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for today's episode of Sherlock Holmes New Year's Eve. Off
the Silly.
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Speaker 4: Are by Edith Meiser.
Speaker 3: Well, here we are, once again on the threshold of
Doctor watson study. We find mister Holmes genial biographers strutting
up and down in front of his fireplace.
Speaker 5: Evening.
Speaker 4: Doctor, you look fit. The Christmas festivities don't seem to
have cut you down.
Speaker 6: I am fit, mister Harris, very fit, bitten that I'm
rather well fitted, great Scottman.
Speaker 7: Well you're hi.
Speaker 3: Why doctor Watson, don't tell me Santa Claus brought you
a clippocrat?
Speaker 1: So oh why not?
Speaker 6: Just because I'm a wee bitter venerable doesn't mean I'm antique.
I still enjoy making a good impression, don't you know?
Speaker 3: Well, in that suit, it'll be the girls that go
when you walk down the street. Doctor, Seriously, now, doctor,
suppose you tell us what tonight's story is to be about.
Speaker 6: Well, tonight, I thought i'd relate how Homes and I
spent New Year's Eve off the Silly Isles.
Speaker 4: The Silly Isles, it sounds appropriate. Doctor.
Speaker 6: The name of these particular islands is spilled sc I
l l Y. They are located roughly one hundred miles
southwest of Lend's End. Mister Harrison, Oh, what in the
world were you doing there on New Year's Eve? Trying
to into great maritime catastrophe? You remember what happened to
the Titanic, You know what happened to Lucitania were the
lives of those on the ocean land are gigantic, but
in even greater danger when Holmes and I went over
the side on New Year's Eve in the year nineteen twelve.
Oh but good heavens did I go getting ahead of
myself again? Suppose I fix us a Tom and Jerry
while you tell our listeners how to stop the year
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Compare them with clothes selling for many dollars more. And now,
Doctor Watson, to return to the New Year's Eve. You
and Sherlock home celebrated on the good ship Gigantic.
Speaker 6: Yes, here's your Tom and Jenny. Mister hardis like other careful,
don't burn yourself. Yes, it is probably the most technic
New Year's Eve I ever experienced. Nothing is as teddifying
to a seafaring man as the thought of fire aboard ship.
The panic the isolution, But that's not the hito there. Yes,
let me see. It was the last day of the
year nineteen hundred and twelve. Its inception was sufficiently placid,
I must say. A light snow was falling as homes
and I seated ourselves on either side of a well
filled breakfast table. The flames of our seagull fire reflected
themselves cheerfully in the generous coffee pot. The whole house
was filled with the pleasant aroma of the stuffing. Missus
Hudson was preparing for our New Year's goose. Suddenly there
came a frantic jangle the front door bell.
Speaker 4: No definitely no, no home.
Speaker 3: Whoever it is that's pulling our front doorbell out by
the roots, and whatever its problem is, I'm definitely not interested. Yes, Watson,
being the world's greatest consulting detective has its disadvantages. People
always manage to get into difficulties at the most inopportune moments.
Speaker 7: Yes, you should try being a doctor. Homes.
Speaker 6: No female since Eve has ever decided to become a
mother at a convenient time.
Speaker 3: Oh, come in confounded, mister Holmes, mister Sherlock Holmes, naturally,
whatever your problem is, I warn you it'll have to
wait till after the holiday.
Speaker 8: And he can't wait, mister Holmes. Close to two thousand
lives are at stake. I pray to Heaven you'll be
able to reach them before it's too late.
Speaker 3: Reach home. Where and what is this disaster you anticipate
with such trepidation The steamship Gigantic, mister Holmes. She should
be somewhere off the Silly Issles by midnight.
Speaker 8: We've been reliably informed that an attempt will be made
to set fire to her at that time. If successful,
it'll be the greatest disaster in old maritime history.
Speaker 3: Yes, in that case, I suppose I shall have to
forego the little celebration i'd planned for this evening.
Speaker 7: Have to really homes you are a cold blooded fish.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry, I don't believe you've met my colleague,
doctor Watson.
Speaker 4: Mister Pembroke, Reginald Pembroke.
Speaker 7: I'm chairman of.
Speaker 8: The board of Floyd's, the famous insurance company.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: Then your desire to prevent this disaster isn't entirely humanitarian.
Speaker 8: Not entirely, but neither is it all together mercenary. There's
more to stake than the lives the passengers on board
the Gigantic. If she goes down, the financial stability of
the British Empire goes with her.
Speaker 4: Interesting, hey, Watson continues to Pembroke.
Speaker 8: You may not be aware, mister Holmes, that during this
past year there have been a terrifying number of marine catastrophes.
Speaker 7: Holmes knows everything, mister Pembroke.
Speaker 3: I am quite cognizant to the fact that quite a
few of the newest and fastest British liners have been
destroyed at sea by fire storm and accident.
Speaker 8: Ah, they weren't accidents, mister Holmes, I assure you.
Speaker 3: Quite the Egyptian Star was destroyed by fire in the
Persian Gulf, eight hundred lives. Last, the Lord Nelson disappeared
in the Typhoon and the Indian Ocean, no survivors. The
Southern Cross exploded and sank off the coast of Brazil
one thousand, two hundred casualties. The Wellington, the Lady Jane
Gray and the Eldorado all caught fire in different parts
of the Pacific.
Speaker 4: Total deaths over two thousand.
Speaker 3: The greatest disaster was last April, when the Titanic ran
into an iceberg, with a loss of over fifteen hundred souls.
Speaker 8: The public's becoming panicky about traveling on British ships.
Speaker 4: The ships about the nationalities are taking all our trade.
Speaker 8: Three banks and nearly ten investment concerns where large marine
interests have gone to the wall. Even Floyd's is not
too secure. But that is not the most serious aspect
of the situation.
Speaker 7: Really, good Lord, don't tell me that's worse to come.
Speaker 4: Much worse. Stock to Wutston.
Speaker 8: Those ships disappeared in many parts of the world. They
were sunk by diverse methods. One factor, however, was the
same in each disaster, and that was The cargo carried
by each ship was gold.
Speaker 4: English goal.
Speaker 8: If it ever became known how much British bullion lies
at the bottom of the Seven Seas, British credit would.
Speaker 4: Be badly crippled.
Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, the Bank of England has
been forced to import a large shipment of gold from.
Speaker 6: Canada, and it's on the Gigantic. Good Lord, no wonder
eure upset the.
Speaker 8: Whole economic structure of the British Empires at state, mister Holmes,
nothing must happen to the Gigantic.
Speaker 4: What makes you think anything will? A cable was.
Speaker 8: Sent shortly out to the Gigantic left Queenstown. She makes
a stop in Ireland on her east bound voyage. You
know she sailed shortly before dawn this morning. The gang
plans have been drawn in, the last line have been
cast off, and the great propellers have begun to churn. Suddenly,
the dark Master noticed someone sliding down the ship's side.
Speaker 4: On a rope.
Speaker 8: Hi, look up, there, sir, some fools climbed over the side.
He's coming down on a rope.
Speaker 7: Go back.
Speaker 4: If we'll go back, he'll be here. He'll never make
the dock.
Speaker 8: He'll follow the water and be swept out of the ship. No.
Speaker 4: No, he's pushing the rope away from the ship with
his feet. He's swinging out. He's going to jump. He
made it some whe won the bridge. You've seen him.
He's calling to the chat, picked himself up.
Speaker 8: He's shouting back an in hell, good lord, I know
the manswer. It's Smoky Joe the Firebird. If a gigantic
don't catch fire between here and south Hunt, And I'm
a Dutchman.
Speaker 3: Smokey Joe seems to me we've heard of him before,
a Watson, not merely as an expert arsonist, but a
dangerous pyromaniac as well.
Speaker 4: They caught him, I hope, mister pembroke.
Speaker 8: No, no, mister Holmes. Unfortunately he is too quick for them.
He crawled down a ladder and disappeared among the pilings
under the darks.
Speaker 3: So the gigantic is headed for Southampton with a nice
bit of Joe's handiwork aboard.
Speaker 7: Do you think it's a fire bomb he homes.
Speaker 3: Not necessarily, Watson. There are many ingenious ways of starting
a fire. You know, whoever hired Joe would prefer to
have it happen well out to see I imagine I thought.
Speaker 8: Exactly, mister Holmes. We wireless, Captain Brooks to make a search,
of course, but on a ship the size of the
Gigantic is like looking.
Speaker 4: For a needle in a haystack.
Speaker 8: You are our one hope, mister Holmes. If only you
couldn't get on board in time.
Speaker 4: And how do you suggest I go about that little assignment?
Speaker 8: The Chairman of the Great Western Railway has placed the
Royal Train Joe disposal all out. The traffic will be
cleared off the tracks. Now you should reach Land's End
shortly after lunch. My yart the albatross will be waiting
for you in the harbor and lives very speedy. Little
grabbed them with any luck. You should side the Gigantic
around eleven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 3: Yes, eleven o'clock, was it? Smoky Joe called out, Happy
New Year? In hell, it won't be New Year till midnight.
If we reach the Gigantic by eleven, we may just
possibly be in time. Six bells, it's eleven o'clock. Confound
this fog. We've had to reduce our speed to half Oh.
Speaker 7: We'll never catch up to the Gigantic now.
Speaker 4: Homes nonsense. She's had to slow down too. I only
hope you don't miss out entirely in this fog.
Speaker 7: I don't really care.
Speaker 4: You don't sound very fit, Watson. What's up?
Speaker 6: Do you have to use that unfortunate expression and tell
me you're feeling screamish?
Speaker 7: Is this confounded your role? I can stand a good risk. See,
but this bobbing about in a teacup.
Speaker 4: It's pitty. I didn't bring them mother sills seasick pill mother.
Speaker 7: There's only one remedy for this sort of thing.
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 6: Staying on shore? It's jolly way to spend New Year's Eve?
This is who do you suppose? Is this possible for
these confounded sinkings?
Speaker 7: Anyway?
Speaker 3: Pembroke seems to feel it's a foreign plot a little eat.
European shipping industries benefit the most, of course.
Speaker 7: Holmes, did you hear that?
Speaker 6: I jove, yes, sounds like an ocean liner, right enough, Yes,
we're signals Scott.
Speaker 7: This is the gigantic glooming out of the fog.
Speaker 6: Looks like a mountain coming at us.
Speaker 3: Yes, Sharlock, Holmes and doctor Watson coming aboard.
Speaker 5: Let down a ladder, no, no, yeah, here's the Nana Watson, I.
Speaker 4: Think you can manage it.
Speaker 6: I'd climb up the Eiffel Tar on a clothes line
if it could get me off this bouncing cottage shell.
Speaker 3: Quite an impressive array of instruments you have up here
on the bridge, Captain Brooks.
Speaker 4: Here's mister Holmes. I'm not gigantic.
Speaker 9: We have the latest of everything, and none of it's
in a real use in case of fire, I'd sooner
face a typhoon, or a shipwreck, or a mutiny even
dog ratt than a fire on board ship.
Speaker 7: Surely a ship this side should be fairly fireproof.
Speaker 4: That's what you might sing, doctor Watson.
Speaker 9: But that are three factors that make a fire on
a luxury line are dangerous. First, there's all the confounded
ornamental woodwork that's used in a passenger construction. Second, there's
the fact that once a fire gets a firm hold,
it's fed by drafts that rush.
Speaker 4: Through the ventilating system.
Speaker 9: And third there is the element of penn Nothing makes
people behave more like wild beasts quicker than the cry
of fire.
Speaker 4: In case of fire, you have, of course an alarm system.
Speaker 9: We have the old fashioned system of bells, and also
something rather recent. The Gigantic is one of the first
ships to install it. You see that glass case over there, gentlemen, they're.
Speaker 6: Wrong with a lot of tubes entering from below. Looks
rather like a giant honeycomb, Mayholmes.
Speaker 9: Each of those tubes leads to a separate compartment of
the ship. The instant of fire breaks out anywhere, smoke
is immediately drawn up into the glass case. I've stationed
a sailor to watch that case. Believe me, gentlemen, the
first wisp of smoke please will know it.
Speaker 3: Yes, undoubtedly very helpful, Captain Brooks. In the case of
an ordinary conflagration, I assure you, a fire set by
Smoky Joe is not ordinary. He's a master arsonist. Ten
seconds after one of his fires breaks out, you're dealing
with a raging inferno.
Speaker 9: Confounded, they tell me the man deserted the ship at Queenstown.
Speaker 4: That us this morning.
Speaker 9: Wow, that's more than eighteen hours ago. If he'd set fire,
it seems to me that we'd been flames by this time.
Speaker 4: Not necessarily.
Speaker 3: There are many methods by which a fire can be
made to break out long after the pyromaniac has left
the scene of his crime.
Speaker 4: You say you've found no time bombs, no inflammable assets, no,
mister Holmes.
Speaker 9: Ever since I received word that we were in danger,
I've had my men searching high and low. They found nothing,
absolutely nothing. It's been a systematic search, I promise you, Yes,
but you've drawn a blank. That's what comes of using
system instead of brains and initiative. Oh and how do
you propose to locate whatever it is we can't find?
Speaker 4: By using a little logic?
Speaker 3: I shall credit smokey Joe with having the intelligence to
place his fire starting device in the place where it
will do the most damage. The man's no amateur, Captain,
he knows his business. Then I shall investigate that place
and remove his handiwork.
Speaker 6: Wooms, you're bagging again, and at all, my dear Watson.
Speaker 3: I think I may promise I shall have discovered the
menace inside of half an hour. I only hope Joe's
little device doesn't do its nasty job before then.
Speaker 4: Half an hour. It's now leven thirty.
Speaker 9: Exactly do you think you can solve this problem by midnight?
Speaker 3: Yes, captain, with an in luck, I think I can
promise you a placid and uneventful New year.
Speaker 4: Captain, Brooks. Yes, mister Brown would seem to be the trouble.
Speaker 8: The wireless engineer so wishes to report something's wrong with
the separators, both as sending and receiving equipment have suddenly
gone out of commission.
Speaker 4: I don't like that. What does he think is? Can
you come here a minute? Excuse me a moment, gentlemen.
The wilsman is calling me. What the trouble, Jerry? It's
the compassay. It's spitting like a top. I can't figure
out what's got into it. Never see the light except
once in some magnetic storm. Scott, this is incredible, now heart.
It's the engine room calling Captain. I'll take it. Hello, Yes,
Captain brook speaking.
Speaker 3: The places you say will do the best you can
seem to be the difficulty, Captain.
Speaker 4: The dynamoes are slowing down. They can't figure out why.
Speaker 3: Good Lord, sir, that's why the lights are getting dim
places were the lights Without dynamos, we've no false draft
for the furnaces.
Speaker 4: We'll never keep up enough steam pressure to drive the ship.
Speaker 9: In no time at all, we'll be drifting helplessly in
the Atlantic, in the middle of the reefs.
Speaker 4: That's around the city Aisles and.
Speaker 7: The only way to spend New Year.
Speaker 4: It could be worse, you know how. The ship could
be on fire.
Speaker 3: That's the real menace to which these other threats are,
but the prelude I fancy.
Speaker 4: For the love of Heaven, what are we to do?
Speaker 3: Keep calm and use whatever intelligence the Lord has endowed
us with, Captain Brooks, I suggest you and as many
officers as you can spare, join the holiday celebration that's
undoubtedly going on, in order to keep discipline in case
there's any disturbance.
Speaker 4: Very good, mister Holmes. There's a New Year's dance going
on in the large ballroom. It's on sea deck.
Speaker 3: And meanwhile, if you can spare us someone to guide
Watson and myself of course, And mister Brown here is
our purser.
Speaker 4: He knows the ship as well as anyone on board.
I'm sure he does.
Speaker 3: But well, mister Brown, if you'll lead the way, I
think Dr Watson and I would like to go below
and investigate the engines. No, mister Brown, even lower than that.
What we're looking for is that to be rather close
to the furnaces. I imagine.
Speaker 7: All these and stares to go round and round to
make me dizzy. Maybe it's the heat down here.
Speaker 8: Yes, we're getting close to the furnace room. If you
listen you can hear the men stocky.
Speaker 7: Him way to a living homes.
Speaker 3: Stop a minute, where does that mean, mister Brown? That
small corridor with a heavy metal door at the far end.
Speaker 8: That's the bullying room though, where the gold is kept.
Speaker 3: Very interesting course, we take a look, Gay Watson, and
I've always wanted to see those gold boss.
Speaker 7: You hear so much about.
Speaker 8: I'm afraid that won't be possible, doctor Watson.
Speaker 7: Why not?
Speaker 8: Well, as you can see, the door is locked and sealed.
It was done by the port authorities before we.
Speaker 4: Left New York.
Speaker 8: That door won't be opened until the port authority is
unsealed when we reach Southampton.
Speaker 3: You mean that room in there wasn't opened when the
captain ordered the ship search for in the sendiory material.
Speaker 8: No, mister Holmes, but it's quite impossible for you you
want to place a fire bomb or anything of the
sort in there.
Speaker 4: As you can see, the seals are still intact. Quite
these seals are intact. But are they the ones put
on in New York? I doubt it.
Speaker 3: It's hell a look, Yes, interesting very interesting. These are
not the original seals, or.
Speaker 7: How can you tell? Holmes? They look in tech to.
Speaker 3: Me exactly they are intact. But here in the crack
of the door sill are bits of broken seals. But
these seals are not even chipped by JERVI.
Speaker 6: Yes, of course, the original seals were hacked off and
then replaced after someone had finished picking the lock and
robbing the room inside.
Speaker 4: I doubt if robbery was the motive, Watson.
Speaker 7: For what other reason would anyone want to break into
a room full.
Speaker 4: Of gold bullion? It? All the pins? What lies directly
below that room? Mister Brown?
Speaker 7: Well let me.
Speaker 8: See nothing of any great importance, mister Holmes, just the
coal piles.
Speaker 3: The coal piles. Good lord, I think we shall have
to break the seals again. Mister Brown, here wats and
help me.
Speaker 8: But the door is locked, mister Holmes, sitting after seals
have been removed.
Speaker 4: We's have to get the key from the captain. No
fine for that, hand me my burglar tools, Watson.
Speaker 8: Very well, good Kevins, You mean you could actually pick
a lock with those things?
Speaker 6: Homes ever turned thief, mister Brown, even the Bank of
England would miss.
Speaker 4: Yes, that should do the trick now, if you'll help
me draw the bars.
Speaker 6: Watson, Yes, with pleasure. You are homes now, let's see
said lacking There isn't it? Is there a light inside
mister Brown? No, mister Holmes, I'm afraid not. Then we
shall have to prop the door open. The light from
the corridor will have to do for our investigations. Come on, Watson, Holmes,
that's smell hue, strong and acrid.
Speaker 7: Like sulfer, only with more bite.
Speaker 4: Seems to be coming from this large tin. Suppose I
light a match is first up. Don't be alarmed.
Speaker 3: I know better than the light of match around a
tin which is leaking south furlic acid. I only wanted
to know how much you knew about Smoky Joe's and
send your a device, Mister Ludwig Brown spelled b r
a U N if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 7: So you recognize me?
Speaker 4: Yes, that dueling is car over your left eye rather
a giveaway, don't you know?
Speaker 8: So you have found how we are going to set
fire to the ship by having the acid.
Speaker 4: Dripped through a hole in the floor under the cold.
Speaker 8: The first shovelful of that acid so coal that goes
in the furnace and the hold of a ship will
be a blazing inferno.
Speaker 4: Nothing could put out that fire. Don't you mean that's
how you were going to stalk the fire?
Speaker 8: My dear mister Holmes, you do not think we will
let a small obstacle like the famous Sherlock Holmes stand
in our way.
Speaker 7: Listen to me, don't reach office to me.
Speaker 4: I'll let you have it. Never argue with a local pistol, Watson.
Speaker 8: That's the first sensible remark you've made, mister Holmes. I'm
sorry to leave, but these stokers should reach the sulfuric
acid impregnated coal in about ten minutes, I believe, so
I must be going. This room will be a roaring
oven once it starts. You will be rather badly overdone.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen.
Speaker 8: Goodbye then, so sorry, I cannot say I'll feed us in.
Speaker 7: The door. He's bolted it. Even you can't open it.
Speaker 4: Now, Homes, Shut up, Watson, and help me look for
the opening.
Speaker 3: What opening, for heaven's sake, the opening the feats to
the tube that ends on the captain's new fire detecting machine.
Speaker 4: It should be somewhere near the ceiling.
Speaker 6: But at Homes, I can't see a thing in this
black hole of calcutter.
Speaker 4: You can feel, can't you?
Speaker 6: Not a thing homes the wall on this side of
the room. It's as smooth as an egg. Can't found
it if we could see for half a minute. Hullo,
I've got something there. He's a small grating here in
the upper corner.
Speaker 4: This must be it.
Speaker 3: Now, if we can make a smudge of some sort, Watson,
bring me a piece of paper.
Speaker 7: Paper, whoever I find a piece of paper.
Speaker 3: Then bring me anything I can burn, A bit of cloth,
a piece of yes, by jove, rope, bring me a
piece of the rope that's tied around one of the
boxes that contained the bullion.
Speaker 7: Very well, if I can find a box that now
what I found? It? Found it? The knots are tight,
so tight.
Speaker 4: Places with nuts cut the rope. What's utu? Your pocket knife?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: Very well, hey, our homes, it's a short length.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid I only want enough for a smudge. Nothing
like a bit of hempen rope.
Speaker 6: Toms, For heaven's sake, You're not going to set a
match to that thing in here.
Speaker 7: There'll be an explosion.
Speaker 3: Have to take the chance, Watson, with any luck of
sulfuric acid fumes won't be too concentrated up here, never ceiling. Well,
there goes one.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 3: Now if we can persuade the rope to smolder, Yes,
there she goes.
Speaker 7: Certainly makes plenty of smoke at homes.
Speaker 4: Important thing, it's being drawn up through the grating.
Speaker 7: How long before they come to investigate?
Speaker 3: Do you suppose it all depends on the mental acumen
of a sailor who's watching that fire detecting machine.
Speaker 7: Let's hope is brighter than he looks.
Speaker 6: It may be my imagination, but it seems to me
I can feel the metal flooring under my feet beginning
to get hot.
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Speaker 3: Now let's rejoin Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson locked in
the smoke filled boulon of the gig Attic.
Speaker 7: Good lord, how long does it take for them to
get us out of here? That smoke suffocating?
Speaker 4: Calm yourself, Watson. It can't be more than three minutes
since we looked this much. Yes, I can hear someone
running down the iron steaking.
Speaker 7: I can't hear a blasted thing. How do you and
I'm there? Get us out?
Speaker 4: We're in here? Open the door?
Speaker 7: What a relief?
Speaker 4: How some of did you two get locked in here?
What's all the smoke? And no time for explanations? Captain?
Speaker 3: Stop them stucking the furnaces. Flood the coal piles with water.
They've been soaked with sulfuric acid. Good lord, he.
Speaker 4: Gees, stop the firing.
Speaker 9: Stop the bums in the engine room.
Speaker 6: Well that's that comes. What do you suppose have they
come of that dast to depasser?
Speaker 4: We let Captain Brooks take care of him, Watson.
Speaker 3: Unless I'm very much mistaken, mister Brown, is going to
wish he'd never gone to sea. Well, come along, let's
go upstairs and join the festivities. I think we rate
a bottle of champagne, which.
Speaker 6: Blazes with this champagne? I need a double brandy eight
bells and let's see that would be.
Speaker 4: Good night Watson, Happy New Year, old fellow.
Speaker 6: Happy in your homes and many of them. But don't
you think you could manage to have them not quite
so hair raising.
Speaker 3: And have you getting fat and lethargic. You know that
would be unhealthy, not to say boring.
Speaker 6: Oh so now it's for my sake we indulge in
all these horrendous escapades.
Speaker 7: Eh, find it of logic?
Speaker 4: That is elementary, my dear Watson. Elementary. But here's the ballroom.
Suppose we joined the party side, my dearie.
Speaker 3: We well, doctor Watson, that was an exciting way to
spend New Year's Eve.
Speaker 7: He was a bit too exciting, mister Harris, if you.
Speaker 4: Ask me, doctor, did they catch the purser?
Speaker 6: Oh they did indeed, mister Brown and five of his
accompasses were thrown in the brig. That was the end
of the disasters in the British Maritime Service.
Speaker 3: When at Holmes first suspect the purser was the villain
of the piece, when he came out.
Speaker 6: Of the bridge and threw his overcoat on a chair
near to the compass, where whereupon the compass went burserk,
who was immediately suspected the code contained a powerful.
Speaker 7: Magnet of some sort.
Speaker 4: And was he right?
Speaker 7: Doctor, My dear mister Harris, was Sherlock Holmes have a wrong?
But come fill your.
Speaker 6: Lug and let us wish our radio friends are prosperous,
happy and peaceful.
Speaker 3: Indeed we do, doctor, And now doctor Watson, would you
like to give us a hint about next week's story?
Speaker 6: Next week, I think I'll tell you how Holmes and
I tapped a famous Jothy for writing our own rooms
in Baker Street by the use of what was then
a fabulous new invention, the gramophone.
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Speaker 2: Block gaping welcome back. It was kind of odd to
hear Sherlock Holmes wanting to have New Year's Eve dinner
rather than go out on a problem. It's worth noting
here that, of course, this episode was set in nineteen twelve,
towards the tail end of the Holmes era. His very
last Adventure was set in nineteen fourteen. I do think
this episode could have used a better, maybe more descriptive title.
It really did not convey that we are going to
be in a race against time to save the ship
and the English Economy title, soended a whole lot more
light hearted than that. Well, we turned out at a
listener comments and feedback and uh just a nice keep
up the good work. Well, thank you for your Econo marks.
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