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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Engineer's Thumb Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, will you go on with your story.
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  Speaker 2: It was in the summer of eighty nine, mister Harris,
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  Speaker 2: some little time after my marriage. After that important event,
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  Speaker 2: you remember, I abandoned homes and our Baker Street rooms
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  Speaker 2: and returned to civil practice.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I still dropped in on him, of course, now and
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  Speaker 2: then I even persuaded him to forego his bohemian surroundings
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  Speaker 2: and come and partake of a respectable Sunday dinner with
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: Mary and be. And how did he and missus Watson
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  Speaker 2: get along? Splendidly? She adored him, mister Harris. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: had settled down and become a respectable married man, practiced
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  Speaker 2: steadily increasing and all that. My house was no great
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  Speaker 2: distance from Paddington Station, and I had a few patients
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  Speaker 2: from among the officials. One morning, a little before seven,
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  Speaker 2: I was awakened by the maid rapping frantically at my door.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 1: Watson, Oh hello, yes, come in, come in.
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  Speaker 3: Oh doctor Watson, come quick.
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  Speaker 2: What's what's happened?
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  Speaker 3: An accidents of a nasty accident?
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  Speaker 1: Is his card?
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  Speaker 2: Mister Victor Heavenly Idralic Engineer sixteen a victorious street w.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so walked over from the station. He did. I
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  Speaker 1: let him in.
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  Speaker 3: He's downstairs now in the consulting room.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like he does well. It can't be too serious
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  Speaker 2: if he had the strength to walk over from the
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  Speaker 2: station by himself.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like he's at pains. It's his end's left hand.
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  Speaker 3: Then the stop of the handkerchief.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and it's all tripping with bloods sounds more
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  Speaker 2: serious than I suspected. Millie Magon. Heat some water and
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  Speaker 2: I'll go go right down to him. Yes, sir, mmmm,
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  Speaker 2: severe hemorrhage. Wonder what the accident was, Oh, mister Victor, heavenly,
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  Speaker 2: good morning morning.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry to wake you up solutely has a serious
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  Speaker 5: accident during the night. I came in by train this morning.
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  Speaker 5: They told me at the station that you were a
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  Speaker 5: good duck.
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  Speaker 2: Tack came here and that journey that in itself is
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  Speaker 2: a rather tiring and the monotonous affair.
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  Speaker 3: You couldn't call my night monotonous monotonous.
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  Speaker 4: Never had a less monotonous night.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it, stop it, put yourself together.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I happy making a fool of myself.
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  Speaker 3: The relief, you understand, I apologize.
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  Speaker 2: All often happens in a case of shock. Yeah, take
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  Speaker 2: a swig of this grande.
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  Speaker 4: That's better.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's have a look at your hand.
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  Speaker 5: It's my thumb, doctor Watson, or athor what used to
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  Speaker 5: be my thumb?
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  Speaker 2: Here, take a look. Ends. This is a terrible injury,
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  Speaker 2: less badly mangled.
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  Speaker 1: Will it have to be amputated?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, no, I think you can save it. Unpleasant
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  Speaker 2: wound must have bled considerablace.
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  Speaker 5: It did, I guess I fainted when it happened. When
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  Speaker 5: I came to, I was still bleeding. So I tied
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  Speaker 5: one end of a hankcheef very tightly around the wrist
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  Speaker 5: and braced it with a tweet.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent. You should have been a surgeon.
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  Speaker 5: Just a question from hydraulics, Doctor Watson, were within my own.
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  Speaker 2: Must have been done by a very sharp and heavy instant,
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  Speaker 2: Dr Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Accident, a murderous attack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dear, that sounds serious.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I shall have to tell my story to the police,
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  Speaker 5: I suppose, But between you and me, I doubt if
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  Speaker 5: they believe my statement.
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  Speaker 2: Problem Eh, Well, if it's anything of that nature you
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  Speaker 2: want solved, I strongly recommend my friend mister Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Sherlock Holmes, I've heard of him, of course, do
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  Speaker 5: you think he'd be interested?
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  Speaker 2: Could you?
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  Speaker 4: Could you give me an introduction?
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  Speaker 2: I'll do better than that. I'll take you around to
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  Speaker 2: him myself. But first let's attend to this thumb and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll call a candle and dropping on Holmes for a.
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  Speaker 1: Bit of breakfast, another bit of missus Hudson's omelet. Mister No,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: I feel a new man since Dr Watson banished my hand,
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  Speaker 5: and your excellent breakfast is completed.
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  Speaker 1: The cure good. Now you can tell us your story
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  Speaker 1: if you're sure you feel strong enough.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tap as little of your valuable time as possible.
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  Speaker 5: To begin with, I must tell you that I'm an
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  Speaker 5: orphan and a bachelor, residing alone in lodgings here in London.
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  Speaker 5: My professional a hydraulic engineer. I had seven years experience
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  Speaker 5: with a firm of Venner and Mathison before I decided
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  Speaker 5: to go into business for myself. Well, the start of
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  Speaker 5: any new firm is always rather slack, I suppose. So
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  Speaker 5: far I've had three consultations and one small job.
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  Speaker 1: Not what you call a rushing business.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, not exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Every day from nine till four I waited in my
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  Speaker 5: little den until at last my heart began to sink
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  Speaker 5: and I began to feel I should never have any
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  Speaker 5: practice at talk.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know that feeling. He would you believe it?
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  Speaker 2: The first two months up the resume my medical practice,
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  Speaker 2: I hated you, Watson. Watson turned it to run, oh sorry,
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  Speaker 2: onster heavily.
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  Speaker 5: It all began yesterday, just as I was thinking of
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  Speaker 5: closing up for the day, my clerk came in to
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  Speaker 5: say that there was a gentleman waiting to see me
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  Speaker 5: on business. His card gave me the name of Colonel
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  Speaker 5: Lysander Stark. Well, I told the clerk to show him
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  Speaker 5: in by all means.
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  Speaker 1: Colonel Lysander Stark. Picturesque name, hey, Watson, and what sort
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  Speaker 1: of man? He turned out to be?
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  Speaker 5: Slightly over middle height and exceedingly thin. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: I've ever seen a thinner man. His whole face sharpened
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  Speaker 5: away into nose and chin, and the skin was drawn
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  Speaker 5: tightly over his protruding cheekbones. No, mister Holmes, I should say,
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  Speaker 5: just naturally emaciated. His eye was bright, trifle too bright.
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  Speaker 5: I thought his step brisk, and his bearing ashore. He
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  Speaker 5: spoke with a slight German.
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  Speaker 4: Accent, I have to honor.
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  Speaker 3: This is mister Victor Hatheley nick twas.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Colonel Stark, won't you sit down darker?
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  Speaker 3: You are recommended to me, sir, for a young man
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  Speaker 3: who is clever and also discreet.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you not at all.
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  Speaker 3: I know also that you are an orphan bachelor and
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  Speaker 3: you live alone, quite correct, But I don't see why
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  Speaker 3: that can possibly concern you.
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  Speaker 5: I understood that it was on a professional matter that
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  Speaker 5: you wanted to see me theagavis.
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  Speaker 3: I have a professional commission, but I must insist on secrecy,
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  Speaker 3: absolute secrecy, and that is easier from a man that
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  Speaker 3: has no family.
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  Speaker 5: If I promise to keep a secret, Colonel Stuck, you
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  Speaker 5: may depend on my doing so.
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  Speaker 2: You promise, then I promise.
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  Speaker 3: Now we can get down to business one moment, please, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: it is as it should be. These clerks, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes they are so interested in the affairs of the master.
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  Speaker 3: Bring your chair close to mine very well. Yeah, now
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  Speaker 3: we can talk.
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  Speaker 5: With But if you don't mind, Colonel, my time is valuable.
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  Speaker 3: So to whom then I know how much work you
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  Speaker 3: have done lately, my young friend. You do not fool me.
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  Speaker 3: How does fifty guineas for a night's work strike you.
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  Speaker 5: That's very generous, Colonel Start.
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  Speaker 3: I have said a night's work, an hour's work will
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  Speaker 3: be more correct. Your opinion is already asked. I have
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  Speaker 3: a hydraulic press. It is in bad order. You show
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  Speaker 3: us what is wrong, we fix it ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: You will do that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, of course good. You will come tonight by the
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  Speaker 2: last train where to.
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  Speaker 1: Air four That is in Berkshire.
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  Speaker 3: Your train arrives at eleven fifteen. A carriage will come
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  Speaker 3: to meet you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh your place is out in the country.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a good seven miles from the station. There's no
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  Speaker 3: train back. You will spend the night.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, But couldn't I come at a more convenient hour
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  Speaker 5: tomorrow in the daytime?
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  Speaker 3: Impossible. It is for your inconvenience that we pay the
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  Speaker 3: fifty guineas, and for the secrecy, of course.
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  Speaker 5: But perhaps if you could explain the reason for all
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  Speaker 5: this service.
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  Speaker 3: Caution, very well, I explain you know? Do you not
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  Speaker 3: that Fuller's Earth is a very valuable product and is
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  Speaker 3: to be found only in two places in England?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I believe I have heard something of that effect
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  Speaker 5: some time ago.
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  Speaker 3: I have bought a place, so very small place. You
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  Speaker 3: understand well one day, I am so fortunate I discover
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  Speaker 3: a small deposit, a fuller's earth in my backyard.
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  Speaker 5: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: I investigate. I find it is a link between two
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  Speaker 3: so much larger deposits. But in the property which belongs
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  Speaker 3: to my neighbors. These people, they do not know the value.
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  Speaker 1: Of their land.
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  Speaker 5: So you bought it up?
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  Speaker 3: No, mister Hathley, I am not a rich man. I
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  Speaker 3: have not the money. So I speak to some of
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  Speaker 3: my friends and we work our little deposit in secret
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  Speaker 3: so we can earn the money to buy the land
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  Speaker 3: near us.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but I don't understand what use you can make
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  Speaker 5: of a hydraulic press and excavating full of earth.
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  Speaker 3: We come press the earth into bricks so we can
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  Speaker 3: remove them without showing what they are. That is a detail,
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  Speaker 3: a mere detail. So I have taken you into my confidence.
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  Speaker 3: I expect you tonight, mister Happening.
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  Speaker 4: I shall be there.
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  Speaker 3: Colonel start Lood, not a word to a soul. It
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  Speaker 3: is best you do not even tell anyone that you
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  Speaker 3: are going away.
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  Speaker 5: Very well, if you wish it.
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  Speaker 3: I not only wish, I insist. Here's twenty guineas in advance.
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  Speaker 3: Were a reader saying, mister happily.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds fishy to me. It, Holmes, fifty guineas is a
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  Speaker 2: suspiciously large fee for a small job like that.
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  Speaker 1: Quite Watson, quite hydraulic presses. Eh, did this initiated German
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  Speaker 1: colonel have a scar on his forehead?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, now you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 4: I believe it there, I.
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  Speaker 1: Thought, so, then you know who he is home. I
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  Speaker 1: can guess. I can guess. But go on with your story,
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  Speaker 1: mister Happily. He reached afoot at eleven fifteen.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, mister Holmes. As I passed through the station gate,
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  Speaker 5: I found Colonel Stark waiting for me.
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  Speaker 4: Without a word. He hurried me into a carriage, and
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  Speaker 4: he was waiting for us.
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  Speaker 5: Both we got in, he drew up the windows on
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  Speaker 5: both sides, tapped on the glass, and away we were
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  Speaker 5: as fast as.
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  Speaker 1: The horse could go, one horse or two only one,
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  Speaker 1: mister Holmes. Did you observe the color?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I saw it by the carriage lamps as I
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  Speaker 5: was getting It was a chestnut, tired looking or fresh fresh, fresh,
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  Speaker 5: and glossy.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 5: We drove for the better part of an hour, and
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  Speaker 5: from the rate at which we were going, I should
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  Speaker 5: say the distance we covered was nearly twelve and seven miles.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting. What did the country side look like?
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  Speaker 5: It was a dark night, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: I saw nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Moreover, the carriage windows were made of a frosted glass.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds funny to me, Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: The roads were they smooth or pumpy?
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  Speaker 5: Decidedly bumpy, mister Holmes. We lurched and jolted terribly. Moreover,
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  Speaker 5: we seemed to be going continually up and down hill. Well,
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  Speaker 5: finally the bumpy road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness
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  Speaker 5: of a gravel dry The carriage came to it to
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  Speaker 5: stand still, and I got out.
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  Speaker 1: Can you describe the front of the house.
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  Speaker 5: I'm afraid I can't, mister Holmes. I was whisked into
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  Speaker 5: the front door so fast I could see nothing. The
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  Speaker 5: instant I crossed the threshold, the doors slammed behind us,
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  Speaker 5: and I heard the rattle of the wheels as the
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  Speaker 5: carriage drove away.
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  Speaker 3: Mina, Mina, yeah, bring a lamp. Ah, that is better.
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  Speaker 3: It is not nice to keep our guests standing in
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  Speaker 3: the dark, Garis, take the lamp into my study. Now,
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  Speaker 3: mister Hatteley, if you will be so good, come with me. Mena,
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  Speaker 3: you can go now, My sister. Mister Hattney a good girl.
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  Speaker 3: She does much she is told. And now you will
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  Speaker 3: excuse me a few minutes. Beleause I come right back.
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  Speaker 3: Make yourself comfortable.
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  Speaker 5: M gloomy looking hole smells musty, as though it hadn't
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  Speaker 5: been living for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: All the windows shuttered and burned.
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  Speaker 3: Confound that clock which she wouldn't tick like that give
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  Speaker 3: him the jumps.
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  Speaker 5: It is only me, geez, do not call out. I
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  Speaker 5: must tell you something. Please don't look so fright.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, it is not all right.
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  Speaker 2: You must go. You must not stay here.
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  Speaker 5: There is no good.
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  Speaker 2: For you to do.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but I came to inspect the machine. I can't
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  Speaker 5: leave before.
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  Speaker 1: No, you must.
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  Speaker 5: You can do no good the last man who came here?
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  Speaker 5: What is too terrible?
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  Speaker 2: Inn Where are you?
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  Speaker 1: Goodness villain?
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  Speaker 5: Before it is too date this passage door, Mina, who
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  Speaker 5: are you talking? You run so you let him go? Jeez,
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  Speaker 5: you will not hurt him.
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  Speaker 4: I won't hurt him.
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  Speaker 3: Wait till I get hold of him.
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  Speaker 5: Wait he's coming. Run run.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 5: I got a glimpse in coming after me with a
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  Speaker 5: cleverer and I ran ran for dear life, but he
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  Speaker 5: ran to I just managed to scale a garden wall
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  Speaker 5: before he got to it. Even so, I wasn't quite
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  Speaker 5: quick enough that Clever came down on my left before
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  Speaker 5: I could get away. I called over to some bushes
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  Speaker 5: as best I could, and then promptly fainted.
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  Speaker 2: But he didn't come out to you and finish the job.
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  Speaker 5: They hold the bushes hit me, I guess. But someone
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  Speaker 5: must have found me sooner or later. It must have
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  Speaker 5: been the girl, or perhaps she bribed the coachman to
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  Speaker 5: help me.
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  Speaker 1: What ticks you say that?
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  Speaker 5: Well, when I came to the sun was just rising.
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  Speaker 5: I was lying in an angle of a hedge along
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  Speaker 5: the high road. It just a little lower down was
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  Speaker 5: a long building, the Earth Station.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 5: Half days I went to the station. The early morning
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  Speaker 5: train was just pulling in.
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  Speaker 2: I board.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't return to London. What I can't understand is
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  Speaker 5: why I should have been lured to that lonely spot,
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  Speaker 5: and what reason Colonel Stark can have had for making
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  Speaker 5: his murderous attack on me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, interesting little problem. We shall have to look into it.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I have a newspaper clipping I think
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  Speaker 1: might interest you, and Watson hand me last year's index
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: acted with manna. Here you are you see January the
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  Speaker 1: Limehouse Plague, Lady Waterfield's Pearls February March. Ah, Yes, here
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  Speaker 1: we are read this.
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  Speaker 5: Last and the ninth of May. Mister Jerrymyer Haling, aged
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  Speaker 5: twenty sixth hydraulic engineer. I say that's a coincidence. Left
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  Speaker 5: lodgings at ten o'clock at night has not been heard
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  Speaker 5: of since was dressed in great to eat soft black boots.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I suspect that represents the last time the
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  Speaker 1: colonel's machinery needed overhauling.
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  Speaker 5: And that explains what the girl was trying to tell me.
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  Speaker 1: Undoubtedly, your colonel is a cool and desperate man. Mister Heavenly,
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  Speaker 1: he lets nothing stand in the way of his little game,
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  Speaker 1: and like some of our early pirates, he believes in
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  Speaker 1: leaving no survivors behind from a captured ship.
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  Speaker 5: Good Heavens, I have had a narrow escape.
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  Speaker 1: Quite he'd have killed you sooner or later in any
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Homes, sir, what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 1: I think I shall run down and have a look
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  Speaker 1: at that machinery for myself.
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  Speaker 2: Homes, that's just putting your head into the lion's mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I only hope the lion hasn't run away.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at least let me go along.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can come as far as Irford Station if
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  Speaker 1: you like. I may need reinforcements, and I'm coming too.
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  Speaker 5: But your wound is a labishaquil one hundred percent. It proved.
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  Speaker 5: After all, this is my problem and my curate posity.
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  Speaker 5: If nothing else, won't let me take a passive part
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  Speaker 5: in its solution.
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  Speaker 1: Very well, come along, both of you. We've barely time
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  Speaker 1: to catch the ten forty five train.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here we are homes Erford Station.
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  Speaker 1: Now what First of all, we must find Colonel Stark's house.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned the name to the station agent in passing
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  Speaker 2: sid He never heard of it before.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's an assumed name, of course, the gentleman in
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  Speaker 1: question is famous for his adiases.
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  Speaker 2: We then, how we to find the house.
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  Speaker 1: I'd brought an ordnance map of the surrounding country.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, I drove ten miles at the most twelve
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  Speaker 5: in that carriage. All we have to do is draw
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  Speaker 5: circle with the radius of twelve miles, and this station
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  Speaker 5: is its center. Then visit all the places within that limit.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, rather a tiresome job, I think, I can lay
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: my finger on it without all that podder.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Oh you've formed your opinion. I bet I urge in
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: the south it comes is more deserted there.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: No, I'd say east.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: I seem to remember driving.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: He's wrung again.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: It was west.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: There are several quiet little villages over there.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't west, and I am to the north.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: That the hills there, Mister Havin has said he drove
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: up and down hills when you.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Have completely boxed the compass between you. You're both wrong.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: That's impossible at all. This is my choice. It's here
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: we shall find the house in the center of the circle,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: the starting point itself.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: For about the twelve mile drive.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Six miles out and six miles back.
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: Then that drive was just a hoax.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: And there, if I'm not mistaken, is the house almost
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: across the road.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: You're right, mister Holmes, I'm sure you are. What that's
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: the very same war I vaulted last night, and there
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: further down the road of the bushes, I hid it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I thought, so well, I'll go over and have a
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: chat with our friend Colonel Stark. Mister Hatherry, you and
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Watson stay here. Why can't give me go with your impossible,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: My dear Watson, I don't want to frighten Colonel stark
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Off before I have a look at that machine of his.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, but you're not a hydraulic engineer, mister Holmes, you
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: wouldn't understand it. He'll suspect you immediately.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I have a fairly good knowledge of hydraulics. I think
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you'll see me through. However, if i'm not back inside
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: of fifteen minutes, you may come and get me. I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: may need assistance.
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: Most men are loyal customers of the friendly local store
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: in their community, the store they can trust. Therefore, it's
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: doubly pleasing that this fine independent store, the leading establishments
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: in town, sells Clippercraft clothes. It's nice to get all
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: the advantages of group buying at the store of your choice,
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: and it's mighty easy on your pocket book too. The
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: clipper Craft Plan concentrates the buying power of ten hundred
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: thirty six stores from coast to coast, bringing you beautifully
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: tailored clipper Craft suits at only forty and forty five dollars,
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: top coats and overcoats at only forty dollars, and sport
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: jackets at only twenty six fifty Yes. Selling expensive clothes
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: at inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest independent stores
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: is the great, big idea behind the Clippercraft plan. That's
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes. So
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: add their names to clipper Craft and your Suit, top
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: coat and Overcoat. In Manhattan, Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: thirty fourth, John Wallamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: sixty seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Cresgy, Newark.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: And in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop one
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: sixty four oh eight Jamaica Avenue.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: And now back to Sherlock Holds. We find him at
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: the door of the mysterious Colonel.
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: Stark, finding judents because he's made his get away.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Who are you?
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: What do you want?
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: How do you do? Colonel Stark? I presume I've come
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: to repair your hydraulic press.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: You you, how dare you?
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: When you see a friend of mine? Mister Heavenn told
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: me of his experience here last night. I said, I
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: thought he was a fool to run away like that.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: That you must have mistaken him for someone else last
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: night when you chased him in the dark.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir, that is so a suitor of
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: my sister, good for nothing, scoundrel. It was all a mistake,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: just as I suspected.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: And when mister heaven said he wouldn't come back, and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: when I learned what a fine fee you promised him,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I thought, why not come and have a look for myself?
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Of course, why not?
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: You too are a hydraulic engineer.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Naturally very well.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: You may come in.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Ah, trunks and boxes in the front hall. You're about
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: to leave this neighborhood.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, the English climate, it is bad for my
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: sister's health. We go to the south of France. I
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: wonder if I might see your sister. So sorry, she
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: is in her room. She is not well.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, just for a moment, Heavenly seemed to be worried
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: about her, said he thought you might have mistreated her
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: last night after he got away. Ridiculous, of course, But
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: if I could just see her, I could reassure him.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Here seemed to want to call him the police.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: The foolish young man. But come, I let you see her.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: This way. She shall tell you herself that she.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Is all right.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: That's very good of you. I'm sure I wouldn't dream
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of prepping you myself. But you see, young Heavely, is.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: This is her rule? Manna Mana, Yes, see, Mina, I
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: bring a gentleman who is anxious to know if you
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: are all right. Tell him how you feel an I, well.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you, I'm delighted to hear it. You see, my friend,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: mister Heavenly was worried about you.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Heave the young gentleman I mistook for someone else last night.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Are you see he's all right?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Why? Yes, of course, I'm so glad. Hold on a minute, Okay,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: those bruises on your neck and arms? Has anyone been
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: treating you badly?
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: That was from falling downstairs? You know?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I see. Well, Colonel Stark, suppose we take a look
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: at your highgarlic press.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Certainly, of course, this way, please.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Up, goodbye, Falling Stark. I hope you will enjoy the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: south of France. Yes, lovely climate. Well, goodbye.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: This way.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: The press is on this floor.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Here we are hmm, gigantic affair, colonel.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is capable of exerting enormous pressure. Besides, are
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: all of iron.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, very impressive.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I pulled the lever so the water flows into the cylinders,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: you hear, But there's a leakage somewhere.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, loss of power. Yes, that third driving rod, the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: rubber banding around the top seems to have shrunk. It
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't quite fill the socket.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Of course, how stupid I may not to notice for myself.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, it would have saved you a lot of trouble,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: wouldn't it. You can stop the machine now, let's have
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: a look at the inside. Very well if you wish,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: you can't enter here.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Hm.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Very impressive, like a prison. Hello, what's this on the floor?
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Metallic deposit? Wasn't it full as earth? You're supposed to
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: be mining?
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, I thought you might see that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Good Bye, mister slocks.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: With thunder. He's locked me in. Start at the machine.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: The ceiling's coming down on me. Well, shallock, holones, you
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: let yourself into something this time closer, closer. You wouldn't
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: think of the move so fast in a few minutes.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It'll grind me to a helpless pump. Better not think
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: about it. I can reach it. Now down down, Naga,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: trying to push it back, you'll find it. I can't
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: stand up any longer. Well, then sit down? Shall luck lower? Lower?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: If I lie on my face, the weight will crack
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: my spine. No, the other way will be less painful. Please,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: mister Minna, where did you come from?
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Near the floor? A panel? It's open?
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Job another a hurry, Do not talk so much.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: You can get out.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: The opening is pretty small.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I can just squeeze through there. Good, Thank you, sa
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: pretty close.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Shave hear that the pressor has just hit the floor
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: another minute in there might have been grounded to a pulpe.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: So Minna was the good Angel a second time?
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, the great girl that minner Heavenly took quite a
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: fancy to her. In fact, she eventually became missus Henviley, oh,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and her brother oh heavenly. And now I caught him
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: on his way out as he was making his getaway.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: He's still in prisoned, serving a life sentence for attempted
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: murder and counterfeiting.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: What a ghastly story, doctor, So that was what the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: hydraulic press was used for.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Counterfeiting. Yes, of course Holmes suspected it from the first naturally.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: And now, Doctor Watson, would you like to give us
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: a hint about next week's adventure.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Next week, I think I shall explain why the ancient
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: statue of Charles the First, which stands in Chatting Cross,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: holds a modern sword. I may even tell you how
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the original sword flitted the life of one of the
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: premier Dukes
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Of England, and visit