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Part 2 of the naval treaty by 
Sir. 

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Arthur Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain part 2. 
It was 3:20 when we reached our 

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Terminus. 
And after a hasty, luncheon at 

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the buffet we pushed on at once 
to Scotland, Yard Holmes had 

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already wired to Forbes and we 
found him waiting to receive us 

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a small foxy man with a sharp. 
But by no means amiable 

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expression. 
He was decidedly frigid in his 

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manner to us, especially when he
heard the errand upon, which we 

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had come. 
Although of your methods before 

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now. 
Mr. Holmes said he tartly, 

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you're ready enough to use all 
the information that the police 

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can lay at your disposal. 
And then you try to finish the 

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case yourself and bring 
discredit on him. 

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On the contrary said, Holmes out
of my last 53 cases. 

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My name is only appeared in four
and the police have had all the 

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credit in 49. 
I don't blame you for not 

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knowing this for you are young 
and inexperienced, but if you 

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wish to get on, in your new 
duties, You will work with me 

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and not against me. 
I'll be very glad of ain't all 

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to said the detective, changing 
his manner. 

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I've certainly had no credit 
from the case so far. 

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What steps have you taken Tangy?
The commissionaire has been 

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shadowed. 
He left the guards with a good 

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character and we can find 
nothing against him. 

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His wife is a bad lot though. 
I fancy. 

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She knows more about this than 
appears. 

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Have you shadowed her? 
We have set one of our women on 

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to her. 
This is Tangy drinks. 

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And our woman has been with her 
twice when she was well on which

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she could get nothing out of 
her. 

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I understand that they have 
brokers in the house. 

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Yes, but they were paid off. 
Where did the money come from? 

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That was? 
All right. 

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His pension was do have not 
shown any sign of being in 

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funds. 
What explanation did she give of

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having answered the Bell when 
mr. 

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Phelps rang for the coffee? 
She said, that her husband was 

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very tired and she wished to 
relieve him. 

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Well, certainly that would agree
with his being found a little 

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later. 
Asleep, in his chair. 

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There is nothing against them 
then. 

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But the woman's character. 
Did you ask her? 

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Why she hurried away that night,
her haste, attracted the 

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attention of the police 
Constable. 

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She was later than usual and 
wanted to get home. 

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Did you point out to her that 
you and mr. 

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Phelps. 
Who started at least 20 minutes 

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after her got home before her? 
She explains that by the 

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difference between a bus and a 
handsome. 

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Did she make it? 
Clear, why on reaching her 

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house? 
She ran into the back kitchen 

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because she had the money there 
with which to pay off the 

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brokers. 
She has at least an answer for 

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everything. 
Did you ask her? 

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Whether in leaving? 
She met anyone, or saw anyone 

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loitering about Charles Street? 
She saw no one. 

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But the constable. 
Well, you seem to have 

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cross-examined her pretty 
thoroughly. 

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What else have you done? 
The Clark? 

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Goro has been shadowed, all 
these nine weeks, but without 

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result, we can show nothing 
against him, anything else. 

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Well, we have nothing else to go
up on. 

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No evidence of any kind. 
Have you formed a theory about 

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how that bell rang? 
Well, I must confess that it 

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beats me. 
It was a cool and whoever it was

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to go and give the alarm like 
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Yes. 
It was a queer thing to do. 

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Many, thanks to you for what 
you've told me, if I can put the

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man into your hands. 
You shall hear from me. 

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Come along Watson where we going
to. 

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Now I asked as we left the 
office. 

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We are now going to interview, 
Lord holdhurst, the cabinet 

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minister and future premiere of 
England. 

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We were fortunate in finding 
that Lord holdhurst was still in

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his Chambers in Downing Street, 
and on homes, sending in his 

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card. 
We were instantly shown up the 

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Statesmen received us with that.
Old-fashioned courtesy for, 

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which he is remarkable and 
seated us on the, to luxuriant 

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lounges on either side of the 
fireplace standing on the rug 

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between us with his slight tall 
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His sharp features thoughtful 
face and curling hair 

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prematurely tinged with gray. 
He seemed to represent that not 

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too common type and nobleman who
is in truth. 

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Noble or name is very familiar 
to me. 

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Mr. Holmes said he smiling. 
And of course, I cannot pretend 

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to be ignorant of the object of 
your visit. 

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There has only been one 
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which could call for your 
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In whose interest are you 
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May? 
I ask in that of mr. 

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Percy, Phelps answered Holmes. 
Ah, my unfortunate nephew. 

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You can understand that our 
kinship makes it the more 

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impossible for me to screen him 
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I fear that the incident must 
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upon his career, but if the 
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course, would be different. 
I had one or two questions, 

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which I wish to ask you Lord 
holdhurst. 

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I shall be happy to give you any
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Was it in this room that you 
gave your instructions as to the

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copying of the document? 
It was, then you could hardly 

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have been overheard. 
It is out of the question. 

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Did you ever mention to anyone 
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give anyone the treaty to be 
copied? 

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Never you are certain of that. 
Absolutely. 

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Well, since you never said, so 
and mr. 

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Phelps never said, so, and 
nobody else knew anything of the

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matter. 
Then the thief's presence in the

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room was purely accidental. 
He saw his chance and he took it

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the Statesman smiled. 
You take me out of my Province. 

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There said he, Holmes considered
for a moment. 

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There is another very important 
point which I wish to discuss 

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with. 
You said he you feared as I 

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understand, very grave results 
might follow from the details of

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this treaty becoming known as 
Shadow passed over the 

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expressive face of the 
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Indeed. 
And have they occurred? 

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Not yet. 
If the treaty had reached, let 

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us say the French or Russian 
foreign. 

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As you would expect to hear of 
it, I should said, Lord, 

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holdhurst with a wry face since 
nearly 10 weeks have elapsed 

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then and nothing has been heard.
It is not unfair to suppose that

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for some reason the treaty has 
not reached them. 

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Lord holdhurst Shrugged, his 
shoulders. 

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We can hardly suppose. 
Mr. Holmes, that the thief took 

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the treaty in order to frame it 
and hang it up. 

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Perhaps he's waiting for a 
better price, if he waits a 

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little longer, he will get no 
price at all. 

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The treaty will cease to be 
secret in a few months. 

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That is most important said, 
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Of course, it is a possible 
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had a sudden illness an attack 
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For example, a Statesman 
flashing, a swift glance at him.

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I did not say so said Holmes 
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And now Lord holdhurst, we have 
already taken up too much of 

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your valuable time and we shall 
wish you good day. 

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Every success to your 
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Who It May answer the nobleman. 
As he bowed us out the door. 

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He's a fine. 
Fellow said, Holmes, as we came 

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out into Whitehall, but he has a
struggle to keep up his 

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position. 
He is far from Rich and has many

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cause you noticed, of course, 
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now. 
Watson, I won't detain you from 

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your legitimate work. 
Any longer I shall do nothing 

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more today. 
Unless I have an answer to my 

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cab advertisement, but I should 
be extremely obliged to you. 

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If you would come down with me 
to woking tomorrow by the same 

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train, which we took yesterday. 
Today. 

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I met him accordingly. 
Next morning, and we travel down

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to working together. 
He had had no answer to his 

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advertisement. 
He said, and no fresh Light had 

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been thrown upon the case. 
He had when he so willed it. 

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The utter immobility of 
countenance of a red Indian and 

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I could not gather from his 
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satisfied or not with the 
position of the case. 

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His conversation. 
I remember was about the Betty 

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Long system of measurements and 
he expressed his enthusiastic 

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admiration of the French savant.
We found our client still under 

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the charge of his devoted nurse,
but looking considerably better 

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than before. 
He rose from the sofa and 

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greeted us without difficulty. 
When we entered any news. 

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He asked eagerly my report as I 
expected is a negative. 

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One said, Holmes. 
I have seen Forbes and I've seen

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your uncle and I have set one or
two trains of inquiry upon foot,

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which may lead to something. 
You have not lost heart, then by

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no means, God bless you for 
saying that cried Miss Harrison.

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If we keep our courage and our 
patients the truth must come 

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out. 
We have more to tell you than 

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you have for us said, Phelps 
reseating himself upon the 

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couch. 
I hoped you might have 

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something. 
Yes. 

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We've had an adventure during 
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have proved to be a serious one.
His expression grew very grave, 

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as he spoke and the look of 
something akin to fear, sprang 

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up in his eyes. 
Do you know? 

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Said he. 
But I begin to believe that I am

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the unconscious Center of some 
monstrous conspiracy and that my

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life is aimed at as well as my 
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Ah, cried Holmes. 
It sounds incredible for I have 

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not as far as I know an enemy in
the world yet from last night's 

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experience. 
I can come to. 

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No other conclusion. 
Pray. 

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Let me hear it. 
You must know that last night 

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was a very first night that I've
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the room. 
I was so much better that I 

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thought I could dispense with 
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I had a nightlight burning. 
However, well about two in the 

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morning. 
I had sunk into a light sleep 

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when I was suddenly aroused by a
slight noise. 

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It was like the sound which a 
mouse makes when it is knowing a

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plank and I lay listening to it 
for some time under the 

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impression that it must come 
from that cause then it grew 

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louder and suddenly there came 
from the window, a sharp. 

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Alex Nick, I sat up in 
amazement, there could be no 

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doubt what the sounds were. 
Now, the first ones had been 

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caused by someone forcing an 
instrument through the slit 

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between the sashes and the 
second by the catch being 

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pressed back. 
There was a pause then for about

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10 minutes as if the person were
waiting to see whether the noise

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had awakened me. 
Then I heard a gentle creaking 

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as the window is very slowly 
opened. 

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I could stand it no longer for 
my nerves are not what they used

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to be. 
I sprang out of bed and flung, 

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open the shutters. 
A man was crouching at the 

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window. 
I could see little of him for. 

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He was gone like a flash. 
He was wrapped in some sort of 

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cloak, which came across the 
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Face one thing only, I am sure 
of and that is, he had some 

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weapon in his hand. 
It looked to me like a long 

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knife. 
I distinctly saw The Gleam of it

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as he turned to run. 
This is most interesting said, 

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Holmes, pray. 
What did you do? 

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Then? 
I should have followed him 

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through the open window. 
If I had been stronger as it was

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I rang the bell and Rouse the 
house. 

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It took me some little time for 
the bell rings in the kitchen. 

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And the servants, all asleep 
upstairs. 

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I shouted. 
However, and that brought Joseph

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down, and he roused the others 
Joseph, and the groom found 

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marks on the bed outside the 
window, but the weather has been

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so dry lately that they found it
hopeless to follow the trail 

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across the grass. 
There's a place however, on the 

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wooden fence, which skirts the 
road, which shows signs. 

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They tell me as if someone had 
got over and had snapped the top

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of the rail in doing. 
So I have said nothing to the 

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Cool police yet. 
For I thought I'd best have your

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opinion first. 
This tale of our clients appear 

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to have an extraordinary effect 
upon Sherlock Holmes. 

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He rose from his chair and paced
about the room in uncontrollable

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excitement misfortunes. 
Never. 

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Come single said, Phelps smiling
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him. 
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share said, Holmes. 
Do you think you could walk 

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around the house with me? 
Oh, yes. 

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I should like a little sunshine.
Joseph will come to. 

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And I also said, Miss Harrison. 
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shaking his head. 
I think I must ask you to remain

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sitting exactly where you are, 
the young lady. 

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Resumed, her seat with an air of
displeasure her brother. 

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However, had joined us and we 
set off all four together. 

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We passed around the lawn to the
outside of the young diploma 

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tests window. 
There were as he had said marks 

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upon the bed, but they were 
hopelessly blurred and vague 

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homes stooped over them for an 
instant. 

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And then Rose shrugging his 
shoulders. 

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I don't think anyone could make 
much of this said, he let us go 

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around the house and see why 
this particular room was chosen 

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by the burglar. 
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larger Windows of the 
drawing-room and Groom would 

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have had more attractions for 
him. 

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They are more visible from the 
road suggested. 

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Mr. Joseph Harrison. 
Oh, yes, of course. 

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There is a door here, which he 
might have attempted. 

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What is it for? 
It is a side entrance for 

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tradespeople. 
Of course. 

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It is locked at night. 
Have you ever had an alarm like 

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this before? 
Never said our client? 

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Do you keep plate in the house 
or anything to attract burglars?

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Nothing of value? 
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with his hands in his pockets 
and a negligent are which was 

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unusual with him. 
By the way, said he to Joseph 

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Harrison, you found some place. 
I understand where the fellow 

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scaled the fence. 
Let us have a look at it. 

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The plump young man led us to a 
spot where the top of one of the

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wooden rails have been cracked a
small fragment of the wood was 

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hanging down Holmes. 
Pulled it off and examined. 

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It critically. 
Do you think that was done last 

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night? 
It looks rather old does it? 

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Not well possibly so there are 
no marks of any one jumping down

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upon the other side. 
Now I fancy we shall get no help

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here. 
Let us go back to the bedroom 

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and talked the matter over. 
Percy Phelps was walking. 

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Very slowly leaning upon the arm
of his future brother-in-law. 

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Holmes walked swiftly across the
lawn and we were at the open 

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window of the bedroom long 
before the others came. 

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Miss Harrison said, Holmes 
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intensity of manner. 
You must stay where you are all 

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day. 
Let nothing prevents you from 

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staying, where you are all day. 
It is of the utmost importance. 

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Certainly if you wish it. 
Mr. Holmes said, the girl in 

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astonishment. 
When you go to bed, lock the 

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door of this room on the outside
and keep the key promise to do 

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this, but Percy, he will come to
London with us. 

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And am I to remain. 
Here it is for his sake. 

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You can serve him quick promise.
She gave a quick nod of assent, 

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just as the other two came up. 
Why do you sit moping there? 

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Annie cried her brother come out
into the sunshine. 

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No, thank you, Joseph. 
I have a slight headache. 

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And this room is deliciously. 
Cool. 

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And soothing. 
What do you propose now? 

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Mr. Holmes, asked, our client, 
well in investigating this minor

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Affair. 
We must not lose sight of our 

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main inquiry. 
It will be a very great help to 

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me. 
If you would come up to London 

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with us at once. 
Well, as soon as you 

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conveniently can say, in an 
hour, I feel quite strong 

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enough. 
If I can really be of any help, 

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the greatest possible, perhaps 
you would like me to stay there 

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tonight. 
I was just going to propose it. 

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Then if my friend of the Night 
Comes to revisit me. 

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He will find the bird flown. 
We are all in your hands. 

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Mr. Holmes and you must tell us 
exactly what you would like 

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done. 
Perhaps you would prefer that 

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Joseph came with us. 
So as to look after me. 

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Oh, no, my friend Watson is a 
medical man, you know, and he'll

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look after you, we'll have our 
lunch here. 

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If you will permit us and then 
we shall all three set off for 

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Town together. 
It was arranged as he suggested 

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though. 
Miss Harrison excused herself 

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from leaving the bedroom in 
accordance with Holmes is 

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suggestion. 
What the object of my friends 

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Maneuvers was. 
I could not conceive unless it 

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were to keep the lady away from 
Phelps who rejoiced by his 

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returning health and by the 
prospect of action lunched with 

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us in the dining room Holmes, 
had a still more startling 

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surprise for us. 
However, for after accompanying 

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us down to the station and 
seeing us into our carriage. 

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He called me announced that he 
had no intention of leaving 

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woking. 
There are one or two small 

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points, which I should desire to
clear up. 

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Before I go said he, your 
absence. 

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Mr. Phelps will in some ways. 
Rather assist me Watson When You

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Reach London, you would oblige 
Me by driving at once to Baker 

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Street with our friend here and 
remaining with him until I see 

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you again. 
It is fortunate that you are 

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old-school fellows as you must 
have much to talk over. 

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Mr. Phelps can have the spare 
bedroom tonight and I will be 

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with you in time for breakfast, 
for there is a train which will 

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take me into Waterloo at 8:00. 
But how about our investigation 

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in London asked Phelps? 
Ruefully, we can do that 

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tomorrow. 
I think that just at present. 

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I can be of more immediate use 
here. 

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You might tell them. 
It's briarbrae that I hope to be

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back. 
Tomorrow night cried Phelps, as 

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we began to move from the 
platform. 

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I hardly expect to go back to 
briarbrae answered Holmes and 

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waved his hand to his cheerily 
as we shut out from the station.

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Phelps, and I talked it over on 
our journey, but neither of us 

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could devise a satisfactory 
reason. 

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For this new development. 
I suppose he wants to find out 

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some clue as to the burglary 
last night. 

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If a burglar, it was for myself,
I don't believe it was an 

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ordinary Thief. 
What is your own idea? 

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Then upon my word. 
You may put it down to my weak 

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nerves or not. 
But I believe there is some deep

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political Intrigue going on 
around me and that for some 

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reason, Passes my understanding.
My life is aimed at by the 

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conspirators. 
It sounds high-flown and absurd 

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but consider the facts. 
Why should a thief try to break 

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in at a bedroom window where 
there could be? 

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No, hope of any plunder? 
And why should he come with a 

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long knife in his hand? 
You're sure it was not a 

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housebreakers Jimmy. 
Oh, no, it was a knife. 

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I saw the flash of the blade 
quite distinctly. 

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But why on Earth should you be 
pursued with such animosity? 

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Ah, that is the question. 
Well, if homes takes the same 

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view that would account for his 
action. 

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Would it not presuming that? 
Your theory is correct, if he 

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can lay his hands upon the man 
who threatened you last night. 

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He'll have gone a long way 
toward finding who took the 

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naval treaty. 
It is absurd to suppose that you

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had two enemies, one of whom 
Rob's you, while the other 

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threatened your life, but home 
said that he was not going to 

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briarbrae. 
I have known him for some time 

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said, I but I never know him to 
do anything yet without a very 

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good reason. 
And with that our conversation 

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drifted off on to other topics. 
But it was a weary day for me. 

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Phelps was still weak after his 
long illness and his Misfortune,

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made him querulous and nervous 
in vain. 

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I endeavoured to interest him in
Afghanistan, in India, in Social

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questions in anything which 
might take his mind out of the 

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groove. 
He would always come back to his

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lost treaty wondering, guessing 
speculating as to what Holmes 

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was doing. 
What steps Lord holdhurst was 

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taking what news we should have 
in the morning as the evening 

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wore on his excitement became 
quite painful. 

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You have implicit faith in 
Holmes. 

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He asked, I've seen him do some 
remarkable things, but he never 

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brought light into anything 
quite so dark as this. 

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Oh, yes. 
I have known him solve 

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questions, which presented fewer
Clues than But not where such 

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large interests are at stake. 
I don't know that to my certain 

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knowledge. 
He has acted on behalf of three 

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of the reigning houses of Europe
in very vital matters, but you 

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know him. 
Well Watson he is such an 

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inscrutable fellow that I never 
quite know what to make of him. 

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Do you think he is hopeful? 
Do you think he expects to make 

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a success of it? 
He has said nothing. 

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That is a bad sign. 
On the contrary. 

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I've noticed that when he is off
the trail Heat. 

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Generally says, so it is when 
he's on a scent and is not quite

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absolutely sure, yet, that it is
the right, one that he is most 

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taciturn. 
Now, my dear fellow, we can't 

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help matters by making ourselves
nervous about them. 

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So let me implore you to go to 
bed. 

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And so be fresh for whatever May
await us tomorrow. 

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I was able at last to persuade 
my companion. 

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To take my advice, though. 
I knew from his excited manner 

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that there was not much hope of 
sleep for him. 

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Indeed. 
His mood was infectious for. 

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I lay tossing, half the night 
myself brooding over. 

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This strange problem and 
inventing a hundred series, Each

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of which was more impossible 
than the last Wyatt. 

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Homes remained at woking. 
Why had he asked Miss Harrison 

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to remain in the sick room all 
day. 

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Why had he been so careful not 
to inform the people. 

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Briarbrae that he intended to 
remain near them. 

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I cudgelled my brains until I 
fell asleep in the Endeavor to 

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find some explanation which 
would cover all these facts. 

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It was 7:00. 
When I awoke, I set off at once 

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for Phelps has room to find him 
Haggard and spent after a 

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sleepless night. 
His first question was whether 

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Holmes had arrived yet. 
He'll be here. 

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When he promised said, I am not 
an instant sooner or later. 

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And my words were true for 
shortly after 8:00 a hansom, 

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dashed up to the door and our 
friend got out of it. 

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Standing. 
In the window. 

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We saw that, his left hand was 
swayed in a bandage and that his

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face was very grim and pale. 
He entered the house, but it was

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some little time before he came 
upstairs. 

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He looks like a beaten man cried
Phelps. 

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I was forced to confess that he 
was right. 

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After all said I the glue of the
matter lies probably here in 

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town. 
Phelps gave a groan. 

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I don't know how it is, said he,
but I'd hope for so much from 

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his return. 
But surely his hand was not tied

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up like that yesterday. 
What can be the matter? 

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You are not wounded homes. 
I asked, as my friend entered 

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the room touch. 
It is only a scratch through my 

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own clumsiness. 
He answered nodding, his good 

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mornings to us. 
This case of yours. 

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Mr. Phelps is certainly one of 
the darkest which I've ever 

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investigated. 
I feared that you would find it 

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Beyond you, it has been a most 
remarkable experience. 

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That bandage tells Adventures 
said, I won't you tell us what 

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has happened after breakfast. 
My dear Watson. 

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Remember that? 
I have breathed 30 miles of 

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sorry. 
Are this morning? 

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I suppose that there has been no
answer from my cabman 

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advertisement. 
Well, well, we cannot expect to 

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score every time the table was 
all laid and just as I was about

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to ring, mrs. 
Hudson entered with the tea and 

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coffee. 
A few minutes later, she brought

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in three covers and we all Drew 
up to the table. 

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Holmes ravenous, I curious and 
Phelps in the gloomiest, state 

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of depression. 
Mrs. Hudson has risen to the 

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occasion said Holmes uncovering,
a dish of curried chicken. 

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Her Cuisine is a little limited,
but she has as good an idea of 

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breakfast, as a scotch woman. 
What have you here? 

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Watson have an egg's. 
I answered good. 

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What are you going to take? 
Mr. Phelps, courage, foul or 

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eggs, or will you help yourself?
Thank you. 

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I can eat. 
Said Phelps. 

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Oh come try the dish before you.
Thank you. 

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I would really rather not well 
then said Holmes with a 

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00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:26,800
mischievous twinkle. 
I suppose that you have no 

458
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,900
objection to helping me Phelps 
raise the cover and as he did. 

459
00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:36,000
So he uttered a scream and sat 
there staring with a face as 

460
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,700
white as the plate upon, which 
he looked across the center of, 

461
00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:42,600
it was lying, a little cylinder 
of blue gray paper. 

462
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,800
He caught it up, devoured, it. 
With his eyes and then danced, 

463
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,200
madly about the room, pressing 
it to his bosom and shrieking 

464
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,500
out in his Delight. 
Then he fell back into an 

465
00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:57,100
armchair, so limp and exhausted 
with his own emotions, but we 

466
00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:00,200
had to pour Brandy down his 
throat to keep him from fainting

467
00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:03,400
there. 
There said, Holmes, soothing 

468
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,000
patting him upon the shoulder. 
It was too bad to spring it on 

469
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,300
you like this. 
But Watson here will tell you 

470
00:26:09,308 --> 00:26:12,300
that I never can resist a touch 
of the dramatic. 

471
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,200
Phelps, seized his hand and 
kissed it. 

472
00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:18,300
God bless you. 
He cried you have saved my 

473
00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:21,100
honour. 
Well, my own was at stake, you 

474
00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:23,400
know, said Holmes. 
I assure you. 

475
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,200
It is just as hateful to me to 
fail in a case as it can be to 

476
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,300
you to blunder over a commission
Phelps thrust away. 

477
00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:34,300
The precious document into the 
innermost pocket of his coat. 

478
00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:37,300
I have not the heart to 
interrupt your breakfast, any 

479
00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:41,000
further and yet I am dying to 
know how you got it and where it

480
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,700
was. 
Sherlock Holmes, swallowed a cup

481
00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:46,300
of coffee and turned his 
attention to the ham and eggs. 

482
00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:50,600
Then he rose lit, his pipe and 
settled himself down into his 

483
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,900
chair. 
I'll tell you what I did first 

484
00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:55,700
and how I came to do it 
afterwards. 

485
00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:58,400
Said he after leaving you at the
station. 

486
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,300
I went for a Charming, walk 
through some admirable, SRI 

487
00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:04,800
scenery to have pretty little 
village called Ripley where I 

488
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,400
had my tea at an inn and took 
the precaution of filling my 

489
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,500
flask and of putting a paper of 
sandwiches in my pocket. 

490
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,100
There, I remained until evening 
when I set off for walking again

491
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,800
and found myself in the high 
road outside briarbrae, just 

492
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,000
after Sunset. 
Well, I waited until the road 

493
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,800
was clear. 
It is never a very frequent one 

494
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,600
at any time I fancy and then I 
clambered over the fence into 

495
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,600
the grounds. 
Surely the gate was open 

496
00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:36,800
ejaculated Phelps. 
Yes, but I have a peculiar taste

497
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,400
in these matters. 
I chose the place where the 

498
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,000
three fir trees stand and behind
their screens. 

499
00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:44,900
I mean, I got over without the 
least chance of anyone in the 

500
00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:49,300
house being able to see me. 
I crouched down among the bushes

501
00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:53,600
on the other side and crawled 
from one to the other witness to

502
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,600
distributable, state of my 
trouser knees. 

503
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,300
Until I had reached the clump of
rhododendrons just opposite to 

504
00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:03,300
your bedroom window there. 
I squatted down and awaited 

505
00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:06,700
developments. 
The blind was not down in your 

506
00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:09,800
room and I could see Miss 
Harrison sitting there reading 

507
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,300
by the table. 
It was 10:15 when she closed her

508
00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:16,100
book, fastened the shutters and 
retired. 

509
00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:20,100
I heard a shut the door and felt
quite sure that she had turned 

510
00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:24,300
the key in the lock the key 
ejaculated Phelps. 

511
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000
Yes. 
I had given Miss Harrison 

512
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,000
instructions to lock the door on
the outside and take the key 

513
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,600
with her when she went to bed. 
She carried out every one of my 

514
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,900
injunctions to the letter and 
certainly without her 

515
00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:41,000
cooperation. 
You would not have that. 

516
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,200
Put in your coat pocket, she 
departed then and the lights 

517
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,500
went out and I was left 
squatting in the Rhododendron 

518
00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:52,000
bush. 
The night was fine, but still it

519
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,700
was a very weary vigil. 
Of course. 

520
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:57,700
It has the sort of excitement 
about it that the Sportsman 

521
00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:01,000
feels when he lies beside the 
Watercourse and waits for the 

522
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,100
big gain. 
It was very long though, almost,

523
00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:09,000
as long Watson, as when you and 
I waited in that deadly room 

524
00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,300
when we looked into the little 
problem of the Speckled Band. 

525
00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:16,200
There was a church clock down at
woking, which struck the 

526
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,800
quarters, and I thought, more 
than once that, it had stopped 

527
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,600
at last, however, about two in 
the morning. 

528
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,900
I suddenly heard the gentle 
sound of a bolt being pushed 

529
00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:30,000
back and the creaking of a key. 
A moment later. 

530
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,900
The servants door was opened and
mr. 

531
00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:37,400
Joseph Harrison stepped out into
the Moonlight Joseph. 

532
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:42,000
Ejaculated Phelps. 
He was bareheaded but he had a 

533
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,400
black coat thrown over his 
shoulder so that he could 

534
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,800
conceal his face in an instant. 
If there were any alarm, He 

535
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,400
Walked on tiptoe under the 
shadow of the wall. 

536
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,500
And when he reached the window, 
he worked along bladed knife 

537
00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:58,200
through the Sash and pushed back
the catch. 

538
00:29:58,900 --> 00:30:02,000
Then he flung open the window 
and putting his nice through the

539
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,300
crack in the shutters. 
He thrust the bar up and swung 

540
00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:08,900
them open. 
From where I lay, I had a 

541
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:12,000
perfect view of the inside of 
the room and of every one of his

542
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,800
movements. 
He lit the two candles which 

543
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,300
stood upon the mantelpiece and 
then he proceeded to turn back 

544
00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:21,200
the corner of the carpet in the 
neighborhood of the door. 

545
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,700
Presently. 
He stopped and picked out a 

546
00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:28,200
square piece of board such as 
his usually left to enable 

547
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,700
plumbers to get at the joints of
the gas pipes. 

548
00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:34,500
This one covered. 
As a matter of fact, the T joint

549
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,000
which gives off the pipe which 
supplies the kitchen underneath.

550
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,800
Out of this hiding place. 
He drew that little cylinder of 

551
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,200
paper, push down the board. 
Rearrange the carpet blew out, 

552
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,100
the candles and walked straight 
into my arms. 

553
00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:52,400
As I stood, waiting for him 
outside the window. 

554
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,700
Well, he has rather more 
viciousness than I gave him 

555
00:30:56,700 --> 00:31:02,000
credit for as Master Joseph. 
He flew at me with his knife and

556
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,700
I had to grasp him twice and got
a cut over the knuckles before I

557
00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:09,400
had the upper hand of him. 
He looked murder out of the only

558
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,600
I could see with when we had 
finished. 

559
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,800
But he listened to reason and 
gave up the papers having got 

560
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,400
them. 
I let my man go but I wired full

561
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,300
particulars to Forbes this 
morning. 

562
00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:23,800
If he is quick enough to catch 
his bird well and good. 

563
00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:27,900
But if as I shrewdly suspect, he
finds the nest empty before he 

564
00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:29,400
gets there. 
Why? 

565
00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:31,500
All the better for the 
government. 

566
00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:34,900
I fancy that Lord holdhurst 41 
and mr. 

567
00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,600
Percy Phelps for another would 
very much rather that the affair

568
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,700
never got as far as a police 
Court. 

569
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,500
My God, gasps star client. 
Do you tell me that during these

570
00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:48,700
long ten weeks of Agony, the 
stolen papers were within the 

571
00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:54,700
Very Room with me all the time. 
So it was and Joseph Joseph, a 

572
00:31:54,700 --> 00:31:57,600
villain and a thief. 
Hmm. 

573
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,800
I'm afraid. 
Joseph character is a Rather 

574
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,900
deeper and more dangerous one 
than one might judge from his 

575
00:32:02,900 --> 00:32:05,800
appearance. 
From what I have heard from him 

576
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,300
this morning. 
I gather that he has lost 

577
00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:11,600
heavily in dabbling with stocks 
and at, he's ready to do 

578
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,600
anything on Earth to better his 
fortunes being an absolutely 

579
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,500
selfish, man. 
When a chance presented itself. 

580
00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:21,400
He did not allow. 
Either his sister's happiness or

581
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,400
your reputation to hold his 
hand. 

582
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,800
Percy Phelps sank back in his 
chair. 

583
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:33,200
My head, whirls said he your 
words have dazed me the 

584
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,600
principal difficulty in your 
case remarked Holmes in his 

585
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,800
didactic fashion. 
Lay in the fact, they're being 

586
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,600
too much evidence. 
What was vital was overlaid and 

587
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,000
hidden by what was irrelevant of
all the facts which were 

588
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,500
presented to us. 
We had to pick just those which 

589
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:52,800
we deem to be essential and then
piece them together in their 

590
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,500
order. 
So as to Construct, this very 

591
00:32:55,500 --> 00:33:00,000
remarkable chain of events. 
I had already begun to suspect 

592
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,300
Joseph from the fact that you 
had intended to travel home with

593
00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:06,200
him that night and that 
therefore, it was a likely 

594
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,100
enough thing that he should call
for. 

595
00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:13,000
You knowing the foreign office. 
Well, upon his way, when I heard

596
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,700
that someone had been so anxious
to get into the bedroom in which

597
00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:19,100
no one, but Joseph could have 
concealed anything. 

598
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,600
You told us in your narrative, 
how you would turn Joseph out 

599
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,800
when you arrive with the doctor.
My suspicions all changed to 

600
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,200
certainties, especially as the 
attempt was made on the first 

601
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,800
night upon which the nurse was 
absent showing that the Intruder

602
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,000
was well, acquainted with the 
ways of the house. 

603
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,900
How blind I have been the facts 
of the case. 

604
00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:44,300
As far as I have worked them 
out, are these this Joseph 

605
00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:47,300
Harrison entered the office 
through the Charles Street door 

606
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,400
and knowing his way. 
He walked straight into your 

607
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,700
room. 
The instant after you left it, 

608
00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:57,100
finding no one there. 
He promptly rang the bell and at

609
00:33:57,108 --> 00:34:00,500
the instant that he did. 
So his eyes caught the paper 

610
00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:04,700
upon the table, a glance showed 
him, that chance had put in his 

611
00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:07,300
way, a state document of Immense
value. 

612
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,400
And in an instant, he had thrust
it into his pocket and was gone.

613
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,900
A few minutes elapsed. 
As you remember before the 

614
00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:17,600
Sleepy commission, are Drew your
attention to the bell. 

615
00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:21,000
And those were just enough to 
give the thief time to make his 

616
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,199
Escape. 
He made his way to woking by the

617
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:28,600
first train and having examined 
his booty and assured himself. 

618
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,600
That it really was of immense 
value. 

619
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,500
He had concealed it in what he 
thought was a very safe place 

620
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,300
with the intention of taking Out
again in a day or two and 

621
00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:41,500
carrying it to the French 
Embassy or wherever he thought 

622
00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:46,100
that a long price was to be had 
then came your sudden return. 

623
00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:51,500
He without a moment's warning 
was bundled out of his room. 

624
00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:54,400
And from that time onward, there
were always at least two of you 

625
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:55,900
there to prevent him from 
regaining. 

626
00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:59,600
His treasure the situation to 
him must have been a maddening 

627
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,000
one. 
But at last he thought he saw 

628
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,100
his chance. 
He tried to steal in but was 

629
00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:08,400
baffled by your wakefulness. 
You remember that you did not 

630
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,100
take your usual draft that 
night. 

631
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,200
I remember. 
I fancy that he had taken steps 

632
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,900
to make that draft efficacious 
and that he quite relied upon 

633
00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:21,700
you being unconscious. 
Of course, I understood that he 

634
00:35:21,707 --> 00:35:23,800
would repeat the attempt 
whenever it could be done with 

635
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,000
safety. 
You're leaving the room gave him

636
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,600
the chance. 
He wanted. 

637
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,800
I kept Miss Harrison in it all 
day, so that he might not 

638
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,400
anticipate us. 
Then having given him, the idea 

639
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,300
that the coast was clear. 
I kept guard as I've described. 

640
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,900
I already knew that the papers 
were probably in the room, but I

641
00:35:43,908 --> 00:35:47,200
had no desire to rip up all the 
planking and skirting in search 

642
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,800
of them. 
I let him take them therefore 

643
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,300
from The Hiding Place and so 
saved myself an Infinity of 

644
00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:56,000
trouble. 
Is there any other point, which 

645
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,400
I can make clear? 
Why did he try the window on the

646
00:35:59,408 --> 00:36:01,900
first occasion? 
I asked when he might have 

647
00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:05,800
entered by the door. 
In reaching the door, he would 

648
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,800
have to pass seven. 
Bedrooms on the other hand. 

649
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:12,100
He could get out on to the lawn 
with ease. 

650
00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:15,900
Anything else? 
You do not think asked Phelps 

651
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:17,900
that he had any murderous 
intention. 

652
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:20,100
The knife was only meant as a 
tool. 

653
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:24,400
It may be so answered Holmes, 
shrugging his shoulders. 

654
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:28,700
I can only say for certain that.
Mr. Joseph Harrison is a 

655
00:36:28,707 --> 00:36:32,400
gentleman to whose Mercy I 
should be extremely unwilling to

656
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,700
trust. 
End of the naval treaty.