:14:01
of the utmost secrecy.
:14:03
I assure you Mr. Ahren
:14:05
that Doctor Watson is the
very sole of discretion.
:14:06
Won't you sit down?
:14:08
By the by Watson
:14:09
please be so
good as to keep
:14:11
tapping on the table
with your knife.
:14:12
Tapping on the
table with a knife?
:14:13
It will break
the wavelength
:14:14
if by any chance there's a
dictograph in the walls.
:14:16
All really.
:14:19
Cigarette?
:14:20
No thank you.
:14:23
You can stop now Watson.
:14:26
Well Mr. Ahren
:14:28
I take it you
have called on me
:14:30
in connection
with the kidnapping
:14:31
of John Grayson in
America last night.
:14:34
Why yes.
:14:36
Yes exactly.
:14:39
Grayson was
carrying a document
:14:40
of a very
confidential nature.
:14:42
Indeed.
:14:43
It's contents
were of such
:14:44
great international
importance
:14:46
that I am not at
liberty to reveal them
:14:47
but if that document
:14:49
falls into the
hands of the enemy,
:14:51
I can only say
:14:53
it will be
absolutely disastrous
:14:54
for this government
and our allies.
:14:57
For that reason
:14:58
we did not wish
to transport it
:15:00
to Washington in
the usual way.
:15:02
So a regular
King's messenger,
:15:04
Sir Henry Marchmont,
was dispatched.
:15:06
Not carrying the
document of course?
:15:07
That's right.
:15:08
Sir Henry was
the sort of...
:15:09
A decoy shall we say?
:15:10
Precisely.
:15:11
The document was
actually entrusted
:15:13
to a reliable but
insignificant man
:15:15
in our secret service.
:15:18
On his arrival
in Washington
:15:19
he was to make himself
known to Sir Henry
:15:21
and deliver the document.
:15:24
Now not even
Sir Henry knew
:15:25
that this man, Pettibone,
:15:26
who traveled under
the name of John Grayson,
:15:28
was the real messenger.
:15:29
Pettibone?
:15:30
Yes.
:15:31
Alfred Pettibone?
:15:32
Yes.
:15:32
Good man.
:15:33
None better.
:15:35
I've worked
with him often.
:15:37
I hope you may be able
to work with him again.
:15:40
But he's completely
disappeared,
:15:41
he's vanished, gone
without leaving a trace.
:15:44
I can see the possibility
:15:45
of serious ramifications
in his disappearance.
:15:47
Exactly.
:15:50
So far we've
been able to keep
:15:51
the knowledge of our loss
:15:53
from both the American
and British public.
:15:55
Holmes you must
retrieve that document
:15:58
before it can be
used against us.