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The Shadow - "Terror at Wolf's Head Knoll" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: An automobile mishap in the Rutland Hills leaves Lamont Cranston
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  Speaker 1: and Margo Lane seeking assistance at an isolated country mansion,
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  Speaker 1: while Margo nurses an injured ankle. From the mutual broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: system comes The Shadow, Terror at Wolf's Head Knoll, broadcast
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  Speaker 1: February 15, 1948, episode 435. Brett Morrison is Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 1: with Grace Matthews as Margo Lane, in a story linked
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  Speaker 1: to a script by Peter Barry, previously adapted for both
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow and Suspense. At the mansion, the pair must
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: place their trust in Dr. Emile Goddard, as suspicious accidents
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  Speaker 1: along the road raise further questions. Settle in now for
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  Speaker 1: a mutual and blue coal presentation. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: Once again, your neighborhood blue coal dealer brings you the
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  Speaker 4: thrilling adventures of The Shadow, the hard and relentless fight
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  Speaker 4: of one man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations
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  Speaker 4: are designed to demonstrate forcefully to old and young alike
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  Speaker 4: that crime does not pay. Friends, we want to salute
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  Speaker 4: the retail coal dealers of America who, under the most
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  Speaker 4: difficult conditions, have done an outstanding job of spreading deliveries
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  Speaker 4: of coal this winter. We want to salute the American
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  Speaker 4: railroads who have been hampered by the heaviest snowfall in years.
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  Speaker 4: But most of all, we want to salute the judgment
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  Speaker 4: of five million hard coal users whose home have been
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  Speaker 4: warm and healthy. We want to say thank you to
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  Speaker 4: those hard coal users who are giving their local dealer
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  Speaker 4: several days' notice when a delivery is required. And we
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  Speaker 4: want to say thank you again to those wise consumers
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  Speaker 4: who continue to keep warm by accepting the advice of
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  Speaker 4: their local blue coal dealer as to the proper size
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  Speaker 4: of coal to have delivered at this time.
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  Speaker 5: The Shadow The Shadow, who aids the forces of law
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  Speaker 5: and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man
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  Speaker 5: about town.
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  Speaker 4: Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 4: mysterious secret, the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 4: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 4: Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 4: the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs. Today's drama, The
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  Speaker 4: Terror at Wolf's Head Knoll. In the desolate wastes of
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  Speaker 4: the Rutland Hills, high atop the bald summit of Wolf's
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  Speaker 4: Head Knoll, stands the weathered and dilapidated mansion, Windward House.
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  Speaker 4: The hands of the clock in the dusty hallway stand
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  Speaker 4: at precisely nine o'clock as an old woman comes slowly
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  Speaker 4: down the stairs. An oil lamp clutched in her gnarled
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  Speaker 4: hand to answer the violent pounding on the outer door.
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  Speaker 6: Who's that?
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  Speaker 7: Who's out there?
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  Speaker 8: Open the door, Mrs. Baker. Open it, I say.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Danforth.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 8: There.
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  Speaker 9: It is what time I must say.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, sir. Have you been knocking long?
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  Speaker 9: Well, the skin's off my knuckles.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I didn't dream it was you, sir. You've not
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  Speaker 6: been here in such a long time.
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  Speaker 8: Indeed, I haven't. Little pleasure in visiting a house that's
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  Speaker 8: cost a quarter of a million in money and ten
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  Speaker 8: years of your.
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  Speaker 9: Life in aggravation. Windward House, indeed. Danforth's Folly, it is.
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  Speaker 9: No mistake about it.
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  Speaker 6: I've taken the best care of it I could, sir.
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  Speaker 9: And by all odds, you're the world's worst housekeeper.
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  Speaker 8: Look at the place.
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  Speaker 9: Dust and decay from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I've done my level utmost, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, no matter, no matter.
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  Speaker 9: Any luck at all, I'll be rid of this iso
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  Speaker 9: within the hour.
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  Speaker 6: Rid of it, sir?
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  Speaker 9: I'm getting out from under, Bleeker.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to unload. It's as good as settled if
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  Speaker 8: I'm to believe this letter I received yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Well, who is it from, sir?
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  Speaker 9: Medical man, Dr. Goddard, he signs himself.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Emerald Goddard of the Goddard house for nervous disorders. He
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  Speaker 8: should be here any minute now.
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  Speaker 6: But what does he want with the place, sir?
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  Speaker 9: Who knows, and who cares? He says it'll suit his purposes,
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  Speaker 9: and I shall be delighted... Ah, that should be him now.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Blake, what are you waiting for?
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  Speaker 2: Open it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Is the master of the house in?
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  Speaker 9: Right here, sir. Are you Dr. Goddard, I presume?
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  Speaker 8: Dr. Goddard?
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  Speaker 2: No, my name is Williams, Terence Williams.
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  Speaker 9: And to what do I owe the inconvenience of this visit?
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  Speaker 2: You've got to help me. For your own sake as
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  Speaker 2: well as mine.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: I led them here because I'd heard of this house.
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  Speaker 2: They're on my heels. They'll kill us. They'll kill us all.
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  Speaker 8: Who will? The two of them. The doctor. What?
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  Speaker 2: And his friend, Lasher.
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  Speaker 9: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Don't try, but if you value your life... William!
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  Speaker 8: They're here.
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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Danforth, what's happening?
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  Speaker 2: Don't open that door.
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  Speaker 8: I know you're in there, Williams. Open up. Open up
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  Speaker 8: or I shall have the police here within the hour.
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  Speaker 9: What's this all about?
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  Speaker 2: I'll explain later.
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  Speaker 9: I prefer to find out now.
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  Speaker 3: No, wait.
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  Speaker 2: Don't open that door.
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  Speaker 8: Out of my way, you fool. Good evening.
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  Speaker 7: Good evening.
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  Speaker 8: Good evening. Silence, Bartleby. Be a good bird or I
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  Speaker 8: shall have a pull at your tail feathers. Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: Don't let them in here.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, Williams, there you are.
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  Speaker 9: I demand an explanation.
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  Speaker 8: All in good time. All in good time. Come along inside, Lasher.
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  Speaker 8: Come on, Lasher.
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  Speaker 2: Lasher.
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  Speaker 8: I suppose you know, sir, that you are harboring a fugitive.
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  Speaker 2: Don't listen to them.
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  Speaker 8: Lasher, I do believe Williams is trying to create a disturbance.
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  Speaker 8: A hand over his mouth, you know, might work wonders.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, this door off the hall seems to latch from
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  Speaker 8: the outside. It might be well to store him in
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  Speaker 8: there for the nuns.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Good man, Lasher, good man.
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  Speaker 9: What's the meaning of this? I demand an explanation or
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  Speaker 9: by heaven.
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  Speaker 8: I don't like the tone of your voice, sir. And
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  Speaker 8: either you change it at once, or I shall leave
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  Speaker 8: you to your own devices, depriving you of a rather
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  Speaker 8: profitable association with myself.
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  Speaker 2: Profitable?
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  Speaker 7: Profitable?
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  Speaker 9: You're not Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Goddard? One and the same, sir. This is my traveling companion, Lash.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 8: And my parrot, Bartlemy.
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  Speaker 7: Bartlemy!
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  Speaker 9: And Williams is a patient under your care?
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  Speaker 8: Precisely correct. Lasher and I were conducting him to my
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  Speaker 8: sanitarium for examination and therapy. And he's... Unbalanced, shall we say, sir.
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  Speaker 8: He broke away from us as we parked the car
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  Speaker 8: on the mountain road.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 9: I'm terribly sorry, Doctor. Would you like to see the house?
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  Speaker 8: Quite. I think I shall purchase it as a special ward,
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  Speaker 8: if it suits my needs.
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  Speaker 9: Follow me, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Mrs.
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  Speaker 9: Bleeker, do you want to come along?
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  Speaker 6: If I might.
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  Speaker 8: No need of that. Lasher will look after Mrs. Bleeker
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  Speaker 8: very nicely, won't you, Lasher?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Very nicely, very nicely.
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  Speaker 9: This way, then, Doctor.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you. You must pardon the slowness with which I move, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Gout and rheumatics. Most distressing.
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  Speaker 9: I understand. As you see, the house is weather-beaten, but
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  Speaker 9: well worth the price I'm asking for it.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, here we are.
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  Speaker 9: This is the second story. Twelve bedrooms on this floor,
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  Speaker 9: each complete with bath.
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  Speaker 8: Charming, charming. And what are these doors here, sir? They
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  Speaker 8: open on to the terrace over the hillside. A terrace, eh?
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  Speaker 8: May I see it?
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 9: What was that?
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  Speaker 8: Sounds like trouble, eh? Laser! Laser!
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  Speaker 9: I'll go down and see.
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  Speaker 8: That won't be necessary, sir. Laser's quite capable and very strong. Laser! Laser! Yes, sir!
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, there we are. What was that sound we heard?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, nothing, sir. Williams broke out and frightened the old woman.
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  Speaker 8: Obstreperous, huh? Give him a good sharp crack.
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  Speaker 3: Very good, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Bullard. Two, if needs be, Lasher.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take care of it.
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  Speaker 8: I'll take care of it.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 9: You use violence on your patients?
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  Speaker 8: Indeed, sir. It does them good. I'd apply the treatment
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  Speaker 8: myself if I was able to descend the stairs more rapidly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if.
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  Speaker 9: You'd like to see the terrace now, doctor?
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  Speaker 8: The terrace? Oh, yes, by all means.
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  Speaker 2: This way.
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  Speaker 9: Here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 8: Handsome view we have here, sir. Very handsome view. How
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  Speaker 8: high up is this terrace from the valley below?
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  Speaker 3: 200 feet.
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  Speaker 9: So far, really. I like your establishment, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Danforth. I do indeed. I think I shall take possession
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  Speaker 8: at once.
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  Speaker 9: You realize that I must have something on account?
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 9: I mean you'll have to put something down.
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  Speaker 8: What can you put down, sir? Now, let me think.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't considered this. Why, I... Well, will you look? Where?
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 8: Below. Coming across the valley.
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  Speaker 9: I don't see anything.
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  Speaker 10: Don't you really now? I've put you down, sir. Two
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  Speaker 10: hundred feet into the valley.
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  Speaker 8: Not a bad down payment, eh?
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  Speaker 7: Not bad, not bad.
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  Speaker 8: Master of this house but a scant two hours leisure...
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  Speaker 8: And already I'm quite at home.
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  Speaker 3: I always said you was a gentleman born.
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  Speaker 8: Gentlemen born, gentlemen born. Have a biscuit, Butler, me dear bird.
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  Speaker 8: And for myself, I shall have another slice of the
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  Speaker 8: goose and a glass of wine. Oh, the wine ain't
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  Speaker 8: good for your gout, sir. My gout is of no consequence, boy.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, ignore it.
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  Speaker 8: Charming and stately above leisure. But we lack company, guests.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid there won't be many people coming along this way, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, there's occasional traffic on the road below. Well, will
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  Speaker 8: that just go by? Not necessarily, Lasher. You see the
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  Speaker 8: large mirror suspended in the hallway? Yeah. Think now. What
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  Speaker 8: would happen? If we took it down and suspended it
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  Speaker 8: over the road in the dark, instead of.
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  Speaker 3: Why, cars would come around the curve.
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  Speaker 8: Quite right. And see their own headlight reflected.
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  Speaker 3: And swerve to miss hitting themselves and... I see what
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  Speaker 3: you mean.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, I see what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter, darling? You look worried.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like this road, Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: Why, it's a perfectly good mountain road, Margaret.
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  Speaker 8: I don't care. I don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful shortcut to the hunting lodge.
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  Speaker 6: It's so lonely and deserted.
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  Speaker 2: Better no traffic to deal with.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there may not be any traffic to deal with.
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  Speaker 6: Look out, Lamont.
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  Speaker 7: There's a car right in front of us.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I see it. Margo?
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  Speaker 3: Margo?
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You all right, darling?
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  Speaker 3: What happened?
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  Speaker 2: You were thrown from the car. Can you stand up?
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: My foot, I can't move it.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see. It's caught in the underbrush. Hold still.
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  Speaker 11: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Cutting you loose with a hunting knife. There. Now try
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  Speaker 2: and stand up. All right.
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  Speaker 8: Careful.
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  Speaker 2: My ankle is killing me. It's going to be on
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  Speaker 2: my arm.
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  Speaker 9: It must be sprained or broken.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, what are we going to do? Steady now.
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  Speaker 6: We're miles from nowhere out here all alone.
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  Speaker 2: We're not all alone now.
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  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: See those lights for the trees there?
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  Speaker 7: Where?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, here.
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  Speaker 2: Where are they coming from?
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  Speaker 4: I did a little scouting around before you came to.
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  Speaker 4: There's a mansion, an old mansion right on top of
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  Speaker 4: the hills. Right this way, mister. Bring the lady in here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we had an accident on the road below.
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  Speaker 3: You did? Too bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I think her ankle's sprained. Sit down now.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 11: Thanks, Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we can just phone for a doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you won't have to phone for a doctor. We
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  Speaker 3: got a doctor right here.
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  Speaker 6: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Emil Goddard.
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  Speaker 2: Was this his residence?
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  Speaker 8: Well, no.
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  Speaker 3: It's more like a hospital for nervous patients.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Goddard just took it over. Hospital, Margo?
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  Speaker 2: Looks like our luck is changing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You bet it is. I'll tell the doctor you
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  Speaker 3: want to see him.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Well, what do you know? It's probably a
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  Speaker 2: private sanitarium. Anyhow, it's better than limping around the woods, eh, Margo?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: How are you feeling, darling? A little faint.
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  Speaker 3: It's a nervous strain.
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  Speaker 9: If I only had a glass of water.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now, see what I can do. There might be
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  Speaker 2: water in here. It's latched. Maybe I'd better take a
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  Speaker 2: chance and open it.
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  Speaker 8: It's probably.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? Shh. My name is Williams. Terrence Williams,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm being held prisoner.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 2: There's no time for explanations. These men will kill us all.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 8: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: What, dear?
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  Speaker 6: Remember what kind of hospital this is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: We've all got to stick together. Of course, Williams, you're
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: perfectly right. We'll all stick together.
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  Speaker 8: Williams, what are you doing out of your room?
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  Speaker 2: It's him.
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  Speaker 8: Lasher! Lasher! Yes, get Williams out of here. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, outside you.
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  Speaker 8: Help me, help! Good man, Lasher.
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  Speaker 7: Good man, good man.
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  Speaker 8: Just so, Bartlemy. Sorry you had to see us at
• 15:18
  Speaker 8: our worst. But Williams is a difficult case. Most difficult.
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  Speaker 2: I understand, doctor.
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  Speaker 8: Now then... How can I serve you?
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  Speaker 2: This is Miss Lane, Doctor. I'm afraid she's hurt her ankle.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, too bad, too bad.
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  Speaker 11: I can hardly walk.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 8: If you would just lend her your arm, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Cranston.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir. There we are. Now then, just across the room.
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  Speaker 6: Where are we going?
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  Speaker 8: Right here.
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  Speaker 9: Into the examination room.
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  Speaker 2: May I come along, Doctor?
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  Speaker 8: I'd rather you didn't, sir. I'll take over now.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be all right, Lamont.
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  Speaker 8: I say, young man, you look a bit pale yourself.
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: You'd better have a drink.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 8: You'll find one in the bar behind you. Have a look.
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  Speaker 4: I think I will have a small one. There's no
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: bar behind me. What's he talking about? Must maybe be
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: meant for one of these closets. There's nothing in this one.
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: What?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Old woman. She's dead. And what's going on here? What
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: happened to her? Let me see. There's a lock around
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  Speaker 2: her neck. Mrs. Augusta Bleeker. Who in the name? Hello?
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  Speaker 8: Hello. Is Mr.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: Denfort in?
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  Speaker 8: Danforth.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know any Mr. Danforth, but you see.
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  Speaker 8: I just want to tell him how sorry I am
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  Speaker 8: that I couldn't get over this evening.
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  Speaker 2: This is Dr. Goddard.
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Emil Goddard.
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  Speaker 8: You see, there was an emergency at my sanitarium tonight,
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  Speaker 8: and I had to assist.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: What kind of an emergency?
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: Two rather serious cases ran away from here. What?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Taking my most effective young intern with them. Poor fellow
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  Speaker 8: by the name of Williams. Williams. Margot.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 8: Margot. Hello. What is it, young man?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I want to see Miss Lane.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: I'm afraid you can't. I haven't completed my examination.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I want to see her, and I want to see
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: her now.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Very well, if that's the way you feel about it.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: I don't advise it, mind you, but if you insist,
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: there's nothing I can do except.
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: Well done, Lasher. Thanks. Good work. Good work.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Good work. Good work.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: We'll return to the shadow in just a minute. Friends,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: is your home heated with the type of fuel now
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: hard to get? If so, I would like to ask
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: you three questions. One, would you like to cut your
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: fuel bill in half? Two, would you like to be
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: sure of plenty of fuel for steady, uninterrupted, healthful warmth
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: in every room of your home? Three, would you like
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: to continue to enjoy the convenience of fully automatic home heat?
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I'm sure your answers are all yes, and there is
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: only one way these things can be accomplished. Switch to
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: the smaller sizes of hard coal and install an automatic stoker.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: At current price levels, stoker-sized hard coal will cut your
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: fuel bill in half. Stoker sizes of hard coal are plentiful,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: and enough can be stored to carry you through the winter. Modern, efficient,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: automatic stokers are available right now, and they soon pay
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: for themselves in fuel savings. With a hard coal stoker,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: the fire is fueled automatically, and ashes are removed automatically.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: The healthful, steady coal fire warmth is automatically controlled by
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: a thermostat.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: In your living room.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Your neighborhood blue coal dealer can give you information and
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: advice on stokers. You'll find him listed in the classified
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: phone directory under blue coal. Now, back to the shadow.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: The Shadow When their car mysteriously skids off the road
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: and Margot's ankle is sprained, she and Cranston take refuge
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: in a dilapidated old mansion. There, a strange doctor claims
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: to be treating Margot's injury. But when Lamont tries to
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: see her, he is struck down from behind by the
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: doctor's friend, Lasher.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Now, a few seconds later, in the room with Margot.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: Doctor? Yes, my dear?
• 19:48
  Speaker 11: What was that noise out there?
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: Nothing, my dear. Nothing at all.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: I thought I heard Lamont's voice.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: Nonsense. You mustn't concern yourself with these trifles, Miss Lane.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: Particularly not now when you have so much else to
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: worry about. What do you mean? I have made my examination. Yes?
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: The condition is very serious. I'm afraid neurological distortion of
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: the metatarsal area has set in.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: A rather serious malady.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: Serious malady!
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: Serious malady!
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: I'd better inform my family.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: That won't be necessary. I shall proceed here and now
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: to do what's called for.
• 20:29
  Speaker 11: What's that?
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: I'm afraid surgery. Oh, no. Yes, my dear.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Surgery.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: Surgery! Surgery!
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, my head.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: What happened? You're okay now, Cranston. It's dark. I can't see.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Who are you?
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: William's.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Williams. Oh, yes.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: Where are we?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Locked in the gatehouse. Lasher? Yes.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: He brought me here first, right after I talked to you.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: He's very powerful. And the other one, the one who
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: pretends to be a doctor? He was a doctor before
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: he had his nervous collapse. Jeffrey Boland, his name was.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Master surgeon. Surgeon. Surgeon.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: Margo.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Williams, we've got to get out of here.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: The chances aren't too good. Not a window in this place,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: and the door is three-inch iron plate.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: There's just one slim possibility.
• 21:34
  Speaker 12: Yes?
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Lasher comes around about every ten minutes.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Well, if a power... Oh, no, that's out of the question. Besides,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: he seems to have found a revolver somewhere around the house.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: How do we operate?
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure yet. It's no simple matter dealing with
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: a psychoneurotic. What's wrong with him? If he's illness, I mean,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: what's it like? He isn't insane, but he has an
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: obsession with sharp, cutting instruments.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: How do you mean? He's fascinated with them.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Not uncommon phenomenon in the neurotic structure.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I see. Williams.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Yes? Would he be fascinated with a hunting knife? He
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: certainly would.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Because I've got one. You have? Yes. Give it to me,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: and I think I can get you out of here. Ah.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: When Lasher comes around, I'll try to get his attention
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: with the knife. And once I have, you can sneak
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: out and go to your lady's rescue. Leave you here
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: with a neurotic with a phobia for knives?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: It's your only chance. It's my chance, I know, but
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: why should you risk your life like this? For one thing,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: for the sake of the lady. For the other... Shh!
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Here he comes.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: Give me the knife.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: No, Williams, I... Give it to me! Okay, Williams.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: Thanks.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Williams. How you feeling?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I feel all right.
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: How's your little friend? He's still unconscious. Lasher, please, could
• 22:56
  Speaker 13: I have some water?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Water? You don't want no water?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do. Yes, I do.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: What do you want with water?
• 23:03
  Speaker 13: Look, I'll I'll make a deal with you, Lasher. I'll
• 23:07
  Speaker 13: give you something if you bring me some water. What
• 23:12
  Speaker 13: do you give me?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: This?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: What? A knife.
• 23:16
  Speaker 13: A knife.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: It's for you, Lasher.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: All for you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: A knife?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, here.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Here, take it. A knife?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Now's your chance, Cranston. Okay. Good luck. You're the one
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: who'll need the luck, Williams.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: A knife. A nice, sharp knife. A nice, sharp knife. Lamont! Lamont!
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: I'm afraid your gentleman friend is otherwise engaged, Miss Lane.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: Please let me out of here. I fear, my dear girl,
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: that would be impossible. Quite to understand, my dear. I
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: shall perform the operation with admirable dexterity. I shall prove
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: to those fools who would keep me in a sanitarium
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: that I'm not ill, that I'm indeed a great and
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: clever surgeon, a skilled master of the scalpel. I will
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: not return to captivity to waste my talents under a bushel.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: That I will avoid at all costs.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: The shadow.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: Who laughed? There's no one here.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I'm here, though you cannot see me.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: Who are you?
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I am the Shadow.
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: Go away. Leave me. Go. If you've come to take
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: Miss Lane from me, I won't allow it. Make one move,
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: whatever you are, and I will plunge the knife. Shadow.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: You don't understand, Jeffrey Boland. I'm not here to help
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Miss Lane. No? No.
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: I'm here to warn you. Warn me?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Dr. Goddard and his friends are on their way to
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: this house.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: No. Yes.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: You've no time to waste.
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: No, no, I best... Let them come. They will never
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: reach me. Oh, but they will. Oh, but they won't.
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: There is a mirror hung across the road. And when
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: they turn the bend, they will wreck themselves to avoid
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: their own headlights.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: The mirror has been removed. Removed?
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: Who removed it? You! You did it! Listen to me, Boland.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: Listen to me instead. Miss Lane will pay with her
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: life for this effrontery of yours.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: They found you, Boland.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: No, no!
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: The house is surrounded. The grounds are covered.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: Let me out of here!
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: Lasher! Lasher! Lasher! Thank heaven you came.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: Come on, Margo, quickly.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I've got to get back to the gatehouse before Lasher
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: uses my hunting knife.
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: Of course.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: William!
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Williams, you all right?
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: They've broken the gatehouse just in time. Lasher? They've got him.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Where's Boland? He's trapped in the house. Good.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: We'll proceed with caution. You men, just move in casually
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: and encircle the house. I'll go in and try to
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: lure him into.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Stand where you are, gentlemen!
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Well, that's Boland's voice.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Look up there.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: Where?
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: On the terrace over the hillside.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Boland!
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: Yes, Williams!
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: We've come to take you home.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: My home, sir, is here!
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Boland, we have to take you back.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: That you will never do!
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Please come quietly, Boland. We'll make you well again.
• 26:26
  Speaker 14: You'll make me well? I'm the doctor, sir, not you.
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: I'm a surgeon as skillful as ever I was. And
• 26:34
  Speaker 14: not be kept within walls like a dangerous madman.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Do we have to come and get you? Or will
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: you come down alone?
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: I will come down alone.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Look, he's climbing over the railing.
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: Boland, stop at 78.
• 26:45
  Speaker 14: I will come down, Williams, but you are not taking
• 26:48
  Speaker 14: me back.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Stop.
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: That is one thing.
• 26:51
  Speaker 14: I promised myself to avoid at all costs. Don't jump, Boland, don't.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Ah! Thanks for getting us a lift home, Williams. Oh,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: don't mention it, Cranston. We're lucky to be coming home
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: Here's my house.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: I don't know how I can.
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: Ever thank you.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: You can, darling, so don't try. Good night, old man.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: See you again, Cranston. It's been quite a night.
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: Well, of all things, Jeffrey Boland was evidently quite a
• 27:34
  Speaker 11: doctor in his time.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 27:38
  Speaker 11: Realize I just ran up those stairs?
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: Margo.
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: That must have been quite a treatment he gave me. Bianco,
• 27:47
  Speaker 11: it's completely well.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Now here is Blue Coal's Distinguished Heating Authority, John Barkley.
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Andre Baruch, and good evening, friends.
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: I'd like to point out how you can get longer
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: firing periods from the larger sizes of hard coal and
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: save money, too, by using about one-half buckwheat size along
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: with your regular coal. It's a simple matter to keep
• 28:17
  Speaker 12: an excellent fire using low-cost buckwheat and your regular size
• 28:22
  Speaker 12: coal together. Just put the coal on in layers, first
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: the larger size and then the buckwheat, which filters down
• 28:30
  Speaker 12: into the gaps, giving.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: You a deeper, hotter fire bed.
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: And buckwheat, which is slow-burning, is ideal for banking the
• 28:37
  Speaker 12: fire overnight or to use in mild weather. So order
• 28:42
  Speaker 12: your share of money-saving buckwheat from your blue coal dealer.
• 28:46
  Speaker 12: You can be warm and comfortable all winter long and
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: save money in the bargain.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I thank you.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: This story is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: The characters, names, places, and plot are fictitious.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Again next week, The Shadow will demonstrate that... The weed
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Shadow knows. Next week, same time, same station, your friendly
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: blue coal dealer brings you another strange and thrilling adventure
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: in the Shadow's daring battle against the forces of evil.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: The Shadow is presented by the... DL & W Coal Company,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: distributors of Blue Coal. Lamont Cranston in his play by
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Brett Morrison. Margot by Grace Matthews. Your announcer is Andre Baruch. Remember,
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: it's Blue Coal for finest heating service. It's Blue Coal
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: for finest modern equipment. It's Blue Coal for the best
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: home heat money can buy.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: This is.
• 30:04
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• 30:19
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• 30:22
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