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The Abbey Grange: Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts. Starring: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Paul Williamson.
The Abbey Grange: Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts. Starring: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Paul Williamson.
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00:00David Stenet
01:00Far now?
01:30Far now!
01:32Far now!
01:34Far now!
01:36Far now!
01:38Far now!
01:40Far now!
01:44Far now!
01:48Far now!
01:50Far now!
01:52Far now!
01:54Far now!
01:56Far now!
01:58Far now!
02:00Far now!
02:02Far now!
02:04Far now!
02:06Come, Watson.
02:08Come.
02:10Come.
02:12Come.
02:14Come.
02:16Come.
02:18Come.
02:20The game is a fight.
02:22The game is a fight.
02:24The game is a fight.
02:34Get your clothes and come.
02:36Come.
02:46Well, I think we have thought sufficiently, Holmes.
02:48Splendid!
02:50Abbey Grange, Martian, Kent, 3.30 a.m.
02:54My dear Mr. Holmes.
02:56I shall be very glad of your immediate assistance in what promises to be a most remarkable case.
03:02There is something quite in your line.
03:04Except for releasing the lady, I will see that everything is kept exactly as I have found it.
03:09But I beg you not to lose an instant, as it is difficult to leave Sir Eustace there.
03:16Yours faithless Stanley Hopkins.
03:18Ah!
03:19Inspector Hopkins.
03:21He's called you in seven times.
03:24On each occasion his summons has been entirely justified.
03:27I fancy that every one of his cases has found its way into your collection.
03:32I must admit, Watson, you do have some part of selection.
03:38It returns from much of which I deplore about your narratives.
03:43Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined
03:50what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations.
03:55Why do you not write them yourself?
03:58I will, my dear Watson, I will.
04:01In my declining years.
04:03Sir, our present research appears to be one of murder.
04:07Does it?
04:08E.B.
04:09Monogram.
04:10A bit of arms.
04:11An address which harks back to the dissolution of the monasteries.
04:12We are moving in I-Live.
04:13Brackenstorm.
04:14Sir Eustace Brackenstorm.
04:15You've heard of him?
04:16He was quoted in the Chronicle the other day as being one of the richest men in Kent.
04:18Watson, you are a treasury of knowledge.
04:19And you think him dead.
04:20I think he murdered Watson.
04:21Hopkins is not an emotional man.
04:23The writing shows a certain agitation.
04:24It is surely urgent.
04:25You think the body left there for our inspection?
04:27I think that we shall find the Brackenstorm line is now.
04:28Now, you've heard of him?
04:29You've heard of him.
04:30He was quoted in the Chronicle the other day as being one of the richest men in Kent.
04:32Watson, you are a treasury of knowledge.
04:35And you think him dead?
04:36I think he murdered Watson.
04:41Hopkins is not an emotional man.
04:45The writing shows a certain agitation.
04:47It is surely urgent.
04:49You think the body left there for our inspection?
04:53I think that we shall find the Brackenstorm line is now extinct.
05:06Very good of you to come into home.
05:35And you, Doctor.
05:37Inspector?
05:38I hope you'll forgive me, Mr. Holmes.
05:42Forgive what, Hopkins?
05:44I should not have troubled you, sir.
05:46But since the lady has come to herself, she's given so clear an account of the affair
05:50that there's not much left for us to do.
05:52You remember the Lewisham gang?
05:54Between the three Randalls.
05:55Exactly, sir.
05:56The father and two sons.
05:59It's their work, not a doubt.
06:00But they did a job at Sydney a fortnight ago, did they not?
06:03They did.
06:04They were seen and described.
06:05Well, it's cool of them.
06:06I agreed to do another so soon or so near.
06:08But it is they and a hanging matter this time.
06:12The Brackenstorm is dead, then.
06:14Ah, yes, Doctor.
06:16In the dining of Miss Head was knocked in with his own poker.
06:20And the lady.
06:21Oh!
06:22Have they been in the dining room yet?
06:30Not yet, Elaine.
06:31I shall be glad when you can arrange matters.
06:35Oh, what is that?
06:36No, you have other injuries, madam.
06:37It's nothing.
06:38It has no connection with this hideous business.
06:40Please sit down.
06:41Please sit down.
06:42I think it would be best to invite you.
06:43I think it would be best to invite you.
06:44Have you been in the dining room yet?
06:45Not yet, Elaine.
06:46I shall be glad when you can arrange matters.
06:49Oh, what is that?
06:51No, you have other injuries, madam.
06:52It's nothing.
06:53It has no connection with this hideous business.
07:06Please sit down.
07:11I think it would be best to inform you of something, gentlemen, regarding Sir Eustace.
07:16You'll no doubt hear a rumor of it otherwise from idle tongues who'll distort the truth of it.
07:23It would pain me to think of his memory tarnished in that way.
07:31Sir Eustace drank, I'm afraid.
07:36Not regularly and consistently.
07:39Not in a way to hurt our marriage.
07:42Nor did it interfere with the exercise of his public duties.
07:46Nevertheless, the vice was a private shame to him.
07:53He was very sensible of my dislike of it.
07:57When he felt the obsession too keenly, he took himself off until the poison had exhausted him.
08:03It distressed me, of course, that it should happen.
08:09But he was proud and sensitive enough never to allow me to witness it.
08:18I felt deep gratitude for that.
08:22And not a little pity.
08:24Don't you understand that, gentlemen?
08:27I have never heard a like case talked of with such illuminating compassion, madam.
08:36I must however ask you to believe something further.
08:39I was in some measure grateful for this vice of my husband's.
08:43How could that be?
08:45I've spent most of my life in South Australia, in the wine-growing country, near Adelaide.
08:54As a very young woman, I lived alone with my father.
09:00My mother was dead.
09:04If I had a mother, it was my loyal Teresa.
09:07It was a very free life.
09:13I found it extremely difficult to adapt to the proprieties of England, being mistress of such a place as this.
09:22So I felt if I were to show a decent understanding of my husband's weakness,
09:28he would in turn forgive me some of my unsuitable behavior.
09:34And so it proved.
09:37I see.
09:39I'll tell you about last night.
09:42Eustace retired at about half past ten.
09:46The servants had already gone to their quarters.
09:48Where child went?
09:49In the east wing.
09:50Only my husband Teresa and myself sleep in the central block.
09:53The servants would have heard nothing.
09:55Had you retired by then?
09:57I was in my room.
09:59I never retired till I've seen madam to bed.
10:03I sat up.
10:06This room, in fact.
10:12It is my custom to walk around to see that the house is secure.
10:16It is my custom to walk around to see that the house is secure.
10:29Because for obvious reasons, Sir Eustace is not always to be relied upon in that respect.
10:47I went into the gun room.
10:52The kitchen.
10:56The butler's pantry.
11:01The billiard room.
11:07The drawing room.
11:09And finally, the dining room.
11:12Where the curtains were drawn.
11:15It's difficult to tell you much of what happened next.
11:40I took a step towards the curtain.
11:47I found myself face to face with an intruder.
11:52A big man.
11:55Quite elderly.
11:57For a moment we just stared at each other.
12:01Then two other men came in behind him and he came for me.
12:05I must have been unconscious for some minutes.
12:35It was then that my unfortunate husband entered the room.
12:40They dealt with him as you shall see.
12:44I believe I fainted again.
12:47I'm not sure.
12:49The exact events are difficult.
12:52I drifted in and out of consciousness, you understand.
12:56I do know that they cleared the room of its silver.
13:01And they must have drawn themselves a bottle of port.
13:03Some of which I saw them drink.
13:08The man who struck me was elderly with a beard.
13:11The others younger.
13:13Smooth-faced.
13:15Yes.
13:17Finally, they checked that I was securely bound and left taking the silver with them.
13:22How was the alarm raised?
13:27Madam had not come upstairs.
13:29Earlier she said she would follow me shortly,
13:31so at midnight I went down in case she'd fallen asleep over a book.
13:34A thing I hate to do.
13:36And there I found her, poor lamb, just as she says.
13:39And him on the floor, his blood and brains all over the room.
13:43Have to drive a woman out of her wits.
13:48And her gagged and bound and her very dress spotted with him.
13:56She never wanted courage.
13:58Did Miss Mary Fraser of Adelaide.
14:01And Lady Brackenstall of Abbey Grange hasn't learned new ways.
14:06You've questioned her long enough, gentlemen.
14:08When the lady and her baby were still here?
14:11About 18 months ago, sir.
14:12Her father sent her to give her experience of Europe.
14:14That is to find a husband.
14:15Or a woman.
14:16It must have seemed a brilliant match.
14:19It's a mess, sir.
14:21Constable?
14:37A mess indeed.
14:38We've touched nothing, sir.
14:39What do you make of it, Doctor?
14:41Should I?
14:42Please proceed, my dear fellow.
14:50It's a blow of savage ferocity.
14:53A single blow?
14:54I believe so.
14:55It is a straightforward enough wound, you see.
15:01It begins thus, below the ear.
15:04And then crosses both spheres of the parietal bone at such an angle.
15:08But this side is smashed as far as the coronal suit here.
15:09I've never seen anything like it.
15:21A powerful man, this Elder Randall.
15:24Half his trade is violent, sir.
15:26And he suddenly left his trademark.
15:29What beats me is how Randall could do so mad a thing.
15:35Knowing that the lady could describe them and that we could not fail to recognise the description.
15:39The criminal mind has its quirks of conscience and scruples.
15:44In that respect, it is as individual and curious as any other.
15:48A noted miser may be secretly charitable, so this violent Randall may draw the line at the murder of an unconscious woman.
15:56Or he may well believe that she did not see him.
16:01Well, how is that, sir?
16:02She testifies that they stared at each other.
16:05Yes, but it was she who held the light.
16:07What Randall may have seen was mostly flickering candle flame.
16:14The face behind it.
16:17A distorted mask.
16:21He may have been unimaginative enough to have thought that she saw no more than he did.
16:26He knocked down unconscious at the next instance, thus for his purposes, solving his problem, Watson.
16:32May I impose upon you to search the turkey rug?
16:37What for, Holmes?
16:39Candle wax, Watson. Candle wax.
16:43Now this bell presents a mystery.
16:46Does it not, Inspector?
16:47Sir?
16:48When it was pulled down, the bell in the kitchen must have rung lightly.
16:51No one would hear it the way the kitchen is placed.
16:53How did the burglar know that?
16:55Exactly, Mr. Holmes, exactly.
16:57With a very question I've put myself.
16:58Now either he has known the house, or he may have dealings with one of the servants.
17:03One of my men is going over the record of service at the Grange with the butler at this very moment, sir.
17:07Inspector, you seem to have thought of everything.
17:10Oh, thank you, Mr. Holmes.
17:11Holmes.
17:12What is it, Watson?
17:13What is it, Watson?
17:16There.
17:19A scattering of wax, and a very light scorching.
17:25Invisible, but leaving its characteristic scent.
17:29The lady would have fallen here.
17:33Randall would have snatched up the candelabra immediately.
17:36I suppose that is where they took their refreshment.
17:40To steady their nerves, yes.
17:43Port one, sir.
17:44Did Lady Birkenstall say that the butler's corkscrew was used?
17:47No, sir.
17:48She was senseless at the moment the bottle was opened.
17:50Quite so.
17:51It was opened with a pocket screw, probably contained in a knife.
17:57If you examine the top of the cork, you will observe
18:00that the screw was driven in three times before the cork was extracted.
18:04This long screw would have transfixed it and drawn it with a single pull.
18:11When you catch this fellow, it is likely that you will find that he has a multiplex knife in his possession.
18:15Excellent, Mr. Holmes.
18:17These three glasses do puzzle me.
18:24I must confess.
18:30Did Lady Birkenstall say that she actually saw the three men drinking?
18:35Oh, yes. She was clear about that, sir.
18:40Well, then there's an end of it.
18:42What more is to be said.
18:44Perhaps, Inspector, when a man has special powers and special knowledge like Sherlock Holmes,
18:51it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
18:57Will you let us know when Randall is arrested?
18:59Boy, Holmes, you must feel like a person in the country.
19:04Heabaoth.
19:06Oh, you must feel like a man.
19:07Keepetracked for something, mate.
19:08Give this up, brother.
19:13Oh, honey.
19:14Well, Holmes, you must feel like a man.
19:19Thaw Century.
19:20Holy Miss,魚, which is secret deadly III
19:23Poor, Holmes, you must feel like an abstruse and learned specialist calling for a case
19:32of measles.
19:35Annoying.
19:53We must return.
20:09Three glasses.
20:23Watson, we have been dazzled out of observation by that lady's beauty.
20:30Beauty may be truth, but she does not necessarily speak it.
20:35There was port in each glass, but there was only crusting in one glass.
20:40The last glass filled is the one most likely to contain the crusting.
20:45I agree.
20:45If the last pouring had approached the bottom of the bottle, but the bottle was half full
20:49and it had been agitated.
20:51The crusting was present throughout the port.
20:54Well, what then do you suppose?
20:56That only two glasses were used and that the dregs of both were poured into a third so as
21:02to give the false impression that three people were there.
21:05I understand.
21:07If I'm right, Watson, then in an instant this case rises from the commonplace to the exceedingly
21:15remarkable.
21:17That will be the Kentish train.
21:20What will that?
21:21That will.
21:27On earth, did you hear it?
21:29I heard nothing, Watson.
21:31I observed.
21:35What a salutary thought after such a misspent morning.
21:39Lady Brackenstall and her maid must have some very good reason for shielding the real criminal.
21:50Well, Watson, we shall just have to construct our case for ourselves without them.
21:54The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:09The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:10What's up?
22:22The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:25The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:26The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:26The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:27The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:28The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:28The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:29The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:30The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:31The abbey cage is close to the sea path.
22:32it appears inspector hopkins has gone to report to headquarters spend it then we can take
22:54possession how many frustrated episodes for the laboring men here could one reconstruct from
23:12this mechanical cemetery what's this Watson not entirely mechanical it seems
23:42fudge
23:48requiescat in pace
24:01imagine it's a pet's gravestone that is smashed mended and smashed again with deliberate force
24:09the story it tells of the immediate
24:12what the remnants of a dog's color
24:32fudge hey you has any servant been dismissed from the house of the last month
24:41no sir
24:42there is as I thought
24:45fudge
24:49lady brackenstall's pet dog let us imagine dies
24:55it may not be too fanciful to suggest that their poor unfortunate creature was literally killed
25:01killed for what reason reason I suggest hardly entered into it it was done in a fit of insane
25:07rage by whom by a drunken sadistic ruffian one of the murderers no Watson the lady's husband
25:15the last of the brackenstalls brackenstall consider it no one but a member of the household could
25:23vandalize a gravestone that have remained in place
25:27why should brackenstall entertain such an obsession about a pet animal that he will
25:33forbid any remembrance of it you saw the marks of course on the lady's arm
25:37yes I was surprised that they did not interest you more
25:40there were stab wounds made by a long needle or a hat pin this lady has been living in fear
25:47of her physical safety what's
25:50take care homes
26:09Watson
26:12we have got our case
26:15how nearly have I made the blunder of a lifetime
26:18but now the chain is almost complete
26:22you've got your men
26:24man
26:26Watson
26:27man
26:28only one
26:31what a remarkable person
26:33strong as a lion
26:35active as a squirrel
26:37dexterous with his fingers and finally
26:41remarkably quick-weighted
26:44ah
26:45lady brackenstall
26:49I do not wish to cause you any unnecessary trouble
26:52my one desire is to make things easier for you
26:56I am convinced that you are a much-tried woman
27:02if you will trust me
27:06and treat me as a friend
27:08you may find that I will justify that trust
27:10what do you want me to do
27:13to tell me the truth
27:14Mr. Holmes
27:15no no no no no please
27:16lady brackenstall
27:17it is of no use
27:19you may have heard of any little reputation that I may possess
27:23I will stick it all on the fact that your story is a complete fabrication
27:27you're an impudent fellow
27:29you try to say that my mistress is told a lie
27:32have you nothing to tell me
27:34I have told you everything
27:36now think just once more lady brackenstall
27:38wouldn't it be better to be frank
27:40I have told you all I know
27:47I am sorry
27:53the bell rope gave us a clue which should have left us in no doubt
28:07how was that
28:08if you were to pull down a bell rope Watson
28:10where would you expect it to break
28:12surely at the top
28:13where it is attached to the wire
28:15not three inches from the top
28:17but the rope was frayed
28:18the rope which found lady brackenstall was frayed
28:20he was cunning enough to do that with his knight
28:22but the other end was not
28:24if you had stood on the mantelpiece as I did
28:26you would have seen that it was cut through
28:29stop
28:30please driver
28:31please driver
28:47Watson
28:52that log has not moved since early this morning
28:54perhaps it snagged on something
29:01or anchored
29:10see that inspector Hopkins gets this on his return will you
29:15chisel her station
29:16where to now Holmes
29:26the shipping office of the southern cross line
29:29yes
29:30yes of course
29:33the southern cross line is the principal passenger carrier between Adelaide and London
29:39ah
29:40I see
29:41in May of that year
29:55only one of us reached the home port
29:58our flagship the Rock of Gibraltar
30:00I'll have the passenger list sent up
30:11how on earth did Mr. Holmes know that?
30:20ah here we are
30:22Miss Mary Fraser of Adelaide
30:24first class
30:25accompanied by her maid
30:27where is the Rock of Gibraltar now?
30:29at noon today
30:31she was steaming west through the Arabian Gulf
30:34Mr. Holmes
30:35heading for Suez
30:37I hope
30:38is it your policy to transfer officers much between ship and ship?
30:46no not at all
30:48it is our policy not to
30:51ah
30:53I have you Mr. Holmes
30:55you are asking the whereabouts of a member of the crew of the Rock
30:58who has been seen very recently
31:00but not on the ship
31:02Mr. Viviani
31:03your perspicacity astonishes me
31:06I assure you
31:07it is only through study of the good doctor's masterly exposition of your work
31:11that I now have any small capacity to reason
31:15really?
31:16you amaze me
31:18Watson
31:19are you taking notes?
31:24also
31:25you will be pleased to hear
31:27that I know exactly who the officer is
31:36ah excellent
31:37Mrs. Burbage
31:39excellent
31:41yes gentlemen
31:43the only officer from that voyage of the Rock
31:45who is not aboard her now
31:46is Jack Crocker
31:48a magnificent chap
31:50am I not correct
31:51Mrs. Burbage?
31:58ha ha
31:59Crocker has the defect
32:00delightful fellow
32:01handsome as a prince
32:03the crew worship him
32:06and we've promoted him
32:07captain
32:08of our new vessel the Bass Rock
32:09not he for me please
32:11which is just fitting out
32:14he's the youngest captain we'll have
32:16but
32:17he'll be the best
32:19not an officer in the fleet to touch him
32:25he is
32:26hot-headed
32:27and excitable
32:29but
32:30loyal
32:31honest
32:32and
32:33kind-hearted
32:35sometimes
32:36in this life
32:37you meet people
32:38who are what you might call
32:40large-souled
32:43who are a privilege to know
32:46Crocker is one of those
32:58once or twice
32:59once or twice
33:00in my career
33:02I feel I've done more real harm
33:04by my discovery of the criminal
33:05than ever he had done
33:06by his crime
33:11but I've lent caution here
33:14and I'd rather play tricks
33:16with the law
33:17than in my own conscience
33:27Captain Crocker
33:39sit down
33:42I've got your telegram
33:43I've come at the hour you said
33:46I heard you've been down to the office
33:48there's no getting away from you
33:50is there?
33:52speak up man
33:53you can't stand there and play cat and mouse with me
33:55what do you know?
33:57give him a scar Watson
33:58please
34:05bite on that Captain Crocker
34:08and try not to let your nerves run away with you
34:13I should not sit here smoking with you if I thought you were a common criminal
34:22tell me
34:25what did you use?
34:28to secure the silver to the floating log
34:30I guess it was fishing guard from the gun room
34:33but I was not present at its recovery
34:35am I right?
34:37what do you want?
34:38justice
34:42for whom?
34:43no we are not partisan
34:45we just want to see justice done
34:46that is all
34:47very well
34:54was it fishing guard?
34:57no tarbed twine
34:59there's a throwback to my days before the masts as a youngster
35:03even now I always carry a
35:05silver coin a length of twine
35:07and a multi-plex nine
35:08how the devil do you know that?
35:25who are you?
35:29now
35:31give me a true account of everything that happened at the Abbey Grange last night
35:35be frank with me and we may do some good
35:38play tricks with me
35:40and I'll crush you
35:41no chance
35:57well one thing I'll say first I regret nothing I fear nothing and I'd do it all again if I had to be proud of the job damn the man
36:05well that's my side of things only my side
36:09when I think of Mary
36:11sweet Mary Fraser
36:12when I think of getting her into this bloody business
36:15that turns my soul to water
36:23I met her when I was first officer on my last ship
36:34oh
36:52oh I need air Mr Crocker
36:56I've never danced so much in my life
36:59you dance as if you were born to Miss Fraser
37:01neither born nor bred I assure you Mr Crocker
37:05led to it I think by a better dancer than I am
37:09she treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a mare
37:13we were never engaged
37:15I've no complaints
37:19but it was all love on my side
37:22and all good comradeship and friendship on hers
37:26when we parted she was a free woman
37:31but I could never again be a free man
37:37next time I came back from the sea I read of her marriage
37:52it seemed to be the sort of thing she was made for I didn't grieve
37:59felt it to be right
38:07so I never thought to see her again
38:08the last voyage I was promoted and the new boat was not yet launched so I had to wait for a couple of months with my people in Kent
38:18I knew now where she was but stayed away
38:22then I met Teresa Wright one day and she told me all about her about the marriage
38:33about the man's drunken cruelty about everything
38:36do you know this noble baronet burnt her pet dog and threatened as much to her
38:48I told you gentlemen
38:51you nearly drove me mad
38:53I did meet Mary
38:59and I met her again
39:02at last
39:05she would meet me no more
39:10I was then given notice that leave on my voyage within a week
39:13I got a new bridge within a week
39:43You're mad.
40:03How could you come here?
40:07I'm to go away, Mary.
40:09Mary, I've been given a ship.
40:16To go and not to say farewell.
40:20I thought I might never see you again.
40:23You're going away.
40:26I do not relish it.
40:32You'll make a fine, Captain.
40:36You must not let anything spoil such an opportunity.
40:39Mary, I fear for you.
40:48You can do nothing.
40:52Aye, that it is which hurts most, I think.
40:59I believe I should have gone mad these past few weeks.
41:03If Mary?
41:05If it had not been for the thought of you.
41:13My friend.
41:16Aye.
41:19Friend will do, Mary.
41:21It is a measure of my love for you.
41:22It's so strong it will live on crumbs.
41:26Friend will do.
41:27Jack, don't let me say it.
41:29It won't make us any happier.
41:35You know what I feel.
41:39Do I?
41:44You know you do.
41:47Then I shall go a happier man than when I came.
41:50God bless you, sweet Mary Fraser.
41:56That's enough for me.
42:01You must not stay, Jack.
42:02I will be right back.
42:06I will follow you, Jack.
42:14I will go a happier man.
42:16You must not stay.
42:17You must not stay.
42:20I will be right back.
42:22Take this for my sake.
42:52At last, I have you, madam, at your trade.
43:01Here's a key to your damn modesty.
43:05You have a profession, madam, a damn whore, a gutter queen, a filthy jade.
43:16Yes, sir.
43:25Come, sir.
43:26Stand you there, sir, over the body of your bloody harlot!
43:46No, no, no, no!
44:15No, no!
44:18Shh!
44:22She's all right.
44:40Jack?
44:43Oh, Jack!
44:47Thank you now, captain.
44:54Thank you now, captain.
45:01Oh, what happened?
45:03I killed him.
45:10Are you certain?
45:12I know.
45:13I felt it.
45:14Oh!
45:15Oh, dear God!
45:16Oh, what are you going to do?
45:20Listen to your altar reader.
45:21You were marked with a blow that could have killed you.
45:27That shall be your salvation.
45:34Teresa was as cool as ice.
45:35It was her plot as much as mine.
45:36We must make appear the burglars had done the thing.
45:41Teresa kept on repeating our story to her mistress whilst I swarmed up and cut the rope of the bell.
45:48I then lashed her in her chair, frayed out the end of the rope to make it look natural.
45:55The silver, will you know about that?
45:56I do.
45:57And the third glass of port to tie in with the Randalls?
46:00Yes.
46:01And we dropped the candlestick by where Mary fell before the wax would splash, you know.
46:06I never thought the police could have seen through our door.
46:09I told you, sir, this is not all that.
46:11And the third glass of port to tie in with the Randalls?
46:13Yes.
46:14And we dropped the candlestick by where Mary fell before the wax would splash, you know.
46:17the Randall's? yes and we dropped the candlestick by where Mary fell for the
46:22wax would splash you know. I never thought the police could have seen
46:26through our dodge. when I knew that savage fiend was dead and she was free
46:31of him I reckon I'd done the best night's work of my life. I still do even if I
46:34swing for it.
46:37that is the truth. the whole truth sir. oh dear god yes yes you have told me the
47:00truth and if the lady's maid had been less abstemious and had accepted your glass of
47:05port, your ingenuity might have fooled me, as you have certainly fooled the police.
47:15I'll put you onto me. how on earth did you find me? no one could have got after that
47:21bell rope but an acrobat or a sailor. no one but a sailor could have made the
47:26knots with which the cause was fastened to the chair. it was evident that the lady
47:30was shielding someone. to do so under such circumstances meant that she must love.
47:34it was not too wild a leap of the imagination to connect her with an
47:44officer of the ship which brought her to this country.
47:46crocker.
47:50you are expecting a visitor.
47:56I am.
47:58I am.
48:32The tourist, this gentleman knows everything.
48:35There's no hiding from him.
48:37I know.
48:39His telegram brought me here.
48:44What do you intend, Mr. Holmes?
48:47Well, Captain Crocker, this is a very serious matter.
48:51Yet I feel sure that on the basis of the story which you have told us here tonight,
48:56a British court of law will understand that you acted in defense of your own life.
49:02That, however, is for a jury to decide.
49:06Meanwhile, I have so much sympathy for you that if you choose to disappear within the next 24 hours,
49:15I promise no one will hinder you.
49:17Then it'll all come out.
49:22Exactly, it will come out.
49:24What sort of proposal is that?
49:27Mary be left to face the music held as an accomplice.
49:29Maybe no sir he will not do.
49:33Jack, you must go.
49:36I shall not.
49:37Calm yourself, Captain.
49:39I was only testing you.
49:42Watson, this fellow rings true every time.
49:45It is a great responsibility that I take upon myself.
49:50But we will do it in due form of law.
49:53Crocker, you are the prisoner.
49:55Watson.
49:58You are a British jury.
50:00And I never met any man more eminently fitted to represent one.
50:05Now, gentle man.
50:10You have heard the evidence.
50:11Do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?
50:13No, not guilty.
50:14Box popular, I boxed air.
50:15You are acquitted, Captain Crocker.
50:23No.
50:24No, sir, it will not do.
50:26Captain.
50:30What if the police arrest some other poor devil?
50:32What then?
50:33Then I will use all my power.
50:35to persuade them of their mistake.
50:38If they light on you, then that is another matter.
50:41However, I think that is unlikely.
50:42Come back to this lady in a year's time.
50:45And may her future and yours justify us
50:48in the judgment that we have pronounced this night.
50:50Oh, thank you.
50:52Go.
50:54Go.
51:05Madam, I'm intrigued.
51:07You gave such a compelling account of a man's sad addiction to drink
51:12and yet it was not, as we now know, a portrait of your husband.
51:15But it was such a clear description.
51:17I wondered...
51:18My father.
51:19My father.
51:19Ah.
51:21My poor father, Doctor.
51:24He sent me away to England because of it.
51:27His self-management was the reason I did not fear the vice in my husband
51:30because I knew of it before we were married.
51:33How foolish I was.
51:35Thank you, madam.
51:36I felt sure that your story was true to reality.
51:39Good luck to you.
51:40It's almost as though you disapproved of the happiness we have fostered this day.
51:54Oh, no, I approve of that.
51:56Of course I do.
51:59I'm uneasy that you took upon yourself the duties of advocate and judge.
52:05You are too bound by forms, Watson.
52:07Forms are society homes.
52:10Manners maketh man, Holmes.
52:18It's just as well you are unique.
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