1 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:13,439 Speaker 1: What a magnificent sound. 2 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,839 Speaker 2: That is the sound of tradition and order and stability. 3 00:00:19,559 --> 00:00:28,600 Sit down, Miss Baxter, mister lucis down, splendid. Now does 4 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:33,079 your mistress know you're here? No, sir, nor her distinguished husband. 5 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: No. 6 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,039 Speaker 3: I shouldn't be doing things behind their backs like. 7 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: This, quite right? But you are? You answered my invitation. 8 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:42,679 Speaker 4: I didn't have. 9 00:00:42,759 --> 00:00:47,799 Speaker 3: Much choice, did I? How did you find out? Are 10 00:00:47,799 --> 00:00:48,799 you really gonna tell them? 11 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: Oh? No, Miss Baxter. 12 00:00:51,079 --> 00:00:53,399 Speaker 5: Annie, you mustn't worry. 13 00:00:54,759 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 6: Your employers certainly won't learn your unsaving a little secret 14 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:08,000 from me, assuming, of course, that we can come to 15 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,000 a suitable understanding you and I. 16 00:01:10,239 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 3: I haven't got any money. 17 00:01:11,239 --> 00:01:12,879 Speaker 5: Please don't insult my intelligence. 18 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 7: Well then, what. 19 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 3: You want me to do something against the Master and mistress? 20 00:01:22,359 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: No? So you do have some brains, splendid that will 21 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,480 make things so much easier. 22 00:01:41,799 --> 00:01:46,159 Speaker 8: The Second Stain by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatized for 23 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,239 radio by Bert Cools, with Clive Medicine as Sherlock Holmes 24 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,879 and Michael Williams as doctor John Watson, and featuring Jeremy 25 00:01:54,879 --> 00:01:58,519 Clyde as the Foreign Secretary, Sabina Franklin as Lady Hilda 26 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:03,640 Trelawney Hope and David march As the Prime Minister the 27 00:02:03,719 --> 00:02:04,959 second stain. 28 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: More coffee, Thank you. 29 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:25,719 Speaker 4: Client. 30 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: This time of the morning. 31 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 2: Crime doesn't operate to a timetable, Watson. I think how 32 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,280 boring it would be if it did. 33 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: That's so beautifully tidy, old Who do you suppose it is? 34 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,039 Speaker 2: It wasn't really why speculated? In thirty seconds? 35 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: We'll know. Let's have a look. 36 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 5: Probably some routine little problem. 37 00:02:54,039 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 2: H plain enough carriage now, illustrious clients are excite your 38 00:02:58,319 --> 00:02:59,599 readers this time I'm. 39 00:02:59,479 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: Afraid come in missus Hudson. Here do you have for 40 00:03:06,599 --> 00:03:07,599 us this fine morning? 41 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,479 Speaker 9: The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary? 42 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:17,719 Speaker 5: Gentleman? 43 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,879 Speaker 4: And now I've told you there's nothing to say. 44 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:25,159 Speaker 1: Move along there, clear the paper? Clear a way. 45 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 4: Are morning constable? 46 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 10: Inspeculus stride? 47 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,759 Speaker 4: So what have you got for me? When I discovered 48 00:03:35,759 --> 00:03:37,840 that the document had been stolen, mister Holmes, which was 49 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,719 at eight o'clock this morning, I had once informed the 50 00:03:41,719 --> 00:03:42,319 Prime Minister. 51 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 10: It was his suggestion that we've come to you. 52 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 11: Have you told the police nursa to inform the police must, 53 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:51,199 in the long run, be to inform the public. 54 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 4: Which is what we particularly want to avoid. 55 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,639 Speaker 1: Why is that foreign secretary? 56 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 4: Because the item in question has immense importance. Its theft 57 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:00,680 might very easily lead to a political crisis affecting the 58 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:08,120 whole of Europe. Good God, well, yes, sir, come on, 59 00:04:08,199 --> 00:04:09,120 then let's have it. 60 00:04:09,879 --> 00:04:11,199 Speaker 10: Not much to tell you yet, Inspector. 61 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:14,719 Speaker 7: He was quite a distinguished gent, seemingly wealthy, of course, 62 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:16,839 something of a musician mid. 63 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 4: To third All right, Barrett, get to the interesting bit. 64 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Who stuck the dagger in his chest? 65 00:04:24,199 --> 00:04:28,199 Speaker 11: Unless the document can be recovered with the utmost secrecy, 66 00:04:28,519 --> 00:04:30,199 that it may as well not be recovered at. 67 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 2: All, because even the simple knowledge of its existence could. 68 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,079 Speaker 1: Be damaging, catastrophic. 69 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 2: Can understand now, mister Trerowney, hope tell me exactly the 70 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,360 circumstances under which this document disappeared. 71 00:04:42,759 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 10: That could be done in a very few words, mister Holmes. 72 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 4: The letter, It's a letter, it is, sir, a letter 73 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,199 of such importance that I never left it in my 74 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,319 office safe overnight, but took it across each evening to 75 00:04:55,399 --> 00:04:59,480 my house, Whitehall Terraces, doctor of number nine Whitehall Terrorists. 76 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:00,439 Speaker 1: Thank you you kevit. 77 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 4: It were exactly in my personal dispatch box, locked and 78 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,079 the only key is here on my watch chain. 79 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:07,759 Speaker 1: And in which room was the box left? 80 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 4: Our bedroom? The letter was there last night. I am 81 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:13,920 certain that you actually saw it. I did, doctor, I 82 00:05:13,959 --> 00:05:15,920 opened the box while I was dressing for dinner. It 83 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,199 was there this morning it was gone. 84 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:20,399 Speaker 1: What time did you die? 85 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 10: Half past seven? 86 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: How long was it before you went to bed? 87 00:05:23,639 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 4: My wife had gone to the theater. I waited up 88 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,279 for her. It was half past eleven before we went 89 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:27,759 to our room. 90 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,639 Speaker 1: Then for four hours the dispatch box was unguarded. 91 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,639 Speaker 4: Well, no one is permitted to enter that room save 92 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:34,519 the housemaid in the morning, and my valet and my 93 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,120 wife's maid during the rest of the day. They are 94 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,199 all trusted servants. So did And besides, none of them 95 00:05:41,199 --> 00:05:43,399 could possibly have known there was anything more valuable than. 96 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:44,079 Speaker 10: Usual in the box? 97 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:45,519 Speaker 5: Who did know of the letter? 98 00:05:45,639 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 10: And no one in the house. Surely your wife knew 99 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:50,560 loose Until this morning. 100 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 4: I haven't breathed one word to my wife about this matter. 101 00:05:52,959 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 5: Could she have guessed? 102 00:05:53,879 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 11: No, mister Holmes, she could not have guessed. And to 103 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,839 answer your question, besides the members of the cabinet, there 104 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:05,079 are two, possibly three departmental officials who know of the 105 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,199 letter no one else in England abroad. We believe that 106 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,720 no one has seen it save the man who wrote it. 107 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:17,399 Speaker 2: Well, I must ask you more, particularly what this singular 108 00:06:17,439 --> 00:06:18,240 document is. 109 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,759 Speaker 11: The envelope is a long, thin one of pale blue color. 110 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,199 There is a seal of red wax stamped with a 111 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:26,079 crouching lion. 112 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:27,519 Speaker 1: It is a dress, Prime Minister. 113 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,959 Speaker 2: Interesting as these details are, my inquiries must go more 114 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,000 to the root of things. 115 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: What was the letter that. 116 00:06:34,879 --> 00:06:38,759 Speaker 11: Is a state secret of the utmost importance. I cannot 117 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,879 tell you, nor do I see that it is necessary. 118 00:06:44,519 --> 00:06:48,079 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, gentlemen, I can't help you. Any continuation of 119 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:49,600 this interview would be a waste of time. 120 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:56,319 Speaker 5: Good morning, I'm sorry, Inspector. 121 00:06:56,439 --> 00:06:58,959 Speaker 10: That's all right, missus Springle. I understand. 122 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 1: You been housekeeper here at. 123 00:07:01,639 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 9: Nine years sir. He was such a good man. Who 124 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,399 would want to do such a terrible thing. 125 00:07:07,759 --> 00:07:09,079 Speaker 10: That's what I want to find out. 126 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 5: Now. 127 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 4: What time did you go to bed last night? 128 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 9: At half past nine? 129 00:07:13,639 --> 00:07:13,839 Speaker 1: Sir? 130 00:07:14,199 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 10: Were there any callers after that? 131 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 9: I didn't hear anyone, sir, No one at all. 132 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 11: Mister Holmes, I am not accustomed to being treated in 133 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:34,800 this manner. We must accept your terms. 134 00:07:35,439 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 10: You are right. 135 00:07:36,839 --> 00:07:40,079 Speaker 11: It is unreasonable to expect you to act unless we 136 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:41,959 give you our entire confidence. 137 00:07:42,399 --> 00:07:45,439 Speaker 1: I agree with you, sir, I rely on your honor 138 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,879 and that of your colleague. You may safely trust us. 139 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 11: Prime Minister, I appeal to your patriotism too. I could 140 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,839 not imagine a greater misfortune for the country than that 141 00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:06,720 this affair should come at. The letter is from a 142 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:12,519 certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some of 143 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:17,639 our recent colonial developments. It was written hurriedly and on 144 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,000 his own responsibility. 145 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: It is so. 146 00:08:21,079 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 11: Provocative that its publication would lead to such a ferment gentlemen, 147 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,399 within a week, this country would be at war. 148 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 7: I've been his valet for three years. This is a 149 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,320 hell of a thing. Get on, well did you what 150 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:44,080 are you saying? 151 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 10: Nothing? Answer the question? 152 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,399 Speaker 7: Yeah, we've got one very well. He trusted me. He 153 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,080 used to leave me in charge of the house when 154 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:52,799 he went abroad. 155 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:54,159 Speaker 4: Did that happen often? 156 00:08:54,759 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 5: He used to go to France affair bit Paris, you. 157 00:08:57,519 --> 00:08:59,759 Speaker 4: Know, and you had the run of this place while 158 00:08:59,759 --> 00:09:02,200 he was gone. Where were you last night? 159 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 7: A miss Smith visiting some people? 160 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:05,519 Speaker 4: What time did you leave? 161 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 7: About half past ten? 162 00:09:06,799 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 4: And you didn't get here until gone midnight. 163 00:09:09,399 --> 00:09:11,879 Speaker 7: It was a fine evening I walked. 164 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,399 Speaker 4: When you saw that the police were here, you hesitated 165 00:09:15,399 --> 00:09:16,320 at the end of the street. 166 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 7: Why because I, as it says it, it's it's only natural, 167 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:22,960 isn't it? 168 00:09:23,759 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 4: Is it now? 169 00:09:27,279 --> 00:09:31,759 Speaker 11: So this letter may well mean the expenditure of one 170 00:09:31,799 --> 00:09:37,159 thousand million pounds and the lives of hundreds of thousands. 171 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 10: Of men, and I have lost it. 172 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 11: No one can blame you, my dear. 173 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: Fellow Prime Minister. 174 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 2: If this letter would have been published, would. 175 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 11: Gain mister Holmes. The whole of Europe is an armed camp. 176 00:09:49,519 --> 00:09:52,720 There is a double league which makes a fair balance 177 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:53,759 of military power. 178 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: Great Britain holds the scales. 179 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,639 Speaker 11: If we were driven into war against one can federacy, 180 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:03,440 it would assure the supremacy of the other. 181 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,159 Speaker 10: And whether they joined in the war or now, then. 182 00:10:06,039 --> 00:10:08,799 Speaker 1: It's in the interests of the enemies of this potentate. 183 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,799 They want to publish the letter to make a breach 184 00:10:11,879 --> 00:10:13,360 between his country and us. 185 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:16,159 Speaker 2: Exactly so, Doctor, And if it did fall into the 186 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:19,399 hands of an enemy, where would this document be sent to. 187 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,759 Speaker 1: Any of the great chancellors of Europe? 188 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,159 Speaker 4: It's probably speeding there now as fast as steam can 189 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:25,720 take it. 190 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,399 Speaker 11: Now, mister Holmes, you are in full possession of the facts. 191 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:35,639 What course do you recommend? 192 00:10:38,879 --> 00:10:42,399 Speaker 2: This letter was taken yesterday evening between seven thirty and 193 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,000 eleven thirty, probably near the former How can you say 194 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,360 that if heef obviously knew it was there and would 195 00:10:47,399 --> 00:10:51,159 naturally want as a curate as soon as possible, and 196 00:10:51,279 --> 00:10:54,080 after the theft, no one has any reason to retain it, 197 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,840 As you say, Foreign Secretary, It's surely been passed rapidly 198 00:10:57,879 --> 00:10:59,960 from hand to hand on to those who can make 199 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:02,879 use of it. What chance have we now to overtake 200 00:11:02,919 --> 00:11:04,120 it or even to trace it? 201 00:11:04,279 --> 00:11:07,759 Speaker 11: Your reasoning is perfectly logical, mister Holmes, but there must 202 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:09,279 be something we can do. 203 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 2: You think that unless this document has recovered there. 204 00:11:12,519 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: Will be war? 205 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 4: I think it is very probable, then, sir, prepare for 206 00:11:20,159 --> 00:11:23,480 war all right now? 207 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 5: Everyone together, the US. 208 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: Good? 209 00:11:30,039 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 2: Hmm. 210 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 4: That blood's made a pretty mess of the carpet. Get 211 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,519 yourself home, Barrett, you sure, sir, Yes, go on, I'll 212 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:39,360 hold the fort here till the next shift comes on. 213 00:11:40,039 --> 00:11:41,759 Speaker 10: I want to have a look around anyway. 214 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. 215 00:11:44,159 --> 00:11:45,159 Speaker 5: Why do you think he was killed? 216 00:11:45,159 --> 00:11:46,799 Speaker 1: Inspector? Well, not for money. 217 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 10: Some of these weapons are worth a mint. 218 00:11:50,399 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: Funny so hobby collecting knives. 219 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,039 Speaker 4: The ways of the idol rich we'll never fathom, M Barrett. 220 00:11:56,759 --> 00:11:57,919 They're a different race. 221 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: I don't think they expected you to be quite that pessimistic, oher. 222 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:12,559 Speaker 2: The second editions situation is desperate, yes, indeed, yes, but 223 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,919 not hopeless. No, no, no, I may have been over hasty. 224 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:18,279 I think about the chain. 225 00:12:19,039 --> 00:12:19,879 Speaker 1: Yes, the thief. 226 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,039 Speaker 2: Now, let's presume for the moment that the thief is 227 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,519 one of the Foreign Secretary's household, all trusted servants. 228 00:12:25,519 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 5: The thief, the butler, say. 229 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: Has the letter? Where would he take it? 230 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 2: Any one of the great chancelleries of your Oh yes, yes, 231 00:12:34,039 --> 00:12:37,440 but our butler could hardly deliver it himself. What then, 232 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:40,360 where he'd go? Or he'd be instructed to go to 233 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,279 an agent? What sort of agent? An international agent, the 234 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,720 sort that specializes in precisely this type of affair, a 235 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:50,840 spy exactly. If someone like that has it, it's just 236 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,120 possible that he hasn't passed it on yet. Even so, 237 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,879 what could you do if we're not allowed to involve 238 00:12:56,879 --> 00:13:01,320 the police, international agents? This is all a question of 239 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,679 money with those men, listens, I have the British Treasury 240 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,759 behind me. You'll buy it, even if it means another 241 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:09,440 penny on the income tax. 242 00:13:09,759 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: Small enough price to avoid a war. 243 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 2: Indeed, yes, there are only three agents in London capable 244 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,639 of playing so bold a game. I'll go around and 245 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,080 check on each of them. Oberstein and a Rosier and 246 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:23,240 Eduardo Lucas. 247 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,879 Speaker 1: Is that EDWARDO. Lucas of Godolphin Street, Westminster? Yeah, you 248 00:13:28,919 --> 00:13:31,960 won't see him. Why not? He was murdered last night, 249 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,399 stabbed through the heart with an Indian dagger. 250 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 3: H I'm all right, yes, yes, mister Benton. 251 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:50,159 Speaker 4: Ladyship will be back any minute. 252 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: What in the world is the matter with you? The 253 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,159 wrong was in a state of wild disorder, and that 254 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,240 you're being all swept to one side, and one chair 255 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,720 lying on its back in the center. Beside this chair 256 00:14:06,799 --> 00:14:10,480 and still grasping one of its legs lay the unfortunate 257 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:11,879 tenant of the house. 258 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:19,519 Speaker 2: What do you make of it? It's an amazing coincidence incident. 259 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,200 The events are connected. They must be connected. It remains 260 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,840 for us to find the connection. But by now the 261 00:14:26,879 --> 00:14:28,840 police must know everything. They know all they've seen at 262 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:32,600 Cadolphin Street. They know nothing of Whitehall, terrors, of course, 263 00:14:32,639 --> 00:14:36,399 not unless they've actually found the letter at Luca's house. 264 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 12: Missus Hudson another visitor, gentlemen, her card. 265 00:14:43,639 --> 00:14:51,879 Speaker 1: Thank you m Holmes, Lady Hilda for Dawney Hope. 266 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 2: Missus Hudson, please ask her ladyship if she'll be kind 267 00:14:56,559 --> 00:15:01,600 enough to step up, Yes, sir, modest little apartment, certainly 268 00:15:01,679 --> 00:15:04,559 being honored to day. What do you know of her? 269 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:08,120 Only what old incol knows. The youngest daughter of the 270 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,480 Duke of Bellminster married Hope some five years ago, big 271 00:15:12,519 --> 00:15:17,279 society wedding naturally, naturally and the loveliest woman in London. 272 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,919 Speaker 1: So they say, well, he has your chance to verify 273 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,200 the rumors. 274 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:27,679 Speaker 9: Lady Hilda Trelawney. 275 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 5: Hope, gentlemen, good morning, madam. 276 00:15:32,399 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 2: I am Sherlock Holmes, my colleague, Doctor John Watson, Your ladyship, gentlemen. 277 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:44,679 Speaker 9: Has my husband been here? 278 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 5: Yes, Madam, he has. Won't you will sit down and 279 00:15:49,519 --> 00:15:50,320 tell us what you want? 280 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:55,879 Speaker 1: Oh? Allow me? Thank you no, as you prefer. 281 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,879 Speaker 9: Mister Holmes. Dr Watson. I will speak frankly to you 282 00:16:01,919 --> 00:16:03,759 in the hope that you will speak frankly in return. 283 00:16:04,799 --> 00:16:07,320 There is complete confidence between my husband and me on 284 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:13,279 all matters save one. That one is politics. Indeed, now 285 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,639 I am aware that there was a most deplorable occurrence 286 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:18,200 in our house last night. I know that a paper 287 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,320 has disappeared. My husband has told me that much, but 288 00:16:21,399 --> 00:16:25,039 he refuses to take me into his complete confidence. I 289 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:26,519 beg you to tell me everything. 290 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 5: Your ladyship asks the impossible. 291 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 9: You must tell me what has happened and what it 292 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,720 will lead to? What was this paper that was stolen? 293 00:16:35,879 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 2: If your husband sees fit to keep you in the dark, 294 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,960 is it for us to tell you? We have only 295 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:44,360 learned the truth and of the pledge of professional secrecy. 296 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 9: Mister Holmes, I assure you that your client's interests would 297 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,320 best be served by taking me into his complete confidence, 298 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:51,679 if only. 299 00:16:51,519 --> 00:16:52,279 Speaker 1: He would see that. 300 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,519 Speaker 9: Gentlemen, you must. 301 00:16:57,399 --> 00:17:01,639 Speaker 1: Tell me, madam. It is your husband you must ask. 302 00:17:02,519 --> 00:17:05,599 Speaker 9: I have asked him. I come to you only as 303 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:06,640 a last resource. 304 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: We cannot help you. 305 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,279 Speaker 9: Very well, but without telling me anything definite. Mister Holmes, 306 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:17,599 would you enlighten me on one point? 307 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,039 Speaker 5: What is it? 308 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:24,319 Speaker 9: Is my husband's political career likely to suffer through this incident. 309 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,759 Speaker 2: Unless it's set right, it may certainly have a very 310 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,680 unfortunate effect. 311 00:17:33,559 --> 00:17:36,519 Speaker 9: In the first shock at this disaster. My husband did 312 00:17:36,599 --> 00:17:39,920 let one thing slip? Am I correct in thinking that 313 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,640 there will also be terrible public consequences. 314 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: If he said so, I certainly cannot deny it. 315 00:17:47,839 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 9: Then I will take out no more of your time. 316 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:55,880 Do nothing badly of me. All I wish is to 317 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:57,319 share my husband's anxieties. 318 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:58,759 Speaker 1: Your ladyshiit. 319 00:17:59,839 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 9: I beg you say nothing to my husband of this visit? 320 00:18:11,599 --> 00:18:16,519 Speaker 5: What the fair sex is your department? What did you 321 00:18:16,559 --> 00:18:19,480 really want? Look? 322 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 1: Inspector? 323 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:21,839 Speaker 7: How much longer are you going to keep us hanging 324 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,200 around in here? I've got things to be seen too, 325 00:18:24,839 --> 00:18:27,359 and so have I. There's so much to do people, 326 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,039 to inform arrangements, to make you know. 327 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:30,519 Speaker 1: How it is. 328 00:18:30,759 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 4: Oh, I know how it is written. I know exactly 329 00:18:33,519 --> 00:18:35,440 how it is. What do you mean? 330 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 10: This is what I mean? 331 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,160 Speaker 1: You've been going through my stuff. You've no right, I've 332 00:18:42,279 --> 00:18:42,920 every right. 333 00:18:44,039 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 4: Nice piece of workmanship, this inlaid mahogany silver class, elegant 334 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,359 spot of lining and a very handsome razor bit out 335 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:54,759 of your class, isn't it? 336 00:18:55,559 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: Listen? 337 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 4: I can explain, Uh, perhaps you can also explain the 338 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:06,359 monarch inside the lid? E. L. Eduardo Lucas, your late employer. 339 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 9: Then spitting of making a mistake. 340 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 4: Please, missus Pringle, I'm sure he can answer for himself. 341 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,599 Will Mitton Not quite so? Cockshawn? 342 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 10: How are we? 343 00:19:16,599 --> 00:19:17,519 Speaker 4: He gave it to me? 344 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:18,759 Speaker 7: It was a present. 345 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 4: This isn't the only thing we found, cup links, typings, 346 00:19:23,759 --> 00:19:27,039 quite a nice little haul. They was all presents, every 347 00:19:27,079 --> 00:19:29,920 one of them presents. You help yourself too when your 348 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,640 master's back was turned handy were they? There's drift to Paris? 349 00:19:35,279 --> 00:19:36,440 Until he caught you at it? 350 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,039 Speaker 5: No, what you talking about? 351 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,759 Speaker 4: You want me to spell it out to you. Mister 352 00:19:41,839 --> 00:19:45,000 Lucas found out just how light fingered you were, and 353 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:47,240 he had it out with you last night in his 354 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,119 study with all those knives so conveniently to hand. 355 00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 1: This is insane. 356 00:19:51,599 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 4: There was a row, It turned into a fight, and. 357 00:19:54,519 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 10: That was that. 358 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,559 Speaker 1: She wants to share her husband's worry. It's naturally enough, 359 00:20:03,599 --> 00:20:04,759 surely it's the beneath the. 360 00:20:04,839 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 2: Surface, excitement, restlessness barely suppressed. 361 00:20:08,279 --> 00:20:10,519 Speaker 1: She was certainly much moved. I don't think I go 362 00:20:10,599 --> 00:20:11,160 further than that. 363 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 2: I remember she comes of a cast who didn't likely 364 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,440 show emotional Come on, under the circumstance. 365 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 1: You're deserved. 366 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,519 Speaker 5: Of course, she deliberately stood with her back to the light. 367 00:20:19,599 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: Well, she didn't want me to see her expressions. You 368 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:29,079 could be right now. The motives of women are so inscrutable. 369 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 2: Their most trivial action can mean volumes, and their most 370 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,440 extraordinary conduct depend on a hairpin or a pair of 371 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:36,279 curling tongs. 372 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: Now we build on such a quicksand sh here we 373 00:20:43,559 --> 00:20:45,359 are good Dolphin Street. 374 00:20:47,599 --> 00:20:52,519 Speaker 4: In aspect illustrade, mister Holmes. Doctor, good afternoon, I inspector. 375 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,640 Busy doctor, if you don't mind me saying so hardly 376 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,119 in your line this one, mister Holmes, Oh, perfectly straightforward, 377 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:00,759 the whole being solved. 378 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:02,079 Speaker 1: You have the murderer. 379 00:21:02,519 --> 00:21:05,039 Speaker 4: The official force don't always need assistance in these matters. 380 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,079 You know, we're perfectly capable of managing on our own. 381 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,599 Speaker 1: Of course you are an inspector, thank you. Doctor. 382 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 4: Yes, mister Holmes, I've got my man. No doubt you'll 383 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:15,960 be able to read all about it in the papers this. 384 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 1: Evening, no doubt. 385 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,799 Speaker 4: Now, gentlemen, I must be about my business and this 386 00:21:19,839 --> 00:21:23,079 house must be secured. So unless you've got some particular 387 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:28,119 reason to be interested, just curiosity. Eh, Things a bit 388 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,039 slack at present, are they well, No doubt they'll pick 389 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,759 up before too long. If anything out of the common 390 00:21:33,799 --> 00:21:36,440 does come my way, I'll let you tell me just one. 391 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: Thing, if you would. 392 00:21:37,599 --> 00:21:38,039 Speaker 4: What's that? 393 00:21:38,599 --> 00:21:41,079 Speaker 2: Have you had time to go through the dead man's papers? 394 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,400 Speaker 4: I've made time, standard procedure. 395 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: Did you find anything interesting? 396 00:21:46,759 --> 00:21:47,279 Speaker 10: Not a thing. 397 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:49,759 Speaker 4: It's all as dull as ditchwater. 398 00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:01,559 Speaker 1: Oh look, I know things are looking bad, but you 399 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,759 really please don't tell me to relax. I was about 400 00:22:04,759 --> 00:22:05,839 to say eat something. 401 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,839 Speaker 13: No, no, not yet. 402 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: You haven't touched the thing for a day and a half. 403 00:22:12,839 --> 00:22:16,440 Making yourself ill isn't going to help, and neither is that? 404 00:22:16,759 --> 00:22:18,160 Not that they breaks you're getting through them? 405 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:20,880 Speaker 7: Hm? 406 00:22:22,839 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 1: You have not heard any news at all? No, nothing. 407 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,319 The Lucas case still in all the papers. 408 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 5: Died two days ago and they've gotten pones. 409 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:33,599 Speaker 1: Do you want to hear or I've seen it. 410 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,039 Speaker 2: I've seen it astraight as let the ballots go. Lack 411 00:22:36,079 --> 00:22:37,839 of evidence, So surely you weren't surprised. 412 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: No, no, not at all. Do you see that they've 413 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,319 gone through all of Lucas effects, Yes, and found nothing 414 00:22:43,319 --> 00:22:46,720 out of the ordinary. Yes, I've seen it all. There 415 00:22:46,799 --> 00:22:50,200 is something new this morning, information that came out of 416 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,119 the inquest. Huh, they've not uncovered as true occupation. 417 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 2: No, I thought, not too well concealed, buried away like 418 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,920 a glittering surface, And glittering is right. 419 00:23:01,039 --> 00:23:04,799 Speaker 1: The deceased was a keen student of international politics, a 420 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,400 remarkable linguist, a traveler, and one of the finest amateur 421 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,279 tenors in the country. His habits were regular, his personality charming, 422 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:18,799 his conduct inoffensive. His relations with women, that's what his 423 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,759 relations with women appear to have been. Promiscuous but superficial. 424 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,000 Mister Lucas was known as an indefatigable gossip, a tray 425 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,160 that must have contributed greatly to his appeal for the 426 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:45,759 fair sex. Indefatigable gossip is that relevant? Perhaps? Perhaps? Annie? 427 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 9: Where are my gloves here? 428 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 3: My lady? 429 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 12: What do you mean by keeping me waiting? 430 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 9: Are stupid? 431 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: Girl? 432 00:23:52,519 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 9: Not theeze? The plain white? What's the matter with you lately? 433 00:23:55,759 --> 00:23:59,839 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I've not been well, that's all. I'm sorry. 434 00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 9: For pity's sake. Stop apologizing every five minutes, ladyship. 435 00:24:04,079 --> 00:24:05,079 Speaker 3: Shall I get the other gloves? 436 00:24:05,319 --> 00:24:05,519 Speaker 12: No? 437 00:24:05,519 --> 00:24:09,599 Speaker 9: No, these will have to do. And in a hurry. 438 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,119 Now listen carefully tell Clinton that if my husband returns 439 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,200 from the house before I'm back, he's to say I'll 440 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,119 be in before nine. You understand before nine. Yes, your ladyship, 441 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,400 with the love of Heaven, try to put yourself together. Girl, 442 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,400 whatever's the matter with you? Do something about it. 443 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:37,759 Speaker 2: Now you realize this that by rights I shouldn't be 444 00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:41,680 doing this, but I can't see that it'll do any harm. 445 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,519 Speaker 1: Now this is the room where it happened. You've no 446 00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:49,720 need to pray. He's not here anymore, but everything else 447 00:24:49,839 --> 00:24:55,359 is just the way it was ready. Well, then you 448 00:24:55,480 --> 00:25:01,319 look at this. I it's quite a sight, isn't it. 449 00:25:02,079 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 2: Who would have thought the poor soul had so much 450 00:25:04,279 --> 00:25:08,599 blood in him? 451 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,559 Speaker 1: Oh? My god, miss. 452 00:25:12,799 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 5: Miss Oh my good god. 453 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:28,799 Speaker 1: M hm. Sensational development in the Lucas case. What is it? 454 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:30,200 Killer identified? 455 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 5: Who was it? 456 00:25:30,759 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: Anyone? Rather than no, I'm afraid not. Was his wife 457 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:38,319 his wife? 458 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:39,839 Speaker 5: I thought it was unmarried. 459 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: Yes, I did his host of lady friends. He was 460 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,519 married in Paris under the name of Angri fournee on 461 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,599 double life. He remember he was all from abroad for 462 00:25:48,759 --> 00:25:51,440 months at a stretch. It seems that Madam Furney has 463 00:25:51,559 --> 00:25:59,039 just been diagnosed as insane. Wait, yes, mania of a 464 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,920 dangerous and perm and in form attacks of Frenzy. The 465 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,559 French police discovered that she just returned from a visit 466 00:26:05,599 --> 00:26:08,799 to London, and apparently she was actually seen outside the 467 00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:14,839 house here there see, h doesn't help verse much. Not 468 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,839 surely it's final. As regards the man's death, A man's death. 469 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 2: Is a mere incident, the trivial episode poems. No man's 470 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,119 death is trivial or in comparison with our real task 471 00:26:24,519 --> 00:26:27,920 to tlice this document and prevent a catastrophe. Only one 472 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,279 important thing has happened in the last three days, and 473 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:38,119 that is that nothing has happened. I get reports hourly 474 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,960 from my craft. There's no sign of trouble anywhere in Europe. 475 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,880 Speaker 1: So at least we know that the letter can't be loose. 476 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,720 But if it isn't loose, then where can it be? 477 00:26:46,839 --> 00:26:49,119 Who has it? Why is it held back? And that's 478 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,799 the question that beats in my brain like a hammer. 479 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,640 So do you think it was a coincidence? After all 480 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,000 that Lucas was killed on the night of the theft? 481 00:26:57,039 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 2: And did the letter reach him? If it did, why 482 00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:01,440 isn't it amongst his papers? Did this mad wife of 483 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,960 his carried off with her. Is it in a house 484 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:04,680 in Paris? 485 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: And perhaps where's you go to Paris? 486 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 5: How could I search for it? 487 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 2: With that arousing the suspicions of the French police, this 488 00:27:10,279 --> 00:27:12,799 is a case for the law is as dangerous to 489 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,319 us as the criminals are. 490 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 1: It does seem as if every man's hand is against us. 491 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 2: But the interests at stake are colossal, Watson. If I 492 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,200 bring this to a successful conclusion, it will certainly be 493 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,599 the crowning glory of my career. 494 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:36,279 Speaker 4: Yes, missus Hudson. 495 00:27:36,759 --> 00:27:39,279 Speaker 9: Another telegram, mister Holmes. 496 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: H well, there's news from the front homees. That's an 497 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:44,920 extremely bad taste. I'm wrong. 498 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,680 Speaker 2: It's from the strade, he says, he's found something that 499 00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:49,720 will interest us. 500 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,519 Speaker 4: Well, it's a trifle, really, but the sort of thing 501 00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:56,759 you take an interest in, queer, you know. 502 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,519 Speaker 1: Freakish even. 503 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 5: What is it? 504 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: Inspector? 505 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,799 Speaker 4: Now you know after a murder, we're always careful to 506 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,920 keep things in their exact position. Nothing's been moved a 507 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,960 constable here day and night, standard proceedures. Yes, well know 508 00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:13,319 that our French friends have solved it for us. The 509 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,240 whole matters close. So we thought we could tie the 510 00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:18,960 up a bit and when we lifted up this carpet. 511 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,680 Do you know what we found? 512 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:21,839 Speaker 1: What did you find? 513 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,799 Speaker 4: You'll never guess in a hundred years. 514 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 1: Tell us, inspector. 515 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 4: I'll show you doctor. Look at the blood stain on 516 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,160 the carpet there. 517 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 5: What about it? 518 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 1: Well, a good deal of blood must have soaked through, 519 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:35,799 mustn't it? Eh? 520 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 4: Of course, and you'll be surprised to see this. There's 521 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,240 no corresponding stain on the parquet underneath. 522 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: No stain at the bottom of the carpet is marked 523 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,880 as the top. There's got to be a stay. Now, 524 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,839 I'll show you the explanational stain on the woodwork. 525 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,559 Speaker 4: Look, there is a second stain, but it's over here 526 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,839 under this corner. What do you make of that first? 527 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: Simple enough, the two stains did correspond. But the carpet's 528 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,640 been turned round through ninety degrees exactly. But what I 529 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,039 want to know is this, Who shifted the carpet and why. 530 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,039 Speaker 2: Mister Holmes astrated the constable outside? 531 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 5: Has he been on Deucy there all the time? 532 00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 4: Him and one other in shifts. 533 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,319 Speaker 2: This is an excellent chance to talk to him, interrogate him. 534 00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:25,799 Speaker 1: Do you think he moved the carpet? 535 00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 2: I think he knows who did tell him. You know 536 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,039 that someone's been in here. Say that a full confession 537 00:29:30,119 --> 00:29:32,640 is his only chance of forgiveness by George. 538 00:29:32,279 --> 00:29:37,319 Speaker 4: If he does know him. Thank you, mister Holmes. 539 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: Now watch her now the carpet. 540 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 5: What are you looking for? 541 00:29:53,079 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: This had and a look inside? No? 542 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 9: No, but is it there? 543 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:11,039 Speaker 1: Watson, of course not. Quick spet it back again. 544 00:30:12,759 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 4: Chiefs get in here on, Matt person, These gentlemen hear 545 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,400 about your inexcusable conduct. 546 00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: I meant no harm, sir. 547 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,559 Speaker 2: I'm sure the young woman came to the door last evening, 548 00:30:23,759 --> 00:30:24,519 missed the house. 549 00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:25,839 Speaker 1: She did, and then. 550 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,119 Speaker 5: We got talking talking. 551 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: Indeed, it's lonesome when you're on duty here all day, lonesome, 552 00:30:30,599 --> 00:30:32,519 Good God, about what happened? Then, cunstorble. 553 00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 2: She wanted to see where the crime was done. She'd 554 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,519 read about it in the paper, She said, I saw 555 00:30:37,559 --> 00:30:38,960 no harm in letting her have a peep. 556 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,759 Speaker 1: Who was she? Do you know? I don't know the name, sir. 557 00:30:42,039 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 2: She was answering an advertisement about typewriting and came to 558 00:30:44,559 --> 00:30:45,119 the wrong number. 559 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:45,799 Speaker 1: What was she like? 560 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 2: She was very respectable, well spoken young woman, soirn not 561 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,319 a lady, not from her dress or her speech. 562 00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:53,119 Speaker 1: So no a servant. Perhaps if she was, she'd. 563 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 2: Be from an uncommon fine house and in a good position. Ay, sir, 564 00:30:56,359 --> 00:30:58,680 that would be my thought. What happened when you shirt 565 00:30:58,759 --> 00:31:02,519 her in here? Well, sir, when she saw that bloodstain 566 00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:05,119 on the carpet down, she dropped and lee as. 567 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:05,799 Speaker 1: If she were dead. 568 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,839 Speaker 2: Yes, and you, no doubt ran round the corner to 569 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,400 the public house the ivy plant, I, sir, m for 570 00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:12,720 some medicinal brandy. 571 00:31:12,799 --> 00:31:14,599 Speaker 1: It seemed the only thing to do so at the time. 572 00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:16,039 Speaker 5: Only by the. 573 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 2: Time I brought it back, the young woman had recovered 574 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,480 and was off ashamed of herself. 575 00:31:19,519 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: I dare say, didn't want to feace me. 576 00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:26,839 Speaker 2: Now, Concoral Macphurston, did you move the carpet? I straightened 577 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,839 it out a touch, yes, sir, you see it had 578 00:31:28,839 --> 00:31:30,279 got a bit rumpled. 579 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: Yes, of course it had, Thank you, constable, sir. 580 00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 4: Let this be a lesson to you that you can't 581 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,880 deceive me. Macpherson, no doubt you thought that your breach 582 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,839 of duty would never be discovered. But a mere glance 583 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,880 at that carpet told me that someone had been let 584 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,319 into this room. 585 00:31:45,799 --> 00:31:52,079 Speaker 5: A mere glance, Thank you, lestrade. 586 00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:56,359 Speaker 1: You were quite right. It was most interesting. Yes, indeed, 587 00:31:56,799 --> 00:32:00,000 my pleasure, gentlemen, and that's for you McPhy. 588 00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:02,759 Speaker 4: It's lucky that nothing was taken, or you'll find yourself 589 00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:05,279 in queer straight to spectr. No one else gets through 590 00:32:05,319 --> 00:32:08,480 this door without my permission. Exact, clear, perfectly clear, sir. 591 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,319 Speaker 2: Good well, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, nurse of course, 592 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:24,200 good day, Lustrator, Constable McPherson, Sir, a private word, if 593 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:32,279 you please, Well, my friend, you'll be relieved to hear 594 00:32:32,599 --> 00:32:33,480 that there will. 595 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,119 Speaker 5: Be no war, my dear homes. 596 00:32:36,599 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: What's more, with a. 597 00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 2: Little tax and management on our past, nobody will be 598 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,480 a penny the worse. But what might have been a 599 00:32:43,599 --> 00:32:47,440 very ugly incident, you've solved it. 600 00:32:48,119 --> 00:32:56,359 Speaker 9: Yes I have, mister Holmes. 601 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: Dr Watson, Lady Hilda. 602 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 9: Mister Holmes, this is most ungenerous of you. I explained 603 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,839 that I wanted to keep my connection with you a secret, 604 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,559 and yet you openly come and visit me. 605 00:33:06,559 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 12: In my own house. 606 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Madam, I had no possible alternative. Indeed, indeed, I've 607 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,359 been commissioned to recover this immensely important paper. I must 608 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,599 therefore ask you to be kind enough to place it 609 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:18,480 in my hands. 610 00:33:19,319 --> 00:33:21,119 Speaker 9: You insult me, mister Holmes. 611 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 5: Come come, madam, it's useless. 612 00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: Give up the letter. 613 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 9: The butler shall show you up. 614 00:33:28,759 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 5: Do not ring, Lady Hilda. 615 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 2: If you'll do, then all my efforts to avoid a 616 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,079 scandal will be frustrated. Give up the letter and all 617 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,880 will be set right. If you don't, you must inevitably 618 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:40,720 be exposed. 619 00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 9: You're trying to frighten me. It's not a very manly 620 00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:47,480 thing to come here and browbeat a woman. 621 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,039 Speaker 1: Lady Hild, won't you sit down? 622 00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:53,519 Speaker 5: Excellent advice, Madam. 623 00:33:56,119 --> 00:34:03,839 Speaker 2: I will not speak until you do sit down. I 624 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,759 will give you five minutes. 625 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 1: One is enough. 626 00:34:08,599 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 2: I know that you removed the document from your husband's 627 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,400 despatch box and gave it to Eduardo Lucas, just as 628 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,760 I also know that, secure in the knowledge of his death, 629 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,920 you returned to his room last night and dropped the 630 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,800 letter back again from the hiding place under the car. 631 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,239 Your your plan for getting back into the house was ingenious. 632 00:34:25,559 --> 00:34:27,320 Congratulations on your performance. 633 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,800 Speaker 9: I tell you I haven't the remotest idea. 634 00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:32,519 Speaker 1: Loveliest woman in London. 635 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 2: Mister Holmes, your picture is in all the society journals, 636 00:34:39,559 --> 00:34:45,760 most convenient, constable Macpherson recognized you at once. 637 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,239 Speaker 1: Lady Hilda, We've no desire to bring trouble to you. 638 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,519 Please be frank with us, get your only chance. 639 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,559 Speaker 9: I tell you again, you're under some absurd delusion. 640 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,199 Speaker 2: Oh then I'm sorry for you, Lady Hilda. I've done 641 00:35:07,199 --> 00:35:09,239 my bess, but it was in vain. Is your husband 642 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:09,559 at home? 643 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 9: No, I expect him at one with the Prime Minister. 644 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:15,519 Speaker 5: Ten minutes. 645 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:17,039 Speaker 1: We shall wait. 646 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,320 Speaker 9: Yes, yes, you're right. You're right in every detail. Now, 647 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:31,000 how in the world you found out? You can't know 648 00:35:31,119 --> 00:35:33,960 the relief to admit it at last. You may believe 649 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,960 this or not, gentlemen, as you choose. But it was 650 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:36,920 for my husband. 651 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 1: I did it. 652 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,039 Speaker 12: I'd cut off my right hand before I gave him 653 00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:40,920 a moment. 654 00:35:40,599 --> 00:35:44,199 Speaker 9: Of sorrow for Iven's sake. Don't tell him it would 655 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:45,000 break his heart. 656 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:46,840 Speaker 1: Where is the letter. 657 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,559 Speaker 9: Would to Heaven? I've never seen it here it is. 658 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:09,440 Speaker 2: Now? 659 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,760 Speaker 1: Where's the dispatch box? Does your husband have. 660 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:14,599 Speaker 5: It with him? No? 661 00:36:14,679 --> 00:36:17,039 Speaker 9: Not this morning. It's still in our bedroom. 662 00:36:17,159 --> 00:36:17,920 Speaker 1: Take us there. 663 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:20,159 Speaker 5: Quickly. 664 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,519 Speaker 1: Give me the key, mister, you break up key, the 665 00:36:22,519 --> 00:36:23,760 one you used before. 666 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:24,599 Speaker 9: I threw it away. 667 00:36:24,639 --> 00:36:25,880 Speaker 12: I couldn't better have it in my. 668 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 13: Possession, madam, What's I don't know if I can do this, 669 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,440 be so good as to give a check all the time. 670 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:39,599 Speaker 7: For me. 671 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:42,639 Speaker 1: Just gone seven minutes to one. 672 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:51,519 Speaker 5: Very well. 673 00:36:57,039 --> 00:37:01,159 Speaker 2: Lay hill, mister Holmes. Some details of this affair still 674 00:37:01,199 --> 00:37:08,400 not clear to me. I presume that Lucas was blackmailing you. 675 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,800 Speaker 9: Yes, that was the exact case. He had a letter 676 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,559 of mine, a very foolish letter written before my marriage 677 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,039 to a friend. I meant no harm, but my husband 678 00:37:19,039 --> 00:37:21,679 would have thought it criminal. Six minute times when Lucas 679 00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,519 contacted me, I thought he wanted money. 680 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 1: I was wrong. 681 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,199 Speaker 12: It was to be in exchange. If I gave him. 682 00:37:27,199 --> 00:37:30,639 Speaker 9: Arthur's letter, he would return mine. I should dearly love 683 00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:32,360 to know how that man laid his hands on it. 684 00:37:32,559 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 2: In cases of this sort, I'm afraid it usually threw 685 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,199 someone on the household staff. 686 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,199 Speaker 9: I would have sworn to their loyalty. 687 00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:41,360 Speaker 2: It's possible that Lucas had some hold over one of them. 688 00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:44,480 Any servants shown signs of unusual behavior recently. 689 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 12: My God, Annie, my maid, I've had to speak to 690 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:48,639 her more than once. 691 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,760 Speaker 2: If it was her, she might well have thought that 692 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,960 the murder inquiry would uncover her connection with Lucas. 693 00:37:54,519 --> 00:37:56,159 Speaker 1: She's probably been terrified. 694 00:37:56,519 --> 00:37:58,039 Speaker 9: How dare she do this to me? 695 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,519 Speaker 5: Listen, as I said, to protect some secret of her own. 696 00:38:03,199 --> 00:38:05,519 Speaker 2: Yes, the fell of scandal has as powerful for a 697 00:38:05,639 --> 00:38:09,880 maid as it is for a mistress, perhaps more so, hardly, sir, 698 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,880 A serving girl dismissed without a character will never get 699 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,360 another place until monk shall be on the streets, and 700 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,960 inside twelve shall probably be dead. And miss Annie stole 701 00:38:20,039 --> 00:38:22,119 your letter to buy her own safety, just as you 702 00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:23,079 stole your husband. 703 00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,119 Speaker 9: I tell you I didn't do it for myself. I 704 00:38:25,159 --> 00:38:29,360 did it for Arthur. If Lucas had sent him my letter, 705 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,519 he would have allowed himself only one course of action, 706 00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:34,679 whatever the public consequences, our marriage would have been at 707 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,360 an end, and with it his honor, perhaps even his career. 708 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 1: What was I to do? Take him into your confidence? 709 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,599 I couldn't you get that? You look at key. 710 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,159 Speaker 9: I took an impression of my husband's. Lucas told me 711 00:38:45,199 --> 00:38:47,840 what to do. He had the key maid, He arranged everything. 712 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,320 He knew exactly when the letter would be there and 713 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:50,639 what it. 714 00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:51,199 Speaker 12: Would look like. 715 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,519 Speaker 1: Yes, he had an agent to the Foreign Office. 716 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:57,440 Speaker 9: And he boasted of it, called the government fools that 717 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,679 they could be so easily deceived. But he assured me 718 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,480 that no harm would come to my husband. 719 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:03,599 Speaker 1: And I took the letter. 720 00:39:03,679 --> 00:39:04,480 Speaker 9: It was simple. 721 00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:06,760 Speaker 1: When you returned with it to Lucas. 722 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,400 Speaker 12: We made the exchange. 723 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,159 Speaker 9: It was all very formal. Then as I opened the 724 00:39:11,199 --> 00:39:14,440 door to leave, it was like some fearful dream. A 725 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,840 woman screaming in French. I turned away from her, and 726 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,239 I saw Lucas just closing the secret compartment under the carpet. 727 00:39:21,559 --> 00:39:22,920 Speaker 12: That's how I knew where it was. 728 00:39:23,599 --> 00:39:25,400 Speaker 9: Then the woman pushed past me into the room and 729 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:30,840 I ran. I was happy I had my letter, if 730 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,519 I'd known what the future would bring. 731 00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,840 Speaker 1: Clearly, your happiness didn't last long. 732 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,800 Speaker 9: The next morning, I realized that all I'd done was 733 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,360 exchange one trouble for another. 734 00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,280 Speaker 1: When your husband confided in you about the theft of the. 735 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,199 Speaker 9: Letter, yes, his reaction was so terrible. I knew that 736 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,360 Lucas had lied to me. The little you told me 737 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,360 confirmed it. My husband's entire future, perhaps even the safety 738 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,119 of the realm, was at stake, and I was the cause. 739 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,559 All I could think of was getting the letter back. 740 00:39:58,679 --> 00:40:00,840 I was terrified that Lucas would pause it on or 741 00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:03,239 sell it or do whatever he planned to do, and. 742 00:40:03,159 --> 00:40:05,199 Speaker 1: Then presumably you read of his death. 743 00:40:05,519 --> 00:40:07,719 Speaker 12: God help me, I rejoiced at it. 744 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,280 Speaker 9: I knew that the letter must still be where he'd 745 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:10,719 hidden it. 746 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,960 Speaker 12: All I had to do was get into that room. 747 00:40:13,199 --> 00:40:15,599 Speaker 5: Huh all you succeeded brilliantly. 748 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:16,159 Speaker 1: Oh. 749 00:40:16,199 --> 00:40:19,239 Speaker 9: I got the letter. Then I realized the truth. 750 00:40:19,639 --> 00:40:20,440 Speaker 1: What use was it? 751 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,760 Speaker 9: I couldn't return it, I couldn't confess, I couldn't do anything. 752 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:25,960 The whole thing had been in vain. 753 00:40:26,119 --> 00:40:29,039 Speaker 1: No, Lady Hilda, if you hadn't gone back there, if 754 00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:31,880 you hadn't replaced the carpet so carelessly and your rush, 755 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,920 Holmes never would have seen the truth. So now, God willing, 756 00:40:36,679 --> 00:40:39,320 we can sell everything right time time, two minutes to one. 757 00:40:39,639 --> 00:40:43,920 Mister Holmes, fear not, your ladyship. 758 00:40:47,119 --> 00:40:54,039 Speaker 11: Ah, mister Holmes, sir, what you are saying is preposter 759 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:55,599 I think not, Prime Minister. 760 00:40:56,119 --> 00:40:59,079 Speaker 2: I am convinced that the letter has never left this house. 761 00:40:59,159 --> 00:41:01,880 Speaker 1: Preposterous. If it had, surely it would have been made 762 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:02,760 public by now. 763 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,360 Speaker 4: But why should anyone take it in order to keep 764 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:05,760 it here? 765 00:41:06,159 --> 00:41:06,360 Speaker 2: Well? 766 00:41:06,599 --> 00:41:08,440 Speaker 10: Thank you fat here you please. 767 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,119 Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that anyone did. 768 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,280 Speaker 5: Take it, then how could it leave the dispatch box. 769 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,239 Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that it did its homes. 770 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,519 Speaker 10: This joking is very ill. 771 00:41:20,559 --> 00:41:23,119 Speaker 1: Time have you examined the box since the. 772 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,599 Speaker 2: Theft, Well, it hasn't been necessary. You may conceivably have 773 00:41:26,679 --> 00:41:29,800 over looked impossible. I've known such things happen. I presume 774 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,199 there are other papers in. 775 00:41:31,159 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 10: There, but you're saying it could have got mixed in 776 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,119 with them. This is ridiculous. 777 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 1: Well it's easily checked. 778 00:41:38,079 --> 00:41:39,599 Speaker 5: Hope, Prime Minister. 779 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:48,599 Speaker 4: Now, letter from Lord Morrow, report was Charles Hardy. 780 00:41:49,159 --> 00:41:54,280 Speaker 14: Memorandum from Belgrade, note on the Russo German gram taxes, 781 00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:59,480 letter from Madrid from Lord Flowers, Prime Minister. 782 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,039 Speaker 1: I'm mister, this is. 783 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:09,800 Speaker 5: It and the letter is intact. 784 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:11,800 Speaker 1: Hope. I congratulate your. 785 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,880 Speaker 10: Mister Moss. You're a wizard, a sorcerer. How did you 786 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:17,639 know it was there? 787 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,239 Speaker 1: Because I knew it was nowhere else? Hilda. 788 00:42:20,679 --> 00:42:23,719 Speaker 4: Gentlemen, you must excuse me, Hilda, Hilda. 789 00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:25,159 Speaker 6: Hil my dear. 790 00:42:26,639 --> 00:42:31,079 Speaker 11: Mister Holmes, Sir, there is more in this than meets 791 00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:31,559 the eye. 792 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,280 Speaker 5: How did the letter get back in the box? 793 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:42,679 Speaker 1: Where did you find it? Prime Minister? We also have 794 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,719 our diplomatic secrets. 795 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,880 Speaker 8: In the second stain Sherlock Holmes was played by Clive 796 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,119 Medicine and Doctor Watson by My Williams, with David March 797 00:43:02,199 --> 00:43:05,559 as the Prime Minister, Jeremy Clyde as the Foreign Secretary, 798 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,599 and Sabina Franklin as Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope. Missus Hudson 799 00:43:10,639 --> 00:43:14,199 was played by Joan Matheson, Inspector Lestrade by Donald g 800 00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:19,280 Eduardo Lucas by Keith Drinkle, his Valet Mitten by James Telfer, 801 00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:24,880 Annie Baxter by Melanie Hudson, Missus Springle by Jill Graham, 802 00:43:25,079 --> 00:43:28,840 Constable Barrett by Matthew Morgan, and Fenton the Butler by 803 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:33,000 John Fleming. Other parts were played by members of the cast. 804 00:43:34,599 --> 00:43:39,840 The violinist was Leonard Friedman. The second Stain was dramatized 805 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,639 for radio by Bert Cools and directed by Enid Williams.