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Oh.
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Oh, my dear.
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My dearest.
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I warned you, I said
do not go to near the edge.
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Why did you push me Baron?
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Dear wife, you're dreaming.
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No.
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Dying.
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Oh, my darling.
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Anything stirring Holmes?
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I know no more than this.
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There may be some fatty
self-important fool,
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it may be a matter
of life or death.
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Mmm, you grant this interview?
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I've already confirmed it.
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Do you know
anything of the man?
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Only that the name
Colonel Sir James Damery
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is a household word in society.
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I can tell you a little
bit more than that.
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He has rather the reputation
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for arranging delicate matters
which are to be kept out of the papers.
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He's a man of the world with
a natural turn for diplomacy.
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And then, therefore to hope
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it is not a false scent,
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that he has some real
need of our assistance.
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Our?
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If you'll be so good Watson.
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I shall be honored.
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Then until four-thirty o'clock
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we can put the
matter out of our heads.
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Mr. Holmes, we are
dealing on this occasion
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with the most
dangerous man in Europe.
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I've had several opponents to whom
that flattering term has been applied.
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A man to whom violence is familiar
and who will literally stick at nothing.
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Don't you smoke?
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Excuse my pipe.
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But if your man is more dangerous
than the late Professor Moriarty,
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he's indeed worth meeting.
May I ask his name?
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Have you ever
heard of Baron Gruner?
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The Austrian murderer?
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So you've already sized
him up as a murderer?
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It is our business to follow
the details of Continental crime.
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I'm sure that he killed his wife
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when that so called
accident happened
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at the Splugen Pass as
if I'd seen him do it.
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Just as I am certain that he
disposed the only witness,
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that innocent shepherd boy.
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Baron Gruner is now in England.
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Residing near Kingston I'm informed?
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That is so.
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Might I also suppose you will have
heard of General Merville?
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Khyber Pass fame.
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Indeed.
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General Merville has a daughter,
Violet.
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Young, rich, accomplished,
a wonder woman in every way.
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It is she an innocent,
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we are endeavoring to save
from the clutches of this fiend.
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He has some hold over her?
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The strongest of all where women
are concerned, Mr. Holmes.
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Ah, love.
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Exactly.
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In marrying you, my darling
all my past sins shall be absolved.
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These aren't sins you've told me of.
These are slanders.
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My angel.
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You were seduced,
as are all great men.
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Yet I am determined you shall know
my history, every part of it.
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Thus shall I come to the altar
purified in soul and spirit
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and worthy at last of your love?
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Just six weeks. Oh Adelbert.
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I cannot pretend my
past is without stain.
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No man born in poverty
who has created his own fortune
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can say that and speak
the truth, oh, no.
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I have been forced to many
a ruthless act, my dear.
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Where shall I begin?
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To observe, Mr. Holmes,
an atrocious event,
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preparing itself before your very
eyes and yet be powerless to avert it.
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Could anyone, any human being
be placed in a more trying position?
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Perhaps not.
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Well then you will sympathize with the
client in whose interest I am acting.
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I did not understand that
you were merely an intermediary,
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who is the principal?
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I beg of you not to
press that question.
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His name cannot be
dragged into this matter.
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His motives are to the
last degree honorable
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but he prefers to remain unknown.
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I need not say that your fees
will be assured, Mr. Holmes.
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And you will be
allowed a free hand.
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Surely the actual name of
your client is immaterial.
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I must decline to act,
Sir James, I'm sorry.
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I'm accustomed to having mystery
at one end of my cases
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but to have it at both
ends is too confusing. No.
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You place me in the
most serious dilemma.
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Dare I say, Mr. Holmes, you hardly
realize the affect of your own action.
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I have given my word not to reveal
the identity of my client.
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May I at the least lay
all I can before you?
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It is understood.
I commit myself to nothing.
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But of course, yes, yes.
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A perfect likeness.
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Who painted it?
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Hans of Innsbruck,
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a descendant of Claus the sculptor,
famous for his bronzes
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such as this.
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I shall commission Hans to attempt
your likeness, my precious.
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I love this room. It breathes of you.
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What's this?
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Your diary?
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No, no, it is,
it is my commonplace book.
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In it I record things I've seen,
read, admired, occasionally perhaps,
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a thought or two of my own.
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But it's locked.
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It is a little part of me,
besides a servant might pry.
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One day, perhaps,
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we shall look at it together.
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No, I respect your
privacy, my darling.
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We must all keep
something of our own,
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however much else we share.
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You are perfect.
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You must teach me about
porcelain, Adelbert.
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I shall.
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Collecting is such a pleasure
such a delight,
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it is a passion with me
just as you are, my precious.
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The villain has attached
himself to a lady
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with such effect that he has completely
and absolutely won her heart.
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She will not hear
one word against him.
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To sum up, she proposes
to marry him next month.
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As she of age and has a will of iron
that's hard to know how to prevent her.
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Does the infatuated young woman
know of the Swiss episode?
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The cunning devil has told her
every unsavory scandal of his past life
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but always in such a way as to make
himself out to be the innocent martyr.
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She accepts his version
and will listen to no one,
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not even her fathers.
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Dear me, Sir James,
have you not-
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inadvertently let out
the name of your client?
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The General?
Oh no, Dr. Watson,
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that strong soldier has been utterly
demoralized by this incident.
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Mrs. Hudson.
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You rang, sir?
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Will you deliver this to the
butcher's boy around the corner?
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That young rascal
with the funny eye?
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The other is invaluable
so is his bicycle.
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Sir.
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How may I keep in touch
with you, Sir James?
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You accept my commission?
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Let us just say that
your problem interests me.
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The Carlton Club will find me.
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And the Baron's exact
address in Kingston?
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Vernon Lodge, the large house,
he's a rich man.
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Speculators when successful
frequently are, Sir James.
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What further information
can you give us about the man?
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He has expensive tastes.
Collects books, pictures.
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Oh, and Chinese pottery.
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He's a recognized authority,
written a book upon the subject.
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Well, Sir James, you
may tell your client
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that I'm turning my attention
towards Baron Gruner.
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I have no doubt, Mr. Holmes,
you can easily trace my client.
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But I must ask you
as a point of honor
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to refrain from doing so.
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Do not, I beg you, break
in upon his incognito.
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I think I can safely promise that.
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Thank you.
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Dr. Watson.
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You're wasting your time, Watson.
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Now the career of General Merville
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might well give us a pointer as to
our client. He's clearly illustrious.
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But did you not hear, Sir James?
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His request was to you, Holmes.
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But that is shameful,
Watson, shameful
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besides our minds should be more
gainfully employed, desist.
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Any views?
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Have you none?
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Not yet.
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Beyond the one I've
already acted upon.
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The butcher's boy.
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More discreet than any telegraph.
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Well, I shall think you better see
the young lady yourself.
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Start with her.
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Well, if her poor broken down
father cannot move her,
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how can I, a complete
stranger prevail?
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Well, if all else fails.
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Perhaps.
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But first, the underworld.
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For it is among the
dark roots of crime
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that we must hunt
for Gruner's secrets.
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You've sent for Shinwell Johnson.
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I have but one insight,
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that Miss Merville might
well condone murder
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yet some smaller affair
that might...
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We shall see.
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They have engaged the very best.
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Show him in.
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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, sir.
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I rather thought I should see you
sooner or later, Mr. Holmes.
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You've been retained no
doubt by General Merville
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to prevent my marriage
with his daughter, Violet?
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That is so, is it not?
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Let me advise you very strongly,
Mr. Holmes, to draw off at once.
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Draw off?
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My dear man, you'll only ruin
your well-deserved reputation.
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This is not a case in which
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you can possibly hope
to succeed, draw off sir.
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It is curious but that is the very
advice that I've come to give you.
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Let me put it to you man to man.
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If you persist in this marriage,
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you will raise such a
swarm of powerful enemies,
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England would be
too hot to hold you.
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Surely you will be
wiser to draw off.
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Excuse my amusement, Mr. Holmes,
but it really is very funny
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seeing you trying to play a hand
with no cards in it
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Not a color card there, sir, nothing
but the smallest of the small.
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So you think.
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So I know, sir, so I know.
Let me make the thing clear to you.
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You consider your hand so strong
that you could afford to show it?
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Certainly, since it becomes
plain that in this instance
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you are clearly out of
your depth, Mr. Holmes.
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Could it be that your capabilities
have been subject to hyperbole?
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Your hand, show it.
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Won't you sit down?
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I think I shan't.
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Please yourself.
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Well, sir,
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it happens I have
been fortunate enough
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to win the entire
affection of Miss Merville.
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This in spite of the fact that
I have informed her clearly
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of all the unhappy
incidents in my past.
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I have warned her that certain
designing persons would come to her.
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I hope you recognize
yourself in this
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and would tell her of these things.
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I have instructed her
how to treat them.
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She is well prepared for you.
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She will no doubt
give you an appointment
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and she will listen.
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It will be to no avail, however.
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If you wish to speak,
now is your moment.
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No.
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This is not the moment.
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Oh, by the way, Mr. Holmes,
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did you know the
French agent Le Brun?
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Of course.
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So you know what befell him?
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He was beaten in the Lament
District of Paris and crippled for life.
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Quite so.
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By an odd coincidence, he had
been inquiring into my affairs.
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Don't do it, Mr. Holmes,
it's not a lucky thing.
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My last word to you
is you go your way,
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let me go mine.
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Mind you Gruner,
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because if you aspire to be
accepted into English Society
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you'll do well to remove the band
from your Havana before lighting it
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otherwise you'll be
put down for a bounder.
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Mrs. Hudson,
has Holmes returned?
251
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Not yet, sir, but there
are two visitors waiting.
252
00:18:17,430 --> 00:18:18,473
Thank you, Mrs. Hudson.
253
00:18:25,730 --> 00:18:26,439
Why Johnson.
254
00:18:26,564 --> 00:18:28,691
Evening, Doctor,
Mr. Holmes sent word to me.
255
00:18:28,817 --> 00:18:29,818
I know, Johnson, I know.
256
00:18:29,943 --> 00:18:30,944
And I brought Kit here...
257
00:18:31,069 --> 00:18:33,154
Mrs. Hudson, that's when
I was delayed at the museum
258
00:18:33,488 --> 00:18:34,989
and then the traffic,
259
00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,659
an omnibus overturned
on Great Russell Street,
260
00:18:38,409 --> 00:18:41,579
two dead a horse had to be
put down. Gentlemen forgive me,
261
00:18:41,788 --> 00:18:45,333
I was absorbed by the mysteries of me,
I quite forgotten the hour, madam.
262
00:18:47,001 --> 00:18:48,503
This is Miss Winter, Mr. Holmes,
263
00:18:48,628 --> 00:18:50,588
Kitty we call her and what she
don't know about Gruner.
264
00:18:50,839 --> 00:18:51,756
Of course, please.
265
00:18:52,340 --> 00:18:54,092
Well, Kitty can speak for herself.
266
00:18:54,217 --> 00:18:57,220
Anyway I put me hand right on her
within an hour of your message, sir.
267
00:18:57,595 --> 00:19:01,349
I'm easy to find.
Hell, London gets me every time,
268
00:19:01,683 --> 00:19:03,184
same address goes for Porky.
269
00:19:03,476 --> 00:19:06,688
Porky, is that your
nom de guerre Johnson?
270
00:19:07,063 --> 00:19:11,025
You have never revealed that.
Porky, well.
271
00:19:11,317 --> 00:19:12,902
We're old mates, Porky and me.
272
00:19:14,195 --> 00:19:17,031
But there's someone who ought to
be down in a lower hell than us
273
00:19:17,198 --> 00:19:19,033
and that's the man
you're after, Mr. Holmes.
274
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,035
I gather we have your
good wishes, Miss Winter?
275
00:19:21,244 --> 00:19:22,996
If I can help put
him where he belongs,
276
00:19:23,371 --> 00:19:25,081
I'm yours to the rattle, sir.
277
00:19:25,957 --> 00:19:28,543
Do you know what he intends,
how the matter stands?
278
00:19:29,794 --> 00:19:32,088
Porky tells me he's after
some other poor fool
279
00:19:32,964 --> 00:19:36,342
only this time he wants to marry her
and you want to stop it?
280
00:19:36,467 --> 00:19:37,051
Yes.
281
00:19:37,927 --> 00:19:39,721
Surely you know enough
about this devil
282
00:19:39,846 --> 00:19:41,264
to prevent any decent girl
in her senses
283
00:19:41,639 --> 00:19:43,308
wanting to have
anything to do with him.
284
00:19:43,474 --> 00:19:45,518
But she's not in her
senses, Miss Winter,
285
00:19:45,894 --> 00:19:49,355
she's madly in love and
she has been told all about it.
286
00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:50,565
She cares for nothing.
287
00:19:51,107 --> 00:19:52,859
Told about the murder of his wife?
288
00:19:53,067 --> 00:19:53,610
Yes.
289
00:19:55,069 --> 00:19:57,739
My lord, she must have a nerve.
290
00:19:58,198 --> 00:19:58,990
She has.
291
00:19:59,949 --> 00:20:01,826
Can't you lay proofs before her?
292
00:20:02,410 --> 00:20:03,620
Can you help us do so?
293
00:20:03,786 --> 00:20:04,829
I am proof.
294
00:20:06,164 --> 00:20:07,081
Living proof.
295
00:20:11,169 --> 00:20:14,756
If I was to stand before her
and tell her how he used me.
296
00:20:15,089 --> 00:20:16,049
Would you do this?
297
00:20:17,508 --> 00:20:20,094
Would I, would I not.
298
00:20:21,095 --> 00:20:22,472
It might be worth the trying.
299
00:20:23,431 --> 00:20:25,350
Oh he didn't tell her all, sir.
300
00:20:28,019 --> 00:20:28,686
All?
301
00:20:30,772 --> 00:20:32,023
He collected me,
302
00:20:33,775 --> 00:20:35,109
he collects women.
303
00:20:37,237 --> 00:20:40,615
I was an artist's model
a respectable artist's model.
304
00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:42,992
Of course, you sat for
that painting in his study.
305
00:20:43,451 --> 00:20:44,661
You've been to Kingston
306
00:20:46,162 --> 00:20:47,830
then you'll have seen all his crooks.
307
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,377
Women and china,
they're his twin passions.
308
00:20:53,711 --> 00:20:56,714
Gruner commissioned that
painting, and afterwards...
309
00:20:58,758 --> 00:20:59,467
and after...
310
00:21:04,472 --> 00:21:07,934
well, let's just say
I can never work again.
311
00:21:09,686 --> 00:21:10,270
Never.
312
00:21:13,064 --> 00:21:13,648
Never.
313
00:21:17,735 --> 00:21:21,823
I am exceedingly obliged
to you, Miss Winter,
314
00:21:23,616 --> 00:21:26,661
we shall indeed interview you
and Miss Merville together.
315
00:21:27,787 --> 00:21:29,998
My client will compensate
you most liberally.
316
00:21:30,123 --> 00:21:32,875
Oh, none of that, Mr. Holmes.
I'm not out for money.
317
00:21:34,168 --> 00:21:35,920
Just let me see
this man in the mud,
318
00:21:37,005 --> 00:21:40,925
in the mud with my foot in his face,
that's my price.
319
00:22:11,873 --> 00:22:14,917
From Kingston.
Thank you, Mrs. Hudson, no reply.
320
00:22:16,085 --> 00:22:17,170
Shall we dine?
321
00:22:22,216 --> 00:22:23,760
This is a death threat, Holmes.
322
00:22:24,052 --> 00:22:26,637
Did you expect anything less
from Baron Gruner?
323
00:22:27,638 --> 00:22:28,931
Holmes, have a care.
324
00:22:29,223 --> 00:22:32,769
Oh, Watson, come along.
We must eat.
325
00:22:56,667 --> 00:22:57,418
Come on girl.
326
00:23:42,171 --> 00:23:43,297
They ain't following no more.
327
00:23:43,464 --> 00:23:44,882
Don't you believe it.
328
00:23:51,055 --> 00:23:51,806
Yeah, what'd I say?
329
00:23:52,807 --> 00:23:55,852
Now you stand over there, Kitty,
there's a good girl.
330
00:23:56,644 --> 00:24:00,940
Right, who's first, you or you?
331
00:24:40,062 --> 00:24:43,941
Amateurs, they've done no time,
don't know nothing come on girl.
332
00:26:50,651 --> 00:26:52,987
There's two persons
wish to see you sir.
333
00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:54,780
Persons?
334
00:26:55,114 --> 00:26:58,326
I couldn't in honesty
term them gentlemen, sir.
335
00:27:00,995 --> 00:27:01,537
I'll come.
336
00:27:19,430 --> 00:27:20,222
Was he armed?
337
00:27:22,308 --> 00:27:22,850
No, sir,
338
00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:30,066
Go through to the kitchens, clean
yourselves up and clear out.
339
00:27:55,341 --> 00:27:58,177
I have agreed to this visit out of
respect for my father, Mr. Holmes,
340
00:27:58,302 --> 00:27:59,220
rather than for you.
341
00:28:00,429 --> 00:28:02,807
My fiancé assures me you are
no longer what you were,
342
00:28:04,058 --> 00:28:05,101
a spent force.
343
00:28:06,727 --> 00:28:07,603
And you, Miss Winter,
344
00:28:08,896 --> 00:28:11,107
surely you must
also be superfluous.
345
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,318
Our intentions are the best.
346
00:28:16,487 --> 00:28:17,905
We are here to aid you.
347
00:28:18,239 --> 00:28:18,823
Really?
348
00:28:19,949 --> 00:28:21,659
When you call to malign my fiancé?
349
00:28:22,535 --> 00:28:26,205
I am not renowned Miss Merville,
for the warmth of my affections
350
00:28:27,164 --> 00:28:28,958
but I can appreciate them in others.
351
00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:31,210
Had I a daughter,
352
00:28:31,335 --> 00:28:35,339
I should I hope feel for you
as the General does,
353
00:28:35,923 --> 00:28:37,925
nor is our concern
without foundation.
354
00:28:38,134 --> 00:28:41,095
There, the slander begins.
355
00:28:41,262 --> 00:28:44,515
No, I do not readily call upon
anyone to beg or to plead
356
00:28:45,224 --> 00:28:47,601
but in Baron Gruner, please,
I never speak idly.
357
00:28:48,060 --> 00:28:50,980
You've chosen not only
unwisely but dangerously.
358
00:28:52,773 --> 00:28:55,568
Marry him, Miss Merville,
and I assure you
359
00:28:56,569 --> 00:28:59,780
with all the knowledge I have
of the criminal mentality,
360
00:29:00,364 --> 00:29:02,950
you will be in mortal danger,
361
00:29:04,452 --> 00:29:07,580
just as the former baroness was,
she too was infatuated
362
00:29:08,914 --> 00:29:12,501
and paid the fatal price,
her life for a fortune.
363
00:29:12,877 --> 00:29:13,753
That's a lie.
364
00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:22,136
You are of course aware
that the Splugen Pass
365
00:29:22,261 --> 00:29:26,056
where your predecessor died runs
between Italy and Switzerland?
366
00:29:28,142 --> 00:29:29,518
What does the geography matter?
367
00:29:29,643 --> 00:29:30,603
A great deal.
368
00:29:31,812 --> 00:29:33,355
When you plan to hurl
a helpless woman
369
00:29:33,481 --> 00:29:36,192
off a cliff in one country
to break her neck in another.
370
00:29:37,276 --> 00:29:38,444
But it was an accident.
371
00:29:39,195 --> 00:29:40,571
Then why did the shepherd boy
372
00:29:40,821 --> 00:29:44,325
who saw the baroness fall
die of arsenical poison?
373
00:29:45,826 --> 00:29:50,331
His murderess whom Gruner had
seduced confessed at her trial
374
00:29:50,498 --> 00:29:53,501
that he'd obliged her
to administer the fatal substance
375
00:29:53,751 --> 00:29:57,505
or risk disfigurement for life
by oil of vitriol.
376
00:29:59,924 --> 00:30:03,677
Those are the facts,
Miss Merville, I beg you,
377
00:30:05,012 --> 00:30:07,765
picture the awful situation
you will find yourself in,
378
00:30:07,890 --> 00:30:12,102
if you only wake to your
fiancé's true character
379
00:30:12,978 --> 00:30:14,522
after you have married him.
380
00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:25,324
I have listened to you
with patience, Mr. Holmes.
381
00:30:27,868 --> 00:30:30,204
I am aware my fiancé
has had a stormy life
382
00:30:31,288 --> 00:30:34,291
in which he has incurred
most unjust aspersions.
383
00:30:35,835 --> 00:30:37,044
Possibly you mean well
384
00:30:38,629 --> 00:30:40,381
though I learn you are a paid agent.
385
00:30:42,424 --> 00:30:46,512
But in any case I love Baron Gruner
and he loves me.
386
00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:52,434
You have told me this
young lady's name
387
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,436
and that there is a
reason for her presence.
388
00:30:54,728 --> 00:30:56,021
I'll say there is.
389
00:30:56,313 --> 00:30:58,065
And what exactly are you,
Miss Winter?
390
00:30:58,899 --> 00:31:03,487
Me, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you what I am.
391
00:31:04,446 --> 00:31:08,576
I was his mistress that's who,
one of a hundred more.
392
00:31:09,159 --> 00:31:12,371
He's tempted, he used,
ruined and thrown aside,
393
00:31:12,496 --> 00:31:13,789
as he will you too.
394
00:31:13,914 --> 00:31:14,623
Please.
395
00:31:15,082 --> 00:31:17,293
You marry this man it'll
be the death of you.
396
00:31:18,085 --> 00:31:20,963
It may be a broken heart or
a broken neck but he'll have you.
397
00:31:21,171 --> 00:31:21,964
Oh really.
398
00:31:22,089 --> 00:31:23,257
You may think yourself different.
399
00:31:23,424 --> 00:31:25,634
Thank you, Kitty, you've made
yourself admirably clear.
400
00:31:27,177 --> 00:31:29,597
I'm aware of three occasions
in my fiance's life
401
00:31:29,722 --> 00:31:32,182
when he has become entangled
with designing women.
402
00:31:33,434 --> 00:31:35,811
And I'm assured by him
of his hearty repentance.
403
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,441
Him? Repent?
And only three?
404
00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:44,862
Oh, you fool, you stupid fool.
405
00:31:45,195 --> 00:31:46,030
Mr. Holmes,
406
00:31:47,281 --> 00:31:49,241
I have obeyed my father's wish
in seeing you
407
00:31:49,617 --> 00:31:52,703
but I'm not compelled to listen
to the slanderous ravings...
408
00:31:52,828 --> 00:31:53,787
Ravings?
409
00:31:55,372 --> 00:31:56,290
Ravings!
410
00:31:58,959 --> 00:31:59,960
Oh my god,
411
00:32:01,795 --> 00:32:02,796
I'll show you.
412
00:32:11,805 --> 00:32:12,473
Look.
413
00:32:14,683 --> 00:32:15,309
Look.
414
00:32:18,812 --> 00:32:19,647
You see that?
415
00:32:21,982 --> 00:32:25,653
And here, oil of vitriol.
416
00:32:27,321 --> 00:32:28,030
He did it.
417
00:32:29,156 --> 00:32:34,036
Oh, yes, he did it, your fiancé.
418
00:32:34,912 --> 00:32:38,040
That's a lie. It's a lie.
419
00:32:38,165 --> 00:32:38,916
Thank you, Kitty.
420
00:32:48,050 --> 00:32:51,387
You can tell the Baron that I shall
not rest until I bring him to justice.
421
00:33:00,396 --> 00:33:01,313
Miss Winter.
422
00:33:16,578 --> 00:33:18,080
Why Kitty, why?
423
00:33:18,831 --> 00:33:19,665
No please.
424
00:33:19,790 --> 00:33:21,250
Why did Gruner treat you so?
425
00:33:22,543 --> 00:33:25,796
Because...
no, I can't tell you, Mr. Holmes.
426
00:33:25,921 --> 00:33:27,172
You must at this instant.
427
00:33:27,506 --> 00:33:29,842
You said that he collects women,
what did you mean by that?
428
00:33:32,386 --> 00:33:33,804
It's a book he has.
429
00:33:34,596 --> 00:33:35,305
A book?
430
00:33:36,432 --> 00:33:41,311
Brown leather with a lock and
his coat of arms in gold on it.
431
00:33:42,062 --> 00:33:43,897
No, I can't speak of it.
432
00:33:44,023 --> 00:33:45,691
He keeps a record of his women?
433
00:33:47,443 --> 00:33:48,569
We're all in there.
434
00:33:49,695 --> 00:33:55,409
Photographs, names, details,
everything about us.
435
00:33:56,452 --> 00:33:58,287
He tried to make me
read it while he-
436
00:33:58,912 --> 00:34:00,539
oh, no, I can't.
437
00:34:00,664 --> 00:34:01,623
And when you refused?
438
00:34:02,708 --> 00:34:05,711
He went berserk.
He ran out of the room.
439
00:34:06,086 --> 00:34:10,257
I was trying to dress,
he come back in with this bottle.
440
00:34:11,050 --> 00:34:15,262
I was half-naked,
and he threw it straight at me.
441
00:34:18,432 --> 00:34:19,433
Where is this book?
442
00:34:19,767 --> 00:34:20,434
I don't know.
443
00:34:20,601 --> 00:34:21,101
Think.
444
00:34:21,268 --> 00:34:22,436
No, no.
445
00:34:22,561 --> 00:34:23,604
In the study in the bedroom?
446
00:34:23,771 --> 00:34:25,564
It's more than a year
since I was there.
447
00:34:25,689 --> 00:34:27,441
Than you can remember Kitty think.
448
00:34:27,566 --> 00:34:28,859
In the study,
449
00:34:32,362 --> 00:34:33,739
back of the bureau.
450
00:34:35,032 --> 00:34:36,033
Thank you, Kitty, thank you.
451
00:34:39,787 --> 00:34:42,289
Miss Winter's scars could
not move Miss Merville?
452
00:34:42,623 --> 00:34:45,125
She was shocked but
recovered instantly.
453
00:34:45,292 --> 00:34:48,295
Good heavens, it seems inhuman.
454
00:34:48,921 --> 00:34:51,590
I confess that part of me
could wish her joy with Gruner.
455
00:34:52,341 --> 00:34:54,927
Abandon her to her
fate after all this?
456
00:34:55,052 --> 00:34:56,845
When I compare
Miss Merville with Kitty
457
00:34:56,970 --> 00:34:59,681
whose spirit is as fine
as her body is blemished, yes.
458
00:35:00,224 --> 00:35:01,809
You wouldn't
withdraw from the case?
459
00:35:01,975 --> 00:35:03,102
Have no fear, Watson,
460
00:35:04,478 --> 00:35:06,647
My disgust with Miss Merville
counts as nothing against
461
00:35:06,814 --> 00:35:10,484
my determination to foil Gruner,
but one thing irks me,
462
00:35:11,610 --> 00:35:13,237
that I've not paid more regard
463
00:35:13,654 --> 00:35:15,823
to Kitty's deportment
when we first met,
464
00:35:15,989 --> 00:35:17,699
the manner in which
she dressed her hair.
465
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,160
Huh, it's late.
466
00:35:22,913 --> 00:35:23,705
We must be gone.
467
00:35:27,584 --> 00:35:28,836
I've got a mountain of work to do
468
00:35:28,961 --> 00:35:31,213
at the surgery Holmes
so I'll see you in the morning.
469
00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:32,714
Until tomorrow then.
470
00:35:47,688 --> 00:35:49,565
All right, Sherlock Holmes,
let's be having you.
471
00:35:49,690 --> 00:35:52,401
Ah and I can guess to
whom I owe this pleasure.
472
00:36:33,984 --> 00:36:35,277
Read all about it.
473
00:36:35,986 --> 00:36:38,071
Murderous attack
on Sherlock Holmes.
474
00:36:40,282 --> 00:36:42,409
Murderous attack
on Sherlock Holmes.
475
00:36:44,244 --> 00:36:45,537
Read all about it.
476
00:36:46,371 --> 00:36:48,207
Murderous attack
on Sherlock Holmes.
477
00:36:48,665 --> 00:36:52,419
Read all about it.
Read all about it.
478
00:36:53,253 --> 00:36:55,130
Murderous attack
on Sherlock Holmes.
479
00:37:14,399 --> 00:37:18,070
It's all right, Watson,
don't look so soared.
480
00:37:19,613 --> 00:37:20,572
You mustn't talk.
481
00:37:21,198 --> 00:37:24,117
Nonsense, I need to.
482
00:37:27,287 --> 00:37:28,330
What can I do, Holmes?
483
00:37:30,749 --> 00:37:32,459
Of course it was
that damned Austrian.
484
00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:37,589
Give me the word and I'm go
and thrash the hide off him.
485
00:37:38,382 --> 00:37:41,843
Good old Watson,
no,no,no,no.
486
00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,348
Was it the same pair that attacked
Johnson and Miss Winter?
487
00:37:47,808 --> 00:37:51,311
One may have been,
the other I doubt it.
488
00:37:53,063 --> 00:37:54,773
But...
489
00:37:56,525 --> 00:37:58,485
We must send a note to Johnson.
490
00:38:00,070 --> 00:38:02,823
Tell him to find a quiet suburb
for Kitty,
491
00:38:03,073 --> 00:38:06,076
She should stay there
until the danger has passed.
492
00:38:08,036 --> 00:38:08,870
And then,
493
00:38:11,665 --> 00:38:14,376
then we must exaggerate
my injuries.
494
00:38:15,085 --> 00:38:16,295
There's no need for that.
495
00:38:16,670 --> 00:38:19,673
Even so we must lay it
on thick for the press.
496
00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:22,342
I might not live the week out,
497
00:38:22,718 --> 00:38:25,178
concussion, delirium,
I don't care what would you like?
498
00:38:28,015 --> 00:38:30,225
They must receive
the gravest bulletins.
499
00:38:31,351 --> 00:38:32,269
Anything more?
500
00:38:33,228 --> 00:38:34,021
Yes.
501
00:38:35,939 --> 00:38:39,151
Put my pipe on the table
and the tobacco slip.
502
00:38:40,902 --> 00:38:43,613
You must rest not smoke.
503
00:38:45,741 --> 00:38:49,494
Very well, Doctor.
504
00:39:08,388 --> 00:39:12,059
Oh my dearest, every day
you become more precious to me.
505
00:39:17,564 --> 00:39:18,231
What is it?
506
00:39:19,775 --> 00:39:20,484
It's just that...
507
00:39:22,402 --> 00:39:24,071
must you really go to America?
508
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,865
Oh, my darling,
509
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,870
it's only a short trip, I have
important financial business,
510
00:39:31,995 --> 00:39:34,414
certain interests to
regulate in Chicago
511
00:39:34,581 --> 00:39:37,918
but I shall be back so soon,
in the twinkle of an eye.
512
00:39:38,293 --> 00:39:40,253
The late editions, sir.
513
00:39:41,254 --> 00:39:41,838
Thank you.
514
00:39:42,839 --> 00:39:44,007
Have you seen the papers?
515
00:39:44,758 --> 00:39:48,261
That poor man Holmes,
he sinks daily.
516
00:39:50,263 --> 00:39:51,515
I'm afraid you cannot expect me
517
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,643
to have very much sympathy with
Mr. Holmes and his misfortune.
518
00:39:55,727 --> 00:39:58,271
Mmm, encephalitis has set in.
519
00:40:03,193 --> 00:40:04,277
Have you seen the news?
520
00:40:04,403 --> 00:40:04,945
No.
521
00:40:05,112 --> 00:40:08,198
Gruner sails for America
on the Ruritania on Friday.
522
00:40:09,116 --> 00:40:10,617
News hits hard.
523
00:40:11,284 --> 00:40:14,413
Friday, that means he sails from
Liverpool not from Southampton.
524
00:40:15,539 --> 00:40:19,000
That little rascal means
to get away from us, but he won't,
525
00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:21,628
By the Lord Harry he won't.
526
00:40:23,964 --> 00:40:27,551
Watson, I need you to
do something for me.
527
00:40:27,676 --> 00:40:28,844
I'm here to be used.
528
00:40:30,303 --> 00:40:31,972
Then spend the next 24 hours
529
00:40:32,139 --> 00:40:34,641
in an intensive study
of Chinese pottery.
530
00:41:12,053 --> 00:41:17,976
Hung Wu, 1368-1390, 1368-1390...
531
00:42:19,454 --> 00:42:20,789
He's sleeping now, sir.
532
00:42:20,914 --> 00:42:22,082
That would be the morphine.
533
00:42:23,583 --> 00:42:25,418
You won't let the
lamp smoke, will you?
534
00:42:26,336 --> 00:42:29,005
No, no, no, you locked up below?
535
00:42:30,048 --> 00:42:33,051
I did that a while back,
there's murderous folk about.
536
00:42:33,343 --> 00:42:35,595
True, true.
537
00:42:36,596 --> 00:42:38,265
Don't drive yourself too hard, sir,
538
00:42:38,431 --> 00:42:40,559
you'll be good for
nothing in the morning.
539
00:42:40,684 --> 00:42:41,768
No, I shan't be long.
540
00:42:47,107 --> 00:42:51,695
Dr. Hill Barton, 369 Half Moon
Street Mayfair West, who's this?
541
00:42:52,112 --> 00:42:52,696
You.
542
00:42:53,947 --> 00:42:54,531
Me?
543
00:42:55,115 --> 00:42:57,117
That is your name this
evening, Dr. Hill Barton.
544
00:42:58,410 --> 00:42:58,952
It is?
545
00:42:59,119 --> 00:43:02,747
Yes, and you'll call upon Baron
Gruner about half past eight,
546
00:43:03,582 --> 00:43:04,791
He'll be disengaged.
547
00:43:05,792 --> 00:43:07,586
I sent a note telling
him that you'll call.
548
00:43:09,671 --> 00:43:13,592
Also, that you're bringing this.
549
00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:19,514
It is the real eggshell
of the Ming Dynasty.
550
00:43:21,182 --> 00:43:23,602
The complete set would
be worth a king's ransom.
551
00:43:24,144 --> 00:43:27,314
You are a collector.
The set has come your way.
552
00:43:28,607 --> 00:43:32,444
You've heard of the Baron's interest
and an investor is selling at a price.
553
00:43:33,820 --> 00:43:34,362
What price?
554
00:43:34,487 --> 00:43:37,490
We will not exaggerate if you say
it would hardly matched in the world.
555
00:43:38,158 --> 00:43:39,618
Sir James got it for me.
556
00:43:39,909 --> 00:43:41,995
It comes from a
collection of his client.
557
00:43:42,579 --> 00:43:45,332
Or I could say that
it should be valued by an expert.
558
00:43:45,498 --> 00:43:48,168
Oh, Watson, you scintillate today.
559
00:43:48,752 --> 00:43:50,170
I suggest Sotheby's or Christie.
560
00:43:51,254 --> 00:43:52,547
You're certain he'll see me?
561
00:43:52,839 --> 00:43:56,509
Oh, yes, it's the collection mania
in its most acute form.
562
00:43:58,553 --> 00:43:59,512
One last question, Holmes.
563
00:44:01,264 --> 00:44:03,058
Why have you made me
a broker in antiques?
564
00:44:04,017 --> 00:44:05,018
To gain time,
565
00:44:07,312 --> 00:44:10,190
the opportunity to acquire
the set such as this
566
00:44:10,815 --> 00:44:12,525
may persuade the Baron
567
00:44:13,151 --> 00:44:15,695
to postpone his visit
to the United States.
568
00:44:16,196 --> 00:44:17,280
Now I understand.
569
00:44:17,906 --> 00:44:19,366
Elementary psychology, Watson?
570
00:44:36,883 --> 00:44:38,218
Kingston please driver.
571
00:45:15,922 --> 00:45:16,756
Very fine.
572
00:45:23,304 --> 00:45:26,933
Very fine indeed.
573
00:45:32,605 --> 00:45:36,901
And you say you have
a set to correspond?
574
00:45:43,283 --> 00:45:47,704
I know of only one in
England to match it.
575
00:45:51,791 --> 00:45:55,795
Would it be indiscreet of me
576
00:45:55,962 --> 00:45:58,506
if I were to ask
how you obtained this?
577
00:46:03,011 --> 00:46:04,137
Does it really matter?
578
00:46:06,431 --> 00:46:07,515
Of course it matters
579
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,602
with precious objects such
as these provenance is all.
580
00:46:11,728 --> 00:46:13,354
Well you can see
the piece is genuine.
581
00:46:14,773 --> 00:46:19,068
As to the value I'm perfectly content
to take an expert's assessment.
582
00:46:21,446 --> 00:46:24,491
I had supposed you were
an expert, Dr. Hill Barton.
583
00:46:25,033 --> 00:46:27,285
I meant an independent assessment.
584
00:46:28,703 --> 00:46:29,412
Of course.
585
00:46:33,333 --> 00:46:36,711
I have some recently
acquired pieces of celadon.
586
00:46:36,836 --> 00:46:37,921
You might care to view?
587
00:46:39,756 --> 00:46:40,465
By all means.
588
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:41,508
Please.
589
00:46:50,141 --> 00:46:51,059
It's flawless.
590
00:46:52,644 --> 00:46:55,104
Typical 12th Century Sung, I'd say,
591
00:46:57,065 --> 00:46:57,690
wouldn't you?
592
00:47:01,027 --> 00:47:01,736
You're right.
593
00:47:09,619 --> 00:47:10,328
And this?
594
00:47:19,879 --> 00:47:23,800
That's an excellent example,
Ching Dynasty I should say...
595
00:47:24,843 --> 00:47:26,845
circa 265 A.D.
596
00:47:29,305 --> 00:47:30,056
Precisely.
597
00:47:36,771 --> 00:47:41,693
And these?
Typical of celadon, would you say?
598
00:47:41,943 --> 00:47:43,319
Give me time, give me time.
599
00:47:43,444 --> 00:47:44,988
I am giving you time, sir.
600
00:47:46,197 --> 00:47:46,823
Quite so.
601
00:47:48,074 --> 00:47:50,368
I should also be
interested in your views
602
00:47:50,493 --> 00:47:52,036
on the marks of the Hung Wu.
603
00:47:54,247 --> 00:47:55,582
Marks of the Hung Wu?
604
00:47:56,791 --> 00:47:58,376
That's a vexed question.
605
00:48:00,378 --> 00:48:01,880
Vexed question indeed, sir.
606
00:48:03,256 --> 00:48:05,508
There are no marks
on the genuine Hung Wu.
607
00:48:06,175 --> 00:48:07,677
This is intolerable, sir,
608
00:48:08,219 --> 00:48:09,429
I came here to do you a favor,
609
00:48:09,554 --> 00:48:12,056
not to be examined as
if I were a schoolboy.
610
00:48:12,432 --> 00:48:13,641
You came here to spy.
611
00:48:14,058 --> 00:48:14,851
Not so.
612
00:48:15,268 --> 00:48:18,479
You may have found it easy
to inveigle your way in here
613
00:48:18,605 --> 00:48:20,356
upon false pretenses
614
00:48:20,607 --> 00:48:25,820
but by god sir,
you shall find it harder to get out.
615
00:48:25,945 --> 00:48:29,198
Raise your hands above
your head, Dr. Watson.
616
00:48:33,369 --> 00:48:33,953
What's that?
617
00:48:36,414 --> 00:48:39,959
Holmes, you. Don't move.
618
00:48:43,796 --> 00:48:45,381
I shall shoot you through the head
619
00:48:47,091 --> 00:48:48,134
rather than the heart
620
00:48:50,303 --> 00:48:54,933
and inform the police.
I mistook you for a common burglar.
621
00:48:56,059 --> 00:48:59,854
That is a role that I've played
before with some success.
622
00:49:00,647 --> 00:49:05,068
Without any doubt, sir,
this will be your last time.
623
00:49:05,610 --> 00:49:06,152
Baron!
624
00:49:06,319 --> 00:49:06,861
Kitty!
625
00:49:12,116 --> 00:49:14,035
Be done by your debt.
626
00:49:14,661 --> 00:49:19,082
Doctor, doctor, help me, help me.
627
00:49:20,667 --> 00:49:22,001
Telephone the Baron's physician.
628
00:49:50,321 --> 00:49:53,199
Ah, Sir James forgive me for
summoning you at this late hour
629
00:49:53,449 --> 00:49:54,659
but there's no time to be lost.
630
00:49:54,784 --> 00:49:57,912
You must have this before
Scotland Yard bumbles in.
631
00:49:58,037 --> 00:49:58,997
Scotland Yard?
632
00:49:59,580 --> 00:50:01,916
Baron Gruner's bound to laid
a complaint against us,
633
00:50:02,041 --> 00:50:04,877
Watson as an impostor, myself
as a burglar, we were both.
634
00:50:05,003 --> 00:50:09,340
I diverted Gruner's attention
while Holmes procured that.
635
00:50:10,258 --> 00:50:11,342
You must show it to Miss Merville,
636
00:50:11,467 --> 00:50:13,845
she will find herself
one among a hundred.
637
00:50:14,345 --> 00:50:16,055
The account of what sports.
638
00:50:16,639 --> 00:50:19,767
Baron Gruner enjoyed
with his female victims
639
00:50:20,476 --> 00:50:23,187
may have perhaps at last
open Miss Merville's eyes.
640
00:50:23,604 --> 00:50:26,149
You've done wonders,
Holmes, wonders.
641
00:50:26,816 --> 00:50:28,151
Except for Kitty Winter.
642
00:50:29,318 --> 00:50:31,362
Watson explain, I must rest.
643
00:50:31,696 --> 00:50:34,073
Miss Winter is a former
mistress of Gruner's,
644
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:35,324
she followed me to Kingston,
645
00:50:35,450 --> 00:50:37,744
concealed about her
was a flask of vitriol.
646
00:50:37,869 --> 00:50:39,370
Which she unleashed upon Gruner.
647
00:50:39,495 --> 00:50:43,750
Severely damaging his right hand
and parts of his face.
648
00:50:44,709 --> 00:50:46,085
He will be disfigured for life.
649
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,758
But surely if these injuries are as
terrible as you described them
650
00:50:52,425 --> 00:50:53,926
then our purpose is
sufficiently gained...
651
00:50:54,093 --> 00:50:58,097
She'd love him the more
as a disfigured martyr, no.
652
00:50:59,766 --> 00:51:03,019
It is his moral side not his physical
which we have to destroy.
653
00:51:03,603 --> 00:51:06,856
That book will bring her down to earth
and I knew nothing else that could.
654
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,151
It's in his own handwriting,
she cannot get past it.
655
00:51:10,985 --> 00:51:13,738
Neither my client nor myself
can thank you enough, Holmes.
656
00:51:14,781 --> 00:51:16,574
Should either Miss Winter
or even you yourself.
657
00:51:16,699 --> 00:51:20,828
Be incommoded by the police,
do not hesitate to telephone me.
658
00:51:21,454 --> 00:51:22,789
Thank you, Sir James
but to tell the truth,
659
00:51:22,914 --> 00:51:26,626
I rarely if ever find myself
inconvenienced by Scotland Yard.
660
00:51:28,795 --> 00:51:29,337
Good night.
661
00:51:29,879 --> 00:51:30,671
Good night.
662
00:51:36,886 --> 00:51:38,387
I would like to
thank you too, Watson.
663
00:51:38,721 --> 00:51:40,640
Thank you, Sir James.
Oh, by the way...
664
00:51:43,976 --> 00:51:44,852
Ming dish.
665
00:51:45,645 --> 00:51:46,813
By Jove, yes.
666
00:51:46,938 --> 00:51:48,689
Worth a king's ransom I understand.
667
00:52:12,505 --> 00:52:13,131
Holmes.
668
00:52:15,675 --> 00:52:18,511
Holmes, I've discovered
the identity of our client.
669
00:52:18,678 --> 00:52:19,262
It's none other than the...
670
00:52:19,387 --> 00:52:21,472
A loyal friend and
a chivalrous gentleman,
671
00:52:21,597 --> 00:52:24,183
let that now and forever
be enough for us.