1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:06,000 Chapter 2 of part one of his last Bow by Sir, Arthur Conan 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,300 Doyle, this LibriVox recording is in the public domain. 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,300 Chapter 2, the tiger of San Pedro. 4 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:19,300 A cold and Melancholy walk of a couple of Miles brought us to a 5 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:22,800 high wooden gate which opened into a gloomy Avenue of 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,600 chestnuts, the curved and Shadow Drive, led us to a low dark 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:32,100 house pitch black against a slate-coloured sky from the 8 00:00:32,100 --> 00:00:34,600 front window. Upon the left of the door there. 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,400 Peeped a glimmer of a feeble light. 10 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:39,700 There's a constable in possession. 11 00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:42,300 Said Baines, I'll knock at the window. 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,300 He stepped across the grass, plot and tapped with his hand on 13 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:51,100 the pain, through the fog glass, I dimly saw a man spring up from 14 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:54,500 a chair beside the fire and heard a sharp cry from within 15 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:58,200 the room. An instant later, a white-faced 16 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,900 hard breathing policeman at. Open the door, the candle 17 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:07,200 wavering in his trembling hand, What's the matter Walters asked, 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,000 Baines sharply the man, mopped his forehead with his 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,700 handkerchief and gave a long sigh of relief. 20 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:17,900 I'm glad you've come sir. It's been a long evening and I 21 00:01:17,908 --> 00:01:20,200 don't think my nerve is as good as it was. 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,700 Your nerve Walters, I should not have thought you had a nerve in 23 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:28,500 your body. Well, sir, it's this lonely, 24 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:31,100 Silent House and the queer thing in the kitchen. 25 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:34,200 Then when you tapped at the window, I thought it had come 26 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,500 again. That water to come again. 27 00:01:38,300 --> 00:01:43,200 The devil sir for all I know it was at the window what was it 28 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:48,400 the window and when it was just about two hours ago the light 29 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,500 was just fading, I was sitting reading in the chair, I don't 30 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:56,200 know what made me look up, but there was a face looking in at 31 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,000 me through the lower pane Lord sir. 32 00:01:59,300 --> 00:02:02,100 What a face it was, I'll see you in my dreams. 33 00:02:03,100 --> 00:02:06,500 Tut-tut watches. This is not talk for a police 34 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:09,000 Constable. I know sir. 35 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,400 I know but it shook me sir and there's no use to deny it, it 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,300 wasn't black sir nor was it white, nor any color that I 37 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:21,400 know, but I kind of queer shade like clay with a splash of milk 38 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,600 in it. Then there was a size of it, it 39 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,800 was twice your sir and a look of it. 40 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:31,900 The great staring goggle eyes and a line of white teeth like a 41 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:35,400 hungry Beast. I tell you sir, I couldn't move 42 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,600 a finger nor get my breath to like whisked away and it was 43 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:43,600 gone out Iran and through the Shrubbery but thank God. 44 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,800 There was no one there. If I didn't know you were a good 45 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,600 man Walters I should put a black mark against you for this if it 46 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,400 were the Devil Himself a constable on duty should never 47 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,100 thank God that he could not lay his hands upon him. 48 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,500 I suppose the whole thing is not a vision and a touch of nerves 49 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:08,900 That at least is very easily. Settled said, Holmes lighting is 50 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:11,700 little pocket Lantern. Yes. 51 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:16,100 He reported after a short examination of the grass bed and 52 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:21,100 number 12 shoe I should say if you was all on the same scale as 53 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:26,800 his foot, he must certainly have been a giant What became of him, 54 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:30,900 he seems to have broken through the Shrubbery, and made for the 55 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:34,400 road. Well said, the inspector with a 56 00:03:34,408 --> 00:03:39,000 grave and thoughtful face. Whoever he may have been and 57 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,500 whatever. He may have wanted, he's gone 58 00:03:41,500 --> 00:03:45,000 for the present and we have more immediate things to attend to 59 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,700 now. Mr. Rome's, with your 60 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:52,400 permission, I will show you around the house, the various 61 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,600 bedrooms and sitting rooms had yielded nothing to a careful 62 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,500 search. Apparently the tenants had 63 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:02,000 brought little or nothing with them and all the furniture down 64 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,100 to the This details have been taken over with the house. 65 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:10,400 A good deal of clothing, with the stamp of Marks & Co High, 66 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,100 Holborn had been left behind telegraphic. 67 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:17,399 Inquiries had been already made which showed that marks knew 68 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:21,100 nothing of his customer. Say that he was a good payer 69 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:27,100 odds and ends some pipes, a few novels, two of them in Spanish. 70 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,900 An old-fashioned, pinfire, revolver and a guitar were among 71 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:37,000 the person, No property. Nothing in all this said, Baines 72 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:41,500 stalking candle in hand from room to room but now mr. 73 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:44,600 Holmes, I invite your attention to the kitchen. 74 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:49,400 It was a gloomy high-ceilinged room at the back of the house 75 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,600 with a straw litter in one corner, which served, apparently 76 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,800 as a bed for the cook. The table was piled with 77 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,900 half-eaten dishes and dirty plates. 78 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:02,700 The debris of last night's dinner, Look at this said, 79 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:05,000 domains or what do you make of it? 80 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:10,000 He held up his candle before an extraordinary object which stood 81 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,800 at the back of the dresser it was so wrinkled and shrunken and 82 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,300 withered that it was difficult to say what it might have been 83 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:23,000 one could but say that it was black and leathery and that it 84 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,600 bore some resemblance to a dwarfish, human figure. 85 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:31,600 At first, as I examined it, I thought that it was a mummified 86 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:36,900 negro baby and then it seemed a very twisted and ancient monkey. 87 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,300 Finally, I was left in doubt as to whether it was an animal or 88 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:45,400 human, a double band of white shells, were strung around the 89 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,400 center of it. Very interesting, very 90 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,900 interesting indeed, said Holmes peering at, this Sinister Relic. 91 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:01,500 Anything more in silence Baynes, led the way to the sink and held 92 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:05,700 forward his candle, the limbs and body of some large white 93 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:09,400 bird Torn savagely to Pieces with the feather still on. 94 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:14,400 Were littered all over it, Holmes pointed to the wattles on 95 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,400 the severed head. A white cock said he most 96 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,500 interesting, it is really a very curious case. 97 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,600 But mr. Baines had kept his most 98 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,600 Sinister exhibit to the last from under the sink. 99 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:34,000 He drew a zinc pale which contained a quantity of blood. 100 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,400 Then from the table he took a platter heaped with small pieces 101 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:42,700 of charred bone. Something has been killed and 102 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:45,800 something has been burned. We raked all these out. 103 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,600 The fire. We had a Doctrine this morning. 104 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,500 He says that they are not human Holmes, smiled and rubbed his 105 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:56,800 hands. I must congratulate you 106 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,600 inspector on handling so distinctive and instructive a 107 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:06,800 case your powers if I may say. So without offence seem Superior 108 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:11,800 to your opportunities, inspector Baynes, has small eyes twinkled 109 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,600 with pleasure. You're right, mr. 110 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:19,100 Holmes we Stagnate in the provinces a case of this sort 111 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:22,800 gives a man a chance and I hope that I shall take it, what do 112 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:29,200 you make of these bones? Alam I should say or a kid and 113 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,100 the white cock. Curious mr. 114 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:36,700 Baines, very curious. I should say almost unique. 115 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:39,900 Yes, sir. There must have been some very 116 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:43,500 strange people with some very strange ways in this house. 117 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,800 One of them is dead, did his companions? 118 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,600 Follow him and kill him. If they did we should have them 119 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,900 for every port is watched but my own views are different. 120 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,500 Yes, sir. My own views are very different. 121 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,100 You have a theory then and I'll work it myself, mr. 122 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:06,900 Holmes, it's only due to my own credit to do. 123 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:11,300 So your name is made but I've still to make mine. 124 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,900 I shall be glad to be able to say afterwards that I had solved 125 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:19,200 it without your help. Holmes laughed good-humouredly 126 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:22,600 her. Well, well inspector said, he do 127 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,700 you. Follow your path and I will 128 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:28,100 follow mine. My results are always very much 129 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:30,500 at your service. If you care to apply to me for 130 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:33,400 them. I think that I've seen all that 131 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,400 I wish in this house and that's my time, maybe more profitably, 132 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,500 employed elsewhere, or revoir and good luck. 133 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:46,100 I could tell by numerous subtle signs which might have been lost 134 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:51,500 upon anyone but myself that Holmes was on a hot scent as 135 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:53,900 impassive as ever to the Casual Observer. 136 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:57,800 There were nonetheless, a subdued eagerness and suggestion 137 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,900 of tension in his brightened eyes and brisk a manner, which 138 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:05,200 he assured me. That the game was afoot after 139 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,900 his habit, he said nothing and after mine, I asked no 140 00:09:08,900 --> 00:09:12,100 questions. Sufficient for me to share the 141 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:15,900 And lend my humble help to capture without distracting that 142 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:19,600 intent brain. With needless Interruption all 143 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:24,500 would come round to me in due time, I waited there for, but to 144 00:09:24,508 --> 00:09:28,100 my ever-deepening disappointment, I waited in vain 145 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,300 day, succeeded day and my friend took no step forward. 146 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:36,800 One morning. He spent in town and I learned 147 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,000 from a casual reference that he had visited the British museum. 148 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:45,600 So for this one Excursion, he spent his days in long and often 149 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,000 solitary, walks or in chatting, with a number of Village, 150 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:54,100 gossips whose acquaintance he had cultivated, I'm sure Watson 151 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,900 are weak in the country will be invaluable to you. 152 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:01,700 He remarked, it is very pleasant to see the first green shoots 153 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:05,900 upon the hedges and the catkins on the Hazel's once again with a 154 00:10:05,908 --> 00:10:09,500 spud, a tin box and an elementary book on botany. 155 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,300 There are Active days to be spent. 156 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,900 He prowled about with this equipment himself, but it was a 157 00:10:16,908 --> 00:10:20,100 poor show of plants, which he would bring back of an evening 158 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:24,900 occasionally in our Rambles. We came across inspector Baines 159 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:30,100 his fat red face, wreathed itself in smiles and his small 160 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:32,700 eyes glittered as he greeted my companion. 161 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:37,000 He said, little about the case, but from that little we gathered 162 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,300 that he also was not dissatisfied at the course of 163 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:42,400 events. I must admit however that I was 164 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,300 somewhat. Is when some five days after the 165 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:49,500 crime, I opened my morning paper to find in large letters. 166 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:55,400 The akshar, not mystery a solution, a rest of supposed 167 00:10:55,400 --> 00:11:00,200 assassin, Holmes, sprang in his chair as if he'd been stung, 168 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:05,500 when I read the headlines by jove he cried, you don't mean 169 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:09,900 that Baynes has got him. Apparently said I, as I read the 170 00:11:09,908 --> 00:11:13,800 following report, great excitement was caused in Isha 171 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,200 and the neighboring District when it was learned late last 172 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,600 night, that an arrest had been affected in connection with the 173 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,500 upshot murder. It will be remembered that. 174 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:26,300 Mr. Garcia of Wisteria Lodge was found dead on oakeshott common, 175 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,100 his body showing signs of extreme violence. 176 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,500 And that on the same night, his servant and his cook fled which 177 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:35,900 appeared to show their participation in the crime. 178 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,600 It was suggested But never proved that. 179 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,400 The deceased gentleman may have had valuables in the house and 180 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,500 that their abstraction was the motive of the crime. 181 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:50,000 Every effort was made by inspector Baines, who has the 182 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,900 case in hand to ascertain. The Hiding Place of the 183 00:11:52,900 --> 00:11:56,300 fugitives and he had good reason to believe that they had not 184 00:11:56,300 --> 00:11:59,400 gone far, but were lurking in some Retreat, which have been 185 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,900 already prepared. It was certain from the first 186 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:05,900 however that they would eventually be detected as the 187 00:12:05,900 --> 00:12:09,800 cook from the evidence of one or Trades people who have caught a 188 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:10,900 glimpse of him through the window. 189 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:15,600 Was a man of most remarkable appearance being a huge and 190 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,900 hideous mulatto with yellowish features of a pronounced negroid 191 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:23,200 type. This man has been seen since the 192 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,700 crime for he was detected and pursued by Constable. 193 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:29,900 Walters on the same evening, when he had the audacity to 194 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:35,200 revisit Wisteria Lodge inspector Baines, considering that such a 195 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:39,100 visit must have some purpose in View, and Is likely therefore to 196 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:43,200 be repeated abandoned the house but left an ambuscade in the 197 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,500 Shrubbery. The man walked into the Trap and 198 00:12:46,500 --> 00:12:49,900 was captured last night after a struggle in which Constable 199 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:53,700 Downing was badly. Bitten by The Savage, we 200 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:55,700 understand that. When the prisoner is brought 201 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:59,400 before the magistrates areum and will be applied for by the 202 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,600 police and that great developments are hoped from his 203 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:07,900 capture. Really we must see Baines at 204 00:13:07,900 --> 00:13:10,800 once. Cried Holmes picking up his hat, 205 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:13,900 we will just catch him before he starts. 206 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:17,700 We hurried Down The Village Street and found as we had 207 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:21,700 expected that the inspector was just leaving his lodgings. 208 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,700 You seen the paper mr. Holmes, he asked holding one out 209 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:28,800 to us. Yes, Baines. 210 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,800 I've seen it pray. Don't think it a liberty. 211 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:36,100 If IV give you a word of friendly warning of warning, mr. 212 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:42,000 Holmes, I have looked into this case with some care and I am not 213 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,600 convinced that you're on the right lines. 214 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:47,900 I don't want you to commit yourself to far unless you're 215 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:51,600 sure you're very kind, mr. Holmes. 216 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,000 I assure you. I speak for your good. 217 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:00,000 It seemed to me that something like a wink quivered for an 218 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,400 instant over. One of mr. 219 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:06,200 Baines has tiny eyes. We agreed to work on our own 220 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,800 lines. Mr. Holmes, that's what I'm 221 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,800 doing. Oh, very good said, Holmes, 222 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:18,000 don't blame me. No, sir, I believe you mean well 223 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,300 by me, but we all have our own systems, mr. 224 00:14:20,300 --> 00:14:24,400 Holmes, you have yours and maybe I have mine. 225 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:29,300 Let us say no more about it. You're welcome. 226 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:33,500 Always to my news. This fellow is a perfect Savage 227 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,900 as strong as a carthorse and as Fierce as the devil, he chewed 228 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:41,600 Downing stump nearly off before. They could Master him, he hardly 229 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,400 speaks a word of English and we can get nothing out of him. 230 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,300 But grunts. And you think you have evidence 231 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:50,100 that he murdered his late master. 232 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:56,100 I didn't say so mr. Holmes I didn't say so we all 233 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:59,700 have our little ways. You try yours and I will try 234 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:03,600 mine. That's the agreement Holmes 235 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:05,900 Shrugged, his shoulders as we walked away together. 236 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,800 I can't make the man out. He seems to be riding for a 237 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,200 fall. Well, as he says, we must eat, 238 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,800 try our own way and see what comes of it, but there's 239 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,500 something in inspector Baines, which I can't quite understand, 240 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,900 just sit down in that chair, Watson said, Sherlock Holmes. 241 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:29,900 When we had returned to our apartment at the bull, I want to 242 00:15:29,900 --> 00:15:33,500 put you in touch with the situation as I may need your 243 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:36,700 help tonight. Let me show you the evolution of 244 00:15:36,708 --> 00:15:41,500 this case so far, as I have been able to follow it simple, as it 245 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:44,700 has been in its leading features, it has non the less 246 00:15:44,700 --> 00:15:47,300 presented surprising difficulties in the way of an 247 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:50,300 arrest. There are gaps in that direction 248 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:52,000 which were may have to still fill. 249 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:57,200 We still go back to the note, which was handed into Garcia 250 00:15:57,300 --> 00:16:02,300 upon the evening of his death. We may put aside this idea of 251 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:06,000 baines's that Garcia's servants were concerned in the matter. 252 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:10,500 The proof of this lies in the fact that it was, he who had 253 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:14,100 arranged for the presence of Scott Eccles, which could only 254 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:16,400 have been done for the purpose of an alibi. 255 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,000 It was Garcia then who had an Enterprise and apparently, a 256 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,200 criminal Enterprise in hand that night in the course of which he 257 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,700 met his death. I say criminal because only a 258 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:33,600 And with a Criminal Enterprise desires to establish an alibi 259 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,100 who then is most likely to have taken his life. 260 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,800 Surely the person against whom the criminal Enterprise was 261 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,900 directed so far. It seems to me that we are on 262 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:49,000 safe ground. We can now see a reason for The 263 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,800 Disappearance of Garcia's household. 264 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,200 They were all Confederates in the same unknown crime. 265 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,100 If it came off when Garcia returned, And any possible 266 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:05,200 suspicion would be warded off by the englishman's evidence and 267 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,599 all would be well, but the attempt was a dangerous one. 268 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,700 And if Garcia did not return by a certain hour, it was probable 269 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,500 that his own life had been sacrificed. 270 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,300 It had been arranged therefore that in such a case, his to 271 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:26,000 subordinates were to make for some pre-arranged spot where 272 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,700 they could Escape investigation and be in a position afterwards. 273 00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:34,300 To renew their attempt that would fully explain the facts, 274 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:37,900 would it? Not the whole explicable tangle 275 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:39,500 seemed to straighten out before me. 276 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,100 I wondered as I always did how it had not been obvious to me 277 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:46,300 before. But why should one servant 278 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:50,100 returned we can? Imagine that in the confusion of 279 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:54,200 flight, something precious something, which he could not 280 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,200 bear to part with had been left behind. 281 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,400 That would explain his persistence. 282 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,200 Would it not? Well, what is the next step? 283 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,600 The next step is the note received by Garcia at the 284 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,800 dinner. It indicates a Confederate at 285 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:16,400 the other end. Now, where was the other end? 286 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,200 I have already shown you that it could only lie in some large 287 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:25,100 house and that the number of large houses is limited my first 288 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:28,500 days in this Village were devoted to a series of walks in 289 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:32,000 which, in the intervals, of my Botanical research, has I made 290 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,600 Reconnaissance of all the large houses and an examination of the 291 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:42,500 family history of the occupants one house and only one riveted 292 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:46,400 my attention. It is a famous old jacobean, 293 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,000 Grange of high Gable, one mile on the farther side of oakeshott 294 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,800 and less than half a mile from the scene of the tragedy, The 295 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,100 Other Mansions belong to prosaic, and respectable people 296 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:02,200 who live far aloof from Romance. But mr. 297 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:06,000 Henderson of high Gable was by all accounts. 298 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,200 A curious, man to whom curious Adventures, might before I 299 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,900 concentrated my attention, therefore upon him and his 300 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:19,300 household. A singular set of people Watson, 301 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:24,300 the man himself the most singular of them, all, I managed 302 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:28,000 to see him on a plausible pretext, but I seem to read in 303 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,400 his dark deepest, brooding eyes that he was perfectly aware of 304 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,700 my true business. He is a man of fifty, strong 305 00:19:36,700 --> 00:19:41,500 active with iron-gray hair, great bunched, black eyebrows, 306 00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:46,700 the step of a deer and the air of an emperor, a fierce A full 307 00:19:46,700 --> 00:19:50,300 man with a red-hot spirit behind his parchment face. 308 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:54,700 He's either a foreigner or has lived along in the tropics for 309 00:19:54,700 --> 00:19:59,500 he is yellow and sapless, but tough as whipcord his friend and 310 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:02,100 secretary mr. Lucas is undoubtedly. 311 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:06,900 A foreigner chocolate brown. Wiley Suave and cat-like with a 312 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:11,700 poisonous gentleness of speech. You see Watson we have come 313 00:20:11,700 --> 00:20:13,800 already upon two sets of foreigners. 314 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:18,000 One at Wisteria Lodge. And one at high Gable. 315 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:24,500 So our gaps are beginning to close these two men, close and 316 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:29,000 confidential friends are the center of the household but 317 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,300 there is one other person who for our immediate purpose, maybe 318 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:36,600 even more important. Henderson has two children, 319 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:42,700 girls of 11 and 13, their governess is a Miss Bernette an 320 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:44,800 English woman of forty or thereabouts. 321 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:50,400 There is also Confidential manservant this little group 322 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,800 forms. The real family for they travel 323 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,500 about together and Henderson is a great Traveller always on the 324 00:20:56,500 --> 00:20:58,900 move. It is only within the last 325 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:02,300 week's that he has returned after a Year's absence to high 326 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:06,100 Gable. I may add that he is enormously 327 00:21:06,100 --> 00:21:10,400 rich and whatever his whims maybe he can very easily satisfy 328 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,400 them. For the rest. 329 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,300 His house is full of Butler's footmen. 330 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:18,300 Maid servants. And the usual overfed 331 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:21,600 underworked staff of a large English Country House. 332 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,000 So much I learned partly from Village gossip and partly from 333 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,700 my own observation. There are no better instruments 334 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:34,900 than discharge servants with a grievance and I was lucky enough 335 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:38,800 to find one. I call it luck, but it would not 336 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,600 have come my way. Had I not been looking out for 337 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:46,400 it as Baines remarks. We all have our systems. 338 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:50,500 It was my system which enabled me to find John. 339 00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:51,900 Warner. Late God. 340 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:55,600 Gardner of high Gable sacked. In a moment of Temper by his 341 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,400 imperious employer. He in turn had friends among the 342 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,000 indoor servants who unite in their fear and dislike of their 343 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,800 master. So, I had my key to the secrets 344 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,700 of the establishment, Curious people want some. 345 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:16,100 I don't pretend to understand it all yet but very curious people 346 00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:20,300 anyway, it's a double winged house and the servants live. 347 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:22,800 On one side, the family on the other. 348 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,600 There's no link between the to save for Henderson's own 349 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,100 servant, who serves the family's meals. 350 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:33,500 Everything is carried to a certain door which forms the one 351 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:37,300 connection. Governess and children hardly go 352 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:41,200 out at all, except into the Garden Henderson, Never by any 353 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,400 chance, walks alone, his dark secretary's. 354 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,700 Like his shadow, the gossip among the servants is their 355 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:50,700 Master is terribly. Afraid of something. 356 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,900 Sold his soul to the devil in exchange for money, says Warner 357 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,400 and expects his creditor to come up and claim his own, where they 358 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,000 came from or who they are, nobody has an idea. 359 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:08,400 They are very violent twice, Henderson has lashed it folk 360 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,900 with his dog Whip and only his long purse and heavy 361 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:14,700 compensation of kept him out of the courts. 362 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:19,400 Well, now Watson, let us judge the situation by this new 363 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,900 information. We may take it that the letter 364 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:26,200 came out of this strange household and was an invitation 365 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,100 to Garcia to carry out some attempt which had already been 366 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:32,700 planned. Who wrote the note? 367 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:39,500 It was someone within the Citadel and it was a woman who 368 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:43,500 then but miss Bernette the governess, all our reasoning 369 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:46,200 seems to point that way at any rate. 370 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:50,100 We may take it as a hypothesis and see what consequences it 371 00:23:50,100 --> 00:23:53,700 would entail. I may add that Miss Bernette 372 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:57,700 sage and character make it certain that my first idea that 373 00:23:57,700 --> 00:24:01,200 there might be a love interest in our story is out of the 374 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,500 question. Justin, if she wrote the note, 375 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,700 she was. Presumably the friend and 376 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:11,400 Confederate of Garcia. What then might she be expected 377 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:17,100 to do if she heard of his death? If he met it in some nefarious 378 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:20,100 Enterprise, her lips might be sealed. 379 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,900 Still in her heart. She must retain bitterness and 380 00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:29,100 hatred against those who had killed him and would presumably 381 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:31,200 help so far as she could have Revenge. 382 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,400 Upon them. Could we see her then and try to 383 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,500 use her? That was my first thought but 384 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:44,200 now we come to a Sinister fact, Miss Burnett has not been seen 385 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,500 by any human eyes since the night of the murder from that 386 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,800 evening. She has utterly vanished. 387 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,900 Is she alive as she? Perhaps met her end on the same 388 00:24:54,900 --> 00:24:58,800 night as the friend whom she had summoned, or is she merely a 389 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,900 prisoner? There is the point which we 390 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:05,700 still have to decide. You will appreciate the 391 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:07,800 difficulty of the situation Watson. 392 00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:12,100 There is nothing upon which we can apply for a warrant our 393 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:15,000 whole scheme. Might seem fantastic if laid 394 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,900 before a magistrate the woman's disappearance counts for 395 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:22,000 nothing. Since in that extraordinary 396 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,300 household. Any member of it might be 397 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:29,000 invisible for a week and yet she met at the present moment, be in 398 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,700 danger of her life. All I can do is to watch the 399 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:37,700 house and leave my agent Warner on guard at the gates. 400 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,000 We can't let such a situation, continue. 401 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:46,200 It's a law can do nothing. We must take the risk ourselves. 402 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:51,500 What do you suggest I know which is her room? 403 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:54,300 It is accessible from the top of an outhouse. 404 00:25:55,200 --> 00:26:00,200 My suggestion is that you and I go tonight and see if we can 405 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,700 strike at the very heart of the mystery. 406 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:06,400 It was not. I must confess a very alluring 407 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,500 Prospect the old house with its atmosphere of murder, the 408 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:14,100 singular, and formidable, inhabitants, the unknown dangers 409 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:16,900 of the approach and the fact that we were putting ourselves 410 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:21,700 legally in a false position all combined to damp my order. 411 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,600 But there was something in the ice-cold reasoning of homes, 412 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000 which made it impossible to shrink from any Adventure, which 413 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,500 he might recommend one knew that the sand only, thus, could a 414 00:26:33,508 --> 00:26:37,700 solution be found. I clasped his hand in silence 415 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,500 and the die was cast. But it was not destined that. 416 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:45,300 Our investigation should have so adventurous and ending. 417 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:49,700 It was about 5:00 and the Shadows of the March evening 418 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:53,100 were beginning to fall when an excited rustic, rushed into our 419 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:55,300 room. I've gone mr. 420 00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:59,400 Holmes, they went by the last train, the lady broke away and 421 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,300 I've got her in a cab downstairs. 422 00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:06,800 Excellent Warner Pride homes springing to his feet Watson. 423 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:12,700 The gaps are closing rapidly in the cab was a woman half 424 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:14,600 collapsed from nervous exhaustion. 425 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:19,000 She bore upon her aquiline and emaciated face the traces of 426 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,200 some recent tragedy. Her head hung listlessly upon 427 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,000 her breast but as she raised it and turned her dull Eyes Upon 428 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,900 Us, I saw the her pupils were dark dots in the center of the 429 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:32,100 broad gray. Iris! 430 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:38,000 She was drugged with opium. I watched at the gate same as 431 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,600 you advised. Mr. Holmes said our msre the 432 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,900 discharged Gardener, when the carriage came out, I followed it 433 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:48,900 to the station. She was like one walking in her 434 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:52,400 sleep, but when they try to get her into the train, she came to 435 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,000 life in struggled. They pushed her into the 436 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,200 carriage, she fought her way out. 437 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,300 Again, I took apart got in a cab and here we are. 438 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,600 I shan't forget the face at the carriage window as I led her 439 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:09,900 away. a short life if I'd is way The Black-Eyed scowling yellow 440 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:16,000 devil, We carried her upstairs later on the sofa and a couple 441 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 of cups of the strongest coffee soon. 442 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,200 Cleared her brain from The Mists of the drug Baines have been 443 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,300 summoned by homes and the situation rapidly explain to him 444 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:29,400 why. So you've got me the very 445 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,300 evidence I want. So the inspector warmly shaking 446 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:37,500 my friend by the hand, I was on the same sense as you from the 447 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:41,600 first. What you are off to Henderson, 448 00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:45,400 why mr. Holmes, when you are crawling in 449 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,200 the Shrubbery at high Gable, I was up one of the trees in the 450 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,500 plantation and saw you down below. 451 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000 It was just who would get his evidence first. 452 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Then why did you arrest the mulatto Baines chuckled? 453 00:29:00,700 --> 00:29:04,400 I was sure Henderson's. He calls himself felt that he 454 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,500 was suspected that he would lie low, and make no move so long as 455 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:12,800 he thought, Was in any danger? I arrested the wrong man to make 456 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,000 him believe that our eyes were off him. 457 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:18,700 I knew it'd be likely to clear off then and give us a chance of 458 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:22,500 getting it Miss Burnett. Holmes, laid his hand upon the 459 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:26,400 inspectors shoulder. You will rise high in your 460 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,100 profession. You have Instinct and intuition 461 00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:33,000 said he, Bane's flushed with pleasure. 462 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,900 Now that plainclothes man waiting at the station, all the 463 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:39,700 week, wherever the high Gable folk go. 464 00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:42,800 We will keep them in sight but he must have been hard. 465 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,000 Put to it when Miss Bernette broke away. 466 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,600 However, your man picked her up and it was all ends. 467 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,100 Well, we can't arrest without her evidence. 468 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:53,700 That is clear. So the sooner we get a 469 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:58,600 statement, the better every minute she gets stronger, said 470 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,300 Holmes glancing, at the governess, But tell me Baines, 471 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:09,200 who is this man Henderson? Henderson inspector answered is 472 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:15,800 Don Murillo once called the tiger of San Pedro, the tiger of 473 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,800 San Pedro, the whole history of the man came back to me in a 474 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,600 Flash. He had made his name as the most 475 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,600 elude and bloodthirsty Tyrant at it ever governed. 476 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,800 Any country, with a pretends, to civilization strong, fearless, 477 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,800 and energetic. He has sufficient virtue to 478 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:38,500 enable him to impose his odious. Is upon a cowering people for 10 479 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:42,400 or 12 years. His name was a terror through 480 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,700 all Central America at the end of that time. 481 00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:49,100 There was a universal Rising against him, but he was as 482 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:52,500 cunning as he was cruel. And at the first Whisper of 483 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:55,400 coming trouble. He had secretly conveyed, his 484 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,400 treasures aboard his ship, which was manned by devoted adherence. 485 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:03,400 It was an empty Palace which was stormed by the insurgents. 486 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:09,000 Next day the Later, his two children, his secretary and his 487 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,900 wealth had all escaped them from that moment. 488 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,300 He had vanished from the world, and his identity had been a 489 00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:19,500 frequent subject for comment in the European press. 490 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:24,800 Yes, sir, Don Murillo, the tiger of San. 491 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,000 Pedro said, Baines, if you look it up, you will find that the 492 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,700 San Pedro colors are green and white. 493 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:35,900 Same as in the note, mr. Holmes Henderson, he call 494 00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:40,100 himself but I traced him back Paris and Rome and Madrid to 495 00:31:40,100 --> 00:31:45,200 Barcelona where his ship came in in 86, no been looking for him 496 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,900 all the time for their Revenge, but it is only now that they 497 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:53,500 have begun to find him out. They discovered him a year ago 498 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:57,500 said Miss Burnett who had sat up and was now intently following 499 00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:02,800 the conversation what's already is life has been attempted, but 500 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,200 some evil spirit, shielded him. Now again it is the noble 501 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:12,300 chivalrous Garcia who has fallen while the monster goes safe, but 502 00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:16,900 another will come, and yet another until some day Justice 503 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:19,600 will be done. That is a certain as the rise of 504 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,900 Tomorrow, son. Athena hands clenched and her 505 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:26,800 worn face blanched with the passion of her hatred. 506 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:33,000 But how come you into this matter, Miss Burnett asked 507 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,900 Holmes, how can an English lady join in such a murderous affair. 508 00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:43,500 I join in it because there is no other way in the world by which 509 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,800 Justice can be gained. What does the law of England 510 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,400 care for the rivers of blood shed years ago in San Pedro? 511 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,800 All for the shipload of treasure, which this man has 512 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,500 stolen to you. They're like crimes committed in 513 00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:02,600 some other planet but we know we have learned the truth in sorrow 514 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,800 and in suffering to us, there is no fiend in hell like one 515 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:10,700 Murillo and no peace. Life while his victims. 516 00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:15,300 Still cry for vengeance. No doubt said Holmes. 517 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,700 He was as you say. I have heard that he was 518 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:21,700 atrocious, but how are you affected? 519 00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:27,400 I will tell you it all this villains policy was to murder on 520 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,800 one pretext or another. Every man who showed such 521 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,700 promise that he might in time, come to be a dangerous rival. 522 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:36,600 My husband. Yes. 523 00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:41,300 My real name is senior evict or odor and oh, was the San Pedro 524 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:44,800 minister in London? He met me and married me there. 525 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,000 I know blah man, never lived upon Earth. 526 00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:53,900 Unhappily Murillo, heard of his Excellence, recalled him on some 527 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:58,300 pretext and had him shot with a premonition of his fate. 528 00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,700 He had refused to take me with him, his Estates were 529 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:06,700 confiscated and I was left with pittance and a broken heart, 530 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:11,699 then came the downfall of the Tyrant, he escaped as you have 531 00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:15,699 just described but the many whose lives he had ruined whose 532 00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:20,400 nearest and dearest had suffered torture and Such as hands would 533 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,000 not let the matter. Rest, they banded themselves 534 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,300 into a society which would never be dissolved until the work was 535 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:30,900 done. It was my part after we had 536 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:35,000 discovered in the transformed Henderson, the Fallen despot to 537 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,800 attach myself to his household and keep the others in touch 538 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:43,000 with his movements. This, I was able to do by 539 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,699 securing the position of governess in his family. 540 00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:50,400 He little knew that the woman who faced him at every meal was 541 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,300 the woman whose husband. He had hurried at an hours. 542 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:56,800 Notice into eternity. I smiled on him. 543 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:00,200 Did my duty to his children and bided. 544 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:04,200 My time, an attempt was made in Paris and failed. 545 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,900 We zigzagged swiftly here, and there over Europe to throw off 546 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:12,000 the pursuers. And finally, Turn to this house, 547 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:15,400 which he had taken upon his first arrival in England. 548 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,200 But here also, the Ministers of Justice were waiting, knowing 549 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,600 that he would return there Garcia. 550 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,200 Who is the son of the former highest dignitary in. 551 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,400 San Pedro was waiting with to trusty Companions of humble 552 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,900 station. All three fired with the same 553 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:37,600 reasons for Revenge. He could do little during the 554 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,700 day for Murillo, took every precaution. 555 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:45,500 And never went out say with his satellite, Lucas or Lopez as he 556 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:50,000 was known in the As of his greatness at night, however, he 557 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,200 slept alone and the Avenger might find him on a certain 558 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,100 evening which had been prearranged. 559 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:59,500 I sent my friend final instructions for the man was 560 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:03,000 forever on the alert and continually changed his room. 561 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,900 I was to see that the doors were open and the signal of a green 562 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:11,700 or white light in a window, which faced the drive was to 563 00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:15,700 give notice if all was safe, or if the attempt had better be 564 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:18,800 postponed. And but everything went wrong 565 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,900 with us. In some way. 566 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:25,400 I had excited, the suspicion of Lopez, the secretary, he crept 567 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,900 up behind me and sprang upon me just. 568 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:31,700 As I had finished the note. He and his master dragged me to 569 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:35,300 my room and held judgment upon me as a convicted traitorous 570 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,300 then and there they would have plunged their knives into me. 571 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,300 Could they have seen how to escape the consequences of the 572 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:46,500 deed? Finally, after much debate, They 573 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:50,500 concluded that my murder was too dangerous, but they determined 574 00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:55,600 to get rid of forever of Garcia. They had gagged me and marullo 575 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,400 twisted, my arm around until I gave him the address. 576 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,400 I swear that he might have Twisted it off. 577 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,300 Had I understood what it would mean to Garcia. 578 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,600 Lopez address the note which I had written sealed it with his 579 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:15,100 sleeve link and send it by the hand of the servant Jose how 580 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:18,400 they murdered him. I do not know say that it was 581 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:22,600 Murillo's hand who struck him down for Lopez had remained to 582 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,700 guard me. I believe he must have waited 583 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:29,300 among the gorse bushes through which the path wines and struck 584 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:33,700 him down as he passed. At first, they were of a mind to 585 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:36,900 let him enter the house and to kill him as a detected burglar. 586 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,600 But they argued that if they were mixed up in an inquiry with 587 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,400 their own identity would at once be publicly disclosed and they 588 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,700 would be open to further attacks with the death of Garcia. 589 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,200 The pursuit might cease since such a death, might frighten 590 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,200 others from the task. All would now have been well for 591 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,500 them. Had it not been for my knowledge 592 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:03,000 of what they had done. I have no doubt that there were 593 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,700 times when my life hung in the balance. 594 00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:10,400 I was confined to my room, terrorized by the most horrible 595 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,400 threats. Cruelly ill used to break my 596 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,400 spirit. See this stabbed on my shoulder 597 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:20,700 and the bruises from the end to end of my arms and a gag was 598 00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:24,400 thrust into my mouth on the one occasion when I tried to call 599 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,600 from the window. For five days, this cruel 600 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:33,100 imprisonment continued with hardly enough food to hold Body 601 00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:37,000 and Soul. Together this afternoon, a good 602 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,600 lunch was brought me but the moment after I took it. 603 00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:44,500 I knew that I'd been drugged in a sort of dream. 604 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,900 I remember being half LED half carried to the carriage in the 605 00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,200 same state. I was conveyed to the train. 606 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,600 Only, then, when the wheels were almost moving, did I suddenly 607 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,100 realize that my Liberty lay in my own hands? 608 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:03,100 I sprang out. They tried to drag me back and 609 00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:06,300 had it not been for the help of this good man who led me to the 610 00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:09,000 cab. I should never have broken away 611 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,000 now. Thank God, I am beyond their 612 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:18,000 power forever. We had all listened intently to 613 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,600 this remarkable statement. It was homes. 614 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,500 Who broke the silence? Our difficulties are not over. 615 00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:30,500 He remarked shaking his head. Our police work ends, but our 616 00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:35,800 legal work begins. Exactly today, a plausible 617 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,400 lawyer, could make it out as an act of self-defense. 618 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,300 No, maybe a hundred crimes in the background, but it is only 619 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:44,400 on this one that they can be tried. 620 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:49,700 Come come said Baines cheerily, I think better of the law than 621 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:53,000 that self-defense is one thing to entice. 622 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,000 A Man In Cold Blood with the object of murdering him is 623 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,000 another whatever danger you may fear from him? 624 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,000 No, no. We shall all be justified when 625 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,700 we see the tenants of high Gable at the next Guilford assizes. 626 00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:10,500 It is a master of History. However, that a little time was 627 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:13,900 still to elapse before the tiger of San Pedro. 628 00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:17,800 Should meet with his desserts Wiley and bold. 629 00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:21,600 He and His companion through their pursuer off their Track by 630 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,300 entering a lodging House in Edmonton Street and leaving by 631 00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:29,200 the back gate into kurzon square from that day. 632 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:33,800 There was seen no more England, some six months afterwards the 633 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,300 Marquess of Montrose lava and Senior truly his secretary. 634 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,100 We're both murdered in their rooms at the hotel, escorial at 635 00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:43,900 Madrid. The crime was described to 636 00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:49,200 nihilism and the murderers were never arrested inspector Baines 637 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,400 visitors as a trigger street with a printed description of 638 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,500 the dark face of the secretary and of the masterful features. 639 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:01,400 The magnetic black eyes and the tufted brows of his master. 640 00:41:02,300 --> 00:41:08,000 We could not doubt that Justice if belated had come at last our 641 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,600 chaotic case, my dear Watson said, Holmes over an evening 642 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,300 pipe, it will not be possible for you to present in that 643 00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:18,200 compact form, which is dear to your heart. 644 00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:22,100 It covers two continents, concerns, two groups of 645 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:26,100 mysterious persons and is further Complicated by the 646 00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:28,500 highly respectable presence of our friend. 647 00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:33,600 Scott Eccles, whose inclusion shows me, The deceased Garcia 648 00:41:33,900 --> 00:41:37,100 had a scheming mind and a well-developed Instinct of 649 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:40,900 self-preservation. It is remarkable only for the 650 00:41:40,900 --> 00:41:43,400 fact that a mid of perfect Jungle of possibilities. 651 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:48,200 We with our worthy collaborator, the inspector have kept our 652 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:52,000 close, hold on the essentials and so been guided along the 653 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,300 crooked and winding path. Is there any point, which is not 654 00:41:56,300 --> 00:42:01,500 quite clear to you the object of the mulatto Cooks return? 655 00:42:02,900 --> 00:42:05,500 I think that the strange creature in the kitchen May 656 00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:09,200 account for it. The man was A Primitive Savage 657 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:14,400 from the backwoods of San Pedro. And this was his fetish when his 658 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,600 companion and he had fled to some prearranged Retreat already 659 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,800 occupied. No doubt by a Confederate. 660 00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:25,000 The companion had persuaded him to leave so compromising an 661 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000 article of furniture, but the mulattos heart was with it and 662 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,700 he was driven back to it next day when on, During through the 663 00:42:32,700 --> 00:42:37,800 window, he found policeman, Walters in possession, he waited 664 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:42,900 three days longer and then his piety or his Superstition, drove 665 00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:46,600 him to try. Once more inspector Baines, who 666 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,100 with his usual astuteness had minimized, the incident before 667 00:42:50,100 --> 00:42:54,200 me had really recognized its importance and had left a trap 668 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,000 into which the creature walked. Any other point Watson? 669 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:03,400 The torn bird, the pail of blood, the charred bones, all 670 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,200 the mystery of that weird kitchen. 671 00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:08,800 Holmes smiled. As he turned up an entry in his 672 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,400 notebook. I spent a morning in the British 673 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,800 museum reading up on that and other points. 674 00:43:16,500 --> 00:43:20,300 Here is a quotation from a Commons voodooism and the 675 00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:24,600 negroid religions the true Voodoo worshiper attempts. 676 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:28,200 Nothing of importance without certain sacrifices which are 677 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,200 intended to propitiate his unclean. 678 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,000 God's in extreme cases these rights. 679 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,900 Take the form of human sacrifices. 680 00:43:35,900 --> 00:43:40,500 Followed by cannibalism the more usual victims are a white cock 681 00:43:40,700 --> 00:43:45,100 which is plucked in pieces alive or a black goat, whose throat is 682 00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:49,900 cut and body burned. So you see our Savage. 683 00:43:49,900 --> 00:43:52,300 Friend was very Orthodox in his ritual. 684 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,100 It is grotesque Watson homes added, as he slowly fastened his 685 00:43:57,100 --> 00:44:00,100 notebook. But as I have had occasion to 686 00:44:00,100 --> 00:44:05,400 remark there is but one step from the grotesque to the 687 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:10,400 horrible, End of chapter 2 and Adventure. 688 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,600 One of his last bow.