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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Affair of the Politician Basil Rathbone, Nigel Br · Sherlock Holmes

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Speaker 1: And now to get back to the politician, the lighthouse
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Speaker 1: and the trained cormorant. What exactly is a cormorant, doctor Watson, The.
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Speaker 2: Largest bird, mister Harris, that is inordinately fond of fish,
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Speaker 2: which it dives into the water to catch. The word
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Speaker 2: cormanant is of French derivation Calm meaning raven and mariam
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Speaker 2: meaning marrying.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yes, the raven of the sea sounds vaguely sennis
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Speaker 1: to doctor Watson, it was mister Harris.
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Speaker 2: It was indeed, this particular commonant, whose name was Tica,
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Speaker 2: was directly responsible for the death of the disreputable old
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Speaker 2: Baggage who there I go, getting ahead of myself again,
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Speaker 2: to begin at the beginning. It was a cold, wet
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Speaker 2: November night, a Saturday night to be exact. Holmes, overcome
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Speaker 2: with the restless energy which sometimes burned inside him like
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Speaker 2: a seething volcano, had insisted on a visit to the
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Speaker 2: Port of London, the Chinese section of it that is
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Speaker 2: so often referred to in tones of awe and terror
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Speaker 2: as Limehouse. We had just turned off West India Dock
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Speaker 2: Road against the sky Rose Limehouse Church, the one thing
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Speaker 2: of beauty in a sordid landscape. Yellow and brown men
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Speaker 2: patted by on slippered feet. Strange voices whispering in strange
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Speaker 2: tongues crept out of dark corners. The air was heavy
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Speaker 2: with the stench of beetlenuts, chandoo and fried fish. A
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Speaker 2: clean mist crept in off the river. In the channel,
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Speaker 2: a foghorn wailed like a loss. So homes, what's the
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Speaker 2: point of all this meandering? First up one dilapidated alley,
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Speaker 2: then down the next time, frozen to the bone. Let's
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Speaker 2: get home before someone slits our throats from behind.
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Speaker 3: A nice trick, if it can be, Watson, No, a
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Speaker 3: stab in the back, or perhaps a bit of fuggy
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Speaker 3: with a fine silken cord would be more in keeping
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Speaker 3: with this neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: What's the good of all this prowling about?
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Speaker 3: But Watson, we promised missus Hudson we'd bring her some tea,
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Speaker 3: some Siwie send in little two ounce packets at sevenpence each,
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Speaker 3: a shy little tea to fill the hour of four
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Speaker 3: to five with delicate scents and dreams slop. She's been
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Speaker 3: giving us lately enough to rock the lining of one's stomach.
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Speaker 2: Well, then let's buy the stuff and go home, That is,
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Speaker 2: if you can remember where the shop is.
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Speaker 3: Just across the crazy bridge up ahead there that leads
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Speaker 3: to the Isle of Dogs, a small spice shop run
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Speaker 3: by my good friend Sam ling Lee.
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Speaker 2: Well, then let's go there and get it over with.
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Speaker 3: Impatience, Watson is the curse of our Western civilization, always
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Speaker 3: in a hurry, never taking time to taste, to savor,
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Speaker 3: really to observe life.
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Speaker 2: What is there worth observing in this god forsaken district?
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Speaker 2: I'd like to know, Q.
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Speaker 4: Question doesn't tuck into this.
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Speaker 2: Doorway here, dirty little thief O. Good Lord Holmes. That
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Speaker 2: man was chasing her with Usti Letto after them down
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Speaker 2: the next alley.
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Speaker 5: W.
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Speaker 2: To Lake Watson, Great Scott Holmes, aren't you going to
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Speaker 2: do something?
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Speaker 4: What is there to do?
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Speaker 3: Watson, poor tortured soul, She's better off dead.
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Speaker 2: Holmes, you are a cold blooded fish. At least we
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Speaker 2: could try to catch the men who stabbed her.
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Speaker 3: That is a job for the official police. We must
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Speaker 3: leave something for them to do. You know, incidents like
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Speaker 3: this occur every day in line House. No, the individual
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Speaker 3: I'd like to bring to justice is the real murderer
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Speaker 3: in this and a hundred other cases.
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Speaker 2: Who's that.
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Speaker 3: The purveyor of little white packages like the one that
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Speaker 3: poor frantic derelict clutched so tightly in her hand, The
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Speaker 3: chief of the outfit which pedals death and decay in
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Speaker 3: the form of exotic dreams.
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Speaker 2: You know who he is, naturally.
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Speaker 3: The annoying part of the situation is that I've been
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Speaker 3: completely unable to persuade any of his victims to testify
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Speaker 3: against him. They're all so tragically dependent on him for
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Speaker 3: his filthy wares. However, enough of that, if you've just
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Speaker 3: witnessed this commonplace, But here comes something I think you'll
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Speaker 3: admit is rather unusual, even in limehouse.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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Speaker 3: Look there across the street, Watson. Ever see a man
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Speaker 3: take a bird for a walk. It's Peru, the crippled Laskar,
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Speaker 3: taking Tika for his nightly outing. They're coming down the
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Speaker 3: steps of the house across the way.
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Speaker 2: They're crossing the street. That's a curious looking bird. It
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Speaker 2: waddles like a duck, but his beak is different, his
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Speaker 2: neck almost as long as a swan's.
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Speaker 3: That Watson is a cormorant, a very intelligent biped In
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Speaker 3: many tropical countries, the natives train them to catch fish.
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Speaker 6: Do not fear, my beautiful teaker. The men will not
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Speaker 6: harm you. Parou will protect his Teeka.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'll be undoubtedly Watson.
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Speaker 3: Peru couldn't be more attached to Tika if he were
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Speaker 3: his own son.
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Speaker 2: But did you see the bird's eyes? They shone yellow
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Speaker 2: in the light of the street lamb like a cat's.
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Speaker 3: Yes, many of the natives hereabouts are afraid of the bird.
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Speaker 3: They say he has the evil eye. Perhaps that's why
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Speaker 3: Peru and Tica considered star borders at the lighthouse across
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Speaker 3: the way. The lighthouse is the name of the most
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Speaker 3: notorious lodging house in all of Limehouse. Chinese, Laskars and
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Speaker 3: East Indians sleep there, ten and twelve to a room
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Speaker 3: on the bare floors are on mildewed mattresses. Tika and
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Speaker 3: Peru sleep curled up in a closet on the top floor.
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Speaker 4: Least they have privacy.
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Speaker 2: Charming place. Ryan Heaven's name, don't the authorities clean it out?
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Speaker 3: Authority around here Watson is Harry Hawkins, called Handsome Harry
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Speaker 3: by the natives because he's so definitely the opposite. Mister
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Speaker 3: Hawkins not only owns most of the houses in this area,
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Speaker 3: he's consulman for this district.
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Speaker 2: There's but surely it's not good business to let your
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Speaker 2: property go to wreck and ruin like that place across
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Speaker 2: the way.
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Speaker 3: The Lighthouse Watson is run by a vicious old reprobate
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Speaker 3: who's known as Mother fish Face, partly because she has
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Speaker 3: no teeth and a cold and fishy eye, and partly
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Speaker 3: because she runs a fish house in the kitchen under
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Speaker 3: the steps, where she dispenses decayed fish and chips at
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Speaker 3: tuppens a portion to the poor, starving wretches who inhabit
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Speaker 3: the rooms upstairs. Mother fish Face is the only one
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Speaker 3: who dares talk back to mister Hawkins. She's the only
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Speaker 3: one who dares to be late with her rent.
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Speaker 4: In fact, it's.
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Speaker 3: Rumored that she has something on the old boy, and
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Speaker 3: he's definitely afraid of her.
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Speaker 2: There's where the butters buried at homes.
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Speaker 3: Or how he procures the opium and hashies he undoubtedly
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Speaker 3: deals in. I suspect most of her borders are smugglers
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Speaker 3: of the vile stuff.
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Speaker 2: So we came down here for the purpose of banging
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Speaker 2: tee for missus Hudson, And now we suddenly seem to
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Speaker 2: be interested in a dope running outfit homes. You don't
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Speaker 2: fool me for a moment.
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Speaker 3: Five years association with Seanna Colmes seems to have sharpened
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Speaker 3: your powers of observation. My dear Watson, well white Watson,
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Speaker 3: Quick slip behind this wall. It comes mister Hawkins. His
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Speaker 3: weekly collection runs.
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Speaker 2: Open up here, shelturday night rent sed you. He's your money,
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Speaker 2: mister Hawkins blast year charming fellow, mister Hawkins Watson.
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Speaker 4: He's about to knock on the kitchen door opposite. See
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Speaker 4: what happens at the lighthouse.
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Speaker 2: Oh, dear mady, it's me and Sir Mary come to.
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Speaker 4: Pay you a visit.
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Speaker 5: What do you want, you old fool?
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Speaker 2: What would I want? Dardy? It's shatterday night rint night.
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Speaker 2: You're a week behind now supposed I am.
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Speaker 5: You ain't starving? You can wait, can't you?
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Speaker 2: No? No, old girl, you know I wouldn't press me,
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Speaker 2: how sweetheart? Here? Look I brought you a present, a
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Speaker 2: fine bottle of gin.
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Speaker 5: What's wrong with it? Is it poisoned?
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Speaker 2: Your little jack?
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Speaker 5: Your deary No, oh, I don't think you do a
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Speaker 5: thing like that.
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Speaker 7: Eric.
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Speaker 5: The day they find me murdered, that's the day you
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Speaker 5: wish you'd never been born.
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Speaker 2: Oh you do turn on if anything was deppened to you?
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Speaker 2: Uny did break me oud, wouldn't it?
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Speaker 5: Just h Here comes that cripple and he's bleeding.
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Speaker 6: Bird.
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Speaker 5: It's always sneaking into me door and making away with
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Speaker 5: a fish.
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Speaker 2: Then bird, here's a weakness for fish.
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Speaker 5: Well, if you don't keep out of my kitchen, it'll
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Speaker 5: be the weakness that finishes in.
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Speaker 6: Hey you there, ha, Yes, madam fish face, cheap.
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Speaker 5: Your dirty bird out of my kitchen. And don't you
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Speaker 5: call me madam.
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Speaker 6: My tea guy is not as dirty as your kitchen.
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Speaker 6: And ask for your fish. I would not feed it
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Speaker 6: to a swine, much less my beautiful teak.
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Speaker 5: Ah. There he goes, sticking his head in the door.
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Speaker 4: Get out up.
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Speaker 6: Do not raise that broom to my tea car.
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Speaker 5: Not raise the broom? Is it? Listen to me, you slimey.
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Speaker 5: Even that bird comes into my kitchen once more, and
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Speaker 5: our ring is bleeding neck.
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Speaker 6: You listen to me, madam fish face, and listen well,
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Speaker 6: you touch one feather of Teaker's beautiful neck and I
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Speaker 6: will kill you.
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Speaker 7: I will kill you.
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Speaker 4: Enough. I'll have no one fritten in mother fish face.
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Speaker 5: You heard what he said you warded him out. He
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Speaker 5: goes out of my house. Let him sleep in the streets,
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Speaker 5: Let him sleep in the gutter with his dirty bird.
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Speaker 2: Don't you get your dander app go on in and
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Speaker 2: drink your bottle. That's a good girl. It's ship he
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Speaker 2: did not remember. You've got a little spree coming to you.
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Speaker 5: I know what I'm doing.
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Speaker 4: No one has to tell.
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Speaker 6: Me, Countyaker. We do not enter her filthy premises again.
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Speaker 6: We go sleep in the churchyard. It is warmer than
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Speaker 6: Madam fish Faces hot.
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Speaker 2: Well, that little commotion seems to have resolved itself.
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Speaker 3: Hey, mister Holmes, I wonder at illy rate the fogs
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Speaker 3: lifted a bit. We better get around to sam Lee's
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Speaker 3: place before he shuts up his shop. I could do
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Speaker 3: with a dish of hot.
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Speaker 2: Tea, a dish to take a gallon to warm me up.
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Speaker 4: Well, come along, then.
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Speaker 2: It's no good loitering at mother fish Face's door any longer,
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Speaker 2: mister Hawkins. I fancy she and her bottle are locked
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Speaker 2: in for the weekend break. Oh it's you, and what
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Speaker 2: is the eminent mister Sherlock Holmes snooping around here for right?
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Speaker 4: Snooping? My dear mister Hawkins, you underrate me. Doctor Watson,
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Speaker 4: and I were merely enjoying the local. You have such
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Speaker 4: lurid local color in this district, haven't you.
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Speaker 3: Hmm, delicious, the true lapsang sushang smoky, with a suggestion
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Speaker 3: of the true tarred rope flavor.
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Speaker 2: Oo, look bad you can do with a spot of ramona.
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Speaker 4: Typically British reaction.
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Speaker 2: Watson, the Englishman's always insulting his palate and desecrating his
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Speaker 2: tea with surplices, cream, milk, rump, even nasty little pieces
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Speaker 2: of lemons generate. The libation served its purpose. It's thought
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Speaker 2: you out, I've drunk so much tea. I'm a rash,
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Speaker 2: I becked to the practicum floating the mind.
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Speaker 4: You look less blue around the gills.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I wish you wouldn't use that expression. Homes brings
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Speaker 2: back that horrible old woman's face. This issue. She did
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Speaker 2: look like a fish, you know, dead fish. Hello, look
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Speaker 2: out the window, here's handsome Harry running down the street.
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Speaker 4: Yes, seems to be headed in this direction. Yes, here
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Speaker 4: it comes.
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Speaker 2: All missus.
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Speaker 3: Thanks, thank Evan, Jerry and your friend too. I think
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Speaker 3: you said he was a doctors.
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Speaker 2: Having my little man. What seems to be the trouble,
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Speaker 2: mister Hawkins, You're better come right away.
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Speaker 4: She'll be leading here, and no mistakes, who'll be leading home?
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Speaker 4: What's happened?
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Speaker 3: It might have fish face after Wright finish my collections,
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Speaker 3: or went back to tell her about the premis coming
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Speaker 3: in in Monday.
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Speaker 4: But that door was locked, and she wouldn't answer.
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Speaker 2: Trouble with the results of two rapid absorption of the
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Speaker 2: bottle you left behind, you're.
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Speaker 3: Right here, not answering.
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Speaker 4: The door wouldn't upset me most times.
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Speaker 3: And it ann there's a great smell of gas leaking
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Speaker 3: out around it.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Horry Watson, let's hope we're not too late.
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Speaker 2: Here we are two steps dowd caper copper ands, loose
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Speaker 2: smell of gas. Then he pronounced her homes quite.
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Speaker 4: Door locked?
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Speaker 2: Shall I Shall I break it down?
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Speaker 4: Windows? Quicker, stand back, I'll use this loose brick.
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Speaker 2: Whew, what a stench steal fish and gas.
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Speaker 4: Give it a chance to clear for a moment.
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Speaker 2: I say this, He's homes. You can see her lying
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Speaker 2: there behind the table. But what's that draped across her
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Speaker 2: leg like a snake.
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Speaker 3: It's not a snake, Watson, it's Teeka's neck. The bird
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Speaker 3: is start just lying beside her, hidden by the body.
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Speaker 3: Come on over the silver.
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Speaker 4: Girl, cheeker?
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Speaker 7: Did someone see Cheeka? I look everywhere for him. I
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Speaker 7: am asleep on a grave. Antika sits on the tombstone.
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Speaker 7: When I wake up, he's gone.
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Speaker 2: He's in their peril. I'm afraid we've come too late.
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Speaker 2: You can't what beautiful?
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Speaker 4: All right? Come in, all of you.
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Speaker 7: I kill her.
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Speaker 4: I her throat put away that night.
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Speaker 3: Take the bird outside, try artificial respiration. Don't waste any time, Watson,
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Speaker 3: you look out for the old woman. Yeah, I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: turn off, as I guess, get on the steal. It's
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Speaker 3: why don't touch it?
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Speaker 4: What confounded? Did you have to do that?
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Speaker 3: You didn't want to asphyxiate a lot of us, did
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Speaker 3: you know?
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Speaker 4: But I did want to examine that handle for fingerprints.
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Speaker 2: Snow girl hums. I can't bring her around. She's turning cold.
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Speaker 3: Yes, gas poisoning, that's what finished her, and usually florid face.
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Speaker 3: Gas poisoning complicated by several from buzzes brought on by
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Speaker 3: alcohol and high blood pressure.
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Speaker 2: As I noticed the uneven dilation of her pupils, Poor
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Speaker 2: old dear, I never knows, Ah mister Dams old us shot.
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Speaker 2: The next time I saw she'd be lying there like that,
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Speaker 2: cold as a metrel. But if she wanted to commit suicide,
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Speaker 2: mister Hawkins, there was only one gas jet open, and
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Speaker 2: why not turn on the lot, Aholmes.
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Speaker 4: I doubt very much of it was suicide. Watson.
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Speaker 2: You don't mean it's murder. But the door was locked.
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Speaker 2: The one could have got in. That's right, mister Draams.
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Speaker 2: She never give no one to key. It must have
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Speaker 2: been accident too, or at least it that's what it
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Speaker 2: was supposed to look like. What brings you to that
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Speaker 2: fascinating conclusion, mister Hawkins? It was that bird? What did it?
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Speaker 4: Mark my words?
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Speaker 2: Time and again?
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Speaker 3: Eat knocked that gas jet open, always o by the
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Speaker 3: fish face would scream at him and shut it off,
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Speaker 3: and it tonight like as not. She was too drunk
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Speaker 3: and ounties drunk from the gin you brought her. I
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Speaker 3: always brought it a bottle at gin she diday night.
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Speaker 3: It was that dirty leska did it? You want him
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Speaker 3: say killer? And you see the drunk and he shoved
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Speaker 3: his bird in here.
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Speaker 4: He did it know.
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Speaker 3: He need turn on the gas reach him for a
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Speaker 3: fish flying and a stove. Yes, there was a fish
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Speaker 3: on the stove, but it was not frying because there's
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Speaker 3: no frying pan. If there had been, the gas would
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Speaker 3: have been lit and there had been no chance for
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Speaker 3: it to escape and fill the room. Yes, there was
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Speaker 3: a fish on the stove, carefully draped across this handle.
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Speaker 3: You'll notice that it's still greasy and smells rather strongly
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Speaker 3: of mackerel. These scratches, I imagine, were caused by the
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Speaker 3: bird's beak as he snatched at the fish, thereby pushing
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Speaker 3: the handle and opening the jet.
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Speaker 4: Guess what I said. That ditty even pushed his cornier
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Speaker 4: bird in here.
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Speaker 2: No, in mother fish face was on an air fish
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Speaker 2: junk with no way of protecting herself. And how did
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Speaker 2: he manage to push the bird in here with all
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Speaker 2: the doors and windows locked?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I see what you mean. And he couldn't have
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Speaker 4: been murdered.
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Speaker 2: It was accidentally the bird flew his head feet And
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Speaker 2: how did he manage to do that? Shue that little trapdoor, Hope,
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Speaker 2: rubish aren't wind there. It's got a little swinging inch
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Speaker 2: to it, so as.
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Speaker 3: A fish peddler could deliver fish through it. When mother
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Speaker 3: fish face wasn't down that blinking bird.
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Speaker 4: He flew up there, he did.
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Speaker 3: Shout out from the trap, and flew dandy into the room.
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Speaker 3: What happened next was just like you did, mister Arms.
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Speaker 3: It must have been poor old mother fish Face murdered
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Speaker 3: accidental by a bird. Very interesting theory, mister Hawkins, but
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Speaker 3: unfortunately it does not jibe with the facts. What do
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Speaker 3: you mean, Holmes, Simply this Watson, the bird couldn't have
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Speaker 3: flown in because it so happens that this particular member
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Speaker 3: of the feathered tribe is a monoptrum harisi of or
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Speaker 3: Harris cormorant, which occurs only on the Galapagus Islands.
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Speaker 2: It is entirely flightless, you mean it. It can't fly,
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Speaker 2: not any farther than doctor Watson. But it did get
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Speaker 2: in here somehow, Holmes, you'll have to admit that quite
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Speaker 2: the cormorant was introduced into this kitchen by the only
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Speaker 2: person other than old mother fish Face.
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Speaker 4: Who had the key to that dawn. Oh zed you,
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Speaker 4: mister Hawkins, the landlord rubbish? What why should I ever
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Speaker 4: wanted to kill the young girl? She was my best tenant.
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Speaker 3: You killed her because you suspected she was going to
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Speaker 3: split to the port authorities. You got wind of the
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Speaker 3: fact they'd sent me down here to get her story.
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Speaker 2: You can't prove it.
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Speaker 4: You can't prove a blasty chin.
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Speaker 3: Suppose you have got my fingerprints in that guest you
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Speaker 3: Doctor Watsonary's witnessed it effect that he saw me turn
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Speaker 3: it off?
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Speaker 2: Is that so? Holmes?
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Speaker 3: Hey, but you'll not find my fingerprints in the lock
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Speaker 3: or in that doorknop neither. I wondered why they were
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Speaker 3: white clean. You were here earlier this evening. Your fingerprints
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Speaker 3: should have been on the doorknob well, and now you
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Speaker 3: can't convict me on that.
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Speaker 4: What about the odor of fish that cleansed your hands?
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Speaker 2: Too bad?
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Speaker 3: You chose mackerel to lure tica such as smelly fish. Furthermore,
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Speaker 3: the notes on the papers which Watson discovered inside the
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Speaker 3: woman's bodies hooms I convict you of conducting a desperable
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Speaker 3: and entirely illegal trade in opium.
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Speaker 4: Another, why mister Hawkins, were you going I'm getting out,
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Speaker 4: I won't get me.
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Speaker 2: Homes. Why didn't you stop him?
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Speaker 4: He'll be stopped?
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Speaker 3: Never fear the authorities have had the place surrounded ever
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Speaker 3: since we left the tea house.
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Speaker 4: Sam Lee is my go between, or didn't you guess
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Speaker 4: you know?
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Speaker 2: That's where I didn't. Furthermore, I don't know what you're
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Speaker 2: talking about when you mention the papers I found in
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Speaker 2: mother Fish Faces bodies. There weren't any papers, I.
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Speaker 3: Know, Watson, bluff, pure bluff. The important thing is Hawkins
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Speaker 3: thinks we've found those papers. Remarkable how talkative the average
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Speaker 3: criminal becomes once he thinks the jig's up. The port
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Speaker 3: authority should have no trouble in finding out all they
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Speaker 3: want to know. Yes, at last, the chief of this
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Speaker 3: dope smuggling ring and the cause of untold human misery
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Speaker 3: be safely behind bars.
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Speaker 2: So did you hear that?
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's ticker. I thought Peru might be able to
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Speaker 3: bring him round. You see, he didn't have as much
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Speaker 3: alcohol in his system as mother Fish face. Let that
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Speaker 3: be a lesson to you, Watson, you go to blazes.
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Speaker 1: It's a problem for the average family these days is
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Speaker 1: practically every necessity costs more, and most family budgets are
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Speaker 1: not elastic. But there's one thing a man can buy
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Speaker 1: today that gives him the most for his money he's
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Speaker 1: ever known. Yes, even these days, without the sacrifice of quality,
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Speaker 1: you can buy really fine clipper Craft clothes for far
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Speaker 1: less than ordinary clothes cost elsewhere, and in your own
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Speaker 1: local independent store where you get friendly personal attention. It's
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Speaker 1: all made possible by the clipper Craft Plan, concentrating the
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Speaker 1: buying power of nine hundred twenty four leading stores from
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Speaker 1: coast to coast stores you can trust, stores where clipper
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Speaker 1: craft quality is still sold at amazingly low prices.
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Speaker 4: Even today, clipper Craft suits.
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Speaker 1: Are only thirty five and forty dollars, with a few
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Speaker 1: special numbers at forty three seventy five. Even today, top
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Speaker 1: coats and overcoats are only thirty to forty dollars, and
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Speaker 1: sport jackets but twenty four dollars. Selling beautifully tailored, expensive
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Speaker 1: clothes inexpensive in price at the nation's finest independent store
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Speaker 1: is the great, big idea behind the clipper Craft Plan.
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Speaker 1: That's why men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes. So
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Speaker 1: be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city.
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Speaker 8: The leading stores in the metropolitan area that bring you
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Speaker 8: Clippercraft clothes are Sacks thirty fourth Broadway of thirty fourth Street, Manhattan,
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Speaker 8: Abraham and Strauss, Brooklyn. The Boulevard Men's Shop Cresgy Newark, Newark,
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Speaker 8: New Jersey, and the B and B Clothes Shop, one
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Speaker 8: sixty four oh eight, Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica. These great, courteous
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Speaker 8: and friendly stores are proud to add their names to
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Speaker 8: that of Clippercraft in the label of your suit, top coat,
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Speaker 8: sports jacket and overcoat. And now, doctor Watson, did they
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Speaker 8: succeed in convicting the handsome mister Harry Hawkins.
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Speaker 2: Hey did, indeed, mister Harrison, they did, indeed, mister Hawkins
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Speaker 2: spill the beans, as you say, with very little persuasion.
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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, Mother fish Face did have
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Speaker 2: quite a few incriminating records tucked away carefully, which we subsequently.
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Speaker 4: Found hidden in an old tea pot of the family
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Speaker 4: flower barrel, no doubt.
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Speaker 2: Hidden away in a vault in the bank in ThReD
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Speaker 2: Needles Street, together with a very handsome collection of English.
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Speaker 4: Banknotes thrifty old girl who inherited the money. Doctor Holmes
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Speaker 4: saw to.
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Speaker 2: It that the many went to the Limehouse mission for
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Speaker 2: spendid seamen. He also raised for Peru to spin his
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Speaker 2: declining years.
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Speaker 4: There.
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Speaker 2: He even managed to wrangle a permission for him to
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Speaker 2: keep Ticker perched on the foot of his bed.
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Speaker 1: I guess there's nothing that can't be done if Sherlock
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Speaker 1: Holmes sets his mind to it.
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Speaker 2: I agree, mister Harris.
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Speaker 4: Of course I wouldn't want Holmes to know about it.
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Speaker 1: When did Holmes first suspect that Hawkins had murdered old
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Speaker 1: mother fish face?
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Speaker 4: Doctor Oh?
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Speaker 2: He was pretty sure that, mister Harris, when he realized
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Speaker 2: Hawkins had run for a doctor without first stopping to
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Speaker 2: break a window or turn off the gas.
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Speaker 1: In other words, Hawkins was taking no chances the old
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Speaker 1: girl might come too.
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Speaker 4: About the size of it.
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Speaker 1: And now, I wonder if you'd like to give us
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Speaker 1: an idea about what we can look forward to next week,
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Speaker 1: doctor Watson, Well, now let me see.
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Speaker 2: I uh, well, I think that next week I'll tell
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Speaker 2: you how Witchcraft suddenly came to life again in the
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Speaker 2: West of England, and how the investigation of a fairy
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Speaker 2: ring in the grass and a weather beaten broomstick covered
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Speaker 2: with medieval recipe for flying ointment led home as to
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Speaker 2: one of the most diabolical criminals he ever encountered. I
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Speaker 2: call it the laughing lemur of high ta heat.
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Speaker 4: Sounds appropriate for what is practically Halloween.
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Speaker 2: Why do you think I chose it, mister Harris, Why
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Speaker 2: do you think I chose it?