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The Shadow - "The Ghost of Caleb Mackenzie" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On a stormy night, an aging millionaire summons the relatives
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  Speaker 1: he calls vultures waiting for his fortune, then announces he
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  Speaker 1: has made a will. When Margot Lane calls Lamont Cranston
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  Speaker 1: to the mackenzie home, a murder and the will's disappearance
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  Speaker 1: set the Shadow on a dangerous search among the gathered family.
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  Speaker 1: From January twenty sixth, nineteen forty one, This is The Shadow,
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  Speaker 1: The Ghost of Caleb McKenzie, Street and Smith script number
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  Speaker 1: one hundred, its tenth anniversary broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: System sponsored by Blue Coal. Bill Johnstone is Lamont Cranston
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  Speaker 1: and the Shadow, with Marjorie Anderson as Margot Lane. Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Devine wrote the script. Now back to the golden age
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  Speaker 1: of radio, who knows what.
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  Speaker 2: Evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Node.
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  Speaker 3: Today's broadcast marks the Shadow's tenth anniversary on the air.
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  Speaker 3: On this specif occasion, the Blue Coal Dealers of America
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  Speaker 3: are proud to present an unusually thrilling adventure of the Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: This special dramatization resembles other Shadow dramas in but one
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  Speaker 3: the like. It is designed to point out too old
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  Speaker 3: and young the lesson. We have stressed for the past
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  Speaker 3: ten years that prime does not pay. Before the Shadow
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  Speaker 3: starts today's adventure, I want to ask all you householders
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  Speaker 3: a timely question. When you consider buying a fuel, your
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  Speaker 3: first question is what will it do for me? Well,
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  Speaker 3: here's what blue Cold will do for you. It will
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  Speaker 3: keep your home comfortably heated morning, noon and night. It
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  Speaker 3: will make things easier for you all the way round,
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  Speaker 3: and it will cut down your heating bills. You couldn't
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  Speaker 3: ask for more than that, could you? But Blue Coal
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  Speaker 3: gives you more, and without asking too. For with every
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  Speaker 3: order you enjoy the full benefit of your neighborhood Blue
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  Speaker 3: Coal Dealer's extra customer service. So phone him tomorrow. The Shadow,
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  Speaker 3: mysterious character who aids the forces of law and order,
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  Speaker 3: is in reality LAMONK. Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 3: As the Shadow, Cranston is gifted with a hypnotic power
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  Speaker 3: to cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him.
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  Speaker 3: Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
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  Speaker 3: only person who knows to whom the voice of the
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  Speaker 3: invisible Shadow belongs. Today's story, the ghost of Caleb Mackenzie.
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  Speaker 4: Well here we are gathered together, one big, happy family,
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  Speaker 4: happy family. I wish you could all see yourselves as
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  Speaker 4: I see you. You have vultures, have vultures waiting for
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  Speaker 4: the poor old.
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  Speaker 2: Caucus to die.
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  Speaker 4: Because I don't include you in that description. Margle is
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  Speaker 4: merely an old friend of the family. You understand that
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  Speaker 4: I didn't mean you.
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  Speaker 5: No, I understood, Uncle Caleb.
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  Speaker 6: But she's the only one that I exclude. Still better
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  Speaker 6: on't your dad.
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  Speaker 4: That you'd be the first to speak, Paul, You always
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  Speaker 4: have been. You take after me in that respect.
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  Speaker 7: I guess.
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  Speaker 8: I hope that's the only characteristic of yours that I have.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I call putting the cards on the table.
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  Speaker 4: I've always admired you for that.
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  Speaker 7: Son.
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  Speaker 4: You make no pretense of your hatred for me, more
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  Speaker 4: than I can say.
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  Speaker 6: For the rest of you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, come now, Caleb, wedding you say that, my dear Damon,
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  Speaker 4: no family gathering is ever complete without your injection of
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  Speaker 4: the phrase, I'll come now, Caleb. I believe you first
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  Speaker 4: said it when I was six and you were three,
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  Speaker 4: and as I record, you were even then seeking something
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  Speaker 4: from it toys. It was in those days. Why do
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  Speaker 4: you insist that all of us hate you, Caleb, because
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  Speaker 4: it's true, Damon. In each of you, the hatred has
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  Speaker 4: a different basis. My son Paul hates me because he
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  Speaker 4: feels that I've been a tyrant.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I left home.
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  Speaker 4: You, Damon, your hatred is based on envy. You're jealous
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  Speaker 4: of the money I've made, the power I've gained.
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  Speaker 9: How do you classify me, Caleb?
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  Speaker 4: Well, now, Marie, you, my dear wife, you're in a
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  Speaker 4: class by yourself. Yours is a long suffering hatred, a
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  Speaker 4: patient one. I shouldn't do if I do that way.
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  Speaker 4: When you left me ten years ago, your loathing was
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  Speaker 4: stronger then, But being apart from me seeing me only
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  Speaker 4: once a year has.
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  Speaker 6: Tempered the emotion I see.
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  Speaker 4: However, I can't say the time has lessened that feeling
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  Speaker 4: in your son.
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  Speaker 9: His name has no place in this conversation.
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  Speaker 4: Mother, Please, they're protecting that misshapen, sniveling son.
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  Speaker 9: Of ours, So talk that way about it.
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  Speaker 6: How else could he be described?
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  Speaker 4: Look at it easy to think that he bears my name,
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  Speaker 4: Caleb Junior. At least when my first wife bought me
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  Speaker 4: a son, she bought me a man. Paul is a man.
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  Speaker 4: Me finish. I haven't described his hatred yet. I've saved
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  Speaker 4: that because his is the most bitter of all. It's
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  Speaker 4: a cunning hatred, hate that you drilled into him from
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  Speaker 4: the day he was born dead. Please, for mother's sake,
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  Speaker 4: For mother's sake, always that been your cry, Caleb Junior.
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  Speaker 5: I think i'd better be leaving, Uncle Caleb. I have
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  Speaker 5: someone waiting in.
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  Speaker 4: The night now, please, Margot. I asked you here tonight
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  Speaker 4: so that I might see one friendly face, even if
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't one of the family.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, you.
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  Speaker 2: Must stay well.
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  Speaker 6: I will sit down.
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  Speaker 7: Please, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: You see, Margot, this little ceremony only takes place once
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  Speaker 4: a year. I invite all my beloved kin here so
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  Speaker 4: that they may closely inspect my state of health. If
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  Speaker 4: I look whan or pale, perhaps it reassures them that
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  Speaker 4: the Mackenzie fortune will soon pass into their hands.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, come now, Caleb, let's break this up. Chary Dad,
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  Speaker 8: I'm sleepy and I'm bored. Of course you are, ball,
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  Speaker 8: of course you are. But I have a little announcement.
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  Speaker 8: Make an announcement about my will. You've you've made out
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  Speaker 8: a will, Caleb, Yes, yes, my eager brother, Yes, I hell,
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  Speaker 8: where is it?
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  Speaker 2: Who has it?
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  Speaker 7: Now?
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  Speaker 4: Damon a little if you please, I'm still alive, you know.
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  Speaker 7: I beg your pardon, mister McKenzie.
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  Speaker 4: But it's ten o'clock now, Thank you, William, Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: That means bedtime for all of you. Show them to
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  Speaker 4: their rooms, Williams. Same old regimentation. I sha'n't see any
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  Speaker 4: of you in the morning, so perhaps i'd better say
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  Speaker 4: goodbye until next year.
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  Speaker 6: Good Night, Uncle Caleb, good night Margot.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I hope none of you forgets about the will.
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  Speaker 6: Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Is this locus?
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  Speaker 2: Five?
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  Speaker 5: Four to three?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Ring one hat shy it shady and ring one wal Come.
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  Speaker 2: Me, darn.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to speak to mister Cranston please. I believe
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  Speaker 5: he's staying at your inn.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yes, yes, zy city fellowshitting right in lobby.
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  Speaker 2: I'll fetch you for you.
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  Speaker 5: The joys of a Bucolic soul. Hello, Hello, Lamon, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: It's after midnight. I thought you'd be in.
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  Speaker 5: Ben No, I couldn't sleep, Lamont, would you mind terribly
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  Speaker 5: coming out here? I'd like to go back to the city.
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  Speaker 6: Tonight was wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Well, i'll tell you when you get here.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be right over. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye, sending out an sos Margo.
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  Speaker 5: Paul, you frighten me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: I thought everyone was in bed.
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  Speaker 6: I've been outside taking a walk cigarette.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, thanks, I'm sorry you had to be in on
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  Speaker 8: that little session tonight. My uncle Damon sitting around whining,
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  Speaker 8: my dear stepmother glaring at us, and my beloved half
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  Speaker 8: brother simpering in the corner. You know, as much as
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  Speaker 8: I disliked Dad, I can't blame him for despising him.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Paul, it all seems so stupid, this yearly gathering
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  Speaker 5: of your clan.
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  Speaker 6: It always will be stupid until till my father's dead.
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  Speaker 5: Paul, what's that?
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  Speaker 6: Sounds like someone coming down the hall?
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  Speaker 5: Who can is.
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  Speaker 6: Shoe looking for some.
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Oh, it's it's you, Paul.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I was just going for for a glass of
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  Speaker 6: water for mother.
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  Speaker 2: You'll excuse me, please?
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  Speaker 7: Sure?
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  Speaker 2: Sure?
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  Speaker 8: This guy gives me the creeps, always getting something from mother.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, now, Paul, is nothing wrong in that?
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  Speaker 6: No, I'll say, what is this Pennsylvania station? Everybody's up here?
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  Speaker 6: Comes Williams. Why are you going with that sandwich for
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  Speaker 6: your father?
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  Speaker 2: Sir?
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  Speaker 7: He's in his stead sandwich.
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  Speaker 6: Say that gives me an idea how's about we raid
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  Speaker 6: the icebox? Margo?
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  Speaker 5: Don't good? Why not?
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  Speaker 8: I haven't done that in this house since I was sixteen,
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  Speaker 8: And as I remember that, what was there sounded like Williams.
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  Speaker 8: Come on, Margo, he's in dad studies. What is it, Williams?
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  Speaker 6: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 7: It's your father? Sir? What about him? He's been stabbed
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  Speaker 7: in the chesty? He stared.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, La, Mona, I'm so glad you're here. We've just
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  Speaker 5: found mister Mackenzie Senior's stabbed.
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  Speaker 2: Good heavens? Oh, where's the body?
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  Speaker 5: Right down the hall here in his study?
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  Speaker 2: When did this happen? Margot?
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  Speaker 5: Williams the butler just found him a few minutes ago.
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  Speaker 5: I see it's right in here.
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  Speaker 8: Long Oh, come now, I still objected this whole Rick moarol. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 8: Uncle Damon, it's just one of.
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  Speaker 5: Those Paul, Oh, Margot, listen, everyone, this is Lamont Kranston.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do?
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  Speaker 7: How do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Do you do?
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  Speaker 5: Lamont has helped the police to solve many crimes, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure that you won't object if he examines Uncle
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  Speaker 5: Caleb not a.
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  Speaker 6: Tall Come now, Paul, don't you think that's a bit presuming?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 8: I don't, uncle, Damon, my dad is over here, mister Cranston,
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  Speaker 8: I covered him with his show I see.
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  Speaker 2: Has the body been disturbed in any way?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, everything is just as we found it. Well, I am,
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  Speaker 2: I'll have a look at you. Don't mind, mother? Oh please,
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  Speaker 2: you mustn't look at him. No one has touched this knife,
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  Speaker 2: no goodness. Have you phoned the police? No, not chet,
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid that'll be necessary. Oh no, you'll excuse me
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  Speaker 2: when I phone commission to West.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, we don't want the police out here, Paul.
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  Speaker 2: No, why do you allow a stranger to step in
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  Speaker 2: like this, Paul?
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  Speaker 8: Because that's our father sitting in that chair with a
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  Speaker 8: knife in his heart? Or had you forgotten? Why should
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  Speaker 8: you be so concerned about him all of a sudden
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  Speaker 8: you hate him too?
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  Speaker 2: We all know that. Why are you sniveling?
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  Speaker 5: Please?
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  Speaker 7: I'm still darling.
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  Speaker 9: Stay out of this conversation, well.
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  Speaker 2: As you wish.
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  Speaker 7: Mother.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's right, Junior. Run the mother's apron string as I.
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  Speaker 2: Take the police about two hours to get here. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: they've ordered that nothing be disturbed.
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  Speaker 7: I beg your pardon, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this is Williams.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, inasmuch as mister McKenzie is is departed. I have
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  Speaker 7: a duty to perform a duty.
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 7: I've been told many times by mister McKenzie that if
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  Speaker 7: if anything were to happen to him, say anything like this,
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  Speaker 7: but I would find an envelope in his death draw
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  Speaker 7: that should be opened at once.
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  Speaker 6: Are you saying that my father anticipated that he would
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  Speaker 6: die this way?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Yes, why shouldn't you have anticipated this? We all
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  Speaker 2: wanted to kill him.
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  Speaker 7: You know that.
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  Speaker 8: I do know that, Junior, and I also know that
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  Speaker 8: one of us gathered here is his murderer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come now, Paul, I don't think that Williams. Would
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  Speaker 2: you look for that envelope? Please? Yes, sir, perhaps it
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  Speaker 2: will contain a clue to his death.
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  Speaker 8: In that case, don't you think we should wait until
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  Speaker 8: the police arrive to look at it. I'm afraid of
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  Speaker 8: its content, Uncle Damon. Oh come now, Paul, of course.
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  Speaker 7: Now here's the envelopes.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it, William, thank you. There appears to be
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  Speaker 2: writing on the outside. I read it to you. If
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  Speaker 2: you wish, sure, go ahead. It says attention vultures? What's that?
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 6: Good old death?
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  Speaker 2: He who will have will to find the will we'll
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  Speaker 2: look inside.
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  Speaker 8: Wow, did you hear that, fellow vultures? Dad dealing in
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  Speaker 8: riddles even in death.
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  Speaker 2: Now, perhaps you'd like to hear the contents? Is it
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  Speaker 2: about the wind? I don't know. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: figure that out yourself.
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  Speaker 7: Please.
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  Speaker 2: It says to find the one who's passed the test,
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  Speaker 2: search the place where my soul will rest.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's enlightening. Doesn't mean a thing to me.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm afraid I must ask you all to go
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  Speaker 2: to your room. And those are orders from Commissioner Western,
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  Speaker 2: order to our room. That's right.
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  Speaker 8: What does the police all all right in the world? Damon,
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  Speaker 8: come on, all of you. Let's obey instructions for once. Okay,
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  Speaker 8: Margo coming Junior?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, if mother's with me, of course, I'll call you
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  Speaker 2: when the police arrive.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Well, fellow suspects, shall we march in single file?
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  Speaker 6: One of us will have to get used to that.
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  Speaker 2: Very clever, Paul.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so glad you come here, Laman Mugo.
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  Speaker 2: And have you any idea who could have done this?
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  Speaker 5: No, it could have been any one of them. They
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  Speaker 5: all hated him me.
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  Speaker 2: See. Oh, do you know the whereabouts of this family burial? Ground.
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  Speaker 7: What.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, yes, that's right here on the estate. There's
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  Speaker 5: a large ball down near the brook.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then what are we waiting for? That sounds like
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  Speaker 2: the answer to the riddle where is the missing will?
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  Speaker 8: To find the one who's passed the test sets the
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  Speaker 8: place where my soul will rest.
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  Speaker 6: This must be it, it must be.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 6: Now I shall find the wiz.
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  Speaker 8: But say, who's there? Who's there? Come now? Stop shining
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  Speaker 8: that light in my eyes?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? Speak up, Margot? Come along, Kenner's loose again?
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  Speaker 5: I seem to come from the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sorry, Look, Marco, someone just ran out of the ball,
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  Speaker 2: see you running into the woods?
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  Speaker 5: Shall we go and see who it is?
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  Speaker 2: It's too late. We better look down on the mausoleum.
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  Speaker 2: I better go first, Marco, give me that flashlight.
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  Speaker 5: Here you are, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, I'll just.
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  Speaker 7: Oh uncle Damon, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid he is dead. Margo. Oh well we know now, Margo,
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  Speaker 2: that this missing will is important enough for someone to
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  Speaker 2: murder for it.
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  Speaker 3: More from the shadow in just a minute. But first
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: time out for a picture of a man getting up
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  Speaker 3: in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Coal this morning.
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  Speaker 10: I'll soon fix that one of those slippers, ah, there
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  Speaker 10: they are. Now, I'll just set that blue coal heat regulator.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, more and more people are relying upon blue coal
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  Speaker 3: and a blue coal automatic heat regulator for quick, dependable
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  Speaker 3: heat these cold winter mornings. For blue coal sends up
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  Speaker 3: quick heat the moment drafts are open and the heat
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  Speaker 3: regulator opens drafts automatically, a flick of the finger and
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  Speaker 3: the thermostat is set. Then presto, a steady flow of
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  Speaker 3: heat ascends to those upstairs rooms before you can save
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  Speaker 3: blue coal, and that heat will remain constant all day
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  Speaker 3: long at whatever temperature you wish.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, blue coal in my furnace keeps my home comfortably
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  Speaker 10: heated twenty four hours of the.
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  Speaker 3: Day, and the blue coal automatic heat regulator enables you
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  Speaker 3: to control that heat without running up and down cellar
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  Speaker 3: to regulate furnace dampers. Yes, blue coal and a blue
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  Speaker 3: coal automatic heat regulator make the modern combination for convenience
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  Speaker 3: and comfort. Phone your neighborhood dealer for blue coal and
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  Speaker 3: ask for a free demonstration of the blue coal automatic
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  Speaker 3: heat regulator. His name is listed in the where to
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  Speaker 3: buy Its section of your classified telephone directory under the
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  Speaker 3: words blue coal and now back to the shadow.
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  Speaker 5: Lamon. Do you think it's all right leaving Uncle Dane's
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  Speaker 5: body out there.
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  Speaker 2: In the ward until western and has men arrived?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, why the concentrated sky?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, simply trying to reconstruct this thing from the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: From what you've told me in Margot, there were three
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  Speaker 2: people prowling about downstairs earlier in the evening, any one
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  Speaker 2: of whom had access to Caleb senior study.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that's right, Paul, Caleb Junior and Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Margot, that makes three suspects that we know of
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  Speaker 2: who could have killed Caleb Senior.
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  Speaker 5: Three you mean, oh, Williams is a suspect.
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  Speaker 2: Too, definitely, huh. I never thought of that, Never thought
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  Speaker 2: of what, Margo.
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  Speaker 5: I'm suspecting Old Williams. Now that I do think of it,
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: he could have killed Uncle Caleburn he ended his study.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Right, Perhaps it's time for the shadow to hear more
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: from this kindly old gentleman. Ah, what was that? Sorry
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: to disturb your reveries, Williams?
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: What the name who's talking to me?
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I am called the Shadow.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: The Shadow, the man no one can see.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: That's right, Williams, the man no one can see.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: I know of you. But why have you come here
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: to see.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Me seeking information, old man, information that you must give me.
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: What what is it?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: First? I'd like to know why you aren't in bed
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: at this hour. Why are you sitting in that chair
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: fully clothed?
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: Well, I couldn't sleep by.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Would that be caused by a guilty conscience? Perhaps?
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: No, No, it's just the shock, the shock of mister
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: mc kimsi's stabbing that keeps me up.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Williams, did you feel told him as the others did?
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Did you hate him?
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: I had a great fondness and respect for mister mackenzie.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: You know, of course that you will be suspected of
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: his murder.
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: I presume this much, But I shall have no trouble
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: proving my innocence. That's more than I can say for
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: some of the others.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: What do you know about the will that he left,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the one that he spoke of in the note?
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: Why should I know about that?
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: You were close to mister mackenzie. He confide it in you? No,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I know he did. He must have told you about
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: that will.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: You don't know what you're saying. Why I'm only said.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: What do you know the will? Was it in the burial? Vone?
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: No? No, it wasn't in the I mean, how should
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: I know?
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: You do know where it is? You also know the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: answer to the riddle the place where his soul shall rest?
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Tell me where is this place? Please tell me, Williams.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: If you would avert another murder, you must.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: Tell me very well. I'll tell you the will is
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: someone's listening.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, whoever it was is gotten away.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: Please Shadow, I can't talk anymore. A count of his
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: hiding place, Williams.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you time to reconsider, and remember
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: that by telling what you know, you may save another's life.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Think that over, Williams. Later you shall receive another visit
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: from the Shadow, and then Margot. Just when he was
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: about to tell whether the will was hidden, a noise
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: outside the window frightened him. Some one was listening to
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: our conversation. I couldn't see. I'd guess that it was
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: our murderer. Did you hear anyone moving about the house?
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: No, I didn't. I met Paul though, as I was
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: coming in.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Oh what was he doing?
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Just going into his room?
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I see? This is one time in which Western could
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: get to the scene of a crime a little faster.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: We have too many people to keep track of alone, Margot.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Laman, did you hear that?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, come on quickly, some seemed to come from down
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: the hall. Those shots we don't know yet, Paul, hold
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Williams doors open. Perhaps we'd better look there first.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: I'll go down the hall and see if young Caleb
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: and Maria all right?
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Why what is it? There's no need of going there.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I have found the victim.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Who is it? Then?
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: It's all Williams?
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: No, he's been shut through the head.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: The mon Who is the murderer? Have you any idea?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Not yet? Can be any one of the three of them?
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Why should all Williams have been killed?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Because he knew the whereabouts of the missing will The
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: person who was listening at the window when they shadow
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: talked to Williams must have come back to learn his secret.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: And do you think that that person found it out?
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Do you think the old man talked?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I have an idea that he didn't. If I could
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: only slow that riddle, search the place where my soul
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: will rest, that's the key to the mystery. Margo, do
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: you want to come into the study with me while
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I inspect Old Caleb's corps again?
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm not keen on it. I'd rather not be
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: alone either.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I just want to take another look at the placement
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: of the knife in the old man's chest. I've just
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: had a fantastic notion about his stabbing, Margot, What the
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: knife is gone?
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Gone?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, a murderer has wasted no time in covering up.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: How could the killer get in here?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Have plenty of opportunities, Margo, This sir is chep Paul.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: What can you tell me about him?
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: You don't suspect him.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I suspect all three of them. Now, what can you
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: tell me why?
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I've known Paul all my life. He couldn't have killed
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: his father. I know it. We played together as children
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: right here on this estate. We used to have treasure
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: hunts in the Devil's playground and all the monitor.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Where did you say you played.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: The Devil's playground. It's a large cable up above the brook.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: Margo.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: That's it. That solves the riddle.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Search the place where my soul will rest? That's what
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Caleb Senior mean, Margo, I'm sure of it. The Devil's playground.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: If you're right, that's where the will is hidden.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Exactly, and before many more moments, the shadow has an
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: appointment there with a murderer.
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: I demand to know why you're here in the Devil's playground, Paul,
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: for the.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Same reason that you're here my dear stepmother.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Then you followed me, didn't you.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: No, that wasn't necessary. I know this place very well.
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: And you've come here seeking the will exactly.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: You'll never get it, you understand.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Oh, so you found it?
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: Yes, I found the will and I'm going to keep it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: What was that? You'll forgive my intrusion? I hope who spoke?
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: Who was?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I am known as the Shadow?
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Where are you?
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: I can't see you.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: I don't worry too much, Marie. No one has ever
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: seen this follow What do you want here?
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Shadow?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Well, my clever friend, I've come in quest of a murderer,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: and I believe my search has ended. What do you
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: mean one of you has come here because of the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: information that you learn from old Williams. Now which of
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: you is that one? Obviously one of you is lying. Well,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: we'll switch to the next point of deduction, the search,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the search for the murderer's gun. I'm sure that neither
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: of you will object to this, so we'll just proceed.
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: What makes you so positive? Shadow?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: But don't you see, missus McKenzie, this is your check.
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: I warn you don't come near me.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Why not, Missus McKenzie. Is it because you're afraid I'll
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: find that gun? Answer my question, Missus McKenzie, very well,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: this is my answer.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: Believe you have the gun?
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: Yes, so keep away from me, both of you, you
• 24:50
  Speaker 11: particularly mister Shadow.
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: I don't like your inquisitive spirit.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: You forget I have the advantage of invisibility.
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: I think this gun will remove that so called advantage.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: So you wish to add me to your list of victims?
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Missus mackenzie.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: I can't believe that she's the killer.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: That is the same gun that chut Damon and old Williams,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: isn't it, Missus mackenzie.
• 25:12
  Speaker 11: If you're that clever, you shouldn't have to ask Shadow,
• 25:15
  Speaker 11: why did you do it?
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Marie?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I'll answer that Damon was unfortunate enough to be in
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: her way, and all Williams was killed when he revealed
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the hiding place of the will. Isn't that true?
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: Yes, that's true.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: You also feared that they might be named in the
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: will as your husband's legates, didn't you?
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: Very interesting?
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Go on? But what of Dad and she murdered him too. No,
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: I don't believe so she didn't murder dead.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: No, but she thought that her son, Caleb did.
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: That's not true.
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: My boy had nothing to do with my husband's murder.
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: Nor did I. I admit I I did kill Damon Williams,
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: but I had nothing to do with the first murder.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Well, who did you? You did?
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: Paul?
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: That's a lie. That's a lie.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: You can't frame me for your crimes the moment. I
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: don't think either of you is guilty of the murder
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: of Caleb Senior.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: And who did do it?
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: Shadow?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: We should learn presently.
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: I've heard enough. I'm leaving here, and neither of.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: You had better try to stop me down at Grummery.
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Paul, but you'll be the first to go.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Forrie, don't, don't you, Poe.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: No, thank your Shadow for saving my life.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: Whatever it's worth.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: If you don't mind, I'll take that copy of the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: will too, Paul. Now let's have a look at this
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: precious paper.
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: Let go of me.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Listen, listen to me, missus Mackenzie. I have something to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: read to you. I'm sure it's irony. Will point out
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: a lesson even to you as I have said you
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: thought that your son Caleb killed your husband to protect
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: him and your share in the fortune. You murdered two men.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Now attached to this will, I find a single slip
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: of paper signed by Caleb McKenzie. Listen to what it says.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: When you read this, I shall have committed suicide. In
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: my will, you shall learn that I have left my
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: entire fortune to my wife Marie and her son Caleb Junior.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, do you get to moral missus mackenzie.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: It's one that I can't repeat too often. Crime does
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: not pay.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: And now before we hear from the shadow again, here's
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: John Barclay, America's home heating expert. Say, mister Barclay, may
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I ask you a question? Certainly, mister King. Well, I've
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: often heard you mentioned the check damper on the furnace,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: and I've never quite understood what function that performs.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Is it really necessary?
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Mister King?
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: The best way I can explain the function of the
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: check damper is by comparing it to the accelerator on
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: your car. You know how you press down on the
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: accelerator when you want to go faster. You mean that
• 28:15
  Speaker 12: the check damper speeds up the burning of the coal precisely.
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: When you want your furnace to produce more heat, you
• 28:21
  Speaker 12: just close the check damper, and when you want the
• 28:24
  Speaker 12: coal to burn slower, you open the check damper.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: I see, mister barclayle I should say the check damper
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: is very important.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Mister King.
• 28:31
  Speaker 12: The check damper is so important that anyone whose heating
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: plant is not equipped with one should have it installed immediately.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, mister Barklay.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Now I know what it's all about.
• 28:41
  Speaker 12: Glad to help you out, mister King. And if any
• 28:44
  Speaker 12: of you listeners have a heating plant without a check damper,
• 28:47
  Speaker 12: or if you have a heating problem, here's what you do.
• 28:50
  Speaker 12: Simply call your neighborhood blue coal dealer tell him you'd
• 28:54
  Speaker 12: like the advice of a John Barclay trained serviceman. This
• 28:58
  Speaker 12: service is free.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Today's anniversary program is based on a story copyrighted by
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: The Shadow magazine, which, like this program, is also celebrating
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: its tenth birthday. And at this time I'd like to
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: thank all of you Shadow fans for the loyal support
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: you've given us during the past ten years. We will
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: continue to present these Shadow dramatizations and in return, we
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: hope we can count on numbering you among the listeners
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: to our future broadcasts. The characters' names, places, and plot
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: of today's drama are fictitious. Any similarity to person's living
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: or dead is purely coincidental. Next week of Crime Time,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: same station, the Blue Coal Dealers of America. You one
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: of the most amazing adventures the Shadow has ever experienced.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Be sure to listen next week your friendly blue Coal
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Dealer's presentation of this Shadow and for greater heating comfort
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: at less cost. Remember blue coal. This is Jean Paul
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: King saying, keep the home fires burning with blue coal.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: The Shadow's investigation in the Ghost of Caleb Mackenzie now concludes.
• 30:39
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