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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Grand Old Man Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conway · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, what about the singular deaths of Martin Reed.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mister Bell, that adventure again. Late on a foggy
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  Speaker 2: evening many many years ago, Sherlock Holmes and I've been
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  Speaker 2: to the Gallic Theater to see the revival of Martin
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  Speaker 2: Reeve's play, and I remember that we decided to walk
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  Speaker 2: home to Baker Street. As we approached the old familiar
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  Speaker 2: dog to twenty one b our footsteps echoed holloway in
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  Speaker 2: the deserted street, and the chimes of a neighboring church
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  Speaker 2: reminded us of the fact that it was midnight.
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  Speaker 3: A delightful evening, Watson, I've got dinner, an excellent bottle
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  Speaker 3: of wine, and three hours of theatrical magic. Well, personally,
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  Speaker 3: I've found the play rather depressing. Its seam is a
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  Speaker 3: morbid one, but the writing and construction of Flawless, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: a magnificent play and well worth reviving. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: I missed nineteen times this morning. And sunny Martin Reed
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  Speaker 3: he's dangerously ill.
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  Speaker 2: Really, he must be quite an old.
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  Speaker 3: Man, eighty two to be precise, eighty years old. As
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  Speaker 3: there a curious career, Watson. His greatest success was written
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  Speaker 3: when he was a young man. In the past fifty years,
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  Speaker 3: he has never written anything to compare with tonight's play.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think it, Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Look up at our window, Hello, the gas is brightly lighted,
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  Speaker 3: whereas Missus Hudson and Barribel turns it low and we're out.
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  Speaker 3: And look at the cigarette on the blind. There's a
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  Speaker 3: man pacing up and down.
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  Speaker 2: The room midnight, homes. This looks ominous. Be careful now.
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  Speaker 2: It may be some sort of trap.
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  Speaker 3: I think not, Watson. If some desperado were lying in
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  Speaker 3: wait for me, I doubt whether he'd be stupid enough
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  Speaker 3: to turn up the guests to advertise his presence to say,
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  Speaker 3: and I wonder how he got in, presumably through the
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  Speaker 3: front door. Missus Hudson has instructions to let a client
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  Speaker 3: wait in our rooms if his business seems urgent, Missus
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  Speaker 3: Shuck Holmes, at your service, sir, I'm doctor Manners, Hardy Manners.
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  Speaker 3: How do you do, doctor Maners. This is my colleague,
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  Speaker 3: doctor Watson. I must apologize for being here at such
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  Speaker 3: an hour of night, mister Holmes, but my business is urgent.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure it is. That I left Carlisle this morning
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  Speaker 3: driving its some tentcrus station to hours ago. I came
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  Speaker 3: directly here, persuaded your housekeeper to let me wait for you.
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  Speaker 3: Then sit down, my dear doctor. Don't tell me what
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  Speaker 3: urgent business has brought you to London there. Thank you well,
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  Speaker 3: mister Holmes. I've been acting in the capacity of personal
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  Speaker 3: physician for Martin Reeve, the playwright.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't Reeve an Troudner coincidence. We've just returned from
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  Speaker 2: seeing a revival of his play The Road Is Narrow.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about him as we walked home.
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  Speaker 3: I understand the grand old man is dying. He is
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  Speaker 3: not in good shape, mister Helmes. His heart's in very
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  Speaker 3: bad condition, or a cular fibrillation, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 2: Then, at his age, I imagine you don't hold out
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  Speaker 2: much hope.
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  Speaker 3: No, but I think with care, he might last a
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  Speaker 3: year or two. But the reason I've come to you,
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  Speaker 3: mister Helmes, is that I'm convinced that although he's a
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  Speaker 3: dying man, someone is trying to murder him.
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  Speaker 2: To murder him.
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  Speaker 3: Good Lord, what reason do you have for saying that,
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  Speaker 3: doctor manas well, mister Holmes. I've been in almost daily
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  Speaker 3: attendance on mister Reeve. Last night, his coachman drove over
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  Speaker 3: to get me, saying that his master had suffered another
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  Speaker 3: bad attack. When I got to the house, I found
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  Speaker 3: that mister Reeve had received a severe shock. He was
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  Speaker 3: in a state of almost complete hysterior, and he kept
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  Speaker 3: insisting that he'd seen an apparition in his room a
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  Speaker 3: few hours earlier. What kind of an apparition? A ghost
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  Speaker 3: from his past that he referred to it. I think
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  Speaker 3: that someone arranged for that apparition, that they knew of
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  Speaker 3: his heart condition and also knew that a sudden flight
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  Speaker 3: could kill him. It's possible, Doctor Manners, and it would
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  Speaker 3: be one of the least detectable methods of murder.
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  Speaker 2: And who would want to kill a dying man.
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  Speaker 3: Who lives at the house with him? Doctor Manners, his
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  Speaker 3: daughter Katherine, his brother Silas, who's had drunken good for nothing,
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  Speaker 3: and his secretary, a fellow by the name of Hugh Kingsley.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know the condition of mister Reeves's will?
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  Speaker 3: No, but I do know he had dictated a new
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  Speaker 3: one a few days ago, a thank that might easily
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  Speaker 3: have provoked the crisis a Doctor Manners, you will say
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  Speaker 3: that mister Reeves spoke of seeing an apparition a ghost
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  Speaker 3: from his past. Was he able to describe its appearance? Well,
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  Speaker 3: he was a little incoherent, but he kept babbling something
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  Speaker 3: about blonde hair and blue eyes and a young man
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  Speaker 3: who'd come back from beyond the grave to haunt him.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you think, to doctor Manners that these might simply
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  Speaker 2: be the loss of an old and aft man.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't overlook that possibility, I assure you, doctor Watson,
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  Speaker 3: even though mister Reeves's mental faculties are remarkably acute for
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  Speaker 3: his age. But last night, after I'd given him a sedative,
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  Speaker 3: I examined his room. I found these, mister Holmes. That's
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  Speaker 3: when I decided to come to you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's so lovable, hm.
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  Speaker 3: They looked like a blonde hair. Yes they are, Doctor,
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  Speaker 3: I've found them on the bedclothes. And yet no one
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  Speaker 3: in that house has blonde hair. Interesting, very interesting. The
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  Speaker 3: hair is human, and yet the roots have minute particles
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  Speaker 3: of blue attached to them, obviously from a wig. Get
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  Speaker 3: out the timetable, Watson, will you. We're going to Carlisle
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  Speaker 3: on the earliest possible train. Though the grand old man
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  Speaker 3: of the English theory is dying, we must do everything
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  Speaker 3: in our power to see that his death is not
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  Speaker 3: an unnatural one.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Holmes, Doctor Watson. I'm Hugh Kingslake, mister Reeve's secretary.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do The accommodations at the hotel are satisfactory?
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  Speaker 3: I trust gentlemen entirely. Thank you. Frankly, I'm most relieved
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  Speaker 3: that you're here. Mister Reeve received a severe shock the
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  Speaker 3: night before last.
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  Speaker 4: I quite agree with doctor Manas that someone deliberately induced
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  Speaker 4: that shock, knowing the serious condition of mister Reeve's heart.
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  Speaker 3: Have you any idea who that someone might be. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's a.
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  Speaker 4: Little difficult for me to talk mister Holmes. After all,
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  Speaker 4: I'm only an employee.
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  Speaker 3: Here, but I can't help him. Oh oh, good morning,
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  Speaker 3: mister Reeves.
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  Speaker 4: These men, this is mister Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson
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  Speaker 4: and mister Silas Reeve.
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  Speaker 3: How do you do? Mere?
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  Speaker 2: You?
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  Speaker 3: And what may I ask, is the professional meddler Serlock
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  Speaker 3: Holmes doing in my brother's house. I'm here at the
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  Speaker 3: request of doctor Maners. Manners has no right to bring
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  Speaker 3: your hair, Sir, A lot of rubbish. All this talk
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  Speaker 3: about apparitions nonsense. Martin's in his second childhood. He's become
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  Speaker 3: a gibbering old fool. Personally, I wish he'd die and
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  Speaker 3: have done it well upon my soul. I never mind
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  Speaker 3: your soul, my good doctor, Why don't you mind your
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  Speaker 3: own business and get out of the house. We don't
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  Speaker 3: want detectives here, Mister Reeve, I've traveled some two hundred
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  Speaker 3: miles to see your brother, and I have no intention
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  Speaker 3: of leaving this house without talking to him and talk
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  Speaker 3: and the devil with him. And if my dear distinguished
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  Speaker 3: brother tells you that I've been sponging on him for years,
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  Speaker 3: it's perfectly true. Uncle ha ha, And the beautiful Catherine
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  Speaker 3: to try and persuade her dunken old uncle to return
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  Speaker 3: to his room.
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  Speaker 5: No, unc silas I came to get mister Holmes and
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  Speaker 5: doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor man has said that Daddy can sue him.
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  Speaker 4: Now, shall I take them up, Miss Reeve?
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  Speaker 3: No, mister Kingslake, I will and don't be deceived by
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  Speaker 3: the mister Kingslake and the missus Reeves. Gentlemen, my dear
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  Speaker 3: niece and this young man here have a dark secret,
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  Speaker 3: a secret that is perfectly apparent. To remember this household,
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  Speaker 3: They're in love. Delightful listen did uncle you're intolerable. Will
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  Speaker 3: you lead the way, miss Reeve? Oh yes, mister Holmes,
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  Speaker 3: don't forget to ask him about the play that made
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  Speaker 3: him so famous. You might learn some interesting facts.
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  Speaker 5: I must apologize for uncle silent.
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  Speaker 3: Gentlemen, you've said he's like this all the time these days.
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  Speaker 3: I quite understand.
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  Speaker 2: This must be very distressing for you, my dear.
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  Speaker 3: I'm used to it. Doctor. Here's Daddy's rube. I won't
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  Speaker 3: come in with you. Too many people upsetting. Please go in, Gentleine.
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  Speaker 3: I'll see you later. Ah h is it mars, mister
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  Speaker 3: Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. Mister Reeve, Ah.
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  Speaker 6: Good, good, you can do us manners, Yes, mister reed
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  Speaker 6: pray I see you both later.
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  Speaker 3: Very old atom E, come sit on my bed. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: How are you feeling, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Old old and deal?
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  Speaker 6: But I'm glad you're boats here. Manners displayed them usual
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  Speaker 6: enterprise and persuading you to visit me. There's been a
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  Speaker 6: lot of nonsense printed about my impending this.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone would think a great man is dying. The author
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  Speaker 3: of the road is narrow is a great man, mister Reeve,
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  Speaker 3: He was a great man.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Holmes, What do you mean to the author of
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  Speaker 6: that pray died forty five years ago?
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  Speaker 3: What and yet his ghost appeared in this room two
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  Speaker 3: nights ago, mister reed Are you saying that you didn't
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  Speaker 3: the road is.
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  Speaker 6: Narrow, Yes, my boy, I am. And then's his secret
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  Speaker 6: that's been gnawing at.
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  Speaker 3: Me for years. Now there's among my death bed.
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  Speaker 6: I'd like to clear my conscience.
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  Speaker 3: Then who did write the place up? A young friend
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  Speaker 3: of mine the name of Colin McGrath.
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  Speaker 6: I started liking.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lawyer's.
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  Speaker 6: Clerk in Kissick, a few miles from here. Colin lived
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  Speaker 6: in the same religion, but became great friends. One day
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  Speaker 6: he gave me the manuscript of his play to look at.
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  Speaker 6: And now you realized it was the work of a genius.
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  Speaker 3: Suddenly he died. No one knew about the manuscript.
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  Speaker 2: You claimed your THERMSA.
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  Speaker 3: Yes to my eternal shame. I did.
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  Speaker 6: Now I want to make amends, mister Holmes. I want
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  Speaker 6: you to find out if any years of Colin McGrath
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  Speaker 6: still survive, as they do.
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  Speaker 3: I have given him half of my estate. Hm, mister Reeve,
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  Speaker 3: does anyone else know of this fraud?
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  Speaker 6: He knowing that I hadn't longish world. I confided the
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  Speaker 6: secret to three members of my household.
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  Speaker 3: And you are convinced that the apparition you saw the
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  Speaker 3: other night was that of the dead Colin McGrath.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there was no mistaking the blue eye, long golden hair.
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  Speaker 6: It was Culin hour is ghosts come to hunt you
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  Speaker 6: on my death bed.
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  Speaker 3: There's decision on your part to leave half of your
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  Speaker 3: estate to any heirs of the man you wronged. Was
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  Speaker 3: that decision made before you had this strange visitation the
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  Speaker 3: other night? Yes, yes it was.
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  Speaker 2: Did you mention it to any member of your family?
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  Speaker 6: He did say something to doctor Manage, and I didn't
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  Speaker 6: mention Colin mcgrass name.
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  Speaker 3: It's obvious that some one wished to frighten you, knew
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  Speaker 3: your secret and disguise himself to resemble Colin McGrath.
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  Speaker 2: It was Colin.
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  Speaker 6: Never forget the blue eyes who was standing over there,
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  Speaker 6: and they choose to George. He looked at me, so.
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  Speaker 3: Approach.
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  Speaker 7: Sure is asleep, yes, Watson, And while he lies there,
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  Speaker 7: some member of this household continues to prompt his death.
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  Speaker 3: We must works, what are we going to do? Split forces?
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  Speaker 3: I shall remain here for a while and see what
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  Speaker 3: may be found out. I'll meet you at the hotel
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  Speaker 3: later and we'll compare notes.
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  Speaker 2: What try I do.
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  Speaker 3: Go to the village of Kewick. Colin McGrath lived and
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  Speaker 3: died there. See what you can find out about it, Watson.
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  Speaker 2: At cost.
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  Speaker 5: I remember Colin McGrath, well, I should.
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  Speaker 2: Very grateful for any information about him, Madam. As postmistress,
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  Speaker 2: I imagine that very little village gossip has escaped you.
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  Speaker 3: Of course it hasn't.
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  Speaker 5: I remember the McGrath boy, Well, he was no good,
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  Speaker 5: didn't He married poor or missus Norfik's granddaughter, Susan, and
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  Speaker 5: then go and dessert her, just to kill himself.
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  Speaker 3: And the poor girl was going to have a baby.
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  Speaker 1: No good honor.
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  Speaker 3: That's what young McGrath was.
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  Speaker 5: And you can tell him, I said, so, if you
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  Speaker 5: ever reached the place I'm sure he went.
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  Speaker 2: To, they had a child who said?
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  Speaker 3: What happened to it?
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  Speaker 2: Madam?
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  Speaker 3: How should I know?
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  Speaker 5: I'm only the postmistress. You'd better go and see the vicar.
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  Speaker 3: Young man. It's a tragic story you've told me, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 2: You remember Colin mcgrath'sa oh very well.
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  Speaker 3: And I always suspected something akin to genius in the
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  Speaker 3: boy that he burned with two harms and gem like
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  Speaker 3: a flame. As Walter Peter has said, he burned himself out,
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  Speaker 3: destroyed his life, and poor Susan now trips with it.
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  Speaker 3: She died of a broken heart less than a year
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  Speaker 3: after his death, and their child there was no money,
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  Speaker 3: no one to look after the boy. He was sent
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  Speaker 3: to an orphanage in Liverpool.
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  Speaker 2: And that child, if he's still alive, stands to inherit
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  Speaker 2: half of Martin Ree's fortune if only we can find him.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to be back here to tell Holmes, I've
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  Speaker 2: had an exhausting day.
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  Speaker 3: I trust you had better luck than I did. What
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  Speaker 3: did you find out.
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  Speaker 2: If Colin McGrath had a child, that his wife died
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  Speaker 2: shortly after the child's birth, and that the boy was
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  Speaker 2: sent to an orphanage in Liverpool?
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  Speaker 3: In Liverpool, go on, what's well the bigger game?
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  Speaker 2: In this photograph, missus mcgoth it was was taken on
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  Speaker 2: their wedding there let me see it.
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  Speaker 3: But this is amazing, Watson. One of our problems is solved, and.
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  Speaker 2: Most of us say her.
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  Speaker 3: Let me explain it to you. After you left, I
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  Speaker 3: had quite a long talk with the Secretary Hugh Kingslake.
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  Speaker 3: It transpired that he knew nothing of his parents. It
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  Speaker 3: had been raised in an orphanage. And the only mimental
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  Speaker 3: he has as a picture of his mother, a picture
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  Speaker 3: that he carries in his watch.
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  Speaker 2: And that picture is a duplicate of this one, Great
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  Speaker 2: Scott and the color of calling himself Hugh kings Eke
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  Speaker 2: is really the Colin McGrath.
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  Speaker 3: There precisely a fantastic situation. Indeed, come on, old chap
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  Speaker 3: gra your hat and coat. We must drive over to
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  Speaker 3: mister Reeves and break the good news that the missing
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  Speaker 3: air is a member of his own household.
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  Speaker 2: We are still no nearer finding out who's been trying
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  Speaker 2: to frighten old mister Reeves.
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  Speaker 3: Surely that's obvious. Now, Watson, come in, doctor Manos, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Please please come at once, both of you. It's mister
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  Speaker 3: Reeve's hart. Yes, doctor Watson, this evening he had another
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  Speaker 3: visits from that apparition. I'm only afraid this time the
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  Speaker 3: devilish plan may work and that Martin Reeve won't live
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  Speaker 3: through the night.
• 15:06
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  Speaker 1: this story certainly has me on the edge of my chair.
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  Speaker 1: What happened next?
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  Speaker 3: You drove over to mister Reeves's house. I suppose, yes,
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  Speaker 3: well we did.
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  Speaker 2: And as we went rattling down the country lanes, the
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  Speaker 2: flickering oil lamps on doctor Manow's carriage lighting.
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  Speaker 3: A shadowy pop. I find it almost impossible to.
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  Speaker 2: Get a word out of shock.
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  Speaker 1: Home.
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  Speaker 3: Home.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you're the most entertating man on earth.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: And watch prompt stamped little tirade Watson.
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  Speaker 2: I'm dove your mouse.
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  Speaker 3: As we left our hotel, purposeless conversation is a waste
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  Speaker 3: of time, not much further as at doctor Mana's Nervester
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  Speaker 3: Holmes and any there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't consider conversation. This is when it clarifies the problem. Home.
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  Speaker 2: You said it was obvious who had been frightening mister Reeve.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose I'm stupid, but I find it far from
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  Speaker 2: love you, and yet.
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  Speaker 3: The facts are clearly in front of your eyes. I
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  Speaker 3: that's it, Watson. Think about iyo.
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  Speaker 2: Some blue eyes of the supposed ghost Sir, But the
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  Speaker 2: Reeves family have all got brown eyes.
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  Speaker 3: The parently to Mark's family characteristic quite Watson. That fact
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: should lead you to the obvious conclusion.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're all talking riddle of home.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: With the rule, and Hugh Kingslake is standing at the
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: front door. How is he? Mister Kingslake better than the
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: home seems to have rallied a bit. I'm glad you're
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: all here.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I'll drive my carriage round to the tables.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: You're back in a moment, Come in, gentlemen. With mister
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Reeves so ill.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: It may seem a little inappropriate to announce my news,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: but Catherine consented to marry me tonight when engaged.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Oh really, my congratulations.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed she's a charming girl. Oh, Catherine, Darling, I've
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: told the man news. It might seem a terrible time
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: to announce that, mister Holmes, with poor daddy lying so
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: ill upstairs, it's quite understandable, Miss Reeve. And before we
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: go up and see your father, I'd like you both
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: to know that we have something in the nature of
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: a wedding present for you. A wedding present. Yes, you're
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: both familiar with the story of Colin McGrath. Understand you
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: mean that he was the true author of the Road
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: is narrow. Oh, yes, mister Holmes. Daddy told us all
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: And you also know that mister Reeve is planning to
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: leave half his estate to the heir of mister McGrath.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: I knew that, Doctor Watson, in my capacity as Secretary,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I had occasion to draw up the rough draft of.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: The new will a few days ago. And then I
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: am sure, mister Kingslake, that you will be very interested
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: to know that today doctor Watson, and I discovered that
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: you are the son of Colin McGrath, that I am
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: h is the heir. But that doesn't seem possible. The
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: fact has proven beyond a doubt, Miss Reeve.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Then then if mister Reeve makes the new will, I
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: stand to winheaded half the fot.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, my boy, you do. That's what mister Holmes meant
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: for you talking about wedding present.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: That's Uncle Silas he's upstairs with Dad. What's wrong, mister
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: even Para.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I knocked over a lamp in Martin's room, but Daddy's
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: up there rooms a plain. Come on, Watson, the houp
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: lending burning homes.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Can't go through this way, and we just can't stand here.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Mister Reebel wrote, alive, I'm going after him. Come back, Kingslake,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: come back, come back.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Great talk. He went right through the plane homes.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Send one of the sevens for the fibricate and tell
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: the rest to bring buckets of water and to bring
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: them fast.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Doctor Watson, how is you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: He's going to pull through Mis three. He's badly burn
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: but he will be all right, won't you, Doctor.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Mallers, Yes, yes, a few weeks in the hospital and
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: he'll be as good as new. Father. Well there, I
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: am afraid he's dead, Catherine.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Indeed, oh poor.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: He might have lived for a time. At the shock
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: of the coming so close on top of the other one,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: it's too.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Much for him.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: He died just side took.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Him from your fiances. So that by knocking over a lamp,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I was responsible for my brother's death. Yes, mister Reeve,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: the credit is yours. In fact, I wouldn't be at
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: all surprised if the local police might consider booking you're
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: on a charge of arson rubbish. It was an accident
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: and you can't prove otherwise. Possibly not, But there's one
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: matter I can settle here and now two nights ago,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: someone in this house tried to murder Martin Reed by
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: posing as Colin McGrath. The same desperable action was repeated tonight.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Well, one person that we can eliminate is Hugh Kingsleig.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: He nearly gave his life just now trying to save
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: his himp ployer.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Then who was responsible, mister Holmes. A feature of the
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: impersonation that especially struck your father, Miss Reeve, was the
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: color of the eyes. He described them as a brilliant blue.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Then that rules out Catherine and me. We both have
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: brown eyes precisely, mister Reeve. I have devoted some considerable
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: study to the art of disguise. There are whigs and
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: of altering height and weight, but the color of the
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: eyes cannot be altered. Watson, ten minutes ago you had
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: the opportunity of examining mister Kinslake's eyes without the tinted
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: glasses he's in the habit of wearing.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Well, they did it, follow off and me when he
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: stumbled back the learning down the back stairs. But I
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: can't say that I noticed the color results.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: They were blue, Watson, brilliant blue, just as his fathers
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: were before him. You mean that young Kingslake was responsible. Yes,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: mister Reeve, I do, but that's ridiculous, mister Holmes. He
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: just hurt himself severely and trying to soap barble, true,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: miss Reed, but surely his reason was obvious. He intended
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: to marry you, and when he learned a few days
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: ago that your father planned to will halt his estate
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: to the McGrath air, he decided to try and kill
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: him before that will could be put into effects.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I see it all homes.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: And then tonight he realized that he was the heir
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: precisely Watson, and so it was to his great advantage
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: to see that his employers stayed alive to execute that
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: new will. That accounts for his bravery in the fire tonight.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I can't believe it. I'm in mister Holmes, I can.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I've always just like you, and I'll have great pleasure
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: in prosecuting him. Be hard to prove, silas, after all,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: your brother did die a natural death. Yes, Doctor Manners,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I fear that legally there's very little we can do
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: to mister Kingslake. But when he recovers and realizes that
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: he risked his life for nothing, I think he'll find
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: his own punishment. The change in the will was not made.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: The estate will be divided between the family, and I
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: doubt if mister Kinslake will now acquire any of it
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: by marriage. Now, of course he won't. I'll never see
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: him again.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Quite right, my dear, Quite right, What a despicable scheme.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: And to think that his father wrote one of the
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: greatest plays.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Of our century. I prefer to forget the fact watson
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear thinking. I assure you
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: for poisoning three little children for their insurance money. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: London poor. And now, my dear Chap, I think we
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: should look up the next train back to London. Our
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: work here is done.