1 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:22,933 Almost there. 2 00:02:25,854 --> 00:02:29,273 What does a Harley Street specialist know about my health? 3 00:02:29,399 --> 00:02:33,360 Listen, Holmes, Doctor Moor Agar insists you have a complete rests 4 00:02:33,486 --> 00:02:36,363 if you wish to avoid an absolute breakdown. 5 00:02:37,574 --> 00:02:39,575 The sea air will do you the world of good. 6 00:02:42,328 --> 00:02:44,705 You should have traveled alone, Watson. 7 00:02:45,039 --> 00:02:47,791 Nonsense. You're on holiday. 8 00:03:16,321 --> 00:03:18,447 Why it's wonderful, Holmes, wonderful! 9 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,158 The views are spectacular. 10 00:03:21,451 --> 00:03:25,037 Well we're looking at the most dangerous piece of coastline in the country. 11 00:03:25,747 --> 00:03:28,248 Your friend is a natural historian I presume? 12 00:03:28,750 --> 00:03:30,918 An old acquaintance from my college days. 13 00:03:42,055 --> 00:03:43,472 I'll see to the luggage. 14 00:03:43,932 --> 00:03:45,057 Thank you. 15 00:03:50,021 --> 00:03:51,480 Good day to you, sir. 16 00:03:54,359 --> 00:03:56,526 I thought as we were going to be neighbors 17 00:03:56,653 --> 00:03:59,863 for the next few weeks. I ought to say a few words of welcome. 18 00:03:59,989 --> 00:04:01,156 How very kind. 19 00:04:01,282 --> 00:04:03,909 And of course I've long wanted to meet. 20 00:04:04,035 --> 00:04:06,954 Mr. Sherlock Holmes. It is indeed a pleasure, sir. 21 00:04:07,121 --> 00:04:09,539 Thank you but I'm Doctor John Watson. 22 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:16,046 Come in. 23 00:04:18,633 --> 00:04:21,093 This is my good friend Sherlock Holmes. 24 00:04:21,219 --> 00:04:23,262 A thousand apologies, I should have realized. 25 00:04:23,388 --> 00:04:24,888 Do come in Mr. Roundhay. 26 00:04:25,098 --> 00:04:26,640 Very stupid of me. 27 00:04:28,017 --> 00:04:29,643 How did you know my name? 28 00:04:30,561 --> 00:04:32,813 You have an interest in archeology do you not? 29 00:04:33,481 --> 00:04:34,481 Why yes. 30 00:04:34,857 --> 00:04:37,901 Deduce, Watson, go on. Deduce. 31 00:04:39,612 --> 00:04:41,738 You've got mud on the points of your shoes 32 00:04:41,864 --> 00:04:43,991 and beneath your knees 33 00:04:44,117 --> 00:04:46,743 and on the fingers of your right hand... 34 00:04:46,995 --> 00:04:47,828 Splendid, splendid. 35 00:04:47,954 --> 00:04:50,330 Which indicates that you've knelt on the ground for a length of time. 36 00:04:50,456 --> 00:04:51,832 Oh Watson, you're coming along marvelously. 37 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,710 You're a left-handed gardener. You're a student of archeology. 38 00:04:55,336 --> 00:04:58,839 You've published a paper over theories surrounding the neolithic burial rites. 39 00:04:58,965 --> 00:05:03,552 You are the Reverend Francis Roundhay, vicar of the parish... 40 00:05:05,305 --> 00:05:07,014 Astonishing, sir. 41 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:09,349 Please sit down. 42 00:05:11,769 --> 00:05:13,854 But left-handed? 43 00:05:14,397 --> 00:05:17,816 The hand with which you hold the troll. 44 00:05:18,693 --> 00:05:22,738 Exactly right. Precise in every detail but how sir? How? 45 00:05:22,864 --> 00:05:25,949 Vicar, vicar vie... the parish magazine has... 46 00:05:36,502 --> 00:05:37,419 The village is nearby? 47 00:05:37,545 --> 00:05:39,921 Oh yes just along the coastal path. 48 00:05:40,089 --> 00:05:42,632 It's secluded but it caters for all our needs. 49 00:05:42,884 --> 00:05:44,426 I suppose is that the nearest habitation? 50 00:05:44,552 --> 00:05:48,055 No, no, the Tregennis Estate is about a mile inland. 51 00:05:48,222 --> 00:05:49,389 Very nice people 52 00:05:49,515 --> 00:05:53,685 and I'm sure they'll extend to you some fine Cornish hospitality. 53 00:05:55,104 --> 00:05:58,273 However, I've imposed enough upon you for one day. 54 00:05:58,983 --> 00:06:01,151 Perhaps you'd care to come and have dinner with me 55 00:06:01,277 --> 00:06:02,361 one evening at the vicarage. 56 00:06:02,487 --> 00:06:05,364 Oh then we should impose upon you and your family? 57 00:06:05,615 --> 00:06:08,950 Oh no alas, I have no family I live alone except for Mr. Tregennis, 58 00:06:09,077 --> 00:06:10,827 who has a suite of rooms in the house. 59 00:06:10,953 --> 00:06:12,621 But does he not live on the estate? 60 00:06:13,414 --> 00:06:15,165 A family dispute. 61 00:06:15,291 --> 00:06:18,919 His sister and two brothers live there but he chooses to live apart. 62 00:06:19,087 --> 00:06:24,299 Do you know dinner at the vicarage 63 00:06:24,926 --> 00:06:27,260 is a splendid idea. 64 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:30,263 We must arrange a date... 65 00:06:34,894 --> 00:06:38,814 Yes, well of course gentlemen. Good day to you. 66 00:07:05,508 --> 00:07:06,633 Good morning. 67 00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:13,765 Cornish hospitality. 68 00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:18,645 Weathered pitted slabs of granite. 69 00:07:20,064 --> 00:07:25,402 Ancient tombs scattered throughout the lengthened breath of this peninsula. 70 00:07:26,028 --> 00:07:27,154 Like the sea. 71 00:07:28,573 --> 00:07:31,908 I suppose death is always with us. 72 00:07:38,124 --> 00:07:39,207 Quite so. 73 00:07:57,310 --> 00:08:01,646 Quite often during those days in Cornwall, Holmes would stride out alone. 74 00:08:02,482 --> 00:08:04,941 The mystery and glamour of the place 75 00:08:05,359 --> 00:08:08,069 with its sinister atmosphere of forgotten nations 76 00:08:08,196 --> 00:08:10,864 appeal to the imagination of my friend. 77 00:08:12,366 --> 00:08:16,995 He spent much of his time in long walks and solitary meditation. 78 00:09:01,582 --> 00:09:03,166 One morning however, 79 00:09:03,292 --> 00:09:07,045 my friend's convalescence was violently interrupted. 80 00:09:08,756 --> 00:09:11,091 Gentlemen I urge you to consult the police. 81 00:09:11,217 --> 00:09:13,093 Holmes is a sick man. 82 00:09:13,261 --> 00:09:17,097 Yes but getting better all the time, Watson. 83 00:09:21,269 --> 00:09:23,270 This is a matter of some emergency. 84 00:09:24,772 --> 00:09:27,190 Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes. 85 00:09:27,316 --> 00:09:29,776 We can only regard it as a special Providence 86 00:09:29,902 --> 00:09:32,237 that you should chance to be here at this time, 87 00:09:32,363 --> 00:09:35,365 for in all England, you are the one man we truly need. 88 00:09:35,491 --> 00:09:37,742 I tried to explain to Mr. Tregennis and Mr. Roundhay 89 00:09:37,868 --> 00:09:39,536 that you're in convalescence. 90 00:09:40,079 --> 00:09:42,038 Yes I'm sure they'll be very sympathetic. Please sit down. 91 00:09:42,164 --> 00:09:42,872 Thank you. 92 00:09:45,626 --> 00:09:48,545 The fact is as I've explained to Doctor Watson, 93 00:09:48,796 --> 00:09:53,717 the most extraordinary and tragic affair has occurred here during the night. 94 00:09:53,843 --> 00:09:55,302 You have my full attention. 95 00:09:56,971 --> 00:09:59,222 Perhaps I had better say a few words first. 96 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:02,142 This is Mr. Tregennis of whom I spoke. 97 00:10:03,102 --> 00:10:06,646 Now Mr. Tregennis spent last night 98 00:10:06,814 --> 00:10:09,691 in the company of his brother, George and Owen, 99 00:10:09,817 --> 00:10:13,153 and his sister Brenda at their house of Tredannick Wartha. 100 00:10:13,613 --> 00:10:16,281 He left them, playing cards around the dining table in 101 00:10:16,407 --> 00:10:18,992 excellent health and spirits. 102 00:10:20,161 --> 00:10:22,245 But on his return this morning 103 00:10:22,371 --> 00:10:26,207 he discovered a truly bizarre state of affairs. 104 00:10:26,584 --> 00:10:30,670 All three both alive and dead, retained upon their faces 105 00:10:30,838 --> 00:10:33,923 an expression of the utmost horror. 106 00:10:35,009 --> 00:10:36,343 Dead? 107 00:10:36,719 --> 00:10:38,470 A convulsion of terror. 108 00:10:41,515 --> 00:10:43,892 It was dreadful to look upon. 109 00:10:46,020 --> 00:10:48,063 Was there any sign of anyone else in the house? 110 00:10:48,356 --> 00:10:51,566 Only Mrs. Porter, cook and housekeeper. 111 00:10:52,318 --> 00:10:55,028 She had slept deeply and heard no sound in the night. 112 00:10:55,988 --> 00:10:58,281 Is anything missing, disarranged? 113 00:11:00,201 --> 00:11:01,534 Nothing, Mr. Holmes. 114 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:04,120 What could possibly frighten a young woman to death 115 00:11:04,246 --> 00:11:05,705 and two strong men out of their senses? 116 00:11:05,873 --> 00:11:07,123 Yes what indeed. 117 00:11:07,249 --> 00:11:09,834 Well I'm sure, Holmes, that the local police 118 00:11:10,336 --> 00:11:12,128 would have reached some conclusions. 119 00:11:12,380 --> 00:11:13,588 However, erroneous they may be. 120 00:11:13,714 --> 00:11:14,714 Holmes. 121 00:11:16,175 --> 00:11:19,636 Think. Tell me about last night, Mr. Tregennis. 122 00:11:21,681 --> 00:11:22,847 Well Mr. Holmes. 123 00:11:26,852 --> 00:11:29,604 I supped there, as the vicar has said 124 00:11:31,232 --> 00:11:32,857 and my elder brother George 125 00:11:33,984 --> 00:11:35,777 proposed a game of whist afterwards. 126 00:11:37,822 --> 00:11:40,073 It was a quarter-past ten when I moved to go. 127 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:41,741 Who let you out? 128 00:11:42,284 --> 00:11:44,911 Mrs. Potter had gone to bed so I let myself out. 129 00:11:45,371 --> 00:11:48,873 The window of the room in which they sat was closed, 130 00:11:49,083 --> 00:11:50,917 but the blind was not drawn down. 131 00:11:52,336 --> 00:11:55,255 There was no change in door or window this morning, 132 00:11:55,881 --> 00:11:59,759 nor any reason to think that any stranger had been to the house. 133 00:12:01,887 --> 00:12:03,346 Yet there they sat, 134 00:12:04,932 --> 00:12:06,933 driven clean mad with terror. 135 00:12:09,103 --> 00:12:12,647 I'll never get the sight of that room out of my mind so long as I live. 136 00:12:14,275 --> 00:12:18,903 Yes, the facts are most remarkable. 137 00:12:20,489 --> 00:12:22,449 Mr. Tregennis do you have any theory of your own 138 00:12:22,616 --> 00:12:23,908 which might account for them? 139 00:12:24,034 --> 00:12:27,787 It is devilish. Devilish, Mr. Holmes. 140 00:12:29,498 --> 00:12:31,166 It is not of this world. 141 00:12:33,043 --> 00:12:35,879 Well the matter is beyond humanity. It is certainly beyond me. 142 00:12:36,005 --> 00:12:38,173 I trust so, Holmes. 143 00:12:44,054 --> 00:12:49,100 Now think. Think very carefully Mr. Tregennis, 144 00:12:49,602 --> 00:12:51,644 about the evening that you spent together. 145 00:12:53,022 --> 00:12:54,647 Does anything stand out in your memory 146 00:12:54,815 --> 00:12:57,817 which might throw some light upon this tragedy? 147 00:12:59,653 --> 00:13:01,321 There is nothing, Mr. Holmes. 148 00:13:02,281 --> 00:13:03,656 Were they nervous people? 149 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:06,659 Did they ever show any sign of apprehension? 150 00:13:06,994 --> 00:13:08,787 Not to my knowledge, Mr. Holmes. 151 00:13:09,830 --> 00:13:11,790 Then there's nothing in which you can assist me. 152 00:13:18,714 --> 00:13:20,423 There is one thing occurs to me. 153 00:13:21,175 --> 00:13:23,510 As I sat at the table my back was to the window, 154 00:13:24,845 --> 00:13:26,221 and my brother George 155 00:13:26,347 --> 00:13:29,682 he being my partner at cards, was facing it 156 00:13:30,184 --> 00:13:32,644 I saw him once look hard over my shoulder, 157 00:13:33,437 --> 00:13:35,355 so I turned round and looked also. 158 00:13:36,857 --> 00:13:39,526 The blind was up and the window shut, 159 00:13:40,486 --> 00:13:42,695 but I could just make out the bushes on the lawn, 160 00:13:44,198 --> 00:13:45,698 and it seemed to me for a moment 161 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:48,117 that I saw something moving among them. 162 00:13:49,787 --> 00:13:52,539 I couldn't even say if it was man or animal, 163 00:13:53,457 --> 00:13:55,583 but I just thought I saw something there. 164 00:13:57,461 --> 00:13:58,878 Did you not investigate? 165 00:14:00,089 --> 00:14:01,923 Well the matter passed as unimportant. 166 00:14:02,550 --> 00:14:04,425 Did you have any premonition of evil? 167 00:14:05,052 --> 00:14:06,469 None that I was aware of. 168 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,264 How did you hear the terrible news so early this morning? 169 00:14:09,765 --> 00:14:13,434 I am an early riser. Generally take a walk before breakfast. 170 00:14:14,019 --> 00:14:15,395 This morning I had hardly started 171 00:14:15,521 --> 00:14:17,939 when Doctor Richard overtook me in his carriage. 172 00:14:19,525 --> 00:14:21,192 Mr. Tregennis. 173 00:14:21,694 --> 00:14:24,779 I've just heard an urgent message from your sister's house. 174 00:14:24,905 --> 00:14:25,613 What's happened? 175 00:14:25,739 --> 00:14:29,075 I'm not quite sure, sir, but you'd better come with me. 176 00:14:36,584 --> 00:14:38,877 She's been dead at least six hours. 177 00:14:40,921 --> 00:14:42,463 No signs of violence. 178 00:14:44,925 --> 00:14:46,926 But how? 179 00:14:48,596 --> 00:14:54,517 I've never seen the like, Mr. Tregennis. Not in all my years has a... 180 00:14:58,564 --> 00:14:59,647 You all right? 181 00:15:00,190 --> 00:15:06,446 I've got you. Here. Over here. There we go. 182 00:15:07,531 --> 00:15:09,574 We nearly got him on our hands as well. 183 00:15:15,164 --> 00:15:16,080 Where are you going Holmes? 184 00:15:16,206 --> 00:15:17,624 Tredannick Wartha without delay. 185 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:19,292 With your permission, Mr. Holmes. I'll go on ahead. 186 00:15:19,460 --> 00:15:21,628 Thank you vicar, quickly otherwise we'll be there before you. 187 00:15:21,795 --> 00:15:22,837 Holmes, I must protest. 188 00:15:22,963 --> 00:15:26,466 Save your protestations for later, Watson. Much later! 189 00:15:27,885 --> 00:15:30,678 I gather you were divided in some way from your family. 190 00:15:30,804 --> 00:15:32,263 Oh yes sir, Mr. Holmes. 191 00:15:32,598 --> 00:15:34,599 Well the matter is past and done with. 192 00:15:35,142 --> 00:15:37,894 All was forgiven and forgotten and we were the best of friends. 193 00:15:38,479 --> 00:15:40,980 We were a family of tin-miners at Redruth, 194 00:15:41,690 --> 00:15:43,650 but we sold out our venture to a company, 195 00:15:44,193 --> 00:15:46,903 and so retired with enough to keep us. 196 00:15:47,488 --> 00:15:50,615 I won't deny there was some bad feeling over the division of the money. 197 00:15:50,991 --> 00:15:53,076 It stood between us for a number of years. 198 00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:54,661 Nevertheless. 199 00:15:59,541 --> 00:16:01,501 You decided not to leave Cornwall? 200 00:16:01,835 --> 00:16:05,463 I supposed I entertained some hopes of returning home one day. 201 00:16:07,257 --> 00:16:08,341 Holmes! 202 00:16:13,180 --> 00:16:14,764 Holmes, stand back! 203 00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:26,776 My brothers. They're taking them to Helston. 204 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:50,258 It's a lovely house, Mr. Tregennis. 205 00:16:52,678 --> 00:16:54,303 It's a very sad house. 206 00:16:54,930 --> 00:16:57,640 This is the window through which you saw the shadow form. 207 00:16:58,225 --> 00:17:00,810 Approximately what distance was it from the glass? 208 00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:08,776 I'd say not less than ten feet. With a guess, 209 00:17:10,487 --> 00:17:11,404 about here. 210 00:17:12,698 --> 00:17:14,365 There's no sign of a forced entry. 211 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:16,617 And the window, of course, would have remained locked. 212 00:17:16,744 --> 00:17:19,620 My sister made sure of that. Even in Cornwall... 213 00:17:19,747 --> 00:17:21,581 So dreadfully sorry. 214 00:17:21,749 --> 00:17:23,291 It's quite all right, Mr. Holmes. 215 00:17:24,585 --> 00:17:25,710 An accident. 216 00:17:35,971 --> 00:17:37,138 Thank you. 217 00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:41,059 Could you let Mrs. Porter know I'm back? 218 00:18:09,505 --> 00:18:11,130 I should like to meet the housekeeper. 219 00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:12,340 Of course. 220 00:18:12,883 --> 00:18:15,927 Oh but please try to avoid causing further distress. 221 00:18:16,804 --> 00:18:19,514 Death is always distressing, Mr. Tregennis. 222 00:18:19,973 --> 00:18:23,643 Awe, the chairs. 223 00:18:24,478 --> 00:18:27,146 Well they must have been moved after the police left the house. 224 00:18:28,232 --> 00:18:29,565 That one here, Mr. Holmes. 225 00:18:30,818 --> 00:18:33,152 One over there. This one here. 226 00:18:33,737 --> 00:18:36,948 This one over here. 227 00:18:38,492 --> 00:18:39,992 Has anything else been moved? 228 00:18:41,662 --> 00:18:43,079 All is as I remember it. 229 00:18:44,164 --> 00:18:46,833 You must understand there was a great deal of fuss and confusion 230 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,501 when I arrived this morning. 231 00:18:49,211 --> 00:18:51,838 Things may have been moved without thought given to their significance 232 00:18:52,005 --> 00:18:53,172 in a criminal investigation. 233 00:18:53,298 --> 00:18:56,884 Criminal? That is a very interesting word. 234 00:18:57,845 --> 00:19:02,140 So you no longer subscribe to the theory of a supernatural explanation? 235 00:19:04,643 --> 00:19:05,852 I don't know. 236 00:19:06,854 --> 00:19:08,354 Where were people sitting? 237 00:19:09,940 --> 00:19:14,193 I sat here facing Georgie, my brother George. 238 00:19:14,778 --> 00:19:17,989 Brenda sat next to me. Owen across from her. 239 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:19,031 Oh that's curious. 240 00:19:19,199 --> 00:19:20,032 What? 241 00:19:20,701 --> 00:19:22,118 I mean from this position 242 00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:27,039 the figure outside of the window must have been well over six feet. 243 00:19:30,169 --> 00:19:32,211 I can only tell you what I saw Mr. Holmes. 244 00:19:32,713 --> 00:19:34,922 Awe, this is my housekeeper, 245 00:19:36,383 --> 00:19:37,550 Mrs. Porter. 246 00:19:38,552 --> 00:19:40,595 I'd like you to meet these gentlemen, my dear. 247 00:19:45,934 --> 00:19:48,144 She was so beautiful. 248 00:19:51,690 --> 00:19:54,233 So beautiful. 249 00:19:54,693 --> 00:19:57,069 She is still very upset. 250 00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:59,280 We're all very upset Mr. Roundhay. 251 00:20:00,657 --> 00:20:01,824 Come and sit down. 252 00:20:02,492 --> 00:20:06,037 I will not stay in this house one moment longer than I have to. 253 00:20:06,163 --> 00:20:11,083 So I shall rejoin my family... 254 00:20:11,251 --> 00:20:13,544 But you're part of our family. 255 00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:19,717 The family Tregennis is dead, sir. Dead or as good as. 256 00:20:20,510 --> 00:20:22,094 I'm still alive. 257 00:20:24,431 --> 00:20:25,598 Mrs. Porter. 258 00:20:30,562 --> 00:20:33,773 Excuse me now, Mrs. Porter. 259 00:20:43,242 --> 00:20:44,867 My name is Sherlock Holmes 260 00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:47,286 and I'd like you to tell me all that you know. 261 00:20:48,956 --> 00:20:51,123 Mr. Holmes is a detective. 262 00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:54,460 He's going to try and find out what happened to Brenda, don't you worry. 263 00:20:56,255 --> 00:20:58,798 Please, leave nothing out. 264 00:21:00,550 --> 00:21:03,719 I can tell you very little, Mr. Holmes. 265 00:21:11,144 --> 00:21:12,770 Awe, you've been cheating. 266 00:21:12,896 --> 00:21:14,647 I am not cheating. 267 00:21:14,773 --> 00:21:19,443 Owen will you tell your dearest sister to play by the rules. 268 00:21:19,569 --> 00:21:22,113 Well she's your sister too. You tell her. 269 00:21:22,239 --> 00:21:24,323 But she's on your side. 270 00:21:24,491 --> 00:21:27,326 It's rather late and I do have to get back to the vicarage. 271 00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:36,252 Mortimer you must stay here for the night. 272 00:21:36,378 --> 00:21:38,504 Oh please say you will. 273 00:21:39,339 --> 00:21:39,922 Well? 274 00:21:40,048 --> 00:21:43,259 Don't force him to stay if he doesn't want to, Brenda. 275 00:21:43,385 --> 00:21:45,177 Oh really. 276 00:21:45,345 --> 00:21:47,972 I thought we'd put an end to our squabbling. 277 00:21:48,098 --> 00:21:51,517 Mortimer is just as much my brother as you and Georgie. 278 00:21:52,769 --> 00:21:56,022 Don't worry, dear brother. I know where I'm not welcome. 279 00:21:56,189 --> 00:21:59,233 Why visit us at all, You disowned us, 280 00:21:59,484 --> 00:22:00,901 or have you have forgotten? 281 00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:03,863 It will be all right now, Beth, if you wish to retire. 282 00:22:04,031 --> 00:22:06,532 Is Mr. Tregennis staying with us tonight? 283 00:22:06,658 --> 00:22:09,702 Why? Do you also object to my presence, Mrs. Porter? 284 00:22:09,870 --> 00:22:11,037 Mortimer! 285 00:22:11,705 --> 00:22:15,958 I want to know should I air your room, sir? 286 00:22:19,212 --> 00:22:20,171 Sorry. 287 00:22:24,468 --> 00:22:27,011 Thank you, Beth. That'll be quite all right. 288 00:22:27,137 --> 00:22:29,388 Mr. Tregennis will not be staying. 289 00:22:30,265 --> 00:22:31,807 Very good, Miss Brenda. 290 00:22:32,893 --> 00:22:35,561 Is it customary to have a fire in the room at this time of year? 291 00:22:35,687 --> 00:22:37,980 It was a cold and damp night, Mr. Holmes. 292 00:22:38,273 --> 00:22:41,359 Well I must say I... I thought it was rather humid. 293 00:22:41,902 --> 00:22:45,654 Oh I suffer with a mild blood disorder, feel the cold on even warm nights. 294 00:22:45,947 --> 00:22:47,239 I know how you feel. 295 00:22:48,325 --> 00:22:49,533 Awe, Mrs. Porter, 296 00:22:49,659 --> 00:22:52,953 was the door to this room closed when you left this morning? 297 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,663 Oh certainly, sir, 298 00:23:00,879 --> 00:23:05,633 Nightingale as they sing in the valley below. 299 00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:07,343 As they sing... 300 00:23:24,111 --> 00:23:27,113 When they were covered I threw wide the window 301 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,031 to let in the morning air. 302 00:23:30,242 --> 00:23:35,704 Then I run down to the lane and sent a farm lad for the doctor. 303 00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:39,959 And the rest I think you know, sir. 304 00:23:46,299 --> 00:23:49,802 Mrs. Porter's right. She's very beautiful. 305 00:23:49,928 --> 00:23:51,470 Yes but something's missing. 306 00:23:52,597 --> 00:23:56,475 Tregennis is lying about a mild blood disorder. I'll state my reputation on that. 307 00:23:56,977 --> 00:23:57,893 Was he? 308 00:24:22,002 --> 00:24:24,837 Watson. Watson. 309 00:24:29,092 --> 00:24:30,259 Look at this. 310 00:24:32,345 --> 00:24:33,971 That's very unusual. 311 00:24:40,854 --> 00:24:44,982 It won't do! It won't do! Three people grievously stricken 312 00:24:45,108 --> 00:24:48,277 by some conscious or unconscious human agency. 313 00:24:50,572 --> 00:24:54,575 Now, when exactly did this event occur? 314 00:24:55,702 --> 00:24:57,328 They're finished playing cards. 315 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:00,998 It was past their usual hour for bed. 316 00:25:01,124 --> 00:25:03,501 The panel of the chairs had not been pulled back from the table. 317 00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:04,877 Then it must have been 318 00:25:05,378 --> 00:25:07,713 only moments after Tregennis left the house. 319 00:25:07,881 --> 00:25:08,923 Exactly. 320 00:25:12,469 --> 00:25:15,012 Your conscious, of course, I've managed to obtain 321 00:25:15,138 --> 00:25:16,722 a clear impress of his foot. 322 00:25:16,890 --> 00:25:18,224 Yes I guess something... 323 00:25:24,397 --> 00:25:25,731 Haven got a sample print. 324 00:25:25,857 --> 00:25:28,025 I could pick out his tracks among the others 325 00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:30,444 and follow his boots. 326 00:25:31,655 --> 00:25:36,784 For the length of his stride he returns swiftly to the vicarage. 327 00:25:38,578 --> 00:25:40,037 Tregennis disappeared then 328 00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:44,833 almost instantly some other person affected the card players. 329 00:25:45,794 --> 00:25:47,878 How can we reconstruct that person? 330 00:25:48,255 --> 00:25:51,090 But is there any evidence really, Watson 331 00:25:51,925 --> 00:25:54,009 that anyone did creep up to that window? 332 00:25:55,095 --> 00:25:57,221 The only suggestion comes from Tregennis, 333 00:25:57,931 --> 00:26:01,725 who says that his brother reacted to some movement in the garden. 334 00:26:01,851 --> 00:26:06,063 Then how was this impression of horror conveyed? 335 00:26:14,030 --> 00:26:16,198 You're Mr. Sherlock Holmes the detective. 336 00:26:17,492 --> 00:26:19,493 And you are Doctor Leon Sterndale, 337 00:26:19,619 --> 00:26:22,705 the great lion-hunter and famous African explorer. 338 00:26:23,164 --> 00:26:24,415 Have you made any progress? 339 00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:26,083 Some. 340 00:26:26,585 --> 00:26:28,210 The county police are utterly at fault. 341 00:26:28,336 --> 00:26:31,380 Tell me what you know about the fate of the Tregennis family. 342 00:26:32,632 --> 00:26:34,717 What is your interest, Dr. Sterndale? 343 00:26:36,136 --> 00:26:39,096 My claim to be taken into your confidence 344 00:26:39,681 --> 00:26:41,890 is that during my many residences here. 345 00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:45,019 I have come to know this family of Tregennis very well. 346 00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:50,482 Indeed upon my Cornish mother's side I may call them cousins. 347 00:26:50,984 --> 00:26:54,778 So their strange fate has naturally been a great shock to me. 348 00:26:56,197 --> 00:26:58,824 Do you know of anything that could help us out in the inquiry? 349 00:26:59,534 --> 00:27:00,659 Nothing at all. 350 00:27:01,369 --> 00:27:03,495 I may tell you that I had got as far as Plymouth 351 00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:06,123 upon my way to Africa when news reached me. 352 00:27:06,666 --> 00:27:09,168 I came straight back here to help in any way I can. 353 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:17,009 Did you lose your boat? 354 00:27:19,012 --> 00:27:20,220 I will take the next. 355 00:27:23,558 --> 00:27:25,142 That is friendship indeed. 356 00:27:25,352 --> 00:27:27,019 I tell you they were relatives. 357 00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:29,855 Did your baggage go on with boat? 358 00:27:30,023 --> 00:27:32,983 Some of it, but most of it remained in the hotel. 359 00:27:33,193 --> 00:27:35,611 Well surely this event could not have 360 00:27:35,737 --> 00:27:38,364 found its way into the Plymouth morning papers. 361 00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:41,450 No, sir. I received a telegram. 362 00:27:41,743 --> 00:27:42,701 From whom? 363 00:27:43,828 --> 00:27:46,330 You are very inquisitive, Mr. Holmes. 364 00:27:46,539 --> 00:27:47,873 It is my business. 365 00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:53,712 The vicar, Mr. Roundhay sent it recalling me to... 366 00:27:54,255 --> 00:27:55,214 I see. 367 00:27:55,799 --> 00:28:00,969 May I ask if your suspicions point in any particular direction? 368 00:28:05,433 --> 00:28:07,101 Well I can hardly answer that. 369 00:28:10,397 --> 00:28:11,897 Then I'm wasting my time. 370 00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:38,257 To work the brain without sufficient material is like racing an engine, 371 00:28:38,425 --> 00:28:40,426 it cracks itself to pieces. 372 00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:44,596 Wait for me at the cottage. 373 00:28:44,889 --> 00:28:45,973 Where are you going? 374 00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:47,641 Cheer up, Watson! 375 00:28:48,184 --> 00:28:53,981 Sea air, sunshine, patience, all will be revealed. 376 00:29:39,152 --> 00:29:43,322 Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes. Mr. Holmes. 377 00:29:43,615 --> 00:29:46,325 Mr. Holmes, we are devil ridden, Mr. Holmes. 378 00:29:46,576 --> 00:29:48,660 My poor parish is devil-ridden... 379 00:29:51,581 --> 00:29:53,332 What has happened? 380 00:29:58,755 --> 00:30:00,506 Dead about three hours I'd say. 381 00:30:00,715 --> 00:30:02,716 Same symptoms exactly as Brenda Tregennis. 382 00:30:02,842 --> 00:30:05,135 Limbs convulsed, fingers contorted 383 00:30:05,303 --> 00:30:08,180 as though he died from a very paroxysm of fear. 384 00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:10,849 That it should happen under my roof. 385 00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:13,685 Has his bed been slept in? 386 00:30:13,853 --> 00:30:15,604 Oh yes, most definitely. 387 00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:10,284 Who opened this window? 388 00:31:10,535 --> 00:31:13,996 My housekeeper, she was the first into the room this morning. 389 00:31:14,163 --> 00:31:15,247 Where is she now? 390 00:31:15,415 --> 00:31:19,001 Oh she's taken to her bed with a severe headache, no doubt. 391 00:31:19,419 --> 00:31:21,211 Greatly affected by the shock. 392 00:31:23,798 --> 00:31:27,050 I am most terribly sorry to inconvenience you in this way. 393 00:31:27,176 --> 00:31:30,178 I know you both came to these parts to rest but... 394 00:31:30,305 --> 00:31:32,097 It isn't easy with Holmes around. 395 00:31:33,099 --> 00:31:36,727 He likes nothing better than to sink his teeth into a problem of this sort. 396 00:31:38,104 --> 00:31:41,690 But two deaths, Doctor Watson, in the space of two days. 397 00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:45,277 This is the work of the devil, make no mistake. 398 00:31:45,695 --> 00:31:49,281 Put your faith in the known and tangible, Mr. Roundhay. 399 00:32:13,723 --> 00:32:15,140 I trust nothing has been touched, sir? 400 00:32:15,308 --> 00:32:17,476 No, everything's exactly as it was. 401 00:32:18,478 --> 00:32:22,397 All right then. I'll need a statement from you and your housekeeper. 402 00:32:22,982 --> 00:32:24,942 Master, I'm afraid she's still rather ill. 403 00:32:26,361 --> 00:32:27,653 Check upstairs. 404 00:32:37,330 --> 00:32:38,664 Who are these gentlemen? 405 00:32:39,165 --> 00:32:42,501 Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson from London. 406 00:32:46,297 --> 00:32:48,048 I've heard of you Mr. Holmes. 407 00:32:49,175 --> 00:32:53,136 I'd appreciate it if you would leave this inquiry to the official police. 408 00:32:54,514 --> 00:32:55,555 As you wish. 409 00:32:55,682 --> 00:32:56,890 I do sir. 410 00:32:58,434 --> 00:32:59,685 I'm sorry. 411 00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:03,230 Would you direct the inspector's attention 412 00:33:03,356 --> 00:33:06,024 towards the window upstairs and the lamp on the table? 413 00:33:06,192 --> 00:33:09,027 Each is suggestive. 414 00:33:09,862 --> 00:33:12,406 Together they are almost conclusive. Watson. 415 00:33:14,534 --> 00:33:15,867 Good afternoon. 416 00:33:16,703 --> 00:33:17,953 Good luck. 417 00:34:00,371 --> 00:34:01,788 What on earth are you doing? 418 00:34:02,790 --> 00:34:06,376 An experiment to test a theory. 419 00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:09,212 Isn't that the lamp that was in Tregennis' room? 420 00:34:09,338 --> 00:34:10,630 Yes and no. 421 00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:13,550 I see you bought an identical one. 422 00:34:14,927 --> 00:34:18,096 I purchased it from a delightful little shop in the village. 423 00:34:18,264 --> 00:34:20,098 That's where you've been all afternoon. 424 00:34:22,101 --> 00:34:25,187 There is a single point of resemblance 425 00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:30,525 in the reports that we've heard. Now this concerns of the effect 426 00:34:32,695 --> 00:34:34,613 on the atmosphere of the room 427 00:34:36,324 --> 00:34:42,662 upon those who first entered it. First Doctor Richards, then Mrs. Porter. 428 00:34:43,456 --> 00:34:46,458 And Roundhay's housekeeper was taken ill this morning. 429 00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:48,960 In each case, 430 00:34:50,630 --> 00:34:53,965 there is a combustion going in the room. 431 00:34:54,717 --> 00:34:58,929 In the first case, a fire. In the second, a lamp. 432 00:34:59,806 --> 00:35:04,810 Now the fire perhaps was necessary, but the lamp was lit 433 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:06,853 when it was already broad daylight. 434 00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:10,816 The comparison of the oil consumed in this 435 00:35:10,983 --> 00:35:13,235 and Tregennis' lamp proves that point. 436 00:35:15,738 --> 00:35:16,863 But why? 437 00:35:17,490 --> 00:35:19,324 Something was burned 438 00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:24,996 producing an atmosphere and causing a strange toxic affect. 439 00:35:26,165 --> 00:35:29,126 In the first instance, that of the Tregennis family 440 00:35:29,252 --> 00:35:31,920 a substance was placed in the fire 441 00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:36,007 and the fire would carry the fumes, to some extent, up the chimney. 442 00:35:37,051 --> 00:35:40,720 Only Brenda Tregennis, was closest to the fire was killed. 443 00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:44,015 Her brothers were exhibiting that lunacy, 444 00:35:44,183 --> 00:35:48,061 which is evidently the first effect of the drug. 445 00:35:49,063 --> 00:35:52,399 The other case, of course, the result was complete. 446 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:57,821 So it's a poison, which works by combustion? 447 00:35:58,698 --> 00:35:59,698 Yeah. 448 00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:03,785 The obvious place to look 449 00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:07,038 was the smoke-guard of the lamp in Tregennis room. 450 00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:11,168 There, sure enough. I perceived a number of flaky ashes 451 00:36:11,294 --> 00:36:13,962 and round the edges a fringe of brownish powder, 452 00:36:14,088 --> 00:36:16,006 which had not yet been consumed. 453 00:36:16,757 --> 00:36:20,177 Half of it I took, the other half I left for the police. 454 00:36:21,554 --> 00:36:22,762 We will see 455 00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:27,601 if we can reproduce the same effects with our own lamp. 456 00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:31,188 Oh no, Holmes, that's insane. 457 00:36:31,314 --> 00:36:35,984 I cannot force you to stay but I mean to have the answer. 458 00:36:38,404 --> 00:36:39,863 Of course I shall stay. 459 00:36:41,490 --> 00:36:43,283 I thought I knew my Watson. 460 00:36:44,577 --> 00:36:46,077 Would you open the door please? 461 00:36:55,922 --> 00:36:58,340 Now would you like to just sit there? 462 00:37:08,976 --> 00:37:10,060 Are you ready? 463 00:38:27,513 --> 00:38:32,684 You must stay clear Mr. Holmes or be trampled underfoot. 464 00:38:40,067 --> 00:38:43,486 Holmes! Holmes! 465 00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:50,827 Holmes! Holmes, can you hear me? 466 00:38:50,953 --> 00:38:52,746 For God's sake can you hear me? 467 00:38:53,706 --> 00:38:54,706 Done! 468 00:38:56,792 --> 00:38:57,876 Thank God you're all right. 469 00:38:58,002 --> 00:39:00,295 That was a stupid and dangerous thing to do. 470 00:39:00,421 --> 00:39:01,796 We could have been killed. 471 00:39:03,591 --> 00:39:06,051 It was an unjustifiable experiment, even for myself, 472 00:39:06,385 --> 00:39:07,927 doubly so for a friend. 473 00:39:09,555 --> 00:39:12,515 But really I'm extremely sorry. 474 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,414 All the evidence points to Tregennis being the criminal 475 00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:39,167 in the first tragedy and victim in the second. 476 00:39:39,627 --> 00:39:40,877 Yes, if anyone else would have come in, 477 00:39:41,003 --> 00:39:43,421 the family would have certainly risen from the table. 478 00:39:43,589 --> 00:39:45,715 Then Tregennis' own death was suicide? 479 00:39:49,970 --> 00:39:51,638 That will be Doctor Leon Sterndale. 480 00:39:51,764 --> 00:39:53,556 Would you let him in, Watson? Thank you. 481 00:40:02,108 --> 00:40:06,111 Please come in, Doctor Sterndale. Seems you're expected. 482 00:40:08,781 --> 00:40:12,867 I had your note about an hour ago. But let me state directly, 483 00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:15,829 I don't take kindly to being summoned by anybody. 484 00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:18,540 I thought it better to discuss the matter here. 485 00:40:20,126 --> 00:40:21,668 No risk of eavesdropping. 486 00:40:21,794 --> 00:40:24,170 I fail to see, sir, what you can have to speak about 487 00:40:24,296 --> 00:40:28,800 which affects me personally in the most intimate fashion. 488 00:40:29,009 --> 00:40:31,719 The killing of Mortimer Tregennis. 489 00:40:36,517 --> 00:40:40,145 I have lived so long among savages and beyond the law 490 00:40:41,397 --> 00:40:44,357 that I've got into the way of being a law unto myself. 491 00:40:46,318 --> 00:40:48,319 You would do well, Mr. Holmes, to remember that 492 00:40:48,446 --> 00:40:50,738 for I have no desire to do you any injury. 493 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:54,534 Nor I you, Doctor Sterndale. 494 00:40:55,244 --> 00:40:57,871 But surely the clearest proof of it is that, knowing what I know, 495 00:40:57,997 --> 00:41:00,665 that I have sent for you and not for the police. 496 00:41:02,168 --> 00:41:03,626 If this is a bluff upon your part, sir, 497 00:41:03,752 --> 00:41:05,503 you have chosen the wrong man for your experiment. 498 00:41:05,671 --> 00:41:09,340 No, no, no the bluff is upon your side not upon mine. 499 00:41:10,926 --> 00:41:14,596 Now I will tell you the facts upon which my conclusions are based. 500 00:41:15,514 --> 00:41:17,265 Of your return from Plymouth, 501 00:41:17,391 --> 00:41:19,476 allowing much of your property to go out to Africa, 502 00:41:19,602 --> 00:41:21,728 I shall say nothing except that it informed me 503 00:41:23,022 --> 00:41:24,689 was that you were one of the factors, 504 00:41:24,815 --> 00:41:29,235 which had to be taken into account in reconstructing of this drama. 505 00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:34,908 This telegram from the hotel confirms what you told me. 506 00:41:35,451 --> 00:41:37,035 Now when we last met, 507 00:41:37,369 --> 00:41:41,372 you asked me whom I suspected and I refused to answer you. 508 00:41:41,582 --> 00:41:44,542 Then you departed but you didn't go home, 509 00:41:44,793 --> 00:41:48,880 oh no Doctor Sterndale, you went to the vicarage 510 00:41:50,424 --> 00:41:52,300 and you waited there for some time. 511 00:41:52,718 --> 00:41:53,718 How do you know that? 512 00:41:53,844 --> 00:41:54,928 I followed you. 513 00:41:56,805 --> 00:41:58,097 I saw no one. 514 00:41:58,349 --> 00:42:01,726 That is what you may expect to see when I follow you. 515 00:42:02,311 --> 00:42:04,020 You spent a restless night. 516 00:42:06,482 --> 00:42:08,274 You made certain plans 517 00:42:09,568 --> 00:42:12,695 and then in the early hours you proceeded to put them into action. 518 00:42:15,241 --> 00:42:17,242 You returned to the vicarage. 519 00:42:18,494 --> 00:42:22,789 Collected some distinctive red gravel from the cliff path. 520 00:42:28,796 --> 00:42:31,214 The house by now was daylight 521 00:42:32,841 --> 00:42:34,801 but the inhabitants were not stirring. 522 00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:40,682 You threw some of the red gravel up at the window of Tregennis. 523 00:42:57,491 --> 00:42:58,658 Sterndale. 524 00:43:00,869 --> 00:43:02,870 I must speak with you urgently. 525 00:43:03,622 --> 00:43:07,959 This hour? The doors are locked. The housekeeper has the keys. 526 00:43:08,085 --> 00:43:10,295 It is of the utmost importance! 527 00:43:19,346 --> 00:43:22,307 You entered through the sitting window. 528 00:43:23,350 --> 00:43:29,897 You had an interview a short one, and you walked up and down the room. 529 00:43:31,984 --> 00:43:34,110 He withdrew as you had come. 530 00:43:34,653 --> 00:43:38,239 You wearing the same pair of studied walking shoes, 531 00:43:38,991 --> 00:43:41,826 which at the present moment are upon your feet 532 00:43:43,537 --> 00:43:45,872 and Mortimer Tregennis was dead. 533 00:43:52,212 --> 00:43:54,589 The ring you gave Brenda Tregennis. 534 00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:03,640 Yes. 535 00:44:08,187 --> 00:44:09,520 Brenda Tregennis. 536 00:44:22,493 --> 00:44:24,077 For years I loved her. 537 00:44:25,704 --> 00:44:27,288 For years she loved me. 538 00:44:30,209 --> 00:44:34,379 There is the secret of the Cornish seclusion, 539 00:44:34,797 --> 00:44:36,673 which people so marveled at. 540 00:44:39,843 --> 00:44:42,553 It brought me close to the one person on this earth 541 00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:45,348 who was dear to me. 542 00:44:48,811 --> 00:44:50,061 I couldn't marry her, 543 00:44:50,729 --> 00:44:54,148 for I had a wife who left me for whom, 544 00:44:54,274 --> 00:44:59,070 by the deplorable laws of England, I could not divorce. 545 00:45:00,864 --> 00:45:02,407 For years Brenda waited. 546 00:45:04,076 --> 00:45:05,576 For years I waited. 547 00:45:11,250 --> 00:45:13,584 And this is what we waited for. 548 00:45:19,258 --> 00:45:20,425 Roundhay knew. 549 00:45:21,385 --> 00:45:24,554 He was in our confidence hence his telegram to me at Plymouth. 550 00:45:25,389 --> 00:45:29,642 What was my baggage or Africa to me 551 00:45:31,103 --> 00:45:34,522 when I learned that such a fate had befallen my darling? 552 00:45:36,775 --> 00:45:40,862 There you have the missing clue to my actions, Mr. Holmes. 553 00:45:54,793 --> 00:45:57,378 I understand that you sir, are a doctor of medicine? 554 00:45:58,839 --> 00:46:02,800 Have you ever heard of "Radix pedis diaboli"? 555 00:46:03,302 --> 00:46:07,972 Devils foot root. No I can't say that I have. 556 00:46:09,308 --> 00:46:12,018 Well there's no reflection upon your professional knowledge 557 00:46:12,603 --> 00:46:15,938 for I believe that save for one sample in a laboratory at Buda, 558 00:46:16,064 --> 00:46:17,774 there is no other specimen in Europe. 559 00:46:18,150 --> 00:46:21,486 It is used as an ordeal poison 560 00:46:22,070 --> 00:46:25,156 by the medicine men in certain districts of West Africa 561 00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:29,160 and it is kept as a secret by them. 562 00:46:32,956 --> 00:46:35,416 You already know so much, Mr. Holmes, 563 00:46:35,667 --> 00:46:39,337 it is clearly to my interest that you should know all 564 00:46:42,007 --> 00:46:43,466 I have already explained 565 00:46:43,592 --> 00:46:47,136 the relationship in which I stood to the Tregennis family, 566 00:46:48,138 --> 00:46:51,682 There had been quarrel about money, which estranged this man Mortimer, 567 00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:54,852 a sly, subtle, scheming man, 568 00:46:55,354 --> 00:46:58,981 but for Brenda's sake, I was friendly with her brother. 569 00:46:59,775 --> 00:47:03,194 Then one day a few weeks ago, he came to my cottage 570 00:47:04,029 --> 00:47:06,989 and I showed him some of my African curiosities. 571 00:47:08,033 --> 00:47:11,994 Among other things, I exhibited the Devil's foot. 572 00:47:13,413 --> 00:47:16,374 Poison you say? Fascinating. 573 00:47:17,042 --> 00:47:18,876 You wouldn't think so if you were to try it. 574 00:47:19,586 --> 00:47:21,462 The smallest amount could be fatal. 575 00:47:21,713 --> 00:47:25,925 In this powder form, it reacts instantaneously when burned. 576 00:47:26,802 --> 00:47:30,721 It stimulates those brain centers, which control the emotion of fear. 577 00:47:31,557 --> 00:47:37,144 Madness or death is the fate of the unfortunate native 578 00:47:37,271 --> 00:47:40,815 who is subjected to the ordeal by the priest of his tribe. 579 00:47:41,066 --> 00:47:42,483 Can it be detected? 580 00:47:44,027 --> 00:47:45,987 Not by European science. 581 00:47:47,739 --> 00:47:50,658 A few days later, my cottage was broken into 582 00:47:51,535 --> 00:47:55,580 but since nothing seemed to have been taken I gave the matter no heed 583 00:47:55,914 --> 00:47:58,749 until Mr. Roundhay's telegram arrived at Plymouth. 584 00:48:00,210 --> 00:48:02,962 This villain, Mortimer, 585 00:48:03,297 --> 00:48:06,007 had thought that I would be at sea before news reached me, 586 00:48:06,508 --> 00:48:09,510 and that I should be lost for years in Africa. 587 00:48:10,596 --> 00:48:12,597 But of course I returned immediately 588 00:48:13,724 --> 00:48:18,102 and I could not hear the details without being assured 589 00:48:18,604 --> 00:48:21,272 that it was my poison, which had been used 590 00:48:22,316 --> 00:48:26,777 and that Mortimer Tregennis himself was the murderer. 591 00:48:29,364 --> 00:48:32,783 My sole cried out for revenge. 592 00:48:33,827 --> 00:48:35,578 You murdered her! 593 00:48:35,996 --> 00:48:39,165 For money you murdered your own sister. 594 00:48:39,458 --> 00:48:43,502 You can't prove that, no jury in the land will believe you. 595 00:48:43,629 --> 00:48:46,714 I'm my own jury, Mr. Tregennis. 596 00:48:46,965 --> 00:48:51,636 Judge, jury and executioner. 597 00:49:16,495 --> 00:49:17,787 I lit the lamp. 598 00:49:19,331 --> 00:49:20,998 I put the powder above it. 599 00:49:38,392 --> 00:49:40,393 In five minutes he died. 600 00:49:43,689 --> 00:49:45,898 My God! How he died! 601 00:49:48,527 --> 00:49:50,861 But my heart was flint, 602 00:49:53,281 --> 00:49:54,365 for he endured nothing. 603 00:49:54,449 --> 00:49:58,035 Which my innocent darling had not suffered before him. 604 00:50:05,877 --> 00:50:08,295 You can take what steps you like, Mr. Holmes. 605 00:50:10,549 --> 00:50:16,554 But there can be no man living who fears death less than I do now. 606 00:50:25,772 --> 00:50:27,356 What were your plans? 607 00:50:29,651 --> 00:50:32,737 I was intending to bury myself in Central Africa. 608 00:50:34,364 --> 00:50:36,365 My work there is but half done. 609 00:50:44,666 --> 00:50:46,250 Go and do the other half. 610 00:50:50,756 --> 00:50:53,632 I, for one, am not prepared to stop you. 611 00:51:03,143 --> 00:51:04,226 God bless you, 612 00:51:06,063 --> 00:51:07,104 both of you. 613 00:51:18,450 --> 00:51:20,284 Not for the first time, Holmes, 614 00:51:21,078 --> 00:51:23,954 you presume to take the law into your hands. 615 00:51:27,959 --> 00:51:29,502 I have never loved 616 00:51:31,421 --> 00:51:32,588 but if I did, 617 00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,550 and if the woman I had loved had met with such an end, 618 00:51:37,469 --> 00:51:42,431 I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. 619 00:51:44,476 --> 00:51:45,351 Wouldn't you? 620 00:51:47,229 --> 00:51:51,649 Yes, I suppose so but that's not the point. 621 00:51:51,775 --> 00:51:54,985 The point is why should I do the work of the official police? 622 00:51:56,404 --> 00:52:00,658 And as your very fond of telling me, I'm on holiday!