1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:07,799 A case of Identity by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, my dear fellow, said 2 00:00:07,839 --> 00:00:11,119 Solo Hoolmmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:16,440 at Baker Street. Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:21,160 could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere 5 00:00:21,199 --> 00:00:25,600 common places of existence. If we could fly out of that window, hand 6 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,519 in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the rooms, and 7 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,000 peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, 8 00:00:34,399 --> 00:00:39,159 the plannings, the cross purposes, the wonderful change of events, working through 9 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,840 generations and leading to the most outer reasons. It should make all fiction, 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:51,280 with its conventionalities and forcing conclusions, more stale and unprofitable. And yet I 11 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,600 am not convinced of it, I answered. The cases which come to lighting 12 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:00,119 the papers are as a rule bold enough and vulgar enough. We have in 13 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:03,239 your police report's realism pushed to its extreme limits. And yet the result is 14 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:11,319 it must be confessed neither fascinating nor artistic. A certain selection and discretion must 15 00:01:11,359 --> 00:01:15,319 be used in producing a realistic effect, remarked Holmes. This is one thing 16 00:01:15,359 --> 00:01:19,760 in our police report, where mostress is laid, perhaps of the platitude of 17 00:01:19,799 --> 00:01:25,879 the magistrate, done up under details which to a nobserver contained the vital essence 18 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,680 of the whole matter depend upon it. There is nothing so unnatural as the 19 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:37,239 common place. I smiled and shook my head. I can quite understand your 20 00:01:37,239 --> 00:01:42,000 thinking, so I said, of course, in your poision of unofficial adviser 21 00:01:42,159 --> 00:01:47,079 and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled throughout three continents, you are brought 22 00:01:47,079 --> 00:01:52,280 in contact with all that is strange and bazaar. But here I picked up 23 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,319 a morning paper from the ground. Let us put it to a practical test. 24 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,159 Here is the first heading upon which I come, A husband's cruelty to 25 00:02:00,239 --> 00:02:05,159 his wife. There is half a column of print, but I know that 26 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,479 reading it, that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, 27 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,879 of course the other roman, the drink, the push, the blow, 28 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:17,639 the bruise, the sympathetic sister, all enlady. The crudest of writers could 29 00:02:17,719 --> 00:02:24,120 invent nothing more rude. Indeed, dear example is an unfortunate one for her 30 00:02:24,199 --> 00:02:29,159 argument, said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. 31 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:34,000 This is the Dundas separation case, and as it happens, I was engaged 32 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,199 in carrying up some small points in connection with it. The husband was a 33 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:42,759 teetotaler. There is no other Roman, and the count complaint of was that 34 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,280 he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his 35 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,719 false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which you will love, is 36 00:02:50,719 --> 00:02:53,280 not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average story teller. 37 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,639 Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over 38 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,439 you in your example. He held out his snob box of old gold with 39 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:07,479 a great amatus in the center of the lead. Its splendor was in such 40 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,319 contrast to his homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon 41 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:15,479 it. Ah said he. I forgot that I had not seen you for 42 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,599 some weeks. It is a little surveny from a king of Bohemia in return 43 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,319 for my assistance in the case of diary, ndler, papers and the ring. 44 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:28,280 I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which sparkled upon his finger. 45 00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:32,439 It was from the reigning family of Holland. Though the matter in which I 46 00:03:32,479 --> 00:03:37,159 served him was of such delicacy that I cannot converte it even to you, 47 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,759 who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of my little problems. 48 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,280 And have you any on hand just now? I asked with interest, some 49 00:03:46,479 --> 00:03:50,560 ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of interest very important, 50 00:03:50,639 --> 00:03:53,319 you understand, would have been interesting. Indeed, I have found that it 51 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:58,680 is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for observation and for a 52 00:03:58,759 --> 00:04:01,680 quick analysis of cause and effect, which gives the chum to an investigation. 53 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:05,560 The large at the crimes her up to be the simpler. For the big 54 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:08,960 at a crime, the more obvious, as a rule is the motive. 55 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,240 In these cases, Save for one rather intricate matter which has been referred to 56 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,360 me from Marseilles, there is nothing which presents any features of interest. It 57 00:04:17,439 --> 00:04:21,759 is possible, however, that I may have something better before very minutes so 58 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:27,199 over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken. 59 00:04:28,199 --> 00:04:30,199 He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted blinds, 60 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:35,120 gazing down into the dullly twente inted London street. Looking over his shoulder, 61 00:04:35,439 --> 00:04:39,959 I saw that on the payment opposite there stood a lawyer's woman with a heavy 62 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 farvor around her neck, and a laws curling red feeder in a broad brimmed 63 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,720 hat, which was tilted in a cockati's Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear. 64 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,079 From what that is great pan ofly she pepped up in a nervous, 65 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:58,519 hesitating fashion at her windows, while her body oscillated backward and forward, and 66 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,199 her fingers with jetted with her buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, euch 67 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,639 of the swimmer who leaves the banks, he hurried across the road, and 68 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:12,560 we heard the shamp flank of the bell. I have seen those symptoms before, 69 00:05:13,079 --> 00:05:16,560 said Holmes. Throwing a cigarette into the fire. Oscillation upon the pavement 70 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:23,120 always means an affair dechoir. She like advice, but is not sure that 71 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:29,079 the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet even here remain discriminate. 72 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,439 When a woman has been seriously wronged by a man, see no longer 73 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:35,839 osolids. And the angel seemed to make a broken bell ware. Here we 74 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,040 may take it that there is a love matter, but that the maiden is 75 00:05:40,079 --> 00:05:44,560 not sure much angry as perplex or grieved. But here she comes in person 76 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,439 to resolve all doubts. As he spoke, there was a tap at the 77 00:05:48,519 --> 00:05:53,600 door, and the boy in button sent it to announce miss Mary Sutherland, 78 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,240 while the lady horse a bloomed behind a small black figure like a full sail 79 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,800 marchingman behind a tiny bike that boat. Challocmes welcomed her with the easy courtesy 80 00:06:02,959 --> 00:06:08,160 for which she was remarkable, and having closed the door and bowed her into 81 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,639 an ouchair, he looked her over in the minute and yet abstracted facion which 82 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,800 just pick clear to him. Do you not find? He said, that 83 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,240 with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting. 84 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:25,839 I did at first, she answered, but now I know where the letters 85 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,680 are owed at looking then, suddenly realizing the full power part of his watch, 86 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,519 she gave a violent start and looked up with fear and astonishment upon her 87 00:06:33,519 --> 00:06:38,279 broad, good humored face. You have heard about me, mister Holmes, 88 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:43,240 she cried. Else, how could you know all that? Never mind, 89 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,399 said Holmes, laughing, it is my business to not things. Perhaps I 90 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:50,519 have trained myself to see what other soul look. If not, why should 91 00:06:50,519 --> 00:06:56,519 you come to consult me. I came to you, sir, because I 92 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,360 heard of you from missus Atridge, whose husband you found so easy When the 93 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,000 police, and every one had given him up or that. Oh, mister 94 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:08,120 Holmes, I wish you'd do as much for me. I am not rich, 95 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,759 but still I have a hundred a year in my own right, besides 96 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,639 the little that I make by the machine, and I would give it all 97 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,399 to know what has become of mister Holsmore angel, why did you come way 98 00:07:19,439 --> 00:07:24,240 to counsel me in such a hurry, asked Charlow Holmes, with his finger 99 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:29,360 tips together and his eyes to the ceiling. Again, A startled look came 100 00:07:29,399 --> 00:07:32,839 over the somewhat vagous face of miss Mary Sirderland. Yes, I did bang 101 00:07:32,879 --> 00:07:36,000 out of the house, she said, for it may be angry to see 102 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,560 the easy way in which mister Windibank, that is my father took it all. 103 00:07:41,319 --> 00:07:43,639 He would not go to the police, and he would not go to 104 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,399 you. And so at last, as you do nothing and kept on saying 105 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:49,319 that there is no harm done, it made me mad, and I just 106 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:56,040 on it my things and came right away to you. Your father, said 107 00:07:56,079 --> 00:08:00,720 Holmes, your step father, surely since the name is different, Yes, 108 00:08:00,839 --> 00:08:03,360 my stepfather, I call him father. Do it sounds funny too? For 109 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:07,839 he is only five years and two months older than myself. And your mother 110 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:13,160 is alive. Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't 111 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:16,560 best pleased mister Holmes once he married again so soon after father's death, and 112 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:20,519 a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. For there was a 113 00:08:20,519 --> 00:08:24,439 plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business behind him, 114 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,319 which mother carried on with mister Hardy, the foreman. But when mister 115 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:33,519 Windibank came he made her seal the business, for he was very superior, 116 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,600 being a traveler in wines. They got pound four thousand, seven hundred for 117 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,159 a good will and interest, which wasn't near as much as father could have 118 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:46,080 got if he had been alive. I had expected to see Charlocomn's impatient on 119 00:08:46,159 --> 00:08:50,679 a disrambling and inconsequential narrative, but on the contrary, he had listened to 120 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:56,919 the greatest concentration of attention. Your own little ingom, he asked, does 121 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,080 it come out of the business, Oh no, sir, it is quite 122 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,840 separate and was left to me by my uncle ned in Auckland. It is 123 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,960 an easyland stock paying four and a half percent two thousand, five hundred pounds 124 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,759 worth. The amount but I can only touch the interest. You interest me 125 00:09:13,799 --> 00:09:18,039 extremely, said Holmes. And since you draw so large a sum as a 126 00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:22,519 hundred a year, what what you awn into the bargain? You would no 127 00:09:22,639 --> 00:09:26,519 doubt travel a little and indulse yourself in every way. I believe that a 128 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:31,240 single lady can get on very nicely upon an income of about sixty pounds. 129 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:37,600 I could do it much less than that, mister Holmes. But you understand 130 00:09:37,639 --> 00:09:39,519 that as long as I live at home, I don't wish to be burdened 131 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:43,679 to them, and so they have the use of the money just while I 132 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,240 am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the time. 133 00:09:46,759 --> 00:09:50,360 Mister Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it over to murder. 134 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:54,840 And I find that I can do pretty well with what I am at typewriting. 135 00:09:54,519 --> 00:09:58,320 It brings me two pounds a sheep, and I can often do from 136 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:03,360 twifteen to two any sheets in a day. You have made your poison very 137 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:07,759 clear to me, said Holmes. This is my friend, doctor Watson. 138 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,159 Before you can speak as freely as before myself, kindly tell us now all 139 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:18,720 about her connection with mister Horsmaar and jail a flush stole over Missus Sunderland's face 140 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,840 and safick nervously and a fringe of a jacket. I met him first at 141 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:28,279 the Guess Peters ball. She said they used to send father tickets when he 142 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:33,879 was alive, and then afterwards terrybin butters and send them to murder. Mister 143 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:37,639 Windibank did not wish us to go. He never did uses to go anywhere. 144 00:10:37,279 --> 00:10:41,679 You'd get quite mad if I wanted so much as to join a Sunday 145 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,320 school treat. But this time I was set on going, and I would 146 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:48,639 go for what ride had he to prevent. He said the folk were not 147 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,679 fit for us to know when all further s rains were to be there. 148 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:56,879 And he said that I had nothing fit to air when I had my purple, 149 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,080 plus that I had never so much as taken out of the drawer at 150 00:11:01,159 --> 00:11:03,720 last, and nothing else would do. He went off to Friendship on the 151 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,120 business of the farm. But we went Mother and I with mister Hardy, 152 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,240 who used to be our foreman, and it was there I met mister Holsmore 153 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:18,360 angel I suppose, said Holmes that when mister Windibick came back from front, 154 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,879 he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball. Oh well, 155 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:26,559 he was very good about it. He loved I remember, and shrugged his 156 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,519 shoulders and said, there's no use anything to a Omen, for she would 157 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:35,600 have her way. I see. Then, at a guest Wheter's volume met, 158 00:11:37,039 --> 00:11:41,639 as I understand, a gentleman called mister Holsmore Angel. Yes, sir, 159 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:45,879 I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if 160 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:48,039 we had got home all safe. And after that we met him, that 161 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,480 is to say, mister Holmes. I met him twice for works. But 162 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,200 after that Father came back again, and mister Holsmore Angel could not come to 163 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:01,320 the house any more. No. Well, you know Father did not like 164 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:05,039 anything of that sort. He would not have any visitors if he could help 165 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,240 it. And he used to say that an Omen should be happy in her 166 00:12:07,279 --> 00:12:11,960 own family circle. But then, as I used to say to mother, 167 00:12:11,279 --> 00:12:16,159 a Omen wants her own circle to begin with, and I had not got 168 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,360 mine yet. But how about mister Holsmoer Angel. Did he make no attemp 169 00:12:20,399 --> 00:12:24,399 to see you? Well? Father was going off to France again in a 170 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,120 week, and Horseman wrote and said that he would be safe for and better 171 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,639 not to see each other until he had gone. We could write in the 172 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,320 meantime, and he used to write every day. I took the letters in 173 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:41,360 the morning, so there was no need for father to know where were engaged 174 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:45,799 to the gentleman at this time. Oh, yes, mister Holmes, were 175 00:12:45,799 --> 00:12:50,639 engaged after the first work that we took Holsemer. Mister Angel was a cashier 176 00:12:50,799 --> 00:12:56,279 in an office in Leadenhall Street. And what office? That is the worst 177 00:12:56,279 --> 00:13:01,080 of it, mister Holmes. I don't know where did they leave? Then 178 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,960 he slept on the premises, and you don't know his address, no, 179 00:13:05,799 --> 00:13:11,559 except that it was Ladenhead Street. Where did you address your letters? Then 180 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,840 to the Ladenhall Street post office to be left Dill called for He said that 181 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,679 if they were sent to the office, he would be shafted by all the 182 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,879 other clerks about having letters from a lady. So I offered to typewrite them 183 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,879 like he did his. But you didn't have that for he said that when 184 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:31,120 I wrote them they seemed to come from me, but when theyar typewritten, 185 00:13:31,159 --> 00:13:35,919 he always felt that the machine had come between us. That'll just show you 186 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:39,679 how fond he was of me, mister Holmes, and the little things that 187 00:13:39,759 --> 00:13:46,919 he would think of It is most suggestive, said Holmes. It has long 188 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,440 been an exium of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. 189 00:13:52,879 --> 00:13:56,879 Can you remember any other little things about mister Holsmore Angel? He was a 190 00:13:58,039 --> 00:14:01,440 very shy man, mister Holmes. He would rather walk with me in the 191 00:14:01,519 --> 00:14:03,840 evening than in the daylight, for he said that he had it to be 192 00:14:03,919 --> 00:14:11,039 conspicuous, very returning, and gentlemanly he was, even his voice was gentle. 193 00:14:13,039 --> 00:14:16,039 He had at quincy and swollen glance when he was young, he told 194 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,559 me, and it had left him with a weak troath and hesitating whispering fashion 195 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:26,039 of speech. He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but 196 00:14:26,159 --> 00:14:30,600 his eyes were weak, just as mine, and he wore tinted glasses against 197 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:35,600 the glare. Well, and what happened when mister Windibanker's step father returned to 198 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:41,639 France. Mister Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we should 199 00:14:41,639 --> 00:14:46,679 marry before father came back. He was in dreadful, honest, and when 200 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:50,879 we sure with my hands on the testament that whatever happened, I had always 201 00:14:50,879 --> 00:14:54,960 be true to him, Mother said he was quite right to make me swear, 202 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,080 and that it was a sign of his passion, but it was all 203 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,360 in his favor from the first, and was even fonder of him than I 204 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,879 was. Then when they talked of Marrywood in the week, I began to 205 00:15:05,879 --> 00:15:09,919 ask about Father, but they both said never to mind about Father, but 206 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,600 just to tell him afterwards, and Mother said she would make it all right 207 00:15:13,679 --> 00:15:18,679 with him. I didn't quite like that, mister Holmes. It seemed funny 208 00:15:18,679 --> 00:15:20,799 that I should ask as leave, as he was only few years older than 209 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,320 me. But I didn't want to do anything on the sligh, so I 210 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,519 wrote to Father had bought you where the company had its French offices. But 211 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:33,120 the letter came back to me on the very morning of the wedding. It 212 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,600 missed him, then, yes, sir, for he had started to England 213 00:15:37,679 --> 00:15:43,480 just before it arrived. Ah, that was unfortunate. Your reading was arranged 214 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:46,440 then for the Friday. Was it to be in Search, Yes, sir, 215 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:52,039 but very quietly. It was to be at Saint Sayvir's near King's Cross, 216 00:15:52,039 --> 00:15:56,720 and we were to have breakfast afterwards at Saint Pancras's hotel. Hosmer came 217 00:15:56,759 --> 00:15:58,799 for us in a handsome but as there were two of us, he put 218 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:03,600 as both into it and stepped himself into a four whaler, which happened to 219 00:16:03,639 --> 00:16:07,559 be the only other cab in the street. We got to the chairs first, 220 00:16:07,039 --> 00:16:10,559 and when the four wheeler drove up, we waited for him to step 221 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,960 out, but he neighver did. And when the cabin got on from a 222 00:16:14,039 --> 00:16:17,960 box and looked, there was no one there. The cabin said he couldn't 223 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,240 imagine what had become of him, for he had seen him get in with 224 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,320 his own eyes. That was last Friday, mister Holmes, and I have 225 00:16:25,399 --> 00:16:29,000 never seen nor heard anything since then to throw any light upon what had become 226 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:33,840 of him. It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated, 227 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,559 said Holmes. Oh no, sir, he was too good and kind to 228 00:16:37,639 --> 00:16:41,679 leave me, Sir. Why all the morning he was saying to me that 229 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:45,639 whatever happened I was to be true, and that if something quite unfortunate occurred 230 00:16:45,639 --> 00:16:49,320 to separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, 231 00:16:49,559 --> 00:16:53,879 and that he would claim his place sooner or later. It seems strange 232 00:16:53,919 --> 00:16:57,799 dog for a wedding morning, but what has happened since gives a meaning to 233 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:07,960 it. Most certainly this Your opinion is then, that some unforceen catastrophe has 234 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,079 occurred to him. Yes, sir, I believe that he forced us some 235 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,799 danger, or else he would not have talked so. And then I think 236 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:22,599 that what ifforce had happened? But you have no notion as to what it 237 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,400 could have been? None? One more question? How did her mother take 238 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:30,400 the matter? Still was angry and said that I was never to speak of 239 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:38,279 the matter again? And your father did you tell him? Yes? And 240 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,839 he seemed to think with me that something had happened, and that I should 241 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:47,200 hear of ozmar again, as he said, what interest could anyone have in 242 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,839 bringing me to the doors of the chairch and then leaving me? Now, 243 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:53,960 if he had borrowed my money, or if he had married me and got 244 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,920 my money settled on him, there might be some reason. But Horsemarrow was 245 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,119 very independent about money. A neighbor whould look at a shilling of mine? 246 00:18:03,759 --> 00:18:08,119 And yet what could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh? 247 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,200 He trifling halfman to think of it? And I can sleep a wink 248 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,880 at night. She pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to 249 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:22,599 sob heavily into it. I shall glance into the case for you, said 250 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,880 Holmes rising, and I have no doubt that we shall read some definite result. 251 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,839 Let the weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not 252 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:37,000 let your mind dwell upon fodder. Have I all tried to let mister Hosmon 253 00:18:37,079 --> 00:18:42,000 Angel vanish from a memory as he has done from your life? And you 254 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:48,599 don't think I'll see him again? I fear not. Then? What has 255 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,920 happened to him? You'll leave that question in my hands. I should like 256 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,319 any cure description of him, and any letters of his which you can spare. 257 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,839 I advertise for him in ast to this chronicle, said she, Here 258 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:07,359 is the sleep, and here four letters from him? Thank you, and 259 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:15,599 your address number thirty one Lamb, please camberwell mister Angel's address you never had. 260 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,799 I understand. Where is your father's place of business? He travels for 261 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:25,279 Wasteous and Marbank, the great clareting porters of cher Street. Thank you. 262 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,880 You have made your statement very clearly. You will leave the papers here and 263 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,359 remember the advice which I have given you. Let the whole incident be a 264 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,880 sealed book, and do not allow it to affect your life. You are 265 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,319 very kind, mister Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be 266 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:47,920 true to Hosmer, he shall find me ready when he comes back. For 267 00:19:48,039 --> 00:19:52,440 all the preposter's hat and the vacuous face, there is something noble in the 268 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,880 simple fate of our visitor. What scumpled our respect? She led her little 269 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:02,400 bundle of papers upon the table went her way, but he promised to come 270 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:10,160 again whenever she might be some moned Scharlocombe sat silent for a few minutes, 271 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:15,319 with his fingertips still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, 272 00:20:15,519 --> 00:20:19,039 and his cage directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down from 273 00:20:19,039 --> 00:20:22,200 the rack the old and the oily clay pipe, which just to him as 274 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,359 a counselor, and having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, 275 00:20:27,039 --> 00:20:30,359 with the thick blue cloud rats spinning up from him, and a look of 276 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:37,839 infinite languor in his face. Quite an interesting study that maiden, he oujered. 277 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,759 I found her more interesting than her little problem, which by the way, 278 00:20:41,839 --> 00:20:45,640 is rather a tried to one. You will find parallel cases if you 279 00:20:45,759 --> 00:20:51,119 consule my index in and or in seventy seven. And there was something of 280 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:55,960 the sort at the hag last year old, as is the idea. However, 281 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,480 there were one or two details which are new to me. But the 282 00:20:59,519 --> 00:21:04,559 maiden her was most instructive. We appeared to read a good deal upon her, 283 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:10,559 which was quite invisible to me, I remarked, not invisible, but 284 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,519 unnoticed. Watson, he did not know what to look, and so he 285 00:21:14,599 --> 00:21:18,279 missed all that was important. I can never bring you to realize the importance 286 00:21:18,319 --> 00:21:22,960 of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb nails on the graatish shoes that may hang 287 00:21:23,039 --> 00:21:27,279 from a boot lace. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? 288 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:33,480 Describe it well? She had a slate colored, broad brimmed straw hat, 289 00:21:34,039 --> 00:21:37,880 what a figure of brickish reil. Her jacket was black, with black 290 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,559 beads sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her 291 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:48,200 race was brown and a darker than coffee color, with a little purple plush 292 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,000 at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were grayish and her own true and 293 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:56,559 a right forefinger. Her boots I did not observe. She had small, 294 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,960 round hanging gold ear rings, and a genuine air of being fairly well to 295 00:22:00,039 --> 00:22:07,359 do in a vulgar, comportable, easy going way. Scharlocombs clapped his hands 296 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:14,359 softly together and chuckled on my word. Watchin you are coming along wonderfully. 297 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,920 We have really done very well. Indeed, it is true that you have 298 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,119 missed everything of importance, but you have beat up on the method, and 299 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,359 you have a cookye for color. Never trust to generally impresions, my wife, 300 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,559 but concentrate yourself upon the tails. My first glance is always at the 301 00:22:30,599 --> 00:22:33,680 omen's sleeve. In a man, it is perhaps better for us to take 302 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:38,359 the knee of the trouser. As you observed, this woman had plushed off 303 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:44,000 on her sleeves, which teach a most useful material for showing traces. The 304 00:22:44,039 --> 00:22:48,359 devil line a little above the wrist for the typewriter's presses against the table was 305 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,960 beautifully defined. The sewing machine of the hunt I leaves a similar mark, 306 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,720 but only on the left and on the side of it furthest from the term, 307 00:22:56,839 --> 00:23:00,720 instead of being right across the broader spot as this was. And then 308 00:23:00,799 --> 00:23:03,519 glanced at her face and observing the dint of a pinch nance at either side 309 00:23:03,559 --> 00:23:07,400 of her nose, I ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which 310 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:15,160 seemed to surprise her. It surprised me, but surely it is obvious. 311 00:23:15,599 --> 00:23:18,599 I was at much surprised, interested on glancing down to observe that to the 312 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,880 boots which she was wearing, when not unlike each other, they were really 313 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,920 odd ones, the one having slightly deckoed a toe cape and the other a 314 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,240 plain one. One is button only in the two lower buttons out of five, 315 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,960 and the other at the first thirdred and fifth. Now, when you 316 00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:37,319 see that a young lady, other as neatly dressed, has come away from 317 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,119 home with odd boots half buttoned, it is no great deduction to say that 318 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:47,519 she came away in a hurry. And what else? I asked, keenly 319 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:52,279 interested as I always was, by my friend's incisive reasoning. I noted in 320 00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:56,319 passing that she had written a note before leaving home. But after being fully 321 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,440 dressed, you observed that her right glove was stone at a forefinger, But 322 00:24:00,519 --> 00:24:04,559 he did not ever see that, but glove and finger stained with violet ink. 323 00:24:07,599 --> 00:24:11,119 She had written in a hurry and dipped her pain too deep. It 324 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:15,359 must have been this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the 325 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,000 finger. All this is amusing to rather elementary, but I must go back 326 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,519 to business. Watson, would you mind reading me the advertised description of mister 327 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:30,160 Hosmer and Zel I had a little printed slip to the light missing. It 328 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,640 said, on the morning of the fourteint a gentleman named horsemar Angel, about 329 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:40,680 five seven ins in height, strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, 330 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,759 a little ball in the center, bushy black side, whiskers and mustache tinted 331 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:51,680 glasses, slightly informityos Pitch was dressed when less seen, in black frockcoat, 332 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,400 faced with its silk black waistcoat, cold Albert Jane and gray hairy sweet trousers 333 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:03,039 with brown caters over elastic sides, boots known to have been employed in an 334 00:25:03,039 --> 00:25:07,480 office in Leaden Hall Street. Anybody bringing that will do, said Hulme. 335 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,279 As to the letters, he continued, glancing over them, dear, very 336 00:25:12,279 --> 00:25:17,119 common place. Absolutely no clue in them to mister Angel, save that he 337 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,519 courts baljack once. There is one remark point, however, which will no 338 00:25:21,559 --> 00:25:26,359 doubt strike you, dear typewritin, I remarked, Not only that, but 339 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,000 the signature is type written. Look at the neat little horsemar Angel at the 340 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:36,119 bottom. There is a date you see, but no superscription except Leydenhill Street, 341 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,759 which is rather vague. The point of our signature is very sayestive. 342 00:25:38,759 --> 00:25:44,599 In fact, we may call it conclusive. Of what, my dear fellow, 343 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,880 is it possible you do not see how strongly it bears upon the case. 344 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,039 I cannot say that I do unless it was that he wished to be 345 00:25:52,079 --> 00:25:56,079 able to deny his signature if an action for breach or promise or instituted. 346 00:25:56,319 --> 00:26:00,720 No, that was not the point. However, I like two letters which 347 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:06,400 should settle the matter. One is to form in the city. The other 348 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:10,279 is to the young lady's stave father, mister Windibank, asking whether he could 349 00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:12,960 meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow evening. It is just as well that 350 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:17,559 we should do business with the male relatives, and now, doctor, we 351 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,000 can do nothing until the answers to those letters come, so we may put 352 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,039 our little problem upon the shelf for the interim. I had had so many 353 00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:30,279 reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers of prisoning an extraordinary energy in action, 354 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,160 that I felt that he must have some solid grounds for assured and easy 355 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:38,200 demarrior with which he treated the singlear mystery which he had called upon to fathom 356 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:41,920 once. Only had I known him to fail in the case of the King 357 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:47,640 of Bohemia and of the iron Allar photograph. But when I look back to 358 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,440 the wide business of the sign of war, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with 359 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,119 the study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle, 360 00:26:55,160 --> 00:27:00,000 indeed, which he could not unravel. I left him, then, still 361 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,000 puffing at his black clay pipe, with a conviction that when I came again 362 00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:07,480 on the next evening, I'd find that he held in his hands all the 363 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:11,160 clues which should lead up to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary's 364 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:18,480 Shadowland. A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the 365 00:27:18,559 --> 00:27:22,279 time, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of 366 00:27:22,319 --> 00:27:26,079 the sufferer. It was not until it was upon six o'clock that I found 367 00:27:26,079 --> 00:27:29,319 myself free and was able to spring into a handsom and drive to beck A 368 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,720 Street, half afraid that I might be too late to assist. At the 369 00:27:32,839 --> 00:27:37,559 tenement of the little mystery, I found Charlock Holms alone, however, half 370 00:27:37,559 --> 00:27:41,039 asleep, with his long tin form called up in the recesses of his arm 371 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:45,480 chair, a formidab lary of bottles and taste us with a pungent, cleanly 372 00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:48,680 smell of hydrochloric acid. Told me that he had spent his day in the 373 00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:55,200 chemical work which was so dear to him. Well have you solved it, 374 00:27:55,440 --> 00:28:00,839 I asked as I entered. Yes, it was myself ato Berta. No, 375 00:28:00,839 --> 00:28:03,359 no, the mystery, I cried, Oh there I thought of the 376 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,279 solve that I had been working upon. Trewas never any mystery in the matter, 377 00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:11,680 though, as I said yesterday, some marey details are of interest. 378 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:15,039 The only dropic is that there is no law. If he had agin touch 379 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,160 the scoundrel, who was he then? And what was his object in deserting 380 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:25,880 miss Sutherland. The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had 381 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,680 not yet opened his lips to reply when we heard a heavy footfall in the 382 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,559 passage and the tap at the door. This is the girl's step father, 383 00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:37,799 mister James' Swindebank, said Holmes. He has written to me to say that 384 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,640 he would be here at six. Come in. The man who entered was 385 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,240 a sturdy, middle sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean shaven 386 00:28:45,319 --> 00:28:51,039 and shallow skin, with a bland insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully 387 00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:55,559 sharp and penetrating gray eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of us, 388 00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:59,720 placed his shiny turved upon the sideboard, and with his slight bows, 389 00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:04,200 settled down into the nearest chair. Good evening, mister James win the Bank, 390 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,039 said Holmes. I think that this steprien a letter is from you in 391 00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:12,160 which you made an appointment with me for six o'clock. Yes, sir, 392 00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:15,200 my afraid that I am a little late, but I'm not quite my own 393 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,319 master. You know. I'm sorry that Miss Shudderland has troubled you about this 394 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:22,359 little matter, for I think it is far better not to watch lenan of 395 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,880 that sort in public. It was quite against my wishes that she came, 396 00:29:26,079 --> 00:29:30,920 but she is a very excitable, impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, 397 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,680 and she is not easily controlled when she has made up her mind. 398 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:38,279 On a point of course, I didn't mind you so much, as you 399 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:42,319 are not connected to the official police. But it is not pleasant to have 400 00:29:42,359 --> 00:29:47,920 a family misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it's a useless expense, 401 00:29:48,559 --> 00:29:53,279 for how could you possibly find this horsemar Angel. On the contrary, said 402 00:29:53,279 --> 00:29:57,880 Holmes quietly, I have every reason to believe that I will succeed in discovering 403 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:03,880 mister Horsmer Angel. Mister Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. 404 00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:08,839 I am delighted to hear it, he said. It is a curious thing, 405 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,039 remarked Holmes, that a typewriter has really quite as much individuality as a 406 00:30:14,039 --> 00:30:18,920 man's handwriting, unless dear quite new No two have them writing jactly alike. 407 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:23,359 Some letters got more one than others, and somewhere only on one side. 408 00:30:23,839 --> 00:30:27,039 Now you remark in this none appears, mister Windibank, that in every case 409 00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:30,400 there is some little slurring over the e and a slight defect in the tale 410 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,720 of the R. There are fourteen other characteristics, but those are the more 411 00:30:34,759 --> 00:30:41,000 obvious. We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, and 412 00:30:41,079 --> 00:30:45,680 no doubt it is so little worn, old visitor answered, glancing keenly at 413 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,240 home, so with his bright little eyes. And now I'll show you what 414 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:55,119 is really a very interesting study, mister Windibank, Holmes continued, I think 415 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,000 of writing another little monograph some of these days on a typewriter and its relation 416 00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:03,039 to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some little attention. 417 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,279 I here four letters which perpa to come from the missing man. They 418 00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:11,720 are all type written, and each case not only are the easelert and ours 419 00:31:11,759 --> 00:31:15,680 tale liss. But you will observe if you care to use my magnifying lands 420 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:21,640 that to fourteen. Other characteristics to which I have alluded are dear as well. 421 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,039 Mister sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. I cannot 422 00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:30,119 waste him over this sort of fantastic talk, mister Holmes, he said, 423 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,839 if we can catch the man, catch him and let me know when you 424 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:37,400 have done it, certainly, said obs, stepping over and turning the key 425 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,519 in the door. I'll let you know then that I have caught him. 426 00:31:42,279 --> 00:31:48,279 What where, shulted mister Windibank, turning white to his leaves and glancing about 427 00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:52,119 him like a rat in a trap. Oh it won't do, really, 428 00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:55,640 it won't, said om swavely. There is no possible getting out of it, 429 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,599 mister Windybank. It is quite too transparent. And it was a very 430 00:31:59,599 --> 00:32:02,240 bad compliment when you said that it is impossible for me to solve so simple 431 00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:07,519 a question. That is right, Sit down and let us talk it over. 432 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,519 Our visitor collapsed into a chair with a gustly face and a glitter of 433 00:32:13,559 --> 00:32:19,160 moisture on his brow. It isn't actionable, he stammered. I'm very much 434 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,960 afraid that it is not, but betting ourselves in the bank. It was 435 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,240 as Gralent's selfis, and heartless as a trick in a petty way, as 436 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,680 ever came before me. Now let me just run over the course of the 437 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,960 events, and he will contradict me if I go wrong. The man sat 438 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,880 huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk up on his breast, 439 00:32:37,359 --> 00:32:40,559 like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes struck his feet up on the corner 440 00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:44,440 of the mantelpiece, and leaning back, with his hands in his pockets, 441 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:49,920 began talking rather to himself, as it seemed, than to us. The 442 00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:53,160 man married a women very much older than himself for her money, said he, 443 00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:58,200 And he enjoyed the use of the money of the daughter as long as 444 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:04,319 she lifted them. It was a considerablesome for people in their position, and 445 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,160 the loss of it would have made a serious difference. It was what an 446 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,920 effort to preserve it. The daughter was a big, good, amable disposition, 447 00:33:12,079 --> 00:33:15,680 but affectionate and warm hearted in her ways, so that it was evident 448 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,519 that with her fair personal advantages and her little income, she would not be 449 00:33:19,519 --> 00:33:22,839 allowed to remain seeing along. Now her marriage would mean, of course, 450 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,640 the loss of a hundred a year. So what does a stiff feather do 451 00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:30,400 to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of keeping her at home and 452 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:36,519 forbiding how to seek the company of people of her own age. But soon 453 00:33:36,559 --> 00:33:42,000 he found that that would not answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon 454 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,519 her rights, and finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain ball. 455 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,359 What does he, claver stiff for the do? Then he conceives an 456 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,119 idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the connivance and 457 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:58,799 assistance of his wife, he disguised himself Kavardou's keen eyes with tinted glasses, 458 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:04,039 master's face with mustache and a pair of pushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice 459 00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:07,400 into an insinuative whisper and doubly secret. Account of the girl's short sight, 460 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:14,880 he appears as mister Hosmer Angel and keeps up other lovers by making love himself. 461 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:21,000 It was only joke at first, groaned our visitor. We never thought 462 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,440 that she would have been so carried away. Very likely not, however, 463 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,599 that may be. The young lady was very decidedly carried away, and having 464 00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:34,760 quite made of her mind that her staffather was in French, the suspicion of 465 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,960 treachery never for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the gentleman's 466 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:44,320 attentions, and the effect was increased by the loudly expressed admiration of her murder. 467 00:34:45,519 --> 00:34:47,880 Then mister Angel began to call for It was obvious that the matter should 468 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,159 be pushed as far as it would go, if a real effect were it 469 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:57,519 to be produced to her meetings, and an engagement which should finally secure the 470 00:34:57,559 --> 00:35:01,679 girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the deception could not be kept 471 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:07,440 up forever to pretend the journeys to French were rather cumbers The thing to do 472 00:35:07,519 --> 00:35:10,760 was clearly to bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that 473 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:15,719 he would leave a permanent temperas upon the young lady's mind and prevent her from 474 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:21,440 looking upon any other suitor for some time to come. Hens Doo's vows of 475 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,480 fidel they exjected upon a testament, and hence also the allusions to a possibility 476 00:35:25,519 --> 00:35:30,800 of something happening. On the very morning of the wedding. James in the 477 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,199 vanguished Miss Sir Land to be so bound to hostmar angel and so uncertain as 478 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,599 to his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rates you 479 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:43,400 not listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, 480 00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:46,039 and then as he could go no farther he conveniently vanished away by the 481 00:35:46,039 --> 00:35:50,719 old chiekock, stepping in at one door of a four wheeler and out at 482 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,360 the other. I think that was the chain of Evans, mister w in 483 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:59,719 the bank, our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes had been 484 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,480 talked, and he rose from his chair now with a cold sneer on his 485 00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:07,360 whale face. It may be so, or it may be not, mister 486 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,199 Holmes, said he. But if you are so very sharp, you ought 487 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:14,400 to be sure enough to know that it is you who are breaking the law 488 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,719 now and not me. I have done nothing actionable from the first. But 489 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,800 as long as you keep that to a locked you lay yourself open to an 490 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:27,599 action for assault and illegal constraint. The lock cannot, as you say, 491 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,960 touch you, said Holmes, unlocking and drawing open the door. Yet there 492 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,719 never was a man who diss a punishment. More. If the young lady 493 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,519 has a brother or a friend, he ought to lay a whip across your 494 00:36:37,519 --> 00:36:43,239 shoulders. By jove, he continued, flushing up at the shite of the 495 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,840 bait, too sneer upon the man's face. It is not part of my 496 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,639 duties to my client. But here is a hunting craft handy, and I 497 00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:52,360 think I shall just treat myself to He took two swift steps to the whip, 498 00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,400 but before he could grasp it, there is a wildcatter of steps up 499 00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:00,239 on the stairs. The heavy haul door banged, and from the window could 500 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,599 see mister James Windypank running on the top of his pit down the road. 501 00:37:05,079 --> 00:37:08,239 There is a cold blood scoundrel, said Holmeson, laughing as he threw himself 502 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:12,559 down into his chair once more. That fellow will rise from crime to crime 503 00:37:12,639 --> 00:37:16,000 until he does something very bad and ends upon the gallows. The case has, 504 00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:21,599 in some respects been not entered at a wad of interest. I cannot 505 00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:25,119 entirely see all the steps of your reasoning, I remarked, Well, of 506 00:37:25,159 --> 00:37:29,320 course, it is obvious frown of us that this mister Horstman Angel must have 507 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,079 some strong object for his curious conduct, and it was equally clear that the 508 00:37:32,159 --> 00:37:36,639 only man who rarely profited by the incident, as far as we could see, 509 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,119 was the step. Further then the fact that the two men were never 510 00:37:40,159 --> 00:37:44,559 together, but that the one always appeared when the other was away. He 511 00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:50,119 was such stiff, so added tinted spectacles and a curious voice, which put 512 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:55,440 hinted at the disguise, as did the bussy whishkers. My suspicions were all 513 00:37:55,480 --> 00:38:00,559 confirmed by his peculiar action in type writing his signature, which of course felt 514 00:38:00,599 --> 00:38:04,639 that his handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognize even the smallest 515 00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:07,760 sample of it. You see, all these isolated facts, together with many 516 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:13,719 minor ones, all pointed in the same direction, And how did you verify 517 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,639 them? Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. 518 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:22,880 I knew the form for which the men worked. Having taken the printed description, 519 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,920 I eliminated everything from it which could be the result over disguise, the 520 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,960 whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I sent it to the farm. 521 00:38:29,199 --> 00:38:31,760 Would they request that they would inform me whether it answered to the description 522 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:37,679 of any of the travelers I had already noticed the peculiarities of the typewriter. 523 00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:40,800 Can I wrote to the man himself at his visitors address, asking him if 524 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:45,480 he could come here as he expected. His reply was typewritten and reveled the 525 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:51,559 same treevial but characteristic defects. The same post brought me later from west House 526 00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:54,480 and Marlbank, off Fancher Street, to say that the description telled in every 527 00:38:54,519 --> 00:39:00,639 respect with that of their employ James in the Bank. While a two and 528 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:05,360 miss Sir Land, if I tell hers you will not believe me. You 529 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,039 may remember the old person saying there is a danger for him who taketh the 530 00:39:08,119 --> 00:39:13,719 tiger cup, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from an omen. 531 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,320 There is as much sense in her ease as in her asse, and as 532 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:24,280 much knowledge of the world and of a case of identity.