1 00:00:01,300 --> 00:00:04,200 Adventure 10 of the return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,200 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,900 the public domain. Adventure 10, the adventure of 4 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:16,700 the golden, pince-nez When I look at the three, massive 5 00:00:16,700 --> 00:00:19,800 manuscript volumes, which contain our work for the year 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:24,700 1894, I confess that it is very difficult for me out of such a 7 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:28,400 wealth of material to select the cases which are most interesting 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,200 in themselves. And at the same time, most 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,800 conducive to a display of those peculiar powers for which my 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,300 friend was famous. As I turn over the pages. 11 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:41,600 I see my notes upon the repulsive, story of the red 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,600 leech and the terrible death of Crosby, the banker. 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,300 Here. Also, I find an account of the 14 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:50,700 adult in tragedy and the singular contents of the ancient 15 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:55,100 British Barrow, the famous Smith Mortimer, succession case comes 16 00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:58,500 also within this period. And so does the tracking and 17 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:02,900 arrest of who wrecked the boulevard assassin and exploit, 18 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:04,700 which one for homes and autograph. 19 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:07,900 Letter of thanks from the French President and the Order of the 20 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:11,700 Legion of Honor, each of these would furnish a narrative. 21 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,400 But on the whole I am of opinion, that none of them 22 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,400 Unites States. How many singular points of 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,900 interest as the episode of yoxley old place which includes 24 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:24,900 not only the lamentable death of young Willoughby Smith, but also 25 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:28,500 those subsequent developments which through so curious alight 26 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:33,900 upon the causes of the crime. It was a wild tempestuous night 27 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,500 towards the close of November homes, and I sat together in 28 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:39,000 silence. All the evening. 29 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,100 He engaged with a powerful lens deciphering, the remains of the 30 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:45,600 original inscription Upon A palimpsest. 31 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,400 I deep, in a recent Treatise upon surgery outside the wind 32 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,900 howled down, Baker Street, while the rain beat fiercely against 33 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:58,000 the windows. It was strange there in the very 34 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,900 depths of the town with ten miles of man's handiwork. 35 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:05,200 On every side of us to feel the iron grip of Nature and to be 36 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,900 conscious that to the huge Elemental forces. 37 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:12,300 All London was no more than the mole Hills that dot the fields. 38 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:16,000 I walked to the window and looked out on the deserted 39 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Street, the occasional lamps gleaned on the expanse of Muddy 40 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,500 Road and Shining pavement. A single cab was splashing its 41 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:29,300 way from the Oxford Street end. Well, Watson, it's as well. 42 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:32,600 We have not to turn out tonight. Said Holmes laying aside his 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,900 lens and rolling up the palimpsest. 44 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:39,600 I've done enough for one sitting it is trying work for the eyes 45 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:44,100 so far as I can make out. It is nothing more exciting than 46 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:47,800 in Abby's account dating from the second half of the 15th 47 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,200 century. Hello. 48 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,500 Hello. Hello. 49 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,800 What's this amid? The droning of the wind they had 50 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,400 come to stamping of a horse's Hooves and the long grind of a 51 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,000 wheel. Is it rasped against the curb? 52 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,200 The cab, which I had seen had pulled up at our door. 53 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,000 What can he want? I ejaculated, as a man stepped 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:17,400 out of it, one point he wants us and we my Paul Watson want 55 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,500 overcoats and cravats and galoshes. 56 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:23,700 And every Aid that man ever invented to fight the weather. 57 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:27,300 Wait a bit though. There's the cab off again. 58 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,900 There's hope yet. He'd have kept it. 59 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:33,800 If he had wanted us to Come run down my dear fellow and opened 60 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,700 the door for all virtuous folk have been long in bed. 61 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,100 When the light of the hall lamp fell Upon Our midnight visitor. 62 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,700 I had no difficulty in recognizing him. 63 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,100 It was young Stanley Hopkins, a promising, detective in whose 64 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:51,900 career homes. Had several times shown, a very 65 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:55,200 practical interest. Is he in? 66 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:58,400 He asked eagerly Come up. My dear sir. 67 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,200 Said, Holmes is voice from above. 68 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:04,800 I hope you have no designs upon such a night as this, the 69 00:04:04,808 --> 00:04:08,200 detective mounted the stairs and our lamp gleamed upon his 70 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,400 shining waterproof. I helped him out of it while 71 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,000 Holmes knocked a blaze out of the logs in the Great. 72 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:20,300 Now my dear Hopkins draw up and warm your toes said he here's a 73 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:24,000 cigar and the doctor has a prescription containing hot 74 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,100 water and a lemon which is good medicine on a night. 75 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:29,600 Like this. It must be something important, 76 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,700 which has brought you out in such a gale. 77 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:34,300 It is indeed. Mr. Holmes. 78 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,800 I've had a bustling afternoon. I promise you. 79 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,600 Did you see anything of the oxy case in the latest additions? 80 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:44,700 I've seen nothing later than the 15th century. 81 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:49,600 Tree today, well is only a paragraph and all wrong at that. 82 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:52,700 So you have not missed anything. I haven't let the grass grow 83 00:04:52,700 --> 00:04:55,900 under my feet. It's down in Kent, seven miles 84 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:58,300 from Chatham and three from the railway line. 85 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:02,800 I was wired for 315 reached. Yoxley old place at five 86 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,400 conducted. My investigation was back at 87 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,000 Charing Cross by the last train and straight to you by cab. 88 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:13,500 Which means I suppose that you're not quite clear about 89 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:16,700 your case. It means that I can make neither 90 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:20,900 head nor tail of it so far, as I can see, it is just as Tangled a 91 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,500 business as ever. I handled and yet at first, it 92 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:27,200 seems so simple. That one couldn't go wrong. 93 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:29,300 There's no motive. Mr. Holmes. 94 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,400 That's what bothers me. I can't put my hand on a motive. 95 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,300 He is that man. Dead. 96 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,600 There's no denying that there's a far as I can see. 97 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,600 No reason on Earth. Why anyone should wish you Mom? 98 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,500 Holmes with his cigar and leaned back in his chair. 99 00:05:46,500 --> 00:05:50,600 Let us hear about. It said he I've got my fax 100 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,900 pretty clear said Stanley Hopkins. 101 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,400 All I want now is to know what they all mean the story so far 102 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,000 as I can make out is like this some years ago. 103 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,000 This country house. Yoxley old place was taken by an 104 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,100 elderly man, who gave the name of Professor Coram. 105 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:12,200 He was invalid keeping his bed off the time and the other half. 106 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,400 Hobbling around the house with a stick or being pushed about the 107 00:06:15,407 --> 00:06:18,100 grounds by The Gardener in a bath chair. 108 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,000 He was well liked by the few neighbors, who called upon him 109 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:25,200 and he has a reputation down there of being a very learned 110 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,000 man. His household used to consist of 111 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,800 an elderly housekeeper. Mrs. Marker and of a maid Susan 112 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,200 Tarlton, these have both been with him since his arrival and 113 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,400 they seem to be women of excellent character. 114 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:43,500 The professor is writing to learn it book and he found it 115 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,600 necessary about a year ago to engage a secretary. 116 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:50,500 The first two that he tried. We're not successes, but the 117 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:53,800 third mr. Willoughby Smith a very young 118 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,300 man straight from. The University seems to have 119 00:06:56,300 --> 00:07:00,000 been just what is employer wanted his work consisted in 120 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,500 writing all the morning to the professor's dictation. 121 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,900 And he usually spent the evening in hunting up references and 122 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:08,500 passages which bore upon the next day's work. 123 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:11,900 This Willoughby Smith. This has nothing against him 124 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:13,300 either. As a boy at upping. 125 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:15,400 Him more as a young man at Cambridge. 126 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:19,900 I've seen his testimonials and from the first he was a decent 127 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:23,700 quiet hard-working fellow with no weak spot in him at all. 128 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,500 And yet, this is the lad, who's met his death this morning in 129 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:32,000 the professor's study under circumstances, which can point 130 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:36,500 only to murder. The wind howled and screamed at 131 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:40,600 the windows Holmes and I drew closer to the fire while the 132 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,200 young inspector slowly and point-by-point developed his 133 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,600 singular narrative. If you were to search, all 134 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,500 England said he I suppose you could find a household more 135 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:54,300 self-contained or Freer from outside influences. 136 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:58,500 I'll weeks would pass and not one of them go past the garden 137 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:01,100 gate. The professor was buried in his 138 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:03,100 work and existed for nothing else. 139 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,400 Young Smith knew nobody in the neighborhood and the very much 140 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,000 as his employed it. The two women had nothing to 141 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,100 take them from the Aus Mortimer. The Gardener who wields the bass 142 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:19,000 chair is an army, pensioner an old Crimean man of excellent 143 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,600 character. He does not live in the house, 144 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:24,800 but in a three-room cottage at the other end of the garden, 145 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,100 those are the only people that you'd find within the grounds of 146 00:08:29,100 --> 00:08:32,200 yoxley old place. At the same time. 147 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,200 The Gate of the garden is 100 yards from the main London to 148 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,400 Chatham Road. It opens with a latch and is 149 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,400 nothing to prevent anyone from walking in. 150 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,300 Now I'll give you the evidence of Susan tongue. 151 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,700 Who's the only person who can say anything positive about the 152 00:08:47,700 --> 00:08:50,800 matter. It was in the forenoon between 153 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,800 11 and 12. She was engaged at the moment in 154 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,900 hanging some curtains in the upstairs, front bedroom. 155 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,900 Professor Coram was still in bed for when the weather's bad. 156 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:02,900 He seldom Rises before. Midday. 157 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,100 The housekeeper was busy. With some work, in the back of 158 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:10,100 the house, Willoughby Smith have been his bedroom, which he uses 159 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:11,300 as a sit-in. Vroom. 160 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,900 But the made heard him at that moment, pass along the passage 161 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,500 and descend to the study immediately below her. 162 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,200 She did not see him but she says that she could not be mistaken 163 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:23,900 in his quick. Firm tread. 164 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:28,300 She did not hear the study door closed, but I'm in here so late. 165 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:30,900 Oh, there was a dreadful cry in the room below. 166 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:36,200 He was a wild horse scream. So strange and unnatural that. 167 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,500 It might have come from either from a man or a woman. 168 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,900 At the same. Instant, there was a heavy thud, 169 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:45,600 which shook the old house and then all was silence. 170 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:49,800 The made stood petrified for a moment and then recovering her 171 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,100 courage. She ran downstairs. 172 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,900 The study door was shut and she opened it inside young. 173 00:09:56,900 --> 00:10:00,600 Mr. Willoughby Smith was stretched upon the floor At 174 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,600 first. She couldn't see no injury, but 175 00:10:02,900 --> 00:10:05,900 she tried to raise him. She saw that blood was pouring 176 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:10,200 from the underside of his neck. It was pierced by a very small 177 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,800 but very deep wound, which are divided, the Carotid artery, the 178 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,200 instrument with which the injury been inflicted lay upon the 179 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,300 carpet beside him. He was one of those small 180 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:24,900 sealing-wax knives to be found on all fashion writing tables, 181 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:29,300 with an ivory handle and a stiff blade as part of the fittings of 182 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:33,900 the professor's own desk. At first the Mets thought that 183 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:37,400 young Smith was already dead, but on pouring, some water from 184 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,000 the Quran. Over his forehead. 185 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,900 He only has eyes for an instant. The professor, he murmured. 186 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:48,400 It was she made is prepared to swear that those were the exact 187 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,200 words. He tried desperately to say 188 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:55,100 something else and he held his right hand up in the air and he 189 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:59,400 fell back dead. In the meantime, the housekeeper 190 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:03,100 had also arrived upon the scene, but she was just too late to 191 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:06,900 catch the young man's dying words, leaving Susan with the 192 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:09,000 body. She hurried to the professor's 193 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,300 room. He was sitting up in bed or 194 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:13,600 ably. Need for, he heard enough to 195 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,500 convince him. That something terrible had 196 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:19,700 occurred, mrs. Marker is prepared to swear that 197 00:11:19,700 --> 00:11:23,700 the professor was still in his nightclothes and indeed it was 198 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:26,500 impossible for him to dress without the help of Mortimer 199 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:31,100 whose orders were to come at 12 o'clock and Professor declares 200 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,200 that he heard the distant cry, but he knows nothing more. 201 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,100 He can give no explanation of the young man's Last Words. 202 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,000 The professor it was she But imagines that they were the 203 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,200 outcome of delirium. He believes that Willoughby 204 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,800 Smith has not an enemy in the world and could give no reason 205 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,800 for the crime. His first action was to send 206 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,700 Mortimer The Gardener for the local police, a little later. 207 00:11:58,100 --> 00:12:02,300 The chief Constable sent for me. Nothing was moved before I got 208 00:12:02,300 --> 00:12:05,100 there and strict orders were given that no one would should 209 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:07,200 walk upon the path. Leading to the house. 210 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:10,300 It was a splendid chance of putting your theories into 211 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:11,800 practice. Mr. Sherlock Holmes. 212 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,400 It was really nothing wanting. Except mr. 213 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,700 Sherlock Holmes said, my companion with a somewhat bitter 214 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:22,800 smile. Well, let us hear about it. 215 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,900 What sort of a job did you make of it? 216 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,800 I must ask you first. Mr. Adams to glance at this 217 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,800 rough plan, which will give you a general idea of the position 218 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,300 of the professor's study and the various points of the case. 219 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,800 It'll help you in. Following my investigation. 220 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,900 He unfolded the rough chart, which I hear reproduce. 221 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,200 And he laid it across homes is knee. 222 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:50,200 I Rose and standing behind homes studied it over his shoulder is 223 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,000 very rough, of course, and it only deals with the points, 224 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,900 which seemed to me to be essential all the rest. 225 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:59,800 You'll see later for yourself. Now, first of all, presuming 226 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,500 that the Assassin entered the house. 227 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,300 How did he or she come in and out early by The Garden Path? 228 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,400 And the back door from which there's direct access to the 229 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,200 study. Any other way would have been 230 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,800 exceedingly complicated. He escaped must have also been 231 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,700 made along that line for the two other exits. 232 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:22,900 From the room one was blocked by Susan as she ran downstairs and 233 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:25,100 the other leads straight to the professor's. 234 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:28,800 Bedroom are therefore directed my attention at once, to the 235 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,900 Garden Path, which was saturated with recent rain and would 236 00:13:32,900 --> 00:13:36,600 certainly show any footmarks. My examination. 237 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,200 Showed me that. I was dealing with a cautious 238 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,800 and expert criminal. No footmarks were to be found on 239 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,300 the path. There could be no question. 240 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:48,700 However that someone had passed along the grass border, which 241 00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:52,000 lines the path and they done. So, in order to avoid leaving a 242 00:13:52,008 --> 00:13:55,400 track, I couldn't find anything in the nature of a distinct 243 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,500 impression. The grass was trodden down and 244 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:02,000 someone had undoubtedly past. It could only have been the 245 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,600 murderer since neither, The Gardener nor anyone else had 246 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,700 been there that morning, and the rain had only begun during the 247 00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:12,200 night. One moment said Holmes. 248 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,500 Where does this path lead to to the road? 249 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:20,600 How long is it a hundred yards or so? 250 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:24,500 At the point where the path passes through the gate? 251 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:26,600 You could surely pick up the tracks. 252 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:30,700 Unfortunately, the path was tiled at that point. 253 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:35,500 Well on the road itself now it was all trodden in Amaya. 254 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,400 Well, then these tracks upon the grass, where they coming or 255 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,800 going. It was impossible to say, it was 256 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,700 never any outline, a large foot or a small, you could not 257 00:14:48,700 --> 00:14:52,000 distinguish. Holmes gave an ejaculation of 258 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,300 impatience. It has been pouring rain and 259 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:59,000 blowing a hurricane ever. Since said, he it will be harder 260 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,100 to read now than the palimpsest. Well, well, it can't be helped. 261 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,600 What did you do Hopkins after you'd made certain that you had 262 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,500 Certain of nothing. I think I made certain of a good 263 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:11,500 deal. Mr. Holmes. 264 00:15:12,100 --> 00:15:14,700 I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from 265 00:15:14,700 --> 00:15:17,300 without our next examine the corridor. 266 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,100 It is lined with Cocoanut, matting and take no impression 267 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:23,700 of any kind. This brought me into the study 268 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:26,600 itself. It is a scantily furnished room. 269 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:30,100 The main article is a large writing table with a fixed 270 00:15:30,100 --> 00:15:32,800 Bureau. This Bureau consists of a double 271 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,500 column of drawers with a central small cupboard between them. 272 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:40,200 The drawers were open. The cupboard locked the drawers. 273 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,700 It seems were always open and nothing of value is kept in. 274 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:46,900 And there were some papers of importance in the cupboard. 275 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,700 But there were no signs that this have been tampered with, 276 00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:52,400 and Professor assures, me, that nothing was missing. 277 00:15:53,100 --> 00:15:55,400 It is certain that no robbery has been committed. 278 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,200 I come now to the body of the young man was found near the 279 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,000 bureau and just to the left of it as Mark, grip on that chart. 280 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:08,000 The stabbed was on the right side of the neck and from behind 281 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,600 forward so that it's almost impossible that it could have 282 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:16,000 been self-inflicted unless he fell upon the knife said Holmes. 283 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,600 Exactly, the idea crossed my mind, but we found the knife 284 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,000 some feet away from the body. So that seems impossible. 285 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:28,400 Then of course there. The man's own dying words, and 286 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,300 finally, there was this very important piece of evidence, 287 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:35,400 which was found clasped in the Dead Man's right hand from his 288 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,100 pocket Stanley, Hopkins, drew a small paper packet. 289 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:44,300 He unfolded it and disclosed a golden pince-nez a, with two 290 00:16:44,300 --> 00:16:48,000 broken ends of black silk cord dangling, from the end of it, 291 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Willoughby Smith had excellent site. 292 00:16:51,100 --> 00:16:54,500 He added it can be no question that this was snatched from the 293 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:56,500 face of the person of the Assassin. 294 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,400 Sherlock Holmes took the glasses into his hand and examine them 295 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,700 with the utmost attention and interest. 296 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:07,500 He held him on his nose endeavoured to read through them 297 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,500 went to the window and stared up the street with them looked at 298 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:14,400 the most minutely in the full light of the lamp. 299 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,700 And finally, with a chuckle seated himself at the table, and 300 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:22,200 wrote a few lines, upon a sheet of paper, which he tossed across 301 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:26,900 to Stanley Hopkins. That's the best I can do for you 302 00:17:27,099 --> 00:17:30,200 said, he it may prove to be of some use. 303 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,800 Astonish detective, read the note aloud. 304 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:39,300 It ran as follows wanted a woman of good address, a tired, like a 305 00:17:39,308 --> 00:17:42,200 lady. She has a remarkably thick nose 306 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,900 with eyes, which are set close upon either side of it. 307 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,900 She has a pocket, forehead appearing expression, and 308 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:52,300 probably rounded shoulders. There are indications that she 309 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:56,200 has had recourse to an optician at least twice during the last 310 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:00,500 few months, as her glasses are of remarkable strength and as 311 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:04,400 optician, Are not very numerous. There should be no difficulty in 312 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,400 tracing her. Holmes smiled at the 313 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,200 astonishment of Hopkins, which must have been reflected upon my 314 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,500 features. Surely, my deductions are 315 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:18,200 Simplicity itself. Said he it would be difficult to 316 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,200 name any articles, which afforded a finer field for 317 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,900 inference than a pair of glasses, especially so 318 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:28,700 remarkable a pair as these that they belong to a woman. 319 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,800 I infer from their delicacy. And also, of course, from the 320 00:18:32,808 --> 00:18:36,900 last words of the dying man, as to her being a person of 321 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:40,900 refinement and well-dressed. They are, as you perceive 322 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:42,500 handsomely mounted in solid gold. 323 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,600 Old. And it is inconceivable that 324 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,100 anyone who wore such glasses could be slatternly. 325 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:52,800 In other respects. You will find that the clips are 326 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,100 too wide for your nose. Showing that the lady's nose was 327 00:18:56,100 --> 00:19:00,400 very broad at the base. This sort of knows is usually a 328 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,600 short and course, one, but there is a sufficient number of 329 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,500 exceptions to prevent me from being dogmatic or from insisting 330 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:09,400 upon this point in my description. 331 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:14,500 My own face is a narrow one and yet I find that I cannot get my 332 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:18,000 eyes into the center nor near the center of these glasses. 333 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,500 Therefore, the lady's eyes are set very near to the sides of 334 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:25,400 the nose. You will perceive Watson that 335 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,400 the glasses are concave and unusual strength. 336 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,300 A lady whose Vision has been. So, extremely contracted all her 337 00:19:32,300 --> 00:19:35,900 life is sure to have the physical characteristics of such 338 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:39,600 Vision, which are seen in the forehead, the eyelids and the 339 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,900 shoulders. Yes. 340 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:44,500 I said I can follow each of your arguments. 341 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:48,400 I confess, however, that I'm unable to understand how you 342 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,300 arrived at the Double visit to the optician, Holmes, took the 343 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:57,100 glasses in his hand. You will perceive he said the 344 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:01,100 clips are lined with tiny bands of cork to soften the pressure 345 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:04,800 upon the nose. One of these is discolored and 346 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,900 warned to some slight extent but the other is new. 347 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:12,500 Evident Lee one has fallen. And been replaced. 348 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,100 I should judge that the older of them has not been there for more 349 00:20:16,100 --> 00:20:19,200 than a few months. They exactly correspond. 350 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:22,600 So I gather that the lady went back to the same establishment 351 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:27,500 for the second by George. It's marvelous Pride, Hopkins in 352 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:30,700 an ecstasy of admiration to think that I'd all that 353 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:33,100 evidence. In my end and never knew it. 354 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:36,800 I had intended our to go, the round of the London, Opticians. 355 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,000 Of course, you would. Meanwhile have you anything? 356 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:42,900 I'm more to tell us about the case. 357 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:45,900 Nothing. Mr. Adams are think that, you 358 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:49,800 know, as much as I do, now, probably more we have had an 359 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,600 inquiry is made as to any stranger seen on The Country 360 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:57,800 Roads or at the railway station. We have heard of non what beats 361 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,700 me is the other ones of all object in the crime. 362 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:06,900 Not a ghost of a motive. Can anyone suggest There, I am 363 00:21:06,900 --> 00:21:10,700 not in a position to help you but I suppose you want us to 364 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:15,000 come out tomorrow. If it's not asking too much, mr. 365 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,300 Holmes, there's a train from Charing Cross to Chatham at six 366 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:21,800 in the morning and we should be at yoxley old place between 8:00 367 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,800 and 9:00. Then we shall take it. 368 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,200 Your case has certainly some features of great interest and I 369 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,000 shall be delighted to look into it. 370 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,300 Well, it's nearly one and we had best get a few hours sleep. 371 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,300 I daresay you can manage. All right on the sofa in front 372 00:21:38,300 --> 00:21:41,300 of the fire. I like my spirit lamp and give 373 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:45,000 you a cup of coffee. Before we The guy I'll have 374 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 blown itself out next day, but it was a bitter morning. 375 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,600 When we started Upon Our Journey. 376 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:54,400 We saw the cold winter sunrise over the dreary marshes of the 377 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,000 Thames. And the long Sullen reaches of 378 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,500 the river, which I shall ever associate with our pursuit of 379 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:05,100 the Andaman island in the earlier days of our Korea after 380 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:08,700 a long, and weary Journey. We alighted at a small station, 381 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:12,700 some miles from Chatham while a horse, was being put into a trap 382 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:15,700 at the local Inn. We snatched A hurried breakfast. 383 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 And so, we were all ready for the business. 384 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,500 When we at last arrived at yoxley old place a constable met 385 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:27,400 us at the Garden Gate. Well, Wilson, any news, no, sir. 386 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,800 Nothing. No reports of any stranger seen. 387 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:34,300 No, sir down at the station is certainly. 388 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:37,000 No Stranger. Are the came or went yesterday. 389 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Have you made any inquiries made or ins and lodgings? 390 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,800 Yes, sir. There is no one that we cannot 391 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,600 account for. Well, it's only a reasonable 392 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,300 walk to Chatham. Anyone might stay there or take 393 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:53,100 a train without being observed. This is the Garden Path of which 394 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:54,300 I spoke. Mr. Ohms. 395 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:57,700 I'll pledge my word that there was no mark on it yesterday. 396 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:01,400 On which side with a marks on the grass. 397 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,200 This side, sir, this narrow margin of grass between the path 398 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,700 and the flower bed are can't see the traces, now, but they were 399 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:12,200 clear to me then. Yes. 400 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,000 Yes. Someone has passed along said, 401 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,200 Holmes, stooping over the grass border. 402 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,400 Our lady must have picked her steps carefully. 403 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,900 Mushy. Not since on the one side, she 404 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:26,700 would leave a track on the path and on the other an even clearer 405 00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:29,500 one on the soft bed. Yes, sir. 406 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,500 She must have been a cool hand. I saw an intent. 407 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:38,300 Look pass over Holmes's face. You say that she must have come 408 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:40,700 back this way. Yes, sir. 409 00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:44,700 There is no other on this strip of grass. 410 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,700 Certainly. Mr. Holmes. 411 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,200 Hmm. It was a very remarkable 412 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,400 performance. Very remarkable. 413 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:55,200 Well, I think we've exhausted the path. 414 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,500 Let us go farther. This Garden door is usually kept 415 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:02,700 open. I suppose then this visitor had 416 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:06,600 nothing to do, but to walk in the idea of murder was Should 417 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,700 have mind. Well, she would have provided 418 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:12,100 herself with some sort of weapon instead of having to pick this 419 00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:13,700 knife off. The writing-table. 420 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,100 She Advanced along this Corridor leaving no traces upon the 421 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:21,700 Cocoanut matting then she found herself in this study. 422 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,800 How long was she there? We have no means of judging not 423 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,100 more than a few minutes. Sir. 424 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,700 I forgot to tell you that mrs. Marker. 425 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:32,800 The housekeeper had been in there. 426 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,300 Tidying. Not very long before about a 427 00:24:35,308 --> 00:24:38,600 quarter of an hour. She She says, well, that gives 428 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,700 us a limit. Our lady enters this room. 429 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,500 And what does she do? She goes over to the 430 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:49,400 writing-table, more for, not for anything, in the drawers. 431 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:52,400 If there'd been anything worth her taking it would surely have 432 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,800 been locked up. No, it was for something in that 433 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,300 wooden Bureau. Hello. 434 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,000 What is that? Scratch upon the face of it. 435 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,900 Just hold a match Watson. Why did you not tell me of this 436 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:08,400 Hopkins? The mark which he was examining 437 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,300 began upon the brass work. On the right hand side of the 438 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:15,600 keyhole and extended for about 4 inches, where it has scratched 439 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,300 varnish from the surface. I noticed it mr. 440 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:22,500 Holmes, but you'll always find scratches around a keyhole. 441 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:28,600 This is recent quite recent, see how the brass shines where it is 442 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,500 cut an Old Scratch will be the same color as a surface. 443 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:37,500 Look at it Through My Lens is the varnish to like Earth on 444 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:40,900 each side of a Furrow is mrs. Marker there. 445 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:44,900 Sad-faced elderly woman came into the room. 446 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,500 Did you dust this Bureau yesterday morning? 447 00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:52,300 Yes, sir. Did you notice this scratch? 448 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:54,400 No, sir. I did not. 449 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,400 I'm sure you didn't for a duster would have swept away. 450 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,300 Those shreds of varnish who has the key of this bureau. 451 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,700 If Professor keeps it on his watch chain. 452 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,300 Is it a simple key now, so, it's a chub key. 453 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,000 Be good, mrs. Marker, you can go now. 454 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:19,900 We are making a little progress. Lady enters the room advances to 455 00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:22,700 the bureau and either opens it or tries to do. 456 00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:27,400 So while she is thus engaged young Willoughby, Smith enters 457 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,500 the room in her hurry to withdraw the key. 458 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,900 She makes this scratch upon the door. 459 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:38,200 He seizes her and she snatching up the nearest object which 460 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,400 happens to be this knife strikes at him in order to make him. 461 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,400 Let go, his hold. The blow is a fatal one, he 462 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,100 falls and she escapes either with or without the object for 463 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:52,100 which she has. Come is Susan the made. 464 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:55,800 Their could anyone have got away through that door after the time 465 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,800 that you heard the cry Susan? Now, sir. 466 00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:02,100 It is impossible. Before I get down, the stair at 467 00:27:02,108 --> 00:27:06,800 have seen anyone in the passage, besides the door never opened or 468 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:11,500 I would have heard it. That settles this exit then no 469 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,500 doubt. The lady went out the way she 470 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,200 came. I understand that this other 471 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,900 passage leads only to the professor's room. 472 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:22,500 There is no exit that way. No sir. 473 00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:26,900 We shall go down it and make the acquaintance of the professor. 474 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:31,000 Hello Hopkins. This is very important. 475 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,100 Very important indeed. The professor's Corridor is also 476 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:39,700 lined with Cocoanut matting. Well, so was that. 477 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:42,900 Don't you see any bearing upon the case? 478 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:47,500 Well, well, I don't insist upon it, no doubt, I'm wrong. 479 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,800 And yet, it seems to me to be suggestive, come with me and 480 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,900 introduced me. We passed down the passage, 481 00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:58,300 which was of the same length as that, which were led to the 482 00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:01,100 Garden. At the end was a short flight of 483 00:28:01,108 --> 00:28:04,800 steps ending in a door. I'll guide knocked, and then I 484 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,700 should as into the professor's bedroom. 485 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,300 It was a very large chamber lined with innumerable volumes, 486 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,600 which had overflowed from the shelves and lay in piles in the 487 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,400 corners or were stacked all round at the base of the cases. 488 00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:22,100 The bed was in the center of the room and in it. 489 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,100 Propped up with pillows, was the owner of the house. 490 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,100 I have seldom seen a more remarkable looking person. 491 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:35,000 It was a gaunt aquiline face, which was turned towards us with 492 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,100 piercing dark eyes, which lurked in Hollows under overhang and 493 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:42,700 tufted brows his hair and beard were white. 494 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,700 Save that the latter was curiously stained with yellow 495 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:49,400 around his mouth, a cigarette glowed amid, the tangle of white 496 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,400 hair and the air of the room was fitted with stale. 497 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,600 Tobacco smoke, as he held out his hand to homes. 498 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,100 I perceived that it was also stained with yellow nicotine. 499 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,300 A smoker. Mr. Holmes said, he speaking in 500 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,400 well-chosen English, with a curious little mincing accent, 501 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,700 pretty, take a cigarette and do sir. 502 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,400 I could recommend them for, I have them especially prepared by 503 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,000 Iron IDs of Alexandria. He sends me a thousand at a 504 00:29:16,008 --> 00:29:18,300 time. And I agreed to say that I have 505 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:23,100 to arrange for a fresh Supply, every Fortnight bad, very bad, 506 00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:26,800 but an old man has few Pleasures tobacco and my work. 507 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,300 That is all that is left to me. Homes are lit, a cigarette and 508 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:34,300 we're shooting little darting glances all over the room. 509 00:29:35,700 --> 00:29:41,000 Tobacco and my work but now only tobacco, the old man exclaimed 510 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:44,000 alas. What a faithful Interruption who 511 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,200 could have foreseen such a terrible catastrophe. 512 00:29:46,700 --> 00:29:50,200 So, estimable the young man, I assure you that after a few 513 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,200 months training, he was an admirable assistant. 514 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,200 What do you think of the matter? Mr. Holmes? 515 00:29:56,300 --> 00:30:00,600 I have not yet made up my mind. I shall indeed be indebted to 516 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,200 you. If you can throw a light where 517 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,400 all is so dark to us to a poor Bookworm and invalid like 518 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,000 myself, such a blow is paralyzing. 519 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,700 I seem to have lost the faculty of thought but you are a man of 520 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,200 action. You are a man of Affairs. 521 00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:18,000 It is part of the everyday, routine of your life. 522 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,800 You can preserve your balance in every emergency. 523 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,700 We are fortunate indeed in having you at our side. 524 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,700 Holmes was pacing up and down one side of the room. 525 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:30,900 Whilst the old Professor was talking. 526 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,100 I observed that he was smoking with extraordinary rapidity. 527 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,100 It was evident that he shared our hosts liking for the fresh 528 00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:42,600 alexandrian, cigarettes. Yes, sir. 529 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,400 It is a crushing. Blow said the old man, that is 530 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,500 my magnum, opus, the pile of papers on the side-table Yonder. 531 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:54,300 It is my analysis of the documents found in the Coptic 532 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:58,100 monasteries of Syria. The Egypt a work which will cut 533 00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:00,400 deep at the very Foundation of revealed. 534 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,900 Religion with my enfeebled health. 535 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:05,600 I do not know whether I shall ever be able to complete it. 536 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,400 Now that my assistant has been taken from me, dear me. 537 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:14,100 Mr. Holmes, why you are In a quicker smoker than I am myself, 538 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:19,100 Holmes, smiled. I am a connoisseur, said he 539 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,000 taking another cigarette from the box, his fourth and lighting 540 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 it from the stub of that, which he had finished. 541 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,400 I will not trouble you with any lengthy. 542 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,200 Cross-examination Professor Coram since I gather that you 543 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,400 were in bed at the time of the crime and could know nothing 544 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,100 about it. I would only ask this. 545 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,100 What do you imagine that this poor fellow meant by his last 546 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:43,400 words? It's the professor. 547 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,500 It was she a professor shook. His head. 548 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,900 Susan is a country. Girl, said he and, you know, the 549 00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:54,000 incredible stupidity of that class. 550 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:56,300 I fancy that the poor fellow murmured. 551 00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:00,000 Some incoherent Delirious words, and that she Twisted them into 552 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,700 this meaningless. Message. 553 00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:06,900 I see you have no explanation yourself of the tragedy. 554 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:11,400 Possibly an accident. Possibly I only breathe it. 555 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,300 Among ourselves as suicide, young men have their hidden 556 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:18,500 troubles, some Affair of the heart perhaps which we have 557 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:20,900 never known. It is a more probable 558 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:27,400 supposition and murder, but the eyeglasses are I'm only a 559 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,400 student, a man of dreams. I cannot explain the Practical 560 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,300 things of life, but still we are aware my friend. 561 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:37,400 That loved gauges may take strength. 562 00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:39,600 Shapes. By all means. 563 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,800 Take another cigarette. It is a pleasure to see anyone 564 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:47,100 appreciate them. So a fan, a glove glasses, who 565 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:50,300 knows what article may be carried as a token or treasured 566 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:52,200 when a man puts an end to his life. 567 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,100 This gentleman speaks of footsteps in the grass, but 568 00:32:56,100 --> 00:33:00,700 after all, it is easy to be mistaken on such a point as to 569 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:03,300 the knife. It might well be thrown far from 570 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:07,400 the unfortunate man as he fell. It is possible that I speak as a 571 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,000 child. But to me, it seems that 572 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,600 Willoughby Smith has met his Fate by his own hand. 573 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,300 Holmes, seemed struck by the theory thus put forward, and he 574 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:21,700 continued to walk up and down for some time lost in thought 575 00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:24,000 and consuming cigarette. After cigarette. 576 00:33:25,100 --> 00:33:29,300 Tell me, Professor Coram. He said at last what, is in that 577 00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:33,700 cupboard in the bureau? Nothing that would help a thief 578 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:37,000 family papers. Let us from my poor wife, 579 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:39,300 diplomas of universities, which have done me. 580 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:42,000 Honor. Here is the key you can look for 581 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,100 yourself. Holmes picked up the key and 582 00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:47,700 looked at it for an instant. Then he handed it back. 583 00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:53,100 No, I hardly think that it would help me said he I should prefer 584 00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:56,000 to go quietly down to your garden and turn the whole 585 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,100 matter. Over in my head. 586 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,100 There is something to be said for the theory of suicide which 587 00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:04,400 you have put forward. We must apologize for having 588 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,200 intruded upon you, Professor Coram. 589 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:11,300 And I promise that we won't disturb you until after lunch at 590 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:13,500 2:00. We will come again and receive. 591 00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:15,699 Report to you, anything, which may have happened in the 592 00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:19,600 interval. Holmes was curious lead astray, 593 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,800 and we walked up and down the Garden Path for some time in 594 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,600 silence. Have your clue. 595 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:29,600 I asked at last. It depends upon those cigarettes 596 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,500 that I smoked said. He it is possible that I'm 597 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:38,199 utterly mistaken. The cigarettes will show me my 598 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:41,699 dear Holmes. I exclaimed how on Earth well, 599 00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:46,300 well, you may see for yourself. If not, there's no harm done. 600 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,199 Of course. We always have the optician clue 601 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:53,800 to fall back upon, but I take a shortcut when I can get it. 602 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:57,300 Ah, here is the good mrs. Marker? 603 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,200 Let us enjoy five minutes of instructive conversation with 604 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,600 her. I may have remarked before that 605 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,200 Holmes had when he liked a peculiarly ingratiating way with 606 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,100 women. And that he very readily 607 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:14,100 established terms of confidence with them in half the time which 608 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:17,600 he had named, he had captured the housekeeper's Goodwill and 609 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,200 was chatting with her as if he had known her for years. 610 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:22,600 Yes, mr. Holmes. 611 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:25,900 It is as you say sir. He does smoke something, 612 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:28,800 terrible, all die, and sometimes all night Sir. 613 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:30,900 I've seen that room of a morning. 614 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:33,500 Well, sir, who'd have thought it was a London Fog. 615 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:35,500 Boy young. Mr. Smith. 616 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:39,200 He was a smoker also, but not as bad as a professor. 617 00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:42,000 He is Health. Well, I don't know that it's 618 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:47,300 better nor worse for the smoking said Holmes, but it kills the 619 00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:50,000 appetite. Well, I don't know about that, 620 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000 sir. I suppose the professor eats 621 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,500 hardly anything. Well, he is variable. 622 00:35:56,900 --> 00:36:00,600 I'll say that for him. I'll wager, he took no breakfast 623 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,800 this morning and won't face his lunch. 624 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,000 After all the cigarettes. I saw him consume. 625 00:36:05,900 --> 00:36:09,700 Well, you're out there sir, as it happens. 48 a remarkable. 626 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:13,000 Big breakfast this morning. I don't know when I've known him 627 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,800 to make a better one and he's ordered a good dish of cutlets 628 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,900 for the lunch. I'm surprised myself for since I 629 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,000 came into that room yesterday and saw Young. 630 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,000 To Smith lying there on the floor. 631 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:27,500 I couldn't bear to look at Food. Well, it takes all sorts to make 632 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:30,900 a world and the professor hasn't let it take his appetite away. 633 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,100 We loitered the morning away in the garden Stanley Hopkins had 634 00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:38,900 gone down to the Village to look into some rumors of a strange 635 00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:42,100 woman, who had been seen by some children on the Chatham Road, 636 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,400 the previous morning. As to my friend, all his usual 637 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,000 energy seemed to have deserted him. 638 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,000 I'd never known him Handler case in such a half-hearted fashion. 639 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,700 Even the news brought back by Hopkins that he had found the 640 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:58,400 children and that they had undoubtedly seen a woman. 641 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,600 Exactly corresponding with Holmes's description and Neither 642 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,600 spectacles or eyeglasses failed to Rouse any sign of keen 643 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,500 interest. He was more attentive, when 644 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:13,600 Susan who waited upon us at lunch volunteer, the information 645 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,400 that she believed. Mr. Smith had been out for a 646 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,000 walk yesterday morning and that he had only returned half an 647 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,800 hour before the tragedy occurred. 648 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,200 I could not myself, see the bearing of this incident, but I 649 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,200 clearly perceived that Holmes was weaving it into the general 650 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,500 scheme, which he had formed in his brain. 651 00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:36,200 Suddenly he sprang from his chair and glanced at his watch 652 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,700 2:00. Gentlemen, said he we must go up 653 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:41,800 and have it out with our friend, the professor. 654 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,500 The old man, I just finished his lunch and certainly his empty 655 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:49,400 dish, more evidence to the good appetite with which his 656 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:54,100 housekeeper had credited him. He was indeed a weird figure as 657 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,200 he turned his white Mane and his glowing eyes towards us. 658 00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,700 The Eternal cigarette smouldered. 659 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:02,300 In his mouth. He had been dressed and was 660 00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:04,300 seated in an armchair by the fire. 661 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:06,300 Well, mr. Holmes. 662 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,500 Have you solved this mystery at He shoved a large tin of 663 00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:13,400 cigarettes, which stood on a table beside him towards my 664 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,400 companion. Holmes stretched out his hand at 665 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,300 the same moment and between them, they tipped the box, over 666 00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:23,800 the edge for a minute or two. We were all on our knees 667 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,800 retrieving stray cigarettes from impossible places. 668 00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:31,800 When we rose again, I observed Holmes's eyes were shining and 669 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,900 his cheeks tinged with color only at a crisis. 670 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,100 Have I seen those battle signals flying? 671 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:43,300 Yes. Said he I have solved it. 672 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,900 Stanley Hopkins, and I stared in amazement. 673 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,500 Something like a sneer quivered over the gaunt features of the 674 00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:54,300 old professor. Indeed in the garden. 675 00:38:55,100 --> 00:39:00,900 No here here. When this instant. 676 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,800 You are surely joking. Mr. Sherlock. 677 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,100 Holmes. You compel me to tell you that 678 00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:08,200 this is too serious, a matter to be treated in. 679 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,900 Such a fashion. I have forged and tested every 680 00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:16,800 link of my chain Professor Coram and I am sure that it is sound. 681 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,100 What's your motives are or what? Exact part to play in this 682 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:25,100 strange business? I'm not yet able to say in a few 683 00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:26,800 minutes. I shall probably hear it from 684 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,200 your own lips. Meanwhile, I will reconstruct 685 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,800 what is past for your benefit so that you may know the 686 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,100 information, which I still require a lady yesterday, 687 00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:40,000 entered your study. She came with the intention of 688 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,100 possessing herself of certain documents, which were in your 689 00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:46,000 Bureau. She had a key of her own. 690 00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:49,000 I have had an opportunity. Unity of examining yours. 691 00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:52,100 And I do not find that slight discoloration, which the 692 00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:54,700 scratch-made upon the varnish would have produced. 693 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:59,300 You were not an accessory. Therefore and she came so far as 694 00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:04,300 I can read the evidence without your knowledge to rob you the 695 00:40:04,300 --> 00:40:06,200 professor blew a cloud from his lips. 696 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,200 This is most interesting. And instructive said, he have 697 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,900 you no more to add surely having traced this lady so far. 698 00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:17,200 You can also say what has become of her. 699 00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:19,600 Her. I will endeavor to do. 700 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,700 So, in the first place. She was seized by your secretary 701 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:26,600 and stabbed him. In order to escape this 702 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,100 catastrophe. I'm inclined to regard as an 703 00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:33,100 unhappy accident for. I am convinced that the lady had 704 00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:37,200 no intention of inflicting. So, Grievous an injury, an 705 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:41,500 assassin does not come unarmed horrified by what she had done. 706 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:44,700 She rushed wildly away from the scene of the tragedy. 707 00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:49,500 Unfortunately, for her, she had lost her glasses in the scuffle. 708 00:40:50,100 --> 00:40:52,900 And as she was extremely short-sighted. 709 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,800 She was really helpless without them. 710 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:58,500 She ran down a corridor, which she imagined to be that, by 711 00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:02,800 which he had come both were lined with Cocoanut matting, and 712 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,500 it was only when it was too late that she understood that she had 713 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:08,900 taken the wrong passage. And that her retreat was cut off 714 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:11,600 behind her. What was she to do? 715 00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:15,100 She could not go back. She could not remain where she 716 00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:21,200 Was, she must go on, she went on, she mounted a stair pushed 717 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,300 open, a door and found herself in your room. 718 00:41:25,300 --> 00:41:29,300 The old man, sat with his mouth open, staring wildly at Holmes, 719 00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:33,500 amazement, and fear was stamped upon his expressive features. 720 00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,100 Now, with an effort. He Shrugged his shoulders and 721 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:41,200 burst into, insincere laughter, all very fine. 722 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,700 Mr. Holmes said he but there is one little flaw in your 723 00:41:44,700 --> 00:41:47,800 splendid. A theory, I was myself in my 724 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,200 room and I never left it during the day. 725 00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:55,100 I am aware of that to Professor Coram, and you'll need to say 726 00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:58,000 that I could be a pain that bed and not to be aware. 727 00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,800 There's a woman that entered my room. 728 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,100 I never said, so you were aware of it. 729 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,700 You spoke with her, you recognized her, you aided her to 730 00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:12,300 escape again. The professor burst into heike 731 00:42:12,300 --> 00:42:15,000 laughter. He had risen to his feet and his 732 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:20,800 eyes glowed like a who are mad. He cried, you are talking in, 733 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,000 sadly. I helped her to escape. 734 00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:29,300 Where is she now? She is there said Holmes, and he 735 00:42:29,300 --> 00:42:32,000 pointed to a hype. Case in the corner of the room. 736 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,100 I saw the old man, throw up his arms, a terrible convulsion 737 00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:41,400 passed over his Grim face and he fell back in his chair at the 738 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,200 same instant. The bookcase at which Holmes 739 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,400 pointed swung round upon a hinge and a woman rushed out into the 740 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,400 room. You are right. 741 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,400 She cried in a strange foreign voice. 742 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,700 You are right. I am here. 743 00:42:55,300 --> 00:42:58,900 She was brown with a dust and draped with the cobwebs, which 744 00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:00,400 had come from the walls of her home. 745 00:43:00,500 --> 00:43:05,600 Hiding Place her face to was streaked with Grime and at the 746 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,500 best, she could never have been handsome for. 747 00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:12,000 She had the exact physical characteristics which Holmes had 748 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,100 divined with, in addition, along and obstinate chin. 749 00:43:17,100 --> 00:43:20,500 Watch with her natural blindness and what with the change from 750 00:43:20,500 --> 00:43:24,300 dark to light. She stood as one dazed blinking 751 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:27,200 about her to see where and who we were. 752 00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:31,600 And yet, in spite of all these disadvantages, there was a 753 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:35,300 certain nobility in the woman's bearing, a gallantry in the 754 00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:39,200 defiant chin and in the upraised head, which compelled something 755 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:43,400 of respect and admiration. Stanley Hopkins had laid his 756 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:47,100 hand upon her arm and claimed her as his prisoner, but she 757 00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:51,300 waved him aside gently and yet with an overmastering dignity, 758 00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:55,000 which compelled, obedience the old man, lay back in his chair 759 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,400 with a twitching face and stared at her with brooding eyes. 760 00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:02,800 Yes, sir. I am your prisoner. 761 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,900 She said, from Where I Stood, I could hear everything and I know 762 00:44:07,900 --> 00:44:10,700 that you have learned the truth. I confess it all. 763 00:44:11,100 --> 00:44:15,300 It was I who Kill the young man, but you are right you say it was 764 00:44:15,300 --> 00:44:17,900 an accident. I did not even know that it was 765 00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:21,100 a knife which I held in my hand for in my despair. 766 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,900 I snatched anything from the table and struck at him to make 767 00:44:24,900 --> 00:44:25,800 him. Let me go. 768 00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:30,600 It is the truth that I tell. Madam said, Holmes. 769 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,600 I am sure that it is the truth. I fear that you are far from. 770 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,600 Well, she had turned the Dreadful color. 771 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,200 The more ghastly under the dark dust streaks, upon her face. 772 00:44:42,100 --> 00:44:44,300 She seated herself on the side of the bed. 773 00:44:44,500 --> 00:44:48,400 Then she resumed I have only a little time here. 774 00:44:48,700 --> 00:44:52,000 She said, but I would have, you know, the whole truth. 775 00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:56,500 I am this man's wife. He is not an Englishman. 776 00:44:56,900 --> 00:45:01,200 He is a Russian his name. I will not tell, but the first 777 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,600 time, the old man stirred God bless you Ana. 778 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,700 He cried. God bless you. 779 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,600 She cast a look at the deepest disdain in his Direction. 780 00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:13,700 Why should you cling so hard to that wretched? 781 00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:16,800 Life of yours. Sergius said she, it has done 782 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:20,900 harm to many and Good To None, not even to yourself. 783 00:45:21,300 --> 00:45:25,100 However, it is not for me to caused the frail, thread to be 784 00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:28,700 snapped before God's time. I have enough already upon. 785 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,600 My soul since I crossed the threshold of this curse it 786 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,400 house, but I must speak or I shall be too late. 787 00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:39,300 I have said, gentleman that I am this man's wife. 788 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,400 He was 50 and I are foolish girl of 20. 789 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,600 When we are married. It was in a city of Russia, our 790 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,300 University. I will not name the place. 791 00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:51,700 God bless you, Ana moment. The old man. 792 00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:55,700 Again. We were reformers revolutionists 793 00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:59,700 nihilists. You understand he and And many 794 00:45:59,700 --> 00:46:02,000 more then there came a time of trouble. 795 00:46:02,500 --> 00:46:06,800 A police officer was killed, many were arrested evidence was 796 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,300 wanted and in order to save his own life and to earn a great 797 00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:13,100 reward. My husband betrayed, his own 798 00:46:13,100 --> 00:46:16,300 wife and his companions. Yes. 799 00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:19,200 We were all arrested upon his confession. 800 00:46:19,900 --> 00:46:24,000 Some of us found our way to The Gallows and some to Siberia. 801 00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:28,900 I was among these last but my term was not for life. 802 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:33,300 My husband came to England with his ill-gotten gains and has 803 00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:35,800 lived in quiet ever since knowing. 804 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:39,300 Well, that, if the Brotherhood knew where he was not a week, 805 00:46:39,300 --> 00:46:43,900 would pass before, Justice would be done the old man reached out 806 00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:47,200 a trembling hand and helped himself to a cigarette. 807 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,300 I am in your hands and said he you were always good to me. 808 00:46:53,500 --> 00:46:56,700 I have not yet told you the height of his villainy said she 809 00:46:58,100 --> 00:47:01,700 Among our comrades of the order, there was one who was the friend 810 00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:04,900 of my heart. He was Noble unselfish. 811 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,800 Loving all that. My husband was not. 812 00:47:08,300 --> 00:47:11,300 He hated violence. We were all guilty. 813 00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,300 If that is guilt, but he was not. 814 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,100 He wrote forever, dissuading us from such a course. 815 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,500 These letters would have saved him. 816 00:47:20,900 --> 00:47:25,100 So, what my diary in, which from today, I had entered both my 817 00:47:25,100 --> 00:47:28,800 feelings towards him and the view which each Of us had taken 818 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,000 my husband found and kept both diary and letters. 819 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:37,700 He hit them and he tried hard to swear away, the young man's life 820 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,900 in this, he failed. But Alexis was sent a convict to 821 00:47:42,900 --> 00:47:46,400 Siberia. Well now at this moment he works 822 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:51,300 in a salt mine think of that you villain you villain. 823 00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:56,600 Now now at this very moment, Alexis a man whose name you are 824 00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,700 not worthy to speak. Seek works and lives like a 825 00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:04,700 slave and yet, I have your life in my hands and I let you go. 826 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:10,400 You were always a noble woman. Hannah said the old man puffing 827 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:14,400 at his cigarette, she had risen, but she fell back again with a 828 00:48:14,408 --> 00:48:17,900 little cry of pain. I must finish. 829 00:48:18,100 --> 00:48:22,600 She said, when my term was over, I set myself to get the diary 830 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,900 and letters which is sent to the Russian government would 831 00:48:25,900 --> 00:48:30,000 procure, my friends release. I knew that my husband had come 832 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,500 to England after months of searching. 833 00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:36,300 I discovered, where he was. I knew that he still had the 834 00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:39,500 diary for when I was in Siberia. I had a letter from him. 835 00:48:39,500 --> 00:48:43,000 Once we're approaching me and quoting some passages from his 836 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,800 Pages yet. I was sure that with his revenge 837 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,300 for nature. He would never give it to me of 838 00:48:49,300 --> 00:48:54,100 his own free will. I must get it for myself with 839 00:48:54,100 --> 00:48:56,600 this object? I engaged an agent from a 840 00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,000 private detective. Who entered my husband's house 841 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,600 as a secretary? It was your second secretary. 842 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,000 Sergius. The one who left you, so 843 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,000 horridly. He found that papers were kept 844 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,100 in the cupboard and he got an impression of the key. 845 00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,200 He would not go farther. He furnished me with a plan of 846 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,100 the house and he told me that in the forenoon. 847 00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:23,500 The study was always empty as a secretary was employed up here. 848 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,700 So at last, I took my courage in both hands and I came down to 849 00:49:28,700 --> 00:49:32,100 get the papers for myself, I succeeded. 850 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:37,300 But at what a cost I had just taken the paper and was locking 851 00:49:37,300 --> 00:49:39,800 the cupboard. When the young man seized me. 852 00:49:40,300 --> 00:49:42,200 I had seen him already that the morning. 853 00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,700 He had met me on the road, and I'd asked him to tell me where 854 00:49:45,700 --> 00:49:49,300 Professor Coram lived not knowing that he was in his 855 00:49:49,300 --> 00:49:51,900 employ. Exactly. 856 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,400 Exactly. So, Holmes. 857 00:49:54,900 --> 00:49:58,900 The secretary came back and told his employer of the woman he had 858 00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:03,400 met then in his last breath. He tried to send a message that 859 00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:08,100 it was, she the she whom he had just discussed with him. 860 00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:13,300 You must let me speak said, the woman in an imperative voice and 861 00:50:13,300 --> 00:50:17,000 her face contracted as if in pain when he had the Fallen. 862 00:50:17,100 --> 00:50:20,600 I rushed from the room, chose the wrong door and found myself 863 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,800 in my husband's room. He spoke of giving me up. 864 00:50:23,900 --> 00:50:27,800 So I showed him that if he did, so his life was in my hands. 865 00:50:28,300 --> 00:50:31,000 If he gave me to the law, I could give him to the 866 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,000 Brotherhood. It was not that I wish to live 867 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,800 for my own sake, but it was that I desire to accomplish my 868 00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,500 purpose. He knew that I would do what I 869 00:50:40,500 --> 00:50:44,700 said, that his own fate was involved in mind for that 870 00:50:44,700 --> 00:50:47,000 reason. And for no other, he shielded 871 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,200 me. He thrust me into that dark 872 00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,400 hiding place. A relic of all days known only 873 00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,200 to himself. He took his meals in his own 874 00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,100 room. And so I was able to give me 875 00:50:57,100 --> 00:51:00,300 part of his food. It was agreed that when the 876 00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:04,100 police left the house I should slip away by night and come 877 00:51:04,100 --> 00:51:05,000 back. No more. 878 00:51:05,900 --> 00:51:08,900 But in some way you have read outlands. 879 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,700 She tore from the bosom of her dress, a small packet. 880 00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:17,900 These are my last words said she here is the packet which was 881 00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:19,000 save. Alexis. 882 00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:22,600 I confide it to your honor and to your love of Justice. 883 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,000 Take It. You will deliver it at the 884 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,700 Russian Embassy. Now, I have done my duty and 885 00:51:28,900 --> 00:51:32,100 stop her cried Holmes. He had bounded across the room 886 00:51:32,100 --> 00:51:35,300 and a drenched. A small file from her hand, too 887 00:51:35,300 --> 00:51:37,400 late. She said sinking back on the 888 00:51:37,408 --> 00:51:41,600 bed, too late. I took the poison before I left 889 00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,400 my Hiding Place. My head swims. 890 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,500 I'm going, I charged you sir to remember the packet. 891 00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:54,600 A simple case and yet in some ways and instructive one Holmes 892 00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:58,600 remarked, as we traveled back to town, it hinged from the outset 893 00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,700 upon the pants nay, but for the unfortunate chance of the dying, 894 00:52:02,700 --> 00:52:06,300 man, having seized, these are not sure that we could have ever 895 00:52:06,300 --> 00:52:10,100 reached our solution. It was clear to me from the 896 00:52:10,100 --> 00:52:13,600 strength of the glasses that the wearer must have been very blind 897 00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:15,500 and helpless. When deprived of them. 898 00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:19,000 When you asked me to believe that she walked along a narrow 899 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,200 strip of Grass without once making a false step. 900 00:52:22,700 --> 00:52:26,000 I remarked, as you may remember that it was a noteworthy 901 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,200 performance in my mind. I sit it down as an impossible 902 00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,000 performance. Save in the unlikely case that 903 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:34,800 she had a second pair of glasses. 904 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,500 I was forced, therefore, to consider seriously the 905 00:52:38,500 --> 00:52:42,900 hypothesis that she had remained within the house on perceiving, 906 00:52:42,900 --> 00:52:44,700 the similarity of the two corridors. 907 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,100 It became clear that she might very easily have made such a 908 00:52:48,107 --> 00:52:52,500 mistake. And in that case, it was evident 909 00:52:52,500 --> 00:52:54,700 that she must have entered the professor's room. 910 00:52:55,900 --> 00:52:58,900 I was keenly on the alert, therefore for whatever would 911 00:52:58,900 --> 00:53:02,000 bear out this supposition and I examined. 912 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,100 The room narrowly for anything in the shape of a hiding place. 913 00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:08,900 The carpet seemed continuous and firmly nailed. 914 00:53:09,300 --> 00:53:11,400 So, I dismissed the idea of a trapdoor. 915 00:53:12,100 --> 00:53:15,800 They might, well, be a recess behind the books as you are 916 00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,300 aware. Such devices are common in Old 917 00:53:18,300 --> 00:53:21,300 libraries. Observe the books were piled on 918 00:53:21,300 --> 00:53:24,900 the floor at all other points, but the one book case was left 919 00:53:24,900 --> 00:53:27,900 clear. This then might be the door. 920 00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,100 I could see no marks to guide me, but the carpet was a done 921 00:53:32,100 --> 00:53:35,300 color which lends itself very well to examination. 922 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,700 I therefore, smoked a great number of those. 923 00:53:38,700 --> 00:53:42,300 Excellent cigarettes. And I dropped the ash all over 924 00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:45,100 the space in front of the suspected bookcase. 925 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,900 He was a simple trick, but exceedingly effective. 926 00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,700 I then went downstairs and I ascertained in your presence 927 00:53:52,700 --> 00:53:54,800 Watson without you're perceiving. 928 00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,800 The drift of my remarks that Professor chorim's consumption 929 00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:03,000 of food had increased as one would expect when he is 930 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,100 supplying a second person. We then ascended to the room. 931 00:54:07,100 --> 00:54:09,700 Again, when by upsetting the cigarette box. 932 00:54:10,100 --> 00:54:14,000 I obtained a very excellent view of the floor and was able to see 933 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,900 quite clearly from the traces upon the cigarette Ash that the 934 00:54:17,900 --> 00:54:21,600 prisoner had in our absence come out from her Retreat. 935 00:54:22,500 --> 00:54:24,100 Well, Hopkins. Here. 936 00:54:24,100 --> 00:54:27,900 We are at Charing Cross and I congratulate you on having 937 00:54:27,900 --> 00:54:30,700 brought your case to a successful conclusion. 938 00:54:31,500 --> 00:54:33,400 You're going to headquarters. No doubt. 939 00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,400 I think Watson you and and I will drive together to the 940 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:42,500 Russian Embassy. End of the adventure of the 941 00:54:42,500 --> 00:54:43,600 golden pince-nez.