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67-07-10-(SA) Sherlock Holmes The Retired Colourman · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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  Speaker 5: Episode 2 in another series of these famous stories by
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  Speaker 5: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is called The Retired Carnoman. And here,
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  Speaker 5: as usual, to tell you the story, is Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Watson.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: It was late one summer afternoon. I returned from my
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  Speaker 8: club to 221 B Baker Street to find Sherlock Holmes'
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  Speaker 8: gaunt figure stretched in his deep chair, his pipe curling
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  Speaker 8: forth slow reeds of acrid tobacco, while his eyelids drooped
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  Speaker 8: over his eyes so lazily that he might almost have
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  Speaker 8: been asleep. I recognized his melancholy and philosophic mood. His alert,
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  Speaker 8: practical nature was subject to such reactions.
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  Speaker 9: Well, my dear Watson, did you see him?
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  Speaker 7: Who? Oh, the old fellow who's just gone out.
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  Speaker 6: Precisely.
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  Speaker 7: I met him at the door, yes.
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  Speaker 9: What did you think of him?
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  Speaker 7: Well, pathetic, futile, broken creature.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile.
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  Speaker 9: But is not all life pathetic and futile... Isn't his
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  Speaker 9: story a microcosm of the whole? We reach, we grasp,
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  Speaker 9: and what is left in our hands at the end?
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  Speaker 7: A shadow.
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  Speaker 6: Or worse than the shadow, misery.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, come, Holmes. Is he one of your clients?
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  Speaker 9: I suppose so. He's been sent on by the yard,
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  Speaker 9: just as medical men occasionally send their incurables to a quack.
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  Speaker 9: They argue that they can do nothing more... So whatever happens,
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  Speaker 9: the patient can't be worse than he is.
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  Speaker 7: What's the matter with him? Who is he, anyway?
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  Speaker 10: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Josiah Amberley.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: He says he was junior partner of Brickfull and Amberley,
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  Speaker 9: manufacturers of artistic materials. He made his little pile, retired
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  Speaker 9: at the age of 61, bought a house at Lewisham
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  Speaker 9: and settled down to rest after a life of ceaseless grind.
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  Speaker 7: Sounds a comfortable prospect.
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  Speaker 6: Retired in 1896, Watson.
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  Speaker 9: Early in 1897, he married a woman 20 years younger
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  Speaker 9: than himself.
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  Speaker 6: Uh-huh. Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Good-looking, too, if a photograph doesn't flatter. A competence, a wife, leisure.
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  Speaker 6: It looked like a straight road before him.
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  Speaker 9: Yet within two years, as you've seen, he is as
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  Speaker 9: broken and miserable a creature as crawls beneath the sun.
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  Speaker 7: But what's happened, Holmes?
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  Speaker 6: The old story.
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  Speaker 9: A treacherous friend and a fickle wife.
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  Speaker 6: Holmes.
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  Speaker 9: It seems that Amberley has one hobby in his life, chess.
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  Speaker 9: Not far from him at Lewisham there lives a young doctor, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Ray Ernest, who is also a chess player.
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  Speaker 9: Ernest was frequently in Amberley's house, and an intimacy between
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  Speaker 9: him and Amberley's wife was the result.
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  Speaker 8: That doesn't surprise me. Your client doesn't look like a
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  Speaker 8: paragon of the Graces.
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  Speaker 9: The couple went off together last week. Destination so far untraced.
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  Speaker 9: What's more, the woman carried off the old man's deed
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  Speaker 9: box by way of personal luggage. It had a good
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  Speaker 9: part of his life savings in it.
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  Speaker 7: That's bad.
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  Speaker 9: So, Watson, can we find the lady? Can we save
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  Speaker 9: the money?
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  Speaker 7: Commonplace sort of case to bother you with, Holmes.
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  Speaker 9: But vital enough to poor Josiah Amberley.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's so. What'll you do, then?
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  Speaker 9: What will you do, my dear Watson?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 9: If you'll be good enough to understand me, that is.
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  Speaker 9: You know how preoccupied I am with.
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  Speaker 6: This case of the two Coptic patriarchs.
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  Speaker 9: It should come to a head today. No, I really
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  Speaker 9: haven't time to go out to Lewisham. And yet, evidence taken.
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  Speaker 6: On the spot is of special value.
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  Speaker 7: Well, by all means, Holmes.
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  Speaker 8: I confess, sir, well, I don't see that I can
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  Speaker 8: be of much service, but I'm willing to do my best.
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  Speaker 7: Capital.
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  Speaker 9: The old fellow was quite insistent that I should go.
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  Speaker 9: But I explained my difficulty... He's quite prepared to meet
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  Speaker 9: a representative.
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  Speaker 7: Excuse me, sir. I beg your pardon, sir. I'm looking
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  Speaker 7: for the house of Mr. Josiah Amberley, the Haven. I
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  Speaker 7: wonder if you'd happen to... There it is, straight across
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  Speaker 7: the road.
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  Speaker 8: Good heavens, I must have walked straight past it.
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  Speaker 7: Often happens like that. I'm much obliged to you, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Of course, I could hardly expect that so humble an
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  Speaker 10: individual as myself... would merit the complete attention of so
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  Speaker 10: famous a man as Mr. Sherlock Holmes... especially after my
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  Speaker 10: heavy financial loss.
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  Speaker 7: I can assure you, Mr. Ambley, that the financial question
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  Speaker 7: does not arise.
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  Speaker 10: No, of course. It's art for art's sake with him,
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  Speaker 10: I understand. Still, even on the artistic side of crime...
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  Speaker 10: he might have found something here to study... And human.
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  Speaker 7: Nature, Dr. Watson.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, the black ingratitude of it all.
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  Speaker 7: Mr. Ambly, I don't want to.
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  Speaker 10: Tell me, when did I ever refuse one of her requests?
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  Speaker 10: Was ever a woman so pampered as that one?
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Ambly.
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  Speaker 7: And that young man?
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  Speaker 10: He might have been my own son. Had the run
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  Speaker 10: of my house. And see how they've treated me.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Ambly, sir! Oh, it's a dreadful world. Dreadful.
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  Speaker 9: It.
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  Speaker 10: Did you say something?
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  Speaker 8: I was merely going to point out that if you
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  Speaker 8: continue to wave that paintbrush about like that, it wouldn't
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  Speaker 8: be long before you.
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  Speaker 7: Did your clothing. I'm afraid the damage is done.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, dear me. You see how this business has distracted me?
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  Speaker 10: I'm in the middle of painting this hall. You seem surprised, Doctor.
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  Speaker 10: One must do something to ease an aching heart. I'd
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  Speaker 10: started painting the house only.
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  Speaker 7: The day before....
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  Speaker 10: Before they disappeared. I thought I might as well carry on.
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  Speaker 7: Very sensible indeed, Mr. Hamblin.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, but pray, step into my sanctum, away from this
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  Speaker 10: paint smell.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, thank you. Ah, that's better. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, pray,
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  Speaker 7: take a seat. Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 10: Now then, where shall I begin my account? With my
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  Speaker 10: retirement and marriage, perhaps?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, no. No, not necessarily at all. Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Holmes merely requested certain details. For example, the events of
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  Speaker 8: the actual evening of your wife's disappearance.
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  Speaker 10: How shall I ever forget them? To think that I
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  Speaker 10: prepared a special treat for the shameless creature.
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  Speaker 7: A treat?
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  Speaker 6: The Haymarket Theatre.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 10: Two upper circle seats.
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  Speaker 11: A gay evening.
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  Speaker 10: I thought. Perhaps a little supper somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: But no.
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  Speaker 10: She produced a headache and refused to go. You see here.
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  Speaker 10: I have it here. Her very ticket.
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  Speaker 7: Unused.
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  Speaker 10: Seat 31, row B.
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  Speaker 7: Then you had to go alone. I did.
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  Speaker 10: There I sat all through the performance... Her empty seat
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  Speaker 10: beside me. Little did I realize what an ill omen
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  Speaker 10: it was.
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  Speaker 7: You returned to find her gone. Just so.
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  Speaker 10: But that was not all.
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 10: You see this door?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: It's iron, painted to look like wood. It's my strong room.
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  Speaker 10: Safe as a bank, I always thought. But not where
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  Speaker 10: she was concerned.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 7: Your deed box was taken, I believe.
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  Speaker 10: Deed box? Cash, securities, about 7,000 pounds worth. She must
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  Speaker 10: have had a duplicate keep.
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  Speaker 7: I see. But securities, how could they hope to dispose
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  Speaker 7: of these?
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  Speaker 10: My one reason... hope is that they can't. I've given
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  Speaker 10: the police a list in the hope they'll prove unsaleable.
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  Speaker 7: Very wise. Then, Mr. Amberley, there was no note, no
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  Speaker 7: message from your wife?
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  Speaker 10: I've heard no word from or about her... since I
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  Speaker 10: left to go to the theatre that fateful evening... Leaving
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  Speaker 10: her alone here with her headache. Not one single word.
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  Speaker 6: And the seat number was 31, you say, Watson?
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  Speaker 9: You're quite sure?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, positive. My old school number. Excellent.
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  Speaker 9: Then his own seat was either 30 or 32.
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  Speaker 7: Row B.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Watson, have you told me all?
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  Speaker 7: I think so. Oh, did I say that he tore
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  Speaker 7: up a photograph of his wife in my presence?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 7: I never wish to see her damn face.
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  Speaker 10: Again, he cried.
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  Speaker 9: His money before his wife, I fancy.
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  Speaker 7: Without a doubt. Ah, there was one more thing, Holmes.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Watson?
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  Speaker 7: Well, it doesn't concern Amberley directly, but.
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  Speaker 6: Go on.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I told you how I somehow missed Amberley's house
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  Speaker 7: at first and had to ask a fellow standing about
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  Speaker 7: at the other side of the road. Well, this chap,
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  Speaker 7: he was tall, dark, heavy moustache, rather military looking. I
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  Speaker 7: thought he gave me a rather curious look when I
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  Speaker 7: mentioned Amberley's name.
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  Speaker 8: But later, when I drove back to Blackheat Station, I
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  Speaker 8: saw him again getting out of a cab that had
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  Speaker 8: been following along behind mine. And then, just as I
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  Speaker 8: was getting into the train, I saw him nip into
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  Speaker 8: the next compartment as though he didn't wish to be seen.
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  Speaker 8: You know, Holmes, I'm convinced the fellow was following me.
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  Speaker 9: Tall, did you say? Heavy moustache, tinted sunglasses.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't say he.
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  Speaker 7: Had sunglasses on, but now that you mention it, he had.
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  Speaker 9: He wore a masonic type in?
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  Speaker 7: Holmes, how on earth.
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  Speaker 9: Quite simple, my dear Watson. But let us get down
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  Speaker 9: to what is practical. I must admit that a case
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  Speaker 9: which seemed to be so absurdly simple as to be
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  Speaker 9: hardly worth my notice is rapidly assuming a very different aspect.
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  Speaker 9: It's true that in your mission you've missed everything of importance.
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  Speaker 9: Yet even those things which have obtruded themselves on your
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  Speaker 9: notice give rise to serious thought.
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  Speaker 7: What have I missed?
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  Speaker 9: Don't be hurt, my dear fellow. No one else would
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  Speaker 9: have done better. But clearly you've missed some vital points.
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  Speaker 9: What do the neighbors think about Amberley and his wife?
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  Speaker 9: What of Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Ernest?
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  Speaker 9: Was he the gay Lothario one would expect?
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  Speaker 6: Surely these are of importance.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I.
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  Speaker 6: With your natural advantages, Watson.
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  Speaker 9: Every lady is your helper and accomplice. What about the
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  Speaker 9: girl at the post office or the greengrocer's wife? I
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  Speaker 9: can picture you whispering soft nothings with the lady of
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  Speaker 9: the blue anchor and receiving hard somethings in exchange.
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  Speaker 6: All this you've left undone.
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  Speaker 7: It can still be done.
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  Speaker 6: It has been done.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks to the telephone and the help of Scotland Yard,
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  Speaker 9: I can usually get my essentials without leaving this room.
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  Speaker 9: As a matter of fact, my information confirms Amberley's own story.
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  Speaker 9: He has the local reputation of being a miser.
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  Speaker 6: As well as a harsh and exacting husband.
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  Speaker 9: It's also certain that he had a large sum of
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  Speaker 9: money in that strongroom.
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  Speaker 7: Well, then.
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  Speaker 9: And it's common gossip that young Dr. Erdis played chess
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  Speaker 9: with Amberley, and probably played the fool with his wife.
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  Speaker 6: It all seems plain sailing.
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  Speaker 12: And yet.
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  Speaker 9: And yet.
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  Speaker 7: Where's the difficulty, Ed?
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  Speaker 9: In my imagination, perhaps.
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  Speaker 6: Well, leave it there, Watson.
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  Speaker 9: Let us escape from this weary, workaday world by the
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  Speaker 9: side door of music. Corrina sings tonight at the Albert Hall.
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  Speaker 9: We still have time to dress, dine, and enjoy.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes!
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  Speaker 7: Where have you been all day?
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  Speaker 9: As I told you in the note I left for
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  Speaker 9: you to find at breakfast, there were one or two
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  Speaker 9: points I.
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  Speaker 6: Wished to clear up regarding Mr. Josiah Amberley. Has he
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  Speaker 6: been here yet?
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  Speaker 7: Amberley?
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  Speaker 10: No. Come in.
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  Speaker 13: Ah, Mrs.
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  Speaker 9: Hudson.
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  Speaker 6: There's a Mr. Amberley to see you, sir. Show him in, Mrs.
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  Speaker 10: Hudson.
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  Speaker 2: Very good, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Josiah Amberley.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Amberley. Pray sit inside.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Holmes, I've had a telegram. I can make nothing of it.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. Come at once without fail.
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  Speaker 9: Can give you information as to your recent loss, Elman
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  Speaker 9: the Vicarage. Hmm. Dispatched at 2.10 from Little Purlington. Watson,
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  Speaker 9: hand on my clockwork, if you please.
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  Speaker 7: Right, Holmes.
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  Speaker 9: Little Purlington's in Essex, isn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, not far from Frinton. E. L.
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  Speaker 6: Ellman.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, here we have him.
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  Speaker 7: J.C.
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  Speaker 9: Ellman, M.A. Living of Mossmorecombe, Little Purlington. And now, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Amberley, you must start at once.
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  Speaker 10: But I don't understand.
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  Speaker 9: Will you look up a train for our friend, Watson?
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  Speaker 7: I am doing.
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  Speaker 9: Good fellow.
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  Speaker 10: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Holmes, will you... Liverpool Street, 520, Holmes.
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  Speaker 6: Excellent.
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  Speaker 7: Excellent.
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  Speaker 9: You'd best go with Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Amberley, Watson.
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  Speaker 9: He may need help or advice. It's clear we've come
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  Speaker 9: to a crisis in this affair.
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  Speaker 10: But it's perfectly absurd, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Holmes.
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  Speaker 10: What can this country vicar possibly know of what's occurred...
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  Speaker 10: It's a waste of time and money.
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  Speaker 9: He would scarcely have telegraphed if he didn't know something.
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  Speaker 9: You should wire him at once that you're coming.
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  Speaker 10: I don't think I shall go.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Amberley, it would make the worst possible impression both on
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  Speaker 9: the police and upon myself if you should refuse to
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  Speaker 9: follow up so.
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  Speaker 6: Obvious a clue.
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  Speaker 9: We should feel that you were not really in earnest
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  Speaker 9: in this investigation.
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  Speaker 10: If you look at it that way, of course I
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  Speaker 10: shall go. On the face of it, it seems absurd
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  Speaker 10: to suppose that this parson knows anything.
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  Speaker 7: But if you think.
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  Speaker 9: I do think. Now, hurry along, sir.
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  Speaker 7: And Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Watson shall catch you up at the telegraph.
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  Speaker 6: Office at the corner.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, very well, then.
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  Speaker 7: A waste of time and money, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 9: Pouring money down the drain.
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  Speaker 6: I say.
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  Speaker 9: Watson, whatever you do, see that he really does go.
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  Speaker 9: If he breaks away from you or decides to return,
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  Speaker 9: get to the nearest telegraph office and send the single word, Boaty.
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  Speaker 6: I'll arrange here that it shall reach me wherever I am.
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  Speaker 8: Little Parlington isn't an easy place to reach. My remembrance
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  Speaker 8: of the journey isn't a pleasant one.
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  Speaker 9: The weather was hot.
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  Speaker 7: The train slow, and my companion sullen and silent. He
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  Speaker 7: hardly talked at all.
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  Speaker 8: Save to make an occasional sardonic remark about the futility
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  Speaker 8: of our proceedings. When we at last reached the station,
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  Speaker 8: it was a two-mile drive before we came to the vicarage,
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  Speaker 8: where a big, solemn, rather pompous clergyman received us in
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  Speaker 8: his study.
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  Speaker 7: Our telegram lay before him.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Well, gentlemen, what could I do for you?
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: We came in answer to your wire, Mr. Ellman.
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: My wire?
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: Yes. I sent no wire.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: What? I mean the one you sent to Mr. Josiah
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: Ambley about his wife and his money.
• 17:48
  Speaker 11: If this is a joke, sir, it is a very
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: questionable one.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: No, I assure you.
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: I have never heard of the gentleman you named. And
• 17:56
  Speaker 11: I have not sent a wire to anyone.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: I knew it would be a wire to you, Jason.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: Perhaps there is some mistake. Are there two vicarages, perhaps?
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: There is only one vicarage, sir. And only one vicar.
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: The wire you refer to is obviously a scandalous forgery,
• 18:13
  Speaker 11: the origin of which shall certainly be investigated by the police. Meanwhile, gentlemen,
• 18:20
  Speaker 11: I can see no possible object in prolonging this interview.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: Holmes? Is that you, Holmes?
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: Yes, my dear Watson.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: How are things proceeding? They aren't, Holmes. The vicar never
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: sent any such wire. He was very annoyed. Holmes, are
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: you still there? Most singular.
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: Most remarkable. I very much fear, my dear Watson, that
• 18:48
  Speaker 12: there is no return train tonight. I have unwittingly condemned
• 18:52
  Speaker 12: you to the horrors of a country inn. However, there
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: is always nature, Watson. Nature and Josiah Amberley. You can
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: be in close commune with both.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Thank you very much, Holmes.
• 19:07
  Speaker 12: Don't mention it, my dear fellow.
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: Good night.
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: Good night. Well, what did he say?
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: He said it was a most remarkable business.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Remarkable?
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: I should prefer the word expensive. Our railway fare here.
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: Third class.
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: Oh, I pay more. And our hotel bill. It's monstrous. Monstrous.
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: I shall have a word to say to Mr. Sherlock
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: Holmes tomorrow.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: Very well, sir.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: We'll drive directly to Baker Street from the station.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: And now we'd better make arrangements for tonight.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: I warned Holmes by telegram at the time of our
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: arrival at Baker Street next day.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: But when we got there, we found a message to
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: say that he was at Lewisham and would expect us there.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: That didn't improve Amberley's temper. It was a surprise to me,
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: but an even greater one was to find that Holmes
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: was not alone at Amberley's house.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: In the sitting room, a stern-looking, well-built man sat beside him.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: A dark, heavily-moustached man, wearing tinted sunglasses and sporting a
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: large Masonic pin in his side.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: Ah, gentlemen.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: Allow me to introduce my friend, Mr. Barker.
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: Mr.
• 20:26
  Speaker 13: Amberley. Dr.
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: Watson, you've met already.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: How do you do?
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: Pleased to meet you.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: Holmes, I have a word to say.
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: Not only have I been subjected to the greatest inconvenience
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: and expense upon your advice, but I now arrive home
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: to find that you've invited a stranger into my house
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: without a by your leave. I must.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: Barker has been interesting himself in your business, too, Mr.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Ambrose.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: I repeat, I.
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: In my business.
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: We have been working independently of one another, you understand?
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: But we both have the same question to ask you now.
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: Question? What question, Mr.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Holmes?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: What did you do with the bodies?
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: Great heavens.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: No.
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: No.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: You shan't ask that.
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: Get hold of him, Walter.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Barker.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: I didn't know. You shan't make me answer. You shan't.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: Look out. He's taking something.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: His arm.
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: He's holding it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: No.
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: No, let me be.
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: Hold still.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: I can't find you.
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: Well done, Barker.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: No shortcuts, Emily.
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: Things must be done decently and in order.
• 21:31
  Speaker 13: I may as well take him straight to the station.
• 21:33
  Speaker 13: Shall I tell the inspector you'll be coming along?
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: You'll want to examine this house sooner or later. I
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: fancy he won't object to meeting me here.
• 21:39
  Speaker 13: Very well.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: I'll come back with him.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: Now, come on, you.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Here I am, any nonsense, and I'll have you on
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: my next.
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: Bucket.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: The only other thing, Holmes, it was a poison capsule.
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: Look.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Holmes, this Barker.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: My hated rival upon the Surrey shore.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: Rival?
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: When you described him, it wasn't difficult for me to
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: complete the picture. He has several good cases to his credit.
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: His methods are irregular, like my own. We irregulars are
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: useful sometimes, you know.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: Well, Holmes, let's hear what it's all about, eh?
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: All in good time, my dear Watson. The inspector will
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: be along shortly for the same account. By your leave,
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: I'll enjoy a few minutes' quiet smoke and martial effects
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: for your delectation. I just want to make this clear
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: before you begin, Mr.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Holmes.
• 22:46
  Speaker 14: Don't imagine that we hadn't formed our own views of
• 22:48
  Speaker 14: this case and that we wouldn't have laid our hands
• 22:50
  Speaker 14: on the man.
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: You'll excuse us.
• 22:52
  Speaker 14: For feeling sore when you jump in with methods which
• 22:54
  Speaker 14: we can't use and so rob us of the credit.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: There shall be no such robbery, Inspector McKinnon. I quite
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: agree that with your compulsory warning about whatever he said
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: being used against him, you could never have bluffed that
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: rascal into what was virtually a confession. I assure you
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: that I have faced myself from now onwards.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: As to Mr.
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: Barker here, he has done nothing save what I told him.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: That's quite correct.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: Well, that's very handsome of you, Mr. Holmes.
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: Praise or blame can't matter much to you. It's different
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: for the police when the newspapers start asking questions.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Quite so.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: But they're pretty sure to ask questions anyhow. So it
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: would be as well to have the answers. What will
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: you say, for example, when the intelligent and enterprising reporter
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: asks you what the exact points were which aroused your
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: suspicion and finally gave you a certain conviction as to
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: the real facts?
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: Well, no, I....
• 23:52
  Speaker 14: Well, we don't seem to have got any real facts yet.
• 23:56
  Speaker 14: You say that the prisoner practically confessed that he murdered
• 23:59
  Speaker 14: his wife and her lover by trying to commit suicide
• 24:02
  Speaker 14: in the presence of three witnesses.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: What other facts have you?
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: Have you arranged for such?
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: Aye, there are two constables on their way.
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: Then you'll get the clearest fact of all. The bodies
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: can't be far away. Try the cellars and the garden.
• 24:16
  Speaker 9: It shouldn't take long to dig up the likely places.
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: This house is older than its water pipes, so there
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: must be a diffused well somewhere. Try your luck there.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: But how did.
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: You know there'd been murder?
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: Yes, Holmes, how was it done?
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: I'll show you first how it was done, Inspector. And
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: then I'll give you the explanation which is due to you.
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: And even more to my long-suffering friend, Dr. Watson, who
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: has been invaluable throughout. But first, I'd like you to
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: consider this man Amberley's mentality.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: It's a very unusual one.
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: So much so that I think his destination is more
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: likely to be Broadmoor.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Than the scaffold.
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: That's so. Please, go on, then.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: He has, to a high degree, the sort of mind
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: one associates with the medieval Italian nature rather than with
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: the modern Britain. He was a miserable miser who made
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: his wife so wretched by his niggardly ways that she
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: was a ready prey for any adventurer.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Such a one came upon.
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: The scene in the person of this chess-playing doctor.
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: Amberley excelled at chess.
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: One Mark Watson of a scheming mind.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: Like all misers, he was a jealous man. And his
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: jealousy became a frantic mania. Rightly or wrongly, he suspected
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: an intrigue. He determined to have his revenge. And he
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: planned it with diabolical cleverness. Have a look here. This
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: is his so-called strongroom.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Oof, stinking paint.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: That was our first clue.
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: You can thank Dr. Watson's observation for that. Though he
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: failed to draw the inference, it set my foot.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: On the trail.
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: I still don't understand, Holmes.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Ask yourself, Watson.
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: Why should this man at such a time be filling
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: his house with strong odors? Obviously to cover some other
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: smell which he wished to conceal. Some guilty smell which
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: would suggest suspicions.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: You mean decompositions. But there hasn't been time for it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: No, no, no, no.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Nothing of the sort. Add to the suspicious.
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: Matter of the smell... the fact that there existed such
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: a room as you see here... with a sealed iron door.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Put the two facts together.
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: and where do they lead?
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: Blessed if I know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: Now, me too.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Well, let it pass for now.
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: I was already.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: Certain that the case was serious.
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: because I had examined the box office charts of the
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: Haymarket Theatre... Another of Dr.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: Watson's bullseyes.
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: It showed that neither B-30 nor 32 of the upper
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: circle had been occupied on the night in question.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Then he lied. He never went to the theater.
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: And so his alibi fell to the ground. He made
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: a bad slip when he let you see his wife's
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: unused ticket, Watson.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: The only way I could satisfy my suspicions about the
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: smell of paint and the existence of this sealed room
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: was to examine the house itself.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: The question was... How was I to achieve this?
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: I know. Now I see it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Yes, Watson.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: I sent an agent to the most impossibly remote village
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: I could think of and summoned Amberley to go there
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: at such an hour that he couldn't possibly get back
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: the same day.
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: And sent me with him to make sure he really went.
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: The good vicar's name I simply got out of my Crockford. Masterly.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: Brilliant.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: There being no fear of interruption, I proceeded to burgle
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: the house.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Burglary has always been.
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: An alternative profession, if I'd cared to adopt it. I've
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: little doubt I.
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: Should have reached the front rank.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: Oh, Mr.
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: Holmes. Anyway, see what I found. You see the gas
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: pipe along the skirting board?
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: Very good. It rises in the angle of the wall,
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: and there's a tap in the corner. Now, follow me
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: into the strong room. You see that plaster rose in
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: the center of the ceiling?
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: The pipe finishes there with an open end.
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: At any moment, by turning the outside tap, this room
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: could be flooded with gas.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: With its door closed and the.
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: Tap full on, I wouldn't give two minutes of consciousness
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: to anyone shutting here. By what devilish devices he decoyed
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: them in there, I don't know. But once inside, they
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: were at his mercy.
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: I've seen enough of that place.
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: So he started painting the house to cover up any
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: smell of gas afterwards, Holmes.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: Precisely.
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: He claimed to have started painting that day before their disappearance.
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: But he should have said the day after.
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: Well, what's next?
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: Then came an incident which I hardly expected. I was
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: slipping out again through the pantry window at early dawn today...
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: When I felt a hand grab my collar, and a
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: voice said.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: Now, you rascal, what are you doing in there?
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: When I could twist my head round, I recognized my
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: friend and rival, Mr.
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: Barker.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: So, just where do you come into this, Mr.
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: Barker?
• 29:29
  Speaker 13: Well, I've been engaged by the family of Dr. Ray
• 29:31
  Speaker 13: Ernest to make some investigations. I'd come to the conclusion
• 29:34
  Speaker 13: there'd been foul play like Mr.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: Holmes. I'd been watching this house for several days. I'd
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: marked you down, Dr.
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: Watson, as one of the most suspicious characters.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: To visit the place. Oh, thank you very much. I
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: feel I could hardly detain you.
• 29:48
  Speaker 13: But when I saw a man actually climbing out of
• 29:50
  Speaker 13: the pantry window this morning, I couldn't restrain myself.
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: And there you are, Inspector. You have all the particulars.
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: I hand them over to you and step right out
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: of the case.
• 30:01
  Speaker 14: Well, on behalf of the force, many thanks, Mr.
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: Holmes.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: It seems a clear case the way you put it.
• 30:08
  Speaker 9: You'll get results, Inspector, by always putting yourself in the
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: other fellow's place and thinking.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: What you would do yourself. It takes imagination, but it pays.
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: Holmes, what about the missing money and security?
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: Oh, they'll be found in some safe place where Amberley
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: hid them.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: There was no robbery. Ah.
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: Well, you've met every point, Holmes. There's only one last
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: thing puzzles me.
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: Amberley couldn't avoid notifying the police of his wife's so-called disappearance.
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: But why was he fool enough to go to you
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: as well?
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: Oh, pure swank. He felt so clever and so sure
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: of himself that he imagined no one could touch him.
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: He could say to any suspicious neighbor.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: Look at the steps I've taken. I've consulted not only the.
• 31:00
  Speaker 14: Police, but even Sherlock Holmes. I'll have to forgive you
• 31:06
  Speaker 14: that even Sherlock Holmes. Yes, it's as what but like
• 31:10
  Speaker 14: a job as I can remember.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: There you heard Robert Langford and Kenneth Baker as Sherlock
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Holmes and Dr. Watson. Others in the cast were Beth Bortler,
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: George Carellan, Tony Jay, Louis Eiff, and Frank Douglas. At
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: the same time next week, you can hear another Sherlock
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Holmes adventure called The Three Gables.
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