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Sherlock Holmes Radio A Case of Identity Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conwa · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: Strange thing life a Watson, infinitely stranger than anything the
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  Speaker 1: mind of man could invent.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I know that's one of your pet theories, and
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  Speaker 2: I dare you to put it to the test. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take to day's paper if you If you can
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  Speaker 2: find anything bizarre in that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll I'll buy you a new smoking jacket.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want a new smoking jacket, Watson, but i'll
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  Speaker 1: take up your challenge. Choose any article, any paragraph at all,
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  Speaker 1: on this page, and I'll guarantee to find something outlandish.
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  Speaker 3: Very well.
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  Speaker 2: Here take the very first heading, Husband's Cruelty to his wife.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's a half column of print about that, but
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  Speaker 2: I know what it's about almost without reading it.
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  Speaker 3: There's the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow.
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  Speaker 2: No writer could invent anything more crude or commonplace.
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  Speaker 1: Your example, Watson, happens to be rather unfortunate. The husband
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  Speaker 1: was a key tootler, there was no other woman, And
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  Speaker 1: the cruelty complained of was that he had the habit
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  Speaker 1: of winding up every meal by taking out his false
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  Speaker 1: teeth and hurling him at his wife, which all allows
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  Speaker 1: an action and illiterary man would hardly be able to
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  Speaker 1: make believable.
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  Speaker 3: Well, sir, but that's just an exception.
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  Speaker 4: Life is made up of exceptions. Watson. There's one now
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  Speaker 4: standing on the pavement on the opposite side of the street.
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  Speaker 2: You mean that large, hebelike young woman with the enormous
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  Speaker 2: bloor around her neck and the curling red feather in
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  Speaker 2: the hat.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Look how she oscillates backward and forward, and the way
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  Speaker 2: she fidgets with her glove buttons.
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  Speaker 4: Oscillation on the pavement always means an a fair deccur.
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  Speaker 1: She would like advice, but it's not sure that the
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  Speaker 1: matter may not be too delicate for communications.
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  Speaker 2: She's decided to take the plunge as she comes across
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  Speaker 2: the road like a swimmer leaving the bank. I say,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps she's been seriously wronged.
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  Speaker 1: No, Watson, In that case, the woman no longer oscillates.
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  Speaker 1: She pulls out the bell wire to the front door.
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  Speaker 1: We heard that Watson decided to fluttery. The maiden is
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  Speaker 1: not so much angry as perplexed and possibly grieved.
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  Speaker 4: But here she comes, Come in, Come in.
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  Speaker 5: I hope I'm not intruding. This is mister Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: They detected.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, won't you sit down?
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  Speaker 1: This is my friend and colleague, doctor Watson, pleas to
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  Speaker 1: meet you, lad, My.
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  Speaker 4: Dear young lady.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you find that, with your short sighted a little
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  Speaker 1: trying to do so much typewriting?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? I did it first, and that's a fact. But
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  Speaker 5: if not, so, now I know where the letters are
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  Speaker 5: without look. Oh, but how did you know someone's told
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  Speaker 5: you about me?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't look so alarmed, my dear. That's just a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a detection. Mister Holmes can tell things like
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  Speaker 2: that by looking at you. It's his way of showing off.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I see that. It did take me aback your
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  Speaker 5: knowing things like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's my business to know things.
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  Speaker 1: I knew you used the typewriter from the appearance of
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  Speaker 1: your fingertips and the double line pressed into the plush
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  Speaker 1: above your wrists. Was equally obvious that you're near sighted
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  Speaker 1: from the marks left on either side of the nose
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  Speaker 1: by your pants knee.
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  Speaker 4: So you see, my DearS, miss.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Sutherland and Mary Sutherland.
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  Speaker 1: So you see, my dear, Miss Sutherland, does nothing terrifying
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  Speaker 1: in my conclusions?
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  Speaker 5: Well, no, not when you explain it like that.
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  Speaker 1: And now perhaps you'll tell me why you came away
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  Speaker 1: to consult me in such a hurry that you managed
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  Speaker 1: to put on two odd shoes.
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  Speaker 5: Why, bless my soul, so I did the right one's
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  Speaker 5: my Sunday pair.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you must have been rather editated when you left home.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I did bang out of the house. And who
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't It made me very angry to see the easy
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  Speaker 5: way mister Windybanks. Oh that my father took it all.
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  Speaker 5: He wouldn't go to the police. He just sat there
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  Speaker 5: and said there was no harm done and everything would
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  Speaker 5: come right in the end. So finally I got mad
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  Speaker 5: and told father I was coming to you myself.
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  Speaker 1: You say your father, but surely you mean your stepfather
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  Speaker 1: since the name's not the same.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he's my stepfather. Mother makes me call him father,
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  Speaker 5: though it sounds kind of funny him being only five
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  Speaker 5: years and two months older than myself.
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  Speaker 1: I see, how recently did your mother marry this mister Windybanks?
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  Speaker 5: About two years ago? It was mister Holmes, and I'll
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  Speaker 5: admit I wasn't very pleased, seeing as it was so
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  Speaker 5: soon after father's death, and him a man nearly fifteen
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  Speaker 5: years younger than herself.
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  Speaker 3: You enough to start complications in any home at homes.
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  Speaker 1: Quite that complete continue, miss Sonnoland. I gather your father
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  Speaker 1: left your mother fairly went off.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, he did, did you see? Father was a
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  Speaker 5: plumber in Tottenham Port Road, and he left a tidy
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  Speaker 5: business behind him. After he went, mother carried it on.
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  Speaker 5: Although I must say that William, that is mister Hardy,
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  Speaker 5: father's foreman did most of the work, and a good
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  Speaker 5: thing he made of it too.
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  Speaker 4: This mister Hardy, was he your father's age?
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, sir, he was just two years older than me.
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  Speaker 5: In fact is we had a sort of an understanding
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  Speaker 5: till this year mister Windibangs came along.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and he didn't approve it, mister Hardy.
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  Speaker 5: Whit weren't that so much as that he didn't approve
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  Speaker 5: of the plumbing business, said it wasn't high class. But
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  Speaker 5: mister Winderbags is a very superior gentleman hisself. Mister Holmes
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  Speaker 5: travels in wines for west House and Marbank. But Clare's
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  Speaker 5: importers in ten Church Street. Oh, a real tark years
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  Speaker 5: I see, yes, sir. So after him and mother got married,
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  Speaker 5: he made us sell the business.
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  Speaker 4: And how did you first meet this mister hausmer.
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  Speaker 5: Angel, Well, mister Holmes, I met him at the gas
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  Speaker 5: fitter's ball. Oh, yes, sir, it was. The gas fitters
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  Speaker 5: used to send Father tickets while he was alive, and
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  Speaker 5: afterwards they kept on sending them to me and mother.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Windybanks didn't wish us to go. He never did
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  Speaker 5: wishes to go anywhere. If I so much as wanted
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  Speaker 5: to go to a Sunday school Treaty would get quite
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  Speaker 5: mad about it.
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  Speaker 4: Rather reasonable, Yes, sir well.
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  Speaker 5: It happened that the week of the ball he had
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  Speaker 5: to go to France on business, so he wasn't there
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  Speaker 5: to make a scene when Mother and me went. It
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  Speaker 5: was a lovely ball, mister Holmes. I wouldn't have missed
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  Speaker 5: it for anything. It was there I met Tasma. He
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  Speaker 5: was a lovely dancer. You should have seen him do
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  Speaker 5: the pulker.
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  Speaker 4: Swept you quite off your feet out, no doubt, Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Sir well. He called next day to see if Mother
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  Speaker 5: and I got home safe the night before, and after
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  Speaker 5: that I went out once or twice for walks with him,
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  Speaker 5: and things was going along as smooth as you could wish.
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  Speaker 5: And then Father came home and Tasma couldn't come to
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  Speaker 5: the house anymore. No, no, sir, Father didn't like me
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  Speaker 5: to have young men come to the house. Said it
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  Speaker 5: didn't look well for a young girl to.
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  Speaker 4: Have followers rother tyrant Kane.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, sir, But pretty soon he had to go
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  Speaker 5: off to France again for a couple of weeks. So
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  Speaker 5: I started walking out with Osma again.
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  Speaker 4: And this Osma made no attempt to see you in
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  Speaker 4: the meantime.
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  Speaker 5: No, sir, I wanted to, but mother said, you didn't
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  Speaker 5: think it was safe.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: He wrote to me every day, Hasma did. Oh here,
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  Speaker 5: I've brought the letters and thought they might give you
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  Speaker 5: a clue.
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  Speaker 4: Quite right, we'll look them over later.
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  Speaker 1: Am I to take it that you and mister andrel
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  Speaker 1: had done an understanding.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, we were engaged after the first walk we
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  Speaker 5: took together.
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  Speaker 4: First worker and Watson did interrupt. What was mister Angel's business,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Sutherman.
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  Speaker 5: He was a cashier in an office in Leadenhall Street.
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  Speaker 4: What office?
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  Speaker 5: That's the worst of it, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know where did he live? Then?
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  Speaker 5: Oh he slept on the premises.
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  Speaker 4: And you don't know his address, no, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Except that it was leaden Hall Street.
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  Speaker 4: Where did you address your letters.
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  Speaker 5: Leaden Hall Street Post Office? To be left till poored
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  Speaker 5: for he said if there was to come to the office,
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  Speaker 5: he'd be ragged by the other clerks. I offered to
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  Speaker 5: typewrite them like he did his, but he wouldn't have that.
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  Speaker 5: Said that, when I wrote them myself, it seemed like
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  Speaker 5: there was something of me in them. That'll show you
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  Speaker 5: how fond he was of me, mister Holmes. He was
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  Speaker 5: always thinking of little things like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, quite suggestive.
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  Speaker 1: Can you remember any other little things about mister Hosma Angel,
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  Speaker 1: any little peculiarity.
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  Speaker 5: He was a very shy man, mister Holmes. He'd rather
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  Speaker 5: walk with me in the evening than in the daylight,
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  Speaker 5: because he said he liked to hold my hand, but
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  Speaker 5: he didn't want to be conspicuous.
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  Speaker 4: Very considerate and gentleman.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, sir. He was a father gentleman with the
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  Speaker 5: silkiest brown beard. Even his voice was soft like He
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  Speaker 5: told me he'd have quinsy and swollen glands when he
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  Speaker 5: was young, and it left him with a weak throat.
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  Speaker 4: Oh unfortunately, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: His eyes were kind of weak too, like mine, and
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  Speaker 5: he wore tinted glasses against the glare I day. He
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  Speaker 5: was about five foot five and had small.
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  Speaker 4: Hands and feet, I see. And what happened when mister Windibanks,
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  Speaker 4: your stepfather returned to France.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I wrote Osma, and he came round to the
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  Speaker 5: house and he said I'd have to marry him before
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  Speaker 5: father came back, as he couldn't stand the separation any longer.
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  Speaker 5: So I asked mother, and she said why not? Every
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  Speaker 5: girl was entitled to her own husband.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Mother was all for Ozma from the beginning, almost more
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  Speaker 5: than I was myself.
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  Speaker 4: So you got married?
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  Speaker 5: Well, no, well that is not quite Oh what happened? Well,
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  Speaker 5: the wedding was set for yesterday morning. We thought it
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  Speaker 5: best to make it a quiet ceremony. It was to
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  Speaker 5: be at Saint Savior's Church, with a wedding breakfast afterwards
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  Speaker 5: at the Saint Pancras Hotel. Well, about nine o'clock, Mother
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  Speaker 5: and me was all dressed and waiting for Ozma. I
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  Speaker 5: was a bit upset. I guess you know how a
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  Speaker 5: bride feels, mister Holmes, Oh, dear, I met nervous. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know whether I ought to get married or not.
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  Speaker 6: Don't you fret? Mary?
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  Speaker 7: All brides is like that. Why when I was married
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  Speaker 7: to your father, I was so jumpy. I split both
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  Speaker 7: me gloves.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I know, but I haven't known Ozma very long. Mother.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I want to jump off the deep end like this.
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  Speaker 6: What's the good of waiting?
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  Speaker 5: Mary?
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  Speaker 7: Better get married now before your father gets back.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I suppose so. Oh dear me, I wish my
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  Speaker 5: shoes wasn't so tight.
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  Speaker 6: Here comes Ozma.
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  Speaker 7: Now don't you look handsome with that flower and his
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  Speaker 7: button and all? No, you stay here, Mary, I'll answer it.
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  Speaker 7: A bride should actually I like on a wedding day.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Ozma as the groom.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, er mother. I'm fine.
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  Speaker 5: Hello Mary, Hello Ozma. What's the matter? You look kind
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  Speaker 5: of right?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm all right. How are you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm all right?
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  Speaker 9: To Hosma, Well, we'd better be shoving off. I got
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  Speaker 9: to havensome waiting outside.
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  Speaker 5: But Hasma, it's such a little way, and handsome is expensive.
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  Speaker 9: You don't think that any bride of mine is going
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  Speaker 9: to walk on her wedding day?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 6: Who can that be?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Smey or as fuller jumped as a kangaroo.
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  Speaker 5: Now I'll go.
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 7: Telegram?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, it's a telegram. Maybe somebody's died.
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  Speaker 6: I'm almost afraid to look let me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm used to these things.
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  Speaker 9: Expect me home today, erastmus g Windy Banks.
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  Speaker 5: Father's coming home. What if he gets here before.
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  Speaker 7: Now, don't lose your nerve. You're of age to remember,
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  Speaker 7: so I don't matter how he raves afterwards.
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  Speaker 9: Mary, promise you won't let him tear us apart.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, I swear it.
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  Speaker 4: Mary.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the bible?
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  Speaker 7: Is carrying mine? The one I got married with both times?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 9: Now put your left hand on that bible and swear
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  Speaker 9: that what happens you will always be true to me and.
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  Speaker 3: To me only.
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  Speaker 8: What could happen, Well, you never know.
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  Speaker 4: I'll swear it, Mary, for.
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  Speaker 6: My sake, swear it, yes, Mary, why not do us?
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  Speaker 6: Ozma asks?
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  Speaker 8: All right?
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  Speaker 5: I swear?
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  Speaker 4: Oh good Now, then let's get on with it.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Osma, Oh dear, here's my bonny.
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  Speaker 9: I'm straight, Yes, yes, only hurry, mister Windy Banks make
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  Speaker 9: it back any minute.
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  Speaker 7: Mary, don't forget your flowers.
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  Speaker 9: No, mother, hurry, hurry. Now, here's the cab you first? Mother, Easy,
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  Speaker 9: don't upset the cab now, Mary, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: Aren't you coming through? Hosma?
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  Speaker 9: No, there isn't room. I'd must your dress and I'll
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  Speaker 9: hail another cab. Well he s there's a four wheeler. Now, hey, Kevin,
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  Speaker 9: now you go on, I'll follow after.
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  Speaker 6: See you at the church, horseman.
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  Speaker 5: Driver.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Osma got the other cab.
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  Speaker 5: It's falling us mondays and nothing together like anything.
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  Speaker 6: Now I shut marry anyone. I think you didn't want
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  Speaker 6: to get married.
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  Speaker 5: Well maybe I do, Maybe I do.
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  Speaker 6: We'll just hold your breath and it'll be over in
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  Speaker 6: no time.
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  Speaker 5: Now here's the church.
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  Speaker 7: You get out first, and to mind your dress. That's
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  Speaker 7: it now, now help me. He's a fast time no
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  Speaker 7: blink in acrobat, that's it he or Kebby.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, here comes Hosma's four wheeler.
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  Speaker 8: Now seem years like you first.
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  Speaker 5: Why doesn't he get out to give him time?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe his knees is shaky too.
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  Speaker 5: Something's wrong with Ozma. I'm going to see why. I'll
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  Speaker 5: speak to him. Kebby. What the cat's empty? Or something's
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  Speaker 5: happened to Osmer. He's gone and left me waiting at
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  Speaker 5: the church.
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  Speaker 4: Every day is value day.
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  Speaker 1: When you insist on clothes by clipper Craft, yes, we
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  Speaker 1: have to know our values are really great. When we
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  Speaker 1: suggest you compare clipper craft with clothes selling for very
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  Speaker 1: much more, which is exactly what we do suggest. Because
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  Speaker 1: there's a great big idea behind clippercraft clothes in the
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  Speaker 1: form of the famous Clippercraft Plan. You get the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of great savings made by concentrating the buying power of
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  Speaker 1: ten hundred and thirty six of the nation's finest stores
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  Speaker 1: from coast to coast. Yes, the clipper Craft plan really
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  Speaker 1: streamlines the fine old craft of clothes making. When you
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  Speaker 1: can get such remarkably fine quality in suits for only
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  Speaker 1: forty to forty seven fifty, in tropical worsteds for only
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  Speaker 1: thirty three seventy five to forty dollars, and in sport
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  Speaker 1: jackets for only twenty six fifty by pay more for
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  Speaker 1: selling expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the nation's
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  Speaker 1: finest stores. Is the great big idea behind the Clippercraft Plan.
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  Speaker 1: That's why men who know insist on clippercraft clothes. So
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  Speaker 1: be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city.
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  Speaker 10: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
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  Speaker 10: add their names to Clippercraft in your suits, top coats,
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  Speaker 10: sport jackets and tropicals. In Manhattan Sacks thirty fourth Broadway
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  Speaker 10: at thirty fourth John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eight
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  Speaker 10: and sixty seven Liberty Street in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss
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  Speaker 10: in Newick, New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop, Presley, Newick. And
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  Speaker 10: in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty
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  Speaker 10: four oh eight Jamaica Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: And now back to Baker Street, where we find doctor
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  Speaker 1: Watson commisserating with the young lady who has been left
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  Speaker 1: waiting out the church.
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  Speaker 2: A shameful way for any gentleman to act, deserting his
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  Speaker 2: bride at the altar.
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, doctor Watson, I'm sure he didn't do that,
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  Speaker 5: not on purpose. That is, he was too kind for that.
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  Speaker 5: And then as that pleasure I gave him.
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  Speaker 2: You think he foresaw some unforeseen danger and that's why
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  Speaker 2: he made you take view.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, have you any notion of what it could
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  Speaker 1: have been? No, sir, how did your father take it?
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  Speaker 1: I presume he found out.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, sir, he was quite consoling, really remarkable. Oh
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  Speaker 5: it drives me half mad to think of it. Mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: It's not as if it was the first time I've
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  Speaker 5: been disappointed.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I understand I shall be delighted to glance into the
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: matter for you, Miss Sutherland. Now let me advise you
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: to turn the whole matter over to me, and don't
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: let your mind went on it any further. Above all,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: try to let mister Hosmer Angel vanish from your memory
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: as he's done from your life.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: And you you don't think I'll ever see him again.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid not.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, dear me, you've been very kind, mister. I'm sure
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: I don't know how to thank.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: You, not at all this sum good day, gentlemen.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Where's my hank?
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: Oh? Oh, dear me?
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Another romance?
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: Blighted homes?
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: What a horrid mess of bottles and test tubes?
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, smells of hydrochloric acid.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Marvelous, My dear Watson, marvelous.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I don't believe you budged out of this room since
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: that poor young lady left early this morning.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: No, it was mystery, then you've solved it. Certainly it
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: was by sulfate of barati.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I mean the mystery of the disappearing bridegroom.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Oh that there never was any mystery in that affair, Watson.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: But he is self evident, don't you think?
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: No?
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Can say I do, really, but I let you look
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: at mister Hosma's love letters.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: For David type of it, even to the signature.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's what's really suggested. Now, what's that, mister Windybanks.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I fancy you.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Mean the girl's father, stepfather.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Quite. I sent off a note to him this morning
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: to his place of business.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: But I must say, and this afternoon I received this
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: businesslike reply on West House and Marbanks stationary, saying he'd
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: be here at six o'clock. Come in, come in, ah,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: mister Windybanks. This typewritten note was from you, on which
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: you set the time for this appointment at six o'clock.
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: Yes, mister, I prefer I'm a trifle late. It's about
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: miss Sutherland's missing suitor. Quite so, this is troubled with,
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: mister Holmes. But you know what young girls are. Besides, it's
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: a useless expense, because how in the name of this
• 17:46
  Speaker 11: and that can you expect to locate Hosma Rangel.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Pardon me if I disagree with you, mister Windybanks. But
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I have every reason to believe that I have located
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: mister Hosmer Angel.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Oh delighted, mister Holmes.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, I wonder if anyone's ever told you that a
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: typewriter has really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Oh,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I don't say, hope, I most emphatically do. Every typewriter
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: develops its own little idiosyncrasies. Now this note of yours,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: mister Windybanks, you'll notice that all the ease are slightly slurred,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and there's a slight defect in the tail of the R.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Oh I never noticed a perform obviously. Now I have
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: here four letters which purport to come from the missing man.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: In all of them, the ease are slurred and the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: r's tall.
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: Well, I didn't come here to waste time with fantastic
• 18:34
  Speaker 11: talk like this. If you're going to catch the man,
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: catch him and let me know when you see. Certainly
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: Watson be good enough to lock the door with pleasure. Now, then,
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: mister Windy Banks, I have caught mister Hosmer Angel, because
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: you yourself are that gentleman. But we whoa what if
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: I am? I didn't marry the girl today? It's it's
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: not actionable.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: No, your conduct is even worse than that. It's dishonorable
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and degreeting. In the first place. You're the sort of
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: scoundrel who marries an older woman for her money. Not satisfied,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: you want to assure yourself with the daughter's income, which
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: you will lose if she marries. You make her break
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: off with her first sweetheart. And when you see it's
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: going to be impossible to keep others from falling in
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: love with her, you're arranged to do so yourself.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: It was only a joke at first. I fail to
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: see any humor in it. I didn't know she'd fall
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: for me like that?
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: Did.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: You made the girl swear she'd be true and wait
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: for you, and then you played the cat and disappeared.
• 19:25
  Speaker 11: Well and maybe sol and maybe not. By'm not breaking
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: any laws, and as long as you keep that doll
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: up quite.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: So, should you care to call a policeman, there's one
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: in the street below.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you're em ployer.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Mister Merrild Marbanks, who by the way, is an old
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: friend of mine, would be very interested in your little joke.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, mister Holmes. You couldn't tell him.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: I'd lose my job, but i'm my social.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Standing quite so I'll keep quiet on one condition, yes, yes,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: anything at all. You are not to discourage any more
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of Miss Mary's shooters past present or future.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Oh no, mister Holk, I wouldn't think of it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: It was all just a little game, you see.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, well the game's over, Watson. You may show the
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: gentleman out right.
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: Now then, yes, sir, Yes, Well, good day gentlemen. I
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: hope you won't hold any hard feelings, mister Holmes.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: And if you ever come along loitering on a boot
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: you downstairs, have a good man to do it anywhere
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I'm going.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I'm going to the Black Army, I said.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: But I I still don't see how you spotted the
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: man that.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Pipe written letter, Watson, particularly the signature. Obviously the man
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: wanted to disguise his handwriting, which would have been familiar
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: to the girl. Well whose handwriting would have been familiar
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to her, answer the fathers, as he was the only
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: man she was allowed to come in contact with. It
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: is really quite simple when you explain it. Oh, by
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the way, are you going to tell the girl?
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: I know?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Heaven forbid. I shall let mister will Hardy of Birmingham
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: have that privilege. I wrote him the facts of the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: case this morning. No, he would be able to persuade
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: her to believe it. I never could.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: Holmes.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: You're a moral card
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Perhaps, Watson, you remember but the old Persian saying, there's
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: danger for him who taketh the cub of the tiger,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and danger also for whoso statches a delusion from a
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: woman