night.

I couldn't sleep that night.

I'd locked my door after Julia left and heard her love hers too.

We always locked our doors for fear of the cheetah and a baboon that were left out.

Every night in the grounds.

I remember that it was a wild night.

The wind was hounding outside in the rain and bitting against the window.

I heard a terrible premonition of evil.

And suddenly, through the storm I knew my sister would screamed.

I sprang from my bed, wrapped ashore around me, and rushed into the corner door.

As I opened my door, I heard.

A distant whistle.

A whistle, and a clanging sound, as if a massive metal.

Had fallen somewhere.

As I land towards it my sister's doors, I knocked as slowly swung open the light of the lamp.

I saw her standing there, her face danced with terror, her hands groping for help, her whole figure swaying.

Tong thro and Nil gave way and she fell to the ground.

She only screamed the one thing before she died in my arms.

It was the band, the stickled band.

It seems that Julius Turner's death was carefully investigated by the local coroner.

The doctor Rylett's conduct had been notorious in the conte and foul player was suspected, but no satisfactory explanation of the tragedy was ever found.

The doctor had been asleep in his room, the scream had waited him.

Julia's room had been locked on the inside, the windows heavily shuttered, the chimney was barred by iron staples.

It was certain that Julia Stoner had been quite alone when she had met her end.

There was nothing to indicate how she had met it.

There were no marks of violence on the body, and the doctors could find no evidence of poison.

It's my belief that she.

Died of sheer terror and nervous shock.

Though what it was to frighten I cannot imagine were any gypsies camping in the plantation at the.

Time, Yes, there had nearly always come there.

And what did you gather from her illusionment to the speckled dam?

Sometimes I've thought it was merely delirium.

Sometimes I wonder if it might have referred to some band of people, perhaps those very gypsies in the plantation with their spotted handkerchiefs on their heads.

He's a very deep water, as Miss Stone up, please go on.

Two years have passed since then, and until lately my life has been lonelier than ever.

A month ago, however, I became engaged to be married to a mister Armitage, a neighbor arising, a very dear friend.

I feared my stepfather might offer objections, but he has made no difficulties, and we are to be married later this spring.

Yeah.

Two days ago some repairs were started in the west wing, so.

That I've had to move out of my own room into the room next door, the room which.

My sister died.

Last night, I lay awake, thinking of her terrible faith.

I suddenly heard, in the silence of the night that same low whistle.

Though her room was locked and there appeared to be nothing wrong, when she sprang out of bed and lit her lamp and then Stona, being too.

Enrified to go back to bed.

As soon as it was light, she caught an early morning claim to London that.

Comes straight round to ask the advice of Sherlock Holmes.

You were done very widely.

So are you sure you've told me everything?

Yes?

Everything?

I think you are still shielding your stepfather, Miss Stone, isn't at the mark of his grip there on your wrist.

He's a hard man.

Perhaps he hardly knows his own strength.

This is a very deep business, and from what you've told me, there may not be a moment to lose if we were to come down to Stoke more than today.

Would it be possible to see over the bedrooms without the knowledge of your stepfather?

I think so.

He told me last night he was coming to London for the day.

There should be now under this turkey excellent and we shall both come.

What are you going to do yourself?

I have one or two things to attend to in town that I shall be home shortly afternoon, and.

You may expect us earlier this afternoon, Miss Turner.

Goodbye for the present.

We discussed many possible theories.

After Miss Turner had left, we were in the midst of our deliberations when we received another visitor, Which of.

You is Holmes my name's but you have the advantage of me.

I am doctor Grimes de roy lift stonewareun.

My stepdaughter has been here.

What has she been saying to you?

It is a little cold at the time of the year.

What has she been saying to you?

I have heard that the crocuses promised very well die you'll put me off to you.

I know Miss Conor has been to see you, but don't show there medline by your pairs.

I'm a dangerous man to fall our love.

See that you kick us up out of micro Ah like.

This poker, I'll.

An amiable person bending our poker almost doub observed.

I am not quite so bulky.

But if he remained, I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own.

There, I think that's just about stake again.

You know, idea, what this little incident gives a news as to our investigations.

We shall certainly see what we can find.

That's take more.

This afternoon, Good afternoon.

Miss Sterner.

You said to have.

Been as good as our work have been waiting for you.

Now we must make the best use of our time, So kindly take us at once to the room of the other Weeksamin.

The building was of gray nitching blocked stone, with a high central portion and two curving wounds like the paws of a crab thrown out on each side.

The central block and the east wing were empty and in poor repair.

The lines to the windows and blue smoke curving up from the kidneys showed that part of the west wing in which the sanity resided some scaffold egmond being erected against the end wall, and the stone work had been broken into it, but there was no work.

When about Homes examined the.

Outsides of the three bedroom windows with the closest attendance.

This I think he belonged to the room in which you used to sleep.

The center one is your sister's room, and the one next to the main building is doctor Roylot's.

Yes, but I'm hitting in the middle one, of course, tending the alterations as I understand right away, But it will seemed to be in a pressing.

Need for affairs to that end wall there were none.

I believe that it was an excuse to move me from my own room into my sister's ah.

That is suggestive.

Well, these windows and shutters are quite firm.

No one could possibly get in this way if they were firmly bolted on the inside.

We shall have to see if the rooms themselves sow any light on this matter.

A small side door leading to the whitewashed corridor from which the three bedrooms opened, Holdens passed once into the room in which Helen's shoneer was now sleeping in the middle one of the three, the bedroom in which.

Her sister had met her death.

It was a whole little room, played in a furnished Holden's eyes traveled.

Round and round, up and down, taking in every detail.

What did that bell communicate with the housekeeper room?

It looks newer than the other thing.

Yes, it was put in a.

Couple of years ago, just before night.

Can't think why she certainly never used it.

Indeed, for such a nice long bell pull that it convenient.

I should have thought.

Potastol hangs down to the very pillow.

Let me see why it's a dummy, won't you bring No, not even attached to a wire.

You can see it's.

Fastened to a hook up there just above them.

It's opening the ventilator.

Okay, it's surd I never edited before, very schange.

What fool of the builder would open the ventilator into the next room when you might have made it through the outer wall into the fresh air.

So that's also quite modern.

It was done about the same time as the billop.

There were several little changes cutted out about that.

Time, shortly before your sister's death.

Why yes, we moved into the bedroom next door, the room of doctor Robert.

It was larger than his stepdaughters, but just as train.

They furnished a camp bed, an armchair, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a round the table, and a large iron safe with the principal things which.

Met their eye.

Once again, Holmes examined them all with accused interest.

In one corner of the day he found a small dog lash naughty so as to make a loop of the whipcorn.

Oh, this is interesting.

What do you make of that?

Watson is common enough, flash, I don't see why it should be tied into a loop.

And that's not quite so common as it, Miss Sterner, What does your stepfather keep in the safe?

Here?

His Disney papers oh, you've seen inside them only once some years ago.

It was full of papers.

Then there wasn't a cat in it by any chance.

No, what's this change idea?

Well then why the saucer of milk standing.

On the top of it?

And no, we don't keep a cat.

But as I told you that the chee turned to the blue ah.

Yes of all, well, a cheetah is just a big cat and yet a also, no, it doesn't go very far.

As satisfied, I dare say.

Now, just one more point, let me examine this wooden chair.

Very interesting, And now, miss Stern, I want you to do listen carefully and follow my advice and avory respect.

I assure you that I'm in your hands as to hold your life may depend on it.

The matter is too serious for any hesitation in the first place.

Then doctor Watson and I must spend the night.

Here in your room.

Let's have a guest door.

Oh no, let me explain, my dear Watson.

You must turn him at retire to your room on pretense for the headache.

When your stepfather comes back.

When you hear him retire for the night into this next doorroom.

You must open the shutters of your window.

Undo the hasp put your lamp.

There as a signal to was you shall see it from other day in the bellach.

Then go back.

Into your old room.

Despite the return, will start Purdy to work for one night.

Oh yes, of course, we shall spend the night in the middle room, and then we shall be able to investigate the cause of this noise, which is sty statue.

Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging rooms at the village, in from which we could command a view of the inhabited wing of Stoke.

Modern mana house.

At dusk we saw doctor Grime's bay Roolet drive past, lashing his horse.

The trap turned into the Nana drive, and in a few moments we saw sudden light spring up among the trees as the lamp was lit in one of the sitting rooms.

You know what's night?

Come scruples about taking you tonight as a distinctive element of danger.

Can I be of the system your presence might be invaluable?

Then I'll certainly come.

But you speak of danger.

You obviously seem more these rooms and was visible to me.

No, But I fancy I may have deduced a little more.

I imagine that you saw all I did.

I saw nothing remarkable save the devil world.

But what purf you saw the ventilator too, Yes, there's nothing very unusual about that.

There's a just a curious coincidence in dates.

A ventilator is made, a cord is hunging, and a lady who sleeps in the bed below dies.

Does that not strike You can't as yet see any connection.

Did you observe anything very peculiar about the bed?

No, it was clamped to the floor so that they must always be in the same position relative to the ventilator and the bell rope hose.

I seem to see dimay once you're driving at it.

We're only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible crime.

Yes, what's the nighting?

We shall have harders enough before the night robe.

About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, and all was dark in the manor house.

Two hours passed slowly away, and then suddenly a single bright light shone out from the darkness of the west wind.

Let her single.

It comes from the middle window.

Come on.

There was a little difficulty in entering the grounds through a hole in the park wall.

We crossed the lawn, and we came to the open window, when out of a clump of laurel bushes there darted what seemed to be a hugeous and disported child, which threw itself on the grass with writhing limb, and then ran swiftly into the darkness.

Why heavens you know, did you see that?

Homes here?

A nice household?

That was the baboon quick quickened through the windows before we visited by the cheetahs.

We silently climbed inside, closing the shutters and moving the lamp on to the table.

Holmes cast his eyes round the room.

All was as we had seen.

It that afternoon.

We would sit without a light.

You can see it through the ventilator.

Yes, don't fall asleep, you're very light.

Way to bend uponnet at y'll dissed already in case you should need it.

I took out my revolver, and I laid it on the corner of the table.

Omes I bought a long staining cane with him, which he laid on the bed beside him.

Next to it, he placed a box of matches in a candle.

Then he turned out the lamp.

And we were left in utter darkness.

How shall I ever forget that dreadful LIBI From outside came the occasional.

Cry of a bird of the night, and once at our very window a long.

Drawn catlike wine, which told us that the cheetah was indeed at liberty.

Twelve o'clock struck one o'clock, two o'clock three.

Still we sat waiting silently for that the night before.

Suddenly there was a great gleam of light on the ventilator.

It vanished immediately burning the smell of burning oil.

He the nkel some on the next room lit a dark cleft.

I heard a gentle sound of movement.

Then for half an hour the skilenk.

Again one points another sound, a very gentle seal, even sound like that of a small jet of scheme eskinkling from a kettle.

You see it, not see it?

Fighting a match hold clip from the day was lighting pure and say kay a the bell pull as the match glad.

I had a n clear second whittle in the groom.

I could still not see what Homes was at tackle.

He so fancy.

All I could see he was for horror, unble loathing on his tale grown page.

That's scream.

It was horrible what can it mean?

It means not?

From the door over, take your pip flum coming me in doctor Roylot's room.

In doctor rolet room, he was a strange and terrible sight of mad eyes.

On the table stood the dark ramthem with a shutter half open, playing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was a guard beside his table's pet.

Doctor grindsby Roylet, having a long breaking down.

His chin was copped upwards and his.

Eyes were fixed in a bulletful.

Rigid stare.

At the corner of the ceiling.

About his brow, he had a peculiar yellow gun with.

Brownish stickles, which seemed to be bound tightly round head.

Damn what means the speckled dam The speckled damn around the head of the dead man was.

A snake, a dead year snake in India, an adder, a formbadder and dust and Brown's ball.

Violet I dyed ten seconds after that stake had bitten.

Their violence does includively coil upon the violin, and the schema falls into the pit that he digs from another there a sust this creature back into them as he stroke home.

Drew the dog with swiftly from the dead man's lap, and throwing the knotted loot round the reptile's neck, drew it from its horrid perch, and threw.

It into your hand.

See so now, my dear fellow, we can remove the stn out of some tape of shelter and let the country police know what was happening.

Back in our room.

Was Baker Street that evening phone his linking type and filled in a field the gap.

I had come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows my dear watching how dangerous it over is.

The reasons and insufficient.

Data, the presence of the gypsies, and the use of the word banned.

That poor girl Julia obviously adils the snake as she struck a match.

Well, there was decision to put me on an entirely wrong scent.

I only corrected my mistake, and.

I saw how impossible it was to enter the room either by the door or the window.

The bell rope, the ventilator and the camp there then gave rise to the suspicion.

But the ropes were there.

As a bridge for something passing.

Through the hole and coming down to the base.

The idea of the snake instantly occurred to me, for as.

He knew or lady the doctor had his own sply of strange pets.

From India, and the whistle and the klang, the whistle of the.

Doctor's signal to recall the snake before the morning light could reveal it to the victim.

After all, once it had come down the bill robe, it might or might not have bitten the victim.

But two or later the doctor used it would.

I had come to these conclusions before I entered this room.

You seem to reduce something with in the wooden chair before you had.

To stand on that brief the ventinator, the forcer of loop, the loop of foot cord, the iron safe, but enough to be spelling it doubts that might have remained the metallic pang.

I suppose with the doctor sutting in the snake in the safe again exactly, and not the window shutter being.

Replaced as at first I had supposed.

The blurred of my cane of court drove the group back to the ventilator and the large distemper it was adle to buy the first person afore so, in a way I must be responsible for doctor Roylott's death.

But I cannot say it.

I waited the heavenly on my conscience.

A draw up your chair to the far, my dear fellow, and be so good as to hand me my violin.

The only problem we have to solve now, my dear Watson, is how to while away these rather chimney apron evening.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories of Sir ARTHURH.

Colin Doyle, have been dramatized a new with original music composed by Sydney Bought.

Sir Ralph Witchardson played the part of doctor Watson and Sir John Gilderd that of Sherlock Holmes.

A program was produced by Harry Alan Towers.