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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Notorious Canary Trainer Basil Rathbone, Nigel Br · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: And now let's drop in on our good friend.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 1: Good evening, Doctor, good evening, mister Foreman.
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  Speaker 3: Where the puppies denied?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I found them playing with a dead seagull, so
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  Speaker 2: they've been sent up to bed in disgrace.
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  Speaker 1: You certainly look comfortable yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor.
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  Speaker 1: What's that small blue book you're reading? This latest best seller?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, indeed not. This book was never the
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  Speaker 2: best seller, my boy. It's entitled Practical Handbook of d Culture.
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  Speaker 2: There's some observations on the segregation of the Queen.
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  Speaker 3: Quite a catchy title.
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  Speaker 1: Who's the author, by the name of the Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: He was engaged in writing it when the adventure I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to tell you about took place.
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  Speaker 1: For you told us last week, doctor that a pair
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  Speaker 1: of canaries played an important part in the story.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite right, mister Foreman. It was in the summer
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  Speaker 2: of nineteen hundred and eight, I remember, and I've persuaded
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  Speaker 2: Holmes to leave his Sussex b farm for a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks and to join me in a holiday the little
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  Speaker 2: fishing village of Kingsgate in Kent. Were staying at a
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  Speaker 2: charming little inn called the fisherman's arms. And for the
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  Speaker 2: first few days our holiday was delightful.
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  Speaker 1: One and then, and then, I suppose, doctor, strange things
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  Speaker 1: began to happen.
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  Speaker 2: They did, indeed, mister Foreman, they did, indeed, very strange thing.
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  Speaker 2: One afternoon, we just finished the late tea, I remember,
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  Speaker 2: and we're sitting outside on the lawn, sunning ourselves and
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  Speaker 2: enjoying our pipes. Homes laid back with his long, thin
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  Speaker 2: fingers cast behind his head, gazing thoughtfully at the multi
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  Speaker 2: colored fishing boat bobbing at anchor in the harbor. After
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  Speaker 2: a moment or two, he.
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  Speaker 3: Spoke, what's really a splendid companion. I can't think of
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  Speaker 3: anyone else who would let me smoke my pipe in
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  Speaker 3: silence behalf and an hour without asking me what I'm
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  Speaker 3: thinking about.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the surprising, Homes, after all the years that
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  Speaker 2: we've been together.
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  Speaker 3: Nevertheless, the gift is a rare one, Old Chap, and
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, by the way, since the halfas up,
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  Speaker 2: what have you been thinking about?
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  Speaker 3: Lack of enterprise? A modern criminal audacity and romance scenes
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  Speaker 3: will passed forever from the criminal world. Read this note
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  Speaker 3: I received this morning, Old fellow. Keep yourself how low
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  Speaker 3: I have sunk to look?
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  Speaker 2: Mister Holmes, I am staying in the same inn as yourself,
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  Speaker 2: and as I have had a very frightening experience it
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  Speaker 2: should be, I thought perhaps you would help me. Please
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  Speaker 2: do it? Signed Mary Victor.
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  Speaker 3: An exciting document, isn't it written on lavender notepaper, wreaking
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  Speaker 3: a perfume? And the handwriting is obviously that of an
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  Speaker 3: adolescent girl.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't botherowed to answer the course?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yes I have.
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  Speaker 3: I sent a message back by our good landlord that
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  Speaker 3: I would be glad to see her.
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  Speaker 2: Why homes came down here to complete your handbook? Can't
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  Speaker 2: bee farming?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Confound it? Two wretched canaries getting their sun bout on
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  Speaker 3: the window sill above.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you could rather jolly to hear little fellows chirping
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  Speaker 2: away up.
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  Speaker 3: I find the sound most distracting. It's going side, you
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  Speaker 3: know homes.
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  Speaker 2: Those birds owned by charming couple mister and missus Wainwright.
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  Speaker 2: I was chatting with them on the stairs.
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  Speaker 3: This morning, and I've had their charmer escape me. As
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  Speaker 3: long as their pets continue to teach in that irritating
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  Speaker 3: manner I've spoken of the piece and quiet of the
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  Speaker 3: country in Watson, and yet I find it. Come in,
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  Speaker 3: Ah this, Mary Victor. I presume yes, he's coming tows
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  Speaker 3: the door. Won't you thank you? This is my old friend,
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  Speaker 3: doctor Watson. You may speak quite brilliant front of him.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do, miss Victor? How do you do?
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  Speaker 6: Doctor?
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  Speaker 3: Now? I sit down, young lady, and tell me what's
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  Speaker 3: doubling you.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Holmes. I came down here from London to get
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  Speaker 7: away from someone, but I've been followed. I've been afraid
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  Speaker 7: to leave me in until last night. I thought I
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  Speaker 7: couldn't stand being cooked up any longer, so I went
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  Speaker 7: for a walk in the seashore. Someone followed me, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: I ran back here as fast as.
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  Speaker 7: I could, But now he knows where I live, and
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  Speaker 7: I'm frightened.
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  Speaker 3: Please help me, my dear inspector. And I'm afraid you
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  Speaker 3: must be much more specific before I can help you.
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  Speaker 3: Who has followed you down here? And why are you
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  Speaker 3: afraid of him? I'll tell you the whole story. It
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  Speaker 3: sounds strange to you, but I swear it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, there he is again, down by the gate. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to my room now.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now, now, don't you be frightened, as Victor, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure we'll be.
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  Speaker 3: So. I don't see anyone outside who might might have
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  Speaker 3: frightened her, or a two or three fishermen king about.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, here's a young fellow walking up the park.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Watson answered the frenchman.
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  Speaker 2: Do gracious me, here is go again.
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  Speaker 3: I think we'll take a liberty of accosting him. Excuse me, sir,
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  Speaker 3: h are you looking for miss Mary Victor?
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  Speaker 8: Is she young and preddy?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, she is extremely so.
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  Speaker 8: Then I'm looking for her.
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  Speaker 3: Where can I find her? I can see you're being facetious, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Well, there's no harm in that, is there?
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  Speaker 3: For the way, Who are you? Gentlemen? May I ask?
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  Speaker 3: My name is Holmes, and this is my friend, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Basil Carter.
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  Speaker 8: You're not Sherlock holmbs are you?
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  Speaker 3: That is my name? I thought you seemed familiar.
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  Speaker 8: I know your brother Micraft.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, then I presume you're connected with the following office.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I'm in the consular service.
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  Speaker 1: Are you staying at the ill young man for a
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  Speaker 1: few days?
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  Speaker 8: It's funny that I should run into the great Sherlock Holm.
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  Speaker 3: Why may I ask?
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  Speaker 8: I was planning a murder, But here I see that
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  Speaker 8: I shall have to be very discreet.
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  Speaker 3: Who is your intended victim? Mayan quire?
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  Speaker 8: There are two of them, the two canaries in the
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  Speaker 8: room next to mine.
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  Speaker 2: The moment I thought that you he were really serious,
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  Speaker 2: But I am serious.
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  Speaker 8: The wretched creature him in guiding me mass. I quite
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  Speaker 8: sympathized with you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I've been thinking of committing a slight kiss of Mayhem
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  Speaker 3: and myself.
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  Speaker 8: We can take one apiece, mister Holmes. Well, I'm glad
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  Speaker 8: to have met you both. I'll probably see you again.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye, goodbye, good bye. I don't like that fellow you
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  Speaker 2: ask me. He's the man who's been frightening the poor
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  Speaker 2: girl at King's. Can you look on his face when
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  Speaker 2: you asked me? He was looking for Mary Victor.
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  Speaker 3: There's only one person who can settle the question, and
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  Speaker 3: that's the young lady yourself. Come on, no, fellow, let's
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  Speaker 3: go back and do.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes Wayne Right, the owner of the Canaries. Good
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  Speaker 2: evening with Waynright.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: This is my friend. There's the Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 9: I'm honored to meet you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: How do you do mister Wainwright.
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  Speaker 9: Beautiful evening, isn't it. I just took a stroll down
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  Speaker 9: to the store to get some more bird seed. By
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  Speaker 9: the way, mister Holmes, I hope our canaries don't bother you.
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  Speaker 9: Little fellows are such a comfort to my wife and me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, not a thoughts up. I find that
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  Speaker 3: chirpping very soothing. I'm so glad. Good night, gentlemen, of
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  Speaker 3: good night, good night, mister Wilson, not Wilson, mister Holmes,
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  Speaker 3: Wayne R. White, figure upard, I'm so sorry. I thought
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  Speaker 3: you said Wilson good night.
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  Speaker 2: Not like you to mix up names.
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  Speaker 3: Home, I didn't mix them up over, I never forget
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  Speaker 3: a face. Mister Wainwright is in reality Wilson, a notorious
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  Speaker 3: canary trainer whom I have the pleasure of sending to
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  Speaker 3: prison for seven years stretch of ninety five. Some years later,
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  Speaker 3: he made one of the most spectacular escapes from prison
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  Speaker 3: in the history of crime, and has since managed to
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  Speaker 3: evade all efforts to recapture him, which God he seems
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  Speaker 3: to sweet over possibly is reformed, but I doubt it.
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  Speaker 3: Our stage is set for an intrinking problem, Olchap, and
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  Speaker 3: our cast is interesting one. A fighting young girl, a
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  Speaker 3: diplomat of uncertain integrity and a noted criminal. Watson, I
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  Speaker 3: have a feeling that once again the games are put.
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  Speaker 2: Homes. Why are we strolling along the pier instead of
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  Speaker 2: staying at the inn. I thought you said that you
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  Speaker 2: would expecting trouble.
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  Speaker 3: I am all chap and I'm sure it will find
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  Speaker 3: us out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Holmes, I'm still completely mystified by the behavior
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  Speaker 2: of that girl, married Victor. I knocked at her door
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  Speaker 2: last evening again this morning. I couldn't get any answer.
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  Speaker 3: And the landlock told me that she was not seen
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  Speaker 3: at dinner last night, nor at breakfast this morning, and
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  Speaker 3: yet her room has not been vacated. Curious.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, there's the village constable sunning himself at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the pier.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning's sugant blake, Doctor Watson, how are you, gentlemen?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Sondred, and very appreciative of the weather that
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  Speaker 2: you've provided for us.
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  Speaker 5: Think nothing, I would say, we always arend debt for
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  Speaker 5: our really distinguished visitors. By the way, mister Owens, I
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  Speaker 5: was reading one of your friend's stories about you last night,
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  Speaker 5: the one called the Adventure of Mysterious Large that was
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  Speaker 5: Asteria large.
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  Speaker 2: You you foolish?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it was anyway, I was reading it aloud to me,
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  Speaker 5: old woman. And if you don't mind my saying so,
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  Speaker 5: mister Ellins, we both thought you made a bad mistake.
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  Speaker 5: Of course you come out all right in.
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  Speaker 3: The edge me, Sergeant, I stand.
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  Speaker 2: Reproved suicideant homes home. Look with that figure standing by
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  Speaker 2: itself at.
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  Speaker 3: The end of the pire, our friend Wilson, then a
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  Speaker 3: revolver here here.
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  Speaker 5: We don't want any of these goings on in King's
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  Speaker 5: going on here?
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  Speaker 3: You?
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing way? When every bother about beect three?
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  Speaker 5: I'm the law here. Don't you tell me what to do?
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  Speaker 3: I say, I'm not afraid of fire. I don't do
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  Speaker 3: a s says Ergean. You don't want to trifle with
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  Speaker 3: just exactly what are you up to? Wilson?
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  Speaker 4: You caught up with me once again, Sherlock Holmes, but
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  Speaker 4: this time you're not going to send me back to
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  Speaker 4: prison the game and maybe the gallows if I can't
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  Speaker 4: escape you, and I'll take my own way out with us.
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  Speaker 3: Rosham, what's some one on thunder?
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  Speaker 8: Are you talking about murder?
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  Speaker 5: At the in last night?
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  Speaker 2: I did it murder?
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  Speaker 3: I'm confessing in front of the three of you, or
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  Speaker 3: you leave my wife alone.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't know anything about me.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I hope you're satisfied, mister Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: He's following the revolver as Helston.
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  Speaker 3: You full stop it.
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  Speaker 5: Startle me? Think he done it? Over the peering into.
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  Speaker 3: The city can help, Sergeant. It possibly isn't dead. But
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  Speaker 3: come on, Watson, we're going back to Lean. I suppose
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  Speaker 3: post three are I just heard a murder confession, but
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  Speaker 3: we don't know who has been murdered.
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  Speaker 2: What was the telegram that you you sent off just now?
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  Speaker 3: A message to my brother my curve. You didn't keep
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  Speaker 3: it informed me? The chatil cast of the young diplomat
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  Speaker 3: we we've met yesterday left me and Robber hurriedly in
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  Speaker 3: the early hours of this morning. Come on, let's go upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to break the news to missus Wainwright,
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  Speaker 2: us both.
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  Speaker 3: Before we do that, I think we'll see if miss
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  Speaker 3: Victors in her room, which one is it?
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  Speaker 2: Here top of the stairs.
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  Speaker 3: It will take the liberty of looking in This Victor
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been seen since last night. Uh huh. I'm luck.
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  Speaker 2: Lord with a mess O Stoon all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: open suitcases. Look at that.
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  Speaker 3: The young lady had been planning an immediate DETATCHA.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you be? No one's seen us since last night.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I beg your pardon, gentlemen. I thought I had
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  Speaker 6: many dictor come in.
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  Speaker 5: I'm missus Vain.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid we have the rubber bad news for you.
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  Speaker 3: Your husband shot himself a quarter of an hour ago
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the here, and his body fell
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  Speaker 3: into the sea. Is he dead? We must presume so, madam.
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  Speaker 3: I left the pict sergeant there searching for him. Seargean
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  Speaker 3: Blake Shud put back here in a moment.
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  Speaker 7: Now he did.
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  Speaker 2: He don't seem a surprise, madam.
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  Speaker 6: And he threatened to do it.
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  Speaker 2: This is Wain.
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  Speaker 3: Right before your husband shot himself, he consisted committing a
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  Speaker 3: murder in this inn last night. A murder. Who is
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  Speaker 3: murdered the moment?
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  Speaker 2: We're not quite sure.
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  Speaker 6: He must have been out of his mind.
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  Speaker 9: He went right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid I must ask you some rather painful questions.
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  Speaker 3: Are you aware that your husband was a criminal, that
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  Speaker 3: he served a prison sentence under the name of Wilson
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  Speaker 3: design knew there.
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  Speaker 6: He told me when we were married two years ago,
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  Speaker 6: but he said that he'd gone straight ever since he'd
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  Speaker 6: come out of prison. That's why he changed his name.
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  Speaker 6: He was trying to make a fish start.
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  Speaker 2: You know, no reason for his planing to kill anyone
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  Speaker 2: of him none.
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  Speaker 6: And unless you find someone murdered, I wouldn't give too
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  Speaker 6: much thought to it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, if you'll forget my saying so, madam, you seem
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  Speaker 3: remarkably unmoved by your husband's tragedy.
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  Speaker 6: Why should I pretend we were very unhappy together? This
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  Speaker 6: might be the best way out of it.
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  Speaker 3: For both of us.
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  Speaker 6: My husband carried quite a large amount of life insurance
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  Speaker 6: in the event of suicide.
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  Speaker 3: Would that be payable? Then? On a policy, madam? And
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  Speaker 3: I must say that from your attitude, I begin to doubt.
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  Speaker 7: Whether your husband is dead.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean? I mean that if mister Wilson,
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  Speaker 3: or if you prefer it, mister Wainwright wished to disappear
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  Speaker 3: in spectacular style, what could be simpler than to pretend
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  Speaker 3: to shoot himself drop into the I'm up here, Sergeant.
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  Speaker 5: Brand Yes, mister m he fished him out right away.
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  Speaker 5: There is a door. Name shot himself through the eddy did.
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  Speaker 2: That's disposes of your last sturry home.
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  Speaker 6: Did you find the revolver?
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  Speaker 5: Sergeant Man got it right here with me? One bullet missing.
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  Speaker 5: Have you found out if anyone is been murdered?
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  Speaker 3: Mister Alan found out very lips. Yet wait a moment. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I don't hear any exactly. You hear nothing yet we're
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  Speaker 3: within a few feet.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Waynwright.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean, mister? I mean that there is
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  Speaker 3: one sound we should be hearing very clearly at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Why did I think before the sound of your canary
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  Speaker 3: is chipping? You've heard it else for days? Come on, Watson,
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  Speaker 3: very fine. You're a madam afraid I muster dispensed with
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  Speaker 3: asking your permission.
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  Speaker 6: You're already in my room. It seems a little light
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  Speaker 6: even to mention the subject.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the bird?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Where's god Chap?
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  Speaker 3: If you look my person, you'll see them on the
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  Speaker 3: bottom of the cage.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: Let me up the stone, get one of them out,
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  Speaker 2: Jo Homes.
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  Speaker 3: They're dead, And yet when we entered the inn a
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  Speaker 3: few minutes ago, they were still chipping.
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  Speaker 2: But who on earth would want to kill a couple
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  Speaker 2: of birds?
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  Speaker 3: That, my dear fellow, is one of the things we
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  Speaker 3: have to find out so far, I must admit I'm puzzled.
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  Speaker 3: We have a self confessed murderer and the nearest thing
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  Speaker 3: we can find to a corpse with a pair of
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  Speaker 3: big canaries.
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  Speaker 1: We'll bring you the rest of doctor Watson's story in
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  Speaker 1: just a second. A second I'll take if you don't mind,
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: to ask you if you've ever had a glass of
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Petrie California's sherry, because if you haven't, boy, you want
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: a remedy that situation pronto. Try that Petrie sherry before
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  Speaker 1: dinner some evening. Look at its clear amber color, Smell
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  Speaker 1: the fragrance of those luscious grape and get a sample.
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  Speaker 8: Of that Petree flavor.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: That Petrie sherry can turn the usual before dinner low
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  Speaker 1: into a main event, and say, if you like your
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  Speaker 1: sherry dry as I do, wait till you taste petree
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  Speaker 1: pale dry sherry.
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  Speaker 8: Is that ever good?
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: But after all, when it's a Petrie wine, it's always
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: a good wine. And I'll back to the night's new
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes Adventure. Strange events are taking place in the
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Kentish fishing village of Kingsgate. A self confessed murderer has
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: committed suicide, but his victim cannot be found. As we
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  Speaker 1: rejoin our story, the great Detective and his old friend
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: doctor Watson are once again examining the room of Mary Victor,
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  Speaker 1: one of the missing guests, you know, homes the.
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  Speaker 2: Murder that Wilson confessed to before he committed suicide might
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: have been the killings to.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Caneer, I think not, Old Chap. Wilson obviously loved the
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: creatures and get them in spite of the fact that
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: they were dangerously have to identify him his criminal past.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Uh huh, interesting, very interesting?
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: What have you found this note lying on this Victor's
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: kissing table? Yeah, to alert You think you can hide
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: from me, Mary, but you can't. Wherever I go I
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: shall follow you.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: So why not get wise to yourself and up running away?
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: If the poor girl was in danger?
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Right part of it. But the writer of that note
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: was certainly obliging. The letter is unsigned, at least gives
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: us a clue to his identify The phrase get wise
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: to yourself is very un English. It's American. Come on,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Old Chap, where we go now? The envelope to this
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: letter have the King's Gate postmark on it. I should
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: be surprised if that fount of all knowledge. The village
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: postmistice can't help us find an American visitor.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: Ah, he'll find he. The young man you must be
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: looking forward, gentleman. His name's Walter C. Bunker, and he's
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: being in here to send telegrams.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: And his accents are strong.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: You could cut it with a knife.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: It's just like one of the bad Indian tellers you
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: read about.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: You.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Now tell me where he lives, Madam the cancer and
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: he's been rumined at Missus Belle's house at fifteen Laburnum
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: Grove and down behind.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: The guests for fifteen Laburnam Grove. Missus Bell, thank you,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: thank you very much. I'm very much obliged to you,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Miss Bell.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Yes, what can I do for you? Gentlemen?
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: We understand that mister Walter Bunker has been staying with you.
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: Madam, A nice young American gentleman.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Is it?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: How may I ask?
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: No, sir, I'm not. I'm worried about him. This morning
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: when he goes out, he asks me what the nearest
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: cemetery is. I tell him, and then he gives a
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: queer kind of laugh.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure i'll see.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: You anymore, he says, and then he walks off and
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: I haven't seen him since. I'll tell you I'm worried
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: about him.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Gentlemen, how better is the nearest cemetery, Missus Bell, the
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: one you directed him to, about.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: Three miles from here. Just decide of branson Wood, thank you, madam.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Am I Watson cemetery seems deserted. Does he come from
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: the church at a funeral or a wedding?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Come on, bye, jovin it is a wedding home.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Great, we're on a false trail, but we'd better make sure.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Why are gentlemen please the ceremony is just hinting.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Just one question. You tell me the names of the
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: couple have just been.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Married, This merry victor from the Inn and a young
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: American by the name of Bunker.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you, As we have been following a false trail confounded.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: The fighting young lady was medified fromed by her persistant
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: American fiance left us at this center ambiguously worded. When
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: you come to think of it anyway, we can cease
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: to worry about this victor and she has now Missus Bunker,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I think we can assume that she's out of all danger.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: We've got to start all over again.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: No, no, my dear fellow, the field is narrowing. Well,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: head back to the inn now, and I have a
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: feeling that we are on the last lap of our adventure. Ah. Yeah,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: she has another suspect eliminated. This telegram is from my
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: brother Micraft, and I telegraphed him earlier on today. Check
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: on the movements of the Nasal Kata, the young man
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: who left the inso mysteriously in the early hours of
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: this morning. His answering from Smith that the gentleman in
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: question was recalled to the Foreign Office suddenly and arrived
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: quite safely a few hours ago.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm completely person.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: And at last see daylight wish ah I did, mister
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: d and go upstairs and get the dead man's widow
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: and bring her to my room piece, And then I
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: think I can give you the solution to this problem.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: What do you want with me, Miss Jones?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: You sit down, madam, You and Sergeant Blake make yourself
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: comfortable now. In the first place, the murder occurred this
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: morning and not last night.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: I know what you't hainting at the canaries. I admit
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: I killed them, but you can't do anything to me
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: for that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Why did you kill those birds?
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: I hated them as.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Much as my husband loved them. When I knew he
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: was dead, They're singing drove me mad, So I killed
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: them already.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Dead when we told you your husband, Sirs.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Jo Watson, that the lady was fully aware that her
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: husband was dead when we informed her of the fact.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: You see, she murdered him.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: You're talking rubbish, yes, mister Owme. How could she have
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: murdered him? We saw him shooting himself before.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Eyes, because when Wilson raised that revolver to his head,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: he was convinced that it contained blank cartridges. Unfortunately for him,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: his wife had deliberately replaced the blanks with live cartridges.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Great Heaven, why let me reconstruct the case for you. Wilson,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: with the connivance of his wife here and had contrived
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: the disappearance plood. He knew that I had spotted his
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: real identity, and so he planned this rather dramatic exit,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: confessed to a non existent murder, and then well had
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: his plan materialized. He was to shoot himself with a
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: blank all from the pier and a parent suicide.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Justice, Caman, how did you planally get away?
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: And he would have swum under the water safe distance
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: and so made his escape. His plan couldn't work, personal Baba, but.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: At least it was ingenious.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: He would have destroyed his true identity, and I've had
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: his revenge on me by making the search for a
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: murder that had never been committed. Unfortunately for him, his
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: wife was his accompass and saw in the scheme an
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: excellent way of killing her husband.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: You think you're solf very clever, mister Holmes. But even
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: if it were true, how could.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: You prove it?
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Observe this revolver, Missus Wilson, it's the one your husband
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: shot himself with.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: What can you prove from that?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Have a hair of fingerprint tests?
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: I've heard of them, but that revolve has been underwater.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: True, quite true, But thanks to the researchers of my
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: excellent friend, doctor John Thorndyke, an infallible test has been
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: discovered for recording fingerprints even after immersion and seawater. I
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: applied the test to the Prince on the revolver and
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: the bullets. Compare them with some that we found on
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: the water glass in your room. They are the same,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Missus Wilson. Now does a man let his wife load
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: his suicide weapon?
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: Such a Blake.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I think it's obvious that the time has come for
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: you to take over the case.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: All right, all right, so I.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Did change the bullets I hated. I'm glad he's dead.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: What's my I do it again? Now that I've taken
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Missus Wilson to the station in book Tirana Murder Chard,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I wonder if you'd mind answering the question pleasure this
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: finger print? I like to know about that. I never
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: heard of being able to take prince after a revolver
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: has been handled to or three times and soaked in
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: salt water homes.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: And I'd like to know when you perform the test
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: and the prince off the glass in her room.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I thought that I was with you all the time
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: you were, my dear fellow. Well, then I can't give
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: you the answer in one word, bluff. There is no
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: such tests, my dear Watson. It will be almost impossible
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: to expect cow prints after so much handling, and totally
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: impossible after submersion. Fortunately for us, though, Missus Wilson was
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: gullible enough to believe me and give me a confession.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: And there's no such person as doctor John found now.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, indeed there is a great success last
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: year in the case of the Red tum Knak.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Who told me about that case?
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't. It was deliberate, old Chap, with
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: your taste for writing sensational stories. I was afraid you
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: might publish the affair. Oh yes, it would. You would
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: have given away what should I say, professional secrets. You
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: would have provided the public, and in particular the criminal public,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: with a complete education on fingerprints. And when that happens,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: my dear Watson, we shall have no tricks left. That
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: will be a sad day for detectives.