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- 0:02Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson, back to Professor Moriarty and the
- 0:05Adventure of the Serpent God.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Yes, mister Harris.
- 0:08Speaker 3: It was lateish one May evening in the early nineteen hundreds.
- 0:12I had been out on an emergency case and was
- 0:15returning in the soft spring twilight. As I reached two
- 0:18twenty one b Baker Street, I looked up to see
- 0:21a light in the windows of our sitting room. Holmes's long,
- 0:25lank silhouette was pacing back and forth in the lamplight.
- 0:30From the nervous vitality of his movements, I gathered he
- 0:32was working on a new case.
- 0:34Speaker 2: I let myself in the front door and bounded up
- 0:37the steps.
- 0:38Speaker 3: U you what, doctor, who would I hurry upstairs?
- 0:49Speaker 2: Evening hall was what's up a case?
- 0:51Speaker 4: Watson?
- 0:52Speaker 1: I'm expecting word from on eachst client. Now, don't trouble
- 0:54with your hat and gloves. From his note, I gather
- 0:55he want us to go to him at once.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Oh, then it's urgent.
- 0:58Speaker 4: I suspect it's more than urgent, Oneatson.
- 1:00Speaker 1: The stability of the empire may well depend on our
- 1:02efforts to night or now, really, ho, I'm not exaggerating, Watson.
- 1:06I leave that to you However, I don't think anyone
- 1:09will underrate the unrest that's seething in India these days.
- 1:13Speaker 4: The slightest spark may set off an.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Explosion, granted, but how does that affect us?
- 1:17Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, my friend Hockey, you remember
- 1:19young Well's heart rid of the Foreign Office.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Naturally, he's the one always looked as if he had
- 1:23just followed his molecule.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Don't let that air of fatuous imbecility fool you, Watson,
- 1:28hiding behind that simple facade is one of the most
- 1:31alert brains in England, not counting my own, of course,
- 1:34or conceit, that's why he's been assigned to the Maharaja.
- 1:37Speaker 3: He'll have his hands full. Those East Indian potentates are
- 1:40a slippery lot. I wouldn't just run around a corner
- 1:43with my second best stethoscope.
- 1:45Speaker 4: Prejudice, Watson, pure prejudice.
- 1:47Speaker 1: I met this one several years ago at the Royal
- 1:49Garden party, rather decent sort.
- 1:51Speaker 4: We've corresponded ever since.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Home, Oh wonderful, you know everything in everybody tell me
- 1:56about your Rajo?
- 1:58Speaker 2: Which one is he?
- 1:59Speaker 1: He's the Maharaja of Vanjoram, a small warlike Muntain kingdom.
- 2:02Speaker 4: Of the north of India.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Sounds very familiar.
- 2:05Speaker 1: You've undoubtedly heard of the Banjoram stables. The Maharaja is
- 2:08interested in race, horses and higher education. He leads a
- 2:11rather quiet life in his villa outside of Paris, where
- 2:14the famous professors from the Sorbonne come to give him
- 2:16advanced lectures in private.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Sounds placid in.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Her quite His life, I may say, was completely serene
- 2:22and uninteresting until his heir came to visit him.
- 2:25Speaker 2: Nothing abnormal about that.
- 2:27Speaker 3: Sons frequently upset the even tenor of their father's ways.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Rough, but Prince Jinner is not the Maharaja's son. He's
- 2:33his half brother, different mothers and all that.
- 2:35Speaker 2: You know.
- 2:36Speaker 1: It wasn't until it became apparent that the Maharaja would
- 2:38never have a son of his own that anyone took
- 2:41any interest in this boy at all. I don't believe
- 2:43the Maharaja and even met him until he sent for
- 2:45him last autumn. He suddenly decided it was high time
- 2:48the land became exposed to a British education.
- 2:51Speaker 3: A poor devil imagine being suddenly chucked into the midst
- 2:54of an English public school after being hampered darling of.
- 2:57Speaker 1: A high cast Indian household. Maharaja of Banjoram has some sense, Watson.
- 3:02He did not chuck him into a school, as you
- 3:04so inelogately express it. He decided to break the boy
- 3:07in with a good tutor. Upon explaining his position to
- 3:10the Foreign Office, they decided the situation was sufficiently important
- 3:13to assign young Wells heart Rider to the post.
- 3:16Speaker 2: As the Trigg is bent exactly.
- 3:18Speaker 1: The Maharaja of Banjoram has always been quite well disposed
- 3:21toward our government. Unfortunately, that's more than can be sent
- 3:25for some of the gentlemen who have managed to ease
- 3:27their way into high positions in his country.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Rid the Maharaja and his young half brother get along
- 3:32very well.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Indeed, that is until three weeks ago when hart Rider
- 3:36and the young Prince had their first encounter with the
- 3:39dark faced man with burning eyes. Shortly after tea time,
- 3:44Haki and the Prince were just emerging from the strand
- 3:47entrance of the Savoy Hotel, where they have a suite
- 3:49of rooms. Suddenly, the strange, ragged looking man seized the Prince.
- 3:55Speaker 4: He pressed his forehead to the back of the boy's hand.
- 4:11Speaker 5: Salutations, O true son of the father of all lizards.
- 4:16You followers await you. For you, the God will speak.
- 4:21Do not fail him, Do not fail.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Who is that man?
- 4:27Speaker 5: You know?
- 4:28Speaker 2: I do not know, mister Hartwrider, But you saw his
- 4:31eyes and his head. It moved from side to side
- 4:34like a great snake. It's a better boy. You're trembling.
- 4:38Your hands are as cold as eyes.
- 4:40Speaker 4: Your hand? What does that mark on the back of
- 4:43your hand?
- 4:44Speaker 6: I it is the sign.
- 4:59Speaker 1: And I since then, Watson, the boy's been a nervous
- 5:01wreck Herkrider says, he looks positively haunted. Then, the night
- 5:06after the boy's encounter with a strange derelict, heart Rider
- 5:09woke in the knight and found him missing.
- 5:10Speaker 4: From his bed.
- 5:11Speaker 1: Why not ask for police protection? Maharaja forbids it. Heart
- 5:15Rider drew him the design he'd seen on the back
- 5:17of the boy's hand. The Maharaja apparently recognized its significance,
- 5:21but will tell Heartrider nothing. He says, calling in the
- 5:24British authorities might very well cause another black hole of Calcutta.
- 5:27Speaker 2: Good Lord Holmes, then it is serious.
- 5:30Speaker 1: That might, Dear Watson, is the impression I've been trying
- 5:32to convey for the last half hour.
- 5:33Speaker 3: Did the heart Rider's message. Explain what the symbol on
- 5:36the boy's hand look like?
- 5:37Speaker 1: Yes, it's drawn here at the bottom of his letter,
- 5:41simple bit of cacogra.
- 5:42Speaker 3: Faith looks rather like the eye part of the large
- 5:45hook and eye.
- 5:46Speaker 1: It's not as innocent as that, Watson. It's the same
- 5:49mark that appears on the hood of the king Cobra
- 5:51in India. That's the symbol of the serpent God. Why jove,
- 5:55I see what you mean, Holmes.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Then you think the boy baby mixed up in some
- 5:58diabolical East India.
- 6:00Speaker 1: I fancy the mysteries even uglier than that. You remember
- 6:03the description of the beggar who left the symbol on
- 6:05the boy's hand, the burning eyes, the head that oscillated
- 6:09slowly from side to side.
- 6:11Speaker 3: Good heavens, that could be a description of Professor Moriarty.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Oh, but you said his skin was dark.
- 6:17Speaker 4: There are many stains, Watson, that can be used to
- 6:20color a man's skin.
- 6:21Speaker 2: But why they.
- 6:21Speaker 3: Waited to now to call you in on the case?
- 6:24What makes you think heart Rider would be around tonight?
- 6:26Speaker 4: This little figurine, beautiful carve, isn't it?
- 6:31Speaker 2: Oh?
- 6:33Speaker 3: Fascinating bit of ugliness body of a man and the
- 6:37head of a cobra the.
- 6:38Speaker 4: Cobra guard again.
- 6:40Speaker 1: It seems this carving was found on Prince Gina's bed
- 6:43when he returned from his afternoon's walk. Heartwrider said the
- 6:45boy fainted dead away when he saw it.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Sound sinister, Holmes.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Heartwrider told the Maharaja about the occurrence. Of course, the
- 6:52Maharaja seems to think this figure some sort of summons.
- 6:56He believes the boy will try to disappear again to night. Consequently,
- 6:59Heart sending a cab for us as soon as the
- 7:01boy retires, we're to pick him up at the embankment
- 7:04exit of the Savoy. Yes, I I hear a carriage
- 7:07driving up to our curb. Don't forget your a, Brther Watson,
- 7:11Ha ha ha. The game's afoot. The chase begins, Homes.
- 7:30Speaker 3: We've been sitting out here in this blasted camp for
- 7:32over an hour. What's happened to Hawk Rider? What if
- 7:36the boys slipped out of the other entrance.
- 7:39Speaker 4: Calm yourself, Watson.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Hark riders station behind some pottec palms with the lobby inside,
- 7:42where he can watch both doors.
- 7:44Speaker 3: What if the boy decides to stay quietly in his
- 7:46little bed, I say, Homes, that's the third time that
- 7:50policeman has flashed his Lanternetta's first thing.
- 7:53Speaker 2: You know he'll be asking some embarrassing questions.
- 7:55Speaker 4: Well, don't answer them. Just pretend we're gentlemen in from
- 7:58the country who've had a bit of a say libration
- 8:00and are sitting in the cab because we like horses.
- 8:03Speaker 2: Home.
- 8:03Speaker 3: If you're the most dagger, Hello, there's a stake you
- 8:08get coming through the doorway.
- 8:09Speaker 2: Now, yes, it must be the young prince.
- 8:11Speaker 4: He's hitting a cab.
- 8:13Speaker 6: Get ready, driver, it goes his cab homes.
- 8:19Speaker 2: But what are we waiting for for hockey?
- 8:21Speaker 1: Confound him here? It comes on the run. Open the door, Watson.
- 8:25We'll pick him up as we go. Follow that cab driver.
- 8:29There's a fiber in it for you if you don't
- 8:31let him out of your sight.
- 8:47Speaker 2: Oh, confound this far.
- 8:49Speaker 4: It's getting so thick we can't see the cab up ahead.
- 8:52Calm yourself. Can't rider.
- 8:53Speaker 1: They can't go any faster than we can as long
- 8:55as we can hear their horses. Hoo, they can't get
- 8:57away from us.
- 8:58Speaker 2: You must be near the river homes those podhorns.
- 9:01Speaker 1: As we've just passed London Docks to be exact, my
- 9:03dear Watson, how.
- 9:04Speaker 2: Do you know?
- 9:05Speaker 3: Don't tell me you can see any further through this
- 9:07piece souper than I can.
- 9:09Speaker 4: Possibly not, Watson. But I can smell.
- 9:11Speaker 1: The warehouses here contain the most varied and fascinating cargoes,
- 9:14and the whole port wines, hides, rubber drugs, iodine, coffee, spices, cocoa, quicksilver.
- 9:20I mentioned just a handful. On our left, we should
- 9:23be approaching wapping Old Stairs. You listen carefully, you can
- 9:26hear the.
- 9:26Speaker 2: Lapping of the water, not a d thing blatting away,
- 9:29you can't. I say, what do you suppose that boy
- 9:32is headed for in this district?
- 9:34Speaker 4: Has never occurred to you, heart rider?
- 9:35Speaker 1: How many Lascars and Hindus are employed in the docks
- 9:38in this part of London?
- 9:39Speaker 4: Oh funny, I'd forgotten that. It's a matter of fact,
- 9:41I've almost forgotten London had a port. Most Londoners do.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Asked the average Englishman what's the largest port in the
- 9:46United Kingdom, and chances are he'll answered Liverpool or Plumouth
- 9:49or Southampton.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Well, aren't they, My dear Watson.
- 9:52Speaker 1: The exports and imports of the Port of London more
- 9:54than equal in value any two of them combined.
- 9:59Speaker 2: What's up with we're going on?
- 10:03Speaker 4: We've turned into tunnel pier road.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Well, how can you tell that?
- 10:06Speaker 4: That the rumbling of the trains going through the tunnel.
- 10:08Speaker 1: I can't hear a blasted thing, can I? But I
- 10:10can feel them? So could you if your senses were
- 10:12properly developed. Yes, near hair used to be the site
- 10:15of execution dock, where Captain Kidd and other pirates were
- 10:18hanged in chains at low water and left for three
- 10:20times homes.
- 10:21Speaker 3: If you must give us a cook store of the district,
- 10:23couldn't you pick some cheerful items to lecture about carriage?
- 10:27Speaker 4: Your head stopped? Wait here, driver?
- 10:36Speaker 2: How'd you go?
- 10:36Speaker 4: Watson?
- 10:37Speaker 2: Hmm?
- 10:37Speaker 4: You too hot?
- 10:38Speaker 2: Ride up right?
- 10:42Speaker 6: Yes, there's the boy up ahead. He's feeling his way
- 10:47along the wall.
- 10:50Speaker 4: He stopped.
- 10:57Speaker 2: He is tapping out some kind of signal the wall.
- 11:04Speaker 4: By jove, I see the wall is opening. I saw
- 11:06no sign of a doorway.
- 11:08Speaker 2: Now it's closing after him. But it works mechanically.
- 11:12Speaker 1: What's don't get a hut. It's our one chance to
- 11:14follow the boy. Stick your foot in the crack y.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Oh, Now, why did you told me the blasted doors.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Killing me, hark Rider, take the cab and go back
- 11:24to the Savoy and get the Maharaja of Banjordain.
- 11:26Speaker 4: Bring him here.
- 11:26Speaker 2: Shall I fetch a patoon of police as well, just
- 11:28in case.
- 11:28Speaker 1: I don't imagine he'll let you here. Make a mark
- 11:31on the wall so you can find the door again. Done, Ben, Watson,
- 11:36Slip inside the door right quick before the card finds
- 11:38it's not closed.
- 11:39Speaker 4: Hurry back, hart.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Rider, Shut up homes, be back in a jibby.
- 11:49Speaker 7: Mmmm.
- 11:49Speaker 3: Seems to be some sort of courtyard with carved walls.
- 11:54Weird go tess carvings homes. They look horrible in the
- 11:58light of that flickering lantern head. Those carvings represent East
- 12:02Indian deer. It is as you say, Watson, they are
- 12:04not nice look holes. The tall man in a fierce
- 12:07beard and wearing a turban has stepped into the light
- 12:09of the lantern. Yes, he'll be a Sikh, very war
- 12:13I try, Watson. I imagine he's on sentry duty. There
- 12:17must be an entrance through that archway.
- 12:18Speaker 7: What of it?
- 12:19Speaker 2: We'll never get by him.
- 12:21Speaker 1: The only hope he doesn't discover us, right, I don't
- 12:23think he'd hesitate to use that large knife he has
- 12:25sticking in his belt.
- 12:28Speaker 2: I say, what's that?
- 12:31Speaker 1: Another customer has arrived at the door on the wall.
- 12:33I imagine, Yes, there comes a sentry to let him in.
- 12:38Speaker 6: What can we do?
- 12:39Speaker 2: He'll find us?
- 12:40Speaker 6: No, there's an empty.
- 12:41Speaker 4: Niche above our heads. Step on my hands, Watson.
- 12:43Speaker 2: Right, let you go, h now, give me your hand.
- 12:49Speaker 4: He who eh?
- 12:53Speaker 2: But o't you see is up here?
- 12:55Speaker 4: I don't think so. It's a well established fact that
- 12:57a man seldom looks above his head.
- 13:01Speaker 6: Yes, here it comes. Pretend to be a statue, a grotesque.
- 13:07Speaker 4: It shouldn't be too difficult.
- 13:15Speaker 8: You.
- 13:16Speaker 2: He's gone on by.
- 13:17Speaker 1: I didn't dare breathe. He has our chance to find
- 13:20out what's be on the archway quick. We'd have to
- 13:22run for it when he's still busy at the outer door.
- 13:35And so, while our two friends are trying to sneak
- 13:37past the guard, let's discuss your spring wardrobe.
- 13:41Speaker 4: Will it be comfortable? Will it where? Is it good looking?
- 13:44Speaker 3: Well?
- 13:44Speaker 1: Naturally, these questions are on your mind when you buy
- 13:47a new suitor top code, the same questions Clippercraft asked
- 13:50themselves long ago and answered by bringing you the finest
- 13:54values you've ever seen at an outstanding local independence store.
- 13:58Clippercraft invented the unique clipper Craft plan that concentrates the
- 14:02buying power of ten hundred and thirty six stores across
- 14:05the nation. Now the plans the reason for those amazing
- 14:08values which are yours even in this era of high prices.
- 14:12Clipper Craft suits that look much more costly for only
- 14:15forty and forty five dollars, top coats and fine cobrats
- 14:19and worsted gabardine at only forty and forty five dollars,
- 14:22and sport jackets at only twenty six fifty. Yes, selling
- 14:26expensive clothes at inexpensive low prices at the nation's finest
- 14:31independent stores is the great, big idea behind the Clippercraft Plan.
- 14:36That's why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes.
- 14:39So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in
- 14:41your city.
- 14:43Speaker 7: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
- 14:46add their names to clipper Craft.
- 14:48Speaker 4: In your suit, topcoat, and overcoat.
- 14:50Speaker 7: In Manhattan, John wanna make a men's stores Broadway at
- 14:54eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street, sacks thirty fourth Broadway
- 14:58at thirty four. In Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
- 15:01New Jersey, Bullivard Men's Shop Presley in Newark, and in Jamaica,
- 15:05the B and B Clothes Shop, one sixty four oh eight,
- 15:08Jamaica Avenue.
- 15:17Speaker 1: An hour Back to Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson, who
- 15:19have managed to sneak inside the unguarded doorway.
- 15:30Speaker 3: Good Lord Holmes, it's a great heathen temple in the
- 15:34heart of London.
- 15:36Speaker 2: The incense is almost as beak as the fog outside.
- 15:39Speaker 3: There must be hundreds of people in here, all gowing
- 15:42before that horrible idol.
- 15:43Speaker 4: More than horrible Watson. It's the servant god, servant of Siva,
- 15:47the Destroyer. Now what I don't know? Yeah, hide behind
- 15:53this walker.
- 15:59Speaker 2: Homes.
- 16:00Speaker 3: Here comes the priest all Mandition or whatever they call him.
- 16:04Speaker 2: He's even uglier than the.
- 16:05Speaker 1: Statue of the god that is the Ghuru Watson and
- 16:08the mask he's wearing. Ah, Notice how his head moves
- 16:11from side to side. We shall soon know, Watson, we
- 16:15shall soon know.
- 16:22Speaker 2: Look, here's the boy.
- 16:24Speaker 6: He's approaching the priest whoms what's wrong with him? He
- 16:29walks as if he'd been hypnotized.
- 16:33Speaker 4: Why Watson, the Guru is going to speak.
- 16:39Speaker 9: Son of sons, you've done well to come. I speak
- 16:44for the Great One, our lord of the Cobras. I
- 16:48say to you that you are doom.
- 16:53Speaker 4: That's Smartyat's voice, right enough.
- 16:55Speaker 9: Your youth will fade, your limbs whither, your mind shrivel
- 16:59and decay, and your soul be damned to eternal torments
- 17:02unless you heed my words. He don't obey.
- 17:08Speaker 6: You are to kill now.
- 17:10Speaker 9: Now, it is so decreed. Tonight you shall hear what
- 17:13you must do from the Great One himself.
- 17:17Speaker 2: You are honored above all men.
- 17:18Speaker 9: The Lord of Serpents will speak to you. Bow town
- 17:22and listen, homes.
- 17:27Speaker 2: He's going to make the idle talk na.
- 17:37Speaker 8: He is chosen. But first the throne must be purified.
- 17:43He will kill the Maharaja, his brother, and rule in
- 17:47his place. The temples of the God have been profaned.
- 17:54They can be cleansed only with blood. Rivers of blood,
- 18:00blood of all white people who live in Banjona.
- 18:04Speaker 2: Homes.
- 18:05Speaker 4: This is outrageous.
- 18:06Speaker 2: How do they make the idol say such horrible things?
- 18:08Speaker 4: It's Mariarty. When he bounced to the ground, he puts
- 18:10his mouth to a sort of grill work. This's I'm
- 18:12very much mistaken. It heights a speaking cube. What's he expecting?
- 18:14Speaker 5: Name?
- 18:14Speaker 4: By all this hocus pocus, White Watson getting ready to
- 18:16speak again in his own voice.
- 18:19Speaker 9: When you are on the throne, o, son of the Serpent,
- 18:22you will need advice and wise counsel. The god of
- 18:25the cobras has spoken to me in the night. He
- 18:28has appointed me to be odd advisor.
- 18:30Speaker 6: Ah.
- 18:31Speaker 4: Now we come to the point of the argument, Homes.
- 18:32Speaker 2: We must go on the maha.
- 18:33Speaker 4: We can't leave now, Watson.
- 18:35Speaker 1: We shall have to wait until everyone else is gone.
- 18:45Speaker 2: What's that for?
- 18:46Speaker 1: Now?
- 18:47Speaker 9: Let the music call the great ones the cobras. Let
- 18:51them come from their hiding places. They shall dance.
- 18:54Speaker 6: For their new king.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Homes. They have Cobra's life.
- 18:59Speaker 4: Cobra in this place.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Look they're coming out of those little windows along the
- 19:05wall near the floor.
- 19:07Speaker 4: How perfectly wild.
- 19:09Speaker 2: Look at them writhing and swaying to the music.
- 19:12Speaker 4: Steady Watson, Steady, Homes.
- 19:15Speaker 3: We are standing in front of one of those little windows.
- 19:20There is something crawling over my foot.
- 19:23Speaker 4: Spider loop.
- 19:26Speaker 6: It's turned, it's raising its head.
- 19:29Speaker 4: Don't know, Watson, got it? Sorry?
- 19:33Speaker 2: Spits their head off?
- 19:33Speaker 6: Who's there?
- 19:34Speaker 4: That are spies?
- 19:35Speaker 6: I've had cut and capture them.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Went in for it this time, Watson, give me your
- 19:41I'll stand them off as song as possible.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Arms. Where are you we here?
- 20:03Speaker 4: Watson, hide hand and for the.
- 20:05Speaker 3: Blackest pitch in here the only hard rider will get back.
- 20:09He might be able to help us. Seems as if
- 20:11he's been gone for ours homes. You don't suppose he's
- 20:15lost his way in.
- 20:16Speaker 1: The fog, That, my dear Watson, is an unfortunate possibility.
- 20:21Speaker 4: Ah, seems you're about to have a visitor. Watson.
- 20:24Speaker 10: We meet for the last time, Shellack Holms.
- 20:27Speaker 4: Once more.
- 20:28Speaker 10: You have been foolish enough to meddle in my plans.
- 20:30This time, I think will be the last.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Such a pity, Mariarty, you're going to miss our little
- 20:37passages at arm.
- 20:38Speaker 10: Possibly, but you have made too great a nuisance of
- 20:41yourself lately, my dear adversary. In a very little while,
- 20:45I shall leave you and take my place again before
- 20:47the image of the Serpent God, which is just above
- 20:50this little room. Then four sleeves will come. They will
- 20:54carry you before the altar for the final rights. It
- 20:57will soon be over. Doctor Watson shall be sacrificed to
- 21:02the image. You shall watch him die homes, and there.
- 21:05Speaker 2: You devil, you're human fiend.
- 21:07Speaker 10: You here you do not approve my plans. So sorry, listen,
- 21:12Here come the men to carry you to the temple.
- 21:33First the fat one, place him on the ground.
- 21:37Speaker 6: Now, now bring the box of cobras, all my fault homes, Watson.
- 21:54Speaker 2: Something's happening to the door. They're breaking it down.
- 21:56Speaker 6: Where are the guards who dares to went to here?
- 21:58Give white holes?
- 22:00Speaker 2: Wait for his wiles from Maraja, whom's his hawk rider
- 22:03and the old boy himself.
- 22:04Speaker 9: Even the Maharaja does not dare interfere with the servants
- 22:06of the servant god.
- 22:07Speaker 11: You are wrong, oh father of unclean lizards. If you
- 22:12were a real serpent of your cobra gods, you'd know
- 22:15that I am the earthly arm, the voice and the
- 22:18will of the god who rules your gods, a most
- 22:22terrible of all. See here his ring on my hand.
- 22:26I am the earthly representative of Shiva, the destroyer. Yet
- 22:32up from your faces, your fools, release those two men
- 22:36and seize this other, who is no holy man of India.
- 22:39See her his skin, but I tear away his garment.
- 22:42Here's a white man and a criminal.
- 22:44Speaker 4: You think I have no way of escape. Then why.
- 22:51Speaker 2: Nati he's gone? He had a secret door in the
- 22:55base of the idol. Ask to him, all of you,
- 23:00I say, do you think they'll catch him? Oh?
- 23:02Speaker 11: Possibly not, But I must Sam tremendously grateful if you've
- 23:05shown the faker up and demonstrated to Jinna here how
- 23:08easily one can be led ustray by superstition and ignorance.
- 23:12Speaker 6: But enough of that, park.
- 23:13Speaker 11: Rider, get out your pocket knife and help me to
- 23:15free our friends.
- 23:16Speaker 8: I know.
- 23:19Speaker 11: You'll have to forgive me once an old boy, but
- 23:21trusted up like that. You remind me of that night
- 23:24of our first year at school when the boys in
- 23:26the upper form decided to have a bit of a rag.
- 23:29Speaker 3: Good Lord, you're not, but of course you are, Benjo,
- 23:34dear old Benjo, or not to my friends Johnny, tell
- 23:39me er don joram Are you really the arm of
- 23:42Shiver and all that sort of thing?
- 23:44Speaker 2: Or was that just plain swank?
- 23:46Speaker 1: I've told my dear Watson in his highness is Kingdom
- 23:48in India. His people are convinced he's partially supernatural. Oh
- 23:51it's rather tedious, you know, and quite frequently lonely. That's
- 23:54why I send for this young scalliwagg to come and
- 23:56visit me.
- 23:57Speaker 2: Come along now, Jinna.
- 23:58Speaker 4: There's no need to be frightened now you know.
- 24:00Speaker 6: Oh, I was not going to kill you, sir, no
- 24:02matter what they did to me.
- 24:04Speaker 4: Really I was, of course you were.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Come along home.
- 24:07Speaker 4: It's way past your bedtime.
- 24:08Speaker 1: That's right, Pleasant dreams, Prince. You know, I fancy it'll
- 24:12be the first good night's sleep you've had for some time.
- 24:14Speaker 4: It will.
- 24:15Speaker 1: Indeed, sir, I've been under a bit of a strain,
- 24:17but it was worth it to meet the famous mister
- 24:20Sherlock Holmes.
- 24:33Speaker 4: Wow, that was a narrow squeak, Doctor Watson. My hair
- 24:35fairly stood on end.
- 24:36Speaker 2: Good for you, mister Harrison. Glad I held your.
- 24:39Speaker 4: Internesce you did that.
- 24:41Speaker 1: And now, how about just ahead about next week's story,
- 24:43Dr Watson.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Next week, I think I'll tell how I learned a
- 24:46great deal about the ancient sport of archery. In it
- 24:50home solved a murder in which the weapon was a
- 24:52rather unusual golden arrow. He solved it, I may say,
- 24:55by catching the murderer literally red handed.