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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Cradle That Rocked Itself Basil Rathbone, Nigel B · Sherlock Holmes

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Speaker 1: And not a return to Cornwall. What were you and
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Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes doing down there, Doc Watson?
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Speaker 2: Recuperating Holmes had spent a particularly active autumn, solving three
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Speaker 2: dangerous and exhausting cases in rapid succession, and the vacation
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Speaker 2: was indicated. I had visions of basking in the south
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Speaker 2: of France or sunny Italy, but not Holmes. He elected
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Speaker 2: to return to the small cottage near Paldew Bay, which
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Speaker 2: we had occupied once before.
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Speaker 1: During the adventure of the Devil's Spotify. Not mistaken, doctor, Right.
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Speaker 2: Now, the bays and inlets of the Cornish Peninsula are
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Speaker 2: green and sheltering in the sunny summer weather. But in
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Speaker 2: December the blustering gales whipped the surge, swept reefs and
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Speaker 2: black and sinister cliffs.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: One particularly violent morning, Holmes and I were ensconced on
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Speaker 2: either side of the fireplace. Holmes was engrossed in a
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Speaker 2: consignment of books on philology which had just arrived from London.
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Speaker 1: Watson, has it ever occurred to you that the ancient
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Speaker 1: Cornish language is akin to the Chaldean.
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Speaker 2: As much as I understand neither Cornish nor Chldean a
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Speaker 2: concert it has.
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Speaker 4: It's quite logical.
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Speaker 1: You know, these shores were undoubtedly visited by early Phoenician
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Speaker 1: traders in Tin. In fact, many historians believe that the
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Speaker 1: pirates who later operated from this coast had.
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Speaker 4: More than their share of the old Phoenician heritage.
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Speaker 2: Fanned his reputable background for any district.
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Speaker 1: Profitable as the word Watson, Hello, who's this? Fighting his
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Speaker 1: way up the path? And the teeth of the gale looks.
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Speaker 2: Like your old tone friend and fellow archaeologist, mister round Hey,
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Speaker 2: the vicar.
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Speaker 1: Wonder what's occurred to bring the good Dominie out in
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Speaker 1: this weather? I'd sooner expect to see a cat go
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Speaker 1: swimming in a mill race. Well, don't let it stand
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Speaker 1: in in the wet, and I'm going. I'm going. But
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Speaker 1: you couldn't answer the door now and then.
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Speaker 2: Why, mister Roundhey, delighted to see you, Manan Canning.
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Speaker 5: You look alf crowned, not.
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Speaker 6: Half entirely, totally and entirely soaped to the ski.
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Speaker 1: Morning, round Hey, how about a spot of hot gron
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Speaker 1: with the teakettle fighting on the half Watson fixed the
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Speaker 1: back of a drink, Thank you.
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Speaker 6: I'm afraid I need it as much for my nerves
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Speaker 6: as I do for the cheer you know.
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Speaker 4: Oh yes, mister.
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Speaker 6: Holmes, I have a problem, a rather serious problem, and
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Speaker 6: I really don't know whether to come to doctor Watson
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Speaker 6: for help or to you.
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Speaker 2: Well, why not consult both of us? So it's not
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Speaker 2: the first time we've collaborated on a CASEA Holmes five.
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Speaker 4: Watson done interrupt Just what is your problem, mister Rounded.
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Speaker 6: Well, it seems that the cradle of Travining author has
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Speaker 6: been rocking again.
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Speaker 4: That's so unusual.
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Speaker 6: You don't understand, mister Holmes. That cradle has been in
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Speaker 6: the family for overout five centuries. All the young Providings
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Speaker 6: have placed in it at birth. It hasn't been used, however,
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Speaker 6: since will Freed of Trivining, the present Missus Gregory was
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Speaker 6: a child.
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Speaker 5: In fact, the nursery has.
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Speaker 6: Been kept locked ever since Old Matty, the praviding nurse,
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Speaker 6: was sent off to the Home for Religion Females at
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Speaker 6: red Roof three months ago. She's been in the family
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Speaker 6: for nearly sixty years.
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Speaker 2: You see, Well, seems rather hartless to get rid of.
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Speaker 5: Her homes my thought exactly.
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Speaker 6: But Mortimer Gregory, he's the one who is married to
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Speaker 6: Will freeda Trivining was quite determined about the matter. He
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Speaker 6: said that Old Mattie was making his wife quite ill
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Speaker 6: with her talk about the rocking cradle.
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Speaker 5: What sort of talk will you see?
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Speaker 6: That there's a sort of legend in the Drivining family
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Speaker 6: that when one of them is about to die, the
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Speaker 6: cradle starts to rock.
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Speaker 5: All by itself.
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Speaker 2: Nice ear a little superstition, Ahlmes.
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Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, the cradle had been heard
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Speaker 6: rocking once or twice, but inasmuch as Old Mattie was
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Speaker 6: still sleeping in the nursery, the family took it as
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Speaker 6: a rather a grim practical joke, all except Wilfrida.
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Speaker 5: She became quite ill and upset, at which point.
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Speaker 6: Her husband, who has a violent temper, said the old
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Speaker 6: nurse had to go. Doctor Dennisterviney, who is Wilfrida's cousin
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Speaker 6: and physician as well, was inclined to agree with him,
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Speaker 6: so they sent for a nurse for visit Ive's hospital
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Speaker 6: to take over. On the day that she arrived, I
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Speaker 6: was summoned to drive Matty to the Old Ladies Home
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Speaker 6: in Redruth.
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Speaker 5: I can't say I look forward to the event.
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Speaker 4: Were your fears justified?
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Speaker 5: Completely justified?
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Speaker 6: Mister Holmes, When I arrived at Travining Water, the old
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Speaker 6: woman was sitting on her boxes just inside the front door.
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Speaker 6: Mister Gregory and doctor Travining Brien debris to quiet. A Cataborn.
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Speaker 7: Calls herself a nurse.
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Speaker 6: Does she?
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Speaker 8: What does she know about bringing babies into the world.
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Speaker 8: I've given three generations of Travinings the whack that drove
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Speaker 8: the breath of life.
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Speaker 5: Into their bodies.
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Speaker 3: After all, Matty, I am a doctor. When Wilfrieda's baby arrived,
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Speaker 3: I expect to be on hand.
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Speaker 7: Do you know you're a doctor.
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Speaker 8: I wouldn't trust you to treat my Timothy here from
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Speaker 8: day Timmy, Simmy agrees with me. He may be a cat,
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Speaker 8: but he knows as much about what's going on around
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Speaker 8: here as I do.
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Speaker 3: That must plenty, Matty.
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Speaker 5: That'll do. We bet enough trouble already. Upset my Wissel
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Speaker 5: she's had to take to a bed.
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Speaker 9: Me upset Miss Wilfrida, mine, Miss Willie that I thought
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Speaker 9: to walk.
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Speaker 8: And play patty cake and eat a purridge like a
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Speaker 8: good girl.
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Speaker 5: It's not me that's made us sick. And what's more,
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Speaker 5: if it if.
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Speaker 9: Ham comes to her, I'll put a curse on this
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Speaker 9: house ten miles of moreland between here and Reynold come
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Speaker 9: back and rock the cradle somehow.
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Speaker 2: And you know what that means.
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Speaker 6: Well, mister Holmes, I felt sorry for Matthea of Costa.
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Speaker 6: I must say I saw mister Gregory and doctor Divining's
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Speaker 6: point a screaming old chrome like that isn't the most
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Speaker 6: soothing influence around a house in which there is an
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Speaker 6: expectant mother.
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Speaker 1: Quite tell me, Bicker, is this missus Gregory, the former
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Speaker 1: Wilfrieda Trevining easily upset by these these family superstitions about
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Speaker 1: rocking cradles and the like.
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Speaker 6: I really couldn't say, mister Holmes. And will Frieda was
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Speaker 6: always a delicate girl. She was an only child you
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Speaker 6: see in the one heir to that branch of the family.
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Speaker 2: Significant day, Holmes. I suppose she inherited quite a tidy
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Speaker 2: as stage she did.
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Speaker 6: Indeed, Dr Watson her father would have disinherited her if
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Speaker 6: he could when she ran off with that Gregory chap.
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Speaker 6: But the state is entailed, and that I must say
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Speaker 6: the marriage turned out better than most of us expected.
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Speaker 4: Then you don't think Mortimergregory married her for her money?
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Speaker 5: Not necessarily, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 6: Gregory was an artist who came to these parts one
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Speaker 6: summer to do a bit of sketching, and naturally the
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Speaker 6: Travinings thought he was one of those neodo will bohemians.
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Speaker 6: But it seems he's rather famous and sells. His pictures
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Speaker 6: were quite handsome prices.
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Speaker 3: I see.
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Speaker 5: I take it.
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Speaker 4: The girl and her father reconciled, yes, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 6: When he heard that she was to have a child,
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Speaker 6: he sent for her. Although the child will bear the
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Speaker 6: name Gregory, he will inherit the Travining estate.
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Speaker 5: Travining is always born.
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Speaker 6: At Trevining Warthany, mister say, any other arrangement would be unthinkable.
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Speaker 5: Quite Wilfrieda.
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Speaker 6: Gregory and her new husband came back as soon as
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Speaker 6: possible after receiving her father's letter asking for a reconciliation.
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Speaker 6: One week after the return, own mister Trevining was dead
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Speaker 6: and Wilfrida had inherited the estates. I take it her
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Speaker 6: father's death was sudden and unexpected. Oh, quite unexpected, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 6: He'd been as fit as a fiddle up to Wednesday night. Thursday,
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Speaker 6: Shortly after his mid afternoon whiskey and soda, he complained
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Speaker 6: that his mouth and throat felt saw half an hour
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Speaker 6: later vomiting set in, followed by violent cramps.
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Speaker 5: And general collapse.
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Speaker 4: Did no one send for a doctor?
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Speaker 6: Mister Travining's nephew, doctor Denistervining, was in the house at
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Speaker 6: the time.
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Speaker 4: There was, of course an autopsy in an inquest.
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Speaker 6: Good heavens, no, mister Holmes whatever, For mister Travining had
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Speaker 6: been subject for some years to violent gastro digestive upset.
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Speaker 5: It was all perfectly unavoidable and natural, and.
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Speaker 1: Autopsy is always indicated in any case of sudden death,
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Speaker 1: mister Rountey, But what good would it do? It might
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Speaker 1: just possibly prevent another fatality. Just when did missus Greggory's
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Speaker 1: health begin to fail?
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Speaker 6: Her father's death for the shock to her, she took
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Speaker 6: to her bed for about a week after funeral.
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Speaker 5: It was quite understandable after.
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Speaker 6: That she was up in about from a month or two,
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Speaker 6: but her color was bad, and she seemed to be
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Speaker 6: decidedly nervous.
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Speaker 5: Like a good many women.
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Speaker 6: In the early stages of her condition, she experienced a
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Speaker 6: certain amount of er nausia.
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Speaker 4: Has that nausea persisted, it has, mister Holmes, And when.
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Speaker 6: Old Matty began to rant on about the rocking cradle.
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Speaker 6: Missus Gregory became thoroughly alarmed and will had.
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Speaker 5: To be put to bay.
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Speaker 4: Did her condition improve, mister Rondey. After they got rid
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Speaker 4: of the old woman for.
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Speaker 5: A time she seemed greatly improved.
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Speaker 6: She was up and about for nearly a month, and
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Speaker 6: week before last she suffered a rather frightening relapse and
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Speaker 6: has been in bed ever since.
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Speaker 4: I see how soon has her baby due to be born?
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Speaker 5: And about her fortnight?
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Speaker 3: I believe has.
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Speaker 4: Doctor Trevining called in any outside medical opinion, No, mister.
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Speaker 6: Hold, and that's not too incredible when you realize how
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Speaker 6: to move we are from civilization.
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Speaker 4: Possibly if they knew that doctor Watson was here in
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Speaker 4: the vicinityday the new.
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Speaker 6: Nurse made that suggestion to doctor Previning, but both he
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Speaker 6: and mister Gregory were decidedly hostile to the idea that
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Speaker 6: the nurses, I may say, rather badly frightened. Today was
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Speaker 6: her day off, and she dropped in at the vicarage
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Speaker 6: shortly after breakfast.
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Speaker 5: She admitted she had never.
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Speaker 6: Been so terrified in her entire life, living there in
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Speaker 6: the old Travining house, part keep, part castle. But she
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Speaker 6: said she wasn't the only one. Oh, poor missus Gregory
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Speaker 6: lies there, stiff with terror, with her eyes fixed on
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Speaker 6: the ceiling, waiting for it to begin. The sound of
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Speaker 6: the cradle rocking.
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Speaker 10: Yes, it's getting dark like the lamp. Very well, Missus Gregory.
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Speaker 10: That's better. When I was a child, I was afraid
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Speaker 10: of the dark, and now so come back to me.
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Speaker 7: I dread the coming of night.
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Speaker 5: When one's sick. That's only natural. The nights are so long.
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Speaker 10: I always think it's not badness when night comes it
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Speaker 10: begins the rocking of the cradle.
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Speaker 4: I like you watching for it.
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Speaker 10: Yes, listen, I don't hear anything, Missus Greggory. Only I
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Speaker 10: could be sure my baby is born before I die.
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Speaker 10: It's so terribly importantness. But you're not going to die,
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Speaker 10: missus Gregory.
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Speaker 4: Yes, that's why the cradle's rocky.
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Speaker 1: Listen there it goes ro ro rock.
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Speaker 4: It's for me, ness, it's for.
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Speaker 6: Me, and.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like deliria May Holmes. A cradle that is heard
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Speaker 2: only by a desperately sick woman.
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Speaker 6: But you don't understand, doctor Watson. Missus Gregory isn't the
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Speaker 6: only one who hears the cradle rocket. The nurse can
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Speaker 6: hear it too. The nursery of Travining Water is directly
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Speaker 6: over the master bedroom, and that rocking cradle can be
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Speaker 6: heard several times a night.
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Speaker 5: But only that's right, mister Holmes, never in the daytime,
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Speaker 5: always after dark. Miss Henderson, the nurse says, it's.
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Speaker 6: Having a dreadful effect on Missus Gregory. She's in a
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Speaker 6: state of great exhaustion. In the last few days. The
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Speaker 6: nurse has also noticed that a local postular eruption that
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Speaker 6: could be induced by the nervous strain.
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Speaker 1: I suppose not necessarily, Yes, I think doctor Watson and
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Speaker 1: I had better pay a visit to Trevining waltha shortly
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Speaker 1: after dark today. I trust we can persuade her family
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Speaker 1: to allow doctor Watson to have a look at missus Gregory,
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Speaker 1: and I think I can suggest what he used to
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Speaker 1: look for. As for myself, I'm more interested in what
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Speaker 1: causes that criddled rock?
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Speaker 2: Did you have to drag us out in this beastly
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Speaker 2: weather homes? Besides, it's also dashy regular concert to medical
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Speaker 2: ethics and all that.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 2: After all, I haven't been called in by either the
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Speaker 2: doctor or the case, nor the family.
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Speaker 4: You doctors and your confounded medical ethics.
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Speaker 1: I suppose you've let the poor woman die just because
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Speaker 1: you haven't been properly introduced.
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Speaker 3: This is where we turn in, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 5: Notice the travining coat of arms over the gate.
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Speaker 4: Aha, very significant, mister Romney.
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Speaker 2: What's so significant about it? I could already see the
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Speaker 2: blasted thing in this fading life.
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Speaker 1: For one thing, the Travinings had the far Sinister. For another,
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Speaker 1: that was the Jolly Roger up in the upper right
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Speaker 1: hand quarter.
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Speaker 5: That's right, mister Holmes. The Trevinings have more than their
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Speaker 5: share of pirate ancests. They boast of the fact. You know, well,
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Speaker 5: here we are. This is travining water.
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Speaker 2: Rightly looking old pile lay Holmes.
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Speaker 4: Wait for us here, Jonathan right, you may be leaving
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Speaker 4: in rather a hurry. Give the better pull worse?
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Speaker 6: No wait, I sent word to miss Henderson to be
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Speaker 6: on the lookout for us. Ah, Miss Henderson, I thought
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Speaker 6: you'd be watching for us.
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Speaker 5: This is mister Holmes and doctor Watson.
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Speaker 4: How do you do what you do?
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Speaker 5: Come in?
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Speaker 3: Please?
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Speaker 11: I'm so glad you both come both. Missus Gregory was
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Speaker 11: having a particularly bad spell when.
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Speaker 5: I returned this afternoon.
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Speaker 4: Have you told missus Gregory's husband and her doctor.
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Speaker 11: That you expected us, No, mister Holmes, Fortunately there was
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Speaker 11: no opportunity. The doctor was called out on a confinement
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Speaker 11: case an hour or so ago, and mister Gregory has
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Speaker 11: had to go some dives for the assizes.
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Speaker 6: He shouldn't be back until after supper.
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Speaker 1: Excellent, You will take doctor Watson to see missus Gregory immediately.
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Speaker 1: Mister Rounday knows the house well enough to direct me
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Speaker 1: to the nursery.
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Speaker 4: I gather.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, mister Holmes, top floor, second right.
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Speaker 11: I'm afraid the door is cat locked, mister Holmes, my.
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Speaker 3: Dear young lady.
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Speaker 4: It takes more than a locked door to stop Sherlock.
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Speaker 4: Holmes came on, Vicar.
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Speaker 5: Here we are.
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Speaker 9: It's the next door.
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Speaker 5: It's locked right enough, then there's nothing we can do.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, I have a very neat little jemmy
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Speaker 1: that I acquired when I was instrumental in apprehending a
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Speaker 1: certain famous cat burglar.
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Speaker 3: M Where de Breen is coming through the keyhole?
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Speaker 5: You mean you're going to pick the lock?
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Speaker 4: May take a moment or so.
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Speaker 5: I do hope no one comes and catches his head it.
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Speaker 5: I don't know what my flock would say, mister Holmes,
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Speaker 5: did you hear that?
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Speaker 7: There it is again, it's it's inside the nursery.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it is the great to write above.
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Speaker 5: But it's rocky.
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Speaker 6: It's rocky in there, all right, so weet, it's not
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Speaker 6: just a superstition.
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Speaker 4: Confounded This lot must be rusty. No, here it comes
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Speaker 4: last it did it have to make that noise easy?
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Speaker 3: Now you open the door. It's so dark in there.
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Speaker 1: You be the candle I'm going in tho is empty,
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Speaker 1: completely empty. But look here the cradle is still rocking.
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Speaker 1: And feel the mattress.
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Speaker 5: It's still warm.
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Speaker 4: Branch of a tree scraping against the window.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's broken, one of the small five inch square
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Speaker 1: panes of glass, and that explains where the draft came from.
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Speaker 4: It also explains something else. Yes, interesting, very interesting.
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Speaker 5: Who let you in this room?
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Speaker 4: Ah, mister Gregory, no doubt, I am Sherlock Holmes.
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Speaker 3: What in places do you think you're doing?
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Speaker 1: Year trying to solve the mystery of the rocking cradle
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Speaker 1: right in the rubbish old wives tales? I'll not have
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Speaker 1: my wife upset by any more of that nonsense, you misjudged,
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Speaker 1: mister Gregory.
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Speaker 4: We only want to save your wife and possibly your trial.
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Speaker 3: I don't need your help.
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Speaker 1: Get out, both of them, get out with pleasure. I
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Speaker 1: imagine Watson's had time to give the nurse for instructions.
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Speaker 1: And we've seen all there is to see up here.
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Speaker 1: Come on run hey, we're now right over the red roof.
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Speaker 4: The final piece to this puzzles dout is to be
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Speaker 4: found of the old lady's home.
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Speaker 5: You mean your you'll get a question, Matty.
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Speaker 4: I trust you have no objections, mister Gregory, objections, no,
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Speaker 4: go ahead.
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Speaker 3: You'll get nothing from her, nothing at all.
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Speaker 5: So kind of you to see us made from that,
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Speaker 5: particularly this late in the evening.
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Speaker 7: It is well after our visiting ours, mister round here.
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Speaker 7: But when they told me it was the vicar of
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Speaker 7: Tredanic Wallace, mister Sherlock Holmes, I'll admit my curiosity.
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Speaker 5: Got the best. Admit you gentlemen, must speak in jail.
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Speaker 3: May I offer you a.
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Speaker 4: Couple of tea? Thank you? Matrim to have no time
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Speaker 4: for social amenities. Our night's work has only just begun.
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Speaker 1: So if you'll allow us to have a few words
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Speaker 1: with one of your inmates, and miss Matty what's her
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Speaker 1: other name?
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Speaker 6: Because bless my soul, I don't know, but she was
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Speaker 6: nurse in the Travining household for many years.
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Speaker 5: She came here to the whole three months ago.
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Speaker 10: You mean Matty Finery?
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Speaker 7: Of course, of course, I'm afraid you can't see marriage yet?
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Speaker 4: Why not? Is anything wrong with her?
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Speaker 3: Is she ill?
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Speaker 7: No, mister Holmes, matt Had Finery died six weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: Die, yes, mister her.
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Speaker 6: But why wasn't I told? Why wasn't her body brought
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Speaker 6: back to us for proper BURYO?
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Speaker 7: I understand her family didn't want Missus Greggory to know.
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Speaker 7: They were afraid the shock of Matty's death would upset
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Speaker 7: it quite Matron.
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Speaker 4: How did the old woman die? Had you been sick long?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 7: No, mister Holmes, she did a very good day. Missus
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Speaker 7: Greggory had driven over from Predanna to have tea with
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Speaker 7: her to broad a pancake.
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Speaker 5: The Matty poundcake was her favorite. It seems.
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Speaker 4: How soon after Missus Gregory left, was Mattie taken ill?
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Speaker 5: Not to the middle of the night.
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Speaker 7: Seems she sneaked the rest of the pancake after bed
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Speaker 7: with her and had eaten it after the lights were
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Speaker 7: put out.
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Speaker 2: Old people and children frequently make pigs of themselves. I'm
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Speaker 2: afraid we see.
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Speaker 7: Doctor Dennis revining at once. He lives halfway between Rederth
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Speaker 7: and Danik Wallace. He was here inside of an hour.
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Speaker 7: She seemed to get better when she saw him. Shortly
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Speaker 7: thereafter she had another attack which ended in a complete collapse.
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Speaker 2: This is an exasperating case at homes, One blind alley
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Speaker 2: after another. Old Matty turning.
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Speaker 5: Up dead slams the final door in our face.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, we may very well find out more
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Speaker 1: from Matty dead than we would if she were alive.
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Speaker 5: But where will you go to question her, mister Holmes?
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Speaker 4: The graveyard, of course.
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Speaker 3: Where is she buried?
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Speaker 4: Matron?
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Speaker 5: In the churchyard at Saint Stephen's. It's on the cliffs
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Speaker 5: at the other side.
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Speaker 3: Of the town.
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Speaker 1: I don't suppose you could suppliers with a couple of shovels,
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Speaker 1: Matron or Holmes.
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Speaker 2: You're not thinking of exhuming the dobby had this hour
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Speaker 2: of the night.
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Speaker 1: Why not just one more question, Matron? What happened to
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Speaker 1: Matty's cat after her death?
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Speaker 4: Timothy? Yes, Oh, he disappeared shortly after the funeral.
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Speaker 7: No one knows what happened to him, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 1: I think I can make a guess, Matron, Yes, I
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Speaker 1: think I can make a guess. Ask the millions of
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Speaker 1: men who wear clipper Craft clothes. Ask the fine stores
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Speaker 1: that make them available to you everywhere from coast to coast.
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Speaker 1: The reason there's so much talk about Clippercraft is that
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Speaker 1: they're so extremely fine at the price of just ordinary clothes.
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Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to discuss clippercraft on this program because
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Speaker 1: I know I do a good.
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Speaker 4: Turn to every man listening in regardless of price.
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Speaker 1: You've never seen finer tailoring, longer wearing woolens, or more
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Speaker 1: perfect fit suits are only forty dollars and forty five dollars.
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Speaker 1: Top coats and overcoats are only forty dollars. The famous
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Speaker 1: clipper Craft Plan makes all this possible. It concentrates the
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Speaker 1: buying power of nine hundred twenty four leading independent stores
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Speaker 1: across the nation. You get the savings that result from
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Speaker 1: this group buying selling expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices
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Speaker 1: at the nation's finest independent stores. Is the great, big
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Speaker 1: idea behind the Clipper Plan. That's why men who know
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Speaker 1: insist on clipper Craft clothes. So be sure to visit
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Speaker 1: the Clipper craft store in your city.
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Speaker 12: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
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Speaker 12: add their names to Clippercraft in your Suit, top coat
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Speaker 12: and overcoat. In Manhattan Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at thirty
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Speaker 12: fourth John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and sixty
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Speaker 12: seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
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Speaker 12: New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop Cresky, Newark. And in Jamaica,
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Speaker 12: the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh
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Speaker 12: eight Jamaica Avenue.
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Speaker 2: Oh, here you take the shovel of homes. It's your
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Speaker 2: and I'm exhausted. That's what comes to vetting yourself. Get
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Speaker 2: out of condition like that, Thank Heaven. The gal has
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Speaker 2: gone down. The sea is still points woves trying to
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Speaker 2: break through the clouds. It makes the freakers down there
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Speaker 2: look like a devil's caldron.
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Speaker 4: Job's done now, Watson. If you and mister round Hay
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Speaker 4: will help me lift out the.
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Speaker 6: Coffin, certainly, mister Holmes and who the authorities will probably
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Speaker 6: raise ned nap all together one two, I see Holmes.
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Speaker 2: The coffin was remarkably light.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Mattie was a very little woman Holmes.
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Speaker 2: Look, there's someone gonna pick over the moor as if
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Speaker 2: the devil were after him.
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Speaker 13: He's coming here, good lad, Say it's doctor t Fining,
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Speaker 13: whom we have been for it now, Oh there is.
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Speaker 1: No then?
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Speaker 3: Just what's going on here?
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Speaker 5: Dr de Fanni, you're just taking it.
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Speaker 6: A look at old Matty and mister Sherlock Holmes and
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Speaker 6: his friend doctor Watson.
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Speaker 3: Boh, he did busy party, Medler.
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Speaker 5: I heard you came to Divining this afternoon and saw
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Speaker 5: my patient without consulting me.
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Speaker 3: And now this, I suppose you've got a permit for this.
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Speaker 4: No, I can't say we have. We couldn't afford to
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Speaker 4: take time.
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Speaker 3: Why not?
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Speaker 1: We didn't want to give you the opportunity to finish
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Speaker 1: off missus Gregory the way you did her father and
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Speaker 1: old Matty.
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Speaker 3: I finish off my uncle and Matty? Why Why should
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Speaker 3: I do that?
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Speaker 1: Because you were determined to inherit a state of Trevining warfare.
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Speaker 1: If you had to kill off half the Padish to
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Speaker 1: do it, you're mad.
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Speaker 3: There's no proof the party supported decomposed.
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Speaker 1: I wonder would you like to help us pry off
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Speaker 1: the lid At this coffin, Watson handed that chisel.
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Speaker 3: I protest, this is monstrous.
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Speaker 1: Not as monstrous as murder, doctor Trevining. Navin slider it
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Speaker 1: off the other side, Watson. All right, now, mister Roundhay,
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Speaker 1: if you'll bring the lantern over here, yes, thank you,
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Speaker 1: good law.
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Speaker 3: The body she looks exactly who wish she did when
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Speaker 3: she died.
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Speaker 4: And she died in agony.
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Speaker 1: Remember no, no, but it's too unnatural her her eyes,
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Speaker 1: she's staring at me in that awful grin. There was
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Speaker 1: no autopsy on old mister Trevining in this case, however,
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Speaker 1: But I would you like to put your hand on the.
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Speaker 4: Body, doctor Trevining.
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Speaker 1: No, it's a local superstition that when a murderer touches
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Speaker 1: the body of his victim, blood will flow.
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Speaker 5: No, no, let me go, let me go, let me go.
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Speaker 5: He's that in the head to the cliffs, good w
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Speaker 5: good lord.
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Speaker 3: You know the hostrait on the edge.
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Speaker 5: They'll be smashed to death on the reefs.
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Speaker 4: The devil's cordron, as Watson called it, has claimed its own.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the rocks on which his pirate ancestors wrecked so
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Speaker 1: many helpless ships.
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Speaker 6: I'm not surprised the sight of Old Matty's body unnerved him.
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Speaker 6: Who would suspect it after six weeks there would be
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Speaker 6: almost no signs of decomposition.
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Speaker 4: I not only suspected it, mister round Hey, I'm you
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Speaker 4: how so Doctor.
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Speaker 1: Dennis Trevining chose one of the few poisons that also
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Speaker 1: tends to act as a preservative. I llude, of course,
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Speaker 1: to tatar emetic commonly called antimony. By that story was
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Speaker 1: a corker, doctor Watson, and Dennis Travining was certainly a
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Speaker 1: throwback to his pirate ancestor.
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Speaker 2: Yes, mister Harris, but look, why didn't he.
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Speaker 4: Finish off his uncle and his cousin years before?
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Speaker 2: Because as long as Wilfreda had no child he was
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Speaker 2: due to inherit anyway.
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Speaker 1: You mean the estate wouldn't have gone to her husband, No,
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Speaker 1: mister Harris. In England, the laws of inheritance are rather rigid.
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Speaker 2: If a married woman who owns the states dies after
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Speaker 2: giving birth to a living child, her husband would.
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Speaker 1: Hold the lens for life as tenant by the courtesy
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Speaker 1: of England. And that's what Denis Travining was determined to
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Speaker 1: prevent any costs. But why didn't Wilfrida die as quickly
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Speaker 1: as her father?
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Speaker 2: Doctor More than one sudden death in the family would
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Speaker 2: have been suspicious. Therefore, Wilfreda was given repeated small doses
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Speaker 2: of the poison, which produced rather different symptoms.
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Speaker 4: As what about Mary.
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Speaker 2: Matty undoubtedly suspected what was going on, but was afraid
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Speaker 2: to say anything, hence the cradle rocking. She was trying
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Speaker 2: to warn her mistress. Eventually, when she was taken ill
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Speaker 2: from overeating, the temptation to get her out of the
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Speaker 2: way was too great, and doctor Tivanning killed her too.
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Speaker 4: But the cradle, Doctor, it continued to rock after her death.
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Speaker 4: Who rocked the cradle?
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Speaker 2: The cat? Matty's black cat, Timothy. He found his way
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Speaker 2: back to his old home, climbed up the tree outside
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Speaker 2: the nursery window and entered through the broken windowpane, and
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Speaker 2: made himself at home in the most comfortable piece of furniture,
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Speaker 2: the old cradle. Holmes knew at once what had happened
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Speaker 2: or how doctor, by observing some short black cat hair
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Speaker 2: on the mattress.
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Speaker 4: Of course, it's also our fears.
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Speaker 2: Yes, one shirlock, Holmes points, had the explanation.
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Speaker 4: Got me that time? Well, doctor Watson, what's our story
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Speaker 4: to be about next week?
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Speaker 3: Next week?
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Speaker 2: I think I'll tell you how Professor Moriarty Rana MC
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Speaker 2: during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, stealing famous jewels, robbing banks,
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Speaker 2: blackmailing millionaires, and finally, how he came very close to
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Speaker 2: blowing up a ball at Buckingham Palace