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Story 11 of The Adventures of 
Sherlock Holmes by Sir, Arthur 

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Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Story 11, the adventure of the 

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Beryl Coronet. 
Holmes said I as I stood one 

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morning in our bow-window, 
looking down the street here is 

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a Madman coming along. 
It seems rather sad that his 

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relatives should allow him to 
come out alone. 

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My friend Rose lazily from his 
armchair and stood with his 

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hands in the pockets of his 
dressing-gown looking over my 

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shoulder. 
It was a bright crisp February 

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morning and the snow of the day 
before. 

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Still lay deep upon the ground, 
shimmering brightly in the 

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wintry sun, down the center of 
Baker Street. 

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It had been ploughed into a 
brown crumbly Band by the 

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traffic, but at either side and 
on the heaped-up, edges of the 

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footpaths, it still lay as white
as when it fell. 

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The grey pavement have been 
cleaned and scraped but was 

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still dangerously slippery so 
that there were fewer passengers

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unusual indeed. 
The direction of the 

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Metropolitan station. 
No one was coming saved. 

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A single gentleman, whose 
eccentric conduct had drawn? 

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My attention. 
He was a man of about fifty tall

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portly and imposing with a 
massive strongly marked face and

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a commanding figure. 
He was dressed in a sombre yet. 

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Rich style in Black frock-coat, 
shining hat neat, Brown gaiters 

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and well-cut pearl-grey 
trousers. 

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Yet. 
His actions were in absurd 

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contrast to the Dignity of his 
dress and features for he was 

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running hard with occasional 
little Springs, such as weary 

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man, gives, who is little 
accustomed? 

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To set any tax upon his legs. 
As he ran. 

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He jerked his hands up and down,
waggled, his head and rise to 

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his face into the most 
extraordinary contortions. 

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What on Earth can be the matter 
with him. 

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I asked he's looking up at the 
numbers of the houses. 

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I believe that he's coming here 
said Holmes, rubbing his hands 

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here. 
Yes. 

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I rather think he is coming to 
consult me professionally. 

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I think that I recognize the 
symptoms. 

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Did I not tell you as he spoke 
the man puffing and blowing 

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rushed at our door and pulled it
out Bail until the whole house 

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resounded with the clanging. 
A few moments later. 

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He was in our room, still 
puffing still gesticulating. 

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Was so fixed a look of grief and
despair in his eyes that our 

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smiles were turned in an instant
to horror and pity for a while. 

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He could not get his words out 
but swayed his body and plucked 

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at his hair. 
Like one who has been driven to 

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the extreme limits of his reason
then suddenly springing to his 

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feet. 
He beat his head against the 

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wall with such force that we 
both rushed upon him and tore 

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him away to the Centre of the 
room. 

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Sherlock Holmes pushed him down 
into the easy-chair and sitting 

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beside him, patted his hand and 
chatted with him in the easy 

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soothing tones, which he knew 
so. 

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Well how to employ You have come
to me to tell your story. 

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Have you not said he, you are 
fatigued with your haste. 

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Pray wait until you have 
recovered yourself. 

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And then I shall be most happy 
to look into any little problem,

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which you may submit to me. 
The man sat for a minute or more

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with a heaving chest fighting 
against his emotion, and he 

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passed his handkerchief over his
brow, set his lips tight and 

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turned his face towards us. 
No doubt, you think, Me. 

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Mad said he I see that you've 
had some great trouble responded

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homes. 
God knows I have a trouble which

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is enough to unseat my reason so
sudden and so terrible. 

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Is it Public Disgrace? 
I might have faced. 

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Although I'm a man whose 
character has never yet. 

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Borne. 
A stain. 

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Private Affliction. 
Also is the lot of every man, 

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but the two coming together and 
in, so frightful a form. 

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Have been enough to shake my 
very soul. 

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Soul besides it is not, I alone 
the very noblest in the land may

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suffer unless some way be found 
out of this horrible affair, 

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Pray, you compose yourself sir, 
said, Holmes and let me have a 

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clear account of who you are. 
And what it is that has befallen

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you. 
My name, answered our visitor, 

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is probably familiar to your 
ears. 

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I'm Alexander holder of the 
banking firm of Holder & 

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Stevenson of threadneedle 
Street. 

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The name was indeed. 
Well known to us as belonging to

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the senior partner in the second
largest private banking concern 

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in the city of London. 
What could have happened then to

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bring one of the foremost 
citizens of London to this most 

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pitiable pass. 
We waited all curiosity until 

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with another effort. 
He braced himself to tell his 

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story. 
I feel that time is of value. 

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Said he? 
That is why I hastened here. 

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When the Police Inspector. 
Suggested that I should secure 

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your cooperation. 
I came to Baker Street by the 

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underground and hurried from 
there on foot, for the Cab's, go

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slowly through the snow. 
That is why I was so out of 

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breath for, I'm a man who takes 
very little exercise. 

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I feel better now and I will put
the facts before you as shortly 

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and yet as clearly as I can. 
It is, of course, well, known to

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you that in a successful banking
business. 

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As much depends upon our being 
able to find remunerative 

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Investments for our funds, as 
Upon Our, increasing our 

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connection. 
And the number of our 

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depositors, one of our most 
lucrative means of laying out, 

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money is in the shape of loans. 
Where the security is 

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unimpeachable. 
We have done a good deal in this

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direction during the last few 
years and there are many noble 

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families to whom we have 
advanced large sums upon the 

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security of their pictures 
libraries or plate yesterday 

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morning. 
I was seated in my office at the

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bank when a card was brought in 
to me by one of the clerks. 

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I started when I saw the name 
for it, was that of none other 

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than well. 
Perhaps even to you. 

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I had better say no. 
More than that, it was a name, 

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which is a household word all 
over the Earth. 

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One of the highest noblest most 
exalted names in England. 

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I was overwhelmed by the honour 
and attempted when he entered to

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say, so. 
But he plunged at once into 

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business with the air of a man 
who wishes to hurry quickly 

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through a disagreeable task. 
Mr. Holder said he I have been 

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informed that you are in the 
habit of advancing money. 

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The Firm does. 
So when the security is good, I 

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answered it is absolutely 
essential to me said he that I 

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should have 50,000 pounds at 
once. 

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I could, of course, borrow so 
trifling a sum 10 times over 

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from my friends, but I much 
prefer to make it a matter of 

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business and to carry out that 
business myself. 

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In my position. 
You can readily understand that 

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it is unwise to place oneself 
under obligations. 

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For how long may I ask? 
Do you want this? 

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Um, I asked next Monday. 
I have a large sum due to me and

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I shall then most certainly 
repay what you advance with 

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whatever interest you think it 
right to charge, but it is very 

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essential to me that the money 
should be paid at once. 

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I shall be happy to advance it 
without further parley from my 

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own private. 
Purse said I were it not that 

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the strain would be rather more 
than it could bear. 

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If, on the other hand, I am to 
do it in the name of the firm, 

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then in Justice to my partner. 
I must insist that even in your 

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case, every businesslike, 
precaution should be taken. 

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I should prefer to have it so 
said he raising up a square 

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black Morocco case, which he had
laid beside his chair. 

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You have doubtless heard of the 
Beryl Coronet. 

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One of the most precious public,
possessions of the Empire said, 

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I precisely. 
He opened the case and there 

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imbedded in soft. 
Flesh-coloured velvet lay the 

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Magnificent piece of jewelry, 
which he had named. 

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There are 39, enormous, barrels 
said, he and the price of the 

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gold chasing is incalculable. 
The lowest estimate would put 

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the worth of the Coronet at 
Double? 

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The sum, which I have asked. 
I'm prepared to leave it with 

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you as my security. 
I took the precious case into my

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hands and looked in some 
perplexity from it to my 

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illustrious client. 
You doubt its value. 

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He asked not at all. 
I only doubt the propriety of my

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leaving it. 
You may set your mind at rest 

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about that. 
I should not dream of doing so 

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were it not absolutely certain 
that I should be able in four 

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days to reclaim? 
It. 

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It is a pure matter of form is 
the security sufficient ample. 

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You understand? 
Mr. Holder, that I am giving you

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a strong proof of the confidence
that I have in. 

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You founded upon all that. 
I've heard of you. 

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I rely upon you. 
Not only to be discreet and to 

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refrain from all gossip upon the
matter. 

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But above all to preserve, this 
Coronet with every possible 

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precaution because I need not 
say that a great public Scandal 

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would be caused if any harm were
to befall it. 

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Any injury to it. 
Would be almost as serious. 

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As it's complete loss for there 
are no beryl's in the world to 

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match these, and it would be 
impossible to replace them. 

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I'll leave it with you. 
However, with every confidence 

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and I shall call for it in 
person on Monday morning. 

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Seeing that my client was 
anxious to leave. 

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I said no more but calling for 
my cashier. 

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I ordered him to pay over 51,000
pound notes when I was alone, 

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once more. 
However, with the precious case 

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lying upon the table in front of
me, I could not but think with 

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some misgivings of the immense 
responsibility, which it 

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entailed upon me. 
There could be no doubt that as 

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it was a national possession. 
A horrible Scandal would ensue, 

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if any Misfortune should occur 
to it. 

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I already regretted having ever 
consented to take charge of it. 

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However, it was too late to 
alter the matter now, so I 

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locked it up in my private safe 
and turned once more to my work.

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When evening came, I felt that 
it would be an imprudence to 

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leave. 
So precious a thing in the 

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office behind me, Bankers safes 
have been forced before now and 

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why should not mine? 
Be if. 

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So how terrible would be the 
position in which I should find 

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myself. 
I determined. 

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Therefore, that for the next few
days. 

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I would always carry the case 
backward and forward with me so 

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that it might never be really 
out of my reach. 

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With this intention. 
I called a cab and drove out to 

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my house at streatham carrying 
the jewel. 

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With me. 
I did not breathe freely until I

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had taken it upstairs and locked
it in the Bureau of my 

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dressing-room. 
And now word is to my household.

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Mr. Holmes for I wish you to 
thoroughly understand the 

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situation, my groom, and my page
sleep out of the house and may 

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be set aside all together. 
I have three maidservants who 

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have been with me a number of 
years and whose absolute 

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reliability is quite above 
suspicion. 

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Another Lucy Parr. 
The second waiting-maid has only

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been in my service a few months.
Came with an excellent 

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character. 
However, has always given me 

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satisfaction. 
She's a very pretty girl and has

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attracted admirers who have 
occasionally hung about the 

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place. 
That is the only drawback which 

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we have found to her. 
But we believe her to be a 

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thoroughly good girl in every 
way. 

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So much for the servants. 
My family itself is so small 

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that it will not take me long to
describe it. 

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I am a widower and have an only 
son Arthur. 

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He has been a disappointment to 
me. 

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Mr. Holmes, a grievous 
disappointment. 

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I have no doubt that I am myself
to blame people. 

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Tell me that I have spoiled him,
very likely I have. 

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When my dear wife died. 
I felt that he was all I had to 

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love. 
I could not bear to see the 

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smile fade even for a moment 
from his face. 

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I have never denied him a wish. 
Perhaps it would have been 

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better for both of us. 
Had. 

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I been Sterner, but I meant it 
for the best. 

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It was naturally my Mention that
he should succeed me in my 

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business, but he was not of a 
business turn. 

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He was wild Wayward, and to 
speak the truth. 

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I could not trust him in the 
handling of large sums of money.

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When he was young. 
He became a member of an 

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aristocratic club and they're 
having Charmed manners. 

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He was soon. 
The intimate of a number of men 

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with long purses and expensive 
habits. 

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He learned to play heavily at 
cards and to squander money on 

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the turf. 
Erf until he had again and 

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again, to come to me and implore
me to give him an advance upon 

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his allowance, that he might 
settle his debts of Honor. 

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He tried more than once to break
away from the dangerous company,

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which he was keeping. 
But each time the influence of 

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his friend, Sir George burnwell 
was enough to draw him back 

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again. 
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that such a man as Sir, George 
burnwell should gain an 

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influence over him. 
For, he has frequently brought 

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him to my house and I have found
myself that I could hardly 

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resist, the fascination of his 
manner. 

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He is older than Arthur a man of
the world to his fingertips. 

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One, who had been everywhere, 
seen everything a brilliant 

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talker and a man of great 
personal Beauty yet when I think

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of him in Cold Blood far away 
from the glamour of his 

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presence. 
I am convinced from his cynical.

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Speech. 
And the look, which I have 

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caught in his eyes, that he is 
one. 

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Who should be deeply distrusted.
So I think and so to thinks my 

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little Mary who has a woman's 
quick insight into character. 

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And now there is only she to be 
described. 

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She is my niece, but when my 
brother died five years ago, and

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left her alone in the world. 
I adopted her and have looked 

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upon her ever since, as my 
daughter. 

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She is a Sunbeam in thy house, 
sweet loving, beautiful. 

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A wonderful manager and 
housekeeper yet as tender and 

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quiet and gentle as a woman 
could be, she is my right hand. 

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I do not know what I could do 
without her. 

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You know, only one matter. 
Has she ever gone against my 

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wishes twice? 
My boy has asked her to marry 

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him for. 
He loves her devotedly. 

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But each time she has refused 
him. 

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I think that if anyone could 
have drawn him into the right 

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path, it would have been she and
that is marriage. 

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Might have changed his whole 
life, but now alas it is too 

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late forever. 
Too late now. 

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Mr. Holmes, you know the people 
who live under my roof and I 

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shall continue with my miserable
story. 

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When we were taking coffee in 
the drawing room that night 

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after dinner. 
I told Arthur. 

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And Mary, my experience, and of 
the precious treasure, which we 

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had under our roof suppressing 
only the name of my client Lucy,

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Parr who had brought in the 
coffee had. 

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I am sure left the room, but I 
cannot swear that the door was 

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closed. 
Mary and the author were much 

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interested and wished to see the
famous Coronet, but I thought it

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better not to disturb it. 
Where have you put it? 

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Asked Arthur in my own Bureau? 
Well, I hope to goodness the 

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house won't be burgled during 
the night said. 

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He it is locked up. 
I answered. 

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Oh, any old key will fit that 
Bureau? 

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When I was a Youngster. 
I have opened it. 

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Myself with the key of the 
box-room, cupboard. 

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He often had a wild way of 
talking so that I thought little

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of what he said. 
He followed me to my room. 

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However, that night with a very 
grave face. 

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Look here. 
Dad said he with his eyes cast 

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down. 
Can you let me have 200 pounds? 

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No, I cannot, I answered 
sharply. 

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I have been far too generous 
with you in Money Matters. 

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You have been very kind said he 
but I must have this money or 

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else I can never show my face 
inside the club again. 

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And a very good thing to I 
cried. 

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Yes, but you would not have me 
leave it. 

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A dishonoured man said he, I 
could not bear the disgrace. 

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I must raise the money in some 
way, and if you are not, let me 

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have it, then I must try. 
Other means. 

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I was very angry for this was 
the third demand during the 

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month. 
You shall not have a farthing 

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from me. 
I cried on which he bowed and 

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left the room without another 
word. 

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When he was gone, I unlocked my 
Bureau made sure that my 

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treasure was safe and locked it 
again. 

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Then I started to go round the 
house to see that all was 

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Secure, our duty which I usually
leave to marry. 

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But which I thought it well to 
perform myself that night as I 

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came down the stairs. 
I saw Mary herself at the side 

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window of the hall which she 
closed and fastened as I 

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approached. 
Tell me, dad said she looking, I

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thought a little Disturbed. 
Did you give Lucy the made 

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leaves to go out tonight? 
Certainly not, she came in just 

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now by the back door. 
I have no doubt that she was 

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only been to the side gate to 
see someone, but I think that it

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is hardly safe and should be 
stopped. 

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You must speak to her in the 
morning or I will if you prefer 

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it, are you sure that everything
is fastened? 

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Quite sure dad, then. 
Good night. 

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I kissed her and went up to my 
bedroom again where I was soon 

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asleep. 
I am endeavoring to tell you 

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everything. 
Mr. Holmes, which may have any 

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bearing upon the case, but I beg
that you will question me upon 

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any point which I do not make 
clear on the contrary. 

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Your statement is singularly 
Lucid. 

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I come to a part of my story now
in which I should wish to be 

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particularly. 
So I'm not a very heavy sleeper 

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and the anxiety in my mind. 
Tended. 

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No doubt to make me even less. 
So than usual. 

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About 2:00 in the morning. 
Then I was awakened by some 

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sound in the house. 
It had ceased ere, I was wide 

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awake, but it had left an 
impression behind it as though a

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window had gently closed 
somewhere. 

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I lay listening with all my ears
suddenly to my horror. 

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There was a distinct sound of 
footsteps moving, softly in the 

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Next Room. 
I slipped out of bed all 

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palpitating with fear and peeped
round the corner of my 

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dressing-room. 
Door. 

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Author. 
I screamed. 

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You. 
Villain you Thief. 

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How dare you touch that Coronet?
The gas was half up as I left 

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it. 
And my unhappy boy dressed, only

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in his shirt and trousers was 
standing beside the light 

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holding the Coronet in his 
hands. 

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He appeared to be wrenching at 
it or bending it with all his 

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strength that My Cry. 
He dropped it from his grasp and

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turned as pale as death. 
I snatched it up and examined 

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it. 
One of the gold Corners with 

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three of the beryl's in, it was 
missing, you blackguard. 

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I shouted beside myself with 
rage. 

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You have destroyed it. 
You have dishonoured, me 

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forever. 
Where are the jewels? 

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Which you have stolen stolen? 
He cried. 

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Yes, Thief. 
I roared shaking him by the 

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shoulder. 
There are none missing that 

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cannot be any missing said he 
there are three missing and you 

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know where they are, must I call
you a liar as well, as a thief. 

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Did I not? 
See you trying to tear off 

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another piece? 
You've called me names. 

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Enough said he, I will not stand
it any longer. 

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I shall not say another word 
about the business since you've 

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chosen to insult me. 
I will leave your house in the 

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morning and make my own way in 
the world. 

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You shall leave it in the hands 
of the police. 

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I cried half-mad with grief and 
rage. 

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I shall have this matter, probed
to the bottom. 

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You shall learn nothing from me.
Said he with a passion such as I

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should not have thought it was 
in his nature. 

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If you choose to call the 
police, let the police find what

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they can. 
By this time, the whole house 

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was astir for, I had raised my 
voice in my anger. 

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Mary was the first to rush into 
my room. 

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And at the sight of the Coronet 
and of Arthur's face. 

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She read the whole story and 
with a scream, fell down, 

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senseless on the ground. 
I sent the housemaid for the 

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police and put the investigation
into their hands at once. 

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When the inspector and a 
constable entered, the house 

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Arthur who had stood sullenly 
with his arms folded asked me, 

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whether it was my intention to 
charge him with theft. 

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I answered that. 
It had ceased To Be A Private 

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Matter, but had become a public 
one. 

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Since the ruined Coronet was 
National Property. 

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I was determined that the law 
should have its way in 

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everything. 
At least said he you will not 

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have me arrested at once. 
It would be to your advantage as

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well as mine. 
If I might leave the house for 

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five minutes that you might get 
away, or perhaps that you may 

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conceal. 
What you have stolen said, Hi, 

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and then realising the Dreadful 
position in which I was placed. 

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I implored him to remember that,
not only my honour, but that of 

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one who was far greater than I 
was at stake and that he 

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threatened to raise a Scandal, 
which would convulse the nation.

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He might avert it all if he 
would, but tell me what he had 

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done with the three, missing 
stones. 

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You may as well face. 
The matter said, I, you have 

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been caught in the act and no 
confession could make your guilt

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more heinous. 
If you would make such 

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reparation as is in your power, 
by telling us where the barrels 

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are all shall be forgiven and 
forgotten. 

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Keep your forgiveness for those 
who ask for it. 

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He answered turning away from me
with a sneer. 

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I saw that. 
He was too hardened for any 

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words of mine to influence him. 
There was, but one way for it. 

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I called in the inspector and 
gave him into custody. 

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A search was made at once not 
only of his person but of his 

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room and of every portion of the
house where he could possibly 

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have concealed the gems but no 
trace of them could be found nor

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would The Wretched boy, open his
mouth for all our Persuasions 

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and our threats. 
This morning. 

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He was removed to a cell and I 
after going through all the 

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police formalities have hurried 
round to you to implore you to 

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use your skill in. 
Unraveling the matter. 

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The police have openly confessed
that they cannot present make 

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nothing of it. 
You may go to any expense, which

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you think necessary. 
I've already offered a reward of

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1,000 pounds? 
My God, what should I do? 

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I have lost my honour. 
My gems and my son in one night.

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Oh, what shall I do? 
He put a hand on either side of 

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his head and rocked himself to, 
and fro droning to himself, like

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a child. 
Whose grief has got beyond 

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words, Sherlock Holmes, sat 
silent for some few minutes with

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his brows knitted and his eyes 
fixed upon the fire. 

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Do you receive much company? 
He asked None. 

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Save my partner with his family.
And an occasional friend of 

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Arthur's Sir. 
George burnwell has been several

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times lately. 
No one else I think. 

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Do you go out much in society, 
Arthur does Mary? 

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And I stay at home. 
We neither of us care for it. 

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That is unusual in a young girl.
She is of a quiet nature. 

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Besides, she is not, so very 
young. 

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She is Four and Twenty. 
This matter from what you say 

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seems to have been a shock to 
her all so terrible. 

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She is even more affected than I
You have neither of you any 

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00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:46,100
doubt as to your son's guilt. 
How can we have, when I saw him 

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with my own eyes with the 
Coronet in his hands. 

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I hardly consider that a 
conclusive proof was a remainder

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of the Coronet at all injured. 
Yes. 

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It was twisted. 
Do you not think then that he 

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might have been trying to 
straighten it? 

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00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,900
God bless you. 
You are doing what you can for 

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him and for me. 
But it is too heavy a task. 

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00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:16,500
What was he doing there at all? 
If his purpose were innocent. 

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Why did he not say so, 
Precisely. 

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And if it were guilty, why did 
he not invent a lie, his silence

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appears to me to cut both ways. 
There are several singular 

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points about the case. 
What did the police think of the

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00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,600
noise? 
Which awoke you from your sleep?

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They considered that it might be
caused by Arthur's. 

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Closing his bedroom door. 
I'll likely story, as if a man 

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00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,200
bent on felony would slam his 
door. 

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So, as to wake a household, what
did they say? 

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Then of The Disappearance of 
those gems, they are still 

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sounding the planking and 
probing the furniture in the 

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hope of finding them. 
Have they thought of looking 

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00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:04,500
outside the house? 
Yes, they have shown 

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extraordinary energy. 
The whole garden has already 

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00:28:07,700 --> 00:28:13,700
been minutely examined. 
Now, my dear sir said Holmes, is

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it not obvious to you now that 
this matter really strikes? 

456
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,700
Very much deeper than either you
or the police were at first 

457
00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:25,200
inclined to think it appeared to
you to be a simple case. 

458
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,800
To me. 
It seems exceedingly complex, 

459
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,600
consider, what is involved by 
your theory? 

460
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,500
You suppose that your son came 
down from his bed, went at Great

461
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:39,700
risk to your dressing-room 
opened your Bureau. 

462
00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:44,000
Took out your Coronet broke off 
by main force, a small portion 

463
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:49,000
of it went off to some other 
place, concealed Three Gems out 

464
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,600
of the thirty-nine with such 
skill that nobody can find them.

465
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,100
And then returned with the other
thirty-six into the room in 

466
00:28:56,100 --> 00:28:59,000
which he exposed himself to the 
greatest danger of being 

467
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,100
discovered. 
I ask you now is such a theory, 

468
00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:07,500
tenable. 
But what other is there cried 

469
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:09,300
the banker with a gesture of 
despair? 

470
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,300
If his motives were innocent, 
why does he not explain them? 

471
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,900
It is our task to find that out 
replied homes. 

472
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,900
So now if you please. 
Mr. Holder, we will set off for 

473
00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:26,600
streatham together and devote an
hour to glancing a little more 

474
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:31,500
closely into details. 
My friend insisted upon my 

475
00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:34,400
accompanying them in their 
expedition, which I was eager 

476
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,300
enough to do for my curiosity 
and sympathy were deeply stirred

477
00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:40,400
by the story to which we had 
listened. 

478
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,400
I confess that the guilt of the 
bankers son appeared to me to be

479
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,800
as obvious as it did to his 
unhappy father. 

480
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,900
But still I had such faith in 
Holmes has judgment that. 

481
00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:55,200
I felt that there must be some 
Grounds for Hope as long as he 

482
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,000
was dissatisfied with the 
accepted explanation. 

483
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,700
He hardly spoke a word, the 
whole way out to the southern 

484
00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:06,100
suburb that sat with his chin, 
upon his breast and his hat 

485
00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:11,000
drawn, over his eyes. 
Sunk in the deepest thought our 

486
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,500
client appeared to have taken 
fresh heart at the little 

487
00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:17,500
glimpse of Hope which had been 
presented to him and he even 

488
00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:21,800
broke into a desultory chat with
me over his business Affairs, a 

489
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,700
short Railway journey. 
And a shorter walk brought us to

490
00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:28,600
Fairbank the modest residence of
the Great financier. 

491
00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:33,200
Fairbank was a good-sized square
House of white stone. 

492
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,400
Standing back. 
A little from the road. 

493
00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,900
A double carriage Sweep with a 
snow-clad lawn stretched down in

494
00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:44,400
front two large iron gates, 
which closed the entrance on the

495
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,700
right side, was a small wooden 
Thicket which led into a narrow 

496
00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:51,100
path between two neat. 
Hedges stretching from the road 

497
00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:54,600
to the kitchen door and forming 
the tradesmen's entrance. 

498
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,900
On the left, ran a lane, which 
led to the stables and was not 

499
00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:01,600
itself within the grounds at 
all. 

500
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,700
Being a public though, little 
used thoroughfare homes, left 

501
00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:08,300
her standing at the door and 
walked slowly all round the 

502
00:31:08,308 --> 00:31:11,800
house across the front down the 
tradesmen's path. 

503
00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:15,500
And so round by the garden 
behind into the Stable Lane. 

504
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,300
So long, was he, that mr. 
Holder and I went into the 

505
00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:22,700
dining-room and waited by the 
fire until he should return. 

506
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,600
We were sitting there in silence
when the door opened and a young

507
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,700
lady came in. 
She was rather above the middle 

508
00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:34,600
height, slim with dark hair and 
eyes, which seemed the darker 

509
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,700
against the absolute pallor of 
her skin. 

510
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,800
I do not think that I've ever 
seen such deadly paleness in a 

511
00:31:40,808 --> 00:31:44,900
woman's face. 
Her lips too were bloodless, but

512
00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:46,200
her eyes were flushed with 
crying. 

513
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,700
Lying as she swept silently into
the room. 

514
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,000
She impressed me with a greater 
sense of grief than the banker 

515
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000
had done in the morning. 
And it was the more striking in 

516
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,800
her as she was evidently a woman
of strong character with immense

517
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:04,300
capacity for self-restraint. 
Disregarding my presence. 

518
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,800
She went straight to her uncle 
and passed her hand over his 

519
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,100
head with a sweet. 
Womanly caress. 

520
00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:13,400
You have given orders that 
Arthur should be liberated. 

521
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,500
Have you not dead? 
She asked. 

522
00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:17,700
No, no. 
My girl. 

523
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,400
The matter must be probed to the
bottom. 

524
00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:25,800
But I'm sure that he's innocent,
you know, what woman's instincts

525
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,600
are? 
I know that he has done no harm 

526
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,800
and that you'll be sorry for 
having acted. 

527
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,000
So harshly. 
Why is he silent? 

528
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,500
Then if he is innocent, who 
knows perhaps because he was so 

529
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,300
angry that you should suspect 
him. 

530
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,500
How could I help suspecting him 
when I actually saw him with the

531
00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:51,000
Coronet in his hand. 
Oh, but he had only picked it up

532
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,700
to look at it. 
Oh, do do take my word for it, 

533
00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:57,600
that he's innocent. 
Let the matter drop and say no 

534
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,800
more. 
It is so Dreadful to think of 

535
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:04,800
our dear Arthur in prison. 
I shall never let it drop until 

536
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,000
the gems of found. 
Never marry your affection for 

537
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,800
Arthur blinds. 
You as to the awful consequences

538
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,700
to me. 
Far from hushing, the thing up. 

539
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,300
I have brought a gentleman down 
from London to inquire more 

540
00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:22,100
deeply into it. 
This gentleman. 

541
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:27,000
She asked facing round to me. 
No, his friend. 

542
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,300
He wished us to leave him alone.
He is round in the stable Lane. 

543
00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:37,300
Now the Stable Lane she raised 
her dark eyebrows. 

544
00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:43,900
What can he hope to find there? 
Ah, this I suppose is he I trust

545
00:33:43,900 --> 00:33:45,600
sir that you will succeed in 
proving. 

546
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,400
What I feel sure is the truth 
that my cousin Arthur is 

547
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:54,400
innocent of this crime. 
I fully share your opinion and I

548
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,200
trust with you that we may 
prove. 

549
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,900
It returned Holmes, going back 
to the mat to knock the snow 

550
00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:03,600
from his Use, I believe I have 
the honor of addressing Miss 

551
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,700
Mary holder. 
Might I ask you a question or 

552
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:10,699
two pray do sir. 
If it may help to clear this 

553
00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:14,300
horrible Affair up. 
You heard nothing yourself. 

554
00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:17,800
Last night. 
Nothing until my uncle here 

555
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,000
began to speak loudly. 
I heard that and I came down, 

556
00:34:22,900 --> 00:34:25,600
you shut up the windows and 
doors the night before. 

557
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:31,199
Did you fasten all the windows? 
Yes, were they all fastened this

558
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:35,699
morning? 
Yes, you have a maid who has a 

559
00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:38,199
sweetheart. 
I think that you remark, to your

560
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:40,600
uncle last night that she had 
been out to see him. 

561
00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:45,400
Yes, and she was the girl who 
waited in the drawing-room and 

562
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,900
who may have heard uncle's 
remarks about the Coronet. 

563
00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:52,300
I see you infer that she may 
have gone out to tell her 

564
00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:55,300
sweetheart and that the two may 
have planned the robbery. 

565
00:34:56,900 --> 00:34:59,700
But what is the good of all 
these vague theories. 

566
00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:03,900
Cried, the banker impatiently. 
When I have told you that I saw 

567
00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:08,200
Arthur with the Coronet in his 
hands, wait, a little mr. 

568
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,500
Holder. 
We must come back to that about 

569
00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:14,300
this girl Miss holder. 
You saw her return by the 

570
00:35:14,300 --> 00:35:15,800
kitchen door. 
I presume. 

571
00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:20,200
Yes, when I went to see, if the 
door was fastened for the night.

572
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,500
I met her slipping in. 
I saw the man to in the Gloom. 

573
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:28,300
Do you know him? 
Oh, yes. 

574
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,800
He is the greengrocer. 
Who brings our vegetables round.

575
00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:38,000
His name is Francis Prosper. 
He stood said Holmes to the left

576
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,200
of the door that is to say, 
farther up The Path and is 

577
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,200
necessary to reach the door. 
Yes. 

578
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,900
He did. 
And he is a man with a wooden 

579
00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:50,800
leg, something like, fear sprang
up in the young lady's 

580
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:55,700
expressive black eyes. 
Why you are like a magician said

581
00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:59,600
she how do you know that she 
smiled? 

582
00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:03,100
But there was no answering smile
in homes thin eager face. 

583
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,200
I should be very glad now to go 
upstairs. 

584
00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:11,000
Said he I shall probably wish to
go over the outside of the house

585
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,900
again, perhaps I'd better take a
look at the lower windows before

586
00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:18,600
I go up. 
He walked swiftly round from one

587
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,300
to the other pausing. 
Only at the large one, which 

588
00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:25,300
looked from the hall onto the 
Stable Lane this, he opened and 

589
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:28,600
made a very careful examination 
of the sill with his powerful 

590
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,200
magnifying lens. 
Now. 

591
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,100
We should go upstairs, said he 
at last the bankers, 

592
00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:38,100
dressing-room was a plainly 
furnished, little chamber with a

593
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:43,100
grey carpet, a large Bureau, and
a long mirror Holmes went to the

594
00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:45,600
bureau first and looked hard at 
the Lock. 

595
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,900
Which key was used to open it. 
He asked that which my son 

596
00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:54,600
himself, indicated that of the 
cupboard of the lumber-room. 

597
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,300
Have you? 
It here that is it on the 

598
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:01,300
dressing-table? 
Sherlock Holmes. 

599
00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:03,000
Took it up and opened the 
bureau. 

600
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,800
It is a noiseless Locke said he.
It is no wonder that. 

601
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,200
It did not wake you. 
This case. 

602
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,000
I presume contains the Coronet. 
We must have a look at it. 

603
00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:17,500
He opened the case and taking 
out the diadem. 

604
00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:21,300
He laid it upon the table. 
It was a magnificent specimen of

605
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:24,200
the jeweller's art and the 
thirty-six Stones were the 

606
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,700
finest that I've ever seen. 
At one side of the Coronet was a

607
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:32,200
cracked Edge where a corner 
holding Three Gems have been 

608
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,100
torn away. 
Now, mr. 

609
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:39,100
Holder said, Holmes, here is a 
corner which corresponds to 

610
00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:43,000
that, which has been so, 
unfortunately, lost might I beg 

611
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,000
that you will break it off. 
The banker recoiled in horror. 

612
00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:54,000
I should not dream of trying 
said, he then I will homes 

613
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,700
suddenly bent his strength upon 
it but without result I feel it.

614
00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:02,600
Give a little said he but though
I am exceptionally strong in the

615
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,000
fingers. 
It would take me all my time to 

616
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000
break it an ordinary man, could 
not do it. 

617
00:38:08,900 --> 00:38:11,300
Now. 
What do you think, would happen?

618
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:13,100
If I did break it? 
Mr. Holder. 

619
00:38:13,700 --> 00:38:15,000
There would be a noise like a 
pistol. 

620
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,900
Two shot. 
Do you tell me that all this 

621
00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:21,100
happened within a few yards of 
your bed and that you heard 

622
00:38:21,100 --> 00:38:25,100
nothing of it? 
I do not know what to think. 

623
00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:30,300
It is all dark to me, but 
perhaps it may grow lighter as 

624
00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:33,300
we go. 
What do you think Miss holder? 

625
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,400
I confess that I still share. 
My uncle's perplexity. 

626
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,800
Your son had no shoes or 
slippers on. 

627
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,700
When you saw him. 
He had nothing on Save only his 

628
00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:47,600
trousers and shirt. 
Thank you. 

629
00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:51,100
We have certainly been favoured 
with extraordinary luck during 

630
00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:54,200
this inquiry and it will be 
entirely our own fault. 

631
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,000
If we do not succeed in clearing
the matter up with your 

632
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,200
permission. 
Mr. Holder. 

633
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,700
I shall now. 
Continue my investigations 

634
00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:05,700
outside. 
He went alone at his own request

635
00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:08,700
for he explained that any 
unnecessary footmarks, might 

636
00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:12,300
make his task more difficult for
an hour or more. 

637
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,700
He was at work returning at 
last, with his feet heavy with 

638
00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:18,700
snow and his features as 
inscrutable as ever. 

639
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,700
I think that I've seen now, all 
that there is to see mr. 

640
00:39:22,700 --> 00:39:27,100
Holder said he I can serve you 
best by returning to my rooms. 

641
00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:31,400
But the gems. 
Mr. Holmes, where are they? 

642
00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:35,900
I cannot tell the banker wrung 
his hands. 

643
00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:41,000
I shall never see them again. 
He cried and my son. 

644
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:45,600
You give me hopes. 
My opinion is no way altered. 

645
00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:50,200
Then for God's sake. 
What was this dark business? 

646
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,500
Which was acted in my house last
night. 

647
00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:56,500
If you can call upon me at my 
Baker Street rooms tomorrow 

648
00:39:56,500 --> 00:40:00,200
morning between nine and ten. 
I shall be happy to do what I 

649
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,600
can to make it clearer. 
I understand that you give me 

650
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,300
carte blanche to act for you. 
Provided only that I get back 

651
00:40:08,300 --> 00:40:11,300
the gems and that you place. 
No limit on the sum. 

652
00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:14,900
I'm a draw. 
I would give my fortune to have 

653
00:40:14,900 --> 00:40:17,300
them back. 
Very good. 

654
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,800
I shall look into the matter 
between this and then goodbye. 

655
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:25,300
It is just possible that I may 
have to come over here again 

656
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:29,100
before evening. 
It was obvious to me, that my 

657
00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:32,000
companions mind was now made up 
about the case. 

658
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,100
Although, what his conclusions 
were was more than I could, even

659
00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:39,000
dimly imagine several times 
during our Homeward journey. 

660
00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:43,100
I endeavored to sound him upon 
the point, but he always glided 

661
00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:47,500
away to some other topic until 
at last, I gave it over in 

662
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:50,400
despair. 
It was not yet three when we 

663
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,500
found ourselves in our rooms, 
once more. 

664
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,800
He hurried to his chamber and 
was down again in a few minutes 

665
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:01,500
dressed as a Loafer with his 
collar turned up, his shiny 

666
00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:04,500
seedy coat. 
His red cravat and his worn 

667
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:06,900
boots. 
He was a perfect sample of the 

668
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:10,500
class. 
I think that this should do said

669
00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:13,200
he glancing into the glass above
the fireplace. 

670
00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:17,700
I only wish you could come with 
me Watson, but I fear that it 

671
00:41:17,700 --> 00:41:20,500
won't do. 
I may be on the trail in this 

672
00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:24,200
matter or I may be following a 
will-o'-the-wisp but I shall 

673
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,700
soon know which it is. 
I hope that I may be back in a 

674
00:41:27,707 --> 00:41:30,900
few hours. 
He cut a slice of beef from The 

675
00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:33,400
Joint upon the sideboard 
sandwiched. 

676
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,900
It between two rounds of bread 
and thrusting, his rude meal 

677
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:39,300
into his pocket. 
He started off upon his 

678
00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:43,000
expedition. 
I had just finished my tea when 

679
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,800
he returned evidently in 
excellent Spirits swinging an 

680
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,100
old elastic-sided boot in his 
hand. 

681
00:41:49,700 --> 00:41:53,100
He chucked it down into a corner
and helped himself to a cup of 

682
00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:56,600
tea. 
I only looked in as I passed 

683
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:02,300
said he, I am going right on 
where 2002 the other side of the

684
00:42:02,308 --> 00:42:05,100
West End. 
It may be some time before I get

685
00:42:05,100 --> 00:42:07,500
back. 
Don't wait up for me in case I 

686
00:42:07,500 --> 00:42:10,100
should be late. 
How are you getting on? 

687
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,200
Oh, so so nothing to complain 
of. 

688
00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:18,100
I've been out to streatham since
I saw you last but I did not 

689
00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:20,800
call it the house. 
It is a very sweet little 

690
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,700
problem and I would not have 
missed it for a good deal. 

691
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,800
However, I must not sick 
gossiping here, but must get 

692
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,700
these disreputable clothes off 
and return to my highly 

693
00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:34,800
respectable self. 
I could see by his manner that 

694
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,800
he had strong reasons for 
satisfaction than his words 

695
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,100
alone, would imply his eyes 
twinkled. 

696
00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:44,200
And there was even a touch of 
colour upon his sallow cheeks. 

697
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,800
He hastened upstairs, and a few 
minutes later. 

698
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,800
I heard the slam of the hall 
door, which told me that he was 

699
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,200
off once more upon his congenial
hunt. 

700
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,200
I waited until midnight but 
there was no sign of his return.

701
00:42:58,700 --> 00:43:02,600
So I retired to my room. 
It was no uncommon thing for him

702
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,800
to be away for days and nights 
on end when he was hot upon a 

703
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,400
scent. 
So that his lateness caused me. 

704
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,700
No surprise. 
I do not know what hour he came 

705
00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:15,200
in, but when I came down to 
breakfast in the morning there, 

706
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,300
he was with a cup of coffee in 
one hand and the paper in the 

707
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:20,700
other as fresh and trim as 
possible. 

708
00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:24,200
You will excuse my beginning 
without you. 

709
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,400
Watson said he? 
But you remember that our client

710
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,400
has rather an early appointment 
this morning. 

711
00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:32,000
Why it is after 9. 
Now. 

712
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,900
I answered, I should not be 
surprised if that were he. 

713
00:43:36,100 --> 00:43:40,300
I thought I heard a ring. 
It was indeed our friend, the 

714
00:43:40,300 --> 00:43:43,700
financier. 
I was shocked by the change, 

715
00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:47,400
which had come over him for his 
face, which was naturally of a 

716
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:52,000
broad and massive mould was now 
pinched and fallen in while his 

717
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,200
hair seemed to me, at least a 
shade whiter. 

718
00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:58,700
He entered with a weariness and 
lethargy, which was even more 

719
00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:02,600
painful than his violence of the
morning before and he dropped 

720
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,600
heavily into the armchair, which
I pushed forward for him. 

721
00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:09,500
I do not know what I've done to 
be. 

722
00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:14,500
So severely tried said he only 
two days ago. 

723
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:19,200
I was a happy and prosperous Man
without a care in the world. 

724
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,800
Now. 
I am left to a lonely and 

725
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,800
dishonoured age. 
One sorrow comes close upon the 

726
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,400
heels of another. 
My niece Mary has deserted me. 

727
00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:35,000
Deserted you. 
Yes, her bed. 

728
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:39,700
This morning had not been slept 
in her room was empty and a note

729
00:44:39,700 --> 00:44:41,500
for me. 
Lay upon the hall table. 

730
00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:46,600
I had said to her last night in 
sorrow, and not in Anger that if

731
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,100
she had married, my boy all 
might have been well with him. 

732
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,900
Perhaps it was thoughtless of me
to say, so it is to that remark 

733
00:44:54,900 --> 00:45:00,600
that she refers in this note. 
My dearest, Uncle, I feel that I

734
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,600
have brought trouble upon you. 
And that if I had acted 

735
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,200
differently, this terrible 
misfortune might never have 

736
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,600
occurred. 
I cannot with this thought in my

737
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,900
mind ever, again, be happy under
your roof, and I feel that I 

738
00:45:13,900 --> 00:45:18,500
must leave you forever. 
Do not worry about my future for

739
00:45:18,500 --> 00:45:23,000
that is provided for, and above 
all, do not search for me. 

740
00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:27,000
For it will be fruitless Labour 
and an ill service to me. 

741
00:45:27,700 --> 00:45:32,400
In Life or in death? 
I am ever your loving Mary. 

742
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,300
What could she mean by that 
note? 

743
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:39,200
Mr. Holmes? 
Do you think it points to 

744
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,500
suicide? 
No, no, nothing of the kind. 

745
00:45:44,100 --> 00:45:46,400
It is perhaps the best possible 
solution. 

746
00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:49,100
I trust, mr. 
Holder, that you are nearing the

747
00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:53,900
end of your troubles, huh? 
If you say so you have heard 

748
00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:56,400
something. 
Mr. Holmes, you have learned 

749
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,000
something. 
Where are the gems, you would 

750
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,500
not think 1000 pound of peace 
and excessive some for them. 

751
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:09,700
I would pay 10, that would be 
unnecessary, the Thousand will 

752
00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:12,200
cover the matter. 
And there is a little reward. 

753
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:17,300
I fancy have you your checkbook.
Here is a pen better, make it 

754
00:46:17,300 --> 00:46:21,800
out for four thousand pounds 
with a dazed face. 

755
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:25,500
The banker made out. 
The required check Holmes walked

756
00:46:25,500 --> 00:46:28,200
over to his desk. 
Took out a little triangular 

757
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,800
piece of gold with three gems in
it, and threw it down upon the 

758
00:46:31,808 --> 00:46:34,900
table. 
With a shriek of Joy. 

759
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,800
Our client. 
Clutched it up. 

760
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,600
You have it. 
He gasped. 

761
00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:43,500
I am saved. 
I am saved. 

762
00:46:44,300 --> 00:46:47,100
The reaction of Joy was, as 
passionate as his grief had 

763
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:50,300
been, and he hugged his 
recovered gems to his bosom. 

764
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,000
There is one other thing you 
owe. 

765
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,900
Mr. Holder said, Sherlock 
Holmes, rather sternly. 

766
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:02,100
Oh, he caught up a pen name. 
The some and I will pay it. 

767
00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:04,800
Now. 
The debt is not to me. 

768
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,500
You owe a very humble apology to
that Noble lad, your son, who 

769
00:47:09,500 --> 00:47:12,200
has carried himself in this 
matter, as I should be proud to 

770
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,500
see my own son. 
Do I have a chance to have one 

771
00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:19,000
then it was not Arthur who took 
them. 

772
00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:23,500
I told you yesterday and I 
repeat today that it was not, 

773
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,400
you are sure of it. 
Then let us hurry to him. 

774
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,400
At once to let him know that the
truth is known. 

775
00:47:31,300 --> 00:47:34,300
He knows it already. 
When I had cleared it all up. 

776
00:47:34,300 --> 00:47:37,300
I had an interview with him and 
finding that, he would not tell 

777
00:47:37,300 --> 00:47:40,500
me the story. 
I told it to him on, which he 

778
00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:43,900
had to confess that I was right,
and to add the very few details.

779
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,800
Tails, which were not yet quite 
clear to me your news of this 

780
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,600
morning. 
However, may open his lips For 

781
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,800
Heaven's Sake. 
Tell me then. 

782
00:47:54,300 --> 00:47:56,500
What is this extraordinary 
mystery? 

783
00:47:57,700 --> 00:48:02,000
I will do so and I will show you
the steps by which I reached it.

784
00:48:02,700 --> 00:48:06,300
And let me say to you first that
which it is hardest for me to 

785
00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:08,800
say. 
And for you to hear, there has 

786
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,000
been an understanding between 
Sir George burnwell and your 

787
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,000
niece. 
Mary. 

788
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:18,800
They have now fled together, my 
Mary impossible. 

789
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,100
It is unfortunately, more than 
possible. 

790
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,500
It is certain neither you nor 
your son knew the true character

791
00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:28,300
of this man. 
When you admitted him into your 

792
00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:33,200
family Circle, he is one of the 
most dangerous men in England, a

793
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,200
ruined Gambler. 
An absolutely desperate villain,

794
00:48:36,700 --> 00:48:38,800
a man without heart or 
conscience. 

795
00:48:39,700 --> 00:48:43,800
Your niece knew nothing of such 
men when he breathed his vows to

796
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,000
her, as he had done to her 
hundred before her, she 

797
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,400
flattered herself that she alone
had touched his heart. 

798
00:48:50,500 --> 00:48:54,200
The Devil Knows Best what he 
said, but at least she became 

799
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,800
his tool and was in the habit of
seeing him nearly every evening.

800
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,400
I cannot and I will not believe 
it. 

801
00:49:01,700 --> 00:49:03,700
Cried the banker with an ashen 
face. 

802
00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:07,000
I will tell you then what 
occurred in your house last 

803
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,000
night. 
You're nice when you had as she 

804
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,200
thought gone to your room 
slipped down and talk to her 

805
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,100
lover, through the window, which
leads into the Stable Lane. 

806
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,400
His footmarks had pressed right 
through the snow. 

807
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:24,400
So long had, he stood there. 
She told him of the Coronet, his

808
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,200
Wicked lust for gold kindled at 
the news and he bent her, to his

809
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,800
will. 
I have no doubt that she loved 

810
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,100
you, but there are women in whom
the love of a lover, 

811
00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:38,000
extinguishes, all other loves 
and I think that she must have 

812
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,800
been one. 
She had hardly listened to his 

813
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,600
instructions when she saw you 
coming downstairs on which she 

814
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,600
closed the window rapidly and 
told you about one of the 

815
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,400
servants Escapade with her 
wooden-legged. 

816
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,400
Good lover which was all 
perfectly true. 

817
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,200
Your boy Arthur went to bed 
after his interview with you, 

818
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,600
but he slept badly on account of
his uneasiness about his Club 

819
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,200
debts, in the middle of the 
night. 

820
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,600
He heard a soft tread pass his 
door. 

821
00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:08,900
So he rose and looking out was 
surprised to see his cousin 

822
00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:11,900
walking, very stealthily along 
the passage until she 

823
00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:15,500
disappeared into your 
dressing-room petrified with 

824
00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:19,700
astonishment the lad slipped on 
some clothes and waited there in

825
00:50:19,700 --> 00:50:21,600
the dark. 
To see what would come of this 

826
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,200
strange affair. 
Presently. 

827
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:28,200
She emerged from the room again.
And in the light of the passage 

828
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:32,000
lamp, your son saw that she 
carried the precious Coronet in 

829
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,700
her hands. 
She passed down the stairs and 

830
00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:39,400
he thrilling with horror ran 
along and slipped behind the 

831
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,500
curtain near your door. 
Whence he could see what passed 

832
00:50:42,500 --> 00:50:45,700
in the hall beneath. 
He saw her stealthily opened the

833
00:50:45,700 --> 00:50:49,700
window hand out the Coronet to 
someone in the gloom and then 

834
00:50:49,700 --> 00:50:53,200
closing it once more. 
Hurry back to her room pass. 

835
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,400
Quite close to where he stood, 
hid behind the curtain. 

836
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,700
As long as she was on the scene.
He could not take any action 

837
00:51:00,700 --> 00:51:03,800
without a horrible, exposure of 
the woman whom he loved. 

838
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,000
But the instant that she was 
gone. 

839
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,500
He realised, how crushing a 
misfortune? 

840
00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:12,000
This would be for you and how 
all-important it was to set it, 

841
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,500
right? 
He rushed down just as he was in

842
00:51:15,500 --> 00:51:18,700
his bare feet. 
Opened the window sprang out 

843
00:51:18,700 --> 00:51:22,100
into the snow and ran down the 
lane where he could see a dark 

844
00:51:22,100 --> 00:51:25,800
figure in the Moonlight. 
So George burnwell, tried to get

845
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,900
away, but Arthur caught him and 
it was a struggle between them. 

846
00:51:30,500 --> 00:51:34,100
Your lad tugging, at one side of
the Coronet and his opponent at 

847
00:51:34,100 --> 00:51:38,700
the other, in the scuffle, your 
son, struck Sir George and cut 

848
00:51:38,700 --> 00:51:43,200
him over the eye, then something
suddenly snapped and your son, 

849
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,100
finding that he had the Coronet 
in his hands, rushed back 

850
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:51,400
closed, the window ascended to 
your room and had just observed 

851
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:54,400
that the Coronet had been 
Twisted in the Struggle and was 

852
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,300
endeavouring to straighten it 
when you appeared upon the 

853
00:51:57,308 --> 00:52:00,200
scene. 
Is it possible? 

854
00:52:00,700 --> 00:52:04,100
Gus the banker? 
You then roused, his anger by 

855
00:52:04,100 --> 00:52:06,600
calling him names at a moment 
when he felt that he had 

856
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:08,400
deserved your warmest. 
Thanks. 

857
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,600
He could not explain the true 
State of Affairs without 

858
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,200
betraying one who certainly 
deserved little enough 

859
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,800
consideration at his hands. 
He took the more chivalrous 

860
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,500
view, however, and preserved her
Secret. 

861
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,600
And that was why she shrieked 
and fainted when she saw the 

862
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,700
Coronet cried. 
Mr. Holder. 

863
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,000
Oh my God, what a blind fool. 
I have been. 

864
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,000
And his asking to be allowed to 
go out for five minutes. 

865
00:52:36,500 --> 00:52:39,300
The dear fellow wanted to see if
the missing piece were at the 

866
00:52:39,300 --> 00:52:43,200
scene of the struggle, how 
cruelly I have misjudged him. 

867
00:52:44,500 --> 00:52:46,900
When I arrived at the house 
continued Holmes. 

868
00:52:47,300 --> 00:52:50,500
I at once, went very carefully 
round it to observe if there 

869
00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:52,700
were any traces. 
Is in the snow which might help 

870
00:52:52,700 --> 00:52:55,400
me. 
I knew that none had fallen 

871
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,400
since the evening before and 
also that there had been a 

872
00:52:58,408 --> 00:53:00,900
strong Frost to preserve 
Impressions. 

873
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,300
I passed along the tradesmen's 
path, but found it all trampled 

874
00:53:05,300 --> 00:53:08,300
down and indistinguishable just 
beyond it. 

875
00:53:08,300 --> 00:53:12,600
However, at the far side of the 
kitchen door, a woman had stood 

876
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,200
and talked with a man whose 
round Impressions on one side 

877
00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:20,100
showed that he had a wooden leg,
I could even tell that they had 

878
00:53:20,100 --> 00:53:22,600
been Disturbed. 
For the woman had run back, 

879
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,200
swiftly to the door as was shown
by the Deep toe and light heel 

880
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:30,100
marks, while wooden leg, had 
waited a little, and then had 

881
00:53:30,100 --> 00:53:33,200
gone away. 
I thought at the time that this 

882
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,900
might be the maid and her 
sweetheart of whom you had 

883
00:53:35,900 --> 00:53:40,900
already spoken to me and inquiry
showed it was, so I passed 

884
00:53:40,900 --> 00:53:43,400
around the garden without seeing
anything, more than random 

885
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:47,500
tracks, which I took to be the 
police, but when I got into the 

886
00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:51,400
Stable Lane a very long and 
complex story was written, In 

887
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:55,800
the snow in front of me, there 
was a double line of tracks of a

888
00:53:55,800 --> 00:54:00,100
booted, man, and a second double
line, which I saw with delight 

889
00:54:00,100 --> 00:54:02,300
belonged to a man with naked 
feet. 

890
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,200
I was at once convinced from 
what you had told me that the 

891
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:10,200
latter was your son. 
The first had walked both ways, 

892
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:14,300
but the other had run swiftly 
and as his tread was marked in 

893
00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:16,300
places over the depression of 
the boot. 

894
00:54:16,700 --> 00:54:19,100
It was obvious that he had 
passed after the other. 

895
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,000
I followed them up and found, 
they led to the hall window, 

896
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,500
where boots had worn all the 
snow away while waiting. 

897
00:54:27,300 --> 00:54:30,000
Then I walked to the other end, 
which was a hundred yards or 

898
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,300
more down the lane. 
I saw where boots had faced 

899
00:54:33,300 --> 00:54:35,800
round where the snow was cut up 
as though they had been a 

900
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,700
struggle. 
And finally where a few drops of

901
00:54:38,700 --> 00:54:41,900
blood had fallen to show me that
I was not mistaken. 

902
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:46,500
Boots had then run down the lane
and another little smudge of 

903
00:54:46,500 --> 00:54:49,100
blood showed that it was he who 
had been hurt. 

904
00:54:49,900 --> 00:54:52,900
When he came to the highroad, at
the other end, I found that the 

905
00:54:52,900 --> 00:54:57,700
pavement had been cleared, so 
there was an end to that glue on

906
00:54:57,700 --> 00:55:00,600
entering the house. 
However, I examined as you 

907
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,500
remember, the sill and framework
of the hall window with my lens 

908
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,900
and I could at once, see that 
someone had passed out, I could 

909
00:55:08,900 --> 00:55:12,100
distinguish the outline of an 
InStep where the wet foot have 

910
00:55:12,100 --> 00:55:15,900
been placed in coming in. 
I was then beginning to be able 

911
00:55:15,900 --> 00:55:18,200
to form an opinion as to what 
had occurred. 

912
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,400
A man had waited outside the 
window. 

913
00:55:21,900 --> 00:55:25,600
Someone had brought the gems, 
the deed had been overseen by 

914
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,500
your son. 
He had pursued the thief, had 

915
00:55:28,500 --> 00:55:30,900
struggled with him. 
They had each tugged at the 

916
00:55:30,908 --> 00:55:34,700
Coronet, their United strength 
causing injuries, which neither 

917
00:55:34,700 --> 00:55:38,600
alone could have affected. 
He had returned with the prize, 

918
00:55:38,900 --> 00:55:43,000
but had left a fragment in the 
grasp of his opponent so far. 

919
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:47,000
I was clear. 
The question now was, who was 

920
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,200
the man and who was it? 
Tim. 

921
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:53,800
The Coronet it is an old maxim 
of mine that when you have 

922
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:57,100
excluded The Impossible, 
whatever remains however, 

923
00:55:57,100 --> 00:56:01,600
improbable must be the truth. 
Now, I knew that it was not you 

924
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,700
who had brought it down. 
So there only remained your 

925
00:56:04,700 --> 00:56:09,000
niece and the maids. 
But if it were the maids, why 

926
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,200
should your son allow himself to
be accused in their place? 

927
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,700
There could be no possible 
reason as he loved his cousin. 

928
00:56:16,700 --> 00:56:18,900
However, there was an excellent 
explanation. 

929
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,300
Explanation, why he should 
retain her secret, the more. 

930
00:56:22,300 --> 00:56:26,100
So as the secret was a 
disgraceful one, when I 

931
00:56:26,100 --> 00:56:29,100
remembered that you had seen her
at that window and how she had 

932
00:56:29,100 --> 00:56:31,000
fainted on? 
Seeing the Coronet again. 

933
00:56:31,500 --> 00:56:36,200
My conjecture became a certainty
and who could it be? 

934
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,700
Who was her Confederate? 
A lover, evidently for who else 

935
00:56:40,700 --> 00:56:43,600
could outweigh the love and 
gratitude which she must feel to

936
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,400
you. 
I knew that you went out little 

937
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,900
and that your circle of friends 
was a very limited one. 

938
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:51,800
But among them was Sir George 
burnwell. 

939
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,300
I had heard of him before as 
being a man of evil reputation 

940
00:56:55,300 --> 00:56:58,100
among women. 
It must have been he who wore 

941
00:56:58,100 --> 00:57:02,400
those boots and retained the 
missing gems, even though he 

942
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:04,100
knew that Arthur had discovered 
him. 

943
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:08,100
He might still flatter himself 
that he was safe for the lad, 

944
00:57:08,100 --> 00:57:11,300
could not say a word without 
compromising his own family. 

945
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,000
Well, your own Good Sense. 
Will suggest what measures I 

946
00:57:15,008 --> 00:57:18,200
took next. 
I went in the shape of a loafer 

947
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,700
to. 
So George's house managed to 

948
00:57:20,700 --> 00:57:24,100
pick up an acquaintance with his
valet learned that his master 

949
00:57:24,100 --> 00:57:25,700
had cut his head the night 
before. 

950
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:30,000
And finally at the expense of 
six shillings, made all sure by 

951
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,500
buying a pair of his cast-off 
shoes with these. 

952
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:37,300
I journeyed down to streatham 
and saw that they exactly fitted

953
00:57:37,300 --> 00:57:41,900
the tracks. 
I saw an ill-dressed Vagabond in

954
00:57:41,900 --> 00:57:44,200
the lane yesterday. 
Evening said, mr. 

955
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:49,700
Holder precisely. 
It was, I, I found that I had my

956
00:57:49,700 --> 00:57:52,000
man. 
So, I came home and changed my 

957
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,900
clothes. 
It was a delicate part, which I 

958
00:57:54,908 --> 00:57:57,500
had to play then. 
For, I saw that a prosecution 

959
00:57:57,500 --> 00:58:01,000
must be avoided to avert 
Scandal, and I knew that so 

960
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,100
astute, a villain would see that
our hands were tied in the 

961
00:58:04,100 --> 00:58:07,800
matter. 
I went and saw him at first, of 

962
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:09,300
course, he denied. 
Everything. 

963
00:58:09,900 --> 00:58:13,100
But when I gave him every 
particular that had occurred, he

964
00:58:13,100 --> 00:58:15,800
tried to Bluster. 
And took down a life-preserver 

965
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:19,200
from the wall. 
I knew my man, however, and I 

966
00:58:19,207 --> 00:58:20,800
clapped a pistol to his head 
before. 

967
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,300
He could strike, then he became 
a little more reasonable. 

968
00:58:25,300 --> 00:58:27,900
I told him that we would give 
him a price for the stones. 

969
00:58:27,900 --> 00:58:33,100
He held 1,000 pounds of peace, 
that brought out the first signs

970
00:58:33,100 --> 00:58:38,000
of grief that he had shown. 
Why Dash it all said, he I've 

971
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:42,100
let them go 600 for the three. 
I soon managed to get the 

972
00:58:42,100 --> 00:58:45,000
address of the receiver who had 
them on, promising him. 

973
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:48,100
That there would be no 
prosecution off. 

974
00:58:48,100 --> 00:58:51,100
I set to him. 
And after much chaffering, I got

975
00:58:51,100 --> 00:58:53,100
our stones at 1,000 pounds of 
Peace. 

976
00:58:53,900 --> 00:58:57,900
Then I looked in upon, I told 
him that all was, right, and 

977
00:58:57,900 --> 00:59:00,300
eventually got to my bed about 
two o'clock. 

978
00:59:00,700 --> 00:59:04,000
After what I may recall a really
hard day's work. 

979
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:09,000
A day which has saved England 
from a great public Scandal, 

980
00:59:09,300 --> 00:59:14,000
said the banker Rising. 
So I cannot find words to thank 

981
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,300
you, but you shall not find me 
ungrateful for what you have 

982
00:59:17,300 --> 00:59:20,400
done. 
Your skill has indeed exceeded 

983
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:23,400
all's. 
I've heard of it and now I must 

984
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:27,600
fly to my dear boy to apologise 
to him for the wrong, which I 

985
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,600
have done him. 
As to what you tell me of 

986
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:34,500
Palmieri. 
It goes to my very heart, not 

987
00:59:34,500 --> 00:59:36,900
even yours. 
Skill can inform me where she is

988
00:59:36,900 --> 00:59:40,600
now. 
I think that we may safely say 

989
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:44,400
returned Holmes that she is 
wherever Sir George burnwell. 

990
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:47,800
Is. 
It is equally certain too that 

991
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:51,600
whatever her sins are, they will
soon receive a more than 

992
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:56,600
sufficient punishment. 
End of the adventure of the 

993
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:57,800
Beryl Coronet.