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• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Bill Johnstone and Marjorie Anderson return as Lamont Cranston and
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Margo Lane in a case that begins with Margo's debilitating headache.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: It leads Cranston to Galesbury, a mental institution where an
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: upheaval has left the inmates in control. From the Mutual
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting System's blue coal-sponsored run, This is the Shadow, Nightmare
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  Speaker 1: at Galesbury, broadcast February 2nd, 1941, episode 213 in the
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  Speaker 1: collection Numbering. Ken Roberts is the announcer. We now take
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: you back to the original broadcast.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
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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 alike that crime does not pay. Before
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  Speaker 3: we join the shadow in today's adventure, here's a proposition.
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  Speaker 3: Regardless of what coal you're now burning in your furnace,
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  Speaker 3: order a ton of blue coal. Try blue coal for
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  Speaker 3: a week and see if it doesn't give you more even,
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  Speaker 3: more dependable, longer-lasting heat. That's fair enough, isn't it? And remember,
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  Speaker 3: when you order blue coal, you get courteous, careful delivery
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  Speaker 3: and helpful consideration of all your heating problems. Phone your
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  Speaker 3: neighborhood blue coal dealer tomorrow. And be sure to hold
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  Speaker 3: on till the end of this program. You'll want to
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  Speaker 3: hear our special guest of the evening. The shadow, mysterious
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  Speaker 3: character who aids the forces of law and order, is
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  Speaker 3: in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. As
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  Speaker 3: the shadow, Cranston is gifted with hypnotic power to cloud
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  Speaker 3: men's minds so that they cannot see him. Cranston's friend
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  Speaker 3: and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person
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  Speaker 3: who knows to whom the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 3: Today's story, Nightmare at Galesbury.
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  Speaker 4: Better close the window, nurse. It's beginning to pour again.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Blair.
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  Speaker 2: Now, sir, why do you wish my death?
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  Speaker 4: Can't you understand that we here at the sanatorium are
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  Speaker 4: doing everything in our power to restore your health of
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  Speaker 4: mind again?
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  Speaker 7: I don't wish your death, not at all. That's not
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  Speaker 7: the case at all, you know.
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  Speaker 2: What is, then?
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  Speaker 8: It's difficult to explain. That is, I don't quite.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, there.
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  Speaker 8: There, we saw the lightning then. Now we know that
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  Speaker 8: thunder is coming.
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  Speaker 6: There, you see?
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  Speaker 7: We didn't wish it, but we knew it must come.
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  Speaker 7: Just so do I know that death is coming for you, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Blair.
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  Speaker 8: There are more things in heaven and earth than you
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  Speaker 8: dream of, Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: What's led you to think of my death?
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  Speaker 6: I've been told about it.
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  Speaker 2: Told? Who's told you?
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  Speaker 7: There are more things in heaven and earth than you
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  Speaker 7: dream of.
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  Speaker 2: Who has told you?
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  Speaker 8: A greater intellect than either you or I speaks to me, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Blair.
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  Speaker 7: All the many things I know, he tells me. He
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  Speaker 7: whom no one believed, just as no one believes me.
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  Speaker 2: Cogliostro again.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, the immortal Cogliostro. Count Cogliostro died in the Bastille
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  Speaker 6: in the 18th century.
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  Speaker 2: He died. He's dead.
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  Speaker 4: Can't I appeal to your reason to give up this
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  Speaker 4: ridiculous obsession? After all, you were a man of science.
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 6: I am a man of science.
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  Speaker 10: I am.
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  Speaker 7: My grasp of science is the greatest in the world, sir.
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  Speaker 7: He teaches me. He guides my hands.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 7: Your brain, your puny brain is too dull, too blurred,
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  Speaker 7: too limited to comprehend the.
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  Speaker 8: Vastness of my knowledge.
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  Speaker 6: That will do. The interview is over.
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  Speaker 8: Such a scientific nonentity as you, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Blair.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Macpherson, return the patient to his room, nurse.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Return to my room, hmm?
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  Speaker 7: Such a feeble-minded dabbler is not fit to be apprenticed
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  Speaker 7: to a man of my stature.
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  Speaker 2: Are you Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Blair?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, MacPherson. Take him away. Come along now, sir. Very well.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go.
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  Speaker 8: I'm your patient and your prisoner.
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  Speaker 7: But believe me, there are more things in heaven and
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  Speaker 7: earth than you dream.
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  Speaker 6: Of, doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, best night you do.
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  Speaker 6: Strange.
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  Speaker 2: Strange? What?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he keeps repeating that. More things in heaven and
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  Speaker 5: earth than you dream of.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he was one of our foremost scientists once, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Experimented with insulin in mental cases long before the rest
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  Speaker 4: of us dreamed of the possibility.
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  Speaker 5: Successfully?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: His most important experiment failed. An experiment on which he
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  Speaker 4: had based all his hopes.
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  Speaker 5: I see.
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  Speaker 4: Contrary to all his theories, a patient, a young girl,
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  Speaker 4: I believe, died after treatment. It was too much for him.
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  Speaker 4: His nerves went, and after that, he lost all confidence
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  Speaker 4: in himself. It was then, as a kind of compensation,
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  Speaker 4: that he developed the idea that the ghost of Cogliostro
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  Speaker 4: watches over him.
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  Speaker 5: You take quite an interest in this case, don't you?
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  Speaker 6: I suppose I do. I've been working desperately hard to
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  Speaker 6: cure him.
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  Speaker 5: You work too hard, Doctor. Much too hard. I don't
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  Speaker 5: believe you've had a free moment in weeks. Oh, really, Dr. Blair,
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  Speaker 5: you should relax, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Nurse, Friday night I'm having friends down for the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: You've heard me speak of them, I think. Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 4: Margo Lane.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean to let everything slide and do nothing
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  Speaker 4: but enjoy myself until Monday morning.
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  Speaker 8: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Monday noon.
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  Speaker 5: Even better. It's a risky business for a man in
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  Speaker 5: your light.
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 5: Do you notice how the lights are dimming?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the storm. I hope it doesn't upset the power
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  Speaker 6: plant at Galesbury.
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  Speaker 5: They're going fast. I guess I'd better get some candles.
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  Speaker 2: Say.
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: What was that? What? Didn't you hear anything?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe you're right about my nerves, hmm?
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps I'd... I heard that.
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  Speaker 2: It was a shot. Listen, there's some kind of disturbance
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  Speaker 2: in the hall. Call MacPherson.
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  Speaker 5: The lights are gone. I can't find the door.
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  Speaker 2: Hurt yourself?
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  Speaker 5: No, just stumbled.
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  Speaker 6: Find it?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but it won't open.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: It's locked.
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  Speaker 2: Locked?
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  Speaker 5: From the outside.
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  Speaker 6: Impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Let me try it. Here, I don't see how it's... Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it is. MacPherson. MacPherson. Where are you, MacPherson? MacPherson. MacPherson,
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  Speaker 2: can you hear me? Open the door.
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  Speaker 6: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 2: All off for Galesbury! Huh. The village of Galesbury.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, fresh air.
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  Speaker 2: How's your head, Marco?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, still aching nicely, thank you. Is this where Bill
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  Speaker 5: Blair lives?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, he lives about 15 miles.
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  Speaker 6: Over that way.
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  Speaker 2: 15 miles?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, how many crosstown blocks is that in round numbers?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure, but I'd say approximately plenty. But
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  Speaker 2: he's sending a chauffeur for us, my lady, never fear.
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  Speaker 5: Are you sure he said Friday night, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. We had to pick him up at the
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  Speaker 2: sanitarium and then adjourn to the manor house for a
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  Speaker 2: weekend of Bill's fresh milk, fresh eggs, and old stories. Oh, Lamont.
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: Two places. Buy something, please. Buy something. Buy something, please.
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  Speaker 2: There's a blade. No, thanks. Afraid I don't need a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Buy something, mister. Something you need, mister. Buy something, please.
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  Speaker 2: You see anything you like, Margo?
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  Speaker 5: No, not a thing, Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, listen.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't you say you promised to bring your sister's boy
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  Speaker 2: a present?
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  Speaker 5: That's right, I did.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there we do need something after all. Buy something, please.
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  Speaker 6: There's a blade. Oh, and here's just the thing.
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  Speaker 9: Look.
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  Speaker 2: This jackknife. Very nice, sir. Very nice. Fifty cents, mister.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty cents.
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  Speaker 5: Lamont, I said I'd bring him something useful.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now, look, my dear.
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  Speaker 6: I was a boy once myself, and a knife like
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  Speaker 6: this would have come in very handy.
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  Speaker 5: Very handy for a trunk murder, if you ask me.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice.
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  Speaker 6: Here you are, old man.
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  Speaker 2: Buy something more, please. Thank you, sir. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: You got the knife?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. Right here in my pocket.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I say, remind me to call Weston around ten,
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  Speaker 6: will you, Margo? He may want to drive up and
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  Speaker 6: join us.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, all right. I'll remember.
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  Speaker 2: How's your head?
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  Speaker 5: Still aches.
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  Speaker 6: Bill will know exactly what to do for it when
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  Speaker 6: we get there.
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  Speaker 5: That is, if we ever do get there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you will. You go sanitarium? Dr. Blair's, yes? Why, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Are you Bill's chauffeur? Dr. Blair's chauffeur. Named Torfu. Car waiting.
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  Speaker 2: You come.
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  Speaker 5: Quite a chauffeur Bill's got. Who do you suppose he is?
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  Speaker 6: West Indian?
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  Speaker 2: I'd say so. He must be all of seven feet tall.
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  Speaker 2: A man that size could crack a skull with two fingers.
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  Speaker 5: I hope he likes us.
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  Speaker 2: So do I. Come now. I'm waiting.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't particularly think he does.
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  Speaker 2: Coming. Come in, gentlemen. Come in, lady.
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  Speaker 6: If you'll just tell the doctor that Mr. Cranston and
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  Speaker 6: Miss Lena here are.
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  Speaker 2: Please, you wait here. Thank you. Well, handsome little place
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  Speaker 2: Bill has here, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it's handsome, but I could easily develop an attack
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  Speaker 5: of the creeps just the same.
• 9:29
  Speaker 6: I'll be glad when Bill flirts. What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Knocking. The door over there. Somebody in the other room
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: wants to get in. I'll see. Yes? What is it?
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  Speaker 11: Will you open the door, please? I'm locked in by mistake.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, just a second. Good evening.
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  Speaker 11: Do you know me?
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: Know you? I... No, I don't think I do.
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  Speaker 6: That is unfortunate.
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: I must then introduce you. myself.
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  Speaker 11: I am Sigmund Arnold, the world-famous organist of whom you
• 10:05
  Speaker 11: must have heard.
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  Speaker 2: Sigmund Arnold? Yes. Why, yes, we've heard of Sigmund Arnold,
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: but you.
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  Speaker 5: Careful, there's a patient.
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  Speaker 6: Just agree with him. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Why, of course we've heard of you, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Arnold.
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  Speaker 6: We're delighted. Dear child, thank you.
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 11: I came here to be treated for my nerves. They
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  Speaker 11: were never too good, you know. And now they won't
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  Speaker 11: seem to let me out. I haven't minded so much
• 10:28
  Speaker 11: until tonight. But I have a concert at Angeles Hall,
• 10:32
  Speaker 11: and I really must be there. Will you.
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  Speaker 5: Will you be good enough.
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  Speaker 6: To help me escape? Ah, good evening, Miss Lane, Mr. Cranston.
• 10:41
  Speaker 6: I am Dr. Griswold. I do hope I've not... Oh,
• 10:45
  Speaker 6: see who's here.
• 10:46
  Speaker 8: Number eight, you know you're not allowed in the reception room.
• 10:50
  Speaker 6: Tarfu?
• 10:51
  Speaker 5: Tarfu?
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, doctor.
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  Speaker 8: You'd better take number eight to his room, Tarfu.
• 10:58
  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 8: And I think it might be wise to lock the door.
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, doctor. I will not be locked in.
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  Speaker 13: I won't.
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: I won't be locked in.
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  Speaker 6: Strange case, number eight. Most unusual case.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I beg your pardon. Won't you sit down? What
• 11:15
  Speaker 8: can I do for you?
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  Speaker 2: We've come to see Dr. Blair.
• 11:17
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes. Dr.
• 11:19
  Speaker 7: Blair was called away on an emergency case. I think
• 11:22
  Speaker 7: he'll be back shortly. Can I offer you something?
• 11:24
  Speaker 6: A drink, perhaps?
• 11:26
  Speaker 5: Thanks. The only thing that could possibly tempt me would
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: be an aspirin.
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: Headache?
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  Speaker 5: It's a beast of a one, doctor. Since earlier this afternoon.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, too bad.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing quite so distressing as a headache. But we'll have
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  Speaker 7: that fixed up in a very little while. Just come
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  Speaker 7: along with me, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 5: Come along?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, into my office.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, of course. Mr.
• 11:47
  Speaker 7: Cranston will excuse us. Do help yourself to that drink
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  Speaker 7: if you change your mind. There in the cupboard, cigarettes
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  Speaker 7: in the box, and the radios in the cabinet behind you.
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  Speaker 6: Come, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I say, Doctor, won't an aspirin do the trick?
• 11:59
  Speaker 6: I have something far, far better than aspirin.
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: But I never dreamed there was anything better for headaches.
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  Speaker 7: There are more things in heaven and earth than you'd
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  Speaker 7: dream of, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Cranston.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: Did you ring for me, Mr. Weston? Oh, yes, Sam.
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: I dozed off. Has Lamont Cranston phoned? No, sir, he ain't.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: I thought maybe I'd missed it. I'm expecting him to... Oh,
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: there it is. I'll get it, Sam. I'll get it. Hello? Hello? Oh, hello.
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  Speaker 6: Who?
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, Bill Blair. Hello, Bill. Huh? Bill, I can't hear you.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: What is it? What's the matter? What? Gatehouse. What gatehouse? What?
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: Tell Lamont what? He's with you, isn't he? Isn't he, Bill? Bill,
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: what in the blazes is going on? Bill!
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  Speaker 14: Bill!
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  Speaker 11: Bill!
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: Taking a long time with her headache. Maybe I will
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: have that drink. The cupboard, he said, didn't he? Or
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: what in the name of... There's no liquor here. This
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: thing is jam-full of books. What if there are any cigarettes? Well,
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: no cigarettes either. Well, maybe the radio works. Ah, success.
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  Speaker 10: You are hearing a series of compositions played by our
• 13:32
  Speaker 10: studio organist, We are sorry to announce that the organ
• 13:35
  Speaker 10: recital originally scheduled from Angelus Hall has been cancelled due
• 13:40
  Speaker 10: to the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Sigmund Arnold, the noted organist.
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 13:45
  Speaker 10: Arnold, whose famous technique has thrilled many.
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: Sigmund Arnold?
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: Mysterious disappearance of Sigm... What?
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: Griswold!
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  Speaker 14: Dr.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: Griswold!
• 13:55
  Speaker 11: Dr.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: Griswold! Gentlemen. Oh, it's you, Tofu. Look, there's something very
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: strange going on. Gentlemen. Doctor send me to tell you
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: young lady's headache very bad. Very bad kind of headache.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: Must make treatment at once. Most important. Take long time. Three,
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: four hours. Maybe five. He ask me, ask you.
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: You want to wait. If I want to wait... Say,
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: what is this?
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: Where is he? Let me by. Gentlemen, no coming here.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: Torfu hurt him bad.
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: You want to see me, Mr. Cranston? Yes, what the
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: devil does he mean? What's the matter with Margo? Incipient
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: dementia precox, I'm afraid, Mr. Cranston. What? A dread malady,
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: but you need not worry.
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: I shall nip it in the bud, as the saying goes,
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: by means of a treatment known only to myself.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Where is she?
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: I'm afraid I can't allow you to see her.
• 14:46
  Speaker 9: You can't allow me to see her? Now listen to me, Griswold.
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: We haven't asked for treatment. And I demand that Miss
• 14:51
  Speaker 9: Lane be released immediately.
• 14:52
  Speaker 6: You demand? You demand?
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: Of course, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cranston.
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: Just as you say, sir.
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, if you really prefer that
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: I don't treat the girl, I shall... Tofu, my pet.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: Well done.
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: Your master approves.
• 15:14
  Speaker 8: The timely blow, the splendid timely blow.
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: Now, Mr.
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: Cranston, what are your demands?
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: You don't speak. Take him away, tofu.
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: Lodge him in the gatehouse with my other enemy where
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: I shall attend to them both in.
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: My good time.
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: In my good time when I have treated Miss Lane's
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: aching head. When I have proved to the world that
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: the great spirit master Cogliostro guides my hand.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: That there are things in heaven and earth beyond men's dreams. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Will Lamont be able to save Margo? We'll find out
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: in just a moment. But right now, I want to
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: say a few words about the product that makes this
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: program possible. All I'm going to say to you is this.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Heat your home with blue coal, for action speaks louder
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: than words. And blue coal certainly gives you action. Fast
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: action in the morning when you want a quick flow
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: of ready heat to the upstairs rooms. and steady action
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: all day long. Yes, for comfortable, even, dependable heat, morning, noon,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: and night, you can't beat blue coal. For blue coal
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: is America's finest hard coal. Mined thousands of feet below
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: the ground, in the region where only the very best
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: hard coal is found. So insist upon blue coal. You'll
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: find your blue coal dealer friendly and eager to help
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: you with free information on low-cost home heating. Ask him
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: about the Blue Coal Heat Regulator, the economical modern thermostat
• 16:47
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• 16:50
  Speaker 3: you thousands of steps and cut down your fuel bills, too.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Blue coal and a blue coal heat regulator make the
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: modern combination for convenience, economy, and comfort. Your neighborhood dealer's
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: name is listed in the where to buy it section
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: of your classified telephone directory under the words blue coal.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Phone him tomorrow. And now, back to Lamont Cranston. No,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: that toucher. Police immediately. Where the... Where the.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Who's there?
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: I can't see you. Who's there?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Lamont. Bill.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: Bill, is it you? Yes.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Where's Margaret?
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: With Griswold.
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: Griswold.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Griswold. Why, he's one of my patients. What?
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: Yes, he's obsessed with the idea that Cogliostro is his
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: guardian angel.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: This is just the opportunity he needs to use my insulin.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Insulin?
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Yes, he's absolutely fascinated with it. Cause of his downfall. Bill,
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: do you think he'll... I think he'll undoubtedly kill her
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: if we don't stop him.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: There's no hope of Tofu being.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: He's another one of them. Griswold's absolute slave.
• 18:02
  Speaker 12: Oh.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Three days ago, they attacked my male nurse, McPherson, and
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: killed him with his own gun. When they broke in
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: the door of my office, I tried to get out
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: through an emergency passageway under the building.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: But Tofu caught me, took my keys... The next.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Thing I knew, I was regaining consciousness here in the
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: gatehouse with my leg broken.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Bill, we've got to get out of here.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, try and do it.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: A few minutes ago, Torfu caught me putting in a
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: call to Weston and ripped the telephone off the wall.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Didn't you say something about an underground passageway? Yes, but
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: that's out in the grounds. It can't do us much good.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: I've got to get to Margo. Maybe we can work
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: the boat.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: From the inside, Bill. It wouldn't help much if we could.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: The door opens out on the highway, not into the grounds.
• 18:37
  Speaker 12: Oh.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: Besides, Lamont, you'd have precious little time to work with.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Torfu coming to the door every few minutes to make
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: sure his birds haven't flown. I tell you, I wouldn't
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: come to grips with him armed with anything less than
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: a revolver. But can't you handle him psychologically? That's quite
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: a job, old man. His one weakness is a wild
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: obsession with cutting instruments. Swords, razors, and all that sort
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: of thing. It's as dangerous as dealing with the worst
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: sort of trunk murderer.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, I see. What was that? I said trunk murderer.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Trunk murderer?
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Come in handy for a trunk murderer, if.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: You ask me. What are you talking about? Something Mongo
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: said earlier this evening when the world still seems sane.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: If they didn't rifle my pocket... No, here it is.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Here what is? Something with which to fascinate Tofu. A
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: real shiny, sharp, long-bladed jackknife. Do you get the idea? Why, yes,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I think I do.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: I think I do. Say, there's a chance with that, Lamont.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: The one real chance we've got left.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Now, let's see.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: He'll come back any moment now, and when he does,
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: I'll be conditioning him.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Here he comes.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: I'll occupy him with the knife while you sneak quietly away.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: And what about the wall?
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: There's a low place in the wall about 90 feet
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: below the gate.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: I think with luck you'll be able to get over
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: it while I'm coping with Torfu as.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Best as I can. You know what you are, Doc? What?
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: The salt of the earth. You're here. Yes, Torfu, we're here. Good.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Now go away. Come in, Torfu. I've got something to
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: show you. No one to see. Oh, you'll want to
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: see this. Strike a match, Lamont. Here you are. Look, Torfu.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Look.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Look how it shines. Sharp, too, like a razor. Oh.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Knife.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, a knife. Here it is. It's yours. No. Come on.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Touch it, Torfu.
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: No.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Well, we thought you'd like it. We thought you liked
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: sharp things. No.
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: No.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: Why, it's all for you, Torfu. All you have to
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: do is take it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: No.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: No. Give me. Give me. Torfu want. That's right. Now
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: sit here beside me, Torfu, and you can have it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Good luck, Sir Galahad. Get over the wall.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Like it, Torfu? Torfu got nice. Shine. Shine. Sharp.
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: He got knife.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: What a life for an officer of the law, riding
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: around with you in the bathtub.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Of a motorcycle. Hey, Finnegan, look, will you?
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: What is it I see on top of the wall yonder?
• 21:04
  Speaker 13: I don't know, but I see it myself.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Why, it's the sanitarium figure.
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: Well, maybe something's happening at last, O'Shea.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Come on, me boy-o. We'll give him a bit of
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: a surprise.
• 21:21
  Speaker 13: What's going on here?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Housebreaking? No, listen to me. No time to waste. I'm
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: not a thief. I'm from inside. Oh, then you're not
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: breaking in. You're breaking out. Yes. No, now look.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: The man inside who is presumably the doctor is, as
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: a matter of fact, a madman.
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: And I.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see.
• 21:36
  Speaker 13: The doctor is a madman. Well, now, isn't that just
• 21:39
  Speaker 13: the way they always talk, O'Shea?
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Now, please, don't make any mistake. My name is Lamont Cranston,
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: and I'm trying to.
• 21:45
  Speaker 13: Sure, you're a fine gentleman, and we're just going to
• 21:47
  Speaker 13: take you back to the good doctor, where you'll be
• 21:49
  Speaker 13: safe and comfortable.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, you don't... No, listen to me.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: I tell you, I'm Lamont Cranston. Oh, thank you, officers.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: You've done your duty in returning the patient, but I'm
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: afraid I can no longer be responsible for him.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: Four breaks in one month. I.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: I really must ask you to take him into custody
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: and hold him until I can arrange a transfer.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Well, I guess it's in the line of duty.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Here, now, just a minute. Say, doctor.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Yes, my good man? This fellow said his name was
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Lamont Cranston.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Now, I've heard that name before somewhere, and I wonder if....
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: You need not wonder a moment longer. They're all like that.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Just a moment. I'll demonstrate.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Number eight.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Number eight.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: What do you want?
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: I've missed my concert, you know.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: Now, Mr. Cranston, as you call yourself, who is this patient?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: He's Sigmund Arnold, the world-famous organist. What? Sigmund Arnold, is it? Huh.
• 22:52
  Speaker 13: Out you go, my fine boy-o. Grab him there, O'Shea.
• 22:55
  Speaker 13: Good evening to you, doctor. A fine balmy evening to you.
• 22:59
  Speaker 13: Now come along, you.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Now, take it easy and nothing's going to
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: happen to you.
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: I only want to point out to you for the record, gentlemen,
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: that Dr. Blair, the real owner of this establishment, is
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: in that gatehouse over there at the mercy of a
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: black monster seven feet tall.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I know.
• 23:18
  Speaker 13: With green eyes and snakes are coming out from the
• 23:20
  Speaker 13: top of his head.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Now, come along now and enough of your talk.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: What in blazes is that? Now, what is it?
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Throw your light over there.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Look at the window. Sure, heaven preserve us. He's right.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Two men are fighting over there.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Two men? A man and a giant, if you ask me.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Don't shoot.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Don't shoot.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: Master.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Master.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: You should have held your firemen. The big one has
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: run out on the highway. Don't worry about him. The
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: slave won't deserve the master. One of us is lonely, Mr.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Cranston. And I'm afraid it ain't you. I want to
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: say right now. No time to talk now.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: You attend to Dr.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Blair. I have an appointment.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: An urgent appointment to keep with Griswold.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: No.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: No, please don't. No, don't. The time has come, my bird. No,
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: you can't.
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: Now, with the aid of the master hand that guides me,
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: I shall heal you.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: No, stop it. Oh, Cogliostro, remain with me. No, no. What?
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Who's there? I can see no one.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Shadow. Of course you cannot see me. No one has
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: seen me these 300 years and more. I am that
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: master spirit of whom you prattle such vain nonsense.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Cagliostro.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I have come to tell you the truth, mortal. Cagliostro
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: does not guide your hand. Never has he helped you
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: and never will he.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: It's not true. It's not true.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Who would know better than I? I am that power
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: in which you believe. I am the great spirit whom
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: you thought watched over you. I know you not, mortal.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: No.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Release this girl. You have no skill. You'll only blunder again.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: And I who know all tell you this. No. If
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: that is true, then I have nothing.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Nothing.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: You were something once and can be again. Go to
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: the doctor who is watching over you. He can help you.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Go to him. No.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: No, it's all over.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I'm a failure. Where are you going?
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: Through a passageway which leads under the building to death.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: If you attempt to escape, they will kill you. It
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Come back. Come back, Griswold. It doesn't matter.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Nothing matters.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Nothing!
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Nothing!
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Lamont, where's Margo?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Is she all right?
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Here I am, Bill. Safe and sound, thanks.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, good, Margo. Where's Griswold? Look.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Isn't that someone moving along the wall?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Throw your flashlight over there. There's something there, all right. Why,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: it's Griswold! What are you doing? Don't come any closer, Dr.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Blair.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: This last trick is mine.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: He's got a gun.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: McPherson's revolver. Yes, gentlemen.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: McPherson's revolver. He mustn't get away. He's completely out of control.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: What can we do?
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Watch that.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: Look, the gate's open. It's Torfu.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Master, you not leave Torfu. Not leave me, master. Stand back.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I'm going over the wall alone. No, leave me. No, no. Back.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Back, I say.
• 26:11
  Speaker 12: You no leave me.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Stand back, Torfu.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I'm armed. You're not. Torfu, arm. I got knife. Put
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: down my knife.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Knife.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Torfu, put down knife. Now you go and Torfu go
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: with you. He's dying. Is there nothing we can do
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: for him?
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Nothing but pray for both their souls. Pray for both
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: their souls.
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: You have just heard Sigmund Arnold and the program scheduled
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: for last evening.
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Arnold is now bowing and.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Well, God's in his heaven again.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Lovely weekend.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm afraid it wasn't very restful.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: My dear friend, I shall weekend hereafter in the pastoral
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: calm of Broadway and 52nd Street.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: But I did get something out of it, you know.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: My headache. It's completely gone.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: In just a moment, I'll introduce our special guest of
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: the evening.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: But first, here's a man who needs no introduction, John Barclay,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: America's home heating expert.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Mr. Barclay.
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: Thank you, Gene Paul King, and good evening, friends. I
• 27:42
  Speaker 14: want to take this opportunity to compliment the blue coal
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: dealers of America, as well as all the trained graduates
• 27:49
  Speaker 14: of my John Barclay Heating School, on the splendid work
• 27:53
  Speaker 14: they're doing. Thousands of letters from grateful householders all over
• 27:57
  Speaker 14: the country have convinced me that more people this year
• 28:01
  Speaker 14: than ever before are taking advantage of their neighborhood blue
• 28:04
  Speaker 14: coal dealer's free John Barclay heating service. So if you
• 28:09
  Speaker 14: have any heating problem, follow their wise example. Just phone
• 28:13
  Speaker 14: your neighborhood blue coal dealer and tell him you want
• 28:16
  Speaker 14: the free advice of a John Barclay trained serviceman. Give
• 28:20
  Speaker 14: him a call tomorrow and start to enjoy better home
• 28:24
  Speaker 14: heating at less cost.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 28:30
  Speaker 13: And now we present our special guest of the evening, Mr.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Albert B.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Hines, director of the Madison Square Boys Club of New
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: York City.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Mr. Hines. Thank you, Mr.
• 28:38
  Speaker 12: Hughes. It's indeed a privilege to be a guest of
• 28:41
  Speaker 12: the good guy, as our east side boys admiringly call
• 28:44
  Speaker 12: the shadow. Each week, he's convincing more and more boys
• 28:48
  Speaker 12: that crime does not pay. Like our own boys, most
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: boys are fundamentally honest. Yet many adult criminals have started
• 28:55
  Speaker 12: their careers with a boyhood first offense. As time went on,
• 29:00
  Speaker 12: they came to believe that the only thing wrong with
• 29:02
  Speaker 12: crime was getting caught. Crime, however, is wrong in itself
• 29:06
  Speaker 12: and should not be taken lightly. So parents treat the
• 29:10
  Speaker 12: first offense seriously. Treated lightly and neglected, crime becomes attractive. Therefore,
• 29:16
  Speaker 12: everyone should learn, as our boys learned from the shadow,
• 29:19
  Speaker 12: The crime does not pay.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: Hines. We hope you'll be with us again.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Today's story is based on a story copyrighted by the
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Shadow Magazine.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: The characters' names, places, and plot are fictitious.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: The Weed of Crime. bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Coal Dealers
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: of America bring you an adventure of the shadow that
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: will thrill you as you've never been thrilled before. So
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: be sure to listen, and be sure to phone your
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: friendly Blue Coal Dealer for greater heating comfort at less cost.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: This is Gene Paul King saying, keep the home fires
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: burning with Blue Coal.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: That was The Shadow in Nightmare at Galesbury. Follow The
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Shadow for more classic broadcasts.