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The Shadow - "Dragon's Tongue Murders" (Old Time Radio, 1941) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Marjorie Anderson as Margot
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  Speaker 1: Lane lead this mutual broadcasting System presentation of The Shadow,
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  Speaker 1: with Ken Roberts at the announcer's microphone, Originally broadcast on
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  Speaker 1: October twelfth, nineteen forty one, and sponsored by Blue Coal.
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  Speaker 1: Episode two hundred and twenty seven is Dragon's Tongue Murders.
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  Speaker 1: Margo's freelance magazine assignment brings her and Lamont to the
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  Speaker 1: estate of the wealthy Post family, where financial strain and
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  Speaker 1: long standing resentments have complicated the household. When a murder
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  Speaker 1: mystery develops, Lamont takes up his other identity to investigate
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  Speaker 1: the danger surrounding the Posts. Wilson Tuttle produced and directed
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast, and now we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Knows what evil works in the hearts of men.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow, the thrilling adventures of the Shadow are on
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  Speaker 3: the air, brought you each week at this time by
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  Speaker 3: your neighborhood Blue Coal Dealer. These dramatizations are designed to
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  Speaker 3: demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike, that crime does
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  Speaker 3: not pay. Winter is just around the corner. The cool
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  Speaker 3: nights and quick drops and temperature We've already had our
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  Speaker 3: reminders to fill your coal being now, and especially this year,
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  Speaker 3: it's well to start the season with a big supply.
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  Speaker 3: The producers of blue coal foresee no shortage whatsoever of
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  Speaker 3: this finest of all hard coal. But present unsettled canditions
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  Speaker 3: make it wise to be prepared. Don't wait, don't put
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  Speaker 3: off ordering. Call your neighborhood dealer tomorrow and order your
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  Speaker 3: winter's supply a blue coal. The Shadow, mysterious character who
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  Speaker 3: aids the forces of law and order, is in reality
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  Speaker 3: Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Several years ago
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  Speaker 3: in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and powerful secret,
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  Speaker 3: the secret of hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 3: that they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the
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  Speaker 3: lovely Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to
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  Speaker 3: whom the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs. To day's drama,
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  Speaker 3: The Dragon Tongue Murders.
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  Speaker 2: Let us listen now to a crime being born. Let
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  Speaker 2: us listen to the devious, insidious reasons for its inception. First,
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  Speaker 2: let us go to the apartment of one Jerry Post,
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  Speaker 2: fashionable young playboy. Jerry Post is entertaining a visitor, an
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  Speaker 2: unwelcome visitor. Get me that morning, now, Max, be reasonable.
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  Speaker 4: Where can I get twenty five thousand?
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  Speaker 2: What about your mother? Ask up for the money?
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  Speaker 5: No, my mother doesn't think very much of me. She
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  Speaker 5: disapproved of my gambling. And this isn't the first time
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  Speaker 5: I've been in a spot.
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  Speaker 2: Max.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to give me more time.
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  Speaker 2: Your time is ten days from today. Are you going
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  Speaker 2: to do something about it?
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps things can be arranged.
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  Speaker 2: One spoke is in the wheel of fate, one dagger
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  Speaker 2: closer to its resting place. Now let us see the second.
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  Speaker 2: It is Jerry's sister, Barbara Post. This time she is
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  Speaker 2: talking to ha fiance Jack.
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  Speaker 6: Knockott Jack, how do you treat me this way?
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  Speaker 2: That a dryer eyes? Barbara tears never moved me.
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  Speaker 6: But you said you love and you wanted to marry me.
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  Speaker 7: You did say that, didn't you?
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  Speaker 8: All right, Barbara? All right, let's be frank about this
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  Speaker 8: whole business. My father has warned me that if I
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  Speaker 8: were to marry into the Post family, there'd be no
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  Speaker 8: more money from him. You told me that you have
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  Speaker 8: no money until your mother dies. Now, the best thing
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  Speaker 8: for us to do is just forget.
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  Speaker 7: The nobody until my mother dies.
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  Speaker 2: What what did you say?
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  Speaker 7: Nothing at all? Perhaps things can be arranged.
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  Speaker 2: It is said in the Orient that the apple of
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  Speaker 2: death falls into three equal parts. Let us not taste
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  Speaker 2: of the third part. Thomas Miller, twin brother to me,
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  Speaker 2: this post is calling on an old friend, the Oriental
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  Speaker 2: merchant Woolong.
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  Speaker 9: And what propitious happening has brought you to my umble shop,
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  Speaker 9: Anna Wussa.
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  Speaker 2: My sister returns from the Orient tomorrow.
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  Speaker 9: Along with her she brings rare jewel called Life of Orient?
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  Speaker 10: Is that not so?
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  Speaker 11: Is that?
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  Speaker 9: Tamas Miller?
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  Speaker 10: How do you know that?
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  Speaker 9: I know? One hundred and fifty years ago duel was
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  Speaker 9: stolen from sacred temple of tai A Lah. We of
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  Speaker 9: the Wu family have dedicated our lives to its return.
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  Speaker 10: Thus far all have failed, and perhaps you can succeed
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  Speaker 10: where others have failed. I can help you, and you
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  Speaker 10: can help.
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  Speaker 9: Me continue anble, sir.
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  Speaker 10: I hate my sister. I hate her all my life.
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  Speaker 10: She's dominated me. She's been the strong one I've been
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  Speaker 10: the week. My own twin sister has always been my
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  Speaker 10: greatest enemy.
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  Speaker 9: It is said that the serpent hates the serpent.
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  Speaker 10: My father died, he left the managing of the estate
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  Speaker 10: to her. She's doled out an allowance to me as
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  Speaker 10: though I were a poor relation. But with your help
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  Speaker 10: I can change all this.
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  Speaker 9: I see. I am to send ther twin sister to
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  Speaker 9: meet her ancestors, and then.
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  Speaker 10: With turn you will have the jewel, the Light of
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  Speaker 10: the Orient.
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  Speaker 9: I must respectfully by you to Chaine's pan. But I
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  Speaker 9: will not engage in mother of your sisters past.
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  Speaker 10: But the jewel you will get.
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  Speaker 9: The jewel, not even fore most beautiful, most sacred door,
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  Speaker 9: mister Thomas Miller.
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  Speaker 10: All right, Woolong. With your aid or without your aid,
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  Speaker 10: perhaps things can be arranged.
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  Speaker 2: Margot, this is going to be one awful weekend for me.
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  Speaker 12: Oh pleaseleman, you don't know what this means to me
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  Speaker 12: to write an article about that famous emerald Light of
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  Speaker 12: the Orient for Silent Fashion magazine. Why it's practically a
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  Speaker 12: journalistic scoop. Do you realize that if missus post hadn't
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  Speaker 12: known my and Augusta at Vasa?
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  Speaker 2: Margo, do you realize what a bunch of characters these
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  Speaker 2: posts are?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 12: They have been rather prominent in the scandal.
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  Speaker 2: Sheep prominent is putting it mildly. They're all a bit well,
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  Speaker 2: let's call it peculiar. Take missus post twin brother, Thomas Miller,
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  Speaker 2: for example. It's a well known fact that he hates
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  Speaker 2: his sister like poison. And then there's that good for
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  Speaker 2: nothing adopted son Jerry Post. He's been in more scrapes
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  Speaker 2: than you.
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  Speaker 4: Can shake a stick out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And Barbara the daughter, she's adopted too, I know.
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  Speaker 2: And she falls in love regularly and always with the
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  Speaker 2: wrong man.
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  Speaker 6: Well, she's engaged to a very nice young man now.
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  Speaker 9: His name is Jack Norcott, and missus Post approves him.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know that?
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  Speaker 12: Missus Post told me I caught her just as she
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  Speaker 12: was going through the customs when her ship docked. At first,
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  Speaker 12: she refused to talk to me because she thought I
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  Speaker 12: was a reporter.
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  Speaker 9: But after I.
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  Speaker 2: Mentioned that and Augusta went to Vasa with her, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: how do you know, psychic go on?
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  Speaker 13: Oh?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I explained how important it was for me to
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  Speaker 12: get a story about this light of the Orient.
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  Speaker 4: So she asked me out for the weekend.
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  Speaker 12: And oh, I hope she won't mind mind what am
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  Speaker 12: I bringing you with me?
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  Speaker 2: She's very doesn't she know I'm coming?
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  Speaker 7: No, I didn't think of it until later.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nice La Monte Cranston, the uninvited guest.
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  Speaker 6: Miss Lene, I've never seen you before in my life.
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  Speaker 14: If you don't leave immediately, I shall feel it my
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  Speaker 14: duty to turn you over to the authorities.
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  Speaker 2: You see, Margol, you not only forgot to inform missus
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  Speaker 2: Post about my arrival, but you also forgot to tell
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  Speaker 2: her you were coming.
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  Speaker 14: You and I will you please leave, But don't you remember?
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  Speaker 14: There is no need to continue this past. Miss Lane supposed.
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  Speaker 12: I'm sorry that you don't remember our meeting at the
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  Speaker 12: pier yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: Let's go.
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  Speaker 13: Oh forgive me? Yes, yes, but you shouldn't cannot have forgotten,
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  Speaker 13: Mick Lane. Everything she has related about meeting at Pierre
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  Speaker 13: today and subsequent invitation is quite true.
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  Speaker 14: Oh yes, yes, this Han, You're right, that's quite true.
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  Speaker 14: You see, I suffer from lapse of memory at times.
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  Speaker 14: Please make yourselves at home here place time. My companion
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  Speaker 14: will show you to your rooms.
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  Speaker 9: Please forgive me what is Salemont? Will stay or not?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 13: Please stay? There is much danger, and I fear for
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  Speaker 13: my mistress life.
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  Speaker 2: Danger, mister Cranston.
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  Speaker 13: There are several who will profit by my mistress death.
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  Speaker 13: Both her adopted children, mister Jerry and miss Barbara need money,
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  Speaker 13: and my mistress has refused. Only by her death can
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  Speaker 13: money be obtained through a legacy?
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  Speaker 2: And the uncle what's his name?
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  Speaker 12: Thomas Miller?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what about him?
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  Speaker 13: He too has quarreled with my mistress and has refused
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  Speaker 13: even to stay in the same house with her. He
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  Speaker 13: has gone down to stay in small guesthouse at the
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  Speaker 13: end of the estate.
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  Speaker 2: So we have three potential murderers living close to the
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  Speaker 2: scene of a crime about to happen.
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  Speaker 13: Please not say that so much evil has before in
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  Speaker 13: his family name already I want you.
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  Speaker 6: Joey, It's true, isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: Barbara?
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  Speaker 5: I knew that Norket guy was only after the Post millions.
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  Speaker 13: Mister j and his father. This is miss Lane and
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  Speaker 13: mister guests of your mother.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, we don't want guests here.
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  Speaker 4: Hope you enjoyed the little family scene you just witnessed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, mister Post but we couldn't help over here.
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  Speaker 13: Oh yes, if I found this in.
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  Speaker 2: My room, had dagger you let me see it.
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  Speaker 6: It was sticking in the wall over my bed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Oriental dagger and there seems to be a message
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  Speaker 2: wrapped around the hill. I see it says death by
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  Speaker 2: the fiery tongue of the dragon to those who covered
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  Speaker 2: the emerald light of the orient. No signature but the
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  Speaker 2: drawing of a dragon in red.
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  Speaker 12: What does it mean?
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  Speaker 10: My jewel?
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  Speaker 2: It is not safe. Someone wanted to rob me.
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  Speaker 6: You Jerry, and you Barbara, you want jewel, you want
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  Speaker 6: to kill me.
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  Speaker 4: You're both rate me preposterous, Mother, my mischief.
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  Speaker 13: Do you not believe legend death to those who covered
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  Speaker 13: the jewel? You do not covet the emeralds? It is
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  Speaker 13: yours already. Yes, you are quite.
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  Speaker 6: Safe, so you're sure.
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  Speaker 9: Person.
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  Speaker 13: I will protect your mistress with my life.
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  Speaker 4: Touching little scene, isn't.
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  Speaker 2: It, Yes, mister post, I think it is. You know, Margot,
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  Speaker 2: this may turn out to be a very exciting weekend
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  Speaker 2: after all.
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  Speaker 9: But I are not bound by the bowels of our
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  Speaker 9: house face.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, no shoe along my uncle and I I
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  Speaker 13: never took.
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  Speaker 9: And yet you came, knowing what I expected of you.
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  Speaker 13: The dagger with message to my mischief this afternoon revealed
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  Speaker 13: to me your design.
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  Speaker 9: You are wise, my niece. I have not been mistaken
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  Speaker 9: in your intelligence.
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  Speaker 13: I repeat, I will have no part in your eber plan.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yes, my niece, you will do as I say,
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  Speaker 9: Listen as I speak, and forget not one thousandth part
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  Speaker 9: of one word. The emerald must be returned to the
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  Speaker 9: temple of Tai Lah. The Post family must.
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  Speaker 15: Die whip about the curse of alien hands which have
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  Speaker 15: defired it by the No, I will not do it,
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  Speaker 15: Jamie's FaceTime. You will do this deed, or the fiery
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  Speaker 15: tongue of the dragon will wipe your insignificant shadow from
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  Speaker 15: the queen.
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  Speaker 9: I'm preasent. Oh yeah, you weep face tears, betoken acquiescence. Yes,
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  Speaker 9: you will do as I say.
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  Speaker 16: Mm hmmm, fire fire, fire, But a matter of mister,
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  Speaker 16: pop fire. The guest house is on fire.
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  Speaker 7: Five way the fire, Jerry, did you say.
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  Speaker 6: The guest house there?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, look for yourself out that window there on the
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  Speaker 4: other side of the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Here, Margot, turn on a light. Someone, Hey, that's better.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anyone there at the guest house? My brother Thomas,
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  Speaker 2: come on Post.
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  Speaker 10: Let's get over there. It's useless.
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  Speaker 4: He's dead. By now, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 9: Now?
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  Speaker 2: You come with me or outside?
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  Speaker 6: You are right, mister Crison, Thomas must be dead.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps he woke in time to escape the fire. He
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  Speaker 2: means you.
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  Speaker 14: No, Thomas was in the habit of taking sleeping pills.
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  Speaker 14: He probably never knew what happened to him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I must say, you're all taking this thing pretty calmly,
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  Speaker 2: much too calmly. I'm putting this whole business in the
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  Speaker 2: hands of the police.
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  Speaker 3: Well pause briefly before we start the second act. It's
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  Speaker 3: in our story today. But there is a serious problem
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  Speaker 3: that you do have to face, come what may, and
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: that's the problem of keeping warm this winter. Well heat
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  Speaker 3: how fierce and biting the weather outside. Blue coal, you know,
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  Speaker 3: back to the shadow.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite obvious that the fire that destroyed this guesthouse
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  Speaker 2: was aided by gasoline, and it is my belief that
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  Speaker 2: murder has been done.
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  Speaker 5: If what you say is true, mister Cranston, it's a
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  Speaker 5: matter for the police and no business of yours.
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner Western has been sent for mister Post, but until
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  Speaker 2: he arrives, I am taking over as his deputy. Now,
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  Speaker 2: missus Post, will you be so kindess to tell me
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  Speaker 2: why you were fully dressed at four o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 14: I I must have fallen asleep in my clothes, Honor.
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  Speaker 6: Hmmm, Uli has had to take my word.
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  Speaker 4: My mother is protecting face On.
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  Speaker 5: She suspects face On knows a great deal about Uncle
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  Speaker 5: Thomas's death.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 5: When I returned home in my car around three point thirty,
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  Speaker 5: I saw her peering into the window of the guest house.
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  Speaker 2: What were you doing there? Face am that, mister Krassin?
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  Speaker 13: I will not answer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, answer it on not face and this definitely put
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  Speaker 2: you on our list of suspects. Mister Post, Yes, did
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  Speaker 2: you get out of your car when you saw face a?
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  Speaker 4: No? I didn't, not until I got to the front
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  Speaker 4: of the main house.
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  Speaker 2: I see these tire tracks that lead up to the
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: guest house were made by the tires of your car,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: mister Post. I found them early and traced them to you. Also,
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  Speaker 2: you will see the imprint of a man's shoe in
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: the soft earth on what was once the side window
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  Speaker 2: of the guest house. I've also traced that to you.
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  Speaker 2: How do you explain it?
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  Speaker 4: I can't explain it. I don't know. I may have
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  Speaker 4: stopped after all, I don't remember.
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  Speaker 6: Ah there, Barbara and Jack Knocker, where have you been
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  Speaker 6: all night?
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 8: My fault, missus Post. We ran out of gas over
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: on the island rolled at about two o'clock.
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  Speaker 17: Yes, the twokos hours to find a filling station. Say,
• 17:12
  Speaker 17: looks like there's some excitement around here while.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I was gone, Miss Post.
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  Speaker 14: Don't you know what has happened, Barbara, Uncle Thomas is
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  Speaker 14: dead dead, yeah, burned to death in the guest house.
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  Speaker 4: Might as well tell you, dear sister, that we're all
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  Speaker 4: under suspicion.
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  Speaker 7: Suspicion. Wait, I wasn't anywhere near here when the fire starts.
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  Speaker 4: That's it, dear sister. Establish your alibi.
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  Speaker 17: It's no alibi. We ran out of gas, as we said,
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  Speaker 17: and we couldn't find a filling station.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Post. Isn't that a stain of gasoline on your coat?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: It still smells quite plainly of gasoline.
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  Speaker 17: Right, yes, yes, you see, when I helped Jack carry
• 17:48
  Speaker 17: the gas back to the car.
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  Speaker 7: Some spilled up my coat.
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  Speaker 2: That's very interesting, miss Post, because gasoline was used to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: start the fire that caused your uncle's death. I'm holding
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  Speaker 2: you also as a suspect. His whole thing has Commissioner
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Western confused, Margot. I can understand that, he says, missus
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  Speaker 2: Post is the logical victim. Everyone had a motive to killer,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: but she turns up as one of the suspects.
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  Speaker 12: I have to agree with him on her two remark.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps Margot some of this puzzle might be unraveled if
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: the Shadow paid Missus Post a visit.
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  Speaker 14: Tell me, I, fe son, what were you doing at
• 18:31
  Speaker 14: the guest house when Jerry saw you appearing in one
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  Speaker 14: of the windows.
• 18:34
  Speaker 13: Since you commanded my mistress, I will tell you. Do
• 18:38
  Speaker 13: you not recall that after quarrel with your brother, he
• 18:41
  Speaker 13: left in anger to spend weekend in guest house. Yes,
• 18:44
  Speaker 13: then telephone call came from him asking you to come
• 18:47
  Speaker 13: last night as he had matter of great importance to
• 18:50
  Speaker 13: discuss later. I fear he might do you a great harm,
• 18:55
  Speaker 13: so I went in search of him.
• 18:56
  Speaker 14: Oh, yes, yes, but I decided not to go and
• 19:00
  Speaker 14: called him back and told him that if he wanted
• 19:01
  Speaker 14: to talk to me, he could come here.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: That that still does not explain one very important thing,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Missus poster boy.
• 19:10
  Speaker 13: It is a voice of evil.
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: Split.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: It is the voice of the Shadow, whose mission is
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: to fight evil.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: I can't see you, no, I.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Have cast a mist of hypnosis over your mind, which
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: makes me invisible.
• 19:24
  Speaker 13: What do you wish of us?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: The truth, said Missus post Why were you not in
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: your bed at four o'clock this morning?
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: I was too nervous to sleep.
• 19:32
  Speaker 14: I have expected my brother Thomas to come here as
• 19:34
  Speaker 14: I'd asked him to, and I waited in the library.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Mister fallen asleep, I see Shadow.
• 19:39
  Speaker 13: If you are indeed friend of good, you will believe
• 19:41
  Speaker 13: my mistress. She is telling you the truth.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Missus Paul, What shall I do?
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: Shadow?
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Answering? What do you want?
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: Commissioner Western down in the library right away.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: We're getting everyone together. Am I going to settle this
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: case once and for all. I shall be down immediately.
• 19:55
  Speaker 14: Well, Shadow, are you satisfied that I am innocent of
• 19:58
  Speaker 14: my brother's death?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: You're ex the nation. Seems logical, Missus post but I
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: have only your word for it. Remember that the Shadow
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: has ways of finding the truth. This is ridiculous. You
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: can't prove how long I'll wait a minute. That's better,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: if you'll pardon me, Commissioner, what do you want? Cranston?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: It's just occurred to me that none of us has
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: seen this fabulous emerald that there's been so much talk about. Now,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Lort Cranston, I'm running this business. I hear me out Weston,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: as if I could help it go right a hand.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Perhaps you haven't heard the legend of the emerald called
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the Light of the Orient Commissioner, The legend goes death
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: by the fiery tongue of the dragon to those who
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: covered the jewels. I'll wait a minute. Please, where is
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the emerald, Missus Post? Have you looked at it since
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: you arrive?
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: I know I haven't.
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: What suppose is stolen? Stolen?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Missus Post? Would you mind producing the emerald? Please?
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: The emerald? Why the son? Get them and bring it here?
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 21:01
  Speaker 13: Miss it is here in this room?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Oh yes, yes, of course, get it faced hand.
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: But it is in this safe and you want me
• 21:11
  Speaker 13: no one needs to touch safe. But you you mean.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: You trust a priceless jewel like that in that old
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: cracker box behind the picture.
• 21:17
  Speaker 17: For even I know the combination of that old thing.
• 21:20
  Speaker 17: I have known since I was ten years old. Here here,
• 21:23
  Speaker 17: I'll show you. You Just prush this button here and
• 21:27
  Speaker 17: there the picture slides away like this.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: There that's the safe.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: What does the matter? I saw the window must be
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: your imagination.
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: No, I tell you I saw a pain.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Don't worry, missus Posh.
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: I've got my men surrounding the house.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: If there was anyone there, he'll be called my mother.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Commissioner Weston has a very vivid imagination, Shall I open
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: the safe.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Yes, right now, turn ten to the right, six to the.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: What happened? What has happened to Barbara?
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Who call a doctor somebody here in.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Just a moment. I'm afraid it's too late for a doctor,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Missus Post, your daughter is dead. We examined the safe, Margot,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: and found it to be some sort of a burglar
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: catching device that got Barbara Post when she worked the combination.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: The purpose of the burglar catcher was to send in
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: an alarm and hold the criminal until the police came.
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: But she was killed by it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Well, the doctor said death was caused more by heart
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: failure than the shock she received.
• 22:32
  Speaker 12: Why didn't missus Post Warner or have her turn off
• 22:35
  Speaker 12: that burglar catcher when she opened to say that's.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: What's got western of a tree? Missus Post disclaimed any
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: knowledge of the device that killed her daughter.
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: It doesn't seem likely, Oh it doesn't.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: It's true. Nevertheless, do occurrence proved something to me that's
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: been bothering me ever since we came here.
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: What's that?
• 22:52
  Speaker 13: La?
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I can't tell you just now, Margot, because I've worked
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a door tonight. The shadow is going to pose them
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: murderer to strike again to cover up his tracks, Jerry Post.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: The murderer is known, one person in this house will
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: reveal him to the police. Missus Post. The conscience of
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the one person who can point to the real murderer
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: will cause the capture of the killer.
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: They Sad, who calls me from darkness to my room?
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: It is the shadow, the shadow.
• 23:41
  Speaker 13: You have returned. What do you wish of me?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I have come to warn you, Fay Sad, that tonight
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: an attempt will be made on your life. You know
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: who the murderer is, and the murderer will attempt to
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: silence the only one who knows. Yes, I know.
• 23:56
  Speaker 13: It is my uncle Wolong. He has been here tonight,
• 23:59
  Speaker 13: my mistress so his face at window. He has vowed
• 24:02
  Speaker 13: to kill his family and regain a jewel for the
• 24:05
  Speaker 13: temple of Tayla. He will try to kill me because
• 24:08
  Speaker 13: I will not help him.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: No, pay Sam, You are not telling the truth. It
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: is not your uncle, but you suspect yes, yes, and
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the person you suspect is not the murderer.
• 24:20
  Speaker 13: Can I believe that what you say is true?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: You must trust me. The person you suspect is not
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: the murderer. Will you help me trap the murderer.
• 24:30
  Speaker 13: To apprehend the murderer is to protect the life of
• 24:34
  Speaker 13: my beloved mistress. I am willing. We have waited at
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: least an hour's shadow here in darkness, and no one
• 24:50
  Speaker 13: has come.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Quiet. Hey, Sam, I think of a murderer is approaching
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: your room. Now, Oh, my friend, you will not kill again.
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: Problem.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: That's better now he's head turned on the light. Yes,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: have a look at the murderer.
• 25:12
  Speaker 13: Oh this is you Post, my mistress. Oh no, no, shadow,
• 25:17
  Speaker 13: you told me the person I suspect was not the murderer.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: You have deceived me.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Weren't you trying to murder pace hand to cover your
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: crime forever?
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about this hand. You
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: surely don't believe this.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: No, no, miss and I promised you that the person
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: you thought to be the murderer would not be the murderer.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: You really believed it to be your mistress?
• 25:35
  Speaker 13: Yes, then Missy Post is innocent.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Missus Post is dead and this is her twin brother,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Thomas Miller, who killed her and proceeded to impersonate her.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I believe that.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: No.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Now we'll just take that pick of yours, mister Moller.
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: Oh, Thomas Miller yes, Thomas Miller.
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: Oh then it is my mistress w is dead.
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: Yes, her all my life, I've hated her. I would
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: have had everything, everything that belonged to me, but hadn't
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: meant for you. Well, you're not turning over to the police.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I'll fix that, no. So you see, Margo, missus Post
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: was murdered by her twin brother before we got there.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Later he destroyed her body in the fire.
• 26:24
  Speaker 12: And it was really Thomas Miller, posing as his twin
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: sister who met us at the door when we arrived.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margot, that's why you get the cold reception. But
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I wasn't really suspicious until Missus Poster, or rather her
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: twin brother, didn't know where the emerald was kept.
• 26:38
  Speaker 12: That's right, was right there in the library safe and
• 26:42
  Speaker 12: she I mean he didn't know about that burglar catcher either.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Missus Post must have had it installed secretly and hadn't
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: even told fay San, whom she trusted.
• 26:51
  Speaker 12: What a horrible bunch of people. I'll never ask to
• 26:55
  Speaker 12: go on another weekend lamm.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Not even to write an article for Style and Fashion magazine.
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: I forgot to tell you. I call a magazine on
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: the phone just before we left to drive back to
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: the city and they don't want the article.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Don't want it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: No, they said it was too lurid for a woman's magazine.
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: They said it belonged to some detective magazine. So I did,
• 27:13
  Speaker 12: so you did one sold it to a detective magazine.
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: Got more money too.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: You wonderful.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: In a moment, you'll hear an episode from real life
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: proving that crime does not pay. Before we get to that,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: you'll be interested, I know, and what Blue Coals distinguished
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: home heating expert mister John Barclay has to say.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Friends.
• 27:41
  Speaker 18: The world is so complicated nowadays that often we make
• 27:44
  Speaker 18: complications where none should exist at all. For example, the
• 27:48
  Speaker 18: economical operation of a home heating plant is really very simple.
• 27:52
  Speaker 18: That is to say, it's simple provided you get started right.
• 27:55
  Speaker 18: That's the clue, because when you don't get started right,
• 27:58
  Speaker 18: you're quite likely to run into one difficulty after another.
• 28:02
  Speaker 18: Soon you're discouraged. You know you're spending more money than
• 28:05
  Speaker 18: you should, and worst of all, your house is uncomfortable,
• 28:08
  Speaker 18: either too hot or too cold. Now that's making complications
• 28:12
  Speaker 18: where none should exist. Take pains to get started right
• 28:16
  Speaker 18: and you'll have no trouble. Now here's my suggestion. Call
• 28:19
  Speaker 18: your reliable Blue Cold dealer and he'll send an expert
• 28:23
  Speaker 18: John Barkley trained service man to your home at no charge.
• 28:27
  Speaker 18: He'll check your heating plant thoroughly and start you on
• 28:30
  Speaker 18: a comfortable and economical season. Call him tomorrow, before cold
• 28:34
  Speaker 18: weather is upon us. You'll be delighted to discover how
• 28:37
  Speaker 18: much easier and how much more efficient it is to
• 28:40
  Speaker 18: heat your home the easy Blue Coald way. Phone your
• 28:44
  Speaker 18: nearest Blue Coal dealer tomorrow.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Today's program is based on a copyrotted story. The character's
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: name is placed in plot of fictitious and a similarity
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: to person's living or dead is purely coincidental direct from
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: real life. We now bring you conclusive proof that crime
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: does not pay. New York City, New York lyman fanel
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: tough bold gangster gunman hope to make a big robbery
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: hall and a prominent New York club.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the apartment I want. Hey, you'll give
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: me the key up, that'll hold you. You won't get
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: away with the gunman panel. Death is waiting.
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: They'll never catch me. Here's my car.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I gotta get away.
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: I can't find the key. They're so close I won't
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: go back. I can't pays prison my gun.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I gotta do it so by his own hand lyman
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Fanel paid the price of crime. The weed of crime
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay the Shadows.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, in your neighborhood, Blue
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: col Dealer brings you one of the strangest and most
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: battling of adventures in the Shadows daring battle against the
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: forces of evil. Be sure to listen, and be sure
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: to phone your friendly blue Cold Dealer for greater heating
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: comfort at less costs. So don't forget keep the home
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: fires burning with blue coal.
• 30:19
  Speaker 11: This is the mutual broadcasting system.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of the Shadow Dragon's Tongue Murders was originally
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: broadcast October twelfth, nineteen forty one. Follow the Shadow for
• 30:41
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