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The Shadow - "Mind over Murder" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: At a mansion occupied by three elderly sisters, troubling deaths
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  Speaker 1: that appear to be suicides draw Lamont Cranston and Margot
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  Speaker 1: Lane into questions surrounding an estate and the people closest
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  Speaker 1: to it. Tonight, The Shadow investigates in Mind Over Murder,
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  Speaker 1: episode 365, first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System, March 31st, 1946.
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  Speaker 1: Brett Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston and the Shadow, with
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  Speaker 1: Leslie Woods as Margo Lane. Joe Bates Smith wrote the script.
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  Speaker 1: The inquiry reaches from the mansion to the estate lawyer's
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  Speaker 1: office as suspicion gathers around the household and its financial affairs.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, let the curtains part for the Shadow.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Once again, the Mutual Network brings you the thrilling adventures
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  Speaker 3: of The Shadow, the hard and relentless fight of one
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  Speaker 3: man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed
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  Speaker 3: to demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike that crime
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  Speaker 3: does not pay. Inflation can work the same way in
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  Speaker 3: peace that it did in war. Prices rise when goods
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  Speaker 3: are scarce and people have money. Instead of making your
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  Speaker 3: dollars shrink by spending them needlessly when prices are high,
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  Speaker 3: why not make them grow with interest by investing in
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  Speaker 3: United States savings bonds? Here's the way it works. $ 75
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  Speaker 3: invested now each month in U.S. savings e-bonds will in
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  Speaker 3: 10 years turn into an income of $ 100 each month
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  Speaker 3: for as long a period as you bought the bonds.
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  Speaker 3: It's as simple and as sure as that, and easiest
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  Speaker 3: when you use the payroll savings plan. Without missing a dollar,
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  Speaker 3: you'll be amazed how savings grow the E-bond way. Four
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  Speaker 3: dollars for every three. But now, The Shadow. The Shadow,
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  Speaker 3: who aids the forces of law and order, is.
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  Speaker 4: In reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Years
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  Speaker 4: ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret.
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  Speaker 4: the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot
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  Speaker 4: see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane,
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  Speaker 4: is the only person who knows to whom the voice
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  Speaker 4: of the invisible shadow belongs. Today's drama, Mind Over Murder.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ring, Miss Emily?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Brooke. Oh, yes. Would you like the lance, please?
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  Speaker 6: Very good, Miss Emily.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything else?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so lonely, Brooks. Please sit down.
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  Speaker 2: Why, Miss Emily, I'm only a servant in your household.
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  Speaker 5: But you're the only one I can talk to.
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  Speaker 2: Please, Brooks.
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  Speaker 8: Very well, Miss Emily. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: But suppose your sisters, Miss Abigail and Miss Matilda, were to.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care. They're mean. I can't stand to live
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  Speaker 5: with those miserable, coughing old maids anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They have made your life unhappy, haven't they?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, take me away, Brooks.
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  Speaker 2: I love you.
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  Speaker 5: You know I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Where is Emily?
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  Speaker 5: Let's run away from this house together.
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  Speaker 2: But you'd never be happy, Miss Emily, living on the
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  Speaker 2: salary that a butler could offer you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you mean you'd never be happy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking only of you, Miss Emily. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to be happy in your proper place in life.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Brooks, you do love me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Emily, you know I do.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, Abigail has inherited everything. And my next oldest sister, Matilda,
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  Speaker 5: inherits it from her. They can't live much longer. Then
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  Speaker 5: I fall in line. Just be patient, Brooks. We can wait.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll both be quite old by then.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. But what can we do, Brooks, except wait?
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  Speaker 2: Why not see to it that both your sisters... die
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  Speaker 2: sooner than we expect. Die? There are ways that they
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  Speaker 2: could die which need not involve us.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Suicide is a way. The town knows how eccentric this
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  Speaker 2: whole family is. If it looked as though they killed themselves...
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  Speaker 2: It could be so easy, Miss Emily. First the oldest,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Abigail, then Miss Matilda next, and then the fortune
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  Speaker 2: would be ours.
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  Speaker 7: And....
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  Speaker 8: But I'm afraid I'm shocking you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no. No, Brooks, you're not shocking me.
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  Speaker 7: Suicide.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but do you think they really would do it?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, what.
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  Speaker 2: A day. Margot, I admire your spirit collecting for the
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  Speaker 2: Red Cross. I admire your energy. I admire your stamina.
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  Speaker 2: But you're wearing me out.
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  Speaker 5: I have just two more homes to visit, darling, and
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  Speaker 5: then we'll relax someplace at dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that group of people standing over there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're looking up at something in that old house
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  Speaker 5: across the.
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  Speaker 9: Street, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: Margo, wait.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 2: Look, there's a woman, an old woman, standing up in
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  Speaker 2: that attic window ledge above the street. She's going to jump.
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  Speaker 3: There's someone behind her. They're going to grab her.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I saw someone, too, for a moment.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, she is going back in.
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  Speaker 5: She's trying... No, she isn't!
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  Speaker 6: Stop it, somebody!
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lamont, she did it!
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  Speaker 5: She jumped!
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not, Margo. Maybe she was pushed. Here we are, Margot.
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  Speaker 8: Why, Lamont, this is the house the old lady jumped
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  Speaker 8: from last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I know, darling. I didn't tell you where we
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  Speaker 2: were coming, but I thought we should pay our respects
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  Speaker 2: to poor old Miss Abigail tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Abigail? You didn't tell me you knew her.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't, until today. I've been talking with some friends
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  Speaker 2: of theirs, friends who've known the family for years.
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  Speaker 5: Then you don't think she jumped last night.
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  Speaker 8: You think the old lady was killed, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, she's the first suicide I've ever known, Margot, to
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  Speaker 2: jump off a window ledge backwards. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's something unhealthy, something evil looking about this house.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening. Good evening. I'm Lamont Cranston. This is Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 2: We've come to pay our respects to Miss Abigail.
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  Speaker 8: Very well.
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  Speaker 2: Come in, please. Thank you. I'll tell Miss Emily you're here.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, who's Miss Emily?
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  Speaker 2: The youngest of three girls. There's another Miss Matilda who's
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  Speaker 2: still living here. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: There's a coffin across the hall there in the parlor.
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  Speaker 5: What a shadowy, dismal room.
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  Speaker 2: No light but those candles ahead in the foot of
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  Speaker 2: the coffin. Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cranford?
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Lane?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Um, you must be Miss Emily.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We were both friends of Miss Abigail.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, so Brooks told me.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose she did.
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  Speaker 5: Have friends that Matilda and I never met. It must
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  Speaker 5: have been so tragic for you, your sister's sudden death.
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  Speaker 5: Please excuse my sister Matilda for not appearing. She's so
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  Speaker 5: upset by Abby's death.
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  Speaker 10: Not that upset, Emily, dear. I can look at her now.
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  Speaker 5: Matilda.
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  Speaker 10: You didn't want me to see her, did you? You're
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  Speaker 10: afraid of what I might say.
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  Speaker 5: You'd better go to your room.
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  Speaker 10: You can't boss me now. I hold the purse strings
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  Speaker 10: to this family now.
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  Speaker 5: Matilda, keep away from that coffee.
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  Speaker 10: I laugh in her face. I laugh in her dead
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  Speaker 10: face now.
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  Speaker 5: You both think I'm crazy. Oh, I'm dreadfully sorry, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: My sister's completely undone.
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  Speaker 10: Don't you start trying to boss me. Or do you
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  Speaker 10: want something to.
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  Speaker 2: Happen to you, too? Come on.
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  Speaker 5: I might be better, Dee.
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  Speaker 2: Michael, wait. Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Carter, our lawyer, he's on my side now. He's my
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  Speaker 10: friend against both of you. He told me I inherit
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  Speaker 10: all the money now. And I can laugh at Abigail now.
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  Speaker 10: You're dead, Abigail. And I've got the money.
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  Speaker 6: Matilda.
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  Speaker 5: Stop this, this instant. Come away from that.
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  Speaker 10: You have the money and Emily the good looks, but
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  Speaker 10: I'm in charge now. Matilda!
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  Speaker 2: Emily.
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  Speaker 10: Don't you ever strike me again. I run this house now.
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  Speaker 10: I run this house now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry this had to happen. You can understand why I'm
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  Speaker 5: afraid to leave her alone.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Carter, our family lawyer... The only one who can control her. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: of course. Lamont, we really should leave. I'll show you
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  Speaker 5: to the door.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Again, I'm very sorry. She's terribly upset.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite all right. We understand.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening, Mr. Cranston. Miss Lane, I must go to
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  Speaker 5: my sister now. Good night.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Miss Emily.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, poor Miss Emily.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Looks like she has plenty on her hands.
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  Speaker 5: And Miss Matilda seemed glad her sister was dead.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So their lawyer Carter's the only one Matilda trusts, hmm? Margo?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go see Mr. Carter. I know this is most unusual, Mr. Carter,
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  Speaker 2: but we thought you should know Miss Matilda's quite definitely upset.
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  Speaker 2: I know that, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 9: Miss Matilda's always been rather odd.
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  Speaker 2: But if she's come into all this money... That is,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose that is true. That is a family matter, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I'm in a position to say anything. Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Carter, we've only come as friends, and because we think
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  Speaker 5: that Miss Emily might be in danger now.
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  Speaker 2: There's really nothing I can tell you. Now, if you'll
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  Speaker 2: excuse me. Certainly. We are sorry to have bothered you, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Carter.
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  Speaker 2: Bye.
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  Speaker 5: Darling, that was a brush off.
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  Speaker 2: I was right, Margot. He knows something he's not telling.
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe, but we certainly didn't get very far.
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  Speaker 2: Margot, somehow I've got to get a look at that will.
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  Speaker 1: But how?
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  Speaker 2: Miss Matilda does inherit everything, and she's mentally unbalanced.
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  Speaker 5: Look, Lamont, there's Mr. Carter coming out of his office now. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: he's crossing to that telephone booth.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. It's funny, he wouldn't use his own office telephone.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't want to take a chance on being overheard, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going over to that booth. Wait here, darling. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be right back.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but Lamont, he'll see you.
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  Speaker 2: Not the shadow, he won't.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Janet, I'm sure I.
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  Speaker 8: Have a nickel chain.
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  Speaker 2: Now, here it is. A-C-4-7-2-3.
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  Speaker 5: A-C-4-7-2-3.
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  Speaker 2: Hello? Hello?
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  Speaker 8: This is Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Carter. Matters must be arranged tonight. We can't wait any longer.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I'll be there right away. All set, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: I checked on the number he called.
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  Speaker 5: How did you do that?
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  Speaker 2: I watched him dial, then I called the telephone company.
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  Speaker 2: The number, Ackroyd 4723, is that house, Margo. Crazy Matilda.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to get back to that house right away, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Emily may really be in danger now. Who's that?
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  Speaker 5: It's... Emily Matilda, dear.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, what's Brooke doing with you?
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  Speaker 2: Don't get excited, Miss Matilda. We both know that you're upset.
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  Speaker 10: Why are you closing that door?
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  Speaker 2: Get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: Get out of my room.
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  Speaker 2: Look at those nice, long, sharp scissors, Miss Emily, on
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  Speaker 2: Miss Matilda's dressing table here.
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  Speaker 10: I was cutting out clippings from the newspapers about Abigail's suicide.
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  Speaker 5: You're upset and hysterical over her sad death, aren't you, Matilda?
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  Speaker 6: I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy. I've got the money now. Oh, no, Matilda.
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  Speaker 5: You're so upset mentally, you really don't want to go
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  Speaker 5: on living anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, Miss Emily. Our visitors this afternoon can
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  Speaker 2: testify that you've gone quite out of your mind with grief,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Matilda.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: You want to die, Miss Matilda.
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  Speaker 6: Rips, keep away.
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  Speaker 5: Don't come near me.
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  Speaker 10: Put down those scissors.
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  Speaker 5: But you want to kill yourself, Matilda.
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  Speaker 2: No. Here, let me press your fingers tightly around these shears.
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  Speaker 5: You want to commit suicide, Matilda. To kill yourself over
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: poor Abigail's death. No, I won't kill myself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, now I know.
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  Speaker 5: Abigail didn't kill herself.
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  Speaker 2: You did it. The two of you. Take the scissors,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Matilda.
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  Speaker 5: Stop your hurting my hands. Take the scissors, Miss Matilda.
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  Speaker 6: No, I won't take them. Then I'll give them to you.
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  Speaker 2: Who stabbed me? Yes, and your hands were around the scissors.
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  Speaker 2: My hands on top of yours. And when they find
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: you dead, Miss Matilda, only your fingerprints will be on
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: the shears.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: We're battling their way through the streets of Cologne. Your
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Red Cross girls were there directly behind the lines, dispensing
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: cheer and donuts to the battle-weary G.I.s. Today, your Red
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Cross is still there with the army of occupation. We
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: have silenced the Wehrmacht, but your Red Cross still fights
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: a battle. A battle against loneliness. Let's not forget the
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: low-point boys still overseas. There are more than 1,500,000 of
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: them spread out all over the world, including Forsaken Islands
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  Speaker 3: in the Pacific. Many of us already have forgotten, but
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: your Red Cross never forgets. It's still there with our
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: rear guard, helping to make life a little brighter, helping
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  Speaker 3: to ease the burden. Yes, the job of the Army
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: of Occupation, according to both Generals Eisenhower and MacArthur, would
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: be ten times tougher if it were not for the
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  Speaker 3: Red Cross activities overseas. For the men now overseas, the
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  Speaker 3: warmth and hospitality of the Red Cross Recreation Club is
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  Speaker 3: the one bright spot in their arduous task yet to
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  Speaker 3: be completed. The Red Cross Club is G.I. Joe's home
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: away from home, and wherever he sees the sign of
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: the Red Cross, he knows that America isn't really thousands
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: of miles away. So give as generously as you can
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: to help your Red Cross fight this battle against loneliness,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: as well as all its other conflicts with disaster. Now again,
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Mr. Cranston. Miss Lane. Matilda killed herself with her
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  Speaker 5: own pair of scissors.
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  Speaker 2: We've summoned the doctor. That's who we thought it.
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: Was when we heard you ring.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, Lamont, it's horrible. Where were you, Miss Emily, when
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: this happened? We were downstairs. I was serving tea. Miss
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Emily asked Miss Matilda to join her, but she refused.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Miss Matilda's been acting rather peculiarly lately. I see. Miss Emily,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: where is your lawyer, Mr. Carter? I don't know. I
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: just tried to phone him, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Cranston, but he's gone out.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: He hasn't been here?
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: No.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: No, he hasn't been here. Of course, he has his
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: own key and he comes and goes as he chooses.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Miss Emmeline.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: What's wrong with that? He's known us for years.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Someone just came in downstairs.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Perhaps that's Mr.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Carter now.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Wait here.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I'll go out in the hall and see who it is.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Carter?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Cranston, you here?
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Something's happened.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: What's wrong?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: There's been another death in the family, Mr. Carter. Another
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: sister has just killed herself. Miss Matilda.
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  Speaker 7: How horrible.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I was afraid of that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 10: I must go to her.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Carter, it's Matilda.
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  Speaker 6: She's killed herself, too.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, Emily, darling, how terrible, how horrible for you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank goodness you're here. Oh, what a comfort having
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: you here with me. They both died so tragically.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: Now, now, don't worry, Emily. I'll take care of everything.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: I'll handle everything.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: We've summoned the doctor, Mr. Carter.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'd better go back to the.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Office and make arrangements for the funeral and everything.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, not now, Mr.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Carter.
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  Speaker 2: Not yet.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: Please.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: I'll be back, Miss Emily. I must go back now.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: All these details. Well, they just can't wait. I'm afraid
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: we'd better leave too now, Miss Emily. If there's anything
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: we can do, just.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're very kind, Mr.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Cranston.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: No, there's nothing right now.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Come then, Margo. We'd better be going now. We have
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: some business, too, that can't wait.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Come on, you're going in to see Mr. Carter now,
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: aren't you?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo. He'll be alone in his office now at
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: this time of night.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Well, what is it? What do you suspect?
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Carter has plenty to tell, darling, and right now the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: shadow's going to find out just what he's hiding and
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: how much he knows.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: Well, everything's in order so far.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: The deed to the house, the money. Oh, yes, yes,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the will. In the event that all three sisters should perish...
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: The estate shall be the sole property of this legal
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: representative and family lawyer. So that's what you're hiding, Mr. Carter.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Who's that?
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: A shadow, Mr.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: Carter.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: The shadow has discovered the secret you're trying to hide.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, it can't be.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I can't see anyone.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Yet I hear a voice.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: A voice that reads the will over your shoulder. The
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: shadow knows you inherit a house and fortune when the
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: three sisters die.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: They killed themselves, both Miss Abigail and Miss Matilda.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: You killed them, Carter, as you planned to kill Miss
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Emily Neck.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: No, let me out.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Let me out of here. You listen to my voice
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: or I have to pin you to the wall. Let
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: me go.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Something's holding me.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: You killed those two sisters to inherit their money. You
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: were in the house when Miss Abigail was pushed from
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: that ledge. You were in that house when Miss Abigail
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: was pushed from that ledge. earlier tonight and returned playing
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: innocent after killing Miss Matilda with her own pair of shears.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: That's a lie.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: You knew she was dead when you came into that house.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: You named her instead of Miss Emily before you knew
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: which was dead.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: You aren't real. You can't be.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: How do you know those things? There's more proof Miss
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Matilda didn't kill herself tonight.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: She did.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Poor, frail little Miss Matilda couldn't have driven those crude
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: cheers so deeply into her breast alone.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: You do know. Who are you? The Shadow.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, the Shadow knows.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: And you'll hang. No. No, I'll tell you. I didn't
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: do it. I didn't kill those two sisters. Brooks killed them,
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: not I. Brooks killed them both.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Yet you, not Brooks's name, next in that will.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: I promised to share with him when all three were
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: out of the way.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Then Miss Emily is next.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Yes, Miss Emily is next.
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: The next on the list.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Shadow goes to Miss Emily now. The first I'm going
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: to see you go to the police and give yourself up.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: And then Brooks will be next. Brooks.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Miss Emily. What are you doing up here in my room?
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: I want to talk to you, Brooks.
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: What do you want?
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: We can be married now. We've got the money and
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: both my sisters are gone.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: When will we.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Be married, Brooks?
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: We're not getting married, Miss Emily.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: What are you saying?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: You've been a fool.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: You.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: You said you loved me.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I loathe you.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: Miss Emily.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, no. You're all I want. I've nothing to live
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: for if you leave me now. I can't go on
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: like this.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: All alone.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: There is a way out.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Only one way out now for you.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: What?
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: One way out?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: The way your sisters chose. They're at peace now.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: No. No.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, it needn't be an agony with heavy, crude scissors
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: cutting deep into your flesh.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Shut up.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: It needn't be a screaming nightmare looking down, watching the
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: pavement rise up to smash your body and face.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: No, I couldn't. I couldn't.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: It could be so quick and easy, Miss Emily.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Oh. What's that in your hand?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: That is an old-fashioned straight razor. Look at that blade,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: cold and bright. Two sharp, clean cuts across the wrists.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: And you have no memories to face. No more years
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: of loneliness in this house. Alone. Cross my wrist? Yes.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Just run your finger.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: Across that sharp blade.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: There you see, you've cut yourself. Your finger's bleeding.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: I didn't even feel a thing.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: No, it could be as easy as that. Doesn't take
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: courage when one has no other choice. No other choice.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: No other choice, Miss Emily. I'm going now. Shall I
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: leave the razor with you? Miss Emily, you want the razor?
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Yes, Brooks.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: I'll take the razor.
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: Will that be all, Miss Emily?
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: No. No, that's not all, Brooks. I have the razor now.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: And I'm going to.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Slit your throat. What do you think, you devil?
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: I'll slit your throat.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: You can't leave me. Cut your hands.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: You can't harm me now.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: You thought you could talk me into killing myself. You'd
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: like that, wouldn't you?
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: All you want is the money. Yes, you fool, and
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: I'm going to get it if I have to kill
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: you myself.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: They'll never find your body. You're coming down into the
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: cellar with me.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: The cellar?
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Yes, the furnace. There's a roaring fire burning down there.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: No, Brooks.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: One blow will do the trick.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: That did it, Miss Emily. Now I'll carry you down
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to the basement and the furnace. Down, down, Miss Emily.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Asleep in my arms. It's warmer already, even though you
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: can't feel the fire in this dark cellar room. Look
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: at that heavy furnace door. Too bad you can't see.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I'll throw open the door. Perhaps you can hear the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: roar of the flames.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Listen to the roar of those flames, Miss Emily. They
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: shout death.
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: Can you hear?
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: Yes, Brooks.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: The flames shout death. But to you, not to her.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: That voice in the flames. It's coming out of the fire.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Cleansing, burning fire. Bringing justice for your crimes.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: There is a voice coming from the fire.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: The shadow has found you, Brooks.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: And takes Miss.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Emily's body from you now.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Somebody snatched it from my arms.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Face the fire, Brooks. The fire of truth burns brightly.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Carter has confessed... You'll go down for your sins with him.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Carter, somebody knows. The voice knows.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: The shadow speaks the truth, Brooks.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: I'm not afraid of a voice. You won't get me.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I'll get out of here. There is no escape now, Brooks.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I'll get out of this cellar. I'll get out of here. Oh,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: something's grabbed me. But I can't see anyone.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Nothing but the shadows of the flames, casting fear in
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: your heart. But another shadow has caught and hold you.
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Let me go.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: A shadow has strength, too, Brooks. Strength you cannot see,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: but that you shall feel. Your body will rest there
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: on the cellar floor beside Miss Emily in the firelight
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: until the police arrive. The shadow will see that justice...
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: is done.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: So it was Mr.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Carter and Brooks who engineered the whole deal after all.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo. Carter was to take over the estate as
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: sole executor and Brooks was in a perfect position to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: kill all three sisters.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: But why did he enlist Miss Emily's aid?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: A perfect blind, in case anything went wrong, Margo. Having
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: one of the sisters trusting him and on his side.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: And then he meant to kill her as cold-bloodedly.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: As the other two.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yes. The irony of it is, Margo, that in her
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: unbalanced way, Miss Emily must have really loved Brooks. Her
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: reaction when she heard the verdict pronounced, the sentence Brooks received...
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Because if she hadn't been restrained, she'd have been the
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: only one of the three strange sisters who really did
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: commit suicide.
• 27:34
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• 27:39
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• 27:42
  Speaker 3: the ages of 17 and 22, you may qualify for
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: a four-year college education and a career of public service
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: in the United States Coast Guard. This oldest branch of
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: the Seagoing Services maintains an academy at New London, Connecticut,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: for the professional training of its future officers. Applicants selected
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: for the Coast Guard Academy by nationwide examinations begin their
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: training each year late in July. Applications for this year's
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: convening class must be postmarked not later than April 1st,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: and entrance examinations are held on May 8th. For complete information,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: write to the Superintendent, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: or visit your nearest Coast Guard recruiting station today.
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: Music This story is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: The characters, names, places, and plot are fictitious.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Again next week, the shadow will demonstrate.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: That the weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: not pay. The Shadow knows.
• 29:12
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• 29:15
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• 29:19
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• 29:21
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• 29:23
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• 29:35
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• 29:38
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