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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Six Napoleons Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conway · Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen

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  Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, to return to your specialty, the
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  Adventures of mister Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Harris. Yes, I must say it's an
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  enthusiasm I seem to share with a great many friends
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  and critics. As you'll probably know, there's a collection of
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  Erludyk gentlemen all over the United States of America who
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  are ardent Sherlock Holmes and Matters, and who call themselves
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  the Baker Street Irregulars. Why would you believe it? They
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  even argue with me about the accuracy of some of
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  my stories.
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  Speaker 1: Do they ever win the arguments? Doctor Watson?
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  Speaker 2: You know Holmes always said I had a weakness for
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  embroidering a tale. But that's neither here nor there. So
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  here's tonight's adventure, the sixth Napoleons.
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  Speaker 1: Six Napoleons. Why, good grief, doctor, I should think one
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  gentleman of that Carol caliber was all the world could
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  stand at the time. Or is it the name of
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  an acrobatic troop.
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  Speaker 2: No, mister Harris, it's something even more than usual, as
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  you may have gathered. Inspect of Lestrade of Scotland Yard
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  was a frequent visitor of ours in the old Baker
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  Street days. Between him and Sherlock Holmes, there was a
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  friendly rivalry. His calls were welcome because they enabled us
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  to keep in touch with things at Scotland Yard. In
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  return for this news, her Holmes were sometimes able, or
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  without any active interference, to give some valuable hint on
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  the solution of a crime.
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  Speaker 1: The word isn't sometimes, doctor Watson, it's frequently.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly On the particular evening I'm referring to, Lestart had
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  come in wearing a preoccupied look. He spoke casually of
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  the weather and the newspapers. Then he fell silent, puffing
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  thoughtfully on one.
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  Speaker 3: Of his atrocious cigars. Holmes looked at him keenly. Nothing
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  remarkable on hand, I suppose, Restrande.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, nothing in particular. Then tell me about it.
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  Speaker 4: But there's no use denying.
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  Speaker 5: There is something on my mind. And see that quiet Watson. Well,
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  the start out with it? Has the Bank of England
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  been threatened? Or has someone stolen the doormat at Scotland Yard.
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  Speaker 4: Well, as a matter of fact, the business is so
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  absurd that I hesitate to.
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  Speaker 1: Bother you about it.
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  Speaker 4: On the other hand, though trivial, it is undoubtedly queer
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  and I know you have a taste for anything that's
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  out of the common. In my humble opinion, it comes
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  more in doctor Watson's line than in ours. You mean disease, well,
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  madness anyway, and a queer sort of madness too. You'd
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  hardly think anyone living in this day and age would
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  have such a hatred of Napoleon that he felt compelled
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  to break any image of him that he saw.
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  Speaker 1: Is that all that sort of nonsense is no business
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  of mind exactly, That's just what I said.
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  Speaker 4: But when the man commits burglary in order to satisfy
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  his craving for breaking images, that takes it out of
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  the doctor's problems and into ours.
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  Speaker 5: Burglary. Eh, that's more interesting. Give us the detail. That's
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  a good chap.
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  Speaker 4: So far, there have been four cases, numbers one and
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  two reported four days ago. It was at the shop
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  of Mosse Hudson, who sells pictures and statues in the
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  Kennington Road. The assistant had left the shop for a
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  few moments when he heard a loud crash, hurried back
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  and found two plaster busts of Napoleon lying shimmered into fragments.
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  He rushed out into the road, but couldn't find the cuntrite,
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  although several passers by declared they had noticed.
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  Speaker 1: A man run out of the shop. How much were
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  the busts worth? Only a few shillings And.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you said there was a robbery. That's just
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  one of the senisterus acts of hooliganism which are becoming
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  more and more prevalent.
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  Speaker 4: The third and fourth cases were more serious. Yes, yes,
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  they occurred only last night. In Kennington Road and within
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  a few hundred yards of moss Hudson's shop lives Doctor Barnicot,
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  a well known medical practitioner.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Yes, I've heard of him. He has one
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  of the largest practices on the south side of the Thames.
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  Speaker 1: Interrupts well.
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  Speaker 4: His residence and principal consulting rooms are in Kennington Road,
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  but he has a branch surgery at Lower Buxton Road,
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  two miles away. Doctor Barnicot's an enthusiastic admirer of Napoleon
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  and had recently purchased from Moss Hudson two duplicate plaster
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  casts of the famous head of Napoleon by the French
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  sculptor Leavin. One of these he placed in his home
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  and one in the surgery in Buxton Road. Well, well,
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  when doctor Barnicot came down to breakfast this morning, he
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  was astonished to find that the house had been broken
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  into during the night, and still more astonished to discover
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  that the only thing taken was the pasta head of Napoleon.
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  It had been carried out and shattered against the garden wall.
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  Speaker 1: This is beginning to be interesting. And the fourth case.
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  Speaker 4: At twelve o'clock and doctor Barnicut arrived at his surgery,
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  he found the window broken and fragments of the fourth
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  bust strewn.
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  Speaker 1: All over the room. And there's no clue as to
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  the criminal's identity. Those are the facts, mister Roads.
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  Speaker 5: Singular, not to say grotesque. Were the two bus smashed
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  in doctor Barnicot's rooms exact duplicates are the ones destroyed
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  in Moss Hudson's shop.
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  Speaker 1: They were taken from the same mode.
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  Speaker 5: That's a coincidence, yes, And it tells against the theory
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  that the man who breaks these bus is influenced general
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  hatred of Napoleon. How do you make that out, mister Rowes,
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  considering how many hundreds of statues of the great Emperor
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  must exist in London. It's too much to suppose that
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  a promiscuous iconoclast would chance to begin with four specimens
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  from the same mold.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that way myself at first.
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  Speaker 4: But on the other hand, this mors Hudson's the only
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  purveyor of busts in that part of London, and these
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  four were the only ones of Napoleon that have been
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  in his shop for years. Therefore it seems logical that
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  a local fanatic would begin with them. What do you think,
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  doctor Watts.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are no limits to the possibilities of monomania Lestrade.
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  For example, there is the condition which the Finis psychologists
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  called the Eda fix, which may be trifling in character
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  and accompanied by a complete senate in every other way,
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  the man who had read deeply about Napoleon might conceiva reform,
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  such a need a fix, and under its influence be
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  capable of any fantastic outrage.
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  Speaker 1: No it won't do, my dear Watson, it won't do.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 5: No Eda fix would enable your interesting monomaniac to find
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  out where these busts are sitch. All right, then, how
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  do you explain it? I don't attempt to do so yet,
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  but one thing is obvious. There's nothing abnormal about this
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  bust smasher. There's too much method in its eccentric proceedings
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  for that. In what way to consider? In the Barnicott house,
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  where any sound might arouse the family, the bust was
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  taken outside before being broken, whereas in the surgery, where
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  there was less danger of an alarm, it was smashed
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  where it stood. The affair scenes absurdly trifling, And yet
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  some of my most classic cases have had the least
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  promising beginnings.
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  Speaker 1: You'll remember, Watson, how the dreadful.
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  Speaker 5: Business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my
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  notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into
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  the butter on a hot day. I can't afford to
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  smile at your broken bus Lestrada. On the contrary, I Hello,
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  what's that the.
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  Speaker 2: Front door bell? Of course, for a great detective, you
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  do have your obtuse moments home.
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  Speaker 5: Naturally, I know it's the front doorbell. What I want
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  to know is why it's bringing in the middle of
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  the night.
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  Speaker 1: Come in. Hello, Missushudson wants the.
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  Speaker 6: Matter A policeman downstairs, Sir says, mister Lestrade is wanted
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  right away.
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  Speaker 1: What's up now? He said?
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  Speaker 6: As how I was to tell you there'd been another
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  bust busted, he said, you'd.
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  Speaker 5: Know what he meant, becoming an epidemical sounded right, couldn't
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  They waited till morning to.
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  Speaker 1: Rub me out?
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  Speaker 6: He says, you're to come right away, because this time
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  there's a murder.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris, naturally, Holmes and I threw on our hats,
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  I picked up my service revolver and we dashed down
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  the stairs, with Lestrada panting behind us. Fortunately a policeman
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  had a cab waiting. We piled in hurriedly and drove
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  off to Pitt.
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  Speaker 1: Street, to the scene of the crime.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes, Lestrada and I dismissed our cab at the corner
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  of the street. It was obvious that news of the
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  murder had got around here.
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  Speaker 1: We are Elms number one three one Pitt Street. That
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  must be the house where the crime was committed.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and a first class murder. It must have been
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  nothing less would drawn such a crowd in the middle
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  of the night. Notice the look of qualified delight in
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  that messenger boy's face.
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  Speaker 1: He let us through, Let us through. I say, we're
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  from Scotland Yard.
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  Speaker 7: Come in, gentlemen, Come in, mister Lestrade, thank heaven you
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  got here at last.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if it is mister Dorris Arker of the Central
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  Press Syndicate.
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  Speaker 7: It's an extraordinary thing, Lestrade. All my life I've been
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  collecting other people's news, and now that a real piece
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  of music come my own way, I'm so confused and
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  bother that I can't put two words together. If I'd
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  come in here as a journalist, I should have interviewed
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  myself and had two columns in every evening page. You
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  remember when the stand fell in Doncaster. Well, I was
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  the only journalist in the stand, and my journal was
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  the only one that had no account of it, for
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  I was too shaken to write it. And now i'll
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  be too late again with that terrible murder done.
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  Speaker 1: On me on doorship, you'd better tell us just what happened.
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  Wait a minute, I'll call my wife.
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  Speaker 2: She was with me.
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  Speaker 1: Many many the police have come.
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  Speaker 6: God be praised, What a night we've had. I was
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  just saying to Horas, this is what comes up staying
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  up late. If we'd been safe in our bed whenever
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  should have heard.
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  Speaker 4: The Commotionsrker, mister Arker, May I present my friends Dr
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  Watson and Sherlaco.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes. That is all that you see, Horace, I told you.
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  Next thing, you know, he'll be suspecting you of the murder.
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  Speaker 5: I assure you, mister Harker, I am only here unofficially
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  inspects has charged this case.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's a relief anyway.
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  Speaker 6: Oh well, I mean, well, you see, mister Mistrad knows Horace,
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  and that's something I mean, well you understand that is
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  our course.
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  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact. Thing that interests me most
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  of all isn't the murder. No, No, it's the broken
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  bust of Napoleon.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's it. It all started with that bust.
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  Speaker 6: I never did like the man Napoleon, I mean, and
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  why Horace wanted a bust of him sitting in the
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  living room.
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  Speaker 7: But perhaps i'd better tell the gentleman just what did happen?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I suppose that would be a good idea.
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  Speaker 7: As many were saying, it all seems to center around
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  that bust of Napoleon.
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  Speaker 1: That I bought for this very room about four months ago.
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  Where did you purchase it was to Hawker from the.
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  Speaker 7: Moss Huts and shopmer Storms in Kennington Road. Well, as
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  you may know, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: A great deal of a journalist work at night. I
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  opened write until the early.
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  Speaker 6: Morning, just ruining his head.
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  Speaker 1: Mother, Well, tonight.
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  Speaker 7: I was sitting in my den, which is at the
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  top of the house at the back. I'd almost finished
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  my work, and many was trying to get me to
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  come to bed.
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  Speaker 2: Just a few minutes. Mother, I'm almost true.
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  Speaker 6: But here it is after twelve again. What must the
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  neighbors think seeing your light burning all hours.
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  Speaker 7: Of the night.
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  Speaker 1: What does it matter what they think?
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  Speaker 6: Besides, you're ruin your eyes? Oh mother, what is it
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  You've got to sit up for?
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  Speaker 1: This time?
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  Speaker 7: It's a new column we're running, Mother, Advice to the
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  Love Lawn by Gwendolen Desmond.
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  Speaker 6: Advice to the Love Lawn for that. That's indecent a
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  man writing things like that, I know, Mother, but.
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  Speaker 7: Better a married man than a single man. If I
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  don't do it, they probably get that young whipper snapper Jones,
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  and lord only those the things he'd think up with.
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  Speaker 1: What's that Burglars?
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  Speaker 7: I know it's Burglars, nonsense, Mother, probably just the catch
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  is not something off the mantlepiece.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm sure it's Burglars. Very well, I'll go down
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  and see.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, how are you you're not going down there?
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  Speaker 7: How else can I find out? If it's the cat
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  or burglar that made that noise, they'll kill you. No,
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  give me the po dear, I wish you wouldn't you
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  stay here, I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 6: Stay here, No, sir, I'm coming too.
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  Speaker 1: All right, mother, but let go my coattails.
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  Speaker 8: I can't.
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  Speaker 9: Men are all of a tremble.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go so fast, doorish, whether they don't talk so loud?
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  If it is burglar, you'll scare them off.
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  Speaker 6: That's just what I'm trying to do.
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  Speaker 7: Well, here we you see, it's just something that fell
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  out the mantelpiece.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, the hand painted bon bondage that Aunt Susie gave
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  us for a wedding present, smashed.
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  Speaker 1: The bits you see look for us?
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  Speaker 6: Look the windows open, and that bust of Napoleon it's gone.
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  Speaker 1: Horace, Horace? Did you hear that shouted? Like someone falling
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  against the front door. It's terrible. Don't go.
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  Speaker 7: I've got to find out just a minute till I
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  get the door over. Hello, something that impressing against it?
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  Speaker 5: Headn't us.
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  Speaker 1: Ratted?
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  Speaker 6: Some man lying on the doorstep and throat is slipping.
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  Speaker 2: From here to me?
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  Speaker 1: Will it, Where will it be comfortable? Is it correctly styled?
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  Clipper Craft clothes answer these questions emphatically by delivering, even today,
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  in this era of high prices, the most amazing values
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  you've ever seen. You'll wonder how it's done well. It's
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  the Great clipper Craft Plan, which concentrates the buying power
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  of ten hundred thirty six stores from coast to coast,
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  and delivers to you these beautifully styled, beautifully tailored clothes,
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  including long wearing worsteds, at a friendly local store you
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  can trust. Fine clipper Craft suits that look much more
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  costly are only forty and forty five dollars. Top coats
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  and fine coverts in worsted gabardine are only forty and
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  forty five dollars, and sport jackets are only twenty six fifty. Yes,
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  selling expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the nation's
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  finest independent stores is the great, big idea behind the
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  clipper Craft Plan. That's why men who know insist on
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  clipper Craft clothes, so be sure to visit the clipper
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  Craft store in your city.
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  Speaker 9: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
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  add their names to Clippercraft and your suit, top coat
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  and overcoat. In Manhattan Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at thirty
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  four John Wallamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eight and sixty
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  seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
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  New Jersey, Bulevard Men's Shop, Creskin, Newark. And in Jamaica
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  the B and D Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh
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  eight Jamaica Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: And now suppose we returned to the house of Horace Harker,
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  where Holmes is helping in speculus stride to solve a
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  bloodthirsty murder. Did you know the meurdered man, mister Hacker.
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  Speaker 7: No, mister Holmes, I did not. They've taken the body
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  to the mortuary.
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  Speaker 1: What did he look like?
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  Speaker 7: Tall, dark and powerfully built, fully dressperty didn't have the
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  hands of a laborer. A horn handled knife was lying
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  in a pool of blood beside him. But whether it
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  was his or whether it was the knife that did
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  the deed, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Anything in his pockets, No card or letters.
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  Speaker 7: Of identifications, that's what you mean. Just an apple, some
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  stre a shilling and maple London and a photograph here.
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  Speaker 5: It is excellent, my rather simian continents. Hey Watson, an.
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  Speaker 2: Ugly looking brute and vicious too. I should say yes.
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  Speaker 5: But look here, Holmes, what's become of the bust ah
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  the bust, Yes, of course, the bust. He wouldn't dare
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  carry it very far. Someone might see him and identify him.
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  Are there any empty houses around here.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Harker, there's one right next door. No, that wouldn't do.
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  Too dark. He had to have light.
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  Speaker 5: Doctor Barnicott's statue was found smashed in the passageway with
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  a light from his front door illuminated it.
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  Speaker 7: There's just one other vacant house in this black mister Holmes,
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  fit to the right under the street light.
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  Speaker 5: Excellent, that must be the one. Come Onson, let's see
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  what we can find. Wait a minute, I'm coming too, very.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but you must come back, mister Holmes, all of you.
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  Speaker 2: You must be famished.
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  Speaker 6: Dear me, where's my sense of hospitality?
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  Speaker 1: I'll go and put the kettle.
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  Speaker 7: On right away.
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  Speaker 1: Splendid will be back before he's had a chance to
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  come to a boil.
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  Speaker 5: Fifth to the right end of the street light. That
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  was what Parker said, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, But I, Mercy Holmes, I don't see what you
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  can expect to find. It seems to me.
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  Speaker 5: As I thought, just as I thought, there's the fifth
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  bust lying shattered in shards upon the grass.
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  Speaker 1: Destructive brute, and give a great.
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  Speaker 5: Deal to know if he found what he was looking
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  for me. I can't explain now, but suppose we all
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  meet at Baker Street tomorrow night, directly after dinner, and
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  I think I can promise you an exciting evening.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're on the murderer's trail.
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  Speaker 5: Quite in the meantime, you les tried see if you
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  can discover the dead man's identity, while I inquired into
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  the manufacturing of those bus and see if I can
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  trail the ruffian in the photographs.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's right, pick the most exciting chow for yourself and.
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  Speaker 2: The most dangerous. Don't forget that, Arsen.
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  Speaker 1: Don't quibble.
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  Speaker 5: We have a long way to go, and yet we've
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  discovered some rather significant facts.
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  Speaker 2: And I say I don't see anything particularly significant.
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  Speaker 5: In the first place, breaking the bust was not the
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  sole object of to Night's criminal, or how do you
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  know if it had been, he'd have broken it inside
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  the house or immediately outside. Second place, the possession of
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  this trifling bust was worth more in his eyes than
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  a human life. Yes, I think I'm beginning to understand
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  what he was after. Well, the strand how about another
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  cup of coffee? No, thanks to cups is enough for
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  any man. I'm not the coffee addict you are.
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  Speaker 1: What a pity it might stimulate the brain. Now looks.
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  Speaker 4: You may think you see your way clear in this matter,
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  but I have my own ideas. Yes, yes, the dead
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  man was Pietro Venucci. They knew him down at the
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  yard all right. He was one of the greatest cutthroats
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  in London. A member of an Italian black hand society too.
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  How reprehensible a society that punishes its offending members by death. Well,
• 18:56
  this chap in the photograph was probably a member two.
• 18:58
  The whole thing's just one of those hues.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: How simple. But where do the buss come in?
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: And was it just a coincidence that the murdered man
• 19:06
  was working in the shop of Moss Hudson.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I don't see why the busts have to be brought
• 19:09
  into the.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Question of the murder or but they do, lestrade, those
• 19:12
  bus contain the motive for the murder.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: That sounds like plain uness if you ask me, No,
• 19:17
  it's really quite simple.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: I found this morning at mister Moss Hudson's shop that
• 19:21
  the murdered man had been an employee of his for
• 19:23
  the last six months, previous to which time he'd worked
• 19:26
  for the firm of Gelder and Company, the firm which
• 19:29
  molded those busts of Napoleon which someone had been so
• 19:31
  abbot the smashing.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, but Geldern Company or an old firm, they must
• 19:35
  have made thousands of busts of Napoleon.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Quite but it's only the six of this particular batch
• 19:39
  with which we're concerned.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I must say, I still don't see naturally well.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: One afternoon, over a year ago, the very afternoon those
• 19:46
  six bus had come from the mold.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And while they were still wet.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: In fact, Beppo, another employee, was chased in the workshop
• 19:53
  by the police.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: It seems he'd tried a knife Pietro and a street brawl.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Beppo, who was better?
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, didn't I tell you hear me? Howason minded of me?
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Beppo was the man in the photograph, The man he
• 20:04
  tried to knife that day, as you know, is the
• 20:05
  same fellow found dead on Harker's doorstep last night.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: You see, I told you it a feud.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: The most curious part of the incident is that Beppo
• 20:12
  was holding something very carefully in his hand when he
• 20:15
  ran into the workroom, and yet when the police overtook him,
• 20:18
  they discovered nothing of any interest on him. Beppo was
• 20:21
  taken off to prison, of course, and was released two
• 20:24
  weeks ago, the day before the first two busts were smashed.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, but Holmes, look here you said there were six
• 20:29
  busts in that particular batch so far on if ive
• 20:32
  had been smashed, where's the other one?
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: The sales book of mister Moss Hudson shows that it
• 20:36
  was sold over a month ago to mister Joseph Brown
• 20:38
  of Laburnum Launch, Chiswick. And now suppose we pay that
• 20:42
  worthy gentlemen a visit. If luck's with us, it should
• 20:44
  be an interesting evening.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, but Holmes, isn't it a bit late to go calling?
• 20:48
  And perhaps mister Brown's gone to bed?
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I hope, so, Watson, I sincerely hope.
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: So, I say, Holmes is going to storm any minute?
• 21:15
  Can't we even come back some other time?
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: No, Watson, the gentleman that after is not to be
• 21:18
  put off by a little unpleasant weather.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: He must finish his quest as soon as possible. He
• 21:22
  doesn't dare to lay for fear the police will be
• 21:24
  on his trail. I only hope he hasn't been successful. Already.
• 21:30
  Here we are, this gate, says Leburn and Lodge. This
• 21:33
  is the house. No lights.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Mister Brown has gone to bed.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I knew it good. We won't rouse him.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Suppose we can find ourselves to an inspection of his shrubberies.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: But look here, someone coming along the road. Quick get
• 21:45
  by this hit you, but I will. Yes, he's opened
• 21:52
  the gate. He's coming in here, possibly mister Brown coming
• 21:55
  home from a lodge meeting. Though mister Brown's probably accustomed
• 21:58
  to using the front door, all right. He's trying to
• 22:03
  get in the window a right juve. It's a burglar,
• 22:09
  and a very expert one too. He broke the lop
• 22:11
  like a veteran.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: He's going in.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Had we better follow him? No, I'll get him on
• 22:20
  his way out after he's found where he's after.
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: That storm is going to break any minute now.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Here he comes say he's got something white under his arm.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Get ready, he said, the dummy drop it, or I
• 22:52
  put the handcuffs on him.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Start, Yes, sure to one hears.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Gentlemen, allow me to present that one of Italy's masterminals.
• 23:00
  So you did want the sixth Napoleon? Eh, don't want
• 23:04
  to talk very well?
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Oh this is the man who committed last night's murderer.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, this is the murderer and the bust smasher.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Well, now that you've got the sixth Napoleon, what are
• 23:14
  you going to do with it?
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Then be our top coat, and I'll show you very
• 23:18
  well if at first come over at the street light.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Come along you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: First I wrapped the bust in Watson's coat so we
• 23:30
  won't lose any of the splinters.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Then I followed Beppo's procedure and smash it against the lampers.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: That's my best top coat, you ruin.
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: Now we spread the coat on the ground. Look among
• 23:44
  the fragments. Friend seems to be rather excited.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Keep him the distance the strada. I don't have to smashing.
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Now let me see no, no, yes, by Joe, here
• 24:10
  it is?
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Why is?
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: It's a tremendous black pearl, A famous black pearl of
• 24:18
  a Borger stolen from a museum in France two years ago.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Devil is ship beautiful isn't it. Well, that was an
• 24:37
  exciting discovery, doctor Watson. But look, there are one or
• 24:40
  two points I don't understand. How did Pietro figure in
• 24:42
  the story. Why did they quarrel? How did the pearl
• 24:45
  get into the bust of Napoleon?
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: That pearl had been stolen by Beppo and Pietro. They quarreled,
• 24:49
  and Beppo tried to kill the other chap He had
• 24:52
  the pearl in his hand. When the police broke up
• 24:54
  their fight, he ran into the workroom and buried the
• 24:57
  pearl in one of the soft bust of Napoleons standing
• 24:59
  on the workroom table. From that time, the feud was on.
• 25:03
  The strad was right there. Each one was determined to
• 25:07
  get the pearl. Peto didn't know where the pearl was hidden,
• 25:10
  and Beppo was in jail, so the odds were fairly even.
• 25:13
  Until Beppo got out. Peto knew his only chance was
• 25:17
  to shadow Beppo, which he did and met his death,
• 25:21
  and that disposed of both of them very neatly.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, do you think you'd like to
• 25:26
  give us an idea about next week's story.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I think I could be persuaded, mister Harris. I think
• 25:31
  I could be persuaded and let me see. Next week,
• 25:35
  I think I'll take you down to the Port of London,
• 25:37
  where Holmes and I discovered a fantastic East Indian temple
• 25:41
  among the wharves and warehouses. They're in front of a
• 25:44
  hideous idol we ran into our old friend, Professor Moriarty.
• 25:49
  I call it the Adventure of the Serpent God. My hair,
• 25:53
  what's the left of it, stands on end when I
• 25:55
  remember it.