:06:00
I rather like it.
:06:02
I want you to
post that letter
:06:03
at the box at
Portland Square
:06:05
just a few minutes
before twelve.
:06:07
Then drive directly
to your lodgings
:06:08
by way of Oxford Service.
:06:10
Wait there till
I send for you.
:06:13
That's all.
:06:15
First, I want to know
what I'm getting into.
:06:17
You have your orders.
:06:18
That's enough.
:06:20
I have a right
to know the layout
:06:21
in case there's trouble.
:06:23
I'll take care of that.
:06:24
That's what you
promised Higgins
:06:26
in that Emosmith job.
:06:28
Oh poor Higgins.
:06:29
They found nothing
but his boots.
:06:31
One boot.
:06:33
You know, Bassick,
:06:34
Higgins was
a valuable man
:06:36
and a clever craftsman.
:06:37
But he had your
unfortunate habit
:06:39
of asking too
many questions
:06:42
and now all that's left
of him is one boot.
:06:45
Don't take me
wrong, Professor.
:06:47
I'll do what you
tell me right enough.
:06:50
I'm sure you
will, Bassick,
:06:52
and just to prove
how I trust you
:06:53
I'm going to
tell you my plan
:06:55
although you haven't
the imagination
:06:57
to appreciate
its subtlety.
:06:59
My whole success
depends upon a peculiarity
:07:01
of Holmes brain,
:07:03
its perpetual
restlessness.
:07:05
Its constant struggle
to escape boredom.
:07:07
Holmes again?
:07:09
Always Holmes
until the end.
:07:11
He's like a spoiled boy
:07:13
who picks
watches to pieces
:07:14
but loses
interest in one toy
:07:16
as soon as he's
given another.
:07:18
So I'm presenting the
:07:19
ingenious but fickle
Mr. Holmes with two toys,
:07:23
in the order in which
I mean him to have them.
:07:26
The first, that letter.
:07:29
If I know Mr. Holmes
:07:30
that will interest
him very little,
:07:33
after this comes
to fascinate
:07:36
and tantalize
his imagination.
:07:40
Blimey, what it mean?
:07:42
That is what I'm
depending upon
:07:44
to absorb
Mr. Holmes' interest
:07:45
while I'm
engaged elsewhere.
:07:47
I'll give him a toy
to delight his heart
:07:50
so full of
bizarre complications
:07:52
that he'll forget all
about the first toy,
:07:55
that letter.
:07:58
What you know
it, Professor?