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Cold lobster and sliced tomatoes.

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Could one possibly conceive of a more ideal marriage, Watson?

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Romeo and Juliet were clearly mismated by comparison.

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Oh, Watson, aren't you going to join me?

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Oh, now, surely, Watson, you can't bear a grudge against me forever for something so trivial.

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Trivial?

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And what is trivial about riddling the walls with bullets?

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I do not agree that I riddled the wall, as you so violently put it.

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I decorated it in a way that it would be a good decoration for the wedding.

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I decorated it in a most patriotic manner.

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Holmes.

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I have permitted and suffered many liberties in this flat.

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First you make those evil-smelling gases,

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then you shatter my nerves with those ridiculous disguises.

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But you, even you, have never covered your activities under the banner of patriotism.

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Yes, but we are of the Queen's initials.

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I was only celebrating Her Majesty's birthday.

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You were only celebrating Her Majesty's birthday?

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Celebrating Her Majesty?

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Still, that's no excuse.

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Well, perhaps I was a little overzealous, but you can't very well blame a man for that.

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Nevertheless...

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All right, Watson, I solemnly promise never to do it again.

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Oh.

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Well.

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And lobster and tomato for breakfast, who ever heard of that?

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I must say, it looks totally good, eh?

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You mean to say you're going to join me?

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Yes, please.

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That's strange. I didn't expect her until noon.

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She must have caught the midnight train.

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You'll meet her in a minute.

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I wouldn't want her to feel that she was intruding.

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Mr. Holmes?

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Yes, Miss Millicent Channing?

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Yes.

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I wrote you that I'd be here at noon, but I didn't want to lose any time.

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I took the midnight train.

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I understand. Won't you come in?

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This is my good friend and associate, Dr. Watson.

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How do you do?

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How do you do?

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Please sit down, Miss Channing. You must have had a very tiring journey.

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Particularly in view of the fact that you were forced to take a dog cart part of the way.

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How did you know I took a dog cart?

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Well, I noticed that your right sleeve is covered with mud.

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Only a dog cart throws out mud in such a disagreeable way.

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Mr. Holmes can also deduce your birthstone...

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and the serial numbers of any notes you happen to be carrying in your purse.

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Dr. Watson exaggerates, though only slightly.

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I've heard a great deal of your powers, Mr. Holmes.

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They say you're one of the cleverest men in London.

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They're very kind.

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You said in your letter that your fiancé has disappeared.

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I'm afraid that something terrible has happened to him.

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Why, Miss Channing?

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It's all so muddled, so confused.

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Several days ago, I was expecting him for dinner.

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He didn't arrive.

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I was worried, and I went to his lodgings.

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Millicent!

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They say of Moab it won't come to the mountain.

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Good heavens, we had a dinner date.

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At 8 o'clock.

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Oh, you must forgive me.

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I've been so deep in this, it completely slipped my mind.

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Millicent...

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How would you like to marry a full professor of English history at London University?

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I'd much rather marry you, John.

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I mean me.

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Are you serious?

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You still have three years before you can become a professor.

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It can happen in a month.

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Next week, perhaps.

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But how?

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Well, you know this research work I've been doing on 14th century English history?

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Yes.

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Well, I have reason to believe I've made the most amazing, the most fantastic discovery.

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Tell me.

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Not until I put my theory to the test.

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And if I'm right, I can assure you there will be an immediate chair for me at the university.

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And more than that, I'll be famous.

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Oh, but John, this is unfair, keeping me in the dark like this.

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I promise you it won't be for long.

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Tomorrow, I go to see Sir Thomas Greystone at Aberdeen to get his cooperation.

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He won't refuse because my success will bring him fame also.

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John, you simply must tell me what...

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Not another word tonight.

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I'll tell you everything when I come back the day after tomorrow.

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Remember, good things come to those who wait.

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But he didn't come back.

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Not the day he told me, nor the next day.

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I wired him at Greystone Castle asking him to explain the delay.

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I received this answer.

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John Cartwright, unknown here.

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Signed, Greystone.

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I didn't know what to make of it, Mr. Holmes.

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Finally, I decided to go up to Aberdeen and talk to Sir Thomas Greystone himself.

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He must have been mistaken.

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This is it, yes.

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Certainly don't know what to do.

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Certainly don't envy you, miss.

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Why? Is something wrong?

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Let's say something isn't right.

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Ever since the Greystones came upon hard times, they become a strange, mysterious pair.

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Hardly anyone ever comes to see them, and those that do don't waste any time there.

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If I were you, miss, I'd wait until it's light before I went up.

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I don't have the time to spare.

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I'm sure I'll be all right.

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So yourself, miss.

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Get out.

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Get out.

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I would like to see Sir Thomas Greystone, please.

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My name is Miss Channing.

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Would you please tell him that...

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Miss Channing, is it?

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The lady who sent the telegram.

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Yes.

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I hope you don't think me foolish coming here in this way, Sir Thomas.

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Walter Greystone is my name.

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Sir Thomas is my father.

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If you've come to make further inquiries about your Mr. Cartwright, yes, I'd say you were foolish.

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We've absolutely no knowledge of the gentleman.

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But I can't understand it.

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He told me he was coming here to speak to Sir Thomas.

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About what?

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About a discovery he made while doing some historical research.

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He said it was to have brought fame to him and Sir Thomas both.

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I can assure you, Miss Channing, no one of that nature has been here. No one.

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But I know he took the 610 train on Tuesday. I saw him off.

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The 610 train makes a dozen stops along the way. He could have got off at any one of them.

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But why?

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I've no idea, Miss.

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I'm sorry. I'm upset. You see, he's my fiancé.

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I quite understand, but there's nothing we can do.

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I'm sorry to have troubled you.

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One moment, Miss.

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That telegram I sent you cost two shillings. I'll thank you till he embossed me.

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Father! Be quiet!

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I'm not a charitable institution.

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Are you Sir Thomas Greystone?

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I am.

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You didn't say you were.

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I didn't say I wasn't. Two shillings, if you please.

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Thank you. Good night, Miss Channing.

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Good night.

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Whatever else I felt about the Greystones, I didn't believe they'd lied to me.

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Why should they deny they'd seen John?

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However, as I made my way through the garden, I found this timetable in the bushes.

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I take it that these notes in the margin are in your fiancé's handwriting, Miss Channing.

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Yes, Mr. Holmes. They lied. He was there.

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And for some reason they're trying to deny it.

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You'd evidently asked directions to the castle and jotted them down in the margin.

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Well, it's perfectly evident the Greystones are lying, but why?

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Here's somebody offering them a chance of fame, they refuse it.

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There are other considerations more imperative than fame, Watson.

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What other considerations, for example?

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That is our problem.

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You will help me, Mr. Holmes.

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I'll do my best, Miss Channing.

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Watson, the 14th century contained the reigns of what kings?

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Uh, wait a minute. 14th century?

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There were some Henrys and Richard II.

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There were some Henrys and Richard II, of course.

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Richard II. He was executed, wasn't he?

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Yes, at Pontefract Castle, September the 21st, 1300, and, uh...

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Miss Channing, I would appreciate your taking me to your fiancé's flat.

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To his flat? But why not to Greystone Castle?

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Well, I would rather not go there unarmed.

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Why not? We've both got revolvers.

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I am referring, Watson, to information that may have led to the disappearance of Miss Channing's fiancé.

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Come along, Miss Channing.

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Well, I can't find anything there.

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Perhaps you'd have a look, Watson.

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Oh, thank you, Miss Channing.

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Thank you.

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Aha! So this is what Cartwright found so exciting.

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What is it, Holmes?

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Well, he certainly deserves his professorship if he understood this.

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Listen.

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This pledge unto Richard, I, Richard, do make.

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To return unto Richard, switch from Richard, I take.

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Let Richard look on the northern stair.

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Then six and seven is not fair.

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Press on and through and doon for ten.

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Beware thou do not linger then.

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If thou art in and wish ye moot, get out.

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Smite eke the lion upon the snout.

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Meet and rhyme perfect.

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Oh, what's it mean?

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Well, it's simple enough, Watson.

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Look here, Holmes.

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Sometimes I think you'd say that a trip to the moon on an umbrella is simple.

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Well, analyze it piece by piece.

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The first part is nothing more than a receipt.

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A receipt?

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Certainly. This pledge unto Richard, I, Richard, do make.

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To return unto Richard such things as I from Richard take.

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Well, apparently Richard had entrusted his possessions to a loyal friend.

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And he had received his promise that they be returned.

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Yes, yes, I see that.

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The rest of the inscription merely tells him how he may get his possessions back.

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Hence, let Richard look upon the northern star.

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A sort of map, so to speak.

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Quite so.

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Well, but what's all this got to do with Cartwright's disappearance?

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Well, in Wilkinson's biography of Richard II,

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it is mentioned that one of the king's most loyal supporters was Richard Greystone,

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the original owner of Greystone Castle.

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Cartwright must have had the idea that Richard had left his possessions with him.

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So he went up there to prove it.

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Yes.

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But that still doesn't answer why John hasn't come back.

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That answer, Miss Channing, may only be secured at Greystone Castle.

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That's strange. There appears to be no one here.

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I'll go around and let you in.

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Aye, sir.

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♪♪♪

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Come along and keep close behind me.

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This pledge unto Richard I, Richard, do make.

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To return unto Richard, switch from Richard I take.

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The lower half appears to have been destroyed by fire.

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Then there's every chance that King Richard's possessions may not yet have been found.

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No, they haven't.

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Say you brought help, Miss Channing.

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Where is he? What have you done with him?

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He's in safekeeping, in the tower.

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Since you're here, perhaps you can persuade Mr. Cartwright to tell us the secret of the Greystone inscription.

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We shall do nothing of the sort.

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He's got some idea of returning Richard's possessions to the Queen for a birthday present.

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They're worth a fortune and are rightfully mine.

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They rightfully belong to the Crown.

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We won't have your rights and wrongs.

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Wait as well.

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If you can't persuade Mr. Cartwright to talk, then not one of you will leave this room alive.

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In that case, I will not hang my fate on another man's decision.

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I'll lead you to King Richard's possessions myself.

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Holmes!

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Why be killed over a museum piece, Watson?

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Let's re-examine the pledge.

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This pledge, unto Richard, I, Richard, do make, to return unto Richard, such as from Richard I take.

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We can understand that much without your help. Go on.

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The meaning is perfectly clear.

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Whatever treasure may be hidden here belongs to the Royal Family and to nobody else.

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Let Richard look on the Northern Star.

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Let Richard look on the Northern Star. Well, that gives us the direction.

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Does it? One can look at the North Star from any point in this hemisphere.

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Your ancestor knew that. He said, let Richard look.

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And he meant this Richard.

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In other words, the direction may be found by facing north from this very spot.

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I am now facing due north.

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Then six and seven is not far.

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Six and seven is not far.

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What does that mean?

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Merely to pace off thirteen steps.

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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.

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Press on and through and down for ten. Press...

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Stairs.

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Through and down for ten.

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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

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Ten.

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Here it is.

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Here it is.

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Pairs.

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Diamonds.

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Rupees.

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Pairs. At last.

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I've been waiting for this moment for years.

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Diamonds.

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Rupees.

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And now if we may go.

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I'm afraid I can't let you go.

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But you promised.

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You take us for fools, you go straight to the authorities.

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I plan to enjoy this well.

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I don't see how. With or without us.

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Seems your ancestors arranged for intruders.

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You knew this?

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I suspected.

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Then you must know the way out, otherwise you wouldn't have come in.

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Tell me at once, man, or I'll shoot you down where you stand.

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While only I have the secret to the door?

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Half the jewels, half the jewels for a way out.

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All of them.

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Show us how to get out, and we'll let you take them all.

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No.

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No, they're mine.

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But what?

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Not a single gold piece.

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You're a coward, man. You want to stay here forever?

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The treasure is mine. The treasure is mine. You can't take it.

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Pay no attention.

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Give me the gun.

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You can have the treasure.

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Just the gun, please.

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The last two lines of the inscription read, as I remember,

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If you're in and can't get out,

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strike the lion upon the snout.

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Well, everything couldn't be better.

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The Greystones are in prison, the Cartwrights are together again,

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and you and I are feasting on cold lobster and tomatoes.

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Well, I have a sense of well-being.

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Haven't you the slightest twinge of conscience, Watson?

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I'm not a man of conscience.

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Well, I noticed the gold piece on your watch chain.

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You filched it from the treasure room.

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Filched it?

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Certainly not. I made an application for it from the Ministry.

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Oh, did you? Well, that was very enterprising of you, Watson.

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Why don't you do the same thing, Holmes?

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After all, don't you want a souvenir?

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I have one.

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Not bad.

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I'll take it.

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Not bad.

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But Holmes!

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A personal letter of thanks from Her Majesty!

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Why, Holmes, congratulations!

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Well done!

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Thank you, Watson.

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THE END

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