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

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  Speaker 1: A woman opens a bottle of perfume and dies at
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  Speaker 1: once while the bottle is found empty. It is the
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  Speaker 1: case confronting Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane in the shadow,
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  Speaker 1: Scent of Death. Episode 395, first heard on the Mutual
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting System, February 2nd, 1947, Brett Morrison stars as Cranston
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  Speaker 1: and the Shadow, with Grace Matthews as Margot Lane, Frank
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  Speaker 1: Kane wrote the script, and John Cole directed and produced.
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  Speaker 1: Their inquiry takes them through the world of perfume sellers,
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  Speaker 1: from a distributor's office and an exclusive shop, to counterfeit
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  Speaker 1: merchandise and an underworld chemist. The original Blue Coal commercials
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  Speaker 1: are part of this 28-minute mutual broadcast. Now, back to
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  Speaker 1: the golden age of radio. The golden age of.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: What evil?
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 5: In the hearts of men.
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  Speaker 2: The shadow knows. Once again, your neighborhood blue-cold dealer brings
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  Speaker 2: you the thrilling adventures of the shadow. The hard and
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  Speaker 2: relentless fight of one man against the forces of evil.
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  Speaker 2: These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcefully to old and
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  Speaker 2: young alike that crime does not pay. The trademark on
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  Speaker 2: the things you buy is the manufacturer's way of saying,
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  Speaker 2: here's an article of quality. We stand back at this
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  Speaker 2: article by endorsing it with this distinctive symbol. Blue coal
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  Speaker 2: is the trademark hard coal, the coal that is unique
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  Speaker 2: among hard fuels because of its outstanding qualities.
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  Speaker 5: Blue coal is colored.
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  Speaker 2: Blue to assure you that you're receiving America's finest anthracite.
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  Speaker 2: You know that you're getting the best there is. Clean, deep-mined,
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  Speaker 2: square-fracture hard coal from northern Pennsylvania, the world's richest anthracite region.
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  Speaker 2: You know that it will burn slowly, evenly, steadily, bring
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  Speaker 2: you the best possible heat.
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  Speaker 5: You know that it is blue coal.
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  Speaker 2: America's finest home fuel.
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  Speaker 5: The shadow who aids.
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  Speaker 2: The forces of law and order is in reality Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 2: wealthy young man of our town. Years ago in the Orient,
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  Speaker 2: Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret, the hypnotic power
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  Speaker 2: to cloud men's minds so they cannot see. Cranston's friend
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  Speaker 2: and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person
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  Speaker 2: who knows to whom the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 2: Today's drama, Sense of Death. A thin, hard-faced young man
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  Speaker 2: pushes his way through the row of desks in the
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  Speaker 2: front office of a large perfume distributor. He shows as
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  Speaker 2: his way past the private secretary outside the head office,
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  Speaker 2: throws the door open, and strides in.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, what is it? Hmm. Jackie?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Jackie.
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  Speaker 4: The guy you told your students to keep out. Now, look, Jackie,
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  Speaker 4: there is nothing personal in it.
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  Speaker 5: You told me to.
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  Speaker 2: Cook up a kind of bit of perfume that would
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  Speaker 2: stand up. The stuff you sent me was so rancid. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so the stuff wasn't good enough for you. But you
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  Speaker 2: cut yourself in for a deal and you're playing a
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  Speaker 2: full game. Nobody gets down until I tell them they're through.
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  Speaker 5: But if the stuff wasn't good.
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  Speaker 4: I've got some here that's better. This is a very
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  Speaker 4: special brand. Go ahead, smell it. Man, I... Smell it.
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  Speaker 6: Certainly.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, it's a very special brand. We serve
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  Speaker 4: for smart guys who think they can remake.
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  Speaker 7: They're old married people, remember?
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: And I also remember.
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  Speaker 2: What they did.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, darling, I thought you'd forgotten.
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  Speaker 5: Now, how could I forget my own fifth anniversary?
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  Speaker 8: A present?
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: What is it? Let me see.
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  Speaker 8: No, no, no, let me see.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, it's like.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 5: Perkins.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, this is so... Mm-hmm. Oh, wonderful.
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  Speaker 8: I'm dying to try it. This is certainly quite tight enough.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you want some help, darling?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 8: It's challenging.
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  Speaker 5: Mary.
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  Speaker 4: Mary, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 9: Mary.
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  Speaker 2: For the love of heaven, Mary.
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  Speaker 6: Mary, speak to me.
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  Speaker 5: She's dead.
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  Speaker 4: Dead?
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  Speaker 2: It's been preoccupied tonight, you know.
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  Speaker 9: Something on your mind?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry, Margo. I'm thinking about a very interesting
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  Speaker 5: case I heard about today. Case? What kind of case? Murder,
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  Speaker 5: I'm afraid.
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  Speaker 2: At any rate, a woman is dead.
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  Speaker 5: No one seems to have any explanation of how she
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  Speaker 5: died or why.
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  Speaker 8: Are you going to investigate, darling?
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  Speaker 4: As if I couldn't be dead.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know yet, Margo. A woman's husband is due
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  Speaker 2: here now. If this is interesting as it sounds, I
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  Speaker 2: probably will. Let's see if I can knock on the door.
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  Speaker 5: Mr. Cranston? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Barton.
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  Speaker 4: I spoke to you on the phone today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Barton.
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  Speaker 5: Won't you come in? Thank you. Uh, this is Miss Lane, Mr. Barton.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do, Miss Lane? Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Barton. What have you done?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Miss Lane knows nothing of the case, Mr. Barton,
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  Speaker 5: so perhaps you'd better start at the beginning. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this is our fifth wedding anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: We were going out, and I wanted to surprise Mary,
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  Speaker 2: so I bought her a bottle of expensive perfume.
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  Speaker 4: She opened the bottle, took one smell, and.
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  Speaker 5: And died.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I recall, you picked up the bottle
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  Speaker 2: and it was empty. Absolutely empty.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Does that mean anything to you?
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  Speaker 2: No. Do you remember, Margo, I commented on the mysterious
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  Speaker 2: death of a member of well-known perfume distributors during the
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  Speaker 2: past few months? The dealers were reported to have died
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  Speaker 2: of heart attacks. There was always a perfume bottle near
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  Speaker 2: the buyer.
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  Speaker 8: So what was in the bottle for you?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely nothing. Her analysis showed no trace of any chemical whatsoever.
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  Speaker 5: The same thing in our case. There was no trace
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  Speaker 5: of anything in the box. This perfume, what brand was it?
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  Speaker 5: Eau de Chantilly.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I like that brand, too. But it's been so
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  Speaker 8: bad lately that any number of my friends.
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  Speaker 4: Have stopped using it. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Might be good if it's tough. Why should even a
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  Speaker 2: candidate want to unload poison perfume? Where did you buy
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  Speaker 2: this Eau de Chantilly, Mr. Barton?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I got it at Santee's. Excuse me? An excuse
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  Speaker 5: is in place. What say we do a little shopping, Margo?
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  Speaker 2: Cat panting? Yes, but Jackie, I'm worried about you and
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  Speaker 2: Diego coming down here to my shop.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so you're worried. I'm worried about you selling
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  Speaker 4: another bottle of gas to somebody.
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  Speaker 5: That is very unfortunate.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunate enough to get the cops on our trail, that's all.
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  Speaker 4: Another one of Diego's bonehead plays. He fills some extra
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  Speaker 4: bottles with the gas and he leaves them around. He
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  Speaker 4: gets them mixed up with a phony perfume. What a dope.
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  Speaker 6: It's a good thing we did come down here, Jackie.
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  Speaker 6: I have four more bottles of that gas in your sack, Mr. Sankey.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to be more careful, Yeagle. Mistakes like that
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  Speaker 4: might start the coppers flying around.
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  Speaker 5: That'll be bad.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, Jackie, but like I said.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like you said it was an accident. Well,
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  Speaker 4: just don't forget this, friend. The next time an accident happens,
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  Speaker 4: it'll probably be to you.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, I know what you mean. Well, it won't happen, Jackie,
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  Speaker 6: I swear it. Well, I'll be getting back to the
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  Speaker 6: lab now.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, you got a box.
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  Speaker 6: Or something I could put these bottles in, Santino? You know,
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  Speaker 6: I'd hate to drop them.
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  Speaker 2: Help yourself, Yeagle.
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  Speaker 5: They're on the shelf in back of you.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. Go now, huh? That is, uh, if you don't
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  Speaker 6: want me for something, Jackie.
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  Speaker 5: Don't worry, Yeagle.
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  Speaker 4: When I want you for something, I can find it.
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  Speaker 5: You are pretty rough on the old boy, weren't you, Jackie?
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  Speaker 4: Not as rough as I may have to be. These
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  Speaker 4: chickens are too sweet to let some broken-down old druggist
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  Speaker 4: mess it up for me.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody just came into the store. I'll be right back, Jackie.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do? May I help you?
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  Speaker 2: My name's Ramon Cranston. I'm looking into the sudden letter
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  Speaker 2: puzzling death to the wife of one of your customers. Mr. Barton?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. I read about it in the paper. Sad.
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  Speaker 5: Very sad.
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  Speaker 2: According to Barton, his wife died right after opening a
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  Speaker 2: bottle of perfume he'd bought here.
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  Speaker 5: Surely you don't believe the perfume could have had anything
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  Speaker 5: to do with her death? Perhaps not.
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  Speaker 2: But what interested me, Santino, is that your bottle of perfume.
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  Speaker 5: Was empty when Barton picked it up. Possibly Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Barton had some unsuspected heart ailment and succumbed to it.
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  Speaker 5: As she fell, she dropped the bottle, it spilled.
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  Speaker 2: And evaporated.
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  Speaker 5: Evaporated? In a matter of minutes, Mr. Santino? At moments
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  Speaker 5: like that, who can judge time, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cranston? Just as we walked into your shop, an elderly,
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  Speaker 2: heavy-set man in a blue coat and gray hat came
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  Speaker 2: out of here. Do you know him, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Santee? I'm afraid you're mistaken. No one walked out of here. Strange.
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  Speaker 2: Thought I recognized him as a friend of mine before
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  Speaker 2: he came out of this shop. Well, thanks for your help, Mr. Santee.
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  Speaker 5: Not at all. Come in again.
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  Speaker 4: Go.
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  Speaker 10: Well, darling, you didn't learn much there.
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  Speaker 2: On the contrary, Margo, I may have learned a lot.
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  Speaker 8: You think Santine's been on the top of the person record?
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  Speaker 5: Customers are ex-bootleaders. They might very well be mixed up
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  Speaker 5: in the bootleg person record.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know if customers are ex-bootleaders.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw coming out of Santine's shop as we
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  Speaker 2: came in. Once Santine denied seeing you, Do.
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  Speaker 8: You know who he is?
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  Speaker 4: Darling, what a memory.
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  Speaker 5: A notable storehouse of vital statistics.
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  Speaker 2: Name was Harry Yeagles, I remember. Sort of a chemist
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  Speaker 2: gone wrong. Headed up a phony liquor racket in.
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  Speaker 5: The old days.
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  Speaker 8: Anything behind the table?
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  Speaker 5: Phony liquor, phony perfume. Pretty close tie-in. Won't be interesting
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  Speaker 5: to reminisce about the old days, Mr. Yeagles.
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  Speaker 2: If you can find it. We're going to visit a
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  Speaker 2: little waterfront dive. We've got a contact down there that
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  Speaker 2: could find a drop in the ocean... We'll find out
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  Speaker 2: where Yagel is hiding.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Yagel.
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  Speaker 6: Jackie, you scared me. I didn't hear you come in.
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 4: Well, don't let it worry you. You won't be hearing
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  Speaker 4: me go out, either.
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  Speaker 2: Bye.
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  Speaker 5: Bye to come, Jackie.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't done nothing.
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  Speaker 4: You've done plenty. In case you sent out the wrong
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  Speaker 4: bottles or something.
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  Speaker 2: Just a joke.
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  Speaker 6: But you said you were going to give me another chance.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to overlook it, Yeagle. Until Santin found me.
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  Speaker 4: He told me a private eye made him.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 4: A dick named Cranston spotted you coming out of the shop.
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  Speaker 4: He must have remembered way back to when you were
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  Speaker 4: bootlegging him. Cookin' out to the drink and cookin' out
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  Speaker 4: to the smell. He may be able to have.
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  Speaker 6: Give me a break.
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  Speaker 4: No, Yanko. Like I said, you're going out.
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  Speaker 8: No, Jackie.
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  Speaker 4: Stay out.
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  Speaker 6: Wait one second, Jackie.
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  Speaker 5: I got your ticket right here.
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  Speaker 4: Oh. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: How long do we have.
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  Speaker 8: To sit around this intimate little gin mill the moment?
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  Speaker 4: We've been here almost an hour already. Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Poindexter, if you can get me that information on Yeager,
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  Speaker 5: it'll be worth sitting here all day.
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  Speaker 4: Mr. Poindexter. You certainly are annoyed.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you? As a matter of fact, his name is
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  Speaker 2: Adolphus Claremont, Poindexter.
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  Speaker 5: But don't let the name fool you. You do know
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  Speaker 5: the weirdest characters.
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  Speaker 2: This one happens to be invaluable. He's the best pipeline
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  Speaker 2: into the underworld I've ever had. A bit peculiar, but valuable.
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  Speaker 5: Here he comes now.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, how do you do, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Branson, Miss Lane?
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  Speaker 4: Hello. Sit down, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Poindexter.
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  Speaker 6: Don't mind if I do.
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  Speaker 4: Private?
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  Speaker 5: Chasing down this character, Yegor.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I imagine it would be.
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  Speaker 5: Here, help yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Delighted, delighted.
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  Speaker 2: Now, uh, what about Diego?
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  Speaker 4: He's, uh, he's out at the Alkyracket.
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  Speaker 6: He's in another deal.
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  Speaker 2: Large deal. Very classy. Couldn't be perfume, would it?
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  Speaker 4: Could be, could be. All I know it's something to
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  Speaker 4: do with chemicals.
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  Speaker 2: You know where I can find Diego?
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  Speaker 4: He's a place that's near the Westchester line. Wooden house.
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  Speaker 5: Well, hi there. How do I get there?
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  Speaker 8: Uh, 246 Willow Street.
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  Speaker 4: Front door's always locked. Side door's the only way in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeagle's there now.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Bondickson.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, now.
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  Speaker 4: Don't take any chance, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: It's a good hideout.
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  Speaker 6: It's the kind that's worth a few slugs to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeagle was never a killer.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not, maybe not.
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  Speaker 6: But he's tied for a gun-crazy kid.
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  Speaker 4: Who is the killer, Mr. Cranston?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, that's it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, here.
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  Speaker 2: Get a couple of refills.
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  Speaker 4: Delighted, delighted.
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  Speaker 6: It's dry work. Very dry work.
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  Speaker 5: Have a good day in the plane, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: I can't see the side door. I can't use this mother.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you better figure it out.
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  Speaker 8: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing? I don't know. Please. There's a lock. Dad,
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  Speaker 5: did you take care of that?
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what.
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  Speaker 5: You're talking about. What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 6: I've been shot.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lamp on that table, Margo.
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  Speaker 5: Turn it on.
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  Speaker 10: There.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, what a giggle. Do you hear me? Who did
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  Speaker 5: this to you?
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  Speaker 2: Who's the head of this racket?
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  Speaker 6: Tell me, what was in those bottles?
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: Jackie. Jackie who?
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  Speaker 6: Where did I find him?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's something in here.
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  Speaker 6: Martha, look out. You're knocking that package off the table.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not the dog.
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  Speaker 9: It's the person dead.
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  Speaker 2: Von Cranston, investigating a series of mysterious deaths, finds the
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  Speaker 2: body of Harry Yeager, an underworld chemist. In Yeager's hideout,
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  Speaker 2: Margo accidentally knocks over a package containing several bottles of
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  Speaker 2: the gas.
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  Speaker 5: The body's supposed to be dead. Quickly, Margo.
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  Speaker 6: We've got to get out of.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Pierce, there's a big stain going on within the bottle.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I know that.
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  Speaker 8: You're not lying to me, are you? Come, if this
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  Speaker 8: is the same poison that killed Mrs. Barton, why aren't
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  Speaker 8: you listening?
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  Speaker 2: It's what I think it is, Margo. It must be
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  Speaker 2: breathed directly into the lungs and quantity.
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  Speaker 8: I wonder if the police haven't been able to find
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: any sign of it in the empty bottle.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Margo, look here.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: It's about the bottle to him.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: See the store name on it?
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Then who is it?
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: And he was lying when he said Jaeger hadn't been
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: in his store.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: No doubt about that now.
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: What did he do, darling?
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Santine, a couple of questions.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: But we were already talking, Lamont.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Santine didn't tell much to Lamont Cranston, but I have
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: an idea he'll be only too willing to.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Talk to the shadow.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Make her pursue your nerves or quiet your conscience, Santine.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Who said that?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: The shadow, Santine.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Shadow? Oh, I... I meet an invisible man face to face. We...
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: We are face to face now, I assume.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: You're very calm, Santine.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: What did you expect me to do?
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Break down and bare my soul?
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm not being a very good host, am I?
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Will you join me in a drink?
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, I think I will. Pour it for me, Santine.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Put it on the tray. Hold it out.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: More theatrics, eh?
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: What's wrong, Sandin? Your hand is shaking. The liquor is
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: spilling out of the glass.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Take it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Take it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: All right. What do you want?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I couldn't see through your show of bravado. Now answer me.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Who in this phony perfume racket is responsible for the
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: murder of Mrs.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Barton?
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Yeagle. He's a chemist. He makes the counterfeit perfume.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Yeagle is dead, Sandin.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: He's dead?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Before he died, you said a man called Jackie headed
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: up this racket. Who is Jackie? Where do I find him?
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: He... He has a place on 61st Street off the drive.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Please.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: The Riverview. Apartment 16.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Shadow will have a talk with him. And you, Santine,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: are going to tell the whole story of your part
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: in this racket to the police.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: The police?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: And don't try to skip town, Santine. They'll pick you
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: up on a vagrancy charge.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: You see what it says here about Diego, Jackie?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sugar.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Said it was an old gang job. Looks like I
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: won it, I think.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: Didn't you know you were going to put the kill
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: on me?
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Ouch, sugar.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: I mean, what do I mean to you, man?
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: You know where Diego's map is? The warehouse on the bridge?
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Meet me there in an hour.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: Why down there?
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, Google, you are dumb, because that's where the money is.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: In an hour.
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll be there.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: You'll be where, sugar?
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: Santino's headed for the lab to grab the combine's dead.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: He wants me to go along with him. You ought
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: to keep the home fires burning.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: No kidding.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: So he's got a date with you in an hour, huh?
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: He's got a date in an hour, all right. But
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: it ain't gonna wear skirts.
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: This is the right apartment, you know.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Good for you. Yeah? Where are you going? Looking for Jackie.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm going to.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I'm going to as soon as I'm inside. Well, that's better.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Come in, Margo.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Now you can close the door, miss.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're selling, but I'm not buying anything.
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: The Santine thing.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Santine?
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Who's he?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: Get going or I'll call the police.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, dear.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Why don't you do that?
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Oh, I got a better idea. Okay, now, do you
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: go out like you came in, or do two guys
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: in white suits come in and carry out?
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: We don't need the gun, miss. We just want to talk.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: We want to see Jackie. Polly, drop that gun. You
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: got it, Margo?
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: I got it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Polly, if I hurt you, just looking at the wrong
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: end of the gun makes me tongue-tied.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: When my man gets back looking at the wrong end
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: of the gun, it's going to make you dead.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: You're terrifying.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Where is this man of yours?
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Visiting his poor sick grandma with a bag of cookies.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: It'll be difficult, I see. Maybe you'd better call the police, Margo.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Tell them we've got Yeagle's killer here for them.
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: Why did he kill Yeagle and you know it?
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Maybe.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure this gun did. You'll think the prints
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: are all over it. It's in your possession.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: I think the police can take it up from there.
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: You're trying to frame me.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: You should say Jackie was. I didn't. Okay, Margo. Right?
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: Wait a minute.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll call.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: He's, uh... He's meeting Santino.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: The old consolidated warehouse under the bridge. They've got a
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: lab there. I see.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Maybe someone ought to pay Jackie and Mr.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: Santino a visit.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Come on, Margo. Let's get out of here.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: But what about him?
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Find something to retire with. I know.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Stockings. They must be in his yard. Hey! Wait a second.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: They're the last pair of nylons I got.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Don't worry. Where you're going, they'll provide the stockings.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Okay, honey, I'm coming.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Hello, Santini.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Jackie.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: What's this?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: This? It's a gun, Santini. It's got two ends. This
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: ends with lead, this.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Ends with salt.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: What do you want? Well, I want to come in.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: That's what I was figuring you'd do. Now, back to
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: the lab at your hands, Jackson. Don't forget that she
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: is nervous. She's liable to bite a chunk out of
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: you if you make one phony move.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: I don't know what scares me more, Jackie. You or
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: the gun.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Look at you, you caught me, did you?
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: You are, you sucker. You think Sugar would turn me
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: into a pig like you?
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: But she told you all about it, eh?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah. She told me you wanted to take a trip.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I'm going to give it a nice long trip by water.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: With a cement block on your racket.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: You know, Jackie, you've gotten so you really believe you're tough.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: You're just a little punk that I picked up the
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: front for me.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: That's what you think. Maybe you used to be boss.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Santino, but I am now. I'm going to the show
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: from here then.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Interesting is true.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Do you mind if I take my hands down now?
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: I feel a little ridiculous. Okay, but don't try anything. Now,
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: I'm the man behind the gun.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Kay.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Kay, it's your part, Santino.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I'm throwing my cards.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Take the dough.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Take sugar, too.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Now, that's very generous of you, but you don't really
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: think I was going to shoot you.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, thanks, Santina. I always felt like you said I.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Shooting you would rob me of a chance to see
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: how this gas of Yeagles really works.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: You're not going to make me smell it, are you?
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Would you prefer the gun?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Either way you die, one is fast and clean, the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: other is slow and messy.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: So, so it is.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Two bottles, Jackie. Open it. Oh.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't kill me.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: If it doesn't, I will. Only I'll take longer.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Much longer. Give me a break, then.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Make the bottle, Jackie.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: No.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Take it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: That's it. Now open the bottle. Okay.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: It's stuck.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: It will open.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Put it up to your face, quick.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Jackie. Who's that?
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: The shadow, Santine.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: So you did come back.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Well, you're too late, Shadow.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Too late to save Jackie for the electric chair, perhaps.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: But not too late to take vengeance for the innocent
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: people who've died because of you, Santine.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Jackie was the leader.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: He, he, he.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Not Santine.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: It was you. All was you behind the scenes. You
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: were the leader. Jackie just a paid gunman and killer.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: You think this is the payoff, don't you? You think
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: I'm finished?
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: You are finished, Santine. In a matter of minutes, the
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: police will be here.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Maybe I am finished. But so are you.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: This is like me to smell one of your test-filled bottles, Santine.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: You know, don't you, Shadow.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe you know what would happen if I smashed
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: this large jar filled with the gas in a small
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: room like this.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, Santine, I know. The entire room would be demolished.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: I'm leaving here, Shadow.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Don't be a fool, Santine.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: I'm coming through.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Any attempt to stop me.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Stop!
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: To ask for it... Gas!
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Why didn't it explode?
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: You don't know your chemistry very well, do you, Santine?
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: In quantity, that gas of yours has a bluish color.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: That jar was colorless. Obviously, Yeagle drained the gas from
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: it to fill Jackie's lethal bottle.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: That, Santino, is your escort. A car full of men
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: in blue who'll chaperone you until the state seats you
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: in the electric chair.
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: Is he.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: Saying that this is a serious blast at the day
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: of the week? Is he too old for me?
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Sorry, Marguerite. In minute quantities, it is. But if only 1,000%
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: of the air was ozone, all of the matter would
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: be destroyed. Of course, when ozone begins its mixing atom,
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: it becomes oxygen again.
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: Is that why the death weapon is here?
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: What a terrible weapon to use against.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: The central sea. 19 will pay for this crime, Margot.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: He'll pay the full penalty.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Now let me present Leupold's Distinguished Heating Authority, John Barclay.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Don Hancock, and good evening, friends.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: The mild weather which has prevailed in most parts of
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the country this winter has been a blessing to homeowners.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: But many people do not understand that a furnace should
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: be fired differently in mild weather. To save fuel and
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: money during the occasional warm spell, you must keep a
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: deep fire.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: With a layer of ashes underneath.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Turn the check damper as nearly closed as you can
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: and still keep your fire safely slumbered. Never overheat your home.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: That's a waste of fuel. Of course, in mild weather,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: a blue coal automatic heat regulator is a tremendous help
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: because your home can't be overheated with automatic temperature control. Yes,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: for carefree comfort and real efficiency all winter long, Get
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: a blue-coal automatic heat regulator.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: This story is copyrighted by Street & Smith Publications, Incorporated.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: The characters, names, places, and font are fictitious.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Again next week, the shadow will demonstrate that.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: The shadows.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Next week, same time, same station. Your friendly blue coal
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: dealer brings you another strange and thrilling adventure in the
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: shadows' daring battle against the forces of evil. This is
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Don Hancock saying, keep the home fires burning with blue coal.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: The Shadow is presented by the.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: DL & W Coal Company, distributors of blue coal.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: That was The Shadow in Scent of Death. Good night,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and thank you for keeping company with the golden age
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: of radio.