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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Living Doll Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway · Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen

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  Speaker 1: Ah, there you are, mister Bartell.
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  Speaker 2: Get any Oh excuse.
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  Speaker 3: Me, doctor Watson, I didn't know that you had company.
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  Speaker 4: Shut the door, my boy, and come in and join us.
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  Let me introduce you, mister Bartell. This is my friend,
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  Missus Campbell.
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  Speaker 3: How do you do, Missus Campbell?
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  Speaker 5: How do you do, mister Bartell.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Campbell is a.
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  Speaker 4: Very old friend of mine from England, and when she
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  called on me today I persuaded her to stay and
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  have dinner and then join us in this little session
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  of storytelling. You see, mister Bartell, she's really what you
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  might call the star the Sherlock Holmes adventure that I'm
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  going to tell you tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Oh come now, doctor Watson. I actually played a very
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  small part of the story. In any case, I was
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  much too young at the time to know what was
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  really going on.
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  Speaker 2: Say this is a great idea, doctor, one of the
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  characters out of your fabulous past here in California in
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  nineteen hundred and forty six, and helps tell her own story.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, mister Bartel, I'm no storyteller.
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  Speaker 6: That's the doctor's department.
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  Speaker 4: I'll just listen. No, no, no, no, my dear, I'll
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  set the scene.
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  Speaker 1: But you, mister ring up the curtain as it were.
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  Speaker 4: In any case, my memory isn't to clear on some
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  of the early points in connection with the case. You
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  will have to help me out, hope.
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  Speaker 5: But you're talking to millions of listeners on the radio.
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  I'd be terrified to speak over the air.
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  Speaker 3: Oh we're on the air now, missus Campbell.
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  Speaker 7: Oh oh we're not, are we?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, dear Anna, don't worry, Cinthia. If they're kind enough
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  to listen to me week after week, I'm sure they'll
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  be delighted to hear you. And now to get on
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  with the story. The title The Adventure of the Living Doll,
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  the setting the Sussex Downs near the Bee Farm, to
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  which Sherlock Holmes retired, the period nineteen hundred and ten.
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  And now, Cynthia, my dear, the curtain's going up, and
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  the first scene belongs to you.
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  Speaker 1: Supposing you set it for.
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  Speaker 7: Us, well, I'll try.
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  Speaker 5: We were living on the Sussex Downs, also, mister Bartel
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  at that time. My name was then Cynthia Browning. My father,
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  Arthur Browning, been dead for some years, but my mother
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  kept up the estate with the manager, a Missus U Tanner.
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  I was away at school most of the year, of course,
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  but the happiest times of my childhood was spent during
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  those long summer months in Sussex.
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  Speaker 7: I lived in a.
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  Speaker 5: Small world, knowing only a few people, and loving all
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  of them, or almost all. First of all, there was
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  mother herself. She was the most beautiful woman in the
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  world and the sweetest. I remember she gave me a
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  puppy on my twelfth birthday. His name was Dusty, and
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  she was so sweet.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to.
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  Speaker 1: Mother about him one day.
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  Speaker 7: I must have sounded terribly young.
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  Speaker 8: Mommy, darling, I do love Dusty very very much. He's
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  a lovely puppy, and you gave him to me.
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  Speaker 7: You love him, Cynthia. I know that, But I've been
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  feeding him. That's your job, darling. It's good for grown
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  up people to have responsibility.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Mommy, I'll feed him, of course I will.
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  Speaker 6: I'll feed him so poor here First.
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  Speaker 5: Then there was the estate manager, Hugh Tennor, such a
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  pleasant man and so willing to tell a twinwelve year
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  old all the things that a twelve year old has
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  to know or die.
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  Speaker 6: But mister Tanner, why did you have to shoot the horse?
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  He'd only broken his.
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  Speaker 9: Leg, Cynthia, horses aren't like human beings.
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  Speaker 1: Their legs won't men.
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  Speaker 9: I think of a horse that couldn't risk and run
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  and gallop across the downs. We're actually being kind to him,
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  honest to be, are Cinna.
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  Speaker 5: And then there was Frank King, the painter who lived
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  on the downs. He taught me to open my eyes
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  and really see things.
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  Speaker 10: No, no, no, Cynthia, that sunset isn't red. It's gold
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  and russ and the water. Child, look at it, it's
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  almost rose in this light, rose flecked with cobwebs of
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  eggshell blue, Cynthia, Darling.
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  Speaker 1: A sunset's never just one color. Do try and remember that,
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  won't you.
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  Speaker 5: And then there was mister Pound from the city. I
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  gathered that he was terribly rich and he wanted to
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  marry mother, but he certainly didn't understand little girls.
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  Speaker 11: Uh, Cynthia, I am going to you a half a
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  crown for being a very good little girl.
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  Speaker 1: Now tell me what will.
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  Speaker 7: You do with it?
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  Speaker 6: About something for money?
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  Speaker 11: Oh no, no, my dear, this is your own money.
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  You put it in the savings account of the post
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  office and it'll make more money for you. Always remember,
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  my dear, take care of the pennies, and the pounds
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  will take.
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  Speaker 1: Care of themselves.
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  Speaker 5: Then there was the wonderful wise woman who knew all
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  the things that aren't in books.
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  Speaker 3: Always remember my bunny.
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  Speaker 1: But it's good luck.
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  Speaker 6: To touch the hump of a hunchback.
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  Speaker 10: But the curso Beelziva himself will be upon you if
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  you look at a slipper of silver moan through the glass.
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  Speaker 5: And then the strangest and most wonderful of it all
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  was the lean, middle aged man with his sharp face
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  and the bean in it, whom I met one day
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  on the downs.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, young lady. Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Cynthia Barney.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Holmes Comes.
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  Speaker 6: Why are you carrying that net you're looking for?
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  Speaker 1: Bat flat knows Cynthia. I'm a bee farmer, beef farah.
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  Speaker 6: Well that sounds funny. How are you farm me?
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  Speaker 12: Come over to my face my day and I'll show you.
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  I take that a beautiful doll you're carrying.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't it?
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  Speaker 13: Doll?
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  Speaker 8: My mascot was given to be by Frank King, the painter.
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  Speaker 4: He made it for me.
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  Speaker 8: He made it look as much like me as possible.
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  Speaker 6: I call her me.
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  Speaker 1: It's remarkable likeness.
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  Speaker 8: See the hair that's clippings off my hair. And the
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  nails those are clippings from my own nails.
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  Speaker 6: She's really mean.
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  Speaker 12: I love her your own nails and hair, and the
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  dog is an exact replica of you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that, Cynthia.
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  Speaker 12: I remember my dear my name when you were it's
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  a Sherlock Holmes, and I live at the Bee Farm
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  and if anything unusual happens, accompany me at once.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, Dr Watson, I'll confess that that first meeting
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  with Sherlock Holmes rather frightened.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't understand why he was so worried about the dog.
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  Speaker 5: Well, no, but I remembered what you said about coming
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  to him if anything unusual happened.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure that that unusual something did happen.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, mister Bardell, and within a very few days. But
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  at this point I think doctor Watson should take over
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  the story. It's where he and mister Holmes really.
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  Speaker 4: Enteredhimore really well. As I mentioned earlier, mister Bartel, I
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  was staying with Holmes late in the afternoon. As I
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  remember that, you ran over to the Bee Farm where
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  I first met you, Cinthia a few moments before you arrived,
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  Holmes and I, each of us with a cup of
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  tea in our hands, were seated on the verandah, gazing
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  out across the downs and discussing the mute betty human affair.
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  Speaker 1: It's strange, Watson, and after a lifetime devoted to the
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  more flamboyant aspects of everyday life, that now, in what
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  is the fast approaching twilight of my days, I find
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  such peace and companionship in the exact and predictable behavior
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  of peas. I wonder what Marrigarte would have thought, Oh,
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  are you talking.
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  Speaker 4: As if you're an old daughter of ninety. You will
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  say what you like, and I don't think that you'll
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  ever really be happy in retirement, you, mister danger, the
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  the excitement of the chaste.
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  Speaker 1: The public of plaim. What are you talking about? My
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  work was never for the public, and what did the public,
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  the great unobserved public could hardly tell a weaver by
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  his tooth or a typeset by his left thumb, care
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  about the finer shades of analysis or deduction. In any case, Watson,
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  I chose a happy time to sink into oblivion. In
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  compared for very recent years, a criminal seems to have
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  lost all his originality and enterprise, my own little practice
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  when I gave it up and seemed to be in
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  danger of developing into an agency for recovering lost lead
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  pencils or giving advice against ladies from boarding schools.
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  Speaker 4: Talking of young ladies, who's this little girl running up
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  your driveway?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Great, Scott, it's little Cynthia, Cynthia Brownie.
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  Speaker 4: Who's she?
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  Speaker 1: Poor charming young neighbor of mine? Hello Cynthia, Hello, mister Holmes.
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  You've come to see how I found bees, haven't you now?
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  Speaker 8: Mister Holmes, you told me to come to you. Something
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  unusual happen. It has something that's frightened me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, sit down, my dear. This is my old friend,
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  doctor Watson. Oh, how do you do, Santia?
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  Speaker 6: How do you do?
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  Speaker 1: Ah? Cynthia? What has frightened you?
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  Speaker 6: It's my mascot, my knee. Look, somebody stabbed.
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  Speaker 13: Her through the heart, Scott, a doll.
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  Speaker 4: It's an exact repercover with the pen life frost into it.
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  Speaker 1: Graciously, When did you find your your masscot like this?
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  Speaker 6: Just out of tea?
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  Speaker 8: Mammie had some gentlemen calling on her, and afterwards I
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  went up to my room, and found poor me on
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  the bed. I remembered what you told me about anything unusual,
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  and so I came over here.
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  Speaker 1: As fast as I could, because I'm glad that you did.
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  Speaker 4: Cnthia, did you tell your mother where you've gone with her?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't. She was still talking to the gentleman.
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  Speaker 4: Worry about you when she discovers your disappears.
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  Speaker 1: No, nobody wasn't. I'll go over and talk to her
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  at once, Cynthia.
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  Speaker 6: My dear, Yes, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: Who was the gentleman calling on your mother?
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  Speaker 8: Well there was mister Tanner. He's the man who looks
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  after the estate, the money, mister.
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  Speaker 6: King, the paint.
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  Speaker 1: Mister King is the man who made this doll. Eh.
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  Now who else was there?
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  Speaker 6: Mister Pound. He's a businessman from London that's staying with money.
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  Speaker 1: And they were all present in your house when you
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  found the mascot lying on the bed. Yes, mister Holmes,
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  what's no chap. I'm going over to see Cynthia's mother
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  at once. I want Cynthia to stay care with you
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  god her old chap as you would your life. Missus Banning.
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  I know I'm a scene like an intrusive neighbor. But
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  possibly you've heard of me. My name is Holmes, Sherlocombs.
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  Speaker 7: Well, who hasn't heard of the famous Sherlock homes of
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  Please sit down, won't you?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? Your guests have left?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but how did you know I had guests? I
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  know you're a great to take care now.
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  Speaker 1: Your charming little daughter Cynthia came over to see me
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  half an hour ago, she told me, So.
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  Speaker 7: That's where she went. Did she come back with your no.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Banning. I felt it safer that she remained at
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  my place for a while. My friend doctor Watson will
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  look after her. I am afraid as she may be
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  in danger.
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  Speaker 7: In danger, mister Holmes, what makes you say that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know your daughter's doll, the one fashioned in
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  her own likeness and with her own hair and nails.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, Franklin made it for her.
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  Speaker 1: While you were to tea this afternoon, your daughter found
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  the doll lying on her bed with a pin knife
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  stuck through its heart.
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  Speaker 7: That's very peculiar, but I don't see that she should
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  be in any danger because of its home.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Browning. Certain practitioners of magic believe that if a
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  doll like effigy is made of a human being, and
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  the efforgy is then mutilated, that a similar fate will
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  befall the living original.
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  Speaker 7: But mister Holmes, that's black magic. You can't possibly believe
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  in it.
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  Speaker 1: Not in the results of stabbing a doll, Missus Browning.
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  But I well, it's possible that someone is trying to
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  kill your daughter, to kill Cynthia. Oh no, it may
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  be more than a possibility, I'm afraid. And when these
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  magical means fail, they will turn to more direct methods.
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  Speaker 7: But who could possibly want her death?
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  Speaker 1: You? You have not remarried, Missus Browning.
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  Speaker 7: No, I feel it my duty to devote my life
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  to Arthur's child, Cynthia.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, than anyone wishing to marry You might feel that
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  Cynthia stood in the way, but that's absurd but logical.
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  Missus Browning, Do you mind if I ask you a
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  very personal question?
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  Speaker 7: With Cynthia's safety at stake, You may ask any question.
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  Speaker 1: Are any of the three men who were present at
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  tea this afternoon desirous of marrying you? Will? I, please
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  be completely honest, Missus Browning.
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  Speaker 7: At different times say they've all asked me to marry them.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and you won't contemplate marriage because of your dead
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  husband's child. I tell me, missus Brownie, have you seen
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  this pen knife before it was the one un stuck
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  through the doll's heart.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think i'd ever seen it before.
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  Speaker 1: One final question, would anyone among Cynthia's acquaintances have a
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  knowledge of the practice of magic? Well?
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  Speaker 7: The old woman that Cynthia calls the wise woman might?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 10: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Might she be?
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  Speaker 7: A strange creature that lives in some hovel on the
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  dance near here. She brews weird concoctions with her love
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  filters and all that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Have you a suitable companion for your daughter, Miss Brownie?
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  Speaker 7: I know it's mister Holmes. I've told Cynthia over and
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  over again that she mustn't stray off and see the
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  old woman. But you know how disobedient children are at
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  her age. I'm sure she's been over there recently.
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  Speaker 1: I like to talk to this woman. And where does
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  she lived?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know exactly, but Frank can take you there.
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  He used her as a model.
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  Speaker 1: Frank King the painter, Yes, he lives in the village,
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  and I shall call on him at once and persuade
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  him to accompany it. We must find that wise woman,
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  and I hope save your child from magic, magic and
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  possible murder. Much further, Miess King, only a few more yards.
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  Speaker 10: Mister Holmes, A little cottage is just behind.
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  Speaker 1: The trees there. It's a pretty broken down place. Poor
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  old girl has only a few pennies to her name.
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  Imagine missus Warning was telling me that you used this
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  old woman as a model.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, she was a fascinating subject. I painted hers.
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  Speaker 10: She was mixing up some devil's concoction of herbs and spices.
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  I had her standing over a smoking cauldron with the
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  firelight playing on her.
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  Speaker 1: Was who was quite affective, as it must have been
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  the subject of witchcraft appeals to its king right.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know anything about it, which just that she
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  was such a wonderful subject for painting.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are, I'm knock on the door. I will
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  take the liberty going in Chary, I don't why.
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  Speaker 7: Not sh what is it?
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  Speaker 1: List came from that room? Someone is here? Come on,
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  look at her, Look at her head. She's still alive.
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  She's long to this world. Can you hear me? Yeah?
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  Let me lift you up a little. Can you understand
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  what I'm saying? Tell me who was it that did
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  this to you? She's too par gone to speak. Put
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  a piece of paper on a pencil. Yes, wait a minute, hey,
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  we thanks. Now can you write the name of the
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  man who did this to you? She's pushing the pencil away.
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  I don't suppose she knows how to write. She's trying
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  to show you something, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: She's trying to crawl over to the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me help you. It's to be a hiding
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  place of some kind.
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  Speaker 3: Look, she's taking a brick out of the wall.
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  Speaker 1: What is it? Wreck Scott money editable jack DAWs nest
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  to pennies and small silver and at least a dozen
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  golden sovereigns. That was to the money book.
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  Speaker 10: She's picking up one of the silver coins.
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  Speaker 3: She's trying to give it.
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  Speaker 1: To you, or a sixpence.
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  Speaker 7: But what.
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  Speaker 1: A poor woman. She's dead just as she was trying
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  to tell me something. I can't understand it. Golden sovereigns
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  in this hovel, and she was. She was showing you
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  a silver sixpence as she died. Mister Holmes, what are
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  you going to do? First check on the young girl's safety. Well,
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  I should like you to correct to my Mother's assemble
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  the other two men who are present at tea time
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  this afternoon, and keep them there until I arrive. I
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  shan't belong with the police. I shall summon them, mister King,
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  when I have the murderer to offer them, and I'm
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  convinced that that will be before the sun sets to night.
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  Speaker 3: We'll hear the the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of doctor Watson's story in just a second time
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  enough for me to mention another wonderful Petrie wine, Petrie
• 15:06
  California muscatel. If you like that subtle muscat flavor, Who
• 15:11
  doesn't you really like Petrie muscatel. Patrie Muscatel is a
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  clear golden wine. It is just as much a hit
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  with the ladies as Petre Port is with the men.
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  But I don't mean by that that only the ladies
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  like Patrie Musketel.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, if you want to be sure to please.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody, get both Petri Port and Petrie Muscatel. In other words,
• 15:32
  don't buy one, buy two, but do be sure you
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  always buy Petrie. Now back to doctor Watson and his
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  guest tonight, Missus Campbell, who played a most important part
• 15:43
  in the story herself.
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  Speaker 5: Oh not nearly is important about is that lay by
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  mister Holmes and doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 2: Well, doctor Watson, what happened when Sherlock Holmes rejoined you
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  at the bee farm.
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  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, he made shore the little girl
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  was safe. Then he told me of finding the dead
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  woman and of his theories as to the killing. I
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  can almost hear him now, mister Bartels. He said.
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  Speaker 1: Someone wanted the little girl out of the way because
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  they knew the mother would never marry while the child
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  was alive.
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  Speaker 4: And that someone persuaded the old woman to do the
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  job for him.
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  Speaker 1: As well outedly, and she, believing in the pawers of
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  black magic, mutilated the doll, firmly, convinced that in so
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  doing she was destroying the young girl. It was fashioned, doctor.
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  Speaker 4: And then I suppose when the potential murderer discovered the
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  woman was merely indulging in stupid foot cloy killed her,
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  realizing she was only a hindrance to him, and with
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  her knowledge of the plan, a dangerous sintrol.
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  Speaker 1: But how do you suppose we account for the horde
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  of money golden sovereigns? Don't forget if we founded my hobble, No.
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  Speaker 4: Doubt it was a sum that she has already been
• 16:43
  paid for the murder.
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  Speaker 1: That she was going to commit, and she died. She
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  trying to give me the clue to her murder by
• 16:48
  selecting certain certain coin. Now in a possession she had gold, silver,
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  and copper. She chose a silver coin. And yet I
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  can't see it significance. I must confess at the moment,
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  possibly not.
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  Speaker 4: And yet before the evening's over, I bet you that,
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  you say, Watson, I said, before the evening's over, I
• 17:05
  bet you.
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  Speaker 1: Like you, old fellow, that's the clue.
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  Speaker 4: You bet me what on earth you're talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Holmes, I'll just say, you'll just give me the answer
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  to the whole problem. Watson, I'm much obliged you stay
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  here what you will, chap and look out to Cynthia
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  a little while longer. Within a very short time, I
• 17:21
  shall have her intended destroyer under lock and key.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, I'm glad you've come. I've had the greatest
• 17:40
  difficulty in persuading these three gentlemen that their presence was necessary.
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  Speaker 1: Within a few minutes, Missus Browning, two of them will
• 17:46
  be entirely free to leave if they want to. Mister Holmes,
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  I think it'd be a good idea to tell everyone
• 17:50
  what happened.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, well, i'd be a good idea to tell
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  anyone what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, how do you do, mister How do you do?
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  Mister Holmes?
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  Speaker 4: Look here?
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  Speaker 1: If there's some scandal, now there is, mister Pound.
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  Speaker 11: Then I want my name kept out of it. You here,
• 18:07
  I have a seat on the London Stock.
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  Speaker 1: Exchange, very comfortable for you. And the other gentleman, by
• 18:12
  the process of elimination, must be mister Hugh Tanner, the
• 18:15
  manager of your estate, Missus Browning.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm Hugh Tanner.
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  Speaker 9: Now, mister Holmes, supposing you tell us what this is
• 18:21
  all about. I'm a straightforward man. In all this mystery
• 18:24
  is rather aggravating. Something has happened, something that concerns us all.
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: What is it?
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  Speaker 12: Murdered?
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  Speaker 4: Murder?
• 18:32
  Speaker 13: Good lord, who's been murdered?
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  Speaker 1: An old woman who lived in the village your daughter,
• 18:35
  Missus Browning, referred to her as the wise woman, mister King,
• 18:38
  and I found her tonight in her cottage on the downs,
• 18:41
  beaten to death, murdered. Why that's shocking. But of what's
• 18:45
  it got to do with us? I'll explain, mister Pound,
• 18:47
  each one of you. I believe would like to marry
• 18:49
  Missus Browning daughter Cynthia. Is an obstacle to such a marriage.
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  One of you decided to remove that obstacle and engage
• 18:56
  the wise woman to carry out the plan. Finding the
• 18:58
  woman clumsy and ineffect did, you decided that she was
• 19:01
  a dangerous witness, and so you murdered her. Fortunately, the
• 19:05
  poor woman, as she was dying, gave me the clue
• 19:07
  to her murderer.
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  Speaker 7: But how did she do that, mister Holmes? I thought
• 19:09
  you said that she died without speaking.
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  Speaker 1: She did, Missus Binning, But she gave me the clue. Nonetheless,
• 19:13
  though I was shocking this slow and spotting it. Well,
• 19:16
  what was the clue?
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: Yes, let's stop being mysterious and come out into the opener.
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  Speaker 1: You were with me, mister King, as she died, I
• 19:21
  shall let you tell them. Well, she was dying, unable
• 19:25
  to speak. When mister Holmes asked who had attacked her,
• 19:27
  She couldn't write, but she showed him a horde of
• 19:30
  copper and silver coins and a dozen golden sovereigns. Sovereigns
• 19:34
  in a hovel like that? Oh, I see?
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: She meant her murderer was the man who had paid.
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  Speaker 10: Her and with all that ill gotten wealth, she died
• 19:42
  touching a silver sixpence.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And you still, doctor, see who the murderer is. Come along, gentlemen,
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  you should know it as well as you know your
• 19:51
  own names. Now. And mister King mentioned that there were
• 19:53
  a dozen sovereigns. Whose name does a sovereign suggest? Sovereign? Sovereign? King?
• 20:00
  You thank, King, were the murder. That's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 10: The old woman wasn't exactly a mastermind. Why should she
• 20:05
  be so so indirect? And how much is a sovereign worth?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: A pound?
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: And your name, my friend, with a seat on the
• 20:11
  London Stock Exchange.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Is pound, which is absolutely absurd. I can prove that
• 20:15
  I've never even met the woman.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: Well, what is the answer, mister Holmes. I'm sure that
• 20:19
  you know it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: The answer is obvious, missus Browning, though I'm ashamed to
• 20:22
  say that a chance remark of Dr Watson's gave me
• 20:24
  the clue.
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: Oh now look here, stop thinking about the bush, Holmes.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: What is the answer? Very simple? One, mister Pound. With
• 20:29
  twelve golden sovereigns at hand, sovereigns that would suggest either
• 20:32
  the name of King or pound, what coin did the
• 20:35
  dying woman select a sixpence exactly, a humble silver sixpence.
• 20:39
  And what is the common slang word for a sixpence,
• 20:42
  a tanner, precisely, which tells us that you, mister Hugh Tanner,
• 20:46
  killed the wise MAIDY try improve it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 13: That's all, just trying out, Holmes, what happened?
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  Speaker 1: I found the murder old chat thanks to you, but
• 21:07
  I mean thanks to me. Well, I was thinking of
• 21:09
  a sixpence, the coin the dead woman cluched in her
• 21:11
  hand as a sixpence. When you said I bet you,
• 21:15
  I thought of the much used expression bet your tanner.
• 21:19
  That gave me the clue to the whole business. The
• 21:21
  dying woman was obviously trying to indicate that Hugh Tanner
• 21:24
  was her murderer.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: He confess to say before the police arrived.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, after thank King the artist had started to give
• 21:30
  him something about thrashing he deserved. Oh, I take no
• 21:33
  particular pride in the case Watson. Without your Chancellor Mark,
• 21:35
  I might easily have overlooked this obvious clue that the
• 21:38
  dying woman gave me. As I've said before, ow, Jeff,
• 21:41
  I should not attempt to emerge from my retirement. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
• 21:46
  it's obvious that my reflexes are shockingly slow rubbish.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: The police would not have solved.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: All my dear Watson, when you compare me with the police,
• 21:54
  I realized that my retirement should be permanent. And by
• 21:57
  the way, where is Cynthia?
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: Well?
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I arranged your house keeper for her to have an
• 22:01
  early supper. Some kippers of folks they got too a
• 22:04
  piece of that trick.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Of talk we had last night for Otokia, old girl.
• 22:08
  My dear Watson, this is an occasion when I might
• 22:10
  accuse you of being a potential murderer.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Comnor Holmes, you know.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Here she comes out hell asn't dear? Did you enjoy
• 22:19
  your supper?
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: It was lovely? Thank you, mister Holmes. Is everything all right?
• 22:23
  Can I go home now?
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, Cinthia, everything's all right, I tell me, my dear.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Did you ask mister King to make that mascot for you?
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Yes, mister Holmes. The wise Woman told me it would
• 22:33
  bring me luck.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, I thought so, mister Holmes.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Will everything be just like before?
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: No, not quite, Cynthia, mister Tanner and the wise Woman
• 22:41
  upon a where you you won't see them again? Oh dear,
• 22:44
  But you have new friends here, haven't you?
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Yes? And nice ones.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Remember that, Cynthia. We'll always be your friend.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: I will, Doctor Watson. I like you both so much.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I'm glad. And tell me, Cynthia, do you like mister
• 22:57
  King the Artist?
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Yes, almost as much as I used to like my daddy.
• 23:03
  He's like my daddy a little.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Oh. I'm glad to hear you say that, Cynthia. I'll
• 23:06
  tell your mother the same thing, will you. I think
• 23:08
  it might change a peculiarly foolish notion of person