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The Shadow - "A Mask for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A man hires a professional assassin to kill him, and
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  Speaker 1: that arrangement brings the Shadow into a case involving shifting
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: motives and a possible double cross from the mutual broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: system and Blue Coal. This is the Shadow, A Mask
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  Speaker 1: for Murder Broadcast October tenth, nineteen forty eight, episode four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five. Brett Morrison stars as Lamont Cranston
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  Speaker 1: the Shadow, with Grace Matthews as Margot Lane. Andre Baruch
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  Speaker 1: is the announcer. As the case develops, the apparent murder
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: for higher contract proves more complicated than it first appears,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: And now we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Who Knows what evil looks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 3: The Shadows.
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  Speaker 4: Once again the thrilling adventures of the Shadow, the hard
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  Speaker 4: and relentless fight of one man.
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  Speaker 2: Against the forces of evil.
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  Speaker 4: These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate, forcibly to old and
• 1:26
  Speaker 4: young alike, that crime does not pay The Shadow In
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  Speaker 4: a moment at first, motorists look out.
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  Speaker 2: When it's dark out.
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  Speaker 4: National Safety Council records show that dust to dawn hours
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  Speaker 4: have only one third of the taffic but two thirds
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  Speaker 4: of a fatal accident, so heed such nighttime precautions as these.
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  Speaker 4: Lower your headlight beam when meeting another vehicle, whether or
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: not the other driver dims his life. It's safer for
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  Speaker 4: you if one driver can see, even if it's the
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  Speaker 4: other guy, crime at such a speed that you'll be
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  Speaker 4: able to stop within the distance your headlight beam reaches.
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  Speaker 4: Don't be in the dark about safety in the death
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  Speaker 4: of light, be alive, be bright, help cut nightcathic accidents down.
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  Speaker 4: And now to the shadow.
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  Speaker 5: The shadow, who is the forces of law and order is.
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  Speaker 4: In reality La Month Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 4: Years ago in the Audience, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 4: mysterious secret, the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 4: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 4: Margot Lynne, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 4: the voice of the invisible shadow belongs. To day's drama,
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  Speaker 4: a mask or murder s.
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  Speaker 2: The dignified man.
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  Speaker 5: In the blue pinstriped suit stops before the door at
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  Speaker 5: the end of the dim lit hallway.
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  Speaker 2: He stands there for a moment, looking around him nervously.
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  Speaker 2: Then he knocks.
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  Speaker 5: The door opens and the man peers into a dead
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  Speaker 5: dark room. Then suddenly, from the black recess of the room,
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  Speaker 5: a beam of white light stabs blinding along his face. Late,
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't make up my mind. I wasn't quite sure.
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  Speaker 2: If I should go through with it?
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  Speaker 3: Are sure now?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? I mean helower the door.
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  Speaker 5: Light my face? I can't see you. That's the idea.
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  Speaker 5: I see you, you don't see me. That's aware in
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  Speaker 5: my fists.
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  Speaker 6: For that.
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  Speaker 7: Price is five.
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  Speaker 5: Hundred, Yes, so you said on the phone. First, I'd
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  Speaker 5: like to know something, Diana, about what.
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  Speaker 2: How you go about it, how you offer it?
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  Speaker 7: I use a thirty eight one shot.
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  Speaker 2: If you miss, I don't I follow them wherever they go.
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  Speaker 7: I don't let up when I got them where I.
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  Speaker 5: Want them, And I don't miss what if I should
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  Speaker 5: ask you for mercy? They don't know what's coming. They
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  Speaker 5: don't even know what they look like any more than
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  Speaker 5: you do.
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  Speaker 2: That you see.
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  Speaker 8: Who?
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  Speaker 7: Do you want to get?
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  Speaker 2: Where?
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  Speaker 7: And when do I pick them up?
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  Speaker 5: You may begin tomorrow night. He leaves this office every
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  Speaker 5: evening of about a six. It's in the Exchange building.
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  Speaker 5: Exchange tomorrow six, Oh am, I gonna spose what does.
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  Speaker 2: He look like like me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you're looking at him right now, Diana, What there's
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  Speaker 5: this a gag or Somethodiano, It's no gag.
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  Speaker 2: I want to die. I'm hiring you to kill me.
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  Speaker 5: Who looks Margaret before you start getting any wrong ideas?
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  Speaker 9: Really, if you only let me explain, I'm sure I
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  Speaker 9: can make you understand. Nothing to explain.
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  Speaker 6: It's all quite simple, Margaret.
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  Speaker 5: You know what.
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  Speaker 2: You're jealous?
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  Speaker 3: Jealous me believe it the right.
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  Speaker 5: I was sitting in the car, minding my own business
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  Speaker 5: in just a few seconds before you came up.
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  Speaker 2: This the young woman got into the car.
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  Speaker 9: Mister Cranston drove off just as I arrived at his home.
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  Speaker 2: This, Margo, she's in considerable Oh, I'm sorry. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 2: it's very serious.
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  Speaker 6: Serious.
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  Speaker 5: You can tell us all about it on the way
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  Speaker 5: over to your home. Your husband's at your apartment now,
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  Speaker 5: isn't he?
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so worried.
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  Speaker 9: I had no idea that Frank is in difficulty.
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  Speaker 5: The difficulties have something to do with his life being
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  Speaker 5: in dangerous Ghana.
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  Speaker 9: He felt that he couldn't face public embarrassment, so he
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  Speaker 9: hired a professional gunman named Biano to kill him.
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  Speaker 10: You have himself merged.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, he just told me about it this afternoon. Now
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  Speaker 9: he sees how wrong it was.
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  Speaker 8: Now it wants to live. That's why I've come to
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  Speaker 8: you with the Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have to hurry it.
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  Speaker 9: It's long past six every second time before it's too late.
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  Speaker 9: Sianna was hired to kill Frank anytime after six o'clock tonight.
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  Speaker 10: Bank by.
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  Speaker 8: Criston. He's not here, Frank, nowhere in the apartment for us.
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  Speaker 5: He did Frank deads Gune.
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  Speaker 8: And you mustn't say anything like he.
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  Speaker 10: Wouldn't know him any more than.
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  Speaker 4: A person by hides on the teriff.
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  Speaker 2: A man's don't where you are?
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  Speaker 7: Frank?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Frank, don't you're all right?
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  Speaker 2: Who are these people?
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  Speaker 8: You can put the gun away, Frank, This is miss
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  Speaker 8: Lane and this is mister Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: Criston happens you might show your gratitude, mister gard and
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  Speaker 5: the more concrete for putting that automatic away, as your
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  Speaker 5: wife suggests.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, I'm sorry, Yes, the gun of course, Frank.
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  Speaker 9: What happened?
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  Speaker 2: Where have you been in the streets?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know for how long?
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  Speaker 2: Seemed like ours?
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  Speaker 5: Why didn't you wait here? Diano came here. I thought
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  Speaker 5: a shadow move out on the terrace. I was almost
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  Speaker 5: out of my mind.
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  Speaker 2: I ran through the streets.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't sing him, but I could hear his footsteps
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  Speaker 5: behind me.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what to do, where to go.
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  Speaker 5: I ran downside streets and throw back alleys. I finally
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  Speaker 5: shook him off.
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  Speaker 3: But he'll find me again.
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  Speaker 2: I know it will.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Frank, there's only one short place to guard the
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  Speaker 6: hide until Gianna is cattured.
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  Speaker 2: I think just the start we need for mister God,
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  Speaker 2: he won't be able to get to me.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Criston, that's right, I'll look here. Here's your own
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  Speaker 5: life in danger. It wasn't very brave, and it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: very wise of you.
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  Speaker 2: Your wife asked me to.
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  Speaker 5: Help you, and that's just what I'm doing. Sorry, kay, right, hey, Jales,
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  Speaker 5: did I notify you?
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  Speaker 2: It's gone? I'll be downest bright, mister Criston, and thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, hello, yes, mister, I think.
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  Speaker 3: What is there here?
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  Speaker 5: Of course?
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  Speaker 6: Not?
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  Speaker 2: Your husband's in jail.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know that I hadn't go there last night
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  Speaker 4: and it's happened, Dana, What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 5: I'm at the jail now. I can't thank this morning.
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  Speaker 5: He's not here.
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  Speaker 8: Bailed out less than an hour ago.
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  Speaker 2: This is the office, mon wh're silly. They'll furnished a
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  Speaker 2: reasonable race. He's the one that folks, mister Celia.
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  Speaker 11: That's why I am mister Willie.
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  Speaker 2: What can I do for you? You can help us.
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  Speaker 2: We're interested in a bail bond, and.
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  Speaker 11: You come to the right place, folks, Just like says
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  Speaker 11: the dog, they'll furnish the reasonable Wait, honest, Willy Sealy,
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  Speaker 11: I'm known as in the trade if honest and the
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  Speaker 11: mouth closs tied in the miner's face.
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  Speaker 2: Everything done here on a confidential faces.
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  Speaker 11: Here's our folks.
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  Speaker 2: Lady can sit in the rocks.
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  Speaker 5: Nice comfort, little brother Citling. Thank you, okay, mister okay,
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  Speaker 5: fair service. You want huh, get it done? Get out it?
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  Speaker 6: Okay?
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  Speaker 5: How much fun for five hundred dollars five hundred Okay,
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  Speaker 5: we'll pick up the tables.
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  Speaker 11: Who you want?
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  Speaker 2: Strong man named Frank Garne? Would you say? Thank gunn Gne?
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  Speaker 2: I sprung a guy named Frank gard It this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I know you the cili. That's why we're here. I
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  Speaker 2: want to know who's applied for money for that bond.
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  Speaker 5: Mester this ain't no information for you.
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  Speaker 11: M Like I said, I run my business on a
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  Speaker 11: confidential fasis.
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  Speaker 3: Now you to go out to fly.
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  Speaker 5: I get what I came for. Look, I want to
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  Speaker 5: hurt the CILI does nothing to make your talk.
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  Speaker 11: I WRT legion business.
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  Speaker 2: I told you honestly.
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  Speaker 5: See who want some money for that bond?
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  Speaker 2: See?
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  Speaker 5: I can't take him.
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  Speaker 8: I problem.
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  Speaker 5: I have some police in finement to break that promise.
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  Speaker 2: Take your choice to leave me or the police fast.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I got right here my crock and yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: who it is? He addressed?
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  Speaker 2: Guy Jimmy was h three twenty one Elm Street. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: thank god that is now.
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  Speaker 5: Shouldn't find out all right? Seeing now the name of
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  Speaker 5: the man who put up the bail my name?
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  Speaker 2: Sure?
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  Speaker 11: Sure try hand the book where he signed? Yeah, Lamont Chris,
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  Speaker 11: that's what the guy saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what is hello?
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  Speaker 7: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: Don't know the phrase the vice?
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  Speaker 7: Remember the vice?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you?
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  Speaker 11: Damn?
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  Speaker 2: That's all right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: How did you get here? I told you?
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  Speaker 7: I got around.
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  Speaker 5: Johanna, Wait, please put that gun away to keep up. Janna,
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  Speaker 5: listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's not supposed to be like this. It's all
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  Speaker 4: a mistake in.
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  Speaker 2: My business, no mistake.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to die.
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  Speaker 2: I changed my mind.
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  Speaker 7: That's the way I run my business.
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  Speaker 5: You don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: I can explain. Joanna, please please for head and.
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  Speaker 7: Say I told you I was going to use only
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  Speaker 7: one shot gun.
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  Speaker 2: I gave you a special bag. I gave you your
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  Speaker 2: money's work.
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  Speaker 4: Between Now, I'm gonna day give a lot of thought
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  Speaker 4: to the man you are going to vote for. Too
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: many of us take for granted our right to vote.
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  Speaker 4: Either we don't vote at all, or maybe we vote
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  Speaker 4: without giving much thought to the man we put in power.
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  Speaker 2: And it's wrong. It's all wrong.
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  Speaker 4: For we should be concerned as to whether we end
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  Speaker 4: up naked or clothes fed or starved, received or trusted,
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  Speaker 4: protected or destroyed. Remember, our right to vote is one
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  Speaker 4: of our American freedoms.
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  Speaker 2: It's up to you and to me, to all of
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  Speaker 2: us to.
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  Speaker 4: Guard it carefully or freedom is everybody's job. So be
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  Speaker 4: sure to vote and think well about the issues you're
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  Speaker 4: voting on.
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  Speaker 5: Now to the shadow, and thank God, who had hired
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  Speaker 5: the gunman to take his life was mysteriously bailed out
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  Speaker 5: of jail.
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  Speaker 2: Lamont and Margot began a search for him.
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  Speaker 5: The search ended with the discovery of Garner's bullet riddled body.
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  Speaker 5: Now we find Lamant and Margot with missus Donner in
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  Speaker 5: the bleak identification room of the City Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Or Marring.
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  Speaker 10: Please it is Tanker.
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  Speaker 2: I know how you feel. Missus Garner didn't easy, but
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  Speaker 2: it's necessary.
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  Speaker 8: You'll have to identify the body it was.
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  Speaker 10: Just take him, come along, all us, Frank.
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  Speaker 5: It's only a pooral Christian Sagana for the police record.
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  Speaker 5: You positively identify his body is out of your husband trying, Donna,
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  Speaker 5: Margot take her to the car.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, I'm all right, how'd rather go alone?
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  Speaker 6: The poor woman must have been terrible for dear husband
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  Speaker 6: like that. Let's get out of here just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing something here on Ganna's left hand
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  Speaker 2: that interests me? Interest Mark? I afraid I had gone
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: all right, not come up? Did you find something back there?
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Maybe a clue? MARKO. I can't say yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I still don't understand why your name was put.
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  Speaker 2: Donna's the one who gave clearly the money to release Ghana.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: It's an obvious attempt to sidetrack. Must have known you
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  Speaker 2: were helping.
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  Speaker 5: Gonna have an idea that Bill Bondsman is the answer
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  Speaker 5: a few questions I have in mind?
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  Speaker 2: But what if you want to make it something from me, Margaret?
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  Speaker 5: But I'm sure the shadows can find a way of
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  Speaker 5: getting the truth out of it. Hello, Hello, this wily
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  Speaker 5: chilly and what about that point?
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  Speaker 9: Take?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, go the nine o'clock Okay, I think it out.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, and the lights we'll turn them off. What's in here?
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Who's who is that going someplace? In there?
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Who's laughing?
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  Speaker 2: Who's laughing? Amji? And I'm a life clive. See who
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: was laughing at you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Too bad?
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  Speaker 3: You over anxiously leave still over that?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, post playing a check on me?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, come on, Telly, hold a.
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  Speaker 3: Light swe ceilium, then you'll.
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  Speaker 2: Know who it is. Right There ain't nobody here from me?
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  Speaker 11: I here?
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  Speaker 2: Things ain't there? Everybody's take a drink?
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  Speaker 3: Why you're not going anyplace?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody here my role?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, somebody, but I don't see I don't.
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  Speaker 2: See nobody the shadow, shadow?
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  Speaker 3: What what do you want with me?
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  Speaker 2: Who would you come here for? Tell me about why
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  Speaker 2: he gave.
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  Speaker 3: Me the money to may alat Frank Candor this morning?
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  Speaker 3: The gun who crants for God?
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  Speaker 5: Guy called him something on cramp I want the Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 5: this guy just told you to put.
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  Speaker 11: That name in the bucket. He said, my toll A buddy,
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  Speaker 11: not New York.
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  Speaker 5: He's a crazy kind of a guy. His role was
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  Speaker 5: dark and he kept the light in my face.
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  Speaker 3: And his name was Diana.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, Dianna, that's ridy. He gave me the money
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  Speaker 11: for the finally he told.
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  Speaker 2: Me a Peter.
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  Speaker 5: I know he's plan of I got that gind of guy.
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  Speaker 2: Honest, why are you running away?
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  Speaker 3: Piano?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe thinks I out too much?
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  Speaker 5: May think I should get some goss to living right here?
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  Speaker 3: Leave more him from the shadow than piano Celia.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, sir, the shadow you come back?
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: And who was it?
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Who's there? Oh, I'll find out that's that lamp, Sily
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  Speaker 2: piano there and that that's where you're gonna die? And
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: then no, no, please, Diana, please please nice s.
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  Speaker 5: Won't love heaven and Diana wait wait wait.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: We're trying to light Marco.
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  Speaker 5: Crash.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: What is this, Diana? My next shall be through your head?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, okay, Crash. Huh how did you get and
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the haunts? Jane? I say you a visit ceiling? Oh
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: that's for me.
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  Speaker 5: He's gonna knock me up, and his business is foreclosed
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  Speaker 5: as of now.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I'm keeping his bankruptcy a secret. Just long enough here
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: to make a phone call for me. Phone call.
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  Speaker 5: I think you're talking about a business call, Diana, A very.
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  Speaker 2: Important one, Miss.
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  Speaker 3: Diana.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Is it over?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Deanna.
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  Speaker 8: You'll have the money tomorrow.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Is that piano? Vera?
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: Frank steevie did? You don't have to worry about him anymore.
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: Everything's all set.
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  Speaker 2: Now, excellent, excellent.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: I'm not out here on the Paris well interesting, about
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: to be getting packed.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: No, hurry, Verah, come on out. I have a drink
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  Speaker 2: with you, all right, Frank, here you are, Verah. Thanks, No,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: that's drinks to us.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: It was all the same to you.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I let not have a drink.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Why, darling, we have so much to celebrate.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I know, but I'm frightened.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: I want to get away from here.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: I want to get away as fast as I.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Can while we're on top of the world. After all,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: the east you can do is drink to the happy success.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: If you're very clever husband, very clever plan yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: I'm so afraid something will go wrong.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: What could possibly go wrong now, yea cry hard and
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  Speaker 5: trained the double for me.
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  Speaker 2: He was dead in my grave.
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  Speaker 5: He was hammy, but quite good, particularly and the voice impersonation.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: But Cranston still might find out.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: What can Cranston find out? You told me yourself he
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: was taking in all the way. Celie's dead, And now
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: that I'm legally dead, I'll be able to enjoy the
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: eighty thousand dollars I borrowed from the company. Yes, I'll
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: be able to enjoy it all alone. Hell oh, I
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: forgot to mention it.
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  Speaker 2: Barah.
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  Speaker 5: I did have a part of my plan.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't let you in on.
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  Speaker 8: What are you talking about?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: You, Barah? I don't need you any longer.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: So what's the matter with you?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: You served your purpose quite well.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: No, wait, how many?
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: I have no intention of sharing the money with you.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, I've been rather tired of
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: you for quite some time.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: How minutes, Frank, you're just saying that you're a joke.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: No, I'm serious, dead serious, Stay away from me.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: You're going over that terrace rail behind you to the
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: ground ten stories below. No, you're committing suicide. Vera, don't
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: commit It would be quite plausible. The grief over your dead,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: departed husband was too much for you to bears.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You took your own life.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: You won't get away with it. They'll find you, all,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: find me out. You forget my dear Verah, I'm dead.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: You identified my corps and the more you murdered, but
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: no one will.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Know about it.
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  Speaker 4: No one.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, kinda put you off? All right, go ahead
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: kill her. I'm no one, just the shadow.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: It was all of it, and I had nothing.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: He was going to kill me. I was only final fright,
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: and I'm just trying to get the truth out of it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Everything.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I ain't heard every thing.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: You see.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: I was in your apartment before they anaphoned you a
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: few minutes ago. You no Casna the shadow nose. Now
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: you'll pay for your crimes with your life. This time
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: you'll fall your life.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Well, Margo, that ends a guy.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Okay, Now we can spend a pleasant, deep and devoted
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: solely to miss Margolane. Oh yes, hopefully not even a
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: mention of crime or violence.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: All right, It's just one thing I'd like to know
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: about the king.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: I promised you no shop talk.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't think of going back on my act, So darned.
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: Stuffy and tell me why missus Garner came to here
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: in the first place if she.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Was in on her husband's plash.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Well, they wanted the plan to look good and needed
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: a nonofficial witness.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: But how did you know there were two crank conners,
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: one and a hard one.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't until I examined the left hand of
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: the corpse in the mark.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I remember that the color.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Of the skin under the wedding ring on the third
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: finger was the clue the same color as the rest
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: of the finger.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: I see if the ring had been worn for a
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: number of years, the skin underneath would be.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Of a lighter color. Is light is a wedding ring?
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: Now, mistecrats, and you've hit on my favorite.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Cars parked us across the street there, nice nipe for
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the drive.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: We're not taking the car the Martin tat Day, Margot,
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: I remember the last time you were going to drive
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: me home alone? Free the crowd Darling tat Day cat Day.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Inside you Okay, you win? Where folks around the park?
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: Driver one hundred times.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: In man attention.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Here is your opportunity to obtain a four year college
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: scholarship at one of the leading colleges.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: In the country.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Your Navy has recently announced that the third annual competitive
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: examination for its Officer College Training program has been scheduled
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: for December eleventh, nineteen forty eight, and will be open
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: to high school seniors and graduates who are not less
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: than seventeen or more than twenty one years of age
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: on July first, nineteen forty nine. Successful candidates will receive
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: four years of college at the expense of the Navy,
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: and in addition, they will receive retainer pay at the rate.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Of six hundred dollars per year.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Upon graduation, they may be commissioned as ensigns in the
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: regular Navy or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps, and
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: will be required to serve on active duty for a
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: period of two years.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Further information and application blanks are now.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Available at all high school colleges and naval recruiting stations.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Don't delay apply now.
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  Speaker 5: This story is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: All names and places are fictitious. Any similarity to persons
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: living or dead is purely coincidental. Listen again next week,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: same time, same station, when the Shadow will again demonstrate
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: that the weed.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Of crime, there's bit of root crime does not Pay
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: the Shadows.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Next week, same time, same station, Another strange and fling
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: adventure in the Shadows daring battle against the forces of evil. Remember,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: don't hold back this election day. Get out there and vote.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Your vote soberly, thoughtfully cast really counts. It will help
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: put and help keep the right people in office. You
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: have the freedom to vote. Vote to maintain that freedom.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Freedom is everybody's job. The part of the Mount Cranston
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: was played by Brett Morris and Margo by Grace Matthews.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: This program came from New York. Stay tune now for Quick.
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  Speaker 2: As a Fly. This is the mutual Don Lee broadcasting system.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: That concludes The Shadow in a Mask for murder. Follow
• 27:55
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