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Sherlock Holmes Radio The Serpent God Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Conway, · Sherlock Holmes

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