Sherlock Holmes - Bruce Partington Plans

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Very leave to seal mister manny. Hasn't the will of been atrocious today?

I was beginning to wonder if you'd be able to get here tonight through all this pug Yes, it certainly is what you Londoners call a regular pea souper. Indeed, it reminds me of the adventure of the missing submarine Plans, the case it was sold in the underground, underground what you Americans call it a subway.

Yes, but what has a solution in a subway got to do with a foggy night?

Well, you see, the affair started in weather exactly likeness. It was a third week in November the year eighteen hundred and ninety five to be exacted. On Monday, a dense yellow fog had settled down upon London. On Thursday, it was still there, thickier and murkier than ever. At first, Homes had turned his nervous energy to cross indexing.

His huge reference books. But when after.

Pushing our breakfast chairs back for the for the fourth morning, we saw the greasy brown swell still drifting fast the windows, Homes his patient snapped, Homes, if you must pace around in circles, I wish you change directions now, and then you'll.

Make him a dizzy.

It's inexcusable. What's an inexcusable, No initiative, no imagination, nothing ever gets done.

If you're alluding to the inactivity in this last session of parliament, My dear, I'm.

Not speaking of our lawmakers, Watson, but of our law breakers. A London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Makes you well look out of the window, ideal weather for committing a crime. The criminal answers, and his intended victim practically unseen.

He pounces and disappears into thin air.

There have been numerous pettiferably.

Petty fis, pickpockets, ragga muffins. What's the country coming to now? If I were a criminal, Watson.

I for one, would move to America.

Oh, hello, hello, missus.

Hudson's not getting excited? What's up? I wonder?

Yes, well, thank you?

Oh what's it, sir?

I'll wait until I open it, can't you?

Ah, dear me?

What next?

Most unusual?

Watson?

Most unusual?

What's most unusual? Watson? What's it?

Sir? Oh?

It's from my brother Micraft.

You remember him. He helped us solve the case of the Greek interpreter.

He's coming here?

Why not? What's so phenomenable?

Why not?

Why not?

Indeed, it's as startling as it would be to me the tramcar coming down the country lane. Yes, yes, now I come to think of it, Mike Crofty is rather like a tramcar.

His rails lead from his pell Mell Lodgings to the Diogenes Club in Whitehall.

That's his circle.

I wonder what a people kind of derailed him?

Doesn't the telegram explain?

It says, UH must see you about Kadaggon West coming at once good.

Dagon West good Dagon. Why that's the young Chapel's farm. Dead in the underground on Tuesday morning. I remember reading about.

It in the papers.

Oh, the man had apparently fallen out of the train and killed himself. He hadn't been robbed, and there was no reason to suspect violence. Quite an uninteresting case, if I remember Grant.

Yet it's serious enough to cause Micraft to orfer his habits. No, what's this? Must be an extraordinary event?

And you recall any other facts about the affair?

Yes, I come to think that there was one unusual bit about came out.

Of the inquest.

They were unable to ascertain at what point he entered the train because ticket was missing.

Strange, but articles were found on the body two pounds fifteen.

I believe it was a check book. And oh yes, yes, there's too dress circle tickets for the Woolage theater.

The David that evening hereter tickets say, and it wasn't suicide. A man doesn't procure thirty theatre tickets for.

The evening on which he intends to end his life. Anything else?

A small packet of technical papers?

Technical papers? What kind of technical papers?

Who knew any newspapers?

And said as serious as that? What did the young men do?

Where was employed? He was a clerk at Woollajoser government employed. There we have it, Watson, British Government, Woolich Arsenal, technical papers.

That's why Mycroft is involved in this affair.

I don't understand, No, I suppose not, Watson. Have I ever told you what Mycroft is?

Your brother? Of course?

No, no, no, Watson, do you have to be so dense? I mean, you know what he does.

I seem to have some vague recollection that you once told me that he'd held some small office under the British government.

It would be more accurate to say, in.

A way that he is the British government.

What his position is unique he made it for himself.

Is the type.

He is the most orderly brain of any man alive, with a great capacity for storing facts and giving them the proper interpretation. The conclusions of every government department have passed on to him. He's the central exchange, the clearing house. Again and again his word has decided the national policy. He thinks of nothing else. Nothing else can lure him from his contemplations. See if he's coming here, Yes, Jupiter is descending on us today.

What on earth happen?

And Watson? That sounds suspiciously like a bad pun Ah, here he is, if I'm not mistaken to speak for himself. Come in, Come in, hello, my craft, what's up?

What's up?

You look plastered?

Business Sherrocke merchantarying. You know how I dislike holding my head. It's extremely awkward for me to come aways my office, particularly a sium this present states, Oh dear me.

Sit down, my craft, sit down, you know what's in Of course, I'm.

Trying to find a chair, and I can trust the old man, and.

Better take the sofa.

If you certainly haven't got any tenner.

I've never seen the Prime minister, sir upset, mister the Admiralty. It's buzzing, my can set behive you know anything about the case.

What'sn't just been telling me what was in the newspapers?

Just what were the technical papers found on the body sup For the love of Heaven, not so loud, those papers were, sir, wretched youth Heaveney's pocket, were none other than the plans of the Bruce Partington submarine. Oh, the submarine which would completely revolutionize naval warfare. The most important papers in our government archives. Under no circumstances going to be removed from the office. Even the Chief Constructor of the Navy was forced to go to Willis if he

Yeah, from an official point of view, it's deplorable, my dear microft, simply deplorable.

Human lives shut up. But this country won't be safe until they're recovered.

I thought you said that they were found in the pocket of this Chef Kadugan West.

Ten papers taken from Woolwich. Seven were found in the pockets of Cadugan West. Three are still missing. That three are central ones. To recover those three papers is imperative. The peace of Europe.

Depends on nice little problem. It wasn't Why.

Did Cadug and West take the papers?

How did he die? How did his body reach the place where it was found? And where are the missing papers?

Find the answer to those questions, Shellock, and you will have done your country an invaluable service.

Why don't you solve it yourself? Micraft believe you could.

Possibly, it's a question of digging out details. Give me the details and I can give you the solution from an armchair. No, when it comes to running about cross questioning railway guards and lying on one's face with a lens to one's eye, No, no, that's not my may chair.

Besides, your figure prevents your taking such an undignified position.

Eh, very well? Be that part of it was he wasn't good.

I've got a cab waiting outside to take the place where the body is. Fan, I can give you the details on the way.

Now, my craft, who was the official guardian of these famous papers.

No less a personage than Sir James Waldo gentleman who's growing gray in the service. His patriotism is beyond suspicion.

A bachelor.

If I'm not mistaken lives with his brother.

Yes, here's the house of Admiral Soonclair a Markley Square. During the whole of the evening when this accident occurred, the admiral vouches for him. He's one of the two who have the only.

Keys, to say, and his keyp is with him all evening right.

His key the key to the building, the key to the rule. Mm who was the man with the other key, the senior clerk, mister Cidey Johnson, man of forty married, silent morose, an excellent service record and the alibi he too had his key with him, seems to have spent the evening playing a game of drafts for the green grocer around the corner from his lodgings. Of course, he has only the word of this green grocer's back him. All come, come, my dear Micraft. No class discriminations, please.

It's perfectly clear he must.

Have taken not so fast, mutched and not so fast. Who locked them up that night, mister Sidney Johnson, they were a value o commercially, I mean, oh yes, there's no doubt that West could have got several thousands for them very easily.

And yet only a small amount of money was found on the body.

Perhaps the buyer took it back off preed murdered West.

And what puzzles me is how did West obtain possession of those papers.

To do so, he must have had a false key.

Several false keys shut up he had over the building and the room as well.

Oh well, well, well several false keys. Then let me see.

Let me see.

Suppose West did take the papers and went into town, and on the way back to wood Edge, where he is hoping to replace the papers, he's killed and thrown from the train. But the spot where the party was found is considerably past the station for London Bred, which is the route to Willowat.

It's interesting also, if young West did make an appointment for some foreigner agent to sell the papers that night, why didn't he get the evening clear, why.

Buy two filler tickets exactly? Furthermore, he actually escorted his fiance halfway there before he disappeared blind.

That's what it looks like to me.

Why did you take the papers at all? Why not copy them out in the office and sell the copies? He certainly had plenty of opportunity to do so. And why the absence of his underground ticket?

That's the ticket will have shown us which station was near the agent's house. So the murderer destroyed it? Good Watson, very good?

Yes, I wonder Well, here's the underground station.

The railway authorities have sent a man around to show the exact place where the body was found.

You won't change your mind and come with us.

You're falling around that black hole on my hands and knees. Hut. Very likely. Well, I shall expect a report on your f As the CIA, I never expect too much, my craft, never expect too much. Before we follow Holmes and Watson into the mazes of the London subway system. I have a word of advice. Every year coals cause a lot of sickness. Every year. They cause a lot of expense and time lost from work. Always regard a cold seriously, always treat it earnestly. At the first sign of a cold,

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This is why I.

Said step right along the tracks if it isn't safe. Supposing the train should come shooting around that curve. Oh that's all right, so there won't be another for five minutes.

Anyway, here we are said, this is where they found the body, right here, alongside the rails, lying on its face.

It was spooky plays their homes like the catacombs on there, without the.

Skeletons, anything in his hands when they found him, now, sir, but they clinched what spread out as if he were protecting himself.

Now sir, there was what you might call relax by time.

It always happened well.

So the trainee was oystered out as near as we can figure, passed.

Along here about midnight on Mandy.

All the carriages have been examined for signs of violence.

I suppose it didn't find nothing, not even the missing ticket.

There was a passenger to all.

Gate on the ordinary train about eleven forty it was.

He said he heard heavy, sad park something strike in the line just.

Before the train reached this station. But it was so foggy, he said, he was blessed if he could see what it was.

Home. What's the matter? Were you stearing it?

The Curt Watson? Whatever the rails, I only you What do you mean? I suppose that not any curves as abrupt as.

This and now so I can't say, as there is, what have curls got to do in this?

An indication? What's a million indication? Hm?

Unique, perfectly unique?

And yet why not? I don't see any indications of bleeding on the.

Line now, so there wasn't any to speak of.

But I understand there was a considerable wound.

The bone was crashed right enough, homes hear that it's a train, it's coming as well. Fancy runs along as well?

Did a place for the fras which you don't.

What's to run?

It's stets around the curve where we'll have a package which yes, we will faster, faster. There's this witch happy come on.

He comes fay Now we'll make it.

We'll make it a justin watch some form a love of the curtain.

You're on a long track.

Well that was an arose cape home.

I must say, my knees is so shaking. Look at the shoulder my coat where.

You pull at me.

Lucky thing for you that I did.

Where we are for now and in this fog.

Yes, it's a nice afternoon.

Supposed to pay a few calls, I think, Sir James Water claims our first attention.

After that we might drop in on miss.

Westbury's westper who she is cause ig.

In west Fiancee. I'm the last person to see him alive.

Ohs, we seem to be going around in circles. We've accomplished absolutely nothing so far except to get to to get ourselves nearly a nahledge in the underground.

I'll fall us perfectly of this.

The young may had a quarrel with someone no probably to the agent who'll be sell the papers, and let himself thrown out of the rail with.

Carriage for his pay.

I disagree with him, my dear Watson.

His body fell from the roof of the carriage where it had been placed. Kadugan west met his death elsewhere the roof of the train. Consider the facts, Watson, Hey, the curve in the tracks. The body is found at the spot where the train pitches and sways as it comes around the points.

Be there's no ticket.

See there were no signs of bleeding on the line because the.

Body had bled elsewhere.

Everything fitted together.

But but where was the body placed on the train.

I think I can make a fair guess of that, my dear Watson. Ah, here we are this is the.

Famous official villa of Sir James Walter. And that, if I'm not mistaken, is his brother Colonel Valentine just coming out of her house?

What's the matter with her, Manny? He looks positively haunted.

Well, pardon me, Colonel Valentine, But can you tell me if if Sir James is at home?

Sir James, Sir James is dead, good, Heaven's dead.

He died this morning.

It's terrible, terrible.

How did he die?

It's this horrible scandal. My brother, Sir was very sensitive of his honor. He couldn't survive the disgrace to his department. It broke his heart. Pardon me, Jack and Flie must go. It broke his heart.

Appauling development.

I wonder if his death was natural or if the poor fellow killed himself. Yes, can you tell miss Westbreth, mister Sherlock Holmes would like to see her?

How Please come in, gentlemen, I'm vout west Berlimitter Holmes. I've been expecting you ever since I heard you had taken the case. Please be seated. Thank you, oh mister Holmes. We we must save his good name. He couldn't have done it. Codagon was the most chivorous, patriotic gentleman. Or if he couldn't have done it, he would have his right hand off rather than celtate secret.

The facts, my dear Miss Westbury.

I admit I can't explain them. Was he in need of money, No, mister Holmes, His need was simple, and his salary very good. He'd saved several hundred pounds. We were to be married at the New Year, I see.

Had you noticed any signs of mental excitement? Well there is, come, Miss Westbury, be frank with us.

Yes, that night I had a feeling that there was something on his mind.

Tell us about it, will you.

We were on the way to the theater. It was a foggy night, you remember, we were walking slowly. Our way took us close to his office. Kadugan seems thoughtful and worried.

He the Mary.

I haven't had a word for the last five minutes. Have I said had done something?

Of course, not silly.

It's just that I've got something on my Why not tell me about it?

Five I can help.

It's no use for it.

It's too serious for me to talk about even to you.

You know, Sometimes Katy, I feel just the least little bit jealous of that old job of yours when you're cooped up in that building all day.

Now, you're not going to be jealous of a building.

Were not really, But it is funny to think of a husband having secrets you can't tell his wife.

Mighty important secrets.

I can promise you there's one in particular that any foreign spy would pay good money to get hold of. Thrilling and I don't know, awfully slack about some things over there in that building, bat what's too slack? It would be too confumed and easy for a trader to get his hands on those plans?

What planned?

Never mind, Darling, I guess I'm getting a bit melodramatic, but there's something been wearing me.

Hello, what's that?

What's what?

Over there?

That shadow moving along the side of the building. It's a man, So that's it. I always suspect you're used to excited.

What's wrong?

Stay here, val it it's something I have to find out.

Stay here.

I waited and waited, but he never returned. Homeless homes. If you could only save his honor, it meant so.

Much to him.

You shall do our best, Miss Westbury. Listen, this shadow, this man moving along the building. Did you see it too?

I think I did, mister Holmes, but the night was so fugly, I can't be sure. But there must have been a man, another man. It couldn't have been codogn sr.

A character goes for something, let us hope.

So come along, Watson, we muster turn home. I'm expecting an answer to some telegrams I sent Micraft earlier this afternoon. We've done enough for one day, Holmes.

Will have been all day we've left this morning, fire was up. Now you've come home with a toweler rye and suit torn, and as revelous as a wolf.

Yes, I've had a bit of exercise. My dear Watson passed me the tongue, will you it would have done. You've got to go along.

Yes, what were you doing?

Investing?

Hiding the premises inhabited my foreign spies known to have been in London on last Monday?

My Craft sent me a list of them.

Took a bit of doing two climbing walls, breaking into cellars, powling around rooftops. I discovered there was only one residence which had the proper facilities for disposing of West's body after the murder. He belongs to Hugo Obstein. The address is thirteen Corfield Gardens, Kensington. A gentleman himself has departed for Europe a.

Parlers he they took players with him, and it's too late.

Not necessarily, Watson, what can we do now?

We're going to keep a rendezvous with a gentleman who stole and sold those plans. The essignation will take place at mister Obustein's house this evening at nine.

What the deuce you talking about?

These newspapers tippings? I found them in the drawer of Hugo Obustein's desk.

Greet them then a telegraph Agnicolumn.

The first one says too complex a description, must have.

Full report terms, agreed to payable wind goods delivered signed Piero Piero.

Indeed sounds like a Mardi Gras.

I read on, wasn't read on.

Second goes matter presses must withdraw for unless contract completed.

Piero again, and the last dated Monday, the day the claim is committed.

Monday night, after nine two taps payment in hard cash. I say, if he was sudden, mean that the plans that.

He was buying. I'm almost positive and Piero was Oberstein himself. But you'll find out for certain this evening. I've invited the gentleman who sold the papers to meet us. How I don't understand said it? This advertisement in to day's eily Telegraph to night, same ole, same placed, two taps, vitally important. Your own safety at stake, Signed Piero as usual by George.

If he answers that week, we've got.

Him, unless we're too late. Come on, Watson, there's no time to lose. You can take this passage of pan Bagget's for a change. Holah, I've been carrying it around all day.

What's in it?

Oh?

Just a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel and a revolver.

Nice equipment for a respectable citizen to be carrying about the streets of London.

I must say, you know, Watson, there are times when I suspect we aren't quite respectable.

Here we are this is coffee of gardens, like Kevin's sill foggy.

I shouldn't like to be caught me active house breaking.

Yeah, oh this war, Watson. There's the window we can usually.

Pry open in the back scale that walk.

Come on, hurry up, horry up, there's no time to lose. Heah, here I give you a boost. Come on, that's it.

Look out here I come.

I must say, homes, there is a cat.

It's a can.

This is the window like the lantern and gim of the gemmy one.

Two homes We go runs right past here, almost on the levels these windows.

I can reach out and touched it.

Yeah, it's quite convenient, wasn't it. Because here the body was placed on the roof of the train. Now this look on this window, sill.

Hm, you can.

See the soot is blurred with the rest of the body. And yeah, look here, look look this brown stain his blood.

M let's see. This's get on the house very well.

Then come along, come along. The windows open easy, easy, don't break the glass.

I suppose he over stee you happen to return home.

We're mistake our chances in this business. Come along, what'sn't come along? My visitor will expect to be let him by the front door.

Lucy's stairs. Didn't do didn't squeak?

So nine o'clock we can expect him at any moment. Now, if you take your position on one side of the door. I'll be on the other so we can punce on him when he enters, i'nswer my great coat over his head.

I wish he'd hurry. Sh What what if he doesn't come there?

He is ready now, I opened the door you wanted me.

No, you don't broo with you?

Easy?

What's easy?

Hide homes I've got him.

Well, let's take a look at that. Catch take we ever got away?

Watson?

Hide?

Hi, it's Colonel Valentine. Walk water change his frock quite well? Time?

What have you to say to yourself?

Why did you steal the Bruce Paddington plans?

Is? What do you know about this?

I am Sherlock.

Holmes and I know everything.

Oh this is terrible. I'm lost. I didn't realize the importance until my brother killed himself.

But I needed the money. I let to have it.

Obustine offered to give it to me if I take him see the plan. So you took an impression of your brother's key, opened the safe and procured the papers. Godagon West saw you leaving the building, followed you here and you killed him.

No, I didn't do that, I swear I didn't do it.

No, And perhaps you'd better tell us who did murder goddagon West.

And placed him on the roof of the railway carriage.

I'll tell you, I promise you I will.

I did the rest, I confess it.

But not that very well.

Then how did it happen? I got the papers, as you've discovered, and made my way through the fog until I reached the door. Once or twice I fancied I was being followed. I could hear footsteps on the pavement behind me. Colonel Order, Yes, you had the papers.

Yes, let me in quick. I think someone's been follow Yes, it's me.

You can't do the Valentine.

It's treason, you hear, No, you can't sell the paper's Valentine.

I won't bless you.

He will see.

How do you like that my impeture sank find Papa Overstein. He knows how to use.

A bleacher care you knows killed him, So it's murder.

I'm going to get out of his.

Fun or I think difference. You will come in here. If you do not wish to taste the black jack tool.

Come by.

That is better.

What can we do? They will find the body.

I have an idea. First, I look at those papers. I take the ones I want underrest. You put in the pocket of this foolish young man, and then we give him a nice ride on top of the underground train. No, he will be the guilty one.

Who will ever know.

What a thoroughly unpleasant gentleman.

What a pity that he got away.

With the papers, Doctor wat Hoe. But he didn't. Oberstein had left a palace forwarding addressed with Colonel Walters.

That gentleman sent him a letter dictated by.

Holmes, saying that he had discovered that one essential detail in the plans was missing, and that he had procured a tracing which would make it complete for a price. And did Oberstein swallow the bait? Did he swallow it? He was arrested as he got off the boat of folks. Some weeks later I learned, incidental that Holmes had spent a day at Windsor Castle in return will remarkably fine

For whom he'd been able to do a small favor.

Yes, and I think I can guess the lady's August's name.

Elementary my dear mister Manning Elementary.

I see ladies and gentlemen. In just a moment, Doctor Watson will be back to tell us about next week's story. In the meantime, let us repeat, watch out for colds. At the first sign of a cold. Take Groves bromo quinine. To bromo Quinine tablets are made especially for the relief of colds. In other words, their specialized medication. And that's what you want. Yes, at the very first sneeze or sniffle go write to your druggists and get a package of Groves bromo quinine tablets now, doctor Watson.

Next week.

Next week, I think I'll tear to the story of the Lion's Main. The Lion's Main?

What was that, Doctor Watson.

The answer to that question, mister Manning, almost tump Sherlock Holmes in soaf. Suffice it to say that they were the last words gasped out by a dying man as he lay writhing in agony on the sands of the Sussex Coast.

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