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  Speaker 1: Seemingly ordinary matches are used by a gang that kills
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  Speaker 1: for hire, and Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane are drawn
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  Speaker 1: onto its trail ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's curtain rises on
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow Murder Incorporated. Program number one hundred seventy eight,
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  Speaker 1: first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System on December seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty nine, with Blue Coal as sponsor. This broadcast
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  Speaker 1: comes from the Bill Johnstone and Marjorie Anderson period of
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  Speaker 1: the series. Bill Johnstone stars as Lamont Cranston the Shadow
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  Speaker 1: and Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane, as their investigation follows
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  Speaker 1: the organization behind those calculated killings and seeks to prevent
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  Speaker 1: further victims. From radio's suspenseful half hour theater. We now
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  Speaker 1: take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: One Evil Loves in the Hearts of Men.
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  Speaker 3: Shadows the Shadow, the serious character who waits the forces
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  Speaker 3: of law and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy
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  Speaker 3: young man about town. The Shadow uses his A product
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  Speaker 3: power to cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him.
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  Speaker 3: Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the
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  Speaker 3: only person who knows to whom the unseen voice of
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  Speaker 3: the Shadow belongs today's story incorporated. Are you at the comrades? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm mister Conrad. Come on get in mere, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: You must be mister Pascal. Here is that Rian? Sorry,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't a posision when your fane came in this, Conrade,
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  Speaker 3: bad night. I had a hard time getting out the mountains.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was beginning to think perhaps I misunderstood
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  Speaker 3: your instruction. Well, I would have have you come out
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  Speaker 3: on a night like this, But I'm having a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a celebration tomorrow, and i'd like to have the
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  Speaker 3: piano glue.
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  Speaker 2: Quite all right, mister pascual.
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  Speaker 3: Musical instruments are like humans to me. I never failed
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  Speaker 3: to respond to a course. See my house is about
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  Speaker 3: two miles up the mountain. Afraid you're to find it
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  Speaker 3: rather alone? Oh no, no, indeed I won't mind at all.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you've come prepared to spend the night. Mister
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  Speaker 3: Conrad's the night, as you see, there are no trains
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  Speaker 3: until morning. Oh oh, yes, of course you know I
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  Speaker 3: hadn't thought of that.
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  Speaker 2: Rather stupid of me.
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  Speaker 3: I should have wormed you could haven't occurred to me
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  Speaker 3: that perhaps somebody might be expecting you home. Oh no, no, indeed,
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  Speaker 3: I have no folks. There's nobody to expect me, mister pask,
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  Speaker 3: nobody to expect you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you will not be missed.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, indeed, mister Paskell, I shall.
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  Speaker 2: Not be missed. Hey, it's bleak and dismal night, isn't it? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: a bleak and dismal night.
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  Speaker 3: I can't tend shut downton brousing me nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Take it easy. A scowl'll be up here any minute.
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  Speaker 4: I can't stand it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if I'm going alright, I'll be a fool. Shut
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  Speaker 2: up and listen.
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  Speaker 3: What's another I think I hear pat gel on the stairs.
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  Speaker 4: Your daddy, that's a flaws creaking liably hear anything in
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  Speaker 4: this old house?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it is a joint, all right, give you the creek.
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  Speaker 4: There's a kind of a hide up pestio tick. Even
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  Speaker 4: a ghost be afraid of horning? What Oh that's kill?
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  Speaker 2: Hey boy? We thought you all right, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Say test hell, what's the big guydea?
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  Speaker 2: You call us here to.
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  Speaker 4: Talk over a scheme to clean up a couple of
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  Speaker 4: hundred times?
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  Speaker 2: I have please, I don't want my guests below I
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  Speaker 2: know I have guests about.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you have a piano tuning here when we
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  Speaker 3: have business to talk over? And he calls it gentlemen,
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  Speaker 3: the piano tuning is the business I have to talk over.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean? Yes, in just a few moments,
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  Speaker 2: he will drop dead. But I've got that. Well, robber,
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  Speaker 2: I should say, I'll.
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  Speaker 3: Permit him to kill himself, But he staid, will have
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  Speaker 3: all the appearances of a natural DeMier. The actual cause
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  Speaker 3: will be impossible to detect.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how are you going to do it?
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  Speaker 3: Follow me, gentlemen? Way you're taking us still, first dog?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what is the gentleman? Is my laboratory.
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  Speaker 3: In the past three years, I've devoted myself to research
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  Speaker 3: an experimentation in this room on a chemical that could
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  Speaker 3: kill and yet.
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  Speaker 4: Leave no trace. You mean a sacred toison.
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  Speaker 2: I'll explain. After I've perfected my chemical, I next had
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  Speaker 2: to devise the best means for its use.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you see this match, Yeah, the head of this
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  Speaker 3: match has been dipped into my secret formula.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So downstairs, I've placed some cigars in a package containing
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  Speaker 3: the treated matches beside our guests.
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  Speaker 2: In a little while, he is like a cigar.
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  Speaker 3: So what then, gentlemen, you will have the positive proof
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  Speaker 3: that my labors.
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  Speaker 2: Have been crowned with success a skill.
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to anything in a chemical line, you're
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  Speaker 4: the top. But I don't get it. How does this
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  Speaker 4: thing pay off?
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  Speaker 2: Gentlemen?
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  Speaker 3: We all know that the world is full of malagistic people,
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  Speaker 3: men and women tied to each other by force of
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  Speaker 3: circumstances ahead, So isn't it reasonable to suppose that one
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  Speaker 3: party to these unfortunate associations would welcome the means by
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  Speaker 3: which he or she would be rid of the other.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I get it, it's an insurance shake.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds well to me. But I am going to
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  Speaker 3: contact these clients. Have you figured that out perfectly? When
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  Speaker 3: people are in trouble, they go to one of the
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  Speaker 3: three men, a doctor, a lawyer, a mind reader. Those
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  Speaker 3: professions will be represented by the free of us.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to hang out the old shingle again.
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  Speaker 3: The officers of doctor Bruno Pascal are already selected. It'll
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  Speaker 3: be my job to impress the prospective client with the
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  Speaker 3: physical necessity of escape.
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  Speaker 2: What's my trick?
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  Speaker 3: As the master the arc couch, you should visualize the
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  Speaker 3: way out for them. The legal and material aspects would
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  Speaker 3: be your responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: Newton.
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  Speaker 3: You will see that our clients carry the proper amount
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  Speaker 3: of insurance. Okay, when the mind of the client is
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  Speaker 3: conditioned to accept murder as a solution to a problem,
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  Speaker 3: then we shall provide the.
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  Speaker 4: Means to what will truly be the end. The matches,
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  Speaker 4: the matches. Listen, a piano stop at last? Maybe the
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  Speaker 4: old guy's taking time off for smoke.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see, all right, all right, how long is it
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  Speaker 3: gonna take? Why don't he light it?
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you do? That's it? Gentlemen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, let's go, little mister Conrad in the rain.
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  Speaker 3: They're gentlemen down.
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  Speaker 2: The piano. Tuna is dead and a new enterprise is false.
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  Speaker 3: She was just sitting there smoking, and all of a
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  Speaker 3: sudden she kind of gasped from breath and pappl over dead.
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  Speaker 2: Never said a word or.
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  Speaker 5: He died, real peaceful, just like the cigarette. He was.
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  Speaker 5: He was such an ease.
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  Speaker 3: You do nothing, man, Just give him the matches. He
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  Speaker 3: does it himself, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: That is to it. You haven't a thing to worry
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  Speaker 2: about it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, well, well, amon, what are you doing? Planning flowers
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  Speaker 5: and building a house? Never see so many tools and
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  Speaker 5: implements in my life.
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  Speaker 3: No cracks, Margot, John, my gardener didn't come to work
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  Speaker 3: this morning, and I have to get these rose bushes in.
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  Speaker 2: And let me see.
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  Speaker 3: Was it four bushes one foot apart or one bush
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  Speaker 3: four feet apart?
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  Speaker 5: Put the mistress for the world tomorrow? What are you
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  Speaker 5: doing now?
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  Speaker 3: I'm digging a hole to put the rose bushes in?
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  Speaker 5: Why a must it be three feet deep?
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  Speaker 2: Where they're big rose bushes?
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  Speaker 5: Igat strike oil?
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  Speaker 3: Let me know, William, Margot, Please, how can I concentrate
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  Speaker 3: and let me see this burlap?
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  Speaker 2: Come over to this se.
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  Speaker 5: I have a suggestion. If that bush doesn't grow in
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  Speaker 5: that hole, you can always put some concrete around the
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  Speaker 5: edges and use the first swimming pool.
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  Speaker 2: That's very helpful.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, these bushes have thorns tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: I have another suggestion.
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  Speaker 2: Fine, fine, hun, Let's.
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  Speaker 5: Go over and find out what happened to John before
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  Speaker 5: you ruin the garden and yourself as well. Who is it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, oh, mister crimm hello, mis lame hello Ms Graham,
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  Speaker 3: John Holmes, Why why yes, sir, he.
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  Speaker 5: Is They didn't report for work this morning. We thought
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  Speaker 5: perhaps he might not be well. Matter of fact, it's
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  Speaker 5: late and he he's sick and dead.
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  Speaker 2: I thought so. Now I go up and see him.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think you're better. The doctor said he wasn't
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  Speaker 5: to see anybody.
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  Speaker 2: It must be serious. John was always so healthy.
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  Speaker 5: He's complained to me before, mister Crimston. You see it
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  Speaker 5: it's just hot, yes, it. His heart's been pretty bad.
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  Speaker 2: Missus Graham, and John called you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh did you.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, Siriston, I'd like to see him right.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm on. I don't worry, Missus Graham. We won't
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  Speaker 5: stay with him long. Well, I will go about. I've
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  Speaker 5: got to call the doctor. The mom asked Uncle, Missus Graham,
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  Speaker 5: a terribly nervous woman.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, very, and I suppose it don't standable under the circumstances. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I fool so ah, here we are misters the room.
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  Speaker 3: Uh well, hello John, Uh oh, hello.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Cranston, Miss Lane, Hello John.
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  Speaker 4: And I asked my wife to send for you.
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  Speaker 2: Say you as Missus Graham to send for me?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but Julie's bugle. Uh tell me something about this illness.
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  Speaker 2: John. It's your heart, isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, let's see if I'm gonna be like those
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  Speaker 4: glady old as we planned the last spring, find one
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  Speaker 4: day dead the next, and me, who's never had an
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  Speaker 4: acre of pain in my whole life before, said.
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  Speaker 2: See, well, John, you said you sent for me because
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to talk to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, it's about my wife. You know how little
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  Speaker 4: women know about money matters. Yes, I don't want nobody
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  Speaker 4: to talk without a little I'm leaving you, see, sir,
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  Speaker 4: as luck would.
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  Speaker 5: Yah.
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  Speaker 4: But I just took out a new insurance policy. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: It's much bigger than they are carried before. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: glad I did it. Now she won't have to worry.
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  Speaker 2: Well John, Uh, how did you happen to increase your insurance?
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  Speaker 4: Well it was that doctor my wife's been going to.
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  Speaker 4: He he sure gave me some good sound advice.
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  Speaker 3: H he he suggested you take out more insurance. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I see now, John, I don't want you to worry
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  Speaker 3: about anything.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see that your wife is willing by you. Just
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  Speaker 2: take things easy. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: I knew I could depend on you.
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  Speaker 2: Say I missed the garden. I'm sure you do. John.
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  Speaker 4: There's bleeding heart shoots. They should be trimmed down, by
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  Speaker 4: the way.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take care of them for you. John, might be good.
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  Speaker 2: I did it.
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  Speaker 4: Let 'em down, Frost.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be coming soon, knew, said John.
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  Speaker 3: Then what's the name of the doctor who advised you
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  Speaker 3: to increase your insurance?
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  Speaker 2: Huh, I said John. What's the name of the dumbond
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  Speaker 2: don John Margot? Yes, Lamont, he said.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Lamar, how do I look? Is my costume make
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  Speaker 5: me look like the poor harassed housewife?
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  Speaker 3: Quite Margot, But I'm afraid you're going to an awful
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  Speaker 3: lot of trouble for nothing.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think so, Laman. We know now that it's
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  Speaker 5: this doctor pat Gells been treating missus Graham for a
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  Speaker 5: long time. He's the one who advised John to increase
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  Speaker 5: his insurance.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that might have been advice, sincerely often.
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  Speaker 5: But how do you explain missus Graham's conduct?
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  Speaker 2: If you mean what I think you mean, Margo, you're.
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  Speaker 3: Just about accusing that poor little woman of murdering her husband.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll play along with you. You're going to doctor
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  Speaker 3: Pascal as a patient.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, well, I'm a nervous case. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Married nervous?
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  Speaker 2: Oh you mean married nervous? Uh? Huh? I see, well
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  Speaker 2: you should have a name.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, sure, sure, let's say let's see Beldon.
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  Speaker 5: Missus Beldon, how's that?
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  Speaker 2: Eh, he's too good.
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  Speaker 3: I'd rather you save the characterizing until you see the doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, say, suppose you have to produce a husband.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, very simple. In that case you'll be my husband
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  Speaker 5: and Martin.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 5: Now let's get going. Missus Beldon may have a date
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  Speaker 5: with destiny.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, fellows, let's get to our business.
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  Speaker 3: How do we spend with missus Graham to get me
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  Speaker 3: insurna check tomorrow? You know we almost bungle that job. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: how defective matches? Missus Graham told me that it took
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  Speaker 3: hours for her husband to die. We must be more
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  Speaker 3: capful in the future. Now there's my brother, you gentlemen
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  Speaker 3: right the next room.
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  Speaker 4: It wouldn't be ashamed of Wallace and me, would Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Do I have to answer that?
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  Speaker 5: Huh? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Uh no?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Pascal, the restigards the matches on the table, help yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Uh no, night, I carry my own matches.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how do you do you wish to see me? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Are you doctor Pescal?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm doctor Pascal.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I well come right in please, thanks, yes, sit down here? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: So then what's your trouble?
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  Speaker 5: Well, doc right, I ain't been able to sleep night
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  Speaker 5: for a long time. I got into I wake up
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  Speaker 5: with a store just as soon as I go to show.
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  Speaker 3: Now, don't be nervous, dear lady, but tell me how
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  Speaker 3: did you happen to come to me?
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  Speaker 5: I saw your name on the door?
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  Speaker 2: Oh you? It just happened in? Is that it? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Where do you live?
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  Speaker 3: And Charlsey, Oh that's quite a distance from here. You
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  Speaker 3: passed a lot of doctors on the way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I.
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  Speaker 5: I got a cousin living in this neighborhood. Oh, I
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  Speaker 5: come up here putting here every day I see.
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  Speaker 2: And what is the name my cousin? Yours?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? Mine?
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  Speaker 3: Huh Belden married? I suppose yes?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Would you sit under this light? Please?
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  Speaker 5: Yes? Geezet of wine.
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  Speaker 3: Now, don't be nervous, now, missus Beldan. I am not
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  Speaker 3: in the strict sense a medical man. I don't use
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  Speaker 3: medicine as drugs with the cures. You see, most ailiments
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  Speaker 3: are externally spring from a cause outside the person affected you.
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  Speaker 3: For example, Laura an obvious nervous case.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I get terrible nervous sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that ailment does not necessarily come from inside you.
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  Speaker 3: It's the result of a condition which you are constantly
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  Speaker 3: in contact with. It might be an unhappy marriage. It
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  Speaker 3: might be would that call the doctor an unhappy marriage?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Very likely.
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  Speaker 3: I have had women come to me who run the
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  Speaker 3: verge of insanity. God, of course, I'm much saying that
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  Speaker 3: that's so in your case, you may be very happily married.
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  Speaker 5: Well, no, doctor, an I don't get along in my
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  Speaker 5: husband very well.
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  Speaker 2: Oh now that's too bad, Too bad, missus bed.
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  Speaker 5: Can I close my eyes for a minute?
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  Speaker 2: That's life.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll send it off there now. It'll be a
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  Speaker 3: long time before I've permit myself to arrive at a
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  Speaker 3: death and conclusion on your case, Missus Beddin. However, if
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  Speaker 3: your husband should be the cause of your trouble, you can.
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  Speaker 2: Easily correct it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, huh by simply ridding yourself of the cause.
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  Speaker 5: For ridding myself, are therey much chances that my husband
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  Speaker 5: never give me a divorce?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you just leave your case in my hands, and
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  Speaker 3: here'sual be taken care of. Come in and see me
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday at fall, and therefore that's right. We'll go into
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  Speaker 3: your case more thoroughly at that time.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, doctor, appreciate it very much.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's quite all right. Good day missus Beldin.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye doctor.
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  Speaker 3: All right for it to come out now? Oh, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: it's all right. You heard the interview, Yeah, we sure
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  Speaker 3: did that.
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  Speaker 4: Prospects certainly right for plucking.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like an easy few thousand dollars for her. That's
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  Speaker 3: the trouble. It looks too easy. What I mean, think
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  Speaker 3: she's a phony? Possibly? If she is, she's not in
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  Speaker 3: this alone. We've got to play along. I want to
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  Speaker 3: know who's in and up with her, and what can
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  Speaker 3: we do. I'm going to send her to you, Nelson.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to size the up.
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  Speaker 2: If you should.
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  Speaker 3: Confirm my suspicions, then I'd have to bring her husband
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  Speaker 3: here for what he's probably a plant. If he is,
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  Speaker 3: then we can nift the thing quickly and completely by
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  Speaker 3: a process of swift elimination.
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  Speaker 5: There is Lamar Pascal's office is in that little frame
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  Speaker 5: house deside the grocery store.
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  Speaker 3: Ye, it's a modest enough place. Why do you suppose
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: he wants to see me?
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Well, they probably want to condition your mind for a
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: big insurance policy, just as they did your.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Gardener, John Graham and Margo. You seem to think Pascale
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: has several confederates.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, well there's that lawyer he sent me to Nelson.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Then there's a mind reader, but the name of Wallace.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: But remember, Margo, all of these deaths have been certified
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: as natural. How do you suppose they bring about these deaths?
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Well, I haven't progressed that far in their confidence yet,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: but it's coming, I'm sure, Margot.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I do hope you're right about this a fam But
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: now I think i'd better go in a loan first,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: And for my own impression of doctor Pascal.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: But he asked me to come with my husband.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell him I'm to meet you in his office,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: and you come in after I've been there about five minutes.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Well, all right, if you think that's best.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I'll walk on. You stay here in the car.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Muggle all right, la monster, forget Mogo, give me five
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: minutes leeway.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm on, there's no mistake about it. I take
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: a past call. I knew there was something familiar about
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: her face. Then I remembered where I'd seen it. I
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: went down to the newspaper office and dug up this
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: issue on the paper.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: That's a picture all right now from Margot Lane prominent
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: society here.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: That's right. The man beside her in this picture, well,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: he's probably the one she's bringing.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Here is her husband. My mom crinched the man about town.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: What are you gonna do past scal We can't take
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: any chances. That's they must be destroyed, book of them.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I gotta have the furut off. It leads up the
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: side and.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Says, okay, good luck, Pascalf, thank you. Oh well, how
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: do you do you wish to see me? Doctor Pascal. Yes,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I'm mister Beldon. Oh, mister Belding. We didn't Joe wife
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: come with you. I expected her I'm supposed to meeting.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, in that case, I guess you'd be a
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: long shooting. My uh wife said you wanted to talk
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's nothing of great importance, mister Belding. I simply
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: pes a man should know his wife's doctor.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Well, how is that gonna help her? Hey?
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Uh, mister Belding, her face looks familiar. I've seen you
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: somewhere before. Yeah, I ain't never seen you before. I'm
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: sure i've seen you. Well, lots of people seen me.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I drive a can Oh I can't drive, ay, truly
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: a man about time. Eh, huh uh, yeah, I get
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: around all right, Yes, I imagine you do. Oh will
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: you have a cigar with me?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Mister Belton?
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I smoked cigarette? Oh yeah, I help on a man
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: and I got my own match. Then, thank you? You
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: wanna after you? Okay?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Oh that's one must have been da Yeah, I guess
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: so h.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: H how matches you'll get to believe me, try the third.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you will get the results from that one.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: And I hope so. I learned to say.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: But what's the matter, mister Cranston. Aren't you going to
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: smoke with me? Dispatch? My what an inglorious and ma
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: glamorous man about town?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And I'll come along, mister Cranston. I have a room
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: already for you. Wow, there's your wife barely are now
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: You won't be alone along, mister Cranston.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: You will be joined directly by the corpse of Margot Lane. Ah,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: missus Belin, do come in.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Thanks doctor.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: My husband here your Oh yes, he was supposed to
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: come with you today. Well make yourself comfortable. He hasn't
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: arrived yet. Why well, now, in the meantime, I have
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: something which I'm sure will interest you. A little picture
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: of a friend of mine cut out of the paper.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Oh I'm surprised, aren't you, Missus Beldon. I was too
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: when I saw it. I said, my what a strange coincidence.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Miss Margot Lane looks exactly like my Missus Belden. Yeah, yeah,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: it does look like me. I wouldn't it really be
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: amazing if mister Beldon turned out to resemble this Lamont
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Cranston in the same picture.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: It could happen, you know.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I guess so why keeping?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, Missus Beldon. He should be here directly.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Be patient. You sit down please, There we are cigarette.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Missus Belden. No, I don't, Oh, but you should. It's
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: good for the nerves, as your physician may describe it. Here,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I'll give you a light.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Oh what's the matter, doctor Pascal? You dropped the match?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Why I didn't drop the matches? They were not for
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: my hand? What was that? I had a man's laugh?
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: So you did? Doctor who spoke? Who are you? What
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: are you?
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I am the fact that you failed to reckon with
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: when you embarked on your murder for profit enterprise.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I am the shadow shadow.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, I've heard of you, but murder for prophet I
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: don't know what you mean by that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: If you're responsible for the death of John Graham and
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: many others, why this is nonsense. I never heard of
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: a John Grayno use bluffing, Pascal.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I've already phoned the police to pick up your two
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: henchman Nelson and Wallace, your next a police have no
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: evidence against me, that's a lack. I shall supply I
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: have some of your ingenious little matches. Matches you lie
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: you can, and I have proved that at least ten
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: people died with a box of your matches beside them.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: And you think you could stop me from leaving here?
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Try it, well, I'll call you to let him go. Oh,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: perhaps you're convinced now that it would be best to
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: await the police quietly.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I suppose you're right.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I've always believed that one should accept the inevitable and
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: good grace in fact, with nonchalance. I know of no
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: better way to emulate that attitude than to have us smoke.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Don't wait now, mister Shadow. Your police shall find me
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: waiting in supreme calm.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: I'm glad we're on our way home. Lamant living in
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: a land of.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: The dead, that's very native the truth. Mother, we were
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: both pretty close to him.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: What will happen? And missus Graham and those other women
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: who worked with pastcal and killing their.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Husband, The law will deal with them, dear, Well, how.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Did you ever find out about those matches?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I learned that many of the people who died so
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: mysteriously were found with an empty match box beside them.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: But that peculiar circumstance didn't crystallize my mind until Pascal
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: invited me to have a smoke.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Oh why didn't the match kill you?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Eh?
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Because I had palmed Pascal's match and lit one of
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: my own.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: He thought he had me.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Though the more Yes, wouldn't it be wonderful?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't what be wonderful?
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: If you were only that clever planning Rose Bushes.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: He's the arch criminal who believes he can realize his
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: base desires by outwitting or the shadow, the weed of crime.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: There's bitter fruit. Crime does not pay the shadow, nos.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Now the curtain falls on the Shadow in Murder Incorporated.
• 27:04
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