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another Sherlock Holmes series, this one
very different. This series is often mislabeled

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as a BBC radio series. It
wasn't. It was a series produced by

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a man named Harry Allan Towers who
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in London. The series was The
studio was focused on syndication, on creating

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programs that could be syndicated all over
the world. The Sherlock Holmes series was

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picked up by the ABC and it
was noteworthy because it was very rare for

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the BBC to pick up some non
BBC dramatic programming. In addition to Sherlock

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Holmes, Powers of London produced some
fantastic programs, including the Adventures of Horatio

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Hornblower, The Adventures of the Scarlet
Pimpermnel, The Black Museum, and of

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course that classic radio anti hero series, The Lives of Harry Lyme. Like

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a wide variety of the Towers productions, including Scarlet Pimpernel and Theodore Royal,

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the Sherlock Holmes series was brought to
the United States by NBC, and so

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this episode aired over NBC on January
the second of nineteen fifty five. The

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title is Doctor Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes. So sit back, relax, and

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enjoy Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John
Gildgood Today's performance Doctor Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The
Original and Immortal Stories of Sir Tha

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Conan Doyle dramatized Daniel, with Sir
Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson and Sir John

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Gielgood in the role of Sherlock Holmes. M M M. My name is

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Watson, Doctor John H. Watson. It may be familiar to you through

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my association over many years with one
of the most remarkable men I believe the

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world has ever known, mister Sherlock
Holmes. I want to tell you about

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one of our earliest adventures, the
first time that we went out into the

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streets of London in active partnership.
We were still youngish men. It was

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far back in the early eighteen eighties. We had shared those famous rooms number

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two hundred and twenty one B Baker
Street for only a few months. Watson,

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my dear fellow, you're just in
time, in time for wat Holmes.

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Well, you've so often been good
enough to express a genial interest in

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my singular profession. Now you'll be
able to see me actually at work.

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Oh, I'm lazy to homes.
It should be fascinating. Ah, but

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I must sit down by the far
Do you chilly out? Or do do,

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my dear fellow. Oh, by
the way, Watson, White Turkish?

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Turkish? Had you mean the bath? The bath you've just come from,

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my dear fellow. Why the relaxing
and expensive Turkish rather than the invigorating

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homemade article across the passage here?
Oh? Because I felt lazy, and

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but I haven't said a word about
it. How the deuce did you know

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I'd had a Turkish bar? Your
boots, Watson, boots. The thing's

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quite an elementary, surely, no
doubt. But you'll forgive me if I

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failed to see the least connection.
You always do your boots up in the

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same way, Watson. However,
on this occasion I see them passen with

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an elaborate double bow. Ah.
And so of course you've had them off

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and someone else has tied them for
you. Who, for example, the

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answer can only be your boot maker
or the boy at the Turkish Bars.

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As your boots were only made and
delivered here late last week, it's hardly

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likely to have been the bootmaker.
So what remains? But the bath of

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curdainly simple, isn't it. I'm
so home. You don't really are the

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strangest fellow. Ah, Wait till
you meet Milburton. He's stranger still Milburton?

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Who is Milburton? Charles Augustus Milburton
at Hampstead, in all probability the

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most evil man in London? Who
is He? Sounds fascinating. I invited

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him for six thirty so he's almost
due. Oh I shiver at the thought

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of him. But what's he due
for? A living? This strange call

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of of ours? Blackmail? Watson? Yes, he looks like mister Pickwick,

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but heaven helped the man or worse
still the woman who's in discreet enough

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to get into his power, and
what have you to do with him?

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Well, I've had the honor recently
to be consulted by a particularly illustrious lady.

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Who is she? Do I know? I expect to know her name?

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Lady Eva Brackwell, the most gooutiful
debutante of last season. But of

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course isn't she to been me added
in a fortnight to the Earl of Dilver

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course, Yes, it's all arranged. Unluckily for her. Milburton has managed

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to get hold of some imprudent letters, Watson. But she wrote some time

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ago to a penniless young fellow in
the country. Only imprudent, mind you,

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but they'd be quite sufficient to break
off the map and your commission to

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meet him and make what terms I
can. I think he's here, Watson.

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We let him in, mister Holmes
rooms when you're coming to this is

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mister Holmes, I take it you
are. How is augustus moment Himster Holmes?

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No, I prefer not to shake
hands with your mister Milburgh. This

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is only a matter of business between
us, I see, and we can

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talk of it before this gentleman.
It's rather a delicate of her. Doctor

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Watson is my friend and partner,
sir. He knows our business, really,

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but we need hardly to waste much
time on it. My position is

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quite different. You are acting from
the lady Eva. I understand I have

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that, honor. What are your
terms, mister milburghon seven thousand pounds,

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mister Holmes and the alternative? Oh
my dear sir, it is painful to

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discuss it, but if the money
is not paid by the fourteen, there

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will certainly be no marriage on the
eightie. I'm supposing I advise my client

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to tell her future husband all about
these letters you hold. You even do

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not know the earl, mister Holmes, Nomi, I am practice at this

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game, sir. Look with the
s fucking I have eight or ten similar

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cases, all maturing in It is
how I make my humble breath O scoundrel

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as you like, sir. But
that are details here that would surprised you

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for all your so called knowledge of
affairs. You may remember the sudden end

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of the engagement between the honorable Miss
Myles and Colonel Docking and Olympic Cocks.

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The absurd sum of twelve hundred pounds
could not be found in time. Seven

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thousand is ridiculous, milburdon out of
the question, is it? And I

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think not. There was also the
case of well know my names? Perhaps,

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well, sir, what's a get
behind him? Tell Lenny it out

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now now, sir, that notebook? If you please go full homes stand

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back. Do you think I go
about the business like my alarmed stand back?

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I say do too, Doctor Watson, one of your name is put

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up your hand, homes out Still. I expected something much more original,

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mister Holmes. I really did from
you. Do you think I used to

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fool as to carry the letters about
with me? You'll only make me more

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determined than ever. One more word
and I'll make it eight thousand and the

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thirteenth instead of the forty or night, mister Holmes. It was one of

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my earliest glimpses of the kind of
thing confronting us in what Holmes had been

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good enough to call our partnership.
What he would do next? I had

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no idea. I was hardly prepared. A few nights later, and on

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a particularly stormy evening, for the
appearance in our chambers of a tall,

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Rakish looking young workman with a goat
tea Beard. Oh, good evening,

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governor, How are you? How? How am I? Now? Look

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here, my good man? What
do you think you're doing? Walking in

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here? These are private apartments.
I happen to live here, Watson home.

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Yes, I think I forgot to
warn you about my little panchaan for

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this, guys, is Watson just
one among my many other accomplishments. You

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want an appalling night outside? It's
coming down in sheets? But what on

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earth have you been doing getting myself
engaged to be married? To be madded

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my dear, I congratulate you for
the housemaid a Charles Augustus Milburton's I had

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two Watson, I wanted information.
Oh shure, that was going too far,

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not at all in my present alias, I'm a rising young plumber named

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Escott. I've walked and talked with
that girl every evening for nearly a week.

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Charming little talks they were, too, And now I know Milburton's house

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in Hampstead like the palm of my
hand, the basement to the attics,

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yes, yes, but at home, the poor girl, oh ear,

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it really can't be helped, Watson. She has to become a sacrifice on

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the altar of my art. Oh
Fortunately, I find I have a hated

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rival in the shape of the local
grocery assistant. He's sure to cut me

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out at a moment my back turn
look out of the window. Watson,

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Oh, what a splendid night?
Are you early complaining about it? A

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moment ago as an honest citizen,
as a burglar? I approve of it.

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As a burglar. I proposed to
burglar Milburton's house before the night is

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over, And Watson, it's the
only way. I just want a few

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minutes to change my clothes and get
rid of this ticklish beard, and then

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I shall be leaving you for the
evening to your peaceful solitude. No,

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no, Holmes, I'm coming with
you, my dear Watson. You said

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that we were partners and that I
should do something to shake off my indow.

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Well, well, we've been sharing
these same rooms for some months now.

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It'll be amusing if we should finish
up sharing the same self. Do

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you really mean it, Watson,
toll that death when you are a most

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delightful fellow? Well, do you
think you could contrive to make us up

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a couple of masks? Masks?
Masks? In five minutes from black Silk,

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I have an old umbrella somewhere excellent, and that will be your contribution.

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For my part, I shall be
delighted to teach you how to use

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a jemmy and a glass cutter and
this set of adaptable key of wonderful specimens.

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Here in two hours time, Watson, we shall be in Milbourdne's study

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where he keeps his safe. It
adjoins his bedroom. Unfortunately, but I

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think he's pretty sure to be sound
asleep. My little fiancee tells me he

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always sleeps like a log. Is
it a bargain, Watson, it's a

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bargain home. Well here we are. You see what did I tell you,

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Watson? Within two hours we'd make
a capital pair of burgle as you

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would die. We'd always dedicated to
a no blood purpose. I don't like

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it, homes. It was too
little trouble, which you mean because the

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door was study wasn't even locked.
The holesome oversight. Look there's a light

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under the bedroom door. Yes,
he of them falls asleep at the bedroom,

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lamps still burning. I learned that
from now then, Watson, to

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work. Well, what do you
want me to do? Stand over by

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the door there and give me a
warning? Who had any one counting right.

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If they come right in, we'll
slap time to hide behind the window

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curtains. I begin on the safe
right right, Nah, then scatt and

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keys as it fell as a fool. You know you ought to had a

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much more modern safe than this one. Now, then let's see it.

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If I could only now its homes? What is it? Watson confounded?

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I've almost got it open. Someone
coming along the corridor. Two people are

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used to take it on a moment
to choose. It's too bad quickly behind

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the curtain. You can't have been
in bed after aw I's been waiting in

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the hall for someone. Watson,
You all right? Yes? I think

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so bother a type fit happy.
I could just see through someone's coming upstairs

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getting an oil lamp. It's there's
a woman with him led they're coming in.

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Well, miss who decided to come
then? Half an hour late?

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I couldn't manage any earlier. My
mistress kept me. Well, if she's

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a hard mistress, you had your
chance to get even with her. Who

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tell me in your note that you've
managed to get hold of some letters which

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compromise the Countess Delbert. Yes,
you want to sell them, and I

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want to buy them. So far, so good. I can use them

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in my business. No as to
price. The price, mister Milverton,

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for everything is your life. What
you'll mean go look at me. She's

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lifting up veil homes. That's no
ladies maid, great heavens? Is it

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you? Yes, it's I,
Charles Milverton, And don't you dare to

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speak my name? And you've found
it enough. You've ruined me the way

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you've ruined so many others. It
should have found the money in time,

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and because I couldn't, because I
begged you for two days grace who sent

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those letters? Who had to my
husband? And he died and you'll know

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how he died, but the finest
man in the world, and the letters

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were false. You changed the dates
on them. They were written before I

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met him. Get back from me. No, not till I've used it.

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Your break. No, my heart's
Charles Milburton, as you've broken mine.

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New hown, No filthy, how
great Heaven's home? Quiet man,

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he's done for and she's got away. Thank him. Who was that woman

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home? Sure you heard that face? Watson? No, never never mentioned

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names. Watson. Now's our chance? It were quick? What you're doing?

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That safe what's in the papers and
the safe to save our own plan,

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and who knows how many more besides? Quick put that bundle in your

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Pocketbots and give the rest to me. Hurry. Someone must have heard the

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shots. Listen have people coming out
of the window. Quickly, Watson sel

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We escaped down a convenient drain pipe, over two garden walls, and luckily

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I found an empty handsome at the
bottom of the road and reached Baker Street

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at last and safety. Our adventure
was over, or almost over, and

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I lay tossing slepressly in bed that
night I found myself more than ever intrigued

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by the personality of my strange companion. I recollected our first meeting only a

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few months before. I'd just come
back from medical service abroad and was moping

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miserably about this old London of ours, of handsome cabs and fog and gaslight,

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doing something nothing at all, And
then standing at a Piccadilly bar one

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day, Hello there, Watson,
remember me? Why? Yes, Stamford,

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Young Stamford used to be addresser under
you, and you were a medical

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student at Darts. Remember, of
course, I remember confounders of pleasure to

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see a friendly face Stamford, London's
a many useful and lonely man. What

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on earth if we've been doing with
yourself? Watson? He then us a

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lot? And browners are nuts for
Afghanistan, you know, a campaign out

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their army surgeon. I say,
I have a drink, William, thanks,

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you don't ye to start? I
think I got wounded pretty badly that

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my one confounded nuisance subclavian artery tube
glasses of stout. Please did read it

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up? And eh? And what
are you doing with yourself now? Nothing?

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Nothing, trying to solve the problem
with finding comfortable rooms on an army

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pinch and eleven and six a day. Well, here's your health Stamford,

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yours, Watson, here's to all
time stranger to say that. You know,

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say what about looking for You're the
second man to day? Who sent

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it to me? And who was
the first? Oh? So fellow was

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working in the chemical lab up at
the hospital. A fellow called Holmes.

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You wouldn't like to go Halves.
I suppose exactly what he was saying,

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looking for someone to share with him
in and the MLB. What's his other

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name? Shit sharing for no,
no, no, no, Sherlock,

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you're it for something queer, Sherlock
Holmes, what's you do if I know?

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He's got a whole stall about of
the way knowledge to put astonished the

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professors, and he's a first class
chemist. He says he's going in for

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something quite special. I say,
Watson, huh, let's go along to

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the lever meet him. He's punted
me there. Let's have lunch someone and

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then go on, shall we excellent? I don't hope it comes to something.

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I must confessing sounds by the interesting. Throw it this way he put

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with it there, Mind you,
Watson, you mustn't blame me if you

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don't at on with the fellow.
He's pretty queer in his ideas. How

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do you mean? Well? I
actually came on in the other day beating

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the subjects in the dissecting room with
a stick, but on the form said

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he wanted to find out half hour
bruises could be produced after death. True

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here, nah, gruesome tastes,
say still ah. There he is the

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tall fellow behind all the testubes and
for thoms. I told you he'd be

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working, I say, Holmes,
Stanford, you're weaker, Stanford. I'm

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just fund this found work homes a
reagent which is precipitated by hemoglobin and by

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nothing else in all the world.
Indeed, when I want you to meet

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doctor Watson, Holmes, Watson,
this is mister Sherlock Holmes. How are

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you doctor from Afghanistan? I perceive? How on earth did you know that?

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Never mind the question, now it's
about hemoglobin, no doubt you see

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the significance of this discovery of man
probou was be interesting enough chemically, but

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from the practical point of view,
a fellow, it's the most practical medical

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legal discovery for years. Don't you
see that it gives us an infallible test

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for bloodstained Indeed, yes, criminal
cases are always hjing on this kind of

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thing. A man suspected of a
crime long after it's committed, let's say,

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and his linen turned out to have
brownish stains on it. Yes,

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but are they blood or mud or
rust stains or fruit stains or what?

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Now we have the Sherlock Holmes test, doctor Watson, so there can be

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no more difficult bad Let's say you
are a big congratulated mister Holmes. Of

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course I am. There was the
case upon Bishop at Frankfort last year,

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and and Mason of Bedford and Samson
of New Orleans. I could name a

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score of cases where the thing would
have been decisive. By jove, you're

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a regular walking calendar of crime.
Oh well, why not? Eh?

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What could be more fascinating? Have
you would taste for such matters by any

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chance? Doctor? Oh well,
I confess it's been a little beyond my

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rage. You'll get it, you
will, I assure you. The thing

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grips you like a drug. Holmes. I wanted you Foo to meet because

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Watson's on the lookout for someone to
share diggings with him, the same as

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you are. Capital Doctor, you
looked a very man for me. I've

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had my eye on a Sweden Baker
Street number two hundred and twenty one B.

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And missus Hudson is the landlady name. You don't mind the smell of

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strong tobacco? I hope. I
always spoke ships myself. That's good enough

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them. Oh, and I generally
have a few chemicals about and carry out

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experiments like this one that wouldn't annoy
you. Final means, well, then

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let me see one of my other
shortcomings. Oh, I get done in

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the dumps sometimes and don't open my
mouth for days on end. And oh,

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I've a fanciful revolver practice indoors,
so long as I can rely on

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your aim intendible, I assure you, now, what have you to confess?

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When I get up at all sorts
of ungodly hours and I'm very lazy,

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I don't like two months rather,
but but oh but I put up

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with a revolver shots good. I've
got another set of advices when I'm well,

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But these are the principal ones for
the person. And that's all right,

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thank you Stamford. I'm very much
obliged to you. Well, should

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we go together, Dr Watson and
look at the rooms tomorrow, say at

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noon at Nolton Home it'll suit admirably. Or one other little thing, the

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violin. You don't include violin playing
in your category of rows. It depends

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on the player my homes. If
it's badly play, that's something I should

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have to leave you to judge for
yourself, my dear fellow, and I

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should have pleasure in testing your ear
with a few of my own little compositions.

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Then you will be able to judge
my modest capabilities till tomorrow, then,

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my dear doctor Watson, till tomorrow. So it took those wounds together

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and settled down quite amicably. As
the weeks went by, my interest in

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my companion intensified. I studied his
sharp piercing eyes, his thin hawk like

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face, and I wondered time and
again what he did for the living so

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as to pay his share of our
humble reckoning. He was out at all

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sorts of strange hours, and when
he was at home, curious visitors were

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always calling on him, And then
he would ask if he might have our

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sitting room to himself. Who was
a thin, sallow, dark eyed fellow

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called less trade for a distance,
who came three or four nights in one

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week. Once a fashionable addressed young
girl waited on him. At another time

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he was a railway porter in his
velveteen uniform. The thing puzzled me until

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at last one day, Ah,
you wonder what I do for a living?

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Watson? Eh, I've seen you
looking quizzically once or twice at these

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visiting plants of mine, or just
passed me over the person slipper, will

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you, my dear fellow, I
always keep the tobacco in it, thank

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you. The fact is, I'm
a professional thinker, doctor thinker. Certainly

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I piece things together. You see, just as a logician could infer the

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possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara
from a single drop of water without having

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seen or heard of either of them. So I build rare edifices of deduction

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from the observation of a few simple
thets. It's the truth, I assure

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you. If you're looking around for
a cigar by the way, my chap,

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you will find them in the coast
cuttle. Yes, yes, I

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have a trade all my own,
Watson, the only one in the whole

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world. I'm a consulting detective.
Oh that's lone. Them full of detectives

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home, lots of government ones,
and plenty of private ones, but none

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like me. I built up quite
a special little connection, Watson. And

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when any of these other fellows that
are at last day generally come to me

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to put them right, just by
thinking about things, I suppose exactly I

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have a turn for observation and deduction. As you must have noticed that first

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time we met. For instance,
when I mentioned to your surprise that you've

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just come from Afghanistan. You're told
about it, no doubt, not think

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of the s Watson, just new
white second nature to me. My train

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of thought ran something like this,
here's a fellow who's a doctor, but

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with the air of a military man. Clearly an army surgeon then, just

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come from the tropics. But his
face is dark, but that isn't his

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natural color, for his wrists are
fair, his arm is stiff. Has

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been wounded where the tropics? Could
an English army doctor have been wounded lately?

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And the obvious answer was in the
Afghan campaign, probably the Battle of

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my Wand it's simple enough when you
explain it. I confess I was taken

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aback a bit of the time.
And you mean to say that you apply

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these principles to the detection of crime, of course I do. That fellow

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is trade you were asking me about
the other day. For instance. He's

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a Scotland yard man, one of
the best. But he got himself into

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a fog over a forgery case recently
and came to me to ask my advice

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on the evidence you had. I
sold it for him on the spot.

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Upon my life you astonished me at
Holmes. I'd no idea that that was

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what you were up to. What
gave you the notion all natural talent?

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As though when I was still at
college a small thing happened to become my

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way, which enabled me to solve
a curious crime. I decided that I'd

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tasted such matters, and so here
I am now a professional investigator. That's

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the kind of thing I deal within
this life of mine. Watson, That

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and of course my music. Well, I never thought that you was a

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professional investigator of crime, even when
you talked about it so much at the

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hospital that time we met. But
one really must do something to keep on

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self from boredom. You may find
yourself mixed up in it one of these

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fine days. You know, you
never know what's new, You never know.

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And I was, of course you
know that now with the Milverton exploit,

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as I've related it, that the
first real adventure of them all in

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which I felt myself truly involved.
It ended rather oddly at Burgler Day episode

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of ours. The very morning after
it, after my sleepless night, they

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came in the little man I'd so
often seen before. Let's trade the good

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less straight of Scotland yard. Good
morning, my dear lest right, good

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morning with their own. I was
wondering, is doctor Watson, by the

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way, he was asking all about
you the other day, how'd you do

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doctor? Any friend of mister Holmes, this is a friend of mine's lasted

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to meet your inspective. Well,
sit down on sh share a pipe with

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its soo much of a harry,
I'm afraid I just wanted to ask if

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you were anything particular on hand,
mister Holmes. Oh, I don't think

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so nothing much little matter down of
the docks involving a giant rat from Sumatra.

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You're gonna need the rats look after
themselves, mister Holmes. There's been

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murder dam app at Hampstead. Wanted
you to look into it for us queer

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business. Oh really, who's been
murdered? Feller called Milverton. Indeed,

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I believe I've heard the name O
homes not feeling Dickie? Are you Watson?

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Any details this straight worler? We
know did it? Of course?

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You know good heaven copper on them. Doctor nearly got him, vented you

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and cried. You see, they
got away worse luck where they were?

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How interesting? And what are they
supposed to look like? The first one?

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Very tall? I'm a fellow,
middle size, thick neck man with

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them a start head, masks over
their eyes. Oh, come less strade.

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That's rather vague, isn't it?
On my soul. It might even

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be a description of Watson and me. Hey, Watson, imag indeed,

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you're right, mister Holmes, You're
perfectly right. If I do it might

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be well, will you Hendley.
I'm afraid not less trade, not this

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time. I know something of this
fellow Milverton me with a rogue and a

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blackmailer. There certain crimes of the
law can't punish adequately, my dear fellow.

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And in this instance my sympathies are
with the criminals. Less trade.

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I will not handle the case.
Well if you won't, you won't.

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No, I'll get the fellows all
right in time, I dare say,

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will you less trade? I do
hope you may pass me my violin as

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you go out there as a good
fellow. I feel deuced lazy this morning,

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had rather a strenuous night pleasure,
mister Holmes. Well, good morning,

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doctor, see again, and I
said, always going out to Vegas,

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teach you no good morning, inspector
good morning, best of luckless daid,

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Oh, well, another five minutes
like that, Holmes, I'll take

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myself back to Afghanistan. Oh no, you won't, Watson, You'll grow

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to love it too. This is
only the beginning. My dear fellow only

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the beginning. The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes, based on the original stories of

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, have been
dramatized on You, with original music composed

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by Sydney Corch. Sir Ralph Richardson
played the part of Doctor Watson and Sir

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John Gilgood that of Sherlock Holmes.
The program was produced by Harry Allen Towers.

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Welcome back, well, I think
overall a pretty solid performance. I

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have to admit I was a little
iffy on the choice to work the Milverton

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story into the first episode and make
that for the purpose of this series the

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first adventure they shared together. Really
a an odd choice and an odd note

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to begin on. But we had
a little listener who said that the Milverton

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story was actually her favorite to a
Sherlock Holmes story, and now you've heard

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it, even though the story itself
occurred after the final problem, which will

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hear later. But beyond that little
point, I mean, I think this

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really has the feel of a very
classy, well done production, different than

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the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
You know, no ads for clipper craft

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suits or the John Watermaker men's store
is simply handled. And you're dealing with

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two actors here in gil Good and
Richardson who'd been playing off each other since

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the nineteen twenties, so they definitely
had a well developed report and chemistry that

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looks like this is going to make
for a very entertaining, well done series.

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All right, listener comments and feedback, and we begin with this from

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Debbie, who emails in my son
and I both enjoy them and are always

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quoting Pat Novac for higher keep it
up. And then also we have this

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comment, Adam, I dig your
show in a big way. I love

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the way you are as genuinely stoked
by old time radio as I am.

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I love your accent and how excited
you get from time to time. Keep

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up the excellent work. Any chance
Broadways might beat might find its way to

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your show. Either way, it's
your show and you're killing it daily.

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Thank you from Van Gruvy, BC, Canada. I will assume that that's

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Vancouver, but it is on the
list. I've mentioned this before but in

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the last week, but I don't
mentioned in a while, but big Lestock,

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Great Detectives, dot Net shows all
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Big lestot Great Detectives dot Net.
Our way is my beat is particularly

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challenging. I've not yet planned when
I'm gonna fit it in. It has

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one of those shows that we haven't
done that has the most episodes. I

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think that Dragnet and Boston Blackie are
the shows that have more episodes that we

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haven't got to yet. Johnny Dowler. There's more episodes available Sherlock Holmes,

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and both of those were in the
middle of coming to the end of the

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Sherlock Holmes podcast. But it's gonna
take a while on that one just to

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find that space for about one hundred
and sixty plus weeks. So well,

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thanks for the comment, Thanks for
listening over in Vancouver. That'll actually do

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it for today. We will be
back tomorrow with yours truly Johnny Dowler and

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then jo win us back here next
Thursday for another episode at Sherlock Holmes.

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