1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:06,480 The man with the twisted lip. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias 2 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:12,960 Whitney, d d. Principal of the Theological College of Saint George's, was 3 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:17,600 much addicted to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:22,960 from some foolish freak when he was at college, for having read de Quincey's 5 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:28,800 description of his dreams and sensations, he had drenched his tobacco with laudanum in 6 00:00:28,839 --> 00:00:33,920 an attempt to produce the same effects. He found, as so many more 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,799 have done, that the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, 8 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,399 And for many years he continued to be a slave to the drug, 9 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:47,439 an object of mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can 10 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:53,439 see him now, with yellow pasty face, drooping lids, and pinpoint pupils, 11 00:00:53,719 --> 00:00:57,560 all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble man. 12 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:03,520 One night, it was in June eighty nine, there came a ring 13 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,280 to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and 14 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,400 glances at the clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife 15 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,799 laid her needlework down in her lap, and made a little face of disappointment. 16 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:23,519 A patient said she you'll have to go out. I groaned, for 17 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:30,040 I was newly come back from a weary day. We heard the door open, 18 00:01:30,519 --> 00:01:34,760 a few hurried words, and then quick steps upon the linoleum. Our 19 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:41,000 own door flew open, and a lady clad in some dark colored stuff with 20 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:47,079 a black veil, entered the room. You will excuse my calling so late, 21 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:52,239 she began, and then, suddenly loosing her self control, she ran 22 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:57,519 forward, threw her arms about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. 23 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:02,120 Oh I'm in such trouble, she cried. I do so want a 24 00:02:02,239 --> 00:02:08,159 little help. Why, said my wife, pulling up her veil. It 25 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:13,800 is Kate Whitney. How you startled me? Kate, I had not an 26 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:19,840 idea who you were when you came in. I didn't know what to do, 27 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,719 so I came straight to you. That was always the way folk who 28 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:30,280 were in grief came to my wife like birds to a lighthouse. It was 29 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:34,879 very sweet of you to come. Now. You must have some wine and 30 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,520 water and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or should you 31 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:44,319 rather that? I sent James off to bed. Oh no, no, 32 00:02:44,759 --> 00:02:49,439 I want the doctor's advice. And help too. It's about Isa. He 33 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,120 has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about him. 34 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,479 It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her husband's 35 00:02:57,479 --> 00:03:00,719 trouble, to me as a doctor, to my life, as an old 36 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:07,039 friend and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words as we 37 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,919 could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it possible that 38 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:16,439 we could bring him back to her? It seems that it was. She 39 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:22,159 had the surest information that of late he had, when the fit was on 40 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,520 him, made use of an opium den in the farthest east of the city. 41 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,199 Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had 42 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:37,439 come back twitching and shattered in the evening. But now the spell had been 43 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:42,840 upon him eight and forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the 44 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,120 dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the effects. 45 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:51,719 There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the 46 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:55,800 bar of Gold in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? 47 00:03:57,759 --> 00:04:00,919 How could she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such 48 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:06,479 a place and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him. 49 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,199 There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of 50 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,000 it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as 51 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,120 a second thought, why should she come at all? I was I a 52 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:27,680 Whitney's medical adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could 53 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,120 manage it better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that 54 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,600 I would send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed 55 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:41,600 at the address which he had given me. And so in ten minutes I 56 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,199 had left my arm chair and cheery sitting room behind me, and was speeding 57 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,319 eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at 58 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:54,319 the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to be. 59 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,240 But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my adventure. 60 00:04:59,639 --> 00:05:03,959 Upper Swandham Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which lined the 61 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,079 north side of the river to the east of London Bridge, between a slop 62 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:15,560 shop and a gin shop. Approached by a steep flight of steps leading down 63 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,639 to a black gap like the mouth of a cave. I found the den 64 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:24,480 of which I was in search. Ordering my cab to wait, I passed 65 00:05:24,519 --> 00:05:29,000 down the steps, worn hollow in the center by the ceaseless tread of drunken 66 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,000 feet, and by the light of a flickering oil lamp above the door. 67 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,079 I found the latch and made my way into a long, low room, 68 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:42,839 thick and heavy with a brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, 69 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:48,079 like the forecastle of an emigrant ship. Through the gloom one could dimly catch 70 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:55,399 a glimpse of bodies lying in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, 71 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:00,600 heads thrown back, and chins pointed upward, with here and there a 72 00:06:00,759 --> 00:06:05,319 dark, lackluster eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black shadows, 73 00:06:05,439 --> 00:06:11,480 there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, now faint, as 74 00:06:11,519 --> 00:06:15,959 the burning poison waxed or waned. In the bowls of the metal pipes. 75 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,600 The most lay silent, but some muttered to themselves, and others talked together 76 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:28,079 in a strange, low, monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes and 77 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,680 then suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling about his own thoughts and paying 78 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:36,560 little heed to the words of his neighbour. At the farther end was a 79 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:43,079 small brasure of burning charcoal, beside which on a three legged wooden stool, 80 00:06:43,199 --> 00:06:46,720 there sat a tall, thin old man, with his jaw resting upon two 81 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:53,920 fists and his elbows upon his knees, staring into the fire. As I 82 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:58,839 entered, a sallow melee attendant had hurried up with a pipe for me at 83 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:03,279 a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. Thank you, 84 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,920 I have not come to stay, said I. There is a friend 85 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:12,839 of mine here, mister Isa Whitney, and I wished to speak to him. 86 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:16,160 There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and peering through 87 00:07:16,199 --> 00:07:21,240 the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard and unkempt, staring out 88 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:27,360 at me. My god, it's Watson, said he. He was in 89 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,079 a pitiable state of reaction, with every nerve and a twitter. I say, 90 00:07:31,079 --> 00:07:39,600 Watson, what o'clock is it? Nearly eleven of what day of Friday, 91 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:44,800 June nineteenth? Good heavens, I thought it was Wednesday. It is 92 00:07:44,879 --> 00:07:47,839 Wednesday. What do you want to frighten? A chap for? He sank 93 00:07:47,839 --> 00:07:51,680 his face on to his arms and began to sob in a high trouble key. 94 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,600 I tell you that it is Friday. Man. Your wife has been 95 00:07:57,639 --> 00:08:03,720 waiting this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself, so 96 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:07,920 I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been 97 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:11,279 here a few hours. Three pipes, four pipes, I forget how many. 98 00:08:11,839 --> 00:08:16,839 But I'll go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate, poor little 99 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:22,079 Kate. Give me your hand. Have you a cab, yes, I 100 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:26,360 have one waiting. Then I shall go in it. But I must owe 101 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,480 something. Find what I owe, Watson, I am all off color. 102 00:08:31,879 --> 00:08:37,120 I can do nothing for myself. I walked down the narrow passage between the 103 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:43,120 double row of sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying 104 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:48,440 fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed 105 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,919 the tall man who sat by the brazier, I felt a sudden pluck at 106 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:56,360 my skirt, and a low voice whispered walk past me, and then look 107 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:03,159 back at me. The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I glanced 108 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,679 down. They could only have come from the old man at my side, 109 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:13,360 And yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very wrinkled, 110 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:18,159 bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between his knees as 111 00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:24,919 though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his fingers. I took two steps 112 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,720 forward and looked back. It took all my self control to prevent me from 113 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:33,720 breaking out into a cry of astonishment. He had turned his back so that 114 00:09:33,799 --> 00:09:39,000 none could see him, but I His form had filled out, his wrinkles 115 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,519 were gone, the dull eyes had regained their fire, And there, sitting 116 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:48,159 by the fire and grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. 117 00:09:50,039 --> 00:09:54,480 He made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly as 118 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,320 he turned his face half round to the company, once more subsided into a 119 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:05,799 doddering, loose lipped senility. Holmes, I whispered, what on earth are 120 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:11,360 you doing in this den? As low as you can, he answered, 121 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:16,600 I have excellent ears. If you would have the great kindness to get rid 122 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,960 of that Sottish friend of yours, I should be exceedingly glad to have a 123 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:26,600 little talk with you. I have a cab outside, then pray send him 124 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,000 home in it. You may safely trust him, for he appears to be 125 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:37,639 too limp to get into any mischief. I should recommend you also to send 126 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:41,639 a note by the cabman to your wife to say that you have thrown in 127 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:46,799 your lot with me. If you will wait outside, I shall be with 128 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:54,480 you in five minutes. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes's requests, 129 00:10:54,879 --> 00:11:00,080 for they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with such a 130 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:05,600 quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney was once 131 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,960 confined in the cab, my mission was practically accomplished, and for the rest 132 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,240 I could not wish anything better than to be associated with my friend in one 133 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:20,559 of those singular adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a 134 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,879 few minutes, I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him 135 00:11:24,919 --> 00:11:30,279 out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a 136 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,879 very short time, a decrepit figure had emerged from the Opium den, and 137 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,039 I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes for two streets. He shuffled 138 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:46,120 along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. Then, glancing quickly round, 139 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:52,080 he straightened himself out and burst into a hearty fit of laughter. Ha 140 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,000 ha ha, I suppose Watson said he that you imagine that I have added 141 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:03,120 opium smoking to cocaine injudtions, and all the other little weaknesses on which you 142 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:07,919 have favored me with your medical views. I was certainly surprised to find you 143 00:12:09,039 --> 00:12:16,080 there, but not more so than I to find you. I came to 144 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:22,919 find a friend, and I to find an enemy, an enemy, yes, 145 00:12:24,279 --> 00:12:28,399 one of my natural enemies, or shall I say my natural prey. 146 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:33,480 Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable inquiry, 147 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:39,000 and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent ramblings of these sots, 148 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:43,480 as I have done before. Now. Had I been recognized in that 149 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,919 den, my life would not have been worth an hour's purchase, for I 150 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:52,720 have used it before now for my own purposes, and the rascally lascard who 151 00:12:52,799 --> 00:12:58,399 runs it has sworn to have vengeance upon me. There is a trap door 152 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:03,120 at the back of that bill, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which 153 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:09,240 could tell some strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless nights. 154 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:18,440 What you do not mean, bodies, ay bodies, Watson. We 155 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,799 should be rich men if we had one thousand pounds for every poor devil who 156 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,320 has been done to death in that den. It is the vilest murder trap 157 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:31,720 on the whole river side. And I fear that nevill Saint Clair has entered 158 00:13:31,759 --> 00:13:35,639 it, never to leave it more. But our trap should be here. 159 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:41,679 He put his two forefingers between his teeth and whistled shrilly, a signal, 160 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,320 which was answered by a similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the 161 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:52,799 rattle of wheels and the clink of horses hoofs now. Watson, said Holmes, 162 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,200 as a tall dog cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two 163 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:01,799 golden tunnels of yellow light from its side. Length entered. You'll come with 164 00:14:01,919 --> 00:14:07,120 me, won't you? If I can be of use? Oh, A 165 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,080 trusty comrade is always of use, and a chronicler still more so. My 166 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:18,440 room at the Cedars is a double bedded one the Cedars. Yes, that 167 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,159 is mister Saint Clair's house. I am staying there while I conduct the inquiry. 168 00:14:24,519 --> 00:14:28,679 Where is it then? Near Lee in Kent? We have a seven 169 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:35,519 mile drive before us. But I am all in the dark. Of course 170 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:41,360 you are. You'll know about it presently. Jump up here, all right, 171 00:14:41,519 --> 00:14:45,519 John, We shall not need you. Here's half a crown. Look 172 00:14:45,519 --> 00:14:50,159 out for me tomorrow about eleven. Give her her head so long. Then 173 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:54,679 he flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through the endless 174 00:14:54,679 --> 00:15:00,000 succession of somber and deserted streets, which widened gradually until we were flying across 175 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,960 a broad, balustrated bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly beneath us. 176 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:11,600 Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by 177 00:15:11,639 --> 00:15:16,360 the heavy regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some 178 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:22,799 belated party of revelers. A dull rack was drifting slowly across the sky, 179 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,919 and a star or two twinkle dimly here and there through the wrists of the 180 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:33,200 clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his breast, 181 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,879 and the air of a man who was lost in thought, while I sat 182 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:41,840 beside him, curious to learn what his new quest might be, which seemed 183 00:15:41,879 --> 00:15:45,919 to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in upon the 184 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:50,039 current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles and were beginning to get 185 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:56,039 to the fringe of the belt of suburban villas when He shook himself, shrugged 186 00:15:56,039 --> 00:15:58,080 his shoulders, and lit up his pipe with the air of a man who 187 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:06,360 was satisfied him that he is acting for the best. You have a grand 188 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:11,080 gift of silence, Watson said he. It makes you quite invaluable as a 189 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:15,960 companion. Upon my word, it is a great thing for me to have 190 00:16:15,039 --> 00:16:19,279 some one to talk to for my own thoughts are not over pleasant. I 191 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,360 was wondering what I should say to this dear little woman to night when she 192 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:30,200 meets me at the door. You forget that I know nothing about it. 193 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,080 I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before we 194 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:40,279 get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet somehow I can get 195 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,639 nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I 196 00:16:44,679 --> 00:16:48,799 can't get the end of it into my hand. Now outstate the case clearly 197 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:52,919 and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a spark where 198 00:16:52,960 --> 00:17:00,879 all is dark to me. Proceed then, some years ago to be definite. 199 00:17:02,159 --> 00:17:07,039 In May eighteen eighty four, there came to Lee a gentleman Neville, 200 00:17:07,039 --> 00:17:11,960 Saint Clair by name, who appeared to have plenty of money. He took 201 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:17,759 a large villa laid out the grounds very nicely, and lived generally in good 202 00:17:17,799 --> 00:17:22,839 style. By degrees. He made friends in the neighborhood, and in eighteen 203 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,079 eighty seven he married the daughter of a local brewer, by whom he now 204 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:33,000 has two children. He had no occupation, but was interested in several companies, 205 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,720 and went into town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 206 00:17:36,799 --> 00:17:44,160 five fourteen from Cannon Street every night. Mister Saint Clair is now thirty seven 207 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:48,400 years of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, 208 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,680 a very affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know 209 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:57,200 him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as 210 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:03,079 far as we have been able to asker, amount to eighty eight pounds ten 211 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:07,119 shillings, while he has two hundred and twenty pounds standing to his credit in 212 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:12,759 the Capitol and County's bank. There is no reason therefore to think that money 213 00:18:12,759 --> 00:18:19,359 troubles have been weighing upon his mind. Last Monday, mister nevill Saint Clair 214 00:18:19,759 --> 00:18:25,839 went into town rather earlier than usual, remarking before he started that he had 215 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:30,599 two important commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy home 216 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:37,000 a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife received 217 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,720 a telegram upon the same Monday, very shortly after his departure, to the 218 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:47,079 effect that a small parcel of considerable value, which she had been expecting, 219 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:52,519 was waiting for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, 220 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,000 if you are well up in your London, you will know that the office 221 00:18:56,039 --> 00:19:02,480 of the company is in Fresno Street, which branches out of upper Swandham Lane, 222 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:07,640 where you found me. To night, Missus Saint Clair had her lunch, 223 00:19:07,079 --> 00:19:11,480 started for the city, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, 224 00:19:11,839 --> 00:19:17,880 got her packet, and found herself at exactly four thirty five walking through 225 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,519 Swandham Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me so 226 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:30,799 far? It is very clear if you remember. Monday was an exceedingly hot 227 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,880 day, and Missus Saint Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of 228 00:19:36,039 --> 00:19:40,240 seeing a cab, as she did not like the neighborhood in which she found 229 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:45,480 herself. While she was walking in this way down Swandham Lane, she suddenly 230 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:49,720 heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her husband looking 231 00:19:49,759 --> 00:19:53,599 down at her, and as it seemed to her, beckoning to her from 232 00:19:53,599 --> 00:20:00,759 a second floor window. The window was open, and she di thinkly saw 233 00:20:00,839 --> 00:20:04,839 his face, which she describes as being terribly agitated. He waved his hand 234 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:10,759 frantically to her, and then vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed 235 00:20:10,759 --> 00:20:15,200 to her that he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. 236 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:21,559 One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that although he wore some 237 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:26,079 dark coat, such as he had started to town in, he had on 238 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:33,319 neither collar nor necktie. Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed 239 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:37,640 down the steps, for the house was none other than the opium den in 240 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,480 which you found me to night, and running through the front room, she 241 00:20:41,519 --> 00:20:45,079 attempted to ascend the stairs, which led to the first floor. At the 242 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:51,240 foot of the stairs, however, she met this less scark scoundrel of whom 243 00:20:51,279 --> 00:20:55,400 I have spoken, who thrust her back, and, aided by a Dane 244 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:00,240 who acts as assistant, there pushed her out into the street. Filled with 245 00:21:00,279 --> 00:21:04,480 the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the lane, and by 246 00:21:04,559 --> 00:21:10,960 rare good fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of constables with an inspector, 247 00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:15,759 all on their way to their beat. The inspector and two men accompanied 248 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:19,119 her back, and in spite of the continued resistance of the proprietor, they 249 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,160 made their way to the room in which mister Saint Clair had last been seen. 250 00:21:25,279 --> 00:21:29,119 There was no sign of him there, in fact, in the whole 251 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,599 of that floor, and there was no one to be found save a crippled 252 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:37,359 wretch of hideous aspect, who it seems made his home there. Both he 253 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:42,680 and the lascar stoutly swore that no one else had been in the front room 254 00:21:42,799 --> 00:21:48,759 during the afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was staggered and 255 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,480 had almost come to believe that missus Saint Clair had been deluded, when with 256 00:21:53,559 --> 00:21:57,440 a cry, she sprang at a small deal box which lay upon the table, 257 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:03,119 and tore the lid from it. Out there fell a cascade of children's 258 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:10,400 bricks. It was the toy which he had promised to bring home. This 259 00:22:10,599 --> 00:22:15,480 discovery and the evident confusion which the cripple showed, made the inspector realize that 260 00:22:15,519 --> 00:22:21,880 the matter was serious. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed 261 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:26,839 to an abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a sitting room, 262 00:22:27,039 --> 00:22:30,799 and led into a small bedroom which looked out upon the back of one 263 00:22:30,799 --> 00:22:37,279 of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom window is a narrow strip 264 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,680 which is dry at low tide, but is covered at high tide with at 265 00:22:41,799 --> 00:22:45,920 least four and a half feet of water. The bedroom window was a broad 266 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:51,680 one and opened from below. On examination, traces of blood were to be 267 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:56,559 seen upon the window sill, and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden 268 00:22:56,559 --> 00:23:02,240 floor of the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were 269 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:06,720 all the clothes of mister Neville Saint Clair, with the exception of his coat, 270 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,960 his boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch all were 271 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,720 there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these garments, and 272 00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:21,880 there were no other traces of mister Neville Saint Clair out of the window. 273 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:26,559 He must apparently have gone, for no other exit could be discovered, and 274 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:30,839 the ominous blood stains upon the sill gave little promise that he could save himself 275 00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:34,920 by swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of 276 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:40,880 the tragedy. And now, as the villains who seemed to be immediately implicated 277 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,400 in the matter. The lascar was known to be a man of the violess 278 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:51,839 antecedents, but as by Missus Saint Clair's story, he was known to have 279 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,839 been at the foot of the stair within a very few seconds of her husband's 280 00:23:55,839 --> 00:23:59,839 appearance at the window, he could hardly have been more than an accessory to 281 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:04,759 the crime. His defense was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that 282 00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:08,839 he had no knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, 283 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,000 and that he could not account in any way for the presence of the missing 284 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:21,400 gentleman's clothes. So much for the lescar manager, now for the sinister cripple 285 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:25,240 who lives upon the second floor of the Opium Den, and who was certainly 286 00:24:25,279 --> 00:24:30,160 the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville Saint Clair. His name is 287 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,960 Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which is familiar to every man 288 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,559 who goes much to the city. He is a professional beggar, though in 289 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:45,960 order to avoid the police regulations, he pretends to a small trade in wax 290 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:52,920 vestas. Some little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left hand side, 291 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:56,039 there is, as you may have remarked a small angle in the wall. 292 00:24:57,039 --> 00:25:02,480 Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, cross legged, with 293 00:25:02,599 --> 00:25:07,240 his tiny stalk of matches on his lap, And as he is a piteous 294 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:12,279 spectacle, a small rain of charity descends into the greasy leather cap which lies 295 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:18,599 upon the pavement beside him. I have watched the fellow more than once before 296 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,839 ever I thought of making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised at 297 00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:29,000 the harvests which he has reaped in a short time. His appearance, you 298 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:33,319 see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him without observing him. 299 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:40,160 A shock of orange hair, a pale face disfigured by a horrible scar which, 300 00:25:40,279 --> 00:25:44,799 by its contraction has turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, 301 00:25:45,519 --> 00:25:49,759 a bulldog chin, and a pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present 302 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:55,440 a singular contrast to the color of his hair, all mark him out from 303 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:00,759 amid the common crowd of mendicants. And so too does his wit, for 304 00:26:00,839 --> 00:26:03,880 he is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be 305 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,920 thrown at him by the passers by. This is the man whom we now 306 00:26:10,039 --> 00:26:14,079 learn to have been the lodger at the opium den and to have been the 307 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,279 last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest. But a 308 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:25,559 cripple, said I What could he have done single handed against a man in 309 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,160 the prime of life. He is a cripple in the sense that he walks 310 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,200 with a limp, but in other respects he appears to be a powerful and 311 00:26:34,279 --> 00:26:40,440 well nurtured man. Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that 312 00:26:40,559 --> 00:26:47,240 weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional strength in the others. 313 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,880 Pray continue your narrative, Missus. Saint Clair had fainted at the sight of 314 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,640 the blood upon the window, and she was escorted home in a cab by 315 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,240 the police, as her presence could be of no help to them in their 316 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:07,240 investigations. Inspector Borton, who had charge of the case, made a very 317 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:12,039 careful examination of the premises, but without finding anything which threw any light upon 318 00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:18,480 the matter. One mistake had been made in not arresting Boone instantly, as 319 00:27:18,519 --> 00:27:23,599 he was allowed some few minutes during which he might have communicated with his friend 320 00:27:23,839 --> 00:27:29,960 the Lascar. But this fault was soon remedied and he was seized and searched 321 00:27:30,079 --> 00:27:36,599 without anything being found which could incriminate him. There were, it is true, 322 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,680 some blood stains upon his right shirt sleeve, but he pointed to his 323 00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:45,480 ring finger, which had been cut near the nail, and explained that the 324 00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:48,680 bleeding came from there, adding that he had been to the window not long 325 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:53,079 before, and that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from the 326 00:27:53,119 --> 00:28:00,200 same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen mister Nevilson Claire, and swore 327 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:04,559 that the presence of the clothes in his room was as much a mystery to 328 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:11,440 him as to the police. As to Missus Saint Clair's assertion that she had 329 00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:15,480 actually seen her husband at the window, he declared that she must have been 330 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:22,279 either mad or dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting to the police station, 331 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,759 while the inspector remained upon the premises in the hope that the ebbing tide 332 00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:32,880 might afford some fresh clue. And it did, though they hardly found upon 333 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,279 the mud bank what they had feared to find. It was Nevill Saint Clair's 334 00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:42,359 coat, and not Neville Saint Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. 335 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,279 And what do you think they found in the pockets I cannot imagine. 336 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:56,960 No, I don't think you would guess every pocket stuffed with pennies and halfpennies 337 00:28:56,519 --> 00:29:03,720 four hundred and twenty one pennies and two hundred and seventy halfpennies. It was 338 00:29:03,759 --> 00:29:07,759 no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a 339 00:29:07,839 --> 00:29:11,680 human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between the wharf 340 00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:18,319 and the house. It seemed likely enough that the weighted coat had remained when 341 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:23,920 the stripped body had been sucked away into the river. But I understand that 342 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,519 all the other clothes were found in the room. Would the body be dressed 343 00:29:27,519 --> 00:29:33,759 in a coat alone, No, sir, But the facts might be met 344 00:29:34,119 --> 00:29:40,799 speciously enough. Suppose that this man Boone had thrust Neville Saint Clair through the 345 00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:45,119 window. There is no human eye which could have seen the deed. What 346 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:49,079 would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him that he must 347 00:29:49,119 --> 00:29:53,319 get rid of the tell tale garments. He would seize the coat then, 348 00:29:53,799 --> 00:29:57,519 and be in the act of throwing it out when it would occur to him 349 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,640 that it would swim and not sink. He has little time, for he 350 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,519 has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried to force her way up, 351 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:14,920 and perhaps he has already heard from his Lasgar confederate that the police are hurrying 352 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,359 up the street. There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes 353 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,720 to some secret horde where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and 354 00:30:23,839 --> 00:30:29,319 he stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the pockets 355 00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:33,079 to make sure of the coats sinking. He throws it out, and would 356 00:30:33,119 --> 00:30:37,440 have done the same with the other garments had he not heard the rush of 357 00:30:37,519 --> 00:30:41,640 steps below, and only just had time to close the window when the police 358 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:48,759 appeared. It certainly sounds feasible. Well, we will take it as a 359 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:55,000 working hypothesis for want of a better boone. As I have told you, 360 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,359 was arrested and taken to the station, But it could not be shown that 361 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,480 there had ever before been anything against him. He had for years been known 362 00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:08,079 as a professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very quiet 363 00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:15,000 and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and the questions which 364 00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:18,440 have to be solved, what Neville Saint Clair was doing in the Opium den, 365 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,720 what happened to him when there? Where is he now? And what 366 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:29,039 Hugh Boon has to do with his disappearance are all as far from a solution 367 00:31:29,359 --> 00:31:33,880 as ever. I confess that I cannot recall any case within my experience which 368 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:41,839 looked at the first glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties. While 369 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:47,079 Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of events, we had been whirling 370 00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:51,960 through the outskirts of the great town until the last straggling houses had been left 371 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,200 behind, and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. 372 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:02,359 Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages where 373 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:07,960 a few lights still glimmered in the windows. We are on the outskirts of 374 00:32:08,079 --> 00:32:13,640 Lee, said my companion. We have touched on three English counties in our 375 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,960 short drive, starting in Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and 376 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,440 ending in Kent. See that light among the trees, that is the cedars, 377 00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:29,319 and beside that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I 378 00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:35,839 have little doubt caught the clink of our horses feet. But why are you 379 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:40,720 not conducting the case from Baker Street, I asked? Because there are many 380 00:32:40,799 --> 00:32:46,119 inquiries which must be made out here. Missus Saint Clair has most kindly put 381 00:32:46,119 --> 00:32:51,440 two rooms at my disposal, and you may rest assured that she will have 382 00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:54,680 nothing but a welcome for my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, 383 00:32:54,799 --> 00:33:00,279 Watson, when I have no news of her husband. Here we are, 384 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,640 Woa there, Woa. We had pulled up in front of a large 385 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,839 villa which stood within its own grounds. A stable boy had run out to 386 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:14,680 the horse's head, and springing down, I followed Holmes up the small winding 387 00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:19,559 gravel drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door flew 388 00:33:19,599 --> 00:33:23,319 open, and a little blond woman stood in the opening, clad in some 389 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:29,440 sort of light mussoline des soult, with a touch of fluffy pink chiffon at 390 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:35,599 her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure outlined against the flood of 391 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,960 light, one hand upon the door, one half raised in her eagerness, 392 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:45,640 her body slightly bent, her head and face protruded with eager eyes and parted 393 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:52,519 lips. A standing question well, she cried well, and then seeing that 394 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:57,160 there were two of us, she gave a cry of hope, which sank 395 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,480 into a groan as she saw that my companion should took his head and shrugged 396 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:09,440 his shoulders. No good news, none, no bad no, thank God 397 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,960 for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have 398 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:19,320 had a long day. This is my friend, doctor Watson. He has 399 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,239 been of most vital use to me in several of my cases, and a 400 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:27,320 lucky chance has made it possible for me to bring him out and associate him 401 00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:32,719 with his investigation. I am delighted to see you, said she, pressing 402 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:37,239 my hand warmly. You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may 403 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:43,559 be wanting in our arrangements when you consider the blow which has come so suddenly 404 00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:49,159 upon us. My dear madam said I. I am an old campaigner, 405 00:34:49,519 --> 00:34:52,719 and if I were not, I can very well see that no apology is 406 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,400 needed. If I can be of any assistance, either to you or to 407 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:04,320 my friend here, I shall be indeed happy. Now, mister Sherlock Holmes, 408 00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:07,360 said the lady, as we entered a well lit dining room, upon 409 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:12,480 the table of which a cold supper had been laid out. I should very 410 00:35:12,559 --> 00:35:15,800 much like to ask you one or two plain questions, to which I beg 411 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:22,920 that you will give a plain answer. Certainly, madam, do not trouble 412 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,119 about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given to fainting. I 413 00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:35,000 simply wish to hear your real, real opinion. Upon what point in your 414 00:35:35,039 --> 00:35:40,280 heart of hearts do you think that Neville is alive? Sherlock Holms seemed to 415 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:45,960 be embarrassed by the question. Frankly now, she repeated, standing upon the 416 00:35:46,039 --> 00:35:51,320 rug and looking keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket chair. 417 00:35:52,159 --> 00:35:57,760 Frankly, then, Madam, I do not you think that he is 418 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:06,320 dead? I do murdered. I don't say that. Perhaps, And on 419 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:12,639 what day did he meet his death? On Monday? Then perhaps, mister 420 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,840 Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how it is that I have 421 00:36:15,199 --> 00:36:22,159 received a letter from him to day. Sherlock Holm sprang out of his chair, 422 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:28,559 as if he had been galvanized what he roared? Yes to day? 423 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,679 She stood, smiling, holding up a little slip of paper in the air. 424 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,920 May I see it? Certainly? He snatched it from her in his 425 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,840 eagerness, and smoothing it out upon the table. He drew over the lamp 426 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,480 and examined it intently. I had left my chair and was gazing at it 427 00:36:46,519 --> 00:36:52,440 over his shoulder. The envelope was a very coarse one, and was stamped 428 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:57,079 with the Gravesend postmark, and with the date of that very day, or 429 00:36:57,159 --> 00:37:01,840 rather of the day before, for it was considerably after midnight. Coarse writing, 430 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:07,440 murmured Holmes. Surely this is not your husband's writing, Madam. No, 431 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:15,079 but the enclosure is. I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had 432 00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:21,320 to go and inquire as to the address. How can you tell that the 433 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,360 name you see is in perfectly black ink, which has dried itself. The 434 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:30,039 rest is of the grayish color, which shows that blotting paper has been used. 435 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,519 If it had been written straight off and then blotted, none would be 436 00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:43,239 of a deep black shade. This man has written the name, and there 437 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,320 has then been a pause before he wrote the address, which can only mean 438 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:51,559 that he was not familiar with it. It is, of course a trifle, 439 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,639 but there is nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the 440 00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:02,679 letter. Ha. There has been an enclosed here. Yes, there was 441 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:08,599 a ring, his signet ring. And you are sure that this is your 442 00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:17,079 husband's hand, one of his hands, one his hand when he wrote hurriedly. 443 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,199 It is very unlike his usual writing, And yet I know it well, 444 00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:28,039 dearest, Do not be frightened. All will come well. There is 445 00:38:28,079 --> 00:38:31,519 a huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. Wait in 446 00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:38,039 patience. Neville written in pencil upon the fly leaf of a book octavo size, 447 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:44,440 no water mark, hum posted to day in her Gravesend by a man 448 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,920 with a dirty thumb ha, and the flap has been gummed. If I 449 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:52,400 am not very much in error, by a person who had been chewing tobacco, 450 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:59,519 And you have no doubt that it is your husband's hand, madam none. 451 00:39:00,119 --> 00:39:04,480 Neville wrote those words, and they were posted to day at Gravesend. 452 00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:08,559 Well, missus Saint Clair. The clouds lightened, though I should not venture 453 00:39:08,599 --> 00:39:14,639 to say that the danger is over. But he must be alive, mister 454 00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,960 Holmes, unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. 455 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,719 The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken 456 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:29,400 from him, No, no, it is it is his very own writing. 457 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:35,039 Very well. It may, however, been written on Monday and only 458 00:39:35,119 --> 00:39:42,199 posted to day. That is possible, if so much may have happened between. 459 00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:46,880 Oh, you must not discourage me, mister Holmes. I know that 460 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:52,079 all is well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us, 461 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,679 that I should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that 462 00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:00,840 I saw him last, he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I, 463 00:40:00,119 --> 00:40:06,719 in the dining room rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that something had 464 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,840 happened. Do you think that I would respond to such a trifle and yet 465 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:15,320 be ignorant of his death. I have seen too much not to know that 466 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:21,119 the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical 467 00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:24,679 reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong piece of evidence 468 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:30,440 to corroborate your view. But if your husband is alive and able to write 469 00:40:30,519 --> 00:40:36,400 letters, why should he remain away from you? I cannot imagine. It 470 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:42,559 is unthinkable. And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you. No, 471 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:49,639 and you were surprised to see him in Swandham Lane very much so was 472 00:40:49,679 --> 00:40:54,199 the window open? Yes, then he might have called to you. He 473 00:40:54,320 --> 00:41:01,239 might he only, as I understood, gave an inartic it cry, Yes, 474 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,360 a call for help. You thought, Yes, he waved his hands, 475 00:41:09,079 --> 00:41:14,960 but it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the unexpected 476 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,880 sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands it is possible, 477 00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:25,880 and you thought he was pulled back, he disappeared so suddenly he might have 478 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:30,599 leapt back. You did not see any one else in the room. No, 479 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:36,320 but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and the last car 480 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:40,280 was at the foot of the stairs. Quite so, your husband, as 481 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:45,000 far as you could see, had his ordinary clothes on, but without his 482 00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:52,599 collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare throat. Had he ever spoken 483 00:41:52,639 --> 00:41:59,840 of Swandham Lane? Never had he ever shown any signs of having taken opium? 484 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:06,920 Never? Thank you missus Saint Clair. Those are the principal points about 485 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,400 which I wish to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little supper 486 00:42:10,599 --> 00:42:17,519 and then retire, for we may have a very busy day tomorrow. A 487 00:42:17,639 --> 00:42:22,920 large and comfortable double bedded room had been placed at our disposal, and I 488 00:42:22,039 --> 00:42:27,360 was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary after my night of adventure. 489 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,800 Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, who, when he had an 490 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:37,360 unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for days and even for a week 491 00:42:37,559 --> 00:42:42,519 without rest, turning it over, rearranging his facts, looking at it from 492 00:42:42,559 --> 00:42:46,519 every point of view, until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that 493 00:42:46,599 --> 00:42:52,159 his data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now 494 00:42:52,199 --> 00:42:58,559 preparing for an all night sitting. He took off his coat and waistcoat and 495 00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:02,360 put on a large blo dressing gown, and then wandered about the room, 496 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:08,280 collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa and arm chairs. With 497 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:14,519 these he constructed a sort of Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross 498 00:43:14,599 --> 00:43:19,159 legged, with an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out 499 00:43:19,199 --> 00:43:22,480 in front of him. In the dim light of the lamp, I saw 500 00:43:22,559 --> 00:43:27,400 him sitting there, and old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed 501 00:43:27,519 --> 00:43:31,519 vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, 502 00:43:31,559 --> 00:43:37,199 silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong set aquiline features. 503 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,239 So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, And so he sat 504 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,840 when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found these summer 505 00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:53,639 sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still between his lips, the 506 00:43:53,679 --> 00:43:59,960 smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze. 507 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,800 But nothing remained of the heap of shagg which I had seen upon the 508 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:12,079 previous night. Awake Watson, he asked, yes, game for a morning 509 00:44:12,159 --> 00:44:16,760 drive? Certainly, then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I 510 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:22,360 know where the stable boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out. 511 00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,119 He chuckled to himself. As he spoke. His eyes twinkled, and 512 00:44:25,199 --> 00:44:31,280 he seemed a different man to the somber thinker of the previous night. As 513 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:36,480 I dressed, I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no 514 00:44:36,519 --> 00:44:40,599 one was stirring. It was twenty five minutes past four. I had hardly 515 00:44:40,639 --> 00:44:45,760 finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was putting in the horse. 516 00:44:46,519 --> 00:44:51,199 I want to test a little theory of mine, said he, pulling 517 00:44:51,199 --> 00:44:54,840 on his boots. I think, Watson, that you are now standing in 518 00:44:54,880 --> 00:45:00,639 the presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve to 519 00:45:00,679 --> 00:45:04,840 be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the key 520 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:10,679 of the affair now. And where is it? I asked, smiling in 521 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:15,800 the bathroom, he answered, oh, yes, I am not joking, 522 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:21,599 he continued, seeing my look of incredulity, I have just been there and 523 00:45:21,639 --> 00:45:24,719 I have taken it out, and I have got it in this gladstone bag. 524 00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,639 Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will not 525 00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:36,119 fit the lock. We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and 526 00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:43,159 out into the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and trap, 527 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,519 with a half clad stable boy waiting at the head. We both sprang 528 00:45:46,599 --> 00:45:52,760 in and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country carts were 529 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:58,480 stirring bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but the lines of villas on either 530 00:45:58,519 --> 00:46:02,880 side were as silent and lifeless as some city in a dream. It has 531 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:07,920 been in some points a singular case, said Holmes, flicking the horse on 532 00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:13,000 into a gallop. I confess that I have been as blind as a mole. 533 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,880 But it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at 534 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:23,400 all. In town, the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily from 535 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:29,760 their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey side. Passing down 536 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,320 the Waterloo Bridge Road, we crossed over the river, and, dashing up 537 00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,599 Wellington Street, wheeled sharply to the right and found ourselves in Bow Street. 538 00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:43,360 Sherlock Holmes was well known to the force, and the two constables at the 539 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,920 door saluted him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led 540 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:52,760 us in. Who is on duty? Asked Holmes. Inspect bread Street, 541 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:59,639 sir Ah bred Street, how are you? A tall stout official had come 542 00:46:59,679 --> 00:47:05,320 down the stun flagged passage and a peaked cap and frogged jacket. I wish 543 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,440 to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet. Certainly, mister Holmes, 544 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:14,400 step into my room. Here. It was a small office like room with 545 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,960 a huge letter upon the table and a telephone projecting from the wall. The 546 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,840 inspector sat down at his desk. What can I do for you, mister 547 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:27,440 Holmes? I called about that beggarman Boone, the one who was charged with 548 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:32,079 being concerned in the disappearance of mister Neville Saint Clair of Lee. Yes, 549 00:47:32,159 --> 00:47:37,320 he was brought up and remanded for further inquiries. So I heard you have 550 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:44,159 him here in the cells. Is he quiet? Oh? He gives no 551 00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:49,880 trouble, but he is a dirty scoundrel dirty. Yes. It is all 552 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,840 we can do to make him wash his hands, and his face is as 553 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:57,639 black as a tanker's well. Once his case has been settled, he will 554 00:47:57,679 --> 00:48:00,920 have a regular prison bath. And I think if you saw him you would 555 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:07,360 agree with me that he needed it. I should like to see him very 556 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:14,400 much, would you. That is easily done. Come this way you can 557 00:48:14,519 --> 00:48:20,199 leave your bag. No, I think that I'll take it very good. 558 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,159 Come this way if you please. He let us down a passage opened, 559 00:48:25,199 --> 00:48:30,679 a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and brought us to a 560 00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:36,199 whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each side. The third on the 561 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:40,239 right is his, said the inspector. Here it is. He quietly shot 562 00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:45,760 back a panel in the upward part of the door and glanced through. He 563 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:50,960 is asleep, said he. You can see him very well. We both 564 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,039 put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his face towards us, 565 00:48:54,360 --> 00:49:00,039 in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and heavily. He was a 566 00:49:00,079 --> 00:49:04,599 middle sized man, coarsely clad, as became his calling, with a colored 567 00:49:04,639 --> 00:49:08,480 shirt protruding through the rent and his tattered coat. He was, as the 568 00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:14,119 inspector had said, extremely dirty, but the grime which covered his face could 569 00:49:14,119 --> 00:49:19,679 not conceal its repulsive ugliness. A broad wheel from an old scar ran right 570 00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,440 across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction, had turned up 571 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:27,679 one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a 572 00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:32,039 perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over his eyes 573 00:49:32,079 --> 00:49:37,480 and forehead. He's a beauty, isn't he, said the inspector. He 574 00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:43,360 certainly needs a wash, remarked Holmes. I had an idea that he might, 575 00:49:43,679 --> 00:49:47,559 and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me. He opened 576 00:49:47,559 --> 00:49:52,480 the gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my astonishment, 577 00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:58,880 a very large bath sponge. He you are a funny one, chuckled the 578 00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,119 inspector. Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door 579 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:07,000 very quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable figure. 580 00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:14,519 Well, I don't know why not, said the inspector. He doesn't look 581 00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,920 a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he. He slipped his key 582 00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:22,519 into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The sleeper 583 00:50:22,599 --> 00:50:29,199 half turned and then settled down once more into a deep slumber. Holmes stooped 584 00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:34,119 to the water jug, moistened his sponge, and then rubbed it twice vigorously 585 00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:39,119 across and down the prisoner's face. Let me introduce you, he shouted to 586 00:50:39,159 --> 00:50:45,159 mister Neville, Saint Clair of Lee and the County of Kent. Never in 587 00:50:45,199 --> 00:50:50,840 my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled off under 588 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,840 the sponge, like the bark from a tree. Gone was the coarse brown 589 00:50:53,960 --> 00:51:00,960 tent. Gone too was a horrid scar which had seemed across the twisted lip, 590 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:05,639 which had given the repulsive sneer to the face. A twitch brought away 591 00:51:05,679 --> 00:51:09,000 the tangled red hair, and there, setting up in his bed was a 592 00:51:09,039 --> 00:51:15,000 pale, sad faced, refined looking man, black haired and smooth skinned, 593 00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:20,719 rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. Then, suddenly realizing 594 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,760 the exposure, he broke into a scream and threw himself down with his face 595 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:30,119 to the pillow. Great Heavens, cried the inspector. It is indeed the 596 00:51:30,199 --> 00:51:35,679 missing man. I know him from the photograph. The prisoner turned with the 597 00:51:35,679 --> 00:51:39,519 reckless air of a man who abandons himself to his destiny. Be it so, 598 00:51:40,159 --> 00:51:45,880 said he, and pray what I am charged with with making away with 599 00:51:45,079 --> 00:51:50,400 mister Neville Saint Oh, come, you can't be charged with that unless they 600 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,360 make a case of attempted suicide of it, said the inspector with a grin. 601 00:51:53,679 --> 00:51:58,320 Well, I have been twenty seven years in the force, but this 602 00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:04,800 really takes the cake. If I am mister Neville Saint Clair, then it 603 00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,679 is obvious that no crime has been committed, and that therefore I am illegally 604 00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:15,039 detained. No crime, but a very great error has been committed, said 605 00:52:15,039 --> 00:52:19,760 Holmes. You would have done better to have trusted your wife. It was 606 00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:23,119 not the wife, it was the children, grunned the prisoner. God help 607 00:52:23,159 --> 00:52:27,280 me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My God, 608 00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:32,159 what an exposure. What can I do? Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him 609 00:52:32,199 --> 00:52:37,639 on the couch and patted him kindly on the shoulder. If you leave it 610 00:52:37,679 --> 00:52:40,360 to the court of law to clear the matter up, said he. Of 611 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:45,840 course, you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, if you 612 00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:50,000 convince the police authorities that there is no possible case against you. I do 613 00:52:50,119 --> 00:52:53,280 not know that there is any reason that the details should find their way into 614 00:52:53,280 --> 00:53:00,559 the papers, Inspector Bradstreet, would I am sure, make notes upon anything 615 00:53:00,599 --> 00:53:04,599 which you might tell us, and submit it to the proper authorities. The 616 00:53:04,679 --> 00:53:09,559 case would then never go into court at all. God bless you, cried 617 00:53:09,559 --> 00:53:15,559 the prisoner Passionately, I would have endured imprisonment, i even execution, rather 618 00:53:15,599 --> 00:53:20,840 than have left my miserable secret as a family block to my children. You 619 00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,559 are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a schoolmaster 620 00:53:24,639 --> 00:53:30,519 in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent education. I traveled in my youth, 621 00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:34,760 took to the stage, and finally became a reporter of an evening paper 622 00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:38,280 in London. One day, my editor wished to have a series of articles 623 00:53:38,679 --> 00:53:44,039 upon begging in the Metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was 624 00:53:44,079 --> 00:53:49,039 the point from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying begging 625 00:53:49,079 --> 00:53:52,400 as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to base my articles. 626 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:57,679 When an actor, I had of course learned all the secrets of making 627 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,039 up, and had been famous in the green room for my skill. I 628 00:54:01,079 --> 00:54:06,159 took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my face, and to make 629 00:54:06,199 --> 00:54:10,360 myself as pitiable as possible, I made a good scar and fixed one side 630 00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:15,639 of my lip in a twist by the aid of a small slip of flesh 631 00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:21,480 colored plaster. Then, with a red head of hair and an appropriate dress, 632 00:54:21,639 --> 00:54:24,320 I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as 633 00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:29,960 a match seller, but really as a beggar. For seven hours I pollied 634 00:54:30,039 --> 00:54:32,320 my trade, and when I returned home in the evening, I found to 635 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:37,199 my surprise that I had received no less than twenty six shillings four d. 636 00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:44,519 I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until some time later 637 00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,760 I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ served upon me for 638 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:52,840 twenty five pounds. I was at my wits end where to get the money, 639 00:54:52,159 --> 00:54:57,239 but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's grace from 640 00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,480 the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employerlawyers, and spent the time 641 00:55:00,559 --> 00:55:05,920 in begging in the city under my disguise. In ten days I had the 642 00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,800 money and had paid the debt. Well you can imagine how hard it was 643 00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:14,559 to settle down to arduous work at two pounds a week, when I knew 644 00:55:14,559 --> 00:55:17,280 that I could earn as much in a day by smearing my face with a 645 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:22,840 little paint, laying my cap on the ground, and sitting still. It 646 00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:27,400 was a long fight between my pride and the money, but the dollars won 647 00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,079 at last, and I threw up, reporting, and sat day after day 648 00:55:30,199 --> 00:55:36,760 in the corner which I had first chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face, 649 00:55:37,079 --> 00:55:40,079 and filling my pockets with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. 650 00:55:40,559 --> 00:55:44,480 He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in 651 00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:49,239 Swandham Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar, and 652 00:55:49,559 --> 00:55:54,079 in the evenings transform myself into a well dressed man about town. This fellow 653 00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:59,880 Alascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew 654 00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:05,079 that my secret was safe in his possession. Well, very soon I found 655 00:56:05,119 --> 00:56:08,679 that I was saving considerable sums of money. I do not mean that any 656 00:56:08,679 --> 00:56:13,800 beggar in the streets of London could earn seven hundred pounds a year, which 657 00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:19,239 is less than my average takings. But I had exceptional advantages in my power 658 00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:23,280 of making up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by 659 00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:29,920 practice and made me quite a recognized character in the city. All day a 660 00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:34,559 stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, and it 661 00:56:34,639 --> 00:56:37,440 was a very bad day in which I failed to take two pounds. As 662 00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:42,800 I grew richer, I grew more ambitious took a house in the country, 663 00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:47,119 and eventually married without any one having a suspicion as to my real occupation. 664 00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,159 My dear wife knew that I had business in the city, she little knew 665 00:56:52,199 --> 00:56:58,559 what. Last Monday, I had finished for the day and was dressing in 666 00:56:58,599 --> 00:57:01,519 my room above the opium den when I looked out my window and saw, 667 00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:07,599 to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the street with 668 00:57:07,679 --> 00:57:12,039 her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of surprise, threw 669 00:57:12,119 --> 00:57:15,119 up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my confidant the 670 00:57:15,199 --> 00:57:21,079 Lascar, entreated him to prevent any one from coming up to me. I 671 00:57:21,119 --> 00:57:25,519 heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that she could not ascend Swiftly. 672 00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:30,519 I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put 673 00:57:30,519 --> 00:57:35,199 on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's eyes could not pierce so completely 674 00:57:35,239 --> 00:57:38,719 at disguise. But then it occurred to me that there might be a search 675 00:57:38,719 --> 00:57:43,920 in the room, and that the clothes might betray me. I threw open 676 00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:47,719 the window, reopening by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon 677 00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:53,480 myself in the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat which was waited 678 00:57:53,519 --> 00:57:58,400 by the coppers, which I had just transferred to it from the leather bag 679 00:57:58,639 --> 00:58:01,880 in which I carried my take. I hurled it out of the window and 680 00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:07,519 it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes would have followed, but at 681 00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:10,400 that moment there was a rush of constables up the stair, and a few 682 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:15,920 minutes after I found rather I confess to my relief that instead of being identified 683 00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:21,639 as mister Neville Saint Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. I do 684 00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:24,639 not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I was determined 685 00:58:24,639 --> 00:58:29,760 to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and hence my preference for a 686 00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:34,880 dirty face. Knowing that my wife would be terribly anxious, I slipped off 687 00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:38,840 my ring and confided it to the Lascar at a moment when no constable was 688 00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:44,280 watching me, together with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no 689 00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:50,159 cause to fear. The note only reached her yesterday, said Holmes. Good 690 00:58:50,199 --> 00:58:55,440 God, what a week she must have spent. The police have watched this, 691 00:58:55,559 --> 00:59:00,079 Lascar, said Inspector Bradstreet, and I can quite understand that he might 692 00:59:00,119 --> 00:59:05,800 find it difficult to post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some 693 00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,920 sailor customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days. That 694 00:59:10,199 --> 00:59:15,280 was it, said Holmes, nodding approvingly. I have no doubt of it. 695 00:59:15,119 --> 00:59:21,760 But have you never been prosecuted for becking? Many times? But what 696 00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:27,719 was a fine to me? It must stop here, however, said Broadstreet. 697 00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:30,039 If the police are to hush this thing up, there must be no 698 00:59:30,199 --> 00:59:37,360 more of Hugh Boone. I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which 699 00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:42,000 a man can take. In that case, I think that it is probable 700 00:59:42,039 --> 00:59:45,880 that no further steps may be taken. But if you are found again, 701 00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:50,000 then all must come out. I am sure, mister Holmes, that we 702 00:59:50,199 --> 00:59:53,840 are very much indebted to you for having cleared the matter up. I wish 703 00:59:53,880 --> 01:00:00,400 I knew how you reach your results. I reached this one, said my 704 01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:05,760 friend, by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I 705 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,840 think, Watson, that if we drive to Baker Street, we shall just 706 01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:20,360 be in time for breakfast. And of the Man with a Twisted Lip by 707 01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:21,960 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle