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[Assistant] Have told me they saw themselves for the first time because of uhm,


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[Assistant] Bill Maher's reference was so moving to me because


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[Assistant] We're at a critical moment and we're at a critical week in our country where, uhm, we can hate our way toward some, uhm, union in this country.


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[Assistant] It's, it's your subject matter. And the, you know, we know the documentaries have been made about


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[Assistant] Is the story you've laid out in front of us. So I would love to hear from you as you guys look at what's happening in the country and people everywhere.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I just would love to hear from each of you if you had an opportunity to talk to your fellow Americans about coercion and compassion, uhm, what you might say.


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[Assistant] Well, my God, did you all. And, you know, I have so many more questions. I think we have time for a few more minutes, but I did want to ask.


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[Assistant] Now that you have walked through this time in India and you do see, uh, women still, you know, dancing outside of his jail, you know, especially for those of us who are grappling with rage for people not seeing it.


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[Assistant] How do you handle, uhm, those who, who have an awakened?


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[Assistant] Well, and I wanna, uh, as Cecilia well knows, I wanna thank, um,


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[Assistant] I was so moved by her and, and shared her, her initial response with Cecilia and Embao because my initial response was rage because I'm


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[Assistant] saying like these are the vulnerabilities that can happen and this is how easily it can happen. So for her it was haunting because it's so easy.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I'm just, I'm really moved by that because it's, it's terrifying.


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[Assistant] But I think with filmmakers and brave voices like yourself, her generation is


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[Assistant] And, and that you, you did it with, uhm, with such empathy because


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[Assistant] Which is a radically brave choice.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it, it, that was such a brilliant choice and that was a group decision.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, I would think, and the style of animation is... evokes...


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[Assistant] Something ghostly, uhm, in, in, in its vulnerability, uhm, in those spaces. So I, I just commend you for all your incredible work and the animation team, but in, in, in sort of a, a final,


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[Assistant] Emotional question to you all and the gift that you give us.


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[Assistant] Per Jaya's, my daughter's response to it.


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[Assistant] When you put yourself inside it, it's all happening to you too.


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[Assistant] Is being taught and I would think even in the deep programming of it, it's just like, what's the truth? What's a lie?


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[Assistant] Who's trustworthy? Who isn't? And I, I think people everywhere, but Americans too.


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[Assistant] You know, a very liberal friend said the other day as an anecdote, uhm,


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[Assistant] Amazing. And Cecilia, I want to hear from you, especially as you've made, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, these couple of incredible films in and around the vulnerability of being female and you're raising a young woman in the world.


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[Assistant] And lastly, um, Cecilia or Cecilia and Imbal, um,


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[Assistant] I was just going to say, I was so excited to hear that as the answer because I was going to say we need so much more. There's so much more to uncover.


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[Assistant] That, that people who know how to push you more toward yourself.


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[Assistant] They know you well enough to know the true you, uhm, that's, you know, as you spoke to with your, uhm,


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[Assistant] Mining and cooking and, and I can't wait to hear more when you're ready, uhm, cause you're an amazing, empathic, uhm, gorgeous by the way.


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[Assistant] Truth tellers. So thank you so much for this amazing movie. Uhm, I hope that the whole world sees it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, as, uhm, as a gift to everybody, uh, really, really incredible work. And I'm so happy to talk to you about it.


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[Assistant] And uhm, when she started meeting these members and shot some preliminary footage, she asked me to put it together for the presentation. And to be honest, I...


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[Assistant] Didn't quite understand it at first. It's a very complex.


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[Assistant] But we put that initial, very initial interviews together with some archival that I was able to find online and


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[Assistant] Uhm, and went through those series of pitch meetings, like Cecilia said, till we got the green light. And we filmed, uhm, when the trial started.


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[Assistant] I believe in May, uhm, we covered that in Brooklyn and then continued from then, uh, India joined that fall after the trial was complete. And, you know, that


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[Assistant] Joining and then indoctrinated, we really tried to break down what


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[Assistant] Uhm, of what happened once you were, you were in this secret group in the close to the inner circle and what we call the heart of darkness in all of the Albany.


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[Assistant] And then in episode four, it's really the cult being exposed and tourists coming out and then the amazing story of recovery for these women as they


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[Assistant] Find their voices again, they continue with their lives and they fight for justice.


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[Assistant] And even then, you see that it's still ongoing. There's still raw pain that they need to work through. And, you know.


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[Assistant] You know, I'll have to say what started as a project that STARS thought we can take from beginning to end in about, I don't know, six to eight months, you know, turned into


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[Assistant] And so we would come back with more questions and then more details would surface and uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, obviously we use those experts, amazing, um, you know, cult experts, a sociologist like Janja Lalich, a psychologist like Rachel Bernstein, you know, Rick Ross, Steve Hassan, all these different, um,


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[Assistant] Experts really illuminating the tactics, the step by step tactics of indoctrination so that you can, while those


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[Assistant] Most people need to take a break after, especially after episode 3 and maybe come back to that super-sized grand finale. So, you know, it was...


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[Assistant] Definitely a bigger job than we had planned for. More people had to come in and work for longer periods of time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, portrayed and how their story are, stories are told.


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[Assistant] Survivor focus, that, that is the sub, the subjects are in the center of this story and we couldn't really forget that every day, so.


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[Assistant] Said, you know what, people are gonna get it without us overtly pointing it out. And they really did. You know, I followed Twitter in the weeks after the release and


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[Assistant] Uhm, and even definitely last week, people saying you want to understand what's going on, watch Seduce. It will tell you step by step the, anything from the fake news to,


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[Assistant] The cold thinking, how they vilify the others, how any criticism of the group is labeled as uhm, as some, you know, weird smear campaign.


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[Assistant] So that's where we explore how women were made to hate themselves. And then, you know, in episode three, it's really,


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[Assistant] That's a common thing that happens in sex traffic rings. So, you know, we really tried to look at the bigger picture


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[Assistant] Constantly, you know, in episode four, with the trial being exposed, we looked at mob trials and like, how do you bring down


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[Assistant] As you said, got it, they see themselves in their maybe abusive workplace relationships, romantic relationships, uhm, it's not, you don't have to be a branded sex slave to experience coercion as you said. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Remind you of something, Laura, you said after you saw an early cut of our series, and you said


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[Assistant] It's caught free, you know, with everything we knew about pizza sexual history, with uhm,


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[Assistant] Our survivors who spoke in the film, so they were supported during filming and then again during the release, which was re-triggering for them to now have it out in the world.


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[Assistant] So, Stars made a commitment to keep supporting them, and...


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[Assistant] Like one of my favorite scenes in the, in the series is a product of like five different people having unique ideas that like ended up as this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, whatever they emotionally and contextually bring to the subject and you really take the time to listen to everybody, I think you're gonna get to the, to the right place.


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[Assistant] Appeals for help and, you know, I think that's a really interesting kind of...


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[Assistant] How do you do? How do you do? You are a lucky girl. I guess I am way down deep.


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[Assistant] I turned it off by accident because I tried to take a face, uh, screenshot.


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[Assistant] I don't know.


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[Assistant] Jai Singh Chowkhan


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[Assistant] Uh, uh.


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[Assistant] Now it's a balloon. I wonder what genius thought this one up.


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[Assistant] Just the turning of a worm. No, I take that back. Not even a worm. I've lost my identity. A nothing. A zero minor.


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[Assistant] Nothing. Nothing at all. This case is a fine business arrangement. I get paid for every kiss. The time and a half for overtime.


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[Assistant] I haven't seen Nice and Shorty, like, they took Shorty to the island.


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[Assistant] I know I have put you up to some crazy stuff and you've always came through for me. And I can't say that about too many people.


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[Assistant] Well, even if I've never said it, I want to say it now. Thank you. For all your help.


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[Assistant] It takes about 20 seconds to get to, but this is the setup. There was an initial report that Draymond Green and Jordan Pohl got into an altercation and Draymond quote struck.


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[Assistant] We're pulling that back up. Also, Genevieve and Clowney returned to practice today.


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[Assistant] I let my beard grow for three months, because I had to shave every day for TV.


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[Assistant] Chubb eats chargers for lunch, 169 yards, 3 TDs leads to upset.


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[Assistant] He is upset. I picked the Browns. I got them. Nuts. Everyone who is not here today picked the Browns.


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[Assistant] We asked for them early this week, and we know some things can change, but here's the advantage of getting them in early. Anthony has more time to do some cool stuff. Uh, let's see time to see.


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[Assistant] Alright, we gotta do what the internet says. If Polk walks in during this, please tell him just to sit down because we're on his schedule now and he's gotta, he's gotta get in here.


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[Assistant] All locations of PCC Airfoils in Eastlake, Ventura, Wycliffe, and Minerva are hiring for all positions starting at $18 and up. Plus full benefit packages, paid time off, and a signing bonus. You can take a day off to go watch the Guardians of their Planet 1207 again if you work at PCC. Apply online at precast.com slash careers to learn more.


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[Assistant] That's what we do on every Friday for a score prediction. If you get it right, we'll send you a t-shirt. And for the first time since we started doing this, it was a pretty even split between Browns and Chargers. The first four weeks. Did anybody get it right last week? No one got it right last week. Only one person got it direct right so far. Everyone picked the Browns last week. Literally everybody picked the Browns. So let's go through the answers here. I think we had six.


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[Assistant] Brown's 27, Bolt's 20, Bolt's soundly chunted. That's Polk. Polk, if you can hear me, get on set now. You're coming up next.


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[Assistant] Brown's 31, Chargers 27, defense gets a pick 6. They must have been reading Tyvis' version.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. If you're just joining us though, earlier we talked about the Jermon Greenpunch. Steve, we could drop tag board here. We talked about the Jermon Greenpunch and how that may inspire the Browns to show some leadership on defense. The fair Jackson was with us. We had headlines as Pulse getting mic'd up. We're about to play a guess that guardian quote game.


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[Assistant] And as always, subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Twitter, on Instagram, give us a follow. And most importantly, when we go live after each game with our post game shows for Guardians of Brown's games, it is electric. You do not want to miss that.


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[Assistant] Speaking of right up Brad's alley at media day, Brad somehow pulled former cast coach Mike Fritello over us and said, Hey, we're doing the 60 second segment. You have 60 seconds for us. As you're about to see, it was not 60 seconds.


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[Assistant] We got the game on back here. Just so y'all know, it's, uh, flying through McClellan and Bieber. Both look great. And we're going to play this video that I made for you guys. We'll do final takes. We'll get out of here. So we go watch the guardians game. The crowd looks electric. We've done 60 seconds with no further ado. Steve, take the package.


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[Assistant] It was tough. There were some good handshakes in there. There were some rough ones. The Robin Lopez one, I got taken back seven grades in the DAPT school. I thought I graduated with cum laude, graduate honors and I'm back to an associates degree.


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[Assistant] We'll see. I'll be at the preseason game Monday. There you go.


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[Assistant] Uh, my buddy's the coach of the Sixers, so he got me tickets. Oh, so you're not working it? No, I'm just doing it for the game.


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[Assistant] I'm not against it. I'll be some great co- I don't even have to ask a question. I just want to dab. Every after every time.


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[Assistant] Like you dap up dudes who are, Brad's seven feet tall, Brad. It's easy to dap up Brad because I know Brad now. But at first it is intimidating because his hand is like four times the size of mine.


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[Assistant] We got two outs, runner on second, who's, uh, it's Rosario batting second.


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[Assistant] Working and working and working some more. That's all we do is work, work, work. And I'm tired, I'm tired of working so much. Yeah, I'm working too much. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Beds. I like to make beds, beds, beds. Oh, beds. I can't get them out of my head. Making beds is good for you. That's what our parents tell us. When I'm making sandwiches, I even tuck in the lettuce. Oh, beds. I wanna make a bed.


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[Assistant] Phew, that was close. Now where were we?


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, this is, uh, Romulus. Miss Loxie Claiborne, Mr. Romulus Tulliver.


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[Assistant] I find exaltation most charming. May I hear the rest of the song soon?


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[Assistant] Yes, I know, and she's steaming all. But she's hardly fitted for a honeymoon.


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[Assistant] There's only one world, Loxie, inhabited by two people.


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[Assistant] Oh, but I have to. You see I expect to be married.


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[Assistant] Lady. You know who she was? No, sir. What did she look like?


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[Assistant] Yes. She loved you? Yes. And you were going to be married?


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[Assistant] I knew Drusilla, Dan. A sweet and lovely young girl. And she must have been


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[Assistant] I don't believe she's down there. We don't know, Dan. But some woman is down there. Under ten fathoms of green water. All alone in a dead ship.


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[Assistant] It isn't me they're afraid of, Dan. It's you. Because you know it.


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[Assistant] He could have got away. He stayed down to save my life.


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[Assistant] Federal agents call into the compound in Waco, Texas.


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[Assistant] After a fruitless 51 day long siege going back and forth with the Davidians and their raving leader, David Koresh, it was apparent that the government had gotten tired of waiting.


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[Assistant] They warned whoever answered the phone that an imminent tear gas assault was underway and for anyone inside to quote, take cover.


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[Assistant] Agents claim that whoever answered the phone inside the compound did not respond but threw the phone to the side.


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[Assistant] The FBI hostage rescue team deploys two armored CEVs to the building. One goes left, the other goes right.


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[Assistant] FBI surveillance tapes captured from recording devices planted in the compound walls record an unidentified man say, quote, Everybody wake up. Let's start to pray. They also claim to have recorded this interaction. Pablo, have you poured it yet? Huh? Have you poured it yet? In the hallway? Things are poured, right?


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[Assistant] CEV1 receives orders at this time to spray two bottles of tear gas into the left corner of the building.


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[Assistant] Who became known by their ecclesiastical name, the Branch Davidians.


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[Assistant] They stretched back further than the birth of their wild-eyed paranoid leader, David Koresh.


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[Assistant] All the way back to the foundations of the group itself in 1955.


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[Assistant] To fully understand the events of that tragic afternoon, we have to dive deep into the roots and origins of the group itself.


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[Assistant] They also observe Saturday as the Sabbath, or Holy Day of Rest, like those of the Jewish faith.


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[Assistant] But it was not well received, and church leadership rejected Hoteff's views as contrary to the church's fundamental core beliefs.


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[Assistant] Local churches then disfellowshipped Hotev and his followers, leaving them on their own.


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[Assistant] In 1934, Hotev established the headquarters of his new branch of Adventism to the west of Waco, Texas, and the group became known as Davidians.


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[Assistant] This name stemmed from their belief in the restoration of the Davidic Kingdom of Israel. After Hoteff's death in 1955, his wife Florence continued to lead the group.


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[Assistant] The Faded Compound near Waco for the fulfillment of the prophecy written in Ezekiel 9.


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[Assistant] That sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.


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[Assistant] An armored vehicle equipped with a battering ram and a tear gas delivery device breaches the front wall just left of the main door, leaving an eight by 10 foot hole.


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[Assistant] Federal agents claimed that such a hole allowed for easier delivery of the gas ordinance, as well as providing a quote, means for escape.


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[Assistant] FBI surveillance tapes record the Branch Davidians inside the compound saying, they're gonna kill us, followed by, they don't want to kill us.


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[Assistant] Of course these apocalyptic events, as promised by Florence, did not occur.


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[Assistant] Because of this hesitance, he claimed to have been shaken awake at night and lifted out of bed by quote, the Lord himself, and made to write a letter that outlined the message.


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[Assistant] When he was finished, he said he told God, these are not my words. I cannot sign this.


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[Assistant] To which God responded to sign it by Christ's new name, the branch.


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[Assistant] And thus, the Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist sect was born, led by Benjamin Rodin and his wife Lois. The Seventh-Day Adventist part was eventually dropped from the name


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[Assistant] Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come, I am going to bring my servant, the branch. Zechariah 3 verse 8. Tell him this is what the Lord Almighty says.


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[Assistant] Here is the man whose name is the branch, and he will branch out from his place and build the temple of the Lord. Zechariah 6 verse 12.


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[Assistant] Benjamin Rodin would pass away in 1978, but not before naming a successor to his heavenly flock, his wife Lois.


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[Assistant] Charismatic, awkward, guitar playing Jesus freak with long hair that would turn the group on its head.


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[Assistant] And set it on a collision course with destruction. This young man's name was Vernon Howell, and he came to do the Lord's work.


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[Assistant] The FBI hostage rescue team then fires what they claim were quote, plastic non-incendiary tear gas rounds through the windows.


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[Assistant] They claimed this fact for six years, even during congressional inquiries and investigations post siege. In 1999, the FBI released a statement, quote,


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[Assistant] We regret previous answers to Congress and to the public about the possible use of inflammatory devices. This may ultimately prove to be inaccurate." Unquote.


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[Assistant] FBI surveillance tapes record a Branch Davidian mail saying, quote, And then a second mail saying,


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[Assistant] Well, there are two cans here, if that's poured soon.


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[Assistant] At this time, the Branch Davidians opened fire on the assault vehicle.


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[Assistant] Vernon Howell, the man the world would come to know as David Koresh, was born on August 17th, 1959, in Houston, Texas, to a 14-year-old single mother, Bonnie Sue Clark.


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[Assistant] Running off with another teenage girl, leaving Bonnie Sue on her own.


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[Assistant] After years of abuse, Bonnie Sue left the relationship with her then four year old son.


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[Assistant] And left young Vernon in the care of her mother, Earlene Clark. Caresh's mother would return when he was seven, after marrying a carpenter named Roy Haldeman.


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[Assistant] With whom she would have a son Roger in 1966.


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[Assistant] Koresh himself described his early childhood as lonely and that he had trouble in school due to his poor study habits and dyslexia.


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[Assistant] He was put in remedial and special classes where he was mocked and called verny by his peers. He would drop out of high school in his junior year.


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[Assistant] In what proved to be a troubling pattern of sexual assault and exploitation of minors,


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[Assistant] He would get a 15-year-old girl pregnant when he was 19. A clear case of statutory rape.


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[Assistant] He then claimed to be reborn as a born again Christian and joined his mother's denomination, the Seventh Day Adventist Church.


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[Assistant] It was in this congregation that he would find himself infatuated with the minister's daughter


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[Assistant] And while praying for guidance, claimed he opened his eyes and allegedly found the Bible he was holding, open to Isaiah 34, 16, which stated, quote, none should want for her mate, unquote.


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[Assistant] He moved to Waco, Texas in 1981 and joined the Branch Davidians.


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[Assistant] But the man who had become the self-proclaimed sinful messiah was not content to simply sing in the choir. He wanted to be the head of it. He wanted to be the head of everything. And he knew just how to do it.


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[Assistant] On the tapes of FBI agents recorded during the siege, one of the hostage rescue team agents requests permission to fire military-style tear gas shells in order to break through an underground concrete bunker. He is granted permission and fires two shells. 7.58 a.m. CEB-2, equipped with a battering ram, rips a hole into the second floor of the compound.


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[Assistant] Moments later, another hole is punched in the rear of one of the buildings at the compound. At this time, the vehicles withdraw.


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[Assistant] Three military-grade pyrotechnic tear gas rounds are fired at the concrete construction pit, not the bunker, in order to try and breach it.


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[Assistant] An agent inside the CEV reports that one shell did indeed strike the bunker but bounced off and did not penetrate it.


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[Assistant] This would imply that at this time, for the first time during the siege, there is no direct communication to Quresh or any of the branch Davidians inside the compound. David Quresh believed he was a prophet.


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[Assistant] And it didn't take long for the young man with a fiery tongue and prophetic visions


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[Assistant] Some even claim that there was a much more base reason for such favoritism. David Thibodeau in his book,


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[Assistant] Eventually, Koresh started to claim that God had chosen him to father a child with Lois who would become the chosen one.


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[Assistant] In 1983, Lois Rodin allowed Koresh to begin to teach his own doctrine called the Serpent's Rod, which caused some controversy inside the group.


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[Assistant] It turned out that Lois Roden's son, George, also known as the Madman of Waco for reasons which momentarily will become abundantly clear,


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[Assistant] A fire would break out, destroying $500,000 worth of property and an administration building.


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[Assistant] George Rodin accused Koresh of starting the fire, but David Koresh countered with the argument that quote, no man set that fire, and that it was a judgment from God.


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[Assistant] Rodin, who claimed to have the backing of a majority of the group's followers after his mother's death in 1986,


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[Assistant] Banished from their promised land, the group took to Living Rough in a small commune of tents and buses outside of Palestine, Texas for the next two years.


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[Assistant] It was a hard scrabble existence, but Koresh enjoyed the loyalty of a majority of the Branch Davidian community.


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[Assistant] Though the group wondered if they'd ever be able to return to their Mount Carmel home while it was under the control of George Rodin, it seemed nearly impossible.


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[Assistant] In the year following Lotus Rodan's death, the conflict between the two prodigal sons only escalated, with George Rodan disinterring a corpse from the community cemetery.


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[Assistant] Rodin claimed that it was simply to move the cemetery as a whole, but Koresh contested that Rodin had dug up the corpse to issue a resurrection challenge.


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[Assistant] Koresh went to the authorities to file charges on Rodin for illegally exhuming a corpse, but was told that he would need to provide proof, for example, photos of the body, before appropriate action could be taken.


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[Assistant] However, the group's trespass was discovered by Rodin, and a gunfight broke out.


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[Assistant] By the time the sheriff arrived to put an end to the incident, Rodin had already suffered a serious gunshot wound and was pinned down behind a tree.


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[Assistant] At the trial, Koresh simply explained that he and his followers had only returned to the compound in order to collect evidence of criminal abuse of a corpse, and that Rodin had attacked them first. Ultimately, all the followers were acquitted, and a mistrial was declared in Koresh's case. 9.13am.


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[Assistant] CEV-1 breaks through the front door of the compound to deliver more tear gas. 920 AM.


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[Assistant] A man is seen waving a white flag on the southeast side of the compound.


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[Assistant] He has advised at this time over the loudspeakers that if he or others are surrendering to come out, he does not.


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[Assistant] At the same time, another man comes out of what remains of the front door to retrieve the phone and the phone line. 1130 AM. CEB2 has mechanical difficulties with a broken tread, but its replacement breaches the backside of the compound.


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[Assistant] In 1989, George Rodin attacked and killed Wayne and Dale Adair with an axe blow to the skull, after the latter claimed to be the true messiah.


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[Assistant] The group meanwhile had managed to raise enough money to pay off the back taxes on the Mount Carmel property and take it back over.


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[Assistant] It was the end of the rivalry with Rodin, who continued to harangue Haresh at every turn by filing legal claims and lawsuits even while imprisoned. But something had changed.


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[Assistant] had sealed his fate and destiny as the ultimate leader of the branch Davidians, as well as a true prophet of God.


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[Assistant] During the time of their banishment from Mount Carmel, David Koresh had been a busy man.


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[Assistant] Koresh being the Hebrew version of Cyrus and David for King David, symbolizing his spiritual lineage, the line from which the new Messiah would descend.


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[Assistant] A messianic figure carrying out a divinely commissioned errand. Unquote.


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[Assistant] That errand increasingly became focused on passages in the book of revelations that spoke of the seven seals.


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[Assistant] A figure called the Lamb, or the Lamb of God, was the only one capable of opening these sacred seals.


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[Assistant] The first four released each of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The fifth released the cries of the martyrs.


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[Assistant] While the seventh and final seal represents the ultimate end of the world.


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[Assistant] The symbol of ultimate evil that must be defeated for man to achieve salvation was not Satan or the devil, but the United States government itself.


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[Assistant] And this was where David Koresh was also convinced that he would ultimately die.


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[Assistant] of how the next messiah that would come save the world would not be sinless as Christ had been, but would have to understand all of man's failings and sins in order to save him from himself.


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[Assistant] And had committed statutory rape by taking multiple underage brides.


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[Assistant] Koresh was also said to advocate polygamy for himself.


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[Assistant] And that he was also entitled to claim any of the women in the group as his. That he had fathered at least a dozen children.


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[Assistant] And that some of these mothers became brides as young as 12 or 13 years old.


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[Assistant] This was based in Koresh's own doctrine called the House of David.


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[Assistant] This doctrine based around a reported revelation that involved the conception of 24 children by selected women in the Branch Davidian community.


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[Assistant] These 24 children were to serve as the ruling elders reflected in Revelations 4 verse 4 over the millennium after Christ's ultimate return.


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[Assistant] In addition to allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct,


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[Assistant] Correction has followers who are suspected of stockpiling illegal weapons. In May 1992,


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[Assistant] To notify them that his office had been contacted by a local UPS representative concerned about a report from a local driver.


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[Assistant] The UPS driver said that a package had broken open on delivery to the Branch Davidian residence, revealing firearms, empty grenade casings, and black powder.


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[Assistant] An undercover ATF agent was sent into the compound and he confirmed the presence of a large cache of weapons on the site. On June 9th, the ATF opened a formal investigation.


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[Assistant] According to the government, a series of remarks such as, I want a fire, keep that fire going, and do you think I could light this soon?


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[Assistant] Surviving Branch Davidians testified that Coleman fuel had been poured, and fire experts in another report agreed, quote, without question,


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[Assistant] An armored vehicle turret knocks away the first floor corner on the right side.


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[Assistant] On July 30th, ATF agents David Aguilera and James Skinner visited the Branch Davidians gun dealer Henry McMahon, who tried to get the agents to speak with David Koresh on the phone.


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[Assistant] Quresh offered to allow the ATF to inspect the branch Davidian's weapons and paperwork for said weapons. He asked to speak with Aguilera, but Aguilera declined.


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[Assistant] The ATF then obtained a search and arrest warrant for David Koresh and specific followers at the Mount Carmel compound.


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[Assistant] These claims of a drug connection were based on five pieces of circumstantial evidence.


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[Assistant] A recent delivery to the compound of quote, chemicals, instruments and glassware. Number two.


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[Assistant] Drug trafficking was a desirable way to raise money, unquote. Number three.


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[Assistant] possibly indicating a methamphetamine laboratory.


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[Assistant] The ATF wanted to arrest Quresh outside of the compound, but planners of the raid received inaccurate information that he rarely left it.


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[Assistant] And took care to have the relevant paperwork to ensure their transactions were legal.


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[Assistant] And the group operated a retail gun business called the Magbag.


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[Assistant] When shipments for the mag bag arrived, they were signed for by Fata, Steve Schneider, or Koresh.


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[Assistant] The morning of the raid, Paul Fata and his son Colani were on their way to a gun show in Austin to conduct business.


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[Assistant] So while the reasoning behind the initial ATF raid may have been shaky,


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[Assistant] And the local sheriff interviewed after the incident claimed he was never apprised of the raid.


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[Assistant] Any advantage of surprise was lost when a local TV reporter


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[Assistant] Who is coincidentally also Koresh's brother-in-law.


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[Assistant] The ATF commander ordered that it go ahead anyway.


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[Assistant] Because it was recommended by the military to facilitate speedy blood transfusions in the case of injury.


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[Assistant] Rodriguez had infiltrated the Branch Davidians and was astonished to find that his cover had been blown. The agent made an excuse and left the compound.


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[Assistant] When asked later what the Branch Davidians had been doing when he left the compound, Rodriguez replied, quote,


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[Assistant] While the women and children were told to take cover in their rooms.


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[Assistant] Koresh told them he would try to speak to the agents, and what happened next would depend on the agents' intentions. The ATF arrived at 9.45am.


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[Assistant] The stories diverge from this point into two perspectives. That of the agents present at the raid, and those of the surviving members of the group.


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[Assistant] How they exactly played out is where the conflicts in the accounts begin to occur.


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[Assistant] Three helicopters from the National Guard were used as an aerial distraction and all took incoming fire. During the first shots, Koresh himself was wounded, shot in hand and in the stomach.


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[Assistant] Within a minute of the raid's start, Branch Davidian Wayne Martin called emergency services, pleading for them to stop shooting.


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[Assistant] Here they come again and quote, that's them shooting, that's not us, unquote.


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[Assistant] The first visible flames appear in two spots in the front of the building.


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[Assistant] An FBI hostage rescue team member reported seeing a Branch Davidian member igniting a fire in the front door area.


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[Assistant] Flames spread quickly throughout the building, spurred on by high winds. The fire grows, and spreads quickly.


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[Assistant] At this time Clive Doyle, a Branch Davidian member and witness to the raid, claimed that as the raid by federal agents began, he heard Koresh say,


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[Assistant] He continues, I could hear David steps going down the hall towards the front door.


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[Assistant] Then all hell broke loose, just a barrage of shots from outside coming in. It sounded like a bloodbath.


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[Assistant] During the exchange, four ATF agents and five Branch Davidian members were killed.


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[Assistant] Eventually, Sergeant Lynch of the McLennan County Sheriff's Department was able to contact the ATF and negotiated a ceasefire.


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[Assistant] It seemed as if the group had come out the winners, but the battle was far from over. Because federal agents had been killed during the raid, the FBI then took over jurisdiction.


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[Assistant] At first, the Branch Davidians maintained a phone line and contact with the local news media, and Koresh himself even gave interviews.


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[Assistant] was via phone with a group of 25 different FBI negotiators.


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[Assistant] In the first few days of the siege, the FBI thought they made progress that pointed towards the group's ultimate surrender.


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[Assistant] They managed to negotiate a deal with Caresh that the Branch Davidians would leave the compound in exchange for a message recorded by David Caresh himself being broadcast on national radio.


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[Assistant] While Koresh remained steadfast in holding up inside the compound,


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[Assistant] Ranging in age from 5 months to 12 years old without their parents. 98 people still remained inside the building.


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[Assistant] During the subsequent debriefing of the children by the FBI and the Texas Rangers


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[Assistant] It was this justification that was used by the FBI in pleading the case to then President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno.


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[Assistant] In the video tape made by Koresh's followers, Koresh introduced his children and his multiple wives to the FBI negotiators, including several minors who claimed to have had babies fathered by Koresh.


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[Assistant] Several Branch Davidians also made statements in the video. On Day 9, Monday, March 8th,


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[Assistant] The negotiator's log showed that when the tape was reviewed, there was concern that the tapes released to the media would gain sympathy for Koresh and the Branch Davidians.


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[Assistant] As the siege continued, Koresh negotiated for more time.


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[Assistant] Allegedly so that he could write religious documents he needed to complete about his final visions and the seven seals before surrendering.


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[Assistant] His conversations which were heavy with confusing and convoluted biblical imagery alienated the federal negotiators.


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[Assistant] Who became increasingly frustrated with Koresh's inability or refusal to answer simple questions.


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[Assistant] As the siege wore on, two factions developed within the FBI.


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[Assistant] One believing negotiation to be the answer, the other, force.


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[Assistant] For instance, sleep deprivation and psychological warfare on the inhabitants through all-night broadcasts of recordings of jet planes, loud pop music, chanting, and the screams of rabbits being slaughtered.


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[Assistant] Outside the compound, nine Bradley fighting vehicles carrying M651CS tear gas grenades and ferret rounds


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[Assistant] The armored vehicles were used to destroy perimeter fencing and outbuildings, and crush cars belonging to the Branch Davidians.


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[Assistant] Armored vehicles repeatedly drove over the grave of Branch Davidian Peter Ghent despite protests by the Branch Davidians and negotiators.


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[Assistant] Two of the three water storage tanks on the roof of the main building had been damaged during the initial ATF raid.


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[Assistant] Forcing those inside to survive on rainwater and stockpiled MRE rations.


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[Assistant] And then they got mad because he does something that they think is irrational. Unquote.


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[Assistant] 11 people left and were arrested as material witnesses, with one person being charged with conspiracy to commit murder.


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[Assistant] The children's, however, willingness to stay with Quresh disturbed the negotiators, who were unprepared to work around the Branch Davidians religious zeal.


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[Assistant] However, as the siege went on, the children were aware that an earlier group of children who had left with some women were immediately separated and the women arrested.


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[Assistant] That the siege tactics being used by government agents would only reinforce the impression within the branch Davidians that they were part of a biblical quote end of days confrontation that had cosmic significance.


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[Assistant] But to the Branch Davidians, their religious beliefs were deeply meaningful and they were willing to die for them.


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[Assistant] According to the FBI, he proclaimed that he was the second coming of Christ and that he had been commanded by his father in heaven to remain in the compound. One week before the April 19th assault,


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[Assistant] FBI planners considered using snipers to kill David Koresh and possibly other key Branch Davidians.


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[Assistant] The FBI voiced concern that the Branch Davidians might commit mass suicide, as had happened in 1978 at Jonestown.


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[Assistant] But agents were getting frustrated with Gresh's perceived stall tactics and being told that conditions were deteriorating inside the compound, decided to push for a final assault.


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[Assistant] An emergency call is placed regarding the fire at the compound. Two Waco Fire Department trucks are dispatched.


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[Assistant] Around this time, there are several more explosions and witnesses report the sound of gunfire.


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[Assistant] The FBI hostage rescue team attributes this to stored live ammunition going off as a result of the fire. 1243 PM.


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[Assistant] Nine cult members would leave as the compound at Mount Carmel was consumed by a hellish inferno. But they would be the only ones who made it out.


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[Assistant] 76 members of the Branch Davidians, including David Koresh,


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[Assistant] would perish and what some may argue was an ironic, self-fulfilled prophecy.


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[Assistant] When the bodies were eventually recovered a numerous array of causes of death were found from being crushed beneath collapsed concrete walls.


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[Assistant] At least 20 Branch Davidians were shot, including Koresh and five children under the age of 14.


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[Assistant] The medical examiner who performed the post-mortem examinations of the remains believed these deaths to be mercy killings or self-inflicted by those trapped inside the burning building with no escape.


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[Assistant] Some accounts claim that one of Koresh's loyal lieutenants, Steve Schneider,


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[Assistant] Shot Koresh after realizing he had been duped by a false prophet before turning the gun on himself. But this remains an unsubstantiated rumor to this day.


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[Assistant] Trials, hearings, and civil suits followed the tragedy for years.


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[Assistant] New tactical policies for such raids were introduced by the ATF and other law enforcement agencies.


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[Assistant] As our motivation for the attack on the federal building, which coincided with the two year anniversary of the assault and killed nearly 170 people.


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[Assistant] As the burned buildings were bulldozed two weeks after the siege ended.


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[Assistant] A small chapel built many years after the events at Waco stands on the site.


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[Assistant] David Koresh himself was buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Tyler, Texas in the Last Supper section.


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[Assistant] There are still branch Davidians who survived the carnage at Waco who maintain to this day


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[Assistant] The David Koresh was a prophet who spoke God's word, but was he a madman or a messiah?


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[Assistant] Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.


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[Assistant] A long time ago. No, it was only yesterday. The music floated out over the garden.


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[Assistant] You have no idea what famous people used to come here. The greatest of our time. The most brilliant, the eeriest. Dancing and talking. The house all lighted up.


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[Assistant] I know the least I would take. What might that be? A thousand English pounds.


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[Assistant] What you know about murder. It's the gentle souls.


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[Assistant] But I wasn't as proud as she is, nor loved him as much.


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[Assistant] And if I had them, she'd never become Juliana again.


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[Assistant] Holmes, said I, as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street, here is a madman coming along.


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[Assistant] And stood with his hands in the pockets of his dressing-gown looking over my shoulder. It was a bright, crisp February morning.


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[Assistant] And the snow of the day before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the winter sun.


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[Assistant] Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed into a brown crumbly band by the traffic.


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[Assistant] But at either side and on the heaped-up edges of the footpaths it still lay as white as when it fell.


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[Assistant] The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual.


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[Assistant] Indeed, from the direction of the Metropolitan Station, no one was coming.


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[Assistant] You saved the single gentleman whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention.


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[Assistant] He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly and imposing.


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[Assistant] With a massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure.


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[Assistant] He was dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl grey trousers.


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[Assistant] Yet his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress and features, for he was running hard with occasional little springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to set any tacks upon his legs.


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[Assistant] I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his hands. Here? Yes. I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I think that I recognize his symptoms. Ha! Did I not tell you?


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[Assistant] As he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and pulled at our bell, until the whole house resounded with the clanging.


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[Assistant] A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and pity. For a while he could not get his words out.


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[Assistant] But swayed his body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the extreme limits of his reason.


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[Assistant] Then, suddenly springing to his feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy chair and, sitting beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. You have come to me to tell your story, have you not? said he.


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[Assistant] You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into any little problem which you may submit to me.


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[Assistant] The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting against his emotion.


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[Assistant] Then he passed his handkerchief over his brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. No doubt you will think me mad, said he.


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[Assistant] A trouble which is enough to unseed my reason. So sudden and so terrible, is it? Public disgrace I might have faced.


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[Assistant] Although I am a man whose character has not yet borne a stain, private affliction also is the lot of every man, but the two coming together and in so frightful a form have been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. The very noblest in the land may suffer.


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[Assistant] Unless some way be found out of this horrible affair. Pray, compose yourself, sir, said Holmes.


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[Assistant] And let me have a clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen you. My name


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[Assistant] Of the banking firm of Holder and Stevenson, off Threadneedle Street. The name was indeed well known to us.


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[Assistant] As belonging to the senior partner in the second largest private banking concern in the city of London.


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[Assistant] What could have happened then to bring one of the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass?


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[Assistant] That is why I hastened here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the underground and hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who takes very little exercise. I feel better now


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[Assistant] And I will put the facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can.


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[Assistant] It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security is unimpeachable.


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[Assistant] We have done a good deal in this direction during the last few years.


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[Assistant] And there are many noble families to whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their pictures, libraries, or plate.


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[Assistant] Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank, when a card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I saw the name, for it was that of none other than


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[Assistant] Well perhaps even to you I'd better say no more than that it was a name which is a household word all over the earth.


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[Assistant] One of the highest noblest most exalted names in England.


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[Assistant] I was overwhelmed by the honour and attempted when he entered to say so.


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[Assistant] But he plunged at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry quickly through a disagreeable task


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[Assistant] Mr. Holder said here, I have been informed that you are in the habit of advancing money.


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[Assistant] The firm do so when the security is good, I answered.


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[Assistant] It is absolutely essential to me, said he, that I should have fifty thousand pounds at once.


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[Assistant] I could of course borrow so trifling a sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it a matter of business, and to carry out that business myself.


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[Assistant] In my position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place oneself under obligations. For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum? I asked.


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[Assistant] Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most certainly repay what you advance with whatever interest you think it right to charge.


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[Assistant] But it is very essential to me that the money should be paid at once.


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[Assistant] I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my own private purse, said I.


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[Assistant] Were it not that the strain would be rather more than it could bear?


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[Assistant] If on the other hand I am to do it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must insist that, even in your case, every business-like precaution should be taken.


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[Assistant] I should much prefer to have it so, said he, raising up a square black Morocco case which he had laid beside his chair.


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[Assistant] You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?


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[Assistant] One of the most precious public possessions of the Empire, said I precisely.


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[Assistant] He opened the case and there, embedded in soft flesh-coloured velvet,


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[Assistant] lay the magnificent piece of jewellery which he had named. There are thirty-nine enormous barrels, said he, and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable.


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[Assistant] The lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the sum I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my security.


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[Assistant] I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some perplexity from it to my illustrious client. You doubt its value? he asked. Not at all, I only doubt the propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest about that.


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[Assistant] You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I have heard of you.


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[Assistant] I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to refrain from all gossip upon the matter, but above all,


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[Assistant] To preserve this coronet with every possible precaution.


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[Assistant] Because I need not say that a great public scandal will be caused if any harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as serious as its complete loss, for there are no barrels in the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall call for it in person on Monday morning." Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more. But, calling for my cashier,


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[Assistant] I ordered him to pay over £50,000 notes.


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[Assistant] When I was alone once more, however, with the precious case lying upon the table in


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[Assistant] A horrible scandal would ensue if any misfortune should occur to it.


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[Assistant] I already regretted having ever consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter the matter now.


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[Assistant] So I locked it up in my private safe and turned once more to my work.


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[Assistant] When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave so precious a thing in the office behind me. Banker's safes have been forced before now, and why should not mine be?


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[Assistant] If so, how terrible would be the position in which I should find myself?


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[Assistant] I determined therefore that for the next few days I would carry the case backwards and forwards with me, so that it might never be really out of my reach.


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[Assistant] With this intention I called a cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel with me. I did not breathe freely.


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[Assistant] Until I had taken it upstairs and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to thoroughly understand the situation.


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[Assistant] My groom and my page sleep out of the house and may be set aside altogether. I have three maid servants who have been with me a number of years, and whose absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy Parr, the second, waiting maid, has only been in my service a few months.


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[Assistant] She came with an excellent character however, and has always given me satisfaction.


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[Assistant] She is a very pretty girl and has attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. That is the only drawback which we have found to her.


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[Assistant] But we believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. So much for the servants.


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[Assistant] My family itself is so small that it will not take me long to describe it.


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[Assistant] I am a widower and have an only son, Arthur.


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[Assistant] He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Holmes. A grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am myself to blame.


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[Assistant] People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very likely I have.


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[Assistant] When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I had to love.


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[Assistant] I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I meant it for the best.


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[Assistant] It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, wayward.


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[Assistant] And to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the handling of large sums of money.


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[Assistant] When he was young he became a member of an aristocratic club and there


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[Assistant] Having charming manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long purses and expensive habits.


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[Assistant] He learned to play heavily at cards and to squander money on the turf. Until he had again and again to come to me.


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[Assistant] And implore me to give him an advance upon his allowance that he might settle his debts of honour.


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[Assistant] He tried more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he was keeping.


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[Assistant] But each time the influence of his friend, Sir George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again.


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[Assistant] And indeed I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently brought him to my house.


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[Assistant] And I have found myself that I could hardly resist the fascination of his manner.


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[Assistant] He is older than Arthur, a man of the world to his fingertips.


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[Assistant] One who has been everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of great personal beauty.


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[Assistant] Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far away from the glamour of his present,


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[Assistant] I'm convinced from his cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so too thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into character. And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece.


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[Assistant] But when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the world, I adopted her and have looked upon her ever since as my daughter.


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[Assistant] She is a sunbeam in my house, sweet, loving, beautiful, and wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for he loves her devotedly. But each time she has refused him,


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[Assistant] I think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his whole life. But now, alas, it is too late. Forever too late.


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[Assistant] Now Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and I shall continue with my miserable story.


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[Assistant] When we were taking coffee in the drawing room that night after dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name of my client.


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[Assistant] Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am sure, left the room, but I cannot swear that the door was closed. Mary and Arthur were much interested, and wished to see the famous coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. Where have you put it? asked Arthur, in my own bureau.


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[Assistant] Well I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the night, said he. It is locked up, I answered.


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[Assistant] Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I have opened it myself with the key of the box from cupboard.


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[Assistant] He often had a wild way of talking so that I thought little of what he had said.


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[Assistant] He followed me to my room, however, that night, with a very grey face. Look here, Dad, said he, with his eyes cast down. Can you let me have two hundred pounds?


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[Assistant] No I cannot, I answered sharply. I have been far too generous with you in money matters.


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[Assistant] You have been very kind, said he, but I must have this money. Or else I can never show my face inside the club again. And a very good thing too, I cried.


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[Assistant] Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man, said he. I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money in some way.


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[Assistant] And if you will not let me have it, then I must trial the means.


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[Assistant] I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the month.


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[Assistant] You shall not have a farthing from me, I cried, on which he bowed and left the room without another word.


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[Assistant] When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my treasure was safe, and locked it again.


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[Assistant] Then I started to go round the house to see that all was secure.


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[Assistant] A duty which I usually leave to Mary, but which I thought it well to perform myself that night.


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[Assistant] As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as I approached.


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[Assistant] Tell me, Dad," said she, looking, I thought, a little disturbed. Did you give Lucy the maid leave to go out tonight? Certainly not. She came in just now by the back door.


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[Assistant] You must speak to her in the morning, or I will, if you prefer it. Are you sure that everything is fastened? Quite sure, Dad. Then good night. I kissed her and went to my bedroom, where I was soon asleep.


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[Assistant] I'm endeavoring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may have any bearing upon the case.


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[Assistant] But I beg that you will question me upon any point which I do not make clear. On the contrary your statement is singularly lucid.


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[Assistant] I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be particularly so.


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[Assistant] I'm not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety in my mind tended no doubt to make me even less so than usual.


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[Assistant] About two in the morning then I was awakened by some sound in the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake.


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[Assistant] But it had left an impression behind it, as though a window had gently closed somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears.


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[Assistant] Suddenly, to my horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in the next room.


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[Assistant] I slipped out of bed all palpitating with fear and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door.


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[Assistant] Arthur! I screamed. You villain! You thief! How dare you touch that coronet!


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[Assistant] The gas was half up as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the light, holding the coronet in his hands.


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[Assistant] One of the gold corners with three of the barrels in it was missing. You blaggarda shouted, beside myself with rage, you have destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the jewels you have stolen?


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[Assistant] Stolen, he cried. Yes, you thief, I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. There are none missing. There cannot be any missing, said he. There are three missing. And you know where they are.


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[Assistant] Must I call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to tear off another piece?


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[Assistant] You have called me names enough, said he. I will not stand it any longer.


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[Assistant] I shall not say another word about this business since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in the morning and make my own way in the world.


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[Assistant] You shall leave it in the name of the police, I cried, half mad with grief and rage. I shall have this matter probed to the bottom. You shall learn nothing from me, said he.


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[Assistant] With a passion such as I should not have thought was in his nature.


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[Assistant] If you choose to call the police, let them find what they can. By this time the whole house was a stir, for I had raised my voice in my anger.


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[Assistant] Mary was the first to rush into my room, and at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the ground. I sent the housemaid for the police and put the investigation into their hands at once.


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[Assistant] When the inspector and a constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge him with theft.


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[Assistant] I answered that it had ceased to be a private matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was national property. I was determined that the law should have its way in everything.


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[Assistant] At least, said he, you will not have me arrested at once.


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[Assistant] It would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the house for five minutes. That you might get away.


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[Assistant] Or perhaps that you may conceal what you have stolen, said I.


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[Assistant] And then realizing the dreadful position in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only my honor, but that of one who was far greater than I was at stake.


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[Assistant] And that he threatened to raise a scandal which would convulse the nation.


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[Assistant] He might avert it all if he would but tell me what he had done with the three missing stones.


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[Assistant] You may as well face the matter, said I, you have been caught in the act. And no confession could make your guilt more heinous.


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[Assistant] If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling us where the barrels are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.


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[Assistant] Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it, he answered, turning away from me with a sneer.


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[Assistant] I saw that he was too hardened for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody.


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[Assistant] A search was made at once not only of his person, but of his room, and of every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed the gems, but no trace of them could be found.


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[Assistant] Nor would the wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our threats. This morning he was removed to a cell and I, after going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to you to implore you to use your skill in unraveling the matter.


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[Assistant] The police have openly confessed that they can at present make nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think necessary.


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[Assistant] I have already offered a reward of a thousand pounds. My god, what shall I do?


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[Assistant] Droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beyond words.


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[Assistant] Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. Do you receive much company? he asked. None, save my partner with his family, and an occasional friend of Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately, but no one else, I think.


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[Assistant] Besides, she is not so very young. She is four and twenty.


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[Assistant] This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to her also. Terrible. She is even more affected than I.


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[Assistant] You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt.


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[Assistant] How can we have, when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet in his hands? I hardly consider that a conclusive proof.


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[Assistant] Do you not think then that he might have been trying to straighten it?


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[Assistant] God bless you. You are doing what you can for him and for me. But it is too heavy a task.


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[Assistant] What was he doing there at all? If his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so? Precisely. And if he were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several singular points about the case.


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[Assistant] They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his bedroom door.


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[Assistant] A likely story, as if a man bent on felony would slam the door so as to awake a household.


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[Assistant] What did they say, then, are the disappearance of these gems?


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[Assistant] They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in the hope of finding them. Have they thought of looking outside the house?


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[Assistant] Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has already been minutely examined.


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[Assistant] Now my dear sir," said Holmes, is it not obvious to you now that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you to be a simple case. To me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider what is involved by your theory.


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[Assistant] You suppose that your son came down from his bed, went at great risk to your dressing-room, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine with such skill that nobody can find them,


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[Assistant] And then returned with the other thirty-six into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?


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[Assistant] But what other is there? cried the banker with a gesture of despair. If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain them?


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[Assistant] It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes. So now, if you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into details.


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[Assistant] My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition.


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[Assistant] Which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened.


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[Assistant] I confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such faith in Holmes's judgment that I felt that there must be some grounds for hope


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[Assistant] As long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted explanation.


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[Assistant] He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the southern suburbs.


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[Assistant] But sat with his chin upon his breast and his hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought.


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[Assistant] Our client appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope which had been presented to him.


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[Assistant] And he even broke into a desultory chat with me over his business affairs.


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[Assistant] A short railway journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest residence of the great financier.


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[Assistant] Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing back a little from the road.


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[Assistant] A double carriage sweep with a snow-cloud lawn stretched down in front to the two large iron gates which closed the entrance.


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[Assistant] On the right side was a small wooden thicket which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges stretching from the road to the kitchen door and forming the tradesman's entrance.


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[Assistant] On the left ran a lane which led to the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a public, though little used thoroughfare.


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[Assistant] Holmes left us standing at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the front, down the tradesman's path, and so round by the garden behind into the stable lane.


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[Assistant] So long was he that Mr Holder and I went into the dining-room.


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[Assistant] And waited by the fire until he should return.


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[Assistant] We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and a young lady came in.


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[Assistant] She was rather above the middle height, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against the absolute pallor of her skin.


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[Assistant] I do not think that I have ever seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face.


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[Assistant] Her lips too were bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying.


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[Assistant] As she swept silently into the room, she impressed me with a greater sense of her grief than the banker had done in the morning.


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[Assistant] And it was the more striking in her, she was evidently a woman of strong character, with immense capacity for self-restraint.


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[Assistant] Disregarding my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand over his head with a sweet womanly caress.


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[Assistant] You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you not, Dad?" She asked. No, no, my girl. The matter must be probed to the bottom. But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what women's instincts are. I know that he has done no harm, and that you will be sorry for having acted so harshly.


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[Assistant] Why is he silent then if he is innocent? Who knows?


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[Assistant] Perhaps because he was so angry that you should suspect him.


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[Assistant] How could I help suspecting him when I actually saw him with the coronet in his hand? Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do


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[Assistant] Do take my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say no more. It is dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in prison.


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[Assistant] I shall never let it drop until the gems are found. Never, Mary.


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[Assistant] Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I've brought a gentleman down from London to inquire more deeply into it." This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in the Stable Lane now." The Stable Lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. What can he hope to find there? Ah, this I suppose is he.


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[Assistant] I trust, sir, that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime.


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[Assistant] I fully share your opinion, and I trust with you that we may prove it.


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[Assistant] Returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the snow from his shoes. I believe I have the honour of addressing Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two? Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up. You heard nothing yourself last night. Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard that, and I came down.


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[Assistant] You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you fasten all the windows? Yes. Were they all fastened this morning? Yes. You have a maid who has a sweetheart?


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[Assistant] I think that you remarked to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him. Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet. I see.


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[Assistant] You infer that she may have gone out to tell her sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery.


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[Assistant] But what is the good of all these vague theories? cried the banker impatiently, when I have told you that I saw Arthur with the coronet in his hands.


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[Assistant] Wait a little Mr. Holder. We must come back to that.


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[Assistant] About this girl, Miss Holder, you saw her return by the kitchen door, I presume? Yes.


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[Assistant] When I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I met her slipping in. I saw the man too, in the gloom. Do you know him?


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[Assistant] Oh yes, he is the greengrocer who brings our vegetables round. His name is Francis Prosper. He stood, said Holmes, to the left of the door.


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[Assistant] That is to say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door. Yes, he did. And here's a man with a wooden leg.


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[Assistant] Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive black eyes.


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[Assistant] Why, you are like a magician, said she. How do you know that?


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[Assistant] She smiled, but there was no answering smile in Holmes' thin, eager face.


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[Assistant] I shall be very glad now to go upstairs, said he. I shall probably wish to go over the outside of the house again.


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[Assistant] Perhaps I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up. He walked swiftly round from one to the other.


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[Assistant] Pausing only at the large one which looked from the hall on the stable lane.


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[Assistant] This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill with his powerful magnifying lens. Now we shall go upstairs, said he at last.


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[Assistant] The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little chamber with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror.


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[Assistant] Holmes went to the Bureau first and looked hard at the log. Which key was used to open it? he asked.


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[Assistant] That which my son himself indicated, that of the cupboard of the lumber-room. Have you it here? That is it on the dressing-table. Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. It is a noiseless lock, said he. It is no wonder that it did not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must have a look at it.


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[Assistant] He opened the case and taking out the diadem, he laid it upon the table.


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[Assistant] It was a magnificent specimen of the jeweler's art.


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[Assistant] And the 36 stones were the finest that I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] At one side of the coronet was a crooked, cracked edge, where a corner holding three gems had been torn away.


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[Assistant] Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, here is the corner which corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I beg that you will break it off? I should not dream of trying," said he. Then I will.


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[Assistant] But though I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now what do you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would be a noise like a pistol shot.


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[Assistant] Do you tell me that all this happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard nothing of it? I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me.


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[Assistant] But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, Miss Holder? I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity. Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him? He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt. Thank you.


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[Assistant] We have certainly been favored with extraordinary luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up.


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[Assistant] With your permission Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations outside.


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[Assistant] For he explained that any unnecessary foot marks might make his task more difficult. For an hour or more he was at work.


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[Assistant] Returning at last with his feet heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever.


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[Assistant] Then for God's sake, what was this dark business which was acted in my house last night?


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[Assistant] If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms tomorrow morning between nine and ten, I shall be happy to do what I can to make it clearer.


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[Assistant] I understand that you give me carte blanche to act for you, provided only that I get back the gems.


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[Assistant] Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. Good-bye.


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[Assistant] It is just possible that I may have to come over here again before evening.


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[Assistant] It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up about the case.


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[Assistant] Although what his conclusions were was more than I could even dimly imagine.


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[Assistant] Several times during our homeward journey I endeavoured to sound him upon that point, but he always glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in despair.


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[Assistant] It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our little room once more.


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[Assistant] He hurried to his chamber and was down again in a few minutes, dressed as a common loafer.


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[Assistant] With his collar turned up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he was a perfect sample of the class.


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[Assistant] I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass about the fireplace. I only wish that you would come with me, Watson, but I fear that it won't do.


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[Assistant] I may be on the trail in this matter or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I shall soon know which it is. I hope that I shall be back in a few hours.


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[Assistant] He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and, thrusting this rude meal in his pocket, he started off upon his expedition.


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[Assistant] I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his hand.


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[Assistant] He chucked it down into a corner and held himself to a cup of tea.


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[Assistant] I only looked in as I passed, said he, I'm going right on. Where to?


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[Assistant] Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time before I get back. Don't wait up for me, in case I should be late.


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[Assistant] How are you getting on? Oh, so, so, nothing to complain of.


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[Assistant] I've been out to Streatham since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house.


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[Assistant] It is a very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here.


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[Assistant] But must get these disreputable clothes off, and return to my highly respectable self.


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[Assistant] I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for satisfaction than his words alone would imply.


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[Assistant] His eyes twinkled, and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks.


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[Assistant] He hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of the hall door.


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[Assistant] Which told me that he was off once more upon his congenial hunt.


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[Assistant] I waited until midnight, but there was still no sign of his return, so I retired to my room


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[Assistant] It was no uncommon thing for him to be away for days and nights on end when he was hot upon ascent, so that his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he came in


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[Assistant] But when I came down to breakfast in the morning, there he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and a paper in the other, as fresh and trim as possible.


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[Assistant] You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he.