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CBS Mystery Theater-Sherlock Holmes-A_Study_in_Scarlet · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 1: Come in.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm E.G.
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  Speaker 1: Marshall. It's no secret that compulsive gamblers are every bit
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  Speaker 1: as sick.
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  Speaker 2: As alcoholics or drug addicts.
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  Speaker 3: Gambling is a fever that consumes them as surely as
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  Speaker 3: whiskey or heroin. However, even the most habitual and devoted of.
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  Speaker 1: Gamblers might well hesitate when the gamble literally means his
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  Speaker 1: life or death.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, man. Choose. I'm giving you more of.
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  Speaker 3: A chance than you gave Lucy.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you've got a 50-50 chance.
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  Speaker 1: Now, one capsule is harmless, on my word of honor.
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  Speaker 5: The other means death.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'm giving you a choice.
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  Speaker 4: First chance.
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  Speaker 5: You might even have the pleasure of watching me die.
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  Speaker 3: Our mystery drama, A Study in Scarlet, was adapted from
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  Speaker 3: the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic, especially for the Mystery
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  Speaker 3: Theater by Murray Burnett, and stars Kevin McCarthy. It is
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  Speaker 3: sponsored in part by True Value Hardware Stores and Buick
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  Speaker 3: Motor Division.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly with Act One.
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  Speaker 4: Act One.
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  Speaker 3: Word association games provide amusement for many people. They're even
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  Speaker 3: employed by psychologists to diagnose aptitudes and attitudes. For example,
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  Speaker 3: Scarlett O'Hara brings to mind Rhett Butler, while Romeo immediately
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  Speaker 3: suggests Juliet. Sherlock Holmes, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Watson.
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  Speaker 3: It's possible that many of you wondered how Sherlock and Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Watson first met and decided that they would make good roommates. Well, Doctor,
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  Speaker 3: you've seen the flat. And I am Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: I say the flat seems comfortable, and as far as you, Mr. Holmes,
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  Speaker 4: are concerned, I imagine we'll have to let time tell
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  Speaker 4: us if we're going to get along with each other.
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  Speaker 3: Capital thinking, my dear sir. And let me tell you
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  Speaker 3: at once that I shall require the use of this
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  Speaker 3: sitting room only when I see my clients. They may
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  Speaker 3: come at odd hours, but you'd certainly understand that, being
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  Speaker 3: yourself a physician. And lately come from Afghanistan?
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  Speaker 4: Who told you that, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Our mutual friend, Wallaby.
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  Speaker 3: Told me you were a doctor, but I deduced that
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  Speaker 3: you were recently in Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 4: Mr. Holmes, I've no wish to be rude, and certainly
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  Speaker 4: not on such short acquaintance, but I cannot believe.
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  Speaker 3: I was told that you were a doctor, but you
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  Speaker 3: carry yourself with an air of a military man. Army doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Just come from the tropics because his face is dark,
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  Speaker 3: but his wrists fair. Left arm injured because he holds
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  Speaker 3: it slightly stiff in an unnatural position. Where in the
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  Speaker 3: tropics would an English army doctor have received such a wound?
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  Speaker 1: Clearly in Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds simple when you explain it, but I find
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  Speaker 4: it rather astonishing.
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  Speaker 1: Elementary, my dear fellow.
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  Speaker 3: Elementary.
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  Speaker 4: As the days wore on, I found Holmes a singularly
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  Speaker 4: easy man to live with. quiet in his way with
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  Speaker 4: regular habits, but with no seeming system for work. Indeed,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't discover what work he was engaged in until
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  Speaker 4: one morning in March when I arose somewhat earlier than
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  Speaker 4: was my custom and at breakfast read an article with
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  Speaker 4: the somewhat ambitious title of The Book of Life. What
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  Speaker 4: utter nonsense! Never read such rubbish in my life.
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  Speaker 2: What is?
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  Speaker 4: This article evidently written by some armchair lounger who Solved
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  Speaker 4: riddles by sitting safely in his own study. I'd like
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  Speaker 4: to see him trapped down in a third-class railway carriage
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  Speaker 4: and ask to name the trades of his fellow travelers.
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  Speaker 4: I'd lay a thousand to one against him.
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  Speaker 2: You would lose your money.
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  Speaker 3: As for that article, I wrote it myself.
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  Speaker 4: You? Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I specialize in observation and deduction, which has set me
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  Speaker 3: up in my trade. I am a consulting detective.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, to put it succinctly, I step in when government
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  Speaker 3: and private detectives are at fault.
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  Speaker 4: The very next day, when the letter came by special messenger,
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  Speaker 4: it was signed Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Guard, who asked
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  Speaker 4: my roommate to come, if possible, to three Loriston Gardens
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  Speaker 4: off the Brixton Road. Holmes asked me along, and in
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  Speaker 4: a very short time we alighted from.
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  Speaker 3: A cab at the address No, we're fortunate that it
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  Speaker 3: rained so heavily last night.
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  Speaker 1: But come along.
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  Speaker 3: I see Lestrade waiting at the door. It's nice of
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  Speaker 3: you to come right along, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes, but who is... This is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't object... Oh, any friend of yours is
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  Speaker 1: always welcome. Thank you. Now, come this way and I'll
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  Speaker 1: show you the room.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, by the by, Lestrade. Did you come here in
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  Speaker 3: a cab?
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  Speaker 2: I know, sir, I know.
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  Speaker 4: Now, as you can see, this house was select.
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  Speaker 3: All the other rooms were locked. And here, the only
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  Speaker 3: item of furniture is the dining room table. And that,
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  Speaker 3: as you can see, is occupied by the corpse. I
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  Speaker 3: assume you've already examined the body. Is there no wound?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no wound at all, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: And yet we have these great gouts and splashes of
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  Speaker 3: blood all over. Then the blood must belong to the murderer,
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  Speaker 3: if a murder has been committed.
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  Speaker 4: If a murder was committed? Look at the man's face,
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  Speaker 4: the distortion.
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  Speaker 3: Of his limbs. Yes, Watson, I've noted all those things.
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  Speaker 3: But tell me, Lestrade, did you move the corpse at all?
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  Speaker 3: No more than was necessary for the purposes of examination. Well,
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  Speaker 3: then you can have the body taken to the mortuary.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing more to be learned from it.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you two, you can take the body out.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, look at that.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a woman there. That's a woman's wedding ring
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  Speaker 1: which just fell from the body.
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  Speaker 3: As if this wasn't already complicated enough. What did you
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  Speaker 3: find in the pockets? Oh, a gold watch, gold pin
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  Speaker 3: with a strange device. Looks like some kind of a cube.
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  Speaker 3: A Russian leather card case. Card printed reading, Enoch J.
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  Speaker 3: Drebber of Cleveland. Two letters to one E. J. Drebber
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  Speaker 3: and one to Joseph Stangerson.
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  Speaker 2: Address?
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  Speaker 3: American Exchange strands. They refer to steamship sailings.
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  Speaker 4: It's clear that.
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  Speaker 3: This unfortunate man was about to return to New York.
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  Speaker 3: And this other man, Stangerson... Have you made any inquiries
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  Speaker 3: about him?
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  Speaker 4: Of course not.
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  Speaker 3: But you haven't seen yet what I consider is crucial. Now,
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  Speaker 3: it's over here in the corner, against the wall. And
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  Speaker 3: you can't see it unless you strike a match.
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  Speaker 4: In the particular corner illuminated by the flaring match, part
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  Speaker 4: of the wallpaper had been peeled away. And there, scrawled
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  Speaker 4: in blood-red letters, was a single word. R-A-C-H-E. Rush.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Anderson.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of that? A fascinating discovery.
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  Speaker 3: I've not had time to examine this room yet, but
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  Speaker 3: with your permission, I'll do so now. Would it disturb
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  Speaker 3: you if I were to reconstruct how the word came
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  Speaker 3: to be there and what it means?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, by no means.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be interested to hear your theory, Lestrade. Well, first,
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  Speaker 3: Why was this corner chosen to write upon?
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  Speaker 1: Because, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes, if you'd observed that candle on the mantelpiece... Mm,
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  Speaker 3: I see it. That must have been lit at the time,
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  Speaker 3: and that made this corner the brightest.
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  Speaker 1: Spot in the room. Excellent, Lestrade. I congratulate you. And
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  Speaker 1: the murderer wrote with his or her own blood.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 3: You see this smear when it has trickled down the wall.
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  Speaker 3: My dear Lestrade, you're outdoing yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. That disposes of the idea of suicide, right?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: It was murder.
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  Speaker 3: But now that you've found the writing and done so brilliantly,
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  Speaker 3: what do you construe it to mean?
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  Speaker 1: Simply that the dead man was going to write the.
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  Speaker 3: Female name Rochelle, but was interrupted before he or she
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  Speaker 3: had time to finish it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you mark my words, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: When this case comes to be cleared up, we'll find
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  Speaker 3: out that a woman named Rochelle had something to do
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  Speaker 3: with it. Interesting and partially accurate.
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  Speaker 1: First, you're correct.
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  Speaker 2: It was murder.
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  Speaker 3: Secondly, the murderer was a man. He's more than six
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  Speaker 3: feet tall, in the prime of life, and he has
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  Speaker 3: small feet for a man of his height. He wore
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  Speaker 3: coarse where to boot and smoke to pick it up.
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  Speaker 3: One moment, sir. I can't get it all down.
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  Speaker 4: It's too fast.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: He came here with his victim in a four-wheeled cab
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  Speaker 3: which was drawn by a horse with three old shoes
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  Speaker 3: and one new one on his off foreleg. In all probability,
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  Speaker 3: the murderer has a florid complexion and the fingernails of
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  Speaker 3: his right hand were remarkably long. Now, these few indications
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  Speaker 3: may be of some assistance to you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 1: I must thank you.
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  Speaker 4: But, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes, if the man was murdered, how was it done?
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  Speaker 6: Poison.
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  Speaker 2: Poison?
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  Speaker 3: But how, I mean, did he... One other thing, Lestrade.
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  Speaker 3: Roche is the German word for revenge. So don't waste
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  Speaker 3: any time looking for a woman named Rochelle.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes, you're not at all as sure of those particulars
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  Speaker 4: you gave Lestrade as you seem to be.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there is no room for error. If you take
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  Speaker 3: the trouble to observe, you'd reach the same conclusions. On arriving,
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  Speaker 3: I saw that the cab had made two.
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  Speaker 1: Ruts with its wheels close to the curb.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You know about last night's rain? There were also marks
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  Speaker 3: of the horse's hooves. plain for all to see. Lestrade
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  Speaker 3: said that he had not come by camp, so it
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  Speaker 3: must have brought those two individuals to the house.
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  Speaker 4: That seems simple enough, but the description of the man,
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  Speaker 4: his height.
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  Speaker 3: My dear doctor, when a man writes on a wall,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't lean down or reach up. He writes at
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  Speaker 3: eye level. Now that writing was over six feet from
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  Speaker 3: the ground. Child's play, doctor.
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  Speaker 4: I must confess you make it seem that way, but
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  Speaker 4: His age is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if a man can stride four and a half
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  Speaker 3: feet without the smallest effort, he can't be approaching senility.
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  Speaker 3: That was the breadth of a puddle in the garden
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  Speaker 3: walk that Square.
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  Speaker 1: Toes had hopped over.
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  Speaker 3: Pattern-letter black boots had gone wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, but Holmes, that would mean that these two.
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  Speaker 1: Came in the same cab.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Were as friendly as possible until they got inside the house.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I still can't understand about the fingernails from the cigar.
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  Speaker 2: The writing on the wall was done by a man's fingernails.
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  Speaker 2: dipped in blood.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 3: The wall plaster was slightly scratched, which wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 3: the case if the man's nails had been trimmed. And
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  Speaker 3: as for the cigar, I had made a special study
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  Speaker 3: of cigar ashes, written a monograph on the subject, and
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  Speaker 3: the ash that I picked up from the floor could
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  Speaker 3: only have come from a Trichinopoly cigar.
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  Speaker 4: I was pleased to see that I wasn't the only
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  Speaker 4: man who was astounded by by the deductive reasoning processes
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  Speaker 4: of my friend Holmes, we'd call to see Constable Reds.
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  Speaker 2: Who'd found the body.
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  Speaker 3: What I particularly want to know is, was the street
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  Speaker 3: empty when you went out to call for help?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was, as far as anybody that could be
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  Speaker 1: of any good goes. What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: I've seen many a drunk chap in my time, but
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  Speaker 3: never anyone so.
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  Speaker 4: Bleeding drunk as that cove.
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  Speaker 2: How was he dressed?
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  Speaker 4: Brown overcoat.
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  Speaker 1: Any a whip in his hand?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: You must have left it behind. You didn't happen to
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  Speaker 3: see or hear a cab after that?
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  Speaker 4: I was tending to my business.
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  Speaker 3: You should rather say that you were letting the man
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  Speaker 3: who holds the clue to this mystery slip through your fingers.
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  Speaker 4: Come along, Doctor. Holmes, I'm afraid I'm as much in
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  Speaker 4: the dark as the constable. If this man is the
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  Speaker 4: second party in the mystery, why should he return so
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  Speaker 4: soon to the scene of the crime?
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  Speaker 3: The ring, Doctor. The wedding ring. If we have no
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  Speaker 3: other way of catching him... We can always bait our
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  Speaker 3: line with the ring. Some two centuries before, Hamlet had cried,
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  Speaker 3: The play's the thing wherein I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Catch the conscience of the king. Now, Sherlock Holmes has
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  Speaker 1: informed Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Watson that the ring will catch the man who scrawled
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  Speaker 3: the German word rasch in blood across the wall of
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  Speaker 3: the murder room. Act two will tell us whether he's right.
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  Speaker 2: We all use our friends in one way or another.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes some of us use friendship in a way that
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  Speaker 3: stretches the ties almost to the breaking point. But I'll
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  Speaker 3: venture to say that no one ever used a friend
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  Speaker 3: as often and as recklessly as Sherlock Holmes used Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Watson and still retained his friendship and loyalty.
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  Speaker 1: For example, here we pick up the friends in the familiar.
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  Speaker 3: Apartment on Baker Street where Watson is waiting for Holmes,
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  Speaker 3: who has disappeared. My dear doctor, I must apologize for
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  Speaker 3: running off, but I've had a great deal to do.
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  Speaker 3: I had this advertisement sent to every paper this morning here.
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  Speaker 3: Read it in the lost and found column.
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  Speaker 4: In Brixton Road this morning, a plain gold wedding ring.
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  Speaker 4: Apply Dr. Watson to 1B Baker Street between 8 and
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  Speaker 4: 9 this evening.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me, excuse me, my using your name, but I
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  Speaker 3: fear that some of these dunderheads might recognize mine.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's quite all right. But what if someone applies?
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  Speaker 1: I have the ring.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, you have.
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  Speaker 1: Do very well.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost a facsimile.
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  Speaker 4: And who do you expect to answer this advertisement?
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  Speaker 3: I've already told you. The man in the brown coat.
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  Speaker 3: Or he will send an accomplice.
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  Speaker 4: I still don't understand why he wrote the word rash
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  Speaker 4: on the wall.
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  Speaker 3: Simply a blind to put the police on the wrong track.
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  Speaker 3: It was not written by a German because while the
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  Speaker 3: A was printed somewhat after.
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  Speaker 2: The German fashion.
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  Speaker 1: A real German.
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  Speaker 3: Invariably prints in Latin characters. So this was done by
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  Speaker 3: a clumsy imitator who overdid his part. Unless I'm very wrong,
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  Speaker 3: this will be our man now.
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  Speaker 4: Come in.
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  Speaker 1: Good evening, gentlemen. Good evening.
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  Speaker 4: Good evening, madam.
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  Speaker 7: Well, this advert has brought me. Now, as to this
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  Speaker 7: gold wedding ring in Brixton Road, it belongs to my girl, Sally.
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  Speaker 7: has been married only this time 12 months, to which her.
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  Speaker 3: Husband is steward aboard a Union boat.
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  Speaker 7: What he'd say if he comes home without a ring
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  Speaker 7: is more than I can think.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes. Well, is this her ring?
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  Speaker 1: Ah, the Lord be thanked. Sally will be a glad
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  Speaker 1: girl this night. Ah, that's the ring.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you going, Holmes?
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  Speaker 2: I must follow her.
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  Speaker 3: She's obviously an accomplice. No, Watson, she'll lead me to
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  Speaker 3: the man I want.
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  Speaker 4: Well, after Holmes left, I had no other callers. And
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  Speaker 4: I sat puffing at my pipe while ten and then
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  Speaker 4: eleven o'clock passed with no word from him. It was
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  Speaker 4: close upon midnight when I heard his latchkey. Well, Holmes,
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  Speaker 4: how did it go?
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  Speaker 5: Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor, you must promise me not to tell this to
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  Speaker 3: Lestrade because he'd never let me forget it.
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  Speaker 4: What is it? What did she do?
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  Speaker 3: I ran out after her and had no trouble keeping
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  Speaker 3: up as she'd gone only a little way before she
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  Speaker 3: began to limp and show every sign of exhaustion. Presently,
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  Speaker 3: she came to a halt and hailed a four-wheeler which
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  Speaker 3: was passing and she clambered in and I managed to
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  Speaker 3: perch myself behind. And I heard her sing out 13
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  Speaker 3: Duncan Street Poundstitch.
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  Speaker 4: Well, away we rattled.
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  Speaker 3: And just before the driver pulled up there, I hopped
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  Speaker 3: off and began lounging about down the street.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I shall never forget that cab driver's face as
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  Speaker 3: he opened the door and waited expectantly, waited for the
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  Speaker 3: passenger who never came out.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you don't mean to say that that tottering, feeble
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  Speaker 4: old woman was able to get out of the cab... Well,
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  Speaker 4: it was in motion without either you or.
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  Speaker 3: Old woman be damned. We were the old women to
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  Speaker 3: be taken in by that disguise. It was a young man,
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  Speaker 3: and he must have been an incomparable actor. And now
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  Speaker 3: we must look elsewhere to find our man and our answer.
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  Speaker 4: My dear Holmes, congratulate me. I have solved the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: You mean you're on the right track?
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  Speaker 1: The right track? Why, I have the man under lock
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  Speaker 1: and key.
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  Speaker 2: And the man's name is?
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Arthur Charpentier, sub-lieutenant in Her Majesty's Navy. Ah, well, I'm
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: waiting to hear what sets you on the right track. Well,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: of course, the prime difficulty was in tracing the antecedents
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: of this American. Now, Mr. Holmes, do you remember the
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: hat we found beside the dead man?
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: John Underwood and Sons, 129 Camberwell Road. Why, I had
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: no idea you'd notice that. Have you been there?
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: No.
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Well, anyway, I never neglect a chance, no matter how small.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I went there and checked over his books and discovered
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: that he'd sold that to a Mr. Dribble residing at
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Charpentier's boarding establishment, Torquay Terrace.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Very, very smart. Oh, thank you, sir.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Needless to say, I hurried right around to Torquay Terrace
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: and it was there I found the answer to the
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: whole business.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Not from Mrs.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Charpentier, who runs the establishment, but from her daughter, a
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: pretty young thing who speaks only the truth. Finally, her mother,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: seeing that the daughter was determined to answer my questions,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: resigned herself to it. And the girl told me the
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: following story.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: Drebber has been with us nearly three weeks.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: He and his secretary, Mr. Stangerson. I like Mr. Stangerson,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: who was a quiet man. But I'm sorry to say
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that Mr.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: Drebber was, of course, brutish sort of fellow who.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Drank all the time and too much.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Ah, and?
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: And that's why my mother asked him to leave.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Because he was drinking too much, eh?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: And because when he did, he, he, he was rude
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Rude?
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, sir, not, not respectful. So we were
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: all glad when mother told him he must leave, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: he and Mr.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Stangerson went off.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: On the day he was killed?
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And that was the last you saw of him?
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: No. No, he came back. He claimed he missed his train.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: He was.
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: well, he had a lot to drink, and then right
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: there in front of my mother.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Well, now.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: It's all right, Miss.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: This won't get into the papers, I promise.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: He asked me to go away with him.
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: Told me not to pay any attention to.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: The old girl.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: Said he had plenty of money and swore that I'd
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: live like a princess.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Well, Mother told me to leave the room.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: And when I tried, he grabbed me. And that's when
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: my brother came in.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, and then?
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: There was a struggle and shouting. Arthur's very fond of me,
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: you see. And I hid my face in my hands. Well,
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: the next thing I know, Arthur came back laughing with
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: a stick in his hand. He said to me, don't
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: worry about that fellow, sis. He won't trouble you anymore.
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: And I think I'll just keep an eye on him
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: and see what he.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Does with himself. Ah, and when did your brother come back?
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: You've no idea at all?
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: I only know that I went to bed. Arthur had
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: a latchkey.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And he must have let himself in with that. Very late.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: And what's your theory, Lestrade? My theory is that he
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: followed Drebber as far as Brixton Road. Now, he still
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: had the cudgel with him. His sister told me about that.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: In Brixton Road, a fresh altercation arose and Charpentier hit
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: him and killed him.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, perhaps unintentionally. And then.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Seeing what he'd done, he dragged the body into the
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: untenanted house. The writing, the candle, and the ring are
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: all so many tricks.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: To throw us off the scent. Come in.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Ah, I assume that note is for you, Inspector Lestat.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, give it here, please.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Good Lord.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: This is from Gregson. He says Stangerson's dead, been found
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: murdered in his room at Adderley's Hotel. I cannot understand it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I certainly should have had word by now.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Word about what, Holmes?
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Marriage, Watson, marriage.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, I believe that the answer to both of those
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: murders lies back in Cleveland, Ohio. An answer which I'm
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: impatiently awaiting.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: And if it's not forthcoming?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Excellent question, Watson.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: We can spend his waiting time properly, trying to track
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: down our criminal.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: We cab to Soho, to a rather shabby building housing
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: a number of theatrical agents.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Watson, well, I've just seen Jack Lissandra, a theatrical agent
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: friend of mine, and I've asked him if he knew
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: of any young actors who specialize in character parts, particularly
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: old ladies.
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: From the look in your eyes, I deduce that he did.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Capital Watson. You'll make a detective yet. He not only
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: knew the fellow, name of Royce Barty, but he gave
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: me his address and it's just around the corner here.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Hello, what's this? Lestrade here.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Well, he beats me, Mr. Holmes, how you do it,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: but you turn up almost as quickly as we do.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: How did you get the news? Believe me, Lestrade, I
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: don't know what you're talking about. I've just come along
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: with Dr. Watson to see an actor by the name of...
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Royce Bardi. Well, that's exactly what I mean. I've just
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: come from Mr. Bardi's flat. We were called when the
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: landlady went in and found out he's disappeared.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And she also found a word.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Scrawled on the wall.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And the word was rash.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Now, don't tell me you and her... My word of honor, Lassard.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: But I do think that we ought to go into
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: that pub over there and put our heads together over
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: this latest development. Now, tell me, Mr.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Holmes, what put.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: You on to Barney, and how did you know about
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: that word on the wall? First, first, please, have you
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: had an answer to your telegram to America?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: They know of Mr. Drebber, but there's nothing against him.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: And so that proved to be a dead end.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: He's not a criminal. I never thought he was. Now,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: how about Barney, Mr.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Holmes?
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Well, I connected him with the case because of the
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: wedding ring we found when we moved Trevor's body.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, what in the world would he have to do
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: with that?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: It's my belief that he was used as a cat paw,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: a messenger employed by the murderer to recover the ring.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: But even if that's true, why would he now disappear?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, hold on a minute.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Perhaps we have another murderer.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: On our hands, eh?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Is that possible, Mr. Holmes?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: No, no, we are quite done with murders on this case, Mr.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Arndt.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: What makes you so certain? Because, once again, the killer
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: has tried to throw us off the trail. He's a
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: clever man. And once he realized that I had deduced
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: that Farley was used as a messenger, he must have
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: paid him to clear out. The word rush is just
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: another attempt to throw us off the trail. Now, you
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: say all this without asking me anything about the Stangerson murder.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I ask you only one thing about it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: How was he killed?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: With a dagger. Hmm. Well, that's a bit of a blow.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: And I hope this won't be another. What do you
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: think was written on the wall? Written in blood. Above
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: the bed of the murdered man.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: That's the word, Ross, of course.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: But I still need one more thing before my case
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: is complete. As an avid reader of detective stories, I've
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: always felt some resentment when the detective proudly announces that
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: his case is complete, and, of course, I haven't the
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: slightest idea.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: In the world what the solution is.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: However, I must say that of all the fictional detectives
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: who use this device, Holmes irritates me the least. Perhaps
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: because I know his explanation will be lucid, and not make.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: A fool of the reader.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: We'll be back with that solution in just a few minutes.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: The pen is mightier than the sword.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: A cliché quote by now, but of course it's a
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: cliché because.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: It's so true.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: For example, Genghis Khan... Attila, Alexander, Napoleon, and.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Hitler all tried to conquer the world.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: They all failed.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Whereas there's no country in our world where Sherlock.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Holmes and Dr.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Watson are unknown.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: The words from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: have been translated in every language spoken today.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Holmes, here I am sitting in your flat talking. when
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I have the strong feeling I should be out hot
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: on the trail of this body who disappeared. Well, if
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: you feel Barty's so important, Inspector, I'll answer any question
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: you want to.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Put to him. Well, if you don't mind, sir, I'd
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: rather be talking to the man myself.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: No, I assure you, I assure you, Mr. Barty, I'll
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: give you almost word for word what Barty would say
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: if he were sitting in this chair.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Well, now, I might just take you up on that.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: All right, Barty, why did you do a bunk?
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: It was a great mark, and my pal asked me
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: to do him this favor. He paid me to take
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: his little vacation.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: I see. And was it also his.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Idea to write that word on the wall?
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: That was part of the game, you see. He told
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: me he was playing a fancy trick on some of
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: his old pals. Sort of a practical joke, and I
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: went along with it. Anything wrong with.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: That, Inspector? Can you tell me your pal's name?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Jefferson Hope.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: When Holmes uttered the name, Lestrade's jaw dropped and his
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: eyes bulged. I must say that I'm sure I had
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: the same reaction. I simply couldn't contain myself. I say, Holmes,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: if you knew that... I.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: I've neglected to inform you, my dear doctor, that I
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: received the answer I've been waiting for from America.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Ah, and that gave you the name?
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Most assuredly.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: But what kind of question did you ask that America
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: sent you the name of the killer? I asked if
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: there were any unusual circumstances surrounding the marriage of Enoch Drebber.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Remember the ring this time?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, murderer.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: The murderer evidently felt it was so important he was
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: willing to risk capture to come back and get it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: He also sent Bardi after it. Well, I see that,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: but I still don't.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: The telegram that I received from America told me that
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Drebber had applied for the protection of the law against
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: an old rival in love named Jefferson Hope. And that
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: shortly after he made the application, he, Drebber, had left
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: for Europe and Hope had also disappeared from Cleveland. Oh,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I take my hat off to you, Mr.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Holmes.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: But you must admit that was a very lucky hit.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Now that I have the name of the criminal.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: And also a description... A description? From whom? And how
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: did you get it?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, a milkman on an early delivery was leaving
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: bottles in the back of Herody's Hotel when he noticed
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: that a ladder, which was usually on the ground, was
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: raised against a second-story window which was open. He actually
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: saw a man descend the ladder. But the man came
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: down so openly that he just believed that he was
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: some workman.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: And the description?
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: The movement didn't take careful note, but... he thought that
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: the man was tallish, red-faced, and wore a brown overcoat.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Right, sure. Exactly as you said, he drew a coat.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Of course, of course.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Tell me, Lestrade, didn't you find anything else strange in
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: the room?
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, nothing of any importance.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: A novel with which he'd read himself to sleep was
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: lying up on the bed and this pipe on a
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: chair beside him.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: There was a glass of water on the table.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: And on the windowsill a small box containing a couple
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: of pills.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: The last link. Could you lay your hand on those pills?
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I have them, but I must say I don't
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: attach any great importance to them.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: May I have them? Thank you.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Now, Doctor, are these ordinary pills?
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Certainly not. I've rarely seen anything like them. From their
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: lightness and transparency, I should imagine they're water-soluble.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Precisely so.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Now, Doctor, would you mind going down and fetching that
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: poor little devil of a terrier which has been sick
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: so long and which the landlady asked you to put
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: out of its pain yesterday?
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Well, I fetched the dog.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Well, he was indeed in a bad way, and I
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: brought him tenderly back to the flat.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Put the animal comfortably on a cushion there, Doctor?
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: And now.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I will cut one of these pills in two. One
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: half we will save.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: And the other I'll place in this wine glass, which
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: has a teaspoonful of water at the bottom.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: See how easily it dissolves.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Well, this may all be very interesting, Mr. Holmes, but
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I don't see what it has to do with the
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: death of Joseph Stangerson.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Patience, Lestrade, patience. I'll add a little milk to make
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: it palatable.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: And I'm sure that we will find that the dog
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: laps it up readily enough.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: And now what? Give it a minute.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Give it a minute.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: We shall see.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: These pills act very quickly. Oh, they do?
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Not from what I can see. That can't be a coincidence.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: These very pills, which I suspect killed Zebra, are found
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: after the death of Stangerson, and.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Yet they're inert.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, of Now I have it.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Doctor, give me the other pill.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: When I handed him the pill, he quickly cut it
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: in two, added milk after the pill dissolved, and presented
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: it to the terrier. Oh, the dog's tongue seemed hardly
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: to have been moistened in it before he gave a
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: convulsive shiver and lay rigid and lifeless, out of its suffering.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: All right, Mr.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Holmes.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: You've been proved right again. But I still don't see
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: how this will bring me any closer to this Jefferson home.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Thanks to you, I have a name and a description.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: So if I could get cracking on this now, it
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: shouldn't be too long before.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: You hear that I have the fellow in custody.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Good luck, Inspector. But I wonder if you'd humor me
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: by lending me your handcuffs. You never know but what
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I might run across this Jefferson.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Hope before you do.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Well, I've learned not to argue with you, Mr.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Holmes.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: There they are.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: And please don't forget to return them if you don't use.
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: Them.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Lestrade bustled off. I wondered why on earth Holmes had
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: borrowed a pair of handcuffs. My curiosity could no longer
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: be restrained when Holmes came into the living room carrying
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: a pair of boxes and a small pork mantel. Well, surely, Holmes,
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: you're not thinking of taking a trip at this time?
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: No, I've always sounded.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Well to be prepared for anything at a moment's notice.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: That might be the man I'm expecting now.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Come in. I didn't know you were expecting anyone.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: Your cab's at the door downstairs, gentlemen.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Very good. Perhaps you'd be so kind as to give
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: me a hand with these boxes? See that they're strapped
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: up securely?
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Yes, of course, sir.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Here, let me give you a hand. Damn nation.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: What devil's trick is this?
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Help Watson.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Watson, he has a strength of heart.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Hang on to his arm, sir.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Well, doctor, allow me to introduce you to Mr. Jefferson Hope,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: the murderer of Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: If you gents are reckoning on taking me to the
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: police station, you're welcome to use my cab.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: That's a very generous offer.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: On the other hand, I'd be happy to tell you
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: gentlemen all about everything right here and now, because I'm
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: never going to trial.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: I must say you're an impudently cool... Oh, no, no.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: You got me wrong.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: I heard your friend here called you doctor.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Are you a medical man?
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I am.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Well, then you put your hands right here on my chest.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Well, you have an aortic aneurysm.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: That's what they call it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: That doctor who saw me last week told me it's
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: bound to burst before too many days pass.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: What's your opinion, Watson? Is there immediate danger?
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, my dear, there most certainly is. You're Sherlock Holmes,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: aren't you?
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: Well, you kept to my trails of caution. Well, now
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: that you know I'm a dying man... You can be
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: sure I'm not lying when I tell you that those
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: two men were guilty of the death of two human beings.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: A father and a daughter.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: You ever hear of the Dicers Club?
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Never.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: No surprise.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: It's in America.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: It's a club of gamblers.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Trevor and Stangerson were charter members.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: My darling Lucy's father joined later.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: It was a black day for all of us when
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: he joined.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: His name?
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: John Ferrier.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: He was a storekeeper out west, and I was a
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: trapper and scout.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, he had a lovely daughter named Lucy.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: And we fell in love.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Her father approved.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: But by this time, he was doomed because he joined
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: the Dysers. It was all up for him.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Well, how do you mean?
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: Well, I used to enjoy playing a hand or two
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: of poker now and then.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: But I tell you, Doctor.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: There's some people who become crazed with a gambling fever.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Who is?
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, and John Ferrier was one of them.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: He could no more stop gambling than breathing.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: And he lost everything.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: His store, his savings. And finally, his daughter, Lucy.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Well, don't tell me that a father gambled his daughter.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no. No, Doc.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: John Ferrier was a fine man, despite that one overriding fault.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: You never stooped to that. No.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: It was Lucy who suggested A bargain, you mean?
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: A devil's bargain.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: You see, Ferrier was badly in debt to both Drebber
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: and Stangerson, and they were threatening him with jail.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: You know, debtor's prison.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: Now, Lucy couldn't stand the idea of her father in prison,
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: and she well knew both of them were gone on her.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: In fact, before I came along, they wouldn't leave her alone.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Her father.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Father had to forbid.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Them the house.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: But it was she who went to them and suggested.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Promised to marry one of them if they'd forgive.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Her father's debt.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Holmes, those devils, they worked out a scheme.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: Drebber worked it out.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: He went through a false marriage ceremony, and they shared her.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: The two of them. I swore.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Well, never mind.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: I kept my oath.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: And what happened to.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Ferrier and Lucy?
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: John shot himself and Lucy. She died of shame and
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: a broken heart. Only two months after they tricked her.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: And you have been tracking them ever since?
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Ever since I took that.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: False marriage ring from her dead finger. For eight long
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: years I've been on that trail. And they've been on
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: the run. Took every penny I had.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: When we got to London, I was flat broke.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: I applied to the cab owner's office and got a
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: job right away because.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Of my experience with horses.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Well, after years of talking their footsteps night and day,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: my chance came when they missed the Liverpool train that night.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: For the first time in eight years.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: They separated.
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: And when they missed the train, Drebber insisted he had
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: business of his own and would meet Stangerson back on
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: the train platform at 11.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Then how did Stangerson come to be found at Halliday's Hotel?
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: Stangerson realized Drebber was drunk and said that if Drebber
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: didn't show up at the station, they'd meet at the hotel.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: And Drebber took your cab from the station?
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Hardly.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Likely, Watson.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: If Hope was close enough to have overheard their conversation
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: on the platform... He'd hardly have been able to get
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: back to his cab in time for Drebber to have
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: hailed him.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: That's exactly right, Mr.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Holmes.
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: But I followed him, and darned if he didn't go
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: right back to the boarding house he just left. He
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: wasn't inside more than five minutes before he was out again.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: A young man had him by the.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Neck and practically threw him down the steps and into
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: the street.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: If you ever come near this house again, I'll thrash you.
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: Well, Drebber picked himself up and staggered over to my cab, jumped.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: In, and said.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: How does this hotel, driver? Unless you see a pub
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: on the way.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: And stop and I'll get myself a whiskey.
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: I tell you, sir, my heart jumped with joy when
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: I had him inside my cab.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: But you still have the problem of getting into the
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: house in Brixton Road.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, I never doubted I would. Driver!
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Hey, driver!
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: See if you can find another pub. I need a.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Driver, where... are we? We're here, sir. Let me give
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: you a hand. It's wet and cold.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I need a drink.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Damn it, it's dark in here.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: We'll soon have a light. With this candle.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: There.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Now, Enid Drabber, who am I?
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Maybe this wedding ring will help you guess. Oh, you
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: look at it, man.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Jefferson, who?
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Now, either you or.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I will not see tomorrow's sun.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, would you murder me then?
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Hold on, please.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: We'll select your punishment.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Here.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Here are two pills.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Now, I swear upon my poor dead darling Lucy that.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: One of them is harmless.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: And one, a deadly poison.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: No.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Here's justice for you, Drebber.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: You're a dicer, huh? Go on, now, you choose first. Choose.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: And if I won't?
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I'll slice you to bits until you.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Beg for mercy.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Now, take one of these.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Go on.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Choose.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: All right, I'll take this. No, no, this one.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: Swallow it.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Swallow it. No, it's... Well, that's the way it was, gentlemen.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: The truth.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: I've been so excited, I... I first noticed the blood
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: streaming from my nose. I wrote rage on the wall,
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: just to throw you off. And Stangerson wouldn't gamble. Was
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: that why he was stabbed?
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: He wouldn't submit to God's judgment.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: He knew he'd lose. Ow!
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, gentlemen.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Dear God.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: His aneurysm?
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, of course.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: It burst.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Well, when Lestrade arrives, he'll be deprived of his trial,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: but not his triumph, if you will allow him to
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: use your notes, Doctor.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, happily, since they give you all the credit.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: No, I somehow don't think that that's the way it'll
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: be reported. But that's the way both of us will
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: gain mutual satisfaction.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: The publication of.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: This story, A Study in Scarlet, marked the birth of
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: the greatest detective figure in fiction.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: It not only launched the career of Arthur.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Conan Doyle as a writer, but also laid the foundation
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: for the ascent of the mystery story into the realms.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Of the respect. I'll be back with.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: What Doyle really thought.
• 42:15
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• 43:29
  Speaker 6: From all that has been written and said about Sir
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: Arthur Conan Doyle, he seemed to be a likable and
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: modest man. However, the opinions he expressed about Poe's famous
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: detective Dupin and Gaborio's Le Coq showed him to.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Be not without vanity.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Of Dupin, Holmes said, now in my opinion, Dupin was
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: a very inferior fellow. He had some analytical genius, no doubt,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: but he was by no means the phenomenon Poe appeared
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: to imagine. He was even stronger about Lecoq, whom he
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: termed a miserable bungler who made me positively ill. To Doyle,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: as to the world, there was only one Sherlock Holmes.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Our cast included Kevin McCarthy, Mary Jane Higbee, Cork Benson,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Earl Hammond, and Ian Martin. The entire production was under
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: the direction of Hyman Brown. And now, a preview of
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: our next tale.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: You have fever, Twan.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: You stay quiet, fever will burn away. I will take
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: palm wine to men.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: You do not leave house, Twan.
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: Why should we have anything to fear from our own men?
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: Let me point out something I have said before. I
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: am the agent in charge here. And you are my assistant.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: The person in.
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: Charge is McCullough, and don't try to deny it.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: You will not call me ridiculous in front of a servant.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: I won't stand for that kind of insubordination.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: If it happens once more... Yes, what.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Will you do? I'll discharge you. You mean throw me
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: out of our castle on stilts?
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: This vermin-infested hutch of a platform?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: You're welcome to the whole place. I'll head downstream to
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: the coast.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: You may do what you please.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: But you won't survive a day in the jungle.
• 45:25
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• 45:33
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• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: another adventure in the macabre.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Until next time, pleasant dreams.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Thank you.