Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of the Four Part1

<v Speaker 1>The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Why father, what is it?
<v Speaker 1>I must tell you where the trisure is? And it
<v Speaker 1>is hidden? No, no, speak an answer? There that's the window.
<v Speaker 1>What is it? That's face? That face, the sign of
<v Speaker 1>the floor.
<v Speaker 2>I can still hear those words echoing in my memory,
<v Speaker 2>for in a sense they changed my life. My name
<v Speaker 2>is Watson, doctor Watson, and I was privileged to share
<v Speaker 2>the adventures of Sherlock Hilt. I will tell you how
<v Speaker 2>we first came across the site before I can see
<v Speaker 2>it still our rooms in Baker Street and Sherlock Holmes,
<v Speaker 2>and in.
<v Speaker 3>Such details you will be there yourself. If I may
<v Speaker 3>collect my thoughts for just a moment.
<v Speaker 1>My mind rebel's stagnation.
<v Speaker 3>Give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis,
<v Speaker 3>and I'm in my own daughter atmosphere. But I abhor
<v Speaker 3>the dull routine of existence. That's why I chose my
<v Speaker 3>own particular profession, or rather.
<v Speaker 1>Created it, for I'm the only one in the world.
<v Speaker 3>You're the only unofficial detective, the only unofficial consulting detective.
<v Speaker 3>The work itself is my highest reward. That Watson, you've
<v Speaker 3>had some experience of my methods work.
<v Speaker 1>I was never so struck by anything in my life.
<v Speaker 3>I even embodied the experience in a small busher with
<v Speaker 3>a sort of fantastic title of study in scarlet. I
<v Speaker 3>read it honestly. I cannot congratulate you on it. Oh,
<v Speaker 3>detection is or ought to be an exact science and
<v Speaker 3>should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
<v Speaker 1>You have attempted to.
<v Speaker 3>Tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect
<v Speaker 3>as if you worked a love story into a fifth
<v Speaker 3>proposition of euclid, but the romancers there. My practice has
<v Speaker 3>extended recently to the consonant. I was consulted last week
<v Speaker 3>by fransvola Villa, who, as you probably know, has come
<v Speaker 3>rather to the front lately in the French detective service.
<v Speaker 3>She's now translating my small works into French your work. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>I've been guilty of several monogers, and Slater example is
<v Speaker 3>one upon.
<v Speaker 1>The distinction between the ashes of the various tobaccos. In it,
<v Speaker 1>I enumerate one hundred and.
<v Speaker 3>Forty forms of cigars, cigarette and pipe tobacco.
<v Speaker 1>One hundred forty Here alwa is.
<v Speaker 3>My monograph upon the Tracy footsteps with some remarks upon
<v Speaker 3>the uses.
<v Speaker 1>Of plaster of terrace as a preserver of.
<v Speaker 3>Impressions, that I weary with my hobby, not at all.
<v Speaker 3>When you speaking just now of observation and deduction, surely
<v Speaker 3>the one that some extinct implies the other by no means.
<v Speaker 3>Observation shows me that you've been to the whig Mall
<v Speaker 3>Street post office this morning. But deduction lets me know
<v Speaker 3>that when there you dispatched a telegram. Observation tells me
<v Speaker 3>that you have a little reddish mold adhere into your instead. Now,
<v Speaker 3>just opposite the wig Mall Street post Office, they've taken
<v Speaker 3>up the pavement and thrown up some earth which lies
<v Speaker 3>in such a way that it's difficult.
<v Speaker 1>To avoid treading in it on entry. The earth is
<v Speaker 1>of this peculiar.
<v Speaker 3>Reddish tint, which is found, as far as I know,
<v Speaker 3>nowhere else in the neighborhood.
<v Speaker 1>Proud foe, But how did you deduce the telegram?
<v Speaker 3>Well, of course I knew that you'd not written a letter,
<v Speaker 3>since I sat opposite.
<v Speaker 1>You all the morning. I see you also.
<v Speaker 3>In your open desk there that you will have a
<v Speaker 3>sheet of stents and a thick bundle of purst guard.
<v Speaker 1>But What could you go into the post office.
<v Speaker 3>For then, but to send a wire? Illimimate all other factors,
<v Speaker 3>and the one which remains.
<v Speaker 1>Must be the truth to me.
<v Speaker 3>See Watson, how the yellow fog swells down the streets and.
<v Speaker 1>Drifts across the dun colored houses. What could be more
<v Speaker 1>hopelessly prosaic and material? What's the use of having powers?
<v Speaker 3>Doctor, when one has their field upon wish to exert them?
<v Speaker 3>Crying his commonplace existence is commonplace, and no qualities save
<v Speaker 3>those which are commonplace, had any function upon earth?
<v Speaker 1>Oh? What iss a young lady for mister how sir?
<v Speaker 1>I have no appointmance?
<v Speaker 3>Yes a card, sir, Miss Mary Muston, I have no
<v Speaker 3>recollection of the name.
<v Speaker 1>Would very well ask her to step in, Missus Hudson,
<v Speaker 1>very good? Will you go in, please, Miss Marston? Thank you?
<v Speaker 1>They come in, madam.
<v Speaker 4>It's good of you to see me. Mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 1>This is my friend and colleague, doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 4>How do you do, doctor?
<v Speaker 1>How do you do? Missus Awston? Will you take the
<v Speaker 1>basket chair? Thank you?
<v Speaker 5>I've come to you, mister Holmes, because you once enabled
<v Speaker 5>my employer, missus Cecil Forester, to unravel a little domestic
<v Speaker 5>complication that she was much impressed by your kindness and.
<v Speaker 3>Skill, missus Cecil Forester, whereas I believe that I was.
<v Speaker 1>A some slight service to her.
<v Speaker 4>Mister Holmes, I can hardly imagine anything more strange than
<v Speaker 4>the situation in which I find myself.
<v Speaker 1>Then prayse state your case briefly. The facts are these.
<v Speaker 5>My father was an officer in an Indian regiment who
<v Speaker 5>sent me home when I was a child.
<v Speaker 4>My mother was dead and I.
<v Speaker 5>Had no relative in England, so I was placed in
<v Speaker 5>a comfortable establishment in Edinburgh.
<v Speaker 4>When I was seventeen years of age, my father arrived
<v Speaker 4>in London on leave and directed me to come down
<v Speaker 4>at once. On reaching the.
<v Speaker 5>Langham Hotel, I was informed that Captain Morston had gone.
<v Speaker 4>Out the night before and had not returned.
<v Speaker 1>From that day. To this no word has.
<v Speaker 4>Ever been heard of my unfortunate father. The date he
<v Speaker 4>disappeared on the third of December eighteen seventy eight.
<v Speaker 1>Eighteen seventy eight, little ten years ago, is like it.
<v Speaker 4>There was nothing in it to suggest a clue.
<v Speaker 1>Have you friends in London?
<v Speaker 4>With only one that we know of, Major Chaltou of
<v Speaker 4>his own regiment to Sety fourth Bombay Infantry. Major Charlto
<v Speaker 4>had retired some time before my father came home. He
<v Speaker 4>lived at Upper Norwood after we communicated with him across,
<v Speaker 4>but he didn't even know that his brother officer was
<v Speaker 4>now in England.
<v Speaker 5>I see I haven't yet described to you the most
<v Speaker 5>singular part. About six years ago, in eighteen eighty two,
<v Speaker 5>to be exact, an advertisement appeared in The Times asking
<v Speaker 5>for the address of Miss Mary Marston.
<v Speaker 1>Eighty two.
<v Speaker 5>I had just entered the family of missus cecil Forrester
<v Speaker 5>as governess, and by her advice, I published my.
<v Speaker 4>Address in the advertisement column.
<v Speaker 5>The same day there arrived through the post a small
<v Speaker 5>cardboard box addressed to me.
<v Speaker 4>It contained a very large and lustrous pearl remarkable.
<v Speaker 5>No word of writing was enclosed. Every year since then,
<v Speaker 5>on the same date there has come a box containing
<v Speaker 5>a similar.
<v Speaker 4>Purl without any clue.
<v Speaker 5>As Civis sender, think you can see for yourselves that
<v Speaker 5>they are very handsome.
<v Speaker 1>This is most interesting. Does anything else happen?
<v Speaker 5>Yes, this morning I received this letter h thank you
<v Speaker 5>of the envelope top be cost think you.
<v Speaker 3>Post Mark London, s w O d July seventh, hm
<v Speaker 3>Man some mar.
<v Speaker 1>From a corner p public postman.
<v Speaker 3>Best quality paper envelopes at sixpence a package particular man
<v Speaker 3>in the stationary nor address? What is sale homes?
<v Speaker 1>Be it the third pillar.
<v Speaker 3>From the left outside the Lyceum Theater the night at
<v Speaker 3>seven o'clock.
<v Speaker 1>If you are distrustful, bring two friends. You are a wronged.
<v Speaker 3>Woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police if
<v Speaker 3>you do or will be in.
<v Speaker 1>Vain Signed your unknown friend. What do you intend to do?
<v Speaker 1>Miss Molson?
<v Speaker 4>That is exactly what I want to tell, mister Holmes.
<v Speaker 3>We shall certainly go, you and I and yes, doctor Watson,
<v Speaker 3>for very manna.
<v Speaker 1>We've worked together before.
<v Speaker 4>You're both very kind. If I'm here at.
<v Speaker 1>Six, will it do?
<v Speaker 3>You must not be later? No, there is one point, however,
<v Speaker 3>is this handwriting the same to touch upon the pearl
<v Speaker 3>bus addresses?
<v Speaker 1>I have them all here. You're certainly a model flad.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see. Now these are a.
<v Speaker 3>Disguised hands, but they are, and that's by the same person.
<v Speaker 3>But we shall look out to you at six then
<v Speaker 3>good afternoon. See what a billy A cresitive woman, My
<v Speaker 3>dear Watson. It's the first importance not to allow your
<v Speaker 3>judgment to be biased, but personal equalities. I assure you
<v Speaker 3>that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged
<v Speaker 3>for poisoning three little children for their insurance money. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. Well,
<v Speaker 3>I'm going out now.
<v Speaker 1>I have a few references to look up. I shall
<v Speaker 1>be back in alarm.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my dear Watson, there's no great mystery in this matter.
<v Speaker 3>The facts appear to admit of only one explanation. But
<v Speaker 3>you haven't solved it already. I just found, on consulting
<v Speaker 3>the back files of the Times that Majure Shelter about
<v Speaker 3>the Norwood Late Prediforth bom Day Infantry died on the
<v Speaker 3>twenty eighth of April eighteen eighty two. I maybe William twosomes,
<v Speaker 3>but I shall see what this ists.
<v Speaker 1>Will you surprise me?
<v Speaker 3>Captain Marston disappears. His only acquaintance in London is Major Shelter.
<v Speaker 3>Four years later, Chalter dies. Within a week of his death,
<v Speaker 3>Captain Morton's daughter receives a valuable present which is repeated
<v Speaker 3>from year to year, and now culminations in a letter
<v Speaker 3>which describes.
<v Speaker 1>Her as a wrong woman.
<v Speaker 3>Why should the presents begin immediately after Shelter's death? But
<v Speaker 3>listen to if the chanter's heir knows something of the
<v Speaker 3>mystery and desires to make compensations.
<v Speaker 1>If the letter speaks of giving.
<v Speaker 3>Her justice, what justice can she heavy?
<v Speaker 1>It's too much to suppose her father is still alive
<v Speaker 1>and a certainly difficulties, but our expedition of tonight will
<v Speaker 1>solve them all. Ah.
<v Speaker 3>I think that's the four wheeler. Yes, and there's Miss
<v Speaker 3>Marston inside. Are you already I'm at at home. Yes.
<v Speaker 1>Major Shelter was a very particular.
<v Speaker 4>Friend of Papa's, then in.
<v Speaker 5>Command of the Convict Guard on the end of an Islands,
<v Speaker 5>part of Brainstones.
<v Speaker 4>A curious paper was found in Papa's.
<v Speaker 1>Yes.
<v Speaker 4>I don't suppose it's the slightest importance, but I think
<v Speaker 4>you might.
<v Speaker 1>Care to see this, Oh, thank you, Hm. Seems to
<v Speaker 1>be a plan for part of a large building at
<v Speaker 1>one point. Here you see there's a small crust and
<v Speaker 1>in red ink in the lestern corona.
<v Speaker 3>There's a curious hieroglyphic like four crosses in a line
<v Speaker 3>with their arms touching.
<v Speaker 1>And besides that, there's written in very.
<v Speaker 3>Rough and course characters, the sign of the four Jonathan
<v Speaker 3>Small Muhammed singher Bi la Khan Dastakaba presented carefully, Miss Marston,
<v Speaker 3>I shall I suspect that this matter may.
<v Speaker 1>Turn out to be much.
<v Speaker 3>Deeper and more subtle than I act. Suppose that's right?
<v Speaker 1>This one and I can't say this is I'm me?
<v Speaker 1>I owe the party is what come with Miss Morston?
<v Speaker 4>I am Miss Morston, and these two gentlemen of my friends.
<v Speaker 1>I would ask you to give me your word. Miss
<v Speaker 1>When I heard your companion that.
<v Speaker 4>Is a policeman, I give you my word.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you. If you're following me either, can't go?
<v Speaker 3>Oh, I lost my bearing ages ago one's ust throw denner,
<v Speaker 3>How you'll do it?
<v Speaker 1>Stop for place? God have the lames dear me question?
<v Speaker 1>Can't have get me taking it to any sessionable regions.
<v Speaker 1>You are coming this way, please.
<v Speaker 3>Yourself, Miss mossin your seven gentlemen prayer step into my
<v Speaker 3>little sent My name is Adu Steur, These gentlemen.
<v Speaker 4>This stave, mister Sherlock Holmes, and this doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 3>Doctor, I have a great sufferer and I have long hair.
<v Speaker 3>Suspicions as to my might drug out. Had your father,
<v Speaker 3>Miss Morson, refrained from throwing straight upon his heart, he
<v Speaker 3>might have been alive now.
<v Speaker 1>Rellis I pray have some consideration for the lady.
<v Speaker 4>I knew in my heart that he was dead.
<v Speaker 1>Miss Wolston.
<v Speaker 3>I can give you every information, and what is more,
<v Speaker 3>I can do you justice and I will not about
<v Speaker 3>brother Buffoli. We may say, but let it have no outsiders, your.
<v Speaker 1>Police or officials, whatever you may choose to say.
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna further.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you, mister Charter. It's getting late, and I should
<v Speaker 4>like the interview to be as short as.
<v Speaker 3>Possible, well the best. It must take some time for
<v Speaker 3>we shall certainly have to go to Rowood and see
<v Speaker 3>brother buffolow you. He's very angry for taking the course
<v Speaker 3>which has seemed right to me.
<v Speaker 1>Nor didn't want to do as well as some once.
<v Speaker 3>But I must prepare you by laying the facts before you.
<v Speaker 1>Then play do sir sir. My father, Major.
<v Speaker 3>John Chalta, retired from the Indian Army some mantive years
<v Speaker 3>ago and came through bunditary large Upper Norwood with a
<v Speaker 3>considerable sum of money, a large collection of valuable curiosities
<v Speaker 3>and the stuff of native servants. My queen, brother Buftholomew,
<v Speaker 3>and I were the only children. We will remember the
<v Speaker 3>sensation which was called by the disappearance of Captain Mouston.
<v Speaker 3>We went the details in the papers, but never for
<v Speaker 3>an instant did resuspect that my father had the whole
<v Speaker 3>secret hidden in his beast.
<v Speaker 1>We didn't know, however, that some mystery overhuna our father.
<v Speaker 3>Early in eighteen eighty two, my father received a letter
<v Speaker 3>from India which was a great shot to him. From
<v Speaker 3>that day he sickened to his death. Towards the end
<v Speaker 3>of April, we were informed that he wished to make
<v Speaker 3>a last communication to us.
<v Speaker 1>Son.
<v Speaker 3>The only one thing which weighs upon thy mind that
<v Speaker 3>the supreme was, was my treatment of poor Master's.
<v Speaker 1>Often merely at least half of the treasure should have been.
<v Speaker 3>Hers to my sons. Will give her a fair share
<v Speaker 3>of the argal treasure. Come kindly. Were in India Loston alive.
<v Speaker 3>Through a remarkable chain of circumstance, it claim in the
<v Speaker 3>possession of a considerable treasure and brought it over to England,
<v Speaker 3>And on the night of Loston's arrival he came straight
<v Speaker 3>here to claim his share. We had a difference of opinion.
<v Speaker 3>Boston sprang out of his chair.
<v Speaker 1>And then he suddenly pressed his hand to his side.
<v Speaker 1>He saw a Chris, I found to my honor that
<v Speaker 1>he was damed. Good God. I was still out there
<v Speaker 1>stooping over.
<v Speaker 4>Him when I saw my.
<v Speaker 1>Servant, girl Childer, in the doorway.
<v Speaker 3>Do not fill your sab, he said, No one need
<v Speaker 3>know that you have killed him.
<v Speaker 1>I did not kill him, said I now, child As
<v Speaker 1>shook his head and smiled. I heard your qually, U
<v Speaker 1>sab said he had I heard? Had they heard? Had
<v Speaker 1>they to decide me? If my own servants couldn't believe
<v Speaker 1>my uses, how could I hope to make it good?
<v Speaker 1>Afore twelve foolish treason? You have fury, boss, And then
<v Speaker 1>well thou childhood, and.
<v Speaker 3>I disposed of the body had read and within a
<v Speaker 3>few days the London newspapers were.
<v Speaker 1>Full of the Australis disappear as the Captain Boston. I why, father,
<v Speaker 1>what is it? I must tell you where the treasure
<v Speaker 1>it is? And it is hidden in No no, click
<v Speaker 1>him out, they're out the window. What is it? That's face?
<v Speaker 1>That face the sign of the fall?
<v Speaker 3>Can you describe the face of the window, mister shelter
<v Speaker 3>and bearded, hairy, with cruel eyes and an expression of
<v Speaker 3>concentrated evil. When we returned from the window. We found
<v Speaker 3>my father's purse and ceased to beat. In the morning
<v Speaker 3>we found his window open, use cupboards and boxes rifle.
<v Speaker 1>Along his chest there.
<v Speaker 3>Was fixed a tall piece of paper with the words
<v Speaker 3>the sign of the fall Ah, the sign of the
<v Speaker 3>Foe and the past. For weeks and months, my brother
<v Speaker 3>and I dug in it every part of the garden,
<v Speaker 3>or it was mad into think at the hiding place
<v Speaker 3>was on my father's lips at the little moment he died.
<v Speaker 3>Till this day I have seen only one piece of
<v Speaker 3>it that to get chatted over there. Yes, doctor, some
<v Speaker 3>of the pearls are missing from it. When after my
<v Speaker 3>father's death, I persuaded Batholomu to let me find out
<v Speaker 3>Miss Norston's address and send a detached pearl at intervals,
<v Speaker 3>so that at least we might make part of the
<v Speaker 3>restitution my father had wished.
<v Speaker 4>That was a kindly thought, mister Charter.
<v Speaker 1>Not at all. We were your plus tees. Well, that's pursue.
<v Speaker 1>I took it, though Bathalimu could not altogether see it
<v Speaker 1>in that light, So I left Ponticelli lash.
<v Speaker 4>And now I.
<v Speaker 5>Asked, now, mister Charter, exactly why you brought us here this.
<v Speaker 3>Evening, because yesterday I learned that the treasure had been discovered.
<v Speaker 3>That it only remains for us to drive to waw
<v Speaker 3>Wood and demand that brother Buffalow.
<v Speaker 1>Could give us. Marshall.
<v Speaker 3>I stayed my views to him last night, so we
<v Speaker 3>should be expected, if not very welcome. Mister Chatteau, you
<v Speaker 3>have done well. We had best put the matter through
<v Speaker 3>withou delay. And very well, mister Holmes, A cab will
<v Speaker 3>be waiting outside.
<v Speaker 1>How did your brother find the the oh about following you?
<v Speaker 1>Was a clever fellow.
<v Speaker 3>He worked out the cubic space of the house. He
<v Speaker 3>found that the height of the building was seventy four feet,
<v Speaker 3>but on adding together the heights of all the separate
<v Speaker 3>rooms and the spaces between, he could not bring the
<v Speaker 3>total to more than seventy feet. The fore feet, unaccounted for,
<v Speaker 3>could only be at the top of the building. He
<v Speaker 3>knocked a hole in the ceiling of the highest room,
<v Speaker 3>and there full enough the treasure chests stood in the center.
<v Speaker 3>He computes the value of the jewels had not less
<v Speaker 3>than half a million, steady.
<v Speaker 1>Half a million.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, and Miss Marston must be about the richest service
<v Speaker 3>in the country.
<v Speaker 1>I believe you are right, Barson, who have letters? Be greeen?
<v Speaker 6>Perhaps we shill see for ourselves the guitar.
<v Speaker 1>Mcmurdoin. Sure do you know by not by stick? Oh
<v Speaker 1>that you mister studiers? But who are these others with you?
<v Speaker 1>When I told my brother last night and I should
<v Speaker 1>bring some prints?
<v Speaker 3>I'm very sorry, mister dudeus and I don't know any
<v Speaker 3>of your friends.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yes you do, mcmurther.
<v Speaker 3>Not mister Sherlock holmb Sir, then you come, sir, in
<v Speaker 3>you come, you and your friends. Very sorry mister Thadys,
<v Speaker 3>but Master God does are very strict.
<v Speaker 1>You come along. Then weve wasted enough time.
<v Speaker 3>If you'll just follow me, mom and gents, I'll light
<v Speaker 3>the way up to the house.
<v Speaker 1>With Matt Lanton. I can't understand it.
<v Speaker 3>I distinctly turn upon you, but we should be here.
<v Speaker 3>And if there's no light in his window, I say,
<v Speaker 3>the length of a light in that little window was
<v Speaker 3>not a door. That's the housekeeper's room. That is where
<v Speaker 3>oh missus Burnstone sits.
<v Speaker 1>What's that? What?
<v Speaker 4>I'm sure I could just listen. It's a woman crying.
<v Speaker 1>You're right, by jove, mister Hobs. Something seems to be
<v Speaker 1>a miss or well you'll come into the house with me.
<v Speaker 1>Leave his certainly.
<v Speaker 4>And I think I'm a little afraid.
<v Speaker 1>Nothing to feel as most, and I show you would
<v Speaker 1>you have to take my hand?
<v Speaker 4>Oh yes, thank you, doctor Watson.
<v Speaker 3>Better alone, much better this most than my feeling. I
<v Speaker 3>feel we should follow them.
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, no, missus Bonstone. What he is the.
<v Speaker 5>Mister sir, there is something, there's something in mister knew
<v Speaker 5>my brother.
<v Speaker 4>He just left himself and went to listen to me.
<v Speaker 4>Oh dear, I wanted to.
<v Speaker 1>Hear from you, And so now they had met, went
<v Speaker 1>up and peep through. You must go up quickly.
<v Speaker 4>You must God to look for yourself.
<v Speaker 1>To be your lantern mc murder and you.
<v Speaker 3>Stay here, of miss Marston, mister shutter Watson, come with
<v Speaker 3>me quickly.
<v Speaker 1>Oh veriss room the first on the lift. How can
<v Speaker 1>we see injured that there's no light in there?
<v Speaker 3>Well, there's tent of moon light. Let's see, God, something damnable.
<v Speaker 1>You take a look. Wasn't he's He's just.
<v Speaker 3>Sitting there, the horrible smile on his face, looking human
<v Speaker 3>throat that almost come down to fight together.
<v Speaker 1>Then again, now this time, now we shall see.
<v Speaker 7>The sign of the four is one of the Sherlock
<v Speaker 7>Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doll.
<v Speaker 1>We're presenting it in three parts. You've just heard part one.
<v Speaker 1>My name is Norman Shelley.
<v Speaker 3>My friend Carlton Hobbs played Sherlock Holmes, and I was
<v Speaker 3>Doctor Watson. Michael Hardwick wrote the script for this DDC
<v Speaker 3>production from London. Of course, I look forward to the
<v Speaker 3>pleasure of your company again very soon for part two
<v Speaker 3>of the Sign of the Ford