First broadcast 20th April 1988.
A bored Holmes eagerly accepts a case involving the disappearance of an amateur Spanish cartographer as well as his servants from his rented country lodge.
Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke ... Dr. Watson
Freddie Jones ... Inspector Baynes
Kika Markham ... Miss Burnet
Donald Churchill ... Scott Eccles
Basil Hoskins ... Henderson
Trader Faulkner ... Lucas
Arturo Venegas ... Garcia
Guido Adorni ... Luis
Sonny Caldinez ... The Mulatto
Abigail Melia ... Henderson's Daughter
Lorna Rossi ... Henderson's Daughter
A bored Holmes eagerly accepts a case involving the disappearance of an amateur Spanish cartographer as well as his servants from his rented country lodge.
Jeremy Brett ... Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke ... Dr. Watson
Freddie Jones ... Inspector Baynes
Kika Markham ... Miss Burnet
Donald Churchill ... Scott Eccles
Basil Hoskins ... Henderson
Trader Faulkner ... Lucas
Arturo Venegas ... Garcia
Guido Adorni ... Luis
Sonny Caldinez ... The Mulatto
Abigail Melia ... Henderson's Daughter
Lorna Rossi ... Henderson's Daughter
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01:47Mr Kotekos!
01:49Mr Garstia!
01:51I am sorry. I did not recognize you at once.
01:52Please allow me to carry your case.
01:54All right. So love you. Great.
01:56I'm sorry the weather has been unkind for your visit.
02:00Ah well, unkind for you perhaps, but we British, you know, we're hardy souls.
02:14The county of Surrey is particularly interesting as far as maps are concerned.
02:26I'm looking forward to showing you my entire collection of Surrey maps.
02:30I mean, there's Moore and Ogilby.
02:32I've got one or two here I can show you.
02:40He used to...
02:57Ah.
03:08Ah, this is your house, is it?
03:10Yes, please. You're welcome.
03:12It's very nice.
03:15I suppose, Watson, we must look upon you as a man of letters.
03:21How do you define the word grotesque?
03:24Grotesque?
03:26Oh, strange? Remarkable?
03:29No, no, no, surely there's more to it than that.
03:33Some underlying suggestion of a tragic, a terrible.
03:38If you cast your mind back to those narratives with which you've inflicted a long-suffering public,
03:43you will see how often the word grotesque has deepened into the criminal.
03:51Ah.
03:56I suppose the affair of the red-headed men was grotesque enough at the outset.
04:01Huh.
04:03Ah, all right.
04:05The most grotesque affair, the five orange pips.
04:09Yes, we're dead straight to a murderous conspiracy.
04:11Now, the word puts me on the alert.
04:15How did you do?
04:17Hmm.
04:19I've just had the most incredible and grotesque experience.
04:25May I consult you, Scott Eccles?
04:28Post office chairing cross.
04:30Ah.
04:32Is it a man or a woman?
04:33A man!
04:35No woman was sent a reply, paid telegram, she would have come.
04:40Did you see him?
04:42Oh, my dear Watson.
04:45You know how bored I've been since we locked up Colonel Carruthers.
04:54Life is commonplace.
05:00The newspapers are sterile.
05:02Audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world.
05:06Of course I'll see him.
05:08But as I've very much mistaken, this is our client.
05:12Mr Holmes.
05:13Thank you, Mrs Hudson.
05:14Well, are you, Mr Holmes?
05:15Certainly.
05:16Yes, Mr Holmes, I have just had a most singular and unpleasant experience.
05:19Never in my life have I been subject to such embarrassment and been placed in such a position.
05:26Please sit down, Mrs Scott Eccles, my friend and colleague Dr Watson.
05:29Now, in the first place, may I ask why you have come to me at all?
05:32Oh, well, sir, it didn't appear to be a matter which concerned the police.
05:36Yet, when you've heard the facts, you must admit I couldn't just leave it where it was.
05:41Now, private detectives, they are a class with whom I'm absolutely, I have no sympathy.
05:45Sit!
05:46Mr Scott Eccles.
05:54Nonetheless, having heard your name, I decided...
05:57Quiet, sir!
05:59Now, in the second place, why did you not come to me at once?
06:02What do you mean?
06:03Well, it is now a quarter past two.
06:07A telegram has dispatched about one.
06:09No one could glance at your toilet in the tower
06:12without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking.
06:15What?
06:17You're right, Mr Holmes.
06:19Yet, I never gave a thought to my toilet.
06:22I was only too glad to get out of such a house.
06:26Oh, no. No, thank you.
06:29You see, I've been running round making inquiries before I came here.
06:34I called at the house agents, you know.
06:37Oh, yes, yes.
06:38And they said, they said that Mr Garcia's rent was paid up all right
06:43and that everything was in order in Wisteria Lodge.
06:46Now, come, come, come, sir.
06:49You know, you're like my friend Watson, who has the bad habit of telling his stories wrong,
06:52end foremost.
06:53Now, please, please, arrange your thoughts
06:56and let me know in their due sequence exactly what those events are
07:01which have sent you out, unbrushed and unkempt,
07:05with your dress boots and waistcoat buttoned awry
07:08in search of advice and assistance.
07:12Well, I'm a bachelor
07:15and being of a sociable turn,
07:19I cultivate a large number of friends.
07:22At the table of one of them recently,
07:25I met a young fellow named Garcia,
07:27a pleasant chap of Spanish descent,
07:29connected in some way with the embassy.
07:33We discovered a common interest in cartography.
07:36Or so I thought.
07:38That's the study of old maps.
07:40The plan was to retrace Surrey
07:42as Thomas Moule engraved it some 50 years ago.
07:45Well, as soon as I arrived yesterday evening,
07:48I knew something was wrong.
07:50The atmosphere of the place,
07:52the house was tumbled down and depressing.
07:56Garcia had told me he had a wonderful cook,
07:59a soft breed he'd picked up on his travels.
08:02But the dinner, it was so ill-prepared
08:05and served with such bad grace
08:07that it was barely edible.
08:09I can assure you
08:11that there were many times in the course of the evening
08:14I wished I could have invented some excuse to leave.
08:17What did you say?
08:18Well, the roots. It fascinated John Ogleby.
08:20Across the Heathlands?
08:22Ah, no, it wasn't just the Heathlands.
08:24It was all over the county.
08:27Sir, are you feeling all right?
08:29Yes, sorry.
08:31Luis! Luis!
08:32Some more wine for our guest.
08:34Yeah.
08:38What's wrong?
08:40Calm down.
08:41What's wrong?
08:42Listen.
08:43What's wrong?
08:45Look.
08:46What's wrong?
08:47Calm down, calm down.
08:49Yes.
08:50He's drawing attention.
08:52Then wait.
08:53There's something coming.
08:54Open the door.
08:58Are we expecting company?
09:05I would like a drink of that, if it's possible.
09:08John.
09:24And he made no remark as to the contents of the note?
09:27None.
09:30But from that moment,
09:32he gave up all pretence of conversation.
09:34He just sat there,
09:36smelling the cigarettes.
09:38About eleven, I was going to get to bed.
09:41Two hours later, he looked in at my door.
09:44Did you ring?
09:45Did I ring?
09:46Ah, please, don't wake up.
09:48It's nearly one o'clock.
09:50Please go back to sleep.
09:51Good night.
09:53And now I come to the amazing part of my tale.
09:56When I woke, it was broad daylight.
09:59Nearly nine.
10:01I had particularly asked to be called at eight.
10:04So I was very much astonished at this forgetfulness.
10:09I say, is anybody here?
10:11I'd like some hot water.
10:13I rang for the servant.
10:15There was no response.
10:17Somebody?
10:18Somebody?
10:19Somebody?
10:20Somebody?
10:21Somebody?
10:22Somebody?
10:23Somebody?
10:24Somebody?
10:25Somebody?
10:31I say, is there a servant available?
10:39Oh, this is damnable.
10:50I went from room to room.
10:52All were deserted.
10:54The house ruined.
10:55The bed had never been slept in.
10:57Foreign host, foreign footman, foreign cook,
11:01all vanished in the night.
11:04Your experience is, so far as I know, perfectly unique.
11:09Now, what else can you tell me?
11:12Well, I was furious.
11:15I packed my bags, and I banged the front door behind me,
11:20and I set out for Esher.
11:22And then I called at Allen Brothers, the land agents,
11:26and found it was from them that the villa had been rented.
11:30Rented?
11:31Well, you see, I couldn't believe that they had gone
11:35simply to make a fool of me.
11:38I thought, you know, it must be the rent.
11:41But I was wrong.
11:43You see, the agent thanked me for my warning
11:46but said that the rent had been paid in advance.
11:49By the Spanish Embassy, I imagine.
11:51I called at the Spanish Embassy.
11:54The man is unknown to them.
11:56They also asked my friend, who introduced us,
11:58and he seemed to know less about Garcia than I did.
12:01Ah, this house.
12:06Mysterio Large.
12:09I wonder if it's still as you left it.
12:14What's troubling you, Watson?
12:16For I fear some mundane explanation for events
12:19may await us upon our arrival.
12:21It's possible. We can thank our lucky fate,
12:23which has rescued us for a few hours,
12:25for the insufferable fatigues of idleness.
12:39This gentleman recommends the bull in the village.
12:43That's if we're to stay overnight.
12:49I asked him if he knew Garcia or his servants.
12:54Did he?
12:56No.
12:58Nothing unusual about the outside.
13:00Let's see what the interior holds for us.
13:03I suppose we can be charged with housebreaking, can't we?
13:15What earth could leave such a mess?
13:18Yes, indeed.
13:28Glass around the house, Watson.
13:40Mr Holmes.
13:43Welcome to Mysterio Large, Mr Holmes.
13:47Inspector Baines of the Surrey Constabulary.
13:51This is Constable...
13:54Downing.
13:57And you are Mr John Scott Eccles of Popham House, Lee?
14:02I am.
14:04Mr Scott Eccles.
14:06We've been following you about all the morning.
14:09You traced him for his telegram, I presume?
14:12Exactly, Mr Holmes.
14:14We picked up the scent at Charing Cross Post Office.
14:18But what do you want?
14:20Why do you follow me?
14:22We wish a statement, Mr Scott Eccles,
14:25as to the event which led up to the death of Mr Aloysius Garcia
14:30of Mysterio Large, near Esher.
14:34Dead, did you say?
14:36Dead, did you say?
14:38Oh, yes, he is dead, yes.
14:41But how? An accident?
14:43A murder, sir.
14:45If ever there was one on earth.
14:48Oh!
14:50Oh, God, this...
14:52This is awful.
14:57And you don't mean that I'm suspected?
15:00Well, sir, your note was found on the dead man's body.
15:05And from it we learned that you had planned to stay here
15:09in this house last night.
15:11So I did?
15:13Oh, you did, did you?
15:15I...
15:17Wait. Baines, I mean, surely all you need is a simple statement.
15:21Yes, Mr Holmes,
15:23but it is my duty to warn Mr Scott Eccles
15:27that it may be used against him.
15:31Hmm.
15:33This is my friend and colleague, Dr Watson, Inspector Baines.
15:36Yes, of course.
15:38Doctor, your detention.
15:40Oh, Mr Scott Eccles, you look as if you can do with a drink.
15:44I found some brandy in the library.
15:46If you call me, I'll show you where it is.
15:48Yes, sir. I don't know.
15:50Thank you.
15:52Albero!
15:54Tu vestido blanco!
15:56No me importa!
15:59Oh!
16:01Albero!
16:29I can assure you, Inspector,
16:32that, you know, every word I've said, it is the truth.
16:36I'm bound to say, Mr Scott Eccles,
16:40that everything you've said
16:43does agree with the facts as they've come to our notice.
16:47For example, the note that arrived during dinner.
16:52Mr Scott Eccles, what became of the note?
16:55Well, Garcia rolled it up and threw it in the fire.
16:59What is it that, Baines?
17:01It was a dog grate, Mr Holmes.
17:04He over-pitched it.
17:07I found this unburned at the back.
17:12You must have made a very careful examination of the house
17:15to find a single pellet of paper.
17:18Oh, I did, Mr Holmes, I did.
17:21It's my way.
17:24The note's written on ordinary cream-laid paper
17:28with a watermark.
17:30It's a quarter-sheet.
17:32The paper's cut off in two snips
17:35with the short-bladed scissors.
17:38It's been folded twice
17:42and sealed with scarlet wax.
17:45It suggests to Mr Garcia, Wisteria Lodge,
17:49and it says...
17:52Our own colours, green and white.
17:56Green open.
17:58White shut.
18:00Main stairs.
18:02First corridor.
18:04Seventh right.
18:06Green bays.
18:09Godspeed.
18:12D.
18:14It's in a woman's writing,
18:16done with a very sharp-pointed pen.
18:21But the address is either done with a different pen
18:25or by someone else,
18:27because it's thicker and bolder, as you may see, Mr Holmes.
18:32It's a remarkable note.
18:35I really must congratulate you on your attention to detail.
18:39There are a few trifling points which might perhaps be added.
18:44The seal is a sleeve, Link.
18:47What else is of such a shape?
18:50The scissors were bent, nail scissors.
18:53Short as the two snips are,
18:55you can distinctly see the slight curve in each.
18:59Oh!
19:03I thought I'd squeezed it dry, Mr Holmes.
19:08But I see there were some still left over, after all.
19:13I'm bound to say that I make nothing of the note,
19:17except that some things are manned,
19:21and a woman, as usual, is at the bottom of it.
19:33I'm very glad you found the note, Inspector,
19:36because it corroborates my story.
19:39But, you know, I do beg to point out
19:42that I haven't yet heard what has happened to Mr Garcia,
19:46or what has become of his household.
19:49As for Mr Garcia, that's easily answered.
19:53He was found dead on Oxshot Common this morning.
20:00His head had been beaten to a pulp by a sandbag.
20:05Oh, some such object.
20:08A crush rather than wounded.
20:11Apparently, he'd been first shook down from behind,
20:15but his assailant went on beating him long after he was dead.
20:20It was a very furious assault.
20:23Ah, I mean, this activity that we saw as we approached the house,
20:27were there any footsteps or clues as to the criminal?
20:30None, as yet.
20:33As yet.
20:35Had Garcia been robbed?
20:37No, no sign of robbery, no.
20:40Well, our tenants seem to have left little or nothing behind me.
20:44Apart from the clothes, some pipes,
20:47a few novels, two of them in Spanish.
21:03Ah.
21:24One of them is missing.
21:28Hmm.
21:30Yeah.
21:31We might assume that G stands for Garcia.
21:35Family heirloom, perhaps.
21:37Hmm.
21:38The other was not on the body,
21:40nor has it been found in the vicinity,
21:42though my men are still looking.
21:44Do you wish to look around the house?
21:46A brief look.
21:48I will be.
21:51Holmes.
21:54Holmes!
21:57Holmes!
22:20Ha ha ha!
22:51Watson!
22:55What have you seen?
22:56Could have been the devil for all I know.
22:58Staring eyes at the window.
23:00Negroid features, mulatto-like.
23:02He's got a way across the fields.
23:04Maybe just as well, I don't think I could have laid hands on him.
23:07Ah, but it appears,
23:09if he is all the same scale as his foot,
23:12then he is certainly a giant.
23:15Well,
23:17whoever he was, whatever he wanted,
23:19he's gone for the present.
23:21And we have more important things to attend to.
23:32Downing, you stay here.
23:35And you, sir, shall come to the station with me.
23:38Yes, sir.
23:39And let me have a written statement.
23:41Yes, certainly, I'll come at once.
23:43I hope you don't mind collaborating with Richard.
23:46Inspector, is there any clue as to the exact hour of the man's death?
23:50One o'clock.
23:52It rained about that time,
23:54and the death certainly occurred before the rain.
23:58No! No, no!
24:00That is perfectly impossible, Mr. Baines.
24:03No, no, his voice is very unmistakable.
24:05I could swear to it that it was he
24:08who addressed me in my room at that very hour.
24:11Well, he spoke to me in, you know, that funny accent of his.
24:14He said, he's nearly one o'clock.
24:17Remarkable, but one must not confuse the unlikely with the impossible.
24:21Ha! Ha-ha-ha!
24:23What does he mean with that?
24:25Certainly some strange people occupied that house, Mr. Holmes.
24:30One of them is dead.
24:32Did some of his companions follow him and murder him?
24:35If so, we should have them.
24:37For every report is watched.
24:39But my views are different, Mr. Holmes.
24:42Yes, sir, my views are very different.
24:45You have a theory.
24:47And I'll work it myself, Mr. Holmes.
24:49Your name is already made. I yet to make mine.
24:52And I should like to be able to say afterwards
24:55that I solved it without your help.
24:58Then do you follow your path, and I will follow mine.
25:01Goodbye, Mr. Scott-Egg.
25:03Goodbye, Mr. Holmes.
25:05Goodbye, Mr. Scott-Egg.
25:07Goodbye, Mr. Holmes.
25:09Now, let us consider this note.
25:12Is there a woman involved? A jealous husband?
25:15Godspeed. Godspeed, Dina. That must be our guide.
25:20The man was a Spaniard.
25:22I suggest that the D stands for Delores.
25:25It's a common female name in Spain.
25:28A Spaniard would write to a Spaniard in Spanish, Watson.
25:36It's a flower.
25:54Sit down.
25:59What's the matter?
26:01Greg, I don't feel very well.
26:03I can't see you, ninos.
26:34Henderson, Highgale.
26:54Mr. Holmes,
26:56look what I've found
26:59in a gorse bush.
27:03Excellent.
28:03Great.
28:26Terence, sorry, I've seen her.
28:29ah!
28:31ah!
28:33ah!
28:35ah!
28:37ah!
28:39ah!
28:41I'm terribly sorry. I seem to have lost my direction.
28:43is it your custom to wander...
28:45ah! Dr. Rayfield!
28:47my friend!
28:49and fellow cartographer.
28:51yes indeed. you know we were so engrossed
28:53in trying to trace the bridal path
28:55to um...
28:57the vanished hamlet of Arbudors and Mary
28:59that we mislaid each other.
29:01and since you were late for mr. Henderson
29:03I thought I'm so glad you found your way here.
29:05I very much regret that mr. Henderson is too busy to see you today.
29:09no Lucas.
29:11I will see him.
29:27...footsteps...
29:43gentlemen!
29:53um...
29:55the purpose of our visit is to inquire
29:57into the history of
29:59High Gable
30:01which we believe has an intriguing
30:03and bloodthirsty past.
30:05since the days of the English civil wars.
30:07I would have no knowledge of that.
30:11I'm only a recent invader.
30:13ah!
30:15but there are
30:17local records in the library.
30:21there are no records of any past
30:23violence in this house.
30:31I see.
30:37then I will detain you no more.
30:39good day.
30:41...footsteps...
30:53I thought you were in London.
30:55for the morning only.
30:57with your usual reluctance to confide
30:59your thoughts to me I
31:01exercised my own mind in the matter.
31:03you'd circled two names on your list
31:05Henderson and High Gable.
31:07well the others are prosaic
31:09respectable people
31:11far aloof from romance.
31:13but this man Henderson
31:15he's a very singular creation.
31:17yes indeed.
31:19as you may have noticed
31:21the house is double winged
31:23one side the servants the other side the family.
31:25there is one single
31:27connecting door for the Henderson
31:29family meals.
31:31you sure you couldn't observe all that in the short time you were there?
31:33there are no better instruments for gossip
31:35than discharged servants and I was lucky enough
31:37to find one who had been sacked
31:39by his imperious master Henderson
31:41in a fit of violent temper.
31:43now the Henderson girls
31:45whom you encountered
31:47have a governess
31:49a Miss Burnett an English woman.
31:51here is a very singular fact.
31:53she has not been seen since the night of the murder.
31:55she has utterly
31:57vanished. I've seen her.
31:59of course!
32:01I've seen her and she is alive.
32:03I saw it the window at High Gable.
32:06my god a prisoner.
32:09she slipped my mind.
32:11the moment those awful gorgons
32:13descended upon me.
32:15she is alive. I've seen her.
32:23that's the man I saw entranced.
32:25Baines has arrested the wrong man.
32:27I've lost him.
32:29we must stop him.
32:35oh
32:41ah
32:43is he the murderer?
32:45where did you catch him?
32:49this man
32:51is the murdered man's cook who disappeared
32:53on the night of the crime.
32:55we believe there were valuables left in the house
32:57and that their abstraction
32:59was the motive.
33:01the man had been seen in the vicinity of the house once before.
33:03the second time
33:05so do him
33:07Higgins.
33:11the second time we left an ambuscade
33:13for him.
33:15we shall be applying for remand
33:17when the prisoner is brought before the magistrate.
33:19that will do for now gentlemen.
33:21thank you very much.
33:23where did you catch him?
33:25Baines.
33:27I am not convinced that you are on the right line.
33:29Mr. Holmes doesn't want you to commit yourself too far unless you're sure.
33:31oh
33:33you're very kind gentlemen.
33:35but
33:37we did agree
33:39to work on our own lines
33:41didn't we?
33:43and that's what I'm doing.
33:45you're welcome always to
33:47my news.
33:49this fellow is as strong as a cart horse
33:51and fierce as the devil.
33:53he nearly bit off
33:55constable Downing's thumb
33:57before they managed to master him.
33:59he speaks hardly
34:01any English and we can get nothing
34:03out of him but grunts.
34:05and you
34:07think that you
34:09have evidence that he murdered his
34:11late master.
34:13I didn't say so mr. Holmes.
34:15I didn't
34:17say so.
34:19we all
34:21have our own little ways.
34:23you will go
34:25yours and I
34:27will go mine. that was
34:29the agreement.
34:35I think Baines is riding for a fall.
34:37I'd have to agree with you there.
34:57you
34:59appreciate our difficulty Watson.
35:01there's nothing upon which we can apply
35:03for a warrant and with our worthy
35:05inspector making his arrest
35:07our theory would seem fantastic
35:09if laid before the magistrate. and yet you think
35:11the lady is in danger of her life.
35:13yes I'm sure of it Watson.
35:15therefore we must
35:17take the law into our own
35:19hands.
35:28top left bay.
35:31we could reach it from that outhouse.
35:57grunts
36:19grunts
36:27grunts
36:35they're making for the station.
36:37five o'clock to London. right.
36:39grunts
36:41grunts
36:43grunts
36:45grunts
36:47grunts
36:49grunts
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37:52stop the train!
37:54stop the train!
37:56stop it!
37:58I'm Mr. Holmes. you have given me the very evidence I wanted. we were both on the
38:24same scent from the start. you were after Henderson too. why so? well you first and
38:29then dr. Watson here came crawling through the undergrowth at High Gable.
38:35I was up a tree observing you both. it was just a question of who got the
38:40evidence first. why did you arrest the mulatto? well I was sure that Henderson
38:48as he calls himself felt he was suspected and he would make no move so
38:53long as he thought he was in danger so I arrested the wrong man. you know you
38:59will rise high in your profession inspector. you have instinct and
39:03intuition. thank you mr. Holmes but we can't arrest without miss Burnett's
39:09evidence can we? I should be able to give you that in a moment but tell me who is
39:14this man Henderson? he's Don Murillo known as the tiger of San Pedro. one of
39:20the most dangerous men out of Central America. most lewd and bloodthirsty
39:27tyrant. who imposed his odious vices upon a cowering people for almost 12 years.
39:36was it the San Pedro colors green and white that first put you onto it? that
39:42and my visit to London to the Spanish Embassy in the foreign office. no please
39:45this is your case inspector. five years ago there was a rising against the
39:55tyrant but it was an empty palace they stormed. Don Murillo his secretary two
40:00children and all the wealth and escaped by ship and from that moment they
40:08disappeared from the face of the earth. its identity has been a subject of
40:13constant comment in the European press. we discovered him a year ago. miss Burnett
40:22how came you into this matter miss Burnett? an English lady in such a
40:27murderous affair. because there is no other way in the world by which justice
40:32can be gained. what does the law of England care about the rivers of blood
40:39shed so many years ago in San Pedro or the shipload of treasure that this man
40:45has stolen from us? do you? they're like crimes committed in some other planet.
40:54we know.
40:59my real name is Signora Victor Durando. my husband was the minister of San Pedro
41:06in London. he met and married me there.
41:13a nobler man never lived upon the earth.
41:18unhappily Murillo heard of his excellence and recalled him on some
41:27pretext and shot him by a stroke of premonition. my husband had refused to
41:39take me with him. then came the downfall of the monster. he escaped as you have
41:46described but the many whose lives he had ruined whose loved ones had suffered
41:50torture and death at his hands would not let the matter rest. we banded ourselves
41:54into a society which would never be dissolved until the work was done. it
41:59was my part to attach myself to his household and keep the others in touch
42:02with his movements. I secured the position as governess.
42:08he little knew that the woman who faced him at every meal was the
42:15woman whose husband he had hurried to eternity. I smiled on him, did my duty to
42:21his children and bided my time. an attempt was made in Paris and failed.
42:31we zigzagged here and there swiftly over Europe to throw off our pursuers and
42:37finally returned to High Gable. Garcia had been waiting there for nearly a year
42:42with two trusty companions all fired with the same reasons of revenge. who was
42:48Garcia? the son of Fernando Garcia. one of the former highest dignitaries of San
42:56Pedro who was murdered. like your husband. this note you sent. you say it was
43:06intercepted? during the day Murillo took every precaution and never went out save
43:12with his satellite Lucas. even at night the man was forever on the alert and
43:18continually changed his room. we had arranged that I would send Garcia final
43:23instructions. the doors would be open and the signal of a green or white light in
43:28a window which faced the drive was to give notice if all was safe or if the
43:32attempt had better be postponed.
43:42to whom were you writing this letter? which describes it would seem the room
43:58in which I intend to sleep tonight. who is your confederate? who is your
44:06confederate? what is your real name miss Burnett?
44:13my name is Durando. Durando's widow.
44:21in my house.
44:23looking after my children.
44:35you can kill me now. what is my life worth? you have destroyed everything that I love.
44:43who were you writing to? tell me.
44:47it's a name you fear. he is waiting for you.
45:00it's Garcia.
45:03Garcia.
45:08Dundee!
45:10Dundee!
45:14hysteria Lodge. he's waiting to dispatch you to hell. you fiends.
45:22I knew the boy well. his father was once my dearest friend.
45:27you murdered him!
45:29he betrayed me.
45:32and so did your husband.
45:41and now they send the wives and sons.
45:44will you never learn?
45:48I am indestructible.
46:02at first they were of a mind to let him into the house and kill him as a
46:05detected burglar. but they feared the inquiry might publicly expose them.
46:31one for all, all for one.
48:02oh
48:23Garcia.
48:25someday justice will come.
48:29that is as certain as the rise of tomorrow's sun.
48:41I have no doubt that my life too hung in the balance.
48:46most of the time I was confined to my room.
48:50terrorized by the most horrible threats to break my spirit.
48:56occasionally I was allowed out but only when they had first drunk my food.
49:02and it was in this state that you found me at the station.
49:07and thanks to this good man.
49:11I am beyond their power forever.
49:16well inspector. our police work is done.
49:24but our legal work begins.
49:26exactly mr. Holmes. yes Garcia's death in the hands of a plausible lawyer could look like an act of self-defense.
49:34I think better the law than that.
49:36self-defense is one thing but to entice a man in cold blood with the object of murdering him is another.
49:41whatever danger you fear from it I think we shall see justice done at the next Guilford Assizes.
49:46of course you have released the mulatto. yes sir he's a free man again.
49:50and your man is with the fugitives on the train? yes sir yes.
49:53and I've wired Scotland Yard to have their men at Waterloo station to receive them.
49:59you know I really must congratulate you inspector.
50:02your powers if I may say so without offense are superior to your opportunities.
50:06you're right mr. Holmes. in the provinces we stagnate. a case like this gives a man a chance.
50:36you
51:06you
51:36you