WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.240 Well, doctor Watson, Now what about the Copper beaches. It 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:07.400 was a cold, gloomy morning in early spring. 3 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:10.199 We've were sitting on either side of a cherry fire 4 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:14.160 in our rooms in Baker Street. Homes had been silent 5 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:18.359 and moody all morning, smoking his long cherrywood pipe, which 6 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.440 usually displaced his favorite clay when he was in a 7 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:22.719 disputatious mood. 8 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:25.679 Altogether, he was in no sweet temper. 9 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:30.960 Matches, matches were the matches got that confounded fog? What 10 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:32.439 happens to all the matches in this house? 11 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:34.439 I'd like to know, Oh, my dear Holmes, why not 12 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:36.719 use the tongs and a live coal if you want 13 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.640 to relat your pipe? 14 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:41.759 Now I've burnt myself. 15 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:45.759 Out, for Heaven's sake. Homes, stop spluttering. I see sendings 16 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:48.039 annoying you. Why don't you get it off your chest? 17 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:52.759 It's that latest book of yours. Sensationalism, Watson, Rank, sensationalism. 18 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:56.840 You're always placing the emphasis on the crime. Crime logic 19 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.679 is rare. You should stress the logic. You've degraded what 20 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:01.679 should been a course of lectures into was cities of. 21 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:04.959 Tale now really home? It's not ugical. You always complaining 22 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.519 that crime is falling off. Say, there are no first 23 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:08.840 class criminals left. 24 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.200 Quite and therefore if you depend on the crime to 25 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:14.799 hold your readers, you'll soon be a back number criminals. 26 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:16.840 They've lost all their enterprise and originality. 27 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:19.840 Might be to be degenerating into an agency for recovering 28 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:22.680 lost lead pencils and giving good advice to young ladies 29 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:23.400 from boarding. 30 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:25.799 School, advice to the love lauree. 31 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.280 Well look at this. This note came in the morning post, 32 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.359 the last straw. That's what it is. Yeah, I read it, dear, 33 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:32.120 Let me see it. 34 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.959 Dear mister Helmes, I am very anxious to consult you 35 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:38.560 as to whether I should or should not accept a 36 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.519 situation which has been offered me as governess. I shall 37 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:45.200 call at half past ten tomorrow if I do not 38 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:48.359 inconvenience you, yours faithfully violent hunter. 39 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.480 But it's almost eleven now, exactly. 40 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.079 She's late, just like a woman. Nice. 41 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.319 I suppose this must be the young lady now walking briskly. 42 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:57.640 Up the street. 43 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:03.239 Let me see, brisk, purposeful manner, nice, bright, intelligent face. 44 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:05.719 Yes, she's stopping at our door. 45 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:08.840 There may be something in this case, after all, my 46 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:12.080 dear Watson. Yes, she's not the hysterical sort that makes 47 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.680 a fuss over nothing. Here she is, come in? 48 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:20.280 How do you do? This is mister Sherlock. Home quite man. 49 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.400 This is my colleague, doctor Watson. How do you do? 50 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:23.520 Won't you sit down? 51 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.960 Thank you? I trust you'll excuse my troubling you, mister Holmes. 52 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:29.840 But I've had a very strange experience, and as I 53 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:32.199 have no relations of any sort to advise me, I 54 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:33.439 thought i'd best come to you. 55 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:35.039 I shall be happy to do anything I can. 56 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.080 I've been a governess for five years in the family 57 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:41.639 of Colonel Spence Monroe. He's been transferred to Nova Scotia, 58 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:43.479 so that for the last few months I've been without 59 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.479 a situation. With the money I had saved began to 60 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.639 run out. I I was at my wits end. Go 61 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:54.080 on yesterday. I called it a well known employment agency 62 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:56.800 run by a Miss Stoper. When I arrived, the outer 63 00:02:56.919 --> 00:03:00.319 office was filled with young ladies looking for situations. I 64 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:05.159 was told to wait. I did so. After about half 65 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.400 an hour, my name was called out well the daughter, 66 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:11.960 Miss Stoupa's private office was a jar. Seated beside her 67 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.560 was a prodigiously stout man with a stround, smiling face 68 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.080 and a heavy chin. His eyes were like two little slips. 69 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.599 Come in, my dear, Come in, mister, this is miss 70 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.080 Oh yes, what is your name, my dear miss Hunter? 71 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:33.319 Violet Hunter. Oh yes, Violet Hunter. 72 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:34.639 Captit to get it. 73 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:38.159 I couldn't ask for anything better. I'm sure you will do, 74 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:38.759 Miss Hunter. 75 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:41.520 I hope. So, mister Rucastle, you're. 76 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.840 Looking for a situation as governess. Yes, sir, what salary 77 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:45.319 do you ask? 78 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.599 Well? I had four pounds a month in my last. 79 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:51.759 Place, four bones, sweating, rape, sweating. 80 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.280 How anyone could have the audacity to offer that to 81 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:57.599 a lady with such attraction, such accomplishment. 82 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:01.080 My accomplishments may not be all you expec beg mister Roecastle, 83 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:04.800 a little French, a little German music and drawing. 84 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:08.000 My dear miss Hunter. Or that's beside the question. The 85 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:09.639 point is are you or are you not? 86 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:10.199 A lady? 87 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:14.120 Well, the answer is yes, lady fitted for the rearing 88 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.720 of a child who may someday play a considerable part 89 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.759 in the history of his country. Your salary with me, madam, 90 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:21.879 would commence at one hundred pounds a year. 91 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.959 A hundred, oh, mister Roecastle. 92 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:27.759 The more it's my custom to advance my young lady's 93 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.079 half their salary beforehand? 94 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.120 May I ask where you leave, mister Roecastle. 95 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:35.680 Hampshire charming rural spot. The Copper Beaches is the name 96 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:38.639 of the place, five miles north of Winchester, the dearest 97 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:39.160 old house. 98 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:41.439 And what would be my duties? 99 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:44.120 One child, a dear little romper age six. 100 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.079 If you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper 101 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.079 Slesmax Bactree, God, before you could wink. 102 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.240 My sole duty then is to take care of this 103 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:54.920 this child. 104 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:58.399 Well, I'm sure your good sense would suggest that you 105 00:04:58.480 --> 00:04:59.600 will be any little. 106 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:01.480 Commands which my wife might give. 107 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.360 I should be happy to make myself useful. 108 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:07.319 Dress for example, Well, thaddy people, faddy but kind hearted. 109 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:09.879 If you were asked to wear a particular dress, and 110 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.000 we might give you you you wouldn't object to our 111 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:12.680 little women? 112 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:17.600 Why no more to sit here or there? That wouldn't 113 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:18.279 be offensive to you? 114 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:19.800 Why why no? 115 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:22.319 Or to cut your hair short before you came to 116 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:28.079 us My hair, Yes, it's quite essential. It's a little 117 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.519 fancy of my wife's, you see. And ladies fancies my 118 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:32.399 dear miss Hunter. They must be consultant. 119 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:34.160 Put my hair. 120 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:40.759 Oh no, I couldn't no, what a pity. In that case, 121 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:42.680 mister Prah, i'd best inspect a few more of your 122 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:43.240 young ladies. 123 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.480 Good day than miss Hunter. I'm afraid you must consider 124 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:47.879 yourself struck from our list. 125 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.120 You can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find 126 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:52.319 another such opening for you. 127 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:54.720 But miss Stoper, good day, Miss Hunter. 128 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.120 Wait just a minute, miss stopah, Let's not be too 129 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.160 hard on the young lady. After all, My request a 130 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.800 bit sudden. Perhaps, Miss Hunter, you'd like twenty four hours 131 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.279 in which to consider the matter. And in view of 132 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:10.839 the fact that you have particularly beautiful hair, I might 133 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:13.120 be willing to raise the salary to one hundred and 134 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:17.279 twenty pounds a year to recompense you for our little eccentricities. 135 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.279 Unusual, might very unusual, my dear miss Hunter. What you 136 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:28.040 make of it? Watson? 137 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.000 Perhaps the gentleman's wife is a lunatic and he wishes 138 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.800 to humor and her fancist in order to prevent an outbreak. 139 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:34.639 Possibly want some. 140 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:38.079 Possibly with the money, mister Holmes, the money and I 141 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:39.319 need it so well. 142 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:41.240 Yes, the pay is good, too good. 143 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:43.920 Why should they give you one hundred and twenty pounds 144 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.000 when they could have their pick for forty There must 145 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:47.040 be some strong reason. 146 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:49.959 But I I have no choice, and you've made up 147 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:51.399 your mind to accept I must. 148 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:54.360 I thought if I told you the circumstances, you would 149 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.879 understand afterwards. If well, if I wanted your help, I 150 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:00.839 should feel so much strong if I knew you were 151 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:01.240 behind me. 152 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:03.399 Yes, you may carry that feeling away with you. And 153 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:05.560 if at any time you should find yourself. 154 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.639 In danger, danger, what danger could there be, my. 155 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:10.600 Dear miss Hunter. It would cease to be a danger 156 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:11.519 if we could define it. 157 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.959 But remember, at any time, day or night, just telegraph 158 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:16.120 and I'll come to your help. 159 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:18.439 Oh, thank you, mister Holmes, thank you. 160 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:29.439 Do you realize Watson? It's been almost a week since 161 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:31.319 Miss Hunter called and we haven't heard a word from her. 162 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:33.560 I don't like him, O nonsense Holmes. 163 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:35.519 She seemed to be a young lady who is quite 164 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:37.240 capable of taking care of herself. 165 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:37.800 That's the same. 166 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:40.519 I should never have permitted an unprotected female to accept 167 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:41.360 the situation like that. 168 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.160 Data if I only had some data. Can't make bricks 169 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:45.800 without straw. 170 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.800 Oh, at any rate, nothing very dreadful conhattan out in 171 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:50.160 the open country like that. 172 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:51.879 That is way You're wrong Watson. 173 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.240 It's my experience that the vilest alleys in London do 174 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.879 not present a more dreadful record of sin than does 175 00:07:57.920 --> 00:07:59.600 the smiling and beautiful countryside. 176 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:01.360 You give me the creeps. 177 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.920 The pressure of public opinion is greatest in the towns. 178 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:06.759 There's no lane so vile that the scream of a 179 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:09.680 tortured child or the flood of a drunken's blow does 180 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:13.240 not beget sympathy and assistance from the neighbors. But the countryside, 181 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.560 my dear Watson, filled with its lonely houses. Think of 182 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:19.920 the hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness. Had our young friend 183 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:22.040 gone to live in Winchester, I should not have this 184 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.759 fear for her safety. It's the five miles of country 185 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:25.600 which make the danger. 186 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:27.240 See what that is, Watson? 187 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:32.799 Thank you missus Subson. It's a telegram for you, Hose, 188 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:33.399 give it to me. 189 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:37.399 It's from miss Hunter. 190 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:38.679 What does she say? 191 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:39.720 Come at once? 192 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.759 We'll meet you at the black Swan Hotel, Winchester three 193 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.039 this afternoon, And that, my wits end don't fail me. 194 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.039 What do you suppose has happened, Haddy Watson, We have 195 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:51.200 no time to lose. Is a train from Waterloo. 196 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:52.799 Station in half an hour, if only we get to 197 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:53.559 her entire. 198 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:03.080 There's the black Swan opposite the station, and if I'm 199 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.240 not mistaken, that is miss Hunter waiting for us on 200 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:05.679 the steps. 201 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:08.279 So, mister Holmes, it's so kind you'd come, and you too, 202 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:12.960 Doctor Watson. I can't tell you how anxious I've been there. 203 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:15.759 There, Miss Hunter. I am Watson. You'd better handle this situation. 204 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:17.320 You're better with this stelling a woman than I am. 205 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.000 Homers. You are a cold bloody fish. He's not hysterior. 206 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:20.720 It's relief. 207 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.639 It's all right, miss Hunter. We are here. You know 208 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.159 I'm ready, not as foolish as I. It's just that 209 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:29.759 the strain of the last two weeks. But I'll tell 210 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:31.919 you about that as we go along. There's a short 211 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:33.679 cut to the Copper Beach is through the woods. 212 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:37.759 Come along again, now, miss Hunter, if you'll tell us 213 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.080 what's been happening since you arrived at the Roecastle household. 214 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:44.279 Well, Copper Beaches is a large, sinister looking house, almost 215 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.639 completely surrounded by woods. It depressed me from the moment 216 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:49.840 of my arrival. I was met at the door by 217 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:53.039 mister Roecastle and his wife. And is she no mister Holmes, 218 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:54.279 She is not mad. 219 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:54.799 I see. 220 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:58.120 She's a small, pale faced woman, much younger than mister Rucastle. 221 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.200 In fact, I gather that she says second wife. There 222 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.320 was a daughter by the first marriage, a girl now 223 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:06.120 over twenty, but she's not living at the house. Mister 224 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.679 Rucastle said that she could not get along with her stepmother, 225 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.159 so he sent her to America, to Philadelphia, America. 226 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:16.080 Extraordinary And does missus Rucastle strike you as a difficult 227 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:16.799 woman to get along with? 228 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.200 Oh no, mister Holmes, she's shy and rather quiet. More 229 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.759 than once I've surprised her in tears. At first I 230 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:25.440 thought it might be worried over the disposition of her child. 231 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:26.799 What's the matter with his disposition? 232 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:30.919 And he's badly spoiled. He's an ungovernable temper and seems 233 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.320 to take a great delight in torturing birds and small animals. 234 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:37.120 Pleasant little beast and the rest of the household. There's 235 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:40.480 only one servant, Toller is his name, A rough, uncouth 236 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:42.879 man with a perpetual smell of drink about him. Why 237 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:46.240 they keep him I don't know, except perhaps because he's 238 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.720 the only one who can manage Carlo. Carlo Carlo is 239 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:52.639 a huge underfed mastif that's kept chain in the stables 240 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:54.960 during the day, but at night they let him out. 241 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:58.720 He's a terrible beast. Even mister Rucastle is afraid of him. 242 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:01.200 But I'm sure he'd tear there any trespass he to bits. 243 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:05.080 I wonder why mister Rucastle desires such ferocious protection. 244 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:09.879 I'm sure I don't know, unless unless there is something 245 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.159 on the top floor of the west wing that he 246 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:15.360 wants to hide. The West wing, eh, Yes, the door 247 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:17.759 that leads into it is opposite my room. It's kept 248 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:21.120 securely locked. I have noticed mister Roecastle going in and 249 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.519 out a couple of times. The windows of that wing 250 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:27.080 are all shuttered too, and locked from the inside. Looks 251 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:29.600 nasty to me. Holmes Watson doliterrupted for the second day 252 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:33.120 after my arrival. Immediately after breakfast, mister Rucastle asked me 253 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.080 to put on a dress which had been laid out 254 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.399 on the bed for me. What was it like? It 255 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.320 wasn't a new dress, mister Holmes, but the material was 256 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:44.879 excellent and of a particularly brilliant shade, an electric blue, 257 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:47.600 charming color. I put it on and went down to 258 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:50.639 the living room. Mister Roecastle had placed a chair for 259 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:51.840 me by the front window. 260 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.799 Sit here, with your leg to the window. You may 261 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:04.200 read this book Beloved, a French novel. I think we'll find. 262 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:07.519 It most amusing. After an hour or so, you may 263 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:09.720 go back upstairs and changed your own clothes. 264 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.279 But mister Roecastle, I don't understand who asked you to understand? 265 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:23.519 Just do as I say. Strange, very strange, Miss Hut. 266 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:25.399 I've had to sit there in the window for an 267 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.840 hour every morning since then. As time past, I became 268 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:31.399 more and more curious. Why were they so careful to 269 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:34.279 keep my face turned away from the window. Naturally, I 270 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:36.080 was consumed with the czar to see what was going 271 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:38.759 on behind my back. But today I'd devised a means. 272 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.879 I noticed a breakfast that mister Rucastle had had quite 273 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:45.039 a few drinks. A happy thought seized me. My hand 274 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:47.399 mirr had been broken. I concealed a piece of it 275 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:50.240 my handkerchief, and later in my book, feeling sure that 276 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:53.720 mister Rucastle was too drunk to notice. By holding the 277 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.360 book up, I was able to see everything behind me. 278 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:57.480 And what did you see? 279 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.039 At first? There was nothing. At the second glance, however, 280 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.240 I saw a young man in a gray suit, leaning 281 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:07.519 against a rain which boarded our field. He was looking 282 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.399 earnestly in my direction. Mister Rucastle must have noticed my 283 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:13.480 surprise reburst out angrily. 284 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:17.240 Really, miss Hunter, your attention must be wondering. That's the 285 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:20.399 second time you read that passion for them? As an 286 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.600 impertinent fellow up the road who keeps staring at you 287 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:24.919 a friend of yours? 288 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:28.039 Oh no, Mistercastle, I don't know anyone around here. 289 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:30.879 Kindly turn around and motioned him to go away. 290 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:32.879 But wouldn't it be better not to notice as who? 291 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.879 As I'd tell you, I really don't encourage you to 292 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:36.799 have any followers. 293 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.759 Very well, Misterecastle, there, impertinent fellow. 294 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:44.200 That'll be all for this morning, Miss Hunter. 295 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:46.919 Me good, mister Rucastle. I hope you don't think go 296 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:47.600 to your room. 297 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:51.639 I say, yes, sir, And after this you needn't bother 298 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:53.279 to wear that blue. 299 00:13:53.080 --> 00:14:01.039 Dress it to But on the way up, says I 300 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:03.440 noticed that that the west wing had the key still 301 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:05.840 in the locker. Lucastle must have been drunk to get 302 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.679 there to home, quite Watson, I'll admit my curiosity is 303 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.480 greater than my sense of caution. I opened and mounted 304 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:15.159 the stairs to the attic in the hall. At the 305 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:18.240 top of the house. I found three doors, the middle 306 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:21.159 one barred with the end of an old iron bedstead. 307 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:23.320 Good lord, it was terribly. 308 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:23.840 Spooky up there. 309 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:30.519 Once something brushed against my face upset. There must have 310 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:38.120 been a bet. Oh dear, is there any one in there? 311 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:43.559 Who's there? 312 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:46.000 Can I help you? 313 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:53.159 So it was you? 314 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.279 Then I thought it must be when I saw the 315 00:14:56.399 --> 00:15:02.120 door open, mister Lucassa frightened my dear young lady. What 316 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:02.799 frightened you? 317 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:05.360 But I was foolish enough to come into this vacant wing. 318 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.000 But it's so lonely an area, and a bat swooped 319 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:09.919 down at my face? 320 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:10.759 Is that all? 321 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:14.279 What else could there be? 322 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:17.159 Why do you suppose I keep that door locked? 323 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.799 I'm sure I don't know to keep people out who 324 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.639 have no business there, you see, I'm sure if i'd known. 325 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:27.720 Well, you know now, my dear young lady, And if 326 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:30.639 you ever put your foot over that threshold again, I'll 327 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:32.120 throw you to the mastiff room. 328 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:42.039 What a dreadful experience, mister Holmes. I feel sure there's 329 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:45.600 someone locked in that room, someone who's unhappy, perhaps tortured. 330 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:49.039 Oh good heavens, it's almost five, I promise to be bad. 331 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:52.600 By six, mister and missus Routhcastle are going out, mister 332 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:54.399 Roecastle to discover it had been. 333 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:57.080 You've acted like a brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. 334 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:58.080 Yes, indeed you have. 335 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.679 Dr Watson and I will hang around the Roe Castles 336 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:01.039 have left. 337 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:02.399 Well, that should be around seven. 338 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.399 Good. I don't imagine the mastiff will be let loose 339 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:05.039 en til their return. 340 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:07.399 Oh no, mister Holmes will be too dangerous for them 341 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:08.320 to get back to the house. 342 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.399 Excellent, we'll hope the Toller's still drunk at inner rate. 343 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:13.960 You must get us into the house. We must explore 344 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:14.440 the west wing. 345 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:18.159 I'll do my best, mister Holmes, and now I must harry. Goodbye, gentlemen, 346 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:22.639 there is Hunter. Well, my dear Holmes, what do you 347 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:25.159 make of it? All the blue dress and the man 348 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:26.080 in front of the house. 349 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:30.120 Obviously they've had her impersonating someone, someone young whose hair 350 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:31.600 had been cut off during an illness. 351 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:34.840 That someone is probably the person imprisoned in the West Wing. 352 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:36.879 Her, sinister, that is. 353 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.679 Not the most sinister part of this Hunter's story, Watson. No, 354 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:43.879 what is then the unpleasant disposition of the child. But 355 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.200 what has that got to do with it, my dear Watson. 356 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:48.600 As a medical man, you're always gaining lightness to the 357 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:51.080 tendencies of a child by a study of the parents. 358 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:53.320 Heredity is a science that can. 359 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:54.360 Be worked backwards as well. 360 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:56.720 You can get a good insight into the character of 361 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.519 the parents by studying the children. This child is cruel, 362 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.359 abnormally cruel. He probably inherits it from one of his parents. 363 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:07.839 I only hope nothing serious happens before seven o'clock. 364 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:24.119 Gracious, what tonight the first thunder storm of the season. 365 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:26.960 See listen to that dog. 366 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:28.720 He has an ugly temper. 367 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:31.960 Look at the copper beeches swaying in the wind. Yes, 368 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:33.839 there's miss Hunter standing in the front doorway. 369 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:38.319 She's waving to us. The ghost must be clear. Come in, 370 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:40.559 Come in, good is you might be search of a swing. 371 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:43.680 What's that pounding? 372 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:46.240 It's Tala. He was just going out to release the dog. 373 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:48.839 I sent him to the wine cellar and locked him in. 374 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:49.400 Splendid. 375 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:52.119 I managed to get Toller's keys this afternoon, too. He 376 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:56.240 was quite drunk. Their duplicates of mister Ruecastle's better and better. 377 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:58.680 But come along upstairs. We have no time to waste. 378 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:01.079 You've got your avarber handy. Yes, good. 379 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:04.880 Gives that lighting must have hiten. 380 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:06.240 Near here one of the Copper beaches. 381 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:12.359 No doubt. Yeah, which key? Ah, This wrner's dancing, that's right, 382 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:19.400 starting here. Come along. 383 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.839 Listen to that rain on the roof the middle door. 384 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:32.119 You said hello in there no answer. I don't like that, Watson, 385 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:35.000 help me remove this bedstead. I tried to tie it 386 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:36.880 one end half a rope. That's it. 387 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:40.160 The doors locked. 388 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:48.039 We must break it in then come on one two, Hello, 389 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:50.920 there's no one here. That villain lucas and must have 390 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:53.160 made away with his prisoner. That's you're right. She's probably 391 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.880 been carried off through the skylight. It is still open. 392 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:57.799 Shot That table over here, all right? 393 00:18:58.680 --> 00:18:59.839 What are you guys? 394 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:00.960 You stand on it? 395 00:19:01.079 --> 00:19:01.440 Of course? 396 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:07.960 Yes, two pairs of footprints. There's a ladder resting against 397 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:09.960 the eaves. But that's how he did it. 398 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:12.920 But that's not possible. The ladder wasn't there when the 399 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.079 root castles went away. 400 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:19.160 And he mustn't come clever man, listen listen. Yes, I 401 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:20.759