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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Strange Death of Mrs. Abernetty Basil Rathbone, N · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, how about the mystery of the withered
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  Speaker 1: Parsley and the strange death of missus Abnetty.
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  Speaker 2: Well with the bell at the time I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: this Parsley, just like myself, was a great deal younger.
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  Speaker 2: But to get on with my story, Holmes had just
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  Speaker 2: concluded his amazing investigations in the affair of the reading
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  Speaker 2: bicycle pump murder, and we decided to stay for a
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  Speaker 2: few days in the nearby beautiful village of Pangbourn. The
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  Speaker 2: weather was surprisingly generous funding this summer, and on our
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  Speaker 2: second day, Holmes and I had gone for a stroll
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  Speaker 2: along the tow path of the River Thames. Holmes was
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  Speaker 2: in an extremely morose mood that day. I remember as
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  Speaker 2: we walked back towards our hotel, Ah, that country's beautiful homes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I suppose it is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come, come, look at the red and gray roofs
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  Speaker 2: of the cottages and the farms peeping out through the
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  Speaker 2: trees over there, so peaceful and soothing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid it has a reverse effect on me, Watson,
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  Speaker 4: that's the curse of having a mind like mine.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how do you mean I.
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  Speaker 4: Observe everything with reference to my own special subject. You
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  Speaker 4: look at those scattered houses and are impressed by their
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  Speaker 4: peace and beauty. I look at them and think how
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  Speaker 4: easily crime may be committed, though the lord.
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  Speaker 2: Who'd associaped crime was as fuck like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's my opinion, Watson, based on experience, that the lowest
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  Speaker 4: and vilest alleys in London do not present a more
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  Speaker 4: dreadful record of sin than does the smiling countryside a
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  Speaker 4: morbid pud And the reason is obvious. The pressure of
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  Speaker 4: public opinion can do in the city what the law
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  Speaker 4: cannot accomplish. There's no lane so dark that the scream
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  Speaker 4: of a tortured child or the thud of the drunket's
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  Speaker 4: blow does not obtain sympathy and help from some neighbor.
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  Speaker 4: But look at these lonely houses, think of the deeds
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  Speaker 4: of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on
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  Speaker 4: here in year out in such places, And no one
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  Speaker 4: the wiser.
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  Speaker 2: Sir, You're in a particular depressing mood. Allall look at
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  Speaker 2: this fuller running towards us must be crazy, and I
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  Speaker 2: him galloping along a towpath an hot day.
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  Speaker 4: Like this, and from his expression, I think we may
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  Speaker 4: reasonably assume that he's not doing it.
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  Speaker 3: For the exercise.
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  Speaker 5: Excuse me, but if is one of you gentlemen, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Watson, Yes, sir, I am, and this is Michella Como.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do, sir?
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  Speaker 3: How do you do?
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  Speaker 5: My name is Gareth Abernetty.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that you were staying in the village. I
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  Speaker 2: went to your hotel.
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  Speaker 5: And they told me that you'd gone for a walk
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  Speaker 5: in this direction.
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  Speaker 3: I presume you need the doctor's help.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I do, Dr Watson.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're on a.
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  Speaker 2: Holiday or naturally I'm at your service, sir. What is wrong? Though?
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps we could start walking back to the inn my
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  Speaker 5: horse and trapper there and.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you about it as we go.
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  Speaker 5: My my mother's just had a bad heart attack. We
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  Speaker 5: learn at homeby Grange, a few miles out of the village.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to drive you out there at once.
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  Speaker 2: Surely if you live here you must have a family doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's in London for a few days.
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  Speaker 2: I see you man, mister Evan that what were the
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  Speaker 2: symptoms of your your mother's heart attack?
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  Speaker 5: Well, she, she said, she was taking her usual nap
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  Speaker 5: before lunch. She started to go to sleep and suddenly
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  Speaker 5: woke up crying that she was she was going to die, said,
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  Speaker 5: her heart seems to stop beating entirely for a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: Has she had these attacks before?
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  Speaker 5: I can't tell you much about it. The family says
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  Speaker 5: that for her age, she's been in very good health.
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  Speaker 2: I've been brought for a few years.
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  Speaker 4: In China, observed, mister Abnett in.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I went out there as a war correspondent
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  Speaker 5: covering the box of Rebellion.
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  Speaker 4: But how did you know the fish that you have
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  Speaker 4: to toot immediately about your right wrist could only have
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  Speaker 4: been done in China. That trick of staining the fish's
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  Speaker 4: scale of delicate pink is quite peculiar for that country.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing, mister Holmes, that's amazing. So that is just
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  Speaker 2: a certain facility for observation, sir. For instance, from what
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  Speaker 2: you've told me of your mother's symptoms, I should say
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  Speaker 2: that her lips of bluish, that she runs out of
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  Speaker 2: breadford walking upstairs, and the veins in her cheeks are
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  Speaker 2: unusually pronouns.
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  Speaker 5: I begin to think I've met a pair of magicians.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, But you're right, doctor.
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  Speaker 4: I see I put you on your metal Watson. How
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  Speaker 4: did you deduce that.
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  Speaker 2: Ele metromedic homes the symptoms of mister Abnetty described but
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  Speaker 2: typical of microL constriction. I shall be delighted to examine
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  Speaker 2: your mother and do whatever I can for.
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  Speaker 5: I'm very grateful doctor.
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  Speaker 4: You're in good hands, mister eving at him. Well, Watson,
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  Speaker 4: I shall see you later, no doubt. This is one
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  Speaker 4: case in which I'm sure you need no help from me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, doctor Watson, I'm not much of a one for doctors.
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  Speaker 6: Stake out your tongue and give me a guinea. That's
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  Speaker 6: what most of them say. Well, what's your addict.
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  Speaker 2: That there's nothing seriously wrong? Just take these drops I'm
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  Speaker 2: giving you before each meal and you'll be well in
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  Speaker 2: no time.
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  Speaker 5: Lizzy, Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: Do you hear what the doctor said? Now try and
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  Speaker 6: stop your wool gathering long enough to see that I
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  Speaker 6: get those drops.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I want to get you.
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  Speaker 6: Forget your own names. The butcher's boy was syringing the bell,
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  Speaker 6: won't you Yes, I know you can lay the room.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think you should rest for a while, missus
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  Speaker 2: evan plenty of time for rest at my age.
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  Speaker 6: Doctor. Anyway, I want to talk to you privately, that's
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  Speaker 6: why I sent Cluzie out.
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  Speaker 3: Of the room.
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  Speaker 6: I want you to bring your friend Sherlock Holmes here
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  Speaker 6: to lunch tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Charlock Holmes, But how did you know that he was
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  Speaker 2: in the village.
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  Speaker 6: There's nothing new in the village or anywhere else going
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  Speaker 6: on here that I don't know about.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Now, will you bring him. I've got something very important
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  Speaker 6: to discuss with him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think of the state.
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  Speaker 6: Of your heart that you What was that filthy medicine
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  Speaker 6: you gave me? It made me sleepy?
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  Speaker 2: Well that was its purpose, Madam.
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  Speaker 6: My family think I'm going to die waiting for it, hoping.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, You're not going to die.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 6: We'll fool them, doctor Tree, real, fool them.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, now is having I'll go to the door.
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  Speaker 6: Oh doctor, I came to see how Grannie was getting along.
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  Speaker 5: I'm no devil.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 3: How do you do my dear?
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  Speaker 2: Is it doctor?
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  Speaker 1: It's me Grannie.
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  Speaker 2: I came to see how you are.
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  Speaker 6: Take the doctor downstairs rose, give him some tea, and
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  Speaker 6: introduce him to the rest of the family. He's got
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  Speaker 6: many news for them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to live, uncle Guts.
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  Speaker 5: Were you going to do?
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  Speaker 7: Dr Watson?
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  Speaker 5: Please, of course, my dear Rose, and I appreciate your
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  Speaker 5: motive in giving me the privilege. A shy, retiring girl
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  Speaker 5: like yourself would hardly dare make such a descriptive introduction
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  Speaker 5: as I will.
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Gatty's you've been drinking again?
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  Speaker 5: Well, since I was the only member of this heartless,
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  Speaker 5: abonety clan that had the initiative to go and get
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  Speaker 5: a doctor, I think I was entitled to a brandy
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  Speaker 5: or two. Oh, come on, Watson, come and meet my
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  Speaker 5: noble brothers. And here in the library waiting like hopeful
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  Speaker 5: vultures for bad news about our dear mother's health.
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  Speaker 2: So I think perhaps some other no no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: might we'll get it over with?
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  Speaker 6: And sorry, doctor Watson, I didn't know I could have
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  Speaker 6: been drinking.
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  Speaker 2: That's quite all right, Dr Watson.
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  Speaker 5: Let me introduce my brother Ernest.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do? How are you? Doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 5: Since the success of Oscar Will's recent comedy of Manners,
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  Speaker 5: Ernest has been unbearable, I think he took its title
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  Speaker 5: to literally person.
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  Speaker 2: You're referring to the importance of being you.
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  Speaker 7: Say, doctor, My brother is a brilliant wit, and Brandy
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  Speaker 7: sharpens his perceptions.
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  Speaker 4: Even more, he's been known to launch a whole.
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  Speaker 7: String of leaden epigrams in the course of one evening.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and he's been known to do an honest day's
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  Speaker 5: work in his life, which is more than you can say,
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  Speaker 5: my dear there As I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Watson has no desire to listen to our.
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  Speaker 4: Dreary wranglings, why not introduce him to John.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to Watson.
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  Speaker 5: This is my other brother, John Abernett.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do to them?
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  Speaker 3: How do you do? Doctorm John is.
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  Speaker 5: The respectable member of the family. He manages the states
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  Speaker 5: here and at least has the unique distinction of having worked.
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  Speaker 3: For the money he gets from mother. I shouldn't talk
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  Speaker 3: like this.
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  Speaker 7: In front of a stranger, Gareth, that form you no, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Uncle Gareth.
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  Speaker 2: Dr Watson's coming here to tell us about Granny.
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  Speaker 5: And then let's hear the verdict. It means much more
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  Speaker 5: to worse than you could possibly imagine. I can assure
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  Speaker 5: you well.
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  Speaker 2: I examined missus Abnett if very followly considering her age,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad to say that her condition is quite good.
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  Speaker 2: I've prescribed you to tell us for her, and she
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  Speaker 2: should pull through very nicely. In fact, I see no
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  Speaker 2: reason why she shouldn't live to be one hundred.
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  Speaker 6: Oh wencle Ernest, this was one of my nicest wine glasses.
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  Speaker 5: Look at this, Watson, You give us the best possible news,
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  Speaker 5: and look at our faces.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you realize that this whole.
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  Speaker 5: Family is waiting for one thing, my mother's death.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, Holmes, it was perfect nauseating.
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  Speaker 4: I must say, this sound like a peculiarly unattractive family.
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  Speaker 2: Well except the granddaughter Rose. She's a sweet little thing.
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  Speaker 2: But the others are a bunch of good from nothing, undoubtedly.
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  Speaker 4: And yet my reaction to what you've told me is
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  Speaker 4: one of intense curiosity. As I remarked earlier today, the
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  Speaker 4: quiet countryside, beneath its external beauty cloaks some of the
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  Speaker 4: violest happening.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I admit the atmosphere in that household is viral,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 4: And think the potential tragedy is smoldering. There a welcome
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  Speaker 4: atriarch who controls the purse streams for relations, living there
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  Speaker 4: and praying for one thing, her death. No, Watson, with
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  Speaker 4: Sancha setting, my curiosity is overpowered, and you will call
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  Speaker 4: on her if you think she's in good enough condition
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  Speaker 4: to see me. Tents may have already been made.
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  Speaker 2: On her life. Normally I suggest responing it for a
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  Speaker 2: day or two. But if you think that she's in.
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  Speaker 4: Danger, Watson, tomorrow we shall upon my lady and see
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  Speaker 4: what can be done to help her. Yes, missus evanitting
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  Speaker 4: before we going.
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  Speaker 6: To lunch, I should like to tell you why I
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  Speaker 6: asked you to come here today, and I want my
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  Speaker 6: family to know too, Karn. I want your attention, mother,
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  Speaker 6: Not another lecture, Sureley, no, Ernest, not a lecture, really
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  Speaker 6: a statement effect. I have asked mister Sherlock holmbs here
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  Speaker 6: today because he's a detective.
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  Speaker 5: Her detective. What's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Mother?
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  Speaker 5: Has someone pinched the family silver?
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  Speaker 2: Be quiet another, Please don't expect yourself, madam, remember that heart?
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 6: Yes? Grannie, do be careful passing over me?
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  Speaker 5: Rose and sit down?
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  Speaker 6: And Garrett, you mentioned the family silver. How did you
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  Speaker 6: know that's what I was going to speak about, Oh mother,
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  Speaker 6: I was only joking, well strange joke, Miss Holmes. I
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  Speaker 6: discovered a few days ago that the amenity silver has
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  Speaker 6: been stolen peace by peace and replaced by imitations.
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  Speaker 4: How do you know, missus Ebat, I recently.
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  Speaker 6: Had occasion to have some of our silver knives repaired.
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  Speaker 6: The blades were loosened the handles. The London jeweler to
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  Speaker 6: whom I sent them reported that they were not the
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  Speaker 6: family silver, but slated imitations. I had him come down
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  Speaker 6: here and examine the rest of the six.
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  Speaker 5: They're frauds.
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  Speaker 6: I want you to find out who's responsible. I know
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  Speaker 6: it's one of these four children.
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  Speaker 7: That's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Mother. Why suggest that one of us is responsible?
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  Speaker 6: Because I know your children too.
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  Speaker 5: Well personally, I think it's what you deserve. Mother. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not dependent on you, mother, but the others are.
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  Speaker 5: You've kept them dangling too long. Look at you, Rose,
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  Speaker 5: You're still young. Are you going to stay here another
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  Speaker 5: twenty years waiting for your grandmother to die? No?
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  Speaker 2: No, please, missus Evannett, none dead man. Go out of
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  Speaker 2: the room, everybody please, Now, don't worry missus Ebny. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to be quite all right.
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  Speaker 8: Oh are you feeling better, missus Ebanetting?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Mister Holmees hand did you tell us so pulled
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  Speaker 2: you around, didn't it. You must remember not to take
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  Speaker 2: another dose until this evening. In the meanwhile, I think
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  Speaker 2: you'd better go and lie down.
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  Speaker 6: No, doctor, I want to go into lunch and afterwards.
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  Speaker 6: I have something else to tell you, mister Holmes, something
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  Speaker 6: I don't intend the family to hear. And it's much
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  Speaker 6: more significant than stealing silver.
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  Speaker 4: Missus Abnett, I think if you were to tell me
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  Speaker 4: your real problem now, simply and directly, a great deal
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  Speaker 4: of time and patience might be saved.
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  Speaker 6: After lunch, mister Holmes, doctor, give me your arms.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent lunch, I must say, And.
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  Speaker 5: The conversation has had all the sparkle and dirty.
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  Speaker 2: Of a funeral oration.
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  Speaker 7: Well, since you've entirely monopolized the conversation, gas, that's not
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  Speaker 7: very surprising.
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  Speaker 3: You too got guests that.
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  Speaker 6: All you know, and Miss Holmes did you cares a lot?
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  Speaker 5: Stuffy?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, missus Evanitty, I'd like another cup?
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  Speaker 5: Really, what's wrong? Your hands shaking?
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  Speaker 9: So, Doctor, she's dead, then I must assume a different
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  Speaker 9: mission than the one I came here to perform.
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  Speaker 4: I suggest that you all leave this room and that
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  Speaker 4: one of you sends a certain for the police. Murder
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  Speaker 4: has just been committed before our arms.
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  Speaker 2: A little at home.
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  Speaker 3: She died of a heart attack.
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  Speaker 4: When death is so intensely desired by four persons present, No, Watson,
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I can't assume a verdict of natural dip
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  Speaker 4: in proof. I suggest to notice the dip to which
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  Speaker 4: that parsley has sunk in the butter. I repeat turned
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  Speaker 4: up for the police.
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  Speaker 1: Before we find out what the police discover.
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: Men.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Once you get baled, there's nothing you can do about it.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: But it's never too early to make the most of
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: the hair you've got.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: That's why I urge you to try.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Kreml hair tonic. Cremmel contains very special hair grooming ingredients
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: which have never been duplicated in any other hair tonic.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: Cremmell keeps the hair in place longer, always looking so
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  Speaker 1: neat and well groomed, never greasy or sticky.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: But this highly.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Specialized hair tonic does lots more than just keep the
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: hair looking handsome. A quick massage with Kremmel helps stimulate
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  Speaker 1: circulation right in the surface of the scalp, leaving your
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  Speaker 1: scalp feeling so alive vigorated. At the same time, Cremwell
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  Speaker 1: removes loose danders and has a fine lubricating effect on
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  Speaker 1: a dry scalp. And if your hair is dry and
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  Speaker 1: breaks and falls, Cremwell actually helps condition the hair in
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  Speaker 1: that it leaves it feeling so.
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  Speaker 3: Much softer, more pliable.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'm sure you'll enjoy the way Kremill always feels
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  Speaker 1: so clean on your scalp, looks so clean on your hair,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: and has that your clean odor. How it helped give
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: you such a handsome, clean cut appearance. Buy a bottle
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  Speaker 1: at any drug counter k R. E. M L. Kremmell
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  Speaker 1: Hair Tonic. Well, doctor Watson, I begin to see what
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  Speaker 1: you mean about that withered sprig of parsley, but I
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  Speaker 1: still don't understand what it had to do with the
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  Speaker 1: death of the old lady.
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  Speaker 2: Oh moder dim mister bell as the time, but Shallock
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  Speaker 2: Holmes soon explained it to me. As soon as a
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  Speaker 2: family left the dining room and the police had been sent.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Holmes and I stood together in that room of death,
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  Speaker 2: damming the dining room table.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Watson, I'm certain that she was poisoned before her.
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  Speaker 3: Eye hous you will admit that in.
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  Speaker 4: Her condition of double dose of digitalis would have been fatal.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly, yes, But she didn't have an overdose. I gave
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  Speaker 2: her some before we came into lunch and told her
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  Speaker 2: not to take her usual dose at the table, and she.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't take it, not consciously, Watson, But I'm convinced that
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  Speaker 4: she received another dose in her food.
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  Speaker 2: How she didn't eat the roast lamb the rest of
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  Speaker 2: us head. She simply had two lightly boiled eggs. He
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  Speaker 2: cracked them out in herself. They couldn't have been poisoned.
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  Speaker 4: But she put butter in her eggs, large quantities of butter.
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  Speaker 2: You all had butter from the same dish.
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  Speaker 4: Home too, But once again I asked you to observe
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: the significant fact the depth to which the parsley has
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: sunk in the butter.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: The past hasn't sunk for seft to play.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: All that, my dear Watson, is the significant Thank.
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: Oh, beg your pardon, sir that you said as are
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: you not something that's wrong with the lunch?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I'm the cook. Something was very wrong with the lunch,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: my good woman.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, and I hear as a mister Sabinette
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: has been took with another of her spells. Yes, she
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: has tell me was this table date for lunch at
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: one o'clock?
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, it was, But you didn't come into laugh.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: An hour later, while missus Abnett has attacked the ladus
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: in the drawing room. Did anyone come through the kitchen
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: into this room?
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: No, sir, did you?
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: And he would have seen him if they had.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: And when you set the table, you placed this butter here, yes, sir,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: as you see it's.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Garnished with parsley. Did you do that?
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Sir? I didn't.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: That's funny.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Who could have put that hole?
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Go home? You?
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: You're right, But the roast of lamb was garnished with parsley,
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: wasn't it? Yes, sir, it was splendid. I'm much obliged
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: to you.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I ope the mistress signs better.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Soon, Sir Watson, I'm going to take that butter to
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: the village Keni shop and have it analyzed. While I'm
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: doing that, I want you to conduct an experiment of
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: your own.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: What do you want me to do?
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Obtain the fresh quantity of butter from the kitchen, place
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: a sprig of parsley on top of it, and see
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: how far in half an hour it sinks?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: In where spending my time? Mussa?
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Nevertheless, Watson, I think the experiment may give us the
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: vital clue to the murder.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Homes. And what did you find out at the chemist?
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: It was that I suspected, Watson. The butter was thoroughly
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: impregnated with digitalis, and yet we all ate some of it. True,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: it would not produce any effect on a normally healthy person.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: In the case of missus Abnetty, however, two doses in
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: quick succession were fatal gris. God, what was the result
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: of your experimental chapel.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: And half an hour a blazing hot day like this
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: passed those things quite noticeably into the butter.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Therefore, it was placed there shortly before we came in
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: late to lunch, not when the.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Table was set.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: But what was the motive?
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: The butter had been shaped by mold. It was patterned
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: on the top.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: The murderer used a hypodermic needle to inject the digitalis,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: and he had to hide the holes made by the needle,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: So he took the parsley from the roast and placed
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: it on a button.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, who have the opportunity?
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: That's what we have to find out. Have the police arrived, Yes,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: there's the sergeant.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Jenkins in charge. He's out there in the kitchen questioning
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: these servants.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Then let's join forces. A murders in this house, Watson.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Between us, we've got to catch him.
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: Mister Ownes, I questioned everybody. The cook, Martha says, nobody
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: came into the kitchen when lunch was waiting on the table, and.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Yet we know somebody did, so perhaps they came through
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the window.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I checked that two third.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: The gardener was working in the road of Yndrome there
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: at her side. He said no one went in that way, and.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: The only other entrance to the dining room was the
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: door meeting into the library.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: Or I checked on that one too, mister Rones, Mister
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: John Epanett and his brother Ernest were playing a game
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: of chess there. They swore that no one went through
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: that door.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Only noticed if no one couldn't tamp it with the butter,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: whereas we know they did. Sergeant Jenkins, you've been very
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: thorrying in your examinations, but one of these witnesses is lying.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: We must talk to them again. Martha. When you said no.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: One came through your kitchen and went into the dining room,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: you meant no member of the family didn't join.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: That's right, sir.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: If it had been.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: One of the other domestics, Lizzie, for example, you wouldn't
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: have noticed it.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: No you mentioned, sir, Lizzie did go in just before.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: They came into LUNDIZZI did, but quite Watson, Sergeant, please
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: ask mister Ernest Daphnet to step in here for a moment.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, mister Holmes, Lizzy did go through the library door.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: But I can't see that factors.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Of much important.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Possibly you can't.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: And yet I assure you my question was not my
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: the one was Lizzie carrying anything?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Do you recall I really didn't notice.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I find the problems of chairs, even with
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: brother John as an opponent, more interesting than the perambulations
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: of the worthy Lizzie. Lizzie, Sir, you did go into
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: the room just before lunch?
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: What are nything?
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: I forgot to put the case?
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: That so would be room temperature.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Mister Ernest is most particular about that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Lizzie. You may go, Thank you, sir.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Oh do you think she did it?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Surely there's no doubt it be in your mind?
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Now? Is there? Well?
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: There is in mine, mister Owho's in now?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Mistake?
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: And yet the case is solved. Sergeant.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Let's go into the drawing room and I'll introduce you
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: to our murderer. And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: all see now how the murder was committed.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: But by Lizzie. But that doesn't seem possible.
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, what motive would she have?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I could understand her motive.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Mother's been an absolute tyrant with her.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: I find it hard to believe that with her adultated mentality,
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: she'd have the imagination to think of such a plot.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Oh No, Gareth, the man responsible for this murder is you?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Is ridiculous. I did not say the murderer, I said.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: The man responses, is what on earth you're driving out? Gareth,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: by his example.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: In finding a job and going abroad, caused one of
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: his other relatives to become disgusted with the life of
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: a parasite. That person decided to go beyond such petty
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: devices as stealing silver and.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: To turn to murder.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: An abnetty commit murder, I say, really a remarkably origiant observation.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Which surely that's obvious.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Two witnesses, the cook and Ernest, at first swore no
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: one had entered the dining room. Then, when I asked
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: a question based on one of the elementary flaws of
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: direct evidence, each admitted that Lizzie had entered Lizzie self
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: admitted it, mister, very true. She told us in detail
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: how she had entered the dining room once, but the
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: witnesses had her entering twice. The cook saw her come
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: through the kitchen door, and you, ernest admitted.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: That she had passed you through the library door.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Someone else had realized that same flaw of evidence, that
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: no employer rarely notices the actions of a servant. Someone
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: else had entered that room in the maid's uniform. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: who is the only suspect.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: He could have done that? Your rove habnet Recio Road.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Yes, thank kill Granny.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: When doctor Watson said that grandmother might live another twenty years,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I thought that I'd never get.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Away from here.
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: Well you're getting away from me, an armis. I'm taking
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: you over to the station.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: I don't care my Beto's maids, and I warn.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: You that anything you say maybe used in evidence again.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Rocker's shocking case. I'm glad we're headed back to our tone.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Never have to see that abnetted family again.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: We'll have to make a brief appearance at the trial
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: of the girl.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I still find it hard to believe that quiet,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: shy little thing was capable of conceiving such.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: A devilish murder, solitude, unhappiness, and the companionship of an
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: evil male adjusted family and the tyrannical.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Grandmother read dark Fancis Watson.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: He dressed up in the maid's uniform, convinced that no
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: one would give her a second glance, and then, having
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: poisoned the butter, returned, changed her dress and sat down
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: at the luncheon table.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Precisely for Watson, this has been an unsavory case, but
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: it points a model, a moral that I hope you
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: as myself appointed biographer with prophet.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: And what moral is it?
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: The extreme importance of observing details. Miss Abernetti would not
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: now be on her way to a prison cell if
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: I had noticed one vital cluel the depth to which
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: The parsley had sunk in the butter,