WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:07.480 Oh there you are, mister barteltaining docty, say, where are 2 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:08.279 the puppies receiving? 3 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:10.560 Mister Bartel, don't you think it's about time you began 4 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:11.199 to refer. 5 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:13.119 To them as the dogs? Are almost a year old? 6 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:14.720 You know, I stand corrected. 7 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:16.359 Where are the dogs the safe? 8 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.960 Well, they had another furious battle with a dead seal 9 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:21.960 on the beach. Today my housekeeper, Missus West is giving 10 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:23.280 them a much needed barn. 11 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:27.559 They certainly haven't aversion to seals, don't they. Well, doctor, 12 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:29.679 are you already with the nice new shell CON's adventure? 13 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:30.519 Yes, my boy, And. 14 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:34.039 As yesterday was Saint Patrick's Day, I decided to tell 15 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.399 you a story that took place in Ireland a few 16 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:39.560 years before the turn of the century. I imagine that 17 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:41.880 you've heard of kissing the Blanistone. 18 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.960 Oh yes, doctor, though I've never understood exactly what it meant. 19 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.479 Well, let me explain it to you, because the ceremony 20 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:51.280 plays a very important part in the story tonight. Blaney 21 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:54.840 Castle is an imposing fifteenth century ruin a few miles 22 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:57.920 outside the town of Cork. The castle, as many his 23 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.520 stories high and in the Formerst Tower, the famous Blonistone 24 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:02.560 is situated. 25 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:05.200 What's supposed to be the point in kissing it? Doctor? 26 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:05.959 The stone is. 27 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:09.000 Considered a powerful talisman, and the legend runs that whoever 28 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:10.640 kisses it is endowed with. 29 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:12.040 Eloquence for life. 30 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:14.719 To say, Doctor, if I ever get over to Ireland, 31 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:19.200 I'll certainly kiss that stone. But you're such a storytelling yourself. Doctor, 32 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:20.480 how about you've kissed it? 33 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.560 It's about her. I'm afraid I never had quite enough courage. 34 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:27.239 Courage Why does it need courage? 35 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:27.439 Down? 36 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.879 Because the blanistone is set in a most inaccessible position 37 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.480 on the outside wall, To kiss it discustomer to lower 38 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.920 the candidate for eloquence over the rampart head foremost with 39 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.239 a friend hanging on to his. 40 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:44.519 Heels from the top of a castle. Does sound dangerous? 41 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:46.560 Doctor, It was, my boy, so much so that in 42 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:48.920 recent years a great row of n spikes has put 43 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.560 around the parapet to prevent an accident. Of course, at 44 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:54.560 the time tonight's story took place, there was no such. 45 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:57.480 Guard, and I have feeling that an accident did take place. 46 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:57.840 Doctor. 47 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:01.560 I tell you the story from the beginning. 48 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:04.879 Sherlock Holmes and I were staying in the city of Cork, 49 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:07.920 where the Great manager solved the singular affair, which the 50 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:12.000 local press had referred to as electricorn murders. A few 51 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.280 days before departure for England, we paid a visit to 52 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:17.159 Blanney Castle. I must confess that I had a certain 53 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.879 desire to test the miraculous paths attributed. 54 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:21.319 To the Blanistone. 55 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.479 I have as soon changed my mind, however, as Holmes 56 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:27.000 and I stood there high on the turrets of Blanney 57 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:30.039 Castle and watched it, terrified of the shade being hauled 58 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.360 up by his ankles and yelling at the top of 59 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:33.560 his voice. 60 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:35.919 Pull me up, Pull me up quickly. 61 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:39.360 I think I'm going to faint, Great Scott, I had 62 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:42.199 no idea that kissing the Barnistone was such a hazardous proceeding. 63 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:45.280 Es it would seem that eloquence could be more easily 64 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:47.759 obtained than by hanging suspended by one's ankles from a 65 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:51.120 battlement with one hundred foot dropped below and kissing a 66 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:51.759 piece of stone. 67 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:55.000 I'll never do that again, or I must say, I 68 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:56.280 don't blame the puller. 69 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:58.319 And yet my Da Chap, on our way over here, 70 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.840 you expressed the sneaking desire to kiss the yourself. I'll 71 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:02.319 be very happy to hold your ankles if you want 72 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:03.120 to try the experiment. 73 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.039 After witnessing the ceremony acts. 74 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.560 Her mind, then I suggest we make our way back downstairs. 75 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.759 I don't think there's much more to be seen up here. 76 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:13.039 Well by the way homes. 77 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.039 Do you know the origin of the superstition regarding the. 78 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:19.360 Blister, Yes, I do, Old Chap. The stone was sorry 79 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:21.159 of the stone dates back to the middle of the 80 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.919 fifteenth century. A certain Cormack McCarthy called the Strong, a 81 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.400 descendant of the ancient kings of Munster and builder of 82 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.199 this castle, chanced one day to save an old woman 83 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:31.719 from drowning. In her gratitude, she offered Cormack a golden 84 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.879 tongue which would have a power to influence men and women, 85 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.599 friends and foes as he willed. She told him to 86 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:39.719 mont the battlem and kiss a certain stone in the 87 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.360 wall five feet below the gallery running around the top. 88 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.879 He followed her directions and obtained all the fluent persuasiveness 89 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:46.719 she had promised. 90 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.280 I suppose the story spread in the Blanis Stone has 91 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:53.240 been a magnet of pilgrims over since that person's legend Holmes. Yes, 92 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:56.400 Old Chap tomorrow's Patrick's Day. I bet there'll be quite 93 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:58.159 a bit of excitement in the village tonight. Don't you 94 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:00.439 think it'd be rather fond of play it to one 95 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:00.599 of the. 96 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.639 Local in splendid idea Old Jabs or rather Arjumus. 97 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:05.879 Work here in Aland is concluded, and I think we're 98 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:07.039 more than entitled. 99 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:08.120 Well, it be gaiety. 100 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:24.160 In love today that I first matched. 101 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:24.959 With name. 102 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.000 Charming, quite charming, awake and singing. 103 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:33.120 It is working very well too, just the same. I 104 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:34.920 wish someone would come and take an hourder Oh there's 105 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:35.279 about it. 106 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:37.600 I'll see if I can catch her, Hi, missus. 107 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.079 Smith, Would you, gentlemen, be after what and something? 108 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:41.920 Yes, my dear, my friend, and I would like a 109 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:42.720 little refreshment. 110 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.519 And what would you suggest? What would I suggest, your honor? 111 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:47.959 Oh, big god, there's but one drink. 112 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.319 A gentleman like yourself should be after pouring down. Ye, 113 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:54.120 and that's the cream of Carni boras wrisky is it 114 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.759 is soft when you're hurting Nikya glow with a good feeling, 115 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:59.519 so so that the little people will be. 116 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.519 After visit sounds delightful. Bring two glasses, we. 117 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:07.519 Don't I'm a sair I never heard an English barmaid 118 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.920 go into such rhapsodies over a nipper whisky. 119 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.000 You know, the Irish artists thinct him off colorful in 120 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.120 their speech. It's an interesting fact, though, Watson, that the 121 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:17.199 Irish are curiously unrewarding in. 122 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:18.079 The criminal world. 123 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.839 England's corts in America Australia have all produced classics of crime, 124 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.879 but the Irish murder is almost without exception of purely 125 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:26.600 physical affairs. 126 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:27.000 Of hot block. 127 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:29.079 You said that rather regretful of homes. 128 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:34.560 Nobody a chap, No no, no, watsman did this rather florid. 129 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:36.959 The gentleman coming towards our table looks to. 130 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:38.800 Me as if he's a little under the wather. You 131 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:40.399 fellows have got to have a drink with me. 132 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:42.759 Oh thank you, sir, thank you, But we've just ordered one. 133 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:43.920 I've gotta have it with me. 134 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.199 I went to the races at Cork today and made 135 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.360 a killing. I'm going by old drinks. Certain I'm afraid 136 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:52.360 that you are you afraid of I'll sit down with 137 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:57.560 you for a moment. My name's Hanking, Jeffrey hankin man 138 00:05:57.680 --> 00:05:59.639 Is Holmes, and this is my friend, doctor Watson. 139 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:03.240 That if you went into. 140 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:06.079 Her I'm paying for these here half a crown, and 141 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.600 you can keep you changeless. 142 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.120 On you here if you insist on paying for our 143 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.480 drinks with a handkins, here's your very health. 144 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:14.600 You're both English? 145 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.279 Answer yes, sir, so am I and it's certainly a 146 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.800 relief to hear an English voice again. You don't like 147 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.199 the Irish little sir conbearers personally? I rather chary. It 148 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.000 wouldn't if you had to live with it all the time. 149 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:28.600 Sometimes I think that if I hear one more Irish 150 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.199 tenors singing Molly Malone, or. 151 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.519 One more reference to the little people. 152 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:34.560 I shall go raving. 153 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:37.839 There you live in I have to I own a 154 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:39.560 half interest in the treadmill here. 155 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:39.959 You see. 156 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:42.600 In any case, my wife's hourish, and see thinks there's 157 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:43.879 no other country in the world. 158 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:45.199 So suppose I'm stuck here. 159 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:47.279 See that couple sitting. 160 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:49.480 At the table over there, you mean the follow a 161 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:50.600 very beautiful. 162 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.680 Girl is man's Michael Corker and my partner. 163 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:58.160 The girl's absolutely ravishing. He'd like to meet her like George? 164 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:02.319 Yes, what's in the combination of my natural curiosity and your. 165 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.120 Taste for pretty face would seem to suit the occasion. Probably. 166 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:07.800 I might as well warn you doctor that the pretty 167 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:10.839 face belongs to my wife, your wife to me. 168 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.240 I didn't you about to bring your glasses with you? 169 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.399 My, my dear. I want you to meet two English 170 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.680 friends of mine, mister Holmes and Dr Watson. 171 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:28.319 How do you How do you do? Mister Holmes, Doctor Barson? 172 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:30.279 Won't you sit down and join it? And this is 173 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:31.879 my partner, Michael Corcoran. 174 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:33.199 How do you do? Mister Cochran? 175 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:33.680 How do you do? 176 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:34.839 I'm glad to meet you. 177 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:39.120 Please be see you gentlemen are visiting, yes, missus Hankin, 178 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:40.879 but we're returning to England in a few days. 179 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:42.639 You've been to Blarney Castle, I hope? 180 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:44.040 Oh yes, we were this afternoon. 181 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.639 And did either have you had the courage to kiss 182 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:48.279 the Blarney Stone? Oh no, we didn't. 183 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:50.160 I'm afraid it's an athletic feet. 184 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:50.600 That's beyond me. 185 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:54.439 It's a lot of jubbish, that's what it is, Sladow Stone. 186 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:56.519 Have you the courage to do it? Jeffrey? 187 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:56.959 Course? 188 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.079 God, I have rather want to make a fool of myself. 189 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.279 Where's the deathly I'll make a wager Jeffrey that you 190 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:05.000 haven't the courage to kiss the storm. 191 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:06.879 You bet Michael and Weigher a. 192 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:07.839 Ten pound note on it. 193 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:08.399 It's a bet. 194 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:10.360 And you, fellows witnesses, are just the. 195 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.000 Blondie stone at noon tomorrow and you'll be ten parts. 196 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.240 Of poor of Michael, and I suggested mister Holmes and 197 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:16.759 doctor Watson be present as well. 198 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:18.199 They can act as referees. 199 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:20.160 Jeffrey, dear, don't get to ex time. So I don't 200 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.279 like it when Michael suggests I don't have courage. 201 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.120 You want some more drink, mister Henryson, No, no, no, 202 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:29.120 no more. You've had enough, jeff Don't tell me when 203 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:30.360 I've had enough money. 204 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:31.920 In Dublin spare City. 205 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:39.159 No, not that perfect, and I quite and I find them. 206 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:44.159 Jeffrey, quiet you. 207 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:46.440 You wanted me to sing in other son, my. 208 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:49.279 Honor would like you to shut up that filthy cattleboy. 209 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:52.240 Sean. 210 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:55.720 Please go on with your singing in Dublin spear City. 211 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:03.720 You heard me, your great bug tucking shut up, Jeff I'm. 212 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:04.399 Leaving here at once. 213 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.360 Michael pleased to take me home. It will be my pleasure. 214 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:07.679 Mary. 215 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:11.320 You're an ugly man, mister Hankin knocking down poor Sean 216 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:12.399 when he was singing, just like. 217 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.039 A bird devil with him all. 218 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.360 No irishman will be after forgiving you for this night's work. 219 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:19.720 No, not the little people of old Ireland either. 220 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.720 You've made more enemies, mister Hankin, than you'll ever see. 221 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:24.559 But you'll be no one there there. 222 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:28.799 You can't find me with your supid Irish superstition. 223 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.159 Well, bless my soul. That was a charming little party. 224 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:36.480 I must say, Englishman like Hankin are a disgrace to 225 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:37.039 that country. 226 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:38.799 Fortunately they're not represented a girl. 227 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.440 Yes, I must say, hate to have curse put on 228 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:43.159 me like that barmaid. 229 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:43.360 Laid on him. 230 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:43.960 Watson. 231 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:48.000 Yeah, did you see the glances which mister Hankins's partner 232 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.600 and his wife exchanged as brawl started. There was more 233 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:55.840 menace to him in those glances than in all the 234 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:57.799 threats of all the little people in Ireland. 235 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:01.759 Yeah, I thought the devil something between them. I say, home, 236 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:05.840 that bet about Hankin kissing the Blindstone at noon. 237 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:10.320 Tomorrow do you nothing? But there are forces at work 238 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:13.279 here that I don't like. I think Watson, that you 239 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:14.679 and I will be at the blind is Stone at 240 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:16.519 noon tomorrow. It's possible that. 241 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:18.720 The bet made tonight is all part of a definite plan, 242 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:20.919 and I have a feeling that the bet is still on. 243 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:37.200 Cry whiny up here today, o fellow at the top 244 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:37.960 of the time, isn't it? 245 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:41.879 Yes, it's just past noon. I wonder if that man Hankin. 246 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:43.200 Is going to keep to the terms of his. 247 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:45.320 Best he will soon learn in the meanwhile, are you 248 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:46.799 sure that you wouldn't like to change your mind and 249 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:48.080 kiss the blandistone yourself? 250 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.440 I'm quite sure they go here, they come now? 251 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:55.159 Yes, han Kin as his patn mister Copperan, the bet 252 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:01.039 is on, Watson, good dad, you gentlemen. Oh hello, it's 253 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:02.200 my friends from last night. 254 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:04.320 Well, I see you're going through the bedson. 255 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.159 Oh yes, Jeffrey city is mine and the ten pounds 256 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.320 of mine. Your wife didn't come you, mister Hankin, No 257 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:12.240 she didn't. I'm afraid I'm rather in disgraceful my behavior 258 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:14.360 last night. Molly made me go around and see that 259 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.320 way a fellow that I had. I offered him money, 260 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:19.840 but he wouldn't take it. Did you offer him an apology? 261 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:23.399 Apologize to a waiter? I should say no more. Come on, 262 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:26.399 let's get this stripid fast over with eh. Are you 263 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:29.120 sure your nerves can stand it, Jeffrey. It's a drop 264 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:31.159 of one hundred feet or more below. You don't worry 265 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.600 about me, Michael. Just so long my ankles tightling them 266 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:39.639 to go. I'll come out of the power best. There 267 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:39.960 we are. 268 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:43.639 Oh, hold on my feet, Michael, lower me gently. 269 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:49.840 I'm holding you. Jeffrey. Hell right, you are, Jeffrey good. 270 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:53.000 I wouldn't do that for one hundred pounds. Sliding head 271 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:57.399 first on a vertical wall. O. 272 00:11:58.080 --> 00:11:59.799 His boots they're slipping from it. 273 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:04.799 The I can't hold him, help him, hold on to him, 274 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:05.559 hold on to him. 275 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:07.200 Oh he's gone. 276 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:12.960 I just couldn't hold him. Right, heavens, no man could 277 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:14.000 survive that drop. 278 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:16.639 That the cocherman. You deliberately let your partner slip to 279 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:21.279 his death. This is murder, which I don't understand. I'm 280 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.639 a strong man. But he just vanished out of the 281 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:25.039 hands like like a grease. 282 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:25.279 Peak. 283 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:28.320 Let me see your hands, mister cockman. This is dreadful, dreadful. 284 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.279 There's grease on your hands. Greece, and with a faint 285 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:32.559 trace of boot blacking. 286 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:33.639 Good Lord Homes. 287 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.200 That means Watson, that someone knowing that Hankin was going 288 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.799 to kiss the barnistone smear his boots with grease so 289 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:42.799 that he would slip out of the grasp of whoever. 290 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:45.360 Was holding him. That's clever a method of indirect long 291 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:47.000 distance murderers ever I've encountered. 292 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:57.320 You'll hear the. 293 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:59.559 Remainder of dark Watson's story in just a second. So 294 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:03.200 I'm going to remind you that Petrie California's sherry is 295 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:06.679 not only wonderful before dinner, but it's good almost any time. 296 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.120 If you had to choose just one wine for almost 297 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:13.159 any occasion, that wine would be Petrie sherry. 298 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:14.759 Petrie sherry is. 299 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:17.399 A perfect wine to serve in the afternoon or in 300 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:21.000 the evening. It's good before dinner, yes, but it's swell 301 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.000 after dinner too. In fact, with a bottle of Petrie 302 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:27.679 sherry on your shelf, you've got practically a small sized 303 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:31.080 wine selling. So get a bottle of Petrie sherry soon. 304 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.279 And remember you can't miss with any wine that has 305 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:37.879 the letters P E t R I on the label, 306 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:43.639 because all Petrie wine is good wine. Well, doctor Watson, 307 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.200 this is quite a story you're telling us tonight. What 308 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.000 happened next? I suppose you went down into the castle 309 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:50.559 grounds and looked for the dead man's bottle. 310 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:54.519 We tried to mister Boutell, but the authorities were curiously uncooperative. 311 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:55.919 It refused to let. 312 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:58.559 Her search, insisting of the police be called first, and 313 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:02.320 so mister Boutell half an hour after the tragedy, Holmes 314 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:04.960 and I found ourselves standing in a tiny police station. 315 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.960 As we told the story is a local sergeant shure 316 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:10.840 the saysty prayers. 317 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.960 Mister Holmes, tis a terrible story you have told me tomorrow. 318 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:17.080 I'll be after resting shan O Shahna Flarerty. He's a 319 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:18.919 waiter at the end, the one who sings that he 320 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:19.360 is that. 321 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:21.360 He is, and he sings like a breath of spring. 322 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:23.519 I'll be sorry to see him, Hank. 323 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:25.440 But to you, you've got no proof that he was 324 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:26.679 responsible for the murder. 325 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.360 Proof, you say, sir, well, I can't arrest a big 326 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.000 man of factory man like mister Cochran, can I or 327 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:34.480 a fine lady like missus Hank. If you can't arrest 328 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:37.240 a man without any evidence of gulte, I can't. 329 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:37.440 Can't I? 330 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.200 Then suppose they tell you that Sean o'farley cleans the 331 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.080 boats at the hotel where mister Hank understand, does he? 332 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.480 Then he had the perfect opportunity for the greasing of 333 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.399 Hampkins boots this morning, and we know he had a 334 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:51.799 motive for harming him. 335 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:54.039 Your ri sir, and for what I have hoarded the 336 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:57.240 dead man's behavior last night half a dozen people could 337 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.360 have heard him make the bet that he'd kissed the 338 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.360 blindisht on today, shan Oh Favi is a man I'll 339 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:05.639 have the rest of tomorrow. What good heavens man? Aren't 340 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:07.919 you going to do something today? A murderer is at 341 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:11.759 large today, it's blessed Saint Patrick's day. Should let the 342 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:14.559 poor fellow have the day? He said, oh, he won't 343 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:15.080 run away? 344 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:15.679 Mind yourself? 345 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:18.399 Will you come back with me to the castle? And 346 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:20.120 said for the body? They refuse to let me do 347 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:20.519 it alone? 348 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:23.840 And Saint Patrick's day that I will not. We would 349 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:25.919 need a crew of helpers. Where will I be after 350 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:27.759 getting them on the bless in Saint Patrick's Day? 351 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:29.600 No, No, I will do that tomorrow too. 352 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:30.039 Up. 353 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:31.840 Today's a day for celebrating. 354 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:33.320 Your methods, stand, miss Argent. 355 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:35.120 Do they know, sir, they'll be. 356 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:39.120 Out threaten about me? Just injoy yourself today. Tomorrow we'll 357 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:40.240 see what can be done about it. 358 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:41.720 Well, good day to you, gentlemen. 359 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.200 I never scenes that you're having a lucky placemen and 360 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:47.399 the light infuriating. 361 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:50.159 If only I have a lot to examine Hankins's product 362 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:50.879 can get to the bottom of this. 363 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:52.480 Well, what are you going to do now? Please? 364 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:54.480 Won't help us, then we mistake the law into our 365 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.840 own hands. I think we'll start up by going to 366 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.360 the hotel and seeing what we can find out from 367 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:00.440 Seawan Farty. 368 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:13.559 As I was going to Berlin, you are day. I 369 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.960 will remember for the view the lens and lesses one 370 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.039 and fifth day of November with a marine a day 371 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.360 and a marine. I do a daddy, Oh your honnas 372 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.679 would be after speaking to me, Shan o clarity perhaps. 373 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.440 Yes, Sean, did you know that mister Hankson, the man 374 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:27.960 who struck you last night, was dead? 375 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:28.799 Dead? 376 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:31.759 Will if he were a man deserved to be beneath 377 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:35.200 the side? Who was Jeffrey Hankin himself a mean, ugly man? 378 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:37.440 The safe be praised that he's gone. 379 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:39.000 Did he die? 380 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:39.200 Sir? 381 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:40.600 He will murder. 382 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:43.639 Murdered but dead. 383 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:44.720 I'm not surprised to hear it. 384 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:45.759 Who murdered him, sir? 385 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:47.120 Now the murmur of the police seem to think that 386 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:49.960 you are the culprit myself. 387 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:52.840 Well, how would I be after murdering the man, sir? 388 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:54.639 And I don't even know how he died. 389 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:56.600 He died when he fell from the top. 390 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:58.879 Of Blanet Castle as he was trying to kiss the stone. 391 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.080 He fell because missus Cochran and his partner couldn't hold 392 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:02.919 on to his feet. 393 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:06.039 His boots have been greased, and we know that you 394 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.200 have been cleaning his boot, Sean. 395 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:08.880 That I have, Sir. 396 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:11.440 I cleaned him this very mining, but I put no 397 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:13.880 grease on him. If that's what you'd be after suggesting. 398 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.039 I'm suggesting nothing. I am trying to establish a few facts. 399 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:18.279 Do you know Kathleen the barnard. 400 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:19.240 Oh In, Why shouldn't I know? 401 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:22.079