Definitely not Ming.
It is my business to know sir,
the pottery is Ming
and worth twenty-three hundred dollars.
As were closing for the evening
I must ask you to settle at once.
Nonsense my good man.
Tang pottery is worth
six hundred dollars at best.
Just a moment please.
Yes of course.
Hello.
What's going on out there?
A customer dropped a valuable piece of pottery.
I'll finish with him immediately.
How could you say that it's Ming?
Twenty-three hundred fiddlesticks.
You ask twenty-three hundred dollars
for something that's worth
no more than six hundred
I demand to see the proprietor.
Now wait a minute.
There are bureaus for the
protection of innocent customers.
Show me to the owner of this establishment
or I'll turn the entire matter
to my legal representative.
Ming indeed.
Just a minute.
What skullduggery.
I mean to put an end to it this very night.
Ming for Tang indeed and I won't be put off.
Call the proprietor immediately!
Very well, just a minute.
Yes?
This man's mad.
An eccentric collector.
I can't get rid of him.
Insists on seeing you in person.
All right.
Stall him for a half-minute
then send him into my office.
I'll get rid of him and quickly.
No screams till the customer's gone.
You get downstairs.
Yes sir.
I'm most frightfully sorry...
I'm most frightfully sorry about the vase but,
but really sir you're clerk is guilty
of attempting the most obvious fraud.
You see he tried to convince me
that I'd broken a Ming pottery.
And anyone could see
that it belonged to Tang era.
Its value is no more than six hundred dollars.
All right, you pay him the six hundred
we'll call the matter settled.
Oh.
Oh thank you very much sir.
Thank you.
I'll send you my check in the morning.
I... I see you know
the London value of these pieces.
It's my business.
Exactly.
Yes.
Exactly.
You know I think you're just the man
to help me find some furniture
I'm anxious to get.
I'm most frightfully bored
with the usual conglomeration of pieces
that we can pick up on the other side.
What do you really want Mr. Sherlock Holmes?
You're Henry Kinkle
or as you now call yourself
Mr. Richard Stanley.
In 1914, secret agent of the German Kaiser.
Since then,
head of the most insidious international spy ring
that ever existed.
You're wrong.
A case of mistaken identity.
I've been a respected member of this community
for a great many years.
I deal in antiques
because of their rarity and beauty.
Merely a device to cover up your real business
of transporting secret information
to the enemies of this country.
Very interesting
but just a figment of your imagination.
I am a very busy man Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
Where is Nancy Pattridge?
You're not looking for that girl
you're looking for a certain document.
Dear me no.
The document's perfectly safe.
You see the man who has it
doesn't know he has it.
That's a very pretty tale but quite untrue.
The only man who had any contact with Grayson
on the train was Senator Babcock.
The Senator doesn't have the document
we took the trouble to find out.
Permit me.
Thank you.
Perhaps you've been mislead
by the common notion regarding
the shape and bulk of state papers.
They might easily been reduced to a,
to a convenient size you know?
Say a document no larger than a,
than a postage stamp.
A postage stamp huh?
That's a very interesting theory
but not supported by the facts
and quite beside the point.
Where's the girl?
She's not here of course
but you're quite at liberty to look around
if you care too.
Thank you.
I shall do so.
Interesting piece.
Spanish isn't it?
Moorish.
Oh, my error.
It's an amazing specimen
but I assure you won't find
what you're looking for there.
You stimulate my curiosity.
This might be interesting.
The Moors were an incredibly
inventive people weren't they?
Yes it was in shocking condition
when I got hold of it
but I had it restored.
Very lively now
but old fashioned.
If that's the best you can do, Mr. Stanley,
I think I may 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.