Latest / The Shadow | Old Time Radio / The Shadow - The Face [episode 415] Broadcast 9/21/1947
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- 0:21Speaker 1: Who knows what evil works in the hearts of man.
- 0:28Speaker 1: The Shadow cause. Once again, your neighborhood blue coal dealer
- 0:42Speaker 1: brings you the thrilling adventures of the Shadow, the hard
- 0:45Speaker 1: and relentless fight of one man against the forces of evil.
- 0:49Speaker 1: These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcefully to old and
- 0:53Speaker 1: young alike that crime does not fail. This coming winter,
- 1:04Speaker 1: all home eating fuels are going to be in short supply.
- 1:09Speaker 1: There may even be periods of acute scarcity. So in
- 1:12Speaker 1: order to be sure that.
- 1:13Speaker 2: Your home is warm and comfortable, it's imperative to fill
- 1:16Speaker 2: your bin with blue coal. Now call the nearest blue
- 1:20Speaker 2: coal dealer, ask him to look it over. He'll be
- 1:23Speaker 2: glad to and may be able to make recommendations that
- 1:26Speaker 2: will help you save a lot of fuel this winter.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Conserve fuel by careful consumption in an efficient furnace. Above all,
- 1:35Speaker 2: store as much blue coal as you can. Call your
- 1:38Speaker 2: blue coal dealer tomorrow. The shadow waits. The forces of
- 1:54Speaker 2: law and order is in reality. Lamont Cranston, wealthy young
- 1:57Speaker 2: man about town. Years ago in the Cranston learned a
- 2:01Speaker 2: strange and mysterious secret, the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds.
- 2:06Speaker 2: So they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the
- 2:09Speaker 2: lovely Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to
- 2:12Speaker 2: whom the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs. Two days
- 2:16Speaker 2: drama A face nurse, nurse, Yes, mister Windmy, why doesn't
- 2:36Speaker 2: doctor Walland come? Doctor Wallan will be.
- 2:38Speaker 3: Here in a moment, mister Windham, you must try to keep.
- 2:41Speaker 4: Calm, calm.
- 2:43Speaker 2: How can I keep calm, miss rand I've been living
- 2:45Speaker 2: in a nightmare ever since that their plane crashed, six months,
- 2:50Speaker 2: six long months, these bandages.
- 2:53Speaker 5: Covering my face, this frand yes.
- 2:58Speaker 2: Dear, do you think the operation turned out alright? Of
- 3:04Speaker 2: course you don't sound very sure, miss Randon.
- 3:06Speaker 4: Doctor Walland is a wonderful position.
- 3:08Speaker 3: But well, a a young man, perhaps a specialist in
- 3:13Speaker 3: this type of plastic surgery.
- 3:15Speaker 2: With doctor Walland is exactly the kind of sision I wanted.
- 3:18Speaker 2: He's quiet and obscure. With him, There'll be no talk,
- 3:22Speaker 2: no publicity, of course.
- 3:23Speaker 3: I well, now you must be quiet, mister Wiler.
- 3:26Speaker 4: You uh, you do think everything would be all right,
- 3:31Speaker 4: don't you, Nurse?
- 3:32Speaker 3: I know it will be.
- 3:33Speaker 2: It's it's got to be successful. I've got to get
- 3:36Speaker 2: back to the stage. I was just at my peak
- 3:40Speaker 2: when the accident came. Miss Rand.
- 3:42Speaker 3: I know, mister Winner, I saw you with lonely mass
- 3:45Speaker 3: in the Golden Court. You were wonderful.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Oh thank you, miss Rand. You you see how important
- 3:53Speaker 2: it is that everything comes out. Oh here's doctor Waller
- 3:58Speaker 2: will mean nurse.
- 3:59Speaker 3: Good morning doctor.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Oh, mister Vendom, is that that it?
- 4:03Speaker 6: Yes?
- 4:04Speaker 2: Yes, doctor I I I'm ready, mister Vindom, before they begin, yes,
- 4:11Speaker 2: I told you to begin. But they can't promise your thing.
- 4:15Speaker 2: The face was severe, it burned and the best it's
- 4:18Speaker 2: a gamber. You can only hope. Oh, let's get on
- 4:21Speaker 2: with it. Let's get these vantages off.
- 4:23Speaker 4: I I wanna.
- 4:24Speaker 2: See Honess take the bandages up slowly, yes, doctor, and
- 4:30Speaker 2: mister Vendom, don't this matter so that you can see Captinness?
- 4:38Speaker 2: So they h and let's see it. That's the next.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Uh uh, it's next, don't you hurry?
- 4:53Speaker 4: Can't to go any for houstations.
- 4:54Speaker 2: During the first three or less? Now I'm nice, Yes, doctor, Uh,
- 5:00Speaker 2: let's see it. I have two more, but raised or something
- 5:05Speaker 2: to bend them. So I said, we don't know what
- 5:08Speaker 2: you're going to see in a manner. Now, Miss the
- 5:13Speaker 2: lost fair of dundage. But I took the doctor.
- 5:19Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh whoop, oh good thought.
- 5:30Speaker 3: Wa doctor?
- 5:33Speaker 4: Who is that man?
- 5:35Speaker 6: What have you done with her?
- 5:38Speaker 7: Oh?
- 5:51Speaker 6: No, Darling, what's the matter matter?
- 5:54Speaker 3: Yes?
- 5:55Speaker 6: Or from lunch? You just picked at your food. I
- 5:58Speaker 6: didn't invite Lamar and myself to lunch, And then you
- 6:00Speaker 6: act as.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Jittery as out So you're waiting for the curtain to
- 6:03Speaker 2: go up an opening night.
- 6:04Speaker 6: Yes, I know, Lama, there is something on my mind.
- 6:11Speaker 2: I need your help, Lone it we're all old friends.
- 6:14Speaker 2: If it's a new play you want backing.
- 6:15Speaker 3: For, count me in and me Darling.
- 6:18Speaker 6: That last show you did was a hit two end
- 6:20Speaker 6: all hit Loaner Mason and Hugh Windham. What's the combination.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Artistically and financially? All the angels who backed that show
- 6:28Speaker 2: grew golden.
- 6:29Speaker 6: Wings about uh Hugh Window Oh that man Windom, Lone,
- 6:34Speaker 6: I'm no Bobby's doctor, but I almost swooned just looking
- 6:37Speaker 6: at him.
- 6:38Speaker 2: No man had a right to be that attractive. That's
- 6:41Speaker 2: quite a mystery disappearance. I saw I was facing a
- 6:44Speaker 2: mirror after his operation and ran away from the hospital.
- 6:48Speaker 6: That was a year ago, magol lemon, Yes, I I
- 6:52Speaker 6: know where you Windom is, oh soon now you've found him,
- 6:58Speaker 6: you've seen him? No, I haven't seen it. But I
- 7:02Speaker 6: found out his address and I talked to his landlady. Yes,
- 7:08Speaker 6: he he's hidden himself away from the world of Lamont.
- 7:11Speaker 6: He lives in a rooming house in a slum section downtown,
- 7:15Speaker 6: and for a whole year he has never left his room.
- 7:18Speaker 2: See, no one would have rooms Lamont.
- 7:22Speaker 6: Bargo. I I'm going down there to see me. I'm
- 7:26Speaker 6: going to try to talk to him, but I just
- 7:29Speaker 6: can't bear to face him along.
- 7:31Speaker 2: I well, I I need moral support. You want us
- 7:35Speaker 2: to go with you?
- 7:37Speaker 6: Yes, I if you.
- 7:39Speaker 2: Don't mind, course, we don't mind. The nice take up
- 7:42Speaker 2: night in my car at nine. You've been mister Wyndham's
- 7:58Speaker 2: landlady for a whole year, missus Hodges, and you've never
- 8:01Speaker 2: seen his face.
- 8:02Speaker 6: Never the night he came to rent a room, he
- 8:05Speaker 6: had his hat pulled right down over his face.
- 8:09Speaker 2: I laid his kneels on a train near the door.
- 8:12Speaker 3: All day long, he sits in there with a blind strawn.
- 8:15Speaker 2: That night he sits in the dark.
- 8:17Speaker 3: Good Lord for Hugh the man pays his rents.
- 8:21Speaker 6: Regular It frightens me to death.
- 8:24Speaker 3: I wish you would find some other accommodations. There's just home.
- 8:28Speaker 4: Just do on the right. Thank you, miss. We'll uh
- 8:31Speaker 4: call you if we need you. All right?
- 8:33Speaker 2: Oh a man, you see now I've got to see
- 8:37Speaker 2: this through.
- 8:39Speaker 4: Oh no, where the who's there? Hugh? It's it.
- 8:44Speaker 6: It's loner Glana Mason and some friend.
- 8:48Speaker 7: Hugh, I let us in.
- 8:52Speaker 4: I wanna talk to you. Oh wait, lord, I don't
- 8:56Speaker 4: wanna troak to anyone.
- 8:57Speaker 6: You please, For old times, I've looked for you day
- 9:02Speaker 6: after day, week after week, and now now that I've.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Found you, I'm not going away you jarling.
- 9:09Speaker 6: Don't you understand I want to help you?
- 9:15Speaker 4: All right? Old enough, I'll let's hurt your friends in.
- 9:18Speaker 4: But on one condition. Yes, we talking the dog. Does
- 9:23Speaker 4: that understood, Dotter? We talked in the dog?
- 9:26Speaker 6: Yes, Hugh, very well.
- 9:32Speaker 4: I mean till me quickly. Let's sad name. I don't
- 9:37Speaker 4: know what do you want say you?
- 9:40Speaker 6: I have two friends with me, this lame and miss Crimston.
- 9:44Speaker 6: How do you do do in them?
- 9:46Speaker 4: Hugh?
- 9:47Speaker 5: Then you don't have to describe them. I can see
- 9:49Speaker 5: them in the dark. My eyes are used to it.
- 9:53Speaker 4: Why don't know? Why have you come?
- 9:56Speaker 6: I've come to take you back to you.
- 9:58Speaker 4: No, I'll never go back.
- 10:01Speaker 2: I I couldn't stand this the windhom You can't bury
- 10:04Speaker 2: yourself away like this. Sooner or later, you've got to
- 10:07Speaker 2: show yourself to the world.
- 10:08Speaker 6: Mister Criston's right, you and I well, I don't care
- 10:12Speaker 6: how you look. You haven't changed just because your face
- 10:15Speaker 6: mayet happy.
- 10:16Speaker 2: You've got the rest of your life to live, mister Wyndham.
- 10:19Speaker 2: Soon you start acting like a normal person, the better.
- 10:21Speaker 6: You've got to get back with people again. You get
- 10:24Speaker 6: back to the theater.
- 10:26Speaker 4: Far.
- 10:26Speaker 6: Yes, you don't have to be handsome.
- 10:28Speaker 4: You you have your great talent.
- 10:31Speaker 2: No lonely everyf I thought, perhaps if you turned on
- 10:37Speaker 2: the light.
- 10:38Speaker 6: Oh no, I can't turn on the light.
- 10:41Speaker 4: He put us to the test.
- 10:44Speaker 2: Let us see your face.
- 10:46Speaker 5: Oh no, but I'm afraid be a Man's you be
- 10:53Speaker 5: the man I knew.
- 10:55Speaker 6: Turn on the light?
- 10:58Speaker 4: Alright, alright, I I I'll do it.
- 11:02Speaker 7: Huh.
- 11:03Speaker 4: Remember I warned you, I warned you all. I I've
- 11:08Speaker 4: got my finger on the light switch now, but I.
- 11:13Speaker 6: Turn the light on.
- 11:16Speaker 4: I don't know that you ask for it? Remember you
- 11:19Speaker 4: ask for it? There? No?
- 11:25Speaker 5: Oh no, you you now you know you saw my face,
- 11:33Speaker 5: miss horror in your eyes, my ugly and the sickens you.
- 11:37Speaker 5: I put you to the test and you fail here miserably. Alright,
- 11:41Speaker 5: no one's ever gonna see my face again.
- 11:43Speaker 4: You're here. No, those that have will live to regretted.
- 12:03Speaker 3: Mister random.
- 12:04Speaker 6: It's missus hot your landlady. I'd like to clean your
- 12:08Speaker 6: sitting room if you want to lock yourself in your
- 12:11Speaker 6: bedroom like you always do.
- 12:15Speaker 2: Mister random, are you there?
- 12:18Speaker 3: It's funny, no answer, He never goes out. Something must
- 12:23Speaker 3: be wrong.
- 12:25Speaker 4: You better go to see you.
- 12:27Speaker 3: Hm, story's old. Maybe if by just little kid, just sunny,
- 12:36Speaker 3: the light is on. You said to try the bedroom door.
- 12:49Speaker 2: Good evening, missus. Holl oh no, hm, I got to
- 12:53Speaker 2: lock the door this time in the house. I was
- 12:56Speaker 2: sleeping and you were awake. Now now you've seen my face, pretty,
- 13:06Speaker 2: isn't I Women like you used to adore his face
- 13:09Speaker 2: is his horns, But when they see it now they
- 13:12Speaker 2: have a look of horror in their eyes, the same
- 13:15Speaker 2: look of horror that's in your eyes now too.
- 13:18Speaker 4: E saw my face. It's hard, but never mind, you
- 13:24Speaker 4: won't have to look at it anymore. It's too render.
- 13:30Speaker 4: What are you going to do?
- 13:32Speaker 5: I'm going to give you a new face, is Hodge,
- 13:36Speaker 5: You and the other adorning women.
- 13:38Speaker 4: Who looked upon me.
- 13:40Speaker 5: I'm going to give each of you a new face. No,
- 13:43Speaker 5: a new face uglier than mine. No, the face of dead.
- 13:48Speaker 4: No, yes it is hard.
- 13:53Speaker 5: Your o.
- 14:10Speaker 6: Morg is as cold as an ice box.
- 14:12Speaker 2: Commissioner with Morgs usually are in this land mission. You
- 14:16Speaker 2: said something about an unusual corp you found in the river.
- 14:19Speaker 2: That's right, Cranston, part if a woman thought you might
- 14:22Speaker 2: be interested in looking at it, the atrical type of
- 14:25Speaker 2: homicide you usually get involved in. We found this woman
- 14:29Speaker 2: strangled with a sort of piece of wire like gold
- 14:33Speaker 2: around her neck. A gold wire, that's what I said. Yeah,
- 14:39Speaker 2: you've gotta fright hair in my pocket. I will look
- 14:43Speaker 2: at it. Cranton, Hm, it's very interesting. Looks like uh
- 14:47Speaker 2: cord used for hanging pictures. Very unpleasant of as mea.
- 14:52Speaker 4: Uh uh yeah, and number six two and slider it out.
- 15:00Speaker 4: She's on the slab under the shroud.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Take a look the money horrible, yeah, citizen, very pretty marker,
- 15:09Speaker 2: very speeding so that it's impossible to recognize him. Securitized
- 15:15Speaker 2: the idea the killer had using a gold chord could
- 15:18Speaker 2: be some kind of simple only.
- 15:20Speaker 4: Part of this murder is what the current of around?
- 15:23Speaker 2: What was that commission? The killer strangled his victim first,
- 15:27Speaker 2: and after she was dead, he beat her pacing.
- 15:31Speaker 6: But why why would anyone want to do that? Even
- 15:34Speaker 6: a killer?
- 15:35Speaker 2: Very illegitimate question, Marco, Why indeed.
- 15:56Speaker 4: Couldn't even think? Miss Ryan? Oh?
- 15:59Speaker 3: Why I can't see in the dog?
- 16:02Speaker 2: I can, Miss Rand? The dark is my friend?
- 16:05Speaker 4: H wh ah are you?
- 16:06Speaker 2: Why are you hiding behind that tree?
- 16:08Speaker 4: I wanted to meet you face to face.
- 16:11Speaker 3: I don't know you let me pie?
- 16:13Speaker 4: Oh you know me very well. You were my nurse,
- 16:16Speaker 4: Miss Rand.
- 16:17Speaker 6: I don't believe you let me pie.
- 16:18Speaker 4: You don't pretty.
- 16:20Speaker 5: Just a moment, miss Rand, I light a match so
- 16:21Speaker 5: you can see my face see for yourself.
- 16:25Speaker 4: Oh remember me now, miss Rand?
- 16:29Speaker 6: You win.
- 16:32Speaker 4: You looked upon my face once, didn't you? And I
- 16:35Speaker 4: saw in your eyes the same horror I see now,
- 16:39Speaker 4: I please.
- 16:39Speaker 5: I you helped give me a new faced, nurse rhyme,
- 16:42Speaker 5: and now I'm going to give you a new face.
- 16:46Speaker 4: It's ugly mine, Steve, Miss Wren face, isn't it pretty?
- 16:57Speaker 4: Growing up?
- 16:59Speaker 5: I'm giving your new faiths Ran, the faith.
- 17:22Speaker 4: We'll return to the shadow in just a minute.
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- 18:43Speaker 4: Now back to the shadow few wend them. Once one
- 18:56Speaker 4: of the handsomest.
- 18:57Speaker 2: Actors on the stage has been hideously burned about the face,
- 19:01Speaker 2: half mad. He had murdered his landlady. And now the
- 19:05Speaker 2: nurse of the surgeon who operated on him. It is
- 19:08Speaker 2: the next day, and once again Margo and Lamont, along
- 19:12Speaker 2: with Commission Western view of corpse in the Morgue, where
- 19:19Speaker 2: Cranston slim the same thing all over again, strangled with
- 19:25Speaker 2: the same kind of metal cord, and the face beaten
- 19:28Speaker 2: in coupled my men in the crowd and the proud
- 19:31Speaker 2: car picked her body up on a lonely street. You
- 19:33Speaker 2: don't know who she is Western, No, it's pretty hard
- 19:35Speaker 2: to make an identification in a case like this.
- 19:38Speaker 4: It's horrible.
- 19:39Speaker 2: She might have been attractive one, it's that's beautiful. But now, yes, well,
- 19:45Speaker 2: I guess there's nothing more we can do here. Cover
- 19:49Speaker 2: Let's get out of here in the money the Marne
- 19:54Speaker 2: MM would you see down?
- 19:56Speaker 6: What's happened to you?
- 19:57Speaker 2: Were a million miles away?
- 19:58Speaker 4: Just now?
- 19:59Speaker 2: Uh?
- 19:59Speaker 4: J thinking that's about what gold chord?
- 20:05Speaker 2: Gold chord, it's got hold of me, Western, You won't
- 20:09Speaker 2: let go. Must be some reason why the cure. Wait
- 20:14Speaker 2: a minute, what is it, Lam, I got it.
- 20:17Speaker 4: I think I've got it. I remember now. The gold
- 20:20Speaker 4: Cord was the name of a play.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Eh my yess, and the star of the play, yes,
- 20:26Speaker 2: Margot Hugh Windham. The gold Cord was his greatest triumph.
- 20:30Speaker 2: He played it at the Old Globe Theater, brought in
- 20:32Speaker 2: the adulation of thousands of women. And another thing, Yes, Mary,
- 20:37Speaker 2: faces of these women were batter.
- 20:40Speaker 6: And Hugh Windhom's faith.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Oh no, Lama, wait a minute, you two hold on,
- 20:45Speaker 2: what's all this double talk about?
- 20:47Speaker 4: Commissioner.
- 20:48Speaker 2: In a few hours, I think we'll be able to
- 20:50Speaker 2: identify your two corpses. Oh I just spoke to Commissioner
- 21:03Speaker 2: Western Marblo. Yes, the mony you Wyndham is missing, and
- 21:06Speaker 2: so's the landlady, missus Hodge.
- 21:08Speaker 4: But well they found her.
- 21:10Speaker 2: What of the murder of it?
- 21:11Speaker 4: Yes?
- 21:12Speaker 2: First one identified her by her dental bridge work huh.
- 21:16Speaker 2: And the second corpse a woman named Anne Rand. She
- 21:20Speaker 2: was doctor Wallen's nurse, the uh surgeon who operated on Widam.
- 21:24Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Malco't wait a minute, what is it?
- 21:28Speaker 2: Mont? There's a pattern here. This nurse ms Rand saw
- 21:33Speaker 2: Wyndham's face. We may assume now that missus Hodge did too.
- 21:38Speaker 6: You mean he killed him because wind had always idolized him,
- 21:43Speaker 6: and now because his face is.
- 21:45Speaker 2: As far as we know, only two other women saw
- 21:48Speaker 2: his face on. One was Lona Mason and the other
- 21:53Speaker 2: was you.
- 21:53Speaker 4: Margaret. No, I'd give me that for her phone.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Yes, I just hope I'm not too late to one.
- 21:59Speaker 2: Lorna Mason. You you let me go, Let me out
- 22:14Speaker 2: of here. Be it outside it's dark and empty, but
- 22:18Speaker 2: this room is bright, now, bright with memory, wonderful memory.
- 22:24Speaker 4: You please let me go. You wanted to see my face,
- 22:29Speaker 4: didn't you? And now you see it. No matter where
- 22:33Speaker 4: you turn you see it. Can't escape the canu.
- 22:36Speaker 6: Lona chose this room.
- 22:38Speaker 2: I can't stand beat you.
- 22:41Speaker 5: No matter where you turn, my face will be leering
- 22:44Speaker 5: at you, mocking you with its ugliness.
- 22:49Speaker 2: Please go away, leave this room, leave you, Yes, yes,
- 22:55Speaker 2: I leave it on.
- 22:56Speaker 4: Condition I'll do anything. You do anything the phone, Margo Lane,
- 23:01Speaker 4: and you were a message for me.
- 23:03Speaker 5: No, no, you I can't.
- 23:07Speaker 2: I want you to tell her to come down here, Hello,
- 23:10Speaker 2: that you are in trouble. She must not tell anyone,
- 23:14Speaker 2: do you understand?
- 23:15Speaker 4: So? Who? Well? My? Shall it be the phone call?
- 23:23Speaker 4: So we stay in this room?
- 23:26Speaker 5: Will you leave the message Tom's lane? How do you
- 23:29Speaker 5: want to continue? To look at my face?
- 23:32Speaker 4: Which will it be? Launa?
- 23:48Speaker 2: Hello Parston, this is Commissioner Western.
- 23:50Speaker 4: Yes, Commissioner, I won't have to look for Lorna Mason
- 23:54Speaker 4: any longer. Why not? We found her dead this morning,
- 23:58Speaker 4: same set up, strangle by a golden cord face. Better
- 24:03Speaker 4: than where'd you find her? Dimissioner? Well, now they had
- 24:07Speaker 4: a clock tatter. Let me see that's sect to.
- 24:13Speaker 2: Something.
- 24:13Speaker 4: Margo left? Oh that constant?
- 24:17Speaker 2: Uh nothing nothing, Commissioner. I'll I'll get in touch with
- 24:20Speaker 2: you later, Margo. He'll try to get her next. Told
- 24:25Speaker 2: her to lock herself in.
- 24:27Speaker 4: You got to be careful? How careful? Hello? Operator operator?
- 24:41Speaker 2: I'm sorry, sir, but your party doesn't answer. O brave,
- 24:44Speaker 2: there must be someone there. Please try again. I'm sorry, sir,
- 24:54Speaker 2: but your party does not answer.
- 24:58Speaker 4: Oh cool, woggle.
- 25:16Speaker 1: Boggle bugle, while you here.
- 25:21Speaker 4: About's empty?
- 25:24Speaker 2: Wait a minute to spat on the table and at
- 25:26Speaker 2: the telephone. I thought you had something down on it
- 25:31Speaker 2: gloom glom here. You came right down here to help
- 25:43Speaker 2: your friends owner, didn't you, miss Lane?
- 25:45Speaker 4: But now she's beyond help. Now you and I together,
- 25:51Speaker 4: Let me out of here.
- 25:52Speaker 2: Let me out of this room.
- 25:54Speaker 4: Don't you like it, miss Laie? I like it's my
- 25:58Speaker 4: old dressing room.
- 25:59Speaker 5: I had these mirrors put on every wall. I could
- 26:03Speaker 5: see my face then, no matter where I turn, you
- 26:06Speaker 5: can see it.
- 26:07Speaker 6: Now you're sickness to Windham. You need help.
- 26:09Speaker 4: Hi, No, miss Laide, it's you who need help.
- 26:14Speaker 6: Please let me go.
- 26:16Speaker 2: I can't stand it.
- 26:18Speaker 4: Let me Oh no, no, it's only a closet, miss Laide.
- 26:25Speaker 2: Well did you see there?
- 26:25Speaker 5: The mirror in there too, and my face? Let's try
- 26:30Speaker 5: that room, Slane, go ahead, pull a cut in aside
- 26:37Speaker 5: is the small costume room, miss Laide. But there's a
- 26:40Speaker 5: mirror in.
- 26:40Speaker 7: There too, mirror mirrors everywhere, and my face.
- 26:44Speaker 4: They let me go away.
- 26:46Speaker 2: I can't get it any longer.
- 26:47Speaker 4: Alright, very well be said. If you insist on escape,
- 26:51Speaker 4: I will provide it for oh gold course.
- 26:58Speaker 2: No, Well that's who smash one of my mirrors? The
- 27:07Speaker 2: shadow window shadow last.
- 27:10Speaker 4: Year here right, I don't see anyone, there's no reflection
- 27:14Speaker 4: in the mirror. The shadow is here.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Nevertheless, these mirrors won't be I'm going to smash every
- 27:20Speaker 2: glass in this diabolical room. Smash that livery face wherever
- 27:24Speaker 2: I see it.
- 27:27Speaker 7: Shot.
- 27:30Speaker 2: Now the mirror in the closet, and now the last
- 27:34Speaker 2: one in the costume room.
- 27:36Speaker 4: I see the mirrors breaking.
- 27:39Speaker 2: I see no one. No man can see the shadow wind.
- 27:43Speaker 2: When they kill, they account to the shadow.
- 27:46Speaker 4: You're human, shadow, and yet you're invisible. Okay, Shadow, please please.
- 27:51Speaker 5: Tell me your secrets.
- 27:52Speaker 4: Tell me how you make yourself invisible. Teach me your secret,
- 27:55Speaker 4: shadow so that people can't see my face. No window.
- 28:00Speaker 2: Only the shadow knows the secret. Only the shadow will
- 28:04Speaker 2: ever know.
- 28:05Speaker 4: I beg you.
- 28:06Speaker 2: You've followed your right to any consideration. You've killed, you're
- 28:09Speaker 2: about to kill.
- 28:11Speaker 4: You belong to the law, now, widom. I perhaps it's
- 28:17Speaker 4: best shadow that way. Perhaps it's better if the law
- 28:24Speaker 4: takes my life. Death will be merciful quick mm hmm. Best.
- 28:32Speaker 4: This way for death is darkness, and darkness confide my
- 28:40Speaker 4: ugle forever.
- 28:59Speaker 2: And no Let me present Blue Coal's distinguished heating Authority,
- 29:03Speaker 2: John Barklay. Thank you andre Berusian, good evening friend. If
- 29:07Speaker 2: you were going to take a long trip. You'd be
- 29:10Speaker 2: certain that your automobile was tuned up and put in
- 29:12Speaker 2: good condition before you started. Friends, the heating season is
- 29:17Speaker 2: just starting. You're going to demand a lot of service
- 29:20Speaker 2: from your heating plant before next spring. Better have it
- 29:23Speaker 2: thoroughly cleaned and checked now by your Blue coal dealer.
- 29:27Speaker 2: He has the special equipment of the trained men who
- 29:30Speaker 2: know how to tune up a furnace properly and how to.
- 29:33Speaker 4: Make the necessary minor repairs as well.
- 29:36Speaker 2: I suggest you telephone your blue coal dealer tomorrow. Remember,
- 29:41Speaker 2: a clean, efficient furnace burns less fuel and gives more heat.
- 29:46Speaker 4: I thank you. O.
- 30:00Speaker 2: Story is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated. The
- 30:04Speaker 2: characters' names places in flawed are fictitious. Any similarity to
- 30:08Speaker 2: persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Again, next week,
- 30:12Speaker 2: the Shadow will demonstrate that the weed of crime is
- 30:18Speaker 2: bitter fruit. Crime does not pay the Shadow. Next week,
- 30:33Speaker 2: same time, same station, your friendly blue coal Dealer brings
- 30:37Speaker 2: you another strange and thrilling adventure in the Shadow's daring
- 30:41Speaker 2: battle against the forces of evil. The Shadow is presented
- 30:44Speaker 2: by the D.
- 30:45Speaker 4: L and W. Coal Company, distributors of Blue coal Lamont.
- 30:49Speaker 2: Cranston is played by Brett Morrison, Margot by Grace Matthews.
- 30:53Speaker 2: Your announcer is Andre Baruche. Remember its blue call for
- 30:57Speaker 2: finest eating service. It's blue call for fionest modern equipment.
- 31:01Speaker 2: It's blue coal for the best home heat money can buy.