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The case of the stolen naval treaty.

A naval treaty, Doctor?

A highly exclusive document.

Explosive?

Yes, it's written to blow the piece of Europe into bits.

And did it?

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One July morning, it was the July which immediately succeeded my manager

and received a communication from an old school, then Percy Terps.

Percy's mother's brother was Lord Holdest, the great conservative politician.

This other gaudy relationship was a little bad to him when we were at school.

I can assure you.

However, let us seem to be very urgent.

So I had it around to Baker Street.

I found homes in his dressing gown plunged in the middle of a chemical investigation.

A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner.

See the look of concentration on home space?

I seated myself in my old armchair and waited.

Are they daring to believe?

Yes, I am.

Most enlightening.

Yes, you'll come at a crisis, Watson.

If this slip of paper remains blue when it touches the solution, all will be well.

The turned red means a man's life.

I say, you don't need to wrap Watson.

This is the crucial moment.

There.

But I see it has burned red and nasty blood red.

Blood red is quite correct Watson, a very common place murder.

Well, if the end of that is an experiment.

I hope you'll fill up your pipe.

Then hand me the Persian slip out.

All right.

There you are.

So you've come on business, Watson.

Yes, but how did you know?

The letter touched so tightly in your right hand.

Not to mention the little excitement and an anxiety on your face.

You are the stormy petrol of crime, Watson.

What is it?

Well, this letter, it came in the morning mail.

Read it to me, that's a good chap.

It's from an old school fellow of mine.

I haven't seen him for years.

Yes, but what does he say?

The letter is headed by a brave working.

My dear Watson, I trust you still remember.

Chad Poe-Pelps, who was in the fourth form when you were in the third.

You may even have heard that through my uncle's influence,

I obtained a good appointment at the foreign office where I was in a situation of trust

until a horrible misfortune suddenly blasted my career.

Do you think you could persuade your friend Sherlock Holmes to come down here

to help solve this terrible mess?

Assure him that the only reason I have not asked him advice sooner was

because I have been completely off night for nine weeks.

I am still so weak that I have to write by dictating, as you see,

your old school fellow Pesitops.

Hmm, let me see that letter.

Doesn't tell us very much, does it?

Hard to anything.

Yet the writing is of interest.

What is not his own?

Precisely, it's a woman's.

But it looks like a man.

No, it's a woman.

It's a woman of unusual and strong character.

It's always interesting to know that your client is in close contact

with someone who, for good or evil, has an exceptional nature.

Yes, my interest is already a wicker to the better.

Then you will take the case.

The next train for working leaves an exactly 43 minutes.

Honey, what snow is your missing?

Did you step in here?

And from now I find out if Mr. Pesits can see you.

Dear, dear.

Well, the old place hasn't changed since the days when I used to visit here on my vacations.

It makes me feel quite young again.

Ah, Sherlock Holmes, I perceive.

And Dr. Watson, too, I presume.

So glad to come.

First he's been inquiring for you all morning.

Poor chap, he clings to any straw.

By dear man, I may look as thin as a straw,

but I promise you I have more weight.

Mentally.

I've received you yourself and not a member of the family.

Oh, dear me, how did you know?

The monogram on the pocket of your blazer?

J.H.

Of course, of course.

But a moment I thought you had done something clever.

My name is Harrison.

Joseph Addison.

Percy is engaged to marry my sister Annie.

So I shall soon be a relation by marriage narrate.

My sister is with him now.

She's nursed him hand in foot during this trying too much.

Soothing his pivot brow, eh?

Lucky fellow?

Yes.

You will find him in his room.

Of my room, rather, at least it used to be in my room.

Until he came home after the catastrophe and collapsed.

They couldn't carry him upstairs.

He was in such a state.

So they took him into my room.

Eh?

We'd better go in at once.

I know how impatiently he is to see you.

Yes, this conversation is delightful.

But after all, we did come to see the spelps.

I guess so.

Quite so.

Go this way.

It's in this wing.

It's the dining room.

You say, this is the door.

I'll leave you here.

You can come in if you like.

Oh, no, thank you.

No.

With this misfortune hanging over his head.

Poor fellow.

It will.

Come in.

Oh, you've cut the last.

At least I presume this is Sherlock Holmes.

Quite, and how is your patient?

Oh, he's much better, thank you.

What's in my dear fellow?

Well, tell him that you are.

I knew you under that moustache.

You didn't delight this you both.

Oh, this is my fiancé, Miss Harrison.

Please sit down.

Shall I leave, Percy?

Oh, no, don't go any.

You don't mind, Mr. Holmes?

Not at all.

I feel much steadier when she's here.

Quite.

And now, perhaps.

Well, you'll see, Mr. Holmes, it's like this.

I was a happy and successful man.

I'll leave it being married.

And then this...

This misfortune ripped my life.

I have a broken man.

My other darling, I...

I'm ruined.

I can't help it.

Percy, please.

You'll make yourself ill again.

I'm sorry, Anne.

Perhaps you'd better just tell us the fact

as quietly as you can.

So, of course, Mr. Holmes.

I was, as Watson may have told you in the phone office,

in a responsible position.

My uncle, Lord Hoodhurst, is the following minister, you know?

Well, nearly eight years ago, a week's rather,

the twenty-third of me, to be exact,

he called me into his private room,

informed me that he had a commission of trust

for me to execute.

Come in.

Come in.

Oh, it's you, Percy.

Anyone out there on the hall?

No, sir.

Good.

Come in and lock the door.

Now, come over here.

I want to make sure we can't be overheard.

That's it.

What's up, Uncle Percy?

You look tremendously solid.

It's a solid matter, Percy.

You see this piece of paper?

It's a secret treaty covering our naval situation

in the Mediterranean.

Harmless and up in itself, but a bombshell

if it should fall into the hands of a certain government.

It's to win.

The very wars may have years, Percy.

Let us merely say the country of X.

You understand?

I understand.

I want you to make a copy of it.

I must have a complete copy of it tomorrow morning.

You may have to work on it the better part of the night.

Oh, that's all right, sir.

That Joseph, and his brother, you know,

is going to stop by for me.

We're going to take the nine-of-clock train together.

He can tell the family I've been kept in town on visits.

Very well.

But leave the message with the commissioner downstairs.

I don't want anyone in your room

when you're copying that document.

Very good, sir.

When you've finished, you can put the document

and the copy in my safe.

You know the combination, I believe.

Certain.

That's all, Percy.

But don't forget.

You hold the piece of Europe in your hands.

I won't.

Good night, Uncle Bert.

Good night.

Huh?

She's though I had to make a night of it.

Oh.

Hello, Connor.

You're still here?

Oh, yes, sir.

I had some details to clear up, so I thought

it would want me to stay.

Oh, that's all I've got.

Are you convinced tomorrow?

Yes, sir.

How do you sure you won't need me?

No, thanks.

Yeah.

Listen, look, as though I have a chance to go out for dinner.

At least I can bring for coffee.

Oh, you can find it that bell for this twisted again.

There we are.

The rain's coming down harder than ever.

Nice, Charlie, little evening.

Yeah.

You're sure there's something I can do with you, perhaps?

Good Lord, no, Connor.

Run along.

Yes.

Good night, Connor.

Hello?

Who's under you?

I'm the commissioner's wife, sir.

What's more, I'm the Charlie idea, Randy.

The Charlie idea?

Oh, I see.

I don't believe I've ever had the pleasure of making your acquaintance before.

No, sir.

As you haven't, if you mean what I think you do.

Would you inquire if your assistant spouse would spare me a cup of the excellent coffee?

It's hot for any pays to the empire who are obliged to work at night.

You mean Erby should bring you half a cup of coffee?

Yes, please.

I'll see what I can do about it.

Yes.

Use your influence.

Well, let's have a look at that treaty.

Great Britain.

A triple alliance.

French fleet?

What?

Complete ascendancy.

It's no use, sir.

I'm too proud of you.

Do we go over to have a cup of coffee?

Herbert!

I say Herbert!

Coffee!

Oh, it's just fun.

The telegraphs go all the way downstairs.

Herbert!

First asleep.

Hey, Herbert, wake up.

Hello, hello.

Oh, you, Mr. Philp.

I came down to see if my coffee was ready.

But I think the front doorbell just rang.

Bell?

Yes, sir.

But if you was here, who rang that bell?

What bell? I told you it was it.

It's the bell of the room you was working in, sir.

Great son of mine.

There's no one up there.

The treaty.

Oh, good heavens.

I left it on the table.

Quick Herbert!

We've got to get up there.

Something terrible is happening.

No, no, no.

Runs her faster.

They caught us.

Too late.

Oh, wait, I'll open the door.

Stand back a bit.

I've got my arm in it, Oliver.

What?

There's no one here.

What?

Look, the treaty.

The treaty's gone.

Who could have taken it?

No one's been in the front way tonight.

And there was no one in the room but yourself.

My wife's so...

Then he must have come up the stairs in the side door

and stepped out that way too.

The Alfred haven't agreed.

He may not be too late.

Don't you go outside.

You'll miss your miss.

Up to the skinny.

There's a policeman on the corner.

Anybody seeing something?

I'd say it's obvious.

It's you.

There's no robbery in the police office.

Has anyone passed this way?

There's ten of you.

A quarter of an hour, sir.

And only one living source passed in that time.

Who was it?

A total lady in a piece this short.

She seemed to hurry.

Well, that was my wife.

Which way do you see her?

You're just wasting your time, sir.

And every minute is a bit important.

Yes, all right.

We'll go back to Scott and Yard.

Oh, this is terrible.

Have it, have it.

We're ruined.

Uh, never you mind, sir.

You'll lose your post, perhaps.

But they can't do nothing so dreadful to girls.

It's not myself I'm thinking of.

It's England.

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Well, officers from Scotland yard were waiting for the child woman when she got home.

And what did they find?

Nothing, absolutely nothing.

And Goddo, did they trace him?

Yes, Mr. Herb, but again nothing was found.

I was finding Goddo my mind.

They had to get a doctor to take me home.

I was delirious for spend weeks.

And these two people, Goddo and the child woman,

they've been under observation of a since I suppose.

Yes, with no results.

You say they'd been raining or anything?

Yes.

But you found no traces of any kind to the room.

No footprints.

I mean, absolutely none.

Not even those of the child woman's muddy boots.

How do you explain that?

Well, the child woman in the habit of taking off their boots

and wearing just carpet slippers.

No footprints, eh?

It's enlightening.

Must have taken a cab and got to play that way too.

That extends the policeman's not here.

Not in Mr. Peltz.

Could anyone have been concealed in the room or in the corridor?

Impossible.

There was no cover of any kind.

Windows?

30 feet above the ground, locked on the inside.

And it must have been the side door.

Who knew you would have had the treaty in your possession?

No one.

I'd take my oath on that.

In your opinion, what would happen if those papers

were to fall into the hands of a rival government?

War.

Almost instantaneously.

But it's eight weeks and we're not at war.

Therefore, it's not unfair to suppose the treaty hasn't reached them.

I don't imagine the thief took the treaty in order to frame it.

Quite.

And he's undoubtedly waiting for a better price.

There's only one clue that puzzles me.

What is that?

Bell.

Did someone get to prevent the crime or was it an accident?

If we only knew when the bell was run, we should have the solution of his case.

It's even possible that he didn't.

Of course, of course, when a fool I was not to think of that before.

You think you can help me possibly?

God bless you for that, Mr. Holmes.

If we can keep our courage and our patience, the truth must come out.

But bless he has one more adventure to tell you about.

You're sure you're strong enough, darling?

No, I feel better than I have for days.

Hope is a splendid ton again, eh?

And what was this other incident, Mr. Peltz?

Well, you see, Mr. Holmes.

Last night was the very first thing that I stepped out of my room.

I was rather waitful.

I had a nightmare or two.

And suddenly I had a slight noise.

A kind of noise?

Like a mouse, knowing a plank.

It grew louder.

And all at once there was a sharp metallic sneak.

Someone forcing the window.

If I realize that, too, I jumped out there and fell over the surface.

A man was crouching in the window.

He was gone like a flash.

What did he look like?

I don't really know.

He was wrapped in some sort of cloak which came across the lower part of his face.

Oh, one thing I am sure of.

He had a long weapon in his head that looked like a knife.

I saw the dream of it as he turned a run.

I shoved it after him.

And then?

Then I was to collapse from the effort.

The thing I knew I was surrounded by the entire household.

Oh, Joseph and the groom found marks in the flower bed outside this window.

You can see them from where you sit.

Hear me?

Yes, I'm afraid Joseph and the groom have been a bit too energetic for me to learn anything from the traces.

The flower bed looks as if it had been trampled on by an army.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I should have burglar.

If it was a burglar, choose to enter this room.

The dining room windows are much larger and more accessible.

I can't imagine unless...

Well, unless it's a plot against Percy.

Well, that sounds a bit melodramatic added.

At all, there's something in what Miss Harrison says.

So much for Dr. Watson and I to take you to Water London with us.

Yes, but he's not very strong, you know.

The trick to London will not be nearly so dangerous to your fiancé, Miss Harrison,

as another night in this room.

Goodie.

And another thing, Miss Harrison.

You can be very helpful to us and to Mr. Help.

Mr. Help's if you'll one thing for me.

You may take courage, but I think I can promise that you'll be in no great personal danger.

What did you want me to do?

Stay in this room until you go to bed tonight.

Don't leave it for an instant.

Mr. Help's reputation and my whole future may depend on it.

I'm not going to ask you to sleep here that when you leave for the night,

I want you to lock the bedroom door on the outside.

Yes, but look here, something might happen.

Not a word to anyone. It's for his sake, remember.

Come in.

Learned, everybody?

Something is especially nice for you, you see?

Come along, Annie.

Oh, oh, Joseph.

If you'll excuse me, I have a slight headache.

I think I'll eat in here by myself.

The breeze is nice.

I want to be alone.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

I can't say I enjoy cross-country walks in the middle of the night once.

I thought we were going down to London.

That's what you told everybody.

We get on the train with Persian, the nurse, and then we get off of the next station and leave Persian and the nurse to go up to London alone.

It doesn't make sense.

Stop fussing, he'll be all right. I sent him on the Baker Street.

With any luck, we should be there ourselves in time to have breakfast with him.

Yes, but why sneak back to Briar Bray like this?

Not so loud.

As the house now, you can see its gables in the moonlight.

Follow me through the hedge.

Mr. Wyther, hit when the gates open, not so loud.

I've got to get as near of a house possible without being seen.

I say those.

If I can mistrising, ghostly looking will get the tips of it over there in the meadow.

She looked.

The lamp is still lit in person. I mean it looks as room.

Miss Harrison must have kept her promise.

Yes.

There she is reading a book.

Now she's put it down.

She's peeing up the lamp.

I see homes.

She must be getting ready to go to bed.

Why possibly what?

I only hope she doesn't forget to lock the door on the outside.

There she goes to the dining room.

Now the light's gone.

I see the mister creeping up in the meadow of you.

If only the thief doesn't wait until they blanket the house.

Look.

The service door is opening.

I didn't think he'd wait a bit long.

There he comes out into the moonlight.

He's waiting alone, black keep.

He can't see his face.

He's forcing the window.

He's going to open.

He's climbing off the hill.

He must get close as we can see.

I think he's lacking the candles on the mantle.

Look, he's putting back the rug.

In the floor, I thought so.

He's lifting up a board.

Now, Mr. Joseph Harrison,

we could have enough to hand over the papers you've just removed from that hiding place.

Who got homes? He's got a knife.

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What is a close nine now Mrs. Hudson and Holmes say they have a breakfast at nine?

Now don't you worry Mr. Feltz. If he says he'll be here for breakfast, he'll be here.

It's when he don't say it. That's when you don't know.

And whether it'll be breakfast or supper, he'll be wanting next.

What should I tell you? Here they are now driving up in Anne's cab.

There's the front door, and it's nine to the second.

Good morning Mrs. Hudson. Good morning sir.

This is on the table, fighting hot.

What do I say Holmes, you've been wounded. Your hands all fired up.

Just a scratch.

Hm, breakfast. Three covered dishes. Spend it.

And plenty of steaming coffee. Excellent.

I mean, I can't come.

Business can wait until after breakfast.

You'll look as if you needed a bit of nourishment Mr. Feltz.

Well, I'm really not very hungry.

Well, we are hungry.

I am nervous.

Aha, what's this?

Carrot chicken.

And this?

Ham and eggs. Better and better.

Which will you take, Mr. Feltz?

Thank you, I couldn't put a thing.

Or come, fly the dish before you.

I'd rather not, really.

Well, then I suppose you have no objection to helping meet you.

Let's see what that dish contains.

Certainly.

What? It's papers.

It's delivery tree.

The name of God bless you, Mr. Holmes. God bless you.

You saved me, you saved England.

Don't mention it, my dear chap.

Don't mention it.

But when did Holmes first forget to suspect this Harrison fellow, Dr. Watson?

He heard it first. He was expecting to stop there for him, Mr. Hadis.

I'm afraid that Joseph's character was better than one would judge from his appearance.

We learn later that he had lost heavily in doubling in stocks.

And that he thought he could turn the treaty into money?

Yes.

Besides, no one but Joseph could be so anxious to get into that bedroom,

because no one but Joseph could have conceived anything there.

Also, the attempt was made the first night the nest was out of the way.

Therefore, the intruders were acquainted with the house.

But the bell, Dr. Watson, why was that so significant?

Well, Mr. Hadis, it showed that the bell had not come there to pass his office to steal the paper.

He came for another reason by appointment, as we know.

He rang the bell and then happened to see the papers.

A Dr. Watson was he convicted?

No. The case was never brought to court.

It would have been too ticklish a position for the following office.

He was at birth, however, to get out of the country and stay out.

And did personally marry the sister doctor?

Indeed.

And to this day, I don't believe she knows why her brother never returns to England,

while that was an exciting case, Dr. Watson.

And now, what story are we to have next week?

Well, let me see.

Next week, I think I'll tell you about the Cornish horror,

or the cradle that rocked itself.

The cradle that rocked itself?

Yes, Mr. Hadis, the rocking cradle was supposed to indicate

that someone in the surviving household was about to die.

As a matter of fact, there were two deaths, and another that herb is...

Well, suppose I leave that to next week, eh?

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