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The Shadow - "Dragon's Tongue Murders" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Margot Lane arrives at the wealthy Post family estate on
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  Speaker 1: a freelance feature assignment for a women's magazine with Lamont
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  Speaker 1: Cranston at her side. But the society profile leads them
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  Speaker 1: into a household strained by financial worries, old resentments, and
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  Speaker 1: closely held family secrets. As danger closes in, Cranston assumes
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  Speaker 1: his other identity, the Shadow, to investigate. From October 12th, 1941,
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  Speaker 1: this is episode 227 of The Shadow, Dragon's Tongue Murders,
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  Speaker 1: with William Johnstone and Marjorie Anderson. Sidney Slon and Peter
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  Speaker 1: Barry wrote the script. Wilson Tuttle directed and produced. And now,
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  Speaker 1: our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: The thrilling adventures of The Shadow are on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Brought to you each week at this time by your
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  Speaker 4: neighborhood blue coal dealer. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate
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  Speaker 4: forcibly to old and young alike that crime does not pay.
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  Speaker 4: Winter is just around the corner. The cool nights and
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  Speaker 4: quick drops in temperature we've already had are reminders to
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  Speaker 4: fill your coal bin now. And especially this year, it's
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  Speaker 4: well to start the season with a big supply. The
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  Speaker 4: producers of blue coal foresee no shortage whatsoever of this
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  Speaker 4: finest of all hard coals. But present, unsettled conditions make
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  Speaker 4: it wise to be prepared.
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  Speaker 3: Don't wait. Don't put off ordering.
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  Speaker 4: Call your neighborhood dealer tomorrow and order your winter supply
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  Speaker 4: of blue coal. The Shadow, mysterious character who aids the
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  Speaker 4: forces of law and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 4: wealthy young man about town. Several years ago in the Orient,
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  Speaker 4: Cranston learned a strange and powerful secret. The secret of
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  Speaker 4: hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so that they cannot
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  Speaker 4: see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane,
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  Speaker 4: is the only person who knows to whom the voice
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  Speaker 4: of the invisible shadow belongs. Today's drama, The Dragon Tongue Murders.
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  Speaker 3: The Dragon Tongue Murders Let us listen now to a
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  Speaker 3: crime being born. Let us listen to the devious, insidious
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  Speaker 3: reasons for its inception. First, let us go to the
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  Speaker 3: apartment of one Jerry Post, fashionable young playboy. Jerry Post
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  Speaker 3: is entertaining a visitor, an unwelcome visitor. Get me that money.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Max, be reasonable. Where can I get $ 25, 000? What
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  Speaker 2: about your mother? Ask her for the money. No, my
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  Speaker 2: mother doesn't think very much of me. She disapproved of
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  Speaker 2: my gambling, and this isn't the first time I've been
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  Speaker 2: in a spot. Max, you've got to give me more time.
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  Speaker 3: Your time is ten days from today. Are you going
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  Speaker 3: to do something about it? Perhaps things can be arranged.
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  Speaker 3: One spoke is in the wheel of fate. One dagger
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  Speaker 3: closer to its resting place. Now let us see the second.
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  Speaker 3: It is Jerry's sister, Barbara Post, this time. She is
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  Speaker 3: talking to her fiancé, Jack Norcott. Jack. Jack, how can
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  Speaker 3: you treat me this way? Better dry your eyes, Barbara.
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  Speaker 3: Tears never move me.
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  Speaker 5: But you said you loved me, and you wanted to
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  Speaker 5: marry me.
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  Speaker 3: You did say that, didn't you? All right, Barbara, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's be frank about this whole business.
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  Speaker 4: My father has warned me that if I were to
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  Speaker 4: marry into the Post family, there'd be no more money
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  Speaker 4: for him.
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  Speaker 3: You told me that you have no money until your
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  Speaker 3: mother dies.
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  Speaker 6: Now the best thing for us to do is just
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  Speaker 6: forget the whole... Wait.
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  Speaker 7: No money until my mother dies.
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  Speaker 3: What? What did you say?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing at all.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps things can be arranged.
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  Speaker 3: It is said in the Orient that the apple of
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  Speaker 3: death falls into three equal parts. Let us now taste
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  Speaker 3: of the third part. Thomas Miller, twin brother to Mrs. Post,
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  Speaker 3: is calling on an old friend. The oriental merchant, Wu Long.
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  Speaker 6: And what propitious happening has brought you to my humble shop,
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  Speaker 6: Honorable Sir?
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  Speaker 3: My sister returns from the Orient tomorrow, Wu Long.
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  Speaker 6: With her, she brings their jewel called Light of Orient.
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  Speaker 6: Is that not so, Mr. Thomas Miller?
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  Speaker 3: How do you know that? I know.
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  Speaker 6: 150 years ago, Jewel was stolen from the sacred temple
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  Speaker 6: of Tai-Ela. We of the Wu family have dedicated our
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  Speaker 6: lives to its return. Thus far, all have failed.
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  Speaker 9: Then perhaps you can succeed where others have failed.
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  Speaker 7: I can help you, and you.
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  Speaker 9: Can help me.
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  Speaker 6: Continue, honorable sir.
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  Speaker 7: I hate my sister.
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  Speaker 3: I hate her.
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  Speaker 9: All my life, she's dominated me. She's been the strong one.
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  Speaker 9: I've been the weak one. My own twin sister has
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  Speaker 9: always been my greatest enemy.
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  Speaker 6: It is said that the serpent hates the serpent.
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  Speaker 9: When my father died, he left the managing of the
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  Speaker 9: estate to her. She's doled out an allowance to me
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  Speaker 9: as though I were a poor relation. But with your help,
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  Speaker 9: I can change all this.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 6: I am to send your twin sister to meet her ancestors.
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  Speaker 3: And in return... You will have the jewel, the light
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  Speaker 3: of the Orient.
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  Speaker 6: I must respectfully beg you to change plans. What?
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  Speaker 3: I will not engage in murder of.
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  Speaker 6: Your sister, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Post. But the jewel. You will get the jewel.
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  Speaker 6: Not even for most beautiful, most sacred jewel, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Miller.
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  Speaker 9: All right, Wu Long. With your aid or without your aid,
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  Speaker 9: perhaps things can be arranged. Margot, this is going to
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  Speaker 9: be one awful weekend for me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, please, Lamont. You don't know what this means to me.
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  Speaker 10: To write an article about that famous Emerald Light of
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  Speaker 10: the Orient for Style and Fashion magazine.
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  Speaker 5: Why, it's practically a journalistic scoop. Do you realize that
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  Speaker 5: if Mrs. Post hadn't known my Aunt Augusta at Vassar.
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  Speaker 3: Margot, do you realize what a bunch of characters these
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  Speaker 3: Posts are?
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  Speaker 5: Well, they have been rather prominent in the scandal sheet.
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  Speaker 3: Prominent is putting it mildly. They're all a bit... Well,
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  Speaker 3: let's call it peculiar. Take Mrs. Post's twin brother, Thomas Miller,
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  Speaker 3: for example. It's a well-known fact that he hates his
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  Speaker 3: sister like poison. And then there's that good-for-nothing adopted son,
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  Speaker 3: Jerry Post. He's been in more scrapes than you.
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  Speaker 5: Than you can shake a stick at?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. And Barbara, the daughter.
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  Speaker 5: She's adopted, too.
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  Speaker 3: I know. And she falls in love regularly and always
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  Speaker 3: with the wrong man.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she's engaged to a very nice young man now.
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  Speaker 5: His name is Jack Norcott, and Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Post approves of him.
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  Speaker 3: How do you know that?
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  Speaker 6: Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Post told me. I caught her just as she was
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  Speaker 5: going through the customs when her ship docked. At first
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  Speaker 5: she refused to talk to me because she thought I
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  Speaker 5: was a reporter. But after I mentioned it.
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  Speaker 3: That Aunt Augusta went to Vassa with her?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, how'd you know?
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  Speaker 3: I'm psychic. Go on. Oh.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I explained how important it was for me to
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  Speaker 10: get a story about this light of the Orient. So
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  Speaker 10: she asked me out for the weekend and.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I hope she won't mind.
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  Speaker 3: Mind what?
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  Speaker 5: My bringing you with me. She's very abrupt.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't she know I'm coming?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't think of it till later.
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  Speaker 3: How nice. Lamont Cranston, the uninvited guest.
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  Speaker 11: Miss Lane, I've never seen you before in my life.
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  Speaker 11: If you don't leave immediately, I shall feel it my
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  Speaker 11: duty to turn you over to the authorities.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: You see, Margo, you not only forgot to inform Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Post about my arrival, but you also forgot to tell
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  Speaker 3: her you were coming. But, Lamont.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, now, will you please leave?
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  Speaker 5: But don't you remember... There is no need to continue
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  Speaker 5: this farce, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 6: Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Post, I'm sorry that you don't remember our meeting at
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  Speaker 5: the pier yesterday. Let's go, Lamont.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, forgive me, Mrs. Post.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, please, hon.
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  Speaker 12: But you surely cannot have forgotten Miss Lane. Everything she
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  Speaker 12: has related about meeting at pier yesterday and subsequent invitation
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  Speaker 12: is quite true.
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  Speaker 3: What a.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Faison. You're right.
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  Speaker 7: That's quite true.
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  Speaker 11: You see, I suffer from lapse of memory at times.
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  Speaker 11: Please make yourselves at home here. Faison, my companion, will
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  Speaker 11: show you to your rooms.
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  Speaker 6: Please forgive me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what do you say, Lamont? Shall we stay or not?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I.
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  Speaker 12: Please stay. There is much danger, and I fear for
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  Speaker 12: my mistress' life.
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  Speaker 3: Danger? Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Cranston.
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  Speaker 12: There are several who will profit by my mistress' death.
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  Speaker 12: Both her adopted children, Mr. Jerry and Miss Barbara, need money.
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  Speaker 12: And my mistress has refused. Only by her death can
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  Speaker 12: money be obtained through legacy.
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  Speaker 3: And the uncle, what's his name?
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  Speaker 5: Thomas Miller.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, what about him?
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  Speaker 12: He too has quarreled with my mistress and has refused
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  Speaker 12: even to stay in the same house with her. He
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  Speaker 12: has gone down to stay in small guest house at
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  Speaker 12: other end of the estate.
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  Speaker 3: So, we have three potential murderers living close to the
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  Speaker 3: scene of a crime about to happen.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Lamont.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, please, not say that. So much evil has befallen
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  Speaker 12: this family name already.
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  Speaker 7: I warned you, Jerry.
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  Speaker 3: It's true, isn't it, Barbara? I knew that Norkett guy
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  Speaker 3: was only after the Post millions.
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  Speaker 5: I could kill you for that.
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  Speaker 3: You could kill... Who are you?
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 12: Jerry and Miss Barbara. This is Miss Lane and Mr. Cranston,
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  Speaker 12: guests of your mother.
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  Speaker 3: Guests?
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  Speaker 7: We don't want guests here.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you enjoyed the little family scene you just witnessed.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Mr. Post, but we couldn't help overhearing you.
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
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  Speaker 6: My son! My son! Oh, yes, monsieur.
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  Speaker 7: I found this in my room.
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  Speaker 3: A dagger. Here, let me see it.
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  Speaker 7: It was sticking in the wall over my bed. I
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  Speaker 7: went to lie down.
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  Speaker 3: An oriental dagger, eh? And there seems to be a
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  Speaker 3: message wrapped around the hilt. Let's see. It says, Death
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  Speaker 3: by the fiery tongue of the dragon to those who
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  Speaker 3: covet the emerald, light of the Orient. No signature, but
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  Speaker 3: a drawing of a dragon in red.
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  Speaker 5: What does it mean?
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  Speaker 7: My jewel.
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  Speaker 3: It is not safe. Someone wanted to rob me.
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  Speaker 7: You, Jerry, and you, Barbara.
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  Speaker 5: You want the jewel.
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  Speaker 3: You want to kill me.
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  Speaker 7: You both threaten me.
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  Speaker 3: Don't be preposterous, Mother. Stop it.
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  Speaker 7: You're hysterical.
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  Speaker 12: My mistress, do you not believe legend? Death to those
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  Speaker 12: who covet the jewel. You do not covet the emerald.
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  Speaker 12: It is yours already. Yes, you are quite safe.
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  Speaker 3: Safe?
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  Speaker 7: You are sure, Payson?
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  Speaker 12: I will protect you, mistress. With my life.
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  Speaker 3: Touching little scene, isn't it? Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Post.
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  Speaker 3: I think it is. You know, Margo, this may turn
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  Speaker 3: out to be a very exciting weekend after all.
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  Speaker 6: But are you not bound by the vows of our house, Feisan?
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  Speaker 12: I renounce you, Wulong, my uncle. And I renounce the
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  Speaker 12: vows I never took.
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  Speaker 6: And yet you came, knowing what I expected of you.
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  Speaker 12: The dagger with message to my mistress this afternoon revealed
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  Speaker 12: to me your design.
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  Speaker 6: You are wise, my niece. I have not been mistaken
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  Speaker 6: in your intelligence.
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  Speaker 12: I repeat, I will have no part in your evil plan.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, my niece. You will do as I say.
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  Speaker 3: Listen as I speak.
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  Speaker 6: And forget not one thousandth part of one word. The
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  Speaker 6: emerald must be returned to the temple of Ta-Ela.
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  Speaker 3: The post family must.
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  Speaker 6: Die to wipe out the curse of alien hands which
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  Speaker 6: have defiled it by their touch. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 12: No, I will not do it.
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  Speaker 6: My niece, Faisan, you will do this deed, or the
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  Speaker 6: fiery tongue of the dragon will wipe your insignificant shadow
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  Speaker 6: from the green, unpresent earth.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: No. You weep, Faisan.
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  Speaker 6: No. Tears betoken acquiescence. Yes, you will do as I say.
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  Speaker 3: Fire! Fire!
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  Speaker 6: Fire! Fire!
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Post?
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  Speaker 3: Fire. The guest house is on fire.
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  Speaker 5: Why, where's the fire?
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
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  Speaker 7: Jerry, did you say the guest house, Jerry?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, look for yourself out that window. There on the
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  Speaker 3: other side of the grounds. Come on, where are you? Here, Margo.
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  Speaker 3: Turn on a light, someone. Yeah, that's better. Is there
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  Speaker 3: anyone there at the guest house?
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  Speaker 7: My brother, Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Post, let's get over there. No, it's useless.
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  Speaker 3: He's dead by now. What are you talking about? Now
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  Speaker 3: you come with me or I'll drag you over there.
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  Speaker 3: He's quite right, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 7: Thomas must be dead.
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  Speaker 3: Well, perhaps he woke in time to escape the fire.
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  Speaker 3: He may need help.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 11: Thomas was in the habit of taking sleeping pills. He
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  Speaker 11: probably never knew what happened to him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I must say you're all taking this thing pretty calmly.
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  Speaker 3: Much too calmly. I'm putting this whole business in the
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  Speaker 3: hands of the police. We pause briefly before we start
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  Speaker 3: the second act. It's probable that you'll never have to
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  Speaker 3: face the particular problem in our story today. But there
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  Speaker 3: is a serious problem that you do have to face,
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  Speaker 3: come what may. And that's the problem of keeping warm
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  Speaker 3: this winter. Well, heat your home with blue coal, and
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  Speaker 3: then you can smile with satisfaction while the cold winds blow.
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  Speaker 3: Because with blue coal, you'll enjoy comfortable, even warmth throughout
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  Speaker 3: the house, no matter how fierce and biting the weather outside.
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  Speaker 3: Blue coal, you know, is the finest of Pennsylvania hard coal.
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  Speaker 3: It's delivered to your home in exactly the proper size
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  Speaker 3: for your heating plant. So blue coal gives you safe, efficient,
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  Speaker 3: and economical heat. It's easy to heat with blue coal,
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  Speaker 3: and especially if you have the new deluxe blue coal
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  Speaker 3: heat regulator. Every home should have one. It's as easy
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  Speaker 3: to operate as your electric toaster. It automatically opens and
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  Speaker 3: closes the dampers on your furnace and keeps every room
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  Speaker 3: at an even temperature at all times. Ask for a
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  Speaker 3: free demonstration of the blue coal heat regulator in your
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  Speaker 3: own home. And remember the name, blue coal.
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  Speaker 4: Blue coal is color-marked for your protection with a harmless
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  Speaker 4: blue tint. Call your reliable neighborhood dealer tomorrow. He is
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  Speaker 4: listed under the words blue coal in your classified phone directory.
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  Speaker 4: And now, back to the shadow.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite obvious that the fire that destroyed this guest
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: house was aided by gasoline... And it is my belief
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  Speaker 3: that murder has been done.
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  Speaker 2: If what you say is true, Mr. Cranston, it's a
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  Speaker 2: matter for the police and no business of yours.
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  Speaker 3: Commissioner Weston has been sent for, Mr. Post. But until
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  Speaker 3: he arrives, I'm taking over as his deputy. Now, Mrs. Post,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: will you be so kind as to tell me why
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  Speaker 3: you were fully dressed at four o'clock in the morning?
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  Speaker 7: I must have fallen asleep with my clothes on. You'll
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: just have to take my word for it.
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  Speaker 3: My mother is protecting Faison.
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  Speaker 2: She suspects Faison knows a great deal about Uncle Thomas' death.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 2: When I returned home in my car around 3.30, I
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  Speaker 2: saw her peering into the window of the guest house.
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  Speaker 3: What were you doing there, Faison?
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  Speaker 7: That, Mr.
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  Speaker 12: Cranston, I will not answer.
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  Speaker 3: Well, answer it or not, Faison, this definitely puts you
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  Speaker 3: on our list of suspects. Mr. Post?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Did you get out of your car when you saw Faison? No,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't. Not till I got to the front of
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  Speaker 3: the main house. I see. These tire tracks that lead
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  Speaker 3: up to the guest house were made by the tires
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  Speaker 3: of your car, Mr. Post. I found them early and
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  Speaker 3: traced them to you. Also, you will see the imprint
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  Speaker 3: of a man's shoe in the soft earth under what
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: was once the side window of the guest house. I've
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  Speaker 3: also traced that to you. How do you explain it?
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  Speaker 7: I can't explain it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I may have stopped after all. I
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  Speaker 3: don't remember.
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  Speaker 7: Hello there!
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  Speaker 12: Barbara! Barbara!
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  Speaker 7: And Jack Norcott, where have you been all night?
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: It's really my fault, Mrs. Post. We ran out of
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: gas over on the island road at about two o'clock.
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: Yes, it took us hours to find a filling station. Say,
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: looks like there's some excitement around here while I was gone.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Post, don't you know what has happened?
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  Speaker 7: Barbara, Uncle Thomas is dead.
• 17:17
  Speaker 12: Dead?
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, burned to death in the guest house. Might as
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: well tell you, dear sister, that we're all under suspicion. Suspicion?
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: Why, I wasn't anywhere near here when the fire started.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: That's it, dear sister. Establish your alibi.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: It's no alibi. We ran out of gas, as we said,
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: and we couldn't find a filling station.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Miss Post, isn't that a stain of gasoline on your coat?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: It still smells quite plainly of gasoline.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Why, yes.
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: Yes, you see, when I helped Jack carry the gas
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: back to the car, some spilled on my coat.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: That's very interesting, Miss Post. Because gasoline was used to
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: start the fire that caused your uncle's death. I'm holding
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: you also as a suspect. This whole thing has Commissioner
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Weston confused, Margot.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Well, I can understand that, Lamont.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: He says Mrs. Post is the logical victim. Everyone had
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: a motive to kill her. But she turns up as
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: one of the suspects.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: I'll have to agree with him on that too, Lamont.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Perhaps, Margot, some of this puzzle might be unraveled if
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: the shadow... paid Mrs. Post a visit.
• 18:26
  Speaker 11: Tell me, Faison, what were you doing at the guesthouse
• 18:29
  Speaker 11: when Jerry saw you peering in one of the windows?
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: Since you commanded my mistress, I will tell you. Do
• 18:35
  Speaker 12: you not recall that after quarrel with your brother, he
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: left in anger to spend weekend in guesthouse?
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: Then telephone call came from him asking you to come
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: last night as he had matter of great importance to discuss. Later,
• 18:49
  Speaker 12: I fear he might do you great harm. So I
• 18:52
  Speaker 12: went in search of you.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes.
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: But I decided not to go and called him back
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: and told him that if he wanted to talk.
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: To me, he could come here.
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: What was that?
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: That still does not explain one very important thing, Mrs. Post.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: I heard a voice.
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: It is the voice of evil spirits.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: No, Faye Senn. It is the voice of the shadow
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: whose mission is to fight evil.
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: I can't see you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: No, I have cast a mist of hypnosis over your mind,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: which makes me invisible.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: What do you wish of us?
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: The truth, Faye Sam.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: Mrs.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Post, why were you not in your bed at four
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: o'clock this morning?
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: I was too nervous to sleep.
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: I half expected my brother Thomas to come here, as
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: I had asked him to, and I waited in the library.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: I must have fallen asleep.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I see.
• 19:35
  Speaker 12: Shadow, if you are indeed a fan of good, you
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: will believe my mistress. She is telling you the truth. Mrs.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Post! Mrs. Post?
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: What shall I do, Shadow?
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Answer him. What do you want, Commissioner Weston? Down to
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the library right away. We're getting everyone together and we're
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: going to settle this case. once and for all.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: I shall be down immediately. Well, Shadow, are you satisfied
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: that I am innocent of my brother's death?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Your explanation seems logical, Mrs. Post, but I have only
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: your word for it. Remember that the shadow has ways
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: of finding the truth. This is ridiculous. You can't prove anything. Quiet.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Quiet.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute. That's better. If you'll pardon me, Commissioner. Oh,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: what do you want, Cranston? It's just occurred to me
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: that none of us has seen this fabulous emerald that
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: there's been so much talk about. Now, look, Cranston, I'm
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: running this business. Now, hear me out, Weston. As if
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I could help it. Go right ahead. Perhaps you haven't
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: heard the legend of the emerald called the Light of
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the Orient, Commissioner. The legend goes, death by the fiery
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: tongue of the dragon to those who covet the jewel. Now, now, now.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, please. Where is the emerald? Mrs. Post,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: have you looked at it since you arrived?
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Uh, I, no, I, I haven't.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Well, suppose it's stolen. Stolen? Mrs. Post, would you mind
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: producing the emerald, please? The emerald? Um, why, Faison, get
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: the emerald and bring it here.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Why, Monsieur.
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: It is here, in this room.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, yes, of course. Get it, please, hon.
• 21:05
  Speaker 12: But, missus, it is in the safe. And you warned
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: me no one is to touch safe but you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: You mean you'd trust a priceless jewel like that in
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: that old cracker box behind the picture?
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: Why, even I know the combination to that old thing.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: I have known it since I was ten years old.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: Here, here, I'll show you.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: You just push this button here, and there the picture
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: slides away, like this.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: There.
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: There.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: That's the safe.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: That face! What is it, Mr. Post? What's the matter?
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, that face I saw. A face pressed against the window.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: A horrible oriented face.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, you see. Must be your imagination.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: No, I tell you, I saw a face.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Now, don't worry, Mrs.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Post.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I've got my men surrounding the house. If there was
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: anyone there, he'll be caught. My mother, Commissioner Weston, has
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: a very vivid imagination.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Shall I open the safe?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, Barbara, open it. Right.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Now, turn ten to the right.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Six to the.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: What has happened to Barbara? Call a doctor, somebody.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Just a moment. I'm afraid it's too late for a doctor. Mrs. Post,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: your daughter is dead. We examined the safe, Margo, and
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: found it to be some sort of a burglar catching
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: device that got Barbara Post when she worked the combination.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: The purpose of the burglar catcher was to send in
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: an alarm and hold the criminal until the police came.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: But she was killed by it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Well, the doctor said death was caused more by heart
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: failure than the shock she received.
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: Why didn't Mrs. Post warn her? Or have her turn
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: off that burglar catcher when she opened the safe?
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: That's what's got Weston up a tree. Mrs. Post disclaimed
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: any knowledge of the device that killed her daughter.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: That doesn't seem likely.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: No, it doesn't. And it's true, nevertheless. That occurrence proved
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: something to me that's been bothering me ever since we
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: came here.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: What's that, Lamont?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: I can't tell you just now, Margo. Because I've work
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: to do. Tonight, the shadow is going to force the
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: murderer to strike again to cover up his tracks. Jerry Post,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the murderer is known. One person in this house will
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: reveal him to the police. Mrs. Post, the conscience of
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: the one person who can point to the real murderer
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: will cause the capture of the killer. Faye Sam.
• 23:31
  Speaker 12: Who calls me from darkness in my room?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: It is the shadow.
• 23:36
  Speaker 12: The shadow? You have returned? What do you wish of me?
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I have come to warn you, Faye Sam, that tonight
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: an attempt will be made on your life. You know
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: who the murderer is, and the murderer will attempt to
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: silence the only one who knows.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Yes, I know.
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: It is my uncle Wu Long. He has been here tonight.
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: My mistress saw his face at window... He has vowed
• 24:00
  Speaker 12: to kill his family and regain the jewel for the
• 24:02
  Speaker 12: temple of Taela. He will try to kill me because
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: I will not help him.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: No, Feisan. You're not telling the truth. It is not
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: your uncle that you suspect.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, I am. No. And the person you suspect is
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: not the murderer.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: Can I believe that what you say is true?
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: You must trust me. The person you suspect is not
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: the murderer. Will you help me trap the murderer?
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 24:27
  Speaker 12: To apprehend the murderer is to protect the life of
• 24:31
  Speaker 12: my beloved mistress. I am willing. We have waited at
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: least an hour, Shadow, here in darkness, and no one
• 24:47
  Speaker 12: has come.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Quiet. Hey, Sam, I think our murderer is approaching your
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: room now. My friend, you will not kill again. Drop
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: that thing and drop it, I say. That's better. Now,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: he's in. Turn on the lights. Let's have a look
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: at the murderer.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Oh!
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: Post, my mistress. Oh, no. No, Shadow.
• 25:14
  Speaker 12: You told me the person I suspect was not the murderer.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: You have deceived me.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Weren't you trying to murder Faye Sand to cover your
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: crime forever?
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're talking about. Miss Han, you
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: surely don't believe this.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: No, Mr.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: Han.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Miss Han, I promised you that the person you thought
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: to be the murderer would not be the murderer.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: You really believed it to be your mistress?
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Then Mrs.
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: Post is innocent?
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: Mrs.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Post is dead. Oh, no. And this is her twin brother,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Thomas Miller, who killed her and proceeded to impersonate her.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: You don't believe that, Miss Han?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: No. Now we'll just take that wig of yours, Mr. Miller.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: Oh!
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Thomas Miller!
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: Yes, Thomas Miller.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Oh, then it is my mistress who is dead.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, I killed her. All my life I've hated her.
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: I would have had everything, everything that belonged to me
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: if it hadn't been for you.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Well, you're not turning me over to the police. I'll
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: fix that.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Drop that gun, Miller.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: No!
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: So you see, Margo, Mrs. Post was murdered by her
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: twin brother before we got there. Later, he destroyed her
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: body in the fire.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: And it was really Thomas Miller posing as his twin
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: sister who met us at the door when we arrived.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, Margot. That's why you get the cold reception. But
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I wasn't really suspicious until Mrs. Post, or rather her
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: twin brother, didn't know where the emerald was kept. That's right.
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: It was right there in the library safe. And she,
• 26:40
  Speaker 10: I mean he, didn't know about that burglar catcher either.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: Mrs.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Post must have had it installed secretly and hadn't even
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: told Faye San, whom she trusted.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: What a horrible bunch of people. I'll never ask to
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: go on another weekend, Lamont.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Not even to write an article for Style and Fashion magazine?
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, I forgot to tell you.
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: I called the magazine on the phone just before we
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: left to drive back to the city.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: And they don't want the article.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Don't want it?
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: No, they said it was too lurid for a woman's magazine.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: They said it belonged to some detective magazine. So I did.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: So you did what?
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Sold it to a detective magazine.
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: Got more money, too.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Margot, you're wonderful.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: In a moment, you'll hear an episode from real life
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: proving that crime does not pay. But before we get
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: to that, you'll be interested, I know, in what Blue
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Coal's distinguished home heating expert, Mr. John Barclay, has to say.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Friends, the world is so complicated nowadays that often we
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: make complications where none should exist at all. For example,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: the economical operation of a home heating plant is really
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: very simple. That is to say, it's simple provided you
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: get started right. That's the clue. because when you don't
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: get started right, you're quite likely to run into one
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: difficulty after another. Soon you're discouraged, you know you're spending
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: more money than you should, and worst of all, your
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: house is uncomfortable, either too hot or too cold. Now
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: that's making complications where none should exist. Take pains to
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: get started right, and you'll have no trouble. Now here's
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: my suggestion. Call your reliable blue coal dealer... and he'll
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: send an expert John Barkley-trained serviceman to your home at
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: no charge. He'll check your heating plant thoroughly and start
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: you on a comfortable and economical season. Call him tomorrow
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: before cold weather is upon us. You'll be delighted to
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: discover how much easier and how much more efficient it
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: is to heat your home the easy, blue-coal way. Phone
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: your nearest blue-coal dealer tomorrow.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Today's program is based on a copyrighted story. The characters, names, places,
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: and plot are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: dead is purely coincidental. Direct from real life, we now
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: bring you conclusive proof that crime does not pay. New
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: York City, New York. Lyman Fennell, tough, bold gangster gunman,
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: hoped to make a big robbery haul in a prominent
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: New York club.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the apartment I want. Hey, you, give
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: me the key.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: No!
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: No!
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: Shut up!
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: That'll hold you. You won't get away with it, Gunman Fennell.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Death is waiting. They'll never catch me. Here's my car.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I gotta get away.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: Can't find the key.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: They're too close.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: I won't go back.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I can't face prison. My gun. I gotta do it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 12: So?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: By his own hand, Lyman Fennell paid the price of crime.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: The shadow knows.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Next week, same time, same station, your neighborhood blue coal
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: dealer brings you one of the strangest and most baffling
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: of adventures in the shadow's daring battle against the forces
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: of evil. Be sure to listen, and be sure to
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: phone your friendly blue coal dealer for greater heating comfort
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: at less cost. So don't forget, keep the home fires
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: burning with blue coal.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Our time with the Shadow is at an end. Good night,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us.