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Speaker 1: Come in, Ah, there you are, mister Bartel.
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Speaker 2: Doctor.
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Speaker 3: Are you already with the night's new Sherlock M's Adventure?
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Speaker 1: I am ready?
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Speaker 4: If you are the boy, how would you like to
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hear a story that took place in Italy?
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Speaker 5: In Italy?
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Speaker 1: Say you?
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Speaker 3: And the Great Cherlot Colm certainly did get around?
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Speaker 5: What took you there? Doctor?
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Speaker 4: We've gone to Rome to investigate the sudden death of
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Cardinal Tosca, an inquiry which I may tell you, mister
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Bartell was carried out by Holmes at the express desire
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of his Holiness.
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Speaker 3: The Pope, Say doctor, that sounds like.
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Speaker 4: A well known o mister Bartell. That's a story that
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I'm afraid I can never tell you. However, Tonight's adventure
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took place a few days after Holmes had brought his
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case to a satisfactory, though somewhat terrifying conclusion.
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Speaker 1: I suggested to the Great Man that a short.
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Speaker 4: Holiday would be good for us before returning to England,
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and so we spent some happy days browsing among the
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architectural treasures of old Rome, the Colosseum, the baths of Caracalla,
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the Forum, the wonderful ruins on the Palatine Hill, I
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couldn't drag homes away from mister Bartel, and at nighttime
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he was able to indulce to his heart's content, his
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great love of music. Finally, it was two nights before
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we were to sail for England. I remember we went
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to the opera house to hear the famous Italian soprano
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Gina Valcazy singing bird his immortal lot traviata. I can
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hear that exquisite voice now, mister Bartel, As Holmes and
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I seated in a box, listened spelled down to the
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great Valcazy singing her last. What a voice, Watson, what
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a magnificent boy, Yes it is, Holmes. A pity though,
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that most opera stars who were singing at Nightingale seemed
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to have the figures of.
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Speaker 1: Unusually well fed powder pigeons. Poor woman, she must weigh
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at least twenty stone.
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Speaker 6: Nevertheless, you mustn't refer to her as poor, my dear chap.
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Despite her somewhat unfortunate proportions, Signora Gildavalkse remains one of
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the greatest and wealthiest of contemporous spanos.
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Speaker 1: Listened to real clause sheial.
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Speaker 6: Singing uncore, We might as well go back to addressing room.
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Now the opera's almost over.
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Speaker 1: Why are we going back to her dressing?
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Speaker 6: Because during the last tervision I received a note from
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her requesting my attendance.
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Speaker 1: Oh what did the notes say?
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Speaker 5: Well, it seems that the.
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Speaker 6: Lady is not too popular with certain numbers of the
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opera company. Well, I've no wish to become entangled in
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any opera clashed temperaments, I confess I find myself not
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a little interested in meeting the lady.
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Speaker 5: She's Interestinger Blancore.
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Speaker 1: Are you really going back to her dressing?
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Speaker 6: Certainly, my dear fellow, I've summons from GeNose is no
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more to be disobeyed than our royal command.
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Speaker 7: I must ask you, gentlemen, not to stand us at
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lava cases dressing room. We permit on our strangers, particularly foreigners.
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Speaker 6: The senora has requested our presents. May I ask who
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you are permitting me to introduce myself.
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Speaker 7: Gentlemen, I am Armando Bellini, Inspector of Police.
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Speaker 6: My name is Homes. Sheila comes and this is my friend,
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doctor Watson.
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Speaker 7: Sure lack of Homes, but this is a great honor.
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Allow me to apologize. Here in the opera house we
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have to be so careful. You understand that of intrigues
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there are so many. But send your homes and his friend.
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I am so happy to meet you both at headquarters.
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I hear wonderful reports of your work in the gardenal toscaf.
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Speaker 6: I prefer not to mention that, unfortunately, Inspector, except on
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the conditions of extreme privacy.
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Speaker 7: Are quite so, and behind the scenes of the opera
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is not the most secluded place. Please to forgive me.
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You are waiting to see Lavalces. Yes, she is still
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on the stage.
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Speaker 1: She has requested your presence, you say in your home.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I trust the meeting is to be a social
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and not a professional one. Where sailing for England in
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a couple of days.
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Speaker 1: And you come to hear the great Arcs singer before
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you left.
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Speaker 7: Most understand a magnificent voice, Inspector, yes, a doctor and
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still well, I am a devote opera over myself. Yet
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I cannot help but feel it's a futuralizer with those
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who can add a youth and bety into a great voice.
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Speaker 5: That's true truth in your But where can you find
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such a combination?
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Speaker 1: I have a found it here in the opera.
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Speaker 7: There is a girl. She is my protegee. Someday I
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hope she will be my wife. At the moment, she
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is only understudying Lavalcesi. If she should ever get to
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the app fraternity of singing her her place, then a
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new star will be born.
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Speaker 1: Really, what's her name?
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Speaker 5: Lisa Bordoni.
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Speaker 7: She has but recently come to Rome from Milano, where
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she was studied with the great Alphaerra. Confidentially, I think
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that Labor Casey is so jealous of all that.
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Speaker 1: Here is Lisa now, and that is her brother with her.
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Speaker 7: Lisa Karma, pleaser to join us, by George, what a
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beautiful girl?
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Speaker 1: What is it? Amando?
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Speaker 7: Permit me to present the famous English detective Senor shel
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Ackholmes and his friend doctor Watts.
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Speaker 1: How do you do, young lady, glad to meet you both.
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This is my brother Walley. I do.
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Speaker 8: I certainly feel that I know a lot about you
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two gentlemen. No, I can't tell you how many times
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I've read your stories, Doctor Watson.
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Speaker 7: In Liza, I'm very flattered, Lisa Karma, we were just
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the saying that an youth and a beauty combine with
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the voice Liza our future hope in the opera. Your
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day will come, Lisa, Mia your they will come soon.
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Speaker 9: I hope you're right, Armando, But as long as I
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understudy Gina Valcazy, I don't see when I'll get my chance.
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Speaker 1: And she's disgustingly healthy.
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Speaker 6: If you're about my saying so, young lady, your name
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is BORDONI you and your brother don't sound in the
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least Italian.
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Speaker 8: Well we're not, mister Holmes, We're American. But to succeed
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in Italian opera, my sister has found that an Italian
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name is essential, so the Bordon family became the Bordonis.
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Speaker 9: In any case, my real name is Lizzie Borden. I'm
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sure you, mister Holmes, is a famous detective.
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Speaker 1: We'll see that I had to change my name.
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Speaker 6: I can well understand who was Lizzie boy Well, my
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never are one of the greatest and most successful of murderesses,
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who will enacts with incredible dexterity. I've often regretted that
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I was in Tibet instead of America at the time
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of that particular case in your.
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Speaker 7: Arms, I do not understand you Anglo Saxons to me,
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and murderous is a murderous Now when you speak of
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a greatness in women.
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Speaker 1: I feel Oh, but here comes Gina Valcacia.
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Speaker 5: Now I will introduce you so.
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Speaker 9: Many times because I tell you will not know said
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us side by dressing room, Send them away, letter Kasey
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is a tie.
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Speaker 7: But do you wish to see senior shell Uck home,
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said the famous detective. Here's a calm here in answer
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to your request, please uponmit me to present him.
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Speaker 1: And also is a friend doctor Watts. How are you doing.
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Speaker 5: Imtia to meet you, senor da Case?
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Speaker 6: And now perhaps if we may come into your dressing
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room and confer privately?
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Speaker 1: What would love and please?
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Speaker 9: You have to say to a detective it means not
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the police a go away hold of you.
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Speaker 6: You she slammed the door in my face. Water waiter, sus,
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and you bring me a small coffee? Please you very
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pleasant dining here on the hotel Terrys, and as confess.
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Speaker 1: Very amazingly warm considering yesterday's snow.
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Speaker 6: Yes theirs later and I just repay another visit to
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the opera. And here about cases, saying Gildan Rigoletto on.
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Speaker 1: My soul homes.
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Speaker 4: It seems to me that you're astonishing the caresual after
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the way that woman insulted you last night.
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Speaker 1: Scamming the door in your faces.
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Speaker 6: If you were a tradesman, shocking, What would you have
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me do, my dear chap, force my way into a
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into a room, demand an apology, or have my friend
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challenge her to a duel in order to avenge my honor.
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Speaker 5: Oh, don't try to be funny.
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Speaker 1: Home, You know perfectly well what I mean.
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Speaker 4: The lady asks you to come and see her, and
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when you do, she pretends she's never heard of you.
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And here it is nearly twenty four hours later, and
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you've done absolutely nothing about it.
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Speaker 6: Dear old Watson, nearly quite upset over the affair, aren't
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you well? If it will make you any happier, let
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me tell you what I have done something about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm delighted to hear it.
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Speaker 6: What This morning I was able to obtain a specimen
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about our cases handwriting from an autographed picture in the
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possession of Inspector Biline. I compared the writing with that
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on the note and I that I received from the
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box last night. It was that it was the same,
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proving that the message IRIS see it was authentical in
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that case, Why did she snub you like that? Well,
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something was to fight her. I suppose something or someone
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who was standing at the dressing room door with us.
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Speaker 4: Well, who was the Inspecta Bellini, Lisa Bordoni and her brother.
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Speaker 6: Therefore, we may assume that lave Alcaze had no wish
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to recognize.
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Speaker 5: Me and their presence.
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Speaker 1: But if you think that old, why haven't you been
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in touch with her today? She may be in some
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dreadful day.
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Speaker 6: If she is, she can find me easily enough. I meanwhile,
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I'm perfectly happy to pet alone. The last few weeks
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have been sufficiently strenuous without becoming involved in some fresh case.
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Speaker 4: My so home, you must be tired. I've never known
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you to be so indifferent to a case, Great Scott,
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what it is?
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Speaker 5: Watson?
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Speaker 1: Look walking to watch Signora vel Caze herself and.
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Speaker 6: Judging from the latest expression, she seems to be in
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some distress. Could you mean, Senela?
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Speaker 1: I must speak my jo.
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Speaker 5: This is my colleague, doctor Watson. How do you do? First?
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Speaker 9: I must apologize for my bievre last night. It would
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have been dangerous if that Belkaty had acknowledged that she
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had to communicate with you.
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Speaker 1: That's just what my friend assume happened.
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Speaker 5: Speak quite fully, Nasenia. No one can overhear us.
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Speaker 1: See your rooms. I am being persecuted.
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Speaker 9: My life is in a danger.
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Speaker 1: You want to save me, see season.
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Speaker 9: You and now today tragedy as a struck my sister,
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my beloved Bella lies on your death from a murderous attack,
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an attack that was immense.
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Speaker 1: Free good lord, what happened, madam? If you will please
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to keep it.
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Speaker 9: Quiet a little lot, my clesy speak, will I learn
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what happened?
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Speaker 1: Sorry, madam?
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Speaker 9: The morning, this is the morning you always myself take
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my dog for a walk. But this is the morning
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I feel the trace of a cold. I asked my
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sister to take the dog for a walk. Please do
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understand that my sater is very much like me in
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the pianos.
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Speaker 5: I understand, Senora, Please continue.
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Speaker 9: She walk alone in the park from nowhere her husband came,
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gallop and the ride or though these how much I
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learned from the traces in the snow. When I worry
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and go.
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Speaker 6: To find her, was she able to tell you who
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the horseman was?
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Speaker 1: No, she cannot speak seen you.
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Speaker 9: They say at the hospital that her skull is a fractured,
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that she may not leave in your arms.
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Speaker 6: That attack.
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Speaker 9: It was immense for me. You must have protected me.
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Speaker 5: I shall do everything in.
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Speaker 9: My No, what wrong, madam?
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Speaker 1: Somewhere that a cat?
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Speaker 5: I know it's me.
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Speaker 10: I cannot tends rightly.
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Speaker 9: I'll make it go away, please, I gotta say someone,
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don't even the thing now.
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Speaker 5: It must be your imagination.
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Speaker 1: I am sorry to make such a scene, but I
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cannot appear to be near a cat. I cannot tell
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you what it DoD to me.
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Speaker 6: He may sound no, no, not at all, Senora. Such
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a condition is quite common. In fact, I believe medical
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science has given it a name. It's known as Laura pol.
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Speaker 1: Whatever it is it called.
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Speaker 5: It make me ill. I must go to my room.
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Speaker 9: I cannot stand much more.
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Speaker 6: My poor I imagine your sister death dogs in your life.
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You will not sing tonight, sing your arms.
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Speaker 9: I love her very much, but even as sister is only.
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Speaker 1: A sister, my art is my life.
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Speaker 9: In an hour, singer, I sing Hilda in a rigoletto.
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You will attend the performance, and afterwards you will tell
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a love Casey how she may trap this devil who
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sit to destroyer.
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Speaker 1: Holmes. It's after nineteen thirty. We've missed quite a lot
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of the opera.
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Speaker 6: How they was going to above now just been time
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to hear at our case he sing the incomparable caronomy.
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Speaker 5: Let's slip in as quietly as we can.
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Speaker 4: Seems to me we should have been in a box
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from the beginning of the performance. She asked you to
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keep an eye on it.
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Speaker 5: That's old Champ.
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Speaker 6: But it occurred to me that an attack on her
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during the performance was unlikely, and that our time might
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be more profitably spent thinking inquiries of the writing academy.
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Speaker 5: She drew a blank.
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Speaker 1: We'll no trace of that mysterious writer.
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Speaker 5: No, but at least we tried. Here we are, let's
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stand at the back of the theater for a few minutes.
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Speaker 11: Great Scott, that isn't our cases singing, it's the understudy.
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Speaker 6: But these protoghe the American girls. What a beautiful life one,
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but with a beautiful, wonderful range. But yeah, we have
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no time to listen to her. Now we must go
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to the dark cases dressing.
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Speaker 5: Them at once. We know she left the theater to
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night with the intention of singing.
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Speaker 6: I'm very much afraid there's the devil's work of what Watson?
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Speaker 1: Why on earth doesn't she answer?
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Speaker 6: Listen the cats inside her dressing room. Come on, Watson,
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lot with your shoulder to it. Come on, help me,
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Come on, that's more. Come on now, what's there?
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Speaker 5: Fats cut?
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Speaker 6: She's unconscious, Watson, see what you can do for her.
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She must have tinked of the fight. Yes, some fiend
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knowing her deadly fear of cats as lucks her in
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here with half a dozen nothing.
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Speaker 5: Shore, Shore on me Shore.
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Speaker 1: Her eyes are opening, Hose, she's coming to see ner Varkese.
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Her lips are moving. She's trying to speak.
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Speaker 6: Sor tell me who did this to you? Hu, greats, heavens.
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Her voice is gone. I've done many vicious crimes in
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my lifetime, Watson, but to murder a voice, a voice
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that was one of the treasures of the world, is
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as viol like killing as I've ever encountered.
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Speaker 12: Doctor Watson will tell you the rest of his story
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in just a few seconds. And right now would be
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a wonderful time to try a glass of Petrie California
15:15
Port in the evening after dinner. Well, anytime you're taking
15:20
things easy is the perfect time for petre Port. Petre
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Port is a rich red wine, the kind of wine
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you like to sip slowly so you won't miss a
15:29
drop of its truly fine flavor. I'm not kidding when
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I say you owe it to yourself and your family
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to try Petri Port. In fact, you should try pet
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Report and Petrie Muscatel.
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Speaker 3: So don't buy one, buy.
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Speaker 12: Two, buy both Port and Muscatel.
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Speaker 3: Just be sure you get Petrie, because Petree wine is
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always good wine.
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Speaker 12: Dr Watson saw the great opera singer lost her voice
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when someone locked in a room full of cats.
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Speaker 1: Huh, what did you and Sherlock Holmes do?
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Speaker 4: We took senior Valcazy back to her hotel at once
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and saw that she was properly taken care of.
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Speaker 3: How did the understudy, Lisa Bordoni make out?
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Speaker 4: Doctor, But tragedy that over took Clark Valcazy gave her
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her great chance. She received a tremendous ovation of the
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close of the performance, and it seemed certain that another
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star had been born. But let me tell you the
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story just as it happened, mister Bartel. A little later
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that night, Holmes and I were once again standing on
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the balcony of our hotel.
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Speaker 1: Watching a crowd of people that had assembled in the culture.
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Speaker 4: You see that crowd, Watson yes, I suppose they've come
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here to proclaim the news starf.
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Speaker 6: Oh no, my dear fellow, that crowd isn't planning a celebration.
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Speaker 5: Look at them and listen to their angry murmuring her faith.
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There's going to be trouble. I don't like to look
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at it.
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Speaker 1: Hello, here comes Lisa Border and his brother Wally. What trump, sir,
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mister Holmes, mister Holtes, You've got to do something.
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Speaker 5: What's happened?
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Speaker 8: Well, somehow the story about the cats and law Valcasey's
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dressing room is spread. The crowd outside are saying that
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my sister Lisa planned the whole thing so that she
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could sing Valcazy's part in.
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Speaker 5: The opportunity with her sister now in a room at
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the hotel.
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Speaker 8: Here, I managed to get her away from the crowd
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and I locked her in. But then mob, I'm frightened.
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Speaker 5: Ah.
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Speaker 6: Here comes the official representative of blond daughter and inspected
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Bilin Waale.
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Speaker 5: Where is Lisa?
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Speaker 1: I was just telling mister Holmes that I'd locked her.
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Speaker 6: In a room and that crowd's in a dangerous mood. Beline,
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what precautions you're taking?
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Speaker 7: I ever thrown a card down of police around the hotel.
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The mob is getting out of her hand and Lisa
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must be protected. As a matter of fact, the situation
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is even worse than the crowd knows. I have just
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been thought that Lava Case's twin sister, Bella died in the.
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Speaker 1: Hospital tonight, that I had some murder charge.
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Speaker 7: If the crowd knew about that, I tremble to think
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what might happen?
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Speaker 5: Did you see that lab Casey's sister.
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Speaker 7: Was a twin, Inspector sees in your homes? She was
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a horror exact double in everything but voice.
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Speaker 6: Indeed, how very illuminating. If you don't mind, I strik
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have a few words in private with my friend doctor
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Watson excuses for.
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Speaker 5: A momentes, what do you make of at homes? Why
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are you old? Chap Well?
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Speaker 4: The American girl seemed really charming and all that, But
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she might have done it. It had to be either her,
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her brother or the inspector himself. They all had a
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motive for wanting lave bel CAZy to lose her voice.
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But I must say I can't understand the motive behind
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the murder of her.
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Speaker 6: To insist, I think I can give you the answer
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to that question. In a very few minutes. But meanwhile
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the mob gets uglier and ugliar. The only way to
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avert violence, Watson, is to give them quick proof and
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a certainty of conviction and just go back to BERLINI
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and the young American, and I want to keep an
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eye on them. Meanwhile, I want you to slip out
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and get me a cat.
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Speaker 5: Cat.
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Speaker 6: What a fool you will find out soon enough.
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Speaker 1: What kind of a cat?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Any kind?
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Speaker 10: But hurry, come on, ki kitty, Come on.
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Speaker 1: Kid, there's a good kitty.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, here, what you're doing a hotel gas?
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Speaker 5: Senor?
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 4: You want to play with my cat? Or is he
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your cat? Charley Middleville? I'd like to borrow him for
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a little while.
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Speaker 2: Why you want to bottle my cat?
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 4: I thought I'd take him up to my hotel room
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and have a little game with him. I've got some
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old socks he can play with.
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Speaker 2: Deal the English had a crazy race. My cat does
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not like to play with the old socks.
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Speaker 1: Look here, he has fifty.
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Speaker 5: Lira for you.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: I tell you my cat does not like to play
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with the old socks. My cat would stay here and
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you can keep it your money. I'll give you a
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halfred lira, so that you may stuff my cat full
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of old socks.
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Speaker 1: No, no, give me back my cat. Oh that's Amazy
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is with you. You're headed back there.
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Speaker 5: Stub him, stuff him, the crazy englishman. He's stealing my cat.
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Speaker 1: Well, I've got a cat for your homes.
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Speaker 4: But I wish you'd tell me what we're doing outside
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val CAS's door with it.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to try an experiment. You open her bedroom
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door softly, so slip the cat in so and close
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the door.
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Speaker 1: Hold man, what the places you think you're doing? You'll
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drive her?
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Speaker 5: Man, I think not. Listen and watch through the keyhole
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if you can.
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Speaker 1: Homes it's come back.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I thought it might.
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Speaker 1: I can see her through the keyhole. She's picking the
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cat up by the scruff of its neck.
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Speaker 6: She's walking toward the balconyes, and towards the crowds down below.
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An excellent opportunity for a public confession.
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Speaker 1: Come on, come up, what do you want?
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Speaker 6: I charge you with the murder of your sister, the
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great singer about Kissy. If there was a magnificence inior homes,
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a magniferson, the way you forced her to confess on
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the balcony and a full side of the mark.
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Speaker 3: And so you saved Lisa. I can't thank you enough, mister.
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Speaker 9: Holmes, No can I, though I still don't see how
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you guessed.
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Speaker 1: She looked so much like a sister that she fool
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even me her understand.
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Speaker 6: Yes, it was an extremely cunning plot. Bespname the real
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Valcasein sent me that note last night. When I met
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her at the dressing room door, she denied having sent
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for me because the three of you were there.
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Speaker 1: I suppose that she suspected one of us.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, obviously, and Lida no doubt. She told her
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twin sister, Bella, about having sent me the message, and
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also announced her intention of coming to see me. Bella
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saw her opportunity murdered Lavalcase, assumed her identity, and to
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give added realism to her role, followed through with her
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sister's plans by coming to see me today.
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Speaker 8: But I still don't understand this business, mister Holmes. Why
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did the twin sister lock herself in her dressing room
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and fill it with cats?
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Speaker 1: What did it accomplish? Need a chance to see?
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Speaker 6: That's true, which is why Watson felt certain the criminal
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must be you, your brother or Senor Belline. But you see,
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the episode of the cats accomplished one other thing. It
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made it plausible that the Great Falkase should never sing again.
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To whose advantage would that be an imposter across.
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Speaker 1: A person or a twin sister who could not sing,
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and who must surely end her sister's great thing.
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Speaker 5: Exactly, my dear fellow.
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Speaker 6: As soon as I knew they were twin sisters and everything,
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but voyce it became more than a possibility. It became probability.
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But it had to be tested. That's why I sent
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for the cat, Watson. When the sister, thinking herself unobserved,
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exhibited no terror for cats, well, it became a certain.
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Speaker 5: Day on my soul home.
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Speaker 1: This is as fantastic a plot as ever.
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Speaker 6: We've met a diabolical plan, Watson, and I'm only thankful,
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Miss Boudonney that we were able to expose it before
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the crowd reached you tonight.
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Speaker 9: I don't know what I can ever do to repay you,
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mister Holmes.
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Speaker 5: Oh that would be hard, my dear.
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Speaker 6: A box of cuff and garden for your London debut
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would be well an ample repayment. And from what I
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hear your reception in Brigoletto tonight. I shan't have to
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wait very long for that reward, eh.
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Speaker 1: It's a promise me.
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Speaker 4: Excusedly pleased, all over the hotel, I look up for
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my cat.
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Speaker 2: I say to myself, pease, he's stealing my cat.
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Speaker 5: He's picked up Alina.
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Speaker 1: You arrassed him.
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Speaker 2: He tried to bribe him, and he ran.
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Speaker 1: Away with my cat.
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Speaker 2: And fill them full of old English SARTs, oh the
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shi