Candleshoe Page #6

more Cluny's cakes,

we ever sold before, right?

Right.

Now, you finish setting up the store. Peter

and I will take the stuff to fruit sections.

All right.

All right? Come on, Peter.

I hope we would do well today.

We have to do very well.

We have never taken as much as

a hundred pounds before.

You haven't? Well,

maybe your sales technique needs

a little overhauled

Sales technique.

Yeah. Any of what you got to sell

is the way you sell it.

Okay, okay. Walk up, folks!

Walk up folks! You have never seen

such enormous eggs in all your life. You

can dice them, spice them, fry them, scramble

them. We got round ones, large ones

white ones, small ones, anything you like.

Fantastic.

Every one laid by that famous hen,

mirrorbell.

Walk up, folks! Walk up, folks! If you're lucky

you might get lots of candy vegetables grown

by the famous gardener, Gipping, who works

with the queen of Buckingham Palace.

Who wants enormous eggs, now?

Enormous eggs.

I'll take half a dozen, please. Glad you got

here early, madam.

About half an hour all poultry

will be sold out.

Oh, in that case I'll take a dozen.

A dozen for this lady.

Okay. Don't miss our gingerbread which

Captain Joshua St. Edmund took on his

treasure hunting voyaging. Guarenteed

towards all the headaches of Carribean winds.

You can't say that. Why not?

We are selling them, aren't we?

Cakes, delicious scum cakes.

Five pence, please.

Thank you.

Thank you.

How did we do, Mr. Priory?

Unbelievably wonderful. Splendid.

The most splendid market we've

ever had.

Do you mean we nearly made up a hundred

pounds?

With what we sold to Treshers and thanks to

Casey's salesmanship it is simply graceful.

Oh, dear. Is that rain? My ladyship

is all alone. She

hates thunder.

Casey, up on your bike and go on home

and take this with you.

Go on, go on.

Go on, pack up.

Get the eggs, cakes and jams

Here take my sweater.

No, I don't want it

I have my jacket, and I'll get on

the cart. Okay.

Bobby, get those empty boxes

and put them on the cart. Okay.

Peter! Coming.

Good bye.

Get that end.

Grandmother!

Grandmother!

Who is there?

Who is that?

Shhh, Quiet!

Do you want the world to hear?

What are you doing here? Did you

put the lights off, Harry?

No, must be the storm here. Why

didn't I hear from you, he?

And what are those stuff in the

village market, he? Buy my eggs, all

large, brown,

white, boil and fry. Watch

your leg!

Well, I... I got... I got to pretend,

all like. I'm one of the family, don't I?

You have got to find that treasure. That

is what you got to do. And no mucking about.

Do you hear? What does eclipse mean?

Do you hear?

Well, I don't know, just yet. But I'm

working on it. I really am.

Priory, children.

No.

It's me, Casey, ee, Margaret.

You keep that old lady out of here, or

she dips it with this. Now, get rid of her.

Oh, Margaret, my dear, oh, I'm so

glad you are back safely.

Where are the others? All in town with

Priory.

In this dreadful weather?

They'll be back pretty soon.

Every time there is an electrical storm our

lights go dead. Priory always knows how

to fix them, though.

What do we do without him, I can't

imagine. Oh, I must go and dress for dinner.

Hey, what are you doing with that?

What does it look like?

I am taking it. Ain't I?

Yeah, but that is the money for the taxes.

That money is going to save my eye and

feed the old sharks. Say, you were attacked

by a burglar when they got back.

Yeah, but if they don't pay the taxes,

then they'll have to leave and I will not

be able to search for my clues.

So much the better. We'll have the place

to ourselves to ransack it from top to bottom.

Harry! Keep an eye on that eclipse.

I won't let you.

Harry!

Harry, wait, please.

Let's get out of here.

Harry, don't, Harry.

Get out of the way. Get out of the way,

I tell you.

Please don't.

Get off!

Get off, I said.

Stop, Harry.

AUCTION:

To be held at Candleshoe.

I checked all the wardrobes upstairs,

my lady. I'll see to other things, gramophon

and so on. All sent on to your new

address.

Thank you, Priory.

My husband and me on our wedding day.

Most handsome couple, my lady.

Yes, And this is my dance programme

from the Balberry Hill for the Prince of Wales at

Candleshoe.

The prince asked me for every dance.

My husband was furious.

Your Highness is a most striking man.

I remember the Waltz.

I believe I still have a gramophone record

of it.

Here it is. On top we had glorious times

here, hadn't we?

I thought dancing at Candleshoe would

have never end. But it has at last.

No. Soon perhaps, but not

so long as I'm here.

Please, play the gramophone record,

Priory. And you and I'll waltz.

Oh, never lady, absolutely not.

I insist.

It wouldn't be appropriate.

Would it be appropriate if I were to

waltz with Colonel Dennis?

I'm sure, he dances better than

he rides

You did him very well, Priory.

You knew, ha?

We were playing games with time,

you and I. And I thank you for it.

I'm terribly embarassed.

You needn't be. I'm very grateful for

your splendid talent and even more

for your compassion.

And now, if you please, the gramophone

record.

We're here to see Casey Brown.

Yes, she is in bed.

Hi.

This is for you.

Thanks.

These are for you, too.

They are plums.

They are kind of squashy.

Thanks.

How are you feeling?

Okay.

Oh, you are right.

They are kind of squashy.

Haven't caught the thief yet.

No?

The police haven't got anything

to go on.

Well, like I told them, I never

saw his face.

You were in the kitchen with him. You

chased him all the way through to try

to stop his car

and never saw his face?

It was dark.

Well, we have come to say goodbye.

What do you mean, goodbye?

Where are you going?

We have got to go back to church in town.

Candleshoe is being sold to pay

the rates and taxes.

What about grandma?

There is a place in the county house.

Very nice really. Lots of

people at her age.

You are putting me on, aren't you?

Grandma is at old folks' home?

With the house gone, there was

nowhere else she had to go.

Look, Casey, if there is anything you

know that you haven't told us...

I don't know anyting.

Anything.

Well, I'm afraid we must go.

Yeah.

Thanks for the plums.

Goodbye, Casey.

We'll miss you.

Don't lose your garlic.

I won't.

Goodbye.

Hey! Cluny, all of you! Come on back.

I got a few things to say.

This was the last clue.

He followed the eclipse for riches and

fame and if ye would prosper, do ye the same.

What, perfectly simple.

The eclipse was a ship.

A ship?

Captain Joshua's ship. There is a picture

of it in the house. Captain Joshua abord

the eclipse,

accepting the sword of Spanish Captain,

whose ship he had captured.

Of course, that is the clue.

Come along everyone. It is

hanging in the hall.

My Lady?

It is not hanging in the hall.

You sold it, Mr. Tresher,

you sold my painting.

It was my painting. You sold it to me.

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