Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Bedtime Story for Adults: The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie

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Starting point is 00:02:04 This is a sleep story episode where I will read out the beginning of the Agatha Christie tale, a man in the brown suit. Please do not listen to this recording or any sleep recording whilst driving or operating heavy machinery. Please listen in a place where you can safely go to sleep. Brown suit. Agatha Christie. Nadina, the Russian dancer, who had taken Paris by storm, swayed to the sound of the applause. Arrow black eyes narrowed themselves still more. In her scarlet mouth curved faintly upwards, enthusiastic Frenchmen continued to beat the ground appreciatively as the curtain fell with a swish,

Starting point is 00:03:29 hiding the red and magentous orange draperies. The dancer left the step and received her enthusiastically in his arms. It was the manager. Magnificent, petite, magnificent he cried. Tonight you have surpassed yourself. He kissed her gallantly on both cheeks. In a somewhat matter-of-fact manner, Madame Nadina accepted the tribute with the ease of a long habit

Starting point is 00:04:20 and passed onto her dressing room where bouquets were heaped carelessly everywhere marvellous garments of futuristic design hung on pegs and sweet with a scent of the mast blossoms and the more sophisticated perfumes and essences Gianne the dresser ministered to her mistress

Starting point is 00:04:51 talking incessantly and pouring out a stream of fulsome compliments and knock at the door interrupted the flow Janine went to answer it and returned with a card in her hand and will receive let me see

Starting point is 00:05:16 answer stretched out a languid hand and put at the sight of the name of the card. About Surgius Paulovich, a sudden flicker of interest came into her eyes. I will see him, Speng noir, Gian and quickly, and when the count comes in you may go. Bian, madame. Gian, exquisite wisp of corn-coloured chiffon,

Starting point is 00:06:00 slipped into it, and ironing to herself, whilst one long white hand beat a slow tattoo on the glass of the dressing table. Count was prompt to avail himself of the privilege according to him, man of medium height, very slim, very elegant, extraordinary weary. In features, little to take hold of, a man difficult to recognise again if one left his mannerisms, out of account over the dancer's hand with exaggerated courtliness.

Starting point is 00:07:00 This is a pleasure indeed. So much Cheyenne heard before she went out closing the door with her visitor. A subtle change came over in Adina's smile. Compatriates, though we are, we will not speak Russian, I think. She observed, since we neither of us know a word of the language, it might be as well, agreed her guest. By common consent they dropped into English and nobody, now that the Count's mannerisms had dropped from him, could doubt that it was his native language.

Starting point is 00:07:51 He had indeed started life as a quick change musical artist in London. had a great success tonight he remarked. I congratulate you. All the same, I am disturbed. My position is not what it was. The suspicions aroused during the war have never died down. I am continually watched and spied upon. But no charge of espionage has ever been brought against you.

Starting point is 00:08:36 Our chief laid down his plans too carefully for that. Life to the Colonel, said the Count smiling. Amazing news, is it not? That he means to retire. To retire, just like a doctor or a butcher or a plumber. Any other businessman finished Nadeena. It should not surprise us that this is what the colonel has always been, an excellent man of business.

Starting point is 00:09:11 He has organised crime as another might organise a boot factory without committing himself, he's planned and directed a series of stupendous coups, embracing every branch of what we might call his profession. Jewel robberies, forgeries, espionage, the latter very profitable and wartime, sabotage, discreet assassination. There is hardly anything he is not touched. touched. Wisest of all he knows when to stop. The game begins to be dangerous. He retires gracefully with. Hmm. It is rather upsetting for all of this. We are as a loose end as it were.

Starting point is 00:10:09 But we are being paid off on a most generous scale. Something, some undercurrent of moccarina her tone, made the man look at her sharply. She was smiling to herself, and the quality of her smile aroused his curiosity. But he proceeded diplomatically. Yes, the Colonel has always been a generous paymaster. I attribute much of success to that, and to his invariable plan, of providing a suitable scapegoat. A great brain, undoubtedly a grey brain, and an apostle of the maxim. If you want to think done safely, do not do it yourself. Here we are, every one of us incriminated up to the hilt and absolutely in his power, and not one of us has anything on him.

Starting point is 00:11:14 He paused almost as he was expecting her to disagree with him. But she remained silent, smiling to herself as before. Not one of us, he mused. He is superstitious, the old man. Years ago, I believe he went to one of these fortune-telling people. She prophesied a lifetime of success, but declared that his downfall would be brought about and interested her now. she looked up eagerly.

Starting point is 00:11:59 That is strange, very strange. For a woman you say, he smiled and shrugged his shoulders. Doubtless now he will marry some society beauty who will disperse his millions faster than he has acquired them. Listen, my friend.

Starting point is 00:12:32 Put your contract here? I shall be away only one night. Incognito. Like Royal. No one ever know that I've left France. And why do you think that I go? Hardly for pleasure at this time of year. January, a detestable foggy month.

Starting point is 00:12:57 It must be for profit. Exactly. She rose and stood in front of him. Ever graceful line of her arrogance with pride. You said just now, that none of us had anything on the chief. You were wrong. Yes, I remember.

Starting point is 00:13:35 At Kimberley, just before the war broke out? I had nothing to do with it. The case was hushed up for some reason. Was it not? A fine haul to. A hundred thousand pounds worth of stones. Two of us worked it under the Colonel's orders, of course. And it was then,

Starting point is 00:14:01 I saw my chance, you see. The plan was to substitute some of the De Beir diamonds for some sample diamonds brought from South America by two young prospectors who happened to be in Kimberley at the time. Suspicion was them bound very clever. Interpoloted the count approvingly. The Colonel is always very clever. Well, I did my part,

Starting point is 00:14:33 but I also did one thing which the colonel had not foreseen. I kept back some of the South American stones. One or two were unique and could easily be proved never to have passed through De Beers' hands. With these diamonds of my possession, I have the whip hand of my esteemed as chief. Once the two men are cleared, his part in the matter is bound to be sufficient.

Starting point is 00:15:03 I have said nothing all these years. I've been content to know that I have had this weapon in reserve. But now matters are different. I want my price, and it will be big. I might also say a staggering price. Extraordinary, said the Count. And doubtless you carry these diamonds about with you everywhere? His eyes roamed gently.

Starting point is 00:15:33 around the disordered room. Nadeena laughed softly. You need suppose nothing of the sort. I am not a fool. The diamonds are in a safe place or dream of looking for them. My dear lady, but may I venture to suggest that you are somewhat foolhardy. The Colonel is not the type of man to take kindly to be in blackmail, do you know? Not afraid of him, she laughed. There is only one man I have ever feared, and looked at her curiously. Let us hope that he will not come to life again then, he remarked likely. What do you mean? cried the dancer sharply. The Count looked slightly surprised.

Starting point is 00:16:31 I only meant that a resurrection would be awkward for you, he explained. A foolish joke. She gave a sigh of relief. No, he is dead all right. killed in the war. He was a man who once love me. In South Africa?

Starting point is 00:16:53 Ask the Count. Yes, since you ask it. In South Africa. That is your native country, is it not? She nodded. Her visitor rose and reached out for his hat. Well, he remarked, you know your own business best.

Starting point is 00:17:13 If I were you, I would fear the Colonel far more and any disillusion lover. He is a man whom it is particularly easy to underestimate. She laughed scornfully. As if I did not know him after all these years, I wonder if you do, he said softly.

Starting point is 00:17:38 I very much wonder if you do. I am not a fool, and I am not alone in this. A South African mail boat docks at Southampton, tomorrow, who has come especially from Africa at my request. Certain orders of mine. The Colonel will have not one of us to deal with, but two. Is that wise, necessary? You are sure of this man.

Starting point is 00:18:18 A rather peculiar smile played over the dancer's face. I am quite sure of him. He is inefficient, but perfectly trustworthy, she pulls. and then added in an indifferent tone of voice. As a matter of fact, he happens to be my husband. Chapter 1. Everybody has been at me, right and left to write this story. From the great, represented by Lord Naisby, to the small, represented by our late maid of all work, Emily,

Starting point is 00:19:07 whom I saw when I was last in England, Law, miss, what a beautiful book You might make out of it all Just like the pictures I admit I have certain qualifications for the task I was mixed up in the affair From the very beginning

Starting point is 00:19:27 I was in the thick of it all through And I was triumphantly In it at the death Very fortunately too The gaps that I cannot supply From my own knowledge are amply covered by Sir Euston's peddler's diary, of which he has kindly begged me to make use.

Starting point is 00:19:50 So here goes, when Beddingfield starts to narrate her adventures. I have always longed for adventures. You see, my wife had such a dreadful sameness. My father, Professor Beddingfield, was one of England's greatest living authorities on primitive man. He really was a genius.

Starting point is 00:20:16 Everyone admits that. His mind dwelt in paleolithic times, and the inconvenience of life for him was that his body inhabited the modern world. Papa did not care for modern man, even Neolithic man. He despised as a mere herder of cattle. He did not rise to enthusiasm

Starting point is 00:20:40 until he reached the Maustarian period. Unfortunately one cannot entirely dispense with modern men. One is forced to have some sort of truck with butchers and bakers and milkmen and greengrocers. Therefore, Papa, being immersed in the past, Mama having died when I was a baby. It felt for me to undertake the practical side of living Frankly, I hate Paleothic Man Repton revised most of Papas, Neanderthal Man and his ancestors Neanderthal men themselves fill me with loathing

Starting point is 00:21:27 And I always reflect what a fortunate circumstance it was That they became extant in remote ages I do not know whether Papa guessed my feelings on the subject Probably not, he would not have been interested The opinion of other people never interested him in the slightest degree It was really a sign of his greatness and the necessities of daily life He ate what was put before him in an exemplary fashion but seemed to mildly paint when the question of paying for it arose.

Starting point is 00:22:21 He never seemed to have any money. His celebrity, not the kind that brought in a cash return. However, he was a fellow of almost every important society, and he had rows of letters after his name. The general public scarcely knew of his existence, and his long-learned books, through adding, signaling to the sum total of human knowledge, had no attraction to the masses.

Starting point is 00:22:53 In one occasion, did he leap into the public gaze. He had read a paper before some society on the subject of the young of the chimpanzee. The young of the human race show anthropopoid features, whereas the young of the chimpanzee approached nearly to the human than the adult chimpanzee does. This seemed to show that whereas our ancestors were more semenian than we are, the chimpanzees were of a higher type than the present species. In other words, the chimpanzee is a degenerate.

Starting point is 00:23:43 The enterprising newspaper, the daily budget, being harder for something spicy, immediately brought itself out with the large headlines. We are not descended from monkeys. We are descended from us? Amalette Professor says chimpanzees are decadent to humans. Shortly afterwards, a reporter called to see Papa and endeavoured to introduce him to write a series of popular articles. on the theory. I've Sleldom seen Papa so angry. He turned the reporter out of the house with scant ceremony, pushed in my secret sorrow, as we were particularly short of money at the moment. In fact, for a moment, I meditated running after the young man and informing him that my father had changed his mind and would send the articles in question. I could easily have written them

Starting point is 00:24:45 myself, and the probabilities were that Papa would never have learned of the transaction, not being a reader of the Daily Budget. However, I rejected this course of being too risky, so I merely put on my best hat and went sadly down to the village to interview our justly irate grocer. The reporter from the Daily Budget was the only young man who ever came to our house. There were times when I envied Emily, our little servant, who walked out for ever occasion, offered with a large sailor to whom she fancied, in between hands, to keep her hand in, as she expressed it. She walked out with a greengrocer's young man and the chemist assistant.

Starting point is 00:25:38 I reflected sadly that I had no one to keep my hand in. All papa friends were aged professors, usually with long beards. It is true that Professor Peterson once clasped me affectionately said I had a neat little waist and then tried to kiss me. The phrase alone dated him hopelessly. No self-respecting female has had a neat little waist since I was in my cradle. Hearned for adventure, for love. and I seemed condemned to an existence of drab utility.

Starting point is 00:26:22 Each possessed a landing library full of tattered works of fiction, and I enjoyed perils and love-making at secondhand. I went to sleep dreaming of stern, silent, ruditions, and of strong men who were always, fell their opponent with a single blow. There was no one in the village who even looked as though he, could fell an opponent with a single blow or with several. There was the cinema too, the weekly episode of the Perils of Pamela.

Starting point is 00:27:01 Pamela was a magnificent young woman. Nothing daunted her. She fell out of aeroplanes, adventured in submarines, Klein skyscrapers and crept about in the underworld without turning her hair. she was not really clever the master criminal of the underworld called her each time but as he seemed loathed and knock her on the head in a simple way

Starting point is 00:27:27 and always doomed her to death in a sewer guest chamber all by some new and marvellous means the hero was always able to rescue her at the beginning of the following week's episode I used to come out of the cinema with my head in a delirious whirl And then I would get home and find a notice from the cast company

Starting point is 00:27:55 Threatening to cut us off if the extending account was not paid And yet though I did not suspect it Every moment was bringing a venture nearer to me It is possible that there are many people in the world who have never heard of the finding of an antique skull at the Broken Hill Mine in northern Rhodesia. I came down one morning to find Papa excited to the point of apoplexy. He poured up the whole story to me. You understand Anne?

Starting point is 00:28:33 Outtedly certain resemblances to the chava skull, but superficial. Superficial only. No, here we have what I have always maintained. the ancestral form of the Neanderthal race. The Gibraltar skull is the most primitive of the Neanderthal skulls found. Why, the cradle of the race was in Africa. They passed to Europe. Not marmalade on Kippa's papa, I said hastily,

Starting point is 00:29:13 arresting my parents' absent-minded hand. Yes, you were saying, they passed to your upon here he broke down with a bad fit of choking the result of an immoderate mouthful of kipper bones but we must not at once he declared as he rose to his feet at the conclusion of the meal there is no time to be lost

Starting point is 00:29:37 we must be on the spot there are doubtless incalpable finds to be found in the neighbourhood I shall be interested to note whether the implements of the typical of the Mosterium period there will be remains of the primitive ox, I would say. But not of the woolly rhinoceros. Yes, a little army will be starting soon. We must get ahead of them.

Starting point is 00:30:06 Will you write to cooks today, Anne? What about money, papa? The reproach will I upon for me. Your point of view always depresses me, my child. We must not be solved. No, no. In the course of science one must not be sorted. I feel cooks might be sorted, Papa.

Starting point is 00:30:30 Booked pained. My dear Anne, you will pay them in ready money. I haven't got any ready money, desperated. My child, I really cannot be bothered with these vulgar money details. The bank. I had something from the manager yesterday, saying I had 27% pounds. That was your overdraft I fancy. Write to my publishers. I acquiesced doubtfully.

Starting point is 00:31:07 Papa's books bringing in more glory than money. I like the idea of going to Rhodesia immensely. Stern, silent men, I murmured to myself in ecstasy, and something in my parents' appearance struck me, as unusual. You have odd boots on Papa, I said. Take off the the brown one and put the other black one on. And don't forget your muffler, it's a very cold day. In a few minutes, Papa stalked off, correctly booted and well-milled. He returned later that evening, and to my dismay, I saw his muffler and overcoat were missing. Dear me, Anne, you are quite right. I took them off to go into the cavern. One gets so dirty there. I nodded feelingly, remembering an occasion when Papa had returned to.

Starting point is 00:32:00 literally plastered from head to foot with rich clay. Our principal reason of settling in Little Hampstley had been the neighbourhood of Hampstley Cavern, a buried cave, rich in the deposits of the Orgiv Nation culture. We had a tiny museum in the village and the curator and papa spent most of their days messing about underground and bringing in to light portions of the woolly rhinoceros

Starting point is 00:32:32 and cave bear badly all the evening. I saw he had a temperature and sent for the doctor. Poor Papa, he never had a chance. It was double pneumonia. He died four days later. Chapter 2. Everyone was very kind to me. Dazed as I was.

Starting point is 00:33:09 I appreciated that I felt no overwhelming grief. Papa had never loved me. I knew that well enough. If he had, I might have loved him in return. There had been no love between us. But we had belonged together, and I had looked after him, and had secretly admired his learning,

Starting point is 00:33:37 and his uncompromising devotion to science. And it hurt me that Papa should have died just when the interest of life was at its height for him. I should have felt happier if I could have buried him in a cave with paintings of reindeer and flint implementations. But the force of public opinion constrained a neat tomb with marble slab in our hideous local churchyard. The vicar's consolations, though well meant,

Starting point is 00:34:13 did not console me to the least. It took some time to dawn upon me, but the thing I had always longed for, freedom, was at last mine. I was an orphan and practically penniless, but free. At the same time, I realised the extraordinary kindness of all these good people. The thicker did his best persuade me that his wife was an urgent need of companion help, Our tiny local library suddenly made up his mind to have an assistant librarian.

Starting point is 00:34:53 Finally, the doctor called upon me, and after making various ridiculous excuses for failing to send in a proper bill, he hummed and hoored a great deal and suddenly suggested that I should marry him. I was very much astonished. The doctor was nearer 40 than 30, and a round, tubby little man. He was not at all like the hero of the perils of Pamela, and even less like a stern and silent Rhodesian. I reflected a minute and then asked him, why he wanted to marry me?

Starting point is 00:35:34 That seemed to fluster him a good deal, and he murmured that a wife was a great help to a general practitioner. The position seemed even more unromantic than before. and yet something in me urged towards his acceptance. Safety. Thinking it over now, I believe I did the little man and injustice. He was honestly in love with me. But, and mistaken, delicacy prevented him from pressing his suit on those lines of romance rebelled.

Starting point is 00:36:21 It's extremely kind of you, I said, but it's impossible. I could never marry a man unless I loved him man. You don't think? No, I don't, I said firmly. He sighed. But my dear child, what do you propose to do? Have adventures and see the world are applied, without the least hesitation. Miss Anne, you are very much of a child still.

Starting point is 00:36:47 You don't understand. The practical difficulties? Yes, I do, Doctor. I am not a sentimental schoolgirl. I am a hard-headed. I am a hard-headed mercenary shrew. You should know it if you married me. I'd wish you reconsider, aren't I said.

Starting point is 00:37:08 He sighed again. I have another proposal to make. An aunt of mine who lives in Wales is the want of a young lady to help her. How would that suit you? No, doctor. I'm going to London. If things happen anywhere, they happen in London. I shall keep my eyes open

Starting point is 00:37:27 and you'll see something will turn up you'll hear of me next in China or Timbuktu the next visitor was Mr Fleming Papa's London solicitor he came down specially

Starting point is 00:37:41 from town to see me an ardent anthropologist himself he was a great admirer of Papa's works he was a tall spare man with a thin face and grey hair

Starting point is 00:37:55 he rose to meet me as I entered the room, and taking both my hands and his, patted them affectionately. My poor child, he said, my poor, poor child. Without conscious hypocrisy, I found myself assuming the demeanour of a bereaved orphan. He hypnotised me into it. He was a kind and fatherly, and without the least doubt he regarded me as a perfect fool of a girl left adrift to face an unkind world. from the first I felt that it was quite useless to try to convince him to the contrary.

Starting point is 00:38:36 As things turned out, perhaps it was just as well I didn't. My dear child, do you think you can listen to me whilst I'll try and make a few things clear to you? Oh yes. Your father, as you know, was a very great man. You will appreciate him, but he was not a good man of business. I knew that quite well. It is not better than Mr Fleming But I restrained myself from saying so he continued

Starting point is 00:39:05 I do not suppose you can understand much of these matters I will try to explain as clearly as I can He explained At an unnecessary lump The op-shot seemed to be that I had left a face Life with a sum of £87 £17 shillings and fourpence It deemed a strangely unsatisfying amount I waited in some trepidation for what was coming next.

Starting point is 00:39:35 I feared that Mr Fleming might be sure to have an aunt in Scotland who was in want of a bright young companion. Apparently, however, he hadn't. The question is, he went on, the future. I understand you have no living relatives. I'm alone in this world, I said, and was struck in you by my likeness to a film heroine. You have friends,

Starting point is 00:39:59 everyone has been very kind to me I said gratefully Who would not be kind to one so young and charming Said Mr Fleming Gallinately Well my dear we must see what can be done He hesitated a minute and said Supposing how would it be if you came to us for a time I jumped at the chance

Starting point is 00:40:21 London The place for things to happen It's awfully kind of you I said Might I really Just while I'm looking round I must start to learn a living On my own, you know Yes, yes my dear child

Starting point is 00:40:37 I quite understand We will look rather something suitable I felt indistinctively That Mr Fleming's ideas of something suitable And mine were likely to be wildly divergent But it's certainly Not the moment to air my views That is settled then

Starting point is 00:40:57 why not return with me today? Oh, thank you, but will Mrs Fleming? My wife will be delighted to welcome you. I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first. We will send her a wife and the station, continued the lawyer.

Starting point is 00:41:22 My few personal belongings were soon packed. I contemplated my hat sadly. before putting it on. It had originally been a Mary hat, meaning by that the kind of a hat a housemaid ought to wear on her day out, but doesn't.

Starting point is 00:41:41 A limp thing of black straw was a suitably depressed brim. With the inspiration of genius, I had it kicked, it once, punched it twice, dented in the crowd, and affixed it a thing like a cubist dream of a jazz carrot.

Starting point is 00:42:04 The result had been distinctively chic. A carrot I had already removed the course and now I proceeded to undo the rest of my handiwork. The Mary hat resumed its former status with an additional battered appearance which made it even more depressing than formerly. I might as well look as much as much. much like the popular conception of an orphan as possible.

Starting point is 00:42:32 I was just a shade of nervous of Mrs. Fleming's reception, but hoped my appearance might have sufficiently disarming effect. Mr Fleming was nervous too. I realised that as we went up the stairs at the tall house in a quiet Kensington Square. Mrs. Fleming greeted me pleasantly enough. She was a stout, pleasant woman. of the good wife and mother type.

Starting point is 00:43:02 She took me up to a spotless chinks-home bedroom, hoped I had everything I needed, informed me that tea would be ready in about a quarter of an hour and left me to my own devices. I heard a voice slightly erased as she entered the drawing room below on the first floor. Well, Henry, why on earth? I lost the rest.

Starting point is 00:43:26 But the tone was evident. And a few minutes later, another friend. floated up to me in her even more acid voice. I agree with you. She is certainly very good-looking. It was really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are. With the deep sigh, I proceeded to do things in my hair. I have nice hair. It is black, a real black, not dark brown, and it grows well back from my forehead. down over the ears with the roofless hand, I dragged it upwards. As my ears are quite all right, there is no doubt about it.

Starting point is 00:44:13 Ears are demode nowadays, the Queen of Spain's legs in Professor Peterson's young days. When it had finished, I looked almost unbelievable, like the kind of orphan that walks out in a queue with a little bonnet and a red cloak. I noticed when I went down that Mrs. Fleming's eyes rested on my exposed ears with a quite kindly glance. Mr. Fleming seemed puzzled. I had no doubt that he was saying to himself, What has the child done to herself? On the whole, the rest of the day passed off quite well. It was settled that I had to start to look for something to do.

Starting point is 00:44:57 When I went to bed, I stared earnestly at my face in the glass. Was I really good looking? Honestly, I couldn't say. I thought so. I hadn't got a straight Grecian nose or a rosebud mouth or any of the things you ought to have. It is true that a curate once told me that my eyes were like imprisoned sunshine in a dark, dark wood,

Starting point is 00:45:22 but curates often know so many questions and fire them off at random. I prefer to have Irish blue eyes than dark green ones with yellow flecks. Still green is a good colour for adventurers'es. I wound a black garment tightly around me, leaving my arms and shoulders bare, then I brushed my hair and pulled it down over to my ears again.

Starting point is 00:45:48 A lot of powder on my face, so that the skin seemed even whiter than usual, I fished about into I found some old lips of and put oceans on my lips. Then I did under my eyes with a burnt cork Finally I draped a red ribbon Over my bare shoulders And stuck a scarlet feather in my hair

Starting point is 00:46:10 And placed a cigarette in one corner of my mouth The whole effect pleased me very much Anna the Adventurous I said loud nodding at the reflection Anna the Adventurous Episode 1 The House in Kensington girls are foolish things

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Bedtime Story for Adults: The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie

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