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Sherlock Holmes Radio the Accommodating Valise Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, suppose we get back to Baker
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Street and mister Sherlock Holmes. Yes.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: The inventure I am going to tell Abad began rather
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: early one springy spring morning. Holmes and I were dawdling
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: over some excellent kidneys.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Missus Hudson had prepared for our breakfast.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: I had just poured my second cup of coffee, and
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  Speaker 2: Holmes was about to fill his pipe from the dilapidated
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: old persons slipper, he used in youre the tobacco pouch.
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  Speaker 3: The trouble with you, Watson, as I so often remarked,
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  Speaker 3: is that you see, but you do not observe. Any
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  Speaker 3: intelligent person who contemplates his fellow man should be able
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: to deduce his occupation, his habits, and previous history after
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: having observed his subject for thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Old fellow, you see a man, you make all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of wild guesses about his past and personality.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: And even if you guess right, what of it? My
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  Speaker 1: dear Watson.
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  Speaker 3: The science of deduction, as I practice it is not guesswork,
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  Speaker 3: but a precise and accurate compilation and interpretation of minutia
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  Speaker 3: that has unraveled many crimes and saved countrus lines and reputations.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, bother one of your clients homes. Why do they
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: always have to try to pull the bell out by the.
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  Speaker 1: Roots because they're harist Watson.
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  Speaker 3: People rarely consult Sherlock Holmes except in extremists. Yes, here
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  Speaker 3: he is, Watson. Suppose you see what you can deduce
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  Speaker 3: from the first impression of the fenol.
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  Speaker 4: All right, come in, come in? Who che of you, gentlemen?
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  Speaker 4: Is mister Sherlock Holmes as a detective?
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  Speaker 3: I have that somewhat dubious honor. This is my friend
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  Speaker 3: and colleague, doctor Watson. Won't you come in?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Now take this armchair. You've come to consult me.
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  Speaker 3: I gather that I have in that case, make yourself comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: Won't you remove your hat?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Big pardon, hey, fecht, I clean forgot where I was at.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Watson, what do you make of him?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I should say, obviously late, middle aged, bald, past
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  Speaker 2: engined to the left leg or hip, which occasions a
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  Speaker 2: limp and a The thickness of his speech and the
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  Speaker 2: use of the word fast indicators of Scottish origin. I
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  Speaker 2: am not born and brought up in Sussex.
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  Speaker 3: I was naturally the thickness of the speech is caused
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  Speaker 3: by a faulty upper plate. The use of the word
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  Speaker 3: fasht was picked up in his railroading days. In all probability,
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  Speaker 3: he was engineered on the run up to Edinburgh, but
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  Speaker 3: now he's been promoted to a somewhat more sedentary position,
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  Speaker 3: still connected to the railway.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Incidentally, wantson the limp is not due to a leg
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  Speaker 3: or hip injury, but to a rather painful corn on
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  Speaker 3: the little toe of the left foot?
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  Speaker 4: Am I right, mister George Hogarth? And right you are,
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  Speaker 4: mister Holmes. In addition, mister Hogarth, you are a freemason.
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: You smoke a pipe and you cut your nails with
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: a pair of clippers that have seen better days. That's
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  Speaker 4: God's truth, mister Holmes. But how in the name of
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  Speaker 4: all that holy you Well, it's all.
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  Speaker 2: Quite simple, mister Hogarth, was Holmes elucidates, which you will
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  Speaker 2: now proceed to do.
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  Speaker 3: The damaged nail clippers. I deduced from the somewhat jagged
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  Speaker 3: outline of the nail edge.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, sir, It's been like that ever since Nelly,
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  Speaker 4: as she's my wife, pinched it to cut some picture
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  Speaker 4: wire to hang up her mother's picture.
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  Speaker 1: And see the pipe.
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  Speaker 3: Is also so evident when one contemplates the somewhat charred
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  Speaker 3: and discolored forefinger on the right hand, which we used
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  Speaker 3: to tamp.
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  Speaker 1: Down the tobacco. The freemason bit I gathered from the
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  Speaker 1: emblem on your watchchain.
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  Speaker 2: Nay, that's not so remarkable now you explain it.
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  Speaker 3: But how did you know I used to be a
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  Speaker 3: railway engineer From the peculiar slant of your shoulders and
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  Speaker 3: the way you hold your left arm, acquired through years
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  Speaker 3: of leaning out of the cab of your engine to
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  Speaker 3: view the track ahead. Furthermore, the callosities of your right
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  Speaker 3: hand and the muscular development of the forearm are typical
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  Speaker 3: of a man who's held a throttle in his hand
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  Speaker 3: for many years. Furthermore, a railway engineer develops the habit
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  Speaker 3: of keeping his hat on to protect his hair from
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  Speaker 3: soot and grime.
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  Speaker 2: Praise the Lord Henry. You're right about that, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: And last, but not least, I deduce the fact that
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  Speaker 3: you've not completely severed your connection with the railway from
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  Speaker 3: the tiny bits of railway soot which have settled on
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  Speaker 3: your stiff white collar and cuffs.
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  Speaker 2: Right again.
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  Speaker 4: Just last year they made me station master down at
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  Speaker 4: Waterloo Station, and and it's sooty enough there, so I
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  Speaker 4: still keep my hat on in spite of the fact
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  Speaker 4: that it's a bowler and not too comfortable. As a
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  Speaker 4: matter of fact, mister Holmes, it's concerning what's going on
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  Speaker 4: at the station that I've come to consultie.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and what's going on trains off shad you rex
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  Speaker 3: disorderly conduct on the platforms And if it was anything
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  Speaker 3: like that, me and the station police could handle it ourselves,
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  Speaker 3: mister Holmes. Oh, no, sir, there's been nothing that you
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  Speaker 3: could lay.
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  Speaker 1: A finger on.
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  Speaker 4: And yet every time one of the new Deluxe's boat
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  Speaker 4: trains comes in with a load of tofts from Southampton,
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  Speaker 4: somebody's luggage turns up missing. The Mostly it's of relief
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  Speaker 4: belonging to some rich American lady who with a fine
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  Speaker 4: Messa jewels in it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, surely it's not too difficult to keep track of
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  Speaker 2: the luggage that's taken off the station platform.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone has to go through.
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  Speaker 4: The small gate at the end that's rite doctor Watson,
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  Speaker 4: and no one's allowed on those platforms except in the
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  Speaker 4: passengers from the train and them that has platform tickets
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  Speaker 4: and reporters, and the police have been keeping an eye
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  Speaker 4: on them.
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  Speaker 2: You can bet your life.
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  Speaker 3: And yet each time the boat train arrives, a valuable
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  Speaker 3: piece of luggage disappears.
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  Speaker 2: In then he says it does in the scene the
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  Speaker 2: sales regamit of legitireman he Holmes, you don't suppose mister
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  Speaker 2: Hoodini has taken the crime.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Houdini?
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  Speaker 2: Who's he? The American magician who's come over? They say
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: he's come to consult that writer Chave. What's his name?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, half of Conan Oil. Mister Houdini and mister Doyle
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  Speaker 3: are both reputable gentleman Watson. In fact, there's some intimation
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  Speaker 3: that Doyle may be knighted for his literary activities.
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  Speaker 1: Poder Oil is no better than I am.
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  Speaker 3: That's as it may be. The return to the robberies
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  Speaker 3: at Waterloo stations to Hogarth. Objects do not vanish into
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  Speaker 3: thin air, even for mister Houdini. There must be some
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  Speaker 3: logical explanation of the phenomena. Tell me, had there been
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  Speaker 3: any other unusual occurrences at the time the thefts took place.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that is nothing you could call unusual, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 4: But the robberies always do seem to go along with
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  Speaker 4: a small commotion of some sort.
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  Speaker 1: I suspected as much go on.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there was the ladies Pekinese that got away, And
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  Speaker 4: another time a steamer trunk got shoved off the platform
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  Speaker 4: and the porters just got it back before the ten
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  Speaker 4: forty from Plymouth came roaring in. And another time an
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  Speaker 4: old cadger fell and twisted his hip.
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  Speaker 2: They had to bring a wheel chair.
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  Speaker 1: And each time after the turmoil had subsided, a valuable
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  Speaker 1: piece of luggage was missing.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, And in spite of the fact that I
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  Speaker 4: had had the exit gate closed till things got under control,
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  Speaker 4: no one got away with a piece of luggage that
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  Speaker 4: didn't belong to him. I'd swear he just vanished in
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  Speaker 4: the sin are interesting, he Watson? And when do you
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  Speaker 4: expect your next trainload of jewel bearing passers from overseasons
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  Speaker 4: to hugod The Equitania docked at Southampton this morning early.
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  Speaker 4: There's at least six American ladies aboard, sir, who are
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  Speaker 4: to be presented at court see and you know what
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  Speaker 4: that means, mister Holmes. They'll be bringing enough jewels to
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  Speaker 4: out dazzle the Milky Way. When the train's do in
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  Speaker 4: thirty seven minutes, Sir, I have a cab waiting outside.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say, Watson?
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  Speaker 3: Shall we see if we can discover the particular brand
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  Speaker 3: of abracadabra used.
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  Speaker 1: In the disappearing acted Quaterloo station.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I get my revolver from my umbrella.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind the firearms, Watson, just be sure you bring
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  Speaker 3: a Whits along. Wits and the keen sense of observation
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  Speaker 3: will be indispensable in solving this puzzle.
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  Speaker 5: I fancy now.
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  Speaker 4: Then if you stand there, mister Holmes, you can get
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  Speaker 4: a view of the entire platform.
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  Speaker 2: The boat train is due any minute. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You're sure all the potters who handle the luggage are reliable,
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  Speaker 1: mister Hungark.
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  Speaker 4: And I've given order to her. Only the ones that
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  Speaker 4: have seen at least ten years service are to be
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  Speaker 4: allowed on the platform to day, and all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Will be checked as they come out the gate.
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  Speaker 2: Besides, all about the people who've come onto the platform
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  Speaker 2: to meet the train. Now there are only four, Dr
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  Speaker 2: Watson who we couldn't keep everyone off. I'm afraid the
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  Speaker 2: fat gentleman with the top hat and the large bouquet
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  Speaker 2: of roses is a famous theatrical producer. He's meeting his
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  Speaker 2: new star, missaidn o'levy, who's coming over from New York.
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  Speaker 4: The nervous young man with the monocle and the gold
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  Speaker 4: headed king is.
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  Speaker 2: The Honorable Cecil Hilton.
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  Speaker 4: He's meeting his fiancee, a daughter of the Pittsburgh millionaire.
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  Speaker 4: And the lady with a tremendous doll in the box
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  Speaker 4: of chocolates is meeting her eleven year old daughter and
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  Speaker 4: she hasn't seen for two years. Why not, Well, the
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  Speaker 4: child's been visiting its father in America. It seems the
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  Speaker 4: parents are divorce nay. And then there's the imp using
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  Speaker 4: looking Jens in the Prince Albert carrying the Gladstone Bay.
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  Speaker 2: He's come to meet his grandmother. It seems she's over
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  Speaker 2: eighty and death was a post. Well, certainly nothing suspicious
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  Speaker 2: about any of those people their homes.
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  Speaker 3: On the contrary, minda Watson, one of those four persons
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  Speaker 3: is extremely suspicious for a reason, which mister Hogarth has
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  Speaker 3: been good enough to point out.
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  Speaker 2: I did blessed if I know what it was, I said, but.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind having time to discuss it. Now here, come
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  Speaker 3: to train. Keep your eyes open Watson. If you notice
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  Speaker 3: anything unusual, anything at all, report it to me immediately.
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  Speaker 1: What did I say the way did it would make
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  Speaker 1: your hand?
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  Speaker 2: Well? The producer has located in his star as swayed
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: his fiance. Mamma has discovered her offspring. But where in
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: thunder his grandma? That's what I was wondering, And.
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  Speaker 4: Your moss taught and I've seen around in a green headphop,
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  Speaker 4: you no leave the alligator back there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want let that out of my sight.
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  Speaker 1: I say, look home.
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  Speaker 2: That was the grandma, the old lady coming along the
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  Speaker 2: platform in the check and greatcoat. And Bobby by Jose's
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  Speaker 2: carrying a.
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  Speaker 1: Parrot in a cage. Yes, her imposing grandson is just sighted.
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  Speaker 1: The old girl yell Danny over here, she sees him.
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  Speaker 1: She's waving the bird cage.
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  Speaker 2: Good, good, lord.
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  Speaker 1: The parrot is got loose. Catch him ready catching? No, No,
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  Speaker 1: don't get a change.
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  Speaker 2: You get your parrot soil here o.
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  Speaker 1: See what you a schnight do now.
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  Speaker 2: Grannie, remember your blood pressure.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just put you, say, in the lady's reading room.
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  Speaker 1: Then I'll come back and get Hannibal for it.
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  Speaker 4: You'll take care of her, poor old woman she looks
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  Speaker 4: no preying there, tried Grannie.
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  Speaker 1: You come along with Freddy. Don't you worry.
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  Speaker 2: I'll come back and catch Hannibal.
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  Speaker 5: He won't get away.
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  Speaker 1: Come along, Watson. We mustn't do sight of them, loose
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  Speaker 1: sight of who Grannie with a bird cage and her
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  Speaker 1: grandson Freddy with the Glenston bag. Above all, we must
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  Speaker 1: include sight of that Glenstone bag.
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  Speaker 2: Holmes, have you lost your seven?
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  Speaker 1: A woman's been wronged, naturally. I knew it two minutes ago.
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  Speaker 1: Let God take care of her. That's his job. I
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  Speaker 1: was just to follow with grandmother and the man with
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: the Grdston bag.
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  Speaker 2: He said he was taking it to the ladies waiting room,
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  Speaker 2: and that's exactly what he's doing. Now. You ain't here, Grannie.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back as soon as i'd called Hannibal.
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  Speaker 1: It won't be a minute. Here take my bag.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't be long, Preddy, I won't take care of
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  Speaker 2: my bag. Now, don't you sid.
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  Speaker 1: After her? Watson, don't get around with your sight and
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  Speaker 1: the bubb all keep your eye on that Glenstone bag. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but what about you? I'm going off with Freddy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Well you and where do you think you're going well,
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  Speaker 2: I that is a friend of mine just came in here,
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  Speaker 2: an old lady with.
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  Speaker 1: A parrot case.
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  Speaker 2: Well you left to wait outside. This is the lady's washroom.
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  Speaker 2: No gentlemen permitted. Yes, I mean it's urgent, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and all that sort of thing. I'm Sherlock Holmes Assistant.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care if you as the Prime Minister and
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  Speaker 4: the archangel Gabriel or rolled into one.
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  Speaker 2: You'll not step into my washroom. Now'll be a good
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  Speaker 2: chafing wait outside.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but what if I lose her in the crowd?
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  Speaker 2: What crowd? She's the only one that's coming here at
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  Speaker 2: this last half hour?
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  Speaker 1: Oh what if she goes out some other way?
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  Speaker 2: Right? No other way? Now, you look here. I've been
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  Speaker 2: nating here for fifteen years and I've never had no trouble.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: But if you don't shut that door before, I can't
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  Speaker 2: for I'll whistle for the police.
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  Speaker 1: One dook obstinate female.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, the old grandmother can't very well get out
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  Speaker 2: of the door without my seeing her.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, just sit here on the bench and waiting. If
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: clothing values finer than clipper craft are obtainable, we've yet
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  Speaker 1: to see them, and we've done a lot of looking
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: you see, the whole idea behind Clippercraft is to concentrate, concentrate,
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  Speaker 1: concentrate on bringing you out of this world values. That's
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  Speaker 1: why we developed the famous plan that concentrates the buying
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  Speaker 1: power of ten hundred and thirty six of the nation's
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  Speaker 1: finest stores from coast to coast. You won't find anywhere
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  Speaker 1: such evident fine quality and suits for only forty to
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  Speaker 1: forty seven fifty, in beautifully styled tropicals at only thirty
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  Speaker 1: three seventy five to forty dollars, in handsome sport jackets
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  Speaker 1: at only twenty six fifty see them tomorrow at your
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  Speaker 1: favorite local store. For selling expensive clothes at inexpensive low
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  Speaker 1: prices at the nation's finest stores is the great, big
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  Speaker 1: idea behind the Clippercraft plan. That's why men who know
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  Speaker 1: insist on clipper Craft clothes. So be sure to visit
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  Speaker 1: the clipper Craft store in your city.
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  Speaker 6: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
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  Speaker 6: add their names to clipper Craft and your suits, top coats,
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  Speaker 6: sport jackets and tropicals. In Manhattan, John Watermaker Men's Stores
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  Speaker 6: Broadway at eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street, Sacks thirty
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  Speaker 6: fourth Broadway at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss
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  Speaker 6: in Newark, New Jersey Boulevard, Men's Shop, Cresgin, Newarck. And
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  Speaker 6: in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty
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  Speaker 6: four oh eight Jamaica Avenue.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: And how back to doctor Watson, who is still playing
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: the patient watchdog outside of the ladies waiting room at
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Waterloo Station. Forty five minutes have passed before Holmes returns,
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: looking rather disconcerted. Oh there you are, homes I thought
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: you for good and all about me? What happened? Did
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Freddy catch the parrot?
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: The blazes with a parrot? I lost Freddy in the underground.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: He dodged down into the Bakerloo tube and bought it
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: a train for Queen's Park. I was right on his
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: heels at Baker Street. He got out rather suddenly, and
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: by sprinting he managed to catch the metro. I wasn't
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: more than two yards behind him at the door slammed
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: in my face.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Then you mean he he never even tried to recapture
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  Speaker 2: his grandmother's parrot.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Certainly not.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: The parrot was merely the means by which the crowd's
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: attention was diverted so Freddy could annex the alligator bag
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: containing Lady Margrave's rather famous emeralds.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, but neither Freddy nor his grandmother were carrying an
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: alligator bag as they came off the platform. She had
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: an empty parrot cage, and he had his own Gladston
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  Speaker 2: bag exactly.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Lady Margrave's alligator bag was inside the Gladstone, which is
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: an ingenious affair with a disappearing bottom and two clamps
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: which catch and hold any object over which the Gladston
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  Speaker 3: bags placed.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: You mean here, He just put the Gladston down over
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: the alligator bag and walked off with it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: If you would only learn to observe, Watson, you would
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: have noticed how much heavier the Gladstone was when Freddy
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: left the railway platform than it was when you arrived.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Well homes, it seems, might turn to Crow. Freddy may
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: have eluded you, but his grandmother of the notorious Gladstone.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Bag hadn't managed to give me the sleep.
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  Speaker 3: Oh by the way, Watson, that is not his grandmother
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: but his lady friend, Flora the Flim. What Freddy is
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: known as Freddy the Fop. There are two of the
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: smoothest confidence operators in all Europe. You're quite sure Flora
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: and the bag are still in the waiting room.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, positive, There's no one in there but the old
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: lady when I interviewed the matron, and the old girl hasn't.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Come out here. Has anyone else gone in? Oh? I
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: see what you mean? Knew? You think she may have
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: passed the loot onto someone else? Oh?
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: No, no one else has gone in. Well, wait a moment,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: someone else has come out though, now you mention it.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my aunt, my sacred aunt. But it wasn't the
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: old lady.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: It was rather a flashy woman with red hair a
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: wig Watson, wearing a purple great coat granny's check coat
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: turned inside out, and a good thirty years younger than
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: the old lady.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Flora had merely slipped her teeth back in. Flora and
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Freddy are also famous quick change artist.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Watson.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, but she was carrying an alligator bag. That Gladston
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: affair must be still in the waiting room.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: What's now, boy? The Glenston is also collapsible. This time
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: the Glenston was inside the alligator bag, not vice versa.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, but look here, homes, How was I supposed
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: to know? That that Auburn has he would turn out
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: to be Freddy's grandmother.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: My dear Watson, you have a frog in a box.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: The frog represents the waiting room attendant.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Let us say, oh, go on be allegorically. Into that
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: box goes a caterpillar. The box is closed. Nothing else
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: enters the box. Yes, yes, continue.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: In due time a butterfly emerges. The frog still remains,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: no matter how different the appearance, The butterfly must be
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: the caterpillar that went into the box.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: It couldn't possibly be anything else.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I see what you mean. Yes, yes, well good, look
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: here homes. Now what suppose the frog had eaten the caterpillar?
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Well, let's go home to tea. Well, I yes, I
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: suppose it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: May as well. We have other bungle things. We'll ever
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: catch up with Freddie and Flora.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Now, oh, they'll be on hand for the next elegant
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: boat train in other disguises of course. Yes, next time,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I think we shall play the game their way and
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: see what happens.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Confounded mister Hogarth, the next boat train is overdue, and
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Holmes hasn't shown up yet.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: You're sure he said he'd meet you here, Doctor Watson
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: on the station platform.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: That's what his note said. Missus Hudson brought it to
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: me with my eggs this morning, she said. Holmes was
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: up and away before she'd even had an early tea.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: I do wish he'd show up. That big steel millionaire
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: mister Ramsgit MacGregor was on that boat. It's rumored he's
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: bringing some pretty valuable place was along with him. It's
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: got something to do with an invention of some sort
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: that'll astound the world.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: They say, what they think of next, wireless central heating,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: huminating gas. Nay, first thing? You know they'll be playing
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: without wing, Not in our lifetime, mister Hogarthy, Why I
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: don't see anyone resembling Freddy waiting on the platform this time.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Just that fat old man who's a good foot shorter
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: than twice as big a round and the hosty looking
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: woman with a Gladston bag.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: My job.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: You don't suppose Freddy and Flora have reversed Rose and
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: she's carrying the bag this time. And I thought of that,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Dr Watson.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can't to rest anyone just because she's
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: carrying a Gladstone bag. Why there must be hundreds of
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: them just like that going through Waterloo.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Station every day.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, you're right, confounded doesn't look very heavy.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: And the woman that's his robusters there and could carry
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: the Nelson monument and never feel the weight of it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Hark here she comes now.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: No shellot home.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Now keep your eye peel for mister rams get McGregor.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: He's the one they'll be after this time if we
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: give him the chance.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: There.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Look there, there's mister McGregor. Now him with a cap
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: and the muffler of Scottish clad.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: He's creating quite a commotion. No, no, I don't want
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to port of leave my bags alone. My man Jones
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: will carry them. I'll take this one myself. That's right,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Jones put them down there. Oh, now give me a cigar. Now,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: what's happened? Hello?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: A tall bearded man seems to be having trouble getting
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: out of his compartment.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: He smashed the glass.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Stepped me out of here. Give me, oh, impatient, old
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: decade hog. The guard's unlocked the door for him.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: My bag? What's happened to my black bag? Good lord?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Has happened? McGregor has been robbed. We best go see
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: if we can help him. Hey, excuse me, man, you're
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: sure that Gladstone belongs to you, my good man. I've
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: had it a year now.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Nor Fanceman just wanted to make sure I wouldn't want
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: anyone to get my bag by mistake. I'm Ramsgate McGregor,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: and I've got a new kind of high explosive in
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: my bag.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want any stranger to go carrying around. It's
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: too liable to go off. Why, however, if that bag
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: belongs to you, I guess it's not dangerous. Just run along,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: it's a good girl and get it out of my way. Well, really,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I've never been turned outed in my life.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Followay Watson Holmes, great Scott, it's not mister McGregor, say
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: later after her.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Don't let her get out of your sight. I'll keep
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: an eye on Freddy.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Come along, ho, God, she's not gonna give you the
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: slip this time. That emotions some of your police to follow. Hey,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: they're right with us, good Lord, Look at the Gladston bag.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: It's beginning to smoke. Lord has started to panic.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: They've a blow up in her head. Maybe where are
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: you mother? Right away, you fool, right away from afore
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: an explode.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, I rather suspected the glass smashing, gentlemen, would turn
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: out to be Freddy.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You're not, mister McGregor. Who are you? Allow me to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: present myself Meadow Shallock Holmes, the detective Shallack was almost
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: as good as charades as you and your friend Freddy
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the fun Have your policemen take him away, Hogarth.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I think your fine. Mister McGregor's black bag inside the Glenstone.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Take your hands off. It should be all the evidence
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you need, but great thunder homes. Look at it is
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: about to explode. Calm yourself, Watson. The bag contains an
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: innocuous little smoke smudge. The only thing it could possibly
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: harm is a mosquito