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  Speaker 1: This presentation brings us to The Shadow and its episode,
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  Speaker 1: The House of Horror. Classic radio moves swiftly from the
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  Speaker 1: opening announcement into the drama at hand. Now, settle in
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  Speaker 1: for The Shadow. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: The shadow, mysterious character who aids the forces of law
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  Speaker 3: and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man
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  Speaker 3: about town.
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  Speaker 4: At the shadow, Cranston is.
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  Speaker 5: Gifted with hypnotic power to cloud men's minds, so that
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  Speaker 5: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 5: Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 5: the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 6: Today's story, The House of Horror.
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  Speaker 2: This is the guerrilla house here. Yeah. What about the watchmen?
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  Speaker 2: There's only two of them in the whole zoo this
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  Speaker 2: time of night. They won't be around here for an hour.
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  Speaker 2: This is the screwiest job we ever done. Putting a
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  Speaker 2: snatch on a gorilla. Why does he want the gorilla?
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  Speaker 2: Is he going to terrorize the city or what? I
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  Speaker 2: never asked no questions on a job. And this is
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  Speaker 2: a job, so let's get at it. There's the cage
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  Speaker 2: over there.
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  Speaker 4: That's him.
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  Speaker 2: That's the gorilla. Got that chloroform? Yeah, right here. Give
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  Speaker 2: me it. And we'll pour some on this rag.
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  Speaker 5: Put the rag on a pole and slam it and
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  Speaker 5: the gorilla snoot.
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  Speaker 2: Keep away though, this stuff is dynamite. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Now, take a whiff of.
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  Speaker 2: This, big boy.
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  Speaker 5: Looks like that'll do the job.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like he's passing out.
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  Speaker 5: All right, open that cage. I'm going in.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, wait, Mac.
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  Speaker 2: Open it up. This'll take about one minute. Hey, hey,
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  Speaker 2: take it easy, big boy.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Mac. Mac, are you all right?
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  Speaker 2: Shut up, you fool. All right, now come in here.
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  Speaker 8: In the cage?
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  Speaker 7: It's all right.
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  Speaker 2: He's passed out now. Come on, come on. Help me
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  Speaker 2: move him.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care if you say so, but I don't
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  Speaker 4: like it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't exactly no baby.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Here, let's try on the whole amount. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Heavy.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anybody in here?
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  Speaker 2: Someone's coming. See what you're yelling did? Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Stay where you are, bud.
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  Speaker 5: Get that flashlight out of my eyes. Hey.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing? The gorilla.
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  Speaker 2: Hey.
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  Speaker 4: He's taking the gorilla out of here. You figured that
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  Speaker 4: one out in a hurry.
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  Speaker 2: When you can't do that, I'll... You'll call for nobody.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Eddie, let's get this gorilla in the van, quick. Then, Margo,
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  Speaker 5: according to the version I read, the men were seen
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  Speaker 5: hauling the gorilla to a truck. That's how they made
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  Speaker 5: the getaway.
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  Speaker 7: What about the keeper in the zoo that discovered.
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  Speaker 8: Him, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: Dead when they found him. Two bullet holes through the head. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me, but could I protrude myself into the conversation?
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  Speaker 4: Could I, hey?
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  Speaker 2: Why, certainly, Shrevie. This is your cab. What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 5: Well, about this, you know, case of the missing gorilla.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Well, just this morning, I'm talking it over.
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  Speaker 5: With my friend and acquaintance of whom you have made
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  Speaker 5: me talk.
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  Speaker 4: Big Charlie Hayes.
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  Speaker 8: And what did your friend and acquaintance, Big Charlie Hayes,
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  Speaker 8: have to say?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's known more than most of us about what
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  Speaker 5: could have happened on the counter. He knows a fellow
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  Speaker 5: who owns a monkey.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's very interesting.
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  Speaker 8: We're getting warm, Lamont.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Them dumb pedestrians. Well,
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  Speaker 4: where am I?
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  Speaker 8: Well, Big Charlie is knowing a fellow who owned a monkey.
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  Speaker 5: Correct. Now, according to Big Charlie, he says it's according
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  Speaker 5: to the fellow who owns the monkey, this here now gorilla,
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  Speaker 5: who was just an overgrown monkey after all.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he just broke out of the zoo all by himself. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: this is Big Charlie's doing?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: He says the monkey fellow says that all the mates
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  Speaker 5: is born wanderers, so Big Charlie figures that this here
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  Speaker 5: gorilla got sick of the zoo and opened a cage
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  Speaker 5: in Scranton. Oh, you mean the gorilla drove the truck away, huh? Well,
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  Speaker 5: he could have had a confederate.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Shreevy, how does Big Charlie explain the keeper being
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  Speaker 8: shot and killed?
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  Speaker 4: Well, to tell you the truth, Miss.
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  Speaker 2: Lane, that stumps him.
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  Speaker 7: He never heard of a.
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  Speaker 4: Guerrilla carrying no gun.
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  Speaker 2: No, not without a permit.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, not without a permit. Are you kidding me, Miss Lane?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Shreevy.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Shreevy, I'm afraid that your friend Big Charlie is
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  Speaker 5: barking up the wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Tree this time. Yeah, he's just a dreamer, I guess.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Shreevy, will you stop here, please?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, sure.
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  Speaker 9: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: That's the idea, Margo. I thought I was taking you
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  Speaker 2: to the country for lunch.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you're taking me to lunch, Lamont, but not to
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  Speaker 8: the country.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, now, wait a minute. Not this place.
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  Speaker 7: Why not?
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  Speaker 2: I hate tea rooms, Margo.
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  Speaker 5: Especially one that's called Ye Olde and Quainty Gypsy Tea Room.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, but, Lamont, they tell wonderful fortunes in there.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care, Margo. This is one time I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to be firm. I definitely and absolutely am not going
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  Speaker 5: into that.
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  Speaker 8: More tea, Lamont.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: No, thanks.
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  Speaker 8: Lamont, you're not paying any attention to what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Marguerite. I've been doing some unconscious eavesdropping.
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  Speaker 7: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: There's a very interesting fortune being told of the next food.
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  Speaker 10: I see by the car that you have lost something.
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  Speaker 7: Is this not through me?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I have.
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  Speaker 7: A piece of jewelry.
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  Speaker 8: Of course.
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  Speaker 7: It was in the form of... It was a necklace.
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  Speaker 10: The fair young lady has lost a necklace. The cards
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  Speaker 10: tell me where the necklace.
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  Speaker 7: Can be found. Really?
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 2: Wait.
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  Speaker 7: I must consult the crystal.
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  Speaker 11: Adas, adivas, nunahales.
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  Speaker 7: I see a shop. A tiny shop. In the window
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  Speaker 7: of the shop.
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  Speaker 11: Are many animals. They are dead animals.
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  Speaker 7: Stop to look alive.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 11: Inside that shop, there are many more animals. One of
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  Speaker 11: these is a giant stuffed gorilla. In the mouth of
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  Speaker 11: that gorilla, in the mouth, your necklace will be found.
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  Speaker 7: Where is this place?
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  Speaker 10: I will write down the address.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: You'll never know how great I am until you tell me. Christ,
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  Speaker 7: all right. Oh, thank you so much. I'll go there.
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  Speaker 7: I'll go there at once. Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, you do see, this fair young lady is very generous.
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  Speaker 10: Don't forget, in the mouth of the gorilla, you find
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  Speaker 10: your nest.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I won't forget.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Margo, that taxidermist shop sounds very interesting.
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  Speaker 7: You mean you like stuffed gorillas?
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  Speaker 5: No, but considering the events of last night at the zoo...
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  Speaker 5: It is a coincidence to learn of someone who has
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  Speaker 5: such an interest in the beast.
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  Speaker 7: Well, this must be the shop.
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  Speaker 11: Just animals in the window.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, it must be.
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  Speaker 7: Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Is there anyone here? What an eerie place. The animals
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  Speaker 7: almost look alive. Well, I'll try again.
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  Speaker 2: Is there.
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  Speaker 7: Is there anyone in the shop?
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  Speaker 11: I don't see any gorilla.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm smart as well.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, wait.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, there it is.
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  Speaker 7: There's the gorilla.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're an ugly.
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  Speaker 7: Well, might as well give this thing a try. In
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  Speaker 7: the mouth of the gorilla, I'll find the necklace.
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  Speaker 8: Well, open up, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Gorilla, and let me.
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  Speaker 1: No need to worry.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing to fear.
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  Speaker 9: The time awaited is almost here. Now, now, you must
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  Speaker 9: be quiet. You must be frank. The time is coming,
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  Speaker 9: but not quite yet.
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  Speaker 11: Professor Keating.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, my dear, what is it?
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  Speaker 7: Shall I give the girl another sleeping drug?
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  Speaker 4: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I believe it better.
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  Speaker 10: She looks so white and still lying there strapped to
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  Speaker 10: that table.
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  Speaker 7: Is she dead?
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  Speaker 4: Suppose, Madame Santos, you leave this case to me. Here
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  Speaker 4: he is, Father.
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  Speaker 7: His cage almost grabbed me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the gorilla is very fond of you, Madame.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Did you tell him a bad fortune, perhaps?
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  Speaker 5: I hate the beast.
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  Speaker 7: I'm afraid of him. I will be glad when the
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  Speaker 7: experiment is over and he has gone away with.
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  Speaker 4: You shan't have long to wait, Madame Danto. Within 24 hours,
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  Speaker 4: I shall be ready. Madame Danto.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Professor?
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  Speaker 9: You know you still haven't finished or fulfilled your entire
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  Speaker 9: bargain with me.
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  Speaker 7: You mean the other girl? Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: I need two young women for this experiment.
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  Speaker 7: You know. Believe me, Professor. When you are ready, the
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  Speaker 7: other one will be here.
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent.
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  Speaker 9: Two women I need if I should succeed. Then my
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  Speaker 9: experiment with an ape will make all sick and gay.
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  Speaker 10: When you perform this experiment, will.
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  Speaker 2: It kill the girl?
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  Speaker 4: You are prying into secrets, my dear. Prying into things
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  Speaker 4: you should not hear.
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  Speaker 9: Enough of my silly jingles. You see this machine, Madame Santo?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Its delicate mechanism will assure my experiment success.
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  Speaker 4: Of course the young woman will live. I have but
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  Speaker 4: to turn the switch so, and the work will be done.
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  Speaker 9: But.
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  Speaker 7: Will the young women be normal again?
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  Speaker 4: To all appearances, yes. But appearances are deceiving, my dear.
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  Speaker 9: These women will be possessed of a superhuman strength and cunning.
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  Speaker 9: At my bidding, they will rob, pillage, and even murder.
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  Speaker 4: All in the guise of sweet, innocent womanhood.
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  Speaker 7: We'll be rich.
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  Speaker 10: With them working for us, we will have a fortune.
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  Speaker 4: Not only a fortune, Madame Tonto... If the experiment turns out.
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  Speaker 9: As I believe it will, we'll perform many hundreds of
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  Speaker 9: human transformations. Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps, I say.
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  Speaker 4: We might even rule the world. X-ray, X-ray. Society girl
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  Speaker 4: missing X-ray. Get your paper, X-ray.
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  Speaker 5: Let me have the paper, son.
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  Speaker 4: X-ray. Here you are, mister.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: X-ray, X-ray. Well, who is this missing socialite, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, probably some publicity seeking... Margo, look.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 2: Look at this picture.
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  Speaker 7: Why, Lamont, it's the girl we saw on the TV.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, listen to this. Doris Molnar, missing since Monday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: No clues to her appearance. Disappearance, rather.
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  Speaker 1: Found.
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  Speaker 8: On Monday?
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  Speaker 7: That was the day we saw her.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Say, that fortune teller.
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  Speaker 8: You suppose she would know anything about this thing?
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  Speaker 2: I have an idea she might. Yes. Yes, I think
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  Speaker 2: it would be very worthwhile paying a call on her.
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  Speaker 2: As the shadow....
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  Speaker 4: Sita wants a fortune.
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  Speaker 8: Sita wants a fortune.
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  Speaker 10: We shall both have a fortune, tall Sita, my little bird.
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  Speaker 10: The cards will tell us what we wish to know.
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  Speaker 4: Sita wants a fortune.
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  Speaker 10: The cards say we will no longer have to work
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  Speaker 10: in that tea room or live in these dingy rooms
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  Speaker 10: above it.
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  Speaker 7: We will be rich, Sita, rich.
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  Speaker 2: Sita. I'm sorry to interrupt your fortune-telling, Madame Santo.
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  Speaker 7: Who speaks? Who is here?
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  Speaker 2: I am called the shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, shadow, shadow, shadow.
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  Speaker 7: Where are you? Where are you, shadow?
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  Speaker 2: I'm standing right here beside you.
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  Speaker 7: But I.
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  Speaker 8: I don't see you.
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  Speaker 2: By my hypnotic power, I've made myself invisible to your eyes.
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  Speaker 7: Why are you here? What do you want of me?
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  Speaker 2: I have come to seek information.
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  Speaker 5: What about?
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  Speaker 2: A young lady named Doris Molnar... She disappeared three days ago.
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  Speaker 2: She was last seen with you in your tea room.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know her. I have never heard of the girl.
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  Speaker 2: You do know her, Madame Santo. In fact, you sent
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  Speaker 2: her to a taxidermist shop. Where is this shop located?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what you are talking about.
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  Speaker 7: Professor Thieling, Professor Thieling.
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  Speaker 5: Peter, quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Who is this Professor Thieling your strange bird mentions?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know him.
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  Speaker 2: Does he have anything to do with the taxidermist shop?
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  Speaker 4: Why, no. No, he doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: Peter. Peter, you're too quiet.
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  Speaker 7: I'll shut you up. You talk too much.
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  Speaker 8: There, there.
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  Speaker 7: Now you won't talk anymore.
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  Speaker 8: You won't talk again.
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  Speaker 7: Now, now see what you made me do. I have
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  Speaker 7: killed her. I have killed my sister.
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  Speaker 2: But not before she revealed a very interesting clue. You'll
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  Speaker 2: be hearing from me again, Madame Sonto. Very soon.
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  Speaker 3: And now, we return to the House of Horror.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Margo, you know what you're to do?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: I'll tell the fortune teller that I've lost a ring.
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  Speaker 8: And then we'll see if she directs me to the taxidermist.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. And be sure to get the address. Here
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  Speaker 2: she comes now. I'd better finish my tea and get
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  Speaker 2: ready to go.
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  Speaker 7: Your fortune told me?
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  Speaker 4: Why, yes.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I would like to have my fortune told.
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 10: But the gentleman, you want him to listen?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was just... I was just leaving. See you tomorrow, Margot.
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  Speaker 3: Right-o.
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  Speaker 8: Call me, won't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I will.
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  Speaker 7: Well, here we are. Yes. Here we are. That man,
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  Speaker 7: your fiancé, perhaps?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: He's just an acquaintance. Cut the cards, please.
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  Speaker 8: And make your wish.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 7: There you are.
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  Speaker 8: And do try to make the wish come true.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, a young lady in love. Oh, no. No, it's
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  Speaker 7: not that at all. It... Well, it's something I've lost.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 10: Then we shall not need the cards. The crystal is
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  Speaker 10: for things that I lost. Now, was it jewelry that
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  Speaker 10: is missing?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, that's right. It's a ring. I consult the crystal.
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  Speaker 7: I see a street.
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  Speaker 11: Down by the riverfront.
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  Speaker 7: On that street is a tiny little shop.
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  Speaker 11: In the window of the shop are many animals. They
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  Speaker 11: are dead animals.
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  Speaker 7: Stop to look alive. Yes, go on.
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  Speaker 11: Inside that shop there are many more animals. One of
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  Speaker 11: these is a giant soft gorilla.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: In the mouth of that gorilla. In the mouth. Your
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  Speaker 11: ring will be found. Oh.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, are you sure? The crystal never lies.
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  Speaker 10: You will go to the shop?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 10: The crystal shows that time is very precious. If you
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  Speaker 10: want your ring, you must go for it right away.
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  Speaker 7: This very night.
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  Speaker 8: THE CRYSTAL.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that fog, Lamar.
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  Speaker 8: I can scarcely see two feet ahead of me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're right on the riverfront, Lamar.
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  Speaker 7: It's deserted here at night.
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  Speaker 8: We haven't passed a living soul since we left the car.
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  Speaker 2: It's not exactly a pleasant neighborhood.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: The foghorn doesn't help any either.
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: Gosh, I hope we don't pass by the shop. I
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: can't see a thing.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I've been watching for it.
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: You know, everything considered, I'm certainly a smart kid.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: I picked a.
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: Fine night to go out and put my hand in
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: a gorilla's mouth.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: Something's rushing against my leg. Oh, it's wet and slimy.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: It's only a cat. A black cat, I might add.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Well, it's a good thing I'm not superstitious.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Did he cross in front of me?
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, not superstitious, eh?
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: Well, no.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: Just be careful.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait. I believe this is the place. Yes. Are
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: the animals in the window?
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes. Do you suppose the shop is open this late?
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I'm quite sure it is. Expressly for your benefit. We'll
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: try the door. There you are. Now, Margo, if we
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: hear anyone coming, I'll duck behind one of the animals.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: Gee, it's a frightening place, Margo. What's that noise?
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Just the clock ticking off the minute.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: You don't think it's a bomb?
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: No.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: No, I'm sure I didn't. I don't think, though, we
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: should attempt to find the lights. It's better that we
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: remain in the darkness. Margo, you look on that side
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: of the room, and I'll take this side.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: And if I find it, I'll shout, but loud.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Lamont?
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Yes? Yes?
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I found a stuffed goat.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Will you settle for that?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Uh-uh.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I won't be the butt of that joke.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Well, no harm in trying.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: What was that?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: It sounded like a live gorilla.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, but why should... The mine.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: I found it. The stuffed gorilla. The mouth is closed.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Well, wait a minute.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Let me help you.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Wait, I'll open it.
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: You must be quiet, young lady. The time is now
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: at hand... when we shall all travel to.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: The promised land.
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: Ah, so you're becoming impatient too, eh, big boy? Soon, oh,
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: so soon, you'll know the supreme joy. The machine is
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: almost ready. But we must be steady.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I must... Ah, yes, my dear.
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: The other young lady has arrived.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Bring her in, Madame Santo.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Now we are all set.
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: The finest we are about to get. Yes, yes, I know,
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: big fellow, I know. Your waiting has ended. Both the
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: young women are ready and here. My hour of triumph
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: is very near.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: Get in here, you. Where, where am I? Still days
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: from the fault with the tap door.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: Hmm. She's an excellent specimen. Put her on the table
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: next to the other young woman, Madam Santo.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Take your hand off me.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Ah, she has a temper.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: That's very good. Very good.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: That girl on the table. What? It's Doris Moulinard. The
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: girl that disappeared.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: You know her?
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: Well, I know who she is, yes. What are all
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: these strange-looking machines?
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: What do you intend to do?
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Put her on the table, Madame Santos. No, no, you
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: won't get me. Close the door, quickly.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: It is very foolish of you to try to escape.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Let me out.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Let me out of here. A gorilla. That's right, young lady,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: a gorilla.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: Seems to like you.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: That's very good.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Considering that you and he shall soon be one.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: What do you mean?
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: I intend to combine your brain with portions of the
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: brain of the gorilla.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: No, no. When it is finished, you.
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: And the other young lady shall retain your brain.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Strength of this beam.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: No, you can't.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: You can't. No, but I can. No, let me go.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Now I'll put the machine in place here.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: Let me off this table.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: We attach the electrodes. There we are.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: Stop.
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: Stop it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Now we try out the machine. In a moment, the
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: current will be passing through your body, young lady.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: Don't let me off.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Let me off.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Now we shall see.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: What happened? My machine, the current has failed. What was that?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Have I spoiled your plans, Professor Fielding? Yes, Madame Sonto.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I warned you that you'd hear from me again. Who
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: is this talking?
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: I see no one.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: It is the shadow. He is invisible, Professor. You cannot
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: see him.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Why is he here?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I have come to learn of your experiment. And it
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: appears that I arrived just in time.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Did you tell this voice where we were, Madame Sonto? No, no.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: And how did you know him?
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: He came to my quarters last night.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I trusted you.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Now you tricked me. Trying to ruin my experiment.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: That is not true, I swear it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Now, Madame Sonto, you know you told me to come here.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: No.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Don't you remember that you promised that we would learn
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the secret and profit by it ourselves?
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: No, that is a lie. Don't you believe him, Professor, please?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: No, you are going to reap the harvest of my
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: years of labor.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Steal my secret and.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Then dispose of me.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: That is not so.
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: He lied.
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: He lied.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: I have a way of dealing with those who betray
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: my trust.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Professor.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: Professor, put down that knife.
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: If this is to be the survival of the citizens,
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: I'm going to be the one who survives.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: Shaba, help me.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Help.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: Keep him away from me.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: I do not fear him. He's only a voice. You
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: are flesh and blood. I can deal with you.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Leave her alone, Professor Dilling.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Leave out of this.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: I will open the cage. If you don't keep away,
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: I will open the cage. I will free the gorilla.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: You wouldn't dare. You are more afraid of him than
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: you are of me.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: I'm warning you.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Keep away or I will open it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Don't open the cage, you fool.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: I told you I would do it. I told you.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Look out for that beast, both of you.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: Professor, he's coming at you.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Keep away. Keep away. No, no. Don't try to save him,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Madame Sato.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: The beast will get you too.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I must help him.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Look out, Madame Sato.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: Lamont, he'll turn on us, Nick.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, fortunately, I'm prepared.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, he's coming toward me.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Don't move, Margo. No, you don't, McQuite.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: Lamont, I just spoke to Doris Molnar on the phone.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: She's feeling much better.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: Fortunately, she doesn't remember any of the gory details of
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: the gorilla killing Madame.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Sontra and Professor Fielding.
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: That drug that they'd given her saved her that unpleasant memory.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Good. Well, I went to the shop with the police
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: this morning.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I'll be happy to learn that Commissioner Weston ordered that
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: infernal machine of Fielding's destroyed.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Oh, I hope they destroy the whole shop.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: I don't want to see any more animals for the.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Next few weeks.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: In fact, right now, I'd even hesitate to look at
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: a stuffed chicken.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Don't miss next week's shadow story, The Green Man.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Here, Lamont Cranston solved.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: The mystery of the murderer who glowed with a ghostly
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: green light.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: This green light, Margot, can you describe it more clearly?
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: It was a ghostly light, Lamont. His whole body seemed
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: to glow. Its radiance almost filled the room. It was
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: almost like a... like a ghost.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margot.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: If we don't act quickly, you'll be a ghost too.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Now tell me, have you any idea who the other
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: two victims might be? The card and the tiny coffin
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: the murderer sent to you warned that you were only
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: one of three.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by the
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Shadow Magazine. The characters, names, places, and plots are fictitious.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: That concludes The Shadow, The House of Horror. Thank you
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: for joining us for this presentation of Classic Radio.