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Sherlock Holmes: The Bloodstained Goddess (EP0784) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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of the blood Stained Goddess. I hope was There's no more dangerous spot in
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all of London, perhaps in all the world. And these alleys beg of
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Limehouse Causeway. Nevertheless, my dear Watson, the gentleman we are pursuing,
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has gone this way and we shall follow. Hurry man, hurry very well.
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But wait, what is it a doorway. A man with a knife
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in his hand. See how it breams in the moonlight. Fast and watson,
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Doctor Watson, Doctor Watson, who was the blood stained Goddess? The
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answer, mister Harris to all of the questions about the goddess involved a chase
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through the eerie streets of Limehouse that would have broken anyone's nerves. It caused
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a hideous death and had one of the most mystifying final results I have ever
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seen Holmes produce. We were in the flat two twenty one b Baker Street,
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Holmes head of visitor, very distinguished and obviously wealthy Chinese gentlemen Raby seated
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King one y'all most kind unhoped at the bollmouth of the hum. I take
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it the importance of your mission justifies the long trip from China here to London.
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Bit Ah, mister harm you say, mister King, you a provincial
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governor? Channa yes, Doctor Watson, and that there's a thankless difficult pass.
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The natives you see are illiterate, uncouth, inclined to violence and treachery.
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We stamp out the flames of one rebellion, only to learn another.
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Husband kindled understand your physician very well Sir. The greatest revolt we have ever
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faced confronts us now, mister Holmes. It is led by a strange,
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unearthly person. The natives worship this person with a fanatic love. And who
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is this idol? A young girl saw Madame passhe her powers. Enormous thousands
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of natives have gladly died Baha. Just recently my troops gained the upper hand
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in a city where we believe were my capture Ha, But the goddess disappeared.
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Why have you come to me, ken Quan? I must find Madame
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Tarchet and bring her to justice. Why should I say, mister Holmes,
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you must find her? Will have you any notionist to where she's gone?
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Off? To Wick? Upture her closest friend and adviser an all gentlemen named
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Chung Foo, But they would give us no clothes whatsoever. Then he too
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disappeared. Nevertheless, my operatives did trace Madame Tarchet here to London. Shalls
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come to London secretly to hide to raist funds to plut her return. And
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I am to find Tarshe and turn her over to you. It will be
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well worth your while, mister Holmes, Can you describe her to me.
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Shas are normally tall for an Oriental, and extremely thin. Shall's jut,
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black hair, huge eyes, and speaks English. Well what you propose to
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do with her? Once I turned her over to you? There's no doubt
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that her trial and now our province, will lead to our execution. Her
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death will end the revolution. Will you adort, mister Holmes, will your
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such London? Faha? I will, King One. I'm grateful. I
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shall return later to learn of your progress. Good Night, mister Holmes,
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as doctor Watson, good night, good night. I shall forgive your mister
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Holmes. If you fail this is most dangerous and difficult that sign man,
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King One, I shall find your illustrious renegade. The word failure, Sir,
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appears only in the Dictionary of Fools by George Holmes. This is hardly
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the way to find Madame Tashi. Sitting here in mobile in Baker Street is
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an appalling lack of clues, Watson, But they will be supplied by whom
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where where, Watson, just as or a person's death sperately anxious for us
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to find this mysterious woman, there must also be persians anxious to prevent it.
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I've no doubt we shall hear from them soon enough. Again a conclusion
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of mine affirmed. Open the door, Watson, mister Hall, I am
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Sherlock Holmes. This is doctor John Watson. As for you, sir,
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your name is Chung Foo. You are a loyal follower of Madame Tarschi,
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and he arrived in London this morning aboard the Mary Anne. Well Holmes,
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I shall ask this gentleman not to say another word until you have explained how
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you could surmise all that I should be most interested myself. A previous visitor
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of ours described an elderly gentleman he'd questioned as to tar Chi's whereabouts, and
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said the name was Chung Fool. I've observed previously that we should soon hear
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from the other side of this issue and the Mary Anne. With due apologies,
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I must note that Chung Foo seems terribly impoverished. He would therefore travel
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to London in the most inexpensive manner possible by the lowliest traitor to straggle into
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point. Therefore, mister Chung must have arrived today recalling this morning shipping page
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just one freighter doctor this morning the Mary Ann that superb, superb. You
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are correct, mister hall. I have come to employ you, not to
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accept whatever upper King Juan has made. Madame Tashi must not be found.
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She must be allowed to continue her great work. She is indeed in London
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to secure funds for the people of neck Yang. But Chung Foo, I
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understand that Madame Tashi is undermining the structure of the duly authorized government. Keng
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Juan lies. He is a bandit chieftain. Really, he said us the
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provincial governor. No, Doctor Watson, Keng Yuan is master of the province
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only because of his troops and his guns. He's a tyrant. He brings
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corruption. He's a cruel, cynical oppressor. And Madame Torshi she leads the
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opposition to him. Yes, she would free are people. You will not
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search London for her. Mister, I beg of you. I cannot promise.
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We are a poor people. I cannot offer what King One must have
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offered. I am not concerned with the financial benefits of this case. I
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never am. May I return within a few days for your decision you based
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on good night, Chung Fool, Good night, gentlemen, good homes.
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There are stories that are diametrically opposed. One of the two Chinese is a
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conniving scoundrel. But which one. My first step, Watson will be the
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library to study the province of Mick Young for whatever we may learn. It's
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your things on hurry. I really don't see how you hope to arrive at
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the Facts homes. King one knows nothing. Chung Food wouldn't say a word
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about where Taoshi could possibly become Watson. Down the stairs. We'll catch a
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cab and investigate at the library. And here's the front door. See your
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cabra homes one moment. Our trip to the library will not be necessary.
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Why not? Whatever information we may require is just ten feet away under that
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gaslight sprawled on the street. It's Chung Foo Homes. It's dead, yes,
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it's next being broken. Gasp, sir, Just leave the body there
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for the police to find. Watson. We've more urgent business at Limehouse.
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Lime House? Why there? Because of the dead man's shoe? Why really
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holds? Most specifically, we're off to a joss house, to a Chinese
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temple of worship. Why the dickens should we go? Their host upon the
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soul of the lake Chung shoes, you'll notice a gum like substance. Yes,
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I see it now that substance indicates where Chung Foo had been. One
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may detect an odor about the gum. It's a perfumed gum, distinctively perfumed.
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If the substance found upon just sticks which are burned like incense, and
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a Chinese temple, you know homes. If we go poking about the dark
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recesses of Limehouse, we're very likely to find ourselves lying as chundas here in
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a gunner, with our next broken. Indeed, we may but fetch Cap
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Jamaica Avenue, Doctor Watson, You and mister Holmes were racing to Limehouse to
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find Madame Taschi. So we were mister Herris. We reached Limehouse soon enough.
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We entered a joss house and limehouse. Causeway was up a flight of
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rickety stas. It was a dark room with benches, incests burning from half
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a dozen bulls. Prostrate Chinese prayed before the idols. In the distance,
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a gong was striking, calling more Chinese to prayer. Whose to spend?
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The fanetics defending Madame Torshi will split our throats. They realize that we're up
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to calmly, Watson. We know the dead man was in one of these
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houses, to make him look about, walk as quietly as possible, to
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talk to front of this virtu are. But these people are watching us very
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closely, curiosity, perhaps, if not for a more insidious reason. Just
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edge your way toward the front, Watson, there's the answer. But where
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the Chinese priest notice anything peculiar? Oh? Simple looking church customary, long
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front. Look closely, Watson, what are I doubt if he is a
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priest, an agent Rother of Tarshis, ring lord, how do you know
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the stains upon his teeth are the unmistakable stains made by the beetle nut beetle
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und Oh, yes, I remember how summary and Wills chew it with a
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leaf precisely doesn't it strike you with art that a priest should indulge in that
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awful habit. Quiet, Look, he's leading the minute he arrives at the
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top of the stains to the street after him as well. He dashed down
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the alley, went into that door. You must go through that door,
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also, Watson, if we are permitted. Careful these cobblestones of slippery hair.
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There's blast and bag and as well, here's the door knock and maybe
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suicidal. We don't know what's on the other side of this door or on
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what's knock. Yeah, we want to come in. You want leon?
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Maybe come in? You have money, Yes, come in, I will
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find it. Sofa where you can now relax, I'll be back Fiendish Place,
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Holmes, the addicts said in those bulls smoking opium. Exact. Then
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you see the priest that we followed, He was here as we stepped in.
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He just disappeared through those green curtains. We'll losing homes. Let's follow
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him, not just yet. We might be killed if he stepped through those
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curtains, Watson. The man seated on the floor paying the Oriental reed instrument.
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Why isn't addict the blazed eyes this isn't he it's what he's playing.
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Play. Yes, he played one tune for a second with the priests stepped
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through the curtain. Now he's playing another. It might be a coincidence,
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but it might also be a signal. Yes, I see Holmes, to
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tell whoever's behind that curtain of the man coming through is all right? If
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we could persuade the musician to play the same tune he did to the priest,
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he could stepped through the curtain, speak the careful homes, my friend?
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Could I persuade you to play the tune you played before? Who are
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you someone who believes it would be worth this? Do you hear that?
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Never there? There's a lot of money, Governor, it's yours. If
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you're playing the melody, you want to pass through the curtains safely? They
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kill me. I hardly think so. It's extremely dark. You might have
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made an error. I'm taking a long chance, Governor, very well.
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If you don't want the money, as soon as I start playing, you
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duck through the curtain. Good, go on, come on, butter Homes.
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There isn't anything back of this curtain. Just the door. Emergency door,
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isn't it? Yes? Leads to another alley. I'd say, open
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it, go on, open it. Yesiness is an ally and in the
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fog bear see this is a man, the knife in his head, gleaming
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the moonlight. Obviously the music blow who listens for the signal from the read
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instrument. Step into the alley, Watson. We must hope the signal was
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correct, and that he doesn't become suspicious. Keep an eye on him.
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He may throw that knife. Now step into the alley. That's it.
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Slowly watch him, watch him. So far, so good. There's nothing
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in this alley, but the doorway over there looks as though it were the
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delivery entrance to some sort of shop, a shop. I shall now visit
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Watson alone. I won't hear it. You must wait here watch our friend
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with a knife. If he acts up, you must dash into all No
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I was besides, one of us must be free out here in the alley,
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ready to run for the police. If I do not return from this
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shop within five minutes, don't come in, don't raise a hullabaloo. Run
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quickly and quietly for the police as fast as possible. I understand what confounded
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home. Must you take this awful risk? If I intend to find Madame
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Tachi. Yes, of course I'll wait here much five minutes one day evening,
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good evening. You are the shopkeeper. Yes, customers never come from
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back way. I want to backway. I'm looking for something better. Malan
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leche fro chakan. No, what did you want, Madame Tashi, I
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thought, so does not here. I do not know how your fan this
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plas, But now you do not live to tell LoCash. I want to
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see Madame Tashi, and I have every reason to believe she is here.
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I shall continue demanding to beat her until you've stopped me by pulling the trigger
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and be all about that. God will not stay long, no pleas,
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So is it to kill and had bade as limehouse. I kill you now,
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must must. His name is Holmes, I believe, mister Shula.
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Come, Madame Tache, you will not even have need of your revolver,
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Your fair madame, your father, Madame mister Holmes, I regret the necessity
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of receiving the foremost criminologist of this time in such sordid circumstances. Quite excusable.
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Madame Tashi, you have served King Juan well, you have fountain.
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He will reward you magnificently will he for the present? Yes, then,
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when your services are no longer of any value, you will receive the same
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fifth as my beloved Chumpoo, who lies dead now before your home on Big
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Street. Your secret agents serve you well, Madame Tashi. King Juan tells
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me that you are a revolutionary. He has a gallows marked for you.
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He waits to smile in the shadow of your silhouette dangling from his rope.
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Is it roben to spread the doctrines of brotherhood? Mister Holmes? Is it
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wrong to DeFi this King Juan, who unleashes the four horsemen of the Apocalypse
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that they may ride profligate over the soil of my native land. King Juan
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is a brigand he exploits my people. He despoils and enslaves them. He
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is Attila, the hum Philip of Spain, Ivan of Russia. He marks
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the spirit of my people and drives it into the dust. Is it wrong
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to try to help my people? And the East Confucius was driven into exile.
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Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, was forced to plea for Mecca in
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the West. You English boast of your great magna Carta was that not written
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to protect the people from the ravages of a despotic monarch who in some ways
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was nothing but at apart to our Chinese war lords, our languages, and
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our customs. Dipper, But we seek the same goal, will follow the
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same star. I see, Madame, that King one was misguided. It
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will not benefit him to find you, nor will it benefit him to hang
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you from that gallows. He can exterminate a human being, but not an
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idea. You're quite right, mister Holmes. We have been persecuted. There
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has been blood spilled from the hills of Mikian to the cobblestone by ways of
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London. But the blood is rich with our feet and it will fertilize the
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soil where it runs, so you may reap your reward. You may have
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me return to China, where I will be given to King Juan. But
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quick peace, Good night, Madame Tashi, there you are, homes I've
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been terribly worried about you. What happened did you find Madame Toshi? Yes,
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Watson, I found her? Well? Where is she? No time
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now? Will discuss it later in the slashback to bakerstet to await the rival
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of King Juan, the murderer. I'll answer Holmes. Goodday evening, mister
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home doctor Watson. King Juan, I'm here on the hope that your mayor
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thought progress, excellent progress, King Juan, the name of another killer is
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to be added to the long roster of men and women who challenge to my
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powers of protection, to their regret, the name of another killer, yours,
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King Juan, you murdered Chung Foo. And if you look toward my
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bedroom door, you'll see a gentleman emerging. Boy is he once? Sorry?
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I presume that on this trip of yours to London, you'd meet all
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of our distinguished citizens. May I present Inspector Lestrade, her police inspector the
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dog an impressive demonstration of feudalism Lestrade. When King Juan recovers, I trust
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your seat to it that his turn of our city concludes with a visit to
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Newgate Prison Homes. You still haven't explained about Madame Taschhi. You did find
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her, you said, I did, Watson. But shall it end there
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as a secret between us? Shall we tell the world I never did find
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Madame Tashill, certainly if you wish, But why homes? Why I spoke
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with her? Often, her help for her people must go on at all
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costs. So let us say that I never did find Madame Tashi, that
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the pursuit of that testic quarry be another legend of Limehouse. Doctor Watson,
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the story of the blood Stained Goddess was most intriguing. Now would you tell
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us what new adventure we shall share with you and mister Holmes next week.
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I've been delighted, mister Harris. Next week I shall relate to you an
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adventure I have called the guests in the Coffin. It concerns a joyful mortician,
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an unprecedented wave of police murders, and one of the strangest invitations Holmes
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is a somewhat curious episode. It's curious to me because of the timing of
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you have this episode and you have a character from China arguing for freedom,
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because this is a nineteen forty nine even as the Chinese Revolution is continuing,
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but in October of nineteen forty nine with the victory of the People's Republic of
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China, and now and I'm wondering the helly a message of this episode tied
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into those events, and I will I won't analyze it too much. It's
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but the listeners want to comment and offer their opinions on what this means.
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Definitely be open to that. This was curious as it was one of those
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cases where Watson was told to keep a story to himself and here we're hearing
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about it on the radio. Just, you know, could you leave it
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so that no one ever ever knows that I found her, and apparently not.
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But anyway, it's a pleasure to bring today's program to you. If
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