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Now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure
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of the Norwood Builder, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Original and Immortal
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Stories of Sir Raza. Conan Doyle dramatized Daniel with Sir Ralph Richardson as doctor
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Watson and Sir John Gielgood in the role of Sherlock Holmes. Hello, what's
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thes what's this Watson? Toman who quite a remarkable scent of education at Holmes?
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Whoever it is, He's not even waiting for missus Hudson's good offices.
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A man from his step, a young one from his energy, and a
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strong one for his tug on the bell pull mister Holmes, I'm the only
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man. Sit down, won't you, Mister Holmes, I am the unhappy
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John Hector McFarland. Pray have a cigarette, mister McFarland, or you mustn't
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blame me. I'm nearly mad at hill. You'll blame you for nothing.
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But if you don't sit down and compose yourself, I can't possibly listen to
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you well, and I'm sorry, yes, of course, of course.
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But if you're in you, when you are fully composed, you must tell
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us, very slowly and quietly, who you are and what it is you
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want. You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but I
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assure you wh I know nothing whatever, But you beyond the obvious facts that
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you're a bachelor, solicitor at a freemason, mister Holmes. How and oh
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you mustn't mind it, mister McFarland. It looks like a conjuring trick,
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but it's very quite simple. But he deduced the first fact from the general
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untidiness of your tithe I may say so on the second from the sheaf of
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legal papers sticking out of your pocket there, and the third from the charm
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on your watch chain upon my soul watching you improve. You do indeed well,
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thank your Holmes. And I fancy mister McFarland's calm enough to tell us
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his story coherently, mister Holmes, and everything you said. And in addition,
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I'm the most unfortunate man in London. I'm calm enough now. But
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I had to know you'd be working for me, and it's just that I
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had to get here before they did. Oh and who are they, mister
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McFarland. The police. They're on their way to arrest me. The police.
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This is really most gratful, quite interesting. On what charge may I
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ask of murdering mister Jonas, old accot of Lord Norwood. Dear me,
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look there at mister Holmes, there at that newspaper. Look at that headline.
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Yes, yes, yes, Watson, pray look at this the second
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page is I recall it runs a mysterious affair at Lower Norwood. Disappearance of
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well known builder, murder and arson. Yes, and here you see below
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the clue to the criminal, the mysterious mister McFarland. That's the clue there
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following Now a man was after me at London Bridge Station? What's that?
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Who is it? Mister Holmes? We must wait and see. Of course
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you understand, mister McFarland, and I don't necessarily accept your case, mister
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Holmes. I still listen at least and if you go on nate to mcfarn
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I arrest you for the wilful murder of mister Jonas old Acot of Lower Norwood.
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Oh, good morning, inspector. Do come in one shall That's all
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very well, doctor Watson. When I've been following this young man, mister
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Holmes, and I want him a quarter of an hour more or less can
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make no difference to you less trade. This gentleman was about to give us
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his account of the affair. Perhaps I might help to clear it up.
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I don't think I shall have any difficulty in clearing it up, mister Holmes.
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Still it's a warm day, less trade, is it not, and
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you've been making such haste. You'll find refreshments on the table over there.
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I think I may say I've done you one or two good turns in my
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time at the yard, this trade, So just let me have my quarter
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of an hour, will Well? It's true enough. It's difficult to refuse
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you, mister Holmes. But I am bound to remain with my prisoner,
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of course, and I am bound to warn him. But anything he says
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may appear in evidence. I don't want anything better, sir. Thank you,
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mister Holmes, not at all, thank you. Less trade now,
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Watson, Watson, Ah, there's really no need for you to be learning
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the entire newspaper by heart while speaking at Holmes. Oh no, this is
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rarely quite interesting, Come Watson. The facts, the facts, And so
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I summarized the facts. It appeared that the night before, at about twelve
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o'clock, there had been a sudden alarm of fire at the house of mister
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Jonas old Acre, a wealthy builder of lower Norwood. The fire had started
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in a small timber yard behind the house, where some stacks of wood were
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stored It was brought under control by the fire brigade without any trouble, but
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among the ashes some charred remains were found. Mister Oldacre himself was missing,
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and in his room the safe had plainly been burgled, and there were signs
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of a struggle with some blood. It was known that the builder had had
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a late visitor the night before, none other than young MacFarlane, and among
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the litter of papers round the safe, a heavy oaken stick been found,
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also smeared with blood, which had been identified as his. It seemed clear
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that murder had been done, and the body dragged to the woodstack for disposal.
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Why what could be more natural, mister Holmes. I got on this
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young man's trail at once and arrived to arrest him in our humble chambers.
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Well, well, the case certainly has some points of interest. Wats him?
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I swear I didn't do it, mister Holmes. Yes, yes,
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quite so, mister McFarland. But let us take the facts first. It's
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true I suppose that you did visit mister Oldegger last night. I did.
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I won't keep anything back, mister Holmes. You no better, not young
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man. You knew him? Well, I'd take it. I didn't know
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him at all, or at least I knew of him, but i'd never
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met him. He was a friend of my parents long ago, but they
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had drifted apart. I only knew the name. And how did you come
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to visiting them? He suddenly walked into Marfice in the city yesterday and introduced
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himself. I have a place near London Bridge, you know, he said,
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he's some business for me to do. Any handed me some sheets of
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paper. Here they are, mister Holmes, the draft of a will.
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He said. He wanted me to put it all in proper legal shape.
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You can imagine my amazement when I saw that he'd left everything to you,
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mister McFarland. Just so Watson, look at this. Remarkable. You'd never
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met him in your life before, you say never. He was a queer,
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little ferret like man. I didn't like him much, but there it
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was. He'd left me everything. Did he tell you why? He said
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he hadn't any relations, and he'd known my parents in his youth, and
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he'd followed my career, and so he felt he'd like to do it for
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old time's sake, and because I was a deserving case. Oh quite touching.
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We underestimate the power of sentiment. Watson, Well, what then,
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mister McFarland. Well, he said there was some title deeds and so forth
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at his house Norwood, and that he'd want me to have a look at
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them too, And he said his mind wouldn't be easy till it was all
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settled, so he asked me to go out there. He insisted that it
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should be last night, Yes, after supper. He said he wouldn't hear
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of anything else, and I wasn't to mention anything to my parents. It
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was to be a surprise to them. Well why didn't you stay the night
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at mister Oldacres? He hadn't invited me, only to look at the papers
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I put up at a hotel in Nordwood itself. And then the smart one
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moment you call on him after supper as arranged, of course, about half
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past nine, i'd see who opened the door to you. I suppose it's
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his housekeeper. She was a middle aged woman, and I take it she
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announced your name. Yes. We went into mister Oldacre's study and he was
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all ready for me, with the papers all set out beside the safe.
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We worked in them together till about half past eleven complicated papers, mister McFarland.
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No, rather simple, i'd say, really, though he seemed to
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think they were very important. We did them all up and sealed bundles.
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Most interesting. So you left him for the night. Yes, I couldn't
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find my stick. I remember the stick beside the safe with the blood stain.
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Just my devilish luck. A game. I didn't know anything about it
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till id edit in the papers this morning, and the train back to the
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city. I came straight on to you from London Bridge, mister Holmes.
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I was terrified. I saw just exactly how involved I seemed to be.
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A man spotted him there, mister Holmes at the station, and a fellow
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waiting. When I heard he was on his way to his office. I
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came on here myself to do my duty. Then you plainly must do your
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duty. My dearest trade, he's yours, mister. No, no,
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no, it's all right, mister MacFarlane. I've decided to accept your case.
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Oh thank hep Now just write your home address on this slip of paper
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and then you must go quietly along with the inspector. There's nothing else to
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be done. I'll do everything I can to help you are. You're wasting
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your time, mister Holmes. I never saw a clearer case. However,
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it amuses you, it does, it does, though perhaps amusing is hardly
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the world. Goodbye, my dear lest trade until we meet again, mister
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McFarlane. Heaven bless you, mister Holmes. Well Watson, is he innocent?
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Holmes? I know no more than you do. There's an odd factors,
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of course. The writing on Old Acre's draft of the will, for
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instance, I see nothing hard in that. It's a bit of a scribble,
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perhaps, doesn't sol But written in a railway train and express with only
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one stop the whole way, but several sets of points on the line.
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Yes, But my dear fellows sublicity itself to an expert. Look at the
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variations in the handwriting. If I'm not mistaken, this was written in the
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very train we are about to catch ourselves, Watson. But traveling, of
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course, in the opposite direction. We go from London Bridge through Norwood.
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Come along, let us see the home of this respected murdered builder for ourselves.
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The house was a modern villa of staring red brick. We found a
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group of lustradesmen routing among the ashes of the timber stack, and at the
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very moment of our arrival struck treasure trove a few discolored metal disks. There
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was no doubt that there were trouser buttons. We looked in the builder's study,
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saw the signs of a struggle, the bloodstains, the trail of a
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heavy object dragged from the ground floor window to the timber yard. It seemed
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only too clear that less Trade had a case. There were no other footprints
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but our clowns and the builders. After one quick glance through the papers scattered
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from the safe, it was with a furrowed brow that Holmes returned at last
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to Baker Street. All the rest of that close thundery day he moped and
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pondered. Next day it was hotter still, what's all wrongs wrong? You
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mean he may be guilty after all? No, no, no, I'm
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certain Macfarland's innocence, and all my instincts are one way, and all all
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the facts are the other. MacFarlane had so much to gain, of course,
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a poor young solicitor, and a bequest from the blue like that.
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He might have hoped that the body would burn completely in the woodstack before the
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fire was spotted. Even that the whole house might burn down, And then
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he didn't head it at once, and yet he chose the worst night in
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the world for it, a night when the housekeeper knew that he was there,
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she knew his name, even you heard me ask him if she denounced
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him. And then there's the will itself, that odd writing on it,
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written in the train by old Ecare you mean you're still a hark back to
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that he is on his way to see McFarlane, scribbled almost illegibly in a
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swaying railway carriage, And at the last moment extraordinary that a man should draw
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up so important a document so casually. It suggests he might not have thought
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it very important, It suggests Watson, we'll see who that is, my
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dear fellow. Oh this heat, this wretched, wretched heat. It's a
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telegram homes thatch out. Here's a ports from this trade, important fresh evidence
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to hand advise you abandoned case. A very kind of him. Wait,
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there's more. McFarlane's fingerprint in blood found on wall beside headstand less trade.
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What's that, Watson, Watson, We're done for homes. He must be
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guilty. Fingerprints can't lie. You know that it's the latest sire. Of
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course they can't lie, thank Heaven. And this one means one thing,
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and one thing only, Watson, McFarlane's guilt, McFarlane's innocence. Get your
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hat, Watson. We've another journey before us, my dear Holmes, to
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Norward again in this heat, black heat. This time McFarlane's an innocent man.
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There's mercy still in heaven. And from that moment he was a different
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man. The indolence and dejection fell away from him. Sherlock Holmes was seldom
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perhaps jocos, but when he talked blithely of less Strade's little cruel victory in
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the telegram, he was as near to chirruping as I ever saw him.
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I was to see yet another side of him that day, as we sat
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in the parlor of the humble villa in Blackheath, where the young solicitor lived
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with his parents. Outside in the hot street, some children were playing,
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their voices penetrated into the stuffy little room. Mcfarline's father was away work,
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and Holmes listen to the mother with a quiet sympathy. You must save him,
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mister Holmes. I've helped so much about John. How you help people.
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You must save him. Well, I think I can almost promise that,
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ma'am, that are only a few remaining points to be cleared up.
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John would never do such a thing. I just knew he wouldn't, and
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so do I, and so does doctor Watson. Here. Of course,
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I know, missus McFarland, things look black. But as long as your
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boys mister Holmes on his side, he's save enough, I know, sir.
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I'm so grateful. It was good of you to call. Well.
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I wanted some information from you, ma'am, to help me in my work.
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I'll tell you anything I can. Mister Holmes, there, I'm better
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now. You must forgive me if I was a bit upset when you came
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first to talk about. And of course, of course it's this mister Oldacre,
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ma'am, the murdered man. Your son told me that you knew him
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at some time, though he himself had never met him. Yes, I
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knew him, mister Holmes, when we were both young. Well, ma'am
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too, well, sir, it was once a suitor of mine, Thank
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heaven, I discovered his character in time. Oh then, in what way,
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missus McFarland, he's cruelty, sir, he was more like a beast
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than a human being. Oh indeed, Oh, I've no sort of Jonas
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Oldacres dead, doctor Watson, only that my boys been blamed for it.
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Your son knew nothing about this old acquainted ship, nothing that might have made
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him well, there's some grudge against mister Oldacre, No, sir, Dad,
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and I only told him that Jonas was once an acquaintance of ours,
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and you yourself have had no communication with him since those old days. No,
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mister Holmes. Oh, if you'd passed me that little poker work box
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there on the sideboard, I could show you something. Certainly, I've never
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ceased to blas heaven that I married a better man, mister Holmes. Is
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this the box, missus McFarlane, Yes, sir, I've look off with
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Jonas when I helped how he turned a cat loosen and navy every once,
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mister Holmes, just for a joke, he said, And the next post
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I got this, jes see what it's your photograph? Now what he left
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of it? You see how he cut and slashed it all over A malicious
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character, disrespected builder very ready must have forgiven you as the years went on,
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Missus McFarlane, Since he left all his property to your son. We
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don't want any of it, doctor, not a any of it, even
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when John's name's clear, well, maybe little enough to leave in any case,
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in spite of the fact that mister Oldacre was supposed to be so wealthy.
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What's that Holmes? Well, there's one more question, missus McFarland.
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Do you know of anyone, perhaps from back in those early days called Cornelius
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Cornelius, No, sir, no one. I looked over Oldacre's bank statements
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when we were at his house the other day. There have been several large
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checks drawn lately in favor of a mister Cornelius. His fortune has dwindled considerably.
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Ah, blackmail home. Possibly possibly You've been very good, ma'am.
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We won't intrude upon you any longer. I'm so grateful, mister Holmes.
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Oh it's nothing, ma'am. If only I can clear your son's name,
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it'll be quite time enough then to thank me. Come Watson back to Norwood.
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Ah really, Holmes, Norwood again. Oh, one thing more,
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ma'am before we go, I wonder if you would oblige me. That's something
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that I see in your work basket there that measuring tape. Might I bother
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it? I'm measuring tape? Why certainly, mister Holmes. I'm dear Holmes.
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What on earth? For? Who knows? Watson? Perhaps to hang
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the real murderer of Jonas Old Decca. Thank you, ma'am. I'm much
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obliged to you. Come Watson now, Watson, will you please take the
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other end? Yes, right into the corner. What do you make it?
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Seven foot six and alf excellent, mister Holmes. Mister Holmes, I've
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got you this time, I think? Have you lest trade? Seven foot
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six and a half Watson, mister Holmes, this is important, good doctor.
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Will you look on the white watch there by the hatstand the thumb printing
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bradd as McFarland took his hat that night. Yes, yes, it's very
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clear. I'm afraid you can fiddle that tape measure of yours as much as
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you like, mister Holmes, but you'll know as well as I do,
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that no true thumb marks are alike. What? Oh? Yes, yes,
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I've certainly heard something of the kind. Then when your please compare that
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print? Well, This wax impression of young mcfarlan's right thumb taken by my
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orders in his cell this morning. I really don't need to, lest trade,
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I take your word. But what a providential thing that this young man
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should press his right thumb against the wall when he was taking his hat from
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the pig. Is it a very natural action when you come to think of
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it, when he might have slipped or stumbled home? Yes? Of course.
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And who discovered this significant markless trade, missus Lexington the house this morning?
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Oh? Not the police? Why didn't any of your notice it yesterday?
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Wow? No particular reason to examine the hole any carefully? Quite so,
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I must even missed it myself. However, if you will forgive us
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less trade, Watson and I must go on with our measuring. You beat
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me, mister Holmes. You really do here. You are measuring a lot
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of carters when the case is water tight, and all I have to do
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is write my report. Oh I wouldn't write it yet, you not not
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quite yet? Less trade. By the way, how many constables have you
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here on duty three? I wonder if one of them would perhaps kindly fetch
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me in some straw from the artist straw saw some there? Yes? And
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perhaps you would ask another to bring a couple of buckets of water. Then
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all of you meet me on the top landing, say in five minutes,
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I've just won final measurement to make on the floor. There come another conjuring
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trick, mister Holmes, so to produce a rabbit. But not out of
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my dear stalker. You would be surprised to hear you do it less trade.
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Well, if you insist, I never can resist you, mister Holmes.
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Five minutes, he said, five minutes on the upstairs landing. Exactly,
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it's straw and buckets of water. Well, well, oh, my
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dear Holmes, poor less trade, I enjoying herself, aren't show? Am
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I? Watson? Well, at least he's quite right that fingerprints never lie.
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That's why I knew the case was virtually solved when I heard of the
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appearance of this one. Solved Holmes, how because I know it wasn't there
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yesterday, and John Hector Macfarland's been in the jail all night. You know
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my methods. What'son by execute every inch of the place. Come on upstairs,
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Lendy. It's splendid less trade. Yes, that's right, Constable.
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You'd just lay the straw there and put down the buckets beside it. Now,
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Watson, will you kindly open the window so as to drive a draft
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along down to the end of the corridors. Holmes, you'll really go too
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far. Sure you. I have an excellent reason for everything I'm doing.
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Lest trade. Thank you Watson so much. You have a match. Yeah,
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yes, having solf. Well then said light to the store, will
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you Wat's this said? Light to it? More smoke than fire less trade.
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Now, gentlemen, if you will all join me in a shout of
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fire when I give the word fire, are you already? Ah? Thank
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you so much, But once again, if you fire, Holmes the wall
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at the end of the corridor. Look it's opening. Yes, it's a
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door, Watson, a cunningly concealed door. Help. Look there's your man
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less trade and my rabbits. Gentlemen. Mister Jonas old Acre, I'm joking.
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I can't see what is it? What are you doing here? What
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do you want to be? Want you, mister Oldaca, I haven't done
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nothing wrong. You God touch me when you've done your best to get an
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innocent man hanged out. It was all a joke, only a cuke.
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I'm joking, jucid queer one. Mister Jonas hold Aker, Well, I've
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seen a lot of villain in my time as to own. But this beats
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a Bandit does take him last, destmates. Come on, Joe, I
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hate to come out your cards. Well, I must say, Holmes,
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I congratulate, Thank you, my dear fellow. Oh it's really too hot
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a day for a fire. Pay empty those buckets of water over the straw,
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Williams. That's better. It's all went bitterest. That is factually I
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think. Well you've done it again, mister Holmes. Look the left and
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plasta petitions that he built here to make a little hiding hold for himself at
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the blind end of the corridor. Yes, Watson, now you'll see the
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advantages of being a builder. He concealed it very neatly. If I hadn't
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noticed that discrepancy in the length of the corridors from floor to floor, he
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might have stayed there till doomsday, and till MacFarlane had been hanged. The
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housekeeper was in the plot, of course, as of course, to take
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him food and drink, and to put that thumb mark onto the wall.
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And how well Oldacre evidently wanted the evidence to be cast iron. And I
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dare say that when they were looking over the papers. That night he got
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Macfarlan to steal a package of them by using his thumb. Then it was
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the simplest thing in the world for him to get a wax impression from the
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seal, prick himself with a pin to get enough blood, and then put
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the mark on the wall during last night. Just to make sure you know
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it was for revenge, I suppose on the young fellow's mother. Yes,
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besides, business hadn't been very good for him lately. He'd been speculating and
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there were a host of creditors. I saw that from his papers, and
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so he'd been paying these large checks to mister Cornelius himself at another bank.
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Exactly. He intended to start life of pressure with that money under the other
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name, to defraud his creditors and at the same time take his revenge on
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his old sweetheart by getting her only son hanged for his murder. He's something
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of a monster, friend Dance, there's this trade. Well, we'll get
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him on conspiracy. At least he'll be inside for long and after the pent
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of his villain name. But what about the remains in the woodpie? Mister
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Holmes an old suit for the trouser buttons, and for the blood stains on
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the stick he'd stole him from the boy, and the charred flesh some animal,
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a dead dog perhaps, or a rabbit. Make it rabbit, will
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you, Watson when you tell the tale? Someday rabbits and shall be Holmes.
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But poor young Macfarther, no wonder, he was nearly mad. Well,
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we did our best for him, Watson, our humble best. Oh
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it feels cooler at last. I do believe the weather's going to break.
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Come along, Watson, come along. And so we return to Baker Street,
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and that evening, as we were discussing the case over Hock and Seltzer,
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once again the door burst open dramatically. Mister Holmes, you save my
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life. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Don't bother to thank
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me, my dear fellow. Good evening to you. Oh pray be sure
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to give my compliments and this tape measure to your mother, a most charming
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lady. She'll be the happiest woman in all the world. Yes. Yes.
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The Case of the Lawwood build up rather curious in its cunning simplicity.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories of Sir Arthur Conan
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Doyle had been dramatized at You, with original music composed by Sydney Torch.
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Sir Ralph Richardson played the part of Doctor Watson and Sir John Gilgood that of
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Sherlock Holmes. The program was produced by Harry Allen Towers. Welcome Back with
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the Sign of Four and the Redheaded League. This is probably right up there
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as one of my absolute favorite home stories, just the way the solution turns
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out. If you saw the television adaptation, of course, you'll notice a
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big, big difference, and that is that on television they actually had the
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builder kill kill a tramp in order to get the flesh needed for the evidence,
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but here they stuck with the book. I also thought it was an
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interesting touch having this Scottish dialect. They have not heard that in any of
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the other adaptations, but given the name, definitely makes sense as a possibility.
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All right, Well we do turn to listener or comments and feedback,
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and we have this from from Michael, who writes brilliant website which I've just
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found. I've previously downloaded episodes of the Sherlock Holmes series. I will be
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visiting more frequently. Well, thanks so much, Michael, and appreciate you
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listening to the program we and Michael's listening to us from Australian speaking of Australian.
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Tomorrow we'll have a third part in Call for a Columnist, and also
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as we wrap up, Alvin Sommers matter on yours truly, Johnny Dowler.
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