1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:03,900 Adventure, one of the return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur 2 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:06,800 Conan Doyle. This is a LibriVox recording. 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:09,800 All LibriVox. Recordings are in the public 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:15,800 domain for further information, please, visit librivox.org read 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,600 by David Clarke, BG David dot wordpress.com and BG coffee 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:26,600 dotnet. Adventure 1, the adventure of 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:32,100 the empty house. It was in the spring of the Year 8 00:00:32,100 --> 00:00:35,800 1894 that all London was interested. 9 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:39,000 And the fashionable world is made by the murder of the 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,500 honourable Ronald Adair. Under most unusual and 11 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:46,300 inexplicable circumstances. The public has already learned 12 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:49,000 those particulars of the crime which came out in the police 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,300 investigation. But a good deal was suppressed 14 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:54,900 upon that occasion. Since the case for the 15 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:58,300 prosecution was, so overwhelmingly strong that it 16 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:00,300 was not necessary to bring forward. 17 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:05,400 All the facts, only now at the end of nearly 10 years. 18 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:09,100 Am I allowed to supply those missing links which make up the 19 00:01:09,100 --> 00:01:13,800 whole of that remarkable chain? The crime was of interest in 20 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,900 itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the 21 00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:22,100 inconceivable sequel, which afforded me, the greatest shock, 22 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:25,500 and surprise of any event in my adventurous life. 23 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,100 Even now, after this long interval. 24 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,100 I find myself thrilling as I think of it and feeling once 25 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:35,300 more. That sudden flood of Joy, 26 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:39,800 amazement, and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind. 27 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,800 Let me say to that public. Which is shown some interest in 28 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,800 those glimpses, which I have occasionally given them of the 29 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,700 thoughts and actions of a very remarkable man, that they are 30 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:53,800 not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge with them 31 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,800 for I should have considered it my first duty to do. 32 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:01,200 So, had I not been barred by a positive prohibition, from his 33 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,200 own lips, which was only with drawn upon the third of last 34 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,400 month. It can be imagined that my close 35 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,000 intimacy with Sherlock Holmes, had interested me deeply in 36 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,100 crime. And that after his 37 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:16,900 disappearance. I never failed to read with 38 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:18,900 care. The various problems, which came 39 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:23,100 before the public and I even attempted more than once, for my 40 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:26,500 own private satisfaction to employ his methods in their 41 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:29,800 solution though within different success. 42 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,400 There was none, however, which appealed to me, like, this 43 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,500 tragedy of Ronald Adair. As I read the evidence at the 44 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:40,700 inquest which led up to a verdict of willful murder 45 00:02:40,700 --> 00:02:43,500 against some person or Persons Unknown. 46 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,700 I realized more clearly than I'd ever done the loss, which the 47 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:51,400 community had sustained by the death of Sherlock Holmes. 48 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,600 There were points about this strange business, which would, I 49 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,700 was sure have specially appealed to him and the efforts of the 50 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:02,900 police would have In supplemented or more, probably 51 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:06,800 anticipated by the trained observation and the alert mind 52 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,000 of the first criminal agent in Europe. 53 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:14,500 All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in 54 00:03:14,500 --> 00:03:17,700 my mind and found no explanation, which appeared to 55 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:21,900 me to be adequate. At the risk of telling a twice 56 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:25,800 told tale, I will recapitulate the facts as they were known to 57 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,200 the public at the conclusion of the inquest. 58 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,900 The honourable Ronald Adair was the Second Son Of The Earl of 59 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:35,600 Maynooth at that time. Governor of one of the 60 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,200 Australian colonies adair's mother had returned from 61 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,400 Australia to undergo the operation for Cataract. 62 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:45,300 And she has son, Ronald and her daughter. 63 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:49,200 Hilda were living together at 427 Park Lane. 64 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:55,100 The youths moved in the best Society had so far as was known, 65 00:03:55,300 --> 00:03:57,800 no enemies and no particular vices. 66 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:02,300 He had been engaged to miss Edith, Woodley of Carstairs, but 67 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:05,200 the engagement had been broken off by Mutual consent some 68 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,400 months before and there was no sign that it had left. 69 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,800 Any very profound feeling behind it for the rest sick. 70 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:17,600 The man's life moved in a narrow and conventional Circle for his 71 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,700 habits were quiet and his nature and Tional. 72 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,400 If it was upon this easygoing young Aristocrat, that death 73 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:30,400 came in most strange and unexpected form between the 74 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:35,800 hours of 10:00 and 11:00 20 on the night of March 30th. 1894. 75 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,700 Ronald Adair was fond of cards playing continually, but never 76 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:43,400 for such Stakes as would hurt him. 77 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:47,600 He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle 78 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,400 card clubs. It was shown that after dinner, 79 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,400 on the day of his death. He had played a rubber of whist 80 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,300 at the latter Club. He also played there in the 81 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:59,900 afternoon, the evidence of those who had played with him. 82 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:03,600 Mr. Marie. So John Hardy and Colonel Moran, 83 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,900 showed that the game was whisked and that there was a fairly 84 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,700 Equal full of the cards. Had a might have lost five 85 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:14,500 pounds, but not more. His fortune was a considerable 86 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:17,900 one and such a loss could not in any way affect him. 87 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:23,500 He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was 88 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:26,200 a cautious player and usually Rose a winner. 89 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:30,300 It came out in evidence that in partnership with Colonel Moran. 90 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,800 He had actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds 91 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,700 in a sitting some weeks before from Godfrey Milner and Lord 92 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:41,900 Balmoral so much for his recent history as it came out at the 93 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:45,600 inquest. On the evening of the crime, he 94 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,700 returned from the club, exactly, at 10 his mother and sister were 95 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:53,500 out spending the evening with a relation, the servant deposed 96 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:55,400 that she heard him. Enter the front room on the 97 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,200 second floor. Generally used as his sitting 98 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,400 room. She had lit a fire there and as 99 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,200 its smoked, she had opened a window. 100 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,000 No sound was heard from the room until eleven twenty. 101 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:09,600 The hour of the return of Lady Maynooth. 102 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:13,000 And her daughter. Designed to say goodnight. 103 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:15,400 She attempted to enter her son's room. 104 00:06:16,100 --> 00:06:19,400 The door was locked on the inside, and no answer could be 105 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:24,000 got to their cries and knocking help was obtained and the door 106 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,900 forced. The unfortunate young man was 107 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:31,300 found lying near the table. His head had been horribly 108 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:35,600 mutilated by an expanding revolver bullet, but no weapon 109 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,400 of any sort was to be found in the room on the table. 110 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,900 They to banknotes for 10 pounds. Each and 17 pounds 10 in silver 111 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:46,300 and gold. The money arranged in little 112 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:50,700 piles of varying amount. There were some figures also 113 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:54,100 upon a sheet of paper with the names of some Club friends 114 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:57,800 opposite to them from, which it was conjectured that before his 115 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,400 death. He was endeavoring to make out 116 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:04,800 his losses or winnings at cards. A minut examination of the 117 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,800 circumstances. Served only to make the case 118 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:12,500 more complex in the first place. No reason could be given. 119 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,800 Why the young man should have fastened a door upon the inside. 120 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:19,800 There was the possibility that the murderer had done this and 121 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,000 at afterwards, escaped by the window, the drop was at least 20 122 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,600 feet, however, and a bed of crocuses in full bloom, lay 123 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:32,200 beneath neither the flowers nor the Earth showed any sign of 124 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,200 having been Disturbed. No, were there any marks upon 125 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,200 the narrow strip of grass, which separated the house from the 126 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,000 road? Apparently, therefore, it was 127 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,400 the young man himself who had fastened the door, but how did 128 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,000 he come by his death? No one could have climbed up to 129 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,800 the window without leaving traces. 130 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,700 Suppose a man had fired through the window. 131 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:56,300 He would indeed be a remarkable shot. 132 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:59,200 Who could with a revolver? Inflicts, so deadly, a wound. 133 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:02,500 Again, Park Lane is a frequentist thoroughfare. 134 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,800 There's a cab stand within a hundred yards of the house. 135 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,700 No one had heard a shot. And yet there was the dead man, 136 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:14,300 and there, the revolver bullet, which had mushroomed out as 137 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:17,800 soft-nosed bullets will. And so inflicted a wound, which 138 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,300 must have caused instantaneous death. 139 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,800 Such with a circumstances of the Park Lane mystery which were 140 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,400 further Complicated by entire absence of motive. 141 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Since, as I have said, young Adair was not known to have any 142 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,600 enemy and no attempt had been made to remove the money or 143 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:42,200 valuables in the room. All day, I turn these facts over 144 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,900 in my mind. Endeavoring to hit upon some 145 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:47,100 Theory, which could reconcile them all. 146 00:08:47,700 --> 00:08:51,100 And to find that line of least resistance, which my poor friend 147 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:54,500 had declared to be the starting point of every investigation. 148 00:08:55,500 --> 00:08:59,300 I confess that I made little progress in the evening. 149 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:03,300 I strolled across the park and found myself about 6:00 at the 150 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:06,600 Oxford Street. End of Parklane a group of 151 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,700 loafers upon them. Pavements all staring up at a 152 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:13,300 The killer window directed me to the house, which I had come to 153 00:09:13,300 --> 00:09:18,400 see a tall thin man with colored glasses whom I strongly 154 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,300 suspected of being a plainclothes. 155 00:09:20,300 --> 00:09:24,800 Detective was pointing out some theory of his own while the 156 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,500 others crowded round to listen to what he said. 157 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:32,800 I got as near him as I could, but his observations seemed to 158 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,100 me to be absurd. So I withdrew again in some 159 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:40,800 discussed as I did. So I struck against an elderly 160 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,100 deformed man who had been behind me and I knocked down several 161 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:48,500 books, which he was carrying. I remember that as I picked them 162 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:50,600 up. I observe the title of one of 163 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:55,000 them, the origin of tree worship, and it struck me that 164 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,300 the fellow must be some poor bibliophile. 165 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,400 Who either Trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure 166 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,500 volumes. I endeavored to apologize for 167 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:07,900 the accident, but it was evident that these books which I had. 168 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:12,400 So unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects in the 169 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,900 eyes of their owner with a snarl of contempt. 170 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:20,100 He turned upon his heel and I saw his curved back and white 171 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:22,800 side-whiskers disappear among the throng. 172 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:29,400 My observations of number 427 Park Lane did little to clear up 173 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,600 the problem in which I was interested. 174 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:35,800 The house was separated from the street by a low wall and railing 175 00:10:36,300 --> 00:10:38,400 the whole not more than five feet high. 176 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:42,500 It was perfectly easy therefore for anyone to get into the 177 00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:46,800 garden, but the window is entirely inaccessible since 178 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,300 there was no water-pipe or anything which could help the 179 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:53,300 most active man to climb it. More puzzled than ever. 180 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:56,200 I retraced my steps to Kensington. 181 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,100 I had not been in my study five minutes. 182 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:02,300 When the maid entered to say. There's a person desire to see 183 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:05,500 me. To my astonishment. 184 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,000 It was none other than my strange old book collector. 185 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:13,000 He's sharp wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair 186 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,500 and his precious volumes. A dozen of them at least wedged 187 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:21,100 under his right arm. You're surprised to see me. 188 00:11:21,100 --> 00:11:24,000 Sir. Said he in a strange croaking 189 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 voice. I acknowledge that. 190 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,200 I was, well, I have a conscience, sir. 191 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:32,700 And when I chanced to see you go into this house as I came 192 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:35,400 hobbling. After you, I thought to myself, 193 00:11:35,700 --> 00:11:39,100 are just step in and see what kind gentleman and tell him that 194 00:11:39,100 --> 00:11:41,800 I've I was a bit Gruff in my manner that there was not any 195 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,400 harm meant and that I'm much obliged to him for picking up my 196 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,800 books. You make too much of a trifle 197 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,000 said I may. I ask how you knew who I was. 198 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,900 Well, sir. It isn't too great, a liberty. 199 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,800 I am a neighbor of yours for you'll find my little book shop 200 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,300 at the corner of Church Street, and very happy to see you. 201 00:12:03,300 --> 00:12:08,300 I am sure, maybe you collect yourself, sir, is British birds 202 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:12,500 and Catalyst, and The Holy War, a bargain. 203 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:15,400 Every one of them with five volumes. 204 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,100 You could just fill that Gap. Second shelf. 205 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:20,300 It looks untidy. Does it not sir? 206 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:24,000 I move my head to look at the cabinet behind me. 207 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,200 When I turned again, Sherlock Holmes was standing, smiling at 208 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:34,400 me across my study table. I Rose to my feet, stared at him 209 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,700 for some seconds in utter, amazement. 210 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:40,700 And then it appears that I must have fainted for the first. 211 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:45,300 And the last time in my life, certainly a grain Mist swirled 212 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:48,300 before my eyes. And when it cleared, I found my 213 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:51,700 collar ends undone and the tingling aftertaste of And the 214 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:55,400 upon my lips, Holmes, was bending over my chair. 215 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:01,200 His flask in his hand. My dear Watson said the 216 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,900 well-remembered voice. I owe you a thousand apologies. 217 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,100 I had no idea that you would be so affected. 218 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:11,500 I gripped. Him by the arms homes. 219 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:13,700 I cried. Is it really? 220 00:13:13,700 --> 00:13:17,300 You can it indeed be that you are alive. 221 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:20,800 Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of 222 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,000 that? Awful Abyss? 223 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:27,700 Wait a moment said he are you sure that you're really fits to 224 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:31,100 discuss things. I have given you a serious Shock 225 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:34,100 by my unnecessarily. Dramatic reappearance. 226 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:39,100 I'm alright, but indeed Holmes, I can hardly believe my eyes. 227 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,100 Good Heavens. To think that you you of all men 228 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:47,300 should be standing in my study. Again, I gripped him by the 229 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:50,600 sleeve and felt the thin sinewy arm beneath it. 230 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:56,100 Well, you're not a spirit. Anyhow said, I my dear chap. 231 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:59,600 I'm Overjoyed to see you, sit down and tell me how you came 232 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,700 alive. Out of that Dreadful kasim. 233 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,100 He sat opposite to me and lit. A cigarette in his old 234 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:09,400 nonchalant manner. He was dressed in the Seedy 235 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,400 frock-coat of the book Merchant, but the rest of that individual 236 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:17,000 lay in a pile of white hair and old, Looks upon the table. 237 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,200 Holmes looked even thinner and Keno than of old, but there was 238 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,800 a dead white Tianjin his aquiline face, which told me 239 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,300 that his life recently had not been a healthy one. 240 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,300 I am glad to stretch myself Watson said he it is no joke 241 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:38,900 when a tall man has to take a foot off his stature for several 242 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:42,800 hours on end. Now my dear fellow in the matter 243 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,400 of these explanations we have if I may ask for your cooperation a 244 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:51,200 hard and dangerous night's work in front of us, perhaps it would 245 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,400 be better if I gave you an account of the whole situation. 246 00:14:54,900 --> 00:14:59,100 When that work is finished. I'm full of curiosity. 247 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:01,500 I should much prefer to hear it. Now. 248 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,300 You'll come with me tonight when you like and where you like. 249 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:09,500 This is indeed like the old days. 250 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:13,400 We shall have time for a mouthful of dinner before we 251 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,100 need go. Well, then about that Chasm. 252 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,700 I had no serious difficulty in getting out of it. 253 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,800 For the very simple reason that I never was in it. 254 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:29,100 You never were in it. No Watson High never was in it. 255 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:32,400 My note to you was absolutely genuine. 256 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,900 I had little doubt that I had come to the end of my career, 257 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:39,400 when I perceived the somewhat Sinister figure of the late 258 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,800 professor. Moriarty standing upon the 259 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,100 narrow pathway, which led to safety. 260 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,600 I read an inexorable purpose in his gray eyes. 261 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:53,200 I exchanged some remarks with him there for and obtained, his 262 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,200 courteous permission. Write a short note, which you 263 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:00,300 afterwards received. I left it with my cigarette box 264 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:05,100 and my stick and I walked along the pathway Moriarty's still at 265 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:08,300 my heels. When I reach the end. 266 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:13,100 I stood at Bay, he drew no weapon, but he rushed at me and 267 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:18,300 threw his long arms around me. He knew that his own game was up 268 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:21,700 and was only anxious to Revenge himself upon me. 269 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,000 We tottered together upon the brink of the Fall. 270 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,300 I have some knowledge. However of Bharat Sue or the 271 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:31,800 Japanese system of wrestling which has more than one spin. 272 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,700 Very useful to me. I slipped through his grip and 273 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:39,300 he with a horrible scream, kicked madly for a few seconds 274 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:44,400 and Claude the air with both his hands, but for all his efforts, 275 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:49,400 he could not get his balance. And over, he went with my face 276 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,500 over the brink. I saw him fall for a long way. 277 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:58,100 Then he struck a rock bounded off and splashed into the water. 278 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:02,700 I listened with amazement to this explanation which Holmes 279 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:07,500 delivered between the puffs of his cigarette but the tracks Ira 280 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:10,700 cried. I saw with my own eyes, but to 281 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:13,200 went down the path and non returned. 282 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:18,300 It came about in this way. The instant that the professor 283 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:20,700 had disappeared. It struck me. 284 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:23,300 What a really extraordinarily lucky chance. 285 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:28,000 Fate had placed in my way. I knew that Moriarty was not the 286 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:33,700 only man who had sworn my death. There were at least three others 287 00:17:33,700 --> 00:17:36,800 Whose desire for vengeance upon me would only be increased by 288 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:40,600 the death of their leader. They were all most dangerous 289 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,200 men, one or other would certainly get me on the other 290 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,700 hand. If all the world was convinced 291 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:50,300 that I was dead. They would take Liberties these 292 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:53,800 men, they would soon lay themselves open and sooner or 293 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,100 later. I could destroy them, then it 294 00:17:57,100 --> 00:18:00,200 would be time for me to announce that I was still in the land of 295 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:03,700 The living. So rapidly does the brain act, 296 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:06,700 but I believe I had sought this all out before. 297 00:18:06,700 --> 00:18:09,900 Professor, Moriarty had reached the bottom of the Reichenbach 298 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:13,000 fall. I stood up and examined the 299 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,900 rocky wall behind me in your picturesque account of the 300 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:20,100 matter, which I read with great interest some months later. 301 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:25,100 You, assert that the wall was sheer, that was not literally 302 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:28,800 true, a few small footholds presented themselves. 303 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:31,600 And there was some indication of a ledge. 304 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:36,200 The cliff is so high that to climb it all was an obvious 305 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:40,500 impossibility and it was equally impossible to make any way along 306 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:43,100 the wet. Pass without leaving some 307 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:45,200 tracks. I might. 308 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,100 It is true. Have reversed my boots as I have 309 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:52,400 done on similar occasions, but the site of three sets of tracks 310 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,500 in One Direction, would certainly have suggested a 311 00:18:55,500 --> 00:19:00,000 deception on the whole then it was best that I should risk the 312 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,800 climb. It was not a pleasant business. 313 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,700 Watson, the fall roared beneath me. 314 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:10,400 I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seem 315 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,700 to hear more. A Artis voice screaming at me, 316 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:18,300 out of the Abyss, a mistake would have been fatal more than 317 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:21,500 one says, Tufts of grass came out in my hand or my foot 318 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:23,500 slipped in the wet notches of the rock. 319 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:28,600 I thought that I was gone, but I struggled upward and At Last I 320 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,500 reached a ledge several feet deep and covered with soft green 321 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:38,200 moss where I could lie unseen in the most perfect Comfort there. 322 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:42,000 I was stretched when you my dear Watson and You're following, 323 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,200 were investigating in the most sympathetic and inefficient 324 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,800 manner, the circumstances of my death. 325 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,900 At last when you had all formed your inevitable and totally 326 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:57,100 erroneous conclusions, you departed for the hotel and I was 327 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:00,200 left alone. I had imagined that I had 328 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,700 reached the end of my Adventures but a very unexpected 329 00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:05,700 occurrence. Show me that there were 330 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:11,500 surprises still in store for me, a huge Rock falling from above 331 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:14,500 boomed. Past me, struck the path and 332 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:17,900 bounded over into the chasm for an instant. 333 00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:21,400 I thought that it was an accident, but a moment later 334 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:26,300 looking up, I saw a man's head against the darkening sky and 335 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:29,100 another Stone struck, the very ledge upon, which I was 336 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:31,300 stretched within a foot of my head. 337 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:37,500 Of course, the meaning of this was obvious, Moriarty had not 338 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:40,800 been alone. A Confederate. 339 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:44,900 And even that one glance at told me, how dangerous a man that 340 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:49,100 Confederate was had kept guard while the professor had attacked 341 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:52,600 me from a distance. Unseen by me. 342 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,700 He had been a witness of his friend's death, and of my 343 00:20:55,700 --> 00:21:00,100 Escape, you'd waited. And then making his way around 344 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:03,400 to the top of the cliff. He had endeavored to succeed, 345 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,100 where his comrade had failed. I did not take long to think 346 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:12,000 about it Watson again. I saw that Grim face look over 347 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,300 the cliff and I knew that it was the precursor of another Stone. 348 00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:20,600 I scrambled down onto the path. I don't think I could have done 349 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,000 it in Cold Blood. It was 100 times more difficult 350 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,800 than getting up. But I had no time to think of 351 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,700 the danger for another Stone sang pass me as I hung by my 352 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:32,500 hands from the edge of the ledge. 353 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:37,000 Halfway down, I slipped. But by the blessing of God, I 354 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,600 landed torn and bleeding upon the path. 355 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,800 I took to my heels did 10 miles over the mountains in the 356 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:48,100 darkness and a week later. I found myself in Florence with 357 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:51,300 the certainty that no one in the world knew what had become of 358 00:21:51,300 --> 00:21:55,700 me. I had only one confident my 359 00:21:55,700 --> 00:22:00,300 brother Mycroft. I owe you many apologies, my 360 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:03,700 dear Watson, but it was all important that it should be 361 00:22:03,700 --> 00:22:07,800 thought I was dead and it is quite certain that you would not 362 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,000 have written. So convincing an account of my 363 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,100 unhappy end. Had you not yourself thought 364 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:17,700 that it was true several times during the last three years. 365 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:20,400 I have taken up my pen to write to you. 366 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,300 But always, I feared lest your affectionate regard for me 367 00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:28,200 should tempt you to some indiscretion, which would Trey, 368 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,900 my secret. For that reason, I turned away 369 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:36,600 from you this evening, when you upset my books for I was in 370 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,300 danger at the time and any show of surprise and emotion upon 371 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:44,600 your part, might have drawn attention to my identity and led 372 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:49,200 to the most deplorable and irreparable results as to 373 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,100 Mycroft. I had to confide in him in order 374 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:55,600 to obtain the money, which I needed the course of events in 375 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,000 London, did not run. So well as I had hoped for the 376 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,500 trial of the Moriarty gang. Left two of its most dangerous 377 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:05,600 members. My own most vindictive enemies 378 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:09,400 at Liberty. I traveled for two years in 379 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:14,700 Tibet, therefore and amuse myself by visiting Larsa and 380 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:16,700 spending. Some days with the head Lama. 381 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:20,500 You may have read of the remarkable explorations of a 382 00:23:20,508 --> 00:23:24,400 Norwegian named Sigerson, but I'm sure that it never occurred 383 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,400 to you that you were receiving news of your friend. 384 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:32,700 I then pass through Persia looked in at Mecca and paid a 385 00:23:32,708 --> 00:23:36,300 short but interesting visit to the Khalifa at Khartoum. 386 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,100 The results of which I have communicated to the foreign 387 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:42,400 office. Returning to France. 388 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:46,200 I spent some months in a research into the coal-tar, 389 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,000 derivatives, which I conducted in a laboratory at Montpellier, 390 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,000 in the south of France, having concluded this to my 391 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,900 satisfaction and learning, that only one of my enemies was now 392 00:23:57,900 --> 00:24:01,700 left in London. I was about to return when my 393 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:04,100 movements were hastened by the news of this. 394 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:08,400 Very remarkable Park Lane mystery, which not only appealed 395 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,400 to me by its own merits. But Seemed to offer some most 396 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,500 peculiar personal opportunities. I came over at once to London 397 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:21,500 called in my own person at Baker Street, through mrs. 398 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:25,500 Hudson into violent hysterics, and found that Mycroft had 399 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:29,800 preserved my rooms and my papers exactly as they had always been. 400 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,600 So, it was my dear Watson that at 2:00 today. 401 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:39,400 I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room. 402 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,800 And only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson 403 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,200 in the other chair, which he had. 404 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,700 So often adorned. Such was remarkable narrative to 405 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,900 which I listened on that. April evening, a narrative, 406 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:56,100 which would have been utterly incredible to me. 407 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,600 Had it, not been confirmed by the actual site of the tall, 408 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,700 spare figure, and the Keen eager face, which I had never thought 409 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:06,600 to see. Again in some manner. 410 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,300 He had learned of my own sad bereavement and his sympathy was 411 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:13,300 shown in his manner rather than in his words. 412 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:16,500 Work is the best antidote to sorrow. 413 00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:20,800 My dear Watson said, he and I have a piece of work for us both 414 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,300 tonight, which if we can bring it to a successful conclusion, 415 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,000 will in itself justify a man's life on this planet. 416 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,400 In vain. I begged him to tell me more You 417 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,400 will hear and see enough before morning. 418 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,400 He answered. We have three years of the past 419 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,700 to discuss. Let that suffice until 9:30 when 420 00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:46,800 we start upon the notable adventure of the empty house. 421 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,200 It was indeed like old times when at that hour, I found 422 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,800 myself seated beside him in a handsome. 423 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,200 My Revolver in my pocket and the thrill of Adventure in my heart. 424 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,900 Holmes was cold and Stern and Silent as The Gleam of the 425 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:06,500 street lamps flashed upon his austere features. 426 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,400 I saw that his brows were drawn down in thought and it's thin 427 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,000 lips compressed. I knew not what wild beasts. 428 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,100 We were about to hunt down in the dark Jungle of criminal 429 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:20,800 London, but I was well assured from the bearing of this master 430 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,100 Huntsman that the adventure was a most grave one while the 431 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:27,800 sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his 432 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,200 acetic Gloom boded. Too good for the object of our 433 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,100 Quest. I had imagined that we were 434 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:39,200 Bound for Baker Street, but Holmes stopped the cab at the 435 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,300 corner of Cavendish Square. I observed, that as he stepped 436 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:45,700 out. He gave a most searching glance 437 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:49,300 to right and left and at every subsequent street corner. 438 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:53,200 He took the utmost pains to assure that he was not followed. 439 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:57,800 Our route was certainly a singular one, Holmes is 440 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,600 knowledge of the byways of London was extraordinary. 441 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,500 And on this occasion. He passed rapidly and with an 442 00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:08,700 assured step through a network of muse, and Stables, the very 443 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:10,700 existence of which I had never known. 444 00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:15,500 We emerged at last into a small Road lined with old gloomy 445 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:19,200 houses, which led us into Manchester Street, and so, to 446 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,900 Blandford Street here, he turned swiftly down a narrow passage. 447 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:28,200 Postural wooden gate into a deserted yard and then opened 448 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,800 with a key, the back door of a house we entered together and he 449 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:38,000 closed it behind us. The place was pitch dark, but it 450 00:27:38,008 --> 00:27:40,400 was evident to me that it was an empty house. 451 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,500 Our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking and my 452 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:49,000 outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging 453 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,900 in ribbons. Homes is cold thin fingers 454 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:57,000 closed around my wrist and lead me forward down a Long Hall 455 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:02,200 until I dimly saw, the murky fanlight over the door here, 456 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,300 Holmes turned suddenly to the right and we Found ourselves in 457 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:10,700 a large Square empty room heavily shadowed in the corners, 458 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:14,000 but faintly lit in the center from the lights of the street 459 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,300 Beyond there was no lamp near and the window is thick with 460 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:21,300 dust so that we could only just discern each other's figures. 461 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:26,100 Within my companion, put his hand upon my shoulder and his 462 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:30,100 lips close to my ear. Do you know where we are? 463 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,300 He was, but surely that is Baker. 464 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:36,000 Street. I answered staring through the 465 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,600 dim window. Exactly. 466 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,200 We are in Camden house, which stands opposite to our own old 467 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,500 quarters. But why are we here? 468 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:49,400 Because it commands? So excellent view of that 469 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,300 picturesque pile. Might I trouble you my dear 470 00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:57,500 Watson to draw a little nearer to the window taking every 471 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:01,800 precaution not to Show yourself. And then to look up at our old 472 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,400 rooms, the starting point of so many of your little Fairytales. 473 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,400 We will see if my three years of absence have entirely taken away 474 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:17,100 my power to surprise you. I crept forward and looked 475 00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:21,500 across at The Familiar window, as my eyes fell upon it, I gave 476 00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:26,000 a gasp and a cry of Amazement. The blind was down and a strong 477 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,200 light was burning in the room. The shadow of a man who was 478 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,900 seated in a chair within was thrown in hard. 479 00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:35,700 Black outline upon the Luminous screen of the window. 480 00:29:36,700 --> 00:29:39,300 There was no mistaking, the Poise of the head, the 481 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:42,600 squareness of the shoulders, the sharpness of the features. 482 00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:48,000 The face was turned half round and the effect was that of one 483 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,400 of those black Silhouettes which our grandparents loved frame. 484 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:55,300 It was a perfect reproduction of homes. 485 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,200 So amazed was I that I threw out my hand to make sure that the 486 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,300 man himself was standing beside me. 487 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,700 He was quivering with silent laughter. 488 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:10,100 Well said he good Heavens, I cried. 489 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,900 It is marvelous. I trust that age does not wither 490 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:16,700 nor custom stale. My infinite. 491 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:22,300 Variety said he and I recognized in his voice the joy and pride 492 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:24,700 which the artist takes in his own creation. 493 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:29,000 It really is rather like me, is it not? 494 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,500 I should be prepared to swear that. 495 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:35,800 It was you the credit of the execution is due to monsieur, 496 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,800 Oscar Mooney of Grenoble, who spent some days in doing the 497 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,500 molding. It is a bust in wax. 498 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,400 The rest, I arranged myself during my visit to Baker Street, 499 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,300 this afternoon. But why? 500 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:54,700 Because my dear Watson, I had the strongest possible reason 501 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,700 for wishing certain people to think that I was there when I 502 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:02,500 was really elsewhere. And you thought the rooms were 503 00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:07,000 watched. I knew that they were watched by 504 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:12,700 whom by my old enemies Watson by the Charming Society whose 505 00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:15,000 leader lies in the Reichenbach fall. 506 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,700 You must remember that they knew and only they knew that I was 507 00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:23,500 still alive sooner or later. They believe that I should come 508 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:27,900 back to my rooms. They watched them continuously 509 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:31,200 and this morning they saw me arrive. 510 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:35,500 How do you know? Because I recognize their 511 00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:37,800 Sentinel. When I glanced out of my window. 512 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:43,100 He is a harmless enough fellow Parker by name a gerado by trade 513 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:45,300 and a remarkable performer upon the Jews. 514 00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:48,400 Harp. I cared nothing for him. 515 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,400 But I cared a great deal for the much more formidable person who 516 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,200 was behind him. The bosom friend of Moriarty, 517 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,600 the man who dropped the Rocks, over the cliff, the most cunning 518 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:05,300 and dangerous. In London, that is the man who 519 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:09,700 is after me tonight, Watson. And that is the man who is quite 520 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:16,000 unaware that we are after him. My friends plans were gradually 521 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,200 revealing themselves from this convenient Retreat. 522 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,700 The Watchers were being watched and The Trackers tracked that 523 00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:27,100 angular Shadow up yonder. Was the bait and we, with a 524 00:32:27,108 --> 00:32:30,200 Hunters. In silence, we stood together in 525 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,100 the darkness and watch the hurrying figures, who passed and 526 00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:35,800 re-passed. In front of us, Holmes was 527 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,700 silent and motionless, but I could tell that he was keenly 528 00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:43,300 alert, and that his eyes were fixed intently upon the stream 529 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:47,000 of passers-by. It was a bleak and boisterous 530 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,600 night and the wind whistled shrilly Down The Long Street, 531 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:54,900 many people were moving to and fro, most of them muffled in 532 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:58,700 their coats and cravats. Once or twice, it seemed to me 533 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,900 that I had seen the same figure before. 534 00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:04,200 And I, especially noticed, two, men who appeared to be 535 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,500 Sheltering themselves from the wind in the doorway of a house, 536 00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:11,900 some distance up the street. I try to draw my companions 537 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:16,000 attention to them, but he gave a little ejaculation of impatience 538 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,200 and continued to stare into the street, more than once. 539 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,800 He fidgeted with his feet and tapped rapidly with his fingers 540 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,400 upon the wall. It was evident to me that he was 541 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,500 becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out all 542 00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:36,800 together as he had hoped. I lost as midnight approached 543 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,000 and the street gradually, cleared, he paced up and down 544 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,200 the room. In uncontrollable agitation. 545 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,400 I was about to make some remark, to him when I raised my eyes to 546 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,900 the lighted window. And again experienced almost as 547 00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:54,000 great as surprised as before. I clutched homes his arm and 548 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,900 pointed upwards. The Shadows moved. 549 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,000 I cried it was indeed no longer the profile but the back which 550 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,300 was turned towards us. Three years had certainly not 551 00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:09,300 smooth, the asperities of his temper or his impatience with a 552 00:34:09,308 --> 00:34:11,400 less active intelligence than his own. 553 00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,500 Of course, it has moved said, he am. 554 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:19,100 I such a fascicle bungler Watson that I should erect an obvious 555 00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:22,300 dummy and expect that some of the sharpest men in Europe will 556 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:25,699 be deceived by it. We have been in this room, two 557 00:34:25,699 --> 00:34:28,699 hours, and mrs. Hudson has made some change in 558 00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:32,699 that figure eight times or once in every quarter of an hour. 559 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:36,500 She works it from the front so that her Shadow may never be 560 00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:40,199 seen. Ah, he drew in his breath with a 561 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,600 shrill, excited intake. In the dim light. 562 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,600 I saw his head thrown forward, his whole attitude rigid with 563 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,000 attention outside. The street was absolutely 564 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,800 deserted. Those two men might still be 565 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,900 crouching in the doorway, but I could no longer see them. 566 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,100 All was still and dark. Save, only that brilliant. 567 00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:04,400 Yellow screen in front of us with the black figure outlined 568 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,300 upon its Center. Again, in the utter silence. 569 00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:12,100 I heard that sin sibilant note, which spoke of intense 570 00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:15,300 suppressed excitement. An instant later. 571 00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:18,600 He pulled me back into the blackest corner of the room and 572 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,400 I felt his warning hand upon my lips, the fingers, which 573 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,300 clutched me were quivering, never had I known my friend more 574 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:29,900 moved and yet the dark Street still stretched lonely and 575 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:34,600 motionless before us. But suddenly, I was aware of 576 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,000 that, which his Keener senses had already. 577 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:42,800 Distinguished a low stealthy, sound came to my ears, not from 578 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,600 the direction of Baker Street, but from the back of the very 579 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:52,700 house in which we lay concealed, a door opened, and shut an 580 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:55,300 instant later. Steps crept down the passage 581 00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:57,900 steps, which were meant to be silent. 582 00:35:58,100 --> 00:36:01,100 But which reverberated harshly through the empty house. 583 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,900 Holmes, crouched back against the wall and I did the same. 584 00:36:05,900 --> 00:36:10,400 My hand closing upon the handle of My Revolver peering through 585 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,000 the Gloom. I saw the vague outline of a 586 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,200 man, a shade blacker than the Blackness of the open door. 587 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:21,400 He stood for an instant and then he crept forward crouching 588 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,700 menacing into the room. He was within three yards of us, 589 00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:29,700 this Sinister figure and I had braced myself to meet his spring 590 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:31,700 before I realized that he had no. 591 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,600 Idea of our presence. He passed close beside us stole 592 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:41,000 over to the window and very softly and noiselessly, raised 593 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:46,000 it for half a foot as he sank to the level of this opening, the 594 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,300 light of the street, no longer dimmed. 595 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:53,700 By the dusty, glass fell full upon his face, the man seemed to 596 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:57,500 be beside himself with excitement, his two eyes Shone 597 00:36:57,500 --> 00:37:01,300 like stars and his features were working convulsively. 598 00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:06,700 He was an elderly man, with a thin projecting nose, a high 599 00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:09,600 bald forehead, and a huge grizzled, Moustache. 600 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,600 An opera hat was pushed to the back of his head and an evening 601 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,000 dress shirt. Front gleaned out through his 602 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,000 open. Overcoat. 603 00:37:18,100 --> 00:37:23,800 His face was gaunt and swarthy scored with deep Savage lines in 604 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,400 his hand. He carried what appeared to be a 605 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,100 stick. But as he laid it down upon the 606 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:33,200 floor it gave a metallic clang. Then from the pocket of his 607 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,800 Overcoat. He drew a bulky object and he 608 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,600 busied himself in some tasks which ended with a loud sharp 609 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,700 click as if a spring or bolt had fallen to its place. 610 00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:49,600 Still kneeling upon the floor, he bent forward and through all 611 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,500 his weight and strength, upon some lever with the result that 612 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:57,200 there came a long, whirling grinding noise ending. 613 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,300 Once more in a powerful click. He straightened himself then, 614 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:06,100 and I saw that what he held in his hand was a sort of gun with 615 00:38:06,100 --> 00:38:11,100 a curiously misshapen, but He opened it at the breech, but 616 00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:16,000 something in and snapped the breech-lock then crouching down. 617 00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:18,700 He rested the end of the barrel upon the ledge of the open 618 00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:23,200 window and I saw his long Moustache, droop over the stock 619 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,500 and is I glean as it appeared along the sights. 620 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,400 I heard a little sigh of satisfaction as he cuddled the, 621 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:37,300 but into his shoulder and saw that amazing Target but black 622 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:40,400 man on the yellow ground standing clear at the end of his 623 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,100 foresight for an instant. He was rigid and motionless. 624 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000 Then his finger tightened on the trigger. 625 00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:51,400 It was a strange loud Wiz and a long. 626 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:56,200 Silvery tinkle of broken glass. At that instant Holmes sprang 627 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,100 like a tiger on to the marksman's back and hurled him 628 00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:02,200 flat upon his face. He was up again in a moment and 629 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,300 with a convulsive strength. He seized homes by the throat, 630 00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:09,200 but I struck him on the head with the butt of My Revolver and 631 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,600 he dropped again upon the floor. I fell upon him and as I held in 632 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,200 my comrade blue, a shrill call upon a whistle. 633 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:20,500 There was the clatter of running feet upon the pavement and two 634 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:24,000 policemen in uniform with one plain clothes Detective. 635 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:28,500 Rushed through the front entrance and into the room that 636 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:31,200 you lestrade said, Holmes. Yes. 637 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,700 Mr. Holmes. I took the job myself. 638 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,800 It's good to see you back in London, sir. 639 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,600 I think you want a little unofficial help, 3, undetected. 640 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,200 Murders in one year won't do lestrade but you handled the 641 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,700 molesey mystery with less than your usual. 642 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,400 That's to say. You handled it fairly. 643 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:54,000 Well, we had all risen to our feet, our prisoner breathing. 644 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:58,300 Hard with a stalwart Constable. On each side of him already, a 645 00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:02,000 few loiterers have begun to collect in the street Holmes, 646 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:07,100 stepped up to the window, closed it, and drop the blinds lestrade 647 00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:11,000 had produced two candles and the policeman had uncovered their 648 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,200 lanterns. I was able at last to have a 649 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,700 good, look at our prisoner. It was a tremendously virile and 650 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:21,200 yet Sinister face, which was turned towards us. 651 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,500 With the brow of a philosopher above and the jaw of 652 00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:29,000 essentialist below, the man must have started with great 653 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,600 capacities, for good or for evil, but one could not look 654 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,500 upon his cruel. Blue eyes with they're drooping 655 00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:39,200 cynical Lids or upon the fierce aggressive nose and the 656 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,200 threatening, deep blind brow without reading. 657 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,400 Nature's plainest, danger signals. 658 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,900 He took no heed of any of us, but his eyes were fixed upon 659 00:40:48,900 --> 00:40:52,700 Holmes's face with an expression in which, hey, Fruit and 660 00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:56,800 amazement were equally Blended you fiend. 661 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,500 He kept on muttering you clever fiend. 662 00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:04,400 Clever fiend Colonel said, Holmes arranging, his rumpled 663 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:09,900 collar Journeys end in lovers. Meetings as the old play says, I 664 00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:12,200 don't think I've had the pleasure of seeing you since you 665 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,200 favoured me with those attentions, as I lay on the 666 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,500 ledge above the Reichenbach, fall, the colonel, still stared 667 00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:23,000 at my friend, like a man in a trance, you You cunning cunning 668 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,400 fiend was all that. He could say, I have not 669 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,200 introduced. You yet said Holmes. 670 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,200 This gentleman is Colonel, Sebastian, Moran. 671 00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:35,100 Once of Her Majesty's, Indian army. 672 00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:38,900 And the best heavy game shot that our Eastern Empire has ever 673 00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:41,700 produced. I believe, I am correct colonel 674 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:45,700 in saying that your bag of tigers Still Remains unrivalled. 675 00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:50,300 The Fierce old man said nothing but still glared at my companion 676 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:53,100 with his Savage eyes and Sling stache. 677 00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:55,400 He was wonderfully like a tiger himself. 678 00:41:56,700 --> 00:41:59,700 I wonder that my very simple stratagem could deceive. 679 00:41:59,700 --> 00:42:04,200 So older shikari said, Holmes. It must be very familiar to you. 680 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:08,900 Have you not tethered a young kid Under a Tree Lane, above it 681 00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:12,600 with your rifle and waited for the bait to bring up your tiger. 682 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:17,200 This empty house is my tree, and you are my tiger. 683 00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:21,600 You have possibly had other guns in reserve. 684 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,200 In case there should be several tigers or in the unlikely 685 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:30,000 supposition of your own. I'm failing you these he pointed 686 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:35,900 around, are my other guns. The parallel is exact Colonel 687 00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:38,600 Moran. Sprang forward with a snarl of 688 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:43,400 Rage but the constables dragged him back, the fury upon his face 689 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:48,100 was terrible to look at. I confess that you had one small 690 00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:52,200 surprise, for me said Holmes. I did not anticipate that you 691 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:56,300 would yourself make use of this empty house and this convenient 692 00:42:56,300 --> 00:42:59,600 front window. I had imagined you as operating 693 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,700 from the street where my friend lestrade and his merry men were 694 00:43:03,700 --> 00:43:08,600 awaiting you with that exception all has gone as I expected. 695 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,500 Colonel Moran, turn to the official detective you may, or 696 00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:16,900 may not have just cause for arresting me said he but at 697 00:43:16,900 --> 00:43:20,600 least, there could be no reason why I should submit to the jibes 698 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,700 of this person. If I'm in the hands of the law, 699 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,900 let things be done in a legal way. 700 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:31,000 Well that's reasonable enough said lestrade nothing further. 701 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,000 You have to say mr. Owns before we go. 702 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,000 Holmes had picked up the powerful air gun from the floor 703 00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:42,400 and was examining its mechanism. An admirable and unique weapon 704 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,500 said he noiseless and of tremendous power. 705 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,000 I knew Von herder, the blind German mechanic who constructed 706 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,900 it to the order of the late professor, Moriarty for years. 707 00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:56,700 I've been aware of its existence. 708 00:43:57,300 --> 00:44:00,100 Now, I have never before had the opportunity of handling it. 709 00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:04,600 I commend it very specially to your attention lestrade and also 710 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,800 the bullets which fitted you can trust us to look after that. 711 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,000 Mr. Holmes said. Drawed as the whole party. 712 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,100 Moved toward the door. Anything further to site. 713 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,500 Only to ask what charge you intend to prefer. 714 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,300 What charge sir? What? 715 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:23,600 Of course, the attempted murder of mr. 716 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:29,300 Sherlock Holmes, not so lestrade my do not propose to appear in 717 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:34,200 the matter at all to you and to, you only belongs the credit of 718 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,700 the remarkable arrest, which you have affected. 719 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,900 Yes. Lestrade, I congratulate you 720 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,200 with your usual. Happy mixture of cunning, and 721 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,300 audacity. You have got him. 722 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,900 Going call mr. Holmes. 723 00:44:49,700 --> 00:44:54,200 The man that the whole Force has been seeking in vain Colonel, 724 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,400 Sebastian Moran, who shot the honourable Ronald Adair with an 725 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,200 expanding bullet from an air gun through the open window of the 726 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,300 second floor? Front of number 427 Park Lane 727 00:45:06,700 --> 00:45:12,100 upon the 30th of last month. That's the charge lestrade and 728 00:45:12,100 --> 00:45:14,500 now Watson. If you can endure the draft from 729 00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:19,200 a broken window, I Half an hour in my study over a cigar May 730 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,800 afford you some profitable amusement. 731 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,900 Our old Chambers have been left, unchanged through the 732 00:45:25,900 --> 00:45:29,300 supervision of Mycroft Holmes and the immediate care of mrs. 733 00:45:29,300 --> 00:45:33,000 Hudson. As I entered, I saw it is true, 734 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,200 an unwanted tidiness, but the old landmarks were all in their 735 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,000 place. There were the chemical corner 736 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,900 and the acid stained deal top table there upon a shelf, was 737 00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:48,300 the row of formidable scrap books and books of reference 738 00:45:48,300 --> 00:45:51,400 which many of our fellow citizens would have been so glad 739 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:55,200 to burn. The diagrams, the violin case 740 00:45:55,500 --> 00:45:58,900 and the Pipe Rack, even the Persian slipper, which contain 741 00:45:58,900 --> 00:46:02,700 the tobacco, all met my eyes. As I glanced around me. 742 00:46:03,700 --> 00:46:05,300 There were two occupants of the room. 743 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,300 One. Mrs. Hudson, who beamed upon us. 744 00:46:08,300 --> 00:46:12,900 Both as we entered the other, the strange dummy, which had 745 00:46:12,900 --> 00:46:15,800 played so important apart in the evenings Adventures. 746 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,200 It was a wax colored model of my friend. 747 00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:22,700 So admirably done that. It was a perfect facsimile. 748 00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:27,200 It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing gown 749 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,200 of homes is so draped around it that the illusion from the 750 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:34,900 street was absolutely perfect. I hope you observed all 751 00:46:34,900 --> 00:46:37,600 precautions. Mrs. Hudson said Holmes. 752 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,500 I went to all my Nisa. Just did you tell me? 753 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,800 Excellent? You carried the thing out very 754 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,400 well. Did you observe where the bullet 755 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,400 went? Yes, sir. 756 00:46:49,700 --> 00:46:53,000 I'm afraid, a sport, your beautiful bust for it. 757 00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:55,600 Passed right through the head and flattened itself on the 758 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,400 wall. I picked it up from the carpet. 759 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,800 Here. It is Holmes held it out to me 760 00:47:02,700 --> 00:47:06,600 as soft revolver bullet. As you perceive Watson, there's 761 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,200 genius in that for who would expect to find such a thing 762 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,100 fired from an air gun. All right. 763 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:15,500 Mrs. Hudson. I am much obliged for your 764 00:47:15,500 --> 00:47:19,900 assistance and now Watson, let me see you in your old seat. 765 00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:22,900 Once more for there are several points, which I should like to 766 00:47:22,900 --> 00:47:23,800 discuss. Discuss with you. 767 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,300 He had thrown off the Seedy frock-coat and now he was the 768 00:47:28,300 --> 00:47:31,000 homes of old in the mouse-colored dressing-gown. 769 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,800 Which he took from his effigy. The old shekhar is nerves of not 770 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,500 lost their steadiness, nor his eyes there. 771 00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:42,000 Keenness said he with a laugh. As he inspected the shattered, 772 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,700 forehead of his bust plum in the middle of the back of the head 773 00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:49,500 and smack through the brain. He was the best shot in India 774 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,300 and I expect that there are few better in London. 775 00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,700 Have you heard the name? No, I have not. 776 00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:00,300 Well, well such is Fame, but then if I remember, right? 777 00:48:00,300 --> 00:48:03,500 You had not heard the name of Professor James Moriarty. 778 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,100 You are one of the great brains of the century. 779 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,900 Just give me down my index of biographies from the Shelf. 780 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,100 He turned over the pages, lazily leaning back in his chair and 781 00:48:15,100 --> 00:48:17,000 blowing great clouds from his cigar. 782 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:23,100 My collection of Em's is a fine. One said he Moriarty himself is 783 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:25,000 enough to make any letter illustrious. 784 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,900 And here is Morgan, the poisoner and married you of abominable 785 00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:32,700 memory and Matthews, who knocked out my left canine in the 786 00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:37,100 waiting room at Charing Cross. And finally, there is our friend 787 00:48:37,100 --> 00:48:39,800 tonight. He handed over the book and I 788 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:44,400 read Moran. Sebastian, Colonel, unemployed. 789 00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:47,000 Formerly. First Bangalore Pioneers. 790 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,300 Born. London. 1840, son of Caesar 791 00:48:50,300 --> 00:48:53,700 Augustus, Moran. CB once British minister to 792 00:48:53,700 --> 00:48:59,200 Persia educated Eton and Oxford served in Jockey campaign Afghan 793 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:03,600 campaign, chera see, AB dispatches, share poor and 794 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:09,000 Cobble author of heavy game of the western Himalayas. 1881 795 00:49:09,300 --> 00:49:13,500 three months in the jungle 1884 address. 796 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:17,600 Conduit Street clubs, the anglo-indian the tank of ill, 797 00:49:18,100 --> 00:49:22,200 the Bagatelle Card Club. On the module was written, in 798 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:26,200 homes is precise hand. The second most dangerous man in 799 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,900 London. This is astonishing said, I as I 800 00:49:29,900 --> 00:49:32,600 handed back the volume, the man's career. 801 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:36,700 Is that of an honorable Soldier? It is true. 802 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,700 Holmes answered up to a certain point, he did. 803 00:49:39,700 --> 00:49:43,600 Well, he was always a man of iron nerve and the story is 804 00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,000 still told in India, how he crawled down a drain. 805 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,100 After a wounded man-eating tiger. 806 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,500 There are Some trees Watson which grow to a certain height 807 00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:56,900 and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. 808 00:49:57,500 --> 00:50:01,200 You will see it often in humans. I have a theory that the 809 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,800 individual represents in his development the whole procession 810 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:08,900 of his ancestors and that's such a sudden turn to good or evil 811 00:50:09,300 --> 00:50:12,100 stands for some strong influence, which came into the 812 00:50:12,100 --> 00:50:15,800 line of his pedigree. The person becomes as it were 813 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,900 the epitome of the history of his own family. 814 00:50:19,900 --> 00:50:21,900 It is surely rather for fanciful. 815 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,800 Well, I don't insist upon it, whatever, the cause Colonel 816 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:30,600 Moran began to go wrong without any open Scandal. 817 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,400 He still made India too hot to hold him. 818 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:38,400 He retired came to London and again, acquired an evil name. 819 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,900 It was at this time that he was sought out by Professor 820 00:50:41,900 --> 00:50:46,000 Moriarty, to whom for a time. He was chief of the staff. 821 00:50:46,700 --> 00:50:50,200 Moriarty supplied him. Liberally with money and used 822 00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,300 him only in one or two very high-class. 823 00:50:52,500 --> 00:50:56,000 Jobs, which No, Ordinary criminal could have undertaken. 824 00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,800 You may have some recollection of the death of mrs. 825 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:03,800 Stewart of Lauda in 1887. Not. 826 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,700 Well, I'm sure Moran was at the bottom of it, but nothing could 827 00:51:07,700 --> 00:51:10,500 be proved. So cleverly was the colonel 828 00:51:10,500 --> 00:51:14,000 concealed that even when the Moriarty gang was broken up. 829 00:51:14,300 --> 00:51:18,100 We could not incriminate him. You, remember at that date when 830 00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:21,400 I called upon you in your rooms, how I put up the shutters for 831 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,900 fear of are Ins, no doubt you thought me fanciful. 832 00:51:25,700 --> 00:51:28,500 I knew exactly what I was doing for. 833 00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:32,800 I knew of the existence of this remarkable gun, and I knew also 834 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,700 that one of the best shots in the world will be behind it. 835 00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,500 When we were in Switzerland. He followed us with Moriarty and 836 00:51:40,500 --> 00:51:44,500 it was undoubtedly he who gave me that Evil 5 minutes on the 837 00:51:44,500 --> 00:51:48,200 Reichenbach ledge. You may think that I read the 838 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:51,700 papers with some attention during my sojourn in France, on 839 00:51:51,700 --> 00:51:54,500 the lookout for any chance of laying him by the heels. 840 00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,200 So long as he was free in London. 841 00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,500 My life would really not have been worth living night and day. 842 00:52:01,500 --> 00:52:05,100 The shadow would have been over me and sooner or later his 843 00:52:05,100 --> 00:52:08,200 chance, must have come. What could I do? 844 00:52:08,900 --> 00:52:12,300 I could not shoot him at sight or I should myself be in the 845 00:52:12,300 --> 00:52:15,000 dock. There was no use of peeling to a 846 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,200 magistrate. They Interfere on the strength 847 00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,000 of what would appear to them to be a wild suspicion. 848 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,200 So I could do nothing but I watched the criminal news 849 00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:27,800 knowing that sooner or later. I should get him. 850 00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,200 Then, came the death of this. Ronald Adair. 851 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,700 My chance had come at last knowing what I did was it not 852 00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:39,100 certain that Colonel Moran had done it. 853 00:52:39,900 --> 00:52:41,700 He had played cards with the lad. 854 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,300 He had followed him home from the club. 855 00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:46,700 He had shot him through the open. 856 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,300 And, oh, there was not a doubt of it. 857 00:52:50,100 --> 00:52:53,100 The bullets alone are enough to put his head in a noose. 858 00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:57,700 I came over at once. I was seen by The Sentinel, who 859 00:52:57,700 --> 00:53:00,700 would I knew direct the Colonel's attention to my 860 00:53:00,700 --> 00:53:04,100 presence. He could not fail to connect my 861 00:53:04,100 --> 00:53:08,300 sudden return with his crime and to be terribly alarmed. 862 00:53:08,900 --> 00:53:12,000 I was sure that he would make an attempt to get me out of the way 863 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:16,700 at once and would bring round his murderous weapon for that. 864 00:53:16,900 --> 00:53:22,800 Purpose, I left him an excellent Mark in the window and having 865 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:25,100 warned the police that they might be needed. 866 00:53:25,500 --> 00:53:28,000 By the way. Watson, you spotted their 867 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,900 presence in that doorway with unerring accuracy. 868 00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,700 I took up what seemed to me to be a judicious post for 869 00:53:34,700 --> 00:53:37,500 observation. Never dreaming that, he would 870 00:53:37,500 --> 00:53:39,800 choose the same spot for his attack. 871 00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,700 Now, my dear Watson, there's anything remained for me to 872 00:53:43,700 --> 00:53:48,700 explain Yes said I you've not made it clear. 873 00:53:48,700 --> 00:53:52,000 What was Colonel Moran's motive in murdering the honourable? 874 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:57,700 Ronald Adair. Ah, my dear Watson there, we 875 00:53:57,700 --> 00:54:01,200 come into those Realms of conjecture where the most 876 00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:05,600 logical mind may be at fault. Each may form his own hypothesis 877 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:09,600 upon the present evidence and yours is as likely to be correct 878 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,200 as mine. You have formed one. 879 00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:16,600 Then I think that it is not difficult to explain the facts. 880 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,800 It came out in evidence that Colonel Moran and young Adair 881 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,500 had between them when a considerable amount of money. 882 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:28,400 Now, Moran undoubtedly played foul of that. 883 00:54:28,500 --> 00:54:31,800 I'm long been aware. I believe that on the day of the 884 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:36,800 murder had discovered that Moran was cheating, very likely he had 885 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:40,600 spoken to him privately and had threatened to expose him unless 886 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,100 he Terally. Resigned his membership of the 887 00:54:43,100 --> 00:54:46,500 club and promised not to play cards again. 888 00:54:47,500 --> 00:54:50,300 It is unlikely that a youngster like a dare would at once. 889 00:54:50,300 --> 00:54:53,700 Make a hideous Scandal by exposing a well-known, man. 890 00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:56,800 So much older than himself. Probably. 891 00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,400 He acted. As I suggest the exclusion from 892 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:04,300 his clubs would mean ruined to Moran who lived by his 893 00:55:04,300 --> 00:55:07,600 ill-gotten card gains. He therefore murder. 894 00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:11,300 Dad are who at the time was endeavoring to work out how Much 895 00:55:11,300 --> 00:55:13,800 money. He should himself return since 896 00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,600 he could not profit by his Partners Foul Play. 897 00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:18,600 He locked the door. Lest. 898 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:22,000 The ladies should surprise him and insist upon knowing what he 899 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,200 was doing with these names and coins. 900 00:55:24,900 --> 00:55:28,000 Will it pass? I have no doubt that you have 901 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:32,400 hit upon the truth. It will be verified or disproved 902 00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:36,900 at the trial. Meanwhile come what may Colonel 903 00:55:36,900 --> 00:55:38,800 Moran will trouble us? No more. 904 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,400 The famous are gonna van header, will embellish the Scotland Yard 905 00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,400 Museum. And once again, mr. 906 00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,800 Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining 907 00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:53,400 those interesting little problems, which the complex life 908 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,400 of London so plentifully presents. 909 00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:59,900 End of the empty house.