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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Coptic Compass Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conwa · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Well, here it is Saturday night again, in time for
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: our weekly visit with that excellent host and incomparable storyteller,
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Doctor Watson. I'm sure he's waiting for us in the
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  Speaker 1: old familiar study, so let's waste no time in joining
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: good evening.
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  Speaker 2: Mister b your punctual to the minute, as usual, you.
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  Speaker 3: Beat I am.
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  Speaker 1: When it's time for Doctor Watson to tell them you
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  Speaker 1: adventually had with the immortal Sherlock Holmes.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to miss his second.
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  Speaker 4: I's of you to say, for my boy, drop your
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  Speaker 4: usual chair and make yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Comfortable before I sit down, Doctor Watson, you mind if
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: I take a look at the old metal case on
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  Speaker 1: the mantelpiece.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't there last week?
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  Speaker 4: I placed it there because it played the prominent part
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  Speaker 4: in tonight's story. You see, it's a memento of yet
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  Speaker 4: another encounter the Sholock Combs.
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  Speaker 2: And I had with the arch villain of London, crime
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  Speaker 2: Professor Barriott.
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  Speaker 3: But what is it, doctor Watson? Looks like an old compass.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what it is, my boy.
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  Speaker 1: But there are no numerals on it, just these strange
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  Speaker 1: figures around the dire.
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  Speaker 4: Although the parent hieroglyphics helped us to solve one of
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  Speaker 4: the most diabolical murders that we ever encountered.
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  Speaker 2: I call it the adventure.
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  Speaker 4: Of the half eaten Apple, the coptic compass, and the
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  Speaker 4: unclothed corpse. Well, mister Bell, The adventure began on a
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  Speaker 4: November morning, shortly.
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  Speaker 2: After the turn of the century.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes, seldom one to indulge in exercise for its own sake,
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  Speaker 4: that displayed a rare burst of activity and joined me
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  Speaker 4: in a stroll through Regent's Park just before noon. We
• 1:28
  Speaker 4: retraced our steps. As we turned the corner into Baker Street,
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  Speaker 4: I nearly collided with a tall, well dressed man walking
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  Speaker 4: in the other direction.
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  Speaker 3: Splash, I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's got all to excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm true, mister shell Arck Holmes, I am, I may
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  Speaker 3: just nd let indeed, you're a little little early for
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  Speaker 3: our appointment. May just stand in. This is my colleague,
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: doctor Watson. Watson, I am early, mister Holmes. When you're
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  Speaker 3: a housekeeper told me you were still out. I decided
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  Speaker 3: to take a stroll. Then let's walk back together and
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  Speaker 3: perhaps you can tell me your problem as we go.
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  Speaker 3: It isn't exactly my problem, mister Holmes. You see, I
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  Speaker 3: made the count do the Mahraja of Kassoo.
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  Speaker 2: Who really is a very interesting job, I should imagine, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and I was an India himself, Pasha, and further.
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  Speaker 3: North, I would want to take quite Watson some other time.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you think the.
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  Speaker 2: Maraja's problem would see.
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  Speaker 3: Pressing since his emissary has been too eager to reach us.
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  Speaker 3: Please continue, Major stand there, mister Holmes. Have you ever
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  Speaker 3: heard of the Star of Kassu? A fantomously valuable diamond,
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  Speaker 3: isn't it? Yes, it's the treasure of the Maharaja's collection.
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  Speaker 3: At the moment, it's in the vults of the Bank
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  Speaker 3: of England.
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  Speaker 2: That's the best place for it. I should say. There
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  Speaker 2: have been several dual robberies letter, so.
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  Speaker 3: I've been told. That's why I've come to you, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: You see, the maharajas come to England to have his
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  Speaker 3: portrait painted by Satan. Your problem becomes apparent. Major stand there.
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  Speaker 3: When this portrait is painted, the star crostole will no
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  Speaker 3: doubt be set in the Maraja's turban, and you quite
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  Speaker 3: justifiably feel concerned about the Jewel's safety exactly, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: It must be cleverly and closely guarded on its daily
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  Speaker 3: journey from the volts to the maharad or sweetened back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hardly sounds like a good job for you.
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  Speaker 3: Home, No, Major Stanley, without wishing to appear conceited, I
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  Speaker 3: may say that such a routine matters right outside my scope.
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  Speaker 3: The Maharaj insists on having you, mister Holmes, I assure
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  Speaker 3: you his fee would be princhly. And here we are
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  Speaker 3: two twenty one b Come in, Major stand In. We'll
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  Speaker 3: discuss the matter further.
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  Speaker 2: If you like, Missus Hudson. We're there very well, doctor, Oh, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes, Yes, Missus Hudson. There were two gentlemen waiting to
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  Speaker 3: see you.
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  Speaker 5: Said they had an appointment. Let have gone, say they
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  Speaker 5: conduct leader.
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  Speaker 3: Did they leave their names?
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  Speaker 5: No, sir, they didn't.
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  Speaker 3: That's odd. Thank you, Missus Hudson.
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  Speaker 2: I said, let's go show.
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  Speaker 3: Regarding your problem, Major Stanley In, it occurs to me
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  Speaker 3: that Trumpfort Fedder might be a good man to see. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not personally acquainted with him, but I'm told that
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  Speaker 3: he specializes in the more physical aspects of detective work.
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  Speaker 3: The Maharaj will be very distressed if you're refusing, mister Holmes,
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  Speaker 3: naturally I wish to I'm sorry, Major stand In, I'd
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  Speaker 3: made my decison. I can't handle the case. See mister
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  Speaker 3: Perry as you will. But mister Holmes, I can't we
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  Speaker 3: sit down and talk about it a little?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was up for all that's only to be rude.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid not good day, Major. I've heard you were eccentric,
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  Speaker 3: mister Holmes, but I didn't know how. It's what is
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  Speaker 3: the matter with you?
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  Speaker 2: You ask him up and then you will give him.
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  Speaker 2: Let him into the.
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  Speaker 3: Room for an excellent reason. Watson, come inside. Look there
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  Speaker 3: on the floor, Great ef I could hardly let the
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  Speaker 3: emissary of Barraja walk into a room containing a corpse
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  Speaker 3: and an unclothed one at that left the blanket off
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  Speaker 3: the face, Watson, Oh, Duke is not the face of
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  Speaker 3: one of the men that called here, Sir. It is
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  Speaker 3: cover it again, Watson, I saw there that one leaf, Sir.
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  Speaker 2: He said his friend had already left. Oh, I never
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  Speaker 2: dreamed this.
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  Speaker 3: One you saw leaving? Was he carrying anything bundle? Perhaps? No, Sir,
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't. Could you describe him?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he was tall and thin, and he had a
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  Speaker 2: carrying no bundle. Where are the copses clothes? There's no
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  Speaker 2: sign of them in here, which a shocking thing. Said.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not delight in your living.
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  Speaker 5: Room or a scene for the police.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely not, missus Hudson. And please keep this to yourself, Hi, Si,
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  Speaker 3: when a corpse is deposited on my own carpet, there's
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  Speaker 3: a certain point of honor and being able to present
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  Speaker 3: the police with a complete explanation when I do call
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  Speaker 3: them in. That'll be all, missus Hudson.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what a terrible thing, Holmes, this is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Why leave a corpse here? Why on clothes?
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  Speaker 3: The obvious reason to remove clothing would be to make
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  Speaker 3: identification difficult.
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  Speaker 4: And how did the murderer get the clothes out of here?
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  Speaker 4: Missus Hudson said that he wasn't carrying anything.
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  Speaker 3: We have many other questions to answer, Chap the knife
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  Speaker 3: wound in the heart gives us no clue, I'm afraid,
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  Speaker 3: but observe the singular collection of objects that are lying
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  Speaker 3: beside the body.
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  Speaker 2: Look at them, rail, a ticket, finally looking.
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  Speaker 4: Compass and an apple that has been bitten into the
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  Speaker 4: corps are protruding teeth. I bet you that he didn't
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  Speaker 4: make the bite in this apple, Holmes, these must be
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  Speaker 4: the murderer's tooth months if you're correct, Watson, our murderers
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  Speaker 4: an extraordinary man. Indeed, while you say that, because if
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  Speaker 4: you look closely, you'll notice the interesting fact that this
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  Speaker 4: bite was made by two sets of upper teeth.
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  Speaker 2: You're the one.
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  Speaker 5: No mistake, Professor Moriarty, two sets upper teeth, that.
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  Speaker 3: Mister best dudg Yes, Carter, I must confess it was
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  Speaker 3: neat simple. Of course, you start the bite with your
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  Speaker 3: upper teeth, reverse the apple and conclude the bite. Yes, simple,
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  Speaker 3: But I trust also somewhat disconcerting for the great Shellock. Holmes,
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  Speaker 3: our past and colors have given me an insight into
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  Speaker 3: his very unusual mind.
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  Speaker 5: The light they watched his place when he walked in
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  Speaker 5: there proposive.
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  Speaker 3: So would I am. But the next twenty four hours
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  Speaker 3: will give me little leisure. I fear I must range
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  Speaker 3: for a certain matter concerning a change of ownership in
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  Speaker 3: the Star of Kasoul. This should be a fascinating game.
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  Speaker 3: But the old compassed in the right white ticket cutter,
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  Speaker 3: with your somewhat limited cranial development, it must be hard
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  Speaker 3: for you to absorb the settler points in such a plan,
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  Speaker 3: but surely its basic purpose is obvious. Shellock Holmes is
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  Speaker 3: about to be engaged by the Maharaja to guard the jewel.
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  Speaker 3: I had to divert his attention, so I perpetrated an
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  Speaker 3: intriguing murder on his own doorstep and surrounded the corpse
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  Speaker 3: with meaningless and completely unrelated objects, which I knew would
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  Speaker 3: torment his curiosity and keep him off my trail.
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  Speaker 5: And that corpse would take some explaining to the police two, Professor.
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  Speaker 3: Nares, That's why I placed it there. It puts him
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  Speaker 3: in a acutely embarrassing position. He has to try and
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  Speaker 3: solve the case or become the laughing stock of London.
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  Speaker 5: It's one of your neatest jobs, Professor Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I won't say that can't, but I'm quite sure that
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  Speaker 3: I've posed a problem that Sherlock Holmes will be totally
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  Speaker 3: unable to resist. I can't resist this problem, Watson. No
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  Speaker 3: fee on earth could make me bother with a sati
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  Speaker 3: from near diamond when such a puzzle presents itself.
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  Speaker 2: On my So you talk rather though you're settling down
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  Speaker 2: to a game of chess.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to solve these problem homes or else it's
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  Speaker 4: going to put you in a redicuous.
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  Speaker 2: Position with Scotland yard. And just think if it gotten
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  Speaker 2: to the papers.
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  Speaker 3: I shall reserve my imagination for the problem posed. The
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  Speaker 3: question of the apple is of course obvious.
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  Speaker 4: That's all you have to do is to find a
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  Speaker 4: man with two sets of false upper teeth in a simple.
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  Speaker 3: Quite The only way such an imput could be left
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  Speaker 3: is to take a half bite with the upper teeth,
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  Speaker 3: reverse the apple, and repeat the procedure. The only question
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  Speaker 3: here is whine dodge in such a bizarre performance.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, whatever the reason, those are the murderer's tooth marks.
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  Speaker 3: Unquestionably, you notice the eating portion of the apple is
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  Speaker 3: only just commenced to turn brown. The bite was undoubtedly
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  Speaker 3: taken in this room. But to identify teeth marks as
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  Speaker 3: a monumental problem it might prove insoluble. Let's turn our
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  Speaker 3: attention to the compass for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen one like it.
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  Speaker 4: There are no numerals on it, no points of it
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  Speaker 4: comes indicated anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of funny little squiggles.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, Watson, surely you recall this singular affair. The
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  Speaker 3: Coptic patriarch.
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  Speaker 2: You overrate my memory, Homes and in case I don't even.
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  Speaker 3: Know what a cop is, My dear Watson, sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: astound me, and it seems.
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  Speaker 2: To be a fair little to a sturn. I repeat,
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  Speaker 2: what is the cop?
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  Speaker 3: The cops are the principal Christian race, descended from ancient
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  Speaker 3: Egyptian stock. What you refer to as squiggles on this compass,
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  Speaker 3: in reality, are letters of the Coptic alphabet.
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  Speaker 2: So that makes it more confusing than ever.
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  Speaker 4: An apple bittn into by an eccentric, and now a
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  Speaker 4: compass was ancient Egyptian electric on it.
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  Speaker 2: I just can't see any relation between.
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  Speaker 3: The two, and yet we know there must be. That's
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  Speaker 3: what makes the problem so fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what does the compass tell your homes?
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  Speaker 3: Two things? The Coptic lettering on the dialisms cribed by hand.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously it was constructed for a cop who could speak
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  Speaker 3: no European languages.
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  Speaker 4: The corpse was definitely not of Egyptian origin. I'll wage
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  Speaker 4: you that he was born.
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  Speaker 2: Not too far away from the sound of Vogel.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, Watson, and so the problem becomes more confusing.
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  Speaker 3: Now let us examine another piece of this fascinating puzzle.
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  Speaker 3: The railway ticket.
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  Speaker 4: Unused to turn half of a first class ticket from
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  Speaker 4: the village.
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  Speaker 2: Of Chipping Sodbury to London.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and the date stamped on the back is November
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  Speaker 3: sixth today, Yes, Watson Today. Chipping Sodbury is a tiny village.
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  Speaker 3: I imagine that the number of passengers that traveled from
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  Speaker 3: there to London this morning could be counted on one hand.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to Chipping sodbreath.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it shouldn't be too hard to find out who
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  Speaker 3: purchased this ticket. And while I'm doing that, I want
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  Speaker 3: you to stand guard here ooo the colt. Yes, Watson,
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: and I suggest that you keep your revolver head. I
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  Speaker 3: name that after what has happened in one short morning
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  Speaker 3: in Baker Street, we shall be prepared for any infatuality
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see just what eventualities do develop. But first, if
• 11:21
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  Speaker 1: Well, Doctor Watson, it seems to me that Professor Moriarty
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  Speaker 1: did quite a job in sending you in Sherlock Holmes
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  Speaker 1: off on a false trail.
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  Speaker 4: He did, mister Bell for a while, as the fairiest
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  Speaker 4: plan succeeded but to take up the story where I
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  Speaker 4: left off. While I stood guard in Baker Street over
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  Speaker 4: the mysterious corpse, Holmes cop the next trains the tiny
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  Speaker 4: village of Chipping Sodbury. Hetermined that after talk with the
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  Speaker 4: vegetation master, he had no trouble in tracing the purchaser
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  Speaker 4: of the first class I.
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  Speaker 2: Have a ticket that we'd found beside the body.
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  Speaker 4: It had been bought by dignified an elderly clergyman by
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  Speaker 4: the name of Russell, and Holmes lost no time in
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  Speaker 4: calling on it.
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  Speaker 3: The station master told me, sir, that you were the
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  Speaker 3: only person to purchase a return first class ticket to
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  Speaker 3: London this morning. Yes, mister Holmes, I had occasion to
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: make one of my rare excursions to London this morning.
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  Speaker 2: But though it was an unfortunate experience.
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  Speaker 3: For me, I can't think my humble visit to the
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  Speaker 3: city could be a matter of any possible interest to you.
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  Speaker 3: I am very interested in what happened to the return
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  Speaker 3: half of your railway ticket, sir. Very odd you should
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  Speaker 3: venture that regrettable business. Most regrettable. It was stolen from
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  Speaker 3: me by a pickpocket, together with my watch and chain.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't notice it until I had occasion to look at
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  Speaker 3: the time, when I was lunching with the Bishop of
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  Speaker 3: Saint Luke's. You have no idea when or where the
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  Speaker 3: theft took place. Air I walked from the station, the
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  Speaker 3: crowds were quite dense, and I do recall being.
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  Speaker 2: Rather heavily on one occasion.
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  Speaker 3: You reported your loss to the police, I suppose, naturally.
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  Speaker 5: But I have little hope that they'll catch the criminal.
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  Speaker 3: Most regretable business cost the a watch, the price of
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  Speaker 3: another ticket, an expensive lesson in the frailty of human nature.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: You are careful coup of tea, mister who.
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  Speaker 3: No, thank you. I'm afraid I haven't time. I must
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  Speaker 3: return to London on the next train. Urgent and unfinished
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: business awaits me there.
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  Speaker 5: We followed Sherlock host a pendident station. Professor Briart is excellent.
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  Speaker 3: He caught the train for Chipping Sudbury. No doubt, can't
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  Speaker 3: yes fat on.
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  Speaker 5: A good devil doing, even if he does find the
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  Speaker 5: old tlasurement.
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  Speaker 3: We pinched the stuff from him, but it consumed valuable time,
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: time during which I can complete our plans regarding the
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  Speaker 3: Star of Cursule for midnight tonight. I think I can
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  Speaker 3: safely say that the jewel will be in our hands.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: How very fortunate that shell luck Holmes has such a
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: devouring curiosity. Any luck home a waste of valuable time, Watson,
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  Speaker 3: I found the purchase of the ticket all right. The
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: return half, together with his watch, had been stolen by
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: a pickpocket a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So that means we start all over again.
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  Speaker 3: No, Watson, at least one clue has been eliminated. Let
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: us analyze the remaining ones more thoroughly. Now, the problem
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: with the coptic compass would next engage our attention. A
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: call on the Egyptian embassy might prove illuminator.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Holmes. While you were away, I.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Had a brainway congratulations was connected with the missing clothes
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  Speaker 4: from the corpse. Well, I asked myself, where would be
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  Speaker 4: the obvious place to hide clothes?
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  Speaker 2: Why in the in the clothes close? Of of course,
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  Speaker 2: So I searched postar wardrobes absolutely thoroughly.
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  Speaker 3: Won'd there interesting, Watson? Of course I'd already done the
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: same thing. The problem of the missing clothes is still
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  Speaker 3: no scalf. Yes, why didn't I think of it before?
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Or is it home a special wardrobe that I keep
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  Speaker 3: for my disguises in the dressing room. Come on, Watson,
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  Speaker 3: I kill yours. I'd never follow that perfect place for
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: hiding the dead man's clothes. I see if there have
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: been any recent additions to this wraggaldy collection of mine
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: costs outfit has.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: A clergyman's suit. You've always made a surprisingly convincing clergyman home.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: And here's the unfailing FastPort to many a serpent's back door,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: the stained and roughened wisteds of the English plumber. Yes,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: these patched and frayed ghosts could tell many a.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Tale of Hello.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Look here, Watson, playing blue suit in rather good condition.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Quite and it doesn't belong in my collection. I think
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: we've solved the mystery of the vanishing clothes.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Labels have been ripped out of the coat.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Yes, and the pocket's emptied, all possible identification removed. We're
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: getting warm, Watson, We're getting very warm. Wait a minute,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: what is it? Give me a knife. There's something in
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: the lining of this coat. Feels like paper. Perhaps the
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: murderer didn't remove all identification after all.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Here you are.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: These scissors will do the trick.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Spend it there we are, piece of paper sown to
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: the padding the coat is. Let's see what it tells us.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Humphrey Peedder, one hundred and eighteen, Montacupe Crescent, Knight's Bridge.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: That's the private detector you were talking about earlier on today.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Do you suppose that Petter's the cops.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: At this stage? Watson, I shall suppose nothing. We'll go
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: to Montacuple Crescent and find out for ourselves.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Mister Petder. I can't say how glad I am that
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: we found you alive and well.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: From what you gentlemen have told in after life, You've
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: glad myself to be here. Is it your custom to
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: have an extra identification label sewn into all your clothes,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: mister Pedro, Yes, mister Holmes, a detective never knows what
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: may happen to him. I've always felt such identification might
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: be a vailable, a very sound precaution, thank you, sir.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: And you will say that a suit of your clothes
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: was stolen from your wardrobe last night? Yes, And I
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: can't an earth a clue embarrassing situation for a detective,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: mister Holmes, though I'm sure in your position you've never
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: had anything like that happened to you. I don't, mister, Pedro,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: if you know just how embarrassing a detective's life may become.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Indeed, take our present situation for its.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Quite often, mister Pedro, dead Major Stanley call on you today,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: y I suggested that you would be eminently suited to
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: the task of guarding the Mirajer's diamond. Yes, mister Holmes,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I'm going over to the Savoy tonight to talk to Maharaja.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Much obliged to you for giving me the recommendation, particularly since.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I've never had the privilege of meeting you.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I'd heard that it flattering reports of your ability. I'm
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: very glad, mister Holmes. Your recommendation means a lot to.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: All homes we've drawn another blank.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, Watson, I fear we must return to Baker Street
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: and see if an ancient compass can point the way
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: to the solution. Where DearS it the Egyptian embassy in
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Grosvenor Square. Caddin, watch your jump in, Watson.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I feel a blasted food trotting around in London with
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: a coptic campus under my arm.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I hope this leads is somewhere.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: If the excursion proves fruitless, Watson, I'm afraid of want
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: to compel to get in touch with Scotland Yard. A
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: few hours delay in reporting a murder can be explained,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: but beyond that we may find ourselves in trouble.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I think you should apport it before this.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: By the way, Holmes, did you notice the Burman pair
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: that go up to Feder's house just as we left?
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: I'm afraid once I was sufficiently preoccupied to yield to
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: you in observation, My dear Watson.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not certain, but I thought that it was Major
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Stanley who stepped out of it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Major Stanley. And yet mister Pedder said that, But the course,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: what an injured I didn't kebby kebby, Yes, a turn
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: around and drive us to the Savoy Hotel as fast
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: as you can, right you order it?
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: But why the survivors tail home?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Surely the situation is pristical clear now.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Watches about as clear as porridge to me.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: The whole thing's a plot to fool me. Tell me, Watson,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: what is suggested to you by the combination of an
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: unclosed corpse, a stolen suit and a railroad ticket.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Well, if I knew the answer, Homes, i'd given it
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: you this morning. Says that fills a lot of troubles.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: The answer wants in this organization a group of well
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: organized criminals who were able to perform these unrated naked tasks.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: And who's the only person in London who can arrange
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: for running the criminal gamut from murder the plane pick
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: party Moriarty, Professor Mariat. Of course, remember missus Hudson's description
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: of our visitor, tall tim and put high forage. And
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: if you add organization and Mariat to Major Stanley and
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Marajav Kasol and a portrait painter, the sum total should
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: be a parent.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: You mean that you solve the problem of the unclothed cop.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I mean I know precisely how Professor Moriarty intends to
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: steal the Star of Casoole. Trister Caddy, there's not a
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: moment to lose, mister Holmes. Is an astonishing story you've
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: told me. At least it explains my apparent rudeness this morning.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Major stand to appreciate the embarrassing position in which my
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: friend was pleased.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, but of course you understand that mister Petterer
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: here is now in charge of guarding the Star of
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Cassole the crit Major, and you're in very excellent hands
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: I'm sure, thank you, mister Holmes, but your own problem
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: still fascinates me. The unclothed corpse, the compass, and the average.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: As a humble exponent of your profession, I'm curious to
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: see how you arrived at your conclusion. I reached them
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: only just in time, mister Peter. If I hadn't, I
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: should at this moment be paying a fruitless visit to
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: the Egyptian Embassy. I'm still confused, homes and yet the
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: answer is simple. What was outstanding about the crime committed
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: at Baker Street? What was its individual peculiarity.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Of mister surrounded it?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I prefer to use the word mystification. The crime fascinated me.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: It stimulated me, as Professor Moriarty hoped it would, until
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I realized that it was intended to do precisely, that
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: the whole plan was a decroy designed to prevent me
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: from accepting your mission. Major standing. How could I accept
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: such a commonplace job as guarding a jewel while such
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: a fascinating problem was presented in my own living room in.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: The airport and the compersational.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Clothes that led nowhere. But we're sufficiently challenging for the
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: criminal to know I wouldn't be able to resist tracking
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: them down. An amazing plot in the railway tickets and
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: the suit of clothes that was thrown from me were
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: all meant to focus your attention elsewhere and away from
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: the diamond exactly, mister Petter were Mister Holmes, I assure
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: you we're very grateful for the warning. Yes, we shall
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: be more than ever on our guard now we know
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: where the dangers coming from. Professor Morialty, I'm taking the
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: style of course. You moved back to the Bank of
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: England in a few minutes.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I assure you that I shall guard.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: It extremely well. I think, mister Pedder, that if you
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: don't mind, I'll take charge of the stone.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: But mister Holmes, I've already been commissioned for the work.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: That's true, mister Holmes, since you refused the job, I
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: had to make other arrangements. Mister Pettip was your own
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: suggestion for the assignment. Nonetheless, Major, I think the Marager
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: will sleep much more comfortably if I take charge of
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: the stones. I don't think it's the ethical after all,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: you did refuse to take on the case you This
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: is hardly a time for ethics, Watson, where is the
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: star Castle, Major Stanley. I just handed it over to
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: mister Pett before you arrived. Then supposing you'll give it
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: to me, mister Pedder by the way, I don't have
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: the pleasure of knowing your royal name. But Holmes, he's
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Humphrey Peeder Ohner Watson. The unclothed corpse of Humphrey Petter
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: still lies in Baker Street. This is one of Professor
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Moriartt's most trusted henchmen.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: You're too smart for your uncle. Look out, he's got
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: a revolver. Let us slow enjoying it, per beautiful appercut. Holmes.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Send for the police, please, mayor stand lin. We have
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: a prize catch for them here. Yes, mister Holmes, I
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: can't tell you how fretful I am. I'll take the
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: liberty of removing the diamond from the pocket of our
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: recumbent friend. There we are, the old Watson, the staff cassoule.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Not a magnificent, sir, magnificent, and yet one man was
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: murdered for it. I only wish another might hang the
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: cause of it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: But Mariarkis still goes free, and he killed Peder.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: We'll catch him, Watson, We'll catch him. He is getting clumsy.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: If he'd noticed the credentials in Pedder's clothes, he would
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: have been in possession of this bauble before the night
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: is out.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Cere what the evidence of this man here may help
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: us to trap him, I hope, Sir Watson.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: But Mariarti inspires his henchmen with such loyalty that I
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: doubt if you'll give us much help. The jewel is safe,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: our own peculiar problem is solved, and we've captured a
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: prize villain. Next time we shall capture the master himself.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Four