1 00:01:47,899 --> 00:01:48,482 Oh. 2 00:01:49,901 --> 00:01:50,901 Oh, my dear. 3 00:01:52,153 --> 00:01:53,112 My dearest. 4 00:01:54,948 --> 00:01:59,159 I warned you, I said do not go to near the edge. 5 00:02:02,330 --> 00:02:03,997 Why did you push me Baron? 6 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,546 Dear wife, you're dreaming. 7 00:02:11,172 --> 00:02:11,672 No. 8 00:02:12,882 --> 00:02:13,549 Dying. 9 00:02:19,264 --> 00:02:20,305 Oh, my darling. 10 00:03:12,567 --> 00:03:13,859 Anything stirring Holmes? 11 00:03:15,778 --> 00:03:17,196 I know no more than this. 12 00:03:20,783 --> 00:03:22,743 There may be some fatty self-important fool, 13 00:03:22,869 --> 00:03:24,661 it may be a matter of life or death. 14 00:03:26,331 --> 00:03:28,290 Mmm, you grant this interview? 15 00:03:28,416 --> 00:03:29,750 I've already confirmed it. 16 00:03:30,335 --> 00:03:31,418 Do you know anything of the man? 17 00:03:31,544 --> 00:03:33,253 Only that the name Colonel Sir James Damery 18 00:03:33,755 --> 00:03:35,631 is a household word in society. 19 00:03:36,090 --> 00:03:37,549 I can tell you a little bit more than that. 20 00:03:38,468 --> 00:03:39,927 He has rather the reputation 21 00:03:40,053 --> 00:03:43,013 for arranging delicate matters which are to be kept out of the papers. 22 00:03:43,765 --> 00:03:46,600 He's a man of the world with a natural turn for diplomacy. 23 00:03:47,101 --> 00:03:48,852 And then, therefore to hope 24 00:03:49,771 --> 00:03:51,438 it is not a false scent, 25 00:03:52,106 --> 00:03:54,942 that he has some real need of our assistance. 26 00:03:57,445 --> 00:03:58,070 Our? 27 00:03:59,447 --> 00:04:00,906 If you'll be so good Watson. 28 00:04:01,282 --> 00:04:02,199 I shall be honored. 29 00:04:04,994 --> 00:04:06,245 Then until four-thirty o'clock 30 00:04:06,371 --> 00:04:08,288 we can put the matter out of our heads. 31 00:04:14,254 --> 00:04:17,089 Mr. Holmes, we are dealing on this occasion 32 00:04:17,215 --> 00:04:19,800 with the most dangerous man in Europe. 33 00:04:20,176 --> 00:04:23,428 I've had several opponents to whom that flattering term has been applied. 34 00:04:23,554 --> 00:04:28,850 A man to whom violence is familiar and who will literally stick at nothing. 35 00:04:29,727 --> 00:04:30,394 Don't you smoke? 36 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:31,561 Excuse my pipe. 37 00:04:32,438 --> 00:04:35,148 But if your man is more dangerous than the late Professor Moriarty, 38 00:04:35,316 --> 00:04:37,651 he's indeed worth meeting. May I ask his name? 39 00:04:37,777 --> 00:04:40,153 Have you ever heard of Baron Gruner? 40 00:04:42,031 --> 00:04:43,615 The Austrian murderer? 41 00:04:44,284 --> 00:04:46,660 So you've already sized him up as a murderer? 42 00:04:46,911 --> 00:04:49,997 It is our business to follow the details of Continental crime. 43 00:04:51,082 --> 00:04:52,916 I'm sure that he killed his wife 44 00:04:53,042 --> 00:04:54,167 when that so called accident happened 45 00:04:54,335 --> 00:04:56,670 at the Splugen Pass as if I'd seen him do it. 46 00:04:57,588 --> 00:05:00,966 Just as I am certain that he disposed the only witness, 47 00:05:01,175 --> 00:05:02,551 that innocent shepherd boy. 48 00:05:03,428 --> 00:05:05,345 Baron Gruner is now in England. 49 00:05:06,389 --> 00:05:08,223 Residing near Kingston I'm informed? 50 00:05:08,683 --> 00:05:09,766 That is so. 51 00:05:10,351 --> 00:05:13,687 Might I also suppose you will have heard of General Merville? 52 00:05:15,523 --> 00:05:16,815 Kyber Pass fame. 53 00:05:17,817 --> 00:05:18,692 Indeed. 54 00:05:20,194 --> 00:05:22,529 General Merville has a daughter, Violet. 55 00:05:23,281 --> 00:05:27,409 Young, rich, accomplished, a wonder woman in every way. 56 00:05:28,286 --> 00:05:30,162 It is she an innocent, 57 00:05:30,371 --> 00:05:34,082 we are endeavoring to save from the clutches of this fiend. 58 00:05:34,208 --> 00:05:35,709 He has some hold over her? 59 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,962 The strongest of all where women are concerned, Mr. Holmes. 60 00:05:39,464 --> 00:05:41,715 Ah, love. 61 00:05:42,425 --> 00:05:43,175 Exactly. 62 00:05:46,971 --> 00:05:51,975 In marrying you, my darling all my past sins shall be absolved. 63 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:56,396 These aren't sins you've told me of. These are slanders. 64 00:05:57,190 --> 00:05:57,898 My angel. 65 00:05:58,191 --> 00:06:01,360 You were seduced, as are all great men. 66 00:06:01,611 --> 00:06:05,238 Yet I am determined you shall know my history, every part of it. 67 00:06:06,115 --> 00:06:09,910 Thus shall I come to the altar purified in soul and spirit 68 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:12,412 and worthy at last of your love? 69 00:06:13,706 --> 00:06:17,501 Just six weeks. Oh Adelbert. 70 00:06:23,299 --> 00:06:25,884 I cannot pretend my past is without stain. 71 00:06:26,928 --> 00:06:30,097 No man born in poverty who has created his own fortune 72 00:06:30,223 --> 00:06:32,182 can say that and speak the truth, oh, no. 73 00:06:32,725 --> 00:06:35,602 I have been forced to many a ruthless act, my dear. 74 00:06:37,063 --> 00:06:37,938 Where shall I begin? 75 00:06:41,526 --> 00:06:44,945 To observe, Mr. Holmes, an atrocious event, 76 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:48,865 preparing itself before your very eyes and yet be powerless to avert it. 77 00:06:49,492 --> 00:06:53,995 Could anyone, any human being be placed in a more trying position? 78 00:06:54,205 --> 00:06:55,122 Perhaps not. 79 00:06:55,456 --> 00:06:58,959 Well then you will sympathize with the client in whose interest I am acting. 80 00:07:01,587 --> 00:07:04,214 I did not understand that you were merely an intermediary, 81 00:07:05,425 --> 00:07:06,550 who is the principal? 82 00:07:07,718 --> 00:07:10,137 I beg of you not to press that question. 83 00:07:11,139 --> 00:07:13,306 His name cannot be dragged into this matter. 84 00:07:14,308 --> 00:07:16,351 His motives are to the last degree honorable 85 00:07:16,477 --> 00:07:18,478 but he prefers to remain unknown. 86 00:07:19,105 --> 00:07:22,524 I need not say that your fees will be assured, Mr. Holmes. 87 00:07:27,029 --> 00:07:28,989 And you will be allowed a free hand. 88 00:07:31,534 --> 00:07:34,870 Surely the actual name of your client is immaterial. 89 00:07:35,163 --> 00:07:37,497 I must decline to act, Sir James, I'm sorry. 90 00:07:38,499 --> 00:07:40,250 I'm accustomed to having mystery at one end of my cases 91 00:07:40,376 --> 00:07:43,587 but to have it at both ends is too confusing. No. 92 00:07:46,382 --> 00:07:48,842 You place me in the most serious dilemma. 93 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:53,847 Dare I say, Mr. Holmes, you hardly realize the affect of your own action. 94 00:07:55,016 --> 00:07:58,852 I have given my word not to reveal the identity of my client. 95 00:08:00,021 --> 00:08:02,898 May I at the least lay all I can before you? 96 00:08:15,495 --> 00:08:18,872 It is understood. I commit myself to nothing. 97 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,625 But of course, yes, yes. 98 00:08:24,128 --> 00:08:25,378 A perfect likeness. 99 00:08:27,215 --> 00:08:28,173 Who painted it? 100 00:08:28,508 --> 00:08:29,799 Hans of Innsbruck, 101 00:08:30,218 --> 00:08:33,303 a descendant of Claus the sculptor, famous for his bronzes 102 00:08:33,429 --> 00:08:34,262 such as this. 103 00:08:34,889 --> 00:08:40,268 I shall commission Hans to attempt your likeness, my precious. 104 00:08:41,896 --> 00:08:46,816 I love this room. It breathes of you. 105 00:08:54,992 --> 00:08:55,700 What's this? 106 00:08:57,828 --> 00:08:58,870 Your diary? 107 00:09:00,122 --> 00:09:04,626 No, no, it is, it is my commonplace book. 108 00:09:04,752 --> 00:09:10,090 In it I record things I've seen, read, admired, occasionally perhaps, 109 00:09:11,133 --> 00:09:12,509 a thought or two of my own. 110 00:09:13,594 --> 00:09:14,594 But it's locked. 111 00:09:16,389 --> 00:09:21,017 It is a little part of me, besides a servant might pry. 112 00:09:22,603 --> 00:09:24,229 One day, perhaps, 113 00:09:26,023 --> 00:09:27,315 we shall look at it together. 114 00:09:28,484 --> 00:09:32,404 No, I respect your privacy, my darling. 115 00:09:33,406 --> 00:09:34,906 We must all keep something of our own, 116 00:09:36,284 --> 00:09:37,701 however much else we share. 117 00:09:40,663 --> 00:09:43,957 You are perfect. 118 00:09:47,336 --> 00:09:49,588 You must teach me about porcelain, Adelbert. 119 00:09:49,755 --> 00:09:50,422 I shall. 120 00:09:51,132 --> 00:09:54,134 Collecting is such a pleasure such a delight, 121 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,096 it is a passion with me just as you are, my precious. 122 00:09:59,974 --> 00:10:01,725 The villain has attached himself to a lady 123 00:10:01,851 --> 00:10:06,062 with such effect that he has completely and absolutely won her heart. 124 00:10:06,564 --> 00:10:08,440 She will not hear one word against him. 125 00:10:09,025 --> 00:10:12,193 To sum up, she proposes to marry him next month. 126 00:10:12,862 --> 00:10:16,906 As she of age and has a will of iron that's hard to know how to prevent her. 127 00:10:19,243 --> 00:10:22,203 Does the infatuated young woman know of the Swiss episode? 128 00:10:22,330 --> 00:10:26,291 The cunning devil has told her every unsavory scandal of his past life 129 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:30,170 but always in such a way as to make himself out to be the innocent martyr. 130 00:10:31,505 --> 00:10:34,049 She accepts his version and will listen to no one, 131 00:10:34,467 --> 00:10:35,675 not even her fathers. 132 00:10:36,385 --> 00:10:37,927 Dear me, Sir James, have you not- 133 00:10:38,387 --> 00:10:40,930 inadvertently let out the name of your client? 134 00:10:41,098 --> 00:10:43,642 The General? Oh no, Dr. Watson, 135 00:10:44,477 --> 00:10:47,479 that strong soldier has been utterly demoralized by this incident. 136 00:10:54,362 --> 00:10:55,612 Mrs. Hudson. 137 00:10:55,821 --> 00:10:56,696 You rang, sir? 138 00:10:56,822 --> 00:10:59,199 Will you deliver this to the butcher's boy around the corner? 139 00:10:59,450 --> 00:11:01,409 That young rascal with the funny eye? 140 00:11:01,535 --> 00:11:03,870 The other is invaluable so is his bicycle. 141 00:11:05,081 --> 00:11:05,664 Sir. 142 00:11:13,631 --> 00:11:16,049 How may I keep in touch with you, Sir James? 143 00:11:16,384 --> 00:11:17,592 You accept my commission? 144 00:11:17,927 --> 00:11:20,970 Let us just say that your problem interests me. 145 00:11:21,764 --> 00:11:23,056 The Carlton Club will find me. 146 00:11:23,766 --> 00:11:26,059 And the Baron's exact address in Kingston? 147 00:11:26,227 --> 00:11:29,729 Vernon Lodge, the large house, he's a rich man. 148 00:11:29,897 --> 00:11:33,733 Speculators when successful frequently are, Sir James. 149 00:11:34,110 --> 00:11:36,277 What further information can you give us about the man? 150 00:11:36,612 --> 00:11:39,864 He has expensive tastes. Collects books, pictures. 151 00:11:39,990 --> 00:11:41,324 Oh, and Chinese pottery. 152 00:11:42,076 --> 00:11:45,495 He's a recognized authority, written a book upon the subject. 153 00:11:45,871 --> 00:11:47,414 Well, Sir James, you may tell your client 154 00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:49,958 that I'm turning my attention towards Baron Gruner. 155 00:11:50,376 --> 00:11:53,920 I have no doubt, Mr. Holmes, you can easily trace my client. 156 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,881 But I must ask you as a point of honor 157 00:11:57,216 --> 00:11:58,633 to refrain from doing so. 158 00:11:59,093 --> 00:12:02,595 Do not, I beg you, break in upon his incognito. 159 00:12:03,597 --> 00:12:05,181 I think I can safely promise that. 160 00:12:05,307 --> 00:12:05,932 Thank you. 161 00:12:07,059 --> 00:12:07,851 Dr. Watson. 162 00:12:29,039 --> 00:12:30,707 You're wasting your time, Watson. 163 00:12:31,292 --> 00:12:32,584 Now the career of General Merville 164 00:12:32,710 --> 00:12:35,670 might well give us a pointer as to our client. He's clearly illustrious. 165 00:12:35,796 --> 00:12:37,005 But did you not hear, Sir James? 166 00:12:37,715 --> 00:12:39,549 His request was to you, Holmes. 167 00:12:39,675 --> 00:12:41,634 But that is shameful, Watson, shameful 168 00:12:42,094 --> 00:12:46,306 besides our minds should be more gainfully employed, desist. 169 00:12:51,645 --> 00:12:52,479 Any views? 170 00:12:53,647 --> 00:12:54,606 Have you none? 171 00:12:54,899 --> 00:12:55,565 Not yet. 172 00:12:56,734 --> 00:12:58,443 Beyond the one I've already acted upon. 173 00:12:58,861 --> 00:13:00,111 The butcher's boy. 174 00:13:00,321 --> 00:13:01,988 More discreet than any telegraph. 175 00:13:04,533 --> 00:13:08,661 Well, I shall think you better see the young lady yourself. 176 00:13:09,330 --> 00:13:10,455 Start with her. 177 00:13:11,165 --> 00:13:12,665 Well, if her poor broken down father cannot move her, 178 00:13:12,833 --> 00:13:14,834 how can I, a complete stranger prevail? 179 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:16,544 Well, if all else fails. 180 00:13:17,713 --> 00:13:18,630 Perhaps. 181 00:13:19,423 --> 00:13:22,842 But first, the underworld. 182 00:13:24,178 --> 00:13:25,804 For it is among the dark roots of crime 183 00:13:25,930 --> 00:13:27,806 that we must hunt for Gruner's secrets. 184 00:13:31,769 --> 00:13:33,686 You've sent for Shinwell Johnson. 185 00:13:35,314 --> 00:13:36,523 I have but one insight, 186 00:13:38,526 --> 00:13:40,652 that Miss Merville might well condone murder 187 00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:46,407 yet some smaller affair that might... 188 00:13:49,328 --> 00:13:49,953 We shall see. 189 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:56,751 They have engaged the very best. 190 00:13:59,505 --> 00:14:00,213 Show him in. 191 00:14:06,387 --> 00:14:08,388 Mr. Sherlock Holmes, sir. 192 00:14:17,690 --> 00:14:22,735 I rather thought I should see you sooner or later, Mr. Holmes. 193 00:14:29,326 --> 00:14:31,911 You've been retained no doubt by General Merville 194 00:14:32,037 --> 00:14:35,248 to prevent my marriage with his daughter, Violet? 195 00:14:38,752 --> 00:14:40,378 That is so, is it not? 196 00:14:46,093 --> 00:14:49,679 Let me advise you very strongly, Mr. Holmes, to draw off at once. 197 00:14:50,514 --> 00:14:51,598 Draw off? 198 00:14:52,683 --> 00:14:55,727 My dear man, you'll only ruin your well-deserved reputation. 199 00:14:55,853 --> 00:14:56,853 This is not a case in which 200 00:14:56,979 --> 00:14:58,938 you can possibly hope to succeed, draw off sir. 201 00:15:00,065 --> 00:15:02,775 It is curious but that is the very advice that I've come to give you. 202 00:15:04,403 --> 00:15:05,945 Let me put it to you man to man. 203 00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:07,947 If you persist in this marriage, 204 00:15:08,115 --> 00:15:11,159 you will raise such a swarm of powerful enemies, 205 00:15:11,368 --> 00:15:13,119 England would be too hot to hold you. 206 00:15:15,247 --> 00:15:17,415 Surely you will be wiser to draw off. 207 00:15:22,254 --> 00:15:26,633 Excuse my amusement, Mr. Holmes, but it really is very funny 208 00:15:26,967 --> 00:15:29,928 seeing you trying to play a hand with no cards in it 209 00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:33,097 Not a color card there, sir, nothing but the smallest of the small. 210 00:15:33,307 --> 00:15:34,182 So you think. 211 00:15:34,308 --> 00:15:37,435 So I know, sir, so I know. Let me make the thing clear to you. 212 00:15:37,561 --> 00:15:40,980 You consider your hand so strong that you could afford to show it? 213 00:15:41,106 --> 00:15:43,608 Certainly, since it becomes plain that in this instance 214 00:15:43,734 --> 00:15:45,902 you are clearly out of your depth, Mr. Holmes. 215 00:15:46,528 --> 00:15:50,323 Could it be that your capabilities have been subject to hyperbole? 216 00:15:52,326 --> 00:15:53,952 Your hand, show it. 217 00:15:55,496 --> 00:15:56,412 Won't you sit down? 218 00:15:57,790 --> 00:15:58,790 I think I shan't. 219 00:16:01,502 --> 00:16:02,293 Please yourself. 220 00:16:07,508 --> 00:16:08,132 Well, sir, 221 00:16:10,094 --> 00:16:12,512 it happens I have been fortunate enough 222 00:16:13,514 --> 00:16:17,100 to win the entire affection of Miss Merville. 223 00:16:17,476 --> 00:16:20,353 This in spite of the fact that I have informed her clearly 224 00:16:21,355 --> 00:16:26,275 of all the unhappy incidents in my past. 225 00:16:27,695 --> 00:16:31,030 I have warned her that certain designing persons would come to her. 226 00:16:32,032 --> 00:16:34,200 I hope you recognize yourself in this 227 00:16:34,868 --> 00:16:36,786 and would tell her of these things. 228 00:16:39,456 --> 00:16:41,207 I have instructed her how to treat them. 229 00:16:43,293 --> 00:16:44,836 She is well prepared for you. 230 00:16:49,591 --> 00:16:51,384 She will no doubt give you an appointment 231 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:53,553 and she will listen. 232 00:16:55,723 --> 00:16:57,265 It will be to no avail, however. 233 00:17:01,103 --> 00:17:04,063 If you wish to speak, now is your moment. 234 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:07,108 No. 235 00:17:08,652 --> 00:17:09,902 This is not the moment. 236 00:17:13,574 --> 00:17:15,533 Oh, by the way, Mr. Holmes, 237 00:17:16,869 --> 00:17:20,246 did you know the French Agent Labrun? 238 00:17:20,831 --> 00:17:21,622 Of course. 239 00:17:22,249 --> 00:17:23,583 So you know what befell him? 240 00:17:24,418 --> 00:17:28,212 He was beaten in the Lament District of Paris and crippled for life. 241 00:17:29,006 --> 00:17:29,589 Quite so. 242 00:17:30,090 --> 00:17:33,259 By an odd coincidence, he had been inquiring into my affairs. 243 00:17:33,427 --> 00:17:37,096 Don't do it, Mr. Holmes, it's not a lucky thing. 244 00:17:37,765 --> 00:17:40,558 My last word to you is you go your way, 245 00:17:41,435 --> 00:17:42,185 let me go mine. 246 00:17:45,105 --> 00:17:46,355 Mind you Gruner, 247 00:17:47,441 --> 00:17:49,817 because if you aspire to be accepted into English Society 248 00:17:49,943 --> 00:17:53,029 you'll do well to remove the band from your Havana before lighting it 249 00:17:53,572 --> 00:17:55,448 otherwise you'll be put down for a bounder. 250 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,716 Mrs. Hudson, has Holmes returned? 251 00:18:13,842 --> 00:18:16,469 Not yet, sir, but there are two visitors waiting. 252 00:18:17,429 --> 00:18:18,471 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 253 00:18:25,729 --> 00:18:26,437 Why Johnson. 254 00:18:26,563 --> 00:18:28,689 Evening, Doctor, Mr. Holmes sent word to me. 255 00:18:28,816 --> 00:18:29,816 I know, Johnson, I know. 256 00:18:29,942 --> 00:18:30,942 And I brought Kit here... 257 00:18:31,068 --> 00:18:33,152 Mrs. Hudson, that's when I was delayed at the museum 258 00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:34,987 and then the traffic, 259 00:18:35,239 --> 00:18:37,657 an omnibus overturned on Great Russell Street, 260 00:18:38,408 --> 00:18:41,577 two dead a horse had to be put down. Gentlemen forgive me, 261 00:18:41,787 --> 00:18:45,331 I was absorbed by the mysteries of me, I quite forgotten the hour, madam. 262 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,501 This is Miss Winter, Mr. Holmes, 263 00:18:48,627 --> 00:18:50,586 Kitty we call her and what she don't know about Gruner. 264 00:18:50,838 --> 00:18:51,754 Of course, please. 265 00:18:52,339 --> 00:18:54,090 Well, Kitty can speak for herself. 266 00:18:54,216 --> 00:18:57,218 Anyway I put me hand right on her within an hour of your message, sir. 267 00:18:57,594 --> 00:19:01,347 I'm easy to find. Hell, London gets me every time, 268 00:19:01,682 --> 00:19:03,182 same address goes for Porky. 269 00:19:03,475 --> 00:19:06,686 Porky, is that your nom-de-guerre Johnson? 270 00:19:07,062 --> 00:19:11,023 You have never revealed that. Porky, well. 271 00:19:11,316 --> 00:19:12,900 We're old mates, Porky and me. 272 00:19:14,194 --> 00:19:17,029 But there's someone who ought to be down in a lower hell than us 273 00:19:17,197 --> 00:19:19,031 and that's the man you're after, Mr. Holmes. 274 00:19:19,199 --> 00:19:21,033 I gather we have your good wishes, Miss Winter? 275 00:19:21,243 --> 00:19:22,994 If I can help put him where he belongs, 276 00:19:23,370 --> 00:19:25,079 I'm yours to the rattle, sir. 277 00:19:25,956 --> 00:19:28,541 Do you know what he intends, how the matter stands? 278 00:19:29,793 --> 00:19:32,086 Porky tells me he's after some other poor fool 279 00:19:32,963 --> 00:19:36,340 only this time he wants to marry her and you want to stop it? 280 00:19:36,466 --> 00:19:37,049 Yes. 281 00:19:37,926 --> 00:19:39,719 Surely you know enough about this devil 282 00:19:39,845 --> 00:19:41,262 to prevent any decent girl in her senses 283 00:19:41,638 --> 00:19:43,306 wanting to have anything to do with him. 284 00:19:43,473 --> 00:19:45,516 But she's not in her senses, Miss Winter, 285 00:19:45,893 --> 00:19:49,353 she's madly in love and she has been told all about it. 286 00:19:49,479 --> 00:19:50,563 She cares for nothing. 287 00:19:51,106 --> 00:19:52,857 Told about the murder of his wife? 288 00:19:53,066 --> 00:19:53,608 Yes. 289 00:19:55,068 --> 00:19:57,737 My lord, she must have a nerve. 290 00:19:58,197 --> 00:19:58,988 She has. 291 00:19:59,948 --> 00:20:01,824 Can't you lay proofs before her? 292 00:20:02,409 --> 00:20:03,618 Can you help us do so? 293 00:20:03,785 --> 00:20:04,827 I am proof. 294 00:20:06,163 --> 00:20:07,079 Living proof. 295 00:20:11,168 --> 00:20:14,754 If I was to stand before her and tell her how he used me. 296 00:20:15,088 --> 00:20:16,047 Would you do this? 297 00:20:17,507 --> 00:20:20,092 Would I, would I not. 298 00:20:21,094 --> 00:20:22,470 It might be worth the trying. 299 00:20:23,430 --> 00:20:25,348 Oh he didn't tell her all, sir. 300 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:28,684 All? 301 00:20:30,771 --> 00:20:32,021 He collected me, 302 00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:35,107 he collects women. 303 00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:40,613 I was an artist's model a respectable artist's model. 304 00:20:40,739 --> 00:20:42,990 Of course, you sat for that painting in his study. 305 00:20:43,450 --> 00:20:44,659 You've been to Kingston 306 00:20:46,161 --> 00:20:47,828 then you'll have seen all his crocks. 307 00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:52,375 Women and china, they're his twin passions. 308 00:20:53,710 --> 00:20:56,712 Gruner commissioned that painting, and afterwards... 309 00:20:58,757 --> 00:20:59,465 and after... 310 00:21:04,471 --> 00:21:07,932 well, let's just say I can never work again. 311 00:21:09,685 --> 00:21:13,646 Never. 312 00:21:17,734 --> 00:21:21,821 I am exceedingly obliged to you, Miss Winter, 313 00:21:23,615 --> 00:21:26,659 we shall indeed interview you and Miss Merville together. 314 00:21:27,786 --> 00:21:29,996 My client will compensate you most liberally. 315 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:32,873 Oh, none of that, Mr. Holmes. I'm not out for money. 316 00:21:34,167 --> 00:21:35,918 Just let me see this man in the mud, 317 00:21:37,004 --> 00:21:40,923 in the mud with my foot in his face, that's my price. 318 00:22:11,872 --> 00:22:14,915 From Kingston. Thank you, Mrs. Hudson, no reply. 319 00:22:16,084 --> 00:22:17,168 Shall we dine? 320 00:22:22,215 --> 00:22:23,758 This is a death threat, Holmes. 321 00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:26,635 Did you expect anything less from Baron Gruner? 322 00:22:27,637 --> 00:22:28,929 Holmes, have a care. 323 00:22:29,222 --> 00:22:32,767 Oh, Watson, come along. We must eat. 324 00:22:56,666 --> 00:22:57,416 Come on girl. 325 00:23:42,170 --> 00:23:43,295 They ain't following no more. 326 00:23:43,463 --> 00:23:44,880 Don't you believe it. 327 00:23:51,054 --> 00:23:51,804 Yeah, what'd I say? 328 00:23:52,806 --> 00:23:55,850 Now you stand over there, Kitty, there's a good girl. 329 00:23:56,643 --> 00:24:00,938 Right, who's first, you or you? 330 00:24:40,061 --> 00:24:43,939 Amateurs, they've done no time, don't know nothing come on girl. 331 00:26:50,650 --> 00:26:52,985 There's two persons wish to see you sir. 332 00:26:54,154 --> 00:26:54,778 Persons? 333 00:26:55,113 --> 00:26:58,324 I couldn't in honesty term them gentlemen, sir. 334 00:27:00,994 --> 00:27:01,535 I'll come. 335 00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:20,220 Was he armed? 336 00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:22,848 No, sir, 337 00:27:25,518 --> 00:27:30,064 Go through to the kitchens, clean yourselves up and clear out. 338 00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:58,175 I have agreed to this visit out of respect for my father, Mr. Holmes, 339 00:27:58,301 --> 00:27:59,218 rather than for you. 340 00:28:00,428 --> 00:28:02,805 My fiancé assures me you are no longer what you were, 341 00:28:04,057 --> 00:28:05,099 a spent force. 342 00:28:06,726 --> 00:28:07,601 And you, Miss Winter, 343 00:28:08,895 --> 00:28:11,105 surely you must also be superfluous. 344 00:28:12,399 --> 00:28:14,316 Our intentions are the best. 345 00:28:16,486 --> 00:28:17,903 We are here to aid you. 346 00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:18,821 Really? 347 00:28:19,948 --> 00:28:21,657 When you call to malign my fiancé? 348 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:26,203 I am not renowned Miss Merville, for the warmth of my affections 349 00:28:27,163 --> 00:28:28,956 but I can appreciate them in others. 350 00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:31,208 Had I a daughter, 351 00:28:31,334 --> 00:28:35,337 I should I hope feel for you as the General does, 352 00:28:35,922 --> 00:28:37,923 nor is our concern without foundation. 353 00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:41,093 There, the slander begins. 354 00:28:41,261 --> 00:28:44,513 No, I do not readily call upon anyone to beg or to plead 355 00:28:45,223 --> 00:28:47,599 but in Baron Gruner, please, I never speak idly. 356 00:28:48,059 --> 00:28:50,978 You've chosen not only unwisely but dangerously. 357 00:28:52,772 --> 00:28:55,566 Marry him, Miss Merville, and I assure you 358 00:28:56,568 --> 00:28:59,778 with all the knowledge I have of the criminal mentality, 359 00:29:00,363 --> 00:29:02,948 you will be in mortal danger, 360 00:29:04,451 --> 00:29:07,578 just as the former baroness was, she too was infatuated 361 00:29:08,913 --> 00:29:12,499 and paid the fatal price, her life for a fortune. 362 00:29:12,876 --> 00:29:13,751 That's a lie. 363 00:29:18,923 --> 00:29:22,134 You are of course aware that the Splugen Pass 364 00:29:22,260 --> 00:29:26,054 where your predecessor died runs between Italy and Switzerland? 365 00:29:28,141 --> 00:29:29,516 What does the geography matter? 366 00:29:29,642 --> 00:29:30,601 A great deal. 367 00:29:31,811 --> 00:29:33,353 When you plan to hurl a helpless woman 368 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,190 off a cliff in one country to break her neck in another. 369 00:29:37,275 --> 00:29:38,442 But it was an accident. 370 00:29:39,194 --> 00:29:40,569 Then why did the shepherd boy 371 00:29:40,820 --> 00:29:44,323 who saw the baroness fall die of arsenical poison? 372 00:29:45,825 --> 00:29:50,329 His murderess whom Gruner had seduced confessed at her trial 373 00:29:50,497 --> 00:29:53,499 that he'd obliged her to administer the fatal substance 374 00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:57,503 or risk disfigurement for life by oil of vitriol. 375 00:29:59,923 --> 00:30:03,675 Those are the facts, Miss Merville, I beg you, 376 00:30:05,011 --> 00:30:07,763 picture the awful situation you will find yourself in, 377 00:30:07,889 --> 00:30:12,100 if you only wake to your fiancé's true character 378 00:30:12,977 --> 00:30:14,520 after you have married him. 379 00:30:23,321 --> 00:30:25,322 I have listened to you with patience, Mr. Holmes. 380 00:30:27,867 --> 00:30:30,202 I am aware my fiancé has had a stormy life 381 00:30:31,287 --> 00:30:34,289 in which he has incurred most unjust aspersions. 382 00:30:35,834 --> 00:30:37,042 Possibly you mean well 383 00:30:38,628 --> 00:30:40,379 though I learn you are a paid agent. 384 00:30:42,423 --> 00:30:46,510 But in any case I love Baron Gruner and he loves me. 385 00:30:51,099 --> 00:30:52,432 You have told me this young lady's name 386 00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:54,434 and that there is a reason for her presence. 387 00:30:54,727 --> 00:30:56,019 I'll say there is. 388 00:30:56,312 --> 00:30:58,063 And what exactly are you, Miss Winter? 389 00:30:58,898 --> 00:31:03,485 Me, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what I am. 390 00:31:04,445 --> 00:31:08,574 I was his mistress that's who, one of a hundred more. 391 00:31:09,158 --> 00:31:12,369 He's tempted, he used, ruined and thrown aside, 392 00:31:12,495 --> 00:31:13,787 as he will you too. 393 00:31:13,913 --> 00:31:14,621 Please. 394 00:31:15,081 --> 00:31:17,291 You marry this man it'll be the death of you. 395 00:31:18,084 --> 00:31:20,961 It may be a broken heart or a broken neck but he'll have you. 396 00:31:21,170 --> 00:31:21,962 Oh really. 397 00:31:22,088 --> 00:31:23,255 You may think yourself different. 398 00:31:23,423 --> 00:31:25,632 Thank you, Kitty, you've made yourself admirably clear. 399 00:31:27,176 --> 00:31:29,595 I'm aware of three occasions in my fiancé's life 400 00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:32,180 when he has become entangled with designing women. 401 00:31:33,433 --> 00:31:35,809 And I'm assured by him of his hearty repentance. 402 00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:40,439 Him? Repent? And only three? 403 00:31:41,774 --> 00:31:44,860 Oh, you fool, you stupid fool. 404 00:31:45,194 --> 00:31:46,028 Mr. Holmes, 405 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,239 I have obeyed my father's wish in seeing you 406 00:31:49,616 --> 00:31:52,701 but I'm not compelled to listen to the slanderous ravings... 407 00:31:52,827 --> 00:31:53,785 Ravings? 408 00:31:55,371 --> 00:31:56,288 Ravings! 409 00:31:58,958 --> 00:31:59,958 Oh my god, 410 00:32:01,794 --> 00:32:02,794 I'll show you. 411 00:32:11,804 --> 00:32:15,307 Look. 412 00:32:18,811 --> 00:32:19,645 You see that? 413 00:32:21,981 --> 00:32:25,651 And here, oil of vitriol. 414 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:28,028 He did it. 415 00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:34,034 Oh, yes, he did it, your fiancé. 416 00:32:34,911 --> 00:32:38,038 That's a lie. It's a lie. 417 00:32:38,164 --> 00:32:38,914 Thank you, Kitty. 418 00:32:48,049 --> 00:32:51,385 You can tell the Baron that I shall not rest until I bring him to justice. 419 00:33:00,395 --> 00:33:01,311 Miss Winter. 420 00:33:16,577 --> 00:33:18,078 Why Kitty, why? 421 00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:19,663 No please. 422 00:33:19,789 --> 00:33:21,248 Why did Gruner treat you so? 423 00:33:22,542 --> 00:33:25,794 Because... no, I can't tell you, Mr. Holmes. 424 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,170 You must at this instant. 425 00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:29,840 You said that he collects women, what did you mean by that? 426 00:33:32,385 --> 00:33:33,802 It's a book he has. 427 00:33:34,595 --> 00:33:35,303 A book? 428 00:33:36,431 --> 00:33:41,309 Brown leather with a lock and his coat of arms in gold on it. 429 00:33:42,061 --> 00:33:43,895 No, I can't speak of it. 430 00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:45,689 He keeps a record of his women? 431 00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:48,567 We're all in there. 432 00:33:49,694 --> 00:33:55,407 Photographs, names, details, everything about us. 433 00:33:56,451 --> 00:33:58,285 He tried to make me read it while he- 434 00:33:58,911 --> 00:34:00,537 oh, no, I can't. 435 00:34:00,663 --> 00:34:01,621 And when you refused? 436 00:34:02,707 --> 00:34:05,709 He went berserk. He ran out of the room. 437 00:34:06,085 --> 00:34:10,255 I was trying to dress, he come back in with this bottle. 438 00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:15,260 I was half-naked, and he threw it straight at me. 439 00:34:18,431 --> 00:34:19,431 Where is this book? 440 00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:20,432 I don't know. 441 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,099 Think. 442 00:34:21,267 --> 00:34:22,434 No, no. 443 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:23,602 In the study in the bedroom? 444 00:34:23,770 --> 00:34:25,562 It's more than a year since I was there. 445 00:34:25,688 --> 00:34:27,439 Than you can remember Kitty think. 446 00:34:27,565 --> 00:34:28,857 In the study, 447 00:34:32,361 --> 00:34:33,737 back of the bureau. 448 00:34:35,031 --> 00:34:36,031 Thank you, Kitty, thank you. 449 00:34:39,786 --> 00:34:42,287 Miss Winter's scars could not move Miss Merville? 450 00:34:42,622 --> 00:34:45,123 She was shocked but recovered instantly. 451 00:34:45,291 --> 00:34:48,293 Good heavens, it seems inhuman. 452 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,588 I confess that part of me could wish her joy with Gruner. 453 00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:54,925 Abandon her to her fate after all this? 454 00:34:55,051 --> 00:34:56,843 When I compare Miss Merville with Kitty 455 00:34:56,969 --> 00:34:59,679 whose spirit is as fine as her body is blemished, yes. 456 00:35:00,223 --> 00:35:01,807 You wouldn't withdraw from the case? 457 00:35:01,974 --> 00:35:03,100 Have no fear, Watson, 458 00:35:04,477 --> 00:35:06,645 My disgust with Miss Merville counts as nothing against 459 00:35:06,813 --> 00:35:10,482 my determination to foil Gruner, but one thing irks me, 460 00:35:11,609 --> 00:35:13,235 that I've not paid more regard 461 00:35:13,653 --> 00:35:15,821 to Kitty's deportment when we first met, 462 00:35:15,988 --> 00:35:17,697 the manner in which she dressed her hair. 463 00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:20,158 Huh, it's late. 464 00:35:22,912 --> 00:35:23,703 We must be gone. 465 00:35:27,583 --> 00:35:28,834 I've got a mountain of work to do 466 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,211 at the surgery Holmes so I'll see you in the morning. 467 00:35:31,462 --> 00:35:32,712 Until tomorrow then. 468 00:35:47,687 --> 00:35:49,563 All right, Sherlock Holmes, let's be having you. 469 00:35:49,689 --> 00:35:52,399 Ah and I can guess to whom I owe this pleasure. 470 00:36:33,983 --> 00:36:35,275 Read all about it. 471 00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:42,407 Murderous attack on Sherlock Holmes. 472 00:36:44,243 --> 00:36:45,535 Read all about it. 473 00:36:46,370 --> 00:36:48,205 Murderous attack on Sherlock Holmes. 474 00:36:48,664 --> 00:36:52,417 Read all about it. Read all about it. 475 00:36:53,252 --> 00:36:55,128 Murderous attack on Sherlock Holmes. 476 00:37:14,398 --> 00:37:18,068 It's all right, Watson, don't look so scared. 477 00:37:19,612 --> 00:37:20,570 You mustn't talk. 478 00:37:21,197 --> 00:37:24,115 Nonsense, I need to. 479 00:37:27,286 --> 00:37:28,328 What can I do, Holmes? 480 00:37:30,748 --> 00:37:32,457 Of course it was that damned Austrian. 481 00:37:35,419 --> 00:37:37,587 Give me the word and I'm go and thrash the hide off him. 482 00:37:38,381 --> 00:37:41,841 Good old Watson, no, no, no, no. 483 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,346 Was it the same pair that attacked Johnson and Miss Winter? 484 00:37:47,807 --> 00:37:51,309 One may have been, the other I doubt it. 485 00:37:53,062 --> 00:37:54,771 But... 486 00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:58,483 We must send a note to Johnson. 487 00:38:00,069 --> 00:38:02,821 Tell him to find a quiet suburb for Kitty, 488 00:38:03,072 --> 00:38:06,074 She should stay there until the danger has passed. 489 00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:08,868 And then, 490 00:38:11,664 --> 00:38:14,374 then we must exaggerate my injuries. 491 00:38:15,084 --> 00:38:16,293 There's no need for that. 492 00:38:16,669 --> 00:38:19,671 Even so we must lay it on thick for the press. 493 00:38:20,631 --> 00:38:22,340 I might not live the week out, 494 00:38:22,717 --> 00:38:25,176 concussion, delirium, I don't care what would you like? 495 00:38:28,014 --> 00:38:30,223 They must receive the gravest bulletins. 496 00:38:31,350 --> 00:38:32,267 Anything more? 497 00:38:33,227 --> 00:38:34,019 Yes. 498 00:38:35,938 --> 00:38:39,149 Put my pipe on the table and the tobacco slip. 499 00:38:40,901 --> 00:38:43,611 You must rest not smoke. 500 00:38:45,740 --> 00:38:49,492 Very well, Doctor. 501 00:39:08,387 --> 00:39:12,057 Oh my dearest, every day you become more precious to me. 502 00:39:17,563 --> 00:39:18,229 What is it? 503 00:39:19,774 --> 00:39:20,482 It's just that... 504 00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:24,069 must you really go to America? 505 00:39:25,279 --> 00:39:26,863 Oh, my darling, 506 00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:31,868 it's only a short trip, I have important financial business, 507 00:39:31,994 --> 00:39:34,412 certain interests to regulate in Chicago 508 00:39:34,580 --> 00:39:37,916 but I shall be back so soon, in the twinkle of an eye. 509 00:39:38,292 --> 00:39:40,251 The late editions, sir. 510 00:39:41,253 --> 00:39:41,836 Thank you. 511 00:39:42,838 --> 00:39:44,005 Have you seen the papers? 512 00:39:44,757 --> 00:39:48,259 That poor man Holmes, he sinks daily. 513 00:39:50,262 --> 00:39:51,513 I'm afraid you cannot expect me 514 00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:54,641 to have very much sympathy with Mr. Holmes and his misfortune. 515 00:39:55,726 --> 00:39:58,269 Mmm, encephalitis has set in. 516 00:40:03,192 --> 00:40:04,275 Have you seen the news? 517 00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:04,943 No. 518 00:40:05,111 --> 00:40:08,196 Gruner sails for America on the Ruratania on Friday. 519 00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:10,615 News hits hard. 520 00:40:11,283 --> 00:40:14,411 Friday, that means he sails from Liverpool not from Southampton. 521 00:40:15,538 --> 00:40:18,998 That little rascal means to get away from us, but he won't, 522 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,626 By the Lord Harry he won't. 523 00:40:23,963 --> 00:40:27,549 Watson, I need you to do something for me. 524 00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:28,842 I'm here to be used. 525 00:40:30,302 --> 00:40:31,970 Then spend the next 24 hours 526 00:40:32,138 --> 00:40:34,639 in an intensive study of Chinese pottery. 527 00:41:12,052 --> 00:41:17,974 Hung Wu, 1368-1390, 1368-1390... 528 00:42:19,453 --> 00:42:20,787 He's sleeping now, sir. 529 00:42:20,913 --> 00:42:22,080 That would be the morphine. 530 00:42:23,582 --> 00:42:25,416 You won't let the lamp smoke, will you? 531 00:42:26,335 --> 00:42:29,003 No, no, no, you locked up below? 532 00:42:30,047 --> 00:42:33,049 I did that a while back, there's murderous folk about. 533 00:42:33,342 --> 00:42:35,593 True, true. 534 00:42:36,595 --> 00:42:38,263 Don't drive yourself too hard, sir, 535 00:42:38,430 --> 00:42:40,557 you'll be good for nothing in the morning. 536 00:42:40,683 --> 00:42:41,766 No, I shan't be long. 537 00:42:47,106 --> 00:42:51,693 Dr. Hill Barton, 369 Half Moon Street Mayfair West, who's this? 538 00:42:52,111 --> 00:42:52,694 You. 539 00:42:53,946 --> 00:42:54,529 Me? 540 00:42:55,114 --> 00:42:57,115 That is your name this evening, Dr. Hill Barton. 541 00:42:58,409 --> 00:42:58,950 It is? 542 00:42:59,118 --> 00:43:02,745 Yes, and you'll call upon Baron Gruner about half past eight, 543 00:43:03,581 --> 00:43:04,789 He'll be disengaged. 544 00:43:05,791 --> 00:43:07,584 I sent a note telling him that you'll call. 545 00:43:09,670 --> 00:43:13,590 Also, that you're bringing this. 546 00:43:15,634 --> 00:43:19,512 It is the real eggshell of the Ming Dynasty. 547 00:43:21,181 --> 00:43:23,600 The complete set would be worth a king's ransom. 548 00:43:24,143 --> 00:43:27,312 You are a collector. The set has come your way. 549 00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:32,442 You've heard of the Baron's interest and an investor is selling at a price. 550 00:43:33,819 --> 00:43:34,360 What price? 551 00:43:34,486 --> 00:43:37,488 We will not exaggerate if you say it would hardly matched in the world. 552 00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:39,616 Sir James got it for me. 553 00:43:39,908 --> 00:43:41,993 It comes from a collection of his client. 554 00:43:42,578 --> 00:43:45,330 Or I could say that it should be valued by an expert. 555 00:43:45,497 --> 00:43:48,166 Oh, Watson, you scintillate today. 556 00:43:48,751 --> 00:43:50,168 I suggest Sotheby's or Christie. 557 00:43:51,253 --> 00:43:52,545 You're certain he'll see me? 558 00:43:52,838 --> 00:43:56,507 Oh, yes, it's the collection mania in its most acute form. 559 00:43:58,552 --> 00:43:59,510 One last question, Holmes. 560 00:44:01,263 --> 00:44:03,056 Why have you made me a broker in antiques? 561 00:44:04,016 --> 00:44:05,016 To gain time, 562 00:44:07,311 --> 00:44:10,188 the opportunity to acquire the set such as this 563 00:44:10,814 --> 00:44:12,523 may persuade the Baron 564 00:44:13,150 --> 00:44:15,693 to postpone his visit to the United States. 565 00:44:16,195 --> 00:44:17,278 Now I understand. 566 00:44:17,905 --> 00:44:19,364 Elementary psychology, Watson? 567 00:44:36,882 --> 00:44:38,216 Kingston please driver. 568 00:45:15,921 --> 00:45:16,754 Very fine. 569 00:45:23,303 --> 00:45:26,931 Very fine indeed. 570 00:45:32,604 --> 00:45:36,899 And you say you have a set to correspond? 571 00:45:43,282 --> 00:45:47,702 I know of only one in England to match it. 572 00:45:51,790 --> 00:45:55,793 Would it be indiscreet of me 573 00:45:55,961 --> 00:45:58,504 if I were to ask how you obtained this? 574 00:46:03,010 --> 00:46:04,135 Does it really matter? 575 00:46:06,430 --> 00:46:07,513 Of course it matters 576 00:46:07,639 --> 00:46:10,600 with precious objects such as these provenance is all. 577 00:46:11,727 --> 00:46:13,352 Well you can see the piece is genuine. 578 00:46:14,772 --> 00:46:19,066 As to the value I'm perfectly content to take an expert's assessment. 579 00:46:21,445 --> 00:46:24,489 I had supposed you were an expert, Dr. Hill Barton. 580 00:46:25,032 --> 00:46:27,283 I meant an independent assessment. 581 00:46:28,702 --> 00:46:29,410 Of course. 582 00:46:33,332 --> 00:46:36,709 I have some recently acquired pieces of celadon. 583 00:46:36,835 --> 00:46:37,919 You might care to view? 584 00:46:39,755 --> 00:46:40,463 By all means. 585 00:46:40,839 --> 00:46:41,506 Please. 586 00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:51,057 It's flawless. 587 00:46:52,643 --> 00:46:55,102 Typical 12th Century Sung, I'd say, 588 00:46:57,064 --> 00:46:57,688 wouldn't you? 589 00:47:01,026 --> 00:47:01,734 You're right. 590 00:47:09,618 --> 00:47:10,326 And this? 591 00:47:19,878 --> 00:47:23,798 That's an excellent example, Ching Dynasty I should say... 592 00:47:24,842 --> 00:47:26,843 circa 265 A.D. 593 00:47:29,304 --> 00:47:30,054 Precisely. 594 00:47:36,770 --> 00:47:41,691 And these? Typical of celadon, would you say? 595 00:47:41,942 --> 00:47:43,317 Give me time, give me time. 596 00:47:43,443 --> 00:47:44,986 I am giving you time, sir. 597 00:47:46,196 --> 00:47:46,821 Quite so. 598 00:47:48,073 --> 00:47:50,366 I should also be interested in your views 599 00:47:50,492 --> 00:47:52,034 on the marks of the Hung Wu. 600 00:47:54,246 --> 00:47:55,580 Marks of the Hung Wu? 601 00:47:56,790 --> 00:47:58,374 That's a vexed question. 602 00:48:00,377 --> 00:48:01,878 Vexed question indeed, sir. 603 00:48:03,255 --> 00:48:05,506 There are no marks on the genuine Hung Wu. 604 00:48:06,174 --> 00:48:07,675 This is intolerable, sir, 605 00:48:08,218 --> 00:48:09,427 I came here to do you a favor, 606 00:48:09,553 --> 00:48:12,054 not to be examined as if I were a schoolboy. 607 00:48:12,431 --> 00:48:13,639 You came here to spy. 608 00:48:14,057 --> 00:48:14,849 Not so. 609 00:48:15,267 --> 00:48:18,477 You may have found it easy to inveigle your way in here 610 00:48:18,604 --> 00:48:20,354 upon false pretenses 611 00:48:20,606 --> 00:48:25,818 but by god sir, you shall find it harder to get out. 612 00:48:25,944 --> 00:48:29,196 Raise your hands above your head, Dr. Watson. 613 00:48:33,368 --> 00:48:33,951 What's that? 614 00:48:36,413 --> 00:48:39,957 Holmes, you. Don't move. 615 00:48:43,795 --> 00:48:45,379 I shall shoot you through the head 616 00:48:47,090 --> 00:48:48,132 rather than the heart 617 00:48:50,302 --> 00:48:54,931 and inform the police. I mistook you for a common burglar. 618 00:48:56,058 --> 00:48:59,852 That is a role that I've played before with some success. 619 00:49:00,646 --> 00:49:05,066 Without any doubt, sir, this will be your last time. 620 00:49:05,609 --> 00:49:06,150 Baron! 621 00:49:06,318 --> 00:49:06,859 Kitty! 622 00:49:12,115 --> 00:49:14,033 Be done by your debt. 623 00:49:14,660 --> 00:49:19,080 Doctor, doctor, help me, help me. 624 00:49:20,666 --> 00:49:21,999 Telephone the Baron's physician. 625 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,197 Ah, Sir James forgive me for summoning you at this late hour 626 00:49:53,448 --> 00:49:54,657 but there's no time to be lost. 627 00:49:54,783 --> 00:49:57,910 You must have this before Scotland Yard bumbles in. 628 00:49:58,036 --> 00:49:58,995 Scotland Yard? 629 00:49:59,579 --> 00:50:01,914 Baron Gruner's bound to laid a complaint against us, 630 00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,875 Watson as an impostor, myself as a burglar, we were both. 631 00:50:05,002 --> 00:50:09,338 I diverted Gruner's attention while Holmes procured that. 632 00:50:10,257 --> 00:50:11,340 You must show it to Miss Merville, 633 00:50:11,466 --> 00:50:13,843 she will find herself one among a hundred. 634 00:50:14,344 --> 00:50:16,053 The account of what sports. 635 00:50:16,638 --> 00:50:19,765 Baron Gruner enjoyed with his female victims 636 00:50:20,475 --> 00:50:23,185 may have perhaps at last open Miss Merville's eyes. 637 00:50:23,603 --> 00:50:26,147 You've done wonders, Holmes, wonders. 638 00:50:26,815 --> 00:50:28,149 Except for Kitty Winter. 639 00:50:29,317 --> 00:50:31,360 Watson explain, I must rest. 640 00:50:31,695 --> 00:50:34,071 Miss Winter is a former mistress of Gruner's, 641 00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:35,322 she followed me to Kingston, 642 00:50:35,449 --> 00:50:37,742 concealed about her was a flask of vitriol. 643 00:50:37,868 --> 00:50:39,368 Which she unleashed upon Gruner. 644 00:50:39,494 --> 00:50:43,748 Severely damaging his right hand and parts of his face. 645 00:50:44,708 --> 00:50:46,083 He will be disfigured for life. 646 00:50:47,919 --> 00:50:51,756 But surely if these injuries are as terrible as you described them 647 00:50:52,424 --> 00:50:53,924 then our purpose is sufficiently gained... 648 00:50:54,092 --> 00:50:58,095 She'd love him the more as a disfigured martyr, no. 649 00:50:59,765 --> 00:51:03,017 It is his moral side not his physical which we have to destroy. 650 00:51:03,602 --> 00:51:06,854 That book will bring her down to earth and I knew nothing else that could. 651 00:51:07,439 --> 00:51:10,149 It's in his own handwriting, she cannot get past it. 652 00:51:10,984 --> 00:51:13,736 Neither my client nor myself can thank you enough, Holmes. 653 00:51:14,780 --> 00:51:16,572 Should either Miss Winter or even you yourself. 654 00:51:16,698 --> 00:51:20,826 Be incommoded by the police, do not hesitate to telephone me. 655 00:51:21,453 --> 00:51:22,787 Thank you, Sir James but to tell the truth, 656 00:51:22,913 --> 00:51:26,624 I rarely if ever find myself inconvenienced by Scotland Yard. 657 00:51:28,794 --> 00:51:30,669 Good night. 658 00:51:36,885 --> 00:51:38,385 I would like to thank you too, Watson. 659 00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:40,638 Thank you, Sir James. Oh, by the way... 660 00:51:43,975 --> 00:51:44,850 Ming dish. 661 00:51:45,644 --> 00:51:46,811 By jove yes. 662 00:51:46,937 --> 00:51:48,687 Worth a king's ransom I understand. 663 00:52:12,504 --> 00:52:13,129 Holmes. 664 00:52:15,674 --> 00:52:18,509 Holmes, I've discovered the identity of our client. 665 00:52:18,677 --> 00:52:19,260 It's none other than the... 666 00:52:19,386 --> 00:52:21,470 A loyal friend and a chivalrous gentleman, 667 00:52:21,596 --> 00:52:24,181 let that now and forever be enough for us.