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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Man with the Twisted Lip Basil Rathbone, Nigel Br · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Good evening, doctor, good evening, mister Bartow, draw up your
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: usual chair mix of at home. How about the glass
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: the shirt had of me?
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  Speaker 2: Very nice already for tonight's story, doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, my boy, here's your shirt, Thank you, sir. My
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  Speaker 1: story begins on a June night in eighteen hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty nine. My wife and I had spent a quarky
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  Speaker 1: evening at home. I remember it was just about the
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  Speaker 1: hour that a man gives his first yawn and glances
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  Speaker 1: at the clock, and the tranquility of the scene was
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  Speaker 1: broken by the discordant jangling of our front door bell.
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  Speaker 2: An emergency call for you, I suppose, doctors, Not exactly, mister.
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  Speaker 1: It turned out to be a certain missus Iso Whitney,
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  Speaker 1: an old friend of my wife's who'd come to us
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  Speaker 1: in trouble. Her husband, she told us, had been missing
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  Speaker 1: for forty eight hours, and knowing him to be the
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  Speaker 1: victim of the shocking habit of taking opium, she was
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  Speaker 1: convinced that he was lying drugged and stupefied in some
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  Speaker 1: foul den amid the London waterfronts.
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  Speaker 2: And I suppose you went out to try to find him.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, mister Bartell, I did. She told me that her
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  Speaker 1: husband had mentioned frequenting a place called the Bar of
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  Speaker 1: Gold in Upper Swandham Lane, so naturally that's where I
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  Speaker 1: began my search. I quickly located it, and after ordering
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  Speaker 1: my cab the wight, I entered the place. A strange
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  Speaker 1: sight met my eyes. Through the smoke ridden, gloomed I
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  Speaker 1: could catch a glimpse of bodies lying in strange, fantastic
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  Speaker 1: poses as they smoked the pipes of death. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the unhappy creatures lay silently, but some muttered to themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and others talked together in strange, low, monotonous voices, their
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  Speaker 1: conversation coming in gushes and then trailing off into silence,
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  Speaker 1: each mumbling his own thoughts and paying little attention or
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  Speaker 1: heed to the words of his neighbor. As I entered,
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  Speaker 1: an attendant hurried up to me with an opium pipe
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  Speaker 1: and a supply of the drug and beckoned me to
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  Speaker 1: an empty bird, Master, may lie here. I haven't come
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  Speaker 1: to stay here, my good man. I'm looking for a friend,
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  Speaker 1: mister Isa Whitney.
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  Speaker 3: No, and by that name.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to search this place just the same.
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  Speaker 3: Please not to make trouble, Man Watson, is that your.
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  Speaker 1: Watson Whitney, Thank heavens, I've found you. Man. For what
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  Speaker 1: time is It's nearly eleven of what day? What day? Friday,
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  Speaker 1: June the nineteenth, Good Lord, I thought it was Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: It is Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: You're trying to confuse me.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, tell you it's Friday. Your wife has been waiting
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  Speaker 1: two days for you. Mixed up in your days, Watson,
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  Speaker 1: I've only been here a few hours. Three pipes, four pipes?
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  Speaker 3: I forget how many are I'll go.
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  Speaker 1: Home much here, I'll keep your help. That's it. I
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  Speaker 1: have a cab waiting. I'm at the some money, will
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  Speaker 1: you set up for me?
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  Speaker 4: God?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wait here for me. Stop pulling up my Steve,
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  Speaker 1: my good fellow. Who are you? And what do you want?
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  Speaker 3: A word in your ear?
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  Speaker 1: Please? Any well? What is it?
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  Speaker 3: Get rid of your friend and join me outside.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes, What on earth are you doing here? Understand?
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  Speaker 3: Be you a cab waiting?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Then please use it to send you the futtal friend hormone,
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  Speaker 5: and if you fill up to it, I should also
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  Speaker 5: recommend that you sent a note for the captain telling
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  Speaker 5: your wife that you have thrown in your lot with me.
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  Speaker 5: I'd be exceedingly glad to having a little talk with you. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: of course I'll spend it then consuter a business yellow
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  Speaker 5: chat on me to outside in about ten minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, earth, PHYSI, it's it's nearly.
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  Speaker 3: That your house as whats it's me. Your disguise is
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  Speaker 3: wonder plot.
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  Speaker 1: Never recognized you if you haven't spoken to me, just
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  Speaker 1: last posed a good friend.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, here's cold. Let's start walking out. A horse and
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  Speaker 5: trap waiting for me on the next street. What on
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  Speaker 5: earth were you doing in the bar of gold homes
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  Speaker 5: trying to get news of a missing man, you, simon.
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  Speaker 5: I'm in the midst of a better remarkable inquiry, and
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  Speaker 5: I'd hope to get a clue from the incocurrent ramblings
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  Speaker 5: of those poor devils back there. Ah, there's the horse
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  Speaker 5: and trap under the street lamp on the corner. You'll
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  Speaker 5: come with me, of course, if I can be in
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  Speaker 5: any use, I trust a comrade is always ab use.
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  Speaker 5: My room at the Cedars has two bids in it. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: that's mister Neville, Saint Clair's house and our present destination.
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  Speaker 5: It's near Lee in Kent, about seven miles in the year,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm using it as a headquarters while I conduct.
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  Speaker 3: My inquiries avening mister Rounds. Everything all right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, thank you John, I get in Watson. I shan't
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  Speaker 5: need you any more tonight. John, he has have a
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  Speaker 5: crown for you. Look out for me tomorrow about eleven.
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  Speaker 3: My charms stroums could not gentlemen, can I John? Get up.
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  Speaker 1: Well? Homes If we have a seven miles drive ahead
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  Speaker 1: of us, perhaps you'll tell me about the case that you're.
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  Speaker 3: Working on with pleasure old chat. But first take the
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  Speaker 3: range for a few minutes, will you.
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  Speaker 5: I want to remove my makeup and take off my
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  Speaker 5: wig and be comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: After that, I'll tell you why we are headed to
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  Speaker 3: the Kentish countryside at this hour of the night. What's mean?
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  Speaker 5: You have a grand gift of silence? It makes you
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  Speaker 5: invaluable as a companion. We've driven four miles and you
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  Speaker 5: haven't doned a word.
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  Speaker 1: It was easy. I've been dying to question to you,
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  Speaker 1: but I could see that you will preoccupy and.
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  Speaker 5: I shall reward you with a clear and concise statement
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  Speaker 5: of my problem. And mister Nevil Saint Claire, aged thirty seven,
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  Speaker 5: the father of two children and an affectionate husband, is missing.
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  Speaker 5: He left his house the Cedars near Lee, our present.
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  Speaker 3: Destination, last Monday, four days ago.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Now, why should an affectionate husband of a happy
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  Speaker 5: father disappear in any money trouble?
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  Speaker 3: I think not.
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  Speaker 5: His entire debts at the moment amount to eighty eight pounds,
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  Speaker 5: while he has two hundred and twenty pounds standing to
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  Speaker 5: his credit at the Capital and County's Bank.
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  Speaker 1: Who is the last person to see him on Monday?
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  Speaker 3: His wife? But let me tell you the story. He
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  Speaker 3: left his house for London rather earlier than usual.
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  Speaker 1: He was a businessman then, yes, he has.
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  Speaker 5: An interest in several companies in London, but his wife
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  Speaker 5: doesn't know exactly what he does. But to continue in
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  Speaker 5: at for London, saying that he would bring his little
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  Speaker 5: boy home a box of toy bricks now, but the
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  Speaker 5: middest chance. His wife received a telegram shortly after his
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  Speaker 5: departure saying that a parcel of considerable value was waiting
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  Speaker 5: for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company.
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  Speaker 1: Aberdeenshire, their officers in Fresno Street. I drove by them tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Zack in Fresno's Street branches out of.
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  Speaker 6: Upper Swandon Lane where the bar of Gold is. Situation ah,
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  Speaker 6: Now I'm beginning to understand.
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  Speaker 5: Gone home, Gone and missus Saint Clair took a train
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  Speaker 5: for London, and at exactly four point thirty five on
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  Speaker 5: Monday last planted herself walking past the Bar of Gold.
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  Speaker 5: Suddenly she heard a cry, and, looking up, was horrified
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  Speaker 5: to see her husband affecting to her from a second
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  Speaker 5: story window.
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  Speaker 1: Prisoner Was he there of his own free will?
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  Speaker 3: Usper Undoubtedly he was a prisoner.
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  Speaker 5: The window was open, and she distinctly on his face,
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  Speaker 5: which he described as being terribly eduitated. He waved his
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  Speaker 5: hand to up frantically, and then vanished from the window,
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  Speaker 5: so suddenly that it seemed to her that he had
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  Speaker 5: been dragged back by some irresistible force from behind. One
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  Speaker 5: singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was.
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  Speaker 3: That although he wore the coat he had left for London,
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  Speaker 3: and he wore neither collar nor time.
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  Speaker 1: What did she do?
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  Speaker 5: Rushed down the steps into the Bar of Gold and
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  Speaker 5: attempted to go up the staircase leading to the second floor.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose that oriental fellow that I talked to tonight
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  Speaker 1: stopped her exactly.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, he pushed her out of the daw and
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  Speaker 5: swammed it after her. She rushed down the lane and
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  Speaker 5: a few moments later was lucky enough to meet a
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  Speaker 5: sergeant and two constable.
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  Speaker 1: She took them back with her to the bar of Gold.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, yes, I mean whether to the room in
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  Speaker 5: which Neville Saint Clair at last been seen, And of
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  Speaker 5: course there was no sign of him. In fact, on
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  Speaker 5: the whole floor there was no one to be found
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  Speaker 5: except a hideous, deformed beggar who seemed to live there.
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  Speaker 5: And what Missus Saint Clair told me, it appears that
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  Speaker 5: the sergeant conducted the examination of quite utility.
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  Speaker 1: Saw your asmad up this window, Missus Sinclair.
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  Speaker 6: I'm positive, sergeant and Alescus, where's no one's been upstairs
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  Speaker 6: this afternoon?
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  Speaker 3: He's probably lying. Let's see what this crippled fellowes to
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  Speaker 3: say for himself.
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  Speaker 1: Here, you what do you want with me?
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  Speaker 7: I t nothing.
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  Speaker 6: You heard what this lady said? Did you see your
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  Speaker 6: husband go in this room a few minutes ago? I
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  Speaker 6: didn't see nobody. And I've been here all the afternoon,
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  Speaker 6: you lil, Yes, and you swear on oath that no
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  Speaker 6: one's been in this room for the last few hours. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: I do, Missus s Clear, I know that you think
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  Speaker 6: you saw your husband.
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  Speaker 1: But don't you suppose.
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  Speaker 6: Look on the table, just a wooden boxman.
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  Speaker 7: But I know what's incited head the see.
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  Speaker 1: What it's a lot of a lot of wooden bricks
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  Speaker 1: like kids place.
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  Speaker 7: If my husband came to London today, especially to buy
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  Speaker 7: the flour suns. You can't just believe me now, sergeant,
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  Speaker 7: don't think I can.
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  Speaker 6: And I'll take another look around. Where does this door
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  Speaker 6: lead to my bedroom? You won't find nothing in there.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll look just the same.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 6: Bloodstains on this window, ledge, fresh bloodstains?
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  Speaker 3: How do you account for that?
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  Speaker 1: Well? I don't know nothing about it.
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  Speaker 6: And the window overlooks the river, just where the water's
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  Speaker 6: good and deep.
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  Speaker 3: Too nice place to tip a body at here? Come
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  Speaker 3: are you? I ain't done nothing.
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  Speaker 6: You've got bloodstains on your right sleeve? What a you
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  Speaker 6: gotta say about that?
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  Speaker 1: To my fingers?
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  Speaker 6: See? And then I went and opened the window. Letter,
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  Speaker 6: that's how the bird got this? You think I was
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  Speaker 6: born yesterday? Let's have a look in his chest of drawers? Hello, Hello,
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  Speaker 6: those clothes are these? A pair of trousers, socks, shoes, ets,
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  Speaker 6: everything except the coat, eh, missus Sinclair will you come
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  Speaker 6: in here, priestman, what if your partner started these clothes?
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  Speaker 1: Are they your husband's mom? Yes?
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  Speaker 7: What's happened to ring Sergeant?
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid he's met with foul playmer And this man
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  Speaker 6: knows what happened, and he won't talk. I don't know nothing.
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell you, don't you when I arrest you in
• 9:39
  Speaker 6: the name of the.
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  Speaker 1: Law, And I warn you that anything you say.
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  Speaker 3: And so Watson the sergeant arrested this crippled beggar.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. What have they been able to find
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  Speaker 1: out about him?
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  Speaker 3: Surprisingly little?
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  Speaker 5: His name is Hugh Boone and he's a professional beggar,
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  Speaker 5: quite as successful when I gather his pathetic appearance attracts
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  Speaker 5: great sympathy, the shock of orange hair and a pale
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  Speaker 5: face that is disfigured by a horrible scar which has
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  Speaker 5: twisted the outer.
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  Speaker 3: Edge of his upper lip.
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  Speaker 1: And he was the last man to see Nevil some
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  Speaker 1: Turil alive.
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  Speaker 5: So it would seem the Laska downstairs has been cross examined.
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  Speaker 3: Relentlessly, but he swears that he has no knowledge of
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  Speaker 3: the crimes.
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  Speaker 1: There have been any furtive.
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  Speaker 3: Old chap Yes, indeither have the ebbing tide gave.
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  Speaker 1: A fresh clue humans, and Clare's body was washed out.
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  Speaker 3: No, his coat with every.
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  Speaker 5: Pocket stuck with pennies and haphenies four hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 5: one pennies and two hundred and seventy haphenies to be exact,
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  Speaker 5: there's no wonder that it had not been swept away
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  Speaker 5: by the tide.
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  Speaker 1: But human body is a different matter.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, there's a strong eddy between the house and the wall.
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  Speaker 5: It seems likely that the weighted coat had remained when
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  Speaker 5: the stripped body had been carried away into the river.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: The other clothes were found in the room. And why
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: would the body be dressed in a coat? Love?
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  Speaker 3: We can only summarize old chaff.
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  Speaker 5: But supposing that this man boon a trusted levels Sinclaire
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  Speaker 5: through the window and into the river, what would he
• 10:57
  Speaker 5: do then try and disppose of the tewtail garments. Yes,
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: that would be logical, wouldn't it. He would seize the
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: coat and be in the act of.
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  Speaker 8: Throwing it out of the window when it would occur
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  Speaker 8: to him.
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  Speaker 3: That it would quote and not sink.
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  Speaker 1: So we loaded the puppets OF's coins to make it sink.
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  Speaker 3: Quite so, But he has little time but he has
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  Speaker 3: heard this couple downstairs. When Missus Saint Clair tried to
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  Speaker 3: pass her way up, he only succeeded.
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  Speaker 8: In getting as far as throwing the coat out.
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  Speaker 3: When the police arrived on the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it seems perfectly feasible.
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  Speaker 3: Well I thought it was a working hypothesis anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Nevil Sincaire disappeared on Monday. Yet we still don't know
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: what but he was doing in the Opium den what happened?
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  Speaker 1: Too many? He was not there or were he is?
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: Now? What Humbourne, the beg.
• 11:36
  Speaker 8: Over the fisted lip, had to do with his disappearance?
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: Ah, here we are. Our destinations were light, Bernie.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Claire must be waiting up for her.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, poor woman. I hate to return here with no
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: news of her husband.
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  Speaker 5: But she's being brave. What's some extremely brave. We might
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  Speaker 5: do everything we can to comfort her.
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  Speaker 7: Dr Watson, I'm so grateful that you were able to
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  Speaker 7: come down and help you.
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  Speaker 1: Afraid. Oh, I only hope that I can be of
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  Speaker 1: some help Missus and Clare.
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  Speaker 7: I say that you have no good news for me,
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  Speaker 7: Mister Homes, I'm afraid not no, no thank heaven for dead.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Holmes tell me honestly, do you think that never
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  Speaker 7: is still alive?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 7: Thankly, no, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Then I don't think he's murdered. Well I don't say that,
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: but perhaps you And on what day did he.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: Meet his death? On Monday?
• 12:40
  Speaker 7: Then perhaps, mister Holmes, you can explain how I received
• 12:42
  Speaker 7: a letter from him today?
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: Who is all madam?
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: Let me see it. This is very crude writing on
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: the envelope. Surely it's not your husband's hands.
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  Speaker 7: Hope the writing in the letter is?
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: There's letter contained an enclosure.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, there was a ring, his dignitt ring.
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  Speaker 1: What is the letter say?
• 13:01
  Speaker 8: There is?
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  Speaker 3: Do not be frightened.
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  Speaker 8: All will come Well. There is a huge error which
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  Speaker 8: it may take some little time to rectify.
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  Speaker 5: Waiting patience and its signed Neville written in pennsylvani fly
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  Speaker 5: leaf of a notebook.
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  Speaker 3: No water mark.
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: Posted today, engraves in by a member. The dirt it's
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  Speaker 5: coming black has been gummed. If I'm not mistaken by
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: a man who has been chewing tobacco.
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  Speaker 7: My husband must be alive, mister Hilmes.
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  Speaker 5: This might be a clever forgery to put us off
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  Speaker 5: put us off the track. But the signet rings as
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: it may have been taken from him. But the hand
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  Speaker 5: writing and then the first mark might have been written
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  Speaker 5: on Monday and only posted today. I won't be the
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: scared missus Claire. I have no wish to discourage you.
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: I'm just trying to be practical. If your husband is
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: alive and able to write letters, why should he remain
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  Speaker 5: away from you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't admit he made no special remarks before leaving
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  Speaker 1: on Monday.
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  Speaker 7: No, none, except to say that he was going to
• 13:53
  Speaker 7: buy the wooden blocks.
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  Speaker 5: When you saw him at the bar of Golden Swandam Lane,
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  Speaker 5: was the window open, Yes, then he might have called you.
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  Speaker 5: He might, as I understand it, he gave an inarticulate cry,
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: a call for help.
• 14:05
  Speaker 7: You thought, yes, he waved his hands, but.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: It might have been a cry of surprise.
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: Astonishment of the unexpected sight of you might have caused
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  Speaker 5: him to throw up his hands.
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  Speaker 3: And you thought that he was pulled back from the window.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, because he disappeared so abruptly, he might have leaped
• 14:18
  Speaker 7: back Mande. He might have, though I can't think why.
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  Speaker 5: One last question? Had your husband ever shown signs of
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: taking oakium?
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 7: No, never, mister Holmes. I'm certain the idea would have
• 14:31
  Speaker 7: revolted him.
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Missus Sinclair. As were the principal points I
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: wanted to be clear on. And now what's my suggest
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: We retire for the night. We may have a busy
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: day ahead of us to morrow.
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: I hope you both sleep well.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Good night, mister Holmes, doctor Watson, good night, missus.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Keep up your courage.
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  Speaker 5: Good night, Missus Sinclair. We must hope for the best.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: The cloud seemed lighter, though I should not venture to
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: say that danger is over.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: a second. So I'm just going to remind you that
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: when you buy Petrie California sherry, you have a choice
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: of two kinds of sherry. You can choose Petri regular sherry,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: or if you prefer your sherry dry, you know, not sweet,
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: ask for Petree Pale dry sherry. They're both fine wines.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: And if you don't know which you'd prefer, don't buy one,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: buy two, buy them both and try them both.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: And remember this Petri sherry.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Is the perfect all round, all occasion wine. It's good
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: before dinner, after dinner, at cocktail time, in any time.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Just be sure you'll get Petrie pet Tree Sherry. Well,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Dr Watson, you and the great Sherlock Holmes certainly deserved
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: a good night's rest.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Did you get it?
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: I did, mister Bell to Herbert Holmes, made no attempt
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: to sleep. As soon as we retired upstairs. You'd donned
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: the blue silk dressing gown, and then wandered about the room,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: and the armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Eastern divan, and which pursed himself cross legged, with an
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: out in front of him.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: He was all set for a session of thinking.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: I guess yes, my boy.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: In the dim light of a lamp, I saw him
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: sitting there, an old braw pipe clenched in his teeth,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: his eyes fixed vacantly on a corner of the ceiling,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless. So
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: he sat as I dropped off to sleep, And so
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: he sat when I wake into the morning to find
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the summer sun shining into the room. The pipe was
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: nothing remained of the heap of.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Shag which I had seen on the previous night, Watson,
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Wake Watson.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Twenty minutes at the World, Chap, I had to think.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: I couldn't allow my brain the luxury of sleeping you
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: game from morning drive.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Well, i'll get dressed.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Good, No, I'm stirring yet, but I know where the
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: stable boy sleeps. I'll have the horse and trap up
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: no time at all. Oh where we go to prison
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: to visit Hugh Boon? The man with a twisted lip.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Homes your You're unusually excited. What's what's on your mind?
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I want to test a little theory.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: I think what's in that you are not standing in
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: the presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: I deserve to be kicked from here to Chatting Cross.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: But I think I have the key to the affair
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: in the bathroom.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: You're joking.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: No, I've just been there and removed it to my
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: coat pocket. Now I didn't get dressed, old Chap, and.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: We'll drive over to the prison and see whether my.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Key fits the lock. Well, good morning, mister Elms. Doctor
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Wat's the morning you're a couple of early birds and
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: no mistake.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Yes, Constable, we are searching for the proverbial worm who's
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: on duty Spector brad Street, Sir, oh, oh, here he
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: is now. Good morning, bad Street, mister Elms, Good morning doctor,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Good morning in Spiger.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: What can I do for you? Gentlemen?
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: He called about Hu Boon, the beggar man who his
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: charge was being concerned in the disappearance of mister nevill
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Saint Clair.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: You have him here?
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, mister Elmes, he's in the selves. I'll take
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: you to him. Follow me, will you, gentlemen?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Thank you?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: What kind of a prisoners he be?
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, he hasn't given us any trouble, but he's a
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: dirty devil. It's as much as we can do to
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: make him wash his ends. His face is as black
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: as a tickers. He has an aversion to washing, has he? Yeah, yes,
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: mister Elmes. Well, once his case has been settled, to
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: have a regular prison bath. And when you see him,
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: I think you'd agree with.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Me that he needs it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And there we are.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: This is his self. He's still asleep.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Lord, what a full how's to be looking for her?
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Yes, he's a beauty, isn't he? I want to go in,
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: mister Romes, please inspect her. Well, he certainly needs to wash. Yes,
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: I had an idea that he might. That's why I
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: brought the sponge along in my power.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: So that was the key that you found in the bathroom.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: You're a funny one, mister Romes, And no mistake. Why
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: did you bring a sponge along?
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Paul?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I'll show you.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Is there any water in the cell? In the jug
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: on the table there?
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, I set the sponge in the water so, and
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: then applied to the prisoner's face.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: So which Scott is compections three shades lighter underneath, and
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the skin his lippers disappear.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Now tug on this mupple bread hair, and I think
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: we'll find it's a week's coming.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Ah, Let me introduce you to mister Nobles Saint Clair
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: of Lee in the County of Kent, good lock.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: What mister Olmes is the missing man? All right?
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: I recognize him from the photographs? All right, I'm never
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: since here. What am I charged with.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Making away with?
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Mister Nevill say, oh no, you can't be charged with
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: that unless we make a case of attempted suicide of it. Well,
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: since I'm the missing man, and it's obvious that no
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: crime has been committed, and therefore I'm illegally detained. No crime,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: but a very great error has been committed. You would
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: have done better to have trusted your wife.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: It wasn't known in my wife.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: It was the children.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: I couldn't bear to have them know that their father
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: was a common beggar.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Now you've exposed me.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: What could I do? Well? If you leave it a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: cord of law, a clearless matter ups so you can
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: hardly avoid newspaper publicity. But if you're perfectly honest with
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: us now, I'm sure the inspector, mister Holmes won't be
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: too hard on you.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: No, mister Saint Clair Inspector Bradstreet will. I'm sure I
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: make notes on the information that you give us and
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: submit them to the proper authorities. But now, sir, your
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: story please? Why have you been posing as Hugh Boon,
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: a crippled beggar with a twisted lip? Well, it's simple
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: enough story. Some years ago I was a newspaper reporter.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: One day my editor wanted an article on begging in
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: the London metropolis.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: You thought the best way to get your facts was
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the disguise yourself was as bigger.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'd been an action in my youth in it
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: wasn't hard for me to adopt a convincing disguise.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: But that was the point where all my trouble started.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: On that first day I sat in the London streets,
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: I found my amazement that I received no less than
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: twenty six shillings and four.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Pounds, as much as your weekly salary as a reporter.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Imagine, yes, mister Holmes, Well you can imagine how hard
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: it was to settle down to arduous work at two
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: pounds a week, when I knew that I could earn
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: as much in a couple of days by smearing my
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: face with paint, laying my cap on the ground, and
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: sitting still.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Only one man knew.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: My secret Alaska, the bar of Gold, Upper swandam Lane,
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: eh is, mister Holmes. Every morning I had emerge from
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: there dressed as a beggar, and in the evenings I'd
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: return and transform myself in to a well dressed man.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: About time the fellow was well paid for his rooms,
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: and I knew that my secret was safe in his possession.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: And when you got married, you couldn't bring yourself to
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: confile in your wife as person. No, I couldn't.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: My wife knew that I had a business in the city.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: She little knew what when you saw your wife from
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: the window last Monday, you quickly changed back into the
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: character of the beggar. I suppose, yes, mister Holmes, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: then weighted my coat and threw it into the river.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Well, I I don't think there's anything else I need explain.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Is that at one point the signet ring that you
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: sent your wife, Well, I knew that she'd be worrying,
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: so I gave it to the Alaska at a moment
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: when no constable was watching me, together with a hastily
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: scribbled note.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: That note only reached her last night, mister sinker.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Last night, poor Catherine. What a dreadful week you must
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: have spent. And the police have been watching that Leska.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: You probably found it difficult to post the letter for
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: you without being spotted. Yes, I would surmise you gave
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: it to a sailor. Customer is to post a sailor
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: who chewed tobacco and had a dirty thumb. Yes, I
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: think all the ends are tied off, very niekly. Now,
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: one last question, mister Sinclair, have you never been prosecuted
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: for begging many times, but what was a fine to me?
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: It's got to stop here and now, missus Sinclair. If
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: the police had asked this thing up, there must be
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: no more of your boom the beggar, I swear it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And you must tell your wife or two at once.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: If you've done that a long time ago, you'd have
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: saved both of yourselves. Are very great deal of miseries.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: I shall tell her everything. Well, mister Romes were very
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: much obliged to you. If having cleared this matter up,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: I wish I knew how you reached your results, though well,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: in this case, my dear Inspector, I reached them by
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag tobacco.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I only wish that all my problems might be solved
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: so comfortably