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in London. The series was The studio was focused on syndication, on creating
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programs that could be syndicated all over the world. The Sherlock Holmes series was
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picked up by the ABC and it was noteworthy because it was very rare for
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the BBC to pick up some non BBC dramatic programming. In addition to Sherlock
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Holmes, Powers of London produced some fantastic programs, including the Adventures of Horatio
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Hornblower, The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpermnel, The Black Museum, and of
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course that classic radio anti hero series, The Lives of Harry Lyme. Like
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a wide variety of the Towers productions, including Scarlet Pimpernel and Theodore Royal,
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the Sherlock Holmes series was brought to the United States by NBC, and so
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this episode aired over NBC on January the second of nineteen fifty five. The
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title is Doctor Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes. So sit back, relax, and
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enjoy Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gildgood Today's performance Doctor Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Original and Immortal Stories of Sir Tha
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Conan Doyle dramatized Daniel, with Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson and Sir John
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Gielgood in the role of Sherlock Holmes. M M M. My name is
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Watson, Doctor John H. Watson. It may be familiar to you through
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my association over many years with one of the most remarkable men I believe the
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world has ever known, mister Sherlock Holmes. I want to tell you about
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one of our earliest adventures, the first time that we went out into the
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streets of London in active partnership. We were still youngish men. It was
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far back in the early eighteen eighties. We had shared those famous rooms number
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two hundred and twenty one B Baker Street for only a few months. Watson,
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my dear fellow, you're just in time, in time for wat Holmes.
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Well, you've so often been good enough to express a genial interest in
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my singular profession. Now you'll be able to see me actually at work.
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Oh, I'm lazy to homes. It should be fascinating. Ah, but
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I must sit down by the far Do you chilly out? Or do do,
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my dear fellow. Oh, by the way, Watson, White Turkish?
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Turkish? Had you mean the bath? The bath you've just come from,
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my dear fellow. Why the relaxing and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating
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homemade article across the passage here? Oh? Because I felt lazy, and
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but I haven't said a word about it. How the deuce did you know
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I'd had a Turkish bar? Your boots, Watson, boots. The thing's
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quite an elementary, surely, no doubt. But you'll forgive me if I
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failed to see the least connection. You always do your boots up in the
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same way, Watson. However, on this occasion I see them passen with
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an elaborate double bow. Ah. And so of course you've had them off
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and someone else has tied them for you. Who, for example, the
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answer can only be your boot maker or the boy at the Turkish Bars.
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As your boots were only made and delivered here late last week, it's hardly
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likely to have been the bootmaker. So what remains? But the bath of
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curdainly simple, isn't it. I'm so home. You don't really are the
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strangest fellow. Ah, Wait till you meet Milburton. He's stranger still Milburton?
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Who is Milburton? Charles Augustus Milburton at Hampstead, in all probability the
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most evil man in London? Who is He? Sounds fascinating. I invited
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him for six thirty so he's almost due. Oh I shiver at the thought
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of him. But what's he due for? A living? This strange call
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of of ours? Blackmail? Watson? Yes, he looks like mister Pickwick,
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but heaven helped the man or worse still the woman who's in discreet enough
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to get into his power, and what have you to do with him?
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Well, I've had the honor recently to be consulted by a particularly illustrious lady.
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Who is she? Do I know? I expect to know her name?
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Lady Eva Brackwell, the most gooutiful debutante of last season. But of
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course isn't she to been me added in a fortnight to the Earl of Dilver
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course, Yes, it's all arranged. Unluckily for her. Milburton has managed
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to get hold of some imprudent letters, Watson. But she wrote some time
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ago to a penniless young fellow in the country. Only imprudent, mind you,
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but they'd be quite sufficient to break off the map and your commission to
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meet him and make what terms I can. I think he's here, Watson.
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We let him in, mister Holmes rooms when you're coming to this is
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mister Holmes, I take it you are. How is augustus moment Himster Holmes?
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No, I prefer not to shake hands with your mister Milburgh. This
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is only a matter of business between us, I see, and we can
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talk of it before this gentleman. It's rather a delicate of her. Doctor
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Watson is my friend and partner, sir. He knows our business, really,
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but we need hardly to waste much time on it. My position is
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quite different. You are acting from the lady Eva. I understand I have
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that, honor. What are your terms, mister milburghon seven thousand pounds,
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mister Holmes and the alternative? Oh my dear sir, it is painful to
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discuss it, but if the money is not paid by the fourteen, there
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will certainly be no marriage on the eightie. I'm supposing I advise my client
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to tell her future husband all about these letters you hold. You even do
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not know the earl, mister Holmes, Nomi, I am practice at this
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game, sir. Look with the s fucking I have eight or ten similar
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cases, all maturing in It is how I make my humble breath O scoundrel
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as you like, sir. But that are details here that would surprised you
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for all your so called knowledge of affairs. You may remember the sudden end
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of the engagement between the honorable Miss Myles and Colonel Docking and Olympic Cocks.
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The absurd sum of twelve hundred pounds could not be found in time. Seven
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thousand is ridiculous, milburdon out of the question, is it? And I
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think not. There was also the case of well know my names? Perhaps,
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well, sir, what's a get behind him? Tell Lenny it out
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now now, sir, that notebook? If you please go full homes stand
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back. Do you think I go about the business like my alarmed stand back?
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I say do too, Doctor Watson, one of your name is put
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up your hand, homes out Still. I expected something much more original,
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mister Holmes. I really did from you. Do you think I used to
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fool as to carry the letters about with me? You'll only make me more
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determined than ever. One more word and I'll make it eight thousand and the
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thirteenth instead of the forty or night, mister Holmes. It was one of
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my earliest glimpses of the kind of thing confronting us in what Holmes had been
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good enough to call our partnership. What he would do next? I had
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no idea. I was hardly prepared. A few nights later, and on
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a particularly stormy evening, for the appearance in our chambers of a tall,
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Rakish looking young workman with a goat tea Beard. Oh, good evening,
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governor, How are you? How? How am I? Now? Look
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here, my good man? What do you think you're doing? Walking in
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here? These are private apartments. I happen to live here, Watson home.
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Yes, I think I forgot to warn you about my little panchaan for
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this, guys, is Watson just one among my many other accomplishments. You
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want an appalling night outside? It's coming down in sheets? But what on
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earth have you been doing getting myself engaged to be married? To be madded
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my dear, I congratulate you for the housemaid a Charles Augustus Milburton's I had
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two Watson, I wanted information. Oh shure, that was going too far,
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not at all in my present alias, I'm a rising young plumber named
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Escott. I've walked and talked with that girl every evening for nearly a week.
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Charming little talks they were, too, And now I know Milburton's house
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in Hampstead like the palm of my hand, the basement to the attics,
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yes, yes, but at home, the poor girl, oh ear,
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it really can't be helped, Watson. She has to become a sacrifice on
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the altar of my art. Oh Fortunately, I find I have a hated
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rival in the shape of the local grocery assistant. He's sure to cut me
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out at a moment my back turn look out of the window. Watson,
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Oh, what a splendid night? Are you early complaining about it? A
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moment ago as an honest citizen, as a burglar? I approve of it.
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As a burglar. I proposed to burglar Milburton's house before the night is
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over, And Watson, it's the only way. I just want a few
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minutes to change my clothes and get rid of this ticklish beard, and then
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I shall be leaving you for the evening to your peaceful solitude. No,
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no, Holmes, I'm coming with you, my dear Watson. You said
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that we were partners and that I should do something to shake off my indow.
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Well, well, we've been sharing these same rooms for some months now.
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It'll be amusing if we should finish up sharing the same self. Do
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you really mean it, Watson, toll that death when you are a most
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delightful fellow? Well, do you think you could contrive to make us up
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a couple of masks? Masks? Masks? In five minutes from black Silk,
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I have an old umbrella somewhere excellent, and that will be your contribution.
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For my part, I shall be delighted to teach you how to use
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a jemmy and a glass cutter and this set of adaptable key of wonderful specimens.
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Here in two hours time, Watson, we shall be in Milbourdne's study
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where he keeps his safe. It adjoins his bedroom. Unfortunately, but I
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think he's pretty sure to be sound asleep. My little fiancee tells me he
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always sleeps like a log. Is it a bargain, Watson, it's a
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bargain home. Well here we are. You see what did I tell you,
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Watson? Within two hours we'd make a capital pair of burgle as you
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would die. We'd always dedicated to a no blood purpose. I don't like
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it, homes. It was too little trouble, which you mean because the
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door was study wasn't even locked. The holesome oversight. Look there's a light
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under the bedroom door. Yes, he of them falls asleep at the bedroom,
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lamps still burning. I learned that from now then, Watson, to
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work. Well, what do you want me to do? Stand over by
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the door there and give me a warning? Who had any one counting right.
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If they come right in, we'll slap time to hide behind the window
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curtains. I begin on the safe right right, Nah, then scatt and
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keys as it fell as a fool. You know you ought to had a
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much more modern safe than this one. Now, then let's see it.
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If I could only now its homes? What is it? Watson confounded?
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I've almost got it open. Someone coming along the corridor. Two people are
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used to take it on a moment to choose. It's too bad quickly behind
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the curtain. You can't have been in bed after aw I's been waiting in
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the hall for someone. Watson, You all right? Yes? I think
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so bother a type fit happy. I could just see through someone's coming upstairs
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getting an oil lamp. It's there's a woman with him led they're coming in.
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Well, miss who decided to come then? Half an hour late?
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I couldn't manage any earlier. My mistress kept me. Well, if she's
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a hard mistress, you had your chance to get even with her. Who
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tell me in your note that you've managed to get hold of some letters which
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compromise the Countess Delbert. Yes, you want to sell them, and I
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want to buy them. So far, so good. I can use them
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in my business. No as to price. The price, mister Milverton,
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for everything is your life. What you'll mean go look at me. She's
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lifting up veil homes. That's no ladies maid, great heavens? Is it
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you? Yes, it's I, Charles Milverton, And don't you dare to
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speak my name? And you've found it enough. You've ruined me the way
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you've ruined so many others. It should have found the money in time,
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and because I couldn't, because I begged you for two days grace who sent
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those letters? Who had to my husband? And he died and you'll know
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how he died, but the finest man in the world, and the letters
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were false. You changed the dates on them. They were written before I
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met him. Get back from me. No, not till I've used it.
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Your break. No, my heart's Charles Milburton, as you've broken mine.
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New hown, No filthy, how great Heaven's home? Quiet man,
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he's done for and she's got away. Thank him. Who was that woman
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home? Sure you heard that face? Watson? No, never never mentioned
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names. Watson. Now's our chance? It were quick? What you're doing?
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That safe what's in the papers and the safe to save our own plan,
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and who knows how many more besides? Quick put that bundle in your
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Pocketbots and give the rest to me. Hurry. Someone must have heard the
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shots. Listen have people coming out of the window. Quickly, Watson sel
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We escaped down a convenient drain pipe, over two garden walls, and luckily
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I found an empty handsome at the bottom of the road and reached Baker Street
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at last and safety. Our adventure was over, or almost over, and
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I lay tossing slepressly in bed that night I found myself more than ever intrigued
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by the personality of my strange companion. I recollected our first meeting only a
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few months before. I'd just come back from medical service abroad and was moping
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miserably about this old London of ours, of handsome cabs and fog and gaslight,
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doing something nothing at all, And then standing at a Piccadilly bar one
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day, Hello there, Watson, remember me? Why? Yes, Stamford,
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Young Stamford used to be addresser under you, and you were a medical
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student at Darts. Remember, of course, I remember confounders of pleasure to
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see a friendly face Stamford, London's a many useful and lonely man. What
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on earth if we've been doing with yourself? Watson? He then us a
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lot? And browners are nuts for Afghanistan, you know, a campaign out
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their army surgeon. I say, I have a drink, William, thanks,
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you don't ye to start? I think I got wounded pretty badly that
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my one confounded nuisance subclavian artery tube glasses of stout. Please did read it
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up? And eh? And what are you doing with yourself now? Nothing?
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Nothing, trying to solve the problem with finding comfortable rooms on an army
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pinch and eleven and six a day. Well, here's your health Stamford,
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yours, Watson, here's to all time stranger to say that. You know,
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say what about looking for You're the second man to day? Who sent
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it to me? And who was the first? Oh? So fellow was
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working in the chemical lab up at the hospital. A fellow called Holmes.
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You wouldn't like to go Halves. I suppose exactly what he was saying,
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looking for someone to share with him in and the MLB. What's his other
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name? Shit sharing for no, no, no, no, Sherlock,
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you're it for something queer, Sherlock Holmes, what's you do if I know?
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He's got a whole stall about of the way knowledge to put astonished the
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professors, and he's a first class chemist. He says he's going in for
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something quite special. I say, Watson, huh, let's go along to
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the lever meet him. He's punted me there. Let's have lunch someone and
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then go on, shall we excellent? I don't hope it comes to something.
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I must confessing sounds by the interesting. Throw it this way he put
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with it there, Mind you, Watson, you mustn't blame me if you
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don't at on with the fellow. He's pretty queer in his ideas. How
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do you mean? Well? I actually came on in the other day beating
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the subjects in the dissecting room with a stick, but on the form said
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he wanted to find out half hour bruises could be produced after death. True
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here, nah, gruesome tastes, say still ah. There he is the
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tall fellow behind all the testubes and for thoms. I told you he'd be
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working, I say, Holmes, Stanford, you're weaker, Stanford. I'm
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just fund this found work homes a reagent which is precipitated by hemoglobin and by
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nothing else in all the world. Indeed, when I want you to meet
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doctor Watson, Holmes, Watson, this is mister Sherlock Holmes. How are
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you doctor from Afghanistan? I perceive? How on earth did you know that?
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Never mind the question, now it's about hemoglobin, no doubt you see
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the significance of this discovery of man probou was be interesting enough chemically, but
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from the practical point of view, a fellow, it's the most practical medical
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legal discovery for years. Don't you see that it gives us an infallible test
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for bloodstained Indeed, yes, criminal cases are always hjing on this kind of
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thing. A man suspected of a crime long after it's committed, let's say,
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and his linen turned out to have brownish stains on it. Yes,
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but are they blood or mud or rust stains or fruit stains or what?
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Now we have the Sherlock Holmes test, doctor Watson, so there can be
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no more difficult bad Let's say you are a big congratulated mister Holmes. Of
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course I am. There was the case upon Bishop at Frankfort last year,
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and and Mason of Bedford and Samson of New Orleans. I could name a
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score of cases where the thing would have been decisive. By jove, you're
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a regular walking calendar of crime. Oh well, why not? Eh?
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What could be more fascinating? Have you would taste for such matters by any
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chance? Doctor? Oh well, I confess it's been a little beyond my
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rage. You'll get it, you will, I assure you. The thing
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grips you like a drug. Holmes. I wanted you Foo to meet because
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Watson's on the lookout for someone to share diggings with him, the same as
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you are. Capital Doctor, you looked a very man for me. I've
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had my eye on a Sweden Baker Street number two hundred and twenty one B.
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And missus Hudson is the landlady name. You don't mind the smell of
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strong tobacco? I hope. I always spoke ships myself. That's good enough
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them. Oh, and I generally have a few chemicals about and carry out
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experiments like this one that wouldn't annoy you. Final means, well, then
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let me see one of my other shortcomings. Oh, I get done in
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the dumps sometimes and don't open my mouth for days on end. And oh,
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I've a fanciful revolver practice indoors, so long as I can rely on
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your aim intendible, I assure you, now, what have you to confess?
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When I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours and I'm very lazy,
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I don't like two months rather, but but oh but I put up
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with a revolver shots good. I've got another set of advices when I'm well,
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But these are the principal ones for the person. And that's all right,
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thank you Stamford. I'm very much obliged to you. Well, should
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we go together, Dr Watson and look at the rooms tomorrow, say at
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noon at Nolton Home it'll suit admirably. Or one other little thing, the
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violin. You don't include violin playing in your category of rows. It depends
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on the player my homes. If it's badly play, that's something I should
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have to leave you to judge for yourself, my dear fellow, and I
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should have pleasure in testing your ear with a few of my own little compositions.
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Then you will be able to judge my modest capabilities till tomorrow, then,
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my dear doctor Watson, till tomorrow. So it took those wounds together
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and settled down quite amicably. As the weeks went by, my interest in
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my companion intensified. I studied his sharp piercing eyes, his thin hawk like
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face, and I wondered time and again what he did for the living so
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as to pay his share of our humble reckoning. He was out at all
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sorts of strange hours, and when he was at home, curious visitors were
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always calling on him, And then he would ask if he might have our
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sitting room to himself. Who was a thin, sallow, dark eyed fellow
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called less trade for a distance, who came three or four nights in one
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week. Once a fashionable addressed young girl waited on him. At another time
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he was a railway porter in his velveteen uniform. The thing puzzled me until
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at last one day, Ah, you wonder what I do for a living?
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Watson? Eh, I've seen you looking quizzically once or twice at these
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visiting plants of mine, or just passed me over the person slipper, will
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you, my dear fellow, I always keep the tobacco in it, thank
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you. The fact is, I'm a professional thinker, doctor thinker. Certainly
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I piece things together. You see, just as a logician could infer the
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possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara from a single drop of water without having
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seen or heard of either of them. So I build rare edifices of deduction
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from the observation of a few simple thets. It's the truth, I assure
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you. If you're looking around for a cigar by the way, my chap,
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you will find them in the coast cuttle. Yes, yes, I
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have a trade all my own, Watson, the only one in the whole
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world. I'm a consulting detective. Oh that's lone. Them full of detectives
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home, lots of government ones, and plenty of private ones, but none
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like me. I built up quite a special little connection, Watson. And
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when any of these other fellows that are at last day generally come to me
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to put them right, just by thinking about things, I suppose exactly I
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have a turn for observation and deduction. As you must have noticed that first
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time we met. For instance, when I mentioned to your surprise that you've
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just come from Afghanistan. You're told about it, no doubt, not think
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of the s Watson, just new white second nature to me. My train
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of thought ran something like this, here's a fellow who's a doctor, but
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with the air of a military man. Clearly an army surgeon then, just
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come from the tropics. But his face is dark, but that isn't his
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natural color, for his wrists are fair, his arm is stiff. Has
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been wounded where the tropics? Could an English army doctor have been wounded lately?
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And the obvious answer was in the Afghan campaign, probably the Battle of
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my Wand it's simple enough when you explain it. I confess I was taken
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aback a bit of the time. And you mean to say that you apply
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these principles to the detection of crime, of course I do. That fellow
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is trade you were asking me about the other day. For instance. He's
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a Scotland yard man, one of the best. But he got himself into
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a fog over a forgery case recently and came to me to ask my advice
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on the evidence you had. I sold it for him on the spot.
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Upon my life you astonished me at Holmes. I'd no idea that that was
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what you were up to. What gave you the notion all natural talent?
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As though when I was still at college a small thing happened to become my
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way, which enabled me to solve a curious crime. I decided that I'd
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tasted such matters, and so here I am now a professional investigator. That's
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the kind of thing I deal within this life of mine. Watson, That
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and of course my music. Well, I never thought that you was a
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professional investigator of crime, even when you talked about it so much at the
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hospital that time we met. But one really must do something to keep on
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self from boredom. You may find yourself mixed up in it one of these
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fine days. You know, you never know what's new, You never know.
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And I was, of course you know that now with the Milverton exploit,
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as I've related it, that the first real adventure of them all in
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which I felt myself truly involved. It ended rather oddly at Burgler Day episode
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of ours. The very morning after it, after my sleepless night, they
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came in the little man I'd so often seen before. Let's trade the good
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less straight of Scotland yard. Good morning, my dear lest right, good
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morning with their own. I was wondering, is doctor Watson, by the
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way, he was asking all about you the other day, how'd you do
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doctor? Any friend of mister Holmes, this is a friend of mine's lasted
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to meet your inspective. Well, sit down on sh share a pipe with
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its soo much of a harry, I'm afraid I just wanted to ask if
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you were anything particular on hand, mister Holmes. Oh, I don't think
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so nothing much little matter down of the docks involving a giant rat from Sumatra.
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You're gonna need the rats look after themselves, mister Holmes. There's been
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murder dam app at Hampstead. Wanted you to look into it for us queer
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business. Oh really, who's been murdered? Feller called Milverton. Indeed,
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I believe I've heard the name O homes not feeling Dickie? Are you Watson?
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Any details this straight worler? We know did it? Of course?
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You know good heaven copper on them. Doctor nearly got him, vented you
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and cried. You see, they got away worse luck where they were?
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How interesting? And what are they supposed to look like? The first one?
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Very tall? I'm a fellow, middle size, thick neck man with
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them a start head, masks over their eyes. Oh, come less strade.
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That's rather vague, isn't it? On my soul. It might even
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be a description of Watson and me. Hey, Watson, imag indeed,
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you're right, mister Holmes, You're perfectly right. If I do it might
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be well, will you Hendley. I'm afraid not less trade, not this
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time. I know something of this fellow Milverton me with a rogue and a
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blackmailer. There certain crimes of the law can't punish adequately, my dear fellow.
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And in this instance my sympathies are with the criminals. Less trade.
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I will not handle the case. Well if you won't, you won't.
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No, I'll get the fellows all right in time, I dare say,
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will you less trade? I do hope you may pass me my violin as
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you go out there as a good fellow. I feel deuced lazy this morning,
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had rather a strenuous night pleasure, mister Holmes. Well, good morning,
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doctor, see again, and I said, always going out to Vegas,
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teach you no good morning, inspector good morning, best of luckless daid,
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Oh, well, another five minutes like that, Holmes, I'll take
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myself back to Afghanistan. Oh no, you won't, Watson, You'll grow
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to love it too. This is only the beginning. My dear fellow only
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the beginning. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories of
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, have been dramatized on You, with original music composed
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by Sydney Corch. Sir Ralph Richardson played the part of Doctor Watson and Sir
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John Gilgood that of Sherlock Holmes. The program was produced by Harry Allen Towers.
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Welcome back, well, I think overall a pretty solid performance. I
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have to admit I was a little iffy on the choice to work the Milverton
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story into the first episode and make that for the purpose of this series the
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first adventure they shared together. Really a an odd choice and an odd note
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to begin on. But we had a little listener who said that the Milverton
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story was actually her favorite to a Sherlock Holmes story, and now you've heard
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it, even though the story itself occurred after the final problem, which will
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hear later. But beyond that little point, I mean, I think this
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really has the feel of a very classy, well done production, different than
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the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. You know, no ads for clipper craft
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suits or the John Watermaker men's store is simply handled. And you're dealing with
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two actors here in gil Good and Richardson who'd been playing off each other since
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the nineteen twenties, so they definitely had a well developed report and chemistry that
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looks like this is going to make for a very entertaining, well done series.
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Debbie, who emails in my son and I both enjoy them and are always
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quoting Pat Novac for higher keep it up. And then also we have this
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I love your accent and how excited you get from time to time. Keep
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up the excellent work. Any chance Broadways might beat might find its way to
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your show. Either way, it's your show and you're killing it daily.
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one of those shows that we haven't done that has the most episodes. I
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think that Dragnet and Boston Blackie are the shows that have more episodes that we
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haven't got to yet. Johnny Dowler. There's more episodes available Sherlock Holmes,
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