WEBVTT 00:45.712 --> 00:47.254 There's a gentlemen downstairs... 00:51.426 --> 00:52.926 Ask him to wait a moment, Mrs. Hudson. 00:53.094 --> 00:54.928 He's most insistent. 03:05.101 --> 03:06.560 Easy now. Easy. 03:08.563 --> 03:10.105 I must apologize. 03:10.940 --> 03:12.482 I have been a little overwrought. 03:12.609 --> 03:16.945 I'm a doctor, sir, and I must insist that you relax yourself and say nothing 03:17.113 --> 03:18.071 until you have eaten. 03:18.364 --> 03:21.992 Thank you. If I might have a biscuit and a glass of milk, 03:22.118 --> 03:23.660 I have no doubt I should soon be better. 03:23.786 --> 03:26.246 Mrs. Hudson is preparing something at this moment. 03:27.707 --> 03:30.417 Please, please, please forgive this weakness. 03:31.169 --> 03:32.044 I really must... 03:33.546 --> 03:34.421 Mr. Holmes. 03:35.381 --> 03:36.757 At your service. 03:38.676 --> 03:42.179 Master of arts. Doctor of Philosophy. 03:42.931 --> 03:44.890 Principal of the Priory School. Is it not everyday, 03:45.016 --> 03:48.268 Doctor Huxtable, that so distinguished a castaway as yourself is 03:48.478 --> 03:50.437 beached upon on the hearthrug. 03:51.272 --> 03:53.607 In speculating what storm had blown you here 03:53.733 --> 03:56.860 I took the liberty of searching your person, I hope you will forgive me. 03:57.278 --> 03:58.737 Oh yes, yes of course. 03:59.113 --> 04:01.198 Please sit down. 04:01.950 --> 04:02.866 Your watch. 04:03.284 --> 04:05.077 Unblemished for at least thirty years, 04:05.203 --> 04:08.121 suddenly this morning scratched. 04:09.123 --> 04:10.499 When you thrust those coins, 04:10.625 --> 04:12.584 unthinkingly into your waistcoat pocket. 04:12.710 --> 04:16.463 The stern habit of a lifetime trampled under foot. 04:17.298 --> 04:20.175 A small occurrence perhaps but own small think 04:20.718 --> 04:25.180 in a way that a vibrating needle may signal an earthquake 04:25.974 --> 04:30.143 The state of your beard demonstrates a considerable disruption to your routine. 04:30.270 --> 04:31.144 Three days ago? 04:31.938 --> 04:33.438 Just so. 04:34.524 --> 04:38.735 Mr. Holmes, I beg you to accompany me north to Mackleton immediately. 04:39.279 --> 04:41.446 A matter of the utmost importance. 04:42.448 --> 04:43.490 I regret. 04:44.867 --> 04:48.495 Doctor Watson and I are extremely pressed just at the moment. 04:48.997 --> 04:52.374 I'm retained in the case of the Ferrers Documents, and 04:52.500 --> 04:54.543 Doctor Watson tells me that he's run off his feet 04:54.669 --> 04:56.837 by this recent epidemic of this Scarlet Fever. 04:57.005 --> 04:59.131 And then of course, there's Abergavenny murder coming up for trial. 04:59.257 --> 05:02.217 Now, only a very important issue could call us away at the present. 05:02.343 --> 05:05.512 Important, sir? Important? 05:07.181 --> 05:09.516 I dare say you've heard of the Duke of Holdernesse? 05:11.185 --> 05:12.728 The former cabinet minister? 05:13.396 --> 05:15.022 More than that, Watson. 05:16.316 --> 05:19.526 The letters after his name, huh, almost half the alphabet. 05:20.528 --> 05:24.781 One of the greatest subjects of the crown, hey Doctor Huxtable? 05:24.907 --> 05:28.118 One of the greatest and probably one of the wealthiest, 05:29.537 --> 05:32.205 He is also, I'm proud to say, in my neighbor. 05:33.958 --> 05:35.459 Holdernesse Hall, his countryseat, 05:35.585 --> 05:37.544 is across from the valley from the Priory School. 05:39.047 --> 05:41.423 Duke is an intensely solitary man. 05:42.425 --> 05:45.135 He appalls the prospect of public scrutiny 05:46.512 --> 05:48.555 but such is his anxiety in this matter 05:48.890 --> 05:50.891 that his grace is prepared to write a check for 05:51.059 --> 05:53.935 five thousand pounds to see the business off 05:55.021 --> 05:59.441 and another thousand pounds to see justice visited upon the villains. 06:02.820 --> 06:04.404 That is how important it is. 06:11.204 --> 06:12.913 A princely offer, Doctor Huxtable. 06:14.499 --> 06:16.875 You have failed in describing villainy. 06:19.420 --> 06:20.087 Forgive me. 06:22.090 --> 06:25.133 Lord Saltire, the Duke's son, his only child, 06:26.010 --> 06:27.344 has been abducted. 06:31.224 --> 06:32.307 From the Priory School? 06:32.683 --> 06:33.225 Yes. 06:34.727 --> 06:35.894 When he was in your care? 06:37.605 --> 06:38.105 Quite, 06:39.232 --> 06:42.943 And this abduction happened three days ago? 06:43.277 --> 06:44.403 Last Saturday night. 06:44.821 --> 06:46.947 Why have you waited so long before consulting me? 06:47.407 --> 06:48.949 His Grace has a deep horror 06:49.117 --> 06:51.993 of his family unhappiness being dragged before the world. 06:52.620 --> 06:54.788 The police have been requested by the Duke to proceed 06:54.956 --> 06:57.165 with such caution that they... 06:57.291 --> 06:57.999 I see. 07:01.879 --> 07:04.005 This affair has been deplorably handled. 07:04.757 --> 07:07.717 I feel it and admit it. 07:07.844 --> 07:09.970 What form of the demand for ransom take? 07:10.430 --> 07:11.430 There has been none. 07:12.140 --> 07:13.348 No demand for ransom? 07:13.474 --> 07:14.015 None. 07:15.309 --> 07:17.811 It is one of the most perplexing aspects of the business 07:18.521 --> 07:20.981 for the boy was not alone in his flight. 07:22.316 --> 07:26.445 Herr Heidegger, the German master, is also missing 07:27.613 --> 07:29.573 as indeed, by the way, is his bicycle. 07:30.491 --> 07:34.327 If he has abducted the boy why has no demand for money been received? 07:34.495 --> 07:38.290 Heidegger came to me from Switzerland with the very best references. 07:38.958 --> 07:40.417 Was any other bicycle missing? 07:41.836 --> 07:42.919 Oh no. 07:43.421 --> 07:43.962 You're certain? 07:44.088 --> 07:46.548 Quite Mr. Aveling checked all the bicycles. 07:46.674 --> 07:48.675 Doctor Huxtable do you really mean to suggest 07:48.843 --> 07:52.179 that this German master rode off upon his bicycle 07:52.346 --> 07:54.806 in the dead of night bearing the boy in his arms? 07:55.433 --> 07:56.057 No. 07:56.684 --> 07:58.852 Then what is this theory in your mind? 07:59.187 --> 08:01.521 The bicycle may have been a blind. 08:02.440 --> 08:05.484 He may have hidden it somewhere, and the pair gone off on foot. 08:05.651 --> 08:07.861 Surely he would have hidden a couple of bicycles 08:08.029 --> 08:09.738 if he desired to give that impression. 08:10.781 --> 08:11.948 Yes I suppose he would. 08:12.158 --> 08:14.201 Of course he would Doctor Huxtable, 08:14.577 --> 08:17.245 this blind theory of yours will not do. 08:25.254 --> 08:27.881 It is an admirable starting point for an investigation. 08:29.759 --> 08:33.303 Watson, would you send for the cab immediately? 08:34.055 --> 08:35.013 Now Holmes? 08:35.264 --> 08:36.056 Set, 08:37.600 --> 08:38.725 and pack. 08:40.353 --> 08:42.395 We got just enough time to catch the overnight train. 08:43.397 --> 08:46.024 Doctor Huxtable I shall do a little work at your doors. 08:46.275 --> 08:47.776 Perhaps the train is not so cold 08:47.902 --> 08:51.238 but the two old hounds like Watson and myself make get a sniff on it. 08:52.156 --> 08:55.408 I imagine the arrival of Lord Saltire at your school must have been 08:55.576 --> 08:56.993 quite a feather in your cap. 08:57.203 --> 08:59.037 My proudest moment, Mr. Holmes. 08:59.455 --> 09:02.832 Ever since Blackwell's published Huxtable's Sidelights on Horace, 09:03.501 --> 09:05.794 a notable little success in his day. You may have heard of it. 09:05.962 --> 09:07.837 No. How old is the boy? 09:08.548 --> 09:09.130 Nine. 09:09.757 --> 09:10.924 And he's been with you how long? 09:11.425 --> 09:13.301 Oh since the beginning of the winter term. 09:14.428 --> 09:18.640 An unusual boy, he seemed to be fitting in well. He um... 09:21.435 --> 09:22.143 Yes? 09:23.646 --> 09:27.399 I was about to say he was not entirely happy at home. 09:28.276 --> 09:30.443 The Duke's marriage has not been a peaceful one. 09:30.903 --> 09:33.947 It ended in separation by mutual consent last year. 09:34.615 --> 09:37.701 The Duchess has returned to her father's palazzo in Venice. 09:38.494 --> 09:41.288 This picture, of the Duke's marriage, 09:42.081 --> 09:44.457 how did you come by it? Is it common knowledge? 09:45.501 --> 09:48.044 I've had some confidential talks with Mr. Wilder, 09:48.379 --> 09:50.547 the Duke's secretary. He's been most helpful. 09:51.299 --> 09:53.675 And I suppose it has been established 09:54.135 --> 09:56.803 that the boy has not returned to his mother in Italy? 09:56.971 --> 09:58.263 Oh yes. Yes it has. 09:59.557 --> 10:02.058 I cannot tell you, Mr. Holmes, what a relief it is to me... 10:02.184 --> 10:02.934 Watson? 10:03.644 --> 10:05.020 Your picnic, sir. 10:05.271 --> 10:06.896 Mrs. Hudson, 10:07.315 --> 10:08.565 How did you guess? 10:08.816 --> 10:11.026 Experience, Mr. Holmes. 10:11.360 --> 10:12.485 Well that means the two doctors can 10:12.612 --> 10:15.155 picnic away to their hearts content on the train. 10:16.324 --> 10:19.284 Even I may find my appetite is keener for a few days 10:19.410 --> 10:22.245 in the bracing atmosphere of the peat country. 10:28.502 --> 10:31.504 I think I will do myself no injustice when I say that 10:31.672 --> 10:35.050 the Priory School is the most select preparatory school in England. 10:35.843 --> 10:36.885 Lord Leverstoke, 10:38.095 --> 10:41.181 the Earl of Blackwater, Sir Cathcart Soames, 10:42.141 --> 10:44.225 they all have entrusted their sons to me. 10:46.354 --> 10:48.855 You can't see Holdernesse Hall from here 10:49.190 --> 10:51.733 but there's a very fine view from the chapel tower. 10:55.363 --> 10:57.447 I will begin with the boy's room. 11:26.435 --> 11:27.227 From his father? 11:27.812 --> 11:29.979 It arrived on the morning of his disappearance. 11:34.151 --> 11:35.402 Had he received one from Italy? 11:35.569 --> 11:36.444 Not recently. 11:37.238 --> 11:38.196 Where is the letter now? 11:39.407 --> 11:40.407 It cannot be found. 11:41.325 --> 11:43.660 It must have been on the boy's person when he was abducted. 11:44.453 --> 11:47.205 Who sleeps in the adjoining room? 11:51.544 --> 11:52.711 It's all right, just keep it in. 11:52.837 --> 11:54.921 I know this sort of chap I dare say. 11:55.798 --> 11:57.424 He could sleep through a thunderstorm. 11:59.176 --> 12:00.427 I don't think he would sir. 12:00.594 --> 12:02.804 Really, And why is that do you suppose? 12:03.431 --> 12:05.974 There's a mouse sir, In the wainscot, sir. 12:06.767 --> 12:09.853 And it wakes us both up sir, Sometimes sir. 12:09.979 --> 12:13.732 Mouse? So any noise from Lord Saltire's room... 12:13.858 --> 12:16.651 Well the door creaks sir. You always hear the door. 12:16.777 --> 12:21.197 On the night of the disappearance, did you hear anything then? 12:21.949 --> 12:25.118 No sir. You couldn't even hear the crying. 12:29.039 --> 12:29.706 Crying? 12:30.458 --> 12:35.128 Yes sir. He sometimes cries sir. Sometimes sir. 12:41.969 --> 12:42.844 Thank you boys. 13:45.616 --> 13:47.200 You have found nothing in the grounds? 13:50.663 --> 13:54.666 There's no knowing what I have found. The trail is cold. 13:55.251 --> 13:56.084 Headmaster! 13:59.630 --> 14:02.632 Headmaster! The Duke of Holdernesse is here headmaster. 14:02.883 --> 14:03.925 Thank you, Mr. Aveling. 14:09.390 --> 14:10.014 Mr. Holmes? 14:11.392 --> 14:12.016 Yes. 14:12.685 --> 14:14.519 The Duke is waiting, Mr. Holmes. 14:16.230 --> 14:17.397 That will never do. 14:35.833 --> 14:39.711 Your Grace. Mr. Wilder. 14:39.837 --> 14:41.588 I called yesterday, Doctor Huxtable, 14:42.423 --> 14:44.465 but I was too late to prevent your starting for London. 14:45.718 --> 14:49.596 His Grace is surprised, Doctor Huxtable, that you should of invited Mr. Holmes 14:49.763 --> 14:53.224 to undertake an investigation without consulting him first. 14:53.392 --> 14:54.934 Well I thought that the police had failed. 14:55.102 --> 14:57.478 It is by no means certain that the police have failed. 14:57.605 --> 14:58.688 Yes, but surely, Mr. Wilder... 14:58.814 --> 15:00.523 You're well aware, Doctor Huxtable, 15:00.774 --> 15:03.484 how anxious his Grace is to avoid all public scandal. 15:04.570 --> 15:07.614 He prefers to take as few people as possible into his confidence. 15:08.115 --> 15:11.117 I'm sorry, Mr. Wilder. The matter is easily remedied. 15:11.243 --> 15:13.912 Mr. Sherlock Holmes can return to London by the morning train. 15:14.622 --> 15:17.332 Hardly that Hardly that 15:18.375 --> 15:21.169 I enjoy your invigorating northern air. 15:22.129 --> 15:25.298 I shall spend, at any rate, a few days upon your moors. 15:25.633 --> 15:29.177 Who knows I may at least find Herr Heidegger's bicycle if nothing else. 15:29.303 --> 15:32.138 This is not a trivial matter, Mr. Holmes. 15:35.476 --> 15:39.020 I am gratified that you think not, your Grace. 15:40.481 --> 15:43.858 If there was meaning in that remark, Mr. Holmes, 15:44.485 --> 15:46.319 I'm afraid it escaped me. 15:47.488 --> 15:51.199 Your only child has disappeared. Your hopes, your future, 15:51.575 --> 15:54.827 your noble family itself is threatened with disillusion. 15:54.954 --> 15:56.829 Your point, sir? 15:56.956 --> 15:58.373 I ask your Grace, 15:59.833 --> 16:04.379 what is modesty to this to your child's life? 16:07.174 --> 16:08.216 Or his reputation? 16:12.680 --> 16:15.848 Not then it might be replied what is continuance 16:16.600 --> 16:19.352 without honor? 16:21.480 --> 16:24.190 However, I believe you are largely in the right, Mr. Holmes. 16:25.150 --> 16:29.529 If you refer to the constraints I have placed upon the activities of the police 16:30.406 --> 16:32.740 then perhaps I have imposed too much. 16:34.368 --> 16:37.996 I have a morbid fear of the public gaze. 16:40.374 --> 16:44.252 It would be foolish not to avail ourselves of Mr. Holmes services, James, 16:44.378 --> 16:45.545 now that he is here. 16:47.006 --> 16:47.922 Mr. Holmes? 16:49.425 --> 16:50.341 Your Grace? 16:51.051 --> 16:53.678 Perhaps you would like to come and stay with us at Holdernesse Hall. 16:54.263 --> 16:58.182 I thank your Grace but I think for the purposes of my investigation 16:58.726 --> 17:02.895 it would be wiser for me to remain here at the scene of the mystery. 17:04.231 --> 17:05.064 As you wish 17:05.733 --> 17:09.318 Mr. Wilder or myself will be available to provide you with 17:09.445 --> 17:11.571 any assistance that you might require. 17:12.364 --> 17:14.991 Might I ask whether you have formed any explanation 17:15.117 --> 17:17.910 as to the mysterious disappearance of your son? 17:22.291 --> 17:24.333 No sir, I have not. 17:35.637 --> 17:37.513 He is a fine boy, Mr. Holmes. 17:38.348 --> 17:40.183 And how long has he been in your class? 17:40.517 --> 17:41.601 Since his arrival here. 17:42.519 --> 17:43.978 Did he speak much of his family? 17:44.354 --> 17:45.021 Not much. 17:45.814 --> 17:50.610 It's my belief that he missed his mother this is something of his father's doing. 17:50.778 --> 17:53.613 The separation between the Duke and the Duchess, did he talk about that? 17:53.947 --> 17:55.782 Not really. It's a little mysterious. 17:55.949 --> 17:57.825 The boy insisted that they loved each other very much. 17:57.951 --> 18:00.828 You don't think that he'd be whistling in the wind to cheer himself up? 18:01.038 --> 18:02.997 No he is a very realistic child. 18:03.123 --> 18:05.208 Awe, but not a very realistic family. 18:05.918 --> 18:08.544 I was told that they were once members of the Hellfire Club. 18:10.089 --> 18:11.380 You wouldn't know, I suppose, 18:11.507 --> 18:14.509 what time Herr Heidegger retired to his room on the night of the disappearance? 18:14.968 --> 18:17.136 Not really but quite late. 18:17.262 --> 18:19.597 After eleven. He was duty round master that night. 18:20.390 --> 18:22.475 And a cyclists I believe? 18:22.976 --> 18:24.894 Yes, oh yes. 18:25.395 --> 18:27.313 Did Lord Saltire ever accompany him. 18:28.023 --> 18:30.691 No he is not yet able to retain his balance. 18:32.402 --> 18:34.695 You wouldn't, I suppose, 18:34.822 --> 18:38.491 happen to know the make of tires on Herr Heidegger's bicycle? 18:39.701 --> 18:42.954 Certainly. A lovely bicycle by the way made in Bramen. 18:43.622 --> 18:44.997 The tires were Palmer, 18:45.124 --> 18:46.833 you know the ones with longitudinal tread. 18:47.167 --> 18:51.170 I know the ones. Thank you. Doubly helpful. 18:51.421 --> 18:52.463 Pleasure, Mr. Holmes. 18:57.803 --> 18:59.137 Dinner will be at eight. 19:11.525 --> 19:12.859 I beg your pardon. 19:17.531 --> 19:18.072 Holmes? 19:22.035 --> 19:25.872 This case grows upon me, Watson. 19:26.498 --> 19:29.375 There are decidedly points of interest in connection with it. 19:29.501 --> 19:30.668 Here look at this map. 19:32.254 --> 19:34.338 There are certain geographical features, 19:34.464 --> 19:36.883 which may have a good deal to do with our investigation. 19:37.134 --> 19:40.887 This dark square is the Priory School. 19:41.889 --> 19:45.516 This, the main road with no side turning for a mile either way. 19:46.059 --> 19:49.061 To the north of the school the land rises slowly. 19:49.646 --> 19:52.732 To the south, a large district of arable land with 19:52.858 --> 19:56.402 high walls and hedgerows, impossible territory for a bicycle. 19:57.029 --> 19:58.863 Oh what did you discover at Oakborn? 19:59.031 --> 20:01.741 Well the police had reports from all over the place 20:02.826 --> 20:05.244 on a man and a boy seen together. 20:05.871 --> 20:08.331 They completed their investigation on the site early this morning. 20:08.457 --> 20:08.956 What result? 20:09.082 --> 20:09.624 Useless. 20:10.250 --> 20:13.252 None bore the slightest resemblance of the boy or the German master. 20:14.004 --> 20:14.754 Excellent. 20:15.756 --> 20:19.634 This mass of mistaken sightings, Watson, it confirms my suspicion. 20:21.220 --> 20:22.970 I don't believe they used the road. 20:23.639 --> 20:28.392 That path of curiosity of quiet places will surely find the light. 20:28.769 --> 20:30.561 I don't think they used the road at all. 20:30.729 --> 20:32.939 But the bicycle? 20:33.106 --> 20:35.107 A good cyclist does not need a road, Watson. 20:35.442 --> 20:40.446 The moor is intersected with paths. I remember the moons that were full. 20:41.448 --> 20:44.492 Now it is to the north that our quest must lie. 20:44.826 --> 20:46.118 You have done well, Watson. 20:46.703 --> 20:48.246 Dinner's soon, you'll be happy to hear 20:48.956 --> 20:52.124 but I have do just have one point on which I need to be satisfied. 20:53.543 --> 20:56.128 Herr Heidegger's room. Ten minutes. 20:58.465 --> 21:02.969 Doctor Holmes is being delving into the origins of the Holdernesse family. 21:03.887 --> 21:06.931 Like many ancient lines it sprang from a very muddy source. 21:07.057 --> 21:08.140 Muddy Doctor? 21:08.642 --> 21:12.353 Well not to be too delicate about it, they were cattle thieves. 21:14.815 --> 21:18.734 A worrier class, ingenious, daring but the basis of their wealth 21:19.194 --> 21:21.529 was running off with other people's cows. 21:25.200 --> 21:27.868 Holmes even tells me that Holdenesse has furnished 21:27.995 --> 21:30.788 one of the madder members of the Hell Fire Club. 21:39.756 --> 21:41.340 What is the matter Doctor Huxtable? 21:43.343 --> 21:44.260 It is nothing. 21:44.970 --> 21:46.178 But it's clearly something. 21:49.599 --> 21:52.560 I expect too much I'm sure. It is a part-time job. 21:52.686 --> 21:54.687 Tell us your expectations? 21:56.356 --> 21:58.149 I do not expect miracles. 21:59.026 --> 22:01.694 I think I am not a man who demands the miraculous... 22:03.155 --> 22:04.363 but you have discovered nothing. 22:06.533 --> 22:09.869 We haven't found not a jot since the moment we left London. 22:10.871 --> 22:12.204 Although indeed that is not true. 22:12.873 --> 22:15.291 You have discovered two things, both falshoods. 22:15.876 --> 22:18.127 One, a squalid piece of gossip 22:19.129 --> 22:22.381 and the other an apocryphal and insulting fancy 22:22.549 --> 22:24.342 about the origins of my great patron. 22:26.553 --> 22:28.554 I did not employ you to come here 22:28.722 --> 22:31.223 to blacken the name of the Holdernesses, Mr. Holmes. 22:32.893 --> 22:34.852 Calm yourself, Doctor Huxtable. 22:37.564 --> 22:39.774 We have in fact, found some way. 22:41.068 --> 22:44.779 I can describe to you in some detail what took place in this school 22:44.905 --> 22:46.238 on that fateful night. 22:47.657 --> 22:52.286 Also the behavior of your excellent and faithful German master. 22:53.038 --> 22:56.749 Faithful, Heidegger? What sir? 23:01.129 --> 23:04.298 Herr Heidegger retired to his room soon after eleven o'clock. 23:04.841 --> 23:06.592 He was the duty master that night. 23:07.302 --> 23:10.262 Now my friend and colleague, Doctor Watson, will impersonate. 23:13.892 --> 23:18.646 Heidegger has still two hours work ahead of him and it's been a long day. 23:19.815 --> 23:22.441 He allows himself the comfort of removing his jacket. 23:23.944 --> 23:26.445 He moves across to the chest by the door 23:28.031 --> 23:29.907 and pours himself a glass of sherry. 23:33.703 --> 23:36.914 Badly needed fortification of the task that lies ahead. 23:44.798 --> 23:48.342 He collects the candle and moves to his desk 23:48.718 --> 23:51.804 to correct twenty-two exercise books, 23:53.473 --> 23:58.394 which contain not only Grammatik exercises but also a lengthy composition. 24:01.857 --> 24:03.566 You see my point, Doctor Huxtable, 24:04.234 --> 24:06.944 it would have been well after midnight if he had done nothing else, 24:08.321 --> 24:10.030 when his candle fails him. 24:12.826 --> 24:15.661 The candles are kept in the chest by the door. 24:16.413 --> 24:20.541 He arises from the desk to fetch another one but he cannot see to find them, 24:22.294 --> 24:26.172 so he turns to the windows to draw the curtains to see better by the moonlight. 24:30.302 --> 24:32.344 Across the rooftops on the gate tower 24:33.388 --> 24:35.347 the boy has been waiting for darkness, 24:36.016 --> 24:38.392 knowing that his flight must not be observed. 24:40.854 --> 24:45.107 Herr Heidegger watches as the boy hurries across the ledge 24:45.525 --> 24:47.985 to keep his prearranged meeting by the river. 24:51.740 --> 24:55.034 Sensing the enormity of what was taking place, 24:55.994 --> 24:57.786 Heidegger runs to the door, 25:00.040 --> 25:04.043 knocking over what remains of his glass sherry as he goes. 25:07.964 --> 25:08.547 I see. 25:10.509 --> 25:11.050 Thank you. 25:12.969 --> 25:14.178 It seems I misjudged you. 25:14.304 --> 25:17.598 The wisdom of his choice to pursue the boy is questionable. 25:17.974 --> 25:20.059 I believe his fate may be sealed. 25:22.062 --> 25:25.064 You'll allow me, Mr. Holmes? Do you mean... 25:25.190 --> 25:28.400 I hope not but if my reasoning is correct then I do fear for him. 25:30.904 --> 25:31.695 And the boy? 25:35.075 --> 25:38.077 The key to that, Doctor Huxtable, remains out there. 25:41.081 --> 25:42.706 Beyond the Drover's Bridge. 26:02.894 --> 26:03.769 Poor beast. 26:07.774 --> 26:09.024 Carrying crows. 26:10.110 --> 26:11.151 They ruin their name. 26:13.947 --> 26:17.408 So were assuming the boy was taken away on horseback are we not? 26:17.576 --> 26:18.284 Certainly. 26:18.827 --> 26:21.745 Otherwise Heidegger would not have needed a bicycle to pursue them. 26:21.871 --> 26:24.582 But the only tracks we've found are cattle, Holmes. 26:26.251 --> 26:30.879 Holmes? 26:32.465 --> 26:33.966 A track, Watson! 26:35.010 --> 26:35.801 A track. 26:42.475 --> 26:43.350 A bicycle? 26:44.144 --> 26:47.313 Certainly a bicycle but not the bicycle. 26:47.480 --> 26:50.816 I'm familiar with forty-two different impressions left by tires. 26:52.485 --> 26:56.655 This is a Dunlop with a patch upon the outer cover. 26:57.741 --> 26:59.950 Heidegger's tires were Palmers. 27:01.870 --> 27:03.329 This is not Heidegger's track. 27:05.582 --> 27:06.081 Who's then? 27:06.207 --> 27:07.166 Who's indeed? 27:11.338 --> 27:11.879 Watson! 27:13.423 --> 27:16.216 These are Palmer tracks Heidegger has been this way. 27:22.557 --> 27:23.891 Absolutely extraordinary. 27:27.437 --> 27:31.982 Dunlop tracks for a hundred fifty yards, they vanish 27:33.026 --> 27:37.112 and Palmer tracks quite clear leading to these rocks, 27:37.739 --> 27:38.697 they vanish too. 27:41.993 --> 27:43.410 Not a sign of a horse anywhere. 27:43.536 --> 27:47.289 Watson, you have a blazing talent for observing the obvious. 27:52.295 --> 27:53.420 I should have brought some luncheon. 27:55.090 --> 27:59.343 Anyway what was Herr Heidegger cycling after, cows? 28:01.930 --> 28:04.223 Presumably they didn't abduct the child on the back of a cow. 28:10.063 --> 28:12.773 All traces of horses obliterated. 28:13.733 --> 28:17.486 In much evidence the two bicycles have vanished into thin air. 28:17.779 --> 28:18.570 Impossible. 28:18.988 --> 28:19.822 Precisely. 28:20.240 --> 28:21.740 It is impossible as we have mistaken it, 28:21.866 --> 28:25.119 therefore, in some respect, we must have mistaken it wrong. 28:29.874 --> 28:33.669 There's a hostelry mark on the further edge of the moor. 28:34.879 --> 28:35.462 Holmes, 28:37.132 --> 28:39.007 there's a hostelry on the Chesterfield Road. 28:43.680 --> 28:47.307 Yes if he we keep on this line we should come up to it, 28:51.980 --> 28:55.774 Well that's where I'm going to try my luck. I'm hungry. 29:03.783 --> 29:04.324 Holmes? 29:06.035 --> 29:10.622 Lunch, of course my dear fellow you must be starving. 29:10.999 --> 29:12.541 Now observe that map. 29:12.959 --> 29:17.171 You will see that there's a hostelry about three miles in this direction. 29:19.674 --> 29:22.634 We'll need some food if we're going to face the Duke of Holdernesse later. 29:42.030 --> 29:42.780 Nothing? 29:44.491 --> 29:47.159 Nothing. I must tell his Grace. 29:59.923 --> 30:00.589 Nothing? 30:02.926 --> 30:05.052 Nothing. I'm sorry. 30:21.611 --> 30:22.194 I'm sorry. 30:45.718 --> 30:46.552 It's locked. 30:50.306 --> 30:54.726 Primitive but forceful as sporting portraits go. 31:03.987 --> 31:05.195 Mr. Reuben Hayes? 31:05.905 --> 31:07.239 How do you know my name? 31:07.407 --> 31:09.074 It's printed over the door. 31:10.243 --> 31:12.286 We were looking for some refreshment. 31:13.204 --> 31:13.871 Were ya? 31:14.414 --> 31:16.498 And would be obliged if you could furnish it. 31:17.292 --> 31:17.916 Would ya? 31:19.502 --> 31:20.252 We would. 31:21.754 --> 31:22.880 You must ask the woman. 31:30.471 --> 31:31.847 Insufferable lout. 31:34.601 --> 31:37.060 If were going all the way to Holdernesse Hall this afternoon, 31:37.812 --> 31:41.857 let us try to hire those unpreconditioned beasts. What do you say? 31:56.164 --> 31:57.289 How far are you taking them? 31:57.624 --> 32:01.126 Just to the Hall and back, You know the way, I dare say? 32:02.128 --> 32:03.712 I worked there for fifteen years. 32:10.428 --> 32:11.470 Yeah, you can take them. 32:12.597 --> 32:14.890 My word, Mr. Hayes, you have injured yourself. 32:19.646 --> 32:20.270 It's nothing. 32:21.147 --> 32:24.358 I am a Doctor sir, and assure you it is. You should have it attended. 32:25.652 --> 32:26.777 How did you come by it? 32:27.362 --> 32:28.654 One of my dogs did it. 32:32.200 --> 32:33.283 Those scratches. 32:34.911 --> 32:35.535 What about them? 32:35.912 --> 32:39.331 Well at a gentler glance they were that far apart. 32:41.167 --> 32:43.210 What animal would make such a scratch? 32:44.253 --> 32:46.755 Probably a descendent of the champion jack. 32:47.632 --> 32:51.426 Cockfighting is forbidden by law and has been for fifty years. 32:51.844 --> 32:55.597 Many things are forbidden by law. What law is there in such places as these? 32:57.016 --> 33:01.603 Excellent, Mrs. Hayes, thank you. What have you cooked? 33:02.689 --> 33:06.608 Blood pudding, sweets and... 33:13.074 --> 33:14.074 How is it, Watson? 33:15.994 --> 33:17.536 It is disgusting, Holmes. 33:20.081 --> 33:20.914 That woman, 33:22.583 --> 33:26.044 she's frightened of something and more than that husband of hers. 33:27.755 --> 33:30.298 Deception upon deception. 33:31.676 --> 33:33.385 What was it intended to hide? 33:36.014 --> 33:36.763 Deception? 33:57.201 --> 34:00.495 Oh, Watson, my horse is lame. 34:09.338 --> 34:10.047 That's odd. 34:18.931 --> 34:21.767 Old shoes, new nails. 34:53.800 --> 34:57.677 Gentlemen. His Grace will see you now. 35:10.817 --> 35:13.068 Awe, Mr. Wilder. 35:13.694 --> 35:16.988 Mr. Holmes, Doctor Watson, welcome to Holdernesse Hall. 35:17.657 --> 35:19.282 His Grace will be joining us shortly. 35:19.826 --> 35:24.329 We are placing high hopes on your skills Mr. Holmes. Did you bring news? 35:24.664 --> 35:27.165 There is just one point in which I need to be satisfied. 35:27.542 --> 35:28.625 Yes Mr. Holmes? 35:29.544 --> 35:32.170 It concerns the Duke's private concerns. 35:34.048 --> 35:37.384 As his Grace's private secretary perhaps I can be of some assistance. 35:37.718 --> 35:40.178 I believe his Grace wrote to his son 35:40.555 --> 35:42.347 upon the day this incident occurred. 35:42.849 --> 35:44.474 No I believe he wrote on the day before. 35:44.600 --> 35:47.102 Yes but he would have received it upon that day. 35:47.478 --> 35:48.520 Yes, quite probably. 35:49.355 --> 35:51.106 Might there have been anything in that letter 35:51.649 --> 35:53.567 which would have prompted the boy to run away? 35:54.026 --> 35:55.193 Oh, I hardly think so. 35:56.070 --> 35:58.446 Anyway he would have run here if anywhere. 35:59.657 --> 36:01.032 Or to his mother in Italy? 36:01.242 --> 36:02.200 No sir. 36:04.537 --> 36:05.871 Lord Saltire would 36:06.664 --> 36:09.708 realize the impossibility of achieving such a goal. 36:11.085 --> 36:14.754 Even if abetted by this German, 36:16.048 --> 36:19.551 he is an intelligent and practical child. 36:19.719 --> 36:21.261 And yet he cries in his sleep. 36:24.223 --> 36:26.391 Did his Grace post the letter himself? 36:26.893 --> 36:29.394 His Grace is not in the habit of posting letters. 36:30.062 --> 36:32.439 The letter was laid with others upon the study table 36:33.065 --> 36:34.608 and I, myself, put them there. 36:35.318 --> 36:38.862 The only other person who would handle them would be Rivers 36:39.238 --> 36:41.323 who delivers the Daily Post to the lodge. 36:41.490 --> 36:43.200 And you're sure this letter was among them? 36:43.576 --> 36:45.285 Oh yes. I observed it, 36:46.454 --> 36:48.705 And what have you observed, Mr. Holmes? 36:50.333 --> 36:52.250 How does your investigation progress? 36:53.419 --> 36:54.753 Are you to disappoint me? 36:56.130 --> 37:00.425 I hope still to render your greater happier and myself a richer man. 37:00.676 --> 37:01.885 And what have you discovered? 37:03.721 --> 37:05.597 It is mostly a matter of clarification. 37:06.933 --> 37:10.018 My belief is that the boy was tempted out of the school by a prearrangement 37:10.144 --> 37:14.648 and I suspect that his mother may have been the bait. 37:17.318 --> 37:21.112 The German master observed his departure and set off in pursuit. 37:23.908 --> 37:28.286 We tracked the passage of his bicycle across the moors with much difficulty. 37:29.914 --> 37:34.709 It is almost as if the tracks were deliberately sponged by someone... 37:37.964 --> 37:38.880 Mr. Holmes? 37:41.133 --> 37:44.719 Someone driving cattle. You don't happen to know if the cattle on the moor... 37:44.971 --> 37:48.056 What about them? I hope you have seen none. 37:49.308 --> 37:52.644 We cannot winter cattle outside in our upland climate. 37:53.479 --> 37:57.315 They will not be out of the yard for, oh at least another two weeks. 38:00.945 --> 38:03.154 Then I've been as blind as the beetle. 38:05.992 --> 38:07.158 I thank you, Grace. 38:11.831 --> 38:15.083 Old shoes and new nails! Old shoes and new nails! 38:15.209 --> 38:16.835 Holmes there's something you should see! 38:17.003 --> 38:20.171 It is a remarkable... 38:20.548 --> 38:21.840 Do you see those horseshoes? 38:21.966 --> 38:22.465 I saw them. 38:22.591 --> 38:26.886 Whoever took Lord Holdernesse shoed their horses with different horseshoes 38:27.013 --> 38:28.513 to escape detection. 38:31.017 --> 38:34.811 Reuben Hayes took advantage of a piece of local history? 38:44.113 --> 38:46.156 It's bad Watson, bad. 38:50.036 --> 38:52.454 Those vultures of the north mark the spot. 39:08.596 --> 39:09.637 German master. 39:15.394 --> 39:16.394 What's left of him? 39:29.533 --> 39:36.998 Hello! 39:39.210 --> 39:41.127 Hello, hello! 39:49.345 --> 39:53.139 Skin and blood. Only a microscope would tell if it's human. 39:53.391 --> 39:56.059 A consistent no doubt to the scratch on Hayes neck. 39:56.602 --> 39:57.435 Cause of death? 39:57.895 --> 40:00.855 Strangulation. The larynx is quite crushed. 40:01.065 --> 40:03.358 That shepherd can be our messenger to the priory school 40:03.484 --> 40:05.485 with the news of this tragedy. 40:06.445 --> 40:09.364 We must proceed on foot, Watson. I was warm! 40:10.616 --> 40:14.536 At that Inn, warm as the children say. 40:15.162 --> 40:18.790 The trail grows colder every step I take away from it. 40:24.130 --> 40:27.048 How was I supposed to know where to put the body... 40:37.643 --> 40:38.977 It's all over now, Arthur. 40:47.987 --> 40:50.905 Reuben Hayes. Let's hope we're not too late. 40:54.160 --> 40:56.870 A Dunlop with a patch on the outer cover. 41:09.508 --> 41:10.675 What happened here, Mrs. Hayes? 41:11.927 --> 41:14.012 I'm satisfied that you have no liking for this business 41:14.180 --> 41:15.722 and that you acted under coercion. 41:16.682 --> 41:19.642 Someone came for the boy. 41:22.438 --> 41:24.022 The Duke's secretary, Mr. Wilder? 41:30.571 --> 41:31.696 Which way did they go? 41:33.949 --> 41:35.033 Across the moor? 41:35.826 --> 41:39.537 Aboard the Chesterfield Road where... 41:39.788 --> 41:41.206 Excellent, Mrs. Hayes. 41:44.210 --> 41:46.461 I must alert the Duke's household, Watson. 41:47.046 --> 41:49.839 You are now the boy's guardian angel. 42:39.890 --> 42:42.433 I fancy I see your Grace's checkbook upon your desk. 42:43.269 --> 42:46.437 I would be glad if you would make me out a check for six thousand pounds. 42:46.730 --> 42:48.606 Perhaps it would be best if you were to cross it. 42:49.024 --> 42:52.610 The Capital and counties Bank, Oxford Street branch, are my agents. 42:53.028 --> 42:55.029 I do not possess a temperament, Mr. Holmes 42:55.155 --> 42:57.615 that appreciates the kind of acidulous pleasantry 42:57.741 --> 42:59.158 that clearly amuses you. 42:59.785 --> 43:02.745 I am sorry, but I do not see how James, 43:02.997 --> 43:05.832 Mr. Wilder could possibly be implicated in this business 43:05.958 --> 43:07.500 and you average not proof of it. 43:07.710 --> 43:09.877 But I possess the proof It is beyond debate. 43:11.171 --> 43:14.424 The mud is scarcely dry on the cloven horseshoes in your casements. 43:14.633 --> 43:16.009 Why do you doubt my word? 43:16.885 --> 43:18.636 You seem to suffer from a blindness. 43:18.762 --> 43:21.139 Your own interest, which borders on madness. 43:22.600 --> 43:23.349 Your Grace, 43:25.144 --> 43:28.938 those portraits in the hall 43:29.690 --> 43:31.316 of you and your father as young men, 43:33.068 --> 43:35.653 there your family liniments are very clear, 43:36.739 --> 43:39.574 How long has Mr. Wilder been in your service? 43:39.908 --> 43:44.537 What is your meaning? How dare you sir! 43:44.830 --> 43:47.790 You do not understand! You are a barbarian! 43:47.916 --> 43:51.753 You will never... please leave me immediately. I won't... 43:53.213 --> 43:53.838 I... 44:02.181 --> 44:04.515 Then it is as I suspected. 44:11.065 --> 44:13.358 Mr. James Wilder is your son. 44:24.745 --> 44:28.206 When I was a very young man, Mr. Holmes, 44:30.084 --> 44:31.250 I loved 44:33.712 --> 44:37.590 with such a love that comes only once in a lifetime. 44:40.719 --> 44:42.970 I offered the lady marriage 44:44.848 --> 44:49.227 but she refused it on the grounds that such a match might 44:50.729 --> 44:52.522 mar my career. 44:55.526 --> 44:59.320 Had she lived I would certainly never had married anyone else 44:59.738 --> 45:00.321 but... 45:02.825 --> 45:08.037 she died and left with one child, 45:09.456 --> 45:15.378 James, whom for her sake I have tended and cared for. 45:17.214 --> 45:20.550 I could not acknowledge paternity to the world 45:20.676 --> 45:24.846 but in all other ways I have treated him like my son. 45:28.142 --> 45:31.436 He has required, but not warranted, 45:31.603 --> 45:35.231 a father's forgiveness many times 45:37.317 --> 45:41.112 and I have forgiven. I have forgiven. 45:45.284 --> 45:46.784 I have forgiven much. 45:50.164 --> 45:52.832 Awe your Grace you have done all you can for Mr. Wilder. 45:54.960 --> 45:57.295 You must realize that he is lost to you. 45:59.465 --> 46:01.340 He's conspired to abduct Lord Saltire. 46:01.467 --> 46:03.843 He's an accessory to a murder, however unwittingly. 46:05.137 --> 46:06.763 He must be found 46:08.640 --> 46:10.975 before he's attempted to a crime even more terrible. 46:13.187 --> 46:14.771 He must be found 46:15.647 --> 46:19.066 before you loose the son that is left to you. 46:35.667 --> 46:39.837 Rivers. You are to organize a search of the moor. 46:40.047 --> 46:42.548 West Woods in a line from the temple to the pavilion. 46:43.717 --> 46:46.594 You are to employ the entire staff without exception. 46:48.597 --> 46:52.558 You are looking for my son, Lord Saltire. 46:55.312 --> 46:57.021 If you find Mr. Wilder, 46:58.690 --> 47:00.650 please see that he is detained 47:02.402 --> 47:03.361 and brought to me. 47:15.040 --> 47:18.668 Wilder intercepted your letter and substituted a note 47:18.919 --> 47:21.921 which deceived your son into believing that he was to see his mother. 47:23.090 --> 47:25.424 The murderous Hayes was his paid accomplice 47:25.551 --> 47:27.969 but the police have been alerted. Hayes will not escape... 47:28.095 --> 47:28.719 Watson? 47:31.598 --> 47:34.225 I tracked them over to the moor but they disappeared. 47:34.601 --> 47:35.560 I searched the area 47:36.895 --> 47:38.729 but it's as if the earth just swallowed them up. 47:40.566 --> 47:41.983 With my research into your family history 47:42.109 --> 47:47.697 I've seemed to recall mention of a huge limestone cavern 47:47.823 --> 47:49.699 where the stolen cattle were penned. 47:51.243 --> 47:52.076 The cathedral. 47:55.914 --> 47:56.747 Come on. 48:00.043 --> 48:00.835 Come on! 49:45.190 --> 49:46.399 Hand him over. 49:46.942 --> 49:50.361 No! You shall not have him! 49:51.863 --> 49:53.531 Father! 49:53.657 --> 49:54.740 Come Father! 49:55.033 --> 49:59.870 Father! Father! 50:01.206 --> 50:02.707 James! 50:30.986 --> 50:33.529 I was disposed to love Francesca 50:33.780 --> 50:37.908 and not with a boy's passion but with a man's love. 50:42.581 --> 50:47.585 My marriage to her founded on James jealousy. 50:54.051 --> 50:58.554 As long as I could see, his mother's face and manner in him, 50:59.347 --> 51:02.016 James knew he could keep me from the love 51:03.268 --> 51:04.518 I owed my wife. 51:08.315 --> 51:11.984 Even his cruelty to Arthur, 51:14.279 --> 51:16.655 I could not send him away even for that. 51:19.451 --> 51:21.368 So I sent Arthur away instead. 51:22.871 --> 51:25.873 What did he hope to achieve by kidnapping his brother? 51:27.125 --> 51:27.625 Money? 51:30.879 --> 51:31.754 Legitimacy? 51:33.215 --> 51:34.215 And power. 51:35.759 --> 51:37.051 Power over me. 51:38.970 --> 51:42.223 He delighted in exercising power over me, 51:44.309 --> 51:48.604 for me and you were to have denied him power. 51:48.980 --> 51:51.857 But you suspected that he was behind the abduction? 51:52.859 --> 51:55.152 In my darkest moments, yes. 51:57.531 --> 51:59.949 Yet somehow I hoped to... 52:02.786 --> 52:03.619 save him. 52:06.873 --> 52:10.709 Well, a long penance it had seemed. 52:13.338 --> 52:19.510 I can only hope that Francesca will forgive me. 52:34.526 --> 52:35.860 Thank you, Mr. Holmes. 52:38.530 --> 52:39.280 Your Grace? 52:44.286 --> 52:45.703 This is a king's ransom.