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69-07-10 Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 6: We present the sixth and last play in our series
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  Speaker 6: based on the short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
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  Speaker 6: dramatized by Michael Hardwick, with Carlton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes
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  Speaker 6: and Norman Shelley as Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Watson.
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  Speaker 6: And now, here is Dr. Watson to introduce his last bow.
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  Speaker 7: It was nine o'clock on the 2nd of August, 1914.
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  Speaker 7: The most terrible August in the history of the world.
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  Speaker 2: One might have thought already that God curse hung heavy
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  Speaker 2: over a degenerate world. But there was an awesome hush
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  Speaker 2: and a feeling of vague expectancy in the sultry and
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  Speaker 2: stagnant air. The sun had long set, but one blood-red
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  Speaker 2: gash like an open wound lay low in the distant west.
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  Speaker 7: The stars were shining brightly. The lights of the shipping
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  Speaker 7: glimmered in Harwich Harbour. And two Germans stood beside the
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  Speaker 7: stone parapet of the garden walk with the heavily gabled
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  Speaker 7: house behind them. And they looked down on the broad
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  Speaker 7: sweep of beach at the foot of the great chalk cliff.
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  Speaker 7: From below, the two glowing ends of their cigars might
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  Speaker 7: have been the smoldering eyes of some malignant fiend looking down.
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  Speaker 4: In the darkness. Well, von Braun, so far as I
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  Speaker 4: can judge the trend of events, You will be back
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  Speaker 4: in Berlin within the week. After four years in England.
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  Speaker 3: It will be almost strange.
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  Speaker 4: You will be no stranger to our people, I can
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  Speaker 4: tell you. As chief secretary of our embassy in London,
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  Speaker 4: I happen to know what is thought that I have
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  Speaker 4: quarters of the work that you have done. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 4: you'll flatter me. If you believe that, I think you
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  Speaker 4: will be surprised at the welcome you will receive.
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  Speaker 3: For so little?
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  Speaker 4: These people have not been hard to deceive, you know.
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  Speaker 4: A more docile, simple folk than the English could not
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  Speaker 4: be imagined. I don't know about that. One's first impression
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  Speaker 4: is they are entirely soft. Then one suddenly comes upon
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  Speaker 4: something very hard, and you know you've reached the limit
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  Speaker 4: and must adapt yourself to the fact. True, true. Have
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  Speaker 4: another cigar from the early. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I shall miss this.
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  Speaker 4: View, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the lights of heritage over there.
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  Speaker 4: Really? But as I was saying.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so sorry, my dear chap.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all. I was referring to British prejudice in
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  Speaker 4: all its strange manifestations. For example, one of my own
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  Speaker 4: words blunders.
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  Speaker 3: Blunder?
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  Speaker 4: You, one of the Kaiser's most devoted agents. I can
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  Speaker 4: afford to talk of my blunders because I'm well enough
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  Speaker 4: aware of my success. However, this happened soon after my
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  Speaker 4: arrival in London. I was invited to a weekend gathering
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  Speaker 4: at the country house of A certain cabinet minister. I
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  Speaker 4: know him.
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  Speaker 3: I've been there.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, the conversation was amazingly indiscreet. As always. Exactly. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I naturally sent Erlin a resume of what I heard.
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  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, our good.
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  Speaker 4: Chancellor is a little heavy-handed in these matters. And he
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  Speaker 4: made a remark somewhere which gave away the fact that
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  Speaker 4: he knew what our cabinet minister friend had said.
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  Speaker 5: Typically.
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  Speaker 4: This, of course, took the trail straight up to me.
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  Speaker 4: No idea what harm it did me, von Bock. There
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  Speaker 4: was nothing soft about our British hosts on that occasion.
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  Speaker 4: I was two years living at Brown. Now you, with
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  Speaker 4: this sporting pose of yours.
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  Speaker 5: Don't call it a pose. A pose is artificial.
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  Speaker 4: This is quite natural. I'm a born sportsman, so I
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  Speaker 4: enjoy it. Well, of course, that makes it more effective.
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  Speaker 4: You yacht against them, you hunt with them, you play polo.
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  Speaker 4: And my foreign hand took the prize at Olympia this year,
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  Speaker 4: did you see? Indeed.
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  Speaker 5: They even tell me, and is it true, Van Gogh,
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  Speaker 5: that you go to.
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  Speaker 4: Lengths of boxing with young officers?
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  Speaker 5: Quite true, my dear von Herring.
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  Speaker 3: And what is the result? I'm a quite magnificent figure.
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  Speaker 4: The result, the true result, is that nobody takes you seriously.
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  Speaker 5: You are a good sport, quite a decent fellow for
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  Speaker 5: a jerk.
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  Speaker 4: You're a hard-drinking, nightclub, knockabout town devil-may-care young fellow. And
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  Speaker 4: all the time, this country house of yours... It's the
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  Speaker 4: center of heart and mischief in England. And the sporting squire,
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  Speaker 4: the most astute secret service man in Europe.
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  Speaker 3: Genius, my dear Van Bork.
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  Speaker 4: Genius.
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  Speaker 3: You flatter me too much, Baron.
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  Speaker 4: Still, I may admit that my four years in this
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  Speaker 4: country have not been unproductive. Unproductive?
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  Speaker 5: I've never shown you my little.
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  Speaker 3: Store's secret, have I?
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  Speaker 4: No. No.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there will never be another chance.
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  Speaker 4: Shall we go inside? Please lead the way.
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  Speaker 6: Some of my papers have gone already with my wife
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  Speaker 6: and the household when they left yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, very shrewd.
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  Speaker 4: You have the embassy's protection for the rest and yourself,
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  Speaker 4: of course. Your name has been filed as one of
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  Speaker 4: the personnel seats. Excellent.
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  Speaker 3: If you will come this way.
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  Speaker 4: I will just draw these curtains behind us. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: it is just possible that we may not have to
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  Speaker 4: go at all... England may leave France to her fate?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think so? We're sure there is no binding
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  Speaker 4: treaty between them. And Belgium?
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  Speaker 5: Belgium, too.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see how that could be.
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  Speaker 4: There is a definite treaty with Belgium. England could never
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  Speaker 4: recover from the humiliation if she let Belgium down. For
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  Speaker 4: a little longer at peace, it would mean trading her honor.
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  Speaker 4: My dear fellow, honor is a medieval conception. We live
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  Speaker 4: in a utilitarian age. Besides, England simply isn't ready... It's
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  Speaker 4: an inconceivable thing to us. But even our special war
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  Speaker 4: tax of 50 million hasn't aroused these people from their slump.
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  Speaker 4: And you'd think that made our purpose as clear as
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  Speaker 4: if we'd taken the front.
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  Speaker 5: Page of the Times to advertise it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Mark, depend on it. What with our lack of
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  Speaker 4: preparations for meeting submarine attacks, making explosives and so forth,
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  Speaker 4: not to mention the devil's brew we have stirred up
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  Speaker 4: to keep her busy in Ireland, England cannot come in.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you know, she will.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: It is a question of when.
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  Speaker 5: I should think they would be wiser to fight with.
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  Speaker 4: Allies than without them.
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  Speaker 3: This is John Bull's week of destiny.
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  Speaker 4: And you, my dear von Bock, will be found to
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  Speaker 4: have influenced that destiny more than any other. Like there. Now,
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  Speaker 4: these papers. Of course. Here is quite a simple safe,
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  Speaker 4: you see. You've only eyed it behind the curtain. Who
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  Speaker 4: should suspect such a good sport?
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  Speaker 7: There.
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  Speaker 5: Quite an ordinary combination, and.
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  Speaker 3: What's this do?
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  Speaker 4: God, dear. So many pigeonholes. Barber defenses, aircraft, portals of force, recites,
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  Speaker 4: scarper flow. It's colossal. Not such a bad four years'
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  Speaker 4: work by the hard-drinking, hard-riding country squire, eh, Baron?
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  Speaker 5: But the gem of the collection is coming tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And there's the setting for it.
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  Speaker 4: Naval signals.
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  Speaker 5: But there's a thick dust here already.
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  Speaker 3: Waste paper.
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  Speaker 5: Somehow, the Admiralty got the alarm and every code has
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  Speaker 5: been changed.
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  Speaker 4: It was a blow, Baron. The worst setback in my
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  Speaker 4: whole campaign.
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  Speaker 3: But thanks to my checkbook and the good Altamont.
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  Speaker 4: Altamont? Look at this telegram. We'll come without fail tonight
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  Speaker 4: and bring new sparking plugs. Altamont.
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  Speaker 3: Sparking plugs.
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  Speaker 5: He poses as a motor expert, and I have many
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  Speaker 5: motor cars. In our code, everything likely to come.
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  Speaker 3: Up is named after some spare part.
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  Speaker 4: If he talks about a radiator, he means a battleship.
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  Speaker 4: An oil pump is a cruiser. And sparking plug?
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  Speaker 3: Naval signals. The new Admiralty code book.
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  Speaker 4: Worth how much?
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  Speaker 3: Five hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, I give him a salary as well. Good evening, devil.
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  Speaker 5: They're useful, these traitors, but my grudge from their blood money.
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  Speaker 3: My grudge, Altamont, nothing. He's a wonderful worker, and he
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  Speaker 3: delivers valuable money.
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  Speaker 5: Besides, he's not a traitor.
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  Speaker 4: I assure you, our most pen German, Junker, is a
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  Speaker 4: sucking dove in his feelings towards England compared with a
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  Speaker 4: real bitter Irish-American.
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  Speaker 5: An Irish-American, eh? You should hear him speak.
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  Speaker 4: I can hardly understand him at times.
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  Speaker 5: He seems to have declared war on the king's English
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  Speaker 5: as well as on the English king. Very good, Van Fork,
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  Speaker 5: very good, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I must be going.
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  Speaker 3: Must you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you can imagine how things are moving just now
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  Speaker 4: at Galton House Terrace. I must be back to my post.
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  Speaker 5: We shall expect you there tomorrow morning, then.
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  Speaker 4: Think of it, von Bach.
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  Speaker 5: When you bring that code.
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  Speaker 4: Book to the little bar on Duke of York's steps,
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  Speaker 4: you can write finish to your record in English. So,
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  Speaker 4: now you've seen my precious.
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  Speaker 3: A bottle of Tokaj. May I offer you a glass
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  Speaker 3: before you drive?
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  Speaker 4: No, thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Well, all the more for Altamont. He has a nice
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  Speaker 5: taste in wines.
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  Speaker 4: And he took a fancy to my Tokaj. Ah, the
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  Speaker 4: cheek of a fellow.
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  Speaker 3: He's a touchy chap. He needs humoring in small things. So,
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  Speaker 3: let us go into the garden again.
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  Speaker 4: We can get to your car that way.
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  Speaker 5: Well then, Baron.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, still peaceful it all seems.
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  Speaker 4: But it may be less tranquil this time next week
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  Speaker 4: if all the good Zeppelin promises us comes through. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: the lights just come on in that room. Ah, that
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  Speaker 4: will be Martha.
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  Speaker 5: Martha? My only remaining servant.
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  Speaker 4: I always tell her to retire early when Altamont's coming.
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  Speaker 4: She'd hardly approve of his type.
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  Speaker 5: Well, a pleasant ride, my dear von Herling.
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  Speaker 4: Auf Wiedersehen, Robert. Auf Wiederschauen. Until tomorrow. Okay, driver. We're here.
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  Speaker 4: Good evening, Altamont. Well? You can give me the glass
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  Speaker 4: hand tonight, mister. I'm bringing home the bacon at last.
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  Speaker 4: You've got the codes?
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  Speaker 5: All of them?
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  Speaker 7: Every last one.
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  Speaker 3: Semaphore, lamp, Marconi.
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  Speaker 4: How about that, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Come in, come in.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: You making ready to move or something? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just rearranging the furniture a little. Uh-huh. Gee whiz.
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  Speaker 3: What now?
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  Speaker 4: That's safe. Now, you don't tell me you keep your
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  Speaker 4: papers in that. Why not?
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  Speaker 5: In a wide open contraption like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's usually concealed behind a little curtain. No one would
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  Speaker 4: think to look. And if they did, what would they find? What?
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  Speaker 5: Just a tin box that any Yankee crook would be into.
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  Speaker 4: With a can opener. And they reckon you to be
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  Speaker 4: some spy. Why, if I'd known that anything in my
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  Speaker 4: handwriting was going to lie loose in a thing like that,
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  Speaker 4: I'd have been a mug to hand it over at all.
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  Speaker 4: My dear Altamont, no crook in the world is going
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  Speaker 4: to force that safe. That's tin, as you call it.
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  Speaker 4: It is a metal that cannot be cut with any tool.
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  Speaker 4: Is that so?
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  Speaker 3: And the lock is a double combination.
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  Speaker 4: A double? How is that?
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  Speaker 5: You don't know what is a combination lock?
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  Speaker 4: I haven't a notion.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought you were some spy. Come, I'll show you.
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  Speaker 4: And you can see me put away the sparking plugs.
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  Speaker 4: There are two dyes, you see.
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  Speaker 7: Perfect.
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  Speaker 4: One has letters. The other has numbers. You adjust the.
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  Speaker 2: Lock so it can only be opened by a certain
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  Speaker 2: combination of those letters and numbers.
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  Speaker 5: A word and some figures to follow.
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  Speaker 4: You select them on this dial and.
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  Speaker 3: Is that so?
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  Speaker 4: Would you care to try to open it now? Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute. I don't know the goddamn code. Exactly...
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  Speaker 4: So now do you think any Yankee crook could find
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  Speaker 4: his way to our secret, Altamont? Ah, I guess I
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  Speaker 4: can view best, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Von Bock.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, but you will have to give me better still
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  Speaker 6: in a moment, my dear fellow.
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  Speaker 4: How's that? I had this safe installed four years ago,
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  Speaker 4: and I write here. What do you think was the
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  Speaker 4: combination I chose for its look? Gee, I don't know. Well,
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  Speaker 4: as we worked so closely together, Altamont, I will admit
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  Speaker 4: that you are right.
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  Speaker 5: I am preparing to leave.
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  Speaker 6: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: Tomorrow, in fact. Tomorrow?
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  Speaker 5: Then I guess I know.
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  Speaker 4: What that means.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Therefore, I see no harm in telling you the combination
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  Speaker 4: of words and figures that alone.
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  Speaker 3: Will open this safe. It is August 1914. My, but.
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  Speaker 4: That was smart. Four years ago.
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  Speaker 3: You knew that.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, even then there were a few of us who
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  Speaker 4: could prophesy the date. And here we are, August 1914.
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  Speaker 5: And I am shutting down tomorrow morning. Within 48 hours,
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  Speaker 5: I shall be in Berlin.
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  Speaker 4: You will, eh? And how about me? You? Sure. I
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  Speaker 4: guess you'll have to fix me up, too. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: staying in this goddamn country all on me lonesome. From
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  Speaker 4: what I see, in a week or.
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  Speaker 3: Less, old John Bull will.
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  Speaker 5: Be up on his hind legs and fair rampant.
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  Speaker 4: And believe me, I'd sooner watch him from over the water.
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  Speaker 4: But you are an American citizen, Eldermont. So what? So
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  Speaker 4: Jack James was an American citizen. But he's doing time
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  Speaker 4: in Portland now. It cuts no ice for the British
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  Speaker 4: cop to tell him you're an American citizen.
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  Speaker 3: It was James's own fault.
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  Speaker 4: He almost asked them to catch him. Oh, James was
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: a bonehead, I give you that. But what about Hollis?
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  Speaker 4: The man was mad. Sure, a guy can go that
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  Speaker 4: way when he has to act apart from morning to night.
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  Speaker 4: But now there's Steiner. Steiner? Steiner? What about him? You
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  Speaker 4: didn't know? They got him, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: They.
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  Speaker 5: Raided his store last night.
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  Speaker 4: He's in Fort Smith Jail. Say, it seems to me
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  Speaker 4: you don't do much to cover your men, Van Bork.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean by that? You'll go off tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: And Steiner's left to stand the rest. He'll be lucky
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  Speaker 4: if he gets off with his life, and you know it.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't understand how they could have got onto him.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, it's the worst blow yet.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, but you nearly had a worse one.
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  Speaker 3: What was that?
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  Speaker 4: I believe they're not far off me.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 5: They were making some inquiries of me landlady.
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  Speaker 4: Soon as I heard of it, I guessed it was
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  Speaker 4: time to hustle. What I don't understand, Von Bork, is
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  Speaker 4: how the cops get to know these things. Signers of
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  Speaker 4: this man you've lost since I signed on with you.
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  Speaker 3: And I know the name of.
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  Speaker 4: Number six if I don't get a move on. Now,
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  Speaker 4: just how would you explain that? How dare you speak
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  Speaker 4: to me in such a way? If I didn't dare things, mister,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be in your service. I've heard some things
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  Speaker 4: about the way you Germans treat an agent when he's
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  Speaker 4: finished his work.
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  Speaker 5: Do you dare to suggest that I have done such things?
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  Speaker 4: All I say, I'm taking no more chance.
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  Speaker 3: No, sir.
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  Speaker 4: It's me for a little Holland.
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  Speaker 3: And the sooner the better.
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  Speaker 4: Look here, my dear Altamont.
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  Speaker 3: We have been allies.
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  Speaker 5: Too long to quarrel now.
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  Speaker 4: And a very hour of victory. You have done splendid
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  Speaker 4: work and taken risks I cannot forget. By all means,
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  Speaker 4: go to Holland. You can get a boat from Rotterdam
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: to New York. I promise you, no other shipping line
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: will be safe a week from now. Well, okay. Good.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Now give me the code book, and I will put
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: it where it will be safe. Eltamont? What about the dough?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: The what?
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: The boots. They're the worst. The 500 pounds.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: You sure don't seem to have a very high opinion
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: of my honor.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Haven't I always paid? Sure.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Is it this time you want the money before you.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Give up the book? It's a business transaction, David.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: That's your way. My check is here, already made out.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: Yet, since we are to be on such terms, I
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: don't see why I should trust you.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Any more than you trust me. So, there's my check
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: on the table.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: I claim the right to examine that parcel before you
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: pick the money up.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Okay, then. Here you.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Are.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Nicely bound, don't you think? What is this?
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: A practical handbook of bee culture with some.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I can't. What are you doing? What is the real
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: of this? And you too, my dear von Bork, will
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: be nicely bound.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Another glass, Watson?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Not suddenly. I say, this is a good wine, Holmes.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: A remarkable wine, Watson.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: An imperial toucai, which our friend upon the sofa has
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: assured me often enough, comes from the Emperor Franz Joseph's
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: special cellar at the Schönbrunn Palace. Oh, might I trouble
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: you to open the window, my dear fellow? Chloroform vapor
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: doesn't help the palace.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: You haven't changed, Holmes.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: I say.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: You really put him under.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: All the same, I'm relieved to see him securely bound.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: He's a resourceful fellow. You think any of his cronies
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: may turn up, Holmes?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I fancy not.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: He allows very few of them to visit him here,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: in case they're followed and need.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: The authorities to him.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Now, there's only one person likely to interrupt us now,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: and that.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: I wondered... Ah, Martha. Come in and greet an old friend.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Why, it's Mrs.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Hudson!
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, how are you, Mrs. Hudson?
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Well, bless my soul, you don't look a minute older. Oh,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: go on, will you, sir?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: My, but you're looking well yourself, sir.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Well, I can't grumble, you know.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Retirement can do a man a world of good.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: If he's got his interest.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: That's what Mr.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Holmes is always saying, isn't it, sir?
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Quite so. Oh, dear me.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, I hope you didn't have to hurt him, Mr.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Holmes. Not at all.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: He's been a good master, according to his likes.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: He wanted me to go off with his wife to
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Germany yesterday, where he said I would be safer. But
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: that would hardly have suited your plans, would it, sir?
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: No, indeed.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: So long as you were here, I was easy in
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: my mind. When your lamp came on as you saw
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: his visitor leaving, I knew that all would be well.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: It was the secretary of the embassy, sir. Baron von Herling.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: I know. His car passed out. I thought he would
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: never go.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: I knew you wouldn't want to find him here.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: No, indeed.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Well, I suppose you have everything ready to leave? All packed, sir. Capital.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: You can report to me in London tomorrow, then. Let
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Claridge's help you. Very good, sir. Well, I won't interrupt
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: you any longer. Good night, Dr. Watson, sir. I hope
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: we shall meet again.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Mrs.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Hudson, my dear, something assures me that we have many,
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: many more.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Meetings to come. I'm sure, sir.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Well, good night, gentlemen. Good night, Martha.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Good night, Mrs.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Hudson. Enough at last, my dear Watson. Thank you, Holmes. Now,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: as for the papers in this safe, which our friend
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: so kindly instructed me how to open, they will at
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: least show our people what is known to the Germans
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: and what is not. I may say that a good
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: many of these papers have come through me, and I
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: need not add are thoroughly untrustworthy. I never pictured you
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: in the espionage business, Holmes. It would brighten my declining
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: ears to see a German cruiser navigating the Solent according
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: to the minefield plans I have furnished. But now, my
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: dear Watson, how about you? Why, I've hardly seen.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: You in the light yet.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: How have the years used you? You look the same
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: blithe boy as ever.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Hardly a boy, Holmes.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: But I feel 20 years younger tonight.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I've seldom felt so.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Happy as when I got your wire asking me to
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: meet you at Harry's with the cop.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Watson. But, you know, you, Holmes, you.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: You've changed me a little, too. Same with that horrible
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: little beard. This is one of the sacrifices one makes
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: for one's country.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Tomorrow, the beard will be but a dreadful memory. With
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: my haircut and a few other superficial changes, I shall
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: no doubt reappear as Terrigis as I was before this
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: American stunt. Oh, I beg your pardon, Watson. My well
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: of English.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Seems to be permanently defiled.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: I meant as I was before.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: This Hibernian American job came my way. But you had retired, Holmes,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: living the life of a hermit among your bees and
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: books on that small farm on the south side. Exactly, Watson.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Here is the fruit of my leisure deeds.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: What is? What is? The magnum opus of my latter years.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: A practical handbook of bee.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Culture with some observations upon the segregation of the queen.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Great heavens. Alone I did it. Behold the fruit of
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: pensive nights and laborious days when I watched.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: The little working gangs.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: As once I watched the criminal world of London.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: But how on earth did you get back to work again?
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I've often marveled at it myself. The foreign minister alone,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I could have withstood. But when the premier also deigned
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: to visit my humble roof.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: The premier, eh?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: The fact is, Watson, that this gentleman on the sofa
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: was a bit too good for our people.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: He was in a class by himself.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Coming due, Holmes. Good.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: You see, Watson, things were going wrong. Agents were suspected
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: or even caught. But there was evidence of some strong
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: and secret central force. It was absolutely necessary to expose it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: So they came to you?
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Strong pressure was brought on me to look into the matter. True,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I have missed two years of contented retirement, but they
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: have not been devoid of excitement.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Wait till they haven't.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: You'll be around in a moment. You'll realize how complex
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: the matter was when I say that I started my
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: pilgrimage at Chicago, graduated in an Irish secret society at Buffalo,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: gave serious trouble to the constabulary at Skibbereen, And so
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: eventually caught the eye of a subordinate agent of von
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Bork who recommended me as a likely man.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: A likely man.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Since then, I've been honored by his confidence, which has
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: not prevented most of his plans going subtly wrong and
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: five of his best agents being imprisoned. I watched them, Watson,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and I picked them as they ripened.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Well, sir, I hope you're none the worse. Schweinhund.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Ha!
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages, Watson. Mr.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: von Bork, you have a lot to answer for. I
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: shall get level with you, Altamont.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: If it takes me all my life, I shall get.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Level with you.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Ah, the old sweet song. How often have I heard
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: it in days gone by? It was a favorite ditty
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Colonel Sebastian Moran.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Has also been known to warble it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: And yet, I live and keep bees on the South Star.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: As my speech shows you, Mr. Altamont had no existence,
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: in fact. I used him, and he is gone.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I remain.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: But then, but then, but then who are you?
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: It is really immaterial who I am. But since the
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: matter seems to interest you, I may say that this
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: is not my.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: First acquaintance with your family.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: It was I who brought about the separation between Irene
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Adler and the late king of Bohemia.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: When your cousin Heinrich was the imperial envoy. Him?
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: It was I also who saved from murder.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Count von Unzug Grafenstein, who was your mother's elder brother.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: It was I.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: But didn't you... There is only one man who.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Oh! Oh, most of that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Information came from you!
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's my ruin forever.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: You have done your best for your country, and I
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: have done my best for mine.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: What could be more natural?
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: Besides, it is surely.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Better to fall to me than to some more ignoble, sir.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I trust you're as comfortable as your bonds will allow? Oh,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: should I be guilty of a liberty if I lit
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: a cigar and placed it between your lips?
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: You may go to the.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Devil, Sherlock Holmes. I suppose you realize that you are
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: a private individual and that this.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Whole proceeding is illegal and outrageous.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Kidnapping a German subject.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: And stealing his private papers. Watson.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Hmm?
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I think we best make ready to start for London
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: at once. I have a check for 500 pounds here
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: which should be cashed early. But something tells me the
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: drawer is quite capable of stopping it if he can.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Right, Holmes.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Get all the papers out of that safe, Watson. The
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: combination is August 1914. You too, sir.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: You are equally guilty as his accomplice. If I were
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: to show for help as we pass through the range...
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: My dear sir, if.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: You did anything so foolish, you would probably enlarge the
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: two limited titles of our village inn by giving us
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the dangling Prussian as a signboard. The Englishman, von Bork,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: is a patient creature, but at present his temper is
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: a little inflamed.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: And it would be as well not to try him
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: too far. No, Mr. von Bork.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: You will go with us to Scotland Yard, from where
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: you can send for your friend Baron von Herling, and
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: see if even now you may not.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Fill that place which he has reserved for you in
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: the ambassadorial suite.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: All ready then, Holmes?
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Watson, step out onto the terrace with me for a moment,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: will you?
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I will. Who knows?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: This may be the last quiet talk we shall ever have.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't say such a thing. There's an east wind coming, Watson. Oh,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I think not, Holmes. It's very warm. Good old Watson.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: You are the one fixed point in a changing age.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: There's an east wind coming, all the same. Such a
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: wind has never blew on England yet. It'll be cold
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind, nonetheless.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: And a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: sunshine when the storm has cleared.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Well, let's pray it will, Holmes.
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was adapted
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: for radio by Michael Hardwick and.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Was the last program in the series.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: The part of Sherlock Holmes was played by Carlton Hobbs
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: and Dr. Watson by Norman Shelley.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: Von Herling, Francis DeWolf, Von Bork, Dennis Goethe, Mrs.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Hudson, Janet Morrison.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: The production was by Graham Gould.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Migraine affects half a million people in Ireland.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: Sumatran Relief 50mg tablets containing Sumatriptan is now available over
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: the counter from your pharmacist if you've been previously diagnosed
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: with migraine. Unlike painkillers, Sumatriptan acts by having an effect
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: on a specific receptor in the brain, relieving the intensity
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: of migraine. Ask your pharmacist about Sumatran Relief. Always read
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: the leaflet.