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The Shadow - "The Ghost on the Stair" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Marjorie Anderson as Margo
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  Speaker 1: Lane lead this mutual Broadcasting System presentation.
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  Speaker 2: Of The Shadow.
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  Speaker 1: Originally heard on December twenty ninth, nineteen forty. It is
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  Speaker 1: episode number two hundred eight, The Ghost on the Stair
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  Speaker 1: Cranston and Margo visit a recently inherited small southern hotel,
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  Speaker 1: once part of a Civil War era plantation and Confederate hospital.
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  Speaker 1: The owners have been unable to keep their guests, while
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  Speaker 1: a local legend recalls Becky Branch, a young woman long vanished,
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  Speaker 1: and an old spinnet heard at night. When a guest
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  Speaker 1: reports seeing a woman on the staircase and a composer arrives.
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  Speaker 1: Seeking inspiration from the legend, Cranston begins an investigation. Jerry
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: Devine wrote the script for this Blue Coal sponsored broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Who Knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow Node.
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  Speaker 4: The thrilling adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
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  Speaker 4: brought you each week by the Blue Coal Dealers of America.
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  Speaker 4: These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to old and
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  Speaker 4: young alike, that crime does not pay. Before the Shadow
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  Speaker 4: begins today's adventure, let me ask you. Are you householders
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  Speaker 4: because blue coal is America's finest home fuel. It gives
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  Speaker 4: So phone your friendly blue coal dealer tomorrow. Won't you
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  Speaker 4: start the new year the easy, economical blue coal way.
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow, mysterious character who aid the forces of law
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  Speaker 4: and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man
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  Speaker 4: about town. As the Shadow, Cranston is gifted with hypnotic
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  Speaker 4: power to cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
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  Speaker 4: only person who knows to whom the voice of the
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  Speaker 4: invisible Shadow belongs. Today's story The Ghost on the Stay.
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  Speaker 2: It is evening.
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  Speaker 4: We find Margot and Themont seated on the veranda of
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  Speaker 4: a small hotel. They are conversing with the proprietors Roger
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  Speaker 4: Miller and his wife.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I should say that you and Roger have discovered
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  Speaker 3: the ideal way to live, then.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I should be quite content to change places with you.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like nothing better than to spend my days just
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  Speaker 3: sitting here on the veranda, observing the daily light of
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  Speaker 3: this delightful old southern town.
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  Speaker 5: Oh here, here, listen, old Patty crant.
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  Speaker 2: There's the cross I have to bear. Mango just doesn't understand.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I know you too well, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Or is that so?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, you'd be running this hotel for five minutes when
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  Speaker 6: up with Papa murder or a crime or a mystery,
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  Speaker 6: and you'd be off to the races again.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if it's a mystery he wants, he wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: to leave the premises. But what do you mean, Roger, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: forget it now.
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  Speaker 5: There you see one sniff and he's on the trail.
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  Speaker 3: Don't pay any attention to my facetious fam Roger, what
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  Speaker 3: were you refering to? Oh, it's not very exciting the month.
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  Speaker 3: Our mystery is why we can't get the guests to
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  Speaker 3: stay at the hotel.
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  Speaker 5: It's not really a mystery, Roger, Why don't you tell
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  Speaker 5: him the whole story?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, please do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, as you know, about a month ago I inherited
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  Speaker 3: this place with my uncle.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I remember.
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  Speaker 3: Since we've taken procession, no guest has ever stayed here
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  Speaker 3: more than one night. What I said that, no guest
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  Speaker 3: has ever stayed more than one night?
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  Speaker 5: Well, why is that, Roger?
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  Speaker 3: Because there's a ghost legend, the jinks on the place,
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  Speaker 3: a jinx that's lasted for almost one hundred years.
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  Speaker 5: We're not really a jinx, Roger.
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  Speaker 3: Now what else would you call it?
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  Speaker 2: Adela?
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  Speaker 3: We're not making a goal, but are we? There's only
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  Speaker 3: one reason out for our failure, isn't there? No?
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  Speaker 2: What is this reason?
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  Speaker 3: It's the house itself, the evil reputation that affairs.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I may be a bit dull, but I don't
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  Speaker 5: follow you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this wasn't Alby's a hotel, Margo. It was originally
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  Speaker 3: a plantation one hundred odd years ago. It was owned
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  Speaker 3: by a family named Branch. During the Civil War was
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  Speaker 3: used as a hospital by the Confederate forces. It was
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  Speaker 3: in that period that the tragic event occurred that has
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  Speaker 3: placed a curse and is dwelling down through time to
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  Speaker 3: the present day.
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  Speaker 2: What was this thing? What happened?
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  Speaker 3: A young Union soldier was a prisoner in the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: His nurse was the daughter of the house Lucky Branch.
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  Speaker 3: You can guess what.
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  Speaker 5: Happened, they tell in love.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the boy was fond of music. Every night Becky
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  Speaker 3: Branch would play for him I'm the Spinnet. One night,
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  Speaker 3: as she sat playing, the boys softly called out to her, Becky, Oh, yes, John.
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  Speaker 7: Doctor told me today that my wound was practically healed.
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  Speaker 5: Your wound, But John, that means.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it means that they will be taking me away
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  Speaker 7: from here, Becky, to a prison.
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  Speaker 5: No, No, they can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: They can and.
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  Speaker 7: They will unless unless what unless I can escape John.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's the only thing left here.
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  Speaker 7: If I can just get out of this building, I
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  Speaker 7: have a good chance of reaching the Union lines.
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  Speaker 8: But John, for the bus.
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  Speaker 7: I'll come back for you, deer after the war is over.
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  Speaker 7: You you know I will.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I do know that.
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  Speaker 3: Then will you help me help me to escape?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, John, I know of a way, a way for
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  Speaker 5: you to get out.
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  Speaker 3: Young Becky Branch.
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  Speaker 2: Boss.
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  Speaker 3: Escape. Finally, after a tear for farewell, the boy prepared
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  Speaker 3: to leave.
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  Speaker 9: I'll just keep playing, They'll think you're still here with me?
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  Speaker 3: John, all right, goodbye, darling.
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  Speaker 10: Goodbye, goodbye. Jo Oh, my dearest, my dearest, John, John, John,
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  Speaker 10: what's happened John?
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  Speaker 3: Good?
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  Speaker 10: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Oh John?
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  Speaker 3: And that's the story. The boy was dead, stabbed through
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  Speaker 3: the chest. No one who could have committed the murder
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  Speaker 3: was to be seen.
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  Speaker 5: That sounds fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Becky Branch's part of the attempted to escape was discovered
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  Speaker 3: and she was banished from the community.
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  Speaker 2: But what does that have to do with the James?
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  Speaker 3: Just this lamonth Since that day, this house has passed
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  Speaker 3: through many hands, and each family that has lived here,
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  Speaker 3: a mysterious death has occurred. Each of these deaths has
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  Speaker 3: been cause by a stapping.
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  Speaker 5: Well that is a story.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that isn't all, Margo. Before each step occurred,
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  Speaker 3: the playing of the spinet was heard, the legend re enacted. Eh, well,
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  Speaker 3: have you heard this mysterious music since you've been here?
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  Speaker 2: No, not yet me, I clear away of the glasses.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, it's thought very good. Yes, and now
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  Speaker 3: amand if I haven't been too boring, that's the reason
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  Speaker 3: why you should stay out of the hotel business.
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  Speaker 2: Well you've got a point there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think we have heard in if you'll excuse us, Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 3: of course, coming it own?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I guess it is bedtime. Good night, Margot,
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  Speaker 5: good night of own in the morning. Right, come on?
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  Speaker 5: Do you believe that story?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Margo. There's always a legend that goes
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  Speaker 3: with these old places. Some of them will fall. But
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  Speaker 3: this one's true. So oh, I forgot you were here, Borgne.
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  Speaker 5: Well how do you know it's true? Boy?
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  Speaker 11: I've been here many years, ma'am. I've heard that music
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  Speaker 11: many times you have, Yes, sir, I've even seen the ghost.
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  Speaker 11: What goes the ghost that's always seen on the stairs
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  Speaker 11: goose from Miss Becky Branch.
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  Speaker 5: Comand co Mond. Listen, Am I hearing things?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, I hear it too.
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  Speaker 11: There it is, sir.
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  Speaker 2: They're that old spinning playing again. Come on, muggle, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to look into this.
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  Speaker 5: It seems to be coming from inside the house.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, wait here a moment until I locate the sound.
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  Speaker 5: That room is coming from that room right over there.
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  Speaker 3: Let's walk quietly now, must be heard.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, what if? What if it really is the ghost?
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  Speaker 2: Would you rather wait outside? Margles?
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  Speaker 3: No, stay right here. When I open this door, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to rush quickly into the room. If I encounter trouble,
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  Speaker 3: you go for help. Yes, sorry, like here we go.
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  Speaker 3: What is this? Why I beg your pardon? I I
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  Speaker 3: thought that you were. I'm terribly sorry.
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  Speaker 12: Oh that's quite all right.
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  Speaker 5: The matter you all right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course, come in, Margot, keep on. I'm playing,
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  Speaker 3: all right, just showing the young lady about. This is
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  Speaker 3: the music room, I believe, Yes, I presume it is.
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  Speaker 13: I've only been a guest here since this afternoon, so
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  Speaker 13: I wouldn't be sure.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I see, Please continue your playing.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 13: I have traveled many miles to play in this whole room.
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  Speaker 14: Why is that because of the legend of this house?
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  Speaker 14: Have you ever heard of it? Yes, it was just
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  Speaker 14: told you us a while ago. In fact, we thought
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  Speaker 14: that you were.
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 13: You thought I was the ghost of Decki Bret. No,
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  Speaker 13: but I have come here to seek inspiration.
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  Speaker 5: From her departed spirits. Oh I see.
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  Speaker 13: I'm a composer. I've come to this old room because here.
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  Speaker 5: I confess the presence of the department.
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  Speaker 13: Perhaps perhaps my music will even woo the ears of
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  Speaker 13: the lovely ghost.
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  Speaker 15: Yes, yes, that's very interesting. The beauty of the music
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  Speaker 15: of the dead is the uncomp.
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  Speaker 5: Someone in trouble here, come along.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's your ghost, the ghost a game.
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  Speaker 5: You must go down, Missus Turner.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't mean to upstate everyone.
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  Speaker 16: He it was just so start.
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  Speaker 3: What happened? Old an, Missus Turner. I guess here at
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  Speaker 3: the hotel?
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  Speaker 2: How do you do? Was it you that screamed, Misster Turner?
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  Speaker 2: What was wrong?
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  Speaker 8: Well, but I was on my way to my room,
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  Speaker 8: and I happened to glance down the stairwell and saw
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  Speaker 8: a woman coming up the stairs to.
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  Speaker 5: The second floor.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, thinking it was missus Miller, I went to greet her.
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  Speaker 8: When I reached the head of the stairs, there was
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  Speaker 8: no one there.
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  Speaker 12: What why?
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  Speaker 5: No, it was such a shock that I well, I
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  Speaker 5: just screamed.
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  Speaker 3: I guess was it you were down? No? Indeed I
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  Speaker 3: was in my room, I see.
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  Speaker 12: Well are there any other women guests in the hotel?
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  Speaker 3: Roger?
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  Speaker 2: No, no others.
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  Speaker 5: Well, perhaps you just imagined you saw someone, Missus Turner. No,
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  Speaker 5: I'm positive I saw a woman.
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  Speaker 3: Of course you did what she saw?
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  Speaker 5: The ghosts?
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  Speaker 13: The ghost, Becky Branch, what did you saying to the Simeon?
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  Speaker 13: It was Missus Turner's privilege to see a very old
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  Speaker 13: resident of this house the visit Becky Branch.
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  Speaker 15: What's he's saying?
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  Speaker 5: Are there really ghosts here?
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  Speaker 3: Of course not, that's not true, missus Miller. No, what
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  Speaker 3: makes you so sure of that?
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  Speaker 13: If you want proof of my statement, mister Miller, just
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  Speaker 13: be awake and listening at the witching hour of three.
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  Speaker 12: Why what will happen?
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  Speaker 13: You will hear music, lovely music played on the spinets
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  Speaker 13: by the ghost that Missus Turner saw.
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  Speaker 12: Almost.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care, mister Simeons. You're not frightening us, So
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  Speaker 3: why don't you stop your little game? Yes, we're all
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  Speaker 3: getting upset over nothing. I'd advise that we all go
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  Speaker 3: to bed. I agree the man.
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  Speaker 5: We can go to bed. We can lock our doors,
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  Speaker 5: but we can't lock the ghost. Come come now, missus Turner,
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  Speaker 5: come along, answer you to your room.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, Adele, come along, Margot right, we'll let these
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  Speaker 3: good people.
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  Speaker 2: Get some sleep.
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  Speaker 5: I know, good night everyone, night in La Mond. Did
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  Speaker 5: you really mean to make light of that little episode
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  Speaker 5: on me too?
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  Speaker 2: He's the poor woman's mind.
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  Speaker 5: She really saw someone.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a more important question to
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  Speaker 2: be answered.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to know just where mister Simeon has acquired
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  Speaker 3: his extensive knowledge of the habits of the so called
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  Speaker 3: ghost of Becky Branch.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I noticed that he came to know the whole story.
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  Speaker 2: He knew much more about it than Roger Miller.
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  Speaker 3: Does I think, Margo, that our mister Simeon is going
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  Speaker 3: to be called on to answer a few questions by
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  Speaker 3: the Shadow. Perhaps before the night is over, we'll have ourgos.
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  Speaker 5: What was that?
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  Speaker 3: I hope I'm not including mister Simeon.
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  Speaker 5: Who speaks to me?
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  Speaker 2: Men?
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  Speaker 3: Call me.
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  Speaker 12: The Shadow?
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  Speaker 3: Where are you? I see no one.
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  Speaker 12: I'm standing right here beside you. I don't understand, mister Simeon.
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  Speaker 3: I have the power to make myself quite invisible to
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  Speaker 3: your eyes.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want of me?
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  Speaker 3: Why are you here? I want you to answer a
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  Speaker 3: few questions. What about?
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  Speaker 12: How do you know so much about the legend of
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  Speaker 12: this old house? Where did you hear of Becky Branch?
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  Speaker 2: What is that to you?
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  Speaker 3: Answer my question?
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  Speaker 13: Mister Simeon, Very well, very well, I'll tell you I
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  Speaker 13: was born in this house, mister Shadow. I've spent my
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  Speaker 13: early youth here. I used to play on this very
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  Speaker 13: same Is.
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  Speaker 3: There any evidence then, of this so called ghost.
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  Speaker 13: Oh yes, we heard her many times, many times she
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  Speaker 13: played beautifully. Was she ever seen only as she was
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  Speaker 13: seen tonight on the stairs.
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  Speaker 3: Do you believe this legend? Because I have very good
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  Speaker 3: reason to believe it.
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  Speaker 13: Why on the second floor, by the staircase, my father
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  Speaker 13: was found father dead to death?
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  Speaker 12: Who did it?
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  Speaker 3: Who killed him?
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  Speaker 13: He never found out? He died just as the young
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  Speaker 13: soldier died on the very same spot.
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  Speaker 5: It was a blessing.
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  Speaker 3: Though I never liked my stepfather, you wanted him to die.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't care. Why have you returned here?
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  Speaker 13: I am seeking inspiration, Yes, the inspiration that I lost
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  Speaker 13: when I left here.
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  Speaker 5: Inspiration that can only be gotten from the spirit of
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  Speaker 5: Becky Branch.
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  Speaker 3: Listen for her tonight.
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  Speaker 13: It usually comes from the cellar below, at the witching
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  Speaker 13: hour of freed.
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  Speaker 12: I don't believe that you've come back here in search
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  Speaker 12: of an inspiration. Mister Simeon, you have another motive, and
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  Speaker 12: when I learn what it is, let me warn you
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  Speaker 12: you will receive another visit.
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  Speaker 3: From the shadow.
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  Speaker 4: What is mister Simeon's true motive? We'll find out in
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• 16:22
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  Speaker 12: And now.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the shadow, Yes, mother.
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  Speaker 5: What do you expect to find down here in the star?
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  Speaker 3: Well, according to mister Simeon, this is where the ghostly
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  Speaker 3: music has come from. Here take this other flashlight.
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  Speaker 5: Did you learn anything else from Sinan?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he lived here as a child.
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  Speaker 3: His stepfather was killed in this house, stabbed to death,
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  Speaker 3: just as the soldiers stabbed, and he met his death
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  Speaker 3: on the second floor landing by the staircase.
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  Speaker 5: Is that where the soldier died.
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  Speaker 2: According to Simeon, Yes, well.
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  Speaker 5: I'm standing down here. That looks like a musical instrument.
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  Speaker 5: Do you you believe Simeon's story?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think he told the truth about living here
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: and his stepfather's death. But well, his talk of ghosts
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: was not very believable. Tell us the older. He's calling
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: from upstairs. Let's get up there, Margot quickly.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: What is it, Grant, it's mister Simeon's.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Not you better not look, Margot. It's Simey and he
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: he's been stabbed in the chest.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Who is it dead?
• 18:52
  Speaker 17: Yes, o lord, just like the Yankees soldier, Just like
• 18:55
  Speaker 17: what happened to him. The girl's down in death was
• 18:57
  Speaker 17: quiet here? Why were you calling up old? Look a
• 19:01
  Speaker 17: good heavens what happened? Simon was stabbed in the chest.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Seat He's dead?
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: How did it happen?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know when did you discover this ball? I've
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: just come walking down the hall. They were spitch out
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: like you see him now? I see Roger.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: You sleep on this floor, don't you? Yes?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Did you hear anything so out of a struggle or
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: a fight?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: No? Not a thing.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Oh well we better call the police at once.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Well, that certainly was a fine investigational mon Yes, I'd
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: hate to see that sheriff in charge of a crime
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: wave ever hit this time.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: You'd probably handle it just as he did the night Margot.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: He'd just say, I two the body win. Come back
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: in the morning when rustle up a cone?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Is you doing?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: The meantime, the murder has a perfect opportunity to cover
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: up any traces of his crimes.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I must say, though, that I haven't any more needs
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: to work on than the good sheriff had.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: No, mister Simmons, was your number one suspect in this
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: ghost business? Wasn't?
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: In the moment, yes, I felt that he knew much
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: more about what went on here than he was willing
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: to tell.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Maybe that's why he was killed, And that's quite possible.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: But who could his murderer be. There are only four
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: other people in this house. Oh boy, god, missus, Turner,
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Adele and Roger.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, Roger, did I hear you mention my name?
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Roger?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Oh? Sorry, Margot, I didn't need to startle you. I
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: heard your voices, so I came in to see if
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: you didn't come at anything. No, I uh, I'm afraid
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: we haven't. Well, I guess we'll have to wait all morning. Now,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I'll say, why don't you two get some sleep? We
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: will presently Roger, Well, good night, good night night, Roger.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Yes, Margaret, it's not strange the way Roger just popped
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: in here like that.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, there are several other points about Roger that need
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: clearing up.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: In my mind.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Don't you think it odd that he didn't hear any
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: sounds when Simeon died? His room is right on that floor. Yes,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: and why did it take so long in responding to
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Bo's call for help? I thought of that too, If
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: you don't mind, Margo, we won't be retiring for some
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: time yet. There are many things here that require investigation
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: before the night is over.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: What are you going to do? Ramant? Well?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: First of all, Simeon told me that the ghostly music
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: was always heard at the witching hour of free It's
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: almost that.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Now, isn't it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, just about well, I think we.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Should stay up for that little recital. Let's sit out
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: here by the staircase. All right, I'm afraid I'll have
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: to turn out this light.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: That's all right, Laman, but stay near me.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: It's all all right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Oh follow me, take hold of my hands.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: We ever meet a ghost now, I'm afraid that.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, Margo, no, no, yeah, sit here on the stairs.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Thanks?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Was that there was a now outside the house.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Oh we should get a sore throat or something. I
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: can't dish.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Well, According to mister Simeons' story, it's time now for
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: the concert to be.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: There.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, quiet, now, see if we can locate the sound.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: It's not coming from the music room, no, no, it
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: seems to come from up above, somewhere on the upper floors.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Well, why don't we get there?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Come on, Mago, something's happened up there.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: There's a light switch on the wall.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Mugo, I've got it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 13: It's Roger.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, call Adel quickly.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: What's happened to him?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: The same wound in the chest. He's breathing though, and
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: maybe a chance of saving him.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Go please get get a dough. Yes, all right, man,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Now just take it easy, lie quietly, please, that's it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Take it easy, I tell yeah, what are you trying
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: to say?
• 22:52
  Speaker 12: Hush away?
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: See hahs she?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Where where is this passage?
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Roger?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Roger?
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: What happened to him?
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Roger?
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: What happened?
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: He's still alive with but we must I quickly call
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: a car. He must be gotten to a hospital at once.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: It was much more important port to delay regained consciousness,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: to call us at.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Once all a month. This passage where he spoke? Did
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: he tell you where it was? No?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: But it must be somewhere in this hall. We'll try
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: all of these panels.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I'll start this in all right, we can locate the
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: source of the ghostly music. I think our mystery will
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: be solved the.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Month h the mon I think I found something. Come here, man,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: what is it? See what decoration is loose? It seems
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: to pull down?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, wait, Margot, let me do it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: I can do it. It's opening.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: That was a narrow escape, Margo. That knife almost plunged
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: into your body.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: What happened?
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I think we've discovered our weapon of death, Margo. Knife Yes,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: we've also solved a murder that is over seventy years old,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: the murder of Becky Branch's sweetheart.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: I don't understand.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: I'll release the weapon and show you the weapon that
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: also killed mister Simeon and wounded Roger Miller.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Well, how is this done?
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Well, it's quite simple. This knife is really an old
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: bay in it. It's attached to that heavy spring which
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: was released when the secret door was opened. It was
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: evidently put there years ago to prevent the escape of
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: men like Becky Branch's soldier, and through the years it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: taken the lives of all those who discovered the passageway.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Why, that's amazing. But lamm that doesn't explain the supernatural
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: happenings in this house.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, I know that that's something that we must do.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: The music, Yes, and this time I'm going to trace
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: it to its sauce. It seems to be coming from
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: somewhere in this passage. You wait here, Margo. This is
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: a job the shadow.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: If I play, he'll return.
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: He must return. But it's been so long did someone speak?
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: I did?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: What are you doing in this house?
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: Playing my spine?
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Who are you?
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Becky?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Becky Branch?
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: Job John, it's you.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: It's you. You've come back for me at last.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: You are, Becky Branch.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: Yes, don't you know me, Job, don't you remember me?
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: I've gotten older.
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: I've been waiting for you so long, so many years.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: You've been waiting here in this house, just.
• 25:59
  Speaker 16: Didnight only in the night I return here. They sent
• 26:04
  Speaker 16: me away, John, They sent me away when you escaped.
• 26:09
  Speaker 16: You remember that night when I played for you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: As you last.
• 26:14
  Speaker 16: I was away for many years then I returned.
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: No one in the village knew me.
• 26:21
  Speaker 16: I could go and come as I pleased. So I
• 26:25
  Speaker 16: came to the house here at night by the cellar,
• 26:28
  Speaker 16: entered and played just as I'm playing now, hoping that
• 26:33
  Speaker 16: someday i'd.
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: Play and would bring you back to me.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Many years, many years, John.
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: But it's all worth fine. Now you've come back to me,
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: You come back to me.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: I'm so glad. No, I won't have to.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: No, Becky Branch, you won't have to play anymore.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm happy to hear that Roger's doing so well, Adele.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: He's doing splendidly. The doctor thinks he can come home
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: by the end of the week.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, you might be interested to know that some of
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: the older residents of the town arranged for a decent
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: burial for Becky Brann.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: I'm so glad and Dell. Did Lamont tell you that
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: he found an entrance in the cellar that Becky used
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: to use Enery's house, So that's how she got in here? Yes?
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, and we finally learned how the secret panel worked too.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: When the panel was opened, the spring that held the
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: knife was released. After the stabbing, the door sprang shut,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: returning the knife to its former position. Miss Thank you, Ba.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: You know there's one point that you haven't cleared up yet, Lament.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Not the ghost on the stairs.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Oh my, I'm afraid I have no answer for that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: I can explain that, mister Craston, Yes, sir, that was
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: the real.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Ghost, well from the shadow in just a minute. But first,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: here's John Barclay, America's home heating Experts. Mister Barclay, Thank you,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Ken Robertson. Good evening, friends.
• 28:36
  Speaker 18: You know, every good housewife takes a kind of pride
• 28:40
  Speaker 18: in her kitchen. She installs the best cooking equipment she
• 28:43
  Speaker 18: can afford, and she keeps her kitchen clean and immaculate. Well,
• 28:48
  Speaker 18: that's as it should be. But you men don't have
• 28:51
  Speaker 18: to let the ladies get ahead of you, No, sir,
• 28:54
  Speaker 18: you can have your seller just as modern and clean
• 28:57
  Speaker 18: and immaculate. There's your wife's kitchen, and it won't cost
• 29:01
  Speaker 18: you anything either. As a matter of fact, you'll save
• 29:04
  Speaker 18: money just by following the advice I've given thousands of
• 29:08
  Speaker 18: other householders. Ask your blue coal dealer for the free
• 29:12
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• 29:17
  Speaker 18: in a few simple words, just how to bring the
• 29:19
  Speaker 18: furnace you've had for years right up to date. He'll
• 29:23
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• 29:26
  Speaker 18: and most important of all, he'll show you how to
• 29:29
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• 29:32
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• 29:37
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• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 29:49
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• 29:51
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• 29:55
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• 30:00
  Speaker 12: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not
• 30:05
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• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Next week, same time, same station. The Blue Cold Dealers
• 30:14
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• 30:16
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• 30:20
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• 30:26
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• 30:29
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• 30:37
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