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Now I won't say as how
the uniform don't suit-

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you, Miss Cushing.
But it is nice to see you out of it.

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Sarah, Sarah.

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You must be the other Miss Cushing.

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Isn't this a happy day then, eh,
for all three of you.

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Yes, yes it is, of course it is.

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Just coming.

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"Body Snatchers Strike
in North London."

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"Are we dealing with a modern
version of Burke and Hare?"

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Well, sadly, the anatomy schools
don't need the help

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of body snatchers
at this time of the year.

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They are well stocked
with corpses from the poor.

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What do you think then?

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I don't know.
Some outlandish cult, perhaps.

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Have you been consulted
on the subject Holmes?

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Come in, Hawkins.

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Ah Hawkins.

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Make yourself at home.
Have a cup of coffee.

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Thank you.

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Have you brought
those descriptions?

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Yes, yes I have.

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Bodies so far exhumed,
"Albert Cotter, forty eight."

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"Fish porter of Shadwell.
Heart disease."

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"Martin Rubery, fifty four.
Cirrhosis of the liver."

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We don't know much about him,
except it was thought

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he was an amateur pugilist
of some sort in his youth.

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"Jimmy King, thirty nine.
Covent Garden Porter."

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"Cerebral hemorrhage."

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You will continue your researches?

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If you say so, Mr. Holmes.

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I do say so.

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And keep your eye on the premises
of a certain Murdoch Gull.

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Yes? Murdoch, you think?

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Is the fence for anything out of
the ordinary? It could be a man.

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One more thing, Mr. Holmes, sir.

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The men and I would be
very honoured

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if you'd drop by Christmas Eve.

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We try to get a bit festive
at Christmas, and

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we like to invite a few guests.

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Christmas...

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Mary?

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There. It's a start.

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Mrs. Hudson.

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Mr. Holmes?

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How am I supposed to think up
yet another present for Watson?

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I mean, every year
you inflict this agony on me.

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It's quite simple, Mr. Holmes.
You go to Gamages.

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Gamages?

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Yes. It's in Holborn,
a department store.

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The people's Emporium.
You will be quite spoilt for ideas.

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Mrs. Hudson, how dare
you take my aspidistra?

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I do dare.

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Afternoon, Miss Cushing.
Season's Greetings, eh?

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Good afternoon, Wilkinson.

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Looks like we're in for
a bit more snow before long.

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I do hope not.

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What is this Monsieur Jacotett?

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Ah, Madame Suzan.

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Our arrangement is that you may
sit by the parlour fire after dinner.

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Otherwise, I would be obliged,

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when you are in the house,
if you would keep to your room.

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Your sister, Sarah,
gave me permission, Madame.

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This is my house, not my sister's.
Even if she said it, which I doubt.

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You doubt my word?

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I would be most surprised
if my sister gave

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the run of the kitchen
to my lodger.

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You would be surprised
what your sister gives.

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Very surprised.

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I think I would be obliged if you
left the kitchen now, Monsieur.

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I don't think you hear
what I am saying.

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Susan.

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Marcel...

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Oh Susan, it has worked. They have
made me warden at the mission.

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Now you ask her what she gave me.

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Did you give Monsieur Jacotett

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permission to help himself
in here, in the kitchen?

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I believe I did, once.
I didn't realize he'd...

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Ask her.

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What do you mean?
What is going on?

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Ask her.

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You English are such hypocrites.
Now you tell her what you gave me.

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What is all this about? Will someone
please tell me what's going?

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I see.

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I see. Very well.

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You are warden now.
Go and live there then.

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You'll have quarters
at the mission. Go there.

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I don't want you under my roof.
Go. I won't have you here, I won't.

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And as for you Monsieur, you will
leave my house immediately.

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Immediately.
Or I will call the police.

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Your belongings will be packed and

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left at the tradesmen's entrance
for your collection.

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How dare you!

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You sound exactly like mother.

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What if I do?

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I thought I'd heard the last of
that sort of thing when she died.

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How dare you talk about
mother like that!

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It's just as well I am like her.

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I don't know what would happen to
this family otherwise.

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Oh you hold us all together do you?

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How splendid you are!

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Do you realize that Mary has gone
away without telling anyone?

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Good. She's showing
some spirit at last.

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You call that good?

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Sometimes you're not
just feckless,

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I think you're deliberately
irresponsible.

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Mary is a married woman.

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Well, no thanks to you.
You stood in her way to the last.

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Jim Browner was never good enough
for our family, was he?

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The daughters of Major Cushing RE?

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Never mind, he was a gambling
wastrel. Our father was...

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Be quiet. If anyone
has disgraced this family...

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It's me?

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I warn you, one day
this diet of respectability

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is going to make you ill.

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You are so... horrid.

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Ah dear Mrs. Hudson.

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Mr. Holmes, the doctor has
someone with him.

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A Miss Susan Cushing.

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Oh well. You'd better hold
onto this.

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This is...

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What's that?

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Ah, that is a Christmas tree,
it's a Norway spruce.

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This is Miss Cushing.

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Miss Cushing is concerned
about her sister, Mrs. Browner.

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Pray continue.

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Miss Cushing's youngest sister,

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lives not far from her,
just east of Camberwell.

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Mrs. Browner visits her
every Friday for tea,

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unless she sends excuses,
which is most unusual.

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Last Friday, the nineteenth,

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Mrs. Browner failed to send excuses
or to arrive.

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So, Miss Cushing has made
inquiries at her lodgings,

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but Mrs. Browner has not been seen
there since last Thursday.

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Sounds to me
as if she has disappeared.

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Evidently, Holmes.

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There could be one or two reasons
for her disappearance.

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Yes, I know. Either because
she wished to disappear,

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or because somebody else
wished her to disappear.

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Do you know of any reason why anyone
should want her to disappear?

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Mary? None.

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She's the most loveable of creatures.
Everyone loves her.

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As to her whereabouts,

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I mean, I suggest that you try
the missing people agency.

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I could find you a list of addresses.

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There, hah.

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Charming, isn't it?

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Slight improvement on that
rather sad pices excelsa.

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Sarah.

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Marcel.

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What possessed you?
You've wrecked it all.

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The waiting possessed me.
You drive me mad Sarah.

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Sometimes I think I'm possessed.

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Where are you now?

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Some filthy hole near the hospital.

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Thanks to your sister.
I will not let her forget this.

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You'll need a reference if you're
going to find a decent place to stay.

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Are you going to Belgium
still for Christmas?

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Yes. My uncle in Ostend.

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Well, when you come back,
I'll write a reference for you.

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I'm Warden of this place.
It'll count.

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I love you.

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Come to me after Christmas.

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The post, Miss Cushing.

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Shall I put the parcels
under the tree?

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Yes, please.

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Nothing from Mrs. Browner, yet?

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Nothing as yet, no.

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Did Sudgen's include the Madeira
in their delivery today?

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Yes, Miss Cushing.
Everything's ready for this evening.

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Thank you.

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Compliments of the season,
Mr. Bradbrook.

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Thank you very much,
and the very same to you.

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Miss Cushing.
I say Miss Cushing.

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Mr. Bradbrook?

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I dare say your sister,
Sarah, will be joining us?

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I'm afraid not, Mr. Bradbrook.

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She's Warden now of
the Mission Hostel now

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her duties to her residents
will keep her there.

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I shall see her here
only on Sundays, now I fear.

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I'm sorry to disappoint you,
Mr. Bradbrook.

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No, no, no you haven't, not at all.

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Come now, Mr. Bradbrook.
It is Christmas Eve.

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To make up, we shall open
our presents from the tree

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straight after supper
instead of at midnight.

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What do you say?

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Very well. Yes. Yes, fine.
Splendid. Let's do that.

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Well, Gladstone will be
pleased at least.

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There is a treat somewhere for him.

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Welcome gentlemen,
very good of you to come.

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Gull? Has he been arrested?

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No, Mr. Holmes.
He's come to complain.

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Has he indeed?

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He has spotted our surveillance
of him. He doesn't like it.

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You won't give up?

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Dear me, no.

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Join the party.

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Come on.

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Yes. Come in.

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Oh, my dear fellow,
you are wearing it.

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Well, I had to try it.
What's so good about it is-

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it stretches forward over
the handlebars if you need it.

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Where on earth did you find it?

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Gamages, the people's Emporium.

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Thank you. Pipe. Magnificent.

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Hawkins, do come in, dear fellow.
Please, sit down.

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What is the news of
the grave robberies?

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The Camberwell force
have been on to me and

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incident down there. They were
wondering if it had any connection.

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I don't think it does myself, but
I'd value your opinion Mr. Holmes.

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We need to get this nasty little
joke solved and out of the way.

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Joke?

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Respectable lady, in company
opening her parcels, Christmas Eve.

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One of them's bit odd, full of salt.
She empties out the salt.

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What's in it?
Two freshly severed human ears.

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We think it was a medical student.
She had a medical student as a lodger.

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Post-mortem anatomy can make
certain individuals thoroughly callous.

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She threw him out just before
Christmas. Bit of a row. Apparently.

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Anyway, knowing your methods,
Mr. Holmes,

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I've had the ears left quite
untouched at the lady's house.

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Which is,

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yes. Here it is. Trafalgar Villa,
Camberwell, A Miss Susan Cushing.

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Oh, Mr. Holmes, have you come to
help me find Mary after all?

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I'm afraid not, Miss Cushing.

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The Inspector has asked me to look
into that other, unfortunate business.

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Oh, that. Well, I won't have those
things in the house, Mr. Hawkins.

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If you wish to see them,
you must go to the conservatory.

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Have you arrested that
wretched young man yet?

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Just a matter of time,
Miss Cushing.

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Postmarked Harwich.
Now this student fellow Jacotett

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was going home for
Christmas to Ostend via Harwich.

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Yes, I agree,

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Harwich is persuasive.
The writing is poor. Uneducated.

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I know the medical profession is
notorious for its illegibility,

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but this, written with a broad
nibbed pen, very inferior ink.

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Tarred twine.

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Stockholm tar. Knots intact.

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Rough salt...

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and embedded in it...

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These very singular enclosures.

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What do you think of it, Watson?

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A ring has been torn from this ear.

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They are not a pair.

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I suppose it would be rather easier
for Jacotett to have abstracted ears

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from a dissecting room
which were not actually a pair.

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To what purpose?

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Some kind of disgusting
practical joke.

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Gentlemen,
this is no practical joke.

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What first strikes you when you
enter a dissecting room?

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Formaldehyde. Dammit,
it should smell the formaldehyde.

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And it does not.
This is no practical joke.

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This is a serious crime.

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Your sister, Miss Cushing.

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Mary. At last,
Mary, Mary, quite contrary.

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I thought it was Mary.

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I've come to take
some more of my things.

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I bought you a present before we
argued. You may as well have it.

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I don't want it. I don't want it.

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What's the matter with you?

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Is it another disgusting prank?

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Well, he was your friend,
after all.

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I don't want your horrid parcel.

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Take it. Let's preserve
the proprieties at least, sister.

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Proprieties?

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You dare to talk about the proprieties?

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You have flouted the rules
of society all your life.

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And you had the effrontery
to accuse me

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of interfering with
Mary's marrying that man?

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Didn't you?

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But what did you do?

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What did I do? I did nothing.

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You know what you did.
You introduced Mary to other men.

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Corrupting her. Mary has
told me in her innocence.

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She accused me?

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Mary accuses no one.
You know that.

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But I see your hand
in her unhappiness.

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Nonsense.

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Why did Jim Browner start
drinking again?

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He signed the pledge for Mary.
That's what brought them together.

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She pinned the blue ribbon to
his chest and he was a new man.

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So why did he break his pledge?

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Why ask me?

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Why did you quarrel with him?

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I never approved of Jim Browner,
that's true, but he deserved-

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better than being driven back
to drink by your meddling.

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I'm back.

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Jim.

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Hello Sarah.

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Mary wasn't expecting you
till much later.

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I managed to catch the tail end
of the flood. Saved a whole tide.

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She not here then?

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No. Old Mrs. Cooper's not well again.
Mary's with her.

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I said I'd help her with the laundry.
She'll be back soon.

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You help her a lot, don't you?

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That's nice.

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You know why I help her I suppose?

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What?

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Why I'm always round here.

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You're her sister.

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Can't you be happy for five
minutes without her, Jim?

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Here, make yourself useful.

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Drop the side then.

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Well you drop this and
bring it up the other side.

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What do you mean?
Mary doesn't do that.

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There are plenty of things
Mary doesn't do, I dare say.

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Look, I'll show you
how to do it, shall I?

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Now...

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No, come on. You take this corner.

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Right now, you drop this,

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and you bring it up the other side.

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You do it yourself. That's not
for me. I want no part of that.

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Pushing women's work at me.
You keep that to yourself.

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Mr. Holmes and the other gentlemen
to see you, madam.

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As long as they don't bring
those things near me.

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And where is he now?

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Mr. Browner was
on the South American line

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when he and Mary married.
But he was so fond of her,

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that he found himself a berth
in the North Sea boats.

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The London - Den Helder line.

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And is Mary fond of him?

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It was a love match.

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Love?

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Although...

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Yes?

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I was loath to acknowledge it
at the time.

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Why was that?

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I didn't think a sister of mine
should be marrying a steward.

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And now? How do you feel now?

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I think Jim and Mary could be happy.

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You mean they weren't?

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They were at first.

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What happened?

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Perhaps you should ask Sarah.

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She practically lived there
for a while.

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Which ship is Mr. Browner
serving with at present?

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The "May Morning".

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She sailed on the seventeenth
for Belgium and Holland.

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They were in Rotterdam
over Christmas.

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The crews draw lots and Jim
was unlucky this year.

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Mary was to have spent Christmas
with Sarah and me.

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And now Sarah, of course,
is now Warden at the mission.

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Are you sad not to have her
living with you still?

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Yes I am.

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Well to tell you the truth,
Mr. Holmes,

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things are not well between us.

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You have quarreled?
What about?

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It may have a bearing on what has
happened to your sister, Mary.

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I know that. Of course it does.
Do you think I don't know that?

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I blame her for everything.

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Sarah?

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Of course. Sarah.

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She spent far more time than
was necessary at Mary's lodgings.

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Jim and Mary were just married,

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making their own life,
making their own friends.

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Then Sarah introduced
Alec Fairbairn to them.

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I know it was not generously done.

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Sarah seemed to want to
shame Jim Browner.

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I don't know
what Jim had done to Sarah,

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but she seemed to hate him.
I believe that...

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You believe what?

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Ask her.

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Ask Sarah. She is here in the house
collecting her things.

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Ask her if she did not mean Mary
to go off with Alec Fairbairn.

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That's what she wanted.

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I know it.

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Ah, the message has been
received then.

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Cafe, Monsieur.

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Thank you for your help,
Inspector.

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It's very difficult, Mr. Holmes.
We can't ignore the evidence.

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What've we got?
Two severed ears in a parcel.

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We've got the medical student,

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Jacotett who's been thrown out
of the lady's house.

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Strong motive. Parcel postmarked
Harwich on the nineteenth.

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He was in Harwich on the nineteenth.
That's as good as you get.

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Your logic seems foolproof Hawkins.

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Thank you. Well... Yes.

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I just regret that I haven't been able
to keep it out of the newspapers.

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They're running the story
in tomorrow morning's first editions.

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They've also managed to get hold
of Miss Susan Cushing's name.

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She won't like that.

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No. Poor woman.

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This other matter then, Mr. Holmes.

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You've clearly got some thoughts
on that, haven't you?

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It's my belief, that a member of
Dr. Watson's profession,

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possibly of some distinction,
has overstepped the mark.

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The corpses all belong to pugilists,
amateur or otherwise.

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What is the unfortunate characteristic
of boxers who have fought too long?

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Well, there can be such
scarring of the brain

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that the men behave
as if drunk, slurred speech,

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loss of memory and so on.
They become punch drunk.

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Precisely.

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You mean somebody is studying
the pathology of brain tissues?

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For all the best reasons,
I dare say.

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And their passion of the subject
has outrun their judgment.

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Sir Marcus Lanyon, I'll wager
a month's salary on Sir Marcus.

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That is precisely his specialty

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and he is impatient to a fault,
ruthlessly impatient.

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There you have it, Inspector.

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She is very down.

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Like this ever since she got back
here this afternoon.

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Miss Cushing.

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Why did you quarrel with your
brother-in-law, Mr. Browner?

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What? Who are you,
what are you doing here?

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This is Sherlock Holmes,

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he is investigating the
disappearance of your sister, Mary.

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She's gone off with Alec Fairbairn,
that's all.

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Why?

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She had become frightened
of her husband.

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Why?

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Jim Browner was a drunkard.

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He offered her violence.
He was beneath contempt.

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What is your explanation for
the severed ears, Miss Cushing?

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You saw the cardboard box.
At your sister's house.

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Those severed ears were meant
for you, were they not?

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The message was for you.
You understood what they meant.

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Marcel Jacotett sent them.

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He told me he might do something.

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I didn't realize he would do
anything so disgusting.

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She is lying, Watson.

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She's lying through her teeth.

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Gull is outside.

34:57.887 --> 34:58.637
Excellent.

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I've been to the shipping line
offices too.

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And?

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It's as you thought.
The "May Morning"-

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set sail from London for Den Helder
on the seventeenth,

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but a hogshead
got loose in her hold.

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She sprang a plate and
had to put in for repairs.

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To Harwich?

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To Harwich. The crew were given
leave on the eighteenth.

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The "May Morning" left
late on the nineteenth,

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the day the parcel was posted.

35:22.787 --> 35:25.413
Excellent Watson. We have it.

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Mr. Holmes.

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Mr. Gull.

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They have telegraphed. Jim Browner
came off the ferry at Ramsgate at

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seven o'clock this evening.

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Good. I knew I could rely on you.

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And I can rely on you, can I?

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You can.

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Does the name Sir Marcus Lanyon
mean anything to you?

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It might.

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He will be warned off.

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The orders from which you
have been profiting will dry up

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but so will the police
interest in you.

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I'll be satisfied with that.

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We've acquired a bargain, Mr. Gull.

36:34.025 --> 36:34.983
Holmes.

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The knots used on the parcel
were a bowline and a sheet bend.

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Yes, sailor's knots.

36:42.241 --> 36:45.410
You know that sailors deliberately
do not sharpen their knives?

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Ah, in case of accidents.

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Hence the crude amputations.

36:52.418 --> 36:59.007
Harwich was the key and Browner
was there. Now, I suppose...

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Browner, returned unexpectedly,
found his wife with Fairbairn.

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He followed them.
He murdered them both.

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He severed an ear from each

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and sent them as he thought
to Sarah Cushing.

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Of course,
he will go there immediately.

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He will be desperate

37:30.289 --> 37:35.001
for her to know that the severed ears
were for her, not for her sister.

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Well, that being the case...

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The railway is operating
as if it were a Sunday.

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Why?

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Because the Christmas holiday
is still on.

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Do you realize, Browner could have
caught a much earlier train.

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No, I did not know.

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Mary.

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What is this, Mr. Holmes?

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A unique experience for you,
Inspector.

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You may apprehend a murderer

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before you have even acknowledged
there has been a murder.

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Aye. Well you may stare.

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Look at me Sarah Cushing,
this is your handiwork.

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What have you done, Jim?

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What have I done?

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Nay, it's what you've done.

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I beg you, Jim.
Look on me kindly.

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Whatever I did, I did for you.

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It was you.

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You poisoned her mind.

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I did it for you.

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They have arrested the lodger.
I told them he did it.

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They suspect nothing of you, Jim.
You can get away.

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Get away?
You think I can get away?

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Put it all behind me, do you think?
Do you? Well, you're mad.

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It is me. It's in here.
Every last moment of it.

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Comes out of the daylight at me.
Goes on and on.

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I tell you, I dare not shut an eye
and sleep since I did it.

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I'm never without one or
the other before me.

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May the blood rot in your veins,
Sarah Cushing.

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No, no.

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I love you. I love you.

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I believe you do.
I tell you something,

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I'd rather have one kind word from
her I've killed than all your love.

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I'd rather see her breathing one-

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minute more than a lifetime
that you could give me.

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Don't say that.
Don't say that. Don't say that.

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She loved me,

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that the rule of the business.

41:37.369 --> 41:39.204
But she knew,

41:40.873 --> 41:43.625
she knew, she knew I,

41:44.251 --> 41:47.378
I thought more of my wife's
footprint in the mud

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than I did of her, body and soul.

41:53.928 --> 41:55.470
Whoever would have dreamt it?

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And,

42:08.692 --> 42:11.402
after you'd rejected
Sarah's advances?

42:12.696 --> 42:16.032
I never said a word to Mary for
I thought it would grieve her.

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Then I began to see a change
in Mary herself.

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My wife had always
been so understanding.

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Now she was suspicious of
everything I did.

42:32.258 --> 42:36.928
We began to row about nothing,
nothing at all.

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And it maddened me.

42:41.308 --> 42:42.976
And this was Sarah's work?

42:44.853 --> 42:46.729
I didn't see it then mind.

42:48.607 --> 42:53.236
I just saw it all go wrong.

42:54.863 --> 42:57.282
She and Mary were inseparable
and then,

42:58.284 --> 43:05.248
well then I broke my blue ribbon
and began drinking again.

43:05.833 --> 43:09.502
So Mary had some reason to be
disgusted with me now.

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And then this Fairbairn fellow
chipped in.

43:16.969 --> 43:21.264
He was a dashing,
swaggering sort of a chap.

43:22.141 --> 43:26.311
Smart and curled, educated too
I reckon. He could talk he could.

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Blind I was.

43:32.818 --> 43:35.486
It was a little thing
put me on to him.

43:37.364 --> 43:41.659
I came into the parlor unexpected
one day and as I came in

43:41.952 --> 43:45.330
I saw the light of welcome
in my wife's eyes, but

43:47.333 --> 43:53.212
when she saw it was me, she turned
away with a look of disappointment.

43:56.300 --> 43:59.844
There was no one but Alec Fairbairn
whose steps she could mistake for mine.

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I tell you, from that moment
on my peace was gone.

44:04.850 --> 44:08.519
Sarah was in the kitchen and I went
straight through and I told her that

44:08.937 --> 44:14.233
"if Fairbairn ever set foot
in my place again"

44:16.528 --> 44:19.822
"I'd send her his ears
for a keepsake".

44:24.078 --> 44:28.956
I believe I could wish you had
committed this deed of yours in France.

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They acknowledge the crime
of passion there.

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You won't let them leave me alone,
will you sir?

44:44.014 --> 44:44.889
No.

44:46.934 --> 44:47.975
I won't.

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When I leave
I'll send an officer in.

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I don't like to be alone, see.

46:49.515 --> 46:50.807
Your turn.

46:58.315 --> 46:59.524
Won't be a minute.

47:22.214 --> 47:24.549
She made it go wrong, didn't she?

47:28.220 --> 47:30.555
And you never thought of
anyone but me.

47:32.224 --> 47:33.474
Did you, Jim?

47:36.603 --> 47:39.522
She loved you and
she made me hate you.

47:48.782 --> 47:53.661
There. It was if you had
a secret, you see.

47:55.581 --> 47:57.498
She made me think the worst.

47:59.418 --> 48:01.711
The secret was her love with me.

48:03.547 --> 48:06.924
You should have got rid of her
from our lives, Jim.

48:09.553 --> 48:13.890
I know. But I thought
it would hurt you.

48:17.019 --> 48:18.311
Look at us now.

48:20.564 --> 48:24.609
I was stupid. Blind as a pickle.

51:12.527 --> 51:14.445
What is the meaning of it, Watson?

51:16.114 --> 51:23.037
What is the object of this circle
of misery and violence and fear?

51:24.998 --> 51:26.582
It must have a purpose

51:28.126 --> 51:33.255
or our universe had no meaning and
that is unthinkable, but what purpose?

51:37.594 --> 51:42.598
That is humanity's great problem