1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,600 Adventure 12 in the return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,200 Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:11,800 the public domain. Adventure 12, the adventure of 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:17,100 the Abbey, Grange, it was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning 5 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:21,000 towards the end of the winter of 97 that I was awakened by a 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,100 tugging at my shoulder. It was homes the candle in his 7 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:28,600 hand Shone upon his eager stooping face, and told me at a 8 00:00:28,608 --> 00:00:33,600 glance that something was amiss, come Watson, come, he cried. 9 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:40,000 The game is afoot, not a word into your clothes and Um, ten 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,800 minutes later, we were both in a cab and rattling through the 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,800 silent streets on our way to Charing. 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,600 Cross station. The first faint Winters Dawn was 13 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,100 beginning to appear. And we could dimly see the 14 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:54,100 occasional figure of an early workmen as he passed us. 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,200 Blurred and indistinct in the opalescent London. 16 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:03,600 Wreak homes nestled in silence into his heavy coat and I was 17 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,400 glad to do the same for the air was most bitter and neither of 18 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,600 us had a broken. In our fast, it was not until we 19 00:01:10,607 --> 00:01:14,100 had consumed some hot tea at the station and taken our places in 20 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:18,100 the kentish train that we were sufficiently thought he to 21 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:20,800 speak. And I to listen Holmes, drew a 22 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,000 note from his pocket and read aloud Abbey. 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,800 Grange. Marsham Kent 3:30 a.m. 24 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:28,800 My dear. Mr. Holmes. 25 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,300 I should be very glad of your immediate assistance in what 26 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:34,200 promises to be a most remarkable case. 27 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,600 It is something quite in your line except for Leasing the 28 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,100 lady. I will see that everything is 29 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:44,200 kept exactly as I have found it, but I beg you not to lose an 30 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,800 instant as it is difficult to leave sir. 31 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,600 Eustace here, Yours Faithfully, Stanley Hopkins. 32 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:56,600 Hopkins has called me in seven times, and on each occasion. 33 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,100 His summons has been entirely Justified said, Holmes. 34 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,500 I fancied, at every one of his cases has found its way into 35 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:07,400 your collection and I must admit Watson that you have some power 36 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,699 of selection, which atones for much of which I deplore in your 37 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:13,800 narratives your fatal habit of looking at everything. 38 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,600 From the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific 39 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:21,300 exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and 40 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:24,200 even classical series. Use of demonstrations. 41 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:29,900 You slur over work of the utmost finesse and delicacy in order to 42 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:34,200 dwell upon Sensational details, which may excite but cannot 43 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,100 possibly instruct the reader. Why do you not write them 44 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:40,300 yourself? I said with some bitterness. 45 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:45,000 I will my dear Watson. I will at present. 46 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,600 I am as you know fairly busy, but I propose to devote my 47 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,800 declining years to the composition of a textbook which 48 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,400 shall Focus the The whole art of detection into one volume, our 49 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,400 present, research appears to be a case of murder. 50 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,200 You think this see Eustace is dead. 51 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,300 Then? I should say. 52 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:08,900 So Hopkins is writing shows, considerable agitation and he is 53 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:12,400 not an emotional man. Yes, I gather there has been 54 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,800 some violence and that the body is left for our inspection. 55 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,300 A suicide would not have caused him to send for me as to the 56 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:22,900 release of the lady. It would appear that she has 57 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:25,100 been locked in her room during the tragedy. 58 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,400 We are moving in highlife, Watson, crackling paper, EB 59 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,200 monogram. Coat-of-arms, picturesque. 60 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,400 Yes, I think the friend Hopkins will live up to his reputation 61 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:39,700 and that we shall have an interesting morning. 62 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:42,800 The crime was committed before 12:00 last night. 63 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:49,000 How can you possibly tell by an inspection of the trains and by 64 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,400 Reckoning the time the local police had to be called in they 65 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:54,700 had to communicate with Scotland. 66 00:03:54,700 --> 00:04:00,100 Yard Hopkins had to go out and he in turn had to send for me. 67 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:02,700 All that makes a fair night's work. 68 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:06,300 Well, here we are at chislehurst station and we shall soon. 69 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:10,300 Set our doubts at rest a drive of a couple of Miles through 70 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:13,200 narrow country. Lanes brought us to a park gate 71 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,800 which was opened for us by an old lodge-keeper, whose Haggard 72 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,600 face bore, the reflection of some great disaster. 73 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,000 The Avenue ran through a noble Park between lines of ancient 74 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,100 Elms and ended in a low widespread house pillard in 75 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:30,300 front. After the fashion of Palladio. 76 00:04:31,300 --> 00:04:33,200 The central part was evidently of a great age. 77 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:36,900 Enshrouded in IV. But the large Windows showed 78 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:39,200 that modern changes have been carried out. 79 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,100 And One Wing of the house, appeared to be entirely new, the 80 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:45,200 useful figure. And alert eager face of 81 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,800 Inspector. Stanley, Hopkins, confronted Us 82 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,500 in the open doorway. I'm very glad you've come mr. 83 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:55,100 Holmes and you too. Dr. Watson, but indeed, if I had 84 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:58,500 my time over again, I should not have troubled you for since the 85 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:01,500 lady has come to herself. She has given so clear and 86 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:03,200 account of the affair that there's not much left. 87 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:07,000 Left for us to do you remember that Louis him gang of burglars 88 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,400 what the three Randall's exactly the father. 89 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,800 And two sons is their work. I've no doubt of it. 90 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:18,400 They did a job at Sydenham a fortnight ago and were seen and 91 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,900 described rather cool to do another so soon and Sonia. 92 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,300 But it is that a beyond all doubt. 93 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,500 It's a hanging matter this time. So used to his death, then yes, 94 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:32,800 he's had was knocked in with his own poker. 95 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:39,300 So Eustace brackenstall. The driver tells me, exactly one 96 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:43,000 of the richest men in Ken lady brackenstall is in the morning 97 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,300 room, poor lady. She is at a most Dreadful 98 00:05:46,300 --> 00:05:49,400 experience. She seemed off dead when I first 99 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,600 saw her, I think you'd best see her and hear her account of the 100 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,800 fact, then we'll examine a dining room together. 101 00:05:57,100 --> 00:05:59,600 Lady brackenstall was no ordinary person. 102 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,300 Seldom. Have I seen So Graceful of 103 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:05,300 figure. So womanly a presence and so 104 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:09,200 beautiful, a face. She was a blond golden haired 105 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,400 blue eyed. And would no doubt have had the 106 00:06:11,407 --> 00:06:15,100 perfect complexion, which goes with such coloring had not her 107 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:18,000 recent experience, left her drawn and Haggard. 108 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:22,500 Her sufferings were physical, as well as mental for over one. 109 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:26,700 Eye Rose a hideous plum colored swelling, which her maid at all. 110 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:30,300 Or stay a woman was bathing, assiduously with vinegar and 111 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:33,100 water. The lady laid back exhausted 112 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:36,800 upon the couch, but her quick, observant gaze, as we entered 113 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,400 the room and the alert expression of her beautiful 114 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,500 features showed that neither her wits, nor her courage had been 115 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:45,700 shaken by her terrible experience. 116 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:50,000 She was enveloped in a loose dressing-gown of blue and silver 117 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:53,800 but a black sequin covered Dinner dress lay upon the couch 118 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,400 beside her. I have told you all that 119 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,300 happened. Mr. Hopkins. 120 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:02,800 She said, wearily, could you not repeat it for me? 121 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,000 Well, if you think it necessary, I will tell these gentlemen, 122 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,500 what occurred have they been in the dining room yet? 123 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:14,300 I thought they had better your ladyship story first. 124 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:17,500 I shall be glad when you can arrange matters. 125 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,800 It is horrible to me to think of him. 126 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,900 Still lying there. She shuddered and buried her 127 00:07:23,907 --> 00:07:27,800 face in her hands as she did. So the loose gown fell back from 128 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,400 her forearms homes, uttered an exclamation. 129 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,200 You have other injuries. Madam. 130 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,200 What is this too Vivid? Red spots? 131 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,600 Stood out on one of the white round, limbs. 132 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:44,300 She hastily covered it. It is nothing. 133 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:47,900 It has no connection with his this hideous business tonight. 134 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:51,700 If you and your friend will sit down, I will tell you all I can. 135 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,800 I am the wife of so used to spec install. 136 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:57,400 I have been married about a year. 137 00:07:57,900 --> 00:08:02,300 I suppose that it is no use my attempting to conceal that our 138 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:03,900 marriage has not been a happy one. 139 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,700 I fear that all our neighbors would tell you that even if I 140 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:11,500 were to attempt to deny it, perhaps the fault may be partly 141 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:14,000 mine. I was brought up in the Freer 142 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,500 less conventional atmosphere of South Australia, and this 143 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:20,300 English life, with its proprieties, and it's primness 144 00:08:20,300 --> 00:08:24,400 is not congenial to me. But the main reason lies in the 145 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,300 one fact, which is notorious to everyone and that is that. 146 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:32,299 So, Eustace was a confirmed drunkard to be with such a man 147 00:08:32,299 --> 00:08:36,000 for an hour is unpleasant. Can you imagine what it means 148 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,600 for a sensitive and high-spirited woman to be tied 149 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,799 to him for day and night. It is a sacrilege a crime, a 150 00:08:42,808 --> 00:08:45,600 villain made to hold that. Such a marriage is binding. 151 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:49,600 I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon 152 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,100 the land. God will not let such. 153 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,800 Agnes Endura. For an instant. 154 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,200 She set up her cheeks flushed and her eyes blazing from under 155 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,800 the terrible. Mark upon her brow and she 156 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:05,000 strong soothing hand of the Asteria made Drew her head down 157 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,500 onto the cushion, and the wild, anger died away into passionate 158 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:13,400 sobbing at. Last, she continued I would tell 159 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,100 you about last night. You are aware, perhaps, but in 160 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:20,400 this house, all the servants sleep in the modern Wing. 161 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:24,100 This Central block is made up of the dwelling rooms with the 162 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:26,600 kitchen behind and our bedroom above. 163 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,400 My maid Teresa sleeps above my room. 164 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:34,100 There is no one else and no sound could alarm, those who are 165 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:36,800 in the father Wing. This must have been well known 166 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,800 to the robbers or they would not have acted as they did. 167 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:45,600 So used his At about 10:30, the servants had already gone to 168 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,200 their quarters. Only my maid was up and she had 169 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,000 remained in her room at the top of the house, until I needed her 170 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,900 Services. I sat until after 11:00 in this 171 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:59,900 room absorbed in a book, then I walked around to see that all 172 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:01,800 was right before I went upstairs. 173 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:06,400 It was my custom to do this myself for as I've explained. 174 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:09,300 So Eustace was not always to be trusted. 175 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,100 I went into the kitchen, the butler's Our pantry, the 176 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:15,800 gunroom, the billiard-room, the drawing-room. 177 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:21,100 And finally, the dining room as I approached the window, which 178 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:24,800 is covered with thick curtains. I suddenly felt the wind blow 179 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,700 upon my face and realize that it was open. 180 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,700 I flung the curtain side and found myself face to face with a 181 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:36,700 broad-shouldered elderly man who had just stepped into the room, 182 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,300 the windows along French one, which really forms a door 183 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:44,200 leading to the lon. I held my bedroom candle lit in 184 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:49,600 my hand and by its light behind the first, man, I saw two others 185 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:54,300 who were in the act of entering I stepped back, but the fellow 186 00:10:54,300 --> 00:10:58,000 is on me in an instant. He caught me first by the wrist 187 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,700 and then by the throat, I opened my mouth to scream, but he 188 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:05,900 struck me a Savage. Blow with his fist over the eye 189 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:10,200 and felled me to the ground. I must have been unconscious for 190 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,900 a few minutes for when I came to myself. 191 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,500 I found that they had torn down the Bell rope and had secured me 192 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:19,800 tightly to the Oaken chair, which stands at the head of the 193 00:11:19,808 --> 00:11:23,700 dining room table. I was so firmly bound that I 194 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:26,800 could not move and a handkerchief from my mouth. 195 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,700 Prevented me from uttering, a sound. 196 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:33,400 It was at this instant, but my unfortunate husband entered the 197 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:38,000 room, he had evidently heard some suspicious sounds and he 198 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,800 came. Prepared for such a scene as he 199 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,500 found. He was dressed in night shirt 200 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:45,000 and trousers with his favorite Blackthorn. 201 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,400 Cudgel in his hand. He rushed at the burglars. 202 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:52,400 But another, it was an elderly, man, stooped. 203 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:55,900 Picked the poker out of the great and struck him a horrible 204 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:58,100 blow. As he passed, he fell with a 205 00:11:58,108 --> 00:12:03,800 groan and never moved again. I fainted once more but again, 206 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,500 it could only have been very, very few minutes during which I 207 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:09,600 was insensible. When I opened my eyes. 208 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,000 I found that they had collected the silver from the sideboard 209 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:15,600 and they had drawn a bottle of wine which stood there. 210 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,600 Each of them had a glass in his hand. 211 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:23,200 I have already told you have I not that one was Elderly with a 212 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,300 beard and the others young hairless Lads. 213 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,200 They might have been a father with his two sons. 214 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,400 They talk together and Whisper. Then they came over and made 215 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,200 sure that I was securely bound. Finally. 216 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,100 They withdrew closing the window after them. 217 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:42,700 It was quite a quarter of an hour before I got my mouth free 218 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:45,500 when I did. So, my screams brought the made 219 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:48,400 to my assistants. The other servants were soon 220 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,000 alarmed. And we sent for the local police 221 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,600 who instantly communicated with London. 222 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:58,000 That is really all that. I can tell you gentlemen and I 223 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,500 trust that it will not be necessary for me to go over. 224 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:05,300 So Painful a story again. Any questions, mr. 225 00:13:05,300 --> 00:13:09,900 Holmes asked Hopkins. I will not impose any further 226 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:13,800 tax upon lady brackenstall, 's patience, and time said, Holmes, 227 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:16,300 before I go into the dining room. 228 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:18,600 I should like to hear your experience. 229 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:23,000 He looked at the maid. I saw the man before ever, they 230 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,800 came into the house. Said she, as I sat by my bedroom 231 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,300 window. I saw three men in the Moonlight 232 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:32,600 down by the logic gate Yonder but I thought nothing of it at 233 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,200 the time was more than an hour. After that. 234 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,900 I heard my mistress scream and down Iran to find her. 235 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:42,500 Paul am just so she says a name on the floor with his blood and 236 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:45,500 brains over the room. It was enough to drive a woman 237 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:49,100 out of her wits, tied their inner, very dress, spotted with 238 00:13:49,100 --> 00:13:50,900 him. She never wanted care. 239 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:55,000 Did Miss Mary Fraser of Adelaide and Lady brackenstall of Abbey, 240 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,600 Grange hasn't learned new ways. You've questioned her long 241 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,500 enough you gentlemen and now she's coming to her own room. 242 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:04,900 Just with our old Teresa, to get the rest that she badly. 243 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:09,800 Needs with a motherly tenderness the gaunt woman, put her arm 244 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,100 round, her mistress and led her from the room. 245 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,800 She's been with her all her life said, Hopkins, nursed her as a 246 00:14:16,808 --> 00:14:18,400 baby in came with her to England. 247 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,500 When they first left Australia, 18 months ago, Teresa Wright as 248 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:26,300 our name and the kind of made you don't pick up nowadays this 249 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:27,000 way. Mr. Holmes. 250 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,700 If you please the Keen interest had passed out of homes is 251 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:33,600 expressive face. And I knew that with the mystery 252 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,400 all the charm of the case had departed there still remain an 253 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,200 arrest to be affected. But what were these commonplace 254 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,900 Rogues that he should soil his hands with them? 255 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,400 And abstruse and learning specialist who finds that he has 256 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,700 been called in for a case of measles would experience 257 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:52,600 something of the annoyance, which I read in my friends eyes. 258 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:55,500 Yet the scene in the dining room of the Abbey. 259 00:14:55,500 --> 00:14:59,500 Grange was sufficiently strange to arrest his attention and to 260 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:04,100 recall his waning interest. It was a very large and high 261 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:06,800 chamber with carved. Oak ceiling Oaken. 262 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,900 Paneling and a fine array of deers heads and ancient weapons 263 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:13,700 around the walls. At the further end from the 264 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:15,800 door. Was the high French window of 265 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,600 which we had heard three smaller windows on, the right hand side, 266 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:22,600 filled the apartment with cold winter sunshine. 267 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,100 On the left, was a large deep fireplace with a massive 268 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:29,800 overhanging Oak mantelpiece beside. 269 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,800 The fireplace was a heavy Oaken chair with arms and cross bars 270 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:38,100 at the bottom in and out through the open, woodwork was woven of 271 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:41,800 crimson cord, which was secured at each side to the Cross piece 272 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,200 below. In releasing the lady, the cord 273 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,200 had been slipped off her but the knots with which should have 274 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,700 been secured, still remained. These details. 275 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,800 Only struck our attention afterwards. 276 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,200 For our thoughts, were entirely absorbed by the terrible object 277 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,300 which lay upon the tiger skin Hearth rug in front of the fire. 278 00:16:03,700 --> 00:16:07,400 It was the body of at all. Well made man about 40 years of 279 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,400 age. He lay upon his back his face, 280 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,500 upturned with his white teeth grinning. 281 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:16,500 Through his short black beard, his to clenched hands, were 282 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:19,500 raised above his head and a heavy Black Thorn. 283 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:24,300 Stick lay across them his dark handsome, aquiline features. 284 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,800 Were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set 285 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,900 his Dead face in a terribly fiendish expression. 286 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:35,800 He definitely been in his bed. When the alarm had broken out 287 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:39,500 for, he wore a foppish embroidered nightshirt and his 288 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:41,600 bare feet projected from his trousers. 289 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:45,800 His head was horribly injured and the whole room bore witness 290 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,100 to the Savage ferocity of the blow, which had struck him down 291 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:53,000 beside him. Lay the heavy poker bent into a 292 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,300 curve, by the concussion Holmes, examined, both it. 293 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:02,400 And the Indescribable wreck, which had wrought He must be a 294 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,599 powerful man this elder Randall. He remarked. 295 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:09,900 Yes said Hopkins. I have some record of the fella 296 00:17:10,099 --> 00:17:13,900 and he's a rough customer. You should have no difficulty in 297 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:18,099 getting him, not the slightest. We've been on a lookout for him 298 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,700 and there was some idea that you go away to America. 299 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:22,800 Now that we know that the gang area. 300 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,599 I don't see how they can escape. We have the news every Seaport 301 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,400 already and the reward will be offered before evening. 302 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,800 What beats me is how they could have done, so mad a thing. 303 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Now in that, the lady could describe him and that we could 304 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,200 not fail to recognize the description. 305 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:44,600 Exactly one would have expected that they would silence lady 306 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,600 brackenstall as well. No, you may not have realized I 307 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,900 suggested that she'd recover from Earth. 308 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:55,700 Ain't that is likely enough? If she seemed to be senseless. 309 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:58,500 They would not take her life. What about this? 310 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:01,800 Poor fellow Hopkins? I seem to have heard some queer 311 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,400 stories about him. He was a good-hearted man, when 312 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:09,500 he was sober, but a perfect fiend when he was drunk or 313 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:12,000 rather when he was after drunk for, he seldom really went the 314 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,400 old way. The devil seem to be in him at 315 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,500 such times and he was capable of anything from what I hear in, 316 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:20,600 spite of all his wealth and his title. 317 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,500 He very nearly came our way once or twice. 318 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:27,300 There was a scandal about his drenching a dog with petroleum 319 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:30,600 and setting it on fire her ladyship's dog to make the 320 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,600 matter worse, and that was only a shootout with difficult. 321 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,300 Then he threw a decanter at the made Teresa right? 322 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:41,900 There was trouble about that on the owl and between ourselves 323 00:18:41,900 --> 00:18:43,400 will be a brighter ass without him. 324 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:45,300 What are you looking at? Now? 325 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:50,600 Holmes was down on his knees, examining with great attention 326 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:53,500 than knots upon the red cord with which the lady had been 327 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:57,100 secured. Then he carefully scrutinized a 328 00:18:57,100 --> 00:19:00,500 broken and Frayed End where it had snapped off when the burglar 329 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:05,300 had dragged it down. When this was pulled down the 330 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:07,600 bell in the kitchen, must have run loudly. 331 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:10,400 He remarked now one could hear it. 332 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,300 The kitchen stands right? At the back of the house. 333 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,300 How did the burglar? No, no one would hear it. 334 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:19,300 How dared he pull it. A bell rope in that Reckless 335 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:21,500 fashion. Exactly. 336 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:24,800 Mr. Holmes, exactly. You put the very question which 337 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:28,400 I've asked myself again. And again, it can be no doubt 338 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,000 that this fellow must have known the house and its habits. 339 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:33,000 He must have perfectly understood. 340 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,600 The servants would all be in bed at that comparatively early 341 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,000 hour. And that, no one could possibly 342 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 hear a bell ring in the kitchen. Therefore. 343 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:45,200 He must have been in close league with one of the servants. 344 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,500 Surely that is evident. But there are eight servants and 345 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:54,200 all of them, good character. Other things being equal said 346 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:59,200 Holmes, one would expect the one whose head the master through a 347 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,900 decanter and yet that would involve treachery towards the 348 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:05,400 mistress to whom the woman seems devoted. 349 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:09,900 Well, well, the point is a minor one and when you have Randall, 350 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,300 you will probably find no difficulty in securing his 351 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:14,800 accomplice. The lady's story. 352 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:18,000 Certainly seems to be corroborated if it needed 353 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,400 cooperation by every detail, which we see before us. 354 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,700 He walked to the French window and threw it open. 355 00:20:25,700 --> 00:20:29,400 There are no signs here. But the ground is iron hard and 356 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,000 would not expect them. I see that these candles in the 357 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,300 mantelpiece have been lighted. Yes, it was by their lie and 358 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:39,800 that of the lady's bedroom candle that the burglars saw 359 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,600 their way about. And what did they take? 360 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,000 Well, they didn't take much. Only half a dozen articles of 361 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,900 plate off the sideboard lady brackenstall thinks that they 362 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:54,000 were themselves. So disturbed by the death of 363 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,900 Sir, Eustace. They didn't ransack the house as 364 00:20:56,900 --> 00:21:01,800 they would otherwise have done. No doubt, that is true and yet 365 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,100 they drank some wine. I understand to steady their 366 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:09,300 nerves, exactly. He's three glasses upon the 367 00:21:09,308 --> 00:21:11,700 sideboard have been untouched. I suppose. 368 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:13,800 Yes. And the ball stands. 369 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,800 They left it. Let us look at it. 370 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:20,400 Hello. Hello. 371 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,900 What is this? The three glasses were grouped 372 00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:26,400 together, all of them tinged with wine. 373 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,300 And one of them containing some dregs of be a swing. 374 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,100 Bottle stood near them 2/3, full and beside it. 375 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:38,900 Lay along deeply stained cork its appearance and the dust upon 376 00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:41,500 the bottle. Showed that it was no common 377 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:43,600 vintage, which the murderers had enjoyed. 378 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:46,600 A change had come over Holmes's manner. 379 00:21:47,300 --> 00:21:49,300 He had lost his listless expression. 380 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,400 And again, I saw an alert light of interest in his Keen, 381 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:57,400 deep-set eyes. He raised the Cork and examined 382 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,100 it minutely. How did they draw it? 383 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:06,000 He asked Hopkins pointed to a half-open draw in it? 384 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,800 Lay some table linen and a large Corkscrew. 385 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,900 Did lady brackenstall say that screw is used. 386 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,500 Now, you remember that she was senseless at the moment when the 387 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:21,600 bottle is opened quite. So, as a matter of fact that 388 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,400 screw was not used. This bottle was opened by a 389 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,200 pocket, screw probably contained in a knife and not more. 390 00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:33,000 An inch and a half long, if you'll examine the top of the 391 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,900 cork, you will observe that the screw was driven in three times 392 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:40,800 before the cork was extracted. It has never been transfixed. 393 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,400 This long. Screw would have transfixed it 394 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,500 and drawn it up with a single pull. 395 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,400 When you catch this fellow, you'll find that he has one of 396 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,000 these Multiplex knives in his possession. 397 00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:59,200 Excellent said Hopkins but these glasses do puzzle me. 398 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,500 I confess lady brackenstall actually saw the three men 399 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:04,300 drinking. Did she? 400 00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:07,200 Not? Yes, she was clear about that. 401 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,100 Then there is an end of it. What more is to be said. 402 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,700 And yet you must admit that the three glasses are very 403 00:23:15,700 --> 00:23:19,100 remarkable Hopkins. What you see? 404 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:22,700 Nothing remarkable. Well, well, let it pass. 405 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:27,300 When a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, 406 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,100 it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation. 407 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:34,000 When a simpler one is at hand. Of course. 408 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,100 It must be a mere chance about the glasses. 409 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:39,500 Well, good morning Hopkins. I don't see that. 410 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:42,500 I can be of any use to you and you appear to have your case. 411 00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:45,200 Very clear. You'll let me know when Randall 412 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,100 is arrested and any further developments which may occur. 413 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,000 I trust that I shall soon have to congratulate you upon a 414 00:23:52,008 --> 00:23:56,300 successful conclusion. Come Watson, I fancy that we may 415 00:23:56,300 --> 00:23:58,700 employ ourselves more profitably at home. 416 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,400 During our return journey, I could see by Holmes's face that 417 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,700 he was much puzzled by something which he had observed every now 418 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:12,300 and then by an effort, he would throw off the impression and 419 00:24:12,300 --> 00:24:16,000 talk as if the matter were clear, but then his doubts would 420 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000 settle down upon him again and is knitted brows and an 421 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,500 abstracted eyes would show that. His thoughts had gone back once 422 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:26,700 more to the great dining room of the Abbey Grange in which this 423 00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:28,900 midnight tragedy had been enacted. 424 00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:34,200 At Last by a sudden impulse. Just as our train was crawling 425 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,100 out of a Suburban Station. He sprang on to the platform and 426 00:24:38,100 --> 00:24:41,200 pulled me out after him. Excuse me. 427 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,300 My dear fellow said he as we watch the rear carriages of our 428 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:46,200 train disappearing around a curve. 429 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,400 I am sorry to make you the victim of what may seem a mere 430 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,000 whim, but on my life. What's and I simply can't leave 431 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,100 that case in this condition. Every Instinct that I possess 432 00:24:58,100 --> 00:25:01,200 cries out against it. It's wrong. 433 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,400 It's all wrong. I'll swear that it's wrong. 434 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:08,000 And yet, the lady story was complete the maids. 435 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,200 Corroboration was sufficient that Tail was fairly exact. 436 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:16,400 What have I to put up against that three wine glasses? 437 00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:21,500 That is all, but if I had not taken things for granted, if I 438 00:25:21,508 --> 00:25:23,900 had examined everything, with the case, with which I should 439 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:27,900 have shown had, we approach the case de novo and had no 440 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:30,300 cut-and-dried story to walk my mind. 441 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:34,100 Should I not then have found something more definite to go 442 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:36,300 upon. Of course. 443 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:41,100 I should sit down on this bench Watson until a N4 chislehurst 444 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:45,700 arrives and allow me to lay the evidence before you imploring 445 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:49,600 you in the first instance to dismiss from your mind, the idea 446 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,100 that anything which the maid or her mistress may have said must 447 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:57,800 necessarily be true. The ladies Charming personality 448 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,300 must not be permitted to warp our judgment. 449 00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:06,600 Surely, there are details in her story, which if we looked at In 450 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,100 Cold Blood would excite our suspicions. 451 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:12,900 These Burglars made a considerable Hall at Sydenham, a 452 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:16,700 fortnight ago, some account of them and of their appearance was 453 00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:19,800 in the papers and would naturally occur to anyone who 454 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,300 wished to invent a story in which imaginary robbers, should 455 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:27,200 play A Part. As a matter of fact burglars who 456 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,900 have done a good stroke of business are as a rule only too, 457 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,600 glad to enjoy the proceeds in peace and quiet without 458 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,000 embarking on another perilous undertaking. 459 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:41,800 Again, it is unusual for Burglars to operate at so early 460 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,200 an hour. It is unusual for burglars to 461 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,300 strike a lady to prevent her screaming. 462 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:49,400 Since one would, imagine that was the sure way to make her 463 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,900 scream. It is unusual for them to commit 464 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:55,800 murder when their mum numbers are sufficient to overpower one 465 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,200 man. It is unusual for them to be 466 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,500 content with a limited plunder when there was much more within 467 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:05,500 their reach. And finally, I should say that 468 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:09,100 it was very unusual for such men, to leave a bottle half 469 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:12,600 empty. How do all these unusual strike 470 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,200 you Watson? A cumulative effect is certainly 471 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,800 considerable and yet each of them is quite possible in 472 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,600 itself. The most unusual thing of all is 473 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,300 it seems to me is that the lady should be tied to the chair? 474 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:29,600 Well, I am not so clear about that Watson for it is evident 475 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,200 that they must either kill her or else secure her in such a way 476 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:35,500 that she could not give immediate notice of their 477 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:38,700 escape. But at any rate I have shown 478 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:42,500 have, I not that there is a certain element of improbability 479 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:47,000 about the lady's story. And now on the top of this comes 480 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,400 the incident of the wine glasses. 481 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:54,700 What about the wine glasses? Can you see them in your mind's 482 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:56,500 eye? I see them. 483 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:00,400 Clearly. We are told that three men drank 484 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,000 from them. Does that strike you as likely? 485 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:06,600 Why not? There was wine in each glass 486 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:11,000 exactly. But there was be sling only in 487 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,900 one glass. You must have noticed that that 488 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:16,600 fact what does that suggest to your mind? 489 00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:21,300 The last glass filled will be most likely to contain beeswing, 490 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:26,300 not at all. The bottle was full of it, and 491 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:29,800 it is inconceivable that the first two glasses were clear and 492 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,700 the third heavily charged with it. 493 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:34,600 There are two possible explanations. 494 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:40,400 And only to one is that after the second glass was filled, the 495 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,300 bottle was violently agitated. And so the third glass received 496 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:47,400 a bee's wing, That does not appear probable. 497 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:49,900 No. No, I'm sure that I'm right. 498 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,600 What then do you suppose? That only two glasses were used 499 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:59,100 and that the dregs of both were poured into a third glass. 500 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,000 So as to give the false impression that three people had 501 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,400 been here in that way. All the beeswing would be in the 502 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:07,600 last glass. Would it not? 503 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,300 Yes. I am convinced that this is so, 504 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:14,900 but if I've hit upon the true explanation of this one small 505 00:29:14,900 --> 00:29:19,200 phenomenon, then in an instant, the case rises, from the 506 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,600 commonplace to the exceedingly remarkable for. 507 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,900 It can only I mean that lady brackenstall and her maid have 508 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:29,300 deliberately lied to us that not one word of their stories to be 509 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:33,200 relieved, but they have some very strong reason for covering 510 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,600 the real criminal and that we must construct our case for 511 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,100 ourselves without any help from them. 512 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:43,200 That is the mission. Which Now lies before us and 513 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,100 here, Watson is the Sydenham train. 514 00:29:47,300 --> 00:29:50,100 The household at the Abbey. Grange were much surprised at 515 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:53,900 how return, but Sherlock, Holmes finding that Stanley. 516 00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:57,500 Hopkins had gone off to report to headquarters took possession 517 00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:01,100 of the dining room, lock the door upon the inside and devoted 518 00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:05,300 himself for two hours to one of those minut and laborious 519 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:09,100 investigations, which form the solid basis on which His 520 00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:13,900 Brilliant edifices of deduction, were reared seated in a corner, 521 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:18,000 like an interested student, who observes the Of his Professor. 522 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:23,000 I followed every step of that remarkable research, the window, 523 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:28,100 the curtains, the carpet, the chair, the Rope each in, turn 524 00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:32,600 was minutely, examined and Dooley pondered the body of the 525 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,600 unfortunate baronet had been removed and all else remained, 526 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,000 as we had seen it in the morning. 527 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,900 Finally, to my astonishment homes, climbed up onto the 528 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:47,700 massive mantelpiece far above his head, hung the You inches of 529 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:51,800 red cord, which was still attached to the wire for a long 530 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,800 time. He gazed Upward at it and then 531 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,100 in an attempt to get nearer to it, he rested his knee upon a 532 00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:02,600 wooden bracket on the wall. This brought his hand within a 533 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,500 few inches of the broken end of the Rope, but it was not this so 534 00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:09,300 much as the bracket itself, which seemed to engage his 535 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:11,400 attention. Finally. 536 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:15,000 He sprang down with an ejaculation of satisfaction. 537 00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:19,700 It's all right. Watson said he we have got our 538 00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:24,400 case one of the most remarkable in our collection, but dear me, 539 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,500 how slow-witted I have been, and how nearly I have committed, the 540 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:32,600 blunder of my lifetime. Now, I think that with a few 541 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,200 missing links. My chain is almost complete. 542 00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:44,100 You've got your men man, Watson man, only one, but a very 543 00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:46,900 formidable person, strong as a lion. 544 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,700 Ian witnessed a blow that bent that poker 6, ft 3 in height 545 00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:54,800 active as a squirrel dexterous with his fingers. 546 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:59,200 Finally remarkably quick witted for this whole ingenious story. 547 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,600 As if his concoction. Yes Watson, we have come upon 548 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,200 the handiwork of a very remarkable individual. 549 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,900 And yet in that bell-rope. He has given us a clue, which 550 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:14,600 should not have left us a doubt. It was the clue. 551 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,300 Well, if you were to pull down a bell rope Watson, where would 552 00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:23,100 you expect it to break? Surely at the spot where it is 553 00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:26,900 attached to the wire? Why should it break 3 inches 554 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:28,900 from the top as this one has done. 555 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:36,200 Because it's frayed there, eggs-actly this end which we can 556 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,100 examine is frayed. He was cunning enough to do that 557 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:43,700 with his knife. But the other end is not frayed. 558 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,400 You could not observe that from here. 559 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:49,200 But if you were on the mantelpiece, you would see that 560 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,600 it is cut. Clean off without any Mark of 561 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:56,600 fraying, whatever you can reconstruct, what occurred the 562 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,700 man needed the Rope. He would not tear it down for 563 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:02,000 fear of giving. Alarm by ringing the bell. 564 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,200 What did he do? He sprang up on the mantelpiece, 565 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,900 could not quite reach it, but his knee. 566 00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:12,900 On the bracket, you will see the impression in the dust and so 567 00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:14,900 got his knife to Bear upon the cord. 568 00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:19,300 I could not reach the place by at least three inches from which 569 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:21,200 I infer that. He's at least three inches a 570 00:33:21,208 --> 00:33:25,200 bigger man than I look at that Mark upon the seat of the Oaken 571 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,800 chair. What is it? 572 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:33,100 Blood undoubtedly, it is blood. This alone, puts the lady's 573 00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:37,100 story out of court. If she was Seated on the chair, 574 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:40,600 when the crime was done. How come the mark? 575 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:45,200 No, no, she was placed in the chair after the death of her 576 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,200 husband. I'll wager that the black dress 577 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,600 shows. A corresponding Mark to this. 578 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:55,400 We have not yet met our Waterloo Watson, but this is our Marengo 579 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,300 for it begins in defeat. And ends in Victory. 580 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:03,700 I should like now to have a few words with the nurse Teresa. 581 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,700 We must be wary for a while. If we were to get the 582 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:11,199 information which we want. She was an interesting person. 583 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:15,400 This Stern Australian nurse taciturn suspicious ungracious. 584 00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:18,900 It took some time before homes is Pleasant Manner and Frank 585 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:22,000 acceptance of all that. She said, thought her into a 586 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,000 corresponding Amy ability. She did not attempt to conceal 587 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,199 her hatred for her later. Employer. 588 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:31,199 Yes sir. It is true that he threw the 589 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:33,199 decanter at me. I heard him. 590 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:36,000 Call my mistress a name. And I told him that he should 591 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,199 not dare speak to her as if her brother had been there. 592 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,400 Then it was that he threw it at me. 593 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,800 He might throw in a dozen if he but left my Bonny bird alone. 594 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,800 He was forever ill-treating her and she too proud to complain. 595 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,900 She will not even tell me all that. 596 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:52,400 He's done to her. She never told me those marks on 597 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,199 her arm that you saw this morning, but I know very well, 598 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:57,100 what they came from a stabbed with a pin. 599 00:34:57,700 --> 00:35:00,500 Sly devil. God forgive me that I should 600 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:03,400 speak of him. So now that he's dead but I 601 00:35:03,408 --> 00:35:06,700 definitely was if ever one walked the Earth, he was all 602 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:08,900 runny. When we first met him, only 18 603 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:11,100 months ago. We both feel as if it were a 604 00:35:11,107 --> 00:35:13,400 teen years. She's only just arrived in 605 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,900 London. Yes, it was her first voyage. 606 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,600 She'd never been from home before he won our with his 607 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,600 title, in his money and his false, London ways. 608 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:24,300 She made a mistake. She's paid for it. 609 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,400 If ever a woman, did what month did we meet him? 610 00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:30,100 Well, I tell you, it was just after we arrived. 611 00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:32,500 We arrived in June and it was July. 612 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,900 We were married in January last year. 613 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:38,300 Yeah, she's down in the morning room again, and I have no doubt. 614 00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:41,700 She'll see you, but you must not ask too much of her for. 615 00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:42,800 She's gone through all that flesh. 616 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:47,200 And blood will stand. Lady brackenstall was reclining 617 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,900 on the same couch, but looked brighter than before. 618 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,300 The maid had entered with us and began once more to ferment the 619 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:56,200 bruise upon her mistress's. Brow. 620 00:35:57,300 --> 00:36:01,200 I hope said the lady that you have not come to cross-examine 621 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,600 me again. No, Holmes answered in his 622 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,300 gentlest voice. I will not cause you any 623 00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:10,800 unnecessary trouble lady brackenstall and my whole desire 624 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,400 is to make things easy for you for. 625 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,900 I am convinced that you are a much tried woman. 626 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:20,300 If you will treat me as a friend and trust me, you may find that 627 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:25,400 I will justify your trust. What do you want me to do to 628 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,500 tell me the truth? Mr. Holmes? 629 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,700 No, no lady brackenstall. It is no use. 630 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,700 You may have heard of any little reputation which I possess. 631 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,300 I will stake it all on. The fact that your story is an 632 00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:44,000 absolute fabrication mistress and Maid were both staring at 633 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,600 homes with pale faces and frightened eyes. 634 00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,100 You are an impudent fellow, cried Teresa. 635 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,500 Do you mean to say that my mistress has told a lie? 636 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:57,900 Holmes Rose from his chair. Have you nothing to tell me? 637 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,700 I have told you everything sink. Once more lady brackenstall. 638 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:06,600 Would it not be better? To be frank? 639 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,500 For an instant, there was hesitation in her beautiful 640 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:15,200 face, then some new strong thought cause it to set like a 641 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,500 mask. I have told you all. 642 00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:22,500 I know Holmes took his hat and Shrugged, his shoulders. 643 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:24,500 I am. Very sorry. 644 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:26,700 He said, and without another word. 645 00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:30,300 We left the room and the house, there was a pond in the park. 646 00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:34,800 And to this, my friend led the way, it was frozen over, but a 647 00:37:34,808 --> 00:37:37,200 single hole was left for the convenience of us. 648 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:42,500 Terry Swan Holmes gazed at it and then passed on to the logic 649 00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:44,000 gate. There. 650 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,000 He scribbled a short note for Stanley Hopkins and left it with 651 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,400 the lodge-keeper. It's maybe a hit or it may be a 652 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,500 Miss but we are bound to do something for friend, Hopkins, 653 00:37:56,500 --> 00:38:00,800 just to justify this. Second visit said he, I will not 654 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,900 quite take him into my confidence yet. 655 00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:06,500 I think our next scene of operations must be the shipping 656 00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:10,200 office of The Adelaide Southampton line which stands at 657 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,200 the end of Pall Mall. If I remember, right? 658 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,300 There is a second line of Steamers, which connect South 659 00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:19,400 Australia with England, but we will draw the larger cover 660 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,200 first. Holmes is card sent into the 661 00:38:23,207 --> 00:38:25,900 manager. Insured instant attention and he 662 00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:28,300 was not long in acquiring. All the information. 663 00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:33,000 He needed in June of 95, only one of their line had reached a 664 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,000 Home Port. It was the Rock of Gibraltar 665 00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:40,600 their largest and best boat a reference to the passenger list, 666 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,300 showed that Miss Fraser of Adelaide with her maid, had made 667 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:47,400 the voyage in her, the boat was now somewhere. 668 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,300 South of the Suez Canal on her way to Australia her officers 669 00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:56,200 were Same as in 95 with one exception, the first officer. 670 00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,400 Mr. Jack, Crocker had been made a captain and was to take charge 671 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,500 of their new ship. The bass Rock sailing in two 672 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:08,000 days time from Southampton. He lived at Sydenham, but he was 673 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,200 likely to be in that morning for instructions. 674 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,100 If we cared to wait for him. No, mr. 675 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:16,400 Holmes had no desire to see him, but would be glad to know more 676 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:21,000 about his record and character. His record was magnificent. 677 00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:23,400 There was not an officer in the fleet to touch him. 678 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,900 As to his character. He was reliable on duty. 679 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:30,500 But a while to desperate fellow off the deck of his ship 680 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:36,300 hot-headed excitable, but loyal honest and kind hearted that was 681 00:39:36,300 --> 00:39:39,300 the pith of the information with which Holmes left the office of 682 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:41,300 the Adelaide South Hampton company. 683 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,100 Thence. He drove to Scotland Yard, but 684 00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:49,300 instead of entering he sat in his cab with his brows drawn 685 00:39:49,300 --> 00:39:54,600 down lost in profound thought, finally, he drove round to the 686 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,100 Charing. Cross Telegraph office sent off 687 00:39:57,100 --> 00:39:59,500 a message. And then at last we made for 688 00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:03,300 Baker Street once more. No, I couldn't do it. 689 00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:05,800 Watson said, he as we re-entered our room. 690 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,300 Once that warrant was made out. Nothing on Earth would save him 691 00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:14,400 once or twice in my Career, I feel that I have done more real 692 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,900 harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever. 693 00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:21,300 He had done by his crime. I have learned caution now and I 694 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:24,300 had rather play tricks with the law of England and with my own 695 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:27,200 conscience. Let us know a little more before 696 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,600 we Act. Before evening, we had a visit 697 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,600 from inspector Stanley Hopkins. Things were not going very well 698 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,300 with him. I believe you're a wizard. 699 00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:40,500 Mr. Holmes. I really do sometimes think that 700 00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:44,400 you have powers are not human. Now, how on Earth could you know 701 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,400 that the stolen silver was at the bomber? 702 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,700 That pond? I didn't know, but you told me 703 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:53,200 to examine it. You got it then. 704 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:54,900 Yeah. I got it. 705 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:57,200 I am very glad if I've helped you. 706 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,700 But you haven't helped me. You've made the affair more 707 00:41:00,700 --> 00:41:03,000 difficult, what sort of burglars are. 708 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,600 They are steel, silver and then throw in and he respond, it was 709 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,600 certainly rather eccentric Behavior. 710 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:12,700 I was merely going on. The idea that if the silver had 711 00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:17,000 been taken by persons who did not want it, who merely took it 712 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,600 for a blind as it were, then they would naturally be anxious 713 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,600 to get rid of it. But why should such an idea 714 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,400 cross your mind? Well, I thought it was possible 715 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,500 when they came out through the French window. 716 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,700 There was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice 717 00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:36,500 right in front of their noses. Could there be a better Hiding 718 00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:40,600 Place? Ah, I didn't place that's better 719 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,900 Christ on the Hopkins. Yeah. 720 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:44,400 Yeah. I see it all now. 721 00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:47,300 It was early. They were folk upon the roads. 722 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,200 They are afraid of being seen with the silver. 723 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,900 So they sank in the pond intending to return for it when 724 00:41:52,900 --> 00:41:55,200 the coast was clear. Excellent. 725 00:41:55,200 --> 00:42:01,000 Mr. Times better than your idea of a blind quite so you have got 726 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,200 an admirable Theory. I have no doubt that my own 727 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,900 ideas were quite wild but you must admit that they have ended 728 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:10,600 in discovering the silver. Yes, sir. 729 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,700 Yes. It was all your doing. 730 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,300 But I've had a bad set back a setback. 731 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,300 Yes. Mr. Ames the Randall gang were 732 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:21,200 arrested in New York this morning. 733 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,600 Timmy Hopkins. That is certainly rather against 734 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:30,100 your theory that they committed a murder in Kent last night his 735 00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:32,400 fatal. Mr. Rome's absolutely. 736 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,100 Fatal still. There are other gangs of three 737 00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:38,400 besides the Randalls or it may be some new gang of which to 738 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:43,100 police have never heard quite so it is perfectly possible. 739 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,800 What are you off? Yes. 740 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,800 Mr. Holmes has no rest for me until I've got to the bottom of 741 00:42:48,808 --> 00:42:51,500 the business. I suppose you have no hint to 742 00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:57,700 give me. I have given you one which well, 743 00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:01,600 I suggested a blind but why. Mr. Adams, why? 744 00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:06,600 That's the question of course, but I commend the idea to your 745 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,100 mind. You might possibly find that 746 00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:12,100 there was something in it. You won't stop for dinner. 747 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:17,500 Well, goodbye and let us know how you get on dinner was over 748 00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:19,500 and the table cleared before homes. 749 00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:23,800 Alluded to the matter again. He had lit his pipe and held his 750 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,300 slippered feet to the cheerful blaze of the fire. 751 00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:29,300 Suddenly. He looked at his watch. 752 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:37,600 I expect developments Watson when now within a few minutes, I 753 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,900 daresay you thought I acted rather badly to Stanley Hopkins. 754 00:43:40,900 --> 00:43:44,200 Just now. I trust your judgment. 755 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,600 I'm very sensible. Reply Watson. 756 00:43:47,300 --> 00:43:49,500 You must. Look at it this way what I know 757 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:52,800 is unofficial what he knows. Was is official. 758 00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:57,000 I have the right to private judgment, but he has none. 759 00:43:57,700 --> 00:44:01,900 He must disclose all or he is a traitor to his service in a 760 00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:03,900 doubtful case. I would not put him in so 761 00:44:03,900 --> 00:44:07,300 painful, a position and so I reserve my information until my 762 00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:09,200 own mind is clear upon the matter. 763 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:14,600 But when will that be? The time has come, you will now 764 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,100 be present at the last scene of a remarkable little drama. 765 00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:22,500 There was a sound upon the stairs and our door was open to 766 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:25,500 admit as fine a specimen of manhood as ever passed through 767 00:44:25,500 --> 00:44:28,000 it. He was a very tall, young man, 768 00:44:28,300 --> 00:44:31,700 golden was stashed blue-eyed with a skin, which had been 769 00:44:31,700 --> 00:44:35,500 burned by tropical sons, and a springy step, which showed that 770 00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:38,500 the huge frame was as active as it was strong. 771 00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:42,600 He closed the door behind him and then he stood, Clenched 772 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,300 hands and heaving breast choking down some overmastering, 773 00:44:46,300 --> 00:44:49,800 emotion. Sit down, Captain Crocker. 774 00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:54,500 You got my telegram or got your Telegram and our came at the 775 00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:59,000 area said, I heard you been down to the office as now getting 776 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,300 away from you. Let's hear the worst. 777 00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:02,500 What are you going to do with me? 778 00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:05,200 Arrest me. Speak out, man. 779 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,300 You can't sit there and play with me like a cat with a mouse. 780 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:14,000 Give him a cigar said, Holmes bite on that Captain Crocker, 781 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,400 and don't let your nerves run away with you. 782 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:18,900 I should not sit here smoking with you. 783 00:45:18,900 --> 00:45:21,100 If I thought that you were a common criminal. 784 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:25,600 You may be sure of that be frank with me, and we may do some good 785 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000 play tricks with me and I'll Crush you. 786 00:45:28,900 --> 00:45:32,400 What do you wish me to do to? Give me a true account of all 787 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,800 that happened at the Abbey. Grange last night. 788 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,600 A true account mind you with nothing, added and nothing taken 789 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,300 off. I know so much already that if 790 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:44,500 you go one inch off the street, I'll blow this police whistle 791 00:45:44,500 --> 00:45:48,400 from my window and the affair goes out of my hands forever. 792 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,800 The Sailor thought for a little then. 793 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:56,300 He struck his leg with his great sunburned hand, our chance. 794 00:45:56,300 --> 00:45:59,200 It he cried. I'll believe you are a man of 795 00:45:59,207 --> 00:46:02,600 your word and a white man, and I'll tell you the whole story. 796 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:06,300 But one thing I will say first, as far as I'm concerned, I 797 00:46:06,308 --> 00:46:08,700 regret nothing and our fear nothing. 798 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,200 And I'd do it all again and be proud of the job, Dan the 799 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,500 beast'. If he has many lives as a cat, 800 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:19,100 you do them all to me, bows to Lady Mary, Mary Fraser. 801 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,200 Never will I call her by that accursed name. 802 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,400 When I think of getting her into trouble? 803 00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:28,100 I would give my life just to bring one more smile to her dear 804 00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:31,100 face. Is that it turns my soul into 805 00:46:31,100 --> 00:46:35,200 water and yet and yet what less could I do? 806 00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:38,900 I'll tell you my story gentlemen, and then I'll ask you 807 00:46:38,900 --> 00:46:41,000 as man to man. What less could I do? 808 00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:45,400 I must go back a bit. You seem to know everything. 809 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,500 So I expect that. You know, that I met her when 810 00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:50,000 she was a passenger. And I was first officer of the 811 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,100 Rock of Gibraltar from the first day. 812 00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:55,400 I met her. She was the only woman to me 813 00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,400 every day of that Voyage. I loved her more and many a time 814 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,600 since of our killed down in the darkness of the night watch and 815 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,500 kissed a deck of that ship because our newer dear feet have 816 00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:08,500 trod on it. She was never engaged to me. 817 00:47:09,100 --> 00:47:11,800 She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated him. 818 00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:16,400 No complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and 819 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,800 all good comradeship and the friendship honors. 820 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,800 When we parted she was free woman. 821 00:47:22,100 --> 00:47:26,700 I can never again be a free man. Next time I came back from sea. 822 00:47:26,700 --> 00:47:29,700 I heard of a marriage. Well, why shouldn't she marry 823 00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:32,400 him? She liked title and money who 824 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,200 could carry them better than she. 825 00:47:35,100 --> 00:47:37,800 She was born for all that is beautiful, and dainty. 826 00:47:38,100 --> 00:47:40,000 I didn't grieve over our marriage. 827 00:47:40,300 --> 00:47:44,100 I was not such a selfish and as is that I just Rejoice, that 828 00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:46,100 good luck. Had come away and that she had 829 00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:48,500 not thrown herself away in a penniless sailor. 830 00:47:49,300 --> 00:47:53,000 So I love Mary Fraser. Well, I never thought to see her 831 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,400 again, but last Voyage as promoted the new boat was yet 832 00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,500 launched, so I had to wait for a couple of months with Marth 833 00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:04,000 people at Sydenham one day and a country lying. 834 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,600 I met Theresa, right? Her old maid. 835 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,000 She told me all about her or bout him about everything. 836 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:11,900 I'll tell you gentlemen. It nearly drove. 837 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,400 Of me mad this drunken hand. He should dare to raise his hand 838 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,500 to her whose boots. He was not worthy to lick our 839 00:48:20,500 --> 00:48:24,700 met Theresa again. Then I met Mary himself and met 840 00:48:24,700 --> 00:48:27,700 her again. Then she would meet me no more. 841 00:48:27,700 --> 00:48:31,000 But the other day I don't know is that I was to start my Voyage 842 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,200 within a week and I determined I would see her once before. 843 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:38,100 I left. Teresa was always my friend for 844 00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:41,800 she loved Mary Ann dated this villain almost as much as I did. 845 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,900 From her, I learned the ways of the house, Mary used to sit up 846 00:48:45,900 --> 00:48:48,100 reading in her own, little room downstairs. 847 00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:51,900 I crept round are last night and scratched at the window. 848 00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,800 At first, she would not open to me. 849 00:48:55,500 --> 00:48:58,800 But in her heart, I know that. Now she loves me and she could 850 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,600 not leave me in the frosty night. 851 00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:04,100 She whispered to me to come round to the big front window 852 00:49:04,100 --> 00:49:07,900 and I found it open before me. So, as to let me into the dining 853 00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:10,900 room. Again, I heard from her own lips 854 00:49:10,900 --> 00:49:14,900 things that made my blood Boil. And again, I cursed this brute 855 00:49:14,900 --> 00:49:19,300 who mishandled the woman, I loved, well, gentlemen, I was 856 00:49:19,300 --> 00:49:22,100 standing with her just inside the window in all. 857 00:49:22,100 --> 00:49:24,000 Innocence. As God is my judge. 858 00:49:24,300 --> 00:49:28,200 When he rushed like a madman into the room called the vilest 859 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,700 name that a man could use to a woman and welted her across the 860 00:49:31,700 --> 00:49:33,500 face with a sticky. Add in his end. 861 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:38,300 I had sprung for the poker and it was a fair fight between us, 862 00:49:38,900 --> 00:49:41,600 see here on my arm where his first blow fell. 863 00:49:42,300 --> 00:49:45,300 Then it was my turn and I went through him as if he'd been a 864 00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:48,000 rotten pumpkin. Do you think I was sorry? 865 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:53,200 No, I it was his life or mine. But far more than that. 866 00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,700 It was his life or hers for our could. 867 00:49:55,700 --> 00:49:57,100 I leave her in the power of this? 868 00:49:57,100 --> 00:50:00,800 Madman? That was how I killed him, was I 869 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,500 wrong? Well, then what would either of 870 00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:06,300 you gentlemen, have done if you had been in my position? 871 00:50:07,500 --> 00:50:10,700 She screamed when he struck her in that broad old Teresa down 872 00:50:10,700 --> 00:50:14,400 from the room above, it was a bottle of wine on the sideboard, 873 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,200 and I opened it. And poured a little between 874 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,800 Mary's lips for she was after Dead with shock. 875 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,200 Then I took a drop. Myself. 876 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,500 Teresa was as cool as ice and it was her plot as much as mine. 877 00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,200 We must make it appear that burglars are done. 878 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,300 The thing Teresa, kept on repeating, our story to her 879 00:50:31,300 --> 00:50:35,500 mistress, while I swarmed up and cut the rope of the bell and I 880 00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:37,200 lashed her in a chair and frayed. 881 00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:39,800 At the end of the route to make it look natural else. 882 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,600 They would wonder how in the world. 883 00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:45,400 A burglar could have got there to cut it and I gather that a 884 00:50:45,408 --> 00:50:48,800 few plates and pots of silver to carry out the idea of the 885 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,500 robbery. And there, I left them with 886 00:50:51,500 --> 00:50:53,800 orders to give the alarm. When I had quarter of an hour's 887 00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,500 start, our drop the silver into the pond and made off for 888 00:50:57,500 --> 00:51:00,400 Sydenham feeling that for once in my life. 889 00:51:00,700 --> 00:51:02,600 I'd done a real good night's work. 890 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,200 And that's the truth and the old truth. 891 00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,000 Mr. Ohms. If it cost me my neck. 892 00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:12,000 I'm smoked for some time in silence, and he crossed the room 893 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,700 and shook our visitor by the hand. 894 00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:18,900 That's what I think said. He I know that every word is 895 00:51:18,900 --> 00:51:20,800 true for. You have hardly said a word 896 00:51:20,808 --> 00:51:25,300 which I did not know, no one but an acrobat or a sailor could 897 00:51:25,300 --> 00:51:28,600 have got up to that Bell rope from the bracket and no one. 898 00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,700 But a sailor could have made the knots with which the cord was 899 00:51:31,700 --> 00:51:34,100 fastened to the chair. Only. 900 00:51:34,100 --> 00:51:37,600 Once had this lady been brought into contact with Sailors and 901 00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,300 that was on her voyage and it was someone of her own class of 902 00:51:41,300 --> 00:51:44,800 life since she was trying hard to Shield him and so showing She 903 00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,700 loved him. You see how easy it was for me 904 00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:50,400 to lay my hands upon you? When one side started upon the 905 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,500 right Trail. A thought, the police never 906 00:51:53,500 --> 00:51:58,700 could have seen through our Dodge and the police haven't nor 907 00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:00,800 will they to the best of my belief? 908 00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,100 Now look here. Captain Crocker. 909 00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,100 This is a very serious matter though. 910 00:52:06,100 --> 00:52:09,600 I am willing to admit that you acted under the most extreme 911 00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,800 provocation to which any man could be subjected. 912 00:52:13,500 --> 00:52:15,900 I am not sure that in defense of your own life. 913 00:52:15,900 --> 00:52:18,600 Your action will not be pronounced legitimate. 914 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,900 However, that is for a British jury to decide. 915 00:52:22,100 --> 00:52:26,300 I'd meanwhile, I have so much sympathy for you that if you 916 00:52:26,300 --> 00:52:31,000 choose to disappear in the next 24 hours, I will promise you 917 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:35,000 that no one will hinder you and then it will all come out. 918 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,200 Certainly it will come out the Sailor flushed with anger. 919 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,300 What sort of proposal is that to make a man. 920 00:52:42,900 --> 00:52:45,400 I know enough of law. Do understand that Mary will be 921 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,300 held as a compass. You think I would leave her 922 00:52:48,300 --> 00:52:50,800 alone to face the music while I slunk away. 923 00:52:51,500 --> 00:52:53,800 No, sir. Sir, let them do their worst 924 00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:57,200 upon me, but for Evans sake. Mr. Holmes, find some way to 925 00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,400 keep my palmeri out of the Courts. 926 00:53:00,700 --> 00:53:03,800 Homes, for a second time, held out his hand to the Sailor. 927 00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:16,400 I was only testing you and you ring true every time. 928 00:53:17,100 --> 00:53:19,800 Well, it is a great responsibility that I take upon 929 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:24,200 myself, but I have given Hopkins an excellent hint and if he 930 00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:28,200 can't Avail himself of it, I can do no more see here. 931 00:53:28,300 --> 00:53:31,700 Captain Crocker will do this in due form of law. 932 00:53:32,300 --> 00:53:37,000 You are the prisoner Watson. You are a British jury, and I 933 00:53:37,008 --> 00:53:39,900 never met a man who was more eminently fitted to represent 934 00:53:39,900 --> 00:53:42,500 one. I am the judge. 935 00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,100 Now, Gentlemen of the jury. You have heard the evidence. 936 00:53:46,500 --> 00:53:49,000 Do you find the prisoner guilty or not? 937 00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,300 Guilty? Not guilty. 938 00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:56,400 My lord said, I vox populi. Vox Dei. 939 00:53:56,900 --> 00:53:58,900 You are acquitted Captain Crocker. 940 00:53:59,700 --> 00:54:02,500 So long as the law does not find some other victim. 941 00:54:02,500 --> 00:54:06,600 You're safe from me. Come back to this lady in a year 942 00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,500 and met her future and yours justify us in the Judgment, 943 00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:16,000 which we have pronounced this night, end of the adventure of 944 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:17,400 the Abbey. Grange.