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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax Basil Rathbo · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: And now, doctor Watson, I think we're ready for tonight's story.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was one evening in the fall of let
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  Speaker 2: me see, Yes, the fall of eighteen ninety two, an
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  Speaker 2: evening clear with a little nip in the air. Holmes
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  Speaker 2: and I were sitting in front of the fireplace in
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  Speaker 2: our Baker Street lodgings. Missus Hudson had just cleared away
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  Speaker 2: all evidence of our evening meal. Holmes was playing random
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  Speaker 2: cords on his violin, and I was stretched out in
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  Speaker 2: my cane backed chair in a sort of digestive comba,
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  Speaker 2: staring fixedly at my boots.
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  Speaker 1: Watson, why Turkish?
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  Speaker 2: H What's that? I was propounding the question, why Turkish? Well,
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  Speaker 2: you mean my boots that are not their English? I
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  Speaker 2: got them at Latimer's in Oxford Street. I always get
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  Speaker 2: them air homes, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know that, not the boots, Watson, the path Why the
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  Speaker 1: relaxing an expensive Turkish variety rather than the invigurating homemade article.
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  Speaker 2: Because for the last few days I've been feeling a
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  Speaker 2: bit rhumatic. The old bullet woman has been acting up
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  Speaker 2: a bit. Thought my system could stand a bit of
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  Speaker 2: house cleaning. But how the deuce? Did you know?
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  Speaker 1: Elementary? My dear Watson, elementary your boots.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter with my boots?
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  Speaker 1: The deductions perfectly obvious, I might say, childish. You do
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  Speaker 1: up your boots in a certain way. They are now
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  Speaker 1: done up in an elaborate double bow, which is not
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  Speaker 1: your method. Therefore you've had them off. Who tied them
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  Speaker 1: up again? Obviously either your boot maker or the boy
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  Speaker 1: at the bath. The shoes are quite new, so it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the boot maker. What remains the bath?
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  Speaker 2: Simple? H While all this fuss over my Turkish bath, I.
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  Speaker 1: Gather you're not feeling quite fit. Why not take a
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  Speaker 1: little trip. How would Lausanne suit you? First class tickets
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  Speaker 1: and all expenses paid on a Princeville scale.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: A trip to Lausanne with a run up to baden
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  Speaker 1: Baden and ending up at Montpellier.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but Holmes, the season at Lausanne and baden Baden
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  Speaker 2: is closed.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, Watson, there is no closed season on disappearing females.
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  Speaker 2: Eh, what's there?
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  Speaker 1: The drifting and friendless woman of Memes is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most dangerous classes in the world. She is herself
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  Speaker 1: quite harmless, but she is the inevitable insight of crime
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  Speaker 1: in others. She's helpless. She's migratory. She has sufficient means
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  Speaker 1: to take her from country to country, from hotel to hotel.
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  Speaker 1: When she's gobbled up, she's hardly missed. She's a stray
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  Speaker 1: chicken and a world of fox.
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  Speaker 2: Now you can spare me the generalization's homes. I see
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  Speaker 2: what you mean, who is the missing woman, Lady Francis Carfax.
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  Speaker 2: But you mean the only chad of the late Earl
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  Speaker 2: of Rufton. But look here home. She's tremendously worthy.
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  Speaker 1: Not so tremendously, Watson. The estates went to the male line.
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  Speaker 1: Her cousin's now the earl. However, she is comfortably fixed
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  Speaker 1: and has some very remarkable old jewelry, curiously cut diamonds
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  Speaker 1: to which she was very attached. Two attached, Watson, for
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  Speaker 1: she always carried them.
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  Speaker 2: With her tempting morsel for any criminal.
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  Speaker 1: Quite. The lady herself is still a beautiful woman in
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  Speaker 1: her early forties.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but what's happened to her?
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  Speaker 1: That's our problem. Is she dead or is she alive?
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  Speaker 1: It's her invariable habit to write every second week to
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  Speaker 1: her old governess, and this Dabney who's retired and lives
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  Speaker 1: in Camberwell, it's this miss Dabney, whos consulted me. Nearly
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  Speaker 1: five weeks have passed without a word. The last letter
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  Speaker 1: was from the Hotel Nacional in Lausanne. Lady Francis left
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  Speaker 1: there hurriedly and gave no address. She's reported as having
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  Speaker 1: been seen in Baden Baden, but from there she seems
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  Speaker 1: to have disappeared into thin air. Her family are upset.
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  Speaker 1: No money is to be spared.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, but Hermes, there must be other sources of information.
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  Speaker 2: Surely she corresponded with other people besides this missus Dabney.
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  Speaker 2: Only one we could discover. Who is there?
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  Speaker 1: Even single ladies must live, Watson. A past book is
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  Speaker 1: almost as good as a diary. There is always the bank.
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  Speaker 1: We've just been glancing over her account and the last
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  Speaker 1: check but one paid her bill at Lausanne, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a large one and probably left her with considerable
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  Speaker 1: cash in hand.
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  Speaker 2: And the last check to whom is it made out?
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  Speaker 2: And where is it cashed?
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  Speaker 1: To Marie Devine? And it was cashed at the Credilione
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  Speaker 1: at Montpellier less than three weeks ago. The sum was
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  Speaker 1: fifty pounds.
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  Speaker 2: Who is married Devine? Married?
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  Speaker 1: Devine was the maid of Lady Francis Carfax for the
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  Speaker 1: past seven years. Montpellier's her home.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she was dismissed, or perhaps she left, but five
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  Speaker 2: fifty pounds that's a large sum of money.
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  Speaker 1: Those are a few of the questions. I hope your
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  Speaker 1: researches will clear.
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  Speaker 2: Up my researches. Look here, homes, aren't you coming?
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  Speaker 1: Certainly not, Watson. My health is in no need of change.
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  Speaker 1: Scotland yard feels lonely without me, and besides, my absence
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  Speaker 1: would cause an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
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  Speaker 2: Pardon gendarmes, I say, can you direct me to the
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  Speaker 2: home of Mademoiselle married Devine?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, but certainly the little lassander Carna to our deriot
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  Speaker 3: journiums in the window.
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  Speaker 2: We thank you very much? Heard it? What a wild
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  Speaker 2: goose chase this has been los I'm baden and now
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  Speaker 2: this place. I probably won't do it anymore here than
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  Speaker 2: I did in the other. Monsieur desire, Oh, pardon me?
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  Speaker 2: Does a Memberiselle Mary Devine live here?
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  Speaker 4: I am she? Will you have the goodness to enter?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Thank you?
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  Speaker 4: Please? Will you come in here? It's so good? Is
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  Speaker 4: to sit down?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: I can do for you.
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  Speaker 2: You well, you don't by any chance to know the
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  Speaker 2: pleasant wordabouts of your former.
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  Speaker 1: Mistress, lady.
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  Speaker 4: But no is anything the matter.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you see she well, she seems to have disappeared,
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  Speaker 2: and naturally.
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  Speaker 6: I knew it. He has got the black One. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: I knew it would happen. I should have stayed with her.
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  Speaker 2: What's this? What black one?
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  Speaker 4: He is bad, the wicked.
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  Speaker 6: One day on the prom, now thatt Losanne, monsieur, I
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  Speaker 6: see him seize her body wrist. He followed her around
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  Speaker 6: for days. We see him everywhere we go. It was
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  Speaker 6: for fear of him she left Los Angeles. And anyway
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  Speaker 6: that I know, he was so big, so fierce, so black,
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  Speaker 6: a veritable, so vage, monsieur, black savage.
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  Speaker 2: You've been an Aboriginal wild man.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, you're not like that.
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  Speaker 4: He was English, but I think it was wild all
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  Speaker 4: the same.
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  Speaker 2: But you said he was black.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, black from the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, but his eyes they are blue.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know his name?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: No, Madam. She will never speak of him, but I
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  Speaker 4: think she knows him from before. Oh she's afraid. She
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  Speaker 4: tremble all over like a leaf every time.
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  Speaker 1: She see him.
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  Speaker 2: So you left to escape him.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we go suddenly, so we cannot follow. We go
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  Speaker 4: to Baden, bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I followed the trail that far. You stayed in
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  Speaker 2: the English Hope for a fortnight. Did you see anyone
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  Speaker 2: there that Lady Francis knew at first?
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  Speaker 6: No, But in a few days, Madame make the acquaintance
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  Speaker 6: of a doctor Schlessinger and his wife.
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  Speaker 4: He's a missionary from South America.
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  Speaker 2: Lessinger. That must have been the man whom's wiredly about
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  Speaker 2: what didn't know if there was anything wrong with his
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  Speaker 2: left ear?
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  Speaker 4: You mean he did not hear? Well, no, I do
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  Speaker 4: not think that is so.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I expect not that that telegram is probably
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a homespooping. Well, go on about this
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  Speaker 2: missionary chat poor man.
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  Speaker 6: He is very sick. He's recovering from a tropical fever.
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  Speaker 6: Such a good man, so brave, so patient, My lady.
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  Speaker 6: She helps missus Schlessinger to take care of him, and
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  Speaker 6: all the time they talk of religion.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm. Sounds pleasant enough.
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  Speaker 6: But then one morning Lady Francis she come back from
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  Speaker 6: the bars. She has seen him again, the black Englishman.
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  Speaker 6: She's in a terror. She tells me she's leaving at
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  Speaker 6: once for England withish lessingers. They have promised to protect her,
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  Speaker 6: and so next day she is gone, and that is
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  Speaker 6: the last I sy of her.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't she take you along with her?
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  Speaker 4: Me, monsieur, Well you'll see, I'm what you callakian say,
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  Speaker 4: and to be married next week.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 4: So madame is so good.
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  Speaker 6: She let me go, she gave me a nice check
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  Speaker 6: for my wedding present, and now she's gone. I never
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  Speaker 6: forgive myself. I did not take her safe to England.
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  Speaker 6: These poorsh blessings.
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  Speaker 1: They do not know this black man.
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  Speaker 4: They do not realize the danger.
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  Speaker 2: My dear mademoiselle, it is not your fault. You mustn't
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  Speaker 2: be alarmed.
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  Speaker 4: But monsieur, I'm in an agony of feel until she
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  Speaker 4: is found.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I'm sure my friend shaw Lock Holmes will
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  Speaker 2: find her if she if it's humanly possible. Well, good day, mademoiselle. Defina,
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  Speaker 2: I'm as good as getting late. And thank you for
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  Speaker 2: your information.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all, monsieur, it has been a pleasure.
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  Speaker 6: I only hope, Oh, monsieur, monsieur, they are coming down
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  Speaker 6: the street.
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  Speaker 4: It is he be so vage, the black man I
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  Speaker 4: told you about. He's coming here. Oh, monsieur, I am afraid.
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  Speaker 4: Do not let him see me?
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  Speaker 2: Oh confound the girl? She shut the door in my face.
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  Speaker 2: Should only take me inside with her? Well, I suppose
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  Speaker 2: I should have to brazen it out. Can you tell
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  Speaker 2: me if miss Marie Devine lives here? Mary Devian? That's
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  Speaker 2: a nice name. Uh? Who is she? Sounds a bit
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  Speaker 2: like a music hall singer, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Do?
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  Speaker 2: The name? Mary? Oliver?
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  Speaker 3: I say, you're talking to the lady in question just
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  Speaker 3: two minutes ago?
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  Speaker 2: Who me talking to Mandy de Vino or a nonsense
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  Speaker 2: snig good fellow? That that was a cousin of mine
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  Speaker 2: or the dear little Oh but I count know well.
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  Speaker 2: Her name is Emma or Matthew or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: What's your name?
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  Speaker 3: That's none of your business.
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  Speaker 2: You're an englishman, I take it.
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  Speaker 1: What if I am?
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  Speaker 2: Look here? What's the good of beating about the bush?
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  Speaker 2: What have you done with her? What have I done
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  Speaker 2: with him? Lady Francis Corpax? Of course? Where is she?
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  Speaker 2: Your swine? You little get a sniper? Break every burn
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  Speaker 2: in your body. Oh no, you won't want your head bashing.
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  Speaker 2: I'll show you. Oh no, you don't take that. Ask
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  Speaker 2: me a question like that believe that kidnapped.
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  Speaker 1: Gentlemen?
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  Speaker 2: Please, Homes, good heavens, where did you drop from?
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  Speaker 1: And now, sir, if you'll kindly release my friend Watson.
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  Speaker 1: That goes to gentleman's time, But I've got him.
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  Speaker 2: This is the chap who abducted Day fancies coffee again.
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  Speaker 1: Gentlemens, you may perceive I am armed with a rather
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  Speaker 1: business like little cudgel. The first one to continue this
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  Speaker 1: raw will have it cracked across his cranium. But Homes,
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  Speaker 1: don't you come along back to the hotel. It might
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  Speaker 1: be a good idea to find a piece of raw
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  Speaker 1: beef for that bright eye before it swells completely shut. Well, Watson,
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  Speaker 1: how does it feel to get back to Baker Street
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  Speaker 1: after your little vacation?
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  Speaker 2: I must say, at Homes, I don't see why you
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  Speaker 2: had to go butting in and drag me back to London,
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  Speaker 2: just as I was just to clear up the whole case.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: As you are about to have your head bashed in
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  Speaker 1: you mean, but Holmes, I steady, Watson, steady, or you'll
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  Speaker 1: lose the compress over your eye. A singularly consistent investigation
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  Speaker 1: you've made, that, I must say, Watson, Ah.
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  Speaker 2: So you admit I've done rather well.
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  Speaker 1: Eh, well, I cannot at the moment recall any possible
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  Speaker 1: blunder which you've forbidded.
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  Speaker 2: Now really homes you.
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  Speaker 1: You manage to give the alarm everywhere and yet have
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  Speaker 1: discovered nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Per actually think you would have done better.
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  Speaker 1: I have done better, my dear Watson, I have done better.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: From the hotel keeper in Baden Baden? I discovered the
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  Speaker 1: interesting fact that our missionary friend's left ear with jagged
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  Speaker 1: or torn or rubbish.
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  Speaker 2: What can the shape of a man's ear have to
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  Speaker 2: do with a lady's disappearance?
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  Speaker 1: My dear Watson, That mutilated ear is the crux of
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  Speaker 1: the whole case.
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  Speaker 2: What does it prove?
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  Speaker 1: It proves that we're dealing with an especially astute and
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  Speaker 1: dangerous criminal. The Reverend doctor Schlessinger from South America is
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  Speaker 1: none other than a character known internationally as Holy Peter's.
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  Speaker 1: His particular specialty is preying upon lonely ladies by appealing
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  Speaker 1: to their religious feelings, and his so called wife is
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  Speaker 1: a worthy helpmate. There're an infernal couple who stick at nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I say, then, Lady Flatter's Carfax.
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  Speaker 1: She may be dead by now, dead or worse. She
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  Speaker 1: may never have reached London. On the other hand, they
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  Speaker 1: may have her confined in some house in this very city.
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  Speaker 2: Why not a blow?
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  Speaker 1: No, I think not. The continental system of registration is
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: too strict. All my instincts tell me she's in London.
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  Speaker 2: How can we locate her?
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  Speaker 1: Patient Smiley of Watson, patience. You must wait until the
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  Speaker 1: police spark Peters, or until he tries to market some
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  Speaker 1: of the jewels. Scotland Yard is working on that purphase
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  Speaker 1: of the problem. Scotland Yard may not be any too lively, Watson.
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  Speaker 1: That they are thorough, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But in the meantime Schlessinger may have killed the poor lady.
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  Speaker 1: That the oard responsibility not mine, but the black haired englishman.
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  Speaker 2: You let him slide through your fingers. Surely he must
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  Speaker 2: have had something to do with it. Disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: Write again, Watson, then why let him escape?
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: Escape?
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  Speaker 1: Watson, Escape, The fellow's been hounding me to death. Come in,
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: Come in, I say, ah, there the strada Scotlan Yard
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  Speaker 1: unearthed something.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: Eh.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: You look as excited as a terrier that smells.
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: A rat with on his chair.
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  Speaker 1: All right, mister Holmes, I take it to mean Holy Peters,
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  Speaker 1: who else here, mister Holmes, take a look at this, aha,
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  Speaker 1: an earring old Spanish gold with diamonds and emeralds. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that belongs to lady Francis. Where did you find it?
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  Speaker 1: Pawned yesterday afternoon in the shop in Westminster Road by
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  Speaker 1: a stout man with the peace out of his neft
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  Speaker 1: ear excellent, the star excellent?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but how does that help? I don't imagine he
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  Speaker 2: left his address.
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  Speaker 1: No, but he will return to poorn the other jewels.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: But by word, come on, Watson, suppose we keep an
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  Speaker 1: eye on that shop.
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  Speaker 2: That's it, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: The third shop passed the corner, the one with all
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: the jump in the window. Yes, lestrade, it's just about
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  Speaker 1: closing time. So I don't imagine we shall catch the
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: old boy today.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: I'm just as glad. Looks like a storm. I'm coming up.
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't really standing out here in the rain.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, who's that? Yes, by job, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it is is what? Surely that poor robed female
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  Speaker 2: just coming out of the shop isn't Peter's.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not Peter's. But if I'm not mistaken, it's
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  Speaker 1: his wife. Quickness follow her seems to be.
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  Speaker 2: In a hurry, don't. She looks to me as though
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  Speaker 2: she might be up to something.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a bit.
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  Speaker 2: She stopped in front of another shop. She's going in the.
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  Speaker 1: Start, Watson. Look it's an undertaker's shop.
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  Speaker 2: Undertakers. I don't like the looks of that, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Did Why look here, I've got to know what she's
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  Speaker 1: doing in there. I can't go in. She may know
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: me by sight. Watson, you go in and ask about
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: a coffin for your great aunt Matilda.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: But I haven't got a great aunt matildren. Furthermore, she
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't need a coffin.
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  Speaker 1: No, Lord, you'll get into that shop and leave the
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: daughter chance so we can hear Lestrade and I will
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: be hiding in the next doorway very well, But you're
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: wasting precious time. Remember, Lady Francis Confixts may be in
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: danger now on the.
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  Speaker 2: Coffin hasn't come yet.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: I told you it with an emergency.
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: I'm terribly sorry, ma'am, but you see it took longer,
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: being a bit out of the ordinary, and what with
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: the sage.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but you promise to have it there today and
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  Speaker 1: that it.
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  Speaker 4: Will be Mum.
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  Speaker 6: It's on its way now. Shouldn't be surprised if it
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: was there by the time you got back.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Very well, good day.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: For that to you, ma'am. And I hope it prose
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: that the statue. And now what can I do for you? Se?
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Well, you see I have an on matilla roll I
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: suppose I should say I had an on matilla and
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: she well, you see, she will come.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: On your on beatilla will have to wait. Missus Peters
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: is more important at present.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: She goes home. Wrong that collar, Horry Watson, I'm hurrying
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: feel that wind.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I don't like this coffin incident. It looks a bit
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: too sinister to me.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Look here, mister Holmes, if they've murdered the poor lady,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: they'd be more emptive, berier and a hole in the backyard,
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: nice and quiet.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, this coffin points to an orthodox burial with all
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: the red tape of a metal certificate and official sanctions.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Don't like it? What's I don't like it at all?
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: There she goes into that house third in the left,
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: grim looking place, all the blinds down. It looks forbidding.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I'd swear it hadn't been lived in recent day? Did
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: you hear that?
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: You got to get into that house?
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: So you haven't got a search warrant.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: You can't enter the Warn't you clasted, Watson? You and
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I gonna went to the huss Let's start. You go
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: back to Scotland Yard and have a warrant sent around
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: with a pair of burly policemen to back it up.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: And honey, there's no time to waste.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: When you buy your first clipper craft, perhaps you'll wonder
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: how truly fine clothes can be made today at such
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: modest prices. Trying on a new spring clipper craft suit, however,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: is a convincing experience. You know that rich looking worsted
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: will give you long service. You feel the comfort only
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: skilled designing makes possible. You're obvious dressed in the best
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: of taste. Yes, it's difficult to believe that such handsome,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: expensive looking clipper craft suits are only forty and forty
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: five dollars. Top coats in fine coverts and worsted gabardine
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: only forty and forty five dollars, and sport jackets only
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: twenty six fifty. Clipper craft values are made possible only
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: by the Great clipper Craft Plant, which concentrates the buying
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: power of ten hundred thirty six fine stores across the nation. Yes,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: selling expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the nation's
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: finest stores is the great, big idea behind the Clippercraft plant.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: That's why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: your city.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: add their names to Clippercraft in your suits, top coats,
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: and sport jackets. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: at eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street, Sacks thirty fourth
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: Broadway at thirty fourth In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop Creskin Ewarck. And in Jamaica
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: eight Jamaica Avenue.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: And how back to doctor Watson and mister Fawns, who
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: are about to force their way into a strange house
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: in which a woman has been screaming.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: But look here, Holmes, you're not going to ring the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: front door bell.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Why not always try the easiest method first? Watson, Yes,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: someone's coming. Well, what do you want? I want to
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: speak to doctor Schressinger. There's no such person here. Take
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: your foot out of the doorway, not until I've seen
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the man who lives here, whatever he may call himself.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Very well, then come in.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: You're letting in the rain.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Standing here, and let me tell you this. My husband
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: is not afraid of any man alive.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: I'll call him.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Hm. The place hasn't been lived in for some time.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Notice the dust on the chandelier. Watson, Yes, and they
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: intend leaving again shortly. Muslin covers haven't been removed from
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the furniture.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Dreary old hole. So you listen to the wind in
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the chimney wolves cold and clammy smells like a crypped sounds.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Kind ah, gentlemen, Oh, there must be some mistake. I
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: fancy you've been misdirected. Perhaps if you tried further down
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: the street, that'll do.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We've no time to waste. You are Henry Peters, the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: late reverend doctor Schlessinger of Baden Baden and South America.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: And you are mister Sherlock Holmes. If I'm not mistaken
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: quite your name does not frightened me, Mister Holmes. Where
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: the man's conscience is clear, you can't rattle him.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: What have you done with lady Francis Corfex.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: I should be very glad if you could inform me
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: of her whereabouts She gave us the slip, owing me
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: a hundred pounds. I'd love you to show flip but
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: a couple of cheap ornaments she left in my position.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I have reason to believe she's in this house, and
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I mean to find her.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Where is your wallet?
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: This efficient little father will serve until a better one comes.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Any Henny, get a quif I'll have you thrown out quick?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Wats in our times limited? Peters. Where's the coffin that
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: was sent to this house?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: It's in use.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: There's a body in it. I must see that body. No,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: you don't stand aside. I warn you you'll be hurt. Now,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: then Watson, First the dining room. Open that door, Pooms,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: there's the coffin on the table. I don't like the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: looks of this, and up the gas. I can't see right.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: It's a little dried up old woman.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Yes it's not Lady Carfax.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Possibly this poor old thing is as she's over eighty.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: She's almost lost in that coffin.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: You've blundered badly for once, mister Sherlock. Holmes, if you
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: really must know, that is an old nurse of my wife's.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: We located her in Brixton Workhouse infirmary a few days ago.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: We brought her here.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Unfortunately the doctor we called in couldn't save her. Day
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: before yesterday she died. Certificate says senile decay. Pick a
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: hole in that, mister Sherlock.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Holmes, here that homes. It's a woman in pain, answers.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Just the window. The chimney behaves that way on bad.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Night, mister Peters, I'm going through your house.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Oh no, you're not put off your hands.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: And I thought I told you to go for the police.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: I think they shot gun'll be as good an argument
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: as any policeman come along.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I'll you go and be quick about it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Look here, you can't bullyrag us.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You see what's an easy I'm afraid we shall have
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to do with the lady suggests. She's so persplicive.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I say, Holmes, I'm drenched to the skin. How long
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: do you have to stand here in this beastly.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Rain until the straw comes back with the search warrant.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to take my eyes off that house. Confounded,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Why the Scott and Yard. Always have to be so slow,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: he said, Look.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Hold, what's that carriage driving up in front of the house?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Great thunder? It's a hearse? Why a hearse this time
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of night? Why the hurry? There's something wrong about this, Watson,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: something I can't quite figure out.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: They're bringing out the coffin seems to be heavier than
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: you'd expect.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: The coffin, of course, heavier and deeper. Special job, but
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a fool. I've been quick, Watson. You must stop that coffin.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It's life or death, and a hundred chances to one
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: it's death.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: But how I don't understand what.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: The coffing down?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Put it down?
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I say you again, I thought I told you to
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: keep out of this.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: What are those men to put that coffin down? Peter's
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: or I'll brow your brains out.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Very well, but I'll have you arrested for this.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Good Here comes inspect Lestrad of Scotlan Yard. You could
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: speak to him about that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Hello, what's up? Fast than the straw? That man and
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: woman that time to make it get.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's never mind? That helped me try the top
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: off this coffee.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: But homes, you're not going to do it out here
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: in the rain. Are you get at it all right?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Beside? Seemed loose? Honey?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: All right, that's it now again.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Here we are that does it?
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Whew, what a beastlyss smell of chloroform. The company is saturated.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Look here? Who is? There's nothing in here but the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: old woman.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Take her out quickly, don't you see? She's resting here
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: at the top than she once before. Take her out.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: There's a fourth bottom. That's it. It should lift out,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: hey jove, it does lift out.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: No, there's another compartment underneath.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: And in it is Lady Francis Carfax. Watson, tell me quickly,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: are we too late? She she gone, no, No, there's
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: still a paint pulse. Smith were able to be able
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to bring her round in time, Hugh, But it was
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: a close call, Thank heaven. We were in time to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: prevent a double funeral.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, but look here, doctor Watson, you haven't explained the
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: mystery of the dark gentleman, the one who gave you
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: the black eye.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: And he turned out to be the sheep in wolf's clothing,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: a boyhood sweetheart of Lady Francis Carfax. I believe they
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: had had a lover's quarrel many years before, and the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: honorable Philip Green. That was his name. He'd brifted off
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the South America, bought a coffee plantation, and proceeded to
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: become disgrace fully wealthy. After many years, he discovered that
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the lady had never married, possibly because she was still
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: in love with him. So Becky came to try his
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: luck the second time. He's wooing was a trifle tempestuous,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: hype fancy, but the lady finally relented, So the story
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: has a happy ending.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: And now, Doctor Watson, what about next week's story?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Next week, I think I'll tell you about a famous
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: family who had a monster locked up in the tower room,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: and how that monster later threatened the two heir to
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: the succession, and by what quickmit it means homes showed
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: up a gigantic swindle.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: The makers of clipper Craft closed, and ten hundred and
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: thirty six leading stores from coast to coast have brought
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: you another In the new series of broadcasts featuring the
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, our stories are based
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: upon the character of Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is played by John Stanley Doctor
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Watson by Alfred Shirley, and the dramatizations are by Edith Meiser.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Sherlock Holmes is produced and directed by Basil Ochren, with
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: special music by Alfred Berman. If you don't know your
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Clippercraft dealer right Clippercraft two hundred Fifth Avenue, New York City,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: be sure to listen next Sunday to Sherlock Holmes in
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: the Return of the Monster. Mister Guy Harris speaking for
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Slippercraft Homes that is a mutual broadcasting system