WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:12.080 It is absolutely essential to me that I should have fifty. 2 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:13.279 Thousand pounds at once. 3 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.480 If I were able, I should be happy to advance 4 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.239 it without further parley from my own private person, who 5 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:21.440 have doubtless heard of the Beryl coronet, one of the 6 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:23.719 most precious public possessions of the empire. 7 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:30.359 Precisely and here it is the Beryl coronet. There are 8 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.600 thirty nine enormous Beryls, and the price of the gold 9 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:34.920 chasing is inculculable. 10 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:38.280 I am prepared to leave it with you. Was my security. 11 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:43.280 Even to my friend Sherlock Holmes. Fifty thousand pounds was 12 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:47.679 high stakes to play for. My name is Watson, doctor Watson, 13 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:51.679 and I was privileged to share the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 14 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:56.119 I will tell you about the case of the Beryl Coronet. 15 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.799 My friend Holmes was only called in when the affair 16 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:01.880 was already alarmingly developed. 17 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:09.920 As you will see. 18 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:16.159 Robbins speaking funds to restore a credit balance to your account. 19 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:20.319 I remain your obedient servant, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. 20 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.599 And now, miss Parker, is that all very well? Please 21 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:27.280 attend to those letters at once. That will be all. 22 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.280 Excuse me, say yes, Roberts, what is it a gentleman 23 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:38.359 wishes to see you, sir by appointment? 24 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:44.719 Well, then I'm afraid that is his God now rarely Roberts, 25 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:48.159 who know very well that I this is his card. 26 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:54.480 Why well then then show him in it once immediately Roberts. 27 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:55.120 Yeah, what. 28 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:00.879 If you would kindly stiff this way, your your and 29 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:07.359 mister holding any very good rabbits, Thank you, your your grace. 30 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:09.759 May I be allowed to say how deeply honored we 31 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:10.879 are to not at all? 32 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.919 I must apologize for the abruptness of this call about 33 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:15.560 an appointment. 34 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:19.199 Pray say no more, sir. Will your grace be seated? 35 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:22.960 Thank you? With your permission, sir, I will state my business. 36 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.280 It is absolutely essential to me that I shall have 37 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:28.240 fifty thousand pounds at. 38 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:31.319 Once for how long? May I ask, your Grace? Do 39 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:32.159 you want this sum? 40 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:34.759 Next Monday? I have a large sum due to me. 41 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.199 I shall then repay what you advance together with any interest. 42 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:40.759 But it is essential to me that the money should 43 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:41.680 be paid at once. 44 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:43.879 If I were able, I should be happy to advance 45 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:46.319 it without further parley from my own private purse. 46 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:49.000 On the other hand, if I am to do it 47 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:50.159 in the name of the firm. 48 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.680 Then, in justice to my partner, I must respectfully insist. 49 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.199 That, even in your case, every business like precaution should 50 00:02:57.199 --> 00:02:57.560 be taken. 51 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.919 I should much prefer to have it so, mister holder, 52 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.800 you have doubtless heard of the Beryl coronet, one of 53 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:09.159 the most precious public possessions of the Empire. Precisely and 54 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:10.319 here it. 55 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:13.039 Is the Beryl coronet. 56 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.599 There are thirty nine enormous Beryls, and the price of 57 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:20.400 the gold chasing is incalculable. The lowest estimates would put 58 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:22.360 the worth of the coronet at double the sum. 59 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:23.159 I have asked. 60 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.680 I am prepared to leave it with you as my security. Well, 61 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.199 really your case. I don't doubt its value, not at all. 62 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:32.879 I only doubt the propriety of my leaving it. 63 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:36.800 Hugh, may set your mind address about that, I should 64 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.919 not dream of doing so. Was it not absolutely certain 65 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:41.759 that I should be able to reclaim. 66 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:46.479 It in four days? Now? Sir? Is the security sufficient? Amful? 67 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:48.199 You understand that I am giving. 68 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.039 You a strong proof of the confidence which I have 69 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:51.199 formed upon. 70 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:52.199 All that I have heard of you. 71 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:55.159 I rely upon you not only to be discreet and 72 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:58.599 to refrain from all gossip, but above all, to preserve 73 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:02.080 the coronet with every possible precaution. Of course, I need 74 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.240 not say that the great public scandal would be caused if. 75 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:06.680 Any harm were to perform it. 76 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:11.199 Your grace may rest completely assured. And now permit me 77 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.759 to call my cashier and arrange for fifty thousand pounds in. 78 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:21.279 Notes to be paid at once. That will be all 79 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:23.800 for tonight, Lucy. You may go to bed now. 80 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.560 But what I can't understand for is why you should 81 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.199 have brought the coronet home with you. Surely the bank 82 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:37.839 would have been the safest place banker's safes have been 83 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:38.560 forced before. 84 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:40.160 Now do you let us see the coronet? 85 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:42.920 Uncle? Ellith? No, Mary, not even for you, my dear, 86 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:44.839 oh uncle, please? 87 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:49.680 Well, perhaps just a peak on Monday when I take 88 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:50.879 it with me for the last time. 89 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:53.000 I hope to good as the house won't be burgled 90 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:53.839 before then, that's all. 91 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:57.439 Where have you put it in my dressing room in 92 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.560 the bureau under lock and key? Oh no, don't you 93 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.920 remember when I was a youngster ies to open that 94 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:04.160 bureau with a key of the box. 95 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.920 From the cupboard. Then I hope you can keep a 96 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:09.720 secret for a day or two. Oh harm me? I 97 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.399 I'm quite tired to night. I I think I shall 98 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:14.160 be off to my bed. 99 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.519 I too, good night uncle, dear, good night after you 100 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:18.040 turning in? 101 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:24.839 Yes soon good I marry good night father. Yes, Arthur, 102 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:28.600 could I have a word? Well? What is it? Look here? Dad? 103 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:31.439 Can you let me have two hundred pounds? Two hundred will? 104 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.519 You've been very generous in money matters, far too generous? 105 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:35.759 Well can you once more? 106 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:36.639 No? 107 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.319 I can't, but I must have it or I'll never 108 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.279 be able to show my face inside the club again. 109 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.040 And a very good thing to you. Yes, I know 110 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:45.920 what you feel, but you wouldn't have me leave it 111 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:46.800 as as honored man. 112 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.720 I've warned you I don't know how many times not 113 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.959 to squander your money on cards in the turf. 114 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:53.000 You know I've tried. 115 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.639 You run into dangerous company with men like Burnwill and those. 116 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.839 Their habits are expensive, but their purses are long. They 117 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.800 can stand it, but you can't. You've never liked Sir George. 118 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.720 She's been a true friend to me. Well we differ there. 119 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:09.160 As for the rest. I'll break with them, I promise 120 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.439 I will, But Burnwell will draw you back. 121 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:14.800 No, Arthur, this is the third amount this month to 122 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:18.399 remember it'll means asgrace. I must have that money. 123 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.560 Father, then you must find it as best you can. 124 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:30.600 Not another farthing from me. And now good night? Why 125 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:33.040 Mary taking the night here? 126 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:34.079 Child? 127 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:36.879 No, uncle, I just thought i'd see to the windows 128 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:40.439 myself to night, extra precautions. 129 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.959 You know how thoughtful, my dear. You've saved me a task. 130 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:46.920 Tell me, uncle, did you give Lucy leave to go 131 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:47.439 out to night? 132 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:49.240 Certainly not? Well? 133 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:52.040 She came in just now by the back door. Perhaps 134 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:55.160 she's only been to the side gate to see someone. Still, 135 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:56.439 I think it should be stopped. 136 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:00.600 It's hardly safe. Quite right. You must speak in the morning. 137 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:04.480 Now are you sure everything is fastened? Fight your uncle? 138 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:22.160 Then good night, my dear, good night. Ah there who 139 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:22.360 is this? 140 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:23.360 Who? 141 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.120 Ah? What are you doing with that corns? Father? So 142 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.680 you've come to this? No? No, give it me here? 143 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.480 Oh no it's broken. 144 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:37.319 Listen, Father told me this instant where this missing corner 145 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:40.319 is and the three barrels from it. Can't be any 146 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.319 missing there are and you know it because you've stolen them. 147 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:48.120 Stolen, yes, you thief? Must I call you a liar 148 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:48.519 as well? 149 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.160 When I caught you now you were trying to wrench 150 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:52.839 off another piece, visit the last draw. 151 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.639 You've called me names enough. I shall leave your house 152 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:57.040 in the morning and make my own way in the world. 153 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.240 After this, you shall leave it in the hands of 154 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:01.800 the police. Well you choose to call the police, Let 155 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:07.720 them find what they can. You shill learn nothing from me, Arthur, I, well, 156 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:09.439 you may as well face the matter. 157 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.879 It's not only my honor, but that of someone far 158 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:14.040 more important than I that. 159 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:14.720 Is at stake. 160 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:19.319 Yet I suppose it might still be a bretied Arthur, 161 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.560 tell me at once where those beryls are. Kill me, 162 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:25.920 and then we'll all shall be forgiven and forgotten. 163 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:28.000 And keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it. 164 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:30.160 You shall learn nothing from me, nothing. 165 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:37.200 And so I called an inspector and gave him into custody, 166 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.960 mister Holmes. A search was made at once of his 167 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:42.480 person and his room, and of every portion of the 168 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:45.559 house where he could have concealed the gems. No place 169 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:49.720 could be found of them, mister Holmes, Doctor Watson, what 170 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:51.080 am I to do? 171 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:52.879 Do? You receive much company? 172 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:57.200 Will none save my partner with his family and an 173 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:59.600 occasional friend of Arthur's. That I could well do without, 174 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:04.840 Sir George Burnwell, for instance, Ah, do you go out 175 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.799 much in society, Arthur? Does my niece Mary and I 176 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.039 stay at home? We neither of us care about it. 177 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:12.840 That is unusual in the younger. 178 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:14.600 She's of a very quiet nature. 179 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.440 This matter has been a great shock to her, also terrible. 180 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:21.600 She heard the noise of my shouting at Arthur and 181 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.559 rushed into the room. She must have read the whole 182 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:29.600 torry in his face, and on seeing the coronet, she screamed, 183 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:32.600 I do believe she's more affected than I am. You 184 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.799 have neither of you any doubt, as dear Sanskill, how. 185 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:36.240 Can we have? 186 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.039 When I saw him with my own eyes, with the 187 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:40.399 coronet in his hands. 188 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.639 So was the remainder of the coronets at all entered? Well? 189 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.799 Yes it was twisted. What did the police say the 190 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:48.120 disappearance of those gens. 191 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:51.720 They're still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in 192 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:54.440 the hope of finding them, and they thought. 193 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:58.360 Of looking outside the house. Yes, yes, they've shown extraordinary energy. 194 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.919 Very well, then it is our task to find the 195 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:06.159 gents at once. Mister Holmes. You may go to any 196 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:07.559 expense you think necessary. 197 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:09.720 I think first we'll set off for your home, and 198 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:12.039 to put an owt glancing a little more closely into 199 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:15.600 the details. Oh, together with my dear friend, doctor Watson. Here, 200 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:19.320 of course you will come, Mutson, bow me splendid. Then 201 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:20.200 come along, gentlemen. 202 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:23.759 The cabs go slowly through this snow, so I think 203 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:25.080 we'll take the underground. 204 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:30.399 Ah. This is my dear niece Mary, Mary. 205 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:32.559 I brought a gentleman down from London to inquire more 206 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:34.200 deeply into this dreadful business. 207 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:35.080 This gentleman. 208 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:39.159 Oh, no, no, no, his friend, this is Dr Watson. 209 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.080 My Mary is the sunbeam in my house, doctor Watson. 210 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.320 She's lived with us since my brother died, and I 211 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.720 don't mind saying she's become my right hand. 212 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:49.519 Don't listen to his flattery. 213 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.679 But where is this other gentleman, mister Sherlock Holmes? He 214 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:56.159 wishes to leave him alone. I think he's round in 215 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:57.240 the stable lane. 216 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.639 Miss stable Lane? What can he hope to find there? 217 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:07.440 Ah? Here he comes, and my niece Mary. Mister Holmes, 218 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:10.799 how do you do, miss holder? I'd asked your question 219 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:11.200 or two? 220 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:11.840 Why? 221 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:14.639 Yes, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up. 222 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:16.960 You heard nothing yourself last night. 223 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.919 Nothing until my uncle began to speak loudly. I heard that, 224 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:21.720 and I came down. 225 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.759 I understand you shut up the windows and door the 226 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.360 night before. Did you fasten all the windows? 227 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:28.879 Yes? 228 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:31.080 Were they all fastened this morning? Yes? 229 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:36.360 Now that's your maid, Lucisitar, the second waiting maid. She's 230 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.840 only been in my service a few months. She came 231 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:43.039 with an excellent character, though, and she's always given me satisfaction. 232 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:48.519 The only drawback is yes, well, she's a very pretty girl, 233 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.679 and her admirers occasionally. 234 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:51.039 Hang about the place. 235 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:54.919 I believe, miss Holder, that you remarked to your uncle 236 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:57.200 last night that she had been out to see someone. 237 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:58.600 Yes, her sweetheart. 238 00:11:58.600 --> 00:11:59.799 I suppose she. 239 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:01.720 Came into the drawing room while my uncle was telling 240 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:02.639 us about to coronet. 241 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:05.759 He stopped speaking till she'd gone. Of course, that she 242 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:07.799 might not have closed the door after her. 243 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:10.279 You infelt that she may have overheard something, that later 244 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:12.279 she went out and telled her sweet out about. 245 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:14.320 It, and that the tool may have planned the robbery. 246 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:18.679 What's the good of all these vague theories I've told you. 247 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.960 I saw Arthur with the coronet in his hand. 248 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.159 I wait, a little, mister Holder, We must come back 249 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:25.919 to the Missholder about this girl. 250 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:29.480 You saw her return by the kitchen door, I presume yes. 251 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:31.840 When I went to see if the door was fastened 252 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:33.600 for the night, I met her slipping in. 253 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.320 I saw the man too in the gloom. 254 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:37.320 Do you know him? Oh? 255 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:40.039 Yes, he's the greengrocer who brings our vegetables round. 256 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:42.159 His name is Francis Prosper. 257 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:44.279 He stood to the left of the door, that is 258 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.480 to say, father, up the path and is necessary to 259 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:47.120 reach the door? 260 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:48.200 Why, yes he did. 261 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:49.679 And he's a man with a wooden leg. 262 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:53.639 Why, mister Holmes, you were like a magician. 263 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:54.960 How do you know that? 264 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:59.120 I should be very glad now to look upstairs. I 265 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.679 shall probably wish to over the outside of the house again, 266 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:04.759 very well, but perhaps i'd better take a look at 267 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:27.879 the lower windows before I got where's my lens? There's 268 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:33.399 my disk room, and there is the bureau which key 269 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:36.879 was used to open it? The one my son had mentioned. 270 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:38.799 The key of the box room covered. 271 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:40.240 Have you got it with him? Yes? 272 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:47.000 Here it is, Oh, thank you, And then it's a 273 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:50.000 niceness block. It's no wonder that it didn't wake you. 274 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:57.240 And this case, I presume contains the coronet, the burial 275 00:13:57.480 --> 00:13:58.759 colinet itself. 276 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:03.039 So exquisite. I see. 277 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:08.360 Now, mister Held, here is the corner which corresponds to 278 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.279 that which has been so unfortunately last. 279 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.759 Might I date that you will break it off? I 280 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:18.360 shouldn't dream of trying. Oh then I will, mister Holmes. 281 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:22.559 I beg you, Lester Holmes, ha, I doesn't give a little, 282 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:25.879 But now I am exceptionally strong in the fingers. It 283 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.799 will take me all my all my time to break it. 284 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:31.840 An ordinar man couldn't do it. 285 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:34.320 Now. What do you think would happen if I did 286 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:37.320 break it, mister Holder? Well really I can't. There will 287 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:38.440 be a noise like a pistol. 288 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:40.919 Sut do you tell me that all this happened within 289 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:43.320 a few yards of your baden, that you heard nothing 290 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.240 of it? I don't know what to think. It's it's 291 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:49.000 all dark to me. Perhaps it may grow lighter as 292 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:52.919 we go on. What do you think, miss Holder? 293 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:58.159 I confess, mister Holmes, that I still share my uncle stuplexity. 294 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.159 I think you told me, my Chambers, just to hold 295 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:03.600 us that your son had no shoes or slippers. 296 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:06.279 On Menusa, he had nothing on save only his trousers 297 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:09.679 and shirt. Thank you. I can serve you best now by. 298 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:14.960 Returning to my rooms too Baker Street. But but the gems, 299 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.200 mister Holmes, where are they? I shall not tell, and 300 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:21.440 I shall never see them again? I know, and my son, 301 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:23.519 my opinion is in no way all to then, for 302 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.840 Heaven's sake, tell me what was this dark business which 303 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:28.840 was acted in my house last night? If you can 304 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.000 call on me at my Baker Street rooms tomorrow morning 305 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:32.799 between nine and ten, I shall. 306 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.000 Be happy to do what I can to make it. 307 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:37.200 Kiara, I understand that you give me cart gloss to 308 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:39.080 act for you, For if I did only that I 309 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.519 get back the gems, and that you place no limit 310 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:42.919 on the sun I may draw, I. 311 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:45.279 Would give my fortune to have them back. Very good. 312 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:47.960 I shall look into the matter between this and then. 313 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:51.480 Oh, it's just possible that I may have to come 314 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:52.799 over here again this evening. 315 00:15:53.759 --> 00:16:01.320 Good by, that's my soul back, And you'll excuse my 316 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:02.240 beginning without you. 317 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.559 Watson, that you remember that our client his mother an 318 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:07.639 earlier points here this morning as well. Perhaps why you 319 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:10.840 finish your coffee, you'll favor me with some explanation or 320 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:14.000 extraordinary activities last evening after we returned from home. 321 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.759 How you getting on anyway? Oh? 322 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:19.360 Star. 323 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:22.679 It's out the homes I despair. 324 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:26.240 You will dress yourself up as the common lift, refuse 325 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:28.039 to tell me where you're going, or to take me 326 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.679 with you. You'll come back a few hours later with 327 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:32.600 an old pair of foods in your hand, drink a 328 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:35.080 cup of tea change at your ordinary clothes, and off 329 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:35.759 you go again. 330 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:38.080 And all you say is, don't wait up for me, 331 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:42.519 my dear. What I might be late, I do wait 332 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:44.559 for it last at midnight before I give it over. 333 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.879 Then down I come next morning. And here you are, 334 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:49.639 with a cup of coffee in one hand, and the 335 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:51.120 paper and the other, as fresh. 336 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:54.080 As trimble as can be, and ready for our time. 337 00:16:54.799 --> 00:17:00.279 Wait after nine already as from this crisises for he. Oh, 338 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:01.080 come in, sir. 339 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:06.359 I don't know what I've done to be so severely tired. 340 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:06.759 Louse it. 341 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:11.880 Thank you. My niece Mary has deserted me, deserted you. 342 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.359 Her bed this morning had not been slept in her. 343 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:18.000 I had said to her last night, in sorrow, not 344 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.599 in anger, that if she had married my boy, as 345 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:24.400 had always been my wish, and his all might have 346 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:28.200 been well with him. Perhaps that was thoughtless of me. 347 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.039 A note lay for me upon. 348 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.000 The hall table. Is that it in your him? Yes, yes, 349 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:37.160 this is it. Oh, pray read it, my dearest uncle. 350 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.559 I feel that I have brought this trouble upon you, 351 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:43.960 and that if I had acted differently, this terrible misfortune 352 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:48.599 might have never occurred. I do not worry about my future, 353 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:51.160 for that is provided for, and above all, do not 354 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:54.640 search for me, for it will be fruitless labor and 355 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:59.039 an ill service to me. What could she mean, mister Holmes, 356 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.359 It points to to suicide. 357 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:04.079 Nothing of the kind. 358 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:08.240 Let us return to the scene of your son's crime 359 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.880 for a moment. You remarked that the coronet which he 360 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.920 held in his hands was somewhat injured twisted. Did it 361 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:16.359 not occur to you to think that he might have 362 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:19.160 been trying to straighten it? You suppose that your son 363 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.440 came down from his bed, went at great risk to 364 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.799 your dressing room, opened your bureau, took out the coronet, 365 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.839 broke off by main force a small portion of it, 366 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:31.000 went off to some other place, and concealed three gems 367 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.240 out of the thirty nine, with such skill that no 368 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:36.480 one could find them, and then returned to the dressing 369 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:39.440 room to expose himself to the greatest danger of being discovered. 370 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:43.640 I ask you now, is such a very terrible but 371 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.599 what other is there? It has been my task to 372 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:51.119 find that out. Mister Holder, you owe a very humble 373 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:52.319 apology to your son. 374 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:55.599 Then it was not Harther who took the barels. 375 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:58.880 No well, fin Heaven's sake, tell me what you know 376 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.480 of this extraortumy. I will do so step by step, 377 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.720 but rest assured about your son. I had an interview 378 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.920 with him this morning. He would not tell me the story, 379 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.200 so I told it to him. He had to confess 380 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:13.440 that I was right, and he added the few details 381 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:14.200 I did not know. 382 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:18.480 Let me say to you first, was it his hardest 383 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:19.839 for me to say and for you to hear. 384 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:24.559 There has been an understanding between your niece Mary and 385 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:25.759 Sir George Burnwell. 386 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:28.839 They have fled together Mary. 387 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:31.839 Impossible, It is, unfortunately more than possible. 388 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:34.400 It is certain George Burnwell. 389 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.720 Is one of the most dangerous men in England, A 390 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:40.319 ruined gambler, a desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. 391 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:43.079 Your niece knows nothing of such men. 392 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:46.160 When he breathed his vows to her, as he had 393 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.480 to one hundred before her, she thought that she alone 394 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:49.119 had touched his. 395 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:51.839 Heart, but they will only know what he said. But 396 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:56.119 at last she became his tool. I cannot, I will 397 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:56.720 not believe it. 398 00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.359 Your niece was in the habit of seeing Bernwell nearly 399 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:01.960 every evening. The other night, when you thought she had 400 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:03.839 gone to our room, she talked to and through the 401 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.839