Scenes Six To Nine

Scene Six
Littleworth Farm. Mr Greatorex is mending an agricultural mechanism on a workbench.

Arthur describes to Woodie his theory about Sharp (Speck) being the perpetrator as they approach Greatorex, who has the Sharps as tenants on his farm. Greatorex tells Arthur all about the Sharp boys, and that one of them showed his wife a knife used to kill animals.

Scene Seven
Arthur and Woodie are at the train station. Arthur heads to Birmingham, leaving Woodie behind with instructions to go and steal the knife.

Scene Eight
Woodie and Wynn are creeping around in the dark looking for the meatsafe where the knife will be.

Scene Nine
The Grand Hotel, Charing Cross.

George is in the writing room. He has a file of newspaper cuttings, and was readign a document. Jean and Arthur enter, but Jean soon leaves. Arthur describes his theory on Royden Sharp being the guilty party, and produces the knife as evidence.

Arthur leaves, and George expresses to Maud that he is worried that Arthur is trying too hard to be Holmes, and may have therefore jeapordised the case against Royden Sharp.