1 00:01:48,233 --> 00:01:50,776 ...long, long before Jesus was born, 2 00:01:50,985 --> 00:01:56,406 it is truly a lost world and it's in Brazil. 3 00:02:17,095 --> 00:02:21,348 Your mamma's homeland and your country, too. 4 00:03:16,988 --> 00:03:20,949 Never allow yourself to love someone too deeply, Mr. Bates. 5 00:03:21,826 --> 00:03:23,535 It will destroy you. 6 00:04:36,401 --> 00:04:37,901 So, you've come. 7 00:05:17,025 --> 00:05:18,692 You have a case Holmes. 8 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:22,195 Ha, your faculty of observation is certainly contagious. 9 00:05:22,864 --> 00:05:27,159 It has enabled you at once to probe my secret. Yes, I have a case- 10 00:05:27,618 --> 00:05:30,912 after a month of trivialities and stagnation 11 00:05:31,039 --> 00:05:33,540 the wheels move once more. 12 00:05:34,876 --> 00:05:36,209 Might I share it? 13 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:37,085 There's little to share. 14 00:05:37,211 --> 00:05:39,880 We will discuss it after you consume those two hard-boiled eggs, 15 00:05:40,048 --> 00:05:42,382 which our temporary cook has favored us. 16 00:05:43,217 --> 00:05:45,093 Their condition may not be unconnected 17 00:05:45,219 --> 00:05:48,930 with a copy of the Family Herald which I observed yesterday 18 00:05:49,223 --> 00:05:50,640 on the hall table. 19 00:05:52,894 --> 00:05:56,772 Even so trivial a matter as them cooking an egg demands an attention, 20 00:05:57,065 --> 00:05:58,899 which is incompatible with a love romance 21 00:05:59,067 --> 00:06:01,568 in that excellent periodical. 22 00:06:02,904 --> 00:06:05,655 I hope Mrs. Hudson is enjoying her holiday. 23 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,288 You've heard of Neil Gibson, the gold king? 24 00:06:13,498 --> 00:06:14,748 You mean the American senator? 25 00:06:14,916 --> 00:06:17,667 Well he was senator of some western state. 26 00:06:17,919 --> 00:06:21,463 He's better known as the greatest gold mining magnet in the world. 27 00:06:21,589 --> 00:06:22,881 Yes, I know of him. 28 00:06:23,007 --> 00:06:24,508 Stayed in England for some time, didn't he? 29 00:06:24,634 --> 00:06:28,011 He bought a considerable estate in Hampshire some five years ago. 30 00:06:28,137 --> 00:06:30,180 You may have heard of the tragic death of his wife. 31 00:06:30,306 --> 00:06:34,017 Oh, that's why the name is familiar. I know nothing of the details. 32 00:06:34,143 --> 00:06:36,436 The fact is that the case, 33 00:06:36,771 --> 00:06:40,190 although exceedingly sensational appears to present no difficulty. 34 00:06:40,316 --> 00:06:43,902 The interesting personality of the accused, Miss Grace Dunbar 35 00:06:44,028 --> 00:06:46,113 does not obscure the clearness of the evidence. 36 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:47,781 That the view taken by the coroner's jury 37 00:06:47,907 --> 00:06:50,242 and also in the police court proceedings. 38 00:06:51,953 --> 00:06:54,454 It is a thankless business, Watson. 39 00:06:55,206 --> 00:06:57,999 I can discover facts, but I cannot change them. 40 00:06:58,126 --> 00:07:00,544 Unless some new and entirely unexpected ones come to light 41 00:07:00,670 --> 00:07:03,088 I do not see what my client can hope for. 42 00:07:03,506 --> 00:07:04,798 Your client? 43 00:07:04,966 --> 00:07:08,176 I'm falling into your involved habit of telling a story back... 44 00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:15,434 I don't believe this. You must read this first. 45 00:07:21,482 --> 00:07:23,358 "Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes," 46 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:26,945 "I cannot see the best woman God ever made" 47 00:07:27,071 --> 00:07:30,907 "go to her death without doing all that is possible to save her." 48 00:07:31,617 --> 00:07:34,578 "I can't explain things. I can't even try to explain them" 49 00:07:34,704 --> 00:07:39,749 "but I know beyond all doubt that Miss Dunbar is innocent." 50 00:07:40,501 --> 00:07:43,044 "You know the facts. Who doesn't?" 51 00:07:43,379 --> 00:07:47,549 "It has been the gossip of the country and never a voice raised for her." 52 00:07:47,842 --> 00:07:51,052 "It's the damned injustice of it all that makes me crazy." 53 00:07:52,263 --> 00:07:55,515 "That woman has a heart that wouldn't let her kill a fly." 54 00:07:56,017 --> 00:07:57,976 "Maybe I have a clue and don't know it." 55 00:07:58,102 --> 00:08:01,855 "Anyway, all I know and all I have and all I am" 56 00:08:02,023 --> 00:08:05,108 "are for your use if only you can save her." 57 00:08:05,693 --> 00:08:08,028 You hardly have time to master all these cuttings 58 00:08:08,196 --> 00:08:09,237 so I must give it to you in a lecture 59 00:08:09,363 --> 00:08:12,365 if you're going to take an intelligent interest in the proceedings. 60 00:08:13,034 --> 00:08:16,703 Mr. Gibson, as I understand is a man who married a Brazilian wife, 61 00:08:16,871 --> 00:08:19,706 and for whom I know nothing except that she was past her prime, 62 00:08:20,291 --> 00:08:23,210 which was all the more unfortunate. She has a very attractive governess 63 00:08:23,377 --> 00:08:25,504 who superintended the education of two children. 64 00:08:25,630 --> 00:08:29,549 These are the three people concerned. The scene is the grand old manor house. 65 00:08:31,552 --> 00:08:36,306 As to the tragedy it takes place across a bridge over the lake 66 00:08:36,557 --> 00:08:38,350 half a mile from the house. 67 00:08:39,560 --> 00:08:43,730 The wife was found late at night by a gamekeeper on that bridge. 68 00:08:44,565 --> 00:08:49,444 She was clad in her dinner dress and a revolver bullet through her brain. 69 00:08:51,948 --> 00:08:53,698 No weapon was found near her 70 00:08:53,824 --> 00:08:57,285 and there was no local clue as to her murder. 71 00:08:58,621 --> 00:09:01,248 No weapon near her. Mark that, Watson. 72 00:09:02,625 --> 00:09:04,543 Is this too condensed, or can you follow it clearly? 73 00:09:04,669 --> 00:09:06,253 No, no, it's all very clear, but, 74 00:09:07,463 --> 00:09:09,214 why suspect the governess? 75 00:09:09,340 --> 00:09:11,758 Well, in the first place there was some very direct evidence. 76 00:09:12,176 --> 00:09:17,389 The dead woman had a note upon her making an appointment at the bridge. 77 00:09:18,516 --> 00:09:20,642 And signed by the governess. 78 00:09:21,519 --> 00:09:27,107 Mr. Gibson sent his farm manager for the police and stayed with the body 79 00:09:28,276 --> 00:09:30,944 insisting that nothing should be removed 80 00:09:31,112 --> 00:09:33,947 until the police arrived just after 11:00. 81 00:09:34,824 --> 00:09:38,285 Then there is the evidence of the revolver 82 00:09:38,452 --> 00:09:40,537 with one discharged chamber. 83 00:09:41,289 --> 00:09:44,291 And a caliber which corresponded with the bullet. 84 00:09:44,875 --> 00:09:49,796 Yes, I see it here. It was found in the drawer of her wardrobe. 85 00:09:53,217 --> 00:09:55,468 In the drawer of her wardrobe. 86 00:09:56,804 --> 00:09:58,096 That's pretty damning. 87 00:09:58,222 --> 00:10:02,475 So the two juries thought, it is now referred to the Assizes in Winchester. 88 00:10:03,561 --> 00:10:04,811 And the motive? 89 00:10:08,441 --> 00:10:10,900 Mr. Gibson is a very attractive man. 90 00:10:11,485 --> 00:10:13,153 If his wife dies 91 00:10:13,613 --> 00:10:16,489 who more likely to succeed her than the young lady who had already 92 00:10:16,657 --> 00:10:21,077 by all accounts received pressing attentions from her employer. 93 00:10:21,245 --> 00:10:23,705 Love, fortune, power, 94 00:10:24,123 --> 00:10:27,959 all depending upon one middle-aged man, 95 00:10:28,085 --> 00:10:32,172 ugly, Watson, very ugly. 96 00:10:32,882 --> 00:10:34,633 Nor could she prove an alibi. 97 00:10:34,759 --> 00:10:38,511 On the contrary, she had to admit that she was down to the bridge by 9:00. 98 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,805 A servant had seen her hurrying there. 99 00:10:41,682 --> 00:10:43,767 Well, it really does seem final. 100 00:10:45,186 --> 00:10:46,394 And yet, Watson, 101 00:10:48,356 --> 00:10:49,481 and yet. 102 00:10:51,442 --> 00:10:55,111 Unless I'm mistaken that is our client considerably before his time. 103 00:10:55,237 --> 00:10:56,404 Gentleman to see you, sir. 104 00:10:56,530 --> 00:10:57,489 Mr. Neil Gibson? 105 00:10:57,615 --> 00:11:01,743 No, sir, not him. His name is Bates and he looks a bit aggravated. 106 00:11:01,869 --> 00:11:03,370 Thank you, Billy. 107 00:11:06,666 --> 00:11:08,166 I have only a short time, Mr. Bates. 108 00:11:08,292 --> 00:11:11,753 I know Mr. Gibson is coming. I am manager of his estate. 109 00:11:12,171 --> 00:11:15,131 Mr. Holmes, he's a villain, an infernal villain. 110 00:11:15,257 --> 00:11:16,883 Strong words, Mr. Bates. 111 00:11:17,009 --> 00:11:18,093 Well, I have to be emphatic, Mr. Holmes. 112 00:11:18,219 --> 00:11:20,887 The time is so limited. I'll not have him find me here for the world. 113 00:11:21,013 --> 00:11:22,305 And you're his manager. 114 00:11:22,431 --> 00:11:23,723 Oh, I've given him notice. 115 00:11:23,849 --> 00:11:27,227 In a couple of weeks I shall have shaken off his cursed slavery. 116 00:11:27,478 --> 00:11:28,812 He's a hard man, Mr. Holmes, 117 00:11:28,938 --> 00:11:32,273 hard to all about him. But his wife was his chief victim. 118 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,360 He was brutal to her. Oh, yes, sir, brutal. 119 00:11:35,861 --> 00:11:37,737 Now how she come by her death I do not know, 120 00:11:37,905 --> 00:11:40,365 but let me tell you he made her life a misery. 121 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,284 She was a creature of the tropics, 122 00:11:43,411 --> 00:11:45,912 a Brazilian by birth as you no doubt know. 123 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,123 Yes, I understand. Please continue, continue. 124 00:11:48,249 --> 00:11:50,500 Well tropical by birth, tropical by nature, 125 00:11:50,626 --> 00:11:53,920 she was a child of the sun and of passion. 126 00:11:54,088 --> 00:11:58,341 She loved him as only such women can love. We all felt for her. 127 00:11:58,884 --> 00:12:00,719 Hated him for the way he treated her. 128 00:12:00,886 --> 00:12:05,265 But he's plausible and cunning. And that's all I have to tell you. 129 00:12:05,474 --> 00:12:08,435 Don't take him at face value. There is more behind. 130 00:12:08,602 --> 00:12:11,646 Now I'll go. No, please don't detain me. He's almost due. 131 00:12:14,817 --> 00:12:15,942 Well, well, well. 132 00:12:16,068 --> 00:12:18,778 Mr. Gibson has a nice loyal household. 133 00:12:18,946 --> 00:12:20,697 Rewarding is a useful one. 134 00:12:49,852 --> 00:12:52,479 Mr. Gibson, straight upstairs, sir. 135 00:13:03,574 --> 00:13:05,784 This is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson. 136 00:13:11,499 --> 00:13:13,458 Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes. 137 00:13:13,584 --> 00:13:15,668 Money is nothing to me in this business. 138 00:13:15,836 --> 00:13:19,005 You can burn it if it's any use enlightening you to the truth. 139 00:13:19,131 --> 00:13:21,716 This woman is innocent. This woman has to be cleared. 140 00:13:21,842 --> 00:13:24,928 It's up to you to do it. Now name your figure. 141 00:13:25,054 --> 00:13:27,639 My professional charges are at a fixed rate. 142 00:13:28,349 --> 00:13:31,434 I do not vary them save when I remit them altogether. 143 00:13:33,896 --> 00:13:37,232 Well, if money makes no difference to you think of the reputation. 144 00:13:37,608 --> 00:13:41,736 If you pull this off every newspaper in England and America will be booming. 145 00:13:41,862 --> 00:13:44,239 You'll be the talk of two continents. 146 00:13:44,698 --> 00:13:48,034 I do not think I'm in need of booming, Mr. Gibson. 147 00:13:49,328 --> 00:13:51,704 Please let us get down to the facts. 148 00:13:52,623 --> 00:13:54,958 Well, you'll find most of the main ones in the press reports. 149 00:13:55,084 --> 00:13:56,543 I don't think I can add much to them, 150 00:13:56,710 --> 00:13:59,671 but if there's anything you'd wish more light on, well I'm here to give it. 151 00:13:59,797 --> 00:14:01,756 Well there is just one point. 152 00:14:01,882 --> 00:14:02,882 What is it? 153 00:14:04,051 --> 00:14:06,970 What are your exact relations with Miss Dunbar? 154 00:14:10,516 --> 00:14:12,684 I suppose you are within your rights, 155 00:14:12,810 --> 00:14:17,188 maybe doing your duty, in asking such a question, Mr. Holmes. 156 00:14:17,314 --> 00:14:19,232 We will agree to suppose so. 157 00:14:20,234 --> 00:14:25,238 Then I can assure you that our relations were always and entirely 158 00:14:25,531 --> 00:14:28,074 those of an employer that awards a young lady 159 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,077 whom he never conversed with or even saw 160 00:14:31,745 --> 00:14:34,414 save when she was in the company of his children. 161 00:14:44,133 --> 00:14:47,010 I'm rather a busy man, Mr. Gibson. 162 00:14:48,387 --> 00:14:51,514 I don't have the time or taste for aimless conversations. 163 00:14:53,017 --> 00:14:54,601 I wish you good morning. 164 00:14:55,436 --> 00:14:58,354 What the devil do you mean by this, Mr. Holmes? 165 00:14:59,273 --> 00:15:00,398 Do you dismiss my case? 166 00:15:00,524 --> 00:15:03,776 No, Mr. Gibson, I dismiss you. 167 00:15:04,570 --> 00:15:06,154 The case is quite sufficiently complicated 168 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,032 without the added difficulty of false information. 169 00:15:09,158 --> 00:15:10,450 Meaning that I lied? 170 00:15:10,618 --> 00:15:13,703 I tried to express it as delicately as I could, 171 00:15:13,829 --> 00:15:17,624 but if you insist upon the word. I will not contradict you. 172 00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:20,084 Don't be noisy, Mr. Gibson. 173 00:15:20,210 --> 00:15:22,962 I find after breakfast any argument most unsettling. 174 00:15:23,088 --> 00:15:25,798 I suggest a little stroll in the open air 175 00:15:25,966 --> 00:15:29,552 and some quiet thought will be greatly to your advantage. 176 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:33,389 I've broken stronger men than you, Mr. Holmes. 177 00:15:33,515 --> 00:15:36,392 Nobody crosses me and gets the better of it. 178 00:15:37,311 --> 00:15:40,313 So many have said so, yet here I am. 179 00:15:41,982 --> 00:15:44,692 Well, Watson he has a great deal yet to learn. 180 00:15:45,027 --> 00:15:47,695 How on earth did you know about his relationship with the governess? 181 00:15:47,821 --> 00:15:50,323 Bluff, Watson, bluff. 182 00:15:52,326 --> 00:15:55,161 I considered the passionate and unbusinesslike tone of his letter 183 00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:57,997 contrasted with his manner and appearance. 184 00:15:58,332 --> 00:16:00,792 It was pretty clear there was some deep emotion 185 00:16:00,918 --> 00:16:03,419 centered upon the accused woman rather than the victim. 186 00:16:03,545 --> 00:16:06,839 I bluffed him by giving the impression that I was absolutely certain of it. 187 00:16:07,007 --> 00:16:08,841 When in reality you were only suspicious. 188 00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:10,009 Do you think he'll come back? 189 00:16:10,135 --> 00:16:11,678 He is sure to come back. 190 00:16:15,516 --> 00:16:17,475 He must come back. 191 00:16:51,176 --> 00:16:52,427 Oh, no, no, my dear Watson. 192 00:16:52,553 --> 00:16:56,014 I fear you will not improve any reputation I have acquired 193 00:16:56,223 --> 00:16:58,224 by adding the Thor Bridge mystery 194 00:16:58,392 --> 00:17:02,395 to your annuals. I fear I made a serious misjudgment. 195 00:17:03,981 --> 00:17:07,567 Holmes, the senator may not have returned 196 00:17:07,735 --> 00:17:12,196 but surely his letter has engaged you on behalf of Miss Dunbar. 197 00:17:12,990 --> 00:17:16,117 She's the one in need. Might we not pay her a visit? 198 00:17:16,243 --> 00:17:20,913 In the cells of Winchester? That will require official permits. 199 00:17:22,374 --> 00:17:24,167 Well, we have the means to apply. 200 00:17:26,170 --> 00:17:28,171 Of course, it may not be quite ethical. 201 00:17:28,589 --> 00:17:30,048 But practical, Watson. 202 00:17:31,091 --> 00:17:33,843 Practical. I congratulate you. 203 00:18:01,288 --> 00:18:02,622 You solved our problem, Watson? 204 00:18:02,790 --> 00:18:04,957 Some officious little pipsqueak of a clerk 205 00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:07,668 queried both the letter and our home office permit. 206 00:18:07,795 --> 00:18:10,588 He demanded a personal authorization from Gibson himself. 207 00:18:10,714 --> 00:18:11,798 But you sorted it out? 208 00:18:11,924 --> 00:18:15,009 Only by the good fortune of meeting her lawyer Mr. Cummings. 209 00:18:15,135 --> 00:18:16,636 He secured a brief audience with her, 210 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:19,472 Mr. Joyce Cummings is a man with a rising reputation 211 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,390 that is certainly in her favor. 212 00:18:41,078 --> 00:18:43,704 It really is providence to see you here, Mr. Holmes. 213 00:18:43,956 --> 00:18:45,123 Her trial is in two days 214 00:18:45,249 --> 00:18:48,334 and I really am at my wits ends to find any evidence to save her. 215 00:18:48,460 --> 00:18:51,587 Did she admit to writing the note and keeping the rendezvous with Mrs. Gibson? 216 00:18:51,713 --> 00:18:52,839 She has little choice. 217 00:18:52,965 --> 00:18:55,174 But beyond that I have advised her to reserve her defense. 218 00:18:55,342 --> 00:18:56,342 Quite so. 219 00:19:16,071 --> 00:19:19,615 This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes and his colleague, Dr. Watson. 220 00:19:20,242 --> 00:19:22,410 Your employer, Mr. Gibson has engaged me 221 00:19:22,536 --> 00:19:24,745 to look into this unhappy matter. 222 00:19:25,372 --> 00:19:28,332 Oh, I'm very grateful to Mr. Gibson. 223 00:19:29,710 --> 00:19:32,628 It is incredible that the charge against me has been sustained. 224 00:19:32,754 --> 00:19:35,882 I thought the whole thing would clear itself up in the police court. 225 00:19:36,341 --> 00:19:39,844 My dear, dear, I beg of you to have no illusions. 226 00:19:39,970 --> 00:19:42,054 Mr. Cummings here will assure you 227 00:19:42,431 --> 00:19:44,307 all the cards at present are against you. 228 00:19:44,433 --> 00:19:46,601 Mr. Gibson is convinced of your innocence 229 00:19:46,727 --> 00:19:48,352 but it would be a cruel deception to pretend 230 00:19:48,478 --> 00:19:50,855 that you're not in very great danger. 231 00:19:51,356 --> 00:19:53,065 I will conceal nothing. 232 00:19:53,942 --> 00:19:58,112 What were the true relations between you and Mr. Gibson's wife? 233 00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:00,448 Permit? What permit? 234 00:20:01,325 --> 00:20:05,244 How dare you take this liberty, Mr. Holmes? 235 00:20:05,412 --> 00:20:06,454 Mr. Gibson. 236 00:20:06,580 --> 00:20:08,748 And you, Cummings, 237 00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:11,626 I did not engage you, sir, to conspire against me. 238 00:20:11,752 --> 00:20:13,461 These men are here under false pretenses. 239 00:20:13,587 --> 00:20:16,047 I did not authorize their visit. They're deceivers. 240 00:20:16,173 --> 00:20:18,257 I demand their removal at once. 241 00:20:20,677 --> 00:20:23,846 You have made a disturbance, Mr. Gibson, worthy of bedlam. 242 00:20:23,972 --> 00:20:26,599 I'll have you crushed for this, Holmes. 243 00:20:26,725 --> 00:20:28,309 Well, it'll profit you nothing. 244 00:20:28,435 --> 00:20:29,435 Mr. Holmes. 245 00:20:29,561 --> 00:20:32,021 We are leaving, superintendent. 246 00:20:32,940 --> 00:20:34,273 Mr. Cummings. 247 00:20:34,399 --> 00:20:36,025 For the moment, Miss Dunbar. 248 00:20:38,779 --> 00:20:41,405 You must put your faith in Sherlock Holmes. 249 00:20:46,954 --> 00:20:48,788 Ah... Mr? 250 00:20:48,914 --> 00:20:50,081 Ferguson. 251 00:20:53,126 --> 00:20:54,835 There is an excellent exhibition 252 00:20:54,962 --> 00:20:58,130 at the museum across the street. I recommend it to you. 253 00:20:58,298 --> 00:21:00,508 The museum closes at 5:00. 254 00:21:23,657 --> 00:21:30,413 The copy of the lease of the buck-boat glass workers dated 1578. 255 00:21:30,872 --> 00:21:34,834 These Huguenots, are they any relations of yours? 256 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,002 Possibly. 257 00:21:37,671 --> 00:21:41,215 Monsieur Potel and this paper making of laver stoke. 258 00:21:42,217 --> 00:21:45,678 They've had the manufacture of bank notes for over a 100 years. 259 00:21:45,846 --> 00:21:48,514 Well, it's good to know there's money somewhere in your family. 260 00:21:58,108 --> 00:22:00,192 Good afternoon, Mr. Ferguson. 261 00:22:01,862 --> 00:22:03,487 Mr. Neil Gibson wishes to see you 262 00:22:03,613 --> 00:22:06,699 at Thor Place at 11:00 tomorrow morning. 263 00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:08,701 This evening will be more convenient. 264 00:22:08,869 --> 00:22:12,288 The morning, 11:00, Mr. Holmes. 265 00:22:12,664 --> 00:22:14,623 Will a motor be sent for us? 266 00:22:16,251 --> 00:22:19,337 There is a train which will take you to Thor Village. 267 00:22:19,713 --> 00:22:23,674 Mr. Gibson is a busy man. He expects punctuality. 268 00:22:29,848 --> 00:22:30,931 How did you know that he was going to turn? 269 00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:33,100 I gambled, there's been enough of an impression 270 00:22:33,226 --> 00:22:35,895 upon Miss Dunbar to turn us back into favor. 271 00:22:36,396 --> 00:22:38,397 We are after all her only hope. 272 00:22:38,565 --> 00:22:41,609 Now, Watson, we must find a comfortable inn for the night 273 00:22:42,152 --> 00:22:46,197 so that we can arrive punctually at Thor Place at 9:00 in the morning. 274 00:22:46,323 --> 00:22:47,406 I thought he said 11:00. 275 00:22:47,532 --> 00:22:51,577 9:00, Watson, to meet Sergeant Coventry of the local police. 276 00:22:53,955 --> 00:22:57,583 In all events, Mr. Holmes, I'd rather have you than Scotland Yard. 277 00:22:58,001 --> 00:23:01,670 If the Yard gets called into a case, the local loses all credit for success 278 00:23:01,797 --> 00:23:05,841 and may be blamed for failure. Now, you play it straight, so I've heard. 279 00:23:06,218 --> 00:23:08,094 I need not appear in the matter at all. 280 00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:10,096 That's very handsome of you. 281 00:23:10,263 --> 00:23:13,265 And your friend, Dr. Watson, can be trusted I know. 282 00:23:14,518 --> 00:23:16,936 Now there is one question I'd like to ask you 283 00:23:17,062 --> 00:23:19,021 but I breath it to no soul but you. 284 00:23:19,648 --> 00:23:23,776 Don't you think there might be a case against Mr. Neil Gibson himself? 285 00:23:24,569 --> 00:23:28,697 According to the servants, he retired to his study after dinner 286 00:23:28,824 --> 00:23:32,618 and had no company at all until the alarm at 11:00. 287 00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:36,288 Yes, I've been considering Mr. Gibson. 288 00:23:36,415 --> 00:23:39,625 These Americans are readier with their pistols than our folk are. 289 00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:42,795 It was his pistol, you know. One of a pair he had. 290 00:23:43,797 --> 00:23:46,006 One of a pair? Where is the other? 291 00:23:46,299 --> 00:23:49,260 Well these gentlemen have all kinds of firearms of one sort or another. 292 00:23:49,386 --> 00:23:52,012 We never quite matched that particular pistol. 293 00:23:52,180 --> 00:23:56,851 The box was made for two. Now, this is where the body lay. 294 00:23:56,977 --> 00:24:00,396 I gathered from the press reports that the shot was fired at close quarters. 295 00:24:00,522 --> 00:24:01,313 Very close sir. 296 00:24:01,481 --> 00:24:02,314 Near the right temple? 297 00:24:02,441 --> 00:24:03,190 Just behind it, sir. 298 00:24:03,316 --> 00:24:04,733 How did the body lie? 299 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:05,860 On the back, sir. 300 00:24:05,986 --> 00:24:08,737 No trace of a struggle, no mark, no weapons. 301 00:24:08,864 --> 00:24:11,991 The short note from Miss Dunbar was clutched in her left hand. 302 00:24:12,159 --> 00:24:13,159 Clutched? 303 00:24:13,326 --> 00:24:15,953 Yes, sir, we could hardly open her fingers. 304 00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:18,038 That is of the greatest importance. 305 00:24:18,165 --> 00:24:21,584 It excludes the idea that anybody could have placed it there. 306 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:24,336 After death to furnish a false clue. 307 00:24:25,088 --> 00:24:30,718 But dear me, the note as I remember, was quite short. 308 00:24:31,094 --> 00:24:35,723 "Yes, I'll be at Thor Bridge 9:00 G. Dunbar." Wasn't that it? 309 00:24:35,849 --> 00:24:37,099 So it was, sir. 310 00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:40,352 The point of the note is obscured, is it not? 311 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,022 Well, sir, it seemed if I may be bold as to say so 312 00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:45,107 the only real clear point in the whole case. 313 00:24:45,233 --> 00:24:46,942 Assuming the note is genuine. 314 00:24:48,195 --> 00:24:51,572 She certainly received it some time before, say an hour or two. 315 00:24:51,698 --> 00:24:54,116 Why was she then clasping it in the left hand? 316 00:24:55,118 --> 00:24:57,453 She had no need to refer to it in the interview. 317 00:25:00,665 --> 00:25:02,458 Does that not seem remarkable? 318 00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:05,002 Well sir, as you put it, perhaps it does. 319 00:25:09,674 --> 00:25:11,258 That is curious. 320 00:25:11,718 --> 00:25:13,302 Oh, yes, sir, we noticed that. 321 00:25:13,428 --> 00:25:15,888 I expect it's been done by some passer-by. 322 00:25:17,641 --> 00:25:19,808 Took some violence to do that. 323 00:25:19,935 --> 00:25:23,103 It was a hard knock not from above, but below. 324 00:25:23,230 --> 00:25:25,564 You see some lower end of the parapet, Watson? 325 00:25:25,732 --> 00:25:30,778 Yes, and in a direct line with the position of the body. 326 00:25:31,571 --> 00:25:33,531 It's probably of no matter. 327 00:25:36,576 --> 00:25:37,952 No footprints, you say? 328 00:25:38,078 --> 00:25:40,538 The ground was iron hard, sir. No marks at all. 329 00:25:40,664 --> 00:25:42,665 Then we have nothing more to learn here. 330 00:25:54,970 --> 00:25:56,887 You are early, Mr. Holmes. 331 00:25:57,264 --> 00:26:00,808 It is often the case with punctuality, Mr. Ferguson. 332 00:26:01,476 --> 00:26:05,312 Mr. Gibson is in a meeting. He is not ready to see you. 333 00:26:05,730 --> 00:26:07,481 I'll take care of them, Ferguson. 334 00:26:15,615 --> 00:26:17,449 I'm very glad to see you gentlemen. 335 00:26:18,952 --> 00:26:21,787 As we are a little early perhaps we can see the gun room? 336 00:26:50,525 --> 00:26:51,942 A man who has his enemies. 337 00:26:52,068 --> 00:26:55,321 Oh, yes if you knew him and his methods. 338 00:26:55,655 --> 00:26:58,282 He sleeps with a loaded revolver in a drawer by his bed. 339 00:26:58,408 --> 00:27:00,326 He's a man of violence, sir. 340 00:27:00,660 --> 00:27:02,161 Have you ever seen him strike his wife? 341 00:27:02,329 --> 00:27:04,163 Yes, more than once. 342 00:27:05,749 --> 00:27:09,501 Our gold king does not seem to shine in private life. 343 00:27:09,628 --> 00:27:11,086 Holmes, here. 344 00:27:11,796 --> 00:27:13,631 That's the box that contained the murder weapon. 345 00:27:13,757 --> 00:27:16,550 It was one of a pair. The other is missing. 346 00:27:18,762 --> 00:27:21,180 Mr. Ferguson is sure to know that you're consorting with us. 347 00:27:21,348 --> 00:27:23,599 Does that hold no alarm for you? 348 00:27:23,850 --> 00:27:25,934 There's nothing he can do to hurt me now. 349 00:27:27,187 --> 00:27:29,647 Perhaps you'll be so kind as to show us the schoolroom? 350 00:27:34,027 --> 00:27:34,985 Where are the children? 351 00:27:35,111 --> 00:27:38,030 Sent away on a visit to America. 352 00:27:47,374 --> 00:27:50,709 Their Brazilian heritage from their mother's side. 353 00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:54,922 Miss Dunbar must seem to be a remarkable teacher. 354 00:27:55,048 --> 00:27:56,674 The children doted on her. 355 00:27:58,176 --> 00:28:02,346 See, Watson, the Ricardo Franco Hills. 356 00:28:02,472 --> 00:28:03,806 See the unscaleable cliffs 357 00:28:03,932 --> 00:28:06,308 which time and the foot of man have never touched, 358 00:28:06,434 --> 00:28:09,311 where monsters from the dawn of history might still roam. 359 00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:14,274 That's Martins, the Indian hunter. I know about him. 360 00:28:15,568 --> 00:28:19,405 His victims, women and children, pitiful. 361 00:28:20,448 --> 00:28:23,575 Would you say that Maria Gibson was jealous of Miss Dunbar 362 00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:25,369 and her influence over the children? 363 00:28:25,495 --> 00:28:27,413 No, there was no love lost between them. 364 00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:30,749 But that was because she could see her husband was under the lady's spell, too. 365 00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:32,501 Get out of here, Bates. 366 00:28:41,094 --> 00:28:43,053 Mr. Bates's views are not relevant, Mr. Holmes. 367 00:28:43,179 --> 00:28:46,265 They're distorted by his infatuation for my late wife. 368 00:28:46,391 --> 00:28:49,393 Who knows, Mr. Gibson, what is and what is not relevant. 369 00:28:51,229 --> 00:28:53,439 You're like a surgeon who wants every symptom 370 00:28:53,606 --> 00:28:55,941 before he could give a diagnosis. 371 00:28:56,276 --> 00:28:58,444 As any a patient has reason in deceiving 372 00:28:58,611 --> 00:29:01,447 his surgeon who conceals the facts. 373 00:29:02,782 --> 00:29:04,408 I can assure you 374 00:29:04,701 --> 00:29:07,453 that the relations between Miss Dunbar and myself 375 00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:09,538 do not touch this case. 376 00:29:09,664 --> 00:29:12,124 I'm sure that is for me to decide. 377 00:29:15,295 --> 00:29:17,004 Most men have a little private reserve 378 00:29:17,130 --> 00:29:21,008 in some corner of their souls where they don't welcome intruders. 379 00:29:21,384 --> 00:29:25,471 You burst suddenly into mine. What is it you want? 380 00:29:26,973 --> 00:29:28,140 The truth. 381 00:29:36,816 --> 00:29:40,819 I met my wife when I was gold hunting in Brazil. 382 00:29:41,613 --> 00:29:44,490 She was the daughter of a government official in the Manaos. 383 00:29:46,326 --> 00:29:49,203 Even now as I look back with a colder eye 384 00:29:49,829 --> 00:29:53,957 she had a rich passionate nature, tropical, ill-balanced, 385 00:29:54,083 --> 00:29:56,794 very different from the American women I'd known. 386 00:29:58,213 --> 00:30:00,506 It was only when the romance had passed 387 00:30:00,757 --> 00:30:04,259 that I realized we had nothing, absolutely nothing in common. 388 00:30:05,261 --> 00:30:09,515 My love faded but you know the wonderful way of women. 389 00:30:11,226 --> 00:30:14,686 Do what I might, nothing could turn her from me. 390 00:30:15,271 --> 00:30:17,272 If I'd been harsh to her, even brutal, 391 00:30:17,398 --> 00:30:21,193 it was because I knew that if I could kill her love or turn it to hate 392 00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:25,906 it would be easier for us both. But nothing changed her. 393 00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:28,659 She still adored me in these English woods 394 00:30:28,785 --> 00:30:33,121 as she had adored me 20 years before on the banks of the Amazon. 395 00:30:33,706 --> 00:30:35,457 Then came Miss Dunbar. 396 00:30:36,167 --> 00:30:38,293 She is also a very beautiful woman 397 00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:40,212 and I'll admit to you that I could not live 398 00:30:40,380 --> 00:30:43,006 under the same roof in daily contact with her 399 00:30:43,299 --> 00:30:45,676 without feeling a passionate regard for her. 400 00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:46,677 You blame me, Mr. Holmes? 401 00:30:46,803 --> 00:30:50,138 I don't blame you for feeling it, I should blame you for expressing it 402 00:30:50,265 --> 00:30:52,057 since she was under your protection. 403 00:30:52,225 --> 00:30:55,310 Well, maybe so. I'm not pretending to be any better than I am. 404 00:30:55,937 --> 00:30:56,812 I guess all of my life, 405 00:30:56,938 --> 00:30:59,565 I've been a man that's reached out his hand for what he wanted. 406 00:31:00,149 --> 00:31:01,733 And I never wanted anything more- 407 00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:05,654 than the love and possession of that woman. I told her so. 408 00:31:06,531 --> 00:31:07,865 You did, did you? 409 00:31:07,991 --> 00:31:11,910 I said if I could I'd marry her, but it was out of my power. 410 00:31:12,495 --> 00:31:13,537 Money was no object. 411 00:31:13,663 --> 00:31:16,582 I'd do all I could to make her happy, comfortable. 412 00:31:16,708 --> 00:31:18,417 Very generous of you. 413 00:31:18,543 --> 00:31:19,501 Now, see here, Mr. Holmes, 414 00:31:19,627 --> 00:31:24,256 I came to you on a question of evidence, not morals. I'm not asking for criticism. 415 00:31:24,757 --> 00:31:28,260 It is only for the lady's sake that I take on this case at all. 416 00:31:29,470 --> 00:31:31,305 Nothing that she's accused of is worse 417 00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:33,307 than what you yourself have admitted, 418 00:31:33,433 --> 00:31:36,435 that you've tried to ruin a defenseless girl who was under your roof. 419 00:31:36,603 --> 00:31:39,104 You know some of you rich men must retort 420 00:31:39,314 --> 00:31:42,941 but all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offenses. 421 00:31:43,109 --> 00:31:44,610 That's how I feel myself about it. 422 00:31:44,736 --> 00:31:47,654 Now I thank God my plans did not work out. 423 00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:54,119 She'd have none of it, she wanted to leave the house instantly. 424 00:31:55,455 --> 00:31:56,955 But why did she not? 425 00:31:58,124 --> 00:31:59,750 Others were dependent upon her 426 00:31:59,876 --> 00:32:02,252 and it was no light matter for her to let them down. 427 00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:06,006 When I'd sworn that she should never be molested again. 428 00:32:06,174 --> 00:32:07,716 She consented to stay. 429 00:32:09,969 --> 00:32:11,637 But there was another reason. 430 00:32:12,472 --> 00:32:14,890 She knew the influence that she had over me, 431 00:32:15,433 --> 00:32:18,477 that it was stronger than any other influence in the world. 432 00:32:19,062 --> 00:32:21,355 She wanted to use it for good. 433 00:32:22,523 --> 00:32:23,690 You're cruel. 434 00:32:24,025 --> 00:32:27,861 You destroy good people who can't stand up to you. 435 00:32:28,112 --> 00:32:32,199 Not everyone shares your strength. Can't you see that? 436 00:32:32,825 --> 00:32:37,371 You call it a fair fight, but it isn't fair. 437 00:32:37,497 --> 00:32:38,789 She saw it different. 438 00:32:39,332 --> 00:32:42,501 She believed that a fortune for one man that was more than he needed 439 00:32:42,669 --> 00:32:44,962 should not be built on 10,000 ruined men 440 00:32:45,088 --> 00:32:47,422 who were left without the means of life. 441 00:32:48,424 --> 00:32:52,844 With your children you show such tenderness and love. 442 00:32:54,138 --> 00:32:56,431 Treat the world in the same way. 443 00:32:56,557 --> 00:32:59,101 She found that I listened to what she said. 444 00:32:59,602 --> 00:33:00,894 So she stayed. 445 00:33:01,604 --> 00:33:03,355 And then this came along. 446 00:33:04,524 --> 00:33:07,442 Mr. Gibson, can you throw any light upon it? 447 00:33:08,528 --> 00:33:12,489 One explanation, I give it to you, Mr. Holmes, for what it's worth. 448 00:33:12,949 --> 00:33:15,951 There's no doubt that my wife was bitterly jealous. 449 00:33:16,494 --> 00:33:18,412 She might have planned to murder Miss Dunbar, 450 00:33:18,538 --> 00:33:22,374 or threaten her with a gun and so frighten her into leaving us. 451 00:33:23,084 --> 00:33:24,668 Maybe there was a scuffle. 452 00:33:24,794 --> 00:33:28,088 The gun went off and shot the woman who held it. 453 00:33:28,798 --> 00:33:30,507 Yes, it is a possibility. 454 00:33:31,592 --> 00:33:34,553 It is the only alternative to deliberate murder. 455 00:33:35,722 --> 00:33:37,431 But she utterly denies it. 456 00:33:37,557 --> 00:33:38,974 What is against such a supposition? 457 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:40,892 Miss Dunbar herself. 458 00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:44,229 She has just one day left before the trial. 459 00:33:44,397 --> 00:33:47,482 You must grant me permission to visit her once more. 460 00:33:47,650 --> 00:33:50,736 If ever in your life you showed your powers, Holmes, 461 00:33:51,112 --> 00:33:54,072 put them into this case now. 462 00:33:55,575 --> 00:33:58,035 But I cannot promise you 463 00:33:58,161 --> 00:34:01,413 that my conclusions will be such as you desire. 464 00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:06,835 Come, Watson. 465 00:34:22,393 --> 00:34:25,729 We have several vital questions to ask this young lady 466 00:34:25,855 --> 00:34:27,731 and I must confess that the case would seem to be 467 00:34:27,857 --> 00:34:30,609 a very black one against her if it were not for one thing. 468 00:34:30,777 --> 00:34:31,777 What is that? 469 00:34:31,944 --> 00:34:34,112 The finding of a pistol in her wardrobe. 470 00:34:34,238 --> 00:34:36,698 That seems to be the most damning incident of all. 471 00:34:36,824 --> 00:34:40,994 Not so, Watson. It is my only firm ground for hope. 472 00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:43,747 We must look for consistency. 473 00:34:44,248 --> 00:34:47,292 Where there is a want of it, we must suspect deception. 474 00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:52,297 Come on, Holmes. 475 00:34:53,299 --> 00:34:54,716 Miss Dunbar is depending on us. 476 00:34:54,842 --> 00:34:55,926 Watson, 477 00:34:57,136 --> 00:35:00,514 visualize yourself in the character of Miss Dunbar 478 00:35:00,973 --> 00:35:04,309 with a cold premeditated fashion is about to get rid of her rival. 479 00:35:04,477 --> 00:35:06,520 What would be your actions and your thinking? 480 00:35:06,813 --> 00:35:09,356 Well, I've written a note. The victim has come. 481 00:35:10,149 --> 00:35:12,025 I've taken the weapon from the gunroom. 482 00:35:13,319 --> 00:35:14,528 The crime is done. 483 00:35:14,654 --> 00:35:17,280 Workman like and complete, and now the weapon. 484 00:35:19,367 --> 00:35:20,492 Of course. 485 00:35:21,202 --> 00:35:22,786 Precisely, Watson. 486 00:35:22,912 --> 00:35:25,247 Those depths would hide it forever. 487 00:35:26,499 --> 00:35:28,125 Your best friends would hardly call you a schemer, 488 00:35:28,251 --> 00:35:31,253 yet I cannot picture you carrying it home and putting it in your wardrobe, 489 00:35:31,379 --> 00:35:33,797 the very first place that would be searched. 490 00:35:34,173 --> 00:35:36,800 This revolver for example she disclaims all knowledge of it. 491 00:35:36,926 --> 00:35:39,302 You're saying that it was placed in her wardrobe, but by who? 492 00:35:39,428 --> 00:35:41,221 By someone who wished to incriminate her. 493 00:35:41,347 --> 00:35:42,931 Ah, Cummings. 494 00:35:51,941 --> 00:35:54,234 Miss Dunbar we have had lengthy conversations 495 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,945 with Mr. Gibson and he has informed us 496 00:35:57,697 --> 00:36:00,532 of your relations with him and of your innocence in the matter. 497 00:36:00,658 --> 00:36:02,784 But you need not pain yourself with that part of the story. 498 00:36:02,910 --> 00:36:05,203 But we do need to know something, 499 00:36:06,330 --> 00:36:09,541 of your feelings towards, Mrs. Gibson. 500 00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:16,214 I had no wish to wrong, Mrs. Gibson. 501 00:36:18,009 --> 00:36:23,138 But she loved her husband so vividly in a physical sense 502 00:36:23,514 --> 00:36:24,890 that she could hardly understand 503 00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:29,144 the mental even spiritual tie which held him to me 504 00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:34,524 or imagined that it was only my desire to influence his power for good 505 00:36:34,650 --> 00:36:36,318 which kept me under his roof. 506 00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:40,071 I can see now that I was wrong to stay. 507 00:36:41,782 --> 00:36:43,575 Nothing could have justified me in remaining 508 00:36:43,701 --> 00:36:46,161 where I was a cause of such unhappiness. 509 00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:50,582 My client may be loathe to mention it 510 00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:52,918 but she has managed to persuade Mr. Gibson 511 00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:56,129 to finance a mission of mercy to resettle tribes. 512 00:36:56,255 --> 00:36:58,590 In particular, the Bororo Indians 513 00:36:58,925 --> 00:37:02,761 who have fallen victim to unscrupulous gold and rubber prospectors. 514 00:37:03,262 --> 00:37:04,763 The venture is thriving. 515 00:37:04,931 --> 00:37:07,599 We saw your pictures in the school. 516 00:37:08,684 --> 00:37:11,102 Like so many of those warrior Indians 517 00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:15,565 Mr. Gibson can sometimes give people a misleading impression. 518 00:37:15,691 --> 00:37:17,275 Now, Miss Dunbar, 519 00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:20,820 will you tell us exactly what happened that evening? 520 00:37:22,615 --> 00:37:25,367 I received a note from Mrs. Gibson in the morning. 521 00:37:26,118 --> 00:37:29,204 It implored me to meet her at the bridge after dinner. 522 00:37:30,081 --> 00:37:32,624 This note, did you keep it? 523 00:37:32,750 --> 00:37:36,419 No. She asked me to destroy it and to hide my answer 524 00:37:36,545 --> 00:37:38,463 at the sundial in the garden. 525 00:37:38,965 --> 00:37:41,383 I saw no reason for such secrecy 526 00:37:41,759 --> 00:37:44,094 but she was very much afraid of her husband 527 00:37:44,428 --> 00:37:47,889 who treated her with a harshness by which I frequently reproached him. 528 00:37:48,349 --> 00:37:51,810 I can only imagine that she did not wish him to know of our interview. 529 00:37:52,186 --> 00:37:54,813 Yet she kept your reply very carefully. 530 00:37:54,981 --> 00:37:58,817 Yes, I was surprised to hear she had it in her hand when she died. 531 00:37:58,943 --> 00:38:00,402 Well, what happened then? 532 00:38:01,153 --> 00:38:02,904 She was waiting for me. 533 00:38:03,489 --> 00:38:07,075 So, you've come. 534 00:38:07,410 --> 00:38:10,662 Never did I realize until that moment how much she hated me. 535 00:38:15,209 --> 00:38:16,793 She was like a mad woman. 536 00:38:17,128 --> 00:38:20,422 I think she was mad with a deep power of deception 537 00:38:20,548 --> 00:38:22,048 which insane people may have. 538 00:38:22,174 --> 00:38:24,676 You're cruel, you have no heart. 539 00:38:24,885 --> 00:38:27,012 You don't know how to love. You have no passion. 540 00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:30,807 How else could she have met me without concern every day. 541 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:37,814 She was standing there on the bridge shrieking her curses at me. 542 00:38:37,940 --> 00:38:39,316 English whore. 543 00:38:43,195 --> 00:38:45,864 I curse the day that you were born. 544 00:38:46,824 --> 00:38:49,617 And yet presuming that she met her death 545 00:38:49,744 --> 00:38:52,370 shortly after you left. You heard no shot? 546 00:38:52,913 --> 00:38:54,539 No, I heard nothing. 547 00:38:55,374 --> 00:38:58,710 I was so agitated and horrified by her terrible outbreak 548 00:38:58,836 --> 00:39:01,588 that I rushed to get back to the peace of my own room. 549 00:39:01,881 --> 00:39:06,343 I was incapable of noticing anything that happened. 550 00:39:06,761 --> 00:39:10,305 Your own room, did you leave it again before the next morning? 551 00:39:11,057 --> 00:39:15,560 Yes, when they brought the poor creature back to the house. 552 00:39:20,983 --> 00:39:23,860 Did Mr. Gibson seem to you much perturbed? 553 00:39:24,612 --> 00:39:27,614 He is a very strong self-contained man. 554 00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:30,950 I do not think he would ever show his emotions on the surface. 555 00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:34,537 But you, who knew him so well. 556 00:39:34,663 --> 00:39:37,123 Yes, I could see that he was deeply concerned. 557 00:39:41,128 --> 00:39:42,170 Now... 558 00:39:45,925 --> 00:39:47,926 We come to the all important point. 559 00:39:49,261 --> 00:39:52,430 This pistol that was found in your room, you'd never seen it before? 560 00:39:52,556 --> 00:39:53,932 Never, I swear it. 561 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:55,934 When was it found? 562 00:39:56,602 --> 00:39:59,104 Next morning when the police made their search. 563 00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:00,688 Yes, among your clothes? 564 00:40:01,148 --> 00:40:04,609 Yes, at the bottom of my wardrobe in one of the drawers. 565 00:40:05,111 --> 00:40:07,070 And you cannot guess how long it had been there. 566 00:40:07,822 --> 00:40:09,155 It could not have been there the morning before 567 00:40:09,281 --> 00:40:11,074 because I tidied out the wardrobe. 568 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,118 So you're suggesting that someone came into your room 569 00:40:13,285 --> 00:40:15,662 and placed it there in order to incriminate you? 570 00:40:19,041 --> 00:40:20,583 It must have been so. 571 00:40:21,544 --> 00:40:22,460 When? 572 00:40:24,630 --> 00:40:27,006 Well it could only have been at mealtime 573 00:40:27,383 --> 00:40:30,510 or else during the hours when I would be in the schoolroom with the children. 574 00:40:30,928 --> 00:40:32,804 As you were when you received the note. 575 00:40:32,972 --> 00:40:35,682 Yes, from that time onward for the whole morning. 576 00:40:36,392 --> 00:40:37,934 Thank you, Miss Dunbar. 577 00:40:41,147 --> 00:40:45,567 Is there any other point which could help me in my investigation? 578 00:40:47,153 --> 00:40:48,445 I could think of none. 579 00:40:51,532 --> 00:40:53,700 Holmes, might I have a word with you in private? 580 00:40:54,618 --> 00:40:55,994 Forgive me, Miss Dunbar. 581 00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,553 Holmes, I'd like to put you my case for believing 582 00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:16,264 that Mr. Gibson is the murderer of his wife. 583 00:41:16,390 --> 00:41:17,765 We have a man who by his own admission 584 00:41:17,892 --> 00:41:20,518 is used to breaking people who stand in his path, 585 00:41:21,187 --> 00:41:22,854 well his wife stood in his path. 586 00:41:23,022 --> 00:41:25,565 But then Miss Dunbar rejected him. Now what better- 587 00:41:25,941 --> 00:41:28,610 than to kill the one and incriminate the other? 588 00:41:32,740 --> 00:41:36,201 To kill the two birds with the one stone, so to speak. 589 00:41:36,702 --> 00:41:39,704 You don't believe that Gibson's confession was sincere? 590 00:41:39,830 --> 00:41:42,248 Wasn't it Bates who said he was plausible and cunning? 591 00:41:42,374 --> 00:41:45,126 His confession was a clever means to put us off the scent. 592 00:41:45,252 --> 00:41:46,544 Think of it like this. 593 00:41:47,379 --> 00:41:50,048 He somehow discovers that his wife has arranged a meeting. 594 00:41:50,174 --> 00:41:52,967 During the day he takes the two pistols from the box. 595 00:41:53,552 --> 00:41:56,221 One he conceals in the drawer of her wardrobe 596 00:41:57,264 --> 00:41:58,973 after discharging one barrel, 597 00:41:59,099 --> 00:42:02,101 which he could easily do in the woods without attracting attention. 598 00:42:03,229 --> 00:42:05,230 He is alone all that evening. 599 00:42:05,814 --> 00:42:09,067 He sees Miss Dunbar return and grasps his opportunity. 600 00:42:09,610 --> 00:42:13,404 He commits the deed and flings the murder weapon far into the lake. 601 00:42:21,163 --> 00:42:24,832 Holmes. 602 00:42:27,086 --> 00:42:31,548 Watson, I have been sluggish in mind 603 00:42:32,883 --> 00:42:36,177 and wanting in that mixture of imagination and reality 604 00:42:36,303 --> 00:42:38,805 which is the basis of my art. 605 00:42:40,724 --> 00:42:43,226 You have put me entirely to shame. 606 00:42:47,606 --> 00:42:50,149 You'll be hearing from me, Mr. Cummings 607 00:42:50,734 --> 00:42:53,111 with the help of the god of justice and my colleague, Dr. Watson. 608 00:42:53,237 --> 00:42:56,239 I will give you a case that will make England ring. 609 00:42:57,199 --> 00:43:01,452 Miss Dunbar you have my assurance that the clouds are lifting 610 00:43:02,037 --> 00:43:05,290 and the light of truth is breaking through. 611 00:43:05,416 --> 00:43:06,833 Come, Watson, come. 612 00:43:09,628 --> 00:43:14,632 We need our good friend Sergeant Coventry, a ball of stout twine, 613 00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:17,802 and a grappling hook. 614 00:43:17,970 --> 00:43:19,345 Grappling hook? 615 00:43:27,146 --> 00:43:28,313 Watson, I have some recollection 616 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,441 that you go armed on these little excursions of ours. 617 00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:32,650 Just as well for you that I do. 618 00:43:32,776 --> 00:43:35,612 More than once my revolver has been a good friend to you. 619 00:43:35,738 --> 00:43:37,989 You have little care of your own safety. 620 00:43:38,782 --> 00:43:42,327 Yes, I am inclined to be absent minded in these matters. 621 00:43:42,494 --> 00:43:44,245 Do you have your revolver on you? 622 00:43:49,627 --> 00:43:52,629 It's heavy, remarkably heavy. 623 00:43:52,755 --> 00:43:54,297 Solid bit of work. 624 00:43:54,465 --> 00:43:57,425 You know I believe this is going to have a very intimate connection 625 00:43:57,551 --> 00:44:02,013 with the mystery that we're investigating. Would you mind unloading it? 626 00:44:19,031 --> 00:44:20,865 Will you be at home this evening, Mr. Gibson? 627 00:44:21,033 --> 00:44:23,326 I shall have some news for you. 628 00:44:23,452 --> 00:44:26,621 You have half a day, Mr. Holmes. 629 00:44:49,228 --> 00:44:52,021 You have seen me miss my mark before, Watson. 630 00:44:52,356 --> 00:44:54,065 I have an instinct for such things, 631 00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:56,734 but it has sometimes played me false. 632 00:44:57,903 --> 00:45:01,572 We can but try, will you both stand exactly where the body lay? 633 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,330 Your theory about the gold king though admirable in its psychology 634 00:45:09,456 --> 00:45:12,250 did not quite adhere to the facts. 635 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:19,924 Visualize yourself in the character of a woman 636 00:45:20,592 --> 00:45:25,430 who in a cold premeditated fashion is about to get rid of her rival. 637 00:45:25,848 --> 00:45:30,935 I mean of course, Mrs. Maria Gibson. 638 00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:35,857 For all your deductions about Gibson being the perpetrator of this crime, 639 00:45:35,983 --> 00:45:40,737 substitute his wife. Imagine that it was she- 640 00:45:41,029 --> 00:45:43,406 who took the pistols from the gunroom, 641 00:45:43,949 --> 00:45:46,743 who fired the single shot in the woods, 642 00:45:46,952 --> 00:45:50,288 who placed the gun in Miss Dunbar's wardrobe. 643 00:45:51,874 --> 00:45:54,459 Cold, crafty, 644 00:45:55,669 --> 00:46:00,131 premeditated, down to the last detail. 645 00:46:12,644 --> 00:46:15,563 Was it ever an exact demonstration? 646 00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:19,108 My revolver, Holmes. 647 00:47:14,957 --> 00:47:17,083 A vindictive woman, 648 00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:22,213 a creature of the tropics, passionate, ill-balanced. 649 00:47:22,422 --> 00:47:24,340 Disguising her own crime and fostering 650 00:47:24,466 --> 00:47:27,218 a charge of murder upon an innocent victim. 651 00:48:11,930 --> 00:48:14,432 You have helped a remarkable woman, Holmes, 652 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,267 and a formidable man. 653 00:48:16,768 --> 00:48:19,979 And if it seems that unlikely they should join forces? 654 00:48:20,105 --> 00:48:22,064 Naturally, I would wish them well. 655 00:48:23,901 --> 00:48:25,818 Magnanimous of you, Watson.