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Sherlock Holmes Radio The London Tower Adventure Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruc · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, what about this adventure of London Tower.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris, it was one of those cases which,
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  Speaker 2: if Holmes had not lived to solve, it might have
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: dealt a shattering blow to the Empire. At CLF. Holmes
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  Speaker 2: and I first became aware of an extraordinary crisis when
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  Speaker 2: we were roused from our beds early one morning by
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  Speaker 2: a personage no less than the Prime Minister himself, Lord Bellinger.
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  Speaker 2: But the chain of events had already started the afternoon before,
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  Speaker 2: when a beefeat of guide named Wilkes led a party
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  Speaker 2: of sightseers through the Wakefield Tower, which, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: is one of the many towers which go to make
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  Speaker 2: up that great conglomeration of buildings called the Tar of London.
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  Speaker 3: And there you've seen them, ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous
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  Speaker 3: crown jewels worth five million pounds, the Imperial State Crown,
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  Speaker 3: the Queen con top crowns, the Anointing Spoon, the King
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  Speaker 3: Sector with the Star of Africa, the largest cut diamond
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  Speaker 3: in the world, the.
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  Speaker 2: Young cut ruby in the crown.
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  Speaker 3: Give them to the Black Prince by people, the crew
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  Speaker 3: and worn by Henry an.
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  Speaker 2: Aging court, and our ladies and gentlemen, we'll move on
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  Speaker 2: to the White Tower.
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  Speaker 3: I Now on our way we'll pass the outer ward
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  Speaker 3: the youman Galer's house.
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  Speaker 4: And oh one, mother, ladies and gentlemen, why do you have.
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  Speaker 3: A straggler back there in the treasure room?
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  Speaker 2: Big pardon sir?
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  Speaker 5: Or what is a guy? Why?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing back here? Why haven't you come
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  Speaker 5: along with the others?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Just admiring the crown jewels here under this iron barb kiss.
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  Speaker 7: That maybe, sir, But we can't allow any of the
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  Speaker 7: sights here to lag behind not here anyhow, rules you know.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, of course, I quite understand, guyans. It's just that
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  Speaker 6: I cannot take my eyes from these jewels. Look at them, shine,
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  Speaker 6: the symbols of empire, the pride of kings and the
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  Speaker 6: joy of queens.
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  Speaker 4: They're beautiful, beautiful, I.
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  Speaker 8: Mean, Goverman Albert Hodgkins of the Tower Guard reporting Majrins.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, Hodkins.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, Hoskins is Major of London Tower and Chief Constable.
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  Speaker 5: I seem to be having.
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  Speaker 9: Trouble with my human warders lately. Let me see you
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  Speaker 9: stand watch over the Crown jewels with the human Wilson.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know, yes, right?
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  Speaker 9: But it seems that Wilson is ill and confined to
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  Speaker 9: his quarters. I shall therefore assign another man to stand
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  Speaker 9: guard with you.
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  Speaker 8: And who will that be? Major Markham?
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  Speaker 9: A new man is the yeoman of the God Hodgkins.
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  Speaker 9: His name is Digby, and he comes to us with
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  Speaker 9: an excellent military record. He reports directly to you at
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  Speaker 9: the preasure room. To make very good to and Hodskins.
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  Speaker 9: One more thing, Yes, Major, this man Digby was shut
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  Speaker 9: up a bit in the Afghan War. They did some
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  Speaker 9: rather crude surgery to his face. I'm counting on you
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  Speaker 9: to exhibit no particular reaction, you understand, of course.
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  Speaker 5: Major, very good.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be all Hodskins. How these are the crand're are
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  Speaker 2: they Argekins?
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  Speaker 8: That's them all right?
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  Speaker 9: Tigby Raami Howard in his menditary service in Long Khan.
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  Speaker 2: But I never stood a watch like this and watched
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  Speaker 2: Vizier Crown.
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  Speaker 8: That's Air Edwards crown mate for the coronation of Charles
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  Speaker 8: the second. In this big diamond, Oh that's the COI.
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  Speaker 8: No diamond used to belong to the Raja of Lahore.
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  Speaker 10: That did.
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  Speaker 8: They're going to bring it to windsor Car Oh are they?
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  Speaker 2: I said? They were denied. Let's way, Ye're wrong. What
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  Speaker 2: are you mean they sarge kings?
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  Speaker 8: Now, ah, mister Holmes, Doctor Watson, you will forgive me
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  Speaker 8: if I have interrupted your slumber in the dead of
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  Speaker 8: night like this. But the magnitude of this crime, the
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  Speaker 8: immediate need of investigation.
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  Speaker 5: Quite, Lord Bellingern, Dr Watson, and.
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  Speaker 2: I are at your service, Thernship Holmes, and I never
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  Speaker 2: expected a personal visit of the Prime Minister of England
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  Speaker 2: to our humble quarters here at Baker Street.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, Dr Watson. In the ordinary course of events,
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  Speaker 8: I should have summoned you to Downing Street, but there
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  Speaker 8: is no time to waste.
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  Speaker 2: There is a terrible.
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  Speaker 8: Urgency to this whole fantastic affair, I should say so.
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  Speaker 2: Crown jewels stolen from the Tower of London, Tar God
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  Speaker 2: murdered by Jove a cheek. No one's ever tried that before.
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  Speaker 5: And the Countrary wants from they have in the Charles
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  Speaker 5: the Second. An irishman named Thomas Blood purloined the jewels
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  Speaker 5: and almost succeeded in getting him out of London before
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  Speaker 5: he was apprehended. But enough of that, Lord Bellinger.
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  Speaker 8: A question or two, if you please, Yes, mister Holmes, is.
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  Speaker 5: The government yet aware of this loss.
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  Speaker 8: Only the highest circles the royal family has been notified
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  Speaker 8: and the inner cabinet. We are striving to keep the
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  Speaker 8: affair a secret as long as possible. You must understand
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  Speaker 8: why the Crown Jewels of priceless. They are, indeed, doctor Watson,
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  Speaker 8: and more than in just a material sense. Indeed, they
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  Speaker 8: are the symbols of empire. They hold our far flung
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  Speaker 8: dominions and colonies together. I need not tell you the
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  Speaker 8: shattering impact of this news, both at home and abroad,
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  Speaker 8: mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Lord Bellinger, I beg of you.
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  Speaker 8: Indeed I plead with you to lend your great talents
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  Speaker 8: to this affair. If your genius has ever burned, brightly
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  Speaker 8: let it burn now. The Crown Jewels must be recovered
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  Speaker 8: at any cost.
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  Speaker 5: You may rest assured, Sir, that we shall leave no
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  Speaker 5: stone unturned. Now, then, as I understand it, the official
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  Speaker 5: police have been notified.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Scotland Yard was no fight immediately and threw a
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  Speaker 8: cordon around the whole tower. The tower wardens have locked
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  Speaker 8: all gates and entries. No one can enter and no
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  Speaker 8: one can leave. All gates have been sealed. Good, I
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  Speaker 8: might add, that all personnel has been sworn to secrecy
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  Speaker 8: so as not to foment public unrest.
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  Speaker 5: I see Watson, Holmes, you'd better get dressed and be
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  Speaker 5: off to the Tower of London at once, so your Oberbray,
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  Speaker 5: the Chief Warder. Yes, Miss Holmes, Major Markham, the Chief Constable,
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  Speaker 5: asked me to conduct doctor Watson and yourself.
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  Speaker 8: To the treasure room the moment you arrive.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing's being disturbed over breath, No, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing. We left the corpse of poor Hodgkins just as
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  Speaker 5: it was here we at.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Holmes, this poor chap was death. Yes, the blade
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  Speaker 2: was driven home a powerful blow pissed the hot wharf.
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  Speaker 5: Too wanton, true, But at the moment I'm more interested
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  Speaker 5: in this smash display case. Note the way one of
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  Speaker 5: the bars was filed through and bent back. Hmm interesting.
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  Speaker 5: What's interesting, sir? The thief, if I recall the articles
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  Speaker 5: exhibited here, took an amazingly large number of these valuables.
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  Speaker 5: It must have been difficult to hide and bulky to
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  Speaker 5: carry overbrave. Yes, the to Holmes, what time this morning
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  Speaker 5: did you discover the theft?
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  Speaker 8: Why about photoxa?
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  Speaker 5: What did you do after that?
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  Speaker 8: I immediately ordered the alarm and notified Major Markham.
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  Speaker 2: He was just finishing his bath.
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  Speaker 5: Bah hm, Well, Watson, there's nothing more to be seen
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  Speaker 5: here now, then Overbrave Yester, be good enough to take
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  Speaker 5: us to the Chief Constable, Major Mackham.
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  Speaker 6: Yester, come with me, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 8: The Major is occupying temporary quarters.
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  Speaker 5: Just over the water gate.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: Dr Watson, We're at our wits end here at the tower.
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  Speaker 9: It's incredible, gentlemen, incredible that a thief could loot the
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  Speaker 9: Crown jewels and escape from the tower as pretty.
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  Speaker 5: As you please. What makes you think he escaped? Major Markham?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come nerves, you don't think the beggar still hiding
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  Speaker 2: somewhere in the tower area with half of Scotland Yard
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  Speaker 2: and all the garrisons swarming about the premises.
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  Speaker 5: My dear Watson, I prefer to remain skeptical until I
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  Speaker 5: have all the facts at hand. The tower embraces a
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  Speaker 5: large area.
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  Speaker 9: The troo, mister Holmes, True, did I assure you We've
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  Speaker 9: searched every nook and corner of the tower area. We've
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  Speaker 9: gone through the White Tower, the Bloody Tower, the Beecham
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  Speaker 9: and Wakefield Tower, where the treasure room itself is located and.
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  Speaker 2: Not the sign of the thief. Seems to me. We
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  Speaker 2: will resign ourselves to the fact that the burglar may
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  Speaker 2: be miles away by now home.
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  Speaker 5: If perhaps what's in perhap Major Markham a question, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: mister Holmes, it's obvious that this new Yeoman guard you employed,
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  Speaker 5: this man Digby's responsible for this fantastic crime Undustedly, I
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  Speaker 5: presume you examined his credentials before you took him on.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly they seem quite.
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  Speaker 9: In order, a good military record and honorable.
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  Speaker 5: Discharge, for no doubt, no doubt. However, we do have
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  Speaker 5: a clue. Indeed, what clue the men's face. It was bloated, blotched,
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  Speaker 5: kind of dig chalk, white and puffy in appearance. Indeed,
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  Speaker 5: I found it very unpleasant to look at Joe Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: If we ever come across the beggar, you should be
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  Speaker 2: easy to identify.
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  Speaker 5: Sure Watson, if we ever come across him, this vandalism
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  Speaker 5: man of some parts, my dear fellow, he executes the
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  Speaker 5: most fabulous crime of the century, vanishes into thin air,
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  Speaker 5: disappears through stonemasonry, so to speak, and all without a trace.
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  Speaker 5: Mad you malcome, yes, Tom, I should like to question
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  Speaker 5: the power guide at once. Now, then, Wilkes, your duty
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  Speaker 5: is to take slightseers through the treasure room in Wakefield Tower. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: miss Holmes, and.
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  Speaker 7: I might say that I noticed one my suspicious blog
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  Speaker 7: among the crowds yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, what do you mean, Wilkes, For doctor Watson is here, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 5: was loitering around the crown jewels.
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  Speaker 7: I had to go back and get him to move on.
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  Speaker 7: The fellow couldn't tear himself away. But there was something
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  Speaker 7: about him, A look about him?
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  Speaker 2: What kind of look?
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  Speaker 8: Whilt?
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  Speaker 7: He had a high, full forehead, and a big thin nose,
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  Speaker 7: and a thin face like a knife almost, and a
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  Speaker 7: big drooping mustache.
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  Speaker 5: Quick one moment, this man's eyes What color were they?
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  Speaker 5: Oh Holmes, what these Watson? Try to think, Wilts? What
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  Speaker 5: color of this man's eyes?
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  Speaker 8: Why they were blow mister Holmes, and the eyelids drooped
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  Speaker 8: a little?
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  Speaker 5: What's in? It's he? I'm sure of it, dash it
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  Speaker 5: all Holmes, who I prefer not to mention his name
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  Speaker 5: until I'm sure beyond all reasonable doubts. But he's certainly
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  Speaker 5: capable of a fantastic plot like this on the high
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  Speaker 5: stick so much to his liking, Watson. If this man
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  Speaker 5: is indeed our quarry, this genius of crime, it'll take
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  Speaker 5: a near miracle to recover those crown jewels and restore
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  Speaker 5: them to their rightful place. Well, doctor Watson, so far
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  Speaker 5: it's been some adventure.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, mister Harris, I consider it unique among my memoirs.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, unique, say, You've given me just the word I
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  Speaker 1: need when it comes to clipper craft clothes, doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 1: Now getting back to your husband, madame.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've got to be getting back to him.
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  Speaker 5: But well, how do we distinguish a genuine clipper craft?
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  Speaker 1: Well, how do you determine that silver is sterling by
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  Speaker 1: the mark of Sterling. Of course, no suitor code is
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  Speaker 1: a genuine clipper craft unless it bears the renowned clipper
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  Speaker 1: Craft labels. That clipper Craft label is your proof of
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  Speaker 1: quality and value.
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  Speaker 8: But what about clippercraft coats, mister Harritt.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, truly expensive looking clipper Craft top coats and overcoats
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  Speaker 1: are the sensation of the nation at only forty to
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  Speaker 1: forty seven point fifty. And speaking of sensations, just wait
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  Speaker 1: till your husband sees clipper crafts handsome new zipper lining topcoats.
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  Speaker 8: Where can we shop at He's wonderful clipper Craft clothes
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  Speaker 8: in your very own community, at the friendly independent store
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  Speaker 8: that sells clipper Craft toothes.
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  Speaker 5: Well say, look as good as Jamaicans sound. Ah, they
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  Speaker 5: really do.
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  Speaker 1: That's why men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes bearing
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  Speaker 1: the clipper Craft labels.
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  Speaker 5: So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in
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  Speaker 5: your city.
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  Speaker 10: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
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  Speaker 10: add their names to clipper Craft in your suits, top coats,
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  Speaker 10: and overcoats. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at
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  Speaker 10: eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street, Sachs thirty fourth Broadway
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  Speaker 10: at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
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  Speaker 10: New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop, presdan Ewarck. And in Jamaica
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  Speaker 10: the B and B Clothes Shop one sixty four oh
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  Speaker 10: eight Jamaica Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, you were relating to us the
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  Speaker 1: adventure of London Tower.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, mister Harris, I was. As Holmes continued to question
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  Speaker 2: the Beefeater's guide sharply, I saw that Holmes's face was
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  Speaker 2: like a masque. His gray eyes narrowed, and I knew
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  Speaker 2: he was training every one of his brilliant faculties to
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  Speaker 2: trap and finally bring the heel the mysterious and formidable
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  Speaker 2: criminal of London. Twer Finally his Holmes and I were
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  Speaker 2: ascending the steps between the Bloody Tar and the guard House.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes said Watson, it's my considered opinion after a careful
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  Speaker 5: examination of the facts. But the Crown jewels are still
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  Speaker 5: somewhere here in the tower, but precisely, and I'm positive
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  Speaker 5: that the thief is still in the tower as well well.
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  Speaker 2: Homes For once, I must disagree with him. Why the
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  Speaker 2: official police have been swarming through the whole tower area
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  Speaker 2: for days?
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  Speaker 5: True, but even if they find the thief, they'll never
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  Speaker 5: recognize him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh dash it, Hose, why are you driving it? The
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  Speaker 2: Chief Constable of the Tower, Major Markham, clearly identified the
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  Speaker 2: bogus garden killer Digbies, having a bloated, puffy white face.
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  Speaker 5: Quite but it's the thin faced man with a cold
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  Speaker 5: blue eyes, the tourist with a drooping mustache. Who's the
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  Speaker 5: key to this extraordinary affair?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Perhaps perhaps lz this point, my dear Holmes, I'm
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  Speaker 2: thoroughly confused as to the jewels themselves, who said they're
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  Speaker 2: still in the tara, and.
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  Speaker 5: With good reason. Watson, you observed that several of the
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  Speaker 5: heavy pieces crowned scepters, maces, and so forth, were missing
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  Speaker 5: from the glass display case. But what of it. The
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  Speaker 5: thief would need a large bag, indeed a sack to
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  Speaker 5: carry those bout the items. It's doubtful whether he could
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  Speaker 5: have slipped by the outer garrison guard without being examined.
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  Speaker 2: Homes, What was that? Just a minute, ah, Holmes, a stream,
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  Speaker 2: It came from the armory room. Someone's running, Watson, the
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  Speaker 2: killer he struck again? Hosee's the chief water over? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he's dead, stabbed by.
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  Speaker 5: That's the point. But no pursuit of armor. It's been
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  Speaker 5: tipped from its standing position in the wall and fall
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  Speaker 5: into the stone for more. That was the metallic sign
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  Speaker 5: we heard that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand. Huh what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Hopes? What are you picking up from the floor, observed Watson,
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  Speaker 5: Whether so diam exactly? It broke off from one of
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  Speaker 5: the crown pieces, no doubt. When the suit of armor
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  Speaker 5: crashed to the floor and.
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  Speaker 2: The host of the thief concealed the crown jewels in
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  Speaker 2: this hollow suit of armor.
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  Speaker 5: Precisely. It's obvious that he was surprised in the act
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  Speaker 5: of recovering his loop by the chief Wader.
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  Speaker 2: And the crown jewels are still in the tower. Hose.
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  Speaker 2: The garrison is guarding of regated entrance.
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  Speaker 8: Quite too.
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  Speaker 5: That our man has a very real problem of getting
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  Speaker 5: the valuables out of the tower, and they're in Watson
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  Speaker 5: lies our hope of success.
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  Speaker 2: So should we rouse the tower garrison. The killer was
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  Speaker 2: here just a moment ago.
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  Speaker 5: My dear fellows be quite useless. The towers are very
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  Speaker 5: large place, and if I know our man, he'll be
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  Speaker 5: much too clever to leave himself exposed for very long.
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  Speaker 5: Come Watson, we're two, hose, we had better notify the
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  Speaker 5: Chief Constable of this new trangedy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Major Markham doesn't seem to be in hopes doors
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  Speaker 2: of jar.
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  Speaker 5: In that case, suppose we go in and wait. Rather
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: an impressive view from this barred window here, don't you think,
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  Speaker 5: Watson hopes. We seem to be just above the outer wall,
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  Speaker 5: and the River Thames just beyond the wall. Mt say, however,
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  Speaker 5: I find this panorama rather pressing. These gray paws Watson
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  Speaker 5: have hidden many a shriek of torture near royal prisoner
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  Speaker 5: has languished in its dungeons. Many others came through the
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  Speaker 5: traitor's gate, and thence to the Headsman's axe. Hello, what's
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  Speaker 5: this hose, Roddie Watson? Look the bars on this window
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  Speaker 5: here near the base well they've seen partially filed through precisely,
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  Speaker 5: and for a very good reason. It might be well
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  Speaker 5: to make a detailed study of this room.
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  Speaker 8: While huh, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Watson? Observe on this washbasin, Deshen Holmes. I don't see anything,
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  Speaker 5: don't you, Watson? Use your eyes? Here is a tiny
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  Speaker 5: drupule of paraffine, not much larger than the head of
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  Speaker 5: a pin.
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  Speaker 2: Paraffine?
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  Speaker 5: Quite what of it? Everything, Watson? Everything, This tiny groupule
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  Speaker 5: of paraffine is the hinge of its entire case. It
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  Speaker 5: clarifies the riddle of the bogus god dig be homes.
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  Speaker 2: What the devil are you talking about, my dear fellow gentlemen, ough,
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  Speaker 2: Major Margaby. We're just waiting for you.
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  Speaker 5: May John. I trust that you are aware that you're
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  Speaker 5: chief wader overbody. It's just been murdered.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, mister Holmes, I am one of my men found
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  Speaker 9: his body in the armory room.
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  Speaker 5: We are thoroughly combing.
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  Speaker 9: The various towers at this moment, and we doubled the
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  Speaker 9: guard at all gates and entrances.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Excellent, Major, excellent, But you must go even further than that.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: The crown jewels are still somewhere in London Tower. What
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: you're sure of that, mister Holmes, I am indeed the
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: killer had hidden his look in a suit of arms.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Are in the armory room. He was surprised by Overbrey,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: the chief wader, and murdered him. No doubt our Thiet
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: has hidden the loot elsewhere is what?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Holmes? How is he going to get it out of
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: the tower? Every gate and entrance.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Is gone, Mike Watson. Quite Perhaps we can tree our
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: quarry by closing in with a rigid room by room search.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: You have the personnel to conduct this kind of search.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Major Marcham, of course, and n shall order it to
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: begin immediately. Excellent, Come Watson.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: We're two homes.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: First to Baker Street. There's a bit of research I
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: must do there, specifically on a certain new discovery in Vienna.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: After that we shall get to Downing Street. It's high
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: time we gave the prime Minister a report on our findings,
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: mister Holmes, Doctor Watson, I have left an emergency meeting
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: of the Inner Cabinet to see you, and I pray
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: that you have good news. Be of good chair, Lord Bellinger.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: We've made considerable progress. I am almost positive of the
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: identity of the vandal who stole the jewels.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Are but the jewels, the Crown Jewels? Where are they?
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: It is imperative that they be recovered soon, mister Holmes.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: Already rumors are sweeping London. The news are somehow leaked
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: out in spite of the fact that the newspapers have
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: not printed a word of the story. The Foreign Secretary
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: and the Home Secretary are in a state of agitation,
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: not to mention the Bank of England itself. We must
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: find the Crown Jewels, mister Holmes, and soon.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: We must patience, Lord Bellinger, Patience, if I'm not wrong
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: in my analysis of offense yet to come, we shall
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: close this case and recover the Crown Jewels. To night.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I hose you mean you know where they are hidden?
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: No that I fetch some one else will find them
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: for me. And when he does, you and I will
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: be waiting to receive them.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Inside the tower and.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: The contrary Motson, I mean outside the tower.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Oh it's two o'clock homes, Yes, why the Jews? Who
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: was standing outside this tower? No one can get in
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: or out without being challenged by a guard. That he
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: was cold enough out here with the river wall to
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: chill the morrow of a man's boats hire this tar
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: watching the dead of night?
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: The can't Watson? I expect the pearliner at the Crown
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Jewels to put in an appearance at any moment, like
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: the cornered fox. The hung close in and he must
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: break away before it's too late.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: But da should I don't understand.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Her, Watson, Hey, what is it? Look at that window
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: high in the tower.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: No, there's a man crawling through the window with a.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Small rampire and note with a bag swung over his shoulder.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: There's your rudder, but the juices a quick drink.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Back into the shadow here. What is the point of
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: someone just a little match over there at the far
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: end of the river wall. Obviously a signal you mean
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: he's a confederate. He is, indeed, and more than that,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: he's the brains behind this extraordinary coop, one of the
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: curlest and most brilliant criminals of a generation. Colonel Sebastian Moran.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: What Colonel Moran? What look the curtains on the rampart.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: He's bringing the sack out into the river. It's landed
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: in the water.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Watson took over there at Colonel Moran. He has the rifle.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: This is pointing it at the man Fish. He's been hit.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: He's falling home quick, Watson after him. Hawk Bran, oh Holse,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: he's raising his gun.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Good tot, Watson, you wing him in the arm. He
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: dropped his gun.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Hawk Bran is running along the river wall. I miss him.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Cassis's this darkness here Hose is going to dive into
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the Thames from the wall. There he goes her was
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid Colonel Moran made good his escape.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Eyes Watson swam underwater. No doubt An escaped in the darkness.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Man has a charmed life. Well here we are at
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: the spot where the sack was flung into the river
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: from the tar window and said, heavy sack, how can
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: we possib when they dragged the Tames for it, Watson,
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: I have no doubt they'll find the sack filled to
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: the brim with the crown jewels, of England by Joe
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: to the men in the tower of Major Markham. Obviously
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Major Markims he.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Murdered Hodskins and the Chief Water and stole the Crown jewels.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: He did, indeed, but he was only a secondary factor
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: and accomplished It was the fertile brain of Colonel Sebastian
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Moran which hatched this clever scheme.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Morane shut Markham because he didn't want to share in
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: the spoil.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Precisely, once Markham had delivered the Crown jewels, Colonel Moran
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: had no further use for him. Dropping the bag through
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: the window was obviously a method for getting the loot
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: out of the guarded tower. It'd be easy enough later
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Romran to recover the fact with scrapping irons those I
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: con says, I'm confused.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: The villain, as I understood it, was a bogus god
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: named Digby the blotchy, puffed up white face.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Precisely Watson. But Digby and Major Markham were one and
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: the same man. What an ingenious trick of double identity.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: You remember the drub duel of paraffin we found in
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Markham's quarters. Yes, it came from a hypodermic needle a
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: new medical technique. We seat it discovered in Vienna. By
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: injecting hot paraffin into the face, it's possible to change
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: the facial contours of the shape of the features completely
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: the juice, you said, Thus Markham transformed himself to a
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: puffy white faced guard and dubbed himself Digby. He came
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: out of his office, killed Hodgkins, stole the crown jewels
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: and hid them. Then he returned to his porters and
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: took a hot bath at the rather unusual hour of
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: four o'clock in the morning.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Ohs, you mean the hot bar.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: But the paraffin oozes out of the pores when subjected
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: to warm vapor and hot water, And by this method
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Digby became mark Up again.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: All the while the official police we're looking for a
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: puffy white faced man.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Yes, no wonder they didn't find him, since he never
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: really existed at homes.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I must congratulate you on a brilliant piece of work. Well,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I suppose now we shall inform the Prime Minister that
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the Crown jewels lie at this spot at the bottom
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: of the Thames and can easily be recovered.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Exactly, but for myself, the cap does not get closed.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: What do you mean so Colonel Sebastian Morane is still
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: at large. But someday we shall meet again. And next time, Watson,
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: I promise you, we shall settle out of count for good.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: And did Holmes settle that account finally, doctor Watson?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: He did. Indeed, mister Harris, he finally brought Moran down
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: in another adventure, the case of the emp Tea House.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I might add that Colonel Sebastian Moran was considered the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: best rifle shot in India, and his feet in shooting
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Major markham Off that tower rampart was an exceptional bit
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: of marksmanship.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson, it's certainly been an exciting case. And
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: how can you tell us something about next week's story?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Next week, mister Harris, I shall relate to you the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: famous adventure of the Speckled Band. It concerns an iron safe,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: a whistle in the night, and a bed that couldn't
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: be moved.