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...long, long
before Jesus was born,

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it is truly a lost
world and it's in Brazil.

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Your mamma's homeland
and your country, too.

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Never allow yourself to love
someone too deeply, Mr. Bates.

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It will destroy you.

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So, you've come.

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You have a case Holmes.

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Ha, your faculty of observation
is certainly contagious.

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It has enabled you at once to probe
my secret. Yes, I have a case-

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after a month of trivialities
and stagnation

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the wheels move once more.

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Might I share it?

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There's little to share.

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We will discuss it after you consume
those two hard-boiled eggs,

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which our temporary
cook has favored us.

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Their condition may not be
unconnected

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with a copy of the Family Herald
which I observed yesterday

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on the hall table.

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Even so trivial a matter as them
cooking an egg demands an attention,

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which is incompatible with
a love romance

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in that excellent periodical.

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I hope Mrs. Hudson
is enjoying her holiday.

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You've heard of Neil Gibson,
the gold king?

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You mean the American senator?

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Well he was senator
of some western state.

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He's better known as the greatest
gold mining magnet in the world.

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Yes, I know of him.

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Stayed in England for
some time, didn't he?

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He bought a considerable estate
in Hampshire some five years ago.

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You may have heard of the
tragic death of his wife.

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Oh, that's why the name is familiar.
I know nothing of the details.

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The fact is that the case,

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although exceedingly sensational
appears to present no difficulty.

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The interesting personality of
the accused, Miss Grace Dunbar

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does not obscure the
clearness of the evidence.

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That the view taken
by the coroner's jury

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and also in the police court
proceedings.

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It is a thankless business,
Watson.

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I can discover facts,
but I cannot change them.

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Unless some new and entirely
unexpected ones come to light

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I do not see what my
client can hope for.

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Your client?

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I'm falling into your involved
habit of telling a story back...

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I don't believe this.
You must read this first.

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"Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes,"

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"I cannot see the best
woman God ever made"

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"go to her death without doing all
that is possible to save her."

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"I can't explain things.
I can't even try to explain them"

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"but I know beyond all doubt
that Miss Dunbar is innocent."

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"You know the facts. Who doesn't?"

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"It has been the gossip of the country
and never a voice raised for her."

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"It's the damned injustice of it all
that makes me crazy."

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"That woman has a heart
that wouldn't let her kill a fly."

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"Maybe I have a
clue and don't know it."

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"Anyway, all I know and
all I have and all I am"

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"are for your use
if only you can save her."

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You hardly have time to
master all these cuttings

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so I must give it
to you in a lecture

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if you're going to take an intelligent
interest in the proceedings.

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Mr. Gibson, as I understand is a man
who married a Brazilian wife,

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and for whom I know nothing
except that she was past her prime,

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which was all the more unfortunate.
She has a very attractive governess

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who superintended the
education of two children.

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These are the three people concerned.
The scene is the grand old manor house.

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As to the tragedy it takes place
across a bridge over the lake

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half a mile from the house.

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The wife was found late at night by
a gamekeeper on that bridge.

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She was clad in her dinner dress and
a revolver bullet through her brain.

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No weapon was found near her

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and there was no local
clue as to her murder.

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No weapon near her.
Mark that, Watson.

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Is this too condensed, or
can you follow it clearly?

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No, no, it's all very clear, but,

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why suspect the governess?

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Well, in the first place there was
some very direct evidence.

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The dead woman had a note upon her
making an appointment at the bridge.

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And signed by the governess.

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Mr. Gibson sent his farm manager for
the police and stayed with the body

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insisting that nothing
should be removed

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until the police arrived
just after 11:00.

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Then there is the evidence
of the revolver

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with one discharged chamber.

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And a caliber which corresponded
with the bullet.

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Yes, I see it here. It was found
in the drawer of her wardrobe.

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In the drawer of her wardrobe.

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That's pretty damning.

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So the two juries thought, it is now
referred to the Assizes in Winchester.

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And the motive?

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Mr. Gibson is a very attractive man.

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If his wife dies

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who more likely to succeed her
than the young lady who had already

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by all accounts received pressing
attentions from her employer.

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Love, fortune, power,

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all depending upon
one middle-aged man,

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ugly, Watson, very ugly.

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Nor could she prove an alibi.

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On the contrary, she had to admit that
she was down to the bridge by 9:00.

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A servant had seen her
hurrying there.

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Well, it really does seem final.

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And yet, Watson,

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and yet.

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Unless I'm mistaken that is our
client considerably before his time.

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Gentleman to see you, sir.

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Mr. Neil Gibson?

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No, sir, not him. His name is Bates
and he looks a bit aggravated.

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Thank you, Billy.

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I have only a short time,
Mr. Bates.

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I know Mr. Gibson is coming.
I am manager of his estate.

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Mr. Holmes, he's a villain,
an infernal villain.

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Strong words, Mr. Bates.

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Well, I have to be emphatic,
Mr. Holmes.

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The time is so limited. I'll not have
him find me here for the world.

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And you're his manager.

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Oh, I've given him notice.

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In a couple of weeks I shall have
shaken off his cursed slavery.

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He's a hard man, Mr. Holmes,

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hard to all about him.
But his wife was his chief victim.

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He was brutal to her.
Oh, yes, sir, brutal.

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Now how she come by
her death I do not know,

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but let me tell you
he made her life a misery.

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She was a creature of the tropics,

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a Brazilian by birth
as you no doubt know.

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Yes, I understand.
Please continue, continue.

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Well tropical by birth,
tropical by nature,

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she was a child of
the sun and of passion.

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She loved him as only such women
can love. We all felt for her.

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Hated him for
the way he treated her.

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But he's plausible and cunning.
And that's all I have to tell you.

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Don't take him at face value.
There is more behind.

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Now I'll go. No, please don't
detain me. He's almost due.

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Well, well, well.

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Mr. Gibson has a
nice loyal household.

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Rewarding is a useful one.

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Mr. Gibson,
straight upstairs, sir.

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This is my friend
and colleague, Dr. Watson.

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Let me say right here,
Mr. Holmes.

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Money is nothing
to me in this business.

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You can burn it if it's any use
enlightening you to the truth.

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This woman is innocent.
This woman has to be cleared.

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It's up to you to do it.
Now name your figure.

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My professional charges
are at a fixed rate.

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I do not vary them save
when I remit them altogether.

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Well, if money makes no difference
to you think of the reputation.

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If you pull this off every newspaper in
England and America will be booming.

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You'll be the
talk of two continents.

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I do not think I'm in need
of booming, Mr. Gibson.

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Please let us
get down to the facts.

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Well, you'll find most of
the main ones in the press reports.

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I don't think
I can add much to them,

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but if there's anything you'd wish
more light on, well I'm here to give it.

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Well there is just one point.

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What is it?

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What are your exact relations
with Miss Dunbar?

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I suppose you are
within your rights,

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maybe doing your duty, in asking
such a question, Mr. Holmes.

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We will agree to suppose so.

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Then I can assure you that our
relations were always and entirely

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those of an employer
that awards a young lady

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whom he never conversed
with or even saw

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save when she was in the
company of his children.

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I'm rather a busy man, Mr. Gibson.

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I don't have the time or taste
for aimless conversations.

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I wish you good morning.

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What the devil do you
mean by this, Mr. Holmes?

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Do you dismiss my case?

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No, Mr. Gibson, I dismiss you.

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The case is quite
sufficiently complicated

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without the added difficulty
of false information.

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Meaning that I lied?

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I tried to express it
as delicately as I could,

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but if you insist upon the word.
I will not contradict you.

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Don't be noisy, Mr. Gibson.

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I find after breakfast any
argument most unsettling.

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I suggest a little
stroll in the open air

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and some quiet thought will be
greatly to your advantage.

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I've broken stronger
men than you, Mr. Holmes.

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Nobody crosses me
and gets the better of it.

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So many have
said so, yet here I am.

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Well, Watson he has a
great deal yet to learn.

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How on earth did you know about his
relationship with the governess?

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Bluff, Watson, bluff.

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I considered the passionate and
unbusinesslike tone of his letter

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contrasted with his
manner and appearance.

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It was pretty clear there
was some deep emotion

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centered upon the accused woman
rather than the victim.

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I bluffed him by giving the impression
that I was absolutely certain of it.

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When in reality you were
only suspicious.

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Do you think he'll come back?

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He is sure to come back.

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He must come back.

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Oh, no, no, my dear Watson.

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I fear you will not improve
any reputation I have acquired

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by adding the Thor Bridge mystery

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to your annuals. I fear I made
a serious misjudgment.

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Holmes, the senator
may not have returned

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but surely his letter has engaged
you on behalf of Miss Dunbar.

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She's the one in need.
Might we not pay her a visit?

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In the cells of Winchester?
That will require official permits.

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Well, we have the means to apply.

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Of course, it may
not be quite ethical.

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But practical, Watson.

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Practical. I congratulate you.

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You solved our problem, Watson?

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Some officious little
pipsqueak of a clerk

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queried both the letter and
our home office permit.

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He demanded a personal authorization
from Gibson himself.

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But you sorted it out?

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Only by the good fortune
of meeting her lawyer Mr. Cummings.

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He secured a
brief audience with her,

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Mr. Joyce Cummings is a man
with a rising reputation

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that is certainly in her favor.

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It really is providence
to see you here, Mr. Holmes.

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Her trial is in two days

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and I really am at my wits ends
to find any evidence to save her.

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Did she admit to writing the note and
keeping the rendezvous with Mrs. Gibson?

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She has little choice.

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But beyond that I have advised her
to reserve her defense.

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Quite so.

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This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes
and his colleague, Dr. Watson.

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Your employer,
Mr. Gibson has engaged me

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to look into this unhappy matter.

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Oh, I'm very grateful to Mr. Gibson.

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It is incredible that the charge
against me has been sustained.

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I thought the whole thing would clear
itself up in the police court.

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My dear, dear, I beg of
you to have no illusions.

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Mr. Cummings here will assure you

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all the cards at
present are against you.

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Mr. Gibson is convinced
of your innocence

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but it would be a cruel
deception to pretend

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that you're not
in very great danger.

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I will conceal nothing.

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What were the true relations
between you and Mr. Gibson's wife?

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Permit? What permit?

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How dare you take
this liberty, Mr. Holmes?

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Mr. Gibson.

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And you, Cummings,

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I did not engage you, sir,
to conspire against me.

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These men are here
under false pretenses.

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I did not authorize their visit.
They're deceivers.

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I demand their removal at once.

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You have made a disturbance,
Mr. Gibson, worthy of bedlam.

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I'll have you
crushed for this, Holmes.

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Well, it'll profit you nothing.

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Mr. Holmes.

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We are leaving, superintendent.

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Mr. Cummings.

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For the moment, Miss Dunbar.

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You must put your
faith in Sherlock Holmes.

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Ah... Mr?

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Ferguson.

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There is an excellent exhibition

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at the museum across the street.
I recommend it to you.

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The museum closes at 5:00.

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The copy of the lease of the
buck-boat glass workers dated 1578.

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These Huguenots, are they
any relations of yours?

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Possibly.

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Monsieur Potel and this paper
making of laver stoke.

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They've had the manufacture
of bank notes for over a 100 years.

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Well, it's good to know there's money
somewhere in your family.

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Good afternoon, Mr. Ferguson.

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Mr. Neil Gibson wishes to see you

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at Thor Place at
11:00 tomorrow morning.

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This evening will be
more convenient.

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The morning, 11:00, Mr. Holmes.

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Will a motor be sent for us?

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There is a train which will
take you to Thor Village.

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Mr. Gibson is a busy man.
He expects punctuality.

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How did you know that
he was going to turn?

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I gambled, there's been
enough of an impression

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upon Miss Dunbar to
turn us back into favor.

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We are after all her only hope.

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Now, Watson, we must find
a comfortable inn for the night

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so that we can arrive punctually
at Thor Place at 9:00 in the morning.

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I thought he said 11:00.

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9:00, Watson, to meet Sergeant
Coventry of the local police.

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In all events, Mr. Holmes, I'd rather
have you than Scotland Yard.

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If the Yard gets called into a case,
the local loses all credit for success

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and may be blamed for failure.
Now, you play it straight, so I've heard.

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I need not appear
in the matter at all.

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That's very handsome of you.

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And your friend, Dr. Watson,
can be trusted I know.

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Now there is one question
I'd like to ask you

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but I breath it to no soul but you.

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Don't you think there might be a case
against Mr. Neil Gibson himself?

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According to the servants,
he retired to his study after dinner

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and had no company at all
until the alarm at 11:00.

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Yes, I've been
considering Mr. Gibson.

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These Americans are readier with
their pistols than our folk are.

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It was his pistol, you know.
One of a pair he had.

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One of a pair? Where is the other?

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Well these gentlemen have all kinds
of firearms of one sort or another.

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We never quite matched
that particular pistol.

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The box was made for two.
Now, this is where the body lay.

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I gathered from the press reports that
the shot was fired at close quarters.

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Very close sir.

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Near the right temple?

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Just behind it, sir.

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How did the body lie?

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On the back, sir.

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No trace of a struggle,
no mark, no weapons.

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The short note from Miss Dunbar
was clutched in her left hand.

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Clutched?

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Yes, sir, we could hardly
open her fingers.

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That is of the greatest importance.

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It excludes the idea that anybody
could have placed it there.

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After death to furnish a false clue.

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But dear me, the note
as I remember, was quite short.

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"Yes, I'll be at Thor Bridge 9:00
G. Dunbar." Wasn't that it?

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So it was, sir.

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The point of the note
is obscured, is it not?

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Well, sir, it seemed if
I may be bold as to say so

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the only real clear
point in the whole case.

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Assuming the note is genuine.

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She certainly received it some
time before, say an hour or two.

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Why was she then clasping
it in the left hand?

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She had no need to refer
to it in the interview.

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Does that not seem remarkable?

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Well sir, as you
put it, perhaps it does.

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That is curious.

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Oh, yes, sir, we noticed that.

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I expect it's been
done by some passer-by.

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Took some violence to do that.

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It was a hard knock
not from above, but below.

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You see some lower
end of the parapet, Watson?

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Yes, and in a direct line
with the position of the body.

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It's probably of no matter.

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No footprints, you say?

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The ground was iron hard, sir.
No marks at all.

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Then we have nothing
more to learn here.

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You are early, Mr. Holmes.

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It is often the case with
punctuality, Mr. Ferguson.

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Mr. Gibson is in a meeting.
He is not ready to see you.

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I'll take care of them, Ferguson.

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I'm very glad to see you gentlemen.

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As we are a little early
perhaps we can see the gun room?

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A man who has his enemies.

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Oh, yes if you
knew him and his methods.

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He sleeps with a loaded revolver
in a drawer by his bed.

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He's a man of violence, sir.

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Have you ever seen
him strike his wife?

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Yes, more than once.

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Our gold king does not seem to
shine in private life.

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Holmes, here.

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That's the box that contained
the murder weapon.

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It was one of a pair.
The other is missing.

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Mr. Ferguson is sure to know
that you're consorting with us.

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Does that hold no alarm for you?

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There's nothing he
can do to hurt me now.

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Perhaps you'll be so kind as to
show us the schoolroom?

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Where are the children?

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Sent away on a visit to America.

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Their Brazilian heritage
from their mother's side.

27:51.836 --> 27:54.922
Miss Dunbar must seem to
be a remarkable teacher.

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The children doted on her.

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See, Watson,
the Ricardo Franco Hills.

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See the unscaleable cliffs

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which time and the foot
of man have never touched,

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where monsters from the dawn of
history might still roam.

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That's Martins, the Indian hunter.
I know about him.

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His victims, women
and children, pitiful.

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Would you say that Maria Gibson
was jealous of Miss Dunbar

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and her influence over the children?

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No, there was no
love lost between them.

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But that was because she could see her
husband was under the lady's spell, too.

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Get out of here, Bates.

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Mr. Bates's views are
not relevant, Mr. Holmes.

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They're distorted by his
infatuation for my late wife.

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Who knows, Mr. Gibson,
what is and what is not relevant.

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You're like a surgeon who wants
every symptom

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before he could give a diagnosis.

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As any a patient
has reason in deceiving

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his surgeon who conceals the facts.

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I can assure you

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that the relations between
Miss Dunbar and myself

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do not touch this case.

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I'm sure that is for me to decide.

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Most men have a
little private reserve

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in some corner of their souls
where they don't welcome intruders.

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You burst suddenly into mine.
What is it you want?

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The truth.

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I met my wife when I was
gold hunting in Brazil.

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She was the daughter of a government
official in the Manaos.

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Even now as I look
back with a colder eye

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she had a rich passionate nature,
tropical, ill-balanced,

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very different from the
American women I'd known.

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It was only when
the romance had passed

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that I realized we had nothing,
absolutely nothing in common.

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My love faded but you know
the wonderful way of women.

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Do what I might, nothing
could turn her from me.

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If I'd been harsh
to her, even brutal,

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it was because I knew that if I could
kill her love or turn it to hate

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it would be easier for us both.
But nothing changed her.

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She still adored me
in these English woods

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as she had adored me 20 years
before on the banks of the Amazon.

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Then came Miss Dunbar.

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She is also a very beautiful woman

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and I'll admit to you
that I could not live

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under the same roof
in daily contact with her

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without feeling a
passionate regard for her.

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You blame me, Mr. Holmes?

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I don't blame you for feeling it,
I should blame you for expressing it

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since she was under your protection.

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Well, maybe so. I'm not pretending
to be any better than I am.

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I guess all of my life,

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I've been a man that's reached out
his hand for what he wanted.

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And I never wanted anything
more-

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than the love and possession
of that woman. I told her so.

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You did, did you?

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I said if I could I'd marry her,
but it was out of my power.

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Money was no object.

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I'd do all I could to make
her happy, comfortable.

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Very generous of you.

31:18.543 --> 31:19.501
Now, see here, Mr. Holmes,

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I came to you on a question of evidence,
not morals. I'm not asking for criticism.

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It is only for the lady's sake
that I take on this case at all.

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Nothing that she's
accused of is worse

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than what you
yourself have admitted,

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that you've tried to ruin a defenseless
girl who was under your roof.

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You know some of you
rich men must retort

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but all the world cannot be bribed
into condoning your offenses.

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That's how I feel myself about it.

31:44.736 --> 31:47.654
Now I thank God my
plans did not work out.

31:48.573 --> 31:54.119
She'd have none of it, she wanted to
leave the house instantly.

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But why did she not?

31:58.124 --> 31:59.750
Others were dependent upon her

31:59.876 --> 32:02.252
and it was no light matter
for her to let them down.

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When I'd sworn that she should
never be molested again.

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She consented to stay.

32:09.969 --> 32:11.637
But there was another reason.

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She knew the influence
that she had over me,

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that it was stronger than
any other influence in the world.

32:19.062 --> 32:21.355
She wanted to use it for good.

32:22.523 --> 32:23.690
You're cruel.

32:24.025 --> 32:27.861
You destroy good people
who can't stand up to you.

32:28.112 --> 32:32.199
Not everyone shares your strength.
Can't you see that?

32:32.825 --> 32:37.371
You call it a fair fight, but it isn't fair.

32:37.497 --> 32:38.789
She saw it different.

32:39.332 --> 32:42.501
She believed that a fortune for one
man that was more than he needed

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should not be built
on 10,000 ruined men

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who were left without
the means of life.

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With your children you show
such tenderness and love.

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Treat the world in the same way.

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She found that I listened to
what she said.

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So she stayed.

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And then this came along.

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Mr. Gibson, can you
throw any light upon it?

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One explanation, I give it to you,
Mr. Holmes, for what it's worth.

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There's no doubt that my
wife was bitterly jealous.

33:16.494 --> 33:18.412
She might have planned
to murder Miss Dunbar,

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or threaten her with a gun and
so frighten her into leaving us.

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Maybe there was a scuffle.

33:24.794 --> 33:28.088
The gun went off and shot
the woman who held it.

33:28.798 --> 33:30.507
Yes, it is a possibility.

33:31.592 --> 33:34.553
It is the only alternative
to deliberate murder.

33:35.722 --> 33:37.431
But she utterly denies it.

33:37.557 --> 33:38.974
What is against such a supposition?

33:39.100 --> 33:40.892
Miss Dunbar herself.

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She has just one day
left before the trial.

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You must grant me permission to
visit her once more.

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If ever in your life you showed
your powers, Holmes,

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put them into this case now.

33:55.575 --> 33:58.035
But I cannot promise you

33:58.161 --> 34:01.413
that my conclusions will
be such as you desire.

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Come, Watson.

34:22.393 --> 34:25.729
We have several vital questions
to ask this young lady

34:25.855 --> 34:27.731
and I must confess that
the case would seem to be

34:27.857 --> 34:30.609
a very black one against her
if it were not for one thing.

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What is that?

34:31.944 --> 34:34.112
The finding of
a pistol in her wardrobe.

34:34.238 --> 34:36.698
That seems to be the most
damning incident of all.

34:36.824 --> 34:40.994
Not so, Watson.
It is my only firm ground for hope.

34:41.621 --> 34:43.747
We must look for consistency.

34:44.248 --> 34:47.292
Where there is a want of it,
we must suspect deception.

34:50.755 --> 34:52.297
Come on, Holmes.

34:53.299 --> 34:54.716
Miss Dunbar is depending on us.

34:54.842 --> 34:55.926
Watson,

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visualize yourself in the character
of Miss Dunbar

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with a cold premeditated fashion
is about to get rid of her rival.

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What would be your
actions and your thinking?

35:06.813 --> 35:09.356
Well, I've written a note.
The victim has come.

35:10.149 --> 35:12.025
I've taken the
weapon from the gunroom.

35:13.319 --> 35:14.528
The crime is done.

35:14.654 --> 35:17.280
Workman like and complete,
and now the weapon.

35:19.367 --> 35:20.492
Of course.

35:21.202 --> 35:22.786
Precisely, Watson.

35:22.912 --> 35:25.247
Those depths would hide it forever.

35:26.499 --> 35:28.125
Your best friends would
hardly call you a schemer,

35:28.251 --> 35:31.253
yet I cannot picture you carrying it
home and putting it in your wardrobe,

35:31.379 --> 35:33.797
the very first place
that would be searched.

35:34.173 --> 35:36.800
This revolver for example
she disclaims all knowledge of it.

35:36.926 --> 35:39.302
You're saying that it was placed
in her wardrobe, but by who?

35:39.428 --> 35:41.221
By someone who wished
to incriminate her.

35:41.347 --> 35:42.931
Ah, Cummings.

35:51.941 --> 35:54.234
Miss Dunbar we have
had lengthy conversations

35:54.360 --> 35:56.945
with Mr. Gibson
and he has informed us

35:57.697 --> 36:00.532
of your relations with him and
of your innocence in the matter.

36:00.658 --> 36:02.784
But you need not pain yourself
with that part of the story.

36:02.910 --> 36:05.203
But we do need to know something,

36:06.330 --> 36:09.541
of your feelings towards,
Mrs. Gibson.

36:13.713 --> 36:16.214
I had no wish
to wrong, Mrs. Gibson.

36:18.009 --> 36:23.138
But she loved her husband
so vividly in a physical sense

36:23.514 --> 36:24.890
that she could hardly understand

36:25.016 --> 36:29.144
the mental even spiritual
tie which held him to me

36:29.979 --> 36:34.524
or imagined that it was only my desire
to influence his power for good

36:34.650 --> 36:36.318
which kept me under his roof.

36:38.154 --> 36:40.071
I can see now that
I was wrong to stay.

36:41.782 --> 36:43.575
Nothing could have
justified me in remaining

36:43.701 --> 36:46.161
where I was a cause
of such unhappiness.

36:47.872 --> 36:50.582
My client may be
loathe to mention it

36:51.209 --> 36:52.918
but she has managed
to persuade Mr. Gibson

36:53.085 --> 36:56.129
to finance a mission of
mercy to resettle tribes.

36:56.255 --> 36:58.590
In particular, the Bororo Indians

36:58.925 --> 37:02.761
who have fallen victim to unscrupulous
gold and rubber prospectors.

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The venture is thriving.

37:04.931 --> 37:07.599
We saw your pictures in the school.

37:08.684 --> 37:11.102
Like so many of
those warrior Indians

37:11.229 --> 37:15.565
Mr. Gibson can sometimes give
people a misleading impression.

37:15.691 --> 37:17.275
Now, Miss Dunbar,

37:17.902 --> 37:20.820
will you tell us exactly
what happened that evening?

37:22.615 --> 37:25.367
I received a note from Mrs. Gibson
in the morning.

37:26.118 --> 37:29.204
It implored me to meet her
at the bridge after dinner.

37:30.081 --> 37:32.624
This note, did you keep it?

37:32.750 --> 37:36.419
No. She asked me to destroy
it and to hide my answer

37:36.545 --> 37:38.463
at the sundial in the garden.

37:38.965 --> 37:41.383
I saw no reason for such secrecy

37:41.759 --> 37:44.094
but she was very much
afraid of her husband

37:44.428 --> 37:47.889
who treated her with a harshness
by which I frequently reproached him.

37:48.349 --> 37:51.810
I can only imagine that she did not
wish him to know of our interview.

37:52.186 --> 37:54.813
Yet she kept your reply
very carefully.

37:54.981 --> 37:58.817
Yes, I was surprised to hear
she had it in her hand when she died.

37:58.943 --> 38:00.402
Well, what happened then?

38:01.153 --> 38:02.904
She was waiting for me.

38:03.489 --> 38:07.075
So, you've come.

38:07.410 --> 38:10.662
Never did I realize until that
moment how much she hated me.

38:15.209 --> 38:16.793
She was like a mad woman.

38:17.128 --> 38:20.422
I think she was mad with
a deep power of deception

38:20.548 --> 38:22.048
which insane people may have.

38:22.174 --> 38:24.676
You're cruel, you have no heart.

38:24.885 --> 38:27.012
You don't know how to love.
You have no passion.

38:27.138 --> 38:30.807
How else could she have met me
without concern every day.

38:32.560 --> 38:37.814
She was standing there on the
bridge shrieking her curses at me.

38:37.940 --> 38:39.316
English whore.

38:43.195 --> 38:45.864
I curse the day that you were born.

38:46.824 --> 38:49.617
And yet presuming
that she met her death

38:49.744 --> 38:52.370
shortly after you left.
You heard no shot?

38:52.913 --> 38:54.539
No, I heard nothing.

38:55.374 --> 38:58.710
I was so agitated and horrified
by her terrible outbreak

38:58.836 --> 39:01.588
that I rushed to get back to
the peace of my own room.

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I was incapable of noticing
anything that happened.

39:06.761 --> 39:10.305
Your own room, did you leave it
again before the next morning?

39:11.057 --> 39:15.560
Yes, when they brought the poor
creature back to the house.

39:20.983 --> 39:23.860
Did Mr. Gibson seem
to you much perturbed?

39:24.612 --> 39:27.614
He is a very strong
self-contained man.

39:28.032 --> 39:30.950
I do not think he would ever show
his emotions on the surface.

39:31.202 --> 39:34.537
But you, who knew him so well.

39:34.663 --> 39:37.123
Yes, I could see that
he was deeply concerned.

39:41.128 --> 39:42.170
Now...

39:45.925 --> 39:47.926
We come to the all important point.

39:49.261 --> 39:52.430
This pistol that was found in your
room, you'd never seen it before?

39:52.556 --> 39:53.932
Never, I swear it.

39:54.600 --> 39:55.934
When was it found?

39:56.602 --> 39:59.104
Next morning when the
police made their search.

39:59.230 --> 40:00.688
Yes, among your clothes?

40:01.148 --> 40:04.609
Yes, at the bottom of my wardrobe
in one of the drawers.

40:05.111 --> 40:07.070
And you cannot guess how
long it had been there.

40:07.822 --> 40:09.155
It could not have been
there the morning before

40:09.281 --> 40:11.074
because I tidied out the wardrobe.

40:11.200 --> 40:13.118
So you're suggesting that
someone came into your room

40:13.285 --> 40:15.662
and placed it there in
order to incriminate you?

40:19.041 --> 40:20.583
It must have been so.

40:21.544 --> 40:22.460
When?

40:24.630 --> 40:27.006
Well it could only
have been at mealtime

40:27.383 --> 40:30.510
or else during the hours when I would
be in the schoolroom with the children.

40:30.928 --> 40:32.804
As you were when
you received the note.

40:32.972 --> 40:35.682
Yes, from that time onward
for the whole morning.

40:36.392 --> 40:37.934
Thank you, Miss Dunbar.

40:41.147 --> 40:45.567
Is there any other point which could
help me in my investigation?

40:47.153 --> 40:48.445
I could think of none.

40:51.532 --> 40:53.700
Holmes, might I have a
word with you in private?

40:54.618 --> 40:55.994
Forgive me, Miss Dunbar.

41:11.719 --> 41:13.553
Holmes, I'd like to put
you my case for believing

41:13.679 --> 41:16.264
that Mr. Gibson is the
murderer of his wife.

41:16.390 --> 41:17.765
We have a man who by
his own admission

41:17.892 --> 41:20.518
is used to breaking people
who stand in his path,

41:21.187 --> 41:22.854
well his wife stood in his path.

41:23.022 --> 41:25.565
But then Miss Dunbar
rejected him. Now what better-

41:25.941 --> 41:28.610
than to kill the one
and incriminate the other?

41:32.740 --> 41:36.201
To kill the two birds with
the one stone, so to speak.

41:36.702 --> 41:39.704
You don't believe that Gibson's
confession was sincere?

41:39.830 --> 41:42.248
Wasn't it Bates who said
he was plausible and cunning?

41:42.374 --> 41:45.126
His confession was a clever means
to put us off the scent.

41:45.252 --> 41:46.544
Think of it like this.

41:47.379 --> 41:50.048
He somehow discovers that
his wife has arranged a meeting.

41:50.174 --> 41:52.967
During the day he takes
the two pistols from the box.

41:53.552 --> 41:56.221
One he conceals in the
drawer of her wardrobe

41:57.264 --> 41:58.973
after discharging one barrel,

41:59.099 --> 42:02.101
which he could easily do in the woods
without attracting attention.

42:03.229 --> 42:05.230
He is alone all that evening.

42:05.814 --> 42:09.067
He sees Miss Dunbar return
and grasps his opportunity.

42:09.610 --> 42:13.404
He commits the deed and flings
the murder weapon far into the lake.

42:21.163 --> 42:24.832
Holmes.

42:27.086 --> 42:31.548
Watson, I have been sluggish in mind

42:32.883 --> 42:36.177
and wanting in that mixture of
imagination and reality

42:36.303 --> 42:38.805
which is the basis of my art.

42:40.724 --> 42:43.226
You have put me entirely to shame.

42:47.606 --> 42:50.149
You'll be hearing
from me, Mr. Cummings

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with the help of the god of justice
and my colleague, Dr. Watson.

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I will give you a case that
will make England ring.

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Miss Dunbar you have my assurance
that the clouds are lifting

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and the light of truth
is breaking through.

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Come, Watson, come.

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We need our good friend Sergeant
Coventry, a ball of stout twine,

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and a grappling hook.

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Grappling hook?

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Watson, I have some recollection

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that you go armed on these
little excursions of ours.

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Just as well for you that I do.

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More than once my revolver
has been a good friend to you.

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You have little care
of your own safety.

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Yes, I am inclined to be
absent minded in these matters.

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Do you have your revolver on you?

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It's heavy, remarkably heavy.

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Solid bit of work.

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You know I believe this is going
to have a very intimate connection

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with the mystery that we're investigating.
Would you mind unloading it?

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Will you be at home
this evening, Mr. Gibson?

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I shall have some news for you.

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You have half a day, Mr. Holmes.

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You have seen me miss
my mark before, Watson.

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I have an instinct for such things,

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but it has sometimes
played me false.

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We can but try, will you both
stand exactly where the body lay?

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Your theory about the gold king
though admirable in its psychology

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did not quite adhere to the facts.

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Visualize yourself in
the character of a woman

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who in a cold premeditated fashion
is about to get rid of her rival.

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I mean of course, Mrs. Maria Gibson.

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For all your deductions about Gibson
being the perpetrator of this crime,

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substitute his wife.
Imagine that it was she-

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who took the pistols
from the gunroom,

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who fired the single
shot in the woods,

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who placed the gun in
Miss Dunbar's wardrobe.

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Cold, crafty,

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premeditated,
down to the last detail.

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Was it ever an exact demonstration?

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My revolver, Holmes.

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A vindictive woman,

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a creature of the tropics,
passionate, ill-balanced.

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Disguising her own
crime and fostering

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a charge of murder
upon an innocent victim.

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You have helped a
remarkable woman, Holmes,

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and a formidable man.

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And if it seems that unlikely
they should join forces?

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Naturally, I would wish them well.