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Elsie, what's the matter?

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Elsie!

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So, Watson.

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Hmm.

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You do not propose to invest
in South African securities?

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How on earth do you know that?

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Now, confess, you are
utterly taken aback.

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I am!

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I should make you sign
a paper to that effect.

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Because in a few minutes you will say

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it is all so absurdly simple.

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I should say nothing of the kind!

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You see, my dear Watson,
it is not really difficult

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to construct a series of inferences,

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each dependent upon its predecessor

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and each simple in itself.

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If, after doing so,

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one simply knocks out
the central inferences

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and presents one's audience

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with the starting point
and the conclusion,

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one may produce a startling

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though possibly
a meretricious, effect.

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I can tell by an inspection
of the groove

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between your
left forefinger and thumb,

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that you have decided not
to invest your small capital

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in the gold fields.

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I can see no connection.

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Very likely not,

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but I can quickly give you
a close connection.

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Here are the missing links
in the very simple chain.

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You had chalk between
your forefinger and thumb

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when you returned
from the club last night.

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You put chalk there when you
play billiards, to ease the cue.

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You never play billiards
except with Thurston.

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Now, Thurston, you told me,
four weeks ago,

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had an option on some
South African security

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which expired in a month, and which
he desired you to share with him.

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Your checkbook is locked in my drawer,

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and you have not asked for the key.

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So, you do not propose to invest
your money in that manner.

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How absurdly simple!

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Quite so.

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Every problem is absurdly simple
when it is explained to you.

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Bum, bum, bum, bum.

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Holmes, why are you so cheerful?

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You're unemployed,
you have no case to solve.

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Now, normally that produces
black moods

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and the infernal lethargy
of the cocaine bottle.

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You have not used
the logical principles

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which I constantly expound.

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Sherlock Holmes is cheerful,

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so, Sherlock Holmes must have a case.

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Pa!

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See what you can make of that,
friend Watson.

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Why, Holmes,
it's a child's drawing.

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Ah, is that your idea?

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Well, what else should it be?

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Well, that is what a Mr. Hilton Cubitt,

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of Ridling Thorpe Manor,
Derbyshire, is anxious to know.

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That conundrum came
by the first post,

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and he is to follow
by the next train.

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Hilton Cubitt.

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No, no, I have already
looked him up, Watson.

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His family has owned land in
Derbyshire for over 500 years,

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so I presume that Mr. Cubitt is
as respectable as he is worthy.

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With a fresh face, an open countenance,

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and wearing a brown bowler hat.

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Oh, no, you cannot
possibly know that.

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Really, Holmes?

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Uh, you will stay and keep
a record of the case?

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My dear fellow.

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Thank you, Mrs. Hudson.

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This way, Mr. Cubitt.

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

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Hilton Cubitt.

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And this is my friend
and colleague, Dr. Watson.

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Dr. Watson, sir.

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How do you do?
Do sit down, Mr. Cubitt.

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Thank you.

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So, what do you make of it,
gentlemen? This thing.

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Have you had time to study it?

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Absurd little figures
dancing in a line,

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it's a childish prank.

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Why do you attach importance
to something so trivial?

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I don't, Mr. Holmes.

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I... I never should.

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No, it's...
it's my wife, you see.

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She...

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Go on, Mr. Cubitt,
you're with friends.

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But it's... it's frightened her
almost to death.

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She says nothing,
tries to appear normal,

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but I've never
seen anyone so upset.

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In white chalk on a garden seat,
it is a precise copy?

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Oh, it's as exact as I could make it.

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I did think it might be
the stable boy,

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but the lad denied it,

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If there's any danger
threatening my wife, Mr. Holmes,

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I'd spend my last penny
to protect her.

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Do sit down, Mr. Cubitt.

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Do you smoke, Mr. Cubitt?

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Uh, yes.

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Uh, no, no, no, I won't, thank you.

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Tell us about your wife,
Mr. Cubitt.

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Well, uh, I've always
lived in Derbyshire,

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Ridling Thorpe Manor,
near Matlock.

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I was a bachelor
and thought I'd remain one

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until three years ago I came
down to London on a visit.

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It's a rare thing for me, but-

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well, I had a mind to see
the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

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I put up at a boardinghouse
in Russell Square,

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because Parker,
he's the vicar of our parish,

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he was staying there.

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There was also a young
American lady staying there,

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Patrick was her name,
Elsie Patrick.

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We were both alone,
and we became friends,

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did the sites and that.

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At your expense?

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Certainly not.

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Are you suggesting...

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No, he's not, Mr. Cubitt, not at all.

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Was this Miss Elsie Patrick in
London merely for the Jubilee?

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No, no, no,
she'd been here some time.

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She'd tired of America,
traveled about,

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and finally settled
in England.

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Well, not to make a labor of it,
before my holiday was over,

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I was as much in love
as any man ever has been.

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To my surprise and joy, she-

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she reciprocated my feelings,
and we were married.

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Excellent.

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Quietly, in a...
in a Register Office.

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You think I'm mad, Mr. Holmes,
taking a wife in such a fashion,

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knowing nothing about her?

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Explain, Mr. Cubitt,
and come to the point!

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Oh, uh, yes, in fact, it was
on the very day of our marriage.

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Nothing could have made me
unhappy, nothing on that day.

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But now I look back,
it was odd.

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Elsie?

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There is something
I have to say to you, Hilton.

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We don't want to be late, my dear.

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I've put it off till now.

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But I must still give you
the chance to change your mind.

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Elsie, what in the world?

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Let me finish!

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And what I say, I do mean.

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I love you dearly,

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but you know nothing of my life
before we met.

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I never asked.

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One of the things which has
made me so fond of you.

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If you marry me, Hilton,
I promise you marry a woman

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who has nothing personally
to be ashamed of.

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But you'll have to take
my word for it,

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and allow me to be silent forever

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as to my life before we met.

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If that's too much to ask,

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then you must go back
to your Derbyshire

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and leave me to the lonely life
in which you found me.

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It's little enough to ask,
and I shall never let you go.

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These have been the happiest
three years of my life.

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And when did the first cloud

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cover the sun of this great happiness?

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You have a way of putting
things, Mr. Holmes.

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And you have a way of prevaricating
with your answers, Mr. Cubitt.

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Well, it was, uh,
some months ago, May in fact.

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Hilton?

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Hello!

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Here, in the drawing room!

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Well, what do you think?

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Yes, great improvement!

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Thank you, Saunders.

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I met the postman,
saved him a journey.

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Here's a bill.

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Here's one for you,
an American stamp, Chicago.

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Oh!

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I hope lunch is ready, I'm ravenous.

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She burned the letter,
unopened?

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Yes, I don't know why.

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Of course you don't.

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America is her past, and the
subject of a solemn promise.

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Yes, but she's not had
an easy hour from that moment.

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If only she'd trust me.

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Now, I have every faith in her,
you must believe that.

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Whatever there was in her past,
I'm sure it's no fault of hers.

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And the dancing men?

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Oh, yes,

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Well, I thought she was
getting over the letter,

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and then these...
these drawings appeared

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It's just a childish scrawl,

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but it made everything
worse than before.

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Well, I couldn't just leave it.

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And it wasn't the sort of thing
I could take to the police

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for they would have laughed at me,

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so I've come to you.

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Don't you think, Mr. Cubitt,

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that your best plan would be

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to make a direct appeal to your wife,

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and ask her to share
her secret with you?

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A promise is a promise, Mr. Holmes.

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If Elsie wishes to tell me,
then she will.

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But I have no right
to force a confidence.

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However, I do feel entitled
to take my own line, and I will.

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Then I will
help you with all my heart.

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Have you seen or heard of any
strangers in the neighborhood?

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No, no, I haven't.

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Some of the farmers take in lodgers,

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but I've not heard of any lately.

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Then I suggest that you return
to Derbyshire, Mr. Cubitt,

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and keep a sharp lookout.

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And make an exact copy

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of any fresh dancing men
that may appear.

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Thank you, Mr. Holmes. I will.

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Oh, and Mr. Cubitt,

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this letter which
started your wife's torment,

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you are quite certain that
it was from the United States?

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Yeah, the postmark was Chicago.

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Goodbye! And don't worry.

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It's perfectly natural

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she should receive
a letter from America,

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she's from America.

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Yes, but it is not natural to
throw it onto the fire unopened.

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Ah.

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It's beginning to look like semaphore.

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You have read my monograph
on secret ciphers?

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Some of it.

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I found it rather heavy going.

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It evidently has a meaning

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If it is purely arbitrary,
it may be impossible to solve.

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However, if it is systematic,

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we should be able to get
to the bottom of it.

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But we need more messages,
and preferably long ones.

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Well, I doubt if Hilton Cubitt
would agree with that.

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Walker.

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Do you know anything about this?

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No, sir.

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I've not been out
in the front all day.

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Has Mrs. Cubitt been out here?

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I've no way of knowing,
have I, sir?

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When I've done this,
I want you to wash it off,

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and tell no one about it,
and then come to me.

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I shall have an urgent letter
for you to post.

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Elsie?

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Elsie,

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what are you doing?

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I was looking for you.

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I thought I heard the door.

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Have you been out today,
out of the house?

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Hilton, come to bed,

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everything will look better
in the morning.

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Will the drawings look better?

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Will the dancing men look better?

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Why do they fuss you so?

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Fuss me?

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They're just a joke, a bit of mischief!

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The moon's high.

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Where I come from, they say a
moon like that drives you crazy.

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Why don't we travel, Hilton,
why don't we go away?

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I love this place
as much as I love you.

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Hilton...

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What did you see?

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Nothing, nothing at all!

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Please, dearest.

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Hilton, I beg you!

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There's somebody outside.

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Hilton!

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Hilton, wait!

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You'll come to harm!

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Or are you afraid
he will come to harm?!

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These two are identical.

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Yes.

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Well, I had that one
washed off,

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then it must have reappeared.

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You know, it's a pity you didn't
get a closer look at this chap.

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If only she hadn't tried to stop me.

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I've never been angry
with her before,

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but she knew who was out there,
of that I'm sure.

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And she knows
what these figures mean.

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Was this a mere addition to this,

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or did it appear to be
entirely separate?

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That was on a separate panel
of the door.

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Well, I know what I'm going to do,

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I shall go home,

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sit with half a dozen of my lads
in the shrubbery,

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and if this fellow
calls again,

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give him such a thrashing he'll
leave us alone in the future.

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Well, that would be one way.

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Mr. Cubitt, this case is too
deep for such a simple remedy.

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I must go now
if I'm to catch my train.

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I'd not leave Elsie alone at night.

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Elsie!

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Quite right,

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Good day, Mr. Cubitt.

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We will join you in a couple
of days, and be patient!

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Good bye, Dr. Watson.

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I'll find my own way,

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Bye.

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You weren't exactly sympathetic.

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He doesn't come to me
for sympathy.

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It is a considerable challenge,

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I shall work better for silence.

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Oh, well,

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I dare say I can find
something quiet to do.

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Whoa, sit.

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Where did you find this?

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Down by the garden bench.

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Will that, uh, mean

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you'll be wanting me to take
another letter for London, sir?

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Very well.

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I'll have to get a move on if
I'm gonna catch the last post.

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Walker, just do what you're told!

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Yes, Watson?

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Uh, I thought you
might like the Times, Holmes.

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What do you make of my progress?

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Well, it still
doesn't mean very much, does it?

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Quite enough for me to send
a telegram to the United States.

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What on earth does that mean,
"ABESLANE"?

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Watson, if this is E,

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flag denotes the end of words,

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Mm, this grouse is superb.

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Mrs. Hudson has really surpassed
herself this time.

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What time is the last train
to Matlock?

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I'm afraid we've missed it.

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Holmes, I do wish
you would try and eat a bite.

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I just need an answer
to my telegram from America,

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and the story is complete.

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Abe, I wanna stay,
and I'm going to stay.

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What about your friends in Chicago?

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What about your family?!

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Friends do you call them,

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killers, robbers,
extortionists, some family.

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But you and I were engaged!

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I'm sorry, Abe,
my father forced me into it.

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How could I be happy
with you in that life?!

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Please go away, please,
I beg you.

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You beg me?

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Yes.

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Hilton is such a good man.

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It would break my heart
if scandal ever touched him.

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Here's money.

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It's all that I have.

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No!

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Watson?

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What the devil is going on?

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An answer to your telegram?

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No, it's another letter
from Hilton Cubitt.

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"ELSIE"

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"PRE-PARE."

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Mr. Holmes, sir.

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Thank you.

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It's from Wilson Hargreave,
of the Chicago Police Bureau.

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"In reply to your inquiry,"

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"Abe Slaney is one of the most
dangerous men in Chicago."

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Come along, come along,

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There's a cab!

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Ridling Thorpe Manor, gentlemen?

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As fast as you can!

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How do you know?

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Bet you're the surgeon
from London, sir.

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I beg your pardon, what makes you...

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She's not dead yet, sir.

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You may be able to save her,
but she's for the gallows.

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The gallows?!

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Right, sir,
she murdered her husband.

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Inspector of Police, and Doctor
of Medicine, I perceive?

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Yes, indeed, Inspector Martin,
Derbyshire Constabulary.

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And I am Dr. Carthew, the surgeon.

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This way, gentlemen.

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This is Mr. Sherlock Holmes,

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and I am his friend
and colleague, Dr. Watson.

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Mr. Holmes, but what do you
know of this business?

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A good deal.

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Mr. Hilton Cubitt was my client.

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But the crime was only committed
at 3:00 o'clock this morning.

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How could you hear of it in London

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and get to the spot as soon as I?

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I anticipated it.

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We came in hope of preventing it.

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Then you must have important evidence

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of which I am ignorant.

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Only the evidence of the dancing men.

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The dancing men?

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I will explain
all that to you later.

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Since we are too late
to prevent this tragedy,

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I am anxious to insure
that justice is done.

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Will you associate me
in your investigation,

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or will you prefer that
I should act independently?

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I should be proud for us
to work together, Mr. Holmes.

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But I must warn you, there seems
very little to investigate.

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Mr. Hilton Cubitt has been shot
through the heart and he's dead.

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And Mrs. Cubitt?

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Seriously wounded.

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The bullet passed through
the front of her brain,

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and she's still unconscious.

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Excuse me, gentlemen.

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Only one gun has been found,
lying on the floor between them.

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Two bullets have been fired.

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With respect, Mr. Holmes.

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It seems quite clear that
Mrs. Cubitt murdered her husband

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and then turned the gun upon herself.

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But they were
a most devoted couple!

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The murder room is through
here, Mr. Holmes.

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No, I would like to start
by interviewing the servants.

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And I beg you, nothing

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absolutely nothing is to be moved.

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Is this the way to the kitchen?

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I should think it must
have happened about

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3:00 o'clock in the morning, sir.

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Where are your rooms?

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On top, sir.

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The attics!

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I was awoke by this terrible bang,

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an explosion is the only word.

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And about a minute later...

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It was less than a minute.

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- There was another bang,
only not so loud.

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What did you do?

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We came downstairs, sir,

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expecting to find
Mr. Cubitt up and about,

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chasing burglars or
the house on fire, or...

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And the bedroom door was open.

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We looked in but the bed was
empty so we came on down.

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There was smoke,

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and the smell was worse down here.

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Smell?

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Ah, you mean of the gunpowder?

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I suppose it was, sir, yes.

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Now, you say the smell
was worse downstairs.

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Could you also smell gunpowder upstairs?

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Yes, sir.

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I commend that fact

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very carefully to your
attention, Inspector.

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Mrs. King...

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would you like to sit down, Mrs. King?

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Now, was the library door
open when you reached it?

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Open, yes, sir.

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We could see the candle alight
on the table and so we came in.

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Then, oh dear,

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as terrible a thing as ever I saw or ever fear to see

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She was terrible wounded, sir.

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She was moaning and groaning

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then she sort of
collapsed on the floor

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and she hasn't said anything since.

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Saunders?

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We moved her to her bedroom, sir,

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and sent Fred Walker for
the doctor and the police.

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And there was no sign of
a break-in, or of an intruder?

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No, sir.

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And all the doors and
windows was locked,

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as we had left them
when we went to bed.

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Inspector...

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Oh, yes...

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Apart from poor Mrs. Cubitt,

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nothing else has been moved?

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No, sir.

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No, we've touched nothing Mr. Holmes.

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Thank you.
Then I think we can proceed.

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Almost instantaneous death, presumably.

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Mm, straight through the heart.

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The bullet's still there.

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What about the bullet
that wounded Mrs. Cubitt?

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That's still in her, as well.

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It will take hands more nimble
than mine to move it.

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Is this Mrs. Cubitt's handbag?

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Yes, it is, Mr. Holmes.

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At least twenty 50-pound notes,

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a bribe that failed.

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So, two bullets fired,

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two wounds inflicted, as you said.

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Yes, Doctor.

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Then how do you account
for the bullet

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that has so obviously
struck the window frame?

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By George, however did you see that?

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Because, Dr. Carthew,
I looked for it.

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Wonderful, why,
the bullet's still there!

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So a third shot
must have been fired.

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Which means that a third person
must have been present.

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Exactly!

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When you came into
this room last night,

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you say that the door was ajar.
Was not that window also open?

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I don't know, sir.

37:58.442 --> 37:59.150
No, sir.

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It was shut.

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Saunders, will you and Cook
wait in the library,

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and you, Walker.

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Dr. Carthew,
you may remove the body.

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It was Mrs. Cubitt herself
who shut that window.

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If Saunders and the Cook smelled
smoke and gunpowder upstairs,

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then there must have been
a strong through draft.

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Otherwise, it would not
have spread so quickly

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through the house.

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We know that door was open

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that window, too,
must also have been open,

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but only for a short time.

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Why only for a short time?

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Because the candles have not gutted.

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There is no trail of wax.

38:55.207 --> 38:57.876
Wonderful, wonderful!

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If the late Mr. Hilton Cubitt

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fired the bullet which
pierced the window frame,

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he must have been aiming at

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someone who was
standing either inside

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or just outside the window.

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Oh, thank you, Inspector.

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Which means that the bullet
which killed Mr. Cubitt

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could have been fired by...

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Inspector, your thoughts
and mine agree entirely.

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This is the cartridge case

39:49.887 --> 39:52.764
of the bullet which killed
Mr. Hilton Cubitt.

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Holmes,

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if three shots were fired,

40:09.031 --> 40:12.784
why did Mrs. King and Saunders
only hear two shots?

40:14.203 --> 40:16.955
They were telling the truth,
but lied without realizing it.

40:18.207 --> 40:19.624
I'm not sure that I follow you.

40:21.335 --> 40:23.461
You remember what Mrs. King said

40:25.089 --> 40:29.092
"I was awoken by this
terrible bang, an explosion,"

40:30.970 --> 40:31.761
"it is the only word"

40:31.887 --> 40:32.470
"And then a minute later"

40:32.638 --> 40:34.806
"there was another bang
but not so loud."

40:37.101 --> 40:42.313
The first bang was two shots,
fired almost simultaneously.

40:43.816 --> 40:46.276
One from the window,
which killed Hilton Cubitt,

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and one from Hilton Cubitt,

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which missed and went
into the window frame.

40:52.616 --> 40:54.576
And the third shot?

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The saddest of all, Mrs. Cubitt,

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self-ad ministered
in her despair.

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Now, do any of you know of
an inn in the neighborhood

41:15.181 --> 41:16.848
called Elrige's?

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There's a farmer of that name,
lives some miles off,

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in the direction of uh, Milbrook

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Is it a lonely farm?

41:31.197 --> 41:32.363
Very lonely, sir.

41:33.324 --> 41:34.491
Then it is just possible

41:34.617 --> 41:36.159
that the news of what happened
here last night

41:36.285 --> 41:37.494
has not reached them.

41:37.912 --> 41:39.037
Maybe not, sir.

41:39.872 --> 41:40.538
Excellent

41:41.582 --> 41:42.207
Walker,

41:44.460 --> 41:45.627
I want you to take this note

41:45.753 --> 41:49.547
to a Mr. Abe Slaney of Elrige's Farm.

41:49.673 --> 41:51.549
Do not say that the note is from me,

41:52.343 --> 41:54.344
and make no mention of
what happened here last night.

41:54.470 --> 41:55.720
Now, you understand?

41:56.722 --> 41:57.388
Yes, sir

41:59.141 --> 42:00.225
Thank you, Walker.

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I am expecting a visitor
in answer to my note.

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Now, Saunders, he will
ask for Mrs. Cubitt.

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I want you to show him
into this room.

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I want this house
to look quite normal,

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and you must not give anything
away of what has happened.

42:25.251 --> 42:26.251
Very good, sir.

42:27.253 --> 42:29.254
Now, I suggest you return
to your duties.

42:30.422 --> 42:33.591
And, Dr. Carthew, I suggest
you return to your patient.

42:36.178 --> 42:37.345
Oh, Mrs. King,

42:39.431 --> 42:41.224
your mistress is quite innocent.

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But how did you break the code?

43:09.378 --> 43:10.295
Well, you see.

43:11.589 --> 43:16.050
The rules which guide us in
deciphering all secret writing

43:16.176 --> 43:17.635
depend on the fact that E,

43:18.053 --> 43:22.807
E is the most common letter
in the English language.

43:23.892 --> 43:25.310
So, you see,
we were very fortunate

43:25.477 --> 43:28.479
that Mrs. Cubitt's name
was Elsie,

43:28.981 --> 43:30.481
and that it featured
in the second message,

43:30.649 --> 43:35.737
which gave us not only the E
but the L, the S and the I.

43:37.239 --> 43:39.991
Now, next, it seemed likely to us

43:40.159 --> 43:42.577
that two of the messages
were appeals of some sort

43:42.870 --> 43:44.162
to Mrs. Cubitt...

43:59.887 --> 44:03.348
by adding the T and the G,
the message reads-

44:03.974 --> 44:07.685
"AT ELRIGE'S, COME ELSIE."

44:11.148 --> 44:13.483
Well, if this Abe Slaney
is indeed the murderer,

44:13.609 --> 44:15.485
we must make an immediate move
to arrest him.

44:15.736 --> 44:16.694
Calm yourself, Inspector.

44:16.862 --> 44:18.488
I expect him here at any moment.

44:19.239 --> 44:20.698
But why should Slaney come here?

44:20.866 --> 44:22.450
Because I have written and asked him.

44:23.035 --> 44:25.161
But won't his suspicions be roused?

44:25.287 --> 44:26.537
Will he not try to escape?

44:26.664 --> 44:27.372
Saunders?

44:27.706 --> 44:30.124
Excuse me, sir, there's a
gentleman approaching the house.

44:33.587 --> 44:34.879
Do you think he'd be armed?

44:35.881 --> 44:37.548
He's a fool if he's not.

44:52.731 --> 44:53.731
Good day, sir.

44:54.233 --> 44:55.733
Is Mrs. Cubitt at home?

44:55.901 --> 44:58.486
I'll inquire, sir, if you'll step inside.

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What name shall I say?

45:09.790 --> 45:12.250
Tell her it's an old friend.
She's expecting me.

45:12.459 --> 45:14.252
If you'll wait in the library a moment.

45:31.687 --> 45:34.939
Well, gentlemen, it looks like
you've got the drop on me,

45:35.107 --> 45:37.024
but what the hell is going on?

45:37.401 --> 45:38.943
Abe Slaney, I believe.

45:39.611 --> 45:41.070
What if I am, and who are you, anyway?

45:41.196 --> 45:42.530
My name would mean nothing to you,

45:42.656 --> 45:44.449
though I suspect that of Wilson Hargreave

45:44.616 --> 45:46.951
of the Chicago Police Department, will.

45:48.495 --> 45:50.455
Ah, I see that it does.

45:54.668 --> 45:57.712
Mr. Slaney, you should know

45:58.422 --> 46:01.758
that Mrs. Elsie Cubitt
is very seriously ill.

46:03.969 --> 46:05.428
I don't believe you.

46:06.013 --> 46:07.930
This is some cheap trick.

46:08.682 --> 46:11.809
Mrs. Elsie Cubitt wrote me
a note just an hour ago,

46:12.227 --> 46:14.145
a note that only I can understand.

46:14.271 --> 46:17.482
What one man can invent,
another can discover.

46:19.526 --> 46:25.656
"I'M HERE, ABE SLANEY.
AT ELRIGE'S, COME ELSIE."

46:26.408 --> 46:27.742
And your last note to her.

46:27.910 --> 46:30.745
"ELSIE PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD."

46:33.165 --> 46:34.248
And this.

46:35.834 --> 46:37.001
You wrote that note?

46:38.962 --> 46:40.129
But you were lying about Elsie.

46:40.255 --> 46:42.840
Slaney, when you shot and killed
Hilton Cubitt,

46:43.258 --> 46:47.512
Elsie Cubitt, in her despair,
attempted to kill herself,

46:47.679 --> 46:48.846
and is now at death's door.

46:48.972 --> 46:49.597
No.

46:50.349 --> 46:52.016
No, I gotta see her!

46:52.184 --> 46:54.769
I gotta see her, I love her,
for God's sake, Elsie!

46:54.895 --> 46:56.604
I love you, Elsie!

46:56.897 --> 46:59.148
Elsie, Elsie!

46:59.274 --> 47:02.193
I believe that she fled
from America to avoid you.

47:02.861 --> 47:05.154
Because you followed her
and made her life a misery,

47:05.364 --> 47:07.031
she now lies under grave suspicion

47:07.157 --> 47:09.200
of murdering the husband she loved.

47:09.493 --> 47:12.703
The least you can do
is to clear her of that.

47:16.667 --> 47:19.794
I guess the very best case
I can make for myself now

47:19.920 --> 47:22.713
is to tell you the absolute, naked truth.

47:23.340 --> 47:24.507
It is my duty to warn you

47:24.633 --> 47:26.384
that it will be used against you.

47:29.054 --> 47:30.304
I guess you probably know

47:30.430 --> 47:33.307
that Elsie's father's the most
powerful man in Chicago.

47:33.559 --> 47:36.394
One of the most powerful
criminal men in Chicago.

47:38.272 --> 47:40.398
It was he who invented the dancing men.

47:41.525 --> 47:43.734
We used it as a code in the old days.

47:43.902 --> 47:45.570
I've known Elsie since she was a child.

47:45.737 --> 47:47.405
She was promised to me.

47:47.656 --> 47:48.739
I may have threatened her,

47:48.866 --> 47:51.325
but I wouldn't have touched
a hair on her pretty head.

47:53.412 --> 47:57.999
But you're right, she hated
the whole Chicago business.

47:58.125 --> 47:59.876
That's why she ran away to Europe.

48:01.295 --> 48:04.422
It was only after her marriage
to this Englishman

48:04.548 --> 48:06.424
that I was able to find out
where she was.

48:06.633 --> 48:09.176
I wrote to her, but I got no answer.

48:10.804 --> 48:12.096
She burned your letter.

48:13.181 --> 48:15.933
She was happy in her
new life in Derbyshire.

48:18.270 --> 48:21.439
I came here to England
to take her home!

48:22.608 --> 48:23.941
I sent her notes.

48:24.443 --> 48:26.944
I did everything I could
to coax Elsie away,

48:27.112 --> 48:30.615
then my temper got the better of
me and I began to threaten her.

48:31.700 --> 48:34.952
But yesterday she sent me a letter!

48:35.579 --> 48:38.122
She said she would come down
when her husband was asleep

48:38.290 --> 48:40.416
and speak to me
through the end window

48:41.752 --> 48:45.254
if I would go away afterwards
and leave her in peace.

48:47.424 --> 48:48.966
Can I make you see?

48:54.139 --> 48:57.099
I've never been so happy
as I've been here with him.

48:57.768 --> 48:59.226
I love him.

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Abe, I wanna stay, and I'm going to stay.

49:06.234 --> 49:08.152
What about your friends in Chicago?

49:08.654 --> 49:09.987
What about your family?

49:10.656 --> 49:11.822
Friends do you call them,

49:12.324 --> 49:15.660
killers, robbers, extortionists, some family.

49:16.453 --> 49:18.496
But you and I were engaged!

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I'm sorry, Abe,
my father forced me into it.

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How could I be happy
with you in that life?

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Please go away, please, I beg you.

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You beg me?

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Yes.

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Hilton is such a good man.

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It would break my heart
if scandal ever touched him.

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Here's money.

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It's all that I have.

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Now, please go away,

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You're coming home!
You're coming home!

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No!

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What the...

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No!

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I think we've heard enough
for the moment, come along.

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Can't I see her before I go?

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Nobody can see her,

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even we have not
been given that privilege.

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Mr. Holmes.

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I hope that if ever again
I have an important case,

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I shall have the good fortune
to have you by my side.

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Good afternoon, and thank you.

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Holmes?

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Hmm.

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What did you write in that note?

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See if you could read it.

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"COME-HERE-AT-ONCE"

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"COME HERE AT ONCE."

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How absurdly simple,

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And so the dancing men,

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which had so often been
the agents of evil,

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were finally used on the side of justice.

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Abe Slaney was condemned
to death at the Darby assizes

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but his sentence was
changed to penal servitude

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in consideration of
mitigating circumstances

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in the certainty that Hilton
Cubitt had fired the first shot.

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Mrs. Cubitt made a complete recovery,