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Boscombe_Pool_Mystery · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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Speaker 3: CBS Radio Mystery Theatre presents Come in. Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall.
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Speaker 3: Everyone knows that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started in life
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Speaker 3: as a doctor, not a writer. But how many of
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Speaker 3: us know what type of medicine he specialized in or
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Speaker 3: where his real medical offices were located? For your information, Dr.
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Speaker 3: Arthur Conan Doyle opened his office at 2 Devonshire Place
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Speaker 3: near Harley Street in 1891. He was an eye specialist.
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Speaker 3: While he waited for the patients that never came, he
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Speaker 3: created the unforgettable characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Watson,
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Speaker 3: you know my method is founded upon the observation of trifles.
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Speaker 4: But the cigar, Holmes.
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Speaker 3: Once having located the tree behind which the killer stood,
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Speaker 3: it was child's play to find a cigar stump where
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Speaker 3: he had tossed it. The end had not been in
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Speaker 3: his mouth, therefore he used a holder... The tip had
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Speaker 3: been cut, not bitten off, but the cut wasn't a
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Speaker 3: clean one. Hence, the penknife.
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Speaker 4: Holmes, you've drawn a net around this man from which
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Speaker 4: he cannot escape. How do you do it?
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Speaker 3: Elementary, my dear Watson. Our mystery drama, The Bascom Pool Mystery,
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Speaker 3: was based on the Sherlock Holmes classic and adapted especially
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Speaker 3: for the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett. It stars Kevin McCarthy.
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Speaker 3: It is sponsored in part by ARM, Allergy Relief Medicine,
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Speaker 3: and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with Act One.
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Speaker 3: It's a singular fact that we know more of Sherlock
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Speaker 3: Holmes than we do of his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Speaker 3: Of course, we all know he was a doctor and
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Speaker 3: that he believed in spiritualism, but most of us are
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Speaker 3: unaware that he was also a whaler, athlete, speculator, historian, dramatist,
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Speaker 3: war correspondent, and ever and always the champion of the underdogs.
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Speaker 3: as is so well illustrated in the mystery which follows.
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Speaker 4: One morning, when my wife and I were seated at breakfast,
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Speaker 4: the maid brought in a telegram. I slid it open
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Speaker 4: and read it to Mary. Have you a few days
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Speaker 4: to spare? Have just been wired for from the west
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Speaker 4: of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. should appreciate
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Speaker 4: your coming with me, leave Paddington by the 11.15.
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Speaker 5: Well, darling, you'll need some time, and so I shall
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Speaker 5: help you pass.
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Speaker 4: I'm not at all sure that I should go. I
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Speaker 4: have a fairly long list of patients.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Anstruther will handle those for you. I think the
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Speaker 5: change will do you good. And you know how interested
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Speaker 5: you are in all of Sherlock Holmes' cases.
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Speaker 4: Oh, well, I should be an ingrate if I weren't.
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Speaker 4: I met you through one of them.
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Speaker 5: Now you finish your coffee while I go and get
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Speaker 5: you packed.
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Speaker 4: And so, within a very few minutes, I was in
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Speaker 4: a cab rattling away to Paddington Station. After paying the cabbie,
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Speaker 4: I spotted the tall, gaunt figure of Holmes pacing up
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Speaker 4: and down the platform... As he saw me, his face
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Speaker 4: lighted up with one of his rare smiles, and he said.
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Speaker 3: Very good of you to come, Watson. It makes a
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Speaker 3: considerable difference to me having someone with me on whom
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Speaker 3: I can thoroughly rely. If you'll keep the two corner seats,
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Speaker 3: I'll get the tickets.
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Speaker 4: We had the compartment to ourselves, and a batch of
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Speaker 4: newspapers Holmes had brought along with him. As we settled
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Speaker 4: down for the journey, Holmes asked.
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Speaker 3: Have you heard anything about the case?
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Speaker 4: Well, I haven't seen a paper for some days.
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Speaker 3: That's just as well. The London press hasn't had very
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Speaker 3: complete accounts, and that's why I brought these local papers along.
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Speaker 3: I've already read through them, and I gather it's one
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Speaker 3: of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult.
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Speaker 4: Well, isn't that paradoxical?
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Speaker 3: Of course, and profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a clue.
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Speaker 3: The more commonplace a crime, the more difficult it is
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Speaker 3: to bring home. In this instance, however, the police seem
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Speaker 3: to have established a very serious case against the son
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Speaker 3: of the murdered man.
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 4: It is a murder, then, huh?
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Speaker 3: According to our old friend Lestrade, it's not only murder,
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Speaker 3: but he has the guilty man under lock and key.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 4: Well, what brings you into it, then?
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Speaker 3: An appeal for help from a young lady. And a
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Speaker 3: feeling that all isn't as simple as it seems on
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Speaker 3: the surface. I know Lestrade's theory of crime, and I
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Speaker 3: shall either confirm or destroy it by means which he
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Speaker 3: refuses to employ.
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Speaker 4: Refuses?
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Speaker 3: Or is unable to? Nonsense, my dear Watson. Anyone with
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Speaker 3: eyes can use my methods. To take the first example
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Speaker 3: to hand, I very clearly perceive that in your bedroom,
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Speaker 3: the window is on the right-hand side. Oh, my.
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Speaker 4: But Holmes, you've never visited us. How on earth would you.
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Speaker 3: My dear doctor... I know the military neatness which characterizes you.
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Speaker 3: You shave every morning, and in this lovely spring, you
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Speaker 3: shave by sunlight. But since your shaving is less and
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Speaker 3: less complete as we get farther back on the left side,
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Speaker 3: and it becomes positively slovenly as we get around the
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Speaker 3: angle of the jaw, it's obvious that that side is
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Speaker 3: less illuminated than the other.
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Speaker 4: You never cease to amaze me, Holmes.
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Speaker 3: That's only an elementary example of observation and inference, my
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Speaker 3: dear chap. Now I suggest that you devote your time
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Speaker 3: to these newspaper accounts and see if you can reach
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Speaker 3: the same conclusions as I have. On my word, Mr. Holmes,
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Speaker 3: I do believe you've got a real streak of the
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Speaker 3: romantic in your makeup. Why do you say that, Lestrade?
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Speaker 7: Oh, for wasting your time and coming all the way
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Speaker 7: down here in answer to the pleas of a moonstruck mate.
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Speaker 3: It's your opinion that I'm wasting my time.
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Speaker 7: If you'll allow me to recount the facts, I think
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Speaker 7: you'll agree.
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Speaker 3: Delighted. Go ahead, Lestrade. Now, let me just use these
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Speaker 3: notes to keep me on the track. Now, on Monday last, Mr.
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Speaker 7: McCarthy left his farm in Adderley about three in the
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Speaker 7: afternoon and walked down to Bascom Pool, a distance of
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Speaker 7: about a quarter of a mile. He never came back alive.
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Speaker 3: That is a fact I must concede. You'll also have
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Speaker 3: to concede that we have two witnesses who saw him
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Speaker 3: on his way... and one of them, William Crowder, a
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Speaker 3: gamekeeper in.
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Speaker 7: The employ of a Mr.
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Speaker 3: Turner.
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Speaker 4: saw.
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Speaker 7: McCarthy's son following him with a gun over his arm.
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Speaker 3: That was all in the papers?
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Speaker 7: Oh, there's more. A girl of 14, Patience Moran... who's
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Speaker 7: the daughter of the lodgekeeper.
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Speaker 3: Of the Boscombe Ferry estate... was in the woods near
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Speaker 3: the pool picking flowers. While she was there, she saw.
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Speaker 7: The elder McCarthy and his son, James, in the midst
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Speaker 7: of a violent quarrel. She even testifies that she saw
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Speaker 7: the son raise his hand as if to strike his father.
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Speaker 7: It so frightened her that she ran away and told
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Speaker 7: her mother about it when she reached home.
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Speaker 3: A pity she didn't stay and see what happened.
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Speaker 7: Come now, Mr. Holmes, we're pretty sure of what happened.
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Speaker 7: I mean McCarthy.
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Speaker 3: Died of injuries to the head inflicted by some blunt
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Speaker 3: weapon which might very well have been the butt of
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Speaker 3: a gun.
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Speaker 4: And the son's rifle.
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Speaker 7: Was found near the body.
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Speaker 6: Mr.
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Speaker 3: Holmes.
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Speaker 7: You'll have to admit that many men have been hanged
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Speaker 7: on far less evidence.
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Speaker 3: So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged.
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Speaker 4: Oh, true.
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Speaker 3: But if ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal, he
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Speaker 3: does so here. Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,
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Speaker 3: but I must confess, however, that the case looks exceedingly
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Speaker 3: grave against the young man, and it's possible that he
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Speaker 3: may be guilty. Come in. You must be Mr.
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Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes. I'm Susan Turner. I want to thank you
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Speaker 5: for coming, and I've driven down here to the inn
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Speaker 5: to welcome you and help you in any way I
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Speaker 5: can to prove that James is innocent.
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Speaker 3: Well, I... sincerely hope we may clear the young man,
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Speaker 3: Miss Turner. You may rely on me to do all
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Speaker 3: I can.
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Speaker 5: I know that James didn't do it.
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Speaker 8: I know it.
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Speaker 5: And I want you to know it before you start
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Speaker 5: working on the case.
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Speaker 3: My dear young lady, your loyalty to James McCarthy does
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Speaker 3: you credit. But I know nothing before I complete my investigations. First,
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Speaker 3: may I see your father if I call tomorrow?
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Speaker 5: I'm afraid the doctor won't allow it.
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Speaker 3: The doctor? Yes.
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Speaker 5: Father has been ailing for some years... But this has
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Speaker 5: broken him down completely.
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Speaker 3: Dr.
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Speaker 5: Willow says that his nervous system is completely shattered.
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Speaker 3: Hmm. Then your father and the elder McCarthy were close friends.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, indeed.
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Speaker 4: Mr.
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Speaker 5: McCarthy was the only man alive who had known Dad
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Speaker 5: in the old days in Victoria.
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Speaker 6: Ah.
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Speaker 3: Aha. At the gold mines where the papers say your
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Speaker 3: father made his fortune. That's it. Thank you, Miss Turner.
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Speaker 6: But.
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Speaker 8: Is that all?
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Speaker 5: I've read of your other cases, and I had my
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Speaker 5: carriage wait to take you to the scene.
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Speaker 3: I shall certainly want to go there at some time,
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Speaker 3: Miss Turner. But the barometer holds steady.
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Speaker 5: I don't understand.
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Speaker 3: My dear young lady, you must allow me to pursue
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Speaker 3: my inquiries as I think best.
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Speaker 8: Oh, I will, I will.
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Speaker 5: I know you've read the evidence in the paper. You
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Speaker 5: must have discussed the case with the inspector. Do you
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Speaker 5: see some flaw? Don't you think that he's innocent?
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Speaker 3: I think that that is very probable.
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Speaker 5: There now, Inspector, you heard.
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Speaker 4: Mr.
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Speaker 5: Holmes gives me hope.
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Speaker 7: Ah, well, now, I'm afraid, Miss Turner, that my colleague
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Speaker 7: may have been a little hasty in forming his conclusions.
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Speaker 4: With a final brilliant smile of thanks, our young lady
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Speaker 4: swept to the door and left. Oh, Holmes, I'm ashamed
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Speaker 4: of you.
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Speaker 7: Why should you raise her hopes when you're bound to
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Speaker 7: disappoint her? I'm not a sentimentalist, but I call it
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Speaker 7: downright cruel.
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Speaker 3: I think, Lestrade, that I see my way to clearing
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Speaker 3: James McCarthy. Have you an order to see him in prison? Oh,
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Speaker 3: of course. Then we still have ample time to take
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Speaker 3: a train to Hereford and see him tonight. We can go,
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Speaker 3: of course, but in my opinion, it's a waste of time.
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Speaker 3: I don't know whether or not you've been informed of the...
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Speaker 3: the remark he made when the local constable informed him
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Speaker 3: that he was under arrest. What was that?
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Speaker 7: Oh, he said.
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Speaker 3: I'm not surprised to hear it. It's no more than
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Speaker 3: I deserve.
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Speaker 4: Good Lord, Holmes. That's a confession.
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Speaker 3: Not at all, Doctor. Not at all. That was later
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Speaker 3: followed by a protestation of innocence.
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Speaker 7: With all the other evidence, Mr. Holmes, don't you consider
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Speaker 7: that a most suspicious remark?
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Speaker 3: On the contrary, Lestrade. It's the brightest aspect of the
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Speaker 3: case pointing to his innocence. Every one of the great
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Speaker 3: detectives of fiction can be compared to magicians in their
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Speaker 3: love of mystification. But with Holmes, there's a large difference.
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Speaker 3: Many of the others love to mystify simply for the
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Speaker 3: sake of mystification, whereas Holmes refused to divulge his thoughts
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Speaker 3: until he checked to be sure that there was no
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Speaker 3: other possible interpretation. We'll be back shortly. A little earlier,
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Speaker 3: I mentioned that Sherlock Holmes was a champion of the underdog,
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Speaker 3: and I suspect that this was an added factor in
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Speaker 3: the endless popularity of A. Conan Doyle's creations. Now we
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Speaker 3: have Holmes rushing off to the west of England to
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Speaker 3: save a man not only suspected of murdering his father,
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Speaker 3: but sitting in Hereford Prison waiting to be tried for
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Speaker 3: that crime.
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Speaker 4: When we entered James McCarthy's cell, I could understand Miss
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Speaker 4: Susan Turner's feelings for the young man, for he was
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Speaker 4: indeed handsome, with a frank, open countenance that cried out
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Speaker 4: for belief. But I remembered other criminals with handsome faces
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Speaker 4: and listened avidly as Holmes began to question him after
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Speaker 4: we were introduced.
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Speaker 3: I understand, Mr. McCarthy, that you're an only child.
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 3: Now, I believe you testified before the coroner's jury that
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Speaker 3: you had been away from home for three days and
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Speaker 3: returned only on the day your father was killed.
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Speaker 6: So I did.
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Speaker 3: Where were you for those three days?
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Speaker 6: In Bristol.
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Speaker 3: You have business there?
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Speaker 6: What's in Bristol has absolutely nothing to do with my case.
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Speaker 3: Once again, I'll have to.
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Speaker 6: I'll say no more about it.
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Speaker 3: Very well. Now, when you returned, did you see your father?
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Speaker 6: No. He wasn't home. I was upstairs in my room
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Speaker 6: when I saw him drive his trap into the yard.
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Speaker 6: Get out and walk very rapidly out of the yard.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. So you saw in which direction he was going.
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Speaker 6: It's all down in the records of the coroner's jury.
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Speaker 3: I've read them. I'd still like to hear it in
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Speaker 3: your words. Very well.
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Speaker 6: This is the way it was. I'll try to let
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Speaker 6: you hear what I said, exactly as.
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Speaker 3: I said it.
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Speaker 4: And now, Mr.
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Speaker 8: McCarthy, you say you weren't aware in which direction your
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Speaker 8: father was going when he left the yard?
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 8: You'd been away for three days. Did it not occur
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Speaker 8: to you to seek out your father and tell him
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Speaker 8: you were back?
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Speaker 4: Or were you on bad terms?
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Speaker 6: We got along all right.
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Speaker 8: You don't deny quarreling with him.
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Speaker 3: At the pool?
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 4: You must have followed him there, did you not?
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Speaker 6: I told you I had no idea where he was heading.
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Speaker 6: I took my gun and set off for the rabbit warren.
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Speaker 6: And the game's keeper saw me, as he said. But
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Speaker 6: I wasn't following my father. I had no idea he
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Speaker 6: was in front of me.
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Speaker 4: Yes, just so. And how, then, did you meet at
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Speaker 4: the pool?
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Speaker 6: I was about 50 yards from the pool on my
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Speaker 6: way towards the warren when I heard a cry of,
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Speaker 6: which was a usual signal between my father and myself.
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Speaker 6: I turned and went.
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Speaker 8: To the pool.
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Speaker 6: And? My father was surprised to see me. He thought
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Speaker 6: I was still in Bristol. He asked me, rather roughly,
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Speaker 6: what was I doing there?
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Speaker 8: You said you were on good terms with your father.
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Speaker 3: Did you not find.
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Speaker 8: The attitude you described rather strange when you returned from
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Speaker 8: a three-day absence?
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Speaker 6: Those who knew my father will back me up when
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Speaker 6: I say he was a cold and forbidding man of
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Speaker 6: a violent temper.
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Speaker 4: But you're his son.
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Speaker 6: We had a disagreement of long standing. Oh, indeed?
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Speaker 4: About what?
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Speaker 6: I'd rather not say. I've already told you about my
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Speaker 6: father's temper. That's why I left him. To avoid blows.
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Speaker 8: And how long were you gone before you claim you
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Speaker 8: heard this hideous outcry?
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Speaker 6: I don't exactly know how long. But I couldn't have
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Speaker 6: been more than 150 yards away.
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Speaker 3: And then?
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Speaker 6: I ran back, found my father lying on the ground
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Speaker 6: with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun, held
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Speaker 6: him in my arms. But he died almost instantly.
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Speaker 8: Did your father say anything before he died?
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Speaker 6: He mumbled a few words. But all I could understand
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Speaker 6: was something about a rat.
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Speaker 4: A rat?
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Speaker 8: What did you take that to mean?
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Speaker 6: Nothing. I thought he was delirious.
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Speaker 8: I understand that the cry, Coo-ee, was a common signal
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Speaker 8: between you and your father.
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Speaker 3: It was.
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Speaker 4: Well, can you explain, then.
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Speaker 8: That he used it before he saw you, and indeed,
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Speaker 8: before he even knew you'd returned from Bristol?
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Speaker 6: I can't understand that myself.
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Speaker 8: When you returned and presumably found your father fatally injured,
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Speaker 8: did you see anything which looked strange or suspicious?
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Speaker 6: Yes. There's only a vague impression in my mind of
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Speaker 6: something lying on the ground to the left of me
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Speaker 6: as I tried to help my father.
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Speaker 4: Can you be more specific?
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Speaker 6: I'll try. But you must understand it was only an impression.
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Speaker 6: I think it was a coat of some sort. Gray, perhaps.
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Speaker 5: Or a plaid.
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Speaker 8: How is it that none of the officers examining the
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Speaker 8: scene mention this thing?
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Speaker 6: When I rose from my father, I looked around for it,
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Speaker 6: but it was gone.
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Speaker 8: You mean it disappeared before you went for help?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 6: And you don't have any idea what it was?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 6: Just a feeling that something was there.
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Speaker 4: How far from the body?
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Speaker 6: About a dozen yards.
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Speaker 8: And how far from the edge of the wood?
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Speaker 6: About the same.
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Speaker 8: Well, then, if there was something there.
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Speaker 8: It must have been removed while you were within.
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Speaker 6: A dozen yards of it. Yes, but with my back
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Speaker 6: towards it.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 8: That will conclude your examination. I will address the jury
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Speaker 8: about arriving at the verdict.
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Speaker 6: Of course, I suspected pretty much what the verdict would
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Speaker 6: be after the coroner's charge, so there wasn't any shock
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Speaker 6: when they came back and said... I should be held
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Speaker 6: on a murder charge.
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Speaker 1: You're winning.
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Speaker 4: Left James McCarthy and were on our way back to
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Speaker 4: the inn by train, Sherlock Holmes was in high spirits.
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Speaker 4: Although for the life of me, I could see nothing
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Speaker 4: in what we just heard which pointed to the innocence
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Speaker 4: of young James McCarthy. Lestrade, of course, said as much
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Speaker 4: as we rode along. I see by your expression, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Holmes, that you're down to the deductions and inferences. As
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Speaker 3: for me, I find it hard enough to tackle facts
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Speaker 3: without chasing after theories. Very well, Inspector. Here's a fact
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Speaker 3: for you to ponder. We all agree that McCarthy Sr.
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Speaker 3: met his death at the hands of a blunt instrument,
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Speaker 3: do we not? Well, of course. It's also a fact
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Speaker 3: that young McCarthy's rifle was examined and found to be
20:37
Speaker 3: free of blood, hair, or any signs that it had
20:39
Speaker 3: been used as a weapon. Isn't that so? Absolutely. And
20:44
Speaker 3: you don't find it at all strange that in the
20:47
Speaker 3: heat of a violent quarrel, The son lays down the
20:50
Speaker 3: rifle that he has in his hand and searches for
20:53
Speaker 3: a rock or some other suitable weapon with which to
20:57
Speaker 3: strike his father. Oh, well, I believe that'll come out
21:03
Speaker 3: when he confesses. It'll all be explained. My dear Lestrade.
21:07
Speaker 3: You'll be sorely disappointed if you pin your hopes upon
21:10
Speaker 3: a confession. First, because the young man, although not very bright,
21:15
Speaker 3: isn't the type to confess. And secondly, because he can't
21:18
Speaker 3: confess to a crime he didn't commit. Oh, come now, Holmes.
21:22
Speaker 7: The coroner's jury came in with the charge not because
21:26
Speaker 7: of me, but because the coroner very correctly pointed to
21:30
Speaker 7: the discrepancies in his story about the father having signaled
21:34
Speaker 7: to him before seeing him and his... Strange account about
21:38
Speaker 7: his father's dying words and his refusal to give the
21:41
Speaker 7: details of the quarrel with his father.
21:43
Speaker 3: Both you and the coroner don't blink an eye at
21:46
Speaker 3: young McCarthy's ability to come up with a fantastic tale
21:49
Speaker 3: about his father's strange dying words involving a rat and
21:53
Speaker 3: mysterious disappearance of some kind of garment.
21:56
Speaker 7: Well, you do have a way of looking at things, Mr. Holmes.
21:58
Speaker 7: But if you don't mind my saying so, they're kind
22:01
Speaker 7: of wrong side up. Like the way you took his
22:04
Speaker 7: saying when he was arrested that it was no more
22:07
Speaker 7: than he deserved as a sign of his innocence.
22:10
Speaker 3: Most certainly, Lestrade. Had he appeared surprised when he was
22:14
Speaker 3: arrested or loudly proclaimed his innocence, I should have looked
22:19
Speaker 3: upon it as highly suspicious. May I ask why? Well,
22:25
Speaker 3: however innocent he might be, he cannot be such an
22:28
Speaker 3: absolute imbecile as not to see that circumstances look very
22:32
Speaker 3: black against him. His honest acceptance of this, plus his
22:36
Speaker 3: undoubted self-reproach for his quarrel with his father, bring out
22:40
Speaker 3: the words, It's no more than I deserve.
22:49
Speaker 4: The Stroud left us to write a report to the Yard,
22:52
Speaker 4: and Holmes insisted that we visit Susan Turner. Accordingly, we
22:57
Speaker 4: drove to Boscombe Hall, a large house located in the
23:01
Speaker 4: center of the considerable holdings of Mr. John Turner.
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Speaker 3: Miss Turner, do you have any idea what caused the
23:08
Speaker 3: quarrel between James and his father on the day he
23:11
Speaker 3: was killed?
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Speaker 5: You've seen James? How is he? Did you tell him
23:14
Speaker 5: I believed in his innocence?
23:16
Speaker 3: He didn't need to be told. He seems in as
23:19
Speaker 3: good spirits as one could expect. But you haven't answered
23:22
Speaker 3: my question.
23:23
Speaker 8: I know.
23:24
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to think whether James would want me
23:27
Speaker 5: to tell you. since I am involved in it, and
23:31
Speaker 5: that's the reason he wouldn't tell the coroner.
23:33
Speaker 3: Now, Miss Turner, this is no time for concealing things
23:36
Speaker 3: that might well be vital to the investigation.
23:39
Speaker 5: Oh, you're right, of course. It's no time to hide anything.
23:44
Speaker 5: James and his father had many disagreements about me.
23:48
Speaker 3: Mr.
23:48
Speaker 5: McCarthy was very anxious that there should be a marriage
23:52
Speaker 5: between us.
23:53
Speaker 3: And you're telling me James objected? Mr. Holmes.
23:58
Speaker 5: James and I have always loved each other as brother
24:00
Speaker 5: and sister, but of course he's young, and he just
24:04
Speaker 5: isn't prepared to undertake marriage just yet, and I'm sure
24:07
Speaker 5: there were many quarrels between them over this.
24:09
Speaker 3: And your father, did he favor such a marriage?
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Speaker 5: No, he was adverse to it also.
24:15
Speaker 8: No one but Mr.
24:16
Speaker 5: McCarthy was in favor of it at this time.
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Speaker 3: Did your father ever give you any reason for his objecting?
24:23
Speaker 5: As I've told you, Mr. Holmes, My father hasn't been
24:26
Speaker 5: well for some time, and I would never think of
24:29
Speaker 5: discussing anything with him that I felt might cause him distress.
24:37
Speaker 4: At dinner that night at the inn, Holmes was thoughtful
24:41
Speaker 4: and less buoyant than he'd been earlier in the day.
24:44
Speaker 4: Lestrade joined us at coffee.
24:47
Speaker 3: All right, Mr. Holmes. Have you come up with any
24:50
Speaker 3: more fancy deductions and inferences? No, as a matter of fact, Lestrade,
24:54
Speaker 3: I've only a few interesting questions. Perhaps you can help
24:58
Speaker 3: me with one of them? Oh, glad to do what
25:01
Speaker 3: I can. Can you tell me the relationship between Mr.
25:05
Speaker 3: Turner and the senior McCarthy? Well, of course.
25:09
Speaker 7: They were the best of friends. He even gave McCarthy
25:13
Speaker 7: Catholic farm rent free.
25:15
Speaker 4: They went to the races together. Indeed.
25:17
Speaker 7: And furthermore, this business has had a very bad effect
25:20
Speaker 7: on him. You know, he's in his 60s and hasn't
25:23
Speaker 7: been in good health for some time. But now it's
25:26
Speaker 7: said that because of this, his life is really in danger.
25:29
Speaker 7: It must have been a great blow to him. Well,
25:34
Speaker 7: does that help you at all, Mr.
25:36
Speaker 3: Holmes? Insofar as it poses two other interesting questions, the
25:40
Speaker 3: answer is yes.
25:41
Speaker 7: Well, then perhaps I can answer those for you also.
25:44
Speaker 3: Not unless you happen to have a map of Australia...
25:47
Speaker 3: and know exactly what young James McCarthy was doing in
25:50
Speaker 3: Bristol for three days. The city of Bristol is noted
25:59
Speaker 3: for its extensive port facilities... its leadership in engineering... and
26:04
Speaker 3: the fan-vaulted ceiling of the famed church of St. Mary Radcliffe.
26:09
Speaker 3: But I doubt if it was for any of these
26:11
Speaker 3: that young James McCarthy spent three days there. We'll find
26:16
Speaker 3: the answer to that together with Sherlock Holmes when I
26:20
Speaker 3: return with Act Three. I'm not in the travel business,
26:33
Speaker 3: but I was struck with the notion that perhaps England
26:37
Speaker 3: would find it profitable to offer a Sherlock Holmes tour,
26:41
Speaker 3: one that would include visits not only to his famous
26:44
Speaker 3: headquarters at Baker Street, but would include visits to all
26:47
Speaker 3: of the places where he and Dr. Watson worked their
26:50
Speaker 3: particular brand of detection. Now, if we can imagine ourselves
26:55
Speaker 3: on one of these tours... Then we'd find ourselves in
26:58
Speaker 3: the west of England at a pool in the Bascom Valley.
27:04
Speaker 3: The site of a murder. Tell me, Lestrade, what did
27:08
Speaker 3: you go into the pool for?
27:09
Speaker 7: Oh, I was fishing about with a rake looking for
27:11
Speaker 7: some whippet or other.
27:14
Speaker 3: How on earth did you know that? I have no time.
27:18
Speaker 3: Footprints can be easily read on this marshy ground. And
27:21
Speaker 3: that left foot of yours, with its inward twists, is
27:24
Speaker 3: all over the place.
27:25
Speaker 7: Oh, of course. Now I understand why you said you'd
27:29
Speaker 7: wait until today to examine the scene of the crime.
27:32
Speaker 7: Because of the barometer. The glass was steady. You knew
27:36
Speaker 7: it wouldn't rain and the tracks would still be here.
27:39
Speaker 3: Upon my word, Lestrade, you're actually employing the science of deduction. Congratulations. Now, Watson,
27:46
Speaker 3: would you be kind enough to let me have your waterproof?
27:49
Speaker 4: Of course, Holmes.
27:50
Speaker 3: I warn you, I'm going to place it on the
27:52
Speaker 3: ground and lie upon it so that I can get
27:54
Speaker 3: a better view of these very interesting prints.
27:57
Speaker 4: It's yours, my friend.
27:59
Speaker 3: Thank you. Let's see. These are young McCarthy's feet, and here,
28:06
Speaker 3: twice he was walking. And here... Once he ran swiftly.
28:11
Speaker 3: The soles are deeply marked and the heels barely visible.
28:15
Speaker 3: That would bear out his story. He ran when he
28:18
Speaker 3: saw his father on the ground. Now here are the
28:22
Speaker 3: elder McCarthy's feet. Pacing up and down. He seems to
28:26
Speaker 3: have been impatient. Then what's this? What's this? Aha! The
28:32
Speaker 3: butt end of the gun as the son stood listening.
28:36
Speaker 3: And what have we here? Other prints. Square. Quite unusual boots.
28:44
Speaker 3: They come, they go. They come again. Of course, that
28:49
Speaker 3: was for the cloak or the coat that the son
28:52
Speaker 3: mentioned in his testimony. Now, where did they come from? Oh, now,
28:58
Speaker 3: come along, Holmes.
28:58
Speaker 7: There are a great number of footprints here. Some of
29:02
Speaker 7: them may well have been made by local police or
29:04
Speaker 7: even sightseers. I cannot accept your inferences and deductions as fact.
29:11
Speaker 3: That is your privilege, Lestrade. Now, if you'll excuse me,
29:14
Speaker 3: I go to search for more concrete evidence that may
29:18
Speaker 3: change your mind. Oh, and where do you expect to
29:22
Speaker 3: find that? Under the trees that line this pool and
29:25
Speaker 3: on a map of Australia.
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Speaker 4: When Holmes rejoined me, he was cradling a large stone
29:35
Speaker 4: in the crook of his elbow. I saw he was
29:38
Speaker 4: trying to suppress a smile. of triumph. As he neared me,
29:42
Speaker 4: he said.
29:43
Speaker 3: I believe the time is now right for another visit
29:45
Speaker 3: to young James McCarthy.
29:52
Speaker 6: I hope you're bringing me good news, Mr.
29:53
Speaker 3: Holmes. If you consider the fact that I believe your
29:56
Speaker 3: story to be absolutely true in every detail good, then
30:00
Speaker 3: I am the bearer of good news. That's marvelous. Marvelous.
30:04
Speaker 6: When can I hope to be released?
30:06
Speaker 3: Ah, that's another matter. My knowing that you're innocent is
30:09
Speaker 3: one thing. Proving it to the authorities is quite another. Now,
30:14
Speaker 3: Miss Turner has told us about your father's wish that
30:16
Speaker 3: you and she should marry. And I think it's imperative
30:20
Speaker 3: that you tell me now the reason for your trip
30:23
Speaker 3: to Bristol.
30:24
Speaker 6: That has nothing to do with the killing of my father.
30:26
Speaker 3: Possibly not. But it has everything to do with my
30:29
Speaker 3: being able to free you.
30:31
Speaker 6: Then I'll have to take my chances.
30:33
Speaker 3: It must be something of which you're bitterly ashamed.
30:35
Speaker 6: Look, Mr. Holmes, I'm not ashamed. Anyone can make a mistake.
30:39
Speaker 6: I made one. But it's over now. And I'm not
30:43
Speaker 6: going to say any more.
30:44
Speaker 3: Because of Miss Turner?
30:46
Speaker 6: Keep her out of it.
30:47
Speaker 3: Do you really think she can be?
30:49
Speaker 6: If I have anything to say about it, she will be.
30:52
Speaker 3: You sound as if you really care for her. I
30:54
Speaker 3: love her.
30:55
Speaker 6: Do you understand? I love her, and that's why.
30:58
Speaker 3: You refused to marry her?
31:01
Speaker 6: I was already married.
31:03
Speaker 3: But, of course, your father didn't know. No one knew.
31:08
Speaker 3: The young lady lives in Bristol.
31:09
Speaker 6: She's a barmaid.
31:11
Speaker 3: I was.
31:11
Speaker 6: I was younger. And somehow we ended up married.
31:15
Speaker 3: But now you say you're not. I believe you used
31:19
Speaker 3: the word was.
31:21
Speaker 6: I received a letter from her the day after I
31:23
Speaker 6: was arrested. It seems I never was married. She'd had
31:28
Speaker 6: a husband. A sailor. And now that I was accused
31:32
Speaker 6: of murder, she let me know that she wanted nothing
31:35
Speaker 6: to do with me.
31:37
Speaker 3: And you're afraid to tell, Miss Turner?
31:39
Speaker 6: If she knew... She'd never consider marrying a fool like me.
31:43
Speaker 3: I'm sure you're mistaken. But now that I know the
31:45
Speaker 3: facts of the matter, perhaps it won't have to be
31:47
Speaker 3: brought out in court.
31:49
Speaker 4: Come, Watson.
31:50
Speaker 3: We must have a chat with Lestrade. This may interest you, Lestrade.
31:59
Speaker 3: It is the murder weapon. This stone? Really? I see
32:04
Speaker 3: no marks. There are none.
32:06
Speaker 7: Why then do you describe it as the murder weapon?
32:09
Speaker 3: The grass was growing under it. It had lain in
32:13
Speaker 3: that place only a few days. It corresponds with the injuries.
32:18
Speaker 3: There is no sign of any other weapon. I see.
32:21
Speaker 7: And perhaps then you can describe the murderer?
32:25
Speaker 3: Certainly. He's a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg,
32:30
Speaker 3: wears thick-soled shooting boots and a gray cloak, smokes Indian cigars,
32:35
Speaker 3: uses a cigar holder and carries a blunt penknife in
32:38
Speaker 3: his pocket. There are several other indications, but these should
32:42
Speaker 3: be enough to point us to the murderer.
32:44
Speaker 7: Point you, perhaps, but we still have to deal with
32:47
Speaker 7: a very odd-headed British jury.
32:50
Speaker 3: Lestrade, doesn't it strike you as curious that McCarthy, living
32:55
Speaker 3: rent-free at Turner's expense, and thus under great obligation to Turner...
33:00
Speaker 3: should seem so certain that a marriage between Miss Turner
33:04
Speaker 3: and his son would be appropriate.
33:07
Speaker 7: We'd lie to have if I hadn't seen the young lady.
33:10
Speaker 7: I mean, she's head over heels in love with that boy.
33:13
Speaker 3: Then if this isn't enough to move you in the
33:16
Speaker 3: proper direction, there's nothing more I can do. Watson, look
33:20
Speaker 3: up the timetables and tell me the next train to London.
33:23
Speaker 6: What?
33:24
Speaker 7: You're going back to town, leaving the case unfinished?
33:26
Speaker 3: My dear Lestrade, you have your man and cannot be moved.
33:30
Speaker 3: And as for me, the case is quite complete.
33:33
Speaker 7: But there are still some unanswered questions.
33:36
Speaker 3: Not for me. I've described the murderer to you. But
33:39
Speaker 3: too easy.
33:40
Speaker 7: Can you put a name to him?
33:42
Speaker 3: Surely it shouldn't be too difficult to find out. I've
33:45
Speaker 3: discharged my duty. The rest is up to you.
33:53
Speaker 4: After Lestrade left, Holmes lit a pipe. I could see
33:57
Speaker 4: from his expression that he was troubled.
34:00
Speaker 3: Look here, Watson. I am in a bit of a dilemma.
34:03
Speaker 4: I don't see how. You've done all you could.
34:07
Speaker 3: Not quite. I believe I can name the murderer.
34:10
Speaker 4: Well, surely then the dilemma is solved. All you have
34:14
Speaker 4: to do is.
34:15
Speaker 3: Come in.
34:18
Speaker 2: Oh, Mr.
34:19
Speaker 8: Holmes.
34:20
Speaker 5: I'm so glad you're still here. I can't believe what
34:23
Speaker 5: I heard about your going back to London is true.
34:26
Speaker 3: I'm afraid it is, Miss Turner. Come in and close
34:28
Speaker 3: the door.
34:32
Speaker 5: But Inspector Lestrade said you were convinced that.
34:34
Speaker 3: James is innocent. Patience, Miss Turner.
34:37
Speaker 6: Patience.
34:38
Speaker 3: In considering this case, there were two points that struck
34:41
Speaker 3: me instantly. One was that his father should cry coo-ee
34:45
Speaker 3: before seeing him.
34:46
Speaker 4: Well, no, that's only according to his story, huh?
34:49
Speaker 3: Which I've already told you, my dear fellow. I choose
34:52
Speaker 3: to believe.
34:52
Speaker 4: Oh, and the second?
34:55
Speaker 3: The father's singular dying reference to a rat. I say
34:59
Speaker 3: that if we presume both to be true, we come
35:02
Speaker 3: up with some strong presumptions. The father thought his son
35:06
Speaker 3: was in Bristol. The Cooee was meant for someone else.
35:11
Speaker 3: That is a distinctly Australian signal. Therefore, I deduce that
35:16
Speaker 3: the person McCarthy expected to meet at Boscombe Pool was
35:19
Speaker 3: someone who had been in Australia.
35:23
Speaker 4: And the reference to the rat.
35:25
Speaker 3: This is a map of the colony of Victoria. The
35:28
Speaker 3: one I told you I wired for last night? Now,
35:31
Speaker 3: I place my hand over part of this map. And
35:35
Speaker 3: what do you read, Watson?
35:37
Speaker 4: A rat.
35:39
Speaker 3: And now, when I raise my hand... Oh, bellarat. Quite so.
35:46
Speaker 3: That was what the elder McCarthy was trying to tell
35:49
Speaker 3: his son. The name of the murderer. So and so
35:54
Speaker 3: of Ballarat.
35:55
Speaker 4: Oh, by Jove.
35:56
Speaker 3: The possession of a gray garment was a third point
35:59
Speaker 3: bringing us to a definite conception. We are looking for
36:02
Speaker 3: a person from Australia, from Ballarat, with a grey cloak.
36:07
Speaker 4: What an astounding hope.
36:09
Speaker 3: You applaud my performance before I finished. We can further
36:12
Speaker 3: deduce that this person is one who is native to
36:14
Speaker 3: this district because the pool can only be approached by
36:18
Speaker 3: the farm or by the estate, where a stranger would, well,
36:22
Speaker 3: hardly wander without being certain to attract attention. I have
36:28
Speaker 3: other evidence, but it all points in the same direction.
36:33
Speaker 3: The direction of a left-handed man with a limp who
36:36
Speaker 3: smokes Indian cigars.
36:37
Speaker 4: But you told Lestrade he used a cigar holder.
36:40
Speaker 3: He does. The cigar stump I found clearly showed that
36:43
Speaker 3: the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore, he
36:47
Speaker 3: used a holder, and the tip had not been bitten off,
36:49
Speaker 3: but cut. The cut was not a clean one, so
36:52
Speaker 3: the deduction is clear that he must have used a
36:56
Speaker 3: blunt penknife.
36:57
Speaker 5: I don't want to hear any more.
36:59
Speaker 6: Mr.
36:59
Speaker 3: Holmes and Dr.
37:00
Speaker 5: Watson, you must forgive me, but I cannot stay.
37:03
Speaker 3: I have.
37:05
Speaker 6: To.
37:05
Speaker 3: Father!
37:06
Speaker 5: Susan!
37:07
Speaker 3: Good Lord, I never expected you to be here, Susan.
37:09
Speaker 6: Mr.
37:11
Speaker 3: Holmes, your note said... I apologize, but there was no
37:14
Speaker 3: way of avoiding this issue. No, I suppose not. And
37:20
Speaker 3: I assure you I would have spoken before now if
37:22
Speaker 3: it weren't for Susan.
37:24
Speaker 5: She's... Father, I don't think you should say any more.
37:27
Speaker 4: No, no, no.
37:27
Speaker 3: It's too late, my dear. I have a great deal
37:30
Speaker 3: more to say. And it's best now that you hear
37:34
Speaker 3: it all.
37:34
Speaker 5: He cannot be arrested. I will not have him arrested.
37:38
Speaker 5: I sent for you, Mr. Holmes, and I can send
37:41
Speaker 5: you away.
37:41
Speaker 3: There may be no arrest.
37:43
Speaker 4: Oh, but Holmes.
37:44
Speaker 3: We are not police officials, Watson. I came here at
37:47
Speaker 3: Miss Turner's request, as she says. However, an innocent man
37:51
Speaker 3: must not be allowed to suffer. I, um... I have
37:56
Speaker 3: had diabetes for years, and my doctor says now that
37:59
Speaker 3: it's only a question of a month or two before I.
38:03
Speaker 4: before I die.
38:05
Speaker 3: But I tell you... No one knew the true character
38:09
Speaker 3: of that dead man.
38:10
Speaker 4: He was a devil incarnate. And his grip has been
38:14
Speaker 4: upon me these past 20 years.
38:16
Speaker 3: It stems from Australia?
38:19
Speaker 5: Yes.
38:21
Speaker 3: Back in the early 60s, I went to Australia to
38:24
Speaker 3: make my fortune. I failed at my diggings, fell among
38:28
Speaker 3: bad companions. Oh, I was hot-nutted and reckless. I took
38:33
Speaker 3: to the bush and became in short nothing better than
38:35
Speaker 3: a highwayman. There were six of us and we had
38:39
Speaker 3: a wild, free life. Black Jack of Ballarat was the
38:43
Speaker 3: name I went under. And we're still remembered out there
38:46
Speaker 3: as the Ballarat Gang. And then one day we heard
38:52
Speaker 3: of a gold convoy coming from Ballarat to Melbourne. The
38:56
Speaker 3: escort troopers outnumbered us, but as I said, we were reckless.
39:02
Speaker 9: All right, boys, let's go get him. Hold those horses steady, driver.
39:10
Speaker 9: Cover him, boys, while I climb up and get him
39:12
Speaker 9: to help me unload the gold. All right, now, driver.
39:17
Speaker 9: You'll either help us unload this gold or I'll put
39:19
Speaker 9: a bullet through your brain.
39:23
Speaker 4: We got away with the gold.
39:26
Speaker 3: But the driver of that coach was this same McCarthy.
39:29
Speaker 3: I wish I'd shot him then, but I gave it
39:32
Speaker 3: no thought. And how many years later did he find you?
39:37
Speaker 3: Some 11 or so. I suppose it was a punishment
39:41
Speaker 3: God laid on me despite the fact that I'd turn
39:43
Speaker 3: over a new leaf and tried to make up for
39:46
Speaker 3: my past. I'd gone to London about an investment when
39:49
Speaker 3: I met him in Regent Street with hardly a coat
39:53
Speaker 3: to his back or a boot to his foot. But
39:56
Speaker 3: he'd been tracking you? Well, he must have been because
39:59
Speaker 3: he knew I didn't live in London. He'd touched me
40:02
Speaker 3: in the arm. And I'll never forget his words. And
40:07
Speaker 3: here we are, Jack, he said.
40:09
Speaker 7: We'll be as good as a family to you.
40:11
Speaker 3: There's two of us, me and my son. And you
40:14
Speaker 3: can have the keeping of us. If you don't, well,
40:19
Speaker 3: England's a fine, law-abiding country. And there's always a policeman nearby.
40:26
Speaker 3: And so you've been supporting him ever since. Whatever he wanted,
40:30
Speaker 3: he got without question. Land, money, houses. But then he
40:34
Speaker 3: went too far. He wanted his son to marry Susan.
40:38
Speaker 3: But the boy seems a nice enough lad. No, I
40:40
Speaker 3: had no objections to James.
40:42
Speaker 4: But as you know, I... I don't have long to live.
40:46
Speaker 3: And he grinningly told me it was only his just
40:50
Speaker 3: due that he should step into the whole property as
40:53
Speaker 3: Susan's father-in-law. Oh, I drew the line at that. So
40:57
Speaker 3: we were. We were to meet at the pool for
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Speaker 3: a final talk. Mm-hmm. And why, after all these years,
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Speaker 3: did it end violently? Because he threatened to tell Susan,
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Speaker 3: and suddenly I saw red. I stooped, I picked up
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Speaker 3: a stone, and I.
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Speaker 4: I struck him down.
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Speaker 3: His cries brought back his son, but I had gained
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Speaker 3: the cover of the wood, although I was forced to
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Speaker 3: go back for my cloak. Now, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Holmes, that's... that's the true story. Alexander Turner died less
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Speaker 4: than a month after he'd given us his confession in
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Speaker 4: the inn at Hereford. With Holmes feeding young McCarthy's counsel ammunition...
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Speaker 4: with which to shoot down the case for the prosecution...
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Speaker 4: and with the young man revealing the reason for his
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Speaker 4: Bristol visit... he won an acquittal. That very night, Holmes
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Speaker 4: and I sat before a fire in our Baker Street flat...
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Speaker 4: Watching Turner's confession turn to cinders in the crackling flames.
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Speaker 3: My dear Watson, don't fret too much about my not
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Speaker 3: being able to take credit for solving the Boscombe pool mystery.
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Speaker 4: How the devil did you know?
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Speaker 3: I'm sure that after the passage of time, you'll write
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Speaker 3: it in those memoirs you're working on. And don't forget
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Speaker 3: to point out that the one person everyone tried to protect...
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Speaker 3: Susan Turner knew the whole story, while James McCarthy was
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Speaker 3: spared the knowledge that his father was a blackmailer and
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Speaker 3: his father-in-law a murderer. Sherlock Holmes once remarked that art
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Speaker 3: in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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Speaker 3: And Holmes' creator, A. Conan Doyle, proved it by permitting
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Speaker 3: the stolid Dr. Watsons to become mischievous about the stories
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Speaker 3: that were supposedly too delicate to open to the public.
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Speaker 3: And here Doyle let Watson's imagination run wild as he
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Speaker 3: mentions the fact that he could never, never tell us
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Speaker 3: the story of the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant.
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Speaker 3: A mischievously intriguing title, if there ever was one. I'll
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Speaker 3: be back shortly. When I mentioned that we could never
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Speaker 3: read any of the unrecorded adventures of Sherlock Holmes, I
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Speaker 3: neglected to tell you that Doyle's son and famed mystery
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Speaker 3: story writer John Dixon Carr did collaborate on a volume
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Speaker 3: which included some of them. They were interesting, but, as
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Speaker 3: the authors themselves would be the first to admit, lacked
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Speaker 3: the master's touch that made A. Conan Doyle and his
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Speaker 3: Sherlock Holmes world famous. But they never dared to tackle
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Speaker 3: the story of the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant.
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Speaker 3: Our cast included Kevin McCarthy, Court Benson, Patricia Elliott, Ian Martin,
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Speaker 3: and Dennis Koch. The entire production was under the direction
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Speaker 3: of Hyman Browne. And now, a preview of our next tale.
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Speaker 3: A world I made all by myself.
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Speaker 4: Smith's world.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 3: It's a small planet created out of an artificial cosmos.
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Speaker 3: Right now, its heat intensity is almost great enough to
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Speaker 3: shatter the retaining glass, so we'll, uh, we'll have to
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Speaker 3: start the cooling process. He tugged at a switch in
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Speaker 3: the panel, but I could see at once that something
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Speaker 3: was wrong. Uh, uh, Not moving.
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Speaker 6: The refrigeration switch is jammed.
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Speaker 7: Something's wrong.
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Speaker 3: The strange mud-brown sphere in the cabinet was still growing
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Speaker 4: Get out of here. Get everyone out of the building, Luke.
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Speaker 6: Suddenly, Smith seemed like nothing more than a frightened child.
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Speaker 3: I told him that we were alone in the building,
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