WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.799 The Original and Immortal Stories of Sir Arthur Colan Doyle 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:09.599 dramatized Daniel with Sir Ralph Richardson as Doctor Watson and 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:12.720 Sir John Gielgud in the role of Sherlock Holme. 4 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:24.600 I shall never forget. 5 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:28.879 That April morning when I asher be is Helen Stoner 6 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:33.359 into our city room. She's the most attractive young lady, 7 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:39.479 dressed in black when heavenly veiled and appeared much districted. 8 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.759 It's not the cold to make this ship, mister Holmes 9 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:46.880 fhear terror. I can stand this train no longer. I 10 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.600 should go mad if it continues. I no want to 11 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:53.280 turn to Even my fiance believes in my imagination, must have. 12 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.920 Fear will soon set matters to write. So I no 13 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.719 doubt my name is Helen Stoner. 14 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:00.920 When I'm living with my step father, who is the 15 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:04.159 last survivor one of the oldest families in England, the 16 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:06.680 Royal ut of Stoke, Moran on the western border of. 17 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.719 Study, the name is familiar to me in them. The 18 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:11.200 family used to be very rich. 19 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:13.640 Now there is nothing left say the few acres and 20 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:16.239 an old house crushed under a heavy mortgage. 21 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:19.799 Eight years ago, when my mother died was your mother 22 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:20.640 a wealthy woman. 23 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.079 She had a fortune of some thousand pounds a year, 24 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:27.840 which she bequeathed to doctor Roylet entirely so long as 25 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:30.920 we resided with him, with the provision that a certain 26 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:34.280 annual son should be allowed to both Julia and myself 27 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:35.640 if either it us should marry. 28 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:41.840 But tell me, did doctor Roylot continue to practice after 29 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:42.920 your return to England. 30 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:43.519 No? 31 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:44.239 Not. 32 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:45.439 After the death of my mother. 33 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:48.519 He took my sister and me to live with him 34 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:51.760 at Stoke, Moran, and for a time we were quite 35 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:52.400 happy together. 36 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:56.920 But a terrible change began to come over our stepfather. 37 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:01.200 He shut himself up and came up to indulge in 38 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:05.079 violent quarrels with his neighbors. He's ended by becoming literally 39 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.120 feared in the village. He has no friends at all 40 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:10.919 but the wandering bands of gypsies he allows to camp. 41 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:11.879 In his grounds. 42 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:16.080 He's a collector of strange animals. He has an Indian 43 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:19.000 cheetah and a baboon which wander freely over the estate, 44 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:21.800 and was feared by the villagers almost. 45 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:22.240 As much as he is. 46 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:25.280 No servant would stay with us. We had to do 47 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:28.319 all the work of the house. He could imagine what 48 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:32.159 it was like for my sister me and when she died. 49 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.680 Though she was only thirty, Julia's hair had begun to 50 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:38.719 turn white. 51 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:39.439 Even his mind had. 52 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:45.840 Nor sister bar just two years ago, soon after she 53 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.439 has become engaged to be married, only a fortnight before 54 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:52.759 the wedding, she died in terrible secnten. 55 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:58.560 Did your stepfather offer any objection I married. No, he 56 00:02:58.680 --> 00:02:59.520 didn't appear to. 57 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:05.199 The circumstances of your sister's death. It please be precise 58 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:06.039 at the detail. 59 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:09.759 It's easy to be so, for every event of that 60 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:14.599 dreadful time is feared into my memory. As I said, 61 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.599 the manor house is very old, and only one wing 62 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:20.840 is now use. The bedrooms in this wing are on 63 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:24.800 the ground floor, first my stepfather's, then my sisters and 64 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:29.120 then mine. There's no communication between them, but they open 65 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.360 on the same carri door and look out out of 66 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:35.919 the same lawn. That night, Doctor Roylost, my stepfather. 67 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.759 Had gone to his room early, but was not yet. 68 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.759 Asleep, for my sister was troubled by the strong smell. 69 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.719 Of his Indian cigar. She left her room and came 70 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:46.039 into mine. 71 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:50.759 Where she sat chatting about her coming wedding. Well, Helena, 72 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:52.319 how are you getting back to bed? 73 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:57.919 He must be asleep by now, my way. Have you 74 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.759 ever heard a strange whistle in the dead of night? 75 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:02.520 A whistle? No? 76 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:03.280 Why did? 77 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:07.719 The last few nights about three in the morning, I've 78 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:10.800 been wakened by a low, clear whistle. I haven't heard it, 79 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:13.080 But then I sleep more heavily than you do, boy, 80 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:14.280 and it's of no consequence. 81 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:21.160 Good night. I couldn't sleep that night. I'd locked my 82 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.399 door after Julia left and heard her love hers too. 83 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.040 We always locked our doors for fear of the cheetah 84 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:28.519 and a baboon that were left out. 85 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:32.160 Every night in the grounds. I remember that it was 86 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:32.959 a wild night. 87 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:37.160 The wind was hounding outside in the rain and bitting 88 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:37.959 against the window. 89 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.000 I heard a terrible premonition of evil. 90 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:51.399 And suddenly, through the storm I knew my sister would screamed. 91 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:53.600 I sprang from my bed, wrapped ashore around me, and 92 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:56.279 rushed into the corner door. As I opened my door, 93 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:57.040 I heard. 94 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:58.560 A distant whistle. 95 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:10.079 A whistle, and a clanging sound, as if a massive metal. 96 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:10.839 Had fallen somewhere. 97 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:13.720 As I land towards it my sister's doors, I knocked 98 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:16.920 as slowly swung open the light of the lamp. I 99 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:20.439 saw her standing there, her face danced with terror, her 100 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:22.920 hands groping for help, her whole figure swaying. 101 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:26.639 Tong thro and Nil gave way and she fell to 102 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:27.120 the ground. 103 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.279 She only screamed the one thing before she died in 104 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:44.120 my arms. It was the band, the stickled band. 105 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:53.079 It seems that Julius Turner's death was carefully investigated by 106 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.800 the local coroner. The doctor Rylett's conduct had been notorious 107 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:02.000 in the conte and foul player was suspected, but no 108 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:07.319 satisfactory explanation of the tragedy was ever found. The doctor 109 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:11.399 had been asleep in his room, the scream had waited him. 110 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:15.199 Julia's room had been locked on the inside, the windows 111 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:19.399 heavily shuttered, the chimney was barred by iron staples. 112 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:23.120 It was certain that Julia Stoner had been quite alone 113 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:26.839 when she had met her end. There was nothing to 114 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:29.120 indicate how she had met it. 115 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:32.959 There were no marks of violence on the body, and 116 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.360 the doctors could find no evidence of poison. 117 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:38.240 It's my belief that she. 118 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:40.600 Died of sheer terror and nervous shock. 119 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:44.759 Though what it was to frighten I cannot imagine were 120 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.000 any gypsies camping in the plantation at the. 121 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:48.959 Time, Yes, there had nearly always come there. 122 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:52.800 And what did you gather from her illusionment to the 123 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:53.639 speckled dam? 124 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:59.040 Sometimes I've thought it was merely delirium. Sometimes I wonder 125 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.680 if it might have referred to some band of people, 126 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:05.040 perhaps those very gypsies in the plantation with their spotted 127 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:07.399 handkerchiefs on their heads. 128 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.199 He's a very deep water, as Miss Stone up, please 129 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:10.480 go on. 130 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:15.480 Two years have passed since then, and until lately my 131 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:19.439 life has been lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, 132 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.560 I became engaged to be married to a mister Armitage, 133 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.920 a neighbor arising, a very dear friend. I feared my 134 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.720 stepfather might offer objections, but he has made no difficulties, 135 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:34.079 and we are to be married later this spring. 136 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:40.040 Yeah. Two days ago some repairs were started in the 137 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:41.600 west wing, so. 138 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:43.399 That I've had to move out of my own room 139 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.279 into the room next door, the room which. 140 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:51.120 My sister died. Last night, I lay awake, thinking of 141 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:52.079 her terrible faith. 142 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.839 I suddenly heard, in the silence of the night that 143 00:07:58.079 --> 00:07:59.680 same low whistle. 144 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:07.920 Though her room was locked and there appeared to be 145 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:10.079 nothing wrong, when she sprang out of bed and lit 146 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.040 her lamp and then Stona, being too. 147 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.279 Enrified to go back to bed. As soon as it 148 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:20.480 was light, she caught an early morning claim to London that. 149 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:25.040 Comes straight round to ask the advice of Sherlock Holmes. 150 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.319 You were done very widely. So are you sure you've 151 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:32.399 told me everything? Yes? 152 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:36.720 Everything? I think you are still shielding your stepfather, Miss Stone, 153 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:39.200 isn't at the mark of his grip there on your wrist. 154 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:44.039 He's a hard man. Perhaps he hardly knows his own strength. 155 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:49.039 This is a very deep business, and from what you've 156 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:50.720 told me, there may not be a moment to lose 157 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:53.600 if we were to come down to Stoke more than today. 158 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.200 Would it be possible to see over the bedrooms without 159 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:57.440 the knowledge of your stepfather? 160 00:08:57.639 --> 00:08:58.120 I think so. 161 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:00.320 He told me last night he was coming to London 162 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:00.759 for the day. 163 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.200 There should be now under this turkey excellent and we 164 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.639 shall both come. What are you going to do yourself? 165 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:07.679 I have one or two things to attend to in 166 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.440 town that I shall be home shortly afternoon, and. 167 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:13.080 You may expect us earlier this afternoon, Miss Turner. 168 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:14.720 Goodbye for the present. 169 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:23.840 We discussed many possible theories. After Miss Turner had left, 170 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.759 we were in the midst of our deliberations when we 171 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:33.480 received another visitor, Which of. 172 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.240 You is Holmes my name's but you have the advantage 173 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:37.440 of me. 174 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.799 I am doctor Grimes de roy lift stonewareun. 175 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:45.759 My stepdaughter has been here. What has she been saying 176 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.759 to you? It is a little cold at the time 177 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:51.039 of the year. What has she been saying to you? 178 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.600 I have heard that the crocuses promised very well die 179 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:54.720 you'll put me off to you. 180 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.480 I know Miss Conor has been to see you, but 181 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:02.879 don't show there medline by your pairs. I'm a dangerous 182 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:04.039 man to fall our love. 183 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.399 See that you kick us up out of micro Ah like. 184 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.279 This poker, I'll. 185 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:23.399 An amiable person bending our poker almost doub observed. 186 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:25.360 I am not quite so bulky. 187 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:27.759 But if he remained, I might have shown him that 188 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:35.519 my grip was not much more feeble than his own. There, 189 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:40.960 I think that's just about stake again. You know, idea, 190 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.600 what this little incident gives a news as to our investigations. 191 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.080 We shall certainly see what we can find. That's take more. 192 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:51.639 This afternoon, Good afternoon. 193 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:52.399 Miss Sterner. You said to have. 194 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:54.759 Been as good as our work have been waiting for you. 195 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.240 Now we must make the best use of our time, 196 00:10:57.320 --> 00:10:58.879 So kindly take us at once to the room of 197 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:12.360 the other Weeksamin. The building was of gray nitching blocked stone, 198 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:16.679 with a high central portion and two curving wounds like 199 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.720 the paws of a crab thrown out on each side. 200 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.679 The central block and the east wing were empty and 201 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:27.320 in poor repair. The lines to the windows and blue 202 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.679 smoke curving up from the kidneys showed that part of 203 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:34.799 the west wing in which the sanity resided some scaffold 204 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:38.080 egmond being erected against the end wall, and the stone 205 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:40.519 work had been broken into it, but there was no work. 206 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:43.120 When about Homes examined the. 207 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:48.440 Outsides of the three bedroom windows with the closest attendance. 208 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:49.440 This I think he belonged to the room in which 209 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:50.279 you used to sleep. 210 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:53.440 The center one is your sister's room, and the one 211 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.960 next to the main building is doctor Roylot's. Yes, but 212 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.320 I'm hitting in the middle one, of course, tending the 213 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:02.039 alterations as I understand right away, But it will seemed 214 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:03.240 to be in a pressing. 215 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:06.559 Need for affairs to that end wall there were none. 216 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.240 I believe that it was an excuse to move me 217 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.159 from my own room into my sister's ah. 218 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:16.240 That is suggestive. Well, these windows and shutters are quite firm. 219 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.440 No one could possibly get in this way if they 220 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.720 were firmly bolted on the inside. We shall have to 221 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:23.039 see if the rooms themselves sow any light on this matter. 222 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.879 A small side door leading to the whitewashed corridor from 223 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:33.639 which the three bedrooms opened, Holdens passed once into the 224 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.360 room in which Helen's shoneer was now sleeping in the 225 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:39.799 middle one of the three, the bedroom in which. 226 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.320 Her sister had met her death. 227 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:45.120 It was a whole little room, played in a furnished 228 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.120 Holden's eyes traveled. 229 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:52.120 Round and round, up and down, taking in every detail. 230 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:55.720 What did that bell communicate with the housekeeper room? It 231 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:57.840 looks newer than the other thing. Yes, it was put 232 00:12:57.840 --> 00:12:58.039 in a. 233 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:01.799 Couple of years ago, just before night. Can't think why 234 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:03.120 she certainly never used it. 235 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:06.960 Indeed, for such a nice long bell pull that it convenient. 236 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.159 I should have thought. Potastol hangs down to the very pillow. 237 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:15.399 Let me see why it's a dummy, won't you bring No, 238 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:17.120 not even attached to a wire. 239 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:19.960 You can see it's. 240 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.919 Fastened to a hook up there just above them. It's 241 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:24.159 opening the ventilator. 242 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.960 Okay, it's surd I never edited before, very schange. 243 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:31.679 What fool of the builder would open the ventilator into 244 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.080 the next room when you might have made it through 245 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:35.559 the outer wall into the fresh air. 246 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:38.080 So that's also quite modern. It was done about the 247 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:40.960 same time as the billop. There were several little changes 248 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:41.840 cutted out about that. 249 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:48.879 Time, shortly before your sister's death. Why yes, we moved 250 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.440 into the bedroom next door, the room of doctor Robert. 251 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:55.000 It was larger than his stepdaughters, but just as train. 252 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:59.720 They furnished a camp bed, an armchair, a plain wooden 253 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:03.200 chair against the wall, a round the table, and a 254 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.399 large iron safe with the principal things which. 255 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:07.080 Met their eye. 256 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.799 Once again, Holmes examined them all with accused interest. 257 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.840 In one corner of the day he found a small 258 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.879 dog lash naughty so as to make a loop of 259 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:23.639 the whipcorn. Oh, this is interesting. What do you make 260 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:23.960 of that? 261 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:28.720 Watson is common enough, flash, I don't see why it 262 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.600 should be tied into a loop. And that's not quite 263 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:35.039 so common as it, Miss Sterner, What does your stepfather 264 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:36.240 keep in the safe? 265 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:40.000 Here? His Disney papers oh, you've seen inside them only 266 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:42.279 once some years ago. It was full of papers. Then 267 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:45.240 there wasn't a cat in it by any chance. No, 268 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:47.000 what's this change idea? 269 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:49.440 Well then why the saucer of milk standing. 270 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:49.679 On the top of it? 271 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.320 And no, we don't keep a cat. But as I 272 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.679 told you that the chee turned to the blue ah. 273 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.519 Yes of all, well, a cheetah is just a big 274 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.440 cat and yet a also, no, it doesn't go very far. 275 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.480 As satisfied, I dare say. Now, just one more point, 276 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:08.159 let me examine this wooden chair. 277 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.840 Very interesting, And now, miss Stern, I want you to 278 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:17.480 do listen carefully and follow my advice and avory respect. 279 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:19.279 I assure you that I'm in your hands as to 280 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.600 hold your life may depend on it. The matter is 281 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:25.240 too serious for any hesitation in the first place. Then 282 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.200 doctor Watson and I must spend the night. 283 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.720 Here in your room. Let's have a guest door. Oh no, 284 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:33.200 let me explain, my dear Watson. 285 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.360 You must turn him at retire to your room on 286 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:41.279 pretense for the headache. When your stepfather comes back. When 287 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:45.720 you hear him retire for the night into this next doorroom. 288 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.759 You must open the shutters of your window. Undo the 289 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:51.000 hasp put your lamp. 290 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:53.639 There as a signal to was you shall see it 291 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:54.720 from other day in the bellach. 292 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:56.759 Then go back. 293 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:58.399 Into your old room. 294 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.000 Despite the return, will start Purdy to work for one night. 295 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.559 Oh yes, of course, we shall spend the night in 296 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:07.559 the middle room, and then we shall be able to 297 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:11.279 investigate the cause of this noise, which is sty statue. 298 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:20.399 Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging rooms 299 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:23.679 at the village, in from which we could command a 300 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:27.120 view of the inhabited wing of Stoke. 301 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:28.399 Modern mana house. 302 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:33.679 At dusk we saw doctor Grime's bay Roolet drive past, 303 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:38.360 lashing his horse. The trap turned into the Nana drive, 304 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.879 and in a few moments we saw sudden light spring 305 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.000 up among the trees as the lamp was lit in 306 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:46.240 one of the sitting rooms. 307 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:48.919 You know what's night? 308 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:51.639 Come scruples about taking you tonight as a distinctive element 309 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:52.120 of danger. 310 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:54.879 Can I be of the system your presence might be invaluable? 311 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:58.399 Then I'll certainly come. But you speak of danger. You 312 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:02.000 obviously seem more these rooms and was visible to me. 313 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:05.599 No, But I fancy I may have deduced a little more. 314 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.480 I imagine that you saw all I did. I saw 315 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:12.400 nothing remarkable save the devil world. But what purf you 316 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:16.640 saw the ventilator too, Yes, there's nothing very unusual about that. 317 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:20.680 There's a just a curious coincidence in dates. A ventilator 318 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.880 is made, a cord is hunging, and a lady who 319 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.079 sleeps in the bed below dies. 320 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.319 Does that not strike You can't as yet see any connection. 321 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:32.680 Did you observe anything very peculiar about the bed? No, 322 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:36.279 it was clamped to the floor so that they must 323 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.599 always be in the same position relative to the ventilator 324 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:39.799 and the bell rope hose. 325 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:43.200 I seem to see dimay once you're driving at it. 326 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:47.559 We're only just in time to prevent some subtle and 327 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:48.640 horrible crime. 328 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.240 Yes, what's the nighting? We shall have harders enough before 329 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:51.960 the night robe. 330 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:00.720 About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, 331 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.200 and all was dark in the manor house. 332 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:09.039 Two hours passed slowly away, and then suddenly a single 333 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:12.839 bright light shone out from the darkness of the west wind. 334 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:16.359 Let her single. It comes from the middle window. Come on. 335 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.160 There was a little difficulty in entering the grounds through 336 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.440 a hole in the park wall. We crossed the lawn, 337 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:29.160 and we came to the open window, when out of 338 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.279 a clump of laurel bushes there darted what seemed to 339 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:36.720 be a hugeous and disported child, which threw itself on 340 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:40.480 the grass with writhing limb, and then ran swiftly into 341 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:41.079 the darkness. 342 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.039 Why heavens you know, did you see that? Homes here? 343 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.519 A nice household? That was the baboon quick quickened through 344 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:50.440 the windows before we visited by the cheetahs. 345 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:55.920 We silently climbed inside, closing the shutters and moving the 346 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.559 lamp on to the table. Holmes cast his eyes round 347 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.599 the room. All was as we had seen. 348 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:06.880 It that afternoon. We would sit without a light. You 349 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:10.240 can see it through the ventilator. Yes, don't fall asleep, 350 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:11.240 you're very light. 351 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:14.039 Way to bend uponnet at y'll dissed already in case 352 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:14.640 you should need it. 353 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:18.119 I took out my revolver, and I laid it on 354 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:21.480 the corner of the table. Omes I bought a long 355 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:24.400 staining cane with him, which he laid on the bed 356 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:27.200 beside him. Next to it, he placed a box of 357 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.839 matches in a candle. Then he turned out the lamp. 358 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:33.519 And we were left in utter darkness. 359 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:47.119 How shall I ever forget that dreadful LIBI From outside 360 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:49.279 came the occasional. 361 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:51.920 Cry of a bird of the night, and once at 362 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:54.039 our very window a long. 363 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:57.880 Drawn catlike wine, which told us that the cheetah was 364 00:19:57.960 --> 00:19:59.000 indeed at liberty. 365 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:05.920 Twelve o'clock struck one o'clock, two o'clock three. Still we 366 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.279 sat waiting silently for that the night before. 367 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:13.559 Suddenly there was a great gleam of light on the ventilator. 368 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:18.359 It vanished immediately burning the smell of burning oil. 369 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:23.160 He the nkel some on the next room lit a 370 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:29.039 dark cleft. I heard a gentle sound of movement. Then 371 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:31.359 for half an hour the skilenk. 372 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:38.240 Again one points another sound, a very gentle seal, even 373 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:43.200 sound like that of a small jet of scheme eskinkling 374 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:44.200 from a kettle. 375 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:49.759 You see it, not see it? 376 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.480 Fighting a match hold clip from the day was lighting 377 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:58.319 pure and say kay a the bell pull as the 378 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:02.720 match glad. I had a n clear second whittle in 379 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:05.200 the groom. I could still not see what Homes was 380 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:05.640 at tackle. 381 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:06.319 He so fancy. 382 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:09.119 All I could see he was for horror, unble loathing 383 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:11.119 on his tale grown page. 384 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:19.000 That's scream. It was horrible what can it mean? 385 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:21.400 It means not? From the door over, take your pip 386 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:27.119 flum coming me in doctor Roylot's room. In doctor rolet room, 387 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:30.440 he was a strange and terrible sight of mad eyes. 388 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:33.680 On the table stood the dark ramthem with a shutter 389 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.640 half open, playing a brilliant beam of light upon the 390 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:39.720 iron safe, the door of which was a guard beside 391 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:44.039 his table's pet. Doctor grindsby Roylet, having a long breaking down. 392 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:46.200 His chin was copped upwards and his. 393 00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:48.759 Eyes were fixed in a bulletful. 394 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.039 Rigid stare. At the corner of the ceiling. About his brow, 395 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:55.160 he had a peculiar yellow gun with. 396 00:21:55.440 --> 00:22:00.279 Brownish stickles, which seemed to be bound tightly round head. 397 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:10.440 Damn what means the speckled dam The speckled damn around 398 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:12.599 the head of the dead man was. 399 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:17.480 A snake, a dead year snake in India, an adder, 400 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.480 a formbadder and dust and Brown's ball. 401 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:25.680