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(lilting orchestral music)

- Albert!

That's Galahad, Colin Eddington's horse!

- [Albert] Lord Eddington's son?

- Yes.

I thought he was away at school.

Come on Beauty, let's find Colin.

Colin!

There he is!

Come on Beauty!

Whoa.

Didn't you hear us call?

- Yes.

- Then why didn't you answer?

- I wanted to be alone.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

It's just that I wasn't expecting you

back from school for another month.

- I've left school.

- Well, at least you'll have more time to ride.

- Not for long.

Galahad is going to be sold.

- But Colin, why?

- Not only him, but all of them, the whole stable.

- What?

- I thought everybody knew,

my father has lost all his money.

He's having to sell up.

The estate, the house.

- Eddington Hall?

- The auction's this afternoon.

Unless my father can raise the money by two o'clock,

there's no hope.

(dramatic orchestral music)

(sweeping orchestral music)

(calm orchestral music)

- If only there was something we could do.

- My father's been trying so hard, he's collapsed.

- If only that old story was true.

If only there were some treasure hidden in the house.

Well, at least we could look for it.

- Treasure?

Well, what old story?

- My grandfather Admiral Lord Eddington

is supposed to have left some fortune

somewhere in Eddington Hall.

We've all tried looking for it at one time or another

but I'm afraid it's only a story.

(horses snorting)

- [Francis] Morning.

(dramatic orchestral music)

- [Dan] Morning, Miss Vicky.

- Morning, Dan.

- Come on then, let's send you down.

There you go.

There we are.

And there's me old Black Beauty.

How are you, boy, huh?

Come on then.

- Colin!

Have you been riding that horse?

- Yes.

- Don't you know any better?

If you've tired him out just before the auction table-

- I was only exercising him, Francis.

(Black Beauty neighs)

- Whoa! Steady, boy.

Why do you let him treat Galahad like that?

- Who is he?

- My cousin, Francis.

I have to do what he says.

He's in charge of the sale for the family.

- Well then if that's the case-

- What?

- Him and that auctioneer chap,

they're putting such a low value on everything.

- Are they?

- Well, it's not my place to say.

It's just as if they want everything

to go as cheaply as possible.

- Past his best, then?

- Yes, pity.

I think he's a little highly-strung, too.

(auctioneer chuckles)

- Master Colin,

I think it's time that I gave you this.

The Admiral gave it to me

just before he died.

- Your grandfather?

- And he made me promise

that ever the family was endangered,

real danger,

I was to give it to the elder son.

And as his Lordship isn't here, that means you.

- But what does it open, Dan?

- I don't know.

All he said was, "here's the key.

It's up to them to find the lock."”

And he told me to keep it safe.

- [Vicky] Come on Beauty, come on.

Around you go, that's it.

Is there anything on it?

- No writing.

No marks, nothing.

- Oh, I was sure there'd be something.

- I almost believed it myself for a minute.

I thought it might be a clue to where he hid his money.

- Well, it might be, but what use is a key

if we don't know which box or room or door it opens?

- Just another of my grandfather's crazy ideas.

(Vicky gasps)

- It turned! I felt the handle turn.

I can't, it's too stiff.

It's giving, look!

There's writing on it.

"Of the three locks to fortune, whatever they be,

this is the first and second key.

The four winds,

the poet and fishes agree.

Do not be mistaken in what you see.”

(Black Beauty whinnies)

- [Francis] Stop worrying, Harker.

- [Harker] I don't like it.

- Everything's working out just as we planned.

- I don't like your cousin turning up.

- Colin is as stupid as his father.

He won't know what's happening until it's too late.

- [Harker] I suppose so.

Well, the auction should go all right.

There's not many buyers turning up.

- [Francis] Your man know what to do?

- Yeah, he'll bid for what I told him.

I'll take what he offers

and we'll get everything we want for next to nothing.

- [Francis] We'd better go back to the house.

As the auctioneer, you can check every room.

- You're not still after that treasure?

- [Francis] It's there, I know it is.

I want everything searched from attic to summer house.

- What are you going to do, Colin?

You heard them, they're cheating your father.

- Francis said from attic to summer house.

"The four winds, the poet and the fishes agree."

There's an old summer house in the grounds.

It's not used anymore,

but it used to be called the House of the Four Winds.

- Colin!

(dramatic orchestral music)

- It's locked.

The first lock!

I can't see anything.

- There has to be something.

(dramatic orchestral music)

- [Colin] I found it!

- Colin!

- Look!

It's quite heavy.

- I can't believe it!

- It's locked.

This won't fit.

- Well it should fit.

He said it was the first and second key.

- I can't see in here.

I'm going to take it outside.

(Vicky coughs)

- I'll take that.

- [Colin] Let go!

- [Harker] Come on, laddie.

- [Colin] Let go!

- [Francis] I always knew it was here somewhere.

- [Colin] You won't get away with it.

I found it.

- It belongs to the owner of Eddington Hall.

And in just over an hour, that will be me.

- You cheated my father.

- All I did was advise him what shares to invest in.

The fact that I made money while he lost

is neither here nor there.

- I heard you.

You're cheating him now at the auction.

- You can say what you like.

Everything we've done is inside the law.

Anyway, now we have my grandfather's treasure.

(jaunty orchestral music)

(Colin laughs)

(dramatic orchestral music)

- Where did you get this?

- It's what led him to the summer house.

- Yes, "the poets and fishes agree,

do not be mistaken in what you see."

- He was meant to find the chest.

- There was something else,

something else he overlooked.

And that's still there.

- What about him?

- Lock him in here.

We'll deal with him later.

(dramatic orchestral music)

- I'm going to fetch my father,

he'll know what to do.

- I hope he's at home.

- So do I, there's not much time.

(Black Beauty whinnies)

Beauty, what is it?

- Look!

Beauty saw him!

Come on!

Colin?

- Are they loose?

- No, but the frame is.

- Well, can you push it out?

- No, I can't move it.

(Black Beauty nickers)

- Albert, find a rope.

- Right!

(dramatic orchestral music)

(furniture crashing)

- Go on, Beauty, pull!

- Pull!

- There's nothing here.

- There has to be.

- Why did the old fool have to write such gibberish?

"This is the first and the second key."

The key opened the summer house,

but it must mean that there's something else

that doesn't need a key,

but there's nothing here.

- There was something else.

That girl that was with your cousin.

She was carrying some books.

- Dryden, Pope.

- Milton.

- Shelley.

- They're all poets.

The four winds in the poem!

There's another message in one of them.

- Quick!

They're coming!

- Hey, you two!

Come back, come back here I say!

- Stop!

- Stop!

- So this is the first real clue.

If we could find the treasure in time

to promise the creditors they'd be paid.

- What did the poem say?

- "Of the three locks to fortune wherever they be,

this is the first and second key."

- That was the key Colin was given.

- Shelley, Milton, Dryden, Pope.

Alexander Pope!

His best known poem,

"The Rape of the Lock."

It's about a lock of hair that's cut off.

- [Colin] The second lock.

- Exactly.

- [Vicky] Is there a message?

- Well, not unless it's in code

and there's no time to work it out.

I'd better get over there.

There's bound to be an official receiver.

If I can convince him that the sale's being rigged,

he might be able to delay the auction.

- Oh! Are you going out, Doctor?

I've just made some tea.

- I'm sorry, Amy.

You two had better stay here.

It's safer until I get everything cleared up.

- [Vicky] Oh, couldn't we-

- Now stay here.

- You do as your father says, Vicky.

Now come and have some tea.

Oh, dirty old things.

Look at them, they're covered in dust, ugh.

- I can't see any marks.

Oh, it's pages long!

- There's nothing like books for gathering dust.

Look at your hands.

They're all grubby.

- There was something hidden in the book.

- And we were looking in the poem.

Amy, you're an angel.

- [Colin] It looks like a river with a house beside it.

And there's a wood or something, but I don't recognise it.

- It's not a river at all.

It's part of the Union Canal just over the hill.

And that square is Chapman's Loch!

- A Loch in the canal.

- The third lock!

(upbeat orchestral music)

- What do we look for now?

Is it in the Loch itself or along the side?

- [Vicky] Well there must be a sign.

- I don't see anything unusual.

What if it's below the water level?

- Look!

The weather vane!

- It's a key.

- The third one.

It isn't a weather vane at all.

It's fixed, pointing out over those fields.

- But I know it!

There's a little lake over there

where my grandfather always used to fish.

- "The four winds, the poet and the fishes agree."

- [Colin] Hurry.

(dramatic orchestral music)

- Can you manage?

- Of course.

- There was a rock.

My father told me, my grandfather always used to sit on it

when he came fishing.

- Miss Winthrop, do you know where my cousin's got on?

- Yes, he's gone out with Vicky.

- Would you happen to know where?

- Yes, I think they said Chapman's Loch.

And-

- Chapman's Loch, come on.

(exciting orchestral music)

- Whoa, stand.

The island, look.

Come on, get up.

- This is the right one, you're sure?

- It has to be.

- Right.

(Vicky grunts)

- There's something here.

It must be the treasure.

Colin!

- There they are!

(Black Beauty whinnies)

(tense orchestral music)

- Stop here.

(Black Beauty whinnies)

Get the girl!

- Oh!

- Right!

Stop her!

She has it, stop her!

(Black Beauty whinnies)

- [Vicky] Go on, go!

- [Francis] Oh you!

(exciting orchestral music)

- [Vicky] Go!

Whoa!

Come on Beauty, it's up to you!

Go on!

(exciting orchestral music)

- [Francis] I'll catch you!

Run, boy!

Quick, after her!

(calm orchestral music)

- [Doctor] I'm sorry to have to tell you this

after your recent illness.

- My own nephew.

- I'm afraid so, Lord Eddington.

- I can hardly believe it.

And yet all sorts of things begin to make sense.

- [Vicky] Shh, quiet, Beauty.

(Black Beauty whinnies)

(exciting orchestral music)

- Vicky!

Are you all right?

- Yes.

Lord Eddington!

- [Francis] Where is she?

God, we've lost her.

- In spite of our suspicions of price fixings

and dishonest valuations,

the receiver isn't empowered to stop the auction.

It will begin in five minutes.

- Five minutes.

Well then it's not too late.

This is from Colin.

We found it under the Admiral stone on the island.

- And these are treasury notes,

stock certificates,

and letters of credit.

(they laugh)

- Francis!

(Black Beauty whinnies)

(Black Beauty whinnies)

(they laugh)

(exciting orchestral music)

(chorus vocalizing)