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for today's episode of Sherlock Holmes New Year's Eve. Off

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the Silly.

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Speaker 3: Eyes from New York, the makers of Clippercraft Clothes for Men,

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and nine hundred and twenty four leading retail stores from

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coast to coast present the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.

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Our stories are based upon the character of Sherlock Holmes,

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created by Sir Arthur Colan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is portrayed

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by John Stanley, Doctor Watson by Alfred Shirley, and the dramatizations.

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Speaker 4: Are by Edith Meiser.

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Speaker 3: Well, here we are, once again on the threshold of

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Doctor watson study. We find mister Holmes genial biographers strutting

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up and down in front of his fireplace.

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Speaker 5: Evening.

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Speaker 4: Doctor, you look fit. The Christmas festivities don't seem to

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have cut you down.

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Speaker 6: I am fit, mister Harris, very fit, bitten that I'm

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rather well fitted, great Scottman.

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Speaker 7: Well you're hi.

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Speaker 3: Why doctor Watson, don't tell me Santa Claus brought you

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a clippocrat?

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Speaker 1: So oh why not?

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Speaker 6: Just because I'm a wee bitter venerable doesn't mean I'm antique.

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I still enjoy making a good impression, don't you know?

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Speaker 3: Well, in that suit, it'll be the girls that go

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when you walk down the street. Doctor, Seriously, now, doctor,

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suppose you tell us what tonight's story is to be about.

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Speaker 6: Well, tonight, I thought i'd relate how Homes and I

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spent New Year's Eve off the Silly Isles.

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Speaker 4: The Silly Isles, it sounds appropriate. Doctor.

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Speaker 6: The name of these particular islands is spilled sc I

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l l Y. They are located roughly one hundred miles

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southwest of Lend's End. Mister Harrison, Oh, what in the

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world were you doing there on New Year's Eve? Trying

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to into great maritime catastrophe? You remember what happened to

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the Titanic, You know what happened to Lucitania were the

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lives of those on the ocean land are gigantic, but

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in even greater danger when Holmes and I went over

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the side on New Year's Eve in the year nineteen twelve.

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Oh but good heavens did I go getting ahead of

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myself again? Suppose I fix us a Tom and Jerry

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while you tell our listeners how to stop the year

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right in at Clippercraft's clothes.

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Speaker 3: Fair enough, doctor Watson, millions of men like you will

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start the new year in a smart, new clipper Craft

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suit and overcoat. Yesterday, more men than ever before wear

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Clippercraft clothes. For we've sold more clipper Craft clothes than

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ever before in our entire history. There's a reason, of course,

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the wise old American public, with its eye for value,

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has pronounced clipper Craft the most remarkable clothing bies they've

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ever seen. The reason for these amazing values is the

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sensational clipper Craft Plan. Concentrating the buying power of nine

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hundred twenty four of the nation's leading stores from coast

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to coast. It accounts for tremendous savings in manufacturing and

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distribution costs. That's why truly fine clipper Craft suits are

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only forty and forty five dollars, why clipper Craft top

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coats and overcoats are only forty dollars, and sport jackets

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only twenty six fifty. Clipper craft values are downright amazing.

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Compare them with clothes selling for many dollars more. And now,

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Doctor Watson, to return to the New Year's Eve. You

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and Sherlock home celebrated on the good ship Gigantic.

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Speaker 6: Yes, here's your Tom and Jenny. Mister hardis like other careful,

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don't burn yourself. Yes, it is probably the most technic

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New Year's Eve I ever experienced. Nothing is as teddifying

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The panic the isolution, But that's not the hito there. Yes,

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let me see. It was the last day of the

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year nineteen hundred and twelve. Its inception was sufficiently placid,

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I must say. A light snow was falling as homes

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and I seated ourselves on either side of a well

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filled breakfast table. The flames of our seagull fire reflected

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themselves cheerfully in the generous coffee pot. The whole house

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was filled with the pleasant aroma of the stuffing. Missus

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came a frantic jangle the front door bell.

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Speaker 4: No definitely no, no home.

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Speaker 3: Whoever it is that's pulling our front doorbell out by

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the roots, and whatever its problem is, I'm definitely not interested. Yes, Watson,

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being the world's greatest consulting detective has its disadvantages. People

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always manage to get into difficulties at the most inopportune moments.

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Speaker 7: Yes, you should try being a doctor. Homes.

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Speaker 6: No female since Eve has ever decided to become a

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mother at a convenient time.

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Speaker 3: Oh, come in confounded, mister Holmes, mister Sherlock Holmes, naturally,

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whatever your problem is, I warn you it'll have to

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wait till after the holiday.

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Speaker 8: And he can't wait, mister Holmes. Close to two thousand

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lives are at stake. I pray to Heaven you'll be

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able to reach them before it's too late.

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Speaker 3: Reach home. Where and what is this disaster you anticipate

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with such trepidation The steamship Gigantic, mister Holmes. She should

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be somewhere off the Silly Issles by midnight.

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Speaker 8: We've been reliably informed that an attempt will be made

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to set fire to her at that time. If successful,

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it'll be the greatest disaster in old maritime history.

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Speaker 3: Yes, in that case, I suppose I shall have to

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forego the little celebration i'd planned for this evening.

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Speaker 7: Have to really homes you are a cold blooded fish.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry, I don't believe you've met my colleague,

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doctor Watson.

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Speaker 4: Mister Pembroke, Reginald Pembroke.

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Speaker 7: I'm chairman of.

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Speaker 8: The board of Floyd's, the famous insurance company.

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Speaker 3: Then your desire to prevent this disaster isn't entirely humanitarian.

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Speaker 8: Not entirely, but neither is it all together mercenary. There's

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more to stake than the lives the passengers on board

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the Gigantic. If she goes down, the financial stability of

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the British Empire goes with her.

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Speaker 4: Interesting, hey, Watson continues to Pembroke.

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Speaker 8: You may not be aware, mister Holmes, that during this

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past year there have been a terrifying number of marine catastrophes.

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Speaker 7: Holmes knows everything, mister Pembroke.

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Speaker 3: I am quite cognizant to the fact that quite a

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few of the newest and fastest British liners have been

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destroyed at sea by fire storm and accident.

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Speaker 8: Ah, they weren't accidents, mister Holmes, I assure you.

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Speaker 3: Quite the Egyptian Star was destroyed by fire in the

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Persian Gulf, eight hundred lives. Last, the Lord Nelson disappeared

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in the Typhoon and the Indian Ocean, no survivors. The

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Southern Cross exploded and sank off the coast of Brazil

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one thousand, two hundred casualties. The Wellington, the Lady Jane

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Gray and the Eldorado all caught fire in different parts

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of the Pacific.

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Speaker 4: Total deaths over two thousand.

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Speaker 3: The greatest disaster was last April, when the Titanic ran

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into an iceberg, with a loss of over fifteen hundred souls.

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Speaker 8: The public's becoming panicky about traveling on British ships.

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Speaker 4: The ships about the nationalities are taking all our trade.

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Speaker 8: Three banks and nearly ten investment concerns where large marine

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interests have gone to the wall. Even Floyd's is not

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too secure. But that is not the most serious aspect

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of the situation.

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Speaker 7: Really, good Lord, don't tell me that's worse to come.

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Speaker 4: Much worse. Stock to Wutston.

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Speaker 8: Those ships disappeared in many parts of the world. They

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were sunk by diverse methods. One factor, however, was the

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same in each disaster, and that was The cargo carried

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by each ship was gold.

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Speaker 4: English goal.

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Speaker 8: If it ever became known how much British bullion lies

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at the bottom of the Seven Seas, British credit would.

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Speaker 4: Be badly crippled.

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Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, the Bank of England has

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been forced to import a large shipment of gold from.

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Speaker 6: Canada, and it's on the Gigantic. Good Lord, no wonder

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eure upset the.

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Speaker 8: Whole economic structure of the British Empires at state, mister Holmes,

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nothing must happen to the Gigantic.

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Speaker 4: What makes you think anything will? A cable was.

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Speaker 8: Sent shortly out to the Gigantic left Queenstown. She makes

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a stop in Ireland on her east bound voyage. You

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know she sailed shortly before dawn this morning. The gang

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plans have been drawn in, the last line have been

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cast off, and the great propellers have begun to churn. Suddenly,

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the dark Master noticed someone sliding down the ship's side.

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Speaker 4: On a rope.

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He's coming down on a rope.

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Speaker 7: Go back.

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Speaker 4: If we'll go back, he'll be here. He'll never make

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Speaker 8: He'll follow the water and be swept out of the ship. No.

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Speaker 4: No, he's pushing the rope away from the ship with

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his feet. He's swinging out. He's going to jump. He

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made it some whe won the bridge. You've seen him.

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He's calling to the chat, picked himself up.

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Speaker 8: He's shouting back an in hell, good lord, I know

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the manswer. It's Smoky Joe the Firebird. If a gigantic

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don't catch fire between here and south Hunt, And I'm

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a Dutchman.

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Speaker 3: Smokey Joe seems to me we've heard of him before,

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a Watson, not merely as an expert arsonist, but a

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dangerous pyromaniac as well.

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Speaker 4: They caught him, I hope, mister pembroke.

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Speaker 8: No, no, mister Holmes. Unfortunately he is too quick for them.

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He crawled down a ladder and disappeared among the pilings

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under the darks.

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Speaker 3: So the gigantic is headed for Southampton with a nice

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bit of Joe's handiwork aboard.

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Speaker 7: Do you think it's a fire bomb he homes.

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Speaker 3: Not necessarily, Watson. There are many ingenious ways of starting

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a fire. You know, whoever hired Joe would prefer to

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have it happen well out to see I imagine I thought.

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Speaker 8: Exactly, mister Holmes. We wireless, Captain Brooks to make a search,

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of course, but on a ship the size of the

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Gigantic is like looking.

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Speaker 4: For a needle in a haystack.

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Speaker 8: You are our one hope, mister Holmes. If only you

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couldn't get on board in time.

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Speaker 4: And how do you suggest I go about that little assignment?

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Speaker 8: The Chairman of the Great Western Railway has placed the

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Royal Train Joe disposal all out. The traffic will be

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cleared off the tracks. Now you should reach Land's End

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shortly after lunch. My yart the albatross will be waiting

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for you in the harbor and lives very speedy. Little

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grabbed them with any luck. You should side the Gigantic

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around eleven o'clock tonight.

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Speaker 3: Yes, eleven o'clock, was it? Smoky Joe called out, Happy

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New Year? In hell, it won't be New Year till midnight.

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If we reach the Gigantic by eleven, we may just

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possibly be in time. Six bells, it's eleven o'clock. Confound

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this fog. We've had to reduce our speed to half Oh.

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Speaker 7: We'll never catch up to the Gigantic now.

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Speaker 4: Homes nonsense. She's had to slow down too. I only

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hope you don't miss out entirely in this fog.

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Speaker 7: I don't really care.

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Speaker 4: You don't sound very fit, Watson. What's up?

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Speaker 6: Do you have to use that unfortunate expression and tell

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me you're feeling screamish?

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Speaker 7: Is this confounded your role? I can stand a good risk. See,

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but this bobbing about in a teacup.

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Speaker 4: It's pitty. I didn't bring them mother sills seasick pill mother.

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Speaker 7: There's only one remedy for this sort of thing.

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Speaker 4: What's that?

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Speaker 6: Staying on shore? It's jolly way to spend New Year's Eve?

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This is who do you suppose? Is this possible for

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these confounded sinkings?

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Speaker 7: Anyway?

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Speaker 3: Pembroke seems to feel it's a foreign plot a little eat.

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European shipping industries benefit the most, of course.

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Speaker 7: Holmes, did you hear that?

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Speaker 6: I jove, yes, sounds like an ocean liner, right enough, Yes,

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we're signals Scott.

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Speaker 7: This is the gigantic glooming out of the fog.

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Speaker 6: Looks like a mountain coming at us.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Sharlock, Holmes and doctor Watson coming aboard.

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Speaker 5: Let down a ladder, no, no, yeah, here's the Nana Watson, I.

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Speaker 4: Think you can manage it.

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Speaker 6: I'd climb up the Eiffel Tar on a clothes line

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if it could get me off this bouncing cottage shell.

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Speaker 3: Quite an impressive array of instruments you have up here

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on the bridge, Captain Brooks.

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Speaker 4: Here's mister Holmes. I'm not gigantic.

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Speaker 9: We have the latest of everything, and none of it's

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in a real use in case of fire, I'd sooner

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face a typhoon, or a shipwreck, or a mutiny even

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dog ratt than a fire on board ship.

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Speaker 7: Surely a ship this side should be fairly fireproof.

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Speaker 4: That's what you might sing, doctor Watson.

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Speaker 9: But that are three factors that make a fire on

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a luxury line are dangerous. First, there's all the confounded

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ornamental woodwork that's used in a passenger construction. Second, there's

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the fact that once a fire gets a firm hold,

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it's fed by drafts that rush.

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Speaker 4: Through the ventilating system.

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Speaker 9: And third there is the element of penn Nothing makes

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people behave more like wild beasts quicker than the cry

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of fire.

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Speaker 4: In case of fire, you have, of course an alarm system.

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Speaker 9: We have the old fashioned system of bells, and also

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something rather recent. The Gigantic is one of the first

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ships to install it. You see that glass case over there, gentlemen, they're.

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Speaker 6: Wrong with a lot of tubes entering from below. Looks

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rather like a giant honeycomb, Mayholmes.

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Speaker 9: Each of those tubes leads to a separate compartment of

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the ship. The instant of fire breaks out anywhere, smoke

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is immediately drawn up into the glass case. I've stationed

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a sailor to watch that case. Believe me, gentlemen, the

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first wisp of smoke please will know it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, undoubtedly very helpful, Captain Brooks. In the case of

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an ordinary conflagration, I assure you, a fire set by

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Smoky Joe is not ordinary. He's a master arsonist. Ten

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seconds after one of his fires breaks out, you're dealing

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with a raging inferno.

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Speaker 9: Confounded, they tell me the man deserted the ship at Queenstown.

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Speaker 4: That us this morning.

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Speaker 9: Wow, that's more than eighteen hours ago. If he'd set fire,

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it seems to me that we'd been flames by this time.

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Speaker 4: Not necessarily.

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Speaker 3: There are many methods by which a fire can be

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made to break out long after the pyromaniac has left

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the scene of his crime.

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Speaker 4: You say you've found no time bombs, no inflammable assets, no,

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mister Holmes.

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Speaker 9: Ever since I received word that we were in danger,

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I've had my men searching high and low. They found nothing,

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absolutely nothing. It's been a systematic search, I promise you, Yes,

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but you've drawn a blank. That's what comes of using

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system instead of brains and initiative. Oh and how do

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you propose to locate whatever it is we can't find?

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Speaker 4: By using a little logic?

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Speaker 3: I shall credit smokey Joe with having the intelligence to

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place his fire starting device in the place where it

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will do the most damage. The man's no amateur, Captain,

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he knows his business. Then I shall investigate that place

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and remove his handiwork.

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Speaker 6: Wooms, you're bagging again, and at all, my dear Watson.

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Speaker 3: I think I may promise I shall have discovered the

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menace inside of half an hour. I only hope Joe's

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little device doesn't do its nasty job before then.

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Speaker 4: Half an hour. It's now leven thirty.

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Speaker 9: Exactly do you think you can solve this problem by midnight?

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Speaker 3: Yes, captain, with an in luck, I think I can

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promise you a placid and uneventful New year.

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Speaker 4: Captain, Brooks. Yes, mister Brown would seem to be the trouble.

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Speaker 8: The wireless engineer so wishes to report something's wrong with

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the separators, both as sending and receiving equipment have suddenly

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gone out of commission.

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Speaker 4: I don't like that. What does he think is? Can

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you come here a minute? Excuse me a moment, gentlemen.

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The wilsman is calling me. What the trouble, Jerry? It's

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the compassay. It's spitting like a top. I can't figure

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out what's got into it. Never see the light except

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once in some magnetic storm. Scott, this is incredible, now heart.

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It's the engine room calling Captain. I'll take it. Hello, Yes,

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Captain brook speaking.

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Speaker 3: The places you say will do the best you can

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seem to be the difficulty, Captain.

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Speaker 4: The dynamoes are slowing down. They can't figure out why.

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Speaker 3: Good Lord, sir, that's why the lights are getting dim

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places were the lights Without dynamos, we've no false draft

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for the furnaces.

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Speaker 4: We'll never keep up enough steam pressure to drive the ship.

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Speaker 9: In no time at all, we'll be drifting helplessly in

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the Atlantic, in the middle of the reefs.

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Speaker 4: That's around the city Aisles and.

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Speaker 7: The only way to spend New Year.

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Speaker 4: It could be worse, you know how. The ship could

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be on fire.

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Speaker 3: That's the real menace to which these other threats are,

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but the prelude I fancy.

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Speaker 4: For the love of Heaven, what are we to do?

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Speaker 3: Keep calm and use whatever intelligence the Lord has endowed

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us with, Captain Brooks, I suggest you and as many

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officers as you can spare, join the holiday celebration that's

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undoubtedly going on, in order to keep discipline in case

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there's any disturbance.

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Speaker 4: Very good, mister Holmes. There's a New Year's dance going

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on in the large ballroom. It's on sea deck.

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Speaker 3: And meanwhile, if you can spare us someone to guide

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Watson and myself of course, And mister Brown here is

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our purser.

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Speaker 4: He knows the ship as well as anyone on board.

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I'm sure he does.

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Speaker 3: But well, mister Brown, if you'll lead the way, I

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think Dr Watson and I would like to go below

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and investigate the engines. No, mister Brown, even lower than that.

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What we're looking for is that to be rather close

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to the furnaces. I imagine.

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Speaker 7: All these and stares to go round and round to

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make me dizzy. Maybe it's the heat down here.

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Speaker 8: Yes, we're getting close to the furnace room. If you

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listen you can hear the men stocky.

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Speaker 7: Him way to a living homes.

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Speaker 3: Stop a minute, where does that mean, mister Brown? That

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small corridor with a heavy metal door at the far end.

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Speaker 8: That's the bullying room though, where the gold is kept.

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Speaker 3: Very interesting course, we take a look, Gay Watson, and

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I've always wanted to see those gold boss.

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Speaker 7: You hear so much about.

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Speaker 8: I'm afraid that won't be possible, doctor Watson.

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Speaker 7: Why not?

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Speaker 8: Well, as you can see, the door is locked and sealed.

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It was done by the port authorities before we.

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Speaker 4: Left New York.

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Speaker 8: That door won't be opened until the port authority is

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unsealed when we reach Southampton.

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Speaker 3: You mean that room in there wasn't opened when the

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captain ordered the ship search for in the sendiory material.

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Speaker 8: No, mister Holmes, but it's quite impossible for you you

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want to place a fire bomb or anything of the

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sort in there.

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Speaker 4: As you can see, the seals are still intact. Quite

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these seals are intact. But are they the ones put

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on in New York? I doubt it.

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Speaker 3: It's hell a look, Yes, interesting very interesting. These are

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not the original seals, or.

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Speaker 7: How can you tell? Holmes? They look in tech to.

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Speaker 3: Me exactly they are intact. But here in the crack

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of the door sill are bits of broken seals. But

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these seals are not even chipped by JERVI.

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Speaker 6: Yes, of course, the original seals were hacked off and

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then replaced after someone had finished picking the lock and

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robbing the room inside.

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Speaker 4: I doubt if robbery was the motive, Watson.

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Speaker 7: For what other reason would anyone want to break into

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a room full.

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Speaker 4: Of gold bullion? It? All the pins? What lies directly

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below that room? Mister Brown?

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Speaker 7: Well let me.

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Speaker 8: See nothing of any great importance, mister Holmes, just the

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coal piles.

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Speaker 3: The coal piles. Good lord, I think we shall have

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to break the seals again. Mister Brown, here wats and

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help me.

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Speaker 8: But the door is locked, mister Holmes, sitting after seals

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have been removed.

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Speaker 4: We's have to get the key from the captain. No

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fine for that, hand me my burglar tools, Watson.

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Speaker 8: Very well, good Kevins, You mean you could actually pick

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a lock with those things?

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Speaker 6: Homes ever turned thief, mister Brown, even the Bank of

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England would miss.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that should do the trick now, if you'll help

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me draw the bars.

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Speaker 6: Watson, Yes, with pleasure. You are homes now, let's see

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said lacking There isn't it? Is there a light inside

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mister Brown? No, mister Holmes, I'm afraid not. Then we

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shall have to prop the door open. The light from

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the corridor will have to do for our investigations. Come on, Watson, Holmes,

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that's smell hue, strong and acrid.

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Speaker 7: Like sulfer, only with more bite.

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Speaker 4: Seems to be coming from this large tin. Suppose I

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light a match is first up. Don't be alarmed.

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Speaker 3: I know better than the light of match around a

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tin which is leaking south furlic acid. I only wanted

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to know how much you knew about Smoky Joe's and

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send your a device, Mister Ludwig Brown spelled b r

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a U N if I'm not mistaken.

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Speaker 7: So you recognize me?

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Speaker 4: Yes, that dueling is car over your left eye rather

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a giveaway, don't you know?

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Speaker 8: So you have found how we are going to set

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fire to the ship by having the acid.

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Speaker 4: Dripped through a hole in the floor under the cold.

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Speaker 8: The first shovelful of that acid so coal that goes

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in the furnace and the hold of a ship will

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be a blazing inferno.

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Speaker 4: Nothing could put out that fire. Don't you mean that's

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how you were going to stalk the fire?

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Speaker 8: My dear mister Holmes, you do not think we will

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let a small obstacle like the famous Sherlock Holmes stand

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in our way.

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Speaker 7: Listen to me, don't reach office to me.

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Speaker 4: I'll let you have it. Never argue with a local pistol, Watson.

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Speaker 8: That's the first sensible remark you've made, mister Holmes. I'm

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sorry to leave, but these stokers should reach the sulfuric

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acid impregnated coal in about ten minutes, I believe, so

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I must be going. This room will be a roaring

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oven once it starts. You will be rather badly overdone.

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Speaker 4: Gentlemen.

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Speaker 8: Goodbye then, so sorry, I cannot say I'll feed us in.

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Speaker 7: The door. He's bolted it. Even you can't open it.

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Speaker 4: Now, Homes, Shut up, Watson, and help me look for

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the opening.

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Speaker 3: What opening, for heaven's sake, the opening the feats to

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the tube that ends on the captain's new fire detecting machine.

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Speaker 4: It should be somewhere near the ceiling.

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Speaker 6: But at Homes, I can't see a thing in this

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black hole of calcutter.

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Speaker 4: You can feel, can't you?

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Speaker 6: Not a thing homes the wall on this side of

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the room. It's as smooth as an egg. Can't found

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it if we could see for half a minute. Hullo,

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I've got something there. He's a small grating here in

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the upper corner.

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Speaker 4: This must be it.

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Speaker 3: Now, if we can make a smudge of some sort, Watson,

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bring me a piece of paper.

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Speaker 7: Paper, whoever I find a piece of paper.

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Speaker 3: Then bring me anything I can burn, A bit of cloth,

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a piece of yes, by jove, rope, bring me a

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piece of the rope that's tied around one of the

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boxes that contained the bullion.

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Speaker 7: Very well, if I can find a box that now

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what I found? It? Found it? The knots are tight,

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so tight.

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Speaker 4: Places with nuts cut the rope. What's utu? Your pocket knife?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Very well, hey, our homes, it's a short length.

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid I only want enough for a smudge. Nothing

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like a bit of hempen rope.

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Speaker 6: Toms, For heaven's sake, You're not going to set a

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match to that thing in here.

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Speaker 7: There'll be an explosion.

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Speaker 3: Have to take the chance, Watson, with any luck of

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sulfuric acid fumes won't be too concentrated up here, never ceiling. Well,

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there goes one.

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Speaker 4: Two.

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Speaker 3: Now if we can persuade the rope to smolder, Yes,

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there she goes.

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Speaker 7: Certainly makes plenty of smoke at homes.

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Speaker 4: Important thing, it's being drawn up through the grating.

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Speaker 7: How long before they come to investigate?

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Speaker 3: Do you suppose it all depends on the mental acumen

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of a sailor who's watching that fire detecting machine.

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Speaker 7: Let's hope is brighter than he looks.

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Speaker 6: It may be my imagination, but it seems to me

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I can feel the metal flooring under my feet beginning

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to get hot.

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Speaker 3: Most things in nineteen forty eight will cost you a

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great deal more than you've paid in other years. That's

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why it's sensational news to know that you can get

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clipper craft suits in nineteen forty eight for only forty

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and forty five dollars, clipper craft top coats and overcoats

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for only forty dollars, and sport jackets for only twenty

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six fifty. And isn't it as good a time as

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any to decide to get the most for your money.

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You've every right to expect long wear, correct styling, good taste,

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comfort and perfect fit. And you get all these to

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an astounding degree in clipper Craft clothes, and you get

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them at incredibly modest prices. It's, of course, American production

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genius applied to the making of fine clothes that does

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the trick. It's the unique clipper Craft Plan, concentrating the

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buying power of nine hundred and twenty four of the

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nation's leading independent stores from coast to coats. You get

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the benefit of this plan at your own locally owned store.

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The store you can trust selling expensive clothes at inexpensive

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low prices at the nation's finest independent stores is the great,

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big Iita behind the Clippercraft Plan. That's why men who

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know insist on clipper Craft clothes. So be sure to

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visit the clipper Craft store in your city.

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Speaker 10: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to

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add their names to Clippercraft and your Suit, top code

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and overcoat. In Manhattan, Sacks thirty fourth Broadway at thirty fourth,

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John Wallamaker Men's Stores Broadway at eighth and sixty seven

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Liberty Street in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark, New Jersey.

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Boulevard Men's Shop Creskey, Newark, and in Jamaica the B

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and B Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh eight, Jamaica Avenue.

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Speaker 3: Now let's rejoin Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson locked in

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the smoke filled boulon of the gig Attic.

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Speaker 7: Good lord, how long does it take for them to

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get us out of here? That smoke suffocating?

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Speaker 4: Calm yourself, Watson. It can't be more than three minutes

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since we looked this much. Yes, I can hear someone

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running down the iron steaking.

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Speaker 7: I can't hear a blasted thing. How do you and

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I'm there? Get us out?

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Speaker 4: We're in here? Open the door?

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Speaker 7: What a relief?

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Speaker 4: How some of did you two get locked in here?

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What's all the smoke? And no time for explanations? Captain?

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Speaker 3: Stop them stucking the furnaces. Flood the coal piles with water.

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They've been soaked with sulfuric acid. Good lord, he.

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Speaker 4: Gees, stop the firing.

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Speaker 9: Stop the bums in the engine room.

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Speaker 6: Well that's that comes. What do you suppose have they

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come of that dast to depasser?

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Speaker 4: We let Captain Brooks take care of him, Watson.

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Speaker 3: Unless I'm very much mistaken, mister Brown, is going to

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wish he'd never gone to sea. Well, come along, let's

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go upstairs and join the festivities. I think we rate

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a bottle of champagne, which.

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Speaker 6: Blazes with this champagne? I need a double brandy eight

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bells and let's see that would be.

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Speaker 4: Good night Watson, Happy New Year, old fellow.

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Speaker 6: Happy in your homes and many of them. But don't

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you think you could manage to have them not quite

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so hair raising.

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Speaker 3: And have you getting fat and lethargic. You know that

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would be unhealthy, not to say boring.

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Speaker 6: Oh so now it's for my sake we indulge in

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all these horrendous escapades.

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Speaker 7: Eh, find it of logic?

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Speaker 4: That is elementary, my dear Watson. Elementary. But here's the ballroom.

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Suppose we joined the party side, my dearie.

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Speaker 3: We well, doctor Watson, that was an exciting way to

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spend New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 7: He was a bit too exciting, mister Harris, if you.

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Speaker 4: Ask me, doctor, did they catch the purser?

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Speaker 6: Oh they did indeed, mister Brown and five of his

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accompasses were thrown in the brig. That was the end

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of the disasters in the British Maritime Service.

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Speaker 3: When at Holmes first suspect the purser was the villain

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of the piece, when he came out.

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Speaker 6: Of the bridge and threw his overcoat on a chair

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near to the compass, where whereupon the compass went burserk,

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who was immediately suspected the code contained a powerful.

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Speaker 7: Magnet of some sort.

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Speaker 4: And was he right?

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Speaker 7: Doctor, My dear mister Harris, was Sherlock Holmes have a wrong?

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But come fill your.

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Speaker 6: Lug and let us wish our radio friends are prosperous,

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happy and peaceful.

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Speaker 3: Indeed we do, doctor, And now doctor Watson, would you

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like to give us a hint about next week's story?

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Speaker 6: Next week, I think I'll tell you how Holmes and

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I tapped a famous Jothy for writing our own rooms

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in Baker Street by the use of what was then

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a fabulous new invention, the gramophone.

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Speaker 3: The makers of Clippercraft Clothes and nine hundred twenty four

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leading stores from coast to coast have brought you another

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in the new series of broadcasts featuring the world's most

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famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is produced and directed

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by Basil Lockren, with special music by Albert Berman. If

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you don't know your clippercraft dealer. Write Clippercraft two hundred

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Fifth Avenue, New York City. Be sure to listen next

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week to Sherlock Holmes in the Mazarin Stone. If you'd

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like to attend the Sherlock Holmes podcast to New York,

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see your local clippercraft dealer and he'll tell you how

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to obtain your tickets.

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Speaker 4: Lasi Harris meased for Clippercraft. Those for an espect.

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Speaker 3: When you know, a happy and prostible gibe of all

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about the hippers back because of the World Fives network

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churning more than four hundred and fifty radio stations, but

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did pore.

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Speaker 2: Block gaping welcome back. It was kind of odd to

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hear Sherlock Holmes wanting to have New Year's Eve dinner

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rather than go out on a problem. It's worth noting

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here that, of course, this episode was set in nineteen twelve,

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towards the tail end of the Holmes era. His very

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last Adventure was set in nineteen fourteen. I do think

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this episode could have used a better, maybe more descriptive title.

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It really did not convey that we are going to

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be in a race against time to save the ship

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and the English Economy title, soended a whole lot more

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light hearted than that. Well, we turned out at a

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listener comments and feedback and uh just a nice keep

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up the good work. Well, thank you for your Econo marks.

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That will do it for today and next week we

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return to regular order with our next episode of Sherlock Holmes.

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Join us tomorrow for yours truly, Johnny Doller. In the meanwhile,

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send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Attackers dot net,

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But from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Grahamson

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