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Now it's time for today's episode of
the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure

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of the Norwood Builder, The Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes, The Original and Immortal

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Stories of Sir Raza. Conan Doyle
dramatized Daniel with Sir Ralph Richardson as doctor

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Watson and Sir John Gielgood in the
role of Sherlock Holmes. Hello, what's

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thes what's this Watson? Toman who
quite a remarkable scent of education at Holmes?

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Whoever it is, He's not even
waiting for missus Hudson's good offices.

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A man from his step, a
young one from his energy, and a

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strong one for his tug on the
bell pull mister Holmes, I'm the only

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man. Sit down, won't you, Mister Holmes, I am the unhappy

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John Hector McFarland. Pray have a
cigarette, mister McFarland, or you mustn't

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blame me. I'm nearly mad at
hill. You'll blame you for nothing.

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But if you don't sit down and
compose yourself, I can't possibly listen to

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you well, and I'm sorry,
yes, of course, of course.

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But if you're in you, when
you are fully composed, you must tell

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us, very slowly and quietly,
who you are and what it is you

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want. You mentioned your name as
if I should recognize it, but I

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assure you wh I know nothing whatever, But you beyond the obvious facts that

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you're a bachelor, solicitor at a
freemason, mister Holmes. How and oh

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you mustn't mind it, mister McFarland. It looks like a conjuring trick,

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but it's very quite simple. But
he deduced the first fact from the general

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untidiness of your tithe I may say
so on the second from the sheaf of

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legal papers sticking out of your pocket
there, and the third from the charm

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on your watch chain upon my soul
watching you improve. You do indeed well,

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thank your Holmes. And I fancy
mister McFarland's calm enough to tell us

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his story coherently, mister Holmes,
and everything you said. And in addition,

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I'm the most unfortunate man in London. I'm calm enough now. But

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I had to know you'd be working
for me, and it's just that I

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had to get here before they did. Oh and who are they, mister

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McFarland. The police. They're on
their way to arrest me. The police.

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This is really most gratful, quite
interesting. On what charge may I

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ask of murdering mister Jonas, old
accot of Lord Norwood. Dear me,

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look there at mister Holmes, there
at that newspaper. Look at that headline.

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Yes, yes, yes, Watson, pray look at this the second

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page is I recall it runs a
mysterious affair at Lower Norwood. Disappearance of

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well known builder, murder and arson. Yes, and here you see below

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the clue to the criminal, the
mysterious mister McFarland. That's the clue there

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following Now a man was after me
at London Bridge Station? What's that?

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Who is it? Mister Holmes?
We must wait and see. Of course

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you understand, mister McFarland, and
I don't necessarily accept your case, mister

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Holmes. I still listen at least
and if you go on nate to mcfarn

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I arrest you for the wilful murder
of mister Jonas old Acot of Lower Norwood.

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Oh, good morning, inspector.
Do come in one shall That's all

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very well, doctor Watson. When
I've been following this young man, mister

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Holmes, and I want him a
quarter of an hour more or less can

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make no difference to you less trade. This gentleman was about to give us

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his account of the affair. Perhaps
I might help to clear it up.

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I don't think I shall have any
difficulty in clearing it up, mister Holmes.

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Still it's a warm day, less
trade, is it not, and

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you've been making such haste. You'll
find refreshments on the table over there.

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I think I may say I've done
you one or two good turns in my

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time at the yard, this trade, So just let me have my quarter

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of an hour, will Well?
It's true enough. It's difficult to refuse

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you, mister Holmes. But I
am bound to remain with my prisoner,

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of course, and I am bound
to warn him. But anything he says

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may appear in evidence. I don't
want anything better, sir. Thank you,

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mister Holmes, not at all,
thank you. Less trade now,

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Watson, Watson, Ah, there's
really no need for you to be learning

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the entire newspaper by heart while speaking
at Holmes. Oh no, this is

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rarely quite interesting, Come Watson.
The facts, the facts, And so

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I summarized the facts. It appeared
that the night before, at about twelve

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o'clock, there had been a sudden
alarm of fire at the house of mister

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Jonas old Acre, a wealthy builder
of lower Norwood. The fire had started

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in a small timber yard behind the
house, where some stacks of wood were

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stored It was brought under control by
the fire brigade without any trouble, but

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among the ashes some charred remains were
found. Mister Oldacre himself was missing,

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and in his room the safe had
plainly been burgled, and there were signs

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of a struggle with some blood.
It was known that the builder had had

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a late visitor the night before,
none other than young MacFarlane, and among

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the litter of papers round the safe, a heavy oaken stick been found,

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also smeared with blood, which had
been identified as his. It seemed clear

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that murder had been done, and
the body dragged to the woodstack for disposal.

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Why what could be more natural,
mister Holmes. I got on this

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young man's trail at once and arrived
to arrest him in our humble chambers.

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Well, well, the case certainly
has some points of interest. Wats him?

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I swear I didn't do it,
mister Holmes. Yes, yes,

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quite so, mister McFarland. But
let us take the facts first. It's

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true I suppose that you did visit
mister Oldegger last night. I did.

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I won't keep anything back, mister
Holmes. You no better, not young

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man. You knew him? Well, I'd take it. I didn't know

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him at all, or at least
I knew of him, but i'd never

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met him. He was a friend
of my parents long ago, but they

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had drifted apart. I only knew
the name. And how did you come

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to visiting them? He suddenly walked
into Marfice in the city yesterday and introduced

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himself. I have a place near
London Bridge, you know, he said,

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he's some business for me to do. Any handed me some sheets of

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paper. Here they are, mister
Holmes, the draft of a will.

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He said. He wanted me to
put it all in proper legal shape.

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You can imagine my amazement when I
saw that he'd left everything to you,

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mister McFarland. Just so Watson,
look at this. Remarkable. You'd never

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met him in your life before,
you say never. He was a queer,

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little ferret like man. I didn't
like him much, but there it

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was. He'd left me everything.
Did he tell you why? He said

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he hadn't any relations, and he'd
known my parents in his youth, and

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he'd followed my career, and so
he felt he'd like to do it for

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old time's sake, and because I
was a deserving case. Oh quite touching.

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We underestimate the power of sentiment.
Watson, Well, what then,

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mister McFarland. Well, he said
there was some title deeds and so forth

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at his house Norwood, and that
he'd want me to have a look at

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them too, And he said his
mind wouldn't be easy till it was all

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settled, so he asked me to
go out there. He insisted that it

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should be last night, Yes,
after supper. He said he wouldn't hear

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of anything else, and I wasn't
to mention anything to my parents. It

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was to be a surprise to them. Well why didn't you stay the night

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at mister Oldacres? He hadn't invited
me, only to look at the papers

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I put up at a hotel in
Nordwood itself. And then the smart one

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moment you call on him after supper
as arranged, of course, about half

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past nine, i'd see who opened
the door to you. I suppose it's

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his housekeeper. She was a middle
aged woman, and I take it she

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announced your name. Yes. We
went into mister Oldacre's study and he was

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all ready for me, with the
papers all set out beside the safe.

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We worked in them together till about
half past eleven complicated papers, mister McFarland.

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No, rather simple, i'd say, really, though he seemed to

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think they were very important. We
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Most interesting. So you left him
for the night. Yes, I couldn't

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find my stick. I remember the
stick beside the safe with the blood stain.

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Just my devilish luck. A game. I didn't know anything about it

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till id edit in the papers this
morning, and the train back to the

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city. I came straight on to
you from London Bridge, mister Holmes.

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I was terrified. I saw just
exactly how involved I seemed to be.

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A man spotted him there, mister
Holmes at the station, and a fellow

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waiting. When I heard he was
on his way to his office. I

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came on here myself to do my
duty. Then you plainly must do your

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duty. My dearest trade, he's
yours, mister. No, no,

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no, it's all right, mister
MacFarlane. I've decided to accept your case.

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Oh thank hep Now just write your
home address on this slip of paper

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and then you must go quietly along
with the inspector. There's nothing else to

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be done. I'll do everything I
can to help you are. You're wasting

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your time, mister Holmes. I
never saw a clearer case. However,

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it amuses you, it does,
it does, though perhaps amusing is hardly

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the world. Goodbye, my dear
lest trade until we meet again, mister

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McFarlane. Heaven bless you, mister
Holmes. Well Watson, is he innocent?

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Holmes? I know no more than
you do. There's an odd factors,

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of course. The writing on Old
Acre's draft of the will, for

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instance, I see nothing hard in
that. It's a bit of a scribble,

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perhaps, doesn't sol But written in
a railway train and express with only

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one stop the whole way, but
several sets of points on the line.

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Yes, But my dear fellows sublicity
itself to an expert. Look at the

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variations in the handwriting. If I'm
not mistaken, this was written in the

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very train we are about to catch
ourselves, Watson. But traveling, of

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course, in the opposite direction.
We go from London Bridge through Norwood.

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Come along, let us see the
home of this respected murdered builder for ourselves.

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The house was a modern villa of
staring red brick. We found a

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group of lustradesmen routing among the ashes
of the timber stack, and at the

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very moment of our arrival struck treasure
trove a few discolored metal disks. There

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was no doubt that there were trouser
buttons. We looked in the builder's study,

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saw the signs of a struggle,
the bloodstains, the trail of a

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heavy object dragged from the ground floor
window to the timber yard. It seemed

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only too clear that less Trade had
a case. There were no other footprints

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but our clowns and the builders.
After one quick glance through the papers scattered

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from the safe, it was with
a furrowed brow that Holmes returned at last

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to Baker Street. All the rest
of that close thundery day he moped and

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pondered. Next day it was hotter
still, what's all wrongs wrong? You

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mean he may be guilty after all? No, no, no, I'm

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certain Macfarland's innocence, and all my
instincts are one way, and all all

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the facts are the other. MacFarlane
had so much to gain, of course,

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a poor young solicitor, and a
bequest from the blue like that.

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He might have hoped that the body
would burn completely in the woodstack before the

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fire was spotted. Even that the
whole house might burn down, And then

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he didn't head it at once,
and yet he chose the worst night in

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the world for it, a night
when the housekeeper knew that he was there,

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she knew his name, even you
heard me ask him if she denounced

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him. And then there's the will
itself, that odd writing on it,

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written in the train by old Ecare
you mean you're still a hark back to

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that he is on his way to
see McFarlane, scribbled almost illegibly in a

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swaying railway carriage, And at the
last moment extraordinary that a man should draw

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up so important a document so casually. It suggests he might not have thought

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it very important, It suggests Watson, we'll see who that is, my

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dear fellow. Oh this heat,
this wretched, wretched heat. It's a

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telegram homes thatch out. Here's a
ports from this trade, important fresh evidence

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to hand advise you abandoned case.
A very kind of him. Wait,

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there's more. McFarlane's fingerprint in blood
found on wall beside headstand less trade.

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What's that, Watson, Watson,
We're done for homes. He must be

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guilty. Fingerprints can't lie. You
know that it's the latest sire. Of

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course they can't lie, thank Heaven. And this one means one thing,

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and one thing only, Watson,
McFarlane's guilt, McFarlane's innocence. Get your

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hat, Watson. We've another journey
before us, my dear Holmes, to

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Norward again in this heat, black
heat. This time McFarlane's an innocent man.

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There's mercy still in heaven. And
from that moment he was a different

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man. The indolence and dejection fell
away from him. Sherlock Holmes was seldom

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perhaps jocos, but when he talked
blithely of less Strade's little cruel victory in

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the telegram, he was as near
to chirruping as I ever saw him.

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I was to see yet another side
of him that day, as we sat

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in the parlor of the humble villa
in Blackheath, where the young solicitor lived

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with his parents. Outside in the
hot street, some children were playing,

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their voices penetrated into the stuffy little
room. Mcfarline's father was away work,

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and Holmes listen to the mother with
a quiet sympathy. You must save him,

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mister Holmes. I've helped so much
about John. How you help people.

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You must save him. Well,
I think I can almost promise that,

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ma'am, that are only a few
remaining points to be cleared up.

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John would never do such a thing. I just knew he wouldn't, and

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so do I, and so does
doctor Watson. Here. Of course,

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I know, missus McFarland, things
look black. But as long as your

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boys mister Holmes on his side,
he's save enough, I know, sir.

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I'm so grateful. It was good
of you to call. Well.

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I wanted some information from you,
ma'am, to help me in my work.

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I'll tell you anything I can.
Mister Holmes, there, I'm better

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now. You must forgive me if
I was a bit upset when you came

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first to talk about. And of
course, of course it's this mister Oldacre,

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ma'am, the murdered man. Your
son told me that you knew him

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at some time, though he himself
had never met him. Yes, I

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knew him, mister Holmes, when
we were both young. Well, ma'am

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too, well, sir, it
was once a suitor of mine, Thank

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heaven, I discovered his character in
time. Oh then, in what way,

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missus McFarland, he's cruelty, sir, he was more like a beast

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than a human being. Oh indeed, Oh, I've no sort of Jonas

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Oldacres dead, doctor Watson, only
that my boys been blamed for it.

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Your son knew nothing about this old
acquainted ship, nothing that might have made

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him well, there's some grudge against
mister Oldacre, No, sir, Dad,

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and I only told him that Jonas
was once an acquaintance of ours,

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and you yourself have had no communication
with him since those old days. No,

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mister Holmes. Oh, if you'd
passed me that little poker work box

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there on the sideboard, I could
show you something. Certainly, I've never

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ceased to blas heaven that I married
a better man, mister Holmes. Is

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this the box, missus McFarlane,
Yes, sir, I've look off with

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Jonas when I helped how he turned
a cat loosen and navy every once,

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mister Holmes, just for a joke, he said, And the next post

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I got this, jes see what
it's your photograph? Now what he left

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of it? You see how he
cut and slashed it all over A malicious

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character, disrespected builder very ready must
have forgiven you as the years went on,

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Missus McFarlane, Since he left all
his property to your son. We

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don't want any of it, doctor, not a any of it, even

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when John's name's clear, well,
maybe little enough to leave in any case,

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in spite of the fact that mister
Oldacre was supposed to be so wealthy.

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What's that Holmes? Well, there's
one more question, missus McFarland.

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Do you know of anyone, perhaps
from back in those early days called Cornelius

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Cornelius, No, sir, no
one. I looked over Oldacre's bank statements

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when we were at his house the
other day. There have been several large

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checks drawn lately in favor of a
mister Cornelius. His fortune has dwindled considerably.

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Ah, blackmail home. Possibly possibly
You've been very good, ma'am.

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We won't intrude upon you any longer. I'm so grateful, mister Holmes.

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Oh it's nothing, ma'am. If
only I can clear your son's name,

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it'll be quite time enough then to
thank me. Come Watson back to Norwood.

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Ah really, Holmes, Norwood again. Oh, one thing more,

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ma'am before we go, I wonder
if you would oblige me. That's something

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that I see in your work basket
there that measuring tape. Might I bother

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it? I'm measuring tape? Why
certainly, mister Holmes. I'm dear Holmes.

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What on earth? For? Who
knows? Watson? Perhaps to hang

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the real murderer of Jonas Old Decca. Thank you, ma'am. I'm much

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obliged to you. Come Watson now, Watson, will you please take the

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other end? Yes, right into
the corner. What do you make it?

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Seven foot six and alf excellent,
mister Holmes. Mister Holmes, I've

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got you this time, I think? Have you lest trade? Seven foot

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six and a half Watson, mister
Holmes, this is important, good doctor.

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Will you look on the white watch
there by the hatstand the thumb printing

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bradd as McFarland took his hat that
night. Yes, yes, it's very

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clear. I'm afraid you can fiddle
that tape measure of yours as much as

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you like, mister Holmes, but
you'll know as well as I do,

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that no true thumb marks are alike. What? Oh? Yes, yes,

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I've certainly heard something of the kind. Then when your please compare that

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print? Well, This wax impression
of young mcfarlan's right thumb taken by my

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orders in his cell this morning.
I really don't need to, lest trade,

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I take your word. But what
a providential thing that this young man

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should press his right thumb against the
wall when he was taking his hat from

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the pig. Is it a very
natural action when you come to think of

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it, when he might have slipped
or stumbled home? Yes? Of course.

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And who discovered this significant markless trade, missus Lexington the house this morning?

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Oh? Not the police? Why
didn't any of your notice it yesterday?

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Wow? No particular reason to examine
the hole any carefully? Quite so,

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I must even missed it myself.
However, if you will forgive us

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less trade, Watson and I must
go on with our measuring. You beat

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me, mister Holmes. You really
do here. You are measuring a lot

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of carters when the case is water
tight, and all I have to do

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is write my report. Oh I
wouldn't write it yet, you not not

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quite yet? Less trade. By
the way, how many constables have you

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here on duty three? I wonder
if one of them would perhaps kindly fetch

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me in some straw from the artist
straw saw some there? Yes? And

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perhaps you would ask another to bring
a couple of buckets of water. Then

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all of you meet me on the
top landing, say in five minutes,

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I've just won final measurement to make
on the floor. There come another conjuring

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trick, mister Holmes, so to
produce a rabbit. But not out of

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my dear stalker. You would be
surprised to hear you do it less trade.

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Well, if you insist, I
never can resist you, mister Holmes.

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Five minutes, he said, five
minutes on the upstairs landing. Exactly,

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it's straw and buckets of water.
Well, well, oh, my

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dear Holmes, poor less trade,
I enjoying herself, aren't show? Am

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I? Watson? Well, at
least he's quite right that fingerprints never lie.

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That's why I knew the case was
virtually solved when I heard of the

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appearance of this one. Solved Holmes, how because I know it wasn't there

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yesterday, and John Hector Macfarland's been
in the jail all night. You know

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my methods. What'son by execute every
inch of the place. Come on upstairs,

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Lendy. It's splendid less trade.
Yes, that's right, Constable.

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You'd just lay the straw there and
put down the buckets beside it. Now,

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Watson, will you kindly open the
window so as to drive a draft

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along down to the end of the
corridors. Holmes, you'll really go too

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far. Sure you. I have
an excellent reason for everything I'm doing.

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Lest trade. Thank you Watson so
much. You have a match. Yeah,

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yes, having solf. Well then
said light to the store, will

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you Wat's this said? Light to
it? More smoke than fire less trade.

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Now, gentlemen, if you will
all join me in a shout of

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fire when I give the word fire, are you already? Ah? Thank

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you so much, But once again, if you fire, Holmes the wall

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at the end of the corridor.
Look it's opening. Yes, it's a

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door, Watson, a cunningly concealed
door. Help. Look there's your man

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less trade and my rabbits. Gentlemen. Mister Jonas old Acre, I'm joking.

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I can't see what is it?
What are you doing here? What

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do you want to be? Want
you, mister Oldaca, I haven't done

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nothing wrong. You God touch me
when you've done your best to get an

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innocent man hanged out. It was
all a joke, only a cuke.

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I'm joking, jucid queer one.
Mister Jonas hold Aker, Well, I've

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seen a lot of villain in my
time as to own. But this beats

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a Bandit does take him last,
destmates. Come on, Joe, I

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hate to come out your cards.
Well, I must say, Holmes,

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I congratulate, Thank you, my
dear fellow. Oh it's really too hot

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a day for a fire. Pay
empty those buckets of water over the straw,

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Williams. That's better. It's all
went bitterest. That is factually I

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think. Well you've done it again, mister Holmes. Look the left and

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plasta petitions that he built here to
make a little hiding hold for himself at

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the blind end of the corridor.
Yes, Watson, now you'll see the

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advantages of being a builder. He
concealed it very neatly. If I hadn't

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noticed that discrepancy in the length of
the corridors from floor to floor, he

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might have stayed there till doomsday,
and till MacFarlane had been hanged. The

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housekeeper was in the plot, of
course, as of course, to take

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him food and drink, and to
put that thumb mark onto the wall.

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And how well Oldacre evidently wanted the
evidence to be cast iron. And I

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dare say that when they were looking
over the papers. That night he got

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Macfarlan to steal a package of them
by using his thumb. Then it was

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the simplest thing in the world for
him to get a wax impression from the

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seal, prick himself with a pin
to get enough blood, and then put

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the mark on the wall during last
night. Just to make sure you know

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it was for revenge, I suppose
on the young fellow's mother. Yes,

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besides, business hadn't been very good
for him lately. He'd been speculating and

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there were a host of creditors.
I saw that from his papers, and

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so he'd been paying these large checks
to mister Cornelius himself at another bank.

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Exactly. He intended to start life
of pressure with that money under the other

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name, to defraud his creditors and
at the same time take his revenge on

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his old sweetheart by getting her only
son hanged for his murder. He's something

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of a monster, friend Dance,
there's this trade. Well, we'll get

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him on conspiracy. At least he'll
be inside for long and after the pent

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of his villain name. But what
about the remains in the woodpie? Mister

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Holmes an old suit for the trouser
buttons, and for the blood stains on

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the stick he'd stole him from the
boy, and the charred flesh some animal,

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a dead dog perhaps, or a
rabbit. Make it rabbit, will

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you, Watson when you tell the
tale? Someday rabbits and shall be Holmes.

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But poor young Macfarther, no wonder, he was nearly mad. Well,

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we did our best for him,
Watson, our humble best. Oh

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it feels cooler at last. I
do believe the weather's going to break.

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Come along, Watson, come along. And so we return to Baker Street,

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and that evening, as we were
discussing the case over Hock and Seltzer,

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once again the door burst open dramatically. Mister Holmes, you save my

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life. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Don't bother to thank

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me, my dear fellow. Good
evening to you. Oh pray be sure

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to give my compliments and this tape
measure to your mother, a most charming

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lady. She'll be the happiest woman
in all the world. Yes. Yes.

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The Case of the Lawwood build up
rather curious in its cunning simplicity.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based
on the original stories of Sir Arthur Conan

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Doyle had been dramatized at You,
with original music composed by Sydney Torch.

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Sir Ralph Richardson played the part of
Doctor Watson and Sir John Gilgood that of

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Sherlock Holmes. The program was produced
by Harry Allen Towers. Welcome Back with

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the Sign of Four and the Redheaded
League. This is probably right up there

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as one of my absolute favorite home
stories, just the way the solution turns

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out. If you saw the television
adaptation, of course, you'll notice a

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big, big difference, and that
is that on television they actually had the

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builder kill kill a tramp in order
to get the flesh needed for the evidence,

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but here they stuck with the book. I also thought it was an

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interesting touch having this Scottish dialect.
They have not heard that in any of

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the other adaptations, but given the
name, definitely makes sense as a possibility.

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All right, Well we do turn
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found. I've previously downloaded episodes of
the Sherlock Holmes series. I will be

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visiting more frequently. Well, thanks
so much, Michael, and appreciate you

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listening to the program we and Michael's
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Tomorrow we'll have a third part in
Call for a Columnist, and also

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as we wrap up, Alvin Sommers
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