The Eligible Bachelor Page #5

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Damn you Callahan.

The newspapers you see

reported a scene of

disgusting vulgarity

on your father

in-law's doorstep.

I wonder how you'll

explain that to him?

Doran doesn't think

me uninnocent.

He accepted my story.

It was clear to everyone

that Miss Miller

was drunk.

And managed to obtain

from my partners

a temporary stay

of execution.

That's all

a day or two?

You must have proof.

Proof of what

for God's sake?

Proof that the

Californian goose

remains willing to

lay its golden eggs

at Glovin that's all.

Nothing was

jeopardized that?

Nothing?

No of course not.

What about Miss Miller?

If she's capable of

a scene like that.

What else is

she capable of?

I hope she has nothing

else to reveal.

Trust me.

Not an inch my Lord.

I just discovered a

Mr. Francis Hay Moulton

is in room 26.

An American gentleman

whose wife only

joined him yesterday.

His initials are F.H.M.,

F.M.

Ah excuse me, One

moment please sir.

And how can I

assist you sir?

How much is a

glass of sherry?

That would be 8.

Thank you.

I personally

promise Mr. Moulton

that you will both be free

to return to California.

It will be as

if you're wife

had never entered

that church.

How did you find us?

That is unimportant.

If I may give

you my opinion

I think there's been

a little too much

secrecy already.

May I speak to

Mrs. Moulton?

Not before you tell

who the devil you are.

We're been engaged

by Lord St. Simon

to find his wife.

Mr. Moulton, her father

will take it very hard

I think that she did not

communicate with him.

But she did damn

it, she did.

And yes the note

from Flora Miller

he would have

received it by now.

Good.

Her father never

approved of me.

Oh really.

You see up in

the Gulf Shores...

Surely these

are explanations

for her father.

You made criticism

of Henrietta's duties

towards her father if

you'll hear me out.

I promised old man Doran

I'd go away and not

trouble Henrietta

until I'd made my way

but we got married in

secret before I went.

Then I was reported dead

up in the high northwest

so Henrietta

told him then

about our secret marriage.

He sent someone

out to check

I was dead like they said.

That man never found me

so Henrietta gave

me up for dead.

And so Mr. Francis

Harry Moulton

presumably you

have made your way.

I'm in hotels sir.

Hotels?

Really?

Really?

How much do you charge

for a glass of sherry?

The same as this

hotel, 8 pence.

Robert?

Robert?

Flora?

My darling.

It's too late Robert.

I told the child

everything.

Anyway Lord St.

Simon may as well

of saved his money

from employing you.

Why do you say that?

Because Henrietta

has gone to see him.

I wish she had

not done that.

Hello Hettie my darling.

Where have you been?

Where you'd disappear to?

Where is she?

Where is your wife?

You're my wife.

I don't know what

I am anymore.

What are you saying?

Robert why didn't

you tell me?

Tell you what?

Everything.

Everything about

your wives.

It's the past.

Unimportant.

I don't want to

relive the past.

the past is dead.

You, you are the future.

Where is she?

Who?

Your wife.

I have only you.

My darling the

marriage was annulled.

Have you been talking

to Flora Miller?

I know you have.

Oh my darling

I beg you not to

listen to that woman.

She is a drunk

she has no sense of

decency or truth left.

Where is Lady Helena now?

How should I know?

Being cared for.

Do you care

for her Robert?

I pay for her care.

Seeing her is to painful.

The poor creature

is afflicted

with self-persecution and

instilled with delusions

every time I have been...

the authorities have asked

me not to go anymore.

The authorities?

Is she alive Robert?

What are you saying?

I don't believe you.

I believe Flora Miller.

I believe what

she told me

and it makes me

ill to think it.

And I thought

she was a drunk

just another drunk but

it didn't mean anything.

You took Lady Helena away

from a private hospital,

you took her away,

where is she Robert?

This is no good.

And brought her here.

Where is she?

It's no good damn it!

Oh God, what

does it matter?

Why did the murderer

of your first wife

escape Robert?

Why did the murderer of

your first wife escape?

Where to?

Do you have a

servant here Robert?

Is his name

Thomas Floutier?

Quit!

What do you think

you could do?

For God's sake.

When...when I let you go.

Hettie, Hettie what

I did I did for you.

With you the

world changed.

Hettie, Hettie you

must believe me,

say you believe me.

Never.

Never.

Not this side of hell.

Very well.

That's it.

It's over.

Yes.

Yes.

It's Floutier the man

who works for me here.

Amongst other things

he looks after the

needs of Lady Helena.

It may give you some

satisfaction to know

that your

stubbornness will be

the inevitable cause

of her death now.

Yours too of course.

Floutier will arrange

an accident for you.

Money will revert to me.

And after a suitable

period of morning

I'll leave.

And you think Pa would

Iet you just walk

off with my money?

You can't argue

with the law.

You're my wife.

No.

I'm not.

What do you

think happened

to me in the

church Robert?

When I dropped

my bouquet.

I saw the man I married.

A ghost.

I thought he was dead.

But that's

where I've been.

With my husband.

No!

Empty rooms.

The scent.

Thomas Floutier.

Watson take care of her.

How I've waited.

How I've cried

again and again

in the darkness

for this moment.

I know.

I know.

Who are you?

Emissaries of

your sister Agnes.

Tell me

how did you do it?

I spent 7 long years

insuring the chapel's

utter instability.

Any attempt I made to

escape was thwarted

so I recreated

the entrance

brick by brick,

timber by timber.

I made a science

of instability

and I succeeded.

7 years.

It was unique

in my experience

to serve a sentence

before committing

the crime.

Nurse?

And so it was that we

discovered the true

Mistress of Glovin.

A woman so far

from madness

who had survived so...no...

who had so

triumphantly,

triumphantly survived

7 years of captivity

that Holmes was

pleased to call her

one of the finest minds

he had ever

encountered.

In meeting her I believe

Holmes solved the

riddle of his dreams.

It only troubles

him now

in so far as he cannot

deny the possibility

that it was prophetic.

The new owner of Glovin

was none other than

Lady Helena St. Simon.

Lady Helena wisely

decided to sell it

and redeem the

mortgages upon it.

I cannot conceive of

a happier prospect

than to imagine

Glovin restored

for the enjoyment

of the Moulton's

and their

future family.

How dare you.

How dare you make a

record of this case.

Rec...no, no, no, no.

I'm merely answering

an invitation

to another seminar.

Really?

Well be quick, we

leave in an hour.

What for?

For heavens sake what's

in the performance?

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