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67-01-09 Sherlock Holmes The Second Stain · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 3: Cabby!
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  Speaker 4: Cabby!
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  Speaker 3: Capital, my dear Watson.
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  Speaker 5: Let us return to our humble abode.
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  Speaker 3: 221B Baker Street, please, Cabby.
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  Speaker 5: From London, we present The Second Stain, a play for
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  Speaker 5: radio by Michael Hardwick, based on the short story by
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  Speaker 5: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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  Speaker 3: The Second Stain.
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  Speaker 6: The reason why I'm not here to include the adventure
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  Speaker 6: of the second stain in these chronicles of the cases
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  Speaker 6: of Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes lies in the nature of the affair itself.
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  Speaker 7: In fact, it was only upon my representing to him
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  Speaker 7: that I promised my public that.
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  Speaker 3: It should someday hear the account that he recently gave
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  Speaker 3: his consent.
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  Speaker 7: But he stipulates that my narrative must be a carefully
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  Speaker 7: guarded one. And if in presenting it I seem to
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  Speaker 7: be somewhat vague in certain details, then pray be assured
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  Speaker 7: that there.
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  Speaker 4: Is an excellent reason for my reticence.
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  Speaker 3: Pray come in, gentlemen. Thank you. May I present my
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  Speaker 3: friend and colleague, Dr. Watson, sir? Yes, your servant, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: If you will sit here, Lord Bellinger. Thank you. And
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  Speaker 3: you here, Mr. Hoke. Thank you. Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes, I shall come straight to the point.
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  Speaker 3: If you please.
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  Speaker 9: I discovered my loss at 8 o'clock this morning. I
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  Speaker 9: had once informed the Prime Minister... And it was at
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  Speaker 9: his suggestion that.
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  Speaker 8: We have both come straight to you.
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  Speaker 3: In the strictest confidence that we make it plain.
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  Speaker 5: Rest assured, Prime Minister. May I ask if the police
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  Speaker 5: have been informed?
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  Speaker 3: No, sir. Nor shall they be. Indeed.
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  Speaker 5: To inform the police must in the long run mean
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  Speaker 5: to inform the public.
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  Speaker 3: I understand. Now, Mr. Hope, you speak of this as
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  Speaker 3: your loss.
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  Speaker 5: I should be much obliged if you would tell me
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  Speaker 5: exactly what has occurred.
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  Speaker 8: I can do that in a very few words. The
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  Speaker 8: letter was from a foreign potentate... It.
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  Speaker 9: Was received six days ago, and was of such importance
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  Speaker 9: that I have never left it in my office safe,
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  Speaker 9: but have taken it each evening across to my house
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  Speaker 9: in Whitehall Terrace, where I have kept it hidden in
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  Speaker 9: my bedroom in.
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  Speaker 8: A locked dispatch box. Yes? It was there last night,
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  Speaker 8: of that I am certain. This morning, it was gone.
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  Speaker 8: I am a light sleeper, and so is my wife.
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  Speaker 3: We are both prepared to swear that.
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  Speaker 8: No one could have entered our room during the night.
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  Speaker 3: And yet I repeat.
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  Speaker 8: The paper is gone.
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  Speaker 5: Was the dispatch box unguarded at any time during the evening?
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  Speaker 9: For several hours between my arriving home and going to bed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: But I was in the house all the time. My
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  Speaker 8: wife was at the theater. No one could have had
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  Speaker 8: access to the room except our servants. They are both
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  Speaker 8: completely trustworthy.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 9: In any case, they could have had no inkling that
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  Speaker 9: the box contained anything of undue importance.
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  Speaker 3: Did your wife know about it?
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  Speaker 8: Certainly not.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but could she have guessed?
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  Speaker 8: No, she could not.
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  Speaker 3: Have you lost any documents before? Never.
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  Speaker 10: Very well.
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  Speaker 5: You've told me who in England knows of this letter's existence. Now,
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  Speaker 5: who could know of it abroad?
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  Speaker 8: No one, save the man who wrote it.
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  Speaker 3: No one?
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  Speaker 8: We understand that he did not employ the usual official channels,
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  Speaker 8: even to the exclusion of his ministers.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 5: Then next I must ask you more particularly what this
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  Speaker 5: document is.
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  Speaker 3: That is a state secret of the utmost importance. I
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  Speaker 3: fear that we cannot tell you more. Gentlemen, you are
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  Speaker 3: two of the most busy men in the country.
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  Speaker 5: And in my own small way, I also have a
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  Speaker 5: good many calls upon me.
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  Speaker 3: I regret exceedingly that I cannot help you in the matter. Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes, sir, I'm not accustomed to being treated in this way.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 8: I suppose we must accept your terms.
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  Speaker 4: It is unreasonable to expect you to act unless we
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  Speaker 4: give you.
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  Speaker 3: Our entire confidence. Just so, Lord Bellinger.
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  Speaker 5: The letter, then, is from a foreign potentate who has
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  Speaker 5: been ruffled by certain colonial developments in this country. It
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  Speaker 5: has been written hurriedly and entirely upon his own responsibility.
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  Speaker 5: It is couched in so unfortunate of a manner, with
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  Speaker 5: certain phrases of so provocative a character, that his publication
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  Speaker 5: would undoubtedly lead to a ferment of feeling in this country.
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  Speaker 8: Really?
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  Speaker 5: I do not hesitate to say that within a week
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  Speaker 5: of his publication, we should be impelled into war.
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  Speaker 8: Need I say more than that, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes? No, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Have you informed the sender of its loss?
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  Speaker 8: By cipher telegram.
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  Speaker 9: We believe that already he regrets having written it, and
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  Speaker 9: is just as concerned that it should never be published.
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  Speaker 3: As we are.
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  Speaker 5: This being so, in whose interest is it that the
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  Speaker 5: letter should come out?
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  Speaker 3: Who would wish to steal and publish it? Ah, there, Mr. Holmes,
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  Speaker 3: you take me.
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  Speaker 4: To regions of high international politics.
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  Speaker 5: Then we can assume that at this very moment the
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  Speaker 5: letter is probably speeding on its way to one of
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  Speaker 5: the chancellories of Europe as fast as steam can take it.
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  Speaker 3: Precisely.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 10: My dear hope.
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  Speaker 3: No one can blame you.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes, what course do you recommend?
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  Speaker 5: You think, sir, that unless this letter is recovered, there
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  Speaker 5: will be war?
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  Speaker 3: I think it is very probable. Then, sir, prepare for war.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 3: That is brave counsel, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Are there no inquiries you can make? There are a few,
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  Speaker 3: Lord Bellinger. Then come along, Holmes. You'll let us know
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  Speaker 3: of any development during the day, Mr. Holmes? I shall, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Good day, gentlemen. Allow me, sir. Thank you. Good day.
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  Speaker 3: Good day. Good day. By Jove, Holmes, I don't like
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  Speaker 3: the sound of this. On the brink of war? The
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  Speaker 3: situation is desperate, Watson, but not hopeless. Have you an idea, then? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I believe the letter was taken by someone in the house.
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  Speaker 3: But how... Acting on behalf.
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  Speaker 5: Of some foreign agent who by some means had come
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  Speaker 5: to know.
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  Speaker 3: Of its existence. Oh, a spy. Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Well, even if you're right, it isn't going to help
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  Speaker 5: you much. As you said, the letter would have been
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  Speaker 5: passed on straight away. How could you hope to get
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  Speaker 5: it back? Unless I'm mistaken, the man behind this will
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  Speaker 5: prove to be one of that handful of international agents
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  Speaker 5: in London whose names are tolerably familiar to me. I
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  Speaker 5: will begin by going round and finding if each of
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  Speaker 5: them is still here. If one is missing, especially if
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  Speaker 5: he has disappeared since last night, we will have some
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  Speaker 5: indication as to where the document has gone.
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  Speaker 3: But what can you hope to do then?
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  Speaker 5: If it's on the market, I'll buy it, even if
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  Speaker 5: it means another penny on the income tax. With these fellows,
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  Speaker 5: it's money that counts. I have the British Treasury behind me.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 5: Now, now let me see.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, there are only three secret agents capable of playing
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  Speaker 5: so bold a game as this.
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  Speaker 3: Oberstein, La Roffia, and Eduardo Lucas. Just a minute, Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Eduardo Lucas? Yes. Do you know of him? Well, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't until I read my paper this morning. What? Here,
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  Speaker 3: you'd better listen to this. Now, where... Ah, here we are, yes.
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  Speaker 7: A crime of a mysterious character was committed last night
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  Speaker 7: at 16 Godolphin Street, Westminster.
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  Speaker 3: The home of Mr. Eduardo Lucas.
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  Speaker 7: well known in society's circles and regarded as one of
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  Speaker 7: the country's best amateur tenors.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, go on, Watson, go on. Oh, sorry.
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  Speaker 7: At a quarter to midnight, Police Constable Barrett, observing that
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  Speaker 7: the front door was ajar, knocked but could gain no reply.
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  Speaker 7: Entering the house, he found the state of wild disorder
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  Speaker 7: with furniture and objects scattered and overturned.
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  Speaker 3: In the middle of the floor lay Mr. Eduardo Lucas. What?
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  Speaker 3: He had been stabbed to the heart and must have
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  Speaker 3: died instantly. Oh, my soul, Watson. Is there any more? Well,
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  Speaker 3: only to say that robbery didn't seem to be the murder.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing coincidence, eh, Holmes? A coincidence?
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  Speaker 5: Here is one of three men whom we had named
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  Speaker 5: as possible actors in this drama, and he meets a
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  Speaker 5: violent death during the very hours when we know that
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  Speaker 5: drama was being enacted. No, my dear Watson, the odds
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  Speaker 5: against coincidence are too enormous.
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  Speaker 3: For figures to express. You think the events are connected? Precisely.
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  Speaker 5: And it's for us to find the connection. But what
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  Speaker 5: hope is there.
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  Speaker 3: Of secrecy now that the police are involved?
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  Speaker 5: The police know about Godolphin Street. They know and shall
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  Speaker 5: know nothing of Whitehall Terrace. We must be on our guard, Watson.
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  Speaker 3: That is all. Ah, Mrs. Hudson. There's a lady asking
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  Speaker 3: to see you, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: I have no appointments this morning. I'm sorry, I cannot
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  Speaker 3: see the lady.
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  Speaker 10: Well, here's her card.
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  Speaker 3: All the same, I.
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  Speaker 5: Bless my soul. Ask her to come in, please.
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  Speaker 3: Very good, sir. You've soon changed your mind, Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: A visit from Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope. Must have a
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  Speaker 5: bearing on.
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  Speaker 3: Our present inquiries. What, Hope's wife? Yes.
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  Speaker 11: Lady Trelawney Hope, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, madam.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: May I present my friend and colleague, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Watson? Charmed, madam. Charmed. How do you do? Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Holmes, has my husband been here?
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  Speaker 3: He has, madam. Will you sit here?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 3: Here, will you? Oh, very well.
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  Speaker 10: Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Holmes, if you should meet my husband again, I implore
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  Speaker 11: you not to tell him I have called.
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  Speaker 3: I fear I can make no unconditional promise.
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  Speaker 11: I implore you also to tell me exactly what is
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  Speaker 11: happening and... What it might lead to.
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  Speaker 3: Your husband has not told you?
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  Speaker 11: I know that a paper has been stolen from our house.
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  Speaker 11: And because my husband will not discuss it with me,
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  Speaker 11: I know it is a political document.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you come to me? Because.
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  Speaker 11: Because I can tell from my husband's state that the
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  Speaker 11: loss has struck him a grievous personal blow. I wish
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  Speaker 11: to know, and it is no use my asking him,
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  Speaker 11: whether his political career.
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  Speaker 10: Is in danger.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I think I can answer without betraying any confidence that
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  Speaker 5: if this matter is not set right quickly, it may
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  Speaker 5: certainly have a very unfortunate effect.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, madam, can I.
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  Speaker 11: No, I'm quite all right, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Watson. Thank you. Very good.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Holmes, I want you to tell me all about this matter.
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  Speaker 5: Madam, what you ask me is really impossible.
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  Speaker 3: But why?
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  Speaker 5: If your husband keeps you in the dark about it,
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  Speaker 5: is it for means? who have only learned the true
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  Speaker 5: fact under a pledge.
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  Speaker 3: Of professional secrecy... to enlighten you.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 3: No, of course.
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  Speaker 11: Forgive me, I will take up no more of your time.
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  Speaker 11: But once more, I beg you will say nothing of
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  Speaker 11: my visit. Good morning, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, madam. I say, Holmes, what a beauty!
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  Speaker 5: As an expert upon the fair sex, Watson.
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  Speaker 3: What did she really want?
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  Speaker 4: Well, surely she made herself perfectly clear.
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  Speaker 3: Her anxiety is very natural. Highly gallant. But think of
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  Speaker 3: her appearance.
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  Speaker 5: Note her manner, her suppressed excitement, her restlessness.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that she comes of a caste who do not
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  Speaker 3: like to show emotion.
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  Speaker 5: She was certainly much moved. Did you also observe that she.
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  Speaker 3: Maneuvered to have the light at her back? Yes. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: she chose her chair very carefully.
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  Speaker 5: Do you remember the woman at Margate who made me
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  Speaker 5: suspicious for that same reason? No powder on her nose.
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  Speaker 5: That was all it proved to be in her case.
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  Speaker 5: With Lady Hope, I fancy it was a desire not
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  Speaker 5: to let us read her.
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  Speaker 3: Expression too plainly. Oh, now, really, Hope.
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  Speaker 5: The motives of women are so inscrutable. Their most trivial
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  Speaker 5: action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may
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  Speaker 5: depend upon a hairpin or a pair of curling tongs.
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  Speaker 3: How can you build on such a quicksand? Good morning, Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Your orphan? Yes. I shall file away the morning at
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  Speaker 3: Godolphin Street.
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  Speaker 5: With Eduardo Lucas lies the solution of our problem.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you stay on guard and receive any fresh visitors.
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  Speaker 5: I'll join you at lunch, if I may.
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  Speaker 6: For the next three days, Holmes remained in a taciturn mood...
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  Speaker 6: He ran out and ran in, smoked incessantly, played snatches
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  Speaker 6: on his violin, sank into.
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  Speaker 4: Reveries, devoured sandwiches at irregular hours.
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  Speaker 5: And hardly answered the casual questions I put to him.
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  Speaker 7: He would say nothing about the case, and it was
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  Speaker 7: from the newspapers that I learned that Eduardo Lucas's valet
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  Speaker 7: had been suspected of his murder. However, a sensational occurrence
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  Speaker 7: led to his release. I managed to secure sufficient of
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  Speaker 7: Holmes' attention to read.
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  Speaker 3: Him the newspaper account. Oh, well, let me hear it, Watson.
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  Speaker 7: A report has been received from the Parisian police.
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  Speaker 4: that a woman known as Madame Henri Fournai.
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  Speaker 3: Had suddenly become insane... only.
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  Speaker 4: A few days after returning from a visit to London.
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  Speaker 4: Enquiries in London disclosed that a woman of the same description...
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  Speaker 4: had attracted attention at Charing Cross Station.
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  Speaker 3: the wildness of her appearance and manner.
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  Speaker 7: It now transpires that she had recently discovered that her
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  Speaker 7: husband maintained a bachelor establishment in London, in Godolphin Street, Westminster.
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  Speaker 3: Under the name of Eduardo Lucas.
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  Speaker 6: A few hours after Madame Fournier's hasty return to Paris, her.
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  Speaker 7: Husband's murdered body was discovered in his London rooms. French
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  Speaker 7: doctors hold out no hope of being able to restore
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  Speaker 7: the woman's reason, and it is generally thought that she
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  Speaker 7: may have committed the murder.
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  Speaker 3: In the grip of jealous frenzy.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there, Holmes, what do you think of that?
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  Speaker 5: Lucas's death is a mere incident, a trivial episode compared
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  Speaker 5: with our real task, which is to trace this document
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  Speaker 5: and save the European catastrophe.
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  Speaker 3: About which you haven't seen fit to utter a blessed
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  Speaker 3: word to me these three days.
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  Speaker 5: My dear Watson, you are the most long-suffering of fellows.
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  Speaker 5: But the only important thing that has happened is that
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  Speaker 5: nothing has happened.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 5: The letter disappeared three days ago, and yet nowhere in
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  Speaker 5: Europe is.
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  Speaker 3: There the least sign of repercussion. Hasn't it reached its destination, then?
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  Speaker 3: If not, why not? Who has it? And why is
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  Speaker 3: it held back? Well, yes, yes, I see what you mean.
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  Speaker 3: Then what will you do? We, my dear Watson, will
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  Speaker 3: pay a visit to the scene of the murder. But
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  Speaker 3: you said that Lucas's death was a mere incident.
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  Speaker 5: Compared with our real task. But it may help something
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  Speaker 5: for us. And in any case, I have a note
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  Speaker 5: from our old friend Lestrade, who is handling the case.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, is he? He thinks she's made a discovery and
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  Speaker 3: wishes to consult me about it.
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  Speaker 5: We're scarcely in a position to overlook any possibility.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes, there's only one possible explanation, and that's the one
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  Speaker 4: they've come up with in Paris.
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  Speaker 3: Lucas was leading a double life. His wife found out.
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  Speaker 4: Came over from France and placed his establishment here. One
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  Speaker 4: thing led to another, and she finished that by stabbing him.
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  Speaker 3: Then when she.
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  Speaker 4: Realized what she'd done, it proved too much for her mind.
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  Speaker 4: I can't help feeling sorry for the woman.
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  Speaker 5: You seem to have it all very clear, Lestrade. Then
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  Speaker 5: why send for me?
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  Speaker 4: Ah, well, it's a mere detail, I admit, and can't
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: have anything to do with anything.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: But I thought it was one of those.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Odd little things that appeal to your fancies.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: You intrigued me. Yeah, I felt so.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: Well, now this is the room where Lucas was murdered, right?
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: So you inform us.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Therefore, ever since the discovery of the crime, there's been
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: one of my men on duty in here night and day.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: And nothing's been allowed to be touched or moved. Now,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: you see this loose rug here? Not fastened down anywhere.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, Inspector.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I was having a final hunt round this morning and
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: I had occasion to lift it.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Yes? Like this. What?
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Heavily bloodstained on top. And you can see how the
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: blood soaked right through.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: No bloodstains on the floorboards underneath. Exactly.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: But if I lift the other side of the rug here,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: there's your bloodstained floorboard.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: A second stain. Meaning that the rug has been turned
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: round at some time. Yes.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: But I mean to say, it's not all that large.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: It could easily have been lifted by accident and not
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: put back exactly. Not by any of my men, Dr.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: Watson.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: The spade. Yes?
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: That constable in the passage. Has he been in charge
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: of the place all the time?
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: McPherson?
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, he has.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Then question him carefully. Don't do it in front of us.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Speak to him outside while we wait here. You'll be
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: more likely to get a confession out of him alone.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Confession? What about?
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Ask him how he dared to admit unauthorized people and
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: leave them alone in this room. Don't ask him if
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: he's done it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Take it for granted. Press him.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Do you understand?
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: If anything like that's happened, I'll have it out of him.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Constable McPherson. I want a few words with you. You
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: better mind how you answer me. Now, Watson, now. Pull
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: back that rug. Right, Holmes. There must be. Yes. But where?
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: What are you looking for?
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: A cavity in these floorboards. There has to be one, Watson.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Confounded. Where's my knife? Got it?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Ah.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: There may not be time to... Ah, here we are.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I knew it. A cavity.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: What's in it? Isn't it easier to let... Oh, Cassidy,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: it's empty. Holmes, then... Quick, Watson, quick. Get everything back
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: in place before this trade comes in. There may still
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: be hope. Right. Ah, that's it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Just in time. I can hear him. Come in here, McPherson.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I want these two gentlemen to witness.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: What you've just told me before I put it into
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: my report.
• 19:14
  Speaker 12: Ah, she wanted to see where the crime was done.
• 19:16
  Speaker 12: She'd read about it in the papers. She was a
• 19:18
  Speaker 12: very respectable.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: Young woman, sir. I saw no harm in letting her
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: have a peep.
• 19:23
  Speaker 12: But when she saw that mark on the rug, she
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: fell down in a faint.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: One of the oldest tricks in the business.
• 19:29
  Speaker 12: Well, I ran round the corner to the ivy plant
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: to get some brandy for her.
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: I wasn't gone above five minutes.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: And believe it or not, Mr. Holmes, when he got back,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: she'd recovered and gone.
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: Oh, I'm very sorry, sir.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Constable, this young woman, can you describe her for us?
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: Well, she was pretty, sir.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Yes. Well, around.
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: I mean, handsome, sir. Tall and real genteel-like, I thought.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: How was she dressed? Quite like, sir. And what time
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: was it?
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: Just going dusk, sir.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Well, Lestrade, we must be going. We have a call
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: to make.
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: Come along, Watson.
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: This is most unfair and ungenerous of you.
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: Arthur, I had made it quite clear that I wished
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: to keep my visit to you a secret. By coming
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: here now, you have compromised that secrecy.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, madam, I had no possible alternative. I have been
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: commissioned to recover this immensely important document. So I must
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: ask you to be kind enough to place it in
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: my hands.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: You insult me. Come, come, madam, it is useless. Give
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: up the letter. No, do not ring for your butler.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: If you do, then all my efforts to avoid a
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: scandal will be frustrated. If you will give up the
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: letter and work with me, all will be set right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: If you work against me, I must expose you.
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: You are trying to frighten me. It is not a
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: very manly thing to come here.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: And browbeat a woman. Pray sit down, madam.
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: I give you five minutes, Mr.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: Holmes.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Come, Lady Hilda. I have no desire to bring trouble
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: to you.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: My duty ends when I have returned the lost letter
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: to your husband.
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: I tell you again, you are under some absurd illusion.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry for you, madam.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I've done my best for you. Come, Watson. We must
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: go at once to Mr. Trelawney Hope's office.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Very well, Holmes.
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: Mr. Holmes.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Madam.
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: I beg you, please don't tell him. I love him so.
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: It would break his heart.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I am relieved to hear you say that, madam. Where
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: is the letter? Here it is, Mr. Holmes. Oh, to heaven,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: I have never seen it. Please be careful.
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: He will be home at any moment.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: The question is, how can we return it to him
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: without his knowing?
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Quick, Watson, think. Where's the dispatch box from which it
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: was taken?
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: Over here.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: It'll be locked, Holmes. How did you open it before, madam?
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: You have a duplicate key? Yes, of course you have.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Open it.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: There. Capital.
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: Oh, good.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Plenty of papers. Now we'll trust this one well amongst them.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: So. And there. Please hide the key again.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Good. Now, Lady Hilda, I'm going far to shield you.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: In return, you will spend the time until your husband
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: arrives in telling me frankly the meaning of this extraordinary affair.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I will. I will.
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: But you must believe me, please.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Please.
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: That there is no woman in London who loves her
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: husband as I do. I could never, never have done
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: what I did if I had not been forced to.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Quickly, madam.
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: It all springs from an indiscreet letter I wrote before
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: my marriage. Somehow it passed into the hands of this man, Lucas.
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: He lost no time in informing me and convincing me
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: how it could be used to destroy my husband's confidence and.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Trust in me. He blackmailed you with it?
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: He said that he would return my letter... if I
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: would procure for him a certain letter which some informant
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: in my husband's office had told him would be contained
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: in that dispatch box. He assured me that no harm
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: could come to my husband as a result of its loss.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: Put yourself in my position, Mr. Holmes. What was I
• 23:21
  Speaker 11: to do?
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Take your husband into your confidence.
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: Oh, it is easy to say that. But Lucas convinced
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: me that the consequence of the letter's.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Disappearance would be small.
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: Whereas I knew too well how great the consequences of
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: a confession to my husband might be.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: He is not a forgiving man?
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: His own standard of honor is so high that he
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: cannot forget or pardon any lapse by another.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: How did you obtain a duplicate key of this dispatch box?
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: I took an impression of his key. This man, Lucas,
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: furnished a duplicate.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: So you took the letter as arranged. What then?
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: I carried it to Lucas at Godolphin Street. Our business
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: was soon over. I gave him the letter, he gave
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: me back mine. I was about to leave when there
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: came a thunderous knocking at his door and I heard
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: a woman's.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Voice cry out.
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: He threw back the rug before his desk, prized up
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: a board and dropped the letter into a cavity there.
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: Then he opened the door.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Pray, pray calm yourself, madam.
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: It was like some fearful dream. I was swept aside
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: by a woman who rushed in. She was screaming in French.
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: I could understand a little of it. She said something like,
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: I knew there was another woman. At last I have
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: found you with her. My waking has not been in vain.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: I saw a knife in her hand. Lucas was trying
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: to push her away.
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: I fled.
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: Listen, there's my husband. Now, Mr.
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: Holmes.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: You have my promise.
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: When I read of Lucas's death, I was glad... until
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: I saw my husband's anguished state. I knew then that
• 24:59
  Speaker 11: the letter must have been of very great importance. My
• 25:02
  Speaker 11: one concern was to get it back. I watched his
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: house for two days, wondering how I could get in.
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: Then I grew desperate, and I tripped a young constable
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: into admitting it.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: No more now. Ah, Mr. Holmes, Dr.
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: Watson, they told me you were here.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Does this mean there is news? I have some hopes, sir.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: You have?
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: Oh, thank heavens.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: The Prime Minister is with me. Ah, here he is. Oh,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: that you exclaim, thank heaven. Can this mean.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: Hilda, my dear, this is a political matter.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: We will join you in a few minutes in the
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: drawing room.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I understand, my dear.
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Mr.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: Holmes.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Dr. Watson. Good morning, madam. Now, Mr. Holmes.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: I'm quite sure, Prime Minister, that there is no danger
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: to be here.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: No danger? Then have you the letter? I have not.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: Then you cannot possibly reassure me.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: I have been thinking the matter over very closely.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: I'm not convinced that anyone took the letter at all.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: I believe it is still in this house. This is
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: not a time for joking, Mr.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Holmes.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I am not joking.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: Am I, Watson?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. Mr.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Holmes, have you examined your dispatch box since the day
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: the letter was missed?
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: No, it has not been necessary.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I believe you may have overlooked it. Impossible. I have
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: known such things happen.
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: No, no, I had everything out.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Open it and show him. Very well, sir.
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: This is the box. I promise you that letter is
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: not amongst these papers. Letter from Lord Merrow. Report from
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: Sir Charles Hardy.
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: Memorandum from Belgrade.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Letter... Good heavens!
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: What is it?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Great Scott! The letter! What a careless fool I must
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: have been!
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: Prime Minister, I... Oh, but what a weight from my mind. Mr.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Holmes, you are a wizard, a sorcerer. How did you
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: know it was there? Because I knew it was nowhere else.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: I can't believe my eyes.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I must tell my wife that all is well. Hilda!
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Poor fellow. Mr.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: Holmes, sir.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Sir? There's more in this than meets the eye. Prime Minister.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: We also have our diplomatic secrets. Eh, Watson?
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: That was The Second Stain by Michael Hartwick, based on
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: the short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: was played by Carlton Hobbs and Dr. Watson by Norman Shelley.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Production for the BBC was by Martin C.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Webster.
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