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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Iron Maiden Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conway, · Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen

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Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, I'm sure we're all as anxious as
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I am to hear the strange story of the Iron Maiden.
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Speaker 2: Well, it was just before the turn of the century,
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and Holmes and I had brought to successful completion the
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most delicate mission for the reigning family of Saxony, with
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was spending a day relaxation the picturesque old German town
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of Nuremberg, prepared it to a leisurely trip on the.
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Speaker 3: Rhine and then back to England.
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Speaker 2: As we were getting up from breakfast in our rooms
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in the hotel, Holmes.
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Speaker 4: Said, wonderful weather, Watson, and I see your admiring the
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excellent view of this quaint old town from my window.
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Speaker 3: You woos of yous.
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Speaker 4: All right, you don't sound very enthusiastic. I'm not not.
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Speaker 2: The trouble with Germany, is Holmes, No, but it's full
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of Germans.
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Speaker 4: Hum to the waiter, come in, come, in, come in.
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Speaker 5: If I the honor of addressing mister Sherlock Holmes of London, England, er.
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Speaker 2: This is mister Sherlock Holmes, Sir, my name is Watson.
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Speaker 5: Not to watch, yeah, mister Holt so celebrated college. Permit
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me that I introduced myself. Gentlemen, my name is Vedinant Langa.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Mattalanga, and.
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Speaker 5: My friend, the chief pot of this hotel told me
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of your arrival, and I have come to beg of
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you if perhaps you can help me with my.
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Speaker 4: So difficult problem. If it is a matter for the police, Mittalanga,
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I fear that I should be unable to assist you.
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I have no official standing here and betimes, Doctor Watson
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and I will be leaving tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: Ah the police. To the police, I have been with
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the Holmes at me, they.
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Speaker 2: Laugh, I am how do you say?
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Speaker 5: Chief keeper of the film Edgar term Want the five
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corner Tower of the Castle of Nunbeg.
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Speaker 4: You have heard of it, of course, and of its
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famous torture museum, Toki Museum.
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Speaker 2: It sounds distinctly unpleasant.
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Speaker 5: For thirty five years now, I've worked in the tower.
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The last eighteen years, I am chief keeper.
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Speaker 4: All this time there.
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Speaker 5: Is never a complaint about me. But now these last
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few weeks the letters has started to come, each one
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with more awful threatenings.
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Speaker 4: Threats mister Langer, threats of one that for all I.
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Speaker 5: Am carety, that I should resign my position, that if
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I do not something terrible will happen here.
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Speaker 4: He is the latest for yourself. You shall see me
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to Ah. Yes, if my knowledge of German says me
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vague threats, nothing specific, quite a typical letter. From the
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irregularity of handwriting, mister Langer, these slanting lines, and certain
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other definite characteristics, I'd say that the writer of this
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letter is definitely unbalanced. Ah, you mean Madham, Perhaps not
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outwardly so, but most definitely abnormal. And from the fact
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that these threats are evidently designed to make you resign
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your position, Mitter Langer, I deduce that the author of
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them must be connected in some way with the affairs
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of the Tower suspicions.
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Speaker 5: This I do not like to say, mister Holmes, but
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there is a young man, my assistant, Heindrich Shila, who
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but waits to step into my shoes. He even presumes
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to pay court to.
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Speaker 4: My daughter La.
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Speaker 2: Oh we well, we're very young ones.
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Speaker 5: Oh my god, I have better things in mine than
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this insolent young man. No, you, to, mister Holmes, think
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Heinrich wrote these letters? You think I should have him
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arrested or dismissed.
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Speaker 4: I think you will fire more evidence than a mayor
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guest after Langer.
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Speaker 5: But how shall I get it?
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Speaker 4: Well? Perhaps when my combined business with pleasure. What do
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you say, wasn't suppose we have mister Langer shows through
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Nuremberg's most famous fight, the Five Corner Tower.
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Speaker 5: Oh, here we are, gentlemen. If you will just follow
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me through this gate, here, this very gentlemen.
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Speaker 3: Just a moment, my man.
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Speaker 4: Are you in charge here?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 4: Madam?
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Speaker 3: Then why are these people being admitted to the tower
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while my friend with Simpson and I are kept standing
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about in the mark the bar fiance? Oh do please
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be careful for me? It isn't as though we were home.
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I am sister undoing.
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Speaker 5: I am sorry, madam, but guitar is not open for
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visitors until eleven each morning, as you will find. If
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your baby can you have your consult? And it is
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now but ten o'clock?
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Speaker 3: Then why are these two men being admitted? Because no excuses?
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I'm English, my man, and in England we believe in
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fair play, no favoritism.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure, mister Wungo that you have no objections to
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throwing these two charming leaders through the town with us.
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Of course, mister Holmes, if you say hi, do indeed
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thank you very.
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Speaker 3: Much, just what I should expect from fellow.
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Speaker 4: British pressure to you later lead the way, mister Langham.
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Speaker 5: At this point, in the very center of the castle,
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we are cut from out the solid rock built by
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the prisoners from twelve to fifty three. In sixty years.
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Speaker 3: Later twelve fifty three, victorias that what.
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Speaker 2: In Heaven's name is that black pit yawning in the
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center of the.
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Speaker 4: Thief bruning the deep Wales?
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Speaker 5: Lean over and listen by like rock a stone.
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Speaker 4: Oh, it must be almost possible, about three hundred and
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forty feet, I'd say you have been needed for mister Horns. No,
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I merely counted the interval from the time you dropped
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the stone until the splash.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Melia down her corridor looks. That's a gett it shadow,
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it's getting here.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, can carry yourself, madam. It's merely
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if somebody approach you the.
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Speaker 6: Torch, Ah, good morning here longer I did not know
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you are showing a party, thought so earlier that.
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Speaker 5: It's highly mister horns Fallow, its highly. Yet sir, here
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are the dungeon, says where we've kept the crest is
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most insanitary.
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Speaker 2: I call it nothing but damp stone path.
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Speaker 3: That's what I should expect a finder.
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Speaker 4: Old here.
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Speaker 5: The torture chamber.
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Speaker 3: What are all those strange objects? Oh, at least there's
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accounts for the poor prisoners.
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Speaker 4: Hardly that idea that the wheelike object of ahead of
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it proclaims it's true purpose.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, mister Holmes, this was the wreck, and that they
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would tie the victim, and with the wheel they would
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stretch on stretch, on stretch his limbs until his bones cracked.
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Speaker 3: How awful?
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Speaker 2: What's that iron color thing of the lead?
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Speaker 5: Doctor fits into that larger iron frame which over there
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you may see around the neck of a prisoner. It
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was let unlocked so that the unfortunate man neither sit,
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nor lie down nor slip could your chamber of hers?
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What there is the boot, the iron frame in which
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a prisoner's leg was slowly crushed, the precious for melting
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lead and heating tongues and pincers, they are.
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Speaker 4: All here, and that large iron at theare beneath the
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empressure that mister I assume to be a famous iron maiden.
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Speaker 1: Iron maid.
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Speaker 4: It looked just like a statue.
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Speaker 2: He can't say that I consider that a dudiful one.
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Speaker 5: It is a statue, Madam, but the hollow one, and
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for good reason.
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Speaker 3: I think I'd rather not hear about it, Victoria.
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Speaker 5: The two halves of this statue swing open within how
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many iron spikes, as in the moment you will see
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into it was placed the victim, and slowly, slowly the
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door upon him was closed.
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Speaker 2: The maiden's kiss.
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Speaker 5: The execution has called in.
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Speaker 2: Imagined a bunch of fellows.
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Speaker 4: There must have been a most cratic description, mister Langham,
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thank you.
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Speaker 5: Perhaps one of the ladies would like to open this
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statue on CVD.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, not, I nonsense, Victoria. The ghost to prisoners
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who've been day to five hundred yeards can't hurt.
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Speaker 5: I can't, mister guide.
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Speaker 4: I you live this by here.
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Speaker 5: And then pull open with this handle.
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Speaker 3: It works rather stiffly.
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Speaker 4: Now, don't touch me at home.
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Speaker 2: Something horrible they spoke of.
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Speaker 4: No, it has unbelievable control yourself. Chip. Take these two
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ladies out into the air.
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Speaker 3: Up used to like cheer up.
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Speaker 4: I must say, home.
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Speaker 2: That's about as nasty as sight as I've ever seen.
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Speaker 4: Crier Watson. Mister Langer, do you recognize this woman? Never
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saw her before? What time? Yes?
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Speaker 3: The day.
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Speaker 5: Did the last visitors go through you see miss close
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from six o'clock on?
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Speaker 4: Mister, then the body of this unfortunate young woman must
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have been placed here between that time last night in
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the present moment. Yeah, but how I cannot.
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Speaker 5: Understand now at last to meet the policeman have tradition, undoubtedly,
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and you would best send for them at once, doctor Watson,
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and I will be leaving you in bed tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Morning, and authorities will no doubt wish to take our
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teath immediately.
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Speaker 5: I shall see it for him.
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Speaker 4: We shall wait here for their arrival.
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Speaker 5: Oh, this candle, it will rate the mu season. Mister Holt,
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you have seen Heinrich kill me?
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Speaker 4: Could he so terrible a teen have done? And that's
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mister Langer, is a question we're deafly to the police.
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Speaker 2: I fetched him at once.
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Speaker 4: A curious problem, Watson. The solution is, of course obvious solution.
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This murder you mean murder. There's been no murder, Watson.
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Speaker 2: There will remain homes with the cops that were staring
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us in the face from inside, that were voting our statue.
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Speaker 4: If you will examine the corpse for a moment, my
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dear Watson, you'll notice that it exhibits no signs whatsoever. Brigard,
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I as save you you're right.
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Speaker 2: Health.
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Speaker 4: Does it mean simply that this poor woman was dead
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long before herbart was put into the Iron Maiden. I've
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no doubt that the police will quickly be able to
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establish that a corpse is missing from the morgue or
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one of the local hospitals.
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Speaker 2: What can be the purpose of so phenix and so
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horrible a plot. I hardly expect you to tell me
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it's merely a practical joke.
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Speaker 4: Far from it. Madness lay at the bottom of those
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letters that Lunger showed us at. Madness placed this body
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within the statue. But the difficulty, Watson will be to
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reveal the madmen behind these eggs.
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Speaker 1: In just a moment, we'll rejoin Sherlock Holmes as he
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endeavors to solve the mystery of the Iron Maiden men.
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E M L Kremmel hair tony. Now, Doctor Watson, what
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did Scherlock Holmes do to uncover the madmen behind the
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strange deed in the Five Cornered Tower of Nuremberg.
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Speaker 2: Well, by the times the police had finished reversive this
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late in the afternoon, slumperly shake him by the events.
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Speaker 4: Of the day.
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Speaker 2: We returned to our cowl, where the two ladies whould
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Spencer Grimmer morning with us, we also stopping after a
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tub and whiskey and soda. I don't know which was
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more welcome. I came back into our room to find
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homes in conversation with young Heinrich Schiller.
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Speaker 4: Anything I can do, mister Hants, I will.
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Speaker 6: I know that the police suspect me of these letters,
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and how can I prove that I did not write them?
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Speaker 4: Elsa's father shows clearly that he.
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Speaker 6: Thinks it is I behind all this horror.
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Speaker 4: If you will carry out my instructions, mister Sheller, I
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think we may succeed in clearing up this matter. This
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evening hen't blessed you, mister Holts.
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Speaker 6: If only your camera moved, the shadow that hangs over
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Elsa and myself.
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Speaker 4: Ears and now goodbye until later with fire general reversion.
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Speaker 2: The young fellow looks as though well woods end.
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Speaker 4: If the police, the father of the girl you loved,
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and even the girl herself suspected you of being an
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anonymous letter writer with the latent streak and sane, I
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don't quickly doubt that even you could maintain your usual poise.
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Speaker 2: Possible, but I wouldn't write anonymous letters or put copses
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in iron maidens.
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Speaker 4: I trust not well.
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Speaker 2: I'm ready to do to do good justice to a
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great dinner and then a good night's sleep before we
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start our trip down the Rhine tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: I hope that the dinner will be good, but I'm
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sorry to tell you that your chances of a good
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night's sleep look extremely poor. H Why because by ten
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o'clock this evening, you and I must be securely hidden
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in the torture room of the castle. Oh quite, and
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before we dine, I'd be obliged if you would unpack
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your service revolver and make certain that it's loaded. We
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may well be depending upon you before the night is out.
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Just a moment, where are you off to I'm going
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downstairs to see miss Adebury. I'll meet you in the
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dining room.
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Speaker 2: That grim faced old trod. Don't tell me you're going
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to ask her and that massive little companion hers to
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dine with us.
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Speaker 4: Not at all, my dear fellow. I want miss adabury
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his assistance in baiting a trap. So there, Miss Aderbury,
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you have a frank statement of my problem.
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Speaker 3: I understand, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 4: The difficulty, you see, is that although the man in
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question is undoubtedly as mad as a hatter. There's no
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way in the world by which I can prove it.
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And what I fear is that, having begun with threatening
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letters and graduated to stolen bodies, his mania may at
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any time break out in an even more violent form.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's a home.
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Speaker 3: You don't mean murder. Don't be idiotic, Victoria, of course,
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mister Holmes means murder.
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Speaker 4: Oh, if you are willing to take the risk, Miss Anderbury,
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it is my belief that a sudden and violent shock
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may serve to bring his madness into the open. But
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I'll not disguise from you the fact that, although doctor Watson,
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then I will take every precaution, you may still be
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running a considerable personal risk.
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Speaker 3: Do it, e media, This is no concern of yours.
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Think what the dear Vicar would say. The Vicar will
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probably saint I, however, am made a stern of stuff.
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Mister Holmes. I shall be glad to assist you to
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the best of my ability.
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Speaker 4: Capital then I shall see you at about eleven o'clock tonight,
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Miss Adbury. Although you will not see us.
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Speaker 2: From the eleven o'clock Holmes, I feel as though we've
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been here most of the night, cold dampness of this
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infernal torture chambers like a breath.
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Speaker 3: From a tool.
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Speaker 4: I only hope, Watson, that my estimate of our man's
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psychology have been accurate. I'd hate to think that I'd
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put Miss Adderbury into jeopardy unnecessary.
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Speaker 2: She looked to me the sort of female who could
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take care of herself if she were charged by a
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mad elephant.
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Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with her courage, though there are not many
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women who will. Do you hear that, Watson? Yes, yes,
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yes I haven't. Now you understand why I point the
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hour of eleven. The moon has risen, and enough of
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her light comes through that narrow embrasures so that you
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can shood straight. If the media rising I have therevolve
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already hard once they're in this room, you shan't be late.
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Speaker 5: You are sure, Miss the Berry, that no one knows
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about this visit.
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Speaker 3: I made a point.
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Speaker 5: Only because you have shown such great interest and been
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so understanding. Would I fool the power I owe you
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at night when the museum is closed.
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Speaker 3: It's too good of you, my dear mister Langer, and
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I can't tell you how much I appreciate it, but
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I did so want to see it by moonlight. When
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I get back to England, I know I shall be
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the envy of all my friends.
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Speaker 5: It's because the proper spirit you show to the memories
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of the old Dace that I bring you here now
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it is past at night. Those who have once screamed
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aloud in this hoom almost you'll mentioned that in the
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moonlight you can see them, won't hear them?
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Speaker 3: Really, mister Lana, you have the most remarkable ability for
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summoning up the ghosts of the past. When I think
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of what this room must have known, it makes the
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cold shivers run down my spine.
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Speaker 5: It is because you have the imagination that you shall
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feel it is but right and proper.
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Speaker 3: I was so disappointed today when you were unable to
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complete your description of all these fascinating devices.
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Speaker 5: There is no reason why now you should not them
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all be seen.
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Speaker 3: That pair of objects hanging on the wall there they
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look almost like gloves hanging at the end of those
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iron chain.
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Speaker 5: Hey, they are gloves, but of a variety most strange.
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Come to the wall here do you I show them?
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It is most ingenious. So iron gloves. Open into them
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with the hands of the prisoner.
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Speaker 3: Put they may I try them it would all make
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it seem so real.
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Speaker 5: But why not here your hands you place inside like this,
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Yeah on, then.
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Speaker 3: You close them. Yeah, most interesting. It's rather uncomfortable standing
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here against the wall with my hands change over my head.
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So if you don't mind, that is only.
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Speaker 4: Half of it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you have not yet seen.
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Speaker 5: I pulled back its levers, and slowly, slowly the stones.
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Speaker 4: That they flow on your feet.
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Speaker 5: Move away, I'll tell you, hanging above a pit that
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goes down all into the deepest depths.
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Speaker 2: Of the castle.
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Speaker 3: And you shall lie.
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Speaker 2: Or shall hear you already?
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Speaker 5: I am to pull the lever that the change will
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release adown you will.
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Speaker 4: Go reaching for it star, But what button? Just in time?
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It's everything, all right, Lester Holmes. I watched the corridor
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and as you told me, all right, just traverse that
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in funnel device and let's release miss Edbury much. Are
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you all right, miss Dbury?
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Speaker 3: Although it's nothing experience, I should care to peace.
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Speaker 4: I can well believe that. But there's nothing wrong with
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your courage, madam.
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Speaker 3: I believe I'd like a cup of tea.
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Speaker 2: Well, better get this fellow at the hospital homes. I
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got him through the shoulder and having fatal but he's
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losing a lot of blood.
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Speaker 4: Well, I will carry him. Mister Holmes hasn't taken him
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through the hospital. Go ahead, Missbury the torch.
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Speaker 2: I realized, Homes that the man was mad. The trap
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you set finally brought his madness out into the open.
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Speaker 4: But there was on away Watson, a long shot, but
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the successful one.
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Speaker 2: I can't understand what Langer was attempting to gay.
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Speaker 4: I imagine Watson, that his mind had become prested by
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his many years among his gruesome exhibits of the past,
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and his hatred of young Sheller, both as a prospective
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son in law and as a successor to his own position,
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must have hatched this mad plot.
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Speaker 2: Well, it all ended well due to your foreside, Homes
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and to your pluck. Very good show, I must sir,
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it is a pleasure kill.
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Speaker 3: Me, doctor Watson. I believe that mister Holmes said that
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you and he are leaving tomorrow morning for a trip
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down the Rhine for your return to England. Ron not
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by any chance going aboard the steamer Earl Kearney.
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Speaker 4: Are you well who we are?
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Speaker 3: How very fortunate mister Simpson and I are going on
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the same boat, so we shall all reachiptates for a
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delightful week.
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Speaker 2: Delightful?
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Speaker 3: Are you a bachelor, doctor Watson?
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Speaker 4: A bachelor? Yes? Is I am?
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Speaker 3: The rhyme scenery they say is nurse from.
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Speaker 2: So I've heard just a moment, Homes Swatton, My shoelace
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has come up.
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Speaker 4: Done.
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Speaker 2: Are you going ahead? Miss Audray? You catch up with
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you in a minute, I say, Holmes, you take her
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back to the teller. I got something else to do.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to change our tickets. Watson, Huh, how do
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you know? I thought you might be thinking of giving
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up the Rhine trip and getting out of Germany by
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the fastest train. Brilliant deduction homes the elementary idea Watson,
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Elementary