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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Mad Miners of Cardiff Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: Doctor Watson, Your memoir for this evening is entitled The
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  Speaker 1: Mad Miners of Cardiff. Cardiff is a city in Wales,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is, mister Harris, the very heart of one
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  Speaker 2: of the world's greatest coal mining centers. Our story begins
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  Speaker 2: one awful night at the mine owned by missus Ann Powis.
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  Speaker 2: There were two lifts at the mine, huge iron cages
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  Speaker 2: operated by a chained winch that lowered the men down
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  Speaker 2: the shaft and into the winding, treacherous black tunnels below.
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  Speaker 2: One lift was rarely in use, since it dropped into
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  Speaker 2: a portion of the mine that was abandoned. It was
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  Speaker 2: there that the horror began to unfold. There stood Daniel Lowara,
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  Speaker 2: a veteran miner, covered with grime, his lamp still flickering
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  Speaker 2: in his hand, leaning on his pick and shovel. He
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  Speaker 2: had paused for a moment's rest on his way home
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  Speaker 2: this night when he heard a silence strange. He thought
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  Speaker 2: no one had used this lift in some time, This
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  Speaker 2: section of the mine and have been picked clean and deserted.
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  Speaker 2: As too dangerous as it, Dan, you'll walk slowly toward
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  Speaker 2: the mouth of the shot that it's you what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing in this section of the mind.
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  Speaker 3: It's God's justice. That's what we'll pay for it. We
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  Speaker 3: are with no rights, with no right. Step off the cage. Man,
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  Speaker 3: you have a seen you look like that. You can't
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  Speaker 3: just tand up. He he'll help you.
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  Speaker 4: Your eyes, I've never seen a man's eyes like that.
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  Speaker 5: It's what i've seen. The Saints preserve me. Is what
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  Speaker 5: i've seen, all of yourself blood, A strong man like you, wavering?
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  Speaker 5: What did you see?
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  Speaker 2: The thing?
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  Speaker 3: That's all you could call it? Down in the mind.
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  Speaker 4: I wish my eyes had been struck from my head
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  Speaker 4: before I saw it.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to make sense, love, what's down the mind? What
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  Speaker 3: have you seen?
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  Speaker 4: I've seen man's body, it's crushed by the weight of cold.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen men dying of the lone sickness, with the
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  Speaker 4: death rattle in their throats.
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  Speaker 3: But never this wid Never tell me what happened.
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  Speaker 4: If I told you what I saw, you'd be going
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  Speaker 4: out of your mind. It isn't right for human beings
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  Speaker 4: to know there is such a thing inside the earth.
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  Speaker 3: They'd killed themselves.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I heard a noise at this end of the mind.
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  Speaker 6: Go on.
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  Speaker 4: I knew it was deserted of course it is every
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  Speaker 4: we missed chob mark unsee.
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  Speaker 3: How could I heard a noise? It was nott a
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  Speaker 3: noise of this world. Eh.
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  Speaker 4: My canary was all right, alive and well, singing in
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  Speaker 4: its cage, and I knew there was.
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  Speaker 3: No danger of gas. And then I saw it.
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  Speaker 4: You can't imagine what it is. It's mother mad, just
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  Speaker 4: striking back. That's what it's the revenge. She's skewing up
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  Speaker 4: the secrets we never knew she held. And I've seen it.
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  Speaker 7: I see.
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  Speaker 3: You know that a man help so and God having
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  Speaker 3: a strange fit. Hurry call the doctor, Call the doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Learned the manner in a half crazed state, was removed
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  Speaker 2: to the hospital. Then Daniel volunteered to descend the list
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  Speaker 2: of the far end of the mind to learn what
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  Speaker 2: the unspeakable horror was below. When Daniel came up the lift.
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  Speaker 3: That was right better.
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  Speaker 6: I'd have been blind.
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  Speaker 4: Her man's mind can stand her to say, in the
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  Speaker 4: name of mercy, make me unconscious.
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  Speaker 3: I mustn't think of it.
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  Speaker 4: But I couldn't think of anything else again ever, not
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  Speaker 4: of life, nor of what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Just this, what is all I've ever normal? No, just
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  Speaker 3: what I've seen done in the mind.
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  Speaker 8: Make of your pardon, missus Powis. Yes, Jeffrey, I'm just
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  Speaker 8: one of your miners. Missus Powis, I have no right
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  Speaker 8: here in your house.
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  Speaker 7: Oh you're welcome, Jeffrey. I've told the men I keep
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  Speaker 7: the same rules my husband did before he died. My
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  Speaker 7: employees are always welcome. What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 8: It's about this terrible thing in the mind. I know
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  Speaker 8: none of the men will work. I know you've tried everything.
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  Speaker 8: I know even the police won't go down to see
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  Speaker 8: what this devil of a thing is.
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  Speaker 7: I won't accept any more volunteers, Jeffrey.
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  Speaker 8: Isn't that mom. It's but I know you've troubles. The
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  Speaker 8: mine isn't worth a shilling now. I have some savings, ma'am,
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  Speaker 8: thank you, but.
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  Speaker 7: I won't hear of it. I refuse to borrow, least
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  Speaker 7: of all from my own men. You've suffered too. With
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  Speaker 7: a mind closed, I.
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  Speaker 8: Knew a fine lady wouldn't borrow. I thought i'd buy
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  Speaker 8: them mind.
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  Speaker 7: Ma'am, but it isn't worth anything now.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't much to offer, precious little, but I might
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  Speaker 8: salvage the equipment, sell the land. I know you're desperate, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't embarrass you, but you need a rest. You
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  Speaker 8: could at least go away. I was fond of your
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  Speaker 8: late husband. I want to help his widow. We men
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  Speaker 8: are fond of her too.
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  Speaker 7: I appreciated Geoffrey. But I shall try to keep the
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  Speaker 7: mine a bit longer. I must face it. This indescribable
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  Speaker 7: thing in the mind must be unmasked.
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  Speaker 6: But how you want to ask?
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  Speaker 7: No one will ascend the shaft and look at the sight.
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  Speaker 7: I've one last hope, Jeffrey. He's an expert on the curious,
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  Speaker 7: the outlandish, on mysteries of this sort. He's in London,
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  Speaker 7: a mister Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 6: Is it pye as you say? Two men became half
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  Speaker 6: crazed looking at the spectacle in the mine, Yes, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: INTI can such things exist?
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  Speaker 7: London? Daniel have been miners all their lives, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 7: They're normally vigorous, healthy and cool headed. But I wasn't
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  Speaker 7: satisfied with their reactions.
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  Speaker 6: What did you do?
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  Speaker 7: I asked the mind doctor to go down the shaft
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  Speaker 7: and look, and did he Yes, he did, and he
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  Speaker 7: came back up in the cage in a waxy, immobile
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  Speaker 7: state without human response, as though alive yet dead.
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  Speaker 6: You see, has he revived since?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, the moment he was a lonely attempted suicide. We
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  Speaker 7: stopped him.
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  Speaker 6: Fortunately in what condition A London Daniel?
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  Speaker 7: The lud is left. He's donned Wadenborough, where he's resting
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  Speaker 7: at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. He refuses to tell us so
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  Speaker 7: what he's seen. Daniel is at home, feverish, fitful.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm. Have you completed your story, missus Pyes, yes I have.
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  Speaker 6: Then we must lose no time in reaching Cardiff and
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  Speaker 6: the enigma that lies in the mine. This is the
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  Speaker 6: lift that descends to the abandoned portion of the mind,
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  Speaker 6: Missus Pies.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, mister Holmes. The bottom of this sharp lies the
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  Speaker 7: thing that has driven three men.
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  Speaker 3: Mad Missus Powis. Missus Powis.
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  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Daniel, he rose from his bed.
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  Speaker 6: They couldn't stop him, is vanished. And I suppose you
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  Speaker 6: tell me the details. I'd assumed command on this problem.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Shellacke comes. This is my colleague, Dr Watson.
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  Speaker 8: Daniel's gone, mister Holmes. The town's where the towns in
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  Speaker 8: the state of alarm. Some folks say the evil at
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  Speaker 8: the bottom of the mind spirited him away. Some of
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  Speaker 8: the women are offered, taking the children and fleeing to
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  Speaker 8: the hill.
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  Speaker 7: Which should we do, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 6: The answer is simple, Missus pies Joel Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Have you the solution?
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  Speaker 6: The path? Did the solution? Watson? Well, what is it
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  Speaker 6: by the path? Before us did that lift?
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  Speaker 2: You're going down to see the thing exactly.
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  Speaker 7: There must be some other way, mister Holmes. You know
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  Speaker 7: what's happened to everyone who's seen it. You're come up
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  Speaker 7: out of that sharp like the others, and you're my
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  Speaker 7: last hope. You'll be carried off that lift as though
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  Speaker 7: you've seen judgment.
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  Speaker 6: Day that remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 8: Why you can't say you mustn't risk your life your
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  Speaker 8: sanity this way.
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  Speaker 6: If you will step aside, Jeffrey, and you'll not do.
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  Speaker 2: This alone, Holmes, I shall see this through by your sight.
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  Speaker 6: This is not a calculated risk, Watson. This is an
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  Speaker 6: inconceivable horror beyond human calculation.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, I shall go with you, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 7: Please, I'd rather lose the mind.
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  Speaker 6: The time itself is already alarm. This is Paris. You
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  Speaker 6: must face this.
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  Speaker 7: I shall wait here mister Holmes, and pray for you
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  Speaker 7: and doctor Watson. Give them headlamps, Jeffrey and a canary.
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  Speaker 8: Certainly, ma'am here by the shaft the lamps. Just put
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  Speaker 8: these hats on.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Holmes. So thank you, Doctor Watson, Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Ah.
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  Speaker 8: The canary is in this cage. Take the cover off.
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  Speaker 8: As long as the canary seems well, you need not
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  Speaker 8: fear a ghastly if the canary seems ill. If it dies,
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  Speaker 8: it'll warn you that poison gases in the air.
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  Speaker 6: Is quite the gate. Watson cse it first. Right now.
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  Speaker 6: We shall look upon this thing below, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 6: even if it's from the realm of another world, some
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  Speaker 6: monstrosity beyond Man's Limited imagination released Sleva.
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  Speaker 2: Watson released Liva. We're going down the mark hoast ten feet,
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  Speaker 2: the mark forty feet, the mark thirty fee.
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  Speaker 1: we left you and mister Holmes dropping deep into the
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  Speaker 1: abandoned mine on the outskirts of Cardiff.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so you did, mister Harrison. Holmes and I stood
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  Speaker 2: in the cage, racing ourselves as we dropped down the
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  Speaker 2: black musty shot, prepared for what promised to be an
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  Speaker 2: intolerably awful sight.
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  Speaker 6: It'd almost reach botter Watson. Ready, yes, ready, hoose.
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  Speaker 2: Slowly down, must be the bubble, Yes, sir, it comes.
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  Speaker 6: Now, step off the lift. Keep an air open for
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  Speaker 6: strange sounds. This is an abandoned area. A seam may
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  Speaker 6: crack and we'd be buried alive.
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  Speaker 2: Where do we go?
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  Speaker 6: Hobs along this narrow tunnel precisely. Light in our headlamps
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  Speaker 6: isn't very good, but it was suffice alright, go on, hello,
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  Speaker 6: what is it? What is it? Hurt? Just ahead? It
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  Speaker 6: is strange object?
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  Speaker 2: What does it look like?
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  Speaker 6: It's against a beam? Turn your head, Watson, so the
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  Speaker 6: lamp in your hat lights the passage to the left. See, yes,
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  Speaker 6: you have a closer look. Just move along the canary
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  Speaker 6: all right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what. Yes, this is all right now poison
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  Speaker 2: gas in the air. Yet here we are that object,
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  Speaker 2: wylet it's a human body, a dead man.
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  Speaker 6: From the description Missus Powers gave, I should say this
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  Speaker 6: is Daniel the second miner, who have witnessed the vision
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  Speaker 6: the man, Jeffrey said, disappeared a while ago.
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  Speaker 2: See his throat little is strangled. But who could have
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  Speaker 2: done at Homes? How did this happen? You hear that, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it might be a cave and had we better.
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  Speaker 3: Hurry back to the lift?
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  Speaker 2: No wait, listen, well come home. We wist trying to
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  Speaker 2: reach the lift and go to the surface. And this
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  Speaker 2: mine may be collapsing.
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  Speaker 6: Here now, Watson, it isn't the mine. And what is
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  Speaker 6: it that the thing was the other lift? Someone's approaching,
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  Speaker 6: Someone's approaching exactly from the far end of this tunnel.
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  Speaker 6: I've been waiting for those footsteps.
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  Speaker 2: It's this thing on human feet. Why have you been
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  Speaker 2: waiting for footsteps?
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  Speaker 6: I've been waiting for the person you will see standing
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  Speaker 6: before us in the passageway. It will be Jeffrey, the miner. Right,
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  Speaker 6: you've found Daniel's body. I thought you would. How did
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  Speaker 6: you get down here via the other lift, Watson at
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  Speaker 6: the working end of the mine, the one he's been
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  Speaker 6: using all along. Well, Geoffrey, I imagine you'll present the
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  Speaker 6: same offer to us that you made to Lundon the
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  Speaker 6: doctor and Daniel offer. Homes will you see, my dear Watson,
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  Speaker 6: there isn't anything in this abandoned mine. The ghastly sight
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  Speaker 6: so called is a device rather adroitly employed by Jeffrey.
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  Speaker 8: My offer is very inviting, mister Holmes. You see, when
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  Speaker 8: I was down here, just before this part of the
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  Speaker 8: mine was deserted, I located a new vein of coal,
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  Speaker 8: a rich vein, a vein that could make me and
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  Speaker 8: all who helped me millionaires.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, so you decided to frighten every one away lest
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  Speaker 6: they discover it, at least to keep them away until
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  Speaker 6: you owned the mine.
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  Speaker 8: I promised to share of the new vein to lead.
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  Speaker 8: He gave a fine performance, I thought, so did the doctor.
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  Speaker 8: I made an arrangement with him too. Not so splendid
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  Speaker 8: a performance, Geoffrey.
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  Speaker 6: He must have injected himself with drugs to a pair
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  Speaker 6: waxy and immobile.
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  Speaker 8: The story has worked well. It keeps the miners away,
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  Speaker 8: It makes the mine worthless.
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  Speaker 6: Giving you the opportunity to purchase it from missus Powe's
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  Speaker 6: for a trivial sum.
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  Speaker 8: She refused me that she'll accept. Every one comes round
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  Speaker 8: to my.
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  Speaker 6: Way of thinking. Obviously Daniel didn't. Evidently he chose to
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  Speaker 6: return here for another secret rendezvous with you to demand
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  Speaker 6: a larger share, so you did away with him about
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  Speaker 6: my offer.
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  Speaker 2: Willmit no agreements with murders, sir.
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  Speaker 8: My terms are that you will return to the surface.
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  Speaker 8: You will be as convincing a pair of actors as
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  Speaker 8: the others. You will rant and rave about what you've seen.
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  Speaker 8: You will, of course say nothing of Daniel. You will
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  Speaker 8: collapse seemingly hysterical a few days in bed, then you recover.
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  Speaker 8: That is one of the most My terms are that
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  Speaker 8: you will swear, like the others, never to describe what
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  Speaker 8: you have seen as long as you live. It is
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  Speaker 8: supposedly too hideous to repeat. In exchange for all this
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  Speaker 8: ten percent of the new vein. And if we reject
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  Speaker 8: the offer, I'm afraid there isn't much choice.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Holmes. Listen, what is that his inside? I tapped the.
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  Speaker 8: Spot where I knew a very small amount of coal
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  Speaker 8: gas would escape, Doctor Watson. It's filtering now into this tunnel.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe it. You're just trying to intimidate.
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  Speaker 8: Am I watch your canary, doctor, Just watch.
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  Speaker 2: Watch the canary instead.
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  Speaker 6: Then extinguish your headlamp Watson instantly, and I shall too
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  Speaker 6: and you, Jeffrey, or will you risk creating an explosion.
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  Speaker 8: I'll turn out my lap, but that's for an explosion.
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  Speaker 8: I suppose you believe me. Now, I have a box
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  Speaker 8: of matches, gentlemen, If I strike one, just one, it'll
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  Speaker 8: explode the gas.
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  Speaker 6: We will be blonde of bits. And we are to
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  Speaker 6: accept your offer or you'll strike the match.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, if you return to the Earth's service and reveal this,
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  Speaker 8: my life isn't worth living. I'd rather we all died
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  Speaker 8: here and now. The gas will overcome us at any moment.
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  Speaker 8: We've got a little time. Here's the match box and
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  Speaker 8: the match. I'm ready to strike it. Do you accept
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  Speaker 8: my offer?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Or no?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 8: You're sure you won't reconsidered.
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  Speaker 6: We will not reconsider.
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  Speaker 2: I'll stand by that.
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  Speaker 8: That's one second more than I strike the match.
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  Speaker 3: What's I've got?
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  Speaker 6: Pitch track of his arms? What's the rope at his belt?
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  Speaker 6: Can you find it?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Hold hold him still?
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  Speaker 2: That last and dark here time.
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  Speaker 6: I've got a simple jujitsu a little chicken still laugh.
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  Speaker 2: I can just climb his wrists there and now I
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  Speaker 2: can't move.
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  Speaker 6: Don't leave me here the gas, Oh, we shan't leave
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  Speaker 6: you Jeffrey. We shall take you to the circle and
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  Speaker 6: turn you over to the police. Come on, Watson, along
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  Speaker 6: the passageway where we came. You'll find it with your hands.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I have heard.
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  Speaker 6: Then go back after you, Jeffrey.
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  Speaker 2: There's a small beam of light ahead. It must be
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  Speaker 2: the shaft.
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  Speaker 6: That's it. That's the cage, the surface, so it is.
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  Speaker 2: See there's the lift.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Jump on, Watson, you to Jeffrey, Get on.
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  Speaker 3: There we are.
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  Speaker 8: It's as I feared. I guess she always wins. She Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: she's cursed. That's what her blessings aren't blessings at all.
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  Speaker 8: They carry a curse. The gold, the oil, the call,
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  Speaker 8: the diamonds, all the riches of the soil. When me
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  Speaker 8: to fire the soil and cut too deep, when we
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: slash into our forests and slice the hat out of
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: our mountains, she commands vengeance, and she exacts her told.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: That is a lesson you should have learned earlier in
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: the game, Jeffrey. The liba Watson right. They call your
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: friends the mad miners of Cardiff Geoffrey, And in a
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: sense they were really mad. A cruel dream of power
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: and wealth and glory illicitly won a dream not native
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: to Cardiff, nor at these.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Times by George Homes. I never thought we'd see the
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: flat haired Baker Street again. Eh hm.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Lack of confidence in my ability, Watson, therefore totally unjustified.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: How did you know, Holmes, about there being no terrible
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: sight at all in the mind?
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: Will you see the miner Lud departed suddenly for Edinburgh
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: and the Cosmopolitan Hotel, a very expensive hotel. Curious that
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: a miner should do that unless he'd suddenly received money.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Missus Powers said Lud was a miner all his life.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Would he spend his little savings on a lavish excursion
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: no costa?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: How did you know it would be Jeffrey in the mud?
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Well, if you recall when Jeffrey ran up to us
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: with Missus Powe's at the lift, when I observed a
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: chalk mark on the back of his jacket. It was
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: a portion of the symbols employed upon the beams in
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: a mine. The chalk had come off a beam and
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: soiled the jacket, though Jeffrey didn't notice, although no one
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: was supposed to be in the mine recently, Jeffrey had
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: clearly returned from a visit paid just a few minutes before.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: See tell me how about a sighted well about some mysterious,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: unheard of thing. It would be so utterly awful it
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: would drive the spectator instantly out of his mind. Are
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: such things possible?
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Is there any reason to believe? Erna Watson couldn't there
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: be such a thing? Looking around the next turn of
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: the street, or nearer, perhaps at the corner of your hallway,
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: or in the room next to where you're sitting now.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: He held, Doctor Watson, the the mad Miners of Cardif,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: who is one of the most spine tingling adventures you've
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: ever related to us. You must tell us what sort
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: of criminals were to pursue with you and mister Holmes.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Next week, doctor, next week, mister Harris, I shall relate
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: to you the case of the Burmese guts. It concerns
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: a strange legend, a man who lost his fingernail and
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: a peculiar auction, say