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Speaker 1: They you are, mister Bartel, it ain't mean doctor.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, don't get at you. You look much
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too comfortable.
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Speaker 3: Take off your overcoat and come and join me. Well.
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Speaker 2: I enjoyed your story of a scandal in Bohemia last week, doctor,
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and tonight you promised.
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Speaker 3: Us a sequel. Yes, that's right, mister Boutell. A sequel
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took place over twenty years afterwards, in nineteen hundred and nine,
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to be exact, Sherlock Holmes was living on his Sussex
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b farm. It was only in June I remember that
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I received a telegram from the great Man asking me
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to come and spend a long weekend with him.
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you needed no urging to accept the invitation.
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Speaker 3: Non, mister Bartel, none at all. I haven't seen Holmes
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for some time, and this fact, combined with my rather
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indifferent health, found me on the Eastbourne train a few
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hours after receiving the telegram. A dog cart was at
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the station to meet me, and after a brisk drive
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across the Downs, I found myself once more with my
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good friend.
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Speaker 1: He looked somewhat older than when I'd last.
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Speaker 3: Seen him, but as he spoke to me, I realized
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from the keenness of his voice and the sparkle in
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his eye that Sherlock Holmes would never really be old.
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After a while, our conversation lapsed into the comfortable silence
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that because he could chap on me, exist only between friends.
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And then, as the sun was setting, Holmes picked up
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his beloved violin and began to play some haunting melody.
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As he lay back, eyes half closed, his long, thin
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fingers caressing the instrument, a wave of nostelia swept over me.
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I thought of the many years that we had spent
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together and the exciting adventures that we had shared during
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the old days in Baker Street. Beautiful, quite beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Watson. You look uncommonly wistfully at chair. You're
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thinking of the old days.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Holmes, I was, so was I Well.
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Speaker 1: Those were exciting times. But it's comforting to think that
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now we will not be disturbed by a dangling doorbell
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followed by some poor devil in trouble. Nowadays, my greatest
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excitements are connected with the segregation of the Queen Bee
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and the nighttime proclivities of Charles Augustus, my Tomcat.
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Speaker 3: I still find it hard to think of you in retirement, Homes.
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Do you ever consider returning to active practice or.
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Speaker 1: I consider it occasionally, then reject the idea, and we
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should work only up to the peak of visibility.
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Speaker 3: I'm plast mine nonsense, Homes, just alert as over.
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Speaker 1: You were mentally perhaps but not physically.
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Speaker 3: Would we do consider handling a small problem in in England.
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Speaker 1: With its personal problem that affects you, My dear Chap,
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you know are do anything I can.
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Speaker 3: It's not exactly my problem, Homes, but it was a
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charming young girl on the train.
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Speaker 1: We got into conversation, and you don't age in a
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real jab. You're just as susceptible as ever.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, Homes, let me finish. She said
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that you knew her mother quite well.
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Speaker 1: Her mother Allen, Oh, yes, divas, what is it?
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry to disturb you, mister Holmes. Your man said
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I might come in. My master, mister Lytton Stanley instructed
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me to deliver the snow.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: He also instructed me to wait for a reply.
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Speaker 1: What confounded impudence? Said Master that there's no answer to
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this letter.
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Speaker 3: But he told me I must get a reply.
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Speaker 1: If you don't, mister Litton Stanley, that I will instruct
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my solicitor to reply to his message in due course. Sir,
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that's all diverse. You may go pretty.
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Speaker 3: Good, sir. What did the note say? Holmes?
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Speaker 1: Read it for yourself.
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Speaker 3: Keep yourselfy bees where they belong. One of my guests
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is stung yesterday. If this happens again, I'll have the
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police run you out of his place. Lord, offensive letter.
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Speaker 1: The man himself is even more offensive. Is a retard
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manufacturer who thinks that his immense wealth entitles him to
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domineer over the local residence. Oh but let not spoil
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a nice sunny afternoon by discussing him. Please continue with
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the story of the young lady that you met on
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the train.
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Speaker 3: Yes, i'd like to poor little thing seems in dreadful trouble.
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I who she would help her?
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Speaker 1: You say that she told you were her mother knew me. Yes,
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what's her name?
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Speaker 3: Norton? I really Norton Norton.
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Speaker 1: I don't seem to recall it. Oh, but of course
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when is the girl Watson?
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Speaker 3: She's staying at the Red Lane in the village.
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Speaker 1: Then ring her on the telephone and ask her to
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come over here as fast as she can.
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Speaker 3: Of course I'll help her I'm relied at homes. But
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what made you change your mind so suddenly?
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Speaker 1: Your memory is so short that you can't remember Irene Adler.
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Surely you haven't forgotten in the case you called a
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scandal in Bohemia, I was completely fool by juliuses Is.
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Speaker 3: Of course you always referred to as the woman. But
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how does irenely not fit into the picture?
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Speaker 1: Irene Adler married a barrister named Jeffrey. Tell this nothing
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to come at Westpotson. She is the daughter of the woman.
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Speaker 5: Mister Holmes. I've heard so much about you from mother.
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She says you're the cleverest man in England.
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Speaker 1: Your mother flattest man, my dear child, she herself was
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much more clever than I. In fact, yes, did she
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ever tell you about the circumstances under which we met,
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mister Holmes?
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Speaker 5: Though she did tell me that you were a witness
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when she and my father were married.
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Speaker 1: The very true, my dear, very true. Though the occasion
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was a little well, will we say unusual? Okare this, sir,
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Golden Sovereign? I wear on my watch chain as a
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mentor of that day. I also have a charming photograph
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of your mother.
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Speaker 5: You must have known her quite well about telling mister
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Holmes about your troubles manner.
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Speaker 1: Yes, reminiscences are charming that they can wait until we've
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dealt with your problems.
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Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, I'm being blackmailed. Oh I'm sorry to hear
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it by whom by a neighbor of yours, mister Lytton Stanley.
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Speaker 3: Do you know him?
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, indeed I do.
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Speaker 3: Matter of fact, mister Helms received the most offensive note
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from the gentleman less than an hour ago.
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Speaker 1: What hold does mister Stanley have over you, my dear?
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Speaker 5: He has some letters, some rather indiscreet letters of mine
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that I wrote to a friend of his last year.
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Speaker 1: How did he obtain these letters, Miss Norton?
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Speaker 5: He must have stolen them. I don't know how, But
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when I was staying in his house a few weeks ago,
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he told me that he had them and asked five
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thousand pounds for their return.
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Speaker 1: And why should he consider letters eaten in discreet letters
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worth so large a.
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Speaker 5: S I'm engaged to be married to Lord Western's son.
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That awful man didn't Stanley knows that if my fiance
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saw the letters, the marriage would never take place. They
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must see extremely compromising they aren't really, but I was
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much younger when I wrote them. In fact, I was
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only seventeen, and I'm afraid they could easily be misconstrued.
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Speaker 3: Have you told your mother?
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Speaker 5: Oh no, she'd never understand.
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Speaker 1: She might surprise you on that. I think. How about
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your father?
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Speaker 5: Daddy's a barrister. You can imagine how straightly is he
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be about the whole thing. That's why I came to you,
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mister Holmes.
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Speaker 1: I see you. You will feel that I am not
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so well we say straight lazy.
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Speaker 5: Of course you aren't. Mother's told me about you. And
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in any case, I've read doctor Watson's.
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Speaker 1: Story once, my dear fellone. Your stories will lend me
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in seriousubble one of these days.
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Speaker 3: What are you suggesting, mister Holmes can do for you,
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Miss Notton?
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Speaker 1: Get the letters back mommy? But how steal them?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 1: No, no, my madea what's in ubyshos Notton is a fourth
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right girl like a mother before her. It's mister, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 5: You can't say you won't help me.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I don't think that I can say it. In
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any case, I have a slight personal score to settle
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with mister Litton Stanley myself. He's rude and has no understanding.
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Speaker 3: Bees Are you going to steal the letters?
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Speaker 1: That problem requires a four old chap.
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Speaker 5: I can tell you how to do it, mister Hold.
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Speaker 1: This is delightful, my dear. You explained the problem and
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also the way of solving it. How easy a detective's
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work might be if all plans were equally helpful. Tell
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me what is your plan?
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow?
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Speaker 5: The servants half day off at mister Ditton Stanley's. He
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will be alone during the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: How do you know that fact?
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Speaker 5: My maid was keeping company, as they say, with Divis
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the butler when I was staying there a few weeks ago.
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She found out everything from him. My letters are kept
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in a filigree box in his desk.
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Speaker 1: With your enterprise, my dear, and I'm surprised that you
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didn't try it open the desk yourself.
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Speaker 5: I did, but it's very sturdy and has a combination lot. However,
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I'm sure that you and doctor Watson can think of
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some way of getting the letters, particularly if mister Lytton
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Stanley's alone.
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Speaker 1: In the house. We shall do our best.
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Speaker 3: Miss Morton, that.
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Speaker 5: Must be one thing. Though both of you don't read
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the letters, will you. I'm really rather ashamed of writing.
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Speaker 3: Oh course you're both so sweet to me. How can
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I thank you?
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Speaker 1: Thanks for be a little premature, But you could do
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us to favor, of course, what is it Your mother
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had a beautiful voice, I recall. I wonder if you
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wo her talent.
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Speaker 5: I do sing, though I've never done so professionally like.
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Speaker 1: Mother, and I've never played the violin professional. But perhaps
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between us we could give Watson a little concern life.
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Speaker 3: We can't do anything until tomorrow anywhere.
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Speaker 1: What would you like to sing?
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Speaker 2: Song?
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Speaker 4: More?
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Speaker 1: Really really remarkably.
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Speaker 3: Appropriate the day long? So I'm a prom charming tonight
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music and tomorrow a touch of daylight robbery.
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Speaker 1: Dear old Watson, your disguise is really excellent.
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Speaker 3: Must confirst time. I'm a little APPREHENSI.
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Speaker 1: Wald have personal need to be. I assure you you
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as doctor Hamish and I as the referend LB are
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calling on mister phen Stanley as tense be in search
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of a contribution for my charity hospital that you are
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in charge of.
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Speaker 3: What could be simply what made you decide on the
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role of a clergyman.
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Speaker 1: It should simplify our entrance to the house. No, I
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must confess that a rare touch of sentiments prompt at
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the choice of my disguise. How sentiment or surely you
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remember that it was in the role of a simple mind,
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non conformist clergyman that I once attempted to deceive Miss
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Norton's mother.
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Speaker 3: That's right, I'd forgotten that woman really fascinates you.
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Speaker 1: Are Adler was one woman I've always regarded with unbounded admiration,
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even though you were a criminal. But the map of
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this common fellow. Are you ready? Yeah, you have the
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equipment I mentioned to you in my pocket. Chap let's
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be off. Tell me the devil doesn't the answer the door.
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Speaker 3: Come, Come, Come, my dear Reverend apple Be, for passion,
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your languages is hardly proved.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Doctor hennich Be comes someone. Yes, mister Britton Stanley,
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that's my name, and mine is Appleby. And this is
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my friend, doctor Hammies.
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Speaker 3: I pro to me, I've heard a great deal, Wilkie.
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Speaker 1: What can I do for you if we could come
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in from herm ale? Explain our mission very well.
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Speaker 6: I'm into the study.
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Speaker 1: We're raising a subscription list for charity hospital at battle Way,
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just across the Downs you're a prominent resident here. We
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thought that you'd like to donate a few guineas.
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Speaker 6: I'm really not very interested. I've given as much to
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charity this year as I can afford.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's a fine, caursir. I'm giving my medical services
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three days a week, and the Reverend Appleby is donating
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his sable system.
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Speaker 6: Who else has contributed to this? Fine?
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Speaker 1: All your neighbors, sir. We just came from the bee
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farm over the downs. The only mister Holmes gave us
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a check for five guineas.
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Speaker 6: Holmes gave you five guineas did he?
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Speaker 3: I have very nice gentleman, mister Holmes. We propose him
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to name a world in the hospital after him.
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Speaker 6: Is this list of subscribers going to be published in
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the paper?
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Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh yes, mister Litton standard.
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Speaker 6: I'll give you ten guineas, sir.
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Speaker 1: Kind of you, sir.
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Speaker 6: I'm shure I'll get my checkbook. It's in this desk. Now,
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who do I make this check payable to?
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Speaker 1: Will him still at Watson phone? Doesn't take long? Oo
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lying over the desk.
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Speaker 3: That's it?
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Speaker 1: You see filigree box in that here?
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Speaker 3: It is splendid Holmes. Don't open it?
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Speaker 4: You promised that you wouldn't just wish to make sure,
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make sure who was there, mister Sherlock home, Oh no,
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don't move, I have a recover.
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Speaker 3: Don't turn place the box on the table.
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Speaker 1: Mister Holmes. Put your hands up, gentlemen, both of you.
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That's right. I know that voice Divers the butler quite correct,
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So divas you need to point a revolver.
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Speaker 4: I'm not in the least interested in my master's health,
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Dr Watson. In fact, if you were dead, I should
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be delighted. And what are you up to, Divers. I'm
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taking advantage of a situation, Sir. I've been trying to
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open that desk for weeks after such kindness on your part. Sir,
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I hate to seem ungracious, but I'm grentfully afraid I shall.
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Speaker 1: Have to kill you.
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Speaker 2: To kill both of you, Doctor Watson's story will continue
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in just a second. So I'm just going to remind
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you that good food always tastes better when served with
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good wine. And if you like a red wine, say
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with steak or meat of any kind, you'll love Patrick
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California Burgundy. If you'd rather have a white wine, say
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with chicken or fish, then buy all me get Petrie California.
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Speaker 3: So turned.
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Speaker 2: Oh, and look, if opinion is divided in your family,
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if some of you like a red wine and some
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like white, yes is obvious. Don't buy one by two.
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Remember that, huh? Don't buy one by two, but do
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buy Petrie.
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Speaker 1: Then you know it's good. Doctor.
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Speaker 2: That was a fine place to break off your story,
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with a butler pointing a gun at your backs, and
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you and Sherlock Homes with your hands above your heads.
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Speaker 3: What happened next?
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Speaker 2: I know at least you didn't get killed. You wouldn't
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be sitting here in California, andn't I telling me the story?
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Speaker 3: Tell But supposing i'd take you back in the story
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to the point where I left off.
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Speaker 2: Well, all right, then take me back, doctor, take me
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back very well.
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Speaker 3: We stood there, Homes, and iye our hands above our heads,
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as Divas said.
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Speaker 4: Reason, I am that you grew up in the desk
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for me after such kindness on your part, Sir, I
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hate to seem ungracious, but I'm dreadfully afraid I'm.
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Speaker 1: Going to have to kill you both because I dislike
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to have gestubate at such a dramatic moment. But why
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is it necessary to kill us.
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Speaker 4: For months, I have been waiting for an opportunity to
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steal the kitman Jar Emerald, and now you have done
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it for me, sir, and presented me with a perfect
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caliper kit, the jar Emerald.
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Speaker 1: Who come now, miss Holmes.
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Speaker 4: You know the treasures in this house as well as
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I do. Apart from the Emerald, there's a superb Gelini
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that could fetch a fine price in the right market.
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Speaker 3: We are here after any valuables, my good man.
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Speaker 4: Please don't call me your good man, Doctor Watson. It's
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patronizing and untrue. In any case, Sir, whether you were
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here after the valuables or not makes no difference.
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Speaker 1: I've caught you both red handed. You're completely in my power. Gentlemen,
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you're going to steal the treasures I supers and and
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pretend that we were responsible. Exactly, Sir, I shall kill
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you both.
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Speaker 4: Secrete what objects appeal to me, and when my master
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regains consciousness, I should explain that I found three men
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burgling the house, that I killed two of them while
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the third got away with the loot.
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Speaker 6: Who will be able to die by word to be.
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Speaker 4: Regarded as a hero, I might even have my salary raised.
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Speaker 1: Watson, I'm afraid this is the end.
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Speaker 6: Goal, Chap a.
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Speaker 1: Divas, at least to us the courtesy of allowing us
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to face the Farthing squad.
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Speaker 4: Will you very well, gentlemen, turn round, but don't try
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any tricks.
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Speaker 1: One last request, and what is it, sir. I'm beaten,
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and I admit it. I'm getting old, but in my
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heyday I've crossed the swords with some of the greatest
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criminals in Europe. My life has been attempted many times,
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but I've always escaped. If this is to be my swan,
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so I at least give me the privilege of shaking
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the hand of a man who has at last bested me.
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Speaker 6: Well said.
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Speaker 4: I feel that I'm stepping a little out of my station,
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but I suppose the situation is unusual. I hope you
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don't object to the left hand, sir. I'll keep the
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revolver in my right. Very well, Divers, you are goodbye,
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mister Sherlock Holmes. Goodbye Divers, and my congratulations, but my
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congratulations for.
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Speaker 6: Being a fool weld on hold.
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Speaker 1: Maybe getting old, Watson, but I've not lost my skill
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of Barrett.
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Speaker 3: So he went over your shoulder and a flash watun
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in the bullet.
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Speaker 1: Went wi Watson struck the desk as he fell.
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Speaker 3: Yes, just here, it's not serious. He'll be unconscious for
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a while.
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Speaker 4: Good that.
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Speaker 1: I think we'll take the precaution of closing this desk drawer.
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Then want him to be exposed to perfect templation when
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he comes to how we are.
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Speaker 3: Shouldn't we get into touch with the police home?
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Speaker 1: Lease great Scotton a follow i'mfterball be a bird person
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would in this guy is two facts that would be
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hard to explain satisfactorially. Open we respect to the bee
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farm as soon as possible.
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Speaker 3: I suppose you're right. M's not'll be waiting for us.
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Then we'll tell her what happened. Poor girl. I'm afraid
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she's in for something of a shock.
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Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, Doctor Watson, I'm so glad to see you
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back again. Did you get the filigree box?
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Speaker 1: Yes, Miss Norton, here it is at homes. I didn't
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know that you Watson. Why not open it? Miss Notton?
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Will I open it, my dear? They may not be
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love letters inside it, but there's a note. Why would
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you read it to us?
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Speaker 5: Let this be a warning? Norton crime does not pay
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if you don't believe me, ask your mother, sincerely, Shella comes.
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Mister Holmes, you knew my secret all the time, all
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the time.
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Speaker 1: But I realized it as soon as I'd opened the
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filigree box.
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Speaker 3: What on earth you're talking about?
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Speaker 1: Miss Norton was under the impression that she could use
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me as a cat's for as a duke to commit
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a burglary for her.
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Speaker 3: I still don't understand. Home.
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Speaker 1: You will remember she asked us to promise not to
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open the box, but you did so.
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Speaker 3: Just before the fellow held us up with a revolver.
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What was inside the bar.
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Speaker 1: An impressive greenstone which I knew to be the Kitman
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jar emerald.
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Speaker 3: Where's the emerald now?
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Speaker 1: I slipped it back into mister Lipton Stander's desk and
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locked it. Rocked the box yere because I wanted to
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see your expression, Miss Norton as you opened it.
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Speaker 3: Scott, and I thought you would pull a thing in trouble.
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Speaker 1: You have to save yourself, young lady.
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Speaker 5: That I'm terribly sorry, mister Holmes, terribly sorry. It seemed
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like a wildly exciting idea, but I didn't really mean
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this team.
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Speaker 1: Of course, not no, no, of course you didn't didn't
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need to steal it for you, Miss Norton. I'm convinced
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you knew that your mother once outwitted me, and you
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presumed to think that you could do the same. I
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should turn you over to the police. Please don't, mister Holmes.
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You can't. I certainly could, but I'm not going to
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for two reasons. First, you are young and impressionable, and
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this may teach you a lesson. And in the second place,
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I have a strange admiration for your mother. But I
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warn you, Miss Norton, that you have had a narrow escape,
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a very narrow escape.
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Speaker 5: Mister Holmes, Before I go, there's one favor I want
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to ask you, really, what is it? Could I keep
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this filigree box with your note inside it? It would
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be a reminder all my life of how we met.
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Speaker 1: Do you say, Watson your box to give that straw fellow.
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That's quite true, But I fail to see how we
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can return it now without disclosing our own share in
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the attempted robbery. In any case, I don't like mister
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Litton Stanley, we might indulge in a little petty lastly,
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without feeling too guilty. Very well, Miss Norton, you may
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keep the box. I shall always treasure it. Thank you.
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Speaker 5: Good Bye, doctor Watson, don't think too badly of me.
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Speaker 3: Boy, good night mister Sherlock. Home no homes. I must
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say you were surprisingly lenient with that girl. You suppose
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her mother put her up to the clothing.
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Speaker 1: That possibility had occurred to me a fellow, and yet
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I have a feeling that I mean, doors open.
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Speaker 3: Were you expecting Scott? It's looking stand there.
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Speaker 1: Good eating sir. This is an unexpected honor homes.
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Speaker 6: We haven't been the best of friends, I know, but
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you've got to help me now. I'm in serious trouble.
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Speaker 1: No indeed, when you sit down, this is my friend.
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What's you? And now what is your trouble?
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Speaker 6: I've been robbed, Holmes robbed.
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Speaker 1: What the stolen?
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Speaker 6: Well?
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Speaker 7: My greatest pleasure the kitten jar Emeralds removed from his
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case and then mysteriously returned loose.
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Speaker 6: In my desk afterwards. But there's a priceless chillini missing.
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Speaker 1: Have you have you any idea who the burgers might be?
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Speaker 6: Or it was a gang? I'm sure that's a couple
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of guys.
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Speaker 7: As a clergyman and a doctor came into the house
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on the pretext of raising money for some hospital, and
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they overpowered me with chlorophorm.
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Speaker 1: Oh, dear me, dear me, I'm very unpleasant for you.
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Speaker 7: Yes, when I came to I found my butler keepers
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lying beside me in the pool of blood. The brave
21:35
fellow had wrestled with the themes, but they got away
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and he's in the hospital now.
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Speaker 6: Homes, you've got to help me.
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Speaker 1: The kitman Jar emerald was returned, you say, but a
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Cellini is missing.
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Speaker 7: Yes, it's an exquisit phillygy box in which I kept
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the emerald, a phillygree box. Yes, it's a genuine Cellini.
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It's worth several thousand pounds. Homes, you must help.
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Speaker 6: Me solve this business.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to little Stanley, but I'm afraid I can't
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help you. I've retired, yes, and I intend to remain
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in retirement. Good night, sir, but I will pay you
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any fee within reason. My decision is final, sir, good night.
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Speaker 6: I might have known I wouldn't get any.
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Speaker 1: Help from you.
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Speaker 3: Holmes. She fooled you against.
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Speaker 1: Scares the little devil. She knew that box Ursiticellini all
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the time.
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Speaker 3: You don't seem very angry with all ah.
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Speaker 1: I should be, but I'm not. What splendid audacity, what
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a super nerve the child has. But you must get
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the box back from her, and I shall watch, and
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I shall, or rather I shall persuade Devers to do
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it for me. There's the price of our silence.
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Speaker 3: How can he get it back?
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Speaker 1: Remember that he walks out with Miss Norton's maid. I
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am certain that when he explains his predicament, he can
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prevail upon her to steal the box from her mistress
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so that it may be returned to its right flowna.
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Speaker 3: That's a good idea, if George Holmes, Miss Norton's a
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chip or Feld block.
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Speaker 1: All right, Yes, pots and cheers, And it makes me
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wonder what a bird? I wonder, my dear Chap, how
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long I can remain in retirement such a worthy antagonist
23:08
at large. It's a challenge.
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Speaker 2: It's an irresistible challenge, you know, doctor Watson. I just
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can't get over the way you and mister Holmes let
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that girl Irene was at her name, pull the wool
23:30
over your eyes? Why she really twisted you around her
23:32
little fingers.
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Speaker 3: I like to make extremely positive statements, but I'm sure,
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if you were in my shoes, I really would not
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only have twisted you around her little finger, but you
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had you rolling about hoops, standing on your head. You
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mean she was that beautiful, mister, buttell she was so
23:51
beautiful that you'd make you forget all about Petry.
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Speaker 1: One, doctor Watson.
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Speaker 2: No girl is that beautiful?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you really are? Maybe so, But there are.
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Speaker 2: Lots of pretty girls in this world and only one
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Petree wine. That's because there's only one Petrie family that's
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been making wine since the eighteen hundreds. And believe me,
24:11
because the Patree business has always been family owned and operated,
24:15
they've been able to hand on down from father to son,
24:19
from father to son, the highly skilled art of making
24:22
fine wine, and those generations of wine making add up
24:25
to a lot of experience. The Petrie family really knows
24:29
how to turn luscious California grapes into fragrant, delicious wine.
24:34
That's why, no matter what type wine you wish, you
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can't go wrong looking for the label that says p E.
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Speaker 1: T R I.
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Speaker 2: Petree because Patree took time to bring you good wine. Well,
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doctor Watson, what story are you planning to tell us
24:49
next week?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 3: Now, next week, mister Bartel is the day before Christmas.
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So I'm going to tell you an adventure that took
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place many years ago and involved homes and myself in
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one of the most fantastic Christmas Eve situations in which
25:02
we ever found ourselves. I think you like the story.
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I call it the Night before Christmas.
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Speaker 1: It sounds well, oh thank you.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 3: By the way, before I comes to bottle, I'd like
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to remind our listeners there's no better way to spend money,
25:16
and to spend it on Christmas seals. Every penny is
25:19
spent on Christmas seals not only helps cure tuberculosis, but
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it also helps prevent it right in your own community.
25:27
Your purchases of Christmas eals in the past have saved
25:29
thousands of lives. Keep saving lives by all the Christmas
25:33
seals you can afford this year, now, won't you