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Speaker 1: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. We present the original stories

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of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatized anew with

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Sir John Gilgood as Sherlock Holmes, Sir Ralph Richardson as

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Doctor Watson, and today Orson Wells as Professor Moriarty.

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Speaker 2: It is with a heavy heart that I come before

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you with the last adventure of my friend Sherlock Holmes.

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That I shall be able to relate. I have tried,

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in my humble way to chronicle some of our exploits

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together to demonstrate the singular gifts of that most remarkable

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of men. It lies with me now to tell you

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what occurred between Holmes and his arch enemy, Professor Moriarty,

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when at last they came face to face.

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Speaker 3: Mister Sherlock Holmes, your efforts on the side of law

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and order have seriously inconvenienced me. The situation between us

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is becoming an impossible one, mister Holmes. It simply cannot

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go on. One or the other of us must die,

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must die, mister Holmes.

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Speaker 2: It was in the spring of eighteen nine one. You

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will remember, perhaps that, after my marriage and return to

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private practice, Holmes and I had drifted apart a little.

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I followed the newspaper reports of his cases, of course,

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and called on him quite often at the old rooms

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in Baker Street. Even so, however, many weeks would sometimes

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e left between our meetings, And so it was with

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some surprise one April evening that I looked up and

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saw him standing before me in my study. Good evening, Watson, Ah,

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good evening, Holmes. Have you a cigarette for me?

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Speaker 4: Homes?

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Speaker 5: It?

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Speaker 4: Great? Heavens man? How ill you look? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've been using myself up rather too freely of late,

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old friend. You'n objection if I close your window shutters? No,

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of course, Now, yeah, you're not afraid of anything, are you?

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Speaker 4: At truth? I am rather for it's not like you, Holmes.

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What is it? Yeah? Guns? Air guns? What on earth

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do you mean?

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Speaker 2: There's a new and deadly type of air gun, Watson,

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which has been especially designed by an old acquaintance of ours.

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Speaker 4: What, professor Moriarty? We could only be he from your

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tone the same A match? Give me a match with you,

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my dear fellow. Yes, of course, well, thank you. Is

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missus Watson at home? Oh no, she's on a visit

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to an arm uite alone. Good.

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Speaker 1: Good.

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Speaker 2: That makes it easier for me to propose that you

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should come away with me for a few days delighted.

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But where, oh the continent, somewhere abroad, abroad is that

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whiskey in the decanta? Now look here, Pols, what's all

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this about? There's something more serious in your man now than.

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Speaker 6: You never did quite believe in the iniquities of Moriarty,

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did you, Watson?

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Speaker 4: You've said some more than once I told you exaggerated

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a bit.

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Speaker 2: After all, Professor Moriarty is a respectable figure in public,

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just so, And that's the very genius of the man.

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Even you, Watson, knowing me as you do, can't quite

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believe me when I tell you that he corrupts all London.

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Speaker 4: With his evil influence. I can't quite believe that.

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Speaker 2: Oh, of course, to the world he's still the professor,

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a great mathematician.

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Speaker 4: He's respectable.

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Speaker 2: But what real proof have you that he's anything else? None, well,

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at least not until this last month, And even now

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the chain isn't quite complete. But three days more and

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I shall have him, Watson, three days more, if I

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live to see them. You can't seriously suppose that your

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life's in danger homes. No, huh, you always love to

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be melodramatic.

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Speaker 4: Melodramatic. Listen Watson.

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Speaker 2: This morning, this very morning, in those old rooms of

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ours in Baker Street, I saw him, face to face.

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I spoke to him, why aren't you, your distinguished professor?

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Speaker 4: Within him a criminal strain of the musta bolical.

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Speaker 2: Kind, that great white dome of a forehead, those hooded eyes,

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and the white face pushed forward, oscillating from sight to

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side like a snake.

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Speaker 4: Of course, if you believe the old heresy of physiognomy,

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and only that, of course not.

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Speaker 2: I've worked for years to follow a thousand different threads,

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and every one of them has led to Moriarty.

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Speaker 4: He's a napoleon of crime.

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Speaker 2: Watson, the secret organizer of almost everything evil that goes undetected.

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Speaker 4: In this great city of ours.

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Speaker 2: There he sits, motionless, like a spider in the center

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of its web, a web with a thousand strands, and

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he controls them everyone, But slowly, very slowly. My own

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secret plans to expose him have borne fruit.

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Speaker 4: Every day.

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Speaker 2: My neit is joining tighter, and he knows it, Watson,

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he knows the danger he's in, and that was why

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today he came to see me. I was playing my violin,

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as you know I often do when I want to think,

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and suddenly there he was, standing in the doorway with

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his white face swaying.

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Speaker 4: In an evil way, peering at me with his hooded eyes.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Professor Moriarty, Good morning do you, mister Sherla comsily?

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Speaker 4: How very charming do you play? How kind of you

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to say so? Won't you be seated?

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Speaker 2: Professor Moriarty, I can spare.

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Speaker 4: You just five minutes. It's singularly good of you. Thank you.

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We'll sit down. May I say something personal? Misters, certainly.

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Speaker 3: Surprised to discover that you are rather less cranial development

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one might have expected.

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Speaker 4: Well as you.

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Speaker 2: On the contrary, I have rather more than I had imagined. Professor,

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you will recollect. I'm sure how that Beethoven's I did

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as both.

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Speaker 4: How about our personal.

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Speaker 2: Characteristics are highly relevant to the present situation.

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Speaker 4: What have you rarely got to say to me? Well,

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perhaps I only suggested it was.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps it is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms

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in the pocket of one's.

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Speaker 4: Dressing guns homes.

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Speaker 2: Evidently you share that dangerous habit, Professor, I see that

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you keep your hand in the pocket of your morning coat.

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Supposing we lay our pistols and our cards on the table.

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Speaker 4: By all means, I was about to suggest it myself.

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Speaker 3: I see you favored the mauser attacked, mister Holmes, and

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without a silence, serve I must permit me to presentially

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sometimes with one of these small devices of my own design,

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quite convenient in avoiding unpleasant noise.

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Speaker 2: You know, how very kind of your professor, You must

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ask the hangman to deliver it to me at your

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last request.

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Speaker 4: You evidently don't know me, mister. On the contrary, I

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think I know you better than you know yourself.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't take up your gun again, Professor, I've already.

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Speaker 3: Got you covered with mine, so I perceived, But I

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assure you it was only to give a harmless demonstration

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of the silencer of my own small accomplishments as a marksman.

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Mister Holmes, I've read in those accounts of doctor Watson

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that somewhat no doubt anyable friend of yours on the

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wall there nat from your indoor revolver practice.

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Speaker 2: Quite so the initials there we are Victoria, Regina, God save.

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Speaker 3: My majesty, now that I see them it's impressed. They're

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not quite as symmetrical as they might say.

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Speaker 4: One side of the the is a little short, I think,

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submit me to correct the slip.

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Speaker 2: Admirable Professor Mariaty, you are perfectly right, of course, that

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little mistake has now been rectified.

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Speaker 4: I'd like, howe if I may to improve upon it.

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Speaker 2: Your bullet mark is perhaps a shade smaller than my own.

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Speaker 4: Permit me, Admirable mister.

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Speaker 2: Holmes, Yeah, precisely above your own marked, Professor, the exact spot,

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I think.

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Speaker 4: No, no play, don't look alarm.

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Speaker 2: My good landlady is quite a discustomed to that noise.

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We shall not be disturbed. I'm very glad of it,

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for I have to say is not without importance. Mister Holmes.

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Shall we stop off fencing it by all means?

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Speaker 6: If you will permit me first to correct one statement

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that you made just now with reference to my friend Dr.

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Speaker 4: Watson, I am afraid I can go. They permit the adjective.

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Speaker 2: Though thine, in his accounts of my humble exploits, he's

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been good enough to exaggerate my own achievements, and has

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always been unduly modest about his own. He is a

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most upright and honorable gentleman, Professor, I'm very close to

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my heart. You may say what you will about me,

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but I can allow no derogatory words about him who.

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Speaker 3: As I apologize, we who are about to die, salute

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him pleased.

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Speaker 4: You do.

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Speaker 2: You are very certain, aren't you, Professor Moriarty, that it

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is I who am going to die?

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Speaker 3: If it is not, of course, unless you listen to reason,

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the situation between us, mister Frans is becoming an impossible one.

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Speaker 4: It simply cannot go on it won't, I assure you.

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Speaker 2: For these past few months, I've been working to put

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an end to it, all of the earliest possible.

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Speaker 3: Moment, and you have very nearly undone the careful endeavor

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of a lifetime, Sir, for at least have seriously threatened it. No,

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don't moved your pistol again. I'm only taking out my

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memorandum book.

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Speaker 4: I beg your pardon. I find it recorded here.

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Speaker 3: And she crossed my path on the fourth of januine

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homes from the twenty third you incnluded me. At the

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middle of February. I was seriously inconvenienced for you. The

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end of March I was absolutely hampered, and.

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Speaker 4: Not the close of April.

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Speaker 3: I find us a place in such a position through

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your continual persecution, that I am in positive danger of

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losing my liberty.

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Speaker 7: That was certainly the end I had in view. Then

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you must drop it, mister Holmes, You really must.

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Speaker 4: You not till after Monday, Professor. You know as well

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as I do that you've made a slip, one single

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tiny slip. For years, I've been aware.

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Speaker 2: Of you, Mariatti, at the center of your organization. Forgeries,

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murder cases, robberies. A thousand crimes were planned by you.

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A hundred agents carried them out. Your subordinates were caught sometimes.

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Speaker 7: But you never were. And yet you know you made

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that slip, that single time you slip, and you.

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Speaker 4: Know as well as I do that it will destroy you.

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Speaker 2: In three more days, my evidence will be complete. I

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shall have you expose, brought to trial, condemned and hanged,

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and you can do nothing whatever to prevent it. My

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will is inflexible, and so is mine. Three days, do

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you say, And before that out the end will come.

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One or the other of us must die, sir. Quite so,

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the five minutes is up, Professor, and I must rarely

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ask you to excuse me in the pleasure of our conversation.

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Speaker 4: I'm afraid that I've.

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Speaker 6: Neglected business of importance elsewhere. Very well, then seems a

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pity done what I could. I admit that it's been

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an intellectual pleasure. Need to see the way in which

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you grapple to this affair.

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Speaker 3: But I tell you solemnly, shore our Holmes, that if

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you are clever enough to bring destruction on me, you

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may rest assured that.

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Speaker 4: I shall do as much to you. You have paid

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me several compliments during this indigue, Professor. Let me pay

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you one in return. When I say that, if I were.

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Speaker 2: Assured of the former eventuality, I would most cheerfully accept

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the latter.

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Speaker 4: I can promise you the one, but not the other.

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Good day, mister Holmes. Oh your pistol, professor, you may

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need it before Monday.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, good day, Professor. I think good bye is

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the word, mister Sherlock Holmes. Good bye.

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Speaker 4: And so it was you, see Watson, that singular interview

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with the greatest criminal of all time and his with

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the greatest detective. Oh thank you, my dear fellow. But

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but what are you going to do? Holmes? I told

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you where we leave.

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Speaker 2: For the continent Mariot is not the man to let

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the grass grow under his feet. Already one or two

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accidents have nearly befallen me to day upon myself.

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Speaker 4: The police are gathering all my evidence against him. Everything

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will be complete in three short days. Meanwhile, I can

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only lie low. Are you able to leave your practice

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to come with me? I've an accommodating neighbor. Ah, Dear Watson,

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I knew I could count on you. All right. Then,

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Now these are your instructions. Listen most carefully. Instruction at homes.

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I assure you they are most necessary.

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Speaker 2: To morrow morning, at eight forty five, you will take

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a handsome cab.

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Speaker 4: I'll arrange for one to call.

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Speaker 2: No, No, you really mustter baby to the letter Watson,

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you will leave the house alone to morrow morning and

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take neither the first nor the second cab, which presents

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itself at the rank very well Holmes, and the address

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to the cabman written on a slip of paper, and

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tell him not to throw it away, and I'll drive I.

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Speaker 4: Take it to Victoria Station.

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Speaker 2: On the contrary, you drive to the strand end of

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the Lauda arcade I see, and then have your fare

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ready and the instant your cab stops, pay him, and

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dash through the arcade, timing yourself to reach the other

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side at exactly a quarter past nine.

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Speaker 4: Yes, but my dear, no man, listen carefully. It's vital.

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Our lives depend upon it.

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Speaker 2: When you get there, you'll find a broom standing close

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to the curb, driven by a fellow with a black

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cloak tipped with red. Say nothing, simply jump in and

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he'll drive you to Victoria in time for the Continental Express.

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Speaker 4: And where shall I meet you, Holmes, The.

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Speaker 2: Second coach from the front of the train of first

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class carriage reserved for us. Good night, Watson, and as

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you value our lives, don't forget a single word.

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Speaker 4: Of my instructions. No, no, no, of course, not home

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until we meet tomorrow. Then until we meet.

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Speaker 2: I was infected myself with something of his own inner

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excitement and sense of menace. I took the hansom and

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then the broom with its massive hooded driver. I said

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nothing to him, as I was instructed, and he never

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spoke to me. A moment later, we were rattling to

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the station. There he left me and drove off without

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a further glance, his face still hidden. There was no

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sign of homes, and my heart sank miserably.

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Speaker 4: I found our reserved carriage.

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Speaker 2: But through some confusion, a decrepit old Italian priest was

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sitting there. The moments came for departure, still I waited

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by the window, in a chill of fear.

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Speaker 4: Schools a signor pray girls. I'm sorry partly I don't

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speak Italian nor th I was up him. Oh for stones.

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Speaker 2: Man, this is no laughing matter, not yet anywhere death

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Speaker 4: Stop the tray. It's Moriarty himself, the tall man. He'll

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never do it. Stop the train, I said, you pull jewel.

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Speaker 2: Even the great Moriarty himself is helpless against the British Railway.

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Sister Watson, well, well it gives us an hour's respite

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at least.

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Speaker 4: But how how did he know where we were? By

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watching you?

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Speaker 2: I expect, but I did that thing you told me.

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Wait Holmes, the driver of the brone.

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Speaker 4: But what about him? He was muffled.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see his face. It must have been one

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of Moriarty's men. My dear Watson, it is nothing of

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the sort. It is my brother Micraft, shaken for once

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out of his arm chair at the Diogenes Club, gore.

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Speaker 4: Heavens the thing is serious then, of course, but at least.

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Speaker 2: We have an hour and I can use it to

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take off this disguise and think things over. But we've

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escaped him altogether, surely since the train connects with the boat.

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Speaker 4: My dear fellow, you evidently don't realize even.

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Speaker 2: Now that Moriarty is an opponent on practically the same

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intellectual plane as myself.

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Speaker 4: Do you really imagine if I were the pursuer, I.

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Speaker 2: Will permit myself to be baffled by so slight an

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obstacle as an express training What'll he do?

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Speaker 4: Then? What I should do? Engage a special But.

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Speaker 2: It'd be too late even then by no means we

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stop at Canterbury, don't forget, And there was always a

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delay of a quarter of an hour when the train.

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Speaker 4: Gets to Dover.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I so you'd almost think we were the criminals

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to be chased like this. You mean that he'll catch

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us after all them?

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Speaker 4: I hope not. We shan't be there, Watson. Look look here, Holmes.

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Speaker 2: I hate to grumble after all this time, but well there,

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I do think you ought to tell me what you mean.

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Heaven bless you for a start, and faithful friend, Watson,

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I'm sorry, it's only a well, well, I don't want

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to expose you to danger too, That's why I'm being

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so mysterious.

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Speaker 4: It's very simple, really.

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Speaker 2: We shall just get out at Canterbury, indeed, and not

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go on the continents after all, I suppose, yes, we.

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Speaker 4: Must do there.

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Speaker 2: We've no choice but to hide away until after Monday,

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when the evidence will have been completed.

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Speaker 4: You've not seen the papers this morning, I spoke.

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Speaker 2: Oh really, Holmes, what time do you think I've had

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for the one must try to make time for everything, Watson.

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Speaker 4: You really should have read about Baker Street. What Baker Street?

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Speaker 2: If they set fire to our rooms loud night, missus

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Hudson was away from home, fortunately, and no one was

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hurt iled there to say they thought I was there,

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of course, so the thing's intolerable. Yes, only till Monday, Watson.

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And by then we will be in Switzerland. We'll make

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a cross country journey from Canterbury and take the other

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boat from New headon to Dieppe. Unless, of course, right

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our friend the Professor deduces what I would deduce and

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gets off at Canterbury himself.

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Speaker 4: Ah, that would truly be a Koude.

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Speaker 2: Met he surely never would well, I rather doubted there

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are limits even to his intelligence. No, no, I think

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we are safe enough, old friend, And now there's time

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for a pipe.

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Speaker 4: I fancy won't you join me? Watson?

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Speaker 2: And thus it befell. As we hid behind the pile

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of luggage at Canton, we saw the single carriage of

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the Special Gulf thundering past us, And so we made

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our way across country and at last reached Switzerland. It

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seemed we had luded him. To fill in every detail

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of the final scene is hardly possible, since there was

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no witness to it.

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Speaker 4: Yet from a certain.

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Speaker 2: Source that I cannot yet divouge, I do know something

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of that last encounter.

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Speaker 4: We wondered at.

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Speaker 2: Our will through the lovely valley of the Rhone, and

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made our way by way of Interlaken to the little

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township of Milligan among the Alps.

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Speaker 4: The fatal Monday.

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Speaker 2: Came and went, and yet I was still aware of

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a strange feebi of excitement in my companion.

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Speaker 4: He was at.

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Speaker 2: Times feverishly on the alert, then sinking into reverie, and

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would smile strangely to himself. I went with him on

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that last day of all on a visit to the

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Falls of Reichenbach, for ever hallowed and yet cursed in

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my memory, it's a fearful place, indeed, with a torrent

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plunging far below into a tremendous abyss, a chasm lined

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by cold, black, glistening rock high above.

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Speaker 4: A pathway has been cut in the cliff face.

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Speaker 2: To afford a better view, but it ends abruptly in

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mid air, and the traveler has to return as he came.

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We stood there gizsily, marveling at the great spectacle, and

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on the instant came a message for me by a

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village lad to say that an English lady back at

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the hotel was seriously ill and.

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Speaker 4: Needed my immediate attention. I turned to go.

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Speaker 2: I looked back, and I saw Holmes leaning against a

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rock with his arms folded, gazing down at the rush

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of the waters.

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Speaker 4: It was the last I saw.

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Speaker 5: Is that you Watson back already, Moriarty well sherlack Cobs.

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Speaker 3: You see, I found you after all, and alone alone,

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as indeed you must be two.

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Speaker 4: How if your.

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Speaker 2: Confederates are all under lock and key I've heard from

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Scotland yard skipped.

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Speaker 4: I was too clever for them, Holmes.

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Speaker 2: I don't doubt it, but I'm afraid your occupation's gone, Professor,

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with your organization destroyed, unless you care to return to

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your mathematics.

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Speaker 4: It was not my intention. I have another, more immediate intention,

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Sherlock Holmes. Are you prepared? But before we discuss that,

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perhaps you extend me one small courtesy, Professor, most certainly,

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what is it? My friend Watson? Professor, no doubt he

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will be somewhat concerned. May I just take a moment

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to scribble a note to him?

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Speaker 3: Certainly we can fix the paper beneath my help and

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stuff there, since it does not blow away, if they

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take as long as you wish.

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Speaker 4: That's very good of you.

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Speaker 2: Please don't stop talking, Professor. I mastered long ago the

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art of writing and conversing at the same time.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You know, of course, that's the message to write a

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doctor Watson as a false one.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, of course I knew it at once, and

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that it could only come from one source.

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Speaker 4: And yet you let him go.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Professor, I let him go. I am not without

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some affection for him.

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Speaker 4: I do not wish to put his life in danger too.

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Speaker 2: Besides, I have looked forward for a long time to

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this final duel between us.

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Speaker 3: I believe at Holmes, you are a very remarkable man

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in many ways.

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Speaker 4: In many ways, Sir, I'm proud to have known you.

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Oh and I you Professor.

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Speaker 2: There my letters done, then perhaps you will become I

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don't have to place it as you suggested.

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Speaker 4: Now, how shall it be? Mariati? I did not bring

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a piscopal homes.

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Speaker 2: Thank you your participlets meet to shame.

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Speaker 4: Professor. There is my pistol. It goes into the falls,

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hand to hand. Yes, goodbye, Professor Mariotti. Goodbye, Sherlock Holmes,

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m M.

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Speaker 2: The end, the end. When I returned to that broken pathway,

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it was only too clear what had happened. It needed

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no great application of Holmes's own methods of deduction.

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Speaker 4: Two sets of footsteps to the.

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Speaker 2: Verge, and none returning, locked in each other's arms as

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they fought.

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Speaker 4: They had gone down to the abyss.

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Speaker 2: Only the letter the last greeting from my friends and comrade,

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my dear dear Watson, he wrote, My dear dear Watson,

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I scribble this through the courtesy of Professor Moriarty, who

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awaits my convenience for the final discussion of those eternal

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questions which lie before us.

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Speaker 4: There can be but.

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Speaker 2: One outcome, although I fear that it is as to cost,

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which will give pain to my friends, and especially my

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dear Watson. To you, I think, however, that I may

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go so far as to sa say that I have

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not lived entirely in vain. Pray tell Inspector Patterson of

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the papers which he needs for a full conviction.

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Speaker 4: Of the Moriarty gang are in Pigeonhole. M Before leaving England.

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Speaker 2: I made every disposition of my property and handed it

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over to my brother Mycroft. Pray give my affectionate greetings

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to missus Watson, and remember me as I used to

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be in our old days at Baker Street, pacing to

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and fro with my violin and driving you to a

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point of sad distraction. With that theme, you still were

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good enough to say you loved believe me to be

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my very dear good fellow.

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Speaker 8: Yours most sincerely, Sherlock Holmes, Yours most sincerely, Sherlock Holmes,

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and so he perished, whom I shall ever regard as

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the best and wisest man that I have ever known.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories

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of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatized ANEW by

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John Kerr Cross stars Sir John Gilgood as Sherlock Holmes,

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Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson, and today Orson Wells

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as Professor Moriarty. Produced by Harry Allen Towers, I beg

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Speaker 6: My son and I know