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There's a very pretty young
woman crossing the street

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and I think she may be coming here.

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Incidentally, I have glanced over
your latest account of my work.

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Oh yes.

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Honestly I cannot
congratulate you upon it.

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Detection is, or ought
to be, an exact science.

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Observation, deduction,
a cold and unemotional subject.

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You have attempted to
tinge it with romanticism,

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which has much the same effect
as if you worked a love story

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or an elopement into the fifth
proposition of Euclid.

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Who can match that?

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There's a young lady
to see you, Mr. Holmes.

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It's Mary Morstan.
I have no recollection of the name.

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Don't go Doctor, I may need you.

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I was right.

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Thank you.

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Miss Morstan.

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Good afternoon.

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I have come to you Mr. Holmes,
because

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you once enabled my employer,
Mrs. Cecil Forrester,

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to unravel a minor
domestic complication.

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She was much impressed
with your kindness and skill.

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Thank you.

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I can hardly imagine anything more
strange, more utterly inexplicable

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than the situation in
which I find myself.

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State your case.

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If you will, I am sure, excuse me.

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If your friend would be
good enough to remain,

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he might be of inestimable service
to me.

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Of course.

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Briefly the facts are these-

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My father was an officer
in an Indian regiment.

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My mother died
when I was still quite a child, and,

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and he was forced to send me home,

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despite the fact that
had no relatives here.

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I was placed in a comfortable
boarding establishment

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at Edinburgh, and I remained there
until I was 17 years of age.

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In that same year, my father who
was a senior captain of his regiment

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obtained 12 months' leave
and returned home.

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He telegraphed to me from London
to say that he had arrived all safe,

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and directed me to come down at once,
giving the Langham Hotel as his address.

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His message, as I remember,
was full of love and kindness.

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On reaching London, I drove
straight to the Langham Hotel,

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and was informed that Captain
Morstan was staying there, but

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that he had gone out the night
before and had not returned.

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So I waited-

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all day without news of him.

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And that night, on the advice
of the manager of the hotel,

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I communicated with the police.

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The next day, we advertised
in all the newspapers.

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Our inquiries led to no result

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from that day to this.

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No word has ever been heard
of my unfortunate father.

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He came home with his
heart so full of hope-

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to find some peace,
some comfort and instead...

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The date?

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The 3rd of December,
exactly 10 years ago.

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His luggage?

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Remained at the hotel.

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Oh, there was nothing in it to suggest
a clue. Some clothes, some books,

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and a considerable number of
curiosities from the Andaman Islands.

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My father had been one of the officers
in charge of the convict-guard there.

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Watson, this place is a mess.
Had he any friends in town?

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Only one that we know of.

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Major Sholto, of his old regiment,
the 34th Bombay Infantry.

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We communicated with the Major,
of course, but,

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he did not seem to know that
his brother officer was in England.

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It's a singular case.

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I have not yet communicated
to you the most singular part.

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4 years later, an advertisement
had appeared in the Times.

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Asking for the address of
Miss Mary Morstan, and stating

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that it would be to her advantage
to come forward.

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There was no name appended.

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I had at the time just entered
the family of Mrs. Cecil Forrester

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in the capacity of governess,

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and on her advice I published my
address in the advertisement column.

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That same day there
appeared through the post

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a small cardboard
box addressed to me

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which I found to contain a
very large and lustrous pearl.

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No word of writing was enclosed.

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And since then every
year upon the same date,

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there has always
appeared a similar box,

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containing a similar pearl,
with no clue as to the sender.

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They have pronounced by been
an expert to be of a rare variety-

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of considerable value.

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You can see for yourself
that they are very handsome.

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Your case is most interesting.

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Something else has occurred to you?

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Yes, and no later than today.
That is why I have come to you.

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This letter arrived through
the post this morning,

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which you will perhaps
read for yourself.

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Envelope please.

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London postmark,
October 7th.

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Man's thumb mark on corner,
probably the postman.

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Best quality paper, six-pence a packet.
Particular man in his stationery.

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Watson.

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"Be at the third pillar from the left,"

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"outside the Lyceum Theatre
tonight at seven o'clock."

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"If you are distrustful,
bring two friends,"

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"you are a wronged woman
and shall have justice."

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"Do not bring the police. If you do, all
will be in vain. Your unknown friend."

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Well, really, this is a
very pretty little problem.

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What do you intend
to do Miss Morstan?

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Well, that is exactly
what I want to ask you.

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Well then, you and I
shall go together.

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Dr. Watson is the very man.
Your correspondent says two friends.

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But would he come?

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I shall be proud and happy
if I can be of any service.

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You are both very kind.

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I have led a retired life and have
no friends whom I could appeal to.

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If I am here at 6, it will do, I suppose?

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Yes, but you must not be later.
Goodbye Miss Morstarn.

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Goodbye Mr. Holmes.

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Au revoir.

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Buy a flower dearie.

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Buy a flower.

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Aw, come on, dearie.

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Excuse me.

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What a very attractive woman.

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It is of the first importance
not to allow your judgment

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to be biased by personal qualities.

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A client to me is a mere unit,
a factor in of the problem.

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Holmes, you are an automaton
and a calculating machine.

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There's something positively
inhuman in you at times.

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I assure you, the most
winning woman ever knew

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was hanged for poisoning three little
children for their insurance money.

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And the most repellent
man of my acquaintance

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is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a
quarter of a million upon the London poor.

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However, in this case...

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I never make exceptions.

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An exception disproves the rule.
I'm going out. I'll see you in an hour.

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Had he any friends in town?

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Only one that we know of,
Major Sholto of his own regiment.

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There is no great
mystery in this matter.

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The facts appear to admit
of only one explanation.

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Oh, so you've solved it already?

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I have found on consulting
the back files of the Times,

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that Major Sholto,
of Upper Norwood,

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late of the 34th, Bombay Infantry,
died just 6 years ago.

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Mrs. Hudson you're
dreadfully under foot.

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Maybe very obtuse, Holmes,
but I fail to see what this suggests.

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Really?

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You surprise me. Now, look at it this
way then, Captain Morstan disappears,

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the only person in London whom he
could have visited is Major Sholto.

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Major Sholto denies having heard
that he was even in London.

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4 years later, Sholto dies.
Within a week of his death,

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Captain Morstan's daughter
receives a valuable present

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which is repeated from year to year
and now culminates in a letter,

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which describes her
as a wronged woman.

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Now what wrong can it possibly refer to
except this deprivation of her father?

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Tape measure, gun.

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And why should these presents begin
immediately after Sholto's death?

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Unless it is that Sholto's heir
knows something of the mystery,

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and desires to make compensation.

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Are you ready, Watson?

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And waiting.

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Have you any alternative theory
that will meet the facts?

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What a strange compensation
and how strangely way.

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What time is it?

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It's a quarter past the hour.

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Good evening, Roberts.

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Good evening, sir.

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Why should somebody write her a
letter now, rather than 6 years ago?

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Again, the letter speaks of giving her
justice. What justice can she have?

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It is too much to suppose
that her father is still alive,

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and there's no other injustice
in her case that you know of.

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There are difficulties but
there are always difficulties.

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Good evening, Mr. Holmes.
I do hope I'm not...

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Good evening.

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By the way, a curious paper was
found in Papa's desk,

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which nobody could understand.

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I don't suppose it is of
the slightest importance,

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but I thought you might like to
see it so I brought it with me.

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The paper appears to be
of Indian manufacture.

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At some point, it's
been pinned to a board.

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The diagram upon it appears to be
the plan of part of a large building

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with numerous halls,
corridors, and passages.

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There's a cross in red ink,

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and on the side is
written "3.37 from left."

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There is a curious hieroglyphic,

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the sign of four...

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Kartar Singh, Indigo Singh,
Jagodish Singh, Jonathan Small.

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The paper has been kept
carefully in a pocketbook,

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for the one side is
as clean as the other.

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It was in his pocketbook
that we found it.

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Preserve it carefully, Miss Morstan.

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I begin to suspect
that this case may be-

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much deeper and more subtle
than I ever first supposed.

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Hey, are you the parties
who come with Miss Morstan?

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I'm Miss Morstan, and these
two gentlemen are my companions.

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I must ask you to give me your word

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that neither of your companions
is a police officer.

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I give you my word.

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Sahib awaits you.

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Show them in, Khitmutgar,
Show them straight in to me.

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Your servant, Miss Morstan.

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Your servant, gentlemen.

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Come in, come in, come in.
Come in to my little sanctum.

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I trust you have no
objection to tobacco smoke?

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The balsamic odor of Eastern tobacco?

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I am a little nervous,

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and I find my hookah
to be an invaluable...

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sedative.

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If you will excuse me, Mr. Sholto,

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but I am here at your
request to learn something

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which you desire to tell me?

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It is getting very late and should wish
the interview to be as short as possible.

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Well, it must take some time

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for we have to go to Norwood
to see brother, Bartholomew.

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We must all see,

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if we can get the better-

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of brother, Bartholomew.

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He is angry with me for-

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taking the course that
has seemed right to me.

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You cannot imagine what
a terrible fellow he is,

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when he is angry.

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If we are to go to Norwood,
it would-

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perhaps be as well
if we were start at once.

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No.

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No, that would hardly do.

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I don't know what he would say if
we came upon him in that sudden way.

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No, I must prepare you by
showing you where we all stand-

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to each other.

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I must lay the facts before you,

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as I know them myself.

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My father, the late Major John Sholto,

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came to live at Pondicherry
Lodge in Upper Norwood.

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Some 11 years ago.

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And he had prospered in India
and brought back with him-

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a considerable sum of money,
a collection of valuable curiosities,

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and a staff of native servants.

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With these advantages,
he lived in great luxury.

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My brother and I were at
university at the time.

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We did know, however,
that some mystery,

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some positive danger
overhung our father.

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He was very fearful of
going out alone

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and he employed two
prizefighters to guard him.

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Williams, who drove you
here tonight, was one of them.

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For some reason,
he never told anyone,

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my father had a marked aversion
to men with wooden legs,

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On one occasion, he actually fired
his revolver at a one-legged man.

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A harmless tradesman as it turned out.

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I remember we have to pay
a considerable sum to hush it up.

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Then suddenly,

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my father received a letter.

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It was obviously
a great shock to him.

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Out. Out of the room!

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Out of the room!

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What was in the letter?

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We could never discover.

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For years, my father had suffered
with an enlarged spleen.

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And from that moment on
he became rapidly worse.

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But one night, the doctor
informed us there was no hope,

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and that he wished to make
a last communication to us.

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My dear sons.

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When we were in India,

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my friend, Morstan and I,

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came into possession of
a considerable treasure.

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I brought it home
with me to this house,

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where it's still alive.

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On the day, Morstan,

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arrived home from the East,

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he came straight to this house

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to claim his share.

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We gave our word Sholto, a promise.

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We gave our word and our oath!

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Damn with them. The life
in another time world is...

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A solemn promise.

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If you tried to betray me, Morstan.
If you dare to cross me...

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My God!

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The man is dead, Altada.

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You have nothing to fear Sir.
I will arrange everything.

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And soon it was done, Miss Morstan,

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in secrecy of course,
but with respect.

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This is disgraceful, Mister Sholto.

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Your father's behavior
was quite unforgivable.

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Please, Doctor.

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I knew in my heart that he was dead.

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My father was not alone then.

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And I'm glad he didn't suffer.

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You're Miss very brave, Miss Morstan.

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What concerns me now is
the reason for this quarrel.

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I cannot imagine how my father came
to be involved with that treasure.

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I' m afraid that is not clear,
Miss Morstan. I can only tell you,

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my father's instructions
concerning it...

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My... my treatments against
the poor Morstan's orphan.

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The greed,

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accursed greed that has been my
besetting thing throughout my life,

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has robbed her of the treasure.

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Half of which, at least, should be hers.

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You see that chaplet there,

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on the green bottle.

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I had the design of sending it to her,

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but could not bear to part with them.

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You, my sons,

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will see that Miss Morstan
gets her share of the treasure.

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Promise.

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Treasure...

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It is hidden...

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Get him away!

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For Christ's sake, get him away!

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We've run to the window
and out into the garden,

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but the intruder was gone.

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My father was dead.

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We soon had more striking
proof that there were-

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secret agencies that work all around us.

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The next day, my father's
bedroom was broken into

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and this was fixed to his chest.

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Remarkable.

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It is the Sikkh symbol for the numeral 4.

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What the paper means and who our
secret visitor or visitors were,

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we never found out.

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And my brother and I were much excited
as you could imagine of the treasure

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that my father had spoken but
try as we might we couldn't find it.

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It was maddened to think that the hiding
place was on his very lips when he died.

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We could judge the
splendor of the riches-

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by the chaplet which he had taken out.
The pearls were evidently of great value.

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And my brother was averse to part
with them. For between friends,

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he was a little inclined
to my father's fault, and it was,

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all I could do was to persuade him
to allow me to send Miss Morstan-

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a detached pearl at regular intervals
so that she would not feel destitute.

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It was a kindly thought.

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No, it was very good of you.

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We were your trustees
that was the way I looked at it,

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although my brother did not
altogether see it in that light.

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We had plenty of money ourselves.

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It would have been in such
bad taste to have-

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treated a young lady
in so scurvy a fashion.

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Yesterday, an event of
extreme importance occurred.

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We, found of the treasure.

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Hence my instant communication
to you, Miss Morstan,

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now, all we have to do
is to drive to Norwood

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and claim our share.

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We shall be expected,
if not entirely welcome visitors.

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You have done well from
first to last, Mr. Sholto.

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My health is somewhat fragile.

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I am compelled to be a valetudinarian.

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Please?

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We dug up every inch of the garden
without discovering anything.

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Brother Bartholomew is
such a clever fellow.

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Do you know how he found
out where the treasure was?

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Tell me.

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He made measurements everywhere,

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all along the top.

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Along the side, inside, and he found
out he was 4 foot out at the top.

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We found our father had
made a false room.

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So he smashed through
the lath and the plaster,

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and there was the treasure
chest lying across the rafters.

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He has computed the
value of the treasure

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to be more than one
half million sterling.

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It's Mrs. Bernstone.

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Mrs. Bernstone is the
only lady in the house.

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Wait here.

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Oh, Mr. So glad Thaddeus,
I'm you've come.

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I'm so glad you've come, sir.

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What a strange place.

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It looks as if all the moles in
England have been let loose in it.

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There's something amiss
with Bartholomew...

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Into the house.

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Bless your sweet, calm face.

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Oh, but I have been sorely
tried this day.

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How Mrs. Bernstone?

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Mr. Bartholomew shut himself in his room
and I can't get a word out of him.

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His bed hasn't been slept in and
he hasn't been down for any food.

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I dare not disturb him at his work. You
know what he's like when it's his work.

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Look after her, Miss Morstan.

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There, there do try to calm down. Look,
I'm sure everything will be all right.

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I do hope your right, Miss.

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Sit down over there.

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Come.

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Which is the door?

34:39.118 --> 34:41.411
There's something devilish
in this, Watson.

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The sign of the four again.
What in God's name does it mean?

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It means murder.

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We brought the treasure down there
last night and we put it there.

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Now its gone.

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What time is that?

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I don't know. Six, or seven o'clock.

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I heard him lock the door after I left.

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I must have been the last
person to see him alive.

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And now he's dead.

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Do you think I did it?
You think it's me. I wouldn't.

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Why should I? I wouldn't
have asked you to... I'll go mad.

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Now gently, gently, gently, Mr. Sholto.

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I suggest that you go down
to the police station,

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and tell them everything that you know.
We shall wait here until you return.

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Holmes, look at this.

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Careful. Forgive me, its poisoned.

36:29.645 --> 36:33.315
Well, Watson we have a little
time. Let's make the most of it.

36:34.025 --> 36:37.736
Now this is an insoluble mystery to me.
It grows darker instead of clearer.

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No, no, no, no it clears every instant.

36:39.864 --> 36:43.533
I only require a few missing links
to have an entirely connected case.

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Simple as the case seems. Now, there
may be something deeper underlying it.

36:48.873 --> 36:51.917
Now, how did these people come
and how did they go?

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People?

36:53.211 --> 36:55.253
Well it takes more than
one, perhaps more than two

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to remove a heavy treasure
chest from a place like this.

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The door has not been
opened since last night.

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So, how about these windows?

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Snibbed on the inside.

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No hinges. Roof quite out
of reach. No drainpipe near.

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Now, yet someone has entered
this way look, Watson.

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See that scuff on the sill.

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Look at this, Watson.

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And this and this. This is
a very pretty demonstration.

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But that's not a footmark.

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Something much more valuable to us.

37:43.302 --> 37:50.141
This is mark of a boot and this and
this is the mark of timber toe.

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This is a wooden-legged man.

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And someone else.

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A very able and efficient ally.

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Could you scale that wall, Watson?

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Absolutely impossible.

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I aid it is so but suppose
you had a friend

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who lowered you this good
stout rope

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securing to this it first ring.

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I think if you were an active man,

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you'd be able to swarm
up, wooden leg and all.

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You would depart, of course, in the
same fashion and then your friend-

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would pull up the rope,

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close the window,
snib it on the inside,

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and depart in the manner
he originally came.

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Well, the thing unintelligible
grows more than ever.

38:49.201 --> 38:53.038
How about this mysterious ally?
How did he get into the room?

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Yes, this ally,

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he lifts this case from the
regions of the commonplace.

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Well, the door is locked,
the window inaccessible.

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The grate's too small. How then?

39:06.886 --> 39:08.386
You will not follow my precept.

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How often have I said to you that once
you have eliminated the impossible-

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whatever remains? However
improbable must be the truth?

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He must of come in through the roof.

39:23.569 --> 39:27.489
Excellent, Watson. Hold this lamp. Let
us carry our research to the room above,

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the secret room in which
the treasure was found.

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The skylight.

39:48.969 --> 39:52.389
Holmes, a child has done
this horrid thing?

39:55.935 --> 40:00.105
My memory failed me
for I should have able to foretell it.

40:01.565 --> 40:03.608
There is nothing we can
learn from here. Let us go down.

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What is your theory
about those footmarks?

40:16.288 --> 40:18.248
My dear Watson,
try a little analysis yourself.

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You know my methods, apply them.

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I cannot conceive of anything
that will cover the facts.

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You will soon.

40:44.150 --> 40:45.400
We're in luck.

40:46.485 --> 40:51.656
Our little ally...
as trod in the creosote.

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Boy, we found manuals I see here.
Very good. I believe...

40:58.539 --> 41:04.961
Well, well, well, well, quite a nice
little place you got here, indeed.

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Holmes.

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That is a creative representatives
of the law unless I'm very very much mistaken.

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Now Watson, before they come,
what do you make of this poor fellow?

41:18.726 --> 41:23.688
The muscles are stiff as a board.
A state of extreme contraction,

41:24.356 --> 41:26.858
far exceeding the usual rigor mortis.

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Quite so.

41:28.819 --> 41:32.197
Coupled with this distortion of
the face, the Hippocratic smile.

41:32.740 --> 41:35.366
Risus sardonicus, as the
old writers called it,

41:36.035 --> 41:37.535
What would suggest to your mind?

41:39.205 --> 41:41.372
Death from a powerful
vegetable alkaloid,

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some strychnine-like substance
that produces tetanus.

41:49.798 --> 41:53.343
To the right,
come on gentleman, to the right.

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Up these stairs.

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This thorn.

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Not an English thorn.

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I think it is not right that Miss
Morstan remains in this stricken house.

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I suggest you slip away and
take her home Watson,

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and then go to 3 Pinchin Lane,
Lambeth and ask for Toby.

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3 Pinchin Lane.

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I'd rather have Toby's help than that
of the whole protective force London.

42:29.588 --> 42:33.258
Well, here's a pretty business.

42:36.095 --> 42:38.096
Place is as full as a rabbit-warren.

42:40.766 --> 42:41.933
I think you may recollect me,

42:43.435 --> 42:45.603
Mr. Athelney Jones.

42:47.231 --> 42:51.859
Why? Of course, I do.

42:52.736 --> 42:56.739
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the theorist.

42:56.949 --> 43:02.287
I'll never forget that you lectured us
all about the Bishop Gate jewel case.

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True, you set us on the right track
then but I think you'll own now,

43:08.419 --> 43:10.628
it is more by good luck
than good guidance.

43:10.796 --> 43:12.797
It very was a piece of simple reasoning.

43:13.173 --> 43:16.968
Oh, calm now, calm.
Never be ashamed to own up.

43:18.512 --> 43:23.141
But what is all this?

43:24.643 --> 43:27.061
It's a bad business. Bad business.

43:30.274 --> 43:32.108
Stern facts here.

43:33.902 --> 43:35.153
No room for theories.

43:35.571 --> 43:38.323
It's lucky I happened to be
up at Norwood

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on another case
when I got the message.

43:42.119 --> 43:43.620
How do you think this man died?

43:43.912 --> 43:45.830
This is not a case
for me to theorize over.

43:45.998 --> 43:47.165
No, no, no.

43:48.375 --> 43:52.629
Still, we can't deny, you hit
the nail on the head sometimes.

43:56.425 --> 43:59.344
Door locked, I understand.

44:00.304 --> 44:04.599
Jewels worth a fortune missing.
How were the windows?

44:04.725 --> 44:06.851
Fastened but there was
a footstep on the sill.

44:07.102 --> 44:11.522
Windows fastened. Nothing to
do with it. It's common sense.

44:16.445 --> 44:19.155
Man could have died in a fit I suppose.

44:20.699 --> 44:24.327
Ha, I have a theory.

44:25.162 --> 44:27.038
These flashes come to me sometimes.

44:27.414 --> 44:29.624
Sergeant, outside with me.

44:30.250 --> 44:31.959
And you too, Mr. Sholto.

44:36.590 --> 44:38.216
What do you think of this, Holmes?

44:39.218 --> 44:43.054
Sholto has confessed he was
with his brother last night.

44:44.098 --> 44:47.225
The brother died in a fit. Sholto walks
off with the treasure? How about that?

44:47.351 --> 44:49.394
Whereupon a dead man very
considerately gets up and

44:49.561 --> 44:51.896
locks the door from the inside.

44:58.696 --> 45:00.697
There's a flaw there somewhere.

45:03.242 --> 45:06.744
Let us apply common sense
to the matter.

45:07.121 --> 45:10.248
They were brothers.
There was a quarrel.

45:11.542 --> 45:16.087
Brother Bartholomew dead.
Jewells gone.

45:16.255 --> 45:21.759
And master Thaddeus evidently
in a disturbed state of mind.

45:21.885 --> 45:25.263
His appearance well not attractive.

45:25.597 --> 45:26.597
You see,

45:27.599 --> 45:31.769
I'm weaving a web
around Thaddeus.

45:31.979 --> 45:35.273
The net begins to close upon him.

45:36.233 --> 45:37.108
Jones,

45:38.235 --> 45:39.694
that splinter,

45:42.781 --> 45:45.450
which firmly believe to be poisoned.

45:46.034 --> 45:49.954
That card and that curiously shaped
instrument were lying there on the table.

45:54.668 --> 45:59.297
Confirms my theory
in every respect.

46:00.799 --> 46:04.093
The house is full of Indian
curiosities. All point to Thaddeus.

46:08.307 --> 46:08.973
But,

46:10.267 --> 46:11.559
how did he escape?

46:15.355 --> 46:18.232
There is a trapdoor in the roof,
Sergeant.

46:21.236 --> 46:24.280
Pray ask Mr. Sholto
to step this way?

46:25.616 --> 46:30.119
You see, facts are better
than theories after all.

46:30.329 --> 46:32.413
My view of the case is confirmed.

46:32.664 --> 46:35.666
There is a trapdoor
communicating with the roof,

46:35.834 --> 46:38.503
and it is partly open.

46:38.629 --> 46:40.004
It is I who opened it.

46:42.591 --> 46:45.176
Mr. Thaddeus Sholto, it
is my duty to inform you

46:45.344 --> 46:46.844
that anything you say
will be taken down

46:47.012 --> 46:49.347
and maybe used
in evidence against you.

46:49.515 --> 46:50.973
I arrest you in the Queen's name

46:51.141 --> 46:53.601
as being concerned
in the death of your brother.

46:55.395 --> 46:56.687
I didn't. I tell you.

46:57.356 --> 46:59.315
Don't trouble yourself, Mr. Sholto.

46:59.525 --> 47:01.859
I think that I can engage
to clear you of this charge.

47:02.027 --> 47:05.321
Don't promise too much,
Mr. Theorist.

47:05.781 --> 47:08.825
You may find it a harder
matter than you think.

47:09.159 --> 47:10.868
Not only will I clear Mr. Sholto,

47:11.411 --> 47:13.663
but I will give you a description
of the two men

47:14.206 --> 47:15.456
who were in this room last night.

47:15.582 --> 47:19.043
One was a poorly educated
man, strong, active,

47:19.378 --> 47:22.839
with his right leg off, wearing
a stump worn away on the inside.

47:23.549 --> 47:26.551
His left boot has a
coarse, square toed sole.

47:27.427 --> 47:29.512
It has an iron band around the heel.

47:30.889 --> 47:32.890
He's much sunburned, middle-aged,

47:33.141 --> 47:36.060
and has a certain amount of skin
missing from the palm of one hand.

47:37.437 --> 47:38.563
And the other one?

47:40.399 --> 47:42.567
He's rather a curious person.

47:45.404 --> 47:48.489
I hope before long to be able to
introduce you to the pair of them.

47:57.249 --> 48:01.836
Watson, go to three Pinchin
Lane, London and ask for Toby.

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I'd rather have Toby's help than that
of the whole detective force of London.

48:45.631 --> 48:46.797
Mr. Toby?

48:51.053 --> 48:53.638
Mr. Toby? Mr. Toby?

48:53.805 --> 48:56.390
Get out of it.
You drunken hooligan.

48:56.516 --> 48:58.976
Go on, get out of it or
I'll turn my dogs on you.

48:59.144 --> 49:00.478
All forty three of them.

49:00.604 --> 49:02.313
I'm looking for Mr. Toby.

49:03.774 --> 49:07.652
I have a viper in this bag, and I'll tip it
out over your head if you don't hoof it.

49:07.945 --> 49:09.612
It's urgent that I find him.

49:10.030 --> 49:14.742
I won't be argued with.
1, 2, 3 and down comes the viper.

49:16.078 --> 49:18.412
I've come from Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

49:25.504 --> 49:28.172
Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

49:28.340 --> 49:30.508
Well, who'd of thought it?

49:37.641 --> 49:40.685
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, why
didn't you say so. Come in.

49:42.688 --> 49:45.856
Oh no. Mind there, mind there,
because he bite sometimes he wishes.

49:46.108 --> 49:50.486
Oh yes, he does. Now Naughty.
Naughty, don't you bite the gentleman.

49:50.696 --> 49:53.698
Because this gentleman is a
friend of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

49:54.074 --> 49:56.826
And any friend of Mr. Sherlock
Holmes is a friend of mine.

49:58.036 --> 50:01.038
Don't mind him. He'll just give
you a nice friendly squeeze.

50:01.206 --> 50:02.623
I've give him the run of the room

50:02.791 --> 50:05.710
because he keeps down the
beetles something beautiful.

50:06.586 --> 50:09.547
Now, what did you say
Mr. She Hock Holmes wanted?

50:10.424 --> 50:11.173
Toby.

50:11.466 --> 50:12.216
Toby?

50:12.384 --> 50:13.217
Yes, Toby.

50:13.427 --> 50:15.469
Awe, well Toby's No. 7
there along on the left.

50:15.595 --> 50:18.639
Here, you give him these and
Toby will go along with you

50:18.765 --> 50:20.391
as quiet as a lamb.

50:20.600 --> 50:22.226
Hey, Toby wake up, come on.

50:22.394 --> 50:25.229
There's work for you to do.
A gentleman's come here to see you.

50:26.398 --> 50:27.898
Toby, come on.

50:28.442 --> 50:32.361
He makes me laugh sometimes, Toby.

50:51.465 --> 50:54.759
Come on, Toby. Come on.
Come here, son.

50:59.931 --> 51:01.265
Watson.

51:04.019 --> 51:05.936
It's all right officer, its Mr. Holmes.

51:06.980 --> 51:09.774
Coach around. Come on, Toby.

51:26.291 --> 51:28.459
Well done, you've got Toby.

51:33.590 --> 51:36.300
Here comes London, I'm coming down.

51:59.407 --> 52:00.741
Holmes.

52:20.178 --> 52:21.512
Look at these, Watson.

52:23.056 --> 52:24.306
I found them in the gutter.

52:24.766 --> 52:27.017
Oh, thank you, Mrs. Bernstone.

52:29.354 --> 52:30.813
Do you smell the creosote?

52:32.023 --> 52:34.692
Athelney Jones arrested
not only Thaddeus

52:34.985 --> 52:36.694
but also the gatekeeper,
the gamekeeper,

52:36.862 --> 52:39.864
and two of the Indian servants,
I was lucky to escape myself.

52:40.115 --> 52:40.865
What...

52:41.074 --> 52:43.868
Watson, are you on
for a bit of a trudge?

52:44.035 --> 52:44.994
Of course.

52:47.539 --> 52:51.709
You and Toby, game as they come
when it's a good holding scent.

52:52.169 --> 52:54.712
Now, find him. Go Toby.

52:59.801 --> 53:02.386
Seek Toby, seek.
Yes, you can.

53:14.357 --> 53:16.066
Steady Watson, steady.

53:29.247 --> 53:30.748
Lucky the rain has stopped.

53:31.958 --> 53:34.418
The scent will lie on the road
in spite of their start.

53:39.299 --> 53:43.219
Ah, how sweet the morning air is.

53:46.723 --> 53:48.098
Have you brought your pistol, Watson?

53:48.266 --> 53:49.892
No, I have my stick.

53:50.185 --> 53:53.103
In a minute, we're get to the men,
the peg leg guy I'll leave to you.

53:53.396 --> 53:55.064
Leave the ally to me, come.

54:08.203 --> 54:10.287
What the deuce is the
matter with the dog?

54:26.137 --> 54:27.763
They took a boat,

54:28.598 --> 54:30.808
except they didn't take
a cab or a balloon.

54:31.184 --> 54:33.477
They must have been met
at the water's edge.

54:38.984 --> 54:59.753
Toby!

55:08.388 --> 55:10.848
He's lost his character
to infallibility.

55:11.057 --> 55:13.434
No, no, no. Toby's not to blame.

55:16.271 --> 55:19.273
Those barrels are filled with creosote.

55:20.150 --> 55:23.652
The scent was divided.
So like good huntsmen, Watson.

55:24.070 --> 55:26.697
We the must cast dog again
and find the true one.

55:27.240 --> 55:30.993
Toby.

55:46.634 --> 55:50.054
We're out of luck.
They've taken the boat from here.

55:51.639 --> 55:54.224
These people are cleverer
than I thought.

55:54.726 --> 55:59.188
Now Watson, these people show
preconcert management here.

56:04.569 --> 56:06.070
Mordecai Smith.

56:07.739 --> 56:10.157
You come back here and get your
face washed.

56:10.367 --> 56:12.076
Jack. Oh, you young man.

56:12.452 --> 56:15.412
I'll get your Dad to give you a
proper item when he gets back.

56:17.165 --> 56:19.583
My what a rosy-cheeked
young rascal.

56:20.377 --> 56:21.919
Is there anything you'd like, Jack?

56:22.087 --> 56:23.545
I'd like a shilling.

56:31.262 --> 56:33.180
A fine young lad you
got there, Mrs. Smith.

56:33.348 --> 56:36.100
Lord bless you, sir,
he is that and forward.

56:36.393 --> 56:38.352
He gets almost too much
for me to manage.

56:38.478 --> 56:41.105
Especially when my man
is away days at a time.

56:41.272 --> 56:45.442
Awe, it's a pity about that. I was hoping
to hire a boat from him, a steam launch.

56:45.610 --> 56:47.903
Why, bless you, sir. It is in the
steam launch that he has gone.

56:48.530 --> 56:50.572
I didn't like the bloke who did the hire.

56:51.116 --> 56:55.411
Not at all, very rough with a wooden
leg, come tapping at our window-

56:55.537 --> 56:59.540
in the middle of the night, and away
they went without a word to me.

56:59.999 --> 57:04.420
Now this man with the
wooden leg, was he alone?

57:05.422 --> 57:07.297
I think he might have
had an animal with him.

57:09.300 --> 57:10.092
A dog?

57:10.677 --> 57:14.555
Didn't look like no dog to me sir. More
like something that you find at the zoo.

57:16.641 --> 57:20.269
So tell me about the launch. It's the
old green bird with the yellow line.

57:20.478 --> 57:22.813
Oh no, no, sir. The Aurora
has just been fresh painted.

57:22.939 --> 57:24.398
Black with a gold trim.

57:24.524 --> 57:26.984
Awe yes, of course.
With a white funnel?

57:27.110 --> 57:28.819
No sir, black funnel.

57:29.654 --> 57:30.904
Awe yes, of course.

57:31.448 --> 57:33.449
Well, thank you Mrs. Smith.
Goodbye Jack.

57:33.741 --> 57:34.408
Bye.

57:43.168 --> 57:44.501
The main thing with people
of that sort is

57:44.669 --> 57:47.671
never to let them think that information
is of the slightest importance to you.

57:47.839 --> 57:51.341
If you do, they will instantly
shut up like an oyster.

57:52.635 --> 57:55.846
Well, our course seems
pretty clear now.

57:56.055 --> 57:57.014
What would you do then?

57:58.391 --> 58:00.017
Get on the track of the Aurora.

58:00.143 --> 58:03.187
It would take days, if not months to
search every wharf and landing place

58:03.354 --> 58:04.855
on the pier between here
and Greenwich.

58:05.231 --> 58:06.440
What do you propose?

58:07.358 --> 58:09.860
As our query has no reason
to fear that he's being hunted.

58:10.487 --> 58:12.029
I propose first of all a bath.

58:12.822 --> 58:16.533
And shave. And then a good meal
then some hours of sleep.

58:16.659 --> 58:18.160
At the same time,

58:18.536 --> 58:22.372
mobilizing the Baker Street division
of the detective police force.

58:25.668 --> 58:28.003
In other words, the irregulars.

58:41.809 --> 58:44.561
Awe the energetic Jones,
the ubiquitous reporter,

58:44.729 --> 58:48.023
fixed up the case between them.
Watson, look at this.

58:51.611 --> 58:52.361
Here.

58:58.117 --> 59:00.160
Mr. Jones is trained and
experienced faculties

59:00.286 --> 59:03.413
were at once directed towards
the detection of the criminals.

59:05.625 --> 59:09.920
His well-known technical knowledge
and powers of minute observation...

59:11.339 --> 59:12.422
Well it gets better still.

59:13.424 --> 59:16.426
The prompt and energetic action
of the officers of the law-

59:16.594 --> 59:21.390
shows the great advantage for the
single vigorous and masterful mind.

59:22.600 --> 59:23.850
Isn't it gorgeous?

59:23.977 --> 59:26.395
We had a close shave of
being arrested ourselves.

59:26.521 --> 59:29.773
I wouldn't answer for our safety now if
if he has another of his attacks of energy.

59:31.109 --> 59:32.025
Good heaven who.

59:39.242 --> 59:41.034
Mr. Holmes said nothing of this.

59:44.664 --> 59:46.415
You can't possibly go in there.

59:46.541 --> 59:48.292
I'm sorry Mr. Holmes.

59:49.627 --> 59:52.462
It's all right, Mrs. Hudson,
they are my guests.

59:57.093 --> 59:58.635
Look, hats off.

59:59.470 --> 01:00:02.264
I've got your message.
I brought 'em on sharp.

01:00:02.765 --> 01:00:05.809
Three bob and a tenner for the tickets.

01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:14.735
Now Wiggins, in future, they
can report to you and you to me.

01:00:15.236 --> 01:00:17.279
I cannot have the house
invaded in this way.

01:00:17.488 --> 01:00:18.655
Oye, stop that.

01:00:21.326 --> 01:00:21.992
Sorry.

01:00:22.160 --> 01:00:28.123
Now, I want you to find
the steamboat Aurora.

01:00:28.499 --> 01:00:29.333
Aurora?

01:00:29.667 --> 01:00:32.336
Owner, Mordecai Smith.

01:00:33.296 --> 01:00:34.963
Black with gold trim.

01:00:35.340 --> 01:00:37.924
Richmond to Gravesend,
both sides of the river.

01:00:38.384 --> 01:00:40.010
Right, sir. How much?

01:00:41.012 --> 01:00:44.848
Old scale of pay, a guinea
to the boy who finds the boat.

01:00:46.059 --> 01:00:47.517
Here is a day in advance.

01:01:04.494 --> 01:01:07.537
If the launch is above water,
the irregulars will find her.

01:01:08.831 --> 01:01:10.874
They can go everywhere,
see everything.

01:01:15.463 --> 01:01:18.548
If our man had an easy task
just as ours ought to be.

01:01:19.592 --> 01:01:23.345
One-legged men are not so common,
and this other man must be unique.

01:01:25.848 --> 01:01:28.725
The aborigines of the Andaman Islands

01:01:28.851 --> 01:01:32.979
may perhaps claim the distinction of
being the smallest race upon this earth.

01:01:34.691 --> 01:01:37.734
They are a fierce, morose,
and intractable people.

01:01:38.027 --> 01:01:40.404
Though capable of forming
the most devoted friendships

01:01:40.571 --> 01:01:42.864
when their confidence
has once been gained.

01:01:44.492 --> 01:01:47.577
They have always been a terror
to shipwrecked crews.

01:01:49.080 --> 01:01:52.499
Braining the survivors with
their stone-headed clubs,

01:01:52.834 --> 01:01:54.418
or shooting them with...

01:01:58.005 --> 01:01:59.756
with poisoned arrows.

01:02:01.300 --> 01:02:03.760
These massacres are
usually concluded

01:02:06.055 --> 01:02:07.681
by a cannibal feast.

01:02:13.563 --> 01:02:16.857
Nice, amiable people.

01:02:35.543 --> 01:02:37.627
And what time would you like
your dinner, Mr. Holmes?

01:02:37.754 --> 01:02:39.796
Half past eight,
the day after tomorrow.

01:02:52.268 --> 01:02:55.437
You'll wear yourself out, old man.
I heard you marching about all night.

01:02:56.022 --> 01:02:57.731
You really must get some rest.

01:02:57.940 --> 01:03:01.401
I can't sleep. This infernal
problem is consuming me.

01:03:01.986 --> 01:03:02.819
No news?

01:03:03.988 --> 01:03:05.655
None. None, whatsoever.

01:03:06.073 --> 01:03:08.116
The whole river has been
searched from both sides.

01:03:08.242 --> 01:03:11.244
Mrs. Smith has not heard from
her husband, It's too much.

01:03:12.079 --> 01:03:15.665
To be balked by some petty obstacle
when all else has been overcome.

01:03:46.864 --> 01:03:48.031
See anything?

01:03:49.408 --> 01:03:50.534
No, nothing.

01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:25.235
Shove off or you'll feel
the back of my hand.

01:04:41.335 --> 01:04:43.086
I'm not going to tell you again, boy.

01:05:19.624 --> 01:05:21.291
A nice little craft.

01:05:21.584 --> 01:05:26.129
Aye, she's a good boat this.
We built her right in this yard.

01:05:26.756 --> 01:05:28.298
Fastest boat on the river.

01:05:28.591 --> 01:05:29.883
What's she in for?

01:05:30.551 --> 01:05:33.053
Repairs to her rudder.
That's the order.

01:05:33.387 --> 01:05:35.263
I can't find anything amiss with it.

01:05:35.473 --> 01:05:39.643
I want her in the water
by six o'clock tonight

01:05:40.186 --> 01:05:42.979
Fully coaled and steam up.

01:05:43.314 --> 01:05:45.899
Right Mr. Smith, she'll be ready.

01:05:46.233 --> 01:05:48.443
Six o'clock sharp, mind-

01:05:48.819 --> 01:05:52.322
for two gentlemen that'll
not be kept waiting.

01:05:53.324 --> 01:05:53.990
Right.

01:05:58.454 --> 01:06:02.749
It's this Norwood case, Doctor. I have
a great deal to worry and try me.

01:06:03.084 --> 01:06:05.293
And this case is
a very dark one, too.

01:06:06.671 --> 01:06:10.090
Thank you. I shall be most
grateful for Mr. Holmes' help.

01:06:10.299 --> 01:06:13.176
Your friend is a wonderful man
and not to be beat.

01:06:15.388 --> 01:06:17.263
Well, you maybe in for a long wait.

01:06:17.682 --> 01:06:19.015
No, I don't think so.

01:06:21.352 --> 01:06:25.355
Go to Baker Street at once.
If I've not returned, wait for me.

01:06:25.773 --> 01:06:27.983
I am close on the track
of the Sholto gang.

01:06:28.693 --> 01:06:31.152
Come with us tonight if you
want to be in at the kill.

01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:33.697
Good. So, he's on the scent again?

01:06:35.825 --> 01:06:38.326
He's been at fault too, has he?

01:06:38.953 --> 01:06:41.663
Even the best of us are
thrown off sometimes.

01:06:48.379 --> 01:06:49.546
Sherlock Holmes?

01:06:50.631 --> 01:06:52.716
Are you Mr. Sherlock Holmes?

01:06:53.050 --> 01:06:54.843
No, but I'm acting for him.

01:06:55.678 --> 01:06:57.637
I've come about this article.

01:06:59.473 --> 01:07:01.391
If you have any information
you may give to me.

01:07:02.393 --> 01:07:03.518
There's a reward.

01:07:03.644 --> 01:07:06.354
Is it about the steam launch, Aurora?

01:07:06.772 --> 01:07:08.732
I'm telling no one but
Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

01:07:08.899 --> 01:07:10.734
No, no, come. Come inside.

01:07:14.071 --> 01:07:16.031
I'm a police officer.

01:07:16.907 --> 01:07:18.074
You look like one.

01:07:18.242 --> 01:07:20.577
No, you will be recompensed
for your loss of time.

01:07:20.745 --> 01:07:22.412
You will not have long to wait.
Sit down.

01:07:25.082 --> 01:07:26.249
Cigar, Mr. Jones?

01:07:26.417 --> 01:07:27.876
Oh, thank you very much.

01:07:35.176 --> 01:07:36.342
As I was saying, Doctor,

01:07:36.844 --> 01:07:41.097
I consider your friend, Mr. Sherlock
Holmes is a man not to be beat.

01:07:42.016 --> 01:07:46.061
He would have made the most promising
police officer, I don't care who knows it.

01:07:46.270 --> 01:07:51.107
With a little more discipline,
and a lot less theory.

01:07:51.442 --> 01:07:52.275
Thank you.

01:07:52.610 --> 01:07:54.110
You might offer me one.

01:07:58.991 --> 01:08:02.452
Oh, you rogue.

01:08:02.661 --> 01:08:05.622
You would have made an
actor and a rare one.

01:08:05.831 --> 01:08:08.583
You had the proper workhouse cough.

01:08:08.959 --> 01:08:11.961
And those weak legs of yours,
there worth 10 pounds each.

01:08:12.296 --> 01:08:14.297
A police officer, I'm flattered.

01:08:14.882 --> 01:08:18.802
Jones, I shall need a police
launch at the Westminster steps.

01:08:18.969 --> 01:08:23.640
The fastest you have. Two stout men,
yourself, myself, Watson all of us armed.

01:08:23.808 --> 01:08:26.601
That is easily arranged.
I will telephone the local station.

01:08:37.071 --> 01:08:40.990
When we get to the tower, stop
opposite of Jacobson's Yard.

01:08:53.212 --> 01:08:55.004
How did you find the Aurora then?

01:08:55.172 --> 01:08:58.925
I have reasons that the launch couldn't
be far often, despite of its invisibility.

01:08:59.051 --> 01:09:01.803
So gentlemen, where could it be?

01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:04.681
Well, out of the water, I suppose.

01:09:05.057 --> 01:09:06.766
In a repair or boat builders yard.

01:09:06.892 --> 01:09:08.143
Exactly.

01:09:30.332 --> 01:09:33.710
One of my boys is waiting by
the yard to give us the signal.

01:09:33.836 --> 01:09:36.004
You planned it all very
neatly, Mr. Holmes,

01:09:36.130 --> 01:09:40.633
but if the affair were in my hands, I
should have a body of police in the yard,

01:09:40.759 --> 01:09:42.385
and arrested them
when they came down.

01:09:42.595 --> 01:09:47.557
Which would have been never. This
man, Small, is a pretty shrewd fellow.

01:09:48.184 --> 01:09:51.686
Anything suspicious, and he
would lie snug for another week.

01:09:53.606 --> 01:09:56.566
Sir? We're opposite
Jacobson's Yard now.

01:09:56.734 --> 01:09:58.359
Shall we move downstream a little?

01:09:58.527 --> 01:10:02.030
No. This mist maybe
of an advantage to us.

01:10:02.698 --> 01:10:04.490
We must lie low and wait.

01:10:33.771 --> 01:10:36.731
Your boy's signaling,
I can see it plainly.

01:10:54.541 --> 01:10:57.961
There's the Aurora,
going like the devil.

01:10:58.796 --> 01:11:01.631
She's very fast. I doubt
if we shall catch her.

01:11:01.799 --> 01:11:04.634
We must catch her.
Pile it on, stokers.

01:11:05.844 --> 01:11:08.429
I'll never forgive myself
if she proves to have the heels.

01:11:15.187 --> 01:11:19.315
Faster, faster. Is this
the fast boat they've got?

01:11:46.885 --> 01:11:48.845
Pile on the coals, stoke her.

01:11:50.306 --> 01:11:53.308
We must have her. Even
if we burn the boat.

01:12:26.550 --> 01:12:30.136
Keep the light steady. I can
almost make out his companion.

01:13:21.814 --> 01:13:23.022
We're gaining.

01:13:38.872 --> 01:13:42.083
Pile it on, stoker. Give
it all the steam we've got.

01:13:43.961 --> 01:13:45.795
I think we gained a little.

01:13:47.506 --> 01:13:49.799
I'm sure we shall up
with the boat in a minute.

01:14:02.771 --> 01:14:04.397
Move the light more to the left.

01:14:13.407 --> 01:14:14.449
Keep it steady.

01:14:54.031 --> 01:14:55.364
What's happening on that boat?

01:14:59.244 --> 01:15:00.703
They're fighting among themselves.

01:15:00.871 --> 01:15:03.206
Tonga. Tonga.

01:15:08.378 --> 01:15:09.337
The peg leg.

01:15:10.130 --> 01:15:13.007
Stop! Police!

01:15:13.717 --> 01:15:14.800
Cease you.

01:15:15.552 --> 01:15:18.387
You can burn in hell.

01:15:18.764 --> 01:15:20.389
Stop!

01:15:21.308 --> 01:15:24.977
We are the sign of four.

01:15:26.730 --> 01:15:28.564
Watson, look.

01:15:44.122 --> 01:15:45.915
What a face.

01:17:59.132 --> 01:17:59.882
Wait.

01:18:02.219 --> 01:18:05.554
Wait. Let him wear himself out.

01:18:55.230 --> 01:18:59.066
So, Jonathan Small,

01:19:01.027 --> 01:19:02.445
I am sorry it's come to this.

01:19:03.613 --> 01:19:05.448
And so am I, sir.

01:19:07.409 --> 01:19:12.413
But I give you my word, gentlemen,
I never laid hands on young Mr. Sholto.

01:19:12.622 --> 01:19:13.873
Of course, you didn't.

01:19:14.291 --> 01:19:17.585
Your little friends dart killed him
while you were still climbing the rope.

01:19:25.886 --> 01:19:27.970
You speak as if you were there, sir.

01:19:39.858 --> 01:19:43.944
Well, if it had been old Major Sholto,

01:19:44.613 --> 01:19:47.823
I would have swung for
him with a light heart.

01:19:49.409 --> 01:19:51.911
But to be lagged over this young Sholto,

01:19:54.915 --> 01:19:56.290
it's cursed heart.

01:19:57.167 --> 01:19:59.502
You must make a clean
breast of it. If you do,

01:20:00.170 --> 01:20:01.337
I maybe of use to you.

01:20:04.174 --> 01:20:06.175
Quite a family party.

01:20:07.427 --> 01:20:09.428
The reckon I'll pull at flask myself.

01:20:13.225 --> 01:20:16.811
Now, where are you going, Small?

01:20:18.188 --> 01:20:22.525
The Esmeralda at Graveserid,
outward bound for the Brazils.

01:20:22.734 --> 01:20:23.943
And nearly made it.

01:20:24.486 --> 01:20:27.530
Another man at the engines,
and you'd never have caught us.

01:20:30.033 --> 01:20:31.367
Where's the key, my man?

01:20:34.037 --> 01:20:35.830
At the bottom of the river.

01:20:38.291 --> 01:20:41.710
Now, look here. We've had
enough of you tonight, Small.

01:20:41.878 --> 01:20:43.462
Bring the cuffs in men, I'm warning you.

01:20:44.005 --> 01:20:47.216
Its alright, constable,
we'll nail it at the steps.

01:20:48.009 --> 01:20:50.135
I suggest that we go back
to Baker Street.

01:20:50.262 --> 01:20:52.054
Well, I think Miss Morstan
should be there.

01:20:52.430 --> 01:20:55.558
Well, that's not the
regulation way Mr. Holmes

01:20:56.309 --> 01:21:01.146
Well, I can at least promise
you a nice warming drink.

01:21:03.817 --> 01:21:05.234
Very well, gentlemen.

01:21:11.533 --> 01:21:13.909
Well, Miss Morstan,

01:21:14.828 --> 01:21:19.707
I am pleased and proud to have been
able to bring the thief to justice.

01:21:21.251 --> 01:21:22.418
Justice?

01:21:23.587 --> 01:21:25.671
Your pretty justice.

01:21:26.798 --> 01:21:29.341
Who's loot is this, if it is not ours?

01:21:29.801 --> 01:21:31.218
Where is the justice-

01:21:31.344 --> 01:21:33.929
that I should give it up to those
who have never owned it?

01:21:34.097 --> 01:21:36.265
You forget Small, they know
nothing of this matter.

01:21:38.393 --> 01:21:42.771
We cannot tell how far justice may
have originally been on your side.

01:21:49.321 --> 01:21:54.783
Well, sir, you have been
very fair spoken to me.

01:21:56.202 --> 01:21:58.787
Though I can see that it's
you that I have to thank

01:21:58.914 --> 01:22:03.459
for these bracelets on my wrists.

01:22:06.296 --> 01:22:08.631
Still I bear no grudge for that.

01:22:10.133 --> 01:22:13.469
If you want to hear my story,
I have no wish to hold it back.

01:22:14.471 --> 01:22:19.558
And what I say to you is
God's truth every word of it.

01:22:41.164 --> 01:22:42.790
When I was a lad,

01:22:43.625 --> 01:22:48.337
I took the Queen's shilling, and was
posted out to India with the Third Buffs.

01:22:53.468 --> 01:22:58.305
A crocodile snapped this off
when was bathing in the Ganges.

01:23:02.227 --> 01:23:06.355
The sawbones had my stump in
the tar barrel nice and quick.

01:23:07.774 --> 01:23:09.650
I was young and strong.

01:23:11.861 --> 01:23:14.697
We got my discharge and this fellow.

01:23:21.705 --> 01:23:23.539
It's been a good support to me.

01:23:27.335 --> 01:23:32.840
So, there I was a cripple at twenty.
But I liked it out there.

01:23:34.050 --> 01:23:38.053
So I found myself a job as
an overseer on an Indigo farm.

01:23:39.055 --> 01:23:41.974
I was on horseback all
day so that was fine.

01:23:44.269 --> 01:23:46.311
But I was never in luck for long.

01:23:47.647 --> 01:23:50.899
Without a note of warning,
the great mutiny was on us.

01:23:52.110 --> 01:23:53.819
I came back to the farm
one evening

01:23:53.945 --> 01:23:56.405
to find my master and all his family
be murdered.

01:23:58.366 --> 01:24:02.911
I didn't wait. On that same
evening, I was in the Fort of Agra,

01:24:03.371 --> 01:24:05.914
the nearest city still
held by the British.

01:24:07.584 --> 01:24:10.669
The old Fort of Agra
is a queer place.

01:24:11.755 --> 01:24:12.921
Huge.

01:24:14.132 --> 01:24:16.675
It's full of passages and rooms,

01:24:19.095 --> 01:24:21.680
and more entrances
than you can count.

01:24:23.475 --> 01:24:26.935
There were many gates and because
I was an ex-soldier and British,

01:24:27.103 --> 01:24:30.064
they put me in charge of one of
them and gave me a couple of Sikhs

01:24:30.190 --> 01:24:31.690
who'd stayed loyal to us.

01:24:32.776 --> 01:24:34.276
It was a lonely place.

01:24:35.945 --> 01:24:39.073
My two Punjabis were
experienced fighting men.

01:24:40.200 --> 01:24:43.619
Kartar Singh and Indigo Singh.

01:24:55.882 --> 01:24:56.757
Rebels?

01:24:56.966 --> 01:24:59.968
No, sir. The fort is safe.

01:25:01.221 --> 01:25:03.722
There are no rebel
this side of the river.

01:25:05.517 --> 01:25:09.436
You must be with us or you
must be silenced forever.

01:25:10.146 --> 01:25:11.563
With you, how?

01:25:11.940 --> 01:25:16.819
We want you to be rich, which is
why you British came to this land.

01:25:18.905 --> 01:25:20.989
Well, I have no objection
of being rich.

01:25:21.407 --> 01:25:24.660
Then swear by
the bones of your father

01:25:24.828 --> 01:25:28.831
to raise no hand and to
speak no word against us now,

01:25:29.165 --> 01:25:30.833
or ever afterwards.

01:25:31.334 --> 01:25:35.170
Then you will have
quarter of the treasure.

01:25:36.798 --> 01:25:38.423
But there are only three of us.

01:25:38.758 --> 01:25:42.845
Jagodish Singh, my foster
brother, he must have his share.

01:25:44.931 --> 01:25:48.809
There is no time Sahib. Decide.

01:25:50.895 --> 01:25:54.648
Well, provided the fort
is in no kind of danger.

01:25:55.775 --> 01:25:56.859
I swear.

01:25:59.445 --> 01:26:01.864
What would you have done, Mr. Holmes?

01:26:03.366 --> 01:26:06.201
I strongly suspect, I would
have done exactly as you did.

01:26:08.538 --> 01:26:10.497
Yes, I know the Sikh.

01:26:11.040 --> 01:26:12.791
He's not a man to be trifled with.

01:26:16.796 --> 01:26:18.714
One of our local Rajahs,

01:26:19.591 --> 01:26:22.509
rich as Croesus of course,
he'd gone in the rebels.

01:26:23.136 --> 01:26:26.722
But... he wanted to hedge his bet.

01:26:27.432 --> 01:26:29.892
Just in case, British
came out on top.

01:26:30.768 --> 01:26:35.564
So he made a plot to get half his
treasure hidden in the Fort of Agra,

01:26:37.025 --> 01:26:40.235
sending one of his men with it
in the guise of a merchant,

01:26:41.070 --> 01:26:46.408
and Jagodish Singh, Kartar's
brother, to be the guide.

01:26:47.076 --> 01:26:51.413
They come challenge him, sahib, in the
usual way, give him no cause of fear.

01:26:51.706 --> 01:26:52.414
What then?

01:26:52.540 --> 01:26:54.082
If he do, what us has to be done?

01:27:07.263 --> 01:27:08.055
Who goes there?

01:27:09.432 --> 01:27:10.432
Friends, sahib.

01:27:11.893 --> 01:27:13.602
Advance and be recognized.

01:27:18.483 --> 01:27:19.608
What have you with you?

01:27:21.986 --> 01:27:27.783
A box sahib, old box.
Having some family papers.

01:27:28.368 --> 01:27:31.954
No good to nobody sahib
only for myself.

01:27:40.797 --> 01:27:44.132
Sahib, I'm no ordinary beggar.

01:27:46.761 --> 01:27:50.639
You will have money sahib,
and governor sahib, also.

01:27:56.312 --> 01:27:58.105
Take him to the main guardroom.

01:28:23.339 --> 01:28:26.842
Never was a man more
compassed round with death.

01:29:01.502 --> 01:29:04.296
If Achmet had escaped, the
whole affair would have come out

01:29:04.589 --> 01:29:06.381
I should have been shot, most like.

01:29:09.552 --> 01:29:12.054
Which of you would have
held back his musket?

01:29:16.476 --> 01:29:19.895
Kartar was for burning
him, that's their religion.

01:29:20.605 --> 01:29:22.564
But such a fire was impossible.

01:29:23.441 --> 01:29:27.069
Jagodish was for throwing him down
into the great ditch below the fort

01:29:27.236 --> 01:29:28.987
where the jackal's to clean him.

01:29:30.031 --> 01:29:31.490
No doubt, he was right.

01:29:32.617 --> 01:29:35.243
I was for showing some
respect for the dead.

01:29:36.913 --> 01:29:38.747
Then we turned to the box.

01:29:40.875 --> 01:29:42.209
This box.

01:29:46.756 --> 01:29:51.051
Inside were more gems than I could
have ever even had dreamed of.

01:29:58.601 --> 01:30:01.770
143 diamonds of the first water.

01:30:02.313 --> 01:30:04.439
Including the Great Mogul,

01:30:04.649 --> 01:30:07.109
the second largest stone
in existence.

01:30:08.111 --> 01:30:12.739
97 emeralds. 170 rubies.

01:30:13.449 --> 01:30:17.285
40 carbuncles. 61 agates.

01:30:22.458 --> 01:30:23.959
Jagodish was right.

01:30:24.794 --> 01:30:29.256
It was a great mistake you made,
burying the body as you did.

01:30:30.341 --> 01:30:31.967
Would you not say so, Watson?

01:30:33.302 --> 01:30:37.556
Yes indeed. Bodies not burned
in India are soon discovered.

01:30:38.224 --> 01:30:42.811
So you and your three companions
were found guilty and sent away for life

01:30:43.271 --> 01:30:45.814
to the penal colony
in the Andaman Islands.

01:30:46.315 --> 01:30:48.316
Blair Island, sir.

01:30:49.277 --> 01:30:54.156
Hopetown...
Never was a place worse named.

01:31:08.671 --> 01:31:10.672
It was a place to sweat.

01:31:11.340 --> 01:31:15.510
A place to rot. A place to die.

01:31:16.679 --> 01:31:19.598
And I sweated there year
after year,

01:31:20.266 --> 01:31:22.767
until your father arrived,
Miss. Morstan.

01:31:24.270 --> 01:31:25.687
Corporal.

01:31:26.606 --> 01:31:29.524
You will not maltreat
the white prisoner.

01:31:30.401 --> 01:31:32.527
If it happens again,
you'll be court marshaled.

01:31:37.575 --> 01:31:40.368
He was our administrative
officer and he gave me a nice-

01:31:40.536 --> 01:31:42.662
cushy villa in the dispensary.

01:31:43.873 --> 01:31:47.834
He was as good and kind a Christian
gentleman as I ever come across.

01:31:49.086 --> 01:31:50.879
And I hold no grudge against him,

01:31:53.257 --> 01:31:54.382
or you, Miss.

01:32:06.270 --> 01:32:08.855
Thank you, Mr. Small.

01:32:19.450 --> 01:32:22.410
Well, as I sat thinking
about the treasure,

01:32:22.578 --> 01:32:26.081
I could see all the officers
and the prison officials at their,

01:32:26.457 --> 01:32:28.917
their drinking and their gambling.

01:32:30.419 --> 01:32:32.921
Major Sholto never had much luck.

01:32:33.673 --> 01:32:35.924
Night after night, he was the loser.

01:32:38.135 --> 01:32:40.262
Some people are born like that.

01:32:40.721 --> 01:32:44.099
It's all over for me,
Morstan. I'm ruined.

01:32:44.934 --> 01:32:47.269
I shall have to send in my paper.

01:32:48.938 --> 01:32:52.899
I don't suppose you could manage
another couple of hundred, hey?

01:32:53.025 --> 01:32:55.944
I had a pretty nasty facer myself.

01:32:56.779 --> 01:32:58.947
And I've got a daughter
back home to support.

01:32:59.115 --> 01:33:03.410
Well, I've got two wretched sons.

01:33:04.120 --> 01:33:07.122
Ruined hey, damn pity.

01:33:08.040 --> 01:33:13.295
So, you decided to approach your
benefactor, Captain Morstan?

01:33:14.297 --> 01:33:18.466
He was often in the dispensary. The
tropical climate didn't agree with him.

01:33:19.468 --> 01:33:22.137
His heart was weak and
his blood was all poisoned.

01:33:22.805 --> 01:33:25.807
Knowing that he would wish to share
any arrangement with his friend,

01:33:25.975 --> 01:33:28.059
the officer in command, Major Sholto?

01:33:28.394 --> 01:33:30.478
Yes sir, it seemed the safest way.

01:33:31.147 --> 01:33:32.981
And it is in your own
private concern over which,

01:33:33.149 --> 01:33:36.901
of course, you have the power
of disposing as you think best.

01:33:40.698 --> 01:33:43.617
Thank you for that advice,
sir. Thank you indeed.

01:33:44.619 --> 01:33:49.331
But the fact is being in the
position I am, I need help.

01:33:50.833 --> 01:33:52.334
What sort of help?

01:33:53.711 --> 01:33:55.337
I need a partner.

01:33:57.173 --> 01:34:02.093
Well, I'm sure Major Sholto and myself
would like to help you, if we could.

01:34:02.303 --> 01:34:04.346
We could at least talk about,

01:34:05.056 --> 01:34:08.016
that is of course if we
can agree as to terms.

01:34:10.144 --> 01:34:12.979
There's only one bargain,
a man in my position can make.

01:34:14.774 --> 01:34:18.193
In exchange for my freedom
and that of my three companions,

01:34:18.778 --> 01:34:21.696
we shall give you a fifth
share to divide between you.

01:34:22.281 --> 01:34:25.533
A fifth? That isn't very much.

01:34:25.868 --> 01:34:28.203
50 thousand at the least.

01:34:29.372 --> 01:34:32.999
Anyway how can we possibly give you
your freedom? You know it's impossible.

01:34:33.292 --> 01:34:35.710
All we need is a boat and provisions.

01:34:36.712 --> 01:34:40.715
There are plenty little yachts
and yawls in Calcutta or Madras,

01:34:42.009 --> 01:34:43.802
well enough to serve our purpose.

01:34:45.012 --> 01:34:46.471
If only there were just one of you.

01:34:46.639 --> 01:34:47.555
None.

01:34:48.099 --> 01:34:49.724
None or all.

01:34:50.434 --> 01:34:54.479
We have sworn it. The four of us
must always act together.

01:34:57.900 --> 01:34:59.901
Calm yourself, Sholto.
Calm yourself.

01:35:00.111 --> 01:35:03.321
Calm yourself. Think about
it man, think about it.

01:35:04.073 --> 01:35:09.661
Small is a man of his word,
he will not abandon his friends.

01:35:10.246 --> 01:35:13.915
I think, I think
we may very well trust him.

01:35:18.254 --> 01:35:20.839
We met the next morning
in the small hours.

01:35:21.090 --> 01:35:24.259
I had our written
agreement in every detail.

01:35:26.137 --> 01:35:34.269
We being officers in the Army
of her majesty Queen Victoria.

01:35:34.437 --> 01:35:36.438
Do swear on the Holy Bible

01:35:36.605 --> 01:35:40.734
that this agreement will always
remain sacred and binding to us.

01:35:40.860 --> 01:35:42.694
Do swear on the Holy Bible

01:35:42.820 --> 01:35:47.240
that this agreement will always
remain sacred and binding to us.

01:35:47.825 --> 01:35:50.952
I gave each of them a plan showing
the position of the treasure.

01:35:54.331 --> 01:35:56.124
Well, look at that.

01:35:59.253 --> 01:36:01.129
Oh, that brings back memories.

01:36:03.132 --> 01:36:06.760
Sholto took the next boat
to India, found the treasure,

01:36:07.219 --> 01:36:08.636
and took it back with him to England?

01:36:08.804 --> 01:36:09.804
Yes.

01:36:10.556 --> 01:36:15.059
When we heard the news, Captain
Morstan was as angry as I was.

01:36:15.686 --> 01:36:19.105
He swore to me, he would go home
and settle the matter with Sholto.

01:36:30.201 --> 01:36:32.744
And so he would if he lived.

01:36:34.163 --> 01:36:35.663
But that was not to be.

01:36:45.007 --> 01:36:49.010
From that day, I lived only
for vengeance.

01:36:52.598 --> 01:36:54.182
I thought of it by day,

01:36:56.685 --> 01:37:00.855
I nursed it by night,
to get to Sholto.

01:37:01.816 --> 01:37:06.110
Put my hands on his throat,
that was my one thought.

01:37:07.446 --> 01:37:08.863
As luck would have it,

01:37:09.365 --> 01:37:12.033
one of the islanders had been
brought in to my dispensary.

01:37:12.409 --> 01:37:14.452
More than half dead
from a snakebite.

01:37:15.162 --> 01:37:17.872
And in common humanity,
I did my best for him.

01:37:18.833 --> 01:37:23.211
Somehow he pulled through
and became very devoted to me.

01:37:25.840 --> 01:37:27.215
A funny little fellow.

01:37:29.260 --> 01:37:34.389
Well, you gentlemen caught a glimpse
of him yourselves, no doubt, last night.

01:37:35.683 --> 01:37:38.852
He was staunch and true, little Tonga.

01:37:39.854 --> 01:37:42.730
No man ever had more faithful mate.

01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:49.737
Being by trade a fisherman,
he had a goodish size native boat,

01:37:49.905 --> 01:37:52.323
and he had agreed to
try to escape with me.

01:39:04.939 --> 01:39:07.774
After 10 days we were
picked up by a trader,

01:39:07.900 --> 01:39:11.110
with a cargo pilgrims
from Malay, bound for Gito.

01:39:12.154 --> 01:39:17.951
After many months, we worked our
way across the world to London.

01:39:22.373 --> 01:39:24.165
A remarkable account.

01:39:26.251 --> 01:39:32.340
And now, I think Miss Morstan might
like to see the Great Agra Treasure,

01:39:32.883 --> 01:39:35.969
which will surely make her one of
the richest young ladies in England.

01:39:36.178 --> 01:39:36.844
Watson?

01:39:37.012 --> 01:39:38.012
There's no key.

01:39:38.472 --> 01:39:40.640
I'm sure our iron poker will oblige.

01:40:16.969 --> 01:40:18.970
This is your doing, Small?

01:40:19.179 --> 01:40:20.054
Yes.

01:40:20.681 --> 01:40:24.684
Yes, I put the treasure away where
you shall never lay a hand on it.

01:40:25.894 --> 01:40:28.396
No living man or woman
has any right to it,

01:40:28.564 --> 01:40:32.233
unless it is the three men in the
Andaman Convict Barracks and myself.

01:40:34.319 --> 01:40:38.573
I know now that I cannot have
the use of it, no more can they.

01:40:39.658 --> 01:40:43.036
But I have acted all along
for them as much as for myself.

01:40:44.163 --> 01:40:46.414
To be in the sign of four
with us always.

01:40:48.375 --> 01:40:49.542
Where is it?

01:40:50.586 --> 01:40:54.756
Where the key is and
where little Tonga is.

01:40:56.759 --> 01:41:01.262
I saw your launch must catch us and
I saw little Tonga go over the side.

01:41:04.391 --> 01:41:06.726
I put the loot in a safe place.

01:41:07.102 --> 01:41:09.395
You are deceiving us, Small.

01:41:09.605 --> 01:41:12.356
If you had wished to throw
the treasure into the Thames,

01:41:12.649 --> 01:41:15.443
it would have been easier
to have thrown box and all.

01:41:15.569 --> 01:41:18.446
Easier for me to throw and
easier for you to recover.

01:41:20.449 --> 01:41:22.617
A man who's clever
enough to hunt me down,

01:41:22.743 --> 01:41:25.953
as clever enough to go pick up a
a box from the bottom of the river.

01:41:31.001 --> 01:41:31.959
I am sorry.

01:41:32.169 --> 01:41:34.128
No, I am glad the treasure is lost.

01:41:36.381 --> 01:41:40.093
It's been nothing but a curse
to every man who has owned it.

01:41:41.637 --> 01:41:43.971
And early death to my poor farther.

01:41:45.099 --> 01:41:47.975
And slavery for life
to me and my companions.

01:41:49.394 --> 01:41:53.648
We spent the first half of my life
digging a breakwater in the Andaman's.

01:41:55.400 --> 01:41:59.445
And I'm likely to spend the other
half digging ditches on Dartmoor.

01:42:02.741 --> 01:42:07.912
Well Holmes, duty is duty and I've
gone rather far in bringing him here.

01:42:08.497 --> 01:42:12.500
I shall feel more at ease
when I have our storyteller here

01:42:12.668 --> 01:42:14.001
under lock and key.

01:42:14.378 --> 01:42:18.005
I am obliged to you
for your assistance.

01:42:19.591 --> 01:42:22.593
Good day to you, Doctor
Watson. Miss Morstan.

01:42:28.016 --> 01:42:30.768
Awe, after you, Small.

01:42:31.478 --> 01:42:34.355
You seem a bit handy with
that wooden leg of yours.

01:43:22.029 --> 01:43:26.532
I feel most ashamed that you Mr.
Holmes and you, dear Doctor Watson,

01:43:27.159 --> 01:43:29.911
I have had to put yourself
into such peril on my behalf.

01:43:30.037 --> 01:43:31.913
Oh, that's all over and forgotten.

01:43:32.331 --> 01:43:35.249
Mrs. Forrester has sent her
carriage for Miss Morstan.

01:43:37.085 --> 01:43:40.171
I'll impose on you no longer,
gentlemen. You must be exhausted.

01:43:40.297 --> 01:43:42.256
Yes, I confess the reaction
is already upon me.

01:43:42.382 --> 01:43:44.759
I shall be as limp as a rag
for a week.

01:43:45.260 --> 01:43:48.596
I'm so very grateful to you
for clearing my father's name.

01:43:51.266 --> 01:43:53.517
I'm so very grateful to you both.

01:44:17.084 --> 01:44:18.459
Seems so unfair.

01:44:20.754 --> 01:44:22.630
You have done all the
work in this business,

01:44:22.965 --> 01:44:25.258
and Athelney Jones
gets all the credit...

01:44:29.137 --> 01:44:30.304
What remains for you?

01:44:32.474 --> 01:44:34.892
For me, the pleasure of having
solved an interesting case

01:44:35.018 --> 01:44:36.477
almost single-handed.

01:44:38.272 --> 01:44:40.231
And for you no doubt
the pleasure-

01:44:41.483 --> 01:44:47.780
of writing it up in your usual
flowery and romantic style.

01:45:26.528 --> 01:45:28.863
What a very attractive woman.