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67-07-03-(SA) Sherlock Holmes The Three Gables · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 6: Our Sherlock Holmes adventure, entitled The Three Gables, here is Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Watson.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: I don't think any of my adventures with Mr. Sherlock
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  Speaker 10: Holmes opened quite so abruptly or so dramatically as that which.
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  Speaker 8: I associate with The Three Gables. Holmes was in a
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  Speaker 8: chatty mood that morning.
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  Speaker 10: He just curled down with his pipe in his mouth
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  Speaker 10: on a well-worn armchair across the fireside from me when
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  Speaker 10: our visitor arrived.
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  Speaker 8: If I'd said that a mad bull had arrived, it'd
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  Speaker 8: give a clearer impression. What the devil?
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  Speaker 5: Which of you two is Holmes?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is a pleasant morning for the time of year.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's you, is it?
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  Speaker 8: We'll see here.
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  Speaker 7: Keep your hands out of other folks' business. Leave folks
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  Speaker 7: to manage their own affairs. Got that?
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  Speaker 2: Do keep on talking.
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  Speaker 5: It's fine.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, fine, is it?
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  Speaker 7: It won't be so damn fine if I have to
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  Speaker 7: trim you up a bit. I've handled your kind before now,
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  Speaker 7: and they didn't look fine when I was through with them.
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  Speaker 5: Look at that. I do believe it's a fist. Or
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  Speaker 5: is it?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, were you born so, or did it come
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  Speaker 2: by degrees?
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  Speaker 8: I'll give you a fair warning, see.
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  Speaker 7: I've a friend that's interested out.
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  Speaker 8: Our own way. You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 7: He don't intend to have no buying in by you.
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  Speaker 5: You ain't the law, and I ain't the law.
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  Speaker 7: And if you come shoving in, I'll be on end.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've wanted to.
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  Speaker 8: Meet you for some time.
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  Speaker 2: I won't ask you to sit down, but aren't.
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  Speaker 5: You Steve Dixie, the bruiser?
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  Speaker 8: What if I am?
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  Speaker 2: I was just recalling the killing of young Perkins outside
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  Speaker 2: the Hoban Bar.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't have nothing to do with Perkins. I was
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  Speaker 7: training at the bull ring in Birmingham when he got
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  Speaker 7: done in. Really?
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  Speaker 2: Well, all the same, I've got my eye on you, Steve.
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  Speaker 2: You and Barney Stockdale.
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  Speaker 7: But, sir, help me.
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  Speaker 5: That's enough.
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  Speaker 2: I can pick you up whenever I want you. Now,
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  Speaker 2: get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 7: There ain't no hard feelings, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing personal.
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  Speaker 2: There will be, unless you tell me who sent you.
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  Speaker 7: Well, there ain't no secret about that. Stockdale sent me.
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  Speaker 7: Him you just mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: Then what's it all about?
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  Speaker 8: To help me, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Steve, he says, you go and see that Holmes and
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  Speaker 7: tell him his life ain't safe if he goes down
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  Speaker 7: Arrow Way. That's the truth, honest.
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  Speaker 2: I'll believe you, if no one else would. Now, get out.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going. Morning, gents both, sir.
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  Speaker 2: When I saw you reaching for that poker, Watson, I
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  Speaker 2: thought you might be going to break.
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  Speaker 8: His fat head. One sign from you, Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's a harmless fellow, really.
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  Speaker 5: A great, muscular, foolish, blustering baby.
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  Speaker 8: You toned him down easily enough.
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  Speaker 2: This fellow Barney Stockdale is rather more astute. They belong
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  Speaker 2: to the Spencer John gang. Assault, intimidation and the like.
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  Speaker 2: They've been mixed up in some dirty work lately, which
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  Speaker 2: I may clear.
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  Speaker 5: Up when I've got time.
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  Speaker 8: But why do they want to intimidate you?
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  Speaker 5: It's the Harrow Weald case.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, something new to me, Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: I was just settling down to tell you about it
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  Speaker 2: before we had that comic interlude.
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  Speaker 8: I see.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a note from the lady concerned.
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  Speaker 6: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Mabley.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, thanks. Dear Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Sherlock Holmes, I've had a succession of strange incidents occur
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  Speaker 10: to me in connection with this house... And I should
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  Speaker 10: much value your advice. You would find me at home
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  Speaker 10: any time tomorrow. The house is within a short walk
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  Speaker 10: of the wheeled station. I believe that my late husband,
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  Speaker 10: Mortimer Mabley, was one of your clients. Yours faithfully, Mary Mabley.
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  Speaker 10: The three cables had a wheel.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't at all sure whether to go. But if
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  Speaker 2: it's worth anybody's while taking the trouble.
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  Speaker 5: To stop me, then there.
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  Speaker 2: Must be something in it. Care to come with me?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: Excellent.
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  Speaker 2: We'll wire her.
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  Speaker 7: And set off at once.
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  Speaker 2: I remember your husband well, madam, though it's some years
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  Speaker 2: since he used my services in some trifling matter.
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  Speaker 5: Probably you would be more familiar with the name of
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  Speaker 5: my son, Douglas, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Douglas Mabley? The Douglas Mabley? Dear me, Douglas Mabley. I
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  Speaker 2: knew him slightly, but then all London knew him. What
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  Speaker 2: a magnificent creature.
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  Speaker 8: Where is he these days, Mrs. Mabley?
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  Speaker 11: Dead.
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  Speaker 8: Dead?
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  Speaker 5: He was a tachy at Rome. He died there of
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  Speaker 5: pneumonia last month.
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  Speaker 2: I am sorry, Mrs. Mabley. One cannot connect death with
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  Speaker 2: such a man. I've never known anyone so intensely alive.
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  Speaker 5: Too intensely, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: That was the ruin of him.
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  Speaker 8: His ruin?
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  Speaker 5: You remember him as he was. Debonair and splendid. You
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  Speaker 5: did not see the moody, morose, brooding creature into which
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  Speaker 5: he developed. In a single month, I seemed to see
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  Speaker 5: my gallant boy turn into a worn-out, cynical man.
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  Speaker 2: A love affair?
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  Speaker 7: A woman?
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  Speaker 5: Or a fiend? But it was not to talk of
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  Speaker 5: my poor boy that I asked you to come, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 7: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Watson and I are at your service, ma'am.
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  Speaker 5: There have been some very strange happenings. I have been
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  Speaker 5: in this house more than a year now... And as
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  Speaker 5: I wish to lead a retired life, I have seen
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  Speaker 5: little of my neighbours. Three days ago, I had a
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  Speaker 5: call from a man who said he was a house agent.
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  Speaker 5: He said that this house would exactly suit a client
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  Speaker 5: of his, and that if I would part with it,
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  Speaker 5: money would be no object.
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  Speaker 8: Strange sort of approach.
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  Speaker 5: That was how it seemed to me, Doctor. Especially since
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  Speaker 5: there are several empty houses on the market in this neighbourhood,
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  Speaker 5: which appear to be equally eligible. However, I was interested
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  Speaker 5: in what he said. I named a price which was
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  Speaker 5: 500 pounds more than I gave. He closed at once,
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  Speaker 5: but added that his client would wish to buy the
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  Speaker 5: furniture as well, and asked me to put a price
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  Speaker 5: on it.
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  Speaker 8: Remarkable way to go on.
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  Speaker 5: Some of this furniture is from my old home, and
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  Speaker 5: it is, as you see, very good. So I named
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  Speaker 5: a good round sum. To this he also agreed... I'd
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  Speaker 5: always wanted to travel, and the whole bargain was so
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  Speaker 5: good that it really seemed that I should be my
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  Speaker 5: own mistress for the rest.
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  Speaker 6: Of my life.
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  Speaker 2: But some snag has arisen.
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday, the man arrived with the agreement all drawn out. Luckily,
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  Speaker 5: I showed it to Mr. Sutro, my lawyer. He said
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  Speaker 5: to me, this is a very strange document. Are you
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  Speaker 5: aware that if you sign it, you could not legally
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  Speaker 5: take anything out of the house? Not even your own
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  Speaker 5: private possessions.
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  Speaker 8: Good heavens.
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  Speaker 2: So, what did you do, Mrs. Mabley?
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  Speaker 5: Why, when the man came again in the evening, I
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  Speaker 5: pointed this out and said that I meant only to
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  Speaker 5: sell the furniture. He said, no.
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  Speaker 10: No, it must be everything.
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  Speaker 5: Well, naturally, I argued about my clothes, my jewels. And
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  Speaker 5: in the end, he agreed to make some concessions as
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  Speaker 5: to my personal effects. but he insisted that nothing must
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  Speaker 5: leave the house unchecked.
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  Speaker 2: Did he give any reason for this extraordinary demand?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing, beyond saying that his client was a very liberal man,
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  Speaker 5: but had certain fads and fancies and his own way
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  Speaker 5: of doing things.
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  Speaker 8: Evidently.
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  Speaker 2: Then what was the outcome?
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  Speaker 5: I refused, much as I was tempted by the money.
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  Speaker 5: I could not bring myself to submit to such terms.
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  Speaker 5: And what is it, Mr. Holmes? Where are you going? Oh, Susan!
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  Speaker 5: Leave me alone.
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  Speaker 11: What do you think you're doing?
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  Speaker 5: What is this, Susan? Oh, ma'am, I was just coming
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  Speaker 5: to ask if the visitors were staying for lunch when
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  Speaker 5: this man jumps out and drags me in like you see.
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  Speaker 2: I have been listening to her for the last five minutes.
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  Speaker 2: People who wheeze shouldn't listen at keyholes, Susan.
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  Speaker 5: Susan? Well, who's he anyway? What right has he to
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  Speaker 5: go pulling a.
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  Speaker 2: Girl about like that? It was merely that I wished
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  Speaker 2: to ask a question in your presence.
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  Speaker 5: Mrs. Mabley.
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  Speaker 2: Did you mention to anyone that you were going to write.
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  Speaker 5: To me and consult me? No, Mr. Holmes, I did not.
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  Speaker 5: Who posted your letter? Susan did.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Now, Susan, to whom did you write or send
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  Speaker 2: a message to say that your mistress was asking advice
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  Speaker 2: from me?
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  Speaker 5: It's a lie. I sent no message.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Susan, wicked people may not live long.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Who was it?
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  Speaker 5: Susan, I believe you are a bad, treacherous woman. I
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  Speaker 5: remember now seeing you speaking to someone over the hedge.
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  Speaker 5: That was my business.
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  Speaker 2: Suppose I tell you it was Barney Stockdale. You saw?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not saying.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't sure, but I now know. Susan, it'll
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  Speaker 2: be worth ten pounds to you if you will tell
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  Speaker 2: me who is at the back of Barney.
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  Speaker 5: Someone that could lay down a thousand quid for every
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  Speaker 5: ten you've got in the world.
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  Speaker 2: A rich man, eh?
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  Speaker 5: Ah, you smile. A rich woman. A car.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, come.
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  Speaker 2: Now that we've got so far, you might as well
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  Speaker 2: give me her name and earn your tenor.
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  Speaker 5: I'm clearing out of here. I've had enough of the
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  Speaker 5: lot of you. And I'll send for my box tomorrow. Goodbye, Susan.
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  Speaker 8: Paragoric is the stuff for that chest of yours.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Mabley, this gang means business. Look how close they play
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  Speaker 2: the game. Your letter to me at the 10 p.m.
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  Speaker 5: Postmark.
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  Speaker 2: Yet Susan passes the word to Barney... Barney goes to
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  Speaker 2: his employer, a plan is formed, Big Steve Dixie is
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  Speaker 2: called in, and I am warned off all by 11
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  Speaker 2: o'clock next morning.
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  Speaker 5: That's quick work, you know. Yes, I see. But what
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  Speaker 5: do they want?
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  Speaker 2: Who had this house before you, Mrs. Maybelline?
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  Speaker 5: A retired sea captain called Ferguson.
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  Speaker 2: Anything remarkable about him?
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  Speaker 5: Not to my knowledge.
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  Speaker 8: Wondering whether he buried some treasure in the house, Holmes?
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  Speaker 2: It's a possibility, yes. Of course, when people bury treasure nowadays,
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  Speaker 2: they do it in the post office. There are always
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  Speaker 2: some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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  Speaker 2: At first I thought of some buried valuables. But why,
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  Speaker 2: in that case, should they want your furniture? You don't
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  Speaker 2: happen to have a Raphael or a first folio Shakespeare
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  Speaker 2: without knowing it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I have anything rarer than a crown
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  Speaker 5: derby tea set.
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  Speaker 10: That'd hardly justify all this mystery, would it?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, if they want your tea set, they're ready.
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  Speaker 10: To offer a price for it straight out, without buying
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  Speaker 10: you up lock, stock and barrel. What I can't understand, Holmes,
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  Speaker 10: is why they don't openly say what they do want.
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  Speaker 2: Because, as I read it, my dear Watson, there is
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  Speaker 2: something which Mrs. Mabley does not know she has, and
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  Speaker 2: which she would not give up if she did know.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, that's it.
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  Speaker 5: Dr. Watson agrees, so that settles it. But what can
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  Speaker 5: it be, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes?
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  Speaker 2: Let us see whether we can get to a finer
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  Speaker 2: point by purely mental analysis.
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  Speaker 5: You have been in this house a year, I believe.
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  Speaker 5: Nearly two.
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  Speaker 2: All the better. During this long period, no one has
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  Speaker 2: wanted anything from you. Now, suddenly within three or four days,
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  Speaker 2: you have urgent demands. What would you gather from that?
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  Speaker 5: I really don't know.
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  Speaker 8: It must mean that the object, whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 8: has only just come into the house.
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  Speaker 5: Bravo. Has any object just arrived?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 5: I've bought nothing new this year.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed. This is very remarkable. Well, I think we'd best
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  Speaker 2: let matters develop a little further until we have a
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  Speaker 2: clearer data. Is that lawyer of yours a capable man?
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Sutro is very capable.
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  Speaker 2: Have you another maid? Or was the fair Susan alone?
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  Speaker 8: I have a young girl.
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  Speaker 2: Then try to get Sutra to spend a night or
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  Speaker 2: two in the house. You may need protection.
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  Speaker 5: Protection? Against whom?
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  Speaker 2: Who knows? The matter is certainly obscure. If I can't
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  Speaker 2: find what they are after, I must approach the matter
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  Speaker 2: from the other end and try and get at the principal.
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  Speaker 2: Did this house agent give any address?
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  Speaker 5: Only his name, Haynes Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we shall find him in the directory.
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  Speaker 2: Honest businessmen don't conceal their place of business. Well, you'll
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  Speaker 2: let me know any fresh developments?
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  Speaker 5: Most certainly, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: You may rely upon it, but I shall see your
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  Speaker 2: case through.
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  Speaker 5: It was very good of you to come.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. Hello.
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  Speaker 5: What is it, Mr. Holmes?
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  Speaker 2: These trunks and suitcases in the hall. I see they're
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  Speaker 2: labeled from Italy.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. They're poor Douglas's things.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't unpacked them. How long have you had them?
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  Speaker 5: They arrived last week.
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  Speaker 2: But you said, why, surely this might be the missing link.
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  Speaker 2: How do we know there isn't something of value in there?
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  Speaker 5: There couldn't possibly be. Poor Douglas only had his pay
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  Speaker 5: and a small annuity. What could he have of value?
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  Speaker 2: Delay no longer, Mrs. Mabley. Have those things taken up
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  Speaker 2: to your bedroom. Examine them as soon as possible and
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  Speaker 2: see what they contain. I will come tomorrow and hear
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  Speaker 2: your report.
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  Speaker 6: Good day, madam.
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  Speaker 2: Good day, ma'am.
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  Speaker 5: Good day, gentlemen. Hello.
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  Speaker 8: What now?
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  Speaker 2: They are watching this place closely enough. See our prize-fighting
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  Speaker 2: friend lurking near the gate.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 8: You again, Steve.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you're reaching for your gun, Mr.
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: Holmes?
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: No, for my scent bottle, till I get past you.
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: Oh, real funny.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: It won't be funny for you if I get after you, Steve.
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: Look, Mr.
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: Holmes, I've been thinking about that. I don't want no
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: trouble over that Perkins affair. Suppose I could help you instead.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: You can, Steve. Tell me who's behind Barney in this job.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: Swell me, I don't know. Barney gives the orders and
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: that's as far as I go.
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: Well, then.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Just bear in mind that the lady in that house
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: and everything under that roof is under my protection. Don't
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: forget it.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: All right, Mr.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: Holmes. I'll remember.
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: Scared him stiff.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think he knows who his boss is.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: He'd rubble cross him readily enough if he did.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: Well, how are you going to find out who's behind
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: it then, Holmes?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I think this is a case for Langdale Pike.
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: Langdale Pike. Going for a climb, Holmes?
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Langdale Pike, my dear Watson, is my human book of
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: reference on all matters of social scandal. He spends his
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: waking hours in the bow window over St. James's Street Club.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: And he is the receiving station and transmitter of all
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: the gossip of the metropolis.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: Aha.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: They say he makes a four-figure income out of the
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: paragraphs he contributes to the garbage papers. If ever, far
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: down in the turgid depths of London life, with some
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: strange swirl or eddy, you can be sure it's marked
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: with automatic exactness by this human dial on the surface.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: Oh, really, Holmes? Oh, I mean it.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, this is a case for Langdale Pike, Watson. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: have a good many inquiries to pursue. We'll part our
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: ways here, and I probably shan't see you again until morning.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Adieu.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: Bye, Holmes.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: My dear Watson, I didn't disturb you last night, I hope.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: Never heard a sound. Holmes, Mrs. Hudson just gave me
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: this telegram for you. Thank you. A bit early in
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: the morning for that sort of thing.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: An unpleasant surprise into the bargain. Please come out at once.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Client's house burgled in the night. Police in possession.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Sutro.
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: I say.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: So the drama comes to a crisis quicker than I'd
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: expected it. This lawyer of hers has proved a broken reed.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I made a mistake in not asking you to keep
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: guard there.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: Nothing for it but another journey, then. Immediately.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: There's a great driving power at the back of this business.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: We must lose no time ourselves.
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: Look, Holmes, our old friend Lestrade.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Morning, Inspector.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Morning, Dr. Watson.
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: Well, Mr.
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: Holmes, there's no chance for you in this case, I'm
• 18:53
  Speaker 11: sorry to say. Just a common old garden burglary. Well,
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: within the capacity of the poor old police. No experts
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: need apply.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I'm sure the matter is in very good hands, Lestrade.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Common burglary, you say?
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: Not a doubt.
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: We know who they are and where to find them.
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: That Barney Stockdale lot. Steve Dixie and them. They've been
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: hanging around here.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: What did they get?
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: Oh, nothing much. They could have formed the lady, though.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: Oh, here she is with her lawyer, Sutro.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Mr. Holmes.
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: Pray sit down, madam.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Thank you, doctor. You gave me good advice, Mr. Holmes. Alas,
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: I didn't take it. And I left myself unprotected.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: Holmes, Mrs. Mabley looks wretchedly ill. I don't think she
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: should be troubled now.
• 19:42
  Speaker 11: It's all in my notebook anyway.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Madam, if you are not too exhausted, I should like
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: to hear your story for myself.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Holmes! It's all right, Doctor. There's so little to tell.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: I have no doubt that wicked Susan arranged for them
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: to get in. They must have known the house to
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: an inch. I was conscious for an instant of the
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: chloroform gag being pressed to my mouth. but I have
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: no notion how long I was senseless. When I woke,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: one man was at the bedside, and another was removing
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: something from my son's baggage, which I'd taken up to
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: my room, as you suggested. I sprang up and seized
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: this man.
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: You took a big risk, ma'am.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: I clung to him, but he shook me off, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: the other must have struck me. I can remember no more. Evidently,
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: my little maid, Mary, heard the noise and began screaming
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: out of the window. That brought the police. But the
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: rascals had got away.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Why did they take?
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: That's what I want to know.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: But I can't tell you. I'm sure there was nothing
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: of value in my son's trunks. And nothing else is missing.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Any clues, Lestrade?
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: No, this sheet of paper. The fellow may have dropped
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: it when Mrs. Mabley tackled him.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: It's in my son's handwriting.
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: And therefore, not much value to us men. Now, if
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: it had been in the burglar's writing.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: What rugged common sense. Nonetheless, I should like to see it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Here you are, then.
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: I always hang on to anything over-trifling. And that's my
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: advice to you, Mr.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Holmes.
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: There's always a chance of fingerprints or something.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Lestrade.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Hmm. What do you make of this paper?
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: Well, looks like something he was trying to write. You know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: a novel or something.
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: Queer stuff, if you'll pardon me, ma'am.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Well done, Lestrade. In fact, it may be the end
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: of this novel, may end it. You noticed the number
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: at the top of the page? 245. I, uh.
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: Yes, I had noticed that, yes.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And no doubt asked yourself where the odd 244 pages
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: have got to.
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: Oh, I expect the burglar's got those. And much good
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: may it do him.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yet it seems an odd thing to break into a
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: house in order to steal papers of that kind. Doesn't
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: it suggest anything to you, Inspector?
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: Yes, it suggests that in their hurry they just grabbed
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: at what came first to hand.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Why should they go to my son's things, Inspector?
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: Well, ma'am, they found nothing valuable down below, so they
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: tried their luck upstairs.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: That's how I read it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: Holmes.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I must think it over. Watson.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Will you come over here, please?
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Yes, certainly. What is it, Holmes?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Read this fragment of the novel, or whatever it is.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: Oh, very well.
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: Face bled considerably from the cuts and blows, but it
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: was nothing to the bleeding of his heart as he
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: saw that lovely face, the face for which he had
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: been prepared to sacrifice his very life, looking out at
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: his agony and humiliation. She smiled, yes, by heaven she smiled,
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: like the heartless fiend that she is, as he looked
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: up at her.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: It was at that.
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: Moment that love died and hate was born. Man must
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: live for something. If it is not for your embrace,
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: my lady, then it shall be for your undoing and.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: My complete revenge. Well, I wouldn't commit blurgly to that.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: But did you notice the grammar? How the tense changed
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: from the past to present. And the third person to
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: the first.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: You... You're right.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: As though.
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: As though he'd got so carried.
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: Away by what he was writing that it seemed as
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: if he was himself mixed up in it.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Precisely.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Lestrade is welcome to have this back.
• 23:26
  Speaker 11: Well, did you find anything in it, Mr.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Holmes?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Here you are, Lestrade. No, I don't think there's anything
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: more for me to do... now that the case is
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: in your capable hands. Oh, by the way, Mrs.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: Maberly.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: did you say you wish to travel?
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: It's always been my dream, Mr. Holmes.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Where would you like to go? Cairo? Madeira? Riviera?
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, if I had the money... I should go round
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: the world.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Round the world.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Quite so.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Well, good morning... I may drop you a line in
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: the evening.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Well, what a strange man, Inspector.
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: You know these clever fellows, ma'am. Almost a touch of
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: the you-know-what, eh?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Now, my dear Watson, we are at the last lap
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: of our little journey.
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: Well, I hope you're not going to drop me off
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: and tell me that you'll see me in 24 hours
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: and that's all.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: No. If you're near to a solution, I want to
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: be in on it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: My dear fellow, I shouldn't dream of abandoning you. In
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: any case, I shall feel safer with a witness. It's
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: always advisable in dealing with such ladies as Isadora Clyde.
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: Is there who?
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Does the name really convey nothing to you? A man
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: of your experience?
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: There was never a woman to touch her. Pure Spanish.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: The real blood of the conquistadors. She married the old
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: German sugar king, Klein, and presently found herself the richest
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: as well as the loveliest widow on earth.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: You don't say.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I followed an interval of adventure when she pleased her
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: own tastes.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Aha.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, Watson, she had several lovers, and Douglas Mabley was
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: one of the most striking men in London. He was
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: one of them.
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: Of all I ever heard of Mabley, he was anything.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: But a social butterfly.
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: Exactly.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: He was a strong, proud man who gave all and
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: expected all. Their association was no mere adventure to him.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: But she is the belle danse en mercier fiction. When
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: her caprice is satisfied, the matter is ended. And if
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: the other party can't take her word for it, she
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: knows how to bring it home to him.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Then.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: Then it was his own story he was writing.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Ah, you're piecing it together now. I hear also from
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: my friend Langdale Pike, who supplied all the rest, that
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Isadora Klein is now about to marry the Duke of Lomond,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: who might almost be her son. His Grace's mother might
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: overlook the age question, but a big scandal would be
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: a different matter.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: Ah, here we are.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: I should like to know the meaning of this intrusion, gentlemen.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I need not explain, madam. I have too much respect
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: for your intelligence to do so. Though I fancy that
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: intelligence has been surprisingly at fault of late.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: How so?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: In supposing that your hired bullies would frighten me off.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Surely no man could take up my profession if it
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: weren't that danger attracts him.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: I do not know what you are talking about. What
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: have I to do with hired bullies? Hmm.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I seem to have overrated your intelligence, madam.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: Good afternoon.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Come, Watson.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Stop!
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Where are you going?
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: To Scotland Yard.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, come. Come and sit down, gentlemen. Let us talk
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: this matter over. I feel that I may be frank
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: with you, Mr. Holmes. You have the feelings of a gentleman.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: How quick a woman's instinct is to find it out.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: I will treat you as a friend.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I cannot promise to reciprocate, madam. I am not the law,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I am ready to listen, and then I will tell
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: you how I will act.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: No doubt it was foolish of me to threaten a
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: brave man like yourself.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: What was really foolish is that you have placed yourself
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: in the power of rascals who may blackmail you or
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: give you away.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: No, no, I am not so simple. No one save
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Barney Stockdale and Susan, his wife... Susan, Mrs.
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: Mabley's maid.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: The same. No one except Stockdale and Susan knows who
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: their employer is. They are good hounds who run silent.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Such hounds also have a way, sooner or later, of
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: biting the hand that feeds them. They'll be arrested for
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the burglary, you know. The police are on to them.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: They will take what comes to them without saying more.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: That is what they are paid for. I shall not
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: appear in the matter.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Unless I bring you into it.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: But you would not. You are a gentleman. It is
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: a woman's secret.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: You must give back that stolen manuscript.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: See, see here.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: But in the file, it's full of paper ash.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Shall I give that back? Shall I, Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: You have sealed your fate, madam.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: You have gone too far this time.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: How hard you are. May I tell you the whole story?
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I fancy I could.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Tell it to you. But you must look at it
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: with my eyes, Mr. Holmes. You must understand it from
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: the point of view of a woman who sees all
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: her life's ambition about to be ruined at the last moment.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Is such a woman to be blamed if she protects herself?
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: The original sin was yours.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: That I admit.
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: He was a dear boy, Douglas.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: But he did not fit into my plans. He wanted marriage.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Marriage for me, Mr. Holmes, with a penniless commoner. But no,
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: nothing less would serve him. Because I had given, he
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: seemed to think that I still must give, and to
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: him only. It was intolerable. At last I had to
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: make him realize it. But could I have believed... that
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: a gentleman would do such a thing then?
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: What did he do? He wrote a book.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: He wrote it to tell his own story. I, of course,
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: was the wolf, and he the lamb. It was all there,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: under different names, of course. But who in London would
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: have failed to recognize it? What do you say to that, Mr.
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: Sherlock Holmes?
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: He was within his rights.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: It was as if the air of Italy had got
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: into his blood and brought with it the old, cruel
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: Italian spirit. He wrote to me and sent me a
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: copy of his book so that I might have the
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: torture of anticipation. There were two copies, he said. One
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: for me and one for his publisher.
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: But there must have been three. There's the one you
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: had stolen from his luggage. That one you burnt down.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, don't you see? I knew who was his publisher.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: I found out that no manuscript had reached him from Italy.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: And then came Douglas's sudden death. I knew that the
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: manuscript must still be amongst his belongings. And that so
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: long as it existed, there could be no safety for me.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: So you had to steal it from his mother's house.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: What else could I do, Mr. Holmes? A woman with
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: a scandal hanging over her. And her whole future at stake.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Tell me, Madam Klein. How much does it cost to
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: go round the world?
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: A first class, of course. I do not understand.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Could it be done on 5,000 pounds?
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Why, I should think certainly.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: Capital.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Then I think you'll assign me a check for that amount.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: And I will see that it reaches Mrs. Mabley. After
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: all the distress she has suffered, you owe her a
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: little change of air. Oh, but I... You broke her
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: son's heart.
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: God knows.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: I am sorry for that.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Very well.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: I will pay her.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: And, madam?
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: Yes?
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Have a care.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Have a care.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Even a woman so beautiful as you can't play with
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: sharp-edged tools forever without cutting those dainty hands.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: In episode three of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: played by Robert Langford and Kenneth Baker. Others in the
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: cast were Margaret Ingalls, Elizabeth Hamilton, Beth Butler, George Carellan,
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: and Tony Jay. Next week's adventure is entitled The Illustrious Client.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: And now enjoy this. Sky.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Believe in better.