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67-01-02 Sherlock Holmes The Dying Detective · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Why, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes. What is wrong, sir? You are hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Not hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Ill.
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  Speaker 2: Very ill.
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  Speaker 5: Get you to your bed, and then I'll.
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  Speaker 4: Go straight round for the doctor.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: Sir. No doctor. Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: You hear me, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Hudson?
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  Speaker 2: No doctor. But there's Dr. Watson, sir. Surely I can
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  Speaker 2: fetch him. Not Watson. Not anyone. No doctors, Mrs. Hudson.
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  Speaker 6: No doctors.
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  Speaker 5: Only delirium could make Holmes turn on me, Dr. Watson,
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  Speaker 5: who had so often shared the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: And still I could not bring myself to think that
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  Speaker 5: I was.
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  Speaker 2: Standing by his deathbed. I knew his great strength.
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  Speaker 5: But I will tell you about the dying detective. Sherlock
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  Speaker 5: Holmes' landlady at 221 B Baker Street, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Hudson... It was.
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  Speaker 5: A long-suffering woman. She had the very worst talent in London.
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  Speaker 5: Incredible untidiness, undesirable characters visiting at all hours, indoor revolver practice,
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  Speaker 5: weird and malodorous scientific experiments.
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  Speaker 2: All these, and the atmosphere of.
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  Speaker 5: Violence and danger which hung around him. But his payments
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  Speaker 5: for her first-floor set of rooms were princely, and Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Hudson never interfered. In fact, I think she was quite
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  Speaker 5: fond of him. Certainly when she hurried into my consulting room,
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  Speaker 5: her anxious face told me more than words that something
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  Speaker 5: serious must be amiss with my old friend.
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  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Watson, sir, he's dying. Dying?
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  Speaker 4: Not Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think he'll last the day.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the first I've heard. Oh, you must
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  Speaker 2: come at.
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  Speaker 3: Once, sir, or it may be too late.
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  Speaker 2: I've kept my cab waiting outside. But of course, and easily.
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  Speaker 5: Just let me get my bag.
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  Speaker 2: And as we drive, I hope you'll tell me what.
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  Speaker 3: On earth's happened.
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  Speaker 2: Good little, I can tell you, Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Watson, he's been sinking steadily for three days.
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  Speaker 2: Three days, and you've only just come through.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I couldn't say I wasn't allowed.
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  Speaker 2: Not allowed?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look here, Mrs. Hudson.
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  Speaker 5: I think I'd better have your account calmly and from
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  Speaker 5: the beginning, if you please.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: You won't. Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes has been working on some case down near the
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  Speaker 5: river at, um, Rotherhithe just lately.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he is. We didn't know what he was for
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  Speaker 2: coming in at all hours. I was just taking my
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  Speaker 2: lamp to go through to.
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  Speaker 4: My bed on Wednesday night when I heard a faint
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  Speaker 4: knocking at the street door.
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  Speaker 3: I went to see who it could be.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes. Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes.
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  Speaker 6: Whatever's wrong, sir?
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  Speaker 3: You are hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Not hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Ew.
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  Speaker 2: Really, ew.
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  Speaker 4: Get you to your bed, and then I'll go straight
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  Speaker 4: round for a doctor.
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  Speaker 2: No. Sir. No doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes. You hear me, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Hudson?
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  Speaker 2: No doctor. But there's Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Watson, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Surely I can fetch him. Not Watson. Not anyone.
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  Speaker 3: No doctors, Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Hudson.
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  Speaker 2: No doctors.
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  Speaker 5: I never heard anything so incredible in my life, Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Hudson.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to insist, but you know how masterful Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes can be.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but three days.
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  Speaker 2: Without a bite to eat or a drop to drink. What?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I tried so hard, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you have, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Hudson.
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  Speaker 4: He touched nothing whenever I mentioned a doctor, even you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: He made me promise again I'd do nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Although only this afternoon when I saw his face.
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  Speaker 5: I'm... I knew that he's not long for this world.
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  Speaker 2: I told him I was fetching you at once. And
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  Speaker 2: he allowed it? Well, I thought he didn't hear. He
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  Speaker 2: was so weak and listless.
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  Speaker 3: But when I told him again, he whispered, well, let
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  Speaker 3: it be Watson then.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's something to be thankful for. I only hope
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  Speaker 5: we're in time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. I'll call if I need you.
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  Speaker 2: Very good, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Who's there? It's me, Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen on evil days.
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  Speaker 3: My dear fellow. No, no, keep back.
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  Speaker 2: Stand right back.
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  Speaker 3: Don't come near.
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  Speaker 5: Now look here, Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: It's for your sake, Watson.
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  Speaker 4: I've contracted a cooney disease from Sumatra. Very little known,
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  Speaker 4: except that it's absolutely deadly and horribly contagious.
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  Speaker 3: So must keep away.
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  Speaker 5: Good heavens, do you suppose such a consideration weighs with me?
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  Speaker 5: Even if I weren't a doctor, do you think it
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  Speaker 5: would stop me doing my duty to an old friend?
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's have a good look at you. No!
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  Speaker 3: Stand back!
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  Speaker 2: Now, see here, Holmes. If you stay where you are,
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk to you. If you will not, you can
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  Speaker 2: get out. Holmes! If you will stay where... Holmes, you
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  Speaker 2: aren't yourself. You're sick and helpless as a child. Whether
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  Speaker 2: you like it or not, I'm going to examine you
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  Speaker 2: and treat you.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm to be forced to have a doctor, at
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  Speaker 4: least let me have someone in whom I have confidence.
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  Speaker 2: You have none in me, then?
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  Speaker 3: In your friendship, certainly. But facts are facts.
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  Speaker 4: As a medical man, you're a mere general practitioner of
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  Speaker 4: limited experience and mediocre qualifications. Well?
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  Speaker 2: Well, really.
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  Speaker 4: It's painful to say such things, but you leave me
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  Speaker 4: no choice.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Such a remark is unworthy of you, Holmes. It shows
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  Speaker 5: me very clearly the state of your nerves. Still, I
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  Speaker 5: will not intrude my services, but what I shall do
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  Speaker 5: is to summon Sir Jasper Meek or Penrose Fisher or
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  Speaker 5: any of the other best men in London I can collect.
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  Speaker 4: You mean well, Watson, but what do you or they
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  Speaker 4: know of Tapanuli fever?
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  Speaker 2: Tapanuli fever? What do you know of the.
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  Speaker 4: Black Formosa corruption? I've never heard of either of them.
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  Speaker 4: Nor have your colleagues. There are many problems of disease.
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  Speaker 4: Many strange pathological possibilities peculiar to the East. So I've
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  Speaker 4: learned during some of my recent researches. It was in
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  Speaker 4: the course of one of them that I contracted this complaint.
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  Speaker 3: I assure you, Watson, you can do nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, can't I? I happen to know, Holmes, that the.
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  Speaker 5: Greatest living authority on tropical disease, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Amestree, is in London just now.
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  Speaker 3: You shall have your way.
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  Speaker 4: Good. Give me time to collect my strength.
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  Speaker 3: It's four o'clock now. At six you can go.
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  Speaker 2: This is insanity.
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  Speaker 4: No, I must I feel exhausted.
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  Speaker 7: I stood for a few minutes, looking at the silent
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  Speaker 7: figure on the bed, and.
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  Speaker 5: Then unable to think of sitting down, I paced up
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  Speaker 5: and down the room.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, in this aimless perambulation, I came to the mantelpiece.
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  Speaker 5: Littered with pipes, tobacco pouches, syringes, pen knives, revolver cartridges,
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  Speaker 5: almost everything.
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  Speaker 2: You could think of.
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  Speaker 5: In the midst of all this was a small black-and-white
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  Speaker 5: ivory box with a sliding lid.
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  Speaker 2: It was a neat little thing, and I was just
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  Speaker 2: stretching out my hand to examine it more closely when.
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  Speaker 3: No!
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  Speaker 2: No, Watson, no! What? Put it down!
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  Speaker 3: Down this instant! Do as I say!
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  Speaker 2: Now, look here, Holmes, I really think that.
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  Speaker 3: I hate to have my things touched!
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  Speaker 2: You know that I hate... Holmes, you.
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  Speaker 4: You fidget me beyond endurance! You, a doctor, you're enough
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  Speaker 4: to drive a patient.
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  Speaker 3: Into an asylum.
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  Speaker 2: Thou man, let me have my rest. This incident left
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  Speaker 2: a most unprecedented impression on my mind. Of all ruins
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  Speaker 2: I reflected, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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  Speaker 2: I sat in silent.
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  Speaker 5: Dejection until a stipulated time had passed. He seemed in
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  Speaker 5: his sleep to have been watching the clock as well,
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  Speaker 5: for it was hardly six before he began to talk
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  Speaker 5: with the same feverish animation as before.
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  Speaker 4: You will now light the gas.
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  Speaker 3: Watson, please.
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  Speaker 4: But you will be very careful that not for one
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  Speaker 4: instant shall it be more than half.
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  Speaker 2: As you wish.
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  Speaker 3: I implore you to be careful.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent. Now, you needn't draw the blind.
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  Speaker 4: Now, have the kindest of place some of that litter
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  Speaker 4: from the mantelpiece on this table.
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  Speaker 3: Next to me.
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  Speaker 2: Very well.
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  Speaker 3: Watson, you'll see some sugar tongs there. Yes? Use them to...
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  Speaker 3: Lift that little ivory box carefully.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Carefully now.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: There we are. Now bring it here and place it
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  Speaker 3: amongst these other boxes.
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  Speaker 2: Things. There.
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  Speaker 3: So, good. You may now go and fetch a specialist.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank him for that.
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  Speaker 3: His name is Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Calverton Smith of 13 Lower Burke.
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  Speaker 3: Hilton Smith?
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  Speaker 2: I've never even heard the name.
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  Speaker 3: You personally not.
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  Speaker 4: It may surprise you to know that the one man
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  Speaker 4: who knows everything about this disease is not a medical man.
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  Speaker 3: He's a planter.
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  Speaker 4: An outbreak of this disease upon his plantation caused.
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  Speaker 3: Him to study intensely.
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  Speaker 4: He's a very methodical man. And I asked you not
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  Speaker 4: to go before six. Because I knew you wouldn't find
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  Speaker 4: him in his study until then.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes, I never heard such a foolish.
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  Speaker 4: You would tell him exactly how you've left me.
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  Speaker 3: A dying man.
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  Speaker 4: A dying man. My life depends on him, Watson. But
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  Speaker 4: you will have to plead with him to come here.
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  Speaker 4: There's no good.
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  Speaker 3: Feeling between us. He has a grudge... I rely on
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  Speaker 3: you to soften him. Make him watch and pray him.
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  Speaker 3: Get him here by any means. He can save me.
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  Speaker 2: Only he. Very well. I'll bring him in a cab.
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  Speaker 2: Even if I have to carry him down.
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  Speaker 3: You do nothing of the sort.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: You will persuade him to come. And then you will
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  Speaker 3: return before him.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Make any excuse so as not to come with him. Now,
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  Speaker 3: don't forget that, Boss. No, no, of course.
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  Speaker 2: You won't fail me. I'm going, Holmes. See you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going.
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  Speaker 1: Now, my dear sir, kindly take a chair.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes, ill, you say? Desperately. I only know Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes through some business dealings we've had, but I've every
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  Speaker 6: respect for his talents and character. He is an amateur
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  Speaker 6: of crime, as I am of disease.
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  Speaker 2: For him, the villain. For me, the microbe.
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  Speaker 3: There are my.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Prisons, Doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Those jars on the table there.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
• 12:28
  Speaker 6: Amongst those gelatine cultivations, some of the very worst offenders
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  Speaker 6: in the world are now doing time.
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  Speaker 5: It is on account of your special knowledge that Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes wishes to see you, Mr. Smith.
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  Speaker 3: See me?
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: He has a very high opinion of you.
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  Speaker 5: He thought you were the one man in London who
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  Speaker 5: could help him.
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  Speaker 2: And why should Mr. Holmes think I can help him?
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  Speaker 2: Your knowledge of Eastern diseases.
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  Speaker 6: But why should he think that this disease which he
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  Speaker 6: has contracted is Eastern?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it seems likely.
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  Speaker 5: He's been working amongst Chinese sailors down in the docks.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: How long has he been ill?
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  Speaker 2: About three days. Is he delirious? Occasionally. This sounds serious, Doctor.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: It is indeed.
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  Speaker 3: It would be inhuman not to answer his call.
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  Speaker 6: I very much resent any interruption to my work, but
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  Speaker 6: on this occasion, I will come with you at once.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, but I have another appointment.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, very well, then.
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  Speaker 2: I will go alone.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Number 221B Baker Street, isn't it? That's correct.
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  Speaker 6: Then you can rely on my being there within half
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  Speaker 6: an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see him, Watson? He'll be here soon, Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Took me some minutes to find a cab, but.
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  Speaker 4: Did he ask what day it was?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I told him about the Chinese down at the dock.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. Well, Watson, you've done all a good friend could.
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  Speaker 3: You may now disappear from the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Disappear? I want to hear what he says.
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  Speaker 5: I want to hear every word of this medical expert's opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes. Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I think you will just find room behind.
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  Speaker 3: The head of my bed. What, hide?
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  Speaker 4: I have reasons to suppose that his opinion will be
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  Speaker 4: much more frank and valuable if he imagines he's alone
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  Speaker 4: with me.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, that's probably him now.
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  Speaker 3: Then get behind the bed, Watson, and don't budge whatever happens.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever happens, you hear?
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  Speaker 3: All right. Just listen.
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  Speaker 2: Don't speak.
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  Speaker 3: Don't move. Just listen with all your ears. Oh, very well.
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  Speaker 2: As you wish. So, Holmes, it's come to this then.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Smith. Smith, it's... Is that you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I hardly dared hope you would come.
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  Speaker 6: I should imagine not.
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  Speaker 2: And yet you see I'm here. Coals of fire, Holmes.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Coals of fire.
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  Speaker 3: Noble, aren't you? Yes, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate your special knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Then you're the only man in London who does. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know what is the matter with you?
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  Speaker 3: Same as young Victor. They are living.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, then you recognize the symptoms.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then it's a bad lookout for you.
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  Speaker 6: Poor Victor was a strong, hearty young fellow. But a
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  Speaker 6: dead man on the fourth day. As you said at
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: the time, it was rather surprising that he should contract
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: an out-of-the-way Asiatic disease in the heart of London. A
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  Speaker 6: disease of which I have made such a very special study.
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  Speaker 2: And now you, Holmes, singular coincidence, hmm?
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  Speaker 6: Or are you going to start making accusations once again
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  Speaker 6: about cause and effect and so on? I.
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  Speaker 4: I knew you caused Victor Savage's death.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Did you? Well, proving it is a different matter, Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: But what do you think of yourself?
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  Speaker 6: Spreading lying reports about me one moment, then crawling to
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  Speaker 6: me for help the next?
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  Speaker 3: Only cure me. And I promise to forget.
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  Speaker 2: Forget what?
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  Speaker 4: About Victor Savage's death.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well.
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  Speaker 4: You as good as admitted just now that you had
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  Speaker 4: done it.
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  Speaker 3: I swear I will forget.
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  Speaker 2: Forget it. Remember it. Do as you like.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see you in any witness box, Holmes. Quite
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: another shaped box, I assure you.
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  Speaker 2: But first... How did you get this disease?
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  Speaker 3: Working amongst Chinese sailors. Down at the docks.
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  Speaker 2: Cloud of your brains, aren't you? Think you're so smart?
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Well, you've met a smarter one this time.
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  Speaker 2: Getting painful, is it?
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  Speaker 6: It takes you as a cramp, I fancy.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's cramp.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you can still hear me. Now, can you remember
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  Speaker 6: any unusual incident... Just about the time your symptoms began.
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  Speaker 2: I can't think. My mind is gone.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: Did anything come to you through the post, for instance?
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: By post?
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: A little box, perhaps?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, Holmes. You shall hear me.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you remember a box?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: A little ivory box?
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  Speaker 2: It came on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: You opened it. Do you remember.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I opened it. There was something sharp inside. I pricked
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: my finger. Some sort of joke.
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  Speaker 2: It was no joke, Holmes. You fool!
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: Who asked you to cross my path?
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  Speaker 3: If you'd only left me alone, I would never.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Have hurt you.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: The box. Yes, this one here on the table. Ah,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: by George, so it is.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: It leaves this room in my pocket, and there's your
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: last shred of evidence gone.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: But you have the truth now, Holmes.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: You can die knowing that I killed you. You knew
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: too much about what happened to Victor Savage, so you.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Must share his fate.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: No.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, Holmes.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: No.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: You're very near your end now. I'll sit here and
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: watch you die.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: It's getting so dark. I can't see.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Smith.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Smith, are you there? Yes. The gas. For pity's sake,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: turn up the gas. Ah, the shadows begin to.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Fall, do they, Holmes? Yes, I'll turn up the gas
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: for you. I can watch your face more plainly then. There. Now.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Is there any further service I can render you?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: If you please, a cigarette and a match. What? What's
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the meaning of this? The best way of successfully acting
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a part is to be it. What?
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: I give you my word that for three days I
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: have neither tasted food nor drink.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: You mean you.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: But it was the lack of tobacco I found most excellent.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Ah, here, a few cigarettes.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Ah, and some.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Matches, too.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Ah.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Ah. Ah.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: That's, better.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: You devil.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: You absolute devil.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Hello, hello.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Do I hear the step of a friend?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Mr. Holmes?
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: Inspector Morton, all is in order and this is your man.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: What is the meaning of this?
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Colbert and Smith, I arrest you on the charge of
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: the murder of one Victor Samuel.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: And I must warn you that anything you say... You've
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: got nothing on me. It's all a trick. A pack
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: of lies. Get yourself out of here. Get away. Put
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the cuffs on him, Constable. That's all, though.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: By the way, Inspector.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: You might add.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: The attempted murder of one Sherlock Holmes to that charge.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Don't listen to him.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: And you'll find a small box in the right-hand pocket
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: of your prisoner's coat.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: They leave it on the table here.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Handle it gingerly, though.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: It may play its part at his trial.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Trial?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: You'll be the one and the dog, Holmes. Inspector, he
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: asked me to come here to cure him.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: He was ill, and I was sorry for him, so
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I came.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Now he'll pretend I've said anything he cares to invent
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: that will corroborate his insane suspicions.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Well, you can lie as you like, Holmes. My word's
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: as good as yours. Good heavens! I'd completely forgotten him.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Forgotten who, sir?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Watson, my dear fellow. Do come out. What the devil
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: are you doing?
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: I owe you a thousand apologies to think that I
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: should have overlooked you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: It's all right, Holmes. Just a bit cramped. What is
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: all this? I need not introduce you to Mr.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Culverton Smith since I understand you met somewhat earlier in
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: the evening.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: You.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: You mean you... Had all this planned? Of course. To
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the last detail. I think I may say it worked
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: very well. With your assistance, Smith, of course.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Mine.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: You saved an invalid trouble by giving my signal to
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: Inspector Morton waiting outside.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: What?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You turned up the gas.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Take him along now, sir.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: We'll see you down at the yard presently, perhaps? Very well, Inspector.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: And many thanks. Goodbye, Inspector. Goodbye. Well, Holmes. Well, Watson.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: There's a bottle of carrot on the chest of drawers
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: over there. It's uncorked. And some biscuits in the tin.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: If you'll be so kind, I'm badly in need of both.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Certainly.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: You know, Holmes, this seems a pretty elaborate way to
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: go about catching that fellow.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, taking in Mrs. Hudson and me.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Like that, scaring us half to death.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Well, it was very essential that I should make Mrs.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Hudson believe in my condition. She was to convey it
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: to you and you to him.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, but all the same... Now, don't be offended, my
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: good Watson.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: You must admit that among your many talents, dissimulation scarcely
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: finds a place. If you'd shared my secret, you'd never
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: have been able to impress Smith with the urgent necessity.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Of coming to me. No, I suppose not. You see,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it was the vital point of the whole scheme.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: I knew his vindictive nature... And I was certain he'd
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: come to gloat over his handiwork. But it's your appearance, Holmes,
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: your face.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: You really do look gothic.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Three days of absolute fast does not improve one's beauty, Watson.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: For the rest, there's nothing that the sponge won't cure.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Vaseline to produce the glistening forehead, belladonna in the eyes,
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: rouge over the cheekbones, and crusts of beeswax around one's lips.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: That's what. And why wouldn't you let me near you?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: There was no risk of infection. Oh, can you ask me,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: my dear Watson? Yes, I can.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: Would you imagine that I have really no respect for
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: your medical talents? Or that your astute judgment would be
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: deceived by a dying man with no rise of pulse
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: or temperature?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: At four yards distance, I could deceive you. Oh, this
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: box there. No, Watson, I wouldn't touch it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: You can just see if you look at the side
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: where the sharp blade emerges as you open it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: I dare say it was by some such device that
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: poor young Savage was found to death.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: He stood between that monster and an inheritance, you know.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Then it's true, Holmes. You might have been killed, too.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: As you know, my correspondence is a varied one. I'm
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: somewhat on my guard against any packages which reach me.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: But I saw that by pretending that he'd succeeded in
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: his design, I might be able to.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Surprise a confession out of it. That pretense.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I think I may claim to have carried out with.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: The thoroughness of a true artist. You certainly did, Holmes.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Some more biscuits? No, thank you, Watson. Let us preserve
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: our appetite. When we've finished at the police.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Station, I think something nutritious at Pagani's would.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Not be out of place.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Let's start with a couple of dozen oysters.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: The Dying Detective was another story of Sherlock Holmes from
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: the inspired pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In real life,
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: I am an actor, and my name is Norman Shelley.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: My old friend, Carlton Hobbs, played the part of Sherlock Holmes,
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: and I was Dr.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Watson.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Production was by the British Broadcasting Corporation from London.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Script by Michael Hardwick.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: I hope I may look forward to the pleasure of
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: your company again before very long.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: For more of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.