Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, what about the case of the
Speaker 1: Burmese Goddess?
Speaker 2: If my memory does not fail me, mister Harris. It
Speaker 2: took place in the summer of nineteen eleven. This was
Speaker 2: a time when England had consolidated her empire, and many
Speaker 2: of Britain roamed the far Eastern domains in search of
Speaker 2: its ancient treasure. Among these were Sir John BRANDEWI recently
Speaker 2: returned from Burma with the collection of priceless relics. He
Speaker 2: hadn't been in London an hour, however, when he received
Speaker 2: a strange visitor.
Speaker 3: Sir Jan, my name is ah Daku. I have come
Speaker 3: a long way, indeed from my native land of Burma.
Speaker 2: For this interview creation. What is it to wind?
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 3: Some months ago a sacred Burmese temple near Sitang was
Speaker 3: desecrated by vandals, robbed of his sacred relics. Among these
Speaker 3: was the jade goddess of Emma, the second Goddess. Originally
Speaker 3: there were two goddesses, the Sisters of Ama, but one
Speaker 3: of them vanished centuries ago.
Speaker 4: Quiet, did I have the only remaining goddess in my collection?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Yes, said John, and I have come to purchase it
Speaker 3: from you and restore it to the temple.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I dark cool, but the Goddess of Amar
Speaker 4: is not for sale.
Speaker 3: I am prepared to offer you a handsome sum, enough
Speaker 3: to keep you in luxury for the rest of your life.
Speaker 4: I have no need of money, sir, and I repeat,
Speaker 4: the Goddess of Amar is not for sale at any
Speaker 4: price I.
Speaker 3: See, Sir John, no doubt you are aware of the
Speaker 3: old Burmese legend that he who possesses the Goddess died,
Speaker 3: that he is first worn by the song of the
Speaker 3: suventh and the years.
Speaker 4: I know the story pure nonsense and puppy ca of course,
Speaker 4: doesn't frighten me.
Speaker 3: In that case, there is nothing more I can say
Speaker 3: or do at the moment, John.
Speaker 5: Sir John Bradley Wine. Yes, my name is Bailey, Reginald Bailey.
Speaker 5: I am an art collector specializing in Oriental objects of arts.
Speaker 5: Mister Bailey, a client of mine, saw the Goddess of
Speaker 5: Emma when you exhibited it briefly in Paris on your
Speaker 5: way to England.
Speaker 1: Here he has commissioned me to purchase it for him.
Speaker 4: My dear sir, you're the second prospective purchaser i've seen
Speaker 4: this evening, and I repeat to you what I said
Speaker 4: to the first goddess is not for sake.
Speaker 5: My clients is willing to pay ten pounds a generous offer.
Speaker 1: I am sorry, mister Bailey.
Speaker 2: Sir John, I'm afraid you're being stubborn.
Speaker 5: I've been a collector long enough to know that there
Speaker 5: is no such thing as a priceless item. Everything has
Speaker 5: its price, and if fit is a question of money.
Speaker 4: The last time, sir, you should try to make myself clear.
Speaker 1: I will not sell the I'd let any price. And now,
Speaker 1: mister ball Air, good night.
Speaker 6: M h m.
Speaker 2: What you said?
Speaker 4: Give this noise outside the window? Mm, now it can't
Speaker 4: be that confounded for mese legend, it's absurd. Should find
Speaker 4: out what this is all about.
Speaker 2: Who are there? My god? Good fud you speak up?
Speaker 2: Run no no hell so you think, Sir John Brandywine
Speaker 2: was murdered because he possessed the serpent Goddess of Weimarho
Speaker 2: obviously Watson.
Speaker 6: His demise followed the legend of the letter. After he
Speaker 6: was leered to the window, he was struck by a
Speaker 6: blowgun missile soaked in deadly reptile venom, and he died
Speaker 6: almost instantly.
Speaker 2: Joe. Now, all this makes it hard for a chap
Speaker 2: to believe he's living in the twentieth century.
Speaker 6: Yes, true, Watson, but Sir John's room was rifled in
Speaker 6: highly modern fashion. Fortunately, however, he had the foresight to
Speaker 6: lock the Goddess and the remainder of his collection in
Speaker 6: a vault immediately after he arrived in London.
Speaker 2: I wonder what became of the other goddess homes, the
Speaker 2: one that vanished centuries a girl.
Speaker 1: I believe I can give you the answer to.
Speaker 2: That, Watson, Eh, you can. Who has it home?
Speaker 6: I have, Yes, Watson, Oh, forgive me if it's one
Speaker 6: of the very few secrets I've kept from you these
Speaker 6: many years. Up to now, I saw no reason to
Speaker 6: mention it to anyone. You remember that the adventure of
Speaker 6: the rangoon rubab.
Speaker 2: Yers, Did I do? That was some ten years ago?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 6: At the culmination of that affair, the Burmese potentate involved
Speaker 6: was very grateful for some slight service I had rendered him,
Speaker 6: and he gave me the Goddess. It seems that it
Speaker 6: had secretly been kept by his family for many generations.
Speaker 2: At Holmes, Where is the Goddess now.
Speaker 6: Safely under lock and key? In my tin box at
Speaker 6: Barclay's back. But the only other Goddess of Amar in existence,
Speaker 6: that possessed by Sir John Brandywine, will soon see.
Speaker 1: The light of day.
Speaker 2: Eh, what do you mean?
Speaker 6: Oh, I take it you haven't read the morning telegraph, Watson.
Speaker 6: It seems that Sir John's widow is auctioning off her
Speaker 6: deceased husband's entire Burmese collection tomorrow morning at Brandywine House
Speaker 6: on Berkeley Square.
Speaker 2: Oh. Then, in view of Sir John's strange death, it
Speaker 2: might be interesting to see who bids for the Goddess
Speaker 2: of Amar.
Speaker 1: Quite, Watson.
Speaker 6: And that is precisely why we shall attend the auction
Speaker 6: tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, your intention please?
Speaker 7: The next melick from the lates of John Brandywyne's famous
Speaker 7: Burbie's collection is this tiny je goddess, the famous seventh
Speaker 7: Goddess of Ama. Are rare collectors, I can indeed I
Speaker 7: see a head. Raise your name's sir, as you in
Speaker 7: your bidza fifty pounds pose it first.
Speaker 2: Frenchman is doing the bidding.
Speaker 1: He's the only one. The others are obviously afraid of
Speaker 1: the legend. Watson.
Speaker 6: Note the condition of the fellow's hair and hand. We're
Speaker 6: about interesting very well.
Speaker 2: I have fifty pounds, fifty.
Speaker 6: Pounds once, one hundred pounds, one hundred pounds.
Speaker 8: I am bid one hundred pounds, two hundred pound.
Speaker 2: Three hundred or five homes. What are you trying to do.
Speaker 1: By the goddess not been disturbed? Appeal for reasons of
Speaker 1: my own coming into her.
Speaker 2: Own five hundred pounds, we'll summon.
Speaker 4: Off for sixty six seven, seven hundred pounds.
Speaker 2: Will the gentleman in the railroad give.
Speaker 1: Me eight eight hundred bars one thousand pounds?
Speaker 2: What thousand pounds? One thousand I have been posing other chef,
Speaker 2: stop biddy, he's leaving the auction.
Speaker 6: As he is, indeed, Watson, But we have a new
Speaker 6: and later arrival. Note the high born Burmese gentlemen hurrying
Speaker 6: through the door.
Speaker 9: I have the.
Speaker 7: Thousand once, a thousand, twice, so for one thousand.
Speaker 2: Pounds, mister auctioneer.
Speaker 3: Wait, my name is a Daku and I wish to be.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, sir, but the Goddess of Amar has already
Speaker 7: been sold to the tall gentleman in the front row.
Speaker 1: Someone's the door, Watson.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, ho, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: I am Sherlock Holmes. This is my colleague, Dr Watson.
Speaker 5: My name is Reginald Bailey. I am an art collector,
Speaker 5: mister Holmes, and the client of mine is interested in
Speaker 5: the Goddess of Amar you purchased at the auction this morning. Well,
Speaker 5: my representative, Monsieur Laville, foolishly allowed you to outbid him,
Speaker 5: thinking the price was too high. Well, I am interested
Speaker 5: in buying it now and have prepared to offer you
Speaker 5: a generous price.
Speaker 1: How generous ten.
Speaker 2: Thousand pounds t Holmes. That's ten times what you paid.
Speaker 1: Yes, quite, Watson, But the Goddess of Amar is not
Speaker 1: for sale. Mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: You don't realize what you're saying.
Speaker 6: On the contrary, I know perfectly well what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I repeat, the Goddess is not for sale at any
Speaker 6: price now, mister Bailey.
Speaker 5: I bid you good night very well, mister Holmes, I
Speaker 5: can only say you'll regret your action.
Speaker 2: Good night, Well, Dashendoms. You must be mad turning down
Speaker 2: an offer like.
Speaker 6: That, Not at all, Watson. You recall the French gentlemen
Speaker 6: who bit against me at the auction. You remember I
Speaker 6: referred to the condition of his hair and handless. The
Speaker 6: skin on the fellow's hands was desiccated, and he'd lost
Speaker 6: his fingernails. Moreover, on certain areas of his head, he'd
Speaker 6: suffered a complete glass of hair.
Speaker 2: Knows what's all this got to do with the with
Speaker 2: the Burmese Goddess.
Speaker 6: It means, my dear fellow, that the jade figure and
Speaker 6: I purchased is worth a fortune. It means that not one,
Speaker 6: but two mysterious parties want the goddess and will stop
Speaker 6: at nothing to get it. If I'm not misticken, there
Speaker 6: may be a desperate attempt to kidnap the Goddess tonight.
Speaker 1: You choose your family, doctor, lawyer, and banker because you
Speaker 1: have confidence in them. It's just as smart to choose
Speaker 1: the place where you buy your clothes for the same reason.
Speaker 1: Right now, in your own city, a friendly, respected independent
Speaker 1: merchants sells clippercraft clothes. He believes and acts on the
Speaker 1: belief that you will appreciate the genuine savings he passes
Speaker 1: on to you. He doesn't sell dubious merchandise. His business
Speaker 1: is built four square on a firm foundation, fine tailoring,
Speaker 1: outstanding style, value and quality. Exceptional quality is guaranteed by
Speaker 1: the clipper Craft label in every suit and topcoat, that
Speaker 1: respected trade mark derived from the staunch Clipper ships that
Speaker 1: established honest New England quality everywhere in the world. Yes,
Speaker 1: you can trust clipper Craft clothes and the men who
Speaker 1: sell them. That's why men who know insist on Clippercraft
Speaker 1: clothes bearing the clipper Craft label. So be sure to
Speaker 1: visit the clipper Craft store in your city.
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Speaker 9: add their names to Clippercraft in your suits and top coats.
Speaker 9: In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and
Speaker 9: sixty seven Liberty Street, Sachs thirty fourth Broadway at thirty
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Speaker 9: Men's Shop, Presgy Newark. And in Jamaica the B and
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Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson. Doctor Watson, you were relating to
Speaker 1: us the case of the Burmese guidess, so I was.
Speaker 2: Mister hals Holmes did not explain his observations any further,
Speaker 2: and I did not press him. That night at Baker Street,
Speaker 2: I fell into a troubled and uneasy slump. And my
Speaker 2: last recollection was of Holmes sitting in his easy chair,
Speaker 2: smoking his pipe and facing the window. He seemed to
Speaker 2: be waiting for something, expecting something. And then Watson, Watson,
Speaker 2: wake up this Watson, juice is icy, good Lord Holmes.
Speaker 2: The warning song, the warning of death that led infernal
Speaker 2: legend Whites.
Speaker 1: We have a visitor in the yard.
Speaker 2: Well, confounder, let's go to the windows.
Speaker 6: To stay away from the window, Watson, to approach and
Speaker 6: open it means certain death.
Speaker 1: You shall wait ahead on the dark and abude the
Speaker 1: tramp they set.
Speaker 2: Who are they?
Speaker 1: Obvious? Watson?
Speaker 2: They had two shots from outside our window.
Speaker 6: Yes, something has happened which I did not foresee. Watson,
Speaker 6: take a revolver and follow me down to the art quickly, Homes.
Speaker 2: There's a body of a man here in the yard.
Speaker 2: He's been shot.
Speaker 1: Yes, and look there's a man. He just run out
Speaker 1: of the shrubbery.
Speaker 2: Hello there stop stop shoot confounded and mister he's heard
Speaker 2: on the fence hose he's running down Maker Street, queer
Speaker 2: after him. The beggar was too fast, was hosy? He
Speaker 2: got away?
Speaker 6: Yes, quite, but he's left us a souvenir in this
Speaker 6: corpse here right, let us examine the body.
Speaker 1: Ha ha, what is it?
Speaker 6: Identification papers, Watson, and note they prove that this dead
Speaker 6: man is Inspector Paul Dubois, the French civitate.
Speaker 1: Eh.
Speaker 2: What's a French police inspector got to do with a
Speaker 2: Burmese goddess?
Speaker 6: Everything, my dear fellow, everything. Remember my competitive bidder at
Speaker 6: the auction was also French. Yes, the pieces of this
Speaker 6: remarkable puzzle are beginning to assemble themselves into a clear
Speaker 6: and precise pattern. And one moment, Watson, Yes, observe this
Speaker 6: slip of paper on the dead man's body seems to
Speaker 6: be a.
Speaker 1: Torn piece of rather expensive stationery.
Speaker 2: What of it?
Speaker 6: On it are written the words room three twenty two
Speaker 6: in red inkal homes.
Speaker 2: What does it mean?
Speaker 6: It means that, very soon, Watson, I shall have the
Speaker 6: answer to this whole riddle. Suppose you find the nearest
Speaker 6: constable and inform in this affair the moment I shall
Speaker 6: return to our fat upstairs.
Speaker 2: Presently good. The place was a.
Speaker 6: Shamble, yes, Watson, our fact was quickly rifled by someone
Speaker 6: looking on the.
Speaker 2: Promise, and it's gone, has stole.
Speaker 1: Quite from now on, we must move with all possible speed.
Speaker 2: What do we do first?
Speaker 6: First we must make a telephone call to the prefect
Speaker 6: of Police in Paris, and after that find room three
Speaker 6: twenty two, and there we may discover the goddess.
Speaker 2: How are we going to do that?
Speaker 1: Obvious?
Speaker 6: The room number Inspector Dubi wrote down means that this
Speaker 6: is a hotel rendezvous. And from the expensive quality of
Speaker 6: the stationery we made deduce that Dubi wrote down this
Speaker 6: number in some first class hotel.
Speaker 2: But homes London is full of first class hotel.
Speaker 1: Yes, true? What's and true?
Speaker 6: But here is the salient fact. The room number was
Speaker 6: scrawled in red ink, a highly unusual procedure can only
Speaker 6: mean that this particular hotel ran out of blue ink.
Speaker 2: In other words, of it if we can find the
Speaker 2: first class hotel using ready.
Speaker 6: Yes quite, Watson quite? But come, we are wasting too
Speaker 6: much time in talking. Must resolved this affair quickly before
Speaker 6: the night's over, or it'll be too late.
Speaker 5: Hello Laville, this is Bailey. I'm down at the hotel lobby.
Speaker 5: Wait did you get that goddess out of the home
Speaker 5: flat way? Well, we here ran after you, Monsieur Bailey,
Speaker 5: I took it from his apartment. Is here on the
Speaker 5: table now, I have already woken the goddess from the.
Speaker 1: Dead base, chifful, what you do, Laville? I have no
Speaker 1: fear in these matters, monsieur am I not an expert, yes.
Speaker 2: But these Burmese devils are after that goddess.
Speaker 5: To Laville, they were outside homes flat when I got
Speaker 5: rid of inspector.
Speaker 9: Do why, I'll be right up and then we'll get
Speaker 9: out way, Monsieur Bailey.
Speaker 1: As for these Beames natives, they do not know where
Speaker 1: we are right right for sure? Bailey? What is it?
Speaker 1: What's the better? Yeah? Here they've come for the goddess.
Speaker 1: What the song? The dead song? And is outside my
Speaker 1: window the field?
Speaker 2: Hide the lead based you here, Let them have the cottage.
Speaker 2: That's all they want.
Speaker 6: Your billy feel someone at the window and the parties
Speaker 6: gave me no, no.
Speaker 8: No, l Laville, Leville, Laville, la sir.
Speaker 5: They got him the bird, these devils, they got him.
Speaker 5: They took the goddess. But the base, yes, is still
Speaker 5: here on the table. Your get fools didn't know. They
Speaker 5: left me a fortune. Now get out Canada, perhaps Australia,
Speaker 5: or you get prisoned mister Bailey Holmes dot what No,
Speaker 5: mad don't reach with that gun. As you see, I
Speaker 5: have my service revolver and straight at your head. I
Speaker 5: should not hesitate to use it at the slightest provocation.
Speaker 6: Note Watson, the dead man on the floor is Monsieur le'ville,
Speaker 6: my competitor at the auction, and he suffered the same
Speaker 6: fate of Sir John Brandywine the Burmese revenge.
Speaker 2: Yes, they've taken the goddess.
Speaker 6: There's some good riddance. Let them take it back to
Speaker 6: the sacred temple whence it was stolen. Our concern is
Speaker 6: with mister Bailey here.
Speaker 2: How did you find me here?
Speaker 6: No matter of routine investigation, my dear fellow, I shan't
Speaker 6: bore you with the details, and I wouldn't touch that
Speaker 6: lead base so tightly if I were you, I believe
Speaker 6: you'll find it worthless.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: I mean that it's really a solid block of lead?
Speaker 1: You see, my dear fellow, you purloin the wrong goddess.
Speaker 2: What hoes you mean? You switched the figures. You took
Speaker 2: the goddess that you own from the tin box of
Speaker 2: Barkler's Bank and placed it in.
Speaker 6: Our flat precisely, Watson, and the Goddess I purchased at
Speaker 6: the auction now rests quite safely in the custody of
Speaker 6: Inspector Astrad at Scotland Yards.
Speaker 2: You cheated me. You cheated me out of a fortune, right?
Speaker 2: What's all this about?
Speaker 1: What thought fortune in radium? Watson?
Speaker 6: Radium exactly a grain of radium stolen from the Curie
Speaker 6: laboratories in Paris, hidden in the base of the Goddess
Speaker 6: of Amar, and thus smuggled into England.
Speaker 2: Well, now that we've delivered the smuggler Bailey to the authorities,
Speaker 2: would you mind telling me the course of your deduction?
Speaker 2: I must confess I'm confused.
Speaker 1: Are you? Watson?
Speaker 6: But the holo the fair is really quite obvious. The
Speaker 6: Burmese motive to recover the goddess was simple enough, the
Speaker 6: sacred and religious quest. But it was at the auction,
Speaker 6: after observing la Ville, that a new element entered. But
Speaker 6: how did you know the condition of the man's hands
Speaker 6: and hair, loss of fingernails, desiccated appearance of skin, loss
Speaker 6: of patches of hair, symptomatic of work with radium. The
Speaker 6: fact that he was a Frenchman further heightened my suspicions
Speaker 6: with Holmes.
Speaker 2: I still don't see how.
Speaker 6: Laville, as I learned from the Paris Prefect of Police,
Speaker 6: was a worker in the curial laboratory. He entered a
Speaker 6: conspiracy with this international thief Bailey, to steal a grain
Speaker 6: of radium. The next problem was to smuggle it out
Speaker 6: of the country.
Speaker 2: And so they concealed it in the Goddess of Ama
Speaker 2: while Sir John Brandywine displayed his collection in Parisy.
Speaker 6: Exactly the lead base, of course, was a perfect carrier
Speaker 6: in which to hide the loot and get it past
Speaker 6: the customs and out of the country. They had planned
Speaker 6: to purchase the Goddess from Sir John and then recover
Speaker 6: the radium. Their plans, ever, went awry. Meanwhile, Inspector Duboins
Speaker 6: was hot on their trail, and they got rid of him.
Speaker 2: And that holds closes this adventure.
Speaker 1: Not quite, Watson.
Speaker 6: We are living in a new and dynamic age. I
Speaker 6: am a criminologist, not a seer, and yet I know
Speaker 6: that these radioactive substances hold the key to the future,
Speaker 6: and I cannot help but wonder if men will use
Speaker 6: them for.
Speaker 1: Good or evil. Well, doctor Watson, that was quite an Adventures.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed it was, mister Harrison. It is, in fact
Speaker 2: one of my favorite memoirs and significant in the light
Speaker 2: of what is being done with radioactive substances today.
Speaker 1: And now, Doctor Watson, what adventure will you have for
Speaker 1: us next week?
Speaker 2: Next week, Miss to Harris, I shall relate to you
Speaker 2: the Adventure of the Golden pars Neck. It concerns an
Speaker 2: untidy rug, a box of Egyptian cigarettes, and a stab
Speaker 2: in the dock.