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Speaker 1: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Original and Immortal Stories

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of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatized Daniel, with Sir Ralph

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Richardson as Doctor Watson and Sir John Gielgud in the

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role of Sherlock Holmes.

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Speaker 2: I suppose that the Affair of the Red Headed League

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was always one of my favorites among Sherlock Holmes's triumphs

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when I was writing these memoirs of his adventures that

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are always amused and exasperated him.

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Speaker 3: So much, I said it among the earliest.

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Speaker 2: Yet the adventure itself didn't occur until rather late in

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our relationship, and one day in the autumn I went

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back to the dear Old Haunt in Baker Street for

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a visit. There he was, and sitting with him was

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a very stout and flooded faced old gentleman with the

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fieriest red hair I'd ever seen in all my life.

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Speaker 3: Watson, my dear Watson. I'm Surrey Holmes. I am afraid

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you're engaged.

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Speaker 4: So I am, so I am. It's exactly what I meant,

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mister Wilson. Permit me to introduce my good friend Dr

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Watson to meet you. Doctor Watlson, delighted mister Jamies Wilson Watson,

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who has this moment appeared with what promises to be

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a stranger case as we've ever encountered.

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Speaker 2: I suppose it's another example of your theory that for

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the strangest things.

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Speaker 3: We must go to ordinary life itself homes.

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Speaker 2: But of course, ah, if he'll forgive me, mister Wilson,

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here hardly seem as the kind of gentleman to whom

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startling adventures are likely to occur.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you're right, of course, Watson.

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Speaker 4: Apart from his blazing red hair, there might appear to

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have been nothing indeed unusual about mister Wilson, beyond, of course,

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the obvious facts that he has at some time done

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manual labor, that he's been to China, and that he's

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done a considerable amount of writing lately.

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Speaker 5: Upon my soul, Mister Ramsy, how did you know all

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that I have mentioned? A single word?

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Speaker 4: Words, mister Wilson, are the least communicative of all things. Yes,

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but your right hand is quite a size larger than

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your left.

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Speaker 5: For instance, with the muscles. More well, it's as true

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as gospel. I began as a ship's carpenter but how

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high you have.

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Speaker 2: To forgive him, mister Wilson, it's a habit of his

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all the same at Holmes you mentioned writing, Well, what

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else do.

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Speaker 4: You fancy would explain that shiny right cuff of his

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Watson and the left one with the smooth patch near

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the elbow where you rested on the desk.

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Speaker 2: All right, then, all right, but China homes it's the

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simplest of all the fish there tattooed on mister Wilson's

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right wrist.

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Speaker 4: Well, I've made a small study of tattoo marks. That

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trick of staining the fish scales of a delicate pink

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is quite peculiar to China.

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Speaker 5: Upon my soulon and I thought at first you've done

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something clever, mister Holmes.

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Speaker 3: There was nothing in it, after.

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Speaker 2: All, unignotum pro magnifico, Holmes, your reputation will supper shipwreck

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if you're always so candid.

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Speaker 4: However, the problem, mister Wilson, the problem you were showing

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me the advertisement here it is Watson.

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Speaker 3: You better look at it for yourself.

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Speaker 5: It's from the Morning Chronicle last April.

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Speaker 2: You see, that is the start of it all to

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the Red Headed League on account of the big quest

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of the late Ezekah Hopkins. That is now another vacancy open.

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All red headed men who are sound in body and

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mind are eligible, applying person on Monday at eleven o'clock

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to Duncan Ross at the offices of the League, seven

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Pope's Court.

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Speaker 3: Fleet Street.

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Speaker 4: Splendid, Quite splendid, isn't it, Watson?

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Speaker 3: Yes? But what does it mean in all the world? Prayed?

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Do you go on, mister Wilson?

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Speaker 5: Well, I was just going to explain to mister elmesd

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I've got a small pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, that that's near the city. Quite a lucrative

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line of business, I fancy.

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Speaker 5: No, No, it doesn't do much more than give me

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a living. I'd hardly have enough to cover the way, jez,

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except that my young assistant's willing to come for half

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pay so as to learn the business. And what is

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the name of this obliging youth Spaulding, Vincent Spalding. Oh,

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his first rate, couldn't wish for better? Except there never

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was such a fellow for photography. Yes, he's snapping away

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with his camera every minute he is, and then diving

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down into the cellar like a rabbit to develop his

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pictures into the cellar.

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Speaker 3: He's still with you, I take it.

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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, As a matter of factive was young Spaulding.

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I drew my attention to this advert doctor. He came

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into the office one day with that very paper in

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his head.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, mister Wilson.

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Speaker 6: I just wish to the Lord that I was a

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read eddied man the same way you are. Just look

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famous red Edded League. There's another vacancy read edded league.

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Speaker 3: Yes you've heard of it, of course, not word. What

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is it?

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Speaker 6: Well, as far as I'm written, the league was founded

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by one of them American millionaires. S and is it

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Kayah Hopkins, same as it says there. And he was

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mighty quinn his way, as they say. He was radied himself,

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you see. And when he died they found he'd left

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his fortune to provide in jobs for men that was

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county air.

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Speaker 7: Like he was strong.

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Speaker 3: There'll be millions applying. It's hardly worthwhile me trying, or

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go on, I.

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Speaker 6: Have a shot, sir, I would honest, you might put

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yourself in the way of summing good mister Wilson.

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Speaker 3: You know I wanted to try and so that was

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the whole way of it, mister Elmes.

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Speaker 5: Well, I went along that Monday, and I've never seen

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such a sight in all my life that wasn't a

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man in all London with a red air in his

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head that hadn't turned up at Pope's Court.

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Speaker 4: I dare say the whole entrance from Fleet Street must

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have looked like a costamonger's orange barrowing.

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Speaker 3: Mister Wilson, pray go on, mister Wilson.

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Speaker 5: Well, anyway, I got in at last to the office

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where mister Duncan Ross was sitting very plain. It was

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with a deal table and a couple of chairs. And

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this mister Ross was a little quick card of man,

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and he had a head that was even redder than mine,

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if you believe it. And the minute he saw me,

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he was up like a shot. Mister Wilson, cries mister Wilson.

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Speaker 8: Heaven bless you, mister Wilson. It's marvelous. What a head,

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what a shade?

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Speaker 3: Armed large it? Mister row One.

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Speaker 8: One moment though, you'll excuse me, will you, mister Wilson,

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Ah Sankuels, thank you. I just had to give it

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that one small tongue to do. See that you were genuine.

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And we've been tricked twice by whigs, mister Wilson, and

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once by pint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's

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wax that would disgust.

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Speaker 3: You with human nature.

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Speaker 8: And you're married, of course, nurse, what o pity?

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Speaker 3: Pity?

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Speaker 8: The fund was for the propagation of redheads too, of course,

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besides their maintenance. Still, I think we could stretch a

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point for such a remarkable crop as yours.

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Speaker 4: When could you take up your duties?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 8: The job's yours, of course, with such a shade almost anytime.

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Speaker 5: I suppose my sister's very reliable in my shop business.

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Speaker 8: Ten to two every day, mister Wilson. In this office,

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the pay four pounds a week, and the work, mister

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rossu'ly nominal. The only condition is that you have to

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be in the office the whole time. If you leave

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it for even a minute, you forfeit your whole position forever.

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Speaker 3: The will's very clear on that point, or I wouldn't.

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Speaker 5: Dream of it, mister Arcis. What's only four hours a day?

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After all? What is it that I have to do?

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Speaker 4: Though?

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Speaker 8: To copy out the Encyclopedia Britannica every word of it

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from beginning to enter. There's the first volume on the table,

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and you must find your own pens and ink. We

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provide the table and cheers. Of course, you'll be ready

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to start tomorrow. Then, well, if if it's so very

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urgly it is it is, the work mustn't flag for

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a moment. Yeah, I'll be here myself to start you off.

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But afterwards you'll simply carry on by yourself, except that

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I look in every Friday to pay you. Yay, goodbye,

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mister Wilson. And let me congratulate you from my heart

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on the important position you've been lucky enough to obtain.

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Speaker 5: And I can tell you that I'll never forget the

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growner disappointment that came up from those other copper knobs

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waiting out in Pope's court when they heard the job

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was filled.

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Speaker 4: Mister Olmes, it must have been heartbreaking. Well, well what next?

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Speaker 5: You turned up, mister Wilson, to the dot And there,

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I said, mister Olmes. Day after day I wrote about

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abbots and archery and armor and architecture. I thought I

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might get even to the bees before I expired, And

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you were paid on the nails. We'll say that for them.

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Every Friday. But then suddenly, just suddenly, the old thing

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came to an end before the bees. After all, mister Wilson,

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this very morning, doctor, there was this square of white

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cardboard nail to the office door.

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Speaker 2: Look, the Red Headed League is hereby dissolved October eighteen ninety.

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Speaker 4: Well well, well, well, indeed, my dear Watson, you made inquiries.

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Speaker 3: Of course, mister Wilson. Everywhere.

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Speaker 5: Not a single cell in the old building had ever

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heard of mister Duncan Ross, or even of the league itself.

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Speaker 3: What extraordinarily, From.

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Speaker 4: What I've heard, I think it's very possible that graver

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issues hanged from the singular episode of the Red Headed

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League and appear at first sight. Watson the door for

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mister Wilson. Missus Hudson will show him the street. Yes, yes,

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good day again mister Wilson, and my thanks for bringing

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me a problem that is quite worthy of me here,

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Thank you, miss.

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Speaker 2: Gooday, goodbye, goodbye.

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Speaker 3: We went out at last to the city. As it suggested.

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Speaker 2: We traveled by the new fashioned underground as far as

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Alder's Gate, and a short walk took us to Coburg Square,

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which was a pokish, shabby genteel little place, and halfway

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along three gilt balls and a brown board with JB's

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Wilson ont announced the place where our red headed clients

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had carried on his business. Sharck Holmes stopped in front

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of it, and to my surprise, splendid Watson.

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Speaker 4: Splendid Now the door, my dear fellows, would be good enough.

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Speaker 3: Ah.

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Speaker 2: Certainly a home certainly does seem a more orthodox manner

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of attracting attention.

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Speaker 3: But knocking on the pavement as you've just done, I

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must say I'd like to know why you Well, what

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do you want? Thank you, my good man? I only

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wish to ask you how you'd go to the strand

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from here? Fair right?

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Speaker 4: Fourth rift, good day, admirable, Come Watson, let us walk

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a smart fellow that the good Spalding himself no less,

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of course, But so.

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Speaker 3: I gathered from the white scar and his forehead that

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you mentioned for.

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Speaker 4: Skill, Watson, he's probably the fourth smartest man in London,

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and for daring, I'm not sure he hasn't even a

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claim to be the third? Is I've known something of

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him before you gathered.

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Speaker 8: Ah.

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Speaker 2: Evidently mister Wilson's assistance seems to.

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Speaker 3: Count fit it largely in this business of the red heads.

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Speaker 2: I take it that you only asked him your way

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for the sake of seeing him, not.

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Speaker 4: Him, Watson, the knees of his trousers in.

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Speaker 3: He And what did you see what I expected to see? Huh?

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Speaker 2: I say, But what and why did you knock on

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the pavement with your stick so heartily?

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Speaker 4: My dear good fellow. This is surely a time for observation,

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not for talk. We are spies in an enemy country. Now,

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then me see, I'd just like you, Watson, to observe

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the order of the houses at the corner here.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's Mortimer's, the Tobacconists, and the little newspaper shop

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over there, and there's the Coburg Square branch of the

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City of a suburban bank, the vegetarian restaurant, McFarland's, the

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carriage building depot.

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Speaker 3: Excellent, exactly.

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Speaker 4: Well, we've done our work for this afternoon, doctor, and

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now we are free until ten o'clock tonight, till ten ten, precisely.

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I have some little business myself in the interval. But

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at ten tonight, Watson, if you love me, meet me

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there by McFarland's depot. I'll come by, handsome and I

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may have some companions with me. Oh, and Watson, your army.

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Speaker 9: Revolver, Ah Watson, Holmes Watson, I think you'll remember our

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old colleague here from Scotland yard, mister Ethelney Jones.

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Speaker 3: Oh, of course that old adventure the Sile of four?

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How did you do? Jonson?

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Speaker 10: Happy to see you again, Dr Watson, Like old times,

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isn't it.

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Speaker 3: And this Watson is.

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Speaker 4: Mister Medweather, who is to be our other companion into

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Night's adventures.

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Speaker 3: How do you do, sir Watson?

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Speaker 4: Will you lead the way for you, mister Medoweather, I

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may say tonight's steak is of some thirty thousand pounds.

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Speaker 3: At the least.

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Speaker 4: And for you Jones, the man you've been longing to

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lay your hands on for many a year.

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Speaker 10: John Clay, murderer, thief, if you're right, homes pon myself

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a remarkable man, John Clay, doctor Watson. His grandfather was

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a royal duke, they say. And he's been to eaten

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in Oxford, and yet there isn't a dirty trick on

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the calendar. He hasn't been up to the Cracker Crib

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in Scotland one week and be raising money to build

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and imagine orphanage in Conwell the next.

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Speaker 4: This time it's bullion in Cobourg Square. Jones, Yes, mister Medoweather,

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Watson is a director of the City and Suburban Bank.

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I made a contact with him and Jones after I

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left you this afternoon. He is about to lead us

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by very private door to the vaults of the bank itself.

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The vault, the vaults. Watson, lead on, my dear, mister Mediweather. Splendid,

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splendid Watson, you brought the gunners, I asked you.

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Speaker 3: Well, of course, Holmes, but it only me to qua man,

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we have something better to do.

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Speaker 4: Sit down, Watson on that big pecking case and keep

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your pistol ready, and you'll be seated also, mister Medoweather,

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you too, mister Jones. We may have some little time

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to wait still, mister Medowether, will no doubt explain to you, Watson,

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why it is that one of the most daring criminals

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in London seems to be taking a considerable interest in

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this cellar in which we are all sitting now. Well,

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do you see it's our French goal, Dr Watson, heavens

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name man, quiet, quiet, to maybe maybe here it in

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a moment.

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Speaker 7: Ah French gold dr Watson French gold weed occasion to

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borrow some strengths in our resources. That creature sitting on

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contains two thousand napoleons pet in lead foil.

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Speaker 3: Two thousand napoleons.

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Speaker 4: The one mister Jones is sitting on contains four thousand. Oh,

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by the way, Jones, you've got the other entrance covered.

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I take yes, spector two officers. Good Now, how goes

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the time? Ah Watson? Prey dark in the lantern, and

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keep your eyes glued to the floor there about six

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feet in front of us. I guess, and the moment

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we wait, wait and earlier than I thought.

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Speaker 3: After all, quiet now.

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Speaker 7: Homes the floor there opening I can see an age

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of like quiet Watson.

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Speaker 3: So got you? Pay what quick? Watson? I want? You want?

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Aren't play the hard use.

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Speaker 8: Shoes, clan.

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Speaker 3: There's another roblem there. I love the underground channel.

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Speaker 4: So use clay. The other entrance is covered too. Your

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friend's had his run. They'll get him at the other end.

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Confound you.

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Speaker 3: It's a fair cop then, so you've got us after all?

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Speaker 4: Whoever you are, play Sherlock Holmes at your service?

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Speaker 6: What oh it would be well, I've never met your

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Sherlock Holmes.

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Speaker 3: But well, well, I guess, I guess I've heard about you.

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Speaker 6: And if I had to be taken by anybody at

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the very point of a fortune, I recogn it's you

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that I choose.

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Speaker 4: Oh thank you, may I say in return, because your

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red headed idea was one of the most effective I've

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ever encountered. Jones, He's yours, mister Medwether, Your French bullion

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is safe.

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Speaker 3: Thank Heaven for it.

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Speaker 4: Hold out your hands, Clay, Helia spawling, I beg.

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Speaker 3: You'll know, mister Jones. You may not be aware of it,

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but I have royal blood in my veins. It was

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a decent fight and I lost. I'll go quietly thank you.

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Speaker 10: Well, will you please march upstairs, your highness, where we

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can get a cab to carry your serene nobility to

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the police station.

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Speaker 3: That's better were you're certain, mister Holmes.

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Speaker 4: Good Night, good night, mister Clay, mister Jones, good night,

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good night, your weather.

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Speaker 3: Good night.

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Speaker 2: And so that's that you solved at Holmes, as you promised.

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Speaker 3: The League of the Red Headed Men.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Watson, just perfectly obvious from the start, of course,

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that the only possible object of the whole thing must

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be to get rid of that mot opra bright pawnbroker

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of ours for a certain period every day.

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Speaker 3: It's a curious way of managing it.

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Speaker 4: Shirley, our Clay was always an imaginative dog, and really

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it would have been difficult to suggest a better can you,

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for all your.

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Speaker 3: Wisdom, I confess I can't.

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Speaker 2: It was the color of the fellow's hair, of course,

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that suggested it.

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Speaker 3: All, every bit of it.

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Speaker 4: Clay alias Spaulding, took a job at half pay as

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Wilson's assistant so as to be near those cellars where

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he knew the bullion was stored.

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Speaker 3: That was smart, well.

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Speaker 4: He hadn't accomplice that man who called himself Duncan Ross,

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who was either redheaded himself, or accomplished those miracles with

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cobbler's wax, which were to discust us all with human nature.

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He managed between them to guarantee Wilson's absence from his

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shop for hours on him, weeks on him, and while

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he's toiling away, the burrowing their way like moles from

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his premises towards the gold. But what set you on

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the trail the homes, the photography, that business of disappearing

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to the cellar for so long at a time.

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Speaker 3: Did I surprise you, Watson by beating on the page?

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You did? Indeed?

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Speaker 4: Well, I was checking on the hollownies of the tunnel

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between Wilson's place and the bank. Ah. I looked at

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Spalding's knees when we met him in his role of

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the cockney shopmen, and there they were worn and stained

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from that endless digging of his.

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Speaker 3: The thing was as clear as daylight. But how could

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you tell that they'd make their attempt tonight?

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Speaker 4: They closed the league officers, they no longer needed mister

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Jbis Wilson's absence, and it's a Saturday, Watson, to give

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them two clear whole days for their escape.

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Speaker 3: Ah, you reasoned it beautifully, Holmes.

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Speaker 2: The case of the Rarely Headed leg one more among

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so many, well, well.

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Speaker 3: Well well.

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Speaker 1: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, based on the original stories

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of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, have been dramatized anew with

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original music composed by Sidney Torch. Sir Ralph Richardson played

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the part of Doctor Watson and Sir John Gilgod that

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

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Speaker 4: Uh uh

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Speaker 3: Let me go,