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Adventure 13 of the return of 
Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur 

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Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Adventure 13, The Adventure of 

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the second stain. 
I had intended the adventure of 

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the Abbey. 
Grange to be the last of those 

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exploits of my friend, mr. 
Sherlock Holmes, which I should 

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ever communicate to the public. 
This resolution of mine, was not

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due to any lack of material 
since I have notes of many, 

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hundreds of cases, to which I 
have never alluded, nor was it 

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caused by any waning interest on
the part of my readers, in the 

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singular personality and unique 
methods of this remarkable, man.

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The real reason lay in the 
reluctance, which mr. 

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Holmes has shown to the 
continued publication of his 

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experiences. 
So long as he was in actual 

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professional practice the 
records of his successes were of

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some practical value to him, but
since he has definitely retired 

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from London and betaken himself 
to study and be farming. 

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On the Sussex Downs, notoriety 
has become hateful to him, and 

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he has peremptorily requested 
that his wishes in this matter. 

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Should be strictly observed. 
It was only upon my representing

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to him. 
That I had given a promise that 

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the adventure of the second 
stain should be published when 

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the times were ripe. 
And pointing out to him, that it

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is only appropriate that this 
long series of episodes should 

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culminate in the most important 
International case, which he has

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ever been called upon to handle.
But I at last succeeded in 

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obtaining, his consent that a 
carefully guarded account of the

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incident should at last be laid 
before the public, if in telling

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the story. 
I seem to be somewhat vague in 

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certain details. 
The public will readily 

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understand that there is an 
excellent reason for my 

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reticence. 
It was then in a year and even 

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in a decade that shall be 
nameless that upon one Tuesday 

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Morning, in Autumn, we found two
visitors of European Fame within

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the walls of our Humble Home in 
Baker. 

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Street, the one or steer 
high-nosed eagle-eyed and 

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dominant was none other than the
illustrious Lord Bellinger twice

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premiere of Britain, the other 
dark clear-cut, and elegant, 

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hardly yet of middle-aged and 
endowed with every Of body. 

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And of Mind was the right 
honourable trelawney, hope 

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secretary for European Affairs 
and the most Rising Statesmen in

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the country. 
They sat side by side upon our 

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paper, littered City and it was 
easy to see from their worn and 

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anxious faces that it was 
business of the most pressing 

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importance, which had brought 
them, the premier's thin 

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blue-veined. 
Hands were clasped tightly over 

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the ivory head of his umbrella 
and his gaunt a seat Face looked

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gloomily from homes to me, the 
European secretary pulled 

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nervously at his mustache and 
fidgeted with the seals of his 

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watch chain. 
When I discovered my loss. 

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Mr. Holmes, which was at 8:00 
this morning, I had once 

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informed, the Prime Minister. 
It was a his suggestion that we 

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have both come to you have you 
informed the police? 

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No sir said the Prime Minister, 
which the quick decisive manner 

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for which he was famous. 
We have not done, so nor is it 

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possible that we should do? 
So to inform the police must in 

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the long-run mean to inform the 
public? 

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This is what we particularly 
desire to avoid. 

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And why sir? 
Because the document in question

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is of such immense importance 
that its publication might very 

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easily. 
I might almost say probably lead

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to European complications of the
utmost moment. 

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It is not too much to say that 
peace or War, may hang upon the 

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issue. 
Unless it's recovery, can be 

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attended with the up those sixy 
cracy. 

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Then it may as well not be 
recovered at all. 

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For all that is aimed at by 
those who have taken it. 

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It is that its contents should 
be generally known. 

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I understand now, mr. 
Trelawney hope I should be much 

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obliged. 
If you would tell me exactly, 

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the circumstances under which 
this document disappeared, 

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that's can be done in a very few
words. 

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Mr. Holmes, the letter for it 
was a letter from a foreign 

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potentate was received. 
Six days ago, it was a such 

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importance that I've never left 
it in my safe, but have taken it

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across each evening to my house 
in Whitehall Terrace and kept it

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in my bedroom in a lock. 
Despatch box. 

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It was there last night of that.
I am certain, I actually open 

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the box while I was dressing for
dinner and saw the document 

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inside this morning. 
It was gone. 

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The dispatch box had Stood 
Beside the glass upon my 

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dressing table all night. 
I'm a light sleeper and so is my

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wife, we're both prepared to 
swear that. 

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No one could have entered the 
room during the night. 

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And yet I repeat that the paper 
is gone. 

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What time did you dine 7:30, how
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bed, my wife had gone to the 
theater. 

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I waited up for her, it was 
11:30 before we went to our 

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room. 
Then for four hours, the 

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despatch-box had Lain unguarded,
no one is ever permitted to 

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enter that room. 
Save the housemaid in the 

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morning and my valet or my 
wife's made during the rest of 

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the day. 
They are both trusty servants 

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who have been with us for some 
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Besides neither of them could 
possibly have known that. 

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There was anything more valuable
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papers in my despatch box. 
Who did know the existence of 

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that letter? 
No one in the house surely your 

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wife knew no sir. 
I had said nothing to my wife 

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until I missed the paper this 
morning. 

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The premier nodded approvingly. 
I have long known sir. 

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How high is your sense of public
duty said he I am convinced that

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in the case of a secret of this 
importance it would rise 

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superior to the most intimate 
domestic ties the European 

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secretary bowed. 
You do me no more than Justice 

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sir. 
Until this morning I have never 

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breathed one word to my wife 
upon this matter. 

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Could she have guessed? 
No, mr. 

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Holmes. 
She could not have guessed nor 

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could anyone have guessed. 
Have you lost any documents 

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before? 
No sir. 

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Who is there in England? 
Who did know of the existence of

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this letter? 
Each member of the cabinet was 

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informed of it yesterday. 
But the pledge of secrecy which 

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attends every cabinet meeting 
was increased by the solemn 

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warning, which was given by the 
Prime Minister. 

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Good Heavens to think that 
within a few hours. 

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I should myself of lost it. 
His handsome face was distorted 

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with a spasm of Despair and His 
Hands tore at his hair for a 

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moment. 
We caught a glimpse of the 

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natural man. 
Impulsive Ardent, keenly 

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sensitive. 
The next, the aristocratic mask 

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was replaced and the gentle 
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Besides the members of the 
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There are two or possibly three 
departmental officials who know 

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of the letter. 
No one else in England, mr. 

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Holmes, I assure you But abroad,
I believe that no one abroad has

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seen it saves a man who wrote 
it. 

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I am well, convinced that his 
ministers, that the usual 

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official channels have not been 
employed. 

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Holmes considered for some 
little time now, sir, I must ask

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him or particularly what this 
document is and why its 

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disappearance should have such 
momentous consequences. 

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The to Statesmen exchanged, a 
quick glance and the premier. 

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His Shaggy eyebrows gathered in 
a frown mr. 

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Holmes, the envelope is a long 
thin, one of pale blue color. 

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There is a seal of red wax. 
Stamped with a crouching lion is

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addressed in large bold 
handwriting to I fear, sir said 

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Holmes, but interesting and 
indeed, essential as these 

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details are my inquiries, must 
go more to the root of things. 

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What? 
Was the letter, that is a state 

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secret of the utmost importance.
And I fear that I cannot tell 

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you, nor do I see that it is 
necessary. 

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If, by the aid of the powers, 
which you are said to possess, 

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you can find such an envelope. 
As I described with its 

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enclosure, you will have 
deserved well of your country 

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and earned any reward, which it 
lies in our power to bestow. 

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Sherlock Holmes, rose with a 
smile. 

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You are two of the most busy men
in the country. 

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Said he and in my own small way.
I have also, a good many calls 

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upon me. 
I regret exceedingly that I 

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cannot help you in this matter 
and any continuation of this 

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interview would be a waste of 
time. 

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The premier sprang to his feet 
with that quick Fierce gleam of 

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his deep-set eyes before, which 
a cabinet has coward. 

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Well, I'm not a custom sir. 
He began but mastered his anger 

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and resumed his seat for a 
minute or more. 

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We all sat in silence and the 
old Statesman Shrugged. 

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His shoulders we must accept 
your terms, mr. 

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Holmes. 
No doubt you are right and it is

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unreasonable for us to expect 
you to act unless we give you 

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your entire confidence. 
I agree with you said the 

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youngest Statesman, then I will 
tell you relying entirely upon 

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your honor and that of your 
colleague. 

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Dr. Watson, I may appeal to your
patriotism also for I could not 

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imagine a greater Misfortune for
the country than that. 

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This affair should come out. 
You may safely trust us. 

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The letter then is from a 
certain foreign potentate who 

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has been ruffled by some recent,
Colonial developments of this 

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country, it has been written 
hurriedly and upon his own 

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responsibility entirely. 
Inquiries have shown that his 

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ministers, know nothing of the 
matter. 

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At the same time, it is couched 
in, so unfortunate a manner and 

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certain phrase it in it or of. 
So provocative a character that 

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its publication would 
undoubtedly lead to a most 

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dangerous. 
This state of feeling in this 

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country, there would be such a 
firm answer that I do not 

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hesitate to say that within a 
week of the publication of that 

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letter, this country would be 
involved in a great War. 

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Holmes, wrote a name upon a slip
of paper and handed it to the 

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premiere. 
Exactly. 

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It was he and it is this letter 
this letter, which may well mean

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the expenditure of a thousand 
millions and the lies of 100,000

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men, which has become lost in 
this unaccountable fashion. 

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Have you informed the sender? 
Yes sir. 

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A cipher telegram has been 
dispatched. 

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Perhaps he desires the 
publication of the letter. 

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No sir. 
We have strong reason to believe

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that he already understands that
he has acted in an Indiscreet 

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and hot-headed manner. 
It would be a greater blow to 

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him and to his country than to 
us if this letter were to come 

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out. 
If this is so whose interest is 

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it that the letter should come 
out? 

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Why should anyone desire to 
steal it or to publish it? 

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There are mr. 
Holmes, you take me into regions

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of high International politics 
but if you consider the European

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situation you will have no 
difficulty in perceiving the 

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motive. 
The whole of Europe is an armed 

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Camp. 
There is a double League which 

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makes a fair balance of military
power. 

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Great Britain holds the scales 
if Britain were driven into war 

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with one Confederacy, it was 
sure the supremacy of the other 

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Confederacy whether they joined 
in the war or not, do you follow

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Very clearly. 
It is then the interest of the 

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enemies of this potentate to 
secure and publish this letter. 

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So as to make a breach between 
his country and ours, yes, sir. 

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And to whom would this document 
be sent if it fell into the 

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hands of an enemy. 
To any of the great 

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chancelleries of Europe, which 
is probably speeding on its way 

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thither at the present, instant 
as fast as Steam can take it mr.

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Trelawney hope dropped his head 
on his chest and groaned aloud, 

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the premiere placed his hand 
kindly upon his shoulder. 

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It is your Misfortune my dear 
fellow no one can blame you, 

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there is no precaution which you
have neglected now mr. 

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Holmes you are in full 
possession of the facts. 

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What course do you recommend? 
Holmes shook his head 

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mournfully. 
You think, sir that unless this 

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document is recovered, there 
will be War. 

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I think it is very probable. 
Then sir, prepare for war. 

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That is a hard saying mr. 
Holmes. 

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Consider the fact sir, it is 
inconceivable that it was taken 

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after 11:30 at night since I 
understand that mr. 

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Hope and his wife were both in 
the room from that hour until 

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the loss was found out. 
It was taken then yesterday 

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evening between 7:30 and 11:30 
probably near the earlier our 

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since whoever took it evidently 
knew that it was there and would

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naturally secure it as early as 
possible. 

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Now sir, if a document of this 
importance were taken at that 

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hour where can it be now? 
No one has any reason to retain 

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it. 
It has been passed rapidly on to

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those who need it. 
What chance have we now to 

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overtake? 
Or even to trace it. 

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It is beyond our reach. 
The Prime Minister Rose from the

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city. 
What you say is perfectly 

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logical, mr. 
Holmes, I feel that the matter 

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is indeed out of our hands. 
Let's presume for argument's 

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sake, that the document was 
taken by the maid or by the 

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valet they are both old and 
tried servants. 

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I understand you to say that 
your room is on the second 

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floor, that there is no entrance
from without and that from 

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within no one could go up. 
Unobserved it must then be 

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somebody in the house who has 
taken it to whom, would the 

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thief take it to one of several 
International spies and Secret 

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agents whose names are 
tolerably. 

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Familiar to me. 
There are three who may be said 

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to be the heads of their 
profession. 

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I will begin my research by 
going round and finding. 

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If each of them is at his post, 
if one is missing, especially if

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he has disappeared. 
Since last night, we will have 

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some indication as to where the 
document has gone. 

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Why should he be missing as the 
European secretary? 

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He would take the letter to an 
embassy in London as likely as 

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not. 
I fancy not. 

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These agents work independently 
and their relations with the 

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embassies are often strained. 
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acquiescence. 
I believe you're right to mr. 

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Holmes, he would take. 
So valuable a prize to 

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headquarters with his own hands.
I think that your course of 

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action is an excellent one. 
Meanwhile, hope we cannot 

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neglect all our other duties on 
account of this one Misfortune. 

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Should there be any fresh 
developments? 

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Ants during the day, we shall 
communicate with you and you 

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will. 
No doubt. 

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Let us know the results of your 
own inquiries, the to Statesmen 

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bowed, and walked Gravely from 
the room. 

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When our illustrious visitors 
had departed. 

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Homes lit, his pipe in silence, 
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the deepest thought, I had 
opened the morning paper and was

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immersed in a sensational crime 
which had occurred in London the

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night before. 
When my friend gave an 

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exclamation. 
Nation sprang to his feet and 

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laid his pipe down upon the 
mantelpiece. 

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Yes, said he, there is no better
way of approaching it. 

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The situation is desperate, but 
not hopeless. 

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Even now if we should be sure, 
which of them has taken it, it 

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is just possible that it has not
yet passed out of his hands. 

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After all, it is a question of 
money with these fellows and I 

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have the British treasury behind
me. 

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If It's on the market. 
I'll buy it. 

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If it means another Penny on the
income tax. 

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Hmm. 
It is inconceivable that the 

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fellow might hold it back to see
what bids come from this side 

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before. 
He tries his luck on the other. 

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There are only those three 
capable of playing. 

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So Boulder game. 
There are oberstein La Raza are 

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and Eduardo Lucas. 
I will see each of them. 

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I glanced at my morning paper is
that Eduardo Lucas of godolphin 

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Street. 
Yes, you will not see him, why 

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not? 
He was murdered in his house 

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last night. 
My friend is so often astonished

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me in the course of our 
adventures but it was with a 

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sense of exultation that I 
realized how completely I had 

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astonished him, he stared in 
amazement and then snatched a 

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paper from my hands. 
This was the paragraph which I 

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had been engaged in Reading when
he rose from his chair. 

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Murder in Westminster. 
A crime of mysterious character 

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was committed last night at 16, 
good often Street, one of the 

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old fashioned and secluded rows.
Have 18, century houses, which 

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lie between the river and the, a
be almost in the shadow of the 

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great tower of the houses of 
Parliament. 

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This small, but select Mansion 
has been inhabited for some 

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years by mr. 
Eduardo Lucas, well, known in 

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society circles, both on account
of his Charming personality. 

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And because he has the Well, 
deserved reputation of being one

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of the best amateur tennis in 
the country. 

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Mr. Lucas is an unmarried man. 
34 years of age and his 

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establishment consists of mrs. 
Pringle and elderly housekeeper.

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And of Mitten his valet, the 
former retires, early and sleeps

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at the top of the house, the 
valet was out for the evening. 

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Visiting a friend at, 
Hammersmith from 10:00 on word, 

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mr. 
Lucas had the house to himself. 

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What occurred during that time, 
has not yet transpired, but at 

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11:45 police Constable Barrett 
passing along the Dolphin Street

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observed that the door of number
16 was ajar he knocked but 

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received no answer, perceiving a
light in the front room, he 

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Advanced into the passage and 
again knocked but without reply 

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he then pushed open the door and
entered. 

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The room was in a state of wild 
disorder the furniture being All

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swept to one side and one chair 
lying on its back in the center.

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Beside this chair. 
I'm still grasping one of its 

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legs. 
Lay the unfortunate tenant of 

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the house. 
He had been stabbed to the 

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heart. 
I must have died. 

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Instantly the knife with which 
the crime had been committed, 

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was a curved Indian dagger 
plucked down from a trophy of 

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Oriental arms, which adorned, 
one of the walls robbery does 

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not appear to have, been the 
motive of the crime for there. 

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Had been no attempt to remove 
the valve. 

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Valuable contents of the room, 
mr. 

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Eduardo Lucas was so well-known 
and popular. 

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That is violent. 
And mysterious fate will arouse 

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painful interest and intense 
sympathy in a widespread Circle 

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of Friends. 
Well Watson. 

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What do you make of this last 
homes after a long? 

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Pause. 
It is an amazing coincidence. 

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Coincidence. 
Here is one of the three men 

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whom we had named as possible 
actors in this drama and he 

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meets a violent death during the
very hours when we know that the

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drama was being enacted, the 
odds are enormous against it. 

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Being coincidence. 
No figures. 

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Could express them. 
No, my dear Watson, the two 

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events are connected. 
Must be connected. 

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It is for us to find the 
connection. 

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But now, the official police 
must know, all not at all. 

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They know all they see at 
godolphin Street. 

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They know, and shall know 
nothing of Whitehall Terrace, 

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Only. 
We Know of both events and can 

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trace. 
The relation between them, there

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is one obvious point which would
in any case of turned, my 

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suspicions against Lucas Good 
often Street. 

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Westminster is only a few 
minutes. 

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Walk from Whitehall Terrace. 
The other secret agents whom I 

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have named live in the extreme 
West End, it was easier 

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therefore for Lucas than for the
others to establish a connection

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or receive a message from the 
European secretaries household. 

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A small thing and yet where 
events are compressed into a few

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hours, it may prove essential. 
Hello, what have we here? 

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Mrs. Hudson at appeared with a 
lady's card upon her Salva 

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Holmes, glanced at it, raised 
his eyebrows and handed it over 

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to me. ask lady Hilda trelawney 
hope if she will be kind enough 

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to step up said he A moment 
later our modest apartment 

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already. 
So distinguished that morning, 

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was further honoured by the 
entrance of the most lovely 

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woman in London. 
I had often heard of the beauty 

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of the youngest daughter of the 
Duke of belminster, but no 

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description of it and no 
contemplation of colorless. 

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Photographs had prepared me for 
the subtle delicate charm and 

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the Beautiful coloring of that 
Exquisite head. 

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And yet, as we saw it that 
Autumn morning, it was not its 

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beauty, which would be the first
thing to impress, The Observer, 

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the cheek was lovely, but it was
paled with emotion, the eyes 

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were bright, but it was the 
brightness of fever. 

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The sensitive mouth was tight 
and drawn in an effort after 

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self-command Terror. 
Not Beauty was what sprang first

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to the eye, as our Fair visitor,
stood framed for an instant in 

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the open door. 
Or. 

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Has my husband been here. 
Mr. Holmes. 

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Yes. 
Madam he has been here, mr. 

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Holmes, I implore you not to 
tell him that I came here. 

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Homes, bowed coldly and motion. 
The lady to a chair. your 

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ladyship places me in a very 
delicate position, I beg that 

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you will sit down and tell me 
what you desire but I fear that 

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I cannot make any unconditional 
promise She swept across the 

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room and seated herself with her
back to the window. 

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It was a queenly, presence tall,
graceful and intensely womanly 

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mr. 
Holmes, she said and her white 

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gloved hands clasped and 
unclasped as she spoke I will 

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speak frankly to you in the 
hopes that it may induce you to 

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speak. 
Frankly in return, there is 

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complete confidence between my 
husband and me on all matters. 

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Save one that one is The ticks 
on this, his lips are sealed. 

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He tells me nothing. 
Now I am aware that there was a 

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most deplorable occurrence in 
our house. 

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Last night. 
I know that a paper has 

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disappeared but because the 
matter is political, my husband 

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refuses to take me into his 
complete confidence. 

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Now, it is essential essential, 
I say that I should thoroughly 

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understand it. 
You are the only other person 

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save only these politicians, who
knows the truth. 

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Facts. 
I beg you then, mr. 

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Holmes to tell me exactly what 
has happened and what it will 

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lead to tell me all mr. 
Holmes, let no regard for your 

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clients, interests. 
Keep you silent for I assure you

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that his interests. 
If he would only see, it would 

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be best served by taking me into
his complete confidence. 

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What was this paper? 
Which was stolen? 

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Madam, what you asked me is 
really impossible. 

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She groaned and sank her face in
her hands. 

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You must see that. 
It is so Madam. 

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If your husband thinks fit to 
keep you in the dark over this 

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matter is it for me who has only
learned the true facts under the

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pledge of professional secrecy 
to tell what he has withheld. 

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It is not fair to ask it, it is 
him. 

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You must ask. 
I have asked him. 

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I came to you. 
The last resource, but without 

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you you're telling me anything 
definite, mr. 

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Holmes, you may do a great 
service. 

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If you would enlighten me on one
point, what is it? 

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Madam is my husband's political 
career likely to suffer through 

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this incident. 
Well, Madame, unless it is set 

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right, it may certainly have a 
very unfortunate effect. 

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Oh, she drew in her breath 
sharply as one whose doubts are 

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resolved. 
One more question, mr. 

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Holmes from an expression, which
my husband dropped in. 

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The first shock of This 
Disaster, I understood that 

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terrible public consequences 
might arise from the loss of 

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this document. 
If he said so I certainly cannot

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deny it of what nature are they 
named? 

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Adam there again you ask me more
than I can possibly answer. 

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Then I will take up no more of 
your time. 

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I cannot blame you mr. 
Holmes for having refused to 

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speak more freely and you on 
your side will not, I am sure 

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think the worse of me because I 
desire even against his will to 

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share my husband's anxieties. 
Once more, I beg that you will 

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say Nothing of my visit, she 
looked back at us from the door 

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and I had a last impression of 
that beautiful haunted face. 

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The startled eyes and the drawn 
mouth. 

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Then she was gone. 
Now Watson, the fair sex is your

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department said, Holmes with a 
smile, when the dwindling 

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frou-frou of skirts had ended in
the slam of the front door. 

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What was the Fair ladies game? 
What did she really want? 

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Surely her own statement is 
clear and her anxiety, very 

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natural. 
Hmm, think of her appearance, 

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Watson her manner, her 
suppressed excitement her 

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restlessness her tenacity in 
asking questions, remember that 

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she comes of a caste who do not 
likely show emotion. 

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She was certainly much moved. 
Remember also the Curious 

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earnestness with which she 
assured us that it was the best 

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for her husband that she should 
know. 

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All. 
What did she mean by that and 

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you must have observed Watson. 
How she maneuvered to have the 

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light at her back. 
She did not wish us to read her 

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expression. 
Yes. 

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She chose the one chair in the 
room and yet the motives of 

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women are so inscrutable, you 
remember the woman at Margate 

456
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,700
whom? 
I suspected for the same reason,

457
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,600
no powder on her nose that 
proved to be the correct 

458
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,300
solution. 
How can you build on such a 

459
00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:58,700
quicksand? 
The most trivial action May mean

460
00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:02,200
volumes, or their most 
extraordinary conduct may depend

461
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,700
upon a hairpin or a curling 
tongs. 

462
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,200
Good morning. 
Watson, you are off. 

463
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,200
Yes, I will while away the 
morning, it took a dolphin 

464
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,500
street with our friends of the 
regular establishment with 

465
00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:19,500
Eduardo, Lucas lies, the 
solution of our problem, though,

466
00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:21,800
I must admit that I have not an 
inkling. 

467
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:26,000
As to what form, it may take, it
is a capital mistake to theorize

468
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,400
in advance of the The facts. 
Do you? 

469
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,300
Stay on guard? 
My good Watson and receive any 

470
00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:33,800
fresh visitors. 
I'll join you at lunch. 

471
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,900
If I am able All that day and 
the next. 

472
00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:40,800
And the next Holmes was in a 
mood, which his friends would 

473
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:46,800
call taciturn and others morose.
He ran out and ran in smoked 

474
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,300
incessantly played snatches on 
his violin sank into reveries 

475
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,000
devoured. 
Sandwiches, at irregular hours 

476
00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:57,400
and hardly answered, the Casual 
questions, which I put to him. 

477
00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:01,500
It was evident to me that things
were not going well with him or 

478
00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:04,000
his quest. 
He would say, nothing of the 

479
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,500
case, and it was from the papers
that I learned the particulars 

480
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:11,300
of the inquest and the arrest 
with the subsequent release of 

481
00:29:11,300 --> 00:29:15,000
John mitton. 
The valet of the deceased, the 

482
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,500
coroner's jury brought in the 
obvious, willful murder at the 

483
00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:20,500
parties remained as unknown as 
ever. 

484
00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:25,000
No motive was suggested, the 
room was full of Articles of 

485
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,200
value but none had been taken 
the Dead Man's papers had not 

486
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,100
been tampered with, they were 
carefully examined and Oh, that 

487
00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:35,700
he was a keen student of 
international politics. 

488
00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:39,600
An indefatigable gossip a 
remarkable linguist and an 

489
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,600
untiring letter writer. 
He had been on intimate terms 

490
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,200
with the leading politicians of 
several countries, but nothing 

491
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,200
Sensational was discovered among
the documents which filled his 

492
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,600
drawers as to his relations with
women. 

493
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:57,500
They appear to have been 
promiscuous, but superficial he 

494
00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:00,800
had many acquaintances among 
them but few friends and no one 

495
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,600
whom he loved his habit. 
It's were regular his conduct 

496
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,900
inoffensive, his death was an 
absolute mystery and likely to 

497
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:12,100
remain. 
So As to the arrest of John 

498
00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:15,600
mitton the valet. 
It was a counsel of Despair as 

499
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,700
an alternative to Absolute in 
action, but no case could be 

500
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:22,700
sustained against him. 
He had visited friends in 

501
00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:26,000
Hammersmith that night. 
The Alibi was complete. 

502
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,300
It is true that he started home 
at an hour, which would have 

503
00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:32,000
brought him to Westminster 
before the time when the crime 

504
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,900
was discovered. 
But his own explanation that he 

505
00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:38,100
had walked part of the way 
seemed probably enough in view 

506
00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:41,700
of the finest of the night. 
He had actually arrived at 12:00

507
00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:45,500
and appeared to be overwhelmed 
by the unexpected tragedy. 

508
00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:48,700
He had always been on good terms
with his master. 

509
00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:52,800
Several of the Dead Man's 
possessions notably a small case

510
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,500
of razors had been found in the 
valets boxes but he explained 

511
00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:00,500
that they had been presence from
the deceased and the housekeeper

512
00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:04,800
was able to corroborate the 
story Mitten had been in Lucas's

513
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,700
employment for three years. 
It was noticeable that Lucas did

514
00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:13,000
not take Mitten on the And with 
him, sometimes he visited Paris 

515
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,300
for three months on end, but 
Mitten was left in charge of the

516
00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:20,600
good often Street house. 
As to the housekeeper, she had 

517
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,400
heard nothing on the night of 
the crime. 

518
00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:26,400
If her master had a visitor, he 
had himself admitted him. 

519
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,000
So, for three mornings, the 
mystery remained so far as I 

520
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,000
could follow it in the papers. 
If homes new more, he kept his 

521
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,600
own counsel, but as he told me 
that inspector lestrade had 

522
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,100
taken him into his confidence in
the case, I knew that he was in 

523
00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:44,300
close touch with every 
development. 

524
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,100
Upon the fourth day. 
There appeared a Long Telegram 

525
00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:51,500
from Paris which seemed to solve
the whole question. 

526
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,800
A discovery has just been made 
by the Peruvian. 

527
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,700
Police said the Daily Telegraph 
which raises the veil, which 

528
00:31:58,700 --> 00:32:00,500
hung around the tragic fate of 
mr. 

529
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:05,100
Eduardo Lucas who met his death 
by violence last Monday night at

530
00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:08,400
godolphin. 
Street Westminster our readers 

531
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,700
will remember that. 
The deceased gentleman was found

532
00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:14,200
stabbed in his room and that 
some suspicion attached to his 

533
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,900
valet. 
At that the case broke down on 

534
00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:20,100
an alibi. 
Yesterday, a lady who's been 

535
00:32:20,100 --> 00:32:24,100
known as Madame on Grief. 
On a occupying, a small Villa, 

536
00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:27,300
in the route, austerlitz was 
reported to the authorities by 

537
00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:31,800
her servants as being insane. 
An examination showed. 

538
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,200
She had indeed developed Mania 
of a dangerous and permanent 

539
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,100
form on inquiry. 
The police have discovered that 

540
00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:42,300
Madam own grief on a only 
returned from a journey to 

541
00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:45,900
London on Tuesday last. 
And there is evidence to connect

542
00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:47,800
her with the crime at 
Westminster. 

543
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000
A comparison of photographs has 
proved conclusively that miss 

544
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,400
you already fell down a and 
Eduardo Lucas were really one 

545
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,600
and the same person and that the
deceased had for some reason 

546
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:06,300
lived a double life in London 
and Paris, Madam Foreman a who 

547
00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:10,900
is of Creole origin is of an 
extremely excitable nature and 

548
00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:13,500
has suffered in the past from a 
tax of jealousy which have 

549
00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:17,500
amounted to frenzy. 
It is conjectured that it was in

550
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:20,200
one of these that she committed.
Add the terrible crimes which 

551
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,100
has caused such a sensation in 
London, her movements upon the 

552
00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:27,100
Monday night of not. 
Yet been traced, but it is 

553
00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:31,400
undoubted that a woman answering
to her description attracted 

554
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,400
much attention at Charing Cross 
station on Tuesday Morning by 

555
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,500
the wildness of her appearance 
and the violence of her 

556
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:41,700
gestures. 
It is probable, therefore, that 

557
00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:44,900
the crime was either committed 
when insane or that its 

558
00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:47,900
immediate effect was to drive 
the unhappy woman out of her 

559
00:33:47,900 --> 00:33:50,900
mind. 
At present she is unable to give

560
00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:54,700
any coherent account of the past
and the doctors hold out no 

561
00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:57,200
hopes of the re-establishment of
her reason. 

562
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,200
There is evidence that a woman 
who might have been mad 

563
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:04,100
involuntary was seen for some 
hours upon Monday night watching

564
00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:06,000
the house in Good Ole fin 
Street. 

565
00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:10,300
What do you think of that homes?
I'd read the account allowed to 

566
00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:12,000
him while he finished his 
breakfast. 

567
00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,800
My dear Watson said, he as he 
rose from the table and paced up

568
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:21,199
and down the room, you are most 
long-suffering, but if I have 

569
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:24,900
told you nothing in the last 
three days, it is because there 

570
00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:28,100
is nothing to tell. 
Even now, this report from 

571
00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:32,600
Paris, does not help us much. 
Surely it is final as regards, 

572
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,000
the man's death. 
The man's death is a mere 

573
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,500
incident. 
A trivial episode in comparison,

574
00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:43,800
with our real task, which is to 
trace this document and save a 

575
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,800
European catastrophe. 
Only one important thing has 

576
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,199
happened in the last three days.
And that is that nothing has 

577
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:54,500
happened. 
I get reports almost hourly from

578
00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:57,600
the government, and it is 
certain that nowhere in Europe. 

579
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,700
Is there any sign of trouble? 
Now, if this letter were loose, 

580
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,600
no, it can't be losing. 
Loose. 

581
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,900
But if it isn't loose, where can
it be? 

582
00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:11,800
Who has it? 
Why is it held back? 

583
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,600
That's the question that beats 
in my brain like a hammer. 

584
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:20,100
Was it indeed a coincidence that
Lucas should meet his death on 

585
00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:23,000
the night. 
When the letter disappeared did 

586
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,400
the letter ever reach him? 
If so, why is it not among his 

587
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,100
papers did this? 
Mad wife of his carry it off 

588
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:36,400
with her if so is it in her 
house in How could I search for 

589
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,300
it without the French police? 
Having their suspicions aroused.

590
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,300
It is a case. 
My dear Watson where the law is 

591
00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:46,400
as dangerous to us as the 
criminals are, every man's hand 

592
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,300
is against us. 
And yet, the interests at stake 

593
00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:53,400
are colossal, should I bring it 
to a successful conclusion? 

594
00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:57,100
It will certainly represent the 
crowning Glory of my career. 

595
00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:00,400
Ah, here is my latest from the 
front. 

596
00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:03,900
He glanced hurriedly at the note
which had been handed in. 

597
00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:09,200
Hello, the strad seems to have 
observed, something of Interest 

598
00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:12,800
put on your hat Watson. 
And we will stroll down together

599
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:16,300
to Westminster. 
It was my first visit to the 

600
00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:21,700
scene of the crime, a high dingy
narrow, chested house, Prim 

601
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,300
formal, and solid like the 
century, which gave it birth. 

602
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,300
The strods Bulldog features 
gazed out at us from the front 

603
00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:33,100
window and he greeted us warmly 
when a big Constable had opened 

604
00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:36,800
the door and let us in the room 
into which we were shown. 

605
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,500
Was that in which the crime had 
been committed but no trace of 

606
00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:42,600
it. 
Now, remained save an ugly 

607
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:47,200
irregular stain upon the carpet.
This carpet was a small square 

608
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,400
drugget in the center of the 
room surrounded by a broad 

609
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,600
expanse of beautiful, 
old-fashioned wood, flooring in 

610
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,800
square blocks, highly polished 
over. 

611
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,100
The fireplace, was a magnificent
trophy of weapons, one of which 

612
00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:03,000
have been used on that tragic 
night. 

613
00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:07,800
In the window was a Sumptuous 
writing desk, and every detail 

614
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,200
of the apartment, the pictures, 
the rugs and the hangings all 

615
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,800
pointed to a taste which was 
luxurious to the verge of 

616
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,800
effeminacy. 
Seeing The Paris News asked 

617
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:24,100
lestrade Holmes, nodded our 
French friends seem to have 

618
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:28,300
touched a spot this time. 
Now, that is just as I say she 

619
00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:32,100
knocked at the door surprise, 
visit our guess for he kept his 

620
00:37:32,100 --> 00:37:36,200
life in watertight compartments.
He let her in couldn't keep her 

621
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,100
in the street. 
She told him how she had traced 

622
00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:43,000
him reproached him. 
One thing led to another and 

623
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,100
then with that dagger so handy 
the end soon. 

624
00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:47,500
Came it wasn't all done in an 
instant. 

625
00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:50,100
So for these chairs were all 
swept Over Yonder. 

626
00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:53,000
And he had one in his hand, as 
if he tried to hold her off with

627
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,600
it. 
We've got it all clear. 

628
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,300
As if we can see it, Holmes 
raised his eyebrows. 

629
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:05,200
And yet you have sent for me. 
Oh yes, that's another man, a 

630
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,800
mere trifle, but the sort of 
thing you take an interest in 

631
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,900
queer. 
You know what you might call 

632
00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:16,000
freakish, it's nothing to do 
with the main fact can't have on

633
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000
the face of it. 
What is it then? 

634
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,800
Well you know after a crime of 
this sort were very careful to 

635
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,700
keep things in their position. 
Nothing's been moved officer in 

636
00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:29,000
charge here day and night this 
morning. 

637
00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:32,200
As the man was buried. 
And the investigation over as 

638
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,800
far as this room is concerned, 
we thought we could tidy up a 

639
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,800
bit, this carpet. 
You see, it's not fastened down 

640
00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:42,100
and he just laid there, we'd 
occasion to raise it. 

641
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:47,700
We found, yes, you found 
Holmes's face grew tense with 

642
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,000
anxiety. 
Well, I'm sure you'd never guess

643
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,100
in undred years. 
What we did find you see that 

644
00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:57,000
stain on that carpet. 
Well a great deal must have 

645
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,100
soaked through. 
Must it. 

646
00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:01,900
Not. 
Undoubtedly, it must well, 

647
00:39:02,100 --> 00:39:03,500
you'll be surprised to hear 
that. 

648
00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:06,300
There's no stain on the white 
woodwork to correspond. 

649
00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:10,800
No stain but there must. 
Yeah. 

650
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,600
So you'd say but the fact 
remains that, the reason he took

651
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,300
the corner of the carpet in his 
hand and turning it over, he 

652
00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:23,000
showed that it was indeed as he 
said, but the underside is a 

653
00:39:23,008 --> 00:39:26,400
stained as the upper it must 
have left a mark. 

654
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,300
Lestrade chuckled with delight 
at having puzzled the famous 

655
00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:33,300
expert. 
Now I'll show you the 

656
00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:38,100
explanation, there is a second 
stain but it does not correspond

657
00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:41,800
with the other. 
See for yourself as he spoke, he

658
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,100
turned over another portion of 
the carpet and there. 

659
00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:48,800
Sure enough was a great Crimson 
spill upon the square white 

660
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,800
facing of the old-fashioned 
floor. 

661
00:39:51,700 --> 00:39:53,200
Or do you make it that mr. 
Holmes. 

662
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,400
Why it is simple enough just to 
stains did correspond but the 

663
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,900
carpet has been turned round as 
it was square and unfastened it 

664
00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:06,800
was easily done. 
The official police don't need 

665
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,400
you mr. 
Holmes to tell them that the 

666
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,700
carpet must have been turned 
round. 

667
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,200
That's clear enough for the 
stains lie above each other. 

668
00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:19,100
If you lay over this way, but 
one I want to know is who 

669
00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:23,800
shifted the carpet? 
And why I could see from homes 

670
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,400
is rigid face, that he was 
vibrating with inward 

671
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:32,000
excitement, Look here lestrade 
said he has that constable in 

672
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,900
the passage been in the charge 
of the place all the time. 

673
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,700
Yes, yes. 
Well, take my advice, examine 

674
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:42,900
him carefully. 
Don't do it before us will. 

675
00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:46,100
Wait here, you take him into the
back room. 

676
00:40:46,300 --> 00:40:49,800
You'll be more likely to get a 
confession out of him alone, ask

677
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,300
him how he dared to admit people
and leave them alone in this 

678
00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:56,100
room. 
Don't ask him if he's done it, 

679
00:40:56,500 --> 00:41:00,300
take it for granted, tell him, 
you know, someone has been here.

680
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,100
Press him. 
Tell him that a full confession 

681
00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:06,500
is his only chance of 
forgiveness, do exactly what I 

682
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:09,100
tell you. 
By George. 

683
00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:12,200
If he knows, I love our of him 
cried lestrade. 

684
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,300
He darted into the hall and a 
few moments later, his bullying 

685
00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:18,100
voice sounded from the back 
room. 

686
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,500
Now Watson now cried. 
Holmes with frenzied eagerness, 

687
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,400
all the demoniac will force of 
the man, mask behind that 

688
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,100
listless manner burst out in a 
paroxysm of energy. 

689
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,300
He toured the drug it from the 
floor and in an instant was down

690
00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,700
on his hands and knees clawing 
at each of the squares of wood. 

691
00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:41,600
Beneath it one turn sideways. 
As he dug his nails into the 

692
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:46,600
edge of it, it hinged back like 
the lid of a box, a small black 

693
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,800
cavity opened beneath it Holmes 
plunged his eager, hand into it 

694
00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:53,300
and Drew it out with a bitter. 
Snarl of anger and 

695
00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:57,200
disappointment. 
It was empty quick Watson, 

696
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:01,200
quick, get it back again. 
The wooden lid was replaced, and

697
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,400
the drug had only just been 
drawn straight. 

698
00:42:03,700 --> 00:42:07,700
When The strods Voice Was Heard 
in the passage, he found Holmes,

699
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,600
Languidly against the 
mantelpiece resigned and patient

700
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,800
endeavoring to conceal. 
His irrepressible yawns. 

701
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,900
Sorry to keep you waiting. 
Mr. Holmes, I can see that 

702
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:21,100
you're bored to death with the 
Olaf are. 

703
00:42:21,700 --> 00:42:24,200
Well he has confessed. 
All right, coming here 

704
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,400
McPherson. 
Let these gentlemen are of your 

705
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:32,600
most inexcusable conduct the big
Constable very hot and penitent 

706
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,100
sidled into the room. 
Almond no arm sir. 

707
00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:39,200
I'm sure the young woman came to
the door. 

708
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,000
Last evening mistook the house 
she did and then we got to 

709
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,500
talking it's Lonesome when 
you're on duty. 

710
00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:48,300
Eight-year-old a well, what 
happened? 

711
00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:52,200
Then she wanted to see where the
crime was done. 

712
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,500
I'd read about it in the papers.
She said, she's very 

713
00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:57,900
respectable. 
Well-spoken, young woman, sir, 

714
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,400
and I saw no harm in letting her
have a peep. 

715
00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:04,100
When she saw that Mark on the 
carpet down, she dropped on the 

716
00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:05,900
floor and lay, as if she were 
dead. 

717
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:09,900
I ran to the back and got some 
water, but I couldn't bring it 

718
00:43:09,900 --> 00:43:11,900
to her. 
Then I went around the corner, 

719
00:43:11,900 --> 00:43:15,900
to the ivy plant for some Brandy
by the time I brought it Back, 

720
00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:17,800
the young woman had recovered 
and was off. 

721
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,200
Shame to herself. 
I daresay and dared not face me.

722
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:27,500
How about moving that drug it? 
Well, sure it was a bit rumpled.

723
00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:30,800
Certainly, when I came back, you
see she fell on it and it lies 

724
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,000
on a polished floor with nothing
to keep it in place. 

725
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,600
Are strained it out afterwards. 
It's a lesson to you. 

726
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,700
That you can't deceive me. 
Constable McPherson said 

727
00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:43,000
lestrade with dignity. 
Now doubt you thought your 

728
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,600
breach of Duty could never be 
discovered and yet a mere glance

729
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,600
at that drug. 
It was enough to convince me 

730
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,200
that someone has been admitted 
to the room its lucky for you. 

731
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,600
Are you my man that nothing is 
missing, or you'd find yourself 

732
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,100
in queer street, I'm sorry to 
have called you down over such a

733
00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:01,600
petty business. 
Mr. Holmes, but I thought the 

734
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,600
point of the second stain, not 
corresponding with the first 

735
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,900
would interest you. 
Certainly it was most 

736
00:44:07,900 --> 00:44:11,100
interesting. 
Has this woman only been here 

737
00:44:11,100 --> 00:44:15,500
once. 
Constable Yasuo only once who 

738
00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:19,400
was she no, no the name. 
Sir was answering an 

739
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,500
advertisement about typewriting 
and came to the wrong number. 

740
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:27,000
Very pleasant. 
Genteel, young woman, sir tall 

741
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,400
handsome. 
Yes sir. 

742
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,500
She was a well grown young 
woman. 

743
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,600
I suppose you might say she was 
handsome. 

744
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,300
Perhaps some would say she was 
very handsome. 

745
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,100
Oh, officer do let me have a 
peep. 

746
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,900
So she she had pre coaxing ways.
You might say. 

747
00:44:42,900 --> 00:44:44,700
And I thought there was no harm 
in letting her. 

748
00:44:44,707 --> 00:44:46,300
Just put her head through the 
door. 

749
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:52,100
How was she dressed quiet? 
Sir long mantle down to her 

750
00:44:52,100 --> 00:44:54,600
feet. 
What time was it? 

751
00:44:55,500 --> 00:44:57,500
It was just growing dusk at the 
time. 

752
00:44:57,500 --> 00:45:00,100
They were lighting the lamps as 
I came back with the Brandy. 

753
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,500
Very good said, Holmes, come 
Watson. 

754
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:09,000
I think that we have more 
important work elsewhere as we 

755
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,800
left the house lestrade remained
in the front room, while the 

756
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,800
repentant Constable opened the 
door to let us out Holmes, 

757
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,900
turned on the step and held up 
something in his hand, the 

758
00:45:19,900 --> 00:45:23,700
Constable stared intently. 
Good Lord sir. 

759
00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:28,300
He cried with amazement on his 
face Holmes, put his fingers on 

760
00:45:28,300 --> 00:45:32,500
his lips, replaced, his hand in 
his breast pocket and burst out 

761
00:45:32,500 --> 00:45:34,500
laughing. 
As we turned down the street. 

762
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:40,400
Excellent said, he come friend 
Watson, the curtain rings up for

763
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,300
the last act. 
You'll be relieved to hear that 

764
00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:46,000
there will be no war. 
That the right honourable 

765
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,200
trelawney hope will suffer. 
No setback. 

766
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,700
In His Brilliant, career that 
the Indiscreet Sovereign will 

767
00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:54,200
receive no Punishment for his 
indiscretion. 

768
00:45:54,900 --> 00:45:58,200
That the Prime Minister will 
have no European complication to

769
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,900
deal with and that with a little
tact and management upon our 

770
00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:04,600
part. 
Nobody will be a penny the worse

771
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,100
for what might have been a very 
ugly incident. 

772
00:46:08,300 --> 00:46:11,700
My mind filled with admiration, 
for this extraordinary man, 

773
00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:16,700
you've solved it, I cried hardly
that Watson. 

774
00:46:17,100 --> 00:46:21,000
There are some points which are 
as dark as ever, but we have so 

775
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,000
much that it will be our own own
fault. 

776
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,100
If we cannot get the rest, we 
will go straight to Whitehall 

777
00:46:26,100 --> 00:46:28,600
Terrace and bring the matter to 
a head. 

778
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,200
When we arrived at the residence
of the European secretary, it 

779
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,200
was for lady Hilda trelawney. 
Hope that Sherlock Holmes. 

780
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,100
Inquired we were shown into the 
morning-room. 

781
00:46:40,100 --> 00:46:43,700
Mr. Holmes said the lady and her
face was pink with her 

782
00:46:43,700 --> 00:46:47,200
indignation. 
This is surely most unfair and 

783
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,400
ungenerous upon your part. 
I desired as I have explained to

784
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,800
keep my visit to you a secret. 
Lest my husband should think 

785
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,600
that I was intruding into his 
Affairs and yet you compromised 

786
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,500
me by coming here, Here. 
And so showing that there are 

787
00:47:01,500 --> 00:47:06,800
business relations between us 
Unfortunately, Madam I had no 

788
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,800
possible alternative. 
I have been commissioned to 

789
00:47:09,808 --> 00:47:12,100
recover this. 
Immensely important paper. 

790
00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:16,300
I must therefore ask you madam 
to be kind enough to place it in

791
00:47:16,308 --> 00:47:19,900
my hands. 
The lady sprang to her feet with

792
00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:22,900
the color, all dashed in an 
instant from her beautiful face,

793
00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:25,700
her eyes glazed. 
She tottered. 

794
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,700
I thought that she would faint 
then, with a grand effort, she 

795
00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:32,900
rallied from the shock and a 
supreme astonishment and 

796
00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:36,500
indignation Aced every other 
expression from her features 

797
00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:41,800
Hugh you insult me mr. 
Holmes come come Madam. 

798
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:46,000
It is a useless. 
Give up the letter, she darted 

799
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,900
to The Bell, the butler shall 
show you out, do not ring lady 

800
00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:53,500
Hilda. 
If you do then, all my Earnest 

801
00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:56,200
efforts to avoid a scandal will 
be frustrated. 

802
00:47:56,700 --> 00:47:59,600
Give up the letter and all be 
set, right? 

803
00:48:00,100 --> 00:48:02,400
If you will work with me, I can 
arrange everything. 

804
00:48:02,700 --> 00:48:05,300
If you work against me, I'm I 
must expose you. 

805
00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:09,100
She stood grandly defiant a 
queenly. 

806
00:48:09,100 --> 00:48:12,800
Figure her eyes fixed upon his 
as if she would read his very 

807
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:16,300
Soul. 
Her hand was on the Bell but she

808
00:48:16,300 --> 00:48:20,000
had for born to ring it. 
You are trying to frighten me. 

809
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:24,000
It is not a very manly things to
homes to come here. 

810
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:28,000
And browbeat a woman you say 
that, you know something, what 

811
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,300
is it that, you know, Pray, sit 
down Madam, you will hurt 

812
00:48:32,300 --> 00:48:35,200
yourself there. 
If you fall, I will not speak 

813
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:39,200
until you sit down. 
Thank you, I give you five 

814
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,400
minutes, mr. 
Holmes, one is enough lady 

815
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,400
Hilda, I know of your visit to 
Eduardo. 

816
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,300
Lucas of you're giving him this 
document of your ingenious 

817
00:48:49,300 --> 00:48:52,500
returned to the room last night 
and of the manner in which you 

818
00:48:52,500 --> 00:48:55,800
took the letter from the hiding 
place under the carpet. 

819
00:48:56,700 --> 00:49:00,600
She stared at him with an ashen 
face and gulped twice before she

820
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,600
could speak. 
You are mad mr. 

821
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:08,000
Holmes, you are mad. 
She cried at last, he drew a 

822
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,200
small piece of cardboard from 
his pocket. 

823
00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:13,500
It was a face of a woman could 
out of a portrait. 

824
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,900
I have carried this because I 
thought it might be useful, said

825
00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:23,600
he, the policeman has recognized
it, she gave a gasp and her head

826
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:28,600
dropped back in the chair. 
Come lady, Hilda, you have the 

827
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,600
letter, the matter may still be 
adjusted. 

828
00:49:32,300 --> 00:49:34,400
I have no desire to bring 
trouble to you. 

829
00:49:34,700 --> 00:49:37,700
My duty ends when I have 
returned a lost letter to your 

830
00:49:37,700 --> 00:49:41,200
husband, take my advice and be 
frank with me. 

831
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:47,600
It is your only chance, Her 
courage was admirable, even now,

832
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,200
she would not own defeat. 
I tell you again, mr. 

833
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:56,100
Holmes, that you are under some 
absurd illusion Holmes, Rose 

834
00:49:56,100 --> 00:49:59,900
from his chair. 
I am sorry for you lady Hilda. 

835
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,800
I have done my best for you. 
I can see that it is all in 

836
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,100
vain. 
He rang the bell. 

837
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,400
The butler entered is mr. 
Trelawney hope at home. 

838
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:16,200
He will be home sir 12:45 Holmes
glanced at his watch. 

839
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,500
Still a quarter of an hour said 
he very good. 

840
00:50:20,700 --> 00:50:24,400
I shall wait the Butler. 
Had hardly closed the door 

841
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,300
behind him when lady Hilda was 
down on her. 

842
00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:31,300
Knees at Holmes's feet, her 
hands outstretched her beautiful

843
00:50:31,300 --> 00:50:34,000
face upturned and wet with her 
tears. 

844
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,800
Oh, spare me mr. 
Holmes, spare me, she pleaded in

845
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,900
a frenzy of Supplication for And
sake. 

846
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,300
Don't tell him. 
I love him. 

847
00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:48,700
So I would not bring one Shadow 
on his life and this I know 

848
00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:50,500
would break his Noble. 
Heart. 

849
00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:55,100
Holmes, raised the lady. 
I am thankful Madam that you've 

850
00:50:55,100 --> 00:50:58,400
come to your senses. 
Even at this last moment there 

851
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,800
is not an instant to lose. 
Where is the letter? 

852
00:51:03,100 --> 00:51:06,600
She darted across to a writing 
desk, unlocked it and Drew out a

853
00:51:06,607 --> 00:51:09,800
long blue envelope. 
Here it is, mr. 

854
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,000
Holmes, would Heaven, I had 
never seen it. 

855
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:18,300
How can we return it Holmes, 
muttered quick, quick, we must 

856
00:51:18,300 --> 00:51:22,200
think of some way. 
Where is the despatch-box still 

857
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,600
in his bedroom? 
What A Stroke of Luck quick 

858
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:26,600
Madam? 
Bring it here. 

859
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,000
A moment later. 
She had appeared with a red flat

860
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:34,100
box in her hand. 
How did you open it before you 

861
00:51:34,100 --> 00:51:37,700
have a duplicate key? 
Yes, of course, you have open it

862
00:51:38,500 --> 00:51:42,000
from out of her, bosom lady 
Hilda had drawn, a small key, 

863
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:47,000
the Box flew open, it was 
stuffed with papers Holmes 

864
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,900
thrust, the blue envelope deep 
down to the heart of them 

865
00:51:50,100 --> 00:51:52,300
between the leaves of some other
document. 

866
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,800
The box was shut, locked and 
returned to the bedroom. 

867
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:01,200
Now we are ready for him, said 
Holmes we have still 10 minutes,

868
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,300
Ian going far to screen you 
lady, Hilda in return, you will 

869
00:52:05,300 --> 00:52:08,300
spend the time in telling me 
frankly the real meaning of this

870
00:52:08,300 --> 00:52:12,800
extraordinary Affair, mr. 
Holmes, I will tell you 

871
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,800
everything cried the lady. 
Oh mr. 

872
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,600
Holmes, I would cut off my right
hand before I gave him a moment 

873
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:23,300
of Sorrow, there is no woman in 
all London, who loves her 

874
00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:28,000
husband, as I do, and yet, if he
knew how I have To how I have 

875
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:32,500
been compelled to act, he would 
never forgive me for his own 

876
00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:35,400
honor stands. 
So high that he could not forget

877
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,500
or pardon a lapse in another 
help me mr. 

878
00:52:38,500 --> 00:52:43,100
Holmes, my happiness, his 
happiness, our very lives are at

879
00:52:43,100 --> 00:52:46,900
stake quick. 
Madam, the time grows short. 

880
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:52,000
It was a letter of mine. 
Mr. Holmes and Indiscreet letter

881
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:56,100
written before my marriage, a 
foolish letter, a letter of an 

882
00:52:56,100 --> 00:53:00,500
impulsive loving girl. 
I meant no harm and yet he would

883
00:53:00,500 --> 00:53:03,600
have thought it criminal had. 
He read that letter. 

884
00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:06,200
His confidence would have been 
forever destroyed. 

885
00:53:06,900 --> 00:53:10,300
It is years since I wrote it I 
had thought that the whole 

886
00:53:10,300 --> 00:53:15,100
matter was forgotten then at 
last I heard from this man Lucas

887
00:53:15,500 --> 00:53:17,400
that it had passed into his 
hands. 

888
00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:21,500
And that he would lay it before.
My husband, I implored his 

889
00:53:21,500 --> 00:53:24,400
Mercy, he said that he would 
return my letter. 

890
00:53:24,700 --> 00:53:28,900
If I would bring him a certain 
document, which he described in 

891
00:53:28,900 --> 00:53:33,100
my husband's despatch-box, he 
had some spy in the office who 

892
00:53:33,100 --> 00:53:36,200
had told him of his existence he
assured me. 

893
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,300
That no harm would come to my 
husband, put yourself in my 

894
00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:43,100
position. 
Mr. Holmes, what was I to do? 

895
00:53:44,100 --> 00:53:46,600
Take your husband into your 
confidence. 

896
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,600
I could not mr. 
Holmes, I could not on the one 

897
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:56,000
side, seems certain ruin on the 
other terrible as it seemed to 

898
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,300
take my husband's paper. 
Still in a matter of politics, I

899
00:53:59,300 --> 00:54:02,700
could not understand the 
consequences while in a matter 

900
00:54:02,700 --> 00:54:05,600
of love and Trust, they were 
only too clear to me. 

901
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:07,800
I did it. 
Mr. Holmes. 

902
00:54:08,300 --> 00:54:11,200
I took an impression of his key.
This man. 

903
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:15,900
Lucas furnished, a duplicate. 
I opened his despatch-box took 

904
00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:19,200
the paper and conveyed it to 
Good Ol fin Street. 

905
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:24,200
What happened there? 
Madam, I tapped at the door as 

906
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,300
agreed. 
Lucas opened it. 

907
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,500
I followed him into his room 
leaving the hall door. 

908
00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:32,900
Ajar behind me for, I fear to be
alone with a man. 

909
00:54:33,700 --> 00:54:37,500
I remember that there was a 
woman outside as I entered our 

910
00:54:37,500 --> 00:54:41,200
business was soon done. 
He had my letter on his desk, I 

911
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:46,600
handed him the document, he gave
me the Letter at this instant it

912
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,000
was a sound at the door. 
There was steps in the passage 

913
00:54:50,700 --> 00:54:53,700
Lucas quickly turned back, the 
drugget thrust, the document 

914
00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:56,200
into some hiding place there and
covered it over. 

915
00:54:57,500 --> 00:55:00,300
What happened after that is like
some fearful dream. 

916
00:55:00,900 --> 00:55:05,000
I have a vision of a dark 
frantic face of a woman's voice,

917
00:55:05,100 --> 00:55:09,600
which screened in French. 
My waiting is not in vain At 

918
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,000
Last At Last. 
I have found you with her. 

919
00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:16,600
There was a Savage struggle, I 
saw him with a chair in his hand

920
00:55:16,700 --> 00:55:19,800
and knife gleamed. 
In hers, I rushed from the 

921
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,800
horrible scene ran from the 
house and only next morning in 

922
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,000
the paper. 
Did I learn that Dreadful 

923
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:30,000
result? 
That night I was happy for. 

924
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,400
I had my letter and I had not 
seen yet what the future would 

925
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,400
bring. 
It was the next morning that I 

926
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,100
realized that I had only 
exchanged one trouble for 

927
00:55:39,100 --> 00:55:43,700
another my husband's anguish at 
the loss of his paper, went to 

928
00:55:43,700 --> 00:55:46,700
my heart. 
I could hardly prevent myself 

929
00:55:46,700 --> 00:55:49,700
from there and they're kneeling 
down at his feet and telling him

930
00:55:49,700 --> 00:55:52,400
what I had done. 
But that again, would mean a 

931
00:55:52,408 --> 00:55:55,900
confession of the past. 
I came to you that morning in 

932
00:55:55,900 --> 00:55:59,900
order to understand the full All
enormity of my offense from the 

933
00:55:59,900 --> 00:56:03,600
instant that I grasped it. 
My whole mind was turned to the 

934
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,300
one. 
The thought of getting back my 

935
00:56:05,300 --> 00:56:09,500
husband's paper, it must still 
be where Lucas had placed it 

936
00:56:09,900 --> 00:56:11,600
for. 
It was concealed before this 

937
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,200
dreadful woman entered the room.
If it had not been for her 

938
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:19,600
coming, I should not have known 
where his hiding place was how 

939
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:23,600
was I to get into the room? 
For two days, I watched the 

940
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:26,200
place. 
But the door was never left 

941
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,700
open. 
Last night, I made a last 

942
00:56:28,700 --> 00:56:33,400
attempt, what I did, and how I 
succeeded you have already 

943
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,900
learned. 
I brought the paper back with me

944
00:56:35,900 --> 00:56:39,600
and sort of destroying it since 
I could see, no way of returning

945
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:43,900
it without confessing my guilt 
to, my husband Heavens, I hear 

946
00:56:43,900 --> 00:56:47,900
his step upon the stair. 
The European secretary burst 

947
00:56:47,900 --> 00:56:51,100
excitedly into the room. 
Any news mr. 

948
00:56:51,100 --> 00:56:55,700
Holmes any news he cried I have 
some hopes. 

949
00:56:56,300 --> 00:56:59,900
Oh thank heaven. 
His face became radiant. 

950
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,100
The prime minister is lunching 
with me. 

951
00:57:02,500 --> 00:57:06,200
May he share your hopes? 
He has nerves of Steel and yet I

952
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:10,500
know that he is hardly slept. 
Since this terrible event Jacobs

953
00:57:10,500 --> 00:57:14,500
will you ask the prime minister 
to come up as to you dear, I 

954
00:57:14,500 --> 00:57:17,600
fear that this is a matter of 
politics. 6, we will join you in

955
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,200
a few minutes in the dining 
room. 

956
00:57:20,500 --> 00:57:23,800
The prime minister's manner was 
subdued but I could see by The 

957
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,800
Gleam of his eyes and the 
twitchings of his bony hands 

958
00:57:27,100 --> 00:57:29,700
that he shared the excitement of
his young colleague. 

959
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:32,600
I understand that you have 
something to report. 

960
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:38,500
Mr. Holmes purely, - as yet, my 
friend answered, I have inquired

961
00:57:38,500 --> 00:57:42,100
at every point where it might be
and I am sure that there is no 

962
00:57:42,100 --> 00:57:45,600
danger to be apprehended. 
But that is not enough. 

963
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,100
Mr. Holmes, we cannot live 
forever on such a volcano. 

964
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:53,800
He must have something definite.
I am in hopes of getting it. 

965
00:57:54,300 --> 00:57:58,100
That is why I am here. 
The more I think of the matter. 

966
00:57:58,100 --> 00:58:01,100
The more convinced I am that the
letter has never left this 

967
00:58:01,100 --> 00:58:05,500
house, mr. 
Holmes, if it had it would have 

968
00:58:05,500 --> 00:58:09,400
certainly been public by now. 
But why should anyone take it in

969
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:13,800
order to keep it in this house? 
I am not convinced that anyone 

970
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,700
did take it. 
Then how could it leave? 

971
00:58:16,700 --> 00:58:20,800
The despatch-box. 
I am not convinced that it ever 

972
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,100
did. 
Leave the despatch-box, mr. 

973
00:58:24,100 --> 00:58:26,900
Holmes, this joking is very ill.
Timed. 

974
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,400
You have my Assurance that it 
left the Box. 

975
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:33,100
Have you examined the box since 
Tuesday morning? 

976
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,800
No, it was not necessary. 
You may conceivably have 

977
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,800
overlooked it impossible. 
I say. 

978
00:58:41,700 --> 00:58:45,200
But I am not convinced of it. 
I have known such things to 

979
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:48,100
happen. 
I presume there are other papers

980
00:58:48,100 --> 00:58:50,300
there. 
Well, it may have got mixed up 

981
00:58:50,300 --> 00:58:54,300
with them. 
It was on the top, someone may 

982
00:58:54,300 --> 00:58:56,400
have shaken the box and 
displaced it. 

983
00:58:57,300 --> 00:59:02,000
No, no, I had everything out. 
Surely it is easily decided 

984
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,300
hope. 
So, the premier let us have the 

985
00:59:04,300 --> 00:59:07,500
despatch-box. 
Brought in the secretary, rang 

986
00:59:07,500 --> 00:59:10,900
the bell Jacob's. 
Bring down my despatch box. 

987
00:59:11,500 --> 00:59:14,500
This is a farcical waste of 
time, but still if nothing else 

988
00:59:14,500 --> 00:59:16,100
will satisfy you it should be 
done. 

989
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,500
Thank you Jacobs, put it here. 
I've always had the key on my 

990
00:59:20,500 --> 00:59:23,100
Watch chain. 
Here are the papers you see 

991
00:59:23,500 --> 00:59:26,400
letter from Lord marrow report? 
From Sir, Charles Hardy 

992
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,900
memorandum from Belgrade note on
the Russo. 

993
00:59:29,900 --> 00:59:32,600
German grain taxes letter from 
Madrid. 

994
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,700
Note from Lord flowers, good 
Heavens. 

995
00:59:36,100 --> 00:59:40,300
What is this? 
Lord Bellinger Lord Bellinger 

996
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:43,800
The premier snatched the blue 
envelope from his hand. 

997
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,900
Yes it is. 
It and the letter is intact. 

998
00:59:46,900 --> 00:59:50,200
Hope I congratulate you thank 
you. 

999
00:59:50,300 --> 00:59:51,300
Thank you. 
What? 

1000
00:59:51,300 --> 00:59:55,900
A weight of my heart, but this 
is inconceivable impossible, mr.

1001
00:59:55,900 --> 00:59:58,200
Holmes, you're a wizard. 
A sorcerer. 

1002
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:02,300
How'd, you know, it was there 
because I knew it was nowhere 

1003
01:00:02,300 --> 01:00:05,000
else. 
I cannot believe my eyes. 

1004
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:08,200
You ran wildly to the door. 
Where is my wife? 

1005
01:00:08,500 --> 01:00:10,800
I must tell her all is well, 
Hill. 

1006
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:14,400
De Hilda, we heard his voice on 
the stairs. 

1007
01:00:15,300 --> 01:00:17,800
The premier looked at homes with
twinkling eyes. 

1008
01:00:18,700 --> 01:00:23,000
Come sir said he, there is more 
than this than meets the eye. 

1009
01:00:23,500 --> 01:00:27,000
How came the letter back in the 
Box Holmes. 

1010
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,700
Turned away smiling from the 
Keen scrutiny of those wonderful

1011
01:00:30,700 --> 01:00:34,500
eyes. 
We also have our diplomatic 

1012
01:00:34,500 --> 01:00:37,900
Secrets. 
Said, he and picking up his hat.

1013
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:42,700
He turned to the door. 
End of the adventure of the 

1014
01:00:42,700 --> 01:00:42,700
second stain. 
End of the adventure of the 

1015
01:00:42,700 --> 01:00:43,800
second stain.