WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:05.440 And now the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, where Sir John 2 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:08.759 Gilbert and Sherlock Holmes, and Sir Ralph Richardson as our 3 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:11.359 story teller, Doctor James Watson. 4 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:12.439 Ladies and gentlemen. 5 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:15.359 I think I may have shown in the course of 6 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:18.679 these narratives of mine that the exploits of my friend 7 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:22.920 Sherlock Holmes ranged from affairs of the humblest order to 8 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:25.079 matters concerning the very highest. 9 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:30.039 In the land of the latter. 10 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.359 There are many which perhaps can never be told for 11 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:37.920 reasons of diplomacy or even scandal, And in those that can, 12 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:43.600 dates and names sometimes must be disguised, even now, particularly 13 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:49.240 in the unusual adventure which I have called the Second State. 14 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.920 Mister, well, Missus Hudson, you seem a little over order, 15 00:00:57.920 --> 00:00:58.560 if I may say so. 16 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:01.960 Oh, it's the gentleman, the two gentlemen to see you 17 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.119 waiting downstairs. 18 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.560 Well, we've seen gentlemen before, Missus Hudson. 19 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:08.280 Yes, our lives would hardly be economically possible without our 20 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:09.200 visiting plans. 21 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:14.439 It is, oh, mister Holmes, doctor Watsons in bakes. 22 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.000 Cheap, my humble come, Missus Hudson, not the Prince of Wales. 23 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:19.359 What officer. 24 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:24.280 It's the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of England. 25 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:26.840 Sir, well, well, my dear home, you're dressing gown. 26 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.200 Oh here take this, take this, give me my jacket. 27 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:32.159 My dear fellow. Yes, sure you up, missus Hudson, sure, hm. 28 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:33.840 You musn't keep the Prime Minister waiting. 29 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:39.079 So into our humble sitting room came those two great men, 30 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:43.879 Lord Bellinger, the Premier, and his companion, the Secretary for 31 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:48.159 European Affairs, the right Honorable Trelawney Hope. 32 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:51.799 So, gentlemen, I take it I may have the honor to. 33 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:52.920 Be of some service to you. 34 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.400 You are I only hope, mister Holmes. The Prime Minister 35 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.480 suggested you at once the moment I told. 36 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:59.680 Him a y dreadful loss. It was impossible for us 37 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.439 to go to the police a full loss, sir. Indeed, yes, 38 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:03.680 to inform. 39 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.000 The police would be to inform the public, and. 40 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:08.159 That is what we particularly desire to avoid. 41 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:12.439 An important to take document is missing mislaid while in 42 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:15.840 mister Hope's possession, and it is of such importance that 43 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.039 peace or war may hang upon the issue. 44 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:19.199 I understand, my lord. 45 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.319 Now I should be obliged if mister Hope would kind 46 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.719 of tell me the exact circumstances under. 47 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:25.680 Which this document disappeared. 48 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.759 Of course, sir, But this, gentleman, your companion, doctor Watson, 49 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.120 is in my confidence in everything I undertake. Indeed, this 50 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:35.000 is really almost impossible for me to embark upon a 51 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:35.719 case without him. 52 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:39.360 You can rely upon his discretion implicitly to the very utmost, gentleman, 53 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:40.719 I promise it very well. 54 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:44.080 Then it's a letter, mister Holmes, I can tell you 55 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:47.400 that it's a letter from from a certain foreign portent. 56 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:50.560 Take, mister Holmes, let's us leave it so quite so 57 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:52.960 for the moment at least. Well, when was it received? 58 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.960 May I have six days ago? It was so important 59 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:58.039 that I'd never even left it in my safe. 60 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:00.280 I'd taken it across each evening to my house white 61 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.800 hold Terraced, and kept it in a locked despatch box 62 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.520 in my bedroom. It was there last night. You are 63 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.479 certain of that, Quite certain. I opened the box while 64 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:09.960 I was blessing for dinner and saw it there. 65 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.479 This morning it was gone, the box itself, no, only 66 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:15.240 the letter half. 67 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:17.919 My wife and I are both liked sleeper. Sister Holmes 68 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.039 were both prepared to swear that no one could have 69 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:21.360 entered the room during the night. 70 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:25.479 Yet the paper's gone at miss ruined, ruined. What time 71 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:28.080 do you dine, mister Hope, half past seven? And how 72 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:30.240 long was it before you went to bed? My wife 73 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:32.400 had gone to a theater. I waited up for her. 74 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.280 It was half past eleven before we retired to our room. 75 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.159 Yes, then for four hours the box had lain unguarded. 76 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:40.960 No one is ever permitted to enter that room except 77 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:43.319 two trusted servants who are beyond suspicion. 78 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:45.599 Who else knew of the existence of that letter? No 79 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:48.240 one in the heart not your wife, no, sir. I 80 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:50.520 said nothing to her until I missed the paper this morning. 81 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.319 Is there any one else, my Lord, in England who 82 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.000 could possibly know of the existence. 83 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:54.080 Of this letter? 84 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.319 Only the members of the cabinet, mister Holmes, but all 85 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:58.319 under the pledge. 86 00:03:58.039 --> 00:03:59.639 Of secrecy which attends. 87 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.120 Every cabinet me and abroad. 88 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:04.000 I believe no one save the man who wrote it. 89 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.680 And may I ask his name, mister Holmes. 90 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:11.039 The envelope is a long, thin one of a pale 91 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:11.719 blue color. 92 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:14.319 That is all I think that you need to know. 93 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.839 Well, I am quite aware that you are two of 94 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:19.920 the busiest men in the country and in my own 95 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:20.480 small way. 96 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:22.319 I have a good many calls upon my time. I 97 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.399 regret exceedingly that I cannot have you in this matter. 98 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:25.480 What would you find him? The bell? 99 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:26.240 Mister Hose? 100 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:27.399 How dare you? 101 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:29.040 I am not a cup? 102 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:31.920 Hm? 103 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.600 Very well, we must accept your terms. I suppose no 104 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.839 doubt it is unreasonable or it's to expect you to 105 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.480 act without our entire confidence. Thank you, my lord. Praise 106 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:42.160 it down again, Watson Ah. 107 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.600 Now, then, gentlemen, the letter is from a certain foreign 108 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:49.839 potentate who has been ruffled by some recent colonial developments. 109 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:50.000 In this country. 110 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.279 It was written hurriedly, and the anger on his own 111 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.720 responsibility entirely, and his ministers know nothing about it. 112 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:59.839 You mean his highness, the come Prince of mister Home. 113 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:02.879 Very well, sir, let me write it down on this 114 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:03.600 slip of paper. 115 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.120 Am I correct? My lord? Quite correct? 116 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:11.160 And you see it wants the indications. 117 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:13.639 If that document should fall into the hands of any 118 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.439 other chancery in Europe, a breach will be made between 119 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.439 this potentated our country, with fatal consequences. 120 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:21.600 You must find it homes great heavens, you must, sir. 121 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:24.600 My whole future defends one. I shall do my best 122 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:25.519 to help you, mister Hope. 123 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:26.319 I can do no more. 124 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.639 But if the scept occurred last night before you retired, 125 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:31.639 as it must have done, the paper must at this 126 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.720 moment be speeding on its way to the continent as 127 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:34.839 fast as steam. 128 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.399 Can take it. My lord. Well, mister Holm, if. 129 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.120 I may presume to advise you, yes, yes, there is 130 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:42.959 only one course open to you. 131 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:44.279 What is it, sir? 132 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:47.920 Prepare for war, my lord, for I shall do what 133 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.199 I can, but at least prepare for war. 134 00:05:52.519 --> 00:06:02.680 Good day, gentson ah, they've gone. 135 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:07.600 Well, well holmes, who'll behave the most discreetly, my dear fellow. 136 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:09.959 I was so proud of you, your whole air detached 137 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.439 interest of silent helpfulness. You know you've missed your calling, 138 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.079 my dear Watson, you ought who have been a diplomat? 139 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.120 Oh it's it's no laughing matter, homes you thinks not. 140 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.720 It really is the most serious affair, larmingly so. But 141 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:26.000 the situation, though desperately serious, is not quite hopeless, I believe. 142 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:27.839 What do you intend to do with There are several 143 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.680 foreign agents, big names among the international spy ring. If 144 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.360 one of them should be missing, especially if he's disappeared 145 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:35.360 since last night. 146 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:37.600 We shall then have some indication of where the letter 147 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:38.040 may have gone. 148 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.279 Ah, yes, yes, But if none of them is missing, 149 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:42.920 then we can take it that the letter hasn't left 150 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:45.680 the country yet. That would be something of a miracle. 151 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:48.839 And in that case, well I might. 152 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:49.800 Be able to get it back. 153 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:52.240 After all, I have the whole British treasury behind me. 154 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:54.759 If it's on the market, I'll buy it back, even 155 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:56.480 if it means another penny on the income day. 156 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:59.079 Huh. But who who are the likely agents? 157 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:04.879 Only three that are big enough Oberstein, la Rotier and 158 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:09.240 Eduardo Lucas Holmes. 159 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:12.279 Whom, dear fellow, you look so white? What on earth's 160 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.879 the matter? Homes Keven knows you've astonished me more than 161 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:20.879 once with some spectacular announcement. Now it might turn well, Watson. 162 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:24.240 Eduardo Lucas Holmes, you said, Lucas, I think yes, of course, 163 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:24.879 of the dolphins. 164 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:28.160 See exactly you won't see, Lucas Holmes. And why not 165 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.600 pray it was murdered in his house last night? 166 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.079 Lucas, you don't mean it. I was reading about it 167 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:38.000 before our visitors arrived. Eduardo Lucas, the well. 168 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:42.319 Known society flennor and distinguished amateur tenor murdered most bootle 169 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:43.720 by a knife in the heart. 170 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:47.360 What an amazing coincidence, homes. 171 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:51.519 Coincidence, Man, great heavens, you can't really mean it, Eduardo Lucas, 172 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:53.079 Did I tell you wats'? 173 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.920 Well? Well? Well, what's the matter, Missus Hudson Dwight twight? 174 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:02.839 In one day? Just think of my humble Who is 175 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:03.680 it this time? Woman? 176 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:05.480 The lady you do, sir? 177 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:10.199 Who did you say? The lady yielded to norny, mister home. 178 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.439 The wife of the gentleman is Lord Deninger Holmes. You're 179 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:16.720 dressing Guard, You're dressing gard now Jack and missus Hudson free. 180 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:21.240 And the moment later, our modest apartment, already so distinguished 181 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:23.879 that morning, was further honored by the entrance of the 182 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:28.319 loveliest woman in London, nay, in the world. I'd often 183 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.399 heard of the beauty of the youngest daughter of the 184 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:34.039 Duke of Bellminster, but no description, no contemplation of. 185 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.399 A lifeless photograph, had prepared. 186 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.320 Me for the subtle, delicate charm and the beautiful modeling 187 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.120 of that exquisite head. And I am not, I think 188 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:45.799 without taste as a judge in such things. Yet that morning. 189 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:49.559 The lovely cheek was paled with emotion. The eyes were bright, 190 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.080 but with the brightness of fever of terror. 191 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:56.559 How do you have my husband been yet? Yes, madam, 192 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:59.399 why did you implore you to say nothing to him of. 193 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:00.000 This visit of mine? 194 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:02.399 Lady Hill, there, you placed me in a very delicate 195 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:04.120 position that there was. 196 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:06.519 A most deplorable occurrence to our house last night. 197 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:07.480 Oh you must know. 198 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.799 But but since it was a political matter, my husband 199 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:13.120 refuses to take me into his coupeque confidence. 200 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:17.399 Indeed, what is that missing paper? What is madam? That 201 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:18.879 is something I cannot answer. 202 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.120 If your husband thinks fit to keep you in the dark, 203 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:23.159 it is harder for me to tell you. I am 204 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:24.720 pledged a professional secrecy. 205 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.679 Well tell me at least then, for Heaven's sake, is 206 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.960 my husband's professional career likely to suffer through the incident. Yes, 207 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:35.480 I fear so, mister Home, from something that my husband 208 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:37.799 said when he first discovered the last this morning. 209 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:39.159 I please go on. 210 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.279 I understand the terrible public consequences might arise from the 211 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:48.879 loss of this document, perhaps even what he said. 212 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:51.000 So, Lady Hill, there, it is not for me to 213 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:51.440 deny it. 214 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.600 Won't you tell me miss Home, I implore you, what 215 00:09:55.679 --> 00:10:00.919 was that missing paper? Then to take up no more 216 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:04.000 of your time. I can't blame you if you feel 217 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:05.200 you can't speak more freely. 218 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:07.759 The letter must have been very grave, indeed. 219 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:08.720 Before you were ever consulted. 220 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:11.360 And I am sure you won't need the worst of 221 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:15.399 me for wanting to share my husband's anxiety, even against 222 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:20.360 your will. I can only bid you once again to 223 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:21.559 say nothing of my videos. 224 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:26.080 It would only wody him the more good day. 225 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:35.360 Well, well, wasn't that the fair Sex Watson? That is 226 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:35.960 your department? 227 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:38.799 I think when you finished gazing out of the window 228 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.600 to get a last glimpse of our elegant charmer, perhaps 229 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:43.440 you will be kind enough to tell me what you 230 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:44.519 think she came for. 231 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:47.240 Shure it showing her own statements was karing our holmes. 232 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:50.159 Her anxiety was very natural, yes, doubt. 233 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.679 Yet you must have observed how very pretty she maneuvered 234 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.039 her chair so as to keep her death with the light. 235 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:57.679 She didn't want us to read how expression was. 236 00:10:58.440 --> 00:10:59.360 And you said the same. 237 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.240 About the woman from Margaret took him to see us 238 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:03.679 a month ago. It turned out that she was wiled 239 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.399 because she had no powder on her Those true, true, 240 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.679 The motives of women are certainly inscrutable. It's difficult to 241 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:13.519 build upon such quicksands. Their most important decisions. 242 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.720 May depend upon a hairpin or a pair of curling tongs. Well, 243 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:19.440 good morning, Watson. Why what are you going homes? 244 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.559 Oh, just for a little while. It took a dolphin street. 245 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.120 I think our friendless trade of the yard is sure 246 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:29.039 to be there by this time. Eduardo Lucas murdered. Fair 247 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:32.320 lives the solution, Watson, do you stay on guard here, 248 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.240 my dear fellow, and receive any further distinguished visitors who 249 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:38.279 may honor our humble of those last time away. I'll 250 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:41.720 join you for lunch, Watson, cutlets. 251 00:11:41.200 --> 00:12:07.279 And green peas, if you could think of that all 252 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:08.480 day and the next day. 253 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:12.159 Holmes was in a mood which some had called taciturn 254 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:16.240 and others murros. He ran out and ran in, smoked, 255 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:21.399 incessantly played his violin, sank into reveries, devoured sandwiches at 256 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:25.559 irregular hours, and hardly answered the casual questions. 257 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:25.919 I put to him. 258 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:30.519 I felt a sense of impending doom as I watched 259 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:33.840 London from our window going about his busy duties. I 260 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:37.720 reflected that any moment the newsboys would cry, havoc and 261 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:39.159 the flower of our youth. 262 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:40.159 Go marching off to war. 263 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:44.440 As to the murder of Glucas, that remained as much 264 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.399 a mystery as the theft of the document. 265 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:48.879 He'd been stabbed to the heart with a. 266 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.559 Curved oriental dagger, a trophy that hung on the wall 267 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:55.440 of his room. It seems that nothing had been stolen, 268 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.879 and an examination of his papers disclosed him as a 269 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.120 keen student of the international politics. 270 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:01.960 That was all. 271 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:08.200 Then suddenly, well we've solved it, mister Holmes, really, Less Trade, 272 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:08.519 have you? 273 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:09.200 Why not? 274 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:11.200 I we have our. 275 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:13.600 Methods to you know, he means the murder home, don'tly 276 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:14.360 the murder? 277 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:17.720 Ooh more, misters, mister Holmes, watch in the wind. 278 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:21.039 He heard nothing nothing. Watson's just wool gathering. My dealer's 279 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.919 sad or sal at home. Don't mention it, My dear fellow, 280 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:25.320 sit down, won't you? 281 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:26.320 Less Trade? Have a cigar? 282 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:26.759 Oh? 283 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:28.480 No, sir, I won't, if you'll forgive me. 284 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:30.759 I was going to suggest we went round there to 285 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:35.200 the Dolphins Street. There's a little something that might interest you. Ah, well, 286 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:36.480 what's happened, Less Trade? 287 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:39.000 I think you said just now that you've solved were 288 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:40.639 as near as makes no matter. 289 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:44.799 We'd a telegram from the Paris police to see. Seems 290 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:46.559 this Lucas fellow has been a bit of a dog 291 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:49.679 in his time, very handsome, kind of chapneis so forth 292 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:53.399 he's been living a double life. It seemed he had 293 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:56.240 a wife in Paris or your department again, my dear Watson, 294 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:57.600 creole woman as a matter of. 295 00:13:57.639 --> 00:13:59.879 Fact, very hot blooded creoles here. 296 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.840 You know what women alive, doctor Watson? Well perhaps, well 297 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:05.159 the straight of what's happened. 298 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:07.240 Well, he'd been going at a bit in London, you know, 299 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:09.480 one way and another, so we reckon. 300 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:10.399 She got jealous. 301 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:14.039 According to the parish fellow, she's gone quite mad since Tuesday, 302 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:16.480 and it was established that she'd been in London on 303 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.080 the night of the murder. She was seen near Godolphin Street. 304 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:22.960 Yes, as it could. 305 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.159 Only have been some kind of coincidence like that, otherwise 306 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:27.840 the thing would have been public property by this time. 307 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.720 What is it, mister Holmes, strikes me, your mind's hardly 308 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:32.519 all the business. 309 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:34.120 I don't thought it would. 310 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.120 Have appealed to you, nothing the straight, nothing at all. 311 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:37.399 What was it you said just now? 312 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.039 Might interest me over at Lucas's house. 313 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:43.480 Ah, yes, the one small detail, mister Holmes, nothing very important, 314 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:47.639 you know, just a bit freakish. We'd best go round 315 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:50.399 to the house and i'll show you you too, doctor 316 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.840 eh father in your line as well. Oh well, of course, 317 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:58.399 you know, I might even call it the mystery of 318 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:03.320 the sick and stainer. The murder solved, but there's still 319 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:04.759 a mystery of the. 320 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:05.720 Sick and stain. 321 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.000 Eh. 322 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:10.600 They come in this rounds the godolphins too. 323 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.919 Now then, mister Holmes, doctor Watson, this is a very 324 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:24.720 room you see where he was maddered. 325 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:28.279 Uh huh. Indeed, now look here to see the rug. 326 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:32.159 Mister Holmes, Now just look at the rug, gentlemen. You see, 327 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:34.879 when there's a crime of this sort, we're very careful. 328 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:35.519 To keep things in position. 329 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:37.720 We've had an officer in charge here dead. 330 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:39.399 Night, but so I noticed him as we came in. 331 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:41.840 Now we didn't notion to tidy. 332 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:43.799 Things up of it today. Now the body has been 333 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:47.279 buried and such an old thing solved. Well, the rug 334 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:49.600 isn't fastened down here, see, only just made there. 335 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:53.519 For we occasioned to raise it and we found the 336 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:54.600 blood stain there. 337 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:56.360 See the blad stain on the road. 338 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:00.440 Yes, yes, I great deal of blad matter, so away 339 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:02.039 undust the undusted it must. 340 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:04.840 And yet you'll be surprised, doctor, for there isn't a 341 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:07.679 stain on the white woodwork but needs to correspond. But 342 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.879 there must be the trade. It's it's impossible. So you'd 343 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.440 say to look at the underside of the rug, the 344 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:15.519 stain of the atmosphe. 345 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:17.600 Yep, there isn't a mark on the floor. 346 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.679 What's what? Now? Let me give you the explanation. Doctor, 347 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:27.200 There is a second stain you see. Look, let me 348 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:28.200 move this other edge. 349 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:34.559 Now, then there's the stain on the woodwork beneath another 350 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:35.960 part of the rag altogether. 351 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:37.480 What do you make of that? Eh? 352 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:40.679 Come, homes, you don't seem to be tanger this. Oh, 353 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:44.559 it's it's simple enough. Surely the two stains did correspond. 354 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.159 But the rugs being turned round is he homes? 355 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:49.080 We hardly need. 356 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:50.960 Mister Holmes's famous methods to tell us. 357 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:54.200 That doctor washing. Now I heard this trade. Didn't you 358 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:56.759 say that the constable out there had been in constant 359 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:58.159 charge of this place? Yes? 360 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:00.480 Yeah, Well to take my baseless train, go out and 361 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.360 examine him privately. Don't do it here before us we'll 362 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:05.920 wait in this room. Ask him how he dares to 363 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.680 admit strange people and leave them alone in this room. 364 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.279 No, no, don't ask him, tell him take it for granted. 365 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.839 What by short? 366 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.319 If he has, I'll get it out of him. You mean, 367 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:19.799 I mean hurry man, right, sir, I'll do it at 368 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.839 once now, then, Watson, in Heaven's name, get off that rug? 369 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:24.640 What home? 370 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:24.720 What? 371 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:26.319 What do you mean the rug? 372 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.720 Pull away the rug? Huh? Turn it right there? Huh? 373 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.400 Now quick, examine the flaw underneath it. There must be 374 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:37.680 a cavity here, cavity? 375 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.880 What do you mean, Holmes? The boards man, the brawboards? Huh? 376 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:43.519 Look for a loose one. 377 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.480 Yeah, yeah, I've got it. What's more, it's a hole. 378 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:52.720 It's a kind of kind of safe yah ah, but 379 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:53.359 it's empty. 380 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:54.799 I might have known. 381 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:58.240 Get the rugged place again quickly, Watson, the straight's coming. 382 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:04.200 Back, quick, quick, coming off. That's what well you are, right, 383 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:09.240 mister Holmes, my person. He has confessed. I'm sorry, sir, 384 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:12.279 I'm really sorry. I never meant any harm I never 385 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:13.359 said you did. What happened? 386 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:16.880 A young woman, sir, came to the door last night. 387 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.240 It was and the stoke the house. She said, and 388 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.319 then we got talking. It's kind of lonesome when you're 389 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:25.000 inducing you know, well. 390 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:28.319 Man, speak up. So she asked if she could see 391 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:31.480 where the crime was done. I didn't see any harm 392 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:33.880 if she just had a beep and she let her 393 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:36.839 in here. Eh, well, she said, she's cooking way, sir. 394 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:39.279 Then when she saw the blood you see, yes, yes, 395 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.920 she kind of fainted, sir, right down on the rug 396 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:44.319 here to tree indeed. 397 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:46.440 And so you went to get some water. I suppose 398 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:47.440 to bring her round. 399 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.519 Yes, sir, from the kitchen downstairs. And she was all 400 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:52.720 right when I came back, and then she went away. 401 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:55.519