:13:01
You wrote me that
you volunteered
:13:02
for medical service
within the realm.
:13:04
With your experience
:13:05
what post could have
been offered you
:13:06
other than to
put you in charge
:13:08
of a home of
convalescent officers?
:13:09
Only one such home
has been opened
:13:11
in North Cumberland
in the last month
:13:12
and that's Musgrave
Manor at Hurlstone.
:13:15
Simple reasoning,
:13:17
a child could do it.
:13:18
Not your child, Watson.
:13:20
What?
:13:21
I never had a child.
:13:23
I very nearly did though.
:13:25
Did I ever tell you about
that widow Twikem,
:13:28
a very narrow escape?
:13:29
I just found out in time
:13:30
that she had the most
horrible little squirt
:13:32
about three and a half.
:13:33
Yes, Watson.
:13:34
I think we better
stick to Hurlstone.
:13:36
Oh, sorry, What?
:13:37
Oh Hurlstone.
:13:39
It's a grim old
palace, very spooky.
:13:40
Don't tell me that
you met a ghost.
:13:42
Well not so
spooky as that.
:13:43
Ghosts don't stab people
in the neck do they?
:13:47
Or do they?
:13:50
Not well-bred
ghosts, Watson.
:13:52
Who was stabbed
in the neck?
:13:54
My young assistant,
Dr. Sexton.
:13:56
When?
:13:58
Last night.
:13:59
Any idea who did it?
:14:00
I have no idea.
:14:01
You reported it?
:14:02
Well, no, no I didn't.
:14:04
Why not?
:14:04
Well you see is it...
:14:06
My dear fellow, what
you're trying to say is
:14:07
the officers in your care
are all fine fellows,
:14:10
wonderful war
records and so on.
:14:11
Is that it?
:14:12
Precisely.
:14:14
So you thought perhaps
a private investigation.
:14:16
Exactly.
:14:17
Rather right and
proper thinking Watson.
:14:18
We're just in time
:14:20
to catch the nine thirty
train for Hurlstone.
:14:21
But my dear
fellow, there's no
immediate hurry.
:14:23
Isn't there?
:14:25
Your patients are all
victims of combat fatigue.
:14:27
Any one of them
:14:28
might go over the
edge at any moment
:14:30
and from what
you've told me
:14:31
there's a killer
loose at Hurlstone.
:14:33
Great Scott, you
may be right.
:14:35
Come on, Watson.
:14:36
We haven't a
moment to lose
:14:39
only hope we
shan't be too late.
:14:52
You were right, Watson,
:14:53
about Musgrave Manor.
:14:55
Houses like people have
definite personalities
:14:56
and this place is
positively ghoulish.
:14:58
It certainly is.