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The Shadow - "The Ghost Building" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Jerome Need is preparing to open the Immense Coast Building
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  Speaker 1: when a mysterious enemy warns that the project will bring
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  Speaker 1: death and vengeance. Construction accidents and public threats cast fear
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  Speaker 1: over the new skyscraper, drawing Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane
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  Speaker 1: into an investigation of the building, its tenants and needs.
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  Speaker 1: Passed from January twelfth, nineteen forty one. It is the
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  Speaker 1: Shadow The Ghost Building episode number two hundred ten, heard
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  Speaker 1: on Mutual and sponsored by Blue Coal. Bill Johnstone stars
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  Speaker 1: as Lamont Cranston with Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane. And
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  Speaker 1: now we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Who Knows what evils in the heart of men? The
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  Speaker 2: Shadow not.
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  Speaker 3: The thrilling adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
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  Speaker 3: brought to you each week by the Blue Coal Dealers
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  Speaker 3: of America. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate, forcibly to
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  Speaker 3: old and young alightened, that crime does not pay.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is Jean Paul King pinchetting
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  Speaker 3: for his sick pal Ken Roberts and telling you that
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  Speaker 3: the Shadow starts his adventure in just a moment. But first,
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  Speaker 3: are you starting off the right way these cold winter mornings.
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  Speaker 3: Does your furnace send up quick heat the moment you
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  Speaker 3: open the drafts?
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  Speaker 2: It will if you burn blue coal. What's more, with
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  Speaker 2: blue coal, you.
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  Speaker 3: Will have a truly comfortable, well heated home all day long.
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  Speaker 3: So next time you order fuel, be sure to ask
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  Speaker 3: for blue coal.
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  Speaker 2: You can get blue coal.
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  Speaker 3: And free information on low cost home heating from your
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  Speaker 3: neighborhood blue coal dealer. Give him a call first thing
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  Speaker 3: in the morning. The Shadow, mysterious character who aids the
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  Speaker 3: forces of law and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 3: wealthy young man about town. As the Shadow, Cranston is
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  Speaker 3: gifted with hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so that
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  Speaker 3: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 3: Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 3: the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs. Today's story the
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  Speaker 3: Ghost Building.
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  Speaker 4: Your needs speaking.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, we just completed pictures of the ground this morning.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, And in your story you can say that
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  Speaker 5: the building we intend to erect be the largest and
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  Speaker 5: finest in the world. We're calling it the Coast Building.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, not at all. Goodbye, all this cows and I.
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  Speaker 4: Who are you? What are you doing in here?
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  Speaker 6: No, no, mister Need, don't get excited.
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  Speaker 4: Who are you?
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  Speaker 6: You're the head of the construction company of this proposed
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  Speaker 6: new coast building, are you not?
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  Speaker 5: That's right now. Look, if you're a reporter, I've already given.
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  Speaker 6: The sin a reporter and come here to warn you
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  Speaker 6: not to erect that building.
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  Speaker 4: Oh listen.
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  Speaker 5: If this is a prank, it's some pretty porticou.
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  Speaker 6: This is not a prank. It's simply a forecast of
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  Speaker 6: death and torture if the present plans go through.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know who you are, nor do I take
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  Speaker 5: any stuck in your.
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  Speaker 6: Fucking I'm sorry, but you're wrong on both counts.
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  Speaker 2: My forecast will must come true. And you do know me,
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  Speaker 2: oh from where?
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  Speaker 7: From the past.
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  Speaker 6: It's like wonder that you don't recognize me after all
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  Speaker 6: this time. But one day, Jerome Need, you will remember
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  Speaker 6: me all too well. You'll pay me back in full
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  Speaker 6: all that you owe me.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, watch yourself, you almost missed that rivet.
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  Speaker 5: I was just thinking, ain't supposed to think you're supposed
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  Speaker 5: to catch rivet?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking. Here's from now. When my
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  Speaker 2: kid says to me, what did you have to do
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  Speaker 2: with putting up the largest bill in the world. And
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  Speaker 2: you'll seg what I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Say, I throw of it and I got the rift,
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  Speaker 1: and a guy throw of it, and I got the rivet.
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  Speaker 5: Then a guy throw a river touch that when it's
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  Speaker 5: coming down.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't see to you nor me like that. Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Look at watch out a barber swinging the girder.
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  Speaker 5: And my boss, look at that light up there as
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  Speaker 5: back it's turned. You don't see the gut stop but
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  Speaker 5: praying quick forgot the perfect bod.
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  Speaker 2: But Ghana get hit him.
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  Speaker 3: He hit him what his pal?
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  Speaker 5: Too many die and that's what too many die on
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  Speaker 5: this job. You got to take chances in this business.
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  Speaker 5: To me, I don't too many dead men in the
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  Speaker 5: foundation of this building. Now, I got honor and the
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  Speaker 5: kids to think about.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, you're talking, screwy.
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  Speaker 2: We're safe enough here than them guys out on the street.
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  Speaker 2: Besides that, and them kids.
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  Speaker 5: Got to eat, don't They sure don't worry. I feed them,
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  Speaker 5: but not from this job. I'm going below and quit now.
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  Speaker 5: This cost of building is jinx. Okay, good luck, Joe,
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  Speaker 5: Yeah along, kids, how aldom Joe, Hey, watch your step Joe,
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  Speaker 5: hold on.
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  Speaker 7: Hold him on.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you couldn't come. I'm sorry, I'm late, Margo.
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  Speaker 8: You know there's nothing duller than a dedication ceremony.
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  Speaker 6: I'm beginning to think I'd have to sit through it
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  Speaker 6: all alone.
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  Speaker 2: That's a fine thing to say, Margot, when I'm about
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  Speaker 2: to introduce you to Robert Lewis, the architect who designed
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  Speaker 2: this coach business, Dear, where do you think you'd like
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  Speaker 2: to meet miss Lane? After that remark?
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  Speaker 9: Ball, of course I would.
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  Speaker 7: I even agree with his statement, how do you do?
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  Speaker 7: Miss Lay?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, mister Lewis, Hey, this is a distinguished gathering. Look
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  Speaker 2: who's among those presidents? A good police commissioner? Hello that Wesson? Hello,
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  Speaker 2: mak Hello Bob Lewis. Yes, glad to say, mister Lawis,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you missioner. Now it brings you here, commissioner duty, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Doty please?
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  Speaker 5: Things bore me stiff. It waste half a day listening
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  Speaker 5: to an old stuffed shirt like Jerome mead. Take a
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  Speaker 5: lot of bows and watch them lay a cornerstone.
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  Speaker 8: Why, commissioner, is that a nice way to talk about
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  Speaker 8: one of our leading citizens?
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  Speaker 5: Leading citizen in my eye?
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  Speaker 2: Need?
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  Speaker 4: Is this crooked? As a cork screw all.
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  Speaker 5: If he didn't hold a high political office, the judge
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  Speaker 5: would have thrown the book out of years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Rather, he's your friend, Mitter Need.
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  Speaker 5: Now, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to
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  Speaker 5: dedicate this Laurius enter this.
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  Speaker 10: Although there were several.
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  Speaker 11: Unappointable delays in the building construction, we have still finished
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  Speaker 11: on schedule, and today I am justly proud to present
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  Speaker 11: to our fair city the world's largest and most modern structure.
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  Speaker 2: I would like it this time. We're not for your life.
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  Speaker 2: What someone's cutting on the public addresses.
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  Speaker 8: What is no one standing beside the Need.
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  Speaker 5: I shall continue your speech for you and tell the
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  Speaker 5: truth about this great.
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  Speaker 2: Building of your way. That boy it's coming from it
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  Speaker 2: is useless to buy me. Oh, you just have to listen,
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  Speaker 2: and let's hear what he has to say. Margo, that's better.
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  Speaker 12: Many months ago I wanted Jerome Need not to try
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  Speaker 12: to erect the Coast Building.
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  Speaker 11: These warnings were not heeded. In reciting the glories of
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  Speaker 11: this building, Lester Need did not mention one.
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  Speaker 6: Very important thing that went into its construction.
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  Speaker 4: Human life.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, human life.
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  Speaker 5: The found You know this building is not all steel
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  Speaker 5: brick and concrete.
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  Speaker 4: There are also.
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  Speaker 12: Blood blood the men who died during its construction.
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  Speaker 2: That's from that to wh quiet.
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  Speaker 6: I have a lot of warnings for you your own needs,
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  Speaker 6: and all.
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  Speaker 4: Of you listening shall be my witnesses.
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  Speaker 12: The ghost of those men who died will return to
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  Speaker 12: haunt the Coast Building. In fact, they are too long,
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  Speaker 12: the Coast Building well being known as the Ghost Building.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good afternoon, Good afternoon him, mister Cranston is mister
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  Speaker 2: Lewis and greeze.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yes, come come ride, and he's expecting you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Bob, mister Cranston is here roto.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Bob's uncle John.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how do you do, sir? This is miss Slave
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  Speaker 2: how well?
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  Speaker 9: Bob?
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  Speaker 13: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Won't you come on into the study?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I have some tea prepared, Bob.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Uncle John right in here, Lamont, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 2: Has anyone learned how that voice cut in on mister
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  Speaker 2: Need's speech yesterday? Bob?
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  Speaker 14: Yes, whoever it was hooked up another mic and the
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  Speaker 14: line inside the building.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I see, but you haven't learned his identity.
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  Speaker 7: No, won't you sit down? Please?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you?
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  Speaker 14: Frankly, I'm worried, Lamont I'm worried because the Coast Building
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  Speaker 14: has meant.
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  Speaker 7: Everything to me.
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  Speaker 14: I uh, I don't know if I've ever told you
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  Speaker 14: my earlier life, Lamont, No you haven't, Bob Well.
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  Speaker 7: I was brought up in an orphanage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: The only reason I tell you this is so that
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  Speaker 14: you might understand how important this job has been to me.
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  Speaker 14: You see, ever since I left the home, my one
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  Speaker 14: ambition was to find success as an.
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  Speaker 2: Architect, which you certainly have.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I thought so until yesterday, But now I'm not
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  Speaker 7: so sure.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean, Bob Well?
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  Speaker 14: If the Coast Building turns off, is that voice predicted?
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  Speaker 14: If it is jinxed, then all my hosts are ruined.
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  Speaker 8: But surely you're not going to let an idle thread
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  Speaker 8: ball this great triumph.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think it was an idle threat.
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  Speaker 2: Well why do you say that?
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  Speaker 14: Well, let me show you this personal message that I
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  Speaker 14: discovered in this afternoon paper. I chanced on it in
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  Speaker 14: the classified section.
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  Speaker 7: Herey Lamas, read this? Where is it right there?
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  Speaker 2: Right at the bottom pool? Oh yes, to Henry Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: president of H. P. Johnson Corporation. This is not a warning.
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  Speaker 2: It is a forecast, the first of many to come.
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  Speaker 2: The ghosts of those who died that the Coast Building
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  Speaker 2: might be erected will return today to claim their own.
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  Speaker 7: Johnson has a suite of offices in that building.
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  Speaker 2: But surely a thread as public as that couldn't be
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  Speaker 2: carried out. Has anyone notified Johnson?
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  Speaker 14: I tried to reach him on the phone, but he
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  Speaker 14: was busy, so I left word for him to call
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  Speaker 14: me back.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps we should go over there, and oh this may be?
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  Speaker 7: Is he no?
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Oh? Yes, mister need what what I see?
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  Speaker 2: I'll be right over.
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  Speaker 4: What's the trouble?
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  Speaker 14: Bob Henryson has just been found in his private office
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  Speaker 14: in the Coast.
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  Speaker 8: Building, stabbed to death, gone down seventy flock, Well, I
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  Speaker 8: can crowd in here, some three of the complaints.
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  Speaker 2: We'll make room boy bell, Fred, aren't you going home
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  Speaker 2: a little early?
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  Speaker 4: We'll tell you the truth, Fred.
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  Speaker 5: I read that Cristol in the paper today, the one
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  Speaker 5: forecast death to everyone using the express elevator at exactly
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  Speaker 5: five o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: So I figured i'd beat the rush. Superstitious, No careful.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's a good thing that you're not superstitious, because
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  Speaker 5: your watch is wrong.
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  Speaker 2: It's exactly five o'clock. Now five o'clock. Listen, everybody six
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  Speaker 2: not a home.
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  Speaker 6: This is the last one that I'm gonna wash. See
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  Speaker 6: fifty five starties, just high up.
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  Speaker 7: Steph Grembling. Will you listen? Did you see the paper
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  Speaker 7: this morning?
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  Speaker 2: There was an ad in it.
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  Speaker 6: See that ad says a winder clean is going to
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  Speaker 6: do a broady sometime today.
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  Speaker 2: And brother, I just ain't going to be that guy.
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  Speaker 5: No, sir, Hey, hey, my safety built bust he come here,
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  Speaker 5: hand it.
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  Speaker 8: I can't read your gods and the Coast Building tenants
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  Speaker 8: moving out?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, read all about it.
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  Speaker 8: Coast Building become the Coast Building.
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  Speaker 2: Xtra x.
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  Speaker 5: I lock, mister need I didn't ask you down to
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  Speaker 5: headquarters to get your opinion on what's legal and what
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  Speaker 5: isn't legal.
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  Speaker 2: It goes for you too, mister Lewis Summissioner. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: arguing with you at all.
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  Speaker 7: All right, it's both Miss Lane and mister Cranston here. No,
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  Speaker 7: I'm just as anxious to solve this mystery as you are.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. Commiss all right, Cranston, just let me handle this.
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  Speaker 5: But I can't say that I think much of your
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  Speaker 5: handling so far. Western No, No, mister Need Well, suppose
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: you toy with this little statement for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 5: I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder. Why of all,
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  Speaker 5: what are you racist on commission?
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  Speaker 4: Have you got anything? Wait a minute, all of you.
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  Speaker 5: I've got a story to tell. It won't take long,
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  Speaker 5: but it definitely links you, mister Need, with these mysterious debts.
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  Speaker 5: Oh this is ridiculous, but go ahead, let's see your accusation.
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  Speaker 5: I've been checking the newspapers to learn who was sending
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  Speaker 5: in those fatal ads in the personal column, and I
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  Speaker 5: learned that they'd been sent from various substations and paid
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  Speaker 5: for by postal.
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  Speaker 2: Money orders signed by different aliases.
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  Speaker 4: Why does that care suspicion on me?
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  Speaker 5: Well, in the first place, Need, I've known you as
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  Speaker 5: a crook for many years. Why is you what your
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: fatal mistake was brought about by overconfidence? You see, the
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  Speaker 5: newspapers on orders from me, did not publish the last
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  Speaker 5: warning they received.
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  Speaker 4: They turned it over to me. What are you driving
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  Speaker 4: at Wester?
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  Speaker 5: This particular warning was addressed to Duel Seaborn, president of
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  Speaker 5: Sebonn and Eddie, one of the few remaining tenants in
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  Speaker 5: the building. It said that he'd be killed this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Have you won, mister Seaburn.
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  Speaker 4: Not personally.
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  Speaker 5: I left word form to contact me. However, the warning
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  Speaker 5: wasn't necessary because I have the would be murderer here.
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  Speaker 4: In my office. Western. I demand you know why you
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  Speaker 4: say that?
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  Speaker 2: Becauses I said.
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  Speaker 1: Before all the confidence led to your fatal make This
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  Speaker 1: last message to the papers was paid for by a
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  Speaker 1: money order signed by a person.
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  Speaker 2: Named Dean d E E M.
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  Speaker 7: Dean.
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  Speaker 2: Now do you understand? Obviously Dean is need felled backwards?
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  Speaker 5: Dean, Eh, I'm beginning to understand. Tell me Western, was
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  Speaker 5: there any first initial accompanied the name of Dean as
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  Speaker 5: if you didn't know, Yes, my friend, the first initial
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  Speaker 5: was j J for Jerome or so John Dee.
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  Speaker 4: But he was the one who warned me not to
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  Speaker 4: put up the Coast building. He said, you pay me
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  Speaker 4: back to what you owe me.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you talking about me?
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  Speaker 5: I can't say just, you can't say you're under arrest
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  Speaker 5: for murder, and you can't say hello, Commissioner Western.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking hello commission Then is this Joe Sebon you call me?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Sivon I did? I thought you ought to know that.
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  Speaker 5: I intercepted a newspaper ad today that or cast your
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  Speaker 5: being the next victim in the coast building.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, I see, well, I wouldn't worry about that, I iro,
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  Speaker 15: No one is going to kill me in the middle
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  Speaker 15: of the afternoon the world's largest office building. Besides, my
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  Speaker 15: secretary's right outside the door, and she.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Who's that?
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  Speaker 4: What do you want here? See? What places is that?
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  Speaker 8: Gun?
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  Speaker 4: I said?
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  Speaker 7: Put the.
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  Speaker 4: S B. I told you I was innocent.
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner, Well, commissioner, who's your murderer? Now?
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  Speaker 3: More from the ghost building in just a moment. But first,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: are you looking for a home heating plan that will
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: really give you your money's worth? Of course you are,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: and that's why I recommend blue coal. For blue coal
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: is America's hard coal, and no.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Doubt about it. You see, blue coal.
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  Speaker 3: Comes from the very heart of Pennsylvania's richest anthracite region mine,
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  Speaker 3: deep down in the earth where only the best hard
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: coal is bound.
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  Speaker 2: Consequently, blue coal.
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  Speaker 3: Distributes a steady flow of even burning, long lasting, healthful
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  Speaker 3: heat from cellar to attic.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, a blue coal fire will keep you.
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  Speaker 3: Warm and comfortable, and he'll safeguard your family against coals
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  Speaker 3: caused by chili or underheated rooms.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: So fill your bin with.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Blue coal, and when ordering, ask your dealer about the
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: blue Coal automatic heat regulator. It controls the heat in
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: your home by automatically opening and closing furnace dampers.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, blue coal and.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: A blue coal heat regulator working together make the modern
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: combination for real comfort and real economy. This is part
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: of the blue Coal plan for better heat at less costs.
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  Speaker 3: Give your neighborhood dealer a call tomorrow. His name is
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: listed in the where to buy It section of your
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  Speaker 3: classified telephone directory under.
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  Speaker 2: The word blue Coal. And now we returned to the
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  Speaker 2: ghost building. I realized that there's a slight penalty for
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: illegal entry, Margo, but it must be done well.
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  Speaker 6: I'd like to know how you came by that bunch
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: of skeleton keys lamon.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Why in my spare time I whittle in your spare time?
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Here we are.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: May I have that flashlight? Please? Thank you. You better
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: stay close to me, Margo. With all these murders that
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: have occurred here in the ghost building, it's just possible
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: that what I seek in mister Lewis's office may be
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: pretty well guarded.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: I won't stray, don't worry. Well, let's have a look
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: in this desk.
• 17:57
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'll the flash for you, Yes, please command, that's
• 18:03
  Speaker 13: a watchman or someone should see this light.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: They only checked this floor once an hour and made
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: sure that well. Well, like so far, what are you
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: looking for a very important bit of evidence that I
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: hope to find him? But it doesn't seem to hell?
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: What's this?
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Is that what you were after? This letter? No, it
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: isn't what I came after. But nonetheless it's just about
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: cinces the case.
• 18:30
  Speaker 13: Why what did it?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I haven't even looked at its contents. The address and
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the envelope is all that I need. I'll show you
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: what you're doing here, Shaddy, Mago, answer me? Why are
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: you here? If you take that mask off your face,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I might answer you. You'll answer me now I'll shoot now. Look,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: we haven't any put out that facelight, Mago dot why
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: you ah? No, it's no use, Margo. He's gotten away
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and we can't break through this panel. Where could he
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: have gone? Be somewhere behind this wall. If you see
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: that trail of blood leaning across the floor, I must
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: have wounded him. What can we do? I know what
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: you can do, Margo. Contact Commissioner Western at once, tell
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: him to send a squad a mento the ghost building,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: because I'm certain that another murder will soon occur. But
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: where are you going? I'm going to pay a call
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: on Robert Lewis's home as the shadow Uncle John?
• 19:40
  Speaker 13: Uncle John?
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: Is that you? So?
• 19:43
  Speaker 15: He came in.
• 19:45
  Speaker 14: And let me see the windows in the ground floor
• 19:49
  Speaker 14: space for a store.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Sorry to interrupt your work, mister Lewis.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Who was?
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Who's speaking to me?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I am as the shadow? Or are you?
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: I don't see anyone.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I'm standing right beside you, mister Lewis, But you needn't
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: bother to look for me. By my hypnotic power, I've
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: made myself quite invisible to your eyes. Why are you here?
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: What do you want to me?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I would like to know where your uncle is, why
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: he's out. Then perhaps you can tell me what I
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: wish to know about him.
• 20:23
  Speaker 16: What is it?
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Is he really your uncle, mister Lewis?
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: Of course, of course he is.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: You're lying, I'll see here. I don't know the man
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: that you call your uncle is, in reality your father.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Isn't this true? And you are not Robert Lewis. You
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: are Robert Dean, the son of John Dean, the man
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: you call your uncle.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about, then perhaps if I.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Remind you of a letter it will help. A letter
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: addressed to you with the Orphanage postmark nineteen hundred eight.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I found it in your office.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, dare you rifle my office?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I checked for the orphanage and found that a Robert
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Dean had been left there in nineteen hundred eight at
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: the age of three, after his mother had died and
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: his father had been sent to prison to serve a
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: forty year term. He was sentenced for a tempted murder
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: on the person of Jerome Need, his business associate.
• 21:11
  Speaker 16: You you learned all this.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Your father was released in October of nineteen forty for
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: good behavior, and he has since made good his revenge
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: on Jerome Needs. You can't prove that, Oh, but I can.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: By the money order that he signed with the name J. D.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Jerome Need could identify him too. Why do you do
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: this to me because you share your father's guilt. Your
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: complicity helped him perform the murder. No. No, you built
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: those secret passageways in the building. And I have an
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: idea that you even have blueprints, secret blueprints of your work.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Now where are they?
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: You'll never get those?
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, you have them. Then in that draw that you
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: involuntarily reached.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: Keep away from me.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: You shall never get those Oh yes, I don't put
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: out that right too late as the shadow. Not too
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: late to see those prints and take them to Ma,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: give them back to them. You don't never get them now, No,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: then you won't get the horse. Course. I hated letting
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Lewis get away, but at least I have the blueprints. Margo. Yeah,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: take a look at them.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: What are those circle's?
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Number?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Well, number one was Johnson's office. Number two the elevator chaft.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Number three the window ledge from which the cleaner fell.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Number four Seaborne's office.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: But what is number five?
• 22:29
  Speaker 16: That circle two?
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: Wait?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I looked below. That's the conference room of the border crustees.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: That must be the planned scene of the next murder.
• 22:38
  Speaker 13: Oh lamon, do you really think of of course.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Margo, if another vicious killing is to be a verdict,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: we must get to the ghost building at once. Come along, Margo,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Western's right down here.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: My mom.
• 22:54
  Speaker 12: I wonder why the commissioner has stationed so many police
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: on this conference room floor.
• 22:58
  Speaker 13: This something's happened.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I hope we're not too late. Well,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: there's Western Commissioner.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, not so loud, grandson.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: There's a meeting going on in there.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I know that's why I'm here. You've got to stop
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: that meeting and once, Oh is that so?
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Look, question, I happen to know that the next murder,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: all murders in this building will take place in that room.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Oh you mean the ten board members all together.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Somebody's going to sneaky in there and.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Stab the ball. I'm telling you the truth, Commissioner, and
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you the truth.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Leaden.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: His directors are holding a meeting in there, and the
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: their request.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: They're not going to be disturbed.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: And that's my order.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: And Commissioner, you know how I love to break your order.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Get away.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Oh no, it's the person I have on this question.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Put a handkerchief to your patient. Once this room is
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: full of a poisonous star.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Holy Moses, was open the windows quickly?
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Those man I'll be alive. There's the chase that they
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: might be.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: How was it done? I don't talk to you for
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: there we go.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: We're taking as much of this as we can stand.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Come on, I was right there, You're right Western, Yes,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: get some in in there. Bring the directors are help?
• 24:04
  Speaker 13: What happened?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Her room is full of a poisonous gas. It must
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: have been released with the event lating system. Are they dead?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I hope not have time to wait
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: to find out.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Where are you going?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: The shadow is going to follow the secret passageway in
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: the blueprint that will lead him to the murderers.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: That won't you let me get you to a doctor.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: No, Son, wouldn't be safe for you.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: Besides, I'm afraid it's too late.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Wound is bleeding so much.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: That isn't there anything I can do?
• 24:38
  Speaker 13: Yes, yes, Robert, there is.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: What is my plan?
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: My plan of vengeance? You must carry it through, knowing
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: that I.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Can die happy. What was that? The shadow? I see?
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: You?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Remember me, mister Lewis? How did you get your blueprints?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Were a great help? And now that I am here,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: your plan of killing is at an end.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Who is this man?
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: I cannot see it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I am invisible to your eyes, mister John Dean. But
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I'm familiar with all you've done, the victims you've claimed
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: in his building.
• 25:16
  Speaker 13: He knows everything, yes, everything, well, he must.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: Know why why I killed need sent me to prison.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I was an innocent man, an innocent man.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: My wife died of a broken heart when it took
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: me away.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: That is why I.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Swore vengeance against mister Need. I've ruined him by destroying
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: his greatest dream.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Nonetheless, you and your son must both pay for your crime. No, no,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: not Robert.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: He mustn't suffer too.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: He was your compress, your willing accomplass.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: I see when you forced me to change my plans.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: Yes, what do you mean?
• 25:55
  Speaker 17: I have a charge of dynamite planted down here for
• 25:57
  Speaker 17: just such an emergency as this. Out to die anyway,
• 26:01
  Speaker 17: and if my son is to face the electric jet,
• 26:03
  Speaker 17: I'd rather he went out with me, taking.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: All of us with us.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't write you're doing that, mister Dean. You're too late,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: mister Shadow.
• 26:10
  Speaker 17: My son has slipped over to the plunge that will
• 26:12
  Speaker 17: set off the charge.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: See even now he awaits my words. Yes, how do
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: you like that, mister Shadow. Don't cut that dynamite, Louis.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: Go on, son, now the plunge of now, yes.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Happened. No, I should have told you that I discovered
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: your dynamite and cut the precaution of cutting the wires.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I guess there's nothing enough to do now gentlemen, except
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: to wait for the arrival.
• 26:38
  Speaker 16: Of the police.
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: And so before pronouncing sentence on you, John Dean and
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: your son Robert Dean, I would like to point out
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: to you and to all other members of society, no
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: matter how great a grievance you have against an individual
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: or individuals, you have neither a legal nor a moral
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: right to seek a personal vengeance to atone at grievance.
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: Your case is an object lesson of a familiar phrase
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: that cannot be repeated too often.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Crime does not pay.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: And now before we hear from the shadow again, a
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: brief word from John Barclay, America's home heating expert.
• 27:33
  Speaker 13: Mister Barclay, thank you, Jean Paul King, and good evening friends.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 27:39
  Speaker 13: Of all the letters I've received recently, one from a
• 27:42
  Speaker 13: man upstate interested me particularly.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: He wanted to.
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: Know why his furnace fire kept dying out. Well in
• 27:50
  Speaker 13: the first place, a well kept fire doesn't die out
• 27:52
  Speaker 13: unless something's wrong with the draft, and a poor draft
• 27:56
  Speaker 13: may be due to any number of causes, such as
• 27:59
  Speaker 13: loose bricks the chimney, or block flue passages.
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: So I advised him to get in.
• 28:04
  Speaker 13: Touch with his neighborhood Blue Coal dealer immediately. Since then,
• 28:09
  Speaker 13: he writes me that a John Barkley train serviceman discovered
• 28:12
  Speaker 13: the trouble was a leaking connection around the smoke pipe
• 28:16
  Speaker 13: where it entered the chimney. Naturally, this caused him a
• 28:19
  Speaker 13: great deal of unnecessary inconvenience until it was fixed. Well,
• 28:24
  Speaker 13: I just thought i'd mentioned this as an example of
• 28:27
  Speaker 13: a common complaint. And in case you're not entirely satisfied
• 28:31
  Speaker 13: with the results your furnace is giving you, let a
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: John Barkley train serviceman give it the once over. He
• 28:37
  Speaker 13: can probably help you too. For this extra customer service.
• 28:43
  Speaker 13: Just phone your neighborhood Blue coal dealer tomorrow morning.
• 28:46
  Speaker 16: Thank you.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Shadow magazine. The characters, names, places, and plot are fictitious.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: Weed of Crime Bear's Bitter Fruit Crime does not pay
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: the Shadows.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Coal Dealers
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: of America bring you an adventure of the Shadow that
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: will send thrills racing.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Up and down your spine.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: So be sure to listen, and be sure to phone
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: your friendly blue coal dealer, or greater heating comfort at
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: left cost. This is Jane paul King saying keep the
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: home fires burning with blue coal.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Tonight's case from the Shadow was the ghost building. Follow
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