Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson. To return to the New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: You and Sherlock Holmes celebrated on the good ship Gigantic.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, here's your Tom and Jerry, mister Harris, I'm
Speaker 2: not careful, don't burn yourself. Yes, it was probably the
Speaker 2: most technic New Year's Eve I ever experienced. Nothing is
Speaker 2: as terrifying to a seafaring man as the thought of
Speaker 2: fire aboard ship. The panic, the isolution. But that's neither
Speaker 2: here nor there.
Speaker 1: Yes, let me see.
Speaker 3: It was the last day of the year nineteen hundred
Speaker 3: and twelve. Its inception was sufficiently placid, I must say.
Speaker 2: A light snow was falling as homes and I seated
Speaker 2: ourselves on either side of a well filled breakfast table.
Speaker 2: The flames of our seagull fire reflected themselves cheerfully in
Speaker 2: the generous coffee pot. The whole house was filled with
Speaker 2: the pleasant aroma of the stuffing. Missus Hudson was preparing
Speaker 2: for our New Year's goose. Suddenly there came a frantic
Speaker 2: jangle in the front doorbell.
Speaker 1: No, definitely, no, no walk Holmes. Whoever it is that's
Speaker 1: pulling our front doorbell out by the roots and whatever
Speaker 1: his problem is, I'm definitely not interested. Yes, Watson, being
Speaker 1: the world's greatest consulting detective has its disadvantages. People always
Speaker 1: manage to get into difficulties at the most inopportune moments.
Speaker 2: Yes, you should try being a doctor, Holmes. No female
Speaker 2: since Eve has ever decided to become a mother at
Speaker 2: a convenient time.
Speaker 1: Oh, come in confounded, mister Holmes, Mister Sherwick Holmes. Naturally,
Speaker 1: whatever your problem is, I warn you, it'll have to
Speaker 1: wait a lot for the holiday.
Speaker 4: And he can't wait, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: Close to two thousand lives are at state. I pray
Speaker 5: to Heaven you'll be able to reach them before it's
Speaker 5: too late.
Speaker 1: Reach home. Where and what is this disaster you anticipate
Speaker 1: with such trepidation The steamship Gigantic, mister Holmes. She should
Speaker 1: be somewhere off the Silly Asles by midnight.
Speaker 4: We've been reliably.
Speaker 5: Informed that an attempt will be made to set fire
Speaker 5: to her at that time. If successful, it'll be the
Speaker 5: greatest disaster in an old maritime history.
Speaker 1: Yes, in that case, I suppose I shall have to
Speaker 1: forego the little celebration I'd planned for this evening.
Speaker 3: Have to really homes. You are a cold blooded fish.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry, I don't believe you've met my colleague,
Speaker 1: doctor Watson.
Speaker 5: Mister Pembroke, Reginald Pembroke, I'm chairman of the board of Floyd's,
Speaker 5: the famous insurance company.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: Then your desire to prevent this disaster isn't entirely humanitarian.
Speaker 4: Not entirely, but neither is it altogether mercenary.
Speaker 5: There's more to take them the lives of the passengers
Speaker 5: on board the Gigantic. If she goes down, the financial
Speaker 5: stability of the British Empire goes with her.
Speaker 1: Interesting he Watson continues to Pembroke.
Speaker 5: You may not be aware, mister Holmes, that during this
Speaker 5: past year there have been a terrifying number of marine catastrophes.
Speaker 3: Holmes knows everything, mister Pembroke.
Speaker 1: I am quite cognizant of the fact that quite a
Speaker 1: few of the newest and fastest British liners have been
Speaker 1: destroyed at sea by fire storm and accident.
Speaker 5: Ah, they weren't accidents, mister Holmes, I assure you quite.
Speaker 1: Egyptian Star was destroyed by fire in the Persian Gulf.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred lives last the Lord Nelson disappeared in the
Speaker 1: Typhoon in the Indian Ocean, no survivors. The Southern Cross
Speaker 1: exploded and sank off the coast of Brazil one thousand,
Speaker 1: two hundred casualties. The Wellington, the Lady Jane Gray, and
Speaker 1: the Eldorado all caught fire in different parts of the Pacific.
Speaker 1: Total deaths over two thousand. The greatest disaster was last April,
Speaker 1: when the Titanic ran into an iceberg, with a loss
Speaker 1: of over fifteen hundred souls.
Speaker 5: The public's becoming panicky about traveling on British ships. The
Speaker 5: ships of out the nationalities are taking all our trade.
Speaker 5: Three banks and nearly ten investment concerns were large. Marine
Speaker 5: interests have gone to the wall. Even Freud's is not
Speaker 5: too secure. But that is not the most serious aspect
Speaker 5: of the situation.
Speaker 2: Really, good Lord, don't tell me that's worse to come,
Speaker 2: much worse stock to Utson.
Speaker 5: Those ships disappeared in many parts of the world. They
Speaker 5: were sunk by diverse methods. One factor, however, was the
Speaker 5: same in each disaster, and that was the cargo carried
Speaker 5: by each ship was gold, English gold. If it ever
Speaker 5: became known how much British bullion lies at the bottom
Speaker 5: of the Seven Seas.
Speaker 4: British credit would be badly crippled.
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, the Bank of England has
Speaker 5: been forced to import a large shipment of gold from Canada.
Speaker 3: And it's not the Gigantic. Good Lord, no wonder you're
Speaker 3: upset the.
Speaker 5: Whole economic structure of the British empires at state, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: Nothing must happen to the Gigantic. What makes you think
Speaker 1: anything will? A cable was.
Speaker 5: Sent shortly after the Gigantic left Queenstown. She makes a
Speaker 5: stop in Ireland on her east bound voyage. You know
Speaker 5: she sailed shortly before dawn this morning. The gang planks
Speaker 5: have been drawn in the last line have been cast off,
Speaker 5: and the great propellers have begun to churn. Suddenly, the
Speaker 5: dock master noticed someone sliding down the ship's side.
Speaker 3: On a rope.
Speaker 5: Hi, look up, there s some fools climbed over the site.
Speaker 5: He's coming down on a rope.
Speaker 3: Novack.
Speaker 4: If we'll go backti hill. He want to make the dock.
Speaker 5: He'll follow the water and be swept out of the ship.
Speaker 1: No, no, he's pushing the rope away from the ship
Speaker 1: with his feet. He's swinging out. He's going to jump.
Speaker 4: He made it. Someone upon the bridge has seen him.
Speaker 1: He's calling to the.
Speaker 5: Chat to pick himself up, he shouting back, are.
Speaker 6: In hell?
Speaker 5: Good lord, I know the manswer. It's smoky Joe the firebug.
Speaker 5: If a gigantic don't catch fire between him south Hampton.
Speaker 1: I'm a Dutchman smoking and Joe seems to me we've
Speaker 1: heard of him before, A Watson, not merely as an
Speaker 1: expert arsonist, but a dangerous pyromaniac as well. They caught him,
Speaker 1: I hope, mister Pembroke.
Speaker 3: No, no, mister Holmes.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately he is too quick for them.
Speaker 5: He crawled down a ladder and disappeared among the pilings
Speaker 5: under the docks.
Speaker 1: So the gigantic is headed for Southampton with a nice
Speaker 1: bit of Joe's handiwork aboard.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's a firebomb he homes?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily, Watson. There are many ingenious ways of starting
Speaker 1: a fire. You know, whoever hired Joe would prefer to
Speaker 1: have it happen went out to see I imagine, I
Speaker 1: thought exactly.
Speaker 3: Mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: We wireless Captain Brooks to make a search, of course,
Speaker 5: but on a shift the size of the Gigantic.
Speaker 4: It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Speaker 5: You are our one hope, mister Holmes. If only you
Speaker 5: couldn't get on board in time?
Speaker 1: And how do you suggest I go about that little assignment?
Speaker 5: The Chairman of the Great Western Railway has placed the
Speaker 5: Royal Trains your disposal all out. The traffic will be
Speaker 5: cleared off the tracks. Now you should reach Land's End
Speaker 5: shortly after lunch. My art, the Albatrass will be waiting
Speaker 5: for you in the harbors and ives very speedy little
Speaker 5: crafton with any luck, you should cite the Gigantic around
Speaker 5: eleven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1: Yes, eleven o'clock, was it? Smoky Joe called out, Happy
Speaker 1: New Year? In hell, it won't be New Year, little midnight.
Speaker 1: If we reach the Gigantic by eleven, we may just
Speaker 1: possibly be in time. Six spells, it's eleven o'clock. Confound
Speaker 1: this fark. We've had to reduce our speed to half.
Speaker 2: Oh, we'll never catch up to the gigantig now homes nonsense.
Speaker 1: She's had to slow down too. I only hope you
Speaker 1: don't miss out entirely in this fark.
Speaker 3: I don't really care.
Speaker 1: You don't sound any fit Onson, what's up?
Speaker 2: Do you have to use that unfortunate expression and tell
Speaker 2: me you're feeling squeamish?
Speaker 3: Is this confounded or role? I can stand a good risk.
Speaker 3: See but this bobbing up about in a tea cup.
Speaker 1: It's pitty guy didn't bring them mother sims seasick pills.
Speaker 3: There's only one remedy for this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 2: Staying on shore? It's jolly way to spend New Year's Eve?
Speaker 2: This is who do you suppose? Is this possible for
Speaker 2: these confounded sinkings?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 1: The Pembroke seems to feel it's a foreign plot. The
Speaker 1: Middle eat European shipping industry is benefit the most.
Speaker 7: Of course, palms. Did you hear that? I jove yes,
Speaker 7: sounds like an oce liner right enough? Yes, we're signal.
Speaker 4: This Scott.
Speaker 3: This he is the gigantic glooming out of the fog.
Speaker 3: Looks like a mountain coming at us.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes, Sharlock Holmes and Dr Watson coming aboard.
Speaker 1: Let down a ladder. Here's the lad of Watson.
Speaker 2: I think you can manage it and climb up the
Speaker 2: Eiffel Tower on a clothes line if it could get
Speaker 2: me off this bouncing coffee shell.
Speaker 1: Quite an impressive array of instruments you have up here
Speaker 1: on the bridge, Captain Brooks. Here's mister Holmes on a Gigantic.
Speaker 1: We have the latest of everything, and none of it's
Speaker 1: any real use.
Speaker 4: In case of fire.
Speaker 1: I'd sooner face a typhoon, or a shipwreck, or a
Speaker 1: mutiny even dot rat than a fire on board ship.
Speaker 3: Surely a ship this size should be fairly fireproof.
Speaker 1: That's what you might think, doctor Watson, But that our
Speaker 1: three factors that make a fire on a luxury line
Speaker 1: are dangerous. First, there's all the confounded ornamental woodwork that's
Speaker 1: used in a passenger construction.
Speaker 4: Second, there's the fact that.
Speaker 1: Once a fire gets a firm hold, it's fed by
Speaker 1: drafts that rush through the ventilating system. M Third, there
Speaker 1: is the element of pen Nothing makes people behave more
Speaker 1: like wild beasts quicker than the cry of fire. In
Speaker 1: case of fire, you have, of course an alarm system.
Speaker 1: We have the old fashioned system of bells, and also
Speaker 1: something rather recent. The Gigantic is one of the first
Speaker 1: ships to install it. You see that glass case over there.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, they're wrong with a lot of tubes entering from
Speaker 2: below looks rather like a giant honeycomb, Mayholmes.
Speaker 1: Each of those tubes leads to a separate compartment of
Speaker 1: the ship. The instant of fire breaks out anywhere, smoke
Speaker 1: is immediately drawn up into the glass case. I've stationed
Speaker 1: a sailor to watch that case. Believe me, gentlemen, the
Speaker 1: first wisp of smoke please will know it. Yes, undoubtedly
Speaker 1: very helpful, Captain Brooks. In the case of an ordinary conflagration,
Speaker 1: I assure you, a fire set by smoky Joe is
Speaker 1: not ordinary. He's a master arsonist. Ten seconds after one
Speaker 1: of his fires breaks out, you're dealing with a raging inferno. Confounded,
Speaker 1: they tell me the man deserted the ship at Queenstown.
Speaker 4: That'd us this morning.
Speaker 1: Why that's more than eighteen hours ago. If he'd set fire,
Speaker 1: it seems to me that we'd be inflamed by this time.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily. There are many methods by which a fire
Speaker 1: can be made to break out long after the pyromaniac
Speaker 1: has left the scene of his crime. You say you've
Speaker 1: found no time bombs, no infammable assets, no, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: Ever since I received word that we were in danger,
Speaker 1: I've had my men searching high and low. They found nothing,
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. It's been a systematic search, I promise you, yes,
Speaker 1: but you've drawn a blank. That's what comes of using
Speaker 1: system instead of brains and initiative. Oh and how do
Speaker 1: you propose to locate whatever it is we can't find?
Speaker 1: By using a little logic? I shall credit smoky Joe
Speaker 1: with having the intelligence to place his fire's starting device
Speaker 1: in a place where it will do the most damage.
Speaker 1: The man's no amateur, Captain, he knows his business. Then
Speaker 1: I shall investigate that place and remove his handiwork.
Speaker 3: Ooms, you're bagging again.
Speaker 1: At all, my dear Watson. I think I may promise
Speaker 1: I shall have discovered the menace inside of half an hour.
Speaker 1: I only hope Joe's little device doesn't do its nasty
Speaker 1: job before then. Half an hour now, level thirty exactly?
Speaker 1: Do you think you can solve this problem by midnight? Yes, Captain,
Speaker 1: With any luck, I think I can promise you a
Speaker 1: placid and uneventful new year, Captain Brooks. Yes, mister Brown
Speaker 1: would seem to be the trouble.
Speaker 5: The wireless engineers who wished to report something's wrong with
Speaker 5: the apparatus both as sending and receiving equipment have suddenly
Speaker 5: gone out of commission.
Speaker 1: And I don't like that. What did he thinks?
Speaker 4: Can you come here a minute?
Speaker 3: Excuse me a moment, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: The wildman is calling me.
Speaker 4: What the trouble, Jerry? It's the compassation.
Speaker 3: It's pretty like a top.
Speaker 4: I can't figure out what's got into it. Never see
Speaker 4: the light except once in some magnetic stall.
Speaker 1: Scott, this is incredible.
Speaker 5: Now heart is the engine room calling, Captain.
Speaker 1: I'll take it hello, Yes, Captain Brooks speaking the places
Speaker 1: you say, well, do the mess you can seem to
Speaker 1: be the difficulty, Captain.
Speaker 4: The dynamoes are slowing down.
Speaker 1: They can't figure out why.
Speaker 5: Good lords, So that's why the lights are getting dim
Speaker 5: places were the lights Without dynamos, We've no false drought
Speaker 5: for the furnaces.
Speaker 1: We'll never keep up enough steam pressure to.
Speaker 3: Drive the ship.
Speaker 1: In no time at all, we'll be drifting helplessly in.
Speaker 4: The Atlantic, in the middle of the reefs.
Speaker 1: That's around the city aisles.
Speaker 3: And the only way to spend New Year's Eve homes.
Speaker 1: It could be worse, you know how. The ship could
Speaker 1: be on fire. That's the real menace. To which these
Speaker 1: other threats are. But the prelude I fancy. For the
Speaker 1: love of Heaven, what are we to do? Keep calm
Speaker 1: and use whatever intelligence the Lord has endowed us with,
Speaker 1: Captain Brooks, I suggest you and as many officers as
Speaker 1: you can spare, join the holiday celebration that's undoubtedly going on,
Speaker 1: in order to keep discipline in case there's any disturbance.
Speaker 1: Very good, mister Holmes. There's a New Year's dance going
Speaker 1: on in the large ballroom, John Seed Deck. And meanwhile,
Speaker 1: if you could spare us someone to guide Watson and
Speaker 1: my Of course, mister Brown here is our pursa.
Speaker 4: He knows the ship as well as anyone on board.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he does. But when, mister Brown, if you'll
Speaker 1: lead the way, I think doctor Watson and I would like.
Speaker 4: To go below and investigate the engines.
Speaker 1: No, mister Brown, even lower than that. What we're looking
Speaker 1: for is that to be rather close to the furnaces.
Speaker 1: I imagine these.
Speaker 2: Iron stairs to go round and round and make me dizzy.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's the heat down here.
Speaker 5: Yes, we're getting close to the furnace room. If you listen,
Speaker 5: you can hear the men stocky.
Speaker 3: Him way to a living home.
Speaker 1: To stop a minute, where does that lead, mister Brown?
Speaker 1: That small corridor with a heavy metal door at the
Speaker 1: far end.
Speaker 4: That's the brilliant room though, where the gold is kept.
Speaker 1: Very interesting.
Speaker 3: Suppose we take a look, Kay, Watson, and I've always
Speaker 3: wrothy to see those gold boss, you hear so much about.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid that won't be PASSI to Watson, why not?
Speaker 5: But as you can see, the door is locked and sealed.
Speaker 5: It was done by the port authorities before we left
Speaker 5: New York. That door won't be opened until the port
Speaker 5: authorities unseal it when we reached Southampton.
Speaker 1: You mean that room in there wasn't opened when the
Speaker 1: captain ordered the ship searched for incendiary material.
Speaker 5: No, mister Holmes, but it's quite impossible for any want
Speaker 5: to place a fire barmb or anything of the sort
Speaker 5: in there.
Speaker 4: As you can see, the seals are still intact.
Speaker 1: Quite these seals are intact. But are they the ones
Speaker 1: put on in New York? I doubt its hell look yes, interesting,
Speaker 1: very interesting. These are not the original seals, So how.
Speaker 3: Can you tell homes? They look in tech to me exactly?
Speaker 1: They are intact, But here in the crack of the
Speaker 1: door sill are bits of broken seals. But these seals
Speaker 1: are not even.
Speaker 3: Chipped by Jervius.
Speaker 2: Of course, the original seals were hacked off and then
Speaker 2: replaced after someone had finished picking the lock and robbing
Speaker 2: the room inside.
Speaker 1: I doubt if robbery was the mote at Watson.
Speaker 3: For what other reason would anyone want to break into.
Speaker 4: A room full of gold bullion?
Speaker 1: It all depends what lies directly below that from mister Brown.
Speaker 5: Let me see nothing of any great importance, mister Holmes,
Speaker 5: just the coal piles.
Speaker 1: The coal piles. Good lord, I think we shall have
Speaker 1: to break the seals again. Mister Brown. Here WA's and
Speaker 1: help me.
Speaker 4: But the door is not mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: Now the seals have been removements have to get the
Speaker 5: key from the captain.
Speaker 1: No time for that. Hand me my burglar tools, Watson.
Speaker 4: Good kenns. You mean you could actually take a lock
Speaker 4: with those things?
Speaker 3: Homes ever turned thief, mister Brown, even the Bank of
Speaker 3: England wouldn't be safe.
Speaker 1: Yes, that should do the trick. Now, if you'll help
Speaker 1: me draw the bars, Watson.
Speaker 3: That's good pleasure.
Speaker 1: There you are, homes Now, let's.
Speaker 2: See see lacking there isn't it?
Speaker 1: Is there a light inside, mister Brown. No, mister Holmes,
Speaker 1: I have a trade not and we shall have to
Speaker 1: prop the door open. The light from the corridor will
Speaker 1: have to do for our investigations. Come on, Watson, Holmes.
Speaker 2: That smell hue strong and accreate like sulfer, only with
Speaker 2: more bite.
Speaker 1: Seems to be coming from this large tin. Suppose I
Speaker 1: like a match.
Speaker 4: This is fillish.
Speaker 1: Stop don't be alarmed. I know better than to light
Speaker 1: a match around a tin which is leaking start philic acid.
Speaker 1: I only wanted to know how much you knew about
Speaker 1: Smoky Joe's and send your a device. Mister Ludwig Brown
Speaker 1: spelled b r a U N if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: so you recognize me? Yes, that dueling is card over
Speaker 1: your left eye. It's rather a giveaway, don't you know.
Speaker 5: So you have found how we are going to set
Speaker 5: fire to the ship by having the acid drip.
Speaker 4: Through a hole in the floor under the.
Speaker 5: Coal beneath the first shovelful of that acid. So coal
Speaker 5: that goes in the furnace and the whole of a
Speaker 5: ship will be a blazing inferno. Nothing but put out
Speaker 5: that fire. Don't you mean that's how you were going
Speaker 5: to start the fire. My dear mister Holmes, you do
Speaker 5: not think we will let a small obstacle like the
Speaker 5: famous Sherlock Holmes stand in our way.
Speaker 4: Listen to me, don't raise your fist to me. I'll
Speaker 4: let you have it.
Speaker 1: Never argue with a lugar pistol, Watson.
Speaker 5: That's the first sensible remark you've made, mister Holmes. I
Speaker 5: am sorry to leave, but the stokers should reach the
Speaker 5: sulfuric acid impregnated coal in about ten minutes, I believe,
Speaker 5: so I must be going. This room will be a
Speaker 5: roaring oven once it starts. You will be rather badly overdone.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen.
Speaker 5: Goodbye then, so sorry, I cannot say I'll feed us in.
Speaker 3: The door. He's bolted. Even you can't open it.
Speaker 1: Now, Homes, Shut up, Watson, and help you look for
Speaker 1: the opening. What opening, for heaven's sake, the opening the
Speaker 1: feats to the tube that ends on the Captain's new
Speaker 1: fire detecting machine. It should be somewhere, never seeing what homes.
Speaker 3: I can't see a thing in this black hole of Calcutter.
Speaker 1: You can feel, can't you?
Speaker 3: Not a thing homes? The wall on this side of
Speaker 3: the room. It's a who there's an egg.
Speaker 1: Can't found it? If we could see for half a minute, hullo,
Speaker 1: I've got something there, Yes, a small grating here in
Speaker 1: the upper corner. This must be it. Now, if we
Speaker 1: can make a smudge of some sort, Watson, bring me
Speaker 1: a piece of paper.
Speaker 3: Paper, whoeverd I find a piece of paper?
Speaker 1: Then bring me anything I can burn, A bit of cloth,
Speaker 1: a piece of Yes, by jove, rope, bring me a
Speaker 1: piece of the rope that's tied around one of the
Speaker 1: boxes that contain the bullion.
Speaker 3: Very well, if I can find a box, now what
Speaker 3: I found it?
Speaker 1: Found it?
Speaker 3: They're not for tight so tight places with nuts.
Speaker 1: Cut the rope. What's and use your pocket knife?
Speaker 8: Oh very well, m.
Speaker 3: Hey, homes, it's a short length. I'm afraid I.
Speaker 1: Only want enough for a smudge. Nothing like a bit
Speaker 1: of hempen.
Speaker 4: Rope, toms.
Speaker 2: For heaven's sake, you're not going to set a match
Speaker 2: to that thing in here. There'll be an explosion.
Speaker 1: Have to take the chance, Watson. With any luck, the
Speaker 1: cell furic acid fumes won't be too concentrated up here
Speaker 1: and never ceiling. Well, there goes one. Two. Now, if
Speaker 1: we can persuade the rope to smoder. Yes, this she goes.
Speaker 3: Certainly makes plenty of smoke at home.
Speaker 1: It's the important thing. It's being drawn up through the grating.
Speaker 3: How long before they come to investigate?
Speaker 1: Do you suppose it all depends on the mental acumen
Speaker 1: of a sailor who's watching that fire detecting machine.
Speaker 3: Let's hope is brighter than he looks.
Speaker 2: It may be my imagination, but it seems to me
Speaker 2: I can feel the metal flooring under my feet beginning
Speaker 2: to get hot.
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Speaker 1: Now let's rejoin Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson locked in
Speaker 1: the smoke filled Bourdon room of the Jaggetty.
Speaker 2: Good lord, how long did it take for them to
Speaker 2: get it out of here?
Speaker 3: And smoke suffocating?
Speaker 1: Calm yourself, Watson. It can't be more than three minutes
Speaker 1: since we lift this much. Yes, I can hear someone
Speaker 1: running down the iron steaking.
Speaker 3: I can't hear a blasted thing. How do you hello there?
Speaker 3: Get us out?
Speaker 1: We don't care, do.
Speaker 3: You? What a relief?
Speaker 4: How is some lood?
Speaker 1: Did you two get locked in here?
Speaker 4: What's all the smoke?
Speaker 1: And the time for explanations?
Speaker 3: Captain?
Speaker 1: Stop them stucking the furnaces. Flood the coal piles with
Speaker 1: water they've been soakend sulfuric acid. Good lord, hen jo Gees,
Speaker 1: stop the vin stop the bunts in the engine room.
Speaker 2: Well that's that, Hermes. What do you suppose has become
Speaker 2: of that death to depressor.
Speaker 1: We'll let Captain Brooks take care of him, Watson. Unless
Speaker 1: I'm very much mistaken, mister Brown is going to wish
Speaker 1: he'd never gone to sea. Well, come along, let's go
Speaker 1: upstairs and join the festivities. I think we rate a
Speaker 1: bottle of champagne.
Speaker 3: Blazes with this champagne. I need a double brandy eight bells.
Speaker 3: Let's see, that.
Speaker 1: Would be a night Watson, happy New year, old fellow, happy.
Speaker 3: In your homes and many of them.
Speaker 2: But uh, don't you think you could manage to have
Speaker 2: the not quite so hair raising.
Speaker 1: And have you getting fat on the fogic? You know
Speaker 1: that would be unhealthy not to say.
Speaker 2: Oh so now it's for my sake we indulge in
Speaker 2: all these horrendous escapades.
Speaker 3: Eh, find bit of logic that.
Speaker 1: Is elementary, my dear Watson. Elementary. But here's the ballroom.
Speaker 1: Suppose we joined the party.
Speaker 6: Fine, my dear well.
Speaker 1: Doctor Watson. That was an exciting way to spend New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve.
Speaker 3: He was a bit too exciting, mister Harris, if you ask.
Speaker 1: Me, doctor. Did they catch the purser?
Speaker 3: Oh? They did.
Speaker 2: Indeed, mister Brown and five of his accomplices were thrown
Speaker 2: in the brig That was the end of the disasters
Speaker 2: in the British Maritime cred at Holmes.
Speaker 1: First suspect the person was the villain of the piece.
Speaker 2: When he came out of the bridge and threw his
Speaker 2: overcoat on a chair near to the compass, where whereupon
Speaker 2: the compass went Berserk, who was immediately suspected the code
Speaker 2: contained a powerful magnet of some sort.
Speaker 1: And was he right?
Speaker 2: Doctor, My dear mister Harris, was Sherlock Holmes ever wrong?
Speaker 2: But come fill your mug and let us wish our
Speaker 2: radio friends are prosperous, happy and peaceful.
Speaker 1: You here, indeed we do, doctor, And now, doctor Watson,
Speaker 1: would you like to give us a hint about next
Speaker 1: week's story.
Speaker 2: Next week, I think I'll tell you how Holmes and
Speaker 2: I trapped a famous Dorothy right in our own rooms
Speaker 2: in Baker Street, by the use of what was then
Speaker 2: a fabulous new invention, the gramophone,