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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Clue of the Hungry Cat Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruc · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, how about the crew of the Hungry.
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  Speaker 2: Cat Wellamster Bell.
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  Speaker 3: It all began one day when Holmes and I, finding
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  Speaker 3: it a bit early for lunch, as we walked down
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  Speaker 3: the strand, turned into the Old Bailey, wondering if the
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  Speaker 3: jury had yet brought in the verdict in a sensational
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  Speaker 3: murder case which Holmes had been following in the papers
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  Speaker 3: with considerable interest. As we entered the court room, we
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  Speaker 3: heard the clock of the court saying, prisoner the bar
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  Speaker 3: use ten convicted of murder by the verdict of a
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  Speaker 3: jury of your peers.
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  Speaker 2: Have you anything to say to what judgment is pronounced
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  Speaker 2: upon you?
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  Speaker 4: Only my mault and gentlemen of the jury, that I
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  Speaker 4: am innocent of this crime. Silence in the court Rather, Samburst,
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  Speaker 4: you have been found guilty of the murder of Amanda Post.
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  Speaker 4: The sentence of this court is that you be taken
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  Speaker 4: to that place from whence you came, and for two
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  Speaker 4: weeks from the day on the twelfth of October you
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  Speaker 4: be hanged by the neck until you are dead. It
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  Speaker 4: made the lawd have mercy on your soul.
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  Speaker 3: I must say that for Loasandras had it coming to
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  Speaker 3: him homes open and shut case.
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  Speaker 2: If I ever heard one, I wonder, Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now, really, Holmes, even you can't find anything to
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  Speaker 3: wonder about in the killing of that poor woman.
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  Speaker 2: Her husband was away.
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  Speaker 3: That Felasander saw his chance, broke into the house, robed
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  Speaker 3: mister post cash box and evidently woke up missus Post.
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  Speaker 2: Knew that she'd recognize him, so he made.
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  Speaker 3: Quite sure that she'd never testify by choking the poor.
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  Speaker 2: Woman to death.
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  Speaker 3: He then tried to burn the house down to conceal
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  Speaker 3: his crime. If you asked me, hanging's too good for him.
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  Speaker 2: The cash boxes? What intrigues me, Watson?
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  Speaker 3: And what praise intriguing about the cash box? Why that
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  Speaker 3: fella Saandas admitted that he stole eight founds?
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell me, Watson, why any sane man and
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  Speaker 2: I heard no testimony adduced to prove that Sanders was
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  Speaker 2: insane should steal the sum of eight pounds out of
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  Speaker 2: a cash box that contained sixty five And.
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  Speaker 3: As you were, perhaps the following suddenly frightened, or the
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  Speaker 3: balance might have been in large notes that could have
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  Speaker 3: been traced no way to the chops for me the hads.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Watson, but I can't accept your alternatives. Sander's only defense,
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  Speaker 2: and I grant you that it was a feeble one,
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  Speaker 2: was that mister Post had owed to him eight pounds,
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  Speaker 2: and that that was his reason for taking only that summer.
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  Speaker 3: Delicious chopper than any place in London. And I suppose
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  Speaker 3: you believe.
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  Speaker 2: Sanace's story despite your evident amusement. I do.
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  Speaker 3: All I can say, Holmes, is a look that girl
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  Speaker 3: over her in the corner, the one who's crying into
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  Speaker 3: her handkerchief.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't we see her in the Corctsmoll. Not only do
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  Speaker 2: we see her, but as you should know from the
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  Speaker 2: drawings which have been published in every newspaper these last
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  Speaker 2: few days, she's the fiance of the convicted man. I said, Holmes,
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  Speaker 2: wave going, come on, Watson, my curiosity is aroused. Good Heavens.
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  Speaker 3: The last time your curiosity was aroused, I find myself
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  Speaker 3: in the Sahara desert in.
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  Speaker 2: The middle of July. I beg your pardon its Cardwell, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't help noticing your evident distress. And although I
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  Speaker 2: don't wish to hold out any false hopes, let me
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  Speaker 2: assure you that I share your belief that your fiancee
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  Speaker 2: has been convicted of a crime of which he is innocent.
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  Speaker 5: You really, oh, leave me alone. You are another of
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  Speaker 5: those newspaper reports.
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  Speaker 2: I assure you, my dear, that I'm not. My name
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  Speaker 2: is Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, mister, whom you really believe that Bob is innocent?
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  Speaker 2: Your fiancee is called Well, there's a young man of
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  Speaker 2: good education and very evident intelligence. I cannot bring myself
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  Speaker 2: to believe that he's stupidly and brutally killed missus post
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  Speaker 2: to conceal a minor theft.
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  Speaker 5: Oh oh, I can't tell you what it means to me,
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  Speaker 5: just to say that. Why even mister Briggspool when he
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  Speaker 5: was defending Bob in that horrible Corton didn't speaker though
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  Speaker 5: we believe our don't story.
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  Speaker 2: But it's true.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's true. I hearn't much money, mister Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: But it be a question of money, Miss Caldwell, I
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  Speaker 2: have an ingrained prejudice against seeing the innocent convicted. Suppose
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  Speaker 2: you've come with doctor Watson myself while we pay a
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  Speaker 2: visit to the scene of the crime. As the next
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  Speaker 2: door neighbor of the house where the tragedy occurred, missus Roberts,
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  Speaker 2: won't you tell us in your own words, just what happened.
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  Speaker 6: Where mister Rose. Although it was some time ago, it's
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  Speaker 6: still that catches me all of a sudden when.
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  Speaker 1: I think of it.
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  Speaker 7: Sarah takes me aback.
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  Speaker 6: It does sometimes I come all over.
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  Speaker 2: Did he like you too much? You know? If you
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  Speaker 2: ask me, cried Watson. I can well believe it, Missus Robarts.
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  Speaker 5: But please, missus Robarts, won't you tell mister Holmes what
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  Speaker 5: you remember?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 6: That morning, mister Post has gone away on business to Bryce.
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  Speaker 6: They're going to be gone couple of days. He was
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  Speaker 6: now a rare noontime. I happened to look.
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  Speaker 5: Out of the window.
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  Speaker 6: Not that I'm the type of forever of mind in
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  Speaker 6: other people's business, you'll understand. And I seen him as
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  Speaker 6: standing in the front door, just as he was a
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  Speaker 6: saying goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: To her, saying, but I understood from the evidence that
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  Speaker 2: missus Post was stone deaf.
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  Speaker 6: When I say saying, I mean he was waving goodbye
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  Speaker 6: to her like he always did when he went away.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see missus postwait back to him well in the.
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  Speaker 6: Manner of speaking, Yes, at least I seen the curtain
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  Speaker 6: move inside the front parlor window, so I guess she
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  Speaker 6: was a waving to him from inside.
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  Speaker 2: The conclusive homes.
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  Speaker 3: The poor woman was alive when her husband left, and she.
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  Speaker 2: Was dead after far.
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  Speaker 3: No one else could possibly.
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  Speaker 2: Have killed her.
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  Speaker 5: Bob didn't. I don't care what you say.
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  Speaker 2: And after mister Post left, Missus Roberts, what happened then? Nothing?
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  Speaker 5: I was busy with me asswork.
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  Speaker 6: Frying up a nice bit of fish for the old
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  Speaker 6: man's supper. I was, and I didn't notice nothing next
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  Speaker 6: door until about eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: That even eight o'clock. But the fire wasn't until midnight.
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  Speaker 6: But maybe it's silly of me to mention it. It
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  Speaker 6: wasn't then an.
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  Speaker 2: Importance when a murder has been committed, Missus Roberts. No
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  Speaker 2: fact is unimportant.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I never did. It was only at about eight
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  Speaker 6: o'clock a cat, Minnie Can scratching and yelling around me
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  Speaker 6: that door angry.
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  Speaker 2: She was, hmm, most enlightening really home? Well that the
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  Speaker 2: cat's usual habit, Missus Roberts.
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  Speaker 5: No, a man the.
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  Speaker 6: Post was looney about. That cat gave it its supper
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  Speaker 6: every night at six regular liver. She used to feed
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  Speaker 6: it at sixpence a pound. Now that's scandalous if you
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  Speaker 6: ask me with poor people's skins.
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  Speaker 2: I see, then what did you do?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 6: I said the cat, and then I went to bed,
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  Speaker 6: and the old man and I were a sound asleep
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  Speaker 6: as two blessed angels in paradise when we heard the
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  Speaker 6: fire engines.
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  Speaker 2: Bob, if there's anyone in there there don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it was horrible hearing them say that, mister Romes.
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  Speaker 6: We were still thinking the death as she was. Poor
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  Speaker 6: missus Post had not been awakened by the crackle of
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  Speaker 6: the flames. And it wasn't till the next day when
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  Speaker 6: the men from Scotland Yard were looking around the wreckage
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  Speaker 6: that they told us that she'd been strangled in her
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  Speaker 6: bed before the fire ever started, strangled by that smooth spoken,
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  Speaker 6: murdering young devil, that Robertson.
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  Speaker 5: No, we didn't prove that's a live Bob.
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  Speaker 2: You can joy yourself, please, my dees cortworld. Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: mister roberts I greatly appreciate the assistance you've given us.
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  Speaker 6: Good day, Oh not at all, mister Rose.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a.
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  Speaker 1: Pleasure, shill.
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  Speaker 5: But mister Holmes, all that woman's evidence came out and
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  Speaker 5: cross there's nothing there to help you set.
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  Speaker 2: Robert, I'm afraid you're right. I'm dashed.
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  Speaker 3: If I can make head a tail out of that
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  Speaker 3: stream of nonsense that woman's body.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be too hasty, Watson. I should like to call
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  Speaker 2: your attention to the curious incident of Minnie's supper that night.
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  Speaker 3: The cat didn't get her supper.
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  Speaker 2: That was the curious incident. Holmes. Will you put down
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  Speaker 2: that volin for a moment and pay attention. This is
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  Speaker 2: the third time since we got home that you've interrupted
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  Speaker 2: what I'm sure might prove a magnificent composition. My dear Watson,
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  Speaker 2: what's the matter? Now? We'll listen to this note.
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  Speaker 3: My dear mister Holmes, now request your immediate presence at
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  Speaker 3: my home on a matter of the greatest possible importance.
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  Speaker 2: I enclose my check for five hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Guineas as a retainer, signed Jeffrey Brookfield in brackets, the
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  Speaker 3: Earl of Brookfield, five hundred guinea retainer if you come
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  Speaker 3: to sit here on Baker Street playing Lavarlin.
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  Speaker 2: If you like, you may write to Lord Brookfield and
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  Speaker 2: tell him that the paintings over which he's so worried
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  Speaker 2: had been sold by his son to provide jewels for
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  Speaker 2: the dancer with whom the young man is enamored, and
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  Speaker 2: send his check back to him with my compliments. Come in. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: this is us, and as.
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  Speaker 5: If a gentlemen, is he, mister Holmes, Sir, I'm mister Post.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Posts. Oh yes, show him up, will you please? Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: you act as though you expected this, fellow Post. When
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  Speaker 2: I put a ferret down a hole, Watson, I usually
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  Speaker 2: do so in expectation of starting a rabbit. You mean
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  Speaker 2: there's questions of yours, Missus Roberts's afternoon, Our garrulous friend,
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  Speaker 2: Missus Roberts is not the type to keep a visit
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  Speaker 2: from Sherlock Holmes a secret from the neighborhood. Mister Post,
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  Speaker 2: mister Holmes. Good evening, mister Post, and mister Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: Quite And this is my friend and colleague, Dr Watson.
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  Speaker 2: Good name is doctor. Once you sit down, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Holmes, I prefer to stand. I must
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  Speaker 2: confess I'm somewhat upset by what my former neighbor, Missus
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  Speaker 2: Roberts told me this evening. Oh what was that that
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  Speaker 2: you and doctor Watson and that young woman were asking
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  Speaker 2: questions this afternoon. There's nothing for you to be upset about,
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  Speaker 2: mister Post. But I confess that the unfortunate matter of
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  Speaker 2: your late wife's death had certain features which seemed to me.
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  Speaker 2: Shall we say, but this morning Sanders was found guilt
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  Speaker 2: in for them to be hanged. I'm aware of that.
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  Speaker 2: But as long as you're here, mister Post, I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: you won't mind answering a question or two. Not at all,
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  Speaker 2: So I failed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh did you sit.
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: Down just to post? You will be give me nervous
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  Speaker 2: walking back and forth. I'm off, sorry, doctor, Ever since
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: this horrible thing happened, I can't seem to sit. Fellow
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  Speaker 2: Sanders a former employee of yours, wasn't he, mister Post?
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  Speaker 7: He was?
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  Speaker 1: He was?
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  Speaker 2: I sacked him. Fellow was always knowsing about things that
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: didn't concern and according to him, you will still owe
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  Speaker 2: him eight pounds back weighed not a bit of truth
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  Speaker 2: to it. I'm sure there wasn't. After all, a matter
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  Speaker 2: of eight pounds could mean very little to you. You'll
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  Speaker 2: pardon my mentioning it, mister Post. But you must be
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  Speaker 2: a man of considerable wealth now, if you mean since
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  Speaker 2: my wife's death. Yes, I am When I came to
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  Speaker 2: England from Australia a couple of years ago, all I
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: had was a few hundred pounds in some business experience.
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  Speaker 2: I met and married my dear Amanda within the past year,
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  Speaker 2: mister Holmes, and the finer wife no man ever had.
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  Speaker 2: I can assure you that I'd give all the wealth
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  Speaker 2: she left me and a dozen times over to have
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  Speaker 2: her back with me.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, of course the sentiment does you credit, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Quite And now that I've met you, mister Post, let
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  Speaker 2: me assure you that any doubts I may have had
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  Speaker 2: in the matter entirely result Ah. I'm glad to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Holmes. You'll pardon my intrusion, but will you on stairs? Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: good night, gentlemen, Good night sir, good night, mister Posts.
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  Speaker 3: And fuller Well Holmes, I'm glad that your doubts.
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  Speaker 2: Are finally been said at rest is any lingering doubts
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  Speaker 2: I may have had as to Sanders innocence have now
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  Speaker 2: been completely removed? Sanders innocence, Watson, does it occur to
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  Speaker 2: you that there's something about our friend, mister Post that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't quite ring true?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Come Come Come home seemed to me a fine
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  Speaker 3: up standing follow.
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  Speaker 2: But did you happen to notice his curious way of
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: pacing up and down?
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: The poorman's overwrought probably can't keep still. It's natural enough
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: being adopt in our setting room.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Watson is twenty three feet in length, with no obstructions
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  Speaker 2: in the area where mister post chose to do his pacing.
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  Speaker 2: Yet he turned automatically again and again at each end
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  Speaker 2: of what I estimate to be an eight foot walk
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: eight foot What are you driving? At? Eight feet? Watson
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: happens to be exactly the length of a prison cell.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: In just a moment, we'll rejoined Sherlock Holmes and doctor
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Watson as they try to solve the mystery of the
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: strange death of Amanda. Did you know that a recent
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: survey showed Kremmel hair tonic was the hair tonic preferred
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: among America's top flight executives and better dressed men, Willis.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: Isn't it all surprising? Because Kremmel is famous for giving
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  Speaker 1: hair that smooth, well groomed appearance for which there is
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: no substitute. And what's so important, Kremmel does lots more
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: than just keep hair looking handsome. Kremmel removes dandroflates, It
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: promptly relieves itching of scalp due to dryness, and actually
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: helps condition the hair, and that it leaves it feeling
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  Speaker 1: so much softer. Notice how much easier your hair is
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  Speaker 1: to comb, how every lock falls right in place and
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: stays that way all day long. And remember, whereas Kremmel
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  Speaker 1: gives hair a rich, attractive luster, it never leaves hair
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• 14:05
  Speaker 2: And now, doctor Watson, what did sheol.
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  Speaker 1: Ar Holmes do after he caused your attention to the
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  Speaker 1: odd behavior of mister Earl.
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  Speaker 3: It was too late that night for us to do anything,
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  Speaker 3: although Holmes did send off a cable to Australia asking
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: for all available information on the mysterious mister Post. But
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  Speaker 3: bright and early the next morning, Holmes and I sent
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  Speaker 3: off in a handsome cab, almost before I'd finished my breakfast,
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: our destination being the fiber gage station nearest to late
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  Speaker 3: missus Post's house.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: You are convinced the fire was in sender a captain,
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  Speaker 2: no no quiestion in mind that all mister Owns blazing.
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  Speaker 7: Like a guy Fawkes piece of one. By the time
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: we got there, after we finally had a wetted down,
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  Speaker 7: there was a smell of peafine oils homing up to
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  Speaker 7: choke you all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: So you were very right to send for the police.
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  Speaker 7: Oh I did that, sir, just as soon as I
• 14:49
  Speaker 7: found that poor woman lying dead in her bed or
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: the lift of it.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Though I thought she died of topically.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: No medical evidence that she's been strangled for the first started.
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  Speaker 2: It was clear enough. I know doctor Rich and the
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: sun man very solid man. It was you who found
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: the cash box schedule.
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: Yes, miss Holmes, being of stout metal, it didn't come
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  Speaker 7: to no harm. Very hot fire like that sometimes it's
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  Speaker 7: a freakish way of burning something to a crisp and
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  Speaker 7: leaving others almost undamaged. You think we often see an obviousness.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could have inspected the house the morning
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: after the fire. What fill this shows you the disadvantage
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: of attempting to follow a cold trail.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I don't know what you expect to find.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know myself, but there must be something.
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  Speaker 7: Reps who won't do any goodness owned, because it's a
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  Speaker 7: regular ragbag collection of of them.
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  Speaker 2: End.
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  Speaker 7: But most of the things from missus Post bedroom are
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  Speaker 7: right back there on that table in the corner. Are
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  Speaker 7: those that weren't too badly burned. They would have been
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: thrown up this morning. The police made us keep them
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: until the offer the tire capital capital. You're welcome to
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: take a look at them, firm.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Phew, Well, it was.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: More like a serve itself for a silking collection. And
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: what is that horrible looking object some.
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: Kind of a tough fist of the manager than a pet.
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  Speaker 2: It's his souvenir of Brighton. And over there is the
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: poor woman's horse hair, pillows.
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  Speaker 7: That harp stuff to burn, what the Bible with its
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: covers burned off, and an alarm gloves that have been
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  Speaker 7: on the bureau. This too, RUNI when we picked it
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  Speaker 7: up this effect set for moon and.
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  Speaker 2: This change looking thing turned out to be.
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  Speaker 7: The late Missus Post course to all the good lesson it.
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  Speaker 3: Is the gruesome nster makes me think of the relics
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: we'll all have to leave behind when we shuffle off
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  Speaker 3: this mortal coil.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Don't be morbid, Watson and Hinson's til.
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  Speaker 7: It was on the dresser, and these pieces of the
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  Speaker 7: picture and basin the soakage and read that's the whole collection.
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  Speaker 2: Must be learnt from there, Hey home, As I told
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  Speaker 2: you on creatifications, Watson, you will see, but you do
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: not observe. And what my ask is to.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Be observed from this insanitary and odorous collection, only enough,
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I trust to remove Robert Sanders from the shadows of the
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: gallows and to substitute the estimable mister Post.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: In his face. Good gracious me. Would you be good enough, Watson,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: to ring for MISSU Hudson all at homes if you
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: say so?
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: But how you expect to frightens Post is confessing that
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: he murdered his wife and then set the house on
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: fr while he was fifty miles.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Away in Brighton is beyond me. You are in possession
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: of the same facts that I am, Watson, and since
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: you know my message, you should be able to reach
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: the same conclusions. I must admit. Come in you ran,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: mister Holmes. We're expecting a visitor, missus Hudson. Mister Post
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: who was here last night, Oh.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: I remembered him, said a very nice gentleman. He kicked
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: me a shilling, and I have.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Reason to think that he'll be here very shortly. Will
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: you show him up as soon as he ran? All right?
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Said you were saying? I was about to say that
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the problem no longer lies in the solution of the crime.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: That of course is obvious to anyone. Well, of course certain.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: The difficulty is I happened a shred of evidence. Therefore,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the only possibility of justice being done is through forcing
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: a confession from mister Post by suddenly facing him with
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: an utterly unexpected reconstruction of what actually happened. It's just Watson,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: that you arm yourself your service revolver. I have reason
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: to think that mister Post may react violently. Rely no
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: didden ready.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: But I do think, Holmes, that if you're so sure
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: that Post is a murderer, you might at least tell
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the police.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I very much doubt if Scotland Yard would admit itself
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: completely and the wrong, without proof, which of course I
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: haven't got, No Watson, I come in good evening, mister Holmes,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Doctor Watson, good evening. I received your note, mister Holmes,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: asking me to call on you at once on a
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: matter of the greatest importance. I am sorry to trouble
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: you at this hour of night, mister Post. But there
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: have been one or two puzzling questions in connection with
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: your wife's death, which had been bothering doctor Watson and myself.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: But I thought you said last night that all your
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: doubts had been resolved. They had, mister Post, but I
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: didn't specify what doubts. I'm afraid you're being a bit cryptic.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I must beg you, mister Holmes, will come to the
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: point very well, mister Post. Let me present you a
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: reconstruction of what I can only term a highly ingenious crime.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I'm listening. A certain man who for the moment shall
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: be nameless, meets and courts a wealthy woman who, despite
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the handicap of her deafness, is still attractive, and marries
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: her very interesting as the home. Then, ruthlessly and in
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: cold blood, he strangles this poor, foolish, credulous woman, knowing
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: that under her will he will inherit her fortune. I
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: know at her insinuating and Hi, then you admit I
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: have been nothing. There's no reason why I have to
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: stay here and listen to you insult my wife's memory.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Sit down, mister Post. You don't dare leave till you
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: discover just how much I really do know very well,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: mister Holmes. And just how does this man do what
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: you say he did without getting caught. After he's strangled
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: her and his other preparations have been made, he stands
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: in the front door of their house, ostensibly waving goodbye
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: to the wife, who he already lies dead upon her
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: bare arms.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Missus Roberts said that.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: The fond farewell is answered, Watson by a curtain that
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: moves in one of the front windows. Who is there
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: to know that the curtain has merely moved, that the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: twitch of a string held in the murderer's hand. At least,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: mister Holmes, I must congratulate you on your ingenuity. But
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: there were a couple of things the husband overlooked. First, Many,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: his wife's pet cat, Many comes to the back door
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: for the usual hour. Her plaintive search in scratching produced
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: no result. And why because the wife, who usually feeds many,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: already lies dead. That's what you meant, homes precisely wasn't,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: After which the house is silent until midnight, when suddenly
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: a fire breaks forth. A file of such intensity is
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: to consume almost all the evidence of the crime, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: most important of all, a fire which was meant to produce,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: in the eye of the beholder, an unshakable alibi for
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the husband, who, at that moment was so far away.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: The fact that Sanders chose to break in that same
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: night was sheer good luck for the murderer, for he
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: gave the police a ready made suspect. And now let
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: me ask you one question as to Holmes, just how
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: did the husband of whom you speak produce this conflagration
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: while he was at least fifty miles away, Probably by
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: means of some simple attachment connected to the alarm clock
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: in his wife's room, which was said to go off
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: at twelfth midnight, Watson, not twelve noon, as you surmise,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: good Heaven's Homes, an attachment which was later destroyed by
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the heat of the fire. Very pretty piece of fiction,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: mister Holmes. Of course, it would never stand up in
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: the court of law. I am not so sure, mister
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: postal Hole. I am after all, it would just be
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: your word against mine, Yes, the word of Sherlock Holmes
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: against that of an ex convict you, two of whose
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: previous wives died in Australia under suspicious circle don't anymore.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: What's been said to sufficiently. He'll never get because those
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: other two off of this when you do it. Yes, yes,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I killed my wife, but you never see your nice work, Watson.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Is it badly hurt? I don't think so. Flesh wound
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: in his shoulder, not touch for a few minutes. So
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: you live, Emperor Watson, if you hadn't shot first, having
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: it told, I imaginovul.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Tell me how did you ever deduce that whole story
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: just from the fact that the cat didn't get her supper?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't, Watson, Oh, you said the incident of the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: cat's supper served to make me suspicious. I only became
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: certain of the fire station when I saw the alarm
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: clock at home.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: As I saw that alarm clock seemed like a perfectly ordinary.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Clock to me, as I remarked before, Watson, you see,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: but you do not observe. Why would a woman who
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: is stone death have set an alarm clock to waken
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: her twelve o'clock? Well, of all the blind idiots, quite
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: and now chap ring for missus Hudson William. I think
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: perhaps the police might be interested in our friend, mister Post.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And where's mister Post? Convicted doctor Wader.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: He was mister Bell when he was confronted with the
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: evidence in court, plus the cablegram that Holmes, the deceased
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: from Australia telling about post rather murky it passed.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: He went all to pieces, broke.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Down and confessed everything.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Of course, Robert Sanders was immediately set free. I see