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  Speaker 1: October 13th, 1940 brought Mutual Broadcasting System listeners episode 197
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  Speaker 1: of The Shadow, sponsored.
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  Speaker 2: By Blue Coal.
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  Speaker 1: In The Isle of the Living Dead, Lamont Cranston and
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  Speaker 1: Margot Lane reach the tropical island of St. Jude in
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  Speaker 1: a storm, answering Betty Fulton's appeal for help in finding
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  Speaker 1: her missing fiancé, David Belmont. Island warnings lead them toward
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  Speaker 1: the hilltop plantation of Mrs. Nesbitt, where frightening folklore and
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  Speaker 1: a human mystery meet. Bill Johnstone is Lamont Cranston and
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  Speaker 1: the Shadow, with Marjorie Anderson as Margot Lane, in a
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  Speaker 1: script by Jerry Devine.
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  Speaker 2: And now, our story begins. Who knows what evil lurks
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  Speaker 2: in the hearts of men? The shadow knows. The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow is on the air in a new series
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  Speaker 3: of thrilling dramatizations brought to you each week by the
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  Speaker 3: Blue Coal Dealers of America. These programs are designed to
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  Speaker 3: demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike that crime does
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  Speaker 3: not pay. Before we start today's shadow story, have you
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  Speaker 3: ever stopped to consider that some things are worth far
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  Speaker 3: more than worldly wealth?
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  Speaker 2: Of course you have.
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  Speaker 3: And you and I know that friendliness can't be measured
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  Speaker 3: in mere dollars and cents. Friendliness is a characteristic of
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  Speaker 3: your blue coal dealer. He takes a friendly interest in
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  Speaker 3: your home heating problem, gives you friendly advice, renders a
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  Speaker 3: friendly service. So why not phone your neighborhood blue coal
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  Speaker 3: dealer first thing in the morning? Let him prove to
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  Speaker 3: you that the blue coal way is the easy way
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  Speaker 3: to heat your home. The shadow, mysterious character who aids
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  Speaker 3: the forces of law and order... is in reality Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 3: wealthy young man about town. As the shadow, Cranston is
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  Speaker 3: gifted with hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so that
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  Speaker 3: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 3: Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 3: the voice of the invisible shadow belongs. Today's story, The
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  Speaker 3: Isle of the Living Dead. Margot, Lamont, and Margot's aunt
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  Speaker 3: are on a cruise of the West Indies. It is
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  Speaker 3: early evening as their ship sails into the harbor of
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  Speaker 3: the little island of St.
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  Speaker 4: Jude.
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  Speaker 3: In spite of the thunderstorm that is in progress, Margot
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  Speaker 3: insists that they go ashore. Her aunt refuses. So only
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  Speaker 3: Lamont accompanies her as they walk down the ship's gangplank
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  Speaker 3: to a waiting lodge.
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  Speaker 5: But Lamont, you told me yourself that these tropical storms
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  Speaker 5: never last long.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the rainy season, Margo. Oh, look out.
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  Speaker 2: One more slip and you'll swim to St. Jude.
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  Speaker 5: I don't see why they don't put escalators on these gangplanks.
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  Speaker 5: After all, they have them at the best department stores.
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  Speaker 2: But the best department stores don't float. Yeah? Yeah. Let
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  Speaker 2: me help you into the launch.
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  Speaker 5: There we are.
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  Speaker 2: All right, pilot.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: That's off your line. Well, let's go into the pilot's cabin.
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  Speaker 2: Get out of this rain.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Go ahead, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. That's it. Good evening. Kind of a rough night
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  Speaker 2: for you, isn't it, pilot?
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  Speaker 7: Maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we'll get to shore all right, won't we?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 5: Jolly fellow.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a native of St.
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  Speaker 5: Jude?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Well, it certainly looks like a beautiful place.
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  Speaker 7: You think so?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I... Yes. Yes. You have been here before? No,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't.
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  Speaker 7: Then wait and see before you talk.
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  Speaker 5: You must be a big help to the Chamber of Commerce.
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong with the island, pilot?
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  Speaker 7: One half of island good. Other half belong to devil.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: Look through window. You see big hill over there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. I can just barely make it out.
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  Speaker 7: That plantation belonged to Devil Lady, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Nesbitt.
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  Speaker 5: Devil Lady?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: No one go near her place.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 7: You ever hear of zombie?
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  Speaker 5: Zombies?
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  Speaker 2: Zombies, Margo, are supposed to be dead men here in
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  Speaker 2: the tropics who walk about with no mind or soul.
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  Speaker 2: Native superstition. What about these zombies, pilot? Are there supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be zombies on the plantation? Well, answer me.
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  Speaker 7: No talk to pilot when he steer boat.
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  Speaker 5: He must have read that on a streetcar someplace. Come on, Lamont,
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  Speaker 5: let's go out on deck.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, all right.
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  Speaker 5: What do you suppose he meant, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: About the island? I don't know. Say, isn't that the
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  Speaker 2: young girl that played bridge with us on the boat? Where?
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  Speaker 2: Sitting back there in the stern.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, of course. Betty Fulton. Lamont, she's crying. I wonder
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  Speaker 5: what the trouble is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's find out.
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  Speaker 5: Hello there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Margo.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: Anything wrong, Betty?
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  Speaker 4: No. No.
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  Speaker 6: That is.
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  Speaker 4: I'm leaving the ship.
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  Speaker 5: Why, Betty?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to the island to look for my fiancé,
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  Speaker 4: David Belmont.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that shouldn't be an occasion for sadness, David.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid that something's happened to him. That's why I'm here.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I've come to this sinister, terrifying island.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now, Betty, how do you know that something's happened
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  Speaker 2: to him?
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  Speaker 4: Well, six months ago, he went to New York to
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  Speaker 4: find work. I heard from him regularly. And then one day,
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  Speaker 4: I received a letter telling me that he secured a
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  Speaker 4: job on the island of St.
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  Speaker 5: Jude.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of a job?
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  Speaker 4: Something to do with a sugar plantation.
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  Speaker 5: Sugar plantation? Lamont, isn't that the place that the pilot.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there must be more than one sugar plantation, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: What happened next, Betty?
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  Speaker 4: I never heard from him again. I wrote to the
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  Speaker 4: steamship company and learned that he had definitely come to St. Jude,
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  Speaker 4: so I came to New York and booked passage on.
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  Speaker 5: The first ship.
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  Speaker 2: But, Betty, there might have been a mix-up in the
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  Speaker 2: mails or any number of.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, I've heard too many strange things about the
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  Speaker 4: island of St.
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  Speaker 5: Jude.
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  Speaker 4: Now that I'm here and I feel the mystery of
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  Speaker 4: this tropical night, I'm sure something has happened to David.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, listen. What is it?
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  Speaker 2: It's probably a native celebration. Why, of course. Look up
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  Speaker 2: there on the hill. See that faint line of lights
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  Speaker 2: bobbing along?
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, that's on the plantations the pilot told us about.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Margo. We'll ask the pilot what all this means.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont.
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  Speaker 5: Do you suppose it can be zombies?
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  Speaker 2: I don't suppose anything, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Pilot?
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  Speaker 2: Pilot, those lights moving along that hillside, what are they? Lights? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and what are those drums we're hearing?
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  Speaker 7: I hear no drums.
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  Speaker 5: No drums, but.
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  Speaker 7: I see no lights.
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  Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute. Are those zombies? Are they? Ask Jandy.
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  Speaker 2: He know.
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  Speaker 7: Jandy know everything. He say drum mean death.
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  Speaker 5: John D. Well, who is John D.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll never learn from this one.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, Margo, did you find out what those lights are?
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  Speaker 2: No, Betty.
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  Speaker 4: Now you know what I mean about the island. It's
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  Speaker 4: taken David from me.
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  Speaker 2: Betty, Margo and I have a day and a half
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  Speaker 2: to spend on this island. If it leaves your mind,
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  Speaker 2: we'll help you look for David. And believe me, we
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  Speaker 2: won't give up until he's found.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, perhaps we should have gotten one of the natives
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  Speaker 5: to guide us to the Nesbitt plantation.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't find anyone who'd take the job. I'm all
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  Speaker 2: full of superstitious fear. I won't go near the Nesbitt place.
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  Speaker 2: I even had trouble hiring these saddle horses to make
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  Speaker 2: this trip tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Has Mrs. Nesbitt the only plantation on the island?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody. There's one other. If we don't find David tonight,
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  Speaker 2: we'll visit there in the morning. Oh, look. Look ahead there.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that someone standing in the road?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Perhaps he can tell us the way.
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  Speaker 2: Get up. Get up there. Come on. We'll talk to him.
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  Speaker 5: This little speed job I'm riding certainly must miss the
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  Speaker 5: old milk wagon.
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  Speaker 2: I say there. I wonder if you can help us.
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  Speaker 2: We are looking for the Nesbitt Plantation.
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  Speaker 4: Nesbitt.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Nesbitt Plantation. Yes, yes. Keep away. Hey, come back here.
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  Speaker 8: Come back.
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  Speaker 5: He ran into the underbrush. Did you see his face, Lamont?
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  Speaker 5: That weird, half-dark face.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Do you suppose he... Do you suppose he was a zombie?
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  Speaker 2: Now, please, both of you. Let's not have any more
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  Speaker 2: talk about zombies. The... The drums. Those same drums. Oh, David.
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  Speaker 5: David.
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  Speaker 2: Look. Over there through the trees. There's a light.
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  Speaker 5: And there's the plantation.
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  Speaker 2: I hope so. Come on. Get up, boy. Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo.
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  Speaker 5: While you were hiring the horses, I asked one of
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  Speaker 5: the natives about the zombies and the drums.
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: He told me that when the tom-toms played, that meant
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  Speaker 5: that another body has risen from its grave to wander
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  Speaker 5: about the Nesbitt plantation.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, that's a native superstition.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder.
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  Speaker 2: Look.
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  Speaker 4: There's a house right there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy. Oh, yes. Well, we'd better leave the horses here.
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  Speaker 4: Will we find him?
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  Speaker 5: Will he be here? Betty, David's all right, and we'll
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  Speaker 5: find him.
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  Speaker 2: A grim-looking place, isn't it? Here, we'll tie the horses
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  Speaker 2: to this tree. There we are.
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  Speaker 5: It looks like the front door right over there, Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: Good. Well, let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, I don't like any part of this business. Quiet here.
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  Speaker 5: It's almost like a.
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  Speaker 4: Like a graveyard. Isn't that what you meant to say?
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  Speaker 5: Well, no. No, it is. It is like a graveyard.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe David's graveyard. I, uh.
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  Speaker 2: I'd better knock again.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they just don't want.
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  Speaker 2: Quiet, Martha. Oh, good evening. We'd like to see Mrs. Nesbitt, please. Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Are you Mrs. Nesbitt?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I am. Won't you come in?
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. This is Miss Lane, Miss Walton, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm Lamont Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do? How do you do?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm happy to meet all of you. Won't you
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  Speaker 8: come in the study?
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, she isn't at all like that.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not at all as the natives told you I'd be.
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  Speaker 8: Wasn't that what you were going to say, Miss Lane? Yes, well,
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  Speaker 8: the Islanders love to talk about anything or anyone, and
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  Speaker 8: as I'm a white woman living alone, well, I suppose
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  Speaker 8: I'm a good target, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Mistress, ma'am. Well? You need me more?
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  Speaker 5: No, Mondo, you may go.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad night tonight. I keep watch.
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  Speaker 9: Go, Mondo.
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  Speaker 2: I go.
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  Speaker 8: The natives are always uneasy in this rainy season.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Nesbitt, I'd like to explain the reason for our late
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  Speaker 2: visit tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: We called on you to learn if you had ever
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  Speaker 2: heard of a young man here on the island named
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  Speaker 2: David Belmont.
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  Speaker 5: David Belmont? No, I'm afraid I don't know him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'd hoped that you.
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  Speaker 8: Well, there's another plantation on the island. Have you looked
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  Speaker 8: for him there?
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  Speaker 2: No, we came to you first.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I wish I could help you, but I'm afraid
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  Speaker 8: I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I see. Well, it looks like... What was that? It
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  Speaker 2: sounds as if it were in this house.
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  Speaker 5: No, it couldn't be.
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  Speaker 2: Now, listen. That seems to come from under this room.
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  Speaker 5: Now, don't be alarmed. I'll find out what the disturbance is.
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  Speaker 2: Mondo? Mondo?
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  Speaker 4: Look!
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  Speaker 2: Over there at the window.
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  Speaker 4: Someone's looking in. They're facing at me, old man.
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  Speaker 5: Quiet, you little fool. There's no one at the window. I.
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  Speaker 8: I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 2: But look, look, all of you.
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  Speaker 5: Do you see anyone there?
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  Speaker 2: No. No, I don't. I know.
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  Speaker 4: I saw someone.
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  Speaker 5: I know I did. Now, Betty, Betty, don't. Please.
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  Speaker 7: You call mistress, ma'am?
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  Speaker 5: What was that noise, Mondo?
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  Speaker 2: I find John D. outside. I chase him away. But
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  Speaker 2: what was the noise beneath the house? Noise beneath house? Yes, those...
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  Speaker 2: those moons. That... that was hot. Rain, make them restless tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, of course.
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  Speaker 8: I'd forgotten in the rainy season we put the horses
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  Speaker 8: in the cellar under this room.
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  Speaker 2: Mistress, ma'am, that attend to horses?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes. I.
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  Speaker 8: I'm afraid you must excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, of course, sir. We were leaving anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry to have disturbed you, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Nelson.
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  Speaker 5: Quite all right.
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  Speaker 8: Quite all right.
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  Speaker 2: Mistress, ma'am, better tend to horses.
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  Speaker 7: Quick, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Mondo.
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  Speaker 8: Good night, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Fulton.
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  Speaker 2: Good night. And thank you anyway for.
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  Speaker 5: Well, back where I come from, that's known as the
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  Speaker 5: bomb's rush.
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  Speaker 4: They almost pushed us out that door.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, did you hear that servant speak of John Dee?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And the pilot on the boat spoke of John Dee, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. He said, ask John D. John D.
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  Speaker 2: knows everything.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think Mrs. Nesbitt was so upset about
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  Speaker 4: the horses?
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  Speaker 2: Because they're most unusual animals, Betty.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: Well, do you remember those moans we heard in the house?
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  Speaker 5: I don't see how I could forget them. Why do
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  Speaker 5: you ask?
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  Speaker 2: That was the first time, Margo, I'd ever heard a
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  Speaker 2: horse moan with the vocal cords of a human being.
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  Speaker 3: More about the mystery of the Nesbitt Plantation in just
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  Speaker 3: a moment. Meanwhile, a word from our guest of honor, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Al Demler, a blue coal dealer from Boston, Massachusetts. Let's
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  Speaker 3: hear what Mr. Demler considers the most important part of
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  Speaker 3: his blue coal service.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I'd say the most important part of my job
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  Speaker 10: is meeting and getting acquainted with my customers. You see,
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  Speaker 10: I'm convinced that my business relationship should be based upon friendships.
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  Speaker 10: as well as selling America's finest home fuel. And you're
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  Speaker 10: certainly a real friend to your customers, Mr. Demler, when
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  Speaker 10: you provide them with blue coal, the fuel that gives
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  Speaker 10: them steady, dependable, healthful heat from cellar to attic.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: We advise our customers that blue coal is their best
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  Speaker 10: buy for comfort, economy, and convenience. But we go further
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  Speaker 10: than that. We give them the full benefit of extra
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  Speaker 10: blue coal customer service. For instance, We tell them about
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  Speaker 10: the blue coal heat regulator, which saves them time, trouble,
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  Speaker 10: and money. And we show them that the blue coal
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  Speaker 10: way is the easy way to heat their homes and
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  Speaker 10: save money, too.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. Demmler.
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  Speaker 3: You're a worthy representative of the friendly blue coal dealers
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  Speaker 3: of America. Now, here's my recommendation. Phone your friendly blue
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  Speaker 3: coal dealer tomorrow. His name is listed in the where-to-buy
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  Speaker 3: section of your classified telephone directory under the word blue coal.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the Isle of the Living Dead. I believe
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  Speaker 2: there's an inn just down the street. We can rest
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  Speaker 2: there before we go to the other plantation in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's almost morning now, isn't it, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's only two o'clock, Margo.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose it would be too much for us to
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  Speaker 4: go to that other plantation tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it'd be quite a journey on a night like this.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to know something about David soon.
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  Speaker 2: If David isn't at the other plantation, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: pay another visit to our friend Mrs. Nesbitt. Why, Lamont? Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: We'll leave the horses here. Well, someone's awake at the
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  Speaker 2: local inn.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, why do you want to go back to the
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  Speaker 5: Nesbitt place?
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  Speaker 2: Well, for one thing, I'd like to learn more about
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: those moons that came from her cellar.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: But they did sound human.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: They were human, Margo.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: What about this man, John? The one who knows everything.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I very much enjoy meeting him, Margo. Well, shall we
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: go in? Coming, Betty? Yes.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Well, well.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Nightlife on St. Jude's.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: It seems to consist of one large bar and piano,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: two small tables, and some local barflies.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: At least we're out of the rain. I don't know
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: whether I want coffee or a clothes wringer.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Michael, I don't know how to thank you both for
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: practically risking pneumonia just for my sake.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's all right, Betty. Well, here, let's not stand
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: here and drip all over the floor. If we must
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: make puddles, let's do it at the table. What's going
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: on over there?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: There seems to be a crowd gathered around someone at
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: the end of the bar.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Watch him do this one. What are we waiting for?
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Come on, Betty.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Look, Lamont.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: The center of attraction seems to be one of the natives.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: What's he up to?
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: His eyes closed? Swaying back and forth in rhythm.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: And that stupid grin on his face.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: He's saying something. Listen.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I... I can't, old boy, I really can't, don't
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: you know?
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Why, he talks like a cultured Englishman.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: So sorry, so sorry and all that. Go on, give
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: us some more, that's not enough.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Look, look, he's holding out his hat and they're putting.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Money in it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: That's odd. Now he's talking in a native voice.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: And just a moment ago he spoke like an Englishman.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Let's find out about this. I beg your pardon, sir. Yes?
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Who is this man? Oh, just one of the natives. Yes,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: but his speech. First he spoke perfect English, and then
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: he reverted to a guttural native voice. That's why we're
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: throwing money in his hat. Now, this man is sort
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: of half-witted drunken. He's a character around.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: These parts because he's been gifted with a remarkable talent
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: for imitating any sound he hears.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. I've been told of such cases. It's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: rather uncanny when you first hear it.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Yes, I should say it is.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Now, look, he's working up another imitation. You see, he sings. Hey.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I just stuck in here for a quick pick-me-up. Now, don't,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: for heaven's sakes, tell my wife.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: He just impersonated Clancy, the storekeeper.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: It was perfect, too.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Isn't he amazing, Lamont?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, most folks feed him liquor and money to
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: keep up on the local gossip. You see, he repeats
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: anything he's heard in the voice of the person who
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: said it. More money? More money for Yandy? Yandy? Did
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: he say Yandy? Yes, that's his name. More money, more
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: money for Yandy?
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Lamont, he must be the one that was around the
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Nesbitt place tonight. The one the pilot spoke to us about.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, Yandy. Money, money for Yandy?
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Give him some money, Lamont. Let's see what happens.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: All right. Yandy, here's some money for you. Yandy, listen
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: to me. Can you talk like Mrs. Nesbitt, the plantation owner? Meters.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Meters. Meters.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Nesbitt.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Come on, John D. Come on, he's.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Closing his eyes. He's swaying back and forth.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to talk.
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: Listen. Listen closely to me, do you hear?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: It's Mrs. Nesbitt's voice.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: This night on, you're my slave. You must obey me.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: You have your orders. Now do as I command.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Lamont, who do you suppose she was talking to?
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Quiet, Margot. He hasn't finished. Yes, mistress. Yes, mistress, I
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: do as you command.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: No!
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, no!
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Lamont!
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Betty! Betty, what's the trouble, Betty? The young lady there.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Where is he?
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Where is he?
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Who, Betty?
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: That man, John Day.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Why, he's... Where did he go? He just ran out. No!
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: No, find him!
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Find him! Well, what is it, Betty? Why do you
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: want John Day? Because that... that... that voice.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: that voice that answered Mrs. Nesbitt was my fiancé, David. Oh!
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: Mondo?
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, mistress, ma'am.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: What's that lantern you're carrying? Keep it dry.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, mistress, ma'am.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: Rain or no rain, they're going out into the field
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: and work. Crop will be ruined if they don't. Swine
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: eating my food, carrying for them. Mondo, what's that lantern?
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, mistress, ma'am.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, their false arrange will come, and they'll suffer for it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: They'll be punished. We must hurry, Mondo. Drug will wear off.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: I don't give each another injection.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Oh, oh.
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: Mondo, no like to be around when you stick needles
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: in men's arms.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: Mondo, open that cellar door.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Make me go in with them.
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: I said open that cellar door.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Mistress, ma'am. I... No, no. Not the whip, ma'am. I.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: I open.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I open. Close it quickly.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Quiet, you fools.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: Now listen to me, all of you. I don't expect
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: you to know what I'm saying, but listen anyway. You
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: understand that you're no longer men, you're swine in chains,
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: bound together. Filthy cattle who labor in the cane fields
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: under my command. For two days now it's rained. Because
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: of that rain, you haven't worked. You've eaten my food,
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: you've gotten my care, while my crop's rotting in the fields.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Please, I can leave here. Mistress, ma'am. Quiet, Mondo.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: I only keep all of you alive because I save
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: money using you to labor for me instead of native help. Fortunately,
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: the silly superstition of zombies has kept all people away.
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: And now you've brought this rain, so I'm going to
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: punish you for it. Before you go to the fields,
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: you're going to feel the lash of a whip across
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: your back. We'll see how the slime like this... No, no, no.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: No, no, we can't. Something bad may happen. You idiot,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: come here. Come here. They do not obey.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: They must obey. Come here to me, I command you.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: What was that? They no longer obey your commands, Mrs. Nesbitt.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Who speaks?
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: Who talks to me?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Has one of you broken the spell? I spoke, Mrs. Nesbitt.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: But I'm not one of your slaves.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Who are you?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Men call me the Shadow. I can see no one.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: He speaks. I see no one. I'm standing right beside you, Mondor.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: No.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: No.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: No one beside me. My hypnotic powers make me invisible
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: to your eyes.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: What do you want? Why are you here?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I've come to free these men from the evil spell
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: that you've cast upon them.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: No. No, you have no business here. Get out!
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Get out! My power frightens you, Mrs. Nesbitt. Frightens you
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: because it's far greater than yours.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: No. No, no one.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Has greater power than I. Mondo, seize this man. Listen
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: for the location of his voice and seize him.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mondo. Come on. Seize me. If you dare.
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Now, Mondo, no, like voice. Mondo, no one to be
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: near voice. Mondo, run away from voice. Mondo.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Mondo, come back here.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Your faithful Mondo has deserted you, Mrs. Nesbitt.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: He's not only deserted you, but he's also locked you
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: in the cellar with the slaves you've so cruelly treated.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: And they're becoming restless, Mrs.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: Nesbitt.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Perhaps they feel that the power you hold over them
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: is not as strong as you've led them to believe.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: No. No, let me out of here.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Come on, now. Come on, now.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Open that door.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: That door will remain locked until you tell me the
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: secret you've used to turn these poor creatures into living
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: dead men.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Slaves who move and act like animals. I can't.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: I can't tell you that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: The men are becoming more restless, Mrs. Nesbitt. Soon your
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: power will wear off altogether. And when it does, I
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: must warn you. It would be futile for me to
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: attempt to save you from their mad rage. No, no.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Hear them? You haven't much time, Mrs. Nesbitt.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: You can't keep me locked up in here.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: You must let me out.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: I cannot release you until you tell me what you've
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: done to these men.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: All right, I'll tell you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: I've been feeding them a drug, a secret drug that
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: I discovered here on the island.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I thought so. Is there an antidote for that drug?
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: No, no, it's not necessary.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: Unless it's administered daily, the effect wears off.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Now, please, let me out of here.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Not yet, Mrs. Nesbitt.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: First, you must tell me who these men are.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Some of them are natives.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: The others are white men that are hired in this state.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: And you gave them this drug and put them to
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: work in your fields as slaves.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Isn't that right?
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: And you created the superstition of zombies and the tom-toms
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: just to keep away anyone who might be curious about
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: your activities.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, now let me out of here. I must
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: learn one more thing. Is one of these men David Belmont?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Answer me. Is he among them? Yes.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Something is.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Open the door.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: You promised me.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Please, Shadow.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I keep my promise. Shadow.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: He's run between me and the door.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: They're powering my way.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Shadow.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Shadow, are you still there? Well, we'd better.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Be getting to the boat, Lamont.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Yes. I want to thank you again, Mr. Cranston, for
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: all that you've done for Betty and me. Don't mention it, David. Goodbye, Betty.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Goodbye.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: And remember, we'll see you soon in the sink.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: All right, Betty.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Bye-bye. Watch your step, Margo. I'm getting into the launch.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: All aboard, sir.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: We'll go out to the ship now.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Well, Lamont, I can't say that I'm sorry to be
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: bidding farewell to the dreamy little isle of St. Jude.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: It wasn't dull, Margo.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm glad that the authorities cleared the men of
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: any responsibility for Mrs. Nesbitt's death.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Well, it was easy to prove that she died of shock.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Shock induced by fear of the living dead men that
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: she herself had created.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Yes. Well, I've settled one point in my mind anyway.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Oh? What's that?
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: The only zombies that I ever want to see again
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: are the kind they serve in a nightclub in a long,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: cool glass.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: And now it's time for John Barclay, America's home heating expert.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Barclay. Thank you, Ken Roberts, and good evening, friends.
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: I'm not much on writing letters, but I certainly like
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: to get letters from you folks.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: And I get hundreds of them, too.
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: Yesterday I received a letter from a lady up in
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: Connecticut who has trouble heating a second-story room on the
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: north side of her house. Well, folks, Problem like that
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: is just duck soup for a blue-cold John Barkley-trained serviceman.
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: And after he's sized up the situation, that serviceman can
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: explain in plain everyday language just how to economically overcome
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: this particular problem. It's really very simple. What's more, he's
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: showing blue-cold customers every day how to save thousands of
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: needless trips to the basements.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And he'll help you.
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: Too, to cut down the cost of heating your home.
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: This information won't cost you one penny. So why not
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: take advantage of this extra customer service made possible by
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: your friendly blue coal dealer? Just phone him tomorrow and
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: tell him your problem.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Don't fail to listen to next week's program. The Oracle
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: of Death. Lamont Cranston encounters one of the strangest.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Adventures of his career.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: After having received death threats, Cranston is quietly waiting in
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: his study for the killer to make his death.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Rain o'clock. Well, we'll soon know. Four.
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: Five. Six.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Seven. Eight. Well? It appears to be one time that
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: our young man's prophecy didn't work as he thought. Well,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I could use a good night's... Yes? Well, what do
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: you think you're... That's for.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: Luck, Cranston.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by the
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Shadow Magazine. Characters, names, places, and plots are existent. Any
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Coal Dealers
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: of America bring you another thrilling adventure of the shadow.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: So be sure to listen, and be sure to phone
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: your friendly Blue Coal Dealer for greater heating comfort at
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: less cost. This is Ken Roberts saying, keep the home
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: fires burning with Blue Coal.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: That was The Shadow in the Isle of the Living Dead.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Good night, and thank you for sharing another hour of
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: classic radio.