Today's Adventure: Tarzan agrees to obtain the Father of Diamonds for the queen in exchange for her freedom. But D'Arnot doesn't trust her.
Originating Radio Broadcast Dates: July 23, 25, and 27 1934
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Starring Carlton Kadell as Tarzan, Ralph Scott, Karena Shields, Jeanette Nolan, and Cy Kendall
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Originating Radio Broadcast Dates: July 23, 25, and 27 1934
Originating from Hollywood
Starring Carlton Kadell as Tarzan, Ralph Scott, Karena Shields, Jeanette Nolan, and Cy Kendall
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Great Detectives dot net. But now it's time for episodes
thirty one through thirty three of our Cereal the Diamonds,
New Owner Together Again and Help I'm a Friend from
July twenty third, twenty fifth, and twenty seventh, nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Marsan and the Diamond of Our Chair.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Tarzan and his friends are in our Chair the Forbidden
City in the Great Pyramidal Temple of Mahachu, where Wolf
has been killed. Helen, Gregory and Magra are held by
King suten To Thomond Lawson in the ceremonial hall appears
the hideous, flaming mask of death. It speaks English prophesying
their death before the next full moon. Hira, queen of
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the Hessehare, offers Tarzan and his friends their freedom if
the epe Man will bring to her the father of diamonds.
Tarzan agrees, and as he and Dawn leave Queen's chamber,
they meet Toman Larson, running from the hoarse voiced threat
of a guardian eight. The three men follow Tarzan back
to the ceremonial hall. The eight man approaches white casket,
raises the lid. He reaches down and lifts out the
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golden disc. As he does so, not one but two
of the prehistoric monsters leap from the depth of the
pit and shoulder the shoulder charged directly for him. With
cooked bangs, bad wicked red eyes. Cleaning with rage, they
shrink their blood curdling challenge.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Run, run, you cannot fight them both.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
There you are.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So quickly the ties of the three men who are
watching can scarcely follow his movements.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Tarzan slipped the grass rope from his shoulders.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Running noose curls up and over the eight Man's head,
snakelike it twists and curls in rhythm with the steely
Wristmit you controls it, but he gan to theros watchtson,
watch the two great roots shoulder their prey three forward
with the speed of light. Tarzan's rope fashes through the air.
It covers with the French of the second above the
heads of the avant of monsters. White noose Swifty drops
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downs when circle a huge Harry shoulders with a quick
turk of his arm, tars hand Clayton to row.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yes the cow, why you showing out the end?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Tarzan leaps behind the great bar and the brutes crash
into it. He circles Pillar and eight, smashing the two
helpless monsters securate to the stone columns.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
No quick, come down there and sit there anymore?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Right, don't I shall look?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
No, I can't see no one there.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Hurry right, I got the diamond. Come on to home, Oswald.
They've been right behind your tackan Now, Helen and the
Mabra in their bar directly splendid quarters discuss their hopeless situation.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
You must not antagonize the king. He is all powerful
and we must be diplomatic with him. You're probably right, Margaret.
You simply can't do it. Think of Brian worse than dead?
And what have they done to Paul, Tarzan and the
others right now? They may be suffering torture, no dear,
but to antagonize the king openly only makes not as
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worse for us.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
We must do.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Everything anything to gain time, to put off this stubble
marriage as long as possible. Tarzan will find some way
of saving us. I am sure, I hope so.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But do you think her carel I can.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Speak in her hero.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
I do not believe he has forgotten that Tarzan saved
his life, Kenn. He does not care dispute the word
or will of the king at least open. No, No,
of course, not if I only knew that Paul and
Tarzan were trying to help us.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Did your.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Ritchie Helen, Gregory and margra I tend the Helen? The
beauty of these two maidens is such as hath never
been seen in hacke hair.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Thou speakest truly, o at to what do we.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Owe the pleasure of this visit?
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Your majesty, come to tell you that the day is
not far distant when you shall become the brides of
two of Hesse Harrier's noblest saddens.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
If you only knew how much I hate you.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Hate is akin to love, Helen Gregory, A lie, but
the hair's breadth apart.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Soon I shall teach.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Thee the difference, my beautiful queen to be Do you
mean that?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
They?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Is said? A thick Even so.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I am of the Hessei Hare have decreed that the
ceremony shall take place at the annual unveiling and elevation
of the Father of die.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
When we stood before the Great Hall, there was a
woman beside you.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Was she not the creem ay?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
And she still is? But not for long? Why what
do you mean?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
On the day thou and I are wed, Tira shall
no longer be cool?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
It is against all the loss of the he silence.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I am Hessy harrier.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
But now, Helen Gregory, I am come to discuss thy will.
What shall it be from you?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I want nothing?
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Okay, So if there's any kindness or decency in you all,
please please break the spell that holds my brother Brian.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
M It maybe done? Oh thank you.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
If thou comest willingly to share the throne with me,
hast thou no wish Magra.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
I ask only that to sit tlee before mean ukin
here with the.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Fate of the stranger within the gates of our share
lath not wholly in my hands.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
There be the Counsel of thirteen.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
And what do they say?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Their decree shall be made known to ye and to
thy friends at the unveiling of the Father of Diamonds.
It's know that the man called wolf hath already met
his death. We did not know how was the hands
of the guardian apes because he attempted to steal the
great diamond. Come Hakeeru, the council awaits he must complete
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the details for the punishment of Tarzan.
Speaker 10 (08:45):
Be not afraid, ye women of the outer world. I
have not forgotten that I owe my life to Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I come o King a king.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Back in the corridor leading to Tira's quarters, Tarzan, touching
the heavy golden disks, races along ahead of these peak companions.
Breakfast lay arrive at the copper doors. Tarzan indicates a
stone lighter in color than the rest.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
That's what Donald Quick we used to say in hurry
close the door home.
Speaker 11 (09:16):
The Father of diamond Yes here it is, pa is
it here at my feet? And no, I trah and
mistress of the heavy hair. The Council of thirteen shall
henceforth obey my head.
Speaker 12 (09:30):
That's all right, you Rare, I know all about what
this diamond does for you. What about your promise to me,
dear Rad, do.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Not forget to Tarzan. That's the sacred gym must be
cared for.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Are the ash shall not come?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I true?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Look at those powers? Where did you come from?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
It?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Being like life, life magic? Lesson?
Speaker 13 (09:56):
They throw s, mister tone. They did appear to materialize
from from nowhere.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
This takes three of which has then carried alone.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They've been taking it behind the Queen's chair into another room.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Happened by Larson's brought back.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Tom's covetous eyes follow the progress of the golden disk. Presently,
the white clad figures vanished as silently as they appeared,
through a door at the far end of the spacious chamber,
and Tira faces the four men I am in night.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Death are van of the eighties. A few days and
I alone shall reign supreme, and our share I wish shall.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Then be granted.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
A few days.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
I dare not show my conquest to the unveiling of
the father of dan.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
That will be a sweet revenge upon Sultan and his council.
They will open the casket and find not.
Speaker 12 (11:02):
And now what about Helen Gregory having the diamond? You
should know if she is here?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Not until I have gazed into its depths through the
blue veil, which I may not do until the time
of the unveiling. I will then know where to look
for the woman.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
And what about Margoro.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
I have learned that she is even now not far
from here. The quarters of the archives suit ten. But
she too must wait.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
No, Tirah, there'll be no more waiting. You'll get her now.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
She shall not enter there.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Tell me where any kind Magra, if ye.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Will go, see you onder small door with the symbol
of the savage face, what of it? It openeth into
a secret passage which leadeth directly to the chamber where
Margra now is imprisoned.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
And open it that we may go said chamber.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Very well.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Remember if aught happens to ye, Hirah is not to blame.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Open the door as she wish. Don dono tom awesen.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
As the three men approach the open panel, Hira smiles wickedly.
She turns and walks quickly to the room where the
father of diamonds now lies behind her. Atan Tom cautiously
silently follows the queen touches a block of stone. It
swings aside behind the tomb, glimpses the golden disc. He
smiles grimly, darts quickly behind the great stone seat, then
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swiftly to the open panel through which his companions are
vanished behind him. The door softly clank shut in the dark,
gloomy passageway.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Tarzan, Dono, and Larson hurry forward.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
If you do not hurry Tom, you will be left
behind tomb. Atan Tomi is not with us. You must
have a mean behind.
Speaker 12 (13:00):
You'll have to look out for himself. Then you'll probably
find all we can take care of ahead of us.
Hurry up, Lassom, Hey been coming.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hey, Look at your roof.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
In front of your tents and it they caving ends.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Then still both of you.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
As the three men pause, a massive he needs block
of stone swings down from the roof of the passageway
before them. An insistent hissing sound becomes audible. Goes louder louder,
roaring and hissing. Great clouds of live yellow steam pour
into the narrow tunnel from the opening.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
It is steam collier. It will stangle us. It stream are.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
He's just like Sholder.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
It is softened for the boon juice.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It will burn as well as suffocate us on.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
The poor Donald.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Listen, get down where you've been going.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I've got rush off the steep hold.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
This is crib.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
My lungs are bursting.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Stay close to the floor.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
His stone is hinged hy by, get it back in place.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Tarzan calls along the tunnel flor to the great hanging stone.
The steam touds envelop him as in a thick yellow
mist veil. The sulfur things burn and serious throat and lungs,
and crouches low under the granite trap. His mighty shoulders
press upward against the slab. His bare feet grip the floor.
The muscles of his powerful legs bulge and crawl as
he rises, slowly, steadily lifting the great stone higher. Higher arms,
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like columns of wet, glistening bronze, reach up. Great hands,
with fingers played wide, press against the huge slab, pursing
it upwards. For the last tremendous effort. Tarzan's body stiffened
a muffled tang, and the massive granite trap is closed.
The suffocating sulfur clouds shut off.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
The steam is shut up. Thurs ended it.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
They closed the floor onto the passage.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Clear. The steam is rolling back the way we came
lifting that woman Hirah must have done it. I told
you she is not to be trusted.
Speaker 14 (15:22):
To worry about that.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Are you too? All right?
Speaker 15 (15:25):
We wait, but my lungs feel as if they were
on fine, Yeah, mine too? What the steam and gradually
sending out it's been dropped somewhere to the room.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yes, the passage must have that lation for that.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's about giving up ever seeing daylight again.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Thorge let up blue lamps. Funny, the steam didn't put
them out, and.
Speaker 13 (15:51):
I probably burned some sort of natural gas. Though where
it comes from or what it is, I do not know.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Are you ready to go on? Selfur fumes seem pretty
well gone?
Speaker 13 (16:01):
Munami memon di Tarzan, Your hands and shoulders they are
like like.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Raw meat that live steam.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's nothing. Come on, careful. Here the passage goes up
steep stairs, a cut right into the floor.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
What is there ahead of you, Tarzan?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
A door Bronz way up there?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Did you see what he did? Lieutenant he Ben lifted
that strong trap.
Speaker 13 (16:26):
Up on his shoulder, and I could not see well
asson through the steam clouds. But he pushed the stone
back into place and scalded his hands and back there
reap them while doing it.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
If it ain't paying for him, we've been boiled like
a couple of shallow fish. How does he do it?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He never sees such a power.
Speaker 13 (16:45):
Before, nor will you ever see another like him. Munami
Tarzan alone, he is Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Sure?
Speaker 12 (16:54):
Do two coming at the top of these steps, the
bronze doors at the end of the passage on a
small landing.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Then we shall be out of this death dropping a
few moments.
Speaker 13 (17:04):
I only hope that I may have the opportunity to
speak a few words with that queen Anny.
Speaker 16 (17:10):
All the time she's been having surprise, especially for us.
That woman has cut up bad eye.
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Here we are the only door in the passageway and
along the stairs other than the one we came through.
It must be the one, Ti Ramn.
Speaker 16 (17:23):
Sure we'd like to see. I've been on the other
side before we open it, Kasan.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Can you find the stone which opens it?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Yes? I think so. This one probably a shade lighter
in color than the other wallstone.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Then we go in this.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Listen right, you don't hear it? Thing wild? Someone's moving
up those stairs toward us.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Meanwhile, Helen and the Margra and the quarters in the
upper part of the temple are trying to hit upon
some plan which will postpone the evil day of the
double marriage ceremony.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Oh, Margra, how can you be so calm with this
awful marriage hanging over your head? I can't even bear
to think about it.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What can we do, Helen?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Only wait and hope. It is only one way out
for us Tarzan.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
Yes, the hope that he and Paul are trying to
find us and will in time to save us from
from that. Oh it's a mighty slim hope, Margre. If
we only knew where they were, Yes, if we only knew.
And the queen his wife the way he said she
would not be his wife for long.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Oh the look in his eyes sh be quiet.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh it's that that beast Suitan. No, no, it is Hakiro.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Quietly, Margaret, we have known that I am here, My
life would be forfeit.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Keep thy voices low.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
I may stay only a moment.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
What is he, Takiru?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
It is a Tarzan.
Speaker 10 (19:21):
I am come to speak his punishment has been decreed
by the Council of Thirteen. It fall upon the day
of the unveiling of.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
The Father of Diamond.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
What is his punishment to be?
Speaker 10 (19:32):
I know not yet, But I, who owe my life
to the Mighty Tarzan, have not abandoned the hope that
I may yet save him from the jealous wrath.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Of Sutan and Paul d'Arno Tom Larsen.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Them I know not, unless it be that they shall
become slaves in the deep minds. I can do not
for them now, perhaps later. But where are they hakeru
in the chamber where they were all placed at the
order of Sutin.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
And if I, if I agree to this marriage with
your king, will Bria be released from that terrible spell?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Nay, Helen Gregory.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
Sutan himself would release him were it not for the
Council of Thirteen, But Sutin may not stand against their creed.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Thy brother is doomed to everlasting sleep.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Then I'll kill myself before I commit that savage to
touch me.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Thy voice, darn woman, there is a way to release
thy brother from the spell of the Father of Diamond.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Listen closely. I shall tell you how it may be done.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Back in the secret passage.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
At the head of the stone stairway, Tarzan, Dno and
Larsen stand motionless, hencely awaiting the the person whose cautious
footfalls they hear advancing up the stairs toward them. The footsteps, careful, slow,
continue to approach.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
They come nearer nearer.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Tarzan throws a quick glance over his shoulder at Donald
and Larson. They stand grimly, alert, ready. As the stalker
raised the head of the stairway and pauses, Tarzan draws
a deep, slow breath, steps swiftly, noiselessly out of the
shadow of a projection.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
In the wall.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
You give me a fight, it went, but kepture Tom,
We missed you back there shortly after we left you row.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
My business in our share, Tarzan is to get the
Father of Diamond.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
I could not leave it as quarters without it, or
at least until I knew where it had been concealed.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
So that is where you were mejd Tom.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
You are persistent, and I suppose the lovely t I
informed you where she had secreted the jail.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
She did better.
Speaker 17 (22:04):
She showed me it's a hiding place and there are
no ideos. Please historic monsters guiding.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It now you've been a lucky fowler at home.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Lucky how so Larsen fasting.
Speaker 18 (22:16):
Back there to find out what Tian did with the diamond.
You miss being almost strangled to death in the tunnel.
If it wasn't far, Tarzi would not be here.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Now. They turned the cloud of sulfur steam into the past.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
So that is where the order of self recovers from.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
I was one wasting time here. I'm going to open
the store. I don't know what we'll walk into. We've
got to take the chance. Are you ready, because we pray.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
It can't be more ready than I bin out? Tarzan
opened the door.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I am ready.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
No, Look the queen did the truth.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I knew you, my dear, have your eyes only for Tanzan.
Attan Tom is also yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Sure, And Lars Larsen, I am sorry. I saw only
Tarzan as he came the door. This surprises scene, you understand. Oh,
it is so wonderful all together again?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah sure, all but Wolf, poor Wolf.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
The King told me we have been frantic Attan, hoping
and praying that you would come to.
Speaker 9 (23:28):
Us, and and we found Brian brother is here then alive,
Helen alive, but he.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Is helpless at in a state of suspended animation.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Where is he on this corridor?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
There just a few steps from this chamber. We were
taken to him by the king and the Kiro Helen.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
I'll bring him here. It is too late, Tarzan.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
They come, Harian's mother Helen to Donald, listen yet to
the wall for those thoughts, Hey.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yay, they've been wearing armor change.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Like a swarm of angry hornets. The Hessi Harians crowd into.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
The chamber in an instant.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
The room is filled with hiking, struggling men closely patching,
or any who to use their bronze sword and walk
up splea harsan clasp. The formal teddy Harrian lifts in
high above his head pashes him into the faces of
his followers. They cop a like straw before the storm,
only to return an added number to swarm over the
eighth Man. And these companions, like ants Marga and Helen,
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protected by the stone seat watchings Keno hide silence, they
do not see several Hessi Harrians creeping along the wall
on the outer plane of the battle toward them.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Un kills, parsand freshly concentrated is.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Covered by a cloud of struggling fine men. Blassom used
to the poord of Helen and Margra turns at the
stream with a bellow of rage. He leaped over the
storm bench, pull on the back of the formal teddy
Harriot fazand like an angered bull, goes off, but cutching
hands of his attackers, hope he show there. He sees
the guard behind Lawson with bronze sword glasses behind you.
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Larson fights of a side truly. The heavy bronze sword
plunges to the hilt, and the loyal swedes back.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
With a choking cry.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Larson staggers forward, props to hands and knees, slumps down
at the beat of Helen Gregory.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Seize fighting. How can you ten with our men?
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Can wacky pastou.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Let the stranger's eyes?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
What is the meaning of this?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
How come you here, tas hana be?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
We came from Margaret and Helen? What else would bring
us here?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And how came he to this chamber.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
From the ceremonial chambers death? We came across the corridor
and stairs which led us to this room.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And did you know the women were here?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Not until we entered that door through which your Majesty
has just gone.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Why are the women unhappy?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Why do they because your men killed one of our friends, Lassong,
they've been none too whip for those of mine he
killed or man, and they be many.
Speaker 19 (26:19):
Thy friends shall be given burial fitting to a soldier. Now, Hockey,
say to that thy word, oh souten is law, and the.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Others shall be placed where you can do no further harm.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
The women do they go with us?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Thank you, sony. They remain here, Hakairo, place the men
in the chamber of knock.
Speaker 12 (26:45):
Tom dono. We're not leaving without Helen and margorough ha Hero.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Has just made me a sign. Wait, I say, go,
hockeyro take these men.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
On the strong ard hearing is obeying.
Speaker 10 (26:58):
Okay, come quietly, o Tarzan, it is better so.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
No, ye, young women. A wedding ceremony taketh place with
the rising of the next sun. Now but a short
space of time. Hence slaves shall be sent to do
thy bidding and to prepare you.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
No, you.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Ho, my tongue, I go now to make ready for
our wedding.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Meanwhile, Tarzan, Dno and Tom are being led by Hakiru
and a strong guard to a dark cavern like dungeon
far beneath the temple of Mahachu.
Speaker 20 (27:41):
I'd rather fight than be led like a dog on
a leash. Dnoan woo sie. And had it not been
for Akiu, I should agreed with you up there in
that room. But Akiu made me a very peculiar sign.
Speaker 10 (27:53):
Aboo sets it too. Here is my chamber, o Tarzan.
It is the chamber of men death. I like not
to place THEE here. I obey the king. The door
may not be opened from within.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Yet there is a way out.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I may not speak too long.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
There may be spies among my men.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
I shall return alone and show.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
THEE where does it lead to death?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
For any other than the enter?
Speaker 5 (28:22):
And wait my return.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
All lord maazing me.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
We are here.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Modum nom. But this is a dark dark hold.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Cares that this door could not be opened from within.
But there must be a story.
Speaker 12 (28:44):
I'm afraid you won't find a tomb. Okay, Well would
have no object in lying to me.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
You are right, of course, I merely wish to satisfy myself. However,
try not hear him tell you there is another way out.
Speaker 12 (28:57):
Yes, but you haven't time to afraid of spies among
his men.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
But Taan could not have understood what he said, that
they might.
Speaker 14 (29:08):
Become suspicious if he carried on a lengthy conversation with Tarzan.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Exactly what he feared. Tom. He said he would come
back and show us the.
Speaker 14 (29:17):
Way, providing his master, the king has not become doubtful
of his loyalty and given him other duties.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 14 (29:29):
Do not notice how closely shut reguarded him. When Hakeru
told Tarzan it would be better that we followed him quietly,
the look of misgiving was quite apparent to me.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
I think you're right, Tom. I felt something like that
when we went out.
Speaker 13 (29:48):
We shall do without monsieur Aku. If there is another
door here, we shall find it. Strike another match, Tom.
It is as black as stitch in here.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Tom, you and Donald follow the wall that way. I'll
go this way. We have to meet opposite the door.
You find anything, call.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Out, watch out for open pits in the floor.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
It seems that our flat moment is round or over
out the wall.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Carol home, come over here.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
How do you make up this?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What have you found?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Monney?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 12 (30:24):
The stone about opposite the door project's outward like a
smooth round bowler.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
You suppose it's here for.
Speaker 14 (30:32):
Wait a moment, m strange. It has a high place,
very smooth to the tuch.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It is swinging back into the wall.
Speaker 14 (30:47):
Probably the other opening Caru mentioned. Get down here, Tasan
and look inside. It seems to be the.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Opening to a low or most round tunnel.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Meanwhile, several slate women are preparing Helen and Margre for
the coming ceremony. They are bathed and anointed with strange
scented oils, clothed in the short white, sleeveless tunics worn
by the hesse Harian women. Jewel studded bands of beaten
gold are fastened about their throats, arms, and ankles. Soft
leather sandals cover their feet and are held in place
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by narrow jeweled straps.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
Well, if it went for the thought of what's before me, Margaret,
I could almost admire myself in this costume.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
There is not enough of it to cold costume. If
if we're not for these heavy ruled ornaments, I should
be afraid.
Speaker 9 (31:54):
Of catching cold. Well, I hope they leave us a
blanket or two.
Speaker 21 (31:58):
Oh, I wish they' I wish I only knew what
they'd done with Paul and Tarzan. Yes, Tarzan is so
brief so strong they cannot hold him, harm him. He
need you to pull lesson. Oh, Larsen, Oh it was terrible.
Can't even bear to think about it. I'd rather it
have been me.
Speaker 9 (32:18):
Oh, the horrible thought of spending the rest of my
life with that savage.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Slaves have taken word to Suten that you are prepared
for the ceremony of Kashu marriage. I am come, Helen
Gregory and Magra to escort you to the audience chamber.
The King and his council of thirteen.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
Await ye there, Oh, care got to do something to stop?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Oh? What did I could, Helen Gravey. But the new
day hath come.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
It is the day of the unveiling of the Father
of Diamonds, the day of thy marriage to Suten.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Come.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
We may tarry no longer, and Tarzan Paul Dano at Tanton.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
They cannot help you.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Come. It is written, and what is written will be
in the chamber of death. Far beneath the temple of Marchu.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Tarzan Ghano and Tom crouched before the round black opening
which the moving stone has disclosed.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
I'll go first, Tonal, you follow Tom.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
You bring up the rear and stay close together, a
heros that we might run into something unpleasant.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
Come on, If anything, it is blacker than this cavern
a monami. Lead the way, we shall follow.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Tom I am coming. This is that this stone has
rolled back into place behind me. We must go on.
Suck great Tarzan, did you hear that?
Speaker 4 (33:46):
What was it?
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
We'll find out soon enough, though it seems to be
getting a little lighter, Tazan.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Yes, we're coming to the end, and the.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Tunnel is widening into a lighted chamber.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Look there in that room.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Is a saber dude.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Welcome back. As the story it nears its conclusions, it
just keeps delivering more thrills, more ways to put Tarzan
into the test, and of course he is triumphing over
all comers. His one real weakness in this case is
something that can be a bit of a personal positive.
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He essentially tends to take people at face value. The
queen made this offer to him, and he expected that
she was going to honor her commitment, so didn't see
the double cross coming, while Darnaut did. Larsen's death was
a surprise and a signal of how serious things are getting.
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As we're getting towards the endgame, at least he didn't
die helping Tom try to get the diamond. He went
out heroically protecting the women and the party. So we
have six more episodes in the serial over the next
two weeks. We've got political intrigue, you have Tom still
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trying to get the Diamond, and doubtless there are a
few more prehistoric beasties around the corner. So quite a
bit to look forward to, and I hope you'll be
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
Marsan and the Diamond of Our Chair.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Tarzan and his friends are in our Chair the Forbidden
City in the Great Pyramidal Temple of Mahachu, where Wolf
has been killed. Helen, Gregory and Magra are held by
King suten To Thomond Lawson in the ceremonial hall appears
the hideous, flaming mask of death. It speaks English prophesying
their death before the next full moon. Hira, queen of
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the Hessehare, offers Tarzan and his friends their freedom if
the epe Man will bring to her the father of diamonds.
Tarzan agrees, and as he and Dawn leave Queen's chamber,
they meet Toman Larson, running from the hoarse voiced threat
of a guardian eight. The three men follow Tarzan back
to the ceremonial hall. The eight man approaches white casket,
raises the lid. He reaches down and lifts out the
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golden disc. As he does so, not one but two
of the prehistoric monsters leap from the depth of the
pit and shoulder the shoulder charged directly for him. With
cooked bangs, bad wicked red eyes. Cleaning with rage, they
shrink their blood curdling challenge.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Run, run, you cannot fight them both.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
There you are.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So quickly the ties of the three men who are
watching can scarcely follow his movements.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Tarzan slipped the grass rope from his shoulders.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Running noose curls up and over the eight Man's head,
snakelike it twists and curls in rhythm with the steely
Wristmit you controls it, but he gan to theros watchtson,
watch the two great roots shoulder their prey three forward
with the speed of light. Tarzan's rope fashes through the air.
It covers with the French of the second above the
heads of the avant of monsters. White noose Swifty drops
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downs when circle a huge Harry shoulders with a quick
turk of his arm, tars hand Clayton to row.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yes the cow, why you showing out the end?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Tarzan leaps behind the great bar and the brutes crash
into it. He circles Pillar and eight, smashing the two
helpless monsters securate to the stone columns.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
No quick, come down there and sit there anymore?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Right, don't I shall look?
Speaker 6 (04:46):
No, I can't see no one there.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Hurry right, I got the diamond. Come on to home, Oswald.
They've been right behind your tackan Now, Helen and the
Mabra in their bar directly splendid quarters discuss their hopeless situation.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
You must not antagonize the king. He is all powerful
and we must be diplomatic with him. You're probably right, Margaret.
You simply can't do it. Think of Brian worse than dead?
And what have they done to Paul, Tarzan and the
others right now? They may be suffering torture, no dear,
but to antagonize the king openly only makes not as
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worse for us.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
We must do.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Everything anything to gain time, to put off this stubble
marriage as long as possible. Tarzan will find some way
of saving us. I am sure, I hope so.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
But do you think her carel I can.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Speak in her hero.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
I do not believe he has forgotten that Tarzan saved
his life, Kenn. He does not care dispute the word
or will of the king at least open. No, No,
of course, not if I only knew that Paul and
Tarzan were trying to help us.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Did your.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Ritchie Helen, Gregory and margra I tend the Helen? The
beauty of these two maidens is such as hath never
been seen in hacke hair.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Thou speakest truly, o at to what do we.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Owe the pleasure of this visit?
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Your majesty, come to tell you that the day is
not far distant when you shall become the brides of
two of Hesse Harrier's noblest saddens.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
If you only knew how much I hate you.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Hate is akin to love, Helen Gregory, A lie, but
the hair's breadth apart.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Soon I shall teach.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Thee the difference, my beautiful queen to be Do you
mean that?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
They?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Is said? A thick Even so.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
I am of the Hessei Hare have decreed that the
ceremony shall take place at the annual unveiling and elevation
of the Father of die.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
When we stood before the Great Hall, there was a
woman beside you.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Was she not the creem ay?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
And she still is? But not for long? Why what
do you mean?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
On the day thou and I are wed, Tira shall
no longer be cool?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
It is against all the loss of the he silence.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I am Hessy harrier.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
But now, Helen Gregory, I am come to discuss thy will.
What shall it be from you?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I want nothing?
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Okay, So if there's any kindness or decency in you all,
please please break the spell that holds my brother Brian.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
M It maybe done? Oh thank you.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
If thou comest willingly to share the throne with me,
hast thou no wish Magra.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
I ask only that to sit tlee before mean ukin
here with the.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Fate of the stranger within the gates of our share
lath not wholly in my hands.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
There be the Counsel of thirteen.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
And what do they say?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Their decree shall be made known to ye and to
thy friends at the unveiling of the Father of Diamonds.
It's know that the man called wolf hath already met
his death. We did not know how was the hands
of the guardian apes because he attempted to steal the
great diamond. Come Hakeeru, the council awaits he must complete
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the details for the punishment of Tarzan.
Speaker 10 (08:45):
Be not afraid, ye women of the outer world. I
have not forgotten that I owe my life to Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I come o King a king.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Back in the corridor leading to Tira's quarters, Tarzan, touching
the heavy golden disks, races along ahead of these peak companions.
Breakfast lay arrive at the copper doors. Tarzan indicates a
stone lighter in color than the rest.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
That's what Donald Quick we used to say in hurry
close the door home.
Speaker 11 (09:16):
The Father of diamond Yes here it is, pa is
it here at my feet? And no, I trah and
mistress of the heavy hair. The Council of thirteen shall
henceforth obey my head.
Speaker 12 (09:30):
That's all right, you Rare, I know all about what
this diamond does for you. What about your promise to me,
dear Rad, do.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Not forget to Tarzan. That's the sacred gym must be
cared for.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Are the ash shall not come?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I true?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Look at those powers? Where did you come from?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
It?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Being like life, life magic? Lesson?
Speaker 13 (09:56):
They throw s, mister tone. They did appear to materialize
from from nowhere.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
This takes three of which has then carried alone.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They've been taking it behind the Queen's chair into another room.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Happened by Larson's brought back.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Tom's covetous eyes follow the progress of the golden disk. Presently,
the white clad figures vanished as silently as they appeared,
through a door at the far end of the spacious chamber,
and Tira faces the four men I am in night.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Death are van of the eighties. A few days and
I alone shall reign supreme, and our share I wish shall.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Then be granted.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
A few days.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
I dare not show my conquest to the unveiling of
the father of dan.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
That will be a sweet revenge upon Sultan and his council.
They will open the casket and find not.
Speaker 12 (11:02):
And now what about Helen Gregory having the diamond? You
should know if she is here?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Not until I have gazed into its depths through the
blue veil, which I may not do until the time
of the unveiling. I will then know where to look
for the woman.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
And what about Margoro.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
I have learned that she is even now not far
from here. The quarters of the archives suit ten. But
she too must wait.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
No, Tirah, there'll be no more waiting. You'll get her now.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
She shall not enter there.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Tell me where any kind Magra, if ye.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Will go, see you onder small door with the symbol
of the savage face, what of it? It openeth into
a secret passage which leadeth directly to the chamber where
Margra now is imprisoned.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
And open it that we may go said chamber.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Very well.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Remember if aught happens to ye, Hirah is not to blame.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Open the door as she wish. Don dono tom awesen.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
As the three men approach the open panel, Hira smiles wickedly.
She turns and walks quickly to the room where the
father of diamonds now lies behind her. Atan Tom cautiously
silently follows the queen touches a block of stone. It
swings aside behind the tomb, glimpses the golden disc. He
smiles grimly, darts quickly behind the great stone seat, then
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swiftly to the open panel through which his companions are
vanished behind him. The door softly clank shut in the dark,
gloomy passageway.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Tarzan, Dono, and Larson hurry forward.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
If you do not hurry Tom, you will be left
behind tomb. Atan Tomi is not with us. You must
have a mean behind.
Speaker 12 (13:00):
You'll have to look out for himself. Then you'll probably
find all we can take care of ahead of us.
Hurry up, Lassom, Hey been coming.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hey, Look at your roof.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
In front of your tents and it they caving ends.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Then still both of you.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
As the three men pause, a massive he needs block
of stone swings down from the roof of the passageway
before them. An insistent hissing sound becomes audible. Goes louder louder,
roaring and hissing. Great clouds of live yellow steam pour
into the narrow tunnel from the opening.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
It is steam collier. It will stangle us. It stream are.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
He's just like Sholder.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
It is softened for the boon juice.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It will burn as well as suffocate us on.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
The poor Donald.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Listen, get down where you've been going.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I've got rush off the steep hold.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
This is crib.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
My lungs are bursting.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Stay close to the floor.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
His stone is hinged hy by, get it back in place.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Tarzan calls along the tunnel flor to the great hanging stone.
The steam touds envelop him as in a thick yellow
mist veil. The sulfur things burn and serious throat and lungs,
and crouches low under the granite trap. His mighty shoulders
press upward against the slab. His bare feet grip the floor.
The muscles of his powerful legs bulge and crawl as
he rises, slowly, steadily lifting the great stone higher. Higher arms,
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like columns of wet, glistening bronze, reach up. Great hands,
with fingers played wide, press against the huge slab, pursing
it upwards. For the last tremendous effort. Tarzan's body stiffened
a muffled tang, and the massive granite trap is closed.
The suffocating sulfur clouds shut off.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
The steam is shut up. Thurs ended it.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
They closed the floor onto the passage.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Clear. The steam is rolling back the way we came
lifting that woman Hirah must have done it. I told
you she is not to be trusted.
Speaker 14 (15:22):
To worry about that.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Are you too? All right?
Speaker 15 (15:25):
We wait, but my lungs feel as if they were
on fine, Yeah, mine too? What the steam and gradually
sending out it's been dropped somewhere to the room.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yes, the passage must have that lation for that.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It's about giving up ever seeing daylight again.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Thorge let up blue lamps. Funny, the steam didn't put
them out, and.
Speaker 13 (15:51):
I probably burned some sort of natural gas. Though where
it comes from or what it is, I do not know.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Are you ready to go on? Selfur fumes seem pretty
well gone?
Speaker 13 (16:01):
Munami memon di Tarzan, Your hands and shoulders they are
like like.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Raw meat that live steam.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's nothing. Come on, careful. Here the passage goes up
steep stairs, a cut right into the floor.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
What is there ahead of you, Tarzan?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
A door Bronz way up there?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Did you see what he did? Lieutenant he Ben lifted
that strong trap.
Speaker 13 (16:26):
Up on his shoulder, and I could not see well
asson through the steam clouds. But he pushed the stone
back into place and scalded his hands and back there
reap them while doing it.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
If it ain't paying for him, we've been boiled like
a couple of shallow fish. How does he do it?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
He never sees such a power.
Speaker 13 (16:45):
Before, nor will you ever see another like him. Munami
Tarzan alone, he is Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Sure?
Speaker 12 (16:54):
Do two coming at the top of these steps, the
bronze doors at the end of the passage on a
small landing.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Then we shall be out of this death dropping a
few moments.
Speaker 13 (17:04):
I only hope that I may have the opportunity to
speak a few words with that queen Anny.
Speaker 16 (17:10):
All the time she's been having surprise, especially for us.
That woman has cut up bad eye.
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Here we are the only door in the passageway and
along the stairs other than the one we came through.
It must be the one, Ti Ramn.
Speaker 16 (17:23):
Sure we'd like to see. I've been on the other
side before we open it, Kasan.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Can you find the stone which opens it?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Yes? I think so. This one probably a shade lighter
in color than the other wallstone.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Then we go in this.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Listen right, you don't hear it? Thing wild? Someone's moving
up those stairs toward us.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Meanwhile, Helen and the Margra and the quarters in the
upper part of the temple are trying to hit upon
some plan which will postpone the evil day of the
double marriage ceremony.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Oh, Margra, how can you be so calm with this
awful marriage hanging over your head? I can't even bear
to think about it.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What can we do, Helen?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Only wait and hope. It is only one way out
for us Tarzan.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
Yes, the hope that he and Paul are trying to
find us and will in time to save us from
from that. Oh it's a mighty slim hope, Margre. If
we only knew where they were, Yes, if we only knew.
And the queen his wife the way he said she
would not be his wife for long.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Oh the look in his eyes sh be quiet.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh it's that that beast Suitan. No, no, it is Hakiro.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Quietly, Margaret, we have known that I am here, My
life would be forfeit.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Keep thy voices low.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
I may stay only a moment.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
What is he, Takiru?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
It is a Tarzan.
Speaker 10 (19:21):
I am come to speak his punishment has been decreed
by the Council of Thirteen. It fall upon the day
of the unveiling of.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
The Father of Diamond.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
What is his punishment to be?
Speaker 10 (19:32):
I know not yet, But I, who owe my life
to the Mighty Tarzan, have not abandoned the hope that
I may yet save him from the jealous wrath.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Of Sutan and Paul d'Arno Tom Larsen.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Them I know not, unless it be that they shall
become slaves in the deep minds. I can do not
for them now, perhaps later. But where are they hakeru
in the chamber where they were all placed at the
order of Sutin.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
And if I, if I agree to this marriage with
your king, will Bria be released from that terrible spell?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Nay, Helen Gregory.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
Sutan himself would release him were it not for the
Council of Thirteen, But Sutin may not stand against their creed.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Thy brother is doomed to everlasting sleep.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Then I'll kill myself before I commit that savage to
touch me.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Thy voice, darn woman, there is a way to release
thy brother from the spell of the Father of Diamond.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Listen closely. I shall tell you how it may be done.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Back in the secret passage.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
At the head of the stone stairway, Tarzan, Dno and
Larsen stand motionless, hencely awaiting the the person whose cautious
footfalls they hear advancing up the stairs toward them. The footsteps, careful, slow,
continue to approach.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
They come nearer nearer.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Tarzan throws a quick glance over his shoulder at Donald
and Larson. They stand grimly, alert, ready. As the stalker
raised the head of the stairway and pauses, Tarzan draws
a deep, slow breath, steps swiftly, noiselessly out of the
shadow of a projection.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
In the wall.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
You give me a fight, it went, but kepture Tom,
We missed you back there shortly after we left you row.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
My business in our share, Tarzan is to get the
Father of Diamond.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
I could not leave it as quarters without it, or
at least until I knew where it had been concealed.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
So that is where you were mejd Tom.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
You are persistent, and I suppose the lovely t I
informed you where she had secreted the jail.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
She did better.
Speaker 17 (22:04):
She showed me it's a hiding place and there are
no ideos. Please historic monsters guiding.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It now you've been a lucky fowler at home.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Lucky how so Larsen fasting.
Speaker 18 (22:16):
Back there to find out what Tian did with the diamond.
You miss being almost strangled to death in the tunnel.
If it wasn't far, Tarzi would not be here.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Now. They turned the cloud of sulfur steam into the past.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
So that is where the order of self recovers from.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
I was one wasting time here. I'm going to open
the store. I don't know what we'll walk into. We've
got to take the chance. Are you ready, because we pray.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
It can't be more ready than I bin out? Tarzan
opened the door.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
I am ready.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
No, Look the queen did the truth.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I knew you, my dear, have your eyes only for Tanzan.
Attan Tom is also yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Sure, And Lars Larsen, I am sorry. I saw only
Tarzan as he came the door. This surprises scene, you understand. Oh,
it is so wonderful all together again?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah sure, all but Wolf, poor Wolf.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
The King told me we have been frantic Attan, hoping
and praying that you would come to.
Speaker 9 (23:28):
Us, and and we found Brian brother is here then alive,
Helen alive, but he.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Is helpless at in a state of suspended animation.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Where is he on this corridor?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
There just a few steps from this chamber. We were
taken to him by the king and the Kiro Helen.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
I'll bring him here. It is too late, Tarzan.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
They come, Harian's mother Helen to Donald, listen yet to
the wall for those thoughts, Hey.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yay, they've been wearing armor change.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Like a swarm of angry hornets. The Hessi Harians crowd into.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
The chamber in an instant.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
The room is filled with hiking, struggling men closely patching,
or any who to use their bronze sword and walk
up splea harsan clasp. The formal teddy Harrian lifts in
high above his head pashes him into the faces of
his followers. They cop a like straw before the storm,
only to return an added number to swarm over the
eighth Man. And these companions, like ants Marga and Helen,
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protected by the stone seat watchings Keno hide silence, they
do not see several Hessi Harrians creeping along the wall
on the outer plane of the battle toward them.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Un kills, parsand freshly concentrated is.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Covered by a cloud of struggling fine men. Blassom used
to the poord of Helen and Margra turns at the
stream with a bellow of rage. He leaped over the
storm bench, pull on the back of the formal teddy
Harriot fazand like an angered bull, goes off, but cutching
hands of his attackers, hope he show there. He sees
the guard behind Lawson with bronze sword glasses behind you.
(25:05):
Larson fights of a side truly. The heavy bronze sword
plunges to the hilt, and the loyal swedes back.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
With a choking cry.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Larson staggers forward, props to hands and knees, slumps down
at the beat of Helen Gregory.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Seize fighting. How can you ten with our men?
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Can wacky pastou.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Let the stranger's eyes?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
What is the meaning of this?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
How come you here, tas hana be?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
We came from Margaret and Helen? What else would bring
us here?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And how came he to this chamber.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
From the ceremonial chambers death? We came across the corridor
and stairs which led us to this room.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And did you know the women were here?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Not until we entered that door through which your Majesty
has just gone.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Why are the women unhappy?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Why do they because your men killed one of our friends, Lassong,
they've been none too whip for those of mine he
killed or man, and they be many.
Speaker 19 (26:19):
Thy friends shall be given burial fitting to a soldier. Now, Hockey,
say to that thy word, oh souten is law, and the.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Others shall be placed where you can do no further harm.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
The women do they go with us?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Thank you, sony. They remain here, Hakairo, place the men
in the chamber of knock.
Speaker 12 (26:45):
Tom dono. We're not leaving without Helen and margorough ha Hero.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Has just made me a sign. Wait, I say, go,
hockeyro take these men.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
On the strong ard hearing is obeying.
Speaker 10 (26:58):
Okay, come quietly, o Tarzan, it is better so.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
No, ye, young women. A wedding ceremony taketh place with
the rising of the next sun. Now but a short
space of time. Hence slaves shall be sent to do
thy bidding and to prepare you.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
No, you.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Ho, my tongue, I go now to make ready for
our wedding.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Meanwhile, Tarzan, Dno and Tom are being led by Hakiru
and a strong guard to a dark cavern like dungeon
far beneath the temple of Mahachu.
Speaker 20 (27:41):
I'd rather fight than be led like a dog on
a leash. Dnoan woo sie. And had it not been
for Akiu, I should agreed with you up there in
that room. But Akiu made me a very peculiar sign.
Speaker 10 (27:53):
Aboo sets it too. Here is my chamber, o Tarzan.
It is the chamber of men death. I like not
to place THEE here. I obey the king. The door
may not be opened from within.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Yet there is a way out.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I may not speak too long.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
There may be spies among my men.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
I shall return alone and show.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
THEE where does it lead to death?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
For any other than the enter?
Speaker 5 (28:22):
And wait my return.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
All lord maazing me.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
We are here.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Modum nom. But this is a dark dark hold.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Cares that this door could not be opened from within.
But there must be a story.
Speaker 12 (28:44):
I'm afraid you won't find a tomb. Okay, Well would
have no object in lying to me.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
You are right, of course, I merely wish to satisfy myself. However,
try not hear him tell you there is another way out.
Speaker 12 (28:57):
Yes, but you haven't time to afraid of spies among
his men.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
But Taan could not have understood what he said, that
they might.
Speaker 14 (29:08):
Become suspicious if he carried on a lengthy conversation with Tarzan.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Exactly what he feared. Tom. He said he would come
back and show us the.
Speaker 14 (29:17):
Way, providing his master, the king has not become doubtful
of his loyalty and given him other duties.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 14 (29:29):
Do not notice how closely shut reguarded him. When Hakeru
told Tarzan it would be better that we followed him quietly,
the look of misgiving was quite apparent to me.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
I think you're right, Tom. I felt something like that
when we went out.
Speaker 13 (29:48):
We shall do without monsieur Aku. If there is another
door here, we shall find it. Strike another match, Tom.
It is as black as stitch in here.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Tom, you and Donald follow the wall that way. I'll
go this way. We have to meet opposite the door.
You find anything, call.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Out, watch out for open pits in the floor.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
It seems that our flat moment is round or over
out the wall.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Carol home, come over here.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
How do you make up this?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What have you found?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Monney?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 12 (30:24):
The stone about opposite the door project's outward like a
smooth round bowler.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
You suppose it's here for.
Speaker 14 (30:32):
Wait a moment, m strange. It has a high place,
very smooth to the tuch.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
It is swinging back into the wall.
Speaker 14 (30:47):
Probably the other opening Caru mentioned. Get down here, Tasan
and look inside. It seems to be the.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Opening to a low or most round tunnel.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Meanwhile, several slate women are preparing Helen and Margre for
the coming ceremony. They are bathed and anointed with strange
scented oils, clothed in the short white, sleeveless tunics worn
by the hesse Harian women. Jewel studded bands of beaten
gold are fastened about their throats, arms, and ankles. Soft
leather sandals cover their feet and are held in place
(31:36):
by narrow jeweled straps.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
Well, if it went for the thought of what's before me, Margaret,
I could almost admire myself in this costume.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
There is not enough of it to cold costume. If
if we're not for these heavy ruled ornaments, I should
be afraid.
Speaker 9 (31:54):
Of catching cold. Well, I hope they leave us a
blanket or two.
Speaker 21 (31:58):
Oh, I wish they' I wish I only knew what
they'd done with Paul and Tarzan. Yes, Tarzan is so
brief so strong they cannot hold him, harm him. He
need you to pull lesson. Oh, Larsen, Oh it was terrible.
Can't even bear to think about it. I'd rather it
have been me.
Speaker 9 (32:18):
Oh, the horrible thought of spending the rest of my
life with that savage.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Slaves have taken word to Suten that you are prepared
for the ceremony of Kashu marriage. I am come, Helen
Gregory and Magra to escort you to the audience chamber.
The King and his council of thirteen.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
Await ye there, Oh, care got to do something to stop?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Oh? What did I could, Helen Gravey. But the new
day hath come.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
It is the day of the unveiling of the Father
of Diamonds, the day of thy marriage to Suten.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Come.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
We may tarry no longer, and Tarzan Paul Dano at Tanton.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
They cannot help you.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Come. It is written, and what is written will be
in the chamber of death. Far beneath the temple of Marchu.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Tarzan Ghano and Tom crouched before the round black opening
which the moving stone has disclosed.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
I'll go first, Tonal, you follow Tom.
Speaker 12 (33:17):
You bring up the rear and stay close together, a
heros that we might run into something unpleasant.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
Come on, If anything, it is blacker than this cavern
a monami. Lead the way, we shall follow.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Tom I am coming. This is that this stone has
rolled back into place behind me. We must go on.
Suck great Tarzan, did you hear that?
Speaker 4 (33:46):
What was it?
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
We'll find out soon enough, though it seems to be
getting a little lighter, Tazan.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Yes, we're coming to the end, and the.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Tunnel is widening into a lighted chamber.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Look there in that room.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Is a saber dude.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Welcome back. As the story it nears its conclusions, it
just keeps delivering more thrills, more ways to put Tarzan
into the test, and of course he is triumphing over
all comers. His one real weakness in this case is
something that can be a bit of a personal positive.
(34:34):
He essentially tends to take people at face value. The
queen made this offer to him, and he expected that
she was going to honor her commitment, so didn't see
the double cross coming, while Darnaut did. Larsen's death was
a surprise and a signal of how serious things are getting.
(34:57):
As we're getting towards the endgame, at least he didn't
die helping Tom try to get the diamond. He went
out heroically protecting the women and the party. So we
have six more episodes in the serial over the next
two weeks. We've got political intrigue, you have Tom still
(35:19):
trying to get the Diamond, and doubtless there are a
few more prehistoric beasties around the corner. So quite a
bit to look forward to, and I hope you'll be
with us for the rest of it. Well, now it's
time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank
you to Ronda, Patreon supporter since October twenty twenty, currently
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As I said, we'll be back next Tuesday with the
next installment of Tarzan and the Diamond of Ashore, but
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join us back here on Saturday for Counterspot. In the meantime,
do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives
dot net from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam
Graham signing off
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