1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: A case of Identity by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, my 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,400 dear fellow, said Solo Hoolmmes, as we sat on either 3 00:00:09,439 --> 00:00:12,000 side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street. 4 00:00:13,199 --> 00:00:16,160 Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,839 man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the 6 00:00:19,879 --> 00:00:23,879 things which are really mere common places of existence. If 7 00:00:23,879 --> 00:00:26,120 we could fly out of that window, hand in hand, 8 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:29,519 hover over this great city, gently remove the rooms, and 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,119 peep in at the queer things which are going on, 10 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,119 the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross purposes, the wonderful 11 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,960 change of events, working through generations and leading to the 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,320 most outer reasons. It should make all fiction, with its 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:51,159 conventionalities and forcing conclusions, more stale and unprofitable. And yet 14 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,759 I am not convinced of it, I answered. The cases 15 00:00:54,759 --> 00:00:57,039 which come to lighting the papers are as a rule 16 00:00:57,119 --> 00:01:00,560 bold enough and vulgar enough. We have in your police 17 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,640 report's realism pushed to its extreme limits. And yet the 18 00:01:03,719 --> 00:01:07,959 result is it must be confessed neither fascinating nor artistic. 19 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,359 A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing 20 00:01:12,359 --> 00:01:16,480 a realistic effect, remarked Holmes. This is one thing in 21 00:01:16,519 --> 00:01:20,079 our police report, where mostress is laid, perhaps of the 22 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,959 platitude of the magistrate, done up under details which to 23 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,799 a nobserver contained the vital essence of the whole matter 24 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,680 depend upon it. There is nothing so unnatural as the 25 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:36,319 common place. I smiled and shook my head. I can 26 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,280 quite understand your thinking, so I said, of course, in 27 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,560 your poision of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who 28 00:01:43,599 --> 00:01:47,159 is absolutely puzzled throughout three continents, you are brought in 29 00:01:47,239 --> 00:01:51,280 contact with all that is strange and bazaar. But here 30 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:54,840 I picked up a morning paper from the ground. Let 31 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,000 us put it to a practical test. Here is the 32 00:01:58,079 --> 00:02:01,159 first heading upon which I come, A husband's cruelty to 33 00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:04,599 his wife. There is half a column of print, but 34 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,079 I know that reading it, that it is all perfectly 35 00:02:07,079 --> 00:02:10,639 familiar to me. There is, of course the other roman, 36 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,280 the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister, 37 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:23,039 all enlady. The crudest of writers could invent nothing more rude. Indeed, 38 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,719 dear example is an unfortunate one for her argument, said Holmes, 39 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,240 taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. This 40 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,479 is the Dundas separation case, and as it happens, I 41 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,879 was engaged in carrying up some small points in connection 42 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,960 with it. The husband was a teetotaler. There is no 43 00:02:40,039 --> 00:02:42,879 other Roman, and the count complaint of was that he 44 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,479 had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal 45 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,120 by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at 46 00:02:48,159 --> 00:02:51,240 his wife, which you will love, is not an action 47 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,280 likely to occur to the imagination of the average story teller. 48 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:57,919 Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I 49 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,879 have scored over you in your example. He held out 50 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,360 his snob box of old gold with a great amatus 51 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:07,199 in the center of the lead. Its splendor was in 52 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,800 such contrast to his homely ways and simple life that 53 00:03:09,879 --> 00:03:13,360 I could not help commenting upon it. Ah said he. 54 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,120 I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. 55 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,120 It is a little surveny from a king of Bohemia 56 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,719 in return for my assistance in the case of diary, ndler, 57 00:03:21,759 --> 00:03:26,400 papers and the ring. I asked, glancing at a remarkable 58 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,479 brilliant which sparkled upon his finger. It was from the 59 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,439 reigning family of Holland. Though the matter in which I 60 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:36,319 served him was of such delicacy that I cannot converte 61 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:38,680 it even to you, who have been good enough to 62 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:42,680 chronicle one or two of my little problems. And have 63 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,680 you any on hand just now? I asked with interest, 64 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,680 some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature 65 00:03:48,719 --> 00:03:53,520 of interest very important, you understand, would have been interesting. Indeed, 66 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,039 I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters 67 00:03:56,159 --> 00:03:58,680 that there is a field for observation and for a 68 00:03:58,759 --> 00:04:01,759 quick analysis of cause and effect, which gives the chum 69 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,879 to an investigation. The large at the crimes her up 70 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:07,120 to be the simpler. For the big at a crime, 71 00:04:07,159 --> 00:04:09,919 the more obvious, as a rule is the motive. In 72 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,599 these cases, Save for one rather intricate matter which has 73 00:04:12,639 --> 00:04:15,439 been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing which 74 00:04:15,439 --> 00:04:19,839 presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, that 75 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,160 I may have something better before very minutes so over, 76 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,360 for this is one of my clients, or I am 77 00:04:26,439 --> 00:04:29,800 much mistaken. He had risen from his chair and was 78 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,639 standing between the parted blinds, gazing down into the dullly 79 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,839 twente inted London street. Looking over his shoulder, I saw 80 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,360 that on the payment opposite there stood a lawyer's woman 81 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:42,120 with a heavy farvor around her neck, and a laws 82 00:04:42,199 --> 00:04:44,600 curling red feeder in a broad brimmed hat, which was 83 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,720 tilted in a cockati's Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear. 84 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,399 From what that is great pan ofly she pepped up 85 00:04:52,439 --> 00:04:56,160 in a nervous, hesitating fashion at her windows, while her 86 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,639 body oscillated backward and forward, and her fingers with jetted 87 00:04:59,639 --> 00:05:03,480 with her buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, euch of the 88 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,959 swimmer who leaves the banks, he hurried across the road, 89 00:05:06,519 --> 00:05:11,040 and we heard the shamp flank of the bell. I 90 00:05:11,079 --> 00:05:14,800 have seen those symptoms before, said Holmes. Throwing a cigarette 91 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,360 into the fire. Oscillation upon the pavement always means an 92 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:23,120 affair dechoir. She like advice, but is not sure that 93 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:27,199 the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet 94 00:05:27,639 --> 00:05:30,959 even here remain discriminate. When a woman has been seriously 95 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,800 wronged by a man, see no longer osolids. And the 96 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,839 angel seemed to make a broken bell ware. Here we 97 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,000 may take it that there is a love matter, but 98 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,680 that the maiden is not sure much angry as perplex 99 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,120 or grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve 100 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,399 all doubts. As he spoke, there was a tap at 101 00:05:49,399 --> 00:05:51,639 the door, and the boy in button sent it to 102 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,600 announce miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady horse a bloomed 103 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,879 behind a small black figure like a full sail marchingman 104 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,839 behind a tiny bike that boat. Challocmes welcomed her with 105 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,240 the easy courtesy for which she was remarkable, and having 106 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,839 closed the door and bowed her into an ouchair, he 107 00:06:09,879 --> 00:06:12,399 looked her over in the minute and yet abstracted facion 108 00:06:12,439 --> 00:06:16,639 which just pick clear to him. Do you not find? 109 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,199 He said, that with your short sight it is a 110 00:06:19,199 --> 00:06:23,360 little trying to do so much typewriting. I did at first, 111 00:06:23,519 --> 00:06:25,959 she answered, but now I know where the letters are 112 00:06:25,959 --> 00:06:29,079 owed at looking then, suddenly realizing the full power part 113 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,199 of his watch, she gave a violent start and looked 114 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,759 up with fear and astonishment upon her broad, good humored face. 115 00:06:36,519 --> 00:06:39,360 You have heard about me, mister Holmes, she cried. Else, 116 00:06:39,399 --> 00:06:44,399 how could you know all that? Never mind, said Holmes, laughing, 117 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,480 it is my business to not things. Perhaps I have 118 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,959 trained myself to see what other soul look. If not, 119 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:56,000 why should you come to consult me. I came to you, sir, 120 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,120 because I heard of you from missus Atridge, whose husband 121 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,279 you found so easy When the police, and every one 122 00:07:01,319 --> 00:07:04,879 had given him up or that. Oh, mister Holmes, I 123 00:07:04,959 --> 00:07:08,120 wish you'd do as much for me. I am not rich, 124 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,079 but still I have a hundred a year in my 125 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:13,600 own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, 126 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,480 and I would give it all to know what has 127 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:20,399 become of mister Holsmore angel, why did you come way 128 00:07:20,439 --> 00:07:23,279 to counsel me in such a hurry, asked Charlow Holmes, 129 00:07:23,639 --> 00:07:28,000 with his finger tips together and his eyes to the ceiling. Again, 130 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:30,839 A startled look came over the somewhat vagous face of 131 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:34,519 miss Mary Sirderland. Yes, I did bang out of the house, 132 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,040 she said, for it may be angry to see the 133 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,759 easy way in which mister Windibank, that is my father 134 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,639 took it all. He would not go to the police, 135 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,120 and he would not go to you. And so at last, 136 00:07:45,399 --> 00:07:47,720 as you do nothing and kept on saying that there 137 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,000 is no harm done, it made me mad, and I 138 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:54,959 just on it my things and came right away to you. 139 00:07:54,959 --> 00:07:58,560 Your father, said Holmes, your step father, surely since the 140 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,480 name is different, Yes, my stepfather, I call him father. 141 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,240 Do it sounds funny too? For he is only five 142 00:08:05,319 --> 00:08:08,839 years and two months older than myself. And your mother 143 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,759 is alive. Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I 144 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,920 wasn't best pleased mister Holmes once he married again so 145 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,600 soon after father's death, and a man who was nearly 146 00:08:18,639 --> 00:08:21,920 fifteen years younger than herself. For there was a plumber 147 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,399 in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy 148 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:27,399 business behind him, which mother carried on with mister Hardy, 149 00:08:27,519 --> 00:08:30,720 the foreman. But when mister Windibank came he made her 150 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,840 seal the business, for he was very superior, being a 151 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:37,399 traveler in wines. They got pound four thousand, seven hundred 152 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:40,120 for a good will and interest, which wasn't near as 153 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:42,519 much as father could have got if he had been alive. 154 00:08:44,639 --> 00:08:47,879 I had expected to see Charlocomn's impatient on a disrambling 155 00:08:47,879 --> 00:08:51,600 and inconsequential narrative, but on the contrary, he had listened 156 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,080 to the greatest concentration of attention. Your own little ingom, 157 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:01,200 he asked, does it come out of the business, Oh no, sir, 158 00:09:01,519 --> 00:09:03,440 it is quite separate and was left to me by 159 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,720 my uncle ned in Auckland. It is an easyland stock 160 00:09:06,919 --> 00:09:09,679 paying four and a half percent two thousand, five hundred 161 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,279 pounds worth. The amount but I can only touch the interest. 162 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,799 You interest me extremely, said Holmes. And since you draw 163 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,960 so large a sum as a hundred a year, what 164 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,840 what you awn into the bargain? You would no doubt 165 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,879 travel a little and indulse yourself in every way. I 166 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,360 believe that a single lady can get on very nicely 167 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:34,519 upon an income of about sixty pounds. I could do 168 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,600 it much less than that, mister Holmes. But you understand 169 00:09:37,639 --> 00:09:39,519 that as long as I live at home, I don't 170 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,159 wish to be burdened to them, and so they have 171 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,159 the use of the money just while I am staying 172 00:09:44,159 --> 00:09:47,240 with them. Of course, that is only just for the time. 173 00:09:47,759 --> 00:09:50,559 Mister Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it 174 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,919 over to murder. And I find that I can do 175 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,000 pretty well with what I am at typewriting. It brings 176 00:09:56,039 --> 00:09:59,039 me two pounds a sheep, and I can often do 177 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,960 from twifteen to two any sheets in a day. You 178 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:05,960 have made your poison very clear to me, said Holmes. 179 00:10:06,399 --> 00:10:09,039 This is my friend, doctor Watson. Before you can speak 180 00:10:09,039 --> 00:10:12,159 as freely as before myself, kindly tell us now all 181 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:17,000 about her connection with mister Horsmaar and jail a flush 182 00:10:17,039 --> 00:10:20,639 stole over Missus Sunderland's face and safick nervously and a 183 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,879 fringe of a jacket. I met him first at the 184 00:10:23,919 --> 00:10:27,519 Guess Peters ball. She said they used to send father 185 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,879 tickets when he was alive, and then afterwards terrybin butters 186 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,879 and send them to murder. Mister Windibank did not wish 187 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,639 us to go. He never did uses to go anywhere. 188 00:10:38,279 --> 00:10:40,840 You'd get quite mad if I wanted so much as 189 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,639 to join a Sunday school treat. But this time I 190 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,039 was set on going, and I would go for what 191 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,519 ride had he to prevent. He said the folk were 192 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:51,639 not fit for us to know when all further s 193 00:10:51,759 --> 00:10:54,559 rains were to be there. And he said that I 194 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,879 had nothing fit to air when I had my purple, 195 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,159 plus that I had never so much as taken out 196 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:02,320 of the drawer at last, and nothing else would do. 197 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,679 He went off to Friendship on the business of the farm. 198 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:08,639 But we went Mother and I with mister Hardy, who 199 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,080 used to be our foreman, and it was there I 200 00:11:11,159 --> 00:11:17,639 met mister Holsmore angel I suppose, said Holmes that when 201 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,440 mister Windibick came back from front, he was very annoyed 202 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,960 at your having gone to the ball. Oh well, he 203 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,000 was very good about it. He loved I remember, and 204 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,960 shrugged his shoulders and said, there's no use anything to 205 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:35,159 a Omen, for she would have her way. I see. Then, 206 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:38,080 at a guest Wheter's volume met, as I understand, a 207 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:43,559 gentleman called mister Holsmore Angel. Yes, sir, I met him 208 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,879 that night, and he called next day to ask if 209 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:48,480 we had got home all safe. And after that we 210 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,840 met him, that is to say, mister Holmes. I met 211 00:11:50,919 --> 00:11:54,080 him twice for works. But after that Father came back again, 212 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,600 and mister Holsmore Angel could not come to the house 213 00:11:56,639 --> 00:12:01,320 any more. No. Well, you know Father did not like 214 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:04,200 anything of that sort. He would not have any visitors 215 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,840 if he could help it. And he used to say 216 00:12:06,879 --> 00:12:09,240 that an Omen should be happy in her own family circle. 217 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,320 But then, as I used to say to mother, a 218 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:15,519 Omen wants her own circle to begin with, and I 219 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:20,080 had not got mine yet. But how about mister Holsmoer Angel. 220 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,840 Did he make no attemp to see you? Well? Father 221 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,159 was going off to France again in a week, and 222 00:12:26,279 --> 00:12:28,639 Horseman wrote and said that he would be safe for 223 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,279 and better not to see each other until he had gone. 224 00:12:31,799 --> 00:12:33,919 We could write in the meantime, and he used to 225 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:36,879 write every day. I took the letters in the morning, 226 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,840 so there was no need for father to know where 227 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,840 were engaged to the gentleman at this time. Oh, yes, 228 00:12:44,919 --> 00:12:47,279 mister Holmes, were engaged after the first work that we 229 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,440 took Holsemer. Mister Angel was a cashier in an office 230 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:57,279 in Leadenhall Street. And what office? That is the worst 231 00:12:57,279 --> 00:13:00,799 of it, mister Holmes. I don't know where did they leave? 232 00:13:00,879 --> 00:13:04,639 Then he slept on the premises, and you don't know 233 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:10,120 his address, no, except that it was Ladenhead Street. Where 234 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,279 did you address your letters? Then to the Ladenhall Street 235 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,759 post office to be left Dill called for He said 236 00:13:17,759 --> 00:13:19,519 that if they were sent to the office, he would 237 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,240 be shafted by all the other clerks about having letters 238 00:13:22,279 --> 00:13:25,080 from a lady. So I offered to typewrite them like 239 00:13:25,159 --> 00:13:27,879 he did his. But you didn't have that for he 240 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,159 said that when I wrote them they seemed to come 241 00:13:30,159 --> 00:13:33,279 from me, but when theyar typewritten, he always felt that 242 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,919 the machine had come between us. That'll just show you 243 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:39,879 how fond he was of me, mister Holmes, and the 244 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:45,080 little things that he would think of It is most suggestive, 245 00:13:45,919 --> 00:13:49,080 said Holmes. It has long been an exium of mine 246 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,000 that the little things are infinitely the most important. Can 247 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:55,600 you remember any other little things about mister Holsmore Angel? 248 00:13:57,399 --> 00:14:00,320 He was a very shy man, mister Holmes. He would 249 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:02,799 rather walk with me in the evening than in the daylight, 250 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,639 for he said that he had it to be conspicuous, 251 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:11,039 very returning, and gentlemanly he was, even his voice was gentle. 252 00:14:13,039 --> 00:14:16,159 He had at quincy and swollen glance when he was young, 253 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,200 he told me, and it had left him with a 254 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:23,039 weak troath and hesitating whispering fashion of speech. He was 255 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,639 always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes 256 00:14:26,639 --> 00:14:30,200 were weak, just as mine, and he wore tinted glasses 257 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:35,519 against the glare. Well, and what happened when mister Windibanker's 258 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:40,679 step father returned to France. Mister Hosmer Angel came to 259 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,279 the house again and proposed that we should marry before 260 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,679 father came back. He was in dreadful, honest, and when 261 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:50,320 we sure with my hands on the testament that whatever happened, 262 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,480 I had always be true to him, Mother said he 263 00:14:53,559 --> 00:14:56,080 was quite right to make me swear, and that it 264 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,080 was a sign of his passion, but it was all 265 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,639 in his favor from the first, and was even fonder 266 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:04,840 of him than I was. Then when they talked of 267 00:15:04,879 --> 00:15:07,720 Marrywood in the week, I began to ask about Father, 268 00:15:08,559 --> 00:15:10,919 but they both said never to mind about Father, but 269 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,919 just to tell him afterwards, and Mother said she would 270 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,679 make it all right with him. I didn't quite like that, 271 00:15:16,799 --> 00:15:19,759 mister Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask as leave, 272 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,519 as he was only few years older than me. But 273 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,159 I didn't want to do anything on the sligh, so 274 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,519 I wrote to Father had bought you where the company 275 00:15:27,519 --> 00:15:30,639 had its French offices. But the letter came back to 276 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:36,279 me on the very morning of the wedding. It missed him, then, yes, sir, 277 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,159 for he had started to England just before it arrived. Ah, 278 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:44,720 that was unfortunate. Your reading was arranged then for the Friday. 279 00:15:45,039 --> 00:15:48,519 Was it to be in Search, Yes, sir, but very quietly. 280 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,039 It was to be at Saint Sayvir's near King's Cross, 281 00:15:52,039 --> 00:15:55,159 and we were to have breakfast afterwards at Saint Pancras's hotel. 282 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,879 Hosmer came for us in a handsome but as there 283 00:15:58,919 --> 00:16:00,679 were two of us, he put as both into it 284 00:16:00,759 --> 00:16:03,600 and stepped himself into a four whaler, which happened to 285 00:16:03,639 --> 00:16:06,360 be the only other cab in the street. We got 286 00:16:06,399 --> 00:16:09,399 to the chairs first, and when the four wheeler drove up, 287 00:16:09,399 --> 00:16:12,120 we waited for him to step out, but he neighver did. 288 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,840 And when the cabin got on from a box and looked, 289 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,960 there was no one there. The cabin said he couldn't 290 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,600 imagine what had become of him, for he had seen 291 00:16:20,639 --> 00:16:23,879 him get in with his own eyes. That was last Friday, 292 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:26,639 mister Holmes, and I have never seen nor heard anything 293 00:16:26,679 --> 00:16:29,000 since then to throw any light upon what had become 294 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:33,600 of him. It seems to me that you have been 295 00:16:33,679 --> 00:16:37,559 very shamefully treated, said Holmes. Oh no, sir, he was 296 00:16:37,639 --> 00:16:40,159 too good and kind to leave me, Sir. Why all 297 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,360 the morning he was saying to me that whatever happened 298 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,720 I was to be true, and that if something quite 299 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:48,720 unfortunate occurred to separate us, I was always to remember 300 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:51,320 that I was pledged to him, and that he would 301 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:55,080 claim his place sooner or later. It seems strange dog 302 00:16:55,159 --> 00:16:58,080 for a wedding morning, but what has happened since gives 303 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:05,720 a meaning to it. Most certainly this Your opinion is then, 304 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,759 that some unforceen catastrophe has occurred to him. Yes, sir, 305 00:17:10,799 --> 00:17:13,640 I believe that he forced us some danger, or else 306 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:16,799 he would not have talked so. And then I think 307 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,720 that what ifforce had happened? But you have no notion 308 00:17:21,799 --> 00:17:26,160 as to what it could have been? None? One more question? 309 00:17:26,519 --> 00:17:29,400 How did her mother take the matter? Still was angry 310 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,519 and said that I was never to speak of the 311 00:17:31,599 --> 00:17:38,799 matter again? And your father did you tell him? Yes? 312 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,799 And he seemed to think with me that something had happened, 313 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,400 and that I should hear of ozmar again, as he said, 314 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,920 what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the 315 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:52,119 doors of the chairch and then leaving me? Now, if 316 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,400 he had borrowed my money, or if he had married 317 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,000 me and got my money settled on him, there might 318 00:17:57,039 --> 00:18:01,359 be some reason. But Horsemarrow was very independent about money. 319 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,839 A neighbor whould look at a shilling of mine? And 320 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:09,119 yet what could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh? 321 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,400 He trifling halfman to think of it? And I can 322 00:18:11,519 --> 00:18:15,160 sleep a wink at night. She pulled a little handkerchief 323 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,079 out of her muff and began to sob heavily into it. 324 00:18:21,039 --> 00:18:24,400 I shall glance into the case for you, said Holmes rising, 325 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:26,880 and I have no doubt that we shall read some 326 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,440 definite result. Let the weight of the matter rest upon 327 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,720 me now, and do not let your mind dwell upon fodder. 328 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,119 Have I all tried to let mister Hosmon Angel vanish 329 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:42,119 from a memory as he has done from your life? 330 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:48,240 And you don't think I'll see him again? I fear not. Then? 331 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:52,440 What has happened to him? You'll leave that question in 332 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,319 my hands. I should like any cure description of him, 333 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:59,000 and any letters of his which you can spare. I 334 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:01,599 advertise for him in ast to this chronicle, said she, 335 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,000 Here is the sleep, and here four letters from him? 336 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,279 Thank you, and your address number thirty one Lamb, please 337 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:16,799 camberwell mister Angel's address you never had. I understand. Where 338 00:19:16,839 --> 00:19:20,359 is your father's place of business? He travels for Wasteous 339 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:25,279 and Marbank, the great clareting porters of cher Street. Thank you. 340 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,920 You have made your statement very clearly. You will leave 341 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,319 the papers here and remember the advice which I have 342 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,119 given you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, 343 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,680 and do not allow it to affect your life. You 344 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,440 are very kind, mister Holmes, but I cannot do that. 345 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,640 I shall be true to Hosmer, he shall find me 346 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:49,319 ready when he comes back. For all the preposter's hat 347 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,440 and the vacuous face, there is something noble in the 348 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:57,200 simple fate of our visitor. What scumpled our respect? She 349 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,319 led her little bundle of papers upon the table went 350 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,319 her way, but he promised to come again whenever she 351 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:10,160 might be some moned Scharlocombe sat silent for a few minutes, 352 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,480 with his fingertips still pressed together, his legs stretched out 353 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:17,200 in front of him, and his cage directed upward to 354 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,559 the ceiling. Then he took down from the rack the 355 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,039 old and the oily clay pipe, which just to him 356 00:20:23,079 --> 00:20:26,720 as a counselor, and having lit it, he leaned back 357 00:20:26,759 --> 00:20:30,000 in his chair, with the thick blue cloud rats spinning 358 00:20:30,039 --> 00:20:32,920 up from him, and a look of infinite languor in 359 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:38,839 his face. Quite an interesting study that maiden, he oujered. 360 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,319 I found her more interesting than her little problem, which 361 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,319 by the way, is rather a tried to one. You 362 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:48,359 will find parallel cases if you consule my index in 363 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,119 and or in seventy seven. And there was something of 364 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:55,079 the sort at the hag last year old, as is 365 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,680 the idea. However, there were one or two details which 366 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:01,880 are new to me. But the maiden her was most instructive. 367 00:21:03,839 --> 00:21:05,839 We appeared to read a good deal upon her, which 368 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:11,599 was quite invisible to me, I remarked, not invisible, but unnoticed. Watson, 369 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,519 he did not know what to look, and so he 370 00:21:14,599 --> 00:21:18,119 missed all that was important. I can never bring you 371 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,680 to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb 372 00:21:21,759 --> 00:21:24,400 nails on the graatish shoes that may hang from a 373 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,279 boot lace. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? 374 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,920 Describe it well? She had a slate colored, broad brimmed 375 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,720 straw hat, what a figure of brickish reil. Her jacket 376 00:21:37,799 --> 00:21:40,400 was black, with black beads sewn upon it, and a 377 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:44,440 fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her race was brown 378 00:21:44,839 --> 00:21:47,839 and a darker than coffee color, with a little purple 379 00:21:47,839 --> 00:21:51,359 plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were grayish 380 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,400 and her own true and a right forefinger. Her boots 381 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,720 I did not observe. She had small, round hanging gold 382 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,880 ear rings, and a genuine air of being fairly well 383 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:07,680 to do in a vulgar, comportable, easy going way. Scharlocombs 384 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,799 clapped his hands softly together and chuckled on my word. 385 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,640 Watchin you are coming along wonderfully. We have really done 386 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,279 very well. Indeed, it is true that you have missed 387 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:21,039 everything of importance, but you have beat up on the method, 388 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:25,160 and you have a cookye for color. Never trust to 389 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,319 generally impresions, my wife, but concentrate yourself upon the tails. 390 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,599 My first glance is always at the omen's sleeve. In 391 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,680 a man, it is perhaps better for us to take 392 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,599 the knee of the trouser. As you observed, this woman 393 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,319 had plushed off on her sleeves, which teach a most 394 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,000 useful material for showing traces. The devil line a little 395 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,039 above the wrist for the typewriter's presses against the table 396 00:22:48,319 --> 00:22:51,839 was beautifully defined. The sewing machine of the hunt I 397 00:22:52,039 --> 00:22:54,960 leaves a similar mark, but only on the left and 398 00:22:55,039 --> 00:22:57,160 on the side of it furthest from the term, instead 399 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,680 of being right across the broader spot as this was. 400 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,880 And then glanced at her face and observing the dint 401 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,119 of a pinch nance at either side of her nose, 402 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,400 I ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which 403 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:14,039 seemed to surprise her. It surprised me, but surely it 404 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,880 is obvious. I was at much surprised, interested on glancing 405 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,079 down to observe that to the boots which she was wearing, 406 00:23:21,079 --> 00:23:23,519 when not unlike each other, they were really odd ones, 407 00:23:24,279 --> 00:23:26,480 the one having slightly deckoed a toe cape and the 408 00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:29,880 other a plain one. One is button only in the 409 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,440 two lower buttons out of five, and the other at 410 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,519 the first thirdred and fifth. Now, when you see that 411 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,119 a young lady, other as neatly dressed, has come away 412 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:40,759 from home with odd boots half buttoned, it is no 413 00:23:40,839 --> 00:23:43,440 great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry. 414 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:49,519 And what else? I asked, keenly interested as I always was, 415 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,799 by my friend's incisive reasoning. I noted in passing that 416 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,440 she had written a note before leaving home. But after 417 00:23:56,759 --> 00:23:59,960 being fully dressed, you observed that her right glove was 418 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:02,720 stone at a forefinger, But he did not ever see that, 419 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,880 but glove and finger stained with violet ink. She had 420 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,400 written in a hurry and dipped her pain too deep. 421 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,200 It must have been this morning, or the mark would 422 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,240 not remain clear upon the finger. All this is amusing 423 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,799 to rather elementary, but I must go back to business. Watson, 424 00:24:21,279 --> 00:24:23,519 would you mind reading me the advertised description of mister 425 00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:28,359 Hosmer and Zel I had a little printed slip to 426 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,680 the light missing. It said, on the morning of the 427 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:37,039 fourteint a gentleman named horsemar Angel, about five seven ins 428 00:24:37,079 --> 00:24:41,599 in height, strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little 429 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,880 ball in the center, bushy black side, whiskers and mustache 430 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,599 tinted glasses, slightly informityos Pitch was dressed when less seen, 431 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,839 in black frockcoat, faced with its silk black waistcoat, cold 432 00:24:54,839 --> 00:24:59,200 Albert Jane and gray hairy sweet trousers with brown caters 433 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,880 over elastic sides, boots known to have been employed in 434 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,359 an office in Leaden Hall Street. Anybody bringing that will do, 435 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,920 said Hulme. As to the letters, he continued, glancing over them, dear, 436 00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:16,559 very common place. Absolutely no clue in them to mister Angel, 437 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,720 save that he courts baljack once. There is one remark point, however, 438 00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:25,839 which will no doubt strike you, dear typewritin, I remarked, 439 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,400 Not only that, but the signature is type written. Look 440 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,200 at the neat little horsemar Angel at the bottom. There 441 00:25:32,279 --> 00:25:36,119 is a date you see, but no superscription except Leydenhill Street, 442 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,039 which is rather vague. The point of our signature is 443 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,759 very sayestive. In fact, we may call it conclusive. Of what, 444 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,000 my dear fellow, is it possible you do not see 445 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,880 how strongly it bears upon the case. I cannot say 446 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,920 that I do unless it was that he wished to 447 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,400 be able to deny his signature if an action for 448 00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:59,799 breach or promise or instituted. No, that was not the point. However, 449 00:25:59,839 --> 00:26:04,839 I like two letters which should settle the matter. One 450 00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:06,680 is to form in the city. The other is to 451 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,000 the young lady's stave father, mister Windibank, asking whether he 452 00:26:10,039 --> 00:26:12,960 could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow evening. It 453 00:26:13,039 --> 00:26:14,920 is just as well that we should do business with 454 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,160 the male relatives, and now, doctor, we can do nothing 455 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,799 until the answers to those letters come, so we may 456 00:26:20,799 --> 00:26:23,880 put our little problem upon the shelf for the interim. 457 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000 I had had so many reasons to believe in my 458 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:30,279 friend's subtle powers of prisoning an extraordinary energy in action, 459 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,880 that I felt that he must have some solid grounds 460 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,119 for assured and easy demarrior with which he treated the 461 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,680 singlear mystery which he had called upon to fathom once. 462 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,480 Only had I known him to fail in the case 463 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,480 of the King of Bohemia and of the iron Allar photograph. 464 00:26:46,519 --> 00:26:48,599 But when I look back to the wide business of 465 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:51,440 the sign of war, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with 466 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,240 the study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be 467 00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:58,880 a strange tangle, indeed, which he could not unravel. I 468 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,799 left him, then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, 469 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,279 with a conviction that when I came again on the 470 00:27:04,319 --> 00:27:07,240 next evening, I'd find that he held in his hands 471 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,039 all the clues which should lead up to the identity 472 00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:15,599 of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary's Shadowland. A professional 473 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,400 case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at 474 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,200 the time, and the whole of next day I was 475 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,079 busy at the bedside of the sufferer. It was not 476 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,440 until it was upon six o'clock that I found myself 477 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,559 free and was able to spring into a handsom and 478 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,279 drive to beck A Street, half afraid that I might 479 00:27:31,319 --> 00:27:34,240 be too late to assist. At the tenement of the 480 00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:39,000 little mystery, I found Charlock Holms alone, however, half asleep, 481 00:27:39,079 --> 00:27:41,559 with his long tin form called up in the recesses 482 00:27:41,599 --> 00:27:44,839 of his arm chair, a formidab lary of bottles and 483 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,880 taste us with a pungent, cleanly smell of hydrochloric acid. 484 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,680 Told me that he had spent his day in the 485 00:27:49,759 --> 00:27:54,480 chemical work which was so dear to him. Well have 486 00:27:54,599 --> 00:27:58,039 you solved it, I asked as I entered. Yes, it 487 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:02,079 was myself ato Berta. No, no, the mystery, I cried, 488 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,119 Oh there I thought of the solve that I had 489 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,480 been working upon. Trewas never any mystery in the matter, though, 490 00:28:09,519 --> 00:28:11,680 as I said yesterday, some marey details are of interest. 491 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,240 The only dropic is that there is no law. If 492 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,240 he had agin touch the scoundrel, who was he then? 493 00:28:18,519 --> 00:28:23,279 And what was his object in deserting miss Sutherland. The 494 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,880 question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had 495 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,359 not yet opened his lips to reply when we heard 496 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,799 a heavy footfall in the passage and the tap at 497 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:35,039 the door. This is the girl's step father, mister James' Swindebank, 498 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,799 said Holmes. He has written to me to say that 499 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,960 he would be here at six. Come in. The man 500 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,880 who entered was a sturdy, middle sized fellow, some thirty 501 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,799 years of age, clean shaven and shallow skin, with a 502 00:28:48,799 --> 00:28:51,480 bland insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and 503 00:28:51,519 --> 00:28:55,160 penetrating gray eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each 504 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,640 of us, placed his shiny turved upon the sideboard, and 505 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,039 with his slight bows, settled down into the nearest chair. 506 00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:06,880 Good evening, mister James win the Bank, said Holmes. I 507 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,039 think that this steprien a letter is from you in 508 00:29:09,079 --> 00:29:13,160 which you made an appointment with me for six o'clock. Yes, sir, 509 00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:15,400 my afraid that I am a little late, but I'm 510 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,599 not quite my own master. You know. I'm sorry that 511 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,400 Miss Shudderland has troubled you about this little matter, for 512 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,200 I think it is far better not to watch lenan 513 00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:25,839 of that sort in public. It was quite against my 514 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,400 wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, 515 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,400 impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is 516 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,680 not easily controlled when she has made up her mind. 517 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,319 On a point of course, I didn't mind you so much, 518 00:29:39,039 --> 00:29:42,160 as you are not connected to the official police. But 519 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,599 it is not pleasant to have a family misfortune like 520 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,839 this noised abroad. Besides, it's a useless expense, for how 521 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,720 could you possibly find this horsemar Angel. On the contrary, 522 00:29:54,039 --> 00:29:57,599 said Holmes quietly, I have every reason to believe that 523 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:02,880 I will succeed in discovering mister Horsmer Angel. Mister Windibank 524 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,759 gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. I am 525 00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:09,839 delighted to hear it, he said. It is a curious thing, 526 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,119 remarked Holmes, that a typewriter has really quite as much 527 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,279 individuality as a man's handwriting, unless dear quite new No 528 00:30:17,359 --> 00:30:21,160 two have them writing jactly alike. Some letters got more 529 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,000 one than others, and somewhere only on one side. Now 530 00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:27,440 you remark in this none appears, mister Windibank, that in 531 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,799 every case there is some little slurring over the e 532 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:32,000 and a slight defect in the tale of the R. 533 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,240 There are fourteen other characteristics, but those are the more obvious. 534 00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:40,720 We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, 535 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:45,720 and no doubt it is so little worn, old visitor answered, 536 00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:48,160 glancing keenly at home, so with his bright little eyes. 537 00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:51,079 And now I'll show you what is really a very 538 00:30:51,079 --> 00:30:55,640 interesting study, mister Windibank, Holmes continued, I think of writing 539 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,319 another little monograph some of these days on a typewriter 540 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,319 and its relation to crime. It is a subject to 541 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,279 which I have devoted some little attention. I here four 542 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,279 letters which perpa to come from the missing man. They 543 00:31:08,319 --> 00:31:11,240 are all type written, and each case not only are 544 00:31:11,279 --> 00:31:14,319 the easelert and ours tale liss. But you will observe 545 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:17,880 if you care to use my magnifying lands that to fourteen. 546 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,640 Other characteristics to which I have alluded are dear as well. 547 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,960 Mister sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. 548 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:28,759 I cannot waste him over this sort of fantastic talk, 549 00:31:28,839 --> 00:31:31,400 mister Holmes, he said, if we can catch the man, 550 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,240 catch him and let me know when you have done it, certainly, 551 00:31:36,039 --> 00:31:38,880 said obs, stepping over and turning the key in the door. 552 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,519 I'll let you know then that I have caught him. 553 00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:47,480 What where, shulted mister Windibank, turning white to his leaves 554 00:31:47,519 --> 00:31:49,599 and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. 555 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,720 Oh it won't do, really, it won't, said om swavely. 556 00:31:54,319 --> 00:31:56,440 There is no possible getting out of it, mister Windybank. 557 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,599 It is quite too transparent. And it was a very 558 00:31:59,599 --> 00:32:02,079 bad compliment when you said that it is impossible for 559 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,039 me to solve so simple a question. That is right, 560 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:11,039 Sit down and let us talk it over. Our visitor 561 00:32:11,039 --> 00:32:13,079 collapsed into a chair with a gustly face and a 562 00:32:13,119 --> 00:32:17,519 glitter of moisture on his brow. It isn't actionable, he stammered. 563 00:32:18,559 --> 00:32:21,119 I'm very much afraid that it is not, but betting 564 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,119 ourselves in the bank. It was as Gralent's selfis, and 565 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,480 heartless as a trick in a petty way, as ever 566 00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:29,200 came before me. Now let me just run over the 567 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,119 course of the events, and he will contradict me if 568 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,039 I go wrong. The man sat huddled up in his chair, 569 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,680 with his head sunk up on his breast, like one 570 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,119 who is utterly crushed. Holmes struck his feet up on 571 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,319 the corner of the mantelpiece, and leaning back, with his 572 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,640 hands in his pockets, began talking rather to himself, as 573 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:51,000 it seemed, than to us. The man married a women 574 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,160 very much older than himself for her money, said he, 575 00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:57,200 And he enjoyed the use of the money of the 576 00:32:57,279 --> 00:33:01,119 daughter as long as she lifted them. It was a 577 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,880 considerablesome for people in their position, and the loss of 578 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,880 it would have made a serious difference. It was what 579 00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:11,000 an effort to preserve it. The daughter was a big, good, 580 00:33:11,039 --> 00:33:14,440 amable disposition, but affectionate and warm hearted in her ways, 581 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,240 so that it was evident that with her fair personal 582 00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:19,799 advantages and her little income, she would not be allowed 583 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:23,839 to remain seeing along. Now her marriage would mean, of course, 584 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,880 the loss of a hundred a year. So what does 585 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,519 a stiff feather do to prevent it? He takes the 586 00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:32,079 obvious course of keeping her at home and forbiding how 587 00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:35,680 to seek the company of people of her own age. 588 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,960 But soon he found that that would not answer forever. 589 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,319 She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and finally announced 590 00:33:43,359 --> 00:33:46,720 her positive intention of going to a certain ball. What 591 00:33:46,839 --> 00:33:49,240 does he, claver stiff for the do? Then he conceives 592 00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:51,880 an idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. 593 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:55,839 With the connivance and assistance of his wife, he disguised 594 00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:00,279 himself Kavardou's keen eyes with tinted glasses, master's face with 595 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,680 mustache and a pair of pushy whiskers, sunk that clear 596 00:34:03,759 --> 00:34:07,319 voice into an insinuative whisper and doubly secret. Account of 597 00:34:07,319 --> 00:34:11,159 the girl's short sight, he appears as mister Hosmer Angel 598 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:17,519 and keeps up other lovers by making love himself. It 599 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:20,719 was only joke at first, groaned our visitor. We never 600 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,639 thought that she would have been so carried away. Very 601 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,880 likely not, however, that may be. The young lady was 602 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,400 very decidedly carried away, and having quite made of her 603 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,760 mind that her staffather was in French, the suspicion of 604 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,760 treachery never for an instant entered her mind. She was 605 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,880 flattered by the gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased 606 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:46,000 by the loudly expressed admiration of her murder. Then mister 607 00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:48,400 Angel began to call for It was obvious that the 608 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,440 matter should be pushed as far as it would go, 609 00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:54,000 if a real effect were it to be produced to 610 00:34:54,039 --> 00:34:57,519 her meetings, and an engagement which should finally secure the 611 00:34:57,559 --> 00:35:01,800 girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the deception 612 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,039 could not be kept up forever to pretend the journeys 613 00:35:05,079 --> 00:35:08,599 to French were rather cumbers The thing to do was 614 00:35:08,679 --> 00:35:10,599 clearly to bring the business to an end in such 615 00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:13,400 a dramatic manner that he would leave a permanent temperas 616 00:35:13,559 --> 00:35:17,039 upon the young lady's mind and prevent her from looking 617 00:35:17,079 --> 00:35:20,840 upon any other suitor for some time to come. Hens 618 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,559 Doo's vows of fidel they exjected upon a testament, and 619 00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:27,360 hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening. 620 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,800 On the very morning of the wedding. James in the 621 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,360 vanguished Miss Sir Land to be so bound to hostmar 622 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,840 angel and so uncertain as to his fate, that for 623 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,159 ten years to come, at any rates you not listen 624 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,840 to another man. As far as the church door he 625 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,360 brought her, and then as he could go no farther 626 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,239 he conveniently vanished away by the old chiekock, stepping in 627 00:35:48,559 --> 00:35:50,719 at one door of a four wheeler and out at 628 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,960 the other. I think that was the chain of Evans, 629 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:58,119 mister w in the bank, our visitor had recovered something 630 00:35:58,119 --> 00:36:00,599 of his assurance while Holmes had been talked, and he 631 00:36:00,679 --> 00:36:03,320 rose from his chair now with a cold sneer on 632 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,679 his whale face. It may be so, or it may 633 00:36:06,679 --> 00:36:10,079 be not, mister Holmes, said he. But if you are 634 00:36:10,119 --> 00:36:12,119 so very sharp, you ought to be sure enough to 635 00:36:12,199 --> 00:36:14,400 know that it is you who are breaking the law 636 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,880 now and not me. I have done nothing actionable from 637 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,960 the first. But as long as you keep that to 638 00:36:20,039 --> 00:36:22,239 a locked you lay yourself open to an action for 639 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:27,599 assault and illegal constraint. The lock cannot, as you say, 640 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,199 touch you, said Holmes, unlocking and drawing open the door. 641 00:36:31,559 --> 00:36:34,039 Yet there never was a man who diss a punishment. More. 642 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,840 If the young lady has a brother or a friend, 643 00:36:37,119 --> 00:36:39,800 he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By jove, 644 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,400 he continued, flushing up at the shite of the bait, 645 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,639 too sneer upon the man's face. It is not part 646 00:36:45,679 --> 00:36:47,400 of my duties to my client. But here is a 647 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,800 hunting craft handy, and I think I shall just treat 648 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,360 myself to He took two swift steps to the whip, 649 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,840 but before he could grasp it, there is a wildcatter 650 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,119 of steps up on the stairs. The heavy haul door banged, 651 00:36:59,199 --> 00:37:01,920 and from the window could see mister James Windypank running 652 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,199 on the top of his pit down the road. There 653 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,599 is a cold blood scoundrel, said Holmeson, laughing as he 654 00:37:08,679 --> 00:37:11,280 threw himself down into his chair once more. That fellow 655 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,480 will rise from crime to crime until he does something 656 00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:17,000 very bad and ends upon the gallows. The case has, 657 00:37:17,039 --> 00:37:19,480 in some respects been not entered at a wad of interest. 658 00:37:21,119 --> 00:37:23,480 I cannot entirely see all the steps of your reasoning, 659 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,320 I remarked, Well, of course, it is obvious frown of 660 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,800 us that this mister Horstman Angel must have some strong 661 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,800 object for his curious conduct, and it was equally clear 662 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,280 that the only man who rarely profited by the incident, 663 00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:37,599 as far as we could see, was the step. Further 664 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,559 then the fact that the two men were never together, 665 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,519 but that the one always appeared when the other was away. 666 00:37:44,519 --> 00:37:48,119 He was such stiff, so added tinted spectacles and a 667 00:37:48,159 --> 00:37:52,719 curious voice, which put hinted at the disguise, as did 668 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:57,119 the bussy whishkers. My suspicions were all confirmed by his 669 00:37:57,199 --> 00:37:59,960 peculiar action in type writing his signature, which of course 670 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,920 felt that his handwriting was so familiar to her that 671 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,760 she would recognize even the smallest sample of it. You see, 672 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,960 all these isolated facts, together with many minor ones, all 673 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,320 pointed in the same direction, And how did you verify them? 674 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,639 Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. 675 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,760 I knew the form for which the men worked. Having 676 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,360 taken the printed description, I eliminated everything from it which 677 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,000 could be the result over disguise, the whiskers, the glasses, 678 00:38:27,039 --> 00:38:29,400 the voice, and I sent it to the farm. Would 679 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,000 they request that they would inform me whether it answered 680 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,559 to the description of any of the travelers I had 681 00:38:35,599 --> 00:38:39,000 already noticed the peculiarities of the typewriter. Can I wrote 682 00:38:39,039 --> 00:38:41,320 to the man himself at his visitors address, asking him 683 00:38:41,559 --> 00:38:44,960 if he could come here as he expected. His reply 684 00:38:45,079 --> 00:38:48,400 was typewritten and reveled the same treevial but characteristic defects. 685 00:38:49,599 --> 00:38:52,119 The same post brought me later from west House and Marlbank, 686 00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:55,159 off Fancher Street, to say that the description telled in 687 00:38:55,199 --> 00:38:58,280 every respect with that of their employ James in the Bank. 688 00:38:58,639 --> 00:39:03,280 While a two and miss Sir Land, if I tell 689 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,000 hers you will not believe me. You may remember the 690 00:39:06,079 --> 00:39:08,480 old person saying there is a danger for him who 691 00:39:08,599 --> 00:39:12,480 taketh the tiger cup, and danger also for whoso snatches 692 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,199 a delusion from an omen. There is as much sense 693 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,559 in her ease as in her asse, and as much 694 00:39:18,639 --> 00:39:25,280 knowledge of the world and of a case of identity.