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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Veiled Lodger Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conway · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, back to our final story.
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  Speaker 2: Will mister Harris. When I was packing my peer fishing
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  Speaker 2: paraphernalia this morning, it had put me in mind of
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  Speaker 2: the horrible catastrophe that interrupted a certain trip Homes and
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: I were indulging in. Fishing was one of the few
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  Speaker 2: sports you know that Holmes enjoyed. Yes, the last character
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  Speaker 2: in that tragic episode died just last winter, the poor
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  Speaker 2: lady who lived in a lodging house in total seclusion,
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  Speaker 2: going out only at night, and then all was heavily veiled. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I have finally decided to tell the case of the
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  Speaker 2: double tragedy at Abbess Parva.
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  Speaker 1: Abbus Parva, that's a curious name. Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Was it in Italy? No, mister Harris. Abbas Povert is
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  Speaker 2: a small village in Berkshire. Rohonda's circus had halted there
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  Speaker 2: for the night on its way to Wimbledon. They were
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  Speaker 2: simply camping and not exhibiting. As the place is so small,
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  Speaker 2: it wouldn't have paid them to.
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  Speaker 3: Open Ronder's circus. Sir, I don't believe I've heard of it, doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Was it a big one ru for.
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  Speaker 4: The those days?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Ronda was at one time a household word in
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  Speaker 2: England and on the continent. I don't believe he ever
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  Speaker 2: went to the United States. He was the rival of
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  Speaker 2: Wmwell and of Sanger, perhaps the greatest showman of his day.
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  Speaker 2: There is evidence, however, that he took to drink, and
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  Speaker 2: that both he and his show were on the downgrade
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  Speaker 2: at the time of the Great tragedy. Well, it was
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  Speaker 2: spring and the trout season was on. Holmes and I
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  Speaker 2: had gone to Berkshire to a place we knew for
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  Speaker 2: a bit of fishing. Late one afternoon we received a
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  Speaker 2: message from Rohonda's circus that it was encamped in the
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  Speaker 2: neighboring hamlet of Abbess Power. It seemed Jojo wanted to
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: see us. It was a fine evening, so after supper,
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  Speaker 2: Homes suggested we stole over and have a chat with him.
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  Speaker 2: Jojo was an old friend.
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  Speaker 1: Of Sherlock Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Holmes certainly had a great variety of acquaintances doctor
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  Speaker 3: everything from clowns to cabinet ministery.
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  Speaker 2: It is quite and I rather suspect he preferred the clowns.
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  Speaker 2: He always said they were more human. Where we found
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  Speaker 2: Jojo behind the cook tent, smoking his evening pipe. A peculiar,
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  Speaker 2: exhilarating smell that a circus carries with it, hung heavy
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  Speaker 2: in the still air.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's made up of animals and peanuts and
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  Speaker 3: sawdust and canvas and pink lemonade.
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  Speaker 2: And that's as good a description as any mister had
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  Speaker 2: is Well, everything looked peaceful enough, but there was an
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  Speaker 2: undercurrent of excitement about. Somewhere in the distance, A lion roared.
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  Speaker 1: Wrong with that lion, jojo, he sounds uneasy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you mean Sahara King getting near his feeding time?
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  Speaker 2: Sounds vicious?
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  Speaker 5: That he is vicious came near the morning Genie when
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  Speaker 5: she went into his cage for last night's show.
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  Speaker 1: Who is Jeannie? Now?
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  Speaker 5: Don't tell me you don't know Jeanie, Mister Olmes a
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  Speaker 5: bell you Genia the greatest artist on a slack wire,
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  Speaker 5: this kind of her head until she cut a ligament
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  Speaker 5: in her right leg one night last year when I
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  Speaker 5: drunken raster about hadn't put up an equipment proper light.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, A fine girl.
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  Speaker 5: Jeanie, born and brought up on the sawdust and doing
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  Speaker 5: spring through a roup before she was ten.
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  Speaker 4: The prettiest youngster you ever did see, Air like.
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  Speaker 6: Red gold and cheeks as pink as roses.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she's only twenty eight now, and an and some
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  Speaker 5: woman still, but she's seen a bit of live mister Romes,
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  Speaker 5: and it's left its mark.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, oh what happened?
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  Speaker 5: Well, when she was going on eighteen, she married.
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  Speaker 1: Rhonda to me, the man who owned for something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's him, August H.
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  Speaker 5: Roonda, and there rained a wild animal in any of
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  Speaker 5: his cages. Can touch him for pure dann right meanness
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  Speaker 5: and cruelty.
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  Speaker 2: Well didn't, I didn't. He youngly didn't know that, but
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  Speaker 2: she married him.
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  Speaker 1: She knew it right enough.
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  Speaker 5: Ain't anyone in show business don't know about Rhonda. She
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  Speaker 5: married him to save her dad from going to prison.
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  Speaker 5: You see, Ronda got him for forging a check. Some
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  Speaker 5: say it was a put up job, and I'm not
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  Speaker 5: saying it wasn't, lightly seeing as Genie's father never learned
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  Speaker 5: to read or write. Alsoever, Ronda seemed to think he
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  Speaker 5: had a case, so Jeanie married him to keep things
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  Speaker 5: hushed up. Yes, sir, that check was for one hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 5: But I guess Genie has had a million pounds worth
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  Speaker 5: of suffering since then.
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  Speaker 1: Ronda kept getting.
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  Speaker 6: Worse and worse.
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  Speaker 4: First it was.
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  Speaker 5: Drink, then women, and then he took her beating her
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  Speaker 5: up michiget it blackguard, Yes, I kind of figure. He
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  Speaker 5: hated her because he knew he wasn't fit to clean
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  Speaker 5: up boots, always figuring out new ways to torture. And
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  Speaker 5: when she fell and cut her leg and couldn't walk
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  Speaker 5: the wire anymore, he said she had to do something
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  Speaker 5: in a living. He put her in the cages, doing
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  Speaker 5: an act with the big cats.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the lions and tigers.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, mister Ownes, Well, Genie's always been afraid of him
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  Speaker 5: ever since she was a baby. Couldn't even stand aside
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  Speaker 5: of a common ordinary house care. Some folks are like that,
• 5:02
  Speaker 5: mister owns Yes, it's a not uncommon phobia.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: And so when Roonda may Genie work with the big cats,
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  Speaker 5: it was pure torture doer. And maybe he didn't know that, Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: He even makes her feed them, so it's because they'll
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  Speaker 5: feel more friendly toward her if she does. But between
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  Speaker 5: you and me is because they always roar so at
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  Speaker 5: feeding time.
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  Speaker 6: And that terrifies her.
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  Speaker 2: You see, present medieval gentlemen, he should have lived at
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  Speaker 2: the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Look, yeah, why didn't
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  Speaker 2: someone in the circus interfere go to the police.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't dare for her lose that jobs.
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  Speaker 4: Besides, what could we prove?
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  Speaker 2: What's in the circus.
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  Speaker 7: Is a world of its own, and the people in
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  Speaker 7: it are born, brought up, and finally they die under canvas.
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  Speaker 7: They travel here and there, never making any real contact
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  Speaker 7: with outside life.
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  Speaker 1: If one of the performers had stepped into protect Missus Roonda,
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  Speaker 1: he'd have lost his job and never been able to
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  Speaker 1: get into a circus again in all probability.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, that's right.
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  Speaker 7: As I said, the circus is a world of its own.
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  Speaker 7: It has its own loves and hates, its own laws
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  Speaker 7: and standards.
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  Speaker 1: And Rhonda as it's a it's Caesar, it's God, the
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  Speaker 1: circus performing. There is no life outside the circus. Take
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  Speaker 1: him away from the sawdust, and.
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  Speaker 7: The circus smells its eternal wanderings, it's audiences, it's hardships,
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  Speaker 7: and he's as lost and out of places you would
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  Speaker 7: be on Mars.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, And that's why no one's ever calling the police, first,
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  Speaker 5: because we don't dare in second, because we don't like
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  Speaker 5: outsiders poking around our affairs, have it. You're different, mister Olmes.
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  Speaker 5: You understand this. Besides, you're not a regular blue nose.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what is always saying, not one of the official.
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  Speaker 5: Police, Yes, sir, and so that's why mister roons are
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  Speaker 5: I thought, maybe you kind of take a look around.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe, well, maybe you might be in time to prevent something.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean by something, Jojo?
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  Speaker 5: First, if I know, miss drones, but something's going to happen,
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  Speaker 5: it ain't going to be pretty. I got a feeling
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  Speaker 5: a kind of warning. And I ain't the only one.
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  Speaker 5: The rest of him they got the wind up too.
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  Speaker 5: We don't know exactly why.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I noticed that everything was unnaturally quiet as I
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  Speaker 7: came past the tents tonight. No singing and shouting, none
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  Speaker 7: of the usual couples walking around arm in arm. Everyone
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  Speaker 7: seems to be under cover.
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  Speaker 5: Yea, that's what they are said, undercovered and listening, waiting
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  Speaker 5: for something to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Some people say we circus spokes is superstitious.
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  Speaker 5: You call a watch light, but we always knows when
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  Speaker 5: something's going to happen. The night before the big blowdown
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  Speaker 5: outside of Dover when twenty people was killed there was
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  Speaker 5: a feeling like this all through the camp, the same
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  Speaker 5: way when Lilian de Land Strappee snapped and she broke
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  Speaker 5: her neck.
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  Speaker 2: Even the animals seem.
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  Speaker 1: To feel it.
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  Speaker 6: I tell you, miss Romees, something's going to happen, but
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  Speaker 6: we don't know what.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you do subconsciously.
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  Speaker 5: I've praid I didn't get that, Miss Jones, A pretty
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  Speaker 5: big words, sir, whatever it was.
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  Speaker 7: Subconsciously, all I mean is this, Jojo. We are aware
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  Speaker 7: of a lot of things on the back of our minds,
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  Speaker 7: that well, that we don't actually think. Out the back
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  Speaker 7: of our minds notices a lot of little things we
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  Speaker 7: don't even remember, and it adds all these little things
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  Speaker 7: together and reaches some rather surprising conclusions. Now on them,
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  Speaker 7: these conclusions a month to a knowledge of danger, and
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  Speaker 7: the subconscious mind tries to flash us a warning, and
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  Speaker 7: we feel uncomfortable because we cannot go back into our
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  Speaker 7: unconscious minds and dig out the items that have gone
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  Speaker 7: to make up the total.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you can't chakad, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes you can. If you have helped now then, Jojo,
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  Speaker 1: you say you're worried, and Genie Randa is obviously uppermost
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  Speaker 1: in your mind.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I don't feel right about Jeanie, not since
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  Speaker 5: Sahara King tried a maula last night.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, it's a fact, I see, But she doesn't have
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  Speaker 7: to go into his cage again until you reach your
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  Speaker 7: next stand.
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  Speaker 1: Am I right well?
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  Speaker 5: No, that is she supposed to feed him to night,
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  Speaker 5: but I heard to say to Randa this afternoon she
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  Speaker 5: wasn't going near the beast again.
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  Speaker 1: Ever, Hm, defliants rather unusual after all these years, he jojo.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, mister Romes, it's an hour pass Sahara King's feeding Timmy.
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  Speaker 6: He's getting worse several.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes, jojo. What has happened lately to give Genie Randa
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  Speaker 1: the courage to defire her husband?
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  Speaker 7: Well, sir, well that is a I really don't know
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  Speaker 7: by right, but you'll suspect something. Well that is a well, now,
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  Speaker 7: I really wouldn't like to say, you see, well, uh,
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  Speaker 7: I'm fond of Genie.
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  Speaker 1: Someone has joined the circus lately as someone who isn't
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  Speaker 1: afraid of Randa, But who is fond of Genie? Am I?
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  Speaker 5: Right, well, I wouldn't say he's really fond of her.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it's just because if Randa dies, the circus belongs
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  Speaker 5: to his widow, and anyone can see the Randa's liable
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  Speaker 5: to have apoplexy any day.
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  Speaker 4: We don't give up drinking like a sponge.
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  Speaker 6: Well, bless me, how did you guess, mister Romes.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing persuades a woman to defy one man as quickly
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  Speaker 7: as a knowledge that there's another man to back her up.
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  Speaker 1: And who is this chap who isn't afraid of Randa?
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  Speaker 5: It's Leonardo, the new strong man. He's answered all right,
• 10:02
  Speaker 5: strong as an ox. But I don't trust him, mister Roomes.
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  Speaker 5: He don't look you straight in the eye. Who are
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  Speaker 5: not blaming Jeanie? I guess compared to all London, he
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  Speaker 5: looked like the angel Gabriel. Besides, he's the first man
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  Speaker 5: that ever did show her any attention. She's been pretty
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  Speaker 5: lonely sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Randa suspects this certain attachment that I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, misster Omes?
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  Speaker 4: I wish toever and I did.
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  Speaker 5: Seems he came home unexpected last night. As a ruler
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  Speaker 5: sits drinking in some papara until closing time. But last
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  Speaker 5: night he came on early and Jeanie wasn't in their wagon.
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  Speaker 5: He liked to tore up the place, or whether he
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  Speaker 5: found out something I couldn't say.
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  Speaker 2: I wish someone would beat that beast of it to
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  Speaker 2: stop that cat of walling. It gives me goose flesh
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  Speaker 2: all up and done my.
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  Speaker 5: Spine, And well it may if he ain't fed soon,
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  Speaker 5: he won't be safe for anyone to go in his cage.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, come along, Watson, I think the sooner we reach
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: it the better.
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  Speaker 2: You mean you're going to interview that lamb?
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  Speaker 5: What what do you think it is, mister Roomes, what's
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: going to add?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not certain, Jojo, But doesn't it strike He was
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  Speaker 1: curious that if Rhonda isn't going to force his wife
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  Speaker 1: to feed the beast, he hasn't sent someone else to
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 5: You think he's just letting her put it off until
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  Speaker 5: the beast in a filthy, dangerous rage.
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  Speaker 1: In a killing rage.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps why germiny that if they just like him to
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  Speaker 5: make a go in there.
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  Speaker 1: And not a chance exactly, and no one could ever
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  Speaker 1: prove he meant to her.
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: He must be almost there. That he sounds a perfantly
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  Speaker 2: closed just around his tenser. Oh it was why you're
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: cocking your revolver.
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  Speaker 3: You don't actually think someone on the other side of
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: the tent talking, Oh, yes, well.
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  Speaker 4: Think you're going to find me my girl, I'll show you.
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  Speaker 8: But I'm afraid please just this one.
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  Speaker 2: How could that Kate and get in there. I'll plug
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  Speaker 2: the skin off your back.
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  Speaker 4: I'll show you who's your master. O. I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: you were sneaking out nights.
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: I love that case. Oh hurry, we'll stop it.
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  Speaker 4: She can't go in there.
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: Help help, so hormful, Help, there they are. Sara is
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  Speaker 2: out of the.
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  Speaker 7: Cake man b Watson, I've got your shoe.
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  Speaker 9: You Jenny, Jenny, are you hurd f Oh it's torn
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  Speaker 9: the faces she's.
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  Speaker 4: Covered with blood?
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  Speaker 1: Is he Watson? Is she dying?
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: I think we can save her, but she'll be horribly disfigured.
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  Speaker 1: And this man over here, and I take it this
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  Speaker 1: is Rhonda.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, mister Holmes, Sahara must have got in too.
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  Speaker 2: He's gone. I'm afraid. Back of the skull completely crushed.
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  Speaker 2: Good Lord, that animal must have had a pull like
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  Speaker 2: a sledgehammer. Look at the claws tore the scalp. I
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: wonder I'm not saying I don't see anything that about
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  Speaker 2: whom the lion escaped from the cage and winforday.
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  Speaker 7: Both of them, just to find out the other man
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  Speaker 7: as well? What are the men the one who screamed
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  Speaker 7: and ran away?
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, he could have saved me.
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• 13:27
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  Speaker 3: And now back to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson. We
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: find Holmes smoking his pipe, deep in contemplation as he
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: waits for doctor Watson to finish caring for missus Rondon.
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  Speaker 3: The night is black and breathless, even the animals are hushed.
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  Speaker 1: A heavy footed figure approaches, well, Watson, she'll live, but
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: you won't enjoy it. I'm afraid part of the disfigured.
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  Speaker 4: There.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Look here, Holmes, it's getting late. Let's be getting on home.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: There's nothing more we can do here. How to contrast
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: a lion for murder?
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: You know if it was a lion, Watson?
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Or what do you mean if it was a lion?
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: We saw him, didn't we take that poor woman's face.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not thinking about the woman, Watson, but her husband.
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  Speaker 7: He was lying full of ten paces from the cage.
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  Speaker 7: I doubt if the lion ever got that far.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, rubbish homes. You're trying to build bricks without straw.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: This isn't the case for the police. Perhaps it may
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: very well be a case for Sherlock Holmes. Oh that's conceited,
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  Speaker 2: pure and simple, come along homes amnated dead for sleep.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: So you don't think it's a case Watson, No, I don't,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: And would you mind telling me what to your way
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: of thinking? Did happen?
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  Speaker 2: WHOA? That was rather obvious? Genirond had opened the cage,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: the enraged lion jumped past her, killed her husband with
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: a blow, and then returned to finish her off.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: It was the back of Rhonda's skull that was crushed.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Remember well, naturally he turned and ran when he saw
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: the beast coming for.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Him, and the man's voice, the man we heard shouting
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: for help, or.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Holmes, don't be pig headed. Of course, Randa called for
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: help when he saw the lion was out of control.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: You mean to tell me a man can still cry
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: out with the back of his head battered in Woa, No,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: that is, and we could still hear his voice after
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: his wife's cries had been stilled. Whoa, of course.
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: Furthermore, Randa's body was lying with the head pointing towards
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: the cage, not away from it, as would have been
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: the case if he'd been running away and attacked from
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: the rear.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: No, Watson, Randa was facing the cage when he was
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: struck down.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: Struck down by the man who called for help, but
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: ran away when the lion ate it by the smell
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: of human blood, turned on missus Randa.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, but that's why she kept saying, coward. He could
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: have saved me.
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: That man could have driven off the lion with a
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: weapon used to kill Randa if he hadn't lost his nerve.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, but look here, Holmes, Rhonda was killed by the lion.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: He must have been. The mass of his claws were
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: left on the skull. You saw that.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Yourself, mister Howes, Mister houns, Oh, there you are, jo Jo.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: What does she say? Did you see who killed her husband?
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: She won't talk, mister Jones. I can't get a word
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: out of it, but I think she knows right enough.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Uh, it's terrible.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: She just lies there moaning and crying for Leonardo.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: And where is that gentleman?
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: I try to find him for her, but they tell
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: me he went off to town soon after supper. Well
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: there he is now coming up the road from abys Pather.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Now I'm just running. Tell him what's happened. Ginny wants
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: to see him. He's the only one who will comfort her.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: That should be an interesting interview. Watson suppose he wandered
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: over to missus Randall's wagon. I believe it has a
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: convenient window. You mean you're going to eavesdrop that is mine?
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Hose have you known moral scruples?
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: None whatever, my dear Watson, none whatever. Here, Watson, get
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: down behind these bushes out of the light of that window.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: He's pray, I shan't be able to see anything.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Have you known moral scruples? Whatsh We don't have to see.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: All we have to do is hear Ui, Come Leonardo
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and Jojo. Hello, Jennie.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Leo, Leo, why did you do it?
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: You promise?
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: JoJo's here?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Oh I didn't know.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: I can't see you with these bandages.
• 18:45
  Speaker 11: Yeah, just told me what happened? Have you on the
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: road coming back from ABA's father. I'm sorry, Jeannie, he
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: got pretty badly more.
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: Yes, but that doesn't matter, oh, Leo. We won't have
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: to run away now, Rhonda, he's We can get.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Married, decent life married. What makes you think I'm going
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: to marry you, Leo? You promised?
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: You think I want to be tied up for life
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: to a woman with only half a face left? Might
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: as well expect me to marry one.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Of the freaks, don't.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: It's your fat Saharam hold me.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: You could have driven him off with the club you
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: used to shop.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: You can't.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: You can't you touch Leo? I warn you, well, listen
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: to who's talking.
• 19:26
  Speaker 11: Jojo, get out of here before I cripple you so
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: you can't walk got out here here, Leo.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: Don't hurt him, Jojo, please go. You can't do any good.
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: We get on better if we're alone, please, Jojo?
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: All right, but did you let me know if you
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: don't treat your.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Get out before I kick you. You are to see
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: him run?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: What's quiet?
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: Leo?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: You didn't mean what you've just said.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Didn't I I'm pulling out of here tomorrow.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: Leo, the circus it's mine now, you can have it
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: if we're married. You've always wanted to run a circuit.
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: No, sir, I am sensitive. I am I never could
• 20:05
  Speaker 11: stand looking at an ugly woman. Why I'd as soon
• 20:08
  Speaker 11: as marry a gargoyle as a woman without a face.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: I can wear a mask.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: No, it's no good thing.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Out of here tomorrow. I was gonna stop me. I will.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: I'll go to the police.
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: I'll tell him that you kill Randa, they arrest you.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: What about you?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Your hands aren't any too clean? Remember? But I didn't
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: kill him. I didn't know you were going to.
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: All I wanted you to do is keep him from
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: sending me into.
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: That cane, going to believe that we're in this together.
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: You can't hand me over without putting a rope around.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Your own neck.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: And I didn't do it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't.
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: I never wanted him killed. You can't do that.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Shut up.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: You can't leave me like this.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Leader, don't go man, stop screaming. You want everybody and
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: captain here.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I don't care.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I won't let you go.
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: That's good, that is won't let me go. I am
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: gonna stop me. And another thing, I never did love you.
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: Oh and you get that all the time I was
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: after the circus. But now I don't want it. Not
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: if I've got to have you along with kill you.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I'll kill you for this word.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: You haven't got the nerve? Well, I'm going.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: He whom You're not going to let him go like that?
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: He's guilty?
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Who?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: She shot him?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Quick, Watson, We've got to see him. Perhaps he's not
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: dead yet.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I wish we'd stayed home tonight.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Hideous Watson, help me tell him about right?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's dead, right enough? Hit between the eyes? I shot?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So she did have the nerve after all, No, Watson,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Genie Rnda did not shoot leonardown.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Homers looks for.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Her eyes were bandaged. Come on, Watson, we're going home.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I think I could use a bit of sleep myself.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: When I say, Holmes, look here, aren't you going to
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: stay around and find out who shot him?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think I want to know. Watson. We solved
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the first murder. That's enough for one evening. Besides, did
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I ever tell you that JoJo's father was famous for
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: his tricks with a rifle?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I believe his sons weren't half bad either. But doctor Watson,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: didn't the police ever discover who killed Leonardo?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: No, mister Harris, they didn't. His body was discovered on
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the road to abbys Paba. I dare say some of
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: the circus.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: People suspected, dear coupeit, but circus people are notoriously close mouthed.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Well, doctor, there's one more point I don't quite understand.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: How did the marks of the lion's claus happen to
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: be found in Rander's skull If Leonardo killed him?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: There there was really a rat, simple, Mister Harris. Holmes
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: eventually found a club with five spikes in it at
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the scum covered pool in the neighborhood.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I don't believe he ever mentioned the fact to anyone.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: However, Well, that was certainly a very powerful story, doctor Watson.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: In fact, Doctor, I'd say it was one of the
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: best stories you've ever told. Thank you, mister Harris. I
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: like to finish on our high point, don't your nerve?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: But you're not going to go away and leave us
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: for good?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Are you you you really want me to come back
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: in the fall.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: You know we do, doctor Watson.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Why the week would be kind of empty without a
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Sherlock Holmes's adventure to look forward to.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Well, in that case, I think it could be arranged