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67-07-24-(SA) Sherlock Holmes The Illustrious Client · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 2: And for another episode in the Sherlock Holmes series.
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  Speaker 3: And this one's called The Illustrious Client.
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  Speaker 4: There's only one thing more pleasant than the Turkish bath itself, Watson.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what's that, Holmes?
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  Speaker 4: The pleasant lassitude of the drying room. I never knew
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  Speaker 4: tobacco tastes pleasanter anywhere.
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  Speaker 6: Can't say it makes that shag of yours smell any better. Still,
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  Speaker 6: you're right about the drying room, Holmes. It does something
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  Speaker 6: for you.
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  Speaker 2: For me? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Gets rid of some of your confounded reticence. Makes you, well,
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  Speaker 6: I was going to say, makes you more human.
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  Speaker 5: Does it indeed?
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  Speaker 4: What I suppose you really mean, Watson, is that you
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  Speaker 4: find it loosens my tongue and helps to satisfy that
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  Speaker 4: insatiable curiosity of yours, eh?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I had thought of asking you whether you had
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  Speaker 6: anything of interest on hand at the moment.
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  Speaker 5: And now you have asked?
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  Speaker 4: I think you will find your answer in those papers
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  Speaker 4: sticking out of my jacket pocket there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, where?
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  Speaker 6: These?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: To be more precise, it's a letter. You may read it,
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  Speaker 5: if you wish.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Address from the Carlton Club yesterday evening.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Sir James Damery presents his compliments to Mr. Sherlock Holmes
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  Speaker 6: and will call upon him at 4.30 tomorrow. James begs
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  Speaker 6: to say that the matter upon which he desires to
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  Speaker 6: consult Mr. Holmes is very delicate and also very important.
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  Speaker 6: He trusts, therefore, that Mr. Holmes will make every effort
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  Speaker 6: to grant this interview.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty formal, eh, Holmes?
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  Speaker 5: How do you know of this man, Damery?
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  Speaker 2: Only that his name's a household word in society.
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  Speaker 5: I can tell you a little more than that.
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  Speaker 4: He has rather a reputation for arranging delicate matters which
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  Speaker 4: are to be kept out of the papers. You may
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  Speaker 4: remember his negotiations with Sir George Lewis over the Hammerford
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  Speaker 4: Will case.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I do.
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  Speaker 4: He's a man of the world with a natural turn
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  Speaker 4: for diplomacy. I'm bound to hope, therefore, that this is
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  Speaker 4: not a false scent. He must have some real need
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  Speaker 4: of our assistance.
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  Speaker 2: Our assistance, Holmes?
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you'll be so good. I shall be honoured.
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  Speaker 5: Then you have the hour. 4.30. Until then, we can
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  Speaker 5: put the matter out of our heads.
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  Speaker 2: Come in.
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  Speaker 5: Come in, Sir James.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to my humble abode.
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  Speaker 2: Delighted, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this no doubt is Dr. Watson. Yes. How do
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  Speaker 2: you do, sir? I was prepared to find you here, doctor. Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes may find your collaboration very necessary, I fancy. Indeed.
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  Speaker 5: Pray take the basket, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: My, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Holmes, have you ever heard of Baron Gruner?
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  Speaker 5: The Austrian murderer.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, there's no getting past you at all, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes. So, you've sized him up as a murderer already.
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  Speaker 4: It is my business to follow the details of continental crime.
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  Speaker 4: Who could possibly have read what happened in Prague and
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  Speaker 4: have any doubts about the man's guilt? It was a
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  Speaker 4: purely technical legal point in the death of a witness
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  Speaker 4: that saved him. I'm sure he killed his wife when
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  Speaker 4: that so-called accident happened in the Spookin' Pass, as if
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  Speaker 4: I'd seen him do it.
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  Speaker 2: And many people would agree with you.
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  Speaker 5: I also know that he has come to England.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I had a presentiment that sooner or later
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  Speaker 4: he would find some work for me to do.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what's he been up to?
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  Speaker 4: Not the old tragedy again?
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  Speaker 6: No, more serious than that. To revenge crime is important,
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  Speaker 6: but to prevent it is more so.
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  Speaker 5: Agreed.
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  Speaker 6: It's a terrible thing, Mr. Holmes, to see a dreadful event,
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  Speaker 6: an atrocious situation, preparing itself before your eyes, and yet
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  Speaker 6: be utterly unable to avert it.
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  Speaker 2: You all agree, Watson? Can a human being be placed
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  Speaker 2: in a more trying position? I hardly think so.
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  Speaker 6: Then you all both sympathize with the client in whose
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  Speaker 6: interests I'm acting.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't understand that you were merely an intermediary. Who
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  Speaker 4: is the principal, then?
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes, I must beg you not to press that question.
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  Speaker 6: It is important that I should be able to assure
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  Speaker 6: him that his honored name has in no way been
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  Speaker 6: dragged into the matter. His motives are honorable and chivalrous
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  Speaker 6: to the last degree, and he prefers to remain unknown.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Sir James.
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  Speaker 2: I'm accustomed to mystery at one.
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  Speaker 4: End of my cases.
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  Speaker 5: But to have them at both ends.
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  Speaker 2: Is too confusing.
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  Speaker 5: I fear I must decline to act.
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  Speaker 6: You place me in a most serious dilemma. I'm perfectly
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  Speaker 6: certain that you would be proud to take over the case...
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  Speaker 6: if I could give you that one fact.
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  Speaker 2: And yet a promise forbids me to reveal it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, then I'm afraid... Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes, may I at least lay all that I can
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  Speaker 6: before you?
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  Speaker 4: So long as it is understood that I commit myself
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  Speaker 4: to nothing.
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  Speaker 2: That is understood. In the first place, then... You've no
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  Speaker 2: doubt heard of General de Merville. De Merville of the
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  Speaker 2: Kaiba Pa, the same?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I've heard of him.
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  Speaker 6: He has a daughter, Violet. She's young, beautiful, accomplished, and
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  Speaker 6: very rich. It is this daughter, Mr. Holmes, who we
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  Speaker 6: must save from the clutches of a fiend.
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  Speaker 4: Baron Gruner has a hold over her.
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  Speaker 6: The strongest of all holds where a woman is concerned, love.
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  Speaker 6: As you may have heard, the fellow's extraordinarily handsome with
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  Speaker 6: a most fascinating manner and all that air of romance
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  Speaker 6: and mystery. You know what I mean. The sort of
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  Speaker 6: thing that means so much to a woman. They say
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  Speaker 6: there isn't one of them can resist him.
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  Speaker 4: How did he come to meet the lady of Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Merville's standing?
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  Speaker 2: It was on a Mediterranean yachting cruise.
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  Speaker 6: The villain attached himself to her and won her heart
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  Speaker 6: just like that. She absolutely don'ts on him. She's obsessed
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  Speaker 6: by him, in fact. Outside of him, there's nothing on
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  Speaker 6: earth for her. She won't hear a word against him.
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  Speaker 6: Everything's been done to cure her of it. And so,
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  Speaker 6: in short, she proposes to marry him next month.
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  Speaker 5: I see.
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  Speaker 6: She has a will of iron when she's of age.
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  Speaker 6: It's so hard to know what to do to prevent her.
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  Speaker 6: Does she know about his past? The Austrian episode? The
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  Speaker 6: cunning devil's told her every bit of Scantley's had a
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  Speaker 6: part in. And he's done it in such a way
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  Speaker 6: that he always turns out to be the innocent martyr.
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  Speaker 6: Now she simply accepts his version of everything and listens.
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  Speaker 2: To no other.
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  Speaker 5: Very difficult indeed.
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  Speaker 4: But surely, Sir James, in telling us all this, you've
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  Speaker 4: inadvertently let out the name of your client.
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  Speaker 2: General de Merville. Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes, I could deceive you, perhaps, by letting you think that,
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  Speaker 6: but it wouldn't be true. De Merville is a broken
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  Speaker 6: old man. His daughter is set on marrying a scheming adventurer.
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  Speaker 6: He could cut her off, no doubt, but the money
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  Speaker 6: isn't the whole of it. It's her future happiness.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, quite, quite. Dr. Watson, the nerve that never failed
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  Speaker 2: him on the battlefield is gone, quite gone.
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  Speaker 6: The old man's utterly incapable of dealing with a brilliant
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  Speaker 6: rascal like this Austrian.
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  Speaker 5: Your client, then?
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  Speaker 2: All I dare say, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes, is that he's an old friend who's known the
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  Speaker 6: General intimately for years.
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  Speaker 2: He's taken a paternal interest in this young girl since
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  Speaker 2: she wore short frocks.
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  Speaker 6: And he can't see this tragedy acted out without some
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  Speaker 6: attempt to stop it.
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  Speaker 2: I can go no further than that.
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  Speaker 4: Sir James, your problem interests me. I shall be happy
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  Speaker 4: to look into it.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'm most deeply obliged to you. I felt sure
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  Speaker 2: that once you'd heard the facts. Now, I mustn't detain
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  Speaker 2: you any longer.
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  Speaker 5: How shall I keep in touch with you?
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  Speaker 2: My club will find me.
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  Speaker 5: And the Baron's present address, please.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, of course. Vernon Lodge, near Kingston. It's a large place.
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  Speaker 6: He's been fortunate in some rather shady speculations.
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  Speaker 2: He's a rich.
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  Speaker 6: Man now, which I fancy makes him more dangerous as
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  Speaker 6: an antagonist than ever.
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  Speaker 2: Apart from what you've.
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  Speaker 4: Told me, can you give me anything further about him?
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  Speaker 6: Well, expensive taste, you know. Horse fancier, collects books and pictures.
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  Speaker 6: Quite an artistic side to him. I believe he's an
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  Speaker 6: authority on Chinese pottery. He wrote a book about it.
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  Speaker 4: All great criminals have a complex mind. My old friend
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  Speaker 4: Charlie Peace was a violin virtuoso. Wainwright was no mean artist.
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  Speaker 5: I could quote you many more.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Sir James, you may inform your illustrious client that
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  Speaker 4: I am turning my mind upon Baron Gruner.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'll say good day to you, gentlemen. Good day.
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  Speaker 2: Good day, Sir James. And don't forget my club any time.
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  Speaker 5: Very well. Well, Watson... Any views?
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  Speaker 2: I suppose you'll see the young lady herself.
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  Speaker 4: My dear Watson, if her poor old broken father can't
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  Speaker 4: move her, what can a stranger expect to do? No,
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  Speaker 4: I think we must begin from a different angle. Perhaps
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  Speaker 4: Shinwald Johnson could help. Shinwald Johnson, that ruffian?
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  Speaker 5: Ah, Watson, repentance is a noble thing. Two terms in
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  Speaker 5: Parkhurst have worked wonders in my... Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: But how can he help you?
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  Speaker 4: He has the entree of every nightclub, dosshouse and gambling
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  Speaker 4: den in the city.
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  Speaker 5: This ruffian of yours.
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  Speaker 4: His two convictions have invested him with a certain glamour.
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  Speaker 4: He also has a quick eye and an active brain,
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  Speaker 4: which I am happy to say have been placed at
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  Speaker 4: the disposal of the forces of law and order on
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  Speaker 4: more than one occasion.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, a knock then. Not really.
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  Speaker 4: If he'd acted for the police, he'd have been found
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  Speaker 4: out by now. Fortunately, however, he confines his attention to
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  Speaker 4: cases which never come directly into the courts.
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  Speaker 5: I tell you what, Watson. We'll meet for dinner this
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  Speaker 5: evening at.
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  Speaker 2: Our place in the Strand, eh?
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  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, I'll have a word or two with Master Shinwell Johnson.
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  Speaker 5: Capital soup. Never varies, thank heaven. Never mind the soup, Holmes.
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  Speaker 6: You were particularly enough to delight in keeping me waiting
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  Speaker 6: for your news.
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  Speaker 5: Have I?
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's nothing much to tell. Johnson is on the
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  Speaker 4: prowl for us. He may pick up some useful garbage
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  Speaker 4: in the darker recesses.
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  Speaker 5: Of the underworld.
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  Speaker 6: But surely if the lady won't accept what's already known
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  Speaker 6: about Baron Gruner, why should anything we can find out
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  Speaker 6: change her mind for us?
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  Speaker 5: Who knows?
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  Speaker 4: Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.
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  Speaker 4: Murder might be condoned or explained, and yet some smaller
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  Speaker 4: offense may rankle.
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  Speaker 5: Baron Gruner remarked to me.
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  Speaker 2: Gruner remarked to you?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, to be sure.
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  Speaker 4: You know how I love to come to grips with
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  Speaker 4: my man. I like to meet him eye to eye
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  Speaker 4: and read for myself what stuff he's made of. When
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  Speaker 4: I'd given Johnson his orders, I took a cab out
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  Speaker 4: to Kingston. I found the Baron in an affable mood.
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  Speaker 5: Did he recognize you? There was no difficulty about that.
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  Speaker 5: I sent him my card. He received me at once.
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  Speaker 7: I rather thought I should see you sooner or later.
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  Speaker 8: You have been engaged, no doubt, by General de Melville
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  Speaker 8: to try to stop my marriage with his daughter, Violet.
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  Speaker 5: Is it not so?
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  Speaker 2: As you wish. My dear man, let me tell you
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  Speaker 2: at once.
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  Speaker 8: You will only ruin your well-deserved reputation to say nothing
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  Speaker 8: of incurring some danger. Let me strongly advise you to
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  Speaker 8: draw off at once.
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  Speaker 4: Curiously enough, that was the very advice I had intended
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  Speaker 4: giving you.
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  Speaker 5: So?
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  Speaker 4: I have a respect for your brains, Baron. And the
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  Speaker 4: little I've seen of your personality has not lessened it.
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  Speaker 5: But let me put it to you as man to man.
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  Speaker 2: Very well.
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  Speaker 5: No one wants to rake up your past. It is over,
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  Speaker 5: and you are now in smooth waters.
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  Speaker 4: But if you persist in this adventurous marriage, you will
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  Speaker 4: raise up a swarm of powerful enemies who will never
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  Speaker 4: leave you alone until they have made England too hot
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  Speaker 4: to hold you.
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  Speaker 5: I ask you, is the game worth it? Oh, dear,
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  Speaker 5: excuse my amusement, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes But it really is funny to see you trying
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  Speaker 8: to play a hand with no cards in it at
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  Speaker 8: all I don't think anyone could do better But it's
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  Speaker 8: rather pathetic all the same Not a color card there, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes Nothing but the.
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  Speaker 4: Smallest of the small If you choose to think so
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  Speaker 4: I know Now, let.
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  Speaker 8: Me make this thing clear to you For my own
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  Speaker 8: hand is so strong that I can afford to show
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  Speaker 8: it I have been fortunate enough to win the entire
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  Speaker 8: affection of this lady.
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  Speaker 2: This has been given to me in spite of the
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  Speaker 2: fact that.
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  Speaker 8: I told her clearly of all the unhappy incidents in
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  Speaker 8: my past life. I also told her that certain wicked
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  Speaker 8: and designing persons, I hope you recognize yourself, would come
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  Speaker 8: to her and tell her these things, and I warned.
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  Speaker 5: Her how to treat them. Then there is nothing more
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  Speaker 5: to be said. If you will excuse me, I will
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  Speaker 5: wish you a good day, Baron Gunnar.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly.
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  Speaker 5: The pleasure has been all mine.
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  Speaker 2: Before you go, though, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes.
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  Speaker 9: Well?
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  Speaker 7: Did you know Lebrun, the French agent?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. I knew him. Do you know what happened to him?
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  Speaker 4: I heard he was beaten by some impassioned mamarche and
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  Speaker 4: crippled for life.
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  Speaker 2: Quite true, Ed.
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  Speaker 8: By a curious coincidence, though, he had been inquiring into my.
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  Speaker 7: Affairs only a week before. Don't do it, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes. It is not a lucky thing to do. So
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  Speaker 5: there you are, Watson. You are up to date at last.
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  Speaker 2: A fellow who seems dangerous enough.
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  Speaker 5: Mighty dangerous. I disregard the blusterer.
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  Speaker 4: But this is the sort of man who says rather
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  Speaker 4: less than he means.
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  Speaker 6: Must you interfere? I mean to say, does it matter
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  Speaker 6: so much if he does marry the girl? They're free
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  Speaker 6: to choose, after all.
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  Speaker 4: Considering that he undoubtedly murdered his last wife, I should
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  Speaker 4: say it mattered very much. Our illustrious client evidently thinks so, too.
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  Speaker 5: But come along, drink up your coffee, and come home
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  Speaker 5: with me.
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  Speaker 4: Our friend Shinwell will be waiting for us there.
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  Speaker 8: Gentlemen, allow me to introduce Miss Kitty Winter, who I
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  Speaker 8: took the liberty of bringing along with me.
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  Speaker 7: What she don't know, but.
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  Speaker 5: She can speak for herself. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We're old mates, Chimwell and me, mister.
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  Speaker 10: Same address almost, eh?
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  Speaker 2: Hell, London.
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  Speaker 10: That's it. Finds us every time. But there's a chap
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  Speaker 10: who ought to be down in a lower.
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  Speaker 11: L than us. If there's any justice in the world,
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  Speaker 11: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 4: I gather we have your good wishes in our little investigation,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Winter.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, I'll say so.
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  Speaker 10: If I can't help put Adelbert Gruner where he belongs,
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  Speaker 10: I'm yours to the rattle.
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  Speaker 5: You know him, then?
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  Speaker 10: My past's neither here nor there. But what I am,
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  Speaker 10: Gruner made me. Straight he did.
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  Speaker 4: Has Shinwell told you how the matter stands?
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  Speaker 5: I have, sir. I left nothing out.
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  Speaker 4: The lady is madly in love with him, Miss Winters.
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  Speaker 4: She's been told everything about him, but she cares nothing.
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  Speaker 11: Told about the murder?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: She must have a nerve.
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  Speaker 5: She puts it all down as lies.
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  Speaker 11: Can't you show her proof?
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  Speaker 5: What proofs?
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  Speaker 11: Well, ain't I a proof myself? If I went and
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  Speaker 11: told her how he used me.
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  Speaker 5: Would you do that?
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  Speaker 11: Would I?
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  Speaker 10: There's one or two more murders than the one that
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  Speaker 10: made such a fuss.
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  Speaker 11: I know a few things.
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  Speaker 2: And there's that book of his. A book?
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  Speaker 10: I tell you, mister, that man collects women like anyone collects.
• 16:59
  Speaker 11: Butterflies or moths.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: And they're all in that book.
• 17:04
  Speaker 11: All the details.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Names, snapshots.
• 17:08
  Speaker 10: Things you wouldn't believe any man could write down. That'd
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: show her a thing or two.
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: And I know where he keeps it.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: How can you know that now?
• 17:19
  Speaker 11: Well, leastways, I know where he always did keep it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: A special place he had in a big cabinet thing
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: where he keeps.
• 17:28
  Speaker 11: A lot of his Chinese crockery.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Very interesting, Miss Winter. Very interesting indeed.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I think I shall take advantage of your offer to
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: confront the lady in question with what you know. As
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: for the book, I think we'll keep that to ourselves
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: for the time being.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Then, if all else fails....
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Watson, tomorrow morning, Miss Winter and I will pay our
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: call on Mr.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Melville.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Be good enough to meet me for lunch afterwards, and I'll.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Post you up. Our place at the Strand will do again.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Piper! Piper!
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Murderous attack on famous detective Piper!
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes, detect in Regent Street. Piper! Here, my boy.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: Here you are, Governor.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, shall we, sir? All right, all right. Keep the change.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: So very much, Governor. Piper! Piper! Murderous attack on famous detective.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Good heavens! Mr.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes, a well-known detective. Victim, murderous assault. Attacked about
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: four o'clock, Regent Street. Two men armed with sticks beaten
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: about the head.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: Injuries.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Doctors described as serious, taken to Charing Cross Hospital. Afterwards
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: insisted taken to his own room.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Cabin!
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: Cabin!
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: As quick as you can, man.
• 19:02
  Speaker 11: 221 B Baker Street.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Go for your life!
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Why, if it isn't old Watson.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You've been with him, Sir Leslie?
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: How is he?
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, no immediate danger, do you know? A couple of
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: lacerated scalp wounds.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Good deal of bruising.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Can I see him? Oh, I wouldn't do any harm
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: for a few minutes.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: He's a tough sort of character, do you know?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Don't stay too long. He must be dashing. Look me
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: up sometime. Yes, yes.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: All right, Watson, my dear fellow.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Don't look so scared. It's not as bad as it seems.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Thank heaven for that.
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: I'm not so bad as single stick myself. Took most
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: of them on my guard. It was the second fellow
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: who was too much for me.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: The papers say they got away.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: They were well prepared.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: The police?
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: No, wait a little. Oh. I have my plans.
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: First thing is to exaggerate my injuries.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Who do? Everyone.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: They'll come to you for news. Late on thick. Lucky
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: if I live the week out. Concussion, delirium. You can't
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: overdo it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: And Sir Leslie Oakshott?
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: There. I'll look after him. He'll see the worst side
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: of me. Anything else?
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: Tell Shinwell Johnson to get that girl Kitty Winter out
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: of the way. If they dare to do me in,
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: it's not likely they'll neglect her. That's urgent, Watson.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Right. I'll go now.
• 21:04
  Speaker 12: Right. Right.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, and put out my pipe on the table, will you?
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: And the tobacco. Come in each morning and we'll plan
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: our campaign. Well, Holmes, you are looking better. So Leslie
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: took out my stitches today. Just seven days to recover.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Not bad, eh?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Tonight's papers say you've developed erysipelas.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Capital, my dear fellow. I shall enjoy having that very much.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: No, seriously, though, Holmes.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: I have some news you won't find so amusing. What?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Baron Gruner sails from Liverpool on Friday.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Sails?
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: To the States.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Important business to settle before his impending marriage, etc.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: etc. Friday. Only three more days.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Mark my words, he wants to put himself out of
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: harm's way until the last moment. But he won't, Watson.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: By the Lord Harry, he won't. Now, listen. Yes? I
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: want you to do something for me. I'm here to
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: be used.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Well, then, spend the next 24 hours studying Chinese pottery.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Studying Chinese pottery. An intensive study.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Your friend Lomax at the London Library shall be just
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: the man to help.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Now, no questions.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Off you go to your crammer.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: I'll see you here tomorrow evening.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Well, Holmes, I shall never be able to believe newspapers
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: again after this. They say you're dying.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Well done, Watson.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Now, as you see, I'm on my legs again and
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: feeling none the worse. And now, Watson, have you learned
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: your lessons?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Well, as best I can. It's a big subject.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Chinese ceramics in 24 hours. Granted.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: The point is, could you keep up an intelligent conversation
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: on the subject?
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, I think so.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: For a while, anyway. Then, pray, hand me that little
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: box from the mantelpiece. Yes, certainly. Thank you. Now, take
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: a look at this.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I say!
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: This is the real eggshell pottery of the Ming dynasty.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: No finer piece ever passed through the sale rooms. A
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: complete set would be worth a king's ransom.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: In fact, I doubt if.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: There's one in existence outside the imperial palace in Peking.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Exquisite. The sight of this would drive a real connoisseur wild.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: You'll have to handle it carefully.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I shall.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: I should say, Dr.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Hill Barton of 369 Half Moon Street must handle it carefully.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: That's your name for this evening, Watson. Here's a visiting
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: card I've had prepared for you.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: And what is Dr. Hill Barton to do?
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: At half past eight, you will call upon Baron Gruner.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: An appointment has been made saying you're bringing with you
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: a specimen.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Of an absolutely unique set of ming. You may as
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: well be a medical man. It will make your.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Part easier to play.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You're a collector.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: This piece has come your way.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: You've heard of the Baron's interest in the subject, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: you're not averse to selling at a price.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: At what price? Well, ask Watson.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: You would certainly fall down badly if you didn't know
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: the value of your own wares. Actually, this saucer was
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: got for me by Sir James Damery. You will not
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: be exaggerating if you suggest it could hardly be matched
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: in the world today.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Then I could suggest that the set be valued by
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: an expert.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Excellent. Yes. You know, you're positively scintillating today. Thank you.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Your delicacy prevents you putting a price on it yourself.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: What could be more natural? What if he won't see
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: me after all? Oh, yes, he will. No more instructions,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: my dear chap.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: We will let the interview take care of itself.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Please sit down, Dr.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Barton.
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: I was just looking over my own treasures... and wondering
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: whether I could really afford to add to them... This
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: little Tang specimen from the 7th century will interest you,
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: I'm sure.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Ah, yes, yes.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Did you ever see finer workmanship or a better glaze, huh?
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: But have you the Ming saucer with you?
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Here it is, Baron Gruner.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: What do you think of that?
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: Ah, very fine, very fine indeed. And you say you
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: have a set of six to correspond?
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: That is so.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: What puzzles me is that I should not have heard
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: of such magnificent specimens. I only know of one in
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: England to match this, and it's certainly not likely to
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: be on the market.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Would it be.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: Indiscreet, Doctor, to ask how you obtained this?
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Does it really matter? You can see it's genuine for yourself.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: As to the value, I'm content to take an expert's valuation.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: That's the piece is genuinely certain.
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: And yet, in dealing with objects of such value, one
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: naturally wishes to know all about the transaction. But suppose,
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: I'm bound to take every possibility into account, suppose it
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: should prove afterwards that you have no right to sell.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I would guarantee you against any claims of the sort.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: That, of course, would open up the question as to what.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Your guarantee was worth. My bankers would answer that. Quite so.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: And yet, the whole transaction strikes me as rather unusual.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Well, Baron, I should hate to waste your valuable time.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: I've given you first offer, as I understood you were
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: a connoisseur, but I shall have no difficulty.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: In other quarters.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: No, pray be seated again, sir.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Very well.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: May I ask, Doctor, who told you I was a connoisseur?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You have written a book on the subject. Have you
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: read the book?
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: No.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: Dear me, this becomes more and more difficult to understand.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: You too are a connoisseur and collector with a piece
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: as valuable as this in your hands, and yet you
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: have never troubled to consult the one book which would
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: have told you its value.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I'm a very busy man. I'm a doctor in practice.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: If a man has a hobby, he follows it up,
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: whatever his other pursuits may be. Well, as a connoisseur,
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: you'd have no objection if I asked a few questions
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: to test you, huh?
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: I would ask you, what do you know of the
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: Emperor Shomu? And how do you associate him with the
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: Shoso in Yanara?
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: Tell me a little about the Northern Way dynasty and
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: its place in the history of ceramics.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Really, sir, this is intolerable.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: I came here to do you a favor and not
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: be examined like a schoolboy. My knowledge may be inferior
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: to yours, but I shall certainly not answer questions put
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: in so offensive a way.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: No, Dr.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Barton, if you are a doctor at all, you are
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: here on another game.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: You're an emissary of Sherlock Holmes, aren't you?
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: The fellow's dying, so he sends his hirelings to keep
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: watch on me.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Isn't that it?
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: Well, you've made your way in here.
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: And by heaven, you may find it harder to get
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: out again.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: All right, Watson.
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: Leave it to me.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: What's this? Careful, Holmes. He's getting a gun.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Out of my way, everyone.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: It's my turn now.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Miss Winter.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Keep back.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: This won't take a second.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Here, Baron Adelbert Grinner.
• 28:31
  Speaker 12: Down!
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: That face won't charm any more like me again.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Bitches are all over his face. Quick, Holmes, for the
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: love of heaven, find me some kind of oil. We
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: may save his eyes if we're quick enough, but hurry, hurry!
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, horrible, Holmes.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Horrible.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: The wages of sin, Watson. The wages of sin. And
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: believe me, there was plenty of sin to answer for.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, but not like that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: I assure you, Watson, I had no idea she had
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: vitriol with her. She came with me to find that
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: book she told us about. Our time was limited by
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: your knowledge of Chinese ceramics. It was our only chance.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: He takes precautions against burglary at night. And he'd never
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: have left the book behind when he went off to
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: the States. It was our last chance.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: You understand, Sir James.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course. The man was a murderer, Watson,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: and could have been again. Yes, well, I suppose so.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Anyway, he's disfigured for life now. A miscarriage.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: De Merville is out of danger. So it seems.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Not yet, I'm afraid.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Women of her.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: Type don't react like that. She'd probably love him all.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: The more as a disfigured martyr. Oh, Sir James, take
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: this filthy book to your client and tell him not
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: to spare her feelings with it. It's his moral side
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: that must be destroyed, not the physical. The book will
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: bring her down to earth like nothing else could. It's
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: in his own handwriting. She can't get past that.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Very well. It's been a terrible business, but you've done wonders,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: both of you. Good day.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Good day, Mr.
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: James.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: At least we'll have a good deal to say to
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: Miss Kitty Winter, I fear, Watson.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Though in her case, there are certainly extenuating circumstances. I
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: expect you're right. But to think that any woman... Ah, me,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: I fear you have something to learn yet.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: If I were to tell you.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Holmes, quickly, come to the window.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: What is it? Sir James Damery. That brome he just
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: got into. See it? There, moving off now. The coat
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: of arms on the side. Ah-haa. Now I know who
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: our illustrious client was.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: He's... He's a chivalrous gentleman and a loyal friend to
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: a lady in great danger. Let that be enough for us,
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: my dear Watson.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: Now and forever.
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