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The Shadow - Horror In Wax [episode 161] Broadcast 2/26/1939 · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Who loads what evil looks in the hearts of men.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: The shadow load.
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  Speaker 2: Your local blue coal dealer presents the shadow. These half
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: hour dramatizations are designed to forcibly demonstrate to old and
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: young like that crime does not pay before the curtain
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: rises on Act mon At Today's adventure with the Shadow.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Remember this, home owners, because of abrupt changes in temperature,
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: the coming months are the most treacherous of the entire year.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: So do the safe thing, the wise thing, and order
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: blue coal for your next fuel supply. You'll find that
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  Speaker 2: this quality tested hard.
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  Speaker 3: Coal, you're steadier, more helpful heat.
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  Speaker 4: and prevents your home from becoming suddenly chilled or overheated.
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  Speaker 4: Remember the name blue coals for perfect home heating comfort
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  Speaker 4: in any kind of weather. The Shadow, the serious characters,
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  Speaker 4: weighs those in distress and.
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  Speaker 3: Helps the forces of law and order.
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  Speaker 4: Is in reality the Monk Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
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  Speaker 4: only person who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs.
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  Speaker 5: Today's story Horror in Wax.
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  Speaker 6: Lieutenant Carter, I want you to check that no leics
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  Speaker 6: to stone cars or the four cock detail before the
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  Speaker 6: men go on duty. You'll mention take a squad of
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  Speaker 6: twenty men and help Cardona with the detail at scarring
• 1:59
  Speaker 6: them there at that rally.
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  Speaker 3: To night, and you Prophy you better this minute.
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  Speaker 6: Oh the there's no Western speaking but that. Uh I
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  Speaker 6: wanted this happen all right, Give me the address, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: twenty two Prince Street.
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  Speaker 3: I got that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll send a man out right away. Brophy, Yes,
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  Speaker 6: make no Western This is a job for you. The
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  Speaker 6: rest of you men can go now, get out on
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  Speaker 6: the job and keep awake. Hey, Brophy, take this address.
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  Speaker 6: It's in a rooming house out on the south side.
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  Speaker 6: Woman's been found dead in one of the rooms.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 7: Now, the poor thing murdered by some.
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  Speaker 5: Blackguard I support, never mind, shed any tears about it.
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  Speaker 3: Get out there and find out what happened.
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  Speaker 7: So she is, Lieutenant Groofy, and I understand why I
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  Speaker 7: found her when I came up to cleaning up this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Who is this woman?
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  Speaker 7: I never saw her before?
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  Speaker 5: Didn't you renenter the room?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 7: No, I have read the room to two men. They
• 3:02
  Speaker 7: came in last night. They were gone this morning. She
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  Speaker 7: must have commanded her in the night.
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  Speaker 5: Did they leave baggage or anything.
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  Speaker 7: They've brought nothing with them and took nothing against And.
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  Speaker 2: I look her over and see what they've killed her with.
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  Speaker 3: If they killed her, well.
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  Speaker 9: She certainly is a find of the bob.
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  Speaker 3: What do you call this?
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  Speaker 9: You've found something hard enough to curl me tongue, so
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  Speaker 9: I can't say a word.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 5: Feel that hand there?
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  Speaker 7: You want me to touch her?
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  Speaker 8: Oh no, no you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Hand is as stiff and hard as the rock and
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  Speaker 2: throws the arms in her face. Why sure, this is
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  Speaker 2: no woman a tall at the wax figure.
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  Speaker 9: Wax figure.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly the lads invented the room and left the tier
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  Speaker 2: were likely as not a couple of addressed salesmen.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing more.
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  Speaker 8: And she's not really dead, no.
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  Speaker 5: Dedert than she's ever been.
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  Speaker 2: That's the differs on things they send a police officer
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  Speaker 2: out on nowadays.
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  Speaker 8: Well, what will I do.
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  Speaker 7: With this, this wax figure?
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  Speaker 2: You'll leave it where it is, We'll send the wagon
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  Speaker 2: for it. Maybe the wives of one of the men
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  Speaker 2: can cut her clothes on it.
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  Speaker 3: But Commissioner Western, it's the truth.
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling you. It was not more than a wax figure.
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  Speaker 6: It's hot as rock, A fine thing to leave behind
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  Speaker 6: in the furnished room. Well you better send the wagon
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  Speaker 6: on there. Hello as who says this.
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  Speaker 1: Is the shadow?
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  Speaker 3: Commissioner?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, well what do you want now? We've had peace
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  Speaker 6: and quiet around here lately. Say just a minute, I'll
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  Speaker 6: hold a wire.
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  Speaker 3: Second, it's that shadow. I'm gonna have some fun with
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  Speaker 3: the shadow.
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  Speaker 6: We we just got a case that has us all baffle.
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  Speaker 6: Would you like to help.
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  Speaker 8: Us, Commissioner. You know I'm always willing to lend whatever
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  Speaker 8: assistance I can.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, fine, Well, here's the dope. A woman's been found
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  Speaker 6: dead at twenty two Prince Street out on the South Side.
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  Speaker 6: We don't know who she is, or how she died,
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  Speaker 6: or a thing about her. I'll put the case into
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  Speaker 6: your hands if you want to tackle it.
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  Speaker 8: I think that's the Commissioner. I'll go out there right
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  Speaker 8: away and investigate.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine, But Shadow, you've got to make me one promise.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, commission what is it?
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  Speaker 6: Well, the medical examiner hasn't cleared the case yet, so
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  Speaker 6: i'd appreciate it if you wouldn't touch the body or
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  Speaker 6: disturb it in any way.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Commissioner, I hardly think it'll be necessary.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good luck, then, Shadow, I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 8: Oh no, Commissioner, you'll hear me later.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, okay, I'll hear you later. He felt for it,
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  Speaker 6: hell for a hook line.
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  Speaker 2: And sink, I give me it teeth to be there
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  Speaker 2: when he examined that dead body.
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  Speaker 3: This is funny, Brophy. We've got the Shadow, a.
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  Speaker 6: Great crime expert investigating the death of a wax feature.
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  Speaker 7: Well alone, touched every inch of this room.
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  Speaker 8: That's not identify this woman's body, nor I didn't expect
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  Speaker 8: they would be. Perhaps, no muggle, don't touch the body.
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  Speaker 8: Commissioner Western specifically asked me not to.
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  Speaker 10: There might be a tag on the clothing or nothing.
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  Speaker 8: The man who left his body here landed too well
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  Speaker 8: to leave any tell tale markings. You'll notice that even
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  Speaker 8: the manufacturer's name has been scraped off the soles of
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  Speaker 8: the shoes. The features have a strange wax like appear, yes,
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  Speaker 8: amazingly wax like. Well, if there's nothing.
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  Speaker 7: More to do with here, Lamara, I won'll be a
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  Speaker 7: bit storry to leave as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we'll go modo.
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  Speaker 8: Commissioner Western is probably waiting for the shadows report on
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  Speaker 8: the case, and we don't want to meet any of
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  Speaker 8: his men here. We mustn't disappoint the commissioner.
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  Speaker 3: Waven appropriate call. I see who this is? Oh, Commissioner
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  Speaker 3: Western's bigie. Hello, Commissioner, this is the shadow. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: well a shadow. How did you make out?
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  Speaker 9: Have you made any progress on that case?
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  Speaker 8: I gave you, Yes, Commissioner Little, I think case is
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  Speaker 8: fairly obvious. You don't say the woman did not meet
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  Speaker 8: her death in that room.
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  Speaker 3: What's this you're you're sure about that?
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  Speaker 8: I suppose positive she died someplace else and was brought
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  Speaker 8: to the room.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, it didn't take you long to figure that out,
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  Speaker 3: did it. What are you going to do? Shadow?
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  Speaker 8: We've got to find the men who brought the woman there.
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  Speaker 6: You're getting off on the right foot, all right, But
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  Speaker 6: how are we going to find them?
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  Speaker 3: Have you figured that one out?
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  Speaker 8: Not exactly. But I'm not going to waste any time
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  Speaker 8: you hold a body until you hear from me.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're sure we're going to hear from you, aren't you.
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  Speaker 8: You'll hear from me a lot sooner than you expect. Commissioner.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and that is a shadow, ghero, he's hung up?
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear that you worked.
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  Speaker 10: The right time.
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  Speaker 6: About the funny thing I've ever run across you, pusion
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  Speaker 6: you didn't die.
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  Speaker 3: There is writing that he thirty.
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  Speaker 8: You are regarded Professor Whitehead as an outstanding authority in
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  Speaker 8: these matters, and't I I want you to know that
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  Speaker 8: I trust your judgment implicitly.
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  Speaker 11: Of course, it's a fairly common knowledge that from time immemorial,
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  Speaker 11: scientists have labored with the idea of preserving life through freezing, waxing, mummifying,
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  Speaker 11: and various other such methods.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, are read only recently where a group of Russian
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  Speaker 7: scientists frozen man and performed a very difficult operations. I
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  Speaker 7: believe Ann.
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  Speaker 3: It's very possible, miss Lane.
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  Speaker 8: But this waxing process, professor, preserving the human form by
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  Speaker 8: turning it to wax. Have you had any personal contact
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  Speaker 8: with such cases.
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  Speaker 11: I haven't actually participated in such experiments, but I've followed
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  Speaker 11: them quite closely. In fact.
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  Speaker 3: Then here's the book I'll hear.
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  Speaker 11: On my show. Yes, Yes, this is it. This is
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  Speaker 11: an account of the experiments of doctor Jean Fennault, famous
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  Speaker 11: French scientist. He invented a chemical which he injected into
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  Speaker 11: the arm within a few hours. The subject I assumed
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  Speaker 11: not only a wax like appearance, but all organs were stilled,
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  Speaker 11: and a state of suspended animation attained.
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  Speaker 8: Well, what happened to Panau? Did he continue these experiments?
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  Speaker 11: No, he never got the chance.
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  Speaker 9: He was laughed out of the.
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  Speaker 11: Community where he lived when he revealed the fact that
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  Speaker 11: he had waxed the body of a young girl.
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  Speaker 9: He was stoned.
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  Speaker 4: What happened to the girl?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 11: Pnau revived her right enough? The experiment was entirely successful.
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  Speaker 8: Then he not only had a waxing process, but also
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  Speaker 8: an antidote to revive the subject.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, yes, a restorative he called it. By the way,
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  Speaker 11: he is a picture of Prenaux in this book.
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  Speaker 8: Rather an interesting looking face, don't you think so, Margo?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, very interesting when I wouldn't care to meet on.
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  Speaker 12: A dark road.
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  Speaker 8: Well, do you think doctor Panaux is still a live Professor?
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  Speaker 11: That I am not prepared to say, mister cra It
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  Speaker 11: was reported he came to America ten years ago. In
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  Speaker 11: any case, he dropped from sight about that time.
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  Speaker 8: I see. Well, I'm very much obliged to professor. We
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  Speaker 8: must leave now. This talk has been most interesting, and
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  Speaker 8: I promise you it will result in something even more interesting.
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  Speaker 8: Have you finished them? Yes, Morgol, quite finished. We've checked
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  Speaker 8: every wax figure dealer in this entire territory. Business connections
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  Speaker 8: of all of them are easily accounted for them. That
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  Speaker 8: is all but one, this Cosmos wax sticky company. I
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  Speaker 8: can't find a single firm that does business with them. No, no, Morgo,
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  Speaker 8: but I think that, Oh that's probably my friend, Vick Marquette,
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  Speaker 8: Internal Revenue Department. Hello, Oh, yes, Vic, have you found.
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  Speaker 5: Anything well that Cosmos something you inquired about.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Now there's a.
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  Speaker 12: Ship deal with quarantine in a few hours with a
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  Speaker 12: large consignment of wax figures.
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  Speaker 8: You say the ship is doing a few hours, Vic,
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  Speaker 8: I want you to do me a favor. I want
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  Speaker 8: you to assign miss Lane and myself.
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  Speaker 9: To the custom detail that goes on board that ship,
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  Speaker 9: the quarantine.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you got out.
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  Speaker 13: Your sleep clon, not exactly.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I guess all right, we'll be right down. I'll
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  Speaker 8: explain matters to you.
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  Speaker 7: Then what are we going to do now?
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  Speaker 3: La mon?
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  Speaker 8: I'm only playing along in a hunch, But if it
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  Speaker 8: works out, Margo, I think we'll have a little surprise
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  Speaker 8: in store for our friend Commissioner Western. You're the man
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  Speaker 8: in charge of this shipment of wax.
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  Speaker 3: Figures, we, missiere?
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  Speaker 8: Do you always store them in state rooms? Wouldn't it
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  Speaker 8: be less expensive to ship them in the hold with
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  Speaker 8: other fraid?
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  Speaker 13: Oh but mon sir, these figures are afraid there works
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  Speaker 13: a lot, as you can see.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, they're really amazing. I don't believe I've ever seen
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  Speaker 7: such life like figures.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, the attention to detail is astounding, even to birthmarks
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  Speaker 8: and scars. Well, we're very much obliged to you for
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  Speaker 8: letting us see these figures.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, and good night, good.
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  Speaker 8: Night, see good night, good night. Don't say anything for
• 12:24
  Speaker 8: a moment, Margo. Let's get down with the companionway Kimo.
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  Speaker 8: Now tell me did you notice anything unusual about those figures?
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  Speaker 8: I thought they were simply astounding reproductions of the human beaches? No,
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  Speaker 8: I don't mean that. Did you notice on the left
• 12:42
  Speaker 8: arm of each there was the tiniest puncture such as
• 12:46
  Speaker 8: might have been made by a hypodermic needle?
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  Speaker 10: No, no, la mode, I hadn't know this. What do
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  Speaker 10: you think it means?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know exactly, Margo, But we're following that shipment
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  Speaker 8: of wax figures to its destination.
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• 14:48
  Speaker 8: Stop the car right here, mother, that's the Cosmos building
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: just ahead and there.
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  Speaker 10: Indy looking place, Commard, doesn't the peers though, there's anybody inside.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, there is, Mother. Back there, you can just see
• 15:01
  Speaker 8: a bar of light filtering through that shuttered window.
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  Speaker 10: Oh yes, what.
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  Speaker 7: Do you suppose they could be doing in there this.
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  Speaker 10: Hour of the night.
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  Speaker 8: They've already gotten a shipment of wax figures from that freighter.
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  Speaker 8: That's probably what occupies them. Now better turn off your headlights.
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  Speaker 8: We'll sit here and wait a while.
• 15:18
  Speaker 10: Look, Clement, that side door is opening. Some one's coming.
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  Speaker 8: Out, said tight, Margo, And watch the man he's coming
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  Speaker 8: this way. Yes, quiet, Margo, look at this man. Look
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: at his face.
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  Speaker 10: Whah well, this is amazing.
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  Speaker 8: It just can't be possible, quite possible, Margo. That man
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: just walked past was one of the wax figures we
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: saw in the freighter to night.
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  Speaker 10: Why it's like seeing some one step out of the grave.
• 15:50
  Speaker 8: It may be little less than just that, Margo, men
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  Speaker 8: stepping out of the grave at you. I don't know
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  Speaker 8: what it is, Mogo. I've only got a hunch. I'm
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: going to see if I can't get a glance through
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  Speaker 8: that window back there, I'll come along them. No, you'd
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  Speaker 8: better stay here.
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  Speaker 10: I'd feel more comfortable with you.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Margot, you'd feel better come along. We'll have
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: to be very careful, Margao.
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  Speaker 10: The rest of the building seemed to be deserted, all
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  Speaker 10: but that one room.
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: They're all probably busy in the back. Let me take
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: your hand, Mugo. It's pretty steep here. Quiet now, Margo.
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: This window may be open, they might hear us. I'll
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: see if i can take a peek through this crack.
• 16:34
  Speaker 10: Here anything, Marco. Look Why the room is fixed up
• 16:41
  Speaker 10: like a laboratory.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: Yes, there's some more of the figures we saw on
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: board ship.
• 16:46
  Speaker 10: That man with his back to it left like a doctor.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I hope he turns around so we get a
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: good look. Margo over there in the corner, recognize that face.
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  Speaker 10: Why, yes, it's the man that was in the ship cannon,
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  Speaker 10: the one who took care of the wax figure, right
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  Speaker 10: the al mon The other man's turned around, look at him. Yes,
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  Speaker 10: that the man who's picture professor whitehead shoulder.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Marco, it's doctor fo.
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  Speaker 10: What do you suppose they're doing?
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  Speaker 8: I can't see working at the other end of the room.
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  Speaker 8: Mostly Bugo, you go back to the car. What are
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: you going to do? Look around here and see if
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: there isn't any way of getting into this place. I've
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: got to take the chance, Marco. Now go buggle quickly, quickly.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: This is a matter for the shadow.
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: Right la monter, Do be careful, even the shadow might
• 17:34
  Speaker 10: be shot.
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  Speaker 3: This one is coming too, very good.
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  Speaker 14: Give the wax figure another injection of the restorative have
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  Speaker 14: quantity this time.
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  Speaker 9: Say Doc, that guy's growninglike he was an awful pain.
• 17:59
  Speaker 14: That is as it should be, cheap. The muscles and
• 18:01
  Speaker 14: tissues are losing their rigidity. The process is often very painful.
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  Speaker 9: Gee, this sure is a great idea, yours, Doc. Imagine
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  Speaker 9: turning people to wax with a jab of a needle,
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: and with a jab of a needle bringing them back again.
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  Speaker 5: Don't have quite so much to say cheap.
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  Speaker 13: I wonder how people would react if they knew of
• 18:18
  Speaker 13: your great accomplishment, Doctor.
• 18:19
  Speaker 14: They would laugh, laugh, as they always do at things
• 18:23
  Speaker 14: they don't understand. They laughed me out of the legitimate
• 18:27
  Speaker 14: pursuit of my science. But now I have the satisfaction
• 18:30
  Speaker 14: of accomplishment.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Oh where am I? Where am I?
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: Say? That guy's coming to now? Doc.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: You're all right, my man. You've reached your destination then,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: and this.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Is America, I mean the United States.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: Put these clothes on.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: You must leave here at once.
• 18:52
  Speaker 14: You will listen to my instructions, my good man, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 14: be sure you follow them to the letter.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:57
  Speaker 14: In addition to the sum you have already paid us
• 18:59
  Speaker 14: for smuggling you into this country, remember that our agreement
• 19:04
  Speaker 14: is that you pay us twenty five percent of your
• 19:06
  Speaker 14: runnings for the next five years. After five years, you
• 19:09
  Speaker 14: will return for another injection of the restorative If you
• 19:13
  Speaker 14: fail to come back for this injection, you will become
• 19:16
  Speaker 14: wax again and for all time. If you fail in
• 19:20
  Speaker 14: your obligation to us, or if you ever reveal the
• 19:22
  Speaker 14: means by which you were smuggling into the country, you
• 19:25
  Speaker 14: will be denied the restoratives.
• 19:27
  Speaker 15: The effect of course will be the same. You understand,
• 19:31
  Speaker 15: dry stand and go.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: This one.
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: He does not rewin.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: I am afraid he will not.
• 19:37
  Speaker 14: Your men on the boats are becoming very careless with
• 19:39
  Speaker 14: the waxing fluid. He had a girl Dianallas shipment.
• 19:42
  Speaker 13: But I assure you that I followed your instructions exactly
• 19:46
  Speaker 13: one injection so much as in this ipodem.
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: Make have it well, lond Ah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: You must have missed calculated the time. My solution cannot
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: fail here cheap.
• 19:54
  Speaker 14: This body will have to be disposed of as you
• 19:56
  Speaker 14: dispose of the girl a few days ago.
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: Okay, dark, just good, is done?
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: I want you to what's that?
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: What's the matter? You're hearing something?
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: I thought I heard footsteps outside.
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: I'll take a walk around outside. No use taking chances.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: I will go with you.
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: Okay, we'll take this guy out with us. Come on you.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, I am dressed, now I go.
• 20:21
  Speaker 16: You're right back, doc, Oh, jeep, what is it?
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Miret that car over there?
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: Do you see anybody in it?
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: Yeah? I think I see a face.
• 20:42
  Speaker 14: It's strange that anyone would sit in a lonely place
• 20:45
  Speaker 14: like this with their lights out.
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it does look kind of fishy. But why
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: not what it's all about. Come on, Murat, keep your
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: gun handy.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: There is somebody looks.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Like a girl.
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: What do you know about that?
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I do not like it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: She won't like it either when we get through with her.
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: What are you doing in here, lady, waiting for the
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: morning mail? Who are you?
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Who do you want?
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: We want to know who you are and what you want.
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: That's none of your business.
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: You're a fresh day mah. She yeah, what's the matter
• 21:19
  Speaker 12: this girl? I have seen her before? Yes, I know
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: she was with the custom and aboard the ship. Oh yeah,
• 21:26
  Speaker 12: Come on, lady, get out of that car.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: I'll not get out of this car.
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: You get away from here. Keep your hand over her mouth.
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: You're right, we'll take her into the dock.
• 21:40
  Speaker 13: Is a questionn about it? Facili doctor. She is the
• 21:43
  Speaker 13: one who came about the Prato with the customs office.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: Custom smile, you let me all of this place? You here?
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: You did not come here alone?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Madame?
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Who is with you?
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: There's nobody with me?
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: What were you snooping around for?
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: I wasn't snooping around.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: I was sitting in my car.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Madam.
• 21:56
  Speaker 14: You impose a very unpleasant duty upon me. Do you
• 22:00
  Speaker 14: mean I do not know how much knowledge you have
• 22:02
  Speaker 14: acquired around here, but I must be certain, whatever it is,
• 22:06
  Speaker 14: you will never have a chance to communicate it to
• 22:08
  Speaker 14: anyone else. What you need to do, Murat, give me
• 22:13
  Speaker 14: that hypodermic, Give your heads off it. But I regret
• 22:18
  Speaker 14: that I must give you an injection of this fluid.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: In a few minutes you will turn to what In
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: that condition you shall remain for all time?
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: AKA, I'll keep her quiet for a while.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Let's leave up with.
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: That, Oh, the hypodermic, Not quite so fast?
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Doctor?
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Who was that? Who spoke? I did? Doctor? For? Who
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: are you?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I am the shadow?
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: Show?
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: I do not understand what is the shadow?
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: I've heard of this guy, the enemy in the underworld.
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: Nobody can see him.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: This girl, she is with.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: Him, Yes, doctor Fanoel, release her.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Take that gag out of her mouth.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: You are very clever. It's you, very clever.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: But I think you will find I'm not so easily
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: beaten goods.
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: I tell you, I don't want to have any fight
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: with a shadow.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: No do I. You are cowards, both of you here.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: I will go to you. Will not run out on me.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Stay where you are you stay.
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: You're right, You're.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Right yes, and now you.
• 23:33
  Speaker 15: And now shadow, where are you right beside you?
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: And I don't know? You don't oh my arm?
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Half your guns on the floor.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: You're helpless.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: Now will you be so foolish as not to do
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: what you're told?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Very well?
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: I cannot fight the unseen? What do you wish? Remove
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: the gag from the lady's mouth?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Of course, there you are.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: Get me out of this horrible bad You're all right.
• 24:02
  Speaker 17: Model, there's nothing more to fear, madam. I will get
• 24:05
  Speaker 17: you a glass of water. I know you don't, doctor,
• 24:07
  Speaker 17: be too easy to poison the water. Doctor, fanna you
• 24:12
  Speaker 17: are coming with me?
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: And where would you take me.
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: To the police? They will deal with you.
• 24:20
  Speaker 14: I am afraid I will have to disappoint you, monsieur.
• 24:24
  Speaker 14: Life and the people of the world have humiliated me enough.
• 24:28
  Speaker 14: They will never subject me to the humiliation of the
• 24:30
  Speaker 14: criminal cell. What do you mean, doctor, This hipodemic I
• 24:35
  Speaker 14: hold in my hand will answer your question most eloquently.
• 24:40
  Speaker 15: Many people have known the result of my great discovery.
• 24:44
  Speaker 15: Now I shall know it myself ultimately, Doctor.
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: I beg of you. Don't destroy yourself. There's always hope
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: for a man of your skill. Even though you've so
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: closely misused it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 14: No, no, monsieur, the world laughed once. Now it will
• 25:02
  Speaker 14: neither laugh nor weep. One injection an overdose. So and
• 25:10
  Speaker 14: you shall witness firsthand, monsieur, the results of a great discovery.
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: You mustn't do this.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Done, monsieur, it is done.
• 25:19
  Speaker 15: I destroy the last bottle of the rest.
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: No, my secret dies with me.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: The mad look.
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: His skin is turning.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: White, his body is becoming rigid. He's turning to wax
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: just as he's turned off. I can't bear anymore.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: Take me out of here, leave me alone. You mustn't
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: worry any more, Amana.
• 25:58
  Speaker 15: I'm quite all right now.
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: You've given me a couple of very anxious days, Margo,
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: since our encounter with doctor Fernowl.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: I'm sure I could never stand such inexperience again. Now
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: it appears it's something I've dreamed Flamand what of those
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: people for no smuggle into the country. They'll die in
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: five years if they don't receive the.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Objection, My Margot, that was simply a bluff. I've checked
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: through for nose notes. He used this ruse simply to
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: hold them to their promises. They're quite safe.
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: I'm glad.
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: Strange but I suppose in a way Commissioner Weston has
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: the laugh on me. After all. For my part, I
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: don't feel there's much reason for laughing. As evil as
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: doctor Fannau was, and as badly as he misused his
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: great talents, I can't help but feel that his discovery
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: might have had potentialities for good beyond belief. Perhaps it
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: will occur again in a mind worthy of great things.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: A word from Blue Coals eating expert John Barclay. Thank
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: you Ken Robertson. Good afternoon friends. You know you just
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: can't operate your furnace sufficiently and economically unless you understand
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: how to regulate your furnished dampers. Every furnace should be
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: equipped with three dampers. The ashpit damper located at the
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: base of the furnace below the great level, The turn
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: damper located in the smoke pipe behind the check damper
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: and the boiler. And the check damper located between the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: turn damper and the chimney. In milder weather, when you
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: want a slow burning, lasting fire, the check damper should
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: be wide open the ashpit damper closed. It is very
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: important that your check damper be large enough to adequately
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: check the fire. If it is not, it will certainly
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: pay you to have an additional check napper installed by
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: your plumber. If you are having trouble and regulating your furnace,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: your Blue Coal dealer will gladly send a John Barclay
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: service man to give your heating plant a thorough inspection.
• 28:14
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• 28:18
  Speaker 2: thank you.
• 28:30
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• 28:32
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• 28:36
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• 28:39
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• 29:05
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• 29:13
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• 29:26
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