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  Speaker 1: At the city museum, an authentic ancient Egyptian tomb is
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  Speaker 1: being prepared for public display, and sudden deaths seem to
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  Speaker 1: confirm its legendary curse. This is The Shadow, The Tomb
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  Speaker 1: of Terror, Episode 125, first heard June 19, 1938, on
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  Speaker 1: the Mutual Broadcasting System. Orson Welles is Lamont Cranston, with
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  Speaker 1: Margot Stevenson as Margot Lane, as they investigate the alarming
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  Speaker 1: events surrounding the museum exhibit. Ken Roberts announces, and the
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  Speaker 1: supporting cast includes Paul Stewart, Alan Devitt, Arthur Vinton, Edwin Jerome,
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  Speaker 1: and Kenny Delmar. And now, our story begins. Who knows
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  Speaker 1: what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, In a moment, the shadow will be
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  Speaker 3: on the air with a thrilling new adventure.
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  Speaker 2: Safety Silvertown. The Shadow, Lamont Cranston, a man of wealth,
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  Speaker 2: a student of science, and a master of other people's minds,
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  Speaker 2: devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and
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  Speaker 2: punishing the guilty. Cranston is known to the underworld as
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow. Never seen, only heard. Shadow's true identity is
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  Speaker 2: known only to his constant friend and aide, Margot Lane.
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  Speaker 2: Today's story, The Tomb of Terror.
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  Speaker 4: And so, gentlemen, we are gathered here on the grounds
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  Speaker 4: of the City Museum to pay tribute to those who
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  Speaker 4: have successfully brought to this country the building that stands
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  Speaker 4: before you. the authentic tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, King Kupratep.
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  Speaker 4: It is my pleasure to present to you now the
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  Speaker 4: man who is largely responsible for its discovery, transportation, and reassembly.
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  Speaker 2: The director of the expedition, Dr. Romney Hale. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Directors of the museum and fellow workers, I
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  Speaker 2: am very grateful. It has been through your cooperation that
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  Speaker 2: this work has been made possible. although perhaps we owe
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  Speaker 2: a vote of thanks to good King Cooperatep himself. In
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  Speaker 2: spite of the legendary curse that all who gaze upon
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  Speaker 2: King Cooperatep's mummy shall die, the bulk of our job
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  Speaker 2: is finished. Now, before you are admitted for the inspection,
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  Speaker 2: will you excuse Mr. Avery, Mr. Johnson, and myself while
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  Speaker 2: we make a brief check of the interior of the tomb? Harry, Jack,
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  Speaker 2: will you.
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  Speaker 5: Come with me? Oh, surely, Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, certainly, Doctor. Well, gentlemen, how does the place look
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  Speaker 2: to you? Why, Doctor, you've done an amazing job. It
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  Speaker 2: looks exactly as it did when we first unearthed certain Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Would you like to pay your respects to
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  Speaker 2: His Majesty? Oh, indeed I would. Very well. Will you
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  Speaker 2: help me with the lid of the money case?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 2: There you are. Kufra Tepteke, Lord of Egypt. My, magnificent face.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderfully preserved. We are defying the ancient curse by looking
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  Speaker 2: upon that face. Oh, come, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Hale.
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  Speaker 2: Surely you don't believe those... Look at the mummy's eyes. Why,
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  Speaker 2: that's strange.
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  Speaker 5: They seem to glow. Yes, I see it, too.
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  Speaker 7: A sort of unearthly light.
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  Speaker 2: What is this, Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Hale?
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  Speaker 2: No, gentlemen, I give you my word. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what it could be. The light's growing brighter. I don't
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  Speaker 2: like this. It's uncanny. Close that case. Let's get out
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  Speaker 2: of here, Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Hale.
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  Speaker 2: I can't understand it. If we hadn't all seen it,
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  Speaker 2: I would... Dr. Hale, what's the matter? Take his arm, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get him outside. Where are you? What's wrong? What's
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  Speaker 2: the matter with Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Hale?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. He suddenly collapsed.
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  Speaker 8: He was.
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  Speaker 2: Jack, Jack, what's the matter with you? Someone get a doctor, quick.
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  Speaker 2: These two men are very ill. Harry, what happened in there?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Rafferty, I was... Harry!
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  Speaker 7: Catch him, catch him, he's falling.
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  Speaker 2: Harry, dear man, tell me, what happened?
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Rafferty, it was... The eyes. The eyes. Yes, yes. It's...
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  Speaker 2: It's King Cufrit's... Curse. Curse.
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  Speaker 5: Curse. Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor, tell me, how are they?
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  Speaker 7: All three of these men are dead.
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  Speaker 2: Hold those presses. What do you got, Chief?
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  Speaker 7: A terrific yarn. Dr. Romney Hale, the archaeologist, and two
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  Speaker 7: of his assistants died mysteriously on Aragorn King Cooper's headstone.
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  Speaker 7: Play up the cursed angle and spread it for all
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  Speaker 7: it's worth. Red, too.
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  Speaker 5: Cream on the side.
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  Speaker 2: Some of those donuts, too, for you. Donuts?
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  Speaker 6: Lamont, do you suppose we can dunk?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly, Margo.
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  Speaker 9: Lunch wagon etiquette not only allows dunking, it encourages it.
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  Speaker 2: There's your donuts, Chief.
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  Speaker 8: That'll be 26.
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  Speaker 5: Here you are.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep the change.
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  Speaker 7: All right, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, bud, is there anything new on them guys that
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  Speaker 2: kicked off over at that coffee, the kipper, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that Egyptian king? No, nothing new. Hey, how about my
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  Speaker 2: ham on rye? Right with you, right with you.
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  Speaker 6: What do you make of that tomb of Fair Lamont?
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  Speaker 9: It's just amazing, and the newspapers are playing up the
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  Speaker 9: superstition fallacy.
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  Speaker 6: You don't think that all three deaths were due to coincidence?
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  Speaker 9: Hardly that, but I certainly don't hold to the Kufa-Tep
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  Speaker 9: curse theory.
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  Speaker 6: But something strange must have happened in that tomb.
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  Speaker 2: Unquestionably.
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  Speaker 6: According to the newspaper reports, one of the three men
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  Speaker 6: before he died was heard to mutter something about eyes,
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  Speaker 6: terrible eyes. And his last words were King Kufa Tep's curse.
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  Speaker 9: They were undoubtedly terrified by something they saw in there.
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  Speaker 9: They did not die of fear.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I know. According to the doctors, they all died
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  Speaker 6: in natural death.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's quite true.
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  Speaker 6: One of pneumonia, one of typhoid, and one of heart disease.
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  Speaker 9: That's the way the doctors had to write their death certificates.
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  Speaker 9: Perhaps when the truth is known, they'll have to be changed.
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  Speaker 7: Changed?
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 6: Well, what do you mean, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: Have you finished eating?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Shall we take a walk?
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  Speaker 6: All right, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, boys. Good night. Good night.
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  Speaker 6: Lamont, what do you mean the death certificates will have
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  Speaker 6: to be changed?
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  Speaker 9: Free men do not die within seconds of one another
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  Speaker 9: of different diseases without a single underlying cause.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Margot.
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  Speaker 9: The mysterious deaths of those three men must challenge the
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  Speaker 9: imagination of the shadow. I must find out the medical
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  Speaker 9: details of the deaths of those men.
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  Speaker 6: Then you think there's more in it than the papers
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  Speaker 6: have printed.
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  Speaker 2: I know there is.
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  Speaker 6: I can get those details for you.
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 9: As soon as you have the necessary information, communicate with me.
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  Speaker 9: The shadow will await your call.
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  Speaker 8: Hello?
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 6: Lamont, this is Margo.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Margo. What did you find out?
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  Speaker 6: I just talked to Dr. Burleigh, who, he's in charge
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  Speaker 6: of the case.
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: He said that the three men actually died, as the
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  Speaker 6: paper said, but there was one detail that was not printed.
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  Speaker 2: What is that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, the doctors themselves don't seem to understand it, but
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  Speaker 6: an examination of the victim's blood has shown in each
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  Speaker 6: case a complete absence of leukocytes.
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  Speaker 2: Leukocytes. Those are white corpuscles.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you realize what that means?
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  Speaker 9: Without white corpuscles in the blood, the human system would
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  Speaker 9: have nothing of which to combat disease.
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  Speaker 2: No wonder they died. Marco, this is the first key
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  Speaker 2: to the mystery.
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  Speaker 9: That's the shadow can find the answer to the next
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  Speaker 9: question within.
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  Speaker 2: The museum walls.
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  Speaker 4: I tell you, we must go through with the public
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  Speaker 4: opening of the tomb as originally planned.
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  Speaker 7: But will the public be there?
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  Speaker 2: We'll have to take that chance.
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  Speaker 5: Gentlemen, I wish we'd never started this project.
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  Speaker 2: Now, see here, Kent. You've been acting like an old
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  Speaker 2: woman about this whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: But, Mr. Rafferty, I.
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  Speaker 4: We've poured thousands of dollars of the museum's money into
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  Speaker 4: the tomb. And it's up to us to dispel this
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  Speaker 4: nonsense about the Cooper Step curse.
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  Speaker 5: I am not so sure that it is nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: Rubbish! No, you can't dismiss the fact that three men died.
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  Speaker 2: They all died natural deaths.
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't be too sure about that, Mr. Rafferty.
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  Speaker 2: Who's speaking? Who is that?
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  Speaker 8: I am called the Shadow.
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  Speaker 7: The Shadow?
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  Speaker 2: I've heard of you. What do you want of us?
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  Speaker 8: I've been investigating the deaths of your three colleagues. I've
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  Speaker 8: come to warn you that no one must be permitted
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  Speaker 8: within the walls of the tomb. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you say that?
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  Speaker 8: Because anyone who enters may not come out alive.
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  Speaker 2: Are you implying that there is truth in the Kufra-Tep curse?
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  Speaker 8: I am telling you, Mr. Rafferty, I have reason to
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  Speaker 8: believe that the name of the curse of Kufra-Tep is
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  Speaker 8: called premeditated murder.
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  Speaker 2: Nonsense.
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  Speaker 8: Not nonsense, Mr. Stevenson.
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  Speaker 2: With all respect to your unsolicited information, we are not
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  Speaker 2: going to be intimidated by an unknown voice.
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  Speaker 5: Speak for yourself, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Stevenson.
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  Speaker 5: I am inclined to respect the shadow's warning.
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  Speaker 6: Quiet, Kent.
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  Speaker 2: On what grounds, Shadow, do you base your statement?
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  Speaker 8: You'll have to accept what I've said on faith.
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  Speaker 2: I've had enough of this.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, Mr. Stevenson.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I'm going to rid us of this hocus-pocus
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  Speaker 2: once and for all. Yes, what do you propose to do, Stevenson?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going into that tomb tonight, right now.
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  Speaker 8: Don't do that, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Stevenson. I know what I'm doing, Shadow. Well, who'll accompany me?
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell me that you're all afraid. Why, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: not at all. But perhaps none of us should be
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  Speaker 2: too hasty.
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  Speaker 8: Very wisely spoken, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Rafferty.
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  Speaker 2: Very well.
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  Speaker 8: Then I shall go alone. You're very foolhardy, Stevenson.
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  Speaker 2: We shall see. Who has the key to the tomb?
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  Speaker 5: I have, Mr. Stevenson, but... Give it to me. Mr. Rafferty,
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  Speaker 5: can't you persuade him to change his mind?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you think, Stevenson, we might... Can't give me the key.
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  Speaker 5: Very well. Here you are.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Now, wait, wait. We'll accompany you to the
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  Speaker 2: door of the tomb.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: You may be going to your death, Stevenson.
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  Speaker 8: I'll chance that.
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  Speaker 2: Come along, men. Well?
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  Speaker 8: Here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Have any of you changed your minds?
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Rafferty? No, thank you. Hawkins?
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  Speaker 7: I prefer to wait outside.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 2: There's no use asking you, Kemp.
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  Speaker 5: Don't go in there, Mr. Stevenson. Don't go in.
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  Speaker 2: There may be something horrible waiting for you in there.
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  Speaker 2: Give me that flashlight. I'll find that out for myself.
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  Speaker 5: He's in the tomb.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing horrible has happened in here yet. Don't touch the
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  Speaker 2: mummy case. Why not? Might as well make the investigation complete.
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  Speaker 5: Don't. Don't, Stevenson. You mustn't.
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  Speaker 2: Can't any of you stop him? What can we do?
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  Speaker 2: I'm opening the mummy case. We've got to get him
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  Speaker 2: out of there. I'll go myself.
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  Speaker 8: Here, here.
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  Speaker 2: Come back here, Kent. Stevenson.
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  Speaker 6: Stevenson.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the mummy's face. Hey, that's strange. There's
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  Speaker 2: something peculiar here. Come away from that mummy, Stevenson. Kent! Stevenson!
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  Speaker 4: I insist that you both come out of there at once.
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  Speaker 2: But there's something here that I don't understand. There seems
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  Speaker 2: to be... Kent! Help me!
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  Speaker 5: Help me!
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  Speaker 2: It's happened! He's choking! Kent, bring him out here! I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to!
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  Speaker 7: Here.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Stevenson. Here, now just lean on me.
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  Speaker 2: Stevenson! Man, what happened?
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  Speaker 5: I looked, I looked, I looked at Goof.
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  Speaker 7: He's dead!
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  Speaker 2: He's dead!
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  Speaker 5: It's not possible.
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  Speaker 2: The shadow was right.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, gentlemen. Stevenson ignored my warning. This perished. This should
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  Speaker 8: convince all of you that there is a ruthless killer
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  Speaker 8: masked behind the Kufra Tepp curse.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, one warning from the shadow strikes fear
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  Speaker 2: skid is enough to put the fear of wet, slippery
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  Speaker 8: The shadow knows. The thousands of motorists who are killed
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  Speaker 8: of control would never risk the danger, grief, and expense
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  Speaker 2: no extra cost. Margot. What did you learn about Stevenson's death?
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  Speaker 6: Well, Lamont, the doctors officially called it influenza.
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  Speaker 2: What about the blood test?
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  Speaker 6: It was the same as the others. The white corpuscles
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  Speaker 6: had been destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Just as I thought.
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  Speaker 9: That proves that Stevenson was murdered, too, and by the
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  Speaker 9: same instrument.
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  Speaker 6: But, Lamont, what can that instrument be?
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  Speaker 9: It may be a serum, poison gas.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: More important than the killing device is to find the
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  Speaker 9: killer's motive.
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  Speaker 6: You found out something, Lamont?
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  Speaker 9: Not exactly, but I saw a man at the museum
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  Speaker 9: about whom I should like to know more.
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  Speaker 2: Who is he? Aldous Kent, an assistant curator.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sure that he has more knowledge of this affair
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  Speaker 9: than he allows himself to show.
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  Speaker 6: Why do you suspect him?
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  Speaker 9: For several reasons. His apparent concern for Stevenson's safety was
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  Speaker 9: a bit overdone. For a scientist, he was surprisingly naive
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  Speaker 9: about the Kufra-Tep curse. And most important, in spite of
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  Speaker 9: his outward fear, he followed Stevenson into the tomb. I'd
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  Speaker 9: like to know more about that man, Margot. And that's
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  Speaker 9: where you can help me.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Lamont, but how?
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  Speaker 9: By visiting Kent as a newspaper woman. Interview him about
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  Speaker 9: his career. Find out whether he's interested in any branch
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  Speaker 9: of science other than archaeology.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Marco?
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  Speaker 6: I saw Aldous Kent.
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: He hasn't always been an archaeologist. He worked at many things.
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  Speaker 8: For instance?
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  Speaker 6: Well, before he went to work for the museum, he
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  Speaker 6: was employed as an assistant by Dr. Faber. You know,
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  Speaker 6: the well-known biologist.
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  Speaker 2: Very interesting, Margot. I think that's all I'll have to know.
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  Speaker 6: Lamont, does that have any bearing on the murders?
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  Speaker 2: It may have everything to do with them.
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  Speaker 9: I'll be able to answer that question after the shadow
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  Speaker 9: pays a call on Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Faber.
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  Speaker 8: Dr. Faber.
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  Speaker 2: Huh? What? Who's that?
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  Speaker 8: Don't be startled, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Faber. Who are you?
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  Speaker 8: I am the Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in this room? I can't see you.
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: I regret that I must remain in the shadows. What
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: do you want? I am seeking information.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: I would like to have you tell me what you
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: know of Aldous Kent.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Kent? Aldous Kent? Well, he worked for me. He was
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: my assistant for several years.
• 16:53
  Speaker 8: Yes, I know that, Dr. Faber. What kind of a
• 16:56
  Speaker 8: man was he?
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Very efficient laboratory man.
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: Why did he leave your employing?
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: Well, frankly, because he was dissatisfied. Kent was a very
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: moody man. He felt that his work should be more
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: fully recognized.
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: What sort of work did he do?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: He was active in all the routine laboratory experiments.
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: Can you recall what some of those experiments were?
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Let me see.
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: Well, he made some really brilliant contributions to our work
• 17:20
  Speaker 10: with the Rogan ray.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: That's the X-ray, of course. Yes, I know.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Exactly what were those experiments?
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: We were varying the ray to determine its effect on
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: animal life.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: What was that effect?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Well, at one stage of the game, it was destructive.
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: We developed a ray that was capable of destroying the
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: white corpuscles in the blood of the laboratory animals.
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: That's enormously interesting, Doctor. Tell me, does such a ray
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: have the same effect on human beings?
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, probably does.
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Dr.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Faber.
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: You have given me the solution to the mystery of
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: the Kufra-Tep curse.
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: I feel certain, Margot, that the machine of death is
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: concealed somewhere within Kufratep's tomb.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: But why must you go there tonight?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Because I can investigate without danger of interference. There's no
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: time to be lost.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: Can't you confront Kent with the information you already have?
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: No, Kent's a clever man. I give him time to
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: destroy the evidence, and we could pin nothing on him.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Yes, I see.
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: If I can uncover the deadly ray and positively identify
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: Kent with it, he can be tricked into capture.
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: Here's the museum.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I'm going to turn in this driveway. It's a precaution.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I'll switch off the headlights.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Lamont, I hate to have you going into that tomb alone.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: It's an eerie-looking place.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Nothing will happen to me.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Yes, that's what the others thought.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: The others weren't aware of the real dangers.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: I am.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Hand me the flashlight, Margo.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Here you are.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Wait. What's that over there among the trees?
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: It appears to be someone carrying a lantern.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: He's approaching the tomb. Lamont, who can it be?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I think I recognize him. Yes.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: The old watchman.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: Oh, oh.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Shall you wait now until he goes?
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that he's going. He seems to be
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: entering the tomb.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Lamont, isn't it strange after all that's happened that he
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: should dare to enter there alone?
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: Very strange, and I'm going to find out why. I
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: don't need this flashlight, Margo.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: What are you going to do?
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: It is the shadow who will enter that tomb for
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: a little conversation with.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: The old watchman.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Shall I wait for him?
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: Take the car and return home. Stand by for the
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: shortwave wireless. I may need your help in communicating a
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: message of vital importance.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Good evening, Your Imperial Majesty. I have come again to
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: see that you are resting well. Your work is nearly done.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Only one more. One more today. into your eyes. And then...
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Then the vengeance is complete.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: You have served me well.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Who speaks?
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: Who indeed would speak within the resting place of the king.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Are you.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Are you the.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: It is I... Khufra Tep, pharaoh of Egypt.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Oh, your majesty.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Rise up. You need not kneel in my presence.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, your highness.
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: Do not tremble. You have nothing to fear.
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: You are not angry?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Angry.
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: Why should I be.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Angry toward one who serves my interests?
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: I have come to reward you.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: To reward me?
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: Yes. But first I must have an accounting.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: Well, what do you mean?
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: You must tell me how you brought death to the
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: defilers of my tomb by the curse which bears my name.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, the credit is not mine, Your Majesty.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: Whose then?
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Aldous Kent.
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: Aldous Kent? Yes. Why should he concern himself with me?
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: It is not your vengeance alone that he seeks, but
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: his own as well. and mine. Kent is a great man,
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: but no one will recognize him. They keep him slaving
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: in the museum, day after day, doing all the real work.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: Some others get the glory, just as they did to me.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: Now he's evening his score. Hale, Avery, Johnson, Stevenson, all
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: those have paid for their stolen fame. But him, One
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: more must die.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Hawkins.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: And then Kent will achieve the position that is rightfully his.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: Do you know how Kent destroyed those men?
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Of course. I helped him, Your Majesty. It was clever.
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: So clever. They all scoffed at the legend of your curse,
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: but But it was really you who killed them.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: I killed them?
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: No one would dream that within your mummy there lies
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: concealed the generator of the ray.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: What ray?
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: The ray that shines from your eyes and destroys all
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: who look upon you.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Show me how this is done.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: It's so easy, Your Majesty. Hidden here in the wall
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: is a switch.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: You see?
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: It is thrown like this. Then whoever approaches the mummy
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: case as I'm doing it and lifts the lid so
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: and gazes into your eyes, the gleam of death shines
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: upon them. Oh, what have I done? I didn't mean
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: to look. I couldn't... Save me.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Save me, Leslie.
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: I cannot save you. Your own evil knowledge has destroyed you.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: But by your death, you have pointed the way to
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: Aldous Kent's undoing. Mark O'Lane. Calling Margo Lane, calling Margo Lane.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: Communicate with Rafferty, the director of the museum, at once.
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: Tell him to arrange the public opening of the tomb
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: tomorrow as planned. Be sure that both Kent and Hawkins
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: will be there. This is important. Margo, tell Rafferty that
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: he must follow my directions implicitly. A man's life is
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: at stake.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Before admitting the public, I have invited you, gentlemen of
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: the press... We gather here to dispel once and for
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: all this nonsense about the legend of the Cooper Tepp curse.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Well, just how do you propose to do that? Well, Mr.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Burke, as you know, the tradition is that everyone who
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: looks at the face of the mummy dies.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I know that. This is Mr. Hawkins, gentlemen.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: He is the sole survivor of the Cooper Tepp expedition.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we know Hawkins.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: He has volunteered to show you that there is no
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: truth in the stories that your newspapers have played into
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: national prominence.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: What's he going to do? The mummy case will be
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: opened in your presence. And Mr. Hawkins will personally gaze
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: on Cooper Tepp. This ought to be good. Are you ready, Mr. Hawkins?
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: Well, I.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Very well, you may proceed.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: So, Mr. Rafferty, I... When I.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Hawkins.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Mr. Rafferty, I... I can't. I changed my mind.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: What?
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: But, Mr. Hawkins, do you realize what this means?
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Yes, Hawkins, you must go through with it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: I'm afraid not, Kent. I... I've lost my nerve.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: The prestige of the museum is at stake.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: Well, you seem to have changed your attitude, Kent.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Well, I disapproved of this plan at the beginning, but
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: as long as you've gone this far, I think you
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: should carry it out.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Well, Kent is right. Well, I.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, but... Well, when I think of the others,
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: what happened to them, and seeing them die.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I just can't... Well, boys, looks like the show's over.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Let's go. Wait, gentlemen, don't leave.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Now, Mr. Hawkins, if I volunteer to look on the
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: mummy's face first, will you follow me? Well, I.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: That's certainly fair enough, Hawkins. Very well.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Have I your permission to open the mummy case, Mr.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Rafferty? Yes, you have.
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: You're very brave, Mr. Kent.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Who's that?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It's the Shadow.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: The Shadow?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Boy, what a yawn this is.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Going to be. Shadow? Why are you here?
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: I anticipated your performance, Mr. Kent, and I came to
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: see that it was carried out properly.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: What do you mean by that?
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: Before you proceed, I suggest that somebody throw the switch
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: concealed in the carving on the wall.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: You do know, Mr.
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: Kent.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: I want your demonstration to duplicate Hale's. Stevenson and the others.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: The switch was thrown in.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, this is absurd.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Here it is. I found the switch. Please turn it on, Mr.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: Rafferty.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: There you are. It's on. Good.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: Now you may continue your little performance, Mr. Kent.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: This whole thing is ridiculous.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I refuse to be made a fool of. Are you
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: trying to back out, Kent? I will not continue under
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: these conditions.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: I thought you wouldn't. You know that to look on
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: the mummy's face when the switch is on would mean death.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: That is not true.
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: But it is.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: And no one should know better than you. concealed within
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: that mummy is a murderous ray. That ray is your
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: own conception. That's a lie.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: There is no ray.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Then why don't you look on Kufra Tepp now?
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Because I.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Then you shall.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: Be forced to do so.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. Rafferty, Hawkins, feed him to the mummy case.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Come on, Kent.
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: I won't.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I won't.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Let go of me.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Let go. Somebody left the lid of the case.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Let go.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I won't look.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: I won't look.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: Now, Aldous Kent, stare long into the eyes of Kufra Tepp.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: You see the evil light that glows within them.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: That's what the others saw.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: No, no!
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: I did it!
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I killed them, I confess! I killed them, but don't!
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Don't make me look at it!
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: He.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: He's dead.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Then it's true.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: There is a ray.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: Not any longer, gentlemen. I removed the machinery that generated
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: that ray. All that you have just seen was carefully
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: staged to trap Aldous Kent. He is dead. He died
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: of fear... Fear of the thing which he himself created.
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: You have all witnessed the end of the curse of
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: Kufra Tepp. A curse which fell justly on the true
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: desecrator of the tomb.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: You have been listening to a dramatized version of one
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: of the many copyrighted stories which appear in the Shadow Magazine,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: now on sale at your local newsstand. The weed of
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The shadow knows.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: All the characters and all the places named are fictitious.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: We leave the city museum and the shadows the tomb
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: of terror. Follow the shadow for more classic broadcasts.