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The Musgrave Ritual: An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery. Starring; Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke,#mariatheresia #janeeyre #theborgias
The Musgrave Ritual: An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery. Starring; Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, James Hazeldine.
The Musgrave Ritual: An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery. Starring; Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke,#mariatheresia #janeeyre #theborgias
The Musgrave Ritual: An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery. Starring; Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, James Hazeldine.
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00:00I'm sorry, I'm sorry
00:30ORGAN PLAYS
01:00ORGAN PLAYS
01:30ORGAN PLAYS
02:00ORGAN PLAYS
02:29Oh, my God.
02:59Oh, my God.
03:29Perhaps a little fishing.
03:33And the best cook in the county of Sussex, didn't you say?
03:38Holmes.
03:39And Reginald Musgrave.
03:42Well, he's a scion of one of the oldest families in England.
03:45He's in the same college as myself.
03:47He was not generally popular among the undergraduates,
03:50but it always seemed to me that what was set down as pride
03:52was really a cover for extreme natural diffidence.
03:57Indeed, I never think of his pale, lean face and the poise of his head
04:01without associating him with grey archways,
04:06mullioned windows, and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal king.
04:10Well, if you feel so uncharitable,
04:12why don't you accept his invitation to escape my lethargy?
04:17And your constant bullying to tidy our room in Baker Street.
04:20Oh, hardly constant.
04:23So I have decided to devote my weekend
04:26to the collating of some of my early work.
04:31Your early work?
04:33Yes, before my biographer came to glorify me.
04:35Do you mean you have records of your early work?
04:38Not all successes,
04:39but some pretty little problems.
04:42The records of the Tarleton murders,
04:45the case of Vanbury, the wine merchant,
04:48the adventure of the old Russian woman,
04:49a full account of Ricoletti,
04:52of a club thought in his abominable wife,
04:55and the singular affair of the aluminium crotch.
05:00Aluminium crotch?
05:02Well, that was something a little researchy.
05:08I wish I had notes of these cases.
05:14Yes, my boy.
05:17Well, it may hold my interest for a few hours
05:19while you potter with our host
05:20through the antiquities of a bygone age.
05:26Surely the house interests you.
05:29The house is freezing, Watson.
05:32It's history.
05:35The people in...
05:36On your previous visit,
05:38I remember you telling me
05:40that you enjoyed some lively conversations
05:43with a butler.
05:45What's his name? Brunston?
05:46Oh, Brun...
05:47Oh.
05:49A young schoolteacher out of place.
05:52Did he not, um...
05:53Did he not speak several languages?
05:56He played nearly every musical instrument.
05:58A man of considerably more intellectual ability
06:00than his master.
06:01Watson, we must behave ourselves.
06:11Brunston!
06:14Mr. Holmes, a pleasure to see you again, sir.
06:15My friend and colleague, Dr. Watson.
06:17Welcome to Herdson, sirs.
06:19Masquerade.
06:21My friend and colleague, Dr. Watson.
06:23Oh, I'm so glad.
06:24It's a long time.
06:25Yeah.
06:26Well, how has all gone with you?
06:28Oh, busy, busy.
06:30Since my father died,
06:31I've had the estates to manage.
06:32And as I'm now a member of parliament
06:34of the district as well.
06:35But you, you, you, I have noted,
06:37are still turning to practical ends.
06:39Those powers with which you used to amaze us.
06:41Yes, I'm still living by my wits.
06:43And how is the dear wife?
06:45I'm not married, Holmes.
06:49How wise.
06:52And the windows date from 1596.
06:56The manor is thought to be
06:57the oldest inhabited building in the country.
06:59I once knew some northern musgraves.
07:02They did come from the north originally.
07:04A cadet branch of the family
07:06broke away from the northern musgraves
07:08and came to West Sussex
07:09in the early 17th century.
07:11Ah.
07:15Holmes.
07:22Holmes.
07:24Holmes.
07:45More brandy, sir?
08:11No, Brandon.
08:12Well, that's how the story goes.
08:20I'm not going to vouch for it, of course.
08:22But the commission is over here.
08:25It's signed by Prince Rupert.
08:28It's from my ancestor, Ralph Musgrave.
08:31Yes, to join his cavalry troop at Edge Hill.
08:33Ah.
08:35Rupert's seal
08:35and commission, Holmes.
08:37That's astonishing.
08:41It's one of the boots worn that day.
08:44Oh.
08:45If I may be so bold, sir.
08:47Hm?
08:48The boot was worn by his brother,
08:49Sir Rowland Musgrave, it nays be.
08:51Oh, no!
08:52It was indeed.
08:59It was my butler who was once a schoolmaster.
09:01I must bow to his scholarship over mine
09:03in matters of my own family's history.
09:09Yeah, no, no, never mind.
09:11You may leave us now.
09:16Yeah, Brunton.
09:20Where is Rachel tonight?
09:22She has a slight distemper, sir.
09:23I told her to go to her room.
09:31Good night, gentlemen.
09:57Holmes.
09:59Holmes.
09:59Holmes has told me of
10:01Brunton's extraordinary gift.
10:05I remember to my last visit
10:06he spent several hours
10:07explaining to me in French
10:09the origins of the piccolo.
10:17It is wonderful that he should have been
10:19satisfied for so long
10:21with such a position.
10:25But I suppose he's been
10:26comfortable and
10:28lacked the energy
10:30to make a change.
10:32Oh, yes, indeed.
10:34The butler of Hurlston.
10:37It's always a thing
10:38that is remembered
10:39by all who visit us.
10:40Oh, dear, maestro.
10:44However, this paragon
10:45does have one fault.
10:46A bit of a Don Juan.
10:49Oh, it's not a difficult part
10:51to play in a quiet country district.
10:53When he was married,
10:54he was all right,
10:55but since he's become a widower,
10:56we've had no end of trouble with him.
10:58I mean, a few months ago,
10:59we were in hopes he was about
11:00to settle down again.
11:01He became engaged to
11:02Rachel Howells,
11:03my, my, my second housemate,
11:04but he's thrown her over,
11:06taken up with Janet
11:07Trigallis,
11:08my gamekeeper's daughter.
11:10Now, Rachel's a very good girl,
11:11but she is of an
11:12excitable Welsh temperament.
11:14Now she wanders around
11:16like a black-eyed shadow,
11:18thoroughly unsettling
11:19the household.
11:23Rachel?
11:24I don't know.
11:54Good morning, Holmes. Sir Reginald.
12:00Shh.
12:24Where's Brunton this morning?
12:27It's all right. It's all right. It's nothing.
12:31Nothing. It's all right.
12:33The girl is fainting, Watson.
12:40My dear young woman.
12:42You should not be at work. You should be in bed.
12:45You may leave your duties, Rachel.
12:47Come back when you're feeling stronger.
12:50I am strong enough, sir.
12:52I'll be the judge of that. You must go to your room.
12:54Shh.
12:55Lie down.
12:56And on your way,
12:58tell Brunton that I wish to see him.
13:01The buddler's gone.
13:04Gone?
13:05Gone where?
13:06He's gone.
13:07He's not in his room. No, no.
13:09No one's seen him.
13:10Oh, yes, yes.
13:12He's gone.
13:13He's gone.
13:14Huh?
13:16Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
13:21Ha ha ha ha!
13:24It's all right!
13:26It's all right!
13:28It's all right.
13:29Gently Rachel, all right. Gently Rachel, gently, gently.
13:59Oh, but the bed's not been slept in. Have you searched the house?
14:12Oh, from cellar to gallant. The girl's right. There's no trace of him. He's gone.
14:16Difficult to see how man could have left. I mean the windows and doors are all fastened.
14:21What man goes away in the middle of the night and leaves all his possessions behind? Money, watch.
14:26Oh, I've given the girl something to calm her down and I've taken the liberty of sending for a local nurse.
14:32She's in a most unusual nervous state and should on no account be left alone for a while.
14:37This is the girl who was engaged to Brunton? Rachel Howells, yes, yes.
14:41A girl with a fiery Welsh temper. Oh, Watson.
14:45Gentlemen, look, I had no intention that this small domestic incident should ruin your weekend.
14:51I propose we continue our plans for a shoot.
14:54And we'll return, hopefully, to some simple explanation.
14:58Come up, come up.
15:02Come up.
15:03Ho!
15:05Come up.
15:19Come up.
15:26Home!
15:32Well done, Watson.
15:35Mr. Gallagher.
15:46Holmes.
15:48Holmes, I was telling Watson something happened last night which may throw some light on this matter.
15:57This is very embarrassing but I find I need your advice.
16:05I couldn't sleep after foolishly taking that cup of cafe noir after dinner.
16:10And about two o'clock I gave up the struggle.
16:12I came downstairs to fetch a novel I'm reading which I'd left in the library.
16:16Well you can imagine my surprise when I saw a glimmer of light coming from the open door.
16:23I remembered I'd extinguished the lamp and closed the door when we retired.
16:28Naturally my first thought was a burglar's.
16:31I was talking to you, I'm looking forward to.
16:32I don't know why I can't see you.
16:33I'm looking forward to doing that.
16:37I'm looking forward to answering the comments.
16:39I'll try to make you look.
17:11You repay my trust, prying into my family documents.
17:17You will leave my service tomorrow.
17:41Mr Musgrave, sir, I can't bear disgrace.
18:02I've always been proud of my station in life, and disgrace would kill me.
18:11My blood will be on your head, sir.
18:13It will indeed if you drive me to despair.
18:17What?
18:18If you cannot keep me after this, then for God's sake, let me give you notice and leave in a month.
18:24As of my own free will.
18:26A month is too long.
18:28I could stand that, Mr Musgrave, but not to be cast out before all the folk I know so well.
18:34You don't deserve consideration, Brunton.
18:37Your conduct has been infamous.
18:41However, I've no wish to bring public disgrace upon you.
18:45You take yourself away in a week, and you give whatever reason you like.
18:48A week, sir?
18:51Only a week.
18:54A four-night.
18:55Say, at least a four-night.
18:57No, a week.
18:59And you may consider yourself to have been very leniently dealt with.
19:09But what is strange is that he seemed most anxious to stay.
19:14Well, it's quite plain to me what happened.
19:17He went back to his room, thought it over, decided to stage his disappearance, there and then, cleverly.
19:24Possibly with the help of his new woman friend.
19:26Janet.
19:27Oh, no, no, no.
19:28She lives with her father on the other side of the lake.
19:31And besides, I don't know if she'd had the wit to help him.
19:35This piece of paper, which Brunton thought worth his while to consult, even at the risk of losing his job.
19:44It's nothing.
19:45It's nothing of any importance at all.
19:51Nevertheless.
19:57It's simply a copy of the singular old observance called the Musgrave Ritual.
20:02A ceremony peculiar to our family, which each Musgrave has to go through on his coming of age.
20:07It's a strange catechism.
20:15Undated, but written in the style of the middle of the 17th century.
20:19Would you and Watson be good enough to read it out to me?
20:22Doctor, I know it by heart.
20:24Who's was it?
20:30His who is gone.
20:32Who shall have it?
20:34He who will come.
20:36Where was the sun?
20:38Over the oak.
20:39Where was the shadow?
20:41Under the elm.
20:42How was it stepped?
20:45West 8x8.
20:47South 7x7.
20:50West 6x6.
20:52South 5x5.
20:54And 2x2.
20:56And so under.
20:58What shall we give for it?
21:00All that is ours.
21:02Why should we give it?
21:04For the sake of the trust.
21:06It's a treasure hunt.
21:13Oh no.
21:14No.
21:15I remember as children we often tried to solve it.
21:18It leads nowhere.
21:19Could Brunton have seen this before last night?
21:23It's possible.
21:25We took no pains to hide it.
21:27But what could he want with it?
21:29Obviously he was refreshing his memory.
21:33You say that he had some...
21:35that poor chart
21:36which he thrust back into his pocket
21:38the moment you appeared.
21:39That's what it looked like.
21:42Yes.
21:42We must re-examine this ritual.
21:45The measurements obviously refer to some exact spot
21:48to which the rest of the document alludes.
21:51You're given two guides.
21:53Yes.
21:54An elm
21:54and an oak.
21:57And gentlemen.
21:59There
22:00is a patriarch among oaks.
22:05Certainly the oldest oak on the estate.
22:11This tree must have been here
22:12at the time of the Norman conquests.
22:14In all probability.
22:15But I tell you,
22:16it can't be the oak referred to, Holmes.
22:18Generations of musgraves have attempted to solve it.
22:21They've dug up half this field.
22:22You were right, musgrave.
22:34This is not the oak referred to in the ritual.
22:39Are there any other large oaks in the immediate vicinity?
22:42Not within a mile of the house.
22:44Where was the sun?
22:51Over the oak.
22:53We can make nothing of it today, old man.
22:55The weather's turned.
22:56A little bit more.
22:57The weather's turned.
22:57One main fuzzy.
22:59Five days.
23:16One...
23:17Two many years ago.
23:18No looks like that.
23:19Now go to me.
23:20Some or something more like
23:22it's a tough idea.
23:23I was in criança.
23:24Oh, my God.
23:54I don't know.
24:04Janina!
24:10I don't know.
24:54Good morning, sir.
24:55Good morning, sir.
25:01It's eight foot deep here.
25:03Poor demented girl.
25:05We must live in hope, old man. There will be no body found yet.
25:09Nothing so far, sir.
25:11We've just about covered all of it.
25:13I've found something!
25:24What does it contain?
25:27I'm sorry, sir.
25:32I don't know.
25:33I'm sorry.
25:34I'm sorry, sir.
25:35I'm sorry, sir.
25:37I'm sorry, sir.
25:39what does it contain
25:54nothing of value
25:59thrown in by anyone at any time
26:02no recently or the water would have rotted the bag
26:04the maid last night
26:06well it would explain her journey to the mere but then
26:12where did she go
26:15there's nothing here holmes
26:22it's just a mass of rusted and discolored metal
26:28and some pebbles
26:29and where is brunt
26:33oh rachel why should anybody bother to throw this into the lake
26:37i'm convinced that there are not three mysteries here but only one
26:49and the solution of one may prove
26:51the solutions of the others
26:53everybody brunton saw something in this which escaped your forebears musgrave
26:59from which expected some personal advantage
27:02if i can read it of right
27:04i hold in my hand the clue
27:07to the truth concerning both the butler brunton and the maid howells
27:12where was the sun over the oak
27:17where was the shadow under the elm
27:28so this is where it grew
27:30yes
27:31i suppose it's impossible to tell me how high it was
27:35oh i can give you that at once
27:36it was 64 feet
27:38it's my old tutor
27:42he used to give me lessons in trigonometry
27:44when i was a lad i used to know the height of every tree and building on this estate
27:47i am grateful to your tutor
27:50tell me did brunton ever ask you such a question
27:54here on this lawn
27:57now that you call it to my mind
28:01brunton
28:22what are you doing here
28:26enjoying the evening sir
28:28this is my private law
28:30you pardon me for asking sir
28:35the elm that once stood here
28:37that was struck by lightning
28:38you wouldn't remember the height of it would you sir
28:41well why should you want to know that
28:45well i'm arguing with mr tregalis about it
28:48i say it was 50 feet he puts it higher
28:51leave a small wager on it
28:53oh well you've lost your wager brunton
28:56it was 64 feet
28:59ah was it
29:01i should uh
29:03just have to be a good sport and pay up then
29:05thank you sir
29:08thank you sir
29:13let's do
29:27Oh
29:38Oh good Lord
29:44Now we must find where the shadow of the elm would have fallen
29:49When the sun is just cleared of that
29:52Well that'll be a difficult home since the elm is no longer there
29:55Well now come Watson
29:57If Thranton can do it
29:58Then so can we
30:00The answer lies in trigonometry
30:03Musgrave
30:05I need all the fishing rods that you have in the hole
30:27I don't quite follow this
30:42Holmes
30:51Yes
30:52I don't quite follow this
30:56Ah splendid
30:57Musgrave
31:02Every rod in the house
31:04Thank you
31:07Measuring stick please Watson
31:23Would you hold that for me Musgrave please
31:33And that
31:34Now will you take the last yard of the string and tie it to the base of the fishing rod Watson
31:38Yes
31:42When you've done that would you bring the ritual and join me on the lawn
31:45That's fine
31:46I don't know
31:47I don't know
31:47No
31:48It's an egg
31:48I don't know
31:48I don't know
31:49I don't know
31:50Let's go.
32:20Watson.
32:24Nine feet.
32:25So the calculation is now a simple one.
32:27If a fishing rod of six feet throws a shadow of nine feet,
32:30then a tree of 64 feet will throw one of...
32:3298.
32:3496.
32:36Yes, of course.
32:38And the line of one, of course, would be the line of the other.
32:50What's the look?
33:05Two inches from mine.
33:07A mark made by Brunton.
33:09Now, read out the steps.
33:12West, eight by eight.
33:20Four inches from the ground.
33:23Sixty-four.
33:39Seven.
33:40Seven.
33:41Seven by seven.
33:50Forty-nine west, six by six.
34:00Thirty-six and south, five by five.
34:20And two by two.
34:47One, two, three, four.
34:52I don't believe it.
34:56Some mistake in your calculation.
34:58That's impossible.
35:07Brunton hasn't been here.
35:09Two by two and so under.
35:12These stones haven't been moved in many a long year.
35:15And under.
35:17Holmes, you've forgotten the and under.
35:22Is there a cellar under here?
35:24As old as the house.
35:26There's been wood all over the floor, darling.
35:35That's Brunton's muffler.
35:36I'd swear to it.
35:37Brunton!
35:38Ah!
35:39Ah!
35:40Ah!
35:41Ah!
35:42Ah!
35:43Ah!
35:44Ah!
35:45Ah!
35:46Ah!
35:47Ah!
35:48Ah!
35:49Ah!
35:50Ah!
35:51Ah!
35:52Ah!
35:53Ah!
35:54Ah!
35:55Ah!
35:56Ah!
35:57Ah!
35:58Ah!
35:59Ah!
36:00Ah!
36:01Ah!
36:02Ah!
36:03Ah!
36:04Ah!
36:05Ah!
36:06Ah!
36:07Ah!
36:08Ah!
36:09Ah!
36:10Ah!
36:11Ah!
36:12Ah!
36:13Ah!
36:14Ah!
36:15Ah!
36:16Ah!
36:17I don't know.
36:47Inspector, this is a friend of mine, Dr. Watson.
37:04Inspector, I have some experience in forensic pathology.
37:08The man has been dead for two days.
37:10Cause of death's suffocation.
37:12No wound or bruise on his person, sir?
37:15None.
37:17Accident, eh?
37:20Oh, there's no doubt about it.
37:22He must have been down there alone and the flagstone just fell shut on him, poor fellow.
37:28Sir Reginald, I'm told that your butler was down in the cellar in an unused part of the house.
37:34What was his business there, sir?
37:37The butler's duties are many and varied, Inspector.
37:39I can't possibly answer that question.
37:41Well, no one would have heard his cries for help in that part of the house.
37:44That is the point, surely, Inspector.
37:45She...
37:47That is the point that he has done it.
37:47She did it.
37:49She killed him.
37:50That's why she ran away!
37:52Oh, my God.
37:53Ah!
37:55Trigallis.
37:57Rachel!
37:59She done it!
38:01She killed him!
38:03That's why she ran away!
38:05Trigallis! Rachel!
38:07It's nothing.
38:09The servants are naturally upset.
38:11Well, who is this Rachel?
38:13One of my housemaids.
38:15She was engaged to Brunton.
38:17Do please cover him up.
38:19When he disappeared, she became ill and left.
38:21Well, I shall want to see her.
38:23I shall want to see that young woman also.
38:25Sergeant.
38:27All right, take this.
38:31Doctor, please.
38:43The local inspector, Holmes.
38:45If you could find a plausible explanation for him
38:47to avoid publicity in this wretched...
38:51I must confess
38:53that so far I am disappointed
38:55in my investigation.
38:58I had to reckon upon solving the matter
39:00when once I'd find the place referred to in the ritual.
39:03But now that I'm here
39:06I'm as far as ever from knowing what it was
39:08your family concealed with such elaborate precautions.
39:12But you've solved my mystery of Brunton.
39:15But how?
39:16How?
39:17How?
39:18Did his fate come upon him?
39:20And what part has been played by the woman who's disappeared?
39:22I, um...
39:23I should explain Holmes' methods in such cases.
39:34He...
39:35He puts himself in the man's place
39:37having first gauged his intelligence.
39:40And then he...
39:42He tries to imagine
39:43how he himself would have proceeded
39:46in similar circumstances.
39:48In this case...
39:51Brunton's intelligence is first raid.
39:54So you see,
39:55it is unnecessary to make allowance
39:57for the personal equation.
39:59As the astronomers have dubbed it.
40:29He knows something is concealed.
40:41He has spotted the place.
40:59He has spotted the place.
41:01He has spotted the place.
41:02He has spotted the place.
41:03He has spotted the place.
41:04He has spotted the place.
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41:18He has spotted the place.
41:19He has spotted the place.
41:20He has spotted the place.
41:21He has spotted the place.
41:22He has spotted the place.
41:23He has spotted the place.
41:24He has spotted the place.
41:25He has spotted the place.
41:26He has spotted the place.
41:27he's found the stone is too heavy for a man to move unaided so what does he do
41:39help him outside no one to trust help from inside but who
41:47rachel
41:50she still loves him he sees it in her eyes for all her show of eight
41:56i'm here to say i'm sorry my love i'm a foolish man i don't deserve you you don't forgive me rachel
42:17why there's no one else for me no never has been you know that as this house it eats into your soul
42:28let me take you away from here and start afresh your promises oh richard you make them so freely
42:40you've never loved me
42:44oh you're wrong i love you for your beauty and your spirit
42:52you're a perfect match with my brains and your heart what do we want with service to others
43:00the world is out there calling us my love and how do we get out there with no money
43:07we'll have all the money we need
43:10i've found someone in this house all them country squires i've missed
43:14now i've found it ready to go not without you
43:19i couldn't live without you
43:22i'm to be your husband rachel
43:26what money what have you found
43:35come with me put on your gown i'll show you
43:41softly now
43:48there it is under that stone all we have to do is lift it
44:12no pick up that wood when i lift this you watch it
44:20come on woman do as i tell you
44:24ready
44:29and another one
44:37and that one over there
44:46there is a slight indentation on this log
44:52and on this
44:58caused by the weight of the stone
45:02heavy work for a woman
45:04and this i think
45:08has been used finally
45:11as a support
45:14there's no treasure
45:25that box was laying there for two centuries
45:29a more
45:30you're going to steal it
45:31how can you steal what nobody knows exists
45:34well how did you know then
45:36brains my girl
45:37history and mathematics
45:39here hold the load for me
45:41bring the light closer
46:00make our fortune
46:15oh yes that's a fine promise
46:19quiet
46:20there must be some value in it
46:24oh clever are you
46:27oh pride more like
46:29better than your masters
46:31quiet woman
46:32i know your cleverness
46:34husband
46:35you just needed me to help you
46:38if it had been treasure you'd have been off and away without me
46:42you'd have gone with her
46:43you're a fool if you believe that
46:46i hope you heard of you
47:00richel
47:03richel
47:06richel
47:06my love
47:08get help
47:09i can't breathe
47:12give me some hope
47:14quickly
47:16please my love
47:18richel
47:21oh my
47:23help me
47:24richel
47:26richel
47:28help
47:30richel
47:32help me
47:33richel
47:35richel help me
47:39that will explain her blanched face and her fevered brain at breakfast the next morning
48:01nothing but fungi
48:06what was in the box homes
48:09it's charles the first
48:23we may find something else of charles the first
48:26the bag
48:29that was fished from the mere
48:30gentlemen
48:35look
48:38it's a tune
48:40family heirloom
48:44it's possible
48:46your ancestor sir ralph musgrave
48:49was he a prominent cavalier
48:51oh yes indeed yes he was close to charles the second and his wanderings during the commonwealth
48:56then i think that should give us the last link that we wanted
49:00gentlemen you must bear in mind when the royal party were driven into exile
49:10they probably left many of their most precious possessions buried behind them
49:15with the intention of returning for them in more peaceful times
49:19gold
49:22musgrave
49:23Watson i believe you have in your hand
49:28a relic
49:29which is not only of great intrinsic value
49:32but also of great importance as a historical curiosity
49:35what is it
49:36nothing less
49:40than a fragment
49:42of the ancient crown of the kings of england
49:47the crown
49:49oh no no homes it's too fanciful
49:52now consider the ritual
50:01how does it run
50:03whose was it
50:05his
50:07who is gone
50:08that was the execution of charles
50:11and then
50:12who shall have it
50:14he who will come
50:16that was charles the second
50:19whose advent was already foreseen
50:21now can i think
50:24in no doubt gentlemen
50:25that this
50:26battered and shapeless diadem
50:29once encircled the brows of the royal students
50:31but how came it to my family
50:34when charles the first was executed
50:38the crown was seized
50:41broken into pieces
50:42and sold
50:44for a thousand guineas
50:45since then there has been no trace of it
51:07until now
51:09but why did charles not get it back on his return
51:13that is a question which may never be answered
51:15when your ancestor died
51:18by some
51:19oversight
51:20he left this
51:22guide
51:24to his descendant
51:25without ever explaining the meaning of it
51:27father to son
51:30until at last
51:32it came within reach of a man
51:35who tore
51:36his secret out of it
51:38and lost his life in the venture
51:42major
51:46major
51:48major
51:52was it chance
51:59the wood slipped
52:00was she only guilty of silence
52:02she had a passionate celtic soul
52:05the man had wronged her
52:06she had him in her power
52:08might it
52:08not have been vengeance
52:10who had sent the stone crashing
52:12her hand
52:14that dashed it away
52:15now what has become of her
52:18really probably
52:19she is far away
52:21from hurlstone now
52:22and carries her secret with her
52:24completely
52:25yay
52:40I'm sorry
52:42well
52:43I'm sorry
52:43but I'm sorry
52:49and I couldn't
52:50I
52:52believe
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