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Sherlock Holmes-The Devils Foot · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I suppose I am.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the adventure I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: relate was one of the most gruesome experiences I ever
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  Speaker 2: hoped to encounter.
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  Speaker 1: I never think of it as I can help.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, perhaps I'd better not tell it after all.
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  Speaker 1: It brings up memories that I.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now come, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Watson, you're not going back on us now. The Cornish Horror,
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  Speaker 1: or The Adventure of the Devil's Foot. That was the name,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the Devil's Foot. The very words still make my
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  Speaker 2: spine tingle with horror.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, I'll get on with it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It was the spring of the year 1897. Holmes' iron
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  Speaker 2: constitution had shown some signs of giving way due to
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  Speaker 2: a particularly arduous and nerve-wracking winter. In March of that year, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Moore-Ager of Harley Street gave positive injunctions that Holmes get
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  Speaker 2: out into the country with protracted rest. Holmes emerged first,
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  Speaker 2: but I finally persuaded him. Well, the third week in
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  Speaker 2: March found us settled in a small cottage near Pardew Bay,
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  Speaker 2: the further extremity of the Cornish Peninsula.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that rather a bleak country for a convalescent, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Watson? Bleak is putting it mildly. I've never known such
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  Speaker 2: grim surroundings. Must seem Duke Holmes' admirability.
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  Speaker 1: Just his natural perverseness, I suppose.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I dare say, I dare say. Our little whitewashed house.
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  Speaker 1: Stood on a grassy headland.
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  Speaker 3: From its window, we looked down upon.
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  Speaker 2: The whole sinister semicircle of Mount Bay, that old death
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  Speaker 2: trap with its fringe of black cliffs and stirred, swept reefs.
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  Speaker 2: On the land side, our view was as somber as
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  Speaker 2: on the sea, a country of rolling.
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  Speaker 1: Moors, lonely and gun-colored.
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  Speaker 2: In every direction, there were traces of some vanished race
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  Speaker 2: which had left its sole record, strange monuments of toads.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes spent most of his time uttering round about these
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  Speaker 2: weird ruins. Well, everything was going along peacefully until one
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  Speaker 2: morning our simple and healthy routine was violently interrupted and
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  Speaker 2: we were precipitated into the midst of a series of
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  Speaker 2: gruesome and nerve-shattering events.
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  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: Quite a surf this morning, eh, Watson? You can see
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  Speaker 3: the spray flung up against our windows, and we're a
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  Speaker 3: good hundred feet above sea level. I don't think I
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  Speaker 3: shall venture out today. Bad weather. The old boy is
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  Speaker 3: certainly lashing himself into a fine frenzy.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean, the old boy?
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  Speaker 3: The devil, Watson. Devil himself.
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  Speaker 2: What are you raving about?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't I tell you that the natives hereabouts refer to
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  Speaker 3: that seething death trap down there as the Devil's Cauldron?
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  Speaker 3: They think the old gentleman himself lives there. Really?
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  Speaker 2: How unsettling.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. A very interesting superstition. You know, Watson, that
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  Speaker 3: this locality is supposed to have been the last resort
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  Speaker 3: of devil worship in England. Many scientists believe that those
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  Speaker 3: huge prehistoric monuments of stone were part of a temple
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  Speaker 3: given over to the Prince of Darkness.
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  Speaker 5: Proportionate.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. As logical as most of the theories
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  Speaker 3: have endeavored to explain their existence... The superstition goes on
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  Speaker 3: to say that when the devil was finally driven from
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  Speaker 3: his temple, he took refuge in the bay down there. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: as they claim that on stormy nights you can hear
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  Speaker 3: his hoofbeats as he races up and down the rocks.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Holmes, what are you trying to do?
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  Speaker 1: Give me a case of nerves.
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  Speaker 3: No, what's this?
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  Speaker 4: What's this?
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  Speaker 3: Someone running up our path. There's folks flapping about like
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  Speaker 3: a giant bat.
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  Speaker 1: Why, it's... It's that Trigellius fellow.
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  Speaker 3: The one who forged with the bicker. Mortimer Trigellius, eh?
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  Speaker 3: I wonder what's happened.
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  Speaker 2: Face as white as cheese.
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  Speaker 4: Open the door, Watson. Open the door.
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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: When can I find you at home? The most terrible
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  Speaker 3: thing that's happened. I can scarcely believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Sit down, my dear fellow. Sit down.
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  Speaker 3: Sit down.
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  Speaker 1: There, that's better.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps you can tell us what's happened. Slowly, take your time.
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  Speaker 3: My family.
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  Speaker 1: My sister and my two brothers.
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  Speaker 3: It's too terrible. Why, just last night I was sitting
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  Speaker 3: at the house.
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  Speaker 1: It's called.
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  Speaker 3: All well and happy. With great cards. And now, without warning,
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  Speaker 3: I can encounter... Easy, easy. Perhaps you can manage to
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  Speaker 3: give us a few of the facts. I left them
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  Speaker 3: there last night. My sister and my two brothers, Owen
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  Speaker 3: and George. What time was that? We were talking at church,
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  Speaker 3: keeping over a pulpit, chiming to me, talking to me.
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  Speaker 3: I closed the door behind me. I had left them
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  Speaker 3: all in the card room, laughing in a good spirit.
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  Speaker 2: And? This morning, being an early riser, I was out taking.
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  Speaker 3: The horse before breakfast when Dr. Richard overtook me in
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  Speaker 3: his carriage. With the news that he'd been sent for
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  Speaker 3: on a most urgent call from Sudanese water, something terrible
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  Speaker 3: happened to my family.
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  Speaker 1: I jumped in beside him and he was set to horse.
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  Speaker 3: And what did you find in the Sudanese water?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes, it was terrible.
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  Speaker 2: It gasped me.
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  Speaker 3: My two brothers and my sister were in the card
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  Speaker 3: room just as I had left them.
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  Speaker 1: But what had changed? What had gasped me?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. Thank you very much. Doctor, it's me. It's
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  Speaker 3: the old comrade of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He fell faintly into a chair.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone else in the house besides your sister and brothers?
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  Speaker 1: Only Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Porter, the old housekeeper.
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  Speaker 2: He's dead.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing during the night. I presume it was she
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  Speaker 3: who found him this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. She always goes through the house in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's out before the family comes down.
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  Speaker 3: When she reached the card room, she found.
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  Speaker 4: She found them.
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  Speaker 3: The shock was too much for her. She had a
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  Speaker 3: nervous collapse.
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  Speaker 4: We had to put her to bed, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: Most exceptional case. Most exceptional.
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  Speaker 5: Just the people.
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  Speaker 3: At the time, no cases of strangers in or around
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  Speaker 3: the house. Nothing was stolen. Nothing was found.
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  Speaker 1: I think I believe you're the only one who.
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  Speaker 3: Can solve the case, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: You insisted I come to you.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be only too glad to handle the matter of course.
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  Speaker 3: But first I must ask you a few questions. Anything, Mr. Holmes. Anything.
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  Speaker 3: We begin with Mr. Guinness. Why do you live with
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  Speaker 3: a vicar separated from your family? Any coldness or misunderstanding?
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  Speaker 6: Well, as a matter of fact, we did have a
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  Speaker 6: slight argument a few years ago about some property at all.
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  Speaker 1: But that was all accepted long ago. We were on
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  Speaker 1: the brink of term. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Now let's begin. It's about like all anything, anything at all,
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  Speaker 3: that was out of the ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: There was one thing that occurred to me, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: As we sat at the card table, my back was
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  Speaker 1: to the window. George was facing me. Suddenly I saw
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  Speaker 1: him look hard over my shoulder out of the window.
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  Speaker 6: I turned quickly and just for a moment I thought
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  Speaker 6: I caught a glimpse of something moving.
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  Speaker 3: Man or animal? I don't quite know.
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  Speaker 1: My brother said he had the same feeling.
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  Speaker 3: You investigated?
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  Speaker 1: No, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes, we did not.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my mother.
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  Speaker 2: 1820, unimportant.
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  Speaker 1: Silly, in fact.
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  Speaker 3: You had no premonition of evil?
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  Speaker 2: No, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes. What the heaven we had.
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  Speaker 2: It's uncanny that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Something came into that room and that something killed my
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  Speaker 1: sister and dashed the light of reason from my brother's mind.
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  Speaker 1: Something devilish is what that should.
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  Speaker 3: Prove to be the case. I fear I shall be
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  Speaker 3: of very little assistance, Mr. Tregennis. Come, Watson, come. I
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  Speaker 3: think perhaps we must go down to Trederick's water at once.
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  Speaker 1: This is the house, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, whose carriage is this coming down the drive with
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  Speaker 3: the blinds down?
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  Speaker 1: There's someone in it.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: My brother.
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  Speaker 3: My poor brother.
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  Speaker 4: It's Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Richard's carriage.
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  Speaker 1: He's taken him to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: It's too awful. My poor brother.
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  Speaker 3: Easy, Figueres. Keep a stiff upper lip, man. We've got
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  Speaker 3: to find out who's responsible for this atrocity.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I... I suppose you're right.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do my best.
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  Speaker 3: Which are the windows of the card room? This one here.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, look out.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to keep walking.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, dear, dear, dear. How clumsy of me. Sorry for
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  Speaker 3: getting this. I'm afraid I've drenched your boots. No matter, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: No matter. Shall we go in?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. I've seen all I need out here. This way.
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  Speaker 3: Card room is over here. Do you notice anything, Watson? No,
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  Speaker 3: I can't say I do.
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  Speaker 1: This is the card room.
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  Speaker 3: As I see, the window's still open. I'll keep her
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  Speaker 3: left it that way, I suppose.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, she said it was locked on the inside when
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  Speaker 1: she came in.
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  Speaker 3: Quite so, quite so. Candles, quite gutted out. Yes, cards
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  Speaker 3: still on the table. They've not risen from their chairs,
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  Speaker 3: I take it. And you left about ten. Well, that's
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  Speaker 3: fifty hours dead, but sometimes before eleven. Hmm, fire burned out.
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  Speaker 3: A fire, fire. Had they always a fire in this
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  Speaker 3: small room on a spring evening?
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  Speaker 1: It was cold and damp last night, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: The fire was lit shortly after my arrival. Well, that
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  Speaker 3: seems to be about all. No disturbance at any time.
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  Speaker 1: Rain.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come along, Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: This room gave me the jump.
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  Speaker 2: There's something about the atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: As though death was still hovering in the air. I wonder.
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  Speaker 1: What are you going to do now, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes? I think I shall resume the course of tobacco
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  Speaker 3: poisoning that's watched me so justly condemned.
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  Speaker 1: Come, Watson, come.
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  Speaker 3: We shall be turned to our curry. If anything occurs
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  Speaker 3: to me, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: McGinnis, I shall communicate with you.
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  Speaker 4: The End.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it won't do, Watson. It won't do. All the
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  Speaker 3: facts are negative.
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  Speaker 2: I say, do you think Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Guinness' account of his actions last night was true?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, quite, Watson, quite. Remember the incident of the spilt
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  Speaker 3: watering can? I did that to steal an impression of
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  Speaker 3: his foot.
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  Speaker 1: I take it you succeeded.
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  Speaker 3: I did, but that printed example, I was able to
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  Speaker 3: trace his movements last night. The story is correct. He
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  Speaker 3: left the house about ten, went straight back to the
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  Speaker 3: bakery and didn't return, nor did anyone else enter or
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  Speaker 3: leave the house.
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  Speaker 2: Then it must have been.
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  Speaker 1: The man or the animal that they thought.
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  Speaker 2: They saw in the bushes. He must have returned and
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  Speaker 2: frightened them to death.
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  Speaker 3: There's no such man or animal, Watson. Last night was
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  Speaker 3: a dark night, and anyone who had the wish to
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  Speaker 3: frighten these people would have been compelled to put his
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  Speaker 3: face against the glass before he could be seen.
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 3: There's a three-foot flower border outside the cardinal window. There
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  Speaker 3: are absolutely no footprints in that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but isn't that mean?
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  Speaker 3: It means that the again a sister and her two
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  Speaker 3: brothers were alone when death struck the sister down and
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  Speaker 3: drove the brothers insane.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Why, that is supernatural.
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  Speaker 3: I hope not, Watson. I hope not.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Holmes. There comes another beast at our house.
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  Speaker 3: A stranger, this time. This is very difficult, Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: My word, look at that huge head with its big
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  Speaker 1: eyes and a grizzled ear.
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  Speaker 3: And that, my dear Watson, is Linola and the famous Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Leon Sturndale.
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  Speaker 1: Sturndale? What, the lion hunter? No, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing, Mr. Sturndale?
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  Speaker 3: I've heard he owns a little cottage about five miles
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  Speaker 3: down the coast. He comes to live there after today himself,
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  Speaker 3: and he isn't often.
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  Speaker 4: One of the next to leave.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind what's going on. I'll do the honors for Sturndale. Now,
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  Speaker 3: come in, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Sturndale.
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  Speaker 2: Come in.
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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes, I presume?
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  Speaker 3: That's right. This is my friend, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Watson. How do you do?
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: How do you do? Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes, I've come to you about the Tregennis affair. Why, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: The police are utterly at a loss, but you, you
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  Speaker 1: have a keener brain.
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  Speaker 3: Pardon me, Dr. Stander, but why are you so concerned
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  Speaker 3: in this affair?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you see, as a matter of.
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  Speaker 6: Fact, during my many residences in this locality, I've come
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  Speaker 6: to know the family of Tregennis very well.
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  Speaker 3: Their horrible fate has been a great shock to me, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: That's a sign. As a matter of fact, I.
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  Speaker 1: Was on my way to Africa. I'd gotten as far
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  Speaker 1: as Plymouth when the news reached me this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I came straight back to help in the inquiry. Does
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  Speaker 3: that make you lose your ship? One sail for Africa
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  Speaker 3: this afternoon, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: I can take the next.
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  Speaker 3: When did you last see the Tregennis family, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Stendhal? I saw Brenda....
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  Speaker 2: Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Tregennis.
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  Speaker 6: Three days ago.
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  Speaker 1: Just as I was leaving for Plymouth.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they've been in Plymouth the last three days.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: How did you get the news so quickly? Surely the
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  Speaker 3: premise paper didn't carry an account of the matter in
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  Speaker 3: this morning's edition?
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  Speaker 1: I received a telegram. Telegram?
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  Speaker 3: May I ask from whom?
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  Speaker 1: You're very inquisitive, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes. That is my business, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Stendhal.
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  Speaker 3: Very well. The telegram was sent by the vicar, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Roundcliffe.
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  Speaker 3: I see. Now, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes, have you reached any conclusions?
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  Speaker 3: Conclusions? I'll have to be a trifle more to ask.
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  Speaker 3: But I have every hope of bringing this matter to
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  Speaker 3: a satisfactory termination. Satisfactory to me, that is.
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  Speaker 6: Would you mind telling me of your suspicions point.
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  Speaker 1: In any particular direction?
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel this is the moment to answer that question, Dr. Stendhal.
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  Speaker 3: And I see that I've been wasting my time.
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  Speaker 1: I need not prolong this visit.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Jacobin.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, smell.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, that Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Stendhal at home.
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  Speaker 3: He told us more than he realized, Watson. But he
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  Speaker 3: knows even more.
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  Speaker 1: How could he?
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  Speaker 2: See if he was in Plymouth.
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  Speaker 3: But was he, Watson? Was he? That statement is something
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  Speaker 3: for us to look into.
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  Speaker 4: Stay home.
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  Speaker 2: Must you go on smoking that foul pipe? Why not? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: the atmosphere is as thick as you can hardly see
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  Speaker 2: across the room as it is.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I feel depressed.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil thing is talking abroad in our neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: Light the lamp, Watson. It's a gathering twilight that makes
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  Speaker 3: you gloomy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, rubbish.
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  Speaker 4: Look here, Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: What about that Dr. Sterndale? Do you think he did it? No, Watson.
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  Speaker 3: I've been in communication with the Plymouth Hotel. The story's correct.
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  Speaker 3: He had been there for the past three days. We
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  Speaker 3: did receive a telegram from the baker this morning.
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  Speaker 2: And he couldn't possibly have had anything to do with Mr.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Guinness' tragedy last night. Oh, now what?
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  Speaker 4: Open the door, Watson. Open the door.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my dear Vicar, come in, come in, come in.
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  Speaker 3: Dear me, dear me, you look as though you've seen
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  Speaker 3: a ghost. It's tracked him down, the curse of the family.
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  Speaker 3: He's dead, dead with that same look of terror on
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  Speaker 3: his face. Who's dead? Mortimer Mr. Guinness.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 3: In his study at the vicarage. My servant found him there,
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  Speaker 3: sitting beside his table. His face turned towards the window.
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  Speaker 2: And distorted with that tame convulsion of fear that marked
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  Speaker 2: the features of his sister.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my poor parish! Satan himself is loose among us!
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: We're devil-ridden, Mr.
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: Holmes!
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: Devil-ridden! This was his study, Mr.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Holmes.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Depressing atmosphere.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: It was worse.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I had the servant open the window.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: He's quite ill from the shock.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, what a terrible look on Turgene's face.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: The whole body is contorted and convulsed in the very.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Paroxysm of fear.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: You've never seen death in this form before, Watson?
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Never.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: You know of no poison.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: That would have this effect?
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Good heavens, no. No.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: The lamp is lit.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: It's been burning over an hour. Notice the oil consumed.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: And yet, darkness only just set in. Did anyone call
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: at the vicarage this afternoon?
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: No, I was out myself, but my servant says he
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: let no one in. Then, uh, Cadenas was alone.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: I wonder. The window was shut at the time of
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: his death, but the lamp was lit.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Curious. The window.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Let me see, let me see. The window, the window. Yes, yes,
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: white dove. I think I found something.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: What's that you're seeing in your pocket, Holmes?
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: The lamp, the lamp. Of course, the lamp. Here, notice
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: this powder which has been spilled on the base of
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: the lamp. Red-brown powder. Give me an envelope, Watson. Give
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: me an envelope. I must have suspected the powder. Why
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: are you so excited about the powder, Holmes? Because it
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: contains the solution of our mystery, Watson. It is the
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: thought and the solution.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: The End.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: I say, Holmes, you haven't touched your supper.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, what a foul night. The wind's riding again. Oh,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: the pace is getting on my nerves. Be quiet, Watson.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Be quiet. Be quiet. I don't want to be quiet.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: I want to talk. I'm tired of sitting here listening
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: to that wind and roar that's surfed down below.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: So why did you send.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Me for Dr.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: Sterling?
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Because he is an authority on obscured African poison.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Poisoned? Why are you interested in poison?
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Watson, there are two striking points in common in both
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: cases under observation.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: In both cases, the atmosphere of the room had a
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: curious effect on the person who first entered it. The
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: housekeeper and the vicar's servants both were overcome, as was
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: the doctor who had called in.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: That's right. I hadn't thought of that. The room was
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: still stuffy when he entered.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: In each case, there was combustion going on in the room.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: The fire in the first place, the lamp in the second.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: And the lamp was not necessary. It was still daylight when.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: It was lit. Yes, but don't you see.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Something was burned in each case, which produced an atmosphere
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: causing strange toxic effects. An unknown poison.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Good heavens.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I believe we have a sample of that poison in
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: the brown powder spilled on the base of the lamp.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: But how are you going to prove it?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I'm going to burn some of that powder. And notice
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: its effect. Just a small pinch of the powder. Perhaps
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: you'd better leave the room, Watson.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Leave you alone in here?
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: That's enough. I warn you, it's risky.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. Well, come on. Let's get on with it.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Very well.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Take your chair opposite mine. Then we can watch each
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: other for development.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Right. Come along, come along. I'm ready. Good.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I put a pinch of the powder into our lamp.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: What kind of scent is this?
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Musky.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Purple.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Noxious.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, listen to the wind.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Oh. I... I'm afraid. I don't know why, but.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: It isn't me. I.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I can feel her hair rising. Holmes, you see it?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: That south bank. Whirling, black and sinister. Oh, it's monstrous.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: It's concealing something. Something too, too much. Holmes, it's coming nearer.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: And nearer. Come with me.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Stop and give it to me.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Here, let's... Holmes! Holmes! Holmes!
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I know what it is. I can see it. Oh,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I can't stand it.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: It's too terrible. Don't get in. Don't breathe.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I'll smash the window.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Now breathe it, Watson.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Breathe it in.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Good clean air. Oh, what a narrow escape. I had
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: no idea it was so powerful.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I know it's a poison effective. The nerve centers of
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: the imagination. The strain is enough to kill a man
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: who's right and crazy.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Someone's knocking the door.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: The air seems to be cleaned out. Good thing there
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: was a high wind.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I'll close the shutters and draw the curtain.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Ryan, may I open the door? Oh, yes.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Come on. I need to close it. Good evening, Mr.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Holmes.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: You sent for me?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Come in, Dr.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Sterndale.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: You look rather pale, both of you.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. We've just been conducting a little experiment with
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the poison that killed Tregennis.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: You?
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, Dr. Sterndale. Perhaps you'd like to tell us why
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: you killed Mortimer Tregennis. I? You can't prove it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: No?
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you how you did it. You
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: came over to the big ridge late this afternoon... You
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: didn't want anyone to know, Guinness. He was to let
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: you in himself. But how could you attract his attention?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: You brought some pebbles with you, pink pebbles from the
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: heat beside your house. You threw these at the study window.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: I found some of these pebbles on the windowsill. So
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Guinness came downstairs, let you in himself. You had a
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: talk with him. Made him light his lamp. Placed a
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: pinch of the poison powder in the flame and left.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: You're right, Mr.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Holmes.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I did kill Mortimer Tregennis. Well, I'm not guilty of
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the other atrocity.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I swear I'm not. I believe you, Dr. Grendel.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But you know who did do it. Perhaps you'd better
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: tell us about it.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Very well. It was Mortimer Tregennis, huh?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: He admitted it before I.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: before he died.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Holmes, I have been in love.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: With Brenda Tregennis for many years.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: We were to have been married when my work in
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Africa was finished.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: I've lived so long in places where man is a
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: law unto himself, I took my own revenge.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: He killed Brenda.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: In cold blood, he killed her.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: I have nothing more to live for.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: I have a knife to win again. But how did
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: one of us again get hold of the poison? It
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: was something unusual, almost unknown.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: It was powdered, that's the ability. That's the ability.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: A root, sound and natural. It's shaped like a foot,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: half human, half toad-like. I have the only specimen in England.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: And you showed it to Tregennis?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: He was over the other afternoon when I was packing.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: He was interested in my African curiosity, particularly this powder.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I thought no more of the matter until I received
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: the vicar's telegram.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: And learned how they had died. I returned at once.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: And looking into the tragedy, I was convinced Mortimer Tregennis
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: was the murderer and that he had done it to
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: gain control of the family fortune.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Now, there was a crime, but what was to be
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: his punishment? What jury would believe such a fantastic story? Now,
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: I decided to take the law into my own hands.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Perhaps if you have ever loved anyone, you will know
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: how I felt.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Dr.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Stendhal, what were your plans when you set out for Venice?
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I had intended to bury myself in Central Africa. My
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: work is only half finished.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Go and finish the other half, Dr.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Stendhal.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: I don't feel called upon to present.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: You.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: What a gruesome story, Dr. Watson.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Yes. Next to the famous sound of the basket of adventure,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: that was the most gruesome experience we ever had.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: There's just one thing I'd like to know. What did
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you think you saw in that cloud of smoke?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Mr. Durr, you'll have to believe me when I tell
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: you that it was too horrible to mention. Just think
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: of it enough to make my blood turn to water.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I don't wonder. Well, let's not think about it anymore.
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