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69-07-01 Sherlock Holmes The Black Peter · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 4: One of the maids saw the cabin door open, but
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  Speaker 4: they were all so afraid of him, they didn't venture
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  Speaker 4: near till midday.
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  Speaker 5: What did they find?
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  Speaker 4: Saw it for myself a few hours later, and I
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  Speaker 4: can tell you it gave even me a shake. The
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  Speaker 4: walls of that hut were like a slaughterhouse. Blood everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: And there, up against one wall, was Black Peter himself.
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  Speaker 4: pinned upright by a harpoon, right through his chest, like
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  Speaker 4: a beetle on a card. Calm accounts of horror were
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  Speaker 4: something I became used to in the company of Sherlock Holmes. Watsons,
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  Speaker 4: my name, Dr. Watson. And I was privileged to share
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  Speaker 4: the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I'll tell you what happened
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  Speaker 4: in the case of Black Peter, which began with Holmes
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  Speaker 4: behaving in a way most unlike him. He was never
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  Speaker 4: an early riser, but, as ever, he had his reasons.
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  Speaker 4: As you'll soon see. Oh, Watson. A very good day
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  Speaker 4: to you, my dear fellow. Oh, good morning, Holmes. There
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  Speaker 4: can be no question of the value of exercise before breakfast. Exercise, Holmes? You...
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  Speaker 4: And I've returned with an excellent appetite. But I'm prepared
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  Speaker 4: to bet that you won't guess what form my exercise
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  Speaker 4: has taken. I won't attempt it. Great heavens, what on
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  Speaker 4: earth's that you've got? It looks like some sort of
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  Speaker 4: spear thing. More coffee, Watson?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 4: Actually, it's a whaler's harpoon. And if you'd looked into
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  Speaker 4: the back of Alanis the Butcher's a few minutes ago,
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  Speaker 4: you'd have seen a gentleman in his shirt sleeves stabbing
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  Speaker 4: furiously with this very weapon at a dead pig. Oh, really, Holmes?
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  Speaker 4: No need to ask if that gentleman was you, I suppose.
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  Speaker 4: I was that energetic person. And I satisfied myself that
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  Speaker 4: by no exertion of my strength can I transfix a
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  Speaker 4: pig with a single blow of a harpoon. Come in. Ah, Hopkins.
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  Speaker 4: Come and take some breakfast with us. No, thank you, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take a cup of coffee, if you please. Morning, Dr. Watson.
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  Speaker 4: Morning to you, Inspector. I spent the night in town.
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  Speaker 4: I came up yesterday to report back at the yard.
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  Speaker 4: And what had you to report, Hopkins? Failure, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: Absolute failure. Hear me. I must look at the matter. Holmes,
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  Speaker 4: may I ask you... Mr. Evans, you would, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: My first big chance, and I'm at my wit's end. Well,
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  Speaker 4: if it happens, I've read all the available evidence, including
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  Speaker 4: the report of the inquest, of course. By the way,
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  Speaker 4: what do you make of the tobacco pouch? Holmes... The pouch, sir? Well,
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  Speaker 4: his own. Had his initials on it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but he had no pipe.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's true. He didn't smoke. Well, he might have
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  Speaker 4: kept some tobacco for his friends. Holmes, if you don't...
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  Speaker 4: Jerry Hopkins, I was forgetting that my friend Dr. Watson
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  Speaker 4: knows nothing of the staff. Nothing, Holmes. And I myself
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  Speaker 4: should be none the worse for hearing the sequence of
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  Speaker 4: events once more. So just give us some short sketch
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  Speaker 4: of the essentials, will you? Very well, sir. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: You see, Doctor, we've this dead man, Captain Peter Carey.
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  Speaker 4: Fifty years of age, sealer and whaler. Commanded the sealer
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  Speaker 4: Sea Unicorn. Did very well. Retired eleven years ago. What? Well,
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  Speaker 4: he can't have been forty then. Thirty-nine. Troubled about for
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  Speaker 4: a few years, then bought a place near Forest Row
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  Speaker 4: in Sussex six years ago. Lived there with his wife
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  Speaker 4: and daughter, aged about 20. Two female servants, always changing,
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  Speaker 4: and you can't blame them. How so? Habitual drunkard. Perfect
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  Speaker 4: fiend when he had the fit on him. Being known
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  Speaker 4: to drive his wife and daughter out of doors in
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the night and flog them through the park.
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  Speaker 4: Great fiend. It appears, Watson, that he was known as
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  Speaker 4: Black Peter in his seafaring days. A graphic description, it seems.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, Doctor. Huge fellow with a great black beard. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: he built himself a little wooden hut near his house,
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  Speaker 4: corded his cabin, all done up with maps and charts,
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  Speaker 4: picture of the sea unicorn, line of log books on
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  Speaker 4: the shelf and so on. He slept there every night. Well,
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  Speaker 4: last Tuesday he seems to have been in one of
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  Speaker 4: his most dangerous moods. Roamed all over the house, drunk
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  Speaker 4: and savage, and the womenfolk kept right out of his way.
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  Speaker 4: Then he went off to his cabin for the night.
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  Speaker 4: About two in the morning his daughter was wakened by
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  Speaker 4: a terrible yell... but he used to bawl and shout
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  Speaker 4: half the night when he was in drink, so she
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  Speaker 4: did nothing about it. Next morning, one of the maids
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  Speaker 4: saw the cabin door open, but they were all so
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  Speaker 4: afraid of him, they didn't venture near till midday. And
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  Speaker 4: what did they find? Saw it for myself a few
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  Speaker 4: hours later, and I can tell you it gave even
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  Speaker 4: me a shake. The walls of that hut were like
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  Speaker 4: a slaughterhouse. Blood everywhere. And there, up against one wall,
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  Speaker 4: was Black Peter himself. pinned upright by a harpoon, right
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  Speaker 4: through his chest, like a beetle on a card. Now,
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  Speaker 4: tell my friend what you did next, Hopkins. I examined
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  Speaker 4: the floor and the ground outside. There were no footmarks,
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  Speaker 4: meaning that you saw none. However, I understand from the
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  Speaker 4: inquest that there were some objects which you did not
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  Speaker 4: manage to overlook.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: The harpoon had been snatched down from a rack on
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  Speaker 4: the wall. Two others remained there, with sea unicorn engraved
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  Speaker 4: on them. Carey was fully dressed, and there were two
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  Speaker 4: empty glasses and a bottle of rum on the table.
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  Speaker 4: So I deduced that the crime was done in a
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  Speaker 4: moment of fury by some drinking partner who grabbed the
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  Speaker 4: first weapon that came to hand. Sounds plausible enough to me, Inspector. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I think both inferences are permissible. Tell me, Hopkins, was
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  Speaker 4: there any other spirit but rum in the room? A
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  Speaker 4: tantalus full of brandy and whiskey on the sea chest,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't see... Then let us hear some more
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  Speaker 4: about the things you believe do bear on the case.
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  Speaker 4: The tobacco pouch. Oh, here. Dr. Watson, if you'd care
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  Speaker 4: to see it. Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Some straight-haired skin. Seal skin, I suppose. Leather thong, a fastnet,
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  Speaker 4: initials PC on the flap, and.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: About half an ounce of very strong tobacco in it.
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  Speaker 4: Ship's plug, I should say. Excellent, Watson. Want more, Hopkins?
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  Speaker 4: This notebook. I found it on the hut floor. Owner's initials, JHN,
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  Speaker 4: and the date, 1883, inside the front cover. Several pages
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  Speaker 4: of numbers. Mention of Argentina, Costa Rica, and San Paolo,
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  Speaker 4: and some other fellows' initials, CPR. And what do you
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  Speaker 4: make of those? Oh, stock exchange securities. JHN, the initials
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  Speaker 4: of a broker, CPR, those of his client. By name,
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  Speaker 4: Canadian Pacific Railway, no doubt.
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  Speaker 5: CPR.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, that makes a mug of me, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then, JHN are the only initials we have to
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  Speaker 4: worry about. I've been through the old stock exchange lists.
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  Speaker 4: There was no one with those initials in the house
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  Speaker 4: or among the outside brokers in 1883. Surely the securities
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  Speaker 4: can be traced by their numbers. That's true, Doctor. Only
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  Speaker 4: there are South American concerns, and the registers are held
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  Speaker 4: over there. I started inquiries, but it'll take weeks. Hopkins? Yes, Mr. Holmes,
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  Speaker 4: what have you found? This coloration on the cover of
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  Speaker 4: this notebook. Surely it's... Blood, sir. I told you I
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  Speaker 4: picked it up off the floor, and there was blood
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  Speaker 4: all over the place. Was this blood stay inside the
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  Speaker 4: one uppermost or next to the boards? Next to the boards.
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  Speaker 4: Which proves, of course, that the book was dropped after
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  Speaker 4: the crime was committed. Exactly, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: Near the door. Reckon the murderer dropped it as he ran.
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  Speaker 4: And I believe there was also a knife found. Also
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  Speaker 4: on the floor, still in its sheath. Mrs. Carey identified
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  Speaker 4: it as the captain's. Inspector, I don't quite see the
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  Speaker 4: mystery in all this. Couldn't it be a simple case
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  Speaker 4: of intended robbery in which the thief was surprised by
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  Speaker 4: Captain Carey? It could, sir. Even so, it still leaves
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  Speaker 4: us with a murderer to track down. Which is why
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  Speaker 4: you come to me, I suppose. I'd be more than
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  Speaker 4: obliged for your opinion, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I suppose I shall have to come out and
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  Speaker 4: have a look. It'll be a real weight off my mind, sir.
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  Speaker 4: This is Mrs. and Miss Carey, and Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do? How do you do, Mrs. Carey? Sir?
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  Speaker 4: Allow me to express our sympathy.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 4: There's no need for it.
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  Speaker 7: It's good riddance to the blackest scoundrel that ever lived,
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  Speaker 7: that's all.
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  Speaker 4: I see. Then, Miss Carey, do you suppose that anyone
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  Speaker 4: in particular might have determined to kill him? Anyone you
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  Speaker 4: like to choose.
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  Speaker 7: Me included.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, for shame, girl. Come now, Miss Carey. I appreciate
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  Speaker 4: your feelings, but I wish you to be as specific
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  Speaker 4: as possible. What?
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  Speaker 5: To help you.
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  Speaker 7: Lay hands on the one who's put my ma and
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  Speaker 7: me out of a life of mischief?
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  Speaker 4: Mrs. Carey?
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  Speaker 5: No, no. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know anything.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, come on, Ma. There's no more to fret about.
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  Speaker 4: Is that all, then? For the moment, thank you. Come
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  Speaker 4: back to the house, love. We'll make some tea and
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  Speaker 4: you shall rest a bit.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And now, Hopkins, if we may look inside this hut. Right, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the key. Hello. What is it, Inspector? Someone's been
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  Speaker 4: at this lock since I was here last. Those marks
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  Speaker 4: were never there before. Hmm. Whoever it was must have
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  Speaker 4: been a very poor burglar. He can't have got it open.
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  Speaker 4: Some curious villager, perhaps. What do you think, Holmes? I
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  Speaker 4: think that fortune is very kind to us. Someone came
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  Speaker 4: here expecting to find the door open. He tried to
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  Speaker 4: get in with the blade of a very small penknife.
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  Speaker 4: He couldn't manage it. Now, what would he do? Come
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  Speaker 4: again next night with a more useful tool. So I
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  Speaker 4: should say. And it'll be our fault if we're not
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  Speaker 4: here to receive him. Meanwhile, let me see the inside
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  Speaker 4: of the cabin. There you are, sir. Mind, I don't
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  Speaker 4: think there'll be anything else for you to find. I've
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  Speaker 4: been over this place with a microscope almost.
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  Speaker 6: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: Have you removed anything from this shelf in the course
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  Speaker 4: of your search? Nothing, sir. Something's been taken.
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  Speaker 6: Eh?
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  Speaker 4: There's less dust in this corner of the shelter than elsewhere.
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  Speaker 4: It may have been a book lying on its side.
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  Speaker 4: It may have been a box. So let us see
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  Speaker 4: what else your microscope has failed to reveal, Hopkins. And then, Watson,
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  Speaker 4: we'll enjoy a walk in these beautiful woods and all
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  Speaker 4: meet at 11 o'clock to hide in those fine bushes outside...
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  Speaker 4: and see if we can come to closer quarters for
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  Speaker 4: the gentleman who wished to visit this place last night.
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  Speaker 6: The End.
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  Speaker 4: I tell you, it was probably just some curiosity monger.
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  Speaker 4: He won't come again. Just the same, we must wait
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  Speaker 4: and see.
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  Speaker 6: We've not waited a day.
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  Speaker 7: I can just see him by the heart.
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  Speaker 6: Working on the lock.
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  Speaker 4: Let's hope he's more successful tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 6: It's pale and it is dead. No, no, wait.
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  Speaker 7: See if he'll apply just some illumination first.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, you see? He's a little capital. Now then, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Stay still there, or it'll be the worst for you.
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  Speaker 7: Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm the police. That's who I am.
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  Speaker 7: You think I'm connected with the death of Captain Peter Carey,
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  Speaker 7: I suppose, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: We'll see about that. Let's have your name first, young fellow.
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  Speaker 4: It's Nelligan.
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  Speaker 7: John Hopley Nelligan. But I swear I had nothing to
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  Speaker 7: do with the murder.
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  Speaker 4: John Hopley Nelligan. What are you doing here, then?
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  Speaker 7: I only want to prevent an old scandal gaining a
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  Speaker 7: new lease of life. Did you ever hear of Dawson
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  Speaker 7: and Nelligan? The West Country Bankers?
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  Speaker 4: That's right. They failed for half a million, Hopkins, ruined
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  Speaker 4: half the county families of Cornwall, and Nelligan disappeared. Well, then?
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  Speaker 7: It has always been said that my father stole all
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  Speaker 7: the securities and fled. It isn't true. He believed that
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  Speaker 7: if he were given time to realize them, every creditor would.
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  Speaker 4: Be paid in full.
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  Speaker 7: He started in his little yacht for Norway, leaving my
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  Speaker 7: mother a list of the securities he'd taken and swearing
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  Speaker 7: he'd come back with his honor cleared.
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  Speaker 4: And did he? No.
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  Speaker 7: Both the yacht and he vanished utterly. We believed, my
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  Speaker 7: mother and I, that he and it and the securities
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  Speaker 7: he'd taken were at the bottom of the sea. Yet
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  Speaker 7: some time ago, a faithful friend who's a businessman discovered
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  Speaker 7: that some of the securities had reappeared on the London market.
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  Speaker 7: I spent months trying to trace them, and at last
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  Speaker 7: I found that the original seller had been Captain Peter Carey.
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  Speaker 4: You say this is the truth?
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  Speaker 7: It is, all of it. I made inquiries about Carey
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  Speaker 7: and found he'd been in command of a whaler which
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  Speaker 7: was due to return from Arctic waters. just at the
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  Speaker 7: time my father was crossing to Norway. There were many
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  Speaker 7: storms that autumn, and my father's yacht may well have
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  Speaker 7: been blown to the north and met by Carey's ship.
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  Speaker 7: I read of Carey's death. The report stated that the
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  Speaker 7: contents of this cabin included the old log books of
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  Speaker 7: his ship, and I hurried here at once, hoping to
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  Speaker 7: get my hands on them and find entries for August 1883,
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  Speaker 7: the month in which my father met his fate.
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  Speaker 4: And this book you were looking in when we found you,
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  Speaker 4: is it the one? It should have been. Should have.
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  Speaker 4: I barely got it open before you came in.
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  Speaker 7: But it only took a glance to see that all
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  Speaker 7: the pages for August 1883 are missing.
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  Speaker 4: Ripped out. See for yourself. Hmm. So, is that all? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And you swear you've never been inside this hut before now?
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  Speaker 4: That's the truth. Then how do you account for this notebook?
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  Speaker 4: Bearing your initials, JHN, found lying in the dead man's
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  Speaker 4: blood when his body was discovered.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it can't have been... I thought I'd lost it
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  Speaker 7: at my hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here it is. And there's the bloodstain to prove
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  Speaker 4: where it was found. So I reckon you'd better save
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  Speaker 4: the rest of your talking for the courtroom and just
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  Speaker 4: take a little walk with me down to the police station.
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  Speaker 4: I'll stand for no trouble on the way. You shan't
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  Speaker 4: have any, I promise. And where does it lead us now, Holmes?
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  Speaker 4: To 221 B Baker Street, where I fancy we shall
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  Speaker 4: find certain letters a week.
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  Speaker 6: Is he here?
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  Speaker 4: And this is the very one. Excellent, Watson. The alternative develops.
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  Speaker 4: Just get a couple of telegraph forms, will you? Over there.
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  Speaker 4: That's the idea. Thank you. Now then, here's the first one.
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  Speaker 4: Sumner Shipping Agent Ratcliffe Highway Send three men on to
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  Speaker 4: arrive 10 tomorrow morning, Basil.
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  Speaker 6: Basil?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, did I never tell you? Captain Basil is my
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  Speaker 4: name in those parts. Now, the next one goes to
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  Speaker 4: Inspector Stanley Hopkins, 46 Lord Street, Brixton. Come breakfast tomorrow
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  Speaker 4: at 9.30. Important. Why, if unable to come, Sherlock Holmes. There, Watson.
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  Speaker 4: This infernal case has haunted my mind since long before
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  Speaker 4: Hopkins first came to consult me about it. I don't
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  Speaker 4: as much... But, Holmes, about that pig-sticking... No, no, no, Watson.
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  Speaker 4: I hereby banish the whole matter completely from my presence.
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  Speaker 4: Tomorrow morning, I trust, we shall hear the last of
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  Speaker 4: it forever. Splendid breakfast, Doctor. Mrs. Hudson's kidneys roar was delicious.
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  Speaker 4: My word, my epitope was up this morning. Sharpened by success,
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  Speaker 4: no doubt. You may be right, you may be right. No,
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  Speaker 4: I can't imagine a more complete case. Eh, Mr. Holmes?
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  Speaker 4: Your explanation covers every point, then. Undoubtedly. I find that
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  Speaker 4: young Nelligan arrived at a hotel in Forest Row on
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  Speaker 4: the very day of the crime. Well, he went down
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  Speaker 4: to Carey's place that night, met the cats in the hut,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: quarreled with him, killed him with a harpoon. Then, horrified
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: by what he'd done, fled out of the hut, dropping
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: the notebook, which he'd brought with him in order to
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: question Carey about those different securities.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: After his flight, he didn't dare go near the hut
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: again for some time, but at last forced himself to
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: go there to obtain the information he needed. There. What
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: could be more straightforward than that? I must admit that
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: it has only one drawback, Hopkins. Well, some slight detail, maybe.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: And that is that it's intrinsically impossible. Tell me, have
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: you ever tried to drive a harpoon through a body?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Drive it? Of course I haven't. My dear fellow, you
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: must really pay attention to these details. My friend Watson
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: will tell you that I spent a whole early morning
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: in that exercise. Eh? Not so. Oh, the body was
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: that of a dead pig. But I can assure you
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: that although I'm stronger than most men, I couldn't achieve it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: It requires an arm that is not only strong, but practiced. Now,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: do you imagine that this anemic youth was capable of it? Well...
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Is he the man who hobnobbed in rum and water
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: with Black Peter and the Dead of the Night? No, no, Hopkins.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: It's another and more formidable person we must seek. Now,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: see here, Mr. Holmes. You can't deny Nelligan was there
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: that night. His notebook being found proves that. A persuaded jury, Holmes. Yes.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: And besides, I've.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Laid hands on my man. But this one of yours,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: where is he? I rather fancy I hear him on
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: the stair now. I think, Watson, you'd do well to
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: keep your revolver where you can reach it. Yes, we will, Holmes.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Here we are. Put it in your pocket. Now, Watson,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: you'll find three men outside asking for Captain Basil. Captain Basil?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Kindly show them in, one by one.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: All right, Holmes.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Captain Basil?
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: In here, my man. You others wait there.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Name, please. Lancaster, sir. James Lancaster. Ah, I'm sorry, Lancaster.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: The berth has been filled. Sir. Here's half a sovereign
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: for your trouble. Oh, much obliged, sir. Just step into
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: this inside room and wait a few minutes, will you?
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Right you are, sir. Next, Watson. Next. Captain Basil, is it?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: The same. And you? Batons, Captain. You, Batons, at your
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: honour's service. Oh, I fear not, Batons. Here's half a
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: sovereign instead.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Here?
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: What? Watson, get Lancaster and show the two of them out.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: They're not to speak to the third man on any account.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Do you follow? Of course, Holmes. Then show him in.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Very well. Lancaster, come on now.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Aye, aye, sir.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: You too.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Ah, what a brain. Would you tell me what all
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: this is, Mr. Holmes? I'll show you instead.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Ah.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: This way. I'm a Kearns. Patrick Kearns. Which is a captain? Kearns. Harpooner.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: All right. 26 voyages. And ready to start with an
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: exploring ship?
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Ready enough.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Wages? I quit a month. Very well. Your papers, please.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Hmm. Hmm. Yes. Yes, you're just the man
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: I want, Kev.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Now, here's the agreement. Now, if you'll just sign with
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: this pen.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Right here.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: That will do. And there. Here. Right, Fitch. Now, what
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: do you think you're at? The revolver, Watson. Quickly. Stay
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: still or I shoot. Stink of a bull. I thought
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: he'd be too much for us, even with the handcuffs on. Cairns,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: sit down on that setting. You'll do as I say,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: or my friend here will not hesitate to put a
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: bullet in you for resisting arrest for the murder of
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Captain Peter Carey. Arrest? Oh, I wouldn't say no. That's better. Now,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: sit still.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: I see you, mister. No, I won't give no trouble. Well, listen,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: you say I murdered Black Peter, we're all right. But
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: I say I killed him. And that's all the difference.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: In the world.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: You're going to sling us some yarn, are you? It's
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: no yarn.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: He pulled his knife on me, I whipped a harpoon
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: through him sharp.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: You call that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Murder if you like.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: We'd better hear your story from the beginning before we
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: judge that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: It was in 83. Black Peter Carey was master of
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: the sea unicorn. I was spare harpooner. We'd just come
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: out on the ice pack, homeward bound, when we picks
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: up a little craft near the foundering.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Only one man on her, so we takes him aboard
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: with his tin box. What was his name? Whatever did
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: he hear?
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: He was shut up with a skipper in his cabin
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: for near two days, talking and talking, the ship's boy said.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Then on the second night, the skipper tells us all
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: the chap's disappeared, and overboard.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: He reckons. We never sees him no more. It could
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: have been true, Holmes. Yeah, yeah, it could. But it wasn't.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Just one man sees Black Peter tip up that poor
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: chap by his heels over the rail in the dark.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: And that man was yourself. Yeah, right. But this was
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: in 83, 12 years ago. Why didn't you report it?
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: I kept the knowledge to meself. I'm ready to see
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: what we come of it. I reckon there was something
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: in that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Tin box that'd make it well worth his while to
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: pay me well for keeping me mouth shut.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: He left to sea after that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Voyage, and it was long years before I could track
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: him down. When I called on him.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: He was reasonable. Although we had a rum or two together,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: I didn't like the look in his eye.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: I spotted that harpoon hanging in the wall, and it's
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: as well as I did.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: But he went for his knife, but before he could
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: use it, I had the harpoon right through him. What
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: did you do after you killed him? Well, I looked
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: around for that tin box tonight. It was on a shelf.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I took it down and left it out But just
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: as I got outside, I heard someone coming.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: So I hid it and watched. I saw a man
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: go slinking into the hut.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Next minute, he gave a great yell and came out
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: and ran off as fast as his legs would go.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Young Milligan.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Whoa.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Never you mind. What then?
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Well, I walked 10 miles to Tombridge Wells and got
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: a train to London.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah. When I opened the box, there was nothing in
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: it but papers.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have dared to sell. I'd lost my old
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: and black Peter and I was stranded without a shilling.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: And I saw these advertisements by Captain Bessel.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: For harpooners at high wages. Well, here I am. A
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: very clear statement. Mr. Holmes, I owe you an apology.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: You were right all along. I'm blessed if I know
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: how you did it. Simply by having the good fortune
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: to get the right clue from the beginning. All I
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: heard pointed in the one direction. The amazing strength and
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: skill needed to pin a man to a wall with
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: a harpoon. The sealskin tobacco pouch with the coarse tobacco
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: and the initials PC. Here, here, that must be mine.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Where is it? The inspector has it. It was found
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: in the hut. I know, I've been wondering where I'd
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: lost it. Now, the coarse tobacco pointed to a seaman,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: the sealskin to a whaler. The initials were those of
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Peter Carey too, but he seldom smoked and no pipe
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: was found in his cabin. I adjudged that to be
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: a coincidence. Finally, Hopkins, you remember that I asked whether
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: whiskey and brandy were in the cabin?
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: You said they were. How many landsmen are there who
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: would drink rum when they could get these other spirits? Yes,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I was certain Carey's visitor had been a seaman. I
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: ascertained the names of the crew of Sea Unicorn in 1883.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: When I found one Patrick Cairns amongst the harpooners, I
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: proceeded to spend several days in the East End devising
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: an Arctic expedition... and putting forward tempting terms for harpooners
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: who would serve under Captain Basil. Behold, the result. Wonderful, Mr. Holmes.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Wonderful.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Remarkable, Holmes. The Case of Black Peter was one of
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: the stories about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: In real life, my name is Norman Shelley. My friend
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Carlton Hobbs played Sherlock Holmes and I was Dr. Watson.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Michael Hardwick wrote the script for this production by the
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: British Broadcasting Corporation from London. Of course, I look forward
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: to the pleasure of your company again for more of
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Well, I hope that will
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: be soon.
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