1 00:02:33,487 --> 00:02:34,697 Countess of Morcar's. 2 00:02:36,073 --> 00:02:37,032 Thanks. 3 00:02:39,034 --> 00:02:41,203 My God, she's back. 4 00:02:45,875 --> 00:02:47,668 She's getting out of the carriage. 5 00:02:48,210 --> 00:02:50,004 Come on, Ryder, get a move on. 6 00:02:57,261 --> 00:02:59,138 All right, Horner. Look lively. Get moving. 7 00:02:59,263 --> 00:03:01,223 Her ladyship won't want workmen under her feet. 8 00:03:01,348 --> 00:03:04,977 All right, I finished, don't worry. Quick job, like you said. 9 00:03:14,862 --> 00:03:19,200 Oh, yeah, yeah, nice, nice. 10 00:03:23,245 --> 00:03:25,915 Countess, eh? Have to get by appointment only... 11 00:03:26,081 --> 00:03:27,917 Come on, lad, out. 12 00:03:47,186 --> 00:03:48,270 All right. 13 00:04:28,185 --> 00:04:29,895 Over there will do. 14 00:04:39,029 --> 00:04:42,157 Here, for the three of you. 15 00:04:42,324 --> 00:04:45,786 Thank you, milady, and a Merry Christmas, milady. 16 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:52,835 Ring for tea, Cusack. 17 00:04:53,002 --> 00:04:54,503 Yes, milady. 18 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,089 I need something to sustain me. 19 00:04:57,589 --> 00:05:01,176 I do find preparing for Christmas quite an ordeal. 20 00:05:01,343 --> 00:05:02,845 Yes, milady. 21 00:05:03,554 --> 00:05:04,680 And then, 22 00:05:07,224 --> 00:05:09,351 a bath, I think. 23 00:05:48,557 --> 00:05:49,558 Milady. 24 00:05:50,476 --> 00:05:52,186 The blue carbuncle, 25 00:05:55,189 --> 00:05:56,899 the blue carbuncle, 26 00:05:59,485 --> 00:06:00,903 it's stolen. 27 00:06:11,789 --> 00:06:14,541 Open them up, there. 28 00:06:15,250 --> 00:06:18,545 Oh, John, she'll love it, 29 00:06:19,421 --> 00:06:20,798 it is beautiful. 30 00:06:20,923 --> 00:06:22,591 Just like her mother. 31 00:06:24,676 --> 00:06:25,886 But can we afford it, though? 32 00:06:26,011 --> 00:06:29,598 I told you, I made a nice little bob or two lately. 33 00:06:29,765 --> 00:06:32,226 Even if I hadn't it's Christmas. 34 00:06:33,644 --> 00:06:35,604 You're a good man, John Horner. 35 00:06:35,938 --> 00:06:37,106 I'm a lucky man, 36 00:06:37,606 --> 00:06:41,110 a wife and kids like I've got, means as good as a king. 37 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,783 So, it's the doll for the girl, and the boat for the boy, right? 38 00:06:48,242 --> 00:06:49,368 Right. 39 00:06:51,787 --> 00:06:55,040 Spending the loot already, are we, Horner? 40 00:06:55,332 --> 00:06:57,751 What do you mean? I've done nothing, what do you mean? 41 00:06:57,876 --> 00:06:59,920 John Frederick Horner, 42 00:07:00,045 --> 00:07:02,131 I hereby arrest you on the charge of stealing 43 00:07:02,297 --> 00:07:05,384 the valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle, 44 00:07:05,509 --> 00:07:08,637 the property of the Countess of Morcar. Anything you say... 45 00:07:08,804 --> 00:07:10,889 I didn't do it, I tell you, I didn't do it. 46 00:07:12,558 --> 00:07:15,436 It's no use, Horner, the men at the hotel gave a very good description of you. 47 00:07:16,311 --> 00:07:18,897 I didn't do it, I tell you, 48 00:07:19,022 --> 00:07:21,150 let me go, will you, I didn't do it. 49 00:08:21,084 --> 00:08:22,377 Mr. Holmes? 50 00:08:29,051 --> 00:08:30,385 Mr. Holmes? 51 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,555 Mr. Peterson, the commissionaire from Upasit... 52 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:34,348 Oh, please... Go away. 53 00:08:57,996 --> 00:09:00,082 I'm sorry to disturb you, Mr. Holmes. 54 00:09:01,250 --> 00:09:01,959 Peterson, 55 00:09:04,670 --> 00:09:07,089 put down your goose, 56 00:09:09,174 --> 00:09:12,010 and your, your hat. 57 00:09:14,596 --> 00:09:15,889 It's a fine purchase, 58 00:09:16,014 --> 00:09:18,934 I myself favor a goose for Christmas dinner. 59 00:09:20,185 --> 00:09:22,479 Well, that's part of the problem, Mr. Holmes, 60 00:09:23,355 --> 00:09:27,776 the bird is not mine. You might say, I come by it. 61 00:09:29,444 --> 00:09:34,741 "For Mrs. Henry Baker," and obviously, not your hat. 62 00:09:34,866 --> 00:09:37,244 No, sir. Well, there were peculiar circumstances, 63 00:09:37,369 --> 00:09:39,204 and I didn't know what to do for the best. 64 00:09:39,329 --> 00:09:41,456 It hardly seemed a matter for the police. 65 00:09:41,957 --> 00:09:43,292 So I talked to the wife about it, 66 00:09:43,458 --> 00:09:45,127 and she suggested I come and see you. 67 00:09:45,294 --> 00:09:48,463 The wise Mrs. Peterson. Sit down, my dear fellow, 68 00:09:48,589 --> 00:09:52,134 and describe these peculiar circumstances to me. 69 00:09:54,261 --> 00:09:56,305 Well, sir, it was like this. 70 00:09:56,513 --> 00:10:01,059 Last night I was on my way home from a little, uh, celebration. 71 00:10:01,184 --> 00:10:04,646 Well, at this time of the year some of us commissionaires meet to... 72 00:10:05,022 --> 00:10:07,149 To wish each other the season's greetings. 73 00:10:07,316 --> 00:10:08,317 Exactly. 74 00:10:08,609 --> 00:10:10,402 The season's greetings. 75 00:10:10,819 --> 00:10:12,321 Oh, you're a top, sir. 76 00:10:14,990 --> 00:10:16,158 Your good health, sir. 77 00:10:18,368 --> 00:10:21,830 Well, as I was saying, I was on my way home 78 00:10:22,456 --> 00:10:26,168 when I came across what you would only describe as a "fracas". 79 00:11:08,669 --> 00:11:09,711 OY' 80 00:11:09,878 --> 00:11:12,047 what's happening? 81 00:11:12,214 --> 00:11:15,967 Blimey, it's a copper. Get out of here. 82 00:11:19,054 --> 00:11:20,639 Get out of here. 83 00:11:25,185 --> 00:11:27,354 I'm trying to help you, man. 84 00:11:34,027 --> 00:11:38,240 Well, the roughs ran off in one direction, and the drunk fellow ran off in the other. 85 00:11:38,407 --> 00:11:40,033 I tried to stop him, but he no doubt thought. 86 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,912 I was a constable about to apprehend him for the breaking of the window. 87 00:11:44,204 --> 00:11:47,499 And so you left with the spoils of victory in the shape of that battered hat, 88 00:11:47,624 --> 00:11:49,668 and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose. 89 00:11:49,793 --> 00:11:51,670 Both of which I would willingly 90 00:11:51,837 --> 00:11:54,339 have returned to their rightful owners, Mr. Holmes. 91 00:11:54,464 --> 00:11:56,258 But the truth is, I didn't know how. 92 00:11:58,468 --> 00:12:00,595 My dear Peterson, I do see your problem. 93 00:12:01,388 --> 00:12:03,181 Anyway, as I say, 94 00:12:03,390 --> 00:12:06,935 I discussed the matter with the good lady, and we decided that I would bring both 95 00:12:07,102 --> 00:12:10,105 the goose and the hat to you, Mr. Holmes, 96 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,734 seeing as how even the slightest of problems is of interest to you 97 00:12:13,859 --> 00:12:17,279 in your particular line of occupation. 98 00:12:21,116 --> 00:12:23,618 I hope you don't think I'm wasting your time, Mr. Holmes. 99 00:12:25,829 --> 00:12:27,122 Not in the least. 100 00:12:28,248 --> 00:12:32,127 Now then, Commissionaire. have you purchased your own bird? 101 00:12:32,294 --> 00:12:33,128 No, not yet. 102 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:36,131 Then I suggest that you carry off this goose so that it 103 00:12:36,298 --> 00:12:39,134 may fulfill its ultimate destiny, 104 00:12:39,593 --> 00:12:42,304 while I retain the battered hat of the unknown gentleman 105 00:12:42,429 --> 00:12:43,764 who has lost his Christmas dinner. 106 00:12:43,889 --> 00:12:45,307 Well, if you think I should, Mr. Holmes. 107 00:12:45,474 --> 00:12:46,975 I do, indeed. 108 00:12:47,934 --> 00:12:50,729 For there are signs, in spite of the frost, 109 00:12:50,896 --> 00:12:54,316 that this bird should be prepared without unnecessary delay. 110 00:12:54,441 --> 00:12:55,984 Well, if that's all right, Mr. Holmes. 111 00:12:56,109 --> 00:12:58,653 I will of course, keep you in touch with the developments. 112 00:12:59,488 --> 00:13:00,655 Very good, sir. 113 00:13:01,448 --> 00:13:04,326 Oh, uh, may I wish you the complements of the season. 114 00:13:04,451 --> 00:13:06,161 And to you and your good wife. 115 00:13:19,925 --> 00:13:23,678 But you still haven't found the jewel. 116 00:13:23,845 --> 00:13:28,350 Not yet, no, milady, but we do have the man, Horner. 117 00:13:28,517 --> 00:13:31,520 Or have a clue as to its whereabouts. 118 00:13:31,686 --> 00:13:34,189 And I think we may assume that 119 00:13:34,356 --> 00:13:37,025 he had one accomplice, if not more. 120 00:13:37,275 --> 00:13:39,194 Well, what of that? 121 00:13:39,319 --> 00:13:41,696 Contrary to popular fiction, milady, 122 00:13:41,863 --> 00:13:44,699 there is very little honor amongst thieves, 123 00:13:44,825 --> 00:13:48,036 and even less with the right inducement. 124 00:13:48,787 --> 00:13:52,791 Inducement, do you mean a reward? 125 00:13:52,916 --> 00:13:55,043 Uh, yes. 126 00:13:55,585 --> 00:13:58,547 Why should I offer a reward? 127 00:13:59,923 --> 00:14:03,677 In my experience, and it is considerable, 128 00:14:04,010 --> 00:14:05,846 I have found that the offer of a reward 129 00:14:05,971 --> 00:14:09,724 would very soon set the greedy cat amongst the criminal pigeon 130 00:14:09,850 --> 00:14:10,976 Well? 131 00:14:12,519 --> 00:14:17,566 I should be very surprised if I did not gain a result within 24 hours. 132 00:14:22,404 --> 00:14:23,738 How much? 133 00:14:25,198 --> 00:14:26,241 Holmes? 134 00:14:27,075 --> 00:14:28,159 Oh, you're up. 135 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,746 The Countess of Morcar is offering a thousand pounds 136 00:14:31,872 --> 00:14:34,249 for the return of the blue carbuncle. 137 00:14:34,749 --> 00:14:38,003 Inspector Bradstreet of B Division is in charge of the case, 138 00:14:38,378 --> 00:14:42,257 and has arrested Mr. John Horner, a plumber, age 36, 139 00:14:42,382 --> 00:14:45,594 who protested his innocence in the strongest terms. 140 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,763 Circumstantial evidence was so strong that the case 141 00:14:48,930 --> 00:14:50,765 has been referred to the Assizes. 142 00:14:51,558 --> 00:14:55,770 Horner, who showed signs of intense emotion 143 00:14:55,937 --> 00:14:59,441 during the proceedings, faded away at the conclusion 144 00:14:59,774 --> 00:15:01,568 and was carried from the court. 145 00:15:02,944 --> 00:15:05,113 Oh, excuse me, you are engaged. 146 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,741 I am interrupting your study of that hat. 147 00:15:10,619 --> 00:15:13,955 No, no, no, the matter is a perfectly trivial one. 148 00:15:15,832 --> 00:15:17,292 But there are points in connection with it 149 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:20,462 which are not devoid of interest, 150 00:15:22,047 --> 00:15:23,465 even of instruction. 151 00:15:24,799 --> 00:15:26,134 I suppose that homely as it looks, 152 00:15:26,301 --> 00:15:28,720 that thing has some deadly story linked to it 153 00:15:29,971 --> 00:15:33,600 that is the clue which will guide you in the solution of some mystery 154 00:15:33,767 --> 00:15:35,977 and the punishment of some crime. 155 00:15:38,605 --> 00:15:40,065 No, no, no, no, 156 00:15:40,231 --> 00:15:42,567 it is just one of those whimsical little instance 157 00:15:42,692 --> 00:15:45,487 that will occur when you have four million people 158 00:15:45,612 --> 00:15:49,074 jostling each other within the space of a few square miles. 159 00:15:49,991 --> 00:15:54,162 So, what do you gather from that battered old felt? 160 00:15:55,330 --> 00:15:56,498 You know my methods. 161 00:15:57,999 --> 00:16:01,127 What do you yourself gather as to the individuality 162 00:16:01,252 --> 00:16:04,172 of the man who has worn this particular article? 163 00:16:07,842 --> 00:16:10,261 It was accompanied by a goose, Watson. 164 00:16:12,347 --> 00:16:14,683 "For Mrs. Henry Baker," was printed upon a small card 165 00:16:14,849 --> 00:16:17,018 attached to the bird's left leg. 166 00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:26,403 Well, apart from the initials inside, H.B., 167 00:16:26,945 --> 00:16:28,530 presumably Henry Baker... 168 00:16:32,325 --> 00:16:33,702 I can see nothing. 169 00:16:34,077 --> 00:16:36,329 On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything, 170 00:16:36,454 --> 00:16:38,873 but you fail to reason for what you see. 171 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,793 You are too timid in drawing your inferences. 172 00:16:42,711 --> 00:16:45,213 Then, pray, 173 00:16:46,006 --> 00:16:49,134 tell me what it is that you can infer from that hat? 174 00:16:51,636 --> 00:16:54,556 That the man is highly intellectual is, of course, obvious. 175 00:16:56,057 --> 00:16:57,726 And also that he was fairly well-to-do 176 00:16:57,892 --> 00:16:59,894 within the past three years, 177 00:17:00,020 --> 00:17:02,147 although now he has fallen upon evil clays. 178 00:17:02,272 --> 00:17:05,567 He had foresight, but less now than formerly, 179 00:17:05,734 --> 00:17:08,069 pointing to a moral retrogression, 180 00:17:08,903 --> 00:17:12,657 which, when taken with the decline of his fortunes, 181 00:17:13,074 --> 00:17:18,913 seems to indicate an evil influence, probably drink. 182 00:17:19,706 --> 00:17:23,418 This may account also for the fact that his wife has ceased to love him. 183 00:17:24,711 --> 00:17:26,337 My dear, Holmes. 184 00:17:26,463 --> 00:17:30,008 He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect, 185 00:17:30,133 --> 00:17:32,719 and now he leads a sedentary life, 186 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,221 is out of training entirely. 187 00:17:35,346 --> 00:17:38,600 He's middle-aged, has grizzled hair 188 00:17:38,767 --> 00:17:42,103 which he has had cut within the last few days, 189 00:17:42,479 --> 00:17:44,606 and which he anoints with lime-cream. 190 00:17:44,731 --> 00:17:50,236 It is also highly improbable that he has gas laid on in his house. 191 00:17:53,448 --> 00:17:56,451 Well, now you are certainly joking. 192 00:17:56,576 --> 00:17:57,786 Not in the least. 193 00:17:59,954 --> 00:18:02,373 Well, I have no doubt that I am very stupid. 194 00:18:04,042 --> 00:18:07,045 For example, how do you deduce that the man is intellectual? 195 00:18:07,295 --> 00:18:09,297 It is a question of cubic capacity. 196 00:18:12,842 --> 00:18:16,137 A man with so large a head must have something in it. 197 00:18:17,847 --> 00:18:21,601 Well, the decline in his fortunes, then? 198 00:18:23,019 --> 00:18:26,231 These flat brims with the curled edges came in three years ago. 199 00:18:26,356 --> 00:18:29,567 It is a hat of the very best quality, Watson. 200 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:34,239 Look at the band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. 201 00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:37,617 If this man could afford so expensive a hat 202 00:18:37,742 --> 00:18:39,160 three years ago, and has had no hat since. 203 00:18:39,327 --> 00:18:42,163 Then he has assuredly gone down in the world. 204 00:18:42,330 --> 00:18:46,334 What about the foresight and the moral retrogression? 205 00:18:46,459 --> 00:18:47,669 Ah, here is the foresight, 206 00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:52,006 these securers are never sold upon hats. 207 00:18:52,465 --> 00:18:54,092 If this man ordered one, 208 00:18:54,217 --> 00:18:56,302 it is a sign of a certain amount of foresight, 209 00:18:56,427 --> 00:18:58,805 since he went out of his way to take precaution against the wind. 210 00:18:58,930 --> 00:19:01,683 But as you see that he has broken the elastic 211 00:19:01,808 --> 00:19:03,685 and has not troubled to replace it, 212 00:19:04,894 --> 00:19:06,312 a weakening nature. 213 00:19:08,022 --> 00:19:09,774 The further points, that he is middle-aged, 214 00:19:09,899 --> 00:19:12,652 that his hair is grizzled, that it has been cut recently. 215 00:19:12,777 --> 00:19:15,280 And that he anoints it with lime-cream, can all to be gathered by an inspection 216 00:19:15,405 --> 00:19:16,948 of the lower part of the lining, Watson. 217 00:19:17,073 --> 00:19:20,869 Witness the moisture, obviously a free perspirer, 218 00:19:21,035 --> 00:19:22,871 therefore, not in the best of training 219 00:19:24,706 --> 00:19:27,292 But his, his wife, 220 00:19:28,877 --> 00:19:31,212 you said she had ceased to love him. 221 00:19:31,379 --> 00:19:33,715 This hat has not been brushed for weeks. 222 00:19:34,215 --> 00:19:35,800 When I see a man 223 00:19:36,009 --> 00:19:38,553 with a week's accumulation of dust upon his hat, 224 00:19:38,887 --> 00:19:40,805 and his wife has allowed him to go out in such a state, 225 00:19:40,930 --> 00:19:44,851 I fear that he has been unfortunate enough to lose his wife's affections. 226 00:19:44,976 --> 00:19:46,352 He might be a bachelor. 227 00:19:46,519 --> 00:19:50,190 Nay, but he brought a goose as a peace offering to his wife. 228 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,567 Remember the card attached to the bird's leg. 229 00:19:53,735 --> 00:19:57,572 Yes, well, you have an answer to everything. 230 00:19:58,990 --> 00:20:00,533 Just a minute, just a minute, 231 00:20:02,410 --> 00:20:07,415 how do you deduce that there is no gas laid on in his house? 232 00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:12,420 One tallow candle stain, or even two, might come by chance 233 00:20:12,587 --> 00:20:14,923 but when I see, Watson, no less than five, 234 00:20:16,257 --> 00:20:19,260 he never got candle stains from a gas jet, Watson. 235 00:20:22,347 --> 00:20:23,598 Are you satisfied? 236 00:20:23,723 --> 00:20:25,600 Well, it's all very ingenious. 237 00:20:26,643 --> 00:20:29,354 Mr. Holmes, the goose, the goose, Mr. Holmes. 238 00:20:29,479 --> 00:20:31,231 Well, what of it, man, has it come back to life 239 00:20:31,356 --> 00:20:33,191 and flapped off through the kitchen window? 240 00:20:33,358 --> 00:20:35,610 No, no sir, no sir, but see, 241 00:20:38,238 --> 00:20:40,406 see what the wife found in its crop. 242 00:20:44,452 --> 00:20:45,828 By Jove, Peterson, 243 00:20:46,537 --> 00:20:50,124 this is a treasure-trove indeed. You know what you've got? 244 00:20:50,625 --> 00:20:54,462 A diamond, a precious stone. It cuts glass like it was putty. 245 00:20:54,629 --> 00:20:58,132 It is more than a precious stone. 246 00:20:59,842 --> 00:21:02,762 It is the precious stone. 247 00:21:03,137 --> 00:21:06,808 The Hotel Cosmopolitan robbery. the blue carbuncle. 248 00:21:10,311 --> 00:21:12,814 The blue carbuncle, indeed. 249 00:21:20,113 --> 00:21:24,492 It is absolutely unique, its value can only be conjectured. 250 00:21:24,659 --> 00:21:25,994 And your reward, Peterson, 251 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,998 of 1000 pounds is not within a twentieth of its market price. 252 00:21:30,164 --> 00:21:33,001 A thousand pounds, oh, Lord have mercy. 253 00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:35,461 You must admit, Watson, 254 00:21:35,586 --> 00:21:38,339 that my deductions in regard to this hat 255 00:21:38,464 --> 00:21:40,842 have suddenly assumed a more important aspect. 256 00:21:41,009 --> 00:21:42,343 Yes, point taken, Holmes. 257 00:21:42,677 --> 00:21:45,013 Now, the question for us now to solve is to trace 258 00:21:45,138 --> 00:21:49,517 the sequence of events from a rifled jewel case at one end, 259 00:21:49,642 --> 00:21:51,519 to the crop of a goose at the other. 260 00:21:52,687 --> 00:21:56,357 There is the stone. The stone came from the goose, 261 00:21:56,524 --> 00:21:59,527 the goose came from Mr. Henry Baker, 262 00:21:59,694 --> 00:22:02,363 the gentleman with the shabby hat and all the other characteristics. 263 00:22:02,530 --> 00:22:05,533 So, now, we must set ourselves very seriously 264 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:07,869 to finding this gentleman, 265 00:22:08,202 --> 00:22:12,665 and to ascertaining what part he had to play in this little mystery. 266 00:22:13,041 --> 00:22:17,795 "Found at the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat." 267 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,049 "Mr. Henry Baker can have same by applying at 6:30 this evening" 268 00:22:21,215 --> 00:22:25,386 "at 221 B, Baker Street", clear and concise. 269 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,388 Yes, very, but will he see it? 270 00:22:27,555 --> 00:22:29,891 Well, I'm sure he will keep an eye on the evening papers, 271 00:22:30,058 --> 00:22:32,060 for the poor man, the loss was a heavy one. 272 00:22:32,185 --> 00:22:35,313 Oh, Peterson, uh, just nip down to the advertising agency 273 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,482 and have this put in all the evening papers. 274 00:22:38,149 --> 00:22:38,733 Which, one, sir? 275 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:41,986 The Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's Bissett, Echo, 276 00:22:42,111 --> 00:22:44,864 Evening News, Standard, and all the others that may occur to you, 277 00:22:44,989 --> 00:22:45,907 Right away, sir. 278 00:22:47,033 --> 00:22:48,076 And the stone? 279 00:22:50,870 --> 00:22:53,247 I shall keep the stone. Thank you, Peterson. 280 00:22:55,541 --> 00:22:56,876 Oh, and Peterson, 281 00:22:57,710 --> 00:23:00,213 uh, would you pick up a goose on your way back? 282 00:23:00,338 --> 00:23:01,589 Give him the money, will you, Watson. 283 00:23:01,756 --> 00:23:04,258 We must have something to give Mr. Henry Baker 284 00:23:04,926 --> 00:23:08,096 to take the place of the one which your family will very soon be devouring. 285 00:23:08,262 --> 00:23:09,347 Oh, thank you, sir. 286 00:23:10,223 --> 00:23:11,432 A thousand pounds? 287 00:23:11,682 --> 00:23:13,101 A thousand pounds. 288 00:23:14,018 --> 00:23:17,897 A thousand pounds, a thousand pounds. 289 00:23:21,109 --> 00:23:26,114 What, uh, will you do with the stone? 290 00:23:26,614 --> 00:23:28,074 I shall keep it 291 00:23:31,285 --> 00:23:32,578 in my museum. 292 00:23:49,262 --> 00:23:50,471 Well, Horner, 293 00:23:53,808 --> 00:23:56,602 Her Ladyship is not at all pleased with me. 294 00:23:57,687 --> 00:24:01,399 You might be under lock and key, but she'd rather her blue carbuncle was. 295 00:24:01,524 --> 00:24:02,650 Never took it Inspector... 296 00:24:02,817 --> 00:24:03,818 Well- 297 00:24:05,611 --> 00:24:07,655 Tell me what you did with it, and, uh, 298 00:24:08,448 --> 00:24:12,326 I'll put in a good word at your trial. But, if you don't... 299 00:24:12,493 --> 00:24:15,663 I've been on the straight for years ever since I married Jenny. 300 00:24:15,830 --> 00:24:17,498 If you don't, 301 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,085 and when the judge hears about your previous conviction, 302 00:24:21,669 --> 00:24:25,256 you might never see your pretty wife again. 303 00:24:28,134 --> 00:24:32,096 I've got you, Horner, but I need that jewel. 304 00:24:36,476 --> 00:24:39,353 It's a bonny thing, 305 00:24:40,104 --> 00:24:44,025 just see how it glints and sparkles. 306 00:24:44,984 --> 00:24:47,487 Of course, it is a nucleus and focus of crime, 307 00:24:47,612 --> 00:24:51,365 every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. 308 00:24:52,241 --> 00:24:57,497 In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. 309 00:24:58,581 --> 00:25:04,045 It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China, 310 00:25:04,670 --> 00:25:09,175 and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, 311 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:12,720 save that it is blue instead of ruby red. 312 00:25:14,096 --> 00:25:17,308 This stone is not yet twenty years old. 313 00:25:19,894 --> 00:25:23,147 In spite of its youth, it already has a sinister history. 314 00:25:24,732 --> 00:25:28,319 There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, 315 00:25:28,444 --> 00:25:30,488 and several robberies brought about for the sake of this 316 00:25:30,613 --> 00:25:33,741 forty-grain weight of crystallized charcoal. 317 00:25:33,908 --> 00:25:36,911 Who would think that so pretty a toy 318 00:25:37,286 --> 00:25:40,081 could be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? 319 00:25:45,711 --> 00:25:46,587 Come in. 320 00:25:49,423 --> 00:25:51,092 Mr. Henry Baker, I believe? 321 00:25:53,094 --> 00:25:56,556 Please, draw near the fire. 322 00:25:58,391 --> 00:26:00,685 It is a cold night and I observe that your circulation 323 00:26:00,810 --> 00:26:04,355 is more adapted for summer than for winter. Do sit down. 324 00:26:06,274 --> 00:26:08,109 This is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson. 325 00:26:08,234 --> 00:26:09,569 How do you do, sir? 326 00:26:12,321 --> 00:26:14,031 Mr. Baker... 327 00:26:19,287 --> 00:26:20,913 is that your hat? 328 00:26:24,875 --> 00:26:25,793 Oh, yes, 329 00:26:27,587 --> 00:26:29,964 Oh, it is undoubtedly my hat. 330 00:26:31,799 --> 00:26:32,967 Thank you, sir. 331 00:26:34,885 --> 00:26:38,306 I would have advertised its loss but shillings 332 00:26:38,431 --> 00:26:41,309 have not been so plentiful with me as they once were. 333 00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:44,145 I had no doubt that the gang of roughs 334 00:26:44,270 --> 00:26:47,773 who assaulted me had carried off both my hat and the bird. 335 00:26:48,774 --> 00:26:50,985 I did not care to spend more money 336 00:26:51,193 --> 00:26:53,487 in a hopeless attempt at recovering them. 337 00:26:53,904 --> 00:26:55,656 Yes, well, of course, that is very understandable. 338 00:26:55,781 --> 00:26:58,993 Oh, by the way, about your bird, 339 00:27:01,287 --> 00:27:03,664 we were compelled to eat it. 340 00:27:06,959 --> 00:27:08,252 To eat it... 341 00:27:08,711 --> 00:27:11,797 It would have been of little use to anyone had we not done so. 342 00:27:12,923 --> 00:27:15,343 But we have another goose upon the sideboard there, 343 00:27:15,509 --> 00:27:18,512 which I presume will answer your purpose equally well. 344 00:27:18,638 --> 00:27:21,682 It is about the same weight, and perfectly fresh as you can see. 345 00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:24,685 Oh, yes, most certainly. 346 00:27:26,812 --> 00:27:30,483 Of course, we have kept the feathers, legs, crop, 347 00:27:30,608 --> 00:27:33,486 and so on of your own bird, if you so wish. 348 00:27:34,028 --> 00:27:36,489 It might be useful to me as relics of my adventure, 349 00:27:36,614 --> 00:27:39,033 but beyond that I can hardly see 350 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,371 what use the disjecta membra of my old acquaintance 351 00:27:43,537 --> 00:27:44,664 could possibly be to me. 352 00:27:44,789 --> 00:27:48,334 Oh, no, sir, with your permission I... I shall confine my attentions 353 00:27:48,459 --> 00:27:52,797 to the excellent bird which I perceive upon your sideboard. 354 00:27:52,922 --> 00:27:55,675 I would be interested to know where the other bird came from. 355 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,719 You see, I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, 356 00:27:58,928 --> 00:28:01,681 and I have seldom seen a better grown bird. 357 00:28:02,056 --> 00:28:03,557 It would be of great interest to me to know 358 00:28:03,683 --> 00:28:06,727 precisely how it came into your possession. 359 00:28:06,936 --> 00:28:09,730 It was the club, sir, the goose club. 360 00:28:11,899 --> 00:28:16,195 The goose club, the exact circumstances? 361 00:28:17,571 --> 00:28:18,572 I... I am not a rich man, 362 00:28:18,739 --> 00:28:21,534 as you may see, sir, but I make a humble living 363 00:28:21,659 --> 00:28:26,706 and a respectable one, if I may say so, in the British Museum. 364 00:28:28,833 --> 00:28:29,917 Studying? 365 00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:34,255 Studying, you might say. 366 00:28:36,006 --> 00:28:41,011 And helping others with their studies. I... I have a certain knowledge of books. 367 00:28:42,430 --> 00:28:45,933 That day, sir, I had finished work early 368 00:28:46,517 --> 00:28:48,769 and left the museum in the afternoon. 369 00:28:48,894 --> 00:28:51,105 I had a little business to attend to 370 00:28:51,439 --> 00:28:54,233 before calling in at the Alpha Public House. 371 00:28:54,358 --> 00:28:57,278 Several of us who work in the museum 372 00:28:57,403 --> 00:29:00,781 frequent that establishment. and this year our good host, 373 00:29:00,948 --> 00:29:04,285 Mr. Windigate, had instigated a goose club 374 00:29:04,452 --> 00:29:08,622 by which, on consideration of some few pence each week, 375 00:29:08,831 --> 00:29:11,417 we were to receive a bird at Christmas. 376 00:29:17,089 --> 00:29:21,635 There we are, Mr. Baker, a very fine bird, as promised. 377 00:29:25,055 --> 00:29:28,559 Magnificent specimen, indeed, landlord, eh. 378 00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:31,145 Put you back in the wife's good books, eh? 379 00:29:31,437 --> 00:29:36,150 She is still somewhat irked with me, I'm afraid. 380 00:29:37,651 --> 00:29:39,487 Things may doubtless improve when I am 381 00:29:39,653 --> 00:29:42,656 once more in gainful employment. 382 00:29:42,823 --> 00:29:44,992 Oh, an academic nature, of course. 383 00:29:45,201 --> 00:29:47,495 I have expectations. 384 00:29:47,661 --> 00:29:53,459 Well, I owe you one last payment of eight pennies, eh. 385 00:29:54,251 --> 00:29:56,086 Struck it rich, have we, Mr. B? 386 00:29:56,504 --> 00:29:58,506 I chanced upon an acquaintance 387 00:29:58,672 --> 00:30:03,677 of sympathetic disposition, I, that is to say, 388 00:30:03,844 --> 00:30:07,181 I sold some of my books. 389 00:30:07,389 --> 00:30:11,852 Oh, not your books. Mr. Baker. 390 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:13,854 Needs must, Mr. Windigate, 391 00:30:14,021 --> 00:30:16,440 and at this season of the year more than ever, 392 00:30:16,732 --> 00:30:19,109 we must not deprive those we love, 393 00:30:21,362 --> 00:30:24,532 or even those to whom we are married. 394 00:30:25,407 --> 00:30:29,328 And so, if you will set aside this impressive peace offering, 395 00:30:29,453 --> 00:30:33,374 I shall fortify myself for the fray with a large glass of whiskey. 396 00:30:33,541 --> 00:30:35,835 And a pint of your most excellent beer. 397 00:30:47,263 --> 00:30:48,764 Merry Christmas to you. 398 00:30:48,889 --> 00:30:50,558 Same to you, Mr. Baker. 399 00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:52,643 Here we are, dear. 400 00:30:54,270 --> 00:30:57,231 Come on, inside. Come in. 401 00:30:57,398 --> 00:30:59,567 Well, sir, on my way home 402 00:30:59,733 --> 00:31:01,735 I was attacked by the gang of roughs, 403 00:31:01,861 --> 00:31:04,154 who I believed had stolen the goose. 404 00:31:04,363 --> 00:31:07,032 My hat came off in the scuffle. 405 00:31:08,075 --> 00:31:09,410 I... I remember little of it, 406 00:31:09,577 --> 00:31:14,248 save that a uniformed officer appeared on the scene and we all made off. 407 00:31:14,790 --> 00:31:17,001 Yes, of course, we quite understand. 408 00:31:17,126 --> 00:31:20,838 In the circumstances. Well, all is well that ends well. 409 00:31:30,556 --> 00:31:34,101 I am most indebted to you, sir, for your trouble. 410 00:31:34,768 --> 00:31:39,732 A Scottish bonnet, I fear, is fitted neither to my years nor to my dignity. 411 00:31:40,816 --> 00:31:43,110 My complements of the season to you, sir. 412 00:31:44,111 --> 00:31:46,196 And to you too, sir. 413 00:31:46,739 --> 00:31:49,283 Oh, thank you, sir. 414 00:31:52,328 --> 00:31:54,622 Oh, uh, by the way. 415 00:31:54,747 --> 00:31:57,207 Do you have gas laid on in your house? 416 00:31:57,333 --> 00:32:00,961 Gas, alas, no. 417 00:32:01,670 --> 00:32:04,548 Jolly good. Merry Christmas. 418 00:32:04,715 --> 00:32:06,967 And to you both, gentlemen. 419 00:32:09,219 --> 00:32:11,305 Well then, so much for Mr. Henry Baker. 420 00:32:11,472 --> 00:32:13,557 He obviously knows nothing of the matter. 421 00:32:13,682 --> 00:32:15,643 Ah, Mrs. Hudson. 422 00:32:15,809 --> 00:32:17,811 Watson, do you need nourishment? 423 00:32:18,228 --> 00:32:19,188 Not particularly. 424 00:32:19,355 --> 00:32:22,650 Splendid. Mrs. Hudson, we shall turn dinner into supper, 425 00:32:22,816 --> 00:32:26,153 and we will follow up this clue while it is still hot. 426 00:32:26,654 --> 00:32:29,114 Which is more than the supper will be. 427 00:32:45,464 --> 00:32:48,509 Good evening, gentlemen, and a very cold one. 428 00:32:48,676 --> 00:32:50,511 It is, indeed, landlord, it is indeed. 429 00:32:50,678 --> 00:32:51,971 And what shall be your pleasure? 430 00:32:52,096 --> 00:32:53,472 Beer, Watson? 431 00:32:54,098 --> 00:32:55,808 What? Oh, yes, splendid. 432 00:32:55,933 --> 00:32:57,977 Two of your very best glasses of beer. 433 00:32:58,102 --> 00:32:59,353 Right away, sir. 434 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,940 Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese. 435 00:33:04,066 --> 00:33:05,192 What geese? 436 00:33:05,484 --> 00:33:08,362 Yes. We were talking, um, half an hour ago 437 00:33:08,487 --> 00:33:12,116 to a Mr. Henry Baker, a member of your goose club. 438 00:33:12,241 --> 00:33:15,119 Yes, but you see, them's not our geese. 439 00:33:15,911 --> 00:33:17,204 Whose, then? 440 00:33:18,205 --> 00:33:22,334 Well, I got the whole two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden. 441 00:33:22,459 --> 00:33:23,711 Who might that be? 442 00:33:24,378 --> 00:33:28,507 Name of Breckinridge, a purveyor of the finest quality. 443 00:33:28,716 --> 00:33:32,553 Mind you, if it's a bird you're after, I'd get to him as soon as poss. 444 00:33:32,803 --> 00:33:35,556 Oh, it's a very busy time of year. as you'll appreciate. 445 00:33:36,056 --> 00:33:39,018 Well, thank you so much for your advice. 446 00:33:39,143 --> 00:33:41,895 Will you have a glass of beer with us, landlord? 447 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,192 Well, God bless you for a gentleman. 448 00:33:59,246 --> 00:34:02,416 Now, for Mr. Breckinridge. 449 00:34:02,666 --> 00:34:04,043 Can't it wait? 450 00:34:04,918 --> 00:34:06,879 Watson, we have been given a line of investigation 451 00:34:07,004 --> 00:34:09,089 which has been missed by the police, 452 00:34:09,590 --> 00:34:12,217 and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. 453 00:34:12,384 --> 00:34:13,927 Now, let us follow it out to the bitter end. 454 00:34:14,094 --> 00:34:15,429 Extremely bitter. 455 00:34:15,637 --> 00:34:19,183 Faces to the south, then, and quick, march. 456 00:34:33,030 --> 00:34:34,448 Please. 457 00:34:34,740 --> 00:34:36,950 I want to believe you, John, 458 00:34:39,453 --> 00:34:41,246 I do, really, 459 00:34:44,958 --> 00:34:47,878 but I can't argue with what the police is saying. 460 00:34:48,128 --> 00:34:51,632 But they're only saying that cause I was there on the day. 461 00:34:52,007 --> 00:34:53,634 It was an odd job. 462 00:34:53,801 --> 00:34:55,552 Is that really the truth? 463 00:34:57,471 --> 00:35:01,308 I promised when I married you, I'd never tell you a lie. 464 00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:03,977 I kept my promise, 465 00:35:05,145 --> 00:35:06,647 always will. 466 00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:20,828 I want to believe you. 467 00:36:16,550 --> 00:36:18,135 Uh, good evening. 468 00:36:18,302 --> 00:36:19,219 Good evening. 469 00:36:19,553 --> 00:36:21,388 Sold out of geese, I see. 470 00:36:21,555 --> 00:36:23,557 Yeah, I'll have five hundred in the morning. 471 00:36:23,724 --> 00:36:25,350 Too late, I think. 472 00:36:25,517 --> 00:36:28,645 See the stall over there with the gas fire, try him. 473 00:36:28,896 --> 00:36:31,064 Yes, but I was recommended to you. 474 00:36:31,690 --> 00:36:32,733 On, who by? 475 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:35,068 The landlord of the Alpha Public House. 476 00:36:35,235 --> 00:36:37,905 Oh, yeah, he had a couple of dozen off me. 477 00:36:38,030 --> 00:36:39,823 Very good geese, too. 478 00:36:40,157 --> 00:36:42,910 Where, may I ask, did you get them? 479 00:36:47,206 --> 00:36:49,416 Here then, mister, what exactly are you driving at? 480 00:36:49,583 --> 00:36:51,501 Come on, let's have it straight, now. 481 00:36:52,002 --> 00:36:53,378 It's straight enough 482 00:36:53,879 --> 00:36:57,883 I simply want to know who sold you the geese that you supplied to the Alpha. 483 00:36:58,008 --> 00:37:01,094 Well then, I'm not gonna tell you, so now. 484 00:37:03,305 --> 00:37:05,265 It really is of no matter, 485 00:37:06,308 --> 00:37:11,271 but I fail to see why you should get so warm over a trifle. 486 00:37:11,438 --> 00:37:15,108 Warm, you'd be as warm if you were as pestered as I am. 487 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,779 When I pay good money for a good article that should be an end of it 488 00:37:18,946 --> 00:37:21,782 but it's where are the geese, who have you sold them to, 489 00:37:21,907 --> 00:37:23,450 how much will you take for them? 490 00:37:23,617 --> 00:37:25,202 You would think those were the only geese in the world, 491 00:37:25,327 --> 00:37:27,371 the amount of fuss that's made over them. 492 00:37:27,621 --> 00:37:30,123 Well, I can assure you that I have no connection 493 00:37:30,290 --> 00:37:31,959 with anybody else who's made inquiries. 494 00:37:32,125 --> 00:37:36,630 Inquiries, it's more like the inquisition. I'm not telling you. 495 00:37:38,298 --> 00:37:42,636 Ah, well then, the bet is off. 496 00:37:43,470 --> 00:37:44,429 What bet? 497 00:37:47,266 --> 00:37:48,308 What bet? 498 00:37:50,477 --> 00:37:54,398 Well, I'm always ready to back my opinion on the matter of fowls, 499 00:37:54,982 --> 00:37:57,484 and I have a fiver with my friend here 500 00:37:57,609 --> 00:38:01,738 that the bird that I chose is country bred, right, Watson? 501 00:38:01,989 --> 00:38:02,739 What? 502 00:38:03,323 --> 00:38:05,826 Oh, oh, oh, yes, yes, absolutely. 503 00:38:05,993 --> 00:38:09,246 Ah, you've lost your money then, cause it's town bred. 504 00:38:09,371 --> 00:38:10,497 It is nothing of the kind. 505 00:38:10,664 --> 00:38:11,999 I say it is. 506 00:38:12,124 --> 00:38:13,500 I don't believe you. 507 00:38:13,625 --> 00:38:15,502 Come on, pay up, Holmes. 508 00:38:16,336 --> 00:38:17,504 What, do you think I wouldn't know, 509 00:38:17,671 --> 00:38:20,257 me, who's been handling fowl since I was a nipper? 510 00:38:20,382 --> 00:38:23,802 I'll tell you, all the birds that went to the Alpha were town bred. 511 00:38:24,928 --> 00:38:26,680 You'll never make me believe that. 512 00:38:26,847 --> 00:38:29,933 Come on, come on, do the decent, Holmes. 513 00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:31,351 Will you have a bet, then? 514 00:38:31,476 --> 00:38:34,771 I'll be just taking your money, but I'll have a sovereign with you, 515 00:38:34,896 --> 00:38:36,940 just to teach you not to be obstinate. 516 00:38:37,399 --> 00:38:38,525 Done. 517 00:38:38,859 --> 00:38:39,985 Right. 518 00:38:42,195 --> 00:38:45,657 Now then, Mr. Cocksure, you see these here books here, 519 00:38:45,866 --> 00:38:48,368 this is a list of all the folk what I buy off. 520 00:38:48,660 --> 00:38:51,038 Now, on this page is all me country folk, 521 00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:55,000 and these on this side in red ink are all me town suppliers. 522 00:38:55,125 --> 00:38:58,045 Now you read out that third name down to me. 523 00:38:58,837 --> 00:39:01,840 Mrs. Oakshott, 117 Brixton Road. 524 00:39:01,965 --> 00:39:06,720 Yeah, account number 249. Go on, then, turn it up in the ledger. 525 00:39:09,806 --> 00:39:11,892 Mrs. Oakshott, egg and poultry supplier? 526 00:39:12,059 --> 00:39:13,727 Now, what's the last entry? 527 00:39:14,936 --> 00:39:17,397 Twenty-four geese at seven and six pence. 528 00:39:18,273 --> 00:39:22,402 Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha Public House. 529 00:39:22,569 --> 00:39:24,738 So, what are you gonna say now? 530 00:39:32,329 --> 00:39:34,247 What about this gentleman's fiver? 531 00:39:49,846 --> 00:39:51,431 Well done, Holmes. 532 00:39:52,933 --> 00:39:54,684 Shall we see this Mrs. Oakshott tonight? 533 00:39:54,810 --> 00:39:56,436 Oh, no, not you again, I've had enough of you. 534 00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:59,064 Listen, I've told you before, clear off. 535 00:39:59,856 --> 00:40:02,109 But the thing is, there were two gray-headed geese. 536 00:40:02,275 --> 00:40:04,903 Now, listen, I've had enough of you and those geese. 537 00:40:05,278 --> 00:40:07,114 I wish you was all at the devil together. 538 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,366 If you come pestering me any more with your silly talk, 539 00:40:09,491 --> 00:40:10,575 I'll set the dog on you. 540 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:13,286 Now, look here, Mrs. Oakshott told me... 541 00:40:13,453 --> 00:40:16,623 You bring Mrs. Oakshott here, and I'll answer her, 542 00:40:16,748 --> 00:40:18,583 but what have you got to do with it, eh? 543 00:40:18,708 --> 00:40:19,876 Did I buy the geese off you? 544 00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:22,879 No, but one of them was mine all the same. 545 00:40:23,004 --> 00:40:25,465 Well, you go and ask Mrs. Oakshott for it. 546 00:40:25,590 --> 00:40:27,384 She told me to ask you. 547 00:40:27,509 --> 00:40:31,430 You can ask the King of Prusia, for all I care. I've had enough of this. 548 00:40:31,555 --> 00:40:33,140 Go on, get out of it. 549 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,145 This may save us a trip to Brixton. 550 00:41:27,110 --> 00:41:28,111 Excuse me, 551 00:41:28,528 --> 00:41:30,155 but I could not help overhearing the conversation 552 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,990 you had just now with that salesman. 553 00:41:32,115 --> 00:41:35,035 I think I can be of assistance to you in this matter. 554 00:41:35,202 --> 00:41:36,870 Yea, who are you? 555 00:41:37,037 --> 00:41:38,330 My name is Sherlock Holmes. 556 00:41:38,455 --> 00:41:41,541 It is my business to know what other people don't know. 557 00:41:41,750 --> 00:41:42,709 But you could know nothing of this. 558 00:41:42,834 --> 00:41:46,004 On the contrary, I know everything of it. 559 00:41:46,379 --> 00:41:49,299 I know that you are trying to find out the whereabouts of some geese 560 00:41:49,591 --> 00:41:52,344 sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton Road, 561 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,222 to our friend, Mr. Breckinridge, over there. 562 00:41:55,347 --> 00:42:00,227 Who in turn, sold them to Mr. Windigate, of the Alpha Public House. 563 00:42:01,895 --> 00:42:06,233 Sir, you're the very man I have longed to meet. 564 00:42:06,441 --> 00:42:10,237 I can hardly explain to you my interest in the matter. 565 00:42:10,820 --> 00:42:15,575 Then I suggest that we carry on this conversation in rather more comfort. 566 00:42:16,618 --> 00:42:17,744 Cab. 567 00:42:31,883 --> 00:42:35,595 Come in, take my chair. 568 00:42:38,473 --> 00:42:41,434 I will just put on my slippers. 569 00:42:47,315 --> 00:42:49,067 I think we should know the name of the gentleman 570 00:42:49,192 --> 00:42:51,778 whom we have the pleasure of assisting, don't you, Watson? 571 00:42:53,196 --> 00:42:54,781 John Robinson. 572 00:42:55,282 --> 00:42:57,576 Oh, no, no, no, no, your real name. 573 00:42:57,701 --> 00:43:00,453 It is so awkward doing business with an alias. 574 00:43:01,413 --> 00:43:05,625 Well then, uh, my real name is Ryder, James Ryder. 575 00:43:06,251 --> 00:43:11,464 Yes, Mr. Ryder, upper attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. 576 00:43:14,634 --> 00:43:15,594 Yes. 577 00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:19,848 And I suppose you would like to know what happened to these geese, 578 00:43:20,390 --> 00:43:23,310 or, rather, one goose, in particular, 579 00:43:23,518 --> 00:43:25,478 white, with a gray head? 580 00:43:26,229 --> 00:43:29,316 Oh, sir, can you tell me where it went to? 581 00:43:30,483 --> 00:43:31,776 It came here. 582 00:43:32,444 --> 00:43:33,320 Here? 583 00:43:33,945 --> 00:43:35,822 Sadly, it is no longer here. 584 00:43:36,615 --> 00:43:40,577 But it laid an egg after it was dead- 585 00:43:41,661 --> 00:43:47,417 the bonniest, brightest little blue egg you have ever seen. 586 00:43:50,337 --> 00:43:51,046 Come, 587 00:43:52,881 --> 00:43:55,592 come, I have it. 588 00:44:09,814 --> 00:44:12,192 The game is up, Ryder. 589 00:44:16,905 --> 00:44:19,866 Bear up, man, you'll be in the fire. 590 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:23,453 And what a wretched little shrimp it is, to be sure, 591 00:44:23,828 --> 00:44:26,039 there's enough blood in him for felony. 592 00:44:26,956 --> 00:44:28,792 I have almost every link in the chain, Ryder, 593 00:44:28,917 --> 00:44:30,543 you need tell me very little. 594 00:44:32,420 --> 00:44:34,547 Catherine Cusack put me up to it. 595 00:44:35,548 --> 00:44:36,883 Her Ladyship's maid. 596 00:44:37,092 --> 00:44:38,301 Exactly. 597 00:44:38,843 --> 00:44:40,387 You knew from local gossip that Horner 598 00:44:40,553 --> 00:44:42,180 had been concerned in some such matter before. 599 00:44:42,305 --> 00:44:44,641 So what did you do, 600 00:44:45,725 --> 00:44:49,229 you made some small job in milady's room, 601 00:44:49,396 --> 00:44:51,398 you and your confederate Cusack. 602 00:44:52,565 --> 00:44:55,735 You then managed that Horner should be sent for. 603 00:44:55,902 --> 00:44:58,863 But you, you stole the jewel, 604 00:44:59,572 --> 00:45:03,076 then you raised the alarm and had this unfortunate man arrested. 605 00:45:03,243 --> 00:45:06,913 For God's sake, Mr. Holmes, have mercy. 606 00:45:07,122 --> 00:45:11,584 Think of my father, think of my mother, it would break their hearts. 607 00:45:11,710 --> 00:45:15,714 I mean, I never went wrong before, I never will again. I swear it on a Bible. 608 00:45:16,214 --> 00:45:19,676 Oh, don't... don't bring me to court, Mr. Holmes. 609 00:45:19,801 --> 00:45:22,345 For God's sake, don't do that to me. 610 00:45:23,763 --> 00:45:25,432 Get back into your chair. 611 00:45:26,015 --> 00:45:28,017 It is very well to cringe and crawl now, 612 00:45:28,143 --> 00:45:29,602 but you thought little of the man that you sent 613 00:45:29,728 --> 00:45:32,439 to the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing. 614 00:45:32,731 --> 00:45:36,693 I'll fly, Mr. Holmes. I'll leave the country. 615 00:45:36,860 --> 00:45:39,446 Then the charge against him will break down. 616 00:45:45,118 --> 00:45:46,953 We'll talk about that later. Now tell me, 617 00:45:48,955 --> 00:45:51,291 how came the stone into the goose. 618 00:45:51,958 --> 00:45:53,960 And how came the goose into the open market? 619 00:45:54,085 --> 00:45:56,963 Tell me the truth, now, for that is your only hope of safety. 620 00:45:58,047 --> 00:46:00,800 I'll tell it to you just as it happened. 621 00:46:02,177 --> 00:46:06,306 I thought it was best to get away with the stone as quick as I could 622 00:46:06,473 --> 00:46:08,933 for I didn't know at what moment the police might not take it 623 00:46:09,058 --> 00:46:12,479 into their heads to search me and my room. 624 00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:16,316 There was nowhere in the hotel where it would be safe. 625 00:46:16,566 --> 00:46:18,985 So, I went out, as if on some commission, 626 00:46:19,110 --> 00:46:21,988 and made for my sister's house to think things over. 627 00:46:25,617 --> 00:46:30,455 Why, Jim, whatever is it, you look terrible. 628 00:46:30,622 --> 00:46:35,001 I had a bit of a turn, Maggie. There's been a robbery at the hotel. 629 00:46:35,543 --> 00:46:37,170 You'd better come in. 630 00:46:38,838 --> 00:46:41,841 I went into the back yard where she kept the geese. 631 00:46:43,426 --> 00:46:46,513 Smoked a pipe, and wondered what it would be best to do. 632 00:46:47,263 --> 00:46:49,015 I remember that my stomach wasn't gonna stop 633 00:46:49,224 --> 00:46:51,017 feeling like a bag of ferrets 634 00:46:51,184 --> 00:46:53,853 till I found somewhere to hide the stone for a while. 635 00:46:54,395 --> 00:46:56,773 When suddenly, I looked at the geese, 636 00:46:56,898 --> 00:46:59,692 which was hissing and huddling in the corner of the yard. 637 00:47:00,693 --> 00:47:03,196 My sister had told me that I might have the pick of her geese 638 00:47:03,321 --> 00:47:04,656 for a Christmas present. 639 00:47:06,533 --> 00:47:08,618 I picked out one of the birds, 640 00:47:09,702 --> 00:47:11,621 a fine thick one with a gray head. 641 00:47:31,140 --> 00:47:35,061 I pushed the stone down its throat as far as my finger could reach. 642 00:47:36,145 --> 00:47:40,316 Then I thought all my troubles was over, when... 643 00:47:41,317 --> 00:47:43,903 Whatever are you doing with that bird, Jim? 644 00:47:45,488 --> 00:47:48,658 Uh, you said I could have one for Christmas, 645 00:47:48,825 --> 00:47:51,077 so I was just feeling which is the fattest. 646 00:47:51,244 --> 00:47:55,164 We already set yours aside... Jim's bird, we call it. 647 00:47:55,290 --> 00:47:58,209 Uh, if it's all the same to you, Maggie, 648 00:47:58,376 --> 00:48:00,753 I'd rather have that one I was handling just now. 649 00:48:00,879 --> 00:48:03,089 Well, that one is a good three pounds heavier, 650 00:48:03,256 --> 00:48:05,341 we fattened it up expressly. 651 00:48:06,050 --> 00:48:10,346 Never mind. I'll take the other, and I'll take it now. 652 00:48:10,471 --> 00:48:13,016 Just as you like. Which one is it? 653 00:48:13,141 --> 00:48:14,601 It's that gray-headed one in the middle. 654 00:48:14,767 --> 00:48:16,102 Oh, very well. 655 00:48:17,061 --> 00:48:18,897 Kill it and take it with you. 656 00:48:23,318 --> 00:48:25,278 I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, 657 00:48:25,445 --> 00:48:29,115 and I carried the bird to my pal, we got a knife, 658 00:48:29,282 --> 00:48:34,120 and we opened it up, my heart turned to water. 659 00:48:34,579 --> 00:48:36,915 There was no sign of the stone, 660 00:48:37,081 --> 00:48:40,460 and I knew some terrible mistake must have occurred. 661 00:48:58,645 --> 00:49:00,063 Where have they all gone? 662 00:49:00,188 --> 00:49:01,606 To the dealer's. 663 00:49:01,898 --> 00:49:02,649 Which dealer's? 664 00:49:02,857 --> 00:49:04,901 Breckinridge, of Covent Garden. 665 00:49:06,611 --> 00:49:08,571 Tell me, just tell me. 666 00:49:08,696 --> 00:49:11,491 Was there another one which had a gray head? 667 00:49:11,616 --> 00:49:13,493 That's right, two, 668 00:49:13,701 --> 00:49:16,162 I could never tell them apart, I couldn't. 669 00:49:16,329 --> 00:49:19,666 Well, what's the matter, what's all the hurry? 670 00:49:19,832 --> 00:49:23,419 I ran as hard as my feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge 671 00:49:23,795 --> 00:49:26,130 but he had sold the lot, and not one word 672 00:49:26,255 --> 00:49:28,633 would he tell me as to where they had gone. 673 00:49:29,884 --> 00:49:32,178 I've, I've gone mad. 674 00:49:33,596 --> 00:49:37,350 And now I'm a branded thief 675 00:49:37,850 --> 00:49:40,353 without ever having touched the wealth 676 00:49:40,812 --> 00:49:43,189 for which I've sold my character. 677 00:49:44,273 --> 00:49:45,274 God help me. 678 00:49:47,443 --> 00:49:48,820 God help me. 679 00:50:03,209 --> 00:50:04,460 Get out. 680 00:50:08,715 --> 00:50:09,674 What? 681 00:50:13,219 --> 00:50:15,638 Heavens, bless you, sir. 682 00:50:18,141 --> 00:50:19,392 No more words. 683 00:50:21,394 --> 00:50:22,562 Get out. 684 00:50:46,002 --> 00:50:50,173 I must confess, Holmes, to being a little surprised. 685 00:50:50,298 --> 00:50:55,553 I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. 686 00:51:01,225 --> 00:51:04,687 Maybe I am committing a felony, but I may be saving a soul. 687 00:51:07,356 --> 00:51:10,276 Send him to jail now, you make him a jailbird for life. 688 00:51:32,673 --> 00:51:35,968 Listen, after all, it is the season for forgiveness, come. 689 00:51:37,470 --> 00:51:38,471 Midnight. 690 00:51:40,556 --> 00:51:42,475 Merry Christmas, Holmes. 691 00:51:43,017 --> 00:51:44,602 And to you, my dear friend. 692 00:51:46,229 --> 00:51:47,313 Just a minute. 693 00:51:48,231 --> 00:51:53,152 Holmes, I cannot contemplate eating while John Horner is still on remand. 694 00:51:54,153 --> 00:51:57,615 Do you suppose that Bradstreet or one of his colleagues 695 00:51:57,782 --> 00:51:59,408 might still be at their desks? 696 00:52:00,660 --> 00:52:01,327 He Will. 697 00:52:02,703 --> 00:52:04,997 You're quite right, Watson, come, let's go.