Speaker 1: From New York, the makers of clipper craft clothes from Men, and.
Speaker 2: Nine hundred twenty four leading retail.
Speaker 1: Stores from coast to coast present the world's most famous detective,
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes. Our stories are based upon the character of
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes
Speaker 1: is portrayed by John Stanley, Doctor Watson by Alfred Shirley,
Speaker 1: and the dramatizations.
Speaker 2: Are by Edith Meiser.
Speaker 1: Well, here we are, once again on the threshold of
Speaker 1: doctor Watson's study. We find mister Holmes genial biographers trotting
Speaker 1: up and down in front of.
Speaker 2: This fireplace evening. Doctor, you look fit. The Christmas festivities
Speaker 2: don't seem to cut you down.
Speaker 3: I am fit, mister Harrison, very fit.
Speaker 2: Isn't that I'm rather well fitted? Chris Scottman, Well, you're I.
Speaker 1: Why Doctor Watson. Don't tell me Santa Claus brought you
Speaker 1: a clipper pat.
Speaker 2: So, oh why not?
Speaker 4: Just because I'm a wee bitter venerable doesn't mean I'm antique.
Speaker 2: I still enjoy making a good impatient, don't you know.
Speaker 1: But in that suit, it'll be the girl that goes
Speaker 1: when you walk down the street.
Speaker 2: Though. Seriously, now, doctor, suppose you tell us what the
Speaker 2: night story is to be about.
Speaker 4: Well tonight, I thought i'd relate how Hopes and I
Speaker 4: spent New Year's Eve off.
Speaker 1: The silly Isles. The silly isles, that sounds appropriate, Doctor.
Speaker 3: The name of these particular islands is still sc.
Speaker 2: I l l Y.
Speaker 3: They are located roughly one hundred miles southwest of Lend's End.
Speaker 2: Mister Harris, Or what in the world were you doing
Speaker 2: there on New Year's.
Speaker 4: Eve trying to prevent a great maritime catastrophe? You remember
Speaker 4: what happened to the Titanic. You know what happened to Tania,
Speaker 4: where the labs and those on the ocean land are
Speaker 4: gigantic wood in even greater danger when Holmes and I
Speaker 4: went over the side on New Year's Eve in the
Speaker 4: nineteen twelve. Oh but good heavens, Instead, I go getting
Speaker 4: ahead of myself again. Suppose I fix us a Tom
Speaker 4: and Jenny while you tell our listeners how to stop
Speaker 4: the righting at clothes.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, doctor.
Speaker 1: Watson, millions of men like you will start the new
Speaker 1: year in a smart, new clippercraft suits and overcoat. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: more men than ever before were clippercraft clothes. For we've
Speaker 1: sold more clipper craft clothes than ever before in our
Speaker 1: entire history. There's a reason, of course, the wise old
Speaker 1: American public, with its eye for value, has pronounced clipper
Speaker 1: craft the most remarkable clothing buys they've ever seen. The
Speaker 1: reason for these amazing values is the sensational.
Speaker 2: Clipper Craft Plan.
Speaker 1: Concentrating the buying power of nine hundred and twenty four
Speaker 1: of the nation's leading stores from coast to coast, it
Speaker 1: accounts for tremendous savings in manufacting, during.
Speaker 2: And distribution costs.
Speaker 1: That's why true fine clipper craft suits are only forty
Speaker 1: and forty five dollars by clipper Craft, top coats and
Speaker 1: overcoats are only forty dollars, and sport jackets only twenty
Speaker 1: six fifty. Clipper Craft values are downright amazing. Compare them
Speaker 1: with clothes selling for many dollars more. Now, doctor Watson,
Speaker 1: to return to the New Year's Eve, You and Sherlock
Speaker 1: home celebrated on the good ship Gigantic.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, here's your Tom and Jenny. Mister hardis like
Speaker 3: other careful to compare yourself.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was probably the most taken two years Eve
Speaker 4: I ever experienced. Nothing is as tedifying to a seafaring
Speaker 4: man as the thought of fire aboard Hennick, yesolution, I'm
Speaker 4: asked ty to hit on that.
Speaker 2: Yes, let me see. It was a delust day of
Speaker 2: the nineteen hundred and twelve.
Speaker 4: Its inception was sufficiently placid.
Speaker 2: I must say.
Speaker 3: A light snow was pulling us homes and I seated
Speaker 3: ourselves on either side of a well filled breakfast table.
Speaker 3: The flames of our seaco fire reflected themselves.
Speaker 4: Cheery generous coffee pot for her house is filled with
Speaker 4: the pleasant.
Speaker 2: Aroma of the stacking.
Speaker 4: Missus Hudson was preparing for our New Year's goose Saenida.
Speaker 2: Came a frantic jangle the front doorbell. No, definitely no, No, Holmes.
Speaker 5: Whoever it is that's pulling our front doorbell out by
Speaker 5: the roots or whatever its problem is, I'm definitely not interested.
Speaker 2: Yes, Watson.
Speaker 5: Being the world's greatest consulting detective has its disadvantages. People
Speaker 5: always managed to hint the difficulties at the most inopportune moments.
Speaker 2: Yes, you should try being a doctor, Holmes. No female
Speaker 2: says he.
Speaker 4: Has ever decided to become a mother at a convenient time.
Speaker 5: Oh, come in confounded, mister Holmes, Mister Sharlotte Holmes, naturally,
Speaker 5: whatever your problem is.
Speaker 2: I warn you we don't have to wait long for
Speaker 2: the holiday, mister Holmes. Close to two thousand lives or
Speaker 2: at state. I pray to Heaven you'll be able to
Speaker 2: reach them before it's too late. Reach whom? Where?
Speaker 5: And what is this disaster you anticipate with such trepidation
Speaker 5: The steamship Gigantic, mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: She should be somewhere off the Silly Isles by midnight.
Speaker 6: We've been reliably informed that an attempt will.
Speaker 2: Be made to set fire to her at that time.
Speaker 7: If successful, it'll be the greatest disaster in all maritime history.
Speaker 5: Yes, in that case, I suppose I shall have to
Speaker 5: forego the little celebration i'd planned for this evening, have
Speaker 5: to really.
Speaker 2: Home, as you are a cold, glutted dish.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry, I don't believe you've been my colleague,
Speaker 5: doctor Watson, mister.
Speaker 2: Pembroke, Reginald Pembroke.
Speaker 6: I'm chairman of the board of Floyd's, the famous insurance company.
Speaker 5: Oh, that your desire to prevent this disaster isn't entirely humanitarian,
Speaker 5: not entirely, but neither.
Speaker 2: Is it altogether merchantary.
Speaker 6: There's more to take than the lives of the passengers
Speaker 6: on board the Gigantic. If she goes down, the financial
Speaker 6: stability of the British Empire.
Speaker 2: Goes with her. Interesting Hey Watson continuous to Pember.
Speaker 6: Where mister Holmes that during this past year there have
Speaker 6: been a terrifying number of marine catastrophes.
Speaker 2: Holmes says everything, mister.
Speaker 5: Pember, I am quite cognizant to the fact that quite
Speaker 5: a few of the newest and fastest British liners have
Speaker 5: been destroyed at sea by fire storm and accident.
Speaker 7: They weren't accidents, mister Holmes, asualal quite The Egyptian Star
Speaker 7: was destroyed by fire in the Persian Elf eight hundred
Speaker 7: nights last, the Lord Nelson.
Speaker 2: Disappeared in the Typhoon and the Indian Ocean, no survivors.
Speaker 5: The Southern Cross exploded and sank off the coast of
Speaker 5: Brazil one thousand, two hundred casualties.
Speaker 2: The Wellington, the.
Speaker 5: Lady Jane Gray and the El Dorado all caught fire
Speaker 5: in different parts of the Pacific.
Speaker 2: Total deaths over two thousand.
Speaker 5: The greatest disaster was last April when the Titanic ran
Speaker 5: into an iceberg with a loss of over fifteen hundred souls.
Speaker 6: The public's becoming panicky about traveling on British ships. The
Speaker 6: ships of other nationals are taking all our parade. Three
Speaker 6: backs nearly ten. Investment concerns were large. Marine interests have.
Speaker 2: Gone to the wall.
Speaker 6: Even freyd is not too secure. But that is not
Speaker 6: the most serious aspect of the situations.
Speaker 2: Reate, good Lord, don't tell me. It's worse to come,
Speaker 2: much worse, doctor Putsson.
Speaker 6: Those ships disappeared in many parts of the world. They
Speaker 6: were sunk by diverse methods.
Speaker 7: One factor, however, was the same in each disaster, and
Speaker 7: that was the cargo carried by each ship was gold.
Speaker 2: English goal.
Speaker 6: If it ever became known how much British bullion lies
Speaker 6: at the bottom of the Seven Seas.
Speaker 7: British credit would be badly crippled.
Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, the Bank of England has
Speaker 6: been forced to import a large shipment of gold from Canada, and.
Speaker 2: It's only gigantic. Good Lord, of wonder your episode.
Speaker 6: The whole economic structure of the British ambis at state,
Speaker 6: mister Hobbs.
Speaker 2: Nothing must happen to the Gigantic, but makes you think
Speaker 2: anything will.
Speaker 6: A cable was sent shortly after the Gigantic left Queenstown.
Speaker 6: She made the stop in Ireland on her east bound voyage.
Speaker 2: You know she sailed shortly before dawn this morning.
Speaker 6: The gang plans have been drawn in the last line
Speaker 6: had been cast off.
Speaker 2: On the Great. Propellers have begun to churn. Suddenly the dock.
Speaker 6: Master help to someone sliding down the chips side on
Speaker 6: a rope.
Speaker 2: Hi, look up picture. Some fools climbed over the side.
Speaker 2: He's coming down on a road. No wack. If we'll
Speaker 2: go back, he'll be cares. He'll never make a dog.
Speaker 2: He follow the water, be swept under the chef. No. No,
Speaker 2: he's pushing the rope away from the ship to his feet.
Speaker 2: He's swinging out. He's going to jump.
Speaker 3: He made it.
Speaker 2: Someone won the bridges. Ni. He's calling to him sat
Speaker 2: pick himself up.
Speaker 5: He's shouting back every.
Speaker 2: In hell, good lord, I know the man turn. It's
Speaker 2: smoky Joe the firebird.
Speaker 7: If a Gigantic don't catch fire between himself, hunt and
Speaker 7: I'm a Dutchman.
Speaker 2: Smoking. Joe's still he We've heard it in before. A
Speaker 2: Watson not merely as an expert arsonist, put Ingrish pyromaniac
Speaker 2: as well. They cut him. I hope mister Pembroke. No, no,
Speaker 2: mister Holmes.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately he is too quick for them.
Speaker 2: He crawled down a.
Speaker 6: Ladder and disappeared among the pilings under the darts.
Speaker 5: So the Gigantic assist for Southampton with a nice bit
Speaker 5: of Joe's handiwork aboard.
Speaker 2: You think it's a fire bomb, he Holmes.
Speaker 5: Not necessarily, Watson. There are many ingenious ways of starting
Speaker 5: a fire. You know, whoever hired Joe would prefer to
Speaker 5: have it happen went out to see I imagine.
Speaker 6: Oh thod exactly, mister Holmes. We wireless Captain.
Speaker 2: Brooks to make a search, of course, but on a
Speaker 2: shift the size.
Speaker 6: Of the Gigantic, it's like looking for a needle in
Speaker 6: a haystack.
Speaker 2: You are our one.
Speaker 6: Home, mister Holmes. If only you couldn't get on board
Speaker 6: in time.
Speaker 2: And how do you suggest I go that little assignment.
Speaker 7: The Chairman of the Great Western Railway has placed the
Speaker 7: Royal Train in joor disposal.
Speaker 2: All out the traffic will be cleared off the tracks.
Speaker 6: Now you should reach Landeen shortly after lunch my yart.
Speaker 6: The albatross will be waiting for your harbors and eyes.
Speaker 6: Very speedy little craft. And when he loved you should
Speaker 6: cite the Gigantic around leave clop tonight.
Speaker 2: Yes, eleven o'clock, was it not? Joe called out, Happy
Speaker 2: New Year? In hell? It won't be New Year at midnight.
Speaker 5: If we reached the Gigantic by eleven, we may just
Speaker 5: possibly be in time.
Speaker 2: Six bells, it's eleven o'clock. Unfound this park. We've had
Speaker 2: to reduce our speed to heart. We'll never catch up
Speaker 2: to the Gigantic now, hose nonsense. She's had to slow
Speaker 2: down too. I only hope you don't miss our entire
Speaker 2: in the spot. I don't really care. You don't sound
Speaker 2: very sick, But what's up? You have to use that
Speaker 2: unfortunate expedition and tell me you're feeling sweamish? Is this
Speaker 2: could have founded a role I can send a good risk. See,
Speaker 2: but this propping about in a tea cup city. I
Speaker 2: didn't bring the mothers in seasick bill. Oh, it's only one.
Speaker 4: Remedy for this sort of thing, that that staying on
Speaker 4: the shore. So I better spend New Year's Eve?
Speaker 2: This is who do you suppose is this possible for
Speaker 2: these confounded sinkings.
Speaker 5: Anyway, the Pembroke seems to feed us a foreign plot
Speaker 5: a little eat. European shipping industry is benefit the most.
Speaker 5: Of course, did you hear that?
Speaker 2: I jove yes, sounds like an ocean life right enough? Yes,
Speaker 2: what signal.
Speaker 4: Yes got this year is a gigant you gloming out
Speaker 4: of the fog. Looks like a mountain coming at us.
Speaker 7: Oh, yes, shut off, Holmes and doctor Watson coming aboard.
Speaker 2: Let down a.
Speaker 8: Ladder down, here's Donna Watson.
Speaker 5: I think you can manage it and climb up the
Speaker 5: Eiffel car on a clothes.
Speaker 2: And if it would get me off this bouncing cot shell.
Speaker 5: Quite an impressive array of instruments you have up here
Speaker 5: on the bridge, Captain Brooks.
Speaker 2: Here's mister Holmes. How much gigantic? We have? The latest
Speaker 2: of everything, and none of it's in a real use
Speaker 2: in case of fire.
Speaker 5: Du face a typhoon, or a shipwreck or a mutually
Speaker 5: even dog breddit than a fire on board ship.
Speaker 3: Surely a ship this size should be fairly fireproof.
Speaker 2: That's what you might think, doctor Watson.
Speaker 9: But that are three factors that make a fire on
Speaker 9: a luxury line are dangerous. First there's all the confounded
Speaker 9: ornamental woodwork that's used in the passenger construction.
Speaker 2: Second, there's the fact that.
Speaker 9: Once a fire gets a firm hold, it's fed by
Speaker 9: drafts that rush through.
Speaker 2: The ventilating system. And third there is the element.
Speaker 9: Of penn Nothing makes people behave more like wild beasts
Speaker 9: quicker than the cry of fire.
Speaker 2: In case you have a person alarms sist.
Speaker 9: We have the old fashioned system of bell, and also
Speaker 9: something rather recent.
Speaker 2: The Gidentic is one of the first ships to install it.
Speaker 2: You see that glass case over there.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen, The roll with a lot of tubes entering from
Speaker 4: below looks more like a giant honeycomb.
Speaker 2: Mayhelms.
Speaker 9: Each of those tubes leads to a separate compartment of
Speaker 9: the ship.
Speaker 2: The instant of fire.
Speaker 9: Breaks out anywhere, smoke is immediately drawn into the glass case.
Speaker 2: I stationed to save it. To watch that case.
Speaker 5: Believe me, gentlemen, the first wisp of smoke we shall
Speaker 5: know it. Yes, undoubtedly very helpful, Captain Brooks. In the
Speaker 5: case of an ordinary conflagration, I assure you, a fire
Speaker 5: set by smoky Joe is not ordinary. He's a master
Speaker 5: arsonist ten seconds after one of his fires breaks out,
Speaker 5: You're dealing with a raking inferno.
Speaker 2: Pound did they tell me the man who dirted this
Speaker 2: queenstown that us this morning? That's more than eighteen hours ago.
Speaker 2: If he'd set fire. It seems to me that we've
Speaker 2: been flamed by this time. Not necessarily.
Speaker 5: There are many methods by which a fire can be
Speaker 5: made to break out long after the pyromaniac has left
Speaker 5: the seal of his crime. You say you've found no track, bombs,
Speaker 5: no clammable assets, no, mister Holmes, Ever since I received
Speaker 5: word that we were in danger, I've had my men
Speaker 5: searching high and low.
Speaker 7: They found nothing, absolutely nothing. He's been a systematic search,
Speaker 7: I promise you, yes, but you've drawn a blank.
Speaker 2: That's what comes of using system instead of brains and initiative. U.
Speaker 6: And how do you propose to locate whatever it is
Speaker 6: we can't find?
Speaker 5: By using a little logic? I shall credit smokey Joe
Speaker 5: with having the intelligence to place his fire starting device
Speaker 5: in a place where it will do the most damage.
Speaker 5: The man's nontor captain, he knows his business. Then I
Speaker 5: shall investigate that place and remove his handiwork.
Speaker 2: RUMs you're bagging again.
Speaker 5: And at all, my dear Watson, I think I may
Speaker 5: promise I shall have discovered the menace instead of half
Speaker 5: and half. I only hope Joe's little device doesn't do
Speaker 5: its nasty job before then.
Speaker 2: Half an hour.
Speaker 5: Now, eleven thirty exactly?
Speaker 2: Do you think you can solve this problem by a midnight? Yes?
Speaker 5: Captain? With any luck, I think I can promise you
Speaker 5: a placid and uneventful new year, Captain Brooks.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Mcdown would seems to be the trouble the wireless.
Speaker 7: Engineers who wished to report something's wrong with the separators
Speaker 7: as sending and receiving equipment of.
Speaker 2: Something gone out of commission.
Speaker 1: I don't like that.
Speaker 2: What does he think? Can you come here a minute?
Speaker 2: Excuse me moment, gentlemen. The wheelsman's following me. What's trouble, Jerry?
Speaker 2: It's the compass. It's pretty like all. I can't figure
Speaker 2: out what's how into it? You never see the light
Speaker 2: set bunch in some magnetic storm. Great, Scott, this is incredible.
Speaker 2: Now heart is the engine room calling, Captain. I'll take it.
Speaker 5: Hello, Yes, Captain brook speaking the places you say, well,
Speaker 5: do the best you.
Speaker 2: Can see with the difficulty, Captain. The dynamoes are slowing down.
Speaker 2: They can't figure out why, good Lord, So that's why
Speaker 2: the lights are getting dim the places with the lights.
Speaker 7: Without dynamos, we've no false draft for the furnaces. We'll
Speaker 7: never keep up enough pressure to drive the ship. In
Speaker 7: no time at all, we'll be drifting helplessly in the Atlantic,
Speaker 7: in the middle of the reefs that around the city aisles.
Speaker 2: And it's only way to spend New Years the homes.
Speaker 2: It could be worse, you know how. The ship could
Speaker 2: be on fire. That's the fill menace for which these
Speaker 2: other threats are but the predude I fancy.
Speaker 5: For the level heaven.
Speaker 2: What are we to do?
Speaker 5: Keep calm and you whatever in legends the Lord has endowed.
Speaker 5: It's with Captain Brooks. I suggest you want as many
Speaker 5: officers as you can spare join the holiday celebration that's
Speaker 5: undoubtedly going on, in order to keep discipline in case
Speaker 5: there's any disturbance.
Speaker 2: Really good, mister Holmes. There's a New Year's dance going
Speaker 2: on in the large ballroom. It's on Sea Day.
Speaker 5: And meanwhile, if you could spare us someone to guide
Speaker 5: Watson and myself of.
Speaker 2: Course, now, mister Brown, here is our pursa. He knows
Speaker 2: the ship as well as anyone on board. I'm sure
Speaker 2: he does.
Speaker 5: But when, mister Brown, if you'll eat the way, I
Speaker 5: think Dr Watson and I are to go below and
Speaker 5: investigate the engines. No, mister Brown even love that what
Speaker 5: we're looking for is that to be rather close to
Speaker 5: the furnaces, I.
Speaker 10: Imagine, No he is I stare to go round and
Speaker 10: round and make me dizzy.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's the heat down here.
Speaker 7: Yes, we're getting close to the furnace room.
Speaker 4: If you listen, you can hear them disturbing grim way
Speaker 4: to a living hell.
Speaker 2: Sup a minute, where does that mean? Brown? That small
Speaker 2: fa door with a heavy metal door at the far end.
Speaker 7: That's the brilliant rooms though, and gold is kept very interesting.
Speaker 2: Spose we take it up, Okay, Watson.
Speaker 11: And I've always ready to see those gold bars you
Speaker 11: hear so much about.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid that won't be possible. Down to Watson. Why not?
Speaker 7: But as you can see, the door is locked and sealed.
Speaker 7: It was done by the port authorities before we left
Speaker 7: New York.
Speaker 2: That door won't be.
Speaker 7: Opened and the port authority is unseated when we reach Southampton.
Speaker 5: You mean that room in there wasn't open when the
Speaker 5: captain ordered the ship search for antend your material.
Speaker 2: No, mister Holmes, but.
Speaker 7: It's quite impossible for any want to place a fire
Speaker 7: bomb or anything of the sort in there. As you
Speaker 7: can see, the seals are still intact. Quite these seals
Speaker 7: are intact. But are they the ones put on in
Speaker 7: New York?
Speaker 2: I done it. It's HEAVENO yes, interesting, very interesting. These
Speaker 2: are not the original seal? Or how can you tell? Holmes?
Speaker 2: They look intact to.
Speaker 5: Me exactly they are intact. But here the crack of
Speaker 5: the door sill are bits of broken seals. These seals
Speaker 5: are not even chipped Jervis.
Speaker 3: Of course, the original seals were hacked off and then
Speaker 3: replaced after someone had finished picking the.
Speaker 2: Lock and robbing the room inside.
Speaker 5: I doubt if property was the mote at Watson.
Speaker 3: But what other reason would anyone want to break into
Speaker 3: a room full of gold bullion?
Speaker 2: It all depends what lies directed below that from mister Brown.
Speaker 7: Let me see nothing of any great importance, mister Holmes,
Speaker 7: just coal piles, the coal piles.
Speaker 2: Good lord, I think we shall have to break the
Speaker 2: seals again.
Speaker 7: Mister Brown, here WA's and help me but the door
Speaker 7: is not, mister Holmes.
Speaker 5: Now the seals have been removed.
Speaker 2: We's had to get the key from the captain. No
Speaker 2: mine for that.
Speaker 5: Hand me my burglar tools, Watson, good kemps you give
Speaker 5: that twenty tickles with those things.
Speaker 4: Homes ever turned teeth, mister Brown, even the Bank of
Speaker 4: England wouldn't be safe.
Speaker 2: Yes, that should do the trick. Now, if you'll help
Speaker 2: me draw the palls, Watson, Yes, with pleasure.
Speaker 5: There are homes now that's said lecking.
Speaker 2: There isn't it is the right inside, mister Brown. No,
Speaker 2: mister Holmes, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 1: Then we shall have to prop the broken The light
Speaker 1: from the corridor will have to do for our investigations.
Speaker 3: Come on, Watson, homes that snow who strong and acuid
Speaker 3: like suffer, only with more Bubit seems to.
Speaker 2: Be coming from this arch tin.
Speaker 5: Suppose I light a match to fill stuff, don't be alarmed.
Speaker 5: I know better than to light a match around a
Speaker 5: tin which is wreaking sarculic acid.
Speaker 2: I only wanted to know how much gwn you about
Speaker 2: Smoky Joe's and send.
Speaker 5: You a device, mister Ludwig Brown spelled b r a
Speaker 5: U men if not.
Speaker 2: Mistaken, so you recognize me. Yes, that's dueling this car
Speaker 2: over your left eye. It's rather a giveaway, don't you know.
Speaker 2: So you have found how we are got.
Speaker 7: You set fire to the ship by having the acid
Speaker 7: drip through a hole in the floor under the coal beneath.
Speaker 7: The first shovelful of that acid so cold that goes
Speaker 7: in the furnace, and the whole.
Speaker 2: Of a ship will be a blazing at furno. Nothing
Speaker 2: but put out that fire.
Speaker 5: Don't you mean that's how you were going to start
Speaker 5: the My dear mister Holmes, you do.
Speaker 7: Not think we will let a small obstacle like the
Speaker 7: famous Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 2: Stand in our way. Listen to me, don't raich office
Speaker 2: to me. I'll let you have it.
Speaker 7: Never argue with a local pistol Watson. That's the first
Speaker 7: sensible remark you've made, mister Holmes. I'm sorry to leave,
Speaker 7: but these stokers should reach the securic acid impregnated coal
Speaker 7: in about ten minutes. I believe I must be going.
Speaker 7: This room will be a.
Speaker 2: Roaring oven once it starts. You will be rather badly overdone. Gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Goodbye then, so sorry I cannot say I'll feed us
Speaker 2: in the door. He's boated it even you can't open
Speaker 2: it now, homes up. We looked for the opening.
Speaker 5: What opening, for heaven's sake, the opening the feats to
Speaker 5: the tube that ends on the Captain's new fire detecting machine.
Speaker 2: It should be somewhere.
Speaker 3: Never see it, but the homes I can't seer thing
Speaker 3: in this black hole of Calcutter?
Speaker 2: Can feel?
Speaker 1: Can't you.
Speaker 2: Not a thing? Homes The wall on this side of
Speaker 2: a room is as smooth as an egg. You can't
Speaker 2: find it.
Speaker 5: If we can see for half a minute, hullo, I've
Speaker 5: got something there. He's a small graeping here in the
Speaker 5: upper corner.
Speaker 2: This must be it.
Speaker 5: Now, if you can make a smudge of some sort, Watson,
Speaker 5: bring me a piece.
Speaker 2: Of paper, paper, Who would I find a piece of paper?
Speaker 5: Then bring me anything I can burn, A bit of cloth,
Speaker 5: a piece of yes by Joe rope. Bring me a
Speaker 5: piece of the rope that's tied around one of the
Speaker 5: boxes that contained the bullion.
Speaker 2: Well, if I can find a box, now what I
Speaker 2: found it? Found? It not for type, so tight type
Speaker 2: places with nuts. Cut the robots and use your pocket knife.
Speaker 2: Oh very well, m hm. They are homes. It's a
Speaker 2: short length. I'm afraid I only wanted enough for a smudge.
Speaker 2: Nothing like a bit of hemp and row toombs sake,
Speaker 2: you're not going to set a master to that thing
Speaker 2: in here, There'll be an explosion.
Speaker 5: Have to take the chart, Watson with any sulphilic acid
Speaker 5: fumes won't be too concentrated up here.
Speaker 2: Never seen it? Well, there goes one. Two. Now if
Speaker 2: we can persuade the rope to smoder yes, she goes certain.
Speaker 5: It makes plenty of smoke at Home's the important thing.
Speaker 5: It's being drawn up to the grating. How long before
Speaker 5: they come to investigate? You suppose it all depends on
Speaker 5: the mental acumen of a sailor who's watching that fire
Speaker 5: detecting machine.
Speaker 2: Let's hope is brighter than he looks.
Speaker 3: It may be my imagination, but it seems to me
Speaker 3: I can feel the metal flooring under my feet.
Speaker 2: Beginning To get.
Speaker 1: Most things in nineteen forty eight will cost you a
Speaker 1: great deal more than you've paid in other years. That's
Speaker 1: why it's sensational news to know that you can get
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Speaker 1: Now let's rejoin Shermock's and doctor Watson locked in smoke
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Speaker 2: Room of the Jiggettic. Good lord, how long did it
Speaker 2: take for them to get it out of here? And
Speaker 2: smoke's suffocate? Calm yourself, Watson. It can't be more than
Speaker 2: three minutes since we looked this much.
Speaker 5: Yes, icond heard someone running down the ironstick.
Speaker 2: I can't hear a blasted thing. How do you? Oh,
Speaker 2: hello there, get us out, we're in here. Open the
Speaker 2: door you water relief? How is some of did you
Speaker 2: two get locked in here? What's all the smoke and
Speaker 2: a hindrextmations? Captain?
Speaker 5: Stop them stuck in the furnaces. Flood the coal piles
Speaker 5: with water. They've been soaked with sulfuric acid.
Speaker 10: Good lord, thank god he super pile supper.
Speaker 2: Pot in the engine room.
Speaker 4: Well that's that comes. What do you suppose that they
Speaker 4: come of that destined person? We'll let Captain Brooks take
Speaker 4: care of him, Watson. Unless I'm very mistaken, mister Brown
Speaker 4: is going to wish he'd never gone to sea. Well,
Speaker 4: come along, let's go upstairs and join the festivities. I
Speaker 4: think we rate a bottle of champagne. The blazers with
Speaker 4: a champagne. I need a double brandy.
Speaker 5: Its fellows, let's see that would be a night Watson
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Speaker 2: And many of them.
Speaker 3: But don't you think you could manage to have them
Speaker 3: not quite so hair raising and have.
Speaker 2: You getting fat on the pogic? You know that would
Speaker 2: be unhealthy, not to say boring. Oh so now it's
Speaker 2: for my sake, queen, and all these rangers escapades. Eh,
Speaker 2: thank it of logic, exactly elementary, my dear Watson. Elementary.
Speaker 1: But here's the ballroom those who joined the poppy y
Speaker 1: my dear well, doctor Watson, that was an exciting way
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Speaker 2: It's a bit too excited, mister Harris. If you ask me, doctor,
Speaker 2: did they catch the purser? Oh?
Speaker 3: They did, indeed, mister Brown and five of his accompasses
Speaker 3: were thrown in the brig.
Speaker 2: That was the end of the disasters in the British
Speaker 2: Maritime Service. When at Holmes first suspect the person was
Speaker 2: the fiddle of the.
Speaker 3: Piece when he came out of the bridge and saw
Speaker 3: it overcome a chair near to the compass, where whereupon
Speaker 3: the compass went burserk, who was immediately suspected the code
Speaker 3: contained a powerful magnet of some sort.
Speaker 2: And was he right?
Speaker 11: Doctor, My dear mister Harris, Was Sherlock Holmes ever wrong?
Speaker 11: But come fill your mug and let us wish our
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Speaker 1: Indeed we do, doctor, And now, doctor Watson, would you
Speaker 1: like to give a hint about next week's story?
Speaker 3: Next week, I think I'll tell you how Holmes and
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