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The Shadow - "The Ghost of Captain Bayloe" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: When the freighter Northern Queen is wrecked in waters marked
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  Speaker 1: by the legend of Captain Balo, a survivor says a
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  Speaker 1: ghost took the helm and drove her onto the rocks.
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  Speaker 1: Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane join shipowner Commodore Ware at
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  Speaker 1: a fog-bound waterfront, then follow the case toward remote Bayloe Island.
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  Speaker 2: This is The Shadow, episode.
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  Speaker 1: Number 158, The Ghost of Captain Bayloe, originally heard over
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  Speaker 1: mutual on February 5th, 1939. Bill Johnstone is Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 1: with Agnes Moorhead as Margot Lane. Ken Roberts is the announcer.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: Your local blue coal dealer presents The Shadows.
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  Speaker 5: These half-hour dramatizations are designed to forcibly demonstrate to old
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  Speaker 5: and young alike that crime does not pay.
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  Speaker 4: Our cast begins the first act of today's exciting adventure
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  Speaker 4: with the shadow in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: But first, a word to all you householders.
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  Speaker 4: warmth throughout every room, then ask for Blue Coal by
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  Speaker 4: quality hard coal, it burns better and gives you longer
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  Speaker 4: periods between firing. Always insist on blue coal, the solid
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  Speaker 4: fuel for solid comfort. The Shadow, mysterious character who aids
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  Speaker 4: those in distress and helps the forces of law and order,
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  Speaker 4: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the
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  Speaker 4: only person who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs.
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  Speaker 4: The only one who knows the true identity of that
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  Speaker 4: master of other people's minds, The Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: Today's story, The Ghost of Captain Balow. The Ghost of
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  Speaker 2: Captain Balow Come along, Cranston.
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  Speaker 6: We ought to find the mate of the Northern Queen...
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  Speaker 6: and one of those waterfront saloons around here. I know
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  Speaker 6: you'll be interested in hearing his story.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure I will. Tell me, Mr. Ware... what happened
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  Speaker 2: to the rest of the crew when the Northern Queen
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  Speaker 2: went down?
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  Speaker 6: Lost every man jack of them. This mate we're looking
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  Speaker 6: for is the only survivor. He just got port. The
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  Speaker 6: Northern Queen was your biggest freight ship, wasn't it? Biggest
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  Speaker 6: and best in the whole fleet, Cranston... It was smashed
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  Speaker 6: to bits.
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  Speaker 2: How did it happen? I don't exactly know.
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  Speaker 6: I've heard some crazy explanations, but no facts. That's why
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  Speaker 6: I'm so anxious to talk to this mate. Maybe he
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  Speaker 6: can clear things up.
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  Speaker 2: You say the Northern Queen was smashed to bits. Where
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  Speaker 2: did it happen?
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  Speaker 6: On an uninhabited island off the ship lanes in the
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  Speaker 6: middle of the Pacific.
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  Speaker 2: Uninhabited? Off the ship lanes? Then what was your freighter
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  Speaker 2: doing there?
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  Speaker 6: That's just what I've got to find out. There's something
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  Speaker 6: strange about this whole business. Ten liners have been wrecked
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  Speaker 6: in the same spot during a score of years.
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  Speaker 2: In the same manner. Here, Cranston. Let's see if we
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  Speaker 2: can find the mate in this place. Hey, partner. Tell
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  Speaker 2: him up.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: What do you have?
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  Speaker 6: There'll be little trouble mustering a ship crew in this saloon, eh, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Ware?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, a shout would bring you enough men to man
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  Speaker 6: a boat from keel to bridge, Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, uh, here's my mate.
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  Speaker 7: Hi there, mate.
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  Speaker 2: I see you're still fit to ride a gale. Commodore Ware, sir.
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  Speaker 5: It's right pleased I am to lay an eye on
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  Speaker 5: you again. I, uh, want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: Can we go in the back room there? Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Right in here.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be nice and quiet. Here, sir. This is better.
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  Speaker 2: Sit down, mate. Have a seat, Cranston. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I know you want to hear about the wreck of
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  Speaker 5: your ship, the Northern Queen.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Mate, give me the fact. That I will, sir.
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  Speaker 5: And it'll likely raise the hair on your head just
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  Speaker 5: as it's whitened mine.
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  Speaker 2: What happened? What caused the wreck of my ship?
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  Speaker 5: It was Captain Balow who steered her on the rocks, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Captain Balow wasn't master of the Northern Queen, was he?
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  Speaker 5: No, but he rode the bridge the night she broke up.
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  Speaker 5: Least wise, his ghost did.
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  Speaker 2: Ghost?
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  Speaker 8: Aye.
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  Speaker 5: The ghost of Captain Balow held the wheel and all
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  Speaker 5: the men aboard couldn't budge it from his grip. That
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  Speaker 5: strong he was.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 6: Now, what I want to know, mate, is what the
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  Speaker 6: Northern Queen was doing.
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  Speaker 2: Off her course.
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  Speaker 5: We'd sprung a leak in our freshwater tank, sir. The
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  Speaker 5: nearest land point was Balow Island. The skipper set the
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  Speaker 5: Northern Queen to the wind and steered the course for
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  Speaker 5: the island. The crew was again it, but it was
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  Speaker 5: that or die of thirst. Gentlemen, if I knew then
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  Speaker 5: what was before us... I'd have died a thousand times.
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing, sir, till we were a few miles off the island.
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  Speaker 5: Then Captain Balow's ghost took command. I most forgot, Mr. Cranston,
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  Speaker 5: I don't suppose you know about Captain Balow. No, but
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  Speaker 5: I'm very much interested. Well, sir, Captain Balow's been dead
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  Speaker 5: these 20 years or more. He was the last of
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  Speaker 5: the old square rigger skippers. It was the China trade
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  Speaker 5: he was in. On his last voyage out of the Orient,
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  Speaker 5: he carried two precious cargoes, a shipment of silver and
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  Speaker 5: his beautiful young wife. Captain Balow was quitting the sea
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  Speaker 5: to settle in South America. A happy pair they were, sir.
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  Speaker 2: None happier.
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  Speaker 5: His crew, though, was the muttliest collection of sea scum
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  Speaker 5: ever to sail before the mast. Well, sir, they were
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  Speaker 5: just off the island that's now called after him. Captain
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  Speaker 5: Balo was at the wheel, his wife beside him. The
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  Speaker 5: sea spray was washing her lovely face and she was
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  Speaker 5: laughing into the wind.
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  Speaker 2: The crew was aft. Heads together.
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  Speaker 7: We're fools if we don't, I tell you.
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  Speaker 2: We could do it easy.
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  Speaker 7: Captain Bilo's got the silver locked in his cabin.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we could make him give up the key.
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  Speaker 7: He'll never do it. How are we weaklings that we
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  Speaker 7: can't make him do it?
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  Speaker 2: He's only one man and we're a whole crew.
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  Speaker 7: There's enough silver to make us all rich for the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of our lives. There's a much prettier cargo on
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  Speaker 2: the bridge beside him. His woman, eh?
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  Speaker 8: Aye.
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  Speaker 2: Silver comes from the earth. But a face like that
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  Speaker 2: could only come from above. I want silver. Well, my
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  Speaker 2: share goes for the other cargo.
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  Speaker 7: We share alike.
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  Speaker 2: We get the prize first.
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  Speaker 7: We argue about it afterward.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: While a happy woman laughed beside a contented man, the
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  Speaker 5: crew crept slowly toward the bridge. The laugh was cut
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  Speaker 5: short by the sight of the hard-faced maiden. Captain Balow
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  Speaker 5: asked them what they wanted for.
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  Speaker 6: We want the key to your cabin, Captain Balow, and
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  Speaker 6: we mean to get it.
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  Speaker 2: Give us the key. He ordered the men below, but.
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  Speaker 3: We came for that silver cargo, and you ain't putting
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  Speaker 3: us off. Better give us the key, peaceful, or we'll
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  Speaker 3: take it away from you.
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  Speaker 5: The skipper reminded him it was mutiny.
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  Speaker 2: We know what it is.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to tell us.
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  Speaker 2: Mutiny are not winning, Commander, and you're doing... We've had
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  Speaker 2: enough talk. Out for the key.
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  Speaker 5: Captain Balow told them they'd get the key over his
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  Speaker 5: dead body.
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  Speaker 2: All right, then. Over your dead body it'll be, Captain Balow.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, men.
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  Speaker 8: Grab him.
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  Speaker 2: He's choking me.
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  Speaker 8: Bash him.
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  Speaker 2: Bash him.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the men fought like hungry wolves. Captain Balow's wife
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  Speaker 5: stood frozen in horror.
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  Speaker 7: Hand me that belay and pen.
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  Speaker 8: Here you are.
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  Speaker 5: That ought to shuttle a swab. The blow from the
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  Speaker 5: belaying pin stunned the skipper. He fell to the deck.
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  Speaker 5: The crew were on him, snapping like a bunch of jackals.
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  Speaker 2: All right, lift him up. Here we come.
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  Speaker 7: There's no more now.
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  Speaker 2: Heave him over the side.
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  Speaker 5: Captain Balow was half conscious when they threw him over
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  Speaker 5: the rail. He revived a bit when his body hit
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  Speaker 5: the water. He saw his ship with his wife aboard
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  Speaker 5: sailing away. Above the surge of the sea, he heard
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  Speaker 5: coming back on the wind... the pitiful wail of his
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  Speaker 5: lovely wife. Before the waters covered him up... Captain Balow,
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  Speaker 5: with an oath on his lips... swore eternal vengeance on
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  Speaker 5: all men who sailed the sea. Well, gentlemen, Captain Balow's
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  Speaker 5: wife died soon after that. But he's had his revenge
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  Speaker 5: many times over. He takes the helm of any ship
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  Speaker 5: that ventures into the waters where he lost his life
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  Speaker 5: and steers it onto the rocks of Balow Island.
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  Speaker 2: You think that's how the Northern Queen was wrecked? I
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  Speaker 2: don't think, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 8: I know. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not given to ghost stories, sir, but I saw
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  Speaker 5: the Northern Queen's propeller frozen so her big engines couldn't
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  Speaker 5: turn it over. There she rode, helpless on the tide,
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  Speaker 5: straight for the rocks. She was smashed to bits.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you so sure the ghost of Captain Balow
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  Speaker 2: took command? Because I heard the warning. Warning? Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 5: I was just going off watch when I heard it
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  Speaker 5: plain as I hear you.
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  Speaker 2: What was it?
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  Speaker 5: The pitiful wail of Captain Balow's wife. I knew then
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  Speaker 5: the Northern Queen was done for. Another seaman and myself
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  Speaker 5: put a small boat over the side and rowed away.
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  Speaker 5: The other man died from exposure. I was picked up
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  Speaker 5: five days later by a liner. That's why I'm here now, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 5: And there's not enough money in all the world that'll
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  Speaker 5: get me back to Balow Island.
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  Speaker 6: Well, the wreck of the Northern Queen is still a
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  Speaker 6: mystery to me.
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  Speaker 2: Branson, what do you think? What do I think? Mr. Ware,
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  Speaker 2: how would you and Mrs. Ware like to take a
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  Speaker 2: trip on my yacht with Miss Lane and myself? Trip?
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  Speaker 2: Where to? To Baylor Island. By George, it's funny.
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  Speaker 6: Here I am, owner of a fleet of ocean liners
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  Speaker 6: I haven't been to see in years. Cranston, I'm glad
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  Speaker 6: you suggested this voyage. Well, I'm glad you're enjoying it, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Wendt.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this salt air makes you sleepy.
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  Speaker 8: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Ware and Miss Lane have turned in long ago. Get
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  Speaker 2: off on a suit.
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  Speaker 4: Coming, Cranston?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'll join you below in just a moment. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, Captain. Good evening, Mrs. Ware. Mr. Cranston. Yes, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: Any orders for tonight, sir?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 2: Supposed to do the same course. You haven't yet told
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  Speaker 2: me where we're heading, sir. No, but so. You're in line, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Not at all, Captain. We're heading for Baylor Island. Baylor Island?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard of the place, I suppose? What seaman hasn't?
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  Speaker 2: And why in heaven's name do you want to go
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  Speaker 2: to that place, sir? I want to convince myself of something.
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  Speaker 2: It's a dangerous voyage, sir.
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  Speaker 4: You think we might be wrecked, is that it?
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  Speaker 2: Not only that, sir. But it means trouble with the crew.
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  Speaker 1: And they find out we're heading for those haunted waters.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hate to think of what may happen. Tell me, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe in this legend? Do you fear the
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  Speaker 2: ghost of Captain Balow? Yes, sir, I certainly do.
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  Speaker 8: Quiet a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Quiet a minute. I tell you, I saw the sailing orders.
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  Speaker 2: The chief engineer told me it's a fact. We're off
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  Speaker 2: from Baylor Island.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cranston must be crazy.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Cranston may be crazy enough to come here, but that
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  Speaker 7: don't mean we have to stay.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean? We can make Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Cranston turn the ship back.
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  Speaker 2: That's mutiny. You can be jailed for that.
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  Speaker 7: That may be worse than what may happen.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to do something. The old crew's on watch tonight. Leastwise,
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  Speaker 2: not a man's asleep.
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  Speaker 5: They can't be far from that coast at Balow Island now.
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  Speaker 2: If it wasn't so dark, you could see it off
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  Speaker 2: the port bow. That close? Aye. Suppose... Suppose Captain Balow
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  Speaker 2: took command. I'll ask you for it. Yes, but I just...
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about it. What's that?
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  Speaker 8: Hear something? Yes. This is... You.
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  Speaker 7: Hear it?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Sounds like a woman. That's it.
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  Speaker 4: It's her.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you mean? Captain Bailo's wife. That's the warning.
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  Speaker 3: He'll come out of the sea now, any minute.
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  Speaker 8: The ghost? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We're lost. We're lost, I tell you.
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  Speaker 8: Immerse her. Keep quiet.
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  Speaker 10: There it is again.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to turn back. We've got to get out
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  Speaker 2: of these waters.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to tell the skipper.
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  Speaker 10: We've got to get out.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Captain. Fill in there, you swab. Open the door.
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  Speaker 8: Quick, Captain.
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  Speaker 11: Here.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on here? I heard it.
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  Speaker 5: I heard it, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about, man? What did you hear?
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  Speaker 7: Captain Bailon did.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 2: You men are letting your imaginations run away with you.
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  Speaker 2: Now get below and stay quiet. No, no.
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  Speaker 7: I hear as plain as a ship's belt.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to get out of these waters. We'll all
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  Speaker 2: be lost. What's going on, Captain? This man thinks he
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  Speaker 2: heard the wail of Captain Baylor's wife, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 7: I don't just think, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I heard it. The other men heard it, too. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's nothing, man. Just the wind and the rigging, that's all. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to believe me, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 8: There's still time to save ourselves. You've got.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 8: Our engines.
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  Speaker 2: They've stopped. Call the engine room.
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  Speaker 8: Aye, sir. There, you see, sir? Oi, hello, Smithers.
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  Speaker 5: Aye, aye, sir.
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  Speaker 2: What's happened to the engine? We don't know, sir. They
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  Speaker 2: just stopped dead. The motor started smoking all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 2: Stand by. I'm coming below.
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  Speaker 10: Aye, aye, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Strange. The motors have all been shorted. They can't feed
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  Speaker 2: the engine.
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  Speaker 8: I knew it. It's the ghost.
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  Speaker 2: He's taken over. We're lost. The ship's lost. Keep quiet, man.
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  Speaker 7: I'm getting out of here.
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  Speaker 2: The ship's on me. Don't go out there.
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  Speaker 4: Come back here.
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  Speaker 2: Captain, we've got to stop that man. He's gone mad.
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  Speaker 2: Stop that man.
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  Speaker 8: Stop him.
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  Speaker 2: We're lost, I say.
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  Speaker 9: We're lost.
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  Speaker 2: Turn on the searchlight. Wing that light this way.
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  Speaker 10: Lamont, what's happened?
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  Speaker 2: One of our men leaped over the side, Margot. Leaped over,
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  Speaker 2: you say, Cranston?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Mr.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Ware. Why? Our engine stalled. Poor fellow became crazed with fear.
• 16:46
  Speaker 10: Oh, this is frightful, Lamont.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I only hope we can find him in this heavy sea.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Here he is, Captain. Have you found him? No, I'm afraid, sir,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: there's not much of a chance in a sea like this.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: There's no sight of him.
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: We've got to find him. We must.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: The men will do all they can up here. I've
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: got to go below and see what can be done
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: about our engine.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: What's our position, Cranston?
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: We're just off the island, Mr. Ware. Is there much
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: of a drift? Pretty heavy one. And it's toward the island.
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: That means we may crash if the engines aren't started.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Mr. Ware. Yes, Cranston?
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: Help me lower one of our small boats.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Small boat?
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: What for?
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I'm going over to that island. Le Mans. But what
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: good would that do? The place is uninhabited. Nevertheless, I've
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: got to see what's there.
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: This is too dangerous. I don't want you to go
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: out there alone.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: You and everybody else on this yacht are in great danger, Margo. I...
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: I've gotten you all into it. I've got to try
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: and get you out of it.
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: Well, if you're going out there, Lamont, I'm going with you.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Here. Here we are, Margot. Leave the boat beached here
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: while we look around.
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: Not much to see in this darkness.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, desolate place, isn't it? It's foolish of you to come, Margot.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: You should have taken my advice.
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: Lamont.
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: Huh? Look.
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: Look over there.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: What is it, Margot?
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: Something's coming out of that clump of bushes. Oh, it's
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: coming towards us.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: A man.
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: Sir Martha, could it be the ghost of Captain Balow?
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Don't be frightened, Margo. I've got my gun. Stand where
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: you are. I'll shoot.
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: What do you want?
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: Do you hear me, men?
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Keep away, I said. Who.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Who are you?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I've come from that yacht off there.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: Then you're not one of Yandy's men.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Well, who is Yandy?
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: The devil... A monster.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Do you live on this island?
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: I die on this island.
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: We understood it's uninhabited.
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: There are people here, but not above the ground.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: They're buried in dark, damp dungeons. Yet they live.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Who are these people?
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: Survivors of ships wrecked on the rocks here. Anybody that
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: ever sets foot on this island is never allowed to
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: leave again.
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: Go away.
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: Go away before it's too late.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I want to know about those prisoners.
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: Their lives are spent in darkness. All day they work
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: in the mines.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Mines?
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: At night they're locked in dungeons. Always darkness. Never fresh air.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: Never light.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Are you a captive here?
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: Aye. Captive and slave. I was the skipper of the
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: Nellie Moth. She was wrecked here some 15 years ago.
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: I've been here ever since.
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: But you're not confined to a dungeon.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: I've found a secret exit. I steal out at night
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: to watch the sea... And hope.
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: Lamont, something will have to be done for these unfortunate people.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: There's nothing, nothing you can do. Go away. Go away.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Can you take me to the dungeons?
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: I can, but I don't think I should.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Please, I think I can help.
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: No one can best Yandy.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Perhaps I can.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: Yes. All right, then. Come along and see how dead
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: men live. Careful. The guard is due along any minute.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Keep close to me, Margo. The place is dark.
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: I'm all right, Lamont.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: The gungeon's. They're just below this crevice. You have to
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: jump here.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Let me help you, Marko. There we are.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: This is all the light we ever see. A single flare.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Mark, look. Good heavens. Are these men?
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: These are the ones that have gone blind from the dark.
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: They can't work. So they must die of slow starvation.
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: How horrible.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: How many men are here?
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: Half a hundred.
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: That's an awful amount.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Men! Men! Look!
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: Two from the outside world. They've come to help us.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: There's no help for us. Careful. Here comes the guard.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Get back, Margot.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: In here. He will pass.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Get behind me, Margot. Tell me, men. Does this guard
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: have the keys to the dungeon?
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: What are you going to do, Lamont?
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: Get those keys.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Liberate these men.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: But how?
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Quiet, Margot.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Here he comes. There.
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: That's done it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Now the keys. Here they are.
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: Open the dungeon. It's quick, Lamont.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margot. There we are.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: All right, men.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Come on out. Come out. You're free. Don't you understand
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: what I mean?
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: It's no use, Lamont. These men are afraid to move.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: There's only one way to free them. I must remove
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the cause of their fear. Where will I find this Yandy? Yandy?
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Oh, you can't get near him. He lives and works
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: in rooms carved out of solid rock. Where?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Show me the rock. It's useless.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: But if you want to try, come with me. Margot.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: You go on, Lamont. I'm going to open the rest
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: of these dungeons and try to cook these men out
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: of this train.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: Yes, you will be safer here. There won't be another
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: guard along before morning.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Come along.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: Very well. But you will never get near Yandy alive.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: He's guarded day and night.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I've got to get him.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: The lives of those men, the lives of my friends
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: and crew depend on it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Can you make a route yet, Mr.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: Yandy?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: Yes, she's a yacht. A rich man's plaything. It'll soon
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: be his coffin.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: They got the engines going again, sir.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: Very well. Turn on the black beam. Short the motors.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: That's got them.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: She's helpless on a tide.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: Now, turn on the magnal beam. Magnetize the rudder.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Got it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: Hold it on it. Steer the rudder toward the rocks
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: on the north end of the island.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir. There.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: That's one more crew that will never be able to
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: tell of the mineral wealth of this island.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Your secret is still safe.
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: I've guarded it for 18 years. Since the day I
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: discovered it. No one will ever share the wealth or
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: know it exists.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: And another wreck will be chalked up to the ghost
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: of Captain Balo. Yes.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Captain Balo has been a most convenient ghost. A most
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: plausible one. Nobody ever doubts him, it seems.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: I thought I heard a laugh.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I heard it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Have you the radio key open?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: No, sir, I cut it before.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: You're lying to me!
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: No, no, I swear I'm not, Mr.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Yandy. No, Mr.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Yandy, this is not a voice you can cut off
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: with a flick of a dial.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: Who are you?
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I am the Shadow.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: The Shadow?
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: I've heard of him.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: He's the guy you can't see.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Your use of the Captain Bailo legend is at an end, Yandy.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: You've created havoc with your diabolically clever electrical inventions. Like
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: a monster, you've destroyed men because of your insatiable greed. Well, Yandy,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: this is your finish. The sea will be well rid
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: of you. And poor Captain Baylor will rest peacefully in
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: his sea grave.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: What's that?
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: They're slaves. They've escaped from their dungeons.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, Yandy, they're crawling out of the earth to vent
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: their just hatred on you.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Turn on the heat ray.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Burn them up.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Burn them to a crisp.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: The tubes!
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: They're all broken! My equipment is ruined! Completely, Mr.
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: Yandy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: My yacht is free of your clever magno-beam. And those
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: people down there will soon be done with you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I'm getting out!
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: Out of my way!
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: You're not getting on that boat you got hit in
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the cold without us. I don't care what happens to you!
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: Get out of here!
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Run, run, Yandy.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: The sooner to meet your doom.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: Lamont, are you here? Oh, Lamont.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margot. I'm quite all right.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: Oh, thank heaven.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Look, Margot. Captives have taken their captor. They've got Yandy.
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: They'll tear him to pieces.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: That would be little less than the fiend well deserves.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: But I suppose we'll have to try and save him
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: for the law.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: Come along, Margot.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: We've no time to lose.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Well, we've got all those men you saved from the
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: dungeons birthed below deck, Mr.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Cranston. The poor devils don't know how to thank you.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Take good care of them, Captain.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: Aye, aye, ma'am.
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: Have you found out yet what happened to Yandy and
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: his men, Lamont?
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: Yes, Margot.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: One of the men just told me. But he waited
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: until we were well out to sea first.
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: What did they do with them?
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Well, they didn't pitch them into the sea, as they
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: told us. They locked them in their own dungeons. And
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: it's too late for us to do anything about that now.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: So we'll have to leave Yandy and his confederates to suffer.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: As long as their lives last, the terrible fate they
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: decide for others.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Before you hear a preview of next week's Shadow Story,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: here's John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating authority, with his weekly
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: tip on how to save yourself time, trouble, and money
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: in furnace attention.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Barclay.
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: Thank you, Ken Roberts, and good afternoon, friends. Just about
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: this time of year, your furnace fire may begin to
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: act sluggish, with the result that you don't get enough
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: heat upstairs. Now, in nine out of ten cases, this
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: is caused by dirt having accumulated in the flue passes.
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: If you tap the smoke pipe that leads into the
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: chimney and it sounds solid, then you can be sure
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: that accumulated dirt is the cause of your trouble. This
• 27:17
  Speaker 11: should be scraped away, and in extreme cases, it may
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: be necessary to pull the smoke pipe away.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: From the chimney.
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: Another cause of a sluggish fire is dirt in the firebed.
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: So I suggest you let your present fire burn itself
• 27:31
  Speaker 11: almost out. Then slowly rebuild it with fresh coal. You'll
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: be surprised to find out what a difference in heating
• 27:38
  Speaker 11: results a clean fuel bed can make.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: And if you can't locate the.
• 27:43
  Speaker 11: Source of any other furnace trouble which may arise, call
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: your blue coal dealer. He'll be glad to have a
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: trained John Barclay serviceman inspect your furnace. and tell you
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: immediately how any trouble may be corrected. There's no charge
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: or obligation on your part for John Barclay's service. So
• 28:01
  Speaker 11: always feel free to call your nearest Blue Coal dealer.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I thank you.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Next week, Blue Coal brings you one of the strangest
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: of all shadow adventures. At this time, we present a
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: dramatic moment from this new shadow story. The scene is
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: a hospital consulting room Margot is speaking with Dr.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Anthony.
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: Doctor.
• 28:27
  Speaker 10: Doctor, you've got to do something. You've got to save Mr. Cranston.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Miss Lane, I hate to tell you this, but Lamont
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Cranston can't live through the night.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: What strange, frightful melody endangers the life of the shadow?
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Be sure to find out next week when you hear
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: the shadow's newest adventure.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Today's program is based.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: On a story copyrighted by the Shadow Magazine. All the
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: characters and all the places named are fictitious. Any similarity
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The Shadow
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Magazine is now on sale at your local newsstand.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: The Shadow Magazine.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: The Shadow knows.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal, America's finest anthracite,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: will again present another thrilling adventure of The Shadow. Be
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: sure to listen, and be sure to burn Blue Coal,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: the solid fuel for solid comfort.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Our curtain closes on the shadows, the ghost of Captain Balo.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Follow the shadow for more classic broadcasts.