Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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2,747 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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"'Yes, a provisional one, but I shall be surprised if it does not turn out to be correct.
This woman's first husband is in that cottage.'
"'Why do you think so?'
"'How else can we explain her frenzied anxiety that her second one should not enter it?
The facts, as I read them, are something like this.'
This woman was married in America.
Her husband developed some hateful qualities, or shall we say that he contracted some loathsome disease, and became a leper or an imbecile.
She flies from him at last, returns to England, changes her name, and starts her life as she thinks afresh.
She has been married three years, and believes that her position is quite secure and
having shown her husband the death certificate of some man whose name she has assumed, when suddenly her whereabouts is discovered by her first husband, or, we may suppose, by some unscrupulous woman who has attached herself to the invalid.
They write to the wife, and threaten to come and expose her,
she asks for a hundred pounds and endeavours to buy them off they come in spite of it and when the husband mentions casually to the wife that there are new-comers in the cottage she knows in some way that they are her pursuers she waits until her husband is asleep
and then she rushes down to endeavour to persuade them to leave her in peace.
Having no success, she goes again next morning, and her husband meets her, as he has told us, as she comes out.
She promises him, then, not to go there again, but two days afterwards the hope of getting rid of those dreadful neighbours was too strong for her, and she made another attempt, taking down with her the photograph which had probably been demanded from her.
In the midst of this interview the maid rushed in to say that the master had come home, on which the wife, knowing that he would come straight down to the cottage, hurried the inmates out the back door, into the grove of fir-trees, probably, which was mentioned as standing near.
In this way he found the place deserted.
I shall be very much surprised, however, if it is still so when he reconnoitres it this evening.
What do you think of my theory?'
"'It is all surmise,'
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