WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:04.280 And now, doctor Watson, how about that stolen neighbor Treedy. 2 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:06.440 Yes, let's see. 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:07.960 One July morning. 4 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:12.160 It was the July which immediately succeeded my marriage. Eh 5 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:16.160 and received a communication from an old school friend, Percy Philips. 6 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:21.640 Percy's mother's brother was Lord Holhurst, the great Conservative politician, 7 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:25.359 and this rather gorder relationship was. 8 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:27.079 Of little value to him when we were at. 9 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.760 School, I can assure you. However, they let us seem 10 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:34.840 to be fairly urgent. So I headed around to Baker Street. 11 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.320 I found Homes in his dressing gown, plunged in the 12 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:43.000 middle of a chemical investigation. A large curved retort was 13 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:46.920 boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner. 14 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.439 Seeing the look of concentration on Holmes's face, I seated 15 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:55.240 myself in my old arm chair and waited, hardly daring 16 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:55.840 to breathe. 17 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:19.040 H Most enlightening, Most enlightening. Yes, you come at a crisis, Watson. 18 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:21.920 If this slip of paper remains blue when it touches 19 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:24.879 the solution, all will be well. If it turned red, 20 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:27.680 it means a man's life. I see sturn it rupt Watson. 21 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:35.599 This is the crucial moment. I watch carefully there, But 22 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:38.799 I see it has burned red and nasty blood red. 23 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:41.879 Blood red is quite correct, Watson, A very commonplace murder. 24 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.519 Well that's the end of battle experiment. Hi, fill up 25 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:47.560 your pipe and then hand me the Persian slip on. 26 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:55.599 All right, here you are, so you've come on business, Watson? Yes, 27 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.959 but how did you know the letter touched so tightly 28 00:01:57.959 --> 00:01:59.760 in your right hand? Not to mention the look of 29 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:03.040 acitment and anxiety on your face. You are the stormy 30 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.959 petrol of crime. Watson. What is it with this letter? 31 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:07.840 It came in the morning mail. Read it to me. 32 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:08.520 That's a good chap. 33 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:10.800 It's from an old schoolfellow of mine. I haven't seen 34 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:11.439 him for years. 35 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:12.520 Yes, but what did he say? 36 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.199 The letter is headed Briar Bray Woking. My dear Watson, 37 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:21.319 I trust you still remember Tadpole Phelps, who was in 38 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.759 the fourth Forem when you were in the third. You 39 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.520 may even have heard that through my uncle's influence, I 40 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:29.000 obtained a good appointment at the Foreign Office, where I 41 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.840 was in a situation of trust until a horrible misfortune 42 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.759 suddenly blasted my career. Do you think you could persuade 43 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.759 your friend Sherlock Holmes to come down here to help 44 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:41.280 solve this terrible mess. 45 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:44.199 Assure him that the only reason I have not asked. 46 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.280 His advice sooner was because I have been completely off 47 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.719 my head for nine weeks. I am still so weak 48 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.400 that I have to write by dictating, as you see, 49 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:57.080 your old schoolfellow, Percy Phelps, h let. 50 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:59.919 Me see that letter doesn't tell us very much, does 51 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:03.120 hardly anything. Yet the writing is of interest, but it's 52 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.879 not his own. Precisely, it's a woman's, but it looks 53 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:07.560 like a man. No, it's a woman's, and a woman 54 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.800 of unusually strong character. It's always interesting to know that 55 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.319 your client is in close contact with someone who, for 56 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:16.879 good or evil, has an exceptional nature. Yes, my interest 57 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:18.840 is already awakened in the matter. Then you will take 58 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:21.360 the case. The next train for walking leaves an exactly 59 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:23.919 forty three minutes. Howry, what's no we shall miss. 60 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:42.919 It if you step in here, gentlemen, I find out 61 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:44.120 if mister Phelps. 62 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:44.240 Can see you. 63 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:50.319 Dear, dear, Well, the old place hasn't changed since the 64 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:52.879 days when I used to visit here on my vacations. 65 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:55.360 It makes me feel quite young again. 66 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.439 Ah, show our curves, I perceive and Dr Watson too, 67 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.879 I presume, so glad you could come. Percy's been inquiring 68 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:06.599 for you all morning. Poor chap it clings to any straw. 69 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:08.919 My dear man, I may look as thin as a straw, 70 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:11.560 but I promise you I have more weight mentally. I've 71 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:13.919 to see you yourself and not a member of the family. Oh, 72 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.120 dear me, how did you know the monogram on the 73 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:17.040 pocket of your blazer? 74 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:20.439 J H Of course, of course, But a moment I 75 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:21.680 thought you had done something clever. 76 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:24.519 My name is Hardison, Joseph Edison. 77 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.600 Percy is engaged to marry my sister Annie, so I 78 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.199 shall soon be a relation by marriage. At any rate. 79 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.800 My sister is with him now. She's nursed him hand 80 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:36.240 and foot during these trying two months. 81 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.439 Soothing his fevered brow. Eh, lucky fellow. 82 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.560 Yes, you will find them in his room, My room rather. 83 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:44.480 At least it used to be my room until he 84 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:48.360 came home after the catastrophe and corpsed. They couldn't carry 85 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.800 him upstairs he was in such a state, so they 86 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:52.000 took him into my room. 87 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.040 We'd better go in it once. I know how impatient he 88 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:56.560 is to see you. 89 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.120 Yes, this conversation is delightful, But after all, we did 90 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:00.000 come to see mister Phelps. 91 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.879 Oh yes, yes, quite so go on this way. It's 92 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:04.319 in this swing next to the dining room. 93 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:06.839 You say, this is the door. I'll leave you here. 94 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:08.639 You can come in if you like. Oh no, thank you. 95 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:12.399 No invalids are always depressing, and with this misfortune hanging 96 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:17.480 over his head, poor fellow, very well, come in. 97 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.199 Oh you've come at last, at least I presume this 98 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:23.199 is Sherlock Holmes. 99 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:25.279 Quite and how is your patient? Well, he's much better, 100 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.839 thank you? What's in my dear fellow? Well tell you 101 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:31.560 that I hardly knew you under that mustache. I didn't 102 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.720 delight to see your both. This is my fanswer, Miss Harrison. 103 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:38.199 Please sit down. Shall I leave Percy? Oh no, don't 104 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:40.879 go any if you don't mind, mister Herbs, not at all. 105 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.480 I feel much steadier when she's here. Quite and now 106 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.439 this Phelps, Well you see, mister Herbs, it's like this. 107 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.759 I was a happy and successful man, even being married, 108 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:56.000 and then this dreadful misfortune wrecked my life. I'm a 109 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:59.480 broken man, my honor God, I I ruined. 110 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:00.560 Ruined Percy. 111 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.160 Please you'll make yourself ill again. 112 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:05.279 I'm sorry, and perhaps you'd better just tell us the 113 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.199 facts as quietly as you can. So, of course, mister Holmes, 114 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:11.319 I was, as Watson may have told you, in the 115 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:15.800 Foreign Office, in a responsible position. My uncle, Lord Holdhurst 116 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:19.800 is the foreign minister, you know well, nearly eight years ago, 117 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:23.160 weeks rather the twenty third of May to me exact, 118 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:26.360 he called me into his private room and informed that 119 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:35.360 he had a commission of trust for me to execute. 120 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:48.959 Come in, Come in, Oh it's you, Percy. Anyone out 121 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:52.399 there in the hall nursing good, Come in and lock 122 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:52.800 the door. 123 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:55.360 Now come over here. 124 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:57.680 I want to make sure we can't be overheard. 125 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.959 That's it. What's up, uncle? You look tremendously solemn. It's 126 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:05.040 a solemn matter, Percy. You see this piece of paper. 127 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:09.600 It's a secret treaty covering our naval situation in the Mediterranean. 128 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.920 Harmless enough in itself, but a bombshell. If it should 129 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:19.480 fall into the hands of well certain government, the very 130 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:20.759 walls may have years. 131 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:21.160 Persy. 132 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.279 Let us merely say the country of X. You understand, 133 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:27.879 I understand. I want you to make a copy of it. 134 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:31.519 I must have a complete copy by tomorrow morning. You 135 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:33.000 may have to work on it the better part of 136 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:33.360 the night. 137 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.160 Oh that's all right, sir. Joseph and his brother you know, 138 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:38.120 is going to stop buy for me. We're going to 139 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.000 take the nine o'clock train together. He can tell the 140 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:41.639 family I've been kept in town on business. 141 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:45.120 Very well, but leave the message with the commissionaire downstairs. 142 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:48.920 I don't want anyone in your room when you're copying 143 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:49.600 that document. 144 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:50.439 Very good, sir. 145 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:53.480 When you've finished, you can put the document and the 146 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.879 copy in my safe. You know the combination. I believe, 147 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:02.240 certainly that's all percy. But don't forget. You hold the 148 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:06.920 peace of Europe in your hands. I won't forget. Good night, 149 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:12.920 Uncle Bert, good night. This is the way I'll have 150 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:13.759 to make a night of it. 151 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:23.439 Ay. Well, hello, Gotta, you're still here. 152 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.399 Oh yes, I had some details to clear up, so 153 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.160 I thought you'd want me to stay. 154 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.519 Oh that's all right, Gotta. You can finish tomorrow, Yes, sir, 155 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:36.159 are you sure you won't need me? No? Thanks, doesn't 156 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:37.399 look as though I have a chance to go out 157 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:43.159 for dinner. At least I can bring for coffee. Oh confounded? 158 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:50.759 That bell pulls twisted again. Huh rains coming down harder 159 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:53.559 than ever. Nice jolly little evening. 160 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:54.960 This is you? 161 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:55.320 Sure? 162 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:56.840 There's nothing I can do with to the phelps? 163 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:57.559 Good lord? 164 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:13.799 No gota run along? Good night, sir, good I gotta hello, 165 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:15.559 are you? 166 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:19.559 I'm the Commissioner's wife, sir. What's more, I'm the child 167 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:23.720 idea around here, the child lady. I see. I don't 168 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.559 believe I've ever had the pleasure of making your acquaintance before. No, sir, 169 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.720 that you haven't. If you mean what I think you do, 170 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:32.759 would you inquire if your esteem spouse would spare me 171 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:35.320 a coup of the excellent coffee he keeps hot for 172 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.279 any pay slaves of the Empire who are obliged to 173 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:39.080 work at night. 174 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:40.799 You mean, herb, we should bring you half a cup 175 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:41.360 of coffee. 176 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.799 Yes, please, I'll see what I can do about Yes, 177 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:50.240 use your influence. Well let's have a look at that treaty. 178 00:09:51.480 --> 00:10:04.879 Mm great Britain triple Alliance. Yes, French leaped complete ascendency. 179 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:19.960 Oh it's no use, I'm too drowsy. 180 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:26.799 Oh is the guy would have a cup of coffee? Herbert, 181 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:32.519 I say, Herbert coffee? Oh found a fellow draft all 182 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:44.720 the way downstairs, Herbert. Mm hmm, fast asleep, Herbert, Wake up? 183 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:46.679 Hell. 184 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:52.159 Well, Oh it's you, mister Philps. Yes, I came down 185 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:54.320 to see my coffee was ready. But I think the 186 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:59.759 front doorbells rang bell? Yes, but if you was here, 187 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.120 who rang that bell? What bell? I told you it 188 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.600 was that it's the bell of the room you was 189 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:10.600 working inside. Great thunder my bell. There's no one up there. Treaty, 190 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:12.919 Oh good, heavens. I left it on the table quick, covid. 191 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:17.360 We've got to get up there. Something terrible is heavening. Go, 192 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:20.320 don't run so faster, Gray Cord. It's not too late. 193 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:23.559 Wad I lopened the door, stand back of it. 194 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:24.639 He be armed. 195 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:29.360 I got my army revolver. There's no one here. What 196 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:32.320 look the treaty. The treaty is gone? Or who could 197 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:32.840 have taken it? 198 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:34.879 No one's been in the front way tonight, sir. 199 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:37.600 And there was no one in the rooms but yourself. 200 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.039 My wife says, so then you must have comped the 201 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:41.960 stairs in the side door and slipped out that way too. 202 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.559 You're after in heaven quickly. You may not be too late. 203 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.480 Pray man, hurry, don't you go out, sir? You miss 204 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:55.080 your besked to the skin. Hell, there's a policeman on 205 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:57.559 the corner. Have he's seen something? I say, Bobby, if 206 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.519 if youre there's been a robbery in the poll an office? 207 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:02.000 Has any passed this way? It's tending a quarter of 208 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.759 an hour soon. Only one living souls passed in that time? 209 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.440 Who was it that all old lady in Appaisley Shaw. 210 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:09.519 She seemed in a hurry, for that was my wife? 211 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:12.200 Which way did she go? You're just wasting your time, sir, 212 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:15.080 and every minutes of importance. It's all right, we'll go 213 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.639 back and forward. Scotland Yard. Oh, it is terrible, terrible, 214 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.240 we're ruined. Uh, never you mind, sir. 215 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:24.799 You'll lose your posts perhaps, but they can't do nothing, 216 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:25.879 so dreadful to you. 217 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:27.480 It's not myself I'm thinking of. 218 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:30.039 It's England. 219 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.639 Well offices from Scotland Yard. We're waiting for the charwoman 220 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.200 when she got home. And what did they find? Nothing? 221 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:53.240 Absolutely nothing? And god did they trace him, yes, mister Holmes, 222 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:56.679 but again nothing was found. I was frantic, out of 223 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:58.919 my mind. They had to get a doctor to take 224 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.600 me home. I was delirious seven weeks and these two 225 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:04.840 people got own the charwoman. They've been under observation ever since. 226 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.720 I suppose, Yes, with no results. You say it had 227 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:10.519 been raining all evening. Yes, but you found no traces 228 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:12.639 of any kind in the room. No footprints, I mean 229 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.000 absolutely none, not even those are the charwoman's muddy boots. 230 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.480 How do you explain that? Well, the charwomen in the 231 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.360 habit of taking off their boots and wearing just carpet slippers. 232 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.799 No footprints. Eh, has been lightening. Must have come in 233 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:26.960 a cab and got away that way too the next day. 234 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.639 The policeman's not seeing not in mister Phelps. Could anyone 235 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.519 have been concealed in the room or in the corridor? Impossible? 236 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.320 There there was no cover of any kind, windows thirty 237 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:38.320 feet above the ground and locked on the inside. That 238 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:41.039 it must have been the side door. Who knew you 239 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.600 were to have the treaty in your possession? No, I'd 240 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.879 take my oath on it. In your opinion, what would 241 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:48.840 happen if those papers were to fall into the hands 242 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:53.720 of a rival government war almost instantaneously? But it's eight 243 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.320 weeks and we're not at war. Therefore it's not unfair 244 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:58.759 to suppose the treaty hasn't reached them. I don't imagine 245 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:00.879 the thief took the treaty in all to frame it 246 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:04.159 quite when he's undoubtedly waiting for a better price. There's 247 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.919 only one clue that puzzles me. What is that the bell? 248 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:09.840 Did someone ring it to prevent the crime or was 249 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.759 it an accident? If we only knew why the bell 250 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:14.600 was run, we should have the solution of this case. 251 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:19.080 It's even possible if he didn't. Of course, of course, 252 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:20.879 what a fool I was not to think of that before. 253 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:23.799 You think you can help me, possibly possibly, God bless 254 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:24.919 you for that, mister Holmes. 255 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:27.120 If we can keep our courage and our patience, the 256 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:30.279 truth must come out. But Percy has won more adventure 257 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.960 to tell you about. You're sure you're strong enough, darling. 258 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:35.559 Oh, I feel better than I have for days. Hope 259 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:38.360 is a splendid tonic anny. And what was this other incident, 260 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.879 mister Phelps. Well, you see, mister Holmes, last night was 261 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:43.759 the very first night that I'd slept without a nurse 262 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.080 in my rooms. I was rather wakeful. I had a 263 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:50.840 nightmare or two, and suddenly I heard a slight noise, 264 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:54.960 kind of noise like a mouse gnawing a plank. It 265 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:57.720 grew louder, and all at once there was a sharp, 266 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:01.240 metallic snack someone forcing the wind. As I realized that too, 267 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:03.240 I jumped out of bed and flung open the shutters. 268 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:06.279 A man was crouching in the window. He was gone 269 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.279 like a flash. What do you look like? I don't 270 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:10.480 really know. He was wrapped in some sort of cloak 271 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:12.840 which had come across the lower part of his face. Oh, 272 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:14.639 A one thing I am sure of. He had a 273 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:16.799 long weapon in his hand that looked like a knife. 274 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:18.720 I saw the gleam of it as he turned to run. 275 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.080 I shouted after him, and then then I must have 276 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.639 collapsed from the effort. The next thing I knew, I 277 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.919 was surrounded by the entire household. Oh, Joseph and the 278 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.159 groom found marks in the flower bed outside this window. 279 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.200 You could see them from where you sit. Hear me, Yes, 280 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:34.879 I'm afraid Joseph and the groom have been a bit 281 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:37.000 too energetic for me to learn anything from the traces. 282 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:39.039 A flower bed looks as if it had been trampled 283 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:42.240 on by an army. Oh, I'm sorry. Why should a burglar, 284 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.399 if it was a burglar, choose to enter this room. 285 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:46.960 The dining room windows are much larger and more accessible. 286 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:51.039 I can't imagine anless well unless it's a plot against Percy. 287 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:54.159 If that sounds a bit melodramatic, ed at all, as 288 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:57.039 something in what Miss Hallison says so much that Doctor 289 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:58.600 Watson and I are got to take you up to 290 00:15:58.639 --> 00:15:59.159 London with us. 291 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:01.279 Yes, but he's not very strong. 292 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:03.879 You know the trip to London will not be nearly 293 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:06.679 so dangerous to your fiance, Miss Harrison as another night 294 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.639 in this room and another thing, Miss Harrison, you can 295 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:12.240 be very helpful to answer to mister Help help mister Phelps. 296 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:14.679 If you'll do one thing for me, you may take courage, 297 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:16.320 but I think I can promise that you will be 298 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:18.240 in no great personal danger. What is it you want 299 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:20.519 me to do? Stay in this room until you go 300 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.799 to bed tonight. Don't leave it for an instant, Mister Phelps, 301 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:26.559 reputation and my whole future may depend on it. I'm 302 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:28.320 not going to ask you to sleep here, but when 303 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:29.919 you leave for the night, I want you to lock 304 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:32.159 the bedroom door on the outside. Yes, but look here, 305 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:34.639 something might happen. Not a word to anyone. It's for 306 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:39.279 his sake. Remember, come in lunch, everybody. Something is specially 307 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.000 nice for you. Percy. Come along, Anny, oh. 308 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.639 Joseph, if you'll excuse me. I have a slight headache. 309 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.960 I think I'll eat in here by myself. 310 00:16:48.000 --> 00:17:12.440 There's a breeze, and I want to be alone. 311 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:15.640 I can't say I enjoyed cross country walks in the 312 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:17.880 middle of the night, Watson. I thought we were going 313 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.720 back to London. That's what you told everybody. 314 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:23.279 We get on the train with Percy and the nurse 315 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:25.359 and then we get off at the next station and 316 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:27.559 leave Percy and the nurse to go up to London alone. 317 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.480 It doesn't make sense. Stop fussing. He'll be all right. 318 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:32.559 I sent him on to Baker Street. With any luck, 319 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:34.559 we should be there ourselves in time to have breakfast 320 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:36.920 with him. Yes, but why sneak back to Briar Bray 321 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:40.960 like this? Not so loud? There's the house now, you 322 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.039 can see its gables in the moonlight. Follow me here 323 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.680 through the hedge. But why the hedge when the gate's open. 324 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:47.440 Not so loud. 325 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:49.519 We've got to get as near as a house as 326 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:50.759 possible without being seen. 327 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:55.880 I say, there's quite a myster rising, ghostly looking white 328 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:59.200 strips of it over there in the meadow. I say, look, 329 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.240 the lamp is still lit. Him pleasant, I mean in 330 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:05.839 Joseph's room. Miss Hallison must have kept her promise. 331 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:14.680 Sh Yes, there she is reading a book. Now she's 332 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:18.440 put it down. She's picking up the lamp. 333 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.119 I say, Holmes, she must be getting ready to. 334 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:24.240 Go to bed, quite possibly, Watson. I only hope she 335 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:27.880 doesn't forget to lock the door on the outside. There 336 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:33.119 she goes to the dining room. Now the light's gone. 337 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.000 I see the mists are creeping up in the meadow. Y, 338 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:40.599 if only the thief doesn't wait until they blanket the house. 339 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:45.680 Look, the service door is opening. Excellent. 340 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:48.680 I didn't think he'd wait very long. 341 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:54.720 There he comes out into the moonlight. He's waiting a 342 00:18:54.759 --> 00:19:00.599 long black keep. You can't see his face. He's forcing 343 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:05.799 the window. He's kind of open. He's climbing over the sill. 344 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:07.640 We must get closer so we can see. 345 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:11.720 I see he's letting the candles on the mantle. 346 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:18.400 Look, he's putting back the rug in the floor. I 347 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:21.720 thought so he's lifting up aboard. 348 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:26.640 Now, then, mister Joseph Harrison, he good enough to hand 349 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:28.799 over the papers you've just removed from that hiding pace. Hold, 350 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:44.079 he's got a knife. You really have to see clipper 351 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:47.440 craft clothes to know their excellence, and it's easy enough 352 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:50.880 to see them right at your own local independent store. 353 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:54.599 You have to see them because such superlatively fine quality 354 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:58.960 sold at such low prices amazes even the experts. Suits 355 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:02.000 are only forty dollars and forty three seventy five top 356 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.279 coats and overcoats are only forty dollars, and sport jackets 357 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:08.559 only twenty five dollars. The fit is beautiful, the woolens 358 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:12.599 are long wearing, the tailoring is really superb. The famous 359 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:16.599 clipper Craft plan makes this sheer magic possible, concentrating the 360 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:20.160 buying power of nine hundred and twenty four leading stores 361 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:23.240 across the nation, giving you the savings from this group. 362 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:27.519 Buying at the store you trust. Selling expensive clothes at 363 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:31.920 inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest independent stores is 364 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:35.920 the great, big idea behind the Clippercraft Plan. That's why 365 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:39.720 men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes, So be sure 366 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:41.799 to visit the Clippercraft store in your city. 367 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.200 The leading stores in the metropolitan area that bring you 368 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:49.720 Clippercraft clothes are Sacks thirty fourth Broadway of thirty fourth Street, Manhattan, 369 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:53.799 Abraham and Strauss, Brooklyn, the Boulevard Men's Shop, Creskin Ewick, Newick, 370 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.519 New Jersey, and the B and B Clothes Shop, one 371 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.799 sixty four oh eight Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica. These great, courteous 372 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.640 and friendly stores are proud to add their names to 373 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:06.960 that of Clippercraft in the label of your suit, top coat, 374 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:24.279 sports jacket and overcoat. Now let's return to two twenty 375 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:27.920 one B Baker Street, where Percy Phelps is anxiously awaiting 376 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:29.359 the arrival of Sherlock Holmes. 377 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:39.599 But it's almost nine now, Missus Hudson, and Holmes said 378 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:41.920 they'd be here for breakfast at nine. Now, don't you worry, 379 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:44.759 mister Phelps. If he says he'll be here for breakfast, 380 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:48.440 he'll be here. It's when he don't say that, that's 381 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:51.079 when you don't know whether it'll be breakfast or supper. 382 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.519 He'll be wanting next. What did I. 383 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:54.839 Tell you here? 384 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.759 They are now driving up in a handsome cab. 385 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:05.680 There's the front door and it's nine to the second. 386 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:10.480 Good morning, Missus Hudson, Good morning, sir. Breakfast is on 387 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:14.680 the tablets. What I say, homes, you've been wounded, your 388 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:20.480 hands all tied up just to scratch hmm, breakfast, three 389 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:27.079 covered dishes, splendid and plenty of steaming coffee. Excellent? Did 390 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:31.160 you I mean income? Come? Business can wait until after breakfast. 391 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:32.880 You look as if you needed a bit of nourishment, 392 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:35.880 mister Phelps. Well I'm rilling up, really hungry. Well we are, 393 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:42.960 Andrey Watson, I'm revenous. Ha ha what's this? Mm? Carry 394 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:51.200 chicken and this ham and eggs? Better and better? Which 395 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:53.519 will you take? Mister Phelps? Thank you. I couldn't touch 396 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:55.559 a thing or come try the dish before you. I'd 397 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:57.480 rather not. Really, Well, then I suppose you have no 398 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:01.000 objection to helping me. Let's see what that dish contains. 399 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:08.440 Certainly what it's papers, it's the neighbor, a treaty, the neighbor. Oh, 400 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:12.000 God bless you, mister Holmes, God bless you. You saved 401 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:14.960