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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Dog Who Changed His Mind Basil Rathbone, Nigel Br · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, what about the case of the dog
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: who changed his mind?
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  Speaker 2: All right, yes, I let me see it. It was
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  Speaker 2: in the good old Baker Street days, a rather gloomy
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: day in late October, to be exact, we had breakfasted
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  Speaker 2: late in front of a sea coal fire. With my
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: body in one easy chair and my legs upon another.
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  Speaker 2: I sat listening with growing irritation to homes as he
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  Speaker 2: practiced interminable scales through loves, lissando's and what have you
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  Speaker 2: on his violin. At last, a particularly screeching dissonance was
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  Speaker 2: more than my threthel nerves could bear.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes, must you do that? Calm yourself, my dear Watson.
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  Speaker 1: I was not responsible for that last bit of cacophony.
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  Speaker 1: It was caused by the scraping of a carriage wheel
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  Speaker 1: against our curbstone. I rather think we're about to receive
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  Speaker 1: a client, a lady rather slight and agitated.
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  Speaker 2: How can you possibly tell you haven't even bothered to
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  Speaker 2: look out of the window.
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  Speaker 1: My ears, Watson not nearly as well trained as my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: The infinitesimal creek of the carriage strings as its passenger
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  Speaker 1: descended to the pavement indicate a slender person. The tap
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  Speaker 1: of French heels indicate a lady. The quickness of her
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  Speaker 1: step indicates that she's agitated.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, decidedly editing, I must say, homes you have years
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  Speaker 2: like a hawk.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, your metaphor is a trifle mixed by dear Watson,
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  Speaker 1: but I accept your commute.
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  Speaker 3: Come in, mister Holmes, mister Sherlock.
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  Speaker 1: Holme, naturally, this is my friend and colleague, Dr Watson.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank heavens, you're as home. You must come at once,
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  Speaker 3: mister Holmes. She's been murdered. I know she has, and
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  Speaker 3: they'll blame Reggie doctor telling her to send for Scotland yard. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: mister Holmes, can't you do something, my.
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  Speaker 1: Dear young lady. I can do a great many things,
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  Speaker 1: but not until you would give us a coherent account
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  Speaker 1: of your difficulty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so sorry. I have made a fool of myself.
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  Speaker 3: But the whole thing is so impossible. You see, she'd
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  Speaker 3: never commit suicide, even at eighty nine. She enjoyed life
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  Speaker 3: tremendously and no one could have killed her because she
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: was alone with the door balset from the inside.
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  Speaker 1: Who is this remarkable old lady? And why should anyone
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  Speaker 1: want to kill her.
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  Speaker 3: She's she was, Lady Blenkinsop. But who in the world
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  Speaker 3: would want to harm her? Or I'll admit she was
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  Speaker 3: eccentric and difficult at times, you know, the French, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: But it didn't frighten anyone, not even Bobo Bobo. Oh
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  Speaker 3: Bobo is her pug dog, terenribly spoiled, but devoted and
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  Speaker 3: funny too. It was always with her, sitting on her
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  Speaker 3: lap or sleeping at the foot of her bed. Poor
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  Speaker 3: little thing. That's where we found him this morning when
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  Speaker 3: we broke in the door, just stood there, barking at
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  Speaker 3: the noise we made, and wagging his tail at Doctor Tillinghurst.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you break in the door because it was
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  Speaker 1: still locked?
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  Speaker 3: When Potter's he's the butler brought up Lady blencoln SOPs
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  Speaker 3: early tea. She always locked herself in at night, didn't
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  Speaker 3: want anyone to catch sight of her without her curls.
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  Speaker 1: I suspect, but this morning was different.
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  Speaker 3: I gather, Oh, yes, mister Holmes. I made her tea
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  Speaker 3: and a bit of toast at nine thirty. You see,
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  Speaker 3: I'm her companion, but I do cook her breakfast and
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  Speaker 3: fix her a bit of lunch. There's a charwoman who
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  Speaker 3: comes in to do the heavy cleaning, and cook's dinners
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  Speaker 3: and Potter's attends to the rest of the hunt.
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  Speaker 2: Rather a meager domestic stuff for a person of Lady
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  Speaker 2: blinken Stops standing.
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  Speaker 1: What is she hard up for funds?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? No, I believe she's quite well off her own
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  Speaker 3: money too. Of course, the Blankensop estates went to Reggie.
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  Speaker 3: When Lady Blenkinstop's husband died, he inherited the title too, creating.
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  Speaker 2: A certain amount of friction between the old lady and
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  Speaker 2: her nephew.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt, Oh no, doctor Watson. They were devoted to
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  Speaker 3: each other, not that they didn't squabble now and then,
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  Speaker 3: like last night when Reggie stumps out of the house
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  Speaker 3: when she took her birthday Brandy up to bed with
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  Speaker 3: her unopened without offering him a drink.
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  Speaker 2: Surely he could drop round to his club if he wanted.
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  Speaker 1: A night cattle.
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  Speaker 3: You don't understand Lady Blenkinsop's birthday, Brandy is very special.
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  Speaker 3: We've always looked forward to it, but this being the
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  Speaker 3: last bottle, I imagine she wanted to save it. Yesterday
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  Speaker 3: was her birthday, you see, and I baked her birthday.
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  Speaker 1: But what happened last night is not what brought you here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, oh, last night was fun, just Reggie and
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  Speaker 3: myself and Lady Blenknstop and Potters.
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  Speaker 1: Of course she.
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  Speaker 3: Always gave him a piece of the cake too. It
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  Speaker 3: was also gay.
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  Speaker 1: This morning was horrible right from the time he woke up.
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  Speaker 3: No. As a matter of fact, Potters was whistling when
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  Speaker 3: I gave him her tray to take up. Here's Lady
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  Speaker 3: blaken Stop stray Potter.
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  Speaker 2: Oh morning' miskidy. A bit late this morning, aren't.
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  Speaker 3: We a bit? I overslept, but it's all right, I hope.
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  Speaker 3: I imagine Lady Blenkinstop overslept too after last night's excitement.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't count on it. She's a great one. Her
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  Speaker 2: ladyship is next year she'll be ninety, and here she
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  Speaker 2: is as bright and sassy as the day his Lordship
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  Speaker 2: brought her here a bride from France. I'll never forget
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  Speaker 2: her driving up in the carriage, surrounded with all those
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  Speaker 2: cases of brandy brought them over from France. She had
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  Speaker 2: said her father had sent him along so she'd have
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  Speaker 2: something fit to drink on her birthdays.
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  Speaker 1: At least.
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  Speaker 2: There were so many bottles, I thought she'd never lived
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  Speaker 2: to drink the last. But there's no more left, Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 2: That one she took upstairs is the end she always felt.
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  Speaker 2: When that brandy was gone, she'd be gone too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh nonsense, Potter, that's just superstition.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 3: You'd better take her tea up before it gets cold,
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  Speaker 3: or she'll snap you bald headed?
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  Speaker 2: And how could she do that when it's bald I've
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  Speaker 2: been thirty years now, Oh, miss kitty, there's the front door.
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  Speaker 3: It's all right, Potters are answers. Oh, doctor tillinghas good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Kitty started away.
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  Speaker 4: I'll just leave my umbrella here in the stand. How's
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  Speaker 4: Lady Blanken's of this morning?
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  Speaker 3: I don't really know. I've just sent her tray up.
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  Speaker 3: I think she may have slept later than usual yesterday
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  Speaker 3: with her birthday.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's exactly why I dropped by. Thought you
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  Speaker 4: might have overdone it a bit, can't be too careful
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  Speaker 4: at her age. Thought I'd like to listen to her heart.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go up and announce you, good girl.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what she pays you, but whatever it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's not enough.
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  Speaker 3: I do all right, besides, I enjoy my work here.
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  Speaker 4: She's really loves have fun and doesn't give you much
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  Speaker 4: time to yourself. I imagine, hello, what's wrong with Potter's
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  Speaker 4: He's still standing outside the door.
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter, Potter?
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  Speaker 1: I have not and i've not, But she doesn't say
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  Speaker 1: come in?
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  Speaker 4: Well, go in anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 1: The door still bolted.
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  Speaker 3: Let me try. Lady blank and stop, Lady Blank and stop?
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  Speaker 3: Are you awake?
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  Speaker 1: That's mobo, he's heard it.
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  Speaker 3: Why doesn't lady blinkinstock answer? Open the door, Please open
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  Speaker 3: the door.
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  Speaker 4: I think we better force the door. Come on, Potters,
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  Speaker 4: help me. We'll use this heavy chair steading open one
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  Speaker 4: and two?
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  Speaker 2: Well, easy, barbo easy, easy, easy, easy, it's all right over.
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  Speaker 3: She's still asleep, but she's so white. Doctor Tilling has
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  Speaker 3: time frightened.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have a look at her. Where's my stethoscope?
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  Speaker 2: No poles, pupils contracted, Miss Kitty, look there on the
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  Speaker 2: bed table. She did open the brandy bottle after all,
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  Speaker 2: don't touch anything. Everything must be left exactly as it is,
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Tilling. Lady Blaken's office dead poison. Oh, Poters, go
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  Speaker 2: for the police. Tell them Lady blackn'sopp has committed suicide.
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  Speaker 1: Tell him to inform Scotland yard.
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  Speaker 3: She wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: I know she's pitty.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to go to the nearest apothecle is.
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  Speaker 4: I shall want some things. We shall have to make
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  Speaker 4: some tests. Meantime, I'll try to pass on this door.
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  Speaker 4: No one is to be loud in here.
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  Speaker 1: No one.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Bobo, come on, come on, good boy.
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  Speaker 3: But she didn't kill herself, mister Holmes, I know she didn't.
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  Speaker 3: She was terrified of death.
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  Speaker 2: Then someone else must have poisoned her. You did say
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  Speaker 2: she was poisoned, but.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor telling her seemed to think so. But who could
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  Speaker 3: have done it? No one could have got into the room.
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  Speaker 3: The door was barred on the inside, so were all
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  Speaker 3: the shutters I noticed. Particularly.
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  Speaker 1: Could anyone have been hidden somewhere on the room before
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  Speaker 1: she went upstairs?
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  Speaker 3: No, I looked under the bed in the dressing table.
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  Speaker 3: She always made me do that when I brought her
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  Speaker 3: up to bed. She was terrified of the dark, you see. No,
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  Speaker 3: she was quite alone when she met her dead.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe she took an overdoseph something by accident. Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: brandy was poisoned. Maybe she had a secret sorrow. What's
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  Speaker 2: my I a poor guessing games.
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  Speaker 1: I prefer facts get your overcoat while I summoned a
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  Speaker 1: four wheeler. It's vital we reach Lady Blnkensop's house before
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  Speaker 1: Scotland Yard has had a chance to muck up the clues.
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  Speaker 1: You say that Lady Flanket stop with French. You don't
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  Speaker 1: happen to know her family name?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, mister Holmes, it was the Fizziness.
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  Speaker 1: Her father was a Count m de Feesinac. No wonder
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  Speaker 1: her bridal brandy was rather special, Lee Watson.
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  Speaker 2: The Fezinak de Fezinek sounds vaguely familiar. Consei I placed it.
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  Speaker 1: However, the de Fezinaks are a branch, I might say,
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  Speaker 1: the main trunk of the Great House of Armagnac.
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  Speaker 2: From which the name of the brandy is derived. Bad job,
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  Speaker 2: of course.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I do remember Lady Blenkinsop going on about her
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  Speaker 3: family's vineyards. It seems it was customary for every daughter
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  Speaker 3: of the house to take with her, as part of
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  Speaker 3: her dowry, half a dozen cases of the brandy that
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  Speaker 3: was bottled the year of her birth. Lady Blenkinsop always
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: boasted that hers was a particularly fine year. She opened
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  Speaker 3: a bottle every birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Half a dozen cases. We'll see, that's seventy two bottles.
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  Speaker 2: Lady Blenkn's opp was eighty seven, by jove, that means
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  Speaker 2: she was seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: When she was married, all of which has no bearing
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  Speaker 1: on the case whatsoever. Never cut her up the mind
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  Speaker 1: with none essentials, Watson, that's your weakness.
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: Who's to decid not essential in a case like this.
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  Speaker 1: I am tell me, miss Kitty, who benefits by Lady
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  Speaker 1: Blakettop's death benefit?
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  Speaker 3: Why? No one, goodness, no one ever wanted her to die.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure we were all much too fond of her.
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  Speaker 1: Let me put it this way, then, who inherits Lady
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  Speaker 1: Blankettop's money A nephew I suppose, And you and Potters
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  Speaker 1: have been left a small legacy.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt, gracious known, mister Holmes. Lady Blenkinsop's last will
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  Speaker 3: leaves everything to a French society of wine tasters, the
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  Speaker 3: Chevalier de Vonda Jancion.
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  Speaker 1: The knights of the ancient vintages go to the head
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  Speaker 1: of the class. Watson.
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  Speaker 3: It's for the improvement of the French wine industry.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen, you said her last will? How long ago
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  Speaker 1: did you make it?
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  Speaker 3: About eight months ago.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: Mister Holmes, who was her heir before that?
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  Speaker 3: Why Reggie, of course, But you mustn't draw any wrong
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  Speaker 3: conclusions about that, mister Holmes. Reggie didn't need the money,
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: but he's plenty of his own. Really, they were very
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  Speaker 3: devoted to each other. They just well, they just didn't
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: always see eye to eye about certain subjects.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Reggie didn't approve of Bogo being sed sweetmeat.
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  Speaker 3: They had terrific squabbles about things like that.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly was the squabble that caused Lady blaken'sopt to
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: change her will?
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  Speaker 3: It was all so silly, really, a tempest in a teapot.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't mean a thing.
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  Speaker 1: What didn't mean a thing?
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  Speaker 3: He's holding my hand, Reggie. I mean, he just happened
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  Speaker 3: to have handed me the morning mail, and he well,
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  Speaker 3: he just forgot to let go.
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  Speaker 1: Lady blaken'sop didn't approve, I take it.
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  Speaker 3: She was always afraid he would make what she called
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  Speaker 3: an unsuitable liar.
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  Speaker 1: Oh face point of view, of course, he hearn's not entirely.
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  Speaker 1: How did Reggie react?
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  Speaker 3: He was furious. He said, when he married, it would
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  Speaker 3: be when and how and to whom he dashed well pleased.
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  Speaker 3: But it's all so ridiculous. You see, Reggie never showed
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  Speaker 3: any interest in me before, or sin did he?
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  Speaker 1: Hearmes, Oh, here we are.
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  Speaker 3: This is Lady Blakin's house.
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  Speaker 2: Gloomy old mausoleum.
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  Speaker 1: May Holmes hop out, Quatson and ring the doorbell. That's
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: a good chap.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that won't be necessary, mister Holmes. I have a key.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, I gather Scotland Yard is here before us. Can
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  Speaker 1: you tell, mister Holmes, Unless I'm very much mistaken, that's
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: Inspector Lestrade's official umbrella still dripping on the vestibule floor.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Perhaps we're not too late after all.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Kidney. I'm so glad you've come back, and I
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: just brought the gentleman from Scotland Yard.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the reception room. Well, well, if it isn't
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: inspect Of Lestrade, the watchdog of Scotland Yard Homes, what
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: in blazes are you doing here? My usual occupation investigating
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: a crime? There's no crime this time, Holmes. Lady dies poison.
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  Speaker 1: They tell me absolutely alone. She is doors and windows
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  Speaker 1: locked oight on the inside. Clear case of suicide. The
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  Speaker 1: Scotland Yard method reductio ad absurd and what's wrong with that?
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is? Personally, I prefer to review the fact.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor tillinghas says, will you be kind enough to come upstairs, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: he's waiting outside her ladyship's door.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be right up, thank you, Potters, Great scot what's
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: that unearthly record?
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  Speaker 2: It's Bobo, her Ladyship's dog. Doctor Tillinger says. He's been
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  Speaker 2: carrying on like that on her threshold ever since he
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  Speaker 2: took him out of the room and closed the door.
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  Speaker 3: Bobo, don't stop him.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody she knows. She's lying there dead, poor little creature.
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  Speaker 3: Can't you make him stop, doctor tilling her? He's always
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  Speaker 3: been so fond of you.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: Make him stop. He won't even let me near the door. Guys,
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: Bobo be a good dog, you see.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry, doctor tilling This is mister Sherlock home.
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  Speaker 1: How do you know?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 1: How do you do suppose we allow Scotland Yard to
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: handle the situation? Didn't want to happen and take an
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  Speaker 1: old ba a vicious brute new thing.
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  Speaker 3: She's not, at least he never was before.
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  Speaker 1: Very well, I'll take over, mister Sherlock. Holmes to the rescue.
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  Speaker 1: That's enough, Bobo, we know how you feel. That's right
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  Speaker 1: quite down.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now look at that he's crawling over to him.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: He's letting himself be picked up.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: He's looking his ear. Wanted to tell me something, you
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: bet it? Yes, I understand, I understand very well, old fellow.
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  Speaker 1: Now doctor Tillinghast, the inspector, and I will see if
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: we can get to the bottom of this mystery. There's
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: no mystery to me, Holmes. That's what you think, my
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: dear distrade, that's what you think. Now if you'll follow me, gentlemen,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: this will be rather unpleasant. Miss Kitty, you'd better remain outside.
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  Speaker 4: You see, Inspectulus Rod, the pupils are definitely contracted face
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: pale extremities yonautic.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you are, doctor churingish. It's poisoned, all right,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: but which.
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  Speaker 4: One we won't know until we've made tests. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: I sent Miss Kitty out resolution on ferry chloride.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: If it's opium or.
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  Speaker 4: One of its derivatives, as I suspect, that should do
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  Speaker 4: the twick.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Tillinghast, were you in the habit of prescribing opium
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: or any of the other somniferous poisons for Lady Blenkinsop.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Certainly not, I say, Holmes. Look here the brandy bottle
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: has been tipped over all the brandys ran out on
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: the carpet. Poor lady Blanket's up.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: She always said she'd die.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: When the brandy was gone, and now it is, and so.
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  Speaker 4: Is she all that'll doup Potters. We've no time for
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  Speaker 4: idle superstition.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, trus me, it's a plot, whether spill the brandy,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: knew it had been poisoned, didn't want it leave any
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  Speaker 2: belt to be tested.
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  Speaker 1: The brandy was not poisoned, Watson. Here notice the wax
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: that sealed the cork. That wax was melted over that
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: cork when Lady Blenkinsop was a girl. She herself removed
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: it last night after she locked her door, when she
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: was by herself.
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  Speaker 2: At least she did have a drink of it on
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  Speaker 2: her birthday. Poor also, and here it is now seeped
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: into the carpet. We want a dreadful waste.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: You'll say she never took a sedative, doctor Tillinghast, or
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: a painkiller of any sort.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: That she did, sir, A bit of ludanum when she
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: got a tuesday.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, of course I did prescribe laudanum a year or
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: so ago Christmas. It was I think, yes, when she
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: developed an ache and a lower by custard.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Did the lady Blanketsop suffer from frequent toothache? Potters? Only
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: when she was excited.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: It's like holidays and birthdays and now and then when
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: she met on her house.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Then yesterday, being her birthday, she probably developed a toothache
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: and took a dose of laudanum before retiring. Of course
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: that explains it all.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Laudanum is an opium derivative. She took an overdose. You know,
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: I never could persuade her to be accurate her confounded
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: gallic temperament. Potters, do you know where she kept her
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: medicine school?
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, top drawer, addressing table.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, of course I remember.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Let's see. Ah, yes, yes, here we are Bethle's lick.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: OPII said ativs. That's double strength laudnum. She must have
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: bought this that the apothecary is herself, and didn't realize
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: it was at least four times as strong as the
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: prescription I gave her. Doesn't take much of an overdose
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: to turn the trick when you're eighty nine.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Will hope there you are now, are you satisfied a
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: blinkage of exigentrial suicide by poison? I've never doubted that
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Lady Blenkinsop was dope, Lestrade, and quite probably by her
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: own hand, But that's not what caused her death, No, Distrade,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Lady Blenkinsop was asphyxiated, strangled. The evidence is obvious. Really,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: mister Holmes.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I'm astonished that a man of your reputation should be
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: ignorant to the fact that the symptom of asphyxia and
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: death by one of the somniforous poisons are almost idea.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Nurse, He's right, Homes. Every doctor knows that. Besides is
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: her sign of a struggle. If she'd been strangled, she'd
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: have put up a.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Fright, not necessarily if she'd been doped. First tell me, Potters,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: was Lady Blenkensop in the habit of wearing her pearls
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: to bed? I see where you're driving at Homes the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: pearls did it got caught around her neck and with
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: all that laudner minner, she never realized they were stranging her.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Wrong again, Lestrade, she was strangled not accidentally by her pearls,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: but intentionally by someone who saw her helpless condition and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: held a pillow or perhaps the bedclothes over her mouth
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: until she stopped breathing. In fact, I strongly suspect she
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: came too long enough to put out a hand and
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: upset that bottle of branding. Oh imagination, mister Holmes, pure imagination. Really, then,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: how do you confidence lint up her nostrils? Well, I'll
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: be I never noticed. You didn't notice, lestrade, because you
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: didn't look. If you perform an autopsy, I've no doubt
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you'll find more bits of lint in her lungs, lint
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: from the very finest French linen.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Lady than kids up always brought a linen's in front.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Exactly, But this is preposterous. How did the chap get
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: in to strangle her? Remember the doors and windows were
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: still bolted tight when doctor Tillinghas and the others broke
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: in this morning and found her dead. When the doctor
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: said he found her dead, watch the difference. Why do
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: you suppose he sent the rest of the household out
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: of the house in such a hurry? Why first, because
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: he didn't want them to get a good look at
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: her and realize she wasn't dead, only drugged. And second,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and here comes the really diabolical part of the whole affair. Second,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: so he could come back quietly when the house was
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: empty and finish her off.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Ridiculous lot of lies.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: You can't prove a thing. No, then, why wasn't Bogo
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: upset when you broke in this morning because he knew
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: his mistress was still alive? Why did he later turn
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: on you and offer to bite you because he'd seen
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you go back and kill his mistress?
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Of course, if you're going to put a dumb.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Beast in the witness. But why is the brandy splashed
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: on your shoe?
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: That's not brandy as mud I've been walking in the rain.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Analysis will show what it is, doctor Tillingest.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Well, suppose it is brandy. I sometimes stop into a
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: pub on a bad day for a brandy and soda
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I may.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Have spilled up on my boots. That's right, Homes, What
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: can we prove?
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Now, let's be sensible, What what reason, what possible motive
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: could I have for killing off one of my best patients?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: That's effect, Homes, no motive, no possible motive, whatsoever? Would
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you consider a fabulous rope of pearls worth say eight
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: or ten thousand pounds? Would you consider that sufficient motive,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: my dear lestrade. But Lady Blankenshop's pearls are still obviously
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: on the body. Those are not the blankingsoft pearls, Distrade. Oh,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I admit they're very clever imitations. Yes, if you'll investigate
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: that bulge in the doctor's upper left hand pocket, I
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: think you may discover the genuine pearls. What's in?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Quick?
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Don't know? You don't stop without finger full away?
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Hi you?
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Holmes, I had no idea that Blacky would
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: make a boat for it.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Don't worry, Watson, A fancy lestrade is still capable of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: handling the more rough and tumbleside of apprehending criminals.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Ter what happened? I just so, Inspector Lestrade escorting doctor
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: telling us out of the front door in handcuffs.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: What does it mean, my dear miss Kitty. It means
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: that the criminal has yet to be born. Who can
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: put anything over on mister Sherbrock Holmes