WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:06.639 Oh two two one b Baker Seats kebby. 2 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:15.199 The BBC presents The Noble Bachelor Ya Sir Arthur Kernan Doyle, 3 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:19.679 adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick, with Cotton Hobbs as 4 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:22.879 Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Doctor Watson. 5 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.199 It was a few weeks before my marriage in eighteen 6 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:30.760 eighty seven, during the days when I was still sharing 7 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:34.359 rooms with Sherlock Holmbs in Baker Street. I had remained 8 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:36.799 indoors all day, for the weather had taken a sudden 9 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:41.479 turn to rain with igh autumnal winds. The Jesl bullet, 10 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:43.320 which I had brought back in one of my limbs 11 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:47.439 as a relic of my Afghan campaign, throbbed with dull persistency. 12 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:50.840 With my body in one easy chair and my legs 13 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:54.399 upon another, I had surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers, 14 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:57.479 and when at last I had saturated myself at the 15 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.640 news of the day, I tossed them all aside and 16 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:04.439 laid listeners, speculating lazily upon the huge question monogram on 17 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:08.079 the envelope upon the table which awaited my friend's return. 18 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:20.000 Well Holmes had a fashionable epistle, Oh this looks like 19 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:23.040 one of those social submences which call upon a man 20 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.120 either to be bored or to life. Couple coming, they 21 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:34.319 proved me something of interest after all. Wow, not social, distinctive, 22 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:37.760 professional and from a noble clients, one of the highest 23 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.480 in England. I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the 24 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:44.719 status of my client is a matter of less moment 25 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:47.280 than of the interest of his case. Of course, of course, 26 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:50.079 it's just possible, however, that that also may not be 27 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:55.280 wanting in this new investigation. You've been reading the papers diligently, 28 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:58.799 of mate, have you not? Looks like it? I have 29 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:01.719 had nothing else to do. Well, it's fortunate you will 30 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:04.120 perhaps be able to post me up. I read not 31 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:07.000 the except criminal news in the agony column. The letter 32 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:11.039 has always instructed, But if you followed recent events so closely, 33 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.479 you must have read about Lord since Simon and his wedding. 34 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:17.560 Oh here's the deepest interest. And the letter which I 35 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:20.560 held in my hand is from Lord since Simon. This 36 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:25.080 is what he says, My dear mister Sharllock Films. Lord 37 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:28.240 Backwater tells me that I may place implicit reliance upon 38 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.840 your judgment and discretion. I have determined therefore to call 39 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:34.199 upon you and to consult you in reference to the 40 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:38.599 day painful event which has occurred in connection with my wedding. 41 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:42.719 Mister Lestrade of Scotland Yard is acting already in the matter, 42 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.639 but he assures me that he sees no objection to 43 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.000 your co operation, and that he even thinks that it 44 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:54.599 might be of some assistance. I will call at four 45 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:56.879 o'clock in the afternoon, and should you have any other 46 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:59.960 engagement at that time, I hope you will postpone it, 47 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.759 as this is a matter of paramount importance your late etcetera. 48 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:10.280 Dated from grosven dimensions and written with a quill pen. Ah, 49 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.240 the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a 50 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.159 sneer of ink upon the outer side of his right 51 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:19.879 little finger. He said, four o'clock past three. Now, then 52 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.360 I have just time, with your assistance to get clear 53 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.120 upon the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the 54 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.360 extracts and their order of time. The Buddhist party, miss, 55 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:35.479 oh you are, and I have will take an account 56 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:37.719 as to who our clients. 57 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:55.120 Is one, yes at all, Ah, Yes, here he is 58 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.479 Robert Walsingham de Veres and Simon, second son of the 59 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.960 Yugo Go Tomorrow born eighteen forty six. 60 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:08.080 That makes him forty one years of age mature for manage. 61 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:11.719 There was under Secretary for the Colonies and later administration 62 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:17.360 m M yeah. They inherit pantational blood by directors sent 63 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:20.480 and qu down the distaste style. It was as nothing 64 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:23.959 very instructive in all this, I mustand to you Watson 65 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.040 for something more solid. I've had very difflute finding what 66 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:31.120 you want. In fact, for quite recent there was a 67 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:35.920 paragraph from one of the society papers and headed there 68 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:38.519 will soon be a call for protection in the manage 69 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.439 market for the prison free trade principle appears to tell 70 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:45.000 heavily against our home product. One by one, the management 71 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.079 of the noble houses of Great Britain is passing into 72 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:50.680 the hands about their cousins from across the athletic lords. 73 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:56.360 And Simon, who has shown himself for over twenty years 74 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:01.600 proof against the little God's arrows, now definitely announced his 75 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.600 approaching marriage with Miss Etty Doran, the fascinating daughter of 76 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:08.439 a Californian millionaire. Miss Doran is an only child, and 77 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:11.199 it is currently reported that her day will run to 78 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:15.439 considerably over six figures. Indeed, as it is an open 79 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.720 secret that the Duke of bell Moral has been compelled 80 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.600 to sell his pictures within the last few years, and 81 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.079 as lords Examon has no providence if the smallest liut 82 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:26.160 of Birtimore. It is obvious that the Californian heiress is 83 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:31.079 not the only gainer by the alliance. Everything more, Oh, yeah, 84 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:35.120 and yes, there's a note here to say the marriage 85 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:37.079 would be an absolutely quiet, honest sat George's hand of 86 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:38.759 a square, and that the party would return to the 87 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:41.720 furnished house at Lancster Gate, which has been taken by 88 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:48.240 the Sloethius Doham. Two days later Westminster zt Let's wins 89 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:52.399 in the last October the ses there's a curt announcement that 90 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:55.560 the wedding had taken place. All those were all the 91 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.920 notices that appeared before the disappearance of the bride, before 92 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.040 the vanishing of the leader. When did she vanish that 93 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:08.040 at the wedding breakfast? Indeed, oh, this is more interesting 94 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.839 than it promised to be, quite dramatic. In fact, yes, 95 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:13.360 his structure is being a little out of the common, 96 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.519 and they often vanished before the ceremony and occasionally during 97 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:19.279 the honeymoon. But I cannot call to mind anything quite 98 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:22.199 so prompt as this. Ah. But there's a ring of 99 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:24.680 the bell, and as the club makes it a few 100 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:27.079 minutes after four, I have no doubt that this will 101 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.480 prove to be our noble client. No, don't dream of going, Watson. 102 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.839 I very much prefer having a witness, if only as 103 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:36.240 a check to my own memory. I wouldn't have missed 104 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:45.279 this caseful word, good day, lords, and silent, Oh, pray 105 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.839 take the basket chair. This is my friend and colleague, 106 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:52.319 doctor Watson. I go up a little and we saw 107 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:58.120 talk this matter over. The most painful matter to me, 108 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.120 because you can most readily imagine this homes I have 109 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:04.639 been cut to the quick. I understand you have already 110 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:07.079 managed several delicate cases of this sort. So do I 111 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:10.639 presume that they were hardly from the same class of society. No, 112 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.959 I am descending. I beg your pardon. My last client 113 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:19.439 of the thought was a king. I have no idea 114 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:23.240 at which king, the King of Scandinavia. What has he 115 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:26.720 lost his wife? You can understand that I extend to 116 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:29.560 the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which 117 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:33.040 I've promised to you in yours, of course, but it right, right, 118 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.600 How do I beg your pardon as to my own case? 119 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:39.360 I am ready to give you any information which may 120 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:43.399 assist you in forming an opinion. Thank you. I've already 121 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.319 learned something of it from the public prints. Nothing more. 122 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:48.959 I think I may arrive at my text most directly 123 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.560 by questioning you. Pray do so? Now? When did you 124 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:57.480 first meet miss Hattie Ordan in San Francisco a year ago? 125 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.199 Did you become engaged? Then? No, but you were on 126 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:04.720 a friendly footing. I was amused by her society, and 127 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.920 she could see that I was amused. Her father is 128 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.879 day rich. He has said to be the richest man 129 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:15.439 on the Pacific Slope. And how did he make his 130 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.879 money in mining? He had nothing a few years ago, 131 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.000 and his truck gold invested it and came up by 132 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:28.040 leaps and bounds. My wife was twenty before her father 133 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.800 became a rich man. During that time she ran free 134 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:35.039 in a mining camp, so that her education has come 135 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.559 from later rather than from the schoolmaster. She is what 136 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:44.000 we call in England, I leave a tomboy. Quite she 137 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:49.240 is impetuous volcanic. I was about to say, on the 138 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.320 other hand, I would not have given her the name 139 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:54.399 which I had the honor to bear, had I not 140 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:57.720 thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. The 141 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:00.159 young lady came to London then, and you were you, 142 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.240 you Oda paints. Yes, her father brought her over for 143 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:06.919 this last season. I met her several times. We became engaged. 144 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:10.320 I have now married her. She brought I understand a 145 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:13.480 considerable diary, no more than as usual in my family. 146 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:17.600 And this, of course remains to you, since the marriage 147 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:20.080 is the faka called tea. I really have made no 148 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:25.159 inquiries on the subject enough. On the morning of the wedding. 149 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.919 Was she in good still? It's never met her. She 150 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.799 was as bright as possible until after the semony. And 151 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:35.000 did you observe any change in that? Then? Well, then 152 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:38.000 tell the truth I saw then the first times with 153 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:41.600 her temper was a little sharp. The incident was too 154 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:44.159 trivial to relate. You have no possible bearing on the case. 155 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.679 They let us have it for all that. It's tish. 156 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.720 She dropped her bouquet as we went towards the vestry. 157 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.519 She was passing the thunk pure at the time, and 158 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.200 it fell over into the pool. There was a moment's delay, 159 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:58.240 but the gentleman in the pool handed it up to 160 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:00.639 her again. It didn't appear to be the worse for 161 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.480 the fall. Yet when I spoke to her about it, 162 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:08.279 she answered me abruptly in the carriage on our way home. 163 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:11.840 She seemed absurdly agitated over so priflic a call. Indeed, 164 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:14.720 you say there was a gentleman in the pew. Some 165 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:17.039 of the general public were a person, then, oh, yes, 166 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:19.440 it's impossible to exclude them with a treaty open This 167 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:21.960 gentleman was one of your wife's friends. No, no, I 168 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:25.879 called him a gentleman by critic him. He was quite 169 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:29.279 a common looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. Really, 170 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.240 I think we're wandering rather far from the point at 171 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:34.840 generate ladies and Simon returned from the wedding in a 172 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.159 less cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. 173 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:40.360 And what did she do on re entering her father's house. 174 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:44.159 I saw her in close conversation with her maid, Alice, 175 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.120 a confidential servant, a little too much so. She is 176 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:50.720 an American. She came from California with her. It seemed 177 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:53.320 to me that her listeners allowed her to take great liberties. 178 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:55.480 Instead of course, in America they look upon these things 179 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:59.159 in a little way. You did not overhear what they said, ladies, 180 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:03.080 and simon something about jumping a claim she was accustomed 181 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.960 to using slag of that kind. No idea admit m 182 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:09.759 American slag is that he expressed it sometimes. And what 183 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.759 did your wife do next? She went into the breakfast 184 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:16.799 room an arm no alone. She was very independent in 185 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.279 little matters like that. Then after we had sat down 186 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.000 for ten minutes or so, she rose, hurriedly, muttered some 187 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:26.399 words of apology, and left the room. She never came back. 188 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:29.799 Her maid says she went to her room, covered her 189 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.080 bride's dress with a long outstair, put on a bonnet, 190 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.440 and went out. One of the footmen remembered seeing a 191 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:37.320 lady Lee, but he refused to credit that he could 192 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:39.919 have been his mistress. He naturally believe she was inside. 193 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.600 Quite so afterwards, my wife is that who had been 194 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:45.039 seen walking to Hyde Park with the woman who had 195 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:50.840 caused the disturbance earlier on the disturbance. Uh, Yes, after 196 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:53.919 we had returned from the church, this woman apparently tried 197 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:55.320 to follow us into the house. She had to be 198 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:57.279 objected by the butter of the football. But why should 199 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:02.159 she want to force a way to Holmes. She claimed 200 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:09.879 that she and I oh trove. Her name is Flora Miller. 201 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:13.120 She used to be a dancers of the Inegro. I 202 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:16.120 have not treated her jealously, and she's no just cause 203 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.200 to complain against people who know what women in armies told. 204 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:20.440 She wrote big, dreadful letters when she heard I was 205 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:22.840 to be added. In fact, the reason I had the 206 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:25.159 marriage celebrated so quetly was because I feared there might 207 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.960 be a scandal at the church. Did your wife hear this? 208 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:30.399 The servant? No, thank goodness, you didn't. And yet she 209 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:32.799 was seen walking with this deady woman art. But yes, 210 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.840 and mister Lestrade of Scotland Yard looks upon it as 211 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:39.000 very serious. It is course to plaua decoyed my wife 212 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.759 out and made some terrible trap for her. I understand 213 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:45.200 that she's now in custody. Well, it's a possible supposition, 214 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:48.480 do you think so true? I don't think Flora would 215 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:51.360 hurt a fly. I didn't say a probable one. Still, 216 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:56.759 jealousy is a strange pransformer character playday Lords and Simon, 217 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:01.399 what is your own theory as to work to place? Oh? Really, 218 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:04.919 I came to seek a fairy, not to propound one 219 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.759 since you asked me, it has occurred to me that 220 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.480 the excitement, the consciousness that she had made so immense 221 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.080 a social stride may have caused some little nervous disturbance 222 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.639 to my wife. In short, that she had become suddenly deranged. 223 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:22.120 When I consider that she has turned her back. And 224 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.279 I will not say upon me, but upon so much 225 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.840 that many have aspired to without reason, I can hardly 226 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:30.919 explain it in any off. Well, that is certainly a 227 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:34.720 conceivable hypotheses. And now, Lord, since Simon, I think I 228 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:38.159 have nearly all my data. Oh, may I ask whether 229 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:40.159 you and your wife were seated at the breakfast table 230 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:42.679 so that you could see out of the window. We 231 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:45.440 could see the other side of the road and the park. 232 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:49.080 Quite so, then, I do not think I need to 233 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:50.000 take you any longer. 234 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:55.200 I will communicate with you, should you be fortunate enough 235 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:59.200 to solve this problem. Oh, I have solved it. What 236 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:00.399 was that? I say? 237 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:04.679 I have solved it? Where then is my wife? That 238 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:06.919 is a detail which I shall speedily supply. 239 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:10.960 I am afraid it will take wiser heads than yours 240 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:19.200 and mine. Good day to you, Good day, sir, it's 241 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.919 very good Lord's And Simon to honor my head by 242 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:24.679 putting it on a level with his own. Well, I 243 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.320 think I shall have a whiskey and turn down a 244 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:29.960 cigar for all that crossest in food. I have formed 245 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.919 my conclusions. Cestif the case before our counts nearly done. 246 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:39.919 Yeah, I have several similar cases. Oh, as I remarked before, 247 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:44.240 none of them are quite as pot My holy examination. 248 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:47.200 Has turned my conjecture to a certain day. Circumstantial evidence 249 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:52.200 is occasionally very convincing, if I've heard all you without, however, 250 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.720 the knowledge of pre existing cases, which tells me so well. 251 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:59.639 There was a parallel instance in Evideen some years back, 252 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:02.000 and there was something under the musk the same lines 253 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:03.039 at Unich the. 254 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:06.240 After the frank Opassion war is one of these cases. 255 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:10.519 Oh but hello here isn't this strange? 256 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:13.759 You will find an extra tumble on the sideboard under 257 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.320 the cigars in the box to stay thank you? Even 258 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:20.759 doctor Watson, Well, what's up? Then? 259 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:25.879 You look dissatisfied? Feel satisfied? This infernos and signed marriage case. 260 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.279 I can't make headlold tail of the business. 261 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:31.440 Really you surprised me? Oh, do sit down? 262 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:36.000 You heard of a mixed affair? It recluse seems to 263 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:38.039 slip through my fingers. I've been at work on it 264 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.360 all day and they'll wet. It seems to have made 265 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.320 you and I've been dragging the serpent time. It's its 266 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.000 nable before looking for the body of Leggers and Simon, 267 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.840 have you dragged the basement of the Trafalgar Square fountain? 268 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:53.480 What do you mean? Because I've just as good a 269 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:55.840 chance of finding this lady there as in the serping tonight. 270 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:58.519 I suppose you know all about it. Well, I really 271 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:00.720 just heard the facts, but my mind it's made up. 272 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.679 Indeed, then you think that the certain time plays no 273 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:04.840 part in a manner. 274 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:05.919 I think it's very unlikely. 275 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:09.000 Perhaps you'll kin'dly explain how to if we've found these 276 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:10.679 nearly I have him. 277 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:13.679 Here in my bag. Yeah, there's a little nut for 278 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:18.240 you in the Crackmas's arms. Oh, indeed, see Watson a 279 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:21.720 wedding dress, white setting shoes, and the bride's wreath and 280 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:25.159 veil and the wedding ring. You dragged these from the 281 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:25.840 serpent time? 282 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:28.720 No, they were found the other bank by a park keeper. 283 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.639 They ever identified as her clothes. It seemed to me 284 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:34.039 that if the clothes were there, the body wouldn't be 285 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:35.320 far off by. 286 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:37.679 The same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be 287 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.480 found in the neighborhood of his wardrobe. And pray, what 288 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:44.200 did you hope to arrive at through this some evidence 289 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.120 implicating Flaura Miller in the disappearance, and said, you'll find 290 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.600 it difficult. Well, you're indeed now, and I'm afraid mister 291 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:51.639 hearns as. 292 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.799 You are not very practical with your deductions in your inference. 293 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:58.200 This place does implicate Miss Laura Miller. And how in 294 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.960 the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a cardcase. 295 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:04.440 In a card case is a note. Little you will 296 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:09.119 see me when all is ready, come at once. F hm. 297 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.640 Now my theory all along has been the latest assimon 298 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:13.559 was decoyed away by Flora Miller. 299 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.039 No doubt was convenerates her initials on this note. It 300 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:19.559 was no doubt slipped into the bride's hands the door 301 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.640 and inlured her into their reach. Very goodness, straight, you 302 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:32.640 know you really are very fine. Indeed, ah, this is 303 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:38.160 indeed important. You'll find it down extremely. I congratulate you, 304 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:42.720 warm me. Then you're looking on the wrong side on 305 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:43.599 the country. 306 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:47.599 This is the right side, the right side bad the 307 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:49.079 note's written in pencil on the back. 308 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.759 Quiet and over here is what appears to be a 309 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:55.920 fragment of a hotel bill. It interests me deeply. There 310 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:58.799 was nothing in it. I looked at it before. I've 311 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:02.359 seen nothing in that not it's most important all the 312 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.440 same as to the note. It's important also, or at 313 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:08.319 least the initials are, so I can get lead you 314 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:12.519 again time enough. I don't believe in hard work. I'm sitting 315 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:16.400 by the flower spinning series. We shall say, who gets 316 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:20.240 to the bottom of this first good diamond? Harm? Just 317 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:23.440 one into you in the state. I will tell you 318 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:27.720 the true solution of this matter. Ladies, Saint Simon is 319 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.079 a myth. There is not, and there has never been 320 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:39.440 any such person. You're mad man, But there is something 321 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:42.440 about the fellow says about outdoor work. I think, what's 322 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:54.559 I must leave you to your papers. Well, well, Watson, 323 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:57.559 they've laid the supper in my absence. Passage that I 324 00:18:57.559 --> 00:18:59.519 didn't know what it was all about. The confection of 325 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:05.119 men said it all. Uncle would got pedal phograph. She's 326 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:08.160 an exciting looking bottles said it had been paid for 327 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.519 in order to this address. Capital's laid for five Who 328 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.559 seem to expect company. Yes, I fancy we may have 329 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:18.000 some company dropping in. I'm surprised, Lord, since Simon has 330 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:21.960 not already arrived. Ah, I fancy I hear you step 331 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.319 on the stairs now. Oh so my message reached you then, 332 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:29.680 Lords and time. Yes, and I must confess the contents 333 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:33.160 startled me beyond measure. Have you good authology for what 334 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.039 you say? That that's possible? What will the Duke say? 335 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:40.200 What he to think when he hears that one of 336 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:42.519 the family has been subjected to such humiliation? It's the 337 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:45.279 purest accident. You look on these things in a different way. 338 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:47.880 I can hardly see how the lady could have acted otherwise. 339 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:52.279 Her abrupt method of believe was undoubtedlitedly regretted. But having 340 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:54.319 no mother, she had no one to advise her at 341 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:57.039 such a crisis. It was a slight, Sir, a public flight. 342 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:59.920 You must make a laws for this poor placed in 343 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.720 so unprecedented the position. I will make no allowance. I'm 344 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:06.519 very angry. Indeed, I have been simply used as there's 345 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:09.680 the bell. If I cannot persuade you to take a 346 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:13.839 lenient view, Lords and Simon, I have brought an advocate 347 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:21.880 here who may be more successful. Probably, Please do Lords 348 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:24.839 and Simon allow me to introduce you to mister and 349 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:28.759 missus Francis Multon. The lady, I think you have already 350 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:32.720 met good Lord. Hurry, angry Robert. 351 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:35.599 Oh well, I guess you have every cause to be. 352 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:39.640 Oh yeah, I know I treated you real bad. I 353 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:42.559 should have spoken to you before I went, But well, 354 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:45.279 I was kind of rattled from the time I saw 355 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:47.160 Frank here again. I just don't know why I was 356 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:49.079 the one or saying. I only wonder I didn't fall 357 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:50.319 down into a paint right. 358 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:53.319 There before the old Perhaps you would like my friend 359 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:55.839 and me to leave the room while you explain this matter. 360 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:57.160 I may give an opinion. 361 00:20:57.240 --> 00:20:59.319 We've had just a little too much secrecy over this 362 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:02.920 matter already. My part, I'd like all Europe and America 363 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:03.440 to hear the right. 364 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.000 Then I'll tell our story right away. Frank and I 365 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:10.720 met in eighty one in mcquire's camp near the Rockies, 366 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:14.480 where Paul was working a claim. We were engaged, Frank 367 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.440 and I, but one day Pau struck a rich pocket 368 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:19.880 and made a pile while poor Frank here had a 369 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.039 claim that came to nothing, and the richer PA grew 370 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:26.160 the poor Frank got so last. Paul wouldn't hear of 371 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:28.680 our engagement lasting any longer, and he took me away 372 00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:32.720 to Fristoe. Frank wouldn't throw in his hand, though, you 373 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:36.160 bet Frank followed me and he saw me without Paw knowing. 374 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:38.880 He said he'd go back and he'd make his pile too, 375 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:40.559 and he wouldn't come to claim me till he had 376 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.720 as much as Paul. So I promised I'd wait for 377 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.799 him till the end of time, and not to marry 378 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:50.799 anyone else as long as he lived. 379 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:53.319 So I said, why shouldn't we be married straight away? 380 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.000 Then then I'll feel sure of you, but I won't 381 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:58.839 claim to be your husband that I come back. Well, 382 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:01.599 we talked it over see, and we just went to 383 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:03.759 a clerguremen and did it right there. 384 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:05.039 Good loss. 385 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:07.799 Well, the next day I heard of Frank. He was 386 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:11.160 in Montana, and then in New Mexico, and then there 387 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:13.680 was a newspaper story about how a miner's camp had 388 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:15.480 been attacked by Apache. 389 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:17.880 Indians and there was Frank's name among the killed. I 390 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:21.559 was sick for months, but there was never another word 391 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:25.960 of Frank after that, You see, I Alan, dear well, 392 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:28.799 I felt all the time that no man on this 393 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.599 earth could ever take Frank's place in my heart. 394 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:34.400 But I meant to make Robert just as good a 395 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:35.279 wife as it was in. 396 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:35.640 Me to be. 397 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:41.039 Oh, you imagine what I felt. First, as I came 398 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:46.799 to the old horay, there was Frank standing looking at 399 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:48.839 me out of the first purel. I thought it was 400 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:51.880 as ghost at first. I looked again, and there he 401 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:55.839