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The Sins of Prince Saradine: A Prince's Retreat Hides a Deadly Grudge | Father Brown · Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton Detective Stories

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  Speaker 1: We present The Sins of Prince Saradine, adapted by John Scottney,
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  Speaker 1: with Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's it to be, Father?
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  Speaker 3: Shall we look out for some waterside inn, or mar
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  Speaker 3: by the riverbank and sleep in the boat?
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  Speaker 2: Tall sky, Norfolk. Huge, wide skies. In London, there the
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  Speaker 2: streets are ravines, narrow brick ravines. You know, when I
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  Speaker 2: was a boy, for hours I used to stare at
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  Speaker 2: the sky.
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  Speaker 4: Just stare.
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  Speaker 2: And guess why not? Light beneath the stars, warm enough.
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  Speaker 5: First, Captain Falbo, what ship's stall do you have aboard?
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  Speaker 3: Well, see for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It's all by you, Father.
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  Speaker 3: In the stern, under the sleeping bags.
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  Speaker 2: Just a few necessities.
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  Speaker 5: Yes? Two bottles of claret and a bottle of brandy
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  Speaker 5: in case we feel faint, presumably.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you invite me?
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  Speaker 5: In case you feel the cold hand of death in
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  Speaker 5: the night and need the consolation of the church?
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  Speaker 2: Ah, but you've not neglected to feed the mind. A book. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: one book? My dear Flambeau, what's this? Alice through the looking-glass.
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  Speaker 2: Do not scoff, Father Browne.
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  Speaker 3: As you can see, I am beginning to master your
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  Speaker 3: English language. That book, by studying that book that.
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  Speaker 2: Way, I assure you I will come to fathom.
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  Speaker 3: Also the psychology of the English mind. Now, look over there,
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  Speaker 3: that backwater.
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  Speaker 2: There we shall spend the night. Ah, yes.
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  Speaker 3: If you will just steer to port.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Port, father.
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  Speaker 3: The other string you pull.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, good. The eggs will be ready in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Flambeau, my friend, I ask you again.
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  Speaker 5: Why have you come to the Norfolk Broads, and why
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  Speaker 5: have you made such a point of asking me to
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  Speaker 5: come and join you?
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  Speaker 3: I came here partly because I need a few days' holiday,
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  Speaker 3: and partly because my little boat, I felt, would not
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  Speaker 3: seem out of place in your little Norfolk rivers. And
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  Speaker 3: I like fishing. But also, have a look at this card, Father.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. Yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I had it for years. It somehow got to me
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  Speaker 3: in Paris three, four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: It intrigued me.
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  Speaker 3: In my criminal days, I received many strange communications.
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  Speaker 2: Declarations of love, even. But this, this is different. That
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  Speaker 2: little card with the green ink is really.
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  Speaker 5: Dear Monsieur Flambeau, if you ever come to England, come
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  Speaker 5: and see me.
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  Speaker 2: I have met all the other great men of my time... Oh, well.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: That trick of.
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  Speaker 5: Yours of getting one detective to arrest the other was
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  Speaker 5: the most splendid scene in French history.
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  Speaker 2: How strange.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but the strangest thing is the sender's name and address.
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  Speaker 2: Prince Saradine, Reed House, Reed Island, Norfolk. Prince? Wow.
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  Speaker 5: There can't be many princes in these parts, leaving aside Sandringham,
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  Speaker 5: of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but this Saradine, I discovered he was a Sicilian
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  Speaker 3: of high birth. But as a young man, he eloped
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  Speaker 3: with a noblewoman of equally high rank, a married woman.
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  Speaker 3: It seems her husband, Signor Antonelli, then committed suicide by
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  Speaker 3: flinging himself off a cliff near their home in Sicily.
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  Speaker 2: What a terrible, foolish thing to do. Well, there were suspicions.
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  Speaker 3: It may not have been suicide.
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, Saladin lived a brilliant and fashionable life in Vienna
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  Speaker 3: and Paris. Then suddenly, some years ago, he disappeared. And
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  Speaker 3: then I get this car. Father, why should he choose
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  Speaker 3: to live on a remote island in a Norfolk mountain?
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  Speaker 3: It must be the last place anyone would expect to find.
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  Speaker 3: I ask you, a Sicilian nobleman.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps that is the reason. I... I think... Yes? I
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  Speaker 2: think the eggs are ready. What? Who's there?
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  Speaker 5: Who is it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's you, Father Brown. What time is it? It's
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  Speaker 2: five o'clock. I'm afraid I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: I'm getting old. I can't sleep in the open air
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 4: As I used to.
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  Speaker 2: It's not yet light, at least not daylight, but... Do
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  Speaker 2: you see that huge yellow moon?
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  Speaker 3: Well, since we are awake, we might as well push on.
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  Speaker 3: See how I'm mastering your English idioms. What an eerie light.
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  Speaker 3: Everything seems threatening, out of proportion. It's like being in fairyland.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you know, the men who wrote those medieval ballads,
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  Speaker 5: they knew more about fairies than we do.
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  Speaker 2: It's not always nice things that happen in fairyland. You
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  Speaker 2: mean we should turn back? Oh, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't say it was wrong to enter fairyland, only
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  Speaker 5: that it could be dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: There's no one there. No, no, no. There's someone coming.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want?
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  Speaker 2: Is this the residence of Prince Aridin?
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  Speaker 3: Are you Italian? No, I'm French.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look here. The prince sent me this card.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go ask Mr. Paul.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, the warm welcome you always get in the countryside.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Monsieur Flambeau. How good of you to call. And
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  Speaker 2: this gentleman?
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  Speaker 3: This is my friend, Father Brown.
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  Speaker 2: And you are Prince Arden? No, I am merely the steward. Do, please,
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  Speaker 2: come in, gentlemen. Thank you. Merci, yes, Father Brown.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: If you would follow me to the salon. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: His Highness should be here any minute and would be
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  Speaker 4: distressed to have just missed.
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  Speaker 3: Any gentleman he invited. Dear gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: I will ask Mrs. Anthony to prepare you some coffee.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: What a remarkable room.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Paul? I am known as Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Paul, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the Prince has a great love of light. It
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  Speaker 2: was the large windows that attracted him to the house.
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  Speaker 2: And he himself had all the mirrors installed. It is
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  Speaker 2: possible to see almost all of the broad from wherever
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  Speaker 2: you're sitting.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, yes.
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  Speaker 2: You seem to have come from fairyland into looking-glass land.
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  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon, Father.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, tell me, this crayon portrait of the two boys, Mr. Pearl,
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  Speaker 3: is one of them the prince?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, with his brother, Captain Stephen.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, and this photograph, the man in fencing costume with
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  Speaker 3: a cup, it is the prince as a young man?
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  Speaker 2: No, sir, Captain Stephen. I'm afraid... The captain has been
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  Speaker 2: a great trial to his highness.
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  Speaker 5: If you will excuse me, gentlemen, I must make a
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  Speaker 5: telephone call.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: All this light. It's like a cathedral. No, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: In a cathedral, the thrust is always vertical, upwards to heaven. Here,
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  Speaker 2: the long oblong windows and mirrors... low eaves of the thatch.
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  Speaker 5: The thrust is down into the marshy earth. If this
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  Speaker 5: is a cathedral, it is a cathedral consecrated to the devil.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I was speaking to His Highness.
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  Speaker 5: He is somewhat delayed, but he begs you to remain
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  Speaker 5: and asks if you will do him the honour of
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  Speaker 5: joining him for lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: It would be delighted.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, very good, sir. Mrs. Antony will bring your coffee
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  Speaker 2: in a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, yes, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have a look at that picture again. Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: The brothers Saradine. They look as alike as.
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  Speaker 2: Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Yes, exactly, yes.
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  Speaker 3: So, Captain Stephen has been a great trial to his brother.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder which is the good brother and which the bad.
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  Speaker 6: Your coffee, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, you must be Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Anthony.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear you come in.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me, those windows there... They are what you call,
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  Speaker 3: you call them in English, French windows, no? Yes, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: There is a catch.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, yes, I see, I see. Right, then I think
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  Speaker 3: I will go and have my coffee in the garden.
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  Speaker 3: Will you join me, Father Brown?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I'd like to have a look around the house,
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  Speaker 2: if I may, Mrs. Anthony. Oh, certainly, Father.
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  Speaker 3: Right, then I will see you later.
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  Speaker 2: Toodaloo, eh?
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps I will study my book by the river.
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  Speaker 6: Would you like to see the library, Father?
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  Speaker 2: The library? Oh, yes, yes. I, um... Which one is
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  Speaker 2: the good brother, Mrs. Anthony, here in the picture?
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  Speaker 6: It would be hard. It would be mighty hard to
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  Speaker 6: say which is the good and which is the bad one, Father.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Father. It is so long, too long since I
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  Speaker 2: spoke to a priest. My child. Father, there isn't a
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  Speaker 2: good brother.
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: There was evil enough in the captain taking the prince's money,
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  Speaker 6: but be assured, there was no goodness in the prince
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  Speaker 6: giving it. The captain's not the only man with something
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  Speaker 6: against him.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, blackmail? What is.
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  Speaker 2: What is... Something... What is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Father. That's better.
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  Speaker 3: There's a couple of savage mastiffs out there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so sorry, sir. I should have warned you. Martin!
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  Speaker 3: Martin!
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  Speaker 5: Take Canfield and Baldwin and chain them.
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  Speaker 2: Up while the gentlemen are here. Oh, I'm extremely sorry,
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  Speaker 2: Monsieur Flambeau.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, your coat seems to be torn.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get you one of mine to wear. Mrs. Antony
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  Speaker 2: will repair it later. Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 3: I'll come with you.
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  Speaker 6: You see, Father, the dogs answer only to the man,
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  Speaker 6: and the man only to my.
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  Speaker 2: to Mr. Paul. Shall I take you to the library? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: how good of you. So, here you are, Father.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me, what kind of books have you found in
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  Speaker 3: the library of Lookingglass House? Are the titles all reversed,
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  Speaker 3: like they are in Carol's story?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there are some very strange books here. And a
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  Speaker 2: lot on Sicily. What do you know about Sicily, Flambeau?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have come across the Honorata Societa, the mafia,
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  Speaker 3: of course. Surely you don't think the prince is anywhere involved? Oh, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Behind your honorable society lies something much older, much deeper.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, here it is.
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  Speaker 5: Storia de la Sicilia. For 2,000 years, Blambo, you see,
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  Speaker 5: Sicily was ruled by foreigners. Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Spaniards. Ah, yes,
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  Speaker 5: I thought so. And out of this foreign domination grew
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  Speaker 5: a strange and terrible code.
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  Speaker 2: The omerta. Ah, yes, I've heard of it, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Now, here, I'll translate for you. Sicilian holds it dishonorable
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  Speaker 5: to have his rights and wrongs judged by the state.
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  Speaker 5: The state was always the agent of foreign rule. Instead,
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  Speaker 5: the omerta is... is founded, based on a cruel and
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  Speaker 5: simple duty, the overriding duty of personal revenge and on
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  Speaker 5: the strict public silence of witnesses.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Above all, on the bonds of the family. You know, Flambeau,
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  Speaker 2: these murdering feuds run for generations.
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  Speaker 3: And you think the prince has fled here to escape
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  Speaker 3: vengeance for something he did?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you told me yourself.
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  Speaker 5: You said he stole another man's wife and perhaps murdered
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  Speaker 5: the husband. And then his own brother started to blackmail him.
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  Speaker 5: The woman who calls herself Mrs. Anthony, she told me
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  Speaker 5: as much.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you have it then. Everything is explained.
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  Speaker 3: The bruiser of a servant, the savage dogs, they are
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  Speaker 3: our guardians.
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  Speaker 2: But there are other things as well. Gentlemen, His Highness
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  Speaker 2: is here.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony, clear these dishes now! Very good, sir. Ancora di Vesuvio,
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  Speaker 2: Signor Flombo. It goes well with cheese.
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  Speaker 3: Paul, be quick.
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  Speaker 2: Bring another two bottles. The best in your cell. Sir.
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  Speaker 2: Signor Flombo, you are an amazing man.
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  Speaker 5: Your story intrigues me, but how does it finish?
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  Speaker 3: When the two detectives, each believing the other to be me,
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: arrived at exactly the same time. They then tried to
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  Speaker 3: arrest each other and went off arguing, leaving me to
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  Speaker 3: go about my business in the jeweler's shop.
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  Speaker 4: Magnifico!
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  Speaker 2: I do not know how it was I never met
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  Speaker 2: you in Paris. You certainly seem to have frequented the
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  Speaker 2: same kind of society. Indeed.
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  Speaker 3: And now, like me, he has given it all up
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  Speaker 3: for the quiet life.
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  Speaker 2: La vita serena.
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  Speaker 3: Here, there is nothing to do but fish.
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  Speaker 2: You enjoy fishing, Signor Flambo?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, very much.
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  Speaker 5: Then, this afternoon, I will show you where you will
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  Speaker 5: have the good sport.
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  Speaker 2: It is on the bank of the river opposite this island.
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  Speaker 2: It is the wrong time of.
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  Speaker 3: Day, of course, but still, there one generally has la
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  Speaker 3: buona fortuna. Will you join us, Father Brown?
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  Speaker 2: Not to fish, no, thank you. But perhaps I might
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  Speaker 2: borrow a book from your library and sit with you?
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  Speaker 2: By all means.
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  Speaker 5: Paul, Paul!
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  Speaker 3: Where are you, man?
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  Speaker 2: Where is the wine I sent you for?
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  Speaker 5: Soupito, soupito!
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  Speaker 6: I have it here, sir.
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  Speaker 3: You were right about this being a good spot for fishing.
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  Speaker 2: Your Highness. And there is good shooting, too.
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  Speaker 5: I was just reading about the abundant fowls and fish
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  Speaker 5: in the Norfolk marshes.
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's a book I found in your library, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Polly Albion by Michael Drayton, 1622. You have a.
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  Speaker 2: Serious taste in reading, Father Browne. And you also, Signor Flambeau? Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I am particularly... Indeed so. Monsieur Flambeau is one of
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  Speaker 2: our leading Lewis Carroll scholars. Lewis Carroll, I'm afraid.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Father Brown is mocking me, Your Highness. I have
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  Speaker 3: been reading a nonsense book about a little girl who
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: walks through a mirror and finds herself in a land
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  Speaker 3: where everything is the opposite of what it should be.
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  Speaker 2: Reversed, as in a looking glass.
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  Speaker 5: Everything reversed?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Yes, that interests me very much. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think, Father Brown? Yes, I believe in doomsday. What
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  Speaker 2: do you mean? St. Paul.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that we here, we see through a glass darkly,
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  Speaker 5: if you like. We're all on the wrong side of
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  Speaker 5: the looking glass in a nonsense world. The things that
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  Speaker 5: happen here do not seem to make sense. They make
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  Speaker 5: sense somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: Somewhere else.
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  Speaker 5: Retribution will come to the real offender. Here, it often
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  Speaker 5: seems to fall on the wrong person. Yes, so, the
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  Speaker 5: wrong person, it falls on the wrong person. Yes, I see,
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  Speaker 5: the wrong person.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: What is that noise?
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  Speaker 3: It would appear you have visitors on the island, Prince.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can't see. I only have my reading glasses.
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  Speaker 3: It's a boat, Father Brown. There's a fellow standing up
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  Speaker 3: and two others rowing. They are landing on the island.
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  Speaker 2: Prince, were you expecting anyone?
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  Speaker 3: No. There's probably nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Signor Flambeau, may I borrow your boat? I have to
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  Speaker 2: find out what it is. Would you like us to
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  Speaker 2: go with you?
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  Speaker 3: No, there is no need. I will be back in
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  Speaker 3: a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: All right. What's happening?
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  Speaker 5: Flambeau, I wish you'd given me a chance to get
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  Speaker 5: my glasses before you let the prince have the boat.
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  Speaker 2: I can see a thing.
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  Speaker 3: The young man is going up to the prince. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see?
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  Speaker 4: Did you see that?
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  Speaker 2: No, I did not see it.
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  Speaker 3: That young fellow, he slapped.
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  Speaker 2: The prince's face.
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  Speaker 3: Now the two of them and the others are going
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  Speaker 3: into the house.
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  Speaker 2: Good heavens.
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  Speaker 3: What was it he said? It was Italian, but I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't hear.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I did hear.
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  Speaker 5: The young man simply asked the prince's name and then
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  Speaker 5: introduced himself to the prince's Antonelli.
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  Speaker 2: Antonelli, yes, of course, of course, it would be.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, look, look at that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, Father. Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Rambo, I cannot see without my glasses.
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  Speaker 5: It's Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Paul.
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  Speaker 3: Where is he going with our boat?
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Paul! Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Paul!
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  Speaker 2: He's going away from us.
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  Speaker 5: Mr. Paul!
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Paul, stop!
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  Speaker 4: Stop, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Paul!
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Rambo!
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  Speaker 5: I cannot stop!
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I must get to the police station in the village.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I must save my master.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I must get to them.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Well, let's hope he gets there in time.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Hmm. I wonder why he didn't just telephone.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: What?
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: What? What's that sound?
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: What is it from, though?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I don't believe it. They've come out of the house.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: The young men in the prince and they're fighting a
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: duel with rapiers.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Monsieur de la Folie.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Prince?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Prince?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: You say, Mrs. Antonelli, who gave us the coffee, she
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: is really Mrs. Antonelli, the woman with whom the prince eloped?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, the wife of old Antonelli, who went over the
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: cliff in Sicily.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: And that young man over there, fighting a duel with the.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Prince, who is he?
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: That young man is Antonelli's son, come all the way
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: from Sicily to avenge.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: His father's death.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: But Mrs.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Antonelli, I mean Mrs.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Antonelli, how dare the prince use her as a servant,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: the woman he robbed of her husband and her honor?
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: That I do not understand.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Ah, magnifique. Reposte contre-reposte, Prince.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: And also, I do not understand why Mr. Paul is
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: so long fetching the police.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: It only took us five minutes from the village this morning.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God, what a passage. Ah, the young man, Father,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: he is a true master. and he has a youth
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: and such fire. But the prince, the prince, he is
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: a champion. Ah, mais malheureusement, he is tired.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: He is an old man. A champion, of course. What
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: a fool I've been. Ah, the prince, he's exhausted. He's pressing.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Ah, it's over.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I I think, yes, it went right through the heart.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I'm sure of it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: He must be dead, surely.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: The prince is dead.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: No.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: No, the prince is not dead.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: That man is not the prince.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: What on earth do you mean?
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: That's what's been worrying me ever since you told the
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: story of the two detectives arresting each other at lunchtime.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: So?
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: That man lying dead there, our host, did not know
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: that anecdote. Yet when he wrote his invitation to you,
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: the real prince... Referred specifically to the incident. Didn't he
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: call it the most splendid scene in French history? Then
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: who is the man Antonelli just killed? A champion fencer.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: The photograph. Don't you remember the photograph? The man in
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: fencing costume with a silver cup? Of course. Captain Stephen Saradine.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: The prince's younger brother.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: The blackmailer.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Then I am glad he's dead.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, Stephen was the blackmailer. But where is the victim?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: But now... Let us pray for.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Captain Stephen's soul, for he is in great need.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Of our prayers. Well, thank you for your statement, Mr. Flambeau. Oh,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: and one other thing.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Yes, Sergeant?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: We've got your boat, sir, safe and sound. Ah, good.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: If you'd like to collect it later.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Well, uh.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: And if you'll excuse me, sir.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, goodbye.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Vicar, Vicar... Oh, yes....
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Well, Father Brown, I've given my statement to the police
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: as clearly and accurately as I can, but I still
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: don't know what really happened.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I think both the Saradine brothers were evil.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: But one ugly day, the captain got his hold on
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: his elder brother, the prince. I imagine he'd somehow discovered
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: the truth about the Sicilian affair and could prove that
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: the prince had murdered old Antonelli in the mountains.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: And so he raked in the hush money. Yes, as
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: you say.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Until the prince's splendid fortune began to look a little foolish. But,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: of course, the prince had another burden. Some years ago,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: he learns that Antonelli's son has been trained in the
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: savage Sicilian code and lives only to avenge his murdered father.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: So the prince flees to this hidden away spot... And
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: lives in terror with his bully boys and his dogs
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: and his mirrors and windows that give him an all-round
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: view of the broad that is, in effect, his moat.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Of course. And then quite recently, he has his inspiration.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Come with me.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I'll just show you something. What is it, Father? I
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: see here through the French windows in the dining room.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: It's Mr. Paul. And what a banquet.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: What has he got to celebrate? If only he'd been
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: quicker getting the police, his master would be alive and
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: young Antonelli wouldn't be charged with murder.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: What does he mean by it? Why don't you ask him?
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: I will.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I say, Mr. Pollock, would you please explain to me what...
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Monsieur Flambeau, have some champagne. Oh, be my guest, please.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I owe you a great debt.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: How could you steal your master's supper when only.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Monsieur Flambeau, like you, I have stolen a great many.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Things in my life.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: This dinner I did not steal. The dinner, the house,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: and the garden belong to me.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: You mean.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Prince Paul Saradine of Ozort.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Now, if you will not join me for supper, perhaps
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: you will be good enough to close the French windows
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: as you leave. I am not as young as I was,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: and the evening breezes blow chilly.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, mon Dieu, mon Dieu, mon Dieu. Do you see? But.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: But what did he mean, he owes me a debt?
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Well, I have a guess that he got the idea
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: from you, from the way you got the two detectives
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: to arrest each other.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's better to have two enemies than one.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: No doubt he sent Captain Stevens some money with a
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: letter saying roughly, oh, I'm cleaned out, I still have
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: a little house in Norfolk with a decent cellar.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: If you want more from me, you must take that.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: I and Mrs.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Antonelli will live here quietly as your servant. Hmm? Well,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: what an offer to a younger brother who had always
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: envied the heir.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I see.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: And the brothers were always similar in appearance.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: So Paul shaved his beard and then made sure young
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Antonelli learned his address.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: And he knew that eventually the captain would walk onto
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: the young man's sword.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: But how did Paul, I suppose we must call him
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Prince Paul, how did he know young Antonelli would win
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: the duel?
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think he expected a formal duel. That's
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: not the usual way of these vendettas.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: So when he realized there was to be a duel,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: he fled in your boat before Antonelli could discover who
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: he was.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: But it was far from hopeless.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: And so Stephen, who was a brilliant fencer and an adventurer,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: trusted to his luck and his fine fencing. But he
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: was not to know how skillful young Antonelli would be.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: But he lost.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: And as soon as he saw it, Mr. Paul, who
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: was no doubt concealed in the reeds opposite, went and
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: informed the police.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. You see, he knows that Antonelli will hold
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: his tongue and be hanged.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Well, he would not break the omerta and tell tales
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: on his family in a court of law.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, listen to that. He's laughing. What a horrible laugh.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Just like his brother's. And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: O fraptious day, Caloo Calay, be chortled in his joy. Oh,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: it's all a dream, father. It must be a dream
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: from which I am going to wake up in a moment.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Indeed, perhaps it is. It's a nice philosophical point. Lewis
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Carroll was a philosopher by profession. Just give me the book,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: would you?
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, here.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. Here, at the end.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, here.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Let's consider who it was who dreamed it all. It
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: must have been either me or the Red King.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: He was part of my dream, but then I was
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: part of his dream.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, maybe we are all part of a king's dream,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: my friend. A king of kings dream. In The Sins
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: of Prince Sardine by G.K.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Chesterton, The part of Father Brown was played by Andrew Sachs, Flambeau,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Olivier Pierre, Mr Paul, Gerard Green, Mrs Anthony, June Barry, Saradine,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Roger Hammond, Italian and Sergeant Robin Summers, Norfolk Tufts, Peter
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Aker and Robin Summers. The Sins of Prince Saradine was
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: adapted by John Scotney and directed in Bristol by Alec Reid.