1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:03,900 The Adventures of Sherlock, Holmes, a collection of short 2 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:07,800 stories by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle All LibriVox 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,600 recordings are in the public domain. 4 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:14,000 And for further information, please visit librivox.org this 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,800 recording by David, Clarke, based in Dallas, Fort Worth, 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:21,600 Texas BG, David, dot wordpress.com., BG coffee 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,900 dotnet. The Adventures of Sherlock 8 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:31,800 Holmes a scandal in Bohemia. To Sherlock Holmes. 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:37,300 She is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention 10 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:40,600 her under any other name in his eyes. 11 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,000 She eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,900 It was not that he felt any emotion, akin to love for Irene 13 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:50,900 Adler. All emotions and that one 14 00:00:50,900 --> 00:00:55,500 particularly were abhorrent to his cold precise, but admirably 15 00:00:55,500 --> 00:01:00,700 balanced mind he was, I take it the most perfect reasoning and 16 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:03,500 observing machine that the world has seen. 17 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:07,100 But as a lover, He would have placed himself in a false 18 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:09,700 position. He never spoke of the softer, 19 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:12,800 passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. 20 00:01:13,500 --> 00:01:15,500 They were Admiral things for the Observer. 21 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:18,800 Excellent for drawing. The veil from Men's motives and 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,100 actions, but for the trained Reasoner to admit such 23 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:25,900 intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament 24 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,400 was to introduce a distracting factor, which might throw a 25 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,000 doubt upon all his mental results. 26 00:01:32,900 --> 00:01:36,700 Grit in a sensitive instrument or a crack in one of his own 27 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:40,400 high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong 28 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,400 emotion in a nature such as his and yet there was but one woman 29 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:51,500 to him and that woman was the late Irene Adler of dubious and 30 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:55,200 questionable memory. I'd seen little of Holmes 31 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,600 lately. My marriage had drifted us away 32 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,000 from each other. My own complete happiness and 33 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,500 the home centered interests. Rise up around the man who first 34 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:08,500 finds himself master of his own establishment were sufficient to 35 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:13,500 absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed, every form 36 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:17,300 of society, with his whole Bohemian Soul remained in our 37 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:21,500 lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books and 38 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:25,100 alternating from week to week, between cocaine and ambition, 39 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:29,300 the drowsiness of the drug and the fierce energy of his own 40 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:32,400 Keen nature. He was still as ever deeply. 41 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:36,400 Deeply attracted by the study of crime and occupied, his immense 42 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,200 faculties and extraordinary powers of observation. 43 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,000 In following out, those Clues and clearing up those Mysteries, 44 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:47,000 which have been abandoned as Hopeless by the official police. 45 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:51,500 From time to time. I heard some vague account of 46 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:55,000 his doings of his summons to Odessa, in the case of the trip 47 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,200 off, murder of his clearing up of the singular, tragedy of the 48 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,200 Atkinson Brothers, at trincomalee and finally, of the 49 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,600 mission which he had accomplished. 50 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,500 So delicately and successfully for the reigning family of 51 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:11,900 Holland Beyond these signs of his activity. 52 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:14,900 However, which I merely shared with all the readers of the 53 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:21,000 Daily Press, I knew little of my former Then companion one night. 54 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:24,500 It was on the twentieth of March 1888. 55 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:28,900 I was returning from a journey to a patient for I had now 56 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:32,600 returned to civil practice when my way LED me through Baker 57 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,600 Street, as I passed the well-remembered door, which must 58 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,400 always be associated in my mind with my wooing and with the dark 59 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,500 incidents of the study in Scarlet. 60 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,900 I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again and You 61 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:51,600 know, how he was employing. His extraordinary powers, his 62 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,900 rooms were brilliantly lit. And even, as I looked up, I saw 63 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:57,300 his tall. Spare figure pass twice in a 64 00:03:57,300 --> 00:03:59,200 dark silhouette against the blind. 65 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:04,500 He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly with his head sunk upon 66 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:10,000 his chest and his hands, clasped behind him, to me, who knew his 67 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,500 every mood and habit his attitude and manner told their 68 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:15,900 own story. He was at work. 69 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:18,200 Again. He had risen out of his drug 70 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,100 created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem. 71 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,700 I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had 72 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:29,800 formerly been in part of my own. His manner was not effusive. 73 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:33,800 It seldom was, but he was glad I think to see me. 74 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,500 With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me 75 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:44,100 to an armchair threw across his case of cigars and indicated, a 76 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:48,700 spirit case, and a gasogene in the corner, when he stood before 77 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:51,400 the fire, and looked me over in his singular introspective 78 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:56,500 fashion. Wedlock suits you he remarked I 79 00:04:56,500 --> 00:05:00,300 think Watson that you have put on seven and a half pounds since 80 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:05,100 I saw you seven. I answered indeed. 81 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,600 I should have thought a little more I fancy Watson and in 82 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,800 practice again, I observe you did not tell me that you 83 00:05:13,808 --> 00:05:19,000 intended to go into harness then how do you know I see it? 84 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:22,700 I deduce it. How do I know that you have 85 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:24,600 been? Getting yourself a very wet 86 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,500 lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant 87 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:32,300 girl. My dear Holmes said, I, this is 88 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:34,300 too much. You would certainly have been 89 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:36,300 burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. 90 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:39,700 It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home 91 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:43,000 in a dreadful mess. But as I've changed my clothes, 92 00:05:43,500 --> 00:05:47,100 I can't imagine how you deduce it as to Mary Jane. 93 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,700 She is incorrigible. And my wife has given her 94 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:53,500 notice, but there again, I fail to see how you work it out. 95 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,600 He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long nervous hands 96 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,100 together. It is Simplicity itself. 97 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,900 Said he my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe. 98 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:07,700 Just where the firelight strikes. 99 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:10,000 It. The leather is scored by six 100 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,400 almost parallel Cuts. Obviously, they have been caused 101 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,300 by someone who's very carelessly, scraped, around the 102 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:20,100 edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. 103 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:22,800 Hence. You see my double deduction that 104 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:24,400 you had been out in Vile. A weather. 105 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:28,500 And that you had a particularly malignant boot slitting specimen 106 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:31,900 of the London slavey as to your practice. 107 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,900 If a gentleman walks into my room's, smelling of iodoform, 108 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:40,800 with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger 109 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,900 and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has 110 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:47,900 secreted his stethoscope. I must be dull. 111 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:50,200 Indeed. If I do not pronounce him, to be 112 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,600 an active member of the medical profession. 113 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:56,700 I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his 114 00:06:56,700 --> 00:07:00,000 process of deduction. When I hear you, give your 115 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,400 reasons. I remarked the thing always 116 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,000 appears to me. So ridiculously simple that I 117 00:07:05,008 --> 00:07:07,000 could easily do it myself though. 118 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,100 At each successive, instance of your reasoning. 119 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:11,900 I am baffled until you explain your process. 120 00:07:12,500 --> 00:07:16,800 And yet, I believe that my eyes are as good as yours quite. 121 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,300 So he answered lighting a cigarette and throwing himself 122 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:24,200 down into an armchair, you see? You do not. 123 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,800 Observe. The distinction is clear. 124 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:30,500 For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up 125 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:33,400 from the hall to this room frequently. 126 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:40,200 How often well, some hundreds of times then how many are there? 127 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,200 How many? I don't know. 128 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:48,700 Quite so you have not observed and yet you have seen. 129 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,100 That is just my point. Now. 130 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:55,200 I know that there are seven. Teen steps because I have both 131 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,400 seen and observed by the way, since you are interested in 132 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,600 these little problems. And since you are good enough to 133 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,500 Chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you may be 134 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,300 interested in this. He threw over a sheet of thick 135 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:13,500 pink-tinted notepaper, which have been lying upon the table. 136 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:17,900 It came by. The last post said he read it 137 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:21,600 aloud. The note was undated and without 138 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,300 either signature or address. There will call upon you tonight 139 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:30,300 at a quarter to 8:00. It said a gentleman who desires 140 00:08:30,300 --> 00:08:34,500 to consult you upon a matter of the very deepest moment your 141 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:36,700 recent services. To one of the royal houses of 142 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:40,500 Europe have shown that you are one, who may safely be trusted 143 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:43,700 with matters, which are of an importance, which can hardly be 144 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:47,000 exaggerated. This account of you, we have 145 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,200 from all quarters received be in your chamber, then at that hour 146 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:55,500 and do not take it amiss. If your visitor, A mask. 147 00:08:56,500 --> 00:08:58,800 This is indeed a mystery. I remarked. 148 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:01,500 What do you imagine that it means? 149 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:05,800 I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to 150 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:10,300 theorize before, one has data insensibly one begins to twist 151 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:16,100 facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts, but 152 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:19,500 the note itself. What do you deduce from it? 153 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,700 I carefully examined the writing and the paper upon which it was 154 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:26,300 written. The man who wrote it was. 155 00:09:26,300 --> 00:09:30,900 Presumably well-to-do. I remarked and evering to 156 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:35,400 imitate my companions processes. Such paper could not be bought 157 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:39,300 under half a crown of packet. It is peculiarly strong and 158 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:44,500 stiff peculiar. That is the very word said, 159 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:47,200 Holmes. It is not an English paper at 160 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,700 all. Hold it up to the light. 161 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,200 I did. So and saw a large e with a 162 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,800 small G. And a large G with a small T 163 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 woven into the texture of the paper. 164 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,400 What do you make of that asked? Holmes the name of the maker? 165 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:12,600 No doubt or his monogram rather. Not at all the G with a small T 166 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:16,900 stands for gazelle shaft, which is the German for company. 167 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:22,900 It is a customary contraction, like our Co P, of course, stands 168 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:27,800 for papier. Now, for the EG, let us glance 169 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,800 at our Continental gazetteer. He took down a heavy brown 170 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,400 volume from his shelves. Aglow eglon. 171 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,600 It's here. We are egg Korea. 172 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,800 It is in a german-speaking country in Bohemia. 173 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:48,100 Not far from Carl's but Remarkable as being the scene of 174 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:52,700 the death of Valentine and for its numerous glass factories and 175 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:54,700 paper mills. Aha. 176 00:10:54,700 --> 00:10:57,000 My boy. What do you make of that? 177 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,300 His eyes sparkled and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud 178 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:04,500 from his cigarette. The paper was made in bohemia,', 179 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:10,000 said precisely and the man who wrote the note is a German. 180 00:11:10,008 --> 00:11:13,700 Do you note The Peculiar construction of the sentence. 181 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:16,800 This account of you? We have from all quarters 182 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:21,400 received a Frenchman or Russian, could not have written that. 183 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:26,100 It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs, it 184 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:28,000 only remains therefore to discover. 185 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,000 What is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper 186 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,400 and Refers wearing a mask to showing his face and he comes if 187 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,800 I'm not mistaken to resolve all our doubts. 188 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,300 As he spoke, there was the sharp sound of horses hooves and 189 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:49,100 grating Wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the 190 00:11:49,108 --> 00:11:53,200 Bell. Holmes whistled A Pair by the 191 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,500 sound said he. Yes, he continued glancing out 192 00:11:57,500 --> 00:11:59,900 of the window and nice little broth. 193 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:05,300 Mm and a pair of beauties. 150 guineas apiece as money. 194 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:09,600 In this case Watson, if there's nothing else, I think that I 195 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:14,200 better go Holmes, not a Bit, doctor, stay, where you are. 196 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,800 I'm lost without my Boswell and this promises to be interesting. 197 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:24,000 It will be a Pity to miss it. But your client never mind him. 198 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:29,100 I may want your help. And so may he here he comes sit 199 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:33,900 down in that armchair doctor and give us your best attention, a 200 00:12:33,908 --> 00:12:36,900 slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs. 201 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,500 And in the passage paused immediately outside the door. 202 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:44,000 Then there was a loud and authoritative. 203 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,800 Tap, come in said, Holmes, a man entered who could hardly have 204 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,300 been less than six feet, six inches in height with the chest 205 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:57,300 and limbs of a Hercules. His dress was rich with a 206 00:12:57,300 --> 00:13:01,000 richness, which would in England be looked upon as akin to bad. 207 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,500 Taste heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves 208 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:08,300 and fronts of his double-breasted coat while the 209 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:12,200 deep blue cloak, which was thrown over his It was lined 210 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,400 with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a 211 00:13:15,408 --> 00:13:20,300 brooch, which consists of a single flaming Beryl boots which 212 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:23,700 extended halfway up his calves and which were trimmed at the 213 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:27,400 tops with Rich brown, fur completed the impression of 214 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,700 barbaric opulence, which was suggested by his whole 215 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:34,000 appearance. He carried a broad-brimmed hat 216 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,400 in his hand. While he wore across the upper 217 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,900 part of his face. Extending down past the 218 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:42,500 cheekbones, a black vizard. Hard mask, which he had 219 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:45,600 apparently adjusted. That very moment for his hand 220 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,500 was still raised to it as he entered from the lower part of 221 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:51,700 the face. He appeared to be a man of 222 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:56,100 strong character with a thick, hanging lip and a long straight 223 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:58,900 chin. Suggestive of resolution pushed 224 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:04,200 to the length of obstinacy. You had my note. 225 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:08,200 He asked with a deep harsh voice and a strongly marked German 226 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,600 accent. I told you that I would call he 227 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,300 looked from one to the other of us as if uncertain which to 228 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:19,200 address. Pray, take a seat said Holmes. 229 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:24,000 This is my friend and colleague. Dr. Watson, who is occasionally? 230 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Good enough to help me in my cases. 231 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,600 Whom have I the honor to address? 232 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:33,600 You may address me as Is the count, Von kramm a Bohemian and 233 00:14:33,608 --> 00:14:38,300 nobleman? I understand that this gentleman 234 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:43,100 your friend is a man of honour and discretion whom I may trust 235 00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:45,700 with a matter of most extreme importance. 236 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:50,100 If not, I should much prefer to communicate with you alone. 237 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,700 I Rose to go but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me 238 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:59,800 back into my chair. It is both are non said he you 239 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,500 may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to 240 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:05,500 me. The count Shrugged, his broad 241 00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:10,300 shoulders. Then I must begin said, he by 242 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:15,700 binding you both to Absolute secrecy for two years at the end 243 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:18,300 of that time. The matter will be of no 244 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:22,800 importance at present. It is not too much to say that 245 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,300 it is of such weight. It may have an influence upon 246 00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:34,100 European history. I promise said, Holmes and I you 247 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:39,500 will excuse this mask continued, our Strange visitor, the August 248 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:43,600 person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to you. 249 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,100 And I may confess at once that the title by which I have just 250 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:51,000 called myself, is not exactly my own. 251 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:57,200 I was aware of it said, Holmes, dryly the circumstances are of 252 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,500 great delicacy. Casey and every precaution has 253 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:05,200 to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense Scandal, 254 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:10,200 and seriously compromise, one of the reigning families of Europe 255 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:15,500 to speak plainly the matter, implicates the great House of 256 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:19,700 ormstein hereditary Kings of Bohemia. 257 00:16:20,700 --> 00:16:25,100 I was also aware of that murmured Holmes settling himself 258 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:29,900 down in his armchair and closing his eyes, our visitor glanced 259 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:33,100 with some apparent surprise at the languid, lounging figure of 260 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:36,600 the man who had been no doubt depicted to him as the most 261 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,900 incisive Reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe, 262 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:45,400 Holmes slowly reopened, his eyes and looked impatiently at his 263 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:50,300 gigantic client. If your majesty would condescend 264 00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:52,600 to Teach your case. He remarked. 265 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,800 I should be better able to advise you. 266 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,900 The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room 267 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:02,700 in uncontrollable agitation, then with a gesture of 268 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:05,800 desperation. He tore the mask from his face 269 00:17:05,900 --> 00:17:09,500 and hurled it upon the ground you are right. 270 00:17:09,700 --> 00:17:12,000 He cried. I am Zach King. 271 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:14,599 Why should I attempt to conceal it? 272 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:17,599 Why? Indeed murmured Holmes? 273 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,099 Your majesty had not spoken before I was aware that I was 274 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:24,000 addressing Wilhelm, gottsreich. Sigismond Von. 275 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,800 Ormstein Grand Duke. Of cassel-felstein and 276 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:33,000 hereditary king of bohemia, but you can understand said our 277 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,700 Strange visitor sitting down once more and passing his hand 278 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:40,900 over his high white forehead. You can understand that. 279 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:44,700 I am not accustomed to doing such business in my own person. 280 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:49,100 He had, Zamata was so delicate that I could not confide it to, 281 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:52,600 to an agent without putting myself in his power. 282 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,800 I have come Incognito from Prague. ugh for the purpose of 283 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:02,800 Consulting, you Then pray consult said Holmes shutting his 284 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:08,300 eyes once more the facts are briefly these some five years 285 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:11,400 ago during a lengthy visit to Warsaw. 286 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:17,300 I made the acquaintance of the well-known adventuress Irene 287 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,400 Adler. The name is no doubt familiar 288 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:20,900 to. You. 289 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,800 Kindly look her up in my index doctor moment Holmes without 290 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,300 opening his eyes. For many years. 291 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:32,400 He had adopted a system of docketing, all paragraphs 292 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,700 concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a 293 00:18:35,708 --> 00:18:39,000 subject or a person on which he could not at once, furnish 294 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,500 information. In this case. 295 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:44,700 I found her biography sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew 296 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:48,100 Rabbi and that of a staff commander who had written a 297 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:50,200 monograph upon the deep-sea fishes. 298 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:56,500 Let me see said Holmes, um, born in New Jersey in the year 1858 299 00:18:56,500 --> 00:18:58,000 contralto. Hmm. 300 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:02,700 La Scala, hmm, prima donna Imperial Opera of Warsaw. 301 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,100 Yes retired from operatic stage, ha living in London quite so 302 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:12,400 your majesty, as I understand became entangled with this young 303 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,600 person wrote her some compromising letters and is now 304 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:19,800 desirous of getting those letters back precisely. 305 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,700 So but how was there a secret marriage? 306 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,500 None? No legal papers or certificates? 307 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,500 None, then I fail to follow your majesty. 308 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:34,400 If this young person should produce her letters for 309 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,200 blackmailing or other purposes. How is she to prove their 310 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:43,200 authenticity? There is the writing poor 311 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:52,000 forgery, my private notepaper stolen, my own seal imitated, my 312 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,700 photograph bought, we were both in the photograph. 313 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:02,300 Oh dear, that is very bad. Your majesty has indeed 314 00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:06,200 committed an indiscretion. I was mad insane. 315 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,700 You have compromised yourself. Seriously. 316 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:13,800 I was only Crown Prince, then. I was young. 317 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,200 I am but Thirty now. It must be recovered. 318 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,100 We have tried and failed. Your majesty must pay. 319 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:28,400 It must be bought. She will not sell stolen. 320 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:34,100 Then five attempts have been made twice burglars in my pay 321 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:37,700 ransacked her house. Once we diverted her luggage 322 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:40,900 when she travelled twice. She has been waylaid. 323 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,600 There has been no result. No sign of it. 324 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:49,900 Absolutely. None Holmes, laughed. 325 00:20:50,300 --> 00:20:54,700 It is quite a pretty little problem said he but a very 326 00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:59,600 serious one to me returned. The king reproachfully, very 327 00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:02,800 indeed. And what does she propose to do 328 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:09,300 with the photograph to ruin me, but how I am about to be 329 00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:13,500 married. So I have heard to clotilde 330 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:16,900 lothman. 11 sacks. Meaning and second daughter of 331 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:20,100 the king of Scandinavia. You may know the strict 332 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:24,000 principles of her family. She is herself, the very soul of 333 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,600 delicacy, a shadow of a doubt. As to my conduct would bring the 334 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:34,500 matter to an end and Irene Adler threatens to send them the 335 00:21:34,500 --> 00:21:38,600 photograph and she will do it. I know that she will do it. 336 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,300 You do not know her but she has a Soul of Steel. 337 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:46,400 She has the face of the Most beautiful of women and the mind 338 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,000 of the most Resolute of men, rather than I should marry 339 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,500 another woman. There are no lengths to which 340 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:57,400 she would not go none. You are sure that she has not 341 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,000 sent it yet. I am sure. 342 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,800 And why? Because she has said that she 343 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,000 would send it on the day when the betrothal was publicly 344 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,200 proclaimed that will be next Monday. 345 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:16,600 Oh, then we I have three days yet said Holmes with a yawn. 346 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,400 That's a very fortunate as I have one or two matters of 347 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,000 importance to look into just at present, your majesty. 348 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,300 Will of course stay in London for the present. 349 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:31,900 Certainly you will find me at The Langham under the name of 350 00:22:31,900 --> 00:22:36,000 the count Von kramm. Then I shall drop you a line to 351 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,700 let you know how we progress pay do. 352 00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:45,500 So I shall be all anxiety. Then as to money, you have carte 353 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:47,800 blanche. Absolutely. 354 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:51,200 I tell you that, I would give one of the provinces of my 355 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:57,000 kingdom to have that photograph and for present expenses, the 356 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,200 king took a heavy Chamois leather bag from under his cloak 357 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:05,400 and laid it on the table. There are 300 pounds in the gold 358 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,700 and 700 in notes. He said Holmes scribbled a 359 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:12,800 receipt upon a sheet of his notebook and handed it to him 360 00:23:13,700 --> 00:23:19,100 and mademoiselle's address. He asked is briony Lodge 361 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:24,100 Serpentine Avenue st. John's Wood Holmes took a note 362 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:28,500 of it. One other question said he was 363 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:34,000 the photograph a cabinet. It was Goodnight, your majesty 364 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,200 and I trust that we shall soon have some good news for you. 365 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,300 And goodnight, Watson. He added as the wheels of the 366 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:43,800 royal Brougham rolled down the street. 367 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:47,600 If you'll be good enough to call tomorrow afternoon at 3:00. 368 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,500 I should like to chat this little matter over with you. 369 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:56,300 Two. At 3 o'clock, precisely. 370 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,900 I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. 371 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,800 The landlady. Informed me that he had left the 372 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,300 house shortly after 8:00 in the morning. 373 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,200 I sat down beside the fire. However, with the intention of 374 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,800 awaiting him, however, long, he might be, I was already deeply 375 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,200 interested in his inquiry, for though. 376 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,300 It was surrounded by, none of the Grim, and strange features 377 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:22,300 which were associated with the two crimes, which I had already 378 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:26,300 recorded. Still the nature of the case and 379 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:29,600 the exalted station of his client gave it a character of 380 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,400 his own indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation 381 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,500 which my friend had on hand. There was something in his 382 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:41,900 masterly grasp of a situation and his Keen incisive reasoning 383 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,200 which made it a pleasure to me to study his system of work and 384 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,800 to follow the quick subtle methods by which he disentangled 385 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:54,300 the most inextricable Mysteries so accustomed Was I to his 386 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:58,500 invariable success that the very possibility of his failing had 387 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:02,700 ceased to enter into my head. It was close upon four before 388 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:07,100 the door opened, and a drunken looking groom, ill-kempt and 389 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,600 side. Whiskered with an inflamed face 390 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:14,500 and disreputable clothes walked into the room accustomed. 391 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:17,700 As I was to my friends, amazing powers in the use of disguises. 392 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,100 I had to look three times before I was certain that it was 393 00:25:22,100 --> 00:25:25,700 indeed. He With a nod, he vanished into 394 00:25:25,700 --> 00:25:29,700 the bedroom, whence he emerged in 5 minutes Tweed suited and 395 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:34,400 respectable as of old, putting his hands into his pockets. 396 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:37,900 He stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed 397 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:44,300 heartily for some minutes. Well, really he cried and then 398 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:47,100 he choked and laughed again until he was obliged to lie, 399 00:25:47,100 --> 00:25:49,600 back, limp and helpless in the chair. 400 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:55,100 What is it? It's quite too funny. 401 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,200 I am sure. You could never guess how I 402 00:25:58,208 --> 00:26:01,600 employed my morning or what I ended by doing. 403 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,000 I can't imagine I suppose that you've been watching the habits 404 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:11,500 and perhaps the house of Miss Irene Adler quite so, but the 405 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:16,200 sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, however, I left 406 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,100 the house a little after 8:00 this morning in the character of 407 00:26:19,108 --> 00:26:22,600 a groom, out of work. There is a wonderful sympathy 408 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,900 and Freemasonry among horsey. Men be one of them and you will 409 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:29,900 know all that. There is to know I soon found 410 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:35,000 briony Lodge tis, a Bijou Villa, with a garden at the back, but 411 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,200 built out in front right up to the road to stories. 412 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,600 Chub, lock to the door, large sitting room on the right side. 413 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,400 Well, furnished with long Windows almost to the floor and 414 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,500 those Preposterous English window Fasteners, which are 415 00:26:50,900 --> 00:26:55,600 Could open behind there was nothing remarkable save that the 416 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,500 passage window could be reached from the top of the Coach House. 417 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,500 I walked round it and examined it closely from every point of 418 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:04,600 view. But without noting, anything 419 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:10,300 else of Interest, I then lounged down the street and found as I 420 00:27:10,308 --> 00:27:14,100 expected that there was a muse in a lane which runs down by one 421 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:17,800 wall of the Garden Island. The ostlers a hand in rubbing 422 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,700 down their horses and received in exchange. 423 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,800 J'onn, twopence, a glass of half and half two fills of shag 424 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,500 tobacco. And as much information, as I 425 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:31,200 could desire about, Miss Adler to say nothing of half a dozen. 426 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,500 Other people in The Neighbourhood in whom I was not 427 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:37,100 the least interested but whose biographies I was compelled to 428 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:39,900 listen to and what have Irene Adler? 429 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,600 I asked. Oh she has turned all the men's 430 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,600 heads down in that part. She is the daintiest thing under 431 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,300 a bonnet on this planet. So say the serpentine-mews, Muse 432 00:27:51,300 --> 00:27:53,900 to a man. She lives quietly. 433 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:57,700 Sings at concerts, drives out at five every day and returns at 434 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:01,600 seven sharp for dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, 435 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,600 except when she sings has only one male visitor but a good deal 436 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,900 of him. He is dark handsome and dashing, 437 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,100 never calls less than once a day and often twice. 438 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:16,200 He is a mr. Godfrey Norton of the inner 439 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,700 Temple. See, the advantages of a cabman 440 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:22,600 as a confidant. They had driven him home a dozen 441 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,100 times from serpentine-mews and knew all about him. 442 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,100 When I had listened to all, they had to tell, I began to walk up 443 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:32,300 and down near briony Lodge once more. 444 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,200 And to think over my plan of campaign. 445 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:39,200 This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in 446 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,400 the matter. He was a lawyer that sounded 447 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,700 ominous. What was the relation between 448 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:49,100 them and what the object of his repeated visits? 449 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:51,800 Was? She his client, his friend or 450 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,700 his mistress. If the former she had probably 451 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:56,900 transferred the photograph to his keeping. 452 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:02,200 If the latter it was less likely on the issue of this question 453 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,900 depended. Whether I should continue my 454 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:07,800 work at briony lodge or turn my attention to the gentleman's 455 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,900 Chambers in the temple. It was a delicate point and it 456 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:15,600 widened the field of my inquiry. I feel that I bore you with 457 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,100 these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties. 458 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,100 If you are to understand the situation. 459 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:24,300 I'm following you closely. I answered. 460 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,800 I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab 461 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,500 drove up to briony Lodge and a Gentleman sprang out. 462 00:29:33,300 --> 00:29:38,100 He was a remarkably handsome man dark, aquiline and moustached, 463 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:40,600 evidently the man of whom I had heard. 464 00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:43,900 He appeared to be in a great hurry shouted. 465 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:47,100 To the cabin to wait and brushed past the maid, who opened the 466 00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:49,800 door with the air of a man, who was thoroughly at home. 467 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:54,900 He was in the house about half an hour and I could catch 468 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:58,200 glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room pacing up 469 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:03,200 and down talking excitedly, and waving his arms of her. 470 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,400 I could see nothing presently. He emerged looking even more 471 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,300 flurried than before as he stepped up to the cab. 472 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:13,200 He pulled a gold watch from his pocket and looked at it 473 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,000 earnestly. Drive like the devil. 474 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:19,700 He shouted first across & hankey's in Regent Street, and 475 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:22,100 then to the Church of st. Monica in the edgeware road, 476 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:24,600 half a guinea, if you do it in 20 minutes. 477 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,100 The way they went and I was just wondering whether I should not 478 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:32,200 do well to follow them when up the lane came and neat little 479 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,600 Landau, The Coachman with his coat only half-buttoned and his 480 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,000 tie under his ear. While all the tags of his 481 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,100 harness was sticking out of the buckles. 482 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,500 It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall door and 483 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:46,800 into it. I only caught a glimpse of her 484 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,700 at the moment, but she was a lovely woman with a face that a 485 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:53,900 man might die for the Church of st. 486 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:57,000 Monica John, she cried. And half a sovereign. 487 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,500 If you reach it in 20 minutes. This was quite too good to lose 488 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:04,200 Watson. I was just balancing whether I 489 00:31:04,208 --> 00:31:07,100 should run for it or whether I should perch behind her Landau. 490 00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:10,800 When a cab came through the street, the driver looked twice 491 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,900 at such, a Shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could 492 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:17,900 object, the Church of st. Monica said, I and harvest 493 00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:19,800 Sovereign, if you reach it in twenty minutes. 494 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,900 It was 11:35. And, of course, it was clear 495 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:26,800 enough. What was in the wind? 496 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,500 My cabby drove fast? I don't think I ever drove 497 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:32,900 faster. But the others were there before 498 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,100 us. The cab and the Landau with 499 00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:37,300 their steaming horses were in front of the door. 500 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:40,300 When I arrived. I paid the man and hurried into 501 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:43,600 the church. There was not a soul there, save 502 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,400 the two, whom I had followed, and a surplused clergyman who 503 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,300 seemed to be expostulating with them. 504 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:53,400 They were all three standing in a knot in front of the altar. 505 00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:57,100 I lounged up the side aisle, like any other idler who has 506 00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:02,200 dropped into a church suddenly to my surprise, the three at the 507 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,200 altar faced round to me. And Godfrey, Norton came running 508 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,000 as hard as he could towards me. Thank God. 509 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:11,900 He cried, you'll do come. Come. 510 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,700 What then I asked come man, come only 3 minutes or it won't be 511 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:20,600 legal. I was half dragged up to the 512 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,700 Altar. And before I knew where I was, I 513 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:26,200 found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear 514 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,000 and vouching for things of which I knew nothing and generally, 515 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:35,200 assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster to 516 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,400 Godfrey, Norton Bachelor. It was all done in an instant 517 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,700 and there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and 518 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:46,900 the lady on the other. While the clergyman beamed on me 519 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:49,300 in front. It was the most Preposterous 520 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:53,600 position in which I have ever found myself in my life and it 521 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,600 was the thought of it. That started me laughing. 522 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,300 Just now. It seems that there had been 523 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:02,300 some informality about their license that the clergyman 524 00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:05,700 absolutely refused to marry them without a witness of some sort 525 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:07,900 and that my lucky appearance saved. 526 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,500 The bridegroom from having to Sally out into the streets in 527 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:15,400 search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, 528 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,500 and I mean to wear it on my Watch chain in memory of the 529 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,900 occasion. This is a very unexpected turn 530 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:24,500 of Affairs. Said, I and what then? 531 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,300 Well, I found my plans were seriously menaced. 532 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,300 It looked as if the pair might take an immediate departure and 533 00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:35,100 so necessitate. Very prompt and energetic 534 00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:38,000 measures on my part at the church door. 535 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,900 However, they separated, he driving back to the temple and 536 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:47,300 she to her own house. I shall drive out in the park at 537 00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:50,700 five as usual. She said, as she left him, I 538 00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:53,300 heard no more. They drove away in different 539 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:56,000 directions. And I went off to make my own 540 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:01,400 Arrangements, which are some cold beef and the glass of beer. 541 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,000 He answered ringing the bell. I have been too busy to think of 542 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,300 food and I am likely to be busier, still this evening. 543 00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:12,100 By the way doctor. I shall want your cooperation. 544 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,400 I shall be delighted. You don't mind breaking the law, 545 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:21,800 not in the least, nor running a chance of arrest, not in a good 546 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,300 cause. Oh, the cause is excellent. 547 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:29,400 Then I'm your man. I was sure that I might rely on 548 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,300 you. But what is it? 549 00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:33,699 You wish? When mrs. 550 00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:36,600 Turner has, brought in the tray, I'll make it clear to you. 551 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:39,600 Now. He said, as he turned hungrily 552 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,300 on the simple fare that our landlady had provided. 553 00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:45,300 I must discuss it while I eat for. 554 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:48,300 I have not much time. It is nearly five. 555 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:51,300 Now, in two hours. We must be on the scene of 556 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:56,300 action, Miss Irene or Madame rather returns from her drive at 557 00:34:56,300 --> 00:34:59,000 7:00. We must be at briony lodge to 558 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,900 meet her. And what then you must leave 559 00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:05,400 that to me, I have already arranged. 560 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,400 What is to occur. There is only one point on which 561 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,500 I must insist. You must not interfere. 562 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,500 Come. What may you understand? 563 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,900 I am to be neutral to do nothing. 564 00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:20,800 Whatever there will probably be some small, unpleasantness. 565 00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:24,400 Do not join in it. It will end in my being conveyed 566 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,700 into the house four or five minutes afterwards. 567 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:29,300 The sitting-room window will open. 568 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:32,000 You are too. Station yourself close to that 569 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:37,100 open window. Yes, you are to watch me for. 570 00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:41,900 I will be visible to you. Yes, and when I raise my hand, 571 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:44,200 so you will throw into the room. What? 572 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,800 I give you to throw and will at the same time, raise the Cry of 573 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,800 fire. You quite follow me entirely. 574 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:54,200 It is nothing. Very formidable. 575 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,400 He said taking a long cigar-shaped roll from his 576 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,900 pocket. It is an ordinary plumbers 577 00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:02,100 smoke-rocket. Crockett fitted with a cap at 578 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:03,900 either end to make it self-lighting. 579 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,900 Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire. 580 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,300 It will be taken up by quite a number of people. 581 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:15,300 You may, then walk to the end of the street and I will rejoin you 582 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:18,500 in 10 minutes. I hope that I have made myself. 583 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:21,900 Clear. I'm to remain neutral to get 584 00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:24,600 near the window to watch you and at the signal to throw in this 585 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,400 object, then to raise the Cry of fire and to wait, you at the 586 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,200 corner of the street. Precisely. 587 00:36:32,500 --> 00:36:34,300 Then you may entirely rely on me. 588 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,400 That is excellent. I think Perhaps it is almost 589 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,400 time that I prepare for. The new role. 590 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,300 I have to play. He disappeared into his bedroom 591 00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:48,400 and returned in a few minutes in the character of an amiable and 592 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,700 simple-minded. Nonconformist clergyman his 593 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:57,400 broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white tie, his 594 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,000 sympathetic, smile and general look of peering and benevolent 595 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,100 curiosity. With such as mr. 596 00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:05,000 John Hare alone could have equalled. 597 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,200 It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume, his 598 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:13,000 expression, his manner. His very Soul seemed to vary 599 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,900 with every fresh part that he assumed the stage lost a fine 600 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:21,500 actor, even as science, lost an acute Reasoner when he became a 601 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:25,700 specialist in crime. It was a quarter past six, when 602 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:29,100 we left Baker Street, and it's still wanted ten minutes to the 603 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:30,800 hour. When we found ourselves in 604 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,500 Serpentine Avenue. It was already Dusk and the 605 00:37:34,508 --> 00:37:38,100 lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of 606 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:41,500 briony Lodge waiting for the coming of its occupant. 607 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,100 The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock 608 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:48,600 Holmes, succinct description, but the locality appeared to be 609 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,300 less private than I expected. On the contrary for a small 610 00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:57,000 Street in a quiet Neighbourhood. It was remarkably animated. 611 00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,800 There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing 612 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,200 in a corner. A scissors-grinder with his 613 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,700 wheel. Two Guardsmen who were flirting 614 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,500 with a nurse girl and several well-dressed young men who were 615 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:12,100 lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths. 616 00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:16,500 You see, remarked Holmes as we paced to and fro in front of the 617 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:19,300 house. This marriage rather simplifies 618 00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:22,200 matters. The Becomes a double-edged 619 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,300 weapon. Now the chances are that she 620 00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:27,100 would be as averse to its being seen by. 621 00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:31,400 Mr. Godfrey Norton as our client is to, it's coming to the eyes 622 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,200 of his princess. Now, the question is, where are 623 00:38:35,207 --> 00:38:40,900 we to find the photograph? Where indeed it is most unlikely 624 00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:42,500 that she carries it about with her. 625 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,000 It is cabinet size too, large for easy, concealment about a 626 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,400 woman's dress. She knows that the king is 627 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,500 capable of having her waylaid and searched two attempts of the 628 00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:58,500 sort have already been made. We may take it then that she 629 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:00,200 does not carry it about with her. 630 00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:04,800 We're then her Banker or her lawyer. 631 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,800 There is that double possibility, but I'm inclined to 632 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,300 think neither, women are naturally secretive and they 633 00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:16,400 like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it over to 634 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,900 anyone else? She could trust her own 635 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:22,800 guardianship, but she could not tell what indirect, or political 636 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:27,600 influence might be brought to bear upon a businessman besides 637 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,900 remember that she had resolved to use it within a few days. 638 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:33,800 It must be why she can lay her hands upon it. 639 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:39,500 It must be in her own house, but it has twice been burgled. 640 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:44,200 They do not know how to look. But how will you look? 641 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:51,500 I will not look what then I will get her to show me but she will 642 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:56,600 refuse, she will not be able to but I hear the rumble of Wheels. 643 00:39:57,100 --> 00:40:00,400 It is her carriage now carry out my orders to the letter. 644 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,000 As he spoke The Gleam of the sidelights of a carriage came 645 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,900 round, the curve of the Avenue. It was a smart little Landau, 646 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:13,300 which rattled up to the door of briony Lodge as it pulled up. 647 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:16,600 One of the loafing men at the corner, dashed forward to open 648 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,400 the door in the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed Away 649 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,700 by another loafer who had rushed up with the same intention. 650 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,400 A fierce quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two 651 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,600 Guardsmen who took sides of one of the loungers and by the 652 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,700 scissors-grinder, Who is equally hot upon the other side, a blow 653 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:38,000 was struck an instant, the lady who had stepped from her 654 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,000 carriage was the Centre of a little knot of Flushed and 655 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,600 struggling men who struck savagely at each other, with 656 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:49,700 their fists and sticks homes, dashed into the crowd to protect 657 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:54,900 the lady, but just as he reached her, he gave a cry and dropped 658 00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:57,800 to the ground with the blood running freely down his face. 659 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,800 And his fall, the Guardsmen took to their heels in One Direction 660 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,900 and The loungers in the other while a number of better-dressed 661 00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:09,000 people who had watched the scuffle without taking part in 662 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,700 it, crowded in to help the lady and to attend to the injured man 663 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,000 Irene Adler. As I will still call her had 664 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,000 hurried up the steps, but she stood at the top with her 665 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,200 superb, figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking 666 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,400 back into the street is the poor gentleman. 667 00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:32,500 Much hurt. She asked, he is dead cried 668 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:34,400 several voices. No. 669 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,300 No, there's life in him shouted, another but you'll be gone 670 00:41:38,300 --> 00:41:39,800 before you can get into Hospital. 671 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000 He's a brave. Fellow said a woman, they would 672 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,000 have had the lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. 673 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,900 There were a gang and the rough one to our he's breathing now. 674 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:56,300 He can't lie in the street, maybe bring him in, marm surely, 675 00:41:56,500 --> 00:42:00,200 bring him into the sitting room. There's a comfortable sofa this 676 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:04,000 way, please slowly. And solemnly, he was borne into 677 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:08,300 briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room while I still 678 00:42:08,300 --> 00:42:11,100 observe the proceedings from my post by the window. 679 00:42:12,300 --> 00:42:16,100 The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn so 680 00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:18,700 that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. 681 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,400 I did not know whether he was seized with compunction at that 682 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,400 point for the party was playing, but I know that I never felt 683 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,200 more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the 684 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,300 beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace 685 00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:37,600 and kindness with, which she waited upon the injured man. 686 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,500 And yet it would be the blackest treachery to Holmes to draw back 687 00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:44,900 now from the part, which he had intrusted to me. 688 00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:49,100 I hardened my heart and took the smoke-rocket from under me. 689 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,300 Ulster. After all I thought we are not 690 00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:55,200 injuring her. We are but preventing her from 691 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,300 injuring another. Holmes had sat upon the coach, 692 00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:03,700 and I saw him motion like a man who is in need of are a maid 693 00:43:03,700 --> 00:43:07,700 rushed across and threw open the window at the same instant. 694 00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:12,100 I saw him raise his hand and at the signal, I tossed, my rocket 695 00:43:12,100 --> 00:43:14,200 into the room with a cry of fire. 696 00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,500 The word was no sooner out of my mouth and the whole crowd of 697 00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:22,000 Spectators. Well dressed and Ill gentleman 698 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:26,800 ostlers and servant Maids joined in a general shriek of 'fire. 699 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,400 Thick clouds of smoke curls through the room and out at the 700 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,300 open window. I caught a glimpse of rushing 701 00:43:33,300 --> 00:43:36,800 figures and a moment later the voice of Holmes from within 702 00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:39,300 assuring them that it was a false alarm. 703 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,100 Slipping through the shouting crowd. 704 00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:46,400 I made my way to the corner of the street and in ten minutes, 705 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:50,200 was rejoiced to find my friends arm in mind and to get away from 706 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:54,500 the scene of uproar. He walked swiftly and in silence 707 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:57,800 for some few minutes until we had turned down one of the quiet 708 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,400 streets which lead towards the edgeware road. 709 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,500 You did it very nicely doctor. He remarked. 710 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,200 Nothing. Could have been better, it is. 711 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,200 Alright, you have the photograph. 712 00:44:11,100 --> 00:44:15,400 I know where it is. And how did you find out? 713 00:44:16,300 --> 00:44:20,900 She showed me as I told you, she would, I'm still in the dark. 714 00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:25,200 I do not wish to make a mystery. Said he laughing from matter. 715 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,900 Was perfectly simple. You of course saw that everyone 716 00:44:28,900 --> 00:44:32,000 in the street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the 717 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:36,000 evening. I guessed as much then when the 718 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,000 real broke out. I had a little moist red paint 719 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,900 in the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down 720 00:44:43,100 --> 00:44:45,900 clapped my hand to my face and became a piteous spectacle. 721 00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:52,200 It is an old trick that also I could fathom, Then They Carried 722 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,800 me in. She was bound to have me in. 723 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,300 What else could she do and into her sitting-room? 724 00:44:58,500 --> 00:45:02,700 Which was the Very Room, which I suspected it lay between that 725 00:45:02,700 --> 00:45:05,400 and her bedroom. And I was determined to see 726 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:10,100 which they laid me on a couch, I motioned for air, they were 727 00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:13,000 compelled to open the window and you had your chance. 728 00:45:14,100 --> 00:45:19,000 How did that help you? It was all important when a 729 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,000 woman thinks that her house is on fire. 730 00:45:21,300 --> 00:45:24,600 Her instinct is at once to rush to the thing, which she values. 731 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,500 Most. It is a perfectly overpowering 732 00:45:27,500 --> 00:45:31,000 impulse and I have more than once taken advantage of it. 733 00:45:31,700 --> 00:45:35,200 In the case of the Darlington substitution Scandal, it was of 734 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,000 use to me. And also in the ons worth Castle 735 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,600 business. A married woman grabs at her 736 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,100 baby. An unmarried one reaches for her 737 00:45:43,100 --> 00:45:46,400 jewel-box. Now, it was clear to me that our 738 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,900 lady of today, had nothing in the house, more precious to her. 739 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,300 And what we are in quest of she would rush to secure it. 740 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,200 The alarm of fire was admirably done. 741 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,800 The smoke and shouting were enough to shake nerves of Steel. 742 00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:05,600 She responded beautifully. The photograph is in a recess 743 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,700 behind a sliding panel, just above the right bellpull. 744 00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:13,600 She was there in an instant and I caught a glimpse of it as she 745 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,900 half drew it out. When I cried out that it was a 746 00:46:16,900 --> 00:46:19,700 false alarm. She replaced it glanced at the 747 00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:24,600 rocket, rushed from the room. And I have not seen her since I 748 00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:28,000 Rose and making my excuses escaped from the house. 749 00:46:28,700 --> 00:46:31,400 I hesitated whether to attempt to secure the photograph at 750 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,200 once, but The Coachman had come in and as he was watching me 751 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:39,300 narrowly, it seems safer to wait a little over. 752 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:45,100 Tunes, May ruin all. And now I asked our Quest is 753 00:46:45,100 --> 00:46:47,900 practically finished. I shall call with the King 754 00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:51,900 tomorrow and with you if you care to come with us, we will be 755 00:46:51,900 --> 00:46:55,600 shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is 756 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,700 probable that when she comes. She may find, neither us nor the 757 00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:01,200 photograph. It might be a satisfaction to 758 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,600 his majesty to regain it with his own hands. 759 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,800 And when will you call at eight in the morning? 760 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,400 She will not be up so that we shall have a clear field. 761 00:47:12,100 --> 00:47:16,200 Besides, we must be prompt for this marriage, May mean a 762 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,400 complete change in her life and habits. 763 00:47:18,900 --> 00:47:21,000 I must wire to the king without delay. 764 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,000 We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. 765 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,400 He was searching his pockets for the key. 766 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,400 When someone passing said, goodnight, mr. 767 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,500 Sherlock Holmes. There were several people on the 768 00:47:33,508 --> 00:47:36,900 pavement at the time, but the greeting appeared to come from a 769 00:47:36,908 --> 00:47:39,700 slim youth, in an Ulster, who had hurried by. 770 00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:44,400 I've heard that voice before, said, Holmes staring down the 771 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,500 dimly lit street. Now. 772 00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:49,500 I wonder who the juice that could have been. 773 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,800 Three. I slept at Baker Street that 774 00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,700 night and we were engaged Upon Our toast and coffee in the 775 00:47:58,707 --> 00:48:01,300 morning. When the king of bohemia rushed 776 00:48:01,300 --> 00:48:04,200 into the room. You have really got it. 777 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,000 He cried grasping Sherlock Holmes by either shoulder and 778 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,500 looking eagerly into his face. Not yet. 779 00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:16,600 But you have hopes, I have hopes his income. 780 00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:20,700 I am all impatience to be gone. We must have a cab. 781 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:26,200 No, my brother from his rating. Then that will simplify matters. 782 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,300 We descended and started off once more for briony Lodge. 783 00:48:31,500 --> 00:48:36,300 Irene, Adler is married, remarked Holmes, married then 784 00:48:37,100 --> 00:48:43,600 yesterday, but whom to an English lawyer named Norton, but 785 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:48,600 she could not love him. I am in hopes that she does and 786 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,600 Vine hopes because it would spare your majesty all fear of 787 00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:56,000 future annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, 788 00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,600 she does not love your majesty. If she does not love your 789 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,100 majesty, then there is no reason. 790 00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:04,000 And why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan. 791 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:09,500 It is true and yet. Well, I wish she had been of my 792 00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:11,900 own station. What a queen. 793 00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:16,300 She would have made he relapsed into a moody silence, which was 794 00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:19,000 not broken until we drew up in Serpentine Avenue. 795 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,600 The door of briony Lodge was open and an elderly woman, stood 796 00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,100 upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic 797 00:49:27,100 --> 00:49:29,200 eye as we stepped from the Brougham. 798 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,700 Mr. Sherlock Holmes. I believe said she, I am mr. 799 00:49:34,700 --> 00:49:37,600 Holmes answered, my companion, looking at her with a 800 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,300 questioning and rather startled gaze indeed. 801 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,300 My mistress told me that you were likely to call. 802 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,100 She left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from 803 00:49:48,100 --> 00:49:49,900 Charing, Cross for the continent. 804 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,600 What? Sherlock Holmes, staggered back, 805 00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:57,700 white with Chagrin and surprise. Do you mean that she has left? 806 00:49:57,700 --> 00:50:03,100 England, never to return? I'm the papers as the king 807 00:50:03,100 --> 00:50:05,300 hoarsely. All Is Lost. 808 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,300 We shall see, he pushed past the servant and rushed into the 809 00:50:10,308 --> 00:50:13,000 drawing-room, followed by the king and myself. 810 00:50:13,900 --> 00:50:17,000 The furniture was scattered about in every direction with 811 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,500 dismantled shelves and open drawers. 812 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,900 As if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before her flight 813 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,200 Holmes, rushed at the bellpull tore back, a small sliding 814 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,500 shutter and plunging in his hand pulled out. 815 00:50:30,700 --> 00:50:35,600 Photograph and the letter. The photograph was of Irene 816 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:40,500 Adler herself in evening dress. The letter was superscribed to 817 00:50:40,900 --> 00:50:46,600 Sherlock Holmes, Esquire to be left till called, for my friend 818 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,400 Tori open, and we all three read it together. 819 00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:53,700 It was dated at midnight of the preceding night and ran in this 820 00:50:53,700 --> 00:50:56,200 way. My dear, mr. 821 00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,000 Sherlock Holmes. You really did it very well. 822 00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,200 You took me in completely until after the alarm of fire. 823 00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:07,200 I had not a suspicion. But then, when I found how I had 824 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:11,500 betrayed myself, I began to think I had been warned against 825 00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:14,300 you months ago. I had been told that if the king 826 00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:17,300 employed an agent, it would certainly be you and your 827 00:51:17,300 --> 00:51:19,600 address had been given to me yet. 828 00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,800 With all this you made me reveal what you wanted to know. 829 00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:27,300 Even after I became suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of 830 00:51:27,300 --> 00:51:31,600 such a dear kind old clergyman, but, you know, I have been 831 00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:35,600 trained as an actress myself. Male costume is nothing new to 832 00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,000 me. I often take advantage of the 833 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,900 freedom, which it gives I sent John The Coachman to watch. 834 00:51:41,900 --> 00:51:45,200 You ran upstairs. Got into my walking close as I 835 00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,400 call them, and came down just as you Departed. 836 00:51:49,100 --> 00:51:53,200 Well, I followed you to your door and so made sure that I was 837 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,800 really an object of interest to the celebrated. 838 00:51:55,800 --> 00:52:00,500 Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Then I rather imprudently wished 839 00:52:00,500 --> 00:52:03,900 you goodnight and started for the temple to see my husband. 840 00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,500 We both thought the best resource was flight when pursued 841 00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:13,400 by so formidable an antagonist. So you will find the nest empty 842 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:17,700 when you call tomorrow as to the photograph your client May rest 843 00:52:17,700 --> 00:52:23,300 in peace, I love and am loved by a better man than he, the king 844 00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:26,200 may do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has 845 00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,300 cruelly wronged. I keep it only to safeguard 846 00:52:29,300 --> 00:52:33,000 myself and to preserve a weapon which will always secure me from 847 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,000 any steps which he might take in the future. 848 00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,900 Sure. I leave a photograph, which he 849 00:52:37,900 --> 00:52:40,700 might care to possess and I remain. 850 00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:42,200 Dear. Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 851 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,100 Very truly yours Irene. Norton. 852 00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,700 Née, Adler. What a woman. 853 00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:55,700 Oh, what a woman. Cried the king of bohemia. 854 00:52:56,100 --> 00:52:58,500 When we had all three read this epistle. 855 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:03,600 Did I not tell you how quick and Resolute shiva's would she not 856 00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:07,600 have made an admirable Queen? Is it not a Pity that she was 857 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:11,400 not on my level. From what I have seen of the 858 00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:14,000 lady. She seems indeed to be on a very 859 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,100 different level to your majesty said, Holmes coldly. 860 00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,300 I am sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's 861 00:53:20,300 --> 00:53:23,000 business to a more successful conclusion. 862 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,100 Honza contrary my dear sir. Cried the king. 863 00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:29,800 Nothing could be more successful. 864 00:53:30,300 --> 00:53:32,600 I know that her word is inviolate. 865 00:53:32,900 --> 00:53:36,100 See photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire. 866 00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,600 I'm glad to hear your majesty say so. 867 00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,900 I am immensely indebted to you. Pray. 868 00:53:43,900 --> 00:53:47,000 Tell me in what way I can reward. 869 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,100 You this ring. He Slipped an emerald snake ring 870 00:53:51,100 --> 00:53:54,400 from his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. 871 00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,500 Your majesty has something which I should value. 872 00:53:58,500 --> 00:54:05,500 Even more highly said Holmes you have but to name it, this 873 00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,900 photograph. The king stared at him in 874 00:54:08,900 --> 00:54:12,500 amazement Irene's photograph. He cried. 875 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,200 Certainly, if you wish it. I thank you. 876 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,000 Your majesty. Then. 877 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:20,700 There is no more to be done in the matter. 878 00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:25,900 I have the honour to wish you a very good morning, he bowed and 879 00:54:25,900 --> 00:54:28,700 turning away, without observing the hand, which the king had 880 00:54:28,700 --> 00:54:32,900 stretched out to him. He set off in my company for his 881 00:54:32,900 --> 00:54:36,800 Chambers. And that was how a great Scandal 882 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:40,300 threatened to affect the kingdom of bohemia and how the best 883 00:54:40,300 --> 00:54:42,700 plans of mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a 884 00:54:42,707 --> 00:54:45,700 woman's wit. He used to make, Merry over the 885 00:54:45,707 --> 00:54:49,200 cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. 886 00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,100 And when he speaks of Irene Adler or when he refers to her 887 00:54:53,100 --> 00:54:59,000 photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the 888 00:54:59,300 --> 00:55:03,900 woman. End of a scandal in Bohemia.