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  Speaker 1: They you are, mister Bartel, it ain't mean doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, don't get at you. You look much
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  Speaker 2: too comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: Take off your overcoat and come and join me. Well.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed your story of a scandal in Bohemia last week, doctor,
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  Speaker 2: and tonight you promised.
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  Speaker 3: Us a sequel. Yes, that's right, mister Boutell. A sequel
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: took place over twenty years afterwards, in nineteen hundred and nine,
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: to be exact, Sherlock Holmes was living on his Sussex
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  Speaker 3: b farm. It was only in June I remember that
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  Speaker 3: I received a telegram from the great Man asking me
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  Speaker 3: to come and spend a long weekend with him.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure you needed no urging to accept the invitation.
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  Speaker 3: Non, mister Bartel, none at all. I haven't seen Holmes
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  Speaker 3: for some time, and this fact, combined with my rather
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  Speaker 3: indifferent health, found me on the Eastbourne train a few
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  Speaker 3: hours after receiving the telegram. A dog cart was at
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  Speaker 3: the station to meet me, and after a brisk drive
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  Speaker 3: across the Downs, I found myself once more with my
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  Speaker 3: good friend.
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  Speaker 1: He looked somewhat older than when I'd last.
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  Speaker 3: Seen him, but as he spoke to me, I realized
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  Speaker 3: from the keenness of his voice and the sparkle in
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  Speaker 3: his eye that Sherlock Holmes would never really be old.
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  Speaker 3: After a while, our conversation lapsed into the comfortable silence
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  Speaker 3: that because he could chap on me, exist only between friends.
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  Speaker 3: And then, as the sun was setting, Holmes picked up
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  Speaker 3: his beloved violin and began to play some haunting melody.
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  Speaker 3: As he lay back, eyes half closed, his long, thin
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  Speaker 3: fingers caressing the instrument, a wave of nostelia swept over me.
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  Speaker 3: I thought of the many years that we had spent
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  Speaker 3: together and the exciting adventures that we had shared during
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  Speaker 3: the old days in Baker Street. Beautiful, quite beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Watson. You look uncommonly wistfully at chair. You're
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  Speaker 1: thinking of the old days.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Holmes, I was, so was I Well.
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  Speaker 1: Those were exciting times. But it's comforting to think that
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  Speaker 1: now we will not be disturbed by a dangling doorbell
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  Speaker 1: followed by some poor devil in trouble. Nowadays, my greatest
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  Speaker 1: excitements are connected with the segregation of the Queen Bee
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  Speaker 1: and the nighttime proclivities of Charles Augustus, my Tomcat.
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  Speaker 3: I still find it hard to think of you in retirement, Homes.
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  Speaker 3: Do you ever consider returning to active practice or.
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  Speaker 1: I consider it occasionally, then reject the idea, and we
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  Speaker 1: should work only up to the peak of visibility.
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  Speaker 3: I'm plast mine nonsense, Homes, just alert as over.
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  Speaker 1: You were mentally perhaps but not physically.
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  Speaker 3: Would we do consider handling a small problem in in England.
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  Speaker 1: With its personal problem that affects you, My dear Chap,
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  Speaker 1: you know are do anything I can.
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  Speaker 3: It's not exactly my problem, Homes, but it was a
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  Speaker 3: charming young girl on the train.
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  Speaker 1: We got into conversation, and you don't age in a
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  Speaker 1: real jab. You're just as susceptible as ever.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, Homes, let me finish. She said
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  Speaker 3: that you knew her mother quite well.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother Allen, Oh, yes, divas, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry to disturb you, mister Holmes. Your man said
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  Speaker 4: I might come in. My master, mister Lytton Stanley instructed
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  Speaker 4: me to deliver the snow.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: He also instructed me to wait for a reply.
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  Speaker 1: What confounded impudence? Said Master that there's no answer to
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  Speaker 1: this letter.
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  Speaker 3: But he told me I must get a reply.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't, mister Litton Stanley, that I will instruct
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  Speaker 1: my solicitor to reply to his message in due course. Sir,
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  Speaker 1: that's all diverse. You may go pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Good, sir. What did the note say? Holmes?
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  Speaker 1: Read it for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Keep yourselfy bees where they belong. One of my guests
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  Speaker 3: is stung yesterday. If this happens again, I'll have the
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  Speaker 3: police run you out of his place. Lord, offensive letter.
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  Speaker 1: The man himself is even more offensive. Is a retard
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  Speaker 1: manufacturer who thinks that his immense wealth entitles him to
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  Speaker 1: domineer over the local residence. Oh but let not spoil
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  Speaker 1: a nice sunny afternoon by discussing him. Please continue with
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  Speaker 1: the story of the young lady that you met on
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  Speaker 1: the train.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, i'd like to poor little thing seems in dreadful trouble.
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  Speaker 3: I who she would help her?
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  Speaker 1: You say that she told you were her mother knew me. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: what's her name?
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  Speaker 3: Norton? I really Norton Norton.
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  Speaker 1: I don't seem to recall it. Oh, but of course
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  Speaker 1: when is the girl Watson?
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  Speaker 3: She's staying at the Red Lane in the village.
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  Speaker 1: Then ring her on the telephone and ask her to
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  Speaker 1: come over here as fast as she can.
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  Speaker 3: Of course I'll help her I'm relied at homes. But
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  Speaker 3: what made you change your mind so suddenly?
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  Speaker 1: Your memory is so short that you can't remember Irene Adler.
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  Speaker 1: Surely you haven't forgotten in the case you called a
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  Speaker 1: scandal in Bohemia, I was completely fool by juliuses Is.
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  Speaker 3: Of course you always referred to as the woman. But
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  Speaker 3: how does irenely not fit into the picture?
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  Speaker 1: Irene Adler married a barrister named Jeffrey. Tell this nothing
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  Speaker 1: to come at Westpotson. She is the daughter of the woman.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Holmes. I've heard so much about you from mother.
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  Speaker 5: She says you're the cleverest man in England.
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  Speaker 1: Your mother flattest man, my dear child, she herself was
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  Speaker 1: much more clever than I. In fact, yes, did she
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  Speaker 1: ever tell you about the circumstances under which we met,
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  Speaker 1: mister Holmes?
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  Speaker 5: Though she did tell me that you were a witness
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  Speaker 5: when she and my father were married.
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  Speaker 1: The very true, my dear, very true. Though the occasion
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  Speaker 1: was a little well, will we say unusual? Okare this, sir,
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  Speaker 1: Golden Sovereign? I wear on my watch chain as a
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  Speaker 1: mentor of that day. I also have a charming photograph
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  Speaker 1: of your mother.
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  Speaker 5: You must have known her quite well about telling mister
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  Speaker 5: Holmes about your troubles manner.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, reminiscences are charming that they can wait until we've
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  Speaker 1: dealt with your problems.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, I'm being blackmailed. Oh I'm sorry to hear
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  Speaker 5: it by whom by a neighbor of yours, mister Lytton Stanley.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know him?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, indeed I do.
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  Speaker 3: Matter of fact, mister Helms received the most offensive note
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  Speaker 3: from the gentleman less than an hour ago.
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  Speaker 1: What hold does mister Stanley have over you, my dear?
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  Speaker 5: He has some letters, some rather indiscreet letters of mine
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  Speaker 5: that I wrote to a friend of his last year.
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  Speaker 1: How did he obtain these letters, Miss Norton?
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  Speaker 5: He must have stolen them. I don't know how, But
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  Speaker 5: when I was staying in his house a few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 5: he told me that he had them and asked five
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  Speaker 5: thousand pounds for their return.
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  Speaker 1: And why should he consider letters eaten in discreet letters
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  Speaker 1: worth so large a.
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  Speaker 5: S I'm engaged to be married to Lord Western's son.
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  Speaker 5: That awful man didn't Stanley knows that if my fiance
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  Speaker 5: saw the letters, the marriage would never take place. They
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  Speaker 5: must see extremely compromising they aren't really, but I was
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  Speaker 5: much younger when I wrote them. In fact, I was
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  Speaker 5: only seventeen, and I'm afraid they could easily be misconstrued.
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  Speaker 3: Have you told your mother?
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, she'd never understand.
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  Speaker 1: She might surprise you on that. I think. How about
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  Speaker 1: your father?
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  Speaker 5: Daddy's a barrister. You can imagine how straightly is he
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  Speaker 5: be about the whole thing. That's why I came to you,
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  Speaker 5: mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: I see you. You will feel that I am not
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  Speaker 1: so well we say straight lazy.
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  Speaker 5: Of course you aren't. Mother's told me about you. And
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  Speaker 5: in any case, I've read doctor Watson's.
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  Speaker 1: Story once, my dear fellone. Your stories will lend me
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  Speaker 1: in seriousubble one of these days.
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  Speaker 3: What are you suggesting, mister Holmes can do for you,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Notton?
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  Speaker 1: Get the letters back mommy? But how steal them?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, my madea what's in ubyshos Notton is a fourth
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  Speaker 1: right girl like a mother before her. It's mister, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: You can't say you won't help me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't think that I can say it. In
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  Speaker 1: any case, I have a slight personal score to settle
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  Speaker 1: with mister Litton Stanley myself. He's rude and has no understanding.
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  Speaker 3: Bees Are you going to steal the letters?
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  Speaker 1: That problem requires a four old chap.
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  Speaker 5: I can tell you how to do it, mister Hold.
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  Speaker 1: This is delightful, my dear. You explained the problem and
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  Speaker 1: also the way of solving it. How easy a detective's
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  Speaker 1: work might be if all plans were equally helpful. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me what is your plan?
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow?
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  Speaker 5: The servants half day off at mister Ditton Stanley's. He
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  Speaker 5: will be alone during the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: How do you know that fact?
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  Speaker 5: My maid was keeping company, as they say, with Divis
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  Speaker 5: the butler when I was staying there a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: She found out everything from him. My letters are kept
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  Speaker 5: in a filigree box in his desk.
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  Speaker 1: With your enterprise, my dear, and I'm surprised that you
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  Speaker 1: didn't try it open the desk yourself.
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  Speaker 5: I did, but it's very sturdy and has a combination lot. However,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure that you and doctor Watson can think of
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  Speaker 5: some way of getting the letters, particularly if mister Lytton
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  Speaker 5: Stanley's alone.
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  Speaker 1: In the house. We shall do our best.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Morton, that.
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  Speaker 5: Must be one thing. Though both of you don't read
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  Speaker 5: the letters, will you. I'm really rather ashamed of writing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh course you're both so sweet to me. How can
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  Speaker 3: I thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for be a little premature, But you could do
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  Speaker 1: us to favor, of course, what is it Your mother
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  Speaker 1: had a beautiful voice, I recall. I wonder if you
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  Speaker 1: wo her talent.
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  Speaker 5: I do sing, though I've never done so professionally like.
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  Speaker 1: Mother, and I've never played the violin professional. But perhaps
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  Speaker 1: between us we could give Watson a little concern life.
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  Speaker 3: We can't do anything until tomorrow anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: What would you like to sing?
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  Speaker 2: Song?
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  Speaker 4: More?
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  Speaker 1: Really really remarkably.
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  Speaker 3: Appropriate the day long? So I'm a prom charming tonight
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  Speaker 3: music and tomorrow a touch of daylight robbery.
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  Speaker 1: Dear old Watson, your disguise is really excellent.
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  Speaker 3: Must confirst time. I'm a little APPREHENSI.
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  Speaker 1: Wald have personal need to be. I assure you you
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: as doctor Hamish and I as the referend LB are
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  Speaker 1: calling on mister phen Stanley as tense be in search
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  Speaker 1: of a contribution for my charity hospital that you are
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  Speaker 1: in charge of.
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  Speaker 3: What could be simply what made you decide on the
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  Speaker 3: role of a clergyman.
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  Speaker 1: It should simplify our entrance to the house. No, I
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  Speaker 1: must confess that a rare touch of sentiments prompt at
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  Speaker 1: the choice of my disguise. How sentiment or surely you
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  Speaker 1: remember that it was in the role of a simple mind,
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  Speaker 1: non conformist clergyman that I once attempted to deceive Miss
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  Speaker 1: Norton's mother.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, I'd forgotten that woman really fascinates you.
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  Speaker 1: Are Adler was one woman I've always regarded with unbounded admiration,
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  Speaker 1: even though you were a criminal. But the map of
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  Speaker 1: this common fellow. Are you ready? Yeah, you have the
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  Speaker 1: equipment I mentioned to you in my pocket. Chap let's
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  Speaker 1: be off. Tell me the devil doesn't the answer the door.
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  Speaker 3: Come, Come, Come, my dear Reverend apple Be, for passion,
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  Speaker 3: your languages is hardly proved.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Doctor hennich Be comes someone. Yes, mister Britton Stanley,
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  Speaker 1: that's my name, and mine is Appleby. And this is
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  Speaker 1: my friend, doctor Hammies.
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  Speaker 3: I pro to me, I've heard a great deal, Wilkie.
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  Speaker 1: What can I do for you if we could come
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  Speaker 1: in from herm ale? Explain our mission very well.
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  Speaker 6: I'm into the study.
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  Speaker 1: We're raising a subscription list for charity hospital at battle Way,
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  Speaker 1: just across the Downs you're a prominent resident here. We
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  Speaker 1: thought that you'd like to donate a few guineas.
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  Speaker 6: I'm really not very interested. I've given as much to
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  Speaker 6: charity this year as I can afford.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a fine, caursir. I'm giving my medical services
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  Speaker 3: three days a week, and the Reverend Appleby is donating
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  Speaker 3: his sable system.
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  Speaker 6: Who else has contributed to this? Fine?
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: All your neighbors, sir. We just came from the bee
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  Speaker 1: farm over the downs. The only mister Holmes gave us
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  Speaker 1: a check for five guineas.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes gave you five guineas did he?
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  Speaker 3: I have very nice gentleman, mister Holmes. We propose him
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  Speaker 3: to name a world in the hospital after him.
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  Speaker 6: Is this list of subscribers going to be published in
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  Speaker 6: the paper?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh yes, mister Litton standard.
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  Speaker 6: I'll give you ten guineas, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I'm shure I'll get my checkbook. It's in this desk. Now,
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  Speaker 6: who do I make this check payable to?
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Will him still at Watson phone? Doesn't take long? Oo
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  Speaker 1: lying over the desk.
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  Speaker 3: That's it?
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  Speaker 1: You see filigree box in that here?
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  Speaker 3: It is splendid Holmes. Don't open it?
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  Speaker 4: You promised that you wouldn't just wish to make sure,
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: make sure who was there, mister Sherlock home, Oh no,
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: don't move, I have a recover.
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  Speaker 3: Don't turn place the box on the table.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Holmes. Put your hands up, gentlemen, both of you.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. I know that voice Divers the butler quite correct,
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  Speaker 1: So divas you need to point a revolver.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not in the least interested in my master's health,
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  Speaker 4: Dr Watson. In fact, if you were dead, I should
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  Speaker 4: be delighted. And what are you up to, Divers. I'm
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: taking advantage of a situation, Sir. I've been trying to
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  Speaker 4: open that desk for weeks after such kindness on your part. Sir,
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: I hate to seem ungracious, but I'm grentfully afraid I shall.
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  Speaker 1: Have to kill you.
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  Speaker 2: To kill both of you, Doctor Watson's story will continue
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: in just a second. So I'm just going to remind
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: you that good food always tastes better when served with
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: good wine. And if you like a red wine, say
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: with steak or meat of any kind, you'll love Patrick
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: California Burgundy. If you'd rather have a white wine, say
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  Speaker 2: with chicken or fish, then buy all me get Petrie California.
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  Speaker 3: So turned.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, and look, if opinion is divided in your family,
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  Speaker 2: if some of you like a red wine and some
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: like white, yes is obvious. Don't buy one by two.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that, huh? Don't buy one by two, but do
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  Speaker 2: buy Petrie.
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  Speaker 1: Then you know it's good. Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: That was a fine place to break off your story,
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  Speaker 2: with a butler pointing a gun at your backs, and
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: you and Sherlock Homes with your hands above your heads.
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  Speaker 3: What happened next?
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: I know at least you didn't get killed. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be sitting here in California, andn't I telling me the story?
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  Speaker 3: Tell But supposing i'd take you back in the story
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  Speaker 3: to the point where I left off.
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  Speaker 2: Well, all right, then take me back, doctor, take me
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  Speaker 2: back very well.
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  Speaker 3: We stood there, Homes, and iye our hands above our heads,
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  Speaker 3: as Divas said.
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  Speaker 4: Reason, I am that you grew up in the desk
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  Speaker 4: for me after such kindness on your part, Sir, I
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: hate to seem ungracious, but I'm dreadfully afraid I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Going to have to kill you both because I dislike
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: to have gestubate at such a dramatic moment. But why
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: is it necessary to kill us.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: For months, I have been waiting for an opportunity to
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: steal the kitman Jar Emerald, and now you have done
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  Speaker 4: it for me, sir, and presented me with a perfect
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: caliper kit, the jar Emerald.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Who come now, miss Holmes.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: You know the treasures in this house as well as
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: I do. Apart from the Emerald, there's a superb Gelini
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  Speaker 4: that could fetch a fine price in the right market.
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  Speaker 3: We are here after any valuables, my good man.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: Please don't call me your good man, Doctor Watson. It's
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: patronizing and untrue. In any case, Sir, whether you were
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: here after the valuables or not makes no difference.
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  Speaker 1: I've caught you both red handed. You're completely in my power. Gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to steal the treasures I supers and and
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: pretend that we were responsible. Exactly, Sir, I shall kill
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: you both.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: Secrete what objects appeal to me, and when my master
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: regains consciousness, I should explain that I found three men
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: burgling the house, that I killed two of them while
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: the third got away with the loot.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: Who will be able to die by word to be.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Regarded as a hero, I might even have my salary raised.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Watson, I'm afraid this is the end.
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  Speaker 6: Goal, Chap a.
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  Speaker 1: Divas, at least to us the courtesy of allowing us
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: to face the Farthing squad.
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  Speaker 4: Will you very well, gentlemen, turn round, but don't try
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  Speaker 4: any tricks.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: One last request, and what is it, sir. I'm beaten,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: and I admit it. I'm getting old, but in my
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: heyday I've crossed the swords with some of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: criminals in Europe. My life has been attempted many times,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: but I've always escaped. If this is to be my swan,
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  Speaker 1: so I at least give me the privilege of shaking
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  Speaker 1: the hand of a man who has at last bested me.
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  Speaker 6: Well said.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: I feel that I'm stepping a little out of my station,
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: but I suppose the situation is unusual. I hope you
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: don't object to the left hand, sir. I'll keep the
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: revolver in my right. Very well, Divers, you are goodbye,
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: mister Sherlock Holmes. Goodbye Divers, and my congratulations, but my
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: congratulations for.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Being a fool weld on hold.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe getting old, Watson, but I've not lost my skill
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: of Barrett.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: So he went over your shoulder and a flash watun
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: in the bullet.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Went wi Watson struck the desk as he fell.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, just here, it's not serious. He'll be unconscious for
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: a while.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Good that.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I think we'll take the precaution of closing this desk drawer.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Then want him to be exposed to perfect templation when
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: he comes to how we are.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Shouldn't we get into touch with the police home?
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Lease great Scotton a follow i'mfterball be a bird person
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: would in this guy is two facts that would be
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: hard to explain satisfactorially. Open we respect to the bee
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: farm as soon as possible.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I suppose you're right. M's not'll be waiting for us.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Then we'll tell her what happened. Poor girl. I'm afraid
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: she's in for something of a shock.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, Doctor Watson, I'm so glad to see you
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: back again. Did you get the filigree box?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, Miss Norton, here it is at homes. I didn't
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: know that you Watson. Why not open it? Miss Notton?
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Will I open it, my dear? They may not be
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: love letters inside it, but there's a note. Why would
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you read it to us?
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Let this be a warning? Norton crime does not pay
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: if you don't believe me, ask your mother, sincerely, Shella comes.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, you knew my secret all the time, all
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: the time.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: But I realized it as soon as I'd opened the
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: filigree box.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: What on earth you're talking about?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Miss Norton was under the impression that she could use
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: me as a cat's for as a duke to commit
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a burglary for her.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I still don't understand. Home.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: You will remember she asked us to promise not to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: open the box, but you did so.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Just before the fellow held us up with a revolver.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: What was inside the bar.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: An impressive greenstone which I knew to be the Kitman
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: jar emerald.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Where's the emerald now?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I slipped it back into mister Lipton Stander's desk and
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: locked it. Rocked the box yere because I wanted to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: see your expression, Miss Norton as you opened it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Scott, and I thought you would pull a thing in trouble.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: You have to save yourself, young lady.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: That I'm terribly sorry, mister Holmes, terribly sorry. It seemed
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: like a wildly exciting idea, but I didn't really mean
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: this team.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Of course, not no, no, of course you didn't didn't
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: need to steal it for you, Miss Norton. I'm convinced
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: you knew that your mother once outwitted me, and you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: presumed to think that you could do the same. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: should turn you over to the police. Please don't, mister Holmes.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: You can't. I certainly could, but I'm not going to
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: for two reasons. First, you are young and impressionable, and
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: this may teach you a lesson. And in the second place,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I have a strange admiration for your mother. But I
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: warn you, Miss Norton, that you have had a narrow escape,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: a very narrow escape.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, Before I go, there's one favor I want
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: to ask you, really, what is it? Could I keep
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: this filigree box with your note inside it? It would
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: be a reminder all my life of how we met.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Do you say, Watson your box to give that straw fellow.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: That's quite true, But I fail to see how we
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: can return it now without disclosing our own share in
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the attempted robbery. In any case, I don't like mister
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Litton Stanley, we might indulge in a little petty lastly,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: without feeling too guilty. Very well, Miss Norton, you may
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: keep the box. I shall always treasure it. Thank you.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Good Bye, doctor Watson, don't think too badly of me.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Boy, good night mister Sherlock. Home no homes. I must
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: say you were surprisingly lenient with that girl. You suppose
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: her mother put her up to the clothing.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: That possibility had occurred to me a fellow, and yet
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that I mean, doors open.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Were you expecting Scott? It's looking stand there.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Good eating sir. This is an unexpected honor homes.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: We haven't been the best of friends, I know, but
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: you've got to help me now. I'm in serious trouble.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: No indeed, when you sit down, this is my friend.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: What's you? And now what is your trouble?
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: I've been robbed, Holmes robbed.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: What the stolen?
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: My greatest pleasure the kitten jar Emeralds removed from his
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: case and then mysteriously returned loose.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: In my desk afterwards. But there's a priceless chillini missing.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Have you have you any idea who the burgers might be?
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Or it was a gang? I'm sure that's a couple
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: of guys.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: As a clergyman and a doctor came into the house
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: on the pretext of raising money for some hospital, and
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: they overpowered me with chlorophorm.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, dear me, dear me, I'm very unpleasant for you.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Yes, when I came to I found my butler keepers
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: lying beside me in the pool of blood. The brave
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: fellow had wrestled with the themes, but they got away
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: and he's in the hospital now.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: Homes, you've got to help me.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: The kitman Jar emerald was returned, you say, but a
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Cellini is missing.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: Yes, it's an exquisit phillygy box in which I kept
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: the emerald, a phillygree box. Yes, it's a genuine Cellini.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: It's worth several thousand pounds. Homes, you must help.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Me solve this business.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to little Stanley, but I'm afraid I can't
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: help you. I've retired, yes, and I intend to remain
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: in retirement. Good night, sir, but I will pay you
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: any fee within reason. My decision is final, sir, good night.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: I might have known I wouldn't get any.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Help from you.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Holmes. She fooled you against.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Scares the little devil. She knew that box Ursiticellini all
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the time.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: You don't seem very angry with all ah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I should be, but I'm not. What splendid audacity, what
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a super nerve the child has. But you must get
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the box back from her, and I shall watch, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I shall, or rather I shall persuade Devers to do
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: it for me. There's the price of our silence.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: How can he get it back?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Remember that he walks out with Miss Norton's maid. I
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: am certain that when he explains his predicament, he can
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: prevail upon her to steal the box from her mistress
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: so that it may be returned to its right flowna.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: That's a good idea, if George Holmes, Miss Norton's a
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: chip or Feld block.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: All right, Yes, pots and cheers, And it makes me
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: wonder what a bird? I wonder, my dear Chap, how
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: long I can remain in retirement such a worthy antagonist
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: at large. It's a challenge.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It's an irresistible challenge, you know, doctor Watson. I just
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: can't get over the way you and mister Holmes let
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: that girl Irene was at her name, pull the wool
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: over your eyes? Why she really twisted you around her
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: little fingers.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I like to make extremely positive statements, but I'm sure,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: if you were in my shoes, I really would not
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: only have twisted you around her little finger, but you
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: had you rolling about hoops, standing on your head. You
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: mean she was that beautiful, mister, buttell she was so
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: beautiful that you'd make you forget all about Petry.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: One, doctor Watson.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: No girl is that beautiful?
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you really are? Maybe so, But there are.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Lots of pretty girls in this world and only one
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Petree wine. That's because there's only one Petrie family that's
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: been making wine since the eighteen hundreds. And believe me,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: because the Patree business has always been family owned and operated,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: they've been able to hand on down from father to son,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: from father to son, the highly skilled art of making
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: fine wine, and those generations of wine making add up
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to a lot of experience. The Petrie family really knows
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: how to turn luscious California grapes into fragrant, delicious wine.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: That's why, no matter what type wine you wish, you
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: can't go wrong looking for the label that says p E.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: T R I.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Petree because Patree took time to bring you good wine. Well,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: doctor Watson, what story are you planning to tell us
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: next week?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Now, next week, mister Bartel is the day before Christmas.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to tell you an adventure that took
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: place many years ago and involved homes and myself in
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: one of the most fantastic Christmas Eve situations in which
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: we ever found ourselves. I think you like the story.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I call it the Night before Christmas.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: It sounds well, oh thank you.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: By the way, before I comes to bottle, I'd like
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: to remind our listeners there's no better way to spend money,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: and to spend it on Christmas seals. Every penny is
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: spent on Christmas seals not only helps cure tuberculosis, but
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: it also helps prevent it right in your own community.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Your purchases of Christmas eals in the past have saved
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: thousands of lives. Keep saving lives by all the Christmas
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: seals you can afford this year, now, won't you