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Updated: May 29, 2025
Robinson-Jones, who in her grand-tier box fairly scintillated with those marvellous gems which gave her, as a musical critic, whose notes on the opera were chiefly confined to observations on its social aspects, put it, "the appearance of being lit up by electricity."
Robinson-Jones' necklace, return it to the lady, and within three weeks the Snatcher will take up his abode on the banks of the Hudson, the only banks the ordinary cracksman is anxious to avoid." "But how the dickens did you manage to put a crook like that on the grand- tier floor?" I demanded. "Jenkins, what a child you are!" laughed Holmes. "How did I get him there?
All he had to do was to go to the opera-house, present his ticket, walk in and await the signal. I gave the man his music cue, and two minutes before the lights went out he sauntered down the broad staircase to the door of the Robinson-Jones box, and was ready to turn the trick.
Suddenly I saw him reach out his hand quickly, and a moment later every box-light went out, leaving the auditorium in darkness, relieved only by the lighting of the stage. Almost immediately there came a succession of shrieks from the grand-tier in the immediate vicinity of the Robinson-Jones box, and I knew that something was afoot.
"Well that isn't so much, considering the value of the necklace," said I. "That's the funny part of it," laughed Holmes. "Every stone in it was paste, but Mrs. Robinson-Jones never let on for a minute. She paid her little ten thousand rather than have it known." "Great Heavens! really?" I said. "Yes," said Holmes, replacing the check in his pocket-book. "She's almost as nervy as Nervy Jim himself.
Short work was made of the arrest; Nervy Him, almost embarrassingly grateful, was railroaded to Sing Sing in ten days' time, for fifteen years, and Raffles Holmes had the present pleasure and personal satisfaction of restoring the lost necklace to the fair hands of Mrs. Robinson-Jones herself. "Look at that, Jenkins!" He said, gleefully, when the thing was all over. "A check for $10,000."
Why, I set him up with a box of his own, directly above the Robinson-Jones box you can always get one for a single performance if you are willing to pay for it and with a fair expanse of shirt-front, a claw-hammer and a crush hat almost any man who has any style to him at all these days can pass for a gentleman.
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