WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.760 --> 00:00:08.759 Please come in from London. 2 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.839 We present The Retired color Man, a play for radio 3 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:15.679 based on the short story by Sir Arthur Cohan Doyle, 4 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:23.879 The Retired color Man. It was late one summer afternoon. 5 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.120 I returned from my club to two to one B 6 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.920 Baker Street to find Sharlock Holmes's gaunt figure stretched in 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.520 his deep chair. I recognized his melancholy and philosophic mood, 8 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.520 his alert, practical nature of a subject to such reactions. 9 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.119 Well, my dear Watson, did you see him? 10 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.280 Who? Oh, the old fellow just gone out? 11 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:50.600 Precisely I met him at the door. What did you 12 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:51.200 think of him? 13 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:52.039 Well? 14 00:00:52.960 --> 00:01:01.280 Pathetic, futile, broken picture exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But 15 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:02.880 is not all life pathetic? 16 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:03.320 Computer? 17 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:08.599 Isn't history a microcosm of the whole? We reach, we grasp, 18 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:11.000 and what is left in our hands at the end 19 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.920 a shadow or worse than the shadow? Misery? 20 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:18.519 Or come home? He one of your class? 21 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:20.439 Well, I suppose I they call him so? 22 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:21.079 Well? 23 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:25.120 Who is he anyway? Mister Josiah Amberley? He says he 24 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:29.439 was junior partner of BitFall and Amberley, manufacturers of artists materials. 25 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:32.560 You'll see their names upon pink buses. He made his 26 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:36.239 little pile, retired at the age of sixty one, bought 27 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.200 a house at Lewisham and settled down to rest after 28 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.159 a life of ceaseless grind. 29 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:42.920 Sounds a comfortable prospect. 30 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.200 He retired in eighteen ninety six. Early in eighteen ninety 31 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:49.519 seven he married a woman twenty years younger than himself. 32 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:50.079 Ah. 33 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:55.079 Yes, good looking too, if her photographersn't flat at a competence, 34 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:58.519 a wife leisure. It looked like a straight robe before him. 35 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:02.480 Yet within two years he's reduced to the broken and 36 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:03.760 miserable creature you've. 37 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.239 Just seen the one's captain. 38 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:09.599 Home the old story Watson, a treacherous friend and a 39 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:13.719 fickle wife. It seems that Amberley has one hobby in 40 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:17.280 his life chess. Not far from him Atluis there is 41 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.919 a young doctor, doctor Ray Ernest, who is also a 42 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.039 chess player. Ernest was frequently an Amberley's house and an 43 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:25.879 intimacy between him and Amberley's wife. 44 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.199 As a result, I doesn't surprise me. Your card doesn't 45 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:31.879 look like a paragon of the graces. 46 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:35.680 Well, the couple went off together last week destination. So 47 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.759 far I'm traced. What's more, the woman carried off the 48 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:41.520 old man's deed box by way of personal luggage. He's 49 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:44.400 had a good part of his life savings in him, 50 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:48.280 Sir Watson, can we find the lady? Can we save 51 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:49.319 the money. 52 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.199 At a commonplace? Or the case to bother you with helms. 53 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:55.599 In it, but vital enough for poor Jessiah Amberley. Well 54 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:56.080 that's sir. 55 00:02:57.479 --> 00:02:58.319 What do you do then? 56 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:03.080 What will you do? My dear Watson? Hey, if you 57 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:06.080 would be good enough to understudy me? That is? You 58 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:08.159 know how preoccupied I am with this case of the 59 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:11.039 two Coptic patriarchs. It should come to a head today. No, 60 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.159 I really haven't time to go out to Lewisham, and 61 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.759 yet evidence taken on the spot says a special value. 62 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:22.520 Well, by all means, I I confess, I don't see 63 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:23.599 that can be much service. 64 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:24.919 I'm willing to do my best. 65 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:27.919 Capital. By the way, the name of his house is 66 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:31.560 the Haven. The old fellow was quite insistent that I 67 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.560 should go, but I explained my difficulty. He's quite prepared 68 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:37.120 to meet a representative. 69 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.879 I hardly expect that so humble an individualist myself would 70 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:48.560 merity the complete attention of so famous a man as 71 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:53.840 mister Sherlock Holmes, especially after my heavy financial loss. 72 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:55.639 And I'm going to show you, mister Ambler, that the 73 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:57.319 financial question is not a ry. 74 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:01.240 No, of course, it's art for art's sake. With him, 75 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:05.639 I understand still, even on the artistic side of crime, 76 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:11.360 he might have found something here to study. And human nature, 77 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:15.400 doctor Watson, the blacking. 78 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:16.199 Gratitude of it all. 79 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.319 Tell me when did I ever refuse one of her requests? 80 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.800 Was ever a woman so pamphus and that young man he. 81 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:28.040 Might have been my old son, had the run of 82 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:29.759 my house? And see how. 83 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:31.439 They've treated mister Amber. 84 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:36.240 I said, dreadful, world, dreadful, dreadful? 85 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:40.759 Did you say something? I was never going to point 86 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:42.759 out that if you continue to wave your pain. 87 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.519 Pushion back like that, it wouldn't be long before did 88 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:48.120 your clothing on this too? But I'm afraid the damage 89 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:48.560 is done. 90 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:54.079 Oh dear me, you see how this business has distracted me. 91 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.639 I'm in the middle of painting this hall. Who seemed surprised? 92 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:01.600 Doctor what must do something to ease an aching heart? 93 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:06.759 I started painting the house only the day before they disappeared. 94 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:10.399 I thought I might as well carry on. Yes, fair 95 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:15.079 sent but pray step into my sectum away from this 96 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:24.160 paint smell. Ah, that's better, Yes, yes, pray take a 97 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.920 seat you good? 98 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:27.560 Now? 99 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:32.600 Then where shall I begin my account with my retirement 100 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:36.000 on marriage? Perhaps not, mister Holmes. 101 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:40.360 Miller requested certain details, for example, the events of the 102 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.480 actual evening of your wife's disappearing. 103 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:45.920 Oh, how shall I ever forget them to think that? 104 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.279 I prepared a special treat for the shameless creature the 105 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:55.680 Haymarket Theater, the two upper circle seats, a gay evening. 106 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:00.480 I thought, perhaps a little supper somewhere, But no, she 107 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:02.759 complained of a headache and refused to. 108 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:07.639 Go see here. I had it here, her theater. 109 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:12.199 Ticket, unused, seat thirty one, row B. 110 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:14.480 And then you had to go on. 111 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.720 I did there. I sat all through the performance, her empty. 112 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.720 Seat beside me, and little did I realize what an 113 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:24.959 ear omen it was. 114 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.079 You returned to find her gone just so. 115 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:33.040 But that was not all you see this store, it's 116 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:38.160 iron painted to look like wood. It's my strong room, 117 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.199 safe as a bank, I always thought, But not where 118 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:44.639 she was concerned. 119 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.480 Ah, as your deed box was taken. 120 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:53.279 I believe deed box caresh securities about seven thousand pounds worth. 121 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:58.279 She must have had a duplicate key prepared. I've heard 122 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:00.720 no word from or about us. I left to go 123 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:04.720 to the theater that faithful evening, leaving her alone here 124 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:12.959 with her headache. Not one single word doctor Watson. And 125 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.720 her seat number at the Haymarket theater was thirty one. 126 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:17.279 You say, Watson, you're quite. 127 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:21.319 Sure positive my old school number. Excellent? 128 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:25.079 Then his own seat was either thirty or thirty two. 129 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:26.279 Roby. 130 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:31.480 Yeah, well, Watson, have you told me all? 131 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:33.519 I think so? Oh? 132 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:35.759 Did I mention the detour up a photograph of his 133 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:36.800 wife in my presence? 134 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:37.480 No? 135 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:41.839 He never wished to see her damn place again, he cried, 136 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:42.720 no doubt. 137 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:45.480 Still, I fensied the loss of his money took precedence 138 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.279 over velos of his wife, without a doubt. But let 139 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.759 us get down to what is practical. And I must 140 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:53.439 admit that a case which seemed to be so absurd, 141 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.000 as simple as to be hardly worth my notice, is 142 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:58.199 rapidly assuming a very different aspect. 143 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:01.399 It's true in your mission you've. 144 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:04.920 Missed everything of importance. Yet even those things which have 145 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.000 obtruded themselves upon your notice kape rise to serious thought. 146 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:09.959 What do I miss? 147 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.680 Oh, don't be hurt, my dear fellow. No one else 148 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:16.040 would have done better. But clearly you have missed some 149 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:19.680 vital points. What do the neighbors think about Amberley and 150 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:23.079 his wife? What did doctor Ernest? Was he the gala 151 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:27.079 pario one would expect? Surely these are of importance. Well, 152 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:30.439 and with your natural advantages, Watson, every lady is our 153 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.600 helper and accomplish. What about the girl at the post office, 154 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.279 or the greengrocer's wife, or even the lady at the 155 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:36.879 blue anchor? 156 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:42.000 All this you've left undone. It can still be done. 157 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:45.200 It has been done. Thanks for the telephone and the 158 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:47.759 help of Scotland Yard, I can usually get my essentials 159 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:51.279 without leaving this room. As a matter protect my information 160 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:55.720 confirms Ambley's own story. He has the local reputation of 161 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.159 being a miser as well as a harsh and exactly husband. 162 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:01.759 It's also certain that he had a large sum of 163 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.240 money in that strong room. Whoa, and it's common gossip 164 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:07.919 that young doctor Ernest played chess for the Amberley and 165 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:11.639 probably played the fool with his wife. It all seems 166 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:19.159 plain sailing and yet and yet it was the difficulty, 167 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:24.399 oh in my imagination perhaps well lead that there wasn't 168 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:28.039 let us escape from this weary, workaday world by the 169 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.639 side door of music Carina sings tonight at the Albert Hall. 170 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:38.879 We still have time to dress, dime and enjoy. 171 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:43.120 The next morning, I was up early, but found a 172 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.759 note from Homes on the breakfast table telling me that 173 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.039 he'd gone de Lursium to see Ambulon, that he hoped 174 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:49.519 to be backed by three o'clock. 175 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:06.320 Oh there you are, unt all of the minutes. Well, 176 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:12.159 what news has Emberly been here? 177 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:12.320 Here? 178 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:13.519 Emble? 179 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:21.240 No, I'm expecting him. Oh, come in, Yes, Missus Hudson. 180 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.360 There's mister Amble to see you, sir. 181 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:25.799 Ah show him in, Missus Hutton. 182 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:33.039 Very good, sir, in here, mister Joseph Amberley, pray step insider. 183 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:34.879 Thank you, Missus Hutton. 184 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:42.519 Mister Holmes, I've had a telegram I could make nothing 185 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:43.720 of exactly. 186 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:44.759 I see it. 187 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:45.240 Thank you. 188 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:50.960 Come at once without fail, can give you information as 189 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:58.120 to your recent loss. Elman the Vicarage dispatched at twelve 190 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:02.080 to ten from little Pearlington. Oh Watson, hand down my 191 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:07.279 Cropford's directory. You place right Little Pearlington's in ethics, isn't it. 192 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:12.200 It's not far from Printon. Uh here you are. 193 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:21.399 Oh it's you then he he h Elman, Yes, here 194 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:25.559 we have him J. C. Elman, m a living of 195 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:29.759 moussmore come little Pearlington. Well, mister Embily, you must start 196 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.039 at once when you look up a trained for our 197 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:32.600 friend Watson. 198 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:36.840 Yes, good fellow, mister Holmes, will you kindly tell. 199 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:40.120 Me Liverpool Street, five homes excellent. 200 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:43.200 You'd best go with mister Amberley Watson. He may need 201 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:45.960 help or advice. It's clear we've come to a crisis 202 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:46.480 and there. 203 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:49.559 But he's perfectly absurd, mister Holmes. What can this country 204 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:52.879 vicker possibly know what's occurred? It's a waste of time 205 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:53.440 and money. 206 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:55.879 He wouldn't have telegraphed you if he didn't know something. 207 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:58.039 You should wire him at once that you're coming. I 208 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:00.559 don't think I should go, mister Amberley. It would make 209 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.639 the worst possible impression, both on the police and upon myself. 210 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.639 If you should refuse to follow up so obvious a clue, 211 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.120 we should feel that you were not really in earnest 212 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:14.960 and misinvestigation. I of course I go. If you look 213 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:15.720 at it that way. 214 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.039 On the face of it, it seems absurd to suppose 215 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.799 that this Saparson knows anything but if you. 216 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:26.120 Think I do think, Oh now, hurry along, sir, and 217 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:28.480 doctor Watson will catch you up at the telegraph office 218 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:29.000 at the corner. 219 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:32.919 Oh very well, then a waste of time and money 220 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:36.600 in my opinion, hoorry money. 221 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:41.120 Down the drain, Watson, whatever you do, see that he 222 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.960 really does go. If he breaks away from your orders, 223 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:46.600 hides to return, get to the nearest telegraph office and 224 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:49.840 send a single word booted. I'll arrange here the digital 225 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:51.519 reach me wherever I am. 226 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:55.759 The weather was hot, the train slow, my companion sullen 227 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:59.519 and silent. When we at last reached little Pellington station, 228 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:02.240 it was a two mile drive before we came to 229 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:06.440 the vicarage, where a big, solemn, rather pompous kerghman received 230 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:07.279 us up in his study. 231 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:12.480 A telegram lay before him. Well, gentlemen, what can I 232 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:13.039 do for you? 233 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.080 We came in answer to your wa mister Reelman. 234 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:18.679 My wire. 235 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.000 I sent no telegraphic communication. 236 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:25.159 I mean the one you sent to mister Josah Embley 237 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:26.360 about his wife and his money. 238 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:29.919 If this is a joke, size is a very questionable one. 239 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.200 I've never heard of the gentleman who name, and I 240 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.559 have not sent a telegram to anyone. 241 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:37.840 I knew it would be a fool's head. 242 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:41.320 Well, must be some mistake. And the other two vicarages. 243 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:42.240 Perhaps there is. 244 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:45.360 Only one vicarage side, only one vicar. 245 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:49.879 The telegram you refer to is obviously a scandalous forgery, 246 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:51.159 the origin of. 247 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:55.399 Which will certainly be investigated by the police. The wild gentleman, 248 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:59.240 I can see no possible object in prolonging this interview. 249 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:12.039 Hello, Hello, homes. Is that you homes? Well, they aren't homes. 250 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:17.639 The vicar never said any such. Why you're very annoyed? Home? 251 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:27.360 Are you thereas there is no return tonight? 252 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:35.639 What I may contemt you to the horrors of a country, what. 253 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:40.039 You can commune with? 254 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:49.720 Thank, thank you very much, homes, good night. Well what 255 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:50.320 did he say? 256 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.440 He said it was the most remarkable business. 257 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.840 Remarkable, I should prefer the word expansion, a railway, fair. 258 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:58.159 Bird, class wife. 259 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:02.679 Hey more, And now I hope Bill it's monstrous, monstrous. 260 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:05.279 I shall have a word to say to mister Sherlock 261 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:06.320 Holmes tomorrow. 262 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:09.600 Oh very well, sir, We've drived directly to Baker Street 263 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:12.840 from the station tomorrow, and now we better make arrangements 264 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:17.759 for the night, I warned Holmes, by. 265 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.960 Telegram at the time of our arrival at Baker Street 266 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:20.519 next day. 267 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:23.279 But when we got there we found a message to 268 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:25.840 say that he was at Lursham and would expect us there. 269 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:28.759 This was a surprise to me, but. 270 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:30.879 An even greater one was to find that Holmes was 271 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:32.519 not alone at Embley's house. 272 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:36.759 In the sitting room, a turn looking, well built. 273 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:41.840 Man sat beside him, a dark, heavily mustached man wearing 274 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:46.600 tinted sunglasses and sporting a large Masonic pin in his tie. 275 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.799 Ah, gentlemen, allow me to introduce my friend, mister Barker, 276 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:58.879 mister Amberley. Dr Watson, how did richoe a Mister Barker 277 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:02.240 has been interesting start in your business too, mister Amberley. 278 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:06.480 We've been working independently one another, you understand, but we 279 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.600 both have the same question to ask you a question? 280 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:13.480 What question, jo miss? 281 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:16.279 What did you do with the bodies? 282 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:17.720 No? 283 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:22.639 Get hold Watson. 284 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.519 It No, you shan't make me answer you shall He's 285 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:28.759 trying to sallow something. 286 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:37.080 Stop him right, get holding literally, Well done, Bacher. No 287 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:41.200 short cuts, Ambly, things must be done decently, and in 288 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:45.840 order I have a cab at the door, I may 289 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.480 as well take him straight to the police station. Could 290 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:50.840 I tell you, Inspector that jolly coming along you want 291 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:53.559 to examine this house sooner or later. I don't say 292 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.320 you won't object to meeting me here. 293 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:57.600 Very well, I'll come back with him. 294 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.960 I'll come on you and anymore nonsense and I'll have 295 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:03.120 your arm out of it. 296 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:11.160 So well, there was a homes which's a poison capsule. 297 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:20.160 Look, Ah, Holmes, this a buker, my hated rival upon 298 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:25.039 the suage or Ah, his methods are irregular like my own. 299 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:30.400 We irregular as are useful sometimes, you know. Well, Holmes, 300 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:32.720 let's hear what it is all about. It all in 301 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:35.720 good time, my dear Boson, the inspector will be along 302 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:41.279 shortly for the same account. In the meantime, I shall 303 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:51.920 enjoy a few minutes qua smooth. I just want to 304 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:55.480 make this clear before you begin, mister Holmes, I don't 305 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:58.400 imagine that we hadn't formed our own views of this case. 306 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.440 And that we wouldn't have played our hands the men. 307 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.319 And so you'll excuse us for feeling sore when you 308 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:06.000 jump in with methods which we can't use, and so 309 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:08.799 rob us at the credit. There will be no such robbery. 310 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:12.640 Inspector McKinnon. Nowell, I assure you that I effaced myself 311 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:13.079 from now on. 312 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:16.880 Now. As to mister Barker here, he has done nothing, 313 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:18.079 said what I told him. 314 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:22.000 That's quite great. Well, that's pretty handsome of you, mister Holmes. 315 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:24.880 Praise or blame can matter little to you. 316 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.839 But it's different for the police when the newspapers start 317 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:28.799 asking questions. 318 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:29.440 Quite so. 319 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:34.079 But when an intelligent and enterprising reporter asks you what 320 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:37.200 the exact points were which are out your suspicion and 321 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:39.839 finally gave you a certain conviction as to the lay 322 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:40.240 of death. 323 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:45.000 Well, well, we don't seem to have got any real 324 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:45.759 facts yet. 325 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:48.240 What facts have you? 326 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:51.079 Have you arranged for a search, and there are two 327 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.920 constables on their way, Then you'll soon get the clearest 328 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.599 fact of all. Huh, the bodies cannot be far away, 329 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:02.119 try to sell us, and it shouldn't take long to 330 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:06.000 dig up the likely places. This house is older than 331 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.680 its water pipes, so there must be a disused well somewhere. 332 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:14.039 Why you're not there? But how did you know that 333 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:17.839 been murdered? Yes, Holmes, how is it done? Well, I'll 334 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:21.599 show you first hyphers done, inspector, and then i'll give 335 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:24.640 the explanation, which is due to you, and even more 336 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:27.559 to my long suffering friend, doctor Watson, who has been 337 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:32.079 invaluable throughout. I say, but first, I'd like you to 338 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:37.240 consider this man Amble. His mentality so that very unusual one, 339 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.200 so much so that I think his destination is more 340 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:43.559 likely to be broad more than the scaffold. 341 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:45.079 Is that, so go on. 342 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:47.480 He has to a high degree the sort of mind 343 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:51.759 one associates with the medieval Italian nature rather than of 344 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:55.799 the modern Britain. He was a miserable miser who made 345 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:58.559 his wife so wretched by his niggardly ways that she 346 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:01.200 was already to pray for any of them. Such a 347 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:03.119 one came upon the scene, and the person of this 348 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:09.279 chest playing doctor embly excelled at chess. One indication Watson 349 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:14.160 the scheming mind. Like all misers, he was a jealous man, 350 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:18.160 and his jealousy became a frantic mania. Rightly or wrongly, 351 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.039 he suspected an intrigue. He determined to have his revenge, 352 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:27.200 and he planned it for diabolic for cleverness. Have a 353 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:36.000 look here this is his so called strong room. Oh 354 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.839 what an awful smell of plaint. That was our first clue. 355 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:43.920 You can thank doctor Watson's observation for that, though he 356 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:47.119 failed to draw the inference. It set my foot on 357 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:47.839 the trail. 358 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:49.880 Him. 359 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:53.119 Well, ask yourself, Watson, why should this man at such 360 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.920 a time be fill in his house of strong odors? 361 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:59.000 Obviously to cover some other smell which he wished to conceal, 362 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:01.799 some gift smell which might excite suspicions. 363 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:04.559 And you mean decomposition. 364 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:09.000 No, no, no, no, no, nothing of that sort. Then 365 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:11.200 came the idea of a rooms such as you see 366 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:16.480 here with a sealed armed door. Put the two texts together, 367 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:18.319 and where do they lead? 368 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:19.319 Oh? 369 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:22.200 Oh, blessed if I know? 370 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:26.519 No, me too, Oh. 371 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:30.680 Well, let it pass from now. I was already certain 372 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.000 of the case was serious, because I had examined the 373 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:36.279 box office chart at the Haymarket Theater, another of doctor 374 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:40.319 Watson's bull eyes. It showed that neither the two seats 375 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:43.799 B thirteen nor thirty two of the upper circle had 376 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:48.000 been occupied on the nineteen question. They lied. I mean, 377 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:51.279 he never went to the theater, and so his alibi 378 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.960 fell to the ground. He made a bad slip when 379 00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:59.359 he showed you his wife's unused ticket. Watson. Yes, the 380 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:02.200 only way I could satisfy my suspicions about the smell 381 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:05.359 of paint and the existence of the sealed room, was 382 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:09.279 to examine the house myself. The question was how was 383 00:22:09.319 --> 00:22:15.440 I to achieve this? I know that now I see it, Yes, Spatson, 384 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:18.880 I sent an agent to the most impossibly remote village 385 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:21.279 I could think of, and summoned Amberley to go there 386 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:23.759 at such an hour that he couldn't possibly get. 387 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:25.839 Back the same day, and send me will him to 388 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:27.119 make sure he really went. 389 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:29.640 At the good dicker's name, I simply got out of 390 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:35.079 my Crockford's directory, masterly brilliant the veil here of interruption. 391 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:40.359 I proceeded to burgle the house. Burglary has always been 392 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:43.359 an alternative profession, if I'd care to adopt it, and 393 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:45.319 I have little doubt that I should have reached the 394 00:22:45.319 --> 00:22:51.599 front rank of war anyway. See what I found? And 395 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:52.920 then you see this. 396 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:57.960 Yes type along the skirting board here, girl, very good. 397 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:02.359 It rises the angle of the wall, and there's a 398 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:07.319 tap in the corner. Now follow me into the strung room. 399 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:16.160 You see that plaster rose in the center of the ceiling. Well, 400 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:21.759 the pipe finishes there with an open end at any 401 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:23.880