1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,200 Adventure Six in his last Bow by Sir, Arthur Conan Doyle. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,400 This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:10,300 Adventure. Six. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,500 The Disappearance of Lady Frances. 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:18,500 Carfax. But why Turkish ask mr. 6 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:23,300 Sherlock Holmes gazing fixedly at my boots I was reclining in a 7 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:26,600 cane back chairs at the moment and my protruded feet had 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,400 attracted his ever active attention English. 9 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:34,000 I answered in some surprise I got them at Latimer's in Oxford 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Street, Holmes smiled with an expression of weary patients the 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,000 bath. He said the bath. 12 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:46,600 Why the relaxing and expensive? Turkish Rather than the 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,300 invigorating homemade article. Because for the last few days, 14 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,000 I've been feeling Rheumatic and old, the Turkish bath is what we 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,300 call an alternative in medicine. Fresh starting point a cleanser 16 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:03,500 of the system. By the way, homes I added, I've 17 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:07,000 no doubt the connection between my boots and a Turkish bath is a 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,200 perfectly self-evident, 12 a logical mind and yet I should be 19 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,300 obliged to you. If you would indicate it, the 20 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:18,100 train of reasoning is not. Very obscure Watson said, Holmes 21 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:21,100 with a mischievous twinkle. It belongs to the same 22 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:24,200 Elementary class of deduction which I should illustrate. 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,700 If I were to ask you who shared your cab in your drive this 24 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:31,400 morning, I don't admit this. A fresh illustration is an 25 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:37,100 explanation said I with some asperity Bravo Watson a very 26 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:39,400 dignified and logical remonstrance. 27 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:43,700 Let me see what were the points take the last one. 28 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:48,200 First, the cab You observe that you have some splashes on the 29 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,500 left sleeve and shoulder of your coat. 30 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 How do you sat in the center of a handsome? 31 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,000 He would probably have had no splashes and if you had they 32 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,400 would have certainly have been symmetrical Therefore, it is 33 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,500 clear that you sat at the side. Therefore, it is equally clear 34 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,600 that you had a companion. That is very evident, absurd. 35 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:14,200 Lie commonplace is it not? But the boots and the bath 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,200 equally childish, you are in the habit of doing up your boots in 37 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,400 a certain way, I see them on this occasion. 38 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:26,200 Fastened with an elaborate double bow which is not your 39 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,600 usual method of tying them. You have therefore Had them off, 40 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:36,200 who has tied them, a boot maker or the boy at the bath. 41 00:02:36,700 --> 00:02:40,000 It is unlikely that it is the boot maker since your boots are 42 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,800 nearly new. Well, what Remains the bath 43 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:47,500 absurd, is it not? But for all that, the Turkish 44 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:52,700 bath has served a purpose. Or what is that you say that 45 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:55,400 you've had it? Because you need a change. 46 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:58,300 Let me suggest that you take one. 47 00:02:58,900 --> 00:03:03,200 How would Flus and do my dear Watson first class tickets and 48 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,700 all expenses. Paid on a princely scale, 49 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:07,900 Splendid. But why? 50 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:11,800 Holmes leaned back in his armchair and took his notebook 51 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,200 from his pocket. One of the most dangerous 52 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,700 classes in the world said he is the drifting and friendless 53 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:23,000 woman. She is the most harmless and 54 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,100 often the most useful of Mortals. 55 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:28,700 But she is the inevitable inciter of crime in others. 56 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:31,800 She is helpless. She is my greater e. 57 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,800 She has, sufficient means to take her from country to Country 58 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:41,800 and from hotel to hotel. She is lost as often as not in a 59 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,100 maze of obscure, pensions and boarding houses, she is a stray, 60 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:49,800 chicken and a world of foxes where she is gobbled up. 61 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:55,200 She is hardly missed. I much fear that some evil has 62 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:01,200 come to the lady Frances Carfax, I was relieved at this sudden 63 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,500 descent from the general to the particular homes. 64 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:07,900 Consulted, his notes lady Frances. 65 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:12,200 He continued is the sole survivor of the direct family of 66 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,900 the late Earl of Rutherfordton. The estate's went, as you may 67 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:21,000 remember in the male line, she was left with limited means, but 68 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,100 with some very remarkable old Spanish jewelry of silver and 69 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:29,200 curiously cut diamonds to which she was fondly attached. 70 00:04:29,700 --> 00:04:33,900 Too attached for, she refused to leave them with her banker and 71 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:35,700 always carried them about with her. 72 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,900 A rather pathetic figure. The lady Frances a beautiful 73 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:45,500 woman still in fresh middle-aged and yet by a strange change, the 74 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:50,000 last derelict of what only 20 years ago was a goodly fleet. 75 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,800 What has happened to her then? Ah, what has happened to the 76 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,700 lady Frances? Is she alive or dead? 77 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,700 There is our problem. She is a lady of precise habits. 78 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,700 And for four years, it has been her invariable custom to write 79 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:11,500 every second week to mrs. Daubeny her old governess who 80 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:14,200 was long retired and lives in camberwell. 81 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,200 It is, this Miss domini, who has consulted me. 82 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:21,900 Nearly five weeks have passed without a word. 83 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,700 The last letter was from the hotel Nacional at lausanne lady. 84 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:29,800 Frances seems to have left there and given no address. 85 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,900 The family are anxious and as they are exceedingly, wealthy 86 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:39,000 know, some will be spared if we can clear the matter up is mrs. 87 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,900 Daubeny the only source of information shortly. 88 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:46,700 She had other correspondence. There is one correspondent who 89 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:51,900 is assured raw Watson That is the bank, Single Ladies must 90 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:55,200 live and their passports are compressed Diaries. 91 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,600 She banks at silvestre's. I have glanced over her account, 92 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,300 the last check, but one paid her bill at lausanne, but it was a 93 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:07,100 large one and probably left her with cash in hand. 94 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:13,900 Only one check has been drawn since to whom and where to miss 95 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:17,500 Marie Devine, there is nothing to show where the check was 96 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:20,400 drawn. It was cashed at the credi Leone 97 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,600 at Montpellier less than three weeks ago. 98 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:29,300 The sun was 50 pounds and who is Miss Marie, Devine that also I 99 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:33,700 have been able to discover Miss Marie Devine was the maid of 100 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:38,300 Lady Frances Carfax why she should have paid her this check 101 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:41,000 we have not yet determined. I have no. 102 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,300 Ouch, however, that your research is will soon clear the 103 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:48,900 matter up. My research has hence the 104 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:53,000 health-giving expedition to lausanne, you know, that I 105 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,100 cannot possibly leave London. Wild old Abraham's is in such 106 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:02,000 mortal Terror of his life. Besides, on general principles, 107 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 it is best that I should not leave the country, Scotland Yard 108 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,700 feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement 109 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:15,700 among the criminal classes, go there, my dear Watson and if my 110 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:18,000 Will counsel can ever be valued at. 111 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,300 So, extravagant irate as two pence a word, it waits your 112 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:26,600 disposal night and day at the end of the Continental wire. 113 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:31,600 Two days later found me at the hotel, Nacional at lausanne 114 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 where I received every courtesy, the hands of Monsieur muzie the 115 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,000 well-known manager lady Francis as he informed me, had stayed 116 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,400 there for several weeks. She had been much liked by all 117 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,500 who met her, her age was not more than 40. 118 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 She was still handsome and bore every sign of having in her 119 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,600 youth been a very lovely woman, miss you Mosey knew nothing of 120 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,900 any valuable jewelry. It has been remarked by the 121 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:00,900 servants. That the heavy trunk in, the 122 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:05,200 lady's bedroom was always, scrupulously locked, Marie 123 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,400 Devine, the maid was as popular as have mistress. 124 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,300 She was actually engaged to one of the head waiters in the hotel 125 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,900 and there was no difficulty in getting her address. 126 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,100 It was 11 Rue Des Champs Montpelier. 127 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:22,900 All this, I jotted down and felt that Holmes himself could not 128 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:25,200 have been more adroit in collecting his facts. 129 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:28,900 Only one corner, still remained in the shadow. 130 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,600 No Light, which I possessed could clear up the cause for the 131 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,400 ladies sudden departure, she was very happy at lausanne. 132 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,700 There was every reason to believe that she intended to 133 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:44,300 remain for the season in her luxurious rooms, overlooking the 134 00:08:44,300 --> 00:08:48,000 lake. And yet she had left at a single 135 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,500 day's notice. Which involved her in the 136 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:54,900 useless payment of a week's, rent only Zula vbar. 137 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:59,900 The lover of the maid, had any suggestion to offer he connected 138 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:03,400 the sudden departure with a visit to the hotel a day or two 139 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:09,700 before of a tall, dark bearded man and sauvage and very table 140 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:13,700 sauvage cry. Juvie bar, the man had room 141 00:09:13,700 --> 00:09:16,500 somewhere in the town. He had been seen talking 142 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:20,900 earnestly to Madame on the Promenade by Lake then he had 143 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:26,000 called, she had refused to see him, he was English, but of his 144 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,400 name, there was no record. Madam had left the place 145 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,900 immediately afterwards, Julie, V bar and what was more of 146 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:36,500 importance, Jewel of Eva's sweetheart. 147 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:41,200 Thought that this call and the departure were cause and effect. 148 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:43,500 Only one things you would not discuss. 149 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:46,700 That was the reason why Marie had left her mistress. 150 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:51,000 Of that he could or would say nothing if I wish to know, I 151 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,200 must go to Montpellier and ask her so ended. 152 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,200 The first chapter of my inquiry, the second was devoted to the 153 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,100 place which lady Frances Carfax had sought. 154 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:05,700 When she left lausanne concerning this, there had been 155 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:09,900 some secrecy, which confirmed the idea that she'd gone with 156 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:12,400 the intention of throwing someone off her track. 157 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:16,800 Otherwise why should not her luggage have been openly labeled 158 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,600 for bar. And both she and it reached the 159 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:25,000 rhenish spa, by some Securities, route, this much, I gathered 160 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,900 from the manager of cooks local office. 161 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:31,500 So to Barden, I went after dispatching to homes and account 162 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:34,900 of all my proceedings and receiving in reply, a telegram 163 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:39,900 of half-humorous commendation. Barden, the track was not 164 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:43,000 difficult to follow lady. Frances had stayed at the 165 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,600 englischer Hof for a fortnight while there she had, made the 166 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,300 acquaintance of Of a dr. Schlessinger and his wife a 167 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:52,800 missionary from South America like most lonely. 168 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,700 Ladies lady, Frances found her comfort and occupation in 169 00:10:56,700 --> 00:10:59,600 religion. Dr. Schlessinger says remarkable 170 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,900 personality, his wholehearted devotion and the fact that he 171 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:07,000 was recovering from a disease contracted in the exercise of 172 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,600 his Apostolic duties affected. Her deeply she had helped mrs. 173 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,500 Schlessinger in the nursing of the convalescent Saint. 174 00:11:14,900 --> 00:11:17,100 He spent his day as the manager described. 175 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:20,400 To me upon a lounge chair on The Veranda. 176 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,400 With an attendant lady upon, either side of him, he was 177 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,100 preparing a map of the holy land with special reference to the 178 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:32,000 kingdom of the midianites upon, which he is writing a monograph. 179 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,500 Finally, having improved much in health. 180 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:39,600 He and his wife had returned to London and Lady Frances had 181 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,400 started. The other in their company, this 182 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:46,500 was just three weeks before, and the manager had heard nothing 183 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:50,900 since As to the maid Marie, she had gone off some days 184 00:11:50,900 --> 00:11:55,100 beforehand in floods of tears. After informing the other Maids 185 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:57,100 that she was leaving service forever. 186 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,600 Dr. Schlessinger had paid. The bill of the whole party 187 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,900 before his departure. By the way, said the landlord in 188 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:09,100 conclusion you are not the only friend of Lady Frances Carfax 189 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,800 who is inquiring after her just now only iveco. 190 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,700 So ago, we had a man here up on the same errand Did he give a 191 00:12:17,708 --> 00:12:21,400 name? I asked non but he was an 192 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,300 English one, Hazard of an unusual type. 193 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:28,600 A Savage said, I linking my facts after the fashion of my 194 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:33,400 illustrious friend. Exactly that describes him. 195 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,200 Very well. He is a bulky bearded Sunbird, 196 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,600 it fellow who looks as if he would be more at home in a 197 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,700 farmer's ins, and in a fashionable Hotel, a hard Fierce 198 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:49,100 man, I should sink and Whom I should be sorry to offend 199 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:53,900 already, the mystery began to Define itself as figures, grow 200 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:57,000 clearer with the lifting of a fog here. 201 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,900 Was this good, and Pious, lady, pursued from place to place by a 202 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:05,100 Sinister and unrelenting figure. She feared him or she would not 203 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:09,400 have fled from lausanne. He had still followed sooner or 204 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,300 later. He would overtake her had you 205 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:15,900 already overtaken her. Was that the secret of her 206 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:19,200 continued? Ants could the good people who 207 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,600 were her companions. Not screen her from his violence 208 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:27,800 or his blackmail, what horrible purpose, what deep design, lay 209 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:32,000 behind this long Pursuit, there was the problem which I had to 210 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,800 resolve to Holmes. I wrote showing how rapidly and 211 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,900 surely I had got down to the roots of the matter in reply. 212 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:44,000 I had a telegram asking for a description of dr. 213 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,200 Schlessinger his left ear. Holmes is I Is of humor are 214 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,800 strange and occasionally offencive. 215 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,300 So I took no notice of his ill-timed jest, indeed, I'd 216 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:58,000 already reached Montpellier, my pursuit of the maid Murray 217 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,700 before his message came. I had no difficulty in finding 218 00:14:01,700 --> 00:14:05,000 the X servant and in learning all that she could tell me. 219 00:14:05,700 --> 00:14:08,900 She was a devoted creature who had only left her mistress 220 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:12,200 because she was sure that she was in good hands, and because 221 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,600 her own approaching marriage, made a separation, inevitable, 222 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:20,500 in any case, Oh, mistress had as she confessed with distress, 223 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,000 shown some irritability of temper towards her during their 224 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 stay in bharden and at even questioned her. 225 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,900 Once as if she had suspicions of her honesty and this had made 226 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:34,800 The Parting easier than it would have, otherwise have been lady 227 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,400 Frances had given her 50 pounds as a wedding present, like me, 228 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:42,900 Marie viewed with deep distrust, The Stranger who had driven her 229 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:46,200 mistress from those, an with her own eyes, she had seen him, 230 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,300 seize the Wrist with great violence on the public, 231 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:52,900 Promenade by the lake. He was a Fierce and terrible 232 00:14:52,900 --> 00:14:55,600 man. She believed that it was out of 233 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,100 dread of him that lady Frances had accepted the escort of the 234 00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:03,000 shlessinger to London, she had never spoken to Marie about it, 235 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:06,700 but many little signs had convinced the made that her 236 00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:10,500 mistress lived in a state of continual nervous, apprehension, 237 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:15,600 So far, she had got in her narrative when suddenly she 238 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,300 sprang from her chair and her face was convulsed with surprise 239 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:22,600 and fear. See she cried the viscri and 240 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,500 follows still. There is a very man of whom I 241 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:28,700 speak through the open sitting-room window. 242 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:33,500 I saw a huge swath e man with a bristling Blackbeard walking 243 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:37,000 slowly down the center of the street and staring eagerly at 244 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,600 the numbers of the houses. He was clear that like myself He 245 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,200 was on the track of the made acting upon the impulse of the 246 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,900 moment. I rushed out and accosted him. 247 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:51,900 You're an Englishman. I said, what if I am? 248 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,000 He asked for the most villainous scowl may? 249 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,300 I ask you what? Your name is? 250 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,900 No, you may not said he with decision, the situation was 251 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:03,600 awkward but the most direct way is often the best. 252 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:08,800 Where is the lady Frances? Carfax, I asked he stared at me 253 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,400 with amazement. What have you done with her? 254 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:17,000 Why have you pursued her I insist upon an answer said I the 255 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,700 fellow gave a Bellow of anger and sprang upon me like a tiger. 256 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,700 I've held my own in many, a struggle, but the man had a grip 257 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:29,100 of iron and the fury of a fiend. His hand was on my throat and my 258 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:32,700 senses were nearly gone before an unshaven French over PA in a 259 00:16:32,708 --> 00:16:36,700 blue blouse, darted out from a cabaret opposite with a cudgel 260 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:39,900 in his hand and struck my assailant, a sharp crack. 261 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:41,700 Of the forearm which made him leave. 262 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:46,700 Go his hold, he stood for an instant fuming with rage and 263 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:51,600 uncertain whether he should not renew his attack, then with a 264 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,500 snarl of anger, he left me and entered the cottage from which I 265 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:58,800 had just come I turned to thank my preserver. 266 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:00,900 Who Stood Beside Me in the roadway? 267 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,200 Well Watson said he very pretty hash you've made of it. 268 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:09,500 I rather think you'd better come back with me to London by the 269 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:14,200 night express. An hour afterwards Sherlock 270 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,000 Holmes in his usual Garden style was seated in my private room at 271 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,400 the hotel. His explanation of his sudden 272 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:26,099 and opportun appearance was Simplicity itself for finding 273 00:17:26,099 --> 00:17:27,700 that he could get away from London. 274 00:17:28,099 --> 00:17:31,000 He determined to head me off at the next obvious point of my 275 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,200 travels, in the disguise of a working, man, he had sat in the 276 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,000 Cabaret waiting for my appearance and the singular be 277 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,900 consistent investigation you've made Ed my dear Watson said he, 278 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:46,800 I cannot at the moment recall. Any possible blunder which you 279 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,200 have emitted, the total effect of your proceeding has been to 280 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,400 give the alarm everywhere and yet to discover nothing perhaps 281 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:56,600 you'd have done. No better. 282 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,000 I answered bitterly. There is no perhaps about it. 283 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:06,000 I have done better here is the honorable Philip green. 284 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,900 Who is a fellow lodger with you in this hotel and we may find 285 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:15,100 him the starting Through most successful investigation a card 286 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:18,300 had come up on a salver and it was followed by the same. 287 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:20,900 Bearded Ruffian who had attacked me in the street? 288 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,100 He started when he saw me. What is this? 289 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:28,000 Mr. Holmes he asked I add your note and I've come. 290 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:30,300 But what does this man to do with the matter? 291 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,100 This is my old friend and Associate dr. 292 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:36,200 Watson, who's helping us in this affair? 293 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,600 The Stranger held out a huge sunburned. 294 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,200 Hand with a few words of apology. 295 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:46,400 I hope I didn't harm you. When you accused me of hurting 296 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,800 her, I lost my grip of myself, indeed, I'm not responsible in 297 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,000 these days. My nerves are like live wires, 298 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:58,600 but this situation is beyond me. What I want to know in the first 299 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,600 place. Mr. Holmes is how in the world 300 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,900 you came to hear of my existence at all? 301 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:10,300 I'm in touch with Me lady. Frances is Governor's old. 302 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:15,700 Susan Domine with the mobcap. I remember a well and she 303 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:19,700 remembers you. It was in the days before before 304 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:21,900 you found it better to go to South Africa. 305 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:28,100 I see, you know, my whole story. I need hide nothing from you. 306 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:31,400 I swear to you mr. Holmes that there never was in 307 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,200 this world. A man who loved a woman with a 308 00:19:34,208 --> 00:19:37,500 more wholehearted love than I had for Francis. 309 00:19:38,100 --> 00:19:42,200 I was a wild youngster I know not worse than others of my 310 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,600 class, but her mind was pure as snow. 311 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:48,300 She could not bear a shadow of coarseness. 312 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:52,000 So when she came to hear of things that I'd done, she would 313 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,400 have no more to say to me and yet she loved me, that is The 314 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,400 Wonder of it. Love me well enough to remain 315 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:04,800 single all her sainted days, just for my sake alone, When the 316 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,200 years had passed and I had made my money at Barberton, I 317 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,600 thought, perhaps I could seek her out and soften her. 318 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:13,300 I'd heard that she was still unmarried. 319 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:17,800 I found her at lausanne and tried, all I knew she weakened I 320 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:22,100 think but her will was strong and when next I called, she had 321 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:26,000 left a town. I traced her to Barden and then 322 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,200 after a Time heard that her maid was here, I'm a rough fellow 323 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:33,100 fresh from a rough life and when dr. 324 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:36,600 Watson spoke to As he did, I lost hold of myself for a 325 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,500 moment. But for God's sake, tell me what 326 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:45,200 has become of the lady Frances. That is for us to find out said 327 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,000 Sherlock, Holmes was peculiar gravity, what is your London 328 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,400 address mr. Green, The Langham Hotel will 329 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,200 find me then may I recommend that you return there and be on 330 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,900 hand in case I should want you. I have no desire to encourage 331 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:04,800 false hopes but you may rest assured that all that can be 332 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,700 done will be done for the safety of Lady Frances. 333 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,300 I can say no more for the instant. 334 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:13,400 I will leave you this card so that you may Able to keep in 335 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,800 touch with us now. Watson, if you'll pack your bag, 336 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,700 I will cable to mrs. Hudson to make one of her best 337 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:24,300 efforts for to Hungry Travelers at 7:30 tomorrow. 338 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,700 A telegram was awaiting us. When we reached our Baker Street 339 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:32,200 rooms which Holmes red with an exclamation of interest and 340 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:37,100 threw across to me, Jagged or torn was the message and the 341 00:21:37,100 --> 00:21:41,000 place of origin Barden. What is this? 342 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:45,600 I asked it is everything Holmes answered. 343 00:21:46,300 --> 00:21:50,300 You may remember my seemingly irrelevant question as to this 344 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:52,300 clerical. Gentleman's left ear. 345 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,300 You did not answer it. I'd left bharden and could not 346 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:58,700 inquire. Exactly. 347 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,600 For this reason, I sent a duplicate to the manager of the 348 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,200 englischer Hof whose answer lies here. 349 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,300 What does it show? It shows my dear Watson that we 350 00:22:10,300 --> 00:22:12,700 are dealing with an exceptionally astute and 351 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:15,600 dangerous, man. The Reverend dr. 352 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,800 Schlessinger missionary from South America is non other than 353 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,900 holy Peters. One of the most unscrupulous 354 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:25,500 Rascals that Australia has ever evolved. 355 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,900 And for a young country, it has turned out some very finished 356 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:32,600 types. His particular specialty is the 357 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,600 beguiling of lonely Ladies by playing upon their religious. 358 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:40,700 Things and his so-called wife, an English woman named Fraser is 359 00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:44,200 a worthy helpmate. The nature of his tactics 360 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,200 suggested, his identity to me, and this physical peculiarity. 361 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,200 He was badly bitten in a saloon fight, at Adelaide in 89 362 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,800 confirmed. My suspicions, this poor lady is 363 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,700 in the hands of a most infernal couple who will stick at nothing 364 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:04,900 Watson, but she's already dead is a very likely supposition. 365 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:07,700 If Not. She is undoubtedly in some sort 366 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:10,500 of confinement and unable to write to mrs. 367 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:14,300 Dabney, or her other friends. It is always possible that she 368 00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:17,100 never reached London or that she's passed through it. 369 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,600 But the former is improbable, as, with their system of 370 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,200 registration, it is not easy for foreigners to play tricks with 371 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,600 Continental police. And the latter is also unlikely 372 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,500 as these Rogues could not hope to find any other place where it 373 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:34,300 would be as easy to keep a person under restraint. 374 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,000 All my instincts, tell me that she's in London but as we have 375 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,300 at present no possible means of telling where we can only take 376 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:46,600 the obvious steps. Eat our dinner and possess. 377 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,100 Our souls in patients later in the evening. 378 00:23:50,100 --> 00:23:53,000 I will stroll down and have a word with friend lestrade, at 379 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,800 Scotland Yard, but neither the official police nor homes is own 380 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,200 small. But very efficient organization. 381 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,400 Sufficed to clear away the mystery amid. 382 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,000 The crowded millions of The three persons, we sought whereas 383 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,400 completely obliterated as if they had never lived. 384 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,200 Advertisements were tried and failed. 385 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,300 Clues were followed and led to nothing every criminal Resort 386 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:21,400 which letting your might frequent was drawn in vain. 387 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:26,200 His old Associates were watched, but they kept clear of him and 388 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,700 then suddenly after a week of helpless suspense, they came a 389 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:32,600 flash of light, a silver and Brilliant. 390 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,200 Pendant of old Spanish design had And pawned buffington's in 391 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,000 Westminster Road, the porno as a large clean-shaven. 392 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,200 Man of clerical appearance, his name and address were 393 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,400 demonstrably false, the ear had escaped notice but the 394 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:52,700 description was surely that of Schlesinger Three times had our 395 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:56,400 bearded friend from The Langham called 4 News, the third time, 396 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,900 within an hour of this fresh development, his clothes were 397 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:01,500 getting looser on his great body. 398 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,300 He seemed to be wilting away in his anxiety. 399 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,800 If you'll only give me something to do, was his constant whale at 400 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:14,200 last homes, could oblige him. He has begun to pawn the jewels, 401 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:18,200 we should get him now. But does this mean that any harm 402 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,200 has befallen the lady Frances Holmes, shook his head very 403 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,200 Gravely. Supposing that they have held 404 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,900 her prisoner up to. Now, it is clear that they 405 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:30,700 cannot let her loose without their own destruction. 406 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:35,000 We must prepare for the worst. What can I do? 407 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:38,100 These people do not know you by sight. 408 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:43,200 No, it is possible that he will go to some other pawnbroker in 409 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,900 the future. In that case, we must begin. 410 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:50,100 Again, on the other hand, he has had a fair price and no 411 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:53,600 questions asked, so if he's in need of ready, money. 412 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,200 He will probably come back to boddingtons. 413 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,800 I will give you a note to them and they will let you wait in 414 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,400 the shop. If the fellow comes you will 415 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,700 follow him home but no indiscretion and above all, no 416 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:10,600 violence, I put you on your honor that you will take no step 417 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,700 without my knowledge and consent for two days. 418 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:18,800 The Honorable Philip green. He was I may mention the son of 419 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,200 the famous Admiral of that name, who commanded the Sea of azov 420 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,800 Fleet in the Crimean War. Or brought us no news on the 421 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,800 evening, of the third, he rushed into our sitting-room pale, 422 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,300 trembling with every muscle of his powerful frame quivering 423 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:37,200 with excitement. We have him, we have him, he 424 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:42,000 cried, he was incoherent in his agitation home, soothe him with 425 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,700 a few words and thrust him into an armchair. 426 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:48,500 Come now and give us the order of events. 427 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:53,600 Said he she came only an hour ago, it was the wife this time. 428 00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:56,800 But the pendant she brought was the fellow of the other. 429 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,900 She's a tall pale woman with ferret eyes. 430 00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:05,100 That is the lady said Holmes. She left the office and I 431 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:07,400 followed her. She walked up the Kennington 432 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,000 Road and I kept behind her presently. 433 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,400 She went into a shop, mr. Holmes it was an Undertaker's. 434 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,500 My companion started. Well he asked in that vibrant 435 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:22,200 voice which told of the Fiery Soul behind the cold grey face. 436 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:25,700 She was Getting to the woman behind the counter. 437 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,000 I enters as well. It is late. 438 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,900 I heard her say or words to that effect, the woman was excusing 439 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:35,000 herself. It should be there before. 440 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,700 Now she answered it took longer being out of the ordinary. 441 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:43,100 They both stopped and looked at me so I asked some questions and 442 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:46,300 then left the shop. You did excellently. 443 00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:51,500 Well what happened next? The woman came out but I'd hit 444 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:55,100 myself in a doorway her sir. Suspicions had been aroused. 445 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:58,700 I think for she looked round her, then she called a cab, and 446 00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:01,600 got in, I was lucky enough to get another. 447 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,600 And so to follow her, she got down at last at number 36, 448 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,300 pulteney square Brixton, I drove past left. 449 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:12,100 My cab at the corner of the square and watch the house. 450 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:16,800 Did you see anyone? The windows were all in 451 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,900 darkness. Save one on the lower floor, the 452 00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:22,200 blind was down and I could not see in. 453 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,700 I was standing there. Wondering what I should do next 454 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:30,100 when a covered van drove up with two men in it, they descended 455 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:33,000 took something out of the van and Carries up the steps to the 456 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,800 hall door, mr. Holmes, it was a Coffin. 457 00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:42,800 Ah, for an instant, I was on the point of rushing, in the door 458 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,200 had been open to admit the men and their burden. 459 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:48,800 It was the woman, who'd opened it, but as I stood there, she 460 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,500 caught a glimpse of me and I think she recognized me. 461 00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:55,400 I saw her start. She hastily close the door. 462 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,600 I remembered my promise to you. And here I am. 463 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:03,200 You have done, excellent, work said home, scribbling a few 464 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,100 words upon a half sheet of paper, we can do nothing legal 465 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:10,400 without a warrant. And you can serve the cause best 466 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,600 by taking this note, down to the authorities and getting one, 467 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,800 there may be some difficulty, but I should think that the sale 468 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,000 of the jewelry should be sufficient lestrade will see to 469 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,900 all details but they may murder her in the meanwhile. 470 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,300 What could the coffin mean? And for whom could it be? 471 00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:32,000 But for her. We will do all that we can mr. 472 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,200 Green! Not a moment, will be lost. 473 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:38,800 Leave it in our hands. Now Watson, he added as our 474 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,200 client hurried away. He will set the regular forces 475 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,300 on the Move. We are as usual, the Irregulars 476 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:47,800 and we must take our own line of action. 477 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,200 The situation strikes, me as so desperate. 478 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:55,200 The Most Extreme Measures are Justified, not a moment is to be 479 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,200 lost in getting to pulteney square. 480 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,200 Let us try. To reconstruct the situation 481 00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:04,700 said, he, as we drove swiftly past the houses of Parliament, 482 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,000 and over Westminster Bridge. These villains have coax this 483 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,400 unhappy lady to London, after first alienating her from her 484 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:14,600 faithful. Maid. 485 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:18,200 If she has written many letters, they have been intercepted 486 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,500 through some Confederate. They have engaged a furnished 487 00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:25,400 house once inside it. They have made her a prisoner, 488 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:28,300 and they have become possessed of the valuable jewelry, which 489 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:31,500 had been their object. From the first already. 490 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:35,100 They have begun to sell part of it, which seems safe enough to 491 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:38,200 them since they have no reason to think that anyone is 492 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,600 interested in the ladies, fate when she is released, she will 493 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,200 of course, denounce them. Therefore, she must not be 494 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,200 released but they cannot keep her under lock and key forever. 495 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:52,900 So murder is their only solution. 496 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,600 That seems clear. Now, we will take another line 497 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,300 of reasoning. When you follow two separate 498 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:03,600 chains of thought Watson, you will find some point of 499 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,900 intersection which should approximate to the truth. 500 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,400 We will start now not from the lady, but from the coffin and 501 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,000 argued backward, that incident proves, I fear beyond all doubt 502 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,200 that the lady is dead. It points also to an orthodox 503 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,500 burial with proper accompaniment of medical certificate and 504 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:27,700 official sanction had the You've been obviously murdered, they 505 00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:31,500 would have buried her in a hole in the back Garden but here all 506 00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:34,800 is open and regular. What does this mean? 507 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,700 Surely that they have done her to death in some way, which has 508 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:42,300 deceived the doctor and simulated a natural end 509 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,500 poisoning perhaps and yet how strange that they should ever 510 00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:50,000 let a doctor approached her unless he were a Confederate 511 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:52,700 which is hardly a credible proposition. 512 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:55,600 Could they have forged a medical certificate? 513 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,300 Dangerous Watson, very dangerous? 514 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,700 No I hardly see them doing that. Pull up cabbie, this is 515 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:07,900 evidently The Undertaker's. For we have just passed, Pawn 516 00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:12,000 Brokers, would you go in Watson your appearance, inspires 517 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,500 confidence, ask what our the Ponte Square funeral takes 518 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,600 place. Tomorrow, the woman in the shop, 519 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,600 answered me without hesitation, that it was to be at 8:00 in the 520 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,900 morning. You Watson. 521 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,400 No, mystery everything above board in some way, the legal 522 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,800 forms of undoubtedly been complied with, and they think 523 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,300 that they have little to fear. Well, there's nothing for it now 524 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:40,200 but a direct frontal attack. Are you armed my stick? 525 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:44,200 Well, well, we shall be strong enough Thrice. 526 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,400 Is he armed? Who hath his quarrel just We 527 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,100 simply can't afford to wait for the police or to keep within the 528 00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:54,000 four corners of the law. You can drive off cabbie now. 529 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,300 Watson, we'll just take our look together. 530 00:32:56,300 --> 00:33:00,300 As we have occasionally in the past, he had rung loudly at the 531 00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:04,100 door of a great dark house in the center of poultney square. 532 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:08,300 It was opened immediately and the figure of a tall woman was 533 00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:10,300 outlined against the dim-lit hall. 534 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,000 Well, what did you want? She asked sharply peering at us 535 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,300 through the darkness. I want to speak to dr. 536 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:22,000 Schlessinger said, Holmes, there's no such person here. 537 00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:25,500 She answered and tried to close the door but homes and jammed it 538 00:33:25,508 --> 00:33:28,600 with his foot. Well, I want to see the man who 539 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,100 lives here. Whatever, he may call himself 540 00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:35,700 said, Holmes firmly, she hesitated, then she threw open 541 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:37,600 the door. Well, come in. 542 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,100 She said, my husband is not afraid to face any man in the 543 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:43,800 world. She closed the door behind us 544 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,300 and showed us into a sitting room on the right side of the 545 00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:48,600 hall. Turning up the gas as she left 546 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,100 us. Mr. Peters will be with you in 547 00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:54,200 an instant. She said her words were 548 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,100 literally true for. We had hardly time to look 549 00:33:57,100 --> 00:34:00,000 around the dusty and moth-eaten apartment in which we found 550 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,100 ourselves before the door opened and a big clean-shaven 551 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,800 bald-headed, man. Stepped lightly into the room. 552 00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:11,400 He had a large red faced with pendulous cheeks and a general 553 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,300 air of superficial benevolence which was marred by a cruel 554 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:19,000 vicious mouth. There is surely some mistake 555 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,400 here. Gentlemen, he said in an anxious 556 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,600 made everything easy voice, I fancy that. 557 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,000 You've been misdirected, possibly, if you tried farther 558 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,400 down, the street that will do. We have no time to waste said my 559 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,800 companion firmly. You are Henry Peters of Adelaide 560 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:40,699 late, the Reverend dr. Schlessinger of Barden and South 561 00:34:40,699 --> 00:34:43,000 America. I am as sure of that. 562 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,199 As that, my own name is Sherlock Holmes. 563 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,199 Peter's as I will now call him started and stared hard at his 564 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:53,900 formidable pursuer. I guess your name does not. 565 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:56,800 Frighten me mr. Holmes said he coolly when a 566 00:34:56,808 --> 00:35:00,000 man's conscience is easy. You can't rattle him. 567 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:02,400 What is your business in my house? 568 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:05,500 I want to know what you've done with the lady. 569 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:08,400 Frances, Carfax, whom you brought away with you from 570 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,400 Barden. I'd be very glad. 571 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,400 If you could tell me where that lady, maybe Peters answered 572 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,900 coolly. I have a bill against her for 573 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:21,200 nearly 100 pounds and nothing to show for it, but a couple of 574 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,600 trumpery pendants that the dealer would hardly look at she 575 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,400 attached herself to mrs. Peters, and me at Barden, it is 576 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,900 a fact that I was using another name at the time and she 577 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,100 Contours, until we came to London. 578 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:39,500 I paid her bill and her ticket. Once in London, she gave us the 579 00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:42,700 slip. And as I say, lefties out of 580 00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:46,300 date jewels to pay her bills, you find her mr. 581 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:52,000 Holmes, and I'm your debtor I mean, to find her said Sherlock 582 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,900 Holmes, I'm going through this house till I do. 583 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:59,100 Find her. Where is your warrant homes? 584 00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:01,100 Half drew a revolver from his pocket. 585 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,900 This will have to serve till a better. 586 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:07,500 One comes why you're a common burglar. 587 00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:11,600 So you might describe me said, Holmes cheerfully. 588 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,800 My companion is also a dangerous Ruffian and together we're going 589 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,200 through your house. Our opponent open the door. 590 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,800 Fetch a policeman. Annie said he, it was a risk of 591 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,600 feminine. Skirts down the passage and the 592 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:30,500 hall door was opened and shut. Our time is limited Watson said, 593 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:33,300 Holmes. If you try to stop us Peters, 594 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:36,300 you'll most certainly get hurt. Where is that coffin? 595 00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:37,700 Which was brought into the house. 596 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:40,400 What do you want with the coffin? 597 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,600 It is in use, there is a body in it. 598 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,200 I must see the body, never with Mike. 599 00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:52,200 Sent then without it with a quick movement, Holmes pushed 600 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,900 the fellow to one side and passed into the Hall a door half 601 00:36:55,900 --> 00:37:00,300 open stood immediately before us we entered it was the dining 602 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,000 room on the table under a half lit. 603 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,400 Chandelier the coffin was lying Holmes turned up the gas and 604 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,900 raise the lid, deep down in the recesses of the coffin laying 605 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:16,600 emaciated figure the glare from the lights above beat down upon 606 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,600 an age. Aged and withered face by no 607 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,600 possible process of Cruelty, starvation or disease. 608 00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:27,400 Could this worn-out wreck be the still beautiful lady. 609 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:32,800 Frances Holmes's face showed his amazement and also his relief. 610 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:38,600 Thank God, he muttered. It's someone else you've 611 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,400 blundered badly for once. Mr. Sherlock Holmes said Peters 612 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:43,900 who had followed us into the room. 613 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,600 Who is the dead woman? Well, if you really must know, 614 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:53,300 she is an old nurse of my wife's Rose spender by name whom we 615 00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:57,300 found in the Brixton workhouse infirmary, we brought her round 616 00:37:57,300 --> 00:38:01,900 here called in doctor Horsham of 13, fur Bank Villas mind. 617 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:05,100 You take the address mr. Holmes, and had her carefully 618 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:08,600 tended as Christian folk should on the third day. 619 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:13,500 She died certificate says senile Decay but that's only the 620 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:16,200 doctor's opinion. And of course, you know better, 621 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:20,700 we ordered her funeral to be carried out by Stimson and Co of 622 00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:24,300 the Kennington Road who will bury her at 8:00 tomorrow 623 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:26,900 morning. Can you pick any hole in that? 624 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:30,900 Mr. Holmes you've made a silly blunder and you may as well own 625 00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:33,400 up to it. It gives something for a 626 00:38:33,408 --> 00:38:36,400 photograph of your gaping staring face. 627 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,300 When you pulled aside that lid expecting to see the lady 628 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:44,100 Frances, Carfax and only found a poor old woman of 90. 629 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,300 Holmes. His expression was as impassive 630 00:38:47,300 --> 00:38:51,200 as ever under the jeers of his antagonist but his clenched 631 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,300 hands betrayed his acute annoyance. 632 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,200 I am going through your house. Said he are you though. 633 00:38:58,300 --> 00:39:02,000 Cried Peters as a woman's voice and heavy step sounded in the 634 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,100 passage will soon? See about that this way officers 635 00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:09,100 if you please these men have forced their way into my house 636 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:12,400 and I cannot get rid of them, help me to put them out. 637 00:39:13,300 --> 00:39:17,100 A sergeant and the Constable stood in the doorway Holmes drew 638 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:20,800 his card from his case, this is my name and address. 639 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,800 This is my friend. Dr. Watson bless you sir. 640 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,200 We know you very well. Said the sergeant, but you can't 641 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,300 stay here without a warrant, of course, not. 642 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,700 I quite understand that arrest him, cried Peters. 643 00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:38,800 We know where to lay our ends on this gentleman. 644 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,200 If he's wanted said the sergeant majestically, but you'll have to 645 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:42,900 go, mr. Holmes. 646 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,600 Yes, Watson, we shall have to go a minute later. 647 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:53,400 We were in the street once more Holmes was as cool as ever but I 648 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,600 was hot with anger and humiliation, the sergeant had 649 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,500 followed us. Sorry. 650 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:03,000 Mr. Holmes, but that's the law eggs-actly Sergeant, you could 651 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,000 not do otherwise, I expect, there was good reason for your 652 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,700 presence there. If there's anything I can do, 653 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,700 it's a missing lady sergeant and we She's in that house. 654 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,400 I expect a warrant because presently, you know, I'll keep 655 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,100 my eye on the parties. Mr. Holmes. 656 00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:22,900 If anything comes along, I'll surely let you know. 657 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,400 It was only nine o'clock and we were off full cry upon the trail 658 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,100 at once. First, we drove to Brixton 659 00:40:30,100 --> 00:40:33,100 workhouse infirmary, where we found that it was indeed the 660 00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:37,400 truth that a charitable couple had called some days before that 661 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,900 they had claimed an imbecile old woman as a former servant and 662 00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:43,000 that they had obtained permission to take her away. 663 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,000 With them. No surprise was expressed at the 664 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,500 news that she had since died. The doctor was our next goal. 665 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,400 He'd been called in had found the woman dying of pure Cinema, 666 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,700 T had actually seen her pass away and had signed the 667 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:01,600 certificate in due form. I assure you that everything was 668 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,300 perfectly normal and that there was no room for foul play in, 669 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:07,900 the matter said he nothing in the house, it struck him as 670 00:41:07,900 --> 00:41:11,800 suspicious save that for people of their class it was remarkable 671 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,100 that they should have no servant. 672 00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:15,900 So far and no. Further went the doctor. 673 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,500 Finally, we found our way to Scotland Yard. 674 00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:22,800 There have been difficulties of procedure in regard to the 675 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,300 warrant some delay was inevitable. 676 00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:28,800 No, magistrate signature might not be obtained until next 677 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:33,300 morning, if Holmes would call about nine, he could go down 678 00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:38,100 with lestrade and see it acted upon so ended the day, say that 679 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:41,400 near midnight, our friend, the sergeant called to say that. 680 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,500 He had seen flickering lights here and there in the windows of 681 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:48,400 the Great Dark house. But the know, It left it and non 682 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,500 had entered. We could, but pray for patience. 683 00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:56,000 And wait for the morrow, Sherlock Holmes was to irritable 684 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,800 for conversation and too Restless for sleep. 685 00:41:59,300 --> 00:42:02,200 I left him smoking hard with his heavy. 686 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:06,500 Dark brows knotted together and his long nervous fingers tapping 687 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:10,800 upon the arms of his chair as he turned over in his mind, every 688 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,900 possible solution of the mystery several times in the course of 689 00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:18,000 the night, I heard him prowling. About the house. 690 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,200 Finally, just after her, I've been called in the morning, he 691 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,200 rushed into my room, he was in his dressing gown, but his pale 692 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,100 hollow-eyed face told me that his night had been a Sleepless 693 00:42:29,100 --> 00:42:32,700 one. What time was the funeral 8 was 694 00:42:32,700 --> 00:42:36,000 it not? He asked eagerly well, it is 720 695 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,300 now. Good Heavens. 696 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:40,400 Watson, what has become of any brains that God has given me 697 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,800 quick, man, quick, it's life or death, a hundred chances on 698 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,300 death, 21 on life. I'll never Give myself never. 699 00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:51,900 If we're too late. Five minutes had not passed 700 00:42:51,900 --> 00:42:55,600 before we were flying in a handsome, down Baker Street but 701 00:42:55,600 --> 00:43:00,100 even so it was 7:35. As we passed Big Ben & 8, struck 702 00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:03,700 as we tore down the Brixton Road, but others were late, as 703 00:43:03,700 --> 00:43:07,200 well as we 10 minutes. After the hour, the hearse was 704 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,000 still standing at the door of the house. 705 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,600 And even as our foaming horse, came to a halt, the coffin 706 00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:17,400 supported by three men appeared on the threshold homes, darted 707 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,100 forward, and bar their way. Take it back. 708 00:43:20,500 --> 00:43:23,400 He cried laying his hand on the breast of the foremost. 709 00:43:23,700 --> 00:43:27,100 Take it back this. Instant what the devil do you 710 00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:29,600 mean? Once again, I ask you where's 711 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,900 your warrant shouted? The Furious Peters his big red 712 00:43:32,900 --> 00:43:35,400 face glaring over the farther end of the coffin. 713 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,600 The warrant is on its way, the coffin to remain in the house 714 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,800 until it comes the authority. In homes is voice had its effect 715 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,600 upon the bearers Peters had suddenly vanished into the house 716 00:43:47,900 --> 00:43:49,500 and they obeyed these new orders. 717 00:43:50,100 --> 00:43:52,700 Quick Watson quick here is a screwdriver. 718 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,800 He shouted as the coffin was replaced upon the table. 719 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,300 Here's one for you, my man. A sovereign. 720 00:43:58,300 --> 00:44:01,800 If the lid comes off in a mid ask, no questions, work away. 721 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,600 That's good. Another and another now pull all 722 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,100 together, it's giving it's giving our that, does it at last 723 00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:13,200 With a United effort, we tore off the coffin lid, as we did. 724 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,200 So they came from the inside as stupefying and overpowering 725 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:22,300 smell of chloroform a body lay within its head or wreathed in 726 00:44:22,300 --> 00:44:26,700 Cotton wool, which had been soaked in the narcotic homes, 727 00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:30,900 plucked it off and disclosed a statuesque face of a handsome 728 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,100 and spiritual woman of middle age. 729 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,100 In an instant, he had passed his arm around the figure and raised 730 00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:40,700 her to a sitting position. Is she gone Watson? 731 00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:44,600 Is there a spark left? Surely, we're not too late for 732 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,300 half an hour. It seemed that we were watch 733 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:50,600 with actual Suffocation and what with the poisonous fumes of the 734 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,000 chloroform, the lady Frances seemed to have passed the last 735 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,700 point of recall. And then at last with artificial 736 00:44:57,700 --> 00:45:01,500 respiration, with injected ether, and with every device 737 00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:05,600 that science could suggest some flutter of Life, some quiver of 738 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:09,100 the eyelids, some dimming of a mirror, spoke of the slow, 739 00:45:09,300 --> 00:45:13,700 Returning, life, a cab had driven up and homes parting. 740 00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:17,600 The blind looked out at it. Here is lestrade with his 741 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,600 warrant said, he, he will find that his birds have flown. 742 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,900 And here he added as a heavy step hurried along, the passage 743 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:29,400 is someone who has a better right to nurse this lady than we 744 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,700 have. Good morning, mr. 745 00:45:31,700 --> 00:45:33,900 Green. I think that the sooner we can 746 00:45:33,900 --> 00:45:35,700 move the lady Frances, the better. 747 00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:39,500 Meanwhile, the funeral May proceed and the poor Or old 748 00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:41,600 woman who still lies in that coffin. 749 00:45:41,700 --> 00:45:44,100 May go to her last resting place alone. 750 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,000 Should you care to add the case to your animals? 751 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:52,300 My dear Watson said, Holmes that evening, it can only be as an 752 00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:56,100 example of that temporary Eclipse to which even the best 753 00:45:56,100 --> 00:46:00,400 balanced, mind may be exposed. Such lips are common to all 754 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,700 Mortals and the greatest is he who can recognize and repair 755 00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:09,300 them to this modified credit. I may perhaps make some claim. 756 00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:13,800 My night was haunted by the thought that somewhere a clue as 757 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,300 strange sentence. Curious, observation had come 758 00:46:17,300 --> 00:46:21,100 under my notice and that been too easily dismissed then 759 00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:24,800 suddenly in the gray of the morning the words came back to 760 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,700 me. It was the remark of The 761 00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:31,000 Undertaker's wife. As reported by Philip green, she 762 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,200 had said it should be there before. 763 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:38,500 Now it took longer being out of the ordinary It was the coffin 764 00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:42,300 of which she spoke it had been out of the ordinary that could 765 00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:45,500 only mean that it had been made to some special measurement. 766 00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:50,800 But why, why? Then in an instant, I remember 767 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,900 the Deep sides and a little wasted figure at the bottom y, 768 00:46:54,900 --> 00:47:00,000 so large a coffin for so small, a body to leave room for another 769 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,500 body. Both would be buried under the 770 00:47:02,500 --> 00:47:07,600 ones certificate, it had all been so clear if only my own Had 771 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:11,700 not been dimmed, a date, the lady Frances would be buried. 772 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,900 Our one chance was to stop the coffin before it left the house. 773 00:47:15,500 --> 00:47:19,300 It was a desperate chance that we might find her alive, but it 774 00:47:19,300 --> 00:47:23,000 was a chance. As a result showed these people 775 00:47:23,100 --> 00:47:27,100 had never to my knowledge done a murder, they might shrink from 776 00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:31,100 actual violence at the last. They could bury her with no sign 777 00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:35,000 of how she met her end and even if she were exhumed there was a 778 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,100 chance for them. I hope that such Considerations 779 00:47:38,100 --> 00:47:41,200 might Prevail with them, you can reconstruct the scene. 780 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:45,000 Well enough, you saw the horrible Den upstairs where the 781 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,900 poor lady had been kept so long. They rushed in and overpowered 782 00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:52,400 her, with their chloroform carried, her down poured, more 783 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,700 into the coffin to ensure against her waking and then 784 00:47:55,700 --> 00:47:58,900 screwed down the lid. A clever device Watson. 785 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,500 It is new to me in the annals of crime. 786 00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:06,500 If RX missionary friends escape the clutches of lestrade, I 787 00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:09,700 shall expect to Air of some brilliant incidents in their 788 00:48:09,700 --> 00:48:14,200 future career. End of Adventure 6. 789 00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,200 End of Adventure 6.