00:00Dartmoor Prison, isolated from the outside world by walls of granite.
00:24They say you could get out of here by merely telling what you know.
00:27You may or may not be another Scotland Yard bloke, but I'll give you the same answer I gave the others.
00:37I still have two years, eight months and six days left in which to make musical boxes.
00:45That'll be sold at auction for the benefit of this delightful sanctuary.
00:51And I intend to serve them.
00:58Move along.
01:01And now we come to the next object on our list, or I should say objects, because there are three of them.
01:07Now, ladies and gentlemen, these can be bought together or separately.
01:12Now, these beautiful little musical boxes only arrived this morning, and I didn't intend to put them on the auction block until later, but I'm going to sell them now.
01:18So, good friends, as our old pal Mark Antony used to say, lend me your ears.
01:25And what do you hear?
01:28Right.
01:30The beautiful tinkle tinkle of a musical box.
01:32What a lovely trinket.
01:35What a beautiful gift.
01:37Created unmade by loving hands.
01:39A thing of beauty and utility.
01:42I was going to start with five pounds.
01:44It's a bargain, five pounds.
01:47Do I see any hands?
01:50If there's a connoisseur in the house, we'll go three pounds for it.
01:53Two pounds.
01:56One pound.
01:58Ten shillings.
02:01Thank you, sir.
02:04Ladies and gentlemen, ten shillings is offered for a musical box you couldn't buy anywhere in London for less than five pounds.
02:10It'll be stealing to let it go for ten shillings.
02:13Like taking milk from a baby.
02:15All right, we're selling for ten shillings.
02:17Ten shillings, ten shillings is offered, ten shillings is offered, ten shillings is offered.
02:20Will anybody give me one pound?
02:22One pound.
02:23One pound is offered, one pound is offered, ladies and gentlemen, one pound is offered against you, sir.
02:28Will you go to two pounds?
02:30Will you go to two pounds, sir?
02:32Two pounds. Two pounds is offered. Two pounds is offered. One once.
02:35Twice. Third and the last call.
02:38Sold to the gentleman for two pounds.
02:41Sorry, my dear.
02:42Now, ladies and gentlemen, comes the opportunity to purchase an exact duplicate of the beautiful little musical box just bought by this gentleman for the ridiculous low price of two pounds.
02:54That's exactly the same. Exactly the same. Maybe the same hands.
02:57You hear that? Isn't that lovely?
02:59That tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.
03:01Sounds like bow belts to me, you know, with little angels pulling on the ropes, eh?
03:05Will give me two pounds for it.
03:07Who's starting with two pounds? Will anybody start with two pounds?
03:09How come, comrades and gentlemen?
03:12You know, from your enthusiasm, we might all be in Scotland instead of London.
03:15Please buy it for me, Daddy.
03:17Two pounds, certainly not. We all might be in Scotland.
03:20Besides, I don't like his manner.
03:22One pound, ten shillings.
03:24One pound. One pound is asked. One pound. One pound is offered. One pound is offered.
03:28Going one pound. Any advance? Going once. Going twice. The third and the last call.
03:34Sold to the lady for one pound.
03:37Smart bidding, my dear.
03:39We come to the third and last of these beautiful little musical boxes.
03:43Exactly the same. Tinkle, tinkle. Isn't that lovely?
03:46Ladies and gentlemen, I don't bring you here to gullion and swindle yet.
03:50This is the exact replica of those two I just sold before.
03:52We're closed.
03:53But this is extremely important.
04:06Come in, sir. Come in.
04:07I'm sorry to disturb you, but I was unfortunately delayed from arriving in time to bid on certain articles which I was rather anxious to obtain.
04:14Perhaps they weren't sold, sir. We are carrying several things over. What might the articles be, sir?
04:21Three identical musical boxes about so large.
04:24Oh, I'm sorry, sir, but they were sold.
04:27Pity you weren't here to bid on them. They didn't bring anything like the real value.
04:31I'm most anxious to obtain them. I wonder if your records would show who the purchasers were.
04:38Oh, we don't usually give out that information, sir.
04:41For certain, shall we say, sentimental reasons, I'm most anxious to get in touch with the purchasers.
04:47I'd be willing to pay, shall we say, five pounds.
04:51Five pounds?
04:52Well, for certain sentimental reasons, sir, we'd be very happy to oblige.
04:55Alfred, today's sales.
04:57The three musical boxes.
04:58The musical boxes, yes.
05:00Ah, here we are.
05:01The first purchase for two pounds from Mr. Julian Emery, 52, Portman Square.
05:05Write this address down, Alfred.
05:06Yes, sir.
05:07The second didn't leave any name.
05:09Oh, how unfortunate.
05:10I think she's a dealer. You see, they don't like us to know where the things are going.
05:13On account of the profits.
05:15You say the, uh, second purchaser was a woman.
05:18Can you, uh, give me a description of her?
05:21Oh, she was a young woman.
05:23Fairly tall, slender.
05:24Uh, had a light complexion and dark hair and...
05:28And she was wearing a...
05:29Uh, a grey suit, don't you remember?
05:30That's right.
05:31Uh, she probably runs a gift shop.
05:33Uh, she paid, uh, one pound.
05:36You say she, uh, comes here fairly frequently?
05:39No, I didn't say so.
05:41But she does, sir.
05:43Like as not, she'll come in on Thursday.
05:45We have sales on Mondays and Thursdays.
05:47Oh.
05:48And the, uh, third box?
05:50The third?
05:51Oh, uh, Mr. William Kilgore, 143B Hampton Way.
05:54For ten shillings.
05:56Hmm.
05:57Quite a drop from two pounds.
05:58Mr. Kilgore was a Scotchman.
06:00Oh.
06:01Uh, thank you.
06:02You've, uh, been most helpful.
06:04Oh, thank you, sir.
06:06And any time you're passing, dropping, we always have lovely things for sale.
06:10How can't you?
06:11Uh, thank you.
06:12I'll, uh, be back Thursday.
06:22The message reached us too late.
06:25Musical boxes are being sold.
06:30Well, let's get out of here.
06:31Some day you'll go too far.
06:43Reaching for a star, you fool.
06:46Yet a fool may touch a star, Colonel Cavanaugh.
06:49If he would retire enough, but not possess it as you would.
06:55The musical boxes, they've been sold.
06:58What a pity for you, my dear Colonel.
07:00Is it my fault that the message reached us only an hour ago?
07:03Is it my fault that they were sold?
07:06She can't hold me responsible for that.
07:08I hope for your sake you're right.
07:38I hope for you.
07:43Then we'll call upon you tonight at a quarter to eight,
07:45a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the very deepest moment.
07:50Do you remember that letter, Holmes?
07:52It was written over two years ago.
07:54An interesting case.
07:56Devilously interesting.
07:58Hmm.
07:59Irene Adler.
08:01What a striking-looking woman from the brief glance I heard of her.
08:03Seems only yesterday.
08:05What charm.
08:06Hmm.
08:07What poise.
08:08And what a mind.
08:10Sharp enough and brilliant enough to outwit the great Sherlock Holmes himself.
08:15I take it the new issue of the Strand Magazine is out,
08:18containing another of your slightly lurid tales.
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