WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:16.079 Kremmel Hair Tonic and Cremel Shampoo presents The New Adventures 2 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:19.719 of Sherlock Holmes, starring Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson and 3 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:30.480 Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes. Here we are once more 4 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:34.079 in doctor Watson's firelit study. The wind is howling outside, 5 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:36.479 but inside the heavy red curtains have been drawn across 6 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:38.719 the windows, and the only sound we can hear is 7 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:40.920 the cheerful crackling of the logs in the fireplace. 8 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:42.399 Good evening, doctor Watson. 9 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:43.479 Good evening, mister Bell. 10 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:45.119 You don't know how lucky you are that you don't 11 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:46.200 have to go out on a night like this. 12 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.439 Yes, it's one of the advantages of having retired from 13 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:50.920 active medical practice. 14 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:53.439 You know, the old head age man. 15 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:56.320 Works from sun to sun, but woman's work's never done. 16 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:59.840 It's the base libel as far as doctors are concerned. 17 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.079 You never know when mister Smith is going to acquire 18 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:06.400 a black eye, or missus mc tavish. They decided to 19 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:08.120 present an addition to the clan. 20 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:11.280 Never a dull moment, Ada Goad, You. 21 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:14.799 Mean no, that's one thing I've never complained of. It 22 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:17.959 wasn't a patient who disturbed what the routine I had. 23 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:22.719 It was Sherlock Holmes. I remember one bitter February evening. 24 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.159 It's the second winter after my marriage. I just settled 25 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:28.879 down to my after dinner pipe when the doorbell rang. 26 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:32.159 It was a note from Holmes. It said, come at 27 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.879 once if convenient. If inconvenient, comels. 28 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:36.719 And once went round to Baker Street at the posts. 29 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.319 Curiosity has always been my achilles heel. 30 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:40.560 Well. 31 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:43.159 When I arrived at Baker Street, I found Holmes huddled 32 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:45.040 in his armchair, his knees drawn. 33 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:47.519 Up and his pipe in his mouth. He was sunk 34 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:49.040 in a profound reverie. 35 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.560 And I've been in the room several moments before he 36 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:54.680 became aware of my existence. 37 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:57.079 Oh so they are, Watson, they. 38 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.879 Are obviously, I've been here for seven minutes. As a 39 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:01.319 matter of. 40 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.719 Fact, unimportant, completely unimportant and uninteresting. Watson, have you ever 41 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.039 speculated on the importance of a knowledge of dogs and 42 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:09.800 detective work? 43 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:13.080 Dogs? Well, naturally bloodhounds. 44 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:16.120 How No, I'm not interested in that phase of the subject. 45 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:19.479 It's too obvious. There is another side, far more subtle. 46 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:21.039 There is what I'm dressed. 47 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:22.879 Well know you will recollect in the case you so 48 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.759 sensationally wrote up as the adventure of the Copper Beaches. 49 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.919 Yes, but the case was sensational, and that incluse it 50 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.639 wasn't a dog. It was the fact that the master 51 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:33.719 of the house is willing to pay a sizeable sum. 52 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.599 Don't crattle, Watson, don't crattle prattle. I was about to 53 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.280 point a model in the case of the Copper Beaches. 54 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:42.800 I was able, by noting the actions of a rather 55 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.039 vicious child, to draw some starking deductions as to the 56 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.039 criminal instincts of its father, who was considered a thoroughly 57 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:50.039 respectable citizen. 58 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:51.840 Of course, yes I remember. 59 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:54.319 But what's that gotta do with my line of thought 60 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.439 about dogs? As analogus? Whoever saw frisker darg in a 61 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:01.520 gloomy family or a sad dog and happy one. Snarling 62 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:05.719 people have snarling dogs. Dangerous people have dangerous dogs. 63 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:06.520 Surely homes. 64 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:08.560 You didn't write me out on a night like this 65 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:10.919 to discuss the temperaments. 66 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:14.719 Of dogs, not in general. No, what interests me is 67 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:18.919 why Professor Presbury's faithful wolfhound Roy endeavors to bite him. 68 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:23.280 You mean Professor Presbury, the famous Camphord's physiologist. 69 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:27.800 Quite the dog. Until recently, most devoted animal has attacked 70 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.319 his master twice. What do you make of it? The 71 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.280 dog is ill, possibly, but he attacks no one else, 72 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:37.840 nor does he molest his master, save on very special occasions. 73 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:42.719 Curious Watson, very curious. Ah, that must be mister Bennett, 74 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.960 Professor Presbury's assistant. He is before his time. His appointment 75 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:50.960 was eight thirty. Come in, come in, Ah, Good evening, 76 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.919 mister Bennett. Good evening. This is my friend and colleague, 77 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.759 doctor Watson. I couldn't consider n to taking a case 78 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:59.159 or solving an enigma without his invaluable aid. 79 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:03.680 Oh have been no attention. Distability is pulling my leg again. 80 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:06.199 Glad to meet you, sir. I hope you forgive you're 81 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:08.919 writing so early, mister Holmes. But Edith is so worried 82 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.199 about her father, and naturally I quite so. Edith, my 83 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.599 dear Watson, is Professor Presbury's daughter, to whom mister Bennett 84 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:18.839 is engaged to be married. Am I right, yes, mister Holmes, 85 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:19.519 I have that honor. 86 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:23.040 Oh, congratulations, young man, congratulations, ideal state. 87 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.959 I stop chattering now than mister Bennett. I believe you 88 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:30.120 gave her the sailing points of the case in your letter, 89 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:32.720 but I have not had the opportunity to relate them 90 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:35.040 to Dr Watson. So if you will be good enough 91 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:38.680 to go over the matter again, certainly, mister Holmes, the professor, 92 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:40.920 as you may know, Doctor Watson, is a man of 93 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:43.759 spendid reputee years in need. He is a trifle positive, 94 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:47.079 I might even say combative. But there's never been a 95 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.720 breath of scandal, at least until a month ago. 96 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.199 Hear me, don't tell me that old Presbury has started 97 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:55.160 to saw his wild oats. At his age, I. 98 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:57.800 Was considered him the soul of respectability. 99 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.560 Well, you see, early last fall he'd be came attached 100 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.160 to the daughter of Professor Morphy. It was not the 101 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.040 reason courting of an elderly man, but rather the passionate 102 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:10.079 frenzy of youth. In short, his family considered the infatuation 103 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.959 rather excessive, exactly, and so I gathered at the young lady, 104 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.040 although her father, Professor Morphy, favored the thatching. Yes, Presbury's 105 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.120 fairly well to do, I understand. Yes, About a month 106 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:24.839 ago Professor Presbury did something he's never done before. He 107 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:27.720 left home without telling any money was going. A fortunate 108 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:29.639 later he returned rather travel war. 109 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:30.720 Oh had he been what. 110 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:33.480 He refused to say by chance. However, I received a 111 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:35.800 letter from a friend of mine in Prague saying he's 112 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:37.959 seen the professor at a distance. And now comes the 113 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:41.720 remarkable part of the story. Oh yes, doctor Watson. From 114 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.240 that time on, a curious change came over the Professor. 115 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:45.800 Those around him had. 116 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.600 The inexpectable feeling that he was under some influence that 117 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:50.160 darkened his better name. Too. 118 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:54.759 You'll think that he was hypnotized, possibly or or mentally 119 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:56.120 unbalanced in some way. 120 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:59.319 No, on the contrary, his lectures were more brilliant than ever. 121 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.199 His mind was singularly alert. But there was something new 122 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:07.120 about him, something something sinister. His daughter tried again and 123 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:10.079 again to penetrate the mask he put on, but in vain. 124 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:13.120 He'd behaved to her, almost as though she she were 125 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.800 a stranger. In fact, all of his friends and co 126 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:19.759 workers noticed a rather singular change of personality. And the 127 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:22.160 incident of the letters, mister Bennett, don't forget that I 128 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:25.600 was just coming to that. You see, doctor Watson, a 129 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.759 professor has never had any secrets from me. I handled 130 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.279 every paper which came into him and opened all his letters. 131 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:36.560 Shortly after his return, all this was changed. Certain letters 132 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.519 began to arrive marked with an X under the stamp. 133 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:42.839 These I was in no account to touch. What was 134 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:46.839 the handwriting like? Decidedly illiterate. The envelopes had the E 135 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:51.199 C mark east central here not exactly the portion of 136 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:53.360 London one would expect the Professor to be in touch with. 137 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:56.680 The letters were curious enough, but not more curious than 138 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:59.839 the little wooden box. Bo. Yes, one of those quaint 139 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.639 things one associates with a visit to Germany. I discovered 140 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.759 it one morning in the drawer Professor Presbury's desk. He 141 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:08.680 had sent me into his study in search of a canduler. 142 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:21.279 I put it on my desk, Bennett, in front of 143 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:24.120 the ink. Well, it's not here, Professor Presbury. I'll try 144 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.839 the drawers. It's usually in the upper right. No, I'm 145 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:36.519 not here. Perhaps the left one? No, I say, Professor, 146 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:40.040 what a curious box. I've never seen that in here before, 147 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.000 But this one with a carving you must have got 148 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.920 on your trip to Germany. Trip to Germany? Who said 149 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:49.000 I was in Germany, Professor Presbury, I didn't mean a 150 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.560 cat concept of a snooper? What do you mean by 151 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:52.680 poking about among my things? 152 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:53.160 But put that? 153 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.120 Let me explode that, stud. 154 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:58.480 I tell you, I'll get out of here, Get up 155 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:00.480 before I break every me your. 156 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:10.560 Body, jolly chap, Professor sounds if you were heading for 157 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:11.480 an apoplectic fit. 158 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:14.079 Do you remember the date of that outburst, mister Bennett. 159 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:17.560 It was December the second. It was on that very 160 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:19.920 day that Roy the wolf found made his first attack 161 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:20.560 on the Professor. 162 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:23.240 The attack do you mean that the dog actually bid him? 163 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.920 Well, he certainly tried to. When was the next attack? 164 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:31.560 December the eleventh, and again on December the twentieth. After 165 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:34.000 that we had to banish Roy to the stables? Singular 166 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:37.480 most singular for those dates were new to me. There 167 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:39.919 have been some even stranger developments since I wrote you. 168 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.600 Mister Holmes says. What I speak of occurred the night 169 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:44.200 before last. 170 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:44.480 Eh. 171 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:47.399 It was really a terrifying experience. Yes, yes, go on. 172 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.320 I live with Professor Presbury. As you know, mister Holmes. 173 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:53.480 I had retired rather early and was correcting the papers 174 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:55.159 of a lecture I were to deliver in the morning. 175 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:58.559 At eleven thirty, all was quiet, and I blew out 176 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.519 my lamp and went to sleep. A little after midnight, 177 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:04.639 I was awakened by a curious shuffling and muttering in 178 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:07.960 the corridor. It was followed by a series of dull 179 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:10.879 knocks on what I took to be Edith's door. I 180 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:13.440 heard her open the door. There was a gasp, and 181 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:15.000 then she uttered a terrible scream. 182 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:23.799 It's all right, darling, by coming. 183 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.879 What's the matter? Don't look so terrified, Edward. 184 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.360 Edward, it was horrible, like a nightmare. 185 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:35.960 It was, Oh, darling, don't tremble. So I'm here out 186 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:39.000 tell me what frightened me. I thought I heard someone 187 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.960 knocking at my door. I heard it too. I got 188 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:45.320 up and opened the door, and there it was, stearing 189 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:49.360 up at me. It what do you mean? Was it 190 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.120 a man? I don't know. I only know it was 191 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:55.559 something dark and crouching. I screamed in a hurried down 192 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.279 the hall, not quite in its hands and knees, with 193 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.720 its face sunk between its shoulders. How awful You lock 194 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.000 yourself in and I'll have a look. No, no, don't 195 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:12.480 need but dash. Do you hear anything? No? Nothing, that's there? 196 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:18.480 It is again, need ivy outside the window. If someone 197 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:23.039 were climbing up the wall, that's impossible. The window's a 198 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:26.600 good twenty feet from the ground. Nobody will clear on 199 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:33.879 the window sill a hand, it's it's drawing itself off. 200 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:41.120 Here comes ahead, good heavens, what a horrible face the eyes. 201 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:44.240 That leave Edward Edward, it's father. 202 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:55.960 Well, Watson, what do you make of that? The professor 203 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:57.600 crawling about in this curious fashion? 204 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:00.759 Lambago problem, I've known it to double o rubbish? 205 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.440 Watson. Did you ever hear a man with lumbago scaling 206 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:04.279 a twenty foot wall? 207 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:05.759 Nod you mention it? 208 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:09.360 No, mister Bennett. How did Professor Presbury explain his actions 209 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.159 the next morning? He seemed to have no recollection of them, 210 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:14.960 no recollection of them at all. When did you say 211 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:17.840 this happened, mister Bennett? The night before last, the fourth 212 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:22.639 of February, And that rather complicates matters. And last night 213 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.159 did anything further happen? The only unusual thing I heard 214 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:30.679 was Roy barking furiously a little after midnight, Poor fellow, 215 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.879 he's been chained down at the stable. I must confess. 216 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:36.360 If anything else happened, neither Edith nor I would have 217 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.639 known it. You see, we both had a feeling of 218 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:41.320 impending danger and slept with our doors locked and the 219 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:44.639 shutters barricaded. Very sensible procedure, I would suggest that you 220 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:46.720 get miss Presbury out of the house for a few days, 221 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:48.879 send her way, and or wouldn't clear this matter up. 222 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.039 I have already persuaded her to pay a visit to 223 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:54.519 her aunt and Cambridge splendid. Now, as to the dates 224 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.759 of these uh seizures, you will say the first was December, 225 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.720 the second December, the eleventh, and the third. 226 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:02.600 Here is a list of the. 227 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:06.159 Dates when I first observed abnormality in the professor's behavior. 228 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:09.000 I felt it my duty to obtain all possible data 229 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:14.600 about the case. Excellent see yes, yes, as I thought. 230 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:18.480 The intervals are regular. Putting two and two together, let 231 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:21.039 us say that every nine days the professor takes some 232 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.919 strong drug which has aprissing but highly poisonous effect. He 233 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:27.399 learned to take this drug one in Prague, and is 234 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:29.840 now supplied by an intermediary who resides in the East 235 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:30.879 Central district of London. 236 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.200 Ye, it is but the dog and the creeping man 237 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.279 in the passage, Holmes. The thing's too fantastic to be 238 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:39.600 explained by a simple addiction to drugs. 239 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.679 It's not simple, not in the least. But patience, Watson, patience, 240 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.120 We have at least made a beginning our next step 241 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.960 is to obtain an interview with the professor himself. What 242 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:50.960 is the best time to catch him in, mister Bennett, 243 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:53.080 when would he be free to see us? About eleven 244 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:55.720 in the morning. Mister Holmes, good, you may expect us 245 00:12:55.720 --> 00:13:10.559 at that time tomorrow just a moment. 246 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:14.720 We'll keep our appointment with the professor. But first, men, remember, 247 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:16.840 if you want your hair to look healthy and handsome, 248 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:20.639 one of the first requisites is a hygienic scalp. And 249 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.799 when you buy a hair tonic, be smart enjoy the 250 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:28.720 extra advantages of a highly specialized hair tonic like Kremmelkremmel 251 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.480 contains a combination of hair grooming ingredients which is found 252 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:34.559 in no other hair tonic. This is why it keeps 253 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:37.960 unruly hair neatly in place longer, with a rich, healthy 254 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.919 looking luster. Yet Kremmeel never gives hair that. 255 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.159 Old fashioned, greasy, patent leather look. 256 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:47.120 It never leaves hair feeling sticky or dirty. But men, 257 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:50.759 Kremwell does lots more than keep hair looking handsome. Kremmel 258 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.000 is simply great to lubricate a dry scalp. At the 259 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:57.720 same time it removes itchy loose dandr a quick massage 260 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:02.080 with Kremmel helps stimulate the cutaneous of the scalp. Notice 261 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.639 how alive your scalp feels, how it tingles, and if 262 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:08.039 your hair is so dry it breaks off and falls. 263 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:12.720 Start using Crammel at once, because Cramwell actually helps condition 264 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.120 the hair in that it leaves it feeling softer, more pliable, 265 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.159 makes it look as if it had some body to it. 266 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.759 Buy a bottle of Crammel at any drug counter, ask 267 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.840 for an application at your barber shop. Use Crammeell daily 268 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:29.279 for better groomed hair, a more hyggienic scalp k R 269 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:34.840 E M L Crammell Hair Time, Doctor Watson, what happened 270 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.279 next in the strange case of Professor president Well. 271 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:39.679 Early the next morning found us near the town of 272 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.600 Camford approaching a large, rather gloomy house. 273 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:48.360 This must be the house, Watson. Notice the ivy vines 274 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:51.679 reaching up to the bedroom windows. See some of the 275 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.480 leaves have been torn away. The vines look decidedly the 276 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:55.080 worse for wear. 277 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:57.600 Surely no man could possibly climb up that way. 278 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.879 No normal man, Watson, No normal man. Book. I fancy 279 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:04.080 that is the Professor peering at us from behind the curtains. 280 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:06.799 In that second window. Doesn't seem to be too well 281 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:07.840 pleased at our presence. 282 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:12.320 Yes, Jeff tremendously vigorous for his age. I say, Holmes, 283 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:13.639 do you think we ought ought? 284 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:13.759 What? 285 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:16.759 I mean? What excuse you're going to give for our call? 286 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:20.320 Assuming that Professor Presbury's memory is a trifle defective during 287 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.759 his bad spells? And how's he to know that he 288 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:23.799 didn't send first himself? 289 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.120 Isn't that rather skating on thin eyes? 290 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:28.279 Possibly my dear Watson, Possibly. 291 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:32.440 My sir. I don't relish this interview at. 292 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:37.080 Door, someone's coming. It's Presbury himself. I cann't stake Watson, 293 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.240 pull yourself together. You look as though he'd been caught 294 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:45.559 stealing sheep. Good morning, Professor Presbury. I believe, Yes, I'm 295 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.879 homes Sherlock Holmes, the detective. Yes, I believe I've heard 296 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.519 of him. Won't you come in? Unless my friend doctor? 297 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:53.200 Wats how you do? 298 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:54.399 Oh? 299 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:58.120 Come this way, gentlemen to my study? Oh? 300 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:04.360 Like I go? What a charming room? 301 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:09.440 Place it down, gentlemen? Now what can I do for you? Why? 302 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:11.759 That was the question I was about to put to you? 303 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:16.080 To me, sir, yes, afroposed the communication you sent me 304 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:20.720 a letter I sent you a letter, No, not exactly 305 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:24.360 a letter telegram? Then have you got it with you? No, 306 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:26.120 I can't say I have no, I dare say not 307 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:30.799 because I sent you no telegram. Impossible. By then someone's 308 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:32.960 been playing a practical joke on us both. That statement, 309 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:36.320 mister Holmes, is highly questioned. Really, Professor Presbury, I can 310 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:40.039 only apologize for this needless intrusion and hope that you 311 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:40.480 will forgive. 312 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.120 But that is hardly enough. Mister Holmes. 313 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:44.639 What kind of fool you take me for? Why you 314 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:45.639 know I didn't send for you? 315 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:47.320 You can't get out of the sully. 316 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:54.480 Consider you opposition. You can't afford a scandal. After all, 317 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:58.360 I'm rather well known. You cannot possibly afford to treatment 318 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.919 with such discussions, treat me. Come on, Watson. The interview 319 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.359 was closed. Good day, professor. 320 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:10.000 Whew. While a narrow escape, the Professor was certainly in 321 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:10.839 a dangerous mood. 322 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:13.799 Yes, our learned friend's nerves are somewhat out of order, 323 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:15.680 highly inflammable, temper. 324 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:19.119 Monocal, I should say, And yet his mind seemed perfectly clear. 325 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:23.920 Too clear. That was my miscalculation. His memory is quite reliable. Unfortunately, 326 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:26.880 it's strange, very strange. 327 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:29.079 All the Holmes I'm a bit disappointed in you, or 328 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:30.079 a trouble for nothing? 329 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.079 Not quite for nothing. We have seen the gentleman and 330 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:36.160 have gained a personal contact. We have also discovered the 331 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:38.519 address of the intermediary in London, and who will harn 332 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.400 thound that professor wrote to him this morning? I deciphed 333 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:43.799 the name from the blotting pad on the professor's day. Sir, 334 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:46.799 the gentleman's name is Doric and he lives in the 335 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:50.000 Commercial Road. And now Onson, I'm a busy man. We 336 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:52.559 will drop this case until next Tuesday evening use her 337 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:56.799 why Tuesa. On that date. If my calculations are correct, 338 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:00.640 the Professor should have another of his curious spells. We 339 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.119 must be on hand to notice the developments and to 340 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:04.200 prevent a catastrophe. 341 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:23.680 Mister Holmes, this isn't my idea of the way to 342 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:27.240 spend a pleasant evening. Look at those clouds cutting across 343 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:27.680 the moon. 344 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:32.039 Yes, I told you to bring your greatcoat. I suspected 345 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:35.519 it might be a trifle draft drafter, My legs. 346 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:38.400 Are quite numb from crouching behind the schools, Probush, Why 347 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:40.440 did you have to pick this particular light? 348 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.440 If the cycle of nine days holds good. We shall 349 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.200 have the Professor at his worst to night. And moreover, 350 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:49.920 I ascertained that he received a packet from the man 351 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.880 Dorick this morning. Yes, and we shall see. We shall 352 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:54.200 see you. 353 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:57.839 Look. Look, some one is little light in the corner bedroom. 354 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:01.400 And that must be the Professor. I was writing my calculations. 355 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:05.200 Things are beginning to happen. I warn Bennett not to 356 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:07.079 try to interfere with him, but to follow him at 357 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:07.839 a safe distance. 358 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.400 Safe you don't think that he is as dangerous as that. 359 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:12.720 Dear, I don't think so. 360 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:13.400 I know it. 361 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:17.039 Who have you? You're a barber handy, yes, but. 362 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:19.519 I don't think I should be obliged to. 363 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:22.200 Use it though. Control your nerves once, and I can 364 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:24.680 hear your teeth chatters, we have not knows it's a cold. 365 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:29.519 The Professor's symptoms are particularly interesting. Apart from these fits, 366 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:33.079 he has more energy and vitality than ever. And then 367 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.319 his knuckles. Did you notice his knuckles? 368 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:37.920 I can say that I did. 369 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:43.160 Thick and horny, quite unusual for a man, Very curious 370 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:45.799 knuckles that can only be explained by the mode of 371 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:47.000 progression observed in. 372 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:49.279 The knuckles. 373 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:53.000 But of course, and the dog and the ivy Why 374 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:53.759 didn't I think of that? 375 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:55.440 Homes Homes? 376 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:56.440 Look what'clock? 377 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:57.799 He's helping the side door. 378 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:03.000 There he is standing in the doorway, leaning forward with 379 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:04.359 his arms dangling. 380 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:07.720 Of course, of course, how he's coming down the drive. 381 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:12.440 Why he's not walking, he's crouching, running and slipping along 382 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:13.680 on his hands and feet. 383 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:15.200 Homes. It's uncanny. 384 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:18.480 It's it's almost as if he were possessed by some strange, 385 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:19.680 unnatural force. 386 00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:22.079 Then he goes round the corner of the house for 387 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:23.240 Quasin's followed. 388 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:25.839 Here comes Bennett f aster Holmes. 389 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:27.680 Have you seen him? Yes, he went this way. 390 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:28.240 Come along. 391 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:30.799 He's worse than usual tonight. I could hear him through 392 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:32.559 my door, chattering and jabbering to himself. 393 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:36.039 There he is, he's crouching at the foot of the ivy. 394 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:42.200 Now he's climbing, actually springing from vine to vine, dressing down, 395 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:43.079 flapping in the wind. 396 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:44.000 How horrible. 397 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.079 He looks like some huge bat glued against the side 398 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:47.559 of the house. 399 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:49.400 It's it's uncanny. 400 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.799 Now he's swinging himself over to that tree. He's coming 401 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:55.839