1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:04,300 Part 2 of The Adventure of The Priory school from the return of 2 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:06,600 Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur Conan Doyle. 3 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:09,500 This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. 4 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:15,700 Part 2, I brought the peasant across and homes, dispatched. 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:17,500 A frightened, man with a note to dr. 6 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:19,500 Huxtable. Now. 7 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:23,700 Watson said, he, we have picked up two Clues this morning. 8 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:28,200 One is the bicycle with the Palmer tire and we see what that 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:33,500 has led to the other is the bicycle with the patched Dunlop. 10 00:00:35,100 --> 00:00:39,600 Before we start to investigate that, let us try to realize what 11 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,800 we do know. So as to make the most of it and 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,300 to separate the essential from The Accidental, first of all, I 13 00:00:47,308 --> 00:00:50,400 wish to impress upon you that the boy certainly left of his 14 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,000 own free. Will he got down from his 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,800 window? And he went off, either alone or 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,800 with someone that is sure I assented. 17 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:02,900 Well. Now, let us turn to this 18 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:07,200 unfortunate, German master. The boy was fully dressed when 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,600 he fled, therefore he foresaw what he would do. 20 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,500 But the German went without his socks. 21 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:17,300 He certainly acted on very short, notice. 22 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:21,600 Undoubtedly. Why did he go? 23 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,800 Because from his bedroom window, he saw the Flight of the boy 24 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:29,900 because he wished to overtake him and bring him back. 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,900 He seized his bicycle pursued the lad and in pursuing him. 26 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,500 Met his death. So it would seem now. 27 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:41,600 I come to the critical part of my argument. 28 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,300 The natural action of a man in pursuing a little boy, would be 29 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:48,300 to run after him. He would know that he could 30 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:51,000 overtake him but the German does not do. 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 So. He turned to his bicycle. 32 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,000 I'm told that he was an excellent cyclist. 33 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,900 He would not do this. If he did not see, the boy had 34 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:03,100 some Swift means of Escape. The other bicycle. 35 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,500 Let us continue our reconstruction, he meets his 36 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:11,700 death, five miles from the school, not by a bullet Mark you 37 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:14,400 which even allowed might conceivably discharged. 38 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,700 But by a Savage, blow dealt by a vigorous arm the lad then had a 39 00:02:20,708 --> 00:02:25,000 companion in his flight and the flight was a Swift one, since it 40 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,600 took five miles before an expert cyclist could overtake them yet. 41 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,000 We survey the ground around the scene of the tragedy. 42 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:36,100 What do we find? A few cattle tracks, nothing 43 00:02:36,100 --> 00:02:39,100 more. I took a wide Sweet Brown and 44 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:41,200 there is no paths within 50 yards. 45 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:45,000 Another cyclist could have had nothing to do with the actual 46 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,700 murder nor were there, any human foot marks homes? 47 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:52,200 I cried. This is impossible. 48 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:56,700 Admirable. He said a most Illuminating 49 00:02:56,700 --> 00:03:01,200 remark. It is impossible as I stated and 50 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,200 therefore, I must in some respect. 51 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,700 Have stated it wrong, yet. You saw for yourself. 52 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:12,500 Can you suggest any fallacy? He could not have fractured his 53 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:16,400 skull in a fall? In a Maurice Watson. 54 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,200 I'm at my wit's end. Tut Tut. 55 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,500 We have solved some worse problems, but at least we have 56 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:29,700 plenty of material. If we can only use it come then, 57 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,500 and having exhausted the Palmer. Let us see what the Dunlop with 58 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:35,300 the patch to cover has to offer us. 59 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,100 We picked up the track and followed it on word for some 60 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:41,700 distance. But soon, the more rows into a 61 00:03:41,708 --> 00:03:45,900 long, Heather tufted curve and we left the Watercourse behind 62 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:48,600 us. No further help from tracks, 63 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,300 could be hoped for at the spot where we saw the last of the 64 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:54,500 Dunlop Tire. It might equally have led to 65 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:57,700 holderness Hall. The stately towers of which rose 66 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:02,000 some miles to our left, or to a low gray Village which lay in 67 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 front of us and mark the position of the Chesterfield 68 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,200 High Road. As we approach the forbidding 69 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,600 and squalid in with the sign of a Gamecock above the door 70 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,400 Holmes, gave a sudden grown and clutched Me by the shoulder to 71 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,399 save himself from falling. He had had one of those violent 72 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:23,200 strains of the ankle, which leave a man helpless with 73 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,100 difficulty. He limped up to the door. 74 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,700 Where a squat dark elderly, man. Was smoking a Black clay pipe. 75 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,100 How are you? Mr. Reuben, Hayes said, Holmes, 76 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,000 who are you? And how do you get my name? 77 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,800 Soap at the Countryman answered with a suspicious flash of a 78 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,900 pair of cunning eyes. Well, it's printed on the board, 79 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:47,900 above your head. It's easy to see a man who is 80 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:51,100 master of his own house. I suppose you haven't such a 81 00:04:51,108 --> 00:04:53,200 thing as a carriage in your Stables. 82 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,200 Now. I have not. 83 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,300 I can hardly put my foot to the ground. 84 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:02,800 Don't put it to the ground, but I can't walk. 85 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,700 Well then hop. Mr. Reuben, Hayes. 86 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:09,900 Manor was far from gracious. But Holmes took it with an 87 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:13,200 admirable, good humor. Look here. 88 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,800 My man said he, this is really rather an awkward fix for me. 89 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,800 I don't mind how I get on. Neither. 90 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,500 Do I said the morose landlord? The matter is very important. 91 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:29,400 I would offer you a sovereign for the use of a bicycle. 92 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,300 The landlord pricked up his ears. 93 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:36,000 Where do you want to go to holdernesse? 94 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,800 Hall? Pals of the Duke are suppose to 95 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,800 the landlord surveying. Our mud-stained garments with 96 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,400 ironical eyes Holmes, laughed good-naturedly. 97 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,300 He'll be glad to see us. Anyhow, why? 98 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,600 Because we bring him news of his lost, son. 99 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,400 The landlord gave a very visible start, what you're on his track. 100 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,400 He has been heard of in Liverpool. 101 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,300 They expect to get him every hour. 102 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:08,800 Again, a swift change passed over the heavy unshaven face. 103 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,900 His manner was suddenly genial of Less Reason to wish to do 104 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:16,500 quell. The most men said he for. 105 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:19,000 I was head. Coachman once and cruel bad. 106 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,400 He treated me, it was him. That sacked me without character 107 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,800 on the word of a lying corn Chandler, but I'm glad to hear 108 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,600 that the young ladder was heard of in Liverpool and I love you 109 00:06:28,608 --> 00:06:33,600 to take the news to the hall. Thank you said Holmes will have 110 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,700 some food first then you can bring around the bicycle. 111 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:42,400 Oh, I haven't got a bicycle Holmes, held up a sovereign or 112 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,800 tell you, man. Do I haven't got one? 113 00:06:45,100 --> 00:06:49,700 I'll let you have two offices as far as the all well, well said 114 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:52,900 Holmes, we'll talk about it when we've had something to eat. 115 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,500 When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was 116 00:06:57,500 --> 00:07:00,800 astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered. 117 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,300 It was nearly Nightfall and we had eaten nothing since early 118 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:07,200 morning. So that we spent some time. 119 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,100 Over. Our meal, Holmes was lost in 120 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:13,700 thought, and once or twice, he walked over to the window and 121 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:17,400 stared earnestly out. It opened onto a squalid 122 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,600 Courtyard in the far Corner as a smoothie. 123 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,100 We're a grimy lad was at work on the other side. 124 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:27,700 With a stables, Holmes, had sat down again after one of those 125 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:30,600 excursions when he suddenly sprang out of his chair with a 126 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:35,400 loud. Nation by Heaven Watson, I 127 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,700 believe that I've got it. He cried. 128 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:39,900 Yes. Yes. 129 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:43,400 It must be so Watson. Do you remember seeing any cow 130 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,300 tracks today? Yes, several. 131 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,200 We're well everywhere. They were at the morass and 132 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,100 again, on the path and again near where poor Heidegger met 133 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:57,000 his death. Exactly. 134 00:07:57,700 --> 00:08:01,100 Well, now Watson. How many cows did you see on the 135 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:04,000 more? I don't remember seeing any 136 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:09,200 strange Watson that we should see tracks all along our line, 137 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:11,500 but never a cow on the whole more. 138 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,200 Very strange Watson. A yes. 139 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,500 It is strange. Now, Watson make an effort. 140 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,500 Throw your mind back. Can you see those tracks upon 141 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:26,200 the path? Yes, I can. 142 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:31,500 Can you recall that the tracks were sometimes like that Watson? 143 00:08:32,299 --> 00:08:34,700 He arranged a number of breadcrumbs in this fashion. 144 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:40,200 And sometimes like this and occasionally like this. 145 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:46,800 Can you remember that? No, I cannot, but I can, I could 146 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,700 swear to it. However, we will go back at our 147 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:54,000 Leisure and verify it. What a blind Beetle. 148 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,300 I have been not to draw my conclusion. 149 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,800 And what is your conclusion only that it is a remarkable cow, 150 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:06,500 which walks Canter's and gallops by George Watson. 151 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,700 It was no brain of a country Publican that thought out such a 152 00:09:09,708 --> 00:09:13,700 blind as that. The coast seems to be clear. 153 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,200 Say for that lad in the Smoothie, Let Us slip out and 154 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,200 see what we can see. They were too rough head, 155 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,700 unkempt horses in the tumbledown stable, Holmes raised the hind 156 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:32,200 leg of one of them and laughed aloud old shoes, but newly shod 157 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:36,300 old shoes. But New Nails, this case. 158 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:39,500 Deserves to be a classic. Let us go across to the 159 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:42,800 smoothie. The lad continued his work 160 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,100 without regarding us. I saw Holmes his eyes darting to 161 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:49,100 right and left among the litter of iron and wood, which was 162 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:51,600 scattered above the floor. Suddenly. 163 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,800 However, we heard a step behind us and there was the landlord 164 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,000 his heavy eyebrows drawn over his Savage eyes. 165 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:02,100 His swarthy features convulsed with passion. 166 00:10:02,900 --> 00:10:06,100 He held a short metal headed stick in his hand and he 167 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:09,100 advanced in so menacing a fashion that I was right. 168 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:11,100 Glad to feel the revolver in my pocket. 169 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:14,700 You infernal spies the man. Cried. 170 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:17,200 What you doing here? Why? 171 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,200 Mr. Reuben Hayes said, Holmes Cooley one might think that you 172 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,700 were afraid of our finding something out. 173 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:28,300 The man mastered himself with a violent effort. 174 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:32,300 And his Grim mouth loosened into a false laugh, which was more 175 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:35,900 menacing than his frown. You're welcome to all. 176 00:10:35,900 --> 00:10:39,400 You can find out in my smiddy said, he, but look here. 177 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,900 Mr. My don't care for folk poking about my place without my 178 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:45,500 leave. So the sooner you pay your score 179 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:48,000 and get out of this than better. I shall be pleased. 180 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:50,700 All right. Mr. Hayes, no harm. 181 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:54,400 Meant said, Holmes. We have been having a look at 182 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,600 your horses. But I think I'll walk after all. 183 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,500 It's not far. I believe no more than two miles 184 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:04,200 to the or Gates Master out of the left. 185 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,100 He watched us with Sullen eyes until we had left his premises. 186 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:11,700 We did not go very far along the road for home. 187 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:13,400 Stop. The instant, that the curve hit 188 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:18,200 us from the landlord's View. We were warm as the children's 189 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,000 say at that. In said, he I seem to grow 190 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,100 colder. Every step that I take away from 191 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:26,400 it. No, no, I can't possibly leave 192 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,300 it. I'm convinced said I that this 193 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:33,900 Reuben Hayes knows all about it, a more self-evident villain. 194 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:38,000 I never saw. Oh, he impressed you in that 195 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:38,800 way. Did he? 196 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,500 There are the horses. There is a Smithy. 197 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:45,000 Yes. It is an interesting place. 198 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,300 This fighting cock. I think we shall have another 199 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:53,800 look at it in an unobtrusive way along, sloping Hillside dotted 200 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,800 with gray, Limestone Boulders stretched behind us. 201 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,900 We had turned off the road, and we're making our way up the 202 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:01,600 hill. When looking in the direction of 203 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,900 holdernesse Hall. I saw a cyclist coming swiftly, 204 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:09,500 along Get down Watson cried Holmes with a heavy hand upon my 205 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:12,600 shoulder. We had hardly sunk from view 206 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,600 when the man flew past us on the road and made a rolling cloud of 207 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,700 dust. I caught a glimpse of a pale 208 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,800 agitated face, a face with horror in every linear moment. 209 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,900 The mouth Open. The Eyes staring wildly in 210 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:29,200 front. It was like some strange 211 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,300 caricature of the Dapper James Wilder whom he had seen the 212 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:36,400 night before. The Dukes secretary cried 213 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,200 Holmes. Come Watson. 214 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:42,900 Let us see what he does. We scrambled from rock to rock 215 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:46,300 until in a few moments. We had made our way to a point, 216 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:49,900 from which we could see the front door of the in Wilders 217 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:52,300 bicycle was leaning against the wall beside it. 218 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,000 No one was moving about the house. 219 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:58,000 Nor could we catch a glimpse of any faces at the windows? 220 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:03,300 Slowly the Twilight crept down as the sun sank behind the high 221 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:06,800 towers of holdernesse Hall. Then in the Gloom. 222 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,600 We saw the two side lamps of a trap light up in the stable yard 223 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:14,900 of the in and shortly afterwards heard the rattle of hooves as it 224 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:18,700 wheeled out into the road and tore off at a furious Pace in 225 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:23,000 the direction of Chesterfield. What do you make of that? 226 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,800 Watson Holmes whispered? It looks like a flight. 227 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,500 A single man in a dog-cart. So far, as I could see. 228 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,600 Well, it certainly was not. Mr. James Wilder, for there. 229 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,400 He is at the door. A red square of light, at 230 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,600 sprung, out of the darkness in the middle of it was the black 231 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,100 figure of the secretary. His head Advanced peering out 232 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:49,100 into the night. It was evident that he was 233 00:13:49,100 --> 00:13:54,400 expecting someone then at last, there were steps in the road, a 234 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,800 second figure was visible for an instant against the light, the 235 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,700 door shut and all was black once more. 236 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,600 Five minutes later a lamp was lit in a room upon the first 237 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,000 floor. It seems to be a curious class 238 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,400 of custom that is done by the fighting cock said, Holmes. 239 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,400 The bar is on the other side, quite. 240 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:21,100 So these are what will make all the private guests. 241 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,900 Now. What in the world is? 242 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:28,600 Mr. James Wilder doing in that Den at this hour of night and 243 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,700 who is the companion who comes to meet him. 244 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:34,700 There come Watson. We must really take a risk and 245 00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:36,900 try to investigate this a little more closely. 246 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:41,300 Together. We stole down to the road and 247 00:14:41,300 --> 00:14:45,200 crept across to the door of the in the bicycle still leaned 248 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,000 against the wall home struck a match and held it to the back 249 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,500 wheel and I heard him chuckle, as the light fell Upon A patched 250 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:56,200 Dunlop Tire up above us, was the lighted window. 251 00:14:57,500 --> 00:15:01,700 I must have a peep through that Watson, if you bend your back 252 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:03,300 and support yourself upon the wall. 253 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:07,900 I think that I can manage. An instant later, his feet were 254 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:10,800 on my shoulders, but he was hardly up before he was down 255 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:15,000 again. Come, my friend said, he today's 256 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,400 work has been quite long enough. I think that we have gathered 257 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,500 all that we can. It's a long walk to the school. 258 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:23,500 And the sooner we get started, the better. 259 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:27,300 He hardly opened his lips. During that weary trudge across 260 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:29,800 the Moor. Nor would he enter the school 261 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,400 when he reached it? But went on to mackleton 262 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,800 station, when she could send some telegrams late at night. 263 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,000 I heard him consoling. Dr. Huxtable frustrated by the 264 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,100 tragedy of his master's death. I'd like to steal. 265 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:46,400 He entered my room as alert and vigorous as he had been when he 266 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,600 started in the morning. All goes. 267 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,500 Well, my friend said he I promise that before tomorrow 268 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:55,100 evening. We shall have reached the 269 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:59,100 solution of the mystery. At 11 o'clock. 270 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:02,200 Next morning, my friend and I were walking up the famous, you 271 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,600 Avenue of holdernesse Hall. We were ushered through the 272 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:10,200 Magnificent Elizabethan doorway, and into his Grace's study where 273 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,100 we found. Mr. James Wilder, do mio and 274 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:16,800 courtly, but with some trace of that wild Terror of the night 275 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:20,500 before still lurking in his furtive eyes, and in his 276 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:24,500 twitching features, You've come to see his grace. 277 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,200 I am sorry, but the fact is that the Duke is far from, well, he's 278 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,600 been very much upset by the tragic news. 279 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,400 We received a telegram from dr. Huxtable yesterday, afternoon, 280 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:40,000 which told us of your discovery. I must see the Duke mr. 281 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:45,100 Wilder, but he's in his room. Then I must go to his room. 282 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:49,500 I believe he's in his bed. I will see him there. 283 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:52,700 Holmes's cold and inexorable manner. 284 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:55,500 Showed the secretary that it was useless to argue with him. 285 00:16:56,500 --> 00:16:57,700 Very good. Mr. Holmes. 286 00:16:58,100 --> 00:16:59,500 I will tell him that you're here. 287 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,900 After an hour's delay, the great nobleman appeared, his face was 288 00:17:05,900 --> 00:17:09,500 more cadaverous than ever. His shoulders had rounded and he 289 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:12,200 seemed to me to be an altogether older man than he had been the 290 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,500 morning before. He greeted us with a stately 291 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:18,800 courtesy and seated himself at his desk. 292 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,900 His Red Beard streaming down on the table. 293 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:26,900 Well, mr. Holmes said he, but my friend's 294 00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:30,500 eyes were fixed upon the secretary who stood by his 295 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:35,000 master's chair. I think your grace that I could 296 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,800 speak more freely in mr. Wilders absence. 297 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:43,100 The man turned a shade paler and cast a malignant glance at 298 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:45,800 homes. If your grace wishes. 299 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,600 Yes. Yes, you'd better go now. 300 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,400 Mr. Holmes. What have you to say? 301 00:17:53,500 --> 00:17:56,600 My friend, waited until the door had closed behind the retreating 302 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,700 secretary. The fact is your Grace said he 303 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:04,700 do to my colleague. Dr. Watson and myself had an 304 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:06,300 assurance from dr. Huxtable. 305 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:07,800 There's a reward has been offered. 306 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,500 In this case. I should like to have this 307 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:14,200 confirmed from your own lips. Certainly, mr. 308 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,100 Holmes. It amounted, if I am correctly 309 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:22,100 informed, to 5,000 pounds to anyone, who will tell you, where 310 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:26,600 your son is. Exactly and another thousand to 311 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,900 the man, who will name the person or persons, who keep him 312 00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:34,400 in custody. Exactly under the latter. 313 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,700 Heading is included. No doubt. 314 00:18:37,100 --> 00:18:39,300 Not only those who may have taken him away. 315 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:42,700 But also those who conspire to keep him in his present 316 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,800 position. Yes, yes. 317 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:48,900 Cried the Jew can patiently if you do your work. 318 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:50,500 Well, mr. Sherlock Holmes. 319 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:54,800 You will have no reason to complain of niggardly treatment 320 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,100 my friend rubbed, his thin hands together with an appearance of 321 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:03,100 avidity, which was a surprise to me, who knew his Frugal tastes. 322 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,900 I fancy that I see your Grace's checkbook upon the table said. 323 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:12,800 He I should be glad if you would make me out a check for 6,000 324 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,000 pounds. It would be as well. 325 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,400 Perhaps for you to cross it. The capital and Counties Bank 326 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:21,000 Oxford Street, branch are my agents. 327 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:25,900 His grace sat very Stern and upright in his chair and looked 328 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:29,800 stonily at my friend. Is this a joke? 329 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,900 Mr. Holmes? It is hardly as subject for 330 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:36,000 pleasantry. Not at all your grace. 331 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:38,600 I was never more Earnest in my life. 332 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:43,200 What do you mean then? I mean that I have earned the 333 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,500 reward. I know where your son is and I 334 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:49,200 know some at least of those who are holding him. 335 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,200 The Dukes beard a turned more aggressively red than ever 336 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,900 against his ghastly white face. Where is he? 337 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:02,700 He is, or was last night at the fighting cock in about two miles 338 00:20:02,700 --> 00:20:06,500 from your parkgate. The Duke fell back in his chair. 339 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,700 And whom do you accuse Sherlock Holmes? 340 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:12,500 His answer was an astounding one. 341 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,500 He stepped swiftly forward, and touched the Juke upon the 342 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:23,000 shoulder. I accuse you said he and now 343 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,800 your grace I'll trouble you for that check. 344 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,400 Never shall. I forget the Dukes appearance as 345 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,100 he sprang up and Claude with his hands like one who is sinking 346 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:36,700 into an abyss. Then with an extraordinary 347 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:38,800 effort of aristocratic self-command. 348 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:42,300 He sat down and sank his face in his hands. 349 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,800 It was some minutes before he spoke. 350 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:49,800 How much do you know? He asked at last without raising 351 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,200 his head? I saw you together last night. 352 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:56,800 Does anyone else beside your friend? 353 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:02,300 Know, I have spoken to no one. The Duke took a pen in his 354 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:04,600 quivering fingers and opened his checkbook. 355 00:21:05,700 --> 00:21:08,700 I shall be as good as my word. Mr. Holmes. 356 00:21:09,500 --> 00:21:13,900 I'm about to write your check. However, unwelcome the 357 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:18,100 information which you have gained maybe to me, when the 358 00:21:18,100 --> 00:21:22,300 offer was first made, I little thought to turn which events 359 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:26,400 might take but you and your friend Norman have discretion. 360 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,200 Mr. Holmes. I hardly understand your grace. 361 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,600 I must put it plainly. Mr. Holmes. 362 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:38,900 If only you to know of this incident, there is no reason why 363 00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:44,100 it should go any farther. I think. 12,000 pounds is a son. 364 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:45,600 That I owe you. Is it not? 365 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:48,800 But Holmes smiled and shook his head. 366 00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:53,900 I fear your grace that matters can hardly be arranged so 367 00:21:53,900 --> 00:21:56,500 easily. There is the death of this 368 00:21:56,500 --> 00:22:01,500 Schoolmaster to be accounted for but James knew nothing of that. 369 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,400 You cannot hold him responsible for that. 370 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,200 It was the work of this brutal Ruffian whom he had The 371 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:13,100 Misfortune to employ. I must take the view your grace. 372 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:17,200 But when a man inbox Upon a Crime, he is morally guilty of 373 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,400 any other crime which may spring from it. 374 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:24,500 Morley mr. Holmes, no doubt you are right, 375 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,600 but surely not in the eyes of the law. 376 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,800 A man cannot be condemned for a murder at which he was not 377 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:36,800 present and which he loathes and deboers as much as you do the 378 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,800 instant that he heard of it. He made a complete confession to 379 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,700 me. So filled was he with horror and 380 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:45,900 remorse. He lost not an hour in Breaking 381 00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:48,800 entirely with the murderer. Oh, mr. 382 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,000 Holmes. You must save him. 383 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:54,100 You must save him. I tell you that. 384 00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:57,900 You must save him. The Juke had dropped, the last 385 00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:01,100 attempt at self-command and was pacing the room with a convulsed 386 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:04,300 face and with his clenched hands raving in the air. 387 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:09,600 At last, he mastered himself and sat down once more at his desk. 388 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,800 I appreciate your conduct in coming here before you spoke to 389 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,800 anyone else. Said he, at least we have take 390 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,700 counsel how far we can minimize this hideous Scandal. 391 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,800 Exactly said, Holmes. I think your grace at this can 392 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,500 only be done by absolute frankness between us. 393 00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:35,200 I am disposed to help your grace to the best of my ability, but 394 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,200 in order to do so, I must understand to The Last Detail, 395 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:43,900 how the matter I realize that your words applied to mr. 396 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:47,000 James Wilder. And that he is not the murderer. 397 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,700 Know. The murderer. 398 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:53,600 Has escaped Sherlock Holmes, smiled to me early. 399 00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:58,300 Your Grace can hardly have heard of any small reputation, which I 400 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:01,100 possess or you would not imagine that. 401 00:24:01,100 --> 00:24:04,400 It is so easy to escape me, mr. Reuben. 402 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,500 Hayes was arrested at Chesterfield on my information 403 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,600 at 11:00 last night, I had a telegram from the head of the 404 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,200 local police before I left the school this morning. 405 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,200 Leaned back in his chair and stared with amazement at my 406 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,100 friend. Who seem to have powers that are 407 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:29,100 hardly human said he, so Reuben, Hayes is taken. 408 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:31,100 I'm right. Glad to hear it. 409 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,300 If it will not react upon the fate of James, your secretary. 410 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:39,400 No, sir. My son. 411 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:42,300 It was Holmes has turned to look astonished. 412 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,800 I confess that this is entirely new to me your grace. 413 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,400 I must beg you to be more explicit. 414 00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:55,000 I will conceal nothing from you. I agree with you that complete 415 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,900 frankness. However, painful it may be to me 416 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:02,200 is the best policy in this desperate situation to which 417 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,100 James's Folly, and jealousy have reduced us. 418 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:10,400 When I was a very young man, mr. Holmes, I loved with such a love 419 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,800 as comes only once in a lifetime. 420 00:25:13,500 --> 00:25:17,200 I offered the lady marriage, but she refused it on the grounds 421 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,100 that such a match. Might Mar. 422 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:24,400 My career had she lived I would certainly never have married 423 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,900 anyone else. She died and left, this one 424 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:31,300 child, whom for her sake. I have cherished and cared for. 425 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:35,700 I could not acknowledge the paternity to the world, but I 426 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:39,200 Even the best of education's. And since he came to manhood. 427 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:45,100 I've kept him near my person. He surmised my secret and was 428 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:49,800 presumed ever since upon the claim, which he has upon me, and 429 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,100 upon his power of provoking a scandal, which would be 430 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:57,600 abhorrent to me. His presence had something to do 431 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:02,900 with the unhappy issue of my marriage above all, he hated my 432 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:06,200 young legitimate Heir from the First with the persistent 433 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,200 hatred. You may well ask me why under 434 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,900 these circumstances. I still kept James under my 435 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:16,300 roof. I answer that it was because I 436 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:20,100 could see his mother's face in his and that for her. 437 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:23,700 Dear sake, there was no end to my long-suffering. 438 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:29,100 All her pretty ways to there was not one of them, which he could 439 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,600 not suggest, and bring back to my memory. 440 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:36,800 I could not send him away, but I feared so much lest. 441 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:42,200 He should do Arthur that is Lord saltire and Mischief that I 442 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,300 dispatched him for safety to dr. Huxtables school. 443 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,900 James came into contact with this fellow Hayes, because the 444 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:57,500 man was a tenant of mine and James acted as agent, the fellow 445 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:02,000 was a rascal from the beginning, but in some extraordinary way 446 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,600 James became intimate with him. He had always a taste for low 447 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,700 company when James determined to kidnap Lord saltire. 448 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,500 It was of this man's service that he availed himself. 449 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:18,900 You remember that I wrote to Syrup on that last day. 450 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,700 Well James opened the letter and inserted a note asking Arthur to 451 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:28,700 meet him in a little wood called the Ragged Shaw which is near to 452 00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:32,300 the school. He used the duchess's name. 453 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:36,600 And in that way, got the boy to come that evening. 454 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,200 James bicycle Dover. I'm telling you what he has 455 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,600 himself confessed to me and he told Arthur. 456 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,000 No, me met in the wood at his mother long to see him. 457 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:50,600 Him that she was awaiting him on the Moor and that if he would 458 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,200 come back into the wood at midnight, he would find a man 459 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,500 with a horse who would take him to her. 460 00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:02,100 Poor Arthur fell into the Trap. He came to the appointment and 461 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:04,500 found this fellow Hayes with a lead. 462 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:08,500 Pony Arthur mounted, and they set off together. 463 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,700 It appears though. This James only heard yesterday 464 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:17,300 that they were pursued. That Haze struck the pursuer 465 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:20,800 with his stick and at the man died of his injuries. 466 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:24,900 Hayes brought Arthur to his Public House, the fighting cock 467 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,200 where he was confined in an upper room. 468 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,600 Under the care of mrs. Hayes, who is a kindly woman but 469 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,500 entirely under the control of her. 470 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:36,700 Brutal husband. Well, mr. 471 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:39,600 Holmes. That was the State of Affairs. 472 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,200 When I first saw you two days ago. 473 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:45,400 I had no more idea of the truth than you. 474 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,700 You will ask me. What was James's motive in doing 475 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:53,700 such a deed. I answer that there was a great 476 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:58,000 deal which was unreasoning and fanatical in the hatred, which 477 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,200 he bore. My are in his view. 478 00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:04,900 He should himself. Have been air of all my Estates 479 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,800 and he deeply resented, those social laws, which made it 480 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,900 impossible. At the same time, he had a 481 00:29:12,908 --> 00:29:16,500 definite motive. Also, he was eager that I should 482 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:20,900 break the entail and he was of opinion that it lay in my power 483 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:24,400 to do. So, he intended to make a 484 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,200 bargain with me to restore Arthur if I would break the 485 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,400 entail and so make it possible for the estate to be left to him 486 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,000 by Will. He knew well that I should never 487 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,100 willingly invoke the aid of the police against him. 488 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:42,600 I say that he would have proposed such a bargain to me, 489 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,500 but he did not actually do. So for events moved too quickly 490 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:51,600 for him and he had no time to put his plans into practice. 491 00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:56,800 What brought all this wicked scheme to wreck was your 492 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,600 discovery of this man? Heidegger's dead body. 493 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,600 James was seized with horror at the news. 494 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,300 It came to us yesterday as we sat together in this study. 495 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,600 Dr. Huxtable had sent a telegram. 496 00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:15,700 James was so overwhelmed with grief and agitation that my 497 00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:21,000 suspicions, which had never been entirely absent, Rose instantly 498 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,200 to a certainty. T. 499 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:28,100 And I taxed him with the deed, he made a complete voluntary 500 00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:31,400 confession. Then he implored me to keep his 501 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,200 secret for three days longer. So as to give his wretched, 502 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,000 accomplice a chance of saving his guilty life. 503 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:44,500 I yielded as I've always yielded to his prayers and instantly 504 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:48,400 James hurried off to the fighting cock to warn Hayes and 505 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,100 give him. The means of flight. 506 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,800 I could not go there by daylight without provoking comment, but 507 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,500 as soon as night fell I hurried off to see my dear Arthur. 508 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,300 I found him safe and well, but horrified Beyond expression by 509 00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:09,400 the Dreadful deed. He had witnessed in deference to 510 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,800 my promise and much against my will. 511 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,900 I consent it to leave him there for 3 Days under the charge of 512 00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:21,500 Mrs. Hayes. Since it was evident that it was 513 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:25,900 impossible to inform the police where he was without telling 514 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:28,100 them all. So who was the murderer? 515 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,700 And I could not see. How that murderer could be 516 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:35,200 punished without ruined. My unfortunate James. 517 00:31:36,500 --> 00:31:40,500 You asked for frankness. Mr. Holmes, and I have taken you 518 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:43,900 at your word for, I have now told you everything without an 519 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:46,900 attempt at circumlocution or concealment. 520 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:50,600 Do you in turn? Be as Frank with me? 521 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,300 I will said Holmes in the first place, your grace. 522 00:31:56,900 --> 00:31:59,900 I am bound to tell you that you have placed yourself in a most 523 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:02,300 serious position in the eyes of the law. 524 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,200 You have condoned a felony and you have aided the Escape. 525 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:09,700 Gave of a murderer for. I can't doubt that any money 526 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:12,300 which was taken by James Wilder to Aid his. 527 00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:16,900 Accomplice, in his flight came from your Grace's purse, the 528 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:21,500 Duke bowed his Ascent. This is indeed a most serious 529 00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:24,500 matter, even more culpable. In my opinion. 530 00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:28,100 Your Grace, is your attitude, towards your younger son. 531 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:31,300 You leave him in this Den for three days. 532 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,700 Under solemn promises. What a promises to such people 533 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:41,000 as these, you have no guarantee that he will not be Spirited 534 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,600 Away again to humor. You're guilty eldest, son. 535 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:48,400 You have exposed your innocent younger son to imminent and 536 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,400 unnecessary danger. It was a most unjustifiable 537 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,000 action. The proud lord of Holiness was 538 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,100 not accustomed to be. So rated in his own ducal Hall, 539 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:04,200 the blood flushed into his high forehead, but his conscience 540 00:33:04,300 --> 00:33:07,900 held him dumb. I will help you but on one 541 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:11,700 condition, only it is that you ring for the footmen. 542 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,300 And let me give such orders as I like. 543 00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,300 Without a word, the Duke, press the electric Bell. 544 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:23,700 A servant entered. You'll be glad to hear said, 545 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:26,500 Holmes that your young Master is found. 546 00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:29,700 It is a dukes desire that the carriage should go at once to 547 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:33,100 the fighting cock in to bring Lord saltire home. 548 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,500 Now said Holmes, when the rejoicing Lackey had disappeared 549 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:42,300 having secured the future, we can afford to be more lenient 550 00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:45,800 with the past. I am not in an official position 551 00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:49,700 and there is no reason so long as the ends of justice is served 552 00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:53,800 why I should disclose all the Thai know as to Haze. 553 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,700 I say nothing The Gallows awaits him and I would do nothing to 554 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:02,100 save him from it. What he will divulge. 555 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:04,400 I cannot tell but I have no doubt. 556 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,199 Out that your grace could make him understand that it is to his 557 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:12,900 interest to be silent. From the police point of view. 558 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,800 He will have kidnapped, the boy for the purpose of Ransom, if 559 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,600 they do not themselves, find it out. 560 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:22,000 I see no reason why I should prompt them to take a broader 561 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,900 point of view. I would warn Your Grace, 562 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:27,500 however, that the continued presence of mr. 563 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:31,900 James Wilder in your household can only lead to Misfortune. 564 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:37,000 I understand that mr. Holmes, and it is already 565 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,400 settled at, he shall leave me forever and go to seek his 566 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,199 fortune. Noon, Australia. 567 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:47,199 In that case, your grace, since you have yourself, stated that 568 00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:50,600 any unhappiness in your married, life was caused by his presence. 569 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,500 I would suggest that you make such immense, as you can to The 570 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:58,000 Duchess and that you try to resume those relations, which 571 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,300 have been so unhappily interrupted. 572 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,000 That also I have arranged mr. Holmes. 573 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:09,600 I wrote to The Duchess this morning, in that case said 574 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,700 Holmes Rising. I think that my friend and I can 575 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:16,800 congratulate ourselves upon several most happy results from 576 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:21,400 our little visit to the north. There is one other small Point 577 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:26,000 upon which I desire some light. This fellow Hayes had shot his 578 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,300 horses with shoes, which counterfeited the tracks of 579 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,500 cows. Was it from? 580 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:33,800 Mr. Wilders. He learned so extraordinary 581 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,100 device. The Duke stood in thought for a 582 00:35:37,107 --> 00:35:40,300 moment, with a look of intense surprise on his face. 583 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,000 Then he opened a door and showed us into a large room furnished 584 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,400 as a museum. He led the way to a glass case 585 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,100 in a corner and pointed to the inscription. 586 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:57,200 These shoes Moran were dug up in the motive holderness whole they 587 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,400 are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a 588 00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:03,400 cloven foot of iron. So as to throw pursuers off the 589 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,400 track, they are supposed to belong. 590 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,200 To some of the marauding Barons of holderness in the Middle 591 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,000 Ages. Holmes opened the case and 592 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,600 moistening his finger. He passed it along the shoe, a 593 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,600 thin film of recent mud was left upon his skin. 594 00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:23,900 Thank you said he, as he replaced the glass, it is the 595 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:27,300 second most interesting object that I have seen in the North. 596 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,500 And the first home is, folded up his check and placed it 597 00:36:32,500 --> 00:36:36,200 carefully in his notebook. I am a poor man. 598 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,300 Said he as he patted it, affectionately and thrust it 599 00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:41,600 into the depths of his inner pocket. 600 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000 End of the adventure of The Priory School.