1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:04,900 Section 6 of the casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:07,900 Conan Doyle. This ligaments recording may be 3 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:12,800 distributed and adapted freely for any purpose, the adventure 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:17,400 of the Sussex vampire. Holmes had read carefully a 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,400 note, which the last post had brought him then with the dried 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,100 chuckle, which was his nearest approach to a laugh. 7 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:29,000 He tossed it over to me for a mixture of the modern and the 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,700 medieval of the Practical and of the wildly fanciful. 9 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:37,500 I think this is surely, the limit said he, what do you make 10 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:42,900 of it? Watson, I read as follows 46 old 11 00:00:42,900 --> 00:00:49,700 jury November the 19th. Vampires sir, our client, mr. 12 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:53,700 Robert Ferguson of Ferguson and Muirhead, T Brokers of mincing 13 00:00:53,700 --> 00:00:58,200 Lane has made some inquiry from us, in a communication of even 14 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,500 date concerning vampires. As our firm specializes in tally 15 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:05,400 upon the assessment of Machinery. 16 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,900 The matter hardly comes within our purview and we have 17 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:12,200 therefore recommended, mr. Ferguson to call upon you and 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,500 lay the matter before you. We have not forgotten your 19 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:18,400 successful action. In the case of Matilda Briggs, 20 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:24,200 we are sir Faithfully, Yours, Morrison, Morrison and. /. 21 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:32,400 E JC Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson 22 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,800 said Holmes in a reminiscent voice. 23 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,300 It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of 24 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:43,900 Sumatra a story, for which the world is not yet prepared. 25 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 But what do we know about the vampires? 26 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:51,300 Does it come within our purview either? 27 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:54,500 Anything is better than stagnation. 28 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:58,200 But really, we seem to have been switched on to Grimm's 29 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:04,500 fairytale, make a long-arm Watson and see what V has to 30 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:08,100 say. I leaned back and took down the 31 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:12,600 great index Volume 2, which he referred homes balanced it on 32 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,700 his knee and his eyes moved slowly and lovingly over the 33 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:20,900 record of old cases, mixed with the accumulated information of a 34 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:26,200 lifetime Voyage of the Gloria Scott. 35 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,700 He read, that was a bad business. 36 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,000 I have some recollection that you made a record of it Watson 37 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,800 though. I was unable to come Too late to 38 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:42,200 upon the result. Victor Lynch the forger, 39 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,900 venomous lizard or healer remarkable case. 40 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:55,100 That Victoria, the circus Bell, Vanderbilt and the Eggman vipers 41 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:59,300 thicker. The Hammersmith Wonder, hello. 42 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:03,600 Hello, good old index. You can't beat it. 43 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:10,400 Listen to this Watson. Vampirism in Hungary and again 44 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,000 vampires in Transylvania. He turned over the pages with 45 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,600 eagerness but after a short intent perusal he threw down the 46 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,000 great book with a snarl of disappointment rubbish. 47 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:30,200 Watson rubbish, what have we to do with walking corpses who can 48 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,000 only be held in their grave by Stakes driven through their 49 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,900 hearts? It's purely. 50 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:40,600 Nessie. But Charlie said I the vampire 51 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,800 was not necessarily a dead man a living person might have the 52 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,500 have it. I have read for example of the 53 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:50,400 old sucking, the blood of the young, in order to retain their 54 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,600 youth. You are right Watson. 55 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,200 It mentions the legend in one of these references. 56 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,400 But Howie to give serious attention to such things. 57 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,600 This agency, stand flat-footed upon the ground and there it 58 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,500 must remain. The world is big enough for us. 59 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:17,000 No ghosts need apply. Possibly this note, maybe from 60 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,800 him and may throw some light upon what is worrying him. 61 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,600 He took up his second letter which had Lain unnoticed upon 62 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,500 the table while he had been absorbed with the first. 63 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:33,600 This he began to read with a smile of amusement upon his face 64 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,700 which gradually faded away into an expression of intense 65 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:43,400 interest and concentration. When he had finished, he sat for 66 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,700 some little time lost in thought with the letter dangling from 67 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:51,700 his fingers. Finally, with a start, he 68 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:55,800 aroused himself from his reverie cheeseman's lamb belly. 69 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,900 Where Islam? Balu Watson are did in Sussex 70 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:04,900 south of Horsham not very far and cheeseman's. 71 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,300 I know that country house. It is full of old houses, which 72 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:11,200 are named after The Men Who Built them. 73 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:16,800 Centuries ago, you get Todd Lee's and Harvey's and keratins 74 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,500 the Fokker forgotten but their names live in our houses 75 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:26,900 precisely said Holmes coldly. It was one of the peculiarities 76 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:30,800 of his proud self-contained nature that though. 77 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,300 He docketed any fresh information. 78 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:36,400 Very quietly. And accurately in his brain he 79 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,000 seldom made an acknowledgement to The Giver. 80 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:44,700 I rather fancy, we shall know a good deal more about cheeseman's 81 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:49,600 Lamborghini before we're through the letter is as I had hoped 82 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:55,100 from Robert Ferguson by the way, he claims acquaintance, with you 83 00:05:55,900 --> 00:06:02,300 with me, you had better read it. He handed the letter across it 84 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:04,300 was headed with the address quoted. 85 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:06,000 Dear mr. Holmes. 86 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,900 It said, I have been recommended to you by my lawyers. 87 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,100 But indeed the matter is. So extraordinarily delicate that 88 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:19,200 it is most difficult to discuss it concerns, a friend for whom. 89 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:24,100 I am acting this gentleman, married some five years ago, a 90 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:28,500 Peruvian lady, the daughter of a Peruvian Merchant whom he had 91 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:32,200 met in connection with the importation of nitrates. 92 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,900 The lady was very beautiful, but the fact of her foreign birth, 93 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:41,200 and of her alien religion, always caused At a separation of 94 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,400 interests and of feelings between husband and wife, so 95 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,100 that after a time, his love may have cooled towards her. 96 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,600 And he may have come to regard their Union as a mistake, he 97 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,500 felt there were sides of her character, which he could never 98 00:06:56,500 --> 00:07:01,400 explore or understand. This was the more painful as she 99 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,700 was, as loving, a wife, as a man could have to all appearance, 100 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,200 absolutely devoted. Now, for the point, which I will 101 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:15,000 make more plain when we meet indeed, this note is merely to 102 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,300 give you a general idea of the situation and to ascertain 103 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:21,200 whether you would care to interest yourself. 104 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,600 In the matter. The lady began to show some 105 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,300 Curious traits, quite alien to her. 106 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:32,200 Ordinarily, sweet and gentle disposition The gentleman had 107 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,700 been married twice and he had one son by the first wife. 108 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:42,100 This boy was now 15, a very charming and affectionate youth 109 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:46,200 though, unhappily injured through an accident in childhood 110 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:49,700 twice. The wife was caught in the act 111 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:52,400 of assaulting. This poor lad in the most 112 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,800 unprovoked way once she struck him with a stick and left a 113 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,600 great wheel on his arm. This was a small matter, 114 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,700 however, compared as her conduct to her own child, a dear boy 115 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:10,300 just under one year of age. On one occasion about a month 116 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:13,200 ago. This child had been left by its 117 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:17,500 nurse for a few minutes. A loud cry from the baby. 118 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:20,400 As of pain called the nurse back. 119 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,900 As she ran into the room, she saw her employer. 120 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:29,900 The lady leaning over the baby and apparently biting his neck, 121 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:34,200 there was a small wound in the neck, from which a stream of 122 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,299 blood had escaped. The nurse was so horrified that 123 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:41,799 she wished to call the husband, but the lazy implored her not to 124 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:45,400 do so and actually gave her 5 pounds as a price for her 125 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:49,600 silence. No explanation was ever given. 126 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:54,500 And for the moment, the matter was passed over it left. 127 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:57,700 However, a terrible impression upon, the nurses mind. 128 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,900 And from that time, she began to watch her mistress closely and 129 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:05,700 to keep a closer guard upon the baby whom she tenderly love. 130 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:11,400 Loved it seemed to her that even as she watched the mother, so 131 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,500 the mother watched her and that every time she was compelled to 132 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:19,200 leave the baby alone, the mother was waiting to get at it. 133 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,700 Day and night, the nurse covered, the child and day, and 134 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:27,300 night. The silent watchful mother 135 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:32,100 seemed to be lying in wait as a wolf waits for a lamb. 136 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:38,500 It must read most incredible to you and yet, I beg you to take 137 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:42,700 it seriously for a child's life and a man's sanity. 138 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:48,000 May depend upon it at last. There came one Dreadful day when 139 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,300 the facts could no longer be concealed from the husband. 140 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,900 The nurses nerve had given way she could stand the strain, no 141 00:09:55,900 --> 00:09:59,300 longer, and she made a clean breast of it all to the man. 142 00:10:00,300 --> 00:10:04,200 To him, it seemed as wild a tail as it may now seem to you. 143 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:09,400 He knew his wife to be a loving wife and save for the assaults 144 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,700 upon her stepson, a loving mother. 145 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,200 Why then should she wound her own dear little baby? 146 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:21,100 He told the nurse that she was dreaming that her suspicions, 147 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:24,900 were those of a lunatic and that such libels upon her mistress 148 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:30,000 were not to be tolerated. While they were talking a sudden 149 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,600 Cry of pain was heard nurse and master rushed together to the 150 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,100 nursery. Imagine his feelings, mr. 151 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:41,000 Holmes. As he saw his wife rise from a 152 00:10:41,008 --> 00:10:45,000 kneeling position beside the court, and saw blood upon the 153 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:50,500 child's exposed neck, and upon the sheet with a cry of horror, 154 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:55,200 he turned his wife's face to the light and saw blood all round 155 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:00,200 her lips. It was she she beyond all 156 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,400 question who had drunk the poor baby's blood? 157 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:10,300 So, the matter stands, she is now confined to her room. 158 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:15,500 There has been no explanation. The husband is half demented, he 159 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:18,800 knows. And I know little of vampirism 160 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,000 beyond the name. We had thought it was some wild 161 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,300 tale of foreign parts. And yet here in the very heart, 162 00:11:26,300 --> 00:11:30,200 of the English Sussex, well, all this can be discussed with you 163 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:34,700 in the morning, will you see me? Will you use your great powers 164 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:36,500 in aging? Distracted, man. 165 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:42,600 If so kindly wire to Ferguson cheeseman's lamb belly and I 166 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,400 will be at your rooms by 10:00 Yours Faithfully. 167 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:52,700 Robert Ferguson p.s., I believe your friend Watson played rugby 168 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:56,000 for Blackheath when Iowa's three-quarter for Richmond. 169 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,400 It is the only personal introduction which I can give Of 170 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,300 course, I remembered him said, I as I laid down the letter, Big 171 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:10,100 Bob Ferguson the finest three-quarter Richmond ever had, 172 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,700 he was always a good-natured chap. 173 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,900 It's like him to be. So, concerned over a friends 174 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:20,300 case, Holmes looked at me thoughtfully and shook his head, 175 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:26,300 I never get to your limits. Watson said he, there are 176 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:28,600 unexplored possibilities about you. 177 00:12:29,500 --> 00:12:33,900 Take a wide on like a good fellow Will examine your case 178 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:38,700 with pleasure, your case. We must not. 179 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:43,100 Let him think that this agency is a home for the weak-minded. 180 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:48,500 Of course it is his case, send him that wire and let the matter 181 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:53,100 rest till morning. Promptly at ten o'clock, next 182 00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:55,800 morning, Ferguson stirred into our room. 183 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,500 I had remembered him as a long slab-sided man with loose Limbs 184 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:04,500 and a fine turn of speed which had carried him around. 185 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:08,800 Many, an opposing back there is surely Nothing in life. 186 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,800 More painful than to meet the wreck of a fine athlete. 187 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:17,300 Whom one has known in his prime, his Great Frame had fallen in 188 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,400 his flaxen. Hair was scanty and his 189 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,300 shoulders. Dad, I fear that I roused 190 00:13:24,300 --> 00:13:30,400 corresponding emotions in him. Hello Watson said he and his 191 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,700 voice was still deep and Hearty. You don't look quite the man. 192 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:37,500 You did, when I threw you over the ropes into the crowd, at the 193 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:40,900 old Deer Park. I expect I have changed a bit 194 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:45,400 also but it's this last day or two that has aged me. 195 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:50,200 I see by your telegram. Mr. Holmes that it is no use my 196 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:55,500 pretending to be anyone's. Deputy It is simpler to deal 197 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:59,200 direct said, Holmes. Oh, of course it is. 198 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,600 But you can imagine how difficult it is when you are. 199 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,100 Speaking of the one woman whom you are bound to protect and 200 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:08,700 help. What can I do? 201 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,500 How am I to go to the police with such a story? 202 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:18,700 And yet the kiddies have got to be protected, is it Madness, mr. 203 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:21,500 Holmes. Is it something in the blood? 204 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:25,700 Have you any similar? In your experience for God's 205 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:28,200 sake. Give me some advice for I am at 206 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,900 my Wit's End. Very naturally mr. 207 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:36,800 Ferguson, no, sit here and pull yourself together and give me a 208 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,100 few clear answers. I can assure you that I am very 209 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:45,500 far from being at my Wit's End, and that I am confident, we 210 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:50,300 shall find some solution. First of all, tell me what steps 211 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:52,900 you have taken. Is your wife still? 212 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:56,800 Near the children. We had a dreadful scene. 213 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:01,600 She is a most loving woman mr. Holmes, if ever a woman, loved a 214 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,700 man with all her heart and soul, she loves me. 215 00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:08,200 She was cut to the heart that I should have. 216 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,400 Discovered this horrible. This incredible secret. 217 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:17,400 She would not even speak. She gave no answer to my R 218 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,900 approaches saved to gaze at me when they're sort of wild 219 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:23,300 despairing. Look in her eyes. 220 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,400 She rushed to her room and locked herself in since. 221 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,800 Then, she has refused to see me. She has a maid who was with her 222 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,700 before her marriage, Dolores, by name, a friend rather than a 223 00:15:36,708 --> 00:15:41,600 servant. She takes her food to her Then 224 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,200 the child is in, no immediate danger, mrs. 225 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,900 Mason the nurse has sworn that she will not leave it night or 226 00:15:48,900 --> 00:15:52,000 day. I can absolutely trust her. 227 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,800 I am more uneasy. About poor little Jack for as I 228 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:03,100 told you in my Note 2 has twice been assaulted by her but never 229 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:07,200 wounded. No, she struck him savagely. 230 00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:12,100 It is the more terrible as he is a poor little Inoffensive 231 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:16,200 crippled Ferguson's gaunt features, softened as he spoke 232 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:21,200 of his boy, you would think that the deer Lads condition would 233 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:26,900 soften anyone's heart a fall, in childhood into Twisted spine mr. 234 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:31,300 Holmes, but the dearest, most loving heart with him. 235 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,100 Holmes, had picked up the letter of yesterday, and was reading it 236 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:40,400 over what other inmates are there in your house, mr. 237 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:44,800 Ferguson to servants, who have not been long with us. 238 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,300 One stable hand, Michael, who sleeps in the house? 239 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:55,200 My wife myself, my boy Jack, baby, Dolores, and mrs. 240 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:00,700 Mason, that is all I gather that you did not know your wife. 241 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:04,599 Well, at the time of your marriage, I had only known her, 242 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,900 a few weeks. How long had this made to 243 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:12,599 Laura's been with her some years, then your wife's 244 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:16,300 character would really be better known by Dolores and by you, 245 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,700 yes, you may say so. Holmes made a note. 246 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:28,600 I fancy said he that I may be of more use at Lambeth and here it 247 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:29,400 is. Eminently. 248 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,800 A case for personal investigation. 249 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:37,600 If the lady remains in her room, our presents could not annoy or 250 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,000 inconvenience her. Of course, we would stay at the 251 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,400 in Ferguson gave a gesture of relief. 252 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,700 It is what I hoped mr. Holmes, there is an excellent 253 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:53,400 trainer, 2:00 from Victoria, if you could come, of course, we 254 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,900 could come. There is a lull present, I can 255 00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:00,800 give you my undivided energies, what's, and of course, comes 256 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,700 with us. But there are one or two points 257 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:05,700 upon which I wish to be very sure before. 258 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:11,600 I start this unhappy lady, as I understand it has appeared to 259 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,700 assault both the children, her own baby, and your little son. 260 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:21,300 That is so, but the assault steak, Take different forms. 261 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:25,500 Do they not? She has beaten your son once 262 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:28,700 with a stick and once very savagely with her hands. 263 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,700 Did she give no explanation? Why she struck him? 264 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,200 None save that she hated him again. 265 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:42,400 And again she said, so, Well, that is not unknown among 266 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,400 stepmothers. A posthumous jealousy. 267 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,500 We will say is the lady Jealous by Nature. 268 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:54,100 Yes she is very jealous jealous with all the strength of her 269 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:59,900 fiery tropical love. But the boy he is 15. 270 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:03,600 I understand and probably very developed in mind. 271 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:06,800 Since his body has been circumscribed in action. 272 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:12,000 Did he give you no explanation of these assaults now? 273 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,300 He declared there was no reason were they? 274 00:19:15,300 --> 00:19:20,300 Good friends at other times? No there was never any love 275 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:25,600 between them yet. You say he is affectionate never 276 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,600 in the world, could they? He's so devoted a son. 277 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:33,400 My life is his life. He is absorbed in what I say or 278 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:37,400 do. Once again, Holmes made a note 279 00:19:37,700 --> 00:19:45,200 for some time his SATs lost in thought, no doubt you and boy 280 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,600 were great comrades. Before this second marriage, you 281 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:54,100 were thrown very close together while you're not very much so. 282 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:59,100 And the boy having so affectionate and nature was 283 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:04,300 devoted, no doubt to the memory of his mother, Most devoted. 284 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:09,400 He would certainly seem to be a most interesting lat. 285 00:20:10,300 --> 00:20:14,200 There is one other point about these assaults weather strange 286 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,500 attacks upon the baby and the assault upon your son, at the 287 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:24,100 same period. And the first case it was so it 288 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:27,800 was as if some friends he had seized her and she had vented 289 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:33,000 her rage upon both in the second case, it was only Jack who 290 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,400 suffered mrs. Mason had Complaint to make 291 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,900 about the baby that certainly complicates matters. 292 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,800 I don't quite follow your mr. Holmes. 293 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:49,200 Possibly not one forms, provisional Theory isn't weights 294 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,100 that time or Fuller knowledge to explode them. 295 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:56,200 A bad habit. Mr. Ferguson but human nature is 296 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,600 weak. I fear that your old friend here 297 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:04,800 has given an exaggerated view of my scientific methods however, I 298 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,000 will only say it the present stage that your problem does not 299 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,900 appear to me to be insoluble and that you may expect to find us 300 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:19,200 at Victoria at 2:00 It was evening of a dull foggy, 301 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,500 November day when having left our bags. 302 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:23,900 At the checkers. Lamb belly, we drove through the 303 00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:26,500 Sussex, clay of a long Winding Lane. 304 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:30,200 And finally, reached the isolated and ancient farmhouse 305 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,900 in which Ferguson dwelt. It was a large straggling 306 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:36,200 building. Very old in the center. 307 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,900 Very new at the wings with towering to the chimneys and a 308 00:21:39,908 --> 00:21:43,200 lichen, spotted high pitched roof of Horsham slabs. 309 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:47,800 The door steps were worn in two curves and the In tiles, which 310 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,900 lined the porch were marked with the Rebus of a cheese. 311 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:56,100 And a man after the original Builder within the ceilings were 312 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:59,500 corrugated with heavy Oaken, beams and the uneven. 313 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:04,900 Floors sagged into sharp curves, an odor of age and Decay 314 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:07,100 pervaded. The whole crumbling building, 315 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:12,100 there was one very large Central room into which Ferguson leaders 316 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:16,700 here in a huge old fashioned fireplace with an iron. 317 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:21,800 In behind it, dated 1670 there blazed and stuttered a splendid 318 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,600 log fire. The room as I gazed round was a 319 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:30,100 most singular mixture of dates and of places the half paneled 320 00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:33,300 walls, May well have belonged to the original Yeoman farmer of 321 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:37,100 the 17th century. They were ornamented however, on 322 00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:39,700 the lower part by a line of well-chosen. 323 00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:43,800 Modern watercolors while above were yellow, plastic took the 324 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,400 place of Oak. There was hung a fine collection 325 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,600 of American utensils and weapons which had been brought no doubt 326 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:56,000 by the Peruvian lady upstairs Holmes, rose with that quick 327 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,900 curiosity, which sprang from his eager mind, and examined them 328 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:04,000 with some care. He returned with his eyes full 329 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,200 of thought. Hello, he cried? 330 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,900 Hello. Espanyol had Lain in a basket in 331 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:16,300 the corner. It came slowly forward towards 332 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:21,400 its Master walking with difficulty, its hind legs moved 333 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,400 to regularly and its tail was on the ground. 334 00:23:24,900 --> 00:23:28,400 It licked Ferguson's hand. What is it? 335 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,200 Mr. Holmes. The dog. 336 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:36,400 What's the matter with it? That's what puzzled effect, a 337 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:42,000 sort of paralysis spinal meningitis is It, but it is 338 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,900 passing. He'll be all right. 339 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:48,600 Soon want to Carlo, a shiver of a cent passed through the 340 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,200 drooping tail. The dogs mournful eyes passed 341 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,600 from one of us to the other. He knew that we were discussing 342 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,900 his case did it. Come on, suddenly, in a single 343 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:06,900 night how long ago it may have been for months ago. 344 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,200 Very remarkable there is Suggestive, what do you thin it? 345 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,200 Mr. Holmes. A confirmation of what I had 346 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,500 already. Thought for God's sake. 347 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:23,800 What do you think, mr. Holmes, maybe I'm are 348 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:28,100 intellectual puzzle to you but it is life and death to me, my 349 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:31,800 wife at would-be murderer, my child in constant danger. 350 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,600 Don't play with me, mr. Holmes, it is too terribly 351 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,800 serious. The big rugby three-quarter was 352 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,700 trembling all over Holmes. Put his hand soothingly upon his 353 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:46,300 arm. I feel That there is pain for 354 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:48,800 you mr. Ferguson whatever the solution. 355 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,700 Maybe said he, I would spare you all. 356 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:57,900 I can, I cannot say more for the instant, but before I leave this 357 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:01,900 house, I hope I may have something definite, please. 358 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:05,100 God, you may if you will excuse me. 359 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:07,800 Gentlemen, I will go up to my wife's room and see if there has 360 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,500 been any change. He was away some minutes during 361 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,700 which Holmes resumed his examination of the Curiosities 362 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:19,400 upon the wall. When our host returned, it was 363 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,100 clear from his downcast face that he had made no progress. 364 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:29,300 He brought with him a tall slim Browne faced girl that tea is 365 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:32,100 ready. Dolores said Ferguson see that 366 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:36,000 your mistress has everything to can wish she very ill. 367 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:39,600 Cried, the girl looking with indignant eyes at her master. 368 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,700 She do ask for food. She that real genie, dr. 369 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:47,800 I frightened alone with her without dr. 370 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,700 Ferguson looked at me with a question. 371 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:57,000 In his eyes, I should be so glad if I could be of use Would your 372 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,300 mistress see, dr. Watson, I take him. 373 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:04,400 High know, asked me if she needs a doctor, then I'll come with 374 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,000 you at once. I followed the girl, who was 375 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,900 quivering with strong, emotion up the staircase and down an 376 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:16,000 ancient Corridor. At the end, was an iron clamped 377 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,900 and massive door. It struck me. 378 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:22,100 As I looked at it that if Ferguson tried to force his way 379 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:24,900 to his wife, he would find it, no easy matter. 380 00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:29,000 To go through a key from her pocket and the heavy Oaken 381 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,500 planks creaked upon their old hinges. 382 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,600 I passed in and she swiftly followed fastening the door 383 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,500 behind her. On the bed, a woman was lying. 384 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:44,000 Who was clearly in a high fever. She was only half conscious but 385 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,700 as I entered, she raised a pair of frightened, but beautiful 386 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:52,600 eyes, and glared at me in apprehension seeing a stranger. 387 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,600 She appeared to be relieved and sank back with a sigh upon the 388 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,400 pillow. I stepped up to her with a few 389 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,200 reassuring words and she lay still while I took her pulse and 390 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,900 temperature. Both were high. 391 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,500 And yet my impression was that the condition was rather that of 392 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:13,400 mental and nervous, excitement than of any actual seizure. 393 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:16,400 She lie like that one day to day. 394 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:21,600 I frayed, she'd, I said, the girl, the woman turned her 395 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,900 flushed and handsome face towards me. 396 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:29,500 Where is my husband? He is below and would wish to 397 00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:33,500 see you. I will not see, I will not see 398 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:36,800 him. Then she seemed to wander off 399 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,000 into delirium theme. I think. 400 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,500 Oh what shall I do with this devil? 401 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:49,300 Can I help you in any way? No, no one can help it is. 402 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,100 Who is this toy to watch? I will always destroy it. 403 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,400 The woman must have some strange delusion. 404 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:03,500 I could not see honest Bob Ferguson in the character of 405 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:06,900 fiend or devil. Madam. 406 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,300 I said, your husband loves you dearly. 407 00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:14,400 He is deeply grieved at this happening again. 408 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:19,000 She turned on me. Those glorious eyes, he loves 409 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,700 me. Yes. 410 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,200 But do I not love him? Do I not love him even to 411 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,900 sacrifice myself rather than break his dear heart? 412 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:37,000 That is how I love him. And yet he could think of he 413 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:42,700 could speak of me, so, Has full of grief but he cannot 414 00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:47,800 understand. No, he cannot understand that he 415 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,600 should trust. Well, you not see him? 416 00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:54,200 I suggested. No, no. 417 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,500 I cannot forget. Those terrible words. 418 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:01,000 Nor the look upon his face. I will not see him. 419 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:04,900 Go. No, you can do nothing for me. 420 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:09,900 Tell him only one thing I want my child. 421 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:15,000 I have a right to my child that is the only message I can send 422 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,100 him. She turned her face to the wall 423 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:22,200 and would say no more. I returned to the room 424 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,100 downstairs where Ferguson and home still Sat by the fire 425 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,100 Ferguson listened moodily to my account of the interview. 426 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,700 How can I send her the child? He said, how do I know what 427 00:29:35,700 --> 00:29:38,000 strange impulse might come upon her? 428 00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:41,900 How can I ever forget how she Rose from beside it with its 429 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:45,600 blood upon her lips, he shuddered at the recollection. 430 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,900 The child is safe with mrs. Mason and are He must remain. 431 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:56,000 A smart made. The only modern thing which we 432 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,100 had seen in the house had brought in some tea as she was 433 00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:03,400 serving it the door opened and the youth entered the room. 434 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:08,300 He was a remarkable lad pale-faced and fair head with 435 00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:12,200 excitable light blue eyes which blazed into a sudden flame of 436 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,200 emotion and joy as they rested upon his father, he rushed 437 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,500 forward and threw his arms, around his neck with the abandon 438 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:23,000 of a loving girl. Oh, Daddy, he cried. 439 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:24,900 I did not know that you would you yet. 440 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,400 I should have been here to meet him. 441 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:31,900 Oh, I am so glad to see Ferguson gently disengaged himself from 442 00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:34,900 the Embrace, with some little show of embarrassment. 443 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,500 Dear old chap said he patting the flax and head with a very 444 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:43,300 tender hand. I came early because my friends, 445 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:44,700 mr. Holmes and dr. 446 00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:47,900 Watson have been persuaded to come down and spend an evening 447 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:50,100 with us. Is that mr. 448 00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:54,700 Holmes, the detective? Yes, the youth looked at us with 449 00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:59,800 a very penetrating and as it seemed to me unfriendly, gays, 450 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,900 what about your other child, mr. Ferguson asked Holmes might we 451 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:07,900 make the acquaintance of the baby. 452 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,400 Ask mrs. Mason to bring baby. 453 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,900 Dan said, Ferguson the boy, went off with a curious shambling, 454 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:20,800 gait, which told my surgical eyes that he was suffering from 455 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:25,700 a weak spine presently, he returned and behind him came a 456 00:31:25,708 --> 00:31:30,200 tall gaunt woman, bearing in her arms of very beautiful, child, 457 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,800 dark-eyed golden-haired, a wonderful mixture of the Saxon 458 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,600 and the Latin Ferguson was evidently devoted to it. 459 00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:43,800 He took it into his arms and fondled it, most tenderly, fancy 460 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:48,200 anyone having the heart to hurt him, he muttered as he glanced 461 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,200 down at the small Angry Red Packer upon the chair of throat. 462 00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:57,500 It was at this moment that I chanced to glance at homes and 463 00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:00,900 saw a most singular intentness in his expression. 464 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,500 His face was as set as if it had, been carved out of old 465 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:09,600 Ivory, and his eyes, which had glanced for A moment at father 466 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,100 and child were now fixed with eager curiosity upon something 467 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:18,100 at the other side of the room following his gaze. 468 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,800 I could only guess that he was looking out through the window 469 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,100 at The Melancholy dripping Garden. 470 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,300 It is true that a shatter had half-closed outside and 471 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:30,700 obstructed The View but nonetheless it was certainly at 472 00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:34,500 the windows at Holmes was fixing his concentrated attention. 473 00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:41,300 Then he smiled and his eyes came back to the baby on its chubby 474 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:44,300 neck. There was this small pocket Mark 475 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,200 without speaking, Holmes examined it with care. 476 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:52,500 Finally, he shook one of the dimpled fists which waved in 477 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:57,100 front of him. Goodbye little man, you have 478 00:32:57,100 --> 00:33:00,800 made a strange start in life nurse. 479 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:04,100 I should wish to have a word with you in private. 480 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:08,800 He took her aside and spoke earnestly for a few minutes. 481 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:14,300 I only Heard the Last Words, which were your anxiety will 482 00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:17,100 soon. I hope be set at rest. 483 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,300 The woman who seemed to be a Silas silent kind of creature 484 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,000 with two with the child, what is mrs. 485 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,800 Mason like asked Holmes, not very prepossessing. 486 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,600 Externally as you can see but a heart of gold and devoted to the 487 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,300 child. Do you like her Jack Holmes 488 00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:45,300 turned suddenly upon the boy his expressive mobile face shadowed 489 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:50,500 over and he shook his head. Jackie has very strong likes and 490 00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:53,700 dislikes said, Ferguson putting his arm around the boy. 491 00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:59,900 Luckily, I am one of his likes. The boy cooled and nestled his 492 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:04,200 head upon his father's breast Ferguson, gently disengaged him. 493 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,199 Run Away. Little Jackie said he and he 494 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:13,300 watched his son with loving eyes until he disappeared now, mr. 495 00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:15,900 Holmes, he continued when the boy was gone. 496 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,600 I rarely feel that I have brought you on a Fool's errand, 497 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:23,699 for what can you possibly do? Save, give me your sympathy. 498 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:27,900 It must be an exceedingly delicate and complex Affair from 499 00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:32,199 your point of view. It is certainly delicate said, 500 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:37,199 my friend with an amused smile. Died has not been struck up to 501 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:41,000 now with its complexity. It has been a case for 502 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,300 intellectual deduction, but when this original intellectual 503 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:49,400 deduction is confirmed Point by Point by quite a number of 504 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:55,300 independent incidents, then the subjective becomes objective and 505 00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:58,500 we can say confidently that we have reached our goal. 506 00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:04,700 I had, in fact, reached it before we left Baker Street and 507 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:08,700 the West has merely been observation and Confirmation 508 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,800 Ferguson. Put his big hand to his 509 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,800 forehead, forehead, Heaven's Sake homes, he said hoarsely. 510 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:21,000 If you can see the truth in this matter, do not keep me in 511 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,900 suspense. How do I stand? 512 00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:27,200 What do I do? I can uh, thing as to how you 513 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,400 have found your fax so long as you have really got them. 514 00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:36,000 Certainly, I owe you an explanation and you shall have 515 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,900 it, but you will permit me to handle the matter in my own way, 516 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:47,300 is the lady capable of seeing as Watson she is ill, but she had 517 00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:53,400 quite rational, very good. It is only in her presence that 518 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,000 we can clear the matter up. Let us go up to her. 519 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,600 She will not see me cried Ferguson. 520 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:06,700 Oh, yes, she will said, Holmes, he scribbled a few lines upon a 521 00:36:06,707 --> 00:36:10,600 sheet of paper. You at least have the entree 522 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,300 Watson. Will you have the goodness to 523 00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:18,100 give the lady this note? I ascended again and handed the 524 00:36:18,100 --> 00:36:23,300 note to Dolores who cautiously opened the door a minute later. 525 00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:28,600 I heard a cry from within a cry in which joy and surprise seemed 526 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:33,500 to be Blended Dolores looked out, she will see them. 527 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:37,900 She will. Listen said she At my summons 528 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,300 Ferguson and Holmes came up as we entered. 529 00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:45,200 The room Ferguson took a step or two towards his wife who had 530 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,300 raised herself in the bed, but she held out her hand to repulse 531 00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:54,000 him, he sank into an armchair while Holmes, seated himself 532 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000 beside him, after buying to the lady, who looked at him with 533 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:04,700 wide-eyed amazement, I think we can dispense with Dolores said 534 00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:08,900 Holmes. Oh very well Madam if you would 535 00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:13,600 rather she stayed I can see no objection now, mr. 536 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,900 Ferguson. I am a busy man with many calls 537 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,000 and my methods have to be short and direct. 538 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:24,200 The swiftest surgery is the least. 539 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,600 Painful. Let me first say, what will ease 540 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:33,800 your mind? Your wife is a very good, a very 541 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,200 loving, and a very ill-used woman. 542 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,400 Ferguson set up with a cry of joy. 543 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,300 That mr. Holmes and I am your debtor 544 00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:51,400 forever. I will do so but in doing so I 545 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,300 must wounded, you deeply in another Direction. 546 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,100 I cannot think so long as you clear, my wife. 547 00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:02,400 Everything on Earth is insignificant compared to that. 548 00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:07,600 Let me tell you, then the train of reasoning, which passed 549 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:13,500 through my mind in Baker Street, the idea of a vampire was to me 550 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:16,800 absurd, such things do not happen. 551 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:22,300 In criminal practice in England and yet your observation was 552 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:26,300 precise. You had seen the lady rise from 553 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:31,700 beside the child's cot with the blood upon her lips I did. 554 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,500 Did it not occur to you that a bleeding wound? 555 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:41,400 May be sucked for some other purpose than to draw the blood 556 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,400 from. It was there not a queen in 557 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,700 English History. Who sucked such a wound to draw 558 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:53,800 poison from it poison. A South American household. 559 00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:59,000 My instinct felt the presence of those weapons upon the wall. 560 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,200 Before my eyes ever saw them. It might have been In other 561 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,100 poison. But that was what occurred to me 562 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:11,100 when I saw that. Little empty, quiver beside the 563 00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:15,000 small bird bow. It was just what I expected to 564 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,500 see if the child were pricked with one of those arrows dipped 565 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:25,900 in curare or some other devilish drug, it would mean death if the 566 00:39:25,900 --> 00:39:30,500 Venom were not sucked out and the dog. 567 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,700 If one were to use such a poison would one not. 568 00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:38,500 Try it first in order to see that it had not lost its power. 569 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:45,000 I did not foresee the dog but at least I understand him and he 570 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:51,400 fitted into my reconstruction. Now, do you understand your 571 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,100 wife? Feared such an attack, she saw 572 00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:58,400 it made and saved the child's life. 573 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:05,400 And yet, she shrank from telling you all the truth for, she knew 574 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:10,100 how you love the boy and feared lest it break your heart. 575 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:16,400 Jackie. I watched him as he fondled, the 576 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:21,200 child, just now his face was clearly reflected in the glass 577 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,500 of the window where the shutter formed a background. 578 00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:32,000 I saw such jealousy such cruel hatred, as I have seldom seen in 579 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:38,400 a human face. My Jack, you have to face it mr. 580 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,600 Ferguson. It is the more painful because 581 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:47,100 it is a distorted love a maniacal, exaggerated love for 582 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:51,400 you and possibly for his dead mother, which has prompted his 583 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,800 action. His very soul is consumed with 584 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,800 hatred for this Splendid child, whose Health and Beauty are a 585 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:08,700 contrast to his own weakness. God, it is incredible. 586 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,800 Have five spoken, the truth, Madam. 587 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,500 The lady was sobbing with her face buried in the pillows. 588 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,800 No, she turned to her husband. How could I tell you? 589 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,900 Bob, I felt the blow. It would be to you. 590 00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:31,000 It was better that I should wait and that it should come from 591 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:36,500 some other lips than mine. When this gentleman who seems to 592 00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:39,900 have powers of magic wrote that he knew. 593 00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:47,600 All I was glad I think a year at Sea would be my prescription for 594 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,800 master Jackie said Holmes rising from his chair. 595 00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:54,900 Only one thing is still clouded my dumb. 596 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,700 We can I can understand your attacks upon Master Jackie. 597 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,600 There is a limit to a mother's patience. 598 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:07,500 But how did you dare to leave the child these last two days? 599 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:14,500 I had told mrs. Mason she knew exactly. 600 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:21,500 So I imagined Ferguson was standing by the bed, choking his 601 00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:23,800 hands outstretched and quivering. 602 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,700 This I fancy is the time for our exit. 603 00:42:28,700 --> 00:42:33,800 Watson said, Holmes in a whisper, if you will take one 604 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,900 elbow of the two faithful Dolores, I will take the other 605 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,500 The know, he added, as he closed the door behind him. 606 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,500 I think we may leave them to settle the rest among 607 00:42:47,500 --> 00:42:52,800 themselves. I have only one further note of 608 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,900 this case, it is the letter which Holmes wrote in final 609 00:42:56,900 --> 00:42:59,800 answer to that was which The Narrative begins. 610 00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:03,400 It ran. Thus, Baker Street November the 611 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:08,300 21st? Re vampires sir, referring to 612 00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:11,800 your letter of the 19th. I beg to state that I have 613 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,300 looked into the inquiry of your client mr. 614 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:18,300 Robert Ferguson of Ferguson and Muirhead, T Brokers of mincing 615 00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:22,400 Lane and that the map Has been brought to a satisfactory 616 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:26,300 conclusion with. Thanks for your recommendation. 617 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:33,400 I am sir Faithfully Yours, Sherlock Holmes, End of the 618 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,700 adventure of the Sussex vampire.