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Oh.

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Oh, my dear.

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My dearest.

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I warned you, I said
do not go to near the edge.

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Why did you push me Baron?

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Dear wife, you're dreaming.

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No.

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Dying.

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Oh, my darling.

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Anything stirring Holmes?

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I know no more than this.

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There may be some fatty
self-important fool,

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it may be a matter
of life or death.

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Mmm, you grant this interview?

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I've already confirmed it.

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Do you know
anything of the man?

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Only that the name
Colonel Sir James Damery

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is a household word in society.

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I can tell you a little
bit more than that.

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He has rather the reputation

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for arranging delicate matters
which are to be kept out of the papers.

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He's a man of the world with
a natural turn for diplomacy.

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And then, therefore to hope

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it is not a false scent,

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that he has some real
need of our assistance.

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Our?

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If you'll be so good Watson.

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I shall be honored.

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Then until four-thirty o'clock

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we can put the
matter out of our heads.

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Mr. Holmes, we are
dealing on this occasion

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with the most
dangerous man in Europe.

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I've had several opponents to whom
that flattering term has been applied.

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A man to whom violence is familiar
and who will literally stick at nothing.

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Don't you smoke?

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Excuse my pipe.

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But if your man is more dangerous
than the late Professor Moriarty,

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he's indeed worth meeting.
May I ask his name?

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Have you ever
heard of Baron Gruner?

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The Austrian murderer?

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So you've already sized
him up as a murderer?

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It is our business to follow
the details of Continental crime.

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I'm sure that he killed his wife

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when that so called
accident happened

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at the Splugen Pass as
if I'd seen him do it.

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Just as I am certain that he
disposed the only witness,

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that innocent shepherd boy.

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Baron Gruner is now in England.

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Residing near Kingston I'm informed?

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That is so.

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Might I also suppose you will have
heard of General Merville?

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Kyber Pass fame.

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Indeed.

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General Merville has a daughter,
Violet.

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Young, rich, accomplished,
a wonder woman in every way.

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It is she an innocent,

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we are endeavoring to save
from the clutches of this fiend.

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He has some hold over her?

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The strongest of all where women
are concerned, Mr. Holmes.

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Ah, love.

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Exactly.

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In marrying you, my darling
all my past sins shall be absolved.

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These aren't sins you've told me of.
These are slanders.

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My angel.

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You were seduced,
as are all great men.

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Yet I am determined you shall know
my history, every part of it.

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Thus shall I come to the altar
purified in soul and spirit

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and worthy at last of your love?

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Just six weeks. Oh Adelbert.

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I cannot pretend my
past is without stain.

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No man born in poverty
who has created his own fortune

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can say that and speak
the truth, oh, no.

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I have been forced to many
a ruthless act, my dear.

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Where shall I begin?

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To observe, Mr. Holmes,
an atrocious event,

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preparing itself before your very
eyes and yet be powerless to avert it.

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Could anyone, any human being
be placed in a more trying position?

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Perhaps not.

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Well then you will sympathize with the
client in whose interest I am acting.

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I did not understand that
you were merely an intermediary,

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who is the principal?

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I beg of you not to
press that question.

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His name cannot be
dragged into this matter.

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His motives are to the
last degree honorable

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but he prefers to remain unknown.

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I need not say that your fees
will be assured, Mr. Holmes.

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And you will be
allowed a free hand.

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Surely the actual name of
your client is immaterial.

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I must decline to act,
Sir James, I'm sorry.

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I'm accustomed to having mystery
at one end of my cases

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but to have it at both
ends is too confusing. No.

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You place me in the
most serious dilemma.

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Dare I say, Mr. Holmes, you hardly
realize the affect of your own action.

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I have given my word not to reveal
the identity of my client.

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May I at the least lay
all I can before you?

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It is understood.
I commit myself to nothing.

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But of course, yes, yes.

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A perfect likeness.

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Who painted it?

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Hans of Innsbruck,

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a descendant of Claus the sculptor,
famous for his bronzes

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such as this.

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I shall commission Hans to attempt
your likeness, my precious.

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I love this room. It breathes of you.

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What's this?

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Your diary?

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No, no, it is,
it is my commonplace book.

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In it I record things I've seen,
read, admired, occasionally perhaps,

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a thought or two of my own.

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But it's locked.

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It is a little part of me,
besides a servant might pry.

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One day, perhaps,

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we shall look at it together.

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No, I respect your
privacy, my darling.

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We must all keep
something of our own,

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however much else we share.

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You are perfect.

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You must teach me about
porcelain, Adelbert.

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I shall.

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Collecting is such a pleasure
such a delight,

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it is a passion with me
just as you are, my precious.

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The villain has attached
himself to a lady

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with such effect that he has completely
and absolutely won her heart.

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She will not hear
one word against him.

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To sum up, she proposes
to marry him next month.

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As she of age and has a will of iron
that's hard to know how to prevent her.

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Does the infatuated young woman
know of the Swiss episode?

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The cunning devil has told her
every unsavory scandal of his past life

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but always in such a way as to make
himself out to be the innocent martyr.

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She accepts his version
and will listen to no one,

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not even her fathers.

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Dear me, Sir James,
have you not-

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inadvertently let out
the name of your client?

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The General?
Oh no, Dr. Watson,

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that strong soldier has been utterly
demoralized by this incident.

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Mrs. Hudson.

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You rang, sir?

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Will you deliver this to the
butcher's boy around the corner?

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That young rascal
with the funny eye?

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The other is invaluable
so is his bicycle.

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Sir.

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How may I keep in touch
with you, Sir James?

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You accept my commission?

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Let us just say that
your problem interests me.

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The Carlton Club will find me.

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And the Baron's exact
address in Kingston?

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Vernon Lodge, the large house,
he's a rich man.

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Speculators when successful
frequently are, Sir James.

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What further information
can you give us about the man?

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He has expensive tastes.
Collects books, pictures.

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Oh, and Chinese pottery.

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He's a recognized authority,
written a book upon the subject.

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Well, Sir James, you
may tell your client

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that I'm turning my attention
towards Baron Gruner.

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I have no doubt, Mr. Holmes,
you can easily trace my client.

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But I must ask you
as a point of honor

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to refrain from doing so.

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Do not, I beg you, break
in upon his incognito.

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I think I can safely promise that.

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Thank you.

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Dr. Watson.

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You're wasting your time, Watson.

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Now the career of General Merville

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might well give us a pointer as to
our client. He's clearly illustrious.

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But did you not hear, Sir James?

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His request was to you, Holmes.

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But that is shameful,
Watson, shameful

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besides our minds should be more
gainfully employed, desist.

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Any views?

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Have you none?

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Not yet.

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Beyond the one I've
already acted upon.

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The butcher's boy.

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More discreet than any telegraph.

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Well, I shall think you better see
the young lady yourself.

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Start with her.

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Well, if her poor broken down
father cannot move her,

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how can I, a complete
stranger prevail?

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Well, if all else fails.

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Perhaps.

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But first, the underworld.

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For it is among the
dark roots of crime

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that we must hunt
for Gruner's secrets.

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You've sent for Shinwell Johnson.

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I have but one insight,

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that Miss Merville might
well condone murder

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yet some smaller affair
that might...

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We shall see.

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They have engaged the very best.

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Show him in.

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, sir.

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I rather thought I should see you
sooner or later, Mr. Holmes.

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You've been retained no
doubt by General Merville

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to prevent my marriage
with his daughter, Violet?

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That is so, is it not?

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Let me advise you very strongly,
Mr. Holmes, to draw off at once.

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Draw off?

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My dear man, you'll only ruin
your well-deserved reputation.

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This is not a case in which

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you can possibly hope
to succeed, draw off sir.

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It is curious but that is the very
advice that I've come to give you.

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Let me put it to you man to man.

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If you persist in this marriage,

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you will raise such a
swarm of powerful enemies,

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England would be
too hot to hold you.

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Surely you will be
wiser to draw off.

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Excuse my amusement, Mr. Holmes,
but it really is very funny

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seeing you trying to play a hand
with no cards in it

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Not a color card there, sir, nothing
but the smallest of the small.

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So you think.

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So I know, sir, so I know.
Let me make the thing clear to you.

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You consider your hand so strong
that you could afford to show it?

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Certainly, since it becomes
plain that in this instance

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you are clearly out of
your depth, Mr. Holmes.

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Could it be that your capabilities
have been subject to hyperbole?

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Your hand, show it.

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Won't you sit down?

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I think I shan't.

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Please yourself.

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Well, sir,

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it happens I have
been fortunate enough

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to win the entire
affection of Miss Merville.

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This in spite of the fact that
I have informed her clearly

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of all the unhappy
incidents in my past.

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I have warned her that certain
designing persons would come to her.

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I hope you recognize
yourself in this

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and would tell her of these things.

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I have instructed her
how to treat them.

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She is well prepared for you.

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She will no doubt
give you an appointment

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and she will listen.

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It will be to no avail, however.

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If you wish to speak,
now is your moment.

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No.

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This is not the moment.

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Oh, by the way, Mr. Holmes,

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did you know the
French Agent Labrun?

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Of course.

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So you know what befell him?

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He was beaten in the Lament
District of Paris and crippled for life.

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Quite so.

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By an odd coincidence, he had
been inquiring into my affairs.

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Don't do it, Mr. Holmes,
it's not a lucky thing.

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My last word to you
is you go your way,

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let me go mine.

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Mind you Gruner,

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because if you aspire to be
accepted into English Society

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you'll do well to remove the band
from your Havana before lighting it

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otherwise you'll be
put down for a bounder.

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Mrs. Hudson,
has Holmes returned?

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Not yet, sir, but there
are two visitors waiting.

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Thank you, Mrs. Hudson.

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Why Johnson.

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Evening, Doctor,
Mr. Holmes sent word to me.

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I know, Johnson, I know.

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And I brought Kit here...

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Mrs. Hudson, that's when
I was delayed at the museum

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and then the traffic,

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an omnibus overturned
on Great Russell Street,

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two dead a horse had to be
put down. Gentlemen forgive me,

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I was absorbed by the mysteries of me,
I quite forgotten the hour, madam.

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This is Miss Winter, Mr. Holmes,

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Kitty we call her and what she
don't know about Gruner.

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Of course, please.

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Well, Kitty can speak for herself.

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Anyway I put me hand right on her
within an hour of your message, sir.

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I'm easy to find.
Hell, London gets me every time,

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same address goes for Porky.

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Porky, is that your
nom-de-guerre Johnson?

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You have never revealed that.
Porky, well.

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We're old mates, Porky and me.

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But there's someone who ought to
be down in a lower hell than us

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and that's the man
you're after, Mr. Holmes.

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I gather we have your
good wishes, Miss Winter?

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If I can help put
him where he belongs,

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I'm yours to the rattle, sir.

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Do you know what he intends,
how the matter stands?

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Porky tells me he's after
some other poor fool

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only this time he wants to marry her
and you want to stop it?

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Yes.

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Surely you know enough
about this devil

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to prevent any decent girl
in her senses

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wanting to have
anything to do with him.

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But she's not in her
senses, Miss Winter,

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she's madly in love and
she has been told all about it.

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She cares for nothing.

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Told about the murder of his wife?

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Yes.

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My lord, she must have a nerve.

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She has.

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Can't you lay proofs before her?

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Can you help us do so?

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I am proof.

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Living proof.

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If I was to stand before her
and tell her how he used me.

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Would you do this?

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Would I, would I not.

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It might be worth the trying.

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Oh he didn't tell her all, sir.

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All?

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He collected me,

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he collects women.

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I was an artist's model
a respectable artist's model.

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Of course, you sat for
that painting in his study.

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You've been to Kingston

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then you'll have seen all his crocks.

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Women and china,
they're his twin passions.

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Gruner commissioned that
painting, and afterwards...

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and after...

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well, let's just say
I can never work again.

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Never.

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I am exceedingly obliged
to you, Miss Winter,

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we shall indeed interview you
and Miss Merville together.

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My client will compensate
you most liberally.

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Oh, none of that, Mr. Holmes.
I'm not out for money.

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Just let me see
this man in the mud,

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in the mud with my foot in his face,
that's my price.

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From Kingston.
Thank you, Mrs. Hudson, no reply.

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Shall we dine?

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This is a death threat, Holmes.

22:24.051 --> 22:26.635
Did you expect anything less
from Baron Gruner?

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Holmes, have a care.

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Oh, Watson, come along.
We must eat.

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Come on girl.

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They ain't following no more.

23:43.463 --> 23:44.880
Don't you believe it.

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Yeah, what'd I say?

23:52.806 --> 23:55.850
Now you stand over there, Kitty,
there's a good girl.

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Right, who's first, you or you?

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Amateurs, they've done no time,
don't know nothing come on girl.

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There's two persons
wish to see you sir.

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Persons?

26:55.113 --> 26:58.324
I couldn't in honesty
term them gentlemen, sir.

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I'll come.

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Was he armed?

27:22.307 --> 27:22.848
No, sir,

27:25.518 --> 27:30.064
Go through to the kitchens, clean
yourselves up and clear out.

27:55.340 --> 27:58.175
I have agreed to this visit out of
respect for my father, Mr. Holmes,

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rather than for you.

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My fiancé assures me you are
no longer what you were,

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a spent force.

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And you, Miss Winter,

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surely you must
also be superfluous.

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Our intentions are the best.

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We are here to aid you.

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Really?

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When you call to malign my fiancé?

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I am not renowned Miss Merville,
for the warmth of my affections

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but I can appreciate them in others.

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Had I a daughter,

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I should I hope feel for you
as the General does,

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nor is our concern
without foundation.

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There, the slander begins.

28:41.261 --> 28:44.513
No, I do not readily call upon
anyone to beg or to plead

28:45.223 --> 28:47.599
but in Baron Gruner, please,
I never speak idly.

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You've chosen not only
unwisely but dangerously.

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Marry him, Miss Merville,
and I assure you

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with all the knowledge I have
of the criminal mentality,

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you will be in mortal danger,

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just as the former baroness was,
she too was infatuated

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and paid the fatal price,
her life for a fortune.

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That's a lie.

29:18.923 --> 29:22.134
You are of course aware
that the Splugen Pass

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where your predecessor died runs
between Italy and Switzerland?

29:28.141 --> 29:29.516
What does the geography matter?

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A great deal.

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When you plan to hurl
a helpless woman

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off a cliff in one country
to break her neck in another.

29:37.275 --> 29:38.442
But it was an accident.

29:39.194 --> 29:40.569
Then why did the shepherd boy

29:40.820 --> 29:44.323
who saw the baroness fall
die of arsenical poison?

29:45.825 --> 29:50.329
His murderess whom Gruner had
seduced confessed at her trial

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that he'd obliged her
to administer the fatal substance

29:53.750 --> 29:57.503
or risk disfigurement for life
by oil of vitriol.

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Those are the facts,
Miss Merville, I beg you,

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picture the awful situation
you will find yourself in,

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if you only wake to your
fiancé's true character

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after you have married him.

30:23.321 --> 30:25.322
I have listened to you
with patience, Mr. Holmes.

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I am aware my fiancé
has had a stormy life

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in which he has incurred
most unjust aspersions.

30:35.834 --> 30:37.042
Possibly you mean well

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though I learn you are a paid agent.

30:42.423 --> 30:46.510
But in any case I love Baron Gruner
and he loves me.

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You have told me this
young lady's name

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and that there is a
reason for her presence.

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I'll say there is.

30:56.312 --> 30:58.063
And what exactly are you,
Miss Winter?

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Me, I'll tell you.
I'll tell you what I am.

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I was his mistress that's who,
one of a hundred more.

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He's tempted, he used,
ruined and thrown aside,

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as he will you too.

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Please.

31:15.081 --> 31:17.291
You marry this man it'll
be the death of you.

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It may be a broken heart or
a broken neck but he'll have you.

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Oh really.

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You may think yourself different.

31:23.423 --> 31:25.632
Thank you, Kitty, you've made
yourself admirably clear.

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I'm aware of three occasions
in my fiancé's life

31:29.721 --> 31:32.180
when he has become entangled
with designing women.

31:33.433 --> 31:35.809
And I'm assured by him
of his hearty repentance.

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Him? Repent?
And only three?

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Oh, you fool, you stupid fool.

31:45.194 --> 31:46.028
Mr. Holmes,

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I have obeyed my father's wish
in seeing you

31:49.616 --> 31:52.701
but I'm not compelled to listen
to the slanderous ravings...

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Ravings?

31:55.371 --> 31:56.288
Ravings!

31:58.958 --> 31:59.958
Oh my god,

32:01.794 --> 32:02.794
I'll show you.

32:11.804 --> 32:15.307
Look.

32:18.811 --> 32:19.645
You see that?

32:21.981 --> 32:25.651
And here, oil of vitriol.

32:27.320 --> 32:28.028
He did it.

32:29.155 --> 32:34.034
Oh, yes, he did it, your fiancé.

32:34.911 --> 32:38.038
That's a lie. It's a lie.

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Thank you, Kitty.

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You can tell the Baron that I shall
not rest until I bring him to justice.

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Miss Winter.

33:16.577 --> 33:18.078
Why Kitty, why?

33:18.830 --> 33:19.663
No please.

33:19.789 --> 33:21.248
Why did Gruner treat you so?

33:22.542 --> 33:25.794
Because...
no, I can't tell you, Mr. Holmes.

33:25.920 --> 33:27.170
You must at this instant.

33:27.505 --> 33:29.840
You said that he collects women,
what did you mean by that?

33:32.385 --> 33:33.802
It's a book he has.

33:34.595 --> 33:35.303
A book?

33:36.431 --> 33:41.309
Brown leather with a lock and
his coat of arms in gold on it.

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No, I can't speak of it.

33:44.022 --> 33:45.689
He keeps a record of his women?

33:47.442 --> 33:48.567
We're all in there.

33:49.694 --> 33:55.407
Photographs, names, details,
everything about us.

33:56.451 --> 33:58.285
He tried to make me
read it while he-

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oh, no, I can't.

34:00.663 --> 34:01.621
And when you refused?

34:02.707 --> 34:05.709
He went berserk.
He ran out of the room.

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I was trying to dress,
he come back in with this bottle.

34:11.049 --> 34:15.260
I was half-naked,
and he threw it straight at me.

34:18.431 --> 34:19.431
Where is this book?

34:19.766 --> 34:20.432
I don't know.

34:20.600 --> 34:21.099
Think.

34:21.267 --> 34:22.434
No, no.

34:22.560 --> 34:23.602
In the study in the bedroom?

34:23.770 --> 34:25.562
It's more than a year
since I was there.

34:25.688 --> 34:27.439
Than you can remember Kitty think.

34:27.565 --> 34:28.857
In the study,

34:32.361 --> 34:33.737
back of the bureau.

34:35.031 --> 34:36.031
Thank you, Kitty, thank you.

34:39.786 --> 34:42.287
Miss Winter's scars could
not move Miss Merville?

34:42.622 --> 34:45.123
She was shocked but
recovered instantly.

34:45.291 --> 34:48.293
Good heavens, it seems inhuman.

34:48.920 --> 34:51.588
I confess that part of me
could wish her joy with Gruner.

34:52.340 --> 34:54.925
Abandon her to her
fate after all this?

34:55.051 --> 34:56.843
When I compare
Miss Merville with Kitty

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whose spirit is as fine
as her body is blemished, yes.

35:00.223 --> 35:01.807
You wouldn't
withdraw from the case?

35:01.974 --> 35:03.100
Have no fear, Watson,

35:04.477 --> 35:06.645
My disgust with Miss Merville
counts as nothing against

35:06.813 --> 35:10.482
my determination to foil Gruner,
but one thing irks me,

35:11.609 --> 35:13.235
that I've not paid more regard

35:13.653 --> 35:15.821
to Kitty's deportment
when we first met,

35:15.988 --> 35:17.697
the manner in which
she dressed her hair.

35:18.199 --> 35:20.158
Huh, it's late.

35:22.912 --> 35:23.703
We must be gone.

35:27.583 --> 35:28.834
I've got a mountain of work to do

35:28.960 --> 35:31.211
at the surgery Holmes
so I'll see you in the morning.

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Until tomorrow then.

35:47.687 --> 35:49.563
All right, Sherlock Holmes,
let's be having you.

35:49.689 --> 35:52.399
Ah and I can guess to
whom I owe this pleasure.

36:33.983 --> 36:35.275
Read all about it.

36:35.985 --> 36:42.407
Murderous attack
on Sherlock Holmes.

36:44.243 --> 36:45.535
Read all about it.

36:46.370 --> 36:48.205
Murderous attack
on Sherlock Holmes.

36:48.664 --> 36:52.417
Read all about it.
Read all about it.

36:53.252 --> 36:55.128
Murderous attack
on Sherlock Holmes.

37:14.398 --> 37:18.068
It's all right, Watson,
don't look so scared.

37:19.612 --> 37:20.570
You mustn't talk.

37:21.197 --> 37:24.115
Nonsense, I need to.

37:27.286 --> 37:28.328
What can I do, Holmes?

37:30.748 --> 37:32.457
Of course it was
that damned Austrian.

37:35.419 --> 37:37.587
Give me the word and I'm go
and thrash the hide off him.

37:38.381 --> 37:41.841
Good old Watson,
no, no, no, no.

37:43.719 --> 37:46.346
Was it the same pair that attacked
Johnson and Miss Winter?

37:47.807 --> 37:51.309
One may have been,
the other I doubt it.

37:53.062 --> 37:54.771
But...

37:56.524 --> 37:58.483
We must send a note to Johnson.

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Tell him to find a quiet suburb
for Kitty,

38:03.072 --> 38:06.074
She should stay there
until the danger has passed.

38:08.035 --> 38:08.868
And then,

38:11.664 --> 38:14.374
then we must exaggerate
my injuries.

38:15.084 --> 38:16.293
There's no need for that.

38:16.669 --> 38:19.671
Even so we must lay it
on thick for the press.

38:20.631 --> 38:22.340
I might not live the week out,

38:22.717 --> 38:25.176
concussion, delirium,
I don't care what would you like?

38:28.014 --> 38:30.223
They must receive
the gravest bulletins.

38:31.350 --> 38:32.267
Anything more?

38:33.227 --> 38:34.019
Yes.

38:35.938 --> 38:39.149
Put my pipe on the table
and the tobacco slip.

38:40.901 --> 38:43.611
You must rest not smoke.

38:45.740 --> 38:49.492
Very well, Doctor.

39:08.387 --> 39:12.057
Oh my dearest, every day
you become more precious to me.

39:17.563 --> 39:18.229
What is it?

39:19.774 --> 39:20.482
It's just that...

39:22.401 --> 39:24.069
must you really go to America?

39:25.279 --> 39:26.863
Oh, my darling,

39:28.199 --> 39:31.868
it's only a short trip, I have
important financial business,

39:31.994 --> 39:34.412
certain interests to
regulate in Chicago

39:34.580 --> 39:37.916
but I shall be back so soon,
in the twinkle of an eye.

39:38.292 --> 39:40.251
The late editions, sir.

39:41.253 --> 39:41.836
Thank you.

39:42.838 --> 39:44.005
Have you seen the papers?

39:44.757 --> 39:48.259
That poor man Holmes,
he sinks daily.

39:50.262 --> 39:51.513
I'm afraid you cannot expect me

39:51.639 --> 39:54.641
to have very much sympathy with
Mr. Holmes and his misfortune.

39:55.726 --> 39:58.269
Mmm, encephalitis has set in.

40:03.192 --> 40:04.275
Have you seen the news?

40:04.402 --> 40:04.943
No.

40:05.111 --> 40:08.196
Gruner sails for America
on the Ruratania on Friday.

40:09.115 --> 40:10.615
News hits hard.

40:11.283 --> 40:14.411
Friday, that means he sails from
Liverpool not from Southampton.

40:15.538 --> 40:18.998
That little rascal means
to get away from us, but he won't,

40:20.000 --> 40:21.626
By the Lord Harry he won't.

40:23.963 --> 40:27.549
Watson, I need you to
do something for me.

40:27.675 --> 40:28.842
I'm here to be used.

40:30.302 --> 40:31.970
Then spend the next 24 hours

40:32.138 --> 40:34.639
in an intensive study
of Chinese pottery.

41:12.052 --> 41:17.974
Hung Wu, 1368-1390, 1368-1390...

42:19.453 --> 42:20.787
He's sleeping now, sir.

42:20.913 --> 42:22.080
That would be the morphine.

42:23.582 --> 42:25.416
You won't let the
lamp smoke, will you?

42:26.335 --> 42:29.003
No, no, no, you locked up below?

42:30.047 --> 42:33.049
I did that a while back,
there's murderous folk about.

42:33.342 --> 42:35.593
True, true.

42:36.595 --> 42:38.263
Don't drive yourself too hard, sir,

42:38.430 --> 42:40.557
you'll be good for
nothing in the morning.

42:40.683 --> 42:41.766
No, I shan't be long.

42:47.106 --> 42:51.693
Dr. Hill Barton, 369 Half Moon
Street Mayfair West, who's this?

42:52.111 --> 42:52.694
You.

42:53.946 --> 42:54.529
Me?

42:55.114 --> 42:57.115
That is your name this
evening, Dr. Hill Barton.

42:58.409 --> 42:58.950
It is?

42:59.118 --> 43:02.745
Yes, and you'll call upon Baron
Gruner about half past eight,

43:03.581 --> 43:04.789
He'll be disengaged.

43:05.791 --> 43:07.584
I sent a note telling
him that you'll call.

43:09.670 --> 43:13.590
Also, that you're bringing this.

43:15.634 --> 43:19.512
It is the real eggshell
of the Ming Dynasty.

43:21.181 --> 43:23.600
The complete set would
be worth a king's ransom.

43:24.143 --> 43:27.312
You are a collector.
The set has come your way.

43:28.606 --> 43:32.442
You've heard of the Baron's interest
and an investor is selling at a price.

43:33.819 --> 43:34.360
What price?

43:34.486 --> 43:37.488
We will not exaggerate if you say
it would hardly matched in the world.

43:38.157 --> 43:39.616
Sir James got it for me.

43:39.908 --> 43:41.993
It comes from a
collection of his client.

43:42.578 --> 43:45.330
Or I could say that
it should be valued by an expert.

43:45.497 --> 43:48.166
Oh, Watson, you scintillate today.

43:48.751 --> 43:50.168
I suggest Sotheby's or Christie.

43:51.253 --> 43:52.545
You're certain he'll see me?

43:52.838 --> 43:56.507
Oh, yes, it's the collection mania
in its most acute form.

43:58.552 --> 43:59.510
One last question, Holmes.

44:01.263 --> 44:03.056
Why have you made me
a broker in antiques?

44:04.016 --> 44:05.016
To gain time,

44:07.311 --> 44:10.188
the opportunity to acquire
the set such as this

44:10.814 --> 44:12.523
may persuade the Baron

44:13.150 --> 44:15.693
to postpone his visit
to the United States.

44:16.195 --> 44:17.278
Now I understand.

44:17.905 --> 44:19.364
Elementary psychology, Watson?

44:36.882 --> 44:38.216
Kingston please driver.

45:15.921 --> 45:16.754
Very fine.

45:23.303 --> 45:26.931
Very fine indeed.

45:32.604 --> 45:36.899
And you say you have
a set to correspond?

45:43.282 --> 45:47.702
I know of only one in
England to match it.

45:51.790 --> 45:55.793
Would it be indiscreet of me

45:55.961 --> 45:58.504
if I were to ask
how you obtained this?

46:03.010 --> 46:04.135
Does it really matter?

46:06.430 --> 46:07.513
Of course it matters

46:07.639 --> 46:10.600
with precious objects such
as these provenance is all.

46:11.727 --> 46:13.352
Well you can see
the piece is genuine.

46:14.772 --> 46:19.066
As to the value I'm perfectly content
to take an expert's assessment.

46:21.445 --> 46:24.489
I had supposed you were
an expert, Dr. Hill Barton.

46:25.032 --> 46:27.283
I meant an independent assessment.

46:28.702 --> 46:29.410
Of course.

46:33.332 --> 46:36.709
I have some recently
acquired pieces of celadon.

46:36.835 --> 46:37.919
You might care to view?

46:39.755 --> 46:40.463
By all means.

46:40.839 --> 46:41.506
Please.

46:50.140 --> 46:51.057
It's flawless.

46:52.643 --> 46:55.102
Typical 12th Century Sung, I'd say,

46:57.064 --> 46:57.688
wouldn't you?

47:01.026 --> 47:01.734
You're right.

47:09.618 --> 47:10.326
And this?

47:19.878 --> 47:23.798
That's an excellent example,
Ching Dynasty I should say...

47:24.842 --> 47:26.843
circa 265 A.D.

47:29.304 --> 47:30.054
Precisely.

47:36.770 --> 47:41.691
And these?
Typical of celadon, would you say?

47:41.942 --> 47:43.317
Give me time, give me time.

47:43.443 --> 47:44.986
I am giving you time, sir.

47:46.196 --> 47:46.821
Quite so.

47:48.073 --> 47:50.366
I should also be
interested in your views

47:50.492 --> 47:52.034
on the marks of the Hung Wu.

47:54.246 --> 47:55.580
Marks of the Hung Wu?

47:56.790 --> 47:58.374
That's a vexed question.

48:00.377 --> 48:01.878
Vexed question indeed, sir.

48:03.255 --> 48:05.506
There are no marks
on the genuine Hung Wu.

48:06.174 --> 48:07.675
This is intolerable, sir,

48:08.218 --> 48:09.427
I came here to do you a favor,

48:09.553 --> 48:12.054
not to be examined as
if I were a schoolboy.

48:12.431 --> 48:13.639
You came here to spy.

48:14.057 --> 48:14.849
Not so.

48:15.267 --> 48:18.477
You may have found it easy
to inveigle your way in here

48:18.604 --> 48:20.354
upon false pretenses

48:20.606 --> 48:25.818
but by god sir,
you shall find it harder to get out.

48:25.944 --> 48:29.196
Raise your hands above
your head, Dr. Watson.

48:33.368 --> 48:33.951
What's that?

48:36.413 --> 48:39.957
Holmes, you. Don't move.

48:43.795 --> 48:45.379
I shall shoot you through the head

48:47.090 --> 48:48.132
rather than the heart

48:50.302 --> 48:54.931
and inform the police.
I mistook you for a common burglar.

48:56.058 --> 48:59.852
That is a role that I've played
before with some success.

49:00.646 --> 49:05.066
Without any doubt, sir,
this will be your last time.

49:05.609 --> 49:06.150
Baron!

49:06.318 --> 49:06.859
Kitty!

49:12.115 --> 49:14.033
Be done by your debt.

49:14.660 --> 49:19.080
Doctor, doctor, help me, help me.

49:20.666 --> 49:21.999
Telephone the Baron's physician.

49:50.320 --> 49:53.197
Ah, Sir James forgive me for
summoning you at this late hour

49:53.448 --> 49:54.657
but there's no time to be lost.

49:54.783 --> 49:57.910
You must have this before
Scotland Yard bumbles in.

49:58.036 --> 49:58.995
Scotland Yard?

49:59.579 --> 50:01.914
Baron Gruner's bound to laid
a complaint against us,

50:02.040 --> 50:04.875
Watson as an impostor, myself
as a burglar, we were both.

50:05.002 --> 50:09.338
I diverted Gruner's attention
while Holmes procured that.

50:10.257 --> 50:11.340
You must show it to Miss Merville,

50:11.466 --> 50:13.843
she will find herself
one among a hundred.

50:14.344 --> 50:16.053
The account of what sports.

50:16.638 --> 50:19.765
Baron Gruner enjoyed
with his female victims

50:20.475 --> 50:23.185
may have perhaps at last
open Miss Merville's eyes.

50:23.603 --> 50:26.147
You've done wonders,
Holmes, wonders.

50:26.815 --> 50:28.149
Except for Kitty Winter.

50:29.317 --> 50:31.360
Watson explain, I must rest.

50:31.695 --> 50:34.071
Miss Winter is a former
mistress of Gruner's,

50:34.239 --> 50:35.322
she followed me to Kingston,

50:35.449 --> 50:37.742
concealed about her
was a flask of vitriol.

50:37.868 --> 50:39.368
Which she unleashed upon Gruner.

50:39.494 --> 50:43.748
Severely damaging his right hand
and parts of his face.

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He will be disfigured for life.

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But surely if these injuries are as
terrible as you described them

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then our purpose is
sufficiently gained...

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She'd love him the more
as a disfigured martyr, no.

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It is his moral side not his physical
which we have to destroy.

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That book will bring her down to earth
and I knew nothing else that could.

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It's in his own handwriting,
she cannot get past it.

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Neither my client nor myself
can thank you enough, Holmes.

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Should either Miss Winter
or even you yourself.

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Be incommoded by the police,
do not hesitate to telephone me.

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Thank you, Sir James
but to tell the truth,

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I rarely if ever find myself
inconvenienced by Scotland Yard.

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Good night.

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I would like to
thank you too, Watson.

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Thank you, Sir James.
Oh, by the way...

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Ming dish.

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By jove yes.

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Worth a king's ransom I understand.

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Holmes.

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Holmes, I've discovered
the identity of our client.

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It's none other than the...

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A loyal friend and
a chivalrous gentleman,