:14:01
-He said south, did he?
-Yes.
:14:03
Then that'll be Degumber.
:14:06
Since you're Peachy's pal,
l'll tell you.
:14:09
We're gonna put the screw on the rajah
for what he did to his mother-in-law.
:14:14
Filled her with peppers
and flogged her to death.
:14:18
You mean you intend to blackmail him?
:14:20
You wouldn't get out alive! lf they
don't cut your throat, they'll poison you.
:14:26
Both's been tried.
Peachy and me don't kill easy!
:14:29
The rajah's an independent ruler.
He answers to nobody.
:14:33
How will you put the screw on him?
:14:36
By telling him we're correspondents
for The Northern Star.
:14:40
You can't! You can't do that!
:14:44
Because l am the correspondent
of The Northern Star!
:14:48
-You what?
-l'm the correspondent!
:14:53
Eh? What did you say, brother?
:15:01
As you know,
we took them at the Degumber border...
:15:05
...so there's a question
of jurisdiction.
:15:08
But a charge of conspiracy
to blackmail might be brought.
:15:12
l didn't lay this information before
you as a criminal prosecution.
:15:17
Only to save their lives.
:15:19
May l ask what particular interest
you have in these scoundrels?
:15:23
Well, they happen to be...
:15:27
...Freemasons. Like myself.
:15:29
Freemasons? Them? l'd think
you'd strike them off your roll!
:15:33
Oh, once a Mason, always a Mason.
:15:36
Never could understand how
pukka chaps like you can go about...
:15:41
...wearing aprons and sashes
and shaking hands with strangers.
:15:46
What is Masonry, Kipling?
:15:48
lt's an ancient order...
:15:50
...dedicated to the brotherhood
of man, under the eye of God.
:15:54
We should have left that behind
in England. lt can never work here.
:15:59
There are tales that it did work here,
before we came.