Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, what about the singular affair which began
Speaker 1: in the sackless thanks confined that the British Museum.
Speaker 2: Well, I must admit that I was not a frequent
Speaker 2: visitor to those gloomy halls.
Speaker 3: But on this.
Speaker 2: Particular morning, homes have been insistent. All scientists in London,
Speaker 2: especially the archaeologists, were a god of the arrival of
Speaker 2: Lord Cranwood's sensational Egyptian discoveries. Several days homes have been
Speaker 2: deeply immersed in research among the Cranwood antiquities, so that
Speaker 2: now I find myself in the Egyptian gallery of the
Speaker 2: British Musem.
Speaker 4: I say, what's the look here? This notation definitely proves
Speaker 4: the use of string instruments as well as fruits as
Speaker 4: early as three thousand BC.
Speaker 2: Interesting homes interesting indeed, if plesa, the smoking is absolutely.
Speaker 4: A big muff or right or right or hello Homes
Speaker 4: or Watson. I don't think you know, Professor Halliday of
Speaker 4: the British Museum. Professor, this is my friend, doctor Watson.
Speaker 5: Doctor Watson, not the eminent doctor Eustace Watson, the well
Speaker 5: known archaeologist of Edinburgh.
Speaker 3: I'm honored, mister John H. Watson the Bakery Street, Oh Solo.
Speaker 4: This is doctor Watson's first visit to all your magnificent
Speaker 4: new acquisitions. Professor Halliday, it's a veritable treasure house, gentlemen.
Speaker 5: The late Lord Cranwell's excavations at the sight of ancient
Speaker 5: Aby does have given the Museum a priceless mine of information.
Speaker 4: Yet the price in human lives has not been inconsiderable.
Speaker 4: First Lord Ranwood himself only a few days after the
Speaker 4: Shrine of Harsha Feet was opened.
Speaker 5: I'm out of almost eighty Mister Holmes, the strain and
Speaker 5: excitement of the discovery but too much for him, no doubt.
Speaker 4: And then a month later, doctor Duma disappearing mysterious day
Speaker 4: from camp, only to be found hopelessly insane and babbling
Speaker 4: madly before he died, and young Wilson vanished into thin air,
Speaker 4: had assumed to have been lost overboard from the shift
Speaker 4: that was bringing the expedition back to England, though it
Speaker 4: was a calm, moonlit night.
Speaker 5: Don't tell me that you, of all people believe this news.
Speaker 5: They could talk the Husha Fitz curse, mister Holmes. I
Speaker 5: believe nothing that is not susceptible of proof.
Speaker 4: Professor. Evidently the new Lord Cranwood is quite undisturbed by
Speaker 4: any threats of a curse upon his family. I've seen
Speaker 4: him working here every day this week. Is is that
Speaker 4: Lord Crodwood. Yes, he's a deliberate man over there, just
Speaker 4: beyond that fifth sarcophagus Wood. He chap with a rather
Speaker 4: florid faces, packing those notes into his briefcase.
Speaker 3: Must judging from his appearance, I should think the curse
Speaker 3: of or watch his name wouldn't have much luck with him.
Speaker 5: You excuse me, gentlemen, I WoT a word with Lord
Speaker 5: Cranward before he leaves.
Speaker 2: As the whom supposing I run along, I'll beat you
Speaker 2: the club for Lunchome, Lord cragwe better why he's.
Speaker 4: Collapsed with Watson. I don't understand. He just seemed the keel.
Speaker 3: Let me take a load of him.
Speaker 4: You were standing right toside him. Professor just won't have
Speaker 4: fun is speaking to him? He clutched his throat. Try
Speaker 4: to say something had collapsed home, Yes, what's the man's dead?
Speaker 4: Impossible cause of death? Watson, I should have said, heart.
Speaker 3: But but the.
Speaker 4: Curious rigidity of the muscles. If his hands and throat
Speaker 4: aren't consistent with that diagnosis is that.
Speaker 3: It wasn't quite correct, Homes.
Speaker 4: He would better notify Scotland Yard at once. Professor Halliday
Speaker 4: got and God whos to hold it you suggesting? I
Speaker 4: suggest nothing, Professor Halliday. But Lord Cranwood has died extremely suddenly.
Speaker 4: In you are the three previous deaths which have occurd
Speaker 4: among the members of the expedition. I feel that this
Speaker 4: is definitely a matter for the police. I sent for
Speaker 4: them at once. I'm certain, Watson, that the second b
Speaker 4: look at Lord Cranwood's body will suggest to your mind
Speaker 4: a cause of death with which you cannot be unfamiliar
Speaker 4: after your NY career in India. The congested eyeballs, the
Speaker 4: rigid neck muscles.
Speaker 3: You mean snake.
Speaker 4: Bite precisely, the bite of some venomous and highly poisonous
Speaker 4: snake is the only cause consistent with these appearances that.
Speaker 3: There are no snakes here in the British Museum.
Speaker 4: That, Watson, is why I sent for Scotland Yard.
Speaker 3: You've been pacing up down enough two solid days' homes.
Speaker 2: Would it be too much to ask you to be
Speaker 2: seated for at least five minutes?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Watson, and the lack of any satisfactory solution
Speaker 4: to the problem of Lord Cranwood's death has driven me
Speaker 4: almost out of my mind.
Speaker 3: Find the problem insoluble and so far.
Speaker 4: An inspector, Let's tribe, I've been expecting a call from you.
Speaker 4: This thing's fair got me beat, mister Rones, Journal Inspector.
Speaker 3: Can I get a drink?
Speaker 6: Thank you doctor, I'll be glad of one. Well, we've
Speaker 6: got the coroner's verdict, mister Romes, and much good it
Speaker 6: does us death by misadventure from unknown causes.
Speaker 4: You could hardly expect a coroner's jury to say one.
Speaker 4: Did the Home Office pathollo just confare? My opinion are
Speaker 4: thank you? Oh yes, miss Jones.
Speaker 6: All the appearances of death were consistent with the bite
Speaker 6: of some deadly snake. But did we find any snakes
Speaker 6: running around? Were there any snake bites on the deceased body?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: While you yourself within a few yards of the man, miss Rones,
Speaker 6: and you know as well as I do that if
Speaker 6: a man gets bitten by a snake, he's going to
Speaker 6: let out a year.
Speaker 4: I know exactly how you'll feel, the tribe, and have you.
Speaker 6: Seen the papers Scotland yard dappled by five thousand year
Speaker 6: old curse death strikes again from Egyptian tomb.
Speaker 4: You can't blame the journalists as tribe. It's a newspaper
Speaker 4: editor's dream man Scotland yard's nightmare.
Speaker 7: Well, ar must be offul.
Speaker 4: The Commissioner wants to see me this afternoon. You can be.
Speaker 6: Thankful this isn't one of your cases, mister Olmes. I
Speaker 6: think this one would be too much EASi to you.
Speaker 3: I was seeing the star quite so worked up before.
Speaker 4: And I can't say that I blame him once. Well,
Speaker 4: coming on, since the late Lord Cranwoo's funeral is to
Speaker 4: take place at two o'clock, we might well stroll over
Speaker 4: to Hanover Square. Perhaps a brisk walkan said to blow
Speaker 4: the cobwebs from our brains.
Speaker 2: It's the first time I've known you sturn about outside
Speaker 2: the church at the funeral homes, pearing at the relatives.
Speaker 3: Of the dead man.
Speaker 4: I'm anxious to see the new Lord Grandwood as well
Speaker 4: as his relatives. He was a nephew of the late
Speaker 4: lords we know, and the family's interest in Egyptology has
Speaker 4: been inherited by him, along with the title.
Speaker 3: Here I come. I wouldn't have been in his vote
Speaker 3: for the curse hanging over my head.
Speaker 4: Here's Lord Carnwood Buttson, how st looking.
Speaker 2: Young chef looks, sir, to take more than a family
Speaker 2: course to get him downe.
Speaker 3: Who's that coming off? To the pale young fellow in
Speaker 3: the wheelchair, His.
Speaker 4: Cousin and mister never Robinson, I believe being hopelessly paralyzed
Speaker 4: ever since boyhood horse rode down in my hunting.
Speaker 2: Yes, the lines of pain and suffering are very evident
Speaker 2: in the poor fellow's face.
Speaker 4: That must be Robinson's older brother, mister Oliver Robinson. Rather,
Speaker 4: he is set young man just coming out. I assume
Speaker 4: that's his wife with him, the girl with a black veil.
Speaker 2: It's rather rough on them, all, these curious people scaring
Speaker 2: coming on homes.
Speaker 3: Let's be off.
Speaker 4: Heywhell Watson, I've seen more of it. I think your pardon.
Speaker 7: So I'm cho mister Sherlock Holmes, Yes, whom, My name's
Speaker 7: Oliver Robertson. Patunant coincidence my.
Speaker 3: Seeing you here.
Speaker 7: I'd intended sending you a message this evening, a message, Yes,
Speaker 7: I wanted you to Well, this is Haunted, the place
Speaker 7: to discussed such matters. I'm staying at my cousin, Lord
Speaker 7: Campbell's house. I wonder if you'll be good enough to
Speaker 7: come there this.
Speaker 4: Evening word nine o'clock be satisfactory, excellent, mister Holmes, Good day, sir,
Speaker 4: Good day, mister Robinson.
Speaker 7: Oh, come in, gentlemen, Come in. I don't think you
Speaker 7: know my wife. Dear may I introduce mister Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 4: How do you do? And this is my colleague, doctor Watts.
Speaker 4: How do you do.
Speaker 8: I'm very happy to see you here, mister Holmes, and
Speaker 8: you trow doctor Watson.
Speaker 7: Mister Holmes, my wife and I, well look at frankly,
Speaker 7: have asked you to come here because we're afraid, not
Speaker 7: for ourselves, but for my cousin, the new Lord Cranwood.
Speaker 8: Neither Oliver nor myself is of a nervous gentleman. If
Speaker 8: you've read the account of the Cranwood expeditions, you must
Speaker 8: appreciate my feeling that we are containing against.
Speaker 7: More than near ill sate, four members of the same
Speaker 7: small group dying mysteriously or by violence, within a few
Speaker 7: weeks of each other.
Speaker 3: You who can stop it all? This talk about an
Speaker 3: ancient Egyptian curse.
Speaker 4: I don't really know. Tell me, mister Robinson. Does the
Speaker 4: new Lord Cranwood share your fears?
Speaker 7: Now forget to say it does not. He laughed when
Speaker 7: I told him my last your help.
Speaker 9: Am I interrupting a council of war on me I
Speaker 9: did permitted to be present.
Speaker 7: Come in by all means, Neville, Now let me give
Speaker 7: you a hand with your wheelchair.
Speaker 4: I can manage, I can manage.
Speaker 7: My brother, Neville. Gentlemen, mister Sherlock, Holmes and Dr Watson.
Speaker 9: I assume that the presence of the celebrated sleuth of
Speaker 9: Baker Street is not unconnected with the curse of the
Speaker 9: clan world.
Speaker 8: Please, Neville, don't make fun of us for being frightened
Speaker 8: as well as Gellick were worrying about, not us, Hilled.
Speaker 9: I'm enough for you to worry, Oliver. When the curse
Speaker 9: catches up with Derek, then you be lord Clan with
Speaker 9: yourself and it will be my turn to start worrying.
Speaker 9: I gathered, mister Robinson that you are somewhat skeptical regarding
Speaker 9: the efficacy of Harshafied's five thousand year old curse. My
Speaker 9: granduncle died of heart failure after the excitement of discovering
Speaker 9: the tomb. Doctor Duma's death was certainly enough the first
Speaker 9: case of sandstroke that's ever been heard of in Egypt,
Speaker 9: and Wilson, who fell overboard from the ship, was notoriously
Speaker 9: fond of the bottle.
Speaker 4: Does that answer our question, the ingenious mister Robinson, But
Speaker 4: it leaves out of the count to your uncle's death
Speaker 4: in the British Museum the other day.
Speaker 9: I could offer you a dozen theories to account for that,
Speaker 9: but I doubt if they'd be sensational enough to please you,
Speaker 9: mister Holmes.
Speaker 7: Regardless what my cousin may say, and I know he'll
Speaker 7: agree with my brother, I wish to engage you to
Speaker 7: prevent any repetition of the prejudices which already.
Speaker 3: Struck this family.
Speaker 8: Do you say you will the towns.
Speaker 4: I will do my best, mister Robinson, to keep Lord
Speaker 4: Cranwood safe from harm, but without his cooperation I great
Speaker 4: save here.
Speaker 7: Simpson said he wanted to see me, Oliver, Oh, I
Speaker 7: beg your pardon. I didn't know you had gees.
Speaker 4: I very much want to see you, Derek.
Speaker 7: This is mister Sherwock Holmes and doctor Watson, my cousin
Speaker 7: Lord Cranwood. Gentlemen, I'm sorry gentlemen, I have no sympathy
Speaker 7: with my brother's fears, or do I have seen a
Speaker 7: necessity for dragging detectives into this matter. I trust you'll
Speaker 7: excuse me good night. Well you see, mister Holmes, it's
Speaker 7: just as I told you.
Speaker 8: I do hope you'll do your best anyway, Mister Holmes,
Speaker 8: I promise you I shall.
Speaker 7: Your task won't be made any easier. Mister Holmes, wh
Speaker 7: my cousin's stubbn't determination to continue working at the museum.
Speaker 7: He's arranged Professor Halliday to work there at night in
Speaker 7: the future, beginning tomorrow. He wishes to avoid the stairs
Speaker 7: of the Curious.
Speaker 9: Interesting Great Scott, my watch must have stopped nine thirteen,
Speaker 9: and I haven't as yet fed my snakes.
Speaker 3: Snakes do you say snakes? Why?
Speaker 9: Yes, doctor, Since my affliction debars me from digging in
Speaker 9: Egyptian tombs and similar active pastimes, I amuse myself for
Speaker 9: the small her battalion. Would you care to see my collection?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 4: Heavens know, or some other time perhaps, mister Robinson, Doctor
Speaker 4: Watson and I must be off good snakes.
Speaker 2: I must say, Holmes, that I find that sinister cripple
Speaker 2: Neville and his nasty collection of poisonous reptiles.
Speaker 3: Kind is suspicious, and there's.
Speaker 4: No doubt that Neville's personality has been warped by his afflictions,
Speaker 4: and the availability of snake venom is of course significant
Speaker 4: of his motive.
Speaker 3: Homes of it.
Speaker 2: His motive, the Cranwood title and the Cranwood fortune.
Speaker 4: There's one thing you've forgotten, Watson. Even if the new
Speaker 4: Lord Cranwood were to die, it would be Nevill's older
Speaker 4: brother who wouldn't headit. Oliver and his wife would become
Speaker 4: Lord and Lady Cranwell, are.
Speaker 2: You trying to tell me that a murderer who'd killed
Speaker 2: two men would bubble at a third.
Speaker 3: If Cranward dies an Oliver gets the title, he'd be
Speaker 3: the last barrier Nevill's way.
Speaker 2: I don't like to say at Holmes, but for once
Speaker 2: you seem to be singly abcuse about the facts of.
Speaker 4: This case, possibly, Watson, At any rate, I intend that
Speaker 4: you and I shall be present, although concealed, when Lord
Speaker 4: Cranwood visits the Egyptian Galleries tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: You mean that you anticipate an attempt upon his.
Speaker 4: Life, as I have told you on previous occasions, Watson,
Speaker 4: it's a great mistake to puarize ahead of one's data.
Speaker 3: So don't you do.
Speaker 2: You don't really have put any faith in order to
Speaker 2: talk about the supernatural curse, do you, Watson? Gosh, no, no,
Speaker 2: of course not good.
Speaker 4: Well then I trust that tomorrow night you will arm
Speaker 4: yourself with your service about that. Yes, Watson, I should
Speaker 4: like to be in readiness for anything when they encountered
Speaker 4: the British Museum, supernatural or otherwise.
Speaker 3: Your place at night?
Speaker 4: Is it card humanity? Yeah? What do you mean that
Speaker 4: the relics of the past are all about it? This
Speaker 4: way through the northern vegetable.
Speaker 3: I say, at homes, what's that thing? Looks like it's coffin?
Speaker 4: That's what it is. It's good here, we are here,
Speaker 4: no doubt. Work at that long table. It has the
Speaker 4: only decent light in the room. And you take that
Speaker 4: side of the table. Watsn't I'll take this. It makes
Speaker 4: certain there's no one and nothing concealed.
Speaker 3: You're you're you're not expecting to find a snake anywhere
Speaker 3: are your homes?
Speaker 4: I don't expect to find anything. I merely wished to
Speaker 4: make certain that there is nothing to find the out
Speaker 4: care for once knock over that little figure and the
Speaker 4: Egyptians holders at the statues, the answerers, they are buried
Speaker 4: in the cedar coffins within the Sarkata guy who accompany
Speaker 4: the dead and to obury their orders.
Speaker 3: There's an idea of myself. Well there's nothing hidden on
Speaker 3: this side of the table.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, there's an excellent spot to conceal ourselves.
Speaker 4: Oh here, what's that?
Speaker 3: Great God, what a horrible sight. What sort of a
Speaker 3: nightmare is that?
Speaker 4: And appropriate? They're not? It's a statue of how shall
Speaker 4: feed a ram headed guy? Oh excellent, Watson, Now this
Speaker 4: will do perfectly. We can see everything in the room
Speaker 4: from behind him. Just what are you expecting, Homes. I
Speaker 4: don't know what summit coming Flodranco, because he's taking his
Speaker 4: papers out of his briefcase.
Speaker 3: Oh, now that he's turned the lamp up, that can
Speaker 3: tell it better. He's all like, so fine, he's set
Speaker 3: him down to work.
Speaker 4: What's something fun?
Speaker 8: Quick?
Speaker 3: He must have painted, said.
Speaker 4: The anti cooxy. Get in the injection.
Speaker 3: Hurry, it's two late, Homes. He's dead.
Speaker 4: In just a moment.
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Speaker 4: And now back to.
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson at our story.
Speaker 10: I say, Holmes, if you won't have it in lunch,
Speaker 10: you would least take a cup of teeth.
Speaker 4: No, thanker, Watson, I'm not hungry.
Speaker 2: You've been saying that ever since that poor fellow Derrick
Speaker 2: was killed and at four loved you simply must need homes.
Speaker 4: My appetite will return when I have a solution for
Speaker 4: this case, Watson, and not before.
Speaker 2: Well, I've hesitated to say at homes. But if that
Speaker 2: man had died by any natural means in front of
Speaker 2: our very eyes, I'm perfectly certain that you would have
Speaker 2: solved the riddle.
Speaker 4: Well, if your hypothesis is correct, what's this case is
Speaker 4: not a matter of the mortal's mind, And that I
Speaker 4: refused to admit.
Speaker 2: No, we saw him come in, we saw him open
Speaker 2: his briefcase.
Speaker 3: He turned up the lamp, sat down, don't you wats
Speaker 3: thank me for what.
Speaker 4: You've just given me some remarkably interesting food for thought.
Speaker 2: Oh, come in, why missus Robertson Oa, I beg your pardon.
Speaker 2: It's Lady Cranwood, now.
Speaker 8: Isn't It makes me unhappy to say that it is?
Speaker 8: Doctor Watson?
Speaker 4: Won to sit down, Lady Grandwood. I've already expressed your
Speaker 4: husband my deep feeling over the tragedy I failed to prevent.
Speaker 8: Let me show you, mister Holmes. Neither my husband nor
Speaker 8: I feel that you were in any way to blame.
Speaker 4: I appreciate your kindness, Lady Granwood, but I still blame
Speaker 4: myself for having failed to reach a solution.
Speaker 8: That is why I've come to see you this morning,
Speaker 8: mister Holmes. I I hardly know how to say it.
Speaker 8: My suspicion is such a horrible one. There, my dear,
Speaker 8: I'm convinced that Oliver isn't deadly peril And for me
Speaker 8: home brother, did you hear that homes you saw the
Speaker 8: two Doctor Watson. I've been fighting down a horrible thought,
Speaker 8: denying it even to myself. That's felt I had to
Speaker 8: tell you, mister Holmes, Well.
Speaker 4: Have you any proof, Lady Cranwell, anything definite on which
Speaker 4: to obease such an accusation only.
Speaker 8: Never sneers and is jealousy of my husband, horrible snakes.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you may be able to assist me in confirming
Speaker 4: or disproving your suspicions of never Lady Cranwell.
Speaker 8: Anything I can do, mister Holmes, anything.
Speaker 4: I imagine that the entire family and the servants as well,
Speaker 4: will all be attending the funeral this afternoon. Of course,
Speaker 4: then if you are good enough to leave me your
Speaker 4: key to the heights, I shall take advantage of everyone's
Speaker 4: absence to go there and investigate one or two possibilities
Speaker 4: that have occurred to me.
Speaker 8: Cust Tones, here is the key, Thank.
Speaker 4: You, and one other thing. I should appreciate it if
Speaker 4: you would ask you a husband, to meet Watson and
Speaker 4: myself at the museum tonight about nine o'clock am seum. Yes,
Speaker 4: I feel that a reenactment of the late Lord Cranwood's
Speaker 4: death may bring us to a solution.
Speaker 8: Do you think it's necessary in tone?
Speaker 4: I think it is vitally necessary.
Speaker 8: Very well, I will ask my husband to meet you
Speaker 8: at the museum at night. I'm not going now.
Speaker 5: Goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 3: A woman, No wonder she's overwrought.
Speaker 4: Come, Watson, you're hat and stick. We have work to do.
Speaker 3: Cranwith's house you mean, well.
Speaker 4: I shall go there this afternoon. But meanwhile I want
Speaker 4: you to take a note to Less start at Scotland
Speaker 4: Guard and personally seat with that he gets it, and
Speaker 4: then meet me at nine o'clock tonight at the British Museum.
Speaker 2: Well, I must say, Homes it as long as we
Speaker 2: had to come back this chamber of horrors.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that you insisted on a decent amount.
Speaker 4: Of illumination since we went to concealing ourselves this evening, Watson,
Speaker 4: I asked Professor Halliday to leave the Egyptian Gallery of
Speaker 4: fully lighting. How you sit here at large?
Speaker 2: None of the professes her about homes. I don't suppose
Speaker 2: the museum will be shaken to its foundations if I
Speaker 2: smoke the pipe.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's fair.
Speaker 4: I'm believing Lord Granwood, believing Lady Granwell, mister Holmes, Dr Watson.
Speaker 7: I fail to see what purpose will be served by
Speaker 7: reenacting my cousin's tragic death. But why I'm willing to
Speaker 7: do anything within my path will offer any hope, I'm sitting.
Speaker 8: I'm coming with I was, and mister Holmes, I'm afraid
Speaker 8: every moment I'm away from it.
Speaker 4: Now, Lord Granwood, let us try in every way to
Speaker 4: duplicate your cousin's actions of two nights ago. I have
Speaker 4: here his briefcase, and i'd like you to enter through
Speaker 4: those doors, carrying the briefcase in your left hand and
Speaker 4: humming a tune. All right, ready, all right, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Now put the briefcase down on this table. Take off
Speaker 4: your hat and coat and put them on the table
Speaker 4: any particular place you want them. Let us place them
Speaker 4: on the table as your cousin did. Now open the briefcase.
Speaker 3: Oh that foresight.
Speaker 4: What we were back to say?
Speaker 3: Nothing?
Speaker 4: You were about to say, Lord Cranwood, that you thought
Speaker 4: the ingenious adaptation of the Borgia's poison needle had been
Speaker 4: removed from its mountain the briefcase lock. What on earth
Speaker 4: you're talking about? I found that fiendishly clever mechanism in
Speaker 4: your study this afternoon.
Speaker 8: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: I mean that this briefcase was fitted with a poisoned needle,
Speaker 4: which was removed after Derek's death, and which I replaced
Speaker 4: when I found it at your house this afternoon, lovely.
Speaker 4: I also found some of the poison, Lord Cranwood, and
Speaker 4: I greatly fear that when I remounted the needle in
Speaker 4: the briefcase after my experiments, some of the venom may
Speaker 4: have remained on it.
Speaker 3: Plus homes. Shirt bluff.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't die if you think I'm bluffing, Lord Cranwood.
Speaker 4: Why is your face going so pale? You're touching your
Speaker 4: arm with your other hand? Why I mean it was poisoned?
Speaker 4: My arms swelling is going noble? The bisiship my bust
Speaker 4: two hands?
Speaker 3: You kill?
Speaker 4: All right? I did?
Speaker 3: Is I'd killed the othersband?
Speaker 4: You'll never all right the sty here's your confession, a
Speaker 4: confessional rights. But all you've given us, ind you tell
Speaker 4: him not a bit of it. He's only collapsed from
Speaker 4: three homes, the pain in his arm, the symptoms merely
Speaker 4: a harmless though painful solution which I placed on the poison.
Speaker 4: Eagles catch her, Watson, she's painting.
Speaker 3: And Oliver was a fiend.
Speaker 4: Holmes an absolent fiene, unquestionably, but you must admit that
Speaker 4: his hiring us is an ingenious attempt at a novel
Speaker 4: method of removing all possible suspicion from himself, and now
Speaker 4: he'll pay the penalty for murdering at least two men.
Speaker 3: A good thing too.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I don't know how you ever found out
Speaker 2: about the briefcase.
Speaker 4: Why you gave me the clue, Watson? You yourself, I did.
Speaker 4: Back in Baker Street when you were talking about the
Speaker 4: second death, you mentioned that we had seen Lord Cranwood
Speaker 4: enter the room open his briefcase. Oh he did exactly,
Speaker 4: But until you mentioned it, the significant fact had escaped
Speaker 4: me that the only objects common to both deaths and
Speaker 4: handled by both men was the briefcase.
Speaker 2: Gracious me, well, that solves the mystery of the ancient
Speaker 2: Egyptian curse?
Speaker 4: Dares it? Watson? Have you forgotten the three who died
Speaker 4: previously under such strange circumstances after they had opened harshark
Speaker 4: It's temple?
Speaker 6: You will?
Speaker 3: Do you mean that you really believe in that stupid curse?
Speaker 4: Those three deaths have still not been explained, and I
Speaker 4: doubt that they ever will be. There are powers, Watson,
Speaker 4: higher powers which we poor humans still know nothing