August 5, 2025 • 27 mins
This detective series brings the adventures of the famous sleuth to life, solving complex cases with keen observation and deductive reasoning. The stories are rich in intrigue and suspense.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
The Inventors of Sherlock Holmes, The Original and Immortal Stories
of Sarasick holand Doyle Glommatized Daniel, with Sir Ralph Richardson
as Doctor Watson and Sir John Gielgood in the role
of Sherlock Holme. And now The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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with Sir John Gielgod and Sherlock Holmes and Sir Ralph
Richardson as our storyteller, Doctor James Watson. My name was Watson,
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Doctor John H.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Watton. It may be familiar to you.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Through my association over Middlewears. It's one of the most
remarkable men I believe the world has ever known, mister
Sherlock Holmes. I wanted to tell you about one of
our earliest adventists.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The first time when we went out.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Into the Speech of London in active partnership, it was
still a Youngish man. It was far back in the
early eighteen eighties. We'd chaired those famous roomens number two
hundred and twenty one b Baker Street.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
For yes you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Mom, Watson, my dear fellow, you're just in time, in
time for what homes well you've so I can be
good enough to express a genial interest in my singular profession.
Now you'll be able to see me actually at work. Oh,
I'm lightly homes It should have been fascinating. Ah, but I
must sit down by the fire de.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Chilly out, or do do my dear fellows? Oh, by
the way, Watson, White Turkish? Turkish?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
How do you mean the bar? The bars you've just
come from, my dear fellow. Why the relaxing and expensive
Turkish rather than invigorating a homemade article across the passage here?
Because I tells lazy and but I haven't said a
word about it. How the deuce did you know i'd
had a Turkish bar? Your boots boots, I think quite
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an elementary as surely no doubt. But you'll forgive me
if i'd be able to see the least connection. You
always do your boots out in the same way, Watson, however,
on this occasion might even pass them with an elaborate
double bow. And so of course you've had them all
from someone else who's tied them for you, for example,
The answer can only be your bootmaker or the boy
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to take his bars, as your boots will only maidens
live here late last week it's hardly likely to have
been the bootmaker. So what's the names? But the barbs
sadly simple.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Ha ha, pa, my soul, you don't really are.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A strange Wait till you meet Milverton. He's stranger still Milverton.
Who's Milverton, Tarles Augustus Milverton at Hampstead in all probability
the most evil man in London. He sounds fascinating. I
invited in the six thirty so he's almost you.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I should have the thought of him. But what's he
do for a living? This strange quarrel of ours?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Blackmail Watson high here he looks like mister Pickwick that
heaven helped the man, or worse still, the woman who's
in discreet enough to get into his power?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And what have you to do with him?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I've had the honor recently to.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Be consulted by a particularly illustrious lady.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Gracious do I know her?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I expect to know her name, Lady Eva Brackwell, the
most beautiful gab.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Retunted last season. But of course isn't she to be
married in a fortnight to the Earl of Dover Court. Yes,
it's all arranged.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm lucky for her Milverton has marriaged to get hold
of some imprudent letters Waston, which she wrote some time
ago to a penny this young fellow in the country.
Only in prudent, mind you, but they'd be quite sufficient
to break off the net.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And you're commissioner to meet him? Yes, and make what terms?
I can? I think you hear Watson? Well let him
in the who Well he'll come in. Did this is
mister Holmes? I take it you are Charles Augustus moment?
How are you, mister Holmes?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
No, I prefer not to shake hands with you, mister Milburdoon.
This is only a matter of business between us, I see,
and we can talk of it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Be Paul. This gentleman needs to rather a delicate affair.
Dr Watson is my.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Friend and partner, sair. He knows our business well well,
we need hard waste much time on it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
My position is quite different. You are acting from the
lady Eva. I understand I have that, honor. What are
your terms, mister Mildertne seven thousand pounds mister Holmes and
the alternative. Oh, my dear sir, it is painful to
discuss it.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But if the money is not paid by the fourteenth,
there would certainly be no marriage on the eighteen and
suposing I advise my clan to tell her future husband
all about these letters you hold. You haven't do not
know the Earl, mister Holmes, nor me. I'm practice at
this game, sir. Look at the spotty book. I have
eight or ten similar cases, all maturing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It is how I make my humble breath. Who scramble
hows you like, sir?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But that are detailed here that would surprise you for
all your so called knowledge of affairs. You may remember
the sudden end of the encouragement between the Honorable Missus
Miles and Colonel Doff and only a bit caught. You've
said some of twelve hundred pounds could not be found
in time. Seven thousand is ridiculous, Lilburton out of the
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question here, and I think nuts. There was also the
case of our well no more name pham welch, what's can.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Get the hanging? Tell a lit it out now now, sir,
that notebo you'll please to fall homes Stand back you
think I go by the business like my alarms, Stand back,
I say, don't do doctor, what nobody your name is?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Put your hand homed out what I expected, something much
more original, mister Holmes, I really did from you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Do you think I'm a fool as to carry the letter?
The bounce of it?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You only make me more determined than ever. One more
word and I'll make it eight thousand and.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The thirteen instead of the forties or night, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
It was one of my earliest glimpses of the kind
of thing confrontingess in what homes has been good enough
to call our partnership?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What you would do next? Had no idea? I was
hardly prepared a few nights later.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And on a particularly restorey using the appearance in our
chambers of a tall, wreakish looking young workman with a
goaty beard.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Oh good, easing goodness, how are yes? How am I? Now?
Look here? My good man? What you think you're doing?
Walking any here? These are private apartment I happen to
live here. Wats it dosence?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yes? I think I forgot to warn you around my
little Tomshaws for disguise is what to just run?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Among my many other accomplishments. Do what are appalling? Night
outside is coming down in sheep? But what on earth
have you been doing getting much.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I've engaged to be married, to be married my DearS,
So I I congratulate sure office of the hushmaid a
Charles Augustus Wilberson was I had to Watson, I wanted information.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh that was going too far, not at all in
my present.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Alias, I'm a rising young plumber named Escott. I've walked
and talk to that girl every evening for nearly a week.
The charming little post they were too, And now I
know Milverson's husband, Hanst is like the palm of my
hands in the basement of the attics. Yes, yeah, the
home the poor girl early really can't be helped, Watson.
He has to become a sacrifice on the altar of
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my art.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Fortunately, I find I have a hated rival in the
shape of the local grocery assistant. He sure to cut
me out at the moment my back.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Look out of the window.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Watson, Oh, what a splendid night learning complaining about it
development a girl as an honest citizen, as a burglar,
I approved of it as a as a burglary. Is
I proposed to burgle Milburton's house Before the night is over, Boston.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's the only way.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I just want a few minutes to change my clothes
and get rid of this ticklish bird, and then I
shall be leaving you to the evening, to your peaceful solitude.
Tell home, I'm coming with you. No, yeah, what I
said that with a partner, and that I should do
something to shake off my indo. Well, we've been sharing
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these same rooms for some months now.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It'll be a new thing if you should finish up
sharing the same self.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You really mean it was to you that death where
you are listed lightful fellow, Well do you think you
could contide to make us up a couple of masks
mass mass in five minutes from black silk. I have
an old umbrella somewhere excellent.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Then that will be your contribution for my part. I
should be delighted to teach you how to use it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Jimmy and the glass cutter, and this set of adaptable
key of wonderful specimens here in two hours time. Watsons
he should be a little bit to study where he
keeps his face. It adjoins his bedroom. Unfortunately, but I
think he's pretty sure to be sound asleep. My little
fiancee tells me he always looks at the log is
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a divide in what.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Is a bug in home? Well, here we are. You
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see what that deal it wants. But in two hours
he makes a capital tale of burdles.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
He would die always dedicated, no purpose.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Homes it will too little trouble. You mean because the
door hast he wasn't eating, locked the holes and overside
jolk there's a knight under the bedroom door. He often
falls asleep at the bedroom and that's still burning. I
don't have to mind Beyonce too. Now they want them
to work.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well, what do you want me to do? Time the
will o the door? There? I'm giving a warning if
we had any one time, he's fly.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
If they come right in, you still have time to
hide behind the window curtain's side. I'll begin on the
safe by flight No, then skeleton keys. Uh oh, this
fellow the fouri very ordered that a much more modern
face of this.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Fund nerve than the series. If I could only now
it owns home? What did it got from? Confided?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I've almost got it open. Someone coming along the corridor.
Two people are use taking for a moment to chow
too bad quick behind the curtain. You can't have been
in bed, after all, have to be waiting in the
hall for.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Some wats Some of you are right, definitely so baba
t kid.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I can just see who.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
No one's coming upstairs getting and all left.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Ah, it's all right, there's a woman with him fail.
They're coming in.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Where you decided to come in half an hour late.
I couldn't done me earlier. No mischiefs cut me.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, if it's a hard miss, you had a chance
to get even with her. You tell me in your
life that you've managed to get hold of some letters
which compromised their conscious.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Galbert, Oh yes, uh huh. You want to sell them
and I want to buy them so so good. I
can use them in my business now else to price
the price, mister Nolverton, for everything is your life? What
you mean? Girl? Look at me?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It's lifting a fail homes.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That's no lady's made great sermons, is it you? Yes,
I Charles Nolverton. I'm don't to dare to speak my name.
You foul it enough. You ruined me the way you
ruined so many others. You should have found the money.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
In tire and because I couldn't, because I begged you
for two days A great he sent those letters you had.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
To my husband, and he died, and you know how
he died, not the finest man in the world. And
the letters were four you changed the dates from them.
They were written before I met him. That from me, No,
not till I use it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You'll break no my heart?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Chide me Aton, who's broken mine? To hound? Oh? Say hound? Great?
Hasn't hold wild Man? He's done for because she's got away. Thanks?
Who was that woman? You know that face? Not that
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that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I've never never meant name, No re quick what you're
doing that faith? What's the papers of the faith to
save our own class? Who knows how many more?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Besides? Quick? Put that?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Bundle your horse wats and get and give this to me. Hurry,
have someone ust to hurt the shop. Listen that people
coming after the window quickly? What serial escaped down a
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convenient drain pipe, over two garden walls and rock They've
found an empty handsom at the bottom of the road
and reached baker'step at last and safety. Our day shore
was over, almost over.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And I lay tossing steeplessly in bed that night.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I've found myself more than ever intrigued by the personality
of my strange companions, as recollected our first speaking only
a few months before, I'd just come back from medical
service abroad and was moping miserably about this old London
of ours, of handsome cabs and fog and gas, like
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doing something nothing at Paul and then standing has a
piccadly lit.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Bar one day there was of it, Remember me? But
why yes, tamper, young temper used to the addressed Undy.
You you were a medical student of darts, remember, of course,
I remembered.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Confound is the pleasure to see a friendly face tampered
Londons are very useful a lonely man, or what else
if you'd been doing with yourself?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Wat them that as a larger dollars than that Afghanistan,
you know, the campaign out their army servants. I say,
I have a drink for your thanks.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
If I'm the start, I think I got wounded pretty
badly at my one countroduced sub Savian artery tub glasses.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Is fute it up? Eh? And just what are you
doing with yourself now? Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Trying to solve the problem with finding comfortable rooms on
my army pencil E eleven and six A day to have.
He says, your health campon your what there's the all
time strange to say that, you know, say what I
was looking for rooms.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're the second man to day who said it to me?
And who was the first?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh, Sun fellow was working in the chemical lad up
at the hospital. A fellow called home. You wouldn't like
to go Halves, I suppose exactly what he was saying,
looking to I want to share with him?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And with an hand, then what's his other names? Sharing?
But it is no, no, no, no, Sharlof. You're to
sthing queer Sharlock's host. What does he do with you? Said?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I know he's got a whole store and out of
the way, not in to put astonished the professor, and
he's the first class chemist they did day him. But
I've been quite special, I say, Watson, huh, it's go
along the way. I have a meeting. He's started it there.
Let's have lunch somewhere and then go on. Tell me exel,
I hope it comes to hunting. I must can say
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to thou five years a sea wats them, this is
mister Sherlock's home. Are you doctor from Afghanistan?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I perceived, But how on earth did you over?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Never mind homes, I wanted you to beleeve because Watson's
on the look after someone to share diggings with him.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Oh, the favors who are ethical, doctor, you look a
very man for me.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I've had my eye on the street in Baker's seat
number two hundred and twenty one B. And missus Hudson
is the land lady's name. You don't mind the smell
of strong tobacco. I hope I always spoke ships myself.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's good enough.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And oh when I generally have a few chemicals about
in cardiot experiments like this one, that wouldn't annoy you
by no need?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
We then let me see one of my other shortcomings.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, I get down in the dumps sometimes and don't
open my mouth for days on end. And or I've
offensive to a revolver practice in bow. So long as
I can rely on your aim intellible, I assure you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Now, what have you to concept? See? Well, I get
up at all.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Fours about godly ours, and I'm very lazy. I don't
like two months raw, but but oh but I put
up with the revolvers afterward. I've got another set of
advices when I'm well, but these are the principal ones
for the president.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That's all right, thanky cute stamp, But I'm very much
oblige Field.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well, should we go together, Dr Watson, and look at
the rooms tomorrow, say, at noon, at noon home? It
will suit admirably. Oh one other little things, the violin.
You don't include violin playing in your category of rows.
It depends on the player my home if it's badly playing.
But that's something I should have to leave you to
judge yourself, my dear fellow, and I should pleasure in
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testing your ear with a few of my own little compositions.
Then you will be able to judge my modest capability.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Till tomorrow, then, my dear doctor Watson.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So it took those womens together and settled down quite amicably.
As the week went by, my interest in my companion intensified.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I studied his sharp piercing eyes, his skill work like face.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
And I wondered time and again what he's did sudden giving.
So it's to pay share of our humble reckoning. He
was out at all thoughts of strange hours, and when
he was at home, curious visitors were always calling on him.
And they think he would ask if he might have
our sitting room for himself. With a sting endow, dark
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eyed fellow caused less trade for the distance. He came
three or four nights in one week. Once a fashionably
dressed young girl waited on him. At another time it
was a well reporter in his velveteen uniforms. The city
puzzled reason, and still at.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Last one day. Ah, you wonder what I do for
a living.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Watch today I've seen you looking quizically one for price,
at least, visiting plans of mine.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Fad.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Or just properly over the person slipper, will you might
dear fellow, I.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Always keep at the doctor in it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
The fact is I'm a professional thinker, doctor. I think
certainly I peak things together. You see, just as a
logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a
Niagara from a single jot of water without having seen
or heard.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Of either of them.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So I build rare editative and deductions from the observation
of issues.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Simple sess, Oh, come, it's the truth. I will show you.
If you're looking around for a cigar, by the way.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I might just said, you'll find them in a coast couple. Yes, yes,
I have a played all my own Watsons, the only
one in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I'm a consulting detective.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Oh that London full of detectives, lots of government ones
and plenty of private ones, but none like me. I
built up quite a special little connection, wasn't And when
any of these other fellows that are lost, they generally
come to me to put them right.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Just by thinking about things.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I suppose exactly I have a term for observation and deductions.
As Hu must admit that first time we met, for instance,
when I mentioned, to your surprise that you just come
from Afghanistan. You are told about it, no doubt, nothing
of the soft I just knew. Why take a nature
to me my train of fortram something like this. Here
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a fellow who's a doctor, but the air of a
military man is clearly an army surgery man just come
from the topics. But his face is dark, but that
isn't his natural color, to his risks of fair his
army is stiff wounded. Where in the tropics could an
English army doctor have been wounded lately? And the obvious
answer is in the Afghan campaign, probably the battle of
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my wife.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
It's simple enough, and you'll explain it. I can says
I was taken aback a bit of a side. And
do you mean to say that you apply these principles
to the detection of five?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Of course I do. That fellow is trade you will
ask me about the other day. For instance.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He's a Scotland yard man, one of the best. But
he got him set into a fog over a forgery
case recently and came to me to ask.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
My advice on the evidence you had. I sold it
for him on the spot. Up to my life. You
astonished me at home. I have no idea that that
was what you were up to. What gave you the notion?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
All natural talent, I suppose when I was still college.
This morning happened to become my way, which enabled me
to solve a curious crime.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I decided it. But I did take to such methods,
and so here I am now a professional investigator. That's
the kind of thing ideal with in this life of mine. Watson,
That and of course my music.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Well, I never thought that you were a professional investigator
of crime, even when you talked about it so much
as the hospital that time we next well, when really
must do something to keep myself from border, you may
find yourself mixed up in it. While at these fine
days you know you never know what's he is, never
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know And I was, of course you know that now
with the must and exploit. As I've related it, so
the first well adventure of them all in which I
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felt myself truly involved.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It English rather.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Ugly at Burglary episode of ours the very morning after it,
after my sleepless night that came even the little man
I've so often seen before, let's say, the good less
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Trade of Scotland Yards, Good morning, my dear lestrade, Good morning,
it said. Only I was wondering, was doctor Watson, by
the way, he was asking all about you the other day?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
How you got there? Any friend of mister Holmes is
a friend of mine, the latter to me to inspect of.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
But sit down on shore and shall pipe with so
much if irry, I'm afraid I just wanted to ask
if you were anything particular on hand, Miss Holmes. Oh,
I don't think so nothing much. A little natter down
of the docks involving a giant rat from Sumatra.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You've got to need the rest, look after themselves themselves.
Yet they've been murdered. The apput Hampsteon wanted you to
look into it for us queer business. Oh really, who's
been murdered? sEH called New Vision. Indeed, I believe I've
heard the name homes homes not feeling dicky? Are you
what any details of stray world we know? Who didn't?
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Of course, you know, could have. Couple of them got there,
nearly got him.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
They did.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
There was a humane crist you see. They got away
worse love where they were seeing.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
How interesting and what are they supposed to look like?
The first one very tall? I a fellow middle side
pick nict man. We're gonna start to startle her head
masks over their eyes?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Oh comelish trade. That's other vague, isn't it? On my sord?
It might even be a description of what's on me,
as it might need.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
If you're your right, mister Hope, you're perfectly right. I,
by jove, it might be.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Will you handle it? I'm afraid not as traid, not
this time. I know something of this fellow milvert of
me with a rogue and a blackmailer.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
There are certain crimes of the law confundish adequately, my
dear fellow, And in this instance my sympathies are with
the criminals as trade. I will not handle the case.
Will if you won't, you won't, y'all. I'll get the
fellows all right in time, I dare say, will Moon
as trade.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I do hope you may pass me my violin.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
If you go out there as a good fellow. I
kill juice Lazy this morning had rather a strenuous night.
Praysure it well, good morning, yeh he will gain an air,
said always Inna the biggest teagonal comony, Inspector Morn Michuel.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Good morning. That's a luckless say, oh.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Ant of five minutes like at homes, I'll take myself
back to Afghanistan. Oh no, you won't, Watson, you go
to love it tools. This is only the beginning, my
dear hello, only the beginning. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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Based on the part of doctor Watson and Sir John
Gildgood that of Sherlock Holmes, A program was produced by
Harry Allen Towers,
The Inventors of Sherlock Holmes, The Original and Immortal Stories
of Sarasick holand Doyle Glommatized Daniel, with Sir Ralph Richardson
as Doctor Watson and Sir John Gielgood in the role
of Sherlock Holme. And now The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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with Sir John Gielgod and Sherlock Holmes and Sir Ralph
Richardson as our storyteller, Doctor James Watson. My name was Watson,
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Doctor John H.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Watton. It may be familiar to you.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Through my association over Middlewears. It's one of the most
remarkable men I believe the world has ever known, mister
Sherlock Holmes. I wanted to tell you about one of
our earliest adventists.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The first time when we went out.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Into the Speech of London in active partnership, it was
still a Youngish man. It was far back in the
early eighteen eighties. We'd chaired those famous roomens number two
hundred and twenty one b Baker Street.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
For yes you.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Mom, Watson, my dear fellow, you're just in time, in
time for what homes well you've so I can be
good enough to express a genial interest in my singular profession.
Now you'll be able to see me actually at work. Oh,
I'm lightly homes It should have been fascinating. Ah, but I
must sit down by the fire de.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Chilly out, or do do my dear fellows? Oh, by
the way, Watson, White Turkish? Turkish?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
How do you mean the bar? The bars you've just
come from, my dear fellow. Why the relaxing and expensive
Turkish rather than invigorating a homemade article across the passage here?
Because I tells lazy and but I haven't said a
word about it. How the deuce did you know i'd
had a Turkish bar? Your boots boots, I think quite
(02:48):
an elementary as surely no doubt. But you'll forgive me
if i'd be able to see the least connection. You
always do your boots out in the same way, Watson, however,
on this occasion might even pass them with an elaborate
double bow. And so of course you've had them all
from someone else who's tied them for you, for example,
The answer can only be your bootmaker or the boy
(03:08):
to take his bars, as your boots will only maidens
live here late last week it's hardly likely to have
been the bootmaker. So what's the names? But the barbs
sadly simple.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Ha ha, pa, my soul, you don't really are.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A strange Wait till you meet Milverton. He's stranger still Milverton.
Who's Milverton, Tarles Augustus Milverton at Hampstead in all probability
the most evil man in London. He sounds fascinating. I
invited in the six thirty so he's almost you.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I should have the thought of him. But what's he
do for a living? This strange quarrel of ours?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Blackmail Watson high here he looks like mister Pickwick that
heaven helped the man, or worse still, the woman who's
in discreet enough to get into his power?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And what have you to do with him?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I've had the honor recently to.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Be consulted by a particularly illustrious lady.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Gracious do I know her?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I expect to know her name, Lady Eva Brackwell, the
most beautiful gab.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Retunted last season. But of course isn't she to be
married in a fortnight to the Earl of Dover Court. Yes,
it's all arranged.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm lucky for her Milverton has marriaged to get hold
of some imprudent letters Waston, which she wrote some time
ago to a penny this young fellow in the country.
Only in prudent, mind you, but they'd be quite sufficient
to break off the net.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And you're commissioner to meet him? Yes, and make what terms?
I can? I think you hear Watson? Well let him
in the who Well he'll come in. Did this is
mister Holmes? I take it you are Charles Augustus moment?
How are you, mister Holmes?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
No, I prefer not to shake hands with you, mister Milburdoon.
This is only a matter of business between us, I see,
and we can talk of it.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Be Paul. This gentleman needs to rather a delicate affair.
Dr Watson is my.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Friend and partner, sair. He knows our business well well,
we need hard waste much time on it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
My position is quite different. You are acting from the
lady Eva. I understand I have that, honor. What are
your terms, mister Mildertne seven thousand pounds mister Holmes and
the alternative. Oh, my dear sir, it is painful to
discuss it.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But if the money is not paid by the fourteenth,
there would certainly be no marriage on the eighteen and
suposing I advise my clan to tell her future husband
all about these letters you hold. You haven't do not
know the Earl, mister Holmes, nor me. I'm practice at
this game, sir. Look at the spotty book. I have
eight or ten similar cases, all maturing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It is how I make my humble breath. Who scramble
hows you like, sir?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But that are detailed here that would surprise you for
all your so called knowledge of affairs. You may remember
the sudden end of the encouragement between the Honorable Missus
Miles and Colonel Doff and only a bit caught. You've
said some of twelve hundred pounds could not be found
in time. Seven thousand is ridiculous, Lilburton out of the
(06:16):
question here, and I think nuts. There was also the
case of our well no more name pham welch, what's can.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Get the hanging? Tell a lit it out now now, sir,
that notebo you'll please to fall homes Stand back you
think I go by the business like my alarms, Stand back,
I say, don't do doctor, what nobody your name is?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Put your hand homed out what I expected, something much
more original, mister Holmes, I really did from you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Do you think I'm a fool as to carry the letter?
The bounce of it?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You only make me more determined than ever. One more
word and I'll make it eight thousand and.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The thirteen instead of the forties or night, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
It was one of my earliest glimpses of the kind
of thing confrontingess in what homes has been good enough
to call our partnership?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What you would do next? Had no idea? I was
hardly prepared a few nights later.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And on a particularly restorey using the appearance in our
chambers of a tall, wreakish looking young workman with a
goaty beard.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Oh good, easing goodness, how are yes? How am I? Now?
Look here? My good man? What you think you're doing?
Walking any here? These are private apartment I happen to
live here. Wats it dosence?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yes? I think I forgot to warn you around my
little Tomshaws for disguise is what to just run?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Among my many other accomplishments. Do what are appalling? Night
outside is coming down in sheep? But what on earth
have you been doing getting much.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I've engaged to be married, to be married my DearS,
So I I congratulate sure office of the hushmaid a
Charles Augustus Wilberson was I had to Watson, I wanted information.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh that was going too far, not at all in
my present.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Alias, I'm a rising young plumber named Escott. I've walked
and talk to that girl every evening for nearly a week.
The charming little post they were too, And now I
know Milverson's husband, Hanst is like the palm of my
hands in the basement of the attics. Yes, yeah, the
home the poor girl early really can't be helped, Watson.
He has to become a sacrifice on the altar of
(08:45):
my art.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Fortunately, I find I have a hated rival in the
shape of the local grocery assistant. He sure to cut
me out at the moment my back.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Look out of the window.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Watson, Oh, what a splendid night learning complaining about it
development a girl as an honest citizen, as a burglar,
I approved of it as a as a burglary. Is
I proposed to burgle Milburton's house Before the night is over, Boston.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's the only way.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I just want a few minutes to change my clothes
and get rid of this ticklish bird, and then I
shall be leaving you to the evening, to your peaceful solitude.
Tell home, I'm coming with you. No, yeah, what I
said that with a partner, and that I should do
something to shake off my indo. Well, we've been sharing
(09:35):
these same rooms for some months now.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It'll be a new thing if you should finish up
sharing the same self.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You really mean it was to you that death where
you are listed lightful fellow, Well do you think you
could contide to make us up a couple of masks
mass mass in five minutes from black silk. I have
an old umbrella somewhere excellent.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Then that will be your contribution for my part. I
should be delighted to teach you how to use it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Jimmy and the glass cutter, and this set of adaptable
key of wonderful specimens here in two hours time. Watsons
he should be a little bit to study where he
keeps his face. It adjoins his bedroom. Unfortunately, but I
think he's pretty sure to be sound asleep. My little
fiancee tells me he always looks at the log is
(10:22):
a divide in what.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Is a bug in home? Well, here we are. You
(10:45):
see what that deal it wants. But in two hours
he makes a capital tale of burdles.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
He would die always dedicated, no purpose.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Homes it will too little trouble. You mean because the
door hast he wasn't eating, locked the holes and overside
jolk there's a knight under the bedroom door. He often
falls asleep at the bedroom and that's still burning. I
don't have to mind Beyonce too. Now they want them
to work.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well, what do you want me to do? Time the
will o the door? There? I'm giving a warning if
we had any one time, he's fly.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
If they come right in, you still have time to
hide behind the window curtain's side. I'll begin on the
safe by flight No, then skeleton keys. Uh oh, this
fellow the fouri very ordered that a much more modern
face of this.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Fund nerve than the series. If I could only now
it owns home? What did it got from? Confided?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I've almost got it open. Someone coming along the corridor.
Two people are use taking for a moment to chow
too bad quick behind the curtain. You can't have been
in bed, after all, have to be waiting in the
hall for.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Some wats Some of you are right, definitely so baba
t kid.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I can just see who.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
No one's coming upstairs getting and all left.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Ah, it's all right, there's a woman with him fail.
They're coming in.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Where you decided to come in half an hour late.
I couldn't done me earlier. No mischiefs cut me.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, if it's a hard miss, you had a chance
to get even with her. You tell me in your
life that you've managed to get hold of some letters
which compromised their conscious.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Galbert, Oh yes, uh huh. You want to sell them
and I want to buy them so so good. I
can use them in my business now else to price
the price, mister Nolverton, for everything is your life? What
you mean? Girl? Look at me?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It's lifting a fail homes.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That's no lady's made great sermons, is it you? Yes,
I Charles Nolverton. I'm don't to dare to speak my name.
You foul it enough. You ruined me the way you
ruined so many others. You should have found the money.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
In tire and because I couldn't, because I begged you
for two days A great he sent those letters you had.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
To my husband, and he died, and you know how
he died, not the finest man in the world. And
the letters were four you changed the dates from them.
They were written before I met him. That from me, No,
not till I use it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You'll break no my heart?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Chide me Aton, who's broken mine? To hound? Oh? Say hound? Great?
Hasn't hold wild Man? He's done for because she's got away. Thanks?
Who was that woman? You know that face? Not that
(13:56):
that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I've never never meant name, No re quick what you're
doing that faith? What's the papers of the faith to
save our own class? Who knows how many more?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Besides? Quick? Put that?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Bundle your horse wats and get and give this to me. Hurry,
have someone ust to hurt the shop. Listen that people
coming after the window quickly? What serial escaped down a
(14:36):
convenient drain pipe, over two garden walls and rock They've
found an empty handsom at the bottom of the road
and reached baker'step at last and safety. Our day shore
was over, almost over.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And I lay tossing steeplessly in bed that night.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I've found myself more than ever intrigued by the personality
of my strange companions, as recollected our first speaking only
a few months before, I'd just come back from medical
service abroad and was moping miserably about this old London
of ours, of handsome cabs and fog and gas, like
(15:19):
doing something nothing at Paul and then standing has a
piccadly lit.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Bar one day there was of it, Remember me? But
why yes, tamper, young temper used to the addressed Undy.
You you were a medical student of darts, remember, of course,
I remembered.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Confound is the pleasure to see a friendly face tampered
Londons are very useful a lonely man, or what else
if you'd been doing with yourself?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Wat them that as a larger dollars than that Afghanistan,
you know, the campaign out their army servants. I say,
I have a drink for your thanks.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
If I'm the start, I think I got wounded pretty
badly at my one countroduced sub Savian artery tub glasses.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Is fute it up? Eh? And just what are you
doing with yourself now? Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Trying to solve the problem with finding comfortable rooms on
my army pencil E eleven and six A day to have.
He says, your health campon your what there's the all
time strange to say that, you know, say what I
was looking for rooms.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You're the second man to day who said it to me?
And who was the first?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Oh, Sun fellow was working in the chemical lad up
at the hospital. A fellow called home. You wouldn't like
to go Halves, I suppose exactly what he was saying,
looking to I want to share with him?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And with an hand, then what's his other names? Sharing?
But it is no, no, no, no, Sharlof. You're to
sthing queer Sharlock's host. What does he do with you? Said?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I know he's got a whole store and out of
the way, not in to put astonished the professor, and
he's the first class chemist they did day him. But
I've been quite special, I say, Watson, huh, it's go
along the way. I have a meeting. He's started it there.
Let's have lunch somewhere and then go on. Tell me exel,
I hope it comes to hunting. I must can say
(17:12):
to thou five years a sea wats them, this is
mister Sherlock's home. Are you doctor from Afghanistan?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I perceived, But how on earth did you over?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Never mind homes, I wanted you to beleeve because Watson's
on the look after someone to share diggings with him.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Oh, the favors who are ethical, doctor, you look a
very man for me.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I've had my eye on the street in Baker's seat
number two hundred and twenty one B. And missus Hudson
is the land lady's name. You don't mind the smell
of strong tobacco. I hope I always spoke ships myself.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's good enough.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And oh when I generally have a few chemicals about
in cardiot experiments like this one, that wouldn't annoy you
by no need?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
We then let me see one of my other shortcomings.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh, I get down in the dumps sometimes and don't
open my mouth for days on end. And or I've
offensive to a revolver practice in bow. So long as
I can rely on your aim intellible, I assure you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Now, what have you to concept? See? Well, I get
up at all.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Fours about godly ours, and I'm very lazy. I don't
like two months raw, but but oh but I put
up with the revolvers afterward. I've got another set of
advices when I'm well, but these are the principal ones
for the president.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That's all right, thanky cute stamp, But I'm very much
oblige Field.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well, should we go together, Dr Watson, and look at
the rooms tomorrow, say, at noon, at noon home? It
will suit admirably. Oh one other little things, the violin.
You don't include violin playing in your category of rows.
It depends on the player my home if it's badly playing.
But that's something I should have to leave you to
judge yourself, my dear fellow, and I should pleasure in
(19:11):
testing your ear with a few of my own little compositions.
Then you will be able to judge my modest capability.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Till tomorrow, then, my dear doctor Watson.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So it took those womens together and settled down quite amicably.
As the week went by, my interest in my companion intensified.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I studied his sharp piercing eyes, his skill work like face.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
And I wondered time and again what he's did sudden giving.
So it's to pay share of our humble reckoning. He
was out at all thoughts of strange hours, and when
he was at home, curious visitors were always calling on him.
And they think he would ask if he might have
our sitting room for himself. With a sting endow, dark
(20:18):
eyed fellow caused less trade for the distance. He came
three or four nights in one week. Once a fashionably
dressed young girl waited on him. At another time it
was a well reporter in his velveteen uniforms. The city
puzzled reason, and still at.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Last one day. Ah, you wonder what I do for
a living.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Watch today I've seen you looking quizically one for price,
at least, visiting plans of mine.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Fad.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Or just properly over the person slipper, will you might
dear fellow, I.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Always keep at the doctor in it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
The fact is I'm a professional thinker, doctor. I think
certainly I peak things together. You see, just as a
logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a
Niagara from a single jot of water without having seen
or heard.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Of either of them.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So I build rare editative and deductions from the observation
of issues.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Simple sess, Oh, come, it's the truth. I will show you.
If you're looking around for a cigar, by the way.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I might just said, you'll find them in a coast couple. Yes, yes,
I have a played all my own Watsons, the only
one in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I'm a consulting detective.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Oh that London full of detectives, lots of government ones
and plenty of private ones, but none like me. I
built up quite a special little connection, wasn't And when
any of these other fellows that are lost, they generally
come to me to put them right.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Just by thinking about things.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I suppose exactly I have a term for observation and deductions.
As Hu must admit that first time we met, for instance,
when I mentioned, to your surprise that you just come
from Afghanistan. You are told about it, no doubt, nothing
of the soft I just knew. Why take a nature
to me my train of fortram something like this. Here
(22:14):
a fellow who's a doctor, but the air of a
military man is clearly an army surgery man just come
from the topics. But his face is dark, but that
isn't his natural color, to his risks of fair his
army is stiff wounded. Where in the tropics could an
English army doctor have been wounded lately? And the obvious
answer is in the Afghan campaign, probably the battle of
(22:35):
my wife.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
It's simple enough, and you'll explain it. I can says
I was taken aback a bit of a side. And
do you mean to say that you apply these principles
to the detection of five?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Of course I do. That fellow is trade you will
ask me about the other day. For instance.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
He's a Scotland yard man, one of the best. But
he got him set into a fog over a forgery
case recently and came to me to ask.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
My advice on the evidence you had. I sold it
for him on the spot. Up to my life. You
astonished me at home. I have no idea that that
was what you were up to. What gave you the notion?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
All natural talent, I suppose when I was still college.
This morning happened to become my way, which enabled me
to solve a curious crime.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I decided it. But I did take to such methods,
and so here I am now a professional investigator. That's
the kind of thing ideal with in this life of mine. Watson,
That and of course my music.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Well, I never thought that you were a professional investigator
of crime, even when you talked about it so much
as the hospital that time we next well, when really
must do something to keep myself from border, you may
find yourself mixed up in it. While at these fine
days you know you never know what's he is, never
(24:01):
know And I was, of course you know that now
with the must and exploit. As I've related it, so
the first well adventure of them all in which I
(24:22):
felt myself truly involved.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It English rather.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Ugly at Burglary episode of ours the very morning after it,
after my sleepless night that came even the little man
I've so often seen before, let's say, the good less
(24:50):
Trade of Scotland Yards, Good morning, my dear lestrade, Good morning,
it said. Only I was wondering, was doctor Watson, by
the way, he was asking all about you the other day?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
How you got there? Any friend of mister Holmes is
a friend of mine, the latter to me to inspect of.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
But sit down on shore and shall pipe with so
much if irry, I'm afraid I just wanted to ask
if you were anything particular on hand, Miss Holmes. Oh,
I don't think so nothing much. A little natter down
of the docks involving a giant rat from Sumatra.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You've got to need the rest, look after themselves themselves.
Yet they've been murdered. The apput Hampsteon wanted you to
look into it for us queer business. Oh really, who's
been murdered? sEH called New Vision. Indeed, I believe I've
heard the name homes homes not feeling dicky? Are you
what any details of stray world we know? Who didn't?
(25:43):
Of course, you know, could have. Couple of them got there,
nearly got him.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
They did.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
There was a humane crist you see. They got away
worse love where they were seeing.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
How interesting and what are they supposed to look like?
The first one very tall? I a fellow middle side
pick nict man. We're gonna start to startle her head
masks over their eyes?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Oh comelish trade. That's other vague, isn't it? On my sord?
It might even be a description of what's on me,
as it might need.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
If you're your right, mister Hope, you're perfectly right. I,
by jove, it might be.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Will you handle it? I'm afraid not as traid, not
this time. I know something of this fellow milvert of
me with a rogue and a blackmailer.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
There are certain crimes of the law confundish adequately, my
dear fellow, And in this instance my sympathies are with
the criminals as trade. I will not handle the case.
Will if you won't, you won't, y'all. I'll get the
fellows all right in time, I dare say, will Moon
as trade.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I do hope you may pass me my violin.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
If you go out there as a good fellow. I
kill juice Lazy this morning had rather a strenuous night.
Praysure it well, good morning, yeh he will gain an air,
said always Inna the biggest teagonal comony, Inspector Morn Michuel.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Good morning. That's a luckless say, oh.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Ant of five minutes like at homes, I'll take myself
back to Afghanistan. Oh no, you won't, Watson, you go
to love it tools. This is only the beginning, my
dear hello, only the beginning. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
(27:42):
Based on the part of doctor Watson and Sir John
Gildgood that of Sherlock Holmes, A program was produced by
Harry Allen Towers,
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