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The Shadow - "Cold Death" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: In the days before Christmas, workers in the mill town
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  Speaker 1: of Carverville face severe poverty and unsafe, unheated homes, while
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  Speaker 1: reporters are kept outside the town. On December 19, 1937,
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  Speaker 1: the mutual broadcasting system brought listeners The Shadow, Cold Death,
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  Speaker 1: script number 13 in the original Street and Smith radio sequence.
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  Speaker 1: Orson Welles is Lamont Cranston, with Agnes Moorhead as Margo Lane,
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  Speaker 1: as Cranston looks into the authority Daniel Carver holds over
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  Speaker 1: Carverville and its fearful residents. Ken Roberts is at the microphone,
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  Speaker 1: and Blue Cole is the sponsor. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Blue Coal presents The Shadow, the mystery man who strikes
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  Speaker 3: terror in the very hearts of shopsters, lawbreakers, and criminals. Today,
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  Speaker 3: Coal Death. Ladies and gentlemen, An event of unusual interest
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  Speaker 3: will be broadcast from this studio at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the program. Be sure to listen. And before today's exciting
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  Speaker 3: adventure with the shadow begins, I'd like to offer a
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  Speaker 3: suggestion for home heating comfort. The next time you need fuel,
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  Speaker 3: order Blue Coal, America's finest anthracite. You don't have to
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  Speaker 3: get a full supply. The Blue Coal dealer will be
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  Speaker 3: glad to send you a trial ton. Use it, compare
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  Speaker 3: it with your regular fuel in every way. It's ten
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  Speaker 3: to one. You will find blue coal gives you better
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  Speaker 3: heat at less cost. So order blue coal by name.
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  Speaker 3: Phone your order to your nearest blue coal dealer tomorrow. Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Carver.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what do you want, Dawson? Why don't you look
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  Speaker 5: at Carverville, tender business? Fine mess you've made of things.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: We have seen the story in the paper about conditions
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  Speaker 5: up in the village. Yes, you brainless fool. Don't you
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  Speaker 5: know you can't keep things quiet by manhandling a reporter? Now,
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  Speaker 5: wait a minute, boss.
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  Speaker 7: I can explain that. We had to rough that reporter up.
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  Speaker 7: He was taking pictures. I don't want any excuses. I
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  Speaker 7: pay you to manage my mill. If there's any more
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  Speaker 7: publicity about living conditions up there, you'll.
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  Speaker 5: Find yourself out of a job. Now, get out. Don't
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  Speaker 5: bother me with details. Get out.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Mr. Carver, I won't bother you with details.
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  Speaker 7: But if anybody else comes up to Carverville snooping around
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  Speaker 7: and asking questions... We'll make them wish they never heard
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  Speaker 7: of the place.
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  Speaker 5: Commissioner Weston, I tell you, it's an outrage. Don't you agree, Cranston?
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  Speaker 6: It's a pretty sorry state of affairs, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 5: Granted, the conditions existing in this little mill village Daniel
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  Speaker 5: Carver owns are an outrage. Why, he ought to be
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  Speaker 5: kicked out of this club. What do you think, Cranston?
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  Speaker 6: I agree, if the newspaper counts it true. Sickness, half
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  Speaker 6: a dozen deaths recently.
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  Speaker 8: The authorities ought to be able to do something about
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  Speaker 8: a man like Carver.
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  Speaker 6: Apparently not. He owns Carverville Luxe Stock and Barrel.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: Speak of the devil, here's Carver now.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 7: I gather you're discussing me and the maliciously distorted story
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  Speaker 7: about Carverville that appeared in the papers?
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  Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, we were, Mr. Carver. Won't
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  Speaker 6: you sit down and give us your side of the story?
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  Speaker 7: There's nothing to discuss. There isn't one word of truth
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  Speaker 7: in that reporter's story. The people in Carverville are perfectly satisfied.
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  Speaker 7: They don't complain.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps they don't dare.
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  Speaker 5: They have no reason to complain, Cranston. I give them
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  Speaker 5: work in Manil, provide them with homes.
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  Speaker 6: Homes.
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  Speaker 7: Why, they make the worst city slums look like Park Avenue.
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  Speaker 5: Caravelle is my affair.
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  Speaker 9: Well, maybe so, but this club may have something to
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  Speaker 9: say about your membership, Daniel Carver.
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  Speaker 5: This club, a bunch of mawkish busybodies. What do I care?
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  Speaker 5: Vote me out. No one ever speaks to me here anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead. Vote me out. Vote me out.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Must be some justice, some law.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's within the law. But now here's a case
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  Speaker 3: for an amateur criminologist like yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, there must be some way of helping those poor
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  Speaker 10: devils up in Carverville.
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  Speaker 6: Some way of dealing with a man like Carver.
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  Speaker 11: Sir Mark Cranston, would you mind telling me the reason
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  Speaker 11: for this long drive in zero weather?
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  Speaker 6: You'll soon see the reason, Margo.
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  Speaker 10: We're now entering Carverville.
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  Speaker 6: Take a good look at it.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, how drab.
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  Speaker 6: How awful.
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  Speaker 8: Look, Lamont, broken windows stuffed with paper. I'm beginning to
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  Speaker 8: understand why you're here. But how did you hear about it?
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  Speaker 10: Daniel Carver, the man who owns this charming little mill village,
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  Speaker 10: is a fellow club member of mine.
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  Speaker 8: What are you going to do, Lamont?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know exactly until I've talked to some of
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  Speaker 6: these people.
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  Speaker 8: As Lamont Cranston or the Shadow?
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  Speaker 6: As a nameless social worker for the present, Margot. But
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  Speaker 6: I have a strong hunch the Shadow will have to
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  Speaker 6: play a big part if.
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  Speaker 10: Anything is to be done to help these people.
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  Speaker 6: Here we are.
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  Speaker 5: You want some gas, mister?
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  Speaker 6: No, thanks. But could you tell me how to get
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  Speaker 6: to Mrs. Tucker's house?
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  Speaker 5: What do you want?
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  Speaker 9: Ma Tucker's got enough trouble already, what with her old
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  Speaker 9: man and kid dying since the cold set in.
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  Speaker 6: I read about it in the papers. We've come here
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  Speaker 6: to help.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, mister.
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  Speaker 9: Carverville folks ain't got much, but we ain't asking or
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  Speaker 9: welcoming no nosing around from strangers.
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  Speaker 6: If you'll just point out Mrs. Tucker's house, I'll see
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  Speaker 6: what she has to say.
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  Speaker 5: Well, right over there by the creek. Don't say I
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  Speaker 5: didn't warn you, mister. Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: Come along, Margot. I may need your help to get Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Tucker's confidence.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'll do anything I can. You know, Lamont, there's
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  Speaker 8: something terrifying about this village.
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  Speaker 6: How so?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, that man and the way people are watching us
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  Speaker 8: from behind curtains in the windows of every house along
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  Speaker 8: the street.
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid of something, Margot.
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  Speaker 8: Of what?
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  Speaker 6: That's just what I hope to discover in this house.
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  Speaker 8: There's something sinister about this place.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, Margot.
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  Speaker 6: Someone's coming to the door.
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  Speaker 8: What do you want, mister?
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  Speaker 4: Are you Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Tucker? I'm Ma Tucker.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want?
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  Speaker 6: May we come in? You say what you got to say.
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  Speaker 8: Please, Mrs. Tucker, we've come to help you.
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  Speaker 1: No, you.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 6: Come in. It don't matter.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing matters now.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Tucker, we realize you've been through a terrible ordeal. Losing
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  Speaker 6: your husband and son within a week.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I ain't no worse off than anybody else in Carverville.
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  Speaker 13: What are you going to do? I got one boy left, Sam.
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  Speaker 13: He works in the mill.
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  Speaker 6: Mrs. Tucker... How much rent do you people have to
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  Speaker 6: pay for these houses?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, you better get out of here, mister.
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  Speaker 6: You don't want to get me in more trouble for
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  Speaker 6: talking to you at all.
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  Speaker 12: You better get out.
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  Speaker 6: Who would make trouble for you because you talk to us?
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  Speaker 8: Never you mind that, mister.
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  Speaker 13: And if you know what's good for you, you'll get
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  Speaker 13: out of Carverville before Dawson and the others from Carverville
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  Speaker 13: get here.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Ma, who are these folks?
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  Speaker 6: This is my son, Sam. Hello, Sam.
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  Speaker 4: Howdy.
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  Speaker 3: You welfare workers from the city?
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  Speaker 6: You might call us that. They've come here to investigate conditions.
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  Speaker 13: They've been asking questions about the houses, Sam, and I
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  Speaker 13: didn't tell them nothing.
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  Speaker 14: Well, why didn't you, Ma? I'm sick of all this
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  Speaker 14: fear of old man Carver and his spies. He kept
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  Speaker 14: quiet for years, and what's it got us? What did
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  Speaker 14: they get Pa and young Jim? We're slaves in the mill,
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  Speaker 14: and they rob us at Carver's store, and we live
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  Speaker 14: in these pigsty that Carver calls houses, and when we're
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  Speaker 14: old and sick, he lets us die off like a
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  Speaker 14: lot of mangy dogs.
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  Speaker 8: Shut up, Sam.
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  Speaker 12: Don't talk like that. Somebody's here.
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  Speaker 6: We'll let them hear.
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  Speaker 14: Time somebody heard the truth. Can't you do something, mister?
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  Speaker 14: Can't you help us? Somebody don't help us. God only
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  Speaker 14: knows where this will end.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for speaking out, Sam. You'll have to help.
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  Speaker 8: Lamont, there's a crowd gathering outside.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 8: I knew it.
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  Speaker 3: I knew there'd be trouble. Now, you be quiet, Ma.
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  Speaker 14: Listen, mister, I got a notion you're all right.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Tucker. Sam, open up.
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  Speaker 6: Come on. Listen, Sam. We'll have to leave or there'll
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  Speaker 6: be trouble. But will you meet me in the next
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  Speaker 6: town in a couple of hours? I've got to know
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  Speaker 6: everything that's been going on here if I'm to help you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll meet you.
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  Speaker 6: Look for my car on Main Street.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Margo.
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  Speaker 6: Keep close to me.
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  Speaker 4: Come on.
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  Speaker 8: Lamont, I hope no one saw Sam Tucker meet us
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  Speaker 8: down this road as you asked him to.
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  Speaker 6: I hope not, Margot.
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  Speaker 8: What are you going to do now that he's told
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  Speaker 8: you the tragic story of Carverville?
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  Speaker 6: Going back to Carverville.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, tonight?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, first to call an old man Carver.
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  Speaker 8: I thought he was in the city.
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  Speaker 10: He evidently heard that more strangers were in Carverville this
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  Speaker 10: afternoon asking questions.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, what a beast Carver must be, Lamont. If he
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  Speaker 8: could only be made to see the misery and suffering
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  Speaker 8: he's caused.
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  Speaker 6: He's going to see it, Margot, tonight.
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  Speaker 8: What? Lamont, there's Carverville. Oh, not that I'm afraid.
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  Speaker 6: We're stopping. That's Carver's house right ahead there.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I see a light downstairs, Lamont. What are you
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  Speaker 8: going to do?
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  Speaker 10: Margot, do you remember Scrooge in Dickens' Christmas Carol?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, and Carver is worse than Scrooge ever thought of being.
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  Speaker 10: Tonight, Daniel Carver is going to feel more remorse than
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  Speaker 10: Ebenezer Scrooge ever did.
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  Speaker 8: He deserves it. I'll wait in the car, Lamont.
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  Speaker 6: It's bitter cold.
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  Speaker 8: None of those poor people down there in those flimsy
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  Speaker 8: houses can stand it.
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  Speaker 4: I can.
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  Speaker 6: I'll wait here.
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  Speaker 8: But how are you going to make Carver visit those
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  Speaker 8: poor people?
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  Speaker 10: Margot, tonight Daniel Carver is going on a sightseeing tour,
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  Speaker 10: personally conducted by the Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: In just a moment, we will continue with the second
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  Speaker 3: part of the Shadow's thrilling adventure. While you are engaged
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  Speaker 3: in last-minute preparations for Christmas, don't neglect the health and
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  Speaker 3: comfort of your family. Be sure of a cozy, warm
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  Speaker 3: home during the holidays by ordering a supply of blue coal.
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  Speaker 3: No matter how cold or how mild the weather is,
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  Speaker 3: the weather, blue coal is the most economical fuel for
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  Speaker 3: heating or cooking purposes. Up in the Arctic regions, where
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  Speaker 3: the temperature today is at least 60 degrees below zero,
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  Speaker 3: fur traders and trappers are keeping warm with blue coal.
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  Speaker 3: They've used other fuels, only to find that blue coal
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  Speaker 3: will keep them warm more economically than any other fuel.
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  Speaker 3: Blue coal is a Pennsylvania anthracite, the fuel that burns
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  Speaker 3: long and steadily. It is the fuel that furnaces, parlor stoves,
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  Speaker 3: and cooking ranges in New England were especially designed to burn.
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  Speaker 3: And the finest Pennsylvania anthracite is blue coal, mined by
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  Speaker 3: the Glen Alden Coal Company, employing American labor, and it
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  Speaker 3: is transported by American Railroad. Every carload is laboratory tested
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  Speaker 3: for purity and uniform size before shipment. Blue coal comes
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  Speaker 3: in all domestic sizes, egg, stove, chestnut, and pea size.
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  Speaker 3: For economy's sake and for greatest comfort in cold weather,
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  Speaker 3: insist on blue coal. Phone your nearest blue coal dealer.
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  Speaker 3: You'll find his name listed in the where to buy
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  Speaker 3: it section of your classified telephone directory under the name
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  Speaker 3: Blue Coal.
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  Speaker 5: Nelson, I told you if there's any more trouble up
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  Speaker 5: here in Carverville, I'd fire you, didn't I?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there ain't been no trouble, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Carver.
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  Speaker 5: Not yet.
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  Speaker 7: If that guy that was here this afternoon comes back tonight,
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  Speaker 7: we'll make him wish he never.
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  Speaker 6: Heard a car of it.
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  Speaker 5: What makes you think he will come back?
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  Speaker 6: I know he's coming back. Tonight. You got Sam Tucker
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  Speaker 6: to meet him down in the next town.
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  Speaker 5: How do you know that?
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  Speaker 7: I took a rubber hose to the kid when he
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  Speaker 7: came back about an hour ago. He wouldn't talk. We
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  Speaker 7: got enough out of him to know that that social
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  Speaker 7: worker is up to something.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I don't want any shooting and killing now.
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  Speaker 6: You just leave that fellow to me, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Carver.
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  Speaker 6: You said you didn't want to be bothered with the details.
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  Speaker 5: What are you going to do, Dawson?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing much. But don't you worry.
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  Speaker 7: There ain't no law against a fellow being shot accidental
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  Speaker 7: while he's snooping around in the dark.
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  Speaker 6: You just leave the details to me.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, boys. There was a fool to come up
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  Speaker 5: here from the city tonight.
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  Speaker 6: No coal, country house.
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  Speaker 5: No electricity. Nothing but candles.
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  Speaker 7: The wind even blows the door open.
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  Speaker 15: What was that?
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  Speaker 5: Who blew out the candle?
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  Speaker 4: The wind. The wind blew out the candle. Are you
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  Speaker 4: afraid of the dark? Daniel Carver.
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  Speaker 5: Who are you? What do you want? I have no
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  Speaker 5: money here.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want your money. I have come for you.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you?
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  Speaker 4: I've been called fear, conscience, remorse. But I am best
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  Speaker 4: known to your kind as the Shadow.
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  Speaker 5: The Shadow? I don't believe in things like that.
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  Speaker 4: You're a man.
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  Speaker 6: I hear your voice.
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  Speaker 7: If you're one of those stupid fools from the village
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  Speaker 7: and you've got any idea of killing me, you'd better
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  Speaker 7: think first. You will hang for it.
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  Speaker 4: In a sense, you will not believe that I am
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  Speaker 4: the shadow. Let us pretend I am one of those
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  Speaker 4: unfortunates from your village. Let us pretend that here in
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  Speaker 4: the darkness I am standing with a gun pointed at
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  Speaker 4: your heart.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want of me?
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  Speaker 4: I want you to come with me. Come with me.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 5: No. No, you're going to murder me. I won't leave
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  Speaker 5: this house. I won't go with you.
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  Speaker 4: Come, or I'll use the gun you are so sure
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  Speaker 4: I have in my hand, even though you can't see
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  Speaker 4: the gun or my hand or me.
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  Speaker 5: All right. All right, I'll come. I'll do anything, only
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  Speaker 5: don't shoot. If it's money you want, I'll get it
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  Speaker 5: for you.
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  Speaker 4: Get in your car.
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  Speaker 5: First let me get an overcoat. It's bitter cold. No.
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  Speaker 4: Time you learned what it feels like to be cold.
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  Speaker 5: Where are we going?
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  Speaker 4: Drive down to that squalid sink of misery that bears
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  Speaker 4: your name. To Carverville. Don't cry out. Don't try to
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  Speaker 4: escape me. For I'm right behind you. In the back
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  Speaker 4: seat of the car.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want me to do in the village?
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  Speaker 4: Stop at that little bridge. Be careful, Carver. I can
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  Speaker 4: read your thoughts. You're thinking you'll cry out, attract attention,
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  Speaker 4: and get away from me. But you'll never get away
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  Speaker 4: unless you do exactly as I tell you for the
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  Speaker 4: next few minutes.
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  Speaker 5: What are you going to make me do?
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  Speaker 4: You will go where I tell you and listen and watch.
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  Speaker 6: And what if I meet someone?
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  Speaker 4: If you should... Don't speak.
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  Speaker 5: There's a little ridge.
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  Speaker 4: Stop the car. Now get out of the car, Daniel Carver.
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  Speaker 4: This is the Tucker house. Walk to that lighted window
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  Speaker 4: over there. Stand there by that broken pane stuffed with paper.
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  Speaker 5: Why have you brought me here? You better look out.
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  Speaker 7: Bill Dawson, my foreman, and some men are out looking
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  Speaker 7: for some stranger that's been snooping around here.
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  Speaker 5: We might be shot for any sake.
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  Speaker 4: That is a chance we must take. Carver, look into
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  Speaker 4: that room and listen. All right, Ma.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: All right, Ma, listen, Ma.
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  Speaker 14: Everything's going to turn out all right.
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  Speaker 6: Those folks who were here today, they're going to do something.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm trying to hope so, Sam. But hoping comes
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  Speaker 5: mighty hard when hope's been killed so often.
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  Speaker 8: Pa's dead. Your brother's dead.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to that.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Sam, you've got to go away. You've got to
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  Speaker 8: go far away.
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  Speaker 12: After what's happened, Dawson will fix you good.
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: It won't be just a beating.
• 16:14
  Speaker 13: He'll fix it so something will happen to.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: You at the mill.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: You've got to go away, son. Yeah, but I can't
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: leave you, Ma. Not even long enough to hunt another job. Oh,
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: don't you fret about me, Sam.
• 16:24
  Speaker 13: I ain't got much longer on this earth.
• 16:26
  Speaker 10: Anyhow, son.
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: You get away. You get away from here while you've
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: got it, Chad.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, Ma.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: Ma, you're crying.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: You didn't even cry when Pa died.
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: Seemed like I couldn't. Seemed like he was better off dead.
• 16:42
  Speaker 13: Because he was free of old man Carver at last.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: At last.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Come, Carver. I have something else to show you.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: What are you trying to do? Where are you taking
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: me now?
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: You will see. Tell me, Carver. Have you ever heard
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: the story....
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Then what is the story of Scrooge got to do
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: with me?
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: You are Scrooge, Daniel Carver, a 20th century Scrooge. And
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: this is Christmas. You'd never believe it to look down
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: the streets of this mill town of yours. Would you, Carver?
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Then what do you expect me to do about it?
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: You are not your brother's keeper. Are you, Carver?
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Let me go. My hands are freezing.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Still thinking of yourself? Is that the Christmas spirit, Carver?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Let me go and I'll do something. Send some Christmas baskets.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: That would ease your conscience, wouldn't it? No, Carver. You're
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: not going to get off so easy.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: I've seen enough. Where are you taking me now?
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Just a little way. A few steps further. To that
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: lighted window over there. To that house with a car
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: standing in front of it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: If they can afford a car.
• 18:11
  Speaker 16: That is a doctor's car. Your villagers don't own cars.
• 18:17
  Speaker 16: They don't own anything. Go to that lighted window there.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Look in. See what is happening.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Listen.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Frost on the glass. I can't see.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: There's another broken pane. The hole is filled with paper
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: to keep out the cold. Like the tucker's window. Push
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: the paper aside.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: All right. I will. Try and be calm, Mrs. Anderson.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: I know it's hard, but you must for the child's sake.
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: I'll try, Doctor. I will try.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I can't help feeling.
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: The way I do. My husband dying of pneumonia only
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: last month. Now Judy going.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: The same way.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Oh, there's still hope.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: I'd move her to a hospital if there was one
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: near enough.
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: I wish there were only some way of keeping these
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: rotten Carver houses warm.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: But you might as well try to heat a barn.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Mommy. Listen, Carver.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Mommy. Yes, darling.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: I'm right here, Judy, dear. Mommy's here.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Mommy. Could I have Cecile? Of course you can, honey.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Here's your doll, Judy.
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: Mommy, do you think Santa Claus will bring me a
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: real doll? I hope so, Judy. I'll ask him.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Come. Come, Mrs. Anderson.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: She may sleep now.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: We'll try to keep.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: The room warm. That's all we can do now. That
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: and hope.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Hope for the best. Look at that child, Daniel Carver.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: She's dying. And you, and you alone, are to blame.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: No, stop.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Don't.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Don't torture me anymore.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: If that child dies, Carver, there will be no candles.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: No gay candles on a gift-laden Christmas tree. But white
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: candles shedding a ghostly light around a packing box common... No, stop.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: It will be the monument to your life of selfish greed.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: No.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: And a cross you will bear through all eternity. Unless...
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Unless what? Unless you make amends.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: I'll do anything. I'll do anything to make amends. I
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: didn't know.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I've been blind, selfish.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: No baskets of fruit or pennies in the snow will
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: wipe out your sins against these long-suffering people, Carver. No, no.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: I know. I'll make everything right. That little girl, she
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: needs medicine. A warm house. Let me go in and
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: get the doctor to move her to my house on
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: the hill. I'll get specialists. I'll do anything to save
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: her life.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Wait, Carver. That is only the beginning. What of all
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: the others? What of these death traps you call homes?
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: I'll tear them all down. Burn them. Build new ones.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Houses that are warm and comfortable and safe. I swear it.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: But tell me, who are you? How are you everything
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: for showing me what I've been doing to these people
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: who depend on me?
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I told you once before, I am the shadow.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: But you are a man. Why can't I see you?
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: I have clouded your mind, made it impossible for you
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: to see me. You will never see me. Never hear
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: my voice again, Daniel Carver. If you keep your word.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I will keep my word. I swear it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: If you don't, the shadow will return. And the next time... Al! Hey, Al!
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: You seen any of our fellas?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, hey, Phil! Shadow. It's my foreman, Bill Dawson and
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Al Trimble. Yes, I know.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: They mean to kill a man. If they can find him.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: They're after some fellow that was here this afternoon with
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: a young woman. Welfare workers, I think. What will we do?
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Let them come. This is your first test. You are
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: responsible for their acts. What are you going to do, Carver?
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: They might shoot us by mistake. They've got shotguns.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: This is your chance, Carver.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: If that fella's around.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Here, we'll find him out.
• 22:30
  Speaker 13: Go round the back of Tucker Shack and.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Take a look. Okay.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: I'm just itching to throw a feed on that nosy
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: city fella.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Now's your chance to deal with Dawson. What are you
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: going to do, Carver?
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: I'll show you.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Just watch me. Don't shoot. Dawson. Dawson, don't shoot.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: It's me, Carver.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Carver. Hey, what are you doing here? I come with
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: an ace of blowing your head off.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: I've come here to see what I've been doing to
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: these people by giving you a free hand.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: You said you didn't want to be bothered. I know.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: I know. I am to blame. I've been blind. But
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: that's all finished now. I'm going to make this village
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: all over. Build new homes.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Make up for all the misery I've caused these people.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: You're getting kind of soft, ain't you, Carver? You won't
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: think so when I tell you that you are through, fired,
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: you and Al Trimble and all your kind.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Listen here, you mealy-mouthed old skinflint. You can't fire me.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: I've done your dirty.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Work too long.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: You get out of Carverville, you are through, Dawson.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what you think. You or nobody else is
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: firing me. Put down that shotgun, Dawson. You'll hang for this.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: The devil I will.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: It'll be an accident. An accident like what's going to
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: happen to that city.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Dawson, don't you pull that trigger, you fool. Pray your prayers,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: you rat. Ah, you, you missed.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: No.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Something knocked the gun up in the air.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: You didn't, Carver, you couldn't.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Something just about knocked the gun out of my hand.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: You are quite right, Bill Dawson.
• 23:59
  Speaker 17: I saved you from committing a cold-blooded murder.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: What was that? Who said that?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: A shadow, Dawson.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: A shadow?
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: A ghost?
• 24:09
  Speaker 17: Call me what you like, but I am here helping
• 24:13
  Speaker 17: Daniel Carver. helping the people of this village.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Bill! Hey, Bill! Dawson!
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: You get him?
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Oh, come on.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: We're getting out of here. Something just talked to me. Ah,
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: you must be drunk, Bill. Hey, what's that over there?
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: It's old man Carver.
• 24:27
  Speaker 14: But it wasn't him.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: It knocked my gun right out of my hand.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: Come on, I tell you, this place is haunted.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Ah, there ain't no such thing.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. Listen to that.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Where is it?
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Come on, tell me.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Where's it coming from? Who's that laughing? It ain't Carver.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: It did sound kind of like a ghost in I
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: don't see nothing.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Go. Go quickly, both of you. Get out of Carverville
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: and don't come back.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Come on now, you fool.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Let's get out of here.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Hey, Bill, wait. Wait.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Don't leave me here alone with that thing.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Wait.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: General. General. Are you still here?
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, Daniel Carver.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, whoever, whatever you are. Thank you for
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: saving my life.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I saved you because you have much work to do.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: If there was only some way of repaying you for
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: making me see the truth. You should have credit for
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: all this.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Just bring happiness to the people of this village, Daniel Carver.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: That will be your repayment in full. To the shadows.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: I'll do it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Look, Carver. The people of the village are getting up
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: enough nerve to come out of their house.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: I'll call them all together right now. I'll tell them
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: what I'm going to do.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: I'll make this the happiest Christmas season they've ever had.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: If you will, Daniel Carver.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: What happened in there?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Who's that?
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, who's been shooting? Anybody hurt? Hey, golly, it's Mr. Carver.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: What's he doing here?
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: What do you want, Mr.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Carver?
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Wait a moment. Wait a moment, all of you.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: Oh, I know you have good reasons to hate. Tonight
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: I've been shown why. Something, someone came to me.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know what he was. I don't care.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: All I know is he was like a spirit of God.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: He has shown me how to create a new Carverville,
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: a happy Carverville, where the spirit of Christmas will shine
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: all these years through.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Men and women, a shadow has brought us light.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: This, Carver, this is the peace on earth. Goodwill taught men.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Friends, this afternoon we have an event of unusual importance
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: to bring to you. The Shadow Program is to be
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: honored with one of radio's most coveted awards, which heretofore
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: has been captured by other outstanding programs such as Jack Benny,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Fred Allen, and the March of Time, the Pilot Radio Awards.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: Harry A.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Smith, president of Blue Coal, will accept this award from Mr.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Sylvester Thompson, vice president of the Pilot Radio Corporation, who
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: will make the official presentation. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Thompson.
• 26:58
  Speaker 12: Thank you, Mr. Roberts. During the past year, the Pilot
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: Radio Award Society has been making periodic awards to various
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: programs on the air which represent the highest achievements in
• 27:11
  Speaker 12: their particular fields of entertainment. And so it's only natural
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: that your program, The Shadow, should have come to our attention.
• 27:19
  Speaker 12: But we can easily understand the reason why The Shadow
• 27:22
  Speaker 12: has held its high place in popular favor for so
• 27:25
  Speaker 12: many years. It brings all the thrill and flavor of
• 27:28
  Speaker 12: mystery drama to radio audiences. In addition, the committee commends
• 27:33
  Speaker 12: you very highly upon bringing some of the finest actors
• 27:36
  Speaker 12: of the American stage into the homes of so many
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: radio listeners. Recognizing your noteworthy contribution to fine radio entertainment,
• 27:45
  Speaker 12: I take pleasure in presenting to you, Mr. Smith, the
• 27:48
  Speaker 12: Pilot Radio Award of Merit, and I am certain that
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: the shadow will continue to delight radio audiences for many
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: years to come.
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: Thank you very much, Mr.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: Thompson.
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: On behalf of the Glen Alden Coal Company and the
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: DL & W Coal Company, producers and sellers of Blue Coal,
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: it gives me great pleasure to accept this award. We
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: greatly appreciate this recognition of our efforts to entertain.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: The radio public.
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: We realize, however, that the credit is due to those
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: who prepared, directed, and presented The Shadow. The Blue Coal
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: Dealers of America join me in expressing their appreciation to
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: our very able artists who have presented this entertainment and
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: our thanks to you for this recognition of their efforts.
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: I assure you, that they will endeavor to keep their
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: future presentations of the same high quality that we endeavor
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: to maintain in every ton of blue coal.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Applause The story you have just heard is copyrighted by
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the Shadow Magazine. The characters in this story are entirely fictitious.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:00
  Speaker 15: Music The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does
• 29:22
  Speaker 15: not pay. The shadow knows.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, Blue Pole, America's famous anthracite,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: will again present another thrilling adventure of the shadow. Be
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: sure to listen, and be sure to burn Blue Coal,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: the solid fuel for solid comfort.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: For now, we leave Carverville and the shadow's cold death.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Follow the shadow for more classic broadcasts.