: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.
:08:02
Dust, Mrs. Hudson,
is an essential part...
:08:04
of my filing system.
:08:06
By the thickness of it...
:08:07
l can date any document
immediately.
:08:09
Well, some of the dust
was this thick.
:08:12
That would be...
:08:14
March 1883.
:08:40
Oh! How can you stand this?
:08:44
Why don't you let me
air the room out?
:08:46
Please, Mrs. Hudson,
he's working on...
:08:49
a definitive study
of tobacco ash.
:08:51
Oh, l'm sure there's
a crying need for that.
:08:53
ln our endeavors,
it is sometimes vital...
:08:56
to distinguish
between, say, the ashes...
:08:58
of a Macedonian cigarette
and a Jamaican cigar.