1 00:00:48,131 --> 00:00:52,426 My Dear Holmes, today I walked 14 miles across rough terrain 2 00:00:52,594 --> 00:00:55,763 and hardly a twinge from either my leg or my shoulder. 3 00:00:56,639 --> 00:00:59,725 The landscape is as handsome as it is reported. 4 00:01:00,351 --> 00:01:04,521 I still entertain the hope that I can prevail upon you to join me. 5 00:01:05,356 --> 00:01:09,109 I appreciate, of course that the beauties of nature mean little to you, 6 00:01:09,569 --> 00:01:14,281 but I believe you would have found some of the guests at my hotel most intriguing. 7 00:01:17,035 --> 00:01:21,538 Moral splendor is on display in the person of the striking Major Schlessinger, 8 00:01:21,790 --> 00:01:23,624 a hero of the Boer War, 9 00:01:24,042 --> 00:01:28,754 sadly crippled in the defense of Ladysmith and now engaged in charitable work. 10 00:01:29,631 --> 00:01:33,884 His nurse is a Miss Calder whose attentiveness suggests not only 11 00:01:34,010 --> 00:01:39,056 that she is his disciple but also that tenderer feelings may be involved. 12 00:01:40,308 --> 00:01:44,353 Most fascinating of all, however, is an extraordinary woman, 13 00:01:44,854 --> 00:01:47,648 one who would stand out in any society, 14 00:01:48,441 --> 00:01:51,026 the Lady Frances Carfax. 15 00:01:51,903 --> 00:01:54,571 I suppose one would call her modern 16 00:01:54,948 --> 00:01:58,992 except that she seems to come from an ancient line of English eccentrics. 17 00:01:59,494 --> 00:02:02,704 Yesterday, as if to confirm the general opinion of her oddity, 18 00:02:02,831 --> 00:02:07,209 she declared that she would sail herself to church across the lake. 19 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,542 There was much speculation in the hotel carriage 20 00:02:48,668 --> 00:02:52,004 as we traveled towards the charming little lakeside chapel 21 00:02:52,338 --> 00:02:55,549 about whether Lady Frances would be as good as her word. 22 00:02:55,884 --> 00:02:58,886 And those of us foolish enough to doubt her were soon rebuked 23 00:02:59,012 --> 00:03:01,680 by the sight of a skiff moored in the shallows 24 00:03:01,931 --> 00:03:05,767 and by the stern gaze of its captain when she greeted us within. 25 00:03:12,150 --> 00:03:15,694 A surprisingly jolly sermon, Vicar, I laughed like a cat. 26 00:03:16,863 --> 00:03:20,908 Well, she appears to care not a jot what her fellow guests make of her 27 00:03:21,075 --> 00:03:23,493 and seems quite insensible to the vivid impression 28 00:03:23,620 --> 00:03:25,746 she creates wherever she goes. 29 00:03:31,586 --> 00:03:35,756 We were all amused, certainly, at the sight of her trying to board the skiff, 30 00:03:36,216 --> 00:03:39,384 but since she had accomplished the outward journey with such skill, 31 00:03:39,510 --> 00:03:42,596 we had no reason to suppose that her return voyage 32 00:03:42,722 --> 00:03:44,765 would present her with any greater difficulty, 33 00:03:45,683 --> 00:03:48,310 or that it would end in the way that it did. 34 00:04:14,837 --> 00:04:16,672 I had decided to walk back across the fill 35 00:04:16,798 --> 00:04:18,257 so I was not amongst those who waited 36 00:04:18,383 --> 00:04:20,592 to cheer Lady Frances on her return. 37 00:04:21,219 --> 00:04:22,552 I arrived a little later 38 00:04:22,679 --> 00:04:26,306 at exactly the moment when tragedy threatened to strike. 39 00:04:27,225 --> 00:04:28,350 Help! 40 00:04:31,187 --> 00:04:32,771 Help, here! 41 00:04:35,817 --> 00:04:38,860 Help! 42 00:04:40,446 --> 00:04:44,074 I was helpless, my dear Holmes, helpless. 43 00:04:45,451 --> 00:04:48,287 I have never felt so powerless in my life, 44 00:04:48,663 --> 00:04:52,416 as powerless, so I thought, as the old soldier in his wheelchair 45 00:04:52,667 --> 00:04:55,335 who had only been able to shout, it seemed, for help. 46 00:04:56,546 --> 00:04:59,506 As with many men, I have noticed a weakness in one part of the body 47 00:04:59,632 --> 00:05:02,843 is compensated by great strength elsewhere. 48 00:05:05,138 --> 00:05:06,305 Unable to walk, 49 00:05:06,431 --> 00:05:10,142 Schlessinger was yet able to swim powerfully with his arms alone. 50 00:05:17,984 --> 00:05:21,194 Reinforcements arrived in due course from the hotel, 51 00:05:21,946 --> 00:05:24,698 and tragedy was happily averted. 52 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:27,034 Now, all parties are recovered, 53 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,246 it is reported that the Lady Frances is resentful of her rescue 54 00:05:31,372 --> 00:05:35,625 as if her suffragette principles had been somehow compromised. 55 00:05:36,878 --> 00:05:40,922 All agree at any rate that Major Schlessinger is the hero of the hour. 56 00:05:42,425 --> 00:05:47,095 Miss Calder's attentions are now translated into patent adoration. 57 00:05:48,139 --> 00:05:50,223 No doubt further praise will be in order 58 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:53,935 when he lectures on his missionary activities at the hotel tomorrow. 59 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,731 He is, by the way, the British representative of 60 00:05:57,899 --> 00:06:00,317 the Mission Church of Christ the Healer 61 00:06:00,735 --> 00:06:04,029 whose theater works in the high Andes of Peru. 62 00:06:13,498 --> 00:06:14,706 Morning. 63 00:06:18,753 --> 00:06:20,921 Major Schlessinger is avoiding me. 64 00:06:21,589 --> 00:06:24,257 The poor man is embarrassed by his own heroism. 65 00:06:25,510 --> 00:06:28,678 Perhaps he now thinks I'm obliged to contribute to his work. 66 00:06:29,931 --> 00:06:33,100 Men have such extraordinary weaknesses. 67 00:06:33,810 --> 00:06:34,893 Don't you think? 68 00:06:35,603 --> 00:06:39,314 Oh, yes, certainly, we do, of course, I agree. 69 00:06:40,441 --> 00:06:44,194 Would you care to take a turn by the lake, Doctor? 70 00:06:59,127 --> 00:07:03,463 Major Schlessinger works tirelessly for his church, does he not? 71 00:07:03,756 --> 00:07:07,676 I understand the need for funds is considerable. 72 00:07:08,261 --> 00:07:10,887 He's lecturing on his cause tomorrow here in the hotel 73 00:07:11,013 --> 00:07:12,180 hoping to raise some money. 74 00:07:12,306 --> 00:07:13,557 He'll do well. 75 00:07:14,183 --> 00:07:16,476 The local matronage will happily part with half a guinea each 76 00:07:16,644 --> 00:07:20,147 for the company of such a man albeit in public. 77 00:07:21,649 --> 00:07:22,941 Do I shock you? 78 00:07:23,151 --> 00:07:24,234 Not at all. 79 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:25,819 I shock my brother. 80 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,865 As the Earl of Rufton, I think he feels it is his duty to be shocked. 81 00:07:31,409 --> 00:07:33,660 Oh, it's very beautiful here, isn't it? 82 00:07:35,955 --> 00:07:39,374 I spent every summer of my childhood here by this lake. 83 00:07:41,961 --> 00:07:43,336 It's very beautiful. 84 00:07:43,671 --> 00:07:44,880 It is indeed. 85 00:07:47,842 --> 00:07:49,342 He's to visit me tomorrow. 86 00:07:49,927 --> 00:07:50,719 Who? 87 00:07:50,845 --> 00:07:52,012 My brother. 88 00:07:52,513 --> 00:07:54,306 That is duty, too, of course. 89 00:07:57,852 --> 00:07:59,060 Damn him. 90 00:08:00,897 --> 00:08:02,189 Damn him! 91 00:08:22,668 --> 00:08:24,544 Ah, Lady Frances! 92 00:08:26,422 --> 00:08:27,923 What a pleasant surprise! 93 00:08:29,425 --> 00:08:33,512 I must confess that her behaviour continues to fascinate me. 94 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:38,850 I grant that her reaction to this unknown horseman was extreme, 95 00:08:39,227 --> 00:08:41,311 but many of her reactions are. 96 00:08:42,104 --> 00:08:43,897 Had she known him, I wonder? 97 00:08:44,690 --> 00:08:48,068 What lies in her past to prompt this fear of him? 98 00:08:49,529 --> 00:08:50,820 In looking for an explanation, 99 00:08:50,947 --> 00:08:53,782 I am placing some hopes in the visit we expect this afternoon 100 00:08:53,908 --> 00:08:56,368 from her brother, the Earl of Rufton. 101 00:08:57,245 --> 00:09:00,372 By all accounts, his oddities are of an entirely different order 102 00:09:00,498 --> 00:09:02,165 from those of his sister. 103 00:09:02,750 --> 00:09:04,376 Where she flouts convention, 104 00:09:04,502 --> 00:09:08,755 he has raised the conventions of a former era to the status of a faith. 105 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:14,344 As for myself, I notice an increasing indifference 106 00:09:14,470 --> 00:09:16,846 to the natural beauty which lies about me. 107 00:09:17,473 --> 00:09:21,059 My thoughts return constantly to the Lady Frances. 108 00:09:21,978 --> 00:09:25,397 There is something about her life which prompts my sympathy, some- 109 00:09:25,940 --> 00:09:29,609 unhappiness I can sense which I would dearly like to dispel. 110 00:09:31,153 --> 00:09:34,614 It is to be hoped that her spirits will be lifted by her brother's visit, 111 00:09:35,283 --> 00:09:39,035 for she remains subdued from yesterday's strange encounter. 112 00:09:41,831 --> 00:09:43,206 Who is he, Holmes? 113 00:09:44,125 --> 00:09:46,793 Why does he not wish to make himself known? 114 00:09:51,340 --> 00:09:53,133 Why indeed? 115 00:10:15,323 --> 00:10:17,532 Watson, you're a brick, 116 00:10:19,076 --> 00:10:22,120 I came here, Fanny, to see how you were, not to be lectured. 117 00:10:22,246 --> 00:10:23,580 It's not a lecture, it's a request. 118 00:10:23,706 --> 00:10:24,706 It sounds like a lecture. 119 00:10:24,832 --> 00:10:26,791 It's quite simple, I need some money. 120 00:10:26,917 --> 00:10:28,043 Just like that? 121 00:10:28,669 --> 00:10:30,795 I suppose you've been overdoing it again, haven't you? 122 00:10:30,921 --> 00:10:32,756 I do not "overdo" it, John. 123 00:10:32,882 --> 00:10:35,842 If I have ever overspent the wretched allowance you give me, 124 00:10:35,968 --> 00:10:37,636 it's because someone has been in need. 125 00:10:37,762 --> 00:10:40,639 Oh, yes, your famous heart of gold, 126 00:10:40,765 --> 00:10:43,266 except that it's my money and there isn't any. 127 00:10:43,392 --> 00:10:47,020 You know perfectly well there isn't. The hall is falling to bits. 128 00:10:47,188 --> 00:10:50,690 There's a family of owls in the East Wing and you think... 129 00:10:51,525 --> 00:10:56,196 What is it this time? Helping penniless poets in Islington? 130 00:10:57,031 --> 00:10:59,074 You only know how to be cruel, don't you? 131 00:10:59,492 --> 00:11:01,701 When have you ever cared for what I want? 132 00:11:01,827 --> 00:11:05,038 The last 15 years of my life have been wretched. 133 00:11:05,164 --> 00:11:07,248 And now, at last, I had a chance 134 00:11:07,375 --> 00:11:10,210 to make something of it. Doesn't that have any meaning for you? 135 00:11:19,970 --> 00:11:21,137 Good afternoon. 136 00:11:23,474 --> 00:11:26,393 The difference it makes is that I'm being told what to do. 137 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:27,894 You know I loathe it. 138 00:11:28,104 --> 00:11:30,397 The trouble is you won't even take advice, will you? 139 00:11:30,523 --> 00:11:32,565 You've been offered everything. You've turned it all down. 140 00:11:32,733 --> 00:11:33,441 What have I been offered? 141 00:11:33,567 --> 00:11:35,735 Marriage. Good marriages. 142 00:11:38,030 --> 00:11:41,491 To be the unpaid slave of a titled yokel 143 00:11:41,784 --> 00:11:43,118 who hasn't even read a book, 144 00:11:43,244 --> 00:11:45,787 who thinks Bach is something terriers do? 145 00:11:45,913 --> 00:11:47,747 All right, all right. 146 00:11:47,957 --> 00:11:50,583 What have you got against me doing this? What? 147 00:11:51,669 --> 00:11:55,088 I want to get out of this miserable mess my life is in, 148 00:11:55,589 --> 00:11:58,425 to be my own woman, for God's sake, 149 00:11:58,551 --> 00:12:02,470 to fulfill just a portion of my life. 150 00:12:02,596 --> 00:12:05,974 Why do you always hold me back? 151 00:12:08,477 --> 00:12:11,104 Think of it, John, think of it. 152 00:12:12,064 --> 00:12:14,107 Just one payment. One. 153 00:12:14,608 --> 00:12:16,317 You could see the back of me forever. 154 00:12:16,986 --> 00:12:20,488 The mule express, as we have dubbed it, 155 00:12:20,614 --> 00:12:23,783 brings the mail once a month, letters, of course, 156 00:12:23,951 --> 00:12:26,995 and food for the mind from the Library of Christ. 157 00:12:27,455 --> 00:12:30,457 And medicines for the well being of my flock 158 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:35,670 whom you may see here posing outside the mission 159 00:12:35,796 --> 00:12:37,589 below a temporary belfry. 160 00:12:38,632 --> 00:12:40,592 When I show you the next picture 161 00:12:40,968 --> 00:12:43,511 of a leading member of my congregation, 162 00:12:43,763 --> 00:12:47,640 you will understand how the parable of the shepherd and the lost sheep 163 00:12:47,767 --> 00:12:49,601 has become transmuted in our teaching 164 00:12:49,727 --> 00:12:52,854 into that of the llama herd and the lost llama. 165 00:12:54,857 --> 00:12:57,609 And finally, our church. 166 00:12:58,235 --> 00:13:02,447 Humble as it is rough and poor indeed, 167 00:13:02,656 --> 00:13:04,407 I'm proud to tell you that the word of God 168 00:13:04,533 --> 00:13:07,827 is preached as fervently within its walls 169 00:13:08,454 --> 00:13:11,080 and is as joyously received there 170 00:13:11,373 --> 00:13:14,167 as in any great cathedral here at home. 171 00:13:24,178 --> 00:13:28,723 Thank you, thank you. It was inspiring as I predicted. 172 00:13:29,058 --> 00:13:32,227 I regret to say that the rigours of his itinerary 173 00:13:32,353 --> 00:13:34,813 press hard upon Major Schlessinger 174 00:13:34,939 --> 00:13:37,690 who will shortly be departing for Whitehaven. 175 00:13:38,025 --> 00:13:39,442 We shall be taking up a collection 176 00:13:39,568 --> 00:13:42,737 on behalf of his estimable mission, of course. 177 00:13:43,614 --> 00:13:44,239 What do you mean? 178 00:13:44,365 --> 00:13:46,866 I mean that the remedy lies in your own hands. 179 00:13:47,034 --> 00:13:47,909 How? 180 00:13:48,202 --> 00:13:49,369 You know how. 181 00:13:49,537 --> 00:13:52,163 If you're really serious, you'll know what to do! Damn it! 182 00:13:52,289 --> 00:13:55,458 I'm sick of you coming to me with these crackpot notions. 183 00:13:55,584 --> 00:13:57,335 You know my responsibilities. 184 00:13:57,670 --> 00:13:59,170 If you hadn't thrown away all your chances, 185 00:13:59,296 --> 00:14:00,922 you wouldn't be in this position now. 186 00:14:01,048 --> 00:14:02,257 Well, I've had enough. 187 00:14:04,468 --> 00:14:07,720 You know what you have to do. Grow up and do it! 188 00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:09,097 My last resort. 189 00:14:09,223 --> 00:14:12,141 My very last resort! How can you suggest it? 190 00:14:12,893 --> 00:14:16,396 Groom! 191 00:14:17,231 --> 00:14:18,857 Where the devil are you? 192 00:15:04,486 --> 00:15:07,405 In which room is Mr. Schlessinger's meeting taking place? 193 00:15:07,531 --> 00:15:10,450 I am afraid the meeting finished half an hour ago, Madam. 194 00:15:10,659 --> 00:15:13,119 Mr. Schlessinger will have left for Whitehaven by now. 195 00:15:13,287 --> 00:15:17,749 Oh, yes. Yes, I've forgotten. Thank you. 196 00:15:22,212 --> 00:15:23,463 Lady Frances! 197 00:15:33,182 --> 00:15:35,808 Leave me alone. 198 00:15:39,813 --> 00:15:41,147 Excuse me. 199 00:15:42,191 --> 00:15:43,358 You, sir! 200 00:15:45,444 --> 00:15:49,113 I've no doubt you will tell me my fears are unfounded, Holmes, 201 00:15:49,239 --> 00:15:52,992 but the repeated appearance of this man has cast a shadow over her life 202 00:15:53,118 --> 00:15:55,954 which, try as she might, she cannot lift. 203 00:16:09,051 --> 00:16:11,177 Evening paper, Mr. Holmes. 204 00:16:20,521 --> 00:16:23,064 Mrs. Hudson, fetch me a cab! 205 00:17:20,664 --> 00:17:24,333 Mrs. Hudson. As soon as the telegraph office is open, 206 00:17:26,545 --> 00:17:31,632 to Dr. John Watson, Lake Hotel, Felmire, Cumberland. 207 00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:33,843 But Mr. Holmes? 208 00:17:33,969 --> 00:17:36,262 I shall not be here, Mrs. Hudson. 209 00:17:36,430 --> 00:17:37,263 Dr. Watson. 210 00:17:37,431 --> 00:17:40,433 I shall be on the 8:17 out of Euston. 211 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:42,143 Dr. Watson! 212 00:17:42,269 --> 00:17:45,104 My cab awaits you downstairs. 213 00:17:46,106 --> 00:17:47,231 Read. 214 00:17:47,357 --> 00:17:48,149 Mr. Holmes... 215 00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:49,400 Read! 216 00:17:52,237 --> 00:17:58,242 "Grave danger Lady Frances, stop. Never let from sight, stop." 217 00:17:58,577 --> 00:18:01,162 "On my way, Holmes." 218 00:18:01,455 --> 00:18:02,955 How long has this been here? 219 00:18:39,326 --> 00:18:40,660 Holmes. 220 00:18:43,831 --> 00:18:45,331 Disappeared, Watson. 221 00:18:48,919 --> 00:18:50,169 Disappeared. 222 00:18:50,546 --> 00:18:52,755 Did Lady Frances pay her bill? 223 00:18:52,881 --> 00:18:53,631 No, sir. 224 00:18:53,757 --> 00:18:56,634 Did she order any transport? 225 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,177 No, sir. 226 00:18:58,345 --> 00:18:59,929 And she took none of her luggage? 227 00:19:00,055 --> 00:19:01,806 We think not, sir. 228 00:19:03,433 --> 00:19:04,851 Where is Mr. Holmes? 229 00:19:09,022 --> 00:19:10,565 Nothing yet, Holmes. 230 00:19:13,193 --> 00:19:14,902 I'm beginning to fear the worst. 231 00:19:15,195 --> 00:19:17,613 I blame myself. I knew I should have pursued that fellow. 232 00:19:17,739 --> 00:19:19,323 It is a possibility. 233 00:19:21,034 --> 00:19:21,868 What is? 234 00:19:21,994 --> 00:19:24,328 Do you not see it? It is most conspicuous. 235 00:19:25,122 --> 00:19:28,124 The skiff, Watson, the sailing skiff. 236 00:19:28,250 --> 00:19:28,916 It's not here. 237 00:19:29,042 --> 00:19:30,209 Precisely. 238 00:19:30,586 --> 00:19:34,547 It is possible there lies the Lady Frances Carfax silent road to Arranside. 239 00:19:34,673 --> 00:19:36,507 It is the nearest railhead as you know. 240 00:19:36,633 --> 00:19:39,594 You don't mean that this fellow abducted her by boat? 241 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:44,682 Silk. It is one of the three more likely possibilities. 242 00:19:46,059 --> 00:19:49,854 Best French sewn, dove gray. 243 00:19:50,063 --> 00:19:51,772 She had a gray silk shawl. 244 00:19:51,899 --> 00:19:52,940 No, that will tell us nothing more. 245 00:19:53,066 --> 00:19:55,067 What other three possibilities, Holmes? 246 00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:56,319 In what did she usually wear the shawl? 247 00:19:56,445 --> 00:19:59,614 Oh, her outside clothes. The three possibilities? 248 00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:02,074 She may have run away with her intended abductor. 249 00:20:02,242 --> 00:20:05,411 He may have abducted her by boat as you suggest or by some other means. 250 00:20:05,579 --> 00:20:08,289 She may, considering her emotional condition, 251 00:20:08,457 --> 00:20:09,707 have been deceived into going with him. 252 00:20:09,833 --> 00:20:12,418 I can hardly believe that. She was terrified of him, believe me. 253 00:20:12,544 --> 00:20:13,669 I believe you. 254 00:20:15,756 --> 00:20:16,756 Yes. 255 00:20:17,758 --> 00:20:20,509 A stray chicken In the world of foxes. 256 00:20:21,136 --> 00:20:23,721 Once she's gobbled up, she's hardly missed. 257 00:20:24,514 --> 00:20:27,975 Come, Watson. And our horses should be saddled by now. 258 00:20:28,101 --> 00:20:28,768 Horses? 259 00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:31,437 I have been somewhat extravagant in choice of mounts, 260 00:20:31,605 --> 00:20:34,106 but delay must be dangerous in this matter. 261 00:20:34,233 --> 00:20:36,609 We should be at Rufton Hall at dusk. 262 00:20:45,911 --> 00:20:48,788 I don't see what possible interest it could have for you, sir. 263 00:20:48,914 --> 00:20:50,414 Considerable interest I assure you. 264 00:20:50,540 --> 00:20:52,458 One of the most dangerous classes in the world 265 00:20:52,584 --> 00:20:54,794 is the drifting and friendless woman 266 00:20:55,045 --> 00:20:57,046 with no one to protect and guide her. 267 00:20:57,172 --> 00:21:00,341 She is the inevitable inciter of crime in others. 268 00:21:01,301 --> 00:21:05,680 I treat the disappearance of your sister with utmost seriousness. 269 00:21:06,139 --> 00:21:07,807 Do you think I do not? 270 00:21:08,141 --> 00:21:09,934 I'm merely suggesting that it is frivolous 271 00:21:10,060 --> 00:21:13,104 to keep from me the substance of your quarrel. 272 00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:14,647 It was after all 273 00:21:14,815 --> 00:21:17,608 this quarrel which immediately preceded her disappearance. 274 00:21:19,903 --> 00:21:23,364 Might it have something to do with a drunken poet she once knew? 275 00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:28,911 I understand of my colleague that she may have seen him recently. 276 00:21:29,329 --> 00:21:30,579 Green? 277 00:21:32,499 --> 00:21:34,333 I thought I'd seen the last of him. 278 00:21:36,878 --> 00:21:40,006 I sent him packing 15 years ago. 279 00:21:40,173 --> 00:21:42,091 What is his connection with your sister? 280 00:21:42,342 --> 00:21:45,761 He used to court her, great brute of a fellow. 281 00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:47,680 She wouldn't have anything to do with him. 282 00:21:48,682 --> 00:21:53,894 The Honorable Philip Green. Never was a title so abused. 283 00:21:54,396 --> 00:21:57,940 He went to the dogs completely, drink, gambling. 284 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,445 Ended up destitute in Islington pretending to write poetry. 285 00:22:03,447 --> 00:22:07,158 Of course, Frances became interested in him as soon as he lost everything. 286 00:22:07,534 --> 00:22:09,577 How did you send him packing? 287 00:22:11,288 --> 00:22:14,123 He was a violent fellow, and he drank. 288 00:22:14,708 --> 00:22:18,210 I'd heard talk of prosecution, debt, assault. 289 00:22:18,420 --> 00:22:22,423 I gave him 100 pounds and bought him a ticket to Australia. 290 00:22:23,216 --> 00:22:25,551 Show his face around here, I'll set the dogs on him. 291 00:22:25,719 --> 00:22:29,430 Now, your quarrel with your sister. 292 00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:35,644 Money. She wanted money. 293 00:22:36,438 --> 00:22:37,730 She has none of her own? 294 00:22:38,065 --> 00:22:40,107 I make her an allowance out of the estate. 295 00:22:40,442 --> 00:22:43,319 It's modest, but you've seen the place. 296 00:22:43,487 --> 00:22:45,029 She has no assets herself? 297 00:22:47,115 --> 00:22:50,826 Yes, she has. 298 00:22:52,621 --> 00:22:55,790 I told her if she wanted money, she could sell this. 299 00:22:57,084 --> 00:22:59,043 It's a priceless collection. 300 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,843 That was designed for the French royal family by Fragonard. 301 00:23:08,261 --> 00:23:11,764 We acquired it all at the revolution, and now, it's hers. 302 00:23:12,933 --> 00:23:17,061 What I have is owls, owls in the East Wing. 303 00:23:17,187 --> 00:23:18,604 Want to see the owls? 304 00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:24,068 Where does she keep them? Does she travel with them? 305 00:23:25,153 --> 00:23:26,028 No. 306 00:23:26,154 --> 00:23:27,780 Well, now, where are they kept? 307 00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:33,661 My Lord, your sister has vanished! 308 00:23:34,788 --> 00:23:36,789 How and why we do not know, 309 00:23:37,874 --> 00:23:40,918 but I have reason to believe that she is in the gravest danger. 310 00:23:42,170 --> 00:23:43,754 Were we to know the whereabouts of the jewelry, 311 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,715 we might have some chance of saving her. 312 00:23:49,302 --> 00:23:52,096 The Oxford and Lombard Maritime Bank in Pall Mall. 313 00:23:52,806 --> 00:23:53,931 Thank you. 314 00:23:59,354 --> 00:24:04,567 The Oxford and Lombard Bank opens its doors in 12 hours. 315 00:24:29,968 --> 00:24:31,886 She may already have come and gone. 316 00:24:32,929 --> 00:24:34,805 The bank's been open for 20 minutes. 317 00:25:09,424 --> 00:25:11,800 I've been quite blind, Holmes. 318 00:25:12,219 --> 00:25:15,596 I had the evidence in the palm of my hand. If anything's happened... 319 00:25:15,722 --> 00:25:17,598 Calm yourself, my dear friend. 320 00:25:22,729 --> 00:25:24,271 Holmes, look! 321 00:25:28,151 --> 00:25:29,902 May I help you, sir? 322 00:25:31,321 --> 00:25:34,698 Yes, please, I wish to see the manager, Sir Paulo McNeil. 323 00:25:34,824 --> 00:25:37,535 It's a private matter concerning a family deposit with the bank. 324 00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:38,702 My colleague... 325 00:25:45,544 --> 00:25:46,418 Watson! 326 00:25:46,711 --> 00:25:47,628 You, sir. 327 00:25:48,421 --> 00:25:52,132 You, sir! What have you done with the Lady Frances Carfax? 328 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:54,260 I insist upon an answer. 329 00:26:03,061 --> 00:26:05,396 Mr. Green, sir, please excuse my friend. 330 00:26:05,522 --> 00:26:08,148 He spent the last night on the Carlisle rail express. 331 00:26:08,275 --> 00:26:11,443 No, Watson, please, please. 332 00:26:18,785 --> 00:26:28,419 Frances! 333 00:26:57,324 --> 00:26:58,449 I blame myself. 334 00:26:58,575 --> 00:27:01,118 No, you need not. 335 00:27:03,204 --> 00:27:04,747 Nevertheless, I do. 336 00:27:07,375 --> 00:27:09,293 We all bear equal blame. 337 00:27:09,961 --> 00:27:12,087 She's disappeared again, and that is that. 338 00:27:13,423 --> 00:27:15,674 It is pointless to dwell on it. 339 00:27:17,427 --> 00:27:19,720 Our task now is to find her. 340 00:27:20,847 --> 00:27:22,348 Mr. Green, 341 00:27:22,682 --> 00:27:25,351 let us go back to that moment by the lake yesterday morning. 342 00:27:26,561 --> 00:27:29,021 I was out riding in the dawn 343 00:27:29,147 --> 00:27:33,692 and I saw the skiff sailing across the lake toward Arranside. 344 00:27:34,152 --> 00:27:36,278 And you realized that it was the Lady Frances? 345 00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:37,446 Yes. 346 00:27:37,572 --> 00:27:38,656 Was she alone? 347 00:27:39,032 --> 00:27:39,865 Yes. 348 00:27:40,909 --> 00:27:42,076 Please continue. 349 00:27:42,869 --> 00:27:44,787 I managed to board the same train. 350 00:27:46,039 --> 00:27:47,790 I begged her to speak to me. 351 00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:53,295 I told her how I'd traveled the world and had become a very rich man. 352 00:27:54,923 --> 00:27:57,925 I told her that I'd never stopped loving her, 353 00:27:59,260 --> 00:28:01,720 and that she could have whatever she wanted. 354 00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:05,683 I can see her now. 355 00:28:06,643 --> 00:28:10,979 She sat saying nothing, smiling like a sphinx. 356 00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:18,987 "No," she said... She wanted to go her own way. 357 00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:23,492 When we got to London, I followed her as best I could, 358 00:28:23,618 --> 00:28:27,913 but she seemed determined to be rid of me. 359 00:28:29,416 --> 00:28:31,625 I lost her somewhere near Sellick Bridge. 360 00:28:32,168 --> 00:28:35,254 Sellick? Oh, that is most interesting. 361 00:28:36,339 --> 00:28:37,214 Why? 362 00:28:37,674 --> 00:28:41,635 I'm reliably informed that his usual haunts are west of Westminster. 363 00:28:42,762 --> 00:28:44,054 Who's haunts? 364 00:28:44,431 --> 00:28:46,557 How did you come to be at the bank? 365 00:28:46,933 --> 00:28:49,685 I reasoned that she would be needing money while she was in London, 366 00:28:49,811 --> 00:28:52,896 and I know the address of the family bank well enough. 367 00:28:53,273 --> 00:28:56,650 I had the wild idea of enlisting the manager's help. 368 00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:02,823 Do you know where she is, Mr. Holmes? 369 00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:09,872 No, I do not. 370 00:29:10,582 --> 00:29:12,458 Where do you think she is? 371 00:29:13,084 --> 00:29:15,586 I believe that through our efforts to save her, 372 00:29:16,629 --> 00:29:19,381 we have driven her into the hands of her worst enemy. 373 00:29:19,799 --> 00:29:21,300 But we saw her free. 374 00:29:21,468 --> 00:29:23,802 My dear Watson, a person may walk over the edge of the cliff 375 00:29:23,928 --> 00:29:26,388 because they've been invited to gaze at the moon. 376 00:29:27,223 --> 00:29:30,934 Her eyes may be open, but she is, I believe, at this moment 377 00:29:32,145 --> 00:29:34,313 walking into mortal danger. 378 00:29:41,654 --> 00:29:42,988 Schlessinger? 379 00:29:44,115 --> 00:29:45,824 Mr. Schlessinger. 380 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,495 This last week I sought to acquaint myself 381 00:29:49,621 --> 00:29:51,789 with the world of apostolic missions. 382 00:29:52,999 --> 00:29:56,668 I've also made a search of the records of Scotland Yard. 383 00:30:00,298 --> 00:30:01,715 Schlessinger 384 00:30:03,218 --> 00:30:05,844 is also known as the Reverend Joseph Cubbington, 385 00:30:06,596 --> 00:30:08,931 Amos Callow, the Dean of Masaro, 386 00:30:09,724 --> 00:30:13,185 and Edmund, the Bishop of Lima. 387 00:30:14,437 --> 00:30:18,148 His real name, in fact, is Peters. He's a confidence trickster, 388 00:30:18,274 --> 00:30:20,651 known at Scotland Yard by the uninspired logic 389 00:30:20,777 --> 00:30:23,153 of that place as Holy Peters. 390 00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:25,531 What is not yet suspected, 391 00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:28,951 but incontrovertible, nonetheless, is that he is a murderer. 392 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:37,042 Peter's specialty is the beguiling of Single woman with private means 393 00:30:37,168 --> 00:30:40,212 by playing on their religious and charitable feelings. 394 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,468 Helena Rosenbloom had been engaged in charitable work for ten years 395 00:30:46,594 --> 00:30:48,220 when she met Schlessinger. 396 00:30:49,013 --> 00:30:53,934 He inspired her to devote her energies to a new mission in the Andes. 397 00:30:55,061 --> 00:31:00,399 Miss Rosenbloom changed her will, said good-bye to her former life, 398 00:31:01,276 --> 00:31:06,113 and boarded the SS Almeria at Glasgow bound for South America. 399 00:31:07,657 --> 00:31:11,076 She was lost overboard the first night at sea. 400 00:31:15,248 --> 00:31:17,875 The SS Almeria docked at Liverpool 401 00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:20,252 for the family to retrieve her effects. 402 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,797 Schlessinger also disembarked. 403 00:31:23,923 --> 00:31:25,799 He went to ground at the Lake District 404 00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:28,802 where he met his next intended victim, 405 00:31:31,180 --> 00:31:33,765 the Lady Frances Carfax. 406 00:31:54,996 --> 00:31:56,663 At last, gentlemen! 407 00:31:57,498 --> 00:31:58,832 At last! 408 00:32:01,461 --> 00:32:02,836 Where was it pawned? 409 00:32:02,962 --> 00:32:04,046 Riley's of Stockwell. 410 00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:07,382 It was by my calculation the 27th shop I tried. 411 00:32:07,967 --> 00:32:10,010 Riley has received two sentences to my knowledge 412 00:32:10,136 --> 00:32:12,846 for the receipt of stolen goods. He will cooperate with us. 413 00:32:13,056 --> 00:32:16,266 What does this mean? What does it mean? 414 00:32:16,392 --> 00:32:19,227 Please, Mr. Green, this is pointless. Don't torture yourself. 415 00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:21,813 Do you think the torture is self-induced? 416 00:32:22,482 --> 00:32:25,359 The thought of Frances in the hands of criminals. 417 00:32:26,194 --> 00:32:28,820 Such thoughts come unbidden, Mr. Holmes. 418 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:30,614 They break through the strongest defenses 419 00:32:30,740 --> 00:32:32,574 the mind can raise against them. 420 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:36,912 Calm yourself, Mr. Green, calm yourself. 421 00:32:37,580 --> 00:32:38,872 If she's still innocent 422 00:32:38,998 --> 00:32:42,125 of Schlessinger's true identify, she may well be safe for a time. 423 00:32:43,503 --> 00:32:44,544 And if not? 424 00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:49,466 Then it is clear that he cannot let her loose without his own destruction. 425 00:32:52,637 --> 00:32:57,391 Now, we must continue to hope that she remains ignorant of who he is. 426 00:32:59,602 --> 00:33:01,395 Fifteen years. 427 00:33:03,314 --> 00:33:06,358 I knew I could never come back until I'd made something of myself. 428 00:33:08,695 --> 00:33:09,987 Perhaps it was foolish of me to think 429 00:33:10,113 --> 00:33:13,198 that she would look kindly on me after all these years, but... 430 00:33:14,450 --> 00:33:17,953 I was ridiculously encouraged by the fact that she was not married. 431 00:33:19,372 --> 00:33:23,500 And now, my stupidity has driven her into the arms of a murderer. 432 00:33:25,962 --> 00:33:27,170 What can I do? 433 00:33:29,382 --> 00:33:31,550 Is there nothing I can do? 434 00:33:33,678 --> 00:33:35,429 Does Schlessinger know you by sight? 435 00:33:36,055 --> 00:33:36,847 No. 436 00:33:37,765 --> 00:33:40,892 Ah, well, then there is something that you can do. 437 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:42,853 But it'll demand great patience. 438 00:33:42,979 --> 00:33:47,190 I have waited for 15 years, Mr. Holmes. 439 00:33:47,316 --> 00:33:50,485 Schlessinger's had a fair price for the jewelry and no questions asked. 440 00:33:50,611 --> 00:33:53,113 He'll almost certainly return to Riley's shop. 441 00:33:53,239 --> 00:33:57,701 The Rosenblooms have challenged the will. Now, give this note to Riley. 442 00:33:57,827 --> 00:33:58,869 He will let you wait at the shop. 443 00:33:58,995 --> 00:34:02,956 It may be a long wait but you must possess your soul in patience. 444 00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:05,709 And above all, no violence. 445 00:35:16,656 --> 00:35:19,866 It's late. Well, it should have been here before now. 446 00:35:20,701 --> 00:35:23,745 Daresay it took longer being out of the ordinary. 447 00:35:24,497 --> 00:35:26,331 The address, dear, remind me. 448 00:35:29,377 --> 00:35:30,836 Yes, sir, can I help? 449 00:35:31,087 --> 00:35:34,464 Argyll Street. I'm looking for Argyll Street. 450 00:35:34,590 --> 00:35:37,384 There's a post office round the corner. Try there. 451 00:36:40,781 --> 00:36:43,158 Mr. Green, we can do nothing without a warrant. 452 00:36:43,284 --> 00:36:45,076 This is intolerable. 453 00:36:45,244 --> 00:36:47,579 Until we have some wretched signature on a piece of paper, 454 00:36:47,747 --> 00:36:48,872 we can do nothing. 455 00:36:48,998 --> 00:36:52,000 Meanwhile these fiends can do with her what they will. 456 00:36:52,126 --> 00:36:53,501 Are you certain that you've told me every detail? 457 00:36:53,628 --> 00:36:56,254 Every detail, I promise. 458 00:36:56,422 --> 00:36:58,423 Then take this note to Scotland Yard. 459 00:36:58,925 --> 00:37:01,051 They will understand the urgency of it. 460 00:37:01,427 --> 00:37:03,345 And I am to wait there for the warrant. 461 00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:05,013 You will not get it today. 462 00:37:07,808 --> 00:37:11,603 Some delay is inevitable. A magistrate must be found. 463 00:37:12,355 --> 00:37:15,565 The process of the law can be encouraged but not goaded. 464 00:37:15,691 --> 00:37:19,069 Tomorrow may be too late for God's sake. 465 00:37:19,445 --> 00:37:22,739 Mr. Green, everything that can be done will be done. 466 00:37:23,407 --> 00:37:24,366 Go. 467 00:37:27,870 --> 00:37:29,287 Tomorrow may indeed be too late. 468 00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:30,580 I'm well aware of it. 469 00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:35,418 Arm yourself, Watson. 470 00:37:36,712 --> 00:37:41,299 We are as usual the irregulars who must take our luck together 471 00:37:41,467 --> 00:37:43,969 as we have occasionally done in the past. 472 00:37:48,975 --> 00:37:52,310 8:00 tomorrow morning Brickston Cemetery. 473 00:38:17,545 --> 00:38:20,130 I fancy that you've been misdirected, sir. 474 00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:23,383 Possibly if you try further down the street. 475 00:38:23,509 --> 00:38:25,635 That will do. We have no time to waste. 476 00:38:25,761 --> 00:38:29,639 You are Henry Peters, late Major Albert Schlessinger 477 00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:30,974 veteran of the Boer War. 478 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:33,893 Your further aliases I will not bore you by repeating. 479 00:38:34,562 --> 00:38:36,938 And what is your name? 480 00:38:37,064 --> 00:38:40,358 Sherlock Holmes. My friend and companion I think you know. 481 00:38:41,068 --> 00:38:43,987 The house will shortly be under police observation 482 00:38:44,113 --> 00:38:47,073 until a warrant is prepared authorizing a search of the premises. 483 00:38:47,199 --> 00:38:51,036 Your name does not frighten me, Mr. Holmes. I have nothing to hide. 484 00:38:51,412 --> 00:38:52,579 What is your business? 485 00:38:52,913 --> 00:38:55,206 I'm looking for the Lady Frances Carfax. 486 00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:57,167 I'm delighted to hear it. 487 00:38:57,543 --> 00:39:00,253 If anyone can find her, I imagine you can. 488 00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:02,922 Perhaps you'd be so good as to tell me when you do. 489 00:39:03,466 --> 00:39:06,551 I've a note against her for nearly 100 pounds, 490 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,262 and nothing to show for it but a couple of trumpery pendants 491 00:39:09,388 --> 00:39:11,222 that the dealer would hardly look at. 492 00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:12,766 The woman's a leech. 493 00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:14,809 How dare you, sir. 494 00:39:15,561 --> 00:39:18,563 You imposed upon us as a man crippled in a military action. 495 00:39:18,689 --> 00:39:20,106 You are a fraud. 496 00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:23,026 Oh, it may not have been a military action 497 00:39:23,152 --> 00:39:26,154 to satisfy your standards of slaughter, Doctor, 498 00:39:26,739 --> 00:39:29,074 but it was enough for me. 499 00:39:29,450 --> 00:39:33,995 Hm-mm. I salute your powers of improvisation, sir, 500 00:39:34,121 --> 00:39:36,706 and your effrontery, but it will not do. 501 00:39:36,832 --> 00:39:41,002 Oh, I'm perfectly serious. You find her, and I'm your debtor. 502 00:39:41,128 --> 00:39:43,213 I mean to go through this house until I do. 503 00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:45,131 You have a warrant? 504 00:39:45,257 --> 00:39:47,092 This will serve until a better one comes. 505 00:39:47,259 --> 00:39:48,760 Why, you're a common burglar. 506 00:39:48,928 --> 00:39:50,678 And my friend is a dangerous ruffian. 507 00:39:50,805 --> 00:39:52,430 Together we mean to go through your house. 508 00:39:52,598 --> 00:39:54,599 I'm in no position to stop you. 509 00:39:55,101 --> 00:39:58,269 Search where you will. I have nothing to hide. 510 00:39:58,938 --> 00:40:01,773 Where is the coffin that you had brought in to this house? 511 00:40:02,274 --> 00:40:03,858 That is none of your business. 512 00:40:03,984 --> 00:40:05,610 I repeat. Where? 513 00:40:07,113 --> 00:40:10,240 Is it not enough that you force your way into my home, 514 00:40:10,783 --> 00:40:12,492 that you threaten me at gunpoint 515 00:40:13,035 --> 00:40:16,538 must you also now invade the peace of the dead? 516 00:40:16,664 --> 00:40:17,747 Where? 517 00:40:18,791 --> 00:40:20,458 I shall not tell you. 518 00:40:21,085 --> 00:40:22,460 Hold him here, Watson. 519 00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:31,970 I don't believe you'd use that on an unarmed man, Doctor, 520 00:40:32,555 --> 00:40:34,055 and in my condition. 521 00:40:34,473 --> 00:40:38,476 I was a soldier in India, sir. I've shot nobler creatures than you. 522 00:40:38,644 --> 00:40:40,895 Lights, Watson! Lights! 523 00:40:45,651 --> 00:40:48,361 I smelled formaldehyde and astringent. 524 00:40:58,372 --> 00:41:01,749 Thank God. It's not her. 525 00:41:09,133 --> 00:41:10,008 Get them out. 526 00:41:10,176 --> 00:41:14,554 You have violated the peace of the dead. You will now leave. 527 00:41:15,139 --> 00:41:16,181 Who is she? 528 00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:17,265 Get them out. 529 00:41:17,391 --> 00:41:19,142 Her name is Rose Spender. 530 00:41:19,268 --> 00:41:20,185 Get them out! 531 00:41:20,352 --> 00:41:22,270 She is my wife's old nurse. 532 00:41:22,396 --> 00:41:24,981 She's been with the family for half a century. 533 00:41:25,441 --> 00:41:28,985 She died two days ago. We are to bury her tomorrow morning. 534 00:41:30,196 --> 00:41:32,989 Now, get out before I ask the police. 535 00:41:33,115 --> 00:41:36,367 You have summoned to my home to come in and throw you out. 536 00:42:08,943 --> 00:42:11,402 I've been considering the problem, Holmes. 537 00:42:14,073 --> 00:42:18,201 It does seem to me that they could not have murdered Lady Frances 538 00:42:18,327 --> 00:42:21,162 and thought to have disposed of her body in that coffin. 539 00:42:23,249 --> 00:42:27,168 For they would then be faced with burying the old lady. 540 00:42:32,174 --> 00:42:34,259 It may be that this burial has no connection 541 00:42:34,426 --> 00:42:36,636 with Lady Frances' disappearance after all. 542 00:42:36,762 --> 00:42:38,888 I mean she was, as you know, the most- 543 00:42:41,475 --> 00:42:43,101 unpredictable creature. 544 00:42:44,770 --> 00:42:47,564 It may be that she had second thoughts about Schlessinger. 545 00:42:47,773 --> 00:42:50,942 She may even have had some inkling of the kind of man we- 546 00:42:51,151 --> 00:42:53,528 believe him to be and removed herself from the house. 547 00:42:54,071 --> 00:42:56,406 He was, after all, happy to let us search it. 548 00:43:00,786 --> 00:43:02,036 What do you think? 549 00:43:07,459 --> 00:43:08,459 What is your theory then? 550 00:43:08,669 --> 00:43:09,877 I have none. 551 00:43:13,382 --> 00:43:16,301 There are insufficient facts to construct a theory. 552 00:43:48,125 --> 00:43:50,084 You think there's something you've overlooked? 553 00:44:26,955 --> 00:44:28,164 It's late. 554 00:44:29,416 --> 00:44:31,668 And, it should have been there before now. 555 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,880 Daresay it took longer being out of the ordinary. 556 00:44:48,602 --> 00:44:51,312 What has happened to any brains that God has given me? 557 00:44:54,775 --> 00:44:55,900 Watson! 558 00:44:57,569 --> 00:44:59,445 Quick, man! It's life or death. 559 00:44:59,571 --> 00:45:02,073 A hundred chances on death and one on life. 560 00:45:11,083 --> 00:45:15,128 Oh, God most mighty, holy, most merciful savior, 561 00:45:15,254 --> 00:45:17,380 and our most worthy judge eternal, 562 00:45:17,506 --> 00:45:21,801 suffer us not at our last hour for any plains of death... 563 00:45:30,144 --> 00:45:35,481 And never continuous in one stage. In the midst of life, we are in death. 564 00:45:35,607 --> 00:45:39,235 Of whom may we seek for succour but of thee, oh, Lord, 565 00:45:39,361 --> 00:45:42,405 who for our sins art justly displeased. 566 00:45:42,531 --> 00:45:45,158 Yet, oh, Lord, God, most holy... 567 00:45:49,329 --> 00:45:53,040 For as much as it hath pleased almighty God of his great mercy 568 00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:57,795 to take unto himself the soul of our dear sister here departed, 569 00:45:57,921 --> 00:46:00,798 we therefore commit her body to the ground. 570 00:46:05,471 --> 00:46:07,305 Earth to earth 571 00:46:08,223 --> 00:46:10,016 ashes to ashes 572 00:46:10,976 --> 00:46:13,978 dust to dust in sure and certain... 573 00:46:14,104 --> 00:46:15,229 Stop! 574 00:46:17,274 --> 00:46:18,858 Raise that coffin. 575 00:46:20,819 --> 00:46:23,237 What the devil do you mean by this sacrilege? 576 00:46:23,489 --> 00:46:24,906 Murder, sir, 577 00:46:26,575 --> 00:46:28,326 Murder is what I mean. 578 00:46:28,994 --> 00:46:32,830 Why such a deep coffin for such a small old lady? 579 00:46:32,956 --> 00:46:34,081 A sovereign to each of you 580 00:46:34,208 --> 00:46:36,501 if you can lift the lid off that coffin in one minute. 581 00:46:50,265 --> 00:46:51,349 Watson. 582 00:47:00,692 --> 00:47:02,819 Stop or I'll shoot! 583 00:47:42,359 --> 00:47:43,609 It's chloroform. 584 00:47:44,570 --> 00:47:47,363 She's known literally the terrors of the grave. 585 00:47:47,781 --> 00:47:49,740 God knows what this will have done to her. 586 00:47:58,458 --> 00:47:59,959 I've failed. 587 00:48:12,514 --> 00:48:16,058 I have brought her back here to the country of her childhood 588 00:48:16,476 --> 00:48:19,312 which is one of the most beautiful on this planet. 589 00:48:20,898 --> 00:48:23,900 There has been a great improvement as a result. 590 00:48:24,735 --> 00:48:28,404 A landscape so familiar and so intimate to her 591 00:48:28,530 --> 00:48:31,741 will prompt in time a full response I feel sure, 592 00:48:32,492 --> 00:48:34,619 as will the company of friends and family 593 00:48:34,786 --> 00:48:37,371 who've all been most kind and dutiful. 594 00:48:39,583 --> 00:48:42,251 Her poor brother, the Earl, is beside himself 595 00:48:42,377 --> 00:48:44,170 with anger at the criminals 596 00:48:44,296 --> 00:48:46,964 and with mortification at his having quarreled 597 00:48:47,132 --> 00:48:50,134 with Frances before all this happened. 598 00:48:52,387 --> 00:48:57,558 Finally, please accept the enclosed as a token of my gratitude 599 00:48:57,684 --> 00:49:01,604 for your saving of my dear Frances, Mr. Holmes, 600 00:49:02,481 --> 00:49:06,525 and I look forward to our entertainment of you and Dr. Watson 601 00:49:06,818 --> 00:49:08,694 in a happier future. 602 00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:11,238 I cannot accept it. 603 00:49:13,283 --> 00:49:16,827 I refuse to be rewarded for fostering a tragedy. 604 00:49:17,829 --> 00:49:22,041 I've never suffered such a complete eclipse of my faculties. 605 00:49:22,167 --> 00:49:25,962 Well, like any eclipse, Holmes, it's only temporary. 606 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,048 There's every hope of a full recovery. 607 00:49:31,259 --> 00:49:32,343 I wonder... 608 00:49:40,602 --> 00:49:41,852 I wonder. 609 00:49:48,485 --> 00:49:49,652 Frances?