WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:06.559 Tonight's story the Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, And so 2 00:00:06.759 --> 00:00:09.160 once again we raised the familiar brass door actor of 3 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:10.359 doctor John Watson. 4 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:14.480 Well, well, mister Stark, come in, come in. This is 5 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.399 indeed a pleasure. I've been told we'll have to get 6 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:19.960 along with a substitute for mister Harris for a few weeks. 7 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:22.199 But I had no idea he'd turned out to be 8 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:22.960 an old friend. 9 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:25.559 I Uh, while I wore my clipper Craft's suit, doctor 10 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:27.839 Watson saw one seemed too strange in this program. 11 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:30.399 What's on the agenda for tonight, Well. 12 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:33.560 It concerns the strange and slightly horrendous affair at Shoscomb 13 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.000 Old Place, in which Holmes investigated the graves in an 14 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:38.240 ancient verio crypt. 15 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:40.560 Hmmm, sounds promising, and on earth. 16 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:43.320 The fact that certain bones had been disposed of in 17 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:43.960 the furnace. 18 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.000 Wow, my hair is beginning to stand up on end already. 19 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:51.840 Yes, The adventure began placidly enough one rainy morning. Holmes 20 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:54.000 and I had just finished an excellent breakfast in our 21 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.119 rooms in Baker Street. I was gazing idly through the 22 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:00.079 sporting columns, trying to decide what horse to back in 23 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.439 the fork I mean Derby and Holmes Homes was pottering 24 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:08.120 around with a low piled microscope doing some sort of 25 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:20.040 an experiment. The devil quoted his favorite day up and 26 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:24.799 atom odds ten to one, just con prince forty to 27 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:28.519 one when the bos brought the odds down on that horse. 28 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:30.760 Glue Watson, it's glue. 29 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.799 Jack Horner and break a day. And what did you say, Holmes? 30 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:36.640 I was manly telling you the phenomenal fact that the 31 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:38.560 microscope showed that there's glue and this bit. 32 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:42.120 Of dust blue. What difference does it made? Blue? Or 33 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:46.239 paste or even sticking plaster? Can't you see? I'm busy, 34 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:50.560 lucky lady, ride of cornwall and the fact that. 35 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:52.239 There is glue in this dust is going to cost 36 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:53.040 a man his life. 37 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.359 And I say, cost a man's life. Glue. 38 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:58.680 Now you're interested, day Watson. We'll come over here and 39 00:01:58.719 --> 00:01:59.920 take a pek through this microscope. 40 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:04.640 All right, nothing but a blur to me. 41 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.599 Wait, let me adjust it there. What do you see now? 42 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:11.599 Some long matted airs. 43 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:14.879 Those are infinitesimal fibers from a tweed cap, the criminal's 44 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:18.000 tweed cap. The irregular gray masses are dust. These are 45 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:19.479 epithelial scales. On the left. 46 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:23.159 Yes, But what are those shiny amber colored crystals in 47 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:26.000 the center? That is the glue he's been How does 48 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:27.520 a man's life depend on those? 49 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:29.560 In the Saint Pancras case, you may remember that a 50 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:32.719 cap was found beside the dead policeman. The accused man 51 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:35.520 denies it's his. The stuff under the microscope was taken 52 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.639 from one of the scenes of that cap and proves 53 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:39.919 the man was lying. But how the man is a 54 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.319 picture frame maker who habitually handles glue. Well, that case 55 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:48.840 is closed. I had a new client who is due 56 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:51.680 to call at ten. He's late. By the way, Watson, 57 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:53.800 you have some knowledge of horse racing, I believe. 58 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.479 Well I ought to. It's cost me about half my 59 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:57.280 year's pension. 60 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.319 Good. Then you can be my handy guide to the turf, 61 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:02.080 as I believe you call your racing bible. 62 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:03.479 Well, what would you like to know? 63 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.599 Does the name Sir Robert Norberton mean anything to you? Oh? 64 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.240 Rather, he lives at Shoscomb Old Place. It is the 65 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:13.280 man himself what seemed like tall, muscular as a devil 66 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:16.159 of a temper. He wants horse with Sam Brewer the 67 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.800 Curtain Street money lander on Newmarket, Heath. 68 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:21.240 Interesting is he often indulged in such pastimes. 69 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:24.560 Well, he has the reputation of being a dangerous man, 70 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:27.919 the most dead devil rider in Europe. See when the 71 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.599 Grand National a few years back. One of those men 72 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:34.280 who have missed the true generation. He would have been 73 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.840 a buck in the days of the regency, a boxer, 74 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:40.159 a heavy gambler, a devil with the ladies, and a 75 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:41.199 first class. 76 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.599 Shot capital Watson, a perfect thumbnail sketch. Now can you 77 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.240 give me some idea of Shoscom Old Place? 78 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.759 Well, not much, Only it is very ancient and situated 79 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:53.240 in the central Shoscombe Park, and that the famous Shoscombe 80 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.479 stables and trading waters are to be founder and the. 81 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:57.840 Head trailer is John Mason. 82 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:00.479 I say, how did you deduce that? 83 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:02.800 I didn't have to? John Mason's my most recent client. 84 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:05.400 This letter asking for an appointment. It's from him. But 85 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:07.080 to go on? What else is the reventest about the 86 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:07.919 place world? 87 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.199 Are the famous shoscumb spaniels. You hear of them in every. 88 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:12.319 Dog show Spaniels? 89 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.319 Eh, they are the special pride of the lady of 90 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.600 Shostcumbe Old Place, Sir Robert's wife. No, Sir Robert has 91 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:20.879 never married. He lives with his widowed sister, Lady beets Folder. 92 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:21.639 I mean she lives with. 93 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.959 Him, and not at all I said what I meant 94 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:28.560 the place belonged to her late husband. Lady Beetris has 95 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:30.920 only a life interest. It reverts at her debt to 96 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.720 her husband's brother and her husband's brothery meantime, she draws 97 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:35.560 the rents. 98 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.959 Every year and brother Roberts spends them. 99 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:39.720 That's about the size of it. They're always quarreling, and 100 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.759 yet I have heard that devoted to each other. But 101 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:44.160 what's a miss at Shoscoll. 102 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.639 That's just what I'd like to know, and that, if 103 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.199 I'm not mistaken, is the man who can tell us 104 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:52.600 the trainer, John Mason. Yes, here he comes up the stairs. 105 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:58.759 Come in, Come in, ah, mister Mason, I am Sharlock Holmes, 106 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.600 says Thrones read my note. Yes, this is my friend 107 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.519 and colleague, Dr Watson. Mister John Mason. I so please 108 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:08.879 be seated now, mister Mason. That's the difficulty or note. 109 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.480 Explain nothing. Her metters too delicate for me to put 110 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:14.439 on paper, much too complicated. I had to see your 111 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:17.600 face to face. We are at your disposal, mister Olmes. 112 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.519 I think my employer has gone mad. My dear mister Mason. 113 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:23.560 This is Baker Street, not Harley Street. We do not 114 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:24.920 pretend to be brain specialists. 115 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.680 Well, gentlemen, a man does one queer thing, or even two, 116 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.000 but when everything he does is queer, well, I believe 117 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.160 shoskumb prints and the Derby have turned his brain. 118 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:39.480 Sostgum, Prince. That's the coat you're running, isn't it, Yes, sir, 119 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:40.439 the best in England. 120 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:42.839 If I do say so, I'll be playing with you 121 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:45.519 because I know you're a gentleman of honor, and it 122 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.480 won't go beyond this room. Sir, Robert has got to 123 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:52.279 win the derby. He's up to his neck in debts. Well, 124 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:56.000 it's his last chance. Everything he can raise or borrows 125 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.279 on that horse. If Prince fails him. 126 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.160 Is done for sounds like a desperate gamble, but that 127 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.519 doesn't necessarily mean the man's insane. Where does the madness 128 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:06.319 come in? First of all, his looks, sir, his eyes 129 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:08.279 are wild. I don't believe he. 130 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:09.079 Sleeps at nights. 131 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:11.519 He's down at the stables at all hours. 132 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:16.639 And so there's his conduct to his sister, Lady Beatrice. 133 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:19.680 She loved the horses as much as he did. Every 134 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:22.319 day she'd drive out to see him, and above all 135 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.319 she loved prints. He'd trick up his ears when he 136 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:26.959 heard the wheels of a carriage on the gravel, and 137 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:29.040 out he trot to get his lump of sugar. 138 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.800 But that's all over. Now she drives by every morning. 139 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:34.600 Without so much as a good day to you think 140 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.720 there's been a quarum, Yes, a bitter. 141 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:38.879 Savage one it must have been. 142 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:42.120 Why else would he give away a pet spaniel that 143 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:43.639 she loved as if he were a child. 144 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:45.120 To whom did he give it to? 145 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:45.879 Old Barnes? 146 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:48.639 What keeps the green dragon three miles away? Crindle curious 147 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:49.160 a watson? 148 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:51.920 Of course, with her weak heart and drops he you 149 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.079 couldn't expect her to get about much with her brother. 150 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.319 But Sir Robert spent two hours every evening in her room. 151 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.040 Now he never goes nearer. He's taking it to Archie, 152 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:06.560 has Sir brooding and sulky and drinking, mister Olmes, drinking 153 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:07.199 like a fish. 154 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:09.920 Did she ever do that before this estrangement? 155 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:14.079 Where she took a glass regular every evening, But now 156 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.519 as often as not its own bottle. There's something rotten 157 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.279 about it mister Holmes. Then there's the goings on down. 158 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:25.480 At the old church crypt at night. They haunted crypt. 159 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:28.000 We call it's haunted. Here's mister Romes. 160 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.079 There's an old, ruined chapel in the park so old 161 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.360 nobody can fix its date, and under it there's a crypt, 162 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.519 a crypt were all the ancestors of Lady Beatrice's husband libraried, 163 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:40.120 including the man himself. 164 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.360 Well, sir, that crypt has got a bad name among us. 165 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:46.839 It's dark and damp. 166 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.879 Enough by day, with the weeds breaking through everywhere, but 167 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:52.680 at night it's worse. Standing there in the moonlight, it's 168 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:57.639 broking arches, gleaming like ghosts. There's not many in the countryside, 169 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.480 and have the nerve to go near it at night. 170 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:01.240 I got you did, or there'd be no story. 171 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:02.199 Yes, sir. 172 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:06.199 Me and the butler, Stephens, we was taking a walk 173 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:08.720 in the moonlight, smoking a pipe before going to bed, 174 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.680 when all of a sudden we notices a light, sort 175 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:18.160 of pale and unearthly like, shining in the old chapel. 176 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:22.879 There we stood Stephens, and the quaking in the bushes 177 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:24.560 like two bunny rabbits. 178 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:40.000 Yeah, you see that, Mason. It's a light in the 179 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:46.240 old chapel. Someone's in there for something. I don't like 180 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:48.200 the look of it. It isn't natural. 181 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.960 What's going on in the chapel this time of night? Oh, 182 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:53.879 we best go and find out for he's sake. 183 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.200 No, maybe it's something evil. 184 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:00.159 Some bad spirit said it's light there to lure some 185 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:01.600 poor fell up to his death. 186 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:05.799 See that shadow moving against the fire wall. That's a 187 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.080 man's shadow, that is, or a devil's. 188 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.639 It looks more than life size to me? Isn't that 189 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.720 a taily's switching around behind him? 190 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.879 Nonsense? Rope, he's in his head? 191 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:19.039 What's that? 192 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:25.240 It's pi, Lady Beatrice Suspaniel. He's probably outside of the 193 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:28.480 old Willhouse, Owland at the moon He was there all 194 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:29.679 last night, Owland. 195 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:30.440 Don't wait the deal. 196 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.960 I don't say that. Maybe that's just what he's doing. 197 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.799 Maybe that's what he's done, waked all the corpses in 198 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:39.639 the crypt, and they're having a ghost he. 199 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:44.639 Beating Rabbish Stevens. We don't really believe in ghosts. Why 200 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:46.759 when you think about all this, tomorrow morning you'd be 201 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:47.279 a sham. 202 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:51.320 But that's tomorrow morning and to night's tanding here in 203 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.600 the moonlight. Well, I ain't so sure. 204 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:57.759 There's one way to find out. Come on, I have 205 00:09:57.799 --> 00:09:59.120 a look at who's in that chveel you. 206 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:01.480 We're not going over there, Mason. 207 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:04.720 You can stay here alone with your life. Stay here 208 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:08.360 by myself. Well, then go back to the house and. 209 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:10.720 Passed by that well house and then howl and dog 210 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:11.360 all alone. 211 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:12.919 It's only pitt. 212 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.519 Now I'm coming with you. At least there'll be two 213 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:15.840 of us. 214 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:20.080 Come along. Then, don't crackle the bushes anymore. You can help. 215 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.360 Confound their beast. 216 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:29.639 Hello, lights disappearing down the stairs into the See, there's 217 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:30.360 no one in here. 218 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:33.440 There's a good of us cut do Look. 219 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:36.399 There's a crek and the stone floor over there where 220 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:37.399 the streak of lights coming from. 221 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:39.879 See we can get over to it without being heard. 222 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:42.440 Maybe we can see what's going on down below. 223 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:44.799 I wish I was safe in my bed. 224 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:51.159 We lets crawl along in our stomachs. Easy, does it? 225 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:55.000 Here's the crek. 226 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:00.279 By George, You're right, it's too men. 227 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:04.840 That first one with a thin yellow face, I've never 228 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.919 seen him before, I'd swear to that. But the big 229 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:11.679 chef in the black cloak, kneeling down, there's something familiar 230 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:15.000 about him. If I could only see her face. 231 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:19.120 He's standing up by the Lord Harry. It's the Master himself, 232 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:19.799 Sir Robert. 233 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.399 What's he up to down here in the dead of night? 234 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:23.559 What said? 235 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:27.720 He's got under his arm so careful now he's holding it. 236 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:28.320 Up to the night. 237 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:47.799 He's ahead the head of a mummy. What an eerie experience, 238 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:48.559 mister Mason. 239 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:49.720 Then it was doctor Watson. 240 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:52.639 I'd have given me notice the next day, except that well, 241 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:55.000 I didn't want to leave Lady Beatrice alone at the 242 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:57.840 mercy of that ruffian. I tried to see her, ladyship 243 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:00.000 and tell her what was going on, but she wouldn't 244 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:02.679 see me. Said add word by our maid, Carrie Evans. 245 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.440 She wasn't feeling well enough. Not feeling well enough, here's 246 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:06.080 mister Olms. 247 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.519 But she was well enough to go out driving. All 248 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:11.440 the same. How long has this made? Carry Evan's been 249 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:14.759 with Lady Beatristmas Mason going on five years and she's devoting. 250 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:19.480 She's devoted, all right. I won't say to room, I 251 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:22.320 can't be creating scandal. You don't have to, Sir Robert's 252 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.399 reputation with the ladies is, shall we say, the trifle shady. 253 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:28.679 Yes, scandal's been clear for a long time. I'm afraid, 254 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:30.080 I say Holmes. 255 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:32.519 Perhaps that's the cause of the quarrel between the brother 256 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.200 and sister. Being an invalid, she has no way of 257 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:38.840 enforcing her will, So the hated maid is still at Shascum. 258 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:42.799 Lady Beerter sulks and takes to drink. Sir Robert becomes 259 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:46.159 angry and gives away her pet spaniel. That explains everything, 260 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:46.639 doesn't it? 261 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.559 Everything but the nocturnal visit to the crypt, who the 262 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:52.159 yellow face stranger was, and why Sir Robert was holding 263 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:55.200 a skull in his arms? Just a few trifling emissions, Watson, 264 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.120 we'll go to blazes quite not, inst Mason. You say, 265 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.639 Sir Robert gave his sister spaniel away to the proprietor 266 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:02.559 of the Green Dragon. Yes, mister Arms. When is that 267 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:05.120 a week ago, sir? Day after we saw him in 268 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.440 the crypt, the very day Sir Robert left for London. 269 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:09.679 Oh he left for London, did he? Yes, sir? And 270 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.159 has he come back? We're expecting him back Tomorrow's. And 271 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:14.279 has Lady Bertrice been taking her morning drives the same 272 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.960 as usual? Yes, mister Arms. Eleven o'clock sharp, She and 273 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.000 Kerry go out together. I'm not quite clear what you 274 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:21.960 expect me to do with this battle of mister Mason. 275 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.600 Maybe this will make it more definite, sir. Yes, I've 276 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:26.200 been wondering much you had in that paper bundle. 277 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.639 It's something Harvey is. One of my lads found in 278 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:31.320 the furnace up at the Big House when he was 279 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:32.639 writing at the cinders. 280 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:38.759 Yesterday, a bone badly charred. I say, where is it? Watson? 281 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:40.559 Your knowledge of anatomy is more accurate than mine. 282 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:43.480 That's part of a female, a human bone. 283 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.879 Exactly when does this lab tend to the furnace every night? 284 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:48.919 He makes it up and leaves it. Anyone could visit 285 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:51.240 it during the night, Yes, sir, you don't think, Sir Rodson, 286 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:53.840 you forgets Robert's supposed to be in London. He's a 287 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.279 deep waters mister Mason, deep and rather dirty. But I'm 288 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:59.000 beginning to see to the bottom. How is the fishing 289 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:02.480 in the neighborhood of Truscom case the fishing, mister, Yes, 290 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:04.399 the Doctor and I are famous fishermen and we haven't 291 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:08.600 had an opportunity to show our prowess this season. Hey, Watson, if. 292 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:11.720 It's fishing you're after, there's nothing can come up to 293 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:12.960 the trout in the mill stream. 294 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:13.360 Good. 295 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:15.600 You may address us in future at the green Dragon. 296 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:27.120 We shall reach there tonight. And now that you have 297 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:27.960 mister Holmes. 298 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:30.399 Startled on your fishing expedition, doctor Watson, may I step 299 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:31.240 in to say a few. 300 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:32.799 Words enough, mister Stark. 301 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.360 Clipper Craft clothes are not merely good looking at the 302 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.120 time you buy them. They stay good looking. Part of 303 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.639 the reason for this is hidden from your eyes. That's 304 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:45.399 the painstaking tailoring, the hundreds of stitches inside. Yes, fine 305 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.759 tailoring and rich, long wearing fabrics are the reasons clipper 306 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:53.639 Craft clothes are remarkable values at there more than modest prices. Naturally, 307 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:56.399 price as low as these wouldn't be possible without the 308 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:00.320 unique clipper Craft Plan. This plan concentrates the buying power 309 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.480 of ten hundred and thirty six great stores across the country, 310 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:08.879 creating year round economies and manufacturing and distribution costs. That's 311 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.799 why you pay only forty and forty five dollars for 312 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:15.799 a clipper Craft suit, only forty dollars for topcoat or overcoat, 313 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.519 and only twenty six fifty for sport jackets. For your 314 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:23.559 own sake, Compare clipper Craft with clothes selling for many 315 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:24.320 dollars more. 316 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.720 And now to return to our story, doctor Watson. 317 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.320 Well, suppose we pick up after Holmes and I had 318 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.440 settled ourselves at the Green Dragon. Mid morning, founders tramping 319 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:45.080 down the road leading towards Soskoville Place, carrying rods and 320 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.480 reels and all the rest of the trout fishermen's paraphernalia. 321 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:53.639 Holmes also had a shaggy black spanielin tow Ah splendid 322 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:55.679 weather for fishing a Watson, the trunk should be fairly 323 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:58.000 jumping at the book. Yes, I shall have a good 324 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.480 opportunity to try that new fly of man that doesn't 325 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.559 found did dog doesn't scare the fish away? What in 326 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:06.879 thunder made to bring that spaniel along? 327 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:07.600 You mean? Pip? 328 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:10.840 Yes? Down, boy down. I saw him tied up in 329 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:12.559 the front hall of the inn. Mine host says that 330 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:13.759 they have to keep him on a leash or he 331 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:17.080 runs straight back to his old home. Easys O boy, 332 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:20.000 good dog seemed to want to go walking, so I 333 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:20.759 said I'd take him. 334 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:24.080 Yes, but a dog on a fishing jawgle really homes you. 335 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.480 Now, if we were going hunting, it a bit different, yes, 336 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.360 but it's not the hunting season. You never know, we 337 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.120 may get in a little hunting before we get to 338 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:32.679 our fishing. Ah. 339 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:34.879 That is the entrance gate to shaskan Ol Place. I 340 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:38.840 presume hand some old iron work and tackle lot too. 341 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:41.720 Dear Sir Robert is very jealous of his privacy. 342 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:43.360 You would be too, if you had a horse you 343 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:46.279 expected to win the derby. I understand he's very vicious 344 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.519 with touts or any stranger he catches. Snooping around his property. 345 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:53.639 And say, look here comes a big yellow open Baruche yes. 346 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.320 Lady Beatrice, returning from her mornings dry. I fancy, I 347 00:16:57.399 --> 00:16:58.960 thought we should have some hunting this morning. 348 00:16:59.200 --> 00:16:59.679 What do you mean? 349 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:02.000 Pip and I go to hide behind his headge when 350 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.039 the footman gets down to unlock the gates. I want 351 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:06.240 you to engage him in conversations. 352 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:09.400 But they don't understand. Homes, homes, Where are you? Where 353 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:10.240 did you go? Here? 354 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.440 Behind the hedge, trying to keep this confounded don quiet. 355 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:16.079 Here they come. I say. The old girl must be 356 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:19.279 a million years old, all bundled up in shawls and 357 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:26.599 veils and things that must be carried beside her, the 358 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:35.000 one with the suspiciously blonde hair. It's stopped. The footman's 359 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:38.359 getting down off the box. The gates are swinging open 360 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:39.119 after him. 361 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:39.880 What's after him? 362 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:42.720 Hello? I say, my good man, can you tell me 363 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:44.160 how to get to the mill? 364 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:45.279 Then? 365 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:46.519 How'll you go? Old boy? 366 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:51.799 It's your mistress? After a boy, after a There he goes. 367 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:56.559 He gets into the carriage, onto his mistress's lap. By jove, 368 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:58.039 he's smiling. He's trying to bite the woman. 369 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:11.480 Climb on, climb on, come on, it did excy to 370 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:12.880 kick your well? 371 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:15.519 Never mind, old boy, Well Watson, that's done it. He 372 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:17.519 expected to see is miss Christ and he found the stranger. 373 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.440 Dogs don't make mistakes. It was the voice of the Exactly, 374 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:23.160 our little hunting party was quite a success. We flushed 375 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:26.400 our bird. Now come along, Watson, the fisher waiting. 376 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:28.039 For us here, homes. You're not going to give up 377 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:28.599 this clue. 378 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:32.599 Not exactly. Our hunting must be postponed until after dark. Then, 379 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.079 I promise you it will be for big game. 380 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.079 Here Holmes. That storm is going to break any minute now. 381 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:56.680 Hadn't we better get. 382 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:58.559 Back to the no rubbish, We can reach the chapel 383 00:18:58.559 --> 00:18:59.319 before we get too wet. 384 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:00.799 Yes, but how did we get home again? 385 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:04.000 Running a suspect, you may get wet. I told the 386 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:06.400 vandor to have some of the trout we caught this afternoon, 387 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:09.359 and a stilton cheese salad and a hot toddy waiting 388 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:09.680 for us. 389 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:10.839 Then let's get back now. 390 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:12.880 I said, we wouldn't be back before half past ten. 391 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.079 But if we weren't back by then, to rout out 392 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:17.759 the local police. You you think it's as bad as 393 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:20.400 all that. I don't know. It all depends on what 394 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:21.359 we find in that crypt. 395 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:25.440 There. That must be the chapel up ahead. I saw 396 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:26.880 it in the last flash of lightning. 397 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:31.200 Here comes the rain. Run, Watson, run, I. 398 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:36.160 Said, no, gonna say fast, good lord, it's as black 399 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:40.400 as the inside of my pocket. I've lost the chapel. 400 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:42.400 No, no, there it is. 401 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:43.640