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of his widespread house for his family and household had been a large one. 01:46.572 --> 01:55.875 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a relief to him, however, to think that they were all in safety, and that, but for that one old woman who had lingered in the kitchen, he had the whole place to himself. 01:57.696 --> 02:07.179 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a good deal of tidying up to do inside his study, and he set himself to do it, until his keen handsome face was flushed with the heat of the burning papers. 02:08.999 --> 02:11.020 [SPEAKER_00]: A leather velleys stood beside his table, 02:11.679 --> 02:16.641 [SPEAKER_00]: And into this, he began to pack very neatly and systematically the precious contents of his safe. 02:18.522 --> 02:23.544 [SPEAKER_00]: He had hardly got started with the work, however, when his quick ears caught the sounds of a distant car. 02:25.345 --> 02:32.988 [SPEAKER_00]: Instantly, he gave an exclamation of satisfaction, strapped up the valleys, shut the safe, locked it, and hurried out onto the terrace. 02:34.788 --> 02:38.850 [SPEAKER_00]: He was just in time to see the lights of a small car come to a halt at the gate. 02:40.609 --> 02:51.554 [SPEAKER_00]: A passenger sprang out of it and advanced swiftly towards him while the chauffeur, a heavily built, elderly man with a grey moustache, settled down like one who resigns himself to a long vigil. 02:54.956 --> 02:59.658 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, asked von Bork eagerly, running forward to meet his visitor. 03:03.060 --> 03:07.082 [SPEAKER_00]: For answer, the man waved a small brown paper parcel triumphantly above his head. 03:10.593 --> 03:12.754 [SPEAKER_00]: You can give me the glad hand tonight, Mr. 03:13.275 --> 03:13.675 [SPEAKER_00]: He cried. 03:14.395 --> 03:16.076 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm bringing home the bacon at last. 03:19.518 --> 03:20.119 [SPEAKER_00]: The signals? 03:23.661 --> 03:25.042 [SPEAKER_00]: Same as I said in my cable. 03:25.742 --> 03:28.964 [SPEAKER_00]: Every last one of them, Semaphore, Lampcode, Markone. 03:29.945 --> 03:32.346 [SPEAKER_00]: A copy, mind you, not the original. 03:33.307 --> 03:38.150 [SPEAKER_00]: That was too dangerous, but it's the real goods and you can later that. 03:39.983 --> 03:44.386 [SPEAKER_00]: He slapped the German upon the shoulder with a rough familiarity from which the other winceed. 03:47.869 --> 03:48.189 [SPEAKER_00]: Come in. 03:49.090 --> 03:51.131 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I'm all alone in the house. 03:52.512 --> 03:53.653 [SPEAKER_00]: I was only waiting for this. 03:55.014 --> 03:57.016 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, a copy is better than the original. 03:57.897 --> 04:00.418 [SPEAKER_00]: If an original were missing, they would change the whole thing. 04:01.880 --> 04:03.701 [SPEAKER_00]: You think it's all safe about the copy. 04:07.101 --> 04:11.482 [SPEAKER_00]: The Irish American had entered the study and stretched his long limbs from the armchair. 04:13.203 --> 04:21.986 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a tall, gaunt man of 60, with clear cut features and a small go-ty beard which gave him a general resemblance to the caricatures of Uncle Sam. 04:23.766 --> 04:29.928 [SPEAKER_00]: A half-smote-sodden cigar hung from the corner of his mouth and as he sat down, he struck a match and relitted. 04:31.769 --> 04:35.090 [SPEAKER_00]: Making ready for a move, he remarked as he looked round him. 04:36.405 --> 04:36.985 [SPEAKER_00]: say Mr. 04:37.746 --> 04:41.547 [SPEAKER_00]: He added, as his eyes fell upon the safe from which the curtain was now removed. 04:42.328 --> 04:44.108 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't tell me you keep your papers in that. 04:47.510 --> 04:47.930 [SPEAKER_00]: Why not? 04:51.391 --> 04:55.633 [SPEAKER_00]: Gosh in a wide open contraption like that, and they reckon you'd be some spy. 04:56.214 --> 04:58.815 [SPEAKER_00]: Why a Yankee crook would be into that with a can opener. 04:59.235 --> 05:01.076 [SPEAKER_00]: If I'd known that any letter of mine was going 05:07.827 --> 05:09.988 [SPEAKER_00]: It would puzzle any crook to force that safe. 05:10.489 --> 05:13.771 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Borg answered, you won't cut that metal with any tool. 05:17.133 --> 05:17.833 [SPEAKER_00]: But the lock. 05:21.315 --> 05:23.937 [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a double combination lock, you know what that is. 05:27.379 --> 05:29.160 [SPEAKER_00]: Search me, said the American. 05:32.523 --> 05:36.405 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you need a word as well as a set of figures before you can get the lock to work. 05:38.212 --> 05:41.675 [SPEAKER_00]: he rose and showed a double radiating disc round the keyhole. 05:43.456 --> 05:47.599 [SPEAKER_00]: This outer one is for the letters, the inner one for the figures. 05:51.062 --> 05:52.103 [SPEAKER_00]: Well well that's fine. 05:55.565 --> 05:57.387 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's not quite as simple as you thought. 05:58.388 --> 06:03.852 [SPEAKER_00]: It was four years ago that I had it made, and what do you think I chose for the word and figures? 06:07.375 --> 06:08.096 [SPEAKER_00]: It's beyond me. 06:11.498 --> 06:16.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I chose August for the word in 1914 for the figures, and here we are. 06:19.745 --> 06:22.467 [SPEAKER_00]: The Americans' face showed his surprise and admiration. 06:25.849 --> 06:28.511 [SPEAKER_00]: My, but that was smart, you had it down to a fine thing. 06:31.934 --> 06:34.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, a few of us even then could have guessed the date. 06:40.532 --> 06:42.613 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess you'll have to fix me up also. 06:43.333 --> 06:46.335 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not staying in this gold-darned country all on my lonesome. 06:47.095 --> 06:51.617 [SPEAKER_00]: In a week or less from what I see, John Bull will be on his hind legs and fair ramping. 06:52.297 --> 06:54.078 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd rather watch him from over the water. 06:57.479 --> 06:59.080 [SPEAKER_00]: But you're an American citizen? 07:02.482 --> 07:07.804 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, so was Jack James an American citizen, but he's doing time in Portland all the same. 07:08.787 --> 07:12.908 [SPEAKER_00]: It cuts no ice with a British copper to tell him you're an American citizen. 07:14.429 --> 07:17.490 [SPEAKER_00]: It's British law and order over here, says he. 07:18.490 --> 07:22.752 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, Mr. Talking of Jack James, it seems to me you don't do much to cover your men. 07:26.193 --> 07:28.594 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean, font-bork are sharply? 07:31.995 --> 07:34.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you are their employer, ain't you? 07:35.116 --> 07:37.177 [SPEAKER_00]: It's up to you to see that they don't fall down. 07:38.106 --> 07:41.388 [SPEAKER_00]: But they do fall down, and when did you ever pick them up? 07:42.069 --> 07:42.749 [SPEAKER_00]: There's James. 07:46.332 --> 07:47.652 [SPEAKER_00]: It was James's own fault. 07:47.692 --> 07:50.634 [SPEAKER_00]: You know that yourself, he was too self-willed for the job. 07:54.077 --> 07:55.057 [SPEAKER_00]: James was a bonehead. 07:55.838 --> 07:56.538 [SPEAKER_00]: I give you that. 07:56.999 --> 07:57.839 [SPEAKER_00]: Then there was Hollis. 08:01.202 --> 08:02.082 [SPEAKER_00]: The man was mad. 08:05.504 --> 08:07.606 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, he went a bit woozy towards the end. 08:08.656 --> 08:16.722 [SPEAKER_00]: It's enough to make a man bug house when he has to play a part from morning to night with a hundred guys already to set the coppers wise to him. 08:17.683 --> 08:19.224 [SPEAKER_00]: But now there is Steiner. 08:22.606 --> 08:26.129 [SPEAKER_00]: Fondborg started violently and his ruddy face turned a shade paler. 08:29.511 --> 08:30.372 [SPEAKER_00]: What about Steiner? 08:33.844 --> 08:35.245 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they've got him, that's all. 08:35.965 --> 08:39.788 [SPEAKER_00]: They raided his stall last night, and he and his papers are all imports with jail. 08:40.388 --> 08:43.190 [SPEAKER_00]: You'll go off and he, poor devil, will have to stand the racket. 08:43.770 --> 08:47.773 [SPEAKER_00]: And lucky if he gets off with his life, that's why I want to get over the water as soon as you do. 08:51.175 --> 08:55.878 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Bork was a strong, self-contained man, but it was easy to see that the news had shaken him. 08:59.260 --> 09:01.322 [SPEAKER_00]: How could they have got onto Steiner, he muttered? 09:06.379 --> 09:09.701 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you nearly had a worse one, for I believe they are not far off me. 09:13.122 --> 09:13.842 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't mean that? 09:17.304 --> 09:17.884 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure thing. 09:18.645 --> 09:23.707 [SPEAKER_00]: My landlady down Frattenway had some inquiries, and when I heard of it, I guessed it was time for me to hustle. 09:24.327 --> 09:27.749 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I want to know, Mr, is how the coppers know these things. 09:28.469 --> 09:33.972 [SPEAKER_00]: Steiner is the fifth man you've lost since I signed on with you, and I know the name of the sixth if I don't get a move on. 09:34.999 --> 09:38.501 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you explain it and ain't you ashamed to see your men go down like this? 09:42.103 --> 09:43.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Bork flushed crimson. 09:46.826 --> 09:48.367 [SPEAKER_00]: How dare you speak in such a way? 09:51.810 --> 09:53.130 [SPEAKER_00]: If I didn't dare things Mr. 09:53.190 --> 09:57.133 [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't be in your service, but I'll tell you straight what is in my mind. 09:58.033 --> 10:00.975 [SPEAKER_00]: I've heard that with you German politicians when an agent has done 10:07.158 --> 10:08.438 [SPEAKER_00]: on Borks, bring to his feet. 10:11.919 --> 10:14.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you dare to suggest that I have given away my own agents? 10:18.080 --> 10:23.601 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't stand for that, but there's a stool pigeon or a cross somewhere, and it's up to you to find out where it is. 10:24.401 --> 10:28.782 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyhow I am taking no more chances, it's me for little Holland and the sooner the better. 10:37.322 --> 10:41.644 [SPEAKER_00]: We have been allies too long to quarrel now at the very hour of victory, he said. 10:42.444 --> 10:45.726 [SPEAKER_00]: You've done splendid work and taken risks and I can't forget it. 10:46.486 --> 10:50.588 [SPEAKER_00]: By all means go to Holland and you can get a boat from Rotterdam to New York. 10:51.228 --> 10:53.029 [SPEAKER_00]: No other line will be safe a week from now. 10:53.890 --> 10:55.711 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll take that book and pack it with the rest. 10:59.192 --> 11:02.994 [SPEAKER_00]: The American held the small parcel in his hand but made no motion to give it up. 11:06.411 --> 11:08.131 [SPEAKER_00]: What about the dough he asked? 11:11.532 --> 11:11.913 [SPEAKER_00]: The what? 11:15.294 --> 11:16.874 [SPEAKER_00]: The boodle, the reward. 11:17.814 --> 11:18.955 [SPEAKER_00]: The 500 pounds. 11:19.715 --> 11:27.077 [SPEAKER_00]: The gunner turned damned nasty at the last and I had to square him with an extra $100 or it would have been nitsky for you and me. 11:28.094 --> 11:31.595 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing doing says he and he meant it too, but the last hundred did it. 11:32.215 --> 11:37.457 [SPEAKER_00]: It's cost me two hundred pound from first to last, so it isn't likely I'd give it up without getting my ward. 11:40.958 --> 11:42.919 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Bork smiled with some bitterness. 11:44.719 --> 11:48.180 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't seem to have a very high opinion of my honour, said he. 11:48.801 --> 11:50.941 [SPEAKER_00]: You want the money before you give up the book. 11:54.342 --> 11:56.343 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Mr, it is a business proposition. 11:59.796 --> 12:01.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, have your way. 12:03.198 --> 12:09.441 [SPEAKER_00]: He sat down at the table and scribbled a check which he tore from the book, but he refrained from handing it to his companion. 12:11.303 --> 12:19.327 [SPEAKER_00]: After all, since we are to be on such terms Mr. Altamont, said he, I don't see why I should trust you any more than you trust me. 12:20.528 --> 12:21.268 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you understand? 12:22.229 --> 12:25.290 [SPEAKER_00]: He added, looking back over his shoulder at the American. 12:26.211 --> 12:27.512 [SPEAKER_00]: There's the checkup on the table. 12:28.247 --> 12:31.449 [SPEAKER_00]: I claim the right to examine that parcel before you pick the money up. 12:34.852 --> 12:37.333 [SPEAKER_00]: The American passed it over without a word. 12:39.175 --> 12:42.817 [SPEAKER_00]: Fondborg ended a winding of string and two wrappers of paper. 12:44.599 --> 12:50.783 [SPEAKER_00]: Then he sat gazing for a moment in silent amazement at a small blue book which lay before him. 12:59.708 --> 13:04.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Only for one instant did the master spy glare at this strangely irrelevant inscription. 13:06.551 --> 13:13.355 [SPEAKER_00]: The next he was gripped at the back of his neck by a grasp of iron and a chloroform sponge was held in front of his writhing face. 13:16.936 --> 13:21.919 [SPEAKER_00]: Another glass Watson said Mr. Sherlock Holmes as he extended the bottle of Imperial to K. 13:25.582 --> 13:30.305 [SPEAKER_00]: The thick set chauffeur who had seated himself by the table pushed forward his glass with some eagerness. 13:33.907 --> 13:35.548 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a good wine, Holmes. 13:39.090 --> 13:40.651 [SPEAKER_00]: A remarkable wine Watson. 13:41.311 --> 13:47.175 [SPEAKER_00]: Our friend upon the sofa has assured me that it is from Franz Joseph Special's cellar at the Schoenbrun Palace. 13:47.935 --> 13:52.578 [SPEAKER_00]: Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloriform vapour does not help the pallet. 13:56.055 --> 14:05.378 [SPEAKER_00]: The safe was a jar and home standing in front of it was removing dossier after dossier, swiftly examining each, and then packing it neatly in fawnborks valleys. 14:07.199 --> 14:12.681 [SPEAKER_00]: The German lay upon the sofa sleeping stutterously with a strap round his upper arms and another round his legs. 14:16.142 --> 14:17.682 [SPEAKER_00]: We need not hurry ourselves Watson. 14:18.703 --> 14:19.963 [SPEAKER_00]: We are safe from interruption. 14:21.764 --> 14:22.904 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you mind touching the bell? 14:23.980 --> 14:28.342 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no one in the house except Old Martha, who has played her part to admiration. 14:29.923 --> 14:32.904 [SPEAKER_00]: I got her the situation here when first I took the matter up. 14:34.185 --> 14:37.406 [SPEAKER_00]: Our Martha, you will be glad to hear that all is well. 14:40.908 --> 14:43.109 [SPEAKER_00]: The Pleasant Old Lady had appeared in the doorway. 14:44.889 --> 14:50.492 [SPEAKER_00]: She curts it with a smile to Mr. Holmes, but glanced with some apprehension at the figure upon the sofa. 14:53.943 --> 14:55.024 [SPEAKER_00]: It is all right, Martha. 14:55.084 --> 14:56.484 [SPEAKER_00]: He has not been hurt at all. 14:59.866 --> 15:01.267 [SPEAKER_00]: I am glad of that, Mr. Holmes. 15:01.847 --> 15:04.148 [SPEAKER_00]: According to his lights, he has been a kind master. 15:05.269 --> 15:10.332 [SPEAKER_00]: He wanted me to go with his wife to Germany yesterday, but that would hardly have suited your plans, would it, sir? 15:13.874 --> 15:14.734 [SPEAKER_00]: No indeed, Martha. 15:15.234 --> 15:17.456 [SPEAKER_00]: So long as you were here, I was easy in my mind. 15:17.996 --> 15:19.957 [SPEAKER_00]: We waited some time for your signal tonight. 15:23.467 --> 15:24.608 [SPEAKER_00]: It was the Secretary, sir. 15:28.051 --> 15:28.311 [SPEAKER_00]: I know. 15:29.152 --> 15:30.312 [SPEAKER_00]: His car passed ours. 15:33.875 --> 15:35.076 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought he would never go. 15:36.197 --> 15:39.099 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew that it would not suit your plans, sir, to find him here. 15:42.542 --> 15:48.847 [SPEAKER_00]: No indeed, well, it only meant that we waited half an hour or so until I saw your lamp go out, and knew that the coast was clear. 15:49.847 --> 15:53.430 [SPEAKER_00]: You can report to me tomorrow in London, Martha, at Claridge's Hotel. 15:56.872 --> 15:57.492 [SPEAKER_00]: Very good, sir. 16:00.955 --> 16:03.076 [SPEAKER_00]: I suppose you have everything ready to leave. 16:06.539 --> 16:09.021 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sir, he posted seven letters today. 16:09.081 --> 16:10.562 [SPEAKER_00]: I have the addresses as usual. 16:14.096 --> 16:14.956 [SPEAKER_00]: Very good, Martha. 16:15.416 --> 16:16.837 [SPEAKER_00]: I will look into them tomorrow. 16:17.417 --> 16:17.897 [SPEAKER_00]: Good night. 16:18.637 --> 16:19.337 [SPEAKER_00]: These papers. 16:19.957 --> 16:21.918 [SPEAKER_00]: He continued as the old lady vanished. 16:22.938 --> 16:30.100 [SPEAKER_00]: Are not a very great importance for, of course, the information which they represent has been sent off long ago to the German government. 16:30.800 --> 16:34.181 [SPEAKER_00]: These are the originals which could not safely be got out of the country. 16:37.582 --> 16:38.702 [SPEAKER_00]: Then they are of no use. 16:42.236 --> 16:48.701 [SPEAKER_00]: I should not go so far as to say that Watson, they will at least show our people what is known and what is not. 16:49.422 --> 16:57.047 [SPEAKER_00]: I may say that a good many of these papers have come through me, and I need not add our thoroughly untrustworthy. 16:57.768 --> 17:04.993 [SPEAKER_00]: It would brighten my declining years to see a German cruiser navigating the soul into according to the minefield plans which I have furnished. 17:05.894 --> 17:06.795 [SPEAKER_00]: But you Watson. 17:07.860 --> 17:10.902 [SPEAKER_00]: He stopped his work and took his old friend by the shoulders. 17:11.683 --> 17:13.264 [SPEAKER_00]: I've hardly seen you in the light yet. 17:13.824 --> 17:15.205 [SPEAKER_00]: How have the years used you? 17:16.186 --> 17:18.168 [SPEAKER_00]: You look the same blithe boy as ever. 17:21.690 --> 17:23.612 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel 20 years younger homes. 17:24.592 --> 17:29.476 [SPEAKER_00]: I have seldom felt so happy as when I got your wire asking me to meet you at Harwich with the car. 17:30.316 --> 17:32.958 [SPEAKER_00]: But you homes, you have changed very little. 17:33.599 --> 17:34.960 [SPEAKER_00]: Say for that horrible go-t. 17:38.482 --> 17:44.084 [SPEAKER_00]: But these are the sacrifices one makes for one's country Watson, said Holmes, pulling at his little tough. 17:44.624 --> 17:46.885 [SPEAKER_00]: Tomorrow it will be but a dreadful memory. 17:47.466 --> 17:55.249 [SPEAKER_00]: With my hair cut and a few other superficial changes I shall know doubt reappear at Clarages tomorrow, as I was before this American stunt. 17:56.269 --> 18:00.831 [SPEAKER_00]: I beg your pardon Watson, my well of English seems to be permanently defiled. 18:01.471 --> 18:03.672 [SPEAKER_00]: Before this American job came my way. 18:07.206 --> 18:08.626 [SPEAKER_00]: but you have retired homes. 18:09.727 --> 18:15.809 [SPEAKER_00]: We heard of you as living the life of a hermit among your bees and your books in a small farm upon the South Downs. 18:19.470 --> 18:20.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly what's in? 18:21.030 --> 18:25.031 [SPEAKER_00]: Here is the fruit of my leisuredees, the magnum opus of my latter years. 18:26.832 --> 18:33.194 [SPEAKER_00]: He picked up the volume from the table and read out the whole title, practical handbook of bee culture 18:38.873 --> 18:39.733 [SPEAKER_00]: alone I did it. 18:40.734 --> 18:48.957 [SPEAKER_00]: Behold the fruit of pensive nights and laborious days when I watch the little working gangs as once I watch the criminal world of London. 18:52.438 --> 18:54.018 [SPEAKER_00]: But how did you get to work again? 18:57.580 --> 18:59.681 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, I have often marveled at it myself. 19:00.441 --> 19:04.722 [SPEAKER_00]: The foreign minister alone I could have withstood but when the premiere also daint 19:06.913 --> 19:12.155 [SPEAKER_00]: The fact is, Watson, that this gentleman upon the sofa was a bit too good for our people. 19:12.935 --> 19:18.297 [SPEAKER_00]: He was in a class by himself, things were going wrong, and no one could understand why they were going wrong. 19:19.317 --> 19:21.918 [SPEAKER_00]: Agents were suspected, or even caught. 19:22.778 --> 19:25.939 [SPEAKER_00]: But there was evidence of some strong and secret central force. 19:26.659 --> 19:28.700 [SPEAKER_00]: It was absolutely necessary to expose it. 19:29.734 --> 19:32.336 [SPEAKER_00]: strong pressure was brought upon me to look into the matter. 19:33.076 --> 19:37.740 [SPEAKER_00]: It has cost me two years Watson, but they have not been devoid of excitement. 19:38.680 --> 19:56.993 [SPEAKER_00]: When I say that I started my pilgrimage at Chicago, graduated in an Irish secret society at Buffalo, gave serious trouble to the constabulary at Skipperine, and so eventually caught the eye of a subordinate agent of Von Bork, who recommended me as a likely man you will realize that the matter was complex. 19:57.915 --> 20:06.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Since then I have been honoured by his confidence, which has not prevented most of his plans going subtly wrong and five of his best agents being imprisoned. 20:07.379 --> 20:09.820 [SPEAKER_00]: I watch them Watson and I pick them as they ripened. 20:09.860 --> 20:11.821 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, sir, I hope that you are none the worse. 20:15.282 --> 20:21.725 [SPEAKER_00]: The last remark was addressed to Von Bork himself who after much gasping and blinking had laying quietly listening to Holmes' statement. 20:23.421 --> 20:29.042 [SPEAKER_00]: He broke out now into a furious stream of German Invective, his face convulsed with passion. 20:30.863 --> 20:35.344 [SPEAKER_00]: Holmes continued his swift investigation of documents while his prisoner cursed and swore. 20:38.785 --> 20:45.266 [SPEAKER_00]: Though unmusical German is the most expressive of all languages, he observed when von Bohr could stop to from pure exhaustion. 20:46.187 --> 20:51.288 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, hello, he added as he looked hard at the corner of a tracing before putting it in the box. 20:52.030 --> 20:54.011 [SPEAKER_00]: This should put another bird in the cage. 20:54.071 --> 20:58.975 [SPEAKER_00]: I had no idea that the paymaster was such a rascal, though I have long had an eye upon him. 20:59.535 --> 21:01.957 [SPEAKER_00]: Mr Von Bork, you have a great deal to answer for. 21:05.399 --> 21:13.145 [SPEAKER_00]: The prisoner had raised himself with some difficulty upon the sofa, and was staring with a strange mixture of amazement and hatred at his captor. 21:16.567 --> 21:20.390 [SPEAKER_00]: I shall get level with you, Altamont, he said, speaking with slow deliberation. 21:21.278 --> 21:24.479 [SPEAKER_00]: If it takes me all my life, I shall get level with you." 21:27.901 --> 21:33.163 [SPEAKER_00]: The old sweet song, said Holmes, how often have I heard it in days gone by. 21:34.164 --> 21:37.345 [SPEAKER_00]: It was a favorite ditty of the late lamented Professor Moriarty. 21:38.325 --> 21:44.488 [SPEAKER_00]: Colonel Sebastian Moran has also been known to wobble it, and yet I live and keep bees upon the southlands. 21:47.971 --> 21:54.813 [SPEAKER_00]: curse you, you double-trater, cried the German, straining against his bones and glaring murder from his furious eyes. 21:58.253 --> 22:00.834 [SPEAKER_00]: No note is not so bad as that said Holmes smiling. 22:02.034 --> 22:08.616 [SPEAKER_00]: As my speech surely shows you, Mr. Altamant of Chicago had no existence in fact, by 22:18.052 --> 22:21.856 [SPEAKER_00]: It is really immaterial who I am, but since the matter seems to interest you, Mr. 22:21.896 --> 22:26.720 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Bork, I may say that this is not my first acquaintance with the members of your family. 22:27.521 --> 22:31.965 [SPEAKER_00]: I have done a good deal of business in Germany in the past and my name is probably familiar to you. 22:35.368 --> 22:38.551 [SPEAKER_00]: I would wish to know it, said the Prussian Grimley. 22:41.923 --> 22:49.966 [SPEAKER_00]: It was I who brought about the separation between Irene Adler and the late King of Bohemia when your cousin Heinrich was the imperial envoy. 22:50.826 --> 22:58.429 [SPEAKER_00]: It was I also who saved from murder by the nihilist Kloppmann, Count Fawn on Su Grafenstein who was your mother's elder brother. 22:59.109 --> 22:59.589 [SPEAKER_00]: It was I. 23:03.130 --> 23:04.731 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Bork sat up in amazement. 23:08.272 --> 23:09.332 [SPEAKER_00]: There is only one man. 23:14.316 --> 23:15.557 [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly, said Holmes. 23:18.960 --> 23:21.181 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Bork groaned and sank back on the sofa. 23:23.003 --> 23:25.264 [SPEAKER_00]: And most of that information came through you. 23:26.345 --> 23:28.387 [SPEAKER_00]: He cried, What is it worth? 23:29.067 --> 23:29.888 [SPEAKER_00]: What have I done? 23:30.769 --> 23:32.130 [SPEAKER_00]: It is my ruin forever. 23:35.532 --> 23:37.934 [SPEAKER_00]: It is certainly a little untrustworthy, said Holmes. 23:38.494 --> 23:41.217 [SPEAKER_00]: It will require some checking and you have little time to check it. 23:41.925 --> 23:47.790 [SPEAKER_00]: Your admiral may find the new guns rather larger than he expects, and the cruisers perhaps are trifle faster. 23:51.133 --> 23:53.415 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Bork clutched at his own throat in despair. 23:56.788 --> 24:00.872 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a good many other points of detail which will no doubt come to light in good time. 24:01.573 --> 24:04.796 [SPEAKER_00]: But you have one quality which is very rare in a German, Mr. 24:04.816 --> 24:05.296 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Bork. 24:05.837 --> 24:13.704 [SPEAKER_00]: You are a sportsman and you will bear me no ill will when you realise that you, who have outwitted so many other people, have had last been outwitted yourself. 24:14.585 --> 24:21.331 [SPEAKER_00]: After all, you have done your best for your country and I have done my best for mine and what could be more natural. 24:22.138 --> 24:27.282 [SPEAKER_00]: Besides, he added not unkindly as he laid his hand upon the shoulder of the prostrate man. 24:28.323 --> 24:31.445 [SPEAKER_00]: It is better than to fall before some ignoble foe. 24:32.486 --> 24:34.207 [SPEAKER_00]: These papers are now ready Watson. 24:34.807 --> 24:39.371 [SPEAKER_00]: If you will help me with our prisoner, I think that we may get started for London at once. 24:42.933 --> 24:47.637 [SPEAKER_00]: It was no easy task to move on Bork, for he was a strong and a desperate man. 24:49.540 --> 25:02.703 [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, holding either arm, the two friends walked him very slowly down the garden walk, which he had trot with such proud confidence when he received the congratulations of the famous diplomatist only a few hours before. 25:04.664 --> 25:12.006 [SPEAKER_00]: After a short, final struggle, he was hoisted, still bound hand and foot, into the spare seat of the little car. 25:20.042 --> 25:26.646 [SPEAKER_00]: I trust that you are as comfortable as circumstances permit," said Holmes, when the final arrangements were made. 25:27.947 --> 25:31.949 [SPEAKER_00]: Should I be guilty of a liberty if I lit a cigar and placed it between your lips? 25:35.431 --> 25:38.073 [SPEAKER_00]: But all amenities were wasted upon the angry German. 25:41.507 --> 25:50.291 [SPEAKER_00]: I suppose you realise, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, said he, that if your government bears you out in this treatment, it becomes an act of war. 25:53.712 --> 25:57.594 [SPEAKER_00]: What about your government and all this treatment, said Holmes tapping the release? 26:01.016 --> 26:04.057 [SPEAKER_00]: You are a private individual, you have no warrant for my arrest. 26:04.617 --> 26:08.379 [SPEAKER_00]: The whole proceeding is absolutely illegal and outrageous. 26:11.933 --> 26:13.594 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, said Holmes. 26:16.996 --> 26:23.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Kidnapping a German subject and stealing his private papers. 26:27.143 --> 26:34.187 [SPEAKER_00]: Well you realize your position you and your accomplice here, if I were to shout for help as we pass through the village. 26:37.701 --> 26:47.108 [SPEAKER_00]: My dear sir, if you did anything so foolish, you would probably enlarge the two limited titles of our village inns by giving us the dangling pressure as a signpost. 26:47.809 --> 26:53.993 [SPEAKER_00]: The Englishman is a patient creature, but at present his temper is a little inflamed, and it would be as well not to try him too far. 26:54.894 --> 26:55.474 [SPEAKER_00]: No, Mr. 26:55.514 --> 26:55.975 [SPEAKER_00]: Von Bork. 26:56.743 --> 27:00.085 [SPEAKER_00]: You will go with us in a quiet, sensible fashion to Scotland Yard. 27:00.725 --> 27:03.206 [SPEAKER_00]: Once you consent for your friend, Baron Von Hurling. 27:03.887 --> 27:08.549 [SPEAKER_00]: And see if even now you may not fill that place which he has reserved for you in the Ambassadorial Suite. 27:09.850 --> 27:15.833 [SPEAKER_00]: As to you Watson, you are joining us with your old services I understand so London won't be out of your way. 27:16.534 --> 27:20.716 [SPEAKER_00]: Stand with me here upon the terrace for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have. 27:24.219 --> 27:34.061 [SPEAKER_00]: the two friends chatted in intimate converse for a few minutes, recalling once again the days of the past, while their prisoner vainly riggled to undo the bonds that held him. 27:35.942 --> 27:41.003 [SPEAKER_00]: As they turn to the car, homes pointed back to the moonlit sea and shook a thoughtful head. 27:44.443 --> 27:46.084 [SPEAKER_00]: There's an east wind coming, Watson. 27:49.505 --> 27:51.145 [SPEAKER_00]: I think not homes, it is very warm. 27:54.729 --> 27:55.569 [SPEAKER_00]: good old Watson. 27:56.309 --> 27:58.910 [SPEAKER_00]: You are the one fixed point in a changing age. 27:59.610 --> 28:03.611 [SPEAKER_00]: There's an east wind coming all the same such a wind as never blue on England yet. 28:04.471 --> 28:08.992 [SPEAKER_00]: It will be cold and bitter Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. 28:09.973 --> 28:15.834 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's God's own wind nonetheless and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm is cleared. 28:16.754 --> 28:17.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Start her up Watson 28:20.773 --> 28:26.618 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a check for £500 which should be cashed early for the drawer is quite capable of stopping it, if he can. 28:49.938 --> 28:50.505 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. 29:43.075 --> 29:43.315 [UNKNOWN]: You 31:16.746 --> 31:32.159 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. 32:03.427 --> 32:03.489 [UNKNOWN]: You 36:23.993 --> 36:26.276 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. 37:30.299 --> 37:32.664 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. 38:57.450 --> 38:57.792 [UNKNOWN]: Thank you.