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The Shadow - "The Ghost That Gleams" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: At his isolated Oceanside Cottage, Max Hale is visited again
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: and again by a tall, pale-faced figure at his window.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: On April 4th, 1948, Mutual Broadcasting System listeners heard episode
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: 442 of The Shadow, The Ghost That Gleams. With the
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: police and psychiatrists unable to account for the apparition, Hale
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: calls on Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane. Their overnight visit
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: takes them from the cottage to the nearby dunes, where
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: unsettling clues point toward matters Hale has tried to leave behind.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Louis Vitesse wrote this late-run mutual broadcast, with Brett Morrison
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: as Lamont Cranston and Grace Matthews as Margot Lane in
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: their 1947-48 pairing. Blue Coal sponsored the Eastern Feed. And now,
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: our story begins.
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: Who knows?
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
• 1:21
  Speaker 4: The Shadow knows.
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: Once again, your neighborhood blue coal dealer brings you the
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: thrilling adventures of The Shadow. The hard and relentless fight
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: of one man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: are designed to demonstrate forcefully to old and young alike
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: that crime does not pay. Friends, there has been no
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: interruption in the mining of blue coal. Every working day,
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: the blue coal mines are producing at full capacity. Yes,
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: householders can fill their bins with blue coal this spring
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: and be sure of the same steady healthful warmth next
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  Speaker 3: winter they have enjoyed this year. Because of the shortage
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  Speaker 3: of other fuels, the demand for hard coal has greatly increased.
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  Speaker 3: And for your safety and comfort next winter, we want
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  Speaker 3: to make this suggestion. Place your order this spring, the
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  Speaker 3: sooner the better, for the coal you will.
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  Speaker 5: Need next winter.
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  Speaker 3: Don't take a chance. Call the nearest blue coal dealer
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow and ask him to schedule your spring delivery of
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  Speaker 3: blue coal, America's finest hard coal. The Shadow The Shadow,
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: who aids the forces of law and order, is in
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  Speaker 3: reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Years ago
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  Speaker 3: in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret.
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  Speaker 3: The hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot
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  Speaker 3: see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane,
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  Speaker 3: is the only person who knows to whom the voice
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  Speaker 3: of the invisible Shadow belongs. Today's drama, The Ghost That Gleams.
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  Speaker 3: A low, rambling cottage is situated along a lonely strip
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  Speaker 3: of sandy beach. Even inside the cottage, you can hear
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  Speaker 3: the distant.
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  Speaker 5: Boom of the waves and the low moan of the
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  Speaker 5: wind along the dune.
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: Max, shut the door.
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: Shut the door. It's cold in the house.
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  Speaker 5: All right. It's dark on the dune and on the ocean.
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: Why are you standing at the door, daring?
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  Speaker 5: To find out.
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: To find out what?
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  Speaker 5: It becomes by land or by sea.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it. Max, stop it.
• 4:09
  Speaker 4: Sorry. I'm not being very considerate, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Darling, darling.
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  Speaker 5: But it's become a little worrying, my own particular private ghost.
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: Just your nerves.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, my dear, not my nerves.
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  Speaker 5: A tall ghost who stoops a little. A ghost in shapeless,
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  Speaker 5: colorless clothes. A ghost whose face gleams.
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: Max, darling.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I can stand it much longer.
• 4:26
  Speaker 4: The limits.
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  Speaker 5: You have to sleep sometimes, and I don't dare sleep.
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  Speaker 2: It's imagination. There are no such things as ghosts.
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  Speaker 5: My love is my ghost.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very special thing between us.
• 4:35
  Speaker 5: We don't care to let others in on our little friendship.
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: I don't like to hear you talk like that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like to hear myself.
• 4:43
  Speaker 5: Maybe....
• 4:45
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's just because I'm tired. Maybe it's really nothing.
• 4:51
  Speaker 5: I am tired.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to sleep, Max. All right.
• 4:55
  Speaker 4: You'll go to sleep.
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: I'll get things ready. Max, don't worry.
• 5:00
  Speaker 5: Don't worry.
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  Speaker 7: Don't... Lucia.
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  Speaker 2: Lucia. What is it, dear?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Lucia.
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  Speaker 3: Lucia, come here, quick.
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  Speaker 2: Max, what? The window. I'm looking at the window. Max,
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing at the window.
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  Speaker 5: There's his dead face gleaming.
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  Speaker 4: His dead face.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing. Nobody at the window. What? There's nobody at the window, darling.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody at all.
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  Speaker 5: It's been going on now for weeks, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: I can't take it anymore. It must be a disturbing experience, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Hill.
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  Speaker 4: I've been to the police. They were polite, but I
• 5:50
  Speaker 4: got nothing out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if.
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  Speaker 5: If I've been to a doctor, psychiatrist... Yes, Miss Lane,
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  Speaker 5: I find nothing wrong. I am not insane. I wish
• 6:00
  Speaker 5: I could help you. You've got to help me. Look,
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  Speaker 5: I've heard about you, many things. That's why I came here.
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  Speaker 5: I need help, and I know of no one to
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  Speaker 5: whom I can turn.
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  Speaker 4: What is our schedule like, Margo?
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  Speaker 2: We were twins. We couldn't take care of more than
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  Speaker 2: half of us.
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  Speaker 5: I know how busy you must be, Mr. Cranston. Can
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  Speaker 5: you realize how desperate I am?
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  Speaker 8: Margo.
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: Get some things together. We're going down to Oceanside tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Oceanside?
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Hale has a cottage there with his wife. He's going
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  Speaker 4: to put it up for a while.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Anything special I should take with me?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Miss Lane. Something special.
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  Speaker 6: Like a trafficker.
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  Speaker 5: We don't have much farther to go.
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  Speaker 4: I can see your place now. It's isolated, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: I've always preferred to be alone with Lucia.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I don't know. The cottage is right near the
• 7:00
  Speaker 5: water's edge. It must be near but miles of sand dunes.
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  Speaker 2: It must be lonely.
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  Speaker 5: It is sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: The cottage.
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  Speaker 5: Is that your wife playing?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Lucia! Lucia!
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  Speaker 4: Darling.
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  Speaker 2: Darling. Oh, company.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont Cranston, Margo Lane, my wife.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do? How do you do? I'm so
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: glad you came. I love the sea, but it gets
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: a bit lonely. Max never spoke of you.
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  Speaker 7: They're very old friends, Lucia.
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  Speaker 5: And they were kind enough to come along with me.
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  Speaker 4: I ran into them in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you should go to the city more often. Max,
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  Speaker 2: look after Mr. Cranston. Margo, may I show you your room?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Your wife's very charming.
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  Speaker 2: She is.
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  Speaker 5: Stuck to me faithfully through all this, but.
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: He's never seen him.
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  Speaker 4: The goose?
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  Speaker 5: He's never seen him, and yet he gleams like a
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  Speaker 5: beacon of a dance.
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  Speaker 4: Easy now. We'll try to make sense out of the thing,
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: whatever it is. But suppose it.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't make sense. Suppose it.
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  Speaker 4: Close up, suppose.
• 8:04
  Speaker 5: You've managed to pull yourself together a bit on the train.
• 8:05
  Speaker 5: But I'm back where he comes for me.
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  Speaker 7: Where.
• 8:09
  Speaker 5: What was... Woman screaming back to the house. Come along.
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  Speaker 5: Turn down the hall.
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  Speaker 2: Margo! Kill Lamont!
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  Speaker 5: What happened, Lucia?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but maybe my nerves aren't as strong as
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: I thought. You better not, Margo. Lamont, come here. The closet.
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  Speaker 4: All right, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: The tail was showing me the room. He opened the
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  Speaker 2: closet and... That fell across the table.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, don't feel it.
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  Speaker 5: It's wet.
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  Speaker 2: Must have been a horrible feeling, Lamont. That wet, clammy
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  Speaker 2: stuff across the face. I don't blame her for screaming.
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  Speaker 4: No, but it does make a good beginning. She's bumping
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  Speaker 4: a ghost.
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  Speaker 5: Ghost?
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  Speaker 2: Ghost what, Lamont?
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  Speaker 5: Because a clump of wet seaweed is one of the
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  Speaker 5: oldest marks.
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  Speaker 4: Things that walk by night.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 5: Every time before it... he appears, sand rattles against the window.
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  Speaker 5: A little twirl of sand as though... a ghostly hand
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  Speaker 5: was throwing it. It might be the wind. Yes, it might,
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  Speaker 5: except that it's happened on still nights. Nights when there
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  Speaker 5: was no wind.
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  Speaker 4: Where did you live before you came here?
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  Speaker 5: Many places.
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  Speaker 6: For a little while.
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  Speaker 4: Then we'd move on.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 4: Was there ever anything in your life connected with the sea?
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  Speaker 4: With the sea?
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  Speaker 5: No, never.
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  Speaker 4: Well, nothing's happening tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: It's, um, quite late.
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  Speaker 5: Margaret must be tired and your wife.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we'll go to bed.
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  Speaker 5: Then. Perhaps tonight I'll be able to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Lucia? Yes, darling?
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  Speaker 5: Our guests are tired.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, of course. Time for bed.
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  Speaker 4: Weather's blowing up a bit.
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  Speaker 5: Often does at this hour. Something to do with tides or.
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  Speaker 4: You make me all the happier for being indoors. Well,
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  Speaker 4: shall we? I'll take you to.
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  Speaker 9: Your room, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Good night, Mrs.
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  Speaker 9: Hale.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Hale.
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  Speaker 2: Good night.
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  Speaker 8: Good night.
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  Speaker 2: The mountain's terrible.
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  Speaker 4: I know. There's your room, madam.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: Wind's bad tonight. And the waves like distant cannon fire. Listen.
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  Speaker 4: They sound like waves to me. Good night, darling.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Lamont. Lamont!
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  Speaker 3: Lamont!
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, Margo.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: If there were ghosts, this would be such a good
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: place for them to walk, wouldn't it? Max?
• 11:11
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: Come to bed.
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  Speaker 5: In a little while.
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  Speaker 2: We've been sitting there staring out over the ocean for
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: such a long time.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: Lucia.
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: How did that seaweed get into the closet?
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Somebody must have accidentally.
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: Accidentally? Somebody? Who?
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: Max, there's a very simple explanation. There must be.
• 11:31
  Speaker 8: Must be?
• 11:31
  Speaker 5: Sounds like.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: I could hear it, maybe.
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: Birds don't whistle like that. I.
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: It's nothing. It... It must be nothing.
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: We both hear it.
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: Someone at the door. Yes.
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: I'm untoward enough to knock. I'll give you what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Shall I?
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not afraid of anything that can knock on a door.
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: Lucia, go to sleep.
• 11:56
  Speaker 5: All right, Mike.
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: That whistle.
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  Speaker 5: It reminds me of something.
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  Speaker 4: Something. Who?
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: Hello, Nick. Hello.
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: Who are you?
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: Whitten.
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: Why are there stars?
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: It would be warmer inside, Max.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: Come in. Thank you.
• 12:25
  Speaker 5: You know me, but... Look again, Max. In so many years.
• 12:31
  Speaker 5: A man doesn't grow younger, he grows older. And I've
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: grown older.
• 12:39
  Speaker 9: What?
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: That's right, Max.
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: What do you want for him?
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: He's done well, Max, in all the years between. Very well.
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: I inquired before I sought you out here. What if
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: I have?
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: Don't misunderstand me, Max. I'm delighted. Terribly delighted, Max.
• 12:56
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Of course, if you hadn't done so well, Max,
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: you wouldn't have such a nice fire.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: So charming and well built a home.
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: If you hadn't done so well, Max, you wouldn't be
• 13:07
  Speaker 5: able to.
• 13:07
  Speaker 6: Take care of old Paulie.
• 13:10
  Speaker 7: Take care of you?
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: That's right, Max.
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: I need taking care of him.
• 13:16
  Speaker 9: I am old.
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: I need money. Hawley, if you think I'm going to...
• 13:22
  Speaker 5: I know you're going to, Max.
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: But old times, see. You're calling yourself here now, aren't you?
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: That's right. Instead of.
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: Shut up! Mustn't mention it.
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: Hawley, listen.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: I'll look after you. I knew you were near.
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: I can't very well do anything tonight, though. I have
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: a room in town. Good. I'll see you there in
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: the morning. Not too early, Max. Because you'll have to
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: stop off.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: At your bank first, won't you? Yes, I will. 49
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  Speaker 4: Beach Road, Nick. Don't forget.
• 13:53
  Speaker 7: I won't.
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: 49 Beach Road.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: Good night. And happy dreams. Someone... Who is it?
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: You're dead.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: You're dead. Stay away from me.
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: Stay away.
• 14:41
  Speaker 8: We'll return to the shadow in just a minute.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Friends, right now is the time to make plans for
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: a warm home next winter. Because of the shortage of
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: other fuels, the demand for hard coal has greatly increased.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: And that is why it is important now for you
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: to place your order for blue coal. Yes, to be
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: sure of a warm, comfortable home next winter, order your
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: supply of blue coal now and fill your bin to
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: the brim. The fact that you can store coal in
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: large quantities is one of the big advantages over other fuels.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: When you've got a supply of blue coal in your bin,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: you've got a real treasure chest in your basement. No
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  Speaker 3: matter what happens next winter, you'll be safe and warm
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: and enjoy the steadier, more healthful heat that only blue
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  Speaker 3: coal gives. So, don't be one of the shivering thousands
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  Speaker 3: next winter. Take advantage of a summer delivery and enjoy
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: guaranteed heat no matter what happens next winter. Get this
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: security now. Phone the nearest blue coal dealer tomorrow. Tell
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: them you want your delivery of blue coal during the
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: summer months.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: And ask him about.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: Easy budget terms.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: You'll find him listed in the yellow classified section of
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: your telephone directory under the word blue coal. Now, back
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: to the shadow. Margot and Lamont are staying at the
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: seaside cottage of Max and Lucia Hale. Cranston has consented
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: to investigate a strange apparition, which Hale claims he sees.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: It's almost midnight, when suddenly there's a.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Scream of pain and terror. They rush out into the
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: night across the sand dunes to investigate. The scream came
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: from this direction, I think, Margo.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: So dark.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Shifting sands could bury anything or anyone.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Not.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: over there. There it is. Looks like... like an arm
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: sticking out of the sand.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I'll see.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: You better not look, darling. It is an arm. Part
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: of it's underneath the sand. Yeah.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: He's a little old man.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: His face is... it's so contorted.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: There's some papers on him.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Of Wallace.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: His name was Pauly, James Pauly. He'd just come to
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: this country. Been abroad, China and India.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Poor devil.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Lamar, do you think there's any connection between him and Max?
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Max was very reticent about his past.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: But this man couldn't be the ghost, could he?
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: It's unlikely. Max described a tall ghost. Lamar, there's something
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Max hasn't told us.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I felt that too, but.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: We'll have to get Pauly to the police.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Then I think Max is going to receive a visit
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: from the shadow.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: Who?
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Who is it? Just a moment. Who? There's no one.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: There is someone.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: You may shut the door now, Max.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I don't... Shut the door.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: But this is insane.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I'm alone.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: No, you're not alone. I'm with you, Max.
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: The shadow is at your side.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Shadow?
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: What do you want of me?
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: The truth. Who are you, Max?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Max Hale.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: Hale.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Who are you, Max?
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: My real name is Carter. Max Carter.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Why did you change your name?
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Because I... I killed him.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Where?
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Indochina. When? Ten years ago. But it wasn't murder. It
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: was self-defense. I had to kill him or he'd have
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: killed me.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: What was his name?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Stephen Osgood. He wanted Lucia.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: We quarreled.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: I shot him point blank.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Then?
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I left the country. I left the fortune behind, but
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I had to flee. Lucia joined me later here. I
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: changed my name.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: The ghost which comes to you with a gleaming face
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: is the ghost of this.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Stephen Osgood. The man I killed.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: You've told the truth, Max.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, I have.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: I have.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Very well.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I shall leave you now. If you've lied in any way,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I shall return.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: I shall exact a just punishment.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: A just punishment. Punishment.
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: Lamont. Hmm?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: How long have we been waiting out here now? Let's see.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Almost an hour. Oh, it's no good.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: The ghost just isn't.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Going to appear.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Perhaps you're right.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Let's go in and get some sleep, darling.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: My eyes. eyes are so tired. And I'm cold.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: I wonder if ghosts get cold. Here we are.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Lamont?
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, Margo. Very cold, Margo.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I'll put the heat on. There. It's only a little
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: electric heater, but... Out here, we can't be particular.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: I like it out here, except for.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: for.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I think we should all go to bed.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: That's a very good idea.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, let's... Wait.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Listen.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: That's a sound he always makes before.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Come on, look.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: At the.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: Window.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: It's dark, but you can see a face.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: A gleaming face.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Gleaming.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Outline to the shoulders and body.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I'm going to... Max, the gun!
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I'm going to see how much of a ghost it is!
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: The fire didn't... I couldn't have missed it yet. He's
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: still there.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I hit him.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: He's gone.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: Lamont?
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: He ducked into the dunes. It would be impossible unless
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: you had a regiment.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: How can you say something that laughs at bullets?
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Cranston, I'm going out of my mind if this doesn't stop.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: I've got to get away from here.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: You can't escape by running, Max. You've got to stay here.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: And what?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: And confront your ghost.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: But.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: You'll confront it, Max. You have my word for it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: We'll confront your ghost tonight.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: It's late, Mark.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Very late.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Time to go to work.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Maxim, you should have found a seat.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Now then, Margo, it's, uh, warm in here.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Well? I want you to wait five minutes and then
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: switch that heater off.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Well, that isn't hard, but why?
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to explain now. I'm going out on the dunes.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: This time, Margo, I think I'll trap that goose.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: THE END Oh! Hello, Margo. Mrs.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: Hale.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Very late to be up, isn't it? I couldn't sleep.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I dressed and... I know. I'm restless, too. I, uh.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Where's Mr. Cranston? In his room, I think. He's a
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: very nice man. What... What did he do? What do
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: you mean? I meant that he's young, active. I wondered
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: what his occupation was. Oh, he's a criminologist. Oh, I see.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Why did you turn the heater off?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Too warm in the room.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, it is.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I think I'll go to bed now. Good night, Margo.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Good night, Mrs. Hale. Good night, Mrs.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Hale.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: The very wife, Mrs. Hale. What? What do you think
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: you're doing?
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Wake me up.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Here, Margot. What's happening? Let go of me. Let go.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: I'll let you go. I think he'll be quiet now.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: You knocked him down, a man who.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Margot, may I introduce you to Mr.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Osgood?
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: The gentleman is reportedly dead, but who isn't? The gentleman, furthermore,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: has a very odd habit of... Gleaming at night.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: Please, Max.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, Sherry.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I can't, darling. Too bad, Max.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Perhaps a sedative. I don't like sedatives. You need one.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: A stiff sedative, Max. But I told you I don't
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: want one.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Max, darling, you're going to take this one.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: But.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: So that you'll sleep soundly. Very soundly indeed.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Lucia, I won't.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You will. For my sake, Max.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: For your sake?
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, I too want to sleep soundly.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: How will my taking a sedative help you?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I couldn't sleep soundly otherwise. Your friends disturbed me.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Lamont and Margo, why?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, let's say just because they play with heat. Your sedative.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Take it, Max. Take it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: No, Max.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: The shadow, Lucia.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Max, is there someone in the room, or am I
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: going mad?
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: You're not going mad.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Max, put that sedative down.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Drink it. You've got to.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: If you drink that sedative, you'll die, Max.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: I don't understand.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: She's got to poison you to kill you, because the
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: game's out of her hands.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: What game?
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: The game of driving you mad so that she and
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: her confederate can take your money.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Her confederate?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, the same one she had years ago and into China.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Stephen Osgood.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: But he's dead.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: No, he's very much alive with his hands tied in
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: the next room.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: But I killed him.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: You shot at him, but you didn't kill him. Your
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: gun was loaded with blanks.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Right, Mrs.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: Hale? I.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I didn't know anything about it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: You stayed behind when your husband fled the Orient, Lucia.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: You and your friend Oscar took his fortune. Then you
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: rejoined Max when he became prosperous in this country under
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: another name.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Lies.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: All lies.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: No, Mrs.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Hale, it's the truth. And for that truth, you're going
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: to hang.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Hang?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: As accessory to murder. The murder of Mr. Pauly, who
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: sought to blackmail your husband. The murder of Pauly by
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: your ghostly confederate, Stephen Osgood.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Hang. I can't.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: McMax, get that glass from her.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: No. No, you don't. I've got to.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: That would have been an easy way, Mrs.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: Hale.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: But there is no easy way.
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: For those who kill.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: You're wonderful, Lamar.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: And terrible.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Sounds as if you've covered the situation pretty thoroughly.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Well, whatever made you realize the ghost wasn't really a ghost,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: it was Osgood.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: You remember when Max shot at the ghost?
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Hmm?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: He shot at the ghost through the window. The ghost's
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: face was on the other side of a closed window,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: you remember?
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Yes. Well, a bullet might pass through a ghost without
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: damaging him, but it.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Couldn't pass through a window without smashing it. Therefore.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Max didn't have bullets in his gun, but flags.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Lamont, how did Osgood bleed?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: A pinch of luminous paint, very simple. And very convenient
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: if you want to be seen in the dark.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Of course. What was all that about the heater?
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, Lucia turned the electric heater off and on whenever
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: the coast was clear.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: But how could that be a signal?
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Have you ever noticed that when you turn any powerful
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: electrical appliance on that the lights in the house will
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: momentarily dim down?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, of course. You could use the heater because you'd
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: never think of it as something big.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: You'll think I'm wonderful and terrible.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll settle for a half, eh? The first half.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: And now let me present Blue Coal's Distinguished Heating Authority,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: John Barkley.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Andre Baruch, and good evening, friends. It's not
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: too early to plan the spring checkup and cleanup.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Of your furnace... and to.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Make arrangements with your Blue Coal dealer to have that
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: essential job done.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's essential to good.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Heating and operation that will save you money next winter...
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: and to prevent costly rust damage while your furnace is
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: idle this summer. Blue Coal dealers have specially trained.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Men and special equipment.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: to do a quick, thorough, dust-free, and inexpensive job of
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: cleaning your furnace. They can also make the minor repairs necessary.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Your blue coal.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Dealer will receive many calls to clean and repair furnaces,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: so it would be wise to call him now and
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: make sure that he'll be able to fit your job
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: into his schedule. Better make a note right now to
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: call the nearest blue coal dealer tomorrow.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: I thank you.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: This story is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: The characters, names, places, and plots are fictitious. Any similarity
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Again next week. The shadow will demonstrate that.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: The shadow knows.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Next week, same time, same station.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Your friendly blue coal dealer brings you another strange and
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: thrilling adventure in the Shadow's Daring Battle.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Against the forces of evil. The Shadow is presented.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: By the DL & W Coal Company, distributors of blue coal.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Lamont Cranston is played by Brett Morrison. Margot by Grace Matthews.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Your announcer is Andre Barouch. Remember, it's blue coal for
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: finest heating service. It's blue coal for finest modern equipment.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: It's blue coal for the best home heat money can buy.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of The Shadow, The Ghost That Gleams, now
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: comes to a close. Follow The Shadow for more classic broadcasts.