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Mourner, We are the bestead. We are still. The As our story begins, a frantic young man enters the railway station at Woolwich and hurriedly purchases

a one-way ticket to London Bridge.

But later that evening, his lifeless body is discovered near the tracks at Aldgate Junction,

his head savagely crushed.

The incident appears to be a suicide, but there is more to this tragedy

than meets the eye, and thus begins the adventure of the Bruce Partington plans.

On Baker Street, Watson reads his daily paper,

and Sherlock Holmes vocalizes the Renaissance motets of Lassus.

Quemet, a mod modem et Maudum desiderat, Chervous and Fon Tese Aquarum

Desiderat

Cervus and Fon Tese aquar Here we have yet another example of

Granada going above and beyond in their attempt to incorporate

even the smallest details penned by Doyle into the films produced. The Latin music that Holmes

sings is the Quimad Modum De Zittorat Chervis by Orland Delassus, and is a direct reference to the

original story, which states states one of the most remarkable

characteristics of Sherlock Holmes was his power of throwing his brain out of action

and switching all his thoughts onto lighter things whenever he had convinced himself that

he could no longer work to advantage I remember that during the whole of that

memorable day he lost himself in a monograph

which he had undertaken upon the polyphonic motets of Lassus. The tenor-line Latin from this

Easter vigil, as sung here by Jeremy, can be translated as follows. As a deer longs for springs of water,

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