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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Cadaver in the Roman Toga Basil Rathbone, Nigel B · Sherlock Holmes

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: And now doctor Watson to get back to the gentleman
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: in the Roman toga.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: All right, mister Harrison. It all began on a freezing
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: winter morning. My first view of Baker Street presented a
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: dispiriting glimpse of icy sleet falling between the dun colored houses.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: I donned my coppet slippers, my oldest trousers, and the
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: well worn bathroom with the firm intent of enjoying a
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: placid breakfast and settling myself in front of the fire
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the day. I had not sooner
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: opened our sitting room door, however, when I caught sight
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: of the homes tramping about, swearing to himself and tossing
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: his shiny golden coin into the air.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: Confounded, if I could only day hand on the villain.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Morning homes, what seems to be the difficulty today?
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: The difficulty Mariarti is back in business. Only this morning,
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: missus Hudson received this coin.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: Here it look at the handsome girls sovereign flooding the
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: town with them. Great God, don't tell me, Professor Moriarty
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: is the greatest criminal in Europeist and philanthropists.
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: No such luck that coin.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Watson is counterfeit a brilliant job. For the pity is
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: only an expert can stopped. Wonder Mariart has been so
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: quiet these last two months. It takes time to develop
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: a coin as perfect as this.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: Well, at least he hasn't had time for murder, arsen
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: or any more of his serious crimes.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: Serious you think flooding the country with counterfeit coins isn't serious?
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: Watson?
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: Do you realize what this will do to the value
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: of the pound?
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: By jove, of course? Hey, who that's our door though?
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: Tell missus Hudson, I'm not at home, but who's not
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: accepting any toughly?
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: Hate me?
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: Cases not why Mariart is threatening the credit of the
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: empire with his fraudulent cold pieces?
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: Come in, Come in?
• 1:50
  Speaker 4: I uh, which of you, gentlemen? Is Sherlock home?
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: And my fender over there has the honor.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: Whatever it is. I'm busy.
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: Oh but this is terribly terribly important. So I I
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: don't know what to do.
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: He's dead, you see, dead men do not interest me.
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: Couldn't you inform his bilities?
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: Well that's just it.
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: I don't know who they are. I I don't even
• 2:10
  Speaker 4: know who he is.
• 2:11
  Speaker 5: I don't even know when he died. Albert, he's my assistant,
• 2:15
  Speaker 5: says it must have been over a thousand years ago.
• 2:18
  Speaker 5: But that seems quite impossible. There is not the slightest
• 2:21
  Speaker 5: sign of decomposition.
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 2:23
  Speaker 5: On the other hand, and until Albert and I broke
• 2:26
  Speaker 5: through this morning, no one had been in that room
• 2:28
  Speaker 5: for scanturies.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: What Roman?
• 2:29
  Speaker 5: The Roman bars? I discovered them? You know, the Brits
• 2:33
  Speaker 5: are undoubtedly ancient Roman. Even the Cadervo was clad in
• 2:37
  Speaker 5: a senator's toga and genuine.
• 2:39
  Speaker 4: I assure you we found him there in one corner.
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: Let's get this straight.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: You found a fresh corpse dressed in a Roman toga
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: in some Roman ruins that have been buried for centuries,
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: is mister Holmes Watson, what are you waiting for? Bring
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: the gentleman a chair, but you said you were busy,
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: will be irrelevant. This sounds interesting, very well, but won't
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: you sit here?
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: Mister?
• 2:58
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm afraid I've I've got to.
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: Introduce myself here.
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: Here, here's my card, read it for me. Want them?
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: Sir George Westbrook, President l and W A association that.
• 3:08
  Speaker 5: Means London and Wessex Archeological Association of course, of course,
• 3:12
  Speaker 5: I remember hearing the Corporation of London had engaged you
• 3:14
  Speaker 5: to investigate some ancient Roman remains which you discovered in
• 3:17
  Speaker 5: the Billings Get section.
• 3:18
  Speaker 4: That's right, mister Holmes.
• 3:20
  Speaker 5: They're under the basement of the Coal Exchange in Lower
• 3:22
  Speaker 5: Thames Street. Albert and I've been burrowing away down there
• 3:26
  Speaker 5: for over a month. This morning we broke through the
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: final bit of brick work emerged into.
• 3:31
  Speaker 4: A large subterranean chamber. All right, Albert, I think the.
• 3:47
  Speaker 5: Opening's big enough. Yeah, give me the lantern. I'll go
• 3:51
  Speaker 5: through first.
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, I said, George. Your hand is shaking, is it
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: any wonder?
• 3:58
  Speaker 4: I'm excited, Alberton, I'm very much mistaken.
• 4:01
  Speaker 5: We've under some baths that were.
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: Built by the early.
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  Speaker 5: Romans as well. Come along, careful, don't tell your clothing.
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: I say, sir.
• 4:14
  Speaker 4: It is a biggish room.
• 4:15
  Speaker 5: Miss a splendid elder, splendid Look at that ceiling, will you?
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: An almost perfect condition? Hello?
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: What's that in the corner over there? Mm? Looks like
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: a heap of white cloth.
• 4:27
  Speaker 5: No, no, there's a leg sticking out of it.
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: Good lord, it's a body.
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: We best have a look at it.
• 4:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, but be careful, don't don't touch it, don't touch anything.
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: What's that white thing he's got one?
• 4:44
  Speaker 5: It's a toger, Elbert, a Roman togger, sopping wet, Sir,
• 4:49
  Speaker 5: if you ask me, it's been.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: Drowned brown Did you say drowns George? That's right, mister Holme, now.
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: But that's impossible. There hasn't been any water in those
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: bath for over a thousand years.
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: Interesting, very interesting. Tell me, sir, George. What was the
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: condition of the air in that chamber when you broke
• 5:10
  Speaker 3: in and stay and apitiated?
• 5:12
  Speaker 5: No, mister Holmes, it was quite fresh. That's curious now
• 5:15
  Speaker 5: that I think of it, because there was no other
• 5:18
  Speaker 5: entrance to the room except the one we'd come through.
• 5:20
  Speaker 5: The doorway to the rest of the baths was filled
• 5:23
  Speaker 5: by a great heap of bricks and rubble.
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: You were unable to identify the cops.
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  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, we didn't do any further investigating.
• 5:31
  Speaker 4: Albert was quite overcome by the side of the body.
• 5:35
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid he's never been.
• 5:37
  Speaker 5: Very strong about such things since the time that mummy
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: disintegrated in his arms. While we were working on those
• 5:42
  Speaker 5: pre Hellenic excavations and crete, I sent him home and
• 5:46
  Speaker 5: came straight here to consult you.
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: You mean you left no one behind the guard the body. No,
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: mister Holmes, what where's my hat? Where's my coat? Watson?
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: Don't just stand there. There's no time to lose.
• 6:05
  Speaker 5: I suppose I should have informed the authorities, mister Holmes,
• 6:08
  Speaker 5: that the thought of all those stupid Scotland yard inspectors
• 6:13
  Speaker 5: trampling around in my beautiful ruins.
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: I've got bird of elephants.
• 6:20
  Speaker 5: I left a couple of dark lanterns Burnie, Yes, here
• 6:24
  Speaker 5: they are of this packing case.
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: All right, now follow me, gentlemen.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: Why do your basements have to be so damp and depressing?
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: Careful? They're careful. This is where we started to dig.
• 6:36
  Speaker 5: It's a rather rough tunnel, slanting downward. You'll have to
• 6:40
  Speaker 5: bend over.
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid you're sure this earth will eave it on us.
• 6:44
  Speaker 5: No, I don't think so, unless, of course, someone should
• 6:47
  Speaker 5: give it a tremendous.
• 6:47
  Speaker 4: Push of some sort. Ah. It is where we broke
• 6:51
  Speaker 4: through the wall. You'll be interested in this, mister Holmes.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: Notice the masonry, Yes, yes, the bricks are undoubtedly Roman.
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: Let's see they measure nine and a half inches long
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: by four and a half inches broad and only one
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: and three quarter inches thick.
• 7:05
  Speaker 4: Not unlike those of the Roman bars of Rochester, except.
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: That they are.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: The tiles are a mere one and a half inches
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: thick and measure sixteen inches by twelve.
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: Really, homes, if we come here to discuss breaks or
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: inspect a.
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: Body, never neglect an opportunity to increase your store of knowledge.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: Watson on instead, I dream is a lot of useless
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: tittle tattle, not me.
• 7:22
  Speaker 4: Here's the hole we made in the walls to homes.
• 7:25
  Speaker 4: It's not very large. I'm afraid. I'll go through first.
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: And light the way.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: Well, gentlemen, if you'll follow me, I'll go next, and
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: you can bring up the rear Watson with the other lantern.
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: I've been Watson, Wallie, haven't be in such a rush.
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: Here take the lantern. It's a tight squeeze, you know. Hello,
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: I think I'm stuck.
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: If you'll pull his other arms, Sir George.
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: Right ooh, you've glad to get out of there.
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: I told you should go on at Watson for just because.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: You're satisfacty of like a walking scared You're hello, this
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: is a lily looking spot, more like a tone than
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: the sort of place bun thinks I was an elegant
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: Roman bathing establishment.
• 8:11
  Speaker 5: As it certainly is more like a tomb at present,
• 8:14
  Speaker 5: complete with the remains of the deceased, although how he
• 8:18
  Speaker 5: was able to insinuate himself into this chamber.
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, quite a superficial survey of the walls and ceilings
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: certainly shows no signs of any recent entry, except by
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: way of the hole through which we just drag Watson. Interesting,
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: very interesting. Yes, suppose we view the body we came
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: to investigate, and.
• 8:34
  Speaker 5: As he's over here, mister Holmes against the south wall,
• 8:37
  Speaker 5: Oh what watch your step?
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: The flooring his bit uneven.
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: Here he is exactly as we found him, lying on
• 8:45
  Speaker 5: his face with one arm stretched over his head.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: Yea scary old boy, wasn't he. I say, these robes
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: or whatever it is is wearing, they are sopping wet.
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, the poor fellow was undoubtedly browned, lung still full
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: of water.
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: Extrem his icy rigger well advanced. He's been dead six
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: to eight hours, I should say, Holmes, how about it?
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: Not necessarily the floor he's lying on is extremely cold.
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: Also the air, of.
• 9:08
  Speaker 5: Course, the really fantastic part of the whole pictures, the
• 9:11
  Speaker 5: man's raiment, the tunic in the toga with the word
• 9:14
  Speaker 5: purple stroke, even the throng sandals are the authentic garments
• 9:18
  Speaker 5: of an early Roman senator.
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  Speaker 3: So I see, so I see.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: Whoever this person was, he was thoroughly at home among
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Roman customs and manners.
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: That ring of office on his outstretched hand is undoubtedly authentical.
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: Oh look here, Holmes, you you don't actually believe this
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: is a genuine Roman senator who got himself drowned in
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: this room and managed him how to stay in this
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: state of preservation.
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: No, Watson, There are several obvious floors to that theory.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: In the first phase, although the costume is authentic in
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: lime cut and drape, the wooden fabric of this togger
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: was woven not on an ancient hand loom, but by
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: a modern machine.
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: Second, the liquid in which the.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: Gentleman was drowned would have evaporated in a short time,
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: even in.
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: Very stale air.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: And third, this room is neither the frigidarium, which was
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: the cold plunge, nor the caldarium, which was the warm No.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Judging by the recessed benches built into the walls, this
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: room was the pseudatorium, or what the Romans called the
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: vapor bar.
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: But of course, mister Holmes, why didn't I think of that?
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: But good Lord, then how was he drowned?
• 10:15
  Speaker 6: And why?
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: And suppose we turn the victim over, Sir George, his
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: identity may give us the answer to those questions.
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: Right by, Jervie. He looks w even more Roman from
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: this side. That knows those hawk like features, acts and
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: rapacious old caesar on a Roman coin.
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: Rather accurate and appropriate description, my dear Watson.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, this, unless I'm very much mistaken, is Brutus Octavius
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Bainbridge the world's greatest numismatologist you mean, the coin expert.
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: But of course I thought the old fellow looked familiar.
• 10:46
  Speaker 5: I've heard he often wore Roman dress when he was
• 10:48
  Speaker 5: lounging a bone at home. Hum hm, So that part
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: of our mystery is a perfectly normal explanation.
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: Don't be too disappointed, Sir George.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: There are several other little questions to be cleared up,
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: the answers to which may be rather more exciting than
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: you anticipation.
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: What do you mean heals?
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: For one thing, mister Bainbridge disappeared very suddenly from his
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: home one night a little over two months ago, but
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: a fortnight later the British Isles began to be flooded
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: by an extraordinarily clever counterfeit sovereign I pointed out the
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Scotland Yard that there might possibly be a connection between
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: the two events. You need to bring Bridges, who was
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: a counterfeitter, I mean, as the greatest living authority on
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: coins and coinage. He was undoubtedly kidnapped by a band
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: of unusually daring counterfeiters and forced to assist them in
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: their work.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: I thought you might possibly come to that conclusion.
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: Missal, it's good, good, void.
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: Where does it come from over a hidden speaking to
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: you of some sort? I imagine?
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: But who is it?
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Unless I'm very much mistaken that points belongs to my
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: aunt's adversity preachings, Professor moriartem So, now you've taken up counterfeitting,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: have I destroyed so many of your activities that you're
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: running short of fun?
• 11:58
  Speaker 7: I warned you repeatedly home that you were getting to
• 12:01
  Speaker 7: be a nuisance. Surely you must have realized how dangerous
• 12:06
  Speaker 7: that be.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: But my dear professor, surely you must realize the danger
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: is the breath of life to.
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: Me this time home, you've overreached yourself. On the contrary, Mariarte,
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: it's you have gone too far. WA's get sir George
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: out of here? Are you talking to give you a
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: chance to escape?
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: Was it necessary to kill Mainbridge after you'd finished picking
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: his brains?
• 12:28
  Speaker 7: Not necessarily, my dear, but Spedio, we drowned him.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: I wondered, if doctor Watson dangers.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Why well should I can?
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: Why not shot? Or straight?
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: Or? I said, what's all this about? Hose get out
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: of here, you idiot? Leave youanger?
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: I should say not.
• 12:48
  Speaker 7: You see, doctor Watson, drowning would serve two purposes. It
• 12:53
  Speaker 7: would eliminate mister Fainbridge, and it would provide a taste
• 13:00
  Speaker 7: Steve yea for mister Sherlock home.
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
• 13:05
  Speaker 7: I knew he'd never turned down an invitation involving the
• 13:09
  Speaker 7: corpse in Atoga ostensibly browned in.
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: An ancient Roman bath? What's if you have no regard
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: your own safety? At needs to have the intelligence to
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: get to George out of here.
• 13:20
  Speaker 6: And if I understand what's going on here, you will
• 13:26
  Speaker 6: you will sorry to have to execute you too, But
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid.
• 13:32
  Speaker 7: You signed your own death warrant when you sent for
• 13:35
  Speaker 7: mister Sherlock Holmes instead of Scotland Yard. If I rather
• 13:41
  Speaker 7: thought you would you know, oh well, this is what
• 13:46
  Speaker 7: comes of associating with anyone who is foolish enough to
• 13:49
  Speaker 7: think he cannot with Professor Moriarty.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: Look, yeah, you old blunder us. You didn't think you
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: can bullet eggs on the other No, it's Scott was there.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: I rather imagine one of the good Professor's hirlings that's
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: blown up the entrance to Sir George's tunnel.
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: What you you mean we'll bury it alive in this sep.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: Just like Ida and her young man. Isn't it romantic?
• 14:19
  Speaker 7: You might try singing yourself to death as they did.
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: Such a waste of time, I always thought.
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: But the pity mister Bainbridge won't be able to join you.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: You would have made such a jolly quartet.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: That's Tory at her homes looks as they were in
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: tomb in this blasted place. Until Sir George's assistant turns
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: up tomorrow morning and fans the tunnel cave in tomorrow.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: My dear Watson, this Sunday, from the day after a
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: bank holiday, better blow out one of the lanterns.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Than save it for later.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: But this is terrible roomster Homes.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: We will it will be asphyxiated by the time Elvid
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: the rhymes on Tuesday.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I doubt it, Sir George. There's a very definite movement
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: of air, fresh air. I see fresh air. If you'll
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: wet a finger and hold it up your notice. What
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: a months to a slight breeze. No, I doubt if
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: we shall die from any lack of oxygen, we may
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: very well perish. However, from cold and exposure. Doesn't take
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: long to freeze to death in this temperature.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: It needn't be so compounded cheerful about at homes only
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: to rock Watson, as I was saying, we may very
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: well expire unless we can discover how mister Bainbridge's body
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: was brought into this room. What good will that do?
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Any passageway large enough to permit the entrance of this
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: corpse but also serve as an exit for Sir George
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: and myself.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: You, Watson, may have a bit of trouble, or you
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: go to blazes.
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: But mister Holmes, what passageway could there be? As you
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: know the architecture of the ancient room, and verse was
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: fairly identical. It was obviously wonder away.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: Into this burthen that's blooded by a grip fall of
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: birth and bricks.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Quite but aren't you forgetting, sir George, the small unseen
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: two black passage that invariably ran under all the rooms
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: except the cold plunge.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Of course, the hypo corse.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Rotting suddenly is a hyper cost a smallish tunnel lined
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: with red paving squares, which ran from a furnace outside
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: the buildings under all the principal rooms of a Roman bath.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: If we could discover some loose tiling in this floor,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: we may thank the ancient Romans for inventing what our poor,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: retarded civilization considers.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: A modern improvement, namely central heating.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: It's discouraging. I've dug up two dozen.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Spots, cheered up, Watson. At least the activities kept you
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: from freezing to death.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Versus ruined my trousers. Good thing I was wearing my
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: old suit. I say, the lights getting dimmer, homes the
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: second lent, and it's about burnt out.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Keep digging, Watson. It's our only chance, I.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Say, mister Holmes, could you come over here a minute?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: I think I've found a sort of greeting under this
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: last batch of rate.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Good lord, let see, yes, yes, we found it. Watson,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: help me with these bricks there, Watson, bring the latterin hi?
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Here they are now? Then let's see there's blackdown there,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: isn't it?
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong, Sir George. We are now
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: in the paper room. The blocked up entrance over there
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: leads to the hot path that would put the cold
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: plunge on our left. No good going in that direction
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: if we go down into the tunnel.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: We should turn right to get out, quite correct, mister Holmes,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: I go first, give me the Latin Watson. It's flickering homes.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: It's gone out very well. Then we'll have to crawl
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: our way out in the dark. Is it that been
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: crawling like a snake for hours? Stop complaining once, and
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: at least we're not sealed up in that boat.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: And maybe not. But I can't say this is any
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: great improvement. Oh, I don't ask to stand up right?
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: If I could only get to my hands and knees
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: for a moment. There's a shallow pull of water here,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Oh Johnny, I can use the bath only I just
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: as soon not have ice water you fade your breath.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: How are you getting along, sir George, I'll manage you.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Now what something went over my hand?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Probably a sewer rat. Delightful.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can take it home for a pit.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Quite Watson. I think we've reached the end of the tunnel. Yes,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: it opens out.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: You mean I can finally get up off my stomach.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Ess, give your hand. Oh, I think my back is
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: permanently bent. Hello, there's some steps here, steps going up and.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: The door at the top. It's open the split. H
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: there's a light. Well, there must be another influence at
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: ground level.
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: Yes, follow me and be very quiet. Better have your
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: barber handy, Watson. This may well be the most dangerous
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: part of the entire adventure.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Easy now.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: The tever looked through the crack.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Before we opened the door.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: It was a large, bare looking place there. What's all
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: that machinery?
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: Those are melting furnaces, presses, weighing apparatus, rolling machines and
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: on the far side of the acid and water baths
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: in which Bainbridge was undoubtedly drowned in. Short, you see
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: before you are very complete meant for the coining of
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: counterfeit money. Mister Holmes.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Who's that sinister looking man stepping out of the shadows?
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: There?
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: The look he's adjusting a jewel's magnifying glass in one eye.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Now he's he's hunched over a pile of golden coins.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Good lord. His head oscillates from side to side like a.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Snake enjoying the fruits of your labor. Mariotte, you Hales,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: you didn't expect us to.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Return your call quite so promptly, A professor, don't bother
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: to reach for that acid.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Watson, has you covered better? Put your hands up. That's right.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Now you'll come around that table slowly. That's right. I
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: have a little present for you, a pair of bracelets
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: that you.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Going through the window too.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Watson, two cuts out it? I can't, why not?
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: We'll blast it all you asked me out of their
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: house in such a dinner this morning. If I've got
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to slip many, Barbara deviable cut pockets.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Don't look so crestfallen, Watson. I'm rather relieved we didn't
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: get the handcuffs on the professor. Once he safely behind bars,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I'll have no opponent worthy of my talents.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I should probably die of sheer boredom. You mean sure,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: conceit