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The Shadow - Friend Of Darkness [episode 160] Broadcast 2/19/1939 · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: The shadow node.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Your local blue coal dealer presents the shadow. These half
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: hour dramatizations are designed to forcibly demonstrate to old and
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: young alike that crime does not pay. Before we start
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: the first act of today's shadow story, Attention homeowners, if
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: you want better heat with less furnace attention, here's what
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: you do. Get in touch with your nearest blue coal dealer.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: Order a supply of blue coals, the fine quality hard
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: coal that's been mined and prepared by the most modern
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  Speaker 2: methods and laboratory tested. For you'll find that blue coal
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: offers you by far the most for your money in
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: hitting comfort and satisfaction. Don't fail to try, or they
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: your supply of blue coal tomorrow. The Shadow, my serious
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  Speaker 2: character who weighs those in distress, is in reality Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 2: wealthy young man about town. Cranston's friend and companion, the
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  Speaker 2: lovely Margot Lanes, is the only person who knows to
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  Speaker 2: whom the unseen voice belongs.
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  Speaker 3: Today's story Friend of darkness.
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  Speaker 4: It is not enough, ladies and gentlemen gives the blind,
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  Speaker 4: for they hardly need that, and most of the rather not
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  Speaker 4: have it, They would rather win.
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  Speaker 5: An appreciation of their attainments and talent. When one faculty
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  Speaker 5: is denied, its nature compensates by developing others. To illustrate
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  Speaker 5: that point, I've invited here to my homely young man
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  Speaker 5: who has been blindsome births. I take pleasure now presenting,
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  Speaker 5: do you, mister Peter Blair? And uh oh yes, I
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  Speaker 5: want you to meet Peter's best friend, his guide and companions.
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  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, Meet Wreck.
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  Speaker 4: Is going to demonstrate how generously nature has compensated him
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  Speaker 4: for the loss of his sight. You'll need a couple
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  Speaker 4: of volunteers to help with this. And La Mark Creston,
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  Speaker 4: would you be a courageous soul and come up here
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  Speaker 4: in front of all these nice femles.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Margaret, I hope I'm not going to be
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  Speaker 6: short in half or anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: All what it is usually a woman that saught.
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  Speaker 2: In her Now we need one.
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  Speaker 4: More volunteer coming to a western I know you're not
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  Speaker 4: afraid of a crowd. Would you be so kind?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Gramy, that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Now that we have our volunteers, I turned the platform
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  Speaker 4: over to you, Peter.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Miss Lane ladies and gentlemen. I first want to express
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  Speaker 7: my deep appreciation to Miss Lane and all you ladies
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  Speaker 7: and gentlemen who are launching this campaign for the economic
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  Speaker 7: and industrial advancement of the blind. As Miss Lane has
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  Speaker 7: told you, nature generously compensates for the loss of the
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  Speaker 7: site faculty. In my case, I've been endowed with a
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  Speaker 7: rare sense of touch, and I'll show you now to
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  Speaker 7: what extent that faculty has been developed. I hold in
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  Speaker 7: my hand a piece of steel three inches thick. Commissioner Western,
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  Speaker 7: would you hold this piece of steel against your chest? Right?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, of course, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Now, mister Cranston, will you take the Commissioner's hands and
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  Speaker 7: hold your middle finger on his pulse?
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  Speaker 9: Gently?
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  Speaker 1: Come, come Western, Come.
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  Speaker 7: I suppose that's the first time you two men have
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  Speaker 7: been asked the old hand. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm
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  Speaker 7: going to place my fingers on the piece of steel
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  Speaker 7: that's against Commissioner Western's chest. I'll count the beat of
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  Speaker 7: the Commissioner's heart through this steel. Mister Cranston will verify
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  Speaker 7: my co by the pulse beat, and with start on
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  Speaker 7: a signal from Miss Lane. All right now, miss Lane,
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  Speaker 7: whenever you say alright, and I will go No. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
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  Speaker 7: Stop the commissioner's heart beat ten times. We stopped on
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  Speaker 7: the eleventh beat, Mister Craston.
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  Speaker 6: Correct ten beats, called exactly on the beat.
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  Speaker 10: Where's the skinner, Joe?
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  Speaker 8: He's out with that police dog Princy for teaching himself.
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  Speaker 10: And he says, I wonder what that skinner has up
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  Speaker 10: his slave, who's been training that much for the past month.
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  Speaker 6: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 8: First he holds us up in his sack and then
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  Speaker 8: he goes in for dog trainer. It's got me.
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  Speaker 10: Shut up here he comes, Oh, Skinner, hi, skinner, I
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  Speaker 10: come up to to night.
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  Speaker 11: I ain't did okay the smart hound. I had to
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  Speaker 11: slap him around a bit, but he get the idea
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  Speaker 11: after a while. Let me smoke with it, certainly, exkin me, Yes, well,
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  Speaker 11: I guess this is the night right for what the
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  Speaker 11: pull of stunt I've been planning on for a couple
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  Speaker 11: of months.
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  Speaker 8: It means you got something on the fire.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, you gonna make some real dough, no pennianty stuff
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  Speaker 11: this time.
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  Speaker 8: See, I thought it was gonna spreend our lives just
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  Speaker 8: trawing him that much.
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  Speaker 11: That hound is gonna be more important the stunt I've
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  Speaker 11: got in mind than either of you guys.
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  Speaker 10: What's on a sleeve and.
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  Speaker 11: You'll find out the clip and I get out of
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  Speaker 11: a paper about a month ago. What is a popular
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  Speaker 11: and beautiful Margo Lane launches Society for the Economic and
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  Speaker 11: Industrial Advancement of the Blind.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, it's very interested. You ain't going into society.
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  Speaker 11: You shut up. Though. There's a lot of stuff here
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  Speaker 11: about this Margo Lane. But here's what interests me. Among
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  Speaker 11: the demonstrations that amaze the guests was the feat performed
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  Speaker 11: by Peter Blair. Blind from birth, Blair registered the heartbeat
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  Speaker 11: of a guest through a thick piece of steel. This
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  Speaker 11: he did by placing the steel over the heart of
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  Speaker 11: one of the guests, with his own fingers on the
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  Speaker 11: outer side. No what so we can use that guy
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  Speaker 11: any but he can feel our heart beat through a
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  Speaker 11: piece of steel, could feel it. Tumbler's falling, the safe
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  Speaker 11: not swell.
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  Speaker 8: But how you gonna get the guy?
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  Speaker 11: Kidnap him?
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  Speaker 2: There?
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  Speaker 8: Snakes that carries a dead sense in this stack.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, if you take a guy by physical force, it does,
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  Speaker 11: but it wouldn't be kidnapping if the guy walked in
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  Speaker 11: here without us laying a hand on him with.
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  Speaker 10: It, you think the guy's nuts enough to do that.
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  Speaker 11: I'm gonna make him do it. Oh, Prince here'll do
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  Speaker 11: it for it. This guy Blair is led around by
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  Speaker 11: a big police dog just like Prince here. Rex is
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  Speaker 11: his name. Takes his dog to the park for exercise
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  Speaker 11: every night. We're gonna watch for him tonight. When he
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  Speaker 11: lets his dog off the leash, we grab him and
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  Speaker 11: leave Prince in his plates.
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  Speaker 6: The lead Blair here.
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  Speaker 11: Right, it shocks between the park and Blare's home.
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  Speaker 8: And that sounds all right, But wait a minute, what
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  Speaker 8: will Prince do when we beat it?
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  Speaker 11: Prince won't move from where I put him till he
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  Speaker 11: hears the name Rex, and he'll go to whoever says,
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  Speaker 11: Oh oh.
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  Speaker 8: That's what you've been teaching him. Man, it's both names.
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  Speaker 11: That's thing about everything Blair's dog does.
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  Speaker 8: Oohy, that's thinking.
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  Speaker 3: I'm up, believe me.
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  Speaker 8: Well, when do we go?
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  Speaker 11: Right now, I'll drive out of the park and wait
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  Speaker 11: for Blair. Come on, Prince, you're one of the gang, now,
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  Speaker 11: lass Peter do then?
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  Speaker 8: Uh?
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  Speaker 11: Sitting on that bench over.
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  Speaker 8: There, there is his dog running around.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, you don't let Prince out of the car. Right,
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  Speaker 11: that's where we make the switch.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, go about Prince.
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  Speaker 11: Uh, as soon as we get the wrecks overhead of
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  Speaker 11: the car, we'll trade dogs. Prince speak speak.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, look the other bunch stopped doing this tretch. Oh
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  Speaker 8: and now he's answer us.
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  Speaker 11: Back here he comes alright, Prince, Oh, alright, boy, and
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  Speaker 11: do your stuff. What is the grab Blaz's dog?
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  Speaker 1: You know he won't get away?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 11: Hello, rags, nice racks. He come here, boy. Uh, I
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  Speaker 11: had a good stuff, alright, fellas grab and muscle him.
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  Speaker 11: I got a fat and a car would make it sippy.
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  Speaker 6: Shut out the old find jup walking a little while.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, okay, skin the wind.
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  Speaker 1: All set dogs in the car.
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  Speaker 11: Ride right down on the grass. Prince, I said, now
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  Speaker 11: stay put til Black calls for Rex. No, no, no, no, boy,
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  Speaker 11: down down.
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  Speaker 10: Y.
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  Speaker 1: That friend thinks moving a muffle.
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  Speaker 8: Boy, you should got in train right, hide the doll.
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  Speaker 1: Come on right.
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  Speaker 3: Look at Prince heard him call.
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  Speaker 6: Say, look at the wrench tup all over player like
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  Speaker 6: he knew 'em all his life.
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  Speaker 11: Uh, he'll never know it ain't Rex.
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  Speaker 6: We just look at the Prince is leading the guy
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  Speaker 6: right out of.
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  Speaker 11: The park, right out of the park and right into
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  Speaker 11: our hands.
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  Speaker 12: Woom, hey, erecting a.
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  Speaker 7: Bit strings the night wrenched?
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  Speaker 9: Something wrong?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, white old jansing me.
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  Speaker 11: Ah, he's talking, Maya.
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  Speaker 7: That's certainly isn't like you. I'm surprised.
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  Speaker 3: What't is?
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  Speaker 11: What wasn't you stopping here for right? We're not near home? Yes,
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  Speaker 11: the car come away?
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  Speaker 7: I find your voice at last. R right you you've
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  Speaker 7: taken me to somebody's door. Stop pulling like frecks?
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  Speaker 6: Wreck?
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  Speaker 7: Stop?
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  Speaker 11: What where?
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  Speaker 1: Marma?
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  Speaker 2: What place is this?
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  Speaker 5: Is?
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  Speaker 7: Anybody here?
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  Speaker 11: Take it easy, buddy? Yet right among friends?
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  Speaker 9: M Margot, you're all excited.
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  Speaker 6: Something wrong? Oh yes, the mart A terrible thing has
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  Speaker 6: happened with Sit down and tell me about it.
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  Speaker 4: No, the man. I can't sit down, and now can you.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to get to work this minute.
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  Speaker 9: Where is Margo?
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  Speaker 4: Do you remember that nice blind boy Peter Blair?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that's tried.
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  Speaker 4: He's gone gone.
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  Speaker 7: I was just talking to his mother on the note.
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  Speaker 6: Oh wait, Margo, he coming show and tell me where's
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  Speaker 6: he gone? Coll I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody knows.
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  Speaker 1: He's his dog with him.
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  Speaker 3: When did this happen?
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  Speaker 12: Well?
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  Speaker 5: He left the house last night for his usual night.
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  Speaker 5: He walked with rags. He hasn't been hurt some since
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  Speaker 5: his ball.
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  Speaker 4: Mother is nearly mad with anxiety.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Mogle, we've got to start from where Peter
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  Speaker 6: Blair started and see if it won't lead us somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: And I take it easy plan.
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  Speaker 11: Nobody's gonna hurt you. Oh.
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  Speaker 7: I don't care what you do with me.
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  Speaker 1: What if you done with my dog wreck?
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  Speaker 11: He's outchay at the time being well, Oh, the boys
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  Speaker 11: are feeding him down on the cellar. I'll lets you
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  Speaker 11: and me get down the business.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, we'll get it over with us.
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  Speaker 7: I have no money, if that's what.
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  Speaker 11: You're right now, but you can get plenty for us.
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  Speaker 11: At least you can help us get him. Don't do
• 10:38
  Speaker 11: what do you mean, Ah, there's a dope. You've got
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  Speaker 11: a line on how to get into the State Street Bank.
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  Speaker 11: There's plenty of dough in that big ball. All you've
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  Speaker 11: gotta do is plant that educated fingers of yours against
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  Speaker 11: the vault door and tell us when a tumble.
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  Speaker 12: Us fall y.
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  Speaker 2: You mean you want me to help your robb up bank.
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  Speaker 11: That's just what we want, and that's just what you're
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  Speaker 11: gonna do.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you must be mad to think I do anything
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  Speaker 7: like that.
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  Speaker 11: Look here, Blair, I try to me nice, do you?
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  Speaker 11: I guess I ain't the right treatment. I got another medicine,
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  Speaker 11: a pretty bitter dose. What what do you mean wanna
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  Speaker 11: keep your dog done in? She's right cause I.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I'd be lost with art him mean, he's my
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  Speaker 7: eyes he sees for him.
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  Speaker 11: You got another bank with us tonight or ouse? Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you wouldn't j you wouldn't hurt rights. It'd be
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  Speaker 7: as bad as killing a person, a helpless human.
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  Speaker 11: You're gonna do what we say?
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  Speaker 12: Or not? Oh?
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 8: I I'd be a criminal.
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 11: Okay, you've had your chances money, Yes, what are you
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  Speaker 11: gonna do? Go find out you got your gun? Money?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: And I count? Can I want you to plug that
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  Speaker 11: dog up?
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  Speaker 10: La?
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no you care.
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  Speaker 11: That's just how long you've got to make up your mind?
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  Speaker 11: The count of ten?
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  Speaker 1: Why, Oh, you wouldn't do that. You couldn't do right? No, right? Right?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 8: Why thin.
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  Speaker 7: That on?
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  Speaker 11: Eight?
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  Speaker 2: Wait?
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  Speaker 1: Wait or ruh?
• 12:00
  Speaker 12: Oh do it?
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  Speaker 2: We'll continue with the second half of the Shadow's adventure
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: in just a moment. You know, householders, it's pretty hard
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: to beat the statisfaction of having a perfectly heated home.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: And it's great to know that the fuel you're using
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: is one hundred percent state always dependable, and that it
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: keeps furnace attention down to an absolute minimum. Now that's
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: exactly the kind of all around beating comfort and satisfaction
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  Speaker 2: blue coal provides for thousands of American families every year.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: And if you haven't yet tried.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: The superior quality fuels, don't put off a real treat.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you that blue coal is America's finest
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  Speaker 2: hard coal, finest because it's mine from Pennsylvania's richest depots,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's sized, screamed, and prepared by the nation's
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  Speaker 2: largest hard coal.
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  Speaker 3: Producer, the Glen Alden Company.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you two that each call out of
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  Speaker 2: blue coal undergoes a.
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  Speaker 3: Thorough laboratory test to ensure its quality before it leaves
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  Speaker 3: the yard.
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  Speaker 2: But if you'll just try blue coal and ask for
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: it by name when you order your next fuel supply,
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: then your heating problems will be over, for you'll find
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  Speaker 2: that blue coal requires less furnace attention, and your family
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: will appreciate blue coal, steadier more dependable heat. Just see
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: if I'm not right, call your nearest blue coal dealer tomorrow.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: His name is listed in the where to buy a
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  Speaker 2: section of your classified phone directory under the words blue coal.
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  Speaker 6: Oh well, good morning, commission a lesson, as you must
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  Speaker 6: have written down here with a milkman. What are you
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  Speaker 6: doing around this hour? I've been anxious to know what
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  Speaker 6: the police are doing about the disappearance.
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  Speaker 9: Of Peter Blair.
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  Speaker 6: You've got your fist in that now, very much so,
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  Speaker 6: commissioned him. What news have you none? Who've been dragging
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: the river for his body all night, but we've found
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  Speaker 6: no trace yet. I don't expect you will. Why not?
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  Speaker 6: That's the most likely place to find him.
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  Speaker 3: How do you think he was drowned?
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  Speaker 6: He was blind, wasn't He probably walked off the end
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  Speaker 6: of the pier. I'm afraid, Commissioner, you underestimate his dog.
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  Speaker 6: That animal would never lead Peter Blair near enough to
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  Speaker 6: fall into water well, and he might have jumped off
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  Speaker 6: committed suicide. What of the dog? Do you believe he
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: also committed suicide? Certainly not. But if he's always master,
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: go off the theory he might follow him. That's likely
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  Speaker 6: what happened. The dog was drowned going after his master.
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  Speaker 6: I admit that such devotion is characteristic of dogs like Rex,
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: But I'm afraid your water theory doesn't hold water grantson.
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: It's too early in the morning to get into an
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: argument with you. I don't want to start my day
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  Speaker 6: off wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Now, will you tell your phone's ringing? Commissioner, are drinking?
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: There goes your.
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: Daymission No wors than speaking. Was that a State three pike?
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  Speaker 6: But when did this happened? Yes, yes, I'll be right down.
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  Speaker 6: Well what do you know about that?
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  Speaker 9: What's up, Commissioner?
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: The State Straight Bank was robbed last night? The big
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: vault was cleaned out. Why I can't believe it it's
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: impossible it happened. It couldn't be did or shut up?
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  Speaker 11: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: Well, this vault was opened by a cracksman. He's the
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: best one I ever lived. There's not a mark on
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: the vault anywhere, no drills, no soup, nothing that's open.
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: That's all that seems to have been enough for the
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  Speaker 6: gang's purpose. Commissioner Weston Granston. If you're gonna let loose
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: a theory, I'll locked you in that vault until I've
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: completed this investigation. I wouldn't lock anyone in that one
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  Speaker 6: if I were you, commission It's too easy to open.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: Then keep out from under my feet. Have you formed
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: an opinion yet as to how this thing was accomplished?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, I have.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: There's only one way it could be done. Only a
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: person who knew the combination could have opened that vault.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Then you think it's an inside job. Obviously be impossible.
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  Speaker 6: Otherwise I'll grant you it has all the earmarks of
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: an insigne job. Still, it doesn't seem possible that an
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: employee would take such a chance. It doesn't. They were harder.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: You think it was done there? Certainly he is baffling, say, Commissioner,
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: I just thought of something. Yeah, what do you remember
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: the night Muggo launched the Society for the Advancement of
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: the Blind? Yes, you recall Peter Blair, the boy who
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: counted your heart beat through a piece of steel. Yes, yes,
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: I remember that. Bye, George, I see it now. He
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: could feel the tumblers in the safe, just as he
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: did the pete of my heart. There may be others
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: with a talent such as that. Quanston, you hit something
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: at last, Thanks? Why didn't I think of him before?
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: Or he's the only man on the world who could
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: have done this job, said just a minute, commissioner, you
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: don't buy any chance. Think Peter Blair robbed this bank.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: Why the whole thing ties in perfectly? He disappears mysteriously,
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: the bank is robbed. Say players are man, all right.
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  Speaker 3: No Commissioner, he'd never do anything.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: He's the only one who could do it.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I've been hunting him dead now I'm after Peter Blair
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: dead or a lie?
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  Speaker 11: What do you hollering about?
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Blad.
• 17:05
  Speaker 11: We're only asking you to do one more job for
• 17:07
  Speaker 11: us and we'll beat it out of town and you
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: can go home with your doll.
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: But I can't do it again. I just can't.
• 17:12
  Speaker 11: Don't do it. Alright, this job is a cinch. We
• 17:15
  Speaker 11: got almost an open door of the National Bank. Alright, man,
• 17:18
  Speaker 11: here's a setup. U. The watchman is coffee delivered from
• 17:22
  Speaker 11: a lunch wagon every night at about twelve o'clock. Uh huh.
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: He takes it from a kid at the side door.
• 17:28
  Speaker 11: All we have to do is follow the kid into
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: the alley, stick a gun in his ribs, make him
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: ring the bell just as he always does, and the
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: watchman opens the door to get his coffee.
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  Speaker 1: We go in.
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  Speaker 8: Not he do it?
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: Oh, you'll be caught sooner or later. Skin alright, Blair,
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: it'll be later. Come on, fellas, let's go right, oh, Joe, Yeah, yeah,
• 17:46
  Speaker 11: I want you to stay here and get things together
• 17:48
  Speaker 11: for the getaway. We'll leaving town right after this job.
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: What do you want me to do? Clean out everything,
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: don't leave a thing behind and get me uh no.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: Evidence, right, don't liver things? Yeah?
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: How about Blair will handle him on the way back?
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: Right?
• 18:06
  Speaker 11: All right, you guys into the car, Barty, take care
• 18:08
  Speaker 11: of Blair.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I'm on you.
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  Speaker 8: What's the matter much?
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: You're trying for a boss and you won't miss him? Long,
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Skinner said, clean up everything. That means you too, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: you too, Prince. Your number's up. I guess they might
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: as well get it over with.
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: Shut up.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Hey, hey, Rex, get back.
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: There, get back matter all right?
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: Through the window, Hey Prince, get down.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Ray?
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: See much?
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: When did Rex get home?
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Missus Blair?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Just a few minutes before I called you, mister Crinston,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: and he brought this other dog home with him.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: See why, he's exactly like Rex, the same markings, but
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: no boy, No, we're not talking about you, see Missus Blair. Hey, yes,
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: mister Princeton. Have you noticed that this other dog responds
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: when he hears the name Rex.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, he acts like Rex in every way.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Why George, I see it now, Missus Blair, this dog
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: has been used as a substitute to lure your son away.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: Rex?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: What are you trying to tell me?
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Mister Criston?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Rix and c you towards the door.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Yes, you keep the other dog here, Missus Blair? All right, Margo, Margo, yes, Lamar, follow.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Us in the car.
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  Speaker 6: Alright, Rex, old boy, I think I understand.
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  Speaker 11: Come on.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Easy, Rix, easy, And I wonder why you've led us
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: into this lonely neighborhood.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Oh what this hill?
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: Is it? Boy?
• 19:48
  Speaker 11: Huh uh?
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Margo, stop the car.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I think he's tried to call your attention to that
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: jack up there, Lamar.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Yes, Muggle, evidently that's where Peter Blair is or was.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Turn off the head lamps, Smuggle, wait here, the sh
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: shadows going to see what or who is.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: In that shack.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Be careful to morn I would mother come along, Wrecks,
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Come on, boy, come on, yeah, somebody's in here.
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: Alright, let's see.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: My door's locked.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Speak wrecks. That's a boy.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, somebody's coming.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: Well, so you come back, come U get in here.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Won't get away this time? The Skinner said clean up everything. Hey,
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: my hearing thinks.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: So the Skinner told you to clear up everything?
• 20:38
  Speaker 12: Yeah?
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: Well what was that? I don't see nobody who laughed?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I did? Told you I am the shadow, shadow guy.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: Nobody can see?
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, where is peed up?
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Layer?
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: All you're telling you know? I'm getting out of here.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Stay where you are.
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: I'm getting out of.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: I'll shoot my way out.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Off that dory, off that gun.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Alight, call them mon off, let go his arms.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: What do you want from me?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I want you to tell me where Peter Blair is.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: I'll tell you if you let me hurry.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I won't barking with you. I'm interested only in Peter
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Blair for the moment.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: All right, all right, I ain't gonna be the fall
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: guy in this players with the Skinner where they're robbing
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: the National Bank right now. Oh, there is no Western speaking,
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: your missioner, this is the Shadow.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I've got to talk fast, so listen carefully. The National
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Bank is being robbed right at this moment.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: Robbed by Home in the Cross and his gang.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: They've got Peter Blair with him.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Oh so, my dope was right. He's the guy who's been.
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: Doing the dirty work.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Don't be a fool player. Is innocent? The gang is
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: forcing him.
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: To do this.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so Skinner Crows innocent. The boys are just doing this.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Is a lark.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Commissioner, You've got to believe me that boy is not
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a criminal.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Maybe not, but I am not taking any chances. What
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: do you mean that Skinner gang is a bad outfit.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: I'm taking a squad a man over that bank with
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: orders to shoot.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: The kill the commissioner. You can't do that. You may kill
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: an innocent boy.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Order is shoot to kill Margo. We've got to get
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: to the National Bank before Western. What happened the month
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Peter Blam may be killed by the police. Porry Margo,
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: drive us lesh as you can.
• 22:22
  Speaker 11: Okay, hold it alright, Blad. What did you get on
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: that turn?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Fifty five?
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: Okay, spend the time again, kid, last this time? Alright's time?
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: The last ten we open? Now, what's a number?
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: Lad?
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: I'm not gonna tell you what. No, I'm not gonna
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: be party the robbery anymore.
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: You tell me that number, I'll blow you.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I had to go ahead.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: You do it anyway, so so I can't give information
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: to the police.
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: I lad, you don't want more chance. You gotta tell
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: us a number.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: No, I'm not. I you what that door bell?
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna be I'd be a friend of the watchman.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: What we got a door? Skin?
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: I got itnswer it otherwise? I wonder what happened with
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: the watchman. Come on all here, all right, as soon
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: as I open this up, your grant, whoever it is,
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: drag him inside, right right, alright here, you guys get
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: back there, ponme your rods up. What is nobody out here?
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: What that's funny?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: What do you make of it?
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: Skinner?
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: I don't like it. You better finish this job quickly, Squam.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: You better not wait to finish the job. Skinner? Who
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: is that the shadow?
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: Shadow?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, I've got to take away Skinner. Circumstances forced me
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to be her alive at the moment. I've got to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: warn you that the police are on their way here
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: with orders to shoot the kill.
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: I ain't falling for that shadow.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Maybe the guy's telling the true Skinner'd hardly warn you
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: if it want necessary to save the life of an
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: innocent man. Listen, Skinner the couch, hear it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: It's a straight gods small, don't.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Leave me here.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: The the police will suit me.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Would be afraid, Peter, Just do as I say, follow
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: us out of my voice, and I'll lead you up
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the Skinner gang of rust out the police. Come on, Peter,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: we've got to hurry.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: There is the real brain to the gang.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: We've caught up with your player.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Just a minute, Commissioner, a shadow. Yes, Commissioner, you certainly
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: got here fast, just barely fast enough to keep you
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: from making a complete fool of yourself.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: Where's my Where's Rex?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: What's happened to it?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: He's in the car, not far from here. If you
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: call out loud enough, you hear you.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: Rex Res Res It's Rex.
• 24:27
  Speaker 12: He hurt me.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: I'll stay here, Shadow. I'm looking at this fellow off
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: so easy. He's got a lot of explaining the.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Though very well, Commissioner. It'll all be explained, so even
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: you will understand.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm not sure you were done for him.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: You're all right, very George. I never I've never seen
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: a dog actually happy, cute son of a gun. Come on, Blair,
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: I think we can talk this thing over.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Where.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: You've got two fine animals now, Peter, you going to
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: keep them both.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: I'm going to give Prince to a sightless friend. He'll
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: be a great companion.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: For him, no doubt about it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Look at Rexton, Prince gobbled I three.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: I don't know how to thank you, mister Cranston, and
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: you too, miss Laying, for everything you've done it Peter.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: I wish it were possible to thank our invisible friends
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: as shadow too.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: I'm sure he feels your gratitude, Peter. I'll wager that
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: none of his exploits brought him more satisfaction than the
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: apprehension of the Skinner and his gang men do terrible things,
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: but the man is particularly depraved. Who would rob the
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: sightless of a great and devoted friend his dog?
• 26:04
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• 26:12
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• 26:15
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• 26:19
  Speaker 10: some people say what time and trouble savers their oil
• 26:22
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• 26:25
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• 26:29
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• 26:33
  Speaker 10: By simply installing a blue coal heat regulator for your
• 26:37
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• 26:41
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• 26:44
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• 26:51
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• 26:54
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• 26:58
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• 27:02
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• 27:12
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• 27:15
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• 27:18
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• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I thank you.
• 27:26
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• 27:29
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• 27:32
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• 27:35
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• 27:55
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• 28:04
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• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal America's final
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  Speaker 3: Of the Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: the solid fuel for solid comfort.