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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Illustrious Client Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, T · Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen

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Speaker 1: But tonight, I think I'll tell you how Holmes disillusioned
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the charming young lady and consequently saved her from what
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is commonly called a feat worse than death. Yes, yes,
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but before we begin to get too involved in that
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rather complicated affair, mister has, you'd better say a few
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words on the subject that's very appropriated this particular season
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of the year.
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Speaker 2: A very good idea, doctor Watson. Here's a fact you
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ought to know.
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Speaker 3: There's no reason in the world for you to pay
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high prices for a beautifully tailored, smartly styled suit of clothes,
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not with clipper Craft available. Clipper Craft clothes feature long
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wearing fabrics, are superbly made and better than fairly priced,
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despite rising costs of materials and manufacturing. There's a big
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reason clipper Craft clothes are priced so modestly. It's the
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famous clipper Craft Plan. Concentrating the buying power of ten
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hundred thirty six of the nation's finest stores from coast
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to coast, providing steady year round operation, lowering manufacturing and
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distribution costs. It makes available the finest suits you've ever
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seen for only forty to forty seven fifty and some
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tropicals at thirty three seventy five to forty dollars, and
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sport jackets at only twenty six fifty. Naturally, more fine
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stores than ever are welcoming the clipper Craft plan. These
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are the days it really goes to work for you.
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Compare clippercraft with clothes selling for many dollars more. And
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now back to the young lady who was about to
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be rescued by mister Sherlock Holmes.
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Speaker 2: No less right.
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Speaker 1: It was September third, nineteen hundred and three, a few
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years after my marriage. If you remember well, I'd dropped
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around to Baker Street in the middle of the afternoon.
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There with Homes lying on the sofa, pipe in hand,
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a piece of letter paper dangling from his long, lean fingers.
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But the thing that surprised me most was the appearance
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of the room itself. Hello, I say, Holmes, what's up?
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Have we reached the millennium?
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Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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Speaker 1: I'm alluding to the unprecedented.
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Speaker 2: Tightness of the room that missus Hudson's doing.
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Speaker 3: Oh, she's got wind of the fact that I'm expecting
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a call from Sir James Damery this afternoon, and she
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took a mean advantage of my being out of the
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house this morning to commit this, this atrocity.
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Speaker 1: Oh, not a bad idea.
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Speaker 3: I won't be able to find anything for weeks and
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my hair look at it.
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Speaker 1: Oh, don't tell me, missus Hudson made you brushly. Women
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are tyrants, Watson tyrants?
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Speaker 4: Oh rubbish?
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Speaker 1: I say, what's all this about, Sir James Damery?
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Speaker 3: What what does he want beyond this charming note which
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says he will be here at four point thirteen and
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that the matter is extremely delicate and important. I know
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about as much about the matter as you do, which
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is absolutely enough.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear you admitted. I said, Look here, Holmes,
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isn't this Chap Dammary a pretty important person in the
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diplomatic service?
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Speaker 4: Quite? Hello?
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Speaker 2: Isn't that a carriage I hear drawing up in front
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of our house?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Bad, Joe. Oh it's a handsome turn out homes
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two men on the box.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I don't imagine that carriage belongs to Sir James himself.
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He must be acting for someone else, by jove, the
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crest on the door. Uh huh, So it's as serious
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as that.
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Speaker 1: I stay, Holmes, You've got deuce and good eyesight. I
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can't make out the crest at all. It's just as well,
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my dear Watson, just as well. Ah, here comes Dawnedy himself.
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Speaker 3: I say he is a handsome fellow, Yes, a splendid fellow,
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honest and understanding and clever, deuced clever, my dear Watson.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I suppose to say that because he had the
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intelligence to come to you instead of going to Scotland. Oh,
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look at missus Hudson opening the door to him. All
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start up, her face as red as a beach.
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Speaker 3: She'll talk about this for weeks, dear dear women shall
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go into raptures over the color of.
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Speaker 2: His eyes, the fit of his coat. Till come in,
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Come in.
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Speaker 5: It's sir James Dannery to see you.
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Speaker 2: Sir, well ask him to come in.
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Speaker 5: Yes, just be so good as to step this way,
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your lordship.
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Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Yes, sir, don't forget to close
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the door, Missus Hudson. Oh no, sir, you've created quite
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a little flutter in our household, Sir James, as you
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can see.
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Speaker 7: It's so good of you to see me, mister Holmes.
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And oh this I think it is doctor Watson. I
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hope to find you here delighted to make your acquaintance,
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my dear doctor.
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Speaker 1: The pleasures. Man, I'm sure I won't you sit down.
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Speaker 7: Say Dr Watson's collaboration may be vital, mister Holmes, For
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we are dealing on this occasion with a violent and
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ruthless man. I may safely say there is no more
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dangerous man in Europe.
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Speaker 3: I have outwitted several opponents to whom that flattering term
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has been applied.
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Speaker 2: Who is this, Sir Pedagon?
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Speaker 3: Sir James, have you ever heard of Baron Gruna, the
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Austrian murderer?
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Speaker 7: So you have already sized him up as a murderer.
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Speaker 3: It's my business to follow the details of continental crime.
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I'm as sure that he killed his wife at the
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time of the so called accident at Flugan Pass as
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if i'd seen him do it. Yes, I knew also
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that he'd come.
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Speaker 2: To England and was convinced that sooner or later he'd
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find some work to do.
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Speaker 7: Then you sympathize with the client and whose interest.
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Speaker 3: I'm acting, yes, and I guess you were only an intermediary.
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Speaker 4: Who's the principle, mister Holmes.
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Speaker 7: I must beg you not to press that question. It
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is important that his honored name should not be dragged
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into the matter.
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Speaker 2: I am accustomed to have mystery at one end of
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my case is Sir James, but not that both. I
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fear our mister Claire.
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Speaker 7: May I at least lay the facts of the.
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Speaker 4: Case before you.
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Speaker 2: By all means you have.
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Speaker 7: No doubt heard of General de Murville.
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Speaker 1: De Meurville, I general of kiber fame. The old Bulldog.
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Why I remember the great day.
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Speaker 2: Watson, Watson told you to rupt.
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Speaker 4: Oh very well.
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Speaker 7: Well, the old bulldog has a daughter, Violet de Murder, young,
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rich and beautiful. It is this daughter, this lovely innocent girl,
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whom we are endeavoring to say from that fiend Grunner,
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he has some hold over her. She's in love with him,
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mister Horns. At least she thinks she is a mad infatuation.
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She Oh, she's obsessed by the man, and proposes to
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marry him next month. There's very little her family can do,
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as she is of age and has a will of iron.
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Speaker 3: Her father's daughter, Watson, Oh, sorry, does she know about
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the Austrian episode.
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Speaker 7: The rascal has told her every savory public scandal of
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his past life, always in such a way as to
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make himself out to be an innocent.
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Speaker 4: Martyr cunning devil.
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Speaker 1: But surely, said James, you let out the name of
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your client, it must be General de Murville.
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Speaker 7: I could deceive you, mister Holmes, by saying so.
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Speaker 2: My dear damer. It takes more than that to deceive me.
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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I suppose. Let us say then that my
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client is an old friend who has known the General
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intimately for years and has taken a paternal interest in
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the girl since she wore short props. It was his
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suggestion that you should be called in very flattering.
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Speaker 3: Your problem interests me, sir James. I'm prepared to look
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into it.
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Speaker 7: Excellent. In case of developments, you can reach me at
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the Carlton Club and the baron's address Vernon Lodge, near Kingston.
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It's a large house. He has been fortunate in some
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shady speculations and is a rich man worse luck.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that makes him all the more dangerous as an antagonist.
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Can you give me.
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Speaker 2: Any further information about him? His personal habits?
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Speaker 7: I mean he has expensive tastes, a horse, fancier, plays polo,
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collects books women. As a recognized authority on Chinese pottery,
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has even written a book on the subject.
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Speaker 3: M Chinese pottery a complex mind like most great criminals. Well,
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sir James, you will inform your client that I am
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undertaking the case of the Baron Grunard.
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Speaker 7: I am exceedingly grateful, mister her not talk well. Good luck, gentlemen,
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and good afternoon.
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Speaker 1: After dear me. This is a delicate situation, Eh well, Watson,
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any news, Well, I should think you'd better see the
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young lady herself de Murbile's daughter. No, no, no, that's
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more or less of the last resort. No young woman
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in love is ever very reasonable, and Violet has her
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father's determination or probability.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: First of all, I think I shall consult Shinwell Johnson.
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Speaker 1: Shinwell Johnson, who's he.
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Speaker 3: I'll suppose we meet for lunch to morrow at Simpson's.
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I'll ask him to drop a round with any information
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he's been able to pick up. Don't disappoint me, Watson.
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I think I may be able to introduce you to
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a colorful personality.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I'll be there and never appear.
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Speaker 3: At the glass of Carret waiter. Yes, well, Watson, Johnson's
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on the prowl. He may pick up some garbage in
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the dark recesses of the underworld. But it's down there
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that you must look for. Baron Gruner's secrets.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but who's this Shimble Johnson.
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Speaker 3: Fellow an ex convict whom I've succeeded in reforming, serve
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two terms at Parkhurst. Consequently, he has the entree to
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every nightclub, dosshouse and gambling then in town. An ideal
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agent for gaining information.
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Speaker 2: Watson.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but if miss Violen's not affected by what she
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already knows, why should any discovery of mister Johnson's change
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her mind?
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Speaker 3: Who knows, Watson, woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles
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to the mail murder might be condoned or explained, and
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yet some smaller offense might rankle. As Baron Bruno remarked
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this morning, you can't assow you've seen him, And to
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be sure, didn't I tell you no?
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Speaker 2: Dear me, how careless of me.
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Speaker 3: I always like to meet my adversary eye to eye
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and find out for myself the stuff that he's made of.
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Speaker 1: Didn't you recognize you?
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Speaker 2: Naturally? I sent in my card?
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Speaker 3: You are a character Holmes an excellent antagonist. Is Darren Brunner,
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a real aristocrat of crime, cool as ice, and as
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poisonous as a cobra.
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Speaker 4: I rather thought I should see you sooner or later,
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mister Holmes. I understand you have been engaged to prevent
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my marriage to the daughter of General de Merville. Quite
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Daron Gruner, my dear fellow, you will only ruin your
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famous reputation. Let me advise you to draw off at once.
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Speaker 2: Dear me, that was the very advice I was about
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to give you.
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Speaker 1: If you persist in this marriage, you'll raise a swarm
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of powerful enemies.
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Speaker 2: Is the game worth it? Surely you'll be wiser if
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you left the lady alone.
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Speaker 3: You can hardly wish certain facts about your.
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Speaker 2: Past to be brought to her notice.
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Speaker 4: No pardon my amusement, mister Holmes, but it's most amusing
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to see you trying to play a hand with no
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car gods in it.
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Speaker 3: So you think I hold no clants, my dear baron,
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let me assure you I have several ass.
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Speaker 2: Of my sleeve.
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Speaker 4: Bluff, mister Holmes. Perhaps you don't realize that I hold
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the affection of this lady in spite of all the
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unhappy incidents of my past. I've also told her that
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certain wicked and designing persons, I hope you recognize yourself,
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would come to her and try to poison her mind
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against me. I also told her how to treat them.
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You've heard of post hypnotic suggestion. If you call on Violet,
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you will have an opportunity to see how it works. Er,
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dear little Violet, such a delightful subject for hypnotism. Hypnotic
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stell can be broken, my friend, only by a stronger personality.
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But by the way, mister Holmes, did you know Lebrown,
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the French agent. I did you know what happened to him?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 2: It was beaten and crippled for life.
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Speaker 4: Quite true, mister Holmes, by a curate a coincidence. He
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had been inquiring into my affairs only a week before.
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Don't do it, mister Holmes, it's not lucky.
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Speaker 1: Nasty brute, I say, Holmes, you'd better watch yourself. You'll
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stop at laughing.
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Speaker 2: Quite two attempts have already been made on my life, Watson.
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Speaker 3: I always disregard the blusterer, But this is the sort
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of chap who says rather less.
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Speaker 4: Than he means.
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Speaker 1: But look, here comes Shinwell Johnson, the red faced fellow
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with the beefyjowls and the tremendous gold watch chain. But
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I say, who's his companion? The young woman I mean
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with a pale, intense look. She looks as if she
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lived at homes. Yes, a dark page from Baron Groomer's pastor.
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Imagine hard good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: She will good. No, mister old waiter, bring an extra
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chair for the lady.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it's better, Eliss. Here is miss Kitty Water.
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Speaker 1: How do you do what?
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Speaker 8: She don't know about the baron, But she'll speak for herself.
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I found her within an hour after I heard from you.
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Quick work, heme, mister Olmes.
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Speaker 2: I'm easy to find.
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Speaker 5: The gutter London gets me every time. Same address for
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Porkish shinwell, but by cripes.
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Speaker 2: Grooner, Yes, yes, yes, then I gather we have your
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good wishes.
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Speaker 4: Miss Winter.
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Speaker 5: Look at me what I am now? But Grooner made me.
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If I can help put him where he belongs, I'm
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yours to the death rattle.
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Speaker 2: You know how the matter stands.
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Speaker 5: He's after some other poor fool wants her to marry
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him this time. Eh, don't you know enough about him
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to keep any decent girl in her?
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Speaker 2: Sensation is not in her senses she's in love. He
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knows pretty much all about it.
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Speaker 5: She knows about the murder, Yes, good lord, she must
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have a nerve.
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Speaker 2: She puts it all around to slander. We want proofs.
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Can you help us proofs?
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Speaker 5: I think I'm proof enough. Let her take a look
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at me and listen to what I.
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Speaker 7: Can tell her.
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Speaker 2: Would you be willing to do it? Wouldn't I?
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Speaker 1: Though?
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Speaker 2: Remember he's told her most.
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Speaker 4: Of his past.
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Speaker 5: I'll wager he didn't tell her all. I'll bet she
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don't know. He's got a book, a brown leather book
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with a lock.
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Speaker 2: Must have been drunk that night.
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Speaker 7: He wouldn't have showed it to me.
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Speaker 2: What kind of a book? That devil collects women?
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Speaker 5: Mister Holmes like some men collect butterflies. And he's proud
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of his collection. He's got it all in that book, snapshot, photographs, names, details, everything.
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If you could only lay hands on that book, he's
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probably got her in there with the rest of us.
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Speaker 2: By this time.
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Speaker 7: She liked that, wouldn't she?
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Speaker 4: Where is this book?
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Speaker 5: More than a year since I was in his study,
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I knew where it was kept. Then do you know
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his house?
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Speaker 2: I've been in his study.
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Speaker 5: I'll hand it to you for being on the job.
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Maybe he's met his match this time. Well, they are
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to study. Is where he keeps his Chinese crockery, a
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big glass cover between the windows. Then behind his desk
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is a door that leads to the inner study. It's
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in there that he keeps his papers and things.
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Speaker 1: Isn't be afraid of burglars?
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Speaker 5: Say what you like. He's no coward. He can look
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after himself. Besides, there's a burglar alarm at night.
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Speaker 3: I see if we could get into that study in
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miss winter. You think you could show us where that
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book's hidden.
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Speaker 1: Sure, here homes. You can't go breaking into a strange house.
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Speaker 3: It's against the law quite an I wouldn't dream of
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doing it except as a last resort.
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Speaker 2: But come along this winter. We'll see how far.
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Speaker 3: Our legal efforts get us before we turn to other tactics.
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What do you mean, suppose we just drop in on
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mister Merville for a little chat.
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Speaker 7: What a pretty drawing.
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Speaker 5: It's been a long time since I You won't believe it,
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mister Holmes, when I tell you I once had a
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nice home too.
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Speaker 3: Obviously, my dear, I can tell by your hands you
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were a lady the rough talk you assumed to cover
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it up.
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Speaker 4: Didn't fool me for a minute, sir.
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Speaker 7: I'm so nervous.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if I can.
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Speaker 2: Go through with it.
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Speaker 3: Courage will be over in the minute. Quiet, someone's coming, ah,
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mister Murville. If I'm not mistaken, mister.
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Speaker 9: Holmes, I presume quite pray be seated. I've been expecting
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a visit from you. You have called, as I understand,
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to malign my fiance, Baron Groooner. It's only fair to
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warn you, mister Holmes, that you are wasting your time.
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Nothing you can say will have the slightest effect on
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my mind.
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Speaker 3: My dear young woman, I wonder if you realize what
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it means to be married to a murderer, and worse,
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his reputation will by you from decent society in any
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civilized country. How could a woman of your upbringing consent.
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Speaker 9: Mister Holmes. I am aware that my fiance has had
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a stormy life in which he has incurred bitter hatreds.
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You are only the last of a series to slander him.
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Don't think that I don't know your motive. You're a
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paid agent who would have been equally willing to act
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for the baron if he consented to pay your price.
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Speaker 4: But here REFU really, mister Murbille.
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Speaker 9: Moreover, mister Holmes, I am not clear why you should
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bring this this person into my drawing room.
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Speaker 7: I have the slightest notion who she is.
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Speaker 5: No, well, I'll tell you who I am. I'm his
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last victim. He'll kill you, that's what he'll do with
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may be a broken back or a broken heart, but
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he'll break you one way or the other.
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Speaker 1: I don't need your protection, thank you.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's not for love of you, I'm speaking. I
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don't give a tinker's curse. If you live or die,
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it's because I hate him, do you hear? And you
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needn't look at me like that. God knows you maybe
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lower than I am. Before you're through, let me.
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Speaker 9: See once for all that I'm aware of three passages
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in my fiance's life when he became entangled with designing women.
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Speaker 7: Three passages.
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Speaker 2: Three passages.
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Speaker 7: She says, Oh, you fool, you fool. Wait till you
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see that book.
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Speaker 3: From New York City, the makers of Flipper Craft Clothes
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for Men and ten hundred and thirty six leading retail
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stores from coast to coast present the world's most famous detective.
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Speaker 4: Sherlock Holmes.
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Speaker 3: Clippercraft Plan, the plan that concentrates the buying power of
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ten hundred thirty six of the nation's finest stores from
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coast to coast. And that's why you can buy luxurious
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long wearing fabrics in clipper Craft suits for only forty
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to forty seven fifty, find tropicals at thirty three seventy
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five to forty dollars, and sport jackets for only twenty
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six fifty.
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Speaker 2: Ask any of the millions.
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Speaker 4: Of men who wear clipper Craft clothes.
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Speaker 3: For selling expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the
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nation's finest stores is the great, big idea behind the
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Clippercraft Plan. That's why men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes.
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So be sure to visit the Clippercraft store in your city.
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Speaker 10: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
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their names to clipper Craft in your suits, top coats,
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sport jackets and tropicals. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores
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Broadway at eighth and sixty seven, Liberty Street Sacks thirty
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fourth Broadway at thirty fourth. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss
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in Newark, New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop cresken Yarck, And
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in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty
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four oh eight, Jamaica Avenue.
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Speaker 3: Now to return to our adventure. In front of Sherlock
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Holmes lodgings at two twenty one B. Baker Street, we
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find an excited crowd of people.
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Speaker 7: I say, have you heard the new sheet?
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Speaker 9: Hey, this is Many Lives the poor Man of the
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poor Man in the paper's murderous attack on Sherlock Holme.
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Speaker 1: They've murdered it that they've murded.
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Speaker 7: It's an out great man's not shaving the streets anymore.
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Speaker 2: But how did it happen? Too?
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Speaker 7: Roughians outside the key Wigley They beat him with stixing.
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Speaker 2: He was picked up for days.
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Speaker 7: Oh he's dead.
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Speaker 9: It's not dreadful. Shelock Holmes isn't dead.
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Speaker 5: Let me.
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Speaker 1: A doctor. Oh confounded? The bell won't ring.
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Speaker 5: Oh here you are at last, doctor. What's some phraise
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beak coming coming?
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Speaker 1: I've been out all afternoon, Missus Hudson. I've just got word.
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Is he badly hurt? Oh?
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Speaker 3: Sir?
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Speaker 5: They brought him in here all bleeding. They had to
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have that surgeon fellow folk.
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Speaker 1: Shot Leslie oak shot.
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Speaker 5: Then it is serious, Yes, sir, he's been taking stitches
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in him and giving him more fhee.
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Speaker 1: Do you think I can go up for a moment?
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Speaker 5: Well that so, what's his name?
19:33
Speaker 2: Said?
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Speaker 5: As mister Olmes was to have absolute quiet, I had
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to stuff the doorbell on account of the newspaper.
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Speaker 2: Fellows quite right about.
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Speaker 5: Mister Olmes kept saying he had to see as soon
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as you came. So that surgeon fella said, all right,
19:45
but only for ten minutes mine. Well good, I go
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right up, yes, sir, and let me know if he's
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wanting anything.
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Speaker 4: This this terrible, terrible, it's all the button's doing.
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Speaker 1: Of course, wait till I leapt wat's in this?
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Speaker 2: It's not as bad as it seems.
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Speaker 1: So thank god for that. Of course it's that rascal
20:04
who set them on. I'll gone flash the height of him.
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Speaker 4: If you say so, I could Watson.
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Speaker 2: No, it's not necessary, but there is something you can.
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Speaker 1: Do for me, anything, anything at all.
20:15
Speaker 2: We haven't much time.
20:16
Speaker 3: I've just discovered the baron is panning to a lope
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to South America with mister Merville day after tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Must be losing his nerve.
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Speaker 1: What can we do in that short time?
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Speaker 3: You are to spend the next twenty four hours in
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an intensive study of Chinese pottery.
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Speaker 1: Me Chinese pottery homes your delivery.
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Speaker 3: It's all hand me that little box from the mantlepiece,
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which would this one? Yes, that's right, Only I open
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it for me when he wants in these right clumsy bandages.
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I don't want to run any risk of breaking it.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I say, it's a beautiful little deep blue saucer
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wrapped in silk.
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Speaker 3: That is the real eggshell pottery of the Ming dynasty.
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A complete set of it would be worth a king's ransom.
20:56
The Baron would sell his soul for a set like that?
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Speaker 1: Am I to do with it?
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Speaker 2: Here is your card?
21:02
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, but this says doctor hill Barton see sixty
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nine and a half moons, That is your name.
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Speaker 3: For tomorrow evening you will call on Baron Bruner at
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half past eight. The note's already been set making the
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appointment and saying that you're bringing a specimen of an
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absolutely unique set of Ming china. May as well be
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a medical man, since you can play that part without duplicity,
21:21
and want to put too much of a strain on your.
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Speaker 1: Acting ability, and I look here.
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Speaker 2: I say, you're not going to go back on me
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at a time like this.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, of course not. But I say, what
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if he won't see me, he'll.
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Speaker 2: See you right enough. He has the collector's mania, and
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it's most acute form.
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Speaker 3: The important thing is to cram up on Chinese pottery,
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so you can carry on an intelligent conversation.
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Speaker 1: Well, i'll do my best.
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Speaker 2: Good half past eight tomorrow right now. Perhaps you'd better go.
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I afraid I feel a trifle weak.
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Speaker 8: I'll find out if the Baron will see you, sir.
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Speaker 1: I believe he's expecting me.
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Speaker 4: Very good, sir, do you immediately?
22:08
Speaker 1: I wish my needs had stop wobbling about home Wu
22:12
and Young Low, the writings of Tanging, the primitive periods
22:17
of sung On. Did dear me?
22:20
Speaker 4: This is right this way.
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Speaker 8: The Baron is in his study, the Chinese room, we
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call it, doctor Barton.
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Speaker 4: Oh, praise it down, doctor, praise it down.
22:30
Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
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Speaker 4: I was just looking over my treasures. Have you ever
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seen a Richard glaze in this little tongue specimen?
22:36
Speaker 2: And delightful, delightful here?
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Speaker 4: Oh? Have you the ming saucer with you?
22:42
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, indeed, I thought you might want to see it.
22:45
Here it is, let me unwrap it for you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we are, oh fine, very fine indeed, And you
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say you have a set of six to correspond, yes,
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I only know of one in England to match this,
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and it is certainly not on the market. Will it
23:03
be in discreet doctor Barton to ask how you obtained this?
23:07
Speaker 1: Well, does it really matter? You can see the piece
23:09
is genuine, undoubtedly.
23:12
Speaker 4: But suppose I should discover later that you have no
23:14
right to sell.
23:15
Speaker 1: Oh, I'd guarantee you against any claim of that sort.
23:18
Speaker 4: And what is your guarantee worth?
23:20
Speaker 1: My bankers would answer that.
23:22
Speaker 4: Yet, on the whole this business is very mysterious. Well,
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you can do business or not as you like.
23:27
Speaker 1: I've given you the first offer because I understood you
23:29
were a coneisser who told you so. You wrote a
23:33
book on the subject.
23:34
Speaker 4: I believe have you read the book?
23:37
Speaker 1: No?
23:37
Speaker 4: You are a collector with a valuable piece in your collection,
23:40
and yet you have never trouble to consult the one
23:42
book which would give you the real meaning and value
23:44
of what you hold. How do you explain that.
23:49
Speaker 1: I'm a very busy man, doctor, impec.
23:52
Speaker 4: That's no answer. You sent me your note. You were
23:54
a connoisseur, so I am. But what do you know
23:56
of the Emperor? Shall move? How do you associate him
23:59
with show so in Nionara?
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Speaker 1: The matter? Does that puzzle you?
24:05
Speaker 4: What about the Northern Way dynasty?
24:07
Speaker 1: Oh? This is intolerable. I came here to do you
24:10
a favor, not to be examined as if I were
24:11
a school boy.
24:12
Speaker 4: Here is a spy, Sherlock Holmes sent you. What's the game?
24:18
You've made your way in here without leave, but you're
24:21
not going to find it so easy to get out again.
24:24
I thought the beating he got yesterday would be enough
24:26
to scare him off. But if he wants a copse,
24:29
a prof trainer? What's that? Someone's in the inner study? Somebody?
24:34
Uh huh, Sherlock Holmes himself. What the places are you're
24:39
doing here?
24:39
Speaker 3: Just glancing through your diary rather lurid reading by dear fellow.
24:43
I wonder what this spirelet will think of it? Put
24:45
that book down?
24:46
Speaker 1: Put it down?
24:46
Speaker 4: I see you, fool my men bungled. I told him
24:50
to kill you. Well, I'm going to complete the job myself.
24:53
Speaker 1: For got homes. He's got a name.
24:55
Speaker 2: No, you don't.
24:55
Speaker 7: I've got a little score on my own.
24:57
Speaker 4: A second, kilty, what are you doing here?
24:59
Speaker 5: Surprised to see me? I thought I killed myself by
25:01
this time. Well, I'm going to fix you.
25:05
Speaker 4: You're most amusing and laugh.
25:08
Speaker 5: It'll be the last time.
25:11
Speaker 7: Very well, then, why didn't you stop it?
25:17
Speaker 1: Butterol is putting my eyes up the water, for Can's sake,
25:20
water of pain. I can't stand the pain that's riding
25:23
me crazy.
25:24
Speaker 9: Now, why don't you laugh?
25:40
Speaker 4: What a story? Doctor?
25:42
Speaker 3: And did mister Merriville break off the engagement when she
25:44
saw the Baron's love diary?
25:45
Speaker 1: Oh dear me, yes, Sir James Caban collected it and
25:48
the little sorcer of mean China the afternoon after an
25:51
encounter with Groner. The day was in the Baron's own handwriting,
25:55
there's no way of getting around that. The wages of sin,
25:58
My dear mister Harris, the wages of sin. Be sure
26:02
your false will.
26:03
Speaker 3: Find you out, they say, doctor Apropos of nothing at all?
26:07
Was mister Holmes arrested for housebreaking?
26:09
Speaker 1: Now?
26:10
Speaker 4: What an idea?
26:11
Speaker 1: Well, there was some rumor about a prosecution, I believe,
26:14
But when the purpose is good and a client sufficiently illustrious,
26:18
even the rigid British law becomes human and elastic. Holmes
26:22
has yet to stand in the dock.
26:24
Speaker 2: And the illustrious client, Doctor, did you ever find out
26:26
who he was?
26:27
Speaker 4: Well?
26:28
Speaker 1: I could make a good guess. On Sir james second visit,
26:31
I escorted him down to his carriage, and quite the accident, mind,
26:34
I caught a glimpse of that coat of arms before
26:38
Sir James threw his overcoat half out of the window
26:40
to cover it.
26:41
Speaker 4: And who was a doctor?
26:42
Speaker 1: Oh, I couldn't dream of telling beyond the fact that
26:46
he was a loyal friend and a chivalrous gentleman. And
26:49
his coat of arms had three ostridge plumes on the top.
26:52
Speaker 3: And of course you haven't the remotest idea, Oh, certainly not.
26:57
And now, doctor, how about giving our friends and listeners
26:59
a hint of out next week's story?
27:01
Speaker 2: Next week? There, let me see.
27:03
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, next week, I think I think I'd tell
27:05
you about some yellow roses that refused to die and
27:09
how they nearly caused the death of a lovely young
27:11
second wife who heard the voice of her husband's first
27:14
wife calling to her from a watery grave.