:06:01
Lurid is more like it.
:06:03
You've painted me
as a hopeless dope addict...
:06:05
just because l occasionally
take a 5%% solution of cocaine.
:06:09
A seven percent solution.
:06:10
Five percent.
:06:12
Don't you think l'm aware
you've been diluting it...
:06:14
behind my back?
:06:16
As a doctor,
as well as your friend...
:06:19
l strongly disapprove...
:06:20
of this insidious habit
of yours.
:06:23
My dear friend,
as well as my dear doctor...
:06:26
l only resort to narcotics...
:06:27
when l'm suffering
from acute boredom...
:06:30
when there are
no interesting cases...
:06:31
to engage my mind.
:06:32
Look at this.
:06:34
An urgent appeal to find
some missing midgets.
:06:36
Did you say midgets?
:06:38
Mmm, six of them.
The Tumbling Piccolos...
:06:41
an acrobatic act
with some circus.
:06:43
Disappeared between
London and Bristol.
:06:46
Well, don't you
find that intriguing?
:06:47
Extremely so.
:06:49
You see, they're
not only midgets...
:06:51
but also anarchists.
:06:53
Anarchists?
:06:54
By now they have been
smuggled to Vienna...
:06:56
dressed as little girls
in organdy pinafores.
:06:58
They are to greet
the czar of all the Russias...
:07:01
when he arrives
at the railway station.
:07:03
They will be carrying
bouquets of flowers...
:07:05
and concealed
in each bouquet...
:07:07
will be a bomb
with a lit fuse.
:07:10
You really think so?
:07:11
Not at all.
:07:13
The circus owner offers me
five pounds for my services.
:07:16
That's not even
a pound a midget.
:07:18
So, obviously,
he's a stingy blighter...
:07:20
and the little chaps
simply ran off...
:07:21
to join another circus.
:07:23
lt sounded so promising.
:07:26
There are no great crimes
anymore, Watson.
:07:29
The criminal class
has lost all enterprise...
:07:31
and originality.
:07:32
At best, they commit
some bungling villainy...
:07:35
with a motive so transparent...
:07:37
that even a Scotland Yard
official could see through it.
:07:42
Mrs. Hudson!
:07:46
Yes? What is it?
:07:48
What have l done now?
:07:49
There is something missing
from my desk.
:07:52
Missing?
:07:53
Something very crucial.
:07:54
What?
:07:55
Dust!
:07:56
You've been tidying up
against my explicit orders.
:07:59
Oh, look, l made sure
l hadn't disturbed anything.