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Adventure 4 in his last Bow by 
Sir, Arthur Conan Doyle. 

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This LibriVox recording is in 
the public domain. 

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The adventure of the 
bruce-partington plans in the 

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third week of November in the 
year 1895 a dense yellow fog 

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settled down upon London from 
the Monday to Thursday. 

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I doubt whether it was ever 
possible from our windows in 

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Baker Street, to see the loom of
the opposite houses. 

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The first day Homes at spent in 
cross-indexing his huge book of 

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references, the second and third
had been patiently occupied upon

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us. 
Direct which had recently made 

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his hobby, the music of the 
Middle Ages. 

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But when for the fourth time, 
after pushing back, our chairs 

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from breakfast, we saw the 
greasy heavy brown swirl still 

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drifting pastors and condensing 
in oily drops upon the 

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windowpanes. 
My comrades impatient and active

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nature could endure this drab. 
Existence, no longer. 

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He paced restlessly about our 
sitting room in a fever of 

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suppressed. 
Energy biting his nails. 

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Tapping, the The furniture and 
chafing against in action. 

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Nothing of interest in the paper
Watson. 

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He said, I was aware that by 
anything of Interest homes, 

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meant anything of criminal 
interest, there was the news of 

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a revolution of a possible war 
and of an impending change of 

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government. 
But these did not come within 

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the Horizon of my companion. 
I could see nothing recorded in 

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the shape of crime, which was 
not common place and futile, 

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homes, groaned and resumed his 
Restless meanderings. 

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The London criminal is certainly
a dull. 

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Fellow said he in the querulous 
voice of the Sportsman whose 

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game has failed him. 
Look out this window, Watson, 

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see how the figures Loom up on 
dimly seen and then blend once 

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more into the cloud Bank, the 
thief, or the murderer could 

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Rome London on such a day as the
tiger does the jungle, unseen 

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until he pounces and then 
evident only to his victim. 

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There have said, I been numerous
Petty, thefts, homes, snorted, 

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his contempt, this great. 
And somber, stage is set for 

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something more worthy than that 
said. 

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He, it is fortunate for this 
community that I am not a 

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criminal. 
It is indeed said, I heartily 

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suppose that I were Brooks or 
Woodhouse or any of the 50 men 

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who have good reason for taking 
my life. 

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How long could I survive against
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Pursuit as summons a bogus 
appointment and all would be 

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over it is well they don't have 
days of fog in the Latin 

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countries, the countries of 
assassination by jove. 

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It comes something at last a 
breakout dead monotony. 

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It was the maid with a telegram,
homes. 

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Tore it open and burst out 
laughing. 

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Well, well, what next said he 
brother Mycroft is coming 

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around. 
Why not? 

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I asked why not. 
It is, as if you met a tramcar 

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coming down, a Country Lane 
Mycroft has his rails and he 

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runs on them. 
His palm. 

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Our lodgings, the diogenes club 
Whitehall that is his cycle once

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and only He wants. 
He's been here. 

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What? 
Upheaval can possibly have 

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derailed him. 
Does he not explain homes handed

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me? 
His brothers telegram must see 

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you over cadogan West coming at 
once Mycroft. 

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Good organ West. 
I've heard that name it recalls.

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Nothing to my mind, but that 
Mycroft should break out in this

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erratic fashion. 
A planet might as well leave its

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orbit by the way, do you know 
what Mycroft is? 

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I had some vague recollection of
an explanation at the time of 

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the adventure of the Greek. 
Interpreter you told me that you

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had some small office under the 
British government Holmes 

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chuckled. 
I do not know, quite so well, in

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those days, one has to be 
discreet. 

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When one talks of high matters 
of State you are right, in 

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thinking that he is under the 
British government, you would 

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also be right in a sense. 
If you said that occasionally, 

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he is the British government. 
My dear Holmes, I thought I 

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might surprise you Mycroft draws
450 pounds a year. 

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Remains a subordinate has no 
Ambitions of any kind will 

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receive neither honor nor title 
but Remains the most 

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indispensable man in the 
country, but how well, his 

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position is unique. 
He has made it for himself. 

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There's never been anything like
it before, nor will be again. 

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Has the tidiest and most orderly
brain with the greatest capacity

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for storing facts of any man. 
Living the same great Powers 

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which I have turned to the 
detection of crime. 

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He has used for this particular 
business, the conclusions of 

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every Department, a pastor him 
and he is the central exchange, 

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the Clearinghouse, which makes 
out the balance. 

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All other men are Specialists 
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omniscience. 
We will suppose that a minister 

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needs information as to a point 
which involves the Navy. 

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India, Canada and the bimetallic
question he could get his 

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separate advices from various 
departments upon each but only 

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Mycroft can focus them all and 
say offhand how each factor 

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would affect the other. 
They began by using him as a 

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shortcut. 
Convenience. 

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And now he's made himself an 
essential in that Great Brain of

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his everything is pigeon-holed 
and can be handed out in an 

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instant again. 
And again, his word has decided 

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the national policy. 
He lives in it, he thinks of 

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nothing else. 
Say when as an intellectual 

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exercise, he and Ben's, if I 
call upon him and ask him to 

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advise me on one of my little 
problems, but Jupiter is 

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descending today. 
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Can it mean, who is Cadogan 
West. 

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And what is he to Mycroft? 
I have it. 

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I cried and plunged among the 
litter of papers upon the sofa. 

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Yes, yes. 
Here, he is. 

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Sure enough. 
That could open West was the 

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young man who was found dead on 
the Underground on Tuesday 

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Morning, Holmes sat up at 
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his lips. 
This must be serious. 

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Watson, a death, which has 
caused my brother to alter his 

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habits. 
Can be no ordinary one. 

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What in the world can he have to
do with it? 

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The case was featureless, as I 
remember it, the young man had 

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apparently fallen out of the 
train and killed himself. 

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He had not been robbed and there
was no particular reason to 

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suspect violence is that not. 
So there has been an inquest 

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said, I and a good, many fresh 
facts have come out looked at 

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more closely. 
I should certainly say that it 

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was a curious case. 
Judging by its effect on my 

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brother. 
I should think it must be a most

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extraordinary. 
One, he snuggled down in his 

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armchair. 
Now, Watson, let us have the 

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facts. 
The man's name was Arthur 

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cadogan West, he was 27 years of
age unmarried and a Clark at 

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Woolwich Arsenal. 
Government employee behold. 

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The link with brother Mycroft he
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Monday night was last seen by 
his fiancee Miss Violet 

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Westbury. 
He left abruptly in the fog 

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about 7:30 that evening there 
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she can give no motive for his 
action. 

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The next thing heard of him was 
when his dead body was 

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discovered by a plate. 
Layer named Mason just outside 

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old Gate station on the 
Underground system in London. 

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When the body was found at six 
on Tuesday morning, he was 

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lying. 
Wider than Metals upon the 

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left-hand of the track as one 
goes Eastward at a point close 

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to The station where the line 
emerges from the tunnel in which

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it runs. 
The head was badly, crushed and 

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injury, which might well have 
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Train. 
The body could only have come on

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the line. 
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down from any neighboring 
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station barriers, where a 
collector is always standing. 

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This point seems absolutely 
certain very good. 

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The case is definite enough, the
man dead or alive. 

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Hi, the fell or was precipitated
from a train so much is clear to

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me. 
Continue the trains, which 

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Traverse the lines of rail 
beside, which the body was found

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are those which run from west to
east some being purely 

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Metropolitan, and some from 
willesden and outline Junctions,

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it can be stated for certain 
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his death was traveling in this 
direction at some late hours of 

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the night, but at what point he 
entered the train is impossible 

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to stay. 
Tate his ticket of course, would

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show that there was no ticket in
his pockets. 

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No ticket. 
Dear me Watson. 

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This really is a very singular 
according to my experience. 

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It is not possible to reach the 
platform of a metropolitan train

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without exhibiting ones. 
Ticket, presumably. 

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Then the young man had one, was 
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conceal the station from which 
he came? 

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It is Well, did he drop it in 
the carriage? 

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That is also possible, but the 
point is of curious interest, I 

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understand that there was no 
sign of robbery apparently not, 

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there is a list here of his 
possessions, his purse contained

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two pounds 15. 
It also check book on the which 

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branch of the capital and 
Counties Bank through this is 

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identity was established. 
There were also two dress Circle

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tickets for the will itch 
theater dated for that very 

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Evening. 
Also a small packet of technical

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papers Holmes, gave an 
exclamation of satisfaction. 

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There we have it at last Watson,
British government Woolwich 

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Arsenal Technical papers brother
Mycroft the chain is complete, 

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but here he comes, if I'm not 
mistaken to speak for himself, A

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moment later the tall and portly
form of Mycroft Holmes was 

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ushered into the room, heavily 
built and massive. 

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There was a suggestion of 
uncouth, physical inertia in the

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figure. 
But Above This unwieldy frame, 

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there was perched ahead. 
So masterful in its brow. 

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So Alert in its steel, gray, 
deep-set eyes. 

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So firm in its lips, and so 
subtle in its play of 

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expression, that after the first
glance one, forgot the gross 

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body and remembered only the 
Dominant mind at his heels, came

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our dear old friend lestrade of 
Scotland, Yard sin, and ostia. 

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The gravity of both their faces 
for told some weighty Quest the 

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detective shook hands without a 
word, Mycroft Holmes, struggled 

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out of his overcoat and subsided
into an armchair. 

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A most annoying business. 
Sherlock, said he I extremely 

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dislike altering my habits But 
the powers that be would take no

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Denial in the present state of 
Siam. 

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It is most awkward that I should
be away from the office but it 

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is a real crisis I have never 
seen the prime minister so upset

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as to the admiralty it is 
buzzing like an overturned 

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beehive have you read up the 
case we have just done. 

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So what were the technical 
papers? 

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Ah there's the point. 
Fortunately it is not come out, 

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press would be furious if it did
the papers which this wretched 

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youth had in his pocket with a 
plans of the Bruce Partington 

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submarine, Mycroft Holmes, spoke
with a solemnity which showed 

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his sense of the importance of 
the subject, his brother. 

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And I sat expectant surely 
you've heard of it, I thought 

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everyone had heard of it only as
a name, its importance can 

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hardly be. 
Exaggerated, it has been the 

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most jealously guarded of all 
government secrets. 

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You may take it from me, that 
Naval Warfare becomes impossible

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within the radius of a 
bruce-partington operation. 

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Two years ago, a very large sum 
was smuggled through the 

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estimates and was expended in 
acquiring, a monopoly of the 

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invention. 
Every effort has been made to 

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keep the secret, the plans which
are exceedingly intricate 

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comprising, some 30 separate 
patents. 

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Each essential to the working of
the whole are kept in an 

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elaborate safe in a confidential
officer joining the Arsenal, 

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with burglar-proof doors and 
windows, and a no conceivable 

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circumstances were the plans to 
be taken from the office. 

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If the chief Constructor of the 
Navy desire to consult them, 

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Even he was forced to go to the 
Woolwich office for the purpose.

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And yet here we find them in the
pocket of a dead, Junior Clark, 

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in the heart of London, from an 
official point of view, it's 

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simply awful. 
But you have recovered them. 

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No Sherlock. 
No, that's the pinch. 

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We have not ten papers were 
taken from Woolwich. 

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There were seven in the pocket 
of cadogan West. 

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The three most essential are 
gone, stolen vanished, you must 

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drop everything Sherlock, never 
mind. 

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Your usual Petty, puzzles of the
police court. 

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It's a vital International 
problem that you have to solve. 

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Why did cadogan West take two 
papers where the missing Just 

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how did he die? 
Okay, his body where it was 

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found, how can he evil be set, 
right? 

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Find an answer to all these 
questions and you will have done

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good service for your country. 
Why do you not solve it 

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yourself? 
Mycroft? 

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You can see as far as I possibly
Sherlock, but it is a question 

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of getting details. 
Give me your details and for an 

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armchair I'll return you an 
excellent expert opinion but to 

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run here and run. 
They're to cross-questioned 

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railway guards and lie on my 
face with a lens to my eye. 

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It is not my metier know. 
You are the one man who can 

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clear the matter up? 
If you have a fancy to see your 

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name in the next honours list, 
My friend smiled and shook his 

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head, I play the game for the 
game's own sake, said he. 

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But the problem certainly 
presents some points of interest

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and I shall be very pleased to 
look into it some more facts 

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please, I've jotted down the 
more essential ones upon this 

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sheet of paper together with a 
few addresses, which you'll find

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if service. 
The actual official guardian of 

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the papers is the famous 
government expert. 

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So, Walter who's decorations and
subtitles, fill two lines of a 

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book of reference. 
He's grown gray in the service 

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is a gentleman, a favored guest 
in the most exalted houses and 

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above all, a man, whose 
patriotism is beyond suspicion. 

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He is one of two, whoever key of
the safe. 

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I may add that the papers were 
undoubtedly in the office during

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working hours on Monday and 
that's a James left for London, 

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about three. 
A clock, taking his key with 

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him. 
He was at the house of Admiral 

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Sinclair at Berkeley Square 
during the whole of the evening 

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when this incident occurred as 
the fact been verified. 

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Yes. 
His brother Colonel Valentine. 

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Walter has testified his 
departure from would itch and 

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Admiral Sinclair to his arrival 
in London. 

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So so James is no longer a 
direct factor in the problem. 

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Who was the other man with a 
key? 

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The senior Clark and draftsman 
mr. 

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Sidney Johnson, he's a man of 
forty married with five 

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children. 
He is a silent morose man, but 

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he has on the whole, an 
excellent record in the public 

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service. 
He is unpopular with his 

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colleagues but a hard worker, 
according to his own account 

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corroborated, only by the word 
of his wife. 

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He was at home, the whole of 
Monday evening after office 

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hours. 
And his key is never left the 

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Watch chain upon which it hangs.
Tell us about cadogan West, he 

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has been 10 years in the service
and has done good work. 

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He has the reputation of being 
hot-headed and imperious but a 

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straight honest. 
Man, we have nothing against 

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him. 
He was next Sidney. 

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Johnston, in the office his 
duties. 

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Brought him into daily personal 
contact with the plans. 

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No one else had the handling of 
them. 

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Who locked up the plans that 
night? 

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Mr. Sidney Johnson the senior 
Clark. 

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Well it is surely perfectly 
clear who took them away. 

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They are actually found upon the
person of this junior. 

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Clerk cadogan West. 
That seems final. 

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Does it not it does Sherlock and
yet it leaves so much 

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unexplained in the first place. 
Why did he take them? 

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I presume. 
They were a value, he could have

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got several thousands for them 
very easily. 

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Can you suggest any possible 
motive for taking the papers to 

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London, except to sell them? 
No, I cannot. 

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Then we must take that as our 
working hypothesis. 

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Young West took the papers. 
Now, this could only be done by 

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having a false key several false
keys. 

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He had to open the building and 
the room. 

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He had then several false keys. 
He took the papers to London to 

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sell the secret Intending. 
No doubt to have the plans 

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themselves back in the safe. 
Next morning before they were 

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missed while in London on this 
treasonable Mission. 

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He met his end. 
How we will suppose that he was 

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traveling back to willich when 
he was killed and thrown out of 

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the compartment. 
Old gate where the body was 

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found is considerably pasta 
station London Bridge which 

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would be his route to wattage. 
Many circumstances Could Be 

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Imagined and to which he would 
pass London Bridge. 

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There was someone in a carriage,
for example, with whom he was 

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having an absorbing interview, 
this interview led to a violent 

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scene in which he lost his life,
possibly, he tried to leave the 

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carriage fell out on the line, 
and so met his end. 

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The other close, the door. 
There was a thick fog and 

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nothing could be seen. 
No, better explanation can be 

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given with our present knowledge
and yet consider Sherlock how 

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much you leave untouched. 
We will suppose for argument's 

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sake that young cadogan West had
determined to convey these 

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papers to London. 
He would naturally have made an 

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appointment with the foreign 
agent and kept his evening. 

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Clear. 
Instead of that, he took two 

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tickets for the theater 
escorted, his fiancee halfway 

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there. 
And then suddenly disappeared. 

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A blind said lestrade. 
Who is that listening with some 

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impatience to the conversation 
are very singular one, that is 

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objection. 
Number one objection number two,

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we will suppose that he reaches 
London and sees the foreign 

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agent. 
He must bring back the papers 

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before morning or the loss will 
be discovered. 

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He took away 10 only seven were 
in his pocket. 

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What had become of the other 
three? 

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He certainly would not leave 
them of his own. 

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Free will then again, where is 
the price of his treason? 

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One would have expected to find 
a large sum of money in his 

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pocket. 
It seems me perfectly clear, 

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said lestrade, I have no doubt 
at all as to what occurred. 

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He took the papers to sell them.
He saw the agent, they could not

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agree as to price, he started am
again, but the Asian went with 

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him in the Train, the agent 
murdered him, took them. 

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More essential papers and threw 
his body from The Carriage that 

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would account for everything. 
Would it not? 

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Why had he no ticket? 
The ticket would have shown, 

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which station was near as the 
agents house? 

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Therefore, he took it from the 
murdered Man's Pocket. 

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Good lestrade, very good said, 
Holmes your theory holds 

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together, and but if this is 
true, then the case is at an 

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end. 
On the one hand, the traitor is 

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dead. 
On the other, the plans of the 

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Bruce Partington, submarine are 
presumably already on the 

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continent. 
What is there for us? 

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To do to act Sherlock to act 
cried? 

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Mycroft springing to his feet or
my instincts are against this 

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explanation. 
Use your powers. 

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Go to the Scene of the crime, 
see the people concerned. 

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Leave no stone unturned in all 
your career. 

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You have never had so greater 
chance of serving your country. 

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Well, well said, Holmes, 
shrugging his shoulders, come 

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Watson and you lestrade, could 
you favor us with your company 

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for an hour or two? 
We will begin our investigation 

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by a visit to Old Gate station. 
Goodbye Mycroft, I should let 

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you have a report before 
evening, but I warn you in 

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advance that you have little to 
expect. 

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An hour later homes lestrade, 
and I stood upon the Underground

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Railroad. 
At the point, where it emerges 

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from the tunnel immediately 
before old Gate station a 

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courteous, red-faced Old 
Gentleman represented the 

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railway company. 
Who says were the young man's 

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body? 
Light said he indicating a spot 

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about three feet from the metals
who could not fallen from above 

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for these. 
As you see are all blank walls. 

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Therefore, it could only have 
come from a train and that train

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so far. 
As we can try sit must have 

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passed about midnight on Monday.
I have the carriage has been 

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examined for any sign of 
violence. 

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There are no such signs. 
I know ticket has been found. 

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No record of a door being found,
open none. 

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We've had some fresh evidence 
this morning said lestrade a 

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passenger who passed all gate in
an ordinary Metropolitan train 

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about 11:40 on Monday night, 
declares a tiered and heavy thud

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as of a body striking a line 
just before the train reached 

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the station. 
It was dense fog, however and 

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nothing could be seen. 
He made no report of it at the 

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time. 
Why. 

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Whatever is the matter with mr. 
Ohms. 

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My friend was standing with an 
expression of strained intensity

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upon his face staring at the 
railway Metals, where they 

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curved out of the tunnel old 
gate is a junction and there was

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a network of points on these. 
His eager questioning eyes were 

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fixed and I saw in his Keen 
alert face that tightening of 

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the lips that quiver of the 
nostrils and concentration of 

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the heavy tufted brows which I 
knew so. 

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Well, Points. 
He muttered. 

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The points? 
What of it. 

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What do you mean? 
I suppose there are no great 

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number of points on a system 
such as this. 

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No, they are very few and a 
curve, two points and a curve by

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jove, if it were only, so, What 
is it? 

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Mr. Holmes have your clue and 
idea. 

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An indication no more but the 
case certainly grows in interest

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unique perfectly unique. 
And yet why not? 

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I do not see any indications of 
bleeding on the line. 

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There were oddly any but I 
understand there was a 

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considerable wound. 
Oh bone was crushed but it was 

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no great, external injury. 
And yet, one would have expected

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some bleeding. 
Would it be possible for me to 

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inspect the train which contain 
the passenger who heard the thud

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of a fall in the fog over? 
Not mr. 

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Holmes, the train has been 
broken up before now and the 

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carriage is redistributed. 
I can assure you mr. 

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Holmes said lestrade that, every
Carriage has been carefully. 

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Examined. 
Our saw to it myself. 

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It was one of my friends, most 
obvious weaknesses that he was 

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impatient with less alert 
intelligences than his own. 

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Very likely said he turning away
as it happens. 

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It was not the carriages which I
desired to examine Watson. 

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We have done all we can here, we
need not trouble you any 

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further, mr. 
Lestrade, I think our 

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investigations Now carriers to 
willich at London Bridge, Holmes

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wrote a telegram to his brother,
which he handed to me before 

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dispatching, it here and us, see
some light in the darkness, but 

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it may possibly flicker out. 
Meanwhile, please send my 

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Messenger to await return at 
Baker Street, a complete list of

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all foreign spies or 
International agents known to be

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in England with full address, 
Sherlock, that should be helpful

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Watson. 
He remarked as we took our 

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seats. 
Seats in the village train. 

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We certainly owe brother. 
Mycroft a debt for having 

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introduced us to what promises 
to be. 

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A really very remarkable case. 
His eager face, still wore that 

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expression of intense and 
high-strung energy, which showed

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me that some novel and 
suggestive circumstance, had 

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opened up a stimulating line of 
thought. 

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See the foxhound with hanging 
years and drooping Tail. 

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As it lulls about the kennels 
and compare it with the same 

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hound. 
As with gleaming eyes and 

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straining muscles, it runs upon 
her breast High sent such was 

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the change in homes since the 
morning. 

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He was a different man from the 
limp and lounging figure in the 

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mouse-colored dressing-gown who 
had proud. 

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So restlessly only a few hours 
before round the fog Gert room 

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there is material here. 
There is scope said he, I am 

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dull indeed not to have 
understood its possibilities. 

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Even now the dark to me the end 
is dark to me also but I have 

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hold of one idea which may lead 
us far, the man met his death 

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elsewhere and his body was on 
the roof of a carriage on the 

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roof remarkable, is it not? 
But consider the facts. 

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Is it a coincidence that it is 
found at the very point where 

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the train pitches and sways as 
it comes around on the points is

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not At the place, where an 
object upon the roof might be 

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expected to fall off the points 
would affect No Object inside 

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the train. 
Either the body fell from the 

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roof or a very curious 
coincidence, has occurred. 

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But now consider the question of
the blood. 

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Of course, there was no bleeding
on the line. 

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If the body had bled elsewhere, 
each fact is suggestive in 

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itself together, they have a 
cumulative Force. 

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And a ticket to I cried, 
eggs-actly, we could not explain

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the absence of a ticket. 
This would explain it everything

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fits together, but suppose it 
was so we're still as far as 

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ever from unraveling the mystery
of his death. 

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Indeed, it becomes, not simpler.
But stranger perhaps said, 

458
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,900
Holmes thoughtfully. 
Perhaps he relapsed into a 

459
00:28:43,908 --> 00:28:47,200
silent reverie, which lasted 
until the Oh, train Drew up at 

460
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,900
last in Willets station there. 
He called a cab Andrew mycroft's

461
00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:55,700
paper from his pocket. 
We have quite a little round of 

462
00:28:55,700 --> 00:29:00,200
afternoon calls to make said. 
He I think that's a James Walter

463
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:05,100
claimed our first attention The 
House of the famous official was

464
00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:08,800
a fine Villa with green Lawns. 
Stretching down to the Thames. 

465
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,300
As we reached it the fog was 
lifting and a thin watery 

466
00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:17,200
Sunshine was breaking through a 
butler answered our ring. 

467
00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:22,900
So James her said he with a song
face so James died this morning.

468
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,500
Good Heavens, cried Holmes in 
amazement. 

469
00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:30,000
How did he die? 
Perhaps you would care to step 

470
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,900
into and see his brother Colonel
Valentine. 

471
00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:38,200
Yes, we'd best do so. 
We were ushered into a dim lit 

472
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,500
drawing-room, where an instant 
later. 

473
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,900
We were joined by a very tall, 
handsome light bearded man of 

474
00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:48,100
fifty, the younger brother of 
the Dead scientist. 

475
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,700
His wild eyes stained cheeks and
unkempt hair. 

476
00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:55,900
All spoke of the sudden blow 
which had fallen upon the 

477
00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:59,100
household. 
He was hardly articulate as he 

478
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:05,100
spoke of it was this horrible 
Scandal said he my brother Sir. 

479
00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:08,600
James was a man of very 
Sensitive honor and he could not

480
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,400
survive such an affair, it broke
his heart, he was always so 

481
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,000
proud of the efficiency of his 
department and this was a 

482
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,700
crushing blow. 
We had hoped that he might have 

483
00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:23,500
given us some indications which 
would have helped us to clear 

484
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:27,500
the matter up. 
I assure you that it was all a 

485
00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:32,400
mystery to him as it is to you 
and to all of us had already put

486
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,100
all his knowledge at the 
disposal of the police naturally

487
00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:40,100
had no doubt that could open 
West was guilty but all the rest

488
00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:45,000
was inconceivable, You cannot 
throw any new light upon the 

489
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,500
affair. 
I know nothing myself. 

490
00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:52,500
Save what I've read or heard. 
I have no desire to be 

491
00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:55,100
discourteous but you can 
understand mr. 

492
00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:58,100
Holmes, but we are much 
Disturbed at present and I must 

493
00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:00,200
ask you to hasten this interview
to an end. 

494
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,500
This is indeed an unexpected 
development said, my friend when

495
00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:09,300
we had regained the cab, I 
wonder if the death was natural 

496
00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:12,000
or whether the poor old fellow 
killed himself. 

497
00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:16,700
If the latter may be taken as 
some sign of self-reproach for 

498
00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:20,800
Duty neglected, we must leave 
that question to the Future. 

499
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:26,400
Now, we shall turn to the 
cadogan West's A small but 

500
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,700
well-kept house in the outskirts
of the Town sheltered, the 

501
00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:32,400
bereaved. 
Mother, the old lady was two 

502
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,800
days with grief to be of any use
to us. 

503
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,100
But at her side was a 
white-faced young lady who 

504
00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:41,800
introduced herself as Miss 
Violet Westbury. 

505
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,200
The fiancee of the dead, man, 
and the last to see him upon 

506
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,700
that fatal night, I cannot 
explain it. 

507
00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:52,900
Mr. Holmes. 
She said, I have not shut an eye

508
00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:57,600
since the tragedy thinking 
Thinking thinking night and day,

509
00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:01,300
what the true meaning of it can 
be Arthur, was the most 

510
00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:05,200
single-minded chivalrous 
Patriotic, Man, upon Earth, he 

511
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,900
would have cut his right hand 
off before he would sell a state

512
00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:12,700
secret confided to his keeping 
it is absurd impossible. 

513
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,000
Preposterous to anyone who knew 
him but the facts. 

514
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,000
Miss Westbury. 
Yes. 

515
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,200
Yes. 
I admit. 

516
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,000
I cannot explain them. 
Was he in any want of money? 

517
00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:27,400
No. 
His needs were very simple and 

518
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,700
his salary ample. 
He had saved a few hundreds. 

519
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,800
And we were to marry at the new 
year. 

520
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:38,100
No, signs of any mental 
excitement, come Miss Westbury 

521
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,500
be absolutely Frank with us. 
The quick, I have my companion, 

522
00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:46,100
had noticed some change in her 
manner, she colored and 

523
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:49,900
hesitated Yes. 
She said at last. 

524
00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:54,800
I had a feeling that there was 
something on his mind for long 

525
00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:59,400
only for the last week or so he 
was thoughtful and worried. 

526
00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:03,200
Once I pressed him about it, he 
admitted that there was 

527
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,700
something and that it was 
concerned with his official 

528
00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:08,300
life. 
It is too serious for me to 

529
00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:11,400
speak about. 
Even to you said he I could get 

530
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,300
nothing more Holmes, looked 
grave. 

531
00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:18,100
Go on Miss Westbury. 
Even if it seems to tell against

532
00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:20,800
him, go on. 
We cannot say what it may lead 

533
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:25,900
to indeed. 
I have nothing more to tell once

534
00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:27,400
or twice. 
It seemed to me that he was on 

535
00:33:27,408 --> 00:33:28,900
the point of telling me 
something. 

536
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,300
He spoke one evening of the 
importance of the secret. 

537
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,900
And I have some recollection 
that he said that no doubt 

538
00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:38,800
foreign spies would pay a great 
deal to have it. 

539
00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:43,700
My friends face grew Graver 
still anything else. 

540
00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:48,600
He said that we were slack about
such matters that it would be 

541
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,500
easy for a traitor to get the 
plans. 

542
00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:53,900
Was it only recently that he 
made such remarks? 

543
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:59,100
Yes, quite recently. 
Now, tell us of that last 

544
00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:02,200
evening. 
We were to go to the theater. 

545
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,300
The fog was so thick that a cab 
was useless. 

546
00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:10,400
We walked and our way tooker's 
close to the office, suddenly he

547
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:15,800
darted away into the fog without
a word, he gave an exclamation 

548
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:20,699
that was all I waited, but he 
never returned then, I walked 

549
00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:24,500
home next morning after the 
office opened, they came to 

550
00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:28,100
inquire about 12:00, we heard 
the terrible news. 

551
00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:30,800
Oh, mr. 
Holmes, if you could only Least 

552
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,500
save his honor. 
It was so much to him. 

553
00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:39,600
Holmes shook his head, sadly 
Come Watson said he now weighs 

554
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,699
like elsewhere. 
Our next station must be the 

555
00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:44,800
office from which the papers 
were taken. 

556
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:49,199
It was black enough before 
against this young man, but our 

557
00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,699
inquiries make it blacker. 
He remarked as the cab Lombard 

558
00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:56,500
off, his coming marriage gives a
motive for the crime. 

559
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,000
He naturally wanted money, the 
idea was in his head, since he 

560
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,400
spoke about it, he nearly made 
the girl and accomplice in a 

561
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,200
treason by telling her his plans
It is all very bad. 

562
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,300
But surely homes character goes 
for something. 

563
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,500
Then again, why should he leave 
the girl and in Street and dart 

564
00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:20,000
away to commit a felony? 
Exactly, there are certain 

565
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,800
objections, but it is a 
formidable case, which they have

566
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,800
to meet mr. 
Sidney Johnson, the senior Clark

567
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,800
met us at the office and 
received us with that respect, 

568
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,200
which my companions card, always
commanded. 

569
00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:37,500
He was a thin Gruff 
bespectacled, man of middle age.

570
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,600
His cheeks Haggard. 
This hands twitching from the 

571
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,300
nervous strain to which had been
subjected. 

572
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,100
It is bad, mr. 
Holmes, very bad. 

573
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:47,900
Have you heard of the death of 
the chief? 

574
00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:50,400
We have just come from his 
house. 

575
00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:54,800
The place is disorganized, the 
chief dead, cadogan West dead, 

576
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,700
I'll pay the stolen. 
And yet, when we closed our door

577
00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:00,600
on Monday evening, we were 
inefficient and officers and in 

578
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,700
the government service. 
Good God. 

579
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,200
It's Dreadful to think of that. 
West of all men should have done

580
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,700
such a thing. 
You are sure of his guilt then. 

581
00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:13,700
I can see no other way out of it
and yet I would have trusted him

582
00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:17,600
as I trust myself. 
At what hour the office closed 

583
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,500
on Monday at five. 
Did you close it? 

584
00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:26,800
I'm always the last man out. 
Where were the plans in that 

585
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,900
safe? 
I put them there myself, is 

586
00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:31,400
there? 
No Watchman to the building 

587
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,500
there is but he has other 
departments to look after as 

588
00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:37,500
well. 
He is an old Soldier and the 

589
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:41,700
most trustworthy man, he saw. 
Nothing that evening, of course 

590
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,500
the fog was very thick. 
Suppose that could ogun West 

591
00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:47,100
wish to make his way into the 
building. 

592
00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:49,700
After hours, he would need three
keys. 

593
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:51,700
Would he not before? 
He could reach the papers? 

594
00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:55,400
Yes, he would. 
The key of the outer door, the 

595
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,300
key of the office, and the key 
of the safe, only Sir, James 

596
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:03,400
Walter, and you had those keys, 
I had no keys of the doors, 

597
00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:06,300
only, if the safe What's the 
James? 

598
00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:08,100
A man who was orderly in his 
habits? 

599
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,100
Yes, I think he was, I know 
that. 

600
00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:14,000
So far as those three keys are 
concerned, he kept them on the 

601
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
same ring. 
I've often seen them there. 

602
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:21,800
And that ring went with him to 
London, he said, so and your 

603
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,300
key. 
Never left your possession, 

604
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,700
never then West, if he is the 
culprit, must have had a 

605
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:31,700
duplicate and yet, none was 
found upon his body. 

606
00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:36,300
One other point, if a clock in 
this office desired to sell the 

607
00:37:36,300 --> 00:37:40,300
plans, would it not be simpler 
to copy the plans for himself 

608
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,900
and to take the originals as was
actually done. 

609
00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:46,500
It would have take considerable 
technical knowledge to copy the 

610
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:48,000
plan. 
In an effective way. 

611
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:53,500
But I suppose either James or 
you or west has that technical 

612
00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:57,200
knowledge. 
No doubt we had but I beg you 

613
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:58,800
won't try to drag me into the 
matter, mr. 

614
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,900
Holmes, what is the use of are 
speculating in this way when the

615
00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:04,500
original plans were actually 
found on West? 

616
00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:08,400
Well, it is certainly singular 
that he should run the risk of 

617
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,600
taking Originals if he could 
safely have taken copies, which 

618
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:17,100
would have equally served his 
turn singular, no doubt, and yet

619
00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:20,400
he did. 
So, Every inquiry in this case, 

620
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,300
reveals something inexplicable. 
Now, there are three papers 

621
00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:27,400
still missing. 
They are as I understand the 

622
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,700
vital ones. 
Yes, that is. 

623
00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:33,600
So, do you mean to say that 
anyone holding these three 

624
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,900
papers and without the seven, 
others could construct a Bruce 

625
00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:41,800
Partington submarine. 
I reported to that effect to the

626
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,500
admiralty. 
But today I've been over the 

627
00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:48,500
drawings again and I'm not. 
So sure of it, the double value.

628
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,500
With the automatic 
self-adjusting slots are drawn 

629
00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:54,500
in one of the papers which have 
been returned until the 

630
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:56,500
foreigners had invented that for
themselves. 

631
00:38:56,900 --> 00:39:00,800
They could not make the boat. 
Of course, they might soon get 

632
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,900
over the difficulty, but the 
three missing drawings are the 

633
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:10,000
most important undoubtedly, I 
think with your permission, I 

634
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,900
will now take a stroll around 
the premises. 

635
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,800
I do not recall any other 
question which I desire to ask. 

636
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,900
He examined the lock of the 
safe, the door of the room, and 

637
00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:22,000
finally, the iron shutters of 
the window. 

638
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,400
It was only when we were on the 
lawn outside, that his interest 

639
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,600
was strongly excited. 
There was a laurel bushes 

640
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,500
outside the window. 
And several of the branches for 

641
00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:34,200
signs of having been twisted or 
snapped. 

642
00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:38,700
He examined them carefully with 
his lens and then some dim and 

643
00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:42,500
vague marks upon the Earth 
beneath finally. 

644
00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:45,700
He asked the chief clerk to 
close the iron shutters. 

645
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,800
He pointed out to me that they 
hardly met in the center and it 

646
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,100
would be possible for anyone 
outside to see what was going on

647
00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:57,000
with in the room. 
The indications are ruined by 

648
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,100
three days delay. 
They may mean something or 

649
00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:02,100
nothing. 
Well Watson. 

650
00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:05,000
I do not think that will itch 
can help us further. 

651
00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:07,500
It is a small crop which we have
gathered. 

652
00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:09,800
Let us see if we can do better 
in London. 

653
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,100
Yet we added one more Sheaf to 
our Harvest before we left 

654
00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:16,800
wallet station. 
The Clark, in the ticket office 

655
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,800
was able to say with confidence 
that he saw cadogan West whom. 

656
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,500
He knew well by sight upon that 
Monday night and that he went to

657
00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:29,800
London by 8:15 to London Bridge.
He was alone and took a single 

658
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,200
third-class ticket. 
The Clark was struck at the time

659
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,100
by his excited and nervous 
manner. 

660
00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:39,900
So shaky was he that he could 
hardly pick up his change and 

661
00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:41,300
the Clark had helped him with 
it. 

662
00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:45,500
A reference to the timetable 
showed that the 815 was the 

663
00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:49,000
first train which was possible 
for West to take after he'd left

664
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:55,000
a lady about 7:30 let us 
reconstruct Watson said Holmes 

665
00:40:55,100 --> 00:40:58,400
after half an hour of Silence, I
am not aware that. 

666
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,800
In all our joint research is we 
have ever had a case which was 

667
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,600
most difficult to get at every 
fresh Advance which we make only

668
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,500
reveals a fresh Ridge Beyond and
yet we have surely made some 

669
00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:14,300
appreciable progress. 
The effect of our inquiries at 

670
00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:17,800
Woolwich has in the main being 
against young cadogan West. 

671
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,600
But the indications that the 
window would lend themselves to 

672
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,700
a more favorable hypothesis, let
us suppose, for example, that he

673
00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:30,300
had been approached by some 
foreign agent, it might have 

674
00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:33,400
been done under such pledges as 
would have prevented him from 

675
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,800
speaking of it, and yet would 
have affected his thoughts in 

676
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:41,100
the direction, indicated by his 
remarks, to his fiancee Very 

677
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:44,000
good. 
We will now, suppose that, as he

678
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,800
went to the theater with the 
young lady, he suddenly in the 

679
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,300
fog, caught a glimpse of this 
same agent going in the 

680
00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:55,800
direction of the office, he was 
an impetuous man, quick in his 

681
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,100
decisions. 
Everything gave way to his duty.

682
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,300
He followed the man reached the 
window. 

683
00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:05,600
Saw the abstraction of the 
documents and pursued, the 

684
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,200
thief. 
In this way, we get over the 

685
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:09,900
objection. 
That no one would take the 

686
00:42:09,900 --> 00:42:11,800
originals. 
He could make copies. 

687
00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:17,000
This Outsider had to take 
Originals so far, it holds 

688
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,600
together. 
What is the next step? 

689
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,700
Then we come into difficulties 
one. 

690
00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:27,500
Would imagine that under such 
circumstances, the First Act of 

691
00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:29,800
young cadogan. 
West would be to seize the 

692
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,100
villain and raise the alarm. 
Why did he not do? 

693
00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:36,900
So, could it have been an 
official Superior who took the 

694
00:42:36,900 --> 00:42:40,600
papers that would explain West's
conduct? 

695
00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:45,100
Or could the chief of given West
to slip in the fog and West 

696
00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:48,200
started at once to London to 
head him off from his own room? 

697
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,800
Presuming that he knew where the
rooms were the call must have 

698
00:42:52,808 --> 00:42:57,000
been very pressing since he left
his girl standing in the fog and

699
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000
made no effort to communicate 
with her. 

700
00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:04,500
Our scent runs cold here and 
there is a vast gap between 

701
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:08,500
either hypothesis and the laying
of West body with seven papers, 

702
00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:12,000
in his pocket on the roof of a 
metropolitan train. 

703
00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:15,700
My instinct now is to work from 
the other end. 

704
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,200
If Microsoft has given us the 
list of addresses, we may be 

705
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,100
able to pick up our Mound. 
Follow two tracks instead of 

706
00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:24,400
one. 
Surely enough. 

707
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:28,300
I know to waited us at Baker 
Street, a government messenger 

708
00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:31,700
had brought it posthaste. 
Holmes glanced at it and threw 

709
00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:35,300
it over to me. 
There are numerous small fry but

710
00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:37,200
few who would handle so big an 
affair. 

711
00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:41,300
The only men were considering 
our adult mire of 13. 

712
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:45,100
Great, George Street, 
Westminster Louis Le hace are of

713
00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:49,300
Camden Mansions, Notting Hill, 
and Hugo oberstein, 13 

714
00:43:49,300 --> 00:43:53,000
Caulfield, Gardens Kensington. 
The latter was known to be in 

715
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,400
town on Monday and is now 
reported as having left. 

716
00:43:56,700 --> 00:44:00,100
Glad to hear you have seen some 
light, the cabinet, awaits your 

717
00:44:00,100 --> 00:44:03,300
final report with the utmost 
anxiety urgent. 

718
00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:06,200
Annotations have arrived from 
the very highest quarter. 

719
00:44:06,700 --> 00:44:08,800
The whole force of the state is 
actual back. 

720
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:13,700
If you should need it, Mycroft, 
I'm afraid said, Holmes. 

721
00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:17,300
Smiling at all the Queen's 
horses and all the queen's men 

722
00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:21,500
cannot Avail in this matter. 
He had spread out his big map of

723
00:44:21,500 --> 00:44:23,400
London and leaned eagerly over 
it. 

724
00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:27,400
Well, well said, he presently 
with an exclamation of 

725
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:31,100
satisfaction things are turning 
a little in our Direction at 

726
00:44:31,100 --> 00:44:33,200
last. 
Why Watson? 

727
00:44:33,700 --> 00:44:36,500
I do honestly believe that we 
are going to pull it off. 

728
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:39,100
After all. 
He slapped me on the shoulder 

729
00:44:39,100 --> 00:44:41,700
with a sudden burst of hilarity.
I'm going out. 

730
00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:43,800
Now, it is only a 
reconnaissance. 

731
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,000
I'll do nothing serious without 
my trusted, comrade and 

732
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,300
biographer at my elbow. 
Do you stay here and they odds 

733
00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:54,800
are that you will see me again 
in an hour or two if time, hangs

734
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:59,400
heavy, get foolscap and pain and
begin your Narrative of how we 

735
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,300
saved the state. 
I felt some reflection of his 

736
00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:05,800
elation. 
In my own mind, try new wells, 

737
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,300
he would not depart so far from 
his usual austerity of demeanor 

738
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,500
unless there was good. 
Cause for exultation all the 

739
00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:17,000
long November evening, I waited 
filled with impatience for his 

740
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,300
return at last shortly after 
9:00, they're arrived at 

741
00:45:21,308 --> 00:45:24,100
messenger. 
With a note, I'm dining at 

742
00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:26,600
Goldie Knees, Restaurant, 
Gloucester, Road Kensington, 

743
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,000
please come at once and join me 
there. 

744
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:33,400
Bring with you a Jamie, a dark 
Lantern, a chisel, and a 

745
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,900
Revolver. 
Sh it was a nice equipment. 

746
00:45:37,900 --> 00:45:40,900
For a respectable citizen to 
carry through the dim fog, 

747
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:43,400
draped streets. 
I stowed them all. 

748
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,500
Discreetly away in my overcoat 
and drove straight to the 

749
00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:49,900
address. 
Given their sat, my friend at a 

750
00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:52,800
little round table near the door
of the garish Italian 

751
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:57,200
restaurant, have you had 
something to eat now, then join 

752
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:01,500
me in a coffee in Curacao try 
one of the Proprietors cigars. 

753
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,800
They're less poisonous than what
Expect, have you the tools? 

754
00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:07,900
The here? 
My Overcoat. 

755
00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:11,900
Excellent. 
Let me give you a short sketch 

756
00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:15,700
of what I have done with some 
indication of what we are about 

757
00:46:15,700 --> 00:46:18,400
to do. 
Now, it must be evident to you 

758
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,600
Watson that this young man's 
body was placed on the roof of 

759
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:26,500
the train that was clear from 
the instant that I determined 

760
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:30,000
the fact that it was from the 
roof and not from a carriage 

761
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,300
that he had fallen. 
Could it not have been dropped 

762
00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:37,000
from a bridge? 
I should say, it was impossible.

763
00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:40,300
If you examine the rooves you 
will find that they are slightly

764
00:46:40,300 --> 00:46:42,700
rounded and there is no railing 
around them. 

765
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,900
Therefore we can say for certain
that young cadogan West was 

766
00:46:46,900 --> 00:46:50,000
placed on it. 
How could he be placed there? 

767
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,800
That was the question which we 
had to answer. 

768
00:46:54,700 --> 00:46:58,300
There is only one possible way 
you are aware that the 

769
00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:01,000
underground runs clear of 
tunnels at some points in the 

770
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,300
West End. 
I had a vague memory that as I 

771
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:06,800
have traveled by it. 
I have occasionally seen 

772
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:11,400
Windows, just above my head. 
Now suppose that a train halted 

773
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,800
under such a window. 
Would there be any difficulty in

774
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,800
laying a body upon the roof? 
It seems most improbable. 

775
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,500
We must fall back upon the old 
Axiom that when all other 

776
00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:28,700
contingencies fail, whatever 
remains however, improbable must

777
00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:33,300
be the truth here. 
All other contingencies have 

778
00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:36,000
failed. 
When I found that the leading 

779
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,200
international agent who had just
left, London lived in a row of 

780
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,000
houses which are butted upon the
underground. 

781
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,900
I was so pleased that you were a
little astonished at my sudden 

782
00:47:46,900 --> 00:47:50,100
frivolity. 
Oh, that was it, was it? 

783
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,900
Yes! 
That was it. 

784
00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:58,400
Mr. Hugo oberstein of 13. 
Caulfield Gardens had become my 

785
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,500
objective. 
I began my operations at 

786
00:48:01,500 --> 00:48:04,600
Gloucester Road station. 
Where a very helpful official 

787
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,900
walked with me along the track 
and allowed me to satisfy 

788
00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:10,800
myself. 
Not only that the Baxter Windows

789
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:14,900
of Caulfield Gardens, open up on
the line, but the even more 

790
00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:18,100
essential fact, that owing to 
the intersection of one of the 

791
00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:23,000
Railways the underground trains 
are frequently held motionless 

792
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:27,300
for some minutes at that very 
spot Splendid homes. 

793
00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:33,600
You've got it so far so far 
Watson we advance but the goal 

794
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,500
is a far. 
Well, having seen the back of 

795
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:39,800
Caulfield Gardens. 
I visited the front and 

796
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,900
satisfied myself, that the bird 
was indeed flown. 

797
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,000
It is a considerable house, 
unfurnished so far as I could 

798
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,100
judge in the upper room. 
Rooms oberstein. 

799
00:48:50,100 --> 00:48:53,800
Lived there with a single valet,
who was probably a Confederate 

800
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:57,200
entirely in his confidence. 
We must bear in mind. 

801
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,200
That oberstein has gone to the 
continent to dispose of his 

802
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:04,500
booty but not with any idea of 
flight for he had no reason to 

803
00:49:04,500 --> 00:49:08,300
fear a warrant and the idea of 
an amateur domiciliary, visit 

804
00:49:08,700 --> 00:49:11,300
would certainly never occur to 
him yet. 

805
00:49:11,300 --> 00:49:15,500
That is precisely what we are 
about to make Could we not get a

806
00:49:15,500 --> 00:49:19,300
warrant and Legalize It hardly 
on the evidence? 

807
00:49:19,900 --> 00:49:23,200
What can we hope to do? 
We cannot tell what 

808
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:27,000
correspondence may be there. 
I don't like it homes. 

809
00:49:28,100 --> 00:49:30,700
My dear fellow. 
You shall keep watch in the 

810
00:49:30,700 --> 00:49:33,400
street. 
I'll do the Criminal part. 

811
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,900
It's not a time to stick at 
Trifles. 

812
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,900
Think of Mike Ross, note of the 
admiralty, the cabinet, the 

813
00:49:39,900 --> 00:49:42,100
exalted person who waits for 
news. 

814
00:49:42,500 --> 00:49:46,400
We are bound to go. 
My answer was to rise from the 

815
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,800
table. 
You're right homes, we are bound

816
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,600
to go. 
He sprang up and shook me by the

817
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,600
hand. 
I knew you would not shrink at 

818
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,400
the last said he and For a 
moment, I saw something in his 

819
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,900
eyes, which was nearer to 
tenderness than, I had ever seen

820
00:50:03,700 --> 00:50:06,600
the next instant. 
He was his masterful practical 

821
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,000
self once more. 
It is nearly half a mile but 

822
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:14,100
there is no hurry. 
Let us walk said he don't drop 

823
00:50:14,100 --> 00:50:17,000
the instruments. 
I beg your arrest as a 

824
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,500
suspicious character, would be 
a, most unfortunate complication

825
00:50:21,900 --> 00:50:24,900
Caulfield Gardens as one of 
those lines of flat-faced 

826
00:50:24,900 --> 00:50:27,700
pillard and porticoed houses, 
which are so prominent. 

827
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,500
Imminent, a product of the 
middle, Victorian Epoch in the 

828
00:50:30,500 --> 00:50:33,700
West End of London next door. 
There appeared to be a 

829
00:50:33,707 --> 00:50:37,400
children's party for the Mary 
Buzz of young voices and the 

830
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,900
clatter of a piano resounded 
through the night. 

831
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,500
The fog still hung about and 
screened us with its friendly 

832
00:50:43,500 --> 00:50:47,700
shade homes, had lit, his 
Lantern and flashed it upon the 

833
00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:51,900
massive door. 
This is a serious proposition 

834
00:50:52,100 --> 00:50:55,500
said he, it is certainly bolted 
as well as locked. 

835
00:50:56,100 --> 00:50:59,400
We would do better in the area. 
There is an excellent Arch Way 

836
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,400
Down Yonder, in a case, a to 
zealous policeman, should 

837
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,600
intrude. 
Give me a hand Watson, and I'll 

838
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,700
do the same for you. 
A minute later. 

839
00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:11,600
We were both in the area hardly 
had. 

840
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:13,700
We reached the Dark Shadows 
before. 

841
00:51:13,700 --> 00:51:17,900
The step of the policeman was 
heard in the fog above as its 

842
00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:22,000
soft Rhythm died Away Home, set 
to work upon the lower door. 

843
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:26,900
I saw him stoop and strain until
with a sharp crash. 

844
00:51:26,900 --> 00:51:31,400
It flew open, we sprang through 
into the dark, passage closing 

845
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,900
the area door behind us Holmes, 
led the way up the curving 

846
00:51:34,900 --> 00:51:38,100
uncarpeted stairs. 
His little fan of you Light 

847
00:51:38,100 --> 00:51:42,000
Shone upon a low window. 
Here we are Watson. 

848
00:51:42,500 --> 00:51:47,000
This must be the one he threw it
open and as he did. 

849
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:51,300
So there was a low harsh murmur 
growing steadily into a loud 

850
00:51:51,300 --> 00:51:56,200
roar as a train dashed past us 
in the darkness homes, swept, 

851
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,900
his light along the windowsill, 
it was thickly coated with 

852
00:51:59,900 --> 00:52:03,600
sucked from the passing engines,
but the black surface was 

853
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,900
blurred and rubbed in places. 
You can see where they rested 

854
00:52:07,900 --> 00:52:10,200
the body. 
Hello Watson. 

855
00:52:10,500 --> 00:52:13,800
What's this? 
There can be no doubt that it is

856
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,900
a blood Mark. 
He was pointing to faint 

857
00:52:16,900 --> 00:52:20,600
discolorations along the 
woodwork of the window here, it 

858
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:24,300
is on the stone of the stair. 
Also, the demonstration is 

859
00:52:24,300 --> 00:52:28,100
complete, let us stay here until
a train stops. 

860
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,900
We had not long to wait the very
next train roared from the 

861
00:52:32,900 --> 00:52:36,700
tunnel as before, but slowed in 
the open and then With a 

862
00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:40,000
creaking of breaks pulled up 
immediately beneath us. 

863
00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:43,500
It was not four feet from the 
window ledge to the roof of the 

864
00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:49,100
carriages homes, softly, close 
the window so far. 

865
00:52:49,100 --> 00:52:52,500
We are Justified said he, what 
do you think of it? 

866
00:52:52,500 --> 00:52:56,600
Watson, a masterpiece. 
You've never risen to a greater 

867
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,700
height. 
I cannot agree with you there 

868
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,800
from the moment that I can see, 
the idea of the body being upon 

869
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,400
the roof, which surely was not a
Very abstruse one. 

870
00:53:08,100 --> 00:53:12,000
All the rest was inevitable. 
If it were not for the grave 

871
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,400
interests, involved the affair 
up to this point would be 

872
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:21,200
insignificant, our difficulties 
are still before us but perhaps 

873
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,800
we may find something here which
may help us. 

874
00:53:25,500 --> 00:53:28,600
We are descended, the kitchen 
stare and entered the suite of 

875
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:33,100
rooms upon the first floor. 
One was a dining room, severely 

876
00:53:33,100 --> 00:53:35,500
furnished and containing nothing
of Interest. 

877
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:41,100
Second was a bedroom which also 
Drew blank, the remaining room 

878
00:53:41,100 --> 00:53:44,700
appeared more promising and my 
companion settle down to a 

879
00:53:44,700 --> 00:53:48,600
systematic examination. 
It was littered with books and 

880
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:53,200
papers and was evidently used as
a study swiftly, and 

881
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,800
methodically Holmes turned over 
the contents of draw after 

882
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,500
drawer and cupboard after 
cupboard, but no gleam of 

883
00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:03,200
success came to brighten his 
austere face. 

884
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,500
At the end of an hour, he was no
further than when he started. 

885
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,800
The cunning dog is covered his 
tracks said, he he's left 

886
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,700
nothing to incriminate him. 
His dangerous correspondence has

887
00:54:16,700 --> 00:54:20,700
been destroyed or removed. 
This is our last chance. 

888
00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:24,900
It was a small tin cash box 
which stood upon the writing 

889
00:54:24,900 --> 00:54:27,900
desk homes. 
Pried it open with his chisel. 

890
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,300
Several rolls of paper with in 
covered with figures and 

891
00:54:32,300 --> 00:54:35,800
calculations without any note to
show to what they referred. 

892
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:41,100
The recurring words Pressure and
pressure to the square inch 

893
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,900
suggested some possible relation
to a submarine homes toss them 

894
00:54:45,900 --> 00:54:49,400
all impatiently aside. 
There only remained an envelope 

895
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,100
with some small newspaper slips 
inside it. 

896
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,600
He shook them out on the table 
and at once I saw by his eager 

897
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:58,700
face that his hopes had been 
raised. 

898
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:03,100
What's this Watson? 
Hey, what's this record of a 

899
00:55:03,107 --> 00:55:06,200
series of messages in the 
advertisements of a paper? 

900
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,800
Daily Telegraph agony. 
Column by the print and paper 

901
00:55:10,300 --> 00:55:13,000
right. 
Hand, top corner of a page, no 

902
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,800
dates but messages arrange 
themselves. 

903
00:55:16,300 --> 00:55:20,800
This must be the first hope to 
hear sooner terms agreed to 

904
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,900
rightfully to Address given on 
card. 

905
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:28,100
Pierrot, next comes to complex 
for description must have for 

906
00:55:28,100 --> 00:55:30,700
report stuff. 
Awaits you, when Goods delivered

907
00:55:31,900 --> 00:55:36,400
pierrot then comes matter 
presses must withdraw offer. 

908
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:40,000
Unless contract completed make 
appointment by letter will 

909
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:46,200
confirm by advertisement Piero. 
Finally Monday night after 92 

910
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:51,200
Taps only ourselves, do not be 
so suspicious payment in Hard 

911
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,500
Cash When Goods delivered. 
Piero. 

912
00:55:55,500 --> 00:55:59,600
A fairly complete record Watson.
If we could only get at the man 

913
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:03,800
at the other end, he sat lost in
thought, tapping, his fingers on

914
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,000
the table. 
Finally, he sprang to his feet. 

915
00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:12,500
Well, perhaps it won't be so 
difficult after all, there is 

916
00:56:12,500 --> 00:56:14,200
nothing more to be done here, 
Watson. 

917
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,200
I think we might drive round to 
the offices of the Daily 

918
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:21,400
Telegraph and so bring a good 
day's work to a conclusion. 

919
00:56:23,300 --> 00:56:26,700
Mycroft Holmes and lestrade had 
come round by appointment after 

920
00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:30,500
breakfast next day and Sherlock,
Holmes had recounted to them, 

921
00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:33,800
our proceedings of the day. 
Before the professional shook 

922
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:38,100
his head, over our confessed 
burglary, we can't do these 

923
00:56:38,100 --> 00:56:40,500
things in a force mr. 
Holmes said he? 

924
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:42,800
No wonder. 
You get results that are Beyond 

925
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,000
us. 
But some of these days you'll go

926
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,900
too far and you'll find yourself
and your friend in trouble for 

927
00:56:48,900 --> 00:56:51,300
England home and Beauty a 
Watson. 

928
00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:53,500
Martyrs on the altar of our 
country. 

929
00:56:54,100 --> 00:56:55,600
More. 
Do you think of it Mycroft? 

930
00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:00,700
Excellent, Sherlock admirable. 
But what use will you make of 

931
00:57:00,700 --> 00:57:03,200
it? 
Holmes picked up the Daily 

932
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:05,100
Telegraph which lay upon the 
table. 

933
00:57:06,100 --> 00:57:09,100
Have you seen Piero's 
advertisement today? 

934
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:11,600
What? 
Another one. 

935
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,400
Yes. 
Here it is tonight. 

936
00:57:15,500 --> 00:57:18,100
Same our same place. 
Two Taps. 

937
00:57:18,100 --> 00:57:21,600
Most vitally important, your own
safety at stake p. 

938
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:27,000
Row by George cried lestrade. 
If he answers that we got him. 

939
00:57:27,900 --> 00:57:30,200
That was my idea when I put it 
in. 

940
00:57:30,900 --> 00:57:33,500
I think if you could both make 
it convenient to come with us 

941
00:57:33,500 --> 00:57:37,900
about 8:00 to Caulfield Gardens,
we might possibly get a little 

942
00:57:37,900 --> 00:57:42,200
nearer to our solution. 
One of the most remarkable 

943
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:45,800
characteristics of Sherlock 
Holmes was his power of throwing

944
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,300
his brain out of action and 
switching all his thoughts on to

945
00:57:49,300 --> 00:57:51,600
lighter things whenever he had 
convinced himself. 

946
00:57:51,700 --> 00:57:54,200
Elf that he could no longer work
to her Advantage. 

947
00:57:55,300 --> 00:57:57,900
I remember that during the whole
of that memorable day. 

948
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,700
He lost himself in a monograph, 
which he had, undertaken, upon 

949
00:58:01,700 --> 00:58:05,700
the Polyphonic motets of lassus 
for my own part. 

950
00:58:06,100 --> 00:58:09,600
I had none of this power of 
Detachment and the day in 

951
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:13,700
consequence appeared to be 
interminable the great National 

952
00:58:13,700 --> 00:58:17,200
importance of the issue. 
The suspense in high quarters, 

953
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:20,600
the direct nature of the 
experiment which we were trying 

954
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:25,300
all To work upon my nerve. 
It was a relief to me when at 

955
00:58:25,300 --> 00:58:29,000
last after a light dinner, we 
set out upon our Expedition. 

956
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:33,400
The stradun Mycroft met us by 
appointment at the outside of 

957
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:37,100
Gloucester Road station. 
The area door of over Stein's 

958
00:58:37,100 --> 00:58:40,000
house, have been left open the 
night before and it was 

959
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,200
necessary for me, as Mycroft 
Holmes. 

960
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,400
Absolutely. 
And indignantly declined to 

961
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:49,700
climb the railings to pass in 
and open the hall door by 9:00. 

962
00:58:49,700 --> 00:58:53,600
We were all seated in the study.
Waiting patiently for our man, 

963
00:58:54,300 --> 00:58:58,900
an hour passed and yet another, 
when 11 struck the measured beat

964
00:58:58,900 --> 00:59:01,700
of the great church. 
Clock seem to sound the Dirge of

965
00:59:01,700 --> 00:59:04,600
our hopes. 
The Strada Mycroft were 

966
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,900
fidgeting in their seats. 
And looking twice a minute at 

967
00:59:07,900 --> 00:59:13,200
their watches, Holmes sat silent
and composed his eyelids half 

968
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:17,500
shut, but every sense on the 
alert, he raised his head with a

969
00:59:17,508 --> 00:59:21,800
sudden jerk. 
He is coming said he there had 

970
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:23,800
been a furtive step past the 
door. 

971
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:28,100
Now it returned, we heard a 
shuffling sound outside. 

972
00:59:28,500 --> 00:59:32,900
And then to Sharp taps with the 
knocker Holmes, Rose motioning 

973
00:59:32,900 --> 00:59:36,700
us to remain seated, the gas in 
the hall was a mere point of 

974
00:59:36,700 --> 00:59:40,900
light, he opened the outer door,
and then as a dark figure 

975
00:59:40,900 --> 00:59:44,800
slipped past him, he closed. 
And fastened it this way, we 

976
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:47,700
heard him say. 
And a moment later, I'll man, 

977
00:59:47,700 --> 00:59:51,300
stood before us. 
Holmes had followed him closely 

978
00:59:51,700 --> 00:59:55,200
and as the man turned with a cry
of surprise and alarm, he caught

979
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:59,200
him by the collar and threw him 
back into the room before our 

980
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:00,900
prisoner had recovered his 
balance. 

981
01:00:00,900 --> 01:00:04,500
The door was shut and Holmes was
standing with his back against 

982
01:00:04,500 --> 01:00:07,600
it. 
The man glared around him, 

983
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:11,900
staggered and fell senseless 
upon the floor with the shock. 

984
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:15,700
His broad-brimmed hat flew from 
his head, his cravat slipped 

985
01:00:15,700 --> 01:00:20,100
down his lips and there with a 
long light beard And the soft 

986
01:00:20,100 --> 01:00:22,900
handsome. 
Delicate features of Colonel 

987
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:27,600
Valentine Walter Holmes, gave a 
whistle of surprise. 

988
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,900
You can write me down and asked 
this time. 

989
01:00:30,900 --> 01:00:35,300
Watson said, he, this was not 
the bird that I was looking for.

990
01:00:36,100 --> 01:00:41,100
Who is he asked Mycroft eagerly 
the younger brother of the late 

991
01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:43,200
Sir. 
James Walter the head of the 

992
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:46,800
submarine Department. 
Yes, yes, I see the fall of the 

993
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,000
cards. 
He is coming too. 

994
01:00:49,700 --> 01:00:52,400
I think, did you had best leave 
his examination? 

995
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:56,800
To me, we had carried the 
prostrate body to the sofa. 

996
01:00:57,500 --> 01:01:01,100
Now our prisoner setup looked 
round him with a horror-stricken

997
01:01:01,100 --> 01:01:05,100
face and passed his hand over 
his forehead like one who cannot

998
01:01:05,100 --> 01:01:08,000
believe his own senses. 
What is this? 

999
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:10,200
He asked. 
I came here to visit mr. 

1000
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:16,200
Oberstein Everything is known 
Colonel Walter said Holmes, how 

1001
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,900
an English gentleman could 
behave in such a manner is 

1002
01:01:18,900 --> 01:01:22,900
beyond my comprehension but your
whole correspondence and 

1003
01:01:22,900 --> 01:01:26,100
relations with oberstein are 
within our knowledge. 

1004
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:30,700
So also are the circumstances 
connected with the death of 

1005
01:01:30,700 --> 01:01:34,100
young cadogan West. 
Let me advise you to gain at 

1006
01:01:34,100 --> 01:01:37,400
least the small credit for 
repentance and confession. 

1007
01:01:37,900 --> 01:01:41,200
Since there are still some 
details which we can only learn 

1008
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:47,800
from your The man groaned and 
sank, his face in his hands, we 

1009
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:51,500
waited, but he was silent, I can
assure. 

1010
01:01:51,500 --> 01:01:55,800
You said Holmes that every 
essential is already known. 

1011
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:57,800
We know that you were pressed 
for money. 

1012
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:01,100
That you took an impress of the 
keys, which your brother held 

1013
01:02:01,100 --> 01:02:04,200
and that you entered into a 
correspondence with oberstein 

1014
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:07,000
who answered your letters 
through the advertisement 

1015
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:10,900
Columns of the Daily Telegraph. 
We are aware that you went down 

1016
01:02:10,900 --> 01:02:13,800
to the office in the first A fog
on Monday night, but that you 

1017
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:16,700
were seen and followed by Young 
cadogan West. 

1018
01:02:17,100 --> 01:02:19,900
It would probably some previous 
reason to suspect you. 

1019
01:02:20,500 --> 01:02:23,800
He saw your theft but could not 
give the alarm as it was just 

1020
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,500
possible that you were taking 
the papers to your brother. 

1021
01:02:26,500 --> 01:02:30,300
In London leaving all his 
private concerns, like the good 

1022
01:02:30,300 --> 01:02:34,300
citizen that he was, he followed
you closely in the fog and kept 

1023
01:02:34,300 --> 01:02:39,100
at your heels until you reach 
this very house there he 

1024
01:02:39,100 --> 01:02:41,800
intervened and then it was 
Colonel Walter. 

1025
01:02:41,900 --> 01:02:46,300
A that to treason you added the 
more terrible crime of murder. 

1026
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,300
I did not. 
I did not before God. 

1027
01:02:49,300 --> 01:02:53,300
I swear that I did not cry. 
Dear Richard prisoner tell us 

1028
01:02:53,300 --> 01:02:57,100
then how could dogon West met 
his end before you laid him upon

1029
01:02:57,100 --> 01:03:01,800
the roof of a railway Carriage? 
I will I swear to you that? 

1030
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:05,900
I will, I did the rest, I 
confess it, it was just as you 

1031
01:03:05,908 --> 01:03:09,100
say, a stock exchange debt had 
to be paid. 

1032
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:11,700
I needed the money badly over 
Stein. 

1033
01:03:11,900 --> 01:03:15,700
Offered me five thousand. 
It was to save myself from ruin.

1034
01:03:16,300 --> 01:03:20,400
But as to murder, I am, as 
innocent as you what happened, 

1035
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:24,900
then he had his suspicions 
before and he followed me as you

1036
01:03:24,900 --> 01:03:29,400
described, I never knew it until
I was, at the very door, it was 

1037
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:33,600
thick fog and would could not 
see three yards had given two 

1038
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:37,600
tabs and oberstein had come to 
the door, the young man, rushed 

1039
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:41,100
up and demanded to know what we 
are about to do with the papers.

1040
01:03:41,900 --> 01:03:44,000
Stein have a short life 
preserver. 

1041
01:03:44,500 --> 01:03:47,500
He always carried it with him as
West forced his way. 

1042
01:03:47,500 --> 01:03:50,700
After us into the house, 
oberstein struck him on the 

1043
01:03:50,707 --> 01:03:53,600
head. 
The blow was a fatal one, he was

1044
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:57,900
dead within five minutes there. 
He lay in the hall and we were 

1045
01:03:57,900 --> 01:04:01,800
at our Wits End. 
What to do then oberstein, had 

1046
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,100
this idea about the trains which
halted under his back window. 

1047
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:09,700
But first, he examined the 
papers, which I had brought he 

1048
01:04:09,700 --> 01:04:12,500
said that three of them were 
essential and he Just keep them,

1049
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,200
you cannot keep them said I 
there will be a dreadful route. 

1050
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:20,800
Willage if they're not returned 
I must keep them said he for 

1051
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,700
their so technical that it is 
impossible in the time to make 

1052
01:04:23,700 --> 01:04:26,000
copies. 
Then they must all go back 

1053
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,800
together. 
Tonight said, I he thought for a

1054
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,800
little and then he cried out 
that he had it three. 

1055
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:35,400
I will keep said he the others. 
We will stuff into the pocket of

1056
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,400
this young man. 
When he was found the whole 

1057
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:40,700
business, will assuredly be put 
to his account. 

1058
01:04:41,300 --> 01:04:42,800
I could see no other way out of 
it. 

1059
01:04:43,100 --> 01:04:46,200
So we did as he suggested, we 
waited, half an hour at the 

1060
01:04:46,207 --> 01:04:50,200
window before a train stopped. 
It was so thick that nothing 

1061
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:53,400
could be seen and we had no 
difficulty in lowering West's 

1062
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:56,800
body onto the train, that was 
the end of the matter so far, as

1063
01:04:56,800 --> 01:05:02,000
I was concerned and your 
brother, he said nothing, but he

1064
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:03,500
had caught me once with his 
keys. 

1065
01:05:03,500 --> 01:05:06,800
And I think that he suspected I 
read in his eyes that he 

1066
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:10,500
suspected, as you know, he never
held up his head again. 

1067
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:15,400
It was silence in the room. 
It was broken by Mycroft Holmes.

1068
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:20,500
Can you not make reparation it 
would ease your conscience and 

1069
01:05:20,500 --> 01:05:23,800
possibly your punishment? 
Watch reparation? 

1070
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:27,400
Can I make, where is oberstein 
with the papers? 

1071
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:31,400
I do not know, did he give, you 
know, address. 

1072
01:05:32,100 --> 01:05:35,400
He said that letters to the 
hotel du Louvre Paris would 

1073
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:39,200
eventually reach him then. 
Reparation is still within your 

1074
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:43,900
power said, Sherlock, Holmes. 
I would do anything I can I owe 

1075
01:05:43,900 --> 01:05:45,600
this fellow no particular 
Goodwill. 

1076
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:50,300
He's been my ruin. 
And my downfall, here are paper 

1077
01:05:50,300 --> 01:05:55,100
and Pen sit at this desk and 
write to my dictation directly 

1078
01:05:55,100 --> 01:05:58,900
envelope to The Address. 
Given that is right now. 

1079
01:05:58,900 --> 01:06:03,200
The letter, Dear Sir, with 
regard to our transaction, you 

1080
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:06,600
will no doubt for observed by 
now, that one essential detail 

1081
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,300
is missing. 
I have a tracing which will make

1082
01:06:09,300 --> 01:06:11,400
it complete. 
This has involved. 

1083
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:14,300
Me an extra trouble. 
However, and I must ask you for 

1084
01:06:14,300 --> 01:06:18,700
a further advance of 500 pounds,
I will not trust it to the post.

1085
01:06:18,900 --> 01:06:21,500
Nor will I take anything but 
gold or notes. 

1086
01:06:22,100 --> 01:06:24,900
I would come to you abroad but 
it would excite remark. 

1087
01:06:24,900 --> 01:06:28,100
If I left the country at 
present, therefore, I shall 

1088
01:06:28,100 --> 01:06:30,700
expect to meet you in the 
smoking-room of the Charing 

1089
01:06:30,700 --> 01:06:35,000
Cross hotel at noon on Saturday.
Remember that only English notes

1090
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:38,700
or gold will be taken? 
That will do very well. 

1091
01:06:38,900 --> 01:06:42,000
I shall be very much surprised, 
if it does not fetch our Oh man.

1092
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:47,900
And did it is a matter of 
history that secret history of a

1093
01:06:47,908 --> 01:06:51,100
nation which is often so much 
more intimate and interesting 

1094
01:06:51,100 --> 01:06:55,300
than its public Chronicles. 
That oberstein eager to complete

1095
01:06:55,300 --> 01:06:59,400
the coup of his lifetime came to
the lure and was safely engulfed

1096
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:03,300
for 15 years in a British prison
in his trunk. 

1097
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:06,900
We found the invaluable 
bruce-partington plans, which he

1098
01:07:06,900 --> 01:07:10,100
had put up for auction in all 
Naval centers of Europe. 

1099
01:07:11,100 --> 01:07:12,800
Colonel Walter died in prison 
too. 

1100
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:15,200
The end of the second year of 
his sentence. 

1101
01:07:16,100 --> 01:07:20,100
As two homes, he returned 
refreshed to his monograph, upon

1102
01:07:20,100 --> 01:07:24,200
the Polyphonic motets of lassus 
which has since been printed for

1103
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:28,400
private circulation and is said 
by experts to be the last word 

1104
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:31,700
upon the subject some weeks 
afterwards. 

1105
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:35,100
I learned incidentally that my 
friend spent a day at Windsor 

1106
01:07:35,500 --> 01:07:37,800
whence. 
He returned with a remarkably 

1107
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:43,000
fine Emerald type in when I 
asked him if he had bought it He

1108
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:46,300
answered that it was a present 
from a certain gracious lady in 

1109
01:07:46,300 --> 01:07:48,700
whose interests. 
He had once been fortunate 

1110
01:07:48,700 --> 01:07:51,000
enough to carry out a small 
commission. 

1111
01:07:51,900 --> 01:07:56,000
He said no more but I fancy that
I could guess at that lady's or 

1112
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,400
gust name. 
And I have little doubt that the

1113
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:03,400
emerald pin will forever recall 
to my friends memory, the 

1114
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:08,900
adventure of the 
bruce-partington plans, This is 

1115
01:08:08,900 --> 01:08:12,500
the end of the adventure of the 
bruce-partington plans. 

1116
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:12,500
This is the end of the adventure
of the bruce-partington plans.