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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Case of the Sussex Vampire Basil Rathbone, Nigel · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, which of your many Sherlock Holmes's adventures
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  Speaker 1: have you decided to tell us this evening?
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  Speaker 2: Will to tell the truth?
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  Speaker 3: I was in a quandary as to where to begin
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  Speaker 3: until I received a communication by this afternoon's post.
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  Speaker 2: Oh here it is.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Wedding announcement Gloria Waverley Pembroke to Juan Fernando Ferguson, Say,
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  Speaker 1: that's a strange combination of names. Juan Fernando Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor, Yes, Sir, Juan Fernando Ferguson was the victim in
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  Speaker 3: the Case of the Sussex Vampire, although he was hardly
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  Speaker 3: a year old at the time, The Case of the
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  Speaker 3: Sussex Vampire.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds promising. Just what is a vampire? Doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 3: That's the exact same question that Holmes put to me
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  Speaker 3: at the beginning of this case. But before we go
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  Speaker 3: into the subjects, suppose you say a few were chosen
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  Speaker 3: words on another subject, a subject we're very pleased to
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  Speaker 3: hear about on this program.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, doctor Watson, a few words that give
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  Speaker 1: you the whole story. In a nutshell. Of these tlipper
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  Speaker 1: crap clothes are the best values in suits, top coats
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  Speaker 1: and overcoats you've ever seen. Now you have every right
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  Speaker 1: to say to me, how do you explain that, mister Harris,
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  Speaker 1: tell us what makes it so well? Explaining Clippercraft's great
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  Speaker 1: values as simple as abc their planned values. They take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of all the ingenuity their makers can bring to bear.
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  Speaker 1: The Clippercraft plan concentrates the buying power of nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty four leading stores across the nation, making tremendous
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  Speaker 1: savings and manufacturing and distribution costs. You get the savings
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  Speaker 1: this brigiant plan makes possible. What's more, you'll get them
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  Speaker 1: at your own local independence store, at the store you
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  Speaker 1: can trust. Until you see them, you wouldn't believe such
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  Speaker 1: beautifully tailored suits were possible at only forty and forty
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  Speaker 1: five dollars, such handsome topcoats and overcoats at only forty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Clipper Craft values are so downright remarkable. We urge you
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  Speaker 1: to compare them with clothes selling for many dollars. More.
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  Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson to return to the case of
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  Speaker 1: the Sussex Vampire.
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  Speaker 3: It was a blustery afternoon, mister Hallis, early in November
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  Speaker 3: in the year.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see somewhere early in the nineteen hundreds.
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  Speaker 3: Well, at any rate, I had returned to our rooms
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  Speaker 3: in Baker Street to find homes standing before the huge
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  Speaker 3: reference books he had compiled for himself, the volume v
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  Speaker 3: in his hands, and a critical look on his face.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, very well, Watson, you look a trifle wind blow.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't take any brilliant deduction on your part
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  Speaker 3: to ascertain that fact. My dear herbs, what a gale.
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  Speaker 3: It fairly tears the coat off your back. I had
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  Speaker 3: to chase my hat almost the entire length of Kensington Gardens.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm completely exhausted.
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  Speaker 4: Nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: A little strenuous exercise is good for you, then.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you indulge in it more frequently?
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to. My waistline isn't becoming unmanageable.
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  Speaker 3: Whether there's nothing nothing matter with my waistline a bit
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  Speaker 3: more substantial than yours?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps, pretty whats Watson? Stop your spluttering. I haven't time
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  Speaker 1: to listen with something more serious on hand.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I say a new case.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't decided, Watson, in your own invaluable opinion, just
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  Speaker 1: what is a vampire?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I thought you didn't have time for any little tattle.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't my questions entirely serious.
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  Speaker 2: Vampire?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, a vampire supposed to be a sort of walking
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  Speaker 3: corpse that lives by sucking human blood and can only
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  Speaker 3: be held in its grave by a stake driven through
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  Speaker 3: its heart.
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  Speaker 2: It's a purely legendary figure, like a were wolves and
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  Speaker 2: sea serpents.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly a childish bugaboo, pure rubbish, just a result.
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  Speaker 3: Of a lot of ignorant peasants frightening each other their
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  Speaker 3: imaginations run away with them. Hocus pocus like that could
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  Speaker 3: ever become.
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  Speaker 2: Current in England.
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  Speaker 1: No superstition. It's a difficult thing to stamp out this letter?
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  Speaker 2: Oh what is it? The hysterical ravings of some neurotic female.
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  Speaker 1: On the contrary, it's a business letter from Morrison, Morrison
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  Speaker 1: and Dot, one of the oldest and most reputable law
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  Speaker 1: firms in the city.
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  Speaker 3: Read it, mister Sherlock Holmes in re vampires, Sir, our client,
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  Speaker 3: mister Robert Ferguson Ferguson in your head tea brokers of
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  Speaker 3: Mincing Lane, has made some inquiry from us concerning vampires.
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  Speaker 3: As our firm specializes upon the assessment of machinery. The
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  Speaker 3: matter hardly comes within our purview, and we have therefore
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  Speaker 3: recommended mister Ferguson to lay the matter before you.
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  Speaker 1: The question now is does it come within our purview?
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  Speaker 3: Whither we seem to have been switched into Grimm's fairy tale.
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  Speaker 3: We may as well expect a witch on a broomstick
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  Speaker 3: to come flying down the chimney.
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  Speaker 1: Well, anything's better than Stagniian name wantson besides stamping out
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  Speaker 1: superstitions one of my hobbies. Now, what come in? Come in? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: good on, missu Hudson. A letter for you, sir, came
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  Speaker 1: by the light post from mister Robert Ferguson, Cheeseman's Lamberley.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, missus Mutson, thank you. I don't mention it, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Oh this mister Ferguson doesn't seem to have lost any
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  Speaker 3: time in getting in touch with your homes.
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  Speaker 1: The matter must be fairly urgent. Cheeseman's Lamberley. Where is Lamberley, Watson.
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  Speaker 2: In Sussex, south of Horsham.
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  Speaker 1: Read the letter. There's a good fellow of really homes.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be coming more indolent every day, Webbish.
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  Speaker 1: Just because I sit here relaxed with my eyes closed
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean I'm not mentally alert, but get on with
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  Speaker 1: the letter. Get on with it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll wait a minute, can't You will wait like
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  Speaker 3: it's out.
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  Speaker 4: Of the envelope.
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  Speaker 2: There we are, my dear mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: I have been recommended to you by my lawyers, but
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  Speaker 3: the matter is so delicate I I hardly know how
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  Speaker 3: to explain it to you. Some five years ago I
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  Speaker 3: married a South American lady, the daughter of a Peruvian merchant.
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  Speaker 3: She's a very beautiful and most loving wife, but I
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  Speaker 3: cannot help feeling that there are sides of her character
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  Speaker 3: which I never explore or understand. A few months ago
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  Speaker 3: she began to show some curious traits, quite alien to
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  Speaker 3: her ordinarily sweet and gentle disposition.
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  Speaker 2: This is my second marriage.
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  Speaker 3: I have one son by my first wife, charming and affectionate,
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  Speaker 3: but a cripple. Twice my wife was caught in the
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  Speaker 3: act of assaulting this poor lad in the most brutal
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  Speaker 3: and unprovoked way. That was a small matter, however, compared
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  Speaker 3: with her conduct to her own child, a beautiful boy
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  Speaker 3: just under one year of age.
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  Speaker 2: The story, if true, is almost.
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  Speaker 4: Too horrible to mention.
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  Speaker 3: One day, one afternoon last week, I heard my older
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  Speaker 3: boy screaming upstairs. Almost immediately, the baby's nurse burst into
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  Speaker 3: the room and begged me to follow her, as my
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  Speaker 3: wife was in one of her spells.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go, let me go.
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  Speaker 5: Your having me, mister Ferguson, Sir, come quick, it's your wife.
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  Speaker 4: She just took bed again. What she's beating the boy? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Horr is so.
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  Speaker 4: She'll killing good? This is dreadful. Come along, nurse.
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  Speaker 2: You're twisting my arm.
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  Speaker 4: Oh stop hitting me.
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  Speaker 6: Stop, I'm coming, checking, I'm coming, Tina, Tina, let the
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  Speaker 6: boye go, I say, let the boy go.
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  Speaker 4: Father, Look, father, she hit me? Why you've raised a
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  Speaker 4: great wealth on his arm? This is too much, Tina,
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  Speaker 4: How you're going crazy?
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  Speaker 1: I hate him?
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  Speaker 4: I hate him, your little beat After all, Teina, he
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  Speaker 4: is my son, And how can you be so in human?
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  Speaker 4: It is because I love you. Thought you understand I.
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  Speaker 5: Would sacrifice myself rather than break your heart.
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  Speaker 4: You must believe me, You must trust me, yes, But
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  Speaker 4: what do you want me to believe? I cannot tell.
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  Speaker 4: But you must trust After all, actions speak louder than words.
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  Speaker 4: How can I believe you love me when I see
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  Speaker 4: you tottering my son? I hate him?
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  Speaker 5: Take him away next time it you're delirious.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. You're delirious, don't you think so? Nurse?
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  Speaker 5: It's worse than that.
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  Speaker 4: She's possessed of the devil. She and Dolores.
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  Speaker 5: That blackhead made of his Dolores practices. Strange writes up
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  Speaker 5: in her room. She's a voodoo I.
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  Speaker 4: Tell you, Oh, Nanson, this is going too far, And
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  Speaker 4: the whole house turned into bedroom. Really, Nurse Dolris is
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  Speaker 4: from Latin America. Just because she does things you don't
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  Speaker 4: understand doesn't make her a witch. It's all quite easily explained.
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  Speaker 5: There's something going on in this house. You can't explain
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  Speaker 5: so easy, no matter how you try. What do you
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  Speaker 5: mean what I saw in the nursery this afternoon, just
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  Speaker 5: before she started into beating Jackie.
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  Speaker 4: Don't tell you, promise not to rue. For the love
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  Speaker 4: of heaven, don't te Tina be quiet? What did you find? Nurse?
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  Speaker 5: I was out in the back hall, woman in the
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  Speaker 5: baby's bottle, when all of a sudden I heard a
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  Speaker 5: loud cry, like.
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  Speaker 4: He was in pain.
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  Speaker 5: I ran in to find out what the matter was,
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  Speaker 5: and there she was leaning over the baby.
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  Speaker 4: I screamed.
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  Speaker 5: She looked up and there was blood on her face.
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  Speaker 5: She's a vampire, that's what she is.
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  Speaker 1: Of vampires, HM, thoroughly unsavory. Watson go on with the letter.
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  Speaker 3: Ever since then, the nurse has guarded the child day
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  Speaker 3: and night, and day and night. The silent, watchful mother
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  Speaker 3: seems to be lying in wait as a wolf for
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  Speaker 3: a lamb. For the rest, she confines herself to her
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  Speaker 3: own room and will see none of us. I know
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  Speaker 3: this will all sound most fantastic to you, mister Holmes,
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  Speaker 3: vampirism in the heart of Sussex. And yet I beg
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  Speaker 3: of you to take it seriously. If you would only
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  Speaker 3: come down and investigate the matter, A child's life and
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  Speaker 3: immense sanity may depend upon it.
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  Speaker 2: Yours faithfully, Robert Ferguson.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Watson, what you make of it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it all sounds like a nightmat to me. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: the man himself is demented.
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  Speaker 1: Possibly, Watson posibly suppose we visit Lamberley tomorrow afternoon to
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  Speaker 1: see if we can get to the bottom of this
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  Speaker 1: strange case. I've always wanted to meet a vampire. Ah, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that must be our client, mister Ferguson waiting at the
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  Speaker 1: other end of the platform.
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  Speaker 3: You mean the long slab sided man with loose lips
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  Speaker 3: and a splendid back, but he looks prematurely aged.
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  Speaker 1: An experience like this would add years to any man's looks. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: mister Robert Ferguson, I.
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  Speaker 4: Believe Hey, yes, mister Holmes, I received your telegram. I
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  Speaker 4: can't begin to express my gratitude quite.
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  Speaker 1: And this is my friend and colleague, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 2: Oh how do you do this?
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  Speaker 1: Sir?
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  Speaker 4: I believe we've met before. Dr Watson. Really aren't you
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  Speaker 4: the same Watson who played rugby for Blackheath while I
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  Speaker 4: was a three quarter for Richmond Bobby wife. Of course, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I delighted to see you again, old fellow. I'll never
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  Speaker 3: forget the day you throw me over the ropes into
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  Speaker 3: the crowded old dear part.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, well, time has changed us both. Whoever would
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  Speaker 4: have thought we would meet again under such tragic circumstances.
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  Speaker 4: But come, the carriage is waiting over here. So Watson,
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  Speaker 4: you played rugby? No, indeed he did, and a splendid
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  Speaker 4: athlete it was too.
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  Speaker 1: And see that full of surprises Watson, unexplored possibilities about you.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're pulling my leg.
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  Speaker 4: No, here's the carriage will you get in first, mister Holmes. Now, Watson,
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  Speaker 4: that's right, and tuck this rug in around your knees,
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  Speaker 4: will you. The wind is getting rather brisk, as though
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  Speaker 4: we'd have a storm before night. All right, Wilson, let's
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  Speaker 4: get along, not in.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Ferguson, if you don't object to a few.
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  Speaker 4: Personal questions, No, no, anything, anything? What can I do?
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  Speaker 4: I can't go to the police with such a story,
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  Speaker 4: and yet I must protect the children. Is it madness?
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  Speaker 4: Is it something in the blood? Have you ever had
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  Speaker 4: a similar case? Over the love of Heaven, give me
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  Speaker 4: some advice. Simont my wits end?
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  Speaker 1: Gently, mister Ferguson, gently, now, just put yourself together and
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  Speaker 1: give me a few clear answers. I can assure you
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  Speaker 1: that I am very far from being at my Witsayvand
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  Speaker 1: first of all, have you spoken to your wife since
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  Speaker 1: the discovery?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, mister Holmes, she refuses to see me. Her maid, Delores,
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  Speaker 4: who's been with her since she was a child, is
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  Speaker 4: the only person she will see.
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  Speaker 1: I gather that you did not know your wife well
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  Speaker 1: at the time of your marriage, only a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Then your wife's character would be better known to her
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  Speaker 1: maid than to.
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  Speaker 4: You, I suppose.
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  Speaker 1: So this unhappy lady has appeared to assault both the children,
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  Speaker 1: her own baby and your son.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, she attacked Jackie again just day before yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: But the assaults take different forms, do they not. She
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  Speaker 1: has beaten your own son.
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  Speaker 4: Once with a stick and once very savagely with her hands.
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  Speaker 1: Is the lady jealous by nature?
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  Speaker 4: Well, she is a Latin American. She has a fiery
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  Speaker 4: tropical nature.
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  Speaker 1: Quite But the crippled boy he's fifteen, I understand, and
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  Speaker 1: probably very bright mentally, since his body isn't as active
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  Speaker 1: as other boys. Did he give any explanation of these assaults.
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  Speaker 4: No, he declared there was no reason.
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  Speaker 1: Were they good friends at other times?
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  Speaker 4: No? No, there was never any love between them.
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  Speaker 1: Yet you claim he's affectionate.
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  Speaker 4: While I've never seen a more devoted son. He's absorbed
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  Speaker 4: in everything I say or do.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting, Well, the attacks on the baby and your
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  Speaker 1: son at the same period.
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  Speaker 4: In the first case, yes, it was as if she
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  Speaker 4: were seized by some frenzy and had vented her rage
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  Speaker 4: on both. In the second, it was only a Jackie
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  Speaker 4: who suffered, possibly because nurse kept a strict watch over
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  Speaker 4: the baby. I see ah, but here we are as
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  Speaker 4: to Holmes Jesus. The old houses in this part of
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  Speaker 4: the country are still named after their original builders.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I see a reburst of a cheese and a
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  Speaker 1: man on the entrant tiles that line the porch. The
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  Speaker 1: middle section of your house is very oldest person.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, the wings are newer, very.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting building, with its towering tudor chimneys and its lightened
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  Speaker 1: spotted roofs.
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  Speaker 4: If you will come in, sir, I can offer you
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  Speaker 4: some refreshment that will.
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  Speaker 1: Be most welcome. My bones are chilled. Winds rising. That
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  Speaker 1: storm can't be far off. Look at those clouds, and
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  Speaker 1: there's one of the right of the val carries. Hey
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  Speaker 1: Ferguson or come in, Watson, come in and shut the door.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Better now if you're jump Oh, Delores, See Senor Delores.
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  Speaker 4: Bring some sandwiches, whien you and have the windows shut it.
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  Speaker 4: It looks as though we're in for a.
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  Speaker 5: Storm, See Senor, I shut them a ti or of sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: That is your White's maid, I take it. Yes, handsome girl,
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  Speaker 1: but a bit primitive. Ah, I see your iron fire
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  Speaker 1: screens dated sixteen seventy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, yes, we've got a great mixture of dates
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  Speaker 4: in this room. The half paneled wars may well have
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  Speaker 4: belonged to the original yeomen of the seventeenth century, and
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  Speaker 4: the water colors hung along the lower part are obviously modern.
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  Speaker 1: And the collection of weapons and utensils nailed against the
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  Speaker 1: yellow plasta.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the oldest of the lot inca Indian redis.
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  Speaker 4: I believe no one knows how old they really are.
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  Speaker 4: I see my wife brought them from Peru. This quiver,
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  Speaker 4: for instance.
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  Speaker 1: Most enlightening, most enlightening.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, here comes Carlo. Well, well, well, how's the boy?
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  Speaker 4: Come here?
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: That's looking spaniel?
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  Speaker 1: The matter with the dog's hind legs.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's what's puzzled the bed. It seems to be
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  Speaker 4: a sort of paralysis, spinal meningitis. He thought, come here, boy,
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  Speaker 4: come on, come on, Ah, it seems to be passing off.
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  Speaker 4: He'll be all right soon. Wrought to your boy.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows we're talking about him? Look at him, Sunday's tail.
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  Speaker 1: Did this paralysis come on suddenly in a single night?
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  Speaker 1: How long ago?
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  Speaker 4: Several months?
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  Speaker 1: Very remarkable, very suggestive?
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  Speaker 4: What do you see in it? Mister holes?
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  Speaker 1: The confirmation of my suspicions what are.
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  Speaker 4: Your suspicions, mister Holmes. It's just an intellectual puzzle to you,
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  Speaker 4: but it's life and death to me. My wife's a
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  Speaker 4: victim of some terrible curse. My child is in danger. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: don't play with me, mister Holmes. It's all too horrible.
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  Speaker 1: A farm yourself, my dear fellow, keep a stip up
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  Speaker 1: a lip. You may have to bear still greater pain,
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  Speaker 1: I fear, but I'll try to spay it as much
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  Speaker 1: as possible. I hope to have a solution before I
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  Speaker 1: leave this house tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Now the storm has broken at last, I say, listen
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  Speaker 2: to the rain.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I got the shutters closed just in time.
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  Speaker 2: Thunder by Joe, and this telling me.
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  Speaker 4: It's a horrorly bad night. Sandwiches, Senor, Oh, yes, come
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  Speaker 4: in to Laris and put the lare on the table. Caul, Caul,
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  Speaker 4: Why you almost drop the tray. What's the matter to Lais?
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  Speaker 4: Why you look as if you'd see a ghost? I frightened.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Listen you hear that storm? It the great dogs of
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: death howling around this house.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: My mistress, she very sick, shouldn't take food.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I frightened to stay with her without doctor. I should
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: be glad if I could be of service, would your
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: mistress see dot Watson.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I take him, I not ask leave she need doctor,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: then I'll come at once you're sure you're not afraid
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: my wife may be really dangerous. Rubvish Ferguson, I can
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: take care of myself.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: What you have a right to expect in clothes costing
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: many dollars more is yours. In clipper Craft at just
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a fraction of what you'd expect to pay, you get
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: long wear that results from fine materials in good workmanship.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: You get good taste, correct styling is worn by the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: world's best dressed men. And you get comfort and perfect
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: fit from skilled designing and precision tailoring. American production genius
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: applied to the making of clothes makes this possible. That
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and the unique Clippercraft plan, concentrating the buying power of
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: nine hundred and twenty four of the nation's leading stores
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: from coast to coast. You get the savings that result
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: from this group buying at your own local, independent store,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: at the store you can trust. Clippercraft suits are only
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: forty and forty five dollars. Clipper Craft top coats and
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: overcoats are only forty dollars. Selling expensive clothes at inexpensive
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: low criss at the nation's finest independent stores is the great,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: big idea behind the Clippercraft plan. That's why men who
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: know insist on Clippercraft clothes. You're to visit the clipper
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Craft store in your city.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: The leading stores in the metropolitan area that bring you
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Clippercraft clothes are Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at thirty fourth Street, Manhattan,
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: Abraham and Strauss, Brooklyn, The Boulevard Men's Shop, Kreskin Newarck, Newark,
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: New Jersey, and the B and B Clothes Shop one
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: sixty four oh eight Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica. These great, courteous
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: and friendly stores are proud to add their names to
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: that of Clippercraft in the label of your suit, top coat,
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: sports jacket and overcoat.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I wish Watson would come back. He's been gone over
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: half an hour.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: He's all right. If anything had gone astray, I should
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: have heard it. I've been listening, so that's what you've
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: been doing. You were so quiet. I thought you were dozing.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Wait something, now listen.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: I can't hear anything but the rain. It's coming this way.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Hear it oh, yes, yes, now I do. That's Jackie's cane,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: poor fellow, he's coming in here.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It's the spine that's weak. I can tell about the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: limb sightable too.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: Here he is, Oh, father, father, I didn't know you
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: were back. I had a meaning to meet you. I
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: thought you were in the store.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: I'm so plad genuine gently, Jackie, please don't hug so
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: tight there there. Now that's better. We have company. This
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: is mister Holmes.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Hello, Jackie Sherlock Holmes, the detective.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, now that I've met your eldest son, mister Ferguson,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: May I make the acquaintance of the baby? Why?
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Certainly, mister Holmes, certainly, and just wait till you see him.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: How anyone could have the heart to hurt him, the
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: most beautiful baby?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: So that's it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: What did you say? What's the matter? Why are you
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: looking out of the window like that? What do you see.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: The solution of this crime?
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, but the windows are shut.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: It quite well.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: I may say you gave me a start. Sorry, no,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: not at all. My nerves are a bit on edge,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: what with the this situation and the storm. Jackie, go upstairs.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: That's a good fellow and ask nurse to bring the
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: baby down here, will you?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yes? Has it ever occurred to you, mister Ferguson, of
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: this story about your wife's peculiarities might have been made
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: up by the nurse to get revenge on her for
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: some slight Oh impossible.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: In the first I saw her beat the boy with
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: my own eyes, yes, but the other no, No, Unfortunately,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I feel that must be the truth too. Nurse is
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: a good woman with plenty of common sense. She's always
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: been very fond of my wife and the baby. I'm
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: sure she'd never told me if she'd not felt it
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: were necessary to protect the child.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, I thought so. However, we're a bound to consider
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: every possibility. You never know. Yeah, yeah, Hello, what's up?
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Home?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Ho coming out? Chap coming o. This is terrible? What's up?
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: What's happened?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Missus Ferguson? And then room door was open. She saw
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: the bug boy go into the nursery quick as a flash.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: She was out of beading into the other room.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's awful.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: There was Jackie standing beside the grip playing with the baby.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: When she comes in, raging like a tiger, shoves him aside,
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: snatches up the baby and dashes into her own room
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: before you.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Can win quick.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: We must get the baby away from her. Does not
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: we can't get in wake it down, then help me?
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: What a one two stop out of the way to Lars,
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: you know, take one step where I shoot Tina.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Look at her, she's got the baby. Heaven's name. Don't
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: take the baby away from me.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Please not take you stime back. You'll nor touch her.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Go ahead and shoot. I'm going to save my baby.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Easy Ferguson, Easy the laies. Would you mind pointing that
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: revolver in some other direction? I know your intentions are good,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: but your nerves are a trifle unsteady.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Look at my wife, the murderous mister Ferguson.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: It seems to me that your wife is a very
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: good and a very ill used woman.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: How can you stand there and say that, Look at
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: her blood on her lips, she's killing him. Has it
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: ever occurred to.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: You that a wound may be sucked for some other
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: purpose to draw blood from it? What do you mean
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to draw poison from it? Your wife has been risking
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: her own life to save your child. Poison quite the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: South American household. There's weapons on the walls, and I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: saw the empty quiver. I was sure if the child
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: were pricked by one of those arrows dipped in cirari
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: or some other devilish drug, it would mean death if
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the venom were not sucked out.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: You mean, Tina's nicely, of course, Why, it's quite obvious.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: And the dog.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: If one were going to use such a poison, wouldn't
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it be wise to first try it on the dog
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to make sure it didn't lost its power.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Yes, but who could have done it? I don't understand.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: If I tell you, I must wound you very deeply
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: in another direction.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, you must not tell him. You must, darling, darling,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: what does it matter? As long as you're cleared? Don't
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: you understand? Nothing else matters? Oh?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Love it?
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Why why didn't you tell me?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Your wife knew how much you loved your other son.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: She was afraid it would break your heart?
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Jackie, my Jackie, Robert.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: You must not be said.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: He's jealous, just a child. He will get over it. Yes, yes,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: we'll will help you together. Oh, my darling, I'm so
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: glad it wasn't you. I'm so happy there there starting come.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Mister sherlock Holm, your work it finished, they don't longer
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: need you.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, but Holmes, don't you think we are tender?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Lawries is right? Come along, Watson. At this particular moment,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: we're decidedly the trophy. That's a pretty harrowing story, doctor Watson.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Did Jackie recover his mental balance?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, mister Harris, they send him around the world
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: with a good tutor, see her marvelous for adolescent nerves.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, doctor, But how did Holmes know it was the boy?
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: You remember his saying he saw the solution of the
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: crime in the shuttered windowpane. Well, mister Harris, what he
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: really saw was the reflection of the boy's face when
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: his father affectionately mentioned the baby. Hermes caught a glimpse
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: of such jealousy and cruel hatred as one seldom sees
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: on human face.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, that certainly is a thrilling story, and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: you certainly know how to tell it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: To paraphrase my friend Sherlock Holmes, elementary, my dear mister Harris, elementary.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: And what story are we to have next week, doctor Watson?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Well, next week, I think I'll tell you how Holmes
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: and I spent the Christmas holidays at Penn's Dragon Castle
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: and became involved with a ghostly lady in white the
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: honor of the Nevills, and a father Christmas, who quite
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: unexpectedly sang beasts