Sherlock Holmes - Twisted Lip

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