WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.320 Hmm, But to me again at the beginning, and let 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:04.839 me see. 3 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:08.240 It was a murky midsummer day in the late nineties 4 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:11.320 when Holmes came into breakfast. You found a large envelope 5 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:14.800 addressed in a scrawling, rather flamboyant hand, and with a 6 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:26.600 decidedly grandiose purple seal appixed to the back flap. Worrying Watson, 7 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:27.480 per Holmes. 8 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:28.640 I thought you were never going to get up. 9 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.079 I see there's a tremendously important looking letter waiting for you. 10 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.119 Really a communication from a court chamberlain, I presume telling 11 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:35.880 me I'm to be knighted. 12 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:36.880 Oh, don't be an ass. 13 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.079 And what's so asinine about that? What did I do 14 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:43.600 with my tobacco? Plenty of pumpous non entities. Without one 15 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:45.560 tenth my brains have managed to get themselves on the 16 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:49.399 honors list. Con found that tobacco pouch? Where is it? 17 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:52.439 I'll never manage your tobacco pouch. Here, have a cigar 18 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:54.000 and sit down and open your mail. 19 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:59.320 Oh, thank you, Watson. Yes, your practice must be improving 20 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:04.680 your cigars of becoming quite respectable, yes, quite respectable. 21 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.799 Homes your old fraud. I don't think for one minute 22 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:09.760 you mislaid your tobacco patch. There it is in the 23 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:11.000 pocket of your dressing gown. 24 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:14.040 Well, so it is now fancy. 25 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:15.519 That as you are just trying to wrangle one of 26 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:16.439 man youw cigars. 27 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:18.640 I see how emblazed? Did you know? 28 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.640 I've been given a box of Corona coronas. 29 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:23.920 My dear Wat's in the Morning Times lists the birth 30 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.920 of another son to mister Harridge, the hair tonic millionaire, 31 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.879 and to missus harriage too. Of course he always gives 32 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:31.840 you Corona coronas on these occasions. 33 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:33.760 Homes, Will you stop blithering and open that letter? 34 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.640 Dear, dear impatient this morning, aren't we, Yes, Watson, you're 35 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:40.120 as anxious and high strung as any prospective father when 36 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:42.079 you think you see a new case in the office, Homes, 37 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:48.159 Will you please, very well, very well? Ah, what have 38 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:48.599 we heard? 39 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:49.760 The person? 40 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:53.040 Mark says Mort's Bay that's in North Devin. If I'm 41 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.200 not mistaken, No, for once you're correct, I believe Mortalake 42 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:57.680 Castle overlooks Mort's Bay. 43 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.120 Correct again, your average is rising, Watson. 44 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.200 Will and the letter must be from Lord Roger Mortlake, 45 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.400 the seventh baron Embers. Only the man who's head of 46 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.479 the family would have such a dashing handwriting and would 47 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:10.199 see the letters with the family. 48 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:13.159 Cress back to normal, Watson, what do you mean in 49 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:15.800 the first place, it's not the Mortlake Seal, so much 50 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:18.319 newer cress, the one invented by the late Samuel Pridgett, 51 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:22.319 first baron Waterhole, the ginger peer Tycoon. Furthermore, the letter 52 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:24.599 was written by a woman his widow to be exact, 53 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.840 so you're wrong on both counts. However, it was sent 54 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.400 from Mortlake Castle, where it seems lady Pridgett is visiting. 55 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:32.719 Well, what does the old girl want us. 56 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:36.319 Watson, or more specifically me, You may come along if 57 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.319 you can manage to tear yourself away from the herriages 58 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:39.080 and their progeny? 59 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:41.120 What's up at more Castle? Mortlake? 60 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:41.360 Here? 61 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:46.159 Read the letter for yourself, Dear mister Sherlock Holmes. I'm 62 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:50.759 not easily intimidated. However, when I find a note pinned 63 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:54.560 to my pillow which reads beware if you proceed with 64 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:59.120 the marriage, the chandelier will rip blood in such an event, 65 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.120 mister Holmes idea me it wise to seek counsel and 66 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:05.879 possibly protection. Will you come to Mortlake as my guest 67 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:09.560 incognitove of course, I shall introduce you as my cousin 68 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.199 Sherwood Jones. I suggest to arrive at Barnstable by the 69 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.840 three ten on Thursday. I myself shall meet you. The 70 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:21.680 walls of this old mausoleum called Mortlake Castle have many ears, 71 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.560 it seems. However, the drive to the castle is a 72 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:26.520 long one. I shall be able to give you all 73 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:31.439 the details of a thoroughly sinister situation in the privacy 74 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:35.159 of the carriage. Furthermore, the family coachman is quite deaf. 75 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.120 Do come and relieve the anxiety of a troubled woman 76 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:44.039 yours in desperation, Amelia, Lady pridgitt ps. I understand you 77 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.360 have a medical secretary or helper by all means, fetch 78 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:51.800 him along. He can be my husband's cousin, Dr Botsam, 79 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:54.000 or I refuse to be called Botsom. 80 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:56.879 Very well, then stay and minister to the herriages personally. 81 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:57.599 I shall go and pack. 82 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:59.400 Yes, we haven't soo much time if we're to catch 83 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.680 today's train, I see Holmes. If for if there's a 84 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.879 wedding house party of Mortlake Castle, should be all rather party? 85 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:08.199 Shall we take white tie or black? 86 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.599 Do you think you may take your entire true soul? 87 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.479 My dear Watson. Personally, I shall be content with a 88 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:22.040 rather complete chemical kit and your army revolver. 89 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.560 I see these old family carriages are quite comfortable in 90 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:32.519 roomy homes. 91 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.519 We shall be lucky if this ancient omnibus doesn't fall 92 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:37.680 apart before we return to Castle Morty. 93 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:39.639 Yes, I gather, Lady Pridgett, that it's been in the 94 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:40.279 family for some. 95 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:43.279 Time has indeed, mister Holmes, it's the famous old Berlin 96 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:45.439 in which Roger's Greek Greek. Well. I can't remember how 97 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:48.800 many greats grandfather made his famous Grand Tour of Europe 98 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.279 take in three years. I believe people went as far 99 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:54.160 as Saint Petersburg. That's where the trouble began. 100 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:55.560 What double, Lady Pridgett. 101 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:57.680 When the young fool met a princess all Off and 102 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.360 fell head over heels in love with her. Seems she 103 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.399 was a favorite god child of Catherine. The Great Lord 104 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:06.040 Mortlake managed to marry her, and they returned to England 105 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:10.079 with an enormous Russian wolfhound and that cursed silver chandelier 106 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.000 in this very carriage. 107 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.720 This chandelier, I take it, Lady Bridgett, is the same 108 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:16.800 one which is now supposed to drip blood whenever there's 109 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:18.360 to be a catastrophe at the Martlic family. 110 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:20.000 That's right, mister Holmes. 111 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.439 When is this colorful phenomenon supposed to have occurred? 112 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:25.279 It all began with the death of the Russian princess herself. 113 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.319 She had a bit of a temperate seems. No one 114 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.639 could polish her silver chandelier to suit her. She had 115 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:33.680 the habit of hitting anyone who didn't please her with 116 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.519 a nasty little riding whip. One morning, there was a 117 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:38.920 new red headed girl up on a ladder, working away 118 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:42.079 at the silver chandelier. When her ladyship swept into the 119 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.560 banquet hall, one look and the Russian burst into her 120 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.160 usual torrent of rage. She hit the redhead across the face. 121 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.959 Now it so happened. The girl was Irish, and if 122 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.680 there's a stronger temperament in this world than the Russian, 123 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.639 sure it's the Irish. You are there, well, Bridget or 124 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:02.000 Nora or whatever her name was, snatched the little whip 125 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.839 from her mistress's hand, and then, looking her straight in 126 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:08.040 the eye, she laid on her the terrible, strangless curse 127 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.040 of Donegal. Then she strode from the room and slammed 128 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:12.240 the great door after her. 129 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:12.920 Good for her. 130 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:15.959 The Russian could be heard screaming that she'd polish the 131 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:21.000 chandelier herself. They heard her both the door. All afternoon. 132 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.199 She could be heard laughing and singing wild Cossack songs. 133 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.800 As evening came on, the singing ceased. The Russian princess 134 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:30.319 didn't appear at the supper table, but no one dared 135 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.560 go fetch her. As the evening wore on, her wolfhound 136 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:37.600 began to whimper outside the locked door. Shortly before midnight, 137 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:41.480 he started to howl. Finally, Lord Mortlake could stand it 138 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:42.160 no longer. 139 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.439 It's midnight, She sulked, long enough, I'm going enoughter her 140 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:07.319 boris down, boy, Sonya, Sonya, let us in, Sonya on 141 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:07.920 both the. 142 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:12.600 Door, Sonia found the woman. We shall have to break 143 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:15.000 in the door, boris top. 144 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.879 That doors heavy. We need a battering ram. Bring that 145 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:19.519 long bench. 146 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:28.759 That's it. Let you do the drink now, then one, two, three, 147 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:29.759 that's done it. 148 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:38.639 Good Lord, it's black in there, Sonia, come out, Sonya, 149 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:39.519 do you hear me? 150 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:46.560 Someone give me the torch, Boris. What's the matter. The 151 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:51.199 animals trembling like a leaf. Bring me the torch. That's better, 152 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:56.959 then we'll see the ladder is lying on the floor. 153 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.800 Good Lord, she's. 154 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:02.879 Hanging from the chandelier. 155 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:25.279 She's strangle pone on her. Well, that was the end 156 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:28.639 of the Russian Princess, mister Holmes. Of course, she had 157 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.879 thoughtfully provided the Mortlegs with an air before her fatal accident. 158 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:34.519 Consequently, there is a streak of violent Russian blood in 159 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:36.120 the present inhabitants of fortleke Castle. 160 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.399 I take it right, mister Holmes, and whenever there's to 161 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:40.840 be a death in the family, that blood is supposed 162 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.679 to flow from the Russian chandelier. Personally, after Roger and 163 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:46.320 I are married, I shall insist he get rid of 164 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:49.440 the ugly I saw, yes, and I shall see he 165 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:53.360 buys a new carriage too. He pretends the family still 166 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:56.960 uses this ancient relic for sentimental reasons, but everyone knows 167 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:01.480 it's because he can't afford a new one. Well you 168 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:03.159 look shocked, Dr Watson. 169 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:04.720 No, no, no, no, not at all. 170 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.600 To be brutally frank, gentlemen, it is the accepted opinion 171 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:11.360 in all the drawing rooms and public houses of Devonshire 172 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:14.600 that I am marrying Lord Roger Mortlake for his social position, 173 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:17.960 and he is marrying me for my money. I'm sure 174 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.960 that well they're wrong, doctor Watson. Roger and I have 175 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:25.120 been in love ever since we first attended Mistermione Tillsbury's 176 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.080 dancing classes. We should have been married twenty years ago, 177 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.799 but his father broke off the match. You see, we 178 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.279 were both as poor as church mice, and it takes 179 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:35.639 a whacking amount of money to run Mortlake Castle. 180 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.919 One of the blessings of being nobody, Holmes, ad manage 181 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:40.279 to suit yourself, got it rops. 182 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.799 The irony of the situation, mister Holmes, is that Roger 183 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.399 was persuaded to marry one of the Burdock girls whose 184 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.759 father was supposed to have wits. The father managed to 185 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:51.240 go through his fortune shortly afterwards and died. 186 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.519 Bankrupt in poetic justice at home. I. 187 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.559 On the other hand, Mary married Henry Prigetter, a jolly, 188 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.840 good natured little man with no prospects whatever, and he 189 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:03.960 up and a quiet millions. Dear Henry, we had a 190 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:05.399 very pleasant life together. 191 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.120 So now you're determined to marry your first love. 192 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:12.759 We females are curiously single minded creatures, mister Holmes. It's 193 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:14.840 always dangerous to frustrate a woman. 194 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.000 Quite tell me, Lady Pridgeton, is there anyone at Mortlake 195 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.840 Castle who's opposed to your marriage to Lord Roger Motleke. 196 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:23.759 Quite a few, I should imagine, mister Holmes, the first 197 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:27.559 Lady Mortlake's personal maid, Old Buffon. She glares at me 198 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.360 as if I were a mangle that had wandered in 199 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:34.039 off the streets. James, he's Roger's son. He resents the 200 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:36.360 fact that we didn't wait at least two years after 201 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:40.000 his mother's death. The girls, I must say, are more realistic, 202 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.840 possibly because they realize my money will buy them quite 203 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:46.960 a few social opportunities they should not otherwise enjoy. Yes, 204 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:51.000 on the whole, I have more respect for James's attitude, 205 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:53.200 although I shall pay it no heed, mind you, I 206 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.519 quite understand. And then, of course there's Hubert. He's Roger's 207 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.399 younger brother, still a bachelor at fifty seven. He's the 208 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:02.360 only one that's really enthusiastic about the match. But then 209 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:04.240 I've always been able to wind Hubert a round my. 210 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:06.759 Little finger, even more easily than Lord Roger. 211 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.480 Oh good heavens, yes, Roger's a mule. And besides that, 212 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:13.159 he has principles. He absolutely refused to run away with 213 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.120 me twenty years ago, and I had the devil of 214 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.240 a time persuading him to propose after we were both 215 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:21.000 free again. He has scruples about accepting my money, it seems. 216 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:25.399 I finally pointed out that it was pure selfishness. He 217 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:29.080 might enjoy being a pauper and watching Motlake Castle crumble 218 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:31.440 over his head, but was it fair to the children. 219 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:32.679 And that persuaded him. 220 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:36.120 Well. Of course I was wearing my new Paris shirtwaist 221 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.240 at the time, the one with the pekaboo bodice. Oh, 222 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.840 by the way, that mminds me. I must warn you 223 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:44.519 about one thing, gentlemen. There's to be the usual big 224 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.799 wedding rehearsal dinner at the banquet for tonight. The Motlakes 225 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:49.240 are great ones for drinking toasts. 226 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:52.200 Who but I champagne and all that jolly. 227 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.279 Hold jam paying my foot at Mortlake Castle toasts are 228 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:00.279 drunk in Mortlake, mead. The recipe bod goes back to 229 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:03.679 their Saxon ancestors. Look out for it. I warn you. 230 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:06.080 It's liquid dynamite. 231 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.320 Es me. I'm a Figland to use the ancient term 232 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:12.240 as a drink supposed to promote health, long life and vitality. 233 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:14.440 It's made from honey. I'm a bit of a bee 234 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:15.240 fancy on myself. 235 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:15.320 You. 236 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.799 Oh, then you'll have something in common with Hulett. He 237 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:20.639 takes care of the bees at Mortlake. Won't let anyone 238 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:22.480 else go near the hives, not that anyone wants to. 239 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.279 Heaven knows. The bees at Mortlake are notoriously short tempered. 240 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:29.120 Interesting. I shall see if I can't persuade too. But yeah, 241 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:29.519 what's up? 242 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:31.000 Something's tracking the horses. 243 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:32.919 Oh dear, look the running away. 244 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:37.000 No, the coachman has them under control. 245 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:45.320 He stopped the carriage. What's the trouble, Benjamin? Dare I 246 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.960 keep forgetting his death? He's getting down. 247 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:49.799 Off the box, sir, Homes. There's something lying in the 248 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.360 road up the head. The driver's gone to investigate it. 249 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:54.240 It's getting so dark. I can't wait. 250 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:55.919 Why is not w you stay out here with Lady 251 00:12:55.919 --> 00:13:02.200 Bridget I'll go and see if Benjamin needs help. H 252 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:06.519 wind rising that pounding up a hen? That will be 253 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:10.279 the sea must be close to Marteke Castle. Yes, let's 254 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:15.000 see what you've got. Lantern, Benjamin, give you the lantern. 255 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:23.840 I hm, A sheep quite dead, still breeding. Nastiest series 256 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:25.080 of gashes across the throat. 257 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.360 There be evil coming to mort Lake. 258 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:28.559 It's a sign. 259 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:32.320 When that Russian ghost dog comes back and kills the sheep, 260 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:37.200 it's a sure sign. Mark my word. Tonight the chandelier 261 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:38.440 will drip blood. 262 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:53.759 Men take real pride in the clipper Craft label. For 263 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.759 not alone is it the mark of fine quality. 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Through it, you 268 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.600 get the benefit of great savings made by the fact 269 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:17.120 that ten hundred thirty six of the nation's finest independence 270 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:21.240 stores from coast to coast, have voluntarily concentrated their buying 271 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.159 car It's the reason your Clippercraft dealer shows you such 272 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:28.679 remarkably fine quality in suits for only forty to forty 273 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:32.360 seven fifty, in tropicals for only thirty three seventy five 274 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.600 to forty dollars, and in sport jackets for only twenty 275 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:40.200 six fifty. For selling expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices 276 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:43.759 at the nation's finest stores is the great, big idea 277 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.799 behind the clipper Craft plan. That's why men who know 278 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:50.440 insist on clipper Craft clothes, so be sure to visit 279 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:52.039 the clipper Craft store in your city. 280 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:56.519 These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to 281 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:59.559 add their names to Clippercraft and your Suits, Fort Jackets 282 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:03.559 and Tropic In Manhattan Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at thirty 283 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:07.399 four John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and sixty 284 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.399 seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark, 285 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.000 New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop presby Newarck. And in Jamaica, 286 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:17.919 the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh 287 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:21.879 eight Jamaica Avenue. 288 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:26.279 And now back to Mortlake Castle, where doctor Watson and 289 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.200 Sherlock Holmes, all done up in their stiffest shirts and 290 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:32.759 highest colors, are being given a personally conducted tour around 291 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.600 the castle by its future mistress, Lady Bridget. 292 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:41.759 And this is the banquet, good lord, it's enormous. 293 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:46.600 The early Mortlakes took their banqueting seriously. It seems that's 294 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:51.600 the old maid button arranging the flowers. Oh buffoon, you 295 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.159 might draw the curtains and open the glass doors a moment. 296 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:56.559 I want the gentlemen to have a look at the view. 297 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:03.879 From this room, bedian, but grudging homes. 298 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:08.600 The surf sounds ominous. 299 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:14.159 Ay, there's a sound of dome inutes. Tonight you do well, 300 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:16.720 my lady, The lay for his arm done. 301 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.159 What what do you mean by that, bubbam? 302 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:24.159 She's just trying to frighten me off. It won't work, 303 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:27.000 my girl. It takes more than dead sheep, pounding surf 304 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.919 and dripping chandeliers to get rid of me. That's all. 305 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:32.360 You may close the doors and go. 306 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.960 By the way. That is the chandelier. I take it, 307 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:41.279 the enormous silver one near the great center windows. 308 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:41.559 Right. 309 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:46.120 It's certainly spectacular. Hey, homes must hold nearly one hundred. 310 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.240 Candle one hundred and twenty two to be exact. When 311 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:50.159 they're all lit, it creates quite a show of. 312 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:52.360 Light and heat too. I imagine. 313 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.759 Butham expressing her disapproval. Well, I'm glad she's gone. She 314 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:58.799 was giving me the fidgets. 315 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:00.720 I see there's a ladder under the chandelier. 316 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:02.919 Yes, they're about to like the stupid thing, I imagine. 317 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:04.839 I think I'll just mounted and take a closer look 318 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:05.960 at You've no objection. 319 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:07.359 None at all. I'll hold it steady for you. 320 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:11.759 Thank you, Lady bridget Yes, I thought I recognized it. 321 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.000 You mean you've seen the chandelier before. 322 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:17.200 No, it's twin sister in the winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. 323 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:19.559 It's supposed to have been made for catin the grape 324 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:22.960 to eliminate any suitors who had lost their chance. 325 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:24.200 What do you mean by that? 326 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.680 Both chandeliers are hollow. The one in Saint Petersburg were 327 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:30.880 so hung that boiling lead could be poured into it 328 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:33.839 from the room above. It eventually found its way out 329 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.079 of the mouths of these little silver dolphins and poured 330 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:40.359 itself over the guest of honor, as he did below. Yes, 331 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.960 mouths of these particular dolphins seem to be stopped up. 332 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:48.799 However, heaven balderdash. That chandelier doesn't reach to the ceiling. 333 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.200 It's too high up. It's hung to a great hook 334 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:52.599 by a long velvet cord. 335 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:54.519 Yes, the cord looks rather praise. 336 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.759 Furthermore, there's no room above this, nothing but that vaulted 337 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:00.640 ceiling up there. Or if you think anyone can make 338 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.279 the chandelier drip blood by crawling around on the roof, 339 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:04.559 you're very much mistaken. 340 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:08.079 Yes, it doesn't seem very practical. Who is due to 341 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:10.559 sit at these places directly below the chandelier, Lady Bridget? 342 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:14.039 Why well that is Roger and I. I suppose it's 343 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:15.079 the head of the table, you know. 344 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:17.640 Yes, Now, I suppose we shift things around a bit. 345 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:20.240 Help me, Watson, if we pull the table to one 346 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:26.920 side a little further, Watson, that's better'n yes. Now if 347 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:29.359 your seat, Watson, and myself to your left, Lady Bridget. 348 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:32.559 Now we be directly under the chandelier. I say, who 349 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:33.240 do you have clight? 350 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:34.599 Watson? Someone's coming down the hall. 351 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:37.599 Ah, there you are a million, My dear. 352 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.079 Roger's looking all over for you. They're having a sherry 353 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:41.000 and the pink drawing robe. 354 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:43.079 We'll go right along you. But thank you for telling me. 355 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:46.200 I was just showing my cousins the schandelier. 356 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:50.160 How do you right the old monstratedy to be quite frank, 357 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:51.599 I don't. 358 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.480 Neither do I. Ah, well, I came in to light 359 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:55.559 the candles on this anything. 360 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.799 Tell me, mister Motwick, do you believe this chandelier drips blood? Whenever? 361 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:01.359 This to be a catastrophe in the family. 362 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:03.680 Well, something of the sort did happen, you know when 363 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:06.440 my uncle Edgo was drowned. I was quite young at 364 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:08.839 the time, terribly impressed by the great brownish drops. 365 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:10.759 Of course, looking back, I realized there was. 366 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:13.279 A terrific rainstorm, and there may have been a leak 367 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:15.400 in the roof, and the water splatted through onto the 368 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.359 chandelier and gathered rust and ripped off of something of 369 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:18.720 the sort. 370 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.519 But it's a silver chandelier, mister Mortlake. 371 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.000 Why that's right, Hubert, silver doesn't rust. 372 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:28.559 Oh maybe there's some other explanation. I'd better start to 373 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:30.839 light it, or they'll be ready for dinner before I finished. 374 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:33.440 Butler's getting old, you know. Let us give him vertigo. 375 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:35.319 I'm fed, so it's up to me. 376 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:37.680 May I help you? Let me take that silver picture? 377 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:38.319 Thank you? 378 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:41.119 No, I'll just put it here on the sideboard. It's 379 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:43.440 the famous Mortlake media know I was just a canny. 380 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:46.319 But you better run along, Amelia, and take along your cousins. 381 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:48.400 My dear or Roger will be wilting his car out 382 00:19:48.440 --> 00:20:12.000 of sheer anxiety. 383 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:04.160 I say, Homes, I hope you don't have to drink 384 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:05.359 many more toasts. 385 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:07.680 This me is two dashed potent. 386 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:11.640 Yes, it has what you might call authority confounded homes. 387 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.440 Did you have to put us under the chandelier? Another 388 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:16.640 drop of wax just splashed on my shirt front? 389 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:20.799 Yes, but this time it's slightly brownish. Yes, the chandelier 390 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:21.680 is really getting hot. 391 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:24.119 Wax doesn't turn brown with heat. 392 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:28.640 This wax does, Watson. It's beeswax, beeswax. Yes, but the 393 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:31.680 candles a tallow interesting, very interesting? 394 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:33.960 What's so interesting about it? Oh? Confounded? 395 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:35.000 There's another blob. 396 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:35.680 On the back of my head. 397 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:38.279 Yes, yes, it shouldn't be long now. 398 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.680 And and no toast to their happy couple, long life 399 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:46.920 and joy in the living A millium, My dear, I'm 400 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:48.960 sure you'd like to say a few words were hoombs. 401 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.240