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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Creeping Man Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: Kremmel Hair Tonic and Cremel Shampoo presents The New Adventures
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  Speaker 1: of Sherlock Holmes, starring Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson and
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  Speaker 1: Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes. Here we are once more
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  Speaker 1: in doctor Watson's firelit study. The wind is howling outside,
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  Speaker 1: but inside the heavy red curtains have been drawn across
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  Speaker 1: the windows, and the only sound we can hear is
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  Speaker 1: the cheerful crackling of the logs in the fireplace.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening, mister Bell.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know how lucky you are that you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to go out on a night like this.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's one of the advantages of having retired from
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  Speaker 4: active medical practice.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the old head age man.
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  Speaker 4: Works from sun to sun, but woman's work's never done.
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  Speaker 4: It's the base libel as far as doctors are concerned.
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  Speaker 4: You never know when mister Smith is going to acquire
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  Speaker 4: a black eye, or missus mc tavish. They decided to
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  Speaker 4: present an addition to the clan.
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  Speaker 1: Never a dull moment, Ada Goad, You.
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  Speaker 4: Mean no, that's one thing I've never complained of. It
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  Speaker 4: wasn't a patient who disturbed what the routine I had.
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  Speaker 4: It was Sherlock Holmes. I remember one bitter February evening.
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  Speaker 4: It's the second winter after my marriage. I just settled
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  Speaker 4: down to my after dinner pipe when the doorbell rang.
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  Speaker 4: It was a note from Holmes. It said, come at
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  Speaker 4: once if convenient. If inconvenient, comels.
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  Speaker 1: And once went round to Baker Street at the posts.
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  Speaker 4: Curiosity has always been my achilles heel.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 4: When I arrived at Baker Street, I found Holmes huddled
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  Speaker 4: in his armchair, his knees drawn.
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  Speaker 3: Up and his pipe in his mouth. He was sunk
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  Speaker 3: in a profound reverie.
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  Speaker 4: And I've been in the room several moments before he
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  Speaker 4: became aware of my existence.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so they are, Watson, they.
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  Speaker 3: Are obviously, I've been here for seven minutes. As a
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  Speaker 3: matter of.
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  Speaker 2: Fact, unimportant, completely unimportant and uninteresting. Watson, have you ever
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  Speaker 2: speculated on the importance of a knowledge of dogs and
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  Speaker 2: detective work?
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  Speaker 3: Dogs? Well, naturally bloodhounds.
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  Speaker 2: How No, I'm not interested in that phase of the subject.
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  Speaker 2: It's too obvious. There is another side, far more subtle.
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  Speaker 3: There is what I'm dressed.
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  Speaker 2: Well know you will recollect in the case you so
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  Speaker 2: sensationally wrote up as the adventure of the Copper Beaches.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but the case was sensational, and that incluse it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't a dog. It was the fact that the master
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  Speaker 4: of the house is willing to pay a sizeable sum.
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  Speaker 2: Don't crattle, Watson, don't crattle prattle. I was about to
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  Speaker 2: point a model in the case of the Copper Beaches.
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  Speaker 2: I was able, by noting the actions of a rather
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  Speaker 2: vicious child, to draw some starking deductions as to the
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  Speaker 2: criminal instincts of its father, who was considered a thoroughly
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  Speaker 2: respectable citizen.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, yes I remember.
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  Speaker 2: But what's that gotta do with my line of thought
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  Speaker 2: about dogs? As analogus? Whoever saw frisker darg in a
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  Speaker 2: gloomy family or a sad dog and happy one. Snarling
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  Speaker 2: people have snarling dogs. Dangerous people have dangerous dogs.
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  Speaker 3: Surely homes.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't write me out on a night like this
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  Speaker 4: to discuss the temperaments.
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  Speaker 2: Of dogs, not in general. No, what interests me is
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  Speaker 2: why Professor Presbury's faithful wolfhound Roy endeavors to bite him.
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  Speaker 4: You mean Professor Presbury, the famous Camphord's physiologist.
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  Speaker 2: Quite the dog. Until recently, most devoted animal has attacked
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  Speaker 2: his master twice. What do you make of it? The
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  Speaker 2: dog is ill, possibly, but he attacks no one else,
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  Speaker 2: nor does he molest his master, save on very special occasions.
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  Speaker 2: Curious Watson, very curious. Ah, that must be mister Bennett,
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  Speaker 2: Professor Presbury's assistant. He is before his time. His appointment
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  Speaker 2: was eight thirty. Come in, come in, Ah, Good evening,
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  Speaker 2: mister Bennett. Good evening. This is my friend and colleague,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Watson. I couldn't consider n to taking a case
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  Speaker 2: or solving an enigma without his invaluable aid.
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  Speaker 4: Oh have been no attention. Distability is pulling my leg again.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to meet you, sir. I hope you forgive you're
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  Speaker 2: writing so early, mister Holmes. But Edith is so worried
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  Speaker 2: about her father, and naturally I quite so. Edith, my
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  Speaker 2: dear Watson, is Professor Presbury's daughter, to whom mister Bennett
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  Speaker 2: is engaged to be married. Am I right, yes, mister Holmes,
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  Speaker 2: I have that honor.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, congratulations, young man, congratulations, ideal state.
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  Speaker 2: I stop chattering now than mister Bennett. I believe you
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  Speaker 2: gave her the sailing points of the case in your letter,
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  Speaker 2: but I have not had the opportunity to relate them
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  Speaker 2: to Dr Watson. So if you will be good enough
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  Speaker 2: to go over the matter again, certainly, mister Holmes, the professor,
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  Speaker 2: as you may know, Doctor Watson, is a man of
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  Speaker 2: spendid reputee years in need. He is a trifle positive,
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  Speaker 2: I might even say combative. But there's never been a
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  Speaker 2: breath of scandal, at least until a month ago.
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  Speaker 4: Hear me, don't tell me that old Presbury has started
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  Speaker 4: to saw his wild oats. At his age, I.
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  Speaker 3: Was considered him the soul of respectability.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you see, early last fall he'd be came attached
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  Speaker 2: to the daughter of Professor Morphy. It was not the
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  Speaker 2: reason courting of an elderly man, but rather the passionate
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  Speaker 2: frenzy of youth. In short, his family considered the infatuation
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  Speaker 2: rather excessive, exactly, and so I gathered at the young lady,
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  Speaker 2: although her father, Professor Morphy, favored the thatching. Yes, Presbury's
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  Speaker 2: fairly well to do, I understand. Yes, About a month
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  Speaker 2: ago Professor Presbury did something he's never done before. He
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  Speaker 2: left home without telling any money was going. A fortunate
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  Speaker 2: later he returned rather travel war.
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  Speaker 3: Oh had he been what.
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  Speaker 2: He refused to say by chance. However, I received a
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  Speaker 2: letter from a friend of mine in Prague saying he's
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  Speaker 2: seen the professor at a distance. And now comes the
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  Speaker 2: remarkable part of the story. Oh yes, doctor Watson. From
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  Speaker 2: that time on, a curious change came over the Professor.
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  Speaker 3: Those around him had.
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  Speaker 2: The inexpectable feeling that he was under some influence that
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  Speaker 2: darkened his better name. Too.
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  Speaker 4: You'll think that he was hypnotized, possibly or or mentally
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  Speaker 4: unbalanced in some way.
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  Speaker 2: No, on the contrary, his lectures were more brilliant than ever.
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  Speaker 2: His mind was singularly alert. But there was something new
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  Speaker 2: about him, something something sinister. His daughter tried again and
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  Speaker 2: again to penetrate the mask he put on, but in vain.
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  Speaker 2: He'd behaved to her, almost as though she she were
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  Speaker 2: a stranger. In fact, all of his friends and co
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  Speaker 2: workers noticed a rather singular change of personality. And the
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  Speaker 2: incident of the letters, mister Bennett, don't forget that I
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  Speaker 2: was just coming to that. You see, doctor Watson, a
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  Speaker 2: professor has never had any secrets from me. I handled
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  Speaker 2: every paper which came into him and opened all his letters.
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  Speaker 2: Shortly after his return, all this was changed. Certain letters
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  Speaker 2: began to arrive marked with an X under the stamp.
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  Speaker 2: These I was in no account to touch. What was
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  Speaker 2: the handwriting like? Decidedly illiterate. The envelopes had the E
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  Speaker 2: C mark east central here not exactly the portion of
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  Speaker 2: London one would expect the Professor to be in touch with.
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  Speaker 2: The letters were curious enough, but not more curious than
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  Speaker 2: the little wooden box. Bo. Yes, one of those quaint
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  Speaker 2: things one associates with a visit to Germany. I discovered
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  Speaker 2: it one morning in the drawer Professor Presbury's desk. He
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  Speaker 2: had sent me into his study in search of a canduler.
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  Speaker 2: I put it on my desk, Bennett, in front of
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  Speaker 2: the ink. Well, it's not here, Professor Presbury. I'll try
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  Speaker 2: the drawers. It's usually in the upper right. No, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not here. Perhaps the left one? No, I say, Professor,
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  Speaker 2: what a curious box. I've never seen that in here before,
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  Speaker 2: But this one with a carving you must have got
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  Speaker 2: on your trip to Germany. Trip to Germany? Who said
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  Speaker 2: I was in Germany, Professor Presbury, I didn't mean a
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  Speaker 2: cat concept of a snooper? What do you mean by
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  Speaker 2: poking about among my things?
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  Speaker 3: But put that?
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  Speaker 2: Let me explode that, stud.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you, I'll get out of here, Get up
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  Speaker 3: before I break every me your.
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  Speaker 4: Body, jolly chap, Professor sounds if you were heading for
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  Speaker 4: an apoplectic fit.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember the date of that outburst, mister Bennett.
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  Speaker 2: It was December the second. It was on that very
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  Speaker 2: day that Roy the wolf found made his first attack
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  Speaker 2: on the Professor.
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  Speaker 3: The attack do you mean that the dog actually bid him?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he certainly tried to. When was the next attack?
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  Speaker 2: December the eleventh, and again on December the twentieth. After
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  Speaker 2: that we had to banish Roy to the stables? Singular
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  Speaker 2: most singular for those dates were new to me. There
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  Speaker 2: have been some even stranger developments since I wrote you.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Holmes says. What I speak of occurred the night
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  Speaker 2: before last.
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  Speaker 3: Eh.
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  Speaker 2: It was really a terrifying experience. Yes, yes, go on.
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  Speaker 2: I live with Professor Presbury. As you know, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: I had retired rather early and was correcting the papers
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  Speaker 2: of a lecture I were to deliver in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: At eleven thirty, all was quiet, and I blew out
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  Speaker 2: my lamp and went to sleep. A little after midnight,
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  Speaker 2: I was awakened by a curious shuffling and muttering in
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  Speaker 2: the corridor. It was followed by a series of dull
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  Speaker 2: knocks on what I took to be Edith's door. I
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  Speaker 2: heard her open the door. There was a gasp, and
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  Speaker 2: then she uttered a terrible scream.
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  Speaker 3: It's all right, darling, by coming.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter? Don't look so terrified, Edward.
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  Speaker 3: Edward, it was horrible, like a nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: It was, Oh, darling, don't tremble. So I'm here out
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  Speaker 2: tell me what frightened me. I thought I heard someone
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  Speaker 2: knocking at my door. I heard it too. I got
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  Speaker 2: up and opened the door, and there it was, stearing
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  Speaker 2: up at me. It what do you mean? Was it
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  Speaker 2: a man? I don't know. I only know it was
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  Speaker 2: something dark and crouching. I screamed in a hurried down
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  Speaker 2: the hall, not quite in its hands and knees, with
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  Speaker 2: its face sunk between its shoulders. How awful You lock
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  Speaker 2: yourself in and I'll have a look. No, no, don't
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  Speaker 2: need but dash. Do you hear anything? No? Nothing, that's there?
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  Speaker 2: It is again, need ivy outside the window. If someone
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  Speaker 2: were climbing up the wall, that's impossible. The window's a
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  Speaker 2: good twenty feet from the ground. Nobody will clear on
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  Speaker 2: the window sill a hand, it's it's drawing itself off.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes ahead, good heavens, what a horrible face the eyes.
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  Speaker 4: That leave Edward Edward, it's father.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Watson, what do you make of that? The professor
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  Speaker 2: crawling about in this curious fashion?
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  Speaker 3: Lambago problem, I've known it to double o rubbish?
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  Speaker 2: Watson. Did you ever hear a man with lumbago scaling
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  Speaker 2: a twenty foot wall?
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  Speaker 3: Nod you mention it?
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  Speaker 2: No, mister Bennett. How did Professor Presbury explain his actions
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  Speaker 2: the next morning? He seemed to have no recollection of them,
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  Speaker 2: no recollection of them at all. When did you say
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  Speaker 2: this happened, mister Bennett? The night before last, the fourth
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  Speaker 2: of February, And that rather complicates matters. And last night
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  Speaker 2: did anything further happen? The only unusual thing I heard
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  Speaker 2: was Roy barking furiously a little after midnight, Poor fellow,
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  Speaker 2: he's been chained down at the stable. I must confess.
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  Speaker 2: If anything else happened, neither Edith nor I would have
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  Speaker 2: known it. You see, we both had a feeling of
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  Speaker 2: impending danger and slept with our doors locked and the
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  Speaker 2: shutters barricaded. Very sensible procedure, I would suggest that you
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  Speaker 2: get miss Presbury out of the house for a few days,
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  Speaker 2: send her way, and or wouldn't clear this matter up.
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  Speaker 2: I have already persuaded her to pay a visit to
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  Speaker 2: her aunt and Cambridge splendid. Now, as to the dates
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  Speaker 2: of these uh seizures, you will say the first was December,
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  Speaker 2: the second December, the eleventh, and the third.
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  Speaker 3: Here is a list of the.
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  Speaker 2: Dates when I first observed abnormality in the professor's behavior.
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  Speaker 2: I felt it my duty to obtain all possible data
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  Speaker 2: about the case. Excellent see yes, yes, as I thought.
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  Speaker 2: The intervals are regular. Putting two and two together, let
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  Speaker 2: us say that every nine days the professor takes some
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  Speaker 2: strong drug which has aprissing but highly poisonous effect. He
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  Speaker 2: learned to take this drug one in Prague, and is
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  Speaker 2: now supplied by an intermediary who resides in the East
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  Speaker 2: Central district of London.
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  Speaker 4: Ye, it is but the dog and the creeping man
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  Speaker 4: in the passage, Holmes. The thing's too fantastic to be
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  Speaker 4: explained by a simple addiction to drugs.
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  Speaker 2: It's not simple, not in the least. But patience, Watson, patience,
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  Speaker 2: We have at least made a beginning our next step
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  Speaker 2: is to obtain an interview with the professor himself. What
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  Speaker 2: is the best time to catch him in, mister Bennett,
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  Speaker 2: when would he be free to see us? About eleven
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. Mister Holmes, good, you may expect us
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  Speaker 2: at that time tomorrow just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep our appointment with the professor. But first, men, remember,
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: if you want your hair to look healthy and handsome,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: one of the first requisites is a hygienic scalp. And
• 13:20
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• 13:28
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  Speaker 1: unruly hair neatly in place longer, with a rich, healthy
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  Speaker 1: looking luster. Yet Kremmeel never gives hair that.
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  Speaker 2: Old fashioned, greasy, patent leather look.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: It never leaves hair feeling sticky or dirty. But men,
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  Speaker 1: is simply great to lubricate a dry scalp. At the
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: same time it removes itchy loose dandr a quick massage
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  Speaker 1: with Kremmel helps stimulate the cutaneous of the scalp. Notice
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  Speaker 1: how alive your scalp feels, how it tingles, and if
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: your hair is so dry it breaks off and falls.
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  Speaker 1: Start using Crammel at once, because Cramwell actually helps condition
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  Speaker 1: the hair in that it leaves it feeling softer, more pliable,
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  Speaker 1: makes it look as if it had some body to it.
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  Speaker 1: E M L Crammell Hair Time, Doctor Watson, what happened
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  Speaker 1: next in the strange case of Professor president Well.
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  Speaker 4: Early the next morning found us near the town of
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  Speaker 4: Camford approaching a large, rather gloomy house.
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  Speaker 2: This must be the house, Watson. Notice the ivy vines
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  Speaker 2: reaching up to the bedroom windows. See some of the
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  Speaker 2: leaves have been torn away. The vines look decidedly the
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  Speaker 2: worse for wear.
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  Speaker 3: Surely no man could possibly climb up that way.
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  Speaker 2: No normal man, Watson, No normal man. Book. I fancy
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  Speaker 2: that is the Professor peering at us from behind the curtains.
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  Speaker 2: In that second window. Doesn't seem to be too well
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  Speaker 2: pleased at our presence.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Jeff tremendously vigorous for his age. I say, Holmes,
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  Speaker 4: do you think we ought ought?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: I mean? What excuse you're going to give for our call?
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  Speaker 2: Assuming that Professor Presbury's memory is a trifle defective during
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  Speaker 2: his bad spells? And how's he to know that he
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  Speaker 2: didn't send first himself?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that rather skating on thin eyes?
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  Speaker 2: Possibly my dear Watson, Possibly.
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  Speaker 3: My sir. I don't relish this interview at.
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  Speaker 2: Door, someone's coming. It's Presbury himself. I cann't stake Watson,
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  Speaker 2: pull yourself together. You look as though he'd been caught
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  Speaker 2: stealing sheep. Good morning, Professor Presbury. I believe, Yes, I'm
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  Speaker 2: homes Sherlock Holmes, the detective. Yes, I believe I've heard
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  Speaker 2: of him. Won't you come in? Unless my friend doctor?
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  Speaker 2: Wats how you do?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Come this way, gentlemen to my study? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Like I go? What a charming room?
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  Speaker 2: Place it down, gentlemen? Now what can I do for you? Why?
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  Speaker 2: That was the question I was about to put to you?
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  Speaker 2: To me, sir, yes, afroposed the communication you sent me
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  Speaker 2: a letter I sent you a letter, No, not exactly
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  Speaker 2: a letter telegram? Then have you got it with you? No,
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  Speaker 2: I can't say I have no, I dare say not
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  Speaker 2: because I sent you no telegram. Impossible. By then someone's
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: been playing a practical joke on us both. That statement,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: mister Holmes, is highly questioned. Really, Professor Presbury, I can
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  Speaker 2: only apologize for this needless intrusion and hope that you
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  Speaker 2: will forgive.
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  Speaker 3: But that is hardly enough. Mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of fool you take me for? Why you
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  Speaker 2: know I didn't send for you?
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: You can't get out of the sully.
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  Speaker 2: Consider you opposition. You can't afford a scandal. After all,
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  Speaker 2: I'm rather well known. You cannot possibly afford to treatment
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  Speaker 2: with such discussions, treat me. Come on, Watson. The interview
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  Speaker 2: was closed. Good day, professor.
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  Speaker 3: Whew. While a narrow escape, the Professor was certainly in
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: a dangerous mood.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, our learned friend's nerves are somewhat out of order,
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  Speaker 2: highly inflammable, temper.
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  Speaker 4: Monocal, I should say, And yet his mind seemed perfectly clear.
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  Speaker 2: Too clear. That was my miscalculation. His memory is quite reliable. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: it's strange, very strange.
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  Speaker 4: All the Holmes I'm a bit disappointed in you, or
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: a trouble for nothing?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Not quite for nothing. We have seen the gentleman and
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: have gained a personal contact. We have also discovered the
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: address of the intermediary in London, and who will harn
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: thound that professor wrote to him this morning? I deciphed
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: the name from the blotting pad on the professor's day. Sir,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: the gentleman's name is Doric and he lives in the
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Commercial Road. And now Onson, I'm a busy man. We
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: will drop this case until next Tuesday evening use her
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: why Tuesa. On that date. If my calculations are correct,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the Professor should have another of his curious spells. We
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: must be on hand to notice the developments and to
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: prevent a catastrophe.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Mister Holmes, this isn't my idea of the way to
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: spend a pleasant evening. Look at those clouds cutting across
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: the moon.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, I told you to bring your greatcoat. I suspected
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: it might be a trifle draft drafter, My legs.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Are quite numb from crouching behind the schools, Probush, Why
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: did you have to pick this particular light?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: If the cycle of nine days holds good. We shall
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: have the Professor at his worst to night. And moreover,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I ascertained that he received a packet from the man
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Dorick this morning. Yes, and we shall see. We shall
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: see you.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Look. Look, some one is little light in the corner bedroom.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: And that must be the Professor. I was writing my calculations.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Things are beginning to happen. I warn Bennett not to
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: try to interfere with him, but to follow him at
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: a safe distance.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Safe you don't think that he is as dangerous as that.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Dear, I don't think so.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I know it.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Who have you? You're a barber handy, yes, but.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I don't think I should be obliged to.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Use it though. Control your nerves once, and I can
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: hear your teeth chatters, we have not knows it's a cold.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: The Professor's symptoms are particularly interesting. Apart from these fits,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: he has more energy and vitality than ever. And then
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: his knuckles. Did you notice his knuckles?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I can say that I did.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Thick and horny, quite unusual for a man, Very curious
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: knuckles that can only be explained by the mode of
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: progression observed in.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: The knuckles.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: But of course, and the dog and the ivy Why
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: didn't I think of that?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Homes Homes?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Look what'clock?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: He's helping the side door.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: There he is standing in the doorway, leaning forward with
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: his arms dangling.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course, how he's coming down the drive.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Why he's not walking, he's crouching, running and slipping along
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: on his hands and feet.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Homes. It's uncanny.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: It's it's almost as if he were possessed by some strange,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: unnatural force.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Then he goes round the corner of the house for
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Quasin's followed.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Here comes Bennett f aster Holmes.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Have you seen him? Yes, he went this way.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Come along.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: He's worse than usual tonight. I could hear him through
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: my door, chattering and jabbering to himself.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: There he is, he's crouching at the foot of the ivy.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Now he's climbing, actually springing from vine to vine, dressing down,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: flapping in the wind.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: How horrible.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: He looks like some huge bat glued against the side
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: of the house.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: It's it's uncanny.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Now he's swinging himself over to that tree. He's coming
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: down again. He's heading for the stables. Come along. I
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: mustn't do a sight of him. We can't let him
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: get away from us.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: The dog has got sight. Are you killing me? If
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: you can get it more? You know?
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: The Professor's staying out of reach.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Look at him, crouched on the ground like that. He's
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: teasing the dog. He's praying stones at it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Oh this this isn't human, quite, Watson, quite, Professor Presbury
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: isn't human?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Great heavens, Holmes, what do you mean.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Out?
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Well? His niece is broken.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: He's out of the professor.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Come on, he keeps going by the throat.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Drag him apart, Come on, drag him apart.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Done, I said, I come him to.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: The collar watching help take carry the professors of the house.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: He troke is badly angled. Come in, Watson, come in.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I've been looking over the Professor's laboratory while he was
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: treating his injuries. How is he coming along?
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: As well as can be expected? He pulled through our fancier.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: The wound was dangerous near.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: The corrupted after the hemorrhage was all serious.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: But I said, what said?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: You got in your hand the Professor's little German boxrious,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: isn't it?
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Yes? But it's open. You broke the locke, really, Holmes,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: using that you ought to go?
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Probably not, but not being deterred by your scruples, I
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: have gone ahead. The contents are quite enlightening if your
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: conscience will permit you to look.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Two files, one empty, one lefull, and a letter with
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: a cross out of the stamp.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's from our mister Doric the London Intermedery. It
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: contains another note that completely solves the mystery. Here it
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: is it signed H. Lowenstein each low ensign. But I
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: say that's the lowensign obviously. What's an obviously?
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I mean it's doctor Lenstein, the famous prage physician who
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: claims to have discovered.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: A serum that will rejuvenate people.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: It's been a booed, of course by the medical profession
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: because he refuses to.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Reveal its sauce, and for a good reason. Here read
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: the letter.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: So look, honold colleague, since your visit, I have thought
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: much of your case. I beg you report fully to
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: me on the results of my treatments. It is possible
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: that the serum of anthropoid would have been better. I have,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: as I have.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Explained, used black faced languor because a specimen was accessible.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: The languor is, of course a crawler and a climber,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: while anthropoid walks erect and is in every way nearer
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: to man. But I say Holmes is his spistre. The
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: languor is an ape.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Quite It is found on the slopes of the Himalayas,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: and as the biggest and most human of the climbing monkeys.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Then that serum explains the professor's recent peculiarities. He used
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: it in an attempt to regain his youth.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, giving himself a dose at nine day intervals were
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the curious results we've witnessed. It's dangerous to trick nature, Watson.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: When man tries to rise above it, he is liable
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: to fall below it. Even the highest type of man
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: road of destiny.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: What a curious story, doctor Watson. But did Holmes manage
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: to stop the treatment.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Indeed, he wrote to doctor Lawrencetan and told him that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: He would be held criminally irresponsible if he continued to
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: circulate his poisons.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: That was the end of it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Why do you suppose the dog noticed the change in
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: his master before anyone else did.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: His sense of smell told him it was a monkey
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: and not the professor whom Roy attacked, just as it
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: was a monkey who teased the dog.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic. I didn't know such things were possible, Doctor Watson, Oh,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: dear me.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, both in detection and in medicine, things are apt
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: to happen that it is difficult for the lay mind
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: to believe.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Between you and mister Holmes, you covered both fields. Yes
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to twenty one. Baker Street must have been an exciting
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: place to reside when you both lived there.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, mister bellas you remarked a few minutes ago, we
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: never had a dull moment.