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The Shadow - "The Ghost Wore a Silver Slipper" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Near a cemetery, Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane offer a
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: ride to a young woman who vanishes before their car
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: reaches the destination she requested. Their search for an explanation
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: carries them into an investigation of a narcotic smuggling operation.
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  Speaker 1: From the Mutual Broadcasting System and sponsored by Blue Coal,
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  Speaker 1: this is The Shadow. The Ghost Wore a Silver Slipper,
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  Speaker 1: program number 366, first heard April 7th, 1946. Brett Morrison
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  Speaker 1: is Lamont Cranston and the Shadow, with Leslie Woods as
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  Speaker 1: Margot Lane. Lawrence Crowley wrote the script. Now, back to
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  Speaker 1: the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: Once again, the Mutual Network brings you the thrilling adventures
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  Speaker 4: of The Shadow. The hard and relentless fight of one
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  Speaker 4: man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed
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  Speaker 4: to demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike that crime
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  Speaker 4: does not pay. Is there anybody in your house who
• 1:36
  Speaker 4: doesn't know about United States savings bonds? Perhaps it's just
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: that they don't recognize the new peacetime name their war
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  Speaker 4: bonds have acquired. Just remember that in peace as in war,
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  Speaker 4: your e-bonds are the safest investment.
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  Speaker 3: In the world with the highest rate of return for you.
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  Speaker 4: So plan to continue your payroll savings plan with regular
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  Speaker 4: amounts put into savings bonds each payday. Three dollars in
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  Speaker 4: bonds today will grow into four ten years from now,
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  Speaker 4: ready to help make all your dreams come true. Now,
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow, who aids the forces of law and order,
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  Speaker 3: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 3: Years ago on the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 3: mysterious secret. The hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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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 drama, The
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  Speaker 3: Ghost Wore a Silver Slipper. Oh, my goodness. Sleepy, darling?
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Say, it was too bad Johnny Cole was ill, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a nice guy.
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  Speaker 3: The Tuttle's a wonderful people, too.
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  Speaker 5: I think so, too, darling, but that ping-pong business sure
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  Speaker 5: wears me out.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, me, too. I've been stiff for a week. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: don't mention that word.
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  Speaker 5: It's not here.
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  Speaker 2: What word? This.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: At the cemetery we're passing.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the Bretwood. That's a pretty name.
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  Speaker 2: Bretwood?
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  Speaker 7: Bretwood Cemetery, Michael.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the sign says. Why?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, nothing, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: It just sounds off of me or something.
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  Speaker 3: Marlowe Cemetery is a nice place to be unfamiliar with.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Lamar, watch out!
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  Speaker 3: I see her. I thought that woman almost walked into us.
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  Speaker 5: That was close.
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  Speaker 7: Darling.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm?
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  Speaker 2: Something's wrong with that girl.
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  Speaker 7: She didn't even look up.
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  Speaker 3: Well....
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  Speaker 5: And look.
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  Speaker 7: No hat or coat.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing but a fluffy white evening dress.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like she's trying to walk someplace. Ask her if
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  Speaker 3: she'd like a lift, Mara.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 6: Um.
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  Speaker 4: Liz?
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  Speaker 3: Liz, can we give you a lift? You said that? No, I.
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  Speaker 2: Um.
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  Speaker 7: Can't we take you somewhere?
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  Speaker 3: We're headed for town.
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  Speaker 7: Take me home. Why, surely. Of course we will.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get out and help her.
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  Speaker 7: Here you are.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you just get right in back.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 5: Now, where can we take you? My father.
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  Speaker 2: All right, but where is he?
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  Speaker 7: Burnham Curiosity Shop, 1432, Sutton Street.
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  Speaker 3: Are you feeling ill, Miss Barnum? No. Well, is there
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  Speaker 3: anything else we can do for you?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you just pull that robe over you and we'll
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  Speaker 5: get to your father in the distance.
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  Speaker 2: You better get started on that. Yes, dear.
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  Speaker 5: There are something strange about that girl.
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  Speaker 3: You're telling me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and something familiar, too.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen her somewhere. First the cemetery, now the girl. Really, Margo,
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  Speaker 3: this is your night. Margo?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, wake up.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, golly, I'm sorry. I'll make a fine driving companion,
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  Speaker 5: don't I?
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  Speaker 3: Have a good rest?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm as bad as the guy on the
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  Speaker 5: back seat.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess we're there, dear. Miss Barnum, your father's
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  Speaker 3: shop should be along here somewhere, shouldn't it?
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  Speaker 5: I guess he fell asleep, too. Miss....
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  Speaker 7: Come on, she's gone.
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  Speaker 3: What? Where's she... Where'd she go?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Margo, this... How could she have gotten out? I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even stop for a light all the way in.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, we didn't dream.
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  Speaker 3: This, did we? Darling, only you were asleep. We'll soon
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  Speaker 3: find out.
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  Speaker 7: Where are you going?
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  Speaker 3: She said her father's shop was at 1432 Second Street.
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  Speaker 3: That should be right down the block. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there it is, right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, 1432. M.W.
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  Speaker 1: Barnum, curiosity.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, wait.
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  Speaker 5: I remember now.
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  Speaker 3: Remember what?
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  Speaker 2: I remember now where I saw that girl before.
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  Speaker 5: And the Brentwood Cemetery, too.
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  Speaker 8: Their picture was.
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  Speaker 5: In today's paper.
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  Speaker 7: She died from.
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  Speaker 5: An overdose of sleeping pills.
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  Speaker 3: She what?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's true.
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  Speaker 7: I read it in the paper.
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  Speaker 5: Marilyn Barnum, daughter of a curiosity dealer, died from an overdose.
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  Speaker 7: Of sleeping pills.
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  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: And she was buried this morning in the Brentwood Cemetery.
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  Speaker 3: Margaret, you mean our passenger was a corpse? A ghost? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I know it's... Oh, really, darling? Come on, let's see
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  Speaker 3: if anyone's in the shop.
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  Speaker 7: Well, how do you explain it to me?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't yet, but I certainly don't underwrite your
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  Speaker 3: ghost theory either. There's a light on in there in
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  Speaker 3: the back. Hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it's a nightlight.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I see someone coming. Yes. Mr. Barnum? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: that's right. Who are you? I don't think I know you.
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  Speaker 3: You don't, Mr. Barnum, but we may have something to
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  Speaker 3: tell you that will interest you. May we come in? Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 3: of course. Come in. Mr. Barnum, this is Miss Lane,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm Lamont Krantz.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do?
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  Speaker 3: We come with a rather strange story. Tonight we're driving
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  Speaker 3: past the Bretwood Cemetery. Bretwood?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. We almost ran over a girl, beautiful young girl, dressed.
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  Speaker 7: All in white.
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  Speaker 3: We stopped and she asked us to take her to
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  Speaker 3: her father. You mean... Yes, Mr. Barnum. She gave your
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  Speaker 3: name and this address. Get out. Wait, Mr. Barnum.
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  Speaker 2: Get out.
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  Speaker 7: But Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Barnum.
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  Speaker 3: Do you hear me? Get out, get out. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what you're trying to do. But it's the dirtiest
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  Speaker 3: thing I've ever heard of. But your daughter... Yes, my daughter.
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  Speaker 3: My daughter. She's been dead since yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 2: I thought even she had some heart. Do you have
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  Speaker 2: to come.
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  Speaker 3: In here on the.
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  Speaker 7: On the very day she's buried?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Madeline.
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  Speaker 3: Madeline. Darling, you don't understand. Please, please, please. Come on, darling.
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Darling, would you like to see that newspaper?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but I don't know what good it'll do. Their
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  Speaker 3: story ends with a girl being buried.
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  Speaker 5: I think it was toward the back of the paper.
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  Speaker 2: A little car.
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  Speaker 3: Here it is, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: See, I told you I'd read it.
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  Speaker 3: Madeline Barnum, daughter of M.W. Barnum, curiosity dealer, was interred
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  Speaker 3: today in the family mausoleum at Brentwood Cemetery. The doctor,
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  Speaker 3: Robert Steele, said the death was undoubtedly accidental. He'd been
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  Speaker 3: prescribing for her, and evidently she'd taken too many pills
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  Speaker 3: from the wrong bottle. Accidental. I wonder.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mark, that isn't the point.
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  Speaker 7: The point is she is dead.
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  Speaker 5: And that she was dead long before tonight.
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  Speaker 3: So it seems. Well, Mark, you'd better find yourself something
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  Speaker 3: to do tomorrow. It looks like the Shadow's going to
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  Speaker 3: have a busy day.
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  Speaker 5: Doing what?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first I'd like to see that death certificate on file.
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  Speaker 3: The next step is a friendly chat with Dr. Robert Steele.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Warren. Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: How is the Honorable Mr. Barnum today? As well as
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  Speaker 3: a grieving father can be.
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  Speaker 7: My deepest sympathies.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate that you cannot encompass the attitude of my
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  Speaker 2: people toward.
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  Speaker 7: Death, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Barnum.
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  Speaker 7: With us, death is the cause for happiness. The release
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  Speaker 7: of the tortured.
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  Speaker 2: Soul to a world where our honored ones wait More
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  Speaker 2: than compensates for the momentary earthly grief.
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  Speaker 3: But I miss her so. Poor Madeline.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, of course, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Barnum, have you secured for me more.
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  Speaker 2: Of those beautiful antique clocks?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Just this afternoon, five of them.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, excellent.
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  Speaker 3: And now, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Barnum, here are the three clocks you sold me yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And here are the names of the three customers who
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  Speaker 2: went by them.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Warren. What's in these clocks after you bring them back?
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  Speaker 3: Something so interesting to their eventual customers.
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  Speaker 7: Curiosity, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Barnum, is a scorpion. Left alone, it is not harmful. Touched,
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  Speaker 2: it will turn with death-giving tales. We agreed that for
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  Speaker 2: certain sums, you would not display curiosity.
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  Speaker 3: These clocks contain something. I wonder what. Yes.
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  Speaker 7: In the base, we find packets of white powder. Narcotics.
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  Speaker 3: Narcotics. In the base. My daughter knew that, too. Didn't she, Mr. Wong?
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  Speaker 3: And you knew she knew.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't you?
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  Speaker 7: Didn't you?
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  Speaker 3: And that's why you murdered her.
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  Speaker 7: She was going to the police. Are you going to
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  Speaker 7: the police, Mr. Barnum?
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  Speaker 3: No, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Wong.
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  Speaker 3: I begin to see your point of view. About death.
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  Speaker 7: Going to the police will not bring Madeline to life again. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Death should be a happy occasion. So from now on, Mr. Wong,
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  Speaker 3: I shall be happy managing your business.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: From now on, I select the customers for the clocks.
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  Speaker 3: and receive the purchase price.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 7: You have, of course, made arrangements to.
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  Speaker 2: Prevent an accident to yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I have?
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: Tell me, where did you acquire your recent wisdom?
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  Speaker 7: The doctor you brought to this.
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  Speaker 3: House, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Wong.
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  Speaker 6: I see.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Steele. I'm dying. Who stabbed you, Doctor?
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  Speaker 7: What happened?
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  Speaker 3: Dying. Can't see you. No man can see me, Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: I am the shadow.
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  Speaker 6: Shadow?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Tell me, who did this to you? I don't know. Dying. Doctor,
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  Speaker 3: do you remember Madeline Bonham? You signed her death certificate. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure she was dead?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Sleeping pills. Are you sure? Did you actually see her die? Yes. Wait.
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  Speaker 3: Truth could have been alive.
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  Speaker 2: Could have been alive.
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  Speaker 3: Then you didn't actually see her die.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Between his ribs and oriental decks.
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  Speaker 6: So, if the mausoleum.
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  Speaker 5: Is empty, then that ends the ghost story, huh?
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  Speaker 3: That's right, darling. Dr. Steele actually didn't see that girl die.
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  Speaker 3: Her empty grave will prove that she's as alive as
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  Speaker 3: you or I.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad you're so sure.
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  Speaker 3: Well, cemetery gates aren't kept locked.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like it better if they were.
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  Speaker 3: Come on over this way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this mausoleum door... Hmm. It isn't. I'm coming. There's
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  Speaker 3: the casket. Now, watch this, Margo. Here's where your ghost
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  Speaker 3: theory falls flat on its spooky face. Casket wrist on
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  Speaker 3: a platform right out in the open, and it isn't
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  Speaker 3: even locked.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what you say.
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  Speaker 5: That girl looked like a ghost.
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  Speaker 3: She did. Now, if you'll hold the flashlight. Thank you. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I'll show you an empty coffin.
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  Speaker 7: She's dead?
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  Speaker 3: She's dead? Yes, Margo. She's been dead for quite some time.
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  Speaker 3: She's dead.
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  Speaker 4: They will never want for anything. Sometimes that looks like
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  Speaker 4: a pretty big order. But there's one way that you
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  Speaker 4: can be sure of financial protection for your wife and youngsters.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Let Uncle Sam help you. Put part of your weekly
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: paycheck into United States savings bonds.
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  Speaker 3: The easy way.
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  Speaker 4: Continue your payroll savings plan. You didn't miss those small
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  Speaker 4: regular amounts deducted each payday.
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  Speaker 3: For war bonds.
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  Speaker 4: So keep up the habit with savings bonds. They're the
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  Speaker 4: same time-tested investment with a new name. they'll still pay
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: off $ 4 for every three in ten short years. That's
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  Speaker 4: Uncle Sam's way of saying thanks for your lending him
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: the use of your money.
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  Speaker 2: And when the ten years are.
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  Speaker 4: Up, you'll begin to receive a steady income as your
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  Speaker 4: bonds mature. Or you may set aside a definite time
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  Speaker 4: each month to purchase savings stamps or bonds. They're available
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  Speaker 4: at your store, bank, or post office. Hold each bond
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  Speaker 4: till it comes due. You won't lose a cent if
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: you need to redeem them for an emergency, but you
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: will gain in dollars if you let them reach maturity.
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  Speaker 3: Now back to the shadow. We return to our story
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  Speaker 3: a few minutes after Cranston's terrifying discovery. The girl who
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: had to be alive has been found dead in her coffin.
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  Speaker 3: Cranston has helped the trembling Margo into the car and
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  Speaker 3: is heading back toward home.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 7: You realize this car.
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  Speaker 2: Has a distinction?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 7: Not three feet from us in the back seat.
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  Speaker 8: She's ridden a ghost.
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  Speaker 7: Right back there. Not three feet in back.
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  Speaker 3: Margo, stop it. Stop it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I am being silly, but.
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  Speaker 7: What can you think? She dies.
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  Speaker 3: We meet her on the road, so... That means he's alive.
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  Speaker 7: When is he dead?
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know. Where does the other dead person
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: fit into it? The doctor, he must be connected somehow.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Margo, I have a feeling there's someone in this puzzle
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  Speaker 3: we haven't met yet.
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  Speaker 5: Another body?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. There's one thing I do know.
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  Speaker 8: What?
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Gotta start looking where this whole business began.
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  Speaker 6: You don't mean.
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  Speaker 2: No, Margo.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Barnum's Curiosity Shop. Where the ghost wanted to
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: be taken in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't live.
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  Speaker 3: At the shop, Margo. I just came checking today. This
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: just happened to be working late tonight. We rode the ghost.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It's on your lock.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: It'll be easier to jimmy the front door, but it's
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: probably wired with a burglar alarm. Let me help you in. Good. Now,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: take a look.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Why, we seem to be in the back room.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, we are.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: This seems to be a combined store.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Room and a place for Mr.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: Barnum to rest.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Also, he must buy tea.
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: Look.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Genuine oriental tea, Seth. Used recently, too, hadn't it?
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: No.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Come on. Where did all this old stuff come from?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Carved coconut shells. Porcelain.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, what?
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Look at that horrible little dagger.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: On the wall.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Why is it mounted diagonally like that?
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Look.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: What?
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Look here. A silver slipper.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: A woman's silver slipper.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Madeline Barnum's slipper. She had it on. We picked her
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: up on the road. It's made. It's probably still on her.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: In her grave.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Don't move.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, what?
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: Don't move.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Oh. What are you doing here?
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Why, we're friends of Madeline Barnum. This is Miss Lane.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I'm Lamont Craig. Oh, so.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Excuse me.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I thought you were burglar.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: And what are you doing here?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I am Lee One, also a friend of Miss Barnum
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: and Mr. Barnum. Oh? In fact, I am Mr. Barnum's
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: best customer.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Barnum gave me tea tonight to pick up my tea set.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: But why are you here? We think Miss Barnum was murdered.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Murdered? Yes, Mr.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Wong.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: If you'll forgive us, we have to be leaving.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: You go look for clue to murder her.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Madeline Barnum's grave.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, so.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Cranston, may this small person go with you. I, too,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: would like to find Miss Barnum's murderer.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I wish you would, Mr. Wong. I think you might
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: be very useful.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Cranston, it is so dark out here.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: So mysterious.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Cemeteries usually are, Mr. Wong.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Where does the lovely Miss Lane get her courage to
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: live in such dismal places? I sometimes wonder.
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: Well, this is it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: After you, Mr.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Wong.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: Are you going to open the coffin, Mr.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Cranston?
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Yes. Will you hold the flashlight, please?
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Certainly.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, dear, it looks heavy.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Not too heavy. Margot, I thought so. Everything is clear now.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Come on, get up, get up, get up!
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: You knocked me from my hand. What did you do?
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: You're no good. I hear you moving over there. I, uh,
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: how you say, got him?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Come on, get up.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: Now, Miss Lane, there's a key from inside.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: The door lock. Move out.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: Close the door. Lock it from outside. Oh, Miss Lane,
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: do not run away. Now I have to take you.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: Because you, I do not choose.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Why don't you tell me so I don't get it
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: over with?
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Not yet. We wait for Mr.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Barnum. I have telephoned him to come to the store.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Are you going to kill him too? Yes.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Ah.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Come in, Mr.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Barnum.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Don't be moved fast.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: We wait for you. Lane, what are you doing here?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I explain that truth.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: You see, Mr.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Barnum, the time has come for Lee Wan to move
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: his business to other vicinity.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Your business?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: My business. I'm afraid our partnership has to be dissolved.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Too many people are aware of circumstances causing partnership. One person,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Lamont Cranston, already did it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: And it's going to kill us, Mr.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Barnum.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Do you remember my protection in case of my death once?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Reason why I moved with you to other cities. Mr. Barnum,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: many things.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: Here burn easily, no?
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: We're going to set fire to the place.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Yes, Mr.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Barnum. No.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Who hit my hand? My gun.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Who lies?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Who's in here?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: The shadow, Mr.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Barnum.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I can't see you.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: No. No.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: You cannot see him, Mr.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Barnum. But he is here. We know of you in
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: my country, Shadow. The avenger of crime.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, Lee Wan. The avenger of crime.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: So, I am ready. It is useless to fight the Shadow.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I am guilty.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Guilty of selling narcotics and of murder.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Lee Wan, you are guilty only of attempted murder. The
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: murderer stands there. Me?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Guilty of murder?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, Mr.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Barnum.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Guilty of the murder of your daughter, Madeline, and the doctor,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Robert Seale.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: You're crazy.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I'm getting.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: Cancel!
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: One move and an invisible man will see justice done now.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Justice comes on wheels of speed.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, Lee Wan. Justice for one of the foulest crimes
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: man can commit. Murder of a daughter out of pure greed.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I didn't. Lee Wan killed her with sleeping pills. No, Barnum.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: She was still alive when buried. But she revived and
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: came back to warn you about Lee Wan's narcotic smuggling...
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Not knowing you were a part of it. Never dreaming
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: she would meet death by the hand of her own father.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: To kill one's own child is spiritual suicide.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Shame. Open up.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Open up.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Come in, Commissioner. I've kept these men waiting for you.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Grab them, men.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: So you're still here, Shadow. Usually don't wait around after
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: you call me. This case will need explaining, Wesson. Sit down.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: First one thing... When we're through, go out to Brentwood
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Cemetery and release the Mount Cranston for Madeline Bonham's mausoleum.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: And tell him to keep his amateur nose out of.
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: Things that don't concern him. Now, just be patient, Mr.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Lane. I'll have this door open and do as you say.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll be damned.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Well, what's the matter, Commissioner?
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: The door isn't locked.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: He was just stuck in the outside. I've been turning
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: the key and locking the door. Oh, Commissioner. All right, Cranston,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: you can come out now.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: Thank goodness, Mr.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Dossier, I couldn't get out. Did you try pushing hard
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: on the door? Why, no. Oh, don't tell me... Yes,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: it was open all the time. Now, wait right here.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Don't move, and I'll be right back. I want to
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: tell Cardona to get the photographic squad. Oh, we won't
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: budge an inch, Commissioner.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Quick, Lamont. While the commission's going. The shadow is playing
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: things pretty well, but there are still.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: A couple of points I don't understand.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Question away, darling.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Well, Madeline Barnum was buried without embalming because of her faith.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: And that's how it was possible she was put in
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: the mosque and still alive.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: That's right, darling. She regained consciousness just a few minutes
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: before we met her the other night. She was still
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: groggy from the effect of the drug. Her ghost appearance
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: a bit.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Well, and then she jumped out of your car.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: It must have been the minute I slowed down and
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: turned to wake you up.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: And she hid somewhere and later made her way to
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: her father's house? Yes. Well, tell me, why didn't the
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: doctor discover that she was still alive?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Because he wasn't really a doctor at all. He was
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: a member of Juan's group using Ford's credential.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, but what made you suspect Juan?
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: That dagger on the wall in his back room. Remember
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: you said it was hung diagonally? Well, there must have
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: been another dagger on the wall originally making a pair
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: of them cross. That was the dagger which stabbed the
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: doctor and also killed Madeline.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, so that's what you noticed when you opened the
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: coffin the second time.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. When Madeline told her father what she knew,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: he saw a golden opportunity to become rich by blackmailing Juan.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: So then he killed Madeline and then killed the doctor
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: to keep him from talking. Ironic, isn't it? Madeline killed
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: by the very person she tried to protect.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Well, what happened in the master room? You know, for
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: a minute I thought Juan had killed you.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: So did Juan. I didn't realize he was shooting at
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: the shadow, and the shadow's a hard fellow to hit. Actually, darling,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: I was with you and went all the way back
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: to Barnum's shop in the backseat. Oh, hi, Commissioner.
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: Everything straightened out?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, everything's okay. Only, um, Cranston. There's one thing I
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: want to tell you. Yes, Commissioner. From now on, you
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: keep that amateur nose of yours out of things that
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: doesn't concern me.
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: Commissioner, you're so right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Have you figured recently just how much you saved in
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: war bonds through your payroll savings during the past year?
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Add them up.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: It makes an impressive total, doesn't it? Chances are you
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: didn't even miss those small regular deductions each payday. Well,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: here's a suggestion. Your payroll savings plan is a mighty
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: good habit to continue now that war bonds have converted
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: to their peacetime role of United States savings bonds. With
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: a backlog of war bonds, you've already a head start
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: on your plans for the future. But now's the time
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: to make sure those plans come true by building up
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: that backlog with United States Savings Bonds. These bonds are
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: still the best investment in the world, with a payoff
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: at maturity of $ 4 for every three invested. Your war
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: bonds have done their job for Uncle Sam, but they're
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: still working for you. Hold on to them. Your bonds
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: will never be worth less than you paid for them.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: This story is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: The characters, names, places, and plots are fictitious. Any similarity
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Again next week,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: the shadow will demonstrate that the weed of crime there
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: does not pay. The shadow knows.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Next week, same time, same station, the Mutual Network will
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: bring you another strange and thrilling adventure in the shadows'
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: daring battle against the forces of evil.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Be sure to listen.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: And friends, remember, hold your United States war bonds to maturity.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Invest your peacetime dollars in United States... savings bonds regularly
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: through the payroll savings plan or from your nearest store, bank,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: or post office. This is the Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: This concludes The Shadow in The Ghost Wore a Silver Slipper.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Good night until another radio rendezvous.