Blackstone Detective - The Devil's Cauldron

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He tells you the inside story of the Devil's Cauldron.

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I've got a little game I want you to play today, Alan.

What is it? Bring out the Cauldron, Rhoda.

Well, I'm just eating it. I'll be there in a second.

You know Alan, I call this a game, but it isn't really. It's a scientific experiment.

What do you mean?

Rhoda's bringing in a Cauldron of molten metal.

And I want to see just how long you can keep your hands in it.

I haven't stopped watching.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Is this the joke?

Well, here's the candle, Blackstone. I think it's hot enough.

The metal's all melted anyway.

Oh, fine. You asked if this were a joke, Alan.

Does it look like one?

No.

Oh, it doesn't.

Look, Blackstone. Nobody can put their hands in that stuff and then not get burned.

Dear Alan.

Don't write I am.

I wouldn't put my hand in that for anything on earth.

I think I am crazy.

Well, I guess Rhoda will have to do it.

Okay, my stone. I'm not afraid.

Rhoda, Brent, don't you dare do anything as silly as that.

I won't let you even a Blackstone will.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

You're laughing at. I don't see anything funny.

Oh, I guess you better tell in the story, Blackstone.

Yes, I guess we better all.

He'll be sure we're both out of our minds.

Well, we don't started before the war on an island in the South Sea.

While we were there, a man named Mingde's came to see me.

He was the only of a large Cooper plantation and in this problem.

You must help me, Mr. Blackstone.

Well, what's the trouble?

Takahuna. Takahuna is ruining my business.

I've had alternatives to work on my plantation.

Look, what's Takahuna?

Takahuna has power to call 40 gods to create earthquakes and floods.

Oh, come now. You can't believe that.

I am island-born, Miss Brent.

We of the islands know that many strange things have happened in the name of the native gods.

But it's unbelievable that an intelligent, well-educated man could believe it.

Where did I believe in Takahuna is unimportant?

But I must have natives to work my plantation.

Where can I find this witch doctor?

I have never seen her.

But my natives tell me that she holds ceremonies every night on the forehead and over young.

Oh, on that point of land, touching out into the ocean?

Yes, that is a place that has long been sacred to our native gods.

Will you take us to Earth tonight?

Yes.

There is one more thing that I must know.

Anything I can tell you?

What does she want your native to do?

She wants them to migrate from this island to another.

She wants this place to be given back to the gods.

If Takahuna is not stopped, she will all believe.

Well, Mendez, you called for us tonight.

I will help you if I can.

Oh, how much farther do we have?

Scramble over these rocks?

My children are cut to ribbon.

Not much farther.

Already you can hear the sea crashing in the rocks.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Listen, Takahuna Chankin.

She's on the other side of this place.

Where is she?

Oh, my God.

You don't know what she's saying.

Look at her black stone.

She's a white woman.

Look at her blonde hair floating out behind it.

Because the woman will descend on you.

Oh, it will be long.

Your children will die as a dress made for pain.

For pain.

No wonder they are frightened.

Let's see.

The sickness that has already killed thousands of Indians.

They call it the living dead.

Where will be death and life for your children?

They will rest the bone from here.

Who I tell you?

I have the power to give the living dead.

Watch.

She's caught hanging about cattle over the quack.

She was unfollowed.

But it does not all mean.

He does not touch those with life again.

The gods have given it to me.

And I will take it hard for you.

And for your children.

And they should be within this island.

Because once they land in the home.

I knew that girl.

Now, Rhoda.

Do you understand what you're to do?

Yes, I understand it.

But I wish we could have done it while we were here last night.

This is the second pair of shoes I've ruined on these rocks.

It will be worth it.

Now I suppose so.

There they come.

There's the white Kahuna and her power.

Oh, my people.

You have not gone yet.

Oh, my people.

Tonight is your last chance.

Your last chance of life.

Have you turned my hands?

Please do it.

All right, Rhoda.

Don't.

Don't let go of you.

The blonde woman is not a Kahuna.

I am.

Who are you?

I am Pelle, the volcano goddess.

And I say this woman is no Kahuna of mine.

She lies.

Grab her.

You are the goddess of the volcano.

You will not be afraid to put your hand in the boiling water.

Push her hand into the water.

Be.

It does not harm me.

The water does not spoil the arm of the volcano goddess.

But bring on my golden.

Here is in charge.

You see, I have here a golden of most in middle,

hovered by far than boiling water.

Watch.

I run my hands through it.

I let it run down my arm.

This is true, Natalie.

No.

It's a Kahuna. She is a great.

Let her try to put her hand in motion, Natalie.

Let's see her toys.

She is a great.

She is no Kahuna.

Don't worry. Do not let her escape.

Get up, let's go.

Who was the blonde Kahuna?

What was she doing?

Remember I said I recognized them?

Yes. I had seen her years before in Berlin.

She was a dancer who married someone high in the Nazi party.

What on earth was she doing out of the Pacific now?

This was before the war.

She was a German agent,

said out there to frighten the natives off the island

so that the Nazis could build a secret airfield.

They couldn't do it while the natives were still there

because word of their activities might have leaked out.

And it was against all treaty.

How about rotors taking their hands into that melted metal in the boiling water?

Why wasn't she scalded?

Well, that's boiling water again, but as an old Hindu trick, Alan.

Hot water is like hot air, you know.

It rises to the top.

The first few moments that liquid boils all the heat is at the top.

If you stir it with your hands,

the cold water is mixed with the scolving liquid.

And it is cool enough for a human hand to stand.

That only works for a few minutes, of course.

And what about the hot molten metal?

That rise, too?

No. You see the metal would have to reach a very high temperature

before it would melt at all.

How on earth is that?

No, watch.

I'll stick my arm into this cold and the metal right now.

Oh, no, no, no.

No, Alan, yes, yes.

See, it doesn't hurt me.

But why not?

Because Alan, that isn't molten metal at all.

It's mercury.

It just looks like metal.

Oh, so that's how you did it?

Yes, Alan.

And that's how another nasty was solved by magic.

Well, Blackstone, what is it this time?

Just a simple little trick with magic.

Here, here's the box of magic right here.

Oh, now here.

What do I do?

First, you're emptying the matches from the box on this table.

I think we're going to play Jack's door.

No, it's just a little different than that, Rhoda.

Just a little different.

Now, separate eight matches from the pile.

That's the number we use.

I do.

Rhoda, I think.

I bet you move your lips when you're eating.

Oh, why?

Now what, Blackstone?

All you do now is lay the matches in such a way

that you can pick up seven matches with one match.

You said this was a simple trick.

It is when you know how.

You're on your own, Rhoda.

Alan, you'll have to help.

I haven't even got one half of an idea how to begin.

Are you going to pick up seven matches with one match?

Build up some sort of a thing in the jig, God of Seven.

Place it on one match.

Alan is thinking in the right direction, Rhoda.

Oh, I get an idea.

That's sort of.

I'll put one flat and put two cloths

and the rest on top of those in different directions.

There they go.

Oh, Blackstone, we won't stay on one match.

Oh, wait.

Maybe I can pile them and shove one under

and balance with it.

Oh, there they go again.

Rhoda, your hand with the steady is a type rope, and a high wind.

Well, you do it, Alan, if you can.

Of course, you practice with those chopsticks

and the Chinese restaurant.

Well, I'll run along while you both struggle.

Ask me for the answer when I come back.

Are you still at it?

Oh, don't tell me that it can be done.

This time, Blackstone, you're really playing tricks on all of us.

Why, I've never been on to play tricks on anyone.

Now, look closely, it's child's play.

Well, that explains everything.

Alan, I just aren't children.

Oh, oh.

Rhoda, not to share about you.

Well, your idea, Alan, of building on one match,

which I lay there on the table flat, like that, was correct.

But then what?

Then lay one match across, extending well to the right.

Then one across, extending to the left.

Go on from there to the left.

You mean, place one another extending to the right?

That's it, hand another to the left.

Then one to the right.

And one to the left.

Well, in that acute setup, it looks like a robot with three pairs of ores.

Looks like a centipede to me.

But what about the seventh match?

I placed the last match across the six that extend left and right.

Then I delicately pick up the bottom match from the table and lift slowly and carefully.

We're doing it, Alan.

Well, all the matches are coming up.

Seven matches, lifted by one match.

Box, don't leave me tell you.

You got a great little device there.

I admit it, Alan, I admit it.

But now you know how to do it.

And our listeners know how to do it.

And when they get out there, match boxes to try it, the results should be perfect.

I hope you like that trick, ladies and gentlemen.

And until next time, this is Blackstone saying good magic and goodbye.

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