I'm Keith Morrison and this is the final episode of Wilkie Collins, the Dead Alive.

Things are not going well for Brothers Ambrose and Silas Meadowcroft.

They're about to face a grand jury for the murder of John Jago.

And now Silas has turned against his brother has accused Ambrose of killing Jago.

Naomi Colbrooke is doing all she can to save Ambrose because she loves him. And Philip LeFrank is helping her for a very personal

reason he daren't reveal. The task seems all but hopeless.

Still, Steadfast Naomi keeps trying, having somehow got it in her head that Jago is actually still alive, somewhere, hiding in humiliation after she rebuffed him that night in the

garden.

But the whole story is about to be upended once again. This time I Ambrose himself. Our narrator attorney Philip

La Frank picks up the story once again. Chapter 10, the Sheriff and the Governor.

The Question of Time was now a serious one at Moorwick Farm.

In six weeks the court for the trial of criminal cases was to be opened at Narrowby,

and there, as we all knew, a grand jury would decide what charge to lay against

the brothers Ambrose and Silas Meadowcroft. As we waited, many letters reached us relating to our advertisement for John Jago,

but none contained any positive information. Not the slightest trace of the lost man turned

up. Now the shadow of a doubt was cast on the prosecution's argument that his body had been

destroyed in the kiln.

Silas Metacroft held firmly to the horrible confession that he had made.

His brother Ambrose, with equal resolution, asserted his innocence.

At regular periods, I accompanied Naomi to visit him in prison.

As the day appointed for the opening of the court approach, he seemed to falter a little in his

resolution. His manner became restless and he grew irritably suspicious about the

...