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

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  Speaker 1: At the Legrand family's ancestral estate, a legacy of violent
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: deaths and a bubbling cauldron give Lamont Cranston and Margo
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Lane a case with a supernatural air. From the shadow,
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  Speaker 1: this is Bubbling Death, heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System
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  Speaker 1: on December 5th, 1943, during the blue coal season. Brett
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Morrison stars as Cranston and the Shadow, Marjorie Anderson as
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  Speaker 1: Margot Lane, and Ken Roberts is the announcer.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Arthur wrote the script.
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  Speaker 1: Episode 175 in the Syracuse Script Index, it follows Cranston's
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: search for the human truth behind the terror surrounding the
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  Speaker 1: Legrand family. Here is the original broadcast.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 5: Once again, your neighborhood blue coal dealer brings you the
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  Speaker 5: thrilling adventures of The Shadow, the hard and relentless fight
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  Speaker 5: of one man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations
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  Speaker 5: are designed to demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike
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  Speaker 5: that crime does not pay. The Shadow, mysterious character who
• 1:47
  Speaker 5: waits for forces of law and order... is in reality
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  Speaker 5: Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Several years ago
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  Speaker 5: in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret, the.
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  Speaker 2: Hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him.
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  Speaker 5: Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
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  Speaker 5: only person who knows to whom the voice of the
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  Speaker 5: invisible shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 2: Today's drama, Bubbling Death. George.
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  Speaker 6: George, wake up, quick. What's the matter? Somebody's in the garden.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, who'd be down there this time of night?
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  Speaker 6: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 2: The lift is coming up.
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  Speaker 6: That's your brother.
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  Speaker 7: Bob?
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure? Oh, look. Bob, all right. Bob? Bob? Helen,
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  Speaker 2: he's walking toward the cold room.
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  Speaker 6: No, not him.
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  Speaker 8: Not him.
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  Speaker 3: He's walking.
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  Speaker 9: Bob, come back.
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  Speaker 8: Come back. Come back. Come back.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 6: And that Mr. Cranston is the last we ever saw
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  Speaker 6: of my brother-in-law. By the time my.
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  Speaker 10: Husband got out to the cauldron, Bob had disappeared.
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  Speaker 6: Into that hideous sea of mud. Oh, how awful. You
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  Speaker 6: were a friend of Bob's, Mr. Cranston. There's no one
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  Speaker 6: else I can think of.
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  Speaker 10: The tragedy's affected my husband's mind.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to help me, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Cranston.
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  Speaker 6: I've got to know what terrible secret is wiping out
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  Speaker 6: the Legrands.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do my best, Mrs. Legrand. There were three brothers,
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  Speaker 2: weren't there?
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: The oldest brother, Jonathan, went the same way a few
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  Speaker 10: months ago. Walked into the cauldron in the middle of
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  Speaker 10: the night.
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  Speaker 2: Were you and your husband there at the time?
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 6: Anderson's an engineer.
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  Speaker 10: We were in South America with our little boy, Tommy.
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  Speaker 10: When we got Bob's cable, we heard back home.
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  Speaker 6: Where is your home, Mrs. Legrand?
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  Speaker 10: In a bayou country, Louisiana. When we got there, we
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  Speaker 10: found Bob blooming depressed. Couldn't get a word out of him.
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  Speaker 10: Just Jonathan and Bob. George is the same way.
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  Speaker 2: This cauldron you spoke about, exactly what is it?
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  Speaker 10: It's an old lye taken a wood back to the east.
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  Speaker 10: Fine in a way to soil around it. Full of
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  Speaker 10: mud to climb on. Bath underneath it. Posing boils and
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  Speaker 10: bubbles all through. Tommy threw a ball out on a
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  Speaker 10: bus and his little dog tried to.
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  Speaker 6: Touch it and the mud swallowed it. Oh, how horrible.
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  Speaker 6: Cauldron's got Jonathan and Bob now.
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  Speaker 10: It'll be my husband's turn next month, Tommy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Cranston, you've got to come down to the.
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  Speaker 10: Estate and find out what's making the Legrands walk to
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  Speaker 10: their death.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there it is, Margo. The Legrand ancestral estate. Dismal looking,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: You look at that house, you know. It's like a
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  Speaker 6: veil covering it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the mist, Margo. It comes up out of the swamp.
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  Speaker 6: Those windows look like eyes, dear.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and that crack down the middle of the masonry
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  Speaker 2: doesn't look too reassuring.
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  Speaker 6: It's like something out of Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the gate.
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  Speaker 13: That gate could take me to the little oil.
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  Speaker 2: What's the check, Margo?
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  Speaker 6: Don't worry, I'll read it.
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  Speaker 8: Here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Yes? I'm Lamont Cranston with Miss Lane. Mrs. LeGrand is
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  Speaker 2: expecting us. Come in. My name is Keith.
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  Speaker 8: I'm the caretaker.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs.
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  Speaker 8: LeGrand told me to show you to your rooms.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take your things.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Take this way to the living room.
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  Speaker 6: Keep them going in here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, Margo, I... Chief, I remember... What, Lamont? Nothing, Margo.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Lamont, look! Hmm? Look at that painting over the fireplace. Why,
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  Speaker 6: she's lovely.
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  Speaker 2: Probably a family ancestor. She is beautiful.
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  Speaker 8: Is she admiring the picture?
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Who is she?
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  Speaker 8: It's Florette Legrand, the.
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  Speaker 3: First owner of this house. You wouldn't think to look
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  Speaker 3: at her that she was a murderess.
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  Speaker 6: A murderess? You mean that beautiful girl actually killed somebody?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I could tell you things about this family.
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  Speaker 3: They'd better left unsaid. On the contrary, Keith would like
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  Speaker 3: very much to hear them. Well, Florette LeGrand was a
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  Speaker 3: singer in the days when this state still belonged to France. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: she was wild, undisciplined. She lured half a dozen men
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  Speaker 3: to their deaths in this house.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to her?
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  Speaker 8: The law finally caught up with her. She died in
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  Speaker 8: the gallows.
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  Speaker 6: That's an amazing story.
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  Speaker 8: Her descendants have.
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  Speaker 3: Lived in this house over 200 years, and there's been
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  Speaker 3: violent death in these rooms in every generation. It's her
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  Speaker 3: curse on the House of Legrand that's taken poor Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Bob and Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 3: It's her evil spirit that's lured them to their death.
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  Speaker 2: Mom?
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  Speaker 5: Mom?
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  Speaker 2: I'm in here, Margo. The living room.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Margo, you two wouldn't leave me alone in this place.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Margo. I was outside having a look at
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  Speaker 2: the cold room.
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  Speaker 6: Did you find anything out there?
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  Speaker 2: It's over here by the window, Margo. I want to
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  Speaker 2: show you something.
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  Speaker 9: What is it, Margo?
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  Speaker 2: I'll just pull back these drapes. I'll look over there
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  Speaker 2: over that light here.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see anything but a lot of mist. Keep looking.
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  Speaker 13: Why, that's strange, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: The mist seems to be taking shape.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo. Vague, unreal shape.
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  Speaker 6: Like a floating, headless body.
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  Speaker 2: Illusion caused by the fog that hangs over the clothesline.
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  Speaker 6: I've never seen a fog like this before.
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  Speaker 10: That haze out there looks like it's crawling people.
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  Speaker 6: I almost get the feeling that it's alive.
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  Speaker 2: It is alive.
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  Speaker 6: You shouldn't have opened those gates. This house has been mourned. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: we're terribly sorry.
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  Speaker 8: I don't believe we've met you.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Melinda.
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  Speaker 8: The house.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs.
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  Speaker 14: LeGrand said to tell you she and the doctor will
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  Speaker 14: be down soon.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you? I'm Margot May. And this is Mr. Grant. Hello, son.
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  Speaker 6: You must be Tommy LeGrand. Uh-huh. Mommy told me you
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  Speaker 6: were coming. Do you know him, Dave? Well, then what
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  Speaker 6: do you do? Gee, that'll be swell.
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  Speaker 11: Melinda won't let me play with a pretty lady anymore.
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  Speaker 11: We had such fun together. The dress made a funny
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  Speaker 11: noise and she had bells on it.
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  Speaker 4: That'll do, Tommy.
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  Speaker 14: Run along upstairs.
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  Speaker 11: I will. I want to stay down here.
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  Speaker 6: It's after bedtime.
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  Speaker 2: Come along.
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  Speaker 6: Don't touch me. What, Tommy?
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  Speaker 8: Marissa.
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  Speaker 11: She never lets me have any fun.
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  Speaker 10: I hate her.
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  Speaker 6: I hate her.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy often go up into tantrums like that?
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  Speaker 14: Nothing a LeBron does would surprise me.
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  Speaker 6: Who is this pretty lady Tommy was talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you.
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  Speaker 14: You mustn't pay any attention to the child. Sometimes he
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  Speaker 14: talks about.
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  Speaker 6: Things that don't exist.
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  Speaker 3: Melinda, did Jonathan and Barbara Grant ever talk about things
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  Speaker 3: that didn't exist?
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  Speaker 14: I'm not one to speak ill of the dead. If
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  Speaker 14: you'll excuse me, I'll get.
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  Speaker 8: On with my.
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  Speaker 7: Work.
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  Speaker 6: She's a strange woman.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sorry to have kept you so long, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Grant. This is Dr. Hamlin. He's been attending my husband's.
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  Speaker 8: How do you do?
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  Speaker 6: How do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Doctor, do you mind if I ask you a few
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  Speaker 2: questions about George? That is, if you don't mind, Mrs. LeGrand.
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  Speaker 10: Of course not.
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  Speaker 12: This ailment George is suffering from, mightn't it be just
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  Speaker 12: shock brought on by the loss of his two brothers?
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  Speaker 2: It's more than shock, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Cranston.
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  Speaker 9: The man seems to be constantly listening to something, looking
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  Speaker 9: toward the door as though he were expecting something to happen.
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  Speaker 6: That's what's so horrible. If only we knew what it was,
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  Speaker 6: if only we could get George to tell us.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I'm afraid it will be a long time before
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  Speaker 9: your husband will be able to tell us anything, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Cranston.
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  Speaker 9: He's either seen or heard something that has left a
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  Speaker 9: horrific impression on him. Whatever it is, it's frozen him
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  Speaker 9: into a silence in which I can't move him.
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  Speaker 2: One more question, Doctor. This thing that's affecting him, would
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  Speaker 2: you say he was afraid of it? No. There's a
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  Speaker 2: fair part about it, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Cranston. He doesn't show any symptoms of fear. Only a
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  Speaker 9: terrific anxiety. As if he couldn't wait to see or
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  Speaker 9: hear this thing again.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor. You see, Mr. Pierce. What are you doing walking
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: around the halls at this hour, Margo?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I've kept jeans and behind me teddy black drapes
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  Speaker 6: in my room.
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  Speaker 13: I'll just spend the night held up on this hall sofa,
• 11:01
  Speaker 13: fully dressed and wide awake.
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  Speaker 2: I don't blame you, Margo. This place isn't exactly conducive
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  Speaker 2: to sleep. I've just been reading a book I found
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  Speaker 2: downstairs in the library. A history of the LeGrand family, Margo.
• 11:13
  Speaker 6: Must have been interesting reading. If what Keith told us
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  Speaker 6: about Florette LeGrand is true.
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  Speaker 2: Keith didn't exaggerate a bit. Houses a heritage of this.
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  Speaker 2: Violence this. I get all the sense.
• 11:25
  Speaker 6: Remember what, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: When I've seen Chief before.
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  Speaker 6: It's hard to forget a face like this. It's more
• 11:31
  Speaker 6: like a skull with eyes.
• 11:33
  Speaker 13: Lamont, has it ever occurred to you that Jonathan and
• 11:36
  Speaker 13: Robert LeBron might have committed suicide?
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, suicide would fit in with a brother's gloomy temperament.
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  Speaker 2: There's one thing wrong with that theory.
• 11:44
  Speaker 6: What?
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: Drowning in mud isn't one of the accepted methods of suicide.
• 11:53
  Speaker 6: I think I found the other men in the hall.
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  Speaker 7: Look.
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  Speaker 4: How can I hold anything in the hall?
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: A kind of shape lies in the floor. In front
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: of George LaGrange.
• 12:06
  Speaker 6: I can't see.
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  Speaker 2: It's running away. I'm going to find out what that
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  Speaker 2: thing is.
• 12:09
  Speaker 6: I'm coming with you.
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: Step it on these steps, Martha. You'll be all right. Now,
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: don't trip over anything. Keep that height fixed.
• 12:21
  Speaker 13: Look, there's something in the door. Let me get him
• 12:25
  Speaker 13: out of the way like that, Annette.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: Hello? Oh, my.
• 12:36
  Speaker 6: What is all these things on my face? It's just
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: a little cobweb.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: We heard a noise and came down to investigate.
• 12:44
  Speaker 8: Oh, you heard it too, eh?
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: This twitching sound makes the rustling of a woman's shirt
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: and the tinkling.
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  Speaker 8: Of a charm.
• 12:50
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes. Yes, those were the sounds, Lamont.
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: You say you've heard those sounds before? Yes, it's her.
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  Speaker 2: It's Florette Legrand. What makes you so certain?
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  Speaker 8: She walks these halls at night seeking revenge.
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  Speaker 6: Revenge? For what?
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: It was her own brother, the Duke Arnie Legrand, who
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: convicted her. She won't stay dead till she's taken the
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  Speaker 3: last of the.
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  Speaker 8: Legrands with her. It's a curse.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's a curse.
• 13:21
  Speaker 6: Do you believe in ghosts, Lamont?
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Martha.
• 13:26
  Speaker 6: But, Lamont. What are you doing?
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: What kind of material would make a swishing sound like
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: the one we heard?
• 13:34
  Speaker 6: Well, taffeta, I guess.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: Take a good look at that painting, Martha. That one
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: of Loretta Graham. An excellent job. Did you even see
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: the grain of the cloth on her gown?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 6: The taffeta.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo. And that ornament on her wrist is a
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: charm bracelet.
• 14:06
  Speaker 6: Lamont, I don't mind telling you, this place gives me
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: the creeps.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: What's the matter now, Margo?
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: The picture over the fireplace, this living room, even the
• 14:13
  Speaker 6: furniture seems to be hiding from me.
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  Speaker 12: I know, Margo, but we've got to stick it out.
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  Speaker 12: Two members of the family have walked to their death
• 14:18
  Speaker 12: in the cauldron. Until we find out what's got them
• 14:21
  Speaker 12: out there. George Legrand, his wife and child are in
• 14:23
  Speaker 12: danger of being murdered, too.
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: And you're certain it was murder?
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo. Cunning, diabolic murder.
• 14:28
  Speaker 10: It's this ghost business that's got me on edge.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: That thing we saw in the hall last night wasn't
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: a ghost.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: It's a storm coming up. I'd better fasten the shutters. Now,
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: there's bad things brewing. I've seen many things in this house,
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: heard things. Why don't you stay on if you don't
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: like it here? Well, they gave me a home. It's
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: little enough I can do to stay on when all
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: the other servants have left.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: What about Melinda? Is she still here? It's one of
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: the reasons I stayed.
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't trust her alone in the house with Mrs.
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: LeGrand and the boys.
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: What's the matter, Mr.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Legrand?
• 15:03
  Speaker 8: It's George.
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: He's out there walking towards the Red Heavens now. He's
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: going by the car and you've got.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: To stop him.
• 15:08
  Speaker 8: Take care of Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Legrand, Margo.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going out.
• 15:09
  Speaker 8: Pull him out.
• 15:09
  Speaker 10: Pull him out.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: Be careful.
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: There he goes, the way his brothers went out into
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: the dark. It's your evil spirit that drives them.
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: Stop him.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Stop him.
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  Speaker 2: Back to shadow.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: Out here is footprint. Right up at the edge of
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: the cauldron. I'm afraid we're too late. No one could
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: have saved him. He was doomed to go. How deep
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: is this life here?
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: It has no bottom. I've tried filling it in.
• 15:48
  Speaker 12: The murderous box was left open like this. Why wasn't
• 15:50
  Speaker 12: it fenced off? I tried that too, but the storms
• 15:53
  Speaker 12: around here have ruined the fence.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: We can't do anything out here. Let's go back to
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: the house. Nasty job, telling the program.
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: I'd better close the storm door to run back.
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Where are the monsters?
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: My husband, Eddie. You've got to put yourself together, Mrs. Legrand. George.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid we were too late.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, George.
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: George.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: I came to his room to say goodnight.
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: The door was wide open. He was coming.
• 16:29
  Speaker 12: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Cranston, what horrible thing has.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: Taken them all.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: My suspicions are correct, Mrs. O'Gran. I can promise you
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: we'll know before this matter's over.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Don't worry.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: Well, out there go the lights.
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: Cranston, I'm afraid.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: Candles, Mrs. O'Gran, that's the matches here.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Margo! Margo, where are you?
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: Put your candles on the mantelpiece.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait. I've got them. Yeah, that's better. Margo! Margo's disappeared. Margo!
• 17:01
  Speaker 12: We'd need a circuit of the house, not a trace
• 17:02
  Speaker 12: of Margo.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: We must find her.
• 17:03
  Speaker 10: Oh, I'm afraid I've drawn both of them into terrible danger, Mr.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: Cranston.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Margo must be somewhere in this house.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Mrs.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: LeGrand, do you know of any secret panels in this room?
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: No, maybe she would. I wonder where he is.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: So do I. I've been over the entire house and
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: haven't seen a sign of either him or Melinda.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Someone's coming. Look, there's a candle glow on the stairs.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: It's Margo.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Are you all right, Margo?
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: There's something I have to do. What's the matter with her?
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know. She's picking up the letter opener.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: I've got to find Helen McBride.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Margo, put that down.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: Margo, listen to me.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Give me that letter opener. Oh, Lamont.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm so dizzy. My head is spinning.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: Margo, can you tell us what happened?
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: I can't remember. Lamont, I was standing by the fireplace
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: and the lights went out. Someone grabbed me.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Do you know who it was? Oh, I know.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: I had a mad impulse to stab Helen LeBrand.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo. You're the victim of post-hypnotic suggestion.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, Mark. I almost committed murder.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: But not quite.
• 18:16
  Speaker 12: We'll beat this thing, whatever it is, tonight. Somebody in
• 18:24
  Speaker 12: this house has been on wholesale murder, Margo, and there's
• 18:26
  Speaker 12: no ghost.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to tell you until Mrs.
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: LeBrand went up to her room. When Keith and I
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: went out of the cauldron, I noticed another pair of
• 18:32
  Speaker 12: footprints beside George's. Tiny footprints like those made by a
• 18:35
  Speaker 12: woman's slipper.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: A woman's slipper?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I don't understand. I found something else. It wasn't the
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: storm that put out the light.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: How do you know?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: While we were looking for you, I noticed the fuse
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: box in the hall of the jar. One of the
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: fuses had been removed.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: Vermont, do you think Keith could have.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Keith, if I could only remember... Keith! Fitness! I've got it!
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I know where I've seen him before. Look, Margo, go
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: on upstairs, stay in your room, and lock the door.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Well, what are you going to do?
• 18:59
  Speaker 12: I think it's about time the shadow took a hand
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: in this game. I've got to hunch that old caretaker
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: isn't the superstitious fool he seems.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Is that you, Keith?
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: Yes. Why did you ask me to meet you out here?
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: I was afraid to talk in the house with those
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: two meddlers around.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: We have nothing to fear from them.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: I'm not. Miss Lane has been questioning me. What was that?
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: Say nothing.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: You're just nervous.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: I'm sure I heard someone. Sounded like a footstep.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: No, no one's here. Let's get on with it. What
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: do you want?
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: An understanding key.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I've already told you there's nothing to share until we
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: get rid of the whole family.
• 19:40
  Speaker 14: It's taking too long.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: There's only Mrs. Legrand and the child left.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Well, Mrs.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: Legrand should be dead by now.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Murdered by Miss Lane.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's good. That's rich.
• 19:56
  Speaker 14: Only a Legrand could plan things so cleverly.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Now, now what about the child?
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: We'll have to wait.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: I'm tired of waiting. Something may go wrong.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: You want to spoil everything? Remember, Melinda, I've got a
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: better claim on this estate than you, and if I
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: wanted to be uncharitable, I needn't give you anything.
• 20:14
  Speaker 14: You wouldn't dare.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: I'd go to the police.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: No, no, you wouldn't.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: You're what the law calls a partner in crime, Melinda.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: They'd find you just as guilty as I.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Maybe you're thinking of getting rid of me, too. But remember, Keith,
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: I'm not a Legrand.
• 20:29
  Speaker 14: Your ghost can't lure me into the cauldron.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: My mother was a servant in this house for 30 years.
• 20:35
  Speaker 12: They promised her a share of the estate for her
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: royalty and she never got it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: But I want it and I'll have it, do you hear?
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: I'll have this house or no one will.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: What?
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Who's there?
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: It's I, Papa. Fred.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Well, what are you doing out here?
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: Tommy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: Poor little Tommy. Tiptoed into his room. Walking ever so gently.
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: He's the last of the Legrands, isn't he, Papa? Soon
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: there'll be none left. Then I can have the house.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: You promised it would be mine again.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Fool, what have you done?
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: Only what you told me, Papa. I called to Tommy.
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: He's coming out here.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: No, not tonight, you idiot.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: We must go.
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: He's the last of them. He's coming to play a
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: game with me.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Go back to the house. That won't be necessary, Keith.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Who spoke?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: It's the shadow. Where are you? Standing right in front
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: of you. I can't see you. I've clouded your mind.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: What do you want here?
• 21:47
  Speaker 15: I'm here to make you confess your crimes. You murdered
• 21:50
  Speaker 15: the Legrand brothers.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: You can't prove they were murdered. There are no bodies.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, that was clever of you, Keith.
• 21:56
  Speaker 15: Caldron leaves little evidence.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: They were murdered, all right.
• 21:59
  Speaker 15: You're to that death by that mad woman over there.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not Legrand. This house is mine.
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: All mine.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Where's the fool? Now, you see, the shadow knows the truth.
• 22:10
  Speaker 15: Years ago, you toured the country with a carnival giving
• 22:12
  Speaker 15: exhibitions of hypnosis. Tonight, you kidnapped Miss Lane, gave her
• 22:16
  Speaker 15: the post-hypnotic suggestion to murder Mrs.
• 22:18
  Speaker 12: Legrand.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: It's not true. That's not true.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Persuaded her that she's.
• 22:22
  Speaker 15: The notorious Florette Legrand, that she has the power to
• 22:25
  Speaker 15: lead men to her graves.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: She's the one who lured.
• 22:27
  Speaker 15: The Legrand brothers to the cauldron.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: You have no proof?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, I have.
• 22:31
  Speaker 15: I overheard your little talk with Melinda.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: What?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Which death? That was you.
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: You knew all the brothers were sensitive, moody.
• 22:39
  Speaker 15: You kept feeding their morbid imaginations with your ghost story.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: And you let your mad daughter loose. She bore an amazing.
• 22:44
  Speaker 15: Resemblance to Florette Legrand's picture.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: That and the mist down here did the rest. They'd
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: have followed her anywhere.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: All right, yes, Shadow, it was my plan. I want
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: a grand, too.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: My brother cheated me out of this estate so that
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: his son could inherit it. They didn't know that I
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: was their uncle.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: And I knew things about this house that they never knew.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Secret doors, a hidden room where I concealed my lovely
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: mad daughter.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: And with her help, I got rid of my nephews.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: You committed your last crime, Pete.
• 23:13
  Speaker 15: I'm going to turn you over to the police.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: You'll have to catch me first. I know every inch
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: of this land's shadow. It's treacherous land.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: You wouldn't dare follow me through these swamps.
• 23:23
  Speaker 15: No, but I'm going to stop you.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Put your arms behind your back. What are you thinking?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: You won't get me so easily. Brother!
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: Brother!
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Yes, Papa?
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: He's got my arm.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: I'm going to force him back towards the cauldron.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: You push him in.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Papa, I don't see anyone but you.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: He's back at me, you fool. He's got my arm.
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: There.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: I've got him at the edge of the cauldron.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: Now, push him in.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Like this, Papa?
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: There, you fool.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Well, Margo, I guess that solves the mystery of the
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Legrand ghost.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: So it was Keith's daughter.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: The costume and veil she wore belonged to the first
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: floor at Legrand. They were family heirlooms. Keith and Melinda
• 24:22
  Speaker 12: were in the scheme together. Now Melinda's in jail where
• 24:25
  Speaker 12: she belongs.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Lamont, you never did tell me what happened out of
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: the cauldron.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Well, that was a narrow escape.
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: Keith almost succeeded in pushing the shadow into the cauldron.
• 24:34
  Speaker 12: His daughter tried to help him, but naturally she couldn't
• 24:36
  Speaker 12: see the shadow. She and Keith tangled. He fell back
• 24:38
  Speaker 12: into the.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Cauldron and pulled her in.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, how horrible.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: No more horrible than the crimes they committed.
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: Oh, um, by the way, Lamont, here's a little folder
• 24:47
  Speaker 13: I thought you might be interested in.
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: Hmm? Visit the historic Bayou Country where old world charm
• 24:53
  Speaker 12: and romance make for restful vacationing.
• 24:56
  Speaker 16: Oh, Margo.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: The Shadow Program is based on a story copyrighted by
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Street and Smith Publications. The characters, names, places, and plot
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead is
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: purely coincidental. Again next week, the Shadow will demonstrate that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Next week, same time, same station, your friendly blue coal
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: dealer brings you another strange and thrilling adventure in the shadows,
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: daring battle against the forces of evil.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Be sure to listen.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: This is Ken Roberts saying, keep the home fires burning
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: with blue coal. This story produced by the DL &
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: W Coal Company, distributors of blue coal.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: This program came to you from New York. This is Mutual.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: We conclude with the shadow's bubbling death. Good night, and
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: thank you for spending this time with Classic Radio.