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safely examine

the rest of the room.

Help yourself.

Thank you.

Take your hand away

from that drawer.

Why Mr. Holmes,

you didn't think

I was going to

draw a weapon.

I never touch the things.

How odd to find

you squeamish.

That connects only

with the shop.

You're very

quick to say so

and yet a short while ago

I saw two other

men in this room

and they didn't go

back into the shop

so there must

be another exit

and perhaps another room.

Yes Mr. Stanley

what is it?

Bring Miss Pattridge

here at once.

Excellent Holmes.

I see your voice hasn't

lost its flexibility.

And my hand hasn't lost

it's cunning either.

When they come here

tell them to leave

the girl with you

and to clear out.

You think I'll do that?

Yes you will.

You're playing with

lives now Stanley.

Not just the girl's

but thousands,

millions perhaps

and we don't intend

to let one man

have that much power.

Not now, not at any

time in the future.

I'd prefer you alive to

face the retribution

that's coming to you

but if I have to do it.

All right, Mr. Holmes,

I suppose we all

must meet our match

sooner or later.

That's enough boys,

take your hands off him.

Well Mr. Holmes?

Tell the clerk to go home

and see that the

front door is locked.

Well Mr. Stanley?

It's the last strike

that counts hey Holmes?

I'll remind you

of that later.

Miss Pattridge

allow me to present

Mr. Sherlock Holmes,

the world

famous detective.

He's come to rescue you.

I don't believe you.

Oddly enough he's

telling you the truth.

My name is

Sherlock Holmes

and I did come

here to help you

but I've seemed rather

to have missed it.

I'm sorry.

I'm afraid you've

had a bad time.

Well that doesn't

matter its Peter,

they say they'll do

something to him

if I don't tell them.

They say they've got him.

Cheer up, he's quite safe.

A tough

customer like Peter

isn't disabled very long

by a clunk on the head.

He's all right.

All okay Mr. Stanley.

Look here Stanley

this girl knows nothing.

I promise she won't

even identify you.

Well unfortunately she

knows enough to hang us,

so do you.

I'm surprised

that you're walking

into a trap like this

but you see the

position I'm in

and what has to be done.

Cady, Howe?

It will give me

great pleasure

to attend to

Mr. Holmes personally.

Easter the girl's yours.

It's the police.

Open up, this

is the police.

Holmes where are you?

You all right?

Holmes!

Where are you?

Darling.

Thank heavens your safe.

Quick, Stanley's escaped.

All right boys

bring'em along.

Come on Lieutenant.

The Senate office

building double quick.

Come in.

I'm glad your

safe Senator.

Safe?

No man is safe.

Look at the way my

constituents snipe at me.

I don't recall seeing

your face before stranger.

I don't think we've met.

Well that explains it.

My name is

Sherlock Holmes.

Glad to know you Holmes.

What's on your mind?

Senator Babcock,

I'm here to inform you

of great peril

to your life.

Richard Stanley,

a dangerous criminal,

is now on his way here.

Richard Stanley?

Why he's the most

respectable

citizen in Washington

has been for years.

What could Stanley

possibly want from me?

A document and under the

stamps of a letter

given to you by chap

named Grayson.

Grayson?

Grayson?

Used to know a

man name... Grayson!

Well that's the fellow

that disappeared.

Say I got that envelope

right here in my wallet.

Now what does

Stanley think

could be under

these stamps?

A secret document

of grave importance.

Reduced to microfilm

and concealed under

these very stamps.

Thank you very

much, Mr. Holmes.

That's just what

I wanted to know.

I might have

missed this microfilm

if you hadn't

lead me to it.

I've seemed to have

underestimated your

capabilities, Mr. Stanley.

Yes, Mr. Holmes,

you're famous powers of

deduction and observation

made of very well

in Limehouse or Soho

but here in America

I believe you're

out of your depth.

If so, the

verdict of history

will be severe indeed.

You nervous,

Sherlock Holmes.

I must confess to

a mark irritation.

Do you mind if I smoke?

Thank you.

The whole course of the

world might be changed

by your acquisition

of the microfilm.

It will be and

for the better.

Have you a match?

You can keep those.

Thank you.

And now if you'll

pardon me, Mr. Holmes.

Why don't you do

something Holmes

if that thing

so important?

The English senator.

Cricket old boy,

always cool in the crisis.

The last trick hey Holmes?

Yes, the last trick.

Say you're a smart

fellow Holmes.

Here's the

microfilm Holmes.

Thank you Senator.

I say Holmes.

This is the microfilm

with the document on it.

It'll be in the proper

hands within the hour.

As I told you

Mr. Stanley,

the man who had it

didn't know he had it.

Well come on let's go.

Well it'll be nice to get

home to Baker Street,

hey Holmes?

Yes but this is a

great country Watson.

It certainly is

my dear fellow.

Look up there ahead,

the Capitol,

the very heart of

this democracy.

Democracy, the only

hope for the future,

hey Holmes?

It's not given

to us to peer

into the mysteries

of the future

but in the

days to come

the British and

American people

will, for

their own safety

and for the good of all,

walk together in majesty,

and justice, and in peace.

That's magnificent.

I quite agree with you.

Not with me,

but Mr. Winston Churchill.

I was quoting from

the speech he made

not so long ago

in that very building.

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