It's all very intriguing, and I'm not clear yet.

What do you want me to do in this matter, Mr Mason?

Can't you make it more definite?

Perhaps this will make it more definite, Mr. Holmes.

Perhaps it will.

Good Lord.

A charred fragment of bone.

Where did you get it?

There's a central heating furnace in the cellar beneath

Lady Beatrice's room. Harvey, he's one of the stable lads as charge of it. He

found a bone when he was raking the cinders this morning. He didn't like the look of it,

nor do I. What are you? this morning. He didn't like the look of it.

Nor do I?

What do you make of it, Watson?

It's the upper condyle of a human femur.

Exactly what I thought.

These are deep waters, Mr Mason.

And rather murky. Shoskum Old Place by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

dramatized for radio by Michael Bakewell.

With Clive Medicine as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr John Watson,

and featuring Nicholas La Prevo as John Mason, and Donald Pickering as Sir Robert Norbert. and Oh, Blue.

What did he say?

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