July 21, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Who war evil works in the hearts of men. The shadow.
Now the shadow.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Mysterious characters awage the forces of law and order, is
in reality the Monk Crimson, wealthy young man about town.
As a shadow, Cranston is gifted with hyptotic power to
cloud men's minds so that they cannot see Crimson's friend
and companions, the lovely marble Me, you're the only person
who knows to whom the voice of the Invisible Shadow belongs.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Today's story, The Mark of the Black Widow. Suppose we
have our coffee in here in the Sunday Margo.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Oh, I'd love to doctor Grant.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Guys, I've been waiting for years when excuse to see
the inside of this room.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm here, Amand he says.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
If I had anticipated this opportunity, Doctor Grant, I'd have
brought along my camera notebook.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I see.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I think you have an exaggerated idea about the contents
of the school. Oh, but it's fascinating.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Just look around this place, remark, money pieces, docues, an
old stone carving.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yes, I presume that most of these pieces are Egyptian.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Aren't they, Doctor Graham.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I did a good deal of work in Egypt about
twenty years ago, you know, excavations and that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I should imagine that there's a fascinating story that goes to.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Every one of these drugs.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Some of them have a legend.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Yes, margot Us sas kurs Grass.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm e Doug has been reading too many hours stories, doctor, No, No,
she hasn't a month. I myself have seen too many
examples of strange misfortunes that have befallen the defilers of
certain tombs, which treat.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
That statement like, oh really, well, I haven't done a king,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Doctor, Well, I personally have been.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Exposed to one of those ancient persing ones. I've got
to hear more about this.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, it's for very long, and I'm quite sure of
a very dark story. So we will pay it to
some other times, shall we. Besides, this is not a
night for mistic yarn.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
See, the moon is too bright, the sky is full
of what a summer for a rock to that window?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Just put your head, doctor, look sometimes from you late
to catch him whoever it was to say it seems
to be a note attached to the stone. Well, yes,
that's perhaps you better read the doctor.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Let me see it into this.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Remember egypt Sell's tomb. He who was dead is returning,
and the votes are cast. I remind you of our duty.
The signature is the going of a spider.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What in the world is it all about?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Do you understand the doctor perfectly? He who was dead
is returning? The month that story I said, I tell
you some other fancy.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I'll tell it to you now because it concerns it's no.
I just received your mind. Mind, I should say not.
From about twenty years ago, three other scientists from myself,
all of us young and ambitious, we're working on the
excavation of a tomb on the Upper Egyptian Nile. One
day we go through a hidden ball and came upon
a room that was almost crammed the ceiling with rare,
un precious jewels.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
We stood in awe at the entrance to that room.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
All eyes here, Do you see what I see?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah? There can't be little many precious jewels in the world.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Hell, what did your fun? Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:49):
I think that's what we're thinking for Willoughby, for.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Spaking, for whether jewels where?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well? What do we do now?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Do we notify the authorities and turn this over the
then quite kid, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Why what I'm asking? Why why should we give up
this fortune?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The tailor that well to marry it's the thing to do.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
We would ever have to know about it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Only we four have the knowledge of this hidden room.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Now do we tell the authorities?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Tailor?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
You're not serious about this?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Why if we were found out, we'd be disgraced loans
in our profession. Wasn't a few million dollars compensate that?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Ruin?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Taylor's right?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Because I'm right.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All we have to do is keep quiet.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And we're millionaires, millionnaires.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Why we could buy the world.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So you see our going am on.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Three of us did keep quiet of Holt had corked.
We told the authorities about our discovery. We're all resentful
of what we thought was his disloyal treachery. We even
made ido of sessed on his life. Yes, I was
in the card with the others. My only excuse, now
is it well that I was very young.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
However we soon.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Forgot so that's as we lost our dogs in hard work.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
And then one day, when our.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Job was almost gone, the four of us were standing
in the main excavation. Suddenly we heard a shout of
warning from the bank of all.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Look out, look up along the wall, Papy is perfectly.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We scrambled for the opposite embankments.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Let's probably behind if we heard a.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Clip to sec way, I put the mind go help me.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We turned started back to him, and then.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
We were too late.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Asher was buried beneath, said happily.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Oh oh.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Laborers dogs for Sabawly all that night and into the
next day, but it wasn't found. And the next evening
we sailed to the States. What a horrible death.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
No, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Thee halper didn't die. What he learned later that he
reached one of the tunnels before the landside occurred and
covered him. Three days later he emerged from the tomb alive.
Well that's remarkable, but say that's part of the menage.
Then he who was.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Dead is return exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Alister came back to the state today.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He's been in Egypt all these years, done some remarkable
work too.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Teking the rest of the message to him. But doing
here do heven a vote to cast?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And if Hee Hawse's name is up for membership in
the American chapter of the Royal Order of the Scientist,
perhaps he feels that he will blackball him because of
our ancient grudge. Is it quite an honor who belong
to the society and the great sign of it can
be bestowed on a scientist?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Naturally, Hollis is anxious to get it.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Then you think this message is from Holty.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm not sure, but he has nothing to fear.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Neither tailor Willoughby or myself had any ill feeling taught him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
How does he feel about all of you or that's
a different story.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I've heard reports that he thinks that landslide was a
deliberate attempt on his life, which of course.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Is not through at all.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, that explains everything in the message. But the signature, No,
you mean the drawing of a spider. Yes, well, that
drawing was on the wall of the room that was
filled with jewels. The symbol of the spider.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
There is an ancient, never failing Egyptian curse of death.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Next member, will both please, next, put the ball in
the box your vote if you please. Gentlemen, play ball
and buck have your ballot, ball and buck your bullet.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Mister Raymond Holliston, yes, will you stand please? You have
petitions for membership in the Royal Order of Scientists. I
have I regret to inform you, sir, that one.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Black ball, having been dropped in the box, your application
is rejected.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I knew it. I knew we do this to me,
mister Holliston.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Please, this is the second attack on me.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Don't believe me. The time is up, Amanda.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I asked you to come here tonight to help Taylor,
Willoughby and me find Hollister.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I say, dog, yes, we must find him.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We've got to convince him that we were not responsible
for his being rejected to our membership. Now you say,
mister Taylor, that Hollis had disappeared the day after the
voting took place.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Well, isn't there anywhere finding out who did block falling?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Not to Grant, No, no way in the world, Margre, No,
there isn't any My warm dinner jacket seems to be
a bit too much tonight, Grant, I think you should
tell mister Crimston about Hollister's threat too. Oh, yes, that
side will be the things that text of the club
told us later that Hollis have.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Bowed vengeance against all three of us.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Vengeance. Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, and he seems to have vanish so completely. I
wouldn't worry too much about that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, frankly, I am worried about it, mister Crimston. Hollis's
crazed dane is liable to seek complete with.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Then, No, I'm not worried on that spot.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Taylor.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You willough be as I say you will?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It be fall Maybe it's the heat in that dinner
jacket that did it.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I can't say that I blame him, such a sultry knight.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Willoughby, come on, old man.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Wait, gentlemen, the side like the poor put on that
overhead life.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Why why what's the trouble there?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You are?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Willoughby, Willoughby.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What's plan with him?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Lamarty Willoughby is dead?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Tell well the man's way be going to night?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Mother?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They explored get together?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Oh no, well why all in militree the two who
always in the.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Visit mister Willoughby.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Oh see, well that's it, mister Willoughby, he did Lamart, Yes,
I know we did.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
You Did you plan to meet him at any special play?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh? Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
He is under an old Chios town perhaps, Oh no.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
How much cheerier place than that here, The more tall
will be the who I'm very.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Curious to learn just why mister Willoughby died so suddenly.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Oh, are you going to examine his body?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, not exactly, mat, that's going to be a job
for the shadow.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
But uh, you're all sleeping peacely tonight, my pretty kids.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I like to see that.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Might it shows that we're all friends here?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Uh ole friends?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, uh hm, it's sit down, I must open it.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Oh you're rather strand upish, Mike pretty. Oh no, no,
you're not too pretty, are you? But you see, I
like these lids open so that you all may become acquainted.
You're all brothers, now, you know, say that isn't dead,
whether you'll be richer or hey? Oh man, e's that
(10:54):
because that's it's a.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Mispeak high school.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Oh oh you I am cold, the shadow, the shadow,
but I don't see you.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
No, my hypnotic powers are proud of your mind made
me invisible to your eyes.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Oh and that's very clever, is very clever. They're short
of remarkable, man with the Shadow.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Take it down.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The word of the mag keeper. These bodies, all these
bodies here, are they in your cab? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, get the call among these bodies that the
one named Willoughby.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
He came here last night, died very suddenly. Oh that world.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yes, he's over there on that table. He's the hot case.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Have you yourself noticed anything unusual about the body? No?
Speaker 8 (11:40):
No, different from the others.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
If you don't mind, I'd try to examine him myself.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I don't mind you, he doesn't. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Let me see head untouched, No marks on neck? Yes,
hey this this jeenat and substance on the chest covering
a little at my Have you noticed this?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
I never paid much attention to various things in a
routine case of death.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
In the futual man you should.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Then you learned that I have that this man's death
was not routine.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It was murder.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Oh is in Malamar and Morgue?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
No, he learned what the grant why they may not
be before we get them. I just examined Willoughby's body
in that undertaking farmer, and the Willoughby was murdered Marco.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Then Halter did carry outist to go.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Maco, so willy to what chose anyone?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Have you notified?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Please?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I didn't think it advisable.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Yet what makes you believe that mister Willoughby was murdy a.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Red mark that I discovered on his chest, a red
mark that was covered with a jelatine like substance.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
The mo come in.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I left the door open.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh I'm in plain.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I I didn't realize that you'd come along. I you
must fotton my appearance, all.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Right, doctor, I've seen then in a thirties before.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It's coming to the study.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
The tailor's here. I called him.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Come along, mother h already, missus Grass, Oh, you two mislaying.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I was once more for my appearance to blame. It
was so warm and nothing of a doctor.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I have a dressing gown around here sometime, knowing the
doctor as I do, miss Lay, and he won't feel
easy until he's properly attired.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Here's a dressing gown dot.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh, thank you, thank you Taylor. Anyway, on, now, what
is all this about the month?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, doctor Glenn.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
First of all, I have just learned that your associate,
mister Willoughby was murdered.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Hollister.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Hollister's making good as pray.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It's too a little what you anyone yet, missus Taylor,
our name concerned hours to save both of you from
meeting Willoughby.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
See, Paul, is they're really in danger?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yes, I'm sure there is. What's the monk?
Speaker 8 (14:08):
How you are?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's a grid? It's like catch him, he's falling.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Get that trouble here, such a grand.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
He's dead.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
M no, oh, this is too much.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I'm the last one least.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I'm going for the plea.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Come back here, Taylor.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
No, no, I'm myself.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
That was a silly thing.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Grip mogo come here, yes, ook here do you see
this red mark and adopt a chest the same angelatin substance,
the same I found on Willoughby At this time I
recognize the mark? What did it? It's the sight of
a poisonous insect. And unless I miss my guest, that
insect is a spider, the ancient Egyptian symbol of death.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
What what on earth are you doing? Conlan? Running your
hands me.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm looking for a very important piece of eviden when
you're also making those too well, Taylor really.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Went for the police.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I want to find the evidence before the good defenders
of the law over in the house. But if you're
trying to please stand right where you are, why hello,
My evidence is on your shoetop.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
If I'm not mistaken, it's a dead lid, poisonous black
widow's fight.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
There. Knock him off your shoetop.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Get me that astray quick.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Here you are, I want to catch it alive.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh you've gone, you've gone about astray?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Oh? Hu didn't he one of the biggest of the species.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
The morgo when you went to the phone?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Please?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yes, hello, Hello, he's mister Cranston there.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yes, who is the tree?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
This is mister Taylor's valet.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Would you ask mister Criston if he could come to
mister Taylor's.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Home at once? Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What's the trouble?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Mister Taylor has just been shot this way, sir? Have
you got to conquers? The doctor just left?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Uh the wound see it?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The doctor didn't tell me U in his room here, sir?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Thank you? Ah y that you Cranston.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, mister Tayler, how are you feeling?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh? Fair? Just fair?
Speaker 8 (16:14):
The bullet grazed my shoulder and tell me what happened?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Well, I I really don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I thought that you left us to go to the police.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yes, yes, that was my intention. But when I left
doctor Grant's house, I saw someone looking in the doorway
across the street, and I well, I became panicky and
came right here to my study and intending to call
the police from here. I see then what happened? Oh,
when I picked up the phone, something or someone was
moving behind that curtain. I replaced the phone, and then
(16:45):
the shot was fired. That's all I remember.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I see you didn't actually see you?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I said, no, no, but it was Hollister. I know
it was.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Who else would make an attempt on my life?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Mm, and they I see the wo grease.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well, the doctor said, I shouldn't be disturbed. Oh is
this the coach you were wearing? Yes, yes, you can
see yourself or the bullet penetrated.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
My gun must have been fired a very close range,
mister Taylor.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
The carter burns indicate that the gun was within a
foot of your shoulder when it was fired.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yes, it was close.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
But I thought that you said that you were firing
on from those curtains. They're all of firteen feet from
the phone.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Well, I see here class, you're telling my story.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
No, not a tall, mister Taylor.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I'm just trying to get the fact straight.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Well, perhat you better come back to you aorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I can think more curly.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Then, yes, sir, that'll give you more time. What do
you mean, Oh nothing, mister Taylor, not a thing.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Good night, Mordo.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I called a tailor that I'm sending that box containing
the Black Widow Spider over to you in the morning.
I want you to take it to mister Taylor's house.
You had a secret vice from him as to whether
or not it's really poisonous, and take particular attention to
his erections in the meantime.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
The shadow a call to me.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
You say that you found this fighter and doctor Grant
studying this lane.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Well why have you brought it to me?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Well, mister Cranston taught that you were an authority on
such ingm could tell to me intact is really poison
Oh this.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Was mister Crimston's idea.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Yes, well, my laboratory is downstairs.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Would you try to come down while I make the examination?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Why?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yes, that's way. Please? Would you mind opening that John
mus Lane my shoulder? You know?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Yes, how did you show he is the rain?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Yes, yes, very nicely you first.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Ms Laine, all right, is there a life?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yes, right on the wall.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Here we are. I realized that you must have many
more important things to do, missus Taylor.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And that's the starter. But along this lane, I don't
perfectly well while you're here, why Cranston sent you.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
He knows that's a poisonous spider, and I believe that
he has a pretty good idea what it was doing.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
In doctor Grant's study, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I don't know what you're talking about, but he.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Did make one mistake.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
He sent you here alone.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Wait minute, I'm getting out of how what do you
mean that door that re editors in locked and bolted?
Speaker 8 (19:23):
That's the only ashed from this room.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh and incidentally, I might mention that the walls are sound,
pol quite immuned a screen. I don't understand why, very
simple you come to me with a curiosity about poisonous
black widowed spiders.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Because of that interest, I am going to exhibit many.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Of them for you by turning them loose in this
role that I forgot. He has company, very distinguished company,
a gentleman that you have heard a great deal about.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Who do you mean, holist, the missing doctor Hollis? I
had an.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Then, what doctor Halleck?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Who committed the murder?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
It was you?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
This is not the holocaust.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh in a cage, you having an a cage like
some wild deep that's an excellent similar considering his appearance
at this point.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
It's a grange eyes who sunken ses.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Yes, that's what comes of not eating for a week.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Wide man doing human seed.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
That man is on a bridge of salvation, even death.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You must be leased them at once, That's what I
intend to do. He shall keep you company down here
while you both entertain my collection of black widout spiders.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
You hold the released soon also, very soon?
Speaker 5 (20:54):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
These boxes contained the spiders?
Speaker 7 (20:57):
I'm regularly lease the catch. Then I shall leave you
both here in that company. They're hungry too, even more
hungry than doctor Hollister. All right, the flames? Now, shall
we get up?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Bobby?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I wouldn't release those siders if I were you? Mister Taylor?
Who speak?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well? Are you?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
I am?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I getting this room with you? Mister Taylor? All I
see no one. Perhaps when I tell you my name,
you'll know why? Who are you? Men? Call me the Shadow?
The Shadow? No, oh, you've heard of me?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Then you know why I'm here, mister Taylor.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
No, No, you can't spoil my revenge. I waited too long,
too long, likely courrong and coorect.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Mister Taylor, we'll see about that.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
You can't stop me, yes, I can't wait taking it
away from your boy.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
What happened? Give me like the pot so you can
add to your listener. I come, sor and mister Taylor,
what do you mean? You've already killed Willoughby and not so.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You know that to you?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
But what of it?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
What if I did kill them?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Why? Why did you do it?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Because I wanted to aventue for wrong that will sund
me by holifas he cheated me out of a portion fashion,
he wouldn't be quiet about those hueles the town. No,
he had to be righteous. And because of that righteous
a poor puddling fires is all my life. That's why
I chill want to be in grants for the bare
murders to be blamed on him.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So you admit the killing personally?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
None of us are leaving here anyway? Keep away from
this box of spiders.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Do you think your power of invisibility can conquer me?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Don't you? Shadow?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
And I know a way to put up an even terms.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I'm putting off.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
These lights too, right, you're too light.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
I have also had the spiders. When I open the box, they'll.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Just say you bower, spiders report and life touch death
is the dark that you too? Now?
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Like you wait in here with doctor Hollis Mather kind
of head up stairs, you'll be say for that, I'll
find that light quick, find that no matter, find that.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
Oh very well, Taylor, you didn't take a safe place
after all.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
They told me.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Highlight a long didn't nothing, Ma, the spiders are still
walk up.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You can release Taylor now, not to Holica.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I don't think that will be Why not Taylor dead?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Now? You see, Margot, when I explained the whole case
to Commission the West and he agreed that Taylor's death
should be listed as accidental. And how is that the holiday?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You'll be all right in a week or so?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well know, how did Poeter.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Ever get the spider the bank?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Where?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And doctor gregs it was rather a genious device. Do
you recall the gelatin like substance that I found on
the bodies of both men?
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Yes, the spider was encased in especially.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Prepared capsule, which in both cases Taylor slipped into the
clothing of the murdered men. This capsule melted when exposed
to heat the heat of a human body. Hmm, A
boy was very clever. I first suspected Taylor when he
chose to be shot rather than be bitten, particularly when
the shot was quite obviously self inflicted. Oh, blond boy
(24:31):
is pretty clever too.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Not a montic for the past three night thought ranted
bodies were crawling.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
All over with that's understandable.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
This experience has had one incredible effect on my life, though,
And what's that?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I shall never again enjoy reading about little miss markets.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The weed of crime, there's bid a boot. Crime does nothing.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The shadows
Who war evil works in the hearts of men. The shadow.
Now the shadow.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Mysterious characters awage the forces of law and order, is
in reality the Monk Crimson, wealthy young man about town.
As a shadow, Cranston is gifted with hyptotic power to
cloud men's minds so that they cannot see Crimson's friend
and companions, the lovely marble Me, you're the only person
who knows to whom the voice of the Invisible Shadow belongs.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Today's story, The Mark of the Black Widow. Suppose we
have our coffee in here in the Sunday Margo.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Oh, I'd love to doctor Grant.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Guys, I've been waiting for years when excuse to see
the inside of this room.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm here, Amand he says.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
If I had anticipated this opportunity, Doctor Grant, I'd have
brought along my camera notebook.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I see.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I think you have an exaggerated idea about the contents
of the school. Oh, but it's fascinating.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Just look around this place, remark, money pieces, docues, an
old stone carving.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yes, I presume that most of these pieces are Egyptian.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Aren't they, Doctor Graham.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I did a good deal of work in Egypt about
twenty years ago, you know, excavations and that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I should imagine that there's a fascinating story that goes to.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Every one of these drugs.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Some of them have a legend.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Yes, margot Us sas kurs Grass.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm e Doug has been reading too many hours stories, doctor, No, No,
she hasn't a month. I myself have seen too many
examples of strange misfortunes that have befallen the defilers of
certain tombs, which treat.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
That statement like, oh really, well, I haven't done a king,
you know.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Doctor, Well, I personally have been.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Exposed to one of those ancient persing ones. I've got
to hear more about this.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, it's for very long, and I'm quite sure of
a very dark story. So we will pay it to
some other times, shall we. Besides, this is not a
night for mistic yarn.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
See, the moon is too bright, the sky is full
of what a summer for a rock to that window?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Just put your head, doctor, look sometimes from you late
to catch him whoever it was to say it seems
to be a note attached to the stone. Well, yes,
that's perhaps you better read the doctor.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Let me see it into this.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Remember egypt Sell's tomb. He who was dead is returning,
and the votes are cast. I remind you of our duty.
The signature is the going of a spider.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What in the world is it all about?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Do you understand the doctor perfectly? He who was dead
is returning? The month that story I said, I tell
you some other fancy.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I'll tell it to you now because it concerns it's no.
I just received your mind. Mind, I should say not.
From about twenty years ago, three other scientists from myself,
all of us young and ambitious, we're working on the
excavation of a tomb on the Upper Egyptian Nile. One
day we go through a hidden ball and came upon
a room that was almost crammed the ceiling with rare,
un precious jewels.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
We stood in awe at the entrance to that room.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
All eyes here, Do you see what I see?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah? There can't be little many precious jewels in the world.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Hell, what did your fun? Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:49):
I think that's what we're thinking for Willoughby, for.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Spaking, for whether jewels where?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well? What do we do now?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Do we notify the authorities and turn this over the
then quite kid, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Why what I'm asking? Why why should we give up
this fortune?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
The tailor that well to marry it's the thing to do.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
We would ever have to know about it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Only we four have the knowledge of this hidden room.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Now do we tell the authorities?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Tailor?
Speaker 6 (04:29):
You're not serious about this?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Why if we were found out, we'd be disgraced loans
in our profession. Wasn't a few million dollars compensate that?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Ruin?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Taylor's right?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Because I'm right.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All we have to do is keep quiet.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And we're millionaires, millionnaires.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Why we could buy the world.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So you see our going am on.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Three of us did keep quiet of Holt had corked.
We told the authorities about our discovery. We're all resentful
of what we thought was his disloyal treachery. We even
made ido of sessed on his life. Yes, I was
in the card with the others. My only excuse, now
is it well that I was very young.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
However we soon.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Forgot so that's as we lost our dogs in hard work.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
And then one day, when our.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Job was almost gone, the four of us were standing
in the main excavation. Suddenly we heard a shout of
warning from the bank of all.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Look out, look up along the wall, Papy is perfectly.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We scrambled for the opposite embankments.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Let's probably behind if we heard a.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Clip to sec way, I put the mind go help me.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We turned started back to him, and then.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
We were too late.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Asher was buried beneath, said happily.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Oh oh.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Laborers dogs for Sabawly all that night and into the
next day, but it wasn't found. And the next evening
we sailed to the States. What a horrible death.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
No, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Thee halper didn't die. What he learned later that he
reached one of the tunnels before the landside occurred and
covered him. Three days later he emerged from the tomb alive.
Well that's remarkable, but say that's part of the menage.
Then he who was.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Dead is return exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Alister came back to the state today.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
He's been in Egypt all these years, done some remarkable
work too.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Teking the rest of the message to him. But doing
here do heven a vote to cast?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
And if Hee Hawse's name is up for membership in
the American chapter of the Royal Order of the Scientist,
perhaps he feels that he will blackball him because of
our ancient grudge. Is it quite an honor who belong
to the society and the great sign of it can
be bestowed on a scientist?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Naturally, Hollis is anxious to get it.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Then you think this message is from Holty.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm not sure, but he has nothing to fear.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Neither tailor Willoughby or myself had any ill feeling taught him.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
How does he feel about all of you or that's
a different story.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I've heard reports that he thinks that landslide was a
deliberate attempt on his life, which of course.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Is not through at all.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, that explains everything in the message. But the signature, No,
you mean the drawing of a spider. Yes, well, that
drawing was on the wall of the room that was
filled with jewels. The symbol of the spider.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
There is an ancient, never failing Egyptian curse of death.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Next member, will both please, next, put the ball in
the box your vote if you please. Gentlemen, play ball
and buck have your ballot, ball and buck your bullet.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Mister Raymond Holliston, yes, will you stand please? You have
petitions for membership in the Royal Order of Scientists. I
have I regret to inform you, sir, that one.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Black ball, having been dropped in the box, your application
is rejected.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I knew it. I knew we do this to me,
mister Holliston.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Please, this is the second attack on me.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Don't believe me. The time is up, Amanda.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I asked you to come here tonight to help Taylor,
Willoughby and me find Hollister.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I say, dog, yes, we must find him.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
We've got to convince him that we were not responsible
for his being rejected to our membership. Now you say,
mister Taylor, that Hollis had disappeared the day after the
voting took place.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Well, isn't there anywhere finding out who did block falling?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Not to Grant, No, no way in the world, Margre, No,
there isn't any My warm dinner jacket seems to be
a bit too much tonight, Grant, I think you should
tell mister Crimston about Hollister's threat too. Oh, yes, that
side will be the things that text of the club
told us later that Hollis have.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Bowed vengeance against all three of us.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Vengeance. Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, and he seems to have vanish so completely. I
wouldn't worry too much about that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, frankly, I am worried about it, mister Crimston. Hollis's
crazed dane is liable to seek complete with.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Then, No, I'm not worried on that spot.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Taylor.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You willough be as I say you will?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It be fall Maybe it's the heat in that dinner
jacket that did it.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I can't say that I blame him, such a sultry knight.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Willoughby, come on, old man.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Wait, gentlemen, the side like the poor put on that
overhead life.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Why why what's the trouble there?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You are?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Willoughby, Willoughby.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What's plan with him?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Lamarty Willoughby is dead?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Tell well the man's way be going to night?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Mother?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They explored get together?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Oh no, well why all in militree the two who
always in the.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Visit mister Willoughby.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Oh see, well that's it, mister Willoughby, he did Lamart, Yes,
I know we did.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
You Did you plan to meet him at any special play?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Oh? Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
He is under an old Chios town perhaps, Oh no.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
How much cheerier place than that here, The more tall
will be the who I'm very.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Curious to learn just why mister Willoughby died so suddenly.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Oh, are you going to examine his body?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Well, not exactly, mat, that's going to be a job
for the shadow.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
But uh, you're all sleeping peacely tonight, my pretty kids.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I like to see that.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Might it shows that we're all friends here?
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Uh ole friends?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, uh hm, it's sit down, I must open it.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Oh you're rather strand upish, Mike pretty. Oh no, no,
you're not too pretty, are you? But you see, I
like these lids open so that you all may become acquainted.
You're all brothers, now, you know, say that isn't dead,
whether you'll be richer or hey? Oh man, e's that
(10:54):
because that's it's a.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Mispeak high school.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Oh oh you I am cold, the shadow, the shadow,
but I don't see you.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
No, my hypnotic powers are proud of your mind made
me invisible to your eyes.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Oh and that's very clever, is very clever. They're short
of remarkable, man with the Shadow.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Take it down.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The word of the mag keeper. These bodies, all these
bodies here, are they in your cab? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, get the call among these bodies that the
one named Willoughby.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
He came here last night, died very suddenly. Oh that world.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yes, he's over there on that table. He's the hot case.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Have you yourself noticed anything unusual about the body? No?
Speaker 8 (11:40):
No, different from the others.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
If you don't mind, I'd try to examine him myself.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I don't mind you, he doesn't. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Let me see head untouched, No marks on neck? Yes,
hey this this jeenat and substance on the chest covering
a little at my Have you noticed this?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
I never paid much attention to various things in a
routine case of death.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
In the futual man you should.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Then you learned that I have that this man's death
was not routine.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
It was murder.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Oh is in Malamar and Morgue?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
No, he learned what the grant why they may not
be before we get them. I just examined Willoughby's body
in that undertaking farmer, and the Willoughby was murdered Marco.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Then Halter did carry outist to go.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Maco, so willy to what chose anyone?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Have you notified?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Please?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
No?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I didn't think it advisable.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Yet what makes you believe that mister Willoughby was murdy a.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Red mark that I discovered on his chest, a red
mark that was covered with a jelatine like substance.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
The mo come in.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I left the door open.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh I'm in plain.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I I didn't realize that you'd come along. I you
must fotton my appearance, all.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Right, doctor, I've seen then in a thirties before.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It's coming to the study.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
The tailor's here. I called him.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Come along, mother h already, missus Grass, Oh, you two mislaying.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I was once more for my appearance to blame. It
was so warm and nothing of a doctor.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I have a dressing gown around here sometime, knowing the
doctor as I do, miss Lay, and he won't feel
easy until he's properly attired.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Here's a dressing gown dot.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh, thank you, thank you Taylor. Anyway, on, now, what
is all this about the month?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, doctor Glenn.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
First of all, I have just learned that your associate,
mister Willoughby was murdered.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Hollister.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Hollister's making good as pray.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It's too a little what you anyone yet, missus Taylor,
our name concerned hours to save both of you from
meeting Willoughby.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
See, Paul, is they're really in danger?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yes, I'm sure there is. What's the monk?
Speaker 8 (14:08):
How you are?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's a grid? It's like catch him, he's falling.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Get that trouble here, such a grand.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
He's dead.
Speaker 8 (14:18):
M no, oh, this is too much.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I'm the last one least.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I'm going for the plea.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Come back here, Taylor.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
No, no, I'm myself.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
That was a silly thing.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Grip mogo come here, yes, ook here do you see
this red mark and adopt a chest the same angelatin substance,
the same I found on Willoughby At this time I
recognize the mark? What did it? It's the sight of
a poisonous insect. And unless I miss my guest, that
insect is a spider, the ancient Egyptian symbol of death.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
What what on earth are you doing? Conlan? Running your
hands me.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm looking for a very important piece of eviden when
you're also making those too well, Taylor really.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Went for the police.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I want to find the evidence before the good defenders
of the law over in the house. But if you're
trying to please stand right where you are, why hello,
My evidence is on your shoetop.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
If I'm not mistaken, it's a dead lid, poisonous black
widow's fight.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
There. Knock him off your shoetop.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Get me that astray quick.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Here you are, I want to catch it alive.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh you've gone, you've gone about astray?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Oh? Hu didn't he one of the biggest of the species.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
The morgo when you went to the phone?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Please?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yes, hello, Hello, he's mister Cranston there.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yes, who is the tree?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
This is mister Taylor's valet.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Would you ask mister Criston if he could come to
mister Taylor's.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Home at once? Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
What's the trouble?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Mister Taylor has just been shot this way, sir? Have
you got to conquers? The doctor just left?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Uh the wound see it?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The doctor didn't tell me U in his room here, sir?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Thank you? Ah y that you Cranston.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, mister Tayler, how are you feeling?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh? Fair? Just fair?
Speaker 8 (16:14):
The bullet grazed my shoulder and tell me what happened?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Well, I I really don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I thought that you left us to go to the police.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yes, yes, that was my intention. But when I left
doctor Grant's house, I saw someone looking in the doorway
across the street, and I well, I became panicky and
came right here to my study and intending to call
the police from here. I see then what happened? Oh,
when I picked up the phone, something or someone was
moving behind that curtain. I replaced the phone, and then
(16:45):
the shot was fired. That's all I remember.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I see you didn't actually see you?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I said, no, no, but it was Hollister. I know
it was.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Who else would make an attempt on my life?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Mm, and they I see the wo grease.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well, the doctor said, I shouldn't be disturbed. Oh is
this the coach you were wearing? Yes, yes, you can
see yourself or the bullet penetrated.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
My gun must have been fired a very close range,
mister Taylor.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
The carter burns indicate that the gun was within a
foot of your shoulder when it was fired.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yes, it was close.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
But I thought that you said that you were firing
on from those curtains. They're all of firteen feet from
the phone.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Well, I see here class, you're telling my story.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
No, not a tall, mister Taylor.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I'm just trying to get the fact straight.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Well, perhat you better come back to you aorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I can think more curly.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Then, yes, sir, that'll give you more time. What do
you mean, Oh nothing, mister Taylor, not a thing.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Good night, Mordo.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I called a tailor that I'm sending that box containing
the Black Widow Spider over to you in the morning.
I want you to take it to mister Taylor's house.
You had a secret vice from him as to whether
or not it's really poisonous, and take particular attention to
his erections in the meantime.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
The shadow a call to me.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
You say that you found this fighter and doctor Grant
studying this lane.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Well why have you brought it to me?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Well, mister Cranston taught that you were an authority on
such ingm could tell to me intact is really poison
Oh this.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Was mister Crimston's idea.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Yes, well, my laboratory is downstairs.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Would you try to come down while I make the examination?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Why?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yes, that's way. Please? Would you mind opening that John
mus Lane my shoulder? You know?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Yes, how did you show he is the rain?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Yes, yes, very nicely you first.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Ms Laine, all right, is there a life?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yes, right on the wall.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Here we are. I realized that you must have many
more important things to do, missus Taylor.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And that's the starter. But along this lane, I don't
perfectly well while you're here, why Cranston sent you.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
He knows that's a poisonous spider, and I believe that
he has a pretty good idea what it was doing.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
In doctor Grant's study, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I don't know what you're talking about, but he.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Did make one mistake.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
He sent you here alone.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Wait minute, I'm getting out of how what do you
mean that door that re editors in locked and bolted?
Speaker 8 (19:23):
That's the only ashed from this room.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh and incidentally, I might mention that the walls are sound,
pol quite immuned a screen. I don't understand why, very
simple you come to me with a curiosity about poisonous
black widowed spiders.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Because of that interest, I am going to exhibit many.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Of them for you by turning them loose in this
role that I forgot. He has company, very distinguished company,
a gentleman that you have heard a great deal about.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Who do you mean, holist, the missing doctor Hollis? I
had an.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Then, what doctor Halleck?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Who committed the murder?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
It was you?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
This is not the holocaust.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh in a cage, you having an a cage like
some wild deep that's an excellent similar considering his appearance
at this point.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
It's a grange eyes who sunken ses.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Yes, that's what comes of not eating for a week.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Wide man doing human seed.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
That man is on a bridge of salvation, even death.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You must be leased them at once, That's what I
intend to do. He shall keep you company down here
while you both entertain my collection of black widout spiders.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
You hold the released soon also, very soon?
Speaker 5 (20:54):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
These boxes contained the spiders?
Speaker 7 (20:57):
I'm regularly lease the catch. Then I shall leave you
both here in that company. They're hungry too, even more
hungry than doctor Hollister. All right, the flames? Now, shall
we get up?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Bobby?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I wouldn't release those siders if I were you? Mister Taylor?
Who speak?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well? Are you?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
I am?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I getting this room with you? Mister Taylor? All I
see no one. Perhaps when I tell you my name,
you'll know why? Who are you? Men? Call me the Shadow?
The Shadow? No, oh, you've heard of me?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Then you know why I'm here, mister Taylor.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
No, No, you can't spoil my revenge. I waited too long,
too long, likely courrong and coorect.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Mister Taylor, we'll see about that.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
You can't stop me, yes, I can't wait taking it
away from your boy.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
What happened? Give me like the pot so you can
add to your listener. I come, sor and mister Taylor,
what do you mean? You've already killed Willoughby and not so.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You know that to you?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
But what of it?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
What if I did kill them?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Why? Why did you do it?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Because I wanted to aventue for wrong that will sund
me by holifas he cheated me out of a portion fashion,
he wouldn't be quiet about those hueles the town. No,
he had to be righteous. And because of that righteous
a poor puddling fires is all my life. That's why
I chill want to be in grants for the bare
murders to be blamed on him.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So you admit the killing personally?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
None of us are leaving here anyway? Keep away from
this box of spiders.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Do you think your power of invisibility can conquer me?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Don't you? Shadow?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
And I know a way to put up an even terms.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I'm putting off.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
These lights too, right, you're too light.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
I have also had the spiders. When I open the box, they'll.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Just say you bower, spiders report and life touch death
is the dark that you too? Now?
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Like you wait in here with doctor Hollis Mather kind
of head up stairs, you'll be say for that, I'll
find that light quick, find that no matter, find that.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
Oh very well, Taylor, you didn't take a safe place
after all.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
They told me.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Highlight a long didn't nothing, Ma, the spiders are still
walk up.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You can release Taylor now, not to Holica.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I don't think that will be Why not Taylor dead?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Now? You see, Margot, when I explained the whole case
to Commission the West and he agreed that Taylor's death
should be listed as accidental. And how is that the holiday?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You'll be all right in a week or so?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well know, how did Poeter.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Ever get the spider the bank?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Where?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And doctor gregs it was rather a genious device. Do
you recall the gelatin like substance that I found on
the bodies of both men?
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Yes, the spider was encased in especially.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Prepared capsule, which in both cases Taylor slipped into the
clothing of the murdered men. This capsule melted when exposed
to heat the heat of a human body. Hmm, A
boy was very clever. I first suspected Taylor when he
chose to be shot rather than be bitten, particularly when
the shot was quite obviously self inflicted. Oh, blond boy
(24:31):
is pretty clever too.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Not a montic for the past three night thought ranted
bodies were crawling.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
All over with that's understandable.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
This experience has had one incredible effect on my life, though,
And what's that?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I shall never again enjoy reading about little miss markets.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The weed of crime, there's bid a boot. Crime does nothing.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The shadows
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