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The Shadow - "The Death Triangle" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A simulated news bulletin reports that a wounded man, calling
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  Speaker 1: himself The Shadow, has been treated by Dr. James Evans.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: That report brings Lamont Cranston into a case reaching back
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  Speaker 1: to an escape from Devil's Island, where old associations and
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  Speaker 1: unanswered fears have followed Dr. Evans into 1937. From the
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  Speaker 1: Mutual Broadcasting System, with Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston and
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  Speaker 1: Agnes Moorhead as Margot Lane, this is The Shadow, The
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  Speaker 1: Death Triangle. First heard December 12, 1937. Episode 12 of
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  Speaker 1: the 1937-38 season. And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow, The Death Triangle.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Blue Cole presents The Shadow, the mystery man who strikes
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  Speaker 3: terror in the very hearts of shopsters, lawbreakers, and criminals. Today,
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  Speaker 3: the death triangle. Ladies and gentlemen, the shadow will be
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  Speaker 3: with you in just a moment. In the meantime, I'd
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  Speaker 3: like to remind you of a well-known fact. Cold-colored blue
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  Speaker 3: means better heat at less cost. But when you buy
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  Speaker 3: blue coal, you're getting the cream of all Pennsylvania anthracite.
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  Speaker 3: The harmless blue coloring with which blue coal is trademarked
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  Speaker 3: is your guarantee of clean, even, safe, dependable heat all
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  Speaker 3: winter long. Such heat ensures the health of your entire household.
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  Speaker 3: So when you order coal, specify blue coal. Ask for
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  Speaker 3: it by name. Phone your order to your nearest blue
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  Speaker 3: coal dealer tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: The End.
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  Speaker 5: On this day, December 22nd, 1913, by order of the
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  Speaker 5: authority of Devil's Island, you, Pierre Martin, are hereby sentenced
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  Speaker 5: to 100 days in confinement solitaire and 100 lashes in
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  Speaker 5: the presence of the assembled prisoners as a warning to
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  Speaker 5: all who would attempt to escape.
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  Speaker 6: Let the punishment begin.
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  Speaker 7: I will find the devil who betrayed me.
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  Speaker 8: One.
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  Speaker 7: I will learn his name.
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  Speaker 9: Two.
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  Speaker 4: I will kill him.
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  Speaker 9: Three.
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  Speaker 7: I will find him. I will kill him.
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  Speaker 10: Four.
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  Speaker 4: I will kill him.
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  Speaker 9: Five.
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  Speaker 4: Six. Seven.
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  Speaker 9: Eight. Nine.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt this program of organ music
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  Speaker 3: to bring you a special newsflash from our affiliated press service.
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  Speaker 3: New York, December 12th, 1937. The shadow has been found.
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  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 3: James Evans, world-famous child surgeon, told reporters this afternoon that
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  Speaker 3: a wounded man who claimed to be the shadow forced
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  Speaker 3: his way into Dr. Evans' private clinic and at the
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  Speaker 3: point of a gun forced him to remove a bullet.
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  Speaker 3: The wounded man then revealed that he was none other
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  Speaker 3: than that mysterious character who has waged a.
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  Speaker 4: One-man war against crime, the Shadow. Before Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Evans could report the case to the police, however, the
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  Speaker 3: Shadow mysteriously disappeared. The famous surgeon believes the Shadow has
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  Speaker 3: little chance of surviving his wound. Our organ recital now continues.
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  Speaker 8: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Evans speaking.
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  Speaker 9: Dr. Evans, the man you claim to have operated upon
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  Speaker 9: was a fake. The real Shadow has not been wounded.
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow? You are the Shadow?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, Dr. Evans. You don't seem surprised.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not.
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  Speaker 6: I've been hoping you'd get in touch with me. That
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  Speaker 6: statement I issued was false.
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  Speaker 9: False? Come now, Dr. Evans. A man of your high
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  Speaker 9: standing in the medical world does not issue false statements
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  Speaker 9: without very grave reasons.
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  Speaker 4: There was a very grave reason. I need your help.
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  Speaker 6: An old acquaintance of mine, Raymond Dubril, the financier, has
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  Speaker 6: received a death threat.
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  Speaker 9: Have him notify the police.
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  Speaker 4: No, he refuses to do that.
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  Speaker 9: Then let him take the consequences. Unless... Dr. Evans... Have
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  Speaker 9: you also received a death threat?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I have.
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  Speaker 9: Before I made this call, I investigated your past, Dr. Evans.
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  Speaker 4: My past is a matter of public knowledge.
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  Speaker 9: You were once a political prisoner on Devil's Island. You
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  Speaker 9: escaped 20 years ago with three other men. Raymond Dubril,
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  Speaker 9: the banker, and Pierre Martel, the concert pianist.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, but our convictions were reversed by a high court
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  Speaker 6: a year after we escaped.
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  Speaker 9: I know it was proof that you three were innocent.
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  Speaker 9: But what about the fourth man who escaped with you?
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  Speaker 4: A murderer? Jacques Covey.
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  Speaker 6: He was caught and sent back to Devil's Island.
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  Speaker 9: After the escape, one of you betrayed him to the police.
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  Speaker 6: I don't believe that.
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  Speaker 9: Why else should he mark you for death?
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  Speaker 6: Then you know Covey escaped from Devil's Island a second
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  Speaker 6: time six months ago?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, Dr. Evans. Then you're interested.
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  Speaker 8: You'll help?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I will help. But only because your life is
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  Speaker 9: in danger, Doctor... The world can ill afford to lose
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  Speaker 9: the skill and genius that has saved the lives of
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  Speaker 9: countless children.
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  Speaker 6: You overestimate my importance, Shadow. But will you help?
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  Speaker 9: Yes. When and where does Covey's warning say he will
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  Speaker 9: strike first?
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  Speaker 6: At Dubril's Long Island estate tonight.
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  Speaker 9: How do you know this warning came from Covey?
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  Speaker 6: Dubril received a miniature music box in the shape of
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  Speaker 6: a coffin in the mail this morning.
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  Speaker 9: A musical coffin?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: And when the lid of the coffin is raised, the
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  Speaker 6: music box plays a tune... At June, Dubril, Martin, Covey
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  Speaker 6: and myself whistled as a danger signal when we were
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  Speaker 6: planning our escape from Devil's Island.
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  Speaker 9: Where is Dubril, Dr. Evans?
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  Speaker 6: At his Long Island estate. Martin is staying with him
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  Speaker 6: and I am driving out there to spend the night.
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  Speaker 6: I had hoped you'd come and help.
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  Speaker 9: I will help you, Dr. Evans. Tell Dubril and Martin
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  Speaker 9: that the shadow will be there.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, good afternoon, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 9: Is Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Cranston at home?
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  Speaker 4: No, Miss Lane, he's not.
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  Speaker 11: Do you know where I can reach him?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he may be at his club.
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  Speaker 11: No, I've tried there.
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  Speaker 4: His office?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, everywhere.
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  Speaker 11: Nobody's seen him all day.
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  Speaker 10: Is there anything I can do?
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  Speaker 12: Be sure and stay here in case he comes home.
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  Speaker 11: I'll call you on the phone later.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, miss.
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  Speaker 11: I've got to find him. I've got to. I've just
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  Speaker 11: got to.
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  Speaker 7: I've got to find Lamont.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe Dr.
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  Speaker 12: Evans knows more than he told the newspapers. His officer,
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  Speaker 12: he might be at home. Number 33.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, this is it. Oh, Lamont, I knew they'd shoot
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  Speaker 11: you someday.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Miss?
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  Speaker 11: Is Dr. Evans here?
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  Speaker 7: I must see him.
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  Speaker 10: I beg your pardon, Miss, but are you another reporter?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, and I must see Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Evans.
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  Speaker 11: It's important. It's a matter of life or death. I'm sorry, Miss,
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  Speaker 11: but Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Evans has nothing to say.
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  Speaker 9: To the press.
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  Speaker 6: He's not at home.
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  Speaker 11: But I must see him.
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  Speaker 4: I must find him.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 11: That car.
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  Speaker 10: That's Dr.
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  Speaker 11: Evans' car.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, Miss.
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  Speaker 7: Where's he going?
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  Speaker 6: I'm not at liberty to say, Miss.
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  Speaker 11: Never mind.
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  Speaker 7: I'll find out myself.
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  Speaker 4: Taxi!
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  Speaker 6: Taxi!
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Miss.
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  Speaker 3: Where to?
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  Speaker 11: Follow that big black limousine, the one with the green
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  Speaker 11: cross on the license plate.
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  Speaker 6: That's a doctor's car, miss.
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  Speaker 7: I may have to break a lot of traffic laws
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  Speaker 7: if it goes through red lights.
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  Speaker 4: Never mind.
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  Speaker 7: I'll pay the fines.
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  Speaker 11: Don't lose sight of that car.
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  Speaker 7: For a minute.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, lady. But this is going to be one fast ride.
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  Speaker 8: Driver.
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  Speaker 9: Driver, slow down.
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  Speaker 7: That car's turning in at that estate.
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  Speaker 10: What do you want me to do?
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  Speaker 7: Go through the gates after it?
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  Speaker 13: No, no.
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  Speaker 11: Stop here.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 14: Okay.
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  Speaker 11: Here's five dollars.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, thanks, ma'am.
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  Speaker 11: I wonder if this is just a wild goose chase.
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  Speaker 11: Lamont couldn't be way out here.
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  Speaker 4: Not if he's wounded, dying.
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  Speaker 13: That car.
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  Speaker 10: It sounded like.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, but it couldn't be.
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  Speaker 9: It is.
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  Speaker 11: It's... It's Lamont.
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  Speaker 9: Lamont. Lamont.
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  Speaker 4: Margot, what in heaven's name are you doing here?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, Lamont, then it wasn't true. You weren't shot.
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  Speaker 9: Dr.
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  Speaker 11: Evans didn't operate on you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, so you heard that news flash, too.
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  Speaker 11: The papers are full of it. I tried to find
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  Speaker 11: you at the office at home, at your club, everywhere.
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  Speaker 15: I'm sorry, Margot. I should have known you'd worry, but
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  Speaker 15: I've had a very busy afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: Oh. How did you get here?
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  Speaker 11: I followed Dr. Evans' car. He just drove through those gates.
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  Speaker 11: What's happening, Lamont? Are you trying to find out why
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  Speaker 11: he said he operated on the shadow? Is someone impersonating you?
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  Speaker 15: No, Dr. Evans did that, knowing I'd get in touch
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  Speaker 15: with him. He needs my help in a very special manner.
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  Speaker 4: But why?
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  Speaker 11: Is someone after him, threatening him?
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  Speaker 15: Yes, also the owner of this estate, the banker Dubril
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  Speaker 15: and Martin, the concert pianist.
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  Speaker 11: And you're going to help them?
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  Speaker 15: I'm interested in helping Evans. He's a great doctor and
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  Speaker 15: a great humanitarian. His life is in danger.
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  Speaker 11: Lamont, now that I'm here, is there anything I can do?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Margo. Wait in my car. Keep your eye on
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  Speaker 4: the house.
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  Speaker 15: If you see a light, go on and off twice
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  Speaker 15: in one of the windows. Drive to the nearest payphone
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  Speaker 15: and notify the state police to come to the DeBriel estate.
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  Speaker 11: I'll watch for the signal.
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  Speaker 4: Fine.
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  Speaker 11: I suppose there's no use in my asking you to
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  Speaker 11: be careful.
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  Speaker 4: No, Margo, but I'll try.
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  Speaker 15: I'll try to avoid really putting Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Evans to the trouble of removing a bullet from the shadows.
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  Speaker 6: Du Briel, stop pounding on the table and cursing Covey.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that's all very well for you to say, Evans.
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  Speaker 7: Your turn hasn't come, but it will if we three
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  Speaker 7: sitting here, you or me or Martin, don't get Covey
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  Speaker 7: when he comes here tonight. You will be the next
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  Speaker 7: on his list. You or Martin.
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  Speaker 10: Don't concern yourself about my fate, Du Briel. I am
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  Speaker 10: not afraid of Covey.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you'll change your mind if he manages to kill me, Martin.
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  Speaker 10: I wonder what it's like to die. What do you think,
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  Speaker 10: Du Briel? Or do you ever think of anything but
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  Speaker 10: your fat stomach and your money?
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  Speaker 6: Gentlemen, this is no time to argue. I have something
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  Speaker 6: more important to tell you.
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  Speaker 4: What is it, Evans?
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  Speaker 10: I hear you had quite an experience today. Operated on
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  Speaker 10: this man who calls himself the Shadow.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I want to talk to you about.
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  Speaker 10: Ah, there's a man, Dubril, the Shadow. He might save
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  Speaker 10: you from Covey.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, what could he do? I've had the best private
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  Speaker 7: detective in the country trying to find some trace of
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  Speaker 7: Covey ever since he escaped from Devil's Island again six
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  Speaker 7: months ago.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Dubril.
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  Speaker 10: I've always wondered who tipped off the police when Covey
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  Speaker 10: was hiding after he helped us escape 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 7: Covey was a murderer. We were innocent men.
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  Speaker 10: And also, who betrayed me, Dubril, the time I tried
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  Speaker 10: to escape alone the first time?
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  Speaker 6: Martin, Dubril, now listen to me. A moment ago, we
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  Speaker 6: were talking about the shadow. Well, he isn't dying. I
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  Speaker 6: didn't operate on him. I announced that hoping the real
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  Speaker 6: shadow would get in touch with me.
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  Speaker 4: And did he?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And he's coming here tonight to help us.
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  Speaker 10: I've always been curious to see this shadow.
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  Speaker 6: You won't see him. No man has ever seen him,
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  Speaker 6: but he'll be here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Evans, for a man of intelligence, you're talking like
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  Speaker 7: a fool. The age of ghosts and mystic presences has passed.
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  Speaker 4: You're wrong, Jabril, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 6: Because I am a doctor, I can readily accept the
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  Speaker 6: fact that the shadow is a master of the powers
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  Speaker 6: of mental suggestion, of mass hypnosis. Recent experiments have proven
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  Speaker 6: conclusively that.
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  Speaker 9: Rubbish! Allow me to convince him. Dr. Evans. What was that?
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  Speaker 9: Who spoke then? The shadow, Dubril. You do not accept
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  Speaker 9: the theory of my power of invisibility. But perhaps you
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  Speaker 9: will accept the fact. For I am here.
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  Speaker 10: Sit down, Dubril.
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  Speaker 4: You look rather pale.
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  Speaker 9: If I am to help you, you will all sit down.
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  Speaker 9: Sit at that table there. I understand there is little
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  Speaker 9: time to lose... I must know the whole story, the truth,
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  Speaker 9: if I am to help you.
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  Speaker 4: Do as the Shadow says. Sit there, Martin.
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  Speaker 9: And you, there, Dubril.
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  Speaker 10: Well, why don't you talk back, Dubril?
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  Speaker 9: Be quiet, Martin. Dr. Evans, I will help you if
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  Speaker 9: I can. But there is one gap in the chain
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  Speaker 9: of events leading up to this moment.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you anything I know, Shadow.
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  Speaker 9: Then tell me this. When and under what circumstance did
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  Speaker 9: Covey first threaten your lives?
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  Speaker 6: It was the last day we spent in the open
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  Speaker 6: boat in which we escaped from Devil's Island 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 6: Storms had blown us off our course. Our food was gone.
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  Speaker 6: Our water was exhausted. Covey, the only one who knew
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  Speaker 6: how to navigate, was... Well, he was slowly dying from
• 14:13
  Speaker 6: hunger and thirst.
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  Speaker 4: He'll remember his time.
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  Speaker 8: Water!
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  Speaker 11: Water! Water!
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  Speaker 7: Oh, be quiet, Corvée.
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  Speaker 9: There is no water.
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  Speaker 7: The cask is empty.
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  Speaker 6: You're lying, Dubril.
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  Speaker 7: All of you.
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  Speaker 6: You've been drinking my share.
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  Speaker 7: Give me that bucket.
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  Speaker 13: Give me a drink of that water.
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  Speaker 4: Don't let it go. Don't let it go. Salt water
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  Speaker 4: will kill him.
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  Speaker 7: What does it matter, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Evans? Seventeen days in this open boat.
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  Speaker 7: Nights of storm and days of blazing heat.
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  Speaker 4: Water.
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  Speaker 11: Water.
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  Speaker 6: I'm dying, I tell you. Dying.
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  Speaker 7: You're not giving me my share.
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  Speaker 13: You're stealing my water.
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  Speaker 4: Water.
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  Speaker 7: Where will you be if I die?
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  Speaker 13: I'm the only one that knows navigation.
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  Speaker 4: Be patient, Kobe.
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  Speaker 6: It may rain tonight.
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  Speaker 7: We might as well be back on Devil's Island. At
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: least there was bread and water there.
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  Speaker 9: Bread?
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  Speaker 10: Bread? A crust?
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  Speaker 7: Just a crust of bread and water?
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  Speaker 11: Water?
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  Speaker 6: There's no bread, Kobe. The last crust went three days ago.
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  Speaker 9: You're cheating me.
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  Speaker 7: You're cheating me.
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  Speaker 13: You only brought me along to steer the boat. Now
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  Speaker 13: you're starving me to death. You don't want me to live.
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  Speaker 13: But I will live. I'll get you for this. I'll
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  Speaker 13: live to kill every one of.
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  Speaker 6: You for this.
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  Speaker 9: You, Dubry.
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  Speaker 4: You, Martin.
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  Speaker 9: You, Evans.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, shut him up, Evans. You're a doctor. You know
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  Speaker 7: what to do.
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  Speaker 9: Look.
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  Speaker 7: Right there, Dubry.
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  Speaker 11: Look. Seagulls.
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  Speaker 7: What does it matter if we have no guns?
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  Speaker 4: I know, but don't you see?
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  Speaker 6: The gulls never go far from land or a ship.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you're right, Evan.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: Look.
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  Speaker 10: Look to the west.
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  Speaker 7: It's land.
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  Speaker 11: Land at last. All right.
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  Speaker 7: There, to the southwest. You can see the sun of
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  Speaker 7: the mountains.
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  Speaker 4: We're saved. Free at last.
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  Speaker 9: Come back.
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  Speaker 7: Come back.
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  Speaker 9: Sit up. Sit up. Look, look.
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  Speaker 7: We've sighted land.
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  Speaker 6: There'll be food and water ready for everybody. You tried
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  Speaker 6: to kill me.
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  Speaker 7: Targed me to death.
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  Speaker 13: But I'm going to live. I'm going to live until
• 16:05
  Speaker 13: the last one of you is dead.
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  Speaker 2: Dead.
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  Speaker 8: Dead.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: Yes, he threatened all three of us.
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: And so you see, that's how it all began.
• 16:14
  Speaker 10: And now Covey is free and out to get.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: Us, Shadow.
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: But what makes you so sure it is Covey?
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: Well, it couldn't be anyone else.
• 16:22
  Speaker 10: It's Covey, all right. He sent you real, that thing
• 16:25
  Speaker 10: on the table.
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: That oblong box? Yes, Shadow. Notice its shape.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: It's a miniature coffin, beautifully carved. Covey was a woodcarver.
• 16:34
  Speaker 10: He was always handy with a knife.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: But still, it does not follow that he.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Was the one.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: Except for one thing, Shadow. When the lid of the
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: coffin is raised, it's the music box. And that tune
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: it's playing was a warning signal we used while planning
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: our escape from Devil's Island.
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: Remember, only the four of us knew it. Dubril, Covey, Evans,
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: and myself.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, stop it, Evans.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: Stop that cursed thing. Stop it, I tell you. I
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: can't stand it.
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: So you have a conscience, eh, Dubril? That danger refrain
• 17:03
  Speaker 10: recalls the past, doesn't it?
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Stop talking about it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: It looks as though Covey meant business, doesn't it?
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: Don't sit there conniving over me. You forget your turn,
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: maybe next, maybe tonight even.
• 17:13
  Speaker 10: I am not forgetting anything, Dubril.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: You'd better steady yourself, Dubril.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: I'll get you a drink.
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: Never mind. Here's the decanter. I'll pour it myself. Oh,
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: that tune! Where is it coming from? I smashed the coffin.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: Good heavens, Dubril!
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: It's the decanter in your hands.
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: Good heavens!
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: Someone, someone change the decanter.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: Covey, he did it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: He's here. He's been in his house tonight. Give me
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: a way to go. To my room.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: I don't trust anybody. I'll be safe there behind locked doors, alone.
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: And if Covey comes, I'll.
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: Be ready for him. Wait a minute, wait. Let him go, Dr. Evans.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: But he shouldn't be left alone.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: Covey may carry out his threat.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: Are you sure it is, Covey?
• 17:49
  Speaker 10: What do you mean?
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: It must be.
• 17:51
  Speaker 10: It couldn't be anyone else. The coffin, the decanters are
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: his warning.
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: I know. I know. But you said the four of
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: you knew the signal. Are you sure it isn't one
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: of you?
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Of course not.
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: I thought you said the shadow was here to help us.
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: I am. But I am content to let events lead
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: themselves to a logical conclusion.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: You mean you won't use your power to save us
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: from him?
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: I shall use my power at the moment it is required, Dr. Evans.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: Right now, for instance. Look on the table. Huh? There's
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: a note where the decanter was standing.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Good heavens!
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Goubert has been here!
• 18:34
  Speaker 16: Listen to this matter. You are the first. And you
• 18:39
  Speaker 16: will die tonight, Raymond Gibril. Ladies and gentlemen, the shadow
• 18:48
  Speaker 16: will return in a moment. There are thousands of families
• 18:51
  Speaker 16: living around snowbound Buffalo today who are as snug as
• 18:54
  Speaker 16: a bug in a rug thanks to blue coal. You
• 18:57
  Speaker 16: have read how the whole city of Buffalo has been
• 19:00
  Speaker 16: literally snowed in. In that entire area, business practically came
• 19:04
  Speaker 16: to a standstill for several days. But those families who
• 19:07
  Speaker 16: laid in their supply of blue coal kept comfortable. The icy,
• 19:11
  Speaker 16: biting winter blowing outdoors made no difference to them. These
• 19:15
  Speaker 16: storms are reported to be coming eastward, so take a
• 19:18
  Speaker 16: tip and get ready. Put in a supply of blue
• 19:21
  Speaker 16: coal tomorrow. It is the most economical fuel that you
• 19:24
  Speaker 16: can use. Furnaces, parlor stoves, and cooking ranges in New
• 19:28
  Speaker 16: England were designed to use anthracite. And blue coal is
• 19:32
  Speaker 16: America's finest anthracite. Blue coal is mined by the Glen
• 19:36
  Speaker 16: Alden Coal Company and is especially prepared.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: For home use.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: It is available in all domestic sizes, egg, stove, chestnut,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: and pea. Every carload of blue coal is laboratory tested
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: for purity and safety. sizing before shipment from the mine.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Blue coal burns steadily and evenly, sending a full supply
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: of heat to the living quarters of your home, even
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: in the most severe weather. Get set for winter tomorrow
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: by ordering blue coal. You will find the name of
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: your nearest blue coal dealer in the where to buy
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: it section of your classified telephone directory under the name
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Blue Coal.
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: You brille. You brille. Wake up. I have come for you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: So you've come, Covey. Oh, you poor deluded fool. You
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: think I'd let you kill me in my sleep? I've
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: been awake, waiting here in the dark for you to come.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: A little light, huh? So you've grown a beard since
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: I saw you last, Covey. And your hair is gray.
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: That gun in your hand won't save you, Dubril. If
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: I die, I will take you with me.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Listen, Gouvet.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: I didn't steal your food in the open boat. I
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: swear it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: No.
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: You also betrayed me to the police. You told them
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: where to find me. And I am not the only
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: one you betrayed, am I, Dubril? You betrayed Martin the
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: time he tried to escape alone, didn't you, Dubril?
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, but what do you care, Covey? He wouldn't
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: take me with him. But I did not betray you.
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: Have you paid Martin for those hundred lashes and those
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: hundred days of bread and water he got because you
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: betrayed him?
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Oh, he doesn't know. He will never know it was I.
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: Dubril, you remember how we passed the long days in
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: that open boat throwing knives?
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: Don't raise that knife, Covey.
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: We got so good we seldom missed.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: I'll shoot if you move.
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: But Martin was the best. You may shoot me, Dubrier,
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: but my knife won't miss.
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: Oh, wait.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Wait a minute, Covey. I will make a deal with you.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Listen, Covey.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: You're out to get Evans and Martin, too. If you
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: throw that knife, I'll shoot you and you will never
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: get them.
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: Oh, you would help me kill Evans. I know he's
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: here in the house.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: Yes, yes, yes, sir.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: I hate Evans and Martin, too. I will help you
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: get them.
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: So, you would betray Dr. Evans to save yourself, Dubrier.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: The Shadow.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Covey, don't be afraid. He's only a man. By some
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: trick he can make himself invisible, but he's flesh and blood. Quick,
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: lock the door. We'll deal with him first. He won't
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: get out. Now, now, Shadow. What can you do to
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: stop us?
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: Speak up.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: I dare you to speak.
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: Listen where his voice comes from, Dubril. Then shoot quickly.
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: No, no, no.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: The shot would bring Evans and Martin.
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: Throw your knife, Covey.
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: Make him speak.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I won't miss.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: Speak up, Shadow. We will find you anywhere. You can't
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: get out.
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: I am here. In the corner.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: In the far corner.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: Throw your knife, Covey. I heard him.
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: You missed.
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: But he was there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: No. Only my voice was there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Intriloquism.
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: He's there in front of you to breathe. Shoot, shoot.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: Yes, I will shoot now. Yes, I will shoot. But
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: not the shadow. He came here to help us catch you, Covey.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: And he has your knife.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: It's gone.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: Now, Covey, you are helpless. And now I'll deal with you.
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: Treacherous snake.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: You fool.
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: You think I carry only one knife? This one is
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: for you.
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: Oh, you devil.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: But I take you with me for that.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: Brielle.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Brielle. Brielle, open the door. Brielle.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Brielle.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Brielle.
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: Brielle is dead, Dr.
• 23:25
  Speaker 13: Evans.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Covey's kept his word. Where is he?
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: Look there, on the floor by the window. Covey?
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: That Covey?
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: Dubril tried to save his life by promising to help
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: that man kill you. Dubril?
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Dubril offered to help Covey kill me?
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: Look closely, Dr. Evans. Remove the gray wig and the
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: false beard.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Wig?
• 23:50
  Speaker 15: Beard?
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: It's Martin!
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: Yes. Martin, disguised as Covey... Still alive. Breathing.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Get away from me, Evans.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: Don't touch me.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: I hate you.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: I hate you both.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Why did you do this, Pierre?
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: I hated Dubril because he betrayed me on Devil's Island.
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: I hated you, Evans, because you have got the things
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: that I always wanted. Success, fame, glory. It was I
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: sent the musical coffin. The warning note. I knew you'd
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: think it was Kobe. I've got to breathe, but Colby
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: will get you, Evans.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: He's after you.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: He will get you.
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: He will kill you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: He will.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Martha, Martha!
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: Stop breathing. Dead? Yes, Dr. Evans. He is dead.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: You are quite safe now. You forget Colby?
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: No, Dr. Evans. I knew, even when I phoned you today,
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: that it was not Colby who sent the musical coffin.
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: What?
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: I knew it was not Colby... It had to be
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: Martin or Dubril.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Why didn't you stop them?
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: Martin and Dubril were both criminals plotting to kill you.
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: If I'd stopped them, your life would have been in
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: danger as long as they lived. Hating you always for
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: having attained the things that life denied them.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: But you forget, Shadow. Covey may find me. Succeed where
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Martin failed.
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: Never. I learned the whole history of all of you
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: before I saw you. Yes? Everything, Dr. Evans. Your escape
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: from Devil's Island after Dubril's betrayal of Martin that resulted
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: in the Hundred Lashes... and his resolve for vengeance. And
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: from the authorities at Devil's Island, I learned the truth
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: about Covey's last escape.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, I see now. I see now why he hated us.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: But what about Covey?
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: You are safe now, Dr. Evans. Safe from Covey. The
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: chain of logic is complete. Three months ago, a bleached
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: skeleton was found on a deserted beach at Trinidad. It
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: has just been identified... as the body of Covey.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Before we tell you of the Shadow's next exciting adventure,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: here's John Barclay, Blue Coal's famous heating expert. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: Barclay.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Good evening, friends.
• 26:06
  Speaker 14: While you're doing your Christmas shopping, why not get a
• 26:09
  Speaker 14: gift for your own home?
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Something will not only.
• 26:12
  Speaker 14: Make it a cheerier, happier place in which to live,
• 26:14
  Speaker 14: but also make it easier to run. To my mind,
• 26:17
  Speaker 14: the perfect gift for any home is a blue coal
• 26:18
  Speaker 14: heat regulator. This marvelous thermostat provides the last word in comfort.
• 26:24
  Speaker 14: For example, there's no running up and down stairs to
• 26:26
  Speaker 14: open and close dampers. The blue coal thermostat does that
• 26:29
  Speaker 14: tiresome job automatically. Keeps your home at just the temperature
• 26:33
  Speaker 14: you want from morning till night. Can be attached to
• 26:37
  Speaker 14: any kind of heating equipment. Steam, hot air, hot water,
• 26:40
  Speaker 14: even a parlor heater. It'll give you more uniform heat,
• 26:44
  Speaker 14: more economical heat than you can get with the most
• 26:46
  Speaker 14: expensive oil burner. In fact, this blue coal heat regulator
• 26:50
  Speaker 14: will completely modernize your present heating equipment. Yet it costs
• 26:55
  Speaker 14: only $ 18. 95 plus a small installation charge. You'll be amazed
• 27:01
  Speaker 14: at the amount of fuel it saves you. So this Christmas,
• 27:04
  Speaker 14: give your family the gift of a lifetime, a blue
• 27:07
  Speaker 14: coal heat regulator. Your nearest blue coal dealer will be
• 27:11
  Speaker 14: glad to give you complete information regarding it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: Phone him tomorrow.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Ken Roberts. Thank you, Mr. Barclay. And friends,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: take Mr. Barclay's good advice.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Make this Christmas a memorable one by having a blue
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: coal heat regulator installed in your home. You'll save at
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: small cost time and time again in fuel consumption. And
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: you'll make your home a happier, healthier place in which
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: to live. So don't wait. Phone your nearest blue coal
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: dealer tomorrow. The story you have just heard is copyrighted
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: by the Shadow Magazine. The characters in this story are
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: entirely fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead is
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: purely coincidental. And at this time, may I remind you
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: to mail your Christmas presents and cards early to secure
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: delivery before December 24th. There will be no post office
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: service on December 25th.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: The shadow knows.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal, America's finest anthracite,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: will again present another thrilling adventure of the shadow.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Be sure to listen.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Don't forget, next week, same time, same station, another thrilling
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: adventure of the shadow presented by America's finest anthracite, blue coal.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: And be sure to burn blue coal, the solid fuel
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: for solid comfort.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: We've heard the shadow in the death triangle. Follow the
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: shadow for more classic broadcasts.