WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:03.879 And now let's look in on our genial friend and 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.440 good host, doctor Watson. 3 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:07.080 Good eading, doctor, good. 4 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:09.679 Evening, mister Bartell, punctual to the minute. 5 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:12.439 As usual, Never keep a doctor waiting, I always say, 6 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:13.960 particularly doctor Watson. 7 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:17.000 Her door up a chair, boy, thank you. That's it, 8 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:18.160 that's it, that's it. 9 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:20.679 All ready to tell us the Sherlock Holms Adventure of 10 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:21.559 the Speckled Band. 11 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:24.239 Dont yes, I'm already, mister Bartle. 12 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:26.839 Say doctor, just what does a speckle band mean? 13 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:29.679 You wait until I've told you the story, Young pulam 14 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:30.000 a lad. 15 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:31.600 You'll find out for yourself. 16 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:33.880 Sorry, the flora is all yours, doctor. 17 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:36.880 The Adventure of the Speckled Band began on a rainy 18 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.640 April morning in eighteen hundred and eighty three, an urgent 19 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:42.840 call from one of my patients that kept me up 20 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.399 most of the night before, and in consequence I came 21 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:48.960 down to my breakfast rather later than usual to find 22 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.640 that homes already left our house some hours earlier. As 23 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:55.359 I sat there reading the morning paper and consuming my 24 00:00:55.439 --> 00:01:00.719 two likely burled eggs, the knock the door to disclose 25 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.840 the typical example of the British working man, A bag 26 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.400 of tools in one hand and a Grammy cap in 27 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:08.480 the other, because he spoke to me from the. 28 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:13.319 Doorway he sent for me. Mister Rams, I'm not mister. 29 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:15.079 Who I beg your pardon? God, No, but I've come 30 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:16.680 them in the guest bracket over the mantel feet. 31 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:18.079 What's wrong with it? 32 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:19.159 I can't leaking it. 33 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:21.359 Wrong? Will you work? 34 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:23.920 Yes, sir, I won't be disturbing your No, No. 35 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:28.280 It's all right. The man don't mind me, very untidy man. Misterms, 36 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:29.519 what do you mean by that? 37 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:32.439 Well, you can't help notice in the myths this room's 38 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.959 in Arvid say he was as tardy as anybody started, 39 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:38.560 but he learned bad evits from what lived with him. Uh, 40 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:41.040 doctor Watson, I in his name, you and pertan fellow? 41 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:42.760 Do you talk to me like that? I've got a 42 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:46.280 good knot for Wady. As you go to here, you've 43 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:49.840 come out of there. That's mister Holmes's room. 44 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:50.959 I'll be angry with him. 45 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.680 Watson plus slipping up of these grimy rags into a 46 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:54.359 dressing gown. 47 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:01.239 So you von Massola, I'd never recognized you. 48 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:04.079 But why the disguise o case? 49 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:05.120 Myliar watching the case? 50 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:07.599 One of those small problems which are trusting. 51 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:09.639 Public occasionally confides to my investigation. 52 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:11.400 Ahhuh. 53 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:12.800 To the British workman. 54 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:15.960 Old chap, all doors are open, his costume is unostentatious, 55 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:19.000 and his habits are sociable. Tool bag is an excellent passport, 56 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:23.000 and attorney mustache will secure the cooperation of maids. 57 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:24.159 It what's the case home? 58 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.439 Or modest little drama of life in the kitchen one 59 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:30.520 of those seemingly inconsequential affairs. And yet, Watson, the honor 60 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.319 of a duchess is at stake the mad world, my masters. 61 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:34.560 The mad world. 62 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.960 Ah, now I feel a little more comfortable. Let's return 63 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.400 to the sitting room, shall we? Strong cup of tea 64 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:42.319 would just acceptable? 65 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:45.639 Should tell me about the duchess life in the kitchen home? 66 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:47.199 It's another time, offer some other time. 67 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:49.159 At the moment, suppose you tell me what you know 68 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.159 about miss Helen Stoner. I received a letter from her 69 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:53.960 this morning, in which he informed me that you would 70 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:56.199 be calling here at eleven, and also that she was 71 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:57.759 a friend of your Helen Sooner. 72 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.000 Oh yes, yes, a charming girl in. 73 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:01.879 Boont me a cup of tea, Watson, and tell me 74 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:02.319 about her. 75 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.879 Well, I befrilled her at the time of the tragic 76 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:07.960 death of her sister two years ago. 77 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:10.080 I told you about the kise. 78 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:14.199 Remember the sudden death of Violet Stoner at an old 79 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:15.360 house in Stoke, Moran. 80 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.400 Yes, yes, yes, it all comes back to me. 81 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:19.719 Now there was a there was an inquest, wasn't there 82 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:21.280 with a string of stupid. 83 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:22.000 Ineffective witnesses. 84 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:23.800 I was one of them. 85 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:25.719 Oh I'm sorry, or fellow, then you were the exception 86 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:27.439 of course. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Let me see. 87 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.039 I docketed the evidence on the case. 88 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:32.360 Where is it? Here? 89 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:37.240 We are here, we are Let me see. Yes, s S. 90 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.120 Salisbury hatchet murder, Lordson's son. Here we are here, we. 91 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:43.560 Are Stoke, Moran. Yes, I remember the affair well now 92 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.039 the villain of the piece was doctor Grimsby Roylet, wasn't. 93 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:48.280 He, Yes, a dreadful fellow. 94 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.439 He's the stepfather to girl's Volet, the one that died 95 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:54.039 so mysteriously Helen, the one who's. 96 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:54.599 Coming here to see you. 97 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:58.639 Doctor Roylett is a pretty record fifty. 98 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:00.639 Five years of age, killed his kit mcgun on India 99 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:05.319 once in an insane asylum, married money wife, died distinguished 100 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.280 surgeon will Watson. I wonder what the distinguished surgeon has 101 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:09.639 been up to. 102 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:11.159 Now, some devil her? 103 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:12.319 Why you say that? 104 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:15.759 You remember that this Violet Stoner's death followed close upon 105 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:19.399 the announcement of her engagements. Well, I met miss Helen's 106 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.680 Stone on the streets a few weeks ago. She told 107 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:23.720 me that she'd just become engaged to a young fellow 108 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:25.560 in the army who was leaving for. 109 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:26.199 The Far East. 110 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.480 She was really upset the thought of being alone with 111 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:32.319 her stepfather at Stoke Moran. 112 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:36.040 Who naturally was Hmmm, doctor Roylett stands to lose a 113 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.439 considerable sum of money in the event of his stepdaughter's marriage. 114 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.240 Yes, they both had a trust fund, which he administered 115 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.600 only as long as the girls were unmarried. That fact 116 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.079 was brought out of the coroner's inquest two years ago. 117 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:51.399 But if Riolet did poison the other stepdaughter, and I'm 118 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:53.879 pretty convinced that he did, it seems unlikely that he 119 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.720 tried again. Two sudden deaths at the same household could 120 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:58.879 hardly pass the coroner. 121 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.639 Oh no, my dear watch, you're making the mistake of 122 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.560 putting your normal brain into Rolliot's abnormal being. 123 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:06.560 That would be miss Sterner. 124 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:09.439 Now, yes, let me see it's precisely eleven o'clock. Well, 125 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:11.240 let's see what we can do for that. 126 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:13.959 Well, I hope you can help her homes. She's extremely 127 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:14.639 nice girl. 128 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.000 Yes, missus Hudson, there's a miss. 129 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:20.480 Helen Stoner to see you, sir. 130 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:22.160 She says, she hasn't appointment. 131 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:22.639 Show her in. 132 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:27.800 Please, Missus Hudson, Ay, sir, come in, my dear thank you, 133 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:28.959 Miss Sterner. 134 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:30.879 I'm I'm so glad to see you again. 135 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.680 How do you do, Dr Watson? And this must be 136 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:34.439 your friend, Yes. 137 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:36.360 Missterner, I'm Shulock Holmes. Sit down to the five one. 138 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:39.879 Yes, this is please you matter. Hello ya, you're trembling 139 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:40.480 with cold. 140 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:43.800 It's not cold, miss me shiver. Tell me, mister Holmes. 141 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.560 Has my stepfather, doctor Grimsby Royle had been here? 142 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:47.199 He hasn't. 143 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:48.120 He saw me in the street. 144 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:49.920 I dashed by him in a handsome cab, but he 145 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:52.000 saw me. Our eyes met and he waved me to stop. 146 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:53.240 But I came here as fast as I could. 147 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:54.199 Very sensible move. 148 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.600 Doctor Watson has already given me several hints to your 149 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:59.519 present problem, as well as having refreshed my memory as 150 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:01.360 to the circle instances of your sister's death. 151 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:05.720 My problem is a simple enough one, mister Holmes. I'm 152 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:07.079 I'm waiting to be murdered. 153 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:09.639 More explicit, mis Donner. 154 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:12.639 Very well, mister Holmes, My say is leaving for the 155 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.839 Far East today. When he leaves, I shall be alone 156 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.079 with my stepfather at Stoke Morne. He plans to murder me, 157 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:20.160 just as he murdered my sister. 158 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:21.680 What makes you say that, miss Doner. 159 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:26.160 Many strange things have happened recently. For instance, he's just 160 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.439 moved me to the bedroom in which my sister died. 161 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.040 What reason did he give for changing your room? 162 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.000 That my old one needed repainting? It didn't need it, 163 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:36.120 but doctor Roylett did need to move me into. 164 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.439 That horrible room. And other things have happened. 165 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.680 I I've heard the music again, want music. My sister 166 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.439 first heard it a few days before she died. I 167 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.519 heard it myself on that dreadful night she breathed her last. 168 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:51.240 Mister Holmer, I'm terrified. 169 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.639 My dear, Please body anymore. You are friends to help you? 170 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.040 Now you mind if I ask you a few questions? 171 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:00.959 No, nuts music does it's to come from inside the 172 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:01.879 house or outside? 173 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.519 Well? It it's hard to say it. It sounds so faint. 174 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:08.720 What's it like, a sort of soft droning. 175 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:10.319 Sound, like a fruit or a pipe. 176 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.480 Yes, it reminds me of native music I heard during my. 177 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:14.800 Childhood in India, India. 178 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.519 Well, the one other thing that puzzles me, mister Holmes, 179 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:19.920 what's that my sister's dying words? 180 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.079 And she lay in my arms. She gasped out two words. 181 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:24.079 What were they? 182 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:24.680 Band? 183 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:26.079 And speckled? 184 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.759 You remember that evidence from the inquest? Don't you doctor watch? 185 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:29.639 Yes, yes I do. 186 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:34.000 I couldn't make her to tell band speckled Indian music, 187 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:34.759 Miss Tona. 188 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:36.560 Do you sleep at your door and windows fastened? 189 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:39.560 Yes, mister Holmes, but so did poor Violet. It didn't 190 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:40.279 save her, though. 191 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:42.959 Why did you gather from your sister's dying allusion to 192 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:45.519 the band, the speckled band? 193 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.879 Well, sometimes I thought it was merely the wild talk 194 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.879 of delirium, and sometimes that it referred to a band 195 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.360 of people. I remember that there were some Gypsies in 196 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:56.319 camp quite Nearest at the time of Violet's death. 197 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:58.319 Gypsy say yes, And it. 198 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.240 Occurred to me that they spotted gay colored kerchiefs, which 199 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.040 so many of them were over their heads, might have 200 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:06.079 suggested the unusual adjective which my sister used. 201 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.639 Is it since you heard the strange music that you've 202 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:10.279 told us about? 203 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:11.959 I heard it last night. 204 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:14.680 Leaves today? 205 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:17.920 Well, Misterner, I shall do everything I can to help you. 206 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:20.319 If we were to come to Stoke Moran today, would 207 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:21.959 it be possible to see over your rooms without the 208 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.040 knowledge of your stepfather? 209 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:24.560 I think so. 210 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:26.680 He told me this morning that he intended to take 211 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:27.800 a late train home tonight. 212 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.120 That's splendid Watson. Out of the time table, old fellow, 213 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:31.680 and look up the trains to Stoke Moran. 214 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:32.600 Aren't your home? 215 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:34.679 That's my stepfather? 216 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:35.399 I know it is. 217 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:40.480 Oh, yes, just there he is on the Doorstet followed me. 218 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:42.320 What should I do if you find me here? 219 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:44.639 Body, Misstna, Please don't worry. There's a private exit through 220 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:46.320 that room there, Watson, sure the way. 221 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:49.159 Will you come along with me and you will come 222 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:49.919 down to day miss home? 223 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.200 Certainly, my dear Missterner, I'll telegraph you the entire time 224 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:52.879 of our record. 225 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:54.399 Goodbye and courage, my dear. 226 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:56.000 Goodbye, mister Holmes, and thank you. 227 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:57.159 Come along with quickly? 228 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:04.080 Come in, Yes, missus. 229 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.399 Hudson a gentleman, sir told him you wouldn't see anyone 230 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:09.559 without an appointment, but he out of the way. 231 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.240 Woman, you push me like that. 232 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.519 I'm sorry, mister Holmes, that's all right, missu Hudson, you 233 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:15.080 can leave us. 234 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:17.639 What kind of gentleman does he'd call himself pushing an 235 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:18.240 old lady. 236 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:21.960 So your Sirlock home, you have the advantage of me, sir. 237 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:26.879 Your name is My name, Sir is Roilet, doctor Grimsby Roylet. 238 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:27.440 Of stock Moran. 239 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:29.720 Yes, yes, of course, a charming place out here and 240 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:31.039 obviously good for the London. 241 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.240 You won't trifle with me if you know what's good 242 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:33.519 for you. 243 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:39.679 Watson. They you are and how was the uh the experiment? 244 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.840 Very successful? Homes to day to you, doctor Roylet. 245 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.200 I haven't seen you since I gave evidence at your 246 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:46.399 stepdaughter's inquest. 247 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:50.200 Yes, yes, I remember you, doctor Watson. Now listen to me, 248 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:54.159 you too. My stepdaughter's been here. I faced her what 249 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:55.240 she been saying to you? 250 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:55.879 Little cold? 251 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.080 At this time of the year, isn't it you answer me? 252 00:09:58.200 --> 00:09:59.879 I hear that the circuses promised, well. 253 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:01.639 You dare to try and put me after you? 254 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:05.279 I know you, you scoundrel. Your home's the. 255 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.879 Meddler and I'm homes the busy body believe that a 256 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.159 man should occupy his time homes the Scotland yard check 257 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:13.559 in office. When you go out, close the door won't 258 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:15.799 show there's a draft. I'll go when I've had my seat. 259 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:19.879 Keep your nose out of my affairs. You hear, Oh, yes, 260 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.000 my hearing is excellent. Thank you and your addiction and 261 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:25.240 delivery most possible. But time flies, my dear doctor. Time flyers, 262 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:27.279 and it has its duties as well as pleasures. 263 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:29.320 Goodbye, insolent for Rascal. 264 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:32.399 Here see this poker. 265 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:35.840 Oh, the fire doesn't need poking, Thank you doctor. 266 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.080 But I should be obliged if you don't put some 267 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:38.799 more col upon me. 268 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:44.799 You laugh at me. You don't know my strength. Look there, 269 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:50.600 your poker's bent double. That's what I'll do to both 270 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:53.960 of you. Don't keep out of my affairs. 271 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.039 I had a presentiment that he'd slammed the door. 272 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:00.679 He's an ugly customer as well as. 273 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.879 Figuratively, Wat's might be much obliged. If you get your evolver. 274 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:05.799 It may prove to be an excellent argument with a 275 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:06.639 gentleman who. 276 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:08.840 Twists iron pokers into knots. 277 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.960 Fellows amazingly strong. Just look at it. 278 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:12.720 I don't want to alp here flann boyant. 279 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:18.080 But ah, there we are great cut homes. 280 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:19.320 You straightened the poker out again. 281 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.559 Yes, it was utterly useless in its former shape. And 282 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:23.200 now what's on the time table. We'll catch the next 283 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:24.399 fast train to stop my an. 284 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:38.320 Home, mister Holmes. Dr Watson, I'm so relieved that you've come. 285 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:40.279 But don't you think my stepfather might have followed you 286 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:41.399 down here to. 287 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:41.879 Take that chance? 288 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:43.799 By stoner, a few hours delay might mean the difference 289 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.559 between our life and death. It was imperative that we 290 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.039 examine this room of yours before doctor Roylett returned. 291 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:52.279 Anyway, Madare, you mustn't worry anymore. We're here in your 292 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.840 house and we're going to take good care no matter what. 293 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:55.759 Calm before you. 294 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:57.080 Thank you, doctor Watson. 295 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.679 Well, this is the roman which your's sister died, is it? 296 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:00.960 It's which as I pictured it. 297 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:05.720 And doctor Royaler's room it joins this one, you say, misterna, yes. 298 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:07.799 Doctor on that side the room which it joins it. 299 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.360 On the other side is my regular. 300 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.320 Bedroom one that's being so conveniently painted. Day. 301 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:15.080 Yes, well, let's examine this room. No trap doors or 302 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:16.120 sliding pannels. 303 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:16.600 I suppose. 304 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:20.679 Sounds solid enough home. 305 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:27.240 Yes, I think it is. What's it? Are you aware 306 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:29.399 that this bed is camped to the floor, Miss Stona? 307 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.600 Why no, No, mister Holmes, Are I to thro that extraordinary? 308 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:36.600 Was the bed in your other room anchored? Also? 309 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:37.440 I know? 310 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:40.000 I don't think it was very illuminating. And this bell 311 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.480 pull hanging against the wall above your bed, Oh. 312 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:43.360 That it doesn't work. 313 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.120 If you want a ring, there's another one on the 314 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:46.919 other wall over there. 315 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:47.679 No, why this one? 316 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:49.000 Well, I don't know. 317 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:51.759 My stepfather made a number of changes after we came here. 318 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:55.799 There's quite a burst of activity apparently, and it took 319 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:57.320 some strange shapes. 320 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.440 Why are you standing on the bed at home? 321 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:03.559 I'm cureious, my dear fellow. Ah, it may interest you 322 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:05.120 to know that this bell rope is fast into a 323 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:05.679 brass hook. 324 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:08.399 There's no wild attachment. It's a dummy. 325 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:08.960 Dummy. 326 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.960 Why there's a small screen above it? 327 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:17.360 It's a ventilator, I suppose, Yes, mister Holmes. Yes, a 328 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:22.960 ventilator leading into your stepfather's room. Curious, I noticed there's 329 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.879 no means of opening the ventilator on this side. It 330 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:28.279 can only be operated from your stepfather's room next door. 331 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.320 I wonder if you'd mind taking us in there, of course, mister. 332 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:31.759 Holmes, follow me. 333 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:35.720 What do you make it at homes? 334 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:38.320 There's devil's work a foot old chap. 335 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.080 Here we are, mister Holmes. 336 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:45.600 That's the same as the other room, bit bigger. 337 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.200 Perhaps that large safe against the wall seems to be 338 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.080 an unusual piece of bedroom furniture. 339 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:50.919 What is it, miss Doner? 340 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:52.919 My stepfather's business papers. 341 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:55.320 You've seen inside it then only. 342 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:57.759 Once, some years ago. I remember that it was full 343 00:13:57.799 --> 00:13:58.279 of documents. 344 00:13:58.320 --> 00:13:59.960 That's the source of nook doing on top of it? 345 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.000 Does doctor Roler keep a cat? 346 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:03.960 No, but he does have a cheater and have a 347 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.440 bruin as pets. He brought them with him from India. 348 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:08.919 Will Holmes, cheetah is just a big cat. 349 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.000 True, But I doubt if the saucer of milk with 350 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:14.440 gerberty fare and satisfying the appetite of a cheetah. Well, 351 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:17.799 I think I've seen enough. This matter is too serious 352 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:21.919 for hesitation. Our life may depend upon your following my instructions, 353 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:22.480 Miss Homer. 354 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:24.240 I'll do anything you say, mister Holmes. 355 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:28.279 Anything is that village in I see through the trees 356 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:28.919 from this window. 357 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:30.720 Yes, the Queen's arms, your. 358 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:33.519 Bedroom windows would be visible from there, yes, But well, 359 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:35.799 then Watson and I will go there now and obtain accommodations. 360 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.200 When your stepfather returns, you just confine yourself to your 361 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:38.639 room on the. 362 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:40.279 Pretense of a headache. You follow me perfectly. 363 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:43.159 When doctor Roylert returns for the night, must open your 364 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.799 bedroom window and put your lamp on the sill as 365 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:47.480 a signal to us at the m then with door 366 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:50.080 quietly to your usual bedroom, the one that's been painted. 367 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:51.879 I'm sure that you could manage there for one. 368 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:54.320 Night, of course, but what will you do when. 369 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:55.200 We get your signal? 370 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:56.759 Dr Watson and I will come here and spend the 371 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.879 night in your dead sister's room. We are going to 372 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:01.039 solve this mystery of the dummy Bill Rupe and the 373 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:04.080 unusual ventilator and the strange music in the night. 374 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:15.279 You'll hear the remainder of doctor Watson's story in just 375 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:17.440 a second. So I'm just going to point out that 376 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.559 at any really important dinner, you know, like when diplomats 377 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:23.879 get together, you'll find wine on the table, Because for 378 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.480 years it's been a known fact that good wine. 379 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:27.399 Makes good food taste. 380 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.639 Better prove that to yourself tomorrow night, by having your 381 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:33.759 dinner together with a glass of Petree wine. If you 382 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:37.200 prefer red wine for any meat or meat dish, try 383 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.279 a Petrie California Burgundy. 384 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:40.919 That rich, hearty red. 385 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:43.080 Petrie Burgundy is really out of this world. 386 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:43.879 Now. 387 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.240 If you'd rather have a subtle, intriguing white wine, let's 388 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.200 say to go with chicken or fish, then try Petrie 389 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.519 California so turned but so turn or Burgundy. To make 390 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:59.639 sure it's good. Make sure it's Petre, won't you? Well, Doctor, 391 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:01.200 it's telling good stories so far. 392 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:02.919 What happened next? 393 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:05.240 You went to the local inn, I guess, and waited 394 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:07.360 for that lantern to appear in the bedroom window. Doctor 395 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:09.039 Roylott's house, that's right was a barto. 396 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:11.159 We had an early dinner at the Queen's Arms, and 397 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:14.799 then retired to our upstairs bedroom and sat there side 398 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:16.120 by side, puffing away. 399 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.240 At our pipes, our eyes. 400 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.679 Training through the darkness that tell Taylor lantern to give 401 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:24.720