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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Purloined Ruby Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: And now let's visit our old friend, doctor Watson.
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: Up here on the patio, mister Portman, some one out
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: and join me.
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  Speaker 3: Firing the sunset ey doctor.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, my boy, it's a particularly beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: One where the puppies this evening asleep on a favorite
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  Speaker 3: tweet coat of mine.
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  Speaker 4: Let's just come back from the cleat.
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  Speaker 3: And you hadn't the heart to move them?
• 0:24
  Speaker 4: I suppose no, I hadn't.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: The little fellows looked so comfortable. In fact, I sometimes
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: wonder if you haven't come here to listen to a
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  Speaker 2: dissertation on.
• 0:33
  Speaker 4: The behavior of dogs.
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: Well it is getting your story time, doctor, Yes.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: Of course it is. Well, just let me get my
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: pipe propably lighted. Ah at you.
• 0:46
  Speaker 4: The story I'm going to tell you tonight began in
• 0:49
  Speaker 4: nineteen hundred and nine I received.
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  Speaker 2: A telegram from my old friend telling me that he
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: was leaving his Sussex b farm and coming to London
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  Speaker 2: for a few days. I haven't seen the great man
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: and for several months, so naturally I went to Victoria
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  Speaker 2: Station to meet him.
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  Speaker 4: As a train drew to a stop, the door.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: Of a first cast carriage run open and Shelock Holmes
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  Speaker 2: hand out stretch jumped down onto the platform.
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  Speaker 3: Degree, what's my dear fellow?
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  Speaker 4: How are you o? Ho, my dear for it's good
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  Speaker 4: to see you again. I've missed you.
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  Speaker 5: And are you watcha Erry Bates? Yes, Patron gets a
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  Speaker 5: handsome cab with him.
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: I wish I'd got a spare room for you.
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  Speaker 5: It's nice to be very comfortable at the Diogenes Club,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, I touch your free this evening.
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  Speaker 3: Here's naturally what are your plans, pob we go to
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: the Thera?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? What play do you want to see? All right?
• 1:35
  Speaker 5: If we go to the Savoy Thera and see the
• 1:37
  Speaker 5: Shellock Holms play, I hear it's enormously success.
• 1:39
  Speaker 4: I know it is, but I've avoided it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm told that to Claude Houghton takes strict liberties with
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: your character. And as for the actor portraying me, my
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: friends told me to travister he makes me nothing but
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: a bumbling old fool.
• 1:53
  Speaker 5: Therefore, a visit to the play might be a salutary
• 1:56
  Speaker 5: experience for both of us. Then, in case, my trip
• 1:58
  Speaker 5: to London is a response to her urgent telegram from
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  Speaker 5: Support himself seems to eat my help Rothera badly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it trouble well, he wasn't specific in his telegram.
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  Speaker 5: He suggested, however, if you attend to Night's performance and
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  Speaker 5: discuss the matter with him afterwards.
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  Speaker 4: I see, well, I suppose if you can sit through it,
• 2:13
  Speaker 4: I can.
• 2:14
  Speaker 5: Of course, you can alfer on. In any case, you
• 2:16
  Speaker 5: yourself are part responsible for place existence. Are you mean
• 2:21
  Speaker 5: those sensational stories you wrote of my muddiest problems. I
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: should have seen where they would eventually lead you in time?
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  Speaker 5: No doubt missile be portrayed on the cinematograph as well.
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  Speaker 4: Nons that new fangled things on their toil.
• 2:35
  Speaker 5: I think that, Watson, we're on the edge of a strange,
• 2:37
  Speaker 5: new mechanical world. In fact, I begin to feel a
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  Speaker 5: certain concern about the rumored developments and Willace Telegraphy not
• 2:44
  Speaker 5: enough of these predictions. Here it comes our order with
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  Speaker 5: a cab. We'll tell the driver to take a strict
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  Speaker 5: to the Savoy Kurra.
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: Just look at that line of people at the box
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  Speaker 2: and the box office home, very papping old chap Well.
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  Speaker 4: Possibly, but I hope it doesn't mean that we've got
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  Speaker 4: a way to our turn.
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  Speaker 5: Excuse me, gentlemen, you're mister Shellock Holmes and doctor Watson
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  Speaker 5: on chair. Yes, yes, I thought I couldn't be mistaken.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Frank Fellers. I do the quard is
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  Speaker 5: a box reserved for you.
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  Speaker 3: He asked me to see that you are quite comfortably
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  Speaker 3: considered of him. Will you follow me?
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  Speaker 4: Please?
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Neither of you have seen the play before.
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  Speaker 3: I understand no, mister Fellows, we haven't.
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  Speaker 6: There.
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  Speaker 5: I imagined be a strange experiencing ourselves portrayed on the stage.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, I'm playing the part of an old
• 3:41
  Speaker 5: friend of yours, Professor Moriarty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, indeed, I'm looking forward to a very entertaining evening.
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  Speaker 3: I presume that you just caape hard clutches as you was.
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  Speaker 5: Will Yes, I do, mister Holmes, and I've done it
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  Speaker 5: nightly now for one hundred and thirty seven before hors
• 3:55
  Speaker 5: record that I'm sure Professor Morriyaski himself would end had
• 3:58
  Speaker 5: it not been for his memorable demise of the raton backfalls.
• 4:02
  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 5: Here we are, gentlemen. This is the Boxers there for you.
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  Speaker 5: And now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to
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  Speaker 5: my dressing role. Oh oh, I never forgot this.
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  Speaker 3: The host, so the cord asked me to give you
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  Speaker 3: this note.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I know, well, I'll see you later.
• 4:20
  Speaker 4: Hum, very nice fuller for an actor.
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  Speaker 3: There'll be a smart Watson.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what does the claud note? Sir?
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: I'll read it to you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeare home?
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  Speaker 3: Since I telegraphed you yesterday. That have been strange developments.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, I've been doing some detective work off stage
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  Speaker 5: as well as on. Watch the performance tonight, and watch
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  Speaker 5: the audience too, particularly the occupant of the box opposite yours.
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  Speaker 5: Please come to my dressing room as soon as the
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  Speaker 5: last kitting has fallen.
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  Speaker 4: And he's been very mysterious. And the box opposite ours
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  Speaker 4: is empty.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, look, what's you look? Someone has just entered,
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  Speaker 3: confounded the house, lights going out the first texts beginning
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: Home the purse axt Yes, well said back and relaxed,
• 5:01
  Speaker 3: old fellow. Let's see what they're done to us?
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  Speaker 4: Well, what did you think of the first act? Home?
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: Huh? All?
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  Speaker 5: The first act is yes, I was examining the occupant
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  Speaker 5: of the box office ours, an attractive young lady alone
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  Speaker 5: and unusually preoccupied in her program. In fact, one might
• 5:31
  Speaker 5: assume that she was trying to hide our face.
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: Is that the play don't you think it's ridiculous? Just
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  Speaker 2: imagine a crown jeweled in stone and love.
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  Speaker 4: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: It's been attempted many times.
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  Speaker 2: Anyhow, you must admit that the actor who's portraying me
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: behaves like like a blithering idiot, and so Claud's interpretation.
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  Speaker 4: Of you is pretty far fetched.
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  Speaker 3: Barthetched the flapping Watson. What poise? What suavity? What a poise?
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  Speaker 3: I find myself thoroughly entertained.
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  Speaker 4: You are a strange chap Holmes accounting for taste?
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  Speaker 3: Stop what to look the back of the box over there?
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  Speaker 3: Good lord, I could have sworn a man dodged behind
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  Speaker 3: the curtain. I don't think the girls saw him there
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: attract a partner. I think as the young ladies alone,
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  Speaker 3: we will take a little bit of joining her.
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  Speaker 4: Oh dash it. There go the lights again the second
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  Speaker 4: act starting.
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  Speaker 5: Man, and sit down below. We don't want to attract attention,
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  Speaker 5: and we will join her during the.
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  Speaker 3: Next Intermissionman, why are you?
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: What do you want with me?
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: My name is Shelock Combs and this is my colleague,
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  Speaker 3: Dr Watson.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do, young lady?
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  Speaker 5: I hope you'll forgive this intrusion, but support the questioned
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  Speaker 5: that I keep an eye on you during the play tonight.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming in sit down, won't you thank you?
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  Speaker 4: This is very kind of you.
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  Speaker 6: Must forgive my abruptness just now, and I've just been
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  Speaker 6: watching share that cones and to Watson being impersonated on
• 7:01
  Speaker 6: the stage. It's it's rather startling to have the real
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  Speaker 6: couple walk into my box.
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  Speaker 3: I quite understand.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, just before the curtain went up on
• 7:08
  Speaker 5: the second Egg guy, I thought I noticed a man
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  Speaker 5: coming to the neck of this box and then disappear again.
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  Speaker 3: Were you aware of his presence? No?
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  Speaker 6: No, I didn't see him, but I know who it
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  Speaker 6: is and following me for weeks now.
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  Speaker 4: You'd like to tell us about it, Miss.
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  Speaker 6: Henshaw, Alicia Henshaw, Yes I would, as a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 6: That's why I'm here tonight. Sir Claude Houghton's an old
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  Speaker 6: friend of my father's. I went to ask his advice.
• 7:30
  Speaker 6: He did some investigating himself for a few days, and
• 7:32
  Speaker 6: then he found himself a little out of his depth,
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  Speaker 6: though he decided to telegraph for you, mister Holmes. We
• 7:37
  Speaker 6: were going to meet in his dressing room after the
• 7:39
  Speaker 6: performance tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Blender and Amas Henshaw, what is your story?
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  Speaker 6: It's strange when, mister Holmes, though I didn't realize just
• 7:46
  Speaker 6: how strange until I first saw this play a few
• 7:48
  Speaker 6: nights ago. You see, my story concerns a stolen ruby.
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: Lord Tonight's fair of all around the same thing exactly.
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  Speaker 6: I might as well tell you how it all started.
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  Speaker 6: My brother's officer in the British Army stationed in Egypt
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  Speaker 6: earlier this year. He saved the life of a very
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  Speaker 6: important native personage and some uprising in Cairo, and was
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  Speaker 6: rewarded with a magnificent ruby. This jewel he sent to
• 8:10
  Speaker 6: my uncle Timothy and me. Or where the last did
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  Speaker 6: the Henschager?
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  Speaker 4: You see?
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  Speaker 3: Did you bother tell you the name of this personage?
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  Speaker 3: He didn't know it, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently the whole affair.
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  Speaker 3: Was hushed up, I see. Please continue.
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  Speaker 6: The trouble began shortly after Uncle Timothy and I received
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  Speaker 6: the ruby. A description of it was published in the.
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  Speaker 3: Papers, and a few days later a message came.
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  Speaker 6: To us from an Egyptian Muhammad Ali, laying claim to
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  Speaker 6: the stone as one stolen from his family years ago.
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  Speaker 6: He sent an expert to our house who examined the
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  Speaker 6: ruby under a lens, mister Holmes, and then kept it
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  Speaker 6: with a hammer. It fell to pieces.
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  Speaker 4: Twas a fraud, gracious way, an amazing thing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure that's not the end of the story, Miss Henshaw.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, mister Holmes. I wrote and told my brother
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  Speaker 6: what had happened. He became very suspicious and suggested that
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  Speaker 6: I investigate the credentials of the expert that examined the stone.
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  Speaker 5: I think I can finish the story for you the
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  Speaker 5: supposed expert, But it was a dueltief who substituted a
• 9:01
  Speaker 5: paste ruby for the real one, destroyed the imitation, and
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  Speaker 5: walked off for the treasure.
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  Speaker 3: And it's no trick. Of course. You haven't been able
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  Speaker 3: to find any trace of the supposed expert.
• 9:10
  Speaker 6: Well, that's the funny part of mister Holmes. Uncle Timothy
• 9:13
  Speaker 6: and I gave a description to the police, but it
• 9:15
  Speaker 6: was a very vague.
• 9:16
  Speaker 4: One, I'm afraid.
• 9:18
  Speaker 6: All the time, Uncle said, the man reminded him of
• 9:20
  Speaker 6: a colleague of his many years ago at the university,
• 9:23
  Speaker 6: a professor of mathematics.
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: He couldn't think of his name, but when we first
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: saw the play a few nights ago, he was reminded
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: of it. The name was Marierti, Mariatti. But Mariarti is dead,
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: as Hanshaw, you saying you have been shadow it for
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: some weeks.
• 9:38
  Speaker 6: Yes, by an Egyptian. They've stolen the ruby, mister Holmes,
• 9:42
  Speaker 6: why don't they leave me alone?
• 9:44
  Speaker 5: That Miss Henshaw represents a very fascinating problem and one
• 9:47
  Speaker 5: that I shall be most happy to help you solve.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, mister very good lights again last.
• 9:52
  Speaker 5: Act, Yes, the last act of this little play, but
• 9:55
  Speaker 5: not I fear of miss Henshaw's problems. Let's meet after
• 9:59
  Speaker 5: the ad dressing room shawin well, Holmes, how did you
• 10:16
  Speaker 5: enjoy the player? Very maks the card? May I introduce
• 10:19
  Speaker 5: my old friend, doctor Watson.
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: How are you doing with the card?
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: Hi?
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: Doctor?
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  Speaker 5: I see you've already made the acquaintance of miss Hamshaw,
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: and she no doubts has totally her trouble.
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  Speaker 4: Then, and mister Holmes is promised to help me splendid.
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: Tell me Watson, how did you like the play?
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: The interesting is the claude not quite accurate?
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: Of course? Well you you have to allow us a
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: little dramatic license. You know, what did you think of Rodney,
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: the man who was portraying you?
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: Dot oh, since you mentioned it, I think the fellow
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: needs to study dictionary.
• 10:49
  Speaker 5: Mumble so much, sir, Come no, fellow, I think there
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: are times when you're so hard to understand yourself or rubbish.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: It's the Claude.
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: I hope fuel meets.
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: The Diogenes Club and then we can go out and
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: have some supper. Excellent idea. I'll join you there after
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: I've taken off my mate blended.
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: I think I should be going home now to Claude.
• 11:08
  Speaker 6: I gave my address to mister Holmes, so he knows
• 11:10
  Speaker 6: where to get in touch with me.
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  Speaker 5: Very well, Miss Hanshoran, don't wordy. I shall give you
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  Speaker 5: a problem, my undivided attention. I'll take you to your cab,
• 11:16
  Speaker 5: My dear, there's no need to say nonsense, insists.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Hatchaw And good.
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: Night, goodnight strange business homes. Will you make of it all?
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: Very little as yet, but it's a fascinating problem.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: So claud really seems to her have identified himself with
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: the character of Sherlock Holmes.
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: He gave me the impression that he feels quite capable
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  Speaker 4: of solving the case by himself.
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: Hello, Claude hasn't left. He's coming back. In a moment,
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: how'd you like to play, gentlemen?
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  Speaker 4: Very much?
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  Speaker 3: Your own performances, My Yati was most convincing.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, so congratulations, congratulations. A couple of times there I
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: had a strange feeling, which you you.
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: Really well, that's very flattering.
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: Doctor.
• 12:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, hello, what the sound as if there's some trouble
• 12:06
  Speaker 5: at the stage door? He excuse me?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, what and let's follow him?
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  Speaker 4: Right? Hello, it's a clawn. He seems upset about something.
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, what happens, Claud? Oh they were homes and I
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: just seen miss Hanshoe off in her cap when her.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: Foreign looking fellow came out of the door. William got
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: into another cab.
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  Speaker 3: I heard him tell the driver to follow her right.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to stop him, but he got away.
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  Speaker 4: Must be the same man that we saw in our
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: box during the player.
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  Speaker 5: As a Claud, and we have our address. I think
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: we'll dry that once and see that she's arrived safely.
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  Speaker 5: We'll join you later at the Diogenies Club.
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  Speaker 4: Well, homes here we go off on another adventure.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and one they may give us an opportunity of
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: crossing sword with Mariati once more.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Mariac is dead. He was killed when you and
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: he fell over. The play is in ninety one.
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  Speaker 3: He was supposed to have been killed just as I was,
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  Speaker 3: but his body was never found.
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: It's impossible, or rather possible, that he returned to four
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: into the ears of Colonel Morana's story is unlikely and
• 13:11
  Speaker 5: as true that the one I related to you on.
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: That April evening in eighteen ninety four.
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: One can never be sure of death, old Chap until
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: one has touched the cold skin of a corpse.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Doctor Watson's story will continue in just a few seconds,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: hardly time for me to tell you about a really
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: great petree wine, Petrie California muscatel. Did you ever walk
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: through a vineyard early in the morning and pick a big,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: juicy muscat grape right off the vine. If you've ever
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: done that, then you know what to expect when you
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: taste petree muscatel. Petrie muscatel is the color of golden sunshine,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: with a flavor to match. Serve Petrie muscatel after dinner
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: some evening, or serve it any times friends drop in.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: It's a wonderful way to express your hospitality with a
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: wonderful wine, a petrie wine. And now back to tonight's
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  Speaker 1: new Sherlock Holmes adventure, the famous pair have become involved
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: in a strange mystery concerning a stolen ruby, a frightened girl,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: and an Egyptian who appears to be shadowing her. As
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: we rejoin our story, Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson are
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: standing in a darkened alleyway adjoining the girl's home homes.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: Look, look, look an Egyptian fellow. He's pacing up and
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: down in front of our house.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: Yes, therefore we may assume she's safely inside. Uh huh,
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: seems to be giving up. He's coming this way, batting
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: yourself against the.
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  Speaker 3: Wall, believing, sir, why are you please?
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: We are friends of missus Henshaw, and we're very curious
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: to know why you've been following her.
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry that I kind of answer your ques.
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: Now, look here, my man, you're talking to Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 7: You are mister Sherlock Holmes. I am greatly honored to
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: meet you, sir. Or my life I have known of you,
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: or my life I have admired you.
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  Speaker 5: Then in that case, perhaps you'll answer my questions why
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: have you been following miss Henshaw?
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Because it is my duty. What do you mean your duty.
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: Perhaps I should have said my destiny, mister Holmes. For
• 15:22
  Speaker 7: two generations now, the family of a rabbi of which
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: I am a humbled member, I have dedicated their lives
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: to finding the stolen treasure of Ashut.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Well, and I saw they're got to do with Miss Henshaw.
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: The treasure of Ashut is a giant ruby. It was
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: stolen many years ago from the family of Muhammad Ali.
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: A few months ago, missus Henshaw received a mysterious ruby.
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: I have found out many things, mister Holmes. I have
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: many sources of information.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: And I must regard you in the right of a
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: rival detective.
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: In this case, I heartily called myself a detective, mister Holmes.
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: My life is dedicated to only one problem. Miss Henshaw
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: now says the jewel was stolen from her.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I do not believe it. That is why I watch her.
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: If I am wrong this time, and I do not
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: think I am wrong, then my quest must go on
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: always it would go on.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Permit me to wish you the best of luck, sir.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Thank you, mister Holmes. Good night, gentlemen, we shall meet again.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Oh why did you let him go? Why not?
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: He's frightening Miss Hanshaw, but not molesting her old chaplain.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: In fact, it might be a good thing if someone
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: is keeping an eye on her. And meanwhile, Watson, let's
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: say if we can find a cab and get back
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: to the Diogenous Club.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: I don't want to keep squat waiting.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: I thought I caught hawk and arrived.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: Yet, yes, mister Holmes here and another gentleman came in
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: about five minutes ago.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: They went up to the library. The other gentleman is
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: just lying.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Say thank you this way, Watson. I'm sorry, sir, touch
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: we kept you waiting. We took a little longer.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: But God, great Heavens, what's the matter with him? Pose?
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I I found the answer too late. It's it's letter.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Don't trying to stand up your your ill. What are
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: you trying to tell me? The Ruby, the ruby, Mariotti,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: the answer, the answers m hm, the book, mm hmm,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: the books, the card halms.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: He's been stabbed. He's dead.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Just as he was trying to give me a message, he.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Was muttering something about the ruby and Mariotti, and twice
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: he said it's in the book.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, there's a book still in his hand.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: It's a copy of the Tales of Edgar Allan Pearl.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: He stuns marking a page. It's the story of the
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Pearloined Letter. Thank ju, sup Claude, you delivered your message.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Come on, Watson, we.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Want to catch a murder and a if we must
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: go back to the Savoy Theater as quickly as we can.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Why do you suppose the Claude was murdered because.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: It was too curious in investigating the problem of the
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: stolen ruby and had found out something something he promised
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: to tell me at supper, I remember, until he was
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: killed by a man who came with him to the
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: club tonight. Fortunately he gave me a clue by indicating
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: post story of the purloined letter.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: And I still don't see that Howard helps you when
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: it leads us to the ruby.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: The premise of post tory is that the most obvious
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: hiding place is the safest. Now what a physical object
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: was most prominent on the stage in tonight's.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Play by Jove A ruby?
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Exactly?
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: How better can you hide a stolen ruby than by
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: exhibiting it night after night as a stolen ruby before
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: the eyes of thousands.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Well, you mean you expect to find it in the
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: property room backscade.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Exactly that and a murderer wait for us, caddy. Come on, Watson, y,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: have you had an auto old chap, Yes, yes I do.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: I'll keep it handy. A visit may not be unexpected.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: And a lock. That's good.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Come on, look home. Look the door keeper. He's thumped
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: over his desk.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Hmmm, he's been giving chlodoform. Will take the liberty of
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: borrowing his lantern.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: H' The eerie atmosphere about a dark and empty theater is.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Now where with the stage properties we kept? I wander
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: hold the lantern atal high with your fellow.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: That's it. Uh. Look over there a large cabinet.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: It's marked popular department.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: And it's unlocked. Oh this is frighteningly easy. Let's look
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: out for a trap. Now let's see look.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Look that's a ruby lying on that fress.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Holt up on the lantern. Watson, exactly, it's as I thought.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: This is no paste stage property. It's a genuine ruby.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: The light of this lantern, it's very hard time Watson
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: quickly he nearly gunners smash the lantern. Yes, he's got
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: an air rifle, a powerful one to confound it. There's
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: no flash to indicate where he's firing from. Of course,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: he's baited his trap so neatly that he knows exactly
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: where we are to take a shot at him.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: I can't see anything, but at least that'll let him
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: know we're armed.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Now move your position quickly.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Watch them just miss me, Holmes, this is hopeless shooting
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: in the dark.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, I've got to switch the stage lights on. Keep
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: him occupied. The fellow will well. I try to find
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: the light switches.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: I've got him, but he can still shoot. Confound it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Yes, when I found the light switch, keep your eye skin, Watson, I'm.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Turning it out.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: There is Homes up in the darkning away Upton, Watson.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: You can jump over the rights into the box.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Ah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: I played the burdose phone, Watson, and I should have
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: remembered the theater exit doors always opened from the inside.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: No, he didn't get away. Homes forgot the father. It's
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: that Egyptian fellow.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I hope you haven't wounded him too badly.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: I I don't care if I have. He was trying
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: to kill us.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: It's when he should the wound. He's fainted, infernal scoundrel.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Now he's a very gallant man. Undoubtedly he was trying
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: to save us as you shot him.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Just now, what on earth are you talking about? Obviously
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: he's Mariati.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: No wats Mariatti just escaped through the door you heard
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: clang a few moments ago. And what's this man doing
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: here as a fellow detective?
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Undoubtedly he followed us, perhaps he preceded us when Mariatti
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: started shooting. This man tried to capture him and got
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: wounded by you forriss pains.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Then who is Mariati? He must be someone connected with
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: his Further.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: It's obvious Mariatti is Mariatti.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: But you mean Frank Pharow is a fellow that played
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: the part on the stage.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Again, remember Poe's story of a pearloined letter.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Why I didn't didn't you recognize him?
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Remember I haven't seen him for twenty years, and you
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: haven't forgotten his genius for disguise, have you?
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: What incredible, Aljuster?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: How better could Mariatti conceal himself than by announcing nightly
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: to the theater going public that he was Professor Mariatta and.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: He kills the claude.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Because he did, the claude.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Must have persuaded Mariatti to go to the club with him.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Probably he hoped to expose him in front of me,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: but Mariatte found out that the Claude knew too much.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, so he stabbed in, rushed back here debate his
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: trap for us.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, yes, But how did he know that
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: we'd we'd walk into it?
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Oh? He knew that if the cloud had guessed his secret,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: and I certainly would, And so he was waiting for us.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Ah, Hello, he's coming through. How are you feeling, ma'mam?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: The rupee, the RuBee? Did you find the rupee? Yes,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: here is sir?
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Tell me?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Is it the ruby of Uhammad Ali? No?
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: No, it is a fine stone, but it is not
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: the one for which I have searched all my life,
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: and so my endless quest must go on.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: He's fainted again.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Poor devil, find mess I made it this case once more.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know you've recovered the rumor.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, look at it, old fellow, before I turn it
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: over to Miss Henshaw.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Look at it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Well, Probably it's every facet stands for a bloody deed.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: It's a beautiful stone.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: And yet this lovely baubles const s to Claudie's life.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: And that devil Mariotti still goes through.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: One day, Watson, and may the day come soon I
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: shall meet Mariotti again. And when that happens, and I
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: finally bring him to justice, then and only then can
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: you write Finney to the character of Shellack Combs