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Speaker 3: My story begins on a June nineteen, eighteen hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty nine.
Speaker 1: My wife and i've quite evening at home.
Speaker 3: I remember was just about the hour that a man
Speaker 3: gives his first yawn and glances at the clock, when
Speaker 3: the tranquility of the scene was broken by the discordant
Speaker 3: janging of our front door bell.
Speaker 2: An emergency call for you, I suppose, Doctor's not exactly,
Speaker 2: mister Bartow.
Speaker 3: It turned out to be a certain missus Iso Whitney,
Speaker 3: an old friend of my wife's who'd come to.
Speaker 1: Us in trouble. Her husband, she told us, had been.
Speaker 3: Missing for forty eight hours, and knowing him to be
Speaker 3: the victim of the shocking habit of taking opium. She
Speaker 3: was convinced that he was lying drugged and stupefied in
Speaker 3: some foul den amid the London waterfronts.
Speaker 2: And I suppose you went out to try to find him, Yes,
Speaker 2: mister Bartel.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: She told me that our husband had mentioned frequenting a
Speaker 3: place called the Bar of Gold in Upper Swan Lane,
Speaker 3: so naturally that's where I began my search. I quickly
Speaker 3: located it, and after ordering my cab to Wight, I
Speaker 3: entered the place.
Speaker 1: A strange sight met my eyes. Through the smoke.
Speaker 3: Ridden, gloomed I could catch a glimpse of bodies lying
Speaker 3: in strange fantastic poses as they smoked the pipes of death.
Speaker 3: Most of the unhappy creatures lay silently, but some muttered
Speaker 3: to themselves, and others talked together in strange, low monotonous voices,
Speaker 3: their conversation coming in gushes and then trailing off into silence,
Speaker 3: each mumbling his own thoughts and paying we got attention or.
Speaker 1: Heed to the words of his neighbor.
Speaker 3: As I entered, an attendant hurried up to me with
Speaker 3: an opium pipe and a supply of the drug, and beckoned.
Speaker 1: Me to an hibber master, may lie here I haven't.
Speaker 3: Come to stay here, my good man. I'm looking for
Speaker 3: a friend, mister Isa Whitney.
Speaker 2: No one by that name here.
Speaker 1: I'm going to search this place just the same. Please
Speaker 1: not to wake trouble man.
Speaker 4: What's it's that you watsn't Whitney?
Speaker 1: Thank heavens, I've foundamer. For What time is it? It's
Speaker 1: nearly eleven of what day? What day? Friday, June the nineteenth,
Speaker 1: Good lord, I thought it was Wednesday.
Speaker 4: It is Wednesday. Your time to confused me? H, I
Speaker 4: tell you it's Friday. Your wife has been waiting two
Speaker 4: days for you, boxed up in your dates. I've only
Speaker 4: been here a few hours. Three pipes four pipes of
Speaker 4: good How many I go home with you?
Speaker 2: I'll get your hair.
Speaker 1: I have a cab waiting. I must do some money.
Speaker 1: Will you settle up for me? Here? Wait here for me?
Speaker 1: Stop pulling at my steave, My kid, fellow, who are
Speaker 1: you and what do you want?
Speaker 2: A word in your ear?
Speaker 1: Please? Very well? What is it?
Speaker 2: Give rid of your friend and join me outside?
Speaker 1: Hose What on earth are you doing here instead? Be
Speaker 1: a cab waiting?
Speaker 2: Yes, and please use it to send you of the
Speaker 2: futtal friend hormone, and if you feel up to it,
Speaker 2: I should also recommend that you send a note for
Speaker 2: the cabman telling your wife that you have thrown in
Speaker 2: your lot with me. I'd be exceedingly glad to having
Speaker 2: to go talk with you. Yes, of course, I've splendid
Speaker 2: then consumed your business. Yellow chap on me to outside
Speaker 2: in about ten minutes.
Speaker 1: We're a PHYSI it's it's nearly is that your house
Speaker 1: as what's it's me? You're disguise as one, but I.
Speaker 2: Never recognized you if you haven't spoke to me just
Speaker 2: now asposed a good friend. Yes, yes, good, let's start
Speaker 2: walking out a horse and trap waiting for.
Speaker 1: Me in the next street.
Speaker 2: What on earth were you doing in the bar of
Speaker 2: gold home trying to get news of a missing man? You, simon,
Speaker 2: I'm in the midst of a very remarkable inquiry, and
Speaker 2: I'd hoped to get a clue from the incocurre.
Speaker 1: And gramblings of those poor devils back there.
Speaker 2: Ah, there's the horse and trap under the street lamp
Speaker 2: on the corner. You'll come with me, But says, of course,
Speaker 2: if I can be in any use I trust a
Speaker 2: comrade is always abuse my room at the Cedars has
Speaker 2: two businesses Cedars.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's mister.
Speaker 2: North Saint Clair's house and our present destination. It's near
Speaker 2: Lee in Kent, about seven months in a year. I'm
Speaker 2: using it as a headquarters while I conduct my quarries.
Speaker 2: Amian mister owns.
Speaker 1: Everything all right?
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, John, I get in Watson. I shan't
Speaker 2: need you anymore from that. John, here I acount for you.
Speaker 2: Look out for me tomorrow about eleven my charms rams
Speaker 2: could not gentlemen, can I jot track.
Speaker 1: Go well homes? If we have a seven mile drive ahead.
Speaker 2: Of us, perhaps you tell me about the case that
Speaker 2: you're working on with pleasure old chat.
Speaker 1: But first take the range for a few minutes, will you.
Speaker 2: I want to remove my makeup and take off my
Speaker 2: wig and be comfortable. Now. After that, I'll tell you
Speaker 2: why we are headed to the Kintish Preside at this hour.
Speaker 5: Of the night.
Speaker 2: What's me? You have a grand gift of silence makes
Speaker 2: you indelicable as a companion.
Speaker 1: We've driven four miles and you haven't dotted a word.
Speaker 1: Need homes.
Speaker 3: I've been dying to question you, but I could see
Speaker 3: that you will preoccupy and I shall reward you with
Speaker 3: a clear.
Speaker 2: And concise statement.
Speaker 1: My problem.
Speaker 2: Mister Nevil Saint Claire, aged thirty seven, the father of
Speaker 2: two children and an affectionate husband, is missing. He left
Speaker 2: his house the Cedars near Lee, our present destination, last.
Speaker 1: Monday, four days ago.
Speaker 2: Yes, now, why should an affectionate husband of a happy
Speaker 2: father disappear.
Speaker 1: In any money trouble?
Speaker 2: I think not? His entire debts for a moment amount
Speaker 2: to eighty eight pounds, while he has two hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty pounds standing to his credit. That the Capital and
Speaker 2: Country's Bank, who is the light person to see him
Speaker 2: on Monday? And his wife's But let me tell you
Speaker 2: the story. He left his house for London rather earlier
Speaker 2: than usual. He was a businessman, and yes he has
Speaker 2: an interest in several companies in London, but his wife doesn't.
Speaker 1: Exactly what he does.
Speaker 2: But to continue, he left for London saying that he
Speaker 2: would bring his boy home a box of toy bricks. Now,
Speaker 2: but the middest chance he's received a telegram shortly after
Speaker 2: his departure saying that a parssful of considerable value was
Speaker 2: waiting for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping
Speaker 2: Company and the dames.
Speaker 3: Should require their officers in Fresno's Street, I'd know by
Speaker 3: them tonight, Jackie.
Speaker 2: In Fresno's Street branches out of Upper Swandon Lane where
Speaker 2: the Bar of Gold is city.
Speaker 1: Ah, now I'm beginning to unders he had gone.
Speaker 2: I'm gone, and missus Saint Clair took a train for London,
Speaker 2: and at exactly four point thirty five on Monday last
Speaker 2: found herself.
Speaker 1: Walking past the Bar of Gold.
Speaker 2: Secondly, she heard a cry, and looking up, was horrified
Speaker 2: to see her husband affecking to her from a second
Speaker 2: story window which prisoners.
Speaker 1: He there his own free will use first, and deftly,
Speaker 1: he was a prisoner.
Speaker 2: The window was open, and she distinctly saw his face,
Speaker 2: which he described as being terribly agitated. He waved his
Speaker 2: hand to out frantically, and then vanished from the window
Speaker 2: so suddenly that it seemed to her that he had
Speaker 2: been dragged back by some irresistible force from behind. One
Speaker 2: singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that
Speaker 2: although he wore the coat he had for London, and
Speaker 2: he wore neither collar nor time, what did you do?
Speaker 2: Rushed down the steps into the Bar of Gold and
Speaker 2: attempts to go up the staircase leading to the second floor.
Speaker 1: I suppose that oriental fellow that I tonight stopped.
Speaker 2: Her exactly indact, he pushed her out of the door
Speaker 2: and swammed it out for her. She rushed down the lane,
Speaker 2: and a few moments later was lucky enough to meet
Speaker 2: a sergeant.
Speaker 1: And too constable come back with her to the bar
Speaker 1: of gold. Course, yes, I went with her to the.
Speaker 2: Room in which no one Saint Clair at last been seen.
Speaker 2: Of course there was no sign of him. In fact,
Speaker 2: on the whole floor there was no one to be
Speaker 2: found except a hideous depond beggar who seemed to live there.
Speaker 2: And what missus Thankclaif told me, it appears that the
Speaker 2: sergeant conducted the examination quite philogy.
Speaker 1: You saw your asthma's up this window, Missus Sinclair. I'm
Speaker 1: positive sided. And Alesca swears no one's been upstairs this afternoon.
Speaker 2: He's probably lying. Let's see what this crippled fellowest to
Speaker 2: say for himself.
Speaker 1: Here you what do you want with me?
Speaker 6: I you heard what this lady said. Did you see
Speaker 6: her rasband go in this room a few minutes ago?
Speaker 6: I didn't see nobody, and I've been here all the afternoon, you, Lila, Yes,
Speaker 6: and you swear that no one's been in this room
Speaker 6: for the last few hours. Yes, I do, missus Sinclair.
Speaker 6: I know that you think you saw your husband.
Speaker 1: But don't you.
Speaker 7: Suppose stop on the table, just a wooden boxman, But
Speaker 7: I know what's insided there.
Speaker 2: See wants a lot of a lot of wooden bricks
Speaker 2: like kids playing my husband.
Speaker 8: To London today is basically to buy the brath Son.
Speaker 8: You can't believe me, now, tug.
Speaker 2: Don't think I can, Mam.
Speaker 1: I'll take another look around. Where does this door lead
Speaker 1: to my bedroom?
Speaker 2: You won't find.
Speaker 1: Nothing in there, and we'll look just the same. Hello,
Speaker 1: bloodstains on this window, Ledge, fresh bloodstains.
Speaker 6: How do you account for that? Well, I don't know
Speaker 6: nothing about it. And the window overlooks the river, just
Speaker 6: where the water's good and deep. Too nice place to
Speaker 6: tip a body out there?
Speaker 1: Conning?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 1: You ain't done nothing?
Speaker 6: You've got bloodstains on your right sleeve. What a you
Speaker 6: gotta say about there? I cut my fingers, see, and
Speaker 6: then I went and open the window. Letter, That's how
Speaker 6: the blood got there.
Speaker 1: You think I was born yesterday? Let's have a look
Speaker 1: in his chest and bars.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, those clothes are these?
Speaker 6: There are trousers, socks, shoes, et, everything except the coat, Eh,
Speaker 6: missus Sinclair?
Speaker 1: Will you come in here?
Speaker 2: Pre mom?
Speaker 8: What have your problem charged?
Speaker 1: These?
Speaker 2: Close?
Speaker 1: There? Your husband's mom?
Speaker 2: What's happened to him?
Speaker 1: Sargeant?
Speaker 2: I'm afraid he's met with foul plaimer.
Speaker 1: And this man knows what knownely he won't talk. I
Speaker 1: don't know nothing. I'll tell you, don't you well, I
Speaker 1: arrest you in the name of the Lord, and.
Speaker 2: I warn you that anything to side. And so Watson
Speaker 2: the Sargant arrested this crippled beggar.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. What have they been able to find
Speaker 1: out about him? Surprisingly before? His name is Hugh Boone,
Speaker 1: and he's.
Speaker 2: A professional beggar, quite as successful when I gather his
Speaker 2: pathetic appearance.
Speaker 1: Attracts great sympathy.
Speaker 2: There's a shock of orange chair and a pale face
Speaker 2: that is disfigured by a horrible scar which has twisted
Speaker 2: the outer edge of his upper lip.
Speaker 1: He was the last man to see them, some turl lion.
Speaker 2: So it would seem the Alaska downstairs has been class
Speaker 2: examined relentlessly, but he swears that he has no knowledge.
Speaker 1: Of the crimes there have been in any furtive.
Speaker 2: Yes, and either have the ebbing tide gave a fresh clue?
Speaker 2: You means and curs body was washed out.
Speaker 1: No, his coat.
Speaker 2: With every pocket stuffed with pennies and hapenies four hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty one pennies and two hundred and seventy haypenies
Speaker 2: to be exact.
Speaker 1: There's no wonder that it had not been swept away
Speaker 1: by the tide. But a human body it was a
Speaker 1: different matter.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's a strong eddy between the house and the wall.
Speaker 2: It seems likely that the weighted coat had remained when
Speaker 2: the stripped body had been carried away into the river.
Speaker 2: The other clothes were found in the room. Why would
Speaker 2: the body be dressed in a coat? Low? We can
Speaker 2: only summarize old chat. But supposing that this man Boom
Speaker 2: I trust Nevil sent Claire through the window and into
Speaker 2: the river, what would he.
Speaker 1: Do then try and dispose of the telltal garment?
Speaker 2: Yes, that would be logical, wouldn't it. He would seize
Speaker 2: the coat and be in the act of throwing it
Speaker 2: out of the window when it would occur to him
Speaker 2: that it would float and not sick, so he loaded
Speaker 2: the pockets with coins to make it. Sinfe quite so,
Speaker 2: But he has little time for he has heard this
Speaker 2: couple downstairs. When to Saint Calare tried to cross her
Speaker 2: way up, he only succeeded in getting as far as
Speaker 2: throwing the coat out.
Speaker 1: When the police arrived on the scene. No, it seems
Speaker 1: perfectly feasible.
Speaker 2: Well, I thought there was a working hypothesis anyway.
Speaker 3: Neville Sinclaire disappeared on Monday, and if we still don't
Speaker 3: know what but he was doing in the opium.
Speaker 1: Down what happened? Too many words?
Speaker 5: Doctor?
Speaker 1: Or where he is now?
Speaker 2: One hum boom that beg over the crusted lip had
Speaker 2: to do with his disappearance. Ah, here we are that destination.
Speaker 1: Oh a light burnie. Missus Sinclair must be waiting up.
Speaker 2: For he asked, poor woman, I hate to return here
Speaker 2: with no news of her husband. But she's been brave, Watson,
Speaker 2: extremely brave. We must do everything we can to comfort her.
Speaker 8: Doctor Watson, I'm so grateful that you were able to
Speaker 8: come down and help your friend.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I only hope that I can be of some help. Missus.
Speaker 8: I say that you have no good news for me
Speaker 8: to whom I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2: No, thanks heaven to death.
Speaker 8: Mister Holmes, tell me honestly, do you think that Never
Speaker 8: is still alive?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Bank, No, thankly? And then I don't you think he's murdered?
Speaker 2: Well I don't say that, but perhaps you? And on
Speaker 2: what day?
Speaker 8: Did he meet his death?
Speaker 1: On Monday?
Speaker 8: Then the happiness the home? You can explain how I
Speaker 8: received a letter from him today?
Speaker 1: Who where is the let? Madam? Yeah, let me see it.
Speaker 2: This is very crude writing on the envelope. Surely it's
Speaker 2: not your husband's hand. The writing in the letter is
Speaker 2: there's letter contained an enclosure?
Speaker 8: Yes, there was a ring signal.
Speaker 1: What does the letter say? Home?
Speaker 2: There is do not be frightened, all will come. Well
Speaker 2: there is a huge error which it takes some little
Speaker 2: time to rectify, a waiting patience. And it's signed Neville
Speaker 2: written in pension the fly leaf of a notebook, no
Speaker 2: water mark. Posted today in graves End by a man
Speaker 2: of the dirt.
Speaker 1: It's come.
Speaker 2: The flat has been dumbed. If I'm not mistaken by
Speaker 2: a man who has been.
Speaker 1: Chewing to back.
Speaker 7: My husband must be alive, mister Hilmes, This might be
Speaker 7: a clever forgery of this office put us off the track.
Speaker 7: The signet ring, yes, it may have been taken from
Speaker 7: him for handwriting, and then the post.
Speaker 2: Mark might have been written on Monday and only posted today.
Speaker 2: I won't be discarded where I have no wish to
Speaker 2: discourage you. I'm just trying to be practical. If your
Speaker 2: husband is alive and able to write letters, why should
Speaker 2: he remain away from you.
Speaker 1: I can't admit he made no special remarks before.
Speaker 8: Leaving on Monday phone Nune, except to say that he was.
Speaker 2: Going to buy the wooden blocks. When you saw him
Speaker 2: at the bar of Golden Swandham Lane, was the window open, yes,
Speaker 2: then he might have called you. He might, as I
Speaker 2: understand it, he gave an inarticulate cry, a call for
Speaker 2: help God.
Speaker 8: Yes, he waved his hands, but it might have.
Speaker 2: Been a cry of surprise. Astonishment of the unexpected sight
Speaker 2: of you. Might have caused him to throw up his hands,
Speaker 2: I suppose. And you thought that he was pulled back
Speaker 2: from the window.
Speaker 8: Because he disappeared so abruptly. He might have.
Speaker 2: I can't think why one last question? Your husband error
Speaker 2: shown signs of taking Oakum Why no.
Speaker 8: Never, mister Holmes. I'm certain the idea would have revolted him.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Missus Sinclair. As were the principal points I
Speaker 2: wanted to be clear on. And now what's my suggest
Speaker 2: we retire for the night. We may have a busy
Speaker 2: day ahead of us tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I hope you both sleep well.
Speaker 8: Good Night, mister Holmes, Dr Watson.
Speaker 2: Good night, miss keep up your courage. Good night, Missus Sinclair.
Speaker 2: We miscook for the best out right, though I should
Speaker 2: not venture to say that danger is over. You'll hear
Speaker 2: the rest of Dr Watson's story in just a second.
Speaker 2: So I'm just going to remind you that when you
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Speaker 2: and any time. Just be sure you'll get Petrie pet
Speaker 2: Tree sherry well, doctor Watson, you and the great Sherlock
Speaker 2: Holmes certainly deserved a good night's rest. Did you get it?
Speaker 1: I did, mister Boto, But Holmes made no attempt to sleep.
Speaker 3: As soon as we retired upstairs, he donned the blue
Speaker 3: silk dressing gown and then wandered about the room, collecting
Speaker 3: pillows from his bed, cushions from the sofa in the armchairs.
Speaker 3: With these he construct the sort of Eastern divan, and
Speaker 3: which pursed himself cross legged, with an ounce of shagged
Speaker 3: tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front
Speaker 3: of him.
Speaker 2: He was all set for a session of thinking.
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, my boy.
Speaker 3: In the dim light to the lamp, I saw him
Speaker 3: sitting there, an old bra pipe clenched in his teeth,
Speaker 3: his eyes fixed vacant, clear on the corner of the ceiling,
Speaker 3: the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless. So
Speaker 3: he sat as I dropped off to sleep, And so
Speaker 3: he sat when I wakened in the morning to find
Speaker 3: the summer sun shining into the room. The pipe was
Speaker 3: still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and
Speaker 3: the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but
Speaker 3: nothing remained of the heap.
Speaker 2: Of shag which I had seen on the night. Watson,
Speaker 2: Wake Watson, who in twenty minutes past four homes.
Speaker 1: World Chap.
Speaker 2: I had to think. I couldn't allow my brain the
Speaker 2: luxury of sleeping you game from morning drive.
Speaker 1: Well, i'll get risk quiet.
Speaker 2: A man's stirring yet, but I know where the stable
Speaker 2: boy sleeps. I have a horse and trap up no
Speaker 2: time at all. Oh where you going prison to visit?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: Boon the man with a twisted lip?
Speaker 3: Homes you. You're unusually excited work. What's I want to
Speaker 3: test a little theory? I think what's in that?
Speaker 2: You are not standing in the presence of one of
Speaker 2: the most affluent fools in Europe. I deserve to be
Speaker 2: kicked from here to Channing Cross. But I think I
Speaker 2: have the key to the affair. Oh is it in
Speaker 2: the bathroom?
Speaker 1: You're joking home?
Speaker 2: No, I've just been then removed it to my coat pocket.
Speaker 2: Now haven get dressed, old Chap, and we'll drive up
Speaker 2: to the prison and see whether my key fits the lock. Oh,
Speaker 2: good morning, mister Elms, Doctor Watson. You're a couple of
Speaker 2: early birds, and no mistake.
Speaker 1: Here's constable.
Speaker 2: We're searching for the proverbial worm who's on duty, respector
Speaker 2: Brad Street, Sir, Oh, oh, here he is now.
Speaker 1: Good morning byd Street. Oh, mister Elms, good morning, doctor,
Speaker 1: Good morning in Spigtor. What can I do for you? Gentlemen?
Speaker 2: He called about hu Boone, the beggar man who his
Speaker 2: chat was being concerned in the disappearance of mister.
Speaker 1: Neble Saint Clair.
Speaker 2: You have him here?
Speaker 9: Oh, yes, mister Olmes, he's in the cells. I'll take
Speaker 9: you to him. Follow me, will you, gentlemen?
Speaker 1: Thank you? What kind of a prisoners he?
Speaker 9: Oh, he hasn't given us any trouble. He's a dirty devil.
Speaker 9: It's as much as we can do to make him
Speaker 9: wash his ends. His face is as black as tickers.
Speaker 9: He has an aversion to washing, has he? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 9: mister Olmes. Well and see his case has been settled.
Speaker 9: Tolive a regular prison barth. And when you see him,
Speaker 9: I think you'll agree with.
Speaker 1: Me that he needs it. And then we are.
Speaker 2: Eh, this is hisself. He's still asleep.
Speaker 1: Lord, what a fulfill possibly looking for her?
Speaker 9: Yes, he's a beauty, isn't he? What doing mister Romes,
Speaker 9: please inspect her well he he certainly needs a wash.
Speaker 1: Yes, I had an idea that he might.
Speaker 2: That's why I brought the sponge along in my Oh,
Speaker 2: so that was the key that you found in the bathroom.
Speaker 9: You're if any one, mister Olmes, And no mistake. Why
Speaker 9: didn't you bring a sponge along for I'll show you.
Speaker 9: Is there any water in the cell and the jug
Speaker 9: on the table?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: I set the sponge in the water so and then
Speaker 2: applied to the prisoner's face, so.
Speaker 3: Which Scott has competious three shades lighter underneath it, and
Speaker 3: the Scott is liples disappeared.
Speaker 2: Oh you do I turn this mapple bread hair? I
Speaker 2: think we mind it's a wig.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 2: Let me introduce you to mister Neville, Saint Clair a.
Speaker 1: Brie in the County of Kent.
Speaker 9: Good lord, mister Elmes is the missing man, all right,
Speaker 9: I recognize him from the photographs.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm never since here. What am I charged
Speaker 2: with with making away with?
Speaker 9: Mister Neverles say, oh no, you you can't be charged
Speaker 9: with that as we make a case of attempted suicide
Speaker 9: of it.
Speaker 10: Well, since I'm the missing man and it's obvious that
Speaker 10: no crime has been committed, and therefore I'm illegally detained.
Speaker 2: No crime, but a very great error has been committed.
Speaker 2: You would have done better to a trust, did your wife?
Speaker 2: It wasn't known in my wife.
Speaker 1: It was the children.
Speaker 2: I couldn't beare to have them know that their father
Speaker 2: was a common beggar. Now you've exposed me, What could
Speaker 2: I do? Well?
Speaker 3: If you leave it a code of law of traillless
Speaker 3: matter up so you can hardly avoid newspaper publisher. But
Speaker 3: if you're perfectly honest with us now, I'm sure the inspector, mister.
Speaker 1: Holmes won't be too hard on you.
Speaker 2: No, mister Saint Clair Inspector Bradstreet will. I'm sure I
Speaker 2: make notes on the information that you give us and
Speaker 2: submit them to the proper authorities. But now, sir, your
Speaker 2: story please? Why have you been posing as Hugh Boone,
Speaker 2: a crippled girl with a twisted lip? Well, it's simple
Speaker 2: enough story. Some years ago I was a newspaper reporter.
Speaker 9: One day my editor wanted an article on begging in
Speaker 9: the London metropolis.
Speaker 3: I suppose you thought the best way to get your effects, guys,
Speaker 3: yourself is as bigger.
Speaker 9: Yes, I've been an action in my use in It
Speaker 9: wasn't hard for me to adopt a convincing disguise.
Speaker 2: But that was the point where all my trouble started.
Speaker 10: On that first day I sat him the life London streets,
Speaker 10: I found, to my amazement that I received no less
Speaker 10: than twenty six shillings and.
Speaker 1: Four pounds as much as your weakness salary is a reporter.
Speaker 9: And imagine, yes, mister Holmes, well you can imagine how
Speaker 9: hard it was to settle down to arduous work a
Speaker 9: two pounds a week when I knew that I could
Speaker 9: earn as much in a couple of days by sneering
Speaker 9: my face with paint, laying my cap on the ground,
Speaker 9: and sitting still.
Speaker 2: Only one man knew my secret Alaska at the bar
Speaker 2: of Golden Upper Swanderblane. Eh, yes, mister Holmes.
Speaker 9: Every morning I had emerged from there dressed as a beggar,
Speaker 9: and in the evenings i'd return and transform myself into
Speaker 9: a well dressed man about town. The fellow was well
Speaker 9: paid for his rooms, and I knew that my secret
Speaker 9: was safe in his position.
Speaker 1: When you got married, you couldn't bring yourself to confide
Speaker 1: in your wife. I supposon, No, I couldn't.
Speaker 2: My wife knew that I had a business in the city.
Speaker 2: She little knew what when you saw your wife from
Speaker 2: the window last Monday, you quickly changed back into the
Speaker 2: character the beggar.
Speaker 9: I supposed, yes, mister Holmes, and then waited my coaton
Speaker 9: threw it into the river. Well, I I don't think
Speaker 9: there's anything else I need explain.
Speaker 2: Is that a one point the signet ring that you
Speaker 2: sent your wife, Well, I knew that she'd be wedding,
Speaker 2: so I gave it to the Alaska at a moment
Speaker 2: when no constable was watching me, together with a hastily
Speaker 2: scribbled note.
Speaker 3: That note only reached her last night, mister Sinclair, last night,
Speaker 3: poor Catherine, What a dreadful week you must have spent.
Speaker 9: The police have been watching that Alaska. He probably found
Speaker 9: it difficult to post the letter for you without being spotted.
Speaker 1: Yes, I would surmise he gave it to a sailor.
Speaker 2: Customer is to post a sailor who chewed tobacco and
Speaker 2: had a dirty thumb. Yes, I think all the ends
Speaker 2: are tied off, Benika. Now one last question is to Sinclair,
Speaker 2: have you never been prosecuted for begging many times, but
Speaker 2: what was a fine to me? It's got to stop
Speaker 2: here and now, missus Sinclair, if the ash this thing up,
Speaker 2: there must be no more of you boom the beggar.
Speaker 2: I swear it, and you must.
Speaker 3: Tell your wife for two than one. If you've done
Speaker 3: that a long time ago, you'd have saved both of yourselves.
Speaker 3: Are very great deal of miseries.
Speaker 9: I shall tell her everything. Well, mister Jlmes, were very
Speaker 9: much obliged to you. If havn't cleared this matter up,
Speaker 9: I will find you.
Speaker 2: While you reached your results though well, in this case,
Speaker 2: my good inspector, I reached them by sitting upon fine
Speaker 2: pillows and consuming an ounce of shag tobacco. I only
Speaker 2: wish that all my problems might be solved. So comfortable, doctor,
Speaker 2: that was some story. Imagine arresting a man for committing
Speaker 2: a murder and then finding out that he's the fellow
Speaker 2: who's supposed to be dead. You said it. By being
Speaker 2: a detective sure has its surprises. Nothing like that ever
Speaker 2: happens to me.
Speaker 1: Oh come, come, come, come, come.
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