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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Lucky Shilling Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conwa · Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen

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Speaker 1: An our doctor to get back to your game of
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quest at the Bagatel Club.
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, this was the adventure Holmes always referred to
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as the case of the Lucky Shilling. As a matter
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of accuracy, it was more than sheer luck that enabled
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Holmes to win with that particular coin. Oh were, but
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to begin at the beginning. It was a lazy spring
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morning in the late nineties. I emerged from my bedroom
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with a well developed case of spring.
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Speaker 3: Fever, which Holmes jolted you, Adam, he did.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, before I had time to down my morning coffee,
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he bustled me into a handsome cab, and my revolver
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in my pocket, and the scent of adventure in my nostrils.
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Holmes was cold and stern and silent, his brows knit
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in thought, and his hin lips drawn into a sardonic smile,
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a sure sign that we were on the prowl in
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the dark jungle, a criminal London, Holmes, do you have
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to look so sinister? After all, it's a beautiful spring morning,
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the buds are budding, the birds are seen, and.
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Speaker 4: One of our well known young men of our town
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has unaccount to be disappeared with an inconsiderable sum of money.
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Speaker 3: Watson. His mother sent me a frantic summons early this morning.
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Speaker 4: Turn him here, driver, park lane number is four twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: Four twenty seven park Lane. That sounds vaguely familiar.
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Speaker 3: Yes, we've been there before. This is the house driver.
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You all keep the change, ny you, of.
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Speaker 2: Course, it's the establishment to have laid in mine, wife
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of the Earl of Manoud. It is through that window
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there that her second son, the Honorable Ronald Adair, was
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shot by Colonel Rand's famous air gun.
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Speaker 4: This time it's her oldest son, Lord Robert, who's missing.
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Is it any wonder? The letter she sent me burges
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on hysteria.
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Speaker 5: But you don't understand, mister Holmes. Robert is a most
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devoted son. He'd never leave me in my condition without
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some sort of explanation.
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Speaker 3: Your condition, lady, maynuth as.
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Speaker 5: You know, mister Holmes. I left my husband, who was
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governor of one of the Australian colonies, the year before last,
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to return home to England for an operation for cataract
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of the right eye. My second son and my daughter
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accompanied me e.
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Speaker 3: That operation I believe was a complete success.
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Speaker 5: It was, mister Holmes, but my son's tragic death, and
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the knowledge that my left eye was also affected and
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in due time would have to be operated on, left
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me in a horrible state of nervous depression.
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Speaker 2: Understandable, Holmes, Yes, quite so.
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Speaker 5: As the time for my second operation approached, my husband
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insisted that our oldest son, Robert.
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Speaker 1: Should be here with me.
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Speaker 3: How long has he been in London, Lady meynoth less
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than a week.
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Speaker 2: Hardly time for him to get into any scrape the
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usual bad company.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it couldn't be anything of that sort, doctor Watson.
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Robert is too shy and well, perhaps fastidious is the word.
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He much preferred to spend an afternoon in the British
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Museum or the National Gallery, then galloping up and down
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rotten Row, or winking at pretty nursemaids in Kensington Gardens.
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Speaker 3: Hmm, pity.
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Speaker 4: A certain amount of kicking up of the heels and
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the young lady menuth is healthy prepares them for life.
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Speaker 3: They learn what to beware of later on.
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Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, you terrify me. You don't suppose Robert has
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fallen into the clutches of one of those theatrical hazars
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of the gaiety who are always marrying young men with titles.
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Speaker 4: Calm yourself, Lady Manuth, granted your son will inherit a title.
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I hardly think enough coin of the realm goes along
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with it to interest one of the gaiety girls, Am
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I right?
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Speaker 5: Unfortunately? Yes, That's why I'm so particularly worried about Robert.
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He's never had the handling of a large sum of money.
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Speaker 3: Before before what before yesterday?
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Speaker 5: I well, I feel I must have no secrets from you,
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mister Holmes, if you're to find Robert. I need money desperately.
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My second operation for cataract is to be performed by
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the famous eye surgeon, Sir Lionold Tupper.
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Speaker 2: A brilliant opthalmologist, best in the field, Anita up Watson.
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Speaker 5: He is brilliant, Doctor Watson, but all so frightfully expensive.
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His fee for my lost operation was five hundred guineas
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white outrageous, but he's worth it every penny. Well, to
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make a long story short, I had no cash in hand,
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no possible way of raising any in the immediate future,
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so I gave Robert my pearls to Paul. It was
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yesterday afternoon that was the last any of us saw
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of him.
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Speaker 3: I pardon the question, Lady Minouth. They were valuable peels.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, mister Holmes, they were worth many times the
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five hundred guineas I hope to raise on them.
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Speaker 3: I see, but pardon me.
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Speaker 5: I see Parker the butlers motioningly from the front hall.
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I think he has something to tell.
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Speaker 2: Another case of a sealing of the upper class has
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gone wrong, he Holmes, not necessarily, Watson, quiet is coming back.
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Speaker 5: Oh, mister Holmes, I'm so relieved. Pauker tells me that
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Robert has just come in the back way and gone
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up to his room.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so.
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Speaker 5: Sorry to have brought you out on a wild goose chase.
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But you can see there's no further.
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Speaker 3: Need for you.
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Speaker 4: On the contrary, Lady Manouth thisss, I'm very much mistaken.
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This is the moment when there's the greatest need for me,
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which is your son's room.
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Speaker 5: First door left at the top of the stairs.
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Speaker 3: Come along, what's up?
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Speaker 2: We go? What's wrong? Homes What do you think is that?
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Speaker 3: I may be wrong? But no, the door's locked. You
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hear that, Homes, Yes, Watson, it's not the.
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Speaker 4: First time we've put the devil's tattoo in Heaven's name.
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What is it the sound of heels beating against a
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closet door. Lady Maynooth, your son has hanged him?
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Speaker 2: So confound the explanations. Homes helped me break down the door. There,
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Who do that? Was a narrow squeak, old man.
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Speaker 5: Don't do it again, oh Robert, how could you?
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mother. I guess I'm just no good.
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Speaker 6: I lost the money, mother, the money they gave me
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for pawning your pearls.
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Speaker 3: There's nothing to pay for your operation.
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Speaker 7: What does it matter?
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Speaker 5: Nothing, nothing cats but having you safe and some game.
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Speaker 3: How did you lose the money at cards? Mister Holmes?
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I guess I'm not as good a whist player as
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I thought I.
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Speaker 2: Was, you young scoundrel. You mean you took the money
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for your mother's operation and gambled it away.
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Speaker 3: But I had to believe me. It was the only way.
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Speaker 6: A notorious in fletchers, the money lenders where I went
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upon the pearls. I was ushered into the office of
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mister Juan Satorius himself when they found out it was
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the nuth nickolace I had in my pocket. Well, when
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I entered the door, the old boy was friendliness itself.
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He stood back at his desk, bowing and wringing his
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fat little hands. When I pull the pearls out of
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my pocket, he almost snatched at them. His hand fairly
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shook as he adjusted his jeweler's eyeglass to one shiny
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black eye.
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Speaker 8: Beautiful, but yes, they are beautiful and so perfectly matched.
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Tell the lady may know that I shall be very
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generous to her. I shall off for seven thousand guineas
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for her pearls.
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Speaker 6: But if, mister Satorius, I'm afraid you don't understand. No,
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the pearls are not for sale. I couldn't sell them
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if I wanted to see. They're part of the estate,
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and as such her entainment.
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Speaker 8: In that case, I'm not interested, but surely a slight lonely.
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Speaker 6: It's only for a short time until the rents from
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our Lancaster properties are do. My mother must have that operation.
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Speaker 8: Tell her to wait till the rents are paid.
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Speaker 3: But she can't. Don't you understand that they may leave
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her blind?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Please, can't you let me have the money. It's only
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five hundred guineas. I'll pay any rate of interest.
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Speaker 8: Young man, you touch my heart, I give you two
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hundred and fifteen percent.
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Speaker 3: Two hundred, but I need five. I must have it.
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Speaker 8: Three hundred then, but that's the last word, three hundred.
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Speaker 3: What good is three hundred? In my position?
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Speaker 2: You are a man of the world.
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Speaker 8: I believe you belong to clubs. No seems to me.
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I hear you're a good whist player, as your brother
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before you. All the main news have what is called
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the card sense.
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Speaker 6: No, yes, that is I suppose so. I always managed
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to win a bit, but I never played for high stakes.
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Speaker 8: Not you, idiot. A young man with a three hundred
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guinea nestache who understands cards can do very well for himself.
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Speaker 5: No, oh, Robert, who didn't go to one of those
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whist clubs.
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Speaker 3: Yes, mother, I chose the bag of Tell the.
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Speaker 5: Bagateur firsctiful heavens, that's where your brother met that dreadful
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Colonel Morn who caused his death.
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Speaker 6: Mother, that was an unfortunate exception. What the Bagotelle is
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a gentleman's club. They're famous for having the most brilliant
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but most honest games in all London. Besides, you know
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the old saying lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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Speaker 3: But in your case it did. Lord Robert. Yes, I'm afraid, sir,
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you hand a particularly bad run of cards. No, I
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can't even claim that. Then there was no crooked beming.
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Speaker 4: Oh good lord, No, it was just well, nothing seemed
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to work out for me, while your opponent's hands dovetail perfectly.
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Speaker 3: That's about the size of it. Mister Holmes. You played
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a set game.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, sir.
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Speaker 3: We cut for partners after every rubber. And who was
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the big winner? Well it was a mister Horatio Webster.
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Speaker 6: If he'd been able to see straight through the cards,
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he could have had better luck.
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Speaker 4: Oh yes, mister Horatio Webster, double or nothing.
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Speaker 3: Webster. He'd rather gamble the neat I understand, so would
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I if I had his luck. I wonder if it's
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all luck.
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Speaker 4: No one's luck can be as good as mister Webster's
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unless he sold his soul to the devil.
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Speaker 2: There wouldn't be a metaphor for as yet suggesting the
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gentleman isn't entirely honest.
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Speaker 3: Go to the head of the class, Watson. But we
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can't prove anything. But what can I do?
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Speaker 4: Justice see that Watson and I are presented with visitors
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cards to the Bagatelle. I rather think we'd enjoy an
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evening at the tables.
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Speaker 2: Homes. Have you taken leave of your senses? You haven't
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played Whist for over a year.
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Speaker 4: Even so, my dear Watson, I fancy I may be
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able to teach mister double or nothing Webster trick.
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Speaker 9: Or two after all, Homes, Why I have to crawl
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into this, into this high collar and the stiff shirt,
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just to.
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Speaker 2: Spend the evening playing cards.
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Speaker 4: Is more than I stop spluttering, Watson. The bag of
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tell is a very elegant establishment.
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Speaker 3: We us step up to the tradition Bolla dash once more.
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Speaker 2: I can't say I look forward to having you as
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a partner for the entire evening.
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Speaker 4: Come now, Watson, my method of playing Whist may be unorthodox,
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but it is rather brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Possibly, but it's enough to give you a partner nervous prostration.
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You play every game is a bit of a poker.
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I please, Holmes, promise that tonight you won't bluff.
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Speaker 4: I'll try to control myself, Watson. Now where did I
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put my lucky shilling?
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Speaker 2: And just remember we've done ever this tend to be
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having the world out of the bank in order to
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have this bling.
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Speaker 4: Don't be so conservative once, and we may lose a
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bit of our nest egg during the course of the ning,
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but don't let it upset you. Before the game's over,
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we shall have won back not only our losses, but
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enough to pay for Lady Maynooth's operation as well.
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Speaker 2: What makes you so sure of that?
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Speaker 4: This shilly, my lucky shilly, I can't possibly lose with
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that on my side.
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Speaker 3: Pretty, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Where did you get that thing? You never carried a
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pocket piece before, never needed one before, and how do
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you know it's so lucky? I've been working on it
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all afternoon.
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Speaker 10: A Gill and Tonic for doctor Watson, Comfort Scotch and
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sorld of for Lord Beavers, and another for me, and
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the Brandy for mister Holmes, the double brandid Comfort.
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Speaker 2: Simply the pleasure to welcome you to the Bagatel Club,
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mister Helms.
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Speaker 10: I've heard so much about your mental prowess. I admit
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I'm prepared to spend the very unprofitable evening show a
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cut for the deal.
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Speaker 4: Your own reputation is fairly colorful, mister Webster, and they
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say you've cornered the market on fortuity.
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Speaker 10: Watson heaven a in this club, the Ace is low.
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Doctor Watson gets the deal if you will each shuffle
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the cards gentlemen, mister Holmes, fir you next not beabs
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total beams is quite deaf, you know. Fortunately it doesn't
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affect his card sense. Oh now my shuffle, and now
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the dealer. Ah, here are drinks. Your cat, mister Webster
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hires with pleasure. There deal them out. May the best
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team win? Shall we play a set game, gentlemen? Or
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shall we cut or rotate after every rubber?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 4: By all means that stay where we are. I'm not
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the athletic type myself. I loathe that not of bobbing
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about too much, like playing musical.
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Speaker 3: Chairs, spades or trumps.
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Speaker 10: Lead please, and that gives us three tricks, which means
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game and rubber, but not to mention a four on account. Hmm,
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that's let me see. Yes, you each lose another two
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pounds eleven and sixpence, gentlemen.
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Speaker 4: Dear me, so we do weigh Watson, settle up, old chap.
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That's a good fellow.
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Speaker 3: Afraid all I have in my pockets, my lucky shilly.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't seem to have brought him much luck so far. Home.
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Speaker 10: Give it time, Watson, give it time, Pumfort. Mister Holmes's
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glasses empty. Thank you, Pumfort cut please, mister Holmes, thank you.
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I hope you don't mind the way old Pumfort hangs
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around the table. He's been a way to here for
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forty years. The game still fascinative, Yes.
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Speaker 3: So it seems. Never try a hand at it himself.
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Speaker 10: Good lord, Now there's no one card from another. Ah,
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clubs are trump this time? Gentlemen, four more points for
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our side. I'm afraid that's another rubber for us. You
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better throw away that lucky shilling, mister Holmes, or was
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that puppet the same all round puppet has indicated the
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bar is about the clothes.
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Speaker 2: It, Scott, isn't that late?
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Speaker 3: You sure you wouldn't like to quit, mister Webster.
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Speaker 10: Not me, as long as my luck holds out, mister Holmes,
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of course, if you've had it enough.
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Speaker 3: Oh not at all. We haven't even started to warm up, hey, Watson.
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Speaker 2: Warm up? Really? Herm is the way you're playing tonight.
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Twice you've timped a good trick of mine, and that
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last lead. What in Heaven's name.
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Speaker 4: Was that, my dear Watson, don't tell me you didn't
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recognize it? That's the new American lead. Fourth from your
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longest and Strongest suit, very ably explained in the Little
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Treatise by mister Nicholas Brown's Twist of New Orleans, USA.
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Speaker 2: Oh to blazes with mister twist, that gives us another
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game and rubber.
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Speaker 3: And it's getting to be positively monotonously.
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Speaker 2: Watson Holmes, have you any idea how much we've lost
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during the night?
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Speaker 3: Vaguely wantson vaguely.
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Speaker 2: I'm found that flash go away.
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Speaker 10: It's getting to be daylight. Even the flies are waking up.
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Sure you don't want to call it quit?
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Speaker 2: Just one more rubber, one more loss, and will be
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cleaned out homes very well.
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Speaker 4: Want soon before that happens, I'll make you a little
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side bet. Put a shilling on the table in your corner. Now,
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I'll put my lucky shilling here in mine. I'll bet
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you a guinea that fly lights on my shilling before
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he does on yours.
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Speaker 2: Ah, there he goes again over in my corner. That's
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a good chap.
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Speaker 3: That makes ten guineas. I owe you once. And yes, hello,
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here comes another fly to get in the game. Perhaps
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he'll bring me luck.
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Speaker 2: I doubt it, but let's get on with the rubber.
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It's indeed.
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Speaker 10: I believe it's funny how the last rubber is always
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the longest, I.
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Speaker 2: Said, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 10: I wonder if I could enter a shilling on your sweepsticks.
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Speaker 3: I certainly, mister Webster. But in that case, I think
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I'll turn my coin over just for luck your shuffle.
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Speaker 10: I believe, mister Webster, coy little beggar that fly nearly
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had him on my coin that time. No, by Jovi's
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lit on yours, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps my luck has changed at last.
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Speaker 2: Here's five guineas as it hasn't fair enough and out
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that's too steep for me, got mister Webster, Thank you,
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Io look at the silly little buzzer.
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Speaker 10: Oh you win again, mister Holmes. How about anothergo at it?
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Same stakes?
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Speaker 3: Delighted, mister Webster.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever thought this to yourself? How can I
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get the advantages of group buying and still trade at
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the local independent store? I trust well the answer is
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really a very simple one. For through the amazing clipper
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Craft Plan, we've made it our business to bring your
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remarkable values in clothes at the local store of your choice.
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It took real planning to accomplish this, and here's what happened.
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The clipper Craft Plan concentrates the buying power are of
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ten hundred thirty six stores from coast to coast, bringing
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you beautifully tailored clipper Craft suits at only forty and
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forty five dollars, top coats and overcoats at only forty dollars,
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and sport jackets at only twenty six fifty. Yes, selling
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expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest
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independent stores is the great, big idea behind the clipper
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Craft Plan. That's why men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes.
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So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in
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your city.
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Speaker 7: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
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add their names to Clippercraft and your suit, top coat
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and overcoat. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at
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eighth and sixty seven, Liberty Street, Sacks thirty fourth Broadway
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at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
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New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop Cresgy, Newarck. And in Jamaica,
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the B and B Clothes Shop one sixty four O
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eight Jamaica Avenue.
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Speaker 1: And now let's return to the Bagateel club where Holmes
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is trying to lure a fly with this lucky shilling.
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Speaker 3: Confound it. You win again, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 4: That makes two hundred guineas you owe me, mister Webster.
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Shall we say double or nothing?
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Speaker 2: Soul gentlemen, let's not forget there's a wrist game going on.
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Speaker 4: That's right, you are a heart, said Trump your lucky suit.
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I believe Watson. By the way, did you know that
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of the original name for Trump's is triumphs. Ah, there's
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the little beast on my coin again. It makes four
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hundred guineas you owe me, mister Webster. I'll double the bet,
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mister Holmes. If you like Holmes, are you out of
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your mind? You've nearly run back our losses.
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Speaker 3: As I was saying, Trump's were once called triumphs.
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Speaker 4: That's what Shakespeare's alluding to an Anthony and clear Patcha
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when he says she Earras has packed cards with Caesar
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and false played my glory onto an enemy's triumph at
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four seen twelve.
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Speaker 10: I've founded Holmes, fly has chosen your coin again.
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Speaker 4: That's eight hundred. You oebe the usual mister Webster, double
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or nothing, homes?
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Speaker 2: Are you adding?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 10: Excuse me, mister Holmes, I figured the law of averages
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must break in my direction for a change.
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Speaker 4: Nice little fly, careful, now there's sixteen hundred guineas riding
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on you, old champ.
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Speaker 3: Careful once and don't revoke.
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Speaker 2: Oh confounded homes. How can I keep my mind on
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the game with a sixteen hundred guinea bet on the tables?
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Speaker 3: Follow suit? Watson, just follows suit, Oh confounded? Will that
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fly never liked?
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Speaker 4: Patience, mister Webster, patience. The history of the game called
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wist is rather colorful.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: The earliest form was called rough and honored homes.
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Speaker 2: Did anyone ever tell you the word west means hush
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or shut up? Pray?
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Speaker 10: Do so? Sorry, Watson, I've founded Holmes, the fly has
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chosen you.
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Speaker 4: And I take the final trick, which makes game and rubber.
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The evening is finished, gentlemen.
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Speaker 10: One moment, mister Holmes, before I settle up, I'd like
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one look at that shilling of yours with.
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Speaker 4: Pleasure, mister Webster. The careful of your fingers, though it's
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slightly sticky, sticky by the Lord Harry and sweet to
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the taste. I've been robbed, Holmes. You're a chicken, a thief.
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I refuse to pay my losses, but.
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Speaker 3: A Welsh on your debt say, I wouldn't advise it.
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Speaker 4: You know, really I wouldn't, or I should be forced
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to report to the governors of this club that the
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Webster luck at cards is largely due to old Pumfort
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the waiter. He stands behind your opponent's chair with his
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silver serving tray angled in such a way that, from
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where you sit it mirrors every card in your opponent's hand. Well,
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that was a neat little trick on hole part, Doctor Watson.
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Did mister Webster pay his debts?
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Speaker 2: Oh naturally, there was more than enough to cover Lady
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Maynuld's operation and recoup our losses.
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Speaker 1: But tell me what was it Holmes had on his
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lucky shilling to attract the fly.
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Speaker 2: A mixture of rum and sugar absolutely visible. You know.
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It's an old trick invented by two famous racetrack touts
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in the nineties. When they had a particularly bad day
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at the track, they always managed to get into the
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same railway carried with a heavy winner. Needless to say,
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by the time they'd reached London, the winner generally had
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empty pockets.
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Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, would you like to tell us
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what story you have in store for us next week?
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Speaker 2: Let me see. Next week, I think I'll tell you
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a story that began with a young man in a
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gory bandage who collapsed on my waiting room floor, and
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which ended with Holmes finding himself in the tightest spot
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literally as well as figuratively, of his entire career.
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Speaker 1: Sounds promising, Doctor Watson, What do you call the story?
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Speaker 2: The adventure of the Engineer's come