Speaker 1: It is absolutely essential to me that I should have fifty.
Speaker 2: Thousand pounds at once.
Speaker 3: If I were able, I should be happy to advance
Speaker 3: it without further parley from my own private person, who
Speaker 3: have doubtless heard of the Beryl coronet, one of the
Speaker 3: most precious public possessions of the empire.
Speaker 1: Precisely and here it is the Beryl coronet. There are
Speaker 1: thirty nine enormous Beryls, and the price of the gold
Speaker 1: chasing is inculculable.
Speaker 2: I am prepared to leave it with you. Was my security.
Speaker 4: Even to my friend Sherlock Holmes. Fifty thousand pounds was
Speaker 4: high stakes to play for. My name is Watson, doctor Watson,
Speaker 4: and I was privileged to share the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2: I will tell you about the case of the Beryl Coronet.
Speaker 3: My friend Holmes was only called in when the affair
Speaker 3: was already alarmingly developed.
Speaker 2: As you will see.
Speaker 3: Robbins speaking funds to restore a credit balance to your account.
Speaker 3: I remain your obedient servant, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 2: And now, miss Parker, is that all very well? Please
Speaker 2: attend to those letters at once. That will be all.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, say yes, Roberts, what is it a gentleman
Speaker 3: wishes to see you, sir by appointment?
Speaker 2: Well, then I'm afraid that is his God now rarely Roberts,
Speaker 2: who know very well that I this is his card.
Speaker 3: Why well then then show him in it once immediately Roberts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what.
Speaker 3: If you would kindly stiff this way, your your and
Speaker 3: mister holding any very good rabbits, Thank you, your your grace.
Speaker 3: May I be allowed to say how deeply honored we
Speaker 3: are to not at all?
Speaker 1: I must apologize for the abruptness of this call about
Speaker 1: an appointment.
Speaker 2: Pray say no more, sir. Will your grace be seated?
Speaker 2: Thank you? With your permission, sir, I will state my business.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely essential to me that I shall have
Speaker 1: fifty thousand pounds at.
Speaker 3: Once for how long? May I ask, your Grace? Do
Speaker 3: you want this sum?
Speaker 1: Next Monday? I have a large sum due to me.
Speaker 1: I shall then repay what you advance together with any interest.
Speaker 1: But it is essential to me that the money should
Speaker 1: be paid at once.
Speaker 3: If I were able, I should be happy to advance
Speaker 3: it without further parley from my own private purse.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, if I am to do it
Speaker 2: in the name of the firm.
Speaker 3: Then, in justice to my partner, I must respectfully insist.
Speaker 2: That, even in your case, every business like precaution should
Speaker 2: be taken.
Speaker 3: I should much prefer to have it so, mister holder,
Speaker 3: you have doubtless heard of the Beryl coronet, one of
Speaker 3: the most precious public possessions of the Empire. Precisely and
Speaker 3: here it.
Speaker 2: Is the Beryl coronet.
Speaker 1: There are thirty nine enormous Beryls, and the price of
Speaker 1: the gold chasing is incalculable. The lowest estimates would put
Speaker 1: the worth of the coronet at double the sum.
Speaker 2: I have asked.
Speaker 3: I am prepared to leave it with you as my security. Well,
Speaker 3: really your case. I don't doubt its value, not at all.
Speaker 2: I only doubt the propriety of my leaving it.
Speaker 1: Hugh, may set your mind address about that, I should
Speaker 1: not dream of doing so. Was it not absolutely certain
Speaker 1: that I should be able to reclaim.
Speaker 2: It in four days? Now? Sir? Is the security sufficient? Amful?
Speaker 2: You understand that I am giving.
Speaker 1: You a strong proof of the confidence which I have
Speaker 1: formed upon.
Speaker 2: All that I have heard of you.
Speaker 1: I rely upon you not only to be discreet and
Speaker 1: to refrain from all gossip, but above all, to preserve
Speaker 1: the coronet with every possible precaution. Of course, I need
Speaker 1: not say that the great public scandal would be caused if.
Speaker 2: Any harm were to perform it.
Speaker 3: Your grace may rest completely assured. And now permit me
Speaker 3: to call my cashier and arrange for fifty thousand pounds in.
Speaker 2: Notes to be paid at once. That will be all
Speaker 2: for tonight, Lucy. You may go to bed now.
Speaker 3: But what I can't understand for is why you should
Speaker 3: have brought the coronet home with you. Surely the bank
Speaker 3: would have been the safest place banker's safes have been
Speaker 3: forced before.
Speaker 5: Now do you let us see the coronet?
Speaker 2: Uncle? Ellith? No, Mary, not even for you, my dear,
Speaker 2: oh uncle, please?
Speaker 3: Well, perhaps just a peak on Monday when I take
Speaker 3: it with me for the last time.
Speaker 2: I hope to good as the house won't be burgled
Speaker 2: before then, that's all.
Speaker 3: Where have you put it in my dressing room in
Speaker 3: the bureau under lock and key? Oh no, don't you
Speaker 3: remember when I was a youngster ies to open that
Speaker 3: bureau with a key of the box.
Speaker 2: From the cupboard. Then I hope you can keep a
Speaker 2: secret for a day or two. Oh harm me? I
Speaker 2: I'm quite tired to night. I I think I shall
Speaker 2: be off to my bed.
Speaker 5: I too, good night uncle, dear, good night after you
Speaker 5: turning in?
Speaker 2: Yes soon good I marry good night father. Yes, Arthur,
Speaker 2: could I have a word? Well? What is it? Look here? Dad?
Speaker 2: Can you let me have two hundred pounds? Two hundred will?
Speaker 3: You've been very generous in money matters, far too generous?
Speaker 3: Well can you once more?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I can't, but I must have it or I'll never
Speaker 3: be able to show my face inside the club again.
Speaker 2: And a very good thing to you. Yes, I know
Speaker 2: what you feel, but you wouldn't have me leave it
Speaker 2: as as honored man.
Speaker 3: I've warned you I don't know how many times not
Speaker 3: to squander your money on cards in the turf.
Speaker 2: You know I've tried.
Speaker 3: You run into dangerous company with men like Burnwill and those.
Speaker 3: Their habits are expensive, but their purses are long. They
Speaker 3: can stand it, but you can't. You've never liked Sir George.
Speaker 3: She's been a true friend to me. Well we differ there.
Speaker 3: As for the rest. I'll break with them, I promise
Speaker 3: I will, But Burnwell will draw you back.
Speaker 2: No, Arthur, this is the third amount this month to
Speaker 2: remember it'll means asgrace. I must have that money.
Speaker 3: Father, then you must find it as best you can.
Speaker 3: Not another farthing from me. And now good night? Why
Speaker 3: Mary taking the night here?
Speaker 2: Child?
Speaker 6: No, uncle, I just thought i'd see to the windows
Speaker 6: myself to night, extra precautions.
Speaker 2: You know how thoughtful, my dear. You've saved me a task.
Speaker 5: Tell me, uncle, did you give Lucy leave to go
Speaker 5: out to night?
Speaker 2: Certainly not? Well?
Speaker 5: She came in just now by the back door. Perhaps
Speaker 5: she's only been to the side gate to see someone. Still,
Speaker 5: I think it should be stopped.
Speaker 2: It's hardly safe. Quite right. You must speak in the morning.
Speaker 2: Now are you sure everything is fastened? Fight your uncle?
Speaker 2: Then good night, my dear, good night. Ah there who
Speaker 2: is this?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 2: Ah? What are you doing with that corns? Father? So
Speaker 2: you've come to this? No? No, give it me here?
Speaker 2: Oh no it's broken.
Speaker 3: Listen, Father told me this instant where this missing corner
Speaker 3: is and the three barrels from it. Can't be any
Speaker 3: missing there are and you know it because you've stolen them.
Speaker 2: Stolen, yes, you thief? Must I call you a liar
Speaker 2: as well?
Speaker 3: When I caught you now you were trying to wrench
Speaker 3: off another piece, visit the last draw.
Speaker 2: You've called me names enough. I shall leave your house
Speaker 2: in the morning and make my own way in the world.
Speaker 2: After this, you shall leave it in the hands of
Speaker 2: the police. Well you choose to call the police, Let
Speaker 2: them find what they can. You shill learn nothing from me, Arthur, I, well,
Speaker 2: you may as well face the matter.
Speaker 3: It's not only my honor, but that of someone far
Speaker 3: more important than I that.
Speaker 2: Is at stake.
Speaker 3: Yet I suppose it might still be a bretied Arthur,
Speaker 3: tell me at once where those beryls are. Kill me,
Speaker 3: and then we'll all shall be forgiven and forgotten.
Speaker 2: And keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it.
Speaker 2: You shall learn nothing from me, nothing.
Speaker 7: And so I called an inspector and gave him into custody,
Speaker 7: mister Holmes. A search was made at once of his
Speaker 7: person and his room, and of every portion of the
Speaker 7: house where he could have concealed the gems. No place
Speaker 7: could be found of them, mister Holmes, Doctor Watson, what
Speaker 7: am I to do?
Speaker 2: Do? You receive much company?
Speaker 3: Will none save my partner with his family and an
Speaker 3: occasional friend of Arthur's. That I could well do without,
Speaker 3: Sir George Burnwell, for instance, Ah, do you go out
Speaker 3: much in society, Arthur? Does my niece Mary and I
Speaker 3: stay at home? We neither of us care about it.
Speaker 3: That is unusual in the younger.
Speaker 2: She's of a very quiet nature.
Speaker 3: This matter has been a great shock to her, also terrible.
Speaker 3: She heard the noise of my shouting at Arthur and
Speaker 3: rushed into the room. She must have read the whole
Speaker 3: torry in his face, and on seeing the coronet, she screamed,
Speaker 3: I do believe she's more affected than I am. You
Speaker 3: have neither of you any doubt, as dear Sanskill, how.
Speaker 2: Can we have?
Speaker 3: When I saw him with my own eyes, with the
Speaker 3: coronet in his hands.
Speaker 2: So was the remainder of the coronets at all entered? Well?
Speaker 2: Yes it was twisted. What did the police say the
Speaker 2: disappearance of those gens.
Speaker 3: They're still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in
Speaker 3: the hope of finding them, and they thought.
Speaker 2: Of looking outside the house. Yes, yes, they've shown extraordinary energy.
Speaker 2: Very well, then it is our task to find the
Speaker 2: gents at once. Mister Holmes. You may go to any
Speaker 2: expense you think necessary.
Speaker 3: I think first we'll set off for your home, and
Speaker 3: to put an owt glancing a little more closely into
Speaker 3: the details. Oh, together with my dear friend, doctor Watson. Here,
Speaker 3: of course you will come, Mutson, bow me splendid. Then
Speaker 3: come along, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: The cabs go slowly through this snow, so I think
Speaker 1: we'll take the underground.
Speaker 2: Ah. This is my dear niece Mary, Mary.
Speaker 3: I brought a gentleman down from London to inquire more
Speaker 3: deeply into this dreadful business.
Speaker 5: This gentleman.
Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, no, his friend, this is Dr Watson.
Speaker 3: My Mary is the sunbeam in my house, doctor Watson.
Speaker 3: She's lived with us since my brother died, and I
Speaker 3: don't mind saying she's become my right hand.
Speaker 5: Don't listen to his flattery.
Speaker 2: But where is this other gentleman, mister Sherlock Holmes? He
Speaker 2: wishes to leave him alone. I think he's round in
Speaker 2: the stable lane.
Speaker 5: Miss stable Lane? What can he hope to find there?
Speaker 2: Ah? Here he comes, and my niece Mary. Mister Holmes,
Speaker 2: how do you do, miss holder? I'd asked your question
Speaker 2: or two?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 6: Yes, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up.
Speaker 2: You heard nothing yourself last night.
Speaker 5: Nothing until my uncle began to speak loudly. I heard that,
Speaker 5: and I came down.
Speaker 2: I understand you shut up the windows and door the
Speaker 2: night before. Did you fasten all the windows?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Were they all fastened this morning? Yes?
Speaker 3: Now that's your maid, Lucisitar, the second waiting maid. She's
Speaker 3: only been in my service a few months. She came
Speaker 3: with an excellent character, though, and she's always given me satisfaction.
Speaker 3: The only drawback is yes, well, she's a very pretty girl,
Speaker 3: and her admirers occasionally.
Speaker 2: Hang about the place.
Speaker 3: I believe, miss Holder, that you remarked to your uncle
Speaker 3: last night that she had been out to see someone.
Speaker 5: Yes, her sweetheart.
Speaker 2: I suppose she.
Speaker 6: Came into the drawing room while my uncle was telling
Speaker 6: us about to coronet.
Speaker 5: He stopped speaking till she'd gone. Of course, that she
Speaker 5: might not have closed the door after her.
Speaker 2: You infelt that she may have overheard something, that later
Speaker 2: she went out and telled her sweet out about.
Speaker 5: It, and that the tool may have planned the robbery.
Speaker 3: What's the good of all these vague theories I've told you.
Speaker 2: I saw Arthur with the coronet in his hand.
Speaker 3: I wait, a little, mister Holder, We must come back
Speaker 3: to the Missholder about this girl.
Speaker 2: You saw her return by the kitchen door, I presume yes.
Speaker 6: When I went to see if the door was fastened
Speaker 6: for the night, I met her slipping in.
Speaker 5: I saw the man too in the gloom.
Speaker 2: Do you know him? Oh?
Speaker 6: Yes, he's the greengrocer who brings our vegetables round.
Speaker 5: His name is Francis Prosper.
Speaker 2: He stood to the left of the door, that is
Speaker 2: to say, father, up the path and is necessary to
Speaker 2: reach the door?
Speaker 5: Why, yes he did.
Speaker 2: And he's a man with a wooden leg.
Speaker 5: Why, mister Holmes, you were like a magician.
Speaker 2: How do you know that?
Speaker 3: I should be very glad now to look upstairs. I
Speaker 3: shall probably wish to over the outside of the house again,
Speaker 3: very well, but perhaps i'd better take a look at
Speaker 3: the lower windows before I got where's my lens? There's
Speaker 3: my disk room, and there is the bureau which key
Speaker 3: was used to open it? The one my son had mentioned.
Speaker 3: The key of the box room covered.
Speaker 2: Have you got it with him? Yes?
Speaker 3: Here it is, Oh, thank you, And then it's a
Speaker 3: niceness block. It's no wonder that it didn't wake you.
Speaker 3: And this case, I presume contains the coronet, the burial
Speaker 3: colinet itself.
Speaker 2: So exquisite. I see.
Speaker 3: Now, mister Held, here is the corner which corresponds to
Speaker 3: that which has been so unfortunately last.
Speaker 2: Might I date that you will break it off? I
Speaker 2: shouldn't dream of trying. Oh then I will, mister Holmes.
Speaker 3: I beg you, Lester Holmes, ha, I doesn't give a little,
Speaker 3: But now I am exceptionally strong in the fingers. It
Speaker 3: will take me all my all my time to break it.
Speaker 3: An ordinar man couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: Now. What do you think would happen if I did
Speaker 2: break it, mister Holder? Well really I can't. There will
Speaker 2: be a noise like a pistol.
Speaker 3: Sut do you tell me that all this happened within
Speaker 3: a few yards of your baden, that you heard nothing
Speaker 3: of it? I don't know what to think. It's it's
Speaker 3: all dark to me. Perhaps it may grow lighter as
Speaker 3: we go on. What do you think, miss Holder?
Speaker 6: I confess, mister Holmes, that I still share my uncle stuplexity.
Speaker 3: I think you told me, my Chambers, just to hold
Speaker 3: us that your son had no shoes or slippers.
Speaker 2: On Menusa, he had nothing on save only his trousers
Speaker 2: and shirt. Thank you. I can serve you best now by.
Speaker 3: Returning to my rooms too Baker Street. But but the gems,
Speaker 3: mister Holmes, where are they? I shall not tell, and
Speaker 3: I shall never see them again? I know, and my son,
Speaker 3: my opinion is in no way all to then, for
Speaker 3: Heaven's sake, tell me what was this dark business which
Speaker 3: was acted in my house last night? If you can
Speaker 3: call on me at my Baker Street rooms tomorrow morning
Speaker 3: between nine and ten, I shall.
Speaker 2: Be happy to do what I can to make it.
Speaker 3: Kiara, I understand that you give me cart gloss to
Speaker 3: act for you, For if I did only that I
Speaker 3: get back the gems, and that you place no limit
Speaker 3: on the sun I may draw, I.
Speaker 2: Would give my fortune to have them back. Very good.
Speaker 2: I shall look into the matter between this and then.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just possible that I may have to come
Speaker 3: over here again this evening.
Speaker 2: Good by, that's my soul back, And you'll excuse my
Speaker 2: beginning without you.
Speaker 8: Watson, that you remember that our client his mother an
Speaker 8: earlier points here this morning as well. Perhaps why you
Speaker 8: finish your coffee, you'll favor me with some explanation or
Speaker 8: extraordinary activities last evening after we returned from home.
Speaker 2: How you getting on anyway? Oh?
Speaker 5: Star.
Speaker 2: It's out the homes I despair.
Speaker 8: You will dress yourself up as the common lift, refuse
Speaker 8: to tell me where you're going, or to take me
Speaker 8: with you. You'll come back a few hours later with
Speaker 8: an old pair of foods in your hand, drink a
Speaker 8: cup of tea change at your ordinary clothes, and off
Speaker 8: you go again.
Speaker 2: And all you say is, don't wait up for me,
Speaker 2: my dear. What I might be late, I do wait
Speaker 2: for it last at midnight before I give it over.
Speaker 2: Then down I come next morning. And here you are,
Speaker 2: with a cup of coffee in one hand, and the
Speaker 2: paper and the other, as fresh.
Speaker 8: As trimble as can be, and ready for our time.
Speaker 8: Wait after nine already as from this crisises for he. Oh,
Speaker 8: come in, sir.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I've done to be so severely tired.
Speaker 3: Louse it.
Speaker 2: Thank you. My niece Mary has deserted me, deserted you.
Speaker 2: Her bed this morning had not been slept in her.
Speaker 3: I had said to her last night, in sorrow, not
Speaker 3: in anger, that if she had married my boy, as
Speaker 3: had always been my wish, and his all might have
Speaker 3: been well with him. Perhaps that was thoughtless of me.
Speaker 3: A note lay for me upon.
Speaker 2: The hall table. Is that it in your him? Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: this is it. Oh, pray read it, my dearest uncle.
Speaker 3: I feel that I have brought this trouble upon you,
Speaker 3: and that if I had acted differently, this terrible misfortune
Speaker 3: might have never occurred. I do not worry about my future,
Speaker 3: for that is provided for, and above all, do not
Speaker 3: search for me, for it will be fruitless labor and
Speaker 3: an ill service to me. What could she mean, mister Holmes,
Speaker 3: It points to to suicide.
Speaker 2: Nothing of the kind.
Speaker 3: Let us return to the scene of your son's crime
Speaker 3: for a moment. You remarked that the coronet which he
Speaker 3: held in his hands was somewhat injured twisted. Did it
Speaker 3: not occur to you to think that he might have
Speaker 3: been trying to straighten it? You suppose that your son
Speaker 3: came down from his bed, went at great risk to
Speaker 3: your dressing room, opened your bureau, took out the coronet,
Speaker 3: broke off by main force a small portion of it,
Speaker 3: went off to some other place, and concealed three gems
Speaker 3: out of the thirty nine, with such skill that no
Speaker 3: one could find them, and then returned to the dressing
Speaker 3: room to expose himself to the greatest danger of being discovered.
Speaker 3: I ask you now, is such a very terrible but
Speaker 3: what other is there? It has been my task to
Speaker 3: find that out. Mister Holder, you owe a very humble
Speaker 3: apology to your son.
Speaker 2: Then it was not Harther who took the barels.
Speaker 3: No well, fin Heaven's sake, tell me what you know
Speaker 3: of this extraortumy. I will do so step by step,
Speaker 3: but rest assured about your son. I had an interview
Speaker 3: with him this morning. He would not tell me the story,
Speaker 3: so I told it to him. He had to confess
Speaker 3: that I was right, and he added the few details
Speaker 3: I did not know.
Speaker 2: Let me say to you first, was it his hardest
Speaker 2: for me to say and for you to hear.
Speaker 3: There has been an understanding between your niece Mary and
Speaker 3: Sir George Burnwell.
Speaker 2: They have fled together Mary.
Speaker 3: Impossible, It is, unfortunately more than possible.
Speaker 2: It is certain George Burnwell.
Speaker 3: Is one of the most dangerous men in England, A
Speaker 3: ruined gambler, a desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience.
Speaker 2: Your niece knows nothing of such men.
Speaker 3: When he breathed his vows to her, as he had
Speaker 3: to one hundred before her, she thought that she alone
Speaker 3: had touched his.
Speaker 2: Heart, but they will only know what he said. But
Speaker 2: at last she became his tool. I cannot, I will
Speaker 2: not believe it.
Speaker 3: Your niece was in the habit of seeing Bernwell nearly
Speaker 3: every evening. The other night, when you thought she had
Speaker 3: gone to our room, she talked to and through the
Speaker 3: window which leads into the stable lane. She told him
Speaker 3: of the coronet. She had scarcely time to hear his instructions.
Speaker 3: When she saw you coming, she closed the window and
Speaker 3: told you about the maid's escapade with her wooden legged sweetheart,
Speaker 3: which was all perfectly true.
Speaker 2: She's all incredible to me. Doctor, Wat's what you say?
Speaker 2: A ball at Holmes continued, mister Holder, thank you what.
Speaker 3: Arthur slept badly after his interview with you in the night,
Speaker 3: He heard sounds, looked out of his door, and was
Speaker 3: astonished to see his cousin emerge, stillthilly, from your dressing
Speaker 3: room carrying the coronet.
Speaker 2: She went straight downstairs, entered the window.
Speaker 3: He was horrified to see her, passed the coronet out
Speaker 3: to some one waiting there, and then hurried back to
Speaker 3: her room.
Speaker 2: Is it possible?
Speaker 3: Only then did he realize what was afoot He rushed
Speaker 3: down in his bare feet opened the window, sprang out
Speaker 3: into the snow and ran down the lane.
Speaker 2: He caught up with a dark figure ahead. It was Burnber.
Speaker 3: They struggled that the coronet between them. Suddenly something snapped.
Speaker 3: Your son, finding a coronet in his hands, rushed back
Speaker 3: to the house. He ascended to your room and had
Speaker 3: just observed that the coronet had been twisted and was
Speaker 3: trying to straighten it when you appeared.
Speaker 2: But he would explain nothing.
Speaker 3: You roused his anchor by calling him names at a
Speaker 3: moment when he felt he deserved your warmest thanks. Also,
Speaker 3: he loved Mary more, perhaps than you realized. He could
Speaker 3: not explain the true state of affairs without betraying her.
Speaker 3: On the spur of the moment, he decided to preserve her.
Speaker 2: Secret, and that was why she shrieked when she saw
Speaker 2: the coronet. What a blind fool I've been. But Holmes,
Speaker 2: how could you know these things before my son's confession.
Speaker 2: When I arrived at.
Speaker 3: Your house, I knew that no snow had fallen since
Speaker 3: the night before, and also that there had been a
Speaker 3: strong thrust to preserve impressions.
Speaker 2: In the stable.
Speaker 3: Lane, I found a very long and complex story written
Speaker 3: in the snow. In front of me, there was a
Speaker 3: double line of tracks of a booted man. I thought,
Speaker 3: to my delight that a second double line belonged to
Speaker 3: a man with naked feet. Obviously your son. The first
Speaker 3: had walked both ways, for the other had run swiftly.
Speaker 3: His tread was marked in places over the depressions of
Speaker 3: the boot, so it is obvious that he'd passed after
Speaker 3: the other. I followed them there, confound that they led
Speaker 3: to the hall window. With all that you had told me,
Speaker 3: I was beginning to form an opinion as to what
Speaker 3: had occurred. Remarkable, Yet, how could you know who the
Speaker 3: man was and who it was who had brought him
Speaker 3: the coronet?
Speaker 2: Ah, It's an old maxim of mine that when.
Speaker 3: You have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable.
Speaker 2: Must be the truth.
Speaker 3: Now I knew that it was not you who had
Speaker 3: brought the coronet down, so that only remained your niece
Speaker 3: and the maids. Yes, but if it were the maids,
Speaker 3: why should your son keep silent afterwards? There was excellent reason, though,
Speaker 3: for him to keep his cousin's secret, because of the
Speaker 3: disgrace it grew brought to your name. When I remembered
Speaker 3: that you had seen her that window, and that she
Speaker 3: had cried out on.
Speaker 2: Seeing the colnet.
Speaker 3: Later, my conjecture became a certain then her confederate a lover, evidently,
Speaker 3: for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude she
Speaker 3: must feel to you. I knew that your circle of
Speaker 3: friends was very limited, but among them was Sir George Burnwell.
Speaker 2: I knew of his reputation with women.
Speaker 3: And even though he knew that Arthur had discovered him,
Speaker 3: he could still feel safe.
Speaker 2: The lad could not.
Speaker 3: Say a word against him without compromising his own family.
Speaker 2: So what did you do next?
Speaker 3: I went, in the guise of a loafer to Bernwell's house.
Speaker 3: I managed to pick an acquaintance with his valet, and
Speaker 3: at the.
Speaker 2: Expense of six shillings.
Speaker 3: I made all sure by buying a pair of his
Speaker 3: master's cast off shoes. With these, I returned to your
Speaker 3: house and saw that they exacted it at the size
Speaker 3: of the tracks. Yes, yes, I saw an old dressed
Speaker 3: bagabond loitering in the lane yesterday.
Speaker 2: Now it was I.
Speaker 3: Then I came home and changed my clothes. It was
Speaker 3: a delicate part which I had to play. There a
Speaker 3: prosecution had to be avoided to avert scandal. And I
Speaker 3: knew that so as tutor villain as Burnwell would see
Speaker 3: that my hands were tied in the matter.
Speaker 2: I went and saw it.
Speaker 3: At first he denied everything, but then I gave in
Speaker 3: every particular and he became more reasonable. I told him
Speaker 3: that we would give him a price for the stones
Speaker 3: he held, a thousand pounds apiece.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, mister Holder.
Speaker 3: You would not think that an excessive sum I would
Speaker 3: pay ten That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover
Speaker 3: the matter. Oh listen, there's a little matter of one
Speaker 3: thousand pounds of war that I believe you mentioned. Had
Speaker 3: better make it four thousand pounds.
Speaker 2: Have you your checkbook? What's in the plain? If you
Speaker 2: please ere, mister Holder, is your missing piece of the
Speaker 2: Betyl Gardon. I'm saved.
Speaker 3: I'm saved after all, mister Holmes, your skill has exceeded
Speaker 3: all that I have.
Speaker 2: Ever heard of it.
Speaker 3: You saved England from a great public scandal this day.
Speaker 3: As for myself, I don't know howdy say no more,
Speaker 3: my dear it Watson, if you please just to hold
Speaker 3: a waiting place baby. The case of the pedrol coronet
Speaker 3: was one of the Shearlock Holmes Stories by Sir Athur
Speaker 3: Conan Doyle. My real name is Norman Shelley. My friend
Speaker 3: Carlton Hobbes played Sherlock Holmes and I was Doctor Wats.
Speaker 2: Michael Hardwick wrote
Speaker 3: The script for this VBC production from London, and of
Speaker 3: course I look forward to the pleasure of your company
Speaker 3: again soon for more of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Speaker 3: Station