SherlockHolmes-The Retired Colourman

WEBVTT
1
00:00:03.089 --> 00:00:07.419
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
2
00:00:11.859 --> 00:00:16.559
The makers of Bromo quinine cold tablets bring you another
3
00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.300
adventure of Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
4
00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:22.399
and Nigel Bruce as Dr.
5
00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:22.640
Watson.
6
00:00:24.019 --> 00:00:27.660
Watch out for colds, ladies and gentlemen. They're very prevalent now,
7
00:00:27.739 --> 00:00:29.600
and a little cold may be the start of a
8
00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:32.219
serious illness. What you want to do with the first
9
00:00:32.299 --> 00:00:37.259
sign of a cold is take famous bromoquinine tablets. Bromoquinine
10
00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:40.420
tablets are made for one purpose and one purpose only,
11
00:00:40.770 --> 00:00:43.689
and that is the relief of colds. They act fast,
12
00:00:44.149 --> 00:00:46.950
give you speedy results, and that's what you want when
13
00:00:46.969 --> 00:00:50.909
you have a cold. Bromoquinine tablets are known the world over.
14
00:00:51.009 --> 00:00:51.869
For their efficacy.
15
00:00:52.469 --> 00:00:56.020
Trust your reputation when buying a medicine. Do this when
16
00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.619
you feel a cold coming on, and you'll ask for
17
00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:00.460
bromoquinone cold tablets.
18
00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:03.520
And now, as we make our way through the night
19
00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:03.939
to Dr.
20
00:01:03.979 --> 00:01:07.510
Watson's hospitable door, we notice a feeling of spring in
21
00:01:07.530 --> 00:01:10.349
the air. The buds are swollen on the trees, still
22
00:01:10.450 --> 00:01:11.930
black and dripping from the rain.
23
00:01:12.530 --> 00:01:14.569
There's a smell of warm, damp earth.
24
00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:16.829
Delicious. Hey, Mr.
25
00:01:16.870 --> 00:01:17.150
Manning.
26
00:01:17.549 --> 00:01:18.370
Well, hello, Dr.
27
00:01:18.409 --> 00:01:18.790
Watson.
28
00:01:18.849 --> 00:01:19.909
I didn't see you in the dark.
29
00:01:19.950 --> 00:01:22.409
Yes, I've been out checking up to see if my
30
00:01:22.469 --> 00:01:24.590
magnolias survived the winter.
31
00:01:24.950 --> 00:01:25.730
Any casualties?
32
00:01:25.890 --> 00:01:28.530
No, they all seem to be fairly bursting with bugs.
33
00:01:29.609 --> 00:01:33.129
There's nothing as delicious as that first faint whiff of spring.
34
00:01:33.150 --> 00:01:37.530
Or as treacherous. Come along to the house before we
35
00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:39.040
both catch our death of cold.
36
00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:42.239
After you, sir. Not at all, my boy.
37
00:01:42.260 --> 00:01:45.459
None of that age before beauty nonsense. I'm not as
38
00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:46.579
decrepit as all heads.
39
00:01:47.939 --> 00:01:51.269
Oh, what's this? The front hall littered with trunks of suitcase?
40
00:01:51.329 --> 00:01:54.150
Oh, yes. I'm afraid my annual wanderlust has broken out
41
00:01:54.189 --> 00:01:57.010
rather early this spring. I'm off on a little jaunt
42
00:01:57.090 --> 00:02:00.269
first thing tomorrow morning, but come along into the study.
43
00:02:00.290 --> 00:02:02.329
Does that mean that this is the last of our
44
00:02:02.370 --> 00:02:03.170
storytelling evening?
45
00:02:03.269 --> 00:02:06.859
Oh, for this winter, yes, I'm afraid it does. Well, I.
46
00:02:07.329 --> 00:02:09.069
I trust I'm not too forward if I hope to
47
00:02:09.129 --> 00:02:10.750
be invited back again in the fall.
48
00:02:10.969 --> 00:02:13.590
Of course not. You know we'll be waiting for your return.
49
00:02:13.750 --> 00:02:14.780
Oh, thanks very much.
50
00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:16.280
Very decent of you.
51
00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.639
To put up with the hand rings of an old
52
00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:20.520
fellow like yourself.
53
00:02:20.620 --> 00:02:22.800
I appreciate it, you know.
54
00:02:23.180 --> 00:02:23.960
But sit down, Mr.
55
00:02:23.979 --> 00:02:26.219
Manning. Sit down there over there in the usual chair.
56
00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:29.120
Let's get on with our story before I get all
57
00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:30.780
glittery and sentimental.
58
00:02:31.569 --> 00:02:34.419
You're going to tell us about Professor Moriarty tonight, aren't you?
59
00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.639
Well, I had intended to, but I've changed my mind.
60
00:02:36.659 --> 00:02:38.740
I'm going to tell you the adventure of a.
61
00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:40.340
Retired colorman instead.
62
00:02:40.659 --> 00:02:43.520
Retired colorman? Isn't that a military term?
63
00:02:43.580 --> 00:02:43.979
No, it isn't.
64
00:02:44.580 --> 00:02:44.879
Mr.
65
00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:45.800
Josiah P.
66
00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.460
Amberley has been the junior member of Brickfall and Amberley,
67
00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:51.430
manufacturers of artistic paint boxes.
68
00:02:51.469 --> 00:02:53.229
He made quite a tiny little fortune.
69
00:02:53.349 --> 00:02:55.610
Retired from business at the age of 61, bought a
70
00:02:56.349 --> 00:02:57.349
house at Lewisham and.
71
00:02:57.289 --> 00:03:00.250
Then settled down. The very next year, 1897, I think
72
00:03:00.259 --> 00:03:00.539
it was.
73
00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.550
The old fool married.
74
00:03:02.569 --> 00:03:07.789
Married? Yes, married. The woman's 30 years his junior.
75
00:03:08.389 --> 00:03:11.449
Always a bit risky. Risky. Risky.
76
00:03:11.770 --> 00:03:13.069
Within two years, he was as.
77
00:03:13.050 --> 00:03:16.240
Miserable a creature as crawls beneath the sun. Dear me,
78
00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:19.719
I'm jumping ahead in the story again. As I was saying,
79
00:03:20.259 --> 00:03:22.060
it was the 23rd of April, 1899, and a rainy
80
00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:26.849
and disagreeable April it had been. Holmes was in a
81
00:03:26.909 --> 00:03:29.650
melancholy and philosophic mood that morning as he stood by
82
00:03:29.669 --> 00:03:33.069
the window, watching the raindrops chasing one another down, down
83
00:03:33.110 --> 00:03:33.569
the pane.
84
00:03:34.509 --> 00:03:36.750
Rain, it always depressed him when he was not working
85
00:03:36.789 --> 00:03:37.289
on a case.
86
00:03:38.030 --> 00:03:40.129
When he was working on a case, I don't believe
87
00:03:40.150 --> 00:03:41.210
he realized.
88
00:03:40.789 --> 00:03:42.650
That there was such a thing as weather.
89
00:03:55.020 --> 00:03:57.990
Look at that beastly rain. Hasn't stopped for three days.
90
00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:01.449
Might as well be another flood. Heaven only knows what
91
00:04:01.509 --> 00:04:04.270
transgressions could have brought it on. That's been a really
92
00:04:04.310 --> 00:04:05.810
first-class crime for months.
93
00:04:06.250 --> 00:04:07.430
Cheer up, Holmes, cheer up.
94
00:04:07.509 --> 00:04:09.870
It's probably good for the crops or something. A shortage
95
00:04:09.909 --> 00:04:10.310
in crime?
96
00:04:10.389 --> 00:04:11.629
No, no, no. The rain, of course.
97
00:04:11.750 --> 00:04:14.439
Probably makes the little buds sprout and the little shoots.
98
00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:16.199
Oh, don't be so blasted optimistic.
99
00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:20.180
More likely rotting all the seed that's already been planted. Rain,
100
00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:23.639
where the deuce does it all come from? This confounded
101
00:04:23.660 --> 00:04:26.250
English climate... Why, any man with half a brain stays
102
00:04:26.310 --> 00:04:28.870
on this rain-soaked, mist-bound island is beyond me.
103
00:04:28.889 --> 00:04:30.569
Why, that of the men have anything to do with it.
104
00:04:30.889 --> 00:04:33.750
It's the ladies, God bless them. This climate gives them
105
00:04:34.029 --> 00:04:35.089
perfect complexions.
106
00:04:35.170 --> 00:04:37.769
And with so many lovely creatures about, what Englishman would
107
00:04:37.810 --> 00:04:38.930
think of quitting the country?
108
00:04:39.410 --> 00:04:42.689
So much beauty, such exquisiteness. Oh, rubbish, Watson, rubbish. This
109
00:04:42.709 --> 00:04:44.750
spring has given you a temporary softening of the brain.
110
00:04:45.269 --> 00:04:46.800
I regret to say it seems to have that effect
111
00:04:46.860 --> 00:04:47.879
on most impressionable males.
112
00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:50.870
Impressionable nonsense. When a woman's concerned in one of your.
113
00:04:50.730 --> 00:04:53.449
Cases, you've never even noticed whether she's 16 or 60.
114
00:04:53.449 --> 00:04:55.290
And then you don't care whether she's got a well-turned
115
00:04:55.350 --> 00:04:57.470
ankle or whether she's flat-footed.
116
00:04:57.509 --> 00:04:58.089
Why should I?
117
00:04:58.230 --> 00:05:02.540
Holmes, there are times when I think you're a cold-blooded fish.
118
00:05:03.819 --> 00:05:07.379
Possibly, Watson, possibly. Why do you suppose the fool doesn't
119
00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:07.720
show up?
120
00:05:07.860 --> 00:05:08.279
What fool?
121
00:05:08.660 --> 00:05:11.720
Josiah P. Amberley. Is he one of your clowns? I
122
00:05:11.740 --> 00:05:13.949
suppose I may call him so. He's been sent to
123
00:05:13.970 --> 00:05:16.350
me by Scotland Yard. Oh, by Scotland Yard. Quite. By
124
00:05:16.370 --> 00:05:18.730
this cloud, to be exact. I must consider the case
125
00:05:18.769 --> 00:05:21.029
fairly hopeless if Lestrade hands the matter over to me
126
00:05:21.069 --> 00:05:21.689
of his own accord.
127
00:05:21.709 --> 00:05:26.170
Look, Holmes, there's a cab drawing up in front of
128
00:05:26.189 --> 00:05:26.870
our front door.
129
00:05:27.529 --> 00:05:28.860
He must be your client, Mr.
130
00:05:28.930 --> 00:05:29.329
Ambler.
131
00:05:30.029 --> 00:05:32.879
Yeah. Strange-looking individual, eh, Watson?
132
00:05:33.060 --> 00:05:36.180
Quite an old fellow. Looks literally bowed down with care.
133
00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.399
Ah, but no weakling. Look at those shoulders and that chest.
134
00:05:38.899 --> 00:05:42.079
The framework of a giant. He's arguing with the cab
135
00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:43.000
driver about the fare.
136
00:05:43.019 --> 00:05:43.089
Huh.
137
00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.240
Huh-huh. Watches the pennies, eh?
138
00:05:45.259 --> 00:05:46.759
I must say, I don't like his face.
139
00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:50.220
So fierce and eager, and the way those snaky locks
140
00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.790
of grizzled hair stick out from under his hat.
141
00:05:52.810 --> 00:05:56.569
I wonder what he's worrying. What's worrying, Mr. Ambley? Worrying
142
00:05:56.589 --> 00:05:57.889
to bet it has something to do with money. I
143
00:05:58.649 --> 00:06:00.750
imagine nothing else could upset him to any great extent.
144
00:06:00.769 --> 00:06:03.949
Nonsense, Holmes. You always look on the base side of
145
00:06:04.129 --> 00:06:04.829
human nature.
146
00:06:05.670 --> 00:06:10.850
Here he is now. Come in. Come in. Which of
147
00:06:10.870 --> 00:06:11.649
you is Sherlock Holmes?
148
00:06:11.750 --> 00:06:12.129
I am.
149
00:06:12.170 --> 00:06:13.769
This is my friend, Dr. Watson.
150
00:06:13.810 --> 00:06:16.410
Well, I'm a broken man. He's robbed me, the swine.
151
00:06:16.930 --> 00:06:19.250
Taken everything I had in the world. I thought he
152
00:06:19.290 --> 00:06:21.750
was my friend and he took everything. Right from under
153
00:06:21.790 --> 00:06:23.269
my nose. In my own house.
154
00:06:23.769 --> 00:06:25.449
Robbed me, he did. Yes, I felt sure it was
155
00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.560
a question of money. Money? Who said money? He stole
156
00:06:28.579 --> 00:06:28.959
my wife.
157
00:06:29.420 --> 00:06:30.259
The light of my life.
158
00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:31.579
The apple of my eye.
159
00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:35.279
It's true she was very expensive. But after all, she was.
160
00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:37.139
My wife, and he stole her. Now, Mr. Ambley, if
161
00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:37.399
you would.
162
00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:41.079
My beautiful blonde wife, hair like gold, and my securities.
163
00:06:41.660 --> 00:06:44.259
The money I saved up with years of hard work.
164
00:06:44.740 --> 00:06:45.079
Gone.
165
00:06:45.459 --> 00:06:48.519
All gone. Yes, thank you. First, tell us about your wife.
166
00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:51.060
How long have you been married? Two years.
167
00:06:51.949 --> 00:06:53.410
Two years, and she's tired of me already.
168
00:06:54.029 --> 00:06:56.449
Two little years. Easy, my good man, easy. More facts
169
00:06:56.509 --> 00:06:58.449
and fewer recriminations if we're to get to the bottom
170
00:06:58.470 --> 00:06:58.910
of this case.
171
00:06:59.209 --> 00:06:59.389
Well.
172
00:07:00.069 --> 00:07:02.149
Three years ago, I retired. Bought a house.
173
00:07:02.170 --> 00:07:05.040
Big house at Lewisham. Cost me plenty of money, that
174
00:07:05.060 --> 00:07:07.920
house did. Well, sir, I'd never lived alone in a
175
00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:08.779
big house before.
176
00:07:09.180 --> 00:07:10.240
Got sort of lonely.
177
00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:12.240
House began to need looking.
178
00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.779
After, so I thought I'd start looking around for a wife. Nice, healthy,
179
00:07:15.819 --> 00:07:18.290
young wife to look after me. Then I met Ella.
180
00:07:18.949 --> 00:07:22.470
Handsome girl she was, too. A good cook. Hair like gold.
181
00:07:22.990 --> 00:07:25.189
Could bake a beef and kidney pie that went melt
182
00:07:25.230 --> 00:07:27.129
in your mouth. So I thought I might as well
183
00:07:27.149 --> 00:07:27.769
get married.
184
00:07:27.810 --> 00:07:28.870
Very practical, I'm sure.
185
00:07:29.029 --> 00:07:30.490
That's what I figured at that time.
186
00:07:31.029 --> 00:07:32.009
But Lord, Mr.
187
00:07:32.029 --> 00:07:35.379
Holmes, the money a woman runs into. There made my
188
00:07:35.420 --> 00:07:36.629
heart bleed the way the money went.
189
00:07:36.649 --> 00:07:38.379
I should have thought you'd have been glad when the
190
00:07:38.389 --> 00:07:40.980
other fellow took it off your hands. But who was this.
191
00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:42.459
This wolf in sheep's clothing?
192
00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:42.740
Yes.
193
00:07:43.220 --> 00:07:44.160
His name was Dr.
194
00:07:44.220 --> 00:07:44.839
Ray Ernest.
195
00:07:45.220 --> 00:07:47.339
A young fellow. Used to come over at night and
196
00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:48.060
play chess with me.
197
00:07:48.139 --> 00:07:51.250
I see. He stole your wife? And my securities. Yes,
198
00:07:51.259 --> 00:07:54.399
but truly the securities are registered. You can hardly hope
199
00:07:54.420 --> 00:07:55.680
to convert them. Maybe not.
200
00:07:56.149 --> 00:07:58.430
But I must have them back. And you've got to
201
00:07:58.470 --> 00:07:59.949
find those securities for me, Mr.
202
00:07:59.990 --> 00:08:00.189
Holmes.
203
00:08:00.509 --> 00:08:01.740
You've got to find them.
204
00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:03.759
And your wife, of course? Of course, of course.
205
00:08:03.779 --> 00:08:05.160
Wherever she is, they are.
206
00:08:05.180 --> 00:08:07.939
Ah, quite. On the other hand, Mr. Amberley, I confess
207
00:08:07.980 --> 00:08:09.439
I don't see that I can be of much service.
208
00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:11.819
It's a routine matter, and I'm sure that Cocton Yard
209
00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:12.740
would be only too glad.
210
00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:16.100
Oh, very well, very well, very well, very well.
211
00:08:16.620 --> 00:08:18.730
We'll do our best. Dr. Watson will take a run
212
00:08:18.769 --> 00:08:20.970
down to your house at Lewisham to look over the grounds. Oh, really?
213
00:08:21.029 --> 00:08:21.810
Oh, delicious.
214
00:08:22.050 --> 00:08:25.990
I hardly expected you'd come yourself. After my heavy financial loss...
215
00:08:26.329 --> 00:08:28.829
Nobody cares if an old man's heart is broken.
216
00:08:28.870 --> 00:08:29.790
Oh, stop that blubbering.
217
00:08:30.449 --> 00:08:32.610
I'm not coming myself because I'm preoccupied with the case
218
00:08:32.629 --> 00:08:35.700
of the two Coptic patriarchs. This particular case doesn't seem
219
00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:38.059
to be very complicated. I'm sure, Mr. Amberley, that Dr.
220
00:08:38.100 --> 00:08:39.940
Watson can handle it as well as I could myself.
221
00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.080
Well, if that's the best that you can offer, I.
222
00:08:42.980 --> 00:08:46.730
Suppose I must be satisfied. Pampered, that's what she was.
223
00:08:47.370 --> 00:08:50.309
And that young man, that dirty pickpocket, I treated him
224
00:08:50.350 --> 00:08:52.480
like my own son, the run of the house. And
225
00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:53.820
now look how they've treated me.
226
00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:55.480
Me, you'll never harm me.
227
00:08:55.500 --> 00:08:58.059
Quite, quite. And now, good day, Mr. Amberley.
228
00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:00.230
Oh, yes, well, good day, Mr.
229
00:09:00.269 --> 00:09:00.549
Holmes.
230
00:09:01.090 --> 00:09:01.809
I shall expect Dr.
231
00:09:01.830 --> 00:09:04.230
Watson this afternoon. You have my address, I believe.
232
00:09:04.590 --> 00:09:07.529
Oh, the ungratitude, the rank ingratitude of it all.
233
00:09:08.269 --> 00:09:10.480
I must say, Holmes, I like the way you've shoved
234
00:09:10.580 --> 00:09:15.139
all this off onto my shoulders. Coptic patriarchs, indeed. You
235
00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:16.259
just don't want to go.
236
00:09:17.259 --> 00:09:19.789
Right, Watson, right, the very first time. You've been begging
237
00:09:19.809 --> 00:09:21.610
for a case all to yourself for months. Well, here
238
00:09:21.629 --> 00:09:21.909
it is.
239
00:09:21.929 --> 00:09:23.750
Yes, and a nice case you've given me, I must say.
240
00:09:24.490 --> 00:09:26.110
That old skinful.
241
00:09:26.929 --> 00:09:29.450
Oh, my daughter, oh, my ducats, eh? With the emphasis
242
00:09:29.490 --> 00:09:52.840
on the ducats, if I'm not mistaken. Oh, confound that passage. There. Ah,
243
00:09:53.659 --> 00:09:54.899
that's better.
244
00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.620
That's dash good.
245
00:09:58.340 --> 00:09:58.519
Hello.
246
00:09:58.669 --> 00:10:02.539
Someone steps on the stairs. Watson, if I'm not mistaken,
247
00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:06.480
and in a triumphant mood. Hello, Holmes.
248
00:10:06.620 --> 00:10:08.639
Well, I'm back.
249
00:10:08.779 --> 00:10:11.389
Hail the conquering hero. A successful afternoon, I take it,
250
00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:12.519
with a light of victory in your eye.
251
00:10:12.539 --> 00:10:14.700
Well, I did manage.
252
00:10:14.460 --> 00:10:16.259
To dig up a clue or so.
253
00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:16.460
Good.
254
00:10:17.059 --> 00:10:19.840
Now about Mr. Amberley's place of residence. What's it like?
255
00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:21.659
Well, he calls it the haven.
256
00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:22.620
Oh, charming.
257
00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:23.639
Yes, isn't it?
258
00:10:23.860 --> 00:10:25.610
I think the place would interest you, Holmes.
259
00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:28.809
You know that particular quarter, the monotonous brick streets, the
260
00:10:28.870 --> 00:10:30.610
weary suburban highways.
261
00:10:30.970 --> 00:10:34.789
Well, right in the middle of them lies this beautiful.
262
00:10:34.409 --> 00:10:38.320
Old home, surrounded by a high sun-baked wall, bottled with
263
00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:40.919
lichens and topped with moss, the sort of wall.
264
00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:42.559
You may omit the poetry, Watson. I note that it
265
00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:44.799
was a high brick wall. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
266
00:10:45.059 --> 00:10:45.779
Mm-hmm.
267
00:10:46.970 --> 00:10:48.730
I should have guessed it was the Haven, even if
268
00:10:48.769 --> 00:10:51.590
I hadn't asked a lounger who was smoking outside on
269
00:10:51.629 --> 00:10:52.049
the street.
270
00:10:52.230 --> 00:10:52.690
A lounger?
271
00:10:52.850 --> 00:10:57.029
Yes, a tall, dark, little moustached man with a curious
272
00:10:57.090 --> 00:10:57.929
look in his eye.
273
00:10:57.970 --> 00:11:00.509
With great tinted glasses and a masonic type in? Good,
274
00:11:00.649 --> 00:11:01.009
hadn't you?
275
00:11:01.809 --> 00:11:02.269
How do you know?
276
00:11:02.289 --> 00:11:04.169
Oh, the fool. A child of ten could have seen
277
00:11:04.190 --> 00:11:04.590
through that.
278
00:11:04.610 --> 00:11:04.870
Well, Mr.
279
00:11:04.889 --> 00:11:07.769
Holmes, I don't see. Never mind. Continue with your story, Watson.
280
00:11:07.789 --> 00:11:09.990
Well, I'd hardly entered the gateway before I saw Mr.
281
00:11:10.070 --> 00:11:13.179
Amberley coming down the drive to meet me. He began
282
00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.419
at once, pouring out his grievances.
283
00:11:15.460 --> 00:11:18.490
We walked back to the house together. And, uh... Well, once.
284
00:11:18.409 --> 00:11:21.389
Inside the wall, I must say, I've never seen a
285
00:11:21.429 --> 00:11:24.629
place worth kept. Garden running to weeds and in a
286
00:11:24.629 --> 00:11:28.610
dreadful neglect. The house, too, was flattened to the last degree.
287
00:11:29.029 --> 00:11:31.179
It just goes to show what happens to a place
288
00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:32.200
when there's.
289
00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:36.399
No womanly hand about to keep it in order. Yes, but, uh, Mrs.
290
00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.460
Amberley's only been missing a few days. Hardly time for
291
00:11:39.500 --> 00:11:42.649
so much disintegration to take place. Must have set in
292
00:11:42.690 --> 00:11:43.509
before she left.
293
00:11:43.730 --> 00:11:44.190
Possibly.
294
00:11:44.250 --> 00:11:46.230
At any rate, Mr. Ambler seemed to be ashamed of it.
295
00:11:46.230 --> 00:11:48.549
He was doing his best to remedy.
296
00:11:48.169 --> 00:11:49.919
It, though I must admit that his.
297
00:11:49.789 --> 00:12:03.620
Efforts looked a trifle ineffectual. What's to become of me?
298
00:12:03.820 --> 00:12:05.879
What's to become of me? My wife gone, most of
299
00:12:05.899 --> 00:12:07.980
my fortune stolen. Oh, come in, Dr.
300
00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:08.580
Watson, come in.
301
00:12:09.769 --> 00:12:11.500
Here, you see what remains of what used to be
302
00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:12.179
called my home.
303
00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:13.720
An Eastman's home, it is.
304
00:12:13.779 --> 00:12:14.620
Castle, so they say.
305
00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:16.100
But home is where the heart is.
306
00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.120
My heart? Look out, Dr. Watson, look out.
307
00:12:18.139 --> 00:12:19.279
That woodwork's just been.
308
00:12:19.299 --> 00:12:20.000
Oh, look at that.
309
00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:20.559
Look at that.
310
00:12:20.580 --> 00:12:22.159
My best pair of trousers.
311
00:12:22.179 --> 00:12:23.730
Too bad. Careful, careful.
312
00:12:23.750 --> 00:12:24.970
You almost get into that pot of paint.
313
00:12:24.990 --> 00:12:26.789
That's it all, Emory. This is absolutely the limit.
314
00:12:26.850 --> 00:12:28.389
Sorry, I shouldn't have left that pot of paint in
315
00:12:28.409 --> 00:12:30.909
the middle of the passage, I suppose. When one's alone
316
00:12:30.929 --> 00:12:31.909
in the house, one forgets.
317
00:12:31.929 --> 00:12:32.490
You're alone.
318
00:12:33.539 --> 00:12:35.580
So you've been doing this painting yourself?
319
00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.879
It must strike you as a strange occupation under the circumstances.
320
00:12:38.940 --> 00:12:40.639
One must do something to ease an aching heart.
321
00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:41.820
Step in here, Dr.
322
00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:42.110
Watson.
323
00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.210
This is my study, my sanctum sanctorum.
324
00:12:44.309 --> 00:12:46.389
Oh, sanctum sanctorum.
325
00:12:46.889 --> 00:12:50.309
I see you've just finished painting woodwork in this room, too.
326
00:12:53.259 --> 00:12:53.919
I smell paint.
327
00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:55.659
Yes, it's not dry yet. That's why I have a
328
00:12:55.700 --> 00:12:57.360
fire in here. Now let me see.
329
00:12:58.889 --> 00:13:00.899
Where did you keep your security?
330
00:13:01.139 --> 00:13:02.139
In the safe in that wall.
331
00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:03.779
This room is really a strong room.
332
00:13:03.940 --> 00:13:04.419
Like a bank.
333
00:13:04.779 --> 00:13:06.659
With a man shut around the window and a man door.
334
00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:07.379
Very good proof.
335
00:13:08.100 --> 00:13:09.259
Ah, that's the irony of it.
336
00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:10.360
No thief from.
337
00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:11.940
Without could have taken my money. But my wife.
338
00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.620
My own wife. There's a picture, Dr.
339
00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.000
Watson, on the mantel. Taken in a wedding dress.
340
00:13:17.090 --> 00:13:21.490
Oh, nice looking girl, Emily. Doesn't look the sort that would.
341
00:13:21.509 --> 00:13:22.750
I'm a viper being great.
342
00:13:23.009 --> 00:13:23.570
Oh, really?
343
00:13:23.590 --> 00:13:26.649
The very night, that very night, I bought two upper-circle
344
00:13:26.669 --> 00:13:29.149
seats at the Haymarket Theater. Wanted to give her a treat,
345
00:13:29.210 --> 00:13:29.470
I did.
346
00:13:29.669 --> 00:13:30.429
Didn't she go?
347
00:13:30.509 --> 00:13:33.320
No. Last moment she said she felt sick. That she
348
00:13:33.340 --> 00:13:35.559
had a headache, she did. I believe that went alone.
349
00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.039
When I came back, she was gone. The safe was
350
00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:38.480
right in front.
351
00:13:38.500 --> 00:13:38.879
Just a minute.
352
00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:41.299
What night was that, Mr.
353
00:13:41.340 --> 00:13:41.639
Emmerich?
354
00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:42.419
Last Thursday.
355
00:13:42.820 --> 00:13:43.860
Oh, Thursday, was it?
356
00:13:43.860 --> 00:13:44.740
Yes, an unused ticket.
357
00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:47.320
Money wasted. She was always wasting money.
358
00:13:47.539 --> 00:13:48.799
May I have that ticket, Mr.
359
00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:49.940
Emmerich? Hold on, hold on.
360
00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:51.200
You would have thrown it in the fire.
361
00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:53.480
Why? I wanted to get rid of it. I wanted
362
00:13:53.500 --> 00:13:55.879
to get rid of everything that reminds me of her. Here,
363
00:13:55.940 --> 00:13:56.720
give me that picture.
364
00:13:56.779 --> 00:13:57.460
Well, I see.
365
00:13:57.620 --> 00:13:59.470
Well, into the fire she goes closer.
366
00:13:59.870 --> 00:14:02.769
May her soul burn in torment as that picture's burning now.
367
00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:16.379
That person fell away, Watson. This case begins to look
368
00:14:16.419 --> 00:14:19.200
more somber than I suspected. If you could only have
369
00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:20.539
brought me that ticket, Watson.
370
00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:22.460
Oh, I did my best, Holmes.
371
00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:25.620
I may not have the ticket itself, but I did
372
00:14:25.700 --> 00:14:27.590
notice the number of the seat.
373
00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:30.720
Oh, bravo, Watson. How did you happen to remember it?
374
00:14:30.740 --> 00:14:32.980
Well, as a matter of fact, it was my place.
375
00:14:32.820 --> 00:14:33.779
And form at school, 31.
376
00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:35.759
See, from the bottom.
377
00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.000
And so it stuck in my head.
378
00:14:38.019 --> 00:14:41.269
Splendid, old fellow. Then Amberley's seat must have been 30
379
00:14:41.269 --> 00:14:45.190
or 32. Hear me, hear me now. Who can that be?
380
00:14:45.769 --> 00:14:47.990
Well, whoever it is, he has to be patient.
381
00:14:48.029 --> 00:14:49.929
Yes, yes, yes. Here he comes up the stairs, fairly running.
382
00:14:52.129 --> 00:14:54.649
Come in. Come in. Well, bless my soul if it
383
00:14:54.669 --> 00:14:57.370
isn't our old friend, our good friend, Mr. Amberley. What's up?
384
00:14:57.649 --> 00:14:58.210
I tell you, Mr.
385
00:14:58.330 --> 00:15:00.659
Holmes, I can't make anything of it. Here, see for yourself.
386
00:15:01.899 --> 00:15:02.919
Come at once without fail.
387
00:15:02.940 --> 00:15:03.009
Yes.
388
00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:06.480
I can give you information as to your recent lost find, Elman. Yes, Elman.
389
00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.860
Dispatched at 210 from Little Purlington. Little Purlington in Essex,
390
00:15:10.940 --> 00:15:13.059
I believe, not far from Flinton. You will start at once,
391
00:15:13.100 --> 00:15:14.460
of course. Watson, look up the train.
392
00:15:14.539 --> 00:15:15.360
It's probably a hoax.
393
00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:17.779
What could anyone do to Purlington? But I'm a very
394
00:15:17.850 --> 00:15:21.389
responsible person. Where's my crockpot? Yes, here it is. Uh,
395
00:15:21.809 --> 00:15:26.009
we'll look up this minister of the gospel. E-E-E-E Elman. Elman,
396
00:15:26.029 --> 00:15:29.820
here it is. Here, J.C. Elman, M.A., living of Mossmore,
397
00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.700
come little Purlington. Yes, but I still don't think... Surely, Mr. Amberley,
398
00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:34.779
you want to find your wife and your lost securities,
399
00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:34.990
don't you?
400
00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:36.740
Of course, of course, but think of the waste of
401
00:15:36.779 --> 00:15:37.639
time and money.
402
00:15:37.710 --> 00:15:38.799
Here we are, here.
403
00:15:38.610 --> 00:15:39.210
We are, here we are.
404
00:15:39.309 --> 00:15:42.750
Here's a train from Liverpool Street at 5.20.
405
00:15:42.750 --> 00:15:43.529
Yes, you just have time.
406
00:15:43.549 --> 00:15:43.730
Mr.
407
00:15:43.769 --> 00:15:45.649
Amberley, you go downstairs and hail a cab. I'll help Dr.
408
00:15:45.669 --> 00:15:47.389
Watson throw a few things in the bag. You think
409
00:15:47.470 --> 00:15:48.450
I need Dr. Watson?
410
00:15:48.860 --> 00:15:49.720
Perhaps I'd better go alone.
411
00:15:49.740 --> 00:15:51.600
Oh, no, no, no, no. It may be a trap
412
00:15:51.620 --> 00:15:54.440
for all we know. I don't think I shall go. Mr. Amberley,
413
00:15:54.870 --> 00:15:56.629
it would make the worst possible impression on both the
414
00:15:56.649 --> 00:15:58.750
police and on myself if you refused to follow up
415
00:15:58.789 --> 00:16:01.169
so obvious a clue. We should feel that you are
416
00:16:01.190 --> 00:16:04.509
not in earnest about this investigation. Very well, very well,
417
00:16:04.549 --> 00:16:04.850
I'll go.
418
00:16:04.970 --> 00:16:07.070
Perhaps you'd better go with him, Holmes.
419
00:16:07.269 --> 00:16:10.049
What? Take your case, Watson, after the brilliant way in
420
00:16:10.090 --> 00:16:12.580
which you've handled it? No, no, no, no, no. Go along, Mr. Amberley,
421
00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.519
or you'll miss your train. Very well, but the expensive.
422
00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:21.559
Here you are, Watson. Here's your bag. It's packed. Yes,
423
00:16:21.580 --> 00:16:22.679
you never know when you may be called off on
424
00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:24.779
a case like this. I packed it for you. Oh, no,
425
00:16:24.820 --> 00:16:28.100
I do think that... Quite. Now, whatever you do, see
426
00:16:28.139 --> 00:16:30.080
that he really does go to Little Purlington.
427
00:16:30.100 --> 00:16:31.490
Yes, I don't think that he's... Again, quite.
428
00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:34.120
Should he break away and try to return, get to
429
00:16:34.139 --> 00:16:36.419
the nearest telegraph station and send me the single word, bolted.
430
00:16:36.450 --> 00:16:38.610
I will arrange to have it reach me wherever I am.
431
00:16:38.789 --> 00:16:41.429
What? You have something to look into at this end, then?
432
00:16:41.529 --> 00:16:43.769
I have, Watson. This case is beginning to take on
433
00:16:43.789 --> 00:16:46.990
a rather curious and sinister aspect. Above all, old man,
434
00:16:47.309 --> 00:17:06.019
take good care of yourself. And Mr. Amberley. Before we
435
00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.559
find the outcome of Watson's curious mission, ladies and gentlemen,
436
00:17:10.339 --> 00:17:12.680
I have a few words to say. Here's what you
437
00:17:12.700 --> 00:17:14.509
want to do when you feel a cold coming on.
438
00:17:15.299 --> 00:17:16.980
Here's what you want to do with the very first
439
00:17:17.049 --> 00:17:22.250
sign of a cold. Take famous bromoquinone cold tablets. Bromoquinone
440
00:17:22.269 --> 00:17:25.369
tablets don't fool. No, sir, they get right after a
441
00:17:25.410 --> 00:17:29.049
cold symptom. They get right after a cold's misery. They
442
00:17:29.089 --> 00:17:31.079
relieve the headache and other pains.
443
00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:31.740
That go with a cold.
444
00:17:32.220 --> 00:17:35.279
They relieve that stuffiness and feeling of depression that accompanies
445
00:17:35.380 --> 00:17:37.960
a cold. They help reduce the fever that goes with
446
00:17:38.019 --> 00:17:42.960
a cold. Bromoquinone tablets are fast and decisive in their action. First,
447
00:17:43.420 --> 00:17:46.299
because they're made especially for the relief of the common cold,
448
00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:50.180
and secondly, because they act internally. You can take lots
449
00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.839
of things for the relief of a cold, but nothing
450
00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.670
more reputable and reliable than famous Bromo quinine tablets. Get
451
00:17:57.690 --> 00:18:00.069
them at any drugstore at the first symptom of a cold.
452
00:18:00.769 --> 00:18:18.849
Ask for Bromo, B-R-O-M-O, quinine, Q-U-I-N-I-N-E, Bromo quinine cold tablets. Ah,
453
00:18:18.910 --> 00:18:23.190
confound this rain. Everything's as dark as a black hole
454
00:18:23.259 --> 00:18:30.059
of Calcutta. The haven. Cheery little haven this is. I
455
00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.660
can find a window unlatched. Not much chance on the
456
00:18:33.700 --> 00:18:36.400
first floor. The old boy's two quarters. Woof.
457
00:18:37.849 --> 00:18:38.990
Second-story window, perhaps.
458
00:18:40.230 --> 00:18:44.630
Now, if I can manage to scale this porch pillar. Ah,
459
00:18:44.710 --> 00:18:49.829
this confounded rain. Just simply is a grease pole. Come on. Hey,
460
00:18:50.369 --> 00:18:56.690
there we are. Yeah. There's a window that's unmatched. Easy, easy, easy.
461
00:18:56.710 --> 00:19:01.819
There now. One foot over the sill. Up with your ends.
462
00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:02.880
Up with them, I tell you.
463
00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:06.019
Thought I wouldn't see you prowling around down below, eh? Well,
464
00:19:06.099 --> 00:19:07.960
I've caught you red-handed.
465
00:19:15.549 --> 00:19:20.930
Nice wild goose chase that turned out to be. That
466
00:19:21.470 --> 00:19:22.990
friend of yours, Sherlock Holmes, is a fool.
467
00:19:23.009 --> 00:19:23.430
I'm sure, Mr.
468
00:19:23.549 --> 00:19:25.660
Hamlet, if you'll call and see him, he can explain.
469
00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:25.960
Explain?
470
00:19:26.019 --> 00:19:28.970
Explain nothing. That vicar had never seen that telegram before.
471
00:19:29.250 --> 00:19:30.990
The way he treated us. You might have thought we
472
00:19:31.019 --> 00:19:34.019
were suspicious characters. Then missing the last train and having
473
00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:36.079
to sit up all night in the confounded station with
474
00:19:36.099 --> 00:19:37.019
the rain dripping.
475
00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:37.319
Through the roof.
476
00:19:37.460 --> 00:19:38.839
Well, we could have gone to an hotel.
477
00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:40.380
Gone to an hotel? That costs money.
478
00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:41.759
Gone to an hotel, indeed.
479
00:19:41.779 --> 00:19:42.680
Well, here's your house, Mr.
480
00:19:42.849 --> 00:19:43.049
Ambler.
481
00:19:43.450 --> 00:19:45.609
I think I'll go along home now and get some breakfast.
482
00:19:45.670 --> 00:19:46.230
You will not.
483
00:19:46.750 --> 00:19:48.049
I'm going to come into the house and see if
484
00:19:48.089 --> 00:19:51.779
everything's all I look up there. The window over the porch.
485
00:19:52.059 --> 00:19:53.750
It's open. Perhaps you left it like that, you say?
486
00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:54.160
Rubbish.
487
00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:55.880
I tell you, I don't like the looks of this.
488
00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:58.579
Where's my key? Where's my key? Here it is.
489
00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:00.720
We'll soon find out.
490
00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:06.490
I say, it is gloomy, isn't it?
491
00:20:06.750 --> 00:20:07.609
Look, look, look.
492
00:20:07.630 --> 00:20:09.789
Someone's been here writing up footprints on the fresh paint.
493
00:20:10.220 --> 00:20:12.059
I'll find him if I have to tear the place apart.
494
00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:13.819
No need for that, Mr. Ambly. We're here waiting for
495
00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:14.359
you in the study.
496
00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:14.799
Holmes!
497
00:20:15.660 --> 00:20:17.000
Good heavens, from the start you get.
498
00:20:17.019 --> 00:20:17.920
How did you get in here?
499
00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:19.859
I climbed in through the upstairs window.
500
00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:21.559
That's burglary, young man.
501
00:20:21.579 --> 00:20:24.880
Yes. Burglary's always been an alternate profession, and I cared
502
00:20:24.900 --> 00:20:27.200
to adopt it. I'll admit I was glad I hadn't
503
00:20:27.220 --> 00:20:29.599
when I walked into Inspector Lestrade's gun last night. He
504
00:20:29.660 --> 00:20:32.480
thought I was a burglar, too. But come, we're.
505
00:20:32.099 --> 00:20:32.720
Keeping him waiting.
506
00:20:32.740 --> 00:20:35.720
He's in the library. Here they are, Lestrade. I told
507
00:20:35.740 --> 00:20:37.079
you we could expect them back before ten.
508
00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:39.329
No, but look here, that's not Lestrade. That's the man
509
00:20:39.369 --> 00:20:41.289
I saw loitering in front of the gate yesterday afternoon.
510
00:20:41.309 --> 00:20:43.109
The fellow with the black moustache and the glasses.
511
00:20:43.309 --> 00:20:43.950
Yes, that's right, Dr.
512
00:20:44.029 --> 00:20:47.190
Watson. Yes. Lestrade fondly imagines that's the disguise.
513
00:20:47.269 --> 00:20:48.049
Oh, no, look here, no?
514
00:20:48.109 --> 00:20:49.250
It's as obvious to anyone who.
515
00:20:49.170 --> 00:20:49.809
Takes a look at.
516
00:20:49.849 --> 00:20:52.329
Now, look here, I've had enough of this. I won't
517
00:20:52.369 --> 00:20:54.809
have two busybodies prowling around my house in the middle
518
00:20:54.849 --> 00:20:57.269
of the night. And what's more, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I
519
00:20:57.289 --> 00:20:59.210
suspect you sent that telegram yourself.
520
00:20:59.410 --> 00:21:02.099
Very clever of you, Mr. Amberley, very clever. You look
521
00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:03.880
to trifle pale. I thought a night in the country
522
00:21:03.900 --> 00:21:04.259
might do you good.
523
00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:05.779
Oh, I know enough of that. What kind of a
524
00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:07.740
fool do you take me for? I'll have you put
525
00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:08.940
behind the bars, all of you.
526
00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:11.859
No, surely not, Inspector Lestrade. Why, he's from Scotland Yard.
527
00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:13.380
I don't care if it's from the house alone.
528
00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:14.160
Yeah, none of that.
529
00:21:14.339 --> 00:21:15.980
You're all disgraced, publicly disgraced.
530
00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:18.220
Breaking into my house in the middle of the night.
531
00:21:18.940 --> 00:21:21.200
Oh, I'll get you for that. What were you doing
532
00:21:21.259 --> 00:21:22.819
in here last night? Answer me that.
533
00:21:23.220 --> 00:21:24.259
Looking for the bodies.
534
00:21:25.019 --> 00:21:25.160
What?
535
00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:28.480
Looking for the bodies. The bodies of your wife and Dr. Ernest.
536
00:21:28.660 --> 00:21:29.779
What have you done with them? I dare you.
537
00:21:30.579 --> 00:21:31.180
How dare you?
538
00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:32.059
You murder them in this room.
539
00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:32.740
We have ample proof.
540
00:21:32.779 --> 00:21:34.519
Why, you... Stop him, Watson.
541
00:21:34.539 --> 00:21:34.799
Stop him.
542
00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:36.220
He's got a capsule in his hand. It's poison. He's
543
00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:37.099
going to swallow it.
544
00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:37.480
No, no, no.
545
00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:37.720
Come on.
546
00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:38.220
Hit it out.
547
00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:40.000
Hit it out. Hit it out or I'll choke you. No,
548
00:21:40.019 --> 00:21:43.000
short track, Mr. Ambley, if you please. Everything decently and
549
00:21:43.019 --> 00:21:45.509
in its proper place. Take him away, Lestrade. Right. Come
550
00:21:45.529 --> 00:21:45.990
along now.
551
00:21:46.029 --> 00:21:46.869
No more monkey business.
552
00:21:46.890 --> 00:21:47.509
I won't put up with that.
553
00:21:47.569 --> 00:21:48.190
All right.
554
00:21:48.250 --> 00:21:48.549
Phew.
555
00:21:49.029 --> 00:21:49.730
What a scene.
556
00:21:51.049 --> 00:21:53.009
That old brute Ambley's a murderer.
557
00:21:54.049 --> 00:21:56.089
How did you find it out? Well, the first clue
558
00:21:56.109 --> 00:21:59.029
was the theater ticket. which he didn't use. We found
559
00:21:59.049 --> 00:21:59.349
that out.
560
00:21:59.470 --> 00:22:00.769
Oh, that destroyed his alibi.
561
00:22:00.789 --> 00:22:02.829
Yes, the theater people assured us that there had been
562
00:22:02.849 --> 00:22:05.609
two empty seats, not just one. The second clue was
563
00:22:05.630 --> 00:22:08.230
the smell of fresh paint. What was he trying to
564
00:22:08.269 --> 00:22:08.869
hide by that?
565
00:22:09.289 --> 00:22:09.509
What?
566
00:22:10.250 --> 00:22:13.569
Gas. He asphyxiated his wife and Dr. Ernst in this room.
567
00:22:13.690 --> 00:22:14.390
Good heavens.
568
00:22:14.569 --> 00:22:17.069
His strong room, which was as near airtight as anything
569
00:22:17.089 --> 00:22:20.410
could humanly possibly be. But how? Well, that's what I
570
00:22:20.450 --> 00:22:23.329
wanted to find out. That's what I was looking for
571
00:22:23.349 --> 00:22:24.710
when I broke into the house last night. And what
572
00:22:24.730 --> 00:22:28.049
did you find? Look here. Notice the gas pipe along
573
00:22:28.069 --> 00:22:31.259
the skirting here. It rises in the wall in the
574
00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:33.640
angle there and ends in that plaster rose in the
575
00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:36.059
center of the ceiling where it's concealed by that ornamentation.
576
00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:37.460
The end's wide open.
577
00:22:37.779 --> 00:22:39.019
Oh, how horrible.
578
00:22:39.220 --> 00:22:42.259
Yes, then look here. Look, near the floor. What do
579
00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:42.660
you make out?
580
00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:44.700
Two words written on the wall.
581
00:22:45.460 --> 00:22:46.759
We were.
582
00:22:46.859 --> 00:22:48.720
Then a scroll.
583
00:22:49.390 --> 00:22:49.730
We were.
584
00:22:49.890 --> 00:22:50.690
What does that mean?
585
00:22:50.990 --> 00:22:53.950
The poor devil was trying to write, we were murdered.
586
00:22:54.690 --> 00:22:57.569
I can see the whole ghastly scene. It was last
587
00:22:57.609 --> 00:23:00.829
Thursday night. Amberley had lured his wife and Dr. Ernest
588
00:23:00.869 --> 00:23:11.319
into this room.
589
00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:19.200
Oh, listen to that wind. I wish it would stop.
590
00:23:19.259 --> 00:23:20.400
It's not so bad in this room.
591
00:23:20.420 --> 00:23:22.940
Have a little game in here, eh, Dr.
592
00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:25.160
Ernest? Just you sit here, Amberley.
593
00:23:25.950 --> 00:23:28.160
Entertain the doctor while I go and look for the chessmen.
594
00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:29.779
Excuse me for a minute, Dr.
595
00:23:29.859 --> 00:23:30.099
Ernest.
596
00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:33.119
Certainly. And if you don't mind, I'll close the door.
597
00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:34.140
It's such a draught.
598
00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:37.160
It'll be much cozier in here with the door closed.
599
00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:38.640
Much cozier.
600
00:23:40.180 --> 00:23:43.829
If that wind only wouldn't hold. I feel so depressed.
601
00:23:44.170 --> 00:23:46.029
Is there something terrible going to happen?
602
00:23:46.049 --> 00:23:47.009
Nonsense, my dear Mrs.
603
00:23:47.150 --> 00:23:47.450
Amberley.
604
00:23:47.910 --> 00:23:49.130
This house is getting on your nerves.
605
00:23:49.650 --> 00:23:51.930
Is there any wonder? It gets worse and worse.
606
00:23:52.589 --> 00:23:54.210
Oh, Dr. Ernest, I'm so frightened.
607
00:23:54.670 --> 00:23:55.569
You must go away, please.
608
00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:56.980
Now, don't be alarmed, Mrs.
609
00:23:57.039 --> 00:23:57.319
Amberley.
610
00:23:57.720 --> 00:23:59.640
I've had your husband under observation for some time.
611
00:24:00.220 --> 00:24:01.539
I'm afraid he isn't quite normal.
612
00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:04.799
It, uh, it isn't safe for you to stay here
613
00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:05.359
any longer.
614
00:24:05.460 --> 00:24:07.299
But, Dr. Ernest, don't you understand?
615
00:24:07.900 --> 00:24:10.500
I can't leave my husband. Heaven knows what would happen
616
00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:11.319
if I left him alone.
617
00:24:11.339 --> 00:24:12.359
We could get a nurse to.
618
00:24:12.299 --> 00:24:12.779
Take care of him.
619
00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:14.240
You can't stay here with him.
620
00:24:15.940 --> 00:24:16.420
What was that?
621
00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:17.640
Josiah, he heard us.
622
00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:20.240
He was outside the door listening.
623
00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:21.380
Oh, Dr. Ernest, this is terrible.
624
00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:25.400
What can we do? Listen. You hear that? It's the cat.
625
00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:27.579
Someone's turned on the gas.
626
00:24:27.970 --> 00:24:29.059
I can smell it. Hurry, hurry.
627
00:24:29.099 --> 00:24:30.880
We've got to get out of here. What?
628
00:24:31.420 --> 00:24:32.180
The door's locked.
629
00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:33.019
He's locked the door.
630
00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:33.460
Emily.
631
00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:35.359
I say, Emily, open the door. Quick.
632
00:24:35.460 --> 00:24:36.240
The window.
633
00:24:37.779 --> 00:24:39.839
It's locked too.
634
00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:41.119
The iron shutters.
635
00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:41.579
Emily.
636
00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:43.279
Emily, let us out.
637
00:24:43.539 --> 00:24:48.059
He'll realize what this means. He's going to kill us.
638
00:24:48.900 --> 00:24:50.579
He must have gone mad, I'm afraid.
639
00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:52.170
Yes, yes. It's what I was afraid of.
640
00:24:52.180 --> 00:24:53.240
He's a maniac.
641
00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:54.519
A homicidal maniac.
642
00:24:55.339 --> 00:24:59.339
Oh, this is horrible. We're trapped. What a fool I was.
643
00:24:59.380 --> 00:25:00.019
What can we do?
644
00:25:01.740 --> 00:25:03.099
I feel so faint.
645
00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:05.440
I can hardly breathe.
646
00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:06.289
Here, here.
647
00:25:06.829 --> 00:25:07.549
Lie down on the floor.
648
00:25:07.630 --> 00:25:10.309
Yeah, it's better down here.
649
00:25:10.849 --> 00:25:15.190
It's no use. I can't.
650
00:25:16.529 --> 00:25:17.349
Stay awake.
651
00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:26.019
I don't mind anymore. I'm quite all right. Really?
652
00:25:27.140 --> 00:25:27.420
Mrs.
653
00:25:27.460 --> 00:25:29.000
Emberley. Mrs.
654
00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:29.400
Emberley.
655
00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:32.240
Don't give up. I.
656
00:25:33.019 --> 00:25:34.019
I feel pain, too.
657
00:25:35.140 --> 00:25:36.059
I must warn people.
658
00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:39.079
It's dangerous. I.
659
00:25:39.220 --> 00:25:40.039
I can't think.
660
00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:42.500
Oh, God. I.
661
00:25:43.299 --> 00:25:46.720
I can't breathe. I can't think.
662
00:25:46.990 --> 00:25:47.509
I can't think.
663
00:26:00.210 --> 00:26:03.880
What a tragic story, Dr. Watson. And was Mr. Amberley insane?
664
00:26:03.900 --> 00:26:04.980
They decided he was.
665
00:26:05.180 --> 00:26:06.980
He ended his days in an asylum.
666
00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:09.099
Did they ever find the body? Yes, at the bottom
667
00:26:09.140 --> 00:26:11.880
of an old well, the opening of which had been cleverly.
668
00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:13.019
Concealed by a dog cat.
669
00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:13.619
I see.
670
00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:17.440
And now I'm afraid it's time to say goodbye.
671
00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:18.519
Well, not goodbye, Dr.
672
00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:18.880
Watson.
673
00:26:18.900 --> 00:26:20.769
Au revoir. Oh, just as you say, Mr.
674
00:26:20.789 --> 00:26:21.049
Manning.
675
00:26:21.869 --> 00:26:25.069
Anyway, in conclusion, I want to thank you and our
676
00:26:25.130 --> 00:26:27.130
radio audiences who have so.
677
00:26:27.069 --> 00:26:30.730
Patiently listened to the reminiscences of us. of a sentimental
678
00:26:30.789 --> 00:26:31.250
old fellow.
679
00:26:31.970 --> 00:26:34.009
And I want to wish you all, old.
680
00:26:33.990 --> 00:26:36.630
And young, an extremely happy summer.
681
00:26:37.130 --> 00:26:37.609
Thank you, Dr.
682
00:26:37.609 --> 00:26:40.880
Watson. Ladies and gentlemen, in just a moment, Basil Rathbone
683
00:26:40.890 --> 00:26:42.140
would like to say a few words to you.
684
00:26:42.579 --> 00:26:44.660
But first, may I give you a word of advice?
685
00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:48.519
Remember the danger of the so-called common cold. Remember the
686
00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:51.099
sickness it can cause and the bills it can cost.
687
00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:55.079
Act promptly, decisively, at the first sign of a cold.
688
00:26:55.579 --> 00:27:00.119
Take famous bromoquinine tablets. Bromo quinine tablets have a reputation.
689
00:27:00.500 --> 00:27:03.559
Their fame extends to all quarters of the globe. Their
690
00:27:03.619 --> 00:27:07.140
merit is an assured fact. Reliability is the one thing
691
00:27:07.180 --> 00:27:10.000
you want in any medicine, especially in a medicine for
692
00:27:10.019 --> 00:27:10.839
the relief of cold.
693
00:27:11.420 --> 00:27:15.000
Don't wait. Don't procrastinate when you feel a cold coming on.
694
00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:17.180
Go right to your druggist and get a box of
695
00:27:17.220 --> 00:27:20.720
bromo quinine tablets. The small cost may save you a
696
00:27:20.779 --> 00:27:24.859
lot in grief and expense. Ask clearly for bromo quinine
697
00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:30.609
cold tablets. And now, here's Basil Rathbone. Ladies and gentlemen,
698
00:27:31.349 --> 00:27:34.230
to me, Sherlock Holmes has always been... one of the
699
00:27:34.250 --> 00:27:38.829
greatest characters ever created. Tonight, as our present series ends,
700
00:27:38.970 --> 00:27:43.289
I'd like to thank our sponsor, the makers of Bromoquinine...
701
00:27:42.710 --> 00:27:45.200
for giving me the opportunity of playing Holmes on the air.
702
00:27:46.380 --> 00:27:49.539
Especially with such an inspired Dr. Watson as tonight's Bruce.
703
00:27:49.700 --> 00:27:51.119
Oh, Basil, I... Please.
704
00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:54.539
Oh, sorry, I won't. Speaking for myself and Mr. Bruce...
705
00:27:54.900 --> 00:27:58.309
May I express our gratitude to our radio audience for
706
00:27:58.329 --> 00:28:01.509
the many letters of interest and encouragement that we've received.
707
00:28:02.150 --> 00:28:05.430
And finally, a word of appreciation to all the performers
708
00:28:05.789 --> 00:28:08.609
and others concerned with this program who have helped so
709
00:28:08.670 --> 00:28:13.079
immeasurably in making the Baker Street days live again. And now,
710
00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:16.799
until fall, it's time for me too to say, au
711
00:28:16.819 --> 00:28:18.099
revoir and good luck.
712
00:28:19.099 --> 00:28:21.099
¶ ¶.
713
00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:28.619
You have been listening to a Sherlock Holmes adventure adapted
714
00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:31.569
by Edith Miser from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story, The
715
00:28:31.609 --> 00:28:36.210
Retired Colorman, with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel
716
00:28:36.230 --> 00:28:40.329
Bruce as Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes series was produced
717
00:28:40.430 --> 00:28:44.019
by Tom McKnight. This program was presented from Hollywood by
718
00:28:44.059 --> 00:28:47.819
the makers of Bromo Quinine Cold Tablets, quick relief for colds.
719
00:28:48.460 --> 00:29:00.579
This is Knox Manning speaking. This is the National Anthem.