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Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Blaze (EP0966) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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so thanks a lot. All right, well, now it's time for
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today's episode of Sherlock Holmes. This one's The Silver Blaze. The Silver Blaze
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actually g K. Chesterton's favorite Sherlock Holmes story and want to enjoyed quite a
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bit, so let's go ahead and take a listen. The Adventures of Sherlock
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Holmes, the Original and Immortal stories of Sir A Conan Doyle's dramatized genial with
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the Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson and Sir John Gielgood in the role of Sherlock
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Holmes, and now the Adventures of John mack Holme. Was Sir John Gielgood
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at Jelock Holme and Sir Ralph Richardson as our storyteller, Doctor James Watson.
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Many of the cases of Sherlock Holmes were pilot affairs that made news their outside
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the family circles involved. The disappearance of Silas Blades was a matter which set
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the whole country by the ears, but not near they had this horse,
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the favorite for the West its cup, vanished for a week before the Great
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Race, but his trainer had also been tragically murdered. This is a small
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villa about two hundred yards from the stables. And think you have the newspapers
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there was people they have to say about another. Oh, well he has
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the hairs. The morning's first, it says, the horses had been exercised
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and waters as usual on the tables locked up. At nine o'clock through the
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lads walked up to the trainer's house where they had suffered the kitchens, but
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the third near the hunter remained on guard. A few minutes after nine,
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the maid Edith Baxter, carried his supper dish of courage muttons down to the
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table as the path ran over the open wars. He carried a lamp in
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with her. About thurty hours away from the stables, the man appeared out
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of the gossess and called to her to stop, excuse me. Can you
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tell me where I am? I've ever said of my mind asleep on the
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moor when I saw your Adansim you're comes tot piling time and stable her.
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I am what a sort of blood I understand as a stable boy seeps her
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learn as a night okay, getting call, yes, but you wouldn't be
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too proud to her in the price of a new dress. Now would do
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see? The boy gets nate to night and you had the pictures with money
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can buy Let me past because I'm not giving those fling buttons. Girl was
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tightened by his manner, and she ran passed into the stable windows, hats
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through which she always used to hand the boy his needles. The hatch was
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already open and the boy was waiting inside. He begun to tell him what
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it happened. When the stage that came up again. I wanted to have
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a word with you, But what what did missus jerious business? If they
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put something in your process? There was two of horses and for the wiss
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cuts silver dres and they are that they have to take tip anyone to do
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with that. It is the pest of the way to say I could give
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the other the hand of Johns. So there's not one of them games out
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well, I'll say I always saves them a king's planet. Just wait when
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I set the doctor tell us. The boy ran to unleased the dogs,
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and the maid hurried towards the house, but looking back, he saw the
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stranger leading in through the stable window. And in this later, when the
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hunter rushed out with the dog. The stranger was gone. Yes, that's
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as far as we can get for the morning post. I'm I said,
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this is Hudson. Let me stupidly use the other half of the paper the
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lights of Father's morning. It no matter, Idea Phillips. The Telegraph has
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also covered the account of Villas for the heavy Sea. Hunter, on the
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return of his fellow grooms, sent a lettage after the trainer Staker to tell
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him what had happened. Staker seems to have been vaguely uneasier about the matter,
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for although he'd been to bed, he got up again at one o'clock
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in the morning, telling his wife that he was going down to the stable
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to see him all as well. He put on a neck in dash,
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but it was raining heavy day and left the house. He was quite a
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welcome detailed idea Lows and here I haven't listened missus s Taka's statements. After
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her husband had gone out, she went back to sleep again and didn't wait
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until seven o'clock in the morning. Finding him still ups, she called the
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maid and they set off together for the stables. They found the door wide
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and inside huddled on a chair with Hunter in a state of complete stop the
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magine. The loss overhead had had nothing all night, but the table is
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stole em fair, and there was no sign of the trackers Hunker had obviously
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they had been gone about it there. Missus s Taker and the maid left
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him and ran up to the moor to see about Staker had made it taking
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a horseye to exercise. And so the murder was this kind? Don't you
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read me the rest of missus Taker's facing. Oh well, yes, s
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Some quarter of a mile from the stable, Missus Staker and the maid found
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Staker's coat flapping from a first wood, and usually beyond there was a booze
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shaped depression on the moor, and at the bottom of it, young Sakers
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what he was found He had shattered by a seven blow from some hidey weapons,
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wounded in the fire, a long clean cusp, evident being picked in
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by some sharp Faker had obviously tried to defend himself. From his left hand,
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he grasped a region blest to covette, which is recognized by the maid
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as having been worn by the finger who's cooking for her outside the stables under
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The stable boy also identified it when he recovered from the effect of the drugs.
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This wasn't the talent, say howder opium which had been put into his
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courage musk. And now that's that's a strange. What the stranger was doing
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is he went through the stable window was led to eustain or staining our surprise.
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All right, so only one day it's been drugs. And he goes
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on to say there were an abundant pool in the mud which lay at the
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bottom of the take or hollel. But the lifting horse, silver Blaze,
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had been there at the time of the studdle. Well, wasn't that far
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star little journey quite a great bit. And here we are terrified courage stock
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lives like the boss of a shield. In the middle of the huge circle
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of guard was two gentul from Are waiting for us at the station. Silver
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Blazed, his owner a well known sports from Colonel ross An intected Gregory Air
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of Scotland Yard. I'm delighted that he'll come down with the Holmes. The
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inspector here has that all could possibly be suggested at that time. Wish to
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heaven bone UNTI and he find to again spots take up and recover my heart,
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and just that I may be able to assist himself hasn't been in the
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press. Development find sorry to say we've made very little progress, don't you
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know? We have had nowhere difficulty in tracing the strings. He was well
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known in the neighborhood. His name is Fitzroy Simpsons, man who's comes down
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in the world and lived by a little quiet and genteel bookmaking in the London
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clubs. His books showed he was carrying backed up to five thousand pounds against
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the favorite. When confronted with the covert, he turned very pale and was
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utterly unable to account for the prisons in the hand of the murdered man.
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Of course, Tracker himself was wounded, wasn't it in the sigh? He
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may have wounded himself in the conver Since tunnels which follow any brain into it
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excellent, my dear Watson, It's more than possible. It's probable, in
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which case one of the main points in Fable of the Accused disappears. A
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minute later, we were all seated an uncomfortable land though, and we're rolling
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through the quainted hole. Devint. A town council would tear your case to
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rags. Why should Sympton take the horse out of the stable if he wished
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to injury to do it, there hasn't you pick its key to the stable
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door in time? In his possession? What chemists sold him the part of
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Oakum? Above all, where could he? He is stranger to the distinct
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hide a horse and such a horse is? Tell me what is he?
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That explanation as to the note which he wished to make to get to the
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stable boy, he says it was a pim proud of note that one was
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found in his purse. Also, he's not a stranger of the district.
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He's quite large, as had a start in the summer in Okims. He
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probably brought with him from London. The team having service curve will be heard
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away And to the horse, they were well lied at the bottom of one
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of the pits or old mines up in the world. What did he say
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about the cavett we neget that it his and says that he lost it.
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That's a new element has been introduced into the case. It may account to
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be leading a horse to the table. We found traces that showed that a
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party of dipsys in camp on Monday night within a mile of the spot where
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the mayor took place on tuesdays they were gone. Timpton may well have been
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leading the horse to them when he was overtaken. It's certainly possible as being
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scar accord him. Meanwhile, I've examined every table and out hunting Tebeto,
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and for a radius of ten miles there's another fainting table fit close. I
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believe yes, And that's a factor we must certainly not neglect as the dest
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Birs, as their horse were taken in the beat room, they had an
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interest in the disappearance of the silver Blaze. Saylas Brown, the had trader
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is known who had large bets upon the event, and he was no friend
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the poorst breaker, however, will We've examined his tables and there's nothing to
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commit him with the affair and nothing to connectors by Simpson. Was there interest
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and losing at pauls Ah? Well, here we are. Our driver pulled
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up at the little red brick biller which stood by the road. Colonel Ross
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asked him whether he would like to go on to the scene of a crime.
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I think I decided to stay out of it a while, and going
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to one of two questions of details, Freaker was brought back to I suppose
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he liked upstairs the English this tomorrow. He's been in your set of some
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years, Colonel. I've always found him an excellent servant. I presume you
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made an inventory of what he had in his pocket of the band as his
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best inspector. I had you seen from cells here in the sitting room a
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box of matches, two into the callow candle, pencil case, a few
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papers, and the ivory handled knife. There is singular knife, Watson Sully
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in your line. It's what they call a cataract knife, used for surgical
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purposes. He's teasing a very delicate operation, a strange thing for a man
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to carry with him on a rough expedition. By won't even shut up to
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go into his pocket. The kick was guarded by a cork which was parmoside
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his body. His wife shows us did he kept it for some days in
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the dredging table and picked it up. He left the room, poor weapon
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that perhaps the basic would lay his hands on at the moment, and the
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paper hey dealer's account is this letter from Colonel Ross and this dreat baker's account
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for thirty seven pounds fifteen made out by Madame Lazella of Bunsby. Actually that
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middle piece, certainly it's made out to William Darbysham. William Arbysher. Mister
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Daker tells us he was a friend of her husbands and that occasionally letters for
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him will addressed here. Has he been staying here? Then? Did he
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is taken on him? I gather not? But here is with his taker,
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mister Sherlock Holmes, missus Daker, how do you do, sir?
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How do you do? Missus? Taker? Who do you have before the
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garden party in Cimit recently? Now? Sorry, you must be a mistake.
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I'm sure I wanted you wore a costume of colored stustris fell the trimmings,
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never had such addressed, sir. Well, that's settled to them.
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Excuse me, sir, I'd like a word with a current. Of course,
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I'll leave with you in a moment, mister Holmes, Oh et ceteras
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home, I believe you got your hand on a clue, or do you?
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As a matter of fact, I was just remembering a really excellent career.
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We want set together in so ho in a moment. We continue this
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week's story in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, And now we continue the Adventures
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of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes next art to be shown the spot where the
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murder has been committed. The short walk cross the moor brought us to the
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hollow in which somebody had been found. At the brinklet was the first bush
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upon which the making cost belonging to the murdered man had been hung. There
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was no wind that night, I understand then, but very heavy rains when
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it Let's say, if the cook was not blown against the third bushes,
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it must have been passed. Yes, it was laid across the bush.
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Very interesting in this bag, I have one of the books with straighter wall.
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One of fitz joys into schools, and the cursed horse too was silver
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blade. My dear, better you surpass your first homes. Took the bag,
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and descending into the hollow, he made a careful study of the trampled
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mud in front of him. Hello, what's the something that chay text the
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night? Counting? How I can admit it? It is invisible? There
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is in the mud. I only find it because I was looking for it.
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But I'm expected to find this. I thought, it's not unlike this.
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You know, first the fathers around the rim of the hollover any more
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texts, of course I'm afraid of are none. I've examined the ground very
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carefully for our hundred guards. Its direction good. Then I'm take a little
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walk over the moors before it good dark, and I think I'll put this
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horsh in my pocket just for luck. I suppose you know your own to
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Holmes. Perhaps you will come back with me in sect A. There's several
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matters in which I need your advice, especially as to whether we owe to
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the public to expect to the base from the west. It stuff certainly not,
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Colonel, I should let the name stamp. I am very glad to
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have you on a thing, and so is he. Later on, when
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you finish your walk, Colonel Russon in sector went back to the villa as
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homes now I walked, so they're across the more he maybe the question of
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who killed John Straker at the moment and consign ourselves to finding our wasn't becoming
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a horse now supposing you broke away, if you're in or after the tragedy,
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where could you have got to almost anywhere? On that more, I
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said, imaginement. Their nervous horse is a vigarious animal. It's not to
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himself. The instincts would have been able to return to King's Thailand, or
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they're all over to Capleton yonder, Why should he run wild up from the
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more If he's not at King's Island, he must be over there at Capleton.
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Come along, they're not fat atill. And as we approached the gates
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of Capleton we met a groom coming out of them. We don't want any
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lawyeries around here. I only wanted to ask you a question. Would I
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be too early to see your master and mister Silas Brown if I were to
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call her five o'clock to morrow morning? We'll bless you here if anyone is
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about it over them? We always afraid during what said or wasn't on that
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visit the new there? Whatever would you want here? Minutes? Talk with
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you, my good sirs. I'm no time to talk to every gather at
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us, and we don't want to change it. Yes, we ask you,
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and I find a dog at heals. One word in your ear,
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my friend, in your own interests with the life and internal life, very
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good? So we argue about it here in public or talking it over in
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your parlor? Or do I go to the police ten minutes before he returned.
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It should be done to just if you wish it, And I said,
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no mistakes. Now a day should be no mistakes. It should be
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there. Should I change it first or not? No, no, don't.
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I will write to you about that. No tricks now, No you
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can tast me. You can try, yes, I think I can.
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Well you will hear from me tomorrow. Good day. Do you're a good
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day? And see what a more perfect compounds the women cured and sneak than
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Master Silas. But I have seldom that he has a horston or he tried
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to bluster with out, but I show him to exactly what his actions had
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been that morning that he's convinced I was actually watching him. He was first
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down as usual, and seeing a strange horse wandering on the morning, he
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went out to it. When he recognized it a silver blade from the white
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splash on its body, his first instinct were to return it to the King's
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pylon stable, which he set out to do. But then he realized that
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if the horse could only be hidden till after the west ex cup his own
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horse days brow and almost certainly wind, so he changed his mind and turned
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back halfway brought silver Blade down to his own stable, but I thought his
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tables had been fallow his sword old horsetaker, like him as many a dodge
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at aunt, you are afraid to leave the horse's are now ch is every
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interest in injuring it, My dear fellow he had guarded like the apple of
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his eyes. He knows that his only hope of mercy is to produce it
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safely at the racetrack for the Westix Cup. I made that perfectly clear to
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him. But I have a little text to play on Colonel Ross. He
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made noticed that his manner to me he was still triful cavalier. So neither
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of us, please, for the present, would say anything to him about
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the horse for a certain atlantitude wishes. And of course this is all quite
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a minor matter compared with the question of who killed John's taker and who would
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devote yourself to that. In the meantime, on the country, we will
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both go back to London by the night trad I was fund the start on
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my friend's world. We've only been a few hours, and he gaven too
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that he should give up an investigation which he had begun so brilliant. It
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was quite incomprehensible to me. Not one word more could I draw from him
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until we were back at the trainer's house, where the camel and the inspector
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were waiting for us. My friend and I returned to Time by the midnight
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express. We've had a charming little breath of your dastor, so you would
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despair of arresting the dress for us to take us to us certainly great difficulties
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in the way. I had every hope, however, that your horse will
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be at the race tech next Tuesday, and I think if you would have
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your jockey and readiness for me, I take this photograph of John's taker with
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me back to Time. The really set up. I'm rather disappointed now,
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London consultant, and now I don't need to put any stars. Doesn't when
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he came, at least your head is assurance that your horse will run next
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week. Yes, I had his assurance. I should prefer to have my
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horse. We went outside, Goodbye, goodbye, Colon. I hope to
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see you with the Westis Cup and full the blade. Four days later,
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Holmes and I saw Silver Blaze win the Wstix Cup by a good six lings.
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Be there's not a silver blaze that even its owner could recognize. There
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was no trace to be seen as a famous white splash on his podead,
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all of the muffled off fall it. The silver Blaze that won the Westix
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Cup was a powerful bay. It was only in the way and churs after
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the race where the homes again. To explained to a colonel who was completely
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bewildered, you wanted to wash his face and his leg in spirits the behind,
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and you will find that he's just the same old silver blaze or whatever.
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She would take my beat away as I find him in the hands of
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a faker, and took the liberty of running him just as he would sent
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over my dear. So you done, wonders, I owe you a thousand
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the policies. You've done me a very great service by recovering my horse.
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You would give me a greater still if you could lay your hands on the
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mudge. I've done, Staker, I've done so, You've done so.
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You've got him. But where if he was, he's in a hard company
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at the present moment. Let is either a very bad joke with the Holmes
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or is it an insult? I am not a luker. The real murderer
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is standing immediately before you the horse. The horse over blaze himself. It
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may listen the gift somewhat if I say that the killing was done entirely in
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self descent, and the John Saker was a man who was quite unworthy of
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your confidence. There goes the bell, And as I stand to win a
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little on the next lace, I shall defer a lengthier explanations till a more
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fitting time. It was not until we were on our way back to London,
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but Homers would get down to these explanations, despite the impatience of both
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the colonel and myself. I must consider that I even suspected sit so I
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Simpson myself at the time. It is only when I reached the trainer's house
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that the immense significance of the courage mustin occurtain. The courage mustin you mean
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when you mentioned our sir home meal exactly parted opium has a disagreeable and perceptible
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flavor. Only something more strongly flavored, like a courage, could have disguise
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the taste. Our fixth wife Simpsons would never have known that the maid would
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be served in the stable laber to carry that night. The only people who
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could have known that, for people in my house, so whom could have
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taken advantage of the deck. Then there was a silence of the dog.
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When the horse was taken from the table. It failed the bar because he
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knew who the intruder bar. I was already quite convinced that the intruder must
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have been John Staker himself. John Staker himself, why did he wish to
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take silver blades out onto the moor and the dead of night? And secretly
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the answer to that is in John's s Taker's pocket. When Driftmaker's built,
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I said, addressed to William Gathersher. That set me thinking perhaps John s
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Taker was leading a double life. After all, his wife's confirmed that the
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expensive costume wasn't for her, and I recognized in the first that I showed
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her. Madame Legerier, the driftmaker later confirmed the John Steaker had indeed boards
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there gives to a woman of more expensive tastes. In fact, John Staker
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was leading a double life and was in their financial shape. John sick,
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I could sketch him be leaf. The knife gave me the finals. It
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was a surgical knife that just could be used to lame a horse without leaving
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any visible evidence of the foul players. By laming silver blaze and letting on
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Debra John, the faker would have been able to retrieve his fortunate candles.
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And then I trusted. He led the horse out onto the work so that
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when he cut his tendom, his plunging wouldn't wait in the rooms overhead.
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In order that he could see what he was getting do he needed a candle,
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as the candle should not be seen, He led the horse to the
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hollow. Lighting the candle, he dropped that spent match in the mud.
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Unfortunately for him. The knights not to scare the horse unless it was instinct,
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which Niver it was. The horse lashed out and his steel shoe cups
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take a pull in the forest. He's already taken off his neck and dart
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to be fair, and as he fell gashed his tie on his own knife.
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Tell you he might have been there one y and the cosette s Roy
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Simpsons, which was in the dead man's hand. Simpsons said that he lost
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it, no doubt he did take come up to found it and picked it
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up. The heaps of the idea of using it to becure a horse's legs
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well, that's disposes of everything us has begot while away. The rest of
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this journey Idea Watson with a game chest. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
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based on the original stories of Sir Arthur Colin Doyle, have been dramatized on
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you with original music composed. I said, they got welcome Back, just
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a great classical rendition of the story and the Doyle wrote such a fastening piece.
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Is I love the way it was put together, and you know,
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having the end where the horse did it, that was just absolutely masterful.
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This is you know, this is These past few weeks have been a lot
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of fun, you know, because we've had some episodes, particularly back when
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we were in the John Stanley programs, that were not quite as enjoyable.
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But these last few weeks these have just been amazing. The you know,
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really Sherlock Holmes adaptations at their absolute best. So I hope you've been enjoying
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them as much as I have. All Right, well, now we turned
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