WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:05.799 And now doctor Watson. What's this adventure of the Uddington 2 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:06.559 Witch all about? 3 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:11.560 Well, mister Harris, it took place in ninety nine. As 4 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:14.279 I recall, Holmes and I were taking our ease at 5 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.239 Baker Street one evening when we received an urgent and 6 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:21.199 certainly a bizarre telegram. It came from Uddington, a town 7 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:23.679 in the shore of Lanark in the Lowlands of Scotland, 8 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:27.800 and it was from a Lord Dunbar, master of Heathercliff Manor. 9 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:30.359 It begged Holmes to come to the manor with all 10 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:31.559 possible speed. 11 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:34.240 Stating that a witch had spirited away his. 12 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:38.600 Mother in the dark of night. A witch exactly, mister Hills, 13 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:43.240 A witch that really. Holmes's curiosity was immediately aroused and 14 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:45.320 we resolved to take the noon train. 15 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:48.159 The following day. But little did we know. 16 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:52.280 As we read the telegram that tragic events were already 17 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.240 in the meeting at Uddington on that very same evening. 18 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.079 It began with Lord Dunbar in his study. 19 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:11.519 Who's there? Who's there? Bruce Hes, Why ladies don't you answer? 20 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:16.000 And I locked my door? Someone has to disturbed me. Well, 21 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:24.959 what do you do you? Hi? Wait too morning? Hi? 22 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:46.799 Can't you bring me the dad. I'm the Weekend r 23 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:53.200 Bru's nephew. Did you hear that scream? 24 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:55.959 Yes, I was in bed when it came positively ghastly 25 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:57.840 too seem to come from a Glanders study. 26 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.760 Oh yes, Bruce, please honey, something wrong, terribly wrong. 27 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:08.960 Let's have a look. Here's the study, a Glandro a 28 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:14.360 Glandro Bru. There's no answer, then we better look in good. 29 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:23.639 Doors open right, good lord, the witch's revenge. 30 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:38.479 Andrew few homes. 31 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:40.759 I was wondering when you were coming back to the compartment. 32 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:43.039 Our trainers du and Dnington very shortly. 33 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:46.159 Unfortunately, my dear Watson, they're too late to help Lord Dunbar. 34 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:48.280 Too late. What do you mean. I've just seen a 35 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:50.400 copy of a Newcastle newspaper for the board of the 36 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:54.159 Land Station. Lord Dunbar was murdered early this morning. What 37 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:57.639 foully murdered? Watson found dead in his study with a 38 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:01.039 steel spike driven through his heart to spike, good law. 39 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:04.080 Does this method of murder suggest anything to you? Wantson 40 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.080 why why? No homes. I can't say it does, and 41 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.199 you're not up on your Lord of demons and witches. 42 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:11.879 My dear fellows, it so happens at the witches as 43 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.599 recently as two hundred years ago, are believed to have 44 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:18.680 tortured and stabbed their victims with pins, needles, and sometimes 45 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:22.159 small by good health. It may also interest you to know, Watson, 46 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:26.000 that the history of Lord Dunbar's antecedents gives this macabre 47 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:29.039 affair a rather grim and yet fascinating twist. What do 48 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.840 you mean? An ancestor of Lord Dunbar's in the last 49 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:35.879 seventeenth century was one of Wisdom's most mortal enemies. As 50 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.560 chief Justice of the highest Court here in the Scottish Lowlands, 51 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:42.159 he hanged many a which at Gallo Lee, or tied 52 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.199 them to a stake on his hands until the tide 53 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.120 came up to end their misery homes. You're not suggesting 54 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:49.479 that this is some kind of witches re There I 55 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:51.560 need suggesting nothing, Watson, until I have a look at 56 00:03:51.599 --> 00:04:05.039 Heltot Manner and its remaining inhabitants, Say driver, by sir, 57 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:06.680 when shall we arrive at Heathoquot Manner. 58 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:08.840 If you look shut yonder you'll see the lights of 59 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.000 their crusted house just beyond that wood. 60 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.280 You think it has some sort of cursing? 61 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.600 Hey, sure, his my name is Angus Tavish. It's surely 62 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:18.680 haunted by the black ones. Do you see that wood 63 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:19.160 now days? 64 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:20.120 What about it? Tammish? 65 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:23.120 Was there the Chief Justice pot William than Barr burned 66 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.639 the famous witch Isabella Whitburn to say she's follow twite a. 67 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:28.600 Chest of his and hid it somewhere in the wood. 68 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.199 She was just cooked to sea and dealt in the 69 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:31.800 black magic. 70 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.759 It was there among those threes the witches meet for 71 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:39.720 the Sabbath on Rumor's Day. Hi, but you'll never catch 72 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:42.079 Angus Tavis. Take in the wood road for the black 73 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.160 Witch of Harnington Rooms. I'm driving you the long way 74 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:46.120 to run the moor. 75 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.240 Can't say I'm blame him. Homes. It's juice and dark, 76 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.560 and among those trees, I must say, good. 77 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.720 Lord, what's the costage? Watch Fish is cleaning and carrying 78 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.160 on again, Tamish, quick driver through the wood road, and 79 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:02.480 none of us got a piper in. I wouldn't take 80 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.399 that road, even if you give me the treasures, just 81 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:06.120 the black witch fallen by? 82 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:10.399 Come on, watching, let's get out of the carriage. Homes, 83 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:12.240 What on earth are you going to do? Follow me? 84 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:15.480 Run man, run and luck with us. Perhaps you can 85 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:32.839 beard this witch in her d? Who's that? Who's there? 86 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:39.399 Hold cly out what you fool? Oh it's you, hope? Yes? 87 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:42.680 Did you almost wing me with that propaperance? Tell you know? Oh? 88 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:45.160 Dah it all? I'm sorry. The truth is I'm in 89 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:46.040 a terrible sweat. 90 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:49.399 I've been running through this foul wood, expecting every every 91 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.600 shadow and every trees leave an attack. 92 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:55.120 Heard any more about screaming and tackling? What's that? Comes? 93 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:59.720 Funded witch must have retired with the night homes. It's crazy, 94 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.360 very strange. We covered every foot of this wood, it's 95 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:07.079 only a few hundred feet in every direction. It's no 96 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.160 sign of our cackling friends, I might say, Holmes, I 97 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:12.879 be just as happy I never see it. Even the 98 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:15.600 Black Witch of Huddington, with all her magical powers, couldn't 99 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.480 banish into thin air so fast. And that mania, cauled 100 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:20.959 cackling seemed to come from this grove of oak trees here, 101 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:23.480 I'd say it came from hades homes. That jus, it 102 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.160 sounds as though you were being tortured and burned. Some statement. 103 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.720 The terrifying effect watsmon and well calculated to keep the 104 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.839 curious away. Come onton, But where do. Now, suppose we 105 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:44.480 go to the house and meet its occupants. I take 106 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:47.199 it to you are Bruce Lennox's nephew to the deceased. 107 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:49.439 Yes, it's Holmes, I am, and you have no idea 108 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:50.839 where to relieve it is to have you and doctor 109 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:51.360 Watson here. 110 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:54.240 I knew my uncle had written you, and might I 111 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.120 might add, we arrived in the most unorthodox manner, with 112 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:59.480 the small wood in the rear of the hun has heard. 113 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:01.759 The most terrified I'm calculing and screaming. There mister Glennick 114 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:03.600 couldn't find the trace of the dihed witch. 115 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.920 I know, thankly, gentlemen, I admire you for your courage. 116 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:09.560 I can't myself as brave as any man and not 117 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.639 addicted to superstition, but either one never had the nerve 118 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:13.560 to answer that. 119 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.240 Would at night. Well, I can't say I blame you 120 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:18.680 much now that mister Glennick a question or two. 121 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:19.759 Yes, it's home. 122 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:22.480 Had the official police been there, Yes. 123 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:26.360 This morning, but the local concipace found nothing, conducted only 124 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:30.199 a hurried investigation. I am afraid he is as much 125 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.959 frightened by the legend as anyone else. 126 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:35.439 Perhaps, but at the moment I'm not interested in legends, 127 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:39.199 but in facts. This chain of tragedy, I understand, began 128 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:42.360 with the disappearance of your great aunt, Yes, God. 129 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.040 Done By's mother. She disappeared from her room a few 130 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:47.279 nights ago, and she said nothing of a stint. 131 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.000 You think then that she was taken by this, this 132 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:51.800 black witch of Huddington. 133 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:54.800 I don't know, mister Home. She might have just wandered 134 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.680 off my great Emily. Well she will, shall we say 135 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:02.639 somewhat waves to Blennith. Oh she kept muthering to herself 136 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.920 living in the past. Definitely unbalanced, doctor Watson. 137 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:08.439 But as far as I know, completely harm I see 138 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.279 now then are there any servants here of the manner? 139 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:15.240 Only two? The rest have been frightened off. Guabi too, 140 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:19.680 Cook and the gardener and Lady Dunbar where she as 141 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:20.439 like to talk to her? 142 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:23.839 Oh, I'm sorrying to him, but I did not advise it. 143 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:26.360 Now Lady Dunbar is in her room and it's burg 144 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.439 the shock understand. 145 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.839 Quite And now, mister Glennick, we should like to examine 146 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:34.000 the body of your late uncle, Lord Dunbar. 147 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:46.639 Good Lord Holmes, what a ghastly say, No wonder, Young 148 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:49.120 Glennick excused himself to Normandy showed us to the study 149 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:53.440 hair A sharp spike driven directly into Lord Dunbar's heart. 150 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:59.399 Yes, and with considerable sprink by my dad Watson. What's this? 151 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.720 What's there? Seems to be some fresh soil on the 152 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.480 lower part of this fickle spike, fresh soil, pike, and 153 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:08.000 observe what's in the peculiar shape of this spike, long 154 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.240 and narrow, and the remlant of a bit of a 155 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:12.440 spring attached to the spike head. Well, I can't say 156 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.039 I consider all this significant, Hose, you know what? Oh, 157 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:20.840 come in, Mary Whitson the cook. 158 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:25.919 Yes, mister Blennie roused me from my bed to prepare 159 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:27.600 a hot copper for you. 160 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:30.399 You'll find it in the dining room when you have 161 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:31.440 a nine two week hick. 162 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:36.480 Thank you. Mary will be along presently as you wish, sir, 163 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:44.120 h Rather peculiar coincidence, don't you think? What's do you mean? Home? 164 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:48.200 I mean this cook, Mary Whitburn. There's the same family 165 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.279 name as the Isabella Isabella Whitburn, the black Witch of Addington. 166 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.799 By jove, Hose, you're right a remarkably ugly woman too. 167 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.559 Is that mole on her cheeky? That mole on her 168 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:03.799 cheek another peculiar coincidence. What do you mean In the 169 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.960 days when Witchcraft put it it's heyday, Watson, every witch 170 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:10.200 bore what was called a witch's mark, and usually it 171 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.639 was a mole. Homes you mean this cooked man hYP 172 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:14.639 them might be the bet. Too earn it to draw 173 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:17.360 any conclusion as yet, my dear Watson. But come to 174 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:19.480 have a look at the garden. The garden, what for 175 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:33.720 I should like to examine the flower bed Ah, look here, Watson, Holmes, 176 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:37.279 one of yustus, I surmise. Note these spikes connected by strings. 177 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:40.600 The gardener uses them to take off these flower beds. 178 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:44.399 By jove, the spike used to kill Lord Dunbar's very 179 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:46.679 similar to this, and it had fresh. 180 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.960 Soil on its Spicely, my dear Watson, the murdered spike 181 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.080 was undoubted it taken from the garden. Perhaps we should 182 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.879 have a talk with the gardener here at our earliest opportunity. 183 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:58.639 Saton came from the house this time and hers it 184 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:00.240 sounded like a feature and torment. 185 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.120 Hoose the second flaw of the house. 186 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:04.320 The night's just gone out in the corner room there 187 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:06.960 fucking follow me to the hunt I'm afraid the witcher 188 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:20.240 ivington let's pluck again. How comes such expensive looking suits 189 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.200 cost only forty and forty five dollars? Well, that's what 190 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:25.519 you may ask when you see the new clipper Craft suits, 191 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:29.279 especially when you examine the careful tailoring details and run 192 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.360 your fingers over the long wearing fabrics. But it's no 193 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:36.080 secret that the clipper Craft plan makes these remarkable values possible. 194 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:39.120 And it doesn't take a certified public accountant to know 195 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.759 how much money is saved for millions of family budgets 196 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:45.679 when twelve hundred of this country's finest independence stores from 197 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:49.799 coast to coast, concentrate their huge purchasing power. Yes, you'll 198 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.360 have to agree. Clipper Craft pure worsted suits are tremendous 199 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.480 values at only forty five dollars. And be sure to 200 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.600 see the new clipper Craft Zipper top coat that's sweeping 201 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:03.559 the cuntry, a smart, lightweightcoat that becomes a warm cold 202 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.519 weather coat when you zip in the lightning. It's an 203 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.960 all weather sensation. That's why men who know insist on 204 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:13.039 clipper Craft podes. So be sure to visit the clipper 205 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:14.279 Craft store in your city. 206 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.120 These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to 207 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.000 add their names to clipper Craft in your suits, top 208 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:25.440 coats and overcoats. In Manhattan, John Wallamaker Men's Stores Broadway 209 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.559 at eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street, Sacks thirty fourth 210 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:32.399 Broadway at thirty fourth. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark, 211 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:36.200 New Jersey Boulevard Men Shop Cresky, Newark. And in Jamaica 212 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:38.960 the B and B Clothes Shop one sixty four O 213 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:40.360 eight Jamaica Avenue. 214 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:46.919 And now let's return to our story, doctor Watts. 215 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:51.440 Well, mister Harris. We raced back to the house, ran 216 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:55.240 upstairs toward the corner bedroom. Whence that agonizing stream had cut. 217 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:59.200 It was there we found Lady Dunbar lying across the 218 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.080 bed with a spike through her heart. 219 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:06.559 The Witch, the Black Witch of Headington Homes. Gee, it 220 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.879 has been there again. Yes, and we apparent intention of 221 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:13.360 exterminating the entire family. I uh huh, what is it? 222 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.639 Hose here on the floor. The Watson seems to be 223 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:18.960 a bit of bar. It is, indeed, Watson, an important 224 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:24.519 detail of its hideous conspiracy. Holmes wissen, Yes, the Witch again, Watson? Yeah, 225 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:25.480 over here by the window. 226 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:28.039 You know how Homes, theres he is running across the lawn. 227 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:29.399 You can see her there in the moonlight. 228 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:32.519 Yes, now she's boughting a fence with considerable agility. I 229 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:35.960 must say, house is plunging into the wood. Quick, Watson 230 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:48.360 after her, and have your service roover ready. By jove, 231 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:51.639 I don't understand this, h Watson. You don't understand what 232 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:52.320 why We've. 233 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.399 Followed that infernal creature into this grove of trees with 234 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:56.960 We've scoured every foot of it, and yet she is 235 00:13:57.200 --> 00:13:58.080 She's banished again. 236 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:02.120 Yes, Homes, you're not even listening to me. What the 237 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:06.720 juice are you staring at that large oak tree, Watson, 238 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.200 a magnificent specimen. I did not note the huge trunk 239 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:14.720 split toward its base. Obviously a dead tree stuck by 240 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.279 lightning many years ago. Okay, at Homes, I'm not interested 241 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:18.639 in botany at this moment. 242 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.799 My feet are soaked from the night jewel, this blasted 243 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:24.600 underbrow here, and furthermore, we've we've got some sort of 244 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:25.279 black witch to. 245 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:29.559 Contain exactly, Watson, Suppose we drop into the gardener's cottage 246 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:31.879 and our way back to the manna. I trust you 247 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:45.960 observed it was situated on the very edge of this wood. Hm. No, 248 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.200 Aunther Watson is for the lights on homes? Perhaps the 249 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:55.039 gardener's roaming around somewhere. Perhaps suppose we try the door. Yes, 250 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:03.360 if I'm not come up the Everything seems to be 251 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.279 quite an order here, homes, Yes, quite. I hope someone's coming. 252 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:10.720 My piero were in the robber embarrassing position of being 253 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:15.919 intruder's what what you're doing in my cottage? You are 254 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:16.519 the gardener? 255 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:19.559 I presume nay, I'm McCready, and I've no stomach FROs 256 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:21.919 strangers coming into my host pobie. 257 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.240 My name is Holmes, Shallnock Holmes. This is doctor Wabsay. 258 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:29.919 We just found the light on and the door was unlarged. 259 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:32.679 Hey, the cook told me it had come on this 260 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:36.279 which is my in accursed house, and you'd best be 261 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:37.240 off whence you come. 262 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:39.679 We are grateful for your advice macready, but we are 263 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:42.639 not ready to depart as yet. I presume you know 264 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:45.320 that Lady Dunbar has been murdered. 265 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.480 Nay, and the old lady and her son, Lord Dunbar 266 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.559 before her, and the end is not yet Mark mc 267 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:54.039 What is it, mister Holmes? 268 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.000 Why do you stare at my court? Has steady. I 269 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:59.919 note that there's a small blood stain on your left sleet, 270 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.840 My dear, I trust you can explain it to our 271 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:09.000 mutual satisfaction. Why, yes, I I you see, mister Holmes, 272 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:11.399 I killed a weasel. It was a week ago. I 273 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:15.960 think with the blood, Helen must leave no doubt, no doubt. 274 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:20.360 Our homes is. Bruce Glennick, rereally have you seen it? Oh? 275 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.200 There you are, both of you toned My aunt like 276 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:24.960 the dunbar. She's she's been murdered. But the witch, the 277 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.960 black witches, mister Glennick, were aware of that. You've just 278 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:30.279 come from the house. Yes, because I was awaiting my 279 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.159 fleet had a loud scream. And then I pose we 280 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:34.679 go back to the manner of to Glennick at once. Yes, 281 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:37.480 why I should like to have a few words with 282 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:51.399 your cook, Mary Whitburn. Young Glennich told us the cook's 283 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:55.799 rooms down this corridor homes. Yes, a very interesting young fellow, 284 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.519 Bruce Glennick. You should do something about it. Taylor, Taylor 285 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.759 Laser homes. What are you talking about his soup, Watton, 286 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.759 and specifically that area of his trousers from his knees 287 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:08.480 to his group biker, say, I noticed anything home. Didn't 288 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:10.079 you want them? Then you have to use your eyes. 289 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.240 The rest of his tube was well creased, but that 290 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:16.640 area was out of crease, unpressed. Well, what of it? 291 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:17.119 Logic? 292 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:21.839 What's logic? The most important indication of Hello? Here's Mary 293 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:31.559 Whitburn's room and the doors of jar. Hello are you there? Who? 294 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:38.480 As suppose we go in? What holmes? Look at this room? Yes? 295 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:41.680 From every indication our good cooked with a witch's mark 296 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:44.400 and the witch's name, the packed and left in the 297 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:48.599 uplot table rather strange, isn't it her on the country? Watson? 298 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.279 It's quite logical by jove homes the witchy game? Yes, 299 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.119 and this time what's from the chase draws near to 300 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:56.240 a close? This time before goes well, I hope to 301 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.160 meet this hideous witch face to face. Come Watson, back 302 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:15.400 into that grove of tree hose, that infernal cackling stopped 303 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.319 has indeed, but the moon has emerged and we shall 304 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:21.920 be able to see humph, here we are. Here's that 305 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:24.359 giant oak tree again? What's the one killed by lightning? 306 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:28.079 What about it? The lightning splitted at the trunk? Nope, 307 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:29.519 this aperture here. 308 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:31.400 I still don't see why you're so interested in this 309 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:33.319 confounded oak tree patience. 310 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.519 What's impatience? I'm willing to wager this tree trunk is hollow, 311 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:39.240 if you'll put your hand through the aperture and tell 312 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:41.240 me very well hose. I'll do that, you know, but 313 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.160 all this is rather silly. Oh what is it? What 314 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:51.920 I felt? Something? Well? Pick up man, what it's something cold? 315 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.799 So it's like a human body? Yes, one side button. 316 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:01.960 Let me look into that trunk. Uh huhm. There is 317 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:04.400 the body stuck into this tree front, Watson, good Law, 318 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:06.640 the body of a woman, an old woman, and undoubtedly 319 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.079 the lady elder Lady Dunbar, Lord Dunbar's mother and first 320 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.039 victim of the black which you're budding to no hoses. 321 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.240 This is diabolical, It's devilish, yes, Watson, We're dealing with 322 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:20.240 a highly distorted and curlly twisted mentality here. I wats 323 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:22.839 this hose. Note the way the roots of this tree 324 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.759 are curled upwards in the earth. A turn. Yes, I'm 325 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:28.119 willing to wager that when the lightning struck this oak, 326 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:30.680 it created a natural cavity under the base of the tree. 327 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.039 Homes what are you driving at the final answer to 328 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:36.279 this weird adventure. Come, Watson, we'll go back to the 329 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:39.079 gardener's cottage and get an axe, and in a very 330 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:41.599 short time this great oak should reveal its secret. 331 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:54.279 Ah, hold on, Watson, you'll stop here where we can 332 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:55.319 observe that oak tree. 333 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:58.839 There's a hose. You said we were going after an ax. Huge, 334 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:02.160 my dear, wats into the sea. We'll wait until that 335 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:04.799 tree reveals the secret of the man who's been posing 336 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:07.440 as the Black Witch of havingdon the man. Hose you 337 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.200 mean the Black Witch is a He precisely wants him 338 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:12.359 to be even more explicit. I am able to name 339 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:13.359 the hideous murderer. 340 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:13.880 Hose? 341 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:14.680 Who is it? 342 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:14.880 What? 343 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:20.559 Watson? Look at the aperture in that tree, by choose, 344 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:25.079 that's a hend. So someone's crawling out from within the tree. 345 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:30.079 You're above already, what says as I do? Then he 346 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:32.200 comes out of that tree, Hose. 347 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:39.240 It's Bruce Clinic, poor clinic, stumping out tracks. Come on, Watson, hose. 348 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:41.440 He's still running hard the way, Watson. 349 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:49.680 To kill the prayer a shop wake him the leg? 350 00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:01.160 How is he? What's unconscious of the moment, Holmes, is 351 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:01.519 the pain? 352 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:04.759 You know, there's nothing serious, just a flesh would he'll 353 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:08.359 come around in a minute, Hols, How did you know 354 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:09.920 that the witch was a man? 355 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:13.440 Elementary, My dear Watson. It needed a man's strength to 356 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.799 drive those fiendish murder spikes so deep, and indeeded the 357 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:18.920 agility of a young man to hurdle a four foot 358 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:21.079 ten with kirton as we saw the witch do is. 359 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:22.960 But how did you know it was young Glenneck? Here 360 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:25.319 to be no one else than Glennick. You remember he 361 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:27.640 told us that he never entered this wood, that he 362 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:29.839 was in bed at the time of Lady Dunbar's murder. Yes, 363 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:32.640 obviously he lied the fact that the creest was missing 364 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:34.440 in his trousers from the knee to his books. The 365 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:36.839 proof of that the only way he could have lost 366 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:39.839 that creast was running through high brush soaked with night view. 367 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:42.599 And the only high brush in the area is among. 368 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:44.640 These tree By jove, Holmes, You're right, he couldn't have 369 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:46.599 lost the trees up to his knees by merely running 370 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:50.279 across a lawn. But how you knew the witch, young 371 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:53.079 Glennacre was using that hollow oak tree as a hideaway. 372 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:56.680 Again an elementary observation, Watson. We pursued the witch and 373 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:59.559 lost him twice in the small area of trees. He 374 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:02.240 couldn't have simply vanished among the trees. Therefore, he must 375 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:04.440 have been inside one of them. The bit of mask 376 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:07.119 found in Lady Dunbar's room was oh, I see, and 377 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:08.920 after that it was merely a case of looking for 378 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:11.680 a hollow oak tree large enough to directly Watson. This 379 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:14.680 tree is unique in that respect. Furthermore, brute Snick tried 380 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:17.519 to divert suspicion to McCready the gardener by using the 381 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:20.759 gardens quite as murder weapon. Yes, but that bloodstain on 382 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:23.759 Macreey's slee quite legitimate. Watson, the same as old and dry, 383 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:25.799 and it's dark red color indicated that it had been 384 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:28.000 on his tree for some days. You know, Dok did 385 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:30.599 kill a wheel, as he said. And the cook, Mary 386 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.559 Whitman merely a terrified servant for the name fairly common 387 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:36.880 to the vicinity and an unfortunate mold. I can't say 388 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:40.319 I blame her for leading to taste. Our friend Vennick 389 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:42.720 is coming around, Yes, so is Holmes. 390 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:46.039 Why should young Glennick murder the members of his family 391 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:47.160 one by one? 392 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:49.319 I think we may find the answers to that. My 393 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:52.759 dear Watson, when we execute our original errand and chop 394 00:22:52.960 --> 00:23:04.720 down that a cursed oak tree almost fit mcldin hei, 395 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:09.200 mister Holmes, there. 396 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:20.599 She goes, Watson. Have a look down that deep hole 397 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:22.720 of the base, good lord Homes. It's a great natural 398 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.759 cavity there, the hiding place of Bruce Glennick. There's the 399 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:27.680 witch's costume that he used exactly. 400 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:30.079 Kennick had merely to enter the hollow tree trunk and 401 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:32.720