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The Shadow - "Death on the Bridge" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On March 3, 1940, Mutual Broadcasting System listeners heard episode
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  Speaker 1: 189 of The Shadow. A newly built bridge has become
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  Speaker 1: the scene of a string of fatal falls, and Lamont
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  Speaker 1: Cranston goes undercover as a laborer to learn what has
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  Speaker 1: frightened the men working high above the ground. Bill Johnstone
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  Speaker 1: is Lamont Cranston and The Shadow, with Marjorie Anderson as
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  Speaker 1: Margot Lane and Everett Sloan as Shrevie. Sidney Slon wrote
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  Speaker 1: this blue coal presentation, Death on the Bridge. Now back
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  Speaker 1: to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow, mysterious character who aids the forces of law
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  Speaker 3: and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man
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  Speaker 3: about talent. The shadow uses his hypnotic power to cloud
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  Speaker 3: men's minds so that they cannot see him. Cranston's friend
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  Speaker 3: and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the only person
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  Speaker 3: who knows to whom the voice of the shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 3: Today's story, Death on the Bridge. Over the river, men
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  Speaker 3: are throwing a web of steel cables and concrete.
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  Speaker 4: The bridge.
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  Speaker 3: calculating to the thousandth of an inch, figuring stress and
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  Speaker 3: strain of steel supports, computing everything to its minutest fraction.
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  Speaker 3: The bridge must be safe and strong and last forever, perhaps.
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  Speaker 3: But there is one thing that is not calculated, not figured,
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  Speaker 3: not computed. And that, perhaps, is the most important element,
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  Speaker 3: the most vital part of the bridge, the workers, the
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  Speaker 3: bridge workers.
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  Speaker 5: The Bridge Workers.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, just a minute.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Bill. Hi, Myra.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, what's the matter, dear? Your home's early.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing's the matter, sweetheart.
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  Speaker 4: Everything's perfect. I have a job.
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  Speaker 8: You've got a.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Bill.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that's wonderful.
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  Speaker 8: What kind of a job is it?
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  Speaker 7: Well, Myra, you're not going to be too keen on it,
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  Speaker 7: I know, but it's my kind of work. Not on
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  Speaker 7: the bridge, Bill.
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  Speaker 4: You promised.
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  Speaker 7: Myra, I can't let you and the baby starve. I've
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  Speaker 7: been out of a job now for six months. Oh,
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  Speaker 7: but Bill, Bill, you.
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  Speaker 6: You know how I feel when you're up there, never
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  Speaker 6: knowing whether you'll come home each night, dreading to hear
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  Speaker 6: that sound of the whistle blowing that means another man
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  Speaker 6: has fallen.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Bill, you can't. I'm afraid.
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  Speaker 8: I'm afraid for you.
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  Speaker 7: Myra, look at it this way. A man has to
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  Speaker 7: work at the thing he knows how to do.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, but there's been so many accidents on the new bridge.
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  Speaker 6: So many men killed.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be careful, Myra.
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  Speaker 7: Honest, I will. That death whistle won't blow for me.
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  Speaker 6: Those other men probably said the same thing.
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  Speaker 8: Told their wives that.
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  Speaker 7: They'd be careful, too.
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  Speaker 4: Myra.
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  Speaker 7: It's my kind of work.
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  Speaker 4: We need the money.
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  Speaker 7: I start tomorrow. Another day, another dollar.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, you ain't gonna catch me being docked again for
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  Speaker 10: being late punching this time clock.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me, could you.
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  Speaker 7: Tell me where I can find Jim McVicker, please? What?
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  Speaker 7: Jim McVicker.
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  Speaker 4: He's a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 7: He told me to come here today. Said there was
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  Speaker 7: a job for me.
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  Speaker 4: Here on the bridge.
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  Speaker 7: Well, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: You haven't heard? Jim was killed yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 7: Killed?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Fell from the bridge tower while he was spinning cable.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't found his body yet. They've been dredging for it
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  Speaker 4: all night. Maybe they'll never find it.
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  Speaker 10: What with the undertow and everything.
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  Speaker 7: There's a jinx on this bridge. Too many men have
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  Speaker 7: been killed.
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  Speaker 4: And then those voices. What voices?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, you know, the saying about the spirits of the
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  Speaker 10: bridge workers who were killed.
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  Speaker 4: On the job. Coming back and haunting the place.
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  Speaker 7: But that's only a superstition. I never heard any voices
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  Speaker 7: on any bridge I ever worked on. Superstition, huh?
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  Speaker 10: Jim McVicker heard the voices two days before he died.
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  Speaker 4: And so did Joe, Pete, and Lefty. And Shorty, all
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  Speaker 4: the rest of them that are dead.
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  Speaker 7: The voices want them to quit, but they didn't. Believe
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  Speaker 7: you me.
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  Speaker 3: If I hear them voices, I'll quit like that.
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  Speaker 4: Who do I say about getting a job? You still
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  Speaker 4: want one, huh? I need the work. Okay, buddy.
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  Speaker 10: George Austin, he's the contractor on the job. His office
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  Speaker 10: is over there. He's doing the hiring now. But you
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  Speaker 10: can't say we didn't warn you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you gotta hand it to him. He's got knives,
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  Speaker 4: all right. And of all gems, eh? Come in. Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Austin? Yes, what can I do for you? My name's
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  Speaker 7: Bill Wilson. I'm a bridge worker. I want a job. Well,
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  Speaker 7: we need men. Have you had much experience? All my life, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Austin. I've been building them.
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  Speaker 7: And what's the last bridge you worked on? The intercity. Well,
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  Speaker 7: that was two years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 7: You see, I tried to get other kind of work
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  Speaker 7: after that. I got married and my wife worried when I.
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  Speaker 4: I understand. And now?
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  Speaker 7: I need this job. I guess I ain't fitted for
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  Speaker 7: any other kind of work.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 11: Well, this job's pretty dangerous. We've got quite a few casualties.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I know. You know?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, some of the men told me. I know about
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  Speaker 7: the voices, too.
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  Speaker 4: Sure you still want the job?
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  Speaker 7: A man's got to work. I see.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you're hired.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. In just a minute, I'll call Cal one.
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  Speaker 7: He's the foreman.
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  Speaker 4: He'll tell you what you to do.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 7: I'm coming over to Campbell here. Okay. Cal. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 7: is it, boss? I want to see you for a minute. Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Sure. Well, what is it, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Austin? Come in, Cal.
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  Speaker 4: Come in. Calhoun, I've just hired this man. I want
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  Speaker 4: you to show him around. Get his name on the payroll.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Howdy, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Wilson. Bill Wilson.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad to know you, Bill. Same here.
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  Speaker 7: You think you can find something for Wilson to do
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  Speaker 7: right away?
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  Speaker 4: We're behind schedule, you know. Well, he can work with
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  Speaker 4: me on the tower. Oh, fine, Calhoun. Yes. You are
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  Speaker 4: shorthanded there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Since yesterday. Bill here can take old Jim McVicker's place.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Bill. How you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I'm all right, Cal.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm coming over. Hey, you're not looking so good.
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  Speaker 7: What's the matter? I don't know. I guess I'm not
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  Speaker 7: used to being up so high anymore. I've been away
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  Speaker 7: from bridge work for two years now. The height kind
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  Speaker 7: of makes me dizzy.
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  Speaker 4: What happened? You'll be all right after lunch.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, speaking about lunch, it's just about time. And I
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  Speaker 10: better tie these things down back there. With this wind blowing,
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  Speaker 10: they'll be blown right off in no time. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 10: is blowing pretty strong.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Myra, there'll be a paycheck this week for you
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  Speaker 7: and the kids. Bill Wilson.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Bill Wilson.
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  Speaker 8: You are the next to go.
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  Speaker 7: You say something, Cal? You call me Bill? I thought
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  Speaker 7: you said something to me.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't said nothing, fella. Must be the wind.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the wind, Bill Wilson.
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  Speaker 4: Voices.
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  Speaker 2: Leave while there's still time.
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  Speaker 7: Voices.
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  Speaker 2: There's death here.
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  Speaker 9: Cal.
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  Speaker 4: Cal. I heard the voices.
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  Speaker 7: I'm quitting. I'm going down. Hey, now, wait a minute, Bill.
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  Speaker 7: What's the matter? I heard the voices. The voices that
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  Speaker 7: the others heard. Well, I ain't heard nothing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going down, Cal. Oh, now, look. Maybe you just
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  Speaker 4: imagined you heard them voices. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: I heard them. I tell you, they warned me. Well, okay.
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  Speaker 10: I guess you better knock off for the rest of
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  Speaker 10: the day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. I'd better.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, hey, Bill. Bill. Watch your step, Bill.
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  Speaker 4: Here, let me help you.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to fall.
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  Speaker 4: Oh!
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  Speaker 8: But it sounds so weird, Lamont. Each time the voices
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  Speaker 8: have been heard, a man has fallen.
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  Speaker 2: To his death.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: I was reading in the paper this morning, Margo, that
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  Speaker 9: the contractor, George Austin, is having a little trouble with
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  Speaker 9: the men.
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  Speaker 4: They're afraid to go to work. Yes.
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  Speaker 8: I read he's had to give them extra bonuses to
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  Speaker 8: keep them on the job.
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  Speaker 9: Margo, something more than superstition is behind all this.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm going to find out what... Oh, excuse me, Lamont.
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  Speaker 7: Come in.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, hello, Shrevie.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Miss Lane. Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston.
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  Speaker 7: Hiya, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 4: Hiya, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 7: Nice day, Miss Lane. Nice day.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, look, Shrevie, I think this is where we came in.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks for the greetings, though. What brings you here, Shrevie?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I was going to ask you two to do a...
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  Speaker 7: You two to do.
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  Speaker 12: It's funny.
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  Speaker 7: I was going to ask you two to do a
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  Speaker 7: favor for me. I was going to ask you.
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  Speaker 8: Well, what's that?
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  Speaker 7: Well, the cops just got a rule that you can't
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  Speaker 7: cruise in no empty taxi.
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  Speaker 4: Cab in the theater district. You can't cruise.
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  Speaker 7: Yes. So?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 7: So I was wondering if you wasn't busy or nothing,
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  Speaker 7: if you'd kind of like to ride around in my
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  Speaker 7: cab and be dummies.
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  Speaker 4: Like until I pick up a real fair and tell.
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  Speaker 8: Be dummies like?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I wouldn't charge you nothing. I wouldn't charge you.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, that's very tempting, Shrevie, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Shrevie.
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  Speaker 7: Shrevie, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Shrevie, you won't have to do that. You've got a
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  Speaker 4: cash customer.
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  Speaker 5: Who?
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  Speaker 8: Me. Where are you going, Lamont?
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  Speaker 4: Well, first we're going to Shrevie's house.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, swell. First we'll go to my.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 9: Shrevie.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have an old suit that I could wear?
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  Speaker 7: Old suit? I'm wearing my old suit. You can have
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  Speaker 7: my new suit if you want it, Mr. Cranston. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Let me see.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I guess the suit you have on would be
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  Speaker 9: just about right for me.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 7: Shreevy, have you got a brother? No, but I got
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  Speaker 7: two married sisters.
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  Speaker 4: Lena and Clarissa.
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  Speaker 7: Lena's going to have a brother.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Shreevy. Well, Shreevy.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've got a brother, too.
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  Speaker 5: Me.
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  Speaker 7: I'm your brother, Jake, I am. Jake? Yeah. I ain't
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  Speaker 7: got no brother, Jake.
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  Speaker 4: I don't get it, I don't get it.
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  Speaker 7: You've got nothing on me, Shrevie.
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  Speaker 8: Lamar, what is all this Jake business?
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  Speaker 9: Margo, I'm going to get a job on that bridge
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  Speaker 9: as a worker. I want to hear those spirit voices
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  Speaker 9: with my own ears. Come on, Shrevie, come on, let's go, huh?
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  Speaker 9: So I heard there was a job here on your bridge,
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  Speaker 9: I heard, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Orson.
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  Speaker 9: So I need a job, so here I am.
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  Speaker 11: Of course, you know about the trouble we've been having here.
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  Speaker 11: The man killed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I read about it.
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  Speaker 9: The fellas think they've been hearing things, voices or something.
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  Speaker 4: The way I look at it, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Orson.
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  Speaker 7: And still you want the job, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Shrevenus, Jake Shrevenus, sure I want the job I want.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't afraid.
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  Speaker 7: My brother Shrevy.
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  Speaker 9: Always says to me.
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  Speaker 7: Come in.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Orson.
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  Speaker 4: What do you want, Baskin?
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  Speaker 10: Well, that's a fine way for a man to talk
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  Speaker 10: to his creditor.
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  Speaker 11: I warned you that I didn't want you snooping around here.
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  Speaker 4: Now get out.
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  Speaker 10: I just wanted to see how you were coming along
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  Speaker 10: with the work.
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  Speaker 12: I've got a good reason for wanting to know. 150,000
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  Speaker 12: good reasons.
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  Speaker 4: You'll get your money. Don't worry.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, I'm not worrying. But maybe you are. I read
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  Speaker 12: about the trouble you've been having down here.
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  Speaker 7: Just a minute, sir.
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  Speaker 8: I thought.
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  Speaker 11: Jake, would you go into the other room and wait?
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  Speaker 4: I'll be with you in a minute. Huh?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Austin, sure.
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  Speaker 9: This one?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 11: What are you trying to do, Bascom? Scare my men off?
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  Speaker 11: You know I've been having trouble.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, losing quite a few men, aren't you? Behind schedule, too.
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  Speaker 7: That's none of your business.
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  Speaker 10: It will be my business if you fall so far
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  Speaker 10: behind that you forfeit the bond you posted.
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  Speaker 4: If I do, you'll win. You'll get everything I have.
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  Speaker 9: But I haven't failed yet.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's true. You haven't failed yet.
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  Speaker 7: But you've only got 30 days more. Get out.
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  Speaker 5: Get out and stay out or I'll have you put
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  Speaker 5: out bodily.
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  Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't take that.
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  Speaker 11: The whistle.
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  Speaker 7: Another man has fallen. Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Watson.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Davidson.
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Watson.
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  Speaker 3: Davidson.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Horton, let's go.
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  Speaker 4: It won't be long now. No, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Bascom, perhaps not. If you are allowed to continue your work.
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  Speaker 7: Huh? What?
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  Speaker 4: Who said that?
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  Speaker 2: Men call me the Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: I can't see you.
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  Speaker 2: No man has ever seen the Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: What do you want with me?
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  Speaker 2: What do you know about the accidents, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Bascom?
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  Speaker 2: What have you to do with them?
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  Speaker 7: I have nothing to do with them.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 9: If Austin fails to complete the bridge by the specified time...
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  Speaker 9: You will profit, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Bascom.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I lent Austin the money to post the bond.
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  Speaker 7: If he fails, I get everything he.
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  Speaker 4: Has, but I.
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  Speaker 2: And Austin will be ruined. Isn't that right? You want
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  Speaker 2: to see him ruined, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: Austin underbid me on this job.
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  Speaker 7: Why shouldn't I like to see him fail?
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  Speaker 10: He'd do the same if he got a chance to me.
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  Speaker 2: That's the argument that all men like you make, Bascom.
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  Speaker 7: What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing yet.
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  Speaker 2: Bascom.
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  Speaker 9: I have no proof that you had anything to do
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  Speaker 9: with the deaths of these men.
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  Speaker 2: But remember, you will be watched.
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  Speaker 9: Austin still has a chance to complete this bridge if
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  Speaker 9: he's not interfered with.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Margo?
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: That's you, Lamont.
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  Speaker 9: What happened? I got the job on the bridge, posing
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  Speaker 9: as Shrevie's brother, Jake. I start work tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 8: Have you found out anything about the accidents, Lamont?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing definite, Margot.
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  Speaker 9: But Austin has enemies. People who would like to see
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  Speaker 9: him fail on the job.
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  Speaker 8: Who are they?
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  Speaker 4: I can't tell you anything now, Margot.
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  Speaker 2: I'll know more after I've heard those voices.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, please be careful, Lamont.
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  Speaker 4: I will, Margot.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you're getting along better than I expected for a
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  Speaker 10: new handshake.
• 14:53
  Speaker 9: Thanks, Cal, thanks. I'm doing my best I'm doing. Yeah, yeah, we're...
• 14:58
  Speaker 9: We're up pretty high here, ain't we?
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, about 300 feet up.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: 300?
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I guess.
• 15:04
  Speaker 7: You're going to be all right.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Just keep things moving. Yeah, right, Cal, right.
• 15:08
  Speaker 9: Gosh, I ain't dizzy or nothing from being up this high,
• 15:11
  Speaker 9: I ain't.
• 15:11
  Speaker 10: Well, Jake, then I can leave you to yourself for
• 15:13
  Speaker 10: a while. If you get into any trouble, just call me.
• 15:16
  Speaker 10: I'll be right up there at the head.
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: Okay, Cal, okay. This is a warning. Huh?
• 15:27
  Speaker 9: Leave.
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: This bridge.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Leave while there's still time. And the voices? Leave this bridge.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: There's death for you if you stay.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Help! Help!
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: Cal!
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: My foot!
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: I'm slipping!
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: Help!
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, my Lord! Jake!
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: Another one gone.
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: Just a moment. Oh, hello, Shrevie.
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: Hello, Miss Lane.
• 16:11
  Speaker 10: Aha, I see you've come to take me out riding
• 16:13
  Speaker 10: because you know Lamont's working.
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, that's it.
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: Oh, good, Shrevie.
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: Well, if you'll just give me a minute to get
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: my hat and coat, I'll be right with you.
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: Don't hurry up yourself, Miss Lane. I've got a lot
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: of shopping to do today, and you can come along
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: and carry all my....
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: Why, Shreevy, what's the matter?
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: Can I come in, please, Miss Lane?
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: Why, of course, Shreevy. Come in.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: Thanks.
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: What is it, Shreevy? Bad news?
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: Miss Lane, I... I just heard about a.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: about a death.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: Oh, Shreevy. Not in your family.
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: Yes, sort of. It feels like that.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: Oh, Shreevy, that's terrible.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: He was such a swell guy.
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: He, Shrevie? You said there were two married sisters in
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: your family, but you never mentioned it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Oh, didn't I? Well, that's what the report said. The
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: report from Mr. Austin. It was a very nice letter
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: from him.
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: Austin? Shrevie, Lamont went to work for Mr.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: Austin.
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: Are you trying to tell me that.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: Please, Miss Lane, I was only trying to break it
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: easy like... Please, don't cry, Miss Lane.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: We've got to be brave. We've got to.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: Tell me, Srivi. Tell me what happened.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: Well, Mr. Cranston got the job at the bridge like
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: he said he was going to. Well, it got him, too.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: He fell.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: Oh, Lamont.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, Miss Lane, please, Miss Lane. We've got to be brave.
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: We've got to.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: I had a feeling that Lamont shouldn't have done it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Gee, he was such a swell guy. What did you say? Quit?
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: Well, what good would my quitting do? Someone else would
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: have to complete the bridge. I know, I know. But
• 18:07
  Speaker 11: do you think it's easy for me to see them die?
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: But this bridge has got to be built. What? Oh,
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: you let me know.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: That means you won't give me the money. Thank you
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: very much. Goodbye.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Austin, the men have quit work.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: They won't go back.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: What?
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: I can't hold them. They're all quitting. They want their money.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: I ordered the cashier to close up. I see. I
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: want to talk to them. Yes, sir. This is the
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: end of everything.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Austin, I can't hold them much longer.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: All right, I'll talk to them.
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: There he is.
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: We want our money.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: Men, men, please listen to me. Oh, I talk, Austin,
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: but we're quitting anyway and we want our money.
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we want our money.
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: You tell the paymaster to pay off.
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: Look, you'll all get your pay now if you want
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: to quit.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: But any of you who want to continue.
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: We'll go up and risk our.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: Necks while you sit nice and safe in your office. Men, men,
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: would it make you feel any better if I went up.
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: I've always said... Yeah, what'd you say?
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: I've always said that I'd never ask the men working
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: for me to.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: Do anything that I wouldn't do. And I want to
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: make good on that. I'm going up now and prove it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: Is there anyone here who isn't afraid to.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Go up with me? I'm going with you, boss. If
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: you ain't afraid, I ain't. Thanks, Calhoun. Well, let's go.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: How long we been up here, Calhoun?
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: About half an hour, Mr.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Austin.
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: Well, I guess that'll convince the men that the bridge
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: is safe up here.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: We go down in a few minutes.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: Look at them down there watching us.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah. They expect us to fall. Yeah, they're so.
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: Sure we're going to, it almost seems a shame to
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: disappoint them.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: What?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Look at them.
• 20:11
  Speaker 11: Strange how a superstition can take hold of a group
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: of men.
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: Maybe the voices are more than just imagination, Mr.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Austin.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: Maybe they actually heard the voices. Calhoun, you don't believe that, too.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: Perhaps I do. But I thought that you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: The voice that the men heard was the voice of revenge.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Revenge?
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: What are you talking about?
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: My voice, George Austin.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: What?
• 20:37
  Speaker 13: It's a little trick of ventriloquism.
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: A voice? You?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, me.
• 20:43
  Speaker 13: And now you're going to die, George Austin. At last
• 20:48
  Speaker 13: I have you up here. I wanted you to die
• 20:51
  Speaker 13: the way she died. The way my daughter died. Falling down, down, down.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: You, Calwern, you're the voice. You've done all this.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, I am the voice.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: I pushed your men to their death.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: You wanted to ruin me. Yes, I wanted to ruin you.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: But more than that, I wanted you to die as
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: my daughter did. I planned all this to bring you
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: up here.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: No, no, you're my friend. You couldn't, I... I've known
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: you for years.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm your friend, eh?
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Your friend. But my daughter wasn't good enough to marry
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: your son. I had no control over that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: It wasn't anything I could do. He wasn't in love
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: with her. Yes, you talked him out of it, sent
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: him away. She wasn't good enough for him, you thought. Calhoun,
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: you're out of your head. Yes, yes, perhaps I am.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Perhaps if you had seen your daughter jump to her death.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: You'd be out of your head, too.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: Yes, and it's your fault, all yours. Calhoun, let's go
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: below and talk this thing over. You're mistaken, I tell you.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, you'll go down.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Yes, you'll go down.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: The quick way, turning over and over. And it'll only
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: take a second or two, but in that second you'll suffer. Yes,
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: you'll suffer as she suffered.
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: Calhoun, let go of me. We'll both go off and
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: let go. Suppose I do.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: I have nothing to live for now, and you'll die.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: And I can rest then. Calhoun, I'm slipping. I can't
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: hold on much longer.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Well, now, you're going to die.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: And if you have any prayers, say them.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: No, Calhoun, you'll fail.
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: My throat.
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: Let go. I'm choking. Arson. Who said that? I can't
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: see you.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Men call me the Shadow. You can't see me because
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of a hypnotic mist I've cast over your mind.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: Shadow? Yes, I've heard of you. I must have been
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: out for a minute. Coward. Where is he?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: He's lying there, unconscious, Austin. I think he stopped in
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: his evil work at last.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: He tried to. Yes, I know.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Well, if you hadn't stopped him... Shadow, look.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: Calhoun.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Stop, damn it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: Shadow, he's smashing this platform loose.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: We'll all be plunged to our deaths. Calhoun, stop.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Stop, I say.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: You thought you'd stop me, Austin.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, no. We'll die as she died. What? The hammer.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: Something took it out of my hands.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: The shadow took the hammer away from you, Calhoun.
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: The voice.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: The voice.
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: It's coming after me! Calhoun killed himself. Yeah, it was
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: all in the papers, Miss Lane. This guy Calwine has
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: got a hate on Austin, see? In fact, he's crazy
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: from it, he's crazy. He used to work in a
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: board for Lexi before he got to be a bridge worker.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: He did a kind of act with a dummy, you know,
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: a ventilica. Yeah, ventilicus, that's what it was. So he
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: throws his voice around and scares the men, and then
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: he goes up to them pretending to help them down,
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: and he pushes them off. Oh, he was a no-good.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: Always acting so innocent-like and everything.
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: Please, Shreevy, let's not talk about it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Lane. Ain't I that dummy, though?
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: I'm a stupid.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I ought to have more.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Shreevy, please.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Oh, okay, Miss Lane. Would you like to go for
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: a ride in my cab? I wouldn't even pull a meter,
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: If you'll go.
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: No, thanks, Shreevy.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: All right, Miss Lane.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Take it easier.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, sit right where you are, Miss Lane. I'll answer
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: it for you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: Hello, Shreevy.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Mr.
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: Cranston. It's nice to.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, Lamont.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: Lamont, you're safe.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Why, of course, Margo.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: You didn't... You didn't think.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, Margo.
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: Why didn't you let me know? That's a fine thing
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: to do to me.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Margo, I didn't realize.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to scare you.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: Well, you did. I thought you were killed. Oh, I
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: ought never to speak to you again, Lamont Cranston.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Will you if I say I'm sorry, very sorry?
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: Well.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: And promise I'll never do it again? Well... And take
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: you to dinner and a show and orchids?
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Well, that would help.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: Oh, Lamont, you'll never know how I felt. How did
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: you do it?
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: Well, when Calhoun started that ventriloquist act of his, I
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: went into the chateaus, yelled out and pretended to fall.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, I see.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: Well, then Calhoun thought that you'd really fallen without his help. Oh, Lamont, Shreevy.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: He knows about you now.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: I don't think Shreevy knows I'm the shadow at all.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: But he's heard everything. He's been right here with us.
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: He's been with us in body, Margo. But his spirit
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: fainted when I came in the door.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by the
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Shadow Magazine. The characters' names, places, and plot are fictitious.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: The Shadow Magazine is on sale at your local newsstand.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The shadow knows.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Now that was the shadow in Death on the Bridge.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Until the next broadcast, good night and keep a place
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: for radio's enduring voices.