WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.879 --> 00:00:04.759 And now doctor Watson, what about tonight Sherlock Holmes's adventure. 2 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.160 Yes, it concerns the weekend Holmes and Nice spent at 3 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:13.679 Bowman's Knock among the Toxopholites, the what Alites, Toxophelites, Mister Harris, 4 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:17.440 our gentlemen addicted to the not so gentle sport of archery. 5 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:19.320 Oh, you mean the boys who play around with balls 6 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:22.239 and arrow. I suppose you might express it that way. 7 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:25.239 Bowman's Knock was the country home of Sir Timothy Fletcher, 8 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.640 who was at that time president of the Royal Toxophalite Society. 9 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.600 The Prince of Wales, of course, was its patron. Naturally, however, 10 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.520 he wasn't present at this particular house party. Besides Holmes 11 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:39.880 and myself, there were only four other guests, Major and 12 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:44.240 Missus Cheltenham, Professor Phil Potts, and the South American millionaire 13 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:45.759 Senor Juan Vindrigo. 14 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:47.759 Little did I think. 15 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.719 When I first made their acquaintance on Sir Timothy shooting green, 16 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:53.399 that before the next sunrise I should see one of 17 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:54.759 them dead. 18 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:55.439 As a door nail. 19 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:58.079 All sounds as if your tax offhe fee, whatever you 20 00:00:58.159 --> 00:00:59.560 call them, took their sports seriously. 21 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.600 Doctor want yes a bit too seriously, mister Harris. It 22 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:06.439 was a beautiful sunny afternoon in early spring when helms 23 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.920 and I lighted from our train at Helmsley on Wilton, 24 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:12.519 which is the station for Bowman's Knock. Sitimatey Fletcher had 25 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:14.280 come to meet us in a dog cart drawn by 26 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:15.359 a handsome cob. 27 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:18.359 Uh, Doctor, I thought a cob was a male squad. 28 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:21.280 In sporting circles, mister Harris, a cob generally refers to 29 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:24.680 a small stocky horse having a high stylish leg action. 30 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:27.519 Well, then, a dog card is not drawn by dogs, 31 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:28.840 certainly not a dog. 32 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:32.040 Cats are very well, as you'd say, a snappy two 33 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:33.879 wheel convenced with seats. 34 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:36.480 Placed back to back. Mm, doesn't sound particularly comfortable to me. 35 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:40.519 Oh, this mechanized age. It wasn't supposed to be comfortable. 36 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:43.959 It was dashing, Oh well, as I was saying, before 37 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:49.519 being set interruptions host pilots and our somewhat battered assortment 38 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:53.560 of luggage into the cart, and off we started. The 39 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.200 birds were singing, the sun was warm and gentle, the 40 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:59.799 trees were covered with tender green foliage. 41 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:01.879 Only Ster Timothy seemed at. 42 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:17.879 Odds with nature, couldn't found it homes. I don't like it. 43 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:21.800 I don't like it at all. There's something brewing, something nasty. 44 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:24.400 He might have known Watson that Sir Timothy hadn't invited 45 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:26.800 as manly for a bucolic weekend homes. 46 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.639 You know, dashed Well, if you had nothing but the ordinary. 47 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.599 Country house party to look forward to, you wouldn't have 48 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:32.800 accepted my invitation. 49 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:34.199 Got to that time home. 50 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.919 Yes, I gathered from your note, Sir Timothy, that things 51 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.680 don't seem to be entirely placid at Bowman's Knock. Seems 52 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.360 to be the difficulty. 53 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:45.159 It's that confounded spaniard Juan Bendrigo. We should never have 54 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:48.840 invited that bloated millionaire to join the Royal Toxophalite Society. 55 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:51.120 Why did you we needed new equipment? 56 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:54.000 It's expensive and he's filthy rich, and a dash could 57 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.319 shot besides the blast him. However, he insists on shooting 58 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.919 for high sticks. Worst likely we're all heavily in. 59 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.120 This sounds to me as if it had been cheaper 60 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:04.039 to buy your earn equipment in the first place. 61 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.639 Undoubtedly would Dr Watson. Oh, most of us haven't. 62 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:10.400 Lost more than we can afford, I suppose, But Unfortunately, 63 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:12.319 Major Chelton has gone off the deep end. 64 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:14.919 He's the crackshot of the Woodman of Arden. 65 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:17.759 Oh, I see a rival society of outchers exactly. 66 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:21.879 He'd never been beaten until Signor Vandrigo came along. They're 67 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:26.120 fairly evenly matched. Bendrigo has better direction, although the Major 68 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:29.639 has more pull than distance. Well, it seems that last Monday, 69 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:32.680 Senor Vandrigo went down to Meriden, where the Woodmen hold 70 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.680 their meetings. In the course of an afternoon shooting, Major 71 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.120 Cheltnam managed to lose a large sum of money which 72 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:38.800 he could ill. 73 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:41.319 Afford, and I suppose he insisted on a return match. 74 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:41.759 He did. 75 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.240 Then, non scowl Senor Vndrigo invited into a return match 76 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.879 of hour shooting grounds, which, as you know, are situated 77 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:48.719 in Regent's Park. 78 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:51.240 Professor Philpotts was invited to keep scorn. 79 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:54.919 You don't mean Professor Winsgay Philpotts, the eminent physicist. 80 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:55.479 I do. 81 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.919 Indeed, he's an exceptionally fine shot. 82 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:01.400 His aim is practically in pallible if it went for 83 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.280 the poor fellow's hunch it back and his consequent inability 84 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:08.039 to draw to a point over thirty eight pounds well, 85 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:09.800 he'd be the greatest archer in Europe. 86 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:10.840 Here. 87 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.360 You must have forgive Watson if he looks slightly confused. Certainity, 88 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.199 his trustee service for polver is the only lethal weapon 89 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:18.160 we understand. 90 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.040 And you, I suppose know what Certinity is talking about, Mike. 91 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.000 The power to draw an arrow to the point means 92 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.639 the measure of pull necessary to draw the bowstring to 93 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:29.839 the position from which the arrow's released is measured in pounds. 94 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.120 The power required to draw an ordinary bow from man 95 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:37.240 ranges from forty to sixty pounds. Women's bows, of course, 96 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:39.519 can be drawn by a power from twenty four to 97 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:40.600 thirty two pounds. 98 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.120 Well, that means, as person, the latest can't suit as 99 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:44.399 great a distance as the men. 100 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:47.360 Brilliant deduction, My dear Watson, you're coming along pretty soon. 101 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:49.319 I shall have to look to my Laurel go to Blazis. 102 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:52.079 As I was saying, Professor phil Pots has chosen as 103 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.800 scorer for the match. As a president of the club, 104 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.399 I was naturally on hand to see that everything went 105 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.439 off without a hitch. He's a grudge match are often 106 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:01.360 quite tricky, you. 107 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:02.720 Know, grudge match? 108 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:05.720 Oh yeah, didn't I mention that Senor Bendrigo had been 109 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:10.519 rather obviously attentive to missus Cheltenham, and the Major doesn't 110 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:10.879 like it. 111 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:14.920 Interesting Watson, that God that depends upon Missus Cheltenham. 112 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.639 I should say. 113 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.319 He's a charming little thing. I can't say I blame 114 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.399 her for being flattered by the Senior. Her husband treats 115 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:26.759 her a prominently but that's neither again of that. It 116 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.800 was agreed that the match should consist of a York round. 117 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.480 Yes, for gentlemen, Watson. The York crown consists of six 118 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:35.399 dozen arrows at one hundred yards, four dozen at eighty yards, 119 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.040 and two dozen at fifty yards. 120 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.560 By Joe, and each time they would be Robin hood 121 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:42.519 shuits his silly little arrow he has to use from 122 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:44.839 forty to fifty pounds pleasure. 123 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:47.360 I say that's quite a bit of exercise. 124 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.199 Contrary to the common belief, Watson, archery is a rather 125 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:53.000 rugged sport. But go on with the story suchim. 126 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.920 It was a glorious afternoon for the match, some not 127 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:56.480 too bright. 128 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:58.360 The air is still as a mill park. 129 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:01.319 Phil Potts and I were ranging arrows close to the 130 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.439 south hdge when suddenly, from the other side of the bushes, 131 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:08.680 we heard two voices raised in a rather well nasty argument. 132 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.319 My advice to you, my dear major, is to what 133 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:23.879 you say. 134 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.279 Cut down on the consumption of alcohol, or you will 135 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:29.920 not be able to see the target, let alone hit 136 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:30.360 the goal. 137 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:31.959 Mind your own business, you. 138 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:36.879 Gently, Major, Gently, do not make me to lose my temper, 139 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:39.160 or I shall refuse to shoot the match? 140 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:40.759 Go ahead? What's it to me? 141 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:41.800 Only this? 142 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:44.360 If you do not win back what you have lost 143 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.759 to me, you must pay what you already owe. 144 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:49.839 But that you cannot do. You would have to go 145 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:50.759 into bankruptcy. 146 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:53.959 And if you go into bankruptcy, you will. 147 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.800 Be obliged to resign from the army in disgrace. No, 148 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.920 why you just you have said that once already to 149 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:03.879 me the repetition is offensive. 150 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:06.720 It is only from the goodness of my heart. 151 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:10.160 Remember that I give you the opportunity to win back 152 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:10.879 your losses. 153 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:14.439 What can I gain from the match? What do you mean? 154 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.120 You have no money to wager? 155 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.920 You have already lost that, You have no property you 156 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.639 can mortgage you. It is only one thing that still 157 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.800 belongs to you of any value whatsoever? 158 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:31.000 What's that your charming wife? Of course, leave my wife 159 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.399 out of this. Do not be alarmed. My dear Major, 160 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:35.920 I do not wish to marry the lady. 161 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:37.319 In my country. 162 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:41.079 We do not believe in divorce. No, we will make 163 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:42.319 other arrangements. 164 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:43.399 What are you getting at? 165 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:47.639 I suggest that merely suggests man you that should you 166 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:48.120 lose the. 167 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:50.519 Match, which isn't likely, there's no win today. 168 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:54.480 I never miss when it's still I say, should you lose, 169 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.480 you will arrange to neglect your wife sometime this weekend 170 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:01.519 when we are all Yes, that woman's. 171 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.600 Now you think i'd stand by and see any man 172 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:04.959 make advances to my wife? 173 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:09.720 Heaven forbid? I merely suggest I shall shall we say 174 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:11.360 visit missus Cheltenham? 175 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.639 Surely if you have confidence in your wife and your 176 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:19.279 ability as an archer, what can you possibly lose? 177 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.519 Outrageous, say Holmes. Of course, as the first the major 178 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:36.679 that used to go on with the. 179 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.840 Match, how could heat I had a good mind to 180 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.840 call off the match myself, mister Holmes, until Professor Philpopps 181 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:44.279 pointed out that if we took any cognizance of the matter, 182 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:48.679 everyone would know we've been evesdropping, which would have been embarrassing. 183 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:49.159 All around, don't you know? 184 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.159 Very Moreover, the Major and said your Vendrigo would have 185 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.960 probably gone off and shut the match somewhere else without 186 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:56.039 proper supervision. 187 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:58.159 Unthinkable. What happened. 188 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.600 The match was nip and tuck all the way. Sennor 189 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.720 Vandrigo had a slight advantage at the beginning. 190 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:06.759 Do you know that the Major's use of spiritus liquors. 191 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:08.840 Quite But by and bye as he became more sober, 192 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:12.639 his aim became absolutely deadly. Moreover, as the afternoon wore on, 193 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:14.440 Senor Vandrigo began to tire. 194 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:15.159 And the Major didn't. 195 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.600 The Major, my dear Holmes, is an ox well, believe 196 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:19.039 it or not. 197 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:21.360 When it came to the final shot, the score was 198 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.960 absolutely even. Bendrigo shot first and hit the gold. 199 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.840 The gold that suppuls I Watson er the Major equal 200 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:28.519 the shot. 201 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:30.840 They were now shooting at fifty yards. 202 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:34.080 It shouldn't have been too different, Hi, I tell you, 203 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:35.919 my heart was in my mouth and I could see 204 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.799 the sweat pouring down Philipop space. But just as the 205 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.960 Major drew his arrow home, Senor Vandrigo. 206 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.519 Sneezed unsporting well, of course the arrow went wide of 207 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:45.919 the mark. 208 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:46.720 No, Doctor Watson. 209 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:48.639 If it had done so, I should have insisted the 210 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:49.600 Major take the shot over. 211 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:50.879 Had he hid her red? 212 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:53.799 Bendrigo claimed the Major had already released the arrow when 213 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:56.240 he sneezed, Otherwise the shot must have gone much wider 214 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:59.919 off the mark. No, No, we were obliged to give Bendrigo. 215 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:01.879 The match he won by a single point. 216 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.919 Under doubtful second pieces. Is the Major a man to 217 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:05.840 take things lying down? 218 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.559 Why do you think I asked you down to bowman's knock, 219 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.840 mister Holmes. I'm expecting an explosion, and I think I 220 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:31.480 can promise it won't be nice. Suppose we are light here, gentlemen, 221 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:33.480 and let the gatekeeper drive the luggage up to the house. 222 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:36.440 Here you are rogers, Yes, tell Parsons the bags go 223 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:37.399 in the tower bedroom. 224 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:38.759 Yes, sir, get up you. 225 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:46.200 But now then we'll walk across the park homes. I 226 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:48.080 want you and doctor Watson to be the rest of 227 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.919 the house party. I left them. Cloud shooting on the 228 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:52.120 south green clout. 229 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:54.279 What sort of bird or animal is a cloud? 230 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.120 It's neither, Watson. The cloud is a small white target 231 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:58.080 placed near the ground. 232 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.279 Right. Cloud shooting is an infomrmal variety of archery. 233 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.960 Don't hold with it myself, but it gives major Chultman 234 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.159 a chance to show off his confounded Norman bowl. It's 235 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:09.360 an atrocity, if you ask me, Nearly six and a 236 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.120 half feet long. And would you believe it? It takes 237 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:15.360 over seventy pounds to draw the silly thing. It's been 238 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:18.039 in the Cheltenham family for years. The Major claims it 239 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:21.080 goes back to the Norman vision and probably belonged to 240 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:22.159 William the Conqueror. 241 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.399 Yes, I believe he was supposed to have had a 242 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:26.840 bow that no one else could draw. 243 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:29.600 It couldn't be the same bow of homes, not after 244 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:30.480 all these years. 245 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:34.200 Quite, don't I beg? You don't say that to the Major. 246 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:35.360 It would be sacrilege. 247 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:38.039 Tell me, sir Timothy, how is your party getting on? 248 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:39.399 And it signed? The violence so. 249 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:41.960 Far and whatever. They arrived in a group by the 250 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:45.240 early morning train. Apparently the trip down had been completely amicable. 251 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:46.799 Maybe the storm has blown over. 252 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:48.120 I doubt it. 253 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.720 The Major's neck is pupped up like a poisoned pup, 254 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:54.120 and Senor Ventrigo keeps tapping incessantly with the fingers of 255 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:54.759 his left hand. 256 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:56.960 Both I take it. Linger signals right. 257 00:11:57.320 --> 00:11:59.919 Nearly there, just around the next hedge. 258 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:01.919 Ah ah, Doug Watson. 259 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:02.679 Did I say. 260 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:07.960 Confounded? Someone shot my head off? Look there, lad, he's 261 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:09.039 an arrow straight through it. 262 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.639 Lucky you are wearing your top hat, Watson, Fast is 263 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:15.120 a coll of warning. The golfer shouts for the archer 264 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:16.240 calls fast confounded. 265 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:17.960 No one had any business of shoot in this direction. 266 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:19.799 O dear, oh dear. 267 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:22.720 I do hope no one's hurt. I tried to stop 268 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.480 the major, but I'm afraid he's been drinking. 269 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:28.159 Again, and like a small boy with a snowball, he 270 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:30.360 just couldn't resist the top hat homes. 271 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.120 That's not very funny. I might have been killed. 272 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:34.960 Oh no, no, I don't think so. 273 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.320 My husband is really an excellent shot. 274 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.440 Then you I get are missus childfall? 275 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:39.679 Yes? 276 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:40.279 Sorry? 277 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:41.120 Where are my minutes? 278 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.639 Missus chentlemam? May I present mister Holmes and Dr Watson. 279 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.799 How do you do not, mister Sherlock Holmes. 280 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.279 I'm afraid so, missus Childna, But it's nothing to be 281 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:51.320 alarmed about, madam. 282 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:52.480 He's really quite. 283 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.360 Harmless, you know, to anyone who stays on the right 284 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:55.039 side of the law. 285 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:56.879 Ah, here come the others. 286 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:57.480 Threw the lord. 287 00:12:58.039 --> 00:12:59.919 I made a hash of your hat on man. 288 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.000 Sorry, but your abilit did fly through the air like 289 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:06.759 an eagle, a golden eagle. 290 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:10.440 At least this time. It is not the Latin exuberance 291 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:11.519 which is to blame. 292 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:14.399 Sir Timothy, no British lack of judgment. 293 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:17.559 I'm afraid, gentlemen, this is mister Holmes and Doster Watson. 294 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:23.720 Major Cheltenham send youor Benrigo and oh oh yes, Professor Philpotts. 295 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.279 As usual, I am the PostScript, which so frequently carries 296 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.519 the gist of the communication. Professor. Thank you, mister Holmes. 297 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.679 My ego could do with a bit of bolsterring. These 298 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.320 two have been putting it over me all afternoon. I 299 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:38.720 can't hope to equal their art. 300 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:39.240 You scores. 301 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:41.840 You know, why don't you give up, Phil Potson a 302 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:44.919 suit with the women nature rip. 303 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:49.000 I do not feel badly, Professor, even I cannot draw 304 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:51.639 that great hulking bow he so brags about. 305 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.919 It is fit for nothing but to kill cows. That's 306 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.840 about enough shot a peace. 307 00:13:57.360 --> 00:13:57.519 Oh. 308 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.440 I can't blame you chat for being jealous. I suppose 309 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:04.759 here have a look at this bow. 310 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:08.440 Mister Holmes ever seen it's equal? 311 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:09.960 Hmm? 312 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:13.279 It is rather remarkable. Major Cheltenham, I've certainly never seen 313 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:14.720 a self bow this size. 314 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:19.159 Yes, it consists of a single piece of you, as 315 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:21.759 flexible as the day was made. 316 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:25.799 If you have these strength to draw it, of course. 317 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:27.559 Which you apparently have made. 318 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:29.840 That's right, I have, what's more on the only one 319 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:30.320 that has. 320 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:33.960 Oh but here i'd best retrieved my arrow out of 321 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:35.000 the doctor's head. 322 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.200 Here, I say my head to shrink. 323 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:40.879 I'm sorry, but these arrows are valuable. 324 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:41.120 You know. 325 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.919 Can't use ordinary arrows with this bow. As you can see, 326 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:46.440 these arrows are painted gold. 327 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.600 The shaft is extra long and tipped with eagle feathers, 328 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:53.159 and the cock feather is from a golden eagle. Oh well, 329 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:55.919 we best return to our vendrigo, or we shall never 330 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:57.120 finish our round. 331 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:57.600 By tea time. 332 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:02.720 Absolutely me not much time to prove, my dear major, 333 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.080 that there is more to archery than roots strength. 334 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:11.960 Come along, Phil Puts. At least you can keep accurate scores. 335 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:16.519 Oh I don't like those people, not. 336 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:18.240 Even missus Cheltenham and the professor. 337 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.320 Oh I dare say the harmless enough? 338 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:25.440 I wonder, Watson, I wonder. 339 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:39.879 You want to do a friend a real favor, Simply 340 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:41.679 tell him to hurry to the store in your community. 341 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:45.000 That sells clipper Craft clothes. Where else can he find 342 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:49.559 such remarkable quality at prices so exceptionally modest. He'll wonder 343 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:52.679 how in these days of high prices, such values, including 344 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:56.519 beautifully taylor, long wearing bursteds, are possible. The answer is 345 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:00.200 the famous clipper Craft plan. Concentrating the buying part are 346 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.720 of ten hundred thirty six of the nation's finest stores 347 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:06.720 from coast to coast. The plans the reason you get 348 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:11.120 these wonderful, really costly looking Clippercraft suits at only forty 349 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.639 and forty five dollars, spring top coats in fine coverts 350 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:17.679 and worsted gabardine at only forty and forty five dollars, 351 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:21.960 and sport jackets at only twenty six fifty Yes, selling 352 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.480 expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest 353 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:30.919 independent stores is the great, big idea behind the Clippercraft plan. 354 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:35.519 That's why men who know insist on Clippercraft clothes, So 355 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.039 be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city. 356 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.320 These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to 357 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.240 add their names to Clippercraft and your suits, top coats 358 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.759 and sport jackets in Manhattan Sacks, thirty fourth Broadway at 359 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.039 thirty fourth John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and 360 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.440 sixty seven Liberty Street in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark, 361 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.960 New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop Creskin, Newarck. And in Jamaica, 362 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.120 the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh 363 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:04.440 eight Jamaica Avenue. 364 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.119 And now back to our story. Night has fallen. It 365 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.000 is past midnight. Holmes and Watson are hiding in an 366 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:18.960 upstairs closet. 367 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.000 I say, it's why we're sitting here in this darkened 368 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.880 linen closet. It's past midnight and my legs are getting cramped. 369 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:33.000 You must wait for an accident to happen. Why not 370 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:34.759 go back to our room where we can be at 371 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:35.759 least comfortable? 372 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:38.160 Impossible, Watson. This closet has a much better view of 373 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:40.640 missus Cheltenham's door than the two corridors which approach it 374 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:41.680 at right angles. 375 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:43.160 Just what do you think is going to happen? 376 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:48.400 I don't know it. Wait a minute. I hear steps 377 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:52.960 on the front stairs. Sounds like the major. 378 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:56.079 Because his steps are unsteady, and you know he's been drinking. 379 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:59.640 Doesn't take a genius to deduce that whole mecedency. 380 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:00.720 It did what. 381 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:09.480 He's turned the corner. Here he comes. 382 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:13.599 He stopped at his wife's door, his hands on the knob. 383 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:20.519 No, he's changed his mind. He's gone on down the 384 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:21.160 back corridor. 385 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:25.480 Holmes, did you notice that bowls in his pocket? It 386 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:28.200 could have been a revolver, you know, or a bottle. 387 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:32.920 Now everyone's turned in except the South American. The professor 388 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:37.079 went upstairs directly after dinner, missus Chetenmoman, and our host retired. 389 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:39.480 After we finished a third rubber of whist. That was 390 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:40.559 nearly two hours ago. 391 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.720 What arouses my curiosity, Watson, is why the major retired 392 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:44.839 down the back corridor. 393 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:47.839 Maybe he's gone to visit Professor Philipots or Sir Timothy. 394 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:51.480 They both have rooms somewhere along there. Maybe he felt 395 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:53.400 hungry and slipped down the back stairs. 396 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:53.720 To the larder. 397 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:56.559 M I could do with a bit of cold chicken myself, 398 00:18:56.599 --> 00:19:01.039 come to think of it, who's that half past twelve 399 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:01.759 or one o'clock? 400 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:07.480 What difference does it make? Hello, someone else is sticking 401 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:08.359