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The Valley Of Fear-Pt1 · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 4: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It makes sense, Watson. There
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  Speaker 4: is danger, Douglas, now at Burlston House. Burlston.
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  Speaker 3: Inspector MacDonald here, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, come in. Come in, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Mac.
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  Speaker 4: I fear this means that there is some mischief afoot.
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  Speaker 4: Great heavens.
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  Speaker 5: Why, Watson, that's the matter. That paper, those names. Just
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  Speaker 5: a little cipher Dr. Watson and I have been amusing
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  Speaker 5: ourselves with.
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  Speaker 4: What I came here to tell you was that Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Douglas of Billstone Manor House, Billstone, was murdered late last night.
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  Speaker 4: It was a grim coincidence. Watson's my name, Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Watson, privileged to share the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I'll
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  Speaker 5: tell you about the Valley of Fear, which began with
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  Speaker 5: Holmes being rather bad-mannered.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see what I mean in a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes?
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  Speaker 3: Hmm?
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  Speaker 4: I'm inclined to think... I should do so, Watson. Well, Holmes...
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  Speaker 4: I count myself one of the most long-suffering of mortals, but...
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  Speaker 4: But what, my dear Watson?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's it all.
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  Speaker 4: You're only too trying at times.
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  Speaker 3: You sit there, your breakfast untasted.
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  Speaker 4: It's Porlock's writing. There can be no doubt of it.
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  Speaker 5: The Greek e with a peculiar top flourish is distinctive.
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  Speaker 4: Then who is Porlock? Huh?
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  Speaker 5: Porlock?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Porlock Watson is an underplum. A mere identification mark.
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  Speaker 4: Behind it lies a shifty and evasive personality. Then he
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  Speaker 4: was something in common, whoever he is. The point is taken.
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  Speaker 4: Porlock is an important man.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, not for himself, but for the great man with
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  Speaker 4: whom he's in touch.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm?
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  Speaker 4: You've heard me speak of Professor Moriarty.
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  Speaker 3: Heard of Moriarty?
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  Speaker 4: He must be about as famous among crooks as... He's
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  Speaker 4: the greatest schemer of all time. The controlling brain of
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  Speaker 4: the underworld. But look here, Holmes. You were talking about
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  Speaker 4: this chap, Porlock. Oh, yes. The so-called Porlock is my link.
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  Speaker 4: And this letter of his? Something of the same kind,
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  Speaker 4: I don't doubt. If only we had the key to
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  Speaker 4: the cipher.
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  Speaker 3: Cipher.
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  Speaker 4: Let me have a look at the letter, Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: There you are. Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's nothing but groups of figures and two or
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  Speaker 4: three names.
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  Speaker 5: There's not much use sending a cipher message to someone
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  Speaker 5: who hasn't a.
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  Speaker 4: Key, is it? Five, three, four, C2.
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  Speaker 5: Thirteen, twenty-seven, four, Douglas. Seventeen, twenty-six, Burlstone. Forty-six, Burlstone. It's
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  Speaker 5: clearly a reference to the words on the page of
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  Speaker 5: some book.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then why hasn't he indicated what book it is?
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  Speaker 4: My dear Watson, your.
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  Speaker 5: Native shrewdness, that innate cunning which is the delight of
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  Speaker 5: your friends, would surely prevent you from enclosing both the
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  Speaker 5: message and its key in the same envelope. Ah, and
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  Speaker 5: I shall be surprised if our second poster... Excuse me, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, Mrs. Hudson.
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  Speaker 3: The second poster's just come, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes. A letter for you, sir. As I expected. Thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. Nothing for you, Dr. Watson, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, very well.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Writing on this, Watson?
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  Speaker 3: The same.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's where I'm getting on.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter? Dear me, this is very disappointing. I
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  Speaker 4: trust poor Locke won't come to any harm.
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  Speaker 3: Why, what's he say?
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  Speaker 4: Dear Mr. Holmes, I will go no further in this matter.
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  Speaker 5: I can see that he suspects me. I had actually
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  Speaker 5: addressed this envelope to send you the key to the cipher,
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  Speaker 5: but he came on me quite unexpectedly, and I was
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  Speaker 5: only just able to cover it up.
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  Speaker 4: Good heavens.
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  Speaker 5: Please burn the cipher message. It can be of no
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  Speaker 5: use to you now, Porlock.
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  Speaker 4: I presume the other was Moriarty. When any of that
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  Speaker 4: party talk about he, you know whom they mean. Anyway, friend,
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  Speaker 4: Porlock is evidently scared out of his wits.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty maddening, isn't it, Holmes, to think there may
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  Speaker 5: be an important secret hidden on this piece of paper
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  Speaker 5: and we haven't.
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  Speaker 4: The power to penetrate. Yes. But then I wonder. Look here.
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  Speaker 5: The cipher message begins with a large 534. We take
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  Speaker 5: it as a working hypothesis that 534 is the page
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  Speaker 5: to which the cipher refers.
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  Speaker 4: So our book has already become a large book. Well,
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  Speaker 4: what else is there? The next sign is C2. What
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  Speaker 4: do you make of that?
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  Speaker 3: Chapter 2?
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  Speaker 4: No, hardly.
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  Speaker 5: If the page number is given, the chapter number is immaterial.
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  Speaker 5: In any case, if page 534 only finds us in
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  Speaker 5: the second chapter, the first chapter must have been almost incalculable.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, column, then.
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  Speaker 4: Um, column two. Brilliant, Watson. You're scintillating this morning. Oh, thanks.
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  Speaker 5: So now we begin to visualize a large book printed
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  Speaker 5: in double columns.
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Have we reached the limits of what reason can supply?
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid so. Surely you do yourself an injustice. If
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  Speaker 4: the volume had been an.
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  Speaker 5: Unusual one, he would have sent it to me.
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  Speaker 3: So? Don't you see?
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  Speaker 5: He used a book he thought I'd have no difficulty
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  Speaker 5: in finding for myself.
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  Speaker 4: A very well-known book, Watson.
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  Speaker 5: Large and printed in double columns, a book in very
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  Speaker 5: common use.
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  Speaker 3: The Bible.
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  Speaker 4: Good, Watson, good.
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  Speaker 5: But not, if I may say so, quite good enough.
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  Speaker 4: Why? Even if I accepted the compliment for myself.
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  Speaker 5: I could hardly name any volume less likely to lie
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  Speaker 5: at the elbow of one of Moriarty's associates. Besides, the
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  Speaker 5: editions of Holy Writ are so numerous that he could
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  Speaker 5: hardly suppose that two copies would have the same page contents.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is clearly.
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  Speaker 5: A standardized book. He knows for certain that his page
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  Speaker 5: 534 will exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Agree with mine.
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  Speaker 3: The Almanac?
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  Speaker 4: Ah, the Almanac. Excellent, Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Excellent.
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  Speaker 4: It may be the very thing. It has a large
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  Speaker 4: number of pages. Yes, and it's in double column.
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  Speaker 5: If I remember correctly, it's reserved in its early vocabulary,
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  Speaker 5: but becomes quite garrulous towards the end. Well, let's try it, Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, now then.
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  Speaker 5: Now, here is page 52, 102. to instantly try for
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  Speaker 5: the 34th, column 2. Word number 13 is there.
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  Speaker 4: Put it down, Watson. There. There, yes. Word 27 is,
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  Speaker 4: there is.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that sounds better.
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  Speaker 4: And next we have, we have... Danger. This is it, Watson.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure of it. Ah, the word, um, Douglas comes next. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: and then, uh, 15, 16, 17. The 17th word, now. 21, 2, 3, 4, 25, 26. At. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: there is danger, Douglas. Now, at. Oh, at Burlston. The
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  Speaker 4: word comes next. Then there's another number. Then Burlston again. 43, 44, 45, 46. House.
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  Speaker 3: It makes sense, Watson.
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  Speaker 5: There is Danger Douglas now at Burlston House.
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  Speaker 4: Burlston.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Holmes, we did it.
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  Speaker 5: We did indeed, my dear Watson.
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  Speaker 3: We did indeed.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Inspector McDonald here, sir. Oh, come in.
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  Speaker 4: Come in, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Mack.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you're an early bird today. Good morning, Inspector. I
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  Speaker 4: fear this means that there is some mischief afoot. Great heavens. Why, Watson,
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  Speaker 4: that's the matter. That paper, those names. Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, this, this.
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  Speaker 5: Just a little cipher Dr. Watson and I have been
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  Speaker 5: amusing ourselves with. We exhausted its possibilities just before you
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  Speaker 5: came in. Well, I hate to spoil your.
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  Speaker 4: Pleasure, gentlemen, only.
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: What I came here to tell you was that Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Douglas of Bellstone Manor House, Bellstone, was murdered late last night.
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  Speaker 4: What? Remarkable. And the reason I came to tell you
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  Speaker 4: of it is.
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  Speaker 5: That our only clue so far is a card found
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  Speaker 5: beside the body with what appears to be a cipher.
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  Speaker 4: Written on it.
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  Speaker 5: The letters VV341. And I know your interest in ciphers, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Mack, I receive a communication from a quarter which I
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  Speaker 5: know to be important.
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  Speaker 4: It warns me that danger threatens a certain person.
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  Speaker 5: Within the hour, I learned that this danger has actually
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  Speaker 5: materialized and that the person is dead.
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  Speaker 4: I was going down to Bill's house. this morning. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: it seems we might perhaps be doing better work in London.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, how so?
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  Speaker 4: Well, since I take it that envelope lying there is
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  Speaker 4: the one your message came in. And your eagle eyes
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  Speaker 4: noted it was posted in Camberwell. Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'd better tell you at once, my correspondent's name
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  Speaker 5: is Porlock.
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  Speaker 4: It's an assumed name.
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  Speaker 5: I promised when he first wrote that I wouldn't try
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  Speaker 5: to trace it. Do you think there's someone behind him?
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  Speaker 4: I know there is. This professor of her dimension? Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I might have known. Mr. Holmes, I won't conceal from
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  Speaker 4: you that we in the CID are inclined to think
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  Speaker 4: you may have a wee bit of a bee in
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  Speaker 4: your bonnet over this professor chap. Oh, dear. Mr. Mack,
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  Speaker 4: you've read about Jonathan Wilde, I take it?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, some sort of criminal in the old days. Everything
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  Speaker 4: comes in circles, Mr. Mack, even Professor Moriarty.
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  Speaker 5: Jonathan Wilde was the hidden force of the London criminals
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  Speaker 5: in the 1750s or thereabouts. He sold them his brains
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  Speaker 5: and his organization on a 15% commission.
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  Speaker 4: The old wheel turns and the same spoke comes up.
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  Speaker 4: Sometime when you've a year or two to spare, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Mack, I commend to you the study of Professor Moriarty.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he'll keep in the meantime. What really counts is.
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  Speaker 5: That remark of yours about some connection between the professor.
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  Speaker 4: And this claim at Billstone. Moriarty rules his people with
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  Speaker 4: a rod of iron. There is only one punishment in
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  Speaker 4: his code. It is death.
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  Speaker 5: So we might suppose that this murdered man, this Douglas,
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  Speaker 5: had in some way betrayed the chief. Porlock would know
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  Speaker 5: he was about to be punished. Well, that's an idea.
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  Speaker 5: Or Moriarty may have been engaged to engineer it on
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  Speaker 5: the promise of a part of the spoils.
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  Speaker 4: Either is possible. I don't think it could be something
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  Speaker 4: entirely different. Whatever it may.
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  Speaker 5: Be, we must look for the solution down at Burlster.
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  Speaker 5: Then let's be going. Oh, good Lord, it's later.
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  Speaker 4: Than I thought.
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  Speaker 5: You've got five minutes to get ready, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: It'll do. Watson, be good enough to ring for our boots.
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  Speaker 3: Right away.
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  Speaker 4: While I change out of this dressing gown.
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  Speaker 3: Ahem.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Mack, the temptation to form premature theories is the bane
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  Speaker 5: of our profession.
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  Speaker 3: So let's make a bargain about that from the.
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  Speaker 4: Start, shall we?
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  Speaker 5: No theories from me till I can support them with that.
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  Speaker 4: Very well. A bargain, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I can only see two things for certain at present.
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  Speaker 5: A great brain in London and a dead man in Sussex.
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  Speaker 5: It's the chain between that we're.
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  Speaker 4: Going to trace. Oh, pass over that, dear stalker. There's
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  Speaker 4: a good fellow.
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  Speaker 5: Watson and I don't get a trip into the country
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  Speaker 5: every day.
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  Speaker 4: World star!
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  Speaker 3: World star here!
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  Speaker 4: Ah, pleased to see you again.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes.
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holmes, Dr. Watson. Meet Mr.
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  Speaker 5: White Mason, Chief Detective of the Sussex Constabulary.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do? How do you do? Glad to
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  Speaker 4: have you with us, gentlemen. Very glad indeed.
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  Speaker 7: Real downright smarter we have on our hands here, no mistake. Well,
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  Speaker 7: there's a carriage outside and Sergeant Wilson's waiting in it.
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  Speaker 7: He's the local man down here, forced in on this business.
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  Speaker 7: Then he can give us the details as we drive.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: So come along, gentlemen. I'll lead the way.
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  Speaker 4: Excellent. Excellent.
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  Speaker 5: Well, gentlemen, it was 11.45 last evening. The first word
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  Speaker 5: reached me at my house.
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  Speaker 4: It was Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Barker come pealing like mad at the bell and told
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  Speaker 5: me there'd been a horrid murder at the manor.
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  Speaker 4: Mr. Barker? Who is he? A Mr. Cecil James Barker, sir,
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  Speaker 4: of Hale's Lodge, Hampstead. He's the particular as I got.
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  Speaker 4: He's well known down here. Often comes down to start
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  Speaker 4: the manor with Mr. and Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Douglas.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Sergeant Wilson.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Fragard. Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Holmes. Well, it was a little past twelve when I
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  Speaker 5: got there. The servants were all staring about in the hall,
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  Speaker 5: proper shaken, they looked.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 3: Well, just then, Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Wood from the village arrived, and Mr. Barcaleros into the
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  Speaker 5: room where the body lay.
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  Speaker 4: It was Mr. Douglas' study. You'll find it opened straight
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  Speaker 4: into the halls. Just a moment, Sergeant. When you say Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Barker led us into the room, to whom exactly does
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  Speaker 5: the us refer?
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  Speaker 4: Just me and Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Wood, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, and Ames, the butler. Yes, he came in behind
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  Speaker 5: us and closed the door after him to stop the
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  Speaker 5: maidservant's scene.
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  Speaker 4: And what did you see, Sergeant?
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  Speaker 5: The deceased lay in the center of the room, sir.
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  Speaker 4: He was on his back with his arms and legs outstretched.
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  Speaker 4: He was wearing only a pink.
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  Speaker 5: Dressing gown with his night scenes under it. There were
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  Speaker 5: carpet slippers on his bare feet. His head had been
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  Speaker 5: nearly blown to pieces.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, dear heavens. What's the blood about then? Oh, something shocking, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Any weapon?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: There was a shotgun lying across his chest. The barrels
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  Speaker 5: had been sawn off short, and the triggers were wired.
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  Speaker 4: Together, so they'd go off together. Doctor said he'd had
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  Speaker 4: the lock straight in his face. Gross rain.
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  Speaker 3: Nasty weapon.
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  Speaker 4: Then this job, sir, as you'll see. Well, when Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Wood went upstairs to see the Mrs. Douglas, I got
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  Speaker 5: me notebook out and asked Mr. Barker a few questions.
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  Speaker 5: I got the notes with me here. Yes, this is it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, first of.
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  Speaker 5: All, I asked him whether anything had been touched since
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  Speaker 5: the business was discovered.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if anything has been touched since this business was discovered...
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  Speaker 3: Nothing has been touched in this room, Sergeant. You see
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  Speaker 3: it exactly as.
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  Speaker 4: I found it.
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  Speaker 3: And when exactly was.
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  Speaker 4: That, sir?
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  Speaker 3: It was just half past eleven.
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  Speaker 5: How long from hearing the report before you entered the room?
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  Speaker 3: Thirty seconds at the outside.
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  Speaker 8: Thirty seconds. Poor Douglas was lying just as you see him.
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  Speaker 8: His bedroom candle was burning on the table. I see
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  Speaker 8: the lamp is burning now, sir. That was lit later,
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  Speaker 8: no doubt?
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  Speaker 4: The lamp....
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  Speaker 3: Ah, yes, sir. I lit that few minutes after I
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  Speaker 3: came into the room. Did you see anyone, sir? No one.
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  Speaker 4: I heard Mrs.
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  Speaker 8: Douglas coming down the stairs, and I rushed out to
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  Speaker 8: prevent her from seeing this dreadful sight.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Allen, the housekeeper, came and took her away.
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  Speaker 3: The butler, Ames here, arrived, and we ran back into
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  Speaker 3: the room again together.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 3: Ames came with you, then? Yes, Constable. Sergeant, if you
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  Speaker 3: don't mind.
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  Speaker 4: Now, sir, this moat that runs right round the house here.
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Would the drawbridge across be up or down at the time?
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  Speaker 5: It was up until I lowered it myself to come
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  Speaker 5: and fetch you, Sergeant.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, you're wondering how anyone could have got away from
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  Speaker 5: the house.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: After shooting Mr.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Douglas. Well, sir, unless.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Unless Mr. Douglas shot himself.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: That is out of the question. If you'll step over
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: to this window. Yes, sir. Now, have a look at this.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: When I pull back this curtain, you will see the
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: window is fully open. That is just how Ames and
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: I found it. And here on the window ledge, a
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: smear of blood and this mark.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: My guess is that's the mark made by the sole
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: of someone's.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Boot as he was getting out. I see what you mean, sir.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Dropped down into the moat and waited across, you see.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Where do you see it? Can I close the curtain again?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: The window's quite screened off. Now, can you tell me, sir... what.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Time the drawbridge would have been raised for the night?
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Ames could tell you that.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Ames, it was nearly six o'clock. If anyone come from outside...
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: they must have got in across the bridge before six.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: and.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Hid somewhere till Mr. Douglas come into the room. The
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: man was waiting for him in here. He shot Mr. Douglas.
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: Left the gun behind him and got away through the window.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: That's how I read it, Sergeant.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Very likely, sir. Very likely.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Ah, Dr.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Wood.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: How is she?
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Mrs. Douglas.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, she's bearing up remarkably well in the circumstances, I'd say.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Hello, Sergeant.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: You found something?
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. This card, sir. Under the dead man's shoulders. You
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: haven't spotted it? Why, no. I never noticed it at all.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: What's that written on it?
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: VV341. Scrabble of ink. Nothing else. What on earth can
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: that mean?
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Beyond me, for the moment, sir.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: Oh, by the way, Sergeant, this hammer on the rug here,
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: want me to examine it?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Might just be a bloodstain, you know. Hmm. Hmm. Yes,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: looks quite clean.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Though, to me.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Put it back on the rug where you found it, please, Doctor.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Oil cut today, if anything's.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Got moved before the detectives got here. Oh, I'm sorry, Sergeant.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I should have known better. I wonder what it was
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: doing on the floor.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Douglas was altering the pictures yesterday.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: That's the hammer he was using, that's all.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I see. Well, perhaps I'll take a closer look over
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: the body.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: No marks of violence, save for the head wounds.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: You would know, though. Right you are, Doctor.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Now....
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I'd better take a good look around this.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Room, too.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, but I'd have thought... What is it, Sergeant?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: A big monster. Where?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Here, under the curtain. Marks and one of your boots. Oh, yes.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: What time would these curtains be gone last night?
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Four o'clock, sir.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: When the lamps were lit.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: And that is a bed out right here, isn't it?
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: A burden. perhaps.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I say, never seen a mark like this before. Now,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: what have you found, doctor? Here, on the forearm. Now,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: let me see. Well, sort of tattooed. A triangle inside
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: a circle.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Many a time I've seen that mark when the master
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: rolled his sleeves up to watch.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: He never told me what... Well, strike me.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Ames. I do beg pardon, sir. Look, sir.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: The master's wedding ring. It's gone. Good Lord. You're sure
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: about that, Mr. Ames?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: No doubt at all, sergeant. Always wore it. That ring
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: with the rough nugget on it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Was a body. Now, quite right, Em. Now, just a
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: minute now.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Just a minute.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Did you say the nugget ring was always wore above
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: the wedding ring?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Always. Never changed.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Well, that means the murderer, or whoever it was, took
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: that nugget ring off him to steal the wedding ring,
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: and then put the nugget ring back on again.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: There's the nugget.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: The wedding ring's gone. Well, that makes this the rummest
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: duel I ever struck.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: It's a deal too thick for the likes of.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Me, and I don't mind saying so.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: And that's about as far as I can report to you, gentlemen.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Remarkable.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Most remarkable.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Do you know, I can hardly recall any case in
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: my experience where the features have been more peculiar.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I rather thought.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: You'd say that.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: We're well up with the times in Sussex, you can see. Yes, indeed.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: I arrived to take over from Sergeant Wilson between three
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: and four this morning.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I examined the gun... There's no complete maker's name on it.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Just the first three letters on the fluting between the barrels.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: The rest being cut off by the saw. What three letters?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: P-E-N.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: I can't think what that comes from. Pennsylvania Small Arms Company.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: American, sir.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I heard about sold-off shotguns in the States. It might
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: mean the chap who broke in and killed Douglas was
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: an American. Sir, there is one other thing.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: About America, sir.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: The deceased and his wife spent a.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Long time living there in California. Oh, that's interesting, eh, Holmes?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Anything else, Sergeant?
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Well, sir, just that Mr. Cecil Barker was in America, too.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: He told me he was a friend of Mr. Douglas there. Oh,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: by the way, Mr. Holmes, Ames says he'd never seen
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: a gun of this sort in the house before. The
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: gun was made to conceal. It would fit into any box.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: But why would a murderer carry a shotgun in with him?
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: If he'd any sense, he'd choose the quietest weapon he
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: could find.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Something he can.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Kill with and not make a sound. Be through the moat.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: And roll clear of the place hours before anyone finds
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: what's happened.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: You're right there. Ah, I think this is our destination.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: This is Burlston Manor. I see. Quite a place, eh?
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: 17th century, most of it, they tell me. That's our
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: celebrated moat. Yes. It is muddy looking, isn't it?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: The water brings down the clay.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: It's generally about this color. You know, a chap could
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: have drowned in it, couldn't he? You'd never spot him
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: under that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Not much likelihood of that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: Not more than a foot deep near the edges and
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: two of the most in the middle.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Hmm. Well, then, here we are. Sergeant Wilson.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Sir?
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: You can take the carriage and get away home for
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: some rest. Thank you, Mr.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Mason, sir. Why, Mrs.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Lewin, we haven't brought you since last night.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: All right, then. Out we get. Close the door, will
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: you please, Ames?
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Inspector MacDonald and Mr.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Holmes would like to.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Ask you a few questions.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Ames, I understand you to have said that you often
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: saw this mark on your late master's forearm.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Frequently, sir.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: You never heard anyone refer to its meaning?
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Never, sir.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: I noticed there was a small piece of plaster at
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: the angle of the deceased's jaw here.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Do you see?
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, I.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I see it, sir.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: He cut himself shaving yesterday morning. Did he appear nervous
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: at all? Could that be why he cut himself?
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: It struck me he was a little restless and excited, sir.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. Mr. Holmes, anything to add? Thank you.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Amos, this card with VV341 scrawled on it, sir. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: noticed that in this room there is only black ink
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: in the inkwells.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Always.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: But this writing is purplish in color.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: It's been done with a broad pen, and the ones
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: in here are fine. Obviously, then, it wasn't written in here.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: That's a point.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Can you make anything of the inscription names?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: No, sir.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Nothing.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Holmes, it makes me think it runs to some society
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: or other. And I'm inclined to agree with you, Dr. Watson.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: What about that, Mr. Holmes?
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: An agent from this society gets into the house, waits
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: for Douglas, kills him, and escapes by way of the moat.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: This card behind, so that when the case is reported
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: in the papers, the other members of the society will
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: know the deed's been done.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Vengeance or something. Plausible. But why this clumsy weapon? Well.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: And why the missing ring?
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: And why no arrest? It's past two now.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: I take it that since dawn, every constable within 40
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: miles radius has been out looking for signs of a
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: wet stranger.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: They certainly have, Mr.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Holmes.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: Unless he's got a hideaway nearby or a change of clothes,
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: they can hardly miss him.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: And yet they have missed him up to now. Well, Ames,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: I think that is all. Thank you.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Thank you, sir. Oh, one moment, Ames. Yes, Mr.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Holmes. What is this under the side table? Those are Mr.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Douglas's dumbbells, sir. For exercise. Dumbbells? I think you mean.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: There's only one.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Well, there were two, sir. The other must be somewhere about.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I haven't noticed for some months.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: One dumbbell. Very well, their names. That'll do. Thank you, sir.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, Mr.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Barker, sir.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Now, thanks. May I come in, gentlemen? By all means, Mr.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Barker.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I don't wish to interrupt you, but... Oh, not at all, sir.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Your fellows have found a bicycle. Where?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: In a clump of evergreens not a hundred yards from
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: the hall door.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Obviously hidden, I'd say.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Now, that's a new line of reckoning.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Come on, Mason, we'd better take a look at once.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Yes. You coming, Mr. Holmes? Of course.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Now, what in the name of all that's wonderful makes
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: the chap leave it behind? And how in the world
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: has he got away? We don't seem to get a
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: gleam of light in this case, do we, Mr.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Holmes?
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Don't we, Mr.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: Max?
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I wonder.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: I wonder.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: The Valley of Fear was one of the stories about
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: We are presenting it in three parts. You've just been
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: listening to part one. In real life, my name is
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: Norman Shelley. My friend Carlton Hobbs played Sherlock Holmes, and
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: I was Dr.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Watson.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Michael Hardwick wrote our script for this BBC production from London.
• 27:32
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• 27:35
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