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and you can support the program and support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well,
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we're going to bring you an episode that will be very familiar to longtime
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listeners of the program. It's the Adventure of the Speckled Band. The Speckled
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Band has actually been done by every one of the major holmes. Is you
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know anyone where we played a large number of episodes. There were a couple
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of ones. There has been ryde Orson Wells and one other person Louise Hector
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I believe from the nineteen thirties, where we don't have that, but the
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four major ones we have we played. The first time we played the Speckled
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ban was in two thousand and ten in June with Basil Rathbone, and that
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was way back on episode one one sixty four. Then the next time we
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played it was August twenty eleven with Tom Conway an episode four seventy nine,
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and then the last time we played it was actually only about only about eight
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months ago, in September two thousand and twelve, episode seven fifty four.
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So if you want a quick way to get a comparison of the Holmes Is,
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you can go ahead and do the just search Speckled Band at Great Detectives
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Dot nep. Well we're gonna get in today's episode. I do want to
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encourage you to be sure and stay around after today's episode because I have an
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extra special bonus old time radio treat I think you'll enjoy. But here now
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is The Speckled Band. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The original Landy Marvels
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stories of Arthur coland Doyle gramatized Dunial, with Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson
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and Sir John Gielgrad in the role of Sherlock Holmes. M M. My
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name is John H. Watson and by professional I am a doctor of medicine.
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In the spring of eighteen eighty three, Sherlock Holmes and I took up
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our residence at two hundred and twenty one B Baker Street. I shall never
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forget that April morning when I ushall diden Miss Helen Stoner in larsity. She
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was a most attractive young lady. Christine Black was heavily veiled, and the
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pier much district. It is not the code which Lakership and mister Holmes sphere
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terra. I can stand this strain no longer. I should go mad if
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it continues. But no one to turn to, even my fiance, he
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believes it's only my imagination. Must fear we will soon set matters to right
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side, no doubt. My name is Helen Stoner. When I'm living with
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my stepfather, who was the last survivor one of the oldest familys in England,
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the Roylott the Stoke Moran on the western border of South The name is
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familiar to the family used to be very rich. Now there's nothing left save
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a few acres and an old house crushed under a heavy mortgage. Eight years
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ago with my mother died. Was your mother a wealthy woman? She had
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a fortune of some thousand pounds a year, but she bequeathed to doctor Roylet
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entirely so long as we resided with him, with the provision that a certain
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annual sum should be allowed to both Julia and myself if either of us should
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marry. Huh, tell me, did doctor Roylott continue to practice after your
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return to England? No? Not after the death of man. He took
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my sister and me to live with him at Stoke Morn and full a time
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we were quite happy together, but a terrible change began to come over our
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stepfather. He shut himself up and only came out to indulge in violent quarrels
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with his neighbors. He's ended by the coming, dreadfully feared in the village.
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He has no friends at all but the wandering bands of gypsies that he
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allows to camp on his grounds. He is a collective of strange animals.
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He had an Indian cheater and a baboon which wandered freely over the estates and
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was feared by the villagers almost as much as he is. No servant would
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stay with us. We had to do all the work of the house.
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He would imagine what he would like for my sister and me, and when
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she died, though she was only thirteen, Julia's hair had begun to turn
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bipe. Even his mind pens I was the street just two years ago,
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soon after she'd become engaged to be married, only a fortnight before the wedding,
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she died in careful sacoste. Did your stepfather offer any objection for her,
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Mary, No, he didn't appearch you the circumstances of your sister's death.
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Please be precise as to detail. It's easy to the social Every event
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of that dreadful time is seared into my memory. As I said, the
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manor house is very old, and only one wing is now loose. The
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bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor. But my stepfather's and my
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sisters and me and mine there's no communication between them. But they opened the
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same car door and look out after the same lawn that night. Doctor Roylot
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my stepfather the guard to his room earlier, but was not just asleep.
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But my sister was troubled by the strong smell of his Indian cigar. She
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left her room and came into mind, where she sat checking about her coming
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wind. Well, Helena, how's be getting back to beddy? He must
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be asleep by now. By the way, have you ever heard a strange
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whistle in the dead of night, a whistle no wild. For the last
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few nights, about three in the morning, I've been wakened by a low,
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clear whistle. I haven't heard it, but then I sleep more heavily
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than you, and it's of no consequence. For night. I couldn't sleep
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that night. I'd locked my door after Judy left and heard her lock hers.
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We always knocked our doors for a fill of the cheetah and the baboon.
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It were without every night in the ground. I remember it was a
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wild night when he was handing outside and the rain beating against the windows.
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I had a terrible premonition of evil, and suddenly, through the storm I
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knew if my sister, who was screaming. I sprang from my bed,
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wrapped ashore round and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door,
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I heard a distant whistle, a whistled, and a clanging, as if
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a massive metal had fallen somewhere. As I went towards it, my sister's
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door was unlocked and slowly swung open the light of the lamp. I saw
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her standing there, her face blounced with terror, her hands prooping for help,
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her whole figure swaying, tool fro and he gave way. She fell
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to the ground. She only screamed the one thing before she died in my
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arms. It was the band, the speckled band. It seems that Julius
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Turner's death was carefully investigated by the local coroner. The doctor Rilot's conduct had
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been notorious in the county, and foul play was suspected, but no satisfactory
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explanation of the tragedy was ever found. The doctor had been asleep in his
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room, the scream had wakened him. Julia's room had been locked on the
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inside, the windows heavily shut up. The chimney was barred by iron staples.
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It was certain that Julia Stoner had been quite alone when she had met
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her end. There was nothing to indicate how she had knitted. There were
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no marks of violence on the body, and the doctors could find no evidence
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of poisons. It might believe that she died of sheer terror, a nervous
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shock. Oh, but it was to frighten her. I cannot imagine.
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Were there any gypsies camping in the plantation at the time. Yes, They're
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nearly always somewhere. And what did you gather from her illusion was speckled.
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Damn. Sometimes I've thought it was merely delirium. Sometimes I wondered if it
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might have referred to some band of people, perhaps those very gypsies in the
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plantation with their spotted handkerchiefs on their heads. He's a very deep waters,
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miss Stoner, Please go on. Two years of pass full then, and
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until lately my life has been lonelier than ever. A month ago, however,
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I became engaged to be married to a mister Armatans, a neighborhod Eyes,
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and a very dear friend. I feared my stepfather might offer objections,
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but he had made no difficulties, and we had to be married later this
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spring. Yeah. Two days ago some repairs were started in the west wind,
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so that I had had to move out of my own room into the
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room next door the room, and my sister died last night by lay awake,
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thinking with her terrible faith, I suddenly heard in the silence of the
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night that same low whissy. Though her room was locked and there appeared to
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be nothing wrong, when she sprang out a bed and lit her lamp.
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Helen Stoner had been too calified to go back to bed as soon as it
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was light. She had caught an early morning train to London that comes straight
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round to ask the advice of Sherlock Holmes. You had done very wisely.
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Are you sure you've told me everything? Yes? Everything? I think you
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are still shielding your stepfather, Miss Turner. Isn't that the mark of his
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grip there on your wrists? The hard man? Perhaps he hardly knows his
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own strength. This is a very deep business, and from what you've told
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me, there may not be a moment to lose if we were to come
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down to Stoke more than today. Would it be possible to see over the
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bedrooms without the knowledge of your stepfather? I think so. He told me
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last night he was coming to London for the day. There should be no
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under this turning excellent and we shall both come. What are you going to
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do yourself? I have one or two things to attend to in town,
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but I shall be home shortly afternoon, and you may expect us earlier this
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afternoon, Miss Sterner. Goodbye for the president. We discussed many possible theories
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after Miss Turner had left. We were in the midst of our deliberations when
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we received another visitor, which of you is Holmes, my name is,
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but you have the advantag I am doctor Grimes, very royal, lift Stone
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moral. My step daughter has been here. What has she been saying to
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you? It is a little cold at the time of the year. What
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has she been saying to you? I've heard that the crocuses promis very well.
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Nah, you'll put me off, do you? I know Miss Doner
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has been to see you, But don't show go a medal in my affairs.
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I'm a dangerous man to fall hew love, see that you'll keep yourself
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out of my grip. Ah like this poker, I'll bigger amiable person ending
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our poker. Almost w observed I'm not quite so bucky, But if he
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remained, I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble
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than his own. There, I think that's just about straight again. You
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know my idea, Watson. This little incident gives the news as to our
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investigations. We shall certainly see what we can find, and the stop more
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this afternoon, Good afternoon, a Sturner, you see to be been as
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good as our work, being so eagerly for me. Now we just make
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the best use of our time. So kind of take us at once to
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the rooms we have to examine. The building was of gray lichen blotched stone,
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with a high central portion and two curling wings, like the cause of
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a crab thrown out on each side. The central block and the east wing
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were empty and in qui repair the lines to the windows, and blue smoke
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curling up from the chimneys showed that part of the west wing, in which
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the family resided, some scapulity had been erected against the end wall, and
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the stone work had been broken into it, but there were no work on
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about homes examined the outsides of the three bedroom windows that were closest attempting this.
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I take it belongs to the room in which you used to sleep,
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The center one as your sisters room, and the one next to the main
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building is doctor Roylotts. Yes, but I'm sleeping in the little one,
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of course, pending the alterations, as I understand right away. But doesn't
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seem to be any pressing need for repairs to that end wall there were none.
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I believe that it was an excuse to move me from my own room
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into my sisters. Ah. That is suggestive. Well, these windows and
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shutters are quite firmly. No one could possibly get in this way if they
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were firmly boated on the inside. We shall have to see the rooms themselves
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throw any light on this matter. A small side door lead into the whitewashed
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corridor from which the three bedrooms opened. Holmes passed at once into the room
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in which Helenstone I was now sleeping in the middle one of the three,
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the bedroom from which her sister had met had death. It was a homely
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little room they have furnished. Holmes eyes traveled round and round, up and
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down, taking in every detail. What does that bell communicate with the housekeeper's
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room? It looks newer than the other things. Yes, it was put
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in a couple of years ago, just before my its death. I can't
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think why she certainly never used it. Indeed, with such a nice long
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bell pull that they convenient, I should thought. The tassel hangs down to
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the very pillow. Let me see why it's a dummy, won't you bring
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No, not even attached to a wire. You can see it's fastened to
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a hook up there just above the little opening with a ventilator. I'm very
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upsurd I never noticed it before. Very shame. And what whole of a
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builder would open the ventilator into the next room when he might have made it
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through the outer wall into the fresh air. That's also quite modern. It
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was done about the same time as the build rope. There were several little
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changes petted out about that time. Shortly before your sister's death. Why,
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yes, he moved into the bedroom next door, the room of doctor Violet.
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It was larger than his step daughters, but just as plainly had furnished
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a camp bed, an arm chair, a plain wooden chair against the wall,
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a round table, and a large iron safe. With the principal things
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which met the eye. Once again, Holmes examined them all with the keys.
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Interested. In one corner of the dead we found a small dog lash
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not it so as to make a loop of the whip cord? Oh,
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this is interesting. What do you make of that? Watson's common enough lash.
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I don't see why it should be tied into a loop. And not
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quite so common, is it, miss Sterner? What does your stepfather keep
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in the safe here? Business papers? Or you've seen inside it then?
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Only once, some years ago it was full of papers. Then it wasn't
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a cat in it? By any chance. No, what this change idea?
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Well, then why the saucer of milk standing on the top of it?
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No, we don't keep a cat, but as I could do it
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as a cheater and the balloon. Ah, yes, of course, Well
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a cheater is just a big cat. And yet a saucer of milk doesn't
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go very far. As satisfied, I dare say, Now, just one
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more point, let me examine this wooden chair. Interesting And now mister and
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I want you to listen up for they and follow my advice in every respect.
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I'll show you that I'm in your hands is to have your life may
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depend on it. The matter is too serious for any hesitation in the first
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place. Then the doctor Watson and I must spend the night here in your
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room. Let a dash it door. Oh, let me explain, my
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dear Watson. We must turn him to retire to your room on pretense of
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the headache. When your stepfather comes back. When you hear him retire for
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the night into this next door room, we must open the shutters of your
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window. Undo the husp. Put your lamp there as a signal to us.
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We shall see it from over there in Middleage. Then go back into
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your old room, despite prepare that will sell you play the world in one
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night. Oh yes, of course we shall spend the night in the middle
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room, and then we shall be able to investigate the cause of this noise,
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which is a distante. Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging
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rooms at the village Inn from which it could come amand of view of the
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inhabited wing of Stoke modum nan our house. At dusk, we saw doctor
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Grimes Bill Roylet drive past, flashing in his horse. The pet turned into
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the Nana drive. In a few moments we saw a sudden light springing up
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among the trees as the lamp was lit in one of the sitting rooms.
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You know what's like some scruples about taking you tonight. There's a distinct element
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of danger. Can I be of assistance? Your presence might be invaluable.
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Then I will certainly come. But you speak of danger. You obviously see
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more in these rooms than was visible to me. No, but I fancy
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I may have deduced it little more. I imagine that you saw, Oh
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I did? I saw nothing remarkable, said the bell rope. But what
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purple who saw the ventilator too. Yes, there's nothing very unusual about that.
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There's at bast a curious coincidence in dates, a ventilator is made,
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the cord is hanging, and a lady who sleeps in the bed below dimes
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the thought striking can't as yet see in a connection. Did you observe anything
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very peculiar about the bed? No, it was clamped to the floor so
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that there must always be in the same position relative to the dentilator and the
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bellrope homes. I seemed to see dimly what you are driving it. They're
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only adjusting time to prevent some subtle and the horrible crime. Yes, what's
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and I think we shall have horrors enough before the night is over. About
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nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, and all was dark in
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the Mannor house. Two hours passed slowly away, and then suddenly a single
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bright light shone out from the darkness of the west wind. That's our signal.
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It comes from the middle window. Come on. There was a little
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difficulty in entering the grounds through a hole in the park wall. We crossed
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the lawn and we came to the open window when out of a clump of
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laurel bushes. There darted what seemed to be hyvious and dis what a child,
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which threw itself on the grass with writhing limbs, and then ran swiftly
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into the darkness. I haven't did you? Did you see that? Holmes?
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Here and last household up of the balloon, quick quickly through the windows
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before they visited by the cheetile. The silently climbed inside, closing the shutters
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and moving the lamp on to the table. Holmes cast his eyes round the
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room, or was as we had seen it that afternoon. He listened about
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the light. You can see it through the ventilator. Yes, oh,
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fall asleep, not any lightbuey to pent upon it. I got just already
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in case she needed. I took out my revolver and I laid it on
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the corner of the table. Holmes I bought a long, thin cane with
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him, which he laid on the bed beside him. Next to it,
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he placed a box of matches and a candle. Then he turned out the
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lamp and we were left in utter darkness. How shall I ever forget that
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dreadful degel? From outside came the occasional cry of a bird of the night,
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and once at our very window a long drawn catlike wide which told us
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that the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Twelve o'clock struck one o'clock, two
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o'clock three. Still we sat there, waiting silently for whatever night before.
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Suddenly there was a moment big gleam of light from the ventilator, which vanished
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immediately, then the smell of burning oil and heated little. Someone in the
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next room lit a dark lantern. I heard a gentle sound of movement,
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then for half an hour of silence. Again once once I heard another sound,
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a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of
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steam escaping from a kettle. You see, it was shit staking an etch
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Holmes slipped from the bed, was lashing furious the billish cade at the bill
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pool. As an etch flared, I heard a low, clear second whistle
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within the gloom. I could still not see what Holmes was attacking so frantically.
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All I could see was the horror and the loathing on his pale,
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gaunt face. Earth that scream. It was horrible. What can it mean?
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It means once that it's all over, Take up this slump, Come
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with me into doctor Roylott's room. In doctor Roylett's room, it was a
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strange and terrible cipher leta eyes. On the table stood the dark lantern with
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a shutter half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe,
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the door of which was ajar. Beside this table set doctor Grinsby Roylet,
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clad in a long dressing gown. His chin was cocked upwards and his
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eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the ceiling.
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About his brow, he had a peculiar yellow bend with brownish speckles which
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seemed to be bound tightly around his head. There and Watson the speckled dam
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The speckled damned round the head of the dead man was a snake, but
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dead lives snake in India, an adder, a swamp adder, and doctor
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Bransby Royolet had died ten seconds after that snake had bitten. The violence doesn't
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true to recoil upon the violin, and the schemer falls into the pit which
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he digs for another let had thrust this creature back into it dead as he
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spoke. Holmes drew the dog quick swiftly from the dead man's lap, and
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throwing the knotted loop round the reptile's neck. He drew it from its horrid
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perch and threw it into the island seat. For now, my dear fellow,
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we can remove the stone at to some place of shelter and let the
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country police know what has happened back in our room. The Baker Street that
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evening home was Nitty's type, and filled in a few of the gaps.
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I had come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson,
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how dangerous it all it is to reason. The insufficient data, the
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presence of the gypsies, and the use of the word banned. That poor
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girl Julia obviously had blimpsed the snake as she struck a match. Well,
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they were sufficient to put me on an entirely wrong scent. I only corrected
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manistake when I saw how impossible it was to enter the room either by the
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door or the window. The bell rope, the ventilator and the camp bed
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then gave rise to the suspicion. But the rope was there as a bridge
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for something passing through the hole and coming down to the bed. The idea
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of the snake instantly occurred to me, for as we knew already, the
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doctor had his own supply of strange pets from India, and the whistle,
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and the clang of the whistle was the doctor's signal to recall the snake before
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the morning light could reveal it to the victim after or wanted to come down
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the bilope. It might or might not have bidden the vict but sooner or
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later the doctor usually would. I had come to these conclusions before I entered
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this room. You seem to deduce something from the wooden chair. Of course
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you have to stand on that to reach the ventilator, the saucer of milk,
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the loop of whipcord, the iron safe, but enough to dispel any
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doubts that might have remained. Metallic clang I suppose was the doctor shut it
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in, the snake in the safe again exactly, and not the window shutter
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being replaced as at first I had supposed. The blurs of my cane,
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of course, drove the brute back through the ventilator and roused its temper.
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It was ready to buy the first person it saw. So in a way
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I must be responsible for doctor Roylott's death. But I cannot say that it's
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likely to wait very heavily on my conscience. Draw up your chair to the
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fire, my dear fellow, and be so good as to hand me my
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violin. The only problem we have to solve now, my dear Watson,
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is how to while away. He's rather chilly. April Evening, welcome back.
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Well overall, a pretty solid performance. I think they did a great
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job with the sound effects and the acting really setting the kind of the creepiness
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of the scene. And it can be kind of hard since this particular story
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really has been done a ton on Sherlock Holmes, but they managed. They
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managed to do a good job. Even though I've heard quite a few I
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really appreciated this, appreciated this performance all right. Well, now we do
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turn to listen our comments and feedback, and we received a lot of positive
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feedback on the McCoy are special for our nine hundred and fiftieth episode, and
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Joan comments it is too bad this was not picked up as a series with
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Howard Duff. I liked him and his acting. This was a good show.
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Thank you for giving us a chance to hear it, Sean said,
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listen last night, I would have been a great series, and Beverly says
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I love Howard Duff, can't wait for see him Spade. Thanks so much.
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Also, we have this comment from Jeline. Thanks so much for your
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podcast. I love them all. I've started listening again from the beginning on
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the iPad end. I think Sherlock Holmes will always be my favorite, but
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I love Nero two. Well, thanks Joey. And it's actually somewhat surprising.
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Usually most times when I average out the total number of subscriptions, Sherlock
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Holmes and Nero Wolf for one two and that's, you know, kind of
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amazing. Since Nero Wolf I believe we finished his way back in season two
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two years ago, but continues to have a lot of people listen to and
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enjoy the program. All right, well, folks, I promised you a
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bit of bonus audio at the beginning of the program, and I'm going to
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give it to you. I listened to a lot of old time radio other
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than just the detective shows, which can come in hand every now and again.
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I came across this episode of Strangers, it seems, which purports to
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tell the story of the real Sherlock Holmes. Well, let's just go ahead
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and take a listen here now effort from episode thirty eight of Strangers. It
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seems in nineteen thirty five the original Sherlock Holmes. The original Sherlock Holmes,
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Edinburgh, Scotland, around nineteen hundred. There are many patients in the waiting
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room of doctor Joseph Bell in the infirmary connected with his office. Doctor Bell
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has a court of assistant. Among them a young medical students named Arthur Common
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Doyle. Doctor Bell sits in his office. The door opened, Young common
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Doyle inters with the middle aged patient Doctor Bell. This is Bendy McNabb.
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No, learn't some trouble McNabb. I have his case history here. If
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you wanted doctor Bell dinner, thinker I needed daughter. No mcna He served
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in the Army ganger just recently discharlenged for three months a hill En Regiment non
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commissioned officer and jump you were You were stationed at Barbados in the West Indies.
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It was there I first stop sick, mister McNabb. Go through this
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door down the hall. That's the infirmary. Not as we'll get you ready
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for an examination. Very good, doctor doctor Bill, tell me how you
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knew all that? On first side? You always know these cases histories without
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looking at the record. Elementary, my dear Doyle, elementary, if use
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ordinary observed observation? Is that so? Sir? First of all, he
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was respectful, but dinner movies had when he come into the office. They
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don't remove their hats in the army, even to superior officer. However,
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if he'd been out of the army long he'd have learned civilian ways. That's
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right there. Then he had an air of authority even the all quiet.
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And he's certainly a Scott Therefore he probably belonged to a healing regiment. Yes,
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that's all correct. Last of all, the poor fellow is suffering from
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elephant tiress that there's not an English disease, but there is common in the
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West Indies. There are several Scotch regiments stationed in the Barbados. Now see
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how simple it all is, doctor Bell, you'd make a wonderful detective.
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Why don't you write a book about me? Doyle? You're always making up
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stories, you know, so that thought has often a to me. Went
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to it and I led it your manuscripts. I'll be in the story tonight,
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doctor Bell. What will you call me? I don't know. I
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thought perhaps i'd call your home home home. Well, watch me first name,
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I hadn't thought of that. I knew someone named Sherlock one. It's
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an odd name, Sherlock Home. Well, it's a foorage enough name for
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a detective story. Now mind your young man. Don't make me sentimental or
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Scotch or a doctor, no, sir, just Sherlock Holme. Detective strains
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that it seems doctor Joseph Bell, and even Belle was the original Sherlock Home.
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He was very much interested in common voyal story and the great detective,
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and often gave him suggestions. Doctor Bell died in nineteen eleven. Welcome back,
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Well, I enjoyed that piece, very quaint and charming. If there
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are any inaccuracies, I would love so much to hear from any listeners who
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are experts, But that will actually do it for today. I appreciate everyone
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listening, and I do need to let you know. Oh before we go,
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we actually only have three more weeks of Sherlock Holmes left, and then
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we're going to embark on a month of mystery specials before we get to Nick
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Carter. The first one I'll tell you about, I'm saving a a surprise,
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but I'll let you know what it is the week before is related to
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Arthur Conan Doyle and then what we have coming up in after three related mystery
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specials, we'll be doing the series Nick Carter, so I hope you'll be
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