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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Dying Schoolboys Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Con · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, how about the singular affair of the
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  Speaker 1: dying schoolboy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mister Bell, that strange adventure again on a stormy
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  Speaker 2: September evening in Baker Street, many many years ago. All
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  Speaker 2: day along, the wind had screamed, the rain had beaten
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  Speaker 2: against our windows. Shortly after dinner there was the old
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  Speaker 2: familiar jangle on our front door bell, and a few
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  Speaker 2: moments later missus Hudson ushered a distinguished visitor into the room.
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  Speaker 2: As he stood there in front of the flickering firelight,
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  Speaker 2: I could see that he was a good looking man,
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  Speaker 2: and also that he was in a state of considerable excitement.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Lord Manders, if you will just give us the facts.
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  Speaker 4: Well, mister Holmes, three years ago I was a passenger
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  Speaker 4: on that ill fitted ship with Sophie Andersen. She was
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  Speaker 4: waked in the gill and I was the only survivor.
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  Speaker 4: I clung to a piece of broken spar and was
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  Speaker 4: washed ashore. And after that, for over two years I
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  Speaker 4: lived alone on an island in the Indulution. Naturally, when
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  Speaker 4: Sophie Andersen founded, I was believed to be dead. My
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  Speaker 4: young for the Eric who is next in line inherited
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  Speaker 4: the estate and the guardianship of our uncle.
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  Speaker 2: Inquired a lot of confusion when you arrived home this year,
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  Speaker 2: Lord Mandon.
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  Speaker 4: There was doctor Watson, but not for the reason you suppose.
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  Speaker 4: I landed in England to find that my brother had
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  Speaker 4: died last December. He died under very peculiar circumstances. That's
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  Speaker 4: why I've conf fumes to Holmes. What were those circumstances.
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  Speaker 4: My uncle sent Eric to a school on the Wilshmorls,
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  Speaker 4: not far from Cardiff, a school owns Punson be Hall.
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  Speaker 4: He died in the school in Thumbry. There supposed live pneumonia.
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  Speaker 3: And you have some reason to believe it was not pneumonia.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing definite.
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  Speaker 4: I've been down to the school, but doctor Punson, to
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  Speaker 4: the owner, was too ill to see me. However, I
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  Speaker 4: did talk to a frightening woman there who's the matron
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  Speaker 4: of the place, and missus Arkwright. I became suspicious, so
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  Speaker 4: I stayed on and for a few days made some
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  Speaker 4: local inquiries.
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  Speaker 3: With what results.
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  Speaker 4: Punson de Hall has a black name with the villagers,
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  Speaker 4: mister Holmes, five boys died bell in the last two
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  Speaker 4: years under circumstances similar to my brother's.
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  Speaker 3: I presume that you immediately had an accounting with your uncle.
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  Speaker 4: My uncle had settled another account before my return, mister Holmes,
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  Speaker 4: he died of a heart attack last February, but I
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  Speaker 4: am certain he was responsible for Eric's death. You see,
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  Speaker 4: he'stood to inherit the estate. It me sounded incredible, but
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  Speaker 4: I believe Eric was murdered at Hunsen Dehor.
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  Speaker 2: Murdered in a boyish school. Oh, come, come, come, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Such things can't happen in this nineteenth century of.
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  Speaker 3: World, but they can, Watson, and do. Unfortunately, you don't
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  Speaker 3: mean it, I do. A private school situated in a
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  Speaker 3: desolate spot and operated by an unprincipled scoundrel could provide
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  Speaker 3: excellent and profitable opportunities for removing unwonted relatives.
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  Speaker 4: The ghastly thought, mister Holmes. I know that Eric's dad.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing can bring him to life again, but I can
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  Speaker 4: try and avenge his death and bring his murder to justice.
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  Speaker 3: You will help me, won't you, Yes, Lord Banders, I will.
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  Speaker 3: If these shocking occurrences have been taking place, we may
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  Speaker 3: be able at least to prevent further tragedies. Watson, suppose
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  Speaker 3: we join Lord Manda's on the west of England Express
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  Speaker 3: tonight and tomorrow see what can be done to penetrate
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  Speaker 3: the black clouds that surround punsonby Hall.
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  Speaker 4: We're walking in the wrong directions to homes the schools
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  Speaker 4: behind us, and before going there, I thought we might
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  Speaker 4: profitably player visit here in the village to lou Ellen Coffin.
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  Speaker 4: Who's here the local undertaker?
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  Speaker 2: Undertake Coffin? Well, isn't it Coffin? Undertaker? Quite?
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  Speaker 3: But try and control your amusement, will you, Watson? Here's
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  Speaker 3: this establishment now?
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  Speaker 5: Good day, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Coffin, Yes, sir, that's my name.
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  Speaker 5: Coffin.
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  Speaker 3: Where strangers in these parts and we're in search of information.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping, mister Coffin, that you'll be able to help us.
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  Speaker 6: What I can do, Sir, I will and do it.
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  Speaker 3: Grad I understand that you've had an unusually large proportion
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  Speaker 3: of business from punsonby Hall in the past two years.
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  Speaker 2: Five boys died, didn't the five boys?
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  Speaker 3: It was, mister Coffin. We've heard some strange stories in
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  Speaker 3: the village, yes, stories that make us wonder if those
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  Speaker 3: deaths were from natural causes.
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  Speaker 6: Gentlemen, I'm a simple man, look you a man who
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  Speaker 6: plies his trade, but cannot afford to ask questions what
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  Speaker 6: goes on at Punsonby Hall. And I'll not say strange
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  Speaker 6: things haven't happened. There is none of my business.
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  Speaker 4: Then let me appeal to your sympathis my young brother
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  Speaker 4: died at punson Be Hall last December. You must have
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  Speaker 4: buried him.
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  Speaker 5: Your brother?
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  Speaker 6: Well, now, look you, that makes it different. But you'll
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  Speaker 6: not say anything up at the hall, sir. Doctor Punsen
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  Speaker 6: is a savage man.
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  Speaker 3: Don't worry on that score. Mister Coffin, what do you
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  Speaker 3: often know?
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  Speaker 5: In, sir?
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  Speaker 3: All the five boys were supposed to have had pneumonia.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that's what the medical report said. Who signed
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  Speaker 3: those reports?
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  Speaker 6: Dr punsonby himself? He's a regular medical doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Look you, how very convenient. No questions had to be asked,
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  Speaker 3: mister Coffin. When you prepared those bodies for burial? Did
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  Speaker 3: you notice anything unusual about them, anything to make you
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  Speaker 3: think their deaths were possibly not cause by pneumonia?
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  Speaker 6: No, sir, think now think way now that you mention it.
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  Speaker 6: There was one thing I was often noticing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what was that? My good man?
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  Speaker 6: The boys had a strange look on their faces as
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  Speaker 6: they lay there as if something had frightened the wits
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  Speaker 6: of the them.
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  Speaker 3: Just before they died.
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  Speaker 2: They heard the face of anyone dying from pneumonia would
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  Speaker 2: been reposed.
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  Speaker 3: Did you notice anything else, mister Coffin, any other peculiarity.
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  Speaker 6: Where there was one thing's heard that gave me to thinking.
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  Speaker 6: All the boys had marks on them states marks They
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  Speaker 6: were on their necks or shouldershaps.
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  Speaker 2: Of a bite, remember doctor Rilett Oft Moran Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Did these marks look like the bites of a snake,
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  Speaker 3: mister Coffin.
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  Speaker 6: Know that they were in Look, I know a snake
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  Speaker 6: bite when I see one.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't these marks make you suspicious?
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  Speaker 5: That they did?
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  Speaker 2: Sir?
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  Speaker 6: And when I saw them on the boys, I took
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  Speaker 6: my courage in my hands and asked doctor Punsonby and
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  Speaker 6: what did is say inoculation marks? He said that he
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  Speaker 6: had tried to save them with some new fangled medicine.
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  Speaker 4: No autopsy was held on the boys, No, sir, Doctor
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  Speaker 4: Punsenby is the only doctor in these parts.
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  Speaker 6: Look, he gave the certificates.
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  Speaker 4: Who was to ask any questions?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly? Come on, Watson, Lord Landers, this has been a
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  Speaker 3: very promising start. Thank you, mister Coffin. You've been most helpful.
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  Speaker 6: It was a pleasure to talk to you, gentlemen, but
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  Speaker 6: please don't be after repeating what I said.
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  Speaker 4: Well, mister Holmes, I think you'll agree my suspicions were
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  Speaker 4: well grunned.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and we'll lose no time investigating this matter. I
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  Speaker 3: think we may work fast if we divide our forces.
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  Speaker 3: I shall return to the Inn and composed a telegram
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  Speaker 3: that I shall ask you to send for me, Lord Menders.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, mister Ms, aren't you going to Punson the
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  Speaker 2: whole homes?
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  Speaker 3: Not immediately? However, you, my dear Watson, can be my
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  Speaker 3: advance guard. Yes. I think that your open countenance, combined
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  Speaker 3: with that delightful Scottish accent you sometimes assume plus an
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  Speaker 3: appropriate name, should low doctor punsonby into believing that he
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  Speaker 3: has another wealthy customer who needs his very specialized services.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Homes, I'll do my best. It's the same. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be very relieved when you get on the scene.
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  Speaker 3: I'm missus Arkwright, the school matron, whom did you wish
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  Speaker 3: to see?
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  Speaker 2: I want to have a world wis doctor Punsenbee. My
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  Speaker 2: name is Angus McLachlin, and I'm most anxious to send
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  Speaker 2: my young cousin. He oh, he needs discipline, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: told that you dinner pamper a young lad here.
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  Speaker 6: Please come in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure doctor Punsenby will see you. Thank you, Missus Arkley.
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  Speaker 3: You know in Please.
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  Speaker 5: Dr Punsonby, Yes, please sit down, won't you?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you? Sir. My name is Angus McLachlin. I've traveled
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  Speaker 2: all the way from Abingdeen to see you. I was
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  Speaker 2: told that your school you at least know how to
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  Speaker 2: discipline a lad.
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  Speaker 5: Well, mister McLachlan.
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  Speaker 4: In our modest way, we endeavor to inculcate our students
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  Speaker 4: with a sense of responsibility.
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  Speaker 5: I was about to have a glass of wine.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps you care to join me.
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  Speaker 5: Likely you will wish to send a relative here.
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  Speaker 2: I sure, a young cousin of mine if you, If
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  Speaker 2: you take.
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  Speaker 5: Him, here's your wine, mister mccroo.
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  Speaker 2: And to your very good health. Ah, that's very good.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me more about your cousins, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Before I accept a new student, I like to know
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  Speaker 4: as much about him as possible.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be quite frankly. He's thirteen years old, and he's
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  Speaker 2: a young devil, and an inconvenient young devil too. You see,
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Fansen may I'm his guardian. If you follow me, no, sir,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I do. I'll be perfectly honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a poor man, and I'd be a very
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  Speaker 2: wealthy one if if it went for that boy. The
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  Speaker 2: whipper Snapper is the only person who stands between me
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  Speaker 2: and my dead brother's fortune.
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  Speaker 1: I would.
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  Speaker 2: Be sorry if if anything will happened to him. Am
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  Speaker 2: I making myself quite clear? Doctor?
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  Speaker 5: Much clearer, mister McLachlan.
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  Speaker 2: Another glass of wine? I thank you well, it's very good,
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  Speaker 2: mister mclachland.
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  Speaker 4: Why not put all your cards on the table so
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  Speaker 4: much simpler that way?
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  Speaker 2: Very well, there's ten thousand pounds meaning anything to you,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Pansom.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, the scholastic profession is notoriously unremulative.
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  Speaker 2: If my cousin who have to be taken ill, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: she'll be saying with pneumonia if he were to die
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  Speaker 2: here at your school, I'll pay you ten thousand pounds
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  Speaker 2: and now, sorry, I can't be more explicit than that,
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  Speaker 2: can I?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, mister mclucklin, your Scottish accent is beginning
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  Speaker 4: to disappear. Such a pity, it's pipe colorful rhyme's drugs.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't touched your hands drugs.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a most absterelious man, particularly on occasions like this,
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: Dr Watson.
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  Speaker 5: You know my name, Even in this remote spot.
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: I've seen photographs of you and your friend, the famous
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: Sherlock Holmes there. I'm just a little hurt that you
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  Speaker 4: both thought I was stupid enough to be fooled so easily.
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  Speaker 5: You seem dreadfully sleepy, Doctor Watson.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go to sleep.
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  Speaker 4: And sleep well, my friend. I only hope that you
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  Speaker 4: don't have too much trouble waking up.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: In just a moment, we'll find out just how much
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: trouble Dr Watson does have in waking up. But first,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: have you noticed how men are taking a greater interest
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: in their appearance lately? Competition today is keener than ever,
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure you'll agree one of the greatest assets
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: to a man's appearance is well groomed hair. So men,
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: let me give you this tip about CREML hair tonic
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  Speaker 1: and why it's preferred by so many of America's most
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: successful and prosperous executives. Kremmeel k r e m L
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: keeps dry, ruffled hair neatly in place all day long.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: It gives it such a handsome, healthy looking luster too.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Kremmel never leaves hair with that offensive, cheap, greasy look.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: It never leaves hair and scalp full of sticky goo
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: which feels so dirty. Kremmel always looks and smells so
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: clean on both hair and scalp. It gives hair that attractive, natural,
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: he man look, which certainly hits the jackpot with the ladies.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: And don't forget Kremmel does lots more than keep hair
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: looking handsome. Let me repeat, Kremmel does lots more than
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: keep hair looking handsome. It makes hair feel softer, easier
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: to manage. At the same time, it removes dandroflakes and
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: makes the scalp feel so clean and invigorated. Men use
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Kremmel hair tonic daily and see if you don't say
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: my hair never looked better, my scalp never felt cleaner. Well,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: doctor Watson, you certainly left me teetering on the edge
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  Speaker 1: of my chair.
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  Speaker 3: We left you drugged in the school master's steady.
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  Speaker 1: What happened next?
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  Speaker 2: Well, my first conscious recollection was to find myself, with
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  Speaker 2: the violence pounding in my head, lying in a small
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  Speaker 2: clearing between some trees. Bending over me with a look
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  Speaker 2: of deep concern on his face, was my old friend,
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes. Watson, Watson, no channel, you are right, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: vital headacheome What are you doing there? And there was
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  Speaker 2: clothes with that group of mustache.
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  Speaker 3: It proved a good enough passport to secure the employment
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: at the stables here?
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: How did you get me out of? Punson been studied and.
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  Speaker 3: The stables command an excellent view of the school building.
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  Speaker 3: Your long absence watted me. And when doctor Punson be
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  Speaker 3: finally appeared alone, I became suspicious. So I took advantage
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  Speaker 3: of his absence, slipped through the study window and rescue.
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  Speaker 2: You'll thank heavens you did. He gave me drud. It's
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: a funny thing, Holmes. I was probably delirious, but I
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  Speaker 2: swear that I saw a woman's handbag on the table,
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  Speaker 2: a pink and black beaded bag, and it was alive
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  Speaker 2: and moved.
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  Speaker 3: Great Heavens, that confouns my worst suspicions. Did you say too, No,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't there when I came in. Somebody, probably Misses Artwright,
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  Speaker 3: removed it. Watson, you were never closer to death. I
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  Speaker 3: blame myself for having allowed you to tackle doctor punsonby alone.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Don't reproach yourself homes Where where's Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Manders waiting at the inn for an answer to my telegram?
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  Speaker 3: He is to meet us later behind the lodge gates.
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  Speaker 2: What's our next move?
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  Speaker 3: Go to the stables, dirt you up a bit and
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  Speaker 3: get your change of clothes. Then we'll return to the attack.
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  Speaker 3: There's desperate work ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Of us.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 2: This wayser what my man so alarmed?
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  Speaker 4: Lord Mande not watch now, I wouldn't have recognized you.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: What's happened, trouble?
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  Speaker 2: I had consume a disguise too. You brought an answer
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  Speaker 2: to Holmes's telegram?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, in my pocket?
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  Speaker 2: Where is he? He went over to the main school
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  Speaker 2: building and asked me.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: To do the things that the second cook and the
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: siitulated woman of dubious charms is most susceptible to fattery.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Over a glass of stout sheet quite inadvertently gave me
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: three vital clues. What were they? Firstly that all five
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  Speaker 3: of the unfortunate boys dined in the same small room. Secondly,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: that that fatal room is directly under the room of
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  Speaker 3: missus Archreich.
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  Speaker 2: And she's capable of anything if you ask me.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Third clue makes our next tape an urgent one. A
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: boy by the name of Carruther's Miner was moved into
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  Speaker 3: that room yesterday. He's supposed to have an extremely bad cold.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Doctor Punsonby is afraid it might turn into pneumonia. Good heaven, exactly, Watson.
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  Speaker 3: I suggest we lose no time in visiting Corruther's Miner,
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  Speaker 3: though I'm sure doctor Punsonby would consider it unethical. This
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: is one occasion when another doctor's opinion is absolutely vital.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: They are there carothers. This is doctor Watson. He's come
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: to make you well.
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  Speaker 2: You can't make me.
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  Speaker 6: Who will.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor parson Bie says I've gotten amonia. Oh nonsense, my boy,
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna side gold at all. If Doctor poyson Be
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  Speaker 2: says I've got pneumonia, the moonia is what I've got.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing of the kind, my boy, Nothing of the kind.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Watson. You've noticed this bed is anchor to the floor.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: It can't be moved. What does that suggest you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it reminds me of tut Bran dtr Rilott. But
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I don't see any.
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  Speaker 3: Bell pull, no, Watson, no bell rope is needed because
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: no murderous snake is involved in this plot. But look
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: up there, directly above the bed a small trap door
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  Speaker 3: leading from Missus Arkwright's room. Now the whole picture is clear.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: The trap door is strange marks on the dead boys,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: the beaded bag that you saw, What was that? I
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: don't know. Lord Manders is standing guard in the hallway.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: This is doctor possibly he's come to look.
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  Speaker 2: At my pneumonia.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Missus Arkwright, I know you were expecting Lord Manders.
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  Speaker 2: He's lying in the hallway.
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  Speaker 6: He was looking in the wrong direction, and fortunately for him.
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  Speaker 3: Missus Arkwright, I put that revolver away. If I were you,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I doubt if you know how to handle it. I
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: assure you that I do. Having used the button of
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Brittania friends so successfully, should prove that fact.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: Revolver, Missus Arkwright, rob the revolver, I say, Holmes, he's faked.
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  Speaker 3: Good help me carry out to a room.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what about young Carrothers, Lord Manders.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: We must remove them to a place of staty, and
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: then Watson. All that remains is to call on the
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: giggling doctor Punson day.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: It's very dark in here, Holmes. I don't like this
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  Speaker 2: at all.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Quiet some it is coming good evening. Doctors, let me
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: light your desk lamp for you.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: You start with me, Who are you?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: What are you doing in nice study? My name is
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Sherlock Holmes. Doctor Watson, you've already met Yes, we've met.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: You, scoundrel.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, my friend Scotston.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: I was expecting you both.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: And by the way, please put that revolver away if
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: fire alarms make me nervous.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: And doctor Panson beIN. I know how those five boys
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: were murdered. I would venture the opinion that you once
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: spent some time for the sake of your health, in America,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: in Arizona Territory, I'd say.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: I wonder what makes you think that, mister Holmes. I've
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: never been in America in my life.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: And yet I'm certain that someone here spent some time
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: in the vicinity of the healer River Well.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: I understand that missus Arkwright was in America a few years.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Ago, Missus Artwright, Doctor Punsonby, is it possible you're hoping
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: to transfer our suspicions to your accomplice, My.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Accomplice, You talk in riddles, mister Holmes, is most confusing.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Then shall we be more specific? You consider Corulla's minder
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: to be quite ill. I understand this.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: I'm dreadfully worthy about it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: And then let me tell you, doctor Partivill, that I
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: examined the boy only a few minutes ago, and as
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: a medical man, I.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Say that he only has a slight cold.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: And obviously we disagree in our diagnosis.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Doctor once and after all, you're just a general practitioner,
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: whereas I specialize.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: We know what you specialize in.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Gentlemen, I suggest the three of us go over to
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Corrulla's room and hold a consultation. It's just possible that
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: his health has taken a sudden turn for the better.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: But the bed's empty has gone Yes.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Doctor pansonby, and suppose you take his place?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I leave me alone.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: What do you want you to lash? You to this
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: bed and see if you can come at your own
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: filthy medicine. This is, of course, I think that if
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: we were to reconstruct your crimes with you as the victim,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: we might persuade you to confess.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Missus arklight, missus darkl like help.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I'm afraid you can't help you. She's in her room
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: with a door locked from the outside.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: There are homes less, absolutely can't move. What you don't understand,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: missus art like great heymns. What was that?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: This is art right? It came from the room above.
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: Come on, Watson, quick up the stairs. She's fainted again.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Feel her puse.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Homes, There is no pulse. She's dead.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Poison works by Observe those marks on her wrist.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: It's some animal admitment it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Has, and that means the animals loose in this room,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Great heavens. Somehow it must have escaped from its cage
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: and turned on them. Guard the door, Watson, Our lives
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: are not satan until we've found this month.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I don't understand.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Look look under that's stand there, Good Heavens.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: It's set set beaded handbag again and it's moving.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Give me a walking stick, watt yea there, This diabolical
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: creature has done enough damage for one lifetime.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: It's dead, homes, But what in thunder is it? It
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: looks like some sort of lizard.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: It's all pink and cover it all over with black scales.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: That's what made me think it was a handbag. But
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I've never seen a lizard as large as that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Of course you haven't, so let me introduce you to
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: the peculiar villain of this piece. His name is he
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Will Derma suspect him better known as the HeLa monster,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: indigenous to the Helo River in America.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it before. How enough did
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: you recognize at homes?
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: When mister Coffin, the undertaker, mentioned those strange marks on
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: the dead boys, I was reminded of an article I'd
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: read recently on venomous lizards. So that telegram you said
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: was to the Museum of Natural History. Their answer confirmed
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: my suspicions. The Healer Monster's bite produces almost instantaneous death,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: and yet it's a poison that would be extremely hard
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: to identify. The fixed bed in the room below us,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: the trap door directly above it in this room, and
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: the help of an unscrupulous accomplice like missus Artwright makes
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: the rest of the picture very clear.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Now that the monster's dead, how are you going to
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: frighten doctor Pansley into a confession?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: And doctor Pansonvie need not know the animal's dead. Examine
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: the floor, Watson, see if you can find that trap door. Meanwhile,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I'll see if I can find some core or string.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Uh huh, here's a ball of twine on the dressing table.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Placed there for use in the intended murder of Corrubber's minor, No.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Doubt, Homes. There's a ring here in the floor section
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: of the cab. It's been cut out.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Gordon now to attach the twine to the body of
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: the healer monster. So all right, Watson, open the door. Well,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: doctor Panson, Bay, have you changed your mind? He is dead,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Doctor Penson, Bay, you're here. The monster turned on her.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I'm going to lower the animal. Watson. There we are.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Two more people do the trick Homes.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, there, you'll sign a confession. We'll be down, doctor Panson.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Then well, Holmes, thank Heaven's that's done with. What a
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: shocking affair.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, Watson, but not without a note of poetic justice.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: What do you mean, Well, isn't it poetic justice that
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: a dead red tile should be instrumental in bringing a
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: live one to the gallows.