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  Speaker 1: Jerry Devine wrote the script for this March ninth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty one mutual presentation of the Shadow, adapted from Walter B.
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  Speaker 1: Gibson's Shadow Novels. Episode two hundred eighteen. The Murder Underground
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  Speaker 1: features Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and the Shadow, with
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  Speaker 1: Marjorie Anderson as Margot Lane and Ken Roberts. Announcing on
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  Speaker 1: a fog bound riverfront mysterious deaths in a rat infested
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  Speaker 1: municipal vault send Cranston and Lane along a trail of
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  Speaker 1: confiscated slot machines, missing Nichols, and the waterfront house at
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  Speaker 1: number six River Street. Their inquiry points toward a concealed
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  Speaker 1: riverside operation and an underground route beneath the docks. Blue
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  Speaker 1: Coal brings the program, and we now take you back
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows.
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  Speaker 3: What evil works in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow?
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  Speaker 4: Now, the Shadow who aids the forces of law and order,
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  Speaker 4: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 4: Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 4: mysterious secret, the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 4: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 4: Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 4: the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 2: Today is gotta.
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  Speaker 5: Murder underground in the metropolis. A river front and by
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  Speaker 5: day presents a noisy, boisterous cross section of our city lights.
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  Speaker 5: The docks are crowded with shouting workers Hosker. The air
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  Speaker 5: is filled with a town of polt, a creek of
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  Speaker 5: giant crank grunting and putting of tiny tugs and mighty
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  Speaker 5: ocean lights. And from above we hear the steady hum
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  Speaker 5: of motor car as they travel in an endless street,
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  Speaker 5: a cross of bridge.
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  Speaker 6: And for.
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  Speaker 5: This day there's the river front by day.
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  Speaker 6: But at night.
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  Speaker 7: At night we find a different picture.
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  Speaker 5: Are quiet, an unearthly quiet descends upon the scene. The
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  Speaker 5: docs are deserted now, and from the river itself we
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  Speaker 5: hear only the mournful moan of a lone fam living
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  Speaker 5: out to the open sea. A cold, damp park embraces
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  Speaker 5: the street and the buildings on it. A blinding fog
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  Speaker 5: an ear, a mysterious fog that masks the movements of
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  Speaker 5: those who live within it.
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  Speaker 2: At night.
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  Speaker 5: No one has ever seen on these streets. They are heard,
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  Speaker 5: they are filled, but never seen. Meet the shadow of
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  Speaker 5: the breeze, which in a hard shrouded building. Two of
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  Speaker 5: these people of the night are to be found, a
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  Speaker 5: mother and her son.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, hey, Johnny, did you tell the boy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: The fog and pulling the boat in under the house.
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  Speaker 9: Now, good watch after this time a.
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  Speaker 8: Load of silk and just landed it this morning. I've
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  Speaker 8: been chasing the job all day. It ain't gonna be easy.
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  Speaker 6: It's never easy. Where is this stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Warehouse nine? They got four watchmen on the job.
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  Speaker 9: He's taking care of that many before then, I know.
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  Speaker 8: But the heat's on now since that last job, we
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  Speaker 8: pulled west and double the number of cappas and river patrol.
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  Speaker 9: You've taken care of him before to yeah, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: I can take care of him again. How was that
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  Speaker 2: that noise from upstairs?
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  Speaker 9: Well, you had no noise.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody's upstairs and I'm gonna find out who it's.
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  Speaker 9: So no, don't get excited.
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  Speaker 8: Oh there is someone there, Oh is it's just a
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  Speaker 8: border border?
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  Speaker 9: He moved intoday?
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  Speaker 2: Where did he come from?
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  Speaker 9: He bought the nipple from my stand or check was
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  Speaker 9: looking for a place to live, was is the whye
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  Speaker 9: brought him me here and rented.
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  Speaker 2: In the room up to your old tricks.
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  Speaker 6: Huh, what's your name?
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  Speaker 10: Son?
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  Speaker 2: You don't know why you've brought that guy here?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know what.
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  Speaker 9: You're talking about.
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  Speaker 8: I'm talking about them slap machines. The cops are got
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  Speaker 8: stown under the bridge. You're planning to drop that guy
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  Speaker 8: through the hole you got in the back wall. Make
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  Speaker 8: them bust open the machines and hands you up the
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  Speaker 8: nickels and then leave them for the rack.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look that's what you've done with the last guy.
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  Speaker 6: He's just a boarder. Son.
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  Speaker 8: Look I'm running a million dollar business here, see a
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  Speaker 8: million dollar business and hijack goods, and you're gonna spoil
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  Speaker 8: the whole thing for a measiately handful of nickels.
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  Speaker 2: Second, you're getting that bum out of here right now.
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  Speaker 2: There's the signal. Boys are down below on the boat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 8: We should be back here by midnight. Keep a lookout,
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  Speaker 8: there's any patrol boats around.
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  Speaker 2: Have a light on in the upstairs bedroom. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and get rid of that guy.
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  Speaker 9: I suppose I must get rid of him, but I
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  Speaker 9: to pass up all that money.
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  Speaker 6: Mister.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, would you come down here me?
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  Speaker 7: Okay?
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  Speaker 8: John?
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  Speaker 11: Well what is it, ma'am?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: I must ask you to leave?
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  Speaker 11: Well, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 6: My son?
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  Speaker 9: My son don't want me to take in boarders?
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  Speaker 11: I see, well, let me have my rent money back?
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  Speaker 6: Then your money back? You want your money back?
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  Speaker 11: Well, certainly I paid your week in advance, didn't.
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  Speaker 9: I what I don't want to give up the money.
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  Speaker 9: It's mine now, see it's mine.
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  Speaker 11: Well, look, either give me back the money or I
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  Speaker 11: stay here.
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  Speaker 9: You'll stay if you don't get the money.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: I see well I tried.
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  Speaker 9: I tried to make a go, didn't die, and you're refused.
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  Speaker 9: So there's nothing I can do about it?
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  Speaker 2: Is there?
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  Speaker 6: No man?
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  Speaker 9: Not a thing we then, as long as you're staying here,
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  Speaker 9: mister mardony, I use a little favor. I want you
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  Speaker 9: to do for me, A little favor for a poor
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  Speaker 9: old lady. Come along, come with me. Keep memory and
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  Speaker 9: the walks wrong?
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  Speaker 11: Now, hey, what's that?
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  Speaker 8: Don't stop?
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  Speaker 9: Don't stop now?
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  Speaker 2: Right down here?
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  Speaker 9: I think a lot you. I've gotta let up your
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  Speaker 9: right bother maya around my al Then we got to
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  Speaker 9: get that money.
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  Speaker 10: All those miles.
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  Speaker 9: Just think of mister Alry right now keep memory, don't
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  Speaker 9: break the machines open in no time. Rested, Now con
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  Speaker 9: that bucket to the rope.
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  Speaker 6: I pully top.
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  Speaker 7: I can't find a rope.
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  Speaker 2: Water a little there?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, rock crawling over my right mouth.
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  Speaker 9: Your pet bucket to the rope. There's no time to.
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  Speaker 2: I brother, y here is.
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  Speaker 9: Now I you pully toppy yesh rock La has left.
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  Speaker 8: Hor lower the rope, quartering the rock to crawling on
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  Speaker 8: around me?
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  Speaker 9: My hall of it mine.
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  Speaker 2: Roast.
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  Speaker 9: Do what you get? That's what you get for being
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  Speaker 9: the thing.
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  Speaker 3: This is the place we're looking for, Number six River Street.
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  Speaker 10: Got someone imagine living in a house? Seems to be
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  Speaker 10: don't right against the base of the bridge.
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  Speaker 6: Wonder why did you see that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: I saw cat ran right.
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  Speaker 6: In front of me, almost tripping.
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  Speaker 3: That wasn't a cat model?
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  Speaker 6: What was it?
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  Speaker 2: A rat?
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  Speaker 6: Amount of rat that side.
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  Speaker 7: Is a common sight here on the riverfront. Maybe I
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  Speaker 7: better agree again, No one seems to.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, cannot be Oh good evening? Good are you the landlady?
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  Speaker 9: I'm the owner of this.
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  Speaker 7: I see well. I wonder if we might see mister
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  Speaker 7: Joseph mcgoney please, yes, I understand that he's living here
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  Speaker 7: with you.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Clemston. Miss mcgooney was a former gardener
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  Speaker 3: of mine.
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  Speaker 9: What reason have you to believe that he lives here?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I I received a postcard from him this morning
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  Speaker 7: asking for his old job back.
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  Speaker 9: Are you sure you have the right head, Chase.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you have the card. They haven't to macao.
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  Speaker 2: Yeh here it is.
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  Speaker 6: You see he addresses six River Streets.
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  Speaker 9: It's the six River Street, all right, but it's no
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  Speaker 9: room as a tool right now. The house is taken.
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  Speaker 3: I see.
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  Speaker 9: It's sorry not to be able to that's that's quite
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  Speaker 9: all right. I'll keep an eye out for him though.
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  Speaker 9: I remember his name mcgoney.
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  Speaker 3: Did you say yes, Joseph mcgonney, good night, good night.
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  Speaker 6: Good night.
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  Speaker 10: Well what do you suppose could have happened to him?
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  Speaker 6: Lamark?
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  Speaker 3: I no, no, I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there's no way of finding him tonight.
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  Speaker 10: I guess you'll just have to wait until you hear
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  Speaker 10: from him again. You'll probably go on another card or something.
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  Speaker 3: Clicking your pace not noticeably?
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: I hear footsteps behind us? Someone is calling us. It's
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  Speaker 3: a policeman or.
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  Speaker 2: Holy smoke, it's mister.
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  Speaker 3: How are you, Keelly?
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  Speaker 2: Oh fine, so fine.
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  Speaker 8: I'm apt to thinking that I'm tailored a couple of
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  Speaker 8: desperate characters. You know, miss Landon nowhere, didn't I whilst
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  Speaker 8: with it at the Policeman's ball.
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  Speaker 5: Wonderful, thanks to you, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: But tell me what brings you people down to a
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  Speaker 3: neighborhood like this. Well, I was looking for a man
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  Speaker 3: who used to work for me, but we couldn't even
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  Speaker 3: look at him.
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  Speaker 7: Please patrol board a bit of trouble up river. I
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  Speaker 7: guess there ain't no novelty down here. Well, we'll cut.
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  Speaker 8: Through this tunnel under the bridge. It's the shortest way
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  Speaker 8: to the center of town.
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  Speaker 10: Officer, what's behind all these iron doors?
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  Speaker 3: City storage ball?
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  Speaker 8: They keep confiscated slut machines and their kinds, and all
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  Speaker 8: of them.
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  Speaker 3: They don't destroy them. They get a car order.
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  Speaker 10: Wouldn't be bad to get in there and get all
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  Speaker 10: that money.
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  Speaker 8: You wouldn't be saying that if you knew what it
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  Speaker 8: was like inside. There was a man who found that
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  Speaker 8: out only last week.
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  Speaker 3: Oh what happened, Kelly. It's a gruesome story.
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  Speaker 8: It happened just a week ago to night be in
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  Speaker 8: another kapa walking through the tunnel here, just like we
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  Speaker 8: are now. It's a bitter cold night in the windows,
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  Speaker 8: howling like a lovestick bench.
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  Speaker 7: Then aboot the wind. Faintly at first we hear the
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  Speaker 7: cry of a human voice for him inside the bout.
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  Speaker 2: Kelly, did you hear that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it sounds like like someone in the bout. We
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  Speaker 3: better investigate. Ah, but that place is full of rats.
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  Speaker 2: Hat stop man eating rats. We can't go in there.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the cheese here and I'm going in.
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  Speaker 8: Get your club ready, McCaffrey, right, flash a light.
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  Speaker 2: Was of a mercy. Look look at them rats, millions
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 11: Look over there in the corner.
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  Speaker 3: It's a man, the body of a man, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: We can never get through to him, Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to call the riots squad quick. By the
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  Speaker 2: time the Riots squad got there, nothing was left to
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  Speaker 2: the poor devil.
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  Speaker 3: Oh how did he get in there?
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  Speaker 2: We never found out.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, ever since then.
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  Speaker 8: Every night when I passed by here, I keep thinking
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  Speaker 8: I hear the voice of that unfortunate man crying out
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  Speaker 8: against them demons night.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I just imagined I heard it. Then, that's
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  Speaker 7: such your imagination. There is someone in there, Kelly, well
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  Speaker 7: that's key all right here to give them to me quickly.
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  Speaker 6: Hurry, hurry, Lamont crying and stop giving up.
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  Speaker 3: I stand back, Mago.
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  Speaker 7: I'm opening the door.
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  Speaker 3: Oh hell, calls the door quickly, hid that swarm inside?
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  Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, he's unconscious.
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  Speaker 3: Help me turn him over with Kelly, sir, And there.
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  Speaker 6: Is he dead? Lamont?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, do you know who this is? It's the man
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  Speaker 3: we've been looking for. It's Jill mcgooney.
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  Speaker 7: You won't mind dropping around of a mark tomorrow morning
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  Speaker 7: to identify the buddy, now, will you?
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  Speaker 3: Mister Kunston, I'll be there, Kelly.
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  Speaker 10: Is there any place near here that we can get
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  Speaker 10: a cup of coffee offster, Kelly?
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  Speaker 6: Our nerves need a bit of steady Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Right at the end of the tundel. I walk you down.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: When you talk to headquarters, Kelly, did you get word
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  Speaker 3: through the commissioner that I wanted to have mcgoney's death investigated.
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  Speaker 3: I did that so, but the commissioner said they had
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  Speaker 3: no time for it tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Oh why not? There's that able to pay in this
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  Speaker 7: neighborhood right now? A gang of river pirates just looted warehouse.
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  Speaker 7: Name every available man on the fast is calm in
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  Speaker 7: the district for them.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's your looks room. You'll have to be leaving,
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  Speaker 3: you know. Well, thank you Kelly for all you've done.
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  Speaker 3: An answer. Good night here, ma'am, good night.
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  Speaker 7: Good night.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, mother, let's go inside.
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  Speaker 10: About that apple pie the Manjuerie put at the counter
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  Speaker 10: along the tables.
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  Speaker 3: I think a table would be better, Maga. You just
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  Speaker 3: want coffee?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Good evening, good evening. We'd like two cups of coffee. Please.
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  Speaker 7: Who comes to this is coffee? Right?
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  Speaker 6: That experience coffee?
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  Speaker 10: You'll be mighty welcome.
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  Speaker 11: Now, neighbor, Good evening, Mary.
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  Speaker 3: You look, look there's the woman who entered the door.
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  Speaker 6: Look less.
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  Speaker 7: You must have a bottle of Oppers today day, good day.
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  Speaker 9: People are very kind to over the woman.
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  Speaker 10: Like me a month.
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  Speaker 6: Look at that partn.
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  Speaker 11: Know if I can give you bills for all those
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  Speaker 11: Nichols tonight, Mary, I haven't got that much money in
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  Speaker 11: the place.
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  Speaker 9: I'll be great confident as much as you can tell.
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  Speaker 7: Me about five dollars worth.
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  Speaker 9: And that'll be fine. I'll just teut about he all right.
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  Speaker 8: Here you are two cups of coffee.
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  Speaker 3: Delicious. I thank you. Oh say waiter, Yes, that old
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  Speaker 3: lady standing at the counter. Just what does she do,
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  Speaker 3: old Mary?
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  Speaker 11: She's got an apple stand.
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  Speaker 3: Up on the bridge. Oh, she seems to do very
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  Speaker 3: well at it.
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  Speaker 11: Sure well, she don't often make as much as she's
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  Speaker 11: got tonight. She usually only says about.
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  Speaker 2: A dollar's work.
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  Speaker 7: She must have run into one of them philanthropips.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'll pay for these now more Nicholas, keep the change,
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  Speaker 3: so thank you. I don't know why, Margot, but I
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  Speaker 3: sense a vague connection between all those Nichols that the
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  Speaker 3: old lady made today, and the Nichols and the machines
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  Speaker 3: under the bridge.
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  Speaker 10: Do you mean that you think that she does know
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  Speaker 10: something about magooney?
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  Speaker 3: It's worth investigating an our old apple. Then that leaves
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  Speaker 3: we're following her. I'm curious to learn just what goes
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  Speaker 3: on at number six River Street.
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  Speaker 6: She's gone into number six.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, we'll stand here in this doorway for a few minutes, Margo,
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  Speaker 7: see if we can detect any activities from outside the house.
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  Speaker 6: Which is fogwood clear?
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  Speaker 3: Margo? Yeah, do you remember your remarking other house was
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  Speaker 3: built right against the base of the bridge. Yes, look
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  Speaker 3: at the house again. The side wall is right next
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  Speaker 3: to the storage board where they keep the stock machines.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, that might explain how Joe mcgooney got into
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  Speaker 3: that board.
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  Speaker 6: Laman, do you think it should be quiet?
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  Speaker 3: Doors opening? The old lady is coming out again.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, and she's carrying a lighted lantern in her and
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  Speaker 10: I wonder what she's up to now.
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  Speaker 3: Look, he's crossing the street's behaving so furtively. Seems to
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  Speaker 3: be looking for something your regular chron isn't she Yes,
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  Speaker 3: she's going out on that dock toward the river. Come on, Margo,
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  Speaker 3: we've got to find out what she's up to quiet quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get behind these packing cases. We can watch her
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  Speaker 3: safely from these.
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  Speaker 6: Look she's putting the latter on the edge of the dock.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, must be some sort of.
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  Speaker 6: A signalman, Can you see anything on the river?
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  Speaker 3: There's quite a few searchlights playing around. Must be the
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  Speaker 3: police patrol boats looking for those river pirates that Kelly
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  Speaker 3: told us about.
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  Speaker 6: Look, gam on tap at the edge of the dock.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't that a boat moving quietly through the shadows.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it is.
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  Speaker 6: Your lady's going back to the house.
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  Speaker 3: I think we've stumbled on something more important than her Margo.
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  Speaker 3: Why what do you mean that boat could be carrying
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  Speaker 3: river pirates? They stuck the boat right by that sea
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  Speaker 3: wall in front of the house.
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  Speaker 6: You supposed are going to unload their stolen goods right here.
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  Speaker 3: They wouldn't, dare, Marco. What the front of the sea wall,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: it's swinging open.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Good heaven. The boat is going under it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, and if I'm not mistaken, their destination is the
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: basement of number six.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: Look, the wall is closing again.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Very clever, but not quite clever enough.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I want you to go back to that lunch room,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Margot and phone Western have him send a squad here
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: at once.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: What are you going to do?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I'm paying another car on that sweet old lady in
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: search of the missing Joe mcgoney. Yeah, good evening.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Oh it's you again.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'd like to come in and talk to you
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: if I may. I'm sorry, but it'll only be a moment.
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: Oh wait a minute. You can come in here, and
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: I am in here.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: The night air is rather chilling. I think it would
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: be much more pleasant if we conversed in one of
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: your rooms. I'll come back here.
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: This is my understanding.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I thought you might be interested in knowing that I
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: have gotten further information about josephmcgourney, the gentleman I was
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: seeking earlier this evening.
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: I don't care about this.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: You'll get out of my ear He was found dead
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: about an hour ago.
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: What is this magoney got to do with me?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: He had been in that.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Storage vault next door. Well, I think you know how
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: he got in there.
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: That's a lot.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: I don't believe you. You're not telling the truth, and
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to leave here until you do.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: You're not ever going to leave here, buddy, Johnny rage
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: foot friend.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Well, and who might this good protector?
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: Bean?
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: This is my son and he don't like Snooper say.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: He's got a way of taking care of Yeah, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: I got a way.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Of taking care of you too.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: What I this guy said about mcgoney, No, Sonny, it again?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Huh you didn't get rid.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: Of macgoney like I told you, Sonya are so hungry
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: for nicol Ja had spoilt Chatters for a million buckley
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: john right, she did do away with him knowing that
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: ain't gonna do you no good?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Now, brother, what do you mean he'll find out the rest?
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Johnny?
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: The arrest you'll make much a nice company for the
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: rex going.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Buddy, you don't think you can get away with this?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Do you open that trap door?
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: Mark?
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: Ladly, gladly, sir me.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: That's a rope hanging down there. Lower yourself down on it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: Your little stunt won't work.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: Lower yourself a shove you down?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Very well, I go.
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: You've got to make noise sounds for the rack. Tell
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: the others what you sound the attacking the wrat.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll make noise, plenty of it. The right are
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: coming out, and that's why I'm doing it. Happy time, brother.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: I was looking for the gentleman who was here with
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: me earlier this season.
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: Oh yes, come me in, come me in, Thank.
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: You, right this way my company, Mark, Yes, this young
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: lady is looking for a legitment frame.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry to trouble you, but where is it?
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: He's down below in the storage vault.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: In the vault, Yeah, having a little conference with the rats.
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: Oh no, no, I tell you quiet like you've got
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: to let him Mark be killed.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Ain't that funny? Same idea?
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: Come to me and my Johnny Smarty.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: Ye, both of you and now sister, we wasted enough
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: time on visitors tonight. We're getting ready of you, quick
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: your hand of me, open up.
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: The traptot, be ready for your Now.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: What was that.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: I knew? Were that they who just talked?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I think you've heard of me? There's the shadow Shadow, Yes,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I thought you'd know me.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: I've come to put an end to your evil doing?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: I'm aware of the work that both of you have
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: done tonight. You already have sent two men to face dead.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: That rat hole.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: No, no, your son even now has a boatload of
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: stolen goods planted beneath this house.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy, arrive here just.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: In time to prevent you from sending that girl to
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: a doom as well. I think you know that sound
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: well enough to realize the police will be up here
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: any minute.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: It is right, and you're a blame Yes with your
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: are you lasting, Nicol? Grabbing your rowin everything?
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: And better prepare to give yourselves up. There'll be no escape.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: We can still get out of here, not with a
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: police at your front door. You can a's more always
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: and want to getting out of this joint? Shadow and
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: you and nobody else is stop And I say, yeah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: that's right, sister.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Now, all of us run even times. Come on, man,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: we're making a break for the boat.
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: Quick thinking done.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Where are you now? O here the car?
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Well, mister shadow, yes, yes, we're getting.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Mom.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: What happened? Oh no, Ma, my all right, come out face.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: I'm Richard Dough for your mom.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Trying to clap my hand. Yeah, help, please put my
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: hair off.
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: Your part too, you've got my hand, Hey, mom, don't
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: get so hot on.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: My Oh my?
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: Why your.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Badly mother that I was unable to bring those two
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: people out of that rat hole.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Alive a month.
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: You did everything you could going down there alone trying
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: to save them.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: You're lucky you didn't get killed yourself.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: Well, I guess the police will see to it that
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: no one else ever gets into those gults again.
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: On How did you get out of the rat hole
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: the first time?
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: And they forced you down there?
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I turned to the rope, never lowered myself down. When
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I closed the top door, I waited till their footsteps
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: moved from the room, and I opened it again and
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: joined them as the shadow, for.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Which I'm very grateful.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Well, it's all over.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Now, let's go out someplace the mountain to get about it?
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: Where to Let's go see a Nickey mount.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Way of crime. There's a crime does not.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Shadow.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: That was the shadow in the Murder Underground. Thank you
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: for joining us for this mutual broadcast from March ninth,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: nineteen forty one.