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Yes

is

oh

What is it

christmas

and Arthur Conan Doyle was the most

famous writer in the world

thank you mr smith

his creation Sherlock Holmes was so

convincing that many of his numerous

readers thought him to be a real

detective

now if you're as good a performer as

that either what about public readings

that should be our next step look at

dickens that's what made him famous

oh can't greno smith surely my son is

more famous

doubted mrs Doyle and i wouldn't be

surprised if Sherlock Holmes it's even

more so

no there's a captain of the ship that i

was telling you about forbade me to join

my shipmates

the ice was no place for a novice

so

obviously how could anyone have guessed

that in less than a year he would be

accused of committing a terrible crime

and his life and career risk

a messenger thank you my sweet

is this from you

no you should be in bed

say good night night night see you in a

minute

oh it was just

business rather than festive

you're beautiful this evening man thank

you

Arthur you're right

i have to go to scotland

but why

i can't believe you went there why

didn't you do it because i needed to see

him i wanted to talk i told you before i

don't want to hear this it's a terrible

injustice done he shouldn't be there

so what are you proposing

leave it alone Arthur

you of all people know how far we've

come

so

father

and i always will

i know we never speak of this

but i went there and i had no idea no

you have no idea

and i beg you to stop this now

father it's Arthur

when did he do these

some time ago

he's not been doing very much lately as

you see

i have no idea be like this

i want to talk to him

i'm sorry he's

been in this state for several weeks

and

it's been a long time so visitors

oh

no no i'm begging you never to raise

this can ever

for my sake

you will

is

go

the box has nothing distinctive save two

thumb marks at the left bottom corner

it is filled with rough salt

of the quality used for preserving hides

and

embedded in it

are these very singular enclosures

you have observed of course watson that

the ears are not a pear

they're fresh too and have been cut off

with a blunt instrument

this is no practical joke of some

medical students from the dissecting

rooms

we're investigating

a serious crime

done

hello

dr Doyle

dr Doyle

oh harry howard

my guest was a reporter you've been

following me i have been looking for you

sir but not following

i was hoping to get a story before you

go

people won't stop talking about Sherlock

Holmes the public just got trained to

catch i'll maybe talk to you when i

return goodbye dr Doyle

see you when you get back

harry

you're sure you haven't been spying on

me

i saw somebody looking through the

window of my study the other night

a Sherlock Holmes fanatic maybe

there are lots of them about

i'm sure of it somebody's been moving

them it can't be offered the servants

know not to touch your papers

it must be the wind

so the story of the seventies is it

finished oh yes yes yes it's finished

should we take a holiday

yes

yes where should we go

switzerland

so

oh

Arthur

did you not hear me

this is a dreadful place please

can we go it says of course

you're all right

yes i think so

i'm just out of breath

i had to shout so

sorry

what is it

i just i thought i heard

seeing that reporter

has upset you hasn't it

they're like maggots

people won't stop talking about Sherlock

Holmes

always always homes

you know the more there is of this the

less i want to write

the consultant said it's

consumption

i don't know why i didn't see the

symptoms i'm a doctor it's not your

fault

you practically accused me of

manslaughter

i think he's being too gloomy

i mean with

lots of rest and care and attention

there's every chance i might recover

well we'll do everything we can

if we have to go abroad to beat this

then we'll go abroad

davos

davos

some wonderful sanatorium

god

god

damn you

there is a telegram sir

thank you

will there be a reply sir

no

no reply

to inform you with regret your father

charles died after a fit early today the

10th of october

i am the living spirit

i am at peace and in harmony with all

life and with all vibrations

in all my being

to help us increase our understanding of

life

so

are you here out of curiosity

or

is there someone

i've always been very interested in the

subject

he said someone

charles

it's my father

have you a reason

there's something i'd like to tell

i'm begging you to reconsider Arthur

have you any idea of the consequences

my mind is made up

and i will ask you to promise me that

from now on you won't mention his name

do other work by all means

write anything you like i will support

you but why take this step

it's hardly generous after all that

your friend

sorry

i'm sure you will find it harder than

you imagine

i still don't understand the reason

there are many

well i can only hope

you will think again

you must Arthur

so

mrs Doyle

Arthur we must talk about what you told

me in your letter you can't be serious

yes i am

i've thought about a lot lately and now

i'm sure

spoken to my publisher about it

Sherlock Holmes takes my mind from

better things

if i don't finish him he could finish me

think of the questions it will raise

people will make the connection you

could finish us all

you can't you won't and you mustn't

it is with a heavy heart that i take up

my pen to write these last words in

which i shall ever record the singular

gifts by which my friend Sherlock Holmes

was distinguished

uh

um

and they're deep down in that dreadful

cauldron of swirling water and seeding

foam

will lie locked in each other's arms for

all time

the most dangerous criminal and the

foremost champion of the law of their

generation

as the world mourned the death of

Sherlock Holmes Arthur was threatened

insulted and mocked

some people wore black armbands in the

streets

others wrote abusive letters of protest

at the killing of their beloved

detective

but he held firm to his belief

it was justifiable homicide

he threw himself into writing a series

of novels

many historical

work as the detective himself once

commented is the best antidote to sorrow

i've lived for six years in a sick room

i know how weedy of it i am

did you finish your story yes

yes finish it

you used toys to be so

pleased when you finished

i'm unable to reach him

i'm sorry

we cannot call up the dead it is the

dead who come to call on us

as you can see Arthur

people have still not forgotten if you

don't know that you're right to my home

some of them threaten me

and will the man himself or since he

won't let me say the name that is what i

must call him ever return

herbert

while he lived i barely wrote a novel

since his death i've done sex true

ah

honesty versus tact it's always a

difficult struggle

come on let me have it

several i know have not pleased the

critics or the public Arthur that's law

so what to do

now as we have discussed there would be

serious interest and i believe

serious money to be made from a

biographical memoir it's almost as bad

i'm sure it would sell

it would keep you in the public eye and

help your other books too

you could use all your early experiences

the arctic africa

i believe we could have a coup

and if you're worried about checking

dates or any other donkey work there's a

good man here who could help

who is he

the model of discretion very unobtrusive

and very enthusiastic now

just let me send him down for a talk

it's all i ask

well i might think about it

what's your present

oh uh it's for kingsley

uh canvas system soldiers

yes

no i won't

you killed him

remember your story of the server deals

an evangel will cut the ears off your

head and leave you screaming

i am aware

you have such need

and i'd hope tonight you might be

fortunate

because today i felt very close

to the other side but

um so i'm sorry yes

i'm

i'm just sorry that you could not reach

him yes

yes i i wanted to to say

no i was i was hoping

i was hoping to ask

yes

no no it's nothing it's nothing please

excuse me

what's your name

it's gene

so

so

so

excuse me

who are you

i'm the biographer sir

the housekeeper said i could wait till

your return cleve should never have let

you in

i remember my publisher mentioned

something about it but i should have

been warned

and that's

that's claridine

incidentally

it's not cocaine

i take it from my neuralgia

at home

greenhouse smith

told you that i'm not keen on his idea

of um biography

we're very hopeful you might consider it

sir

why people greatly admire your work

myself included

which books

i've read them all

but i believe Holmes oh

it's the same always Sherlock Holmes and

why is it about why is it never clark

our uh our brigadier gerard or our

rodney stone why is it always the same

why is that

why

because he has fascinating qualities all

of us would love to understand that

sorry mr

seldon i'm sorry mr seldon i have no

interest in this and i should have been

notified

so i bid you good night it's unfortunate

you've had a wasted journey

that is not a problem

i just hope i can be of service to you

if you're right

and again my apologies

good night to you dr Doyle

mr selden

mr selden

you're not a fanatic who writes

threatening me with death for having

killed him are you

oh no i have never written to you in my

life

good

come in

most grateful teaser

and i had meant to make one thing clear

dr Doyle

everything will be treated in the

strictest confidence

and you realize that i may never allow

any of this to be published

it seems hardly much of a prospect for a

biographer

and no doubt you think we should start

with

my detective

i suppose his method may apply to

biography gather facts arrive at a

conclusion

i'm sorry

i don't take eminence method as

seriously as you

all we thought at this stage sir to help

with any venture of this kind

is you allow me to establish a

chronology

undertake some research

research

of course i'm prepared to sign a legal

undertaking never to divulge or publish

anything without your concern

you may reveal

nothing to anyone

not even my publisher

that is understood

there's no drugs

well i can't be much of a writer

why

because

because i can't express how wonderful it

feels to see you

two weeks is too long Arthur

two minutes is too long

and yes

we would like some tea please

and

cakes

cream cakes

if you have them and some

crumpets

and

scones

and jam

and cream

hungry no

no not the slightest i just enjoy the

luxury of giving you things

well

no

much

mrs Doyle

come here

thank you

i am very proud of my son

and since he has sanctioned this i will

tell you whatever you wish to ask me

i understand

that nothing will be published unless we

should be but that is sir but

i think it would be a wonderful thing to

understand once and for all what gave

rise to his detective

very

well i am prepared to be frank

about those early years in edinburgh

whilst he was at the university

i know there were difficulties

well

i doubt it will be worth printing

it is only a beginning

but i want to know how it was

how it was

i'm aware that your husband was ill

ill mr seldon

do you want me to tell you about the

smell in his room

it was the smell of damnation

that room was his entire world

but he would

scream

crawl on the floor

he would lie drunk for

days and all we could do

was save our honor

by protecting him from the outside world

and so you see some of what you

described of your husband

in your son's work

i'm thinking of such stories as

the twisted lip

and the brutal violence induced by

alcohol

stories of terrible family secrets

including those who cut the ears off

their lovers

or beat them to a pulp

but the truth is mr selden

he murdered us

he muttered this

i never thought my mother would say so

much

i admit i was somewhat surprised myself

well she knew i had sanctioned it

it's the only copy

just as i undertook

i'll almost certainly destroy it i hope

you don't mind

it is our arrangement

it's very hard for my mother in

edinburgh there were times when life was

desperate and i've never pretended

otherwise

sympathizer

do you

i admit it's affecting to

hear it in her own words

i confess i cannot quite see how the

family managed

without support

is there anything you wish to add

my mother wanted me out but

by the time i returned from boarding

school anything

fragile or value

had to be removed from

that creature locked away in an upstairs

room

sometimes the doctor

friend of my mother's

and come around and with

his help would have to restrain him

two

every day i consider other options

but i can abandon louise

and i won't stop seeing you

i believe in you

and who knows what this new century will

bring if i hadn't met you the last of

the old would have been nothing but

torture

i live in a sick room

and my father's dead

and so is my detective

do you miss him

no

not for a moment

my publisher still talks of him but

nobody seems to understand the problem

i i didn't mean your detective Arthur

eventual father

i know how badly you wanted to make

contact yes i'm sorry

how did he die

alone

vanilla for many years

and meanwhile my detector was mourned

all over the world

more obituaries than a king

sometimes i wish that Sherlock Holmes

had never been born

but

i'm rambling i'm sorry

i just

thank god for eating

die for you

dr bell yes

dr joseph bell

i'm just trying to understand the

background to his creations

and of you some have said that i am the

model for Sherlock Holmes has been

mentioned

ah

were you in Doyle close well he was my

clerk oh that hardly answers the

question

um

it was a very difficult time for the

family when he became your clerk

have you any idea how they managed

a question for him

surely to be candid with you i do not

see the answer very much as anyone's

business but our own

if mr Doyle has sanctioned this

interview i am perfectly happy to give

it but only on my own terms

i want to ask you then about

this method you taught your students

it was a form of detection yes

are you married

no

my wife died before ever i met Arthur

Doyle

mr selden

she was barely 30.

i was very busy my medical work was

consuming but it was not enough i became

interested in criminology and forensics

and the ability to deduce facts by

observation

it was a kind of

mission a means of universal deduction

in fact there is

one occasion which might indeed

illustrate hypharia

now before i address the next patient i

want you to look at him carefully

remembering the method i have taught

and observe everything and anything

that can be observed

by his first appearance

anyone

he has a limp

perhaps a sprain of some kind

not much in other words

you see

but you do not observe

can nobody observe anything

nobody

that he is in need of medical attention

why not ask him

i admit

he has few distinguishing features i can

observe

very little

except

that he comes from liberton

he drives two horses

one bay

one grey

and he has recently been discharged from

the army

it's all true but how in the world do

you cancer exactly how do you know that

well i am tempted to leave you wondering

it's always much more effective

but

i will explain

there is libertarian clay on his toe

caps

the color

is unmistakable

the boots are new

undoubtedly ammunition boots the kind

offer to any soldier on his discharge

from the army

there is white equine hairs on one

sleeve

bay

on the other

two horses

one 1b

but these are precisely the methods of

homes

it is also said that you enjoy the

celebrity of being the inspiration for

Holmes yes it is said

i played my part i was amused good god

man

i was queen victoria's physician in

scotland i hardly craved any attention

you talked earlier about your interests

in forensics and criminology but surely

they were more than mere interests were

they not

there have been newspaper reports that

you assisted the police i have never

talked about that before

and i will certainly say nothing

now

it's very interesting mr selden but

there's little that's new bell's changed

less than i thought morning

probably think i'm talking to myself

well it's a righteous privilege yes as i

said this little is new oh but i think

that there is this matter the bell

refused to talk about it

uh all right you say nothing but some

facts are common knowledge i'll say

nothing if i choose and i would ask you

to remember it's you who are supposed to

be working for me very well now let me

take you back to the year 1878

when bell made you his clerk and eugene

chantrell was hanged for the murder of

his wife

he singled out bell as the man

responsible for his arrest and

conviction you must have known about it

it was the gossip of edinburgh you

acknowledged him as your detective and

yet failed to say he was one why very

well everyone knew the rumors about bell

so i acknowledged it it's what i was

bound to do but i had no wish to intrude

further

intrude

bell invented the technique bell

pioneered forensics bell investigated

crimes and you were his clerk the man

was homes i appreciate your dedication

mr selden but that greenhouse smith

really intended to play the prosecuting

council like this

bell was much less of a calculating

machine than holds it almost seems there

is something about the subject of bell

that unnerves you

he made you his clark

why

there's no reason and i don't know why

you say that

then let us return to Holmes was he as

you have just said a calculating machine

you use that phrase constantly to

dismiss him but surely the truth is he

was loved by millions precisely because

he often displays great emotion

the moody violin

and this

there is nothing in which deduction is

so necessary as religion

our highest assurance of the goodness of

providence seems to me to rest in the

flowers the rose is an extra its smell

and its color are an embellishment of

life not a condition of it we have much

to learn from the flowers

are these the words of a calculating

machine

his passionate moral sense the embracing

of london's mood the crusader against

darkness and evil

you made him so real that people almost

seem to believe in him more than me yes

i only wish Doyle would apply himself to

what he's good at

you know he won't even allow me to

mention the name

i have to call the late detective

the man himself

the man himself

in your dealings with Doyle did you ever

arrive at any conclusions about what lay

behind the stories

i know

bell had a strong influence but there's

much more he's not telling me

did you ever have any sense that the

family's problems in edinburgh

may have lay behind their creation

there was one thing

only one but

i would ask you not to mention it to him

go on

it was getting on for christmas about um

seven years ago

we'd been discussing illustrations for

the new stories

and i'd wanted him to see everything

that had been done in that line

he was becoming quite

engaged with the exercise

so i brought out our old copies and also

um

old books that i had anything with

illustrations of Sherlock Holmes

but i'd forgotten one set so i came back

in here for them

i was never sure if he knew i'd seen him

of course i wanted to know which

home story caused the outburst

a study in scarlet

with illustrations by charles Doyle

his

father's illustrations of homes

done from a mental institution

it was tactless me i suppose i'd

forgotten the book's existence

they do not look like the work of a

madman

no

the same thing occurred to me they are

just a little dull

we could never have taken them on for

the strand

what's the meaning of this

is there something wrong sir

well look at it

it's a medallion of bacon sir

is there something wrong with it

shall i have it taken away and cooked no

i'm not hungry

it's all right anna just take it away

at times i feel so low and wonder if we

should go on

and if it is wrong

and then i feel guilt and i worry for

you thinking i'm only a burden

sorry Arthur

no there's

there's nothing to be sorry for glad you

came

so am i

she said

sometimes i've

like the last few nights i despair

it's

as if i have to play

every piece i know and i play

and i play and i play and i play it

and then i just feel exhausted and

desperate

it'll pass it

yes i expect it will pass

Arthur everything does eventually

like these things will that be us in the

next century dust

be careful

or you might inherit my taste for the

macabre

i wrote a story once called the

cardboard box it's

it's about a pair of severed ears

and a box of salt

and now

i see them

everywhere i go

i don't want to stop seeing

i couldn't bear it

no

no that won't happen

are you all right

goddarth are you all right

i want to go there

i want to enlist

what for a situation

there's a few hundred soldiers guarding

thousands of civilians from a hostile

army it's one of the most heroic things

i've ever ever heard of Arthur that is a

mad idea what why for one thing you're

too old and for another oh what that

don't you understand that's what i want

to get away from

well

my door is always open

you think you think playing at soldiers

good evening welcome

miss lackey dr Doyle

well

they're all here are they good

i'm fine

are you sure this is wise nobody will

attack us

we will go through together arm and arm

as honored friends

now whatever could be wrong with that

mom

this

is my mom mary lovely to meet you i'm so

pleased you're here come along and meet

everyone

brianna

thank you

so do you support me in what happened

last night yes

completely

willie seems to see it differently yes

he says he isn't asking you to renounce

your friendship with ms lackey no

no

says i insulted my wife and betrayed my

marriage

i said to you and to everyone else i've

betrayed norway

i may wrestle with temptation who

doesn't

but i win

Arthur you know i accept that and i

believe that willie does too his

reservation is that

to him and some others

it makes little difference if your

relationship remain platonic

in other words he makes no distinction

between guilt and innocence

so it only matters how things are viewed

i suppose i should expect nothing better

from a

journalist

thank god he's not a detective

not a judge

i think she's lovely

she's beautiful

do you

yes

i do

we both know how unfairly the world can

judge

and apply impossible standards

if you wish i can try to talk to willie

further

that's kind

but i don't think there's much point

i can't tell you how isolated i

sometimes feel

oh i know

well because

they can't they're trapped you see

but what a situation

it's just a few hundred soldiers

guarding thousands of civilians

from a hostile army

well i don't know

we're gonna have to pray for them

things like

kingsley

kingsley

kingsley

kingsley

kingsley

has anyone ever told you you have a bad

habit mr seldon you creep

rather than walk

i always had the impression you

preferred quiet in your study sir

and i always had the impression that you

were well mannered up until now

do you not want to continue

no mr selden

i do not

my mind is elsewhere

very well that has always been on

agreement

but would you not like to hear my

findings

have i not read them

oh you read only the evidence dr Doyle i

mean my conclusions based on that

evidence conclusions

about what

about the matter we first discussed

the source of your creation very well

let me start with that watch i notice on

your table it belonged to your father

now look at it

thank you it's very interesting

i repeat your words about your own

father

after a time

anything fragile or a value had to be

removed from him

is there not then one major moment in

your detective stories where you draw on

your own life

what

here

the sign of four

one of the most famous scenes of

deduction you ever wrote

watson tests homes with a watch that

belongs to his brother who was a

drunkard he is devastated by what Holmes

finds

and we only have to change the parts a

little in the setting

suppose it was you who were testing your

arrogant teacher bell as you know i have

often informed you it is difficult for

any man to keep an object in daily use

without leaving his personality upon it

now young Doyle there has showed some

skepticism of the idea and has

offered a test of my method with an item

he has and i am

delighted to accept

ah

hmm

there are barely any data at all

it has been recently cleaned

it's over oversaw the cleaning myself

but surely dr better illustrates the

limitations of your method

possibly sure

but

the investigation was not entirely

barren

the watch

i'm sure

belongs to someone from the generation

above me

the owner is yes

a man of untidy habits

untidy and careless

he was left with good prospects threw

away many chances has for some time

lived in relative poverty

with occasional short intervals of

prosperity

after that

he took to drink

his mind went

and that is absolutely all i can tell

you

well

yes

mr Doyle will watch

thank you

ah mr Doyle what can i do for you i hope

that proves the point no it does not

that was beneath you dr bell

i couldn't believe you would descend so

low i do not follow

as well you know

this is this is my father's watch

and it's obvious to me that somehow

you've got wind of my family history and

now you you parade it

before your students to boost your own

reputation and that of your method

if i expose a painful family secret in

such a fashion isn't merely unkind well

well to be frank there's something of

the charlatan about it my dear Doyle

seeing the matter merely is an abstract

problem i had not considered your

personal feelings

i can assure you i am quite unaware of

your family circumstances

you could be an orphan for all i know

well then in god's name

how same as ever

observe the small facts upon which

larger inferences depend

may i

the bottom half of the watch is

dented marked and cut from the habit of

keeping hard objects such as keys or

coins in the same pocket

to treat a 50 guinea watch like that

marks a careless man

through the lens

i can see many pawn brokers marks hence

the hard times but clearly sometimes he

had enough money to redeem his pledge

finally

look at the scratches around the keyhole

mark where the key has slipped

what soberman's keys could have scored

those grooves

and then

observe here

how seriously

disturbed and destructive they are

well beyond mere drunkenness

so

have i at last showing you something

i don't say it harmed exactly as you

described but

yes i will admit that passage is infused

with my own memory of those times

but

how much further does it take you it was

a starting place only but a very

important one

next i had to consider the evidence that

led on from the incident with the watch

namely that Holmes emerged from the

experience of your teacher joseph bell

during what must have been one of the

lowest points in your life

mr seldon i know you're a fanatical

admirer of the character but please

spare me the imitations

all this is known

what else could you have

derived from these interviews

in themselves only a little but put them

alongside other facts and we begin to

make progress

first i have to tell you about my last

visit to your mother's house in

edinburgh

i told you there were still things i

didn't understand

namely

the financial position of your parents

and then these strange drawings of homes

by your father

shown to me by greenhouse smith

but before i could discuss these matters

with your mother

i discovered what you already knew

that you had not lived there for several

years

you mocked me

and while the clues to her disappearance

had to be dug out some apparently

trivial

they are there

oh yes

they're enough for any good detective

there are i believe several of

particularly compelling interests

one the circumstances surrounding your

choice of career as a doctor two the

reason dr bell chose you as his clerk

three the date of your father's death

four the full name of your younger

sister brian mary five the so-called

doctor friend who helped your mother and

six an estate in the pennines whose

owner is a doctor no

there are some things that are so

personal that nobody may meddle with

them now i should never have agreed to

this exercise in the first place it was

a reckless foolish thing to do but you

must go now at once i take my leave now

you have no need to show me out

steve

yes sir i will ask you to show the

gentleman out

cleve

i would ask you not to read mr selton mr

selden very good sir i shall applaud

this far earlier

and i want you to send an urgent

telegram

to greenhousesmith

because he's gonna have to explain what

he's doing employing such a man

very good sir

ah

no

oh

dear Arthur

do not remotely understand no employee

named selden have sent nobody was

awaiting your instructions greenhouse

smith

do you wish to reply further sir

um no

no not yet

oh no

uh

is everything all right sir

yes cleve everything's fine don't wait

up i have some work to finish before i

go to bed

thank you sir

good night

good night

i apologize for my appearance

i had a fool

so you are flesh and blood

so it would seem

well

that's a relief

i feel we have more to say

i only want to have it out then i will

go

but it is a dangerous habit to finger

loaded firearms in the pocket of one's

dressing gun yes all right you quote

from my last home's adventure the final

problem tell me do you know all of the

stories by heart

oh yes

then i will observe my hero's own

response and put it within reach

well

continue

yes

i believe i've arrived at the secret

you've carried all these years

and the reason why your stories are so

filled with violence and dark family

secrets

it is an attested fact is it not that

you made the decision to kill homes

close to the time of your father's death

we have already talked of his effect on

my work it's not a happy link but i can

live with it

you recall i atomized the clues which

led me there

each one of these facts

reflects in its own small way

what is clearly omitted from every

single account of that awful time in

edinburgh

something very simple

there was someone else in the house

would it be fair to say you had a major

role to play fair that would be an

understatement

you see effectively the Doyle household

became my household

he could never understand what happened

between this new man and his mother

and what did

though it cannot be spoken abroad i uh

i saved them from the workout

but

why did you show such philanthropy to

the family

well i suppose you could say i took a

liking to them

especially one of them

so you lost a father

and found a usurper in his place in your

own home

situation worthy of hamlet

a devastating blow

and one that might have been critical

all the more since you felt responsible

do you remember how you described your

father to me

that creature locked away in an upstairs

room

sometimes a doctor friend of my mother's

would come round and with his help

we'd have to restrain him

but you are not quite honest

the so-called doctor friend was walla

all along and yes it is true difficult

times followed but your father was not

as violent as described

not a true monster

just a man suffering from an illness

that is seen as a stigma

and then someone miraculous appeared

and something miraculous happened every

tiny detail every button every line

every gesture every hair every spec may

be of use and value to us

do not see

observe

ignore nothing they may laugh at you

in the end

you will confront them

yes sir you will be my clerk

at last in your mind you had a true

father

a properly heroic father

a father to guide you

to help you to bring you on

to solve the clues

and one who would become your creation

a character so convincing so real that

people everywhere believed in his

existence

and in time

this belief

could only mock your pain

for what would ever happen if the

audience stripped him away

and found what lay beneath

help me

what are

you some

creature born of my own guilt some mad

vision of my own creation that's come

back to haunt me

followed me

just because i killed you

why do you come back now

because i've never been away

you see

the wounds you inflicted on me at rack

and back are gone

i will tell you why

the same reason you wanted to talk to

your father

you wanted so badly as forgiveness

you thought

that by killing me

you could turn away from his suffering

you were wrong

what happened

his misery and betrayal

it was not your fault stay away from me

i don't want you

i can feel you you're warm

of course you can feel me

i am your heart

do you not understand yet

i am your heart

so

i can assure you it's nothing to do with

our friendship

that is sacred

but this is something i have to do

something i must do

i will admit i've been troubled

unsure of so much

but i'm sure that this is a mission

not an escape

in december britain lost three major

battles in succession

Arthur queued for hours to join the

middle sexiomenary to fight the boers

only to be rejected on grounds of age

finally he sailed to south africa for

service as a doctor on the front line

and did not return to england until the

late summer of 1900.

louise

Arthur

yes

yes it's me

do you still feel like you're being

followed

what

no

no i do not

it feels like a long time ago

so good to have you back

yes in one piece

will you not come in and see him

another time maybe

bye

you know a long time ago

at a seance

a spirit told me

that those who love reunite when they

pass on

i know you are writing again yes tell me

um

well

the character that i'm writing at the

moment is a man named seldom

but he's

not all he seems he masks another man

selden

you mentioned a researcher of that name

oh did i

uh well

well forget about that that was um

that was just a mad idea i had

he's just a character in a book

outside the sun was sinking low and the

west was blazing with scarlet and gold

its reflection was shot back in ruddy

patches by the distant pools which lay

amid the great grimpen mire

there were the two towers of baskerville

hall

and there a distant blur of smoke which

marked the village of grimpin

all was sweet and mellow and peaceful in

the golden evening light

and yet as i looked at them

my soul shared none of the peace of

nature

but quivered to the vagueness and the

terror of that interview which every

instant was bringing nearer

with tingling nerves but a fixed purpose

i sat in the dark recess of the hut and

waited with somber patience for the

coming of its tenant

and then at last i heard them

far away came the sharp clink of a boot

striking upon stone

then another

and yet another

coming nearer and nearer

i shrank back into the darkest corner

and cocked the pistol in my pocket

determined not to discover myself until

i had an opportunity of seeing something

of the stranger

there was a long pause which showed that

he had stopped

then once more the footsteps approached

and a shadow fell across the opening of

the hut

it is a lovely evening my dear watson

i really think you would be more

comfortable outside than me

Holmes i cried homes

i don't care who sees

everything's changed yes

yes it has

Arthur Conan Doyle spectacularly

resurrected homes in the hound of the

baskervilles in august 1901

the novel became a worldwide sensation

and the most popular of his books

following the death of his wife tui

Arthur was finally free

to marry jean leckie

so

you