1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,800 Chapter 7 of the valley of fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:06,600 This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. 3 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:14,100 Chapter 7, the solution. Next morning after breakfast. 4 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:17,600 We found inspector MacDonald and white Mason seated in close 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,700 consultation in the small. Parlour of the local police 6 00:00:20,700 --> 00:00:24,300 Sergeant on the table in front of them were piled a number of 7 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:26,900 letters and telegrams which they were carefully. 8 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:30,100 Sorting and docketing. Three had been placed on one 9 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:32,900 side. The still on the track of the 10 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:36,900 elusive bicyclist Holmes asked cheerfully what is the latest 11 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:40,900 news of the Ruffian McDonald pointed roof lie to his heap of 12 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:44,400 Correspondence. He is at present reported from 13 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,700 Leicester, Nottingham Southampton, Darby East, mum, 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,300 Richmond, and 14 other places in three of them Eastham Lester and 15 00:00:54,300 --> 00:00:56,600 Liverpool. There is a clear case against 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,700 him and he's actually been arrested. 17 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:01,300 This country seems to be full of the fugitives. 18 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:05,300 As with yellow coats. Dear me said, Holmes 19 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:09,100 sympathetically now, mr. Mac, and you missed a white 20 00:01:09,100 --> 00:01:11,100 Mason. I wish to give you a very 21 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:14,700 Earnest piece of advice. When I went into this case with 22 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:17,700 you, I bargained as you will, no doubt remember that. 23 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:21,500 I should not present you with half proved theories, but that I 24 00:01:21,508 --> 00:01:25,300 should retain and work out my own ideas, until I had satisfied 25 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:29,900 myself that they were correct. For this reason, I am not at the 26 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:33,800 present moment, telling you all that is in my mind on the other 27 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:38,000 hand, I said that I would play the game fairly by you and I do 28 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,100 not think it is a fair game to allow you for one unnecessary 29 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:46,200 moment to waste your energies upon a profitless task. 30 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,700 Therefore, I'm here to advise you this morning and my advice 31 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:55,200 to you is summed up in three words, abandon the case, 32 00:01:56,700 --> 00:01:59,600 McDonald and white. Mason stared in amazement at 33 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:04,000 their celebrated colleague. You consider it, hopeless, cried 34 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,200 the inspector. I consider your case to be 35 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,500 hopeless. I do not consider that. 36 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:14,400 It is hopeless to arrive at the truth, but this cyclist is not 37 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,100 an invention. We have his description, his 38 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:20,400 valise, his bicycle. The fella must be somewhere. 39 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:25,300 Why should we not get him? Yes, yes, no doubt he is 40 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:29,300 somewhere and no doubt we shall get him but I would not have you 41 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:32,200 waste your energies in East ham or Liverpool. 42 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:36,100 I am sure that we can find some shorter cut to a result. 43 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:40,400 You're holding something back, it's hardly fair of you mr. 44 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,000 Holmes, the inspector was annoyed, you know, my methods of 45 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,500 work. Mr. Mac, but I will hold it back 46 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:52,000 for the shortest time possible. I only wish to verify my details 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 in one way. Which can very readily be done. 48 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:00,300 And then I make my bow and return to London leaving my 49 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:02,700 results entirely At Your Service. 50 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,900 I owe you too much to act otherwise for in all my 51 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:09,300 experience. I cannot recall any more 52 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:14,600 singular and interesting study. This is clean Beyond me, mr. 53 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,100 Holmes, we saw you when we returned from Tunbridge Wells 54 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:21,100 last night and you are in general agreement with our 55 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:24,900 results, what has happened since then to give you a completely 56 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:29,300 new idea of the case. Well, since you asked me, I 57 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:33,500 spent as I told you that I would some hours last night at the 58 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:36,900 Manor House. Well, what happened? 59 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,600 I can only give you a very general answer to that for the 60 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,000 moment. By the way, I have been reading 61 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,400 a short but clear and interesting account of the old 62 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,400 building purchasable at the modest sum of one penny from the 63 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,300 local tobacconist here. Holmes drew a small tract 64 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,900 embellished with a rude engraving of the ancient 65 00:03:59,900 --> 00:04:02,100 manor-house from his waistcoat pocket. 66 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,000 It immensely adds to the zest of an investigation idea. 67 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,500 Mr. Mack when one is in conscious sympathy with the 68 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:13,200 historical atmosphere of one's surroundings. 69 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,200 Don't look so impatient for I assure you that even so bald and 70 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,400 account as this raises, some sort of picture of the past. 71 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:27,900 In one's mind, permit me to give you an example, erected in the 72 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:31,700 fifth year of the reign of James first and standing upon the 73 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:35,900 sight of a much older building, the manor house of belston 74 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,600 presents, one of the finest surviving examples of the moated 75 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,700 jacobean residence, You are making fools of us. 76 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:48,700 Mr. Holmes tuk-tuk mr. Mack, the first sign of temper. 77 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:52,200 I have detected in you. Well, I won't read it verbatim 78 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:54,900 since you feel so strongly upon the subject. 79 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,300 But when I tell you that there is some account of the taking of 80 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:02,700 the place by a parliamentary colonel, in 1644 of the 81 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:05,700 concealment of Charles, for several days in the course of 82 00:05:05,700 --> 00:05:10,000 the Civil War and finally, of a visit there by the second George 83 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:13,400 you will admit that there. Our various associations of 84 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,000 Interest connected with this ancient house. 85 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 I don't doubt it. Mr. Holmes but that is no 86 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 business of ours. Is it not? 87 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,500 Is it not bred to view my dear mr. 88 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,300 Mac is one of the essentials of our profession. 89 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:34,000 The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are 90 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,500 often of extraordinary interest, you will excuse these. 91 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:41,300 Remarks from one who though, Amia connoisseur of crime. 92 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,700 Still rather older and perhaps more experienced than yourself. 93 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,800 I'm the first to admit that said, the detective heartily, 94 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,300 you get to your point I admit but you have such a deuced Round 95 00:05:54,300 --> 00:05:58,600 the Corner way of doing it. Well, well, I'll drop the past 96 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:00,900 history and get down to present-day facts. 97 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,000 I called last night. As I've already said that the 98 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,000 manor house. I did not see either Barker or 99 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,800 mrs. Douglas, I saw no necessity to 100 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,000 disturb them, but I was pleased to hear that the lady was not 101 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,200 visibly pining and that she had partaken of an excellent dinner. 102 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,400 My visit was specially made to the good mr. 103 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:26,600 Ames with whom, I exchanged some Amy abilities which Which 104 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,900 culminated in his allowing me without reference to any one 105 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:33,400 else to sit alone for a time in the study. 106 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:37,700 What with that? I ejaculated. 107 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:42,400 No, no, everything is now in order you gave mission for that. 108 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:47,300 Mr. Mack as I'm informed, the room was in its normal State and 109 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:49,600 in it. I passed an instructive quarter 110 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,100 of an hour. What were you doing? 111 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:55,800 Well not to make a mystery of so simple and matter. 112 00:06:56,300 --> 00:06:58,400 I was looking for the missing dumbbell. 113 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:03,600 It is always bolt rather large in my estimate of the case I 114 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:09,700 ended by finding it. We're there we come to the edge 115 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:13,500 of the unexplored. Let me go a little further, a 116 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:16,900 very little further and I will promise that you shall share 117 00:07:16,900 --> 00:07:21,100 everything that I know. Well, what about to take you on 118 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:23,300 your own terms said, the inspector. 119 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:28,200 But when it comes to telling us to abandon the case, why in the 120 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,000 name of goodness, should we abandon the case? 121 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:33,900 For the simple reason? My dear, mr. 122 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:36,600 Mac, that you have not got the first idea. 123 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,600 What it is that you are investigating. 124 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,100 We are investigating the murder of mr. 125 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:47,600 John Douglas of Burstyn manner. Yes, yes, so you are but don't 126 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,600 trouble to trace the mysterious gentleman upon the bicycle. 127 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,400 I assure you that it won't help. Then what do you suggest we do? 128 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:01,200 I will tell you exactly what to do, if you will do it. 129 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,600 Well, I'm bound to see. I've always found you at reason 130 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:10,700 behind all your queer ways. I'll do what you advise and you 131 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:11,700 mr. White Mason. 132 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:15,900 The country detective looked helplessly from one to the other 133 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:18,400 homes and his methods were new to him. 134 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,200 Well it is good enough for the inspector, it's good enough for 135 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,800 me. He said it last Capital said 136 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,000 Holmes. Well then I should recommend a 137 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,700 nice cheery Country. Walk for both of you, they tell 138 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:36,299 me that the views from belston Ridge over the Wheeled are very 139 00:08:36,299 --> 00:08:39,200 remarkable. No doubt lunch could be got at 140 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:42,900 some suitable hostelry though, my ignorance of the The country 141 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:47,900 prevents me from recommending one in the evening tired, but 142 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:51,700 happy man. This is getting pasta joke. 143 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:54,400 Cried, McDonald Rising angrily from his chair. 144 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:58,800 Well, well, spend the day as you like said, Holmes, patting him 145 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,800 cheerfully upon the shoulder. Do what you like and go where 146 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:08,300 you will, but meet me here before dusk without fail without 147 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:11,800 fail mr. Mack That sounds more like 148 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,900 sanity. All of it was excellent advice 149 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:19,600 but I don't insist so long as you are here when I need you. 150 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,700 But now before we part, I want you to write a note to mr. 151 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:29,100 Barker. Well I'll dictate it if you like 152 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:33,200 ready. Dear Sir, it has struck me. 153 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,000 That it is our duty to drain the moat in the hope that we might 154 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,100 find some it's impossible. Sadly. 155 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:44,500 Ha I've made inquiry tut-tut. My dear sir. 156 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:46,400 Please do what? I ask you. 157 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:51,600 We'll go on in the hope that we might find something which may 158 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,900 bear upon our investigation. I have made arrangements and the 159 00:09:55,908 --> 00:09:59,500 workmen will be at work, early tomorrow morning diverting the 160 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:04,100 stream impossible, diverting the stream. 161 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,300 So I thought it best to explain matters beforehand. 162 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:13,300 Now, sign that and send It by hand about 4:00 at that hour. 163 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:15,000 We shall meet again in this room. 164 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:19,400 Until then we met each do what we like for I can assure you 165 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,200 that this inquiry has come to a definite pause. 166 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,900 Evening was drawing in, when we reassembled, Holmes, was very 167 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:32,300 serious in his manner myself, curious and the detectives, 168 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:37,300 obviously critical and annoyed. Well gentlemen said my friend 169 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:41,400 Gravely, I am asking you now to put everything to the test with 170 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,700 me and you will judge for yourselves. 171 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:47,700 Whether the observations I have made Justified a conclusions to 172 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:52,400 which I have come, it is a chilly evening and I do not know 173 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,500 how long our Expedition May last. 174 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:57,600 So I beg that you will wear your warmest coats. 175 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:00,900 It is of the first importance that we should be in our places 176 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,200 before it grows dark. So with your permission, we It 177 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,300 started at once. We passed along the outer bounds 178 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:12,800 of the manor house Park, until we came to a place where there 179 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,600 was a gap in the rails, which fenced it through this we 180 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,200 slipped and then in the Gathering Gloom, we followed 181 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,700 Holmes until we had reached a Shrubbery, which lies nearby 182 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:27,700 opposite to the main door and the drawbridge the latter, had 183 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:31,300 not been raised homes. Crouched down behind a screen of 184 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:34,300 laurels and we all three followed his example. 185 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:39,300 Well what are we to do now? Us McDonald was some gruffness 186 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,400 possess, our souls in patients and make as little noise as 187 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,700 possible Holmes answered. What are we here for at all? 188 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:51,700 I really think you might treat us with some more frankness 189 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:56,800 Holmes laughed, Watson insist that I am the dramatist in real 190 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,800 life said he some touch of the artist Wells up within me and 191 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,500 calls insistently for a well staged performance. 192 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:08,200 Surely our profession. Mr. Mack would be a drab and 193 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,300 sordid one if we did not sometimes set the scene. 194 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:16,800 So as to glorify our results, the blunt accusation, the brutal 195 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,400 tap on the shoulder. What can one make of such a 196 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,300 denouement? But the quick inference, the 197 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:26,000 subtle trap. The clever forecast of coming 198 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,600 events, the triumphant Vindication of bold theories are 199 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,800 these, not the pride, and the justification of our life's 200 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,200 work. At the present moment you thrill 201 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,500 with the glamour of the situation and the anticipation 202 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:43,300 of the hunt, where would be that thrill? 203 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:47,300 If I had been as definite as a timetable, I only ask a little 204 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:50,200 patience mr. Mack and all will be clear to 205 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,200 you. Well, I hope the pride and 206 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,600 justification and the rest of it will come before we all get our 207 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,900 death of cold soda. London detective with comic 208 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:04,200 resignation We all had good reason to join in the aspiration 209 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,500 for our vigil was a long and bitter. 210 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:11,200 One, slowly the Shadows darkened over the long somber face of the 211 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:16,300 old house, a cold damp Reek from the moat Childers to the bones 212 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:20,400 and set our teeth chattering. There was a single lamp over the 213 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,800 Gateway and a steady glow of light. 214 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:28,600 In the Fatal study, everything else was dark and still How long 215 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,400 is this, the last, that's the inspector finally. 216 00:13:31,900 --> 00:13:34,000 And what is it? We're waiting for. 217 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:39,600 I have no more notion in you how long it is to last Holmes 218 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,300 answered with some asperity. If criminals would always 219 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:46,700 schedule their movements like railway trains it would 220 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:50,400 certainly be more convenient for all of us as to what it is. 221 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,000 We well, that's what we're watching for. 222 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,900 As he spoke, the bright yellow light in the study was obscured 223 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:03,600 by somebody passing to and fro before it, The Laurels among 224 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,100 which we lay were immediately opposite the window and not more 225 00:14:07,100 --> 00:14:10,800 than 100 feet from it presently, it was thrown open with a 226 00:14:10,808 --> 00:14:15,200 whining of hinges and we could dimly see the dark outline of a 227 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:20,100 man's head and shoulders looking out into the Gloom for some 228 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:24,700 minutes, he peered forth in furtive stealthy fashion as one. 229 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:28,500 Who wishes to be assured. That his unobserved, then he 230 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:31,600 leaned forward. And in the intense silence, we 231 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,500 were aware of the soft lapping of agitated water. 232 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,300 He seemed to be stirring up the moat with something, which he 233 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:42,300 held in his hand. Then suddenly he hauled 234 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:45,000 something in as a fisherman lands of fish. 235 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,000 Some large round object which obscured the light as it was 236 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,800 dragged through the open casement. 237 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:55,900 Now cried Holmes. Now we were all upon our feet. 238 00:14:55,900 --> 00:14:59,400 Staggering after him with our stiffened limbs while he ran 239 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,600 swiftly across the bridge and rang violently at the Bell. 240 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,400 There was the rasping of bolts from the other side and the 241 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,600 amazed aims stood in the entrance homes. 242 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,500 Brushed him aside without a word and followed by all of us rushed 243 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:16,300 into the room which had been occupied by the man whom he had 244 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:19,600 been watching. The oil lamp on the table 245 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:23,500 represented, the glow, which we had seen from outside, it was 246 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:27,700 now in the hands of Cecil Barker who held it towards us, as we 247 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:32,100 entered, its light Shone upon his strong Resolute clean, 248 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:34,500 shaved face and his menacing eyes. 249 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:37,800 What the devil is. The meaning of all this, he 250 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:42,200 cried, what are you after? Anyhow Holmes, took a swift 251 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,300 glance around and then pounced upon a sudden bundle tied 252 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:49,700 together with cord, Which lay where it had been thrust under 253 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:53,700 the writing table. This is what we are after mr. 254 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:58,600 Barker, this bundle waited with a dumbbell, which you have just 255 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,500 raised from the bottom of the moat. 256 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,300 Bacchus dead at homes with amazement in his face. 257 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:07,500 How in the thunder. Came you to know anything about 258 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:10,700 it. He asked simply that I put it 259 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:15,400 there. You put it there you perhaps I 260 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,600 should have said replaced it there said Holmes, you will 261 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,000 remember inspector MacDonald that I was somewhat struck by 262 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,800 the absence of a dumbbell. I drew your attention to it, but 263 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,600 with the pressure of other events you had hardly the time 264 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,900 to give it the Consideration. Which would have enabled you to 265 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:38,800 draw deductions from it when water is near and a weight is 266 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:43,000 missing, it is not a very far-fetched supposition that 267 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,100 something has been sunk in the water. 268 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:47,900 The idea was at least worth testing. 269 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:52,300 So with the help of Ames, who admitted me to the room and the 270 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:56,000 crook of doctor Watson's umbrella, I was able last night 271 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,700 to fish up and inspect this bundle It was of the first 272 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:03,800 importance however that we should be able to prove who 273 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,800 placed it there. This we accomplished by the very 274 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,200 obvious device of announcing that the moat would be dried 275 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,000 tomorrow. Which had, of course the effect 276 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,900 that whoever had hidden a bundle would most certainly withdraw 277 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:20,400 it, the moment that Darkness enabled him to do. 278 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:25,700 So we have no less than four witnesses as to who it was, who 279 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:27,500 took advantage of the opportunity. 280 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:31,600 And so, mr. Barker, I think the word lies 281 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,900 now with you. Sherlock Holmes, put the sopping 282 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:40,000 bundle upon the table beside the lamp and undid the cord, which 283 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:45,100 bound it from within he extracted a dumbbell which he 284 00:17:45,100 --> 00:17:47,100 tossed down to its fellow in the corner. 285 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,400 Next. He drew forth a pair of boots 286 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:54,000 American. As you perceive, he remarked 287 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:58,900 pointing to the toes, then he laid upon the table, a long, 288 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:03,300 deadly sheathed knife. Finally, he unraveled a bundle 289 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:05,800 of clothing. NG comprising a complete set of 290 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:10,200 under clothes socks, a gray, Tweed suit and a short, yellow 291 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,100 Overcoat. The clothes are commonplace 292 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:17,800 remarked Holmes. Save only the Overcoat, which is 293 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,600 full of suggestive touches. He held it tenderly towards the 294 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,500 light here. As you perceive is the inner 295 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:29,500 pocket prolonged into the lining in such a fashion as to give 296 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:32,500 ample space for the truncated fowling-piece. 297 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:38,900 The Taylor's tab is on the back, Neil Outfitter, vermissa USA. 298 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:43,500 I've spent an instructive afternoon in the His library and 299 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:47,300 of enlarge my knowledge by adding the fact that vermissa is 300 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:50,600 a flourishing little town at the head of one of the best-known 301 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,300 coal and iron valleys in the United States. 302 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:58,700 I have some recollection. Mr. Barker that you Associated 303 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:02,700 the cold districts with mr. Douglas his first wife and it 304 00:19:02,700 --> 00:19:05,700 would surely not be too far-fetched and inference that 305 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:10,400 the v v upon the card by the dead body might stand for 306 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,100 vermissa Valley. Or that this very Valley which 307 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:18,700 sends forth emissaries of murder maybe that Valley of fear, which 308 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:23,600 we have heard so much is fairly clear and now, mr. 309 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,100 Barker, I seem to be standing rather in the way of your 310 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:31,400 explanation. It was a sight to see settled 311 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,900 Barker's expressive face during this exposition of the great 312 00:19:34,900 --> 00:19:40,400 detective anger, amazement consternation and indecision 313 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,200 swept over it. In turn finally, he took refuge 314 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,700 in a somewhat acrid irony. You know, such a lot, mr. 315 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:51,700 Holmes, perhaps you had better tell us some more. 316 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,900 He sneered. I have no doubt that I could 317 00:19:54,900 --> 00:19:57,000 tell you a great deal more. Mr. Barker. 318 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,900 But it would come with a better Grace from you. 319 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:02,300 Oh, you think so? Do you? 320 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,900 Well, all I can say is that I've there's any secret here, it's 321 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:09,400 not my secret and I am not the man to give it away. 322 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,100 Well, if you take that line. Mr. Barker said the inspector 323 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:17,800 quietly, we must just keep you in sight until we have the 324 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:22,000 warrant and can hold you. You can do what you damn pleased 325 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,400 about that said Barker defiantly and proceedings seem to have 326 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,200 come to a definite end so far as he was concerned. 327 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,000 For one had only to look at that. 328 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:36,500 Granite face to realize that no pain fought or do whatever force 329 00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:40,000 him to plead against his will. The deadlock was broken heart. 330 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,900 Over by a woman's voice, mrs. Douglas had been standing 331 00:20:43,900 --> 00:20:48,400 listening at the half-open door and now she entered the room. 332 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,400 You have done enough for now. Cecil said she, whatever comes 333 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,800 with in the future. You have done enough he enough 334 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,900 and more than enough remarked Sherlock Holmes Gravely I have 335 00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:05,500 every sympathy with you madam and should strongly urge you to 336 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:07,900 have some confidence in the common sense of our 337 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:10,400 jurisdiction. And to take the police 338 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,000 voluntarily into your complete confidence. 339 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:17,200 It may be that I am myself at fault for not following up the 340 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,800 hint, which you conveyed to me through my friend, dr. 341 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,300 Watson. But at that time, I had every 342 00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:26,900 reason to believe that you were directly concerned in the crime. 343 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,500 Now I am sure that this is not so at the same time, there is 344 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:36,400 much that is unexplained and I should strongly recommend that 345 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,800 you ask mr. Douglas to tell us his own 346 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,100 story. Mrs. Douglas gave a cry of 347 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:45,900 astonishment at homes, his words, the detectives and II 348 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:48,600 must have echoed it. When we are aware of a man who 349 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,900 seemed to have emerged from the wall, who advanced now from the 350 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:55,200 Gloom of the corner in which he had appeared, mrs. 351 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,100 Douglas, turned. And in an instant, her arms were 352 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:02,000 around him Barker had seized his outstretched hand. 353 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:07,300 It's best this way. Jack, his wife repeated, I'm 354 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:11,600 sure that it is best. Indeed, yes, mr. 355 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,600 Douglas said Sherlock Holmes. I am sure that you will find it 356 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,100 best. The man stood blinking at us 357 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:21,700 with the days. Look of one who comes from the 358 00:22:21,700 --> 00:22:25,800 dark into the light. It was a remarkable face. 359 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,900 Bold gray eyes a strong short, clipped grizzled Moustache ask 360 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:33,900 we're projecting chin and a humorous mouth. 361 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:38,100 He took a good look at all and then to my amazement, he 362 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:42,300 Advanced to me and handed me a bundle of paper. 363 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,200 I've heard of you said he in a voice, which was not quite 364 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,300 English and not quite American, but was altogether, mellow, and 365 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:53,000 pleasing. You are the historian of this 366 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,400 Bunch well, dr. Watson, you've never had such a 367 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,700 story as that pass through your hands before and I'll lay my 368 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:03,500 last dollar on that. Tell her your own way but there 369 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:05,900 are the facts and you can't miss the public. 370 00:23:05,900 --> 00:23:09,800 So long as you have those, I've been cooped up two days and I've 371 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,400 spent the daylight hours as much daylight as I could get in that. 372 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:17,600 Rat trap in putting the thing into words, you're welcome to 373 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,200 them you and your public. There's the story of the valley 374 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,700 of fear. That's the past mr. 375 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:29,500 Douglas said, Sherlock Holmes quietly, what we desire now is 376 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:32,900 to hear your story of the present You'll have it. 377 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:36,100 Sir said, Douglas may I smoke as I talk? 378 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,800 Well, thank you mr. Holmes, you're a smoky yourself 379 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:42,300 if I remember, right. And you'll guess what it is to 380 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:45,100 be sitting for two days with tobacco in your pocket and 381 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:46,800 afraid that the smell give you away. 382 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:50,000 He leaned against the mantelpiece and sucked at the 383 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,700 cigar which Holmes had handed him. 384 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,800 I've heard of you mr. Holmes I never guessed that. 385 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,400 I would meet you but before you're through with that he 386 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,500 nodded at my papers You will say I brought you something fresh. 387 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:07,700 Inspector MacDonald had been staring at the newcomer with the 388 00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:12,100 greatest amazement. Well this fairly beats me. 389 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:16,600 He cried at last, if you are mr. John, Douglas of Bolston Manner 390 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:20,400 and whose death of we've been investigating for these two days 391 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,800 and where in the world have you sprung from now you seem to come 392 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,800 out of the floor like a jack-in-the-box mr. 393 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,600 Mack said Holmes shaking a reproving forefinger you would 394 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,100 not read that. Excellent. 395 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:38,000 Local compilation, which described the concealment of 396 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,700 King. Charles people did not hide in 397 00:24:40,708 --> 00:24:44,700 those days without excellent hiding places and the hiding 398 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:47,800 place that had once been used. May be used again. 399 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:51,300 I had persuaded myself that we should find mr. 400 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:55,500 Douglas under this roof and how long have you been playing this 401 00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,100 trick Upon Us? Mr. Holmes said the inspector 402 00:24:58,100 --> 00:25:00,700 angrily. How long have you allowed us to 403 00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:04,100 waste ourselves Upon A search that you're new to be an absurd 404 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:07,300 one? Not one instant, my dear mr. 405 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:11,600 Mac only last night, did I form my views of the case? 406 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,000 As they could not be put to the proof until this evening. 407 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,400 I invited you and your colleagues to take a holiday for 408 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,300 the day. Pray, what more could I do when 409 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:25,800 I found the suit of clothes In the moat it at once, became 410 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,800 apparent to me that the body we had found could not have been 411 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,300 the body of mr. John Douglas at all but must be 412 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:36,800 that of the bicyclist from Tunbridge Wells. 413 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:39,800 No other conclusion was possible. 414 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:42,400 Therefore I had to determine where mr. 415 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,400 John Douglas himself could be and the balance of probability 416 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,400 was that with the connivance of his wife and his friend, he was 417 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,500 concealed in a house, which had such conveniences for a 418 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,200 Fugitive, and a waiting quiet a times when he could make his 419 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,800 final Escape. Well, you figured it out about 420 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,900 right, said, Douglas approvingly. 421 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,400 I thought I'd Dodge your British law for hours. 422 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,600 Not sure how I stood under it and also, I saw my chance to 423 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,200 throw these hounds. Once for all off my track mind 424 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,000 you from first to last. I've done nothing to be ashamed 425 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,000 of and nothing that I would not do again, but you judge that for 426 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,000 yourselves. When I tell you my story, never 427 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,300 mind warning me inspector I'm ready to stand Pat upon the 428 00:26:27,308 --> 00:26:30,000 truth. I'm not going to begin at the 429 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,600 beginning. That's all there. 430 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:36,600 He indicated my bundle of papers and a mighty queer yarn. 431 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,300 You'll find it. It all comes down to this. 432 00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:43,100 But there are some men that have good cause to hate me and would 433 00:26:43,100 --> 00:26:45,900 give their last dollar to know that they had got to me. 434 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,800 So long as I'm alive, and they are alive. 435 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:50,400 There is no safety in this world. 436 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,500 For me, they hunted me from Chicago to California, then they 437 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:57,500 chase me out of America. But when I married, and settle 438 00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:00,200 down in this quiet spot, I thought my last years were going 439 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:05,600 to be Peaceable I never explain to my wife, how things were, why 440 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,600 should I pull her into it? She would never have a quiet 441 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,500 moment again, but would always be imagining trouble. 442 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,900 I fancy, she knew something for. I may have dropped a word here 443 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:20,200 or a word there, but until yesterday, after you gentlemen, 444 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,200 had seen her, she never knew the rights of the matter. 445 00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:27,900 She told y'all, she knew, and so, did Barker here for, on a 446 00:27:27,908 --> 00:27:30,000 night. When this thing happened, there 447 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:35,100 was mighty little time for This, she knows everything now and I 448 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:38,900 would have been a wiser man. If I told her sooner but it was 449 00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:40,200 a hard question. Dear. 450 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,000 He took her hand for an instant in his own and I acted for the 451 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,900 best. Well gentlemen the day before 452 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:52,400 these happenings hours over in Tunbridge Wells and I got a 453 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,500 glimpse of a man in the street, it was only a glimpse but have a 454 00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:59,400 quick eye for these things and I never doubted who it was. 455 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,700 It was the worst enemy I had among them. 456 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:06,700 All one who has been after me, like a Hungry Wolf after a 457 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:10,700 caribou, all these years. I know there was trouble coming 458 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:13,000 and I came home and made ready for it. 459 00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:16,800 I guess I'd fight through it. All right, on my own, my luck 460 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,400 was a proverb in the state's about 76. 461 00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:23,500 I never doubted that. It would be with me, still house 462 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:26,900 on my God, all that next day and never went out into the park. 463 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,600 It's as well. Or he'd have had the drop on me 464 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,900 with That book Shotgun of his before ever, I could draw on 465 00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:36,300 him. After the bridge was up, my mind 466 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:38,900 was always more restful when that bridge was up in the 467 00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:41,400 evenings. I'll put the thing, clear out of 468 00:28:41,408 --> 00:28:44,000 my head. I never dreamed of his getting 469 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,700 into the house and waiting for me, but when I made my round in 470 00:28:47,708 --> 00:28:51,500 my dressing gown, as was my habit, I had no sooner entered 471 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:56,800 study and I sent a danger. I guess when a man has a dangers 472 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,800 in his life and I've had more than most in my time. 473 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:04,500 There's a kind of Sixth Sense. The waves, the red flag, I saw 474 00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:08,100 the signal clear enough and yet I couldn't tell you why. 475 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,800 Next instant I spotted a boot under the window curtain and 476 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,800 then I saw why plain enough, I just the one candle. 477 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,200 It was in my hand but there was a good light from the hall, lamp 478 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,000 through the open door, I put down the candle and jumped for a 479 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,500 hammer that I'd left on The Mantel at the same moment. 480 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,800 He sprang at me. I saw the glint of A knife and I 481 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,200 lashed him with the hammer. I got him somewhere for the 482 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,800 knife, tinkled down on the floor. 483 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,700 He dodged around the table as quick as an eel and a moment 484 00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:41,800 later. He'd got his gun from under his 485 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,800 coat. I heard him cock it but I got 486 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,300 hold of it before he could fire. I had it by the barrel and we 487 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:50,600 wrestle for it all ends up for a minute or more. 488 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:53,700 It was death to the man that lost his grip. 489 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,400 He never lost his grip but he got it but downward for a moment 490 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,000 too long. Maybe it was either pulled a 491 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,700 trigger, maybe we just jolted it off between us anyhow. 492 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:08,900 He got both barrels in the face and there. 493 00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:14,100 I was staring down at all. That was left of Ted Baldwin and 494 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:17,300 recognized him in the township. And again, when he sprang for 495 00:30:17,308 --> 00:30:21,100 me, but his own mother wouldn't recognize him as I saw him then. 496 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:25,400 I'm used to rough work but I fairly turned sick at the side 497 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,500 of him. How is hanging on the side of 498 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:30,800 the table? When Barker came hurrying down, 499 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:34,800 I heard my wife coming and I ran to the door and stopped her. 500 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:39,900 It was no sight for a woman. I promised I'd come to her soon. 501 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:44,000 I said a word or two to Barker, he took it all in at a glance 502 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,900 and we waited for the rest to come along but there was no sign 503 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:50,400 of them. Then we understood that they 504 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,500 could hear nothing and that all it had happened was known only 505 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:56,900 to ourselves. It was at that instant. 506 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,600 That the idea came to me. I was fairly dazzled by the 507 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,900 Brilliance of it. The man's sleeve had slipped up 508 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:07,200 when there was the Branded Mark of the lodge upon his forearm. 509 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,000 See here the man whom he had known as Douglas turned up his 510 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,600 own coat and cuff to show a brown triangle within a circle. 511 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:19,900 Exactly like that, which we'd seen upon the dead man. 512 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,600 It was a side of that, which started me on it. 513 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,400 I seem to see it all clear at a glance. 514 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,600 There were his height and hair and figure about the same as my 515 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,200 own. No one could swear to his face. 516 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,600 Poor devil. I brought down this suit of 517 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,000 clothes and in a quarter of an hour Barker and I had to put my 518 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,600 dressing gown on him and he lay as you found him. 519 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,200 We tied all things into a bundle and I waited them with the only 520 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,200 weight I could find and put them through the window, the card had 521 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,800 meant to lay upon my body was lying beside his own. 522 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,000 My rings were put on his finger when it came to the wedding 523 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,600 ring. He held out his muscular hand, 524 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:03,500 you can see for yourselves that I've struck the limit, I have 525 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,700 not moved it since the day I was married and it would have taken 526 00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:10,400 a file to get it off. I don't know any how that I 527 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,300 should have cared to part with it, but if I'd wanted to, I 528 00:32:13,308 --> 00:32:17,200 couldn't so we just had to leave that detail to take care of 529 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,500 itself. On the other hand, I brought a 530 00:32:20,508 --> 00:32:23,400 bit of plaster down and put it where I'm wearing one myself at 531 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,400 this. It's instant you slipped up 532 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,100 there, mr. Holmes, clever. 533 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:30,400 As you are for a few, a chance to take off that plaster. 534 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:33,000 You'd have found no cut underneath it. 535 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,100 Well, that was a situation if I could lie, low, for a while and 536 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:41,700 then get away where I could be joined by my Widow, we should 537 00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:44,300 have a chance at last of living in peace for the rest of our 538 00:32:44,300 --> 00:32:46,900 lives. These Devils would give me no 539 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:50,600 rest so long as I was above ground, but if they saw in the 540 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,000 papers at Baldwin had got his man, it would be an end of all 541 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,400 my troubles. I have much time to make it all 542 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,800 clear to Barker and to my wife but they understood enough to be 543 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,900 able to help me. I knew all about this hiding 544 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:05,700 place. So did any names? 545 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:09,000 But it never entered his head to connect it with the matter. 546 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:14,600 I retired into it and it was up to Barker to do the rest, I 547 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,400 guess you can fill in for your cells. 548 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,200 What he did, he opened the window and made the mark on the 549 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,300 sill to give an idea of how the murderer escaped. 550 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,700 It was a tall order that but as the bridge was up, there was no 551 00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:30,700 other way. Then when everything was fixed, 552 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:34,900 he rang the bell for all he was worth, what happened afterward, 553 00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:37,900 you know. And so gentlemen, you can do 554 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:40,900 what you please but I've told you the truth and the whole 555 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:42,300 truth. So help me God. 556 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,800 What I ask you now is, how do I stand by the English law? 557 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,500 There was a silence which was broken by Sherlock Holmes. 558 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,900 The English law is in the main adjust law, you'll get no worse 559 00:33:56,900 --> 00:34:01,400 than your desserts from that mr. Douglas but I would ask you how 560 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,800 did this man know that you lived here or how to get into your 561 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,600 house or where to hide to get you? 562 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,500 I know nothing of this Holmes's face was very white and Grave. 563 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:18,400 The story is not over yet. I fear said he, you may find 564 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,100 worst dangers than the English law or even than your enemies 565 00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:25,500 from Erica, I see trouble before you, mr. 566 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:30,800 Douglas, you'll take my advice and still be on your guard and 567 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,300 now my long-suffering readers. I'll ask you to come away with 568 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:38,400 me for a Time far from the Sussex Manor House of belston 569 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,699 and far also from the year of grace in which we made our 570 00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:45,000 eventful Journey which ended with the strange story of the 571 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,500 man who had been known as John Douglas. 572 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:52,900 I wish you to Journey back some 20 years in time and towards 573 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:57,300 some thousands of miles in space that I may lay before you a 574 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:03,200 singular and terrible narrative. So singular and so terrible that 575 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,500 you may find it hard to believe that even as I tell it even so 576 00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:11,100 did it occur? Do not think that I intrude one 577 00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:13,100 story before another is finished. 578 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,400 As you read on, you will find that this is not so and when I 579 00:35:17,408 --> 00:35:20,900 have detailed Those Distant events and you have solved this 580 00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:24,900 mystery of the past, We shall meet once more in those rooms on 581 00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:29,600 Baker Street, where this like so many other wonderful happenings 582 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:35,700 will find its end. End of chapter 7 and part 1 of 583 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:36,600 the valley of fear.