The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, Part 2

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now it's time to relax. [SPEAKER_00]: Let your body fall into a comfortable position in your bed and drift gently into a state of total relaxation with tonight's story. [SPEAKER_00]: part 2. [SPEAKER_00]: It was therefore an empty room into which Billy, a minute later, ushered Count Sylvia's.

[SPEAKER_00]: The famous game shot, Sportsman and Man about town, was a big sworthy fellow with a formidable dark moustache, shading a cruel thin-lipped mouth and surmounted by a long curve nose like the beak of an eagle. [SPEAKER_00]: He was well-dressed, but his brilliant neck tie, shining pin, and glittering rings were flamboyant in their effect.

[SPEAKER_00]: As the door closed behind him, he looked round him with fierce, startled eyes like one who suspects a trappered every turn. [SPEAKER_00]: Then he gave a violent start, as he saw the impassive head, and the collar of the dressing gown which projected above the armchair in the window. [SPEAKER_00]: Then the light of a horrible hope gleamed in his dark murderous eyes.

[SPEAKER_00]: He took one more glance round to see that there were no witnesses, and then on Tippedo, his thick-stick half-raised, he approached the silent figure. [SPEAKER_00]: He was crouching for his final spring and blow when a cool, sardonic voice greeted him from the open bedroom door. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't break it, Count.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't break it. [SPEAKER_00]: the assassin staggered back amazement in his convulsed face. [SPEAKER_00]: For an instant he half-raised his loaded cane once more as if he would turn his violence from the effigy to the original, but there was something in that steady grey eye and mocking smile which caused his hand to sink to his side.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a pretty little thing said Holmes advancing towards the image. [SPEAKER_00]: He is as good at wax works as your friend's stribe and zay is at Air Guns. [SPEAKER_00]: Air Guns, sir, what do you mean? [SPEAKER_00]: Put your hat and stick on the side table, thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: Pray take a seat.

[SPEAKER_00]: Would you care to put your revolver out also? [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, very good, if you prefer to sit upon it. [SPEAKER_00]: Your visit is really most opportune. [SPEAKER_00]: the count scowled with heavy threatening eyebrows. [SPEAKER_00]: I too wish to have some words with you Holmes, that is why I'm here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I won't deny that I intended to assault you just now. [SPEAKER_00]: Holmes swung his leg on the edge of the table. [SPEAKER_00]: I rather gathered that you had some idea of the sort in your head, said he, but why these [SPEAKER_00]: because you have gone out of your way to annoy me, because you have put your creatures upon my track.

[SPEAKER_00]: My creatures, I assure you now. [SPEAKER_00]: Nonsense, I have had them followed. [SPEAKER_00]: Two can play at that game homes. [SPEAKER_00]: It is a small point count Silvia's, but perhaps you would kindly give me my prefix when you address me. [SPEAKER_00]: You can understand that, with my routine of work, I should find myself on familiar terms with half the rogue's gallery, and you will agree that exceptions are invidious.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Mr. Holmes, then. [SPEAKER_00]: Excellent. [SPEAKER_00]: But I assure you you are mistaken about my alleged agents. [SPEAKER_00]: Count Sylvia's laughed contemptuously. [SPEAKER_00]: other people can observe as well as you. [SPEAKER_00]: Yesterday there was an old sporting man. [SPEAKER_00]: Today it was an elderly woman.

[SPEAKER_00]: They held me in view all day. [SPEAKER_00]: Really so you compliment me. [SPEAKER_00]: Old Baron Dawson said the night before he was hanged that in my case what the law had gained the stage had lost. [SPEAKER_00]: And now you give my little impersonations your kindly praise. [SPEAKER_00]: It was you, you yourself?

[SPEAKER_00]: Homes shrugged his shoulders. [SPEAKER_00]: You can see in the corner the parasol which you so politely handed to me in the minories before you began to suspect. [SPEAKER_00]: If I had known you might never. [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen this humble home again. [SPEAKER_00]: I was well aware of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We all have neglected opportunities to deplore. [SPEAKER_00]: As it happens, you did not know. [SPEAKER_00]: So here we are. [SPEAKER_00]: The counts noted Browse gathered more heavily over his menacing eyes. [SPEAKER_00]: What you say only makes the matter worse, it was not your agents, but your play acting busy body self.

[SPEAKER_00]: You admit that you have dogged me. [SPEAKER_00]: Why? [SPEAKER_00]: I'll come now, Count, you used to shoot lions in Algeria. [SPEAKER_00]: Well? [SPEAKER_00]: But why? [SPEAKER_00]: Why? [SPEAKER_00]: The sport, the excitement, the danger. [SPEAKER_00]: And no doubt to free the country from a pest.

[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_00]: my reasons in a nutshell. [SPEAKER_00]: The count sprang to his feet and his hand involuntarily moved back to his hip pocket. [SPEAKER_00]: Sit down, sir. [SPEAKER_00]: Sit down. [SPEAKER_00]: There was another more practical reason. [SPEAKER_00]: I want that yellow diamond.

[SPEAKER_00]: Count Silvia slay back in his chair with an evil smile. [SPEAKER_00]: You knew that I was after you for that. [SPEAKER_00]: The real reason why you are here tonight is to find out how much I know about the matter and how far my removal is absolutely essential. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I should say that from your point of view, it is absolutely essential for I know all about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Save only one thing which you are about to tell me. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh indeed, and pray what is this missing fact. [SPEAKER_00]: where the crown diamond now is. [SPEAKER_00]: The count looked sharply at his companion. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you want to know that, do you? [SPEAKER_00]: How the devil should I be able to tell you where it is?

[SPEAKER_00]: You can and you will. [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed. [SPEAKER_00]: You can't bluff me, count Sylvia's. [SPEAKER_00]: Holmes' eyes as he gazed at him contracted and lightened until they were like two menacing points of steel. [SPEAKER_00]: You are absolute plate glass. [SPEAKER_00]: I see to the very back of your mind.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then of course you see where the diamond is. [SPEAKER_00]: Holmes clapped his hands with amusement and then pointed a derice of finger. [SPEAKER_00]: Then you do know, you have admitted it. [SPEAKER_00]: I admit nothing. [SPEAKER_00]: Now count if you will be reasonable we can do business, if not you will get hurt.

[SPEAKER_00]: Count Sylvia's through up his eyes to the ceiling. [SPEAKER_00]: And you talk about Bluff, said he, [SPEAKER_00]: Holmes looked at him thoughtfully like a master chess player who meditates his crowning move. [SPEAKER_00]: Then he threw open the table drawer and drew out a squat notebook.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what I keep in this book? [SPEAKER_00]: No sir, I do not. [SPEAKER_00]: You. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes sir you, you are all here, every action of your vile and dangerous life. [SPEAKER_00]: Dam you homes, cried the count with blazing eyes, there are limits to my patience. [SPEAKER_00]: It's all here count.

[SPEAKER_00]: The real facts are to the death of old Mrs. Harold, who left you the blimerest state, which [SPEAKER_00]: you are dreaming. [SPEAKER_00]: And the complete life history of Miss Mini-Waranda. [SPEAKER_00]: TUT! [SPEAKER_00]: You will make nothing of that. [SPEAKER_00]: Plenty more here, Count.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here is the robbery in the Trained Alux to the Riviera on February 13th, 1892. [SPEAKER_00]: No, you're wrong there. [SPEAKER_00]: Then I am right on the others. [SPEAKER_00]: Now count you are a card player. [SPEAKER_00]: When the other fellow has all the trumps it saves time to throw down your hand.

[SPEAKER_00]: What has all this talked to do with the jewel of which you spoke? [SPEAKER_00]: Gently count. [SPEAKER_00]: Restrain that eager mind. [SPEAKER_00]: I have all this against you, but above all, I have a clear case against both you and your fighting bully in the case of the crown time. [SPEAKER_00]: Indeed.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have the Ka'vman who took you to Whitehall and the Ka'vman who brought you away. [SPEAKER_00]: I have the Commissioner who saw you near the case. [SPEAKER_00]: I have Ike Sanders who refused to cut it up for you. [SPEAKER_00]: Ike has peached and the game is up. [SPEAKER_00]: The veins stood out on the counts for head.

[SPEAKER_00]: His dark hairy hands were clenched in a convulsion of restrained emotion. [SPEAKER_00]: He tried to speak, but the words would not shape themselves. [SPEAKER_00]: That's the hand I play from said homes. [SPEAKER_00]: I put it all upon the table. [SPEAKER_00]: But one card is missing. [SPEAKER_00]: It's the king of diamonds.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where the stone is. [SPEAKER_00]: You never shall know. [SPEAKER_00]: No? [SPEAKER_00]: Now be reasonable count. [SPEAKER_00]: Consider the situation. [SPEAKER_00]: You are going to be locked up for 20 years. [SPEAKER_00]: So is Sam Martin. [SPEAKER_00]: What good are you going to get out of your diamond?

[SPEAKER_00]: None in the world. [SPEAKER_00]: But if you hand it over, well, I'll compound a felony. [SPEAKER_00]: We don't want you or Sam. [SPEAKER_00]: We want the stone. [SPEAKER_00]: Give that up and so far as I am concerned, you can go free so long as you behave yourself in the future. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it will be the last, but this time my commission is to get the stone, not you.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if I refuse, why then, a less, it must be you and not the stone. [SPEAKER_00]: Billy had appeared in answer to a ring. [SPEAKER_00]: I think, Count, that it would be as well to have your friend Sam at this conference. [SPEAKER_00]: After all, his interest should be represented. [SPEAKER_00]: Billy, you will see a large and ugly gentleman outside the front door, ask him to come up.

[SPEAKER_00]: If he won't come, sir? [SPEAKER_00]: No violence, Billy. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't be rough with him. [SPEAKER_00]: What are you going to do now? [SPEAKER_00]: Ask the count as Billy disappeared. [SPEAKER_00]: My friend Watson was with me just now. [SPEAKER_00]: I told him that I had a shark and a gudgeon in my net.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I am drawing the net and up they come together. [SPEAKER_00]: The count had risen from his chair and his hand was behind his back. [SPEAKER_00]: Holmes held something half protruding from the pocket of his dressing gown. [SPEAKER_00]: You won't die in your bed homes. [SPEAKER_00]: I have often had the same idea as it matter very much.

[SPEAKER_00]: After all, count, your own exit is more likely to be perpendicular than horizontal, but these anticipation of the future are morbid. [SPEAKER_00]: Why not give ourselves up to the unrestrained enjoyment of the present? [SPEAKER_00]: Holmes' figure seemed to grow taller as he grew tense and ready.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is no use you're fingering your revolver, my friend. [SPEAKER_00]: He said in a quiet voice. [SPEAKER_00]: You know perfectly well that you dare not use it, even if I gave you time to draw it. [SPEAKER_00]: Nasty, noisy things revolvers count. [SPEAKER_00]: Better stick to air guns. [SPEAKER_00]: Ah!

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I hear the fairy footstep of your estimable partner. [SPEAKER_00]: rather dull in the street, is it not? [SPEAKER_00]: The prize fighter, a heavily built young man with a stupid, obstinate, slabsided face, stood awkwardly at the door, looking about him with a puzzled expression.

[SPEAKER_00]: Holmes' Debanaire Mano was a new experience, and though he vaguely felt that it was hostile he did not know how to counter it. [SPEAKER_00]: What's the game now, Count? [SPEAKER_00]: What's his fellow want? [SPEAKER_00]: What's up? [SPEAKER_00]: His voice was deep and raucous. [SPEAKER_00]: The Count shrugged his shoulders and it was homes who answered.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I may put it in a nutshell, Mr. Merton, I should say it was all up. [SPEAKER_00]: The boxer still addressed his remarks to his associate. [SPEAKER_00]: is this cove trying to be funny or what? [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not in the funny mood myself. [SPEAKER_00]: No, I expect not, said Holmes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances. [SPEAKER_00]: Now look here, count Sylvia's. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a busy man and I can't waste time. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going into that bedroom, pray make yourselves quite at home in my absence. [SPEAKER_00]: You can explain to your friend how the matter lies without the restraint of my presence.

[SPEAKER_00]: I shall try over the Hoffman Barcarol upon my violin. [SPEAKER_00]: In five minutes I shall return for your final answer. [SPEAKER_00]: You quite grasp the alternative, do you not? [SPEAKER_00]: Shall we take you? [SPEAKER_00]: Or shall we have the stone? [SPEAKER_00]: Homes with Drew picking up his violin from the corner as he passed.

[SPEAKER_00]: A few moments later, the long drawn wailing notes of that most haunting of tunes came faintly through the closed door of the bedroom. [SPEAKER_00]: What is it then? [SPEAKER_00]: Asked Merton anxiously as his companion turned to him. [SPEAKER_00]: Does he know about the stone? [SPEAKER_00]: He knows a damned sight too much about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure that he doesn't know all about it. [SPEAKER_00]: good lord. [SPEAKER_00]: The box has shallow face turned to shade whiteer. [SPEAKER_00]: I key sound as his split on us. [SPEAKER_00]: He has has he, I'll do him down a thicken for that if I swing for it. [SPEAKER_00]: That won't help as much, we've got to make up our minds what to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Alpha Mo, said the boxer, looking suspiciously at the bedroom door, he's a leary cove that once watching, I suppose he's not listening. [SPEAKER_00]: How can he be listening with that music going? [SPEAKER_00]: That's right, maybe somebody's behind a curtain too many curtains in this room.

[SPEAKER_00]: As he looked round, he suddenly saw for the first time the effigy in the window and stood staring and pointing to amazed for words. [SPEAKER_00]: Tutt its only a dummy said the count. [SPEAKER_00]: A fake is it? [SPEAKER_00]: Well strike me. [SPEAKER_00]: Madam too sword ain't in it. [SPEAKER_00]: It's the living spit of him gown and all, but then curtains count.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ocon found the curtains we are wasting our time and there is none too much. [SPEAKER_00]: He can lag us over this stone. [SPEAKER_00]: The juice he can. [SPEAKER_00]: But he'll let us slip if we only tell him where the swag is. [SPEAKER_00]: What? [SPEAKER_00]: Give it up? [SPEAKER_00]: Give up 100,000 quid?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's one or the other. [SPEAKER_00]: Merton scratched his short-cropped paint. [SPEAKER_00]: He's alone in there. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's do him in. [SPEAKER_00]: If his light were out, we should have nothing to fear. [SPEAKER_00]: The Count shook his head. [SPEAKER_00]: He is armed and ready.

[SPEAKER_00]: If we shot him, we could hardly get away in a place like this. [SPEAKER_00]: Besides, it's likely enough that the police know whatever evidence he has got. [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, what was that? [SPEAKER_00]: There was a vague sound which seemed to come from the window. [SPEAKER_00]: Both men sprang round but all was quiet.

[SPEAKER_00]: Save for the one strange figure seated in the chair the room was certainly empty. [SPEAKER_00]: Something in the street, said Martin, [SPEAKER_00]: if slugging is no use then it's up to you. [SPEAKER_00]: I've fooled better men than he, the count answered. [SPEAKER_00]: The stone is here in my secret pocket.

[SPEAKER_00]: I take no chances leaving it about. [SPEAKER_00]: It can be out of England tonight and cut into four pieces in Amsterdam before Sunday. [SPEAKER_00]: He knows nothing of Enceder. [SPEAKER_00]: I thought Vanceder was going next week. [SPEAKER_00]: but now he must get off by the next boat.

[SPEAKER_00]: One or other of us must slip round with the stone to lime street and tell him. [SPEAKER_00]: But the false bottom ain't ready. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, he must take it as it is and chance it. [SPEAKER_00]: There's not a moment to lose. [SPEAKER_00]: Again, with the sense of danger which becomes an instinct with the sportsman, he paused and looked hard at the window.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it was surely from the street that the faint sound had come. [SPEAKER_00]: As to Holmes, he continued, we can fool him easily enough. [SPEAKER_00]: You see that damned fool won't arrest us if he can get the stone. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'll promise him the stone. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll put him on the wrong track about it, and before he finds that it is the wrong track it will be in Holland and we out of the country.

[SPEAKER_00]: That sounds good to me. [SPEAKER_00]: Cried Sam Merton with a grin. [SPEAKER_00]: You go on and tell the Dutchman to get a move on him. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll see this sucker and fill him up with a bogus confession. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell him that the stone is in Liverpool. [SPEAKER_00]: Con found that whining music it gets on my nerves.

[SPEAKER_00]: By the time he finds it isn't in Liverpool, it will be in quarters and we on the Blue Water. [SPEAKER_00]: Come back here, out of a line with that keyhole. [SPEAKER_00]: Here is the stone. [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder you dare carry it. [SPEAKER_00]: Where could I have it safer? [SPEAKER_00]: If we could take it out of Whitehall, someone else could surely take it out of my lodgings.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let have a look at it. [SPEAKER_00]: Count Sylvia's cast a somewhat unflattering glance at his associate and disregarded the unwashed hand which was extended towards him. [SPEAKER_00]: What? [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think I'm going to snatch it off you see here, Mr. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting a bit tired of your ways?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, well, no offense, Sam. [SPEAKER_00]: We can't afford to quarrel. [SPEAKER_00]: Come over to the window if you want to see the beauty properly. [SPEAKER_00]: Now hold it to the light here. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: With a single spring, Holmes had leaped from the dummy's chair and had grasped the precious jewel.

[SPEAKER_00]: He held it now in one hand, while his other pointed a revolver at the count's head. [SPEAKER_00]: The two villains staggered back in utter amazement. [SPEAKER_00]: Before they had recovered, Holmes had pressed the electric bell. [SPEAKER_00]: No violence, gentlemen, no violence, I beg of you, consider the furniture.

[SPEAKER_00]: It must be very clear to you that your position is an impossible one. [SPEAKER_00]: The police are waiting below. [SPEAKER_00]: the counts bewilderment overmastered his rage and fear. [SPEAKER_00]: But how the duce, he gasped. [SPEAKER_00]: Your surprise is very natural. [SPEAKER_00]: You are not aware that a second door from my bedroom leads behind that curtain.

[SPEAKER_00]: I fancy that you must have heard me when I displaced the figure, but luck was on my side. [SPEAKER_00]: It gave me a chance of listening to your racy conversation which would have been painfully constrained had you been aware of my presence. [SPEAKER_00]: The Count gave a gesture of resignation.

[SPEAKER_00]: We give you best homes, I believe you are the devil himself. [SPEAKER_00]: Not far from him at any rate, Holmes answered with a polite smile. [SPEAKER_00]: Sam Merton's slow-intellect had only gradually appreciated the situation. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, as the sound of heavy steps came from the stairs outside, he broke silence at last.

[SPEAKER_00]: A fair cop said he, but I say what about that blooming fiddle? [SPEAKER_00]: I hear it yet. [SPEAKER_00]: Tat, Tat, Holmes answered, you are perfectly right, let it play, these modern gramophones are a remarkable invention. [SPEAKER_00]: There was an in-rush of police, the handcuffs clicked and the criminals were led to the waiting cap.

[SPEAKER_00]: Watson lingered with Holmes, congratulating him upon this fresh leaf added to his laurels. [SPEAKER_00]: Lord Cantel me a sir. [SPEAKER_00]: Show him up Billy. [SPEAKER_00]: This is the eminent peer who represents the very highest interests, said Holmes. [SPEAKER_00]: He is an excellent and loyal person, but rather of the old regime.

[SPEAKER_00]: Shall we make him unbend? [SPEAKER_00]: Dare we venture upon a slight liberty? [SPEAKER_00]: He knows we may conjecture nothing of what has occurred. [SPEAKER_00]: The door opened to admit a thin or steer figure with a hatchet face, and drooping mid-victorian whiskers of a glossy blackness, which hardly corresponded with the rounded shoulders and feeble gate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Homes advanced, affably, and shook an unresponsive hand. [SPEAKER_00]: How do you do, Lord Cantelmear? [SPEAKER_00]: It is chilly for the time of year, but rather warm indoors. [SPEAKER_00]: May I take your overcoat? [SPEAKER_00]: No, I thank you, I will not take it off. [SPEAKER_00]: Homes laid his hand insistently upon the sleeve.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pray allow me. [SPEAKER_00]: My friend Dr. Watson would assure you that these changes of temperature are most insidious. [SPEAKER_00]: His Lordship shook himself free with some impatience. [SPEAKER_00]: I am quite comfortable, sir. [SPEAKER_00]: I have no need to stay. [SPEAKER_00]: I have simply looked in to know how your self-appointed task was progressing.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is difficult, very difficult. [SPEAKER_00]: I feared that you would find it so. [SPEAKER_00]: There was a distinct sneer in the old courteas words and manner. [SPEAKER_00]: Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sir, I've been much perplexed.

[SPEAKER_00]: No doubt. [SPEAKER_00]: Especially upon one point, possibly you could help me upon it. [SPEAKER_00]: You applied for my advice rather late in the day, I thought that you had your own all sufficient methods. [SPEAKER_00]: Still, I am ready to help you. [SPEAKER_00]: You see Lord Cantelmeer, we can no doubt frame a case against the actual thieves.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you have caught them, exactly. [SPEAKER_00]: But the question is, how shall we proceed against the receiver? [SPEAKER_00]: Is this not rather premature? [SPEAKER_00]: It is as well to have our plans ready. [SPEAKER_00]: Now what would you regard as final evidence against the receiver?

[SPEAKER_00]: The actual possession of the stone. [SPEAKER_00]: You would arrest him upon that? [SPEAKER_00]: Most undoubtedly. [SPEAKER_00]: Home seldom laughed, but he got as near it as his old friend Watson could remember. [SPEAKER_00]: In that case, my dear Sir, I shall be under the painful necessity of advising your arrest.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord Cantelmeer was very angry. [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the ancient fires flickered up into his shallow cheeks. [SPEAKER_00]: You take a great liberty, Mr. Holmes, in 50 years of official life, I cannot recall such a case. [SPEAKER_00]: I am a busy man, sir, engaged upon important affairs, and I have no time or taste for foolish jokes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I may tell you frankly, sir, that I have never been a believer in your powers and that I have always been of the opinion that the matter was far safer in the hands of the regular police force. [SPEAKER_00]: Your conduct confirms all my conclusions. [SPEAKER_00]: Homes had swiftly changed his position and was between the pier and the door.

[SPEAKER_00]: One moment, sir, said he, to actually go off with the Mazarin stone would be a more serious offense than to be found in temporary possession of it. [SPEAKER_00]: So this is intolerable, let me pass. [SPEAKER_00]: Put your hand in the right hand pocket of your overcoat. [SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean, sir?

[SPEAKER_00]: Come, come, do what I ask. [SPEAKER_00]: An instant later, the amazed peer was standing, blinking and stammering with the great yellow stone on his shaking palm. [SPEAKER_00]: What, what, how is this Mr. Holmes? [SPEAKER_00]: Too bad Lord Cantelmeer, too bad, cried Holmes. [SPEAKER_00]: My old friend here will tell you that I have an impish habit of practical joking, also that I can never resist a dramatic situation.

[SPEAKER_00]: I took the liberty, the very great liberty I admit of putting the stone into your pocket at the beginning of our interview. [SPEAKER_00]: The old pier stared from the stone to the smiling face before him. [SPEAKER_00]: Sir, I am bewildered, but yes, it is indeed the Maserand Stone. [SPEAKER_00]: We are greatly your debtors, Mr. Holmes, your sense of humour may as you admit be somewhat perverted, and its exhibition remarkably untimely, but at least I withdraw any reflection I have made upon your amazing professional powers.

[SPEAKER_00]: But how? [SPEAKER_00]: The case is but half finished the details can wait. [SPEAKER_00]: No doubt, Lord Cantelmeer. [SPEAKER_00]: Your pleasure in telling of this successful result in the exalted circle to which you return will be some small atonement for my practical joke. [SPEAKER_00]: Billy, you will show his lord ship out, and tell Mrs Hudson that I should be glad if she would send up dinner for two as soon as possible.

[UNKNOWN]: Thank you. [UNKNOWN]: Thank you very much. [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. [UNKNOWN]: You [UNKNOWN]: Thank you very much. [UNKNOWN]: Thank you.

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