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SherlockHolmes-Adventure Of The Missing Bloodstain · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 1: Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in the new adventures of
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  Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes. This rebroadcast is especially for the American Armed
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  Speaker 1: Forces and their allies. Now let's join Dr. Campbell as
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  Speaker 1: he enters Dr. Watson's study.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here we are once again in Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Watson's study. Come in, Mr. Campbell, come in. Here, sit
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  Speaker 1: down and relax. You look a bit wilted, old fella. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's such a beautiful spring evening, I thought I'd walk over.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it's so beautiful I dawdled most of the way,
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  Speaker 1: drinking in the warm air and the smell of things
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  Speaker 1: growing until suddenly I realized I was blamelessly going to
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  Speaker 1: be late if I didn't hurry. So I ran the
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  Speaker 1: last three blocks. Yes, I know how it is. This
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  Speaker 1: lovely spring weather is certainly conducive to indolence. My household
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  Speaker 1: claim that when I go out to do the spring planting,
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  Speaker 1: I spend most of my time leaning on the spade, sniffing,
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  Speaker 1: and listening to the birds. Not an unpleasant way to
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  Speaker 1: pass the time of day, incidentally. Here, a day like
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  Speaker 1: today is almost as relaxing as a curtsy bath. It
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  Speaker 1: reminds me of a curious and gory experience that Holmes
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  Speaker 1: and I had in just such an establishment some years ago.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds suspiciously like the gentleman who said bang. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of explosions... Now, Mr. Campbell, do you ever complain
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  Speaker 1: about the way that the storyteller begins his yarns? Anything
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  Speaker 1: is better than an abrupt beginning. Now, put me all out.
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  Speaker 1: Where was I?
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  Speaker 2: In a Turkish bath, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, a Turkish bath, if I'm not mistaken. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Well, now, to begin at the beginning... It
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  Speaker 1: was in the hectic hair-raising, and I might even say
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  Speaker 1: the glorious days, of the great battle of wits between
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  Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes and the notorious Professor Moriarty. What you might
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  Speaker 1: call a real battle of the titans, eh, Doctor? Indeed
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  Speaker 1: it was, Mr. Campbell. Things had been unusually hectic for
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  Speaker 1: Holmes for several months. Moriarty had been particularly active, and
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  Speaker 1: Holmes had had many sleepless nights. Finally, things had calmed
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  Speaker 1: down a bit, and I tried to persuade him to
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  Speaker 1: take a badly needed holiday. The net result being that
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  Speaker 1: he finally did agree to have an afternoon off and
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  Speaker 1: accompany me to a Turkish bath. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: both Holmes and I had a witness for the Turkish bath.
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  Speaker 1: Over a smoke in the present latitude of the drying room,
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  Speaker 1: I've often found him less reticent and more human than
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  Speaker 1: at any other time. The heat melded his cast iron reserve, eh, Dr. Watson?
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  Speaker 1: Only slightly, Mr. Campbell, only slightly. Well, as I was saying,
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  Speaker 1: on the upper floor of a certain Fumberland Avenue establishment,
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  Speaker 1: there is an isolated corner where two couches lie side
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  Speaker 1: by side. And it was on these that we were lying.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes had just shot his long, sinewy arm out of
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  Speaker 1: the towels which enveloped him and was fishing about in
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  Speaker 1: the inside pocket of his coat. He found the sight.
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  Speaker 1: Where have I put it? Where on earth did I
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  Speaker 1: put it, oh, confounder thing? Watson. Hmm? I forgot to
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  Speaker 1: bring my tobacco. Oh, relax, Holmes. Just relax. Forget about tobacco.
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  Speaker 1: Forget mariachi and relax. What shall we come in here for? Burble, burble, burble, burble.
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  Speaker 1: I am relaxed, my dear fellow. I want a smoke.
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  Speaker 1: What about the burble, burble? Nothing like the peace and
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  Speaker 1: seclusion of a Turkish bar. Mr. Holmes. Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Hello? Gus,
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  Speaker 1: the steam room attendant seems to be paging you. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. Now what? Has anyone seen Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
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  Speaker 1: Be in here, please. Here I am, Gus. Here I am.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want? Come on. Oh, Mr. Holmes, it's
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  Speaker 1: good I find you. There has been an accident, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: A bad accident. It's Lord Canterbury. He's in his dressing room,
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  Speaker 1: covered in blood. Oh. In that case, I fancy you
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  Speaker 1: want Dr. Watson, don't you? Not me. I'll be with
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  Speaker 1: you in a minute, Gus. Oh, no, not Dr. Watson.
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  Speaker 1: It's too late for you. He's dead. Dead? Dead in
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  Speaker 1: six places. Come and look at him, Mr. Holmes. Please. Dead?
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  Speaker 1: You mean... All right, I'll come at once. Good gracious me,
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  Speaker 1: what's all the commotion? Why can't we have a little
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  Speaker 1: peace and quiet? Right. What's the meaning of this, Gus?
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  Speaker 1: Why are these two persons talking at the top of
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  Speaker 1: their voices? My dear Mr., Mr., well, whoever you are,
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  Speaker 1: I was never under the impression that the Olympia Bars
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  Speaker 1: were a church. Furthermore, my dear Mr., oh, well, never
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  Speaker 1: mind the name. Tunbridge. Frederick Hubert Tunbridge, a liberal leader
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  Speaker 1: in the present Parliament, which everyone knows who keeps abreast
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  Speaker 1: of the... My dear Mr. Tunbridge, I do not concern
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  Speaker 1: myself with trivialities. Furthermore, as I was saying before being
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  Speaker 1: so rudely interrupted, you may be interested to know that
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  Speaker 1: your hated rival, Lord Canterbury, the conservative leader with whom
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  Speaker 1: you are known to have publicly locked horns on several occasions... Oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: what have I have? What's he done now, the old fool?
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  Speaker 1: If you mean Lord Canterbury, he's done absolutely... Yes, he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't done anything and probably never will again. Oh, what
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  Speaker 1: are you blithering about? Well, it seems that Gus has
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  Speaker 1: just discovered your, shall we say, political vis-a-vis dead in
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  Speaker 1: his dressing room. Oh, you mean he's had a heart attack? No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean anything of the kind. He's been stabbed.
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  Speaker 1: In how many places, did you say, Gus? In six places, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: But that's impossible. I, uh, we, uh, that is, I, uh,
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  Speaker 1: talked to him not half an hour ago. We had
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  Speaker 1: a little, uh, conference, Subrose, you understand, while he was
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  Speaker 1: waiting for Gus to come in and give him his
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  Speaker 1: fat ass. Oh, he was quite all right, but I
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  Speaker 1: left him. Oh, really? Are you sure? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: Of course I'm sure. Canterbury was alive and cursing like
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  Speaker 1: a trooper when I left him. I passed Gus in
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  Speaker 1: the corridor. I came out of Canterbury's dressing room. He'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you the old boy was alive and kicking. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: will he? How about it, Gus? It is true I
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  Speaker 1: hear swearing, but from which dressing room it comes I
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  Speaker 1: could not be sure. The walls are so thin, you understand. Yes, yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite true. The dressing room walls are thin. But
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  Speaker 1: who is this person, and why is he asking all
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  Speaker 1: these stupid questions? But, Mr. Turnbridge, this gentleman is Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective. Hmm, I've never heard of him.
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  Speaker 1: Not even really there, Holmes. Well, no sympathy. Scotland Yard.
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  Speaker 1: This is a matter of national importance. Quite, yes. I
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  Speaker 1: think you're quite right. You may as well send for
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  Speaker 1: Inspector Lestrade, Gus. Scotland Yard will have to be informed
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  Speaker 1: in any case. In the meantime, however, well, I... I
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  Speaker 1: think I'll take a look. Well, in the meantime, Mr. Whoever-You-Are,
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  Speaker 1: I insist that everything be left strictly alone. Very well. Then, Mr. Thingamabob,
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  Speaker 1: if you insist, but you'll be losing valuable time. I
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  Speaker 1: most emphatically do insist. Well, I'm getting out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Beat you up like some reporter. You can do without me.
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  Speaker 1: Just a moment, gentlemen. Just a moment, if you please.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's only fair to point out to you
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  Speaker 1: all that suspicion is bound to fall on anyone who
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  Speaker 1: leaves before the authorities have had a chance to search
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  Speaker 1: and question him. Search me? You mean I have to
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  Speaker 1: be searched? We seem to have stirred up quite a
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  Speaker 1: hornet's nest there, Watson. Yes, and I brought you in
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  Speaker 1: here for a rest. Well, Lestrade? Nasty mess, eh, Mr. Holmes?
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  Speaker 1: Knife from the back. Yes, not once, but six times. Deep,
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  Speaker 1: ferocious thrusts. Quite unnecessarily brutal. And, if I may say so, bloody. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Place looks like a chalice. Yes, whoever did the deed
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  Speaker 1: must have been drenched in blood. Might tell your men
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  Speaker 1: to search for blood-stained towels or garments, will you, Lestrade? Yes. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll pick up anything that's got blood on it. Never
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  Speaker 1: you fear, Mr. Holmes. I've ordered a search of everybody
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  Speaker 1: and everything. on the premises. Yes, that's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be very popular with Mr. Tunbridge, eh, Holmes? I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: care if he was the Archbishop of Canterbury. When Scotland
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  Speaker 1: Yard says search everybody, we search everybody. Besides, everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: he and the corpse here are bitter enemies. They fought
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  Speaker 1: like cat and dog. Um... How long would you say
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  Speaker 1: he'd been dead, Mr. Adams? Oh, I don't know. About,
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  Speaker 1: let me say, an hour and a half. Took 30,
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  Speaker 1: 40 minutes to get you here, Lestrade. And Canterbury had
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  Speaker 1: been dead, let me see, over half an hour when
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  Speaker 1: Gus found him. Yes, Gus. Did the doorman notice who
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  Speaker 1: left the establishment during the half hour before the body
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  Speaker 1: was found? Yes, sir. Only old Mr. Welford. And he's
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  Speaker 1: too feeble and excited to do a crime like this.
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  Speaker 1: Was the door to Lord Canterbury's dressing room locked? No, sir. Huh?
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  Speaker 1: And how does it happen that he lay here for
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  Speaker 1: over half an hour before anyone found him? Particularly as
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  Speaker 1: it was done on the books for a massage half
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  Speaker 1: an hour before he was found. Well, you see, I
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  Speaker 1: thought he was asleep. Lord Canterbury sometimes seemed like a
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  Speaker 1: little nap after he was in the steam room, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't want I should disturb him. Oh, that's very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Then you did come in this room once before you
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  Speaker 1: realized Lord Canterbury was dead. Yes, Mr. Holmes. But he
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  Speaker 1: was lying there so peaceful. So peaceful, yes. On his back? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Just like we found him. It wasn't until the second
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  Speaker 1: time I come in I see he has his eyes open.
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  Speaker 1: And the place is, shall we say, all spattered with blood?
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  Speaker 1: It was so. dark, the shades were drawn. It was
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  Speaker 1: not easy to see anything if you don't look close.
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  Speaker 1: Even then, some people are unable to observe the most
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  Speaker 1: obvious facts. And what might you mean by that? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: just an observation, Lestrade, just a gratuitous observation. Come in. Well, Willis,
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  Speaker 1: what's up? We've sliced the place from top to bottom,
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  Speaker 1: just like you said, Inspector. And there's no bloodstains nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: except on this. And what's that? A pocket knife, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Large size. Oh. The handle's been wiped off, but there's
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  Speaker 1: still some bloodstains on the glide. We found it in
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  Speaker 1: the locker of a bloke named Tombridge. Uh-huh. Just a minute, Lester.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go off the deep end. Willard. Yes, sir? You
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  Speaker 1: say there were no bloodstains anywhere except on this knife.
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  Speaker 1: Not a sign of a bloodstain nowhere. You searched the
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  Speaker 1: dirty linen hampers, towels and lockers for the customers of
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  Speaker 1: their clothes? Oh, yes, sir. We searched everything. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a sign of blood anywhere but on that there weapon. Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: That's enough for me. This here is the murder weapon
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  Speaker 1: and it was found in Tumbridge's locker. Bring him in here,
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  Speaker 1: will you, sir? We'll have him on the carpet. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Right away. I knew he was the murderer from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Who has the motive for killing Canterbury? This chap, Tunbridge.
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  Speaker 1: Who has the opportunity? This chap, Tunbridge. He admits himself
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  Speaker 1: he had a talk with the deceased and they had words.
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  Speaker 1: Where is this here bloodstained knife found? Nowhere but in
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  Speaker 1: the assist, Mr. Tunbridge's locker. Stupid place for a murderer
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  Speaker 1: to hide the fatal weapon in his own locker. Tunbridge
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  Speaker 1: isn't as stupid as that, Westrod. Oh, no? Then why
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  Speaker 1: was it there? Look here, this is an outrage, keeping
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  Speaker 1: me here like this. Don't you realize I have influence?
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  Speaker 1: You might at least let me put on my clothes
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  Speaker 1: instead of whoring them about. I'll complain to the authorities.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have you dismissed, all of you. Maybe you will, sir.
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  Speaker 1: And then again, maybe you won't. First of all, you'll
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  Speaker 1: answer some questions. Have you ever seen this knife before? Knife? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course. It's mine. I've had it all my life.
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  Speaker 1: I used to take it fishing when I was a boy. Oh, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: I have to explain its size then. Well, now I
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  Speaker 1: use it to open my letters. Oh, you do? Are
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  Speaker 1: you sure that's all you use it for? Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Then why are these here bloodstains on it? Bloodstains? Yeah. Where?
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  Speaker 1: Here and here and here. No, don't you touch it.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to destroy any possible fingerprints. But if
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  Speaker 1: it's mine, my fingerprints are already on it. Yes, he's
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  Speaker 1: right there, Mr. Arden. Furthermore, that stain doesn't look like
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  Speaker 1: blood to me. It's not red enough. It looks like rust.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact... If a stain is a
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  Speaker 1: nice blood red, it's fairly certain it's not blood. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this particular stain... You need this particular stain to Scotland Yard, Mr. Ray. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget, my dear Lestrade, I invented the first infallible
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  Speaker 1: test for blood stains. That's quite true, Lestrade. You did? Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: My test is infallible. It works on blood that is
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  Speaker 1: new or on blood that is old. I discovered the
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  Speaker 1: first reagent... which is precipitated by hemoglobin... Sorry, mister, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: but Scotland Yard hasn't any time for lectures. We believe
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  Speaker 1: in action. Now, Mr. Tambridge, it's my duty to take
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  Speaker 1: you into custody, and it's also my duty to warn
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  Speaker 1: you that anything that you may say may be used
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  Speaker 1: in evidence against you. Oh, no. I say, if you
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  Speaker 1: realize whom you're arresting, I'm a leading figure in British politics.
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  Speaker 1: So was this fellow who lies here, Stan, with your knife,
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  Speaker 1: which has still got bloodstains on it. Lestrade, if you'll
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  Speaker 1: pardon me for saying so, in this case, it's not
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  Speaker 1: the bloodstains that are in evidence, but the bloodstains that
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  Speaker 1: are not in evidence. Which is a significant factor. What
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  Speaker 1: do you mean by that? Simply that it would have
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  Speaker 1: been rather difficult for Mr. Tunbridge to have committed a
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  Speaker 1: murder as gory as this one without having bloodstains on
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  Speaker 1: the towel he's wearing or on the clothes which are
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  Speaker 1: still in his locker. What was to prevent him from
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  Speaker 1: dropping his towel outside Lord Canterbury's dressing room? Going in
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  Speaker 1: and knifing him in the back, then sneaking down to
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  Speaker 1: the shower rooms, not more than 20 feet down the corridor,
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  Speaker 1: and washing away the evidence. Me going round about in
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  Speaker 1: the nude? Certainly not. Most certainly not, sir. Remember, my
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  Speaker 1: dear Lestrade, as you dragged one of Britain's leaders away
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  Speaker 1: to jail, that it might have been possible for him
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  Speaker 1: to stab his enemy in a fit of temper, but
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  Speaker 1: he would never have dreamed of running up and down
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  Speaker 1: the corridors in his birthday suit. Oh. Let me see.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid I'll have to look for another explanation of
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  Speaker 1: the missing bloodstains. Holmes, it's very late. Everyone else has
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  Speaker 1: left the Turkish bar. Everyone but the faithful Gart. Oh,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I don't mind. Tonight we have by my house sauerkraut.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like sauerkraut. Besides, I've got to stay and
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  Speaker 1: lock up. Then you'll have to wait till we find
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  Speaker 1: the bloodstains. They're here somewhere. That's why I sent home
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  Speaker 1: for my famous benzodiazepine peroxide mixture. Somewhere on the premises,
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  Speaker 1: there is a towel or linen or something that has
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  Speaker 1: blood stains. Oh, but we've been through the towels and
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  Speaker 1: the linen a dozen times, Holmes. No sign of blood. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: according to the establishment's checklist, there are no towels or
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  Speaker 1: any linen missing. Even dust. His linen, which he washes himself,
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  Speaker 1: is hung here on the line. You don't wash any
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  Speaker 1: linen but your own, do you, Gus? No, Mr. Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: Everything go out to the laundry. I wash my own
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  Speaker 1: because I'd like to be fresh and clean. Twice a
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  Speaker 1: day I wash, noon and evening. Yes. The evening's job
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been done yet, eh? No. This one, I wash
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  Speaker 1: this noon. It's my towel from this morning. Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: This morning's towel, wash this noon. Yes. But what is it?
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  Speaker 1: Campbellbury was murdered in the middle of the afternoon about 3.30.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's... Now after 7 o'clock. Don't you see, Watson?
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  Speaker 1: This towel. Don't you see? No, Holmes. I don't. It's
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  Speaker 1: a vast thing. The towel's as clean as a whistle.
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  Speaker 1: But not dry. If it had been washed at noon,
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  Speaker 1: washed at noon, it would be dry now. But it's
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  Speaker 1: still damp. Yes, it was washed after Canterbury's death. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: To remove the blood stains. Gus, Mr. Holmes, that's why
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  Speaker 1: you didn't report the death until half an hour after
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  Speaker 1: Canterbury had died. Oh, no. Then I'd have time to
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  Speaker 1: remove the blood stains. That's not true. Besides, you can't
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  Speaker 1: prove anything. The towel is clean now. There are no marks,
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  Speaker 1: no stains. The very fact that there were no stains
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  Speaker 1: on it, Gus, first made me suspect you. Lord Canterbury
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  Speaker 1: was found lying on his back. And yet, when you
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  Speaker 1: informed us that he had been stabbed, you were quite
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  Speaker 1: definite about the number of times that he'd been stabbed.
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  Speaker 1: Within the back? Yes. Yes. How did you know that, Gus? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I lift him up and I look. Of course, I
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  Speaker 1: see what you're getting at, Holmes. He couldn't have done that.
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  Speaker 1: No one could examine the corpse without getting blood all
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  Speaker 1: over himself. And yet, when Gus appeared to tell us
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  Speaker 1: of Canterbury's death, there wasn't a spot of blood on him.
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  Speaker 1: But if I can prove that this towel that you
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  Speaker 1: so carefully washed once had bloodstains and that you were
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  Speaker 1: very careful to remove those stains... That you will never prove.
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  Speaker 1: I have scrubbed. I have used soap. I have even
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  Speaker 1: boiled that towel. There is not even a suspicion of
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  Speaker 1: a bloodstain left. That is where you're wrong, my friend. Watson,
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  Speaker 1: run the water into this tub, will you? No matter
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  Speaker 1: how thoroughly you try to remove a bloodstain, it will never... Out.
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  Speaker 1: Damn this spot. Yes, we only need enough to moisten
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  Speaker 1: the cloth. Now I'll drop a few drops of my
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  Speaker 1: famous solution onto the cloth. There we are. Well, all
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  Speaker 1: I can see is a lot of pale blue streaks. Yes. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's undoubtedly blood. Blood? Yes. The curious blue streaks prove
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  Speaker 1: infallibly that there was blood on the towel. And now, Gus,
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  Speaker 1: are you going to explain why you were so anxious
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  Speaker 1: to remove these blood stains? No. No, no. I did
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: not do it. It was Mr. Turnbridge. He did it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: The knife was his knife. There was blood on it.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Let me out of here. It's not my fault. I
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: don't want to live. Holmes, Holmes, he's running away. Watson,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: we can't let him escape. Well, there he goes down
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the corridor. He's gone into the steamboat. Don't worry. I'll
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: get him. Phew. The steam's thick in here. I can
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: hardly see my hand before my face. Must be in here.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Look under the benches, Watson. Watson. Watson. Leave the door open.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Let some of this blasted steam out of here, will you?
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I didn't shut the door. Holmes, you hear that? The door.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Someone's locked the door. Hey, somebody let us out. Let
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: us out, you hear? We're locked in. We've been locked
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: in by mistake. No, you're wrong. It was no mistake,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: my friend. Holmes, Moriarty. He's here in the steam room
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: with us. No, that's just his voice through the ventilator.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: So you were behind this murder too, Professor? Of course.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Perhaps you would like to know why I had to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: kill Lord Canterbury.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: That would be very interesting. Good. I found it necessary
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to start a feud between the two great political parties
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: because they're in danger of forming a coalition. to pass
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: certain housing reforms that would have proved very expensive to me. Well,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: what better way to break up an incipient collaboration than
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: by killing one leader, having the other hang for his mother?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: A very ingenious, Moriarty. A pity you should have chosen
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: such a clumsy tool as Gus. Clumsy? Perhaps. But he
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: fooled Scotland Yard, Mr. Horne. It was just my ill
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: luck that you should be on the premises when the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: accident occurred. Thank you for the compliment. Not at all. However,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: it's a mistake which I'm sure Gus will be able
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to rectify. Gus, how? Very simple. I've sent him to
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: put more coals on the fire. Any moment now, there
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: should be more steam. Yes, gentlemen, much more steam. I'm
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: afraid that when you finish with this steam bath, you
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: will never need another. No. You will be foiled alive.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: He's right there. There comes the steam pouring out of
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the opening, overall. heads. If only we could reach that opening,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we could stuff some of these towels into the pipeline
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and cut off the flow. There's no help. It's getting
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: very hot in here. Wait. I have it. One of
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the long benches. I'll stand on the end. You have
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to balance it while I climb on the top. Talk
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: lots and make a noise. Anything to cover up the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: moving of the bench. Very well. Oh. It's getting hot.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: My arm here. This has gone far enough. We can't
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: stand much more of this. Kitty Holmes, hand me up
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a towel, quick. Mariachi, turn the steam off. You hear, Mariachi,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: can't you hear? The heat, it's becoming unbearable. Here's more towels, Holmes.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Is it getting hot enough in there, gentlemen, for you?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it is. Boiled nice and pink, boiled in steam,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: live steam. Goodbye, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Now what happened? You
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: can't stand up there all night, Holmes. I won't have to.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Pressure's terrific. Huh? Then in luck, it will soon become
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: so great that it may burst the boiler. That's dangerous.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Buildings will be known to collapse because of bursting boilers. Nevertheless,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: it's our one chance. Go into the confounded boiler first,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: before my arm is snapped in two. But, Holmes, your
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: arm isn't as strong as the boiler plate. Pressure. Pressure,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: my dear Watson. Measured per square foot of air surface.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Quite a bit of surface to a boiler. Ah. The
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: opening of this pipe is fairly small. All the same,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid I... I can't hold out much longer, Watson.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Hold on, Holmes. Hold on. It must burst soon. It must.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: The pressure. My hands. My hands. Look out. Look out.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Look out. And you came through the explosion all right, Dr. Watson? Well,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I had a nasty crack where Holmes and the bench
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: fell on me, and Holmes had the wind knocked out
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: of him, but we were in fairly good shape by
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the time the fire brigade pulled us out from the wreckage.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Moriarty wasn't by any chance trapped or killed or something? Unfortunately, no.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: But they found Gus, however, quite dead. I suppose the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: exploding boiler did for him. No, there was a bullet
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: wound in the back of his head. I'd rather imagine
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: that Moriarty wanted to make sure that he would never
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: appear in court. Doctor, if I had to go through
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: what you went through in that Turkish bath episode, I
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: think I'd never want to work on another case with
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Holmes again. Oh, come now, Mr. Gamble. I certainly did
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: feel like that for a couple of hours. But by
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the time we got back to Baker Street and sat
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: down to one of Mrs. Hudson's good meals, well, I
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: was ready for anything that Holmes had in mind. You know,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: there's nothing like a good dinner to make you feel
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: a new man. You have been listening to An Adventure
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: in Crime with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Bruce as Dr. Watson.