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net. Well, now it's time for today's adventure. Sherlock Holmes. The
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Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Original and
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Immortal stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatized Daniel with Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor
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Watson and Sir John Gielgud in the role of Sherlock Holmes m sometimes as our
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friendship group. Sherlock Holmes used to ask me to make certain investigations on his
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behalf. There was I recall the odd business of Miss Violet Smith, the
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charming bicyclist of Charlington. We first heard of her strange experience when she called
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on us one April day at Baker Street. Ah, Miss Violet Smith,
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I presume do come in. I had your note just a moment ago saying
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you'd call. Thank you, mister Holst, And this is your equally celebrated
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colleague, doctor Watson. The hesse. Oh are you flattening? Miss Smith?
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Pretty seated? Could I offer you a little refreshments, a little ginger
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wine, perhaps some matil? Oh? Thank you doctor, you are very
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kind. I fancy the problem is hardly in your line, Watson. So
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arn't a bicyclist, as this lady has surely every likelihood of enjoying good health.
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Where mister Holmes, I've heard of your famous methods? Of course,
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how did you know that? We knew it? From the roughening on the
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edge of your boot, Miss Smith, from the pedals spat my soul.
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Watson, you'll be telling me next that you also knew Miss Smith was a
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pianist. I'd thought of typewrices, Holmes. Do for goodness? Smith?
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You mean from the fingertips home? Yes, but there's a certain spirituality in
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your face, Miss Smith, which the typewriter will hardly inspire. Gentlemen,
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you you really are most intriguing both of your I do teach music and in
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the country, I presume from your charming complexion. Yes, mister Holmes,
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Oh yes, that's a beautiful neighborhood, miss Smith, full of the most
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delightful things for almost delightful parts of the world. Quite delightful the place where
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we took Archie Stamford the forger, wasn't it, Watson? Really? Gentlemen,
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you fascinate me so much I almost forget what I came from. Oh,
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pray forgive us, miss smiths. It's only our way now. Regarding
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your note, is this matter serious? Well I hardly know, mister Holmes.
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It is certainly very strange. Then we are all attention. Don't fidget
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Watson, compose yourself an entirely composed homes Pray proceed, my Smith. Thank
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you. Well. You see, gentlemen, when my father died about two
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years ago, mother and I were left very poor. So you can imagine
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how excited we were when we saw an advertisement in the papers one day asking
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for our whereabouts and saying that if we went to a certain solicitor we would
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hear something to our advantage. Indeed, and you didn't go, Oh,
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yes, I went myself to the solicitor. Mother wasn't very well that day,
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and there were two gentlemen there, a mister Carrothers, clean shaven man,
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and a mister Woodley who'd al read mustache. And seeing that they were
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both home on a visit from Australia, I didn't care for mister Woodley.
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But mister Carrathers is very right, nice. Of course. It was all
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a great mystery to me until mister Carrothers play. Well, it's like this,
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you see, Miss Smith. You knew I'd take it that your late
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father had a brother, Ralph. Yes, mister Grathers, but he went
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to Australia twenty five years ago. I never met him. Poor oh Ralph.
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I'll bet he'd have enjoyed having a pretty niece like you, Miss Smith.
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Woodley. Please, I'll leave it to me, sure, sure,
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mother, I wouldn't interfere for the world. Now, Miss Smith, your
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uncle Ralph was a great friend of ours. I regret to say that he
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died just a few months ago. Oh dear, I'm sorry, mister Carrathers.
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I'm afraid it ain't what you think. My dear old Ralph didn't make
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no fortune to leave to you. I had no such thoughts at all,
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mister Woodley A one in the eye for me. All right, Bob,
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carry on? Well, it's true, miss Smith, as mister Woodley says,
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your uncle died a poor man. When you've heard of your father's he
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begged us, because we've been such close friends of his, to come to
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England and hunt you up to see that you and your mother shouldn't be in
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any want as he's only living relatives. That was very kind of in mister
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carrathers. Now, I'm a widow, Miss Smith, and I have a
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little girl at ten. I've taken a house called Chiltern Grange near Farnham while
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I'm in England. How would you like a job as governess and music teacher?
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I could offer a hundred pounds a year. A hundred pounds what a
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splendid pay, mister Grabs. It's for poor old Ralph's sake, but I'm
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sure that you'll be worth it. Miss Smith, you betchy? Well?
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What are you? Says Smith? Do you take the job? I reckon
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that you couldn't do much better, So I thought it over, mister Holmes,
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and I took the job, and all went well, Miss Smiths,
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Oh, at first, wonderfully, Doctor Watson. Mister Carrathers was very nice,
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and the little girl was a dear. We used to have some charming
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music cleanings together. A yeah, I'm sure you did, miss Do Sit
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down, Watson, then why have you come to consult as mister Smith.
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Well, to begin with, there was mister Woodley. He came to farn
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amount a visit, and he was quite dreadful. He tried to make love
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to me. I simply hated him, did mister Caruthers, No, Oh,
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yes, mister Woodley even proposed to me one day. He said that
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if I married him, I could have the finest diamonds in London, nagin
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And when I refused, he seized me in his heart. He was very
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strong, scar and when I called the help, mister Carrathers came in and
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there was a fight or just terrible, Doctor Watson. Well, at least
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it was the end of Woodley's visits, I suppose. Oh, yes,
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mister Carrathers was most upset. He sent mister Woodley away, and I haven't
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seen him since, I should think not. Indeed, calm yourself, my
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dear Watson. Now, my dear miss Smith, pray continue. It is
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also strange, you see, it's the cyclist, A cyclist. Yes.
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When I went to Chiltern Grange, mister Caruthers said, I spend every weekend
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in London to see my mother. So every Saturday forenoon I cycling to Farnham
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to get the twelve twenty two. It's a very lonely road over Charlington Heath,
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you know, yes, yes, I seem to remember it, namely,
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woulds if I recollect? Yes, on one side, and then the
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one old house on the other, Charlington Hall. But that's the only one
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for miles and miles hardly ever meet anything, not so much as a cart.
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But one day, yestmas Well, I happen to look back over my
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shoulder, doctor Watson, and about two hundred yards behind me I saw a
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man, also on a bicycle. What did he look like? Well?
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Middle aged, I'd say, and with a dark beard. I look back
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again before I reached Farnham, but he'd gone by then, and I island
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and think an it's more about it. But except except when I came back
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on Monday, I saw him again on the same stretch of road, and
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then again the next Saturday, and the next Monday too. Ah. Yes,
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the case certainly begins to present some features of interest, Watson, don't
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you think so? Molest you in any way, Miss Smith? No?
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He kept his exact distance about two hundred yards, i'd say, just at
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the point where the road passes Charlington Hall. Who lives there by the way,
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do you happen to know, Miss Smith? I'm afraid I don't.
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You mentioned the matter to mister Carrothers, of course, Oh yes, and
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he seemed most interested. He said that he'd ordered a pony cart and groom
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so that in future I shouldn't have to pass over those lonely roads without some
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companion. And you're sure you didn't know this man on the bicycle, no,
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doctor Watson. He was always just a little too far away from me
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to see him clearly. But I'm certainly wasn't anyone I knew. And then
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this very morning I thought i'd set a trap for him. The pony cart
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was to have come this week, but he didn't arrive in time, so
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I had to cycle again, and there he was, as usual, following
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me. So I slowed down, and he's slowed down, and I stopped
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altogether, and he stopped, brilliant, my dear Watson, and then I
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peddled on again and laid my trap. There's a little side go through the
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woods at one point, so I tended to it very quickly. He couldn't
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have seen me, because as a bend in the road just there, I
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expected him to shoot past me so that I could have a closer glimpse of
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him. But he didn't know, mister Holmes, he didn't. And when
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I came out again and looked back, there wasn't a sign of him across
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the whole heath. Well, well, the matter has certainly some unique features,
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don't you think so, Watson? Certainly someone singular homes. I think
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it, Miss Smith, that you'll know whether secret admiters perhaps, well,
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hardly secret doctor Watson. There's fiddle Liddle Watson. Of course, of course,
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yes, I knew that must be someone, Miss Smith, a most
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attractive VideA, if I may say so, Fiddle Morton. Mister Holmes,
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he is an electrical engineer at country. We expectedly married at the end of
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the summer. It couldn't have been him that was playing any kind of surprise
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visit, oh, mister Holmes, is if I shouldn't recognize him. Think
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of anyone else. It might have been Miss Smith, some other admirer.
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Perhaps well dreadful man wouldn't live if you can call him an admirer. Well,
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well, I have to turn me offense in, mister Holmes. But
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it sometimes seems that mister Carrothers takes its well an interest in me. We
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are rather thrown together. You see, I play his accompaniments in the evening.
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He seems quite well. She's never actually said anything. Oh no,
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doctor, he's a perfect gentleman. It's just a girl always knows first year.
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I mean, yes, of course, quite what, Quite well,
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Miss Smith, your case certainly provides several points of interest. I shall be
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most pleased to look into it, and so I am sure well, Doctor
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Watson, yes, indeed, indeed, take no further steps without letting us
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know. Keep in touch, Miss Smith. Meanwhile, spend your unual weekend
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with your mother, and return on Monday to Parnham, and we shall do
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our best to help him. Thank you, mister Holmes, Thank you both,
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gentlemen. You've been vague. Oh permit Miss Smith, your girl,
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Thank you, doctor Watson. Then I will say goodbye mister Holmes and I
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will let you know if anything further He yes, pray do good, Dame
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is Smith. Ah, well, well, well, well, well,
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well, well indeed, my dear Philip. Well, it's part of the
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settled order of nature. I suppose that such a girl should have a mother's
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home. But it's not following how on bicycles on lowly country road. Yes,
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a certainly some curtious and suggestive details about the case. I think our
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first effort should be directed toward the tenants of this Charlington Hall, the house
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that the girl was passing when that strange cyclist disappeared. Yeah, but how
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do you account for the other quentionship between Carrothers and Woodley. That's very different
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types and manners, you forestold me Watson, and so often in this case,
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I suppose it must be the feminine interest in it. Come come home.
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Last and most important point. What kind of a manage is it that
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pays double the market price for a governess and it doesn't keep a howsome carriage?
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Although this has Chiltern Grange is several miles away from the station on very
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odd So you'll go down there, now, my dear fellow, you will,
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I will, But you know quite well I'm visiting engaged with my new
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violin sonata. It may be only some trifling intrigue are floor this case is
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just in your line. What's n leave it all to you the a bigger
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Frau, as gutters so aptly says, I don't know what that means.
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Home just passing my violin Wiluki is my dear fello, I always forget you
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have no German. I've been looking for a title for this new composition of
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mine. I think I may have found this as last rab French one.
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I always ignored Holmes in his more ponderously playful moods. At the same time,
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I must confess that, in an experience of the ladies, extending over
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many nations and three separate continents, I've seldom encountered one more charming for Miss
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Violet Smith, and earnestly wished to do my best to help her. Accordingly,
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I made my way down to Charlington Heath on the following Monday, and
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concealed myself behind a clump of gods. In the distance, I saw Miss
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Smith gracefully speeding along the road from Farnham Station, and a moment later the
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black bearded pursuer had emerged from a gap in the hedge from hundred yards away
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from me, and went cycling after her, looking curiously furtive. She slowed
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down, he slowed also, She stopped, he stopped. But she was
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a spirited girl, our miss Smith. And this time she suddenly turned round
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and darted straight towards him, and he was as quick as she was.
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He turned his machine and peddled off. Then she turned again and her head
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in the air, very haughtily, and so made off for Chilton graved And
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as for him, well, Watson, yes, for him, the man
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with the black beard hight. He came cycling by a few minutes later homes
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when he went right past me, and then he turned in at the hall
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Gates, got off his bicycle to adjust his necktie or something, and then
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then he jumped on his cycle again peddled away from me up the drive.
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And that was death. Yes, yes, well, I was ready born
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out one thing and another. I'm sure you must have been, my dear
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fellow. Here I sit on the sofa and put your feet up, shall
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I ring with some hot milk? Prom my soul, Holmes, you're quite
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insufferable. There I was doing my best for you, exactly while miss Smith
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was on her way to Chiltern Grange, where mister Carrothers proposed to her last
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evening after dinner. Good Heaven's Holmes, how did you learn that? Or
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quite simple, my dear fellow, there was a better plumber this morning.
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Well here it is. You see charming scent the girl uses. You will
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find the important bit in the last telegraph. The rest is more or less
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an account of what you've already told me so graphically. I'm sure that you
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will respect my confidence, mister Holmes, when I tell you that my position
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has become difficult going to the fact that my employer, mister Carruthers has proposed
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marriage to me. Our young friends used to be getting into deep water day.
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However, Watson, to return to your own exhausting exploits, let me
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hand you this cushion. My dear fellow, you haven't finished yet. I'm
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sure you made some as didn't you In the neighborhood As to who was living
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in this mysterious old house Charlington Hall, Yes I did. I went to
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the local house agent and it was let some weeks ago to whom an uncle
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Williamson Selick Williamson, an elderly retired clergyman, according to the locals in the
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public house, Good good, Watson, I was rather afraid you wouldn't have
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the sense to go to the pub that's always the center of country gossip.
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Oh, thank you, Holmes. But also happened to the Thursday after my
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day in the open. I'm sure you were, Well, what else did
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you learn? If this Williamson is an elderly man, he can hardly be
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the energetic cyclist. I don't suppose he was. For the moment the long
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white beard and a gammy leg. That set was that it seems that there
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are doings at the hall most weekends, doing yes, wild visitors and so
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forth what the landlord calls a warm lotza. So you think the mysterious cyclist
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might be one of those. He might, because it seems that among them
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homes, and the warmest of the lot is a fellow with a red mustache
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cold Woodley. Oh, miss Smith's fist suitor, but a red mustache,
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Watson. Yet the cyclist has a black beard. Aha, But it could
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be assumed home, So it could so it could, in fact, Oh,
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upon my soul, Watson, it's really quite a fascinating case. After
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all, it has all the ingredients, a lonely attractive girl, two important
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suitors, a clergyman will holds wild parties, and best of all, well
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Holmes, a strange man on a bicycle who dismounts for the purpose of adjusting
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his necktie. Yes, we shall be hearing from Miss Violet Smith again,
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my dear fellow, you may be sure of that, children Grange, Thursday,
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April twenty eighth. Dear mister Holmes, you will not be surprised to
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hear that I am leaving mister Carrathers employment. Even the high pay can at
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reconsirement to the discomforts my situation. On Saturday, I come to London and
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do not intend to return. Mister Carrathers has got bony chair which will be
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driven by an ostler, and so the dangers of the lonely road are now
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over as the boars in my leaving. It is not only sustaining situation with
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mister Carruthers himself, but the real appearance is that odious mister Woodley. I
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saw him out of the window, but I'm glad to say I did not
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meet him. He had a long talk with mister Carruthers, and I think
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that they were quarreling. He seems to be living somewhere in the neighborhood,
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and I confess that I would sooner have a wild animal about the place from
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his inflamed appearance. I am quite sure that he drinks heavily. I will
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not feel myself safe from him until Saturday, when I leave here forever,
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and all my troubles will be over. Yours sincerely, and vist the cards
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to doctor Watson. Violet Smith here she sends her regards to your Watson.
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Ah, thank you. Oh well, that's the end of that. I
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suppose not at all, Watson. I believe there will soon be further developments.
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There's some deep in tree going on around that young woman. I have
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a curious feeling. Yes, I think it's all rather more sinister than I
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imagined at first. I've been checking on the Reverend Cedric Williamson, the old
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clergyman at the hall. He was a clergyman once. I made some inquiries
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at a clinical agency, and the only man who fits the name and the
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description has had a singularly dark career. I confess his conduct struck me as
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somewhat unecclesiastical, with his wild passes and so forth. Yes, I must
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say that I'm considerably alarmed. What do you mean? I think that you
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and I should spare the time to run down to farm together, Watson tomorrow
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Saturday morning. If you're free, you've still got that old armored revolver of
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yours, of course, then take it, Watson, take it. You'll
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never know, You simply never know. A rainy night had been followed by
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a glorious morning. As we walked across the heath towards Charlington Hall, it
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seemed impossible that any menace could threaten on such a day. Yet as we
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followed the winding road among the gorse, where I had hidden myself earlier in
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the week, my nerves grew somewhat strained, and I found myself fingering the
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pistol in my pocket. Holmes strode in front of me, his head in
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the air, covering the ground remarkably rapidly with his lungs bring his step.
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He looked a strange figure striding through the gorse, and his famous deer stalker
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cap and traveling kid. And then suddenly watch some look ting somepot I don't
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pick a too late spotted homes in lakes the horse. Whoa, whoa,
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whoa, you're brute here'll get hold of the rain, Watson, stop him,
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for Heaven's sake, Watch school. Whoa there, whoa ah? Oh,
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I got him, I got him. Quiet you there there, that's
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better. He's all right, Holmes, ally nervous. What happened? Oh?
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What a fool I've been, Watson, I should have allowed for taking
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an earlier train? Happened miss Smith? Where's the groove? He've abducted her?
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Watson, wye made me murder? Heaven knows? What? Hey,
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God, we may not be too late. What a fool I am?
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Homes Look a cyclist, yes, left bear coming towards as piddling like the
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deuce. Fool there stop? What are you doing with a dog cart in
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your heart? Don't be such a fool man? Where's miss Smith? That's
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why I'm asking you. You're in? What don't? He's founding empty?
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Quick man. They must have got her body and the flag. I'm fastened
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by the living Jingo. I'll never forgive myself. Look, Holmes, they
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must forgot this way through the hedge, through the headge and the let's run
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for it, Homes. Wait, someone's lying by the tree. Good Peter,
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it's Peter the groove. He was driving the podycart. The scoundrels have
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killed him. No, no, no, he's only a fresh rule.
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He's on this time. He'll be all right. Leave him for the moment,
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then he'll come to no harm. Come this way, quickly round the
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bushes. Here a clearing beyond. They might have miss Smith. Quickly quickly
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through here too late. They by the oak tree. The girl's painting the
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pergaman. It is surplus home. He's marrying the Watson. Woodley and the
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girl there. It can take your beard off, Bub Carrathers, I know
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you, you scoundrel Woodley. Old Williamson's done it, Bob, prayer book
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can all? Where is it your service? Mister Carrados Fresco weddings arranged at
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short notice. Funeral cut up your blackguard. Woodley? Ask you this woman
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writing, if I had to swing for it, I told you what I
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do. If you're my lester earned by the Lord, I'll be as good
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as my word. You're too late, Bob. She's my wife. Oh
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she's your widow. Drop that gun. Keep away, Watson, keep him
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covered. He who are you toward us? About my name? Is Sherlock
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home? But take that surplus off you'll disgrace the cloths her, Carrathers,
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give me a hand with Woodley to the house. Watson, you look after
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miss Smith. I'm sure, dear doctor, my dear dather. It's all
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right, it's all right. Well now, Watson, what have you to
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report? He's fasting in the drawing room. She'll be all right home,
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and Woodley he'll live after the bullet got him in the shoulder and found it
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out. Go upstairs and finish him first. Do you tell me the girl's
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going to be tied to Jack Woodley? For likely? Quiet Carruthers. Now,
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as for you, Williamson lasted interfering busy by jus so you can tell
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the police step when they arrive. I confess I'm still a bit confused.
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Home and then I'll tell you the whole story and you can correct me if
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I'm wrong. Carrubbs, I don't care if fathering, if you're wrong or
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not. It's miss Smith that's my concern. Don't worry car Rubbers. Miss
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Smith will be quite all right. Mister Williamson here has no right to perform
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a marriage. Saidment be no ordained and also unfrocked. One said clergyman,
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or rais a clergyman. I think not. How about the license? We
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got one, and you've got it by a trick. In any case,
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a forced marriage isn't a marriage at all, but a very serious felony.
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You will have ten years to think that out, you old rascal. Ah
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As for you carruthers, you've done much better to a kept your pistol in
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your pocket. Now I'm beginning to think, sir by the living Jingo,
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though, when I think of all the cautions, I took the shield exactly.
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You followed her on your bicycle, wearing a false beard every time she
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passed this house. Well confounded. I knew these scandals were lurking here.
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I didn't know what they get up to. I had to protect her.
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I fell in love with him. I never meant to, but I did.
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Heaven't help me. You could have told her of the danger she'd have
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left. I couldn't bear. That sounds more like selfishness to me than love.
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I still don't understand at Holmes what happened. Simply, miss uncle didn't
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die when these scoundrels. Sebi had once, and he wasn't a poor man
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either Carrothers was he. So you came over posthaste, and the idea was
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that one of you should marry her and the other have a share in the
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plunder. For some reason or other, Woodley was the one chosen. We
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played cards for her on the voyage and he won up on myself. I
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wish I'd never got tied up with him, but at least you've got her
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to enter your service. And then I suppose Woodley was to do the courting
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under. The trouble was that the girl recognized him for the drunken brute he
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was and wouldn't have anything to do with him, I see at all,
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Holmes. And meanwhile Carruthers fallen in love with her himself, and couldn't there
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the thought of Woodley owning her. By George, I couldn't. We quarreled,
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you see, And he took this house and picked up with his padre
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here. Then he came to me one night this week at a cable.
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Old Ralph Smith was dead at last. I proposed to her as a last
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hope, and she wouldn't have me, and Woodley took the whole thing into
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his own hands. You know. The rest I should have known it long
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ago the minute you told me, Watson that you'd seen the solitary cyclist adjusting
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his necktie. Of course he was really taking off the beardy war to keep
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Miss Smith from recognizing him. But I perceived three members of the Country Constabulary
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coming up the drive. So our task here is really over, Watson.
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And if missus Smith has recovered from her indisposition, it only remains for us
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to return to Baker Street. I'll see to her at once. Oh and
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Watson, by the way, if she imagines that she's still feeling rather weak,
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perhaps a hint that we had about to telegraph a certain young electrician in
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Coventry would complete the cure. Oh quite so, Home, quite so.
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And so ended the case of the solitary Cyclist. Williamson and Woodley were both
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tried for abduction, the former getting seven years and the latter ten carraver has
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got no more than a few months. The shooting of Woodley was viewed with
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leniency. He came out of prisoner wiser and a better man. As to
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Miss Smith herself, I haven't noted my records that she did indeed, and
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headed a large fortune and became the wife of Cyril Morton. I had the
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pleasure of attending her wedding, but in an experience of the ladies extending over
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five nations, and what's and what's my poor dear susceptible, what's a confound?
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Your home confound? The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original
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stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, had been dramatized in You, with original
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music composed by Sydney Corch. Sir Ralph Richardson played the part of Doctor Watson
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and Sir John Gielgud that of Sherlock Holmes. The program was produced by Harry
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Allen Towers. Welcome Back. While according to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the
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whole profession of being a governess in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth or late
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nineteenth early twentieth century was quite a hazardous one. You also remember, of
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course, there was the story of the Cobber Beaches. But in all seriousness,
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this was actually one of my favorite stories, and I thought it was
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a pretty well done adaptation. Here with some ironic comedy where the man nearly
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commits murder to void a marriage that wasn't valid in the first place. Well
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now we turned to listener comments and feedback. In we begin on Twitter as
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the at Radio Detectives account account. Jenny tweets in can I just say how
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much I enjoy your podcast of home story makes my journey's home from work much
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more enjoyable. Well, thanks so much, Jennie, I appreciate it.
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Then we have an iTunes review from Who's Your Beaches. I really appreciate all
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of the work in time that Adam Puto has put into the podcast. I
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like learning something about each episode he plays. Keep up the good work.
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Thank you very much. Well, yesterday we kind of began to take a
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look at some of the stats on the program in terms of where our listeners
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were coming from. I didn't want to take a look at kind of how
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people are listening to the program, which is kind of interesting shift. When
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we first started out, probably about seventy percent of listeners we're getting the show
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through iTunes and eighty percent total through podcasterers. Now the total who are listening
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to the program through a podcascher is only at forty seven percent, and mobile
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web browsers are up to seventeen point two percent of our listeners, followed by
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tablet, pad, web browsers at seven percent in mobile applications, five percent
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of our total unique downloads in the month of April came that way. Now,
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in terms of how that's how that's coming, thirty seven point five percent
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of listeners came through iTunes. Apple still holds a big chunk of listeners though,
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because in addition to the thirty seven point five percent that came through iTunes,
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sixteen percent came through the iPhone and seven percent through the iPad. So
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about sixty percent of the downloads are are still going through Apple, which is
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which is down a little bit from the uh from the seventy percent it was
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when we first started out, but still pretty healthy. And there of course
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our others Zoom Marketplace, uh, Android phones, but those are the big
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ones. And it's somewhat remarkable to, you know, be part of this
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to be podcasting as so much as emerging and changing. And I want to
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thank everybody who's been with us now as we've been at this now for just
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a little more than three and a half years. It's been great. We're
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out Stance to discuss. If anyone's got any other questions regarding Stance in the
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show, I'd love to hear from you a box thirteen. You can follow
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