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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Case of the Sudden Senility Basil Rathbone, Nigel · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: It was a brisk all day rather early in the century.
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  Speaker 2: After a good deal an argument, I had persuaded Holmes
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  Speaker 2: to accompany me on a constitutional through Kensington Gardens as
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  Speaker 2: our listeners. Doubtless, No, Holmes was never a man who
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  Speaker 2: took exercise if he could avoid it.
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  Speaker 3: Lethargic short of fellow he doctor Watts were.
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily needless to say.
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  Speaker 2: When we returned to Baker Street somewhere around five, I
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  Speaker 2: was the one who was puffing like a grampus, while
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  Speaker 2: Holmes bounded up the steps as easily as a greyhound.
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  Speaker 2: We were met at the front door by Missus Hudson,
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  Speaker 2: the chatelaine and general fact tootum of our bachelor domain.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Missus Hudson's what's up?
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  Speaker 4: It's way past your tea time, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh the places with team Adam give us an early supper.
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  Speaker 5: What's more, a gentleman was here white it upstairs half
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  Speaker 5: an hour he stamping up and.
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  Speaker 4: Down on my ceilings. I thought the chandelier would come loose.
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  Speaker 6: Sounds like a client day, Watson were we could do
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  Speaker 6: with a case. O the exchequer is getting a bit low.
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  Speaker 3: Bother the exchequer ooh.
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  Speaker 1: Hem's sake, Olmes, relaxed, we're home.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if it's a case, see that he pays.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like he had money?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, missus Hudson's correct. Our late visitor undoubtedly had money.
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  Speaker 6: He got away, But what makes you think the latter
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  Speaker 6: was affluent? Can't you smell it? He smoked the very
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  Speaker 6: best tobacco. Ah, The matter he came to consultants about
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  Speaker 6: must have been urgent. He's left his pipe here on
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  Speaker 6: the table, a nice briar with a longish stem of
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  Speaker 6: what the tobaccon is fondly called amber. Yes, he must
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  Speaker 6: have been thoroughly disturbed to leave behind a pipe value
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  Speaker 6: so highly, Oh, boor and dash, How can you possibly
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  Speaker 6: know how he values his silly pipe? Eleventry, my dear
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  Speaker 6: Watson elementary, The pipe has been twice mended, once in
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  Speaker 6: the wooden stem and once in the amber, each time
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  Speaker 6: with a silver band costing more than the pipe did originally.
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  Speaker 3: What's more, he's.
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  Speaker 6: Been here before, because, having run out of his own mixture,
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  Speaker 6: he's helped himself to a pipe full from the Persian
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  Speaker 6: slipper on the mantelpiece. No casual stranger wouldn't That's where
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  Speaker 6: I keep my tobacco. But here's his step on the stairs.
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  Speaker 6: Come in, Come in, confounded man, Why don't you stay
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  Speaker 6: at home?
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  Speaker 7: Way of along homes.
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  Speaker 6: It's Colonel Roth obviously, my dear Watson. Or bring our
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  Speaker 6: visitor a chair and a slight sedative of some sort,
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  Speaker 6: say a brandy and soda.
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  Speaker 8: I don't need a brandy, Yes I do, confounded, a
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  Speaker 8: double brandy.
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  Speaker 6: We don't tell me you've had another disaster on the
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  Speaker 6: moors at King's Pyland.
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  Speaker 8: Well we have that, mister Holmes. But this time is
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  Speaker 8: not a man that's been murdered.
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  Speaker 3: It's a horse worse, much worse.
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  Speaker 8: Let me tell you there are many men equal of
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  Speaker 8: Blazing Star.
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  Speaker 2: Good lord, Blazing Star. Isn't that your entry for the Wessex.
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  Speaker 3: Cup, sir?
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  Speaker 7: It was doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 6: It was Blazing Star. Watson was reading me an item
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  Speaker 6: about it just the other day. I believe he's the
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  Speaker 6: son of the famous Silver Blaze. Out of Lady Lucky.
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  Speaker 7: You were able to rescue his sire for me, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 8: It's time to in the Wessex Cup. What a race
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  Speaker 8: that glass homes. But it's too late to do anything
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  Speaker 8: for poor Blazing Star.
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  Speaker 7: But by the Lord Harry. I mean to catch up
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  Speaker 7: with the scundre of the killer, and when I do.
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  Speaker 2: War was contended as a sprecial reservation in the last
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  Speaker 2: hell for any man who miss streets animals.
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  Speaker 6: Was quite But tell me exactly what happened at King's Pardon,
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  Speaker 6: Colonel Ross.
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  Speaker 8: You remember Ned Hunter and mister Holmes. He was in
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  Speaker 8: charge of the stable at the time Silver.
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  Speaker 6: Blaze was adopted. Yes, fine fellow, reliable and trustworthy.
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  Speaker 8: It's been promoted to the post of trainer since you
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  Speaker 8: last saw him, but he still sleeps in the stable.
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  Speaker 7: Doesn't cause anyone else to do it.
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  Speaker 6: Blazing Star, like his sire before him, was the favorite
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  Speaker 6: for the Wessex Cup.
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  Speaker 8: I believe that's right, mister homes So Ned was being
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  Speaker 8: extra particular. None of the stable boys were allowed to
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  Speaker 8: go near the horse. Ned groomed and exercised him himself.
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  Speaker 8: No one else laid a.
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  Speaker 3: Hand on the animal.
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  Speaker 1: Can't take too many precautions with a winner.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes got into rot Watson. Well.
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  Speaker 8: Yesterday afternoon I went down to the stables myself to
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  Speaker 8: watch Blazing Star workouts. Aha, I wish you could.
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  Speaker 7: Have seen him.
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  Speaker 8: The sunshine glinting on his chestnut coat like a fiery streak.
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  Speaker 8: He was coming down the stretch. Never went better in
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  Speaker 8: his life. Well, I went into supper and cleared a
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  Speaker 8: place off the mantle, the same place we kept the
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  Speaker 8: Wessex cup when silver Blaze money.
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  Speaker 7: Then I went to bed and slept the sleep of
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  Speaker 7: the just, but a lot.
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  Speaker 8: About two o'clock in the morning, I was awakened by
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  Speaker 8: ned hunter. As I let the lamp, I could see
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  Speaker 8: his face white does a sheet.
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  Speaker 7: And his hand shook as though he had the potsy. Heayad,
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  Speaker 7: what's up? What's the matter? Man?
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  Speaker 8: It's the star, sir. He's took bad. Better go for
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  Speaker 8: the beds. Good lord, what happened? He seemed in great
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  Speaker 8: shape this afternoll. I can't explain it, sir, unless it
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  Speaker 8: was that cat upset him.
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  Speaker 3: You know how he always hated cats. Oh my cat.
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  Speaker 7: We don't keep any cats. Well, black cat it was, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Can't say I've ever seen it before, but when I
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  Speaker 8: was taking in his bunch of carrots, I always gives
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  Speaker 8: him before I tucks him in for the night, a
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  Speaker 8: black cat comes out of nowhere and slips into the
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  Speaker 8: store between the lakes. Well, sir, you know how the
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  Speaker 8: Star is about cats. He started stamping and winning like
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  Speaker 8: he was possessed. Hey, you to me, Joe, I'll we
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  Speaker 8: get this cat o here before she's killed. Oh easy, Star,
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  Speaker 8: easy boy. Now you see that cat come out of
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  Speaker 8: here like a bet out of hell, blazing like the
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  Speaker 8: devil himself. Hello, Hello, She swaked the Star on the flak.
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  Speaker 7: She's drawn blood.
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  Speaker 8: Easy boy, easy, Hey, Timmy, bring the ointment. The Star's hurt, well,
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  Speaker 8: mister Holmes. Ned Hunter swamped down the scratch and tried
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  Speaker 8: to quiet the horse, but Star was restless. Wrong about midnight,
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  Speaker 8: theyd noticed his breathing was getting heavy and labored, and
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  Speaker 8: he worked up quite a sweat. They had rubbed him
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  Speaker 8: down again, but he kept getting worse instead of.
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  Speaker 7: Better, So I went for the fit. He's a new
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  Speaker 7: man in the district.
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  Speaker 8: I supposed to know all there is to know about animals,
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  Speaker 8: and I brought him back with me.
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  Speaker 7: Ned looked like he'd seen a dast.
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  Speaker 8: Ned. This is mister Peebles, the new veterinary surgeon. He'll
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  Speaker 8: brings tar around for us.
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  Speaker 9: I'm afraid the stars past helps her. I've never seen
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  Speaker 9: the like just seemed to collapse in front of my eyes,
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  Speaker 9: his back sort of sag, and his niece gave way.
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  Speaker 9: Pretty soon he couldn't stand up no more. He's lying
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  Speaker 9: in there on the straw, pretty near gone.
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  Speaker 7: You better take mister Peebles, right, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir? This way, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Kind of found it.
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  Speaker 8: If anything happens to that horse, he was so fit
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  Speaker 8: this afternoon.
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  Speaker 7: Lord, it's quiet around here. If I could just hear the.
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  Speaker 3: Old boy breathing three o'clock.
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  Speaker 8: Where do you suppose that blasted cat came from?
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  Speaker 7: Rubbish?
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  Speaker 8: No one dies for a cat scratch, and get any
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  Speaker 8: cats around here for years, certainly only black cats. Well,
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  Speaker 8: mister Peebles, how is he?
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  Speaker 7: What's the verdict?
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  Speaker 10: I'm sorry, Colonel Ross. He's cancer died very quietly of
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  Speaker 10: old age.
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  Speaker 6: Say the vet pronounced Blazing Star dead of old age,
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  Speaker 6: Colonel Ross.
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  Speaker 1: That that's impossible. Homes to wessis Cup is a race
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  Speaker 1: for five year old exactly?
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  Speaker 8: Bracing Star was five year old last month. Yet when
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  Speaker 8: I went in to look at his body as it
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  Speaker 8: lay there in his stall, I'd have sworn he was
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  Speaker 8: the oldest horse I'd ever seen. Temples caved in, coat,
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  Speaker 8: dry and grayish hip bones, protruding.
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  Speaker 6: You don't think anyone could have switched horses while dead
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  Speaker 6: hunter came to inform you the horse was taken sick.
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  Speaker 8: No, mister Holmes, I know bracing star anywhere. The star
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  Speaker 8: on the forehead, he'd interet it from his father. The
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  Speaker 8: white off four foot in the long star is left
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  Speaker 8: hind leg where he cut himself in a bit of wire,
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  Speaker 8: and he was a two year old. That horse was star
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  Speaker 8: full five years ago last month.
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  Speaker 7: He couldn't have died of old age.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic in the cab story, Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Quite many people, of course, will profit by his death.
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  Speaker 6: Have there been in the strangers in the neighborhood of
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  Speaker 6: kings Pilon these last few weeks, Colonel.
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  Speaker 8: Ross, there has been a band of wandering gypsies camping
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  Speaker 8: on the moors.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, gypsies have many curious and little gnome poisons.
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  Speaker 2: They'd be quite apt to keep a black cat. What's more,
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  Speaker 2: if it's clause had been dipped in some obscure venom,
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  Speaker 2: they possibly Watson, possibly Tony ConA Ross. What's become of
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  Speaker 2: your Erstwhile Nahbort and rival Lord Blackwater, who owned the
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  Speaker 2: Mapleton Stables.
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  Speaker 8: Sat blagguard haven't seen him since the affair of Silver Blaze.
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  Speaker 8: He was ruled off the turf. After that, you're known,
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  Speaker 8: forced to sell his horses, serves him jolly will right.
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  Speaker 8: Mapleton has been unoccupied until recently, about a month ago.
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  Speaker 8: I understand it was leased to a professor and egyptologist.
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  Speaker 8: I believe he's a recluse, spends most of his time
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  Speaker 8: in the laboratory, fixed up for himself in the old
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  Speaker 8: study made Baxter. Our maiden sister keeps house for him,
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  Speaker 8: says he's a queer sort of a chance, works behind.
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  Speaker 7: Locked doors all night and sleeps all day.
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  Speaker 3: Unhealthy sort of life.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, there are several factors around King's Pylon that don't
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  Speaker 6: sound healthy to me. Conn Ross, I suggest that Watson
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  Speaker 6: and I take the morning train for.
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  Speaker 3: Exeter to investigate the situation.
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  Speaker 8: I hoped you'd say that, mister Holmes. I've told it
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  Speaker 8: not to dispose of Star's body until you arrive.
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  Speaker 3: Splendid.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose you want me to take my revolvers, your revolver,
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  Speaker 1: and that little black sexul that contained your medical kit
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  Speaker 1: this summers.
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  Speaker 6: I'm very much mistaken. Is a case in which we
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  Speaker 6: should be prepared for anything well, Watson. Now that you've
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  Speaker 6: finished a thorough examination of the cadavera, what's your verdict?
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  Speaker 3: The bit was right, Hose.
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  Speaker 2: The horse obviously died of holy But I tell you
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  Speaker 2: that's impossible.
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  Speaker 7: Amazing Star was only a little over five years old. Nay, dear,
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  Speaker 7: will bear me out.
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  Speaker 8: That's right, gentlemen, horse doesn't die of old age at
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  Speaker 8: five years looks like Blazing Starr ain't going to be
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  Speaker 8: the only one neither, Good Lord, don't tell me another
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  Speaker 8: one of the horses has caught the malady.
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  Speaker 3: It's not one of the uses, sir. It's the sheep.
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  Speaker 8: I noticed it when I went out at the panic
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  Speaker 8: after you left this morning. They stood there, all addled together, shivering.
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  Speaker 8: Then gradually, all day long they kept getting older and older.
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  Speaker 7: You could first see them do it.
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  Speaker 8: Their eyes are roomy, and their voice is weak, and oh,
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  Speaker 8: some of them can hardly keep on their feet.
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  Speaker 7: The sheep, we're young. Most of them are dropped in
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  Speaker 7: this year's lambing season.
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  Speaker 8: What do you make of it?
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  Speaker 7: Dr Watson? Have you ever heard of old age being contagious?
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  Speaker 2: So there have been isolated cases, Colonel Ross, were young
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  Speaker 2: and healthy individuals have developed a wasting way that Robert
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  Speaker 2: resembled the appearance of age.
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  Speaker 3: However, I'd hardly think it possible.
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  Speaker 8: Whose running across the moors in the sunset looks like
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  Speaker 8: a woman, her hair flying, loose, shawl flapping.
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  Speaker 7: In the wind, and she's tagger ears if she would drunk.
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  Speaker 8: It's Mattie Colonel Ross, he that works over at Mapleton.
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  Speaker 6: She is not suffering from the effects of alcohol. It's
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  Speaker 6: fight that's upset her. It's sheer terror.
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  Speaker 4: Camera Ross came Ross, Will you take me in this night?
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: Never going back.
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  Speaker 5: I'm never going back to that house again. I knew
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  Speaker 5: he was evil the minute I laid eyes on the man,
• 11:05
  Speaker 5: and now I've seen him.
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  Speaker 4: He's a butcher, hears.
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  Speaker 5: He's a google, as matt the master him at least Mapleton.
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  Speaker 5: He's filled the house full of heathen statues, the lower
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  Speaker 5: part man and the upper part beast.
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  Speaker 6: Those would be the statues of the ancient Egyptian gods
• 11:19
  Speaker 6: Ra the hawk, and you miss the dog and Bust
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  Speaker 6: the cat.
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  Speaker 5: I've fen us, that's what he calls it, the black
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  Speaker 5: cat that rides everywhere with him on his shoulder. Bad
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  Speaker 5: eyes are alike him and the cats, both green, and
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  Speaker 5: they both can look at you without even blinking.
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  Speaker 4: Only his head moves through side the side while he
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  Speaker 4: stares at you. What's that I set his head? It
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: don't never holds two. He's a ghoul, that's what he is.
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  Speaker 5: They've been bringing him boxes for weeks now, six boxes,
• 11:46
  Speaker 5: big like coffins a lot. He drives up in the
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  Speaker 5: dead of night, and they carry the box into his
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  Speaker 5: study and he locks the door behind it. That's the
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  Speaker 5: last anyone ever seen of them boxes or.
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  Speaker 3: What's in them.
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  Speaker 6: You've never seen any traces when you're going to clean
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  Speaker 6: the study.
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  Speaker 5: I've never been out into the one's ever been allowed
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  Speaker 5: in a study except the man what brings the boxes,
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  Speaker 5: and then only for a minute while he puts them down.
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  Speaker 5: Today the men come with another big box. Only they
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  Speaker 5: brought it before it was dark. The master fell in
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  Speaker 5: a rage when he saw him driver. When they brought
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  Speaker 5: the box in and set it down in the study.
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  Speaker 3: He was that worked up. There were flex the foam
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  Speaker 3: on his lips.
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  Speaker 7: You widiots, how often have I told you not to
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  Speaker 7: come here by daylight?
• 12:28
  Speaker 8: A urt governor decerns about down, and there's a stormer
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  Speaker 8: coming up.
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  Speaker 7: Me and me partner of the wrong way, to drive
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  Speaker 7: back to town. We don't like to be caught in
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  Speaker 7: the moors in the storm at night.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you don't. Well, this is the last time you
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  Speaker 3: need to come here.
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  Speaker 7: People who work for me, baby, my owner.
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  Speaker 3: There's your pay. Now get out where you be going.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: Have a fear.
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  Speaker 8: He done that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh he's a terror when he gets in one of
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  Speaker 5: his rages.
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  Speaker 3: Poor you work here.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: I I'm the housemaid.
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  Speaker 3: I know what it is.
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  Speaker 7: He's gotten them boxes we bring him.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't a notion that room's always kept locked.
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  Speaker 7: He never so much as looked so killed.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'd never do that. It's not right.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe be interesting.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, come along there, Chrystal will be carding the moors.
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: Heard at arkright, he slit the lamp in there.
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  Speaker 5: It shows through the keyhole he's taking the lid off
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  Speaker 5: the box. I can hear the nails squeak. I would
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: sort of like to know what's in it. One peak
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't hurt.
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  Speaker 4: I guess.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, there's another box inside of the first one. It's
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  Speaker 5: got a painted face and hands. Now he's taken that
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  Speaker 5: lid off too. There's something lying inside. It's got a
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: face too, and hands.
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  Speaker 11: It's just dead.
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  Speaker 12: It's a woman's body, great Scott, a woman's body, then
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  Speaker 12: the man is a goler body snatcher.
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  Speaker 7: Worse.
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  Speaker 6: Unless I'm very much mistaken, he's much worse, Colonel Ross.
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  Speaker 3: As for the body, I imagine it's been dead a
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: long long time.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I think Watson and I would take a stroll
• 14:29
  Speaker 6: over the Mapleton later this evening. I'd like to take
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: a look at the contents of that box myself.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: What a night to go talking about the moor's homes.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: I'm soaked to the skin.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, the equinoxial reigns seem to be especially vigorous this year.
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  Speaker 3: Watson vigorous?
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  Speaker 1: I can hardly say, Good Lord, what was that that?
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  Speaker 6: I imagine as a member of the feline or cat family
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: half wildly homes.
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  Speaker 3: It's unusual for a cat to be out in this weather.
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  Speaker 1: Seems to be getting closer.
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  Speaker 3: Hangle the lantern over here, Yes, there it is in
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  Speaker 3: that treat of.
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  Speaker 1: The left, Good Lord. It's eyes shine like fire.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe she's caught up there and can't get down here,
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  Speaker 2: pussy sky.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: What's the fun about them talking here? That cat?
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  Speaker 7: Why not?
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  Speaker 10: Because one scratch from her claws and you would decline
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  Speaker 10: and die.
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  Speaker 3: Of old age.
• 15:30
  Speaker 10: You Professor Moriarty, you look surprised to see me, Doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 10: I heard you were expected at King's Pilot Homes, and
• 15:40
  Speaker 10: when that stupid serving girl ran screaming out of my
• 15:43
  Speaker 10: house this evening, I rather expected it wouldn't be long
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  Speaker 10: before you came over to Mapleton to pay your respects
• 15:49
  Speaker 10: to the Princess hot Shepherd.
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: Princess had sheepnot, so that's who you have in your
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: latest money case, Marioti.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, in the most perfect state of preservation. But absolutely no.
• 16:00
  Speaker 10: Used to me unfortunately, why not? She was still slender
• 16:03
  Speaker 10: when she died. The artisans who bound her didn't need
• 16:06
  Speaker 10: to age the body to prepare it for burial. Age
• 16:09
  Speaker 10: the body. Have you ever seen a fat mummy, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Come to finger, it can't say I have.
• 16:15
  Speaker 10: In ancient Egypt, it took upward of seventy days to
• 16:18
  Speaker 10: prepare the body of a mummy. Rare gums, resins, and
• 16:21
  Speaker 10: spices were used, and if the deceased was fat, a
• 16:24
  Speaker 10: fluid was injected which aged and shriveled the body after death.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: And it's your theory, no, Doc Mariotte, that that same
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: fluid extracted from those mummies would if injected into human
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: beings produce premature old age and death.
• 16:35
  Speaker 10: So far, mister Holmes, I have only experimented with animals,
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: but I believe the process has been sufficiently perfected so
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: that I may now indulge in a few human experiments.
• 16:47
  Speaker 10: How fortunate that you and doctor Watson should have decided
• 16:50
  Speaker 10: to drop in this.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Evening, homes Let's get out of here.
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: Not so fast, doctor Watson, my servant act Bar has
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: had you covered for some time.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: Is an expert shot, I promise you.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Bluff, pure bluff. Can't see your soul.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: At Bar is rather dark. He doesn't show up very
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: well at night.
• 17:08
  Speaker 10: But to prove to you he is present, I shall
• 17:10
  Speaker 10: have him destroy the cat up there.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: But it's no trouble at all. We came out here
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: for that purpose.
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: Unfortunately, yesterday I spilled some of the liquid I'm experimenting
• 17:21
  Speaker 10: with and the cat walked in it. It's no longer
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: safe to have it at large. You saw the results
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: when she scratched Colonel Ross's horse last night. You see,
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: I don't want to kill people. I should be satisfied
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: just to make them senile. Don't excite yourself, doctor Watson.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: At Bar, the cat.
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: Such a pity, I was rather fond of the beast. Now, gentlemen,
• 17:49
  Speaker 10: if you will accompany.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: Me when you're in your favorite clothing store these winter
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: days and hear someone say how do they do it,
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: he's probably trying on a Clippercraft suit or overcoat. Because
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: in this era of higher prices, it's really startling to
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: see so much truly fine quality in clothes for such
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: a modest amount. For clipper Craft suits are only forty
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: and forty five dollars, Clippercraft top coats are only forty dollars,
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• 18:30
  Speaker 6: are really long wearing, style and fit is superb because
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: clipper Craft clothes are expertly designed. Now you may ask
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: how all this is possible, Well, the answer is real
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: manufacturing genius and a plan. The famous Clippercraft Plan concentrates
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: the buying power of ten hundred thirty six of the
• 18:50
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• 18:53
  Speaker 6: the amazing advantages of the group buying at your own
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: local independent store, at the store you can trust selling
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices. At the nation's finest
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: independent stores is the great big idea behind the clippercraft plan.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: That's why men who know insist on clippercraft clothes. So
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city.
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: add their names to Clippercraft. In your suit, top coat
• 19:23
  Speaker 11: and overcoat. In Manhattan, Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at thirty
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: fourth John wanna make a men's stores Broadway at eighth
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: and sixty seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: in Newark, New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop Cresgy, Newarck. And
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: four O eight Jamaica Avenue.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: And now to return to doctor Watson and Sherlock Holmes,
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: we find them in Moriarty's laboratory.
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: Sorry, I'm forced to have ect bar tie your hands
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: to the back of your chairs. Gentlemen, akbar if you
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: will remove doctor Watson's revolver from his right hand pocket,
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: that's it. No, no, no, you needn't take his satchel
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: off his knees. I know how lost a doctor feels
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: without his little black bag.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Very generous of you, MARIARTI not at all. That will
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: be all akbar.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: You may leave the room and lock the door.
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: And now for the lady hat shep Knat, she's in
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: the mummy case. Here I thought you might enjoy the
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: sight of a charming female while I give you the
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: injection that will deprive you of your youth and vigor.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Now look here, you and Arne Watson, is that, by
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: any chance, Professor Moriarty, the mummy case in which the
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: Princess ht shep Knot was entombed?
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: I believe so she was removed from the tombs of
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: the royal mummies at Dar el Bahari by those famous
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: grave robbers, the brothers Abdel Rasoul, whose exploits finally led
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: the British archaeologist to the left bank of the Nile
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: opposite Kanneck. But how several of you, mister Holmes, to
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: be so well informed on Egyptian mummies.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Holmes knows everything? Or didn't you know?
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Watson?
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: On the other hand, while no mental mastodon has hidden possibilities,
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: did you know, Professor, he once played Rugby or black
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Heath Fascinating I am I gather from the fact that
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: the mummy case has the hands carved in relief that
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: it dates from the seventh Theban Dynastics.
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: You are absolutely correct, mister Holmes. Wait, I will raise
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: the lid and permit you to see the lady herself.
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: Good Lord, she looked as if she had died yesterday. Yes,
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: doctor Watson, the mummies of Memphis are black, dry and brittle,
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: but those of Thebes are yellowish, flexible, and so elastic
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: that the flesh yields to the touch, and the limbs
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: may be moved so without breaking.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's remarkable.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: I should have liked to be present when they discovered
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: the tombor dad el Bahari. Imagine, Watson, there were thirty
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: six mummies, twenty of them.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Kings and queens.
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: Suppose we dispense with any further lectures on antiquity, mister Holmes,
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: I think the substance I have here in this little
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: glass file may prove even more fascinating.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: Ha.
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: This is the liquid I've distilled from five previous mummies,
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: the ones who have been shall we say, aged, One
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: small scratch with a pin dipped in this fluid, should,
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: if my calculations are correct, turn you both into old men.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: What would be the object of that may I ask.
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: In the first place, it would render you no longer
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: able to interrupt my activities. And in the second place,
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: if my experiment is successful, I flatter myself I can
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: change the course of history.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Interesting think what would.
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: Happen if I were to make certain men Senile the Kaiser,
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: for instance, and that new American president Roosevelt, mister Theodore Roosevelt.
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: And as a man over in France, Monsieur Cremon Sau
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: and the young man right here in England his name
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: is Winston Churchill. I think history might be quite different
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: if he suddenly became old and feeble minded. Let me
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: see my tie pin should do very nicely.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: There's a very interesting hypothesis, Professor Moriatty.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: But that file is so small.
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: Is that all the fluid you have which will suffice
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: mister Holmes? I shall prick only the key man now,
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: then I'll dip in the pin.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: So and Doc confront you.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: You've broken the fire.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Bravo Watson, a perfectly placed drop kick. I wondered if
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: it would occur to you to use your little black
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: bag for a football.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Well that was a narrow squeak, doctor Watson.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: It was indeed, mister Harris, But even then you were
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: still tired of those chairs.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Just how did you and Sherlock Holmes get away from
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: the profess Oh?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: At that point, mister Hallris, Colonel Ross and ned Hunter
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: broke in and rescued us. We left them on the
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: moors with instructions to come in and get us if
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: we didn't return in half an hour. Why did you
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: think Holmes became so chatty about Egyptian history?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: You don't mean he was stalling.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: What do you think, mister Hacks, What do you think?
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Well? What could I think? Doctor Hell?
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Now, Doctor Watson, how about giving us a hit about
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: next week's story?
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, next week, I think I shall tell the Case
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: of the Lucky Shilly. In it, Holmes prevented the death
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: of a certain reckless young nobleman and acquired the money
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to pay for a much needed operation. It was done
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: with the not too honest racetracked advice, which Holmes called
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the Trick of the Lucky Shilly.
• 24:52
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• 24:55
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• 24:58
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• 25:02
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• 25:29
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• 25:32
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