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Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson to get back to the neat
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Speaker 1: little murder and tough little park all right.
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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, Holmes and I just missed
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Speaker 2: being eyewitnesses to the shooting. It was a night when
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Speaker 2: the century was very young, a night very much like tonight,
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Speaker 2: rain with a bit of mist mixed in for good measure.
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Speaker 2: Holmes and I were taking a slight constitutional.
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Speaker 1: You mean you went walking on a night like this
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Speaker 1: for pleasure? Doctor, Well, you were out.
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Speaker 2: Walking, mister Harris, to relieve the tension. It had been
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Speaker 2: raining for four days from Monday to Thursday. I doubt
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Speaker 2: whether it ceased for a moment when, for the fourth time,
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Speaker 2: after pushing my chair back from the breakfast table, I
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Speaker 2: saw the heavy brown swirl condensing in oily drops on
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Speaker 2: the window panes. I was ready to jump out of
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Speaker 2: my skin.
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Speaker 1: I can't say I blame you. Holmes.
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Speaker 2: Nerves were, if possible, in worse shape than mine. He
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Speaker 2: paced around our Lamplets sitting room like a caged animal,
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Speaker 2: cursing under his breath in a fever of suppressed. Finally,
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Speaker 2: as evening drew in, he proclaimed he was going out
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Speaker 2: for exercise if he had to swim in the gutters.
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Speaker 1: We donned caps and ulsters, and after set the.
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Speaker 2: Amount of acrimonious discussion, I persuaded Holmes into his overshoes
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Speaker 2: and muffler. For half an hour, we stowed the streets
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Speaker 2: in silence. Little by little, our nerves relaxed and our
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Speaker 2: pace slackened. By the time we started across Tucknell Park,
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Speaker 2: Holmes was feeling almost amiable.
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Speaker 1: Nothing of interest in today's papers, I suppose Watson. Only
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Speaker 1: news of the revolution, the possible war, and an impending
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Speaker 1: change of government commonplace. Maria Watson. Yes, the London criminal
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Speaker 1: certainly a dull fellow. The thief or murderer could roam
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Speaker 1: London on a night like this as the tiger does
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Speaker 1: his jungle, unseen to be punches and an evident only
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Speaker 1: to his victim.
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Speaker 2: Well, there have been a few petty thift.
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Speaker 1: Pettie thift, thick pockets and handkerchief snatches. The stage is
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Speaker 1: set for something somber, sinister, violent.
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Speaker 2: Oh I do wish you wouldn't run on like that homes,
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Speaker 2: at least until we reached.
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Speaker 1: The other side of the park. It's it's uncommonly dark
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Speaker 1: in here tonight. Yes, I was wondering if you've noticed
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Speaker 1: that wantson. There should be a street lamp along here somewhere,
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Speaker 1: either the lamplight has neglected to light it or Hello,
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Speaker 1: here's a lamp post. There's glass scattered on the pavement.
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Speaker 1: The light's been put out. What's on?
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Speaker 3: You heard that?
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Speaker 1: It sounded like someone's shooting, but the accurate ones and
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Speaker 1: there were two gunshots. The second I think was particular
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Speaker 1: homes homes. Here comes a woman. She's running along the path.
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Speaker 1: She's terrified.
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Speaker 4: Head someone hill on me, madam?
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Speaker 1: Can I be assistance? I'm sherlock home.
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Speaker 4: You're just the man I need. It's murder well behead there.
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Speaker 5: There's an open circular space with a fountain and a
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Speaker 5: you head all around.
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Speaker 4: I was walking.
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Speaker 5: Towards it when I saw men rise up out of
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Speaker 5: the push. He shot at someone sitting on a bench
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Speaker 5: in front of the fountain, and then disappeared in which
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Speaker 5: direction I don't know. Oh, please please see if the
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Speaker 5: man's hurt, I'll get a doctor.
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Speaker 4: I'd be like this.
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Speaker 1: It won't be necessary. My friend here is a medical man,
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Speaker 1: and judging by your cap and cape, you're not unacquainted
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Speaker 1: with the medical profession yourself.
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Speaker 4: No matron st pan Christian.
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Speaker 1: Firmily excellent. Come with us. We may need your assistance.
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Speaker 4: That shouldn't someone go for the police.
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Speaker 1: Mustn't let the murderer get away. My dear missus, Missus Sydney,
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Speaker 1: My dear missus Sydney. The first thing is to ascertain
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Speaker 1: if it really is murder we're dealing with.
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Speaker 2: The first thing is homes, if you pardon my saying,
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Speaker 2: so is to save the victim's life if we.
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Speaker 1: Can, and hear Watson for once, I agree with you.
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Speaker 1: Come along so I'm sure, kiddy is Watson on the
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Speaker 1: ground beside the bench homes.
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Speaker 2: That's a matchy so I can have a look at him.
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Speaker 4: Good lord, it's Superintendent Jeffers his nick. He's been shot
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Speaker 4: in the neck.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm afraid it's serious.
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Speaker 1: Matter, don't you. I'm glad?
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Speaker 6: Have them get me to them firmly.
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Speaker 2: He's right, we'd have to operate. Hurry, missus Sidney. Tell
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Speaker 2: him to send the ambulance and a stretcher.
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Speaker 1: Rob, What Rob?
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Speaker 2: What's happened?
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Speaker 1: What if they've done to you?
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Speaker 6: Where were you?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Wait?
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Speaker 4: I came as quickly as I could. They wouldn't let
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Speaker 4: me off to you.
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Speaker 7: To no, never mind, that.
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Speaker 4: Go get help, tell them to ring the ambulance. No, no,
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Speaker 4: I want to stay with him. And what good would
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Speaker 4: you be?
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Speaker 1: Just a probation.
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Speaker 4: I'm the one he.
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Speaker 1: Needs now, the love of Heaven.
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Speaker 2: Someone go, We've got to get the bullet out of him.
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Speaker 2: He's leading internally, all right, God, no, please.
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Speaker 4: I think she's a nurse.
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Speaker 1: What does she know?
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Speaker 7: What does she know about anything?
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Speaker 1: WA's in many more wounds beside the one on the neck,
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Speaker 1: Great Scott, No, that's enough, isn't it? But there were
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Speaker 1: two shots. We heard two shots.
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Speaker 2: Watson, don't bother me now, Holmes, Consciously, I'm busy.
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Speaker 1: He was sitting on the bench. The bullet entered from
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Speaker 1: the front. The shot was fire from this direction.
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Speaker 4: That's right, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 5: The man came out of the bushes from over there.
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Speaker 5: He took two steps and then I saw the flames.
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Speaker 4: Spurred out a little bone.
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Speaker 1: But once or twice, well, I don't well.
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Speaker 4: That is once.
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Speaker 8: I'm sure it was only once.
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Speaker 6: It was George Shotley, Oh, George mcgownparted his cat in
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Speaker 6: the dark over there, h hair doing me all afternoon.
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Speaker 6: I thought i'd shaken him off, but I wouldn't have
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Speaker 6: kept the appointment with Nellie.
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Speaker 1: Here.
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Speaker 6: I was in danger minute I saw his cat come
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Speaker 6: out of the bush.
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Speaker 1: Did he say anything that he's set in?
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Speaker 6: You didn't say anything, just shot me.
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Speaker 1: What did his face looked like as he came towards you?
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Speaker 8: Leave him alone?
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Speaker 4: Can't you leave him alone?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, don't try to talk.
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Speaker 1: Save you. Up Here comes Tom, Thank Heaven for that.
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Speaker 1: It won't belong now he isn't here.
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Speaker 4: The little as close as we could, with the path
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Speaker 4: as much too narrow.
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Speaker 5: Ever, mind the excuse is Nelle bring.
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Speaker 4: The stretcher over here.
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Speaker 2: Yes, down, George, that's right, boys, now, easy, easy, I'll
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Speaker 2: take the shoulders and the head.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I brought a lantern.
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Speaker 5: You keep away from him then.
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Speaker 1: Already, Ron carry him to the ambulance. Careful, keep out
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Speaker 1: to step.
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Speaker 4: Oh he's hit, you fool. You've got his head lower
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Speaker 4: than his fee.
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Speaker 1: Watson, when you finished operating, be sure to save me
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Speaker 1: the bullet.
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Speaker 2: I'm not interested in adding to your grizzly souvenirs.
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Speaker 1: I'm not asking for a souvenir, Watson. I'm demanding evidence.
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Speaker 1: Be sure I get that bullet.
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Speaker 4: So my fault. I shouldn't have said i'd meet him
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Speaker 4: here tonight. I knew Old George. It's threatened doctor Jeffers
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Speaker 4: when he was released today.
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Speaker 1: Who is old George, miss Nellie? And what did he
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Speaker 1: have against the superintendent? Well?
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Speaker 8: Nothing really, George McGown is just a tragic old man
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Speaker 8: who drank too much and couldn't get on with his family.
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Speaker 8: Daughter stood it as long as she could, and then
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Speaker 8: she had him committed.
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Speaker 1: I see.
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Speaker 4: The first few days were pretty bad. He had DT's,
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Speaker 4: you know, and he kept.
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Speaker 8: Yelling for his revolver to protect himself. Fortunately doctor Jeffers
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Speaker 8: had taken the gun away from it when all George arrived.
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Speaker 8: That's when he first took a dislike to doctor Jeffers,
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Speaker 8: and even after he was better, he went on hating him.
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Speaker 1: Is doctor Jeffers generally disliked?
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Speaker 4: Oh no, he's wonderful.
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Speaker 8: That is well, I suppose it is tricked, but you
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Speaker 8: have to be if you're in charge of a.
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Speaker 1: Place that hits int pancras, you wouldn't buy any chance
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Speaker 1: be prejudiced.
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Speaker 8: Well, I perhaps I am just a bit.
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Speaker 4: It's a secret.
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Speaker 8: But well, doctor Jefferson and I are engaged to be married.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I gathered as much. Tell me miss name. Does
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Speaker 1: anyone else suspect this attachment?
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Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I'm sure no one does.
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Speaker 8: Doctor Jefferson's most particular, None of the other nurses should
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Speaker 8: find out.
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Speaker 4: He said it would be bad for hospital discipline.
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Speaker 1: I see. Tell me what did doctor Jeffers do with
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Speaker 1: mister Gowan's revolver when he took it away from him? Oh?
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Speaker 4: He put it in the safe.
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Speaker 8: That's what they always do with the patient's valuables when
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Speaker 8: they arrived. They're handed back, of course, when the patient
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Speaker 8: is discharged.
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Speaker 1: You say, George McGowan was discharged.
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Speaker 4: Today, Yes, sir, at ten o'clock this morning.
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Speaker 1: Did doctor Jeffers return his revolver? Oh?
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Speaker 8: No, sir, that was what they had the row about
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Speaker 8: that and all George's cap.
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Speaker 2: Hey, hey, yeah, I've been waiting this harbor for me discharge.
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Speaker 1: Well here it is, George. And how many times do
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Speaker 1: I have to tell you to take that cap off
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Speaker 1: when you're in the house.
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Speaker 2: Well I'm a bonnet because I'm ready to.
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Speaker 1: Go very well then, but see you go straight home.
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Speaker 1: No dropping in at any pub on the way mind you? Eh, well,
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Speaker 1: what are you waiting for? Sell? You yet to give
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Speaker 1: him a pack up?
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Speaker 2: Pistol.
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Speaker 1: Don't you think you're better off without it? Who's to
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Speaker 1: be the judge of that? I brought it with me
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Speaker 1: from Grasky.
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Speaker 6: Well you're not going to get it, I understand here
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Speaker 6: arguing take off that dirty cat.
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Speaker 1: It's no dirty cup. Here's my fine Scotch bonnet. Here's
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Speaker 1: the mcgaron Catton it is. I've kept it on in
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Speaker 1: the presence of better men than you'll pay.
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Speaker 7: That will do, George.
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Speaker 5: I'm not allowed to talk to the superintendent like that.
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Speaker 2: Oh Matron here and your nurses maybe daft over this doctor,
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Speaker 2: but he better look out for old George. I'll get
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Speaker 2: even with mister Superintendent Jeffers if it is the last.
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Speaker 3: Thing at all.
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Speaker 4: I begged doctor Jeffers to be careful, but he just laughed.
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Speaker 8: He said, if the doctor was going to worry about
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Speaker 8: all the patients that took a dislike to.
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Speaker 4: Him, he'd better give up medicine. Do you think they'll.
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Speaker 8: Be able to save his life, doctor Jeffers, I.
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Speaker 1: Mean, fortunately, my dear doctor Watson is a much better
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Speaker 1: surgeon than he is a detective. Your friend is in
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Speaker 1: good hand.
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Speaker 4: Doctor Watson. Why then then you must be the great.
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Speaker 1: Mister Sherlock Holmes, hadn't you guessed?
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Speaker 4: Well? No, I suppose I was so upset. And then
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Speaker 4: the light here is so dim to night. All I
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Speaker 4: can really see is that peak calf of yours.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Doctor Jeffer says it would mean mister mc gowan
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Speaker 1: that shot him. That I suspect all he saw in
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Speaker 1: this lightish bonnet, and rather imagine that was why the
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Speaker 1: street lamp was extinguished.
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Speaker 8: Of course, old George hoped to get away without being
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Speaker 8: recognized at all.
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Speaker 4: I wonder what are you looking for, mister Holt.
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Speaker 1: Confound this rain that's drowned my mash.
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Speaker 4: You'll try another here, I'll hold.
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Speaker 1: My cape all this, thanks, Yes, that's better. No footprints
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Speaker 1: on this gravel, confounded here shadow here we are, just
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Speaker 1: as I expected, right here on the ground, under the
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Speaker 1: ew head, from a trifle water on but still recognizable.
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Speaker 4: Why that's all George's care. He must have lost it
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Speaker 4: in the excitement. And look down on the grass. Mister Holmes,
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Speaker 4: there's his ruler too.
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Speaker 1: Don't touch it. Whatever you do, don't touch it. Don't
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Speaker 1: want any unnecessary finger prints. I'll handle it with my muffler.
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Speaker 1: Good thing, Watson, bullet be into wearing it comes in
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Speaker 1: useful after all, although what finger prints we have are
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Speaker 1: probably badly smeared. The gun has recently been discharged. Yes,
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Speaker 1: only one chamber has been emptied. Interesting, very interesting.
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Speaker 4: That, mister Holmes, Doctor jeffer Is is only one moon.
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Speaker 1: Quite right, two shots were fired, however, I heard.
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Speaker 4: Them myself, but I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I do either. That is not entirely that.
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Speaker 1: I have a few rather definite suspicions which I shall
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Speaker 1: endeavor to confirm.
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Speaker 4: How will you do that, mister.
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Speaker 1: Holmes, by means of some experiments with this revolver and
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Speaker 1: with a bullet. Doctor Watson is even now removing from
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood of your fiancees jugular vain. Yes, suppose we
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Speaker 1: get along to St. Pancras's infirmity. I'm counting on you
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Speaker 1: to procure me some rather important information.
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Speaker 4: Anything I could do, mister Holmes, anything at all.
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Speaker 1: You can look through the files and get me mister
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Speaker 1: mc gowan's home address. I think a visit to his
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Speaker 1: daughter is indicated. Let's see seventeen berbery mules. Seventeen years
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Speaker 1: here we are dilapidated, little villa.
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Speaker 4: Ah, Well, what do you want.
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Speaker 1: Miss McGowan, I presume I wonder if I might speak
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Speaker 1: to your father for a moment.
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Speaker 8: No, you can't.
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Speaker 1: You needn't be afraid I've come to harm him. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I think if you'll let me talk to him now
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Speaker 1: before the authorities arrived.
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Speaker 3: Two later, owns you'll not be playing.
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Speaker 1: Ducks and drakes for the law this time. Well, well,
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Speaker 1: if it isn't Lestrade, the super snooper of Scotland.
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Speaker 9: Yard, you can laugh, mister Sherlock Holmes, but this is
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Speaker 9: one time you don't need your assistance. I'm here to
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Speaker 9: arrest George Bergeron for the murder of Superintendent Jeffers of
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Speaker 9: Saint Patcras Infirmary.
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Speaker 1: You mean to say he's dead.
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Speaker 9: No, but from what the matron tells me, he will
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Speaker 9: be before morning. So I've come to arrest his murderer.
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Speaker 1: Don't you think you may be underrating both doctor Watson
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Speaker 1: and myself. Also, the Superintendent may pull through and it's
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Speaker 1: just possible McGowan is not the man who shot him.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, Superintendent Jeffers.
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Speaker 9: Sign the matron says you found McGowan's cap and revolver
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Speaker 9: a Webley six seminder on the scene of the crime.
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Speaker 9: What's more, I've got the bullet they took out of
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Speaker 9: Jeffer's neck.
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Speaker 1: Possibly, but what makes you think the bullet was fired
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Speaker 1: from that particular revolver.
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Speaker 3: It's the right size and canniber. That's enough for me.
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Speaker 9: Furthermore, the young nurse tells me you made off with
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Speaker 9: the guard and the cap I thank you to hand
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Speaker 9: them over.
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Speaker 1: So sorry, but I can't, you know, not until I've
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Speaker 1: conducted a few rather important experiments.
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Speaker 3: So obstruct in the law, that's what it is. You
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Speaker 3: won't restep yourself this time, earns end or mistake. I'll
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Speaker 3: have a warrant sworn out for your first thing in
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Speaker 3: the morning.
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Speaker 1: Aren't you forgetting the real purpose of your visit here?
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Speaker 1: What's that? The apprehending of your so called murderer, mister
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Speaker 1: George mcgonne.
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Speaker 9: I don't need you to remind me of a duty now, then, miss,
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Speaker 9: tell your father I want to see it.
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Speaker 1: He need you?
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Speaker 4: Well, you can't, But why not? Because it didn't come home?
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Speaker 4: And if you had to sets your.
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Speaker 8: Bone with you go and look for him laying drunk
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Speaker 8: and some powers from ailhouse who will be in Texas
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Speaker 8: for I'd like to know why didn't they keep him.
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Speaker 4: In the hospital till it was cured.
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Speaker 5: Me And why don't you smile, tele explain your own
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Speaker 5: business hither bothering you.
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Speaker 1: It seems miss McGowan has put us both in the
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Speaker 1: same class. Congratulations, was trying. You've been promoted.
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Speaker 3: You go to blazers and another thing.
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Speaker 9: You bring that cap and that revolver out of the
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Speaker 9: ard first thing in the morning. Elms, and I'll see
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Speaker 9: you put behind bars.
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Speaker 1: You've made your little aultimatum, Lestrade. Now I'll make mine.
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Speaker 1: You bring that bullet they took out of doctor Jeffer's
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Speaker 1: neck around a two twenty one B Baker Street before
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Speaker 1: midnight tonight, or I'll make you the laughing stock of London.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's bluff, your bluff.
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Speaker 1: Possibly the caless trade. I'll stake my reputation that that
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Speaker 1: bullet was not fired from mc gowan's gun. You can
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Speaker 1: bring a warrant with the bullet. If I'm wrong, you
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Speaker 1: can arrest me for trying to conceal evidence.
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Speaker 9: Pretty sure of yourself, arch All right, it's a deal.
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Speaker 9: I'll bring the warrant and the handcuff, all right.
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Speaker 1: George the coast clear. You can come out from behind
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Speaker 1: the rain barrel.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, willill your bee. No turning me.
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Speaker 1: In, don't mention it. Oh, just one thing, Tell me
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Speaker 1: the truth, George. Did you shoot Superintendent Jeffers tonight in
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Speaker 1: Tufno Park? So help me, sir, I don't. I followed
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Speaker 1: him all afternoon, but it was that wet and Aurora
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Speaker 1: had to stop.
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Speaker 2: In and again for a wheed trap, and pretty soon
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Speaker 2: I was in a bit of a fog, as you
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Speaker 2: might say, So I.
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Speaker 1: Don't rightly remember what happened. When I come to, I
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Speaker 1: was lying in the gut with my bonnet gun and
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Speaker 1: my hand here covered with blood. Hey, it could be
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Speaker 1: me in blood. So I've got a nasty cut over
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Speaker 1: my left eye. Let's hope it is your own blood, George.
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Speaker 1: If it's not, you should both end up in jail.
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Speaker 1: Oh what in the name of commons? Since do you
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Speaker 1: think you're doing? Shooting?
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Speaker 3: That's obvious?
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Speaker 2: I may say it was obvious the moment I turned
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Speaker 2: the corner of Merrybone Road. What's the idea of target
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Speaker 2: practice this hour of the night.
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Speaker 1: This is not target practice, Watson. You'll notice I'm shooting
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Speaker 1: into a large cylinder filled with cotton wool. It's a
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Speaker 1: little experiment whereby I hope to convince inspect to Lestrad
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Speaker 1: that Baker Street is more sapient than Scotland Yard. Oh that,
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Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, is the minion of the law
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Speaker 1: in person. I'll go down, mother Watson. I told missus
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Speaker 1: Hudson we were expecting a midnight caller. She let him in. Yes,
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Speaker 1: twelve o'clock. Come in, Lestrade, come in your promptest itself.
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Speaker 3: Well, Holmes, I've brought the bullet and the handcuffs.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough, now here, take this chair here by the microscope.
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Speaker 1: I'll turn the lamp up a little higher. Now, then
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Speaker 1: if you'll give doctor Watson the bullet he extracted from
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Speaker 1: doctor Jeffer's neck and allow him to place it under
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Speaker 1: the lens.
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Speaker 9: All right, but you thank you mind really, by the way,
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Speaker 9: Dr Watson, now is the victim?
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Speaker 1: Did you pull him through?
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Speaker 3: And I'm dead?
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Speaker 2: Someone is interested. I left doctor Jeffer's resting quietly. Thank you, Holmes,
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Speaker 2: never thought to inquire.
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Speaker 1: My dear Watson. I have every confidence in your medical ability. No,
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Speaker 1: what I'm really curious about is the pattern of the
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Speaker 1: marks on this bullet. Pardon me, what I've focused the lens? Yes,
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Speaker 1: Let's see I thought so. I thought, so he may know.
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Speaker 9: What you're talking about, Dr Watson, but I'm completely in
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Speaker 9: the dark.
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Speaker 2: How about you, I confessed the Stard, I am quite frequently.
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Speaker 1: In your predicament. But it's all so childishly simple. This
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Speaker 1: bullet could not possibly have been fired from George McGowan's revolver.
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Speaker 1: The bore patterns are entirely different. What's he raving about here?
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Speaker 1: Look in the microscope while I explain in words of
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Speaker 1: one syllable, I'm looking. Go ahead, Notice the pattern of lines,
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Speaker 1: walls and scratches on that bullet. Fix them well in
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Speaker 1: your mind.
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Speaker 3: All right, I'm doing it.
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Speaker 1: A few years ago, Astard, I've persuaded Scotland Yard to
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Speaker 1: take up the science of finger printing. Fingerprints are now
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Speaker 1: recognized the one sure method of identification. No two sets
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Speaker 1: of fingerprints can possibly be alike. Granted, I'd like to
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Speaker 1: introduce you to the science of ballistic spull What's that?
17:57
Speaker 1: Every gun that's capable of firing a bullet leave on
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Speaker 1: that bullet a pattern of its own, a pattern. It's
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Speaker 1: as individual as a man's fingerprints, and as incapable of duplication. Now, Watson,
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Speaker 1: if you'll dig one of the bullets fired from mister
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Speaker 1: mc gowan's weblay out of that cotton wool. All right,
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Speaker 1: we'll have a look at it under the microscope. Hey,
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Speaker 1: you are Holmes Lestrade. You've memorized the pattern made by
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Speaker 1: the killer's revolver on the bullet. Now have a look
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Speaker 1: at this one fired from Old George's gun.
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Speaker 3: Great Scotch, you're right, they're different. Different is night and day.
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Speaker 1: Therefore, the webley did not fire the shop that was
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Speaker 1: supposed to kill the superintendent, and McGowan is not the
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Speaker 1: potential killer.
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Speaker 9: But look here, el you just had a look at
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Speaker 9: the second bullet yourself. What made you so sure earlier
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Speaker 9: this evening that McGowan wasn't guilty for.
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Speaker 1: One thing, the stage was too carefully set. Why was
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Speaker 1: the street lamp extinguished so Jeffers couldn't really recognize the
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Speaker 1: person who wore McGowan's cap. Why were both the cap
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Speaker 1: and the revolver left at the scene of the crime
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Speaker 1: to incriminate Old George? Fortunately for him, McGowan was the
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Speaker 1: one person who couldn't possibly have fired the webley because
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Speaker 1: it was carefully locked in the hospital safe.
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Speaker 3: Would have taken it from the state.
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Speaker 1: Almost any of the officers of the hospital stop, I
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Speaker 1: imagine murder. Can we find out which one by paying
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Speaker 1: a return visit to the hospital. Destrond, whoever fired that shot,
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Speaker 1: will be quite chagrined to learn it wasn't fatal. I'd
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Speaker 1: rather suspect a second attempt he made on doctor Jeffer's
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Speaker 1: Watson in which wing of the hospital if they put
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Speaker 1: doctor Jeffer's, he's on.
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Speaker 3: The ground floor over there to the left, where the.
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Speaker 1: Light is burning good the windows partly open. You shall
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Speaker 1: be able to stand behind those bushes and seeing without
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Speaker 1: being observed. Come along, le stride, I'm common.
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Speaker 3: Quiet you too.
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Speaker 1: Here we are. We can see over the sill. Nurse
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Speaker 1: has her back turned. She won't notice. Everything seems to
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Speaker 1: be quiet enough. Jeff has just moved his hand. He's
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Speaker 1: coming out of the ether. I imagine.
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Speaker 3: Color looks good.
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Speaker 1: Quiet. The doors opening.
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Speaker 3: It's the matron. She's coming in with the grass of
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Speaker 3: something in her hand.
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Speaker 7: I've brought him some morn dreakness.
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Speaker 5: Why don't you go at your supper now, there's a
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Speaker 5: kettle boiling in the pantry.
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Speaker 7: I'll sit with him for a while.
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Speaker 3: Nurses leaving is a matron smooth enough?
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Speaker 7: The covers, Robert, can you hear me?
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Speaker 9: He's opening his eyes.
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Speaker 4: You are going to.
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Speaker 3: Live, Robert.
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Speaker 1: They saved you.
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Speaker 7: I thought that I was the one that found you.
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Speaker 7: That weren't for me, you'd have fled today. You were
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Speaker 7: a fool to throw me over for that young mess.
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Speaker 6: Matron. Life is like that, couldn't help it.
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Speaker 1: We love each other. Going to be married.
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Speaker 7: Sorry, don't worry about it.
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Speaker 4: What is to be is to be.
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Speaker 1: Here.
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Speaker 7: Drink this to make you feel better.
22:50
Speaker 1: Jeffer's contact that glass. What you're doing here? He came
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Speaker 1: back to Provincial making a second attempt on doctor Jeffer's life,
22:56
Speaker 1: and to find out why you made the first. Watson
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Speaker 1: helplesstrat over a silver before he strangles himself. Yes, Matron,
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Speaker 1: you've just given us the strongest motive that exists for murder. Jealousy.
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Speaker 5: You think you are smart, mister Holmes, you can't prove anything.
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Speaker 5: You'll never find my fingerprints on any revolver, and you'll
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Speaker 5: never find the revolver. Mister Lestrade here knows you can't
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Speaker 5: convict anyone without proof.
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Speaker 1: I think the contents of that glass will prove you
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Speaker 1: tried to murder doctor Jeffers. Take the glass away from
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Speaker 1: a Lestrade quick before she can't.
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Speaker 2: Get Good Lord, she drank it, Homes, She drank it herself.
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Speaker 2: Oh there's nothing Homes or I could do, mister Harris.
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Speaker 2: That glass contained a very lethal dose of classic acid.
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Speaker 1: She was dead inside of two minutes. Good Lord, tell me,
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Speaker 1: doctor Watson. When did Sheila Calms first suspect the matron
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Speaker 1: of trying to kill doctor Jeffers.
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Speaker 2: Almost at once, or perhaps I should say from the
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Speaker 2: moment we entered the circle of u hedge that surrounded
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Speaker 2: the fountain you may not know it, mister hallis but
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Speaker 2: a good English ue hedges as impenetrable as a brick wall,
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Speaker 2: and much more impossible to scale.
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Speaker 1: There was only one entrance to that circle, the.
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Speaker 2: One through which the matron ran practically into our arms.
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Speaker 2: No one else could have passed without our seeing him. Consequently,
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Speaker 2: no one else was in the circle with Doctor Jeffers
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Speaker 2: when he was shot. It had to be the matron
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Speaker 2: who fired the revolver, who fared the two revolvers, I
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Speaker 2: should say, the one to incriminate George McGown, and the.
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Speaker 1: Other to do the job. Thank you, doctor Watson. And
24:37
Speaker 1: now what is in store for us for next week?
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Speaker 2: Next week, well, now let me see. I think I'll
24:44
Speaker 2: tell you how Homes unearthed a stolen naval treaty that
24:47
Speaker 2: threatened the peace of Europe. It involves a careless young
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Speaker 2: employee of the British Foreign Office, a beautiful lady with
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Speaker 2: a lamp and a mist shrouded garden.
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