:25:00
Are you familiar with jade, Mr. Marlowe?
:25:07
What do you know about jade?
:25:08
It's green, isn't it?
:25:11
Yeah. No, thanks.
:25:13
Jade, Mr. Marlowe...
:25:14
is not sufficiently known
or appreciated in this country.
:25:19
The great rulers of the East, however...
:25:21
- Sit down, won't you?
- Thank you.
:25:22
The great rulers of the East have treated it
with a reverence accorded no other stone.
:25:28
They've spent years
searching for a single piece.
:25:31
Fei-ts'ui jade, in which I, as a collector...
:25:34
am particularly interested,
is extremely valuable.
:25:40
I'm afraid,
like most old men with a hobby...
:25:43
I'm inclined to be a bit of a bore.
:25:45
Keep going.
:25:46
But since my daughter
has brought you into this matter...
:25:50
injudiciously perhaps...
:25:52
I was already in it up to my eyebrows.
:25:54
I take it the whatchamacallit you lost
was this stuff, fei-ts'ui?
:25:58
A necklace, Mr. Marlowe.
:26:01
A necklace. 60 beads
of about six carats each.
:26:05
- Worth how much?
- That's difficult to say.
:26:08
The Chinese government
had a somewhat larger necklace...
:26:12
which once brought as much as $125,000.
:26:17
You were about to ask, Mr. Marlowe,
why I should be so reckless...
:26:21
as to go out in the evening
wearing an irreplaceable necklace.
:26:26
Something like that.
:26:29
It's unanswerable. I shouldn't have.
:26:31
I never should have worn it out.
:26:34
Where was the stickup?
:26:36
If you'll excuse me,
I'm feeling a little tired.
:26:40
But Mrs. Grayle will tell you
anything else you want to know.
:26:44
Goodbye, sir.
:26:50
We're naturally anxious
to locate the necklace, Mr. Marlowe.
:26:53
I only hope it can be managed
without any publicity.
:26:56
Yeah. So do I.
:26:59
Let's dispense
with the polite drinking, shall we?