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of 13 Great George Street Westminster. 01:48.025 --> 01:54.889 [SPEAKER_00]: Louis Leroth here of Campton Manchins Notting Hill, and Hugo Obestine 13 Callfield Gardens Kensington. 01:55.929 --> 01:59.872 [SPEAKER_00]: The latter was known to be in town on Monday and is now reported as having left. 02:00.712 --> 02:02.434 [SPEAKER_00]: Glad to hear you have seen some light. 02:02.994 --> 02:06.456 [SPEAKER_00]: The cabinet awaits your final report with the utmost anxiety. 02:07.237 --> 02:10.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Urgent representations have arrived from the very highest quarter. 02:11.220 --> 02:15.163 [SPEAKER_00]: The whole force of the state is at your back if you should need it. 02:16.184 --> 02:16.725 [SPEAKER_00]: Mycroft. 02:20.147 --> 02:27.193 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm afraid, said Holmes smiling, that all the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men cannot avail in this matter. 02:29.035 --> 02:32.298 [SPEAKER_00]: He had spread out his big map of London and leaned eagerly over it. 02:34.119 --> 02:38.463 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, well, said he presently with an exclamation of satisfaction, 02:39.925 --> 02:43.066 [SPEAKER_00]: Things are turning a little in our direction at last. 02:43.946 --> 02:48.827 [SPEAKER_00]: Why Watson, I do honestly believe that we are going to pull it off after all. 02:50.667 --> 02:53.508 [SPEAKER_00]: He slapped me on the shoulder with a sudden burst of hilarity. 02:55.368 --> 02:58.149 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going out now, it is only a reconnaissance. 02:59.009 --> 03:03.190 [SPEAKER_00]: I will do nothing serious without my trusted comrade and biographer at my elbow. 03:03.670 --> 03:07.491 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you stay here, and the odds are that you will see me again in an arrow too. 03:08.655 --> 03:13.319 [SPEAKER_00]: If time hangs heavy, get fools' cap and a pen and begin your narrative of how we save the state. 03:16.861 --> 03:19.743 [SPEAKER_00]: I felt some reflection of his elation in my own mind. 03:20.504 --> 03:27.369 [SPEAKER_00]: For I knew well that he would not depart so far from his usual austerity of demeanor, unless there was good cause for exaltation. 03:29.311 --> 03:33.614 [SPEAKER_00]: All the long November evening I waited, filled with impatience for his return. 03:35.571 --> 03:40.154 [SPEAKER_00]: At last, shortly after nine o'clock, they arrived a messenger with a note. 03:42.135 --> 03:45.497 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm dining at Galdini's restaurant Gloster Road, Kensington. 03:46.257 --> 03:47.918 [SPEAKER_00]: Please come at once and join me there. 03:48.619 --> 03:52.861 [SPEAKER_00]: Bring with you a gemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. 03:54.102 --> 03:54.622 [SPEAKER_00]: S-H. 03:58.144 --> 04:03.027 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim fog draped streets. 04:05.052 --> 04:09.855 [SPEAKER_00]: I stowed them all discreetly away in my overcoat and drove straight to the address given. 04:11.696 --> 04:16.498 [SPEAKER_00]: There sat my friend at a little round table near the door of the Garish Italian restaurant. 04:19.980 --> 04:20.941 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you had something to eat? 04:21.961 --> 04:26.343 [SPEAKER_00]: Then join me in a coffee and curacao, try one of the proprietors cigars. 04:27.224 --> 04:29.405 [SPEAKER_00]: They are less poisonous than one would expect. 04:30.346 --> 04:31.066 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you the tools? 04:34.537 --> 04:35.938 [SPEAKER_00]: But they are here in my overcoat. 04:39.521 --> 04:39.882 [SPEAKER_00]: Excellent. 04:40.722 --> 04:45.367 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me give you a short sketch of what I have done with some indication of what we are about to do. 04:46.568 --> 04:52.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it must be evident to you Watson that this young man's body was placed on the roof of the train. 04:53.193 --> 04:59.479 [SPEAKER_00]: That was clear from the instant that I determined the fact that it was from the roof and not from a carriage that he had fallen. 05:02.808 --> 05:04.409 [SPEAKER_00]: could it not have been dropped from a bridge? 05:07.970 --> 05:09.311 [SPEAKER_00]: I should say it was impossible. 05:09.991 --> 05:14.833 [SPEAKER_00]: If you examine the roofs, you will find that they are slightly rounded and there is no railing round them. 05:15.873 --> 05:19.635 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, we can say for certain that young Caduggan West was placed on it. 05:23.076 --> 05:24.197 [SPEAKER_00]: How could he be placed there? 05:33.437 --> 05:38.018 [SPEAKER_00]: You are aware that the underground runs clear of tunnels at some points in the West End. 05:39.059 --> 05:44.941 [SPEAKER_00]: I had a vague memory that, as I have travelled by it, I have occasionally seen Windows just above my head. 05:45.721 --> 05:49.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, suppose that a train halted under such a window. 05:50.642 --> 05:53.623 [SPEAKER_00]: Would there be any difficulty in laying a body upon the roof? 05:57.245 --> 05:58.585 [SPEAKER_00]: It seems most improbable. 06:02.023 --> 06:10.490 [SPEAKER_00]: We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. 06:11.530 --> 06:14.052 [SPEAKER_00]: Here, all other contingencies have failed. 06:15.433 --> 06:27.563 [SPEAKER_00]: When I found that the leading international agent who had just left London, lived in a row of houses which are butted upon the underground, I was so pleased that you were a little astonished at my sudden frivolity. 06:31.017 --> 06:32.019 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that was it, was it? 06:35.464 --> 06:36.245 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that was it. 06:36.806 --> 06:42.675 [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Hugo Obestine of 13 Callfield Gardens had become my objective. 06:42.695 --> 06:45.239 [SPEAKER_00]: I began my operations at Gloster Road Station. 06:46.047 --> 07:06.198 [SPEAKER_00]: where a very helpful official walked with me along the track and allowed me to satisfy myself not only that the backstair windows of coolfield gardens open on the line, but the even more essential fact that, owing to the intersection of one of the larger railways, the underground trains are frequently held motionless for some minutes at that very spot. 07:09.700 --> 07:11.061 [SPEAKER_00]: Splendid Holmes, you have got it. 07:14.759 --> 07:16.900 [SPEAKER_00]: so far, so far Watson. 07:17.760 --> 07:19.741 [SPEAKER_00]: We advance, but the goal is a far. 07:20.441 --> 07:27.483 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, having seen the back of callfield gardens, I visited the front and satisfied myself that the bird was indeed flown. 07:28.263 --> 07:32.685 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a considerable house, unfurnished so far as I could judge in the upper rooms. 07:33.545 --> 07:38.907 [SPEAKER_00]: Oberstein lived there with a single valley, who was probably a Confederate entirely in his confidence. 07:39.665 --> 07:53.249 [SPEAKER_00]: We must bear in mind that Obestine has gone to the continent to dispose of his booty, but not with any idea of flight for he had no reason to fear a warrant, and the idea of an amateur domiciliary visit would certainly never occur to him. 07:54.249 --> 07:56.709 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet that is precisely what we are about to make. 08:00.110 --> 08:02.051 [SPEAKER_00]: Could we not get a warrant and legalize it? 08:10.253 --> 08:11.294 [SPEAKER_00]: What can we hope to do? 08:14.735 --> 08:17.117 [SPEAKER_00]: We cannot tell what correspondence may be there. 08:20.558 --> 08:21.519 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like it homes. 08:25.021 --> 08:27.322 [SPEAKER_00]: My dear fellow, you shall keep watching the street. 08:28.142 --> 08:29.463 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll do the criminal part. 08:29.823 --> 08:31.384 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a time to stick at trifles. 08:32.410 --> 08:40.452 [SPEAKER_00]: Think of Mycroft's note of the Admiralty, the Cabinet, the exalted person who waits for news, we are bound to go. 08:44.012 --> 08:45.953 [SPEAKER_00]: My answer was to rise from the table. 08:49.413 --> 08:51.954 [SPEAKER_00]: You are right homes, we are bound to go. 08:55.455 --> 08:57.195 [SPEAKER_00]: He sprang up and shook me by the hand. 09:00.752 --> 09:09.215 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew you would not shrink at the last," said he, and for a moment I saw something in his eyes which was nearer to tenderness than I had ever seen. 09:11.016 --> 09:15.017 [SPEAKER_00]: The next instant, he was his masterful practical self once more. 09:18.499 --> 09:24.481 [SPEAKER_00]: It is nearly half a mile but there is no hurry let us walk," said he, don't drop the instrument's eye bag. 09:33.173 --> 09:42.658 [SPEAKER_00]: The cool-field gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillard, and porticoat houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the west end of London. 09:44.519 --> 09:51.063 [SPEAKER_00]: Next door there appeared to be a children's party for the merry buzz of young voices and the clatter of a piano resounded through the night. 09:52.964 --> 09:56.146 [SPEAKER_00]: The fog still hung about and screened us with its friendly shade. 10:04.533 --> 10:07.075 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a serious proposition, said he. 10:07.755 --> 10:09.656 [SPEAKER_00]: It is certainly bolted as well as locked. 10:10.477 --> 10:11.917 [SPEAKER_00]: We would do better in the area. 10:12.618 --> 10:17.541 [SPEAKER_00]: There is an excellent archway down Yonder in case a two-zealous policemen should intrude. 10:18.241 --> 10:20.543 [SPEAKER_00]: Give me a hand-watch and I'll do the same for you. 10:24.105 --> 10:25.926 [SPEAKER_00]: A minute later, we were both in the area. 10:27.667 --> 10:32.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Hardly had we reached the dark shadows before the step of the policemen was heard in the fog above. 10:34.321 --> 10:38.402 [SPEAKER_00]: As its soft rhythm died away, Holmes set to work upon the lower door. 10:40.303 --> 10:43.444 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw him stoop and strained until with a sharp crash it flew open. 10:45.285 --> 10:49.346 [SPEAKER_00]: We sprang through into the dark passage, closing the area door behind us. 10:51.226 --> 10:53.927 [SPEAKER_00]: Holmes led the way up the curving, uncappeted stare. 10:55.868 --> 10:58.769 [SPEAKER_00]: His little fan of yellow light shone upon a low window. 11:02.260 --> 11:04.422 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we are Watson, this must be the one. 11:06.404 --> 11:15.112 [SPEAKER_00]: He threw it open, and as he did so, there was a low harsh murmur, growing steadily into a loud roar as a train dashed past us in the darkness. 11:17.074 --> 11:19.216 [SPEAKER_00]: Homes swept his light along the window sill. 11:21.118 --> 11:26.964 [SPEAKER_00]: It was thickly coated with sweat from the passing engines, but the black surface was blurred and rubbed in places. 11:30.562 --> 11:32.223 [SPEAKER_00]: you can see where they rested the body. 11:33.284 --> 11:35.305 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello Watson, what is this? 11:36.446 --> 11:38.407 [SPEAKER_00]: There can be no doubt that it is a bloodmark. 11:40.248 --> 11:43.450 [SPEAKER_00]: He was pointing to faintest colorations along the woodwork of the window. 11:45.211 --> 11:47.273 [SPEAKER_00]: Here it is on the stone of the stair also. 11:47.793 --> 11:49.234 [SPEAKER_00]: The demonstration is complete. 11:50.035 --> 11:52.056 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us stay here until a train stops. 11:55.558 --> 11:56.779 [SPEAKER_00]: We had not long to wait. 11:58.777 --> 12:07.405 [SPEAKER_00]: The very next train roared from the tunnel as before, but slowed in the open and then with a creaking of brakes pulled up immediately beneath us. 12:09.426 --> 12:12.769 [SPEAKER_00]: It was not four feet from the window ledge to the roof of the carriages. 12:14.531 --> 12:16.092 [SPEAKER_00]: Home softly closed the window. 12:19.475 --> 12:21.597 [SPEAKER_00]: So far we are justified, said he. 12:22.638 --> 12:23.899 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think of it Watson? 12:27.353 --> 12:29.954 [SPEAKER_00]: a masterpiece who have never risen to a greater height. 12:33.474 --> 12:43.076 [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot agree with you there, from the moment that I conceived the idea of the body being upon the roof, which surely was not a very obstruous one, all the rest was inevitable. 12:44.237 --> 12:49.018 [SPEAKER_00]: If it were not for the grave interests involved the affair up to this point would be insignificant. 12:49.798 --> 12:55.079 [SPEAKER_00]: Our difficulties are still before us, but perhaps we may find something here which may 12:59.207 --> 13:03.150 [SPEAKER_00]: We had ascended the kitchen stair and entered the suite of rooms upon the first floor. 13:05.092 --> 13:08.935 [SPEAKER_00]: One was a dining room, severely furnished and containing nothing of interest. 13:10.796 --> 13:13.559 [SPEAKER_00]: A second was a bedroom, which also drew black. 13:15.380 --> 13:21.245 [SPEAKER_00]: The remaining room appeared more promising and my companion settled down to a systematic examination. 13:23.026 --> 13:27.590 [SPEAKER_00]: It was littered with books and papers and was evidently used as a study. 13:29.422 --> 13:35.324 [SPEAKER_00]: Swiftly and methodically, homes turned over the contents of draw after draw and cupboard after cupboard. 13:36.105 --> 13:39.426 [SPEAKER_00]: But no gleam of success came to brighten his austere face. 13:41.387 --> 13:44.808 [SPEAKER_00]: At the end of an hour, he was no further than when he started. 13:48.349 --> 13:50.550 [SPEAKER_00]: The cunning dog has covered his tracks, said he. 13:51.050 --> 13:52.691 [SPEAKER_00]: He has left nothing to incriminate him. 13:53.291 --> 13:56.372 [SPEAKER_00]: His dangerous correspondence has been destroyed or removed. 14:01.873 --> 14:05.194 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a small tin cash box which stood upon the writing desk. 14:07.054 --> 14:08.934 [SPEAKER_00]: Homes pried it open with his chisel. 14:10.775 --> 14:17.436 [SPEAKER_00]: Several rows of paper were within, covered with figures and calculations without any note to show to what they referred. 14:19.256 --> 14:26.677 [SPEAKER_00]: The recurring words of water pressure and pressure to the square inch suggested some possible relation to a submarine. 14:28.578 --> 14:31.098 [SPEAKER_00]: Homes tossed them all impatiently aside, 14:32.992 --> 14:36.760 [SPEAKER_00]: They're only remained an envelope with some small newspaper slips inside it. 14:38.603 --> 14:43.894 [SPEAKER_00]: He shook them out on the table and at once I saw by his eager face that his hopes had been raised. 14:47.342 --> 14:47.742 [SPEAKER_00]: What's this? 14:47.802 --> 14:48.402 [SPEAKER_00]: What's an A? 14:49.082 --> 14:49.542 [SPEAKER_00]: What's this? 14:50.283 --> 14:53.683 [SPEAKER_00]: Record of a series of messages in the advertisements of a paper. 14:54.384 --> 14:57.124 [SPEAKER_00]: Daily telegraph agony column by the print and paper. 14:57.764 --> 14:59.505 [SPEAKER_00]: Right hand top corner of a page. 14:59.965 --> 15:00.625 [SPEAKER_00]: No dates. 15:01.245 --> 15:02.865 [SPEAKER_00]: But messages arrange themselves. 15:03.826 --> 15:05.446 [SPEAKER_00]: This must be the first. 15:07.386 --> 15:08.447 [SPEAKER_00]: Hope to hear sooner. 15:09.007 --> 15:09.947 [SPEAKER_00]: Terms agreed to. 15:10.707 --> 15:12.888 [SPEAKER_00]: Write fully to address given on card. 15:13.568 --> 15:14.008 [SPEAKER_00]: Piero. 15:17.531 --> 15:46.488 [SPEAKER_00]: Next comes Two complex for description Must have full report Stuff awaits you when goods delivered Piero Then comes Matter presses Must withdraw offer unless contract completed Make appointment by letter Will confirm by advertisement Piero Finally 15:48.331 --> 15:59.079 [SPEAKER_00]: Monday night after 9, 2 taps, only ourselves, do not be so suspicious, payment in hard cash when goods delivered, Piero. 16:02.661 --> 16:07.265 [SPEAKER_00]: Affairly complete record Watson, if we could only get at the man at the other end. 16:09.046 --> 16:12.389 [SPEAKER_00]: He sat lost in thought, tapping his fingers on the table. 16:19.158 --> 16:21.360 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, perhaps it won't be so difficult after all. 16:21.920 --> 16:23.841 [SPEAKER_00]: There is nothing more to be done here, Watson. 16:24.302 --> 16:30.486 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we might drive round to the offices of the daily telegraph, and so bring a good day's work to a conclusion. 16:35.469 --> 16:44.636 [SPEAKER_00]: Mycroft Holmes and Lestrade had come round by appointment after breakfast next day, and Sherlock Holmes had recounted to them our proceedings of the day before. 16:46.507 --> 16:49.448 [SPEAKER_00]: The professional shook his head over our confessed burglary. 16:52.910 --> 17:03.475 [SPEAKER_00]: We can't do these things in the force Mr. Holmes said he, no wonder you get results that are beyond us, but some of these days you'll go too far and you'll find yourself and your friend in trouble. 17:06.897 --> 17:13.120 [SPEAKER_00]: For England, home and beauty, A Watson, martyrs on the altar of our country, but what do you think of it, my craft? 17:16.664 --> 17:20.587 [SPEAKER_00]: excellent Sherlock, admirable, but what use would you make of it? 17:24.050 --> 17:26.993 [SPEAKER_00]: Homes picked up the daily telegraph which lay upon the table. 17:30.475 --> 17:32.597 [SPEAKER_00]: Have you seen Piero's advertisement today? 17:36.300 --> 17:37.201 [SPEAKER_00]: What, another one? 17:40.664 --> 17:41.785 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, here it is. 17:43.739 --> 17:53.608 [SPEAKER_00]: Tonight, same hour, same place, two taps, most vitally important, your own safety at stake, Piero. 17:56.991 --> 18:00.975 [SPEAKER_00]: By George, Criedless Strud, if he answers that, we've got him. 18:04.472 --> 18:06.373 [SPEAKER_00]: That was my idea when I put it in. 18:07.153 --> 18:15.436 [SPEAKER_00]: I think if you could both make it convenient to come with us about eight o'clock to call field gardens, we might possibly get a little nearer to a solution. 18:20.578 --> 18:33.183 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the most remarkable characteristics of Sherlock Holmes was his power of throwing his brain out of action and switching all his thoughts on to lighter things whenever he had convinced himself that he could no longer work to advantage. 18:35.096 --> 18:42.920 [SPEAKER_00]: I remember that during the whole of that memorable day he lost himself in a monograph, which he had undertaken upon the polyphonic motets of Lassus. 18:44.801 --> 18:50.144 [SPEAKER_00]: For my own part I had none of this power of detachment and the day in consequence appeared to be interminable. 18:51.885 --> 19:01.830 [SPEAKER_00]: The great national importance of the issue, the suspense in high quarters, the direct nature of the experiment which we were trying, all combined to work upon my nerve. 19:03.693 --> 19:08.156 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a relief to me when at last, after a light dinner, we set out upon our expedition. 19:09.877 --> 19:14.200 [SPEAKER_00]: Lestrard and Mycroft met us by appointment at the outside of Gloucester Road Station. 19:16.061 --> 19:28.670 [SPEAKER_00]: The area door of Oberstein's house had been left open the night before, and it was necessary for me as Mycroft homes absolutely and indignantly declined to climb the railings to pass in and open the hall door. 19:30.619 --> 19:35.341 [SPEAKER_00]: By 9 o'clock we were all seated in the study, waiting patiently for our man. 19:38.843 --> 19:40.343 [SPEAKER_00]: An hour passed and yet another. 19:42.164 --> 19:47.046 [SPEAKER_00]: When eleven struck the measured beat of the great church clock seemed to sound the derg of our hopes. 19:49.007 --> 19:53.549 [SPEAKER_00]: Lestrade and mycroft were fidgeting in their seats and looking twice a minute at their watches. 20:01.315 --> 20:03.036 [SPEAKER_00]: he raised his head with a sudden jerk. 20:06.479 --> 20:08.060 [SPEAKER_00]: He is coming, said he. 20:11.463 --> 20:13.304 [SPEAKER_00]: There had been a fertive step past the door. 20:15.205 --> 20:16.126 [SPEAKER_00]: Now it returned. 20:17.987 --> 20:22.411 [SPEAKER_00]: We heard a shuffling sound outside, and then two sharp taps with the knocker. 20:24.132 --> 20:26.394 [SPEAKER_00]: Homes rose, motioning us to remain seated. 20:28.255 --> 20:30.637 [SPEAKER_00]: The gas in the hall was a mere point of light, 20:32.500 --> 20:37.903 [SPEAKER_00]: he opened the outer door, and then as a dark figure slipped past him he closed and fussened it. 20:39.845 --> 20:45.068 [SPEAKER_00]: This way, we heard him say, and a moment later our man stood before us. 20:46.989 --> 20:54.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Homes had followed him closely, and as the man turned with a cry of surprise and alarm he caught him by the collar and threw him back into the room. 20:56.495 --> 21:01.218 [SPEAKER_00]: Before our prisoner had recovered his balance the door was shut, and Homes standing with 21:04.107 --> 21:07.549 [SPEAKER_00]: The man glared round him staggered and fell senseless upon the floor. 21:09.430 --> 21:21.137 [SPEAKER_00]: With the shock, his broad brimmed hat flew from his head, his crevats slipped down from his lips, and there were the long-light beard and the soft handsome delicate features of Colonel Valentine Walter. 21:24.480 --> 21:26.081 [SPEAKER_00]: Holmes gave a whistle of surprise. 21:33.725 --> 21:35.907 [SPEAKER_00]: This was not the bird that I was looking for. 21:39.350 --> 21:41.652 [SPEAKER_00]: Who is he, asked my craft eagerly? 21:44.975 --> 21:49.679 [SPEAKER_00]: The younger brother of the late Sir James Walter, the head of the submarine department. 21:50.900 --> 21:53.182 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, I see the fall of the cards. 21:54.043 --> 21:54.864 [SPEAKER_00]: He is coming to. 21:55.905 --> 21:58.507 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that you had best leave his examination to me. 22:01.903 --> 22:04.264 [SPEAKER_00]: We had carried the prostrate body to the sofa. 22:06.025 --> 22:14.850 [SPEAKER_00]: Now our prisoner sat up, looked round him with a horror-stricken face and passed his hand over his forehead, like one who cannot believe his own senses. 22:18.311 --> 22:19.352 [SPEAKER_00]: What is this he asked? 22:19.452 --> 22:21.233 [SPEAKER_00]: I came here to visit Mr. Oberstein. 22:24.775 --> 22:27.516 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything is known, Colonel Walter, said Holmes. 22:28.907 --> 22:37.752 [SPEAKER_00]: How an English gentleman could behave in such a manner is beyond my comprehension, but your whole correspondence and relations with Obestine are within our knowledge. 22:38.432 --> 22:42.815 [SPEAKER_00]: So also are the circumstances connected with the death of young Cadogan West. 22:43.795 --> 22:52.460 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me advise you to gain at least the small credit for repentance and confession, since there are still some details which we can only learn from your lips. 23:00.223 --> 23:02.184 [SPEAKER_00]: We waited, but he was silent. 23:05.806 --> 23:10.088 [SPEAKER_00]: I can assure you, said Holmes, that every essential is already known. 23:11.168 --> 23:23.574 [SPEAKER_00]: We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held, and that you entered into a correspondence with Oberstein who answered your letters through the advertisement columns of the Daily Telegraph. 23:25.035 --> 23:28.337 [SPEAKER_00]: We are aware that you went down to the office in the fog on Monday night. 23:28.962 --> 23:35.066 [SPEAKER_00]: but that you were seen and followed by young Codagan West, who had probably some previous reason to suspect you. 23:35.726 --> 23:37.867 [SPEAKER_00]: He saw your theft but could not give the alarm. 23:38.427 --> 23:51.235 [SPEAKER_00]: As it was just possible that you were taking the papers to your brother in London, leaving all his private concerns like the good citizen that he was he followed you closely in the fog and kept at your heels until you reached this very house. 23:52.337 --> 23:59.340 [SPEAKER_00]: There he intervened, and then it was Colonel Walter that to trees and you added the more terrible crime of murder. 24:02.841 --> 24:09.704 [SPEAKER_00]: I did not, I did not, before God I swear that I did not, cried our wretched prisoner. 24:13.065 --> 24:17.827 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell us then how Caduggan West met his end before you laid him upon the roof of a railway carriage. 24:21.334 --> 24:21.634 [SPEAKER_00]: I will. 24:22.095 --> 24:23.336 [SPEAKER_00]: I swear to you that I will. 24:24.116 --> 24:24.857 [SPEAKER_00]: I did the rest. 24:25.077 --> 24:25.738 [SPEAKER_00]: I confess it. 24:26.498 --> 24:27.559 [SPEAKER_00]: It was just as you say. 24:28.880 --> 24:30.782 [SPEAKER_00]: A stock exchange debt had to be paid. 24:31.823 --> 24:33.104 [SPEAKER_00]: I needed the money badly. 24:33.944 --> 24:35.746 [SPEAKER_00]: Obestine offered me 5,000. 24:36.226 --> 24:39.949 [SPEAKER_00]: It was to save myself from ruin but as to murder I'm as innocent as you. 24:43.672 --> 24:44.613 [SPEAKER_00]: What happened then? 24:50.835 --> 24:52.736 [SPEAKER_00]: and he followed me as you described. 24:53.817 --> 24:56.139 [SPEAKER_00]: I never knew it until I was at the very door. 24:57.480 --> 25:00.702 [SPEAKER_00]: It was thick fog, and one could not see three yards. 25:01.602 --> 25:05.005 [SPEAKER_00]: I had given two taps, and Oberstein had come to the door. 25:05.885 --> 25:09.408 [SPEAKER_00]: The young man rushed up and demanded to know what we were about to do with the papers. 25:10.208 --> 25:12.010 [SPEAKER_00]: Oberstein had a short life preserver. 25:12.790 --> 25:13.991 [SPEAKER_00]: He always carried it with him. 25:15.072 --> 25:15.132 [SPEAKER_00]: As 25:20.002 --> 25:22.884 [SPEAKER_00]: the blow was a fatal one he was dead within five minutes. 25:23.745 --> 25:27.248 [SPEAKER_00]: There he lay in the hall and we were at our wit's end what to do. 25:28.829 --> 25:36.516 [SPEAKER_00]: Then Oberstein had this idea about the trains which halted under his back window, but first he examined the papers which I had brought. 25:36.976 --> 25:40.339 [SPEAKER_00]: He said that three of them were essential and that he must keep them. 25:41.440 --> 25:43.482 [SPEAKER_00]: You cannot keep them said I. 25:44.097 --> 25:47.179 [SPEAKER_00]: There will be a dreadful row at Woolwich if they are not returned. 25:47.920 --> 25:53.104 [SPEAKER_00]: I must keep them, said he and for they are so technical that it is impossible in the time to make copies. 25:54.225 --> 25:57.668 [SPEAKER_00]: Then they must all go back together tonight, said I. 25:58.608 --> 26:01.851 [SPEAKER_00]: He thought for a little, and then he cried out that he had it. 26:03.072 --> 26:04.833 [SPEAKER_00]: Three I will keep, said he. 26:05.654 --> 26:08.396 [SPEAKER_00]: The others we will stuff into the pocket of this young man. 26:14.579 --> 26:18.462 [SPEAKER_00]: I could see no other way out of it, so we did as he suggested. 26:19.482 --> 26:22.544 [SPEAKER_00]: We waited half an hour at the window before a train stopped. 26:23.345 --> 26:29.609 [SPEAKER_00]: It was so thick that nothing could be seen, and we had no difficulty in lowering West's body onto the train. 26:30.830 --> 26:33.712 [SPEAKER_00]: That was the end of the matter so far as I was concerned. 26:37.194 --> 26:37.895 [SPEAKER_00]: And your brother, 26:41.357 --> 26:45.078 [SPEAKER_00]: He said nothing but he had caught me once with his keys and I think that he suspected. 26:46.679 --> 26:51.560 [SPEAKER_00]: I read in his eyes that he suspected, as you know he never held up his head again. 26:55.102 --> 26:56.342 [SPEAKER_00]: There was silence in the room. 26:58.283 --> 27:00.143 [SPEAKER_00]: It was broken by mycroft homes. 27:03.604 --> 27:05.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you not make reparation? 27:05.925 --> 27:08.566 [SPEAKER_00]: It would ease your conscience and possibly your punishment. 27:12.173 --> 27:13.654 [SPEAKER_00]: What reparation can I make? 27:17.117 --> 27:18.778 [SPEAKER_00]: Where is oversteine with the papers? 27:22.421 --> 27:23.202 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not know. 27:26.684 --> 27:27.905 [SPEAKER_00]: Did he give you no address? 27:31.428 --> 27:36.232 [SPEAKER_00]: He said that letters to the Orteleluv Paris would eventually reach him. 27:39.670 --> 27:42.691 [SPEAKER_00]: Then reparation is still within your power, such a lock-homes. 27:46.192 --> 27:47.512 [SPEAKER_00]: I will do anything I can. 27:48.112 --> 27:50.153 [SPEAKER_00]: I owe this fellow no particular good will. 27:50.393 --> 27:52.553 [SPEAKER_00]: He has been my ruin and my downfall. 27:56.054 --> 27:57.114 [SPEAKER_00]: Here a paper and pen. 27:57.855 --> 27:59.775 [SPEAKER_00]: Sit at this desk and write to my dictation. 28:00.375 --> 28:02.096 [SPEAKER_00]: Direct the envelope to the address given. 28:02.456 --> 28:03.056 [SPEAKER_00]: That is right. 28:03.916 --> 28:04.476 [SPEAKER_00]: Now the letter. 28:07.571 --> 28:13.354 [SPEAKER_00]: With regard to our transaction, you will know doubt have observed by now that one essential detail is missing. 28:14.395 --> 28:16.396 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a tracing which will make it complete. 28:17.416 --> 28:23.279 [SPEAKER_00]: This has involved me in extra trouble, however, and I must ask you for a further advance of 500 pounds. 28:24.280 --> 28:25.820 [SPEAKER_00]: I will not trust it to the post. 28:26.241 --> 28:28.582 [SPEAKER_00]: Nor will I take anything but gold or notes. 28:29.202 --> 28:34.085 [SPEAKER_00]: I would come to you abroad, but it would excite to remark if I left the country at present. 28:34.959 --> 28:40.001 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, I shall expect to meet you in the smoking room of the chair in Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday. 28:40.941 --> 28:43.982 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember that only English notes or gold will be taken. 28:47.444 --> 28:48.444 [SPEAKER_00]: That will do very well. 28:48.524 --> 28:51.245 [SPEAKER_00]: I shall be very much surprised if it does not fetch our man. 28:56.227 --> 28:56.727 [SPEAKER_00]: And it did. 28:58.607 --> 28:59.768 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a matter of history. 29:00.409 --> 29:15.160 [SPEAKER_00]: That secret history of a nation which is often so much more intimate and interesting than its public chronicles, that Obestine eager to complete the coup of his lifetime came to the lure and was safely engulfed for 15 years in a British prison. 29:17.042 --> 29:24.468 [SPEAKER_00]: In his trunk were found the invaluable Bruce Partington plans, which he had put up for auction in all the naval centers of Europe. 29:27.848 --> 29:31.709 [SPEAKER_00]: Colonel Walter died in prison towards the end of the second year of his sentence. 29:33.589 --> 29:45.352 [SPEAKER_00]: As to Holmes, he returned refreshed to his monograph upon the polyphonic motets of Lassus, which has since been printed for private circulation, and is said by experts to be the last word upon the subject. 29:47.293 --> 29:51.834 [SPEAKER_00]: Some weeks afterwards, I learned incidentally that my friend spent a day at Windsor, 29:57.498 --> 30:07.604 [SPEAKER_00]: When I asked him if he had bought it, he answered that it was a present from a certain gracious lady in whose interests he had once been fortunate enough to carry out a small commission. 30:09.465 --> 30:14.027 [SPEAKER_00]: He said no more, but I fancy that I could guess at that lady's august name. 30:15.068 --> 30:21.872 [SPEAKER_00]: And I have little doubt that the Emerald Pin will forever recall to my friend's memory, the adventure of the Bruce Pardington Plans. 31:16.746 --> 31:18.806 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. 32:03.477 --> 32:03.539 [UNKNOWN]: you 36:23.993 --> 36:26.274 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. 37:15.035 --> 37:19.419 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you very much. 38:57.185 --> 38:57.527 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you.