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  Speaker 1: Halloween Night, 1937, marked the mutual broadcasting system airing of
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  Speaker 1: Episode 6 of The Shadow, sponsored by Blue Coal. In
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  Speaker 1: The Three Ghosts, Orson Welles is heard as Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 1: with Agnes Moorhead as Margot Lane, in the early mutual
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  Speaker 1: run of the series. At an isolated country mansion, a
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  Speaker 1: newly married woman is terrified by apparent hauntings, and the
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  Speaker 1: household comes to believe that ghosts occupy the house. Cranston
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  Speaker 1: and Lane investigate the events surrounding Professor Arthur Sneed and
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  Speaker 1: his wife Caroline, seeking a human explanation for the supernatural-seeming menace.
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  Speaker 2: Arthur L.
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  Speaker 1: Whiteside is the announcer. From October 31, 1937, we now
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  Speaker 1: take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: Blue Coat presents The Shadow, the man of mystery who
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  Speaker 4: strikes terror in the very souls of doctors, lawbreakers, and criminals. Friends,
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  Speaker 6: Five, six, seven, eight.
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  Speaker 7: Eight.
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  Speaker 5: Nine. This is the hour, my dear.
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  Speaker 8: I can't stand it, I tell you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, within nine o'clock it comes. But if I hear
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  Speaker 9: that horrible thing again, I'll go crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, this awful house. But it's quiet, my dear.
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  Speaker 8: Way out in the country like this, I can install
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  Speaker 8: my laboratory here as soon as I get around to it.
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  Speaker 8: As for these strange sounds, well, haunted houses have always
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  Speaker 8: fascinated me. I've always wanted to meet a ghost. Shake
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  Speaker 8: hands with him. Invite him to tea.
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  Speaker 9: Stop talking like that.
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  Speaker 5: It's serious.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I've tried to stand it for your sake, Arthur.
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  Speaker 9: But I don't know how much longer. My heart isn't
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  Speaker 9: strong and I.
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  Speaker 5: Harry? But that's only the wind, isn't it?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 5: It always starts like that.
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  Speaker 8: You know it does.
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  Speaker 11: Don't move.
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  Speaker 5: Listen.
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  Speaker 10: Arthur.
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  Speaker 5: Arthur. It's coming.
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  Speaker 9: It's coming.
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  Speaker 5: It's coming. A ghost, eh? Well, we'll see. I'll meet
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  Speaker 5: him this time. I'll meet him halfway, too.
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  Speaker 4: Stop.
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  Speaker 12: Stop.
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  Speaker 11: Come.
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  Speaker 5: We'll both meet him. Give me your hand.
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  Speaker 10: No. Carolyn.
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  Speaker 5: Carolyn. It stopped. Can't you hear me? Couldn't you see?
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  Speaker 8: Has the shock killed him? No, her heart still beats.
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  Speaker 8: She's only fainted again, hmm? Just passed out again.
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  Speaker 7: Turn the next corner, Lamont. It's that big house down
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  Speaker 7: the hill.
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  Speaker 2: May I ask, Margo, the reason for this late call
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  Speaker 2: on Carolyn Smith?
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  Speaker 7: I'd like to know what's the matter with the poor woman.
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  Speaker 7: I got an awful shock when I saw her in
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  Speaker 7: town last week. She looked positively haggard. I never saw
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  Speaker 7: such a change come over a person.
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  Speaker 2: Married life may not agree with her. She was a
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  Speaker 2: spinster for close to 40 years, wasn't she?
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  Speaker 7: I know, but I think she was foolish. Carolyn has
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  Speaker 7: nearly a million dollars in her own name. She didn't
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  Speaker 7: have to, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but right now I'm not the shadow. Remember, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just your patient chauffeur, darling. Vermont Cranston, in need of
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  Speaker 2: a rest from my famous mystery man role. That last
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  Speaker 2: adventure took a lot out of me, you know. Well,
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  Speaker 2: a marriage problem is hard with.
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  Speaker 5: Seriously, though.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody knows anything about this man she married. He came
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  Speaker 7: into town six months ago... met Carolyn in some accidental
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  Speaker 7: manner at the county fair.
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  Speaker 5: and proceeded to rush her off her feet.
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  Speaker 7: I've met him only once, but I don't like his look.
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  Speaker 11: Something sinister, I gather. Hence the shadow idea.
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  Speaker 12: Well, who is he, anyway?
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  Speaker 7: Professor Arthur Sneed, I believe he calls himself... He has
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  Speaker 7: a small office in town where he's supposed to be
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  Speaker 7: working on inventions or something.
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  Speaker 5: Well, here we are.
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  Speaker 13: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Usually pretty level-headed, Margot, but don't let your aversions of
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  Speaker 2: this man we're seeing be too apparent. Dear, that place,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: I don't see any bell.
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  Speaker 7: I guess you're supposed to use the knocker.
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  Speaker 5: Here he comes. Well, who is... Oh, it's you, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening, Professor Smeed.
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  Speaker 7: I hope we aren't too late.
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  Speaker 11: Too late?
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  Speaker 5: Too late for what?
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  Speaker 7: Why, I phoned Carolyn that you'd drop in just.
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  Speaker 5: To say hello. Well, she didn't tell me. Carolyn isn't
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  Speaker 5: feeling well at the moment. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: Good night.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, but please, I only want to see her for
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  Speaker 9: a moment.
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  Speaker 7: That is, unless it's something really serious.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it isn't as serious as she pretends to think
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  Speaker 5: it is, but.
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  Speaker 5: Well, come in. Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: This is my friend, Lamont Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: Come in. I'm very happy to see Mr. Cranston. I've
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  Speaker 5: heard a lot about him.
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  Speaker 11: How do you do?
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  Speaker 7: You say Carolyn is ill? She didn't mention it when I.
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  Speaker 5: It came on suddenly.
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  Speaker 8: She's been in a nervous condition lately, but it's mostly imaginary.
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  Speaker 5: I made her go to bed.
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  Speaker 7: Well, would it be all right if I saw it?
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  Speaker 5: I suppose so. Go on up if you like. Well, thanks.
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  Speaker 7: I'll only be a few minutes, you know.
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  Speaker 11: What seems to be the trouble with your wife, Professor Sneed?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, she's run down, I guess.
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  Speaker 5: Frightfully nervous.
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  Speaker 8: She has some absurd notion that this place is, well, haunted.
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  Speaker 5: Haunted? It's only the wind, of course. The creaking of
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  Speaker 5: an old house. Ghosts.
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  Speaker 8: She keeps talking about ghosts. And I can't persuade her
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  Speaker 8: that there are no such things.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, old houses have a habit of getting themselves haunted, Professor.
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  Speaker 11: As for myself, I'm not so sure there aren't such
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  Speaker 11: things as ghosts.
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  Speaker 5: But surely, Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Cranston... Oh, not the conventional sort, perhaps, but.
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  Speaker 11: I mean people's spirits. Souls, whatever you want to call them.
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  Speaker 11: Haunting the places where they've been unhappy.
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  Speaker 5: Very interesting, I'm sure. But a lot of tosh. I
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  Speaker 5: put no stock in it.
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  Speaker 11: No?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just noticing that rather rare book on the table, Professor.
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 11: Neurosis of death.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 11: If you're interested in that, I'm sure you must be
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  Speaker 11: interested in ghosts.
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  Speaker 2: I understand its morbid analysis of the factors of violent
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  Speaker 2: death are quite interesting.
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  Speaker 8: What do you know about it?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, I read all sorts of things, Professor. Professor, please.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, Miss Lane?
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  Speaker 7: Carolyn wants her sedative.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, yes. I'll go up and give it to her.
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  Speaker 5: Did you find her comfortable? seriously ill. Yes, but more
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  Speaker 5: nerves than anything. Excuse me just a moment. What is it? Lamont,
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  Speaker 5: there's something wrong here. I was afraid there was. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know what it is, but it's something terrible.
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  Speaker 11: What's the matter with Carolyn?
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  Speaker 7: She hardly recognized me, and she talked like one in
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  Speaker 7: a trance, as though she were in the grip of
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  Speaker 7: some deadly fear. When I suggested sending the doctor over,
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  Speaker 7: she shook her head, but I'm going to just the same.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, he isn't very pleasant, is he? His skin has
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  Speaker 11: a marvellous... You see it on men who've spent some
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  Speaker 11: time in prison.
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  Speaker 2: There are many little traits of his behaviour that interest
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  Speaker 2: me as a psychologist.
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  Speaker 11: Remarkable men.
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  Speaker 5: But you don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we'll investigate this more or less formally, Margot.
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  Speaker 2: I'll visit the professor tomorrow at his office in town.
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  Speaker 2: If there are ghosts involved here.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps the shadow can bring them to light.
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  Speaker 5: Hello? Yes, Carolyn. Well, don't worry, my dear.
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  Speaker 8: I'll leave the office here at five and I'll be
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  Speaker 8: home before six.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I understand. Goodbye, dear. Well, who is it? Is
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  Speaker 5: that you, Miss White? Who's opening that door?
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  Speaker 12: Don't get up, Professor. I'll close it after me.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 12: I thought I might find you in.
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  Speaker 11: Who said that?
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  Speaker 5: Who are you?
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  Speaker 12: Your conscience speaking, Professor. Or have you a conscience?
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  Speaker 5: I'll show you what I've got.
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  Speaker 12: Don't excite yourself. I'm only a voice. A voice they call.
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  Speaker 12: Professor, have you ever heard of the shadow?
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  Speaker 8: The shadow?
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 12: You seem to have heard of me.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want?
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  Speaker 12: I've come to warn you, Sneed.
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  Speaker 5: Warn me? Warn me about what?
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  Speaker 12: I know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 11: What?
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  Speaker 2: And I know how it's going to end. The end
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  Speaker 2: is death.
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  Speaker 11: Death?
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  Speaker 2: I have something here I'll toss in your lap.
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  Speaker 11: There.
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  Speaker 12: Do you hear it?
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  Speaker 5: Why, you... Get out of here, I tell you.
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  Speaker 11: See it?
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  Speaker 12: Look. Look.
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  Speaker 2: It's half of a playing card. The ace of spades.
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  Speaker 2: When you find the other half, that will be the end.
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  Speaker 5: Get out and leave me alone.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Sneed, I'll go, but don't forget. The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 5: Trying to frighten me with his tricks. Coming back, are you? You,
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  Speaker 5: Miss White.
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  Speaker 7: There are two gentlemen here to see you, Professor Smee.
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  Speaker 5: Two gentlemen?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I'm not expecting.
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  Speaker 8: I guess you may remember us, Professor Smee.
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  Speaker 5: Spike.
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  Speaker 8: Your old friend Spike Collins and Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Wilson here. Yes, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 8: Please take those circulars on your desk, Miss White, and
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  Speaker 8: mail them at the post office right away.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Lock that door, all right?
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  Speaker 11: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: What are you staring at, Smee? We ain't ghosts.
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  Speaker 5: I thought you two were doing a stretch at Leavenworth.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, we were.
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  Speaker 8: We were trying to get away.
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  Speaker 11: And now we come to see an old pal.
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  Speaker 5: Now listen, Spike. I'd help you if I could, but.
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  Speaker 8: We've been watching you and we know your game. We
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  Speaker 8: ain't got no time to stall. This old dame you
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  Speaker 8: married has got plenty of.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're driving at.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you'll know if we squawk about that dame you
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  Speaker 4: married out in Idaho that croaked without anybody knowing what
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  Speaker 4: was the matter with her.
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  Speaker 8: Cards on the table, Smeece. Is this one signed our
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  Speaker 8: money over to you?
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: She fixed her will in my favor.
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  Speaker 8: Well, what are you doing to get her?
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  Speaker 5: Well, she has a We caught him.
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  Speaker 11: I know.
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  Speaker 8: Playing ghost and scaring the dead, eh? That's too slow, Sneed.
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  Speaker 8: I got a better scheme. We break into the house.
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  Speaker 8: State your burglary scene. In a scuffle, the old dame
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  Speaker 8: gets shot.
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  Speaker 11: Dead.
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  Speaker 5: It's quick.
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  Speaker 12: No, no.
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  Speaker 5: You can't do that.
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 11: You'll see.
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  Speaker 10: Spike Collins.
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  Speaker 12: By Collins. Wake up. By Collins.
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  Speaker 11: What? Who's that?
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  Speaker 12: Just a voice, Collins. The voice of your own thoughts
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  Speaker 12: coming to warn you. No one but you can hear me.
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  Speaker 12: Your friend's need is going to double-cross you tonight. Need
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  Speaker 12: is going to double-cross you Your move. Be there to
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  Speaker 12: prevent him. Be there in time. Six o'clock. Be there.
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow will return in just a few moments. While
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  Speaker 4: we're waiting, ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you
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  Speaker 4: Blue coal is winning new friends every day among New
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  Speaker 4: England housewives. They not only like the superior heat of
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  Speaker 4: blue coal, but they find that it simplifies housekeeping. This
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  Speaker 4: is because blue coal is so clean. It burns completely
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  Speaker 4: and does not send any particles of unburned carbon through
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  Speaker 4: the house to be deposited on furniture or woodwork. The
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  Speaker 4: drudgery of daily cleaning is reduced to a minimum with
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  Speaker 4: this clean fuel. Blue coal is the largest single brand
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  Speaker 4: of solid fuel prepared especially for home use. Each car
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  Speaker 4: is laboratory tested at the mines for purity and size
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  Speaker 4: before shipment. Blue coal is Pennsylvania's finest anthracite. So that
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  Speaker 4: you can personally identify this excellent fuel, it is actually.
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  Speaker 5: Colored blue at the mines.
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  Speaker 4: Order it by name. You will find the name of
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  Speaker 4: your nearest blue coal dealer listed in the where to
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  Speaker 4: buy it section of your classified telephone directory under the
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  Speaker 4: name blue coal.
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  Speaker 7: Are you comfortable in that chair, Carolyn?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, thank you, Margaret, dear.
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  Speaker 9: And I do appreciate your coming out here and staying
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  Speaker 9: with me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm glad to do it. But it's six o'clock.
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  Speaker 7: Your husband ought to be coming home pretty soon, shouldn't he?
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  Speaker 9: He phoned just before you got here and said he
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  Speaker 9: was starting. He seemed very agitated. Oh, he's a strange,
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  Speaker 9: unaccountable man sometimes. There are things about him I don't
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  Speaker 9: seem to understand.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I know, dear.
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  Speaker 7: He has the car, I suppose?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, he's driving. He's probably on his way now.
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  Speaker 12: I've got to think.
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  Speaker 5: I've got to think of something.
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  Speaker 11: I know.
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  Speaker 5: We leave town.
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  Speaker 12: You're driving rather recklessly, Sneed.
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  Speaker 5: You again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to haunt you. Try to forget that I'm
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  Speaker 2: here in the rear seat. If it annoys you, no,
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  Speaker 2: don't look under the seat.
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  Speaker 8: If I could only see you. Get my hands on you.
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  Speaker 8: I'd show you how much it annoys me.
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  Speaker 12: Shut up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the voice of your conscience, Sneed.
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  Speaker 12: Perhaps you have a conscience. After all.
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  Speaker 8: I could choke that voice down your throat without any
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  Speaker 8: trouble to my conscience.
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  Speaker 2: If you only had the power of second sight, you
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  Speaker 2: could see me. That's an invaluable gift, Sneed.
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  Speaker 12: Being able to see things that other men can't.
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  Speaker 2: Some people call it mental telepathy.
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  Speaker 12: Some by other names. Remember... I can see the pictures
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  Speaker 12: you make in your mind. I told you about that.
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  Speaker 12: You can warn all you like.
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  Speaker 11: That's not evidence.
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  Speaker 5: Not in court.
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  Speaker 8: A lot of wild guesses that don't mean anything.
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  Speaker 2: Well, doesn't it frighten you a little, Sneed? I simply will.
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  Speaker 2: You not to see me. And you don't.
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  Speaker 11: Careful.
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  Speaker 12: There's a truck coming down the road. Let us sound
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  Speaker 12: your horn.
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  Speaker 14: Good Lord, the fool's taking up the whole road.
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  Speaker 10: It's going to hit you.
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  Speaker 5: Look out. It's gone. There wasn't any truck there.
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 12: I willed you to see it. And you saw it.
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  Speaker 5: No truck at all. Just hypnotism. Gosh, I'm having hallucinations.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the way to dispel hallucinations. Drive straight through them.
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  Speaker 2: Be careful.
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  Speaker 12: We're near your house. And this old mill road is tricky.
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  Speaker 5: What about it?
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  Speaker 12: Look, Sneed. There's a man in the road ahead of you.
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  Speaker 5: There is, eh?
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  Speaker 8: Really?
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  Speaker 12: Why, it looks like one of your two pals that
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  Speaker 12: called on you today. I knew he would be here, Sneed.
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  Speaker 10: Really?
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  Speaker 12: You're going to hit him if you don't watch out.
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  Speaker 5: More of your hallucinations. You think that I'll believe you again,
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  Speaker 5: don't you? Well, I won't. I.
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  Speaker 10: I hit him.
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  Speaker 12: This time, it was no hallucinations need. He was in
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  Speaker 12: front of you.
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  Speaker 11: Arnie Chapin!
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  Speaker 5: Morning, Trayvon. It's coming.
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  Speaker 15: Spike Callen found dead last night on the Old Mill Road.
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  Speaker 15: Spike Callen, wanted by the police.
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  Speaker 7: Found dead.
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  Speaker 13: Here, son.
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  Speaker 11: I'll take one. Here you are, sir.
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  Speaker 5: What's all about, Lamont?
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  Speaker 7: Found dead on Old Mill Road. But that's after the
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  Speaker 7: same thing.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, yes, I believe it is.
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  Speaker 2: Notorious criminal struck by automobile and killed.
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: He was certainly sucked by an automobile.
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: I wonder if Steve knew anything about it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: He acted very strange when he got.
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: Home last night.
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: Strange?
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: In what way? Well, he was pale and shaky, and.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: He hardly seemed to know I was there. He told
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: Carolyn that he'd had a message from out of town, and.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: They'd have to pack and leave.
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: Oh, did he say when?
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: Well, he thought they could get their trunks and things
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: ready by this afternoon sometime. You're not going to let
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: Carolyn go with him, Lamont?
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: Not if I can help it. Let's see. It's a
• 19:35
  Speaker 11: little after nine. I imagine.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Commissioner Weston is rather startled by the morning's news.
• 19:42
  Speaker 11: I think I'll have a word.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: With Commissioner Weston. Commissioner Weston, I'm sending Colin's body into
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: the morgue.
• 20:00
  Speaker 14: You went out there this morning and checked all the details, Captain?
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: Yes, sir, I did.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: And whoever hit him certainly smashed him up good. His
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: face was all out of shape and couldn't recognize him.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Probably found these in his pocket.
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: Now, let's see.
• 20:15
  Speaker 14: Letter from his girl out west, looks like. Insurance policy.
• 20:21
  Speaker 14: Library card of Leavenworth Penitentiary.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: And this ring, sir, that Collins always wore, with a
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: figure eight on it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: Oh, yes.
• 20:29
  Speaker 14: Well, it's a good job done, whoever did it. Tag
• 20:33
  Speaker 14: that stuff and file it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 12: Yes, sir.
• 20:34
  Speaker 14: Let me know when the wagon gets here. Yes, sir.
• 20:38
  Speaker 12: Police department. Commissioner Weston speaking. Good morning, Commissioner. This is
• 20:43
  Speaker 12: your good friend, the Shadow. Oh, yeah?
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Well, what the blazes do you want?
• 20:49
  Speaker 12: To be of a little assistance, as usual. Yes, I see.
• 20:54
  Speaker 14: I'm getting tired of this rigmarole, though heaven knows things
• 20:56
  Speaker 14: happen when you phone.
• 20:59
  Speaker 12: And what's the assistance today? Why didn't you investigate the
• 21:02
  Speaker 12: ghost that haunts Snead House, Commissioner, on the old mill road?
• 21:06
  Speaker 14: Well, you missed up on that one, Mr.
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: Shadow.
• 21:09
  Speaker 14: I don't put much stock in ghosts. But we went
• 21:11
  Speaker 14: out there and checked up. Searched the house. There's no evidence.
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: No? Go again today, Commissioner. And this time, I think
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: you'll get your evidence.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: Is that the last trunk, Arthur?
• 21:42
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: The expressman won't be here until four. Another hour yet.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: Why don't you go up and lie down a while.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Caroline, hmm?
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: Yes, I will.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: Try to sleep a little now that it's daylight.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: You told the milkman we wanted to pay him.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: He's coming back this morning.
• 22:00
  Speaker 14: Good.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Well, that must be him now at the back door.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Get back. Get back. What's the matter, Smead?
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: Think you've seen a ghost?
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: Stop.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Don't come near me.
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: Do not snap out of it, will you?
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: This is me, Spike Collins.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: You? You?
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Alive?
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: It wasn't me you hit with your car last night
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: on that back road. I guess you wish it had been, huh?
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: Who?
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Who was it then?
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: It was Rat Wilson.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: The fool got half-pickled trying to get up his nerve
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: for the job. Staggered on the road before I could stop.
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: Him and wham. It was all over.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Wilson, eh?
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: So there was my chance, see? Him and me about
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: the same size. His face and hands all smashed flat.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: I put my stuff in his pockets. My ring on
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: what was left of his fingers. There I was, dead.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: And all that time you was giving me a double-cross.
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: Maybe I am a ghost, but I can still deal
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: with you, Sneed.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Who is it, Arthur?
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Just a minute, Carolyn. Now listen, Spike.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: There's only one way to see this thing through. You
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: and I have got to stick together. The shadow is
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: after us both.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: We've got to get out together, away from this shadow.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: Don't give me any more about the shadow.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: I'm here on business. I'm going through with it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: Put the old lady out of her misery.
• 23:24
  Speaker 12: Good Lord.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: What's the matter?
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: There.
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: On the table.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: That's a torn playing card.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: You've got to stop it, Spike. You've got to stop it.
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: What's the matter?
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Who's this man? This is a friend of mine. A friend?
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: Sure, a friend.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: But I don't understand. The pistol, uh.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's my way of doing business, lady. Your husband
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: does it different. He's been scaring you to death, ain't he?
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: Making you think the place was haunted. You know how
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: he always does it?
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Stop it, Spike.
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: He used to be like Twition, see? He rigs up
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: a sort of electric sound box with a remote control switch.
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: He usually puts the switch over here by the door.
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: Yeah, there it is.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: What's it all about, Arthur?
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: Ace of spades.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: The end. Death.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: When he turns the switch, you hear the ghost dance.
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: All you have to do is turn this knob. That's
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: the way it works, lady.
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: What?
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: I hear it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: Arthur, I hear it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Turn that thing off, you idiot.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: What?
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: I haven't turned it on.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: You haven't? Then what's making those sounds?
• 24:50
  Speaker 12: I am.
• 24:50
  Speaker 11: What's that? It's him. He's come.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: A shadow.
• 24:55
  Speaker 12: I am coming up these cellar stairs. I will enter
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: and stand beside you.
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: Where is he?
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Stand back or I'll shoot.
• 25:06
  Speaker 12: When I enter, I will touch one of you on
• 25:10
  Speaker 12: the shoulder.
• 25:11
  Speaker 11: Stop him. Stop him.
• 25:12
  Speaker 12: And that one... We'll die.
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: It's the cops.
• 25:18
  Speaker 12: Come here, Steve.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: It's a plant.
• 25:21
  Speaker 13: You called in the cops.
• 25:22
  Speaker 14: No, don't shoot, Spike.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: The jig is up.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: You're going to have the bullet I was going to
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: give your wife, you double-crossing skunk.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: You killed him. Come on.
• 25:34
  Speaker 14: Go through that side room, boys.
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Pick him up.
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: I've got him.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Outstand.
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: Still around.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Break your arm. Now, hand over that gap.
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: I'm through. You win.
• 25:54
  Speaker 13: Spike Collins. Spike Collins. I thought he was... I thought you... Say,
• 26:00
  Speaker 13: what is this? Who was that guy that got killed
• 26:02
  Speaker 13: over here last night? Come clean, Collins.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Whoever it was, I didn't do it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: Who's that?
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Where are you?
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: Don't be alarmed. I am here behind you. In the shadow.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: So you're here, shadow, eh?
• 26:24
  Speaker 14: Maybe you know who got killed here last night.
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: The man killed last night, Commissioner, is.
• 26:30
  Speaker 12: A ghost. Oh, yeah? There are now two ghosts in
• 26:34
  Speaker 12: this little adventure.
• 26:37
  Speaker 11: Mr.
• 26:38
  Speaker 12: Collins will probably make the third. You really should believe
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: in ghosts now, Commissioner.
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: And in shadows.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: And now, before today's adventure with the shadow comes to
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: a close, John Barkley, Blue Coal's own heating expert, is
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: here to give us another of his practical talks on
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: automatic heating.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
• 27:11
  Speaker 13: Barkley.
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: Good evening, friends.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: In former Sunday night talks of mine, I've shown you
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: the importance of having the temperature of the home properly
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: controlled with the Blue Coal automatic heat regulator. That is,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: in terms of health and convenience. Now, tonight, I'm going
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: to give a third important reason for automatic heating.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Economy.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Most societies will tell you that the proper degree of
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: heat in the home is 70 degrees. But naturally, you
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: can't by hand keep your fire from giving off more
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: than 70 degrees of heat. But the Blue Coal Automatic
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Heat Regulator can and does. But here's how that saves
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: you actual fuel dollars. Heating engineers have discovered that for
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: every degree you raise the temperature above the desired 70 degrees...
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: your fuel goes up in cost one and one-half percent.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: So you see, friends, by automatically shutting off that heat,
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: that extra wasteful, unhealthy heat, heat regulator automatically saves.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: On fuel costs.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Why not investigate this blue coal heat regulator further? Ask
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: your local blue coal dealer to give you a demonstration.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: The cost is only $ 18. 95 plus a small charge for installation.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: You'll find it well worth every cent of that and more. Moreover,
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: if you have any heating problems, discuss these also with
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: your blue coal dealer. He is the best informed heating
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: authority in your community and assisted by his John Barkley
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: trained serviceman can, I'm sure, help you save money and
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: have a more comfortable home this winter. This service is free.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: It costs you nothing.
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: Thank you.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: The Shadow Adventure you have just heard is copyrighted by
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: The Shadow Magazine. The characters in this story are entirely fictitious.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Any similarity to a person's living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: The shadow knows.
• 29:34
  Speaker 12: Extra!
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: Extra!
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: Hear all about it!
• 29:53
  Speaker 15: Next week, same time, same station. The Shadow's latest adventure. Extra!
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  Speaker 9: Extra!
• 30:05
  Speaker 12: Extra!
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of The Shadows, The Three Ghosts has come
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: to a close. Follow The Shadow for more classic broadcasts.