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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Man with the Twisted Lip Basil Rathbone, Nigel Br · Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen

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Speaker 1: Good evening, doctor, good evening, mister Bartow, draw up your
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usual chair mix of at home. How about the glass
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the shirt had of me?
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Speaker 2: Very nice already for tonight's story, doctor.
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Speaker 1: Yes, my boy, here's your shirt, Thank you, sir. My
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story begins on a June night in eighteen hundred and
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eighty nine. My wife and I had spent a quarky
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evening at home. I remember it was just about the
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hour that a man gives his first yawn and glances
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at the clock, and the tranquility of the scene was
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broken by the discordant jangling of our front door bell.
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Speaker 2: An emergency call for you, I suppose, doctors, Not exactly, mister.
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Speaker 1: It turned out to be a certain missus Iso Whitney,
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an old friend of my wife's who'd come to us
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in trouble. Her husband, she told us, had been missing
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for forty eight hours, and knowing him to be the
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victim of the shocking habit of taking opium, she was
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convinced that he was lying drugged and stupefied in some
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foul den amid the London waterfronts.
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Speaker 2: And I suppose you went out to try to find him.
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Speaker 1: Yes, mister Bartell, I did. She told me that her
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husband had mentioned frequenting a place called the Bar of
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Gold in Upper Swandham Lane, so naturally that's where I
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began my search. I quickly located it, and after ordering
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my cab the wight, I entered the place. A strange
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sight met my eyes. Through the smoke ridden, gloomed I
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could catch a glimpse of bodies lying in strange, fantastic
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poses as they smoked the pipes of death. Most of
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the unhappy creatures lay silently, but some muttered to themselves,
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and others talked together in strange, low, monotonous voices, their
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conversation coming in gushes and then trailing off into silence,
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each mumbling his own thoughts and paying little attention or
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heed to the words of his neighbor. As I entered,
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an attendant hurried up to me with an opium pipe
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and a supply of the drug and beckoned me to
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an empty bird, Master, may lie here. I haven't come
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to stay here, my good man. I'm looking for a friend,
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mister Isa Whitney.
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Speaker 3: No, and by that name.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm going to search this place just the same.
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Speaker 3: Please not to make trouble, Man Watson, is that your.
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Speaker 1: Watson Whitney, Thank heavens, I've found you. Man. For what
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time is It's nearly eleven of what day? What day? Friday,
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June the nineteenth, Good Lord, I thought it was Wednesday.
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It is Wednesday.
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Speaker 3: You're trying to confuse me.
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Speaker 1: Hi, tell you it's Friday. Your wife has been waiting
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two days for you. Mixed up in your days, Watson,
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I've only been here a few hours. Three pipes, four pipes?
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Speaker 3: I forget how many are I'll go.
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Speaker 1: Home much here, I'll keep your help. That's it. I
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have a cab waiting. I'm at the some money, will
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you set up for me?
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Speaker 4: God?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, wait here for me. Stop pulling up my Steve,
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my good fellow. Who are you? And what do you want?
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Speaker 3: A word in your ear?
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Speaker 1: Please? Any well? What is it?
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Speaker 3: Get rid of your friend and join me outside.
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Speaker 1: Holmes, What on earth are you doing here? Understand?
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Speaker 3: Be you a cab waiting?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 5: Then please use it to send you the futtal friend hormone,
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and if you fill up to it, I should also
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recommend that you sent a note for the captain telling
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your wife that you have thrown in your lot with me.
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I'd be exceedingly glad to having a little talk with you. Yes,
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of course I'll spend it then consuter a business yellow
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chat on me to outside in about ten minutes.
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Speaker 1: Well, earth, PHYSI, it's it's nearly.
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Speaker 3: That your house as whats it's me. Your disguise is
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wonder plot.
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Speaker 1: Never recognized you if you haven't spoken to me, just
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last posed a good friend.
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Speaker 5: Yes, here's cold. Let's start walking out. A horse and
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trap waiting for me on the next street. What on
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earth were you doing in the bar of gold homes
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trying to get news of a missing man, you, simon.
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I'm in the midst of a better remarkable inquiry, and
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I'd hope to get a clue from the incocurrent ramblings
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of those poor devils back there. Ah, there's the horse
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and trap under the street lamp on the corner. You'll
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come with me, of course, if I can be in
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any use, I trust a comrade is always ab use.
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My room at the Cedars has two bids in it. Yes,
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that's mister Neville, Saint Clair's house and our present destination.
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It's near Lee in Kent, about seven miles in the year,
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and I'm using it as a headquarters while I conduct.
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Speaker 3: My inquiries avening mister Rounds. Everything all right?
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Speaker 5: Yes, thank you John, I get in Watson. I shan't
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need you any more tonight. John, he has have a
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crown for you. Look out for me tomorrow about eleven.
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Speaker 3: My charms stroums could not gentlemen, can I John? Get up.
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Speaker 1: Well? Homes If we have a seven miles drive ahead
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of us, perhaps you'll tell me about the case that you're.
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Speaker 3: Working on with pleasure old chat. But first take the
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range for a few minutes, will you.
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Speaker 5: I want to remove my makeup and take off my
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wig and be comfortable.
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Speaker 3: After that, I'll tell you why we are headed to
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the Kentish countryside at this hour of the night. What's mean?
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Speaker 5: You have a grand gift of silence? It makes you
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invaluable as a companion. We've driven four miles and you
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haven't doned a word.
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Speaker 1: It was easy. I've been dying to question to you,
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but I could see that you will preoccupy and.
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Speaker 5: I shall reward you with a clear and concise statement
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of my problem. And mister Nevil Saint Claire, aged thirty seven,
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the father of two children and an affectionate husband, is missing.
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He left his house the Cedars near Lee, our present.
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Speaker 3: Destination, last Monday, four days ago.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Now, why should an affectionate husband of a happy
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father disappear in any money trouble?
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Speaker 3: I think not.
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Speaker 5: His entire debts at the moment amount to eighty eight pounds,
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while he has two hundred and twenty pounds standing to
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his credit at the Capital and County's Bank.
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Speaker 1: Who is the last person to see him on Monday?
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Speaker 3: His wife? But let me tell you the story. He
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left his house for London rather earlier than usual.
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Speaker 1: He was a businessman then, yes, he has.
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Speaker 5: An interest in several companies in London, but his wife
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doesn't know exactly what he does. But to continue in
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at for London, saying that he would bring his little
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boy home a box of toy bricks now, but the
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middest chance. His wife received a telegram shortly after his
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departure saying that a parcel of considerable value was waiting
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for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company.
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Speaker 1: Aberdeenshire, their officers in Fresno Street. I drove by them tonight.
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Speaker 5: Zack in Fresno's Street branches out of.
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Speaker 6: Upper Swandon Lane where the bar of Gold is. Situation ah,
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Now I'm beginning to understand.
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Speaker 5: Gone home, Gone and missus Saint Clair took a train
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for London, and at exactly four point thirty five on
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Monday last planted herself walking past the Bar of Gold.
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Suddenly she heard a cry, and, looking up, was horrified
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to see her husband affecting to her from a second
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story window.
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Speaker 1: Prisoner Was he there of his own free will?
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Speaker 3: Usper Undoubtedly he was a prisoner.
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Speaker 5: The window was open, and she distinctly on his face,
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which he described as being terribly eduitated. He waved his
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hand to up frantically, and then vanished from the window,
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so suddenly that it seemed to her that he had
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been dragged back by some irresistible force from behind. One
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singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was.
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Speaker 3: That although he wore the coat he had left for London,
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and he wore neither collar nor time.
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Speaker 1: What did she do?
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Speaker 5: Rushed down the steps into the Bar of Gold and
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attempted to go up the staircase leading to the second floor.
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Speaker 1: I suppose that oriental fellow that I talked to tonight
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stopped her exactly.
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Speaker 5: In fact, he pushed her out of the daw and
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swammed it after her. She rushed down the lane and
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a few moments later was lucky enough to meet a
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sergeant and two constable.
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Speaker 1: She took them back with her to the bar of Gold.
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Speaker 5: Of course, yes, I mean whether to the room in
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which Neville Saint Clair at last been seen, And of
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course there was no sign of him. In fact, on
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the whole floor there was no one to be found
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except a hideous, deformed beggar who seemed to live there.
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And what Missus Saint Clair told me, it appears that
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the sergeant conducted the examination of quite utility.
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Speaker 1: Saw your asmad up this window, Missus Sinclair.
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Speaker 6: I'm positive, sergeant and Alescus, where's no one's been upstairs
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this afternoon?
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Speaker 3: He's probably lying. Let's see what this crippled fellowes to
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say for himself.
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Speaker 1: Here, you what do you want with me?
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Speaker 7: I t nothing.
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Speaker 6: You heard what this lady said? Did you see your
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husband go in this room a few minutes ago? I
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didn't see nobody. And I've been here all the afternoon,
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you lil, Yes, and you swear on oath that no
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one's been in this room for the last few hours. Yes,
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I do, Missus s Clear, I know that you think
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you saw your husband.
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Speaker 1: But don't you suppose.
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Speaker 6: Look on the table, just a wooden boxman.
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Speaker 7: But I know what's incited head the see.
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Speaker 1: What it's a lot of a lot of wooden bricks
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like kids place.
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Speaker 7: If my husband came to London today, especially to buy
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the flour suns. You can't just believe me now, sergeant,
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don't think I can.
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Speaker 6: And I'll take another look around. Where does this door
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lead to my bedroom? You won't find nothing in there.
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Speaker 1: And we'll look just the same.
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 6: Bloodstains on this window, ledge, fresh bloodstains?
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Speaker 3: How do you account for that?
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Speaker 1: Well? I don't know nothing about it.
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Speaker 6: And the window overlooks the river, just where the water's
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good and deep.
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Speaker 3: Too nice place to tip a body at here? Come
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are you? I ain't done nothing.
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Speaker 6: You've got bloodstains on your right sleeve? What a you
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gotta say about that?
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Speaker 1: To my fingers?
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Speaker 6: See? And then I went and opened the window. Letter,
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that's how the bird got this? You think I was
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born yesterday? Let's have a look in his chest of drawers? Hello, Hello,
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those clothes are these? A pair of trousers, socks, shoes, ets,
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everything except the coat, eh, missus Sinclair will you come
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in here, priestman, what if your partner started these clothes?
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Speaker 1: Are they your husband's mom? Yes?
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Speaker 7: What's happened to ring Sergeant?
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Speaker 6: I'm afraid he's met with foul playmer And this man
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knows what happened, and he won't talk. I don't know nothing.
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I'll tell you, don't you when I arrest you in
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the name of the.
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Speaker 1: Law, And I warn you that anything you say.
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Speaker 3: And so Watson the sergeant arrested this crippled beggar.
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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. What have they been able to find
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out about him?
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Speaker 3: Surprisingly little?
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Speaker 5: His name is Hugh Boone and he's a professional beggar,
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quite as successful when I gather his pathetic appearance attracts
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great sympathy, the shock of orange hair and a pale
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face that is disfigured by a horrible scar which has
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twisted the outer.
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Speaker 3: Edge of his upper lip.
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Speaker 1: And he was the last man to see Nevil some
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Turil alive.
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Speaker 5: So it would seem the Laska downstairs has been cross examined.
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Speaker 3: Relentlessly, but he swears that he has no knowledge of
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the crimes.
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Speaker 1: There have been any furtive.
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Speaker 3: Old chap Yes, indeither have the ebbing tide gave.
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Speaker 1: A fresh clue humans, and Clare's body was washed out.
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Speaker 3: No, his coat with every.
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Speaker 5: Pocket stuck with pennies and haphenies four hundred and twenty
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one pennies and two hundred and seventy haphenies to be exact,
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there's no wonder that it had not been swept away
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by the tide.
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Speaker 1: But human body is a different matter.
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Speaker 5: Yes, there's a strong eddy between the house and the wall.
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It seems likely that the weighted coat had remained when
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the stripped body had been carried away into the river.
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Speaker 1: The other clothes were found in the room. And why
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would the body be dressed in a coat? Love?
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Speaker 3: We can only summarize old chaff.
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Speaker 5: But supposing that this man boon a trusted levels Sinclaire
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through the window and into the river, what would he
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do then try and disppose of the tewtail garments. Yes,
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that would be logical, wouldn't it. He would seize the
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coat and be in the act of.
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Speaker 8: Throwing it out of the window when it would occur
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to him.
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Speaker 3: That it would quote and not sink.
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Speaker 1: So we loaded the puppets OF's coins to make it sink.
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Speaker 3: Quite so, But he has little time but he has
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heard this couple downstairs. When Missus Saint Clair tried to
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pass her way up, he only succeeded.
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Speaker 8: In getting as far as throwing the coat out.
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Speaker 3: When the police arrived on the scene.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it seems perfectly feasible.
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Speaker 3: Well I thought it was a working hypothesis anyway.
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Speaker 1: Nevil Sincaire disappeared on Monday. Yet we still don't know
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what but he was doing in the Opium den what happened?
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Too many? He was not there or were he is?
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Speaker 3: Now? What Humbourne, the beg.
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Speaker 8: Over the fisted lip, had to do with his disappearance?
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Speaker 3: Ah, here we are. Our destinations were light, Bernie.
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Speaker 1: Missus Claire must be waiting up for her.
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Speaker 3: Yes, poor woman. I hate to return here with no
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news of her husband.
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Speaker 5: But she's being brave. What's some extremely brave. We might
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do everything we can to comfort her.
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Speaker 7: Dr Watson, I'm so grateful that you were able to
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come down and help you.
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Speaker 1: Afraid. Oh, I only hope that I can be of
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some help Missus and Clare.
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Speaker 7: I say that you have no good news for me,
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Mister Homes, I'm afraid not no, no thank heaven for dead.
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Mister Holmes tell me honestly, do you think that never
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is still alive?
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 7: Thankly, no, thank you.
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Speaker 5: Then I don't think he's murdered. Well I don't say that,
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but perhaps you And on what day did he.
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Speaker 3: Meet his death? On Monday?
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Speaker 7: Then perhaps, mister Holmes, you can explain how I received
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a letter from him today?
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Speaker 1: Who is all madam?
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Speaker 3: Let me see it. This is very crude writing on
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the envelope. Surely it's not your husband's hands.
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Speaker 7: Hope the writing in the letter is?
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Speaker 3: There's letter contained an enclosure.
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Speaker 7: Yes, there was a ring, his dignitt ring.
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Speaker 1: What is the letter say?
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Speaker 8: There is?
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Speaker 3: Do not be frightened.
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Speaker 8: All will come Well. There is a huge error which
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it may take some little time to rectify.
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Speaker 5: Waiting patience and its signed Neville written in pennsylvani fly
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leaf of a notebook.
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Speaker 3: No water mark.
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Speaker 5: Posted today, engraves in by a member. The dirt it's
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coming black has been gummed. If I'm not mistaken by
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a man who has been chewing tobacco.
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Speaker 7: My husband must be alive, mister Hilmes.
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Speaker 5: This might be a clever forgery to put us off
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put us off the track. But the signet rings as
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it may have been taken from him. But the hand
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writing and then the first mark might have been written
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on Monday and only posted today. I won't be the
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scared missus Claire. I have no wish to discourage you.
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I'm just trying to be practical. If your husband is
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alive and able to write letters, why should he remain
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away from you.
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Speaker 1: I can't admit he made no special remarks before leaving
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on Monday.
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Speaker 7: No, none, except to say that he was going to
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buy the wooden blocks.
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Speaker 5: When you saw him at the bar of Golden Swandam Lane,
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was the window open, Yes, then he might have called you.
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He might, as I understand it, he gave an inarticulate cry,
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a call for help.
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Speaker 7: You thought, yes, he waved his hands, but.
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Speaker 3: It might have been a cry of surprise.
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Speaker 5: Astonishment of the unexpected sight of you might have caused
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him to throw up his hands.
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Speaker 3: And you thought that he was pulled back from the window.
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Speaker 7: Yes, because he disappeared so abruptly, he might have leaped
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back Mande. He might have, though I can't think why.
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Speaker 5: One last question? Had your husband ever shown signs of
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taking oakium?
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Speaker 6: Why?
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Speaker 7: No, never, mister Holmes. I'm certain the idea would have
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revolted him.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, Missus Sinclair. As were the principal points I
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wanted to be clear on. And now what's my suggest
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We retire for the night. We may have a busy
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day ahead of us to morrow.
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Speaker 7: I hope you both sleep well.
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Speaker 3: Good night, mister Holmes, doctor Watson, good night, missus.
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Speaker 1: Keep up your courage.
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Speaker 5: Good night, Missus Sinclair. We must hope for the best.
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The cloud seemed lighter, though I should not venture to
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say that danger is over.
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Speaker 2: You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
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a second. So I'm just going to remind you that
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when you buy Petrie California sherry, you have a choice
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of two kinds of sherry. You can choose Petri regular sherry,
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or if you prefer your sherry dry, you know, not sweet,
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ask for Petree Pale dry sherry. They're both fine wines.
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And if you don't know which you'd prefer, don't buy one,
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buy two, buy them both and try them both.
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Speaker 3: And remember this Petri sherry.
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Speaker 2: Is the perfect all round, all occasion wine. It's good
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before dinner, after dinner, at cocktail time, in any time.
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Just be sure you'll get Petrie pet Tree Sherry. Well,
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Dr Watson, you and the great Sherlock Holmes certainly deserved
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a good night's rest.
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Speaker 3: Did you get it?
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Speaker 1: I did, mister Bell to Herbert Holmes, made no attempt
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to sleep. As soon as we retired upstairs. You'd donned
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the blue silk dressing gown, and then wandered about the room,
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collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa
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and the armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of
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Eastern divan, and which pursed himself cross legged, with an
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ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid
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out in front of him.
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Speaker 2: He was all set for a session of thinking.
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Speaker 3: I guess yes, my boy.
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Speaker 1: In the dim light of a lamp, I saw him
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sitting there, an old braw pipe clenched in his teeth,
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his eyes fixed vacantly on a corner of the ceiling,
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the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless. So
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he sat as I dropped off to sleep, And so
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he sat when I wake into the morning to find
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the summer sun shining into the room. The pipe was
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still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and
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the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but
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nothing remained of the heap of.
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Speaker 5: Shag which I had seen on the previous night, Watson,
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Wake Watson.
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Speaker 3: Twenty minutes at the World, Chap, I had to think.
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Speaker 5: I couldn't allow my brain the luxury of sleeping you
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game from morning drive.
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Speaker 1: Well, i'll get dressed.
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Speaker 5: Good, No, I'm stirring yet, but I know where the
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stable boy sleeps. I'll have the horse and trap up
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no time at all. Oh where we go to prison
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to visit Hugh Boon? The man with a twisted lip.
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Speaker 1: Homes your You're unusually excited. What's what's on your mind?
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I want to test a little theory.
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Speaker 5: I think what's in that you are not standing in
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the presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe.
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I deserve to be kicked from here to Chatting Cross.
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But I think I have the key to the affair
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in the bathroom.
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Speaker 1: You're joking.
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Speaker 5: No, I've just been there and removed it to my
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coat pocket. Now I didn't get dressed, old Chap, and.
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Speaker 3: We'll drive over to the prison and see whether my.
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Speaker 4: Key fits the lock. Well, good morning, mister Elms. Doctor
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Wat's the morning you're a couple of early birds and
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no mistake.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Constable, we are searching for the proverbial worm who's
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on duty Spector brad Street, Sir, oh, oh, here he
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is now. Good morning, bad Street, mister Elms, Good morning doctor,
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Good morning in Spiger.
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Speaker 3: What can I do for you? Gentlemen?
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Speaker 5: He called about Hu Boon, the beggar man who his
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charge was being concerned in the disappearance of mister nevill
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Saint Clair.
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Speaker 3: You have him here?
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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, mister Elmes, he's in the selves. I'll take
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you to him. Follow me, will you, gentlemen?
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Speaker 3: Thank you?
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Speaker 1: What kind of a prisoners he be?
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Speaker 5: Oh, he hasn't given us any trouble, but he's a
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dirty devil. It's as much as we can do to
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make him wash his ends. His face is as black
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as a tickers. He has an aversion to washing, has he? Yeah, yes,
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mister Elmes. Well, once his case has been settled, to
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have a regular prison bath. And when you see him,
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I think you'd agree with.
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Speaker 3: Me that he needs it.
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Speaker 1: And there we are.
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Speaker 3: This is his self. He's still asleep.
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Speaker 1: Lord, what a full how's to be looking for her?
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Speaker 5: Yes, he's a beauty, isn't he? I want to go in,
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mister Romes, please inspect her. Well, he certainly needs to wash. Yes,
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I had an idea that he might. That's why I
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brought the sponge along in my power.
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Speaker 1: So that was the key that you found in the bathroom.
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Speaker 5: You're a funny one, mister Romes, And no mistake. Why
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did you bring a sponge along?
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Speaker 6: Paul?
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Speaker 1: I'll show you.
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Speaker 3: Is there any water in the cell? In the jug
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on the table there?
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Speaker 5: Yes, I set the sponge in the water so, and
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then applied to the prisoner's face.
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Speaker 1: So which Scott is compections three shades lighter underneath, and
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the skin his lippers disappear.
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Speaker 5: Now tug on this mupple bread hair, and I think
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we'll find it's a week's coming.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 5: Ah, Let me introduce you to mister Nobles Saint Clair
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of Lee in the County of Kent, good lock.
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Speaker 3: What mister Olmes is the missing man? All right?
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Speaker 5: I recognize him from the photographs? All right, I'm never
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since here. What am I charged with.
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Speaker 3: Making away with?
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Speaker 5: Mister Nevill say, oh no, you can't be charged with
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that unless we make a case of attempted suicide of it. Well,
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since I'm the missing man, and it's obvious that no
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crime has been committed, and therefore I'm illegally detained. No crime,
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but a very great error has been committed. You would
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have done better to have trusted your wife.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't known in my wife.
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Speaker 3: It was the children.
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Speaker 5: I couldn't bear to have them know that their father
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was a common beggar.
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Speaker 3: Now you've exposed me.
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Speaker 1: What could I do? Well? If you leave it a
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cord of law, a clearless matter ups so you can
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hardly avoid newspaper publicity. But if you're perfectly honest with
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us now, I'm sure the inspector, mister Holmes won't be
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too hard on you.
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Speaker 5: No, mister Saint Clair Inspector Bradstreet will. I'm sure I
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make notes on the information that you give us and
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submit them to the proper authorities. But now, sir, your
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story please? Why have you been posing as Hugh Boon,
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a crippled beggar with a twisted lip? Well, it's simple
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enough story. Some years ago I was a newspaper reporter.
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One day my editor wanted an article on begging in
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the London metropolis.
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Speaker 1: You thought the best way to get your facts was
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the disguise yourself was as bigger.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I'd been an action in my youth in it
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wasn't hard for me to adopt a convincing disguise.
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Speaker 3: But that was the point where all my trouble started.
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Speaker 5: On that first day I sat in the London streets,
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I found my amazement that I received no less than
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twenty six shillings and four.
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Speaker 3: Pounds, as much as your weekly salary as a reporter.
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Speaker 5: Imagine, yes, mister Holmes, Well you can imagine how hard
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it was to settle down to arduous work at two
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pounds a week, when I knew that I could earn
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as much in a couple of days by smearing my
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face with paint, laying my cap on the ground, and
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sitting still.
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Speaker 3: Only one man knew.
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Speaker 5: My secret Alaska, the bar of Gold, Upper swandam Lane,
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eh is, mister Holmes. Every morning I had emerge from
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there dressed as a beggar, and in the evenings I'd
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return and transform myself in to a well dressed man.
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About time the fellow was well paid for his rooms,
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and I knew that my secret was safe in his possession.
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Speaker 1: And when you got married, you couldn't bring yourself to
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confile in your wife as person. No, I couldn't.
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Speaker 3: My wife knew that I had a business in the city.
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Speaker 5: She little knew what when you saw your wife from
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the window last Monday, you quickly changed back into the
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character of the beggar. I suppose, yes, mister Holmes, and
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then weighted my coat and threw it into the river.
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Speaker 3: Well, I I don't think there's anything else I need explain.
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Speaker 5: Is that at one point the signet ring that you
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sent your wife, Well, I knew that she'd be worrying,
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so I gave it to the Alaska at a moment
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when no constable was watching me, together with a hastily
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scribbled note.
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Speaker 1: That note only reached her last night, mister sinker.
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Speaker 5: Last night, poor Catherine. What a dreadful week you must
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have spent. And the police have been watching that Leska.
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You probably found it difficult to post the letter for
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you without being spotted. Yes, I would surmise you gave
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it to a sailor. Customer is to post a sailor
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who chewed tobacco and had a dirty thumb. Yes, I
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think all the ends are tied off, very niekly. Now,
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one last question, mister Sinclair, have you never been prosecuted
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for begging many times, but what was a fine to me?
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It's got to stop here and now, missus Sinclair. If
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the police had asked this thing up, there must be
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no more of your boom the beggar, I swear it.
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Speaker 1: And you must tell your wife or two at once.
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If you've done that a long time ago, you'd have
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saved both of yourselves. Are very great deal of miseries.
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Speaker 5: I shall tell her everything. Well, mister Romes were very
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much obliged to you. If having cleared this matter up,
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I wish I knew how you reached your results, though well,
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in this case, my dear Inspector, I reached them by
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sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag tobacco.
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Speaker 3: I only wish that all my problems might be solved
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so comfortably