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Speaker 2: Mister Harris, I'm surprised and delighted to hear you mention.
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Speaker 3: And now doctor Watson to get back to the neat
Speaker 3: little murder in tough note park right this met.
Speaker 2: In fact, Holmes and I just missed being eyewitnesses to
Speaker 2: the shooting. It was a night when the century was
Speaker 2: very young, a night's very much like tonight, rain with
Speaker 2: a bit of mist mixed in for good measure.
Speaker 3: Holmes and I were.
Speaker 2: Taking a slight constitutional.
Speaker 3: You mean you went walking on a night like this
Speaker 3: for pleasure, doctor, which you were.
Speaker 2: Out walking, mister Harris to relieve the tension. It had
Speaker 2: been raining for four days from Monday to Thursday.
Speaker 3: I doubt whether it ceased for a moment when.
Speaker 2: For the fourth time, after pushing my chair back from
Speaker 2: the breakfast table, I saw the heavy brown swell condensing
Speaker 2: in oily drops on the window panes.
Speaker 3: I was ready to jump out of my skin. I
Speaker 3: can't say I'll blame you.
Speaker 2: Holmes nerves were, if possible, in worse shape than mine.
Speaker 2: He paced around our Lamplets sitting room like a caged animal,
Speaker 2: cursing under his breath in a fever of suppressed energy. Finally,
Speaker 2: as evening drew in, he proclaimed he was going out
Speaker 2: for exercise.
Speaker 3: If we had to swim in the gutters.
Speaker 2: We donned caps and ulsters, and after sat amount of
Speaker 2: acrimonious discussion, I persuaded Holmes into his overshoes and buffler.
Speaker 2: For half an hour, we stood the streets in silence.
Speaker 2: Little by little, our nerves relaxed.
Speaker 3: And our pace slackened.
Speaker 2: By the time we started across Tutnell Park Homes was
Speaker 2: feeling almost aible.
Speaker 1: Nothing of interest in today's papers.
Speaker 3: I suppose Watson.
Speaker 2: The only news of the revolution, the possible war and
Speaker 2: an impending change of government commonplace.
Speaker 3: Maria Watson. Yes, the London criminals. Certainly a dull fellow.
Speaker 1: The thief or murderer could roam London on a night
Speaker 1: like this as the tiger does his jungle, unseen to
Speaker 1: be punches, and there never the donated his victims.
Speaker 3: Well, there have been a few petty thefts.
Speaker 1: Headed theft, thick pockets and handkerchief snatches. The state you
Speaker 1: set for something somber, sinister, Violet.
Speaker 2: Oh, I do wish you wouldn't run on like that, homes,
Speaker 2: at least until we reach the other side of the park.
Speaker 3: It's it's uncommonly dark in here tonight.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was wondering if you've noticed that, Monson, there
Speaker 1: should be a street.
Speaker 3: Lamp along here somewhere, either of the lamplight has neglected
Speaker 3: to light it or.
Speaker 1: Flow. Here's a lamp post. This glass scattered on a pavement.
Speaker 1: The light's been put out. Watson, you heard that it
Speaker 1: sounded like someone shooting.
Speaker 3: Let's be accurate.
Speaker 1: Once and there were two gunshots. The second I think
Speaker 1: was particular homes homes.
Speaker 3: Here comes a woman. She's running along the path. She's terrified.
Speaker 3: Here someone only, madam, Can I be of assistance? I'm
Speaker 3: sureock closed, you're just the man I need.
Speaker 4: It's murder well ahead, there said an open circular space
Speaker 4: with a fountain.
Speaker 3: And a you head all around.
Speaker 4: I was walking towards it when I saw men rise
Speaker 4: up out of the bushes.
Speaker 3: He shot at.
Speaker 4: Someone sitting on a bench in front of the fountain.
Speaker 3: Disappeared in which direction. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Oh, please please see if the men sered, I'll get
Speaker 4: a doctor.
Speaker 3: I'll be right this.
Speaker 1: It won't be necess to say, my friend here is
Speaker 1: a medical man. And judging by your Captain Cape, you're
Speaker 1: not unacquainted with the medical profession yourself.
Speaker 5: No, matron, miss and thank Christ and firmly excellent.
Speaker 3: Come with us. We may need your assistance.
Speaker 4: That shouldn't someone go for the police.
Speaker 3: Mustn't let the murder get away.
Speaker 1: My dear missus, Missus Sydney, My dear missus Sydney.
Speaker 3: The first thing is to ascertain if it really is
Speaker 3: murder we're dealing with.
Speaker 2: Well, the first thing is, Holmes, if you'll pardon my
Speaker 2: saying so, is to save the victim's life if we.
Speaker 3: Can and hear Watson for once, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: Come on tell me so. I'm sure hideous Watson on the.
Speaker 1: Ground beside the bench, hoes that's a Messes, so I
Speaker 1: can have a note at him.
Speaker 4: Good Lord, it's Superintendent Jefferson.
Speaker 3: He's been shot. Yes, I'm afraid it's serious. Metro.
Speaker 5: Oh you I'm glad.
Speaker 3: Have them get me to them them. He's right, you'd
Speaker 3: have to operate. Howry missus Sidney, tell him to send
Speaker 3: the ambulance and a stretcher.
Speaker 1: What so rather, what happened?
Speaker 3: What have they done to you?
Speaker 5: Where were you? I waited, came quickly.
Speaker 3: As I could.
Speaker 6: They wouldn't let me off to No, No, never mind that,
Speaker 6: go get help.
Speaker 1: Tell them to ring the ambula.
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, I want to stay with him.
Speaker 3: What good would juve?
Speaker 1: Just a probation. I'm the one he needs now the
Speaker 1: love of hidden.
Speaker 3: Some one go.
Speaker 2: We've got to get the bullet.
Speaker 3: Out of him. He's beating in tall. No. Please, I
Speaker 3: think she's a nurse. What does she know?
Speaker 5: What does she know about anything?
Speaker 1: What's many more wounds beside the one of my neck?
Speaker 3: Please? Scott? No, that's enough, isn't it? But there were
Speaker 3: two shots.
Speaker 2: We heard two shots, Watson, don't bother me now, Holmes, consciously,
Speaker 2: I'm busy.
Speaker 3: He was sitting on the bench.
Speaker 1: The bullet entered from the front. The shot was fired
Speaker 1: from this direction.
Speaker 5: That's right, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: The men came out of the bushes from over there.
Speaker 4: He took two steps, and then I saw the flames
Speaker 4: spirt out a little bone.
Speaker 3: But once or twice. Well, I don't well that is once.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it was only once.
Speaker 5: It was so shortly. Oh, George McGowan, I thought it
Speaker 5: is in the dark over there, in handing me all afternoon.
Speaker 5: Thought i'd shaken him off.
Speaker 3: But I wouldn't have kept the appointment with Nellie.
Speaker 5: You know I was in danger minute I saw his
Speaker 5: cap come out of the bush.
Speaker 3: Did he say anything? Did he threatened?
Speaker 5: You didn't see anything?
Speaker 3: Just shot me. What did his face look like as.
Speaker 1: He came towards him?
Speaker 5: Leave him alone?
Speaker 3: Can't you leave him alone? That's sir, don't try to talk.
Speaker 3: Heave your thing. Here comes Cam to thank him for that.
Speaker 1: It won't be long now, been here as closest we could,
Speaker 1: with the past as much too narrow. Never mind the
Speaker 1: excuse is nelle bring the stretcher.
Speaker 3: Over here, Yes, right down, George.
Speaker 2: That's right boys now, easy, easy, and take the shoulders
Speaker 2: and the head.
Speaker 4: Oh I brought a lantern.
Speaker 3: You keep away from him.
Speaker 1: Already, Ron carry him to the ambulance.
Speaker 3: Careful, keep at his stiff.
Speaker 4: Oh he's hit, you fool. You've got his head lower
Speaker 4: than his.
Speaker 1: Watson when you finished operating, we sure have saved me
Speaker 1: the bullet.
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in adding to your grizzlys souvenir.
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for a subre what'sn't I'm demanding evidence.
Speaker 3: Be sure I get that bullet.
Speaker 7: So my fault. I shouldn't have said I'd meet him
Speaker 7: here tonight. I knew Old George it's Betton, doctor Jeffers
Speaker 7: when he was released today.
Speaker 1: Who is old George, miss Nellie And what did he
Speaker 1: have against the superintendent?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: Nothing, really, George McGown is just a tragic old man
Speaker 4: who drank too much and couldn't get on with his family.
Speaker 7: His daughter stood it as.
Speaker 3: Long as she could, and then she had him committed.
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 4: The first few days were pretty bad. He had DT's,
Speaker 4: you know, and he kept yelling for his revolver to
Speaker 4: protect himself. Fortunately doctor Jeffers had taken the gun away
Speaker 4: from him when Old George arrived. That's when he first
Speaker 4: took a dislike to doctor Jeffers, and even after he
Speaker 4: was better, he went on hating him.
Speaker 3: Is doctor Jeffers generally disliked? Oh no, he's wonderful.
Speaker 4: That is well, I suppose it is stritch, But you
Speaker 4: have to be if you're in charge of a place
Speaker 4: to hit.
Speaker 1: Sim pancas you wouldn't buy any chance be prenjudiced.
Speaker 4: Well, I perhaps I am said this.
Speaker 3: It's a secret.
Speaker 4: But well, doctor Jeffers and I are engaged to be married.
Speaker 1: Yes, I gathered as much. Tell me, miss Narame. Does
Speaker 1: anyone else suspect this attachment?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I'm sure no one does. Doctor Jefferson's
Speaker 4: most particular, none of the other nurses should find out.
Speaker 4: He said it would be bad for hospital discipline.
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 1: Tell me what did doctor Jeffers do with mister mc
Speaker 1: gowan's revolver when he took it away from him?
Speaker 4: Oh, he'd put it in the safe. That's what they
Speaker 4: always do with the patient's valuables when they arrive. They're
Speaker 4: handed back, of course, when the patient is discharged.
Speaker 3: You say, George McGowan was discharged today, Yes, sir, at
Speaker 3: ten o'clock this morning.
Speaker 1: Did doctor Jeffards return his revolver?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, sir, that was what they had to wrong about
Speaker 4: that an old George's cap.
Speaker 8: Hey, hey, yeah, I've been waiting this ha hoo for
Speaker 8: me discharge.
Speaker 9: Well here it is, George.
Speaker 1: And how many times do I have to tell you
Speaker 1: to take that cap off when you're in the house.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a buy because I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3: Very well then, but see you go straight home. No
Speaker 3: dropping in at any pub on the way, mind you.
Speaker 5: Eh, well, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 1: Tell you yet to come a pack a pistol?
Speaker 5: Don't you think you're better off without it?
Speaker 3: Who's to be the judge on that?
Speaker 1: I brought it with me from Grasky.
Speaker 5: Well, you're not going to get it if you're going
Speaker 5: to stand here arguing take off that dirty cat.
Speaker 1: It's no dirty cat has my fine Scotch bonnet.
Speaker 3: Here's the mcgard canton it is.
Speaker 1: I've kept it on in the presence I've better men
Speaker 1: than you'll be that will do.
Speaker 3: George.
Speaker 5: I'm not allowed to talk to the superintendent like that.
Speaker 8: Oh matron here and your nurses maybe daft over this doctor,
Speaker 8: but he better look out for old George.
Speaker 1: I'll get even with mister Superintendent Jeffers.
Speaker 3: He was the last thing at all.
Speaker 4: I begged doctor Jeffers to be careful, but he just laughs.
Speaker 7: He said if the doctor was going to worry about
Speaker 7: all the patients that took a dislike to him, he'd
Speaker 7: better give up medicine. Do you think they'll be able
Speaker 7: to save his life, Doctor Jeffers.
Speaker 1: I mean, fortunately, my dear doctor Watson is a much
Speaker 1: better surgeon than he is a detective.
Speaker 3: Your friend is in good hand.
Speaker 4: Doctor Watson. Why then, then you must be the great
Speaker 4: mister Sherlock comes.
Speaker 3: Hadn't you guessed?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: No, I suppose I was so upsets.
Speaker 4: And then the light here is so dim tonight? Oh
Speaker 4: I can rarely see?
Speaker 3: Is that peak cap of yours?
Speaker 1: Yes, doctor Jeffers says it would mister McGowan that shot him.
Speaker 1: But I suspect all he saw and this light was
Speaker 1: a Scottish bonnet. I rather imagine that was why the
Speaker 1: street lamp was extinguished.
Speaker 4: Of course, Old George hoped to get away without being
Speaker 4: recognized at all.
Speaker 3: I wonder what are you looking for, mister Holts. Confound
Speaker 3: this rain that's drowned my match.
Speaker 4: You'll try another here, I'll hold my cape all it?
Speaker 3: Thanks? Yes, that's better.
Speaker 1: No footprints on this gravel, confounded, Yes, shadow here we
Speaker 1: are just as I expected, right here on the ground
Speaker 1: under the yew head. A trifle waterlo but still recognizable.
Speaker 4: Why that's all George's care.
Speaker 3: He must have lost it in the excitement. And look
Speaker 3: here on the grass, mister Holmes, there's his revolver too.
Speaker 3: Don't touch it.
Speaker 1: Whatever you do, don't touch it. Don't want any unnecessary fingerprints.
Speaker 1: I'll handle it with my muffler. Good thing, Watson, bullet
Speaker 1: be into wearing. It comes in useful after all, although
Speaker 1: what fingerprints we have are probably badly smeared. The gun
Speaker 1: has recently been discharged. Yes, only one chamber has been emptied. Interesting,
Speaker 1: very interesting, And.
Speaker 4: Mister Holmes, doctor Jeffers, is only one move quit right?
Speaker 1: Two shots were fired. However, I heard them myself, but
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I'm not sure I do either. That
Speaker 1: is not entirely that. I have a few rather definite
Speaker 1: suspicions which I shall endeavor to confirm.
Speaker 3: How will you do that, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: By means of some experiments with this revolver and with
Speaker 1: a bullet. Doctor Watson is even now removing from the
Speaker 1: neighborhood of your fiances jugular vain. Yes, suppose you get
Speaker 1: along to St.
Speaker 3: Pancras infirmity.
Speaker 1: I'm counting on you to procure me some rather important information.
Speaker 4: Anything I could do, mister Holst, anything at all.
Speaker 1: You could look through the files and get me mister
Speaker 1: mc gowan's home address. I think a visit to his
Speaker 1: daughter is indicated. Let's see seventeen berbery mules seventeen years
Speaker 1: here we asked lapidated little villa, Ah will what do
Speaker 1: you want, miss McGowan? I presume I wonder if I
Speaker 1: might speak to.
Speaker 3: Your father for a moment.
Speaker 7: No, you can't.
Speaker 1: You needn't be afraid I've come to harm him. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think it will let me talk to him now
Speaker 1: before the authorities arrived. Sure two later, owns, you'll not
Speaker 1: be playing ducks and drakes for the law this time. Well, well,
Speaker 1: if it isn't the strad the super snooper of Scotland Yard,
Speaker 1: you can laugh, mister Strllock Holmes, but this is one
Speaker 1: time you don't need your assistance.
Speaker 3: I am here to arrest George Beggaron for the murder
Speaker 3: of Superintendent.
Speaker 1: Jeffers of Saint Pancras Infirmary.
Speaker 3: You mean to say he's dead, No, but from what
Speaker 3: the matron tells me, he will be before morning. So
Speaker 3: I've come to arrest his murderer.
Speaker 1: Don't you think you may be underrating both doctor Watson
Speaker 1: and myself. Also the Superintendent may pull through and it's
Speaker 1: just possible McGowan is not the man who shot him.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Superintendent Jeffers Finn, the matron says, you found
Speaker 1: McGowan's cap and revolver a Webley sixth seminder on the
Speaker 1: scene of the crime. What's more, I've got the bullet
Speaker 1: they took out of Jeffers's neck. Possibly, but what makes
Speaker 1: you think the bullet was fired from that particular it's.
Speaker 3: The right size and cannibal. That's enough for me.
Speaker 1: Furthermore, the young nurse tells me you made off with
Speaker 1: the gun and the cat.
Speaker 3: I thank you to end him over.
Speaker 1: So sorry, but I can't you know, not until I've
Speaker 1: conducted a few rather important experiments. So obstructing the law,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. You've overstepped yourself this time, Earns
Speaker 1: and door mistake. I'll have a warrant sworn out for
Speaker 1: your first thing.
Speaker 3: In the morning.
Speaker 1: Aren't you forgetting the real purpose of your visit here?
Speaker 3: What's that? The apprehending of your so called murderer, mister
Speaker 3: George mcgonne.
Speaker 1: I don't need you to remind me of the duty now, then,
Speaker 1: miss tell your father I want to see it.
Speaker 3: He need you will your.
Speaker 6: Cant, But why not because it didn't come home? And
Speaker 6: if you had a set your bond with you go
Speaker 6: and look for him, lay and drunk in some powers
Speaker 6: and wheelhouse. Who will be in taxes for I'd like
Speaker 6: to know why didn't they keep him in the hospital
Speaker 6: till it was cured me?
Speaker 4: And why don't you smile?
Speaker 3: Hell? Explain your own business.
Speaker 1: Either bother you.
Speaker 3: It seems miss McGown has put us both.
Speaker 1: In the same class. Congratulations, Miss claud you've been promoted.
Speaker 1: You go to Blazes and another thing. You bring that
Speaker 1: cap and that revolver down of the DD first thing
Speaker 1: in the morning, Elves, and I'll see you put behind bars.
Speaker 3: You've made your little out to make them lestrade now
Speaker 3: and make mine.
Speaker 1: You bring that bullet Bay took out of doctor Jeffer's
Speaker 1: neck around the two twenty one B Baker Street before
Speaker 1: midnight tonight.
Speaker 3: But I'll make you a laughing stock of London. Oh
Speaker 3: that's bluff.
Speaker 1: Your bluff possibly became astrode. I'll stake my reputation that
Speaker 1: that bullet was not fired from mc gowan's gun. You
Speaker 1: can bring a warrant with the bullet if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: You can arrest me for trying to conceal evidence. Pretty
Speaker 1: sure of yourself, arch, All right, it's a deal. I'll
Speaker 1: bring the warrant and dead us through, all.
Speaker 3: Right, George, because the taar you can come out from
Speaker 3: behind the rain barrel. Thank you, sir. Will your beef
Speaker 3: no ting me in? Don't mention it.
Speaker 1: Oh, just one thing, tell me the truth, George. Did
Speaker 1: you shoot Superintendent Jeffers to night in Tufno Park?
Speaker 3: So help me, sir. I don't know.
Speaker 8: I followed him all afternoon, but it was that wet
Speaker 8: and Aurora had to stop in and again for a
Speaker 8: wee trap, and pretty soon I was in a bit
Speaker 8: of a fog, as you might say, So I don't rightly.
Speaker 3: Remember what happened. When I come to, I was lying
Speaker 3: in the with my.
Speaker 1: Bonnet gun, my hand here covered with blood.
Speaker 2: Hey, it could be me in blood, Sir.
Speaker 3: I've got a nasty cut over my left eye.
Speaker 1: Let's hope it is your own blood, George. If it's not,
Speaker 1: you should both then end up in jail.
Speaker 3: Oh what in the name of commons? Since do you
Speaker 3: think you're doing shooting? That's obvious?
Speaker 2: I may say it was obvious the moment I turned
Speaker 2: the corner of Merrybone Road. What's the idea of target
Speaker 2: practice this hour of the night. This is not target practice, Watson.
Speaker 2: You'll notice I'm shooting into a large.
Speaker 3: Cylinder filled with cotton wool.
Speaker 1: It's a little experiment whereby I hope to convince inspect
Speaker 1: to Lestrade that Baker Street is more satient than Scotland Yard.
Speaker 1: Oh that, if I'm not mistaken, is the minion of
Speaker 1: the law in person.
Speaker 3: I'll go down bother Watson. I told missus Hudson we
Speaker 3: were expecting a midnight caller. She let him in. Yes,
Speaker 3: twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1: Come in, Lestrade, come in your prompts itself. Well, Holmes
Speaker 1: have brought the bullet and the handcase. Fair enough, now here,
Speaker 1: take this chairy o by the microscope. I'll turn the
Speaker 1: lamp up a little higher. Now, then if you'll give
Speaker 1: Dr Watson the bullet he extracted from doctor Jeffer's neck
Speaker 1: and allow him to place it under the lens.
Speaker 3: All right, but no, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 3: By the way, Dr Watson, now is the victim? Did
Speaker 3: you pull him through? And I'm dead?
Speaker 2: Someone is interested. I left doctor Jeffer's rest in quiety.
Speaker 2: Thank you Holmes never thought to inquire.
Speaker 1: My dear Watson, I have every confidence in your medical ability. No,
Speaker 1: what I'm really curious of, but as a pattern of
Speaker 1: the marks on this bullet upon me what I've focused
Speaker 1: the lens.
Speaker 3: Yes, let's see I thought so.
Speaker 1: I thought, so he may know what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: Dr Watson.
Speaker 3: But I'm completely in the dark.
Speaker 2: How about you, I Confesslesstard, I am quite frequently in
Speaker 2: your predicament.
Speaker 3: But it's all so childishly simple. This bullet could not
Speaker 3: possibly have been.
Speaker 1: Fired from George McGowan's revolver. The bore patterns are entirely different.
Speaker 3: Oh what's he raving about here?
Speaker 1: Look in the microscope while I explain in words of
Speaker 1: one syllable, I'm looking.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Notice the pattern of lines, falls and scratches on that bullet.
Speaker 3: Fix them well in your mind? All right, I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: A few years ago, Less jard I persuaded Scotland Yard
Speaker 1: to take up the science of fingerprinting. Fingerprints are now
Speaker 1: recognized the one sure method of identification. No two sets
Speaker 1: of fingerprints can possibly be alike. Grass it, I'd like
Speaker 1: to introduce you to the science of ballistics. Oh, what's
Speaker 1: that every gun that's capable of firing a bullet leaves
Speaker 1: on that bullet a pattern of its a pattern that's
Speaker 1: as individual as a man's fingerprints and as incapable of duplication. Now, Watson,
Speaker 1: if you'll dig one of the bullets fired from mister
Speaker 1: mc gowan's weblay out of that cotton wool.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll have a look at it under the microscope.
Speaker 3: Here you are, homes the strad You've memorized the pattern made.
Speaker 1: By the killer's revolver on the bullet. Now have a
Speaker 1: look at this one fired from Old George's gun.
Speaker 3: It's Scott, all right, they're different, different is night and day. Therefore,
Speaker 3: the webley did not fire the.
Speaker 1: Shot that was supposed to kill the superintendent, and MacGowan
Speaker 1: is not the potential killer. But look here, Hoe, you
Speaker 1: just had a look at the second bullet yourself. What
Speaker 1: made you so sure earlier this evening that McGowan wasn't guilty?
Speaker 3: For one thing? The stage was too carefully set.
Speaker 1: Why was the street lamp extinguished so Jeffers couldn't really
Speaker 1: recognize the person who wore.
Speaker 3: Mc gowan's cap.
Speaker 1: Why were both the cap and the revolver left at
Speaker 1: the scene of the crime to incriminate Old George. Fortunate
Speaker 1: to be him mc gowan was the one person who
Speaker 1: couldn't possibly have fired the webley because it was carefully
Speaker 1: locked in the hospital safe.
Speaker 3: But who could have taken it from the safe.
Speaker 1: Almost any of the offices of the hospital stop. I
Speaker 1: imagine that I can find out which one by paying
Speaker 1: a return visit to the hospital to strod whoever fired
Speaker 1: that shot will be quite chagrined to learn it wasn't fatal.
Speaker 1: I rather suspect a sicken attempt will be made unlock
Speaker 1: to Jeffer's life have very near future.
Speaker 3: Take a good long look before the mirror.
Speaker 1: If you hadn't seen that clipper Craft label, how much
Speaker 1: would you say that beautiful suit costs? Well many many
Speaker 1: dollars more than the figure on the price ticket. It's
Speaker 1: pretty hard to believe you can buy clothes that fit
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Speaker 3: Jacket and overcoat. Watson in which wing of the hospital
Speaker 3: they put doctor Jeffers. He's on the ground floor over there,
Speaker 3: to the left, where the light is burning good. The
Speaker 3: window's partly open.
Speaker 1: You shall be able to stand behind those bushes and
Speaker 1: see him without being observed.
Speaker 3: Come along the stride.
Speaker 5: I'm common.
Speaker 3: Quiet you two.
Speaker 5: Here we are.
Speaker 3: We can see over the sill. Nurses a back turn.
Speaker 3: She won't notice. Everything seems to be quiet enough. Jeff
Speaker 3: has just moved his hand. He's coming out of the ether.
Speaker 3: I imagine, color looks good. Quiet, the doors opening. It's
Speaker 3: the matron. She's coming in with the glass of something
Speaker 3: in her hand. I've brought him to morn greatness. Why
Speaker 3: don't you go at your supper now? Says the kettle
Speaker 3: boiling in the pantry. I'll sit with him for a while, nurse.
Speaker 1: He's leaving.
Speaker 3: Is a matron smoothing out the covers. Robert, Robert, can
Speaker 3: you hear me? He's opening his eyes.
Speaker 1: You are going to live, Robert. They saved you.
Speaker 4: I thought to death, I wish the one that found you,
Speaker 4: that went for me.
Speaker 3: You'd have bled to day.
Speaker 4: You were a fool to throw me over for that young.
Speaker 5: Nurse Matron, life is like that, couldn't help it. We
Speaker 5: love each other, going to be married.
Speaker 3: Sorry, don't worry about it. What is to be is
Speaker 3: to be here.
Speaker 5: Drink this to make you feel better.
Speaker 3: Jeffers, don't set that lass. What you're doing here?
Speaker 1: He came back to provential making a second attempt on
Speaker 1: doctor Japper's life, and to find out why you made
Speaker 1: the first?
Speaker 3: What's in helpless trade over the sill before he strangled
Speaker 3: his health.
Speaker 1: Yes, Matron, you've just given us the strongest motive that
Speaker 1: exists for murder.
Speaker 3: Jealousy. You'll think you're smart. Mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: You can't prove anything.
Speaker 1: You'll never find my fingerplasts.
Speaker 4: On any revolver, and you'll never find the revolver. Mister
Speaker 4: Lestrade here knows you can't convict anyone without proof.
Speaker 1: I think the contents of that glass will prove you
Speaker 1: tried to murder doctor Jeffers. Take the glass away from
Speaker 1: a Lestrad quick before.
Speaker 3: Good Lord shall drank it. Holmes, I drank it herself.
Speaker 2: Oh there's nothing Homes or I could do, mister Harris.
Speaker 2: That glass contained a very lethal dose of classic acid.
Speaker 3: She was dead inside of two minutes.
Speaker 1: Good Lord, tell me, doctor Watson, when did Chili calms
Speaker 1: first suspect the matron.
Speaker 3: Of trying to kill doctor Jeffers almost at once, or perhaps.
Speaker 2: I should say from the moment we entered the circle
Speaker 2: of u hedge that surrounded the fountain.
Speaker 3: You may not know it, mister Harris, but a good
Speaker 3: English ue hedges as.
Speaker 2: Impenetrable as a bick wall, and much more impossible to scale.
Speaker 2: There was only one entrance to that circle, the one
Speaker 2: for which the matron ran practically into our arms. No
Speaker 2: one else could have passed without our seeing him. Consequently,
Speaker 2: no one else was in the circle with doctor Jeffers
Speaker 2: when he was shot. It had to be the matron
Speaker 2: who fired the revolver who fared the two revolvers, I
Speaker 2: should say, the one to incriminate George McGown, and the.
Speaker 3: Other to do the job. Thank you, doctor Watson. And
Speaker 3: now what is in store for us for next week?
Speaker 3: Next week? Well, now let me see.
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