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69-07-03 Sherlock Holmes The Red Circle · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: We present the fourth play in our series based on
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  Speaker 2: the short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatized by
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  Speaker 2: Michael Hardwick, with Carlton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman
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  Speaker 2: Shelley as Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Watson.
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  Speaker 1: And now, here is Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Watson to introduce the case of The Red Circle.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. Well, my friend, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Sherlock Holmes, was always accessible upon the side of kindliness.
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  Speaker 3: He was also accessible through flattery, so that when our visitor, Mrs. Warren,
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  Speaker 3: with the pertinacity and cunning of her sex, made use
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  Speaker 3: of both these sources, persuading to listen to her seemingly
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  Speaker 3: unremarkable case, he laid down the great scrapbook which he'd
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  Speaker 3: been indexing and arranging, and.
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  Speaker 5: Gave her his attention.
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  Speaker 6: I don't remember my friend, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Fairdale Hobbs, saying how.
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  Speaker 5: You brought light into people's darkness.
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  Speaker 6: He was never speaking of it, never. And now, now
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  Speaker 6: that I'm in darkness myself, I'm due that I must
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  Speaker 6: come to.
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  Speaker 1: You, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: Very well, Mrs. Warren. Now, you say that a youngish
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  Speaker 1: man who wouldn't give his name came ten days ago
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  Speaker 1: in answer to your advertisement of apartments to let.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 6: There's a small sitting room and bedroom, and all complete,
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  Speaker 6: at the top of the house.
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  Speaker 3: I showed him over, and he seemed very pleased indeed.
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  Speaker 5: Perfect, madame.
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  Speaker 4: Perfect for me.
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  Speaker 5: There's not very much furniture, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: But you see, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Warren earns very little.
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  Speaker 5: It's no matter at all. Now, I pay you five
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  Speaker 5: pounds per week.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, sir.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be two weeks.
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  Speaker 5: I'll have to see to it. And I offer five pounds.
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  Speaker 5: Here is a ten pound note for two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Only.
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  Speaker 5: I make all business.
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: What is that? I have a key of the house. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: you have that.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, sir.
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  Speaker 5: And you never enter my room.
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  Speaker 4: But what about the cream?
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 5: I am to be left entirely to myself. And on
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  Speaker 5: no excuse, on no excuse, madame.
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  Speaker 1: Am I being deterred.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if that must be so, sir.
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  Speaker 1: That is what I say for. Uh, Miss Barry, is
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  Speaker 1: it working? Of course.
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  Speaker 5: You might just hear it in the distance. Ah, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Then I ring when I'm ready for my meeting. And
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  Speaker 5: you bring to the landing outside and leave for me.
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  Speaker 5: You understand?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I'll leave it on the chair out there.
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  Speaker 5: When I ring again, you may take away. And for
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  Speaker 5: anything I wish, I place a note on the chair.
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  Speaker 8: I should thank you.
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  Speaker 5: But will you show me? I am sure, madame, that
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  Speaker 5: if you are not keeping my terms in any way,
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  Speaker 5: then I am leaving your house at once and there
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  Speaker 5: will be no more ten pound note for you.
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  Speaker 1: Is it perfect, Christina?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: You'll have nothing to complain of.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 9: Extraordinary request.
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  Speaker 1: Is it, my dear Watson? Excentric, perhaps, to our way
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  Speaker 1: of thinking. But a lodger is entitled to prejudice, if
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  Speaker 1: he wishes it. And if he's prepared to pay handsomely. Eh, Mrs. Warren?
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  Speaker 4: That's just what my old man, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Warren, said when I told him. Warren, I don't quite
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  Speaker 5: see why you find.
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  Speaker 3: Sir, it's got beyond all reason.
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  Speaker 5: For ten days now he's been up there in those rooms,
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  Speaker 5: and I've never once set eyes on him. No visitors,
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  Speaker 5: no letters, nothing. All we hear is him.
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  Speaker 6: Pacing up and down, up and down, and all we
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  Speaker 6: hear is his notes. I brought someone along to show you, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes. Oh, thank you. Hmm. All printed with a broad-pointed,
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  Speaker 1: violet-tinted pencil. They were not unusual patterns. Soap. Damager's vest.
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  Speaker 6: That was the one he left on the first day, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I read that newspaper with his breakfast tray every morning.
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  Speaker 4: Printed?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, couldn't he be trying to disguise his hand writing? No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Why should he care about his landlady seeing his writing?
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  Speaker 1: All the same, it opens a pleasing field for intelligent speculation. Now, Mrs. Warren,
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  Speaker 1: you're quite certain that he's never left the room?
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  Speaker 6: You can take it from me, he's never been out
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  Speaker 6: farther once.
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  Speaker 5: Once?
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  Speaker 1: When was that?
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  Speaker 6: The first night it was there. I heard him come
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  Speaker 6: up the stairs again long after we were abed.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, about midnight, I should say.
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  Speaker 1: I see.
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  Speaker 5: Mr. Holmes, what are you going to do about it?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, Your Presence. Nothing? You have no excuse for intruding
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  Speaker 1: upon the man's privacy. After all, Mrs. Warren, you have
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  Speaker 1: nothing to complain about.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm dead tired.
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  Speaker 3: You've received your rent.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a troublesome lodger, though certainly an unusual one.
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  Speaker 5: But I.
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  Speaker 1: I've taken the matter up, and I won't lose sight
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  Speaker 1: of it. Watson, the door for Mrs. Warren, please. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get your lolly, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, well, very good, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes. I report to me if anything fresh occurs. Good day.
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  Speaker 8: Good day, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Good day, doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Good day, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: The, uh.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing that strikes one, Watson... Near him? Is, uh...
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  Speaker 1: there's the obvious possibility that the person now in the
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  Speaker 1: room may be entirely different from the one who engaged them.
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  Speaker 5: On the other hand, we have evidence of a.
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  Speaker 1: Man who went out on that first night to return third,
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  Speaker 1: but unseen.
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  Speaker 9: Why don't he white shouldn't have been the same fellow?
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  Speaker 1: A fellow who, according to Mrs. Warren, speaks English very well,
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  Speaker 1: yet leaves a note reading, when it was clear what
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  Speaker 1: he required was nothing.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 1: I can imagine someone finding the word in a dictionary
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  Speaker 1: which would give the nouns, but not the plural. The
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  Speaker 1: laconic style of the notes in general may be to
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  Speaker 1: conceal the absence of knowledge of English.
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  Speaker 4: A substitution of logic, eh?
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  Speaker 3: But for what possible end, Holmes?
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  Speaker 1: Ah, there lies our problem. There is one rather obvious
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  Speaker 1: line of investigation, though.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Stop, be a good fellow, and hand me that scrapbook
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  Speaker 1: our client's arrival forced me to put aside.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Holmes. Oh, isn't that your agony column book?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the agony column of every London journal is filed
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  Speaker 1: in here. Oh, dear me, dear me. What a chorus
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  Speaker 1: of groans, cries, and bleating.
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  Speaker 4: That's part of the paper, I would think.
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  Speaker 1: And surely the most valuable hunting ground that ever was
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  Speaker 1: given to a student of the unusual. Here are the
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  Speaker 1: daily Gazette extracts of the last fortnight, for instance. Will
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  Speaker 1: the lady with a black bar at Princess Skating Club... Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's in their path, I don't see. Surely Jimmy will
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  Speaker 1: not break his mother's heart. If the lady who fainted
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  Speaker 1: in the Brixton bus... No, I think not. Ah. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a little more possible. Be patient. We'll find
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  Speaker 1: some sure means of communication... Meanwhile, this column, Gene, that
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  Speaker 1: was published two days after Mrs. Warren's lodger arrived. Sounds plausible,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Holmes, I really don't follow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, surely it's occurred to you, Watson, that here we
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  Speaker 1: have a man living quite alone in conditions which suggest
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  Speaker 1: a desire for absolute secrecy. He receives neither letters nor visitors.
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  Speaker 1: Yet may we not assume that eventually some news or
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  Speaker 1: message is to reach him from outside?
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  Speaker 4: The very exact he has delivered every morning.
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  Speaker 1: The first one?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And here we read in the agony column again, three
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  Speaker 1: days later, making successful arrangements, patient and prudent, the clouds
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  Speaker 1: will pass. Gee.
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  Speaker 9: I hope you may have found something. Did Gee have
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  Speaker 9: anything to say in yesterday's paper?
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this. If I find chance to signal, remember 1A, 2B,
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  Speaker 1: and so on. You will hear soon.
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  Speaker 2: Gee.
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  Speaker 9: So, each letter of the alphabet represented by a number
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  Speaker 9: up to 36.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty simple stuff, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Unsophisticated, certainly. But we shall see. No, there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: to find here today.
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  Speaker 5: What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 4: You told Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Warren we couldn't interfere.
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  Speaker 1: Nor shall we, my dear Watson. We shall busy ourselves
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  Speaker 1: with our own affairs, await development, and above all, a
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  Speaker 1: ruse of interest, the agony column of tomorrow. Ah, what's
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  Speaker 1: it say, Watson?
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  Speaker 4: Um, here it is.
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  Speaker 5: What are we waiting for?
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  Speaker 1: High red house with white stone ceilings. Third floor, second
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  Speaker 1: window left after dusk. Now, I think that after breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: we must make a little reconnaissance of Mrs. Warren's neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: It may tell us much... Ah, Mrs. Warren. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: beg your pardon, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I've been in past your housekeeper, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 5: But it's a police matter, darling.
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  Speaker 1: Now, pray sit down. Now, pray sit down. And tell
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  Speaker 1: us what news you bring. A cup of coffee, perhaps.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no, no, thank you, sir, no.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, well, I'll see you before. Now, I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 6: it's a police matter, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: I'll have no more of it.
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  Speaker 6: He shall pack his bag and go. Mark my word,
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  Speaker 6: I would have gone up straight and told him this morning.
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  Speaker 6: I thought it was fair to you to take your opinion.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm at the end of my patience, and when
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  Speaker 6: it comes to.
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  Speaker 9: Knocking my old man about, then I... You're Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Warren, are you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, using him roughly, anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Who used him roughly, Mrs.
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  Speaker 9: Warren?
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  Speaker 6: Ah, that's what we want to know. It was this
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  Speaker 6: very morning, just before seven, as he went off to
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  Speaker 6: his work. Well, he hadn't got ten pages down the
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  Speaker 6: road when two men came up behind him, threw a
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  Speaker 6: coat over his head, and bungled him into a cab
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  Speaker 6: that was beside the curb. They drove him for an
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  Speaker 6: hour or so, then opened the door, shut him out,
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  Speaker 6: and drove off. When he picked himself up, he found
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  Speaker 6: he was on a hamster knee. He took a bus home,
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  Speaker 6: and there he lies on the sofa now, while I
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  Speaker 6: came straight round to.
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  Speaker 5: Tell you what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: Most interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Did your husband observe the appearance of these things? Did
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  Speaker 1: he hear them talk?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, nothing like that.
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  Speaker 6: I tell you, he's too dazed. He just knows he
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  Speaker 6: was lifted up and dropped as if for magic.
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  Speaker 9: And what makes you connect this attack with your lodger, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Warren?
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  Speaker 5: It's the reason.
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  Speaker 6: Fifteen years we've lived there and nothing like this has
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  Speaker 6: ever happened before.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I've had enough of him.
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  Speaker 5: Money's not everything.
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  Speaker 6: I'll have him out of my house before the day's done.
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  Speaker 1: You see. No, no, wait a bit, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Warren.
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  Speaker 1: Do nothing less. I begin to think that this affair
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  Speaker 1: may be very much more important than it appeared at
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  Speaker 1: first sight.
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  Speaker 4: Important, I should say.
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  Speaker 1: It's clear now that some danger is threatening your lodger.
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  Speaker 1: It is clearly clear that his enemies, lying in wait
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  Speaker 1: for him near your door, mistook your husband for him
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  Speaker 1: in the foggy morning light. On discovering their mistake, they
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  Speaker 1: released him.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what am I to do, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Harwin?
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  Speaker 4: You know, Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Harwin, I have a great fancy to see this lodger
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  Speaker 1: of yours.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see how that could be managed and Unless
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  Speaker 6: you break his door down.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he has to take his meal tray in the home,
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  Speaker 1: and couldn't we hide somewhere and watch?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there is a box room opposite.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 9: Well, suppose we got behind the open door and Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Warren arranged a mirror to give us a view of
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  Speaker 1: the door opposite. Excellent. When does he lunch?
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  Speaker 4: About one, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Then Dr. Watson and I will come round in time.
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  Speaker 5: For the present, Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Warren, goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: Great Ormsey.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: Handle the bridge museum, eh, Holmes?
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  Speaker 1: I doubt that the Mrs. Warren... Oh, the old man
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  Speaker 1: is having fun, Mr. Reggie. Ah, this, I fancy, is
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  Speaker 1: that only seven.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 5: Well, at any rate, it.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't this house our friend Gee was referring to in
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  Speaker 1: his last message. High red house with white stone facing,
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  Speaker 1: he said.
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  Speaker 3: This one's yellow brick.
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  Speaker 1: You forget, my dear Watson, that we're assuming the message
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  Speaker 1: is to be for the benefit of the mysterious lodger
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  Speaker 1: inside this house. His correspondence would scarcely be telling him
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  Speaker 1: what his own abode looked like. You see that house
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  Speaker 1: nearly opposite? Just in house, see?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, which one?
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  Speaker 1: The high red one with white stone facings, of course.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 1: And with a select car in the second window on
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  Speaker 1: the left of the third floor. It matches, Watson.
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  Speaker 5: It matches in every particular.
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  Speaker 1: Good. Use it, sir. An intercept which G has asked us,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 4: It's nice to see you on the steps, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure I might keep you waiting, but I heard
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  Speaker 5: no ring.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. My friend and I paused a moment
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  Speaker 1: to admire those splendid residential flats across in House Street,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Ben.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, very nice, I'm sure, if you don't mind paying.
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  Speaker 4: Now, come inside, gentlemen, please. Thank you, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Come in, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: I've got it all ready for you. Now, I've placed
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  Speaker 1: a big.
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  Speaker 3: Old mirror in the box room... so he shall get
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  Speaker 3: a clear view across the passage.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Now, I won't go up with you, but you go
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  Speaker 6: straight on to the top, and the box rooms, they open.
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  Speaker 1: Door on the right. You should hear him.
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  Speaker 3: In for his meal directly. I've got it all ready
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  Speaker 3: on his car.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, ma'am.
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  Speaker 10: Now, you'll get well back into the room where the blue,
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  Speaker 10: the concealer, and, um.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, see, Watson, an excellent view into the glass.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 4: And none too soon.
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  Speaker 5: I answered that with his bell.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes, do you recognize anything about all this?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, of a.
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  Speaker 10: Criminal kind, or is it just.
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  Speaker 4: For God's sake, Holmes. I believe that's how it began.
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  Speaker 4: That the terrorist attack has been achieved. The attack upon Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Warren revealed an element of violence which built it into
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  Speaker 1: quite another sphere.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I suppose you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Listen.
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  Speaker 4: Look at me, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Warren.
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  Speaker 6: This is great.
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  Speaker 1: Your luncheon, sir.
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  Speaker 6: And comfortably in our own quarters.
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  Speaker 4: So come along, my dear fellow. But why? There you are, Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Watson. Your help.
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  Speaker 5: And yours.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't expect to find a woman, especially so beautiful
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  Speaker 1: a woman.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: You reckon she saw us? She saw or sensed something
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  Speaker 1: to alarm us. But our actions were those of a
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: person already alert to some sort of danger. Well, what
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  Speaker 1: do you make of it now, Holmes? A couple seek
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  Speaker 1: refuge from some danger. A terrible and instant danger, detached
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: from the rigor of their precautions. The man, who has
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: some work which he must do, desires to leave the
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: woman in absolute safety while he does. He engages the
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: room for himself alone, then substitutes her, so effectively that
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: even the landlady who surprised the food is unaware. The
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: printed messages I now see were to prevent the writer's
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  Speaker 1: sex being discovered from her handwriting. The man cannot come
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: near the woman, or he'll guide their enemies to her. Mr.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Holmes, what's at the root of it?
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  Speaker 1: Ah, yes, Watson. Severely practical as usual, what is at
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  Speaker 1: the root of it all? You saw that woman's face
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and the fear written in it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's true.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: The attack upon Mr. Warren shows that the enemy, whoever
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: they are, are not aware of the substitution of the
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: female lodger for the male. Had they got the man
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: they expected, who knows what might have eventuated. Well, I
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: see all that, but what's your position in it now, Holmes?
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, what have you to gain from it?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: What's in these? To repeat your own words, Watson, art
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: for art, say. There's neither money nor credit in it,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and yet one would wish to tidy it up. When
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: dusk comes, we'll return to Mrs. Warren's room.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: So what do you intend to do then?
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: To take up a vantage point in one of the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: good lady's front windows and keep our eyes on that
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: vacant flat in Housley. Remember G's latest advertisement, Watson? After dusk.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Ah, yes.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And his earlier one, outlining a simple signaling code?
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Then you'd better bring pencil and paper. Yes. For unless
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: my imagination is running away with me, I take it
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: that a message is about to be conveyed by G
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to his dark damsel by means of some form of light.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And you, my dear fellow, will oblige me by counting
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the flashes and writing them down while I translate the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: numbers into letters and, we hope, into words of significant meaning.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Twenty flashes, Holmes. Tea again.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: One.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: No, just one.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Seems to stop for the moment, doesn't it? Keep watching
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: while I puzzle this out.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: All the tedious ways to pass a message, waving a
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: candle flame to and fro.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: At ten past. I expected attention, but definitely only one
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: flash at the end. Certainly you may. Now, let me see.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: At ten. This could be it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Who started again?
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Keep counting. It's imperative to miss nothing.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: One again. Another eight.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: That's ten ta.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Ta? T-A-T-A.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: T-A.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Someone's initials. That's ten T-A.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: It could be twenty.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Twenty again, Holmes. T again, isn't it?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Of course!
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: That's T-A-T-A! Italian for the rare!
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, hello.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Well, that's odd.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: The candle seemed to go up in the air, jerked up.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: The night's gone out.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Cut short. This is serious, Watson. Believe me, there's some
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: devilry afoot. Why should such a message stop like that?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm at the beginning again.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: The window's in darkness. I should put Scotland Yard in
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: touch with this business, and yet it's too pressing for
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: us to leave. Well, shall I go? No, no, we
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: must define the situation a little more clearly first. It
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: may bear some more innocent explanation than the one I
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: have in mind. Come, Watson. Let's hurry across ourselves and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: see what.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: We can make.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Of it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Just a moment.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: I beg your pardon, sir.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Is that.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Is that Dr.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Watson?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: What?
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Ah, Inspector Craigson.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: I miss him.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Why, Craigson. Journey's end with lovers' meetings. What brings you here?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Same reason as it brings you out. There's a high river, and.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: I can't imagine.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Different threads, but leading up to the same tangle.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: They've been taking the signals.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: They rose from that third-floor window up there, Inspector.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: The unoccupied flat.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: They broke off in the middle, so we came to
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: see the reasons.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Holmes, there's only one exit.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: To these flats.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: So we had them safe inside.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Who.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Who is he?
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Ah, Scordia Rehearsal, Mr.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Holmes. Terry.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Coming, Governor.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: May I introduce you to Mr. Sherald Holmes and Dr. Watson?
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: Watson?
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Yes, to be honest, all mine, gentlemen.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: This is Mr. Levitin of Pinkerton's National State University in America.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: The hero of the Long Island Cape, mystery?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Yes. I'm pleased to meet you. And I you, Mr.
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: Holmes.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And the celebrated Dr.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Watson.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Pleasure, Mr. Levitin. So what brings you here?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I got up as Gregson's cabbie.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I'm on the trail of my life now, gentlemen. If
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I can get Gorgiano. What? Gorgiano? Of the rich? The
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: very same. We've learned all about him in America. We
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: know he's at the bottom of 50 murders, maybe a
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: lot more, yet we have nothing positive to take him on.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I tracked him over here from New York, and I've
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: been close to him for a week in London. Mr.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Gregson and I ran him to ground in this apartment
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: house tonight.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, the newspaper message is signed by G in the Seagulls.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Surely this means that this.
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: Gorgiano is the signaler, and the woman over in Mrs.
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: Warren's is some sort of accomplice.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: He's been signaling to an accomplice.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: And you said the signaler broke off short just now,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: didn't you, Doctor?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: That's right. Kong's found it. That means he suddenly spotted
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: us down here, Gregson. Even now he'll be trying to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: figure out some way of getting clear of this without
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: coming through this door.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Well, look over there. What do you suggest, Mr.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Holmes?
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Let me go up at once and see for ourselves.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: We've no warrant for his arrest. We just have to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: follow him till he makes some false move.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Just a moment.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Did you say he was signalling from an empty flat?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: That's right. There's an agent's bill in the window. It
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: is on unoccupied premises under suspicious circumstances. Who the excuse
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: we've been waiting for, Levitin? Come on, gentlemen.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: This is the door. Stand by, gentlemen. If he starts shooting,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: there's no sense in more than one of us getting
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: in the way.
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: Oh, there you go, Levitin. London dangers are the privilege
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: of the London force. Just step aside and hold this lantern,
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: will you, please?
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, Gordiano. In the name of the Lord.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Good Lord.
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: Bring the lantern, quick.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Here you are.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Holy mackerel. It's Gordiano, all right, but I guess someone
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: else got here ahead of us.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Let me see, please. Great heavens.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: A knife headed up to the hips in his face.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: No question of it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: He's dead.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: What are you doing, Mr.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Holmes?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I found the candle that was being used for signaling.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I know the code, and I'm resuming the signals.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Where he left off.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Though in rather a different vein.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Which I fancy may be helpful. By the way, Gregson,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I believe you said three people came out of the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: building while you were keeping watch. That's right.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Should you say one of them was a youngish man.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Perhaps a foreigner in very well dress. You're right there, Mr. Holmes.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I picked him for an Italian without a doubt. You
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: don't say we've missed someone, an accomplice. Quite the country,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I believe. But I think he is the man you
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: seek now.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: There.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: That's enough signaling.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: What do you want it for? This murder?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Precisely.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll catch on to ever finding one young foreigner
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: in the whole of London.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: That's why I've summoned you to me. What's that? Patience
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: for a few minutes, Gregson, and all will be made
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: plain to you.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: I do not know to thank you, but... But when tomorrow?
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: If you want me to come here?
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I signaled, madam.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: But how could you?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I knew you were a stripper, and your presence here
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: was desirable. I knew that I had only to press
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the early with the candle flame... And you would respond
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to your G. However, this death is not our doing.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: But Gennaro!
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: Where is my husband, Gennaro Luca?
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, I see now.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: My Gennaro's done this thing. My splendid, beautiful Gennaro has
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: killed the monster.
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: And we are free.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: Oh, Gennaro, me or what woman could be worth such
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: a man?
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: That's all we want, Mrs.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Luca, but.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Murder is murder, and I'm afraid I'll have to.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Now, one moment, thank you. This lady may be as
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: anxious to give us information as we are to get it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Now that Gordiano is dead, we fear.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: Nothing, Signore.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I tell you, my name is Emilia Lucas.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: I come from Portilipo, near Napoli. My denaro was in
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: my father's employment.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Emilia.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: But he was poor, and my father forbid us to marry.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: So we're on our.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: Way to New York.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: How old is the girl? Four years.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: My husband obtained employment and with the rent. Then one
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: night my Gennaro bring home another man.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: This Gorgiano.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Everything about him is like a monster.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: His body, his talk, his.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: Temper, his.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: What you say?
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: His passion.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: Again and again after that he comes to our home.
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: I say that my poor Gennaro does not wish it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: But still he comes.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Why don't you stop him then?
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: One night my Gennaro tells me why.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: In his younger days.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: When he wished to protest against the injustices of life,
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: he has joined an apolitical society.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: The Red Circle.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: We know it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: They have many secrets.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: And they swear terrible oaths.
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: When we go to America, my Gennaro thinks he has
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: to suffer that forever.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: But the monster Gorgiano has already made.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Advance of the society in New York. He compels my
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: Gennaro to join.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: With threats to his life that he wouldn't, I guess. Si, si,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: but we've our nurses to come.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: The monster comes one night to our home when Gennaro
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: is out.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: He demands from me the... the love.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: I refuse.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: He fears me.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: He plans to go away with him.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I refuse.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: We struggle.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Then my Gennaro comes in.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: He knocks the monster down.
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: Good for you.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I understand it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: But we know we are no longer safe in New York.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: In all America.
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: When Gorgiano recovers, he will hunt my Gennaro to kill him.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: While he's still unconscious, we leave home.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: We punish him. We come to London.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: We are safe.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: Then one day, my Gennaro noticed two Italians following him.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: And another day he sees the monster.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Himself in the street.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: He will not stand.
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: There for sure.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: My denaro puts me to live in the room he
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: has taken.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: So that the men who are.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Following will think he stays there all the time. And
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: they will not come out.
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: While I hide, he will find evidence against the monster
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: to take to the police.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Only since Gorgiano has asked him to.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: And follow him here.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Where would you put him, Gorgiano?
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: But my great Gennaro was ready, and that killed him.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: Gentlemen, I ask you, who would condemn my Gennaro for
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: what he has done?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Well, Mr. Gregson, I don't know what your British point
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of view may be, but I guess that in New York,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: this lady's husband will be getting a pretty general vote
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: of thanks.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Maybe, Mr. Everton, maybe, but she'll have to come with
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: me to the yard and see the chief.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Don't worry, madam.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: People you say is corroborated. Oh, I don't reckon you'll
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: have much to fear. Oh, your husband. Let me find him.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, gracias, signore.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Mimmi, mimmi, gracias.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: That's right. What I can't make, Harold Taylor, Mr. Holmes,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: is how the blazes you got mixed up in the matter. Education, Gregson.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Education. Still you're seeking knowledge of the old university. Eh?
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: How's that?
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Well, Watson.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, Holmes?
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: You have one more specimen of the tragic and grotesque
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to add to your collection.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: I have indeed, Holmes.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Holmes. Oh, by the way, it's not yet eight o'clock,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and a farther night at Cotton Garden. If we hurry,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: we might be in time for the second act.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Well, good night, gentlemen.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: All right, Holmes. I'm coming.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: The Red Fertile, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was adapted
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: for radio by Michael Hardwick. The part of Sherlock Holmes
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: was played by Carlton Hubbs and Dr.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Watson by Norman Shelley. Mrs.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Warren, Grace Allardyce. Gennaro, Robert Rearty. Inspector Gregson, Humphrey Morton. Leverton,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Robert Howey. Emilia, Gigi Gatti. The production was by Graham Gorse.
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