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Adventure 2 in the return of 
Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur 

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Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Adventure 2. 

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The adventure of the Norwood 
Builder. 

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From the point of view of the 
criminal expert said, mr. 

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Sherlock, Holmes. 
London has become a singularly 

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uninteresting City. 
Since the death of the late 

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lamented Professor. 
Moriarty. 

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I can hardly think you would 
find many decent citizens to 

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agree with you. 
I answered. 

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Well, well, I must not be 
selfish said he with a smile as 

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he pushed back. 
His chair from The Breakfast 

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Table. 
The community is, certainly the 

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Gainer and no one the loser. 
Save the poor out-of-work, 

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specialist, whose occupation has
gone with that man in the field 

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ones. 
Morning, paper presented 

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infinite possibilities often. 
It was only the smallest Trace 

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Watson, the faintest indication.
And yet it was enough to tell me

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that the great malignant brain 
was there as the gentlest 

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Tremors of the edges of the web,
remind one of the foul spider 

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which lurks in the center, Petty
thefts, want an assault, 

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purposeless outrage to the man 
who held the clue. 

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All could be worked into one 
connected whole to the 

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scientific student of the higher
criminal world. 

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No capital in Europe, offered 
the advantage, which London, 

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then possessed, but now He 
Shrugged his shoulders in 

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humorous, depreciation of the 
state of things, which he had 

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himself done so much to produce 
at the time of which I speak 

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homes have been back for some 
months and I at his request, had

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sold my practice and returned to
share the old quarters in Baker,

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Street. 
A young doctor named Verner had 

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purchased my small Kensington 
practice. 

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And given with astonishingly 
little Demir, the highest price 

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that I ventured to ask an 
incident. 

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Only explained itself some years
later when I found that Verna 

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was a distant relation of homes,
and it was my friend who had 

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really found the money. 
Al-mansur partnership had not 

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been so uneventful as he had 
stated for. 

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I find on looking over my notes 
that this period includes the 

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case of the papers of 
ex-president Murillo. 

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And also the shocking Affair of 
the Dutch steamship Friesland, 

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which so nearly cost us. 
Both our lives, his cold and 

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proud nature, was always a 
verse, however, from anything in

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the shape of public Applause, 
and he bound me in the most, 

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stringent terms to say, no 
further word of himself. 

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His methods or his success has a
Prohibition which as I've 

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explained has only now been 
removed. 

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes was leaning 
back in his chair after his 

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Whimsical protest. 
And was unfolding his morning 

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paper in a leisurely fashion. 
When our attention was arrested 

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by a tremendous ring at the 
Bell, followed immediately by a 

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hollow, drumming sound as if 
someone were beating on the 

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outer door with his fist as it 
opened, there came a 

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tumultuously rush into the Hall.
Rapid feet, clattered up the 

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stair and an instant later. 
A wild-eyed, and Antique young 

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man pale disheveled and 
palpitating burst into the room.

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He looked from one to the other 
of us and under our gaze of 

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inquiry. 
He became conscious that some 

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apology was needed for this 
unceremonious entry. 

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I'm sorry. 
Mr. Holmes. 

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He cried. 
You mustn't. 

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Blame me. 
I'm nearly mad. 

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Mr. Holmes. 
I am the unhappy, John Hector 

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McFarlane. 
He made the announcement as if 

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the name alone would explain 
both his visit and it's manner, 

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but I could see by my companions
unresponsive face, but it meant 

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no more to him than to me. 
I have a cigarette. 

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Mr. McFarland said he pushing 
his case across. 

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I am sure that with your 
symptoms. 

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My friend. 
Dr. Watson here would prescribe 

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a sedative? 
The weather has been so very 

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warm these last few days. 
Now if you feel a little more 

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composed, I should be glad if 
you would sit down in that chair

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and tell us very slowly and 
quietly who you are and what it 

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is that you want. 
You mentioned your name as if I 

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should recognize it, but I 
assure you that beyond the 

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obvious facts that you are a 
bachelor, a A Freemason and an 

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asthmatic. 
I know nothing. 

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Whatever about you. 
Familiar. 

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As I was with my friends 
methods, it was not difficult 

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for me to follow his deductions 
and to observe the untidiness of

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a tire, the Sheaf of legal 
papers, the watch charm, and the

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breathing, which had prompted 
them, our client. 

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However, stared in amazement. 
Yes. 

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I'm all that. 
Mr. Holmes. 

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And in addition. 
I am the most unfortunate man at

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this moment in London for Evans 
sake. 

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Don't abandon me. 
Mr. Holmes, if they come to 

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arrest me before I have finished
my Tori, make them give me time 

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so that I may tell you the whole
truth. 

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I could go to jail happy. 
If I knew that you were working 

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for me outside a rest. 
You said Holmes. 

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This is really most grati. 
Most interesting on what charge 

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do you expect to be arrested 
upon the charge of murdering. 

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Mr. James oldacre of lower 
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My companions expressive face 
showed a sympathy which was not 

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I'm afraid entirely unmixed with
satisfaction. 

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Dear me said he, it was only 
this moment at breakfast that I 

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was saying to my friend. 
Dr. Watson that Sensational 

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cases had disappeared out of our
papers. 

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I'll visit her stretched 
forward. 

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A quivering hand and picked up 
the Daily Telegraph, which still

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lay upon Holmes's knee. 
If you had looked at it, sir, 

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you would have seen at a glance.
What the errand is on, which I 

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have come to you this morning. 
I feel as if my name and my 

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Misfortune must be in every 
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He turned it over to expose the 
central page. 

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Here it is. 
And with your permission. 

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I'll read it to you. 
Listen to this. 

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Mr. Holmes. 
The headlines are mysterious 

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Affair at lower. 
Norwood. 

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Disappearance of a well-known 
Builder suspicion of murder. 

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And arson. 
A clue to the criminal that is 

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the clue which they are already 
following. 

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Mr. Holmes, and I know that it 
leads infallibly to me. 

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I've been followed from London 
Bridge station and I am sure 

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that they are only waiting for 
the warrant to arrest me. 

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It will break my mother's heart.
It will break her heart. 

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He wrung his hands in an Agony 
of apprehension and suede 

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backward and forward in his 
chair. 

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I looked with interest upon this
man who was accused of being the

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perpetrator of a crime of 
violence. 

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He was flaxen-haired and 
handsome in a washed-out - 

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fashion. 
With frightened blue eyes and a 

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clean-shaven face with a week 
sensitive mouth. 

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His age may have been about 27 
his dress and bearing that of a 

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gentleman from the pocket of his
Light. 

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Summer Overcoat protruded the 
bundle of endorsed papers, which

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proclaimed his profession. 
We must use what time we have 

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said, Holmes, Watson. 
Would you have the kindness to 

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take the paper to read the 
paragraph in question, 

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underneath the vigorous 
headlines, which our client had 

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quoted. 
I read the following suggestive 

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narrative. 
Late last night, or early this 

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morning, an incident occurred at
lower Norwood, which points it 

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is feared to a serious crime. 
Mr. Jonas oldacre is a 

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well-known resident of that 
suburb where he's carried on his

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business as a builder for many 
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Mr. Oldacre is a bachelor 52 
years of age and lives in deep, 

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Dene house at the Sydenham End 
of the Road of that name. 

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He has had the reputation of 
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habits, secretive, and retiring 
For some years, he has 

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practically withdrawn from the 
business in which he is said to 

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have, masked considerable 
wealth, a small Timber yard, 

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still exists. 
However at the back of the house

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and last night about twelve 
o'clock and alarm was given that

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one of the stacks was on fire. 
The engines were soon upon the 

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spot, but the dry wood burned 
with great Fury and it was 

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impossible to arrest the 
conflagration until the stack 

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had been entirely consumed. 
Up to this point, the incident 

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board, the appearance of an 
ordinary accident but fresh 

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indications seem to point to 
Serious crime. 

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Surprise was expressed at the 
absence of the master of the 

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establishment, from the scene of
the fire and an inquiry followed

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which showed that he had 
disappeared from the house, an 

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examination of his room revealed
that the bed had not been slept 

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in that a safe, which stood in 
it was open as a number of 

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important papers were scattered 
about the room and finally that 

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With signs of a murderous 
struggle, slight traces of blood

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being found within the room and 
an open walking stick, which 

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also showed stains of blood upon
the handle. 

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It is known that mr. 
Jonas, oldacre had received a 

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late visitor, in his bedroom 
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And the stick found has been 
identified as a property of this

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person. 
Who is a young London solicitor 

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named John Hector McFarlane, 
Junior partner of Graham, and 

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McFarland of 426 Gresham 
buildings, easy, the police 

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believe that they have evidence 
in their possession, which 

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supplies a very convincing 
motive for the crime and 

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altogether. 
It cannot be doubted. 

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The Sensational developments 
will follow. 

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Later, it is rumored as we go to
press that. 

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Mr. John Hector McFarlane has 
actually been arrested on the 

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charge of the murder of mr. 
Jonas, oldacre. 

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It is, at least certain that a 
warrant has been issued have 

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been further and Sinister 
developments in the 

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investigation. 
At Norwood, besides the signs of

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a struggle in the room of the 
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It is now known that the French 
Windows of his bedroom, which is

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on the ground floor, were found 
to be open that there were 

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marks. 
As if some bulky object had been

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dragged across to the woodpile. 
And finally it is asserted that 

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charred remains have been found 
among the charcoal ashes of the 

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fire. 
The police theory is that a most

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Sensational crime has been 
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The victim was clubbed to death 
in his own bedroom, his papers 

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rifled and his dead body dragged
across to the wood stack, which 

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was then ignited. 
So as to hide all traces of the 

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crime, the conduct of the 
criminal investigation has been 

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left in the experienced hands of
Inspector lestrade of Scotland 

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Yard, who is following up the 
clues with his accustomed, 

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energy and sagacity. 
Sherlock Holmes listened with 

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closed eyes and fingertips 
together to this remarkable 

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account. 
The case has certainly some 

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points of interest said he in 
his language fashion. 

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May, I ask in the first place? 
Mr. McFarlane, how it is that 

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you are still at Liberty since 
there appears to be enough 

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evidence to justify your arrest.
I live at Torrington Lodge 

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Blackheath with my parents. 
Mr. Holmes, but last night 

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having to do business, very late
with mr. 

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Jonas oldacre. 
I stayed at an hotel in Norwood,

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and came to my business from 
there. 

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I knew nothing of this affair 
until I was in the train, when I

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read what you have, just heard. 
I'd once saw the horrible danger

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of my position and I hurried to 
put the case into your hands. 

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I have no doubt that I should 
have been arrested either at my 

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city office or at my home, a 
man, followed me from London, 

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Bridge station, and I have no 
doubt. 

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Great Heaven. 
What is that? 

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It was a clang of the Bell 
followed instantly by heavy 

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steps upon the stair a moment. 
Later. 

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Our old friend lestrade appeared
in the doorway over his 

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shoulder. 
I caught a glimpse of one or two

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uniformed policemen outside. 
Mr. John Hector McFarlane said, 

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lestrade our unfortunate client 
rose with a ghastly face. 

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I arrest you for the willful 
murder of mr. 

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Jonas, oldacre of lower, 
Norwood, McFarland turned to us 

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with a gesture of Despair and 
sank into his chair. 

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Once more like one who is 
crushed. 

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One moment. 
Lestrade, said Holmes, half an 

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hour more or less can make no 
difference to you. 

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And the gentleman was about to 
give us an account of this very 

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interesting Affair, which might 
Aid Us in, clearing it up or 

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think there will be no 
difficulty in. 

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Clearing it up, said lestrade 
grimly nonetheless with your 

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permission. 
I should be much interested to 

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hear his account. 
Well, mr. 

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Holmes. 
It is difficult for me to refuse

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you. 
Anything. 

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For your being of use to the 
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and we owe you a good turn at 
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the same time. 
I must remain with my prisoner 

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and I'm bound to warn him that 
anything. 

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He may say will appear in 
evidence against him. 

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I wish nothing better said, our 
client. 

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All I ask is that you should 
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truth. 
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or give you a half an hour said 
he. 

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I must explain first said, 
McFarland that I knew nothing of

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mr. 
Jonas oldacre. 

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His name was familiar to me for 
many years ago. 

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My parents were acquainted with 
him, but they drifted apart. 

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I was very much surprised. 
Therefore, when yesterday about 

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3:00 in the afternoon. 
He walked into my office in the 

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city, but I was still more 
astonished when he told me the 

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object of his visit. 
He had in his hand, several 

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sheets of a notebook covered 
with scribbled writing. 

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Here. 
They are and he laid them on my 

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table. 
Here is, my Will said he, I want

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you. 
Mr. McFarlane to cast it into 

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proper legal shape. 
I will sit here while you do. 

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So, I set myself to copy it and 
you can imagine my astonishment.

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When I found that with some 
reservations. 

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He had left all his property to 
me. 

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He was a strange, little 
ferret-like, man, with white 

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eyelashes. 
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found his Keen gray eyes fixed 
upon me with an amused 

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expression. 
I could hardly believe my own as

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I read the terms of the will, 
but he explained that he was a 

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bachelor with hardly any living 
relation, but he had known my 

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parents in his Youth. 
And he'd always heard of me as a

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very deserving young, man and 
was assured that his money would

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be in worthy hands. 
Of course, I could only stammer 

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out. 
My thanks. 

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The will was Julie finished 
signed and witnessed by my 

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Clark. 
This is it on the blue paper and

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these slips as I've explained 
our, the rough draft. 

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Mr. Jonas oldacre, then informed
me that there were a number of 

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documents building leases title 
Deeds, mortgages scrip, and so 

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forth, which it was necessary 
that I should see. 

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And understand he said that his 
mind would not be easy until the

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whole thing was settled, and he 
begged me to come out to his 

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house at Norwood, that night. 
Bringing the will with me and to

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arrange matters. 
Remember my boy, not one word to

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your parents about the affair 
until everything is Is settled. 

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We will keep it as a little 
surprise for them. 

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He was very insistent upon this 
point and made me promise it 

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Faithfully. 
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Holmes, that I was not in a 
humour to refuse him, anything 

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that he might ask. 
He was my benefactor, and All My

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Desire was to carry out his 
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I sent a telegram home. 
Therefore to say that I had 

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important business on hand and 
that it was impossible for me to

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say how late I might be. 
Mr. Oldacre, a told me that he 

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would like me to have supper 
with him 9, as he might not be 

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home. 
Before that hour. 

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I had some difficulty in finding
his house. 

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However, and it was nearly 
half-past before I reached it. 

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I found him. 
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opened the door a middle-aged 
woman. 

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Who was I suppose his 
housekeeper? 

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And it was she I presume, who 
mentioned your name, exactly 

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said, McFarland, pray proceed. 
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and then continued his 
narrative. 

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I was shown by this woman into a
sitting room where a Frugal 

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supper was laid out afterwards. 
Mr. Jonas, oldacre. 

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Let me into his bedroom in which
there, stood a heavy safe. 

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This he opened and took out a 
massive documents which we went 

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over together. 
It was between 11:00 and 12:00 

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when we finished. 
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disturb the housekeeper. 
He showed me out through his own

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French window, which had been 
open all this time. 

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Was the blind down asked Holmes.
I will not be sure, but I 

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believe that it was only half 
down. 

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Yes. 
I remember how we pulled it up 

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in order to swing open the 
window. 

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I could not find my stick and he
said, never mind, my boy, and I 

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shall see a good deal of you. 
Now. 

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I hope and I'll keep your stick 
until you come back to claim it.

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I left him there, the safe open 
and the papers made up in 

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packets upon the table. 
It was so late that I could not 

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get back to Blackheath. 
So I spent the night at the 

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analy arms and I knew nothing 
more, until I read of this 

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horrible Affair in the morning. 
Anything more that you would 

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like to ask. 
Mr. Holmes said lestrade, whose 

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eyebrows had gone up once or 
twice during this remarkable 

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explanation. 
Not until I've been to 

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Blackheath. 
You mean to Norwood said 

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lestrade? 
Oh, yes. 

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No doubt. 
That is what I must have meant 

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said Holmes with his enigmatic 
all smile. 

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Lestrade had learned by more 
experiences than he could care 

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to acknowledge that brain could 
cut through that, which was 

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impenetrable to him. 
I saw him look curiously. 

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At my companion are think I 
should like to have a word with 

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you. 
Presently. 

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes said he now 
mr. 

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McFarlane to of more constables 
are at the door and there's a 

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four wheeler way in. 
The Wretched, young man arose, 

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and with a last beseeching 
glanced at us, walked from the 

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room, the officers conducted him
to the cab. 

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But lestrade remained Holmes, 
had picked up the pages, which 

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formed the rough draft of the 
will and was looking at them 

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with the keenest interest upon 
his face. 

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There are some points about that
document lestrade are there. 

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Not said he pushing him over. 
The official looked at them with

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a puzzled expression. 
I could read the first few lines

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and these are the middle of the 
second page and one or two at 

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the end. 
Those are as clear as print 

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said, he, but the writing in 
between is very bad. 

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And there are three places where
I cannot read it at all. 

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What do you make of that? 
Said Holmes? 

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Well, what do you make of it? 
That it was written in a train, 

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the good writing represents 
stations, the bad writing 

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movement and the very bad 
writing passing over points. 

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A scientific expert would 
pronounce at once that this was 

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drawn up on a Suburban line. 
Since know, we're saving the 

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immediate vicinity of a great 
City. 

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Could do be so quicker, 
succession of points granting 

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that his whole journey was 
occupied in drawing up, the 

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will, then, the train was an 
Express only stopping once. 

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Norwood and London Bridge, 
lestrade began to laugh. 

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Are you are too many for me when
you begin to get on your 

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theories? 
Mr. Holmes said he, how does 

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this bear on the case? 
Well, it corroborates, the young

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man's story to the extend that 
the will was drawn up by Jonas 

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oldacre in his journey 
yesterday. 

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It is curious. 
Is it not the man should draw up

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so important to document in? 
So haphazard a fashion. 

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It suggests that he did not 
think it was going to be of much

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practical importance. 
If a man Drew up a will, which 

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he did not intend ever to be 
effective. 

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He might do it. 
So, Well, they drop his own 

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death. 
Warrant at the same time, said 

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lestrade. 
Oh, you think so don't you? 

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Well, it is quite possible. 
But the case is not clear to me 

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yet, not clear. 
Well, if that isn't clear, what 

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could be clear. 
Here is a young man who learns 

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suddenly that if a certain older
man dies, he will succeed to a 

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fortune. 
What does he do? 

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He says nothing to anyone, but 
your range is that he shall go 

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out on some pretext to see his 
client that night. 

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He waits until the only other 
person in the house is in bed. 

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And then, in the Solitude of a 
man's room, he murders, him 

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burns. 
His body in the woodpile and 

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departs, to a neighboring Hotel,
the bloodstains in the room. 

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And also on the stick a very 
slight. 

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It is probable that he imagined 
his crime to be a bloodless one.

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And hope that if the body were 
consumed, Doll traces of the 

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method of his death traces, 
which for some reason must have 

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pointed to him. 
He's not all this obvious. 

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It strikes me my good lestrade 
as being just a trifle too. 

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Obvious said, Holmes, you do not
add imagination to your other 

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great qualities, but if you 
could, for one moment to put 

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yourself in the place of this 
young man, would you choose the 

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very night after the will have 
been made to commit your crime? 

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Would it not seem dangerous to 
you to make? 

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So very closer relation between 
the two incidents again, would 

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you choose an occasion when you 
are known to be in the house 

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when a servant has let you in? 
And finally, would you take the 

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great pains to conceal the body 
and yet, leave your own stick as

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a sign that you with a Criminal?
Confess lestrade at all. 

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This is very unlikely. 
As to the stick, mr. 

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Holmes, you know as well as I do
that, a criminal is often 

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flurried and does such things, 
which are cool man would avoid. 

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He's very likely afraid to go 
back to the room. 

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Give me another theory, which 
fit the facts. 

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I could very easily give you 
half a dozen said Holmes here, 

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for example, is a very possible 
and even probable one, I make 

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you a free present of it. 
The older man is showing 

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documents which are of evident 
value a passing, Tramp. 

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Sees them through the window, 
the blind of which is only half 

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down exit, the solicitor, enter 
the Tramp he sees as a stick 

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which he observes their kills 
oldacre and departs. 

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To burning the body. 
Why should the Tramp burn the 

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body? 
For the matter of that. 

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Why should McFarland to hide 
some evidence? 

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Possibly the Tramp wanted to 
hide that any murder at all had 

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been committed and why did the 
Tramp tight? 

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Nothing because they were papers
that he could not negotiate. 

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Lestrade shook his head and it 
seemed to me that his manner was

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less absolutely assured than 
before. 

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Well, mr. 
Sherlock Holmes. 

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You may look for your tramp. 
And while you're finding him. 

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We will hold onto our man. 
The future will show which is 

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right. 
Just notice this point. 

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Mr. Holmes so far as we know 
none of the papers were removed 

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and that the prisoner is the one
man in the world who had no 

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reason for removing them since 
he was at are at law and would 

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come into them in any case. 
My friend seems struck by this 

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remark. 
I don't mean to deny that the 

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evidence is in some ways. 
Very strongly in favor of your 

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theory said he, I only wish to 
point out that there are other 

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theories possible. 
As you say the future will 

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decide. 
Good morning. 

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I dare say that in the course of
the day. 

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I shall drop in at Norwood and 
see how you're getting on. 

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When the detective departed, my 
friend Rose and made his 

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preparations for the day's work 
with the alert air of a man, who

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has a congenial task before him.
My first movement Watson said, 

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he as he bustled into his 
frock-coat must, as I said, be 

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in the direction of Blackheath. 
And why not? 

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No word. 
Because we have in this case, 

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One Singular incident coming 
close to the heels of another 

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singular incident. 
The police are making the 

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mistake of concentrating, their 
attention upon the second 

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because it happens to be the one
which is actually criminal. 

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But it is evident to me that the
logical way to approach. 

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The case is to begin by trying 
to throw some light upon the 

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first incident. 
The Curious will so suddenly 

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made and to so unexpected and 
are it may do something to 

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simplify What? 
Followed? 

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No, my dear fellow. 
I don't think you can help me. 

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There is no Prospect of danger, 
or I should not dream of 

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stirring out without you. 
I trust that when I see you in 

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the evening. 
I will be able to report that 

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I've been able to do something 
for this unfortunate. 

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Youngster, who was thrown 
himself upon my protection. 

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It was late when my friend 
returned and I could see by a 

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glance at his Haggard and 
anxious face at the High Hopes, 

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with which he had started had 
not been fulfilled. 

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For an hour, he droned away upon
his violin endeavoring to soothe

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his own ruffled Spirits at last.
He flung down the instrument and

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00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,700
plunged into a detailed account 
of his Misadventures. 

455
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,200
It's all going wrong. 
Watson. 

456
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,700
All as wrong as it can go. 
I kept a bold face before 

457
00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:14,800
lestrade, but upon my soul. 
I believe that for once the 

458
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,900
fellow is on the right track and
we are on the wrong. 

459
00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:25,200
All my instincts are one way and
all the facts are the other and 

460
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,400
I much fear that British juries 
have not yet attained that pitch

461
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,000
of intelligence when they were 
give the preference to my 

462
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,100
theories over last rods facts. 
Did you go to Blackheath? 

463
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,100
Yes, Watson, I went there and I 
found very quickly at the late 

464
00:27:41,100 --> 00:27:44,400
lamented Old Echo is a pretty 
considerable blackguard. 

465
00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:47,300
My father was away in search of 
his son. 

466
00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:52,300
The mother was at home, a little
fluffy blue, eyed person in a 

467
00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:55,900
Tremor of fear. 
And indignation, of course, she 

468
00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:59,100
would not admit, even the 
possibility of his guilt, but 

469
00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:03,600
she would not express, either 
surprised or regret over the 

470
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,500
fate of oldacre. 
On the contrary, she spoke of 

471
00:28:07,508 --> 00:28:10,400
him with such bitterness that 
she was unconsciously 

472
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,100
considerably, strengthening the 
case of the police. 

473
00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:15,900
For of course, if her son had 
heard her speak of the man in 

474
00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:19,200
this fashion, it would 
predispose him towards hatred 

475
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,600
and violence. 
He was more like a malignant and

476
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:27,200
canning ape than a human being 
said she and he always was ever 

477
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,600
since he was a young man. 
You knew him at that time said, 

478
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,300
I yes, I knew him. 
Well, in fact, he was an old 

479
00:28:35,300 --> 00:28:38,000
Suitor of mine. 
Thank Kevin that I had the sense

480
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,000
to turn away from him and to 
marry a better if poorer. 

481
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000
Man. 
I was engaged to him. 

482
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,200
Mr. Holmes, when I owed a 
shocking story of how he had 

483
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,200
turned a cat loose in an Avery, 
I was so horrified at this 

484
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,500
brutal cruelty that I would have
nothing more to do with him. 

485
00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:57,100
She rummaged in a bureau and 
presently. 

486
00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:59,000
She produced a photograph of a 
woman. 

487
00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:04,000
Shamefully defaced and mutilated
with a knife, my own photograph.

488
00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:08,400
She said he sent it to me in 
that state with this curse upon 

489
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,800
my wedding morning. 
Well said, I at least he has 

490
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,300
forgiven you now since he has 
left all his property to your 

491
00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:21,000
son, are the, my son, nor I want
anything from Jonas oldacre, 

492
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,300
Dead or Alive. 
She cried with a proper Spirit. 

493
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,100
There is a God in heaven. 
Mr. Holmes, and that same God, 

494
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:30,600
who was punished that way. 
Wicked Man will show in his own 

495
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,900
good time. 
That my son's hands are 

496
00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:37,500
Guiltless of his blood. 
Well, I tried one or two leads 

497
00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:41,400
but could get it nothing which 
would help our hypothesis and 

498
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400
several points, which would make
against it. 

499
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,600
I gave it up at last and off, I 
went to Norwood this place. 

500
00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:53,700
Deep Dene house is a big modern 
Villa of staring brick standing 

501
00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:56,800
back in its own grounds, with a 
laurel clumped, lawn in front of

502
00:29:56,808 --> 00:30:01,100
it to the right and some 
distance back from the road was 

503
00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:03,500
the timber yard, which had been 
the scene of the fire. 

504
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,700
Here's a rough plan. 
On a leaf of my notebook. 

505
00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:11,100
This window on the left, is the 
one which opens into oldacre's 

506
00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:13,500
room. 
You can look into it from the 

507
00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:16,100
road. 
You see that is about the only 

508
00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:19,700
bit of consolation. 
I've had today, lestrade was not

509
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:22,600
there, but his head Constable 
did the honors. 

510
00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:25,500
They're just found a great 
treasure Trove. 

511
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,600
They had spent the morning 
raking among the ashes of the 

512
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,400
burned wood pile and besides the
charred organic remains. 

513
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,000
They had secured several 
discolored metal. 

514
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:40,200
Asks, I examined them with care 
and there was no doubt that they

515
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,800
were trouser buttons. 
I even distinguished, that one 

516
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,500
of them was marked with the name
of hyams, who was oldacre's 

517
00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:50,200
Taylor. 
I then work, the lawn very 

518
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,000
carefully for signs and traces, 
but this drought has made 

519
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,800
everything as hard as iron. 
Nothing was to be seen save that

520
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,900
somebody or bundle had been 
dragged through a low Privet 

521
00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:04,600
Hedge, which is in a line with 
the woodpile. 

522
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,000
All that, of course fits in with
the official Theory. 

523
00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:13,800
I crawled about the lawn with an
August sun on my back, but I got

524
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,500
up at the end of an hour. 
No wiser than before. 

525
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,100
Well, after this Fiasco, I went 
into the bedroom and examine 

526
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:25,400
that also, the bloodstains were 
very slight. 

527
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,700
Mia's smears and discolorations,
but undoubtedly fresh. 

528
00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:33,600
The stick had been removed, but 
they're also the remarks were 

529
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,100
slight. 
There is no doubt about the 

530
00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:38,400
stick belonging to our client, 
yet. 

531
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,400
Mit's, it footmarks of both, men
could be made out on the carpet,

532
00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:46,300
but none of any third person, 
which again, is a trick for the 

533
00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:49,800
other side. 
They were piling up their score 

534
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,200
all the time and we were at a 
standstill. 

535
00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:58,300
Only one little gleam of Hope 
did I get and yet it amounted to

536
00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:01,300
nothing. 
I examine the contents of the 

537
00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:04,900
safe most of which have been 
taken out and left on the table.

538
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,100
The papers have been made up in 
two sealed envelopes, one or two

539
00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:11,000
of which have been opened by the
police. 

540
00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:14,400
They were not so far as I could 
judge of any great value. 

541
00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:16,500
Nor did the bankbook show, that 
mr. 

542
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:20,800
Oldacre is in such very affluent
circumstances, but it seemed to 

543
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,600
me that all the papers were not 
there. 

544
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,800
There were allusions to some 
Deeds, possibly the more 

545
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,200
valuable, which I could not find
this. 

546
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,500
Of course, if we could 
definitely prove, it would turn 

547
00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:38,300
the strods argument against 
himself for who would steal a 

548
00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:40,400
thing. 
If he knew that he would shortly

549
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,900
inherit it. 
Finally having drawn every other

550
00:32:44,900 --> 00:32:46,600
cover and picked up. 
No scent. 

551
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,600
I tried my luck with the 
housekeeper. 

552
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:54,400
Mrs. Lexington is her name. 
A little dark silent person with

553
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,200
suspicious and side long eyes. 
She could tell us something. 

554
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,100
If she would, I'm convinced of 
it. 

555
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,800
But she was as close as wax. 
Yes. 

556
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,200
She had let mr. 
McFarlane in at 9:30. 

557
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,100
She wished her hand had withered
before she had done. 

558
00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:13,900
So She had gone to bed at 10:30.
Her room was at the other end of

559
00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:16,400
the house and she could hear 
nothing of what had passed. 

560
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:20,800
Mr. McFarlane had left his hat 
and to the best of her belief is

561
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,900
stick in the hall. 
She had been awakened by the 

562
00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:26,400
alarm of fire. 
Her poor. 

563
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,800
Dear Master had certainly been 
murdered had he any enemies. 

564
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,300
Well, every man had enemies but 
mr. 

565
00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:37,300
Oldacre kept himself very much 
to himself and only met people 

566
00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:41,000
in the way of business. 
She had seen the buttons and was

567
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,600
sure that they belong to the 
clothes, which he had worn last 

568
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,100
night. 
The woodpile was very dry for 

569
00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:48,500
it. 
Did not rain for a month. 

570
00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:52,600
It burned like Tinder and by the
time she reached the spot. 

571
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,300
Nothing could be seen, But 
Flames, she and all the firemen 

572
00:33:56,500 --> 00:34:00,000
smelled the burned flesh. 
From inside it, she knew nothing

573
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,600
of the papers nor of mr. 
Oldacre's Private Affairs. 

574
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:11,300
So my dear Watson, there's my 
report of a failure and yet and 

575
00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:15,699
yet he clenched his thin hands 
in a paroxysm of conviction. 

576
00:34:16,699 --> 00:34:20,900
I know it's all wrong. 
I Feel It In My Bones. 

577
00:34:21,699 --> 00:34:25,400
There is something that has not 
come out and that housekeeper 

578
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,199
knows it. 
It was a sort of sulky Defiance 

579
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,600
in her eyes, which only goes 
with guilty knowledge. 

580
00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:36,800
However, there's no good talking
anymore about it Watson. 

581
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:39,500
But unless some lucky chance 
comes our way. 

582
00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:43,100
I fear that the Norwood 
disappearance case will not 

583
00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:46,900
figure in that Chronicle of our 
successes, which I foresee that 

584
00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:50,300
a patient public will sooner or 
later have to endure. 

585
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,300
Shirley said, I the man's 
appearance would go far with any

586
00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:58,800
jury. 
That is a dangerous argument. 

587
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,800
My dear Watson, you remember 
that terrible murderer, but 

588
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,800
Stevens, who wanted us to get 
him off in 87? 

589
00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:08,400
Was there ever a more mild 
mannered? 

590
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,700
Sunday, school young man. 
It is true. 

591
00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:15,700
Unless we succeed in 
establishing an alternative 

592
00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:20,400
Theory, this man is lost. 
You can hardly find a floor in 

593
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,800
the case, which can now be 
presented against him and all 

594
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,600
further investigation has served
to strengthen it. 

595
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:30,300
By the way. 
There is one curious, little 

596
00:35:30,300 --> 00:35:33,600
point about those papers, which 
may serve us as the starting 

597
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,800
point for an inquiry on looking 
over the bank book. 

598
00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:41,400
I found that the low state of 
the balance was principally due 

599
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,100
to large checks, which have been
made out during the last year to

600
00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:46,500
mr. 
Cornelius. 

601
00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:50,900
I confess that I should be 
interested to know who this mr. 

602
00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:54,900
Cornelius, maybe with whom a 
retired Builder has such very 

603
00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:59,700
large transactions. 
Is it possible that he has had a

604
00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:04,100
hand in the affair? 
Cornelius might be a broker but 

605
00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:06,700
we have found no script 
correspond with these large 

606
00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:09,800
payments failing. 
Any other indication. 

607
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,600
My researchers must now take the
direction of an inquiry at the 

608
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,400
bank for the gentleman whose 
cash these checks. 

609
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,500
But I fear my dear fellow that 
our case will end in gloriously 

610
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,300
by lestrade hanging. 
Our client, which will certainly

611
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:30,100
be a Triumph for Scotland Yard. 
I do not know how far Sherlock 

612
00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:31,700
Holmes took any sleep that 
night. 

613
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,800
But when I came down to 
breakfast, I found him pale and 

614
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,500
harassed. 
His Bright Eyes, The Brighter 

615
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:40,600
for the Dark, Shadows around 
them, the carpet round. 

616
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,700
His chair was littered with 
cigarette ends. 

617
00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:46,900
And with the early editions of 
the morning papers an open 

618
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:51,100
telegram, lay upon the table. 
What do you think of this 

619
00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:53,600
Watson? 
He asked tossing it across. 

620
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,700
It was from Norwood and ran as 
follows. 

621
00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:00,900
Important fresh evidence to hand
McFarland's. 

622
00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:04,700
Guilt definitely established 
advise you to abandon case 

623
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,900
lestrade. 
This sounds serious. 

624
00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:11,500
Did I? 
It is lestrade little 

625
00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:16,600
cockadoodle of Victory, Holmes 
answered with a bitter smile and

626
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,200
yet it may be premature to 
abandon the case. 

627
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,800
After all important fresh 
evidence is a two-edged thing, 

628
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:27,500
and may possibly cut in a very 
different direction to that. 

629
00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:32,400
Which lestrade imagines, take 
your breakfast Watson and we 

630
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,500
will go out together and see 
what we can do. 

631
00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:38,300
I feel as if I shall need your 
company and your moral support 

632
00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:41,400
today. 
My friend had no breakfast 

633
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,600
himself for it. 
Was one of his peculiarities 

634
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,200
that in his more intense 
moments. 

635
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,900
He would permit himself, no 
food, and I have known him 

636
00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:53,400
presume upon his iron strength 
until he has fainted from Pure 

637
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:58,100
in a nation at present. 
I cannot spare energy and nerve 

638
00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:01,300
Force for digestion. 
He would say in answer to my 

639
00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:04,800
medical remonstrances. 
I was not surprised therefore, 

640
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,500
when this morning. 
He left his untouched meal 

641
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:12,200
behind him and started with me 
for A crowd of morbid. 

642
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,600
Sightseers were still gathered 
around deep Dene house, which 

643
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,600
was just such a Suburban Villa 
as I had pictured within the 

644
00:38:19,607 --> 00:38:23,600
gates lestrade metis, his face 
flushed With Victory. 

645
00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:28,700
His manner grossly triumphant. 
Well, mr. 

646
00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:32,100
Rome's, have you proved us to be
wrong yet? 

647
00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:35,200
Have you found your tramp? 
He cried. 

648
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,900
I have formed no conclusion, 
whatever my companion answered. 

649
00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:45,400
But we formed as yesterday and 
now it proves to be correct. 

650
00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:48,100
So you must acknowledge that we 
have been a little in front of 

651
00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:50,800
you. 
This time is Thrones you 

652
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,300
certainly have the air of 
something unusual, having 

653
00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:57,100
occurred said Holmes lestrade 
laughed loudly. 

654
00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:01,800
You don't like being beaten any 
more than the rest of us. 

655
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,900
Do said he a man. 
Can't expect always do it his 

656
00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:06,800
own way. 
Kenny. 

657
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,200
Dr. Watson step, this way. 
If you please gentlemen, and I 

658
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,200
think I can convince you once 
for all that. 

659
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,000
It was John McFarlane, who did 
this crime? 

660
00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:20,500
He led us through the passage 
and out into a dark Hall Beyond.

661
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,900
This is why young McFarland must
have come out to get his hat 

662
00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:30,100
after the crime was done. 
Said he now look at this with 

663
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:33,800
dramatic suddenness. 
He struck a match and by its 

664
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,900
light exposed, a stain of blood 
upon the whitewashed wall as he 

665
00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:40,900
held a match nearer. 
I saw that it was more than a 

666
00:39:40,908 --> 00:39:44,100
stain. 
It was a well-marked print of a 

667
00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:46,700
thumb. 
Look at that with your 

668
00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:48,900
magnifying glass. 
Mr. Holmes. 

669
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:55,100
Yes, I am doing so, you are 
aware that now to thumb marks 

670
00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:58,300
are alike. 
I have heard something of the 

671
00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:01,500
kind. 
Well then, will you please 

672
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:03,900
compared that print with this 
wax? 

673
00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:05,900
Impression of young McFarland's,
right? 

674
00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:11,300
Thumb taken by my orders this 
morning as he held the waxen 

675
00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:13,000
print close to the 
blood-stained. 

676
00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:15,400
It did not take a magnifying 
glass to see. 

677
00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:18,500
Either the two were undoubtedly 
from the same thumb. 

678
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,400
It was evident to me that our 
unfortunate client was lost. 

679
00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:28,500
That is final said lestrade. 
Yes. 

680
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:31,100
That is final. 
I am voluntary echoed. 

681
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,700
It is final said, Holmes. 
Something in his tone caught my 

682
00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:41,200
ear and I turned to look at him,
an extraordinary change had come

683
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,300
over his face. 
It was writhing with inward 

684
00:40:44,300 --> 00:40:47,400
merriment. 
His two eyes were shining like 

685
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,000
stars. 
It seemed to me that he was 

686
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,400
making desperate efforts to 
restrain a convulsive attack of 

687
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,000
laughter. 
TM me. 

688
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,500
Dear me. 
He said at last. 

689
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:04,800
Well now who would have thought 
it and how deceptive appearances

690
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,000
may be to be sure. 
Such a nice young man to look 

691
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,300
at. 
It is a lesson to us, not to 

692
00:41:10,308 --> 00:41:13,400
trust our own judgment. 
Is it not lestrade? 

693
00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:17,100
Yes. 
Some of us are a little too much

694
00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:18,700
inclined to be cock. 
Ashore. 

695
00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:23,200
Mr. Holmes said lestrade the 
man's insolence was maddening, 

696
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:27,600
but we could not resent. 
What a providential thing that 

697
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,800
this young man should press his 
right thumb against the wall in 

698
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:35,500
taking his hat from the peg. 
Such a very natural action to if

699
00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:40,100
you come to think of it Holmes 
was outwardly calm but his whole

700
00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:41,800
body gave a wriggle of 
suppressed. 

701
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:46,600
Excitement as he spoke. 
By the way, lestrade who made 

702
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,100
this remarkable Discovery. 
It was the a housekeeper. 

703
00:41:50,100 --> 00:41:52,200
Mrs. Lexington who drew the 
night. 

704
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:56,300
Constables, attention to it. 
Where was the night Constable? 

705
00:41:57,300 --> 00:42:00,000
He remained on guard in the 
bedroom where the crime was 

706
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,400
committed? 
So to say that, nothing was 

707
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,600
touched, but why didn't the 
police see this Mark yesterday? 

708
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,300
Well, we had no particular 
reason to make a careful 

709
00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:14,500
examination of the all besides, 
is not in a very prominent 

710
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:18,600
place, as you say, No, no, of 
course not. 

711
00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:22,300
I suppose there is no doubt that
the Mark was there yesterday. 

712
00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:26,200
The strad looked at Holmes if he
thought he was going out of his 

713
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,800
mind. 
I confess that, I was myself 

714
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,400
surprised both. 
It is hilarious Manner and it is

715
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,600
rather wild observation. 
I don't know. 

716
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,700
Whether you think that McFarland
came out of jail in the dead of 

717
00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:41,900
the night, in order to 
strengthen the evidence against 

718
00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:46,600
himself said lestrade, I leave 
it to any expert in the world 

719
00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:48,900
whether that is not the mark of 
his thumb. 

720
00:42:50,100 --> 00:42:53,000
It is unquestionably the mark of
his thumb. 

721
00:42:53,900 --> 00:42:56,300
Yeah, that's enough said 
lestrade. 

722
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,000
I'm a practical man. 
Mr. Holmes and when I've got my 

723
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,300
evidence, so I come to my 
conclusions. 

724
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,700
If you have anything to say, 
you'll find me writing my 

725
00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:08,600
report. 
In my sitting room Holmes, had 

726
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,200
recovered his Equanimity, 
though. 

727
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,800
I still seem to detect gleams of
muse, moment in his expression. 

728
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,300
Dear me. 
This is a very sad development. 

729
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:23,400
Watson is it not said he and 
yet, there are singular points 

730
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:27,000
about it, which hold out some 
hopes for our client. 

731
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,500
I'm delighted to hear it said I 
heartily I was afraid. 

732
00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:35,000
It was all up with him. 
I would hardly go so far as to 

733
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,400
say that my dear Watson the fact
is that there is one really 

734
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,900
serious floor in this evidence 
to which our friend attaches so 

735
00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:45,800
much importance. 
Indeed, Holmes. 

736
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:51,400
What is it? 
Only this that I know that that 

737
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,600
Mark was not there when I 
examined the hall yesterday and 

738
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,800
now Watson, let us have Little 
stroll around in the sunshine. 

739
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,200
With a confused brain, but with 
a heart into which some warmth 

740
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,600
of Hope was returning. 
I company my friend in a walk 

741
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:11,700
around the garden Holmes, took 
each face of the house intern 

742
00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:13,800
and examined it with great 
interest. 

743
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,600
He then led the way inside and 
went over the whole building 

744
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:22,200
from basement to attic, most of 
the rooms were unfurnished, but 

745
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,100
nonetheless homes, inspected 
them, all minutely. 

746
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,300
Finally on the top Corridor, 
which ran outside three, 

747
00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:33,500
untenanted bedrooms. 
He again was seized with a spasm

748
00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:36,800
of merriment. 
There are really some very 

749
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:41,100
unique features about this case.
Watson said, he I think it is 

750
00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:42,800
time. 
Now that we took our friend 

751
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:47,200
lestrade into our confidence. 
He has had his little smile at 

752
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:51,600
our expense and perhaps we may 
do as much by him if my reading 

753
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,800
of this problem proves to be 
correct. 

754
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:55,500
Yes. 
Yes. 

755
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,200
I think I see how we should 
approach it. 

756
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,700
The Scotland Yard inspector was 
still writing in The Parlor, 

757
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,100
when Holmes interrupted him. 
I understand that you were 

758
00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:11,500
writing a report of this case 
said he so I am. 

759
00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:15,400
Don't you think it might be a 
little premature. 

760
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:21,000
I can't help thinking that your 
evidence is not complete the 

761
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,300
strad. 
New my friend too. 

762
00:45:22,300 --> 00:45:26,100
Well to disregard his words. 
He laid down his pen and looked 

763
00:45:26,100 --> 00:45:28,700
curiously at him. 
What do you mean? 

764
00:45:28,700 --> 00:45:32,200
Mr. Holmes? 
Only that there is an important 

765
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:36,200
witness whom you have not seen. 
Can you produce him? 

766
00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:42,300
I think I can, then do so, I 
will do my best. 

767
00:45:42,700 --> 00:45:46,400
How many constables have you 
there are three within call? 

768
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:51,400
Excellent said, Holmes. 
May I ask if they are all large 

769
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,800
able-bodied men with powerful 
voices? 

770
00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:57,300
I have no doubt. 
They are though. 

771
00:45:57,300 --> 00:46:00,300
I failed to see what their 
voices have to do with it. 

772
00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:05,300
Perhaps I can help you to see 
that and one or two other things

773
00:46:05,300 --> 00:46:08,200
as well. 
Said, Holmes, kindly summon your

774
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,500
men and I will try. 
Five minutes later three 

775
00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:14,300
policemen had assembled in the 
hall. 

776
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,400
In the Outhouse. 
You'll find a considerable 

777
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:22,200
quantity of straw said, Holmes. 
I will ask you to carry in two 

778
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:25,100
bundles of it. 
I think it will be of the 

779
00:46:25,100 --> 00:46:27,600
greatest assistance in producing
the witness. 

780
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,600
Whom I require. 
Thank you very much. 

781
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,500
I believe you have some matches 
in your pocket Watson now, mr. 

782
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:38,100
Lestrade. 
I will ask you all to accompany 

783
00:46:38,100 --> 00:46:42,300
me to the top Landing. 
As I've said there was a broad 

784
00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:45,800
Corridor there which ran outside
three empty bedrooms. 

785
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,000
At one end of the corridor. 
We were all marshaled by 

786
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:53,000
Sherlock Holmes, The constables 
grinning and lestrade staring at

787
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,500
my friend with amazement 
expectation and derision chasing

788
00:46:57,500 --> 00:47:00,400
each other across his features 
home. 

789
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,100
Stood before us with the air of 
a conjurer who is performing a 

790
00:47:03,107 --> 00:47:06,100
trick. 
Would you kindly send one of 

791
00:47:06,100 --> 00:47:08,500
your constables for two buckets 
of water. 

792
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,300
Put the straw on the floor here,
free from the wall on either 

793
00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:15,100
side. 
Now, I think that we are already

794
00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:18,700
the straws face had begun to 
grow red and angry. 

795
00:47:19,700 --> 00:47:22,000
I don't know whether you're 
playing a game with us. 

796
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,300
Mr. Sherlock Holmes said he if 
you know anything, you can 

797
00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:27,600
surely say it without all this 
tomfoolery. 

798
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,200
I assure you my good lestrade 
that. 

799
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,100
I have an excellent reason for 
everything that I do. 

800
00:47:35,100 --> 00:47:38,900
You may possibly remember that 
you've chased me a little some 

801
00:47:38,900 --> 00:47:41,700
hours ago when the sun seemed on
your side of the Hedge. 

802
00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:44,900
So you must not Grudge me a 
little Pomp and ceremony. 

803
00:47:44,900 --> 00:47:49,900
Now, might I ask you what sun' 
to open that window and then to 

804
00:47:49,900 --> 00:47:52,000
put a match to the edge of the 
straw. 

805
00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:55,900
I did. 
So and driven by the draft, a 

806
00:47:55,900 --> 00:48:00,600
coil of gray smoke swirled down 
the While the dry straw crackled

807
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,300
inflamed. 
Now we must see if we can find 

808
00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:08,200
this witness for you lestrade, 
might, I ask you all to join in 

809
00:48:08,207 --> 00:48:15,800
the Cry of fire. 
Now, then one, two, three, fire.

810
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,500
We all yelled. 
Thank you. 

811
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,200
I will trouble you once again, 
fire. 

812
00:48:23,300 --> 00:48:26,800
Just once more gentlemen, and 
all together. 

813
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,500
Fire. 
Shout must have rung over 

814
00:48:31,500 --> 00:48:34,700
Norwood. 
It had hardly died away. 

815
00:48:34,700 --> 00:48:38,800
When an amazing thing happened, 
a door, suddenly flew, open out 

816
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,500
of what appeared to be solid 
wall. 

817
00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:43,300
At the end of the corridor and a
little wizened man. 

818
00:48:43,300 --> 00:48:46,100
Darted out of it like a rabbit 
out of its burrow. 

819
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:51,600
Capital said, Holmes, calmly 
Watson, a bucket of water over 

820
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,200
the straw. 
Now. 

821
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,600
We'll do the strad. 
Allow me to present you with 

822
00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,700
your principal missing witness. 
Mr. Jonas oldacre. 

823
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,500
The detective stared at the 
newcomer with blank amazement. 

824
00:49:06,100 --> 00:49:09,200
The latter was blinking in the 
bright light of the corridor and

825
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,900
peering at us and that the 
smoldering fire. 

826
00:49:12,900 --> 00:49:18,000
It was an odious face, crafty 
vicious malignant with Shifty, 

827
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,000
light gray eyes, and white 
lashes. 

828
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,700
What's this then? 
Said lestrade at last? 

829
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,500
What have you been doing? 
All this time? 

830
00:49:25,500 --> 00:49:30,600
I oldacre gave an uneasy laugh. 
Shrinking, back from the Furious

831
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,500
red-faced of the angry 
detective. 

832
00:49:33,300 --> 00:49:37,700
I've done no harm, no harm. 
You've done your best, to get an

833
00:49:37,700 --> 00:49:40,100
innocent man. 
Hanged, if it wasn't for this 

834
00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:42,100
gentleman here. 
I'm not sure that you would not 

835
00:49:42,100 --> 00:49:45,500
have succeeded. 
The Wretched creature began to 

836
00:49:45,500 --> 00:49:48,400
whimper. 
I'm sure sir. 

837
00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:52,900
It was only my practical joke. 
Oh, a joke was it. 

838
00:49:53,300 --> 00:49:55,100
You won't find the laughs on 
your side. 

839
00:49:55,100 --> 00:49:58,600
I promise you take him down and 
keep him in the sitting room 

840
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,100
until I come mr. 
Holmes. 

841
00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:04,900
He continued when they had gone.
Our could not speak before the 

842
00:50:04,900 --> 00:50:08,500
constables, but I don't mind 
saying in the presence of dr. 

843
00:50:08,500 --> 00:50:11,100
Watson. 
This is the brightest thing that

844
00:50:11,100 --> 00:50:13,800
you've done yet, though. 
It is a mystery to me how you 

845
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,500
did it. 
You have saved an innocent man's

846
00:50:16,500 --> 00:50:18,500
life. 
And you have prevented a very 

847
00:50:18,500 --> 00:50:21,800
grave Scandal which would have 
ruined my reputation in the 

848
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:26,300
force Holmes, smiled and clapped
lestrade upon the shoulder. 

849
00:50:27,500 --> 00:50:29,600
Instead of being ruined, my good
sir. 

850
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,800
You will find that your 
reputation has been enormously 

851
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,900
enhanced. 
Just make a few alterations in 

852
00:50:35,900 --> 00:50:39,200
that report, which you were 
writing and they will understand

853
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:43,700
how hard it is to throw dust in 
the eyes of inspector lestrade. 

854
00:50:44,700 --> 00:50:48,200
And you don't want your name to 
appear, not at all. 

855
00:50:48,900 --> 00:50:51,700
The work is its own reward? 
Perhaps. 

856
00:50:51,700 --> 00:50:54,400
I should get the credit also at 
some distant day. 

857
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,700
When I permit my zealous 
historian to lay out his 

858
00:50:57,700 --> 00:50:59,900
foolscap once more. 
Hey, Watson. 

859
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,400
Well, now, let us see where this
rat has been lurking. 

860
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,300
A lathe and plaster partition 
have been run across. 

861
00:51:07,300 --> 00:51:11,200
The passage six feet from the 
end, was a door cunningly 

862
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,700
concealed in it. 
It was lit Within by slits under

863
00:51:14,700 --> 00:51:18,000
the eaves, a few articles of 
furniture and the supply of food

864
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,300
and water within together with a
number of books and papers. 

865
00:51:21,300 --> 00:51:25,500
There's the advantage of being a
Builder said Holmes. 

866
00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:28,500
As we came out. 
He was able to fix up his own 

867
00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:32,900
little hiding place without any 
Confederate save, of course that

868
00:51:32,900 --> 00:51:35,600
precious Keeper of his whom I 
should lose. 

869
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,100
No time in adding to your bag 
lestrade. 

870
00:51:39,100 --> 00:51:41,800
I'll take your advice. 
But how did you know? 

871
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,100
This place? 
Mr. Holmes? 

872
00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:47,100
I made up my mind that the 
fellow was in hiding in the 

873
00:51:47,100 --> 00:51:50,400
house. 
When I paste 1 Corridor and 

874
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,800
found it six feet shorter than 
the corresponding. 

875
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,600
One below. 
It was pretty clear where he 

876
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,400
was. 
I thought he had not the nerve 

877
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,700
to lie quiet before an alarm of 
fire. 

878
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,500
We could, of course have gone in
and taken him but it amused me 

879
00:52:05,500 --> 00:52:09,600
to make him reveal himself. 
Besides I owed you a little 

880
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,500
mystification lestrade for your 
chafe in the morning. 

881
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:17,100
Well, sir, you certainly got Eco
with me on that. 

882
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,900
But how in the world did you 
know that he was in the house at

883
00:52:19,900 --> 00:52:23,900
all? 
The thumb Mark lestrade, you 

884
00:52:23,900 --> 00:52:27,900
said it was Final and so it was 
in a very different sense. 

885
00:52:28,900 --> 00:52:33,100
I knew it had not been there the
day before I pay a good deal of 

886
00:52:33,107 --> 00:52:37,200
attention to matters of detail. 
As you may have observed and I 

887
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,400
had examined the hall and was 
sure that the wall was clear. 

888
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,000
Therefore. 
It had been put on during the 

889
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:50,500
night, but how very simply when 
those packets were sealed up. 

890
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,700
Jonas oldacre, got McFarland to 
secure one of the seals by, 

891
00:52:54,700 --> 00:52:56,700
putting his thumb upon the soft 
wax. 

892
00:52:57,300 --> 00:53:01,200
It would be done so quickly. 
And so naturally that I dare 

893
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,000
say, the young man himself has 
no recollection of it. 

894
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,700
Very likely it just so happened 
and oldacre had himself no 

895
00:53:08,700 --> 00:53:12,300
notion of the use. 
He would put it to brooding over

896
00:53:12,300 --> 00:53:15,500
the case in that den of his it 
suddenly struck him. 

897
00:53:15,500 --> 00:53:17,300
What? 
Absolutely damning evidence. 

898
00:53:17,300 --> 00:53:20,600
He could make against McFarland 
by using that some more. 

899
00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:24,400
It was the simplest thing in the
world for him, to take a wax 

900
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,900
impression from the seal, to 
moisten it in as much blood as 

901
00:53:27,900 --> 00:53:31,100
he could get from a pinprick. 
And to put the markup on the 

902
00:53:31,107 --> 00:53:34,800
wall during the night, either 
with his own hand or with that 

903
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:38,000
of his housekeeper. 
If you examine among those 

904
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,500
documents, which he took with 
him into his Retreat, I will lay

905
00:53:41,500 --> 00:53:44,600
you a wager that you will find 
the seal with the thumb Mark 

906
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:48,100
upon it. 
Wonderful said lestrade 

907
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,600
wonderful. 
It's all as clear as Crystal as 

908
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,100
you put it. 
But why is the object of this 

909
00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:55,900
deep deception? 
Mr. Adams? 

910
00:53:57,100 --> 00:54:00,300
It was amusing to me to see how 
the detectives overbearing 

911
00:54:00,300 --> 00:54:04,500
manner had changed suddenly to 
that of a child asking questions

912
00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:08,100
of its teacher. 
Well, I don't think that it is 

913
00:54:08,100 --> 00:54:12,300
very hard to explain a very deep
malicious. 

914
00:54:12,300 --> 00:54:15,500
Vindictive person is the 
gentleman who is now waiting us 

915
00:54:15,500 --> 00:54:19,800
downstairs, you know that he was
once refused by McFarlane's 

916
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:24,600
mother you don't I told you that
you should go to Blackheath 

917
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:29,100
first and Norwood afterwards. 
Well this injury as he would 

918
00:54:29,100 --> 00:54:33,200
consider it has rankled in his 
Wicked scheming brain and all 

919
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,800
his life. 
He has longed for vengeance but 

920
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:40,500
never seen his Chance during the
last year or two things have 

921
00:54:40,500 --> 00:54:43,300
gone against him. 
Secret speculation. 

922
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,300
I think and he finds himself in 
a bad way. 

923
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,700
He determines to Swindle his 
creditors and for this purpose. 

924
00:54:50,700 --> 00:54:52,700
He pays large checks to a 
certain. 

925
00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:56,700
Mr. Cornelius, who is I imagined
himself under another name? 

926
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,800
I have not traced these checks 
yet, but I have no doubt that 

927
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,200
they were banked under that name
at some provincial town. 

928
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,900
Where oldacre from time to time.
That a double existence. 

929
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,900
He intended to change his name. 
All together, draw this money 

930
00:55:11,900 --> 00:55:14,400
and vanish starting life again 
elsewhere. 

931
00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:20,100
Well, that's likely enough. 
It would strike him in that in 

932
00:55:20,100 --> 00:55:22,800
disappearing. 
He might throw all pursuit of 

933
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:27,100
his track and at the same time, 
have an ample and crushing 

934
00:55:27,100 --> 00:55:31,000
Revenge upon his old sweetheart.
If you could give the impression

935
00:55:31,300 --> 00:55:33,900
that he had been murdered by her
only child. 

936
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:36,400
It was a masterpiece of 
villainy. 

937
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,400
And he carried out, like a 
master, the idea of the will, 

938
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,700
which would have given an 
obvious motive for the crime. 

939
00:55:43,300 --> 00:55:46,800
The secret visit unknown to his 
Own parents, the retention of 

940
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,300
the stick, the blood, and the 
animal remains and buttons in 

941
00:55:50,300 --> 00:55:52,800
the woodpile. 
All were admirable. 

942
00:55:53,300 --> 00:55:56,800
It was a net from, which it 
seemed to me a few hours ago 

943
00:55:56,800 --> 00:56:00,500
that there was no possible 
Escape, but he had not that 

944
00:56:00,500 --> 00:56:04,500
Supreme gift of the artist the 
knowledge of when to stop. 

945
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,600
He wished to improve that which 
was already. 

946
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,500
Perfect. 
The draw the Rope tighter yet 

947
00:56:10,500 --> 00:56:14,400
round the neck of his 
unfortunate victim and so he 

948
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,900
ruined All let us descend 
lestrade. 

949
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:21,000
There are just one or two 
questions that I would ask him. 

950
00:56:22,900 --> 00:56:26,100
The malignant creature was 
seated in his own parlor, with a

951
00:56:26,100 --> 00:56:29,100
policeman upon each side of him.
It was a joke. 

952
00:56:29,100 --> 00:56:31,700
I could sir a practical joke, 
nothing more. 

953
00:56:32,100 --> 00:56:36,000
He whined incessantly. 
I assure you sir that I simply 

954
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,100
concealed myself in order to see
the effect of my disappearance. 

955
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,000
And I'm sure that you would not 
be. 

956
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,400
So unjust as to imagine that, I 
would have allowed any harm to 

957
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:49,000
befall, poor young McFarland. 
That's for a jury to decide 

958
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,300
said, lestrade. 
Anyhow, we shall have you on 

959
00:56:52,500 --> 00:56:55,400
Charge of conspiracy if not for 
attempted murder. 

960
00:56:57,100 --> 00:57:00,200
And you'll probably find that 
your creditors will impound, the

961
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:04,900
banking account of mr. 
Cornelius said, Holmes, little 

962
00:57:04,900 --> 00:57:08,500
man started and turned his 
malignant eyes upon my friend. 

963
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,000
I have to thank you for a good 
deal. 

964
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:19,000
Said he perhaps I'll pay my 
debt, someday, Holmes smiled, 

965
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,200
indulgently. 
I fancy that for some few years.

966
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:27,700
You'll find your time. 
Very fully occupied said he, by 

967
00:57:27,700 --> 00:57:30,700
the way, what was it? 
You put into the wood pile, 

968
00:57:30,700 --> 00:57:35,400
besides your old trousers, a 
dead dog or rabbits or what? 

969
00:57:36,100 --> 00:57:40,100
You won't tell dear me, how very
unkind of you? 

970
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,300
Well, well, I daresay that a 
couple of rabbits would account 

971
00:57:44,300 --> 00:57:47,200
both for the blood and for the 
charred ashes. 

972
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,700
If ever you write an account 
Watson, you can make rabbits 

973
00:57:51,700 --> 00:57:55,900
serve your turn. 
End of the adventure of the 

974
00:57:55,900 --> 00:57:56,900
Norwood Builder.