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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Vanishing White Elephant Basil Rathbone, Nigel Br · Sherlock Holmes

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  Speaker 1: And now let's see if our old friend doctor Watson's expected.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: He's out on the patio.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Watson, you sit out here this evening before?
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  Speaker 1: It's well, I did, doctor, certainly is a beautiful night.
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  Speaker 3: It certain ears do opperturn make it so comfortable? You
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: care for some of my tobacome?
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll stick to a cigarette. Thanks well, doctor,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: already for tonight's adventure.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's about Hell, I'm already. And the Spain story.
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  Speaker 3: It was any Spaine story?
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  Speaker 1: How did it begin? Stormy December night of nineteen hundred,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: with the rain pelting against the Baker Street windows, but
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  Speaker 1: perhaps with you in the great Sherlock Holmes rattling along
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  Speaker 1: in a cab beside the poggy waterfront, chasing some desperate criminals.
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  Speaker 2: Quite a good story telling yourself.
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  Speaker 4: It's about Hell.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: The adventure I'm going to tell you took place many,
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  Speaker 3: many thousands of miles appealed from my Baker's Pet headquarters
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  Speaker 3: exact in the Indian city of Parpaty Purr, about two
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  Speaker 3: hundred miles.
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  Speaker 2: North of Calcutta.
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  Speaker 1: It must have been a mighty important case that made
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  Speaker 1: you about travel that far.
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  Speaker 2: There was my boy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there was an answer in the In the summer
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  Speaker 3: of the eighteen hundred and ninety four, I remember that
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  Speaker 3: homes received an urgent summons from the Maharajah of parbaty Purr.
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  Speaker 3: After five weeks at sea, we reached Calcutta. A few
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  Speaker 3: days later found ourselves on the verandah of a hotel
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  Speaker 3: and Parvati per as we sat that talking to the
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  Speaker 3: Maharaja's brother, Robert Singh, we could hear the faint drop
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  Speaker 3: of native drums, the haunting whale of an Indian loop
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  Speaker 3: coming from the bazaar.
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  Speaker 5: And so, gentlemen, I thought that before I took you
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  Speaker 5: over to my brother's paris, I would tell something of
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  Speaker 5: the problems that we set him. An excellent idea, mister sing.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it to particularly, as you've just told us your brother,
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  Speaker 3: the Maharaja.
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  Speaker 2: Is not in the burst of health.
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  Speaker 6: It just sewed doctor Watson interviews Tying.
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  Speaker 5: And in any case, his commander of the English language
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  Speaker 5: is not so extensive as mine. And now so the problem,
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  Speaker 5: if you please, as to the exact problem, mister Holmes,
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  Speaker 5: I am not completely informed. My dear brother has not
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  Speaker 5: seen fit to confide his entire troubles even to me.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, until your arrival yesterday, I did not even
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  Speaker 5: know that you had been sent for. But I can
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  Speaker 5: tell you that his worries are centered on the safety
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  Speaker 5: of the white elephant of Barbutipur. But possibly you are
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  Speaker 5: not aware that white elephants actually do exist. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 5: so I understand that that's extremely rare, Oh extremely minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Am I right in thinking that in the easter white
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  Speaker 5: elephant is considered sacred? Quite right to continue, sir well.
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  Speaker 5: In seventeen hundred and fifty, the first white elephant was
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  Speaker 5: presented to my great great grandfather, and with it came
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  Speaker 5: a legend, the legend that the Maharaja's rule would be happy,
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  Speaker 5: healthy and successful only as long.
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  Speaker 6: As the elephant flourished.
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  Speaker 5: If the animal were to die, then the rain would
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  Speaker 5: come to an end, and the Maharaja was doomed to
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  Speaker 5: sudden deaths. The saying, who is responsible the origin of
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  Speaker 5: this legend? O we good and wise man who traveled
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  Speaker 5: from the mountains beyond the pall. He it was who
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  Speaker 5: brought the first elephant to my great great grandfather.
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  Speaker 3: And how has the legend worked out? In actual practices?
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  Speaker 5: Its prophecies have come frighteningly through doctor Watson. The first
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  Speaker 5: elephant was killed by his mahout his own keeper, after
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  Speaker 5: my illustrious ancestor had dismissed the man for incompetence. A
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  Speaker 5: week later, my great great grandfather was himself killed in
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  Speaker 5: a native uprising. And so it has gone on, gentlemen
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  Speaker 5: since then.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing.
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  Speaker 5: When the elephants have died, and they have always died,
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  Speaker 5: the Maharaja of Vaputipura has died of violent dead soon after,
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  Speaker 5: and as each knew, Maharaja has succeeded to the title,
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  Speaker 5: the wise man from the beyond the mountains has appeared,
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  Speaker 5: and with him I knew sacred white elephant. He last
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  Speaker 5: appeared four years ago when my brother erited the time.
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  Speaker 3: It can't still be the same man, I not well.
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  Speaker 3: I need to say that it'll make him a couple
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  Speaker 3: of hundred years old.
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  Speaker 6: A trifle left, I fancied, gives.
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  Speaker 2: Me your story is the wrong way around. Men don't live.
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  Speaker 3: To such an areage, whereas elephants and noted for the
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  Speaker 3: length of life.
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  Speaker 5: As to Watson, but apparently not the sacred white one.
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  Speaker 5: To pop the poor mister Singh. In the event that
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  Speaker 5: your brother's death, who would become the Maharaja.
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  Speaker 6: I should, mister.
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  Speaker 5: I can see what you are thinking that the next
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  Speaker 5: day liners succeed to the title would have an excellent
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  Speaker 5: noted for wishing the animal dead, and the logic is inescapable.
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  Speaker 5: The thought had no personal implications, I assure you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very anxious to see this fabulous amimal.
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  Speaker 5: This sacred white elephant is never seen except that the
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  Speaker 5: yearly festival that celebrates another anniversary of the Maharaja's rule.
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  Speaker 5: So the animal is only sing once a year, yes, mister,
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  Speaker 5: and when is the next annivents in two weeks time?
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  Speaker 3: Rival seems to have coincided very nicely with the ceremony.
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  Speaker 5: As Watson, the fact that I'm sure or is not coincidental, Well,
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  Speaker 5: it's sing. I'm very glad that you told us the
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  Speaker 5: legend of the sacred white Elephant, and now I suggested
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  Speaker 5: to take us to the palace. I'm most anxious to
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  Speaker 5: make the Maharaja's acquaintance. This is the council chamber, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 5: If you will wait here a moment, I will go
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  Speaker 5: and see if my brother well enough to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not easily impressed.
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  Speaker 3: This palace is absolutely staggering and it's magnificent.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it does rather take one's breath away, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 4: It does.
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  Speaker 5: Far is the finest marble. And unless I'm much mistaken,
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  Speaker 5: that magnificent rug is a genuine bakara. Yes, Fike job
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  Speaker 5: it is.
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  Speaker 3: I could swear that the staircase we mounted a moment
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  Speaker 3: ago had railings of solid gold.
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  Speaker 5: Did Old jaff It is a country of paradoxes, populace
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  Speaker 5: beyond the dreams of my deaths, rubbed shoulders, with a
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  Speaker 5: darist poverty.
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  Speaker 3: Yet looking at the palace like this, it's not how
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  Speaker 3: to see why India is called the brightest jewel in
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  Speaker 3: the diadem of the British Empire.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 5: That is an elephant trumpety?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, do you suppose the sacred white one?
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  Speaker 5: Undoubtedly he will recall the Maharaja's brother.
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  Speaker 7: Told us it's the only one.
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  Speaker 8: The talis is an odd sound.
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  Speaker 5: It's a very comforting one. Animals seems to be in
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  Speaker 5: the best of health.
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  Speaker 8: Who waits the Maharaja's count You gave.
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  Speaker 2: Me a start? Do you come in?
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  Speaker 5: And my friend and I are waiting for an audience
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  Speaker 5: for his highness.
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  Speaker 8: No one can hold audience with the Maharaja leads to leave.
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  Speaker 2: Now, okay, are my good fellow, please?
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  Speaker 5: What's good? We've traveled twelve thousand miles to see the
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  Speaker 5: Maharaja Sir at his request. In any case, his brother
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  Speaker 5: is with him now arranging an audience. I am Mother,
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  Speaker 5: the Maharaja's physician and chief counselor, and I tell you
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  Speaker 5: you cannot hold audience today. And I tell you that
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  Speaker 5: I have the slightest intention of leaving the Talis without
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  Speaker 5: seeing him. You're the by authority of Mother Sailah. I've
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  Speaker 5: broke laid out now I want you, but if I
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  Speaker 5: have an entry that no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you're back. Mister saying this fellow tell us
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  Speaker 2: that we couldn't see your brother.
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  Speaker 5: And furthermore, he seems to labor under the disapprehension they
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  Speaker 5: didn't have us thrown bodily out of the palace. Mad
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  Speaker 5: you do not understand. These are the gentlemen my brother.
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  Speaker 6: Wishes to see from England. He has sent for them.
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  Speaker 8: It was against my counsel there were summoned. Now good
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  Speaker 8: will come of this?
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  Speaker 5: Follow me, gentlemen, my brother the Maharaja, I will see
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  Speaker 5: you now, but please do not stay with him.
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  Speaker 6: Too long. He is far from well.
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  Speaker 9: Mister Sherlock Holmes, doctor watching. I'm so happy you have
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  Speaker 9: arrived here safely. It was great imposition to ask you
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  Speaker 9: to travel so far.
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  Speaker 5: Not at all, sir. I only hope he can prove
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  Speaker 5: of me cherry assistance to you. Yes, Rava, I wish
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  Speaker 5: you would permit doctor Watson to examine.
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  Speaker 3: You, but to suggest myself so in fact, that I
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  Speaker 3: brought my medical bag along just in case.
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  Speaker 5: Mother would not approve. Mada not believe in oci de medicine.
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  Speaker 5: I do not trust matter. I do not think he
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  Speaker 5: wishes you to get well.
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  Speaker 6: Please, Ranjie. Let the doctor examine you very well.
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  Speaker 4: But you not tell mad.
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  Speaker 3: And now what seems to be the trouble yours my eyes.
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  Speaker 4: They torture me night and day. They torture me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I noticed they seemed very inflamed.
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  Speaker 3: Let me take a look at him. Open them a
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  Speaker 3: little wider.
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  Speaker 4: Please, I throw burn night and day. Night they burn.
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  Speaker 2: Carlos is sticklar red.
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  Speaker 3: However, everything very very serious, sir. But you're suffering from
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  Speaker 3: is a case of what we call conjunctive vikers.
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  Speaker 4: What you do relief pain dot and some eye.
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  Speaker 3: Drops will give you relief and no time, sir, I
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  Speaker 3: have some here in my bag.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, thank you. Perhaps medicine will.
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  Speaker 3: Have yes, I'm sure it will, sir. Here you are
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  Speaker 3: in this small buckle and an eyedropper. That this is
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  Speaker 3: an eye dropper. Just put a few drops in the
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  Speaker 3: corner of each other.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure you will get some relief in no
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  Speaker 2: time at all.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Watch you think there is nothing seriously wrong? Doctor, But
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  Speaker 5: I gave it as his opinion that my brother's eyesight
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  Speaker 5: was in serious danger.
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  Speaker 3: Upon my saying so, I think it more likely that
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  Speaker 3: my medical knowledge exceeds his. I can assure you there's
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  Speaker 3: nothing seriously the matter with your brother's eyes.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy you say so.
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  Speaker 9: Now you will please excuse me while I think medication
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  Speaker 9: and rest a little.
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  Speaker 4: We discussed my problems later. Car has already prepared for
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  Speaker 4: you in palace.
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  Speaker 5: You do not mind, mister Holme, not at all, sir,
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  Speaker 5: though in the interim I should like to employ my
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  Speaker 5: time to the poor by inspecting your sacred white elephant.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, that I cannot allow. I must talk to
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  Speaker 4: you first.
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  Speaker 7: I think so.
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  Speaker 5: You will do well to give me permission to see
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  Speaker 5: the animal. I already have my suspicions as to your
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  Speaker 5: reason for bringing me here, and it will be best
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  Speaker 5: if I'm completely informed when we have our discussion.
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  Speaker 9: Very well, can do no harm here? Take ring, show
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  Speaker 9: ring to Supro. He's keeper of animal. Sucro will let
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  Speaker 9: you into elephant house.
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  Speaker 4: When you see Ring.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, sir, and please rest comfortably. I'm sure that
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  Speaker 5: your worries are nearly at an end.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Watson, Yeah, well, well they told us this
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  Speaker 3: was the elephant house.
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  Speaker 2: Why and Fana doesn't keep her open the door.
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  Speaker 5: Imagine because his mind is preoccupied with music.
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  Speaker 7: Knock again or uh huh?
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  Speaker 5: Hear us that time?
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  Speaker 2: That time, he must have been knocking here for five
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  Speaker 2: or six minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm saying, hey, I money Ahti TECHNICOASTI film TECHNI
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  Speaker 5: A sector sector Maharasha said, ko astimatic deal m But I.
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  Speaker 6: Just have either have.
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  Speaker 3: Say homes and Maharaja's rings seem to do the trick.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want to let us in until you showed
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  Speaker 2: it to him.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't pay for seven offensive growth cheer.
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  Speaker 6: Chill hatty for dear. That's he's with eyes up.
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  Speaker 2: What's happened to homes?
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  Speaker 5: White elephant just disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Watching disappeared.
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  Speaker 4: There's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Elephants don't just disappear.
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  Speaker 5: You carry your UPLI what you what?
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  Speaker 4: Where's he going?
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  Speaker 5: I told him to go to the Maharajah, give him
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  Speaker 5: the news.
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  Speaker 7: He is to tell it to no one.
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  Speaker 3: Else at homes. Is is ridiculous. We heard the animal
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  Speaker 3: trumpeting here Lesten half an hour ago. How can an
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  Speaker 3: elephant be spirited away since that amount of time.
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  Speaker 5: That's what we have to find out, my dear colone.
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: I have often heard of the Indian rope trick. Now
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: we have a first tend opportunity of solving a new mystery,
• 12:34
  Speaker 5: the problem of the disappearing elephants homes.
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  Speaker 3: This is fastcle spent half an hour searching this elephant house.
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  Speaker 3: After all, an elephant isn't exactly insignificant.
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  Speaker 2: I doubt if you're going to find it under those
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  Speaker 2: boards in the collar over there?
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  Speaker 5: Who watchn't nonetheless, that.
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  Speaker 2: Choose what would loose?
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  Speaker 7: Hero Chap.
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  Speaker 3: Bloodstone Scott, you're not suggesting that elephant's blood.
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  Speaker 5: It's hard to say, though, I would venture the opinion
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  Speaker 5: that it would require the blood of several human corpses
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  Speaker 5: to produce an equivalent amount of blood. In any case,
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  Speaker 5: you will notice that these stains aren't dried and old.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, that must be the elephant keeper back from the palaces.
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  Speaker 5: Mara, Maharaja's physician homes doctor Watson. At once, you must
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  Speaker 5: come back to the palace ad loong, Sir, this is
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  Speaker 5: the Maharaja. Death has come to him.
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  Speaker 4: Dead, great heaven.
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  Speaker 7: Jactly what happened?
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  Speaker 5: Sukra, keeper of the elephant came to the Maharajah. He
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  Speaker 5: said he had the most important message to deliver.
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  Speaker 7: He had I told him to deliver it. Then what happened?
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  Speaker 5: A few moments later I heard cries. I went to
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  Speaker 5: the Maharaja's room and found them in delirium. He was
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  Speaker 5: saying about the elephant having disappeared. His brother and I
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  Speaker 5: tried to give comfort to him, but we could do nothing.
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  Speaker 5: His breathing became more and more labored. Finally it's stopped though.
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  Speaker 5: He gets over toomb of parbody, porous, fulfilled once again,
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  Speaker 5: the elephant has gone on. The Maharaja's reign has ended.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, ms, go to the palace.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I must examine the body at once, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly, But was the natural deafiness the matter positive? No
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: symptoms of poisoning. For example, mister Holmes, I have read
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  Speaker 5: some of your sensational stories in which obscure debts are
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  Speaker 5: attributed to the subtle Oriental poison unknown to Western science.
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  Speaker 5: I can assure you that if the Maharaja has been poisoned,
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  Speaker 5: it has been caused by no poison known to me.
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  Speaker 5: When did he last eat over eight hours ago?
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  Speaker 3: It possibly died of shock shot and hysteria when he
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  Speaker 3: knew that the elephant had vanished.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it's possible, but it's murdered. Just to say murder.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you say that, mister Holmes, Because whoever caused
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  Speaker 5: the elephant to disappeared did it with a deliberate intention
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  Speaker 5: of ending the Maharaja's reign. A diabolical plot and one
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: that I intend to overcome.
• 14:54
  Speaker 7: The poorest days out.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Doctor Watson's story will continue in just a second. So
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: all I'm going to say is, if you like a
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: swell red wine with your dinner, well then you should
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: know about Petrie California Burgundy. Petrick Burgundy is a rich,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: hearty red wine. It's just wonderful with hamburger and beef
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: stew and pot roast and chops and or just about
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: any meat or meat dish you can think of. And
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: of course if you can get hold of a steak
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: or a prime rib, well then you've just got to
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: serve that with Patrick Burgundy. Petrick Burgundy is a swell
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: meal time wine, the best friend a good meal ever had,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: No kidding, and now back to tonight's new Sherlock Holmes adventure,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: the Case of the Vanishing Element. Tell me, doctor, did
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: you examine the Maharaja's body?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course I did.
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  Speaker 3: Mister about Jel Holmes was convinced that the Maharaja had
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: been murdered, but I could find no trace of our play.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: After my examiner Wish and I joined homes and our quarters.
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  Speaker 5: And I gave him my prease.
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  Speaker 2: Think looks like natural.
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  Speaker 3: Death to me home, no traces are poison, and that
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  Speaker 3: I could see, because it's hard to be certain without.
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  Speaker 5: In the top tire. If you suggest one, yes, but
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  Speaker 5: the new Mahara, do you want to hear of it?
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  Speaker 2: It's against their religion?
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  Speaker 7: Apparently, yes, I was afraid of that.
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  Speaker 5: Meantime, I've been conducting a cross examination of some of
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: the palace servants. Why do you find a principally that
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: all of them heard the elephant trumpeting this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Did anyone suggest how the animal might have been smuggled.
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  Speaker 2: Out to the palace ground?
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  Speaker 5: They insisted that such a feat would be impossible without
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  Speaker 5: their knowledge. Well, what's the next move, homes to utiligate
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  Speaker 5: the one person who I'm sure can give us the
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  Speaker 5: true story of the elephant's disappearance.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: It's keep that.
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  Speaker 5: Remember we haven't seen him since you took the message
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  Speaker 5: to the palace. I suggest we return to the elephant
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  Speaker 5: house and have a persuasive talk film.
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  Speaker 3: This was near the house, the only one that's near
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  Speaker 3: the elephant pan Ramsack A looking place.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it?
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  Speaker 7: Extremely so?
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Crow?
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  Speaker 2: So craw, don't tell me that he's finished too. His
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  Speaker 2: business is beginning to get on my nerves.
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  Speaker 5: I think under the second instances, we'll take the liberty
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  Speaker 5: of entering.
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  Speaker 6: So Crow, look home.
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  Speaker 2: Look on the floor.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: We're too late.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Whose lord, what a horrible side? His boat's been cut?
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Obviously another murder.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: He knew the secret of the vanishing elephant.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: Look around. Uh uh.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Hooker was quite a quite a musician. Look at this
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: weird astortment of instrument naked lute.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: We heard him playing that today as we approached the
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: elephant house.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: What's this?
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: It looks like a sort of jahn megaphone, the musical
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: instrument of some kind.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Observe the mouthpiece here, Let's see what kind of noise
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: it makes.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: The instrument sounds exactly like like an elephant trumpet.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: Course, whit didn't this before?
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Come on watching back to the palace as fast as
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: you legs and carry you a mystery assault.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: You say you have solved this problem with the missing elephants, and.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: Also because of your brother's death and suchross murder. Indeed,
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: that is very important, nude, Would you both sit down,
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: please precede, mister home, Thank you, And first, the elephant
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: did not vanish today, and the beast must have died
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: a natural.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: Death months ago.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: All that happened today was that I discovered its absence.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Are you suggesting that my brother knew the beast was dead?
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: I am, sir. He was afraid to publish the use.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: He knew that his rule would fall into a state
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: of chaos if the fact were known. You yourself said,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: have told us how strong is the native belief in
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: this legend?
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: How did he disposed of the elephant?
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Tru sively over a period of time, The bloodstains and
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: the elephant house would indicate that the animal had been
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: cut up into disposable fragments, which could be removed by
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: the faithful Sucra without detracting suspicion. All this time, though,
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: the elephant horn was blown at suitable intervals to indicate
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: that the sacred animal was still alive.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: If the maharaj and knew the beast was dead, why
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: did it have shocked when he received the news?
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: I think the answer to that question, doctor Watson, would
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: be that my brother died of shame when he knew
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: that his imposture had been discovered with a barbetch, sir,
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: if you don't mind my saying so now, I'm certain
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: the reason your brother brought me to you our country
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: was to reveal that imposture to me. You the day
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: was coming soon when he must show the elephant to
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: his people. The festival would have been held in two
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: weeks time. I think you told us, sir. I imagine
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: that he wanted me to devise a method of smuggling
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: a new white elephant into the palace grounds before that time.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Tell me, mister Shellack Home, why did my brother die today?
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Because he was murdered just the super crow was murdered
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: later murdered very ingeniously by poison, but not as you
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: might expect by any subtle Eastern poison.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: No.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: One of the most recent of Western poisons was used.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: A poison unknown to Oriental science. Delirium followed by a
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: strangulated breathing is highly typical of the newly discovered poison hiosiamine.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: If he hadn't even a to Watson. But you will
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: see this hiosiamine was administered to an eye Rober what
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: heaven The poison penetrates with unusual ease through the membranes
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: of the eyes, if.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: You will recall, if you're right, but Joey does must
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: have been in that position, follow Ma Mado.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: His name is no matter Chapin.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: This has been a case of confusion. Let's do a
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: little clear thinking now, jam You see, we were deceived
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: by the apparent sequence of the dentists. We discovered the
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: elephant missing and thought that back that caused the Maharaja's death.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: And as his murder was quite a separate matter, the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: poison must have been placed in the eye, dropped while.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: We were in the elephant house.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Yap and When the murderer saw how the problem of
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: the missing elephant conclused us, he killed its unfortunate keeper
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: to prevent us from learning the truth. Yes, you're strangely silent,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: mister singh Am. I'm mister, I am fascinated by your flove,
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: and I sayable logic.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Of course, you.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Realize that I am now the Maharaja, the king of kings,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: an absolute ruler with all power including that of the police.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: Do you do you care to denounce him murderer to know?
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Come, sir, I think it's time that buttons came off
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: our foils.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: I'm well aware that you studied medicine at the University
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: of Edinburgh, got the most of the opportunity and the
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: knowledge to kill your brother. Murder of Sucro was probably
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: performed by an underling. Very clever man, very clever man,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: never enough to realize that an absolute ruler rule with
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: all powers including that of the police, is not apt
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: to denounce the soap Again, your logic is unassailable. Goodbye, gentlemen,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: I trust your void home will be at pleasant. I
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: want you said that I shall take a full report
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: of my findings in the station of the British commissioner
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: for the state.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: Why should he do then the.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Good bye, gentlemen, I.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, Murder. It's my blood boil to think that he
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: can't be brought to justice.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: He can, and he will be.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: The civilized laws of the occident cannot be enforced here.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Then we must fight him with his own weapons. What
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: do you mean home if we have a farewell talk
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: with mister Murder, the dead Maharasha's physician, friend and counselor.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: But this is a terrible story you have told me,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: mister Holmes, my beloved ruler murdered by his own brother,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: and yet he cannot be made to account for his crimes.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: You can be sir, if you will help, mister Holmes.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: Of course I will.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: What can I do?
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Can't tell me eye drops before they're destroyed. Will you
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: haven't analyzed by Western scientists and forward the reports to
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: me in London. I'll take a necessary action. I will
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: try to do that, mister Holmes. But if I fail,
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: there is one other way I can avenge my master's death.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: In a few weeks in New Maharaja will be enthroned.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: I understand you, sir. The wise man from beyond the mountains.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Of Nepal will bring a new white.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Elephant, perhaps some elephants that will not live very long.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: You understand me perfectly, mister Holmes. I can promise you
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: that the elephant will die in a very short time,
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: and with it they knew Maharaja my master shall be avenged.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: That was quite a story, doctor, quite a story. And
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: tell me what did happened to the next white elephant?
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: An exaly co incidence? It died the day off the
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: new Maagians and tournament. That scoundrel was self killed an
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: uprising that occurred.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Just a few days later.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: You know something, I think I could be very happy
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: as an Indian Maha Raja. Beautiful palace, beautiful women, beautiful jewels.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Every year on my birthday, the natives would give me
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: my weight and go.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: You know, I could learn to like that.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: That is, if I tried.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Every week you'd speak your subjects over the radio and
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: tell them all about petree wine.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Oh now, wait a minute, doctor, I don't always talk
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: about petrie wine.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: That's you.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: You don't always talk about petrie wine. You've got to
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: sleep sometimes.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: All right, Go on, kid me about it. The petrie
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: wine is worth talking about. After all, what other wine
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: has the tradition behind it that Petrie wine has.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Don't forget.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: The Petrie family has been making Petrie wine for generations
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: since way back before there were electric lights and telephones
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and things like that. They've been making Petrie wine since
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the eighteen hundred, and handing down from father to son,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: from father to son, every bit of valuable knowledge and experience.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: There's no doubt about it.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: The Petrie family really knows how to turn luscious grapes
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: into wonderful wine. That's why you can't go wrong with
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the Petrie wine. Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: doctor has about giving us a clue to the next
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: week's start.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Next week, that's about tell I'm going to tell you an.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Adventure in which I'm free. I didn't exactly about myself
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: with glory.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I think you'll find the story an exciting one, my boy,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: because it's composed of equal parts of romance, of the
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: international intrigue, and of.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Sudden death.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Tonight.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes Adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and is based on an incident in the Sir Arthur
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Conan Doyle story. The Engineer's thumb. Mister Rathbone appears through
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the courtesy of Metro Bolwyn Mayor, and mister Bruce through
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the courtesy of Universal Pictures, where they are now starring
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: in the Sherlock Holmes series. The Petrie Wine Company of
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, California invites you to tune in again next week,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: same time, same station. This is Harry Bartel saying good
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: night for the Petrie family. Sherlock Holmes comes to you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: from our Hollywood studios. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.