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  Speaker 1: A frightened grocer withdraws his testimony against two counterfeiters and
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  Speaker 1: the men he accused walk free. Fear has settled over
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  Speaker 1: a New York neighborhood while Michael Sullivan faces punishment for
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  Speaker 1: perjury and his daughter Mary refuses to let the matter rest.
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  Speaker 1: Lamont Cranston follows the trail from a corner grocery and
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  Speaker 1: courtroom to the waterfront where intimidation and counterfeit money point
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  Speaker 1: toward a hidden leader. From January 9th, 1938, this is
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  Speaker 1: episode 102 of The Shadow, The League of Terror, with
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  Speaker 1: Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston and Agnes Moorhead as Margot Lane.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow Knows.
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  Speaker 3: Blue Cole presents The Shadow Knows.
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  Speaker 4: The mystery man who strikes terror in the very hearts
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  Speaker 4: of shopsters, lawbreakers, and criminals. Today, the League of Terror.
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, the Shadow's exciting adventure starts in just
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  Speaker 4: a moment. But first, I'd like to ask you homeowners
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  Speaker 4: a question. Do you want to cut down winter coals,
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  Speaker 4: protect your family's health during this dangerous winter season? Then
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  Speaker 4: burn blue coal for clean, safe, healthful heat all winter long.
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  Speaker 4: Blue coal is Pennsylvania's finest anthracite, and its harmless blue
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  Speaker 4: coloring is your guarantee of better heat at less cost.
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  Speaker 4: So when it comes to fuel, insist on blue coal.
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  Speaker 4: Order it by name. Your nearest blue coal dealer will
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  Speaker 4: be glad to send you a trial tonne.
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  Speaker 5: Phone him tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: With the court's permission, I'll rephrase that question.
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Sullivan, do you know how these counterfeit one and five
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  Speaker 8: dollar bills came to be in the cash register of
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  Speaker 8: your grocery store?
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  Speaker 6: I got them from customers, I guess.
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  Speaker 8: Michael Sullivan, you're a witness in a federal trial, under
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  Speaker 8: oath to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
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  Speaker 6: You know you can be sent to prison for perjury. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: I know it well enough.
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  Speaker 8: Before this trial began, you testified that the defendants in
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  Speaker 8: this case, Slater and Marino, entered your store.
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  Speaker 6: That they forced you.
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  Speaker 8: To buy counterfeit $ 5 and $ 10 bills to be passed
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  Speaker 8: out and changed to your unsuspecting customers.
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  Speaker 6: Why have you changed your testimony?
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 6: I was mistaken, that's all. You're lying, Michael Sullivan, lying.
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 7: Order.
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  Speaker 6: Order in the court.
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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Prosecutor.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 11: It is quite apparent that your witness has received a threat,
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  Speaker 11: either to himself or his family, if he testified against
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  Speaker 11: the defendants in this case. Since he will not repeat
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  Speaker 11: his sworn testimony against these defendants, I have no alternative
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  Speaker 11: but to dismiss the charges.
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  Speaker 6: Case dismissed.
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  Speaker 9: Order.
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  Speaker 12: Order in the court.
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  Speaker 8: Your Honor, I demand that Michael Sullivan be held on
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  Speaker 8: a charge of perjury.
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  Speaker 11: Michael Sullivan, much as this court may sympathize with your
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  Speaker 11: reasons and motives for shielding these criminals who prey upon
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  Speaker 11: an unsuspecting public in the wholesale commerce of worthless, counterfeit money,
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  Speaker 11: I have no alternative.
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  Speaker 6: But to sentence you to one year in prison.
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  Speaker 5: One year in prison?
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  Speaker 6: But, Your Honor, there's my wife and my daughter, Mary.
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid of what the dirty rats would do to
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  Speaker 6: them if I told the truth.
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  Speaker 11: I'm sorry, Michael Sullivan, but unless you testify.
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  Speaker 6: I can't.
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  Speaker 4: I tell you, I can't.
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  Speaker 13: Very well.
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  Speaker 11: The sentence of one year in prison must stand.
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  Speaker 5: Votes adjourned.
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  Speaker 6: It ain't fair. It ain't right.
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  Speaker 4: I get a year in prison for trying to protect
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  Speaker 4: my family and the real crooks go free.
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  Speaker 6: Look at them walking out of court free as the
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  Speaker 6: air to go on with their dirty business.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, a good thing for his daughter Mary that Sullivan
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  Speaker 14: took my warning. Come on, let's get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, boss.
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  Speaker 15: Lamont, of all the unfair, unjust sentences.
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  Speaker 5: I know, Margot. It seems cruel, harsh, but our whole
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  Speaker 5: legal system is being undermined by violence and intimidation of witnesses.
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  Speaker 10: Isn't there something you could do, Lamont? Some way of
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  Speaker 10: helping Michael Sullivan?
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  Speaker 5: Sullivan isn't the only one who is suffering from the
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  Speaker 5: operation of this counterfeit ring. Small businessmen, shopkeepers, poor people
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  Speaker 5: who can't afford to get bad money.
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  Speaker 4: A counterfeit dollar bill probably means the difference between eating
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  Speaker 4: and not eating to a lot of those people over
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  Speaker 4: in Sullivan's district.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly, Margot. This is operating among the poor people who
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  Speaker 5: can't defend themselves.
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  Speaker 6: Lamont.
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  Speaker 10: Are you going to enter the case as the shadow?
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  Speaker 5: Well, later perhaps. Right now, Margo, Lamont Cranston and Margo
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  Speaker 5: Lane can help by doing a little shopping in Michael
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  Speaker 5: Sullivan's grocery store.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, good evening, Mrs.
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  Speaker 13: Giovanni.
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  Speaker 15: Good evening, Miss Sullivan.
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  Speaker 10: How's little Maria? Oh, she's sick.
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  Speaker 15: All the time she cries.
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  Speaker 10: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 15: I don't know. The doctor, he say she don't get
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  Speaker 15: enough to eat.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, little Camelby, help me, Sullivan.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I'm mighty sorry they sent your papa to jail
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  Speaker 10: because he, well, he won't talk now. Father would have talked.
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  Speaker 10: He ain't afraid. Not for himself. He was afraid of
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  Speaker 10: what they'd do to mother and me.
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  Speaker 15: How is your mother?
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  Speaker 10: She's not so well. She's been sick all along and
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  Speaker 10: now with father in prison... She can't understand it. I'm
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  Speaker 10: afraid for her. She's so sick.
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  Speaker 15: None of us don't understand. We're all afraid.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm not.
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  Speaker 10: I've got Father's gun here under the counter. And if
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  Speaker 10: any of that counterfeit gang comes around here again, I
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  Speaker 10: won't depend on the law to protect me.
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  Speaker 15: No, no, Miss Sullivan. You can't fight them. They're too many.
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  Speaker 10: Well, there'll be a couple less if they bother us again.
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  Speaker 15: Hush, Maria.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, hush, Bambino.
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  Speaker 12: My baby.
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  Speaker 16: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 15: Miss Sullivan, you have so much trouble.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like to bother you, but.
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  Speaker 10: What is it, Mrs. Giovanni?
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  Speaker 15: The landlord, he say that $ 5 bill that Mr. Sullivan
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  Speaker 15: gave me, it's no good. He say I got to
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  Speaker 15: pay the rent and go the money or get out. Look,
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  Speaker 15: he give it back to me.
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  Speaker 10: Another counterfeit bill, huh? I'm sorry, Mrs. Giovanni. Give it
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  Speaker 10: to me.
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  Speaker 5: Here.
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  Speaker 10: Here's a good bill. At least, I think it is.
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  Speaker 10: The counterfeit bills are so good, you can hardly tell
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  Speaker 10: they're fakes.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, thank you. Thank you so much, mister.
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  Speaker 6: Here we are, Margo.
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  Speaker 10: I'll be with you in just a moment.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: If you hear of anyone else who has any of
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  Speaker 10: these bad bills, Father, had to give out, let me know, Mrs. Giovanni.
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  Speaker 10: I'll make them good if it takes every cent we got.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, bless you, miss. Well, goodbye. You be mighty careful,
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  Speaker 15: Miss Sullivan.
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  Speaker 10: I will, Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Giovanni.
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  Speaker 10: Good night. Good evening. What do you want?
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  Speaker 15: I think a couple of cans of corn and string beans.
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  Speaker 5: And a loaf of bread, yes, and some butter.
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  Speaker 10: There are strangers in this neighborhood?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and get some peaches.
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  Speaker 15: Yes, two large cans of peaches.
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  Speaker 10: Strangers don't come way over here in this section to
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  Speaker 10: buy groceries. Who are you and what do you really want?
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  Speaker 5: Miss Sullivan, put away that gun. You're a courageous but
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  Speaker 5: a rather foolish young woman.
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  Speaker 10: Well, maybe so. But I got only myself to think of.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not like Dad, afraid because he had a family.
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  Speaker 4: Please, Miss Sullivan, we're not members of the counterfeit ring
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  Speaker 4: that's been terrorizing your father.
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  Speaker 10: How do I know that?
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  Speaker 5: If we were members of that ring, Miss Sullivan, you
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  Speaker 5: would have been shot long before you could get that gun.
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  Speaker 16: It's very obvious.
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  Speaker 10: Well, what do you want?
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  Speaker 5: For appearance's sake, in case this store is being watched,
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  Speaker 5: you'd better give us the groceries we ordered.
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  Speaker 10: All right. What was it now? Corn, string beans, and peaches.
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  Speaker 10: Here's the corn. Who are you, newspaper reporters or the police?
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  Speaker 5: Would you like to save your father from that year
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  Speaker 5: in prison?
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  Speaker 15: Yes, anything.
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  Speaker 10: It's killing my mother. I hope there's a man watching
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  Speaker 10: the store across the street in the doorway.
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  Speaker 5: I expect it as much.
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  Speaker 10: Who are you? How can you save my father?
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  Speaker 5: Get the groceries. Yes, sir. Now the other things.
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  Speaker 13: Keep moving.
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  Speaker 5: But listen to me.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You're a brave girl, Miss Sullivan, but your life won't
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  Speaker 5: be worth one of those counterfeit bills unless you use
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  Speaker 5: your head.
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  Speaker 10: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Do you know enough about this counterfeit ring, how they operate,
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  Speaker 5: who they are, to make them fear you will talk?
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  Speaker 10: I know how they operate, but Slater and Marina are
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  Speaker 10: the only ones who ever came here.
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  Speaker 5: Slater and Marina will be out of the picture for
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  Speaker 5: the present. Don't stand there. Get me things, anything at all.
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  Speaker 5: Make a package.
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  Speaker 10: My father never saw anyone else either. None of the
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  Speaker 10: big shots. I'll put this stuff in a paper bag.
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  Speaker 15: There are two men in that doorway across the street, Marlabont.
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  Speaker 5: Let me know if they start this way. Now, Miss Sullivan,
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  Speaker 5: I can't tell you who I am or exactly why
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  Speaker 5: I'm here, except that I was in court today. I
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  Speaker 5: want to help you. I can if you're willing to
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  Speaker 5: take a great risk to help your father.
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  Speaker 10: I'll do anything for Dad. If I don't get him out,
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  Speaker 10: I'm afraid my mother will die. If I only knew
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  Speaker 10: who's behind Slater and Marino, who's their boss?
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  Speaker 5: You can find out. But you know what happens to
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  Speaker 5: those who know too much.
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  Speaker 10: I'll take that risk. How can I find out who
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  Speaker 10: they are?
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  Speaker 5: By pretending to know more than you do.
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  Speaker 10: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 5: Those men across the street will undoubtedly come in here
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  Speaker 5: in the minute we leave. They'll question you. Pretend you
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  Speaker 5: know how they operate, but you want to be paid
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  Speaker 5: to keep quiet. The chances are they'll take you to
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  Speaker 5: a higher up. Maybe not the ringleader, but someone who...
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  Speaker 5: knows the real leader.
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  Speaker 15: But Lamont, they'll kill her.
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  Speaker 5: Not until they find out how much she knows and
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  Speaker 5: who else shares that knowledge.
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  Speaker 10: Anyhow, I don't care.
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  Speaker 5: It's only fair to warn you. You're taking a desperate chance.
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  Speaker 10: What have I got to lose? They'll probably try to
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  Speaker 10: put me out of the way anyhow. The whole neighborhood
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  Speaker 10: knows how I feel about them. I said I'd kill
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  Speaker 10: them for what they've done to my father if I
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  Speaker 10: ever found out who they were. Those men are starting
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  Speaker 10: this way.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to go, Miss Sullivan. You'd better think over
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  Speaker 5: what I've said before you act.
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  Speaker 10: I'll do it. My mind's made up.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Margo.
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  Speaker 10: Lamont, aren't you letting that poor girl take a terrible risk?
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  Speaker 5: Margo, that girl was marked for death before we came here.
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  Speaker 15: What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 10: Look, Lamont, those men, they're going in the store.
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  Speaker 9: Margo.
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  Speaker 5: Get a taxi and get out of this district. Be
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  Speaker 5: sure you're not followed. Go to my office and keep
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  Speaker 5: the shortwave radio tuned in on the band I always use.
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  Speaker 16: All right, Lamont.
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  Speaker 10: But won't you tell me what you're going to do?
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  Speaker 5: There's no time, Margot. I've got to see where they
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  Speaker 5: take her. From now on, the fate of Mary Sullivan
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  Speaker 5: is in the hands of the shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, the shadow will be back with you
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  Speaker 4: in just a moment. In the meantime, I'd like to
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  Speaker 4: tell you some interesting facts. In the Dominion of Canada,
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  Speaker 4: where there is a temperature range of almost 200 degrees
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  Speaker 4: from warm summer days to frigid Arctic nights, the selection
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  Speaker 4: of fuel is a serious problem. And the tremendous popularity
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  Speaker 4: of blue coal in Canada under these varying conditions is
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  Speaker 4: positive proof that blue coal gives steadier, healthier, more dependable
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  Speaker 4: heat than you can get with any other fuels. You
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  Speaker 4: homeowners here in the United States should be just as
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  Speaker 4: critical in the selection of your fuel. And when you
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  Speaker 4: choose blue coal, you will find you're getting better heat
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  Speaker 4: at less cost. For blue coal is a selected Pennsylvania anthracite,
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  Speaker 4: the fuel that burns longer, more economically, down to a
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  Speaker 4: fine powdery ash. What's more, anthracite is the fuel that furnaces, polystoves,
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  Speaker 4: and cooking ranges in this part of the country were
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  Speaker 4: especially designed to burn. And the finest anthracite in America
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  Speaker 4: is blue coal. It's mined by the famous Glen Alden
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  Speaker 4: Coal Company. And every carload is tested and retested for
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  Speaker 4: purity and uniform size before shipment. Blue coal is especially
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  Speaker 4: prepared for home use. It comes in all the popular
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  Speaker 4: domestic sizes. Eggs, stove, chestnut, and pea size. So solve
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  Speaker 4: your problem of home fuel selection by placing your order
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  Speaker 4: for blue coal tomorrow. Ask for it by name. Phone
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  Speaker 4: your nearest blue coal dealer the first thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: You'll find him listed in the where to buy it
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  Speaker 4: section of your classified telephone directory under the name Blue Coal.
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  Speaker 12: Where are you taking me?
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  Speaker 6: Shut up. Get in, kid. Sit down and keep quiet.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, come on. Get up, sister. Here, I'll take
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  Speaker 6: the blindfold off your eyes.
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  Speaker 10: Why'd you bring me down to the waterfront?
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  Speaker 6: I do as I'm told. You better learn the same thing.
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  Speaker 10: Where are you taking me?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe this is the end of the line for you,
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  Speaker 6: Mary Sullivan.
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  Speaker 10: You wouldn't.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't, we don't.
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  Speaker 10: But not without orders from the big boss.
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  Speaker 6: What do you know about the big boss? Plenty. Then
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  Speaker 6: your number is up all right, kid. Them that know
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  Speaker 6: plenty about the big boss don't live long.
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  Speaker 10: You're still alive?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, sure. Because I don't even know who the big
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  Speaker 6: boss is, and I don't want to know. It ain't healthy.
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  Speaker 16: Look out.
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  Speaker 6: Who's that?
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  Speaker 16: It's me, Rankin.
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  Speaker 6: You got the Sullivan thing?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: There she is.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So I see.
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  Speaker 5: Nice looking.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, Rankin, she says she knows plenty about the big boss.
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  Speaker 10: I'll say I do.
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  Speaker 17: You're a liar, Mary Sullivan. She do know too much
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  Speaker 17: about the rest of us.
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  Speaker 10: You better get in touch with the big boss before
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  Speaker 10: you do anything to me.
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  Speaker 17: We don't bother him with all the details of this
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  Speaker 17: counterfeit racket.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you better bother him about this.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, Rankin, I think she knows something.
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  Speaker 5: Shut up, Trigger.
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  Speaker 17: I'll do the thinking around here.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe she does at that.
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  Speaker 10: I know plenty. And I'm not the only one.
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  Speaker 4: Say, what happened to that fella in Dame that was
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: in a Sullivan grocery just before we snatched her?
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: The guy got cleaned away somehow.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what about the Dame?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, she took a cab. Smitty trailed up and she
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  Speaker 17: gave him the slip.
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  Speaker 5: Switched cabs in traffic somewhere.
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: Maybe you better take this kid to the big boss.
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  Speaker 17: Not till I find out how much she knows. Come on, Strick,
• 14:46
  Speaker 17: make her talk.
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  Speaker 16: You know how.
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  Speaker 9: All right, kid.
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  Speaker 6: You spill what you know or do we have to
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  Speaker 6: get it out of you the hard way?
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  Speaker 10: Let go of my arm. I won't talk to anybody
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  Speaker 10: but the big boss. And he'll pay me plenty to
• 14:58
  Speaker 10: keep quiet. You can't scare me like you did my father.
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  Speaker 6: She wants Bo to keep quiet.
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  Speaker 5: Shut up, Trigger. Twist her arm.
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  Speaker 17: Give her a sample of what's coming to her if
• 15:06
  Speaker 17: she don't talk and talk fast.
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: All right, kid.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: You asked for it.
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  Speaker 13: No, I won't.
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  Speaker 5: You're dope.
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  Speaker 6: She's fainted. I guess I twisted her arm too hard.
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  Speaker 5: Rankin, did you hear that? Yeah, I heard it. What
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  Speaker 5: was it? It's a trap. The cops must have followed
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  Speaker 5: us here.
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  Speaker 17: Come on, let's take it on the lam.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, we can't leave that dame here.
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: You take this elephant, kid. I'll shoot out the light.
• 15:30
  Speaker 9: Don't draw your gun, Trigger. Don't move, Rankin.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: He knows who we are.
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  Speaker 17: Trigger, there's something screwy about this. That voice, it's right here,
• 15:39
  Speaker 17: but there ain't nobody with it.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: You're mistaken, Rankin. There is someone here.
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: What kind of gag is this, Rankin? I don't see nothing,
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: but it's saying I'm getting out of here.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Wait, Trigger.
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: Trigger?
• 15:52
  Speaker 14: Trigger?
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: Do you remember Lefty Sims?
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: The best finger man in the East.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: He tried to shoot it out with a voice. The
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: police got him. But when he went to the chair,
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: there was only one name on his lip. Remember?
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: The Shadow Rankin. That's what it is. It ain't the
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: police or the feds. It's the guy nobody's ever seen.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: The Shadow. They say he throws a sort of spell
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: over a guy's mind so you can't see him.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Shut up, you're crazy.
• 16:25
  Speaker 17: It's just somebody throwing his voice. I've seen him do
• 16:27
  Speaker 17: it in Vaudeville. Come on, you pop that light and
• 16:30
  Speaker 17: let's break for him.
• 16:30
  Speaker 9: Wait.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to stop you. But before you go,
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: take this message to your leader.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: You better listen to him, Rankin. You can't outsmart that guy.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: Nobody ever has, not for long.
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: Tell the man who controls this counterfeit ring that preys
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: on the poor and helpless.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Tell him that if anything should happen to Mary Sullivan,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: he will answer to the shadow.
• 16:55
  Speaker 17: Drake, he's right in front of us somewhere. Get a
• 16:58
  Speaker 17: couple of pot shots.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Maybe you can get him.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: No, not me. Can't you see the shadow's set to
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: shake down the big boss?
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: If you won't shoot, I will. I'll get him even
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: if I can't see him.
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: A gun won't help you, Rankin.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, no? We'll see about that.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: You got him.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Talk about luck.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 17:17
  Speaker 17: Well, let's get going while our luck's still good. I
• 17:18
  Speaker 17: don't know if I killed him or not, but I
• 17:20
  Speaker 17: must have winged him. Come on, grab that Sullivan Dame
• 17:22
  Speaker 17: and let's get back to the big boss and tell
• 17:23
  Speaker 17: him what's happened.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, how? Where are we going? I got a speedboat
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: waiting under the wharf.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Come on, we're heading down the bay.
• 17:32
  Speaker 12: Hey, look.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: What do you think the big boss will say about
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: bringing the Sullivan dame to his hideout?
• 17:48
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I hate to think about it. If I steer
• 17:50
  Speaker 17: the boat, you watch that Sullivan dame. She ought to
• 17:52
  Speaker 17: be coming, too, by now.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, she's coming out of it. Hey, how much farther
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: we got to go?
• 17:56
  Speaker 17: Yeah, we're practically there. You see that yacht laying at
• 17:59
  Speaker 17: anchor out there?
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: Holy cow. You mean that's the big boss' hideout?
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Trig.
• 18:06
  Speaker 17: You're finding out something you're liable to wish you'd never
• 18:08
  Speaker 17: heard about, much less seen.
• 18:10
  Speaker 16: Hmm?
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: You mean that's the plant, huh? That's where all the
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: phony dough has been coming from. You catch on quick,
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: don't you?
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:17
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 18:18
  Speaker 17: That's the layout the feds and cops have been looking
• 18:20
  Speaker 17: for for months.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Classy, ain't she? All right, here we are. Get that
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Sullivan thing with her feet.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay.
• 18:32
  Speaker 12: Uh.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: But how about me staying in the speedboat?
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: Nothing doing.
• 18:35
  Speaker 17: You're coming aboard and tell the big boss what you
• 18:37
  Speaker 17: know about this shadow.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: Nobody knows much about it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 17: You better spill what you do know and spill it fast, Trigg.
• 18:42
  Speaker 17: The big boss is the head of this racket because
• 18:44
  Speaker 17: he can think faster than you can shoot. He gets
• 18:47
  Speaker 17: the idea you're in on the shakedown, you're as good
• 18:48
  Speaker 17: as dead.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: I ain't pulling no double cross. I swear I ain't.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Shut up and bring that dame aboard.
• 18:54
  Speaker 17: Boss knows how to handle her kind. Watch her step
• 18:56
  Speaker 17: or you'll get what's coming to her.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Okay, okay. Come on, sister, come on. Before the night's over,
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: I gotta hunch you and me are gonna wish we'd
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: never seen this ritzy cub.
• 19:15
  Speaker 13: Margo Lane. Margo Lane. Listen carefully. Act quickly. The life
• 19:24
  Speaker 13: of the Sullivan girl depends upon it. Telephone Police Commissioner Weston.
• 19:31
  Speaker 13: Have him notify the harbor patrol boats that they will
• 19:35
  Speaker 13: find the leader of the counterfeit ring on board the
• 19:38
  Speaker 13: large yacht anchored off Diamond Point.
• 19:41
  Speaker 16: Hurry!
• 19:42
  Speaker 14: Hurry!
• 19:40
  Speaker 16: Okay, there you are, Rankin.
• 19:56
  Speaker 17: Listen, boss.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: No, you listen to me. I've warned you never to
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: come to this yacht without orders. But, boss, I had to.
• 20:01
  Speaker 14: What's the idea of bringing Trigger and that Sullivan girl here?
• 20:03
  Speaker 14: You know what happens to those who break the rules
• 20:05
  Speaker 14: of my organization?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: I couldn't help it, boss. This is important. She ain't
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: seen anything. I locked her in one of the cabins.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: I decide what's important. Why didn't you report first? There
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: wasn't time.
• 20:13
  Speaker 17: I was going to report, but then this shadow started
• 20:15
  Speaker 17: talking to us in the warehouse.
• 20:16
  Speaker 16: The shadow?
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah. You tell him, Trey.
• 20:19
  Speaker 16: Never mind.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: I've heard all about this shadow. So he's on the trail, eh? Yeah,
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: it's a shakedown, boss. Shut up and listen to me.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: The shadows behind this, it's no shakedown. What is his racket?
• 20:28
  Speaker 14: Putting organizations like mine out of business. Putting fools like
• 20:31
  Speaker 14: you and Trigger in the electric chair.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Well, he won't, because I got him back in a warehouse.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: You what?
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, boss.
• 20:39
  Speaker 14: I took a couple of wild shots at where the
• 20:40
  Speaker 14: shadow's voice was coming from, and we heard him fall.
• 20:43
  Speaker 14: How do you know that fall wasn't a trick?
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: How do you know he didn't follow you here? No
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: boat trailed us.
• 20:47
  Speaker 14: No, I suppose it didn't occur to you that he
• 20:49
  Speaker 14: might have been hiding in the speedboat with you?
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Where's that Sullivan girl? Bring her in here.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: I'll get her, boss. She's locked in the next cabin. Rankin,
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: you're a fool.
• 20:57
  Speaker 17: You let Trigger and the Sullivan girl in on something
• 20:59
  Speaker 17: they're not likely to forget.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: And you know what to do. Take care of them.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: You mean fix them so they won't talk permanently?
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Do you know of any other way?
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: But listen, boss.
• 21:08
  Speaker 17: The Shadow said if anything happened to Mary Sullivan, you'd
• 21:10
  Speaker 17: answer to him.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: You leave the Shadow to me.
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: The Shadow.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: He ain't dead. I didn't kill him. That is a
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: reasonable assumption, Rankin. Boss, he's here in this cabin. I
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: see my presence is accepted without question. Even though you
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: can't see me. Rankin, shoot, you fool, shoot.
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: Yes. Try again, Rankin.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: All right, Shadow. Maybe I won't miss this time.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: Hey, Rankin, what's up?
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: Rankin, try again.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: The door is getting out.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Fast, Trigger, shoot, Rankin, shoot. Get out of the way, Trigger.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Rankin, you rat.
• 21:53
  Speaker 15: You double-crossing rat.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: Fill me full of lead, will you?
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Rub me out because I've seen too.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Much, will you?
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Don't, Drake.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: We're done that, Dad. I wasn't shooting at you.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: It was the shadow.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: We was here just a minute ago. I don't care
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: about the shadow.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: All I know is I got a load of lead
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: in me. Your lead, and I'm going to.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Don't shoot. Not bad, Drake.
• 22:14
  Speaker 16: Too bad.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Couldn't have polished me off like I did him. Quick
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: and easy.
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: Trigger.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Shadow.
• 22:21
  Speaker 16: Trigger.
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: That man there, the big boss, ordered Rankin to kill you. Trigger,
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: he is your real enemy.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: I had a notion he might try it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Don't raise that gun, Trigger.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: I know that one.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: If I do, you'll kill me.
• 22:39
  Speaker 17: You can't kill a guy with as much lead in
• 22:40
  Speaker 17: him as I'm carrying. You can't kill a guy that's
• 22:42
  Speaker 17: already dead.
• 22:43
  Speaker 14: Perhaps not, but I can't avoid the risk that you
• 22:44
  Speaker 14: have strength enough left to raise that gun.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Well, you're a better shot than Rankin. Big shot. Better shot,
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: big shot. Not bad. Not a bad gag.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: And now, we are alone.
• 23:07
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Quite alone.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: And now, I'm going to deal with you, Shadow. Your
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: hand is shaking.
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: Is that the way for a mastermind to act?
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: You devil. If I could only see you. But you
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: won't get away. And neither will you. I've notified the police.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Their boats are coming.
• 23:31
  Speaker 16: Listen.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, so that's it, eh?
• 23:35
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: That's it. They're coming to get the leader of a
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: counterfeit ring. But they will find a murderer. A cold-blooded killer...
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: Locked in this cabin with his victims.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: That's what you think, but you're mistaken.
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: Why are you putting down your gun? Why are you
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: giving up so easily?
• 23:58
  Speaker 14: Listen, Shadow, I've heard a lot about you. You're clever. Well,
• 24:02
  Speaker 14: I'm clever, too. Clever enough to know when the game
• 24:04
  Speaker 14: is up. I've anticipated just such an eventuality. I suppose
• 24:07
  Speaker 14: you can see this little switch on my desk. My
• 24:09
  Speaker 14: hand's resting on it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: Yes, I see it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 14: You know what will happen if I close this switch,
• 24:15
  Speaker 14: and I will if the police set foot on this yacht.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: I think I can guess. Well, I'll tell you.
• 24:21
  Speaker 17: This switch will set off a charge of high explosive
• 24:23
  Speaker 17: down in the hole that will blow you and me
• 24:25
  Speaker 17: and the police to kingdom come.
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: I see.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: If you touch me, try to stop me, I'll throw
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: the switch. What do you expect me to do? You
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: call the police and you can send them away. What
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: makes you think I will? If you don't get rid
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: of them, I'll throw this switch. What have I got
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: to lose? Well, there they are. What about it? Think fast.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Will you send them away? So you think I'm bluffing, eh, Shadow?
• 24:53
  Speaker 13: No.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: No, you're not bluffing. I have no doubt there is
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: high explosive in the hold of this ship.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: But I wonder... I wonder if you have nerve enough
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: to throw that switch. I wonder.
• 25:13
  Speaker 17: All right, Shadow, you had your chance and you wouldn't
• 25:15
  Speaker 17: take it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Now I'll show you. I'll throw the switch.
• 25:21
  Speaker 12: It didn't work.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: It didn't explode.
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: No. No, it didn't explode. The switch doesn't work because
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: I've cut the wires. See where they run along the wall.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: You devil.
• 25:36
  Speaker 16: I'll get you.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: They may get me now, but I'll get you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: You'll never take me alive.
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: Get him out of here.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Go on, get him out. I guess it's the man
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: we're after, Commissioner. All right, Hugh, come on, get going.
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: Yes, Commissioner Weston, that is your man. That is the
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: leader of the counterfeit ring you've hunted so long.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: You win, Shadow. Shadow? I might have known.
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: I had a hunch it was you again when the
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: mysterious call came through.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Commissioner Weston, there's a girl in the next cabin. She
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: says she isn't a member.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Of the gang. She is Mary Sullivan, daughter of Michael Sullivan.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Convicted of perjury in the counterfeit trial. Sullivan's daughter?
• 26:13
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: She risked her life to find these men. Reward her
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: by getting her father out of prison.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: He'll be freed in the morning. You have my word
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: on that.
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: It looks like you'll do a reward for this night's work, Shadow.
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: My reward.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: like yours, Commissioner.
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: is in protecting the defenseless from those.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: who.
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: Have not learned.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: that crime does not pay.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, before we tell you of the Shadow's
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: next exciting adventure, here's John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating expert.
• 27:01
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• 27:02
  Speaker 10: Barclay.
• 27:03
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• 27:07
  Speaker 2: If you want to get better, more efficient results from
• 27:10
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• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Phone your nearest blue coal dealer and ask him to
• 27:17
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• 27:20
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• 27:24
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• 27:28
  Speaker 2: experience of a woman in Revere, Massachusetts. She writes in part,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I'm obliged to heat 14 rooms, and I always had
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: trouble with four radiators. Try as I would, I could
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: not seem to heat the four rooms in which those
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: radiators were stationed until one of your John Barclay servicemen
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: inspected the entire basement of my home, including the pipes
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: and boiler. Also, those radiators which had given me so
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: much trouble. The serviceman made some recommendations that I followed,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: and from that time on, I have never had any
• 28:02
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• 28:03
  Speaker 6: My heating difficulties are over.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I'm so pleased that I feel it my duty to
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: write this to you so that other persons may avail
• 28:11
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• 28:17
  Speaker 2: one of many letters I've received. Why not avail yourself
• 28:20
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• 28:24
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• 28:27
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• 28:30
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• 28:35
  Speaker 2: And when that serviceman calls on you, ask him about
• 28:38
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• 28:42
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• 28:46
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• 28:49
  Speaker 6: I thank you.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. Barclay. Friends, Mr.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Barclay has just given you a valuable tip. So take
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: his advice. Phone your nearest blue coal dealer the first
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: thing in the morning. Have a John Barclay serviceman stop
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: at your home tomorrow. The story you have just heard
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: is one of the many copyrighted stories that appear in
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: the Shadow magazine.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: The characters in this story are entirely fictitious. Any similarity
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: The weed of crime.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The shadow knows.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: The shadow knows.
• 29:56
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• 30:01
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• 30:04
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• 30:13
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• 30:16
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