Sherlock Holmes - New Years Eve Off Scilly Isles

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Well, here we are, once again on the threshold of doctor Watson's study. We find mister Holmes genial biographers trotting up and down in front of.

This fireplace evening. Doctor, you look fit. The Christmas festivities don't seem to cut you down.

I am fit, mister Harrison, very fit.

Isn't that I'm rather well fitted? Chris Scottman, Well, you're I.

Why Doctor Watson. Don't tell me Santa Claus brought you a clipper pat.

So, oh why not?

Just because I'm a wee bitter venerable doesn't mean I'm antique.

I still enjoy making a good impatient, don't you know.

But in that suit, it'll be the girl that goes when you walk down the street.

Though. Seriously, now, doctor, suppose you tell us what the night story is to be about.

Well tonight, I thought i'd relate how Hopes and I spent New Year's Eve off.

The silly Isles. The silly isles, that sounds appropriate, Doctor.

The name of these particular islands is still sc.

I l l Y.

They are located roughly one hundred miles southwest of Lend's End.

Mister Harris, Or what in the world were you doing there on New Year's.

Eve trying to prevent a great maritime catastrophe? You remember what happened to the Titanic. You know what happened to Tania, where the labs and those on the ocean land are gigantic wood in even greater danger when Holmes and I went over the side on New Year's Eve in the nineteen twelve. Oh but good heavens, Instead, I go getting ahead of myself again. Suppose I fix us a Tom and Jenny while you tell our listeners how to stop the righting at clothes.

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Yes, sir, here's your Tom and Jenny. Mister hardis like other careful to compare yourself.

Yes, it was probably the most taken two years Eve I ever experienced. Nothing is as tedifying to a seafaring man as the thought of fire aboard Hennick, yesolution, I'm asked ty to hit on that.

Yes, let me see. It was a delust day of the nineteen hundred and twelve.

Its inception was sufficiently placid.

I must say.

A light snow was pulling us homes and I seated ourselves on either side of a well filled breakfast table. The flames of our seaco fire reflected themselves.

Cheery generous coffee pot for her house is filled with the pleasant.

Aroma of the stacking.

Missus Hudson was preparing for our New Year's goose Saenida.

Came a frantic jangle the front doorbell. No, definitely no, No, Holmes.

Whoever it is that's pulling our front doorbell out by the roots or whatever its problem is, I'm definitely not interested.

Yes, Watson.

Being the world's greatest consulting detective has its disadvantages. People always managed to hint the difficulties at the most inopportune moments.

Yes, you should try being a doctor, Holmes. No female says he.

Has ever decided to become a mother at a convenient time.

Oh, come in confounded, mister Holmes, Mister Sharlotte Holmes, naturally, whatever your problem is.

I warn you we don't have to wait long for the holiday, mister Holmes. Close to two thousand lives or at state. I pray to Heaven you'll be able to reach them before it's too late. Reach whom? Where?

And what is this disaster you anticipate with such trepidation The steamship Gigantic, mister Holmes.

She should be somewhere off the Silly Isles by midnight.

We've been reliably informed that an attempt will.

Be made to set fire to her at that time.

If successful, it'll be the greatest disaster in all maritime history.

Yes, in that case, I suppose I shall have to forego the little celebration i'd planned for this evening, have to really.

Home, as you are a cold, glutted dish.

Oh, I'm sorry, I don't believe you've been my colleague, doctor Watson, mister.

Pembroke, Reginald Pembroke.

I'm chairman of the board of Floyd's, the famous insurance company.

Oh, that your desire to prevent this disaster isn't entirely humanitarian, not entirely, but neither.

Is it altogether merchantary.

There's more to take than the lives of the passengers on board the Gigantic. If she goes down, the financial stability of the British Empire.

Goes with her. Interesting Hey Watson continuous to Pember.

Where mister Holmes that during this past year there have been a terrifying number of marine catastrophes.

Holmes says everything, mister.

Pember, I am quite cognizant to the fact that quite a few of the newest and fastest British liners have been destroyed at sea by fire storm and accident.

They weren't accidents, mister Holmes, asualal quite The Egyptian Star was destroyed by fire in the Persian Elf eight hundred nights last, the Lord Nelson.

Disappeared in the Typhoon and the Indian Ocean, no survivors.

The Southern Cross exploded and sank off the coast of Brazil one thousand, two hundred casualties.

The Wellington, the.

Lady Jane Gray and the El Dorado all caught fire in different parts of the Pacific.

Total deaths over two thousand.

The greatest disaster was last April when the Titanic ran into an iceberg with a loss of over fifteen hundred souls.

The public's becoming panicky about traveling on British ships. The ships of other nationals are taking all our parade. Three backs nearly ten. Investment concerns were large. Marine interests have.

Gone to the wall.

Even freyd is not too secure. But that is not the most serious aspect of the situations.

Reate, good Lord, don't tell me. It's worse to come, much worse, doctor Putsson.

Those ships disappeared in many parts of the world. They were sunk by diverse methods.

One factor, however, was the same in each disaster, and that was the cargo carried by each ship was gold.

English goal.

If it ever became known how much British bullion lies at the bottom of the Seven Seas.

British credit would be badly crippled.

As a matter of fact, the Bank of England has been forced to import a large shipment of gold from Canada, and.

It's only gigantic. Good Lord, of wonder your episode.

The whole economic structure of the British ambis at state, mister Hobbs.

Nothing must happen to the Gigantic, but makes you think anything will.

A cable was sent shortly after the Gigantic left Queenstown. She made the stop in Ireland on her east bound voyage.

You know she sailed shortly before dawn this morning.

The gang plans have been drawn in the last line had been cast off.

On the Great. Propellers have begun to churn. Suddenly the dock.

Master help to someone sliding down the chips side on a rope.

Hi, look up picture. Some fools climbed over the side. He's coming down on a road. No wack. If we'll go back, he'll be cares. He'll never make a dog. He follow the water, be swept under the chef. No. No, he's pushing the rope away from the ship to his feet. He's swinging out. He's going to jump.

He made it.

Someone won the bridges. Ni. He's calling to him sat pick himself up.

He's shouting back every.

In hell, good lord, I know the man turn. It's smoky Joe the firebird.

If a Gigantic don't catch fire between himself, hunt and I'm a Dutchman.

Smoking. Joe's still he We've heard it in before. A Watson not merely as an expert arsonist, put Ingrish pyromaniac as well. They cut him. I hope mister Pembroke. No, no, mister Holmes.

Unfortunately he is too quick for them.

He crawled down a.

Ladder and disappeared among the pilings under the darts.

So the Gigantic assist for Southampton with a nice bit of Joe's handiwork aboard.

You think it's a fire bomb, he Holmes.

Not necessarily, Watson. There are many ingenious ways of starting a fire. You know, whoever hired Joe would prefer to have it happen went out to see I imagine.

Oh thod exactly, mister Holmes. We wireless Captain.

Brooks to make a search, of course, but on a shift the size.

Of the Gigantic, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

You are our one.

Home, mister Holmes. If only you couldn't get on board in time.

And how do you suggest I go that little assignment.

The Chairman of the Great Western Railway has placed the Royal Train in joor disposal.

All out the traffic will be cleared off the tracks.

Now you should reach Landeen shortly after lunch my yart. The albatross will be waiting for your harbors and eyes. Very speedy little craft. And when he loved you should cite the Gigantic around leave clop tonight.

Yes, eleven o'clock, was it not? Joe called out, Happy New Year? In hell? It won't be New Year at midnight.

If we reached the Gigantic by eleven, we may just possibly be in time.

Six bells, it's eleven o'clock. Unfound this park. We've had to reduce our speed to heart. We'll never catch up to the Gigantic now, hose nonsense. She's had to slow down too. I only hope you don't miss our entire in the spot. I don't really care. You don't sound very sick, But what's up? You have to use that unfortunate expedition and tell me you're feeling sweamish? Is this could have founded a role I can send a good risk. See, but this propping about in a tea cup city. I

Remedy for this sort of thing, that that staying on the shore. So I better spend New Year's Eve?

This is who do you suppose is this possible for these confounded sinkings.

Anyway, the Pembroke seems to feed us a foreign plot a little eat. European shipping industry is benefit the most. Of course, did you hear that?

I jove yes, sounds like an ocean life right enough? Yes, what signal.

Yes got this year is a gigant you gloming out of the fog. Looks like a mountain coming at us.

Oh, yes, shut off, Holmes and doctor Watson coming aboard.

Let down a.

Ladder down, here's Donna Watson.

I think you can manage it and climb up the Eiffel car on a clothes.

And if it would get me off this bouncing cot shell.

Quite an impressive array of instruments you have up here on the bridge, Captain Brooks.

Here's mister Holmes. How much gigantic? We have? The latest of everything, and none of it's in a real use in case of fire.

Du face a typhoon, or a shipwreck or a mutually even dog breddit than a fire on board ship.

Surely a ship this size should be fairly fireproof.

That's what you might think, doctor Watson.

But that are three factors that make a fire on a luxury line are dangerous. First there's all the confounded ornamental woodwork that's used in the passenger construction.

Second, there's the fact that.

Once a fire gets a firm hold, it's fed by drafts that rush through.

The ventilating system. And third there is the element.

Of penn Nothing makes people behave more like wild beasts quicker than the cry of fire.

In case you have a person alarms sist.

We have the old fashioned system of bell, and also something rather recent.

The Gidentic is one of the first ships to install it. You see that glass case over there.

Gentlemen, The roll with a lot of tubes entering from below looks more like a giant honeycomb.

Mayhelms.

Each of those tubes leads to a separate compartment of the ship.

The instant of fire.

Breaks out anywhere, smoke is immediately drawn into the glass case.

I stationed to save it. To watch that case.

Believe me, gentlemen, the first wisp of smoke we shall know it. Yes, undoubtedly very helpful, Captain Brooks. In the case of an ordinary conflagration, I assure you, a fire set by smoky Joe is not ordinary. He's a master arsonist ten seconds after one of his fires breaks out, You're dealing with a raking inferno.

Pound did they tell me the man who dirted this queenstown that us this morning? That's more than eighteen hours ago. If he'd set fire. It seems to me that we've been flamed by this time. Not necessarily.

There are many methods by which a fire can be made to break out long after the pyromaniac has left the seal of his crime. You say you've found no track, bombs, no clammable assets, no, mister Holmes, Ever since I received word that we were in danger, I've had my men searching high and low.

They found nothing, absolutely nothing. He's been a systematic search, I promise you, yes, but you've drawn a blank.

That's what comes of using system instead of brains and initiative. U.

And how do you propose to locate whatever it is we can't find?

By using a little logic? I shall credit smokey Joe with having the intelligence to place his fire starting device in a place where it will do the most damage. The man's nontor captain, he knows his business. Then I shall investigate that place and remove his handiwork.

RUMs you're bagging again.

And at all, my dear Watson, I think I may promise I shall have discovered the menace instead of half and half. I only hope Joe's little device doesn't do its nasty job before then.

Half an hour.

Now, eleven thirty exactly?

Do you think you can solve this problem by a midnight? Yes?

Captain? With any luck, I think I can promise you a placid and uneventful new year, Captain Brooks.

Yes.

Mcdown would seems to be the trouble the wireless.

Engineers who wished to report something's wrong with the separators as sending and receiving equipment of.

Something gone out of commission.

I don't like that.

What does he think? Can you come here a minute? Excuse me moment, gentlemen. The wheelsman's following me. What's trouble, Jerry? It's the compass. It's pretty like all. I can't figure out what's how into it? You never see the light set bunch in some magnetic storm. Great, Scott, this is incredible. Now heart is the engine room calling, Captain. I'll take it.

Hello, Yes, Captain brook speaking the places you say, well, do the best you.

Can see with the difficulty, Captain. The dynamoes are slowing down. They can't figure out why, good Lord, So that's why the lights are getting dim the places with the lights.

Without dynamos, we've no false draft for the furnaces. We'll never keep up enough pressure to drive the ship. In no time at all, we'll be drifting helplessly in the Atlantic, in the middle of the reefs that around the city aisles.

And it's only way to spend New Years the homes. It could be worse, you know how. The ship could be on fire. That's the fill menace for which these other threats are but the predude I fancy.

For the level heaven.

What are we to do?

Keep calm and you whatever in legends the Lord has endowed. It's with Captain Brooks. I suggest you want as many officers as you can spare join the holiday celebration that's undoubtedly going on, in order to keep discipline in case there's any disturbance.

Really good, mister Holmes. There's a New Year's dance going on in the large ballroom. It's on Sea Day.

And meanwhile, if you could spare us someone to guide Watson and myself of.

Course, now, mister Brown, here is our pursa. He knows the ship as well as anyone on board. I'm sure he does.

But when, mister Brown, if you'll eat the way, I think Dr Watson and I are to go below and investigate the engines. No, mister Brown even love that what we're looking for is that to be rather close to the furnaces, I.

Imagine, No he is I stare to go round and round and make me dizzy.

Maybe it's the heat down here.

Yes, we're getting close to the furnace room.

If you listen, you can hear them disturbing grim way to a living hell.

Sup a minute, where does that mean? Brown? That small fa door with a heavy metal door at the far end.

That's the brilliant rooms though, and gold is kept very interesting.

Spose we take it up, Okay, Watson.

And I've always ready to see those gold bars you hear so much about.

I'm afraid that won't be possible. Down to Watson. Why not?

But as you can see, the door is locked and sealed. It was done by the port authorities before we left New York.

That door won't be.

Opened and the port authority is unseated when we reach Southampton.

You mean that room in there wasn't open when the captain ordered the ship search for antend your material.

No, mister Holmes, but.

It's quite impossible for any want to place a fire bomb or anything of the sort in there. As you can see, the seals are still intact. Quite these seals are intact. But are they the ones put on in New York?

I done it. It's HEAVENO yes, interesting, very interesting. These are not the original seal? Or how can you tell? Holmes? They look intact to.

Me exactly they are intact. But here the crack of the door sill are bits of broken seals. These seals are not even chipped Jervis.

Of course, the original seals were hacked off and then replaced after someone had finished picking the.

Lock and robbing the room inside.

I doubt if property was the mote at Watson.

But what other reason would anyone want to break into a room full of gold bullion?

It all depends what lies directed below that from mister Brown.

Let me see nothing of any great importance, mister Holmes, just coal piles, the coal piles.

Good lord, I think we shall have to break the seals again.

Mister Brown, here WA's and help me but the door is not, mister Holmes.

Now the seals have been removed.

We's had to get the key from the captain. No mine for that.

Hand me my burglar tools, Watson, good kemps you give that twenty tickles with those things.

Homes ever turned teeth, mister Brown, even the Bank of England wouldn't be safe.

Yes, that should do the trick. Now, if you'll help me draw the palls, Watson, Yes, with pleasure.

There are homes now that's said lecking.

There isn't it is the right inside, mister Brown. No, mister Holmes, I'm afraid not.

Then we shall have to prop the broken The light from the corridor will have to do for our investigations.

Come on, Watson, homes that snow who strong and acuid like suffer, only with more Bubit seems to.

Be coming from this arch tin.

Suppose I light a match to fill stuff, don't be alarmed. I know better than to light a match around a tin which is wreaking sarculic acid.

I only wanted to know how much gwn you about Smoky Joe's and send.

You a device, mister Ludwig Brown spelled b r a U men if not.

Mistaken, so you recognize me. Yes, that's dueling this car over your left eye. It's rather a giveaway, don't you know. So you have found how we are got.

You set fire to the ship by having the acid drip through a hole in the floor under the coal beneath. The first shovelful of that acid so cold that goes in the furnace, and the whole.

Of a ship will be a blazing at furno. Nothing but put out that fire.

Don't you mean that's how you were going to start the My dear mister Holmes, you do.

Not think we will let a small obstacle like the famous Sherlock Holmes.

Stand in our way. Listen to me, don't raich office to me. I'll let you have it.

Never argue with a local pistol Watson. That's the first sensible remark you've made, mister Holmes. I'm sorry to leave, but these stokers should reach the securic acid impregnated coal in about ten minutes. I believe I must be going. This room will be a.

Roaring oven once it starts. You will be rather badly overdone. Gentlemen. Goodbye then, so sorry I cannot say I'll feed us in the door. He's boated it even you can't open it now, homes up. We looked for the opening.

What opening, for heaven's sake, the opening the feats to the tube that ends on the Captain's new fire detecting machine.

It should be somewhere.

Never see it, but the homes I can't seer thing in this black hole of Calcutter?

Can feel?

Can't you.

Not a thing? Homes The wall on this side of a room is as smooth as an egg. You can't find it.

If we can see for half a minute, hullo, I've got something there. He's a small graeping here in the upper corner.

This must be it.

Now, if you can make a smudge of some sort, Watson, bring me a piece.

Of paper, paper, Who would I find a piece of paper?

Then bring me anything I can burn, A bit of cloth, a piece of yes by Joe rope. Bring me a piece of the rope that's tied around one of the boxes that contained the bullion.

Well, if I can find a box, now what I found it? Found? It not for type, so tight type places with nuts. Cut the robots and use your pocket knife. Oh very well, m hm. They are homes. It's a short length. I'm afraid I only wanted enough for a smudge. Nothing like a bit of hemp and row toombs sake, you're not going to set a master to that thing in here, There'll be an explosion.

Have to take the chart, Watson with any sulphilic acid fumes won't be too concentrated up here.

Never seen it? Well, there goes one. Two. Now if we can persuade the rope to smoder yes, she goes certain.

It makes plenty of smoke at Home's the important thing. It's being drawn up to the grating. How long before they come to investigate? You suppose it all depends on the mental acumen of a sailor who's watching that fire detecting machine.

Let's hope is brighter than he looks.

It may be my imagination, but it seems to me I can feel the metal flooring under my feet.

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Now let's rejoin Shermock's and doctor Watson locked in smoke filled boullion.

Room of the Jiggettic. Good lord, how long did it take for them to get it out of here? And smoke's suffocate? Calm yourself, Watson. It can't be more than three minutes since we looked this much.

Yes, icond heard someone running down the ironstick.

I can't hear a blasted thing. How do you? Oh, hello there, get us out, we're in here. Open the door you water relief? How is some of did you two get locked in here? What's all the smoke and a hindrextmations? Captain?

Stop them stuck in the furnaces. Flood the coal piles with water. They've been soaked with sulfuric acid.

Good lord, thank god he super pile supper.

Pot in the engine room.

Well that's that comes. What do you suppose that they come of that destined person? We'll let Captain Brooks take care of him, Watson. Unless I'm very mistaken, mister Brown is going to wish he'd never gone to sea. Well, come along, let's go upstairs and join the festivities. I think we rate a bottle of champagne. The blazers with a champagne. I need a double brandy.

Its fellows, let's see that would be a night Watson had few year old all have in your homes.

And many of them.

But don't you think you could manage to have them not quite so hair raising and have.

You getting fat on the pogic? You know that would be unhealthy, not to say boring. Oh so now it's for my sake, queen, and all these rangers escapades. Eh, thank it of logic, exactly elementary, my dear Watson. Elementary.

But here's the ballroom those who joined the poppy y my dear well, doctor Watson, that was an exciting way to spend New Year, Teave.

It's a bit too excited, mister Harris. If you ask me, doctor, did they catch the purser? Oh?

They did, indeed, mister Brown and five of his accompasses were thrown in the brig.

That was the end of the disasters in the British Maritime Service. When at Holmes first suspect the person was the fiddle of the.

Piece when he came out of the bridge and saw it overcome a chair near to the compass, where whereupon the compass went burserk, who was immediately suspected the code contained a powerful magnet of some sort.

And was he right?

Doctor, My dear mister Harris, Was Sherlock Holmes ever wrong? But come fill your mug and let us wish our radio friend's aposporus happy and peacefully.

Indeed we do, doctor, And now, doctor Watson, would you like to give a hint about next week's story?

Next week, I think I'll tell you how Holmes and I tapped a famous Josey right in our own rooms in Baker Street, by the use of what was then a fabulous new.

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