WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:02.799 Now, doctor, back to the charming lady who was named 2 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:04.400 for this verdant man May. 3 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:07.799 Yes, it was rather late in May, as I remember. 4 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:10.839 The year was nineteen nine or ten. 5 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:14.160 I believe Holmes had retired to a small coperty he'd 6 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:17.280 acquired on the coast of Sussex, and was deep in. 7 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:20.719 Beea culture, leaving you alone and deserted. 8 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:26.519 Except for a delightful and devoted little wife. Yes, exactly Well, 9 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.879 at the beginn of the beginning I had I'd gone 10 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:31.559 down to Sussex for a long weekend of fresh air 11 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:32.320 and relaxation. 12 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.240 Now you might have known better than to expect relaxation 13 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:36.359 around Sherlock Holmes. 14 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:40.320 Doctor, How right you are, mister Harris Wit. It was 15 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:43.679 Saturday morning. Holmes and I were finishing a leisurely breakfast 16 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:47.000 which had been served up on the East tennice overlooking 17 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.920 the Channel. I had just filled my pipe and was 18 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.439 offering my tobacco pouch to Holmes. Went to my surprise, 19 00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:00.439 he refused, never touched the stuff. Never touched tobacco homes, 20 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.560 you prevaricator. When I think of the tons I've watched 21 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.200 you consume a regular inferno just the same I've given. 22 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:08.719 It up or anything wrong with your health. 23 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.519 No, I've given up nicotine because my bees don't like it. 24 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:13.719 You know, you go out among the hives wreaking of 25 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:15.120 nicotine and see what happens to you. 26 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:17.840 Watson, I have no intention of going near the silly things. 27 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.200 Bees, My dear Watson, are not silly. If the human 28 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:24.120 race conducted its affairs with half the discipline and intelligence, 29 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.079 we'd have fewer fools like the latter day Jihu, who 30 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:28.920 is at this moment scorching up the cliff road in 31 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:29.439 this direction. 32 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.879 Oh, you mean the chat driving the automobile. I take 33 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:33.439 it naturally. 34 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:35.680 The blithering idiot must be caughting death at close to 35 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:36.640 forty miles an hour. 36 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.239 Homes is coming in here, make a turn on two wheels. 37 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.799 It's a wonder you misticket close. Who look at the 38 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.719 dust he's picking up? Well, at least he didn't manage 39 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:49.120 to stop the juggernaut. For a moment I thought he 40 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:50.640 was going right on through the kitchen. 41 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.000 Well, well, this is a bit of luck. I'd hope 42 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.599 to see homes of Dorsma to find Watson as well. 43 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:59.359 A dear fellow. The pleasure is mutual, isn't it, Watson? 44 00:01:59.519 --> 00:01:59.799 Eh? 45 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:01.359 You know Holmes. 46 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.040 I don't believe the old boy remembers me. How can 47 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:06.239 I tell if I remember, you're not all gone up. 48 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.280 In that cap and goggles. My dear Dilly, you'll have 49 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:11.599 to forgive Watson. I'd never been able to teach him 50 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:14.400 to recognize people by their immutable features, the shape of 51 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:15.719 the ears, the set of the jaw. 52 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:19.919 Dilly, don't tell me it's old Peter Dillinghurst. 53 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.599 Now the Reverend Doctor Dillinghurst, rector of Basham Church. 54 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:25.599 I believe, yes, worse luck, That's what I've come to 55 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.360 consult you about, Holmes. Things have been happening at Basham 56 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:32.439 Church every morning. There are fresh roses on the late 57 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:35.520 Lady Elfrida's tomb, and the old bell in the tower 58 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:36.520 started a ring again. 59 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:37.759 I would look here at Dillinghurst. 60 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:41.080 People often place flowers on tools, and church bells are 61 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:42.520 quite frequently wrung, you know. 62 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:44.800 Yes, But the people didn't place the roses, Watson, and 63 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:47.919 people didn't ring the bell. Matter of fact, the bell 64 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.639 hasn't been wrung for five years, not since the time 65 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.960 of hit by lightning and bed the craked. The stairs 66 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:56.080 to the bell tower destroyed by fire at that time 67 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:59.520 and never replaced no one can reach the robe. Well, 68 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:04.800 it's those confounded roses that are rarely the most disturbing phenomenon. 69 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:05.120 Homes. 70 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:09.680 There's some churches looked up. It's locked up every night 71 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:13.639 after evensong. I attend to the locking up myself every night. 72 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:16.240 When I make the rounds to extinguish the candles, I 73 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:19.120 notice the day's spray of yellow roses on Lady Alfrida's tomb, 74 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:22.360 and every night they are faded and drooping. 75 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.280 Yellow roses always seem to be particularly perishable. 76 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:26.680 Homes on it to Rut Watson. 77 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.800 The next morning, when I unlocked the door and ail 78 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:33.599 out the church, there are the roses as fresh as 79 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.120 though they'd just been plucked, and no one is at 80 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.639 foot inside the church. Amazing homes, My dear Dillinghurst, What 81 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.080 makes you so positive that no one had entered the church? 82 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:43.039 I'm not a fool. 83 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:46.479 Homes. On several occasions I have scattered ashes not only 84 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.080 around the doors, but around Lady Elfrida's tomb as well. 85 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:51.439 There has never been so much as a muss track 86 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:51.879 through them. 87 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:52.639 Hey jove. 88 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:57.280 Furthermore, a group of schoolboys who've joined that new organization 89 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.879 er or what is it they call oh yes, the 90 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:04.240 boys scouts, Oh, I've heard of them, Homes remarkable lads. 91 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:06.639 They can up two sticks together and nick a fire. 92 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:07.319 Don't you know that. 93 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.560 They didn't invent the process? Go on Recturn. 94 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:14.120 Well, as I was saying, the boys and their scout master, 95 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:16.680 the local librarian, volunteered to spend the night in Basel 96 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.439 Church to see if they could find out who was 97 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:20.839 responsible for the blooming roses and the ringing bell. 98 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:21.720 What did they discover? 99 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:28.360 Nothing? Homes, absolutely nothing. At exactly midnight, the bell rang 100 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:32.360 and the roses bloomed afresh. Nobody, absolute clean, nobody was 101 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:35.399 within arm's reach of either. Why are you so perturbed 102 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:39.959 about all this today? Because, well, because this occurrence is 103 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:44.160 killing me. The present lady Danesfield May was the late 104 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:47.279 rector's daughter Homes. I've known her since she was a child, 105 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:48.959 and I came to bash them to act as her 106 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:52.600 father's curing mayors. Of course, much younger than Sir Albert 107 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:56.360 and Elfrida his first wife. In fact, I think May 108 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:00.319 was always afraid of Elfrida, who was a strange coal 109 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:04.040 Crowback to our Danish ancestors, it's on me, the May's account, 110 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:06.000 that I ask you to investigate the smile homes. 111 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:08.079 Well, what do you say, Watson, shall we take a 112 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.240 run over to Basham and did his new fangled perambulator, go. 113 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.079 And get my coat and he you you won't need 114 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.160 the Watson. I've brought along caps and dusters for both 115 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:15.399 of you. 116 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:16.160 Come along. 117 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:18.399 We shall have to drive like the devil if we're 118 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:30.319 going to get back in time for choir practice. Hans, 119 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:34.120 I never realized that utter imbecility of barnyard foul until 120 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:35.160 I started to drive a car. 121 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.560 Do you look out, there's a boy on a bicycle. 122 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:39.680 Never touched him. 123 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.199 Tell me Diddinghurst first, about the church bell. We say 124 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.639 it sounds at midnight? How often has this occurred? Every night? 125 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.759 Since Lady Elfrida's birthday? The day those confounded yellow roses 126 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:52.639 were placed on our tomb, that's nearly two weeks ago. 127 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:56.639 Yellow roses? Is there any significance to yellow roses? 128 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:56.720 Oh? 129 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:01.480 Yess. Sir Albert Damesfield's first wife, dy Elfrida, came from 130 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:04.560 Castle Odo, which is famous for its yellow roses. When 131 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:07.079 the Lady Elfrida married Sir Albert, she brought along a 132 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:09.079 half dozen of the rose bushes and the family gardener 133 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:09.680 to plant them. 134 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:11.000 What happened to him? 135 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:14.879 Hugo that's his name, still lives at the hall, although 136 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:17.519 he must be well over eighty by now. But he 137 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:21.879 was always particularly devoted to Elfrida, and somehow he always managed, 138 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:24.360 whether the season was early or late, to have those 139 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.959 rose bushes covered with blossoms for Lady Elfrida's birthday. And 140 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.720 every year after his mistress died, on her birthday, he'd 141 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.560 bring a sheaf of yellow roses to Sir Albert would 142 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:36.879 carry them to Bashm Church and place them on her tomb. 143 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.480 But every year up to now the roses have withered 144 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:41.680 in due course of time. Well not every year. 145 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.240 Homes, that is, the Lady Elfrida has been dead over 146 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:49.600 ten years. Three years ago, when Sir Albert decided to 147 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:53.639 take a young wife, he well, you know how it is, 148 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.360 he sort of neglected to keep up the custom of 149 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.079 decorating his first wife's grave on her birthday. 150 00:06:58.839 --> 00:06:59.959 Thoughtless of their homes. 151 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:04.519 Possibly well, this year, on Elfrida's birthday, Oh you go, 152 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:06.560 stop Sir Albert his young wife as they came out 153 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:08.360 to take the morning stroll in the gardens. 154 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.839 Good morning you go, ohhgo, how beautiful look al but 155 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:21.920 the lovely yellow roses are there for me. 156 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:26.319 You go, no, mo'am begging your ladyship's pardon. There for 157 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:29.600 her whose birthday this is here, for her who loved 158 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:32.560 intended them, and who lies in her grave and Basham 159 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:35.079 Church buried there before a time was due. 160 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:35.800 That you go. 161 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:38.959 If you take my advice, sir, you'll not forget to 162 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:40.360 take her the flowers. 163 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:40.839 He love this day. 164 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:43.639 The lady Elfrida was not one to take a slight 165 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:44.920 without getting her own back. 166 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.240 Rubbish. You can't bully Rugby. You go. 167 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:50.160 Life is for the living, but we all must die 168 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:51.639 sometimes surround. 169 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:54.240 Give me the flowers, you go, I'll see their placed 170 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:55.519 on Lady Elfrida's grave. 171 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.959 Thank your ladyship, and may Heaven protect you better than 172 00:07:59.000 --> 00:07:59.560 it did her. 173 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:04.439 My dear, this is a bit ridiculous, Albert. I'd like 174 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:07.519 to put these on Elfrida's grave. They're beautiful, is here 175 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:09.839 and it means so much to poor old h'll go. 176 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:12.800 Are you sure that's why you're doing it, my dear? 177 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:13.720 What do you mean? 178 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.959 Are you sure it's not because you're still a bit 179 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:18.639 afraid of Elfrida? 180 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:21.680 Well maybe it's for both reasons. 181 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:34.440 Albert that's the second time, Dillinghurst that you've mentioned the 182 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:36.159 lady May was afraid of her predecessor. 183 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:41.080 That's not as startling as it sounds. Home, Oh confound. 184 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:41.159 That man with his sheep? 185 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:43.360 Does he have to take up the entire road? 186 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:47.799 Oh? 187 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:49.320 What was I saying? 188 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:50.360 Oh? 189 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:54.559 Yes, everyone was terrified of Elfrida. She was a cold 190 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.320 forbidding sort of woman. Even in her fections. She should 191 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:02.360 have had children. That my made a difference. You see, 192 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:05.919 she knew how desperately her husband wanted them, and well 193 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:08.200 when the years went by and there were no heirs 194 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.360 to carry on Albert and Robert Cole towards. 195 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:14.120 Her and feeling of him hehmes. I have often. 196 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:17.200 Suspected that Lady Elfrida's drowning and seacrete that runs past 197 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:18.240 the hall wasn't. 198 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:20.000 As accidental as we were led to believe. 199 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.240 You mean, do you think it was suicide? 200 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.519 There was no autopsy, I suppose, good lord, No, they 201 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.200 just pulled her out of the weeds. She'd been missing 202 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:30.120 for three days before the greppling hooks founder. They were 203 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.000 afraid she'd done away with herself when they found the note, 204 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:33.799 what did it say? 205 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:38.679 I have gone to answer the call. You say that 206 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.519 May was always afraid of Lady Elfrida. What was the 207 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.120 older woman's attitude toward the girl? Did she suspect her 208 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.320 husband felt an attachment for her? Oh, good heavens. 209 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:46.360 No. 210 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.759 May was only twelve years old when Lady Elfrida drowned. 211 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.200 She was nineteen monstyle, but asked her to be a 212 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.679 second wife. You say they've been married three years? Are 213 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:58.120 they happy? I suppose so? Of course Alberts disappointed again 214 00:09:58.240 --> 00:09:59.000 there are no children. 215 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:00.840 Maybe it wasn't. And then guy of the Lady of 216 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:02.360 Frieda's fault the first time. 217 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:06.039 Don't interrupt, Watson. Then Sir Albert's family may die out with. 218 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:10.000 Him, don't know, Holmes. There's Robert Albert's brother, a half 219 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.240 brother as a matter of fact. He's much younger, but 220 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.240 he's rarely at home, always off hunting big game in India, 221 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:19.440 Africa or some other Arplandish places. He's just returned from 222 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:21.519 Canada about six weeks ago. How does he get on 223 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:24.120 with Sir Albert's new wife. Hardly has a word to 224 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:28.039 say to her, just keeps looking at her with those strange, 225 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.960 black burning eyes of his. His mother was Spanish, you though, 226 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:34.000 they do say, he takes after her. 227 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:37.440 I say, look at that magnificent sunset there over him, 228 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:38.279 back of that steeple. 229 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.440 That's the steeple of Basam Church. Watson, we're nearly home. 230 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:44.399 The town begins on the other side of the railroad 231 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:46.000 tracks to put up the next decline. 232 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:50.120 Would you care to drive for the church immediately home? 233 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:52.120 I say, control. 234 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.639 Yourself, Watson, I know you're famished. Suppose we pay a 235 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.879 visit at the local inn, first killing Hurst and postpone 236 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:00.840 our investigation of Basham Church and till the witching out 237 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:07.519 of midnight. 238 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.639 Despite rising costs of materials and manufacturing, you still get 239 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:18.759 the most for your money if you insist on clipper 240 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:23.399 Craft clothes. Clippercraft's values are so remarkable that people constantly 241 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:25.200 ask us how we do it well. The answer is 242 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:29.320 the clipper Craft plan, which from a production standpoint, simply 243 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:32.720 has modernized the fine old craft of clothes making. It 244 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:36.440 brings you these amazing savings by concentrating the buying power 245 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:40.159 of ten hundred thirty six of the nation's finest stores 246 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:43.440 from coast to coast. Your own leading local establishment, the 247 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.720 store you can trust when you see these remarkable suits 248 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.360 at only forty and forty seven to fifty, fine tropicals 249 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:53.399 at only thirty three seventy five to forty dollars, and 250 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:57.080 sport jackets at only twenty six fifty. Why you'll be 251 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:01.440 high on clipper Craft for evermore selling expensive clothes at 252 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:05.759 inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest stores is the great, 253 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.559 big idea behind the Clippercraft plan. That's why men who 254 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.360 know insist on Clippercraft clothes. So be sure to visit 255 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:15.039 the clipper Craft store in your city. 256 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.559 These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to 257 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.600 add their names to Clippercraft and your suits top coats, 258 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:26.879 sport jackets and tropicals. In Manhattan Sacks thirty four Broadway 259 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.279 at thirty fourth, John Watermaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth 260 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:34.159 and sixty seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss 261 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.519 in Newark, New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop Presky Ewarck. And 262 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.720 in Jamaica the B and B Clothes Shop one sixty 263 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:45.200 four oh eight Jamaica Avenue. 264 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:49.879 And now back to Bash and Churchyard. 265 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:52.879 It is a few moments before midnight the good Rector, 266 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:56.000 followed by two silhouettes, one toad and lank. The other, 267 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.879 rather more substantial, is picking his way through the moss 268 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:02.039 covered tombstones by the light of an old fashioned. 269 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:10.960 Light, careful watching one of the headstones has fallen over. 270 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.320 Some of the graves are very old, and the families 271 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:17.440 have died out. The more important families, of course, have 272 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:20.240 their tombs and vaults inside the church proper, where the 273 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:22.600 local historical society cares for them. 274 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:24.559 Dashed the democratic a, Holmes. 275 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:26.200 What difference does it make when you're dead? 276 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:31.879 Now up these steps, just a moment to lie. Find 277 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:33.200 the key to the side door. 278 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.840 I say, listen to the wheel. Sounds like a lost soul. 279 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:46.960 Here we are. I'll go first and right the way. 280 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:50.120 A hinge could do with a bit of oil. 281 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:55.639 Dimminghurst, good lord, whew, simply just swooped past my face. 282 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:59.159 Probably of bath Watson. Old churches are often inhabited by them. Yes, 283 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:02.440 there's another hanging from that clear story up there this way. 284 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.519 Holmes, you see the old place looks much bigger and 285 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.480 gloomier from the inside at homes. 286 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:11.919 Quite now we are standing directly under the beltry. If 287 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:13.200 you look up you can see the bell and the 288 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:15.879 rotted end of the bell cord up there, completely out 289 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:16.279 of reach. 290 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:22.080 He's right, homes no human hen could ring that bell? Hello, 291 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:23.919 I slipped on something. Yes, there seemed to be quite 292 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:26.519 a few pebbles here on the floor. Fit's and masonry 293 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:29.080 are always coming loose. I'm fraid one of them are 294 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:33.799 a ruined. The postmistresses to bonnet. The Damesfield bolts up 295 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:38.159 this way to the left of the chance. Basham Church 296 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:42.200 is one of the oldest in all England. Here at 297 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:44.840 the entrance to the choir lies the daughter of Canoe, 298 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:48.360 folded in her golden hair. It's still growing, they say. 299 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:51.320 Remember one hundred years or so they opened up the 300 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:52.519 tomb and cut a link of it off. 301 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:53.960 I say, do you believe that? 302 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:57.399 I don't know, Watson, I wasn't here at Basham at 303 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:58.360 the beginning of the century. 304 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:00.000 I'll let you know. 305 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.080 Oh, in the year two thousand, at that ancient altar, 306 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:05.720 Harold knelt before setting sail on his ill fated voyage 307 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:10.320 to Normanday. Here we are the entrance to the Damesfield Bolt, 308 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.399 one of the oldest family of volts in the entire church. 309 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.840 It was completely filled long ago. The more recent members 310 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:21.559 have been buried in the floor beside it. This is 311 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:25.720 lady Elfrida's tomb here with the wilted roses lying against 312 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:28.120 the wall. Yes, keep it that lantern. 313 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.240 Rector Holmes, what are you doing with your. 314 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:38.159 Sneak testing the wall behind Elfrida's grave? Yes, quite solid. 315 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:41.159 And the door leading down into the vault this hasn't 316 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:45.360 been opened for years, I should say, no rust or 317 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:47.600 dust on the grating. The grill works sound as the 318 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:48.360 date was made. 319 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:49.000 Hmm. 320 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:50.799 Those old dames could teach us a thing or two 321 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:51.919 about down working home. 322 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.679 Yes, suppose we take up our places in the first 323 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.679 few over there. It's nearly midnight. We may as well 324 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:01.799 wait in comfort for this phenomenon of the roses. I 325 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:06.000 have the strangest feeling that someone is watching us, considering 326 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.519 all the ancestors who lie buried here, Is it any wonder, 327 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:12.600 oh homes, Really sit down, Watson and stop fidgeting. Let's 328 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:18.039 see twenty seconds to midnight. This church is, of course 329 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:21.720 one of the old foundation that's right home. Ten seconds. 330 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:24.440 The important thing is to watch the roses. Don't take 331 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:30.080 your eyes off them. Five seconds. I hope this occurs 332 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:42.519 on time three seconds two one now. 333 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:46.240 Midnight exactly, hose look at the roses. They're fresh, they 334 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:47.720 are absoluted, blooming. 335 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:50.159 So they are let's to brook them. 336 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:52.519 Did either of you take your eyes off them, just 337 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:54.240 for a second, perhaps when the bell rang? 338 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:56.159 I'm afraid I am guilty of that laps. 339 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:57.799 As well, lucky hours of arm assuring us of at 340 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:02.240 least one person who can concentrate. Yes, these roses are 341 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:06.480 as fresh as they look. Remarkable. I think I'll take 342 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:09.920 this one along for my button hole looks. Tomorrow morning, Director, 343 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:11.599 I think we shall take a look at the bushes 344 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:14.519 that are supposed to have produced these very remarkable roses 345 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.559 that can be arranged home excellent, You know, Watson, there's 346 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.599 only one thing more remarkable than the freshness of this rose. 347 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:23.680 What's then the time it chose to renew itself? 348 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:26.000 But it was midnight, exactly as Director tell. 349 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:28.200 That's right, Homes, you yourself said it was midnight, by 350 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:28.720 your own work. 351 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:31.839 That's what makes it so remarkable, My director, You see, 352 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:35.000 my watch is five minutes fast. 353 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:45.400 It's very good of you, mister Holmes, to take such 354 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.440 an interest in our little problem of the everlasting roses. 355 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.680 But after all, I imagine a person of your reputation 356 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:56.640 is many more important crimes to investigate. 357 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.400 It's not the importance of a case that interests me primarily. Albert, 358 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:02.960 the Shah of Persia might be murdered in cold blood 359 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.160 in Trafalgar Square and I should probably pass by without 360 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.079 a glance. But if a well known member of a 361 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:11.759 county family should, shall we say, go about popping off 362 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:16.000 his neighbour's top hats with a sling shot, I might 363 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:18.240 just possibly consider that worth investigating. 364 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:22.200 What a droll fellow you are, mister Holmes, am I, 365 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:27.079 Sir Albert, Oh, yes, here we are. These are my 366 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:31.440 former wife's yellow rose bushes, mister Holmes, now quite bare 367 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:33.240 of blossoms, as you could see. 368 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:38.119 I thought they might be. Yes, let me see. It's 369 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:41.759 basically a rugosa with a later grafting of something. Yes, 370 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:44.960 I rather imagine the rose these bushes produce resembles that 371 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:50.160 early flowering yellow rose now called the father Hugo. Yes, 372 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:53.200 mister Holmes, that's absolutely correct. By the way, Sir Albert, 373 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:55.160 you have a gardener named Hugo. 374 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:57.799 Oh, yes, old Hugo. He's feeling first. 375 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.559 I'm afraid this business of the yellow room uses is 376 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.880 preying on his mind almost as much as on my wife's. 377 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.680 And my favorite roads at the fround Rushki, which blooms 378 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.640 about now. It's a pure white rose as you know. 379 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:17.119 And sudmento, I agree, I great agree. People who have 380 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:19.359 forever crossed breeding and grafting. 381 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:20.880 Are you sure? 382 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:21.880 Are you sure? 383 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:23.359 You didn't hear it? Last night? 384 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.920 Had called again just shortly before dawn. It was done 385 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.359 by the bend of the sea Creek where they found Elfreda. 386 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:34.200 It was a woman's voice, and it kept calling my name. 387 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:37.119 I had an almost irresistible hurge to go to it. 388 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:38.000 What brought me? 389 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:39.400 You must have been dreaming. 390 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.079 It wasn't the first time I heard that voice. It 391 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:46.359 called to me three nights ago, Oh Robert, I was terrified. 392 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:48.640 I'm not on the Albert's door, but he didn't answer. 393 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:51.240 Then I not on yours, but you didn't hear me either. 394 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:55.000 And all the time that that voice kept calling to me. 395 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:58.240 The men in this household must be remarkably heavy sleepers, Robert, 396 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.440 some confounded dropper on the other side of the head. 397 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:05.480 May my dear come round the headshirt a moment and 398 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:06.559 bring Robert. 399 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:08.759 I want you. 400 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:12.640 To meet two distinguished guests, mister Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson, 401 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:15.440