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The Shadow - "A Mask for Murder" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A man seeks to hire a professional assassin to arrange
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  Speaker 1: his own death, and Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane are
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  Speaker 1: drawn into the case. From the Mutual Broadcasting System, sponsored
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  Speaker 1: by Blue Coal, this is The Shadow, episode 455, A
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  Speaker 1: Mask for Murder, first heard October 10th, 1948. Brett Morrison
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  Speaker 1: is Lamont Cranston and the Shadow, with Grace Matthews as
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  Speaker 1: Margot Lane. Andre Baruch announces. The script is by Edward J.
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  Speaker 2: Adamson.
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  Speaker 1: As Cranston follows the trail, deception, concealed motives, and the
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  Speaker 1: prospect of double crosses complicate the investigation. And now, our
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  Speaker 1: story begins.
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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 thrilling adventures of the shadow, the hard
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  Speaker 4: and relentless fight of one man against the forces of evil.
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  Speaker 4: These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to old and young.
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  Speaker 5: Alike that crime does not pay. The shadow in the moment.
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  Speaker 5: At first, motorists look out when it's dark out.
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  Speaker 4: National Safety Council records show that dusk to dawn hours
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  Speaker 4: have only one-third of the traffic, but two-thirds of the
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  Speaker 4: fatal accidents. So heed such nighttime precautions as these. Lower
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  Speaker 4: your headlight beam when meeting another vehicle, whether or not
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  Speaker 4: the other driver dims his light. It's safer for you
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  Speaker 4: if one driver can see, even if it's the other guy.
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  Speaker 4: Drive at such a speed that you'll be able to
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  Speaker 4: stop within the distance your headlight beam reaches.
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  Speaker 5: Don't be in the dark about safety. In the dead
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  Speaker 5: of night, be alive, be bright. Help cut night traffic
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  Speaker 5: accidents down. And now, to the shadows.
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow, who aids the forces of law and order,
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  Speaker 4: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 4: Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 4: mysterious secret. The hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 4: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 4: Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 4: the voice.
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  Speaker 5: Of the invisible shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 4: Today's drama, A Mask for Murder. The dignified man in
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  Speaker 4: the blue pinstripe suit stops before the door at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the dimly lit hallway.
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  Speaker 5: He stands there for a moment, looking around him nervously.
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  Speaker 2: Then he knocks.
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  Speaker 5: Knock, knock, knock. The door opens, and the man peers
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  Speaker 5: into a dead, dark room.
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  Speaker 4: Then suddenly, from the black recess of the room, a
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  Speaker 4: beam of white light stabs blindly into his face.
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  Speaker 5: You're late, Donna. I.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't make up my mind. I wasn't quite sure
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  Speaker 4: if I should go through with it.
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  Speaker 2: You're sure now?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Come in. That light in my face. I can't
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  Speaker 5: see you. That's the idea, Gardner.
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  Speaker 2: I see you.
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  Speaker 5: You don't see me.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way I run my business. Sit down. Price
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  Speaker 2: is 500.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. So you said on the phone. First, I'd like
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  Speaker 5: to know something, Deano.
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  Speaker 2: About what?
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  Speaker 5: How you go about it? How you operate? I use a.
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  Speaker 2: 38 one shot.
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  Speaker 5: If you miss? I don't. I follow them wherever they go.
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  Speaker 5: I don't let up. When I got them where I
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  Speaker 5: want them, then I don't miss. What if they should
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  Speaker 5: ask you for mercy?
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  Speaker 2: They don't know what's coming.
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  Speaker 5: They don't even know what I look like any more
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  Speaker 5: than you do, Gun. I see.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you want to get? Where and when do I.
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  Speaker 5: Pick him up? You may begin tomorrow night. He leaves
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  Speaker 5: his office every evening. I'm without a six. It's in
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  Speaker 5: the exchange building. Exchange building? Tomorrow. Six. How am I
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  Speaker 5: going to spot it? What does he look like? Like me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: You're looking at him right now, Deano. What? Is this
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  Speaker 5: a gag or something?
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  Speaker 6: No, Deano.
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  Speaker 5: It's no gag. I want to die. I'm hiring you
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  Speaker 5: to kill me.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry I'm late, the market's ahead of.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. Now, look, Margo, before you start getting any wrong ideas.
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  Speaker 4: Wrong ideas?
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  Speaker 6: Really?
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  Speaker 7: If you'll only let me explain. I'm sure I can
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  Speaker 7: make you understand. There's nothing to explain. It's all quite simple.
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  Speaker 5: Margot, you know what?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 4: You're jealous.
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  Speaker 7: Jealous? Me?
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  Speaker 4: Believe it or not, I was sitting in the car
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  Speaker 4: minding my own business, and just a few seconds before
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  Speaker 4: you came up, this young woman got into the car.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Cranston drove off just as I arrived at his house.
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  Speaker 7: I followed him here.
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  Speaker 5: This is Mrs. Garner, Margot. She's in considerable trouble. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: I'm afraid it's very serious.
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  Speaker 5: Serious?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: You can tell us all about it on the way
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  Speaker 5: over to your home.
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  Speaker 4: Your husband's at your apartment now, isn't he? Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm so worried. I had no idea that Frank
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  Speaker 7: was in such business difficulties.
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  Speaker 4: And the difficulties have something to do with his life
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  Speaker 4: being in danger.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Garner?
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  Speaker 7: He felt that he couldn't face public embarrassment.
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  Speaker 5: So he hired a professional gunman.
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  Speaker 7: Named Deano to kill him. He paid to have himself murdered?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: He just told me about it this afternoon. Now he
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  Speaker 7: sees how wrong it was.
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  Speaker 5: Now he wants to live.
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  Speaker 7: That's why I've come to you, Mr. Cranston. Oh, please,
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  Speaker 7: we'll have to hurry.
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  Speaker 5: It's long past six.
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  Speaker 7: Every second counts.
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  Speaker 5: But, Miss Garner... Before it's too late.
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  Speaker 4: Deanna was hired to kill Frank any time after six
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  Speaker 4: o'clock tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Frank? Oh, Frank!
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  Speaker 5: Frank!
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cranston, he's not here. Frank's nowhere in the apartment. You
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  Speaker 5: said he'd be waiting here for us.
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  Speaker 4: He's dead. Frank's dead.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Garner, you mustn't think anything like this.
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  Speaker 4: He wouldn't know him any more than a passerby.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 4: Behind you on the terrace, a man.
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  Speaker 5: Then where you are?
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  Speaker 8: Frank.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Frank, darling, you're all right.
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  Speaker 5: Vera. Who are these people?
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  Speaker 7: You can put the gun away, Frank.
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  Speaker 5: This is Miss Lane, and this is Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Cranston, thank heaven. You might show your gratitude, Mr. Gardner,
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  Speaker 5: no more concrete form. Huh? By putting that automatic away,
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  Speaker 5: as your wife suggested. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, the gun,
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  Speaker 5: of course.
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  Speaker 7: Frank, what happened?
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  Speaker 5: Where have you been? In the streets. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: for how long. Seemed like hours. Why didn't you wait here?
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  Speaker 5: Liano came here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I saw his shadow move out on the terrace. I
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  Speaker 4: was almost out of my mind. I ran through the streets.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't see him, but I could hear his footsteps
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  Speaker 4: behind me. I didn't know what to do, where to go.
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  Speaker 4: I ran down side streets and through back alleys.
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  Speaker 5: I finally shook him off.
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  Speaker 4: But he'll find me again.
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  Speaker 5: I know he will. Oh, Frank.
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  Speaker 7: There's only one sure place for Mr. Garner to hide
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  Speaker 7: until Deanna's captured.
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  Speaker 5: I think I have just the spot we need for Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Garner.
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  Speaker 5: He won't be able to get to me, Mr. Crankston.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Garner.
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  Speaker 5: Now look here.
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  Speaker 4: Faced your own life in danger. It wasn't very brave
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  Speaker 4: and it wasn't very wise of you. Your wife asked
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  Speaker 4: me to help you and that's just what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, Cranston. Frank. Stay in jail until I notify you.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Garner, be down to.
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  Speaker 8: Speak.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Mr. Cranston. And thank you again. Hello? Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston, this is Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Garner.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Garner.
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  Speaker 7: May I speak to Frank, please? What?
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  Speaker 5: Isn't he there?
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  Speaker 8: Here?
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  Speaker 5: Of course not. Your husband's in jail, you know that.
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  Speaker 4: I had him put there last night.
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  Speaker 7: Then it's happened.
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  Speaker 2: Viano.
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  Speaker 5: What are you talking about? I'm at the jail now.
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  Speaker 5: I came to visit Frank this.
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  Speaker 4: Morning and he's not here.
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  Speaker 5: Frank? They said he was bailed out.
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  Speaker 4: Less than an hour ago.
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  Speaker 5: Now, this is the office, Margo.
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  Speaker 7: William Seeley. Bail finished at reasonable rate.
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  Speaker 5: Seeley, he's the one. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Afternoon, folks.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Seeley.
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  Speaker 5: That's who I am, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Willie Seeley.
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  Speaker 5: What can I do for you? I think you can
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  Speaker 5: help us.
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  Speaker 7: We're interested in a bail bond.
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  Speaker 8: Then you come to the right place, folks. Just like
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  Speaker 8: it says in the door, bail furnished at reasonable rates.
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  Speaker 8: Honest Willie Seeley, I'm known as in the trade. Yep, honest,
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  Speaker 8: and the mouth closed tight in the mind of his first.
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  Speaker 8: Everything's done here on a confidential basis. Here, sit down, folks.
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  Speaker 5: A lady can sit in the rocks, and that's comfortable.
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  Speaker 4: We won't bother sitting, thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, mister, okay. Fair service you want, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Get it done, get out, got it? Okay, how much
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  Speaker 4: bond for?
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  Speaker 5: Five hundred dollars. Five hundred, okay. We'll fix up the papers.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, who you want strong?
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  Speaker 5: A man named Frank Garner.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you say?
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  Speaker 7: Frank Garner.
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  Speaker 8: Garner. I sprung a guy named Frank on it this morning.
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  Speaker 5: I know you did, Seeley. That's why we're here.
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  Speaker 4: I want to know who supplied the money for that bond.
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  Speaker 8: Look, mister, this ain't no information bureau. Like I said,
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  Speaker 8: I run my business on a confidential basis.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you two go on.
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  Speaker 5: Beat it, blow.
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  Speaker 4: I get what I came for.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, let go, will you?
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  Speaker 4: Let go.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to hurt you, Seeley.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't have to make you talk.
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  Speaker 4: I run a legitimate business. Like I told you, I'm
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  Speaker 4: this Willie Seeley. Who put up the money for that bond, Seeley?
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  Speaker 5: I can't tell you, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Honest.
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  Speaker 4: I promise. Perhaps the police can find a way to
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  Speaker 4: break that promise. The cops? Take your choice, Seeley.
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  Speaker 5: Me or the police.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I got it right here in my book. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: here it is.
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  Speaker 8: The address the guy gave me was 321 Elm Street.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe Frank Garner's at that address now.
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  Speaker 4: Soon find out, Margo. All right, see me now. The
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  Speaker 4: name of the man who put up the bail money.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, sure.
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  Speaker 5: It's right here in the book where he signed it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont Cranston. That's what the guy signed. Yes, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Garner.
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  Speaker 5: Who are you? Don't know the face. The voice. You
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  Speaker 5: remember the voice, don't you, Garner? Deanna.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Deanna.
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  Speaker 5: How did you get here?
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  Speaker 2: I told you, Garner, I get around.
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  Speaker 5: Deanna, wait, please. Put that gun away. You're a tough
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  Speaker 5: guy to keep up. Deanna, listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: It's not supposed to be like this. It's all a mistake.
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  Speaker 5: In my business, no mistake.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to die.
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  Speaker 5: I changed my mind.
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  Speaker 2: A deal's a deal. That's the way I run my business.
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  Speaker 4: You don't understand.
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  Speaker 5: I can explain. Deanna, please. Please, for heaven's sake, don't.
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  Speaker 9: I told you I was going to use only one shotgun.
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  Speaker 9: But I gave you a special bargain. I gave you
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  Speaker 9: your money's worth.
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  Speaker 4: Between now and election day, give a lot of thought.
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  Speaker 5: To the men you're going to vote for.
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  Speaker 4: Too many of us take for granted our right to vote.
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  Speaker 4: Either we don't vote at all, or maybe we vote
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  Speaker 4: without giving much thought to the men we put in power.
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  Speaker 5: And it's wrong. It's all wrong.
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  Speaker 4: For we should be concerned as to whether we end
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  Speaker 4: up naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or trusted,
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  Speaker 4: protected or destroyed. Remember, our right to vote is one
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  Speaker 4: of our American freedoms. It's up to you and to me,
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  Speaker 4: to all of us, to guard it carefully. For freedom
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  Speaker 4: is everybody's job. So be sure to vote and think
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  Speaker 4: well about the issue you're voting on.
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  Speaker 5: Now to the shadow.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: When Frank Garner, who had hired a gunman to take
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  Speaker 4: his life, was mysteriously bailed out of jail, Lamont and
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  Speaker 4: Margo began a search for him. The search ended with
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  Speaker 4: the discovery of Garner's bullet-riddled body. Now we find Lamont
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  Speaker 4: and Margo with Mrs. Garner in the bleak identification room
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  Speaker 4: of the city morgue.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Lamont, bring Mrs. Garner over here.
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  Speaker 7: Please, Mrs.
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  Speaker 8: Garner. I can't.
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  Speaker 7: I just can't go through with it. I know how
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  Speaker 7: you feel, Mrs. Garner, didn't you, you see? But it's necessary.
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  Speaker 7: You'll have to identify the body. It'll just take a moment.
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  Speaker 7: Come along.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Frank.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Frank. Frank.
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  Speaker 5: It's only a formal question, Mrs. Garner.
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  Speaker 4: For the police record, do you positively identify this body
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  Speaker 4: as that.
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  Speaker 5: Of your husband, Frank Garner?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Frank.
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  Speaker 5: That'll be all, Mrs. Garner. Mark will take you to
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  Speaker 5: the car. Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: I'm all right.
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  Speaker 5: I'd rather go alone. The poor woman.
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  Speaker 7: Must have been terrible for her to see her husband
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  Speaker 7: like this. Lamont, Steve, let's get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: Just a moment, Margaret.
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  Speaker 7: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Something here on Garner's left hand that interests me.
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  Speaker 7: Interests you?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Lamont, don't. I'm afraid I have to, darling.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 5: All right, Margo, come on.
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  Speaker 7: Did you find something back there?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe a clue, Margo. I can't say yet.
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  Speaker 7: I still don't understand why your name was put.
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  Speaker 4: Down as the one who gave Philly the money to
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  Speaker 4: release Garner.
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  Speaker 5: It's an obvious attempt to sidetrack me.
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  Speaker 7: Deanna must have known you were helping Garner.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 4: I have an idea that Bill Bondsman is the answer
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  Speaker 4: to a few questions I have in mind. But what
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  Speaker 4: if he won't tell?
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  Speaker 5: He may keep something from me, Margo, but.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure the shadow can find a way of getting
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  Speaker 4: the truth out of him.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, this is Willie Shealy. Hey, what about that plane ticket?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, good.
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  Speaker 8: Nine o'clock, huh? Okay, I'll come right down to pick
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: it up. Hey, the lights. Go turn them off. Who's
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: in here?
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  Speaker 5: Who's that? Who is it? Going someplace, Sealy?
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: Who's laughing? Who is it?
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: Who's laughing at me?
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Turn on the lights, Sealy.
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  Speaker 5: See who's laughing at you.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh. You're over-anxious, Seeley. You stumbled over that chair.
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  Speaker 8: Who's playing a trick on me?
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  Speaker 7: Come on, come on.
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  Speaker 4: Will you tell me who it is?
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  Speaker 5: The light switch, Seeley. Then you'll know who it is. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: that switch, all right.
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  Speaker 7: There.
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  Speaker 5: There ain't nobody here but me. If I hear things,
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: I ain't there. I'd better take a drink before... Before
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  Speaker 5: you leave... What?
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: You're not going anyplace, Seeley.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: There is somebody here in my room.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Celia, there is somebody.
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  Speaker 8: But I don't see.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: I don't see nobody.
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  Speaker 6: No one sees the shadow.
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  Speaker 8: Shadow?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 5: What do you want with me?
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: What did you come here for? The truth.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Truth?
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  Speaker 4: Truth about what?
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  Speaker 6: Who gave you the money to bail out Frank Garner
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  Speaker 6: this morning?
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: Bail out Garner? Well, Krantz, the guy.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: The guy called himself Lamont Krantz.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: The truth, Sealy.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I told you I want the truth.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, okay, okay. This guy just told me to put
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: that name in a book.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: He said if I told anybody, he'd knock me off.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: He's a crazy kind of a guy.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: His room was dark and he kept the light in
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: my face.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: His name was Deano?
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Deano.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: He gave me the money for the bond, and he
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: told me to feed it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I didn't know he was planning to knock off that
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Garner guy on his.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Why are you running away, Seeley?
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Well, Deano.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Maybe he thinks I know too much.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: Maybe he thinks I should get bumped off, too.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: You're not leaving town, Seeley. You're staying right here.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: But Deano.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: If you try to leave.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: You have more to fear from the shadow than Deano, Seeley.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: Okay, man.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Shadow?
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: You come back? Hey, who was it? Who's there? Oh,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: I'll find out. Don't touch that lamp, Sealy.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: Siano. Siano.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: They're right in that ceiling.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: That's where you're going to die.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: In bed.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: No.
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: No, please, Deanna. Please, please.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Lie still, Siri.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: It won't hurt too bad.
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: Deanna, for the love of heaven.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: It won't hurt at all.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: The way I do it.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: Deanna, wait, wait, wait.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: No, no. Switch on the light, Margo.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Got it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: What is this?
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Drop that gun, Deanna, or my next shot will be
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: through your head.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Crashing, huh? How'd you get there? I had a hunch, Deanna.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I'll pay you a visit, Celie. Oh, if that's for me,
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: you're just going to knock me over. Deanna's business is
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: foreclosed as of now.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: I'm keeping his bankruptcy a secret just long enough here
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: to make a phone call for me.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Phone call? What are you talking about? A business call, Deanna.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: A very important one. one. Mrs.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Garner.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Deano.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: Is it over? Yeah.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I took care of Celie.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: All right, Deano. We'll have the money tomorrow.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: That piano, Vera?
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: Yes, Frank.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: Stevie's dead. We don't have to worry about him anymore.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: Everything's all set now.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Excellent. Excellent. Come on out here on the terrace, Vera.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Well, don't you think we ought to be getting packed?
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: No hurry, Vera. Come on out and have a drink
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: with me. All right, Frank. There you are, Vera.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: Thanks.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Now let's drink to us.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: If it's all the same to you, I... I'd rather
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: not have a drink now.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Why, darling, we have so much to celebrate.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: I know, but I'm frightened.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: I want to get away from here.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I want to get away as fast as I can.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Frightened?
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Why, we're on top of the world.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: After all, the least you can do is drink to
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: the happy success of your very clever husband's very clever plan.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Just that I'm so afraid something will go wrong. What
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: could possibly go wrong now?
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Jack Fryhart, in train to double for me, is dead
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: in my grave. He was hammy, but quite good. particularly
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: in the voice impersonation.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: But Cranston still might find out.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: What can Cranston find out? You told me yourself he
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: was taken in all the way.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Seeley's dead.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: And now that I'm legally.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Dead, I'll be able to enjoy the $ 80, 000 I borrowed
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: from the company. Yes, I'll be able to enjoy it
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: all alone.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: Alone?
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, I forgot to mention it, Vera.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I did have a part of my plan I didn't
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: let you in on.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: You, Vera. I don't need you any longer.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: But what's the matter with you?
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: You served your purpose quite well.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Now, wait a minute.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I had no intention of sharing the money with you.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I've been rather tired of
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: you for quite some time.
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: You don't mean it, Frank.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: You're just saying that you're joking. No. I'm serious. Dead serious.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: Stay away from me.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: You're going over that terrace rail behind you to the
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: ground ten stories below. No.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: You're committing suicide, Vera.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: Don't come near me.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: It'll be quite plausible. The grief over your dear departed
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: husband was too much for you to bear.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: You took your own life. You won't get away with it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: They'll find you out.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Find me out? You forget, my dear Vera, I'm dead.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: You identified my corpse in the morgue. You'll be murdered.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: By a dead man, but no one will know about it.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: No one, Garner?
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: There's somebody here. Oh, please, save me.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Go ahead, Garner.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Push her off.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Where are you?
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Go ahead, kill her. I'm no one. Just the shadow.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: It was all his.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: Plan, all of it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I'm innocent. I have nothing.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: She's a liar.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: He was going to kill me. I was only trying
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: to frighten her, just trying to get the truth out
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: of her.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Don't listen to her.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you everything. She's lying. She's lying.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Stop it, both of you.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: I heard everything.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: You see, I was in your apartment before Diana phoned
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: you a few minutes ago.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: You.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: No. Yes, Garner.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: The shadow knows. Now you'll pay for your crimes with
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: your life. This time, your very own life.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Well, Margo, that ends the guard affair.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Now we can spend a pleasant evening devoted solely to
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Miss Margo Lane.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: I'll bet.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Help me not even a mention of crime or violence,
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: all right?
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Lamar? Yes, dear?
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: There's just one thing I'd like to know about the case.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Uh-uh.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I promised you no sharp talk I wouldn't think of
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: going back on my word.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: Stop acting so darn stealthy and tell me why Mrs.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: Garner came to you in the first place if she
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: was in on her husband's plot.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Well, they wanted the plan to look good. They needed
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: an unofficial witness.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: But how did you know there were two Frank Garners,
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: the real one and the hired one?
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't until I examined the left hand of
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: the corpse in the morgue.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, I remember that.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: The color of the skin under the wedding ring on
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: the third finger was the clue. It was the same
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: color as the rest of the finger.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: I see, and If the ring had been worn for
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: a number of years, the skin underneath would be of
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: a lighter color. Is that right?
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Right as a wedding ring.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: Now, Mr.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: Cranston, you've hit on my favorite subject.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: The car's parked just across the street there. It's a
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: nice night for a drive.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: We're not taking the car, Lamont.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Taxi!
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: Margo!
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: I remember the last time you were going to drive
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: me home, alone. Three's a crowd, darling.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Taxi! Taxi!
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: Inside you.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Okay, you win. Now, where to, folks? Why, um.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Around the park, driver. One hundred times.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Young men, attention. Here is your opportunity to obtain a
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: four-year college scholarship at one of the leading colleges in
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: the country. Your Navy has recently announced that the third
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: annual competitive examination for its officer college training program has
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: been scheduled for December 11, 1948, and will be open
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: to high school seniors and graduates who are not less
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: than 17 or more than 21 years of age on
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: July 1, 1949. Successful candidates will receive four years of
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: college at the expense of the Navy, and in addition,
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: they will receive retainer pay at the rate of $ 600
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: per year. Upon graduation, they may be commissioned as ensigns
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: in the regular Navy or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: and will be required to serve on active.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Duty for a period of two years.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Further information and application blanks are now available at all
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: high schools, colleges, and naval recruiting stations.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Don't delay. Apply now.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: This story is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: All names and places are fictitious. Any similarity to persons
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: living or dead is purely coincidental. Listen again next week,
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: same time, same station, when the shadow will again demonstrate
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: that the weed.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: Of crime bears bitter fruit.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Crime does not pay.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Next week, same time, same station, another strange and thrilling
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: adventure in the shadows' daring battle against the forces of evil. Remember,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: don't hold back this election day. Get out there and vote.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Your vote, soberly, thoughtfully cast.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Really counts.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: It will help put and help keep the right people
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: in office. You have the freedom to vote. Vote to
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: maintain that freedom. Freedom is everybody's job. The part of
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Lamont Cranston was played by Brett Norris and Margot by
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Grace Matthews. This program came from New York. Stay tuned
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: now for Quick.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: As a Flash. This is the Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System.
• 27:54
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• 27:57
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