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Sherlock Holmes: The Empty House (EP0984) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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know I learned from Colombo and which we take a look at life lessons from
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the lives and histories of seven great fictional detectives, including Sherlock Holmes. That
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one is also available for the iPad and the nook. All right, well,
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this is our last episode of Sherlock Holmes. So I'm sorry to see
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this go. I think of a pretty appropriate episode. You'll agree once we
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listen. Here now is today's final episode of the John Gielgood Ralph Richardson series
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The Empty House, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Original and Immortal Stories
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of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatized Danile, with Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson
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and Sir John Gildgard in the role of Sherlock Holmes. It has been my
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privilege in these past few weeks to come before you with some of the exploits
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I shared with my friend Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective the world has ever
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seen. I had to conclude the last with the account of his death,
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as he fell into the great chasm of the Falls of Reichenbach in Switzerland,
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locked in the arms of his deadly enemy, Professor Moriarty. For three long
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years I mourned him, my loneliness deepened to by the loss of my dear
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wife. To pass the weary days, I tried to interest myself in crime,
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as a gesture, so to say, to a Holmes memory, our
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old associate, less trade of the yard, was sometimes even good enough to
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consult me with some of his problems. And so in the spring of the
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year eighteen ninety four I came to hear of the singular mystery surrounding the death
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of the Honorable Ronald Adare murder, doctor Watson, it's stark murder. For
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the life of me, I can't see how it was done. Well,
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sit down, sit down, let straight. I'm sorry to have kept you
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waiting. I was seeing a patient. Thank you, doctor. I'm quite
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exhausted with it all. I have a drink whisky sourda. Thanks. I
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will to tender the truth. Doctor. This is the kind of problem I
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wish to heaven I could have talked to mister Holmes about. Ah, we
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all wish that the Strade. Is that an APSDA or plenty? Doctor?
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Thank you, Well, here's your health. Ah. Yeah, I don't
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suppose what I don't know, just a notion I sometimes have. I mean,
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he really is dead, I suppose, mister Holmes, I mean,
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well, of course he is. You must have read my account the Strade.
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Yes, yes, of course I know. It's just I can never
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quite bring myself to believe it. I tell you, I wouldn't be a
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bit surprised if I was to walk along Baker Street to night and see the
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old shadow on the window blind there. Well, don't let's talk about it,
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the Strade. Tell me what your problem is. I thought we might
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even walk around to the scene of the crime together, doctor, if you
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can spare the time. It's a queer business. It's a dear case,
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you said, queer. Yes, I've read something about it in the papers.
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Found dead, wasn't he. That's right, Honorable Ronald Adare, very
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upright and promising, young fellow. Terrible blow to his mother. Tell me
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exactly what happened. Well, he was fond of cardjes Se, who never
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prayed for very big stakes that he couldn't resist. A bit of a flatter
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now and then, no gambling enemies or anything of the card. Shouldn't think
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so. Seems to have been very popular. Anyhow, he was playing at
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one of his clubs the night had happened the bag of Telny is he?
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Who's he playing with? Well there was a mister Murray and Sir John Hardy,
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and a fellow called Moran, and Colonel Sebastian Moran, mother hardy Man.
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Well what next to them? Well, younger Dare got back home about
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ten. He shut himself in his room. He lives in Park Lane,
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you know, one of those big houses, and his room was at the
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front. His mother got in from a theater about half past eleven went in
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to say good night to him. She couldn't get any answer. Had the
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door forced? Who was locked them on the inside? Doctor, And they
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found him dead to see all Dublin, mutilated about the head by an expanding
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bullet. What a dumb dumb you mean suicide? Maybe? Did you find
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it a weapon? No, doctor, not a single blissed sign of one.
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He was stumped across the table, with bundles of notes and stacks of
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coins laid meekly out all around him. Huh. But he couldn't have been
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shot through the window, I suppose. Well, it seems the only way,
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of course, and the window was open. But the minute you have
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a look, you'll see it was pretty near impossible. Let's go round,
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shall we? Bye bye. I'll get my boots on now, Doctor.
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That's the house to feed tore One with the blue railings and the crocus bed
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in front bears. I see quite a crowd outside, isn't illustrade? Oh?
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Usual sight servis stroll in the papers, you know. Morbid takes people
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ahead, which is the room where he was found up on the same before
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up there where one of my members. They're still looking around for clues,
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you know, body was taken away some days ago. Quite so. Was
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the window open as wide as that when it happened, will be bitter.
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We haven't touched it at all. Step upside there with you. I'm a
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police officer and I'm taking up the old blood in pavement. I suppose the
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murderer couldn't have locked the door on the inside and then made his escape through
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the window that fade. Not a chance. And you see for yourself there
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isn't anything you would climb down by if you dropped there, and it would
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have been marks on the cloakerspit there I see. You know, you know
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this crowd is really intolerable this right, I know. I already must have
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a card and put around the base. Well aren't you coming in, doctor?
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No, I don't think so. You're giving me most of the facts.
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The clue must lie outside somewhere. Younger. There must have been shot
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through the window, that's what I said. But whoever did it must have
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been an uncommonly good shot. You've had to stand right back at the roadway,
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almost to avoid leaving tracks in the garden and get the young chapman range,
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as he said at the table, almost impossible with a revolver at that
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distance beside you know there's that cabman shelter just there by the game. They
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say there wasn't a sound of a shot that night, made me certain to
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have heard it. I tell you, which a pleasant doctor hers is.
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Indeed, I say, I almost wish like you. That's what I didn't
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know? What I mean, it would have been a problem after his own
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heart. Oh well, let's get back, I suppose. But if I
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think of anything kind, get watch with your cook I beg your pardon.
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I'm afraid i've made you drop your books. You certainly have seated. There's
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a prople of books. I'm sorry. I wouldn't have had it happened for
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the world. Here you are. I picked him up for you. It
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was quite an accident. I should hoop, so I should hoop so indeed,
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huh, poor old fellow. And I must give me a bit about
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bump Lane too, an old bookseller. I should think, looks it were
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those thick glasses too much peering over a small print? On myself? You've
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been studying poor Holmes methods, less said, I only wish I could choose
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them on his case. Doctor, Well, good bye, you'll let me
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know if you have any ideas. Yes, yes, I will go by
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this strad I'll certainly think about it, And so I did. Indeed,
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as I walked back home the part Lane mystery, as I'd already decided to
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call it, if ever I should write an account of it, the first
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that I should ever write of my own small efforts in detection. As opposed
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to Holmes, Adair had plainly locked the door himself. He therefore met his
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death from the outside. And yet what shot could possibly have traveled such a
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distance and still caused so much mutilation? And who had done the deed and
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for what motive? I was still pondering when I reached my study, and
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I hardly had time to light my pipe. Went to my astonishment, my
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maid ushered in no other than the old bookseller with whom I collided In't park
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me, well, sir, you're surprised to see me, no doubt?
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Well, I most certainly am. How on earth did you know where I
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lived? Followed Ye, it's been on my conscience a bit the way I
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spoke so rude to you when you bumped me. Oh but really, you
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make too much of a trifle. I won't you put your pilot books on
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the table and sit down for a moment. You look tired, right enough,
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I am sir. You went pretty fast for my old legs. I
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had a job to keep up with you. I was thankful when I saw
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you turn into the house here and I could come up a bit slower.
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Ah. Well, they have a little refreshment. I have some brandy hair
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or some whiskey and soda, Thank you, Watson. I rather fancy a
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little hock and seltzer. Homes su Oh almost, Watson, my dear friend,
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Oh, my dear fellow. You sit down, you'll fall quick quick
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here drink this homes homes. That's a bit better, isn't it. There?
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You're all right now? Why, poor old Watson. Sorry, I
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have fainted the first time in my life. It was unforgivable of me,
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my dear fellow, but I simply couldn't resist him. No, call it,
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call it it's really come. Yes, really Watson, really and truly
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here touch me. I'm flesh and glad. You see the same old homes,
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but the falls at Ryton Park and the cliff edge. Yeah, how
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hard did you ever get out of here? Said back old fellow. Take
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another sip of Brandy. Yeah, I'll take my wig and whiskers off,
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and then you'll be able to believe it's really me. You're the second person
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you know who's fainted at the sight of me today. Who else will dear
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old missus Hudson back in the old rooms in Baker Street upon my life.
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I didn't think she'd ever stopped crying. I've tried pulled her around from her
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faint it is. He never helped liking your homes for all the confirmed.
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That's very nice of you, believe it now. Oh, but when I
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tell let's trade, when I tell the whole world now now, not yet,
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Watson, not yet, this trade perhaps, but no one else at
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all. And for a very good reason, I assure you. We are
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back in harness, my old friend. How what do you mean when this
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very night, provided you can spare the time hard and dangerous task, Watson,
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are you still game? Or? Of course that's what I've been longing
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for. But I want to know what's been happening homes. You must tell
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me a million things, but all in due course, my dear fellow,
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we have our work to do. First. You think you'll be all right?
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All right, I'm alright, homes a hundred times, and then I
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was I'm sorry, how went to pieces like that? Was the greatest compliment
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you could possibly pay me. But your escape, your escape, man,
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how can you be so calm about it? Oh? That will? That
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was also long ago, three years after all? But how did you get
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out of that dreadful cassima? Because, my dear Watson, I was never
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in it, never, my dear, Oh, I assure you my note
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to you was quite genuine. I hadn't any doubt that I was done for
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when I stood there to fronting Moriarty with that inexorable purpose in those eyes of
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his that you described so vividly. Ah, he'll read my account. Of
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course, I congratulate you, my dear fellow, to the most convincing thing
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you've ever done. I was even strangely moved by it. But the two
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sets of footsteps to the cliff edge and none returning the signs of a struggle
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we fought together, of course, there was no doubt about that. We
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fought most bitterly. Would you know the curious bypaths of my knowledge, Watson,
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I have some acquaintance with baritsu, the Japanese system of wrestling, and
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I managed finally to slip out of our friend, the Professor's grippin Down he
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went at last, uttering the most horrible scream that I've ever heard from human
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lips. Yeah, the devil Holmes. You'll truly are the only one whoever
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has always been on the side of the angels, you know, Watson.
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At that moment, I suddenly realized what a heaven sent opportunity had come my
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way. How do you mean by Arty, wasn't the only man who had
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sworn my death? There was another, his chief left, who had also
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managed to escape the trap which the police had laid for the whole gang at
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my instigation. I mean, you deliberately chose to make it appear that you
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died so that you could delude this fellow into a sense of false security.
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Precisely well, I began to climb up the face of the cliff, but
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you couldn't have homes. It was almost cheer. I had an anxious moment
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or two out confess, but I did manage it somehow, you know.
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I could even hear your cries and see your tragic face when you thought I
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was gone. I was there above you on a ledge about a hundred feet
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or so up all homes, and you never made a sign with my strongest
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card, old friend. If you believe that I was really dead and wrote
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on me as you did, then the whole world would believe it too.
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And that was why only one person knew the secret that I was safely on
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my way to Italy. And who was there? My brother Mycroft. You
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could trust him at Holmes and not me. Ah, my dear fellow,
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I know you are the very soul of discretion, but you could never have
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written so vividly and so convincingly if you've really known the truth of the years
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of misery. I'm not gone the year. It was the only way I
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couldn't even reveal myself to you in the street today because the place was so
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crowdy. That might have been spies. Ah, not the cause of the
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strade because he was there. No, No, I'll tell the strade this
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afternoon. We'll need him dadly for to Night's adventure. What are you planning,
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homes, I've been planning all these years. I've been away traveling in
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Tibet, Persha, France, planning to defeat this last member of Moriarty's game.
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And to night at last, I think I'm going to get him.
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Who is he homes? Not yet, Watson, not yet. You'll see
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it here enough before the morning. The games are what Watson, old times,
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old times gone, the adventure, as you no doubt call it,
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of the empty house. Can you blame me? If all other thoughts were
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driven from my head that day? I knew nothing of what Holmes intended,
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what wild beast we were to hunt down in the dark jungle of criminal London.
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I forgot everything in my joy and impatience, even the murder of young
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Adare, which had been so occupying me. Charlotte Holmes called for me at
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half past nine, and we set off on our mysterious journey. His knowledge
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of the bypaths of London was extraordinarily. We twisted through a maze of hidden
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allies and narrow passageways until I was quite bewildered. And always as we went
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I saw his brows drawn down and his thin lips compressed in the old sardonic
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smile. I knew so well, ah, Watson, because he's like old
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times, being with you again. If you only knew how I've looked forward
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to this moment and I Holmes, except that I never thought I'd live to
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see it. He brought you on another with you, the old armored revolver,
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of course. And by the way, talking of revolvers in the addare
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case, Wait, Watson ran this way, that's right through the empty yard.
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There where are we, Holmes. You'll completely last night, you'll see
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in a moment. Ah, yes, that's right, I thought. So
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along the mus turned to the left, and we're almost there. You still
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can't tell me what we're after. You know already Moriarty's right hand man,
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the last of his whole gang. How does he know you're alive? That's
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been part of the whole difficulty, my dear fellow, one of the reasons
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I've had to lie so low. He saw me that day at the falls.
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But what you mean that Moriarty wasn't alone that day after all? Oh,
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yes he was. He was quite chivalrous in his own strange way.
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But this lieutenant of his must have followed him some way behind to see that
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all went well. I caught sight of him for a moment when I was
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right at the top of the press of his looking down, and realized that
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he could see me climbing up. Good Heaven's hope. Yes, he tried
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to dislodge me. Of course, a boulder or two gave me a few
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uncomfortable moments, but I managed to get round by another path and elude him.
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Did he know for certain that you'd escaped till? I was never sure
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until these last few days. And that's what's brought me back to London.
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But I don't understand the heart night thought this was the adventure of the empty
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house. Well, here's the door. I'll use the skeleton key. Ah,
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yes, that's it. Quietly, my dear fellow, dash, say
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old Watson. I'm excited, Holmes a bit out of practice. You now
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this way through here, this passage way. Careful now, Watson, there's
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a low doorway. Don't bend your head. Oh that's the netter. Now
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wats something brushed my things into spider's word or a strip of wallpaper? Can't
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you see how it's peeling away? The place hasn't been lived in for years.
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I still wish I knew where we were. This is the room,
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Watson, Nah, then look out of this window. There, God heaven,
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Baker Street exactly we're in Camden House, my dear fellow. Don't you
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remember it? Exactly opposite our own old quarters at number two hundred and twenty
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one B. But what are we doing here? We are here because the
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window commands such an excellent view of that picturesque interfice of ours. Come closer,
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Watson, and just look up at the window of our old sitting room.
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Cool. I believe I'm almost going to think. Hold up, my
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dear fellow, there's no Brandy here. Unfortunately, I thought that even three
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long years could hardly rob me at my powers to surprise you. Watson,
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Holmes, is you up there? It's your shadow on the blind up there.
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I trust that age cannot wither me, Watson, nor customs stale my
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infinite variety. It really is rather like me. Don't you think he's not?
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I could swear that you were sitting up there as the real credit belongs
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to mister Oscar Mernier, the distinguished sculptor. A bust of me in wax
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Watson placed very carefully so as to cast its silhouett up on the window blind.
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I'm out of my dead homes, all things beyond me. What does
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it all mean? Simply that I have the strongest possible reasons for wanting a
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certain person to believe that I'm up there when I'm really somewhere quite different.
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This lieutenant of monarchic, of course, he knows I'm still alive, and
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he believes that sooner or later I'll be sure to come back to my old
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horns. He knows you're Backley. I'm quite sure he does. I took
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pretty good care that he recognized me in the street this morning. Look that
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gang of ruffs around the street. They're looking up watching your shadow on the
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blind too, aren't they ruffs? You think? Keep back, Watson,
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don't let them see you. A great heavens, your shadows moved up,
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my dear good Watson. Am I such a farcical bungler as to erect an
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obvious dummy and expect the sharpest eyes in Europe to be deceived by it?
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What is it? Clockwork? Missus Hudson? The good soul crawls forward on
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her hands and knees every few minutes and moves the effage around a little bit,
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a different angle I can face. I'd like to see what's really?
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What is it? I do believe he's coming. Always listen the stairs.
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Yes, he's coming up, actually into this room. I hardly expectence to
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a stroke hi black as this listen now about it? Keep your gun ready,
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Watson, And yeah, I take this police whistle when I tell you
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blow it. What's going to happen? Homes you'll see you'll open that window
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and then you'll hear something a sound you'll never heard before in all your life.
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What a sound that listen to? Sound at all? An explosion that
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doesn't explode upon myself? Quiet now? But another word, my god,
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last sluck? No, sir, I got you, dy watsonnother Wison man,
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No, come on you it's all right. Oh no, you don't
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watch the hold on his arm. That's a hard in him. His name
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is the straight, right, thank you, thank you? List straight.
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I'd rather fancy everything's quite in order. What is your home's in Heaven's name?
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Why, Watson? Just as I told you, the late Professor Moriarty's
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first lieutenant, who feed luck you clever? Clever quite so, Colonel Journey's
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end in lovers meetings, as they used to say in the old play,
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Colonel Sebastian Moran, my dear Watson, once of her Majesty's Indian Army,
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and the best big game shot that our Eastern Empire has ever produced. There's
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an interesting weapon you've got there as strains, that's mine. No, you
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don't. I never seen anything quite like it. Mister Holmes doesn't seem to
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have any kind of paradle train, for the simple reason that it's an air
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gun of a particularly powerful design, made to the order of the late Professor
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Moriarty himself. Of course, Holmes, I remember you told me about it
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three years ago, that harmless bust of mine. Across the way you will
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have been shuttered by the missilid fires a simple soft nosed bullet. A bust
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an effigy, you fiend you've already used that if it's at once, Colonel
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for a master marksman. Your vocabulary seems to me a trifle limited. I'm
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really quite surprised that so simple a strategy you should have deceived you. You
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have not heard the last of me yet, Ols. Indeed, well,
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I be ready with Watson, ready, ready for what I rather fancy.
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A pipe in our old rooms, my dear fellow. But Holmes, you
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will climb them in perfect order. My brother, Mycrops, has been in
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charge of everything while I've been away, and there are still a few details
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you may care to hear. Wait hon't if it was only an effigy in
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that window, you've no right to detain me. I've committed no crime,
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no crime attempting to murder, mister Sherlock Holmes. So he's quite correctless trade.
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We do need something a little more definite than attempted murder, and in
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any case, I think I prefer not to be involved in the matter myself.
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Well, I must say, you see, instruct those men of yours
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to release me at once. Don't worry less, strate your men can take
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him away with perfect impunity. Won't you join Watson and me for a little
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refreshment across the way. As to the charge, well, mister Holmes,
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you must have one, you know, Oh yes, I have, of
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course, the murder of the honorable Ronald and dare shopped through the open window
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of his house in Park Lane with an expanding bullet fired less trade from that
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very gun you now have in your hand. Goodbye, Moran, Oh,
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my best respects to the professor. I feel sure you will meet him in
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the nether regions. Well, well, the same old room, mister Holmes.
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You could have knocked me down with a fellow when you're walking into the
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yard. This afternoon was nothing to her I felt this morning, less said.
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I actually fainted, and I was only saying to you, I wouldn't
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be surprised to see a shadow on the blind eh ah. But look at
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it, my poor old like miss Watson, shot right between the eyes.
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I'm afraid. Oh well, all in a good cause. The welcome founds
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met Holmes. Is how you knew about the Adare murder? And it was
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exactly what I'd been waiting for Watson. As soon as I read in Paris
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that Moran had been the young Fellow's partner at cards that night, I realized
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he must have been the murderer. But because of the gun was the only
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weapon in the world which that crime could have been committed at such a distance
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and without a sound. He'd made his little slip, just as his master
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did before him. So I knew it was time to come back, and
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I was on his trail at last. Well. Well, and to think
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that you were examining the scene of the crime at the same moment we were,
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Hey, doctor, But what was the motive? Holmes? Adair had
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partnered Moran more than once. He discovered that Moran was a cheat, threatened
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him with exposure and set to work calculating the amounts that he had fortunately won.
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He planned to return those sums, hence the piles of money lying on
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the table, and Morin followed him and shot him from the other side of
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the street, beyond the railing days. But I still had to prove it.
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I knew if he'd got the chance, he'd turned that gun on me,
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and I suspected that he might choose the empty house for his purpose,
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as indeed he did. By the way, Watson, I'm afraid that that
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gang of roughs in the street who were so suspicious are were really only less
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strades, plainclothesmen waiting for our whistle. But do you mean that I was
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mistaken the home? It's just this once, my dear fellow. And now
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that the race of Moriarty is finally extinct, we are quite free to celebrate
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the return of Sherlock Holmes. Would you pass me my violin this trade?
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How splendid that it wasn't damaged in that fire the professor once started in these
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rooms. Hey Watson, that's a matter of opinion at home. But we
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welcome you back, sir by George. We do. London hasn't been the
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same without you. Thank you less trade. I appreciate that very much,
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Yes, Watson. Nothing like a violin, you know, to soothe the
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savage breast. You know, I really missed it sorely in Tibit. The
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return of Sherlock Holmes and a thousand other cases still before him, well well,
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well, the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories of
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, have been dramatized in You, with original music composed
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by Sydney Torch. Sir Ralph Richardson played the part of doctor Watson and Sir
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John Gildgood that of Sherlock Holmes. The program was produced by Harry Allen Towers.
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Welcome back, Well a pretty good hopeful end to the Homes series here,
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and I definitely think there's some strong merit to the entire way they did
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this. The ones that of all the Holmes is that we've heard. I've
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enjoyed this and the Rathbone Bruce versions the best over the radio, and this
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will definitely be missed. Miss This was just an overall pretty classy production from
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start to finish, just tremendous, with two fine British actors in the lead,
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and it's amazing. You know, we've had Sherlock Holmes on the program
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for forty four months and it will be someone sadding, you know, as
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we have something other than Holmes on Thursday, and as we've gone through these
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Sherlock Holmes series, what's really come home to me is just how really amazingly
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good the Arthur Conan Doyle stories are. Because you know, I think most
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folks at one time or another had some issues with some of the other performers
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and some of the scripts that were written for Old Time Radio. But if
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you gave even if you were overall critical of their overall performance, you gave
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these actors a well adapted Arthur Conan Doyle story, it would be well worth
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listening these original stories or classics. And there were some very interesting and interpretations
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on Holmes in the course of this, and I think I think this was
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just you know, it was a pleasure to bring it to you. I
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hope you've enjoyed it. If you've been listening for Sherlock Holmes, I hope
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you'll stay around for some of the other series. Coming up next week on
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Thursday, we will have another Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, this one called
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the Law Special from Escape, and then we will play all three of Edgar
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Allan Poe's detective stories from various radio productions before we turn Thursdays over to Nick
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Carter. But definitely we'll miss Sherlock Holmes. Love to hear your feedback on
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our final Holmes episode listener comments and feedback. We do have one piece to
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share, this one from over on iTunes Level Time Radio and this app really
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fits my needs. Thanks so much that will actually do it for today.
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We will be back tomorrow with yours truly Johnny Dowler and the Widow Is Willing
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Part three, and then join us back here next Thursday for the Law Special.
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