1 00:03:23,953 --> 00:03:24,870 Splendid air, 2 00:03:26,414 --> 00:03:27,414 Rough shooting? 3 00:03:29,083 --> 00:03:30,667 Perhaps a little fishing. 4 00:03:32,420 --> 00:03:35,756 And the best cook in the county of Sussex, wouldn't you say? 5 00:03:37,091 --> 00:03:37,841 Holmes! 6 00:03:38,551 --> 00:03:41,345 And Reginald Musgrave. 7 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:44,223 Well, he is a scion of one of the oldest families in England. 8 00:03:44,349 --> 00:03:45,933 He was in the same college as myself. 9 00:03:46,517 --> 00:03:48,769 He was not generally popular among the undergraduates 10 00:03:48,895 --> 00:03:51,104 though it always seemed to me that what was set down as pride, 11 00:03:51,272 --> 00:03:55,442 was really a cover for extreme natural diffidence. 12 00:03:56,277 --> 00:03:58,779 Indeed I never think of his pale, lean face 13 00:03:58,947 --> 00:04:04,743 and the poise of his head without associating him with gray archways, 14 00:04:04,869 --> 00:04:08,789 mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep. 15 00:04:08,957 --> 00:04:13,126 Well, if you feel so uncharitable, why did you accept his invitation? 16 00:04:13,461 --> 00:04:14,962 To escape my lethargy 17 00:04:16,339 --> 00:04:19,549 and you're constant bullying to tidy our room in Baker Street. 18 00:04:20,301 --> 00:04:21,593 Hardly constant. 19 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:25,305 So I have decided to devote my weekend 20 00:04:25,431 --> 00:04:28,725 to the collating of some of my early works. 21 00:04:31,062 --> 00:04:31,812 What early works? 22 00:04:31,980 --> 00:04:34,481 It was before my biographer came to glorify me. 23 00:04:34,607 --> 00:04:36,650 Do you mean you have records of your early work? 24 00:04:37,235 --> 00:04:40,570 Not all successes, but some pretty little problems- 25 00:04:41,322 --> 00:04:43,824 record of the Tarleton murders, 26 00:04:44,325 --> 00:04:46,827 the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, 27 00:04:47,036 --> 00:04:48,996 the adventure of the old Russian woman, 28 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:53,583 a full account of Ricoletti with the club foot, and his abominable wife, 29 00:04:54,502 --> 00:04:57,963 and the singular affair of the aluminum crutch. 30 00:04:59,507 --> 00:05:00,674 Aluminum crutch? 31 00:05:01,259 --> 00:05:03,510 Now that was something a little recherché. 32 00:05:07,598 --> 00:05:09,599 I wish I had notes of these cases. 33 00:05:13,062 --> 00:05:14,187 Yes, my boy. 34 00:05:16,274 --> 00:05:19,609 Well, it may hold my interest for a few hours while you potter with our host 35 00:05:19,736 --> 00:05:22,279 through the antiquities of a bygone age. 36 00:05:25,408 --> 00:05:27,492 Surely the house interests you? 37 00:05:28,161 --> 00:05:30,370 The house is freezing, Watson! 38 00:05:31,372 --> 00:05:32,497 It's history- 39 00:05:33,916 --> 00:05:37,044 the people in it. On your previous visit, 40 00:05:37,795 --> 00:05:39,379 I remember you telling me 41 00:05:40,381 --> 00:05:43,717 that you enjoyed some lively conversations with a butler. 42 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:45,218 What's his name, Brunston? 43 00:05:45,386 --> 00:05:46,845 Oh, Brunton. 44 00:05:49,057 --> 00:05:51,183 A young school teacher out of place. 45 00:05:51,726 --> 00:05:54,728 Did he not... did he not speak several languages? 46 00:05:54,896 --> 00:05:56,730 Yes, he played nearly every musical instrument. 47 00:05:56,939 --> 00:06:00,525 A man of considerably more intellectual ability than his master. 48 00:06:04,655 --> 00:06:07,699 Watson, we must behave ourselves. 49 00:06:08,242 --> 00:06:11,036 Ah, Brunton. 50 00:06:13,247 --> 00:06:14,581 Mr. Holmes, a pleasure to see you again, sir. 51 00:06:14,707 --> 00:06:16,249 My friend and colleague, Doctor Watson. 52 00:06:16,417 --> 00:06:17,584 Welcome to Hurlstone, sir. 53 00:06:18,336 --> 00:06:19,586 Musgrave! 54 00:06:20,588 --> 00:06:22,255 My friend and colleague, Doctor Watson. 55 00:06:22,507 --> 00:06:24,257 So glad, it's a long time. 56 00:06:24,425 --> 00:06:27,427 Yeah. How has it all gone with you? 57 00:06:27,678 --> 00:06:28,845 Busy, busy. 58 00:06:29,055 --> 00:06:31,264 My father died I've had the estates to manage. 59 00:06:31,432 --> 00:06:34,434 And as I am now a member of Parliament for the district as well. 60 00:06:34,685 --> 00:06:38,772 But you... you, I have noted, are still turning onto practical end those powers 61 00:06:38,940 --> 00:06:40,399 with which you used to amaze us at college. 62 00:06:40,525 --> 00:06:44,528 Yes, I'm still living by my wits and how is the dear wife? 63 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:46,947 I'm not married, Holmes! 64 00:06:48,616 --> 00:06:50,283 How wise. 65 00:06:51,536 --> 00:06:54,121 And the windows date from 1596. 66 00:06:54,956 --> 00:06:57,791 The manor is thought to be the oldest inhabited building in the country. 67 00:06:58,292 --> 00:07:00,919 I once knew some northern Musgrave's. 68 00:07:01,087 --> 00:07:02,963 They did come from the north originally. 69 00:07:03,589 --> 00:07:07,300 A cadet branch of the family broke away from the northern Musgrave's, and 70 00:07:07,468 --> 00:07:10,303 came to West Sussex in the early 17th century. 71 00:07:17,061 --> 00:07:18,311 Holmes? 72 00:07:23,192 --> 00:07:24,317 Holmes. 73 00:08:09,947 --> 00:08:10,530 More brandy, sir? 74 00:08:10,698 --> 00:08:12,115 No, Brunton. 75 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:19,539 That's how the story goes. 76 00:08:19,707 --> 00:08:23,877 And I'm not going to vouch for it, though, but the commission is over here, 77 00:08:24,629 --> 00:08:26,046 signed by Prince Rupert, 78 00:08:27,298 --> 00:08:30,050 It's from my ancestor the Ralph Musgrave. 79 00:08:30,218 --> 00:08:32,469 To join his cavalry troop at Edge Hill. 80 00:08:33,888 --> 00:08:37,015 Rupert's seal and commission, Holmes. 81 00:08:37,767 --> 00:08:38,683 Astonishing. 82 00:08:40,811 --> 00:08:42,646 It's one of the boots worn that day. 83 00:08:44,232 --> 00:08:45,690 If I may be so bold, sir. 84 00:08:46,067 --> 00:08:46,691 Huh? 85 00:08:47,068 --> 00:08:50,070 The boot was worn by his brother, Sir Roland Musgrave. 86 00:08:55,910 --> 00:08:59,746 Was it indeed? My butler was once a schoolmaster. 87 00:08:59,914 --> 00:09:04,209 I must bow to his scholarship over mine in matters of my own family's history. 88 00:09:09,048 --> 00:09:12,425 No, no, no, never mind. You may leave us now. 89 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:17,097 Yeah, but Brunton... 90 00:09:19,225 --> 00:09:20,725 where is Rachel tonight? 91 00:09:20,935 --> 00:09:24,271 She has a slight distemper, sir. I told her to go to her room. 92 00:09:42,999 --> 00:09:44,124 Good night, gentlemen. 93 00:09:58,180 --> 00:10:03,810 Holmes... Holmes has told me of Brunton's extraordinary gifts. 94 00:10:03,978 --> 00:10:06,938 I remember on my last visit where he spent several hours 95 00:10:07,064 --> 00:10:08,648 explaining to me in French, 96 00:10:12,653 --> 00:10:15,155 the origins of the piccolo! 97 00:10:16,574 --> 00:10:19,659 It is wonderful that he should be satisfied 98 00:10:19,827 --> 00:10:22,329 for so long with such a position 99 00:10:24,081 --> 00:10:27,167 but I suppose... I suppose he's been comfortable 100 00:10:27,335 --> 00:10:30,670 and lacked the energy to make a change. 101 00:10:31,505 --> 00:10:32,922 Oh yes, indeed. 102 00:10:34,008 --> 00:10:35,675 The butler of Hurlstone. 103 00:10:36,427 --> 00:10:39,304 It's always a thing that is remembered by all who visit us. 104 00:10:39,513 --> 00:10:41,181 Oh dear, Musgrave! 105 00:10:43,017 --> 00:10:45,352 However, this paragon does have one fault, 106 00:10:46,896 --> 00:10:48,146 a bit of a Don Juan. 107 00:10:49,357 --> 00:10:52,025 Well it's not a difficult part to play in quiet country district. 108 00:10:52,777 --> 00:10:55,362 When he was married he was all right, but since he's become a widower 109 00:10:55,529 --> 00:10:56,863 we've had no end of trouble with him. 110 00:10:57,698 --> 00:10:59,032 I remember a few months ago we were in hopes 111 00:10:59,158 --> 00:11:02,202 he was about to settle down again. He became engaged to Rachel Howells, 112 00:11:02,328 --> 00:11:05,205 my second housemaid but he has thrown her over. 113 00:11:05,498 --> 00:11:08,208 Taken up with Janet Tregallis, my gamekeeper's daughter, 114 00:11:09,251 --> 00:11:13,046 Rachel is a very good girl but she is of an excitable Welsh temperament. 115 00:11:13,547 --> 00:11:16,341 Now she wonders around like a black-eyed shadow, 116 00:11:17,468 --> 00:11:19,219 thoroughly unsettling the household. 117 00:11:22,556 --> 00:11:23,556 Rachel? 118 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:59,426 Good morning, Holmes, Sir Reginald. 119 00:12:20,072 --> 00:12:20,905 Thank you. 120 00:12:23,492 --> 00:12:24,951 Where's Brunton this morning? 121 00:12:26,912 --> 00:12:28,037 It's all right, it's all right. 122 00:12:29,915 --> 00:12:31,750 Nothing. It's all right. 123 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:34,085 The girl is fainting, Watson. 124 00:12:39,008 --> 00:12:40,300 My dear young woman, 125 00:12:41,510 --> 00:12:43,803 you should not be at work you should be in bed. 126 00:12:44,180 --> 00:12:48,141 You may leave your duties, Rachel. Come back when you're feeling stronger. 127 00:12:48,934 --> 00:12:50,560 I am strong enough, sir. 128 00:12:50,686 --> 00:12:54,564 I'll be the judge of that. You must go to your room and lie down. 129 00:12:54,774 --> 00:12:58,651 And on your way, tell Brunton that I wish to see him. 130 00:13:00,154 --> 00:13:01,321 The butler is gone. 131 00:13:02,823 --> 00:13:04,991 Gone? Gone where? 132 00:13:05,201 --> 00:13:08,953 He's gone. He's not in his room now. No one's seen him 133 00:13:09,997 --> 00:13:13,082 Oh, yes, yes, he's gone. He's gone. 134 00:13:23,469 --> 00:13:24,260 It's all right. 135 00:13:26,847 --> 00:13:28,515 It's all right. Gently... 136 00:13:37,525 --> 00:13:42,612 Gently, Rachel, it's all right. Gently, Rachel, gently. Gentle. 137 00:14:07,763 --> 00:14:10,557 The bed's not been slept in. Have you searched the house? 138 00:14:11,225 --> 00:14:12,308 From cellar to garret. 139 00:14:12,476 --> 00:14:14,519 The girl's right. There's no trace of him. He's gone. 140 00:14:14,937 --> 00:14:16,479 It is difficult to see how a man could have left. 141 00:14:17,189 --> 00:14:19,566 I mean the windows and door are all fastened. 142 00:14:20,276 --> 00:14:21,401 What man goes away in the middle of the night 143 00:14:21,569 --> 00:14:25,029 and leaves all his possessions behind? And money, watch... 144 00:14:25,406 --> 00:14:27,407 I've given the girl something to calm her down 145 00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:30,577 and I've taken the liberty of sending for a local nurse. 146 00:14:30,744 --> 00:14:33,913 She's in a most unusual nervous state 147 00:14:34,373 --> 00:14:36,249 and should on no account, be left alone for a while. 148 00:14:36,417 --> 00:14:38,668 This is the girl who was engaged to Brunton? 149 00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:40,545 Rachel Howells, yes, yes. 150 00:14:40,671 --> 00:14:42,922 Girl with a fiery Welsh temper. 151 00:14:43,048 --> 00:14:44,007 Oh, Watson. 152 00:14:44,174 --> 00:14:46,676 Look, gentlemen, I had no intention that this 153 00:14:46,802 --> 00:14:49,888 small domestic incident should ruin your weekend. 154 00:14:50,306 --> 00:14:52,348 I propose we continue our plans for a shoot 155 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:56,895 and, and we'll return hopefully to some simple explanation. 156 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:25,798 Holmes! 157 00:15:30,763 --> 00:15:32,096 Well done, Watson. 158 00:15:45,152 --> 00:15:46,110 Holmes. 159 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:52,617 Holmes, as I was telling Watson, something happened last night, which... 160 00:15:53,035 --> 00:15:55,078 may throw some light on this matter. 161 00:15:56,580 --> 00:15:58,957 This is very embarrassing but I... 162 00:16:00,501 --> 00:16:02,502 I find I need your advice. 163 00:16:04,421 --> 00:16:08,800 I couldn't sleep after foolishly taking that cup of café noir after dinner, 164 00:16:09,009 --> 00:16:11,094 and about two o'clock I gave up the struggle 165 00:16:11,428 --> 00:16:15,098 I came downstairs to fetch a novel I'm reading, which I'd left in the library. 166 00:16:15,307 --> 00:16:19,143 Well, you can imagine my surprise when I saw a glimmer of light 167 00:16:19,728 --> 00:16:21,187 coming from the open door. 168 00:16:22,398 --> 00:16:26,275 I'd remembered I had extinguished the lamp and closed the door when we retired. 169 00:16:27,736 --> 00:16:30,029 Naturally, my first thought was of burglars. 170 00:17:08,068 --> 00:17:11,571 So, this is how you repay my trust, 171 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:15,324 prying into my family documents? 172 00:17:17,161 --> 00:17:18,828 You will leave my service tomorrow. 173 00:17:57,117 --> 00:17:58,409 Mr. Musgrave, sir, 174 00:18:00,287 --> 00:18:01,788 I can't bear disgrace. 175 00:18:03,582 --> 00:18:06,125 I've always been proud about my station in life, 176 00:18:07,211 --> 00:18:08,419 and disgrace would kill me. 177 00:18:10,589 --> 00:18:12,131 My blood will be on your head, sir. 178 00:18:13,050 --> 00:18:15,218 It will indeed if you drive me to despair. 179 00:18:16,345 --> 00:18:16,969 What? 180 00:18:17,679 --> 00:18:20,223 If you cannot keep me after this, then for God sake 181 00:18:21,475 --> 00:18:25,311 let me give you notice and leave in a month as of my own free will 182 00:18:25,437 --> 00:18:27,146 A month is too long. 183 00:18:27,356 --> 00:18:28,815 I could stand that, Mr. Musgrave, 184 00:18:28,982 --> 00:18:33,152 but not to be cast out before all the folk I know so well. 185 00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:38,825 You don't deserve consideration, Brunton. Your conduct has been infamous. 186 00:18:41,036 --> 00:18:43,913 However, I've no wish to bring public disgrace upon you. 187 00:18:44,748 --> 00:18:47,291 You take yourself away in a week, and you give whatever reason you like. 188 00:18:47,835 --> 00:18:48,835 A week, sir? 189 00:18:50,462 --> 00:18:51,587 Only a week? 190 00:18:53,215 --> 00:18:56,175 A fortnight... say at least a fortnight? 191 00:18:56,301 --> 00:18:57,176 No, a week! 192 00:18:58,011 --> 00:19:00,847 And you may consider yourself to have been very leniently dealt with. 193 00:19:09,022 --> 00:19:12,859 But what is strange is that he seemed most anxious to stay. 194 00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:15,653 Well, it's quite plain to me what happened. 195 00:19:16,405 --> 00:19:18,823 He went back to his room, thought it over, 196 00:19:19,324 --> 00:19:22,118 decided to stage his disappearance, there and then cleverly, 197 00:19:23,245 --> 00:19:25,371 possibly with the help of his new woman friend. 198 00:19:25,581 --> 00:19:26,205 Janet? 199 00:19:27,082 --> 00:19:29,792 No, no, no, she lives with her father on the other side of the lake. 200 00:19:30,335 --> 00:19:32,545 And besides I doubt if she'd have the wit to help him. 201 00:19:34,673 --> 00:19:40,553 This piece of paper which Brunton thought worth his while to consult, 202 00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:42,221 even at the risk of losing his job? 203 00:19:42,848 --> 00:19:46,225 Well it's nothing. It's nothing of any importance at all. 204 00:19:50,522 --> 00:19:51,647 Nevertheless. 205 00:19:57,571 --> 00:20:01,699 It's simply a copy of the singular old observance called the Musgrave Ritual. 206 00:20:02,242 --> 00:20:03,826 A ceremony peculiar to our family, 207 00:20:03,952 --> 00:20:06,829 which each Musgrave has to go through when he's coming of age. 208 00:20:10,209 --> 00:20:12,251 It's a strange catechism. 209 00:20:13,754 --> 00:20:18,090 Undated but written in the style of the middle of the 17th century. 210 00:20:18,258 --> 00:20:20,843 Would you and Watson be good enough to read it out to me? 211 00:20:21,386 --> 00:20:23,596 Oh, Doctor, I know it by heart. 212 00:20:27,392 --> 00:20:28,768 Whose was it? 213 00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:31,103 His who is gone. 214 00:20:31,313 --> 00:20:32,730 Who shall have it? 215 00:20:33,398 --> 00:20:34,899 He who will come. 216 00:20:35,025 --> 00:20:36,525 Where was the sun? 217 00:20:36,985 --> 00:20:38,069 Over the oak. 218 00:20:38,278 --> 00:20:39,737 Where was the shadow? 219 00:20:40,113 --> 00:20:41,239 Under the elm. 220 00:20:41,615 --> 00:20:43,241 How was it stepped? 221 00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:48,579 West eight by eight, south seven by seven, 222 00:20:49,081 --> 00:20:56,462 west six by six, south five by five and two by two, and so under. 223 00:20:56,964 --> 00:20:58,631 What shall we give for it? 224 00:20:59,508 --> 00:21:01,133 All that is ours 225 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:02,760 Why should we give it? 226 00:21:03,929 --> 00:21:05,763 For the sake of the trust, 227 00:21:10,894 --> 00:21:12,144 It's a treasure hunt. 228 00:21:12,646 --> 00:21:15,731 Oh no, no, I remember as children 229 00:21:15,857 --> 00:21:18,442 we often tried to solve it. It leads nowhere. 230 00:21:18,610 --> 00:21:21,153 Could Brunton have seen this before last night? 231 00:21:22,739 --> 00:21:23,906 Well it's possible. 232 00:21:24,157 --> 00:21:25,825 We took no pains to hide it. 233 00:21:26,201 --> 00:21:27,827 But what could he want with it? 234 00:21:28,161 --> 00:21:30,496 Obviously he was refreshing his memory. 235 00:21:32,624 --> 00:21:35,668 You say that he had some map or chart, 236 00:21:35,794 --> 00:21:38,421 which he was thrust back into his pocket the moment you appeared? 237 00:21:38,547 --> 00:21:40,006 That's what it looked like. 238 00:21:40,882 --> 00:21:43,634 Yes. We must re-examine this ritual. 239 00:21:44,344 --> 00:21:47,013 The measurements obviously refer to some exact spot 240 00:21:47,139 --> 00:21:49,348 to which the rest of the document alludes. 241 00:21:49,891 --> 00:21:51,809 We are given two guides? 242 00:21:52,185 --> 00:21:55,313 Yes, an elm and an oak. 243 00:21:56,481 --> 00:22:02,695 And gentlemen, there is a patriarch among oaks. 244 00:22:06,575 --> 00:22:08,701 Certainly the oldest oak on the estate. 245 00:22:10,203 --> 00:22:13,205 This tree must have been here in the time of the Norman Conquest. 246 00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:15,124 In all probability, but I tell you, 247 00:22:15,250 --> 00:22:17,126 it can't be the oak referred to, Holmes. 248 00:22:17,336 --> 00:22:19,837 Generations of Musgrave's have attempted to solve it. 249 00:22:19,963 --> 00:22:21,714 They've dug up half this field. 250 00:22:32,726 --> 00:22:36,228 You are right, Musgrave, this is not the oak referred to in the ritual. 251 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:41,359 Are there any other large oaks in the immediate vicinity? 252 00:22:41,693 --> 00:22:43,402 Not within a mile of the house. 253 00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:48,574 Where was the sun 254 00:22:50,911 --> 00:22:52,078 over the oak? 255 00:22:53,163 --> 00:22:55,915 You can make nothing of it today, old man, the weather's turned. 256 00:24:53,158 --> 00:24:54,033 Sir Richard. 257 00:25:00,081 --> 00:25:01,499 It's eight foot deep here. 258 00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:03,792 Poor demented girl! 259 00:25:04,419 --> 00:25:07,630 We must live and hope, old man. There's been no body found yet. 260 00:25:08,298 --> 00:25:11,842 Nothing so far, sir. We've just about covered all of it. 261 00:25:13,053 --> 00:25:14,303 We found something! 262 00:25:52,133 --> 00:25:53,551 What does it contain? 263 00:25:56,930 --> 00:25:58,222 Nothing of value. 264 00:25:59,849 --> 00:26:01,433 It could have been thrown in by anyone at anytime. 265 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,769 No, recently, or the water would have rotted the bag. 266 00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:05,563 The maid, last night. 267 00:26:09,067 --> 00:26:11,860 Well, it would explain her journey to the mere but then 268 00:26:13,655 --> 00:26:14,697 where did she go? 269 00:26:20,453 --> 00:26:22,079 There's nothing here, Holmes. 270 00:26:23,748 --> 00:26:28,294 It's just a mass of rusted and discoloured metal and some pebbles. 271 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,799 And where is Brunton or Rachel? 272 00:26:34,134 --> 00:26:36,468 Why should anybody bother to throw this into the lake? 273 00:26:45,645 --> 00:26:48,647 I am convinced that there are not three mysteries here but only one, 274 00:26:48,773 --> 00:26:52,943 and the solution of one may prove the solutions to the others. 275 00:26:54,321 --> 00:26:58,073 Evidently, Brunton saw something in this, which escaped your forbears, Musgrave, 276 00:26:58,825 --> 00:27:01,243 from which he expected some personal advantage. 277 00:27:01,411 --> 00:27:03,287 If I can read it right 278 00:27:04,789 --> 00:27:06,749 I hold in my hand the clue 279 00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:11,837 to the truth concerning both the butler Brunton and the maid Howells. 280 00:27:14,215 --> 00:27:20,512 Where was the sun over the oak? Where was the shadow on the elm? 281 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,688 So this is where it grew? 282 00:27:29,814 --> 00:27:30,481 Yes. 283 00:27:31,316 --> 00:27:33,984 I suppose it's impossible to tell me how high it was? 284 00:27:34,194 --> 00:27:37,488 I can give you that at once. It was 64 feet. 285 00:27:40,283 --> 00:27:42,868 It's my old tutor. He used to give me lessons in trigonometry. 286 00:27:43,036 --> 00:27:45,371 When I was a lad I used to know the height of every tree and building 287 00:27:45,497 --> 00:27:46,538 on this estate. 288 00:27:47,707 --> 00:27:49,375 I am grateful to your tutor. 289 00:27:51,544 --> 00:27:54,129 Tell me did Brunton ever ask you such a question 290 00:27:54,631 --> 00:27:56,382 here on this lawn? 291 00:27:58,885 --> 00:28:00,636 Now that you call it to my mind... 292 00:28:21,282 --> 00:28:25,411 Brunton? What, What are you doing here? 293 00:28:26,663 --> 00:28:28,080 Enjoying the evening, sir. 294 00:28:28,581 --> 00:28:30,082 This is my private lawn. 295 00:28:33,169 --> 00:28:34,753 You pardon me for asking, sir. 296 00:28:35,088 --> 00:28:38,006 The elm that once stood here, that was struck by lightning, 297 00:28:38,758 --> 00:28:40,843 you wouldn't remember the height of it, would you sir? 298 00:28:42,929 --> 00:28:44,596 Well why should you want to know that? 299 00:28:45,390 --> 00:28:47,391 Well I'm arguing with Mr. Tregallis about it. 300 00:28:48,101 --> 00:28:50,269 I say it was 50 feet, he puts it higher. 301 00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:52,730 We have a small wager on it. 302 00:28:53,606 --> 00:28:55,941 Oh, well you've lost your wager, Brunton. 303 00:28:56,609 --> 00:28:58,277 It was 64 feet. 304 00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:00,738 Ah, was it? 305 00:29:02,073 --> 00:29:04,950 I shall just have to be a good sport and pay up then. 306 00:29:06,327 --> 00:29:07,453 Thank you, sir. 307 00:29:36,691 --> 00:29:37,149 Holmes! 308 00:29:37,317 --> 00:29:38,150 Yes! 309 00:29:42,322 --> 00:29:43,989 Oh good lord! 310 00:29:45,033 --> 00:29:47,993 Now we must find where the shadow of the elm would have fallen 311 00:29:48,161 --> 00:29:51,580 when the sun is just clear of that oak. 312 00:29:51,706 --> 00:29:54,166 Well that'll be difficult, Holmes, since the elm's no longer there. 313 00:29:54,334 --> 00:29:56,001 Oh now come, Watson. 314 00:29:56,169 --> 00:29:59,671 If Brunton can do it then so can we. 315 00:30:00,215 --> 00:30:02,674 The answer lies in trigonometry. 316 00:30:03,885 --> 00:30:07,679 Musgrave, I need all the fishing rods that you have in the hall. 317 00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:50,305 Holmes. 318 00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:51,306 Yes. 319 00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:54,977 I... I don't quite follow this. 320 00:30:55,144 --> 00:30:57,229 Ah, splendid! 321 00:31:00,567 --> 00:31:01,733 Musgrave! 322 00:31:02,527 --> 00:31:03,735 Every rod in the house. 323 00:31:05,530 --> 00:31:06,363 Thank you. 324 00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:22,588 Measuring stick please, Watson. 325 00:31:30,597 --> 00:31:33,056 Would you hold that for me, Musgrave, please? And that. 326 00:31:33,433 --> 00:31:35,767 Now will you take the last yard of the string 327 00:31:35,935 --> 00:31:37,936 and tie it to the base of the fishing rod, Watson? 328 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,357 Yes, and when you've done that would you- 329 00:31:42,525 --> 00:31:44,693 bring the Ritual and join me on the lawn? 330 00:32:17,977 --> 00:32:19,895 Would you measure that shadow, please, Watson? 331 00:32:23,524 --> 00:32:24,483 Nine feet. 332 00:32:24,859 --> 00:32:26,401 So the calculation is now a simple one. 333 00:32:26,611 --> 00:32:29,237 If a fishing rod of six feet throws a shadow of nine feet 334 00:32:29,364 --> 00:32:31,657 then a tree of 64 feet would throw one of? 335 00:32:32,158 --> 00:32:33,116 Ninety-eight. 336 00:32:34,077 --> 00:32:35,077 Ninety-six. 337 00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:36,745 Yes, of course. 338 00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:40,290 And the line of one, of course, would be the line of the other. 339 00:33:03,564 --> 00:33:05,816 Watson, look! Two inches from mine. 340 00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:07,693 A mark made by Brunton. 341 00:33:07,902 --> 00:33:10,529 Now read out the steps. 342 00:33:11,197 --> 00:33:13,657 West- eight by eight. 343 00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:41,643 Sixty-four. Then south- seven by seven. 344 00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:51,361 Forty-nine. 345 00:33:51,487 --> 00:33:54,489 West- six by six. 346 00:33:59,662 --> 00:34:00,579 Thirty-six and 347 00:34:00,747 --> 00:34:03,582 south- five by five. 348 00:34:44,123 --> 00:34:44,623 And? 349 00:34:44,791 --> 00:34:45,791 Two by Two. 350 00:34:46,375 --> 00:34:49,711 One, two, three, four. 351 00:34:51,714 --> 00:34:52,964 I don't believe it. 352 00:34:56,135 --> 00:34:57,803 Some mistake in your calculations. 353 00:34:58,096 --> 00:34:59,262 That's impossible. 354 00:35:06,687 --> 00:35:08,313 Brunton hasn't been here. 355 00:35:08,898 --> 00:35:11,316 Two by two and so under... 356 00:35:11,609 --> 00:35:13,985 These stones haven't been moved in many a long year. 357 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:15,487 And under... 358 00:35:16,572 --> 00:35:20,492 Holmes. You've forgotten the "and under." 359 00:35:21,536 --> 00:35:23,161 Is there a cellar under here? 360 00:35:24,330 --> 00:35:25,664 As old as the house. 361 00:35:43,891 --> 00:35:45,851 There's been wood all over the floor. 362 00:35:47,019 --> 00:35:49,354 That's Brunton's muffler, I'd swear to it. 363 00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:50,522 Watson! 364 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,928 Inspector, this is a friend of mine, Doctor Watson. 365 00:37:03,179 --> 00:37:06,848 Inspector, I have some experience in forensic pathology. 366 00:37:07,266 --> 00:37:10,727 The man has been dead for two days. Cause of death suffocation. 367 00:37:11,437 --> 00:37:14,397 No wound or bruise on this person, sir? 368 00:37:14,774 --> 00:37:15,607 None. 369 00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:19,569 Accident, eh? 370 00:37:19,737 --> 00:37:22,614 Oh, there's no doubt about it. He must have been down there alone 371 00:37:22,782 --> 00:37:25,909 and the flagstone just fell shut on him, poor fellow. 372 00:37:27,703 --> 00:37:30,789 Sir Reginald I'm told that your butler was down in the cellar 373 00:37:30,915 --> 00:37:32,707 in an unused part of the house. 374 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,418 What was his business there, sir? 375 00:37:36,295 --> 00:37:38,922 A butler's duties are many and varied, Inspector. 376 00:37:39,173 --> 00:37:40,590 I can't possibly answer that question 377 00:37:40,716 --> 00:37:42,467 Well no one would have heard his cries for help 378 00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:44,928 in that part of the house, that is the point surely, Inspector. 379 00:37:57,483 --> 00:37:58,066 Tregallis. 380 00:37:58,192 --> 00:37:58,942 Rachel! 381 00:38:00,152 --> 00:38:04,990 She done it! She killed him! That's why she ran away! 382 00:38:05,324 --> 00:38:05,991 Tregallis! 383 00:38:06,117 --> 00:38:06,992 Rachel? 384 00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,996 It's nothing the servants are naturally upset. 385 00:38:11,998 --> 00:38:13,164 Well who is this Rachel? 386 00:38:13,499 --> 00:38:15,917 One of my housemaids. She was engaged to Brunton. 387 00:38:16,043 --> 00:38:17,335 Do please cover him up. 388 00:38:18,254 --> 00:38:20,630 One evening he disappeared. She became ill and left. 389 00:38:21,549 --> 00:38:25,010 Well I shall want to see her. I shall want to see that young woman also. 390 00:38:25,177 --> 00:38:25,844 Sergeant. 391 00:38:26,887 --> 00:38:28,138 All right, take him away. 392 00:38:30,308 --> 00:38:31,933 Doctor, please. 393 00:38:42,111 --> 00:38:43,361 The local inspector, Holmes. 394 00:38:43,696 --> 00:38:48,033 If you could find a plausible explanation to avoid publicity in this wretched... 395 00:38:50,703 --> 00:38:56,541 I must confess that so far I am disappointed in my investigation. 396 00:38:58,169 --> 00:39:01,212 I had reckoned upon solving the matter when once I'd find the place 397 00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:03,715 referred to in the Ritual but now that I'm here. 398 00:39:05,885 --> 00:39:09,220 I'm as far as ever from knowing what it was your family concealed 399 00:39:09,388 --> 00:39:11,222 with such elaborate precautions. 400 00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:14,184 But you've solved my mystery of Brunton. 401 00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:19,147 But how? How did his fate come upon him 402 00:39:19,357 --> 00:39:22,067 and what part has been played by the woman who has disappeared? 403 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:34,079 I should explain Holmes' methods in such cases. He... 404 00:39:34,914 --> 00:39:37,082 He puts himself in the man's place 405 00:39:37,708 --> 00:39:41,419 having first gauged his intelligence and then he... 406 00:39:41,921 --> 00:39:45,757 he tries to imagine how he himself would have proceeded 407 00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:48,259 in similar circumstances. 408 00:39:48,594 --> 00:39:53,932 In this case, Brunton's intelligence is first rate. 409 00:39:54,558 --> 00:39:59,104 So you see it is unnecessary to make allowance for the personal equation. 410 00:40:03,692 --> 00:40:05,527 As the astronomers have dubbed it. 411 00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:35,306 He knows something is concealed. 412 00:40:41,272 --> 00:40:42,647 He has spotted the place. 413 00:41:31,071 --> 00:41:34,282 He has found the stone is too heavy for a man to move unaided. 414 00:41:34,617 --> 00:41:38,203 So what does he do? 415 00:41:40,831 --> 00:41:47,212 Help from outside. No one to trust... help from inside but who? 416 00:41:49,006 --> 00:41:50,048 Rachel... 417 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,720 She still loves him. He sees it in her eyes for all her show of hate. 418 00:42:07,691 --> 00:42:09,692 I'm here to say I'm sorry, my love. 419 00:42:10,736 --> 00:42:13,071 I'm a foolish man. I don't deserve you. 420 00:42:13,447 --> 00:42:14,489 You don't. 421 00:42:15,741 --> 00:42:17,158 Forgive me, Rachel 422 00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:18,910 Why? 423 00:42:19,745 --> 00:42:23,581 There's no one else for me. No one ever has been, you know that. 424 00:42:24,792 --> 00:42:27,752 It's this house it eats into your soul. 425 00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:33,258 Let me take you away from here- we'll start afresh. 426 00:42:34,426 --> 00:42:39,556 Your promises! Oh, Richard, you make love so freely. 427 00:42:41,892 --> 00:42:44,060 You never loved me. 428 00:42:46,855 --> 00:42:51,776 Oh you're wrong! I love you for your beauty and your spirit. 429 00:42:52,903 --> 00:42:57,115 We're a perfect match. With my brains and your heart 430 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,076 what do we want with service to others? 431 00:43:01,245 --> 00:43:03,454 The world is out there calling us, my love. 432 00:43:04,248 --> 00:43:06,416 And how do we get out there with no money? 433 00:43:07,626 --> 00:43:09,294 We'll have all the money we need. 434 00:43:10,921 --> 00:43:14,132 I found something in this house all them country squires have missed. 435 00:43:15,175 --> 00:43:16,968 Now I've found it and we're ready to go. 436 00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:21,639 But not without you, I couldn't live without you. 437 00:43:23,809 --> 00:43:25,727 I'm to be your husband, Rachel. 438 00:43:31,108 --> 00:43:34,319 What money? What have you found? 439 00:43:36,822 --> 00:43:40,658 Come with me. Put on your gown, I'll show you. 440 00:43:46,332 --> 00:43:47,582 Softly now. 441 00:44:05,267 --> 00:44:08,603 There it is, under that stone. 442 00:44:09,688 --> 00:44:11,356 All we have to do is lift it. 443 00:44:15,486 --> 00:44:16,694 Pick up that wood. 444 00:44:17,905 --> 00:44:19,697 Now when I lift this, you wedge it 445 00:44:22,034 --> 00:44:23,701 Come on woman, do as I tell you! 446 00:44:28,248 --> 00:44:28,956 Ready? 447 00:44:36,173 --> 00:44:36,881 And another one. 448 00:44:44,223 --> 00:44:45,390 And that one over there. 449 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,021 There is a slight indentation on this log. 450 00:44:56,694 --> 00:44:57,735 And on this. 451 00:44:59,571 --> 00:45:01,406 Caused by the weight of the stone. 452 00:45:01,657 --> 00:45:03,157 Heavy work for a woman. 453 00:45:06,537 --> 00:45:08,246 And this, I think- 454 00:45:09,331 --> 00:45:11,249 has been used finally 455 00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:13,751 as a support. 456 00:45:23,512 --> 00:45:24,595 There's our treasure. 457 00:45:27,182 --> 00:45:29,225 That box is laying there for two centuries or more. 458 00:45:29,476 --> 00:45:30,560 Will you steal it? 459 00:45:31,478 --> 00:45:33,604 How can you steal what nobody knows exists? 460 00:45:33,856 --> 00:45:35,106 Well how did you know then? 461 00:45:35,357 --> 00:45:38,693 Brains, my girl. History and mathematics. 462 00:45:39,820 --> 00:45:41,028 Here, hold the light for me. 463 00:45:58,922 --> 00:45:59,922 Bring the light closer. 464 00:46:12,978 --> 00:46:14,979 Make a fortune! 465 00:46:15,981 --> 00:46:18,983 Oh yes, that's a fine profit. 466 00:46:19,359 --> 00:46:20,276 Quiet. 467 00:46:21,779 --> 00:46:23,154 There must be some value in it. 468 00:46:24,615 --> 00:46:28,576 Clever, are you? A pride, more like. 469 00:46:29,411 --> 00:46:30,745 Better than your masters! 470 00:46:30,871 --> 00:46:31,662 Quiet, woman. 471 00:46:31,830 --> 00:46:33,623 I know your cleverness. 472 00:46:34,082 --> 00:46:37,502 Husband, you just needed me to help you! 473 00:46:37,878 --> 00:46:40,922 If it had been treasure you'd have been over and away without me! 474 00:46:41,048 --> 00:46:42,465 You would have gone with her! 475 00:46:44,009 --> 00:46:45,968 You're a fool if you believe that. 476 00:46:51,725 --> 00:46:53,518 Here take this. 477 00:46:58,106 --> 00:46:59,440 Now help me out of here. 478 00:47:01,276 --> 00:47:05,196 Rachel! 479 00:47:06,406 --> 00:47:08,533 My love, get help. 480 00:47:10,077 --> 00:47:11,369 I can't breath. 481 00:47:12,621 --> 00:47:15,498 Get Mr. Holmes, quickly. 482 00:47:16,708 --> 00:47:17,875 Please, my love. 483 00:47:19,211 --> 00:47:20,461 Rachel! 484 00:47:21,380 --> 00:47:23,673 Oh God, help me. 485 00:47:24,633 --> 00:47:29,679 Rachel! Rachel! Help! 486 00:47:30,556 --> 00:47:32,306 Rachel! Help me! 487 00:47:33,809 --> 00:47:35,893 Rachel! 488 00:47:36,478 --> 00:47:38,563 Rachel, help me! 489 00:47:55,247 --> 00:47:57,415 That will explain her blanched face 490 00:47:57,583 --> 00:48:00,084 and her fevered brain at breakfast the next morning. 491 00:48:04,423 --> 00:48:05,756 Nothing but fungi 492 00:48:06,174 --> 00:48:08,593 But what was in the box, Holmes? 493 00:48:21,690 --> 00:48:22,940 Sir Charles the First. 494 00:48:23,275 --> 00:48:25,693 We may find something else of Charles the First. 495 00:48:27,571 --> 00:48:30,114 The bag that was fished from the mere. 496 00:48:34,119 --> 00:48:37,121 Gentlemen, look. 497 00:48:38,916 --> 00:48:40,041 It's a jewel. 498 00:48:42,628 --> 00:48:43,753 A family heirloom. 499 00:48:44,546 --> 00:48:45,630 It's possible. 500 00:48:46,173 --> 00:48:50,134 You're ancestor, Sir Ralph Musgrave, was he a prominent cavalier? 501 00:48:51,011 --> 00:48:53,596 Oh yes indeed. Yes, he was close to Charles the Second 502 00:48:53,722 --> 00:48:55,640 in his wanderings during the Commonwealth. 503 00:48:56,892 --> 00:49:00,102 Then I think that should give us the last link that we wanted. 504 00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:06,651 Gentlemen, you must bear mind 505 00:49:06,777 --> 00:49:09,654 when the royal party were driven into exile 506 00:49:10,405 --> 00:49:11,656 they probably left 507 00:49:11,823 --> 00:49:14,992 many of their most precious possessions buried behind them 508 00:49:15,369 --> 00:49:17,995 with the intention of returning for them in a more peaceful time. 509 00:49:20,374 --> 00:49:22,166 Gold, Musgrave. 510 00:49:24,002 --> 00:49:27,296 Watson, I believe you have in your hand 511 00:49:27,673 --> 00:49:30,841 a relic, which is not only of great intrinsic value, 512 00:49:30,968 --> 00:49:34,345 but also great importance as a historical curiosity. 513 00:49:34,596 --> 00:49:35,596 Well what is it? 514 00:49:37,849 --> 00:49:39,266 Nothing less- 515 00:49:40,811 --> 00:49:46,482 than a fragment of the ancient crown of the kings of England. 516 00:49:47,192 --> 00:49:48,359 The crown! 517 00:49:49,069 --> 00:49:51,362 Oh no, no, Holmes. It's too fanciful. 518 00:49:59,371 --> 00:50:00,705 Now consider the ritual. 519 00:50:01,164 --> 00:50:02,206 How does it run? 520 00:50:04,042 --> 00:50:05,042 Whose was it? 521 00:50:05,585 --> 00:50:07,545 His who is gone. 522 00:50:08,088 --> 00:50:12,967 That was the execution of Charles. And then who shall have it? 523 00:50:14,302 --> 00:50:15,886 He who will come. 524 00:50:16,722 --> 00:50:20,725 That was Charles the Second, whose advent was already foreseen. 525 00:50:22,144 --> 00:50:25,563 There can, I think, be no doubt, gentlemen, that this- 526 00:50:26,314 --> 00:50:30,901 battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the Royal Stuarts. 527 00:50:31,236 --> 00:50:33,237 But how came it into my family? 528 00:50:36,116 --> 00:50:38,075 When Charles the First was executed 529 00:50:38,410 --> 00:50:41,537 the crown was seized broken into pieces, 530 00:50:41,913 --> 00:50:44,915 and sold for a thousand guineas. 531 00:51:04,144 --> 00:51:05,936 Since then there has been no trace of it, 532 00:51:07,856 --> 00:51:08,773 until now. 533 00:51:09,649 --> 00:51:12,276 But why did Charles not get it back on his return? 534 00:51:12,486 --> 00:51:14,779 That is a question, which may never be answered. 535 00:51:15,781 --> 00:51:19,742 When your ancestor died by some oversight, 536 00:51:20,619 --> 00:51:26,624 he left this guide to his descendant without ever explaining the meaning of it. 537 00:51:27,918 --> 00:51:29,376 Father to son... 538 00:51:30,670 --> 00:51:37,134 Until at last it came within reach of a man who tore it's secret out of it 539 00:51:39,805 --> 00:51:41,889 and lost his life in the venture. 540 00:51:44,976 --> 00:51:52,983 Rachel! 541 00:51:57,322 --> 00:52:01,408 Was it chance that wood slipped or was she only guilty of silence? 542 00:52:02,202 --> 00:52:04,161 She had a passionate Celtic soul. 543 00:52:04,704 --> 00:52:06,997 The man had wronged her. She had it in her power. 544 00:52:07,165 --> 00:52:11,961 Might it rather been vengeance that sent the stone crashing? 545 00:52:12,671 --> 00:52:17,174 Her hand that dashed it away. Now what has become of her? 546 00:52:18,009 --> 00:52:21,512 Very probably she's far away from Hurlstone now. 547 00:52:21,805 --> 00:52:24,014 And carries her secret with her.