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It follows Holmes and Watson to the U.S. capital to recover stolen secret microfilm from a murdered British agent. The fifth installment in the series, it features a topical, original World War II plot.
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00:05:10When I read that you were on route of Washington, Sir Henry, I just couldn't rest until I found you.
00:05:15Now, when can you dine with us?
00:05:17Very kind, Mrs. Jetherson. I'll put you first on my unofficial list.
00:05:20Oh, I have a much better idea. You must let me put you up during your stay.
00:05:23Washington is so crowded. I'll put you in the blue room.
00:05:29Come in.
00:05:31I'll put you in the blue room.
00:05:41Thank you, sir.
00:05:47But if Sir Henry isn't the one, who is?
00:05:50I don't know. But the head received a cable from London tipping him off.
00:05:54It's up to us to find the real British agent before this train reaches Washington.
00:05:57Yeah.
00:05:59Whoever's got the document will be protected there.
00:06:01If Sir Henry isn't carrying it, I've got it.
00:06:07Besides Sir Henry and myself, only one man has come all the way from London.
00:06:12The chap called Grayson. John Grayson.
00:06:14Well, then Grayson's our man.
00:06:16Grayson's carrying the document while Sir Henry's being used as a decoy.
00:06:21It's so old, it's new.
00:06:24When Grayson leaves the club car and goes to get his luggage.
00:06:28That's our cue.
00:06:33We know what to do, Easter.
00:06:34Good.
00:06:36That's Grayson standing at the bar.
00:06:38The little fellow.
00:06:55Excuse me, sir.
00:06:56Don't give it a thought, brother.
00:06:57I'm in politics.
00:06:58I'm used to hard knocks.
00:06:59I'm Henry Babcock, Senator Babcock.
00:07:01How do you do?
00:07:02John Grayson.
00:07:03Sit down, Grayson.
00:07:04Have a glass of grape juice from my home state.
00:07:07Used to know a man named Grayson, mighty fine man.
00:07:10He was murdered.
00:07:12Two grapes, George.
00:07:13On the fire, sir.
00:07:15This book has got me all confused.
00:07:17I do wish you'd set me straight on the international situation.
00:07:20Rather large order, I'm afraid.
00:07:23Oh, you're so right, sir Henry.
00:07:26We must take the broad of you, I always say.
00:07:37Another great juice, Grayson.
00:07:38You can't have too many vitamins, I always say.
00:07:41Thanks, Senator.
00:07:42But if you don't mind, I'll have a whiskey and soda.
00:07:45Why, sure.
00:07:47George, bring them over, will you?
00:07:48Let's get a chair.
00:07:49I was built for comfort.
00:07:52Let's go.
00:08:02Jolly little beggars.
00:08:03What?
00:08:03Kept some myself as a lad.
00:08:05Till mother got a cat.
00:08:07Shh.
00:08:08Don't say the A.D.
00:08:11Oh, sorry.
00:08:18Let me, ma'am.
00:08:20Oh, thank you.
00:08:20You're very kind, I'm sure.
00:08:23Pardon me, sir.
00:08:25Here we are.
00:08:27Porter.
00:08:28Yes, sir.
00:08:29Are we on time?
00:08:30Yes, sir.
00:08:30Be in Washington in 20 minutes.
00:08:37By the way, Grayson, what's your line?
00:08:39Line?
00:08:40Yeah, what business are you in?
00:08:41What's your racket?
00:08:41Oh, I represent a London legal firm.
00:08:44Farlow Nash & Farlow.
00:08:46Farlow?
00:08:46I used to know a man named Farlow.
00:08:49No, no, it was Marlow.
00:08:50Couldn't have been the same fella.
00:08:51No, I suppose not.
00:08:54I've been making a tour of my state, getting the opinions of the home folks.
00:08:58Taking a lot of their ideas back to Washington.
00:09:00I'd like to hear more of your activities, Senator.
00:09:02Give me your address, sir, and I'll have all my speeches mailed to you.
00:09:06You're quite too kind, sir.
00:09:08Sorry I have no card.
00:09:17Oh, Porter.
00:09:18Yes, miss?
00:09:20Permit me.
00:09:26Thank you very much.
00:09:27Not at all.
00:09:32I'll be at this address for the next week or so.
00:09:35I hope.
00:09:37I'll get my papers together.
00:09:39Pleasant meeting, my friend.
00:09:41Better look me up in Washington.
00:09:43I'll just get my bag.
00:09:44Thank you, thank you.
00:09:49Oh, I've forgot to pay George.
00:09:51Excuse me, sir.
00:09:54Well, what's all right?
00:09:55Everybody…
00:09:56Hello, john!
00:09:57Just amount of blackout!
00:09:59Keep your seats!
00:10:01You're welcome!
00:10:02Just amount of blackout!
00:10:04Keep your seats!
00:10:05And mulct!
00:10:08Every person?
00:10:09Mice!
00:10:11Oh, dear. All gone.
00:10:33Peter!
00:10:36Peter!
00:10:37Nancy, darling.
00:10:39I didn't dream you'd be able to meet me.
00:10:41I got leave.
00:10:42Oh, darling, that's wonderful.
00:10:43Just three days.
00:10:44Oh, that's awful.
00:10:45We haven't a second to lose.
00:10:47First thing I did...
00:10:48As I was saying, Sir Henry...
00:10:49Was get this.
00:10:52This thing.
00:10:53Well, I haven't had much experience.
00:10:58Look, the day after tomorrow, your aunt's giving us reception.
00:11:00Until then, you and I are going to be a couple of busy people.
00:11:03Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:11:10Good-bye.
00:11:12Who's your boyfriend?
00:11:14You needn't worry.
00:11:15He just lit a cigarette for me.
00:11:16Good morning, sir.
00:11:44This is the BBC News Bureau broadcasting from London.
00:11:49At this time, we present our regular morning summary of the news.
00:11:54A British subject has disappeared under curious circumstances.
00:11:59John Grayson, senior clerk in the firm of Parlow, Nash & Parlow solicitors, Chancery Lane,
00:12:06has not arrived at his firm's representatives in Washington.
00:12:10Foul play is suspected.
00:12:13Deplorable. Simply deplorable.
00:12:15It's the sort of thing that shakes your faith, my job.
00:12:18I say, Holmes, it shakes your faith in everything.
00:12:21You alarm me, Watson. I've never seen you affected by the news, however startling.
00:12:24Startling, my dear fellow, it's devastating.
00:12:26Seen the scores? The Navy got 428 for six wickets against the Army at Lord's.
00:12:31May I draw your attention to the fact that really momentous things are happening in the world today?
00:12:35I know all about that. I'll get to them later on.
00:12:38Excuse me.
00:12:39Mind my egg, Oldby.
00:12:40Oh, I'm sorry.
00:12:42With your consuming interest in the game, I'm surprised that you've changed your mind
00:12:45about running up to Lord's Cricket Ground this afternoon.
00:12:47Well, can't be helped.
00:12:48I had to put it off.
00:12:50How did you know I changed my mind?
00:12:52Elementia, my dear Watson.
00:12:54Invariably, when you go to a cricket match,
00:12:56you fill your flask with my best whiskey.
00:12:58Just now I noted in passing that the flask was empty.
00:13:01A single whiff informed me that it had been recently filled.
00:13:03Obviously, after filling it,
00:13:05you had poured the contents back into the bottle.
00:13:07Therefore, you had changed your mind about a cricket match.
00:13:10You amaze me, Holmes.
00:13:11You positively amaze me.
00:13:15Come in, Mrs. Hudson.
00:13:18Oh, excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
00:13:19There's a gentleman and he's very insistent.
00:13:21Well, I do declare he followed me right up the stairs.
00:13:24Didn't I ask you to wait?
00:13:26My good woman, you may ask me to wait, but not the British Empire.
00:13:29Mr. Holmes, I must talk to you immediately.
00:13:32How are you, Mr. Irons?
00:13:33That will be all now, thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
00:13:34My good woman, indeed.
00:13:38Irons?
00:13:38I see if you know that name.
00:13:40Don't tell me, my dear Watson,
00:13:41that you don't recognize Mr. Irons at the home office.
00:13:43Oh, yes, of course.
00:13:43I knew it the moment you came in.
00:13:44How are you, Irons?
00:13:45How do you do?
00:13:46Do you see what the Navy did to the Army at Lord's yesterday?
00:13:48All right, Watson, go on with your breakfast.
00:13:49That's sure.
00:13:50428-6 wickets.
00:13:51Mr. Holmes, I'm here on a matter of the utmost secrecy.
00:13:55I assure you, Mr. Irons,
00:13:56that Dr. Watson is the very sole of discretion.
00:13:58Won't you sit down?
00:14:00By the way, Watson,
00:14:01please be so good as to keep tapping on the table with your knife.
00:14:03Tapping on?
00:14:04It will break the wavelengths
00:14:05if by any chance there's a dictograph in the walls.
00:14:07Oh, really?
00:14:11Take it, Red?
00:14:11No, thank you.
00:14:15You can stop now, Watson.
00:14:18Well, Mr. Irons,
00:14:20I take it you've called on me
00:14:21in connection with the kidnapping of John Grayson
00:14:23in America last night.
00:14:26Oh, yes.
00:14:28Yes, exactly.
00:14:31Grayson was carrying a document of a very confidential nature.
00:14:33Indeed.
00:14:34Its contents are of such great international importance
00:14:37that I am not at liberty to reveal them.
00:14:39But if that document falls into the hands of the enemy,
00:14:43I can only say it will be absolutely disastrous
00:14:46for this government and our allies.
00:14:48For that reason,
00:14:50we did not wish to transport it to Washington
00:14:52in the usual way.
00:14:54So, a regular King's messenger,
00:14:56Sir Henry Marchment, was dispatched.
00:14:57Not carrying the document, of course.
00:14:58That's right.
00:14:58Sir Henry was the sort of...
00:14:59Sort of great headings, will we say?
00:15:01Precisely.
00:15:02The document was actually entrusted
00:15:04to a reliable but insignificant man
00:15:07in our secret service.
00:15:09On his arrival in Washington,
00:15:11he was to make himself known to Sir Henry
00:15:13and deliver the document.
00:15:15Now, not even Sir Henry knew
00:15:16that this man, Pettibone,
00:15:17who travelled under the name of John Grayson,
00:15:19was the real messenger.
00:15:21Pettibone?
00:15:22Yes.
00:15:22Alfred Pettibone?
00:15:23Yes.
00:15:23Good man.
00:15:24None better.
00:15:25I've worked with him often.
00:15:28I hope you may be able to work with him again.
00:15:31But he's completely disappeared.
00:15:33He's vanished.
00:15:33Gone.
00:15:33Without leaving a trace.
00:15:35I can see the possibility
00:15:37of serious ramifications in his disappearance.
00:15:39Exactly.
00:15:41So far, we've been able to keep
00:15:43the knowledge of our loss
00:15:44from both the American and British public.
00:15:46Holmes,
00:15:48you must retrieve that document
00:15:49before it can be used against us.
00:15:53Of course, the Washington police
00:15:55have been notified of Grayson's disappearance,
00:15:57but even they don't know
00:15:58that he was carrying the document.
00:16:00Now, that's about all the detail
00:16:02I'm at liberty to give you.
00:16:03Well, if they've got Grayson,
00:16:04that is Pettibone,
00:16:05they must have got the paper.
00:16:06It's not necessarily, Watson.
00:16:08It doesn't follow
00:16:08because they've got the man,
00:16:09they've got the document.
00:16:11What form was this document in?
00:16:13It was typed
00:16:13on two sheets of legal paper.
00:16:15Two sheets?
00:16:16That's too bulky to swallow.
00:16:17And dry, Watson.
00:16:18Fearfully dry.
00:16:19Especially legal papers.
00:16:21Well, whatever shape the document was in,
00:16:23I trust Pettibone to get rid of it
00:16:24before anyone could lay hands on him.
00:16:26The document must be found
00:16:27before it falls into the hands of our enemies.
00:16:29I'm here on behalf of His Majesty's government
00:16:31to urge you to find it.
00:16:32That means going to Washington, of course.
00:16:34With all possible speed,
00:16:35a bomber is waiting for you at Crichton.
00:16:38Goodbye, Dr. Watson.
00:16:39Goodbye, sir.
00:16:39Goodbye, Arons.
00:16:40Goodbye, Holmes.
00:16:41Good luck.
00:16:42Thanks very much.
00:16:43We're relying on you.
00:16:46Well, Watson,
00:16:48we're off to Washington at once.
00:16:49America, I say that's exciting.
00:16:50I've never seen a game of baseball.
00:16:52Let's go and start packing it.
00:16:53First, then.
00:16:54First, I'd like to take a look
00:16:55at the home of Alfred Pettibone.
00:16:58Come on, Watson.
00:17:25Why, Dr. Watson, what a surprise.
00:17:28And Mr. Holmes, won't you come in?
00:17:31I'm frightfully sorry,
00:17:33but you won't find my son in.
00:17:34He's gone to Washington,
00:17:35some business or other.
00:17:37Poor fellow, I'm afraid
00:17:38that he'll never,
00:17:39never get used to the climate over there.
00:17:41Would you mind if we looked over
00:17:42your son's room?
00:17:43Why, of course.
00:17:44It's upstairs.
00:17:45Some friends tell me it's very, very muggy,
00:17:47very sticky.
00:17:48I had a letter from Philip Dugger the other day.
00:17:50He'll find his room in a dreadful pickle,
00:17:51Mr. Holmes.
00:17:52Quite miffed he is,
00:17:53if I as much as put my nose inside,
00:17:55as if I cared anything
00:17:56about his silly old collection.
00:18:08Good sort of Pettibone,
00:18:09seem to curious sort of fellow.
00:18:11Sort of collector of collections.
00:18:14Posted stamps,
00:18:16military buttons,
00:18:19butterfly,
00:18:20no, no, bugs,
00:18:22snapshots.
00:18:25All sorts of rubbish.
00:18:28Yes, I shall write a monograph someday
00:18:31on the noxious habit
00:18:32of accumulating useless trivia.
00:18:40Please be so good
00:18:41as to stop pacing, Motson.
00:18:42You distract me.
00:18:44All right, all right.
00:18:50All right, all right, all right.
00:18:52Unless I'm greatly mistaken,
00:18:53our friend Pettibone did not carry
00:18:55two pages of legal paper
00:18:57when he left this room.
00:18:58I wouldn't be too sure, Holmes.
00:19:00Ash is a deceptive, you know.
00:19:02On the contrary, my dear Watson.
00:19:03A rag used in artificial documents
00:19:06leaves an ash that is unmistakable.
00:19:09Oh, do stop pacing.
00:19:10I'm not pacing.
00:19:12I haven't moved an inch.
00:19:13I'm sorry, old fellow.
00:19:14My error.
00:19:19Must be Mrs. Pettibone.
00:19:21Heavy woman, light on her feet.
00:19:23Doesn't follow.
00:19:24Our friend seems to be
00:19:25quite a camera enthusiast.
00:19:27What's this?
00:19:28Cook F-1-5.
00:19:30That's a very fast lens.
00:19:32F-3-5.
00:19:35Summer.
00:19:37Copying setup.
00:19:39American match folders.
00:19:41That's all right.
00:19:42USA.
00:19:43Now, why would Pettibone want
00:19:45American match folders
00:19:46in his work?
00:19:48And a microscope.
00:19:50Most interesting.
00:19:51Oh, what's this?
00:19:55What, sir?
00:19:57This microscope was last used
00:19:59for examining microfilm.
00:20:01I'm beginning to see the pattern.
00:20:03Stop now.
00:20:04Did you know that the letters
00:20:05of our soldiers overseas
00:20:06are being photographed on microfilm
00:20:07so that one carrier pigeon
00:20:08can carry the equivalent
00:20:09of 18,000 letters?
00:20:11Oh, really?
00:20:12We had a carrier pigeon
00:20:13in the last war.
00:20:14Back in 1915,
00:20:15belonging to the Brigade Signal Corps.
00:20:17Did you?
00:20:17The poor bird kept flying
00:20:18round and round in circles
00:20:20all day long.
00:20:21Found out later on
00:20:22that it was cross-eyed.
00:20:24Tragic thing.
00:20:27Where are you going?
00:20:32Oh, dark room, huh?
00:20:34This is what I was looking for.
00:20:37This projector magnifies tremendously
00:20:39anything placed on the slide.
00:20:41Like this piece of microfilm.
00:20:46You understand?
00:20:47I can't say I do exactly enough.
00:20:49Wait a minute.
00:20:51I'll show you what he's photographed.
00:20:58Oh, it's that match folder.
00:20:59What do you want to photograph that for?
00:21:01Probably to line up his equipment
00:21:03before he photograph the document.
00:21:05We've got it, Watson.
00:21:06Look over it?
00:21:07Yes.
00:21:08Come along.
00:21:10Oh, it's all as clear as Matt can be.
00:21:12Just as I thought.
00:21:14This document has been reduced to microfilm
00:21:16to make its concealment possible.
00:21:18Alfred Pettibone is a most ingenious fellow.
00:21:20A bulky document is obviously
00:21:21difficult to conceal.
00:21:23But two pages of a state paper
00:21:25photographed on microfilm
00:21:26would be reduced to a size
00:21:27no larger than a half-penny stamp.
00:21:29Slitting a match folder
00:21:30with this, uh...
00:21:32with this razor blade...
00:21:38Pettibone placed the now-minute document inside,
00:21:40stuck it together again,
00:21:40and there he had it.
00:21:41An American match folder,
00:21:42rare in London,
00:21:43but completely inconspicuous
00:21:44in the United States.
00:21:45Do you mean to say we're off to America
00:21:47just to look for a match folder?
00:21:48It's a big country.
00:21:50A big country, Watson.
00:21:52And a small match folder.
00:21:53Come along.
00:22:00Did you find what you were looking for, Mr. Holmes?
00:22:03Yes, thank you, Mrs. Pettibone.
00:22:05By the way, you haven't been up on the roof
00:22:06in the last many minutes, have you?
00:22:07Oh, why, no.
00:22:08What made you think that I...
00:22:09Well, we distinctly heard footsteps...
00:22:10Nonsense, Watson.
00:22:11It was the house settling.
00:22:12Gracious, yes.
00:22:13Such popping and groaning.
00:22:14We're quite used to it.
00:22:20Goodbye, Mr. Holmes.
00:22:21Goodbye, Mrs. Pettibone.
00:22:22Goodbye, Dr. Watson.
00:22:23Goodbye.
00:22:24So sorry you, Mr. Alfred.
00:22:25I'll tell him the minute he gets back.
00:22:27Gets back?
00:22:28Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course.
00:22:30Oh, goodbye again, Mrs. Pettibone.
00:22:31In just a minute, Watson.
00:22:44That was no accident, I assure you, Watson.
00:22:46Well, aren't you going to find out who did it?
00:22:48Time's too precious now.
00:22:50But at least I know they've learned of my entry into the case.
00:22:52They?
00:22:52Who are they?
00:22:54The same group that took Alfred Pettibone off the train
00:22:56on his way to Washington.
00:22:57A group that will stop at nothing
00:22:59to get their hands on the document he carried.
00:23:02Their leader is a clever, resourceful criminal
00:23:05who seems to have sources of information from everywhere.
00:23:07Oh, that means a worldwide organization
00:23:09who will stop at nothing, you say.
00:23:11Quite.
00:23:12That's why we must get our bags and ourselves
00:23:14aboard that bomber without delay.
00:23:15We're opposed by an adversary worthy of our best efforts.
00:23:18At present, he has all the advantages.
00:23:21Even that of being only a merciless, nameless shadow.
00:23:25Think of it, Watson.
00:23:27In a few hours, we'll be flying out over the Atlantic.
00:23:36We're flying over New York, sir.
00:23:41New York, eh?
00:23:45Yes, sir.
00:23:46We've been cleared by radio.
00:23:48Non-stop, Washington.
00:23:55What is that book that someone grosses your attention, Watson?
00:23:58A book on the quaint customs and manners of America.
00:24:01We must be halfway across, and I've only got to page 37.
00:24:05For your information, my dear fellow,
00:24:06we are now flying over New York.
00:24:09Flying over New York?
00:24:11Oh, gracious me.
00:24:13It's an important thing.
00:24:40This is the empty car, Mr. Holmes.
00:24:42You're being very helpful, Mr. Lange.
00:24:44Detective Lieutenant Grogan of the Washington Police.
00:24:46How do you do?
00:24:47Welcome to Washington.
00:24:48This is my associate, Dr. Watson.
00:24:49How do you do, sir?
00:24:50How are you?
00:24:50I suppose I should say, how are you, buddy?
00:24:53What's, uh...
00:24:54What's cooking?
00:24:55Oh, come along, Watson.
00:24:56Oh, so does it say.
00:24:56Oh, what's cooking?
00:25:05What's cooking?
00:25:09Grogan had charge of investigating the Grayson case for the Washington Police.
00:25:12Any new developments, Grogan?
00:25:14None, Mr. Holmes.
00:25:15We'll be glad to let you have our complete file,
00:25:17and, of course, we'll cooperate in every way.
00:25:19Thank you, I shall appreciate your help,
00:25:21especially as I'm unfamiliar with your country.
00:25:23Oh, yes, of course.
00:25:24This is your first visit.
00:25:25Oh, there's the Lincoln Memorial.
00:25:47Well, Mr. Holmes, there's the Washington Monument.
00:26:00There's the capital, Mr. Holmes.
00:26:08Magnificent.
00:26:19We're expecting you, Mr. Holmes.
00:26:25I questioned everybody known to have been in that club car.
00:26:28It's a matter of course.
00:26:29Sir Henry Marchmont confirms that Grayson had contact only with the people on this list.
00:26:35Now, he had a drink with Senator Babcock.
00:26:38And he chatted with a Miss Pringle about some mice she had in the cage.
00:26:41And he picked up a book dropped by Mrs. Jellison.
00:26:45Not very much to go on.
00:26:46How many of these people have been attacked already?
00:26:50I've heard about your deductions, Mr. Holmes.
00:26:52Well, Senator Babcock was held up on his way from the station, with nothing taken.
00:26:56And Mrs. Jellison's home was ransacked that night.
00:26:59And she found the book that she carried from the train literally torn to bits.
00:27:02That's right.
00:27:04Miss Pringle?
00:27:05Well, Miss Pringle says someone released the mice from the cage that during the night sometime.
00:27:09And she found the cage torn apart.
00:27:11What happened to the mice, Herrweller?
00:27:13An intriguing line of thought, Watson, but not essential to the case.
00:27:17Mm-hmm.
00:27:18Apparently, Grogan, they're still looking for the document.
00:27:21I'd very much like to have a look at that club car.
00:27:23Well, that'll be easy.
00:27:24I have the car held in a siding in the railroad yards.
00:27:26Good.
00:27:27But we've searched the car thoroughly, Mr. Holmes.
00:27:29We couldn't find a thing.
00:27:31Well...
00:27:36What are you doing?
00:27:37What's this?
00:27:37Mr. Holmes, your trunk.
00:27:39Trunk?
00:27:39I have no trunk.
00:27:40It says right there.
00:27:42To Sherlock Holmes, Hotel Metropole.
00:27:44How is this trunk delivered?
00:27:45An expressman brought it, sir.
00:27:46What's the name of the company?
00:27:48Do you remember the license number?
00:27:49Naturally, I didn't notice that.
00:27:50I just signed for it.
00:27:51All right, thank you.
00:27:52That'll do.
00:27:54Well, this trunk's not locked.
00:28:01Great Scott.
00:28:03Poor chap.
00:28:05You recognize him, Mr. Holmes?
00:28:06Yes.
00:28:07Who was he?
00:28:09The man we're looking for, John Grayson.
00:28:12His real name is Alfred Pettibone.
00:28:14British Secret Service.
00:28:16Why should they send the body here?
00:28:18Obvious to frighten us.
00:28:19But to tell us they know that Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
00:28:22Gentlemen, they knew we were on the case as early as their attempt on our lives in London.
00:28:27They're much too intelligent to believe that a corpse would frighten a trained detective.
00:28:31No, I rather think they intend this as a message.
00:28:35And they wanted to be sure that I'd be here at the Hotel Metropole to receive it.
00:28:39Message?
00:28:39What do you mean?
00:28:40They want us to believe that they found the document.
00:28:43And therefore have no further use for Grayson.
00:28:45If that's true, then we're done for.
00:28:47I'm not so sure that it is true, Watson.
00:28:49If they had the document, why are they wasting time sending me this?
00:28:52No.
00:28:53It's an attempt to throw me off the track.
00:28:56Grogan, you have a police laboratory, of course.
00:28:58Certainly.
00:28:58I'll see what I can find out about the body.
00:29:00Yes, whatever marks it reveals.
00:29:01And the trunk.
00:29:02A microscopic examination.
00:29:04Everything about it.
00:29:05The lining.
00:29:06The blanket in which the body is wrapped.
00:29:07Everything.
00:29:08Let nothing escape.
00:29:09We have the best police laboratories in the world, Mr. Holmes.
00:29:12I beg your pardon, Lieutenant Grogan.
00:29:14You see, I'm so accustomed to working quite alone at my lodgings in Baker Street
00:29:17that I sometimes forget the more modern scientific methods
00:29:20so particularly effective here in America.
00:29:22If there's anything there, they'll find it, Mr. Holmes.
00:29:24While you're doing that, I'll take a look at the club car.
00:29:26Coming, Watson?
00:29:28Here we are, Mr. Holmes.
00:29:29I have the port, as you asked,
00:29:31and the railroad company sent Mr. Moore to unlock for us.
00:29:33Delighted.
00:29:33How do you do?
00:29:34Very good.
00:29:35Let's go in.
00:29:35This way, gentlemen.
00:29:40Well.
00:29:42It looks as if the police have made a thorough search.
00:29:46Whoever did it, it wasn't the police.
00:29:50There have been visitors here since our friend Grogan.
00:29:54My goodness.
00:29:55Look at our car.
00:29:56Talk about a blitz.
00:29:59I say, Holmes.
00:30:00If Grayson hid anything in this car, it certainly isn't here now.
00:30:04Not necessarily, Watson.
00:30:06If you'll help me put this place in some kind of order.
00:30:09Yes, sir, boss.
00:30:12This would go about here, I imagine.
00:30:14That's it, boss.
00:30:14Yes, sir.
00:30:15And, uh, wait a minute.
00:30:18Oh, yeah, that's certainly more like it.
00:30:20Yes, sir.
00:30:21That'll be all.
00:30:23Watson, will you be, uh, Mr. Grayson for the moment?
00:30:25Grayson?
00:30:26Oh, if you want me to, old man.
00:30:28What do you want me to do?
00:30:29You're having a drink at the bar.
00:30:30Oh, drink, that's not a bad idea.
00:30:32Drink at the bar.
00:30:33Uh, bring me a whiskey and soda, will you, Stuart?
00:30:36Stuart?
00:30:37Sorry, Dr. Watson, but the bar's closed.
00:30:39Well, it says the bar's closed.
00:30:42According to Grogan's reconstruction of the scene, let me see, uh...
00:30:47Yes, Grayson pauses at the bar while Senator Babcock moves across and sits down here.
00:30:53Do you mind being Senator Babcock for the moment, Watson?
00:30:55Oh, going up in the world.
00:30:58Sit down, please.
00:31:00Now, uh, Miss Pringle is seated there.
00:31:03Over there, Watson.
00:31:04Hmm?
00:31:09Now, now, I'm Miss Pringle.
00:31:11That's right, the mouse woman.
00:31:13Oh, the mouse woman.
00:31:14Uh, Watson, over here, please.
00:31:16Oh.
00:31:18No, not there, not there.
00:31:19That's Senator Babcock.
00:31:20Oh, pardon me, Senator.
00:31:21Sit down, please.
00:31:24Now, you're Mrs. Jellison.
00:31:26Oh, excuse me, Mr. Holmes.
00:31:27He ain't Mrs. Jellison.
00:31:29He's a young lady.
00:31:31What?
00:31:31Sir Henry Marshmott was sitting right here,
00:31:33and Mrs. Jellison was right here.
00:31:37She's a sort of a big, fat lady.
00:31:39What did Grayson do that attracted your attention so particularly to Mrs. Jellison?
00:31:43The little man, he retrieved her book.
00:31:46And the young lady sitting here,
00:31:48didn't she converse with the little man?
00:31:50No, sir.
00:31:52That young lady didn't have no converse with no one.
00:31:55When the little man lit her cigarette,
00:31:56she ran back and said,
00:31:58thank you very much.
00:31:59But you have matches here for your customers.
00:32:01Oh, yes, she called me,
00:32:02and I saw a cigarette
00:32:03and I knew she wanted a match.
00:32:04And Grayson used one of his own matches?
00:32:06Dog had a...
00:32:07Oh, yes, he took a folder from his coat pocket.
00:32:10Did he put the match folder back in his pocket
00:32:12or did he give it to the young lady?
00:32:13I don't remember.
00:32:14I was fairly busy.
00:32:15Try to remember.
00:32:16Well, if I should try it at a doomsday,
00:32:18I couldn't write and say
00:32:18just what happened to that match folder.
00:32:20Oh, yes.
00:32:21I remember just one important thing.
00:32:24What?
00:32:24When the little man lit her cigarette,
00:32:26he said something very peculiar.
00:32:28What was it?
00:32:29He said,
00:32:31permit me.
00:32:33Oh.
00:32:35Well,
00:32:37gentlemen, I'm extremely grateful to all of you.
00:32:40That's all we can do for the present, I think.
00:32:42Since the place was torn to bits
00:32:45after the murder of Grayson
00:32:46and the attacks on Senator Babcock,
00:32:48Mrs. Jellison and Miss Pringle,
00:32:50I'm convinced that the document left the club car
00:32:52long before these events.
00:32:53But how?
00:32:54By whom?
00:32:56And who was the mysterious young lady
00:32:58whose cigarette Grayson lighted?
00:33:01Did anyone meet the young lady?
00:33:03He sure did.
00:33:04He?
00:33:04Who was he?
00:33:05Tall, handsome,
00:33:06in a uniform.
00:33:08I see.
00:33:08I suppose you wouldn't remember
00:33:09what kind of a uniform.
00:33:10I certainly would.
00:33:11Lieutenant.
00:33:12Navy flyer.
00:33:14My boy's in the army.
00:33:15He's going to be a flyer, too.
00:33:16Splendid.
00:33:17Did you happen to hear them say anything?
00:33:19Oh, I didn't happen.
00:33:19I just couldn't help hearing it.
00:33:21Well, what did they say?
00:33:23Oh, yes.
00:33:23They said he had three days leave.
00:33:25They had to move fast
00:33:26before the big part of her aunt was giving them.
00:33:28Then, too,
00:33:29he put a ring on her finger
00:33:30and they both looked mighty happy.
00:33:32Just the way you're looking right now.
00:33:35Ken?
00:33:36The way I'm looking myself.
00:33:37Come on, Watson.
00:33:41That's the girl.
00:33:42I told the head.
00:33:43I could swear to it.
00:33:44Is the address there?
00:33:46All there.
00:33:47Right in our laps.
00:33:48And also right in the lap of Sherlock Holmes.
00:33:50That's the least of our worries.
00:33:51The head could handle ten like Holmes.
00:33:53I hope so.
00:33:55But don't underrate that, Englishman.
00:33:57I have several friends who did.
00:33:58They now grace some of the best prisons in England.
00:34:11Yes, sir?
00:34:12I talked to the catering company.
00:34:13It's quite all right.
00:34:14They could hardly refuse me.
00:34:16It's the Acton Company.
00:34:18The Acton Catering Company.
00:34:20Yes, sir.
00:34:22I know what to do.
00:34:29Hop over there.
00:34:30You're going to work for the catering company.
00:34:32Right.
00:34:32When you get in the house, find out all you can.
00:34:34Katie.
00:34:34Yes?
00:34:34You ought to go as a guest.
00:34:35Will it be safe?
00:34:36It'll have to be.
00:34:37I'll try and get in the girls' room.
00:34:38Unless you hear from me, carry on as we planned.
00:34:45I'll try and get in the house.
00:34:46I'll try and get in the house.
00:34:46I'll try and get in the house.
00:34:46I'll try and get in the house.
00:34:46It's a very capable fellow.
00:34:49Oh, sports pated.
00:34:50Hmm?
00:34:54These Brooklyn fellows seem to be arguing with the umpire.
00:34:57It's the only thing.
00:34:59What are you eating, Watson?
00:35:03Gum?
00:35:04Oh.
00:35:05Put it away.
00:35:07Hmm?
00:35:16I've never seen you take an interest in the society columns before.
00:35:20It's a concern I'll drop at once, I assure you, Watson.
00:35:22Hmm?
00:35:23You find what you're looking for?
00:35:25Oh.
00:35:26How do you know this is a girl?
00:35:28It would be an extraordinary coincidence, wouldn't it,
00:35:30if more than one naval lieutenant in Washington
00:35:32were to become engaged in the last few days to a girl from New York
00:35:34whose aunt was giving them a reception?
00:35:36Fine, Joe, you must be right.
00:35:38She's a pretty girl.
00:35:40Yes.
00:35:42He's walking around with dynamite in her handbag.
00:36:06Yes, sir.
00:36:23Come over now.
00:36:23You must be having fun.
00:36:29That's how I call Peartal.
00:36:30But me, what is your buddy?
00:36:42Who is it?
00:36:45Who is it?
00:36:45Me, Pete.
00:36:46You can't come up here.
00:36:49I did, though.
00:36:53One gets you two.
00:36:54Hmm.
00:36:58Ah, that party's gonna be awfully dull after this.
00:37:01Let's not go.
00:37:03Let's go away and get married.
00:37:04You've only got one more day.
00:37:06That's an idea.
00:37:08Ah, we can't do that to Andy.
00:37:10I'll tell you.
00:37:11Let's take a look at the new apartment.
00:37:13It was awful sweet of Andy to give us the whole floor of this house for our apartment.
00:37:17The least we can do is let her have the fun of showing it to us.
00:37:21Okay.
00:37:22Let's face the party.
00:37:23I'll get my bag.
00:37:32Oh, no you don't.
00:37:34That's the way I got them.
00:38:01Oh, how do you do?
00:38:03So glad you could come.
00:38:04This is Mrs.
00:38:05Oh dear, what is your name?
00:38:07Ruxton.
00:38:07Of course I know it as well as my own.
00:38:09And this is Mrs. Vale.
00:38:10How do you do?
00:38:12Isn't it?
00:38:13Quite.
00:38:13Pete.
00:38:14Oh, of course.
00:38:18They love it.
00:38:19Not yet.
00:38:22It must be Lieutenant Merriam with Miss Partridge over there.
00:38:25Certainly glad to hear the news, Pete.
00:38:27Congratulations.
00:38:28Thank you, Major.
00:38:29You're a lucky guy, Pete.
00:38:31I'll see you later.
00:38:32Third floor, first door.
00:38:34Right.
00:38:36I'll wait until you bring him up.
00:38:38Thank you, sir.
00:38:40A toast to the happy couple.
00:38:42A toast.
00:38:45Very good.
00:38:47Happy landings.
00:38:48May I one of those, sir?
00:38:49Me too.
00:38:53Lieutenant Merriam.
00:38:54Telephone, sir.
00:38:55Navy department calling.
00:38:57Oh, yes.
00:38:57Be right back.
00:38:58Lead on, McDuff.
00:38:59This way, sir.
00:39:02Matches.
00:39:03Match me, darling.
00:39:04Pick them up.
00:39:11Oh, Pete, hold it.
00:39:13You can keep them, Major.
00:39:14Oh, thank you.
00:39:23Not really, thank you.
00:39:24No, thank you.
00:39:29Why up here?
00:39:29They said it was private.
00:39:31There's a phone in here, sir.
00:39:32Hey, it's my new apartment.
00:39:34Miss Parcher didn't want me to see it till after it was finished.
00:39:40Here you are, sir.
00:39:41Quite a smell of pig, sir.
00:39:46In here, sir.
00:39:58Okay, now.
00:40:03We should get some action, sir Henry, with Sherlock Holmes in Washington.
00:40:06Yes.
00:40:07I don't mind telling you I'd give anything to get my hands on that document.
00:40:12Yes, I know.
00:40:13Or at least know that it's in safe hands.
00:40:22Engage today and marry tomorrow.
00:40:25No, thanks.
00:40:29Have you a match?
00:40:30Miss Partridge?
00:40:31Yes.
00:40:32Lieutenant Merriam asked if you would come to the new apartment.
00:40:34But he's not supposed to see it yet.
00:40:36The new apartment?
00:40:37He must think you're already married.
00:40:39Yes, I don't dare let that man out of my sight.
00:40:41Excuse me, will you please?
00:40:42Surely.
00:40:45Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:40:50Oh, may I?
00:40:58This way, please.
00:41:01Oh, I know the way.
00:41:15Peter!
00:41:17Where are you?
00:41:41Well, here we are, Grogan.
00:41:42Good connections.
00:41:43We'd better go into the party.
00:41:45I think you'd better go in first, Mr. Holmes. I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
00:41:47I think you do all right.
00:41:55The only possible explanation.
00:41:57Mrs. Partridge, forgive my intruding, but is your niece the kind of girl who would just disappear in this manner
00:42:02of her own free will?
00:42:03Well, ordinarily, of course not.
00:42:05But the girl's in love.
00:42:06In love?
00:42:07Well, of course, if they're in love, that's...
00:42:10Even so, they'd naturally tell you of their destination.
00:42:13Really?
00:42:14I've no idea.
00:42:15Oh, but they'll be back here again tomorrow.
00:42:17You see, I've prepared an apartment for them.
00:42:19An entire floor in this house.
00:42:22By the by, Mrs. Partridge, I gather the rug you ordered for the apartment was not entirely satisfactory.
00:42:27Oh, those tiresome workmen.
00:42:29I told them not to come in here this afternoon, but they did.
00:42:31And walked out with a rug which they no doubt informed you had been sent by mistake and would be
00:42:35replaced tomorrow.
00:42:36Yes, but however did you know that?
00:42:38Quick, show me the apartment.
00:42:42Yes, there were two rugs there.
00:42:44One for the living room and one for the dining room.
00:42:46Want your workmen wear rubber-sold shoes, do they not?
00:42:48Oh, but yes, always.
00:42:49Their company requires them to.
00:42:51Nevertheless, there have been leather heels on this floor.
00:42:53And a woman's heels.
00:42:54Very recently, I should say.
00:42:56Not yours, Mrs. Partridge.
00:42:57But recently enough, so that no dust has had time to settle in the imprints.
00:43:02What?
00:43:02Sail over there, please.
00:43:09There seems to have been a struggle over there.
00:43:11A woman's footprints disappear and a man's leather heels come round.
00:43:17And stop there.
00:43:19Either she was carried out on the carpet or else...
00:43:22Where does that door lead to?
00:43:23Why, it's a dressing room.
00:43:28Perhaps an ordinary skeleton key.
00:43:29Try it.
00:43:33Watson?
00:43:33This is a matter for you, I'm afraid.
00:43:34Excuse me.
00:43:35Who is he?
00:43:36Is it Miriam?
00:43:37Peter!
00:43:38Take it easy, Mrs. Partridge.
00:43:39Let the doctor examine him.
00:43:41How is he, Watson?
00:43:42A nasty crack of the head.
00:43:44Nothing serious, thank heavens.
00:43:46Is there somewhere where you can lie down?
00:43:47Of course.
00:43:48Poor Peter.
00:43:49Take him to my room.
00:43:50Yes, sir.
00:43:51Put your arm around my neck.
00:43:52That's the danger.
00:43:53Mr. Holmes, you must find Nancy.
00:43:56Quite.
00:43:57Poor Peter.
00:44:01That girl disappeared right from under our noses.
00:44:04It's unbelievable.
00:44:06I'd better try to trace that truck.
00:44:07That won't lead us anywhere.
00:44:08Our antagonist is too clever for that.
00:44:11But the girl must be found immediately.
00:44:13You're sure the police chemists found nothing definite in their examination of the trunk?
00:44:17Not one thing pertinent to the case.
00:44:19What about Grayson's body?
00:44:20And the blanket it was wrapped in?
00:44:22Nothing.
00:44:23Every object connected with this case has some kind of story to tell.
00:44:27Do you think they'd mind if...
00:44:30The laboratory is completely at your disposal, Mr. Holmes.
00:44:32Dr. Watson and I will go there at once.
00:44:34The usual findings on the trunk, Mr. Holmes.
00:44:37Bought in Washington.
00:44:38Been banged about a good deal.
00:44:40All labels removed.
00:44:41And the body?
00:44:42No marks of any kind.
00:44:44Very well.
00:44:44If you need me, call.
00:44:51Watson, please.
00:44:53Just tidying up a bit.
00:44:55This blanket is beginning to tell me many things.
00:44:57Really?
00:44:57Don't say, sir.
00:44:59It only remains to translate them properly.
00:45:02Yes.
00:45:03And just as I thought.
00:45:05This blanket has had a most varied history.
00:45:07It's been on many a sea voyage.
00:45:08The latest not six months ago.
00:45:12Since then it has been used to wrap a multiplicity of objects.
00:45:16Carvings of teak wood.
00:45:18Candle snuffers made of pewter.
00:45:20And...
00:45:28And furniture.
00:45:29Furniture?
00:45:30Yes.
00:45:32Teak wood leaves an unmistakable stain.
00:45:34Pewter rubs off easily.
00:45:35And there are evidences of wax drippings.
00:45:38But what particularly concerns us, Watson, is the furniture.
00:45:42There's likely a chair.
00:45:44Louis XV.
00:45:46In yellow and maroon satin.
00:45:48What do all these things suggest to you, Watson?
00:45:50What do I say?
00:45:51An aunt of mine, Matilda, lives in Brighton.
00:45:54Very old fashioned.
00:45:55Very aged.
00:45:56Exactly.
00:45:57Antiques.
00:45:59We have another ground to cover before Nightfall.
00:46:03Ground?
00:46:04What ground?
00:46:05Necessary.
00:46:07All the antique shops in Washington.
00:46:09A-A-N-T-I...
00:46:10Here we are.
00:46:11Antiques.
00:46:11Antiques?
00:46:12What connection is a Louis XV chair with his partridge girl?
00:46:17This slipper of wood came from a Louis XV chair that had once been wrapped in that blanket.
00:46:22From other evidences the blanket supplies, I deduce that it's been used in an antique shop.
00:46:26And whoever controls those antiques murdered Grayson and kidnapped the girl.
00:46:30What?
00:46:31That's it, Watson.
00:46:35Come along.
00:46:36Before the girl's kidnapper becomes her murderer.
00:47:03I'm fed up with all this shopping for antiques.
00:47:06You must keep searching, Watson.
00:47:07The girl's in grave danger.
00:47:09Hello.
00:47:10Hello.
00:47:11Oh, sir.
00:47:12What is it, Holmes?
00:47:13This isn't the place it seems to be.
00:47:15Look, Watson.
00:47:17Those cabinets.
00:47:18Obviously imitation, and yet they're priced as if they were authentic.
00:47:21Bow beware and all that, eh, Holmes?
00:47:23Watson.
00:47:24I feel certain this is it.
00:47:26This is my purse.
00:47:28May I?
00:47:30What kind of a joke is this?
00:47:33Oh, don't bother to answer.
00:47:34You can tell the police all about it.
00:47:35And you shall, I promise you.
00:47:37But there are no police here, haven't you noticed?
00:47:39We are quite alone.
00:47:41I sent for you to ask you a few questions.
00:47:44You always sent a rug for your guests.
00:47:46It was a very nice rug, Miss Partridge.
00:47:48It's not my idea of a method of transportation.
00:47:51No, I'm sorry about that, but I'm afraid it was unavoidable.
00:47:54But why?
00:47:55You've no right to bring me here like this.
00:47:57I've always found it wise to take what rights I can get.
00:48:01Miss Partridge, you have a document which I must have.
00:48:05Document?
00:48:05I have no document.
00:48:06It won't do you any good to deny it.
00:48:08But I do deny it.
00:48:10I don't know what you're talking about.
00:48:11You'll remain a prisoner until you produce it.
00:48:13How can I produce it when I haven't got it?
00:48:16But you have.
00:48:18It was observed that on the train you had contact with a little British agent named Grayson.
00:48:23He gave you something.
00:48:24Where is it?
00:48:25But I hardly even noticed the man.
00:48:27I wouldn't even have remembered him if I hadn't seen his picture in the paper.
00:48:31He disappeared or something.
00:48:33He is dead, Miss Partridge.
00:48:36Oh.
00:48:39Now will you tell me what I want to know?
00:48:41But I can't.
00:48:43You won't?
00:48:44I can't, I tell you.
00:48:46Let me out of here.
00:48:47He gave me nothing.
00:48:49That's strange, because I know he spoke to you.
00:48:53There's something very curious about that door up there.
00:48:56To open it, you'd have to know the combination.
00:48:59But I tell you, I spoke to new one on that train.
00:49:02Now didn't the little man try to be attentive to you?
00:49:04Oh, he may have offered the usual courtesies.
00:49:07I don't even remember.
00:49:08I see.
00:49:11I'm sorry.
00:49:13Why won't you smoke one of the years?
00:49:18And you're quite sure he said nothing at all to you?
00:49:21Of course I'm sure.
00:49:24Permit me.
00:49:35And you're certain that nothing passed between you?
00:49:39I'm certain.
00:49:44Mr. Howe, please.
00:49:49I must ask you to trust me with your bag a little longer.
00:49:52I have an eccentric interest in the linings of purses.
00:49:55It's a foible.
00:50:00Ah, you know Mr. Howe, I believe.
00:50:03Mr. Howe is a gentleman of unusual accomplishments.
00:50:06Under his influence, I've known people talk fluently who never talked before.
00:50:12But I don't know anything, I tell you. Nothing.
00:50:15Nothing, I swear!
00:50:17I don't know anything!
00:50:23You stay out here.
00:50:24I'll go inside.
00:50:25I'll assume the character of an eccentric art collector.
00:50:28As soon as I'm convinced that this is the place we're looking for,
00:50:31I'll signal to you.
00:50:32And you get Grogan and bring him here on a run.
00:50:34But don't lose any time.
00:50:35An extra second may cost a life.
00:50:46No, madam, I don't know who she is.
00:50:48But notice the modeling.
00:50:50It has good symmetry, good lines.
00:50:52Oh, I'll be right with you, sir.
00:50:54Well, thank you. I'll just take a look around.
00:51:04What an extraordinary cabinet.
00:51:06Spanish.
00:51:07Mauritians ones.
00:51:08Imitation, of course.
00:51:09It is not an imitation, it's authentic.
00:51:10Oh, come now, my dear man.
00:51:13Ah.
00:51:14May I see some of these ceramics?
00:51:15Those aren't for sale.
00:51:17They're Ming vases mostly and they haven't been marked yet.
00:51:19Well, that's really a very little consequence.
00:51:22You see, if they're genuine,
00:51:25I can tell to within a shilling what the international price might be.
00:51:28If you please, sir, there are other customers.
00:51:31Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course.
00:51:32Well, I'll just look around.
00:51:34Ah.
00:51:34What a very interesting collection of pewter.
00:51:51Thank you, sir.
00:52:17That'll be $500. Now, would you just give me the address where you want it sent?
00:52:21Yes, Mrs. J. Wellington, Jr. DuPont Circle.
00:52:56Good night, Tina.
00:52:58Good night. I'll have it sent out in the morning.
00:53:04Oh dear, oh dear. I'm most terribly sorry.
00:53:09You've broken one of our best pieces, sir. Ming dynasty.
00:53:13Tang dynasty. Not Ming. Definitely not Ming.
00:53:16It is my business to know, sir. The pottery is Ming and worth $2,300. As we're closing for the
00:53:22evening, I must ask you to settle at once.
00:53:23Oh, nonsense, my good man. Tang pottery is worth $600 at best.
00:53:28Just a moment, please. Yes, of course.
00:53:33Hello? What's going on up there?
00:53:36A customer dropped a valuable piece of pottery. I'll finish with him immediately.
00:53:43How can you say that it's Ming, $2,300 fiddlesticks? You asked $2,300 for something that's worth no more
00:53:48than $600. I demand to see the proprietor.
00:53:50Now, wait a minute. There are bureaus for the protection of innocent customers.
00:53:53Show me to the owner of this establishment or I'll turn the entire affair over to my legal representative. Ming,
00:53:58indeed.
00:53:58Just a minute. What chikenery, what skullduggery. I mean to put an end to it this very night. Ming for
00:54:03Tang, indeed. And I won't be put off. Call the proprietor immediately.
00:54:09Very well. Just a minute.
00:54:14Yes?
00:54:15This man's mad. An eccentric collector. I can't get rid of him. Insists on seeing you in person.
00:54:20All right. Stall him for half a minute, then send him into my office. I'll get rid of him, and
00:54:24quickly.
00:54:28Now, how? No screams till the customer's gone.
00:54:55You get downstairs.
00:54:56Yes, sir.
00:54:58No, sir.
00:55:25I'm most frightfully sorry about the vows, but really, sir, your clerk is guilty of attempting the most obvious fraud.
00:55:35You see, he tried to convince me that I'd broken a Ming pottery, when anyone could see that it belonged
00:55:40to the Tang era.
00:55:42Its value is no more than $600.
00:55:44All right, you pay me the $600. We'll call the matter settled.
00:55:47Oh. Oh, thank you very much, sir. Thank you. I'll send you my cheque in the morning.
00:55:52I, er... I see you know the London value of these pieces.
00:55:56It's my business.
00:55:58Exactly. Yes, exactly.
00:56:00You know, I think you're just the man to help me find some furniture I'm anxious to get.
00:56:04I'm most frightfully bored with the usual conglomeration of pieces that we can pick up on the other side.
00:56:11What do you really want, Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
00:56:16Herr Heinrich Henkel, or as you now call yourself, Mr. Richard Stanley,
00:56:21in 1914, secret agent of the German Kaiser.
00:56:24Since then, head of the most insidious international spy ring that ever existed.
00:56:28You're wrong. A case of mistaken identity.
00:56:33I've been a respected member of this community for a great many years.
00:56:36I deal in antiques because of their rarity and beauty.
00:56:39Merely a device to cover up your real business of transporting secret information to the enemies of this country.
00:56:45Very interesting, but just a figment of your imagination.
00:56:48I'm a very busy man, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
00:56:51Where is Nancy Partridge?
00:56:52You're not looking for that girl. You're looking for a certain document.
00:56:56Oh, dear me, no. The document's perfectly safe.
00:57:00You see, the man who has it doesn't know he has it.
00:57:06That's a very pretty tale, but quite untrue.
00:57:08The only man who had any contact with Grayson on the train was Senator Babcock.
00:57:12The Senator doesn't have the document.
00:57:15We took the trouble to find out.
00:57:25Permit me.
00:57:30Perhaps you've been misled by the common notion regarding the shape and bulk of state papers.
00:57:35They might easily have been reduced to a convenient size, you know.
00:57:40Say, a document no larger than a postage stamp.
00:57:44Postage stamp, huh?
00:57:46That's a very interesting theory, but not supported by the facts.
00:57:48I'm quite beside the point.
00:57:50Where's the girl?
00:57:51She's not here, of course, but you're quite at liberty to look round if you care to.
00:57:55Thank you. I shall do so.
00:58:15Interesting piece.
00:58:17Spanish, isn't it?
00:58:19Moorish.
00:58:20Oh, my error.
00:58:21It's an amazing specimen.
00:58:23I assure you you won't find what you're looking for there.
00:58:26You stimulate my curiosity.
00:58:33This might be interesting.
00:58:50The Moors were an incredibly inventive people, weren't they?
00:58:53Yes, it was in shocking condition when I got hold of it.
00:58:56But I had it restored.
00:58:58It's very lively now, but old-fashioned.
00:59:03If that's the best you can do, Mr. Stanley, I think I may safely examine the rest of the room.
00:59:07Help yourself.
00:59:10Make your hand away from that drawer.
00:59:14Mr. Holmes, you didn't think I was going to draw a weapon.
00:59:18I never touch the things.
00:59:22How odd to find you squeamish.
00:59:34That connects only with the shop.
00:59:36You're very quick to say so.
00:59:38And yet a short while ago, I saw two other men in this room.
00:59:41And they didn't go back into the shop.
00:59:44So there must be another exit.
00:59:45And perhaps another room.
00:59:49Yes, Mr. Stanley, what is it?
00:59:52Bring Miss Partridge here at once.
00:59:55Excellent, Holmes.
00:59:57I see your voice hasn't lost its flexibility.
01:00:00And my hand hasn't lost its cunning either.
01:00:07When they come here, tell them to leave the girl with you and to clear out.
01:00:11You think I'll do that?
01:00:13Yes, you will.
01:00:14You're playing with lives now, Stanley.
01:00:16Not just the girls.
01:00:17Thousands.
01:00:18Millions, perhaps.
01:00:20And we don't intend to let one man have that much power.
01:00:23Not now.
01:00:24Not at any time in the future.
01:00:29I'd prefer you alive to face the retribution that's coming to you.
01:00:33But if I have to do it.
01:00:39All right, Mr. Holmes.
01:00:41I suppose we must all meet our mates sooner or later.
01:00:55That's enough, boys.
01:00:56Take your hands off him.
01:00:59Well, Mr. Holmes.
01:01:06Tell the clerk to go home and see the front door's locked.
01:01:10Well, Mr. Stanley.
01:01:12It's the last trick that counts, eh, Holmes?
01:01:18Mr. Holmes.
01:01:20I'll remind you of that later.
01:01:28Miss Partridge, allow me to present Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the world famous detective.
01:01:32He's come to rescue you.
01:01:34I don't believe you.
01:01:38Oddly enough, he's telling the truth.
01:01:40My name is Sherlock Holmes and I did come here to help you.
01:01:42But I seem rather to have missed it.
01:01:45I'm sorry.
01:01:46I'm afraid you've had a bad time.
01:01:48Well, that doesn't matter.
01:01:49It's Peter.
01:01:49They say they'll do something to him if I don't tell them.
01:01:52They say they've got him.
01:01:53Cheer up.
01:01:54He's quite safe.
01:01:55A tough customer like Peter isn't disabled very long by a clout on the head.
01:01:59He's all right.
01:02:01All okay, Mr. Stanley.
01:02:02Look here, Stanley.
01:02:03This girl knows nothing.
01:02:04I promise she won't even identify you.
01:02:06Well, unfortunately, she knows enough to hang us.
01:02:09So do you.
01:02:10I'm surprised that you're walking into a trap like this.
01:02:12But you see the position I'm in and what has to be done.
01:02:16Katie, how?
01:02:34It will give me great pleasure to attend to Mr. Holmes personally.
01:02:39He's up and the girl's yours.
01:02:48It's the police.
01:02:49Open up, Mr. Police.
01:03:02won't you?
01:03:03Don't go...
01:03:03You all right?
01:03:08Holmes, where are they?
01:03:12Ah!
01:03:14Ah!
01:03:28Thank heavens, you're safe.
01:03:39Quick, Stannis escaped.
01:03:42All right, boys, bring them along.
01:03:44Come on, Lieutenant.
01:03:48Senate office building, double quick.
01:04:01Come in.
01:04:06I'm glad you're safe, Senator.
01:04:08Safe? No man is safe.
01:04:10Look at the way my constituents snipe at me.
01:04:20I don't recall seeing your face before, stranger.
01:04:22I don't think we've met.
01:04:23Well, that explains it.
01:04:24My name is Sherlock Holmes.
01:04:25Glad to know you, Holmes. What's on your mind?
01:04:27Senator Babcock, I'm here to inform you of great peril to your life.
01:04:30Richard Stanley, a dangerous criminal, is now on his way here.
01:04:32Richard Stanley? Why, he's the most respectable citizen of Washington, has been for years.
01:04:36What could Stanley possibly want from me?
01:04:38A document.
01:04:39From under the stamps of a letter given to you by a chap named Grayson.
01:04:42Grayson? Grayson?
01:04:44You used to know a man, didn't you?
01:04:46Grayson!
01:04:47Why, that's the fellow disappeared.
01:04:49Say, I got that envelope right here in my wallet.
01:04:53Now, what does Stanley think could be under these stamps?
01:04:56A secret document of grave import.
01:04:59Reduced to microfilm and concealed under these very stamps.
01:05:02Thank you very much, Mr. Holmes.
01:05:05That's just what I wanted to know.
01:05:08I might have missed this microfilm if you hadn't led me to it.
01:05:12I seem to have underestimated your capabilities, Mr. Stanley.
01:05:14Yes, Mr. Holmes.
01:05:15Your famous powers of deduction and observation made very well in Limehouse or Soho.
01:05:20But here in America, I believe you're out of your depth.
01:05:23If so, the verdict of history will be severe indeed.
01:05:26You're nervous, Sherlock Holmes.
01:05:28I must confess to a marked irritation.
01:05:30Do you mind if I smoke?
01:05:41The whole course of the world might be changed by your acquisition of the microfilm.
01:05:46Oh, it will be, and for the better.
01:05:48If you match.
01:05:50You can keep those.
01:05:53And now, if you'll pardon me, Mr. Holmes.
01:05:59Why don't you do something, Holmes, if that thing's so wildfire and important?
01:06:02The English senator.
01:06:03Cricket old boy, always cool in the crisis.
01:06:05The last trick, eh, Holmes?
01:06:07Yes, the last trick.
01:06:14Say, you're a smart fellow, Holmes.
01:06:20Here's the microfilm, Holmes.
01:06:22Thank you, Senator.
01:06:29I see, Holmes!
01:06:45This is the microfilm with the document on it.
01:06:47It'll be in the proper hands within the hour.
01:06:50As I told you, Mr. Stanley, the man who had it didn't know he had it.
01:06:55Come on, let's go.
01:06:59Well, it'll be nice to get home to Baker Street, eh, Holmes?
01:07:02Yes.
01:07:04But this is a great country, Watson.
01:07:06It certainly is, my dear fellow.
01:07:09Look, up there ahead.
01:07:11The capital.
01:07:12The very heart of this democracy.
01:07:15Democracy.
01:07:16The only hope for the future, eh, Holmes?
01:07:20It's not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future.
01:07:24But in the days to come,
01:07:26the British and American people will, for their own safety and for the good of all,
01:07:31walk together in majesty and justice and in peace.
01:07:36That's magnificent.
01:07:38I quite agree with you.
01:07:40Not with me.
01:07:41With Mr. Winston Churchill.
01:07:43I was quoting from the speech he made not so long ago.
01:07:46In that very building.
01:08:13It's a total of 50 people.
01:08:14It was quite every day.
01:08:15It was a big name.
01:08:17It's half the camp.
01:08:17It's a total of 48 people.
01:08:18It's a genre of essays.
01:08:19It's a pretty good story.
01:08:19It's a pretty good story.
01:08:20It's a way you can do it.
01:08:22What's going on?
01:08:23It's a pretty bad story.
01:08:23It's a fantasy music.
01:08:23It's a fantasy music.
01:08:25It's a fantasy music.
01:08:25You
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