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Speaker 1: At a house high above the sea, Lyra Sander is
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Speaker 1: convinced that her husband, lost in a sailing accident, has
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Speaker 1: returned to claim her. Her sister turns to Lamont Cranston
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Speaker 1: and Margo Lane as unsettling events gather around the cliffside home.
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Speaker 1: From the Mutual Broadcasting System and Blue Coal, this is
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Speaker 1: The Shadow, episode 421, Dream of Death. first heard November 9th, 1947,
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Speaker 1: with Brett Morrison as Lamont Cranston and Grace Matthews as
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Speaker 1: Margot Lane. We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: ¶ ¶ Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts
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Speaker 2: of men? The Shadow knows. Once again, your neighborhood blue
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Speaker 2: coal dealer brings you the thrilling adventures of The Shadow.
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Speaker 2: The hard and relentless fight of one man against the
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Speaker 2: forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcefully
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Speaker 2: to old and young alike that crime does not pay.
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Speaker 2: As you probably know, reliable sources forecast that all home
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Speaker 2: heating fuels will be scarce this winter. If you heat
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Speaker 2: ask him. Your blue coal dealer will be glad to
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Speaker 2: inspect your heating plant and may be able to make
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Speaker 2: other recommendations, too, that will help you to get more
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Speaker 2: heat and to burn less fuel. First thing tomorrow, call
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Speaker 2: the nearest blue coal dealer and ask him to schedule
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Speaker 2: an early delivery of your blue coal. The Shadow The Shadow,
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Speaker 2: who aids the forces of law and order, is in
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Speaker 2: reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about Tom. Years ago
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Speaker 2: in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret.
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Speaker 2: The hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot
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Speaker 2: see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane,
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Speaker 2: is the only person who knows to whom the voice
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Speaker 2: of the invisible Shadow belongs. Today's drama... Dream of Death.
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Speaker 2: From a lonely house high on a gale-swept cliff... A
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Speaker 2: curtain flaps at an open window. A path leads from
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Speaker 2: the lonely house down, down past sharp crags and mossy rock.
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Speaker 2: Down to the wave-lashed beach below. Come along, my darling.
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Speaker 2: We're almost to the beach.
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Speaker 3: Kurt, I'm frightened.
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Speaker 2: There. Feel the wet sand beneath our feet.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Listen to me. Listen to those waves, Lyra, crashing against
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Speaker 2: the shore. Kurt, no. Look at them, black and hungry.
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Speaker 2: They know. The waves know why we are coming to them.
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Speaker 4: Kurt, I'm afraid.
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Speaker 5: Hold tightly to my hand. Soon, my darling, we'll be
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Speaker 5: together once again for all eternity. Slowly, slowly now. Down
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Speaker 5: into the water. Don't look back.
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Speaker 3: Kurt, there's a rip to die.
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Speaker 5: No, Lyra, no.
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Speaker 2: See the water swirling above our knees.
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Speaker 3: Wet and cool.
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Speaker 2: Above our waist. Above our shoulders. Higher. Still higher.
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Speaker 3: Kurt.
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Speaker 2: Till we die and live forever. No. Elsie! I don't
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Speaker 2: want to.
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Speaker 3: Vera, wake up, Vera.
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Speaker 6: For heaven's sake, wake up.
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Speaker 4: Celeste?
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Speaker 6: Yes, darling, your sister.
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Speaker 3: It's all right, Vera.
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Speaker 4: You're all right.
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Speaker 6: You were just having a bad dream.
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Speaker 2: Dream? No.
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Speaker 3: I was on the beach.
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Speaker 4: In the water.
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Speaker 3: With my husband.
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Speaker 4: With Kurt? With Kurt.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, Lyra, no. Don't you remember?
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Speaker 2: He's dead.
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Speaker 3: Kurt was drowned last night.
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Speaker 2: The End Margo and I came right down as soon
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Speaker 2: as we got your message, Celeste.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm awfully glad you're here, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Cranston. So are we, Celeste. It's best if there's anything
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Speaker 3: we can do to help.
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Speaker 2: Yes, after all, Kurt Sander was a friend of mine,
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Speaker 2: even though I didn't see him for some time.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sure you can help, both of you. We'll
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Speaker 6: see Lyra in just a moment. She was still sleeping
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Speaker 6: when I went in. The doctor prescribed all the rest
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Speaker 6: she could get.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 4: This is a beautiful view from this window.
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Speaker 3: Beach down there below the cliffs and the sea beyond.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Kurt loved solitude.
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Speaker 2: There's a wind rising. Must be a storm coming up.
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Speaker 6: It was just this kind of a day that Lyra
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Speaker 6: and Kurt went sailing.
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Speaker 2: You mean when Kurt was lost? Yes. You still haven't
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Speaker 2: told us what did happen, Celeste. Perhaps before we see Lyra,
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Speaker 2: we should know.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, of course.
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Speaker 2: Well, they.
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Speaker 6: they were out sailing. A violent squall came up and
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Speaker 6: the boat capsized.
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Speaker 3: How awful.
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Speaker 6: Apparently, Kurt struck his head against the boat when it
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Speaker 6: turned over and.
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Speaker 6: Our housekeeper and I were shopping at the time. When
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Speaker 6: we got back, we found Lyra down on the beach,
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Speaker 6: nearly dead from shock and exhaustion.
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Speaker 2: How is she now?
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Speaker 6: Physically, the doctor says she'll be all right, but.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Cranston, it's her mind.
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Speaker 2: She.
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Speaker 4: Well, she insists that she's.
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Speaker 2: Going to die.
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Speaker 5: Die?
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Speaker 3: She thinks that Kurt's spirit has returned to take her
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Speaker 3: back with him into the sea. How terrible.
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Speaker 6: She says they had some kind of.
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Speaker 4: A weird pact with death. Do you think you'll be
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Speaker 4: able to reason with.
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Speaker 6: Her, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Cranston?
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Speaker 2: Try, Celeste. I'll do everything I can.
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Speaker 4: I'll see if she's awake.
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Speaker 2: Now, I'll be right back.
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Speaker 3: Lamont, it's... Darling, what are you looking at?
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Speaker 2: These books on spiritualism. They're almost forgotten.
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Speaker 3: Forgotten what?
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Speaker 2: Kurt Sander was a student and a firm believer in
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Speaker 2: life after death.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I just.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Margo.
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Speaker 3: He just woke up.
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Speaker 2: I see. Laura.
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Speaker 6: Laura, this is Lamont Cranston.
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Speaker 3: Lamont Cranston?
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Speaker 2: Yes, Mrs. Sandler. I was a friend of Kurt's and Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Margo Lane. Hello, Laura.
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Speaker 3: You've come to take me away, haven't you?
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Speaker 2: You must.
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Speaker 4: You must take me away from this house.
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Speaker 3: No, they can't, Laura. You know you can't leave yet.
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Speaker 3: Not until you're better.
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Speaker 2: But I can't stay here.
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Speaker 3: I figure you'll come back for me.
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Speaker 2: No, he won't.
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Speaker 3: If I should die before you, my darling, I'll return
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Speaker 3: from wherever I may be and take you with me.
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Speaker 2: Mrs. Sander, that isn't possible. It is.
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Speaker 4: He'll come back.
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Speaker 2: I mustn't stay here.
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Speaker 4: He'll come back for me.
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Speaker 2: He'll come back.
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Speaker 3: Lamont, listen.
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Speaker 4: Kurt.
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Speaker 2: Kurt, is that you? Vera. Quiet. Get back, Margot. I'm
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Speaker 2: going to throw up those French windows. It's a woman.
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Speaker 6: It's Anna, our housekeeper, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Cranston.
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Speaker 6: Anna, what on earth were you doing?
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Speaker 4: I just wanted you to let me in the door.
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Speaker 6: Why didn't you come in through the back?
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Speaker 4: I just came up.
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Speaker 2: From the beach.
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Speaker 4: I was gathering clams for dinner.
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Speaker 2: All right, Anna.
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Speaker 6: Come inside so I can shut these doors again.
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Speaker 4: You best shut them tight.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 4: I've been down on the beach and I've seen it.
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Speaker 2: Seen what, Anna? Well, Anna, what did you see down
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Speaker 2: on the beach?
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Speaker 3: I saw another storm coming up.
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Speaker 4: Another storm like the one the night Mr. Sander died.
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Speaker 2: What? Who is it? Kurt!
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Speaker 5: No!
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Speaker 3: Help!
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Speaker 2: It's all right, Mrs. Sanders.
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Speaker 3: It's Lamont.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Lamont.
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Speaker 2: Are you all right?
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Speaker 3: Lamont, what is it?
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Speaker 2: What happened? I don't know, Margot. What made you scream, Mrs. Sanders?
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Speaker 4: Well, I was asleep when something woke me up. I
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Speaker 4: felt gold fingers around my throat.
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Speaker 2: It was Kurt.
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Speaker 4: He's come for me.
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Speaker 2: Look, Lamont.
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Speaker 3: The French doors.
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Speaker 2: Wind must have blown them open. That's probably what woke
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Speaker 2: her up. I'll have a look outside. It was Kurt.
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Speaker 3: No, Mrs. Sander.
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Speaker 6: Oh, what happened, Margo?
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Speaker 2: I was asleep.
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Speaker 4: I heard a scream.
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Speaker 3: She thought someone was in the room.
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Speaker 2: Her husband.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, darling.
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Speaker 4: It just couldn't be.
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Speaker 3: Right, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Sander. There's no sign of anyone. You merely had another
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Speaker 2: bad dream.
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Speaker 4: That's what you say.
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Speaker 3: Anna.
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Speaker 4: I've been outside the room listening. It was him, wasn't it?
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Speaker 2: He's lonely.
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Speaker 3: He's come back.
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Speaker 2: Anna, what are you trying to do?
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Speaker 3: Go back to your room, Anna.
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Speaker 4: All right. But I know. I know.
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Speaker 2: Now, Mrs. Sander, try to understand. It was all in
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Speaker 2: your mind. Do you understand? Yes.
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Speaker 4: All in my mind.
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Speaker 2: Now, try to go back to sleep. Celeste. Yes. I
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Speaker 2: think it would be a good idea if you slept
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Speaker 2: in here for the rest of the night.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, of course, I will.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Martha.
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Speaker 3: What is it, Lamont? There is something wrong, I can tell.
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Speaker 2: Let's get your coat on. Going to do a little investigating. But...
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Speaker 2: I lied in order not to frighten Mrs. Sandler. I
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Speaker 2: found this just outside the French doors. Seaweed? Yes, seaweed.
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Speaker 2: Someone or something brought up from the ocean below. Oh!
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Speaker 3: Who's there?
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Speaker 2: Dog.
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Speaker 4: Someone. It's me, Mrs. Sander. Anna.
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Speaker 2: Anna.
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Speaker 6: Shh.
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Speaker 2: Don't wake me, Celeste.
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Speaker 4: No, I won't. Come with me.
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Speaker 2: It's about him.
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Speaker 6: About him?
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Speaker 3: Hurry. All right, Anna.
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Speaker 4: That's right. Now through this door. Across the hall.
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Speaker 2: This room.
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Speaker 3: But this was Kurt's room. Yes.
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Speaker 4: And look here on the desk.
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Speaker 3: Picture of me.
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Speaker 4: My necklace. He was to get these things. Things that
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Speaker 4: belong to you. And maybe he'd go back to the sea.
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Speaker 2: And leave you alone.
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Speaker 3: That's insane.
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Speaker 4: I'll take them to him. You know where he is?
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Speaker 4: In the cave at the bottom of the cliff. How
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Speaker 4: do you know?
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Speaker 2: Have you seen him?
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Speaker 3: Have you?
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Speaker 2: No. The flat pool in the cave.
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Speaker 4: And I've seen strange footprints around.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: Things live in that pool. Terrible things that come up
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Speaker 4: from the sea. Anna, don't. Don't go near there, please.
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Speaker 3: I'll be all right.
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Speaker 4: Nothing will harm me.
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Speaker 2: No, Anna.
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Speaker 4: He doesn't want me, Miss Vera. He wants you.
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Speaker 3: But what are we looking for, Lamont?
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Speaker 2: Anything here on the beach, Margaret, that might give us
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Speaker 2: a clue as to who or what left the seaweed
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Speaker 2: outside Lyra's room.
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Speaker 3: You think someone has taken advantage of Kurt's death to
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Speaker 3: deliberately frighten Lyra out of her mind?
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Speaker 2: It seems to be the logical answer. Yes. I haven't
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Speaker 2: been able to make up my mind yet whether Anna
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Speaker 2: is a slightly demented old servant or a very shrewd woman.
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Speaker 2: Then another thought has crossed my mind.
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Speaker 3: What's that?
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Speaker 2: Kurt was a very odd person, as I remember him, Margo. Moody, introspective, and,
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Speaker 2: as we know, a firm believer in spiritualism.
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Speaker 3: Well, you aren't suggesting that there might be some basis
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Speaker 3: for this wild idea Lear has about Kurt returning from
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Speaker 3: the dead?
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Speaker 2: Nobody's ever discovered just how far spiritualism can go.
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Speaker 3: That's a fantastic idea, Lamar.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic and terrible. But an idea we may have to consider.
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Speaker 2: We're going to learn the truth about Lyra's dream of death.
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Speaker 4: It's so dark in this cave.
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Speaker 2: There's the pool.
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Speaker 4: The black, bubbling pool.
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Speaker 2: Don't be scared, Anna.
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Speaker 4: Dead things can't harm honest folk.
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Speaker 3: The lantern down over here.
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Speaker 4: Kneel down by the pool. Now, give him the things.
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Speaker 3: Give him the things and tell him to go away.
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Speaker 3: Leave us alone.
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Speaker 4: Now. Someone kicked over the lantern.
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Speaker 2: Who's there? Who's there?
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Speaker 3: Come on closer.
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Speaker 4: Someone's covered.
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Speaker 3: Kurt, you.
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Speaker 2: No, no, you're dead.
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Speaker 6: Go away, no, don't.
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Speaker 3: You're pushing my head under the water.
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Speaker 2: back to the shadow. On the trail of a man
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Speaker 2: who apparently has returned from the dead to claim his bride...
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Speaker 2: Margot and Lamont are plunged into a series of weird events.
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Speaker 2: Now we find them walking down a dark beach, while
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Speaker 2: above them tower the black cliffs that rise forebodingly. Suddenly,
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Speaker 2: Margot stops and touches Lamont's arm.
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Speaker 3: Lamont, look up ahead.
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Speaker 2: Good Lord, come on. Lamont.
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Speaker 3: God, are you hearing the water by the edge of
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Speaker 3: the shore?
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Speaker 2: It is. hospital.
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Speaker 3: Is she dead?
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Speaker 2: Yes, drowned apparently and her body washed ashore. This is strange, Martin.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 2: Her finger marks around her neck. Someone deliberately held her
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Speaker 2: head under the wall. No. Martin, what are you doing?
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Speaker 2: Trying to pry something loose. She has a clutch in
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Speaker 2: her hand.
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Speaker 3: It's a torn piece of cloth and there's a gold
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Speaker 3: button on it.
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Speaker 2: It's the kind of button that's usually found on men's
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Speaker 2: jumping jackets.
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Speaker 3: And Kurt was in sailing clothes when he died.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Margo, he was. Look here. It's a faint trail
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Speaker 2: in the sand.
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Speaker 3: Looks as though Anna's body was dragged down here.
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Speaker 2: The trail leads up to a kind of opening in
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Speaker 2: the cliff. Come on.
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Speaker 3: Well, Margo, I just don't understand.
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Speaker 2: Neither do I, but there must be a logical explanation
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Speaker 2: behind all this. I've got a feeling we're getting close
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Speaker 2: to the answer. I'm certain. Here we are. Kind of
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Speaker 2: a tunnel into the base of the cliff.
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Speaker 3: You're not going in?
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Speaker 2: Yes. Stay behind me. I'll use my flashlight.
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Speaker 3: Why, it's a big cave.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: You see anything?
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Speaker 2: Black pool of water in the center of the cave.
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Speaker 3: You sure that's all?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Oh, thank heavens. Let's get out of here. It gives
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Speaker 3: me the creeps.
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Speaker 2: Quiet, Margo. What? Look out through the mouth of the cave.
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Speaker 2: Out there on the beach. Someone kneeling down by Anna's body. What?
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Speaker 3: It's Celeste. Yes.
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Speaker 2: What would Lyra's sister be doing out there on the
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Speaker 2: beach at this time?
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Speaker 3: She's coming towards us.
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Speaker 2: She's following the same trail up here we followed. Stand back, Margo.
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Speaker 2: I'll switch off the flash.
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Speaker 6: Kurt, are you in there?
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Speaker 2: Come on. What's that? Kurt, was that you? No, sir.
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Speaker 3: She's running away up the path to the house.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Lamont, do you realize what this means?
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Speaker 2: I am beginning to, Margot.
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Speaker 3: Kurt is alive, not dead. He must be the one
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Speaker 3: who's trying to drive Lyra mad. Anna must have found
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Speaker 3: the truth, and that's why he killed her.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps and perhaps not, Margot. Now I think I can
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Speaker 2: find out.
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Speaker 3: How?
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Speaker 2: I think Celeste will tell me a great deal. When
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Speaker 2: she talks to the shadow. The gun.
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Speaker 3: The gun, it must be.
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Speaker 2: Who's there? Who laughed? Shadow laughed, Celeste.
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Speaker 3: Shadow? The gun!
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Speaker 6: Somebody took the gun from my hand.
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Speaker 2: But who?
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Speaker 3: Where?
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Speaker 2: No one sees the shadow.
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Speaker 6: Shadow, what do you want?
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Speaker 2: What were you going to do with this gun, Celeste? What?
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Speaker 2: Were you going to kill your sister, Lyra?
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Speaker 4: No, why should I do that?
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Speaker 2: Because you haven't been able to make her kill herself
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Speaker 2: the way you and Kurt planned.
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Speaker 4: That's not true.
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Speaker 2: Kurt's not dead. You've been working together. That's true, isn't it, Celeste?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: Kurt was in love with you, wasn't he? But Lyra
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Speaker 2: stood in your way.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Yes, he was in love with me. He begged
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Speaker 6: me to marry him.
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Speaker 2: Then Kurt is alive.
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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, that's why I came for the gun. He's
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Speaker 6: out of his mind. He killed Anna, and he'll kill
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Speaker 6: my sister, too.
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Speaker 2: What were you doing down on that beach by Anna's body?
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Speaker 3: I was looking for Lyra.
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Speaker 2: She's gone.
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Speaker 6: Oh, he'll kill her, don't you understand?
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Speaker 3: Oh, Shadow, you've got to.
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Speaker 4: Find him before it's too late.
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Speaker 2: Shadow will find the truth, Celeste. If you've lied, I'll
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Speaker 2: be back. You'll answer to the Shadow. Vera? Vera, are
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Speaker 2: you in there?
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Speaker 3: Try the door, Lamont.
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Speaker 2: Empty. Yes, Celeste told the shadow the truth. Kurt must
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Speaker 2: have taken her off somewhere.
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Speaker 3: The French doors are standing wide open again.
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Speaker 2: Yes, look at this, Margo, over here. Some muddy footprints
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Speaker 2: on the carpet. What'll we do? I don't... Wait a minute. Margot,
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Speaker 2: this isn't mud on these footprints. It's slime. Green slime.
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Speaker 2: The kind that grows on rocks.
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Speaker 3: You think Kurt has taken her to the cave?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, Margot. All I know is we'd better
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Speaker 2: get back there as fast as we can. Here we are, Marty.
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Speaker 2: Be careful going into the cave.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Lord, it's so dim in here.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't afford to bring my flashlight, darling. We'd make
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Speaker 2: too good a target.
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Speaker 3: Yes, if Kurt's as mad as he appears to be,
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Speaker 3: he'd probably shoot first and ask questions later.
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Speaker 2: Easy now, darling. Come on. Over there. Good Lord, it's
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Speaker 2: Kurt in there. Leroy!
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Speaker 3: I'm coming, Lyra.
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Speaker 2: Try to hold on. Lyra! Kurt. Oh, Kurt. It's all right, Lyra.
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Speaker 2: I've got you. Oh, my.
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Speaker 4: He had a gun. He was going to kill me.
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Speaker 2: I grabbed his arm and I... I went off. Lyra.
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Speaker 2: She's fainted. You'd better lie here for a moment. You'd
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Speaker 2: better have a look at Kurt. Well? Well, that's a
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Speaker 2: lighter match.
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Speaker 4: Margo, I.
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Speaker 2: He's dead, Margo. Why, I suppose it's just as well. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I think it is, Margo. Look at this over here. Yes.
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Speaker 3: A shallow grave. Good heavens, you mean he was going
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Speaker 3: to kill there and bury her in there?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Now, Margo, I mean that Kurt Sander came out of
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Speaker 2: this grave. Lear's shot didn't kill him. He's been dead
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Speaker 2: for at least two days.
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Speaker 3: Lamont, why on earth are we leaving the cave with
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Speaker 3: Lear still in there with that body?
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Speaker 2: No time to explain, Margo. I want you to get
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Speaker 2: up the house right away and be careful.
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Speaker 3: Is that all?
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Speaker 2: Yes. By the time you get there, Margo, the shadow
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Speaker 2: will have trapped the real killer. What? Oh, I'm still
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Speaker 2: in the cave.
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Speaker 3: All alone.
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Speaker 6: I've got to get out of here.
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Speaker 3: Kurt's body.
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Speaker 6: It was by the pool.
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Speaker 3: Now it's gone.
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Speaker 2: What? Noise.
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Speaker 4: Is someone in the cave?
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Speaker 3: Lamont, is that you?
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Speaker 2: Why don't you answer? There.
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Speaker 4: I can almost see you now. I can almost see you.
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Speaker 2: Look. Kurt!
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Speaker 6: Kurt, it's you!
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 4: It can't be you.
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Speaker 3: You're dead.
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Speaker 4: Keep away.
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Speaker 6: Keep away.
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Speaker 2: Why did you kill me, Lyra?
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Speaker 3: I didn't, Kurt.
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Speaker 2: I swear. Yes, you did, Lyra. You must confess. Tell
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Speaker 2: the truth. No. If you don't, Lyra... I'll tell them.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell them your story of how I drowned was
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Speaker 2: a lie. Tell them you killed me two days ago
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Speaker 2: in this cave. I'll tell them how you crushed my
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Speaker 2: skull with a rock. I'll tell them how you killed Anna, too.
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Speaker 2: Covered yourself with seaweed and pretended to be me. Then confess. Confess.
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Speaker 2: All right, I did.
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Speaker 6: I killed Anna.
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Speaker 2: I killed you both. Now go away. But, Lira, you're
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Speaker 2: not cursed? No, Lira.
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Speaker 3: Who are you? Who are you?
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Speaker 2: The shadow. No. Yes, Lira. You confess to the shadow.
26:36
Speaker 2: You've condemned yourself to death, Lira. No. Because now the
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Speaker 2: shadow knows.
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Speaker 4: Lamont, it's incredible.
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Speaker 3: I can hardly believe that Lyra is a murderer.
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Speaker 2: Well, apparently she's a violently jealous woman, Margot. Kurt arranged
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Speaker 2: a rendezvous with her near the cave. Asked her for
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Speaker 2: a divorce. Told her he wanted to be free to
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Speaker 2: marry her younger sister, Celeste. She flew into a jealous rage,
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Speaker 2: killed him, left his body in the cave.
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Speaker 3: Then her story of the drowning, her dream of death,
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Speaker 3: all those weird happenings, even Anna's murder, were done to
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Speaker 3: frighten people away from here so that no one would
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Speaker 3: learn the truth.
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Speaker 2: Yes. After she killed Anna and after we started investigating,
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Speaker 2: she became panicky.
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Speaker 3: So she decided to dispose of Kurt's body.
27:32
Speaker 2: Exactly. In the dim light, we thought Kurt and her
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Speaker 2: were struggling together. When she heard me call to her,
27:38
Speaker 2: she fired a shot in the crazy last ditch effort
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Speaker 2: to make us think that Kurt had been alive up
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Speaker 2: to that point. He was responsible for everything. Oh, how horrible.
27:47
Speaker 3: And stupid.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's all over now, thank goodness.
27:52
Speaker 2: Yes, all over. Except that soon Lyra will be going
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Speaker 2: to her death. This time, it won't be a dream.
28:13
Speaker 2: And now, let me present Blue Coal's Distinguished Heating Authority,
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Speaker 2: John Bartley. Thank you, Andre Bruch, and good evening, friends.
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Speaker 7: Here's an important tip on economical home heating that will
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Speaker 7: save you time, trouble, and fuel. If you tend your
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Speaker 7: furnace fire the right way, you'll find that your fire
28:30
Speaker 7: will burn more slowly and evenly, and that you'll get
28:33
Speaker 7: more heat from the fuel you burn.
28:36
Speaker 2: When you add coal, do it like this. First.
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Speaker 7: Shake the grates gently until the first faint red glow
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Speaker 7: is visible.
28:43
Speaker 2: In the ash pit.
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Speaker 7: Then, with a shovel or a small hoe, pull the
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Speaker 7: live coals from the back of the firebox up toward
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Speaker 7: the feed door, forming a sloping hollow that leads toward
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Speaker 7: the back. Into this hollow, put your fresh coal. Leave
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Speaker 7: a few glowing coals just inside the fire door to
29:01
Speaker 7: consume gases. The way to conserve coal is not by skimping.
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Speaker 2: Keep a deep fire at all times.
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Speaker 3: I thank you.
29:34
Speaker 2: demonstrate that the weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime
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Speaker 2: does not pay. The shadow knows. The Shadow Next week,
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Speaker 2: same time, same station, your friendly blue coal dealer brings
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Speaker 2: you another strange and thrilling adventure in the Shadow's daring
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Speaker 2: battle against the forces of evil. The Shadow is presented
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Speaker 2: by the D. Allen W. Coal Company, distributors of blue coal.
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Speaker 2: Lamont Cranston is played by Brett Mollison. Margot by Grace Matthews.
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Speaker 2: Your announcer is Andre Barouche. Remember, it's blue coal for
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Speaker 2: finest heating service. It's blue coal for finest modern equipment.
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Speaker 2: It's blue coal for the best home heat money can buy.
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Speaker 1: This concludes The Shadow's Dream of Death. Follow The Shadow
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