September 19, 2025 • 29 mins
The Shadow was a fictional character created by American magazine publishers Street & Smith and writer Walter B. Gibson. He was an invincible crime fighter who possessed many gifts which enabled him to overcome any enemy. In addition to his great strength, he defied gravity, spoke any language, unraveled any codes and most notably, he became invisible with his ability to "cloud men's minds." The Shadow was originally created to be a mysterious radio show narrator but developed into a distinct literary character. The Shadow has been adapted in many forms of media, such as American comic books, comic strips, serials, video games, and at least five feature films.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our next program was transcribed from an earlier broadcast on.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Mutual Who Knows what evil works in the hearts of men?
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The Shadow knows.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Once again Mutual Don Lee brings you the thrilling adventures
of the Shadow, the hard and relentless fight of one
man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed
to demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike, that crime
does not pay. You know, friends, there is no better
buy than the United States Government Savings bond.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Consider its advantages. It is the safest investment in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It will never be worth less than you pay for it,
and it grows in value with each year, paying you
back at maturity four dollars for every three dollars invested.
Not only that, if an emergency arises, your bond is
easy to redeem. You get back what you pay for it,
plus any interest that has accrued. So here you have
the prize investment in the world, the safest investment with
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the best return. Remember you can buy US savings bonds
through the regular payroll savings plan at any bank or
post office.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Buy US Savings bonds and hold them.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But now the Shadow, the Shadows.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Who aids the forces of law and orders. In reality,
Lamon Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Years ago on
the Orient, Cranston learned the strange and mysterious secret, the
hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see them.
Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
only person who knows to whom the voice of the
invisible Shadow belongs. Today's drama, A Bride War Black.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Hello, speaking mister Cranston, I have a long business call
for you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Go ahead. See hello, Lamont, this is Phillips. You remember me, Phillips, Yes,
of course. This is a surprise the mon I met
my family home. You've got to save me.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wait a minute, old man, come down. What is it
I know about your work the month people, You've saved it.
There's something horrible happening here you You've got to get
me out of here, hurry before it's Slayton. Where is
your home? Phillips? Well it it, Phillips. Can you hear me? Well?
No better again? Keep away from me, Phillips answer me Hello,
I can't stand me. Walt keep away from me.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Lamar, come quickly, getting me out.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Of there, Lamont, just pat through the right road.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Nothing the mud and swamp water.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We'll never get through the night. The road the village
has told this led to the old Phillips mansion, and
I checked with the college. Oh that's right.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You were in college together with first roommates.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
For two semesters. Oh, he's act of a swell guy,
one of the smartest in school and most popular.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Yes, I remember reading something in the Scatty column when
he got married.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
He always was very old southern family, planning on restoring
the old family home down here for his ride.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
What are people like Johnie?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh funny now you mentioned it. I really don't know
his parents are dead. But aside from that, I don't
never remember his mentioning his family at all.
Speaker 8 (03:52):
But well, this is the end of the hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So I see, and I guess I was still back
in school.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Yeah, okayhead there in the car light.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
What are those white stone slaps?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Looks like we've taken the road leading to the family
burial grounds.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Oh well, that's a lovely.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Entrance, doney, here's this smooth Well, at least it proves
he must be somewhere near the house. Oh, oh, it's
no use, darling. We're hopelessly stuck.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
You mean we have to wait through that stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There's no other way. And wait, I'll turn off the
car lights and you take the flashlight. Wall I get
the luggage.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Okay, hey, hey, wait a minute, I'm stunk it.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Matt nearly up to my knee, will hang.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Out to me. Let's get out of this hole. O.
The house must be up ahead, beyond this graveyard. Get
so huh com on mm the month.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
There's something alive.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Swimming down here.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It's a swamp rap.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh I kicked it and swimming away.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
Oh, I come on, and I'm walking over these grave
Hold the flashlights, steady. What's that?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I don't raise a flash light.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
The mond It is a huge man and he's waiting towards.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Us, his blood on his facing body.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
Uh uh, run away quick.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 9 (05:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
H the swarm there will get Are you all right?
He's pulling face telling in the swamp.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Pull the money's so horrible. His body is all cut
and bleeding.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Look shut.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The water's alive with.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Swimming swimming middle animals. Swamp. I'm hurry back to the car,
then drop down in the grandfather in the belly. Wait.
We look, they're swimming away.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The dog dropping up, heading around.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
If someone's coming, I can see it beaming on the
flashlights through the trees.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Thank goodness you came.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
What are you doing on this property?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Climb Lamont, Clamston, This is miss Lane. We're trying to
reach the Phillips mansion.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Have you seen a big man servant out here?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, we have shine your flashlight down there, Jeeves, you did?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Is that why you have a dog?
Speaker 8 (06:19):
You wire looking for him?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Poor jeevesh swamp rats God, your servant, the last of
the Philip's old servants, grandson of slaves.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Something happened tonight. He ran away.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Something happened.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
One is wise not to ask questions in this land
of death and decay. I advise you both to leave now,
while you're still strong and well.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'm glaid. That's impossible. Our car stuck in the mud.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Are you staying at the Phillips mansion.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yes, I'm doctor Sharp.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I've been the family's physician for many, many years. I
know what I'm saying. Please leave here at once. Do
you have any means of getting us out? Doctor Sharp?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
No, I guess you'll have to stay. We'll put you
up overnight. Come with me.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Here here we are.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I'll show you upstairs to your room.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Oh it's a tremendous old place, isn't it. It must
have been beautiful in his day.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Nothing stays beautiful here, miss Lane. The swamp land is messed.
Here are your candles. Last night's storm put out the
lighting system.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, I i'd like to see my friend Phillips before
we retire for the night.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I'm afraid that's impossible. I've given him drugs. He's a
very sick man. He'll sleep until morning.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Well what about his wife?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Then?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
His wife? Haven't you heard?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
No, I haven't seen Phillips since we were both in school.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Young Phillip's bride died shortly after they arrived.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Die. What happened to her?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Nobody else?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Like every living thing here, she just wasted away. It
sounds as though would do for another electrical storm tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
If I can use thee I'll call the village and
get someone to pull my car out in the morning.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
The phone's down the hall and that little side room.
But first i'll show you to your rooms. I'd like
to retire.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh very well, Come on, darling, as.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Soon as you've made your call, advise you to stay
in your rooms. Things happen here tonight, that it's better
you don't see.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Come doctors, if you don't mean ghosts.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I'm a scientific man, mister Krinston, are not easily taken in.
I've seen a figure roam in these halls at night,
a woman in a bridle gown and veil, not in.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
White but in black.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Are you saying that Philip's dead wife?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
That I don't know? She wears a heavy black.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Veil over her thing for somebody's tricking you. Doctor. There's
no one living in this mansion but Phillips and me.
Now the chiefish is gone. Don't tell them you haven't
tried to catch this ghost. Yes I have.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
It's impossible. You see.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I've come really quite close to her, but she always
disappears in these are your rooms.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
This is yours, miss Lane. Thank you. Doctor Canston is
next door, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Doctor.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Would you like to telephone now? I'll go down with you.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Uh no, doctor Sharp, I believe I'll wait until morning.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I didn't mean to frighten you, but don't leave these
rooms per half.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
By morning Phillips will be well enough to see.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I'm well enough now, doctor, scar Pillips. Lamont you calm Phillips,
it is you. Get me out of this house.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Come back with me. Phillips, you're sick. Come to your room.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
No, let me go, Lama take me away. Before to
late Phillips, I've given him sentiti. He doesn't realize what
he says. Munt you must save me. You you m here.
Let me help you get into his room.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I'm in charge here, mister Kranston. Please don't forget that.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'm sorry doctor Shop at this mamo isille.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You shouldn't have come here. You both must leave a gun.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Remember my warning. If you value your sanity, don't leave
these rooms tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Margo. So I'm not darling. You asleep?
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Oh no, darling, I haven't even cried.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Come on, But where have you been out? And was Friday?
Speaker 8 (10:15):
I went to your room just a little while ago
and you were gone.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I went downstairs to the telephone after doctor Shop and
Phillips left, and you said you'd wait till morning. I
wanted to throw doctor Shop off guard. Oh found something interesting, Margaret.
I found the telephone all right, torn out from the wall.
But you said set up has called you from me.
That's why the phone went dead.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Oh you know there is something you've been in this house?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I wa.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Yes, I I thought I heard it before when you
were downstairs.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
What's in the hall? Coming close? Play?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Don't open that door.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Give me in, Margo quickly, Oh doctor, you all right?
I can't see it. There on the flash of lightning,
the figure of a girl. If I saw it too.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
She's dressed in black and she's passing the door.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
She has a black veil over her face. It is
the ghost bride aft. The shop was white. Let's soon
find out, margaol come on, I wanna follow and see
where she goes.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
I can't see her anymore, And the music stated, now.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
They're on that lightning flash. She's the end of the hall. Putty, Margo,
run where is she? I can't see her, just disappeared.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
There's no one here, No mom, what's happened to us?
Here's this place driving us out of my mind?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
No, Margo, there was a bride wearing black. Look I
have proof. Something she dropped on the floor.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Look here, I'm hot.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
It's a bride's bouquet.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yes, a bride's bouquet, Margot of decayed dead Flower.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Friends, have you ever thought about the day when you
will own your own home or start your own business,
have you given thought to how best to provide a college.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Education for your children.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There's one easy answer. That's to buy US savings bonds.
These are the same bonds you bought during the war.
The only difference is in their name. Instead of war bonds,
the Treasury Department calls them US savings bonds.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They pay the same rate of interest. You receive four dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
At maturity for every three dollars invested today, and in
case of emergency, US savings bonds can be readily and
easily redeemed. US savings bonds, like war bonds, can be
bought on the payroll savings plan or at any bank
or post office. They are the same bonds you prize
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so much because of their high rate of return, their
easy conversion to cash if needed, and they're guaranteed safety. Yes,
the best investment in the world today, the best investment
for your own future is US savings bonds.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Buy them and hold them. And now back to the Shadow.
Forced to spend the night in a decaying old Southern
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mansion belonging to a friend, Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane
follow the mysterious figure of the ghost bride who wears
black to have her disappear in a blinding flash of
white eye. Yes, Margot, look dead flowers. It does prove
this well. Bride is no ghost. I don't know yet, darling,
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but I know someone who does, and I'm going to
make him tell the shadow. Now there is no sleep,
no rest for you, doctor Sharp, and this house filled
with fear. Who's that?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Who's in this room?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The voice of the shadow speaks to you over the storm.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
She can't be a ghost, no more a ghost.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And the bride who roams this house closed in black.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
You've seen the bride?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Who is she? Doctor? Who is this woman dressed in black?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Don't know? I won't tell you she's a ghost. Let
her alone.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yes, proof she is no ghost. Doctor.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But say something dropped onto the.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Floor, A bridal bouquet, Doctor Sharp, he says, Young Philip said,
why you're right, No, it's the truth. She brought it
here with her after the wedding, kept it until she died.
You attended her during her illness.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I did all I could.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
For I sat with her until the last breath, when
the sun's last rays fell across her bed in the
new room she'd learned to love.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
To war the sun's last rays the new room she'd
learned to love.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
What do you see?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank you, doctor Sharp. Now the shadow knows where to
find the bride in black model? Oh good?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
What did the shadow find out?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
The location of the room where Philip's wife died or
was suppostal died? Got the shops without meaning to him.
Come down the halliday quickly. The last rays of the
sun that RUMs of the room is in this wing
facing the west. The new room she'd learned to love
must be the one room I noticed they'd restored. I
saw the new woodworking windows as we came up over
the hill tonight.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Well, then it's down at the end of this hall,
here where the body in black disappeared.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
A look from us?
Speaker 8 (15:58):
Was the light coming from under that door?
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Play sticking my candle?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Light? Come on? What's a nursery?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
It's it's newly decorating in a shining cream.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
There's no one here when there are children's tide on
the floor.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Just block, you'll put down my toy.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Block.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Come on, that man in the door. You'll come to
steal my place. You'll come to track on my word.
Let me have the block smokle.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
That man is the chance my mother, Miss Betsy, say
your bad people come to this house.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Miss Betsy, your mother got a knife. That's hand. Oh,
I come to chill you please, and I'll go. I'll
kill you with my plane knife.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Oh Joey telling what happened.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
He's he's pulling, must have slipped somehow drove the knife
into his own body, so big and awkward.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
And he had the mind of a little child, he said.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
His mother, Miss Betsy, told him we're here the month.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Do you think this man with a knife could have
killed the servant?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Jass, I don't know, darlings. I just remembered something, something
out of the past.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Goodness, there's a door leading from this nursing into another room.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The new room most westerly.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Of hall, where the music is coming from the there.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Let's try the door.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Oh dolly, that's got the.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
One with the candle house, the compliment, the compliment, the body,
see sitting up?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
What you want was in here?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Hand me the candle, marbles, I have a mattress.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Well wait, I ain't sleek, see anyway, it's the bride
dressed in black.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
She's raising the veil.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Well, my mom.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
That's the face of an old, old woman.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
She couldn't be set aside.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No, wait, I'm gonna try something. Ms Betsy, Mss Betsy.
Is that your name?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yes, Miss Betsy.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
They always call me, even after I'm married.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Why do you wear black and sleep in a coffee?
Miss Betsy?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
In learning for my husband? He killed himself when our
first child was born.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Was that horrible creature her son?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Are you, Miss Betsy? Philip's older sister? You wrote to
him ad school? I remember a letter. Now I heard
your name. But you sleep in my coffee?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Here they're all hers.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We shall die, Miss Betsy? Have you ever seen this bouquet? Come?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It's n.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Who David Chuliman? Before she dies?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Who did you dave it?
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Julian?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
It pretty no one who is married?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
He was going to have a baby?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Who that she never did?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
She died a baby?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You never had the baby?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Why?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
First all, we're all going into the bow.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Who are you afraid of telling me? Mispetcy, I can
save your life? Yes, yes, I'll tell you. W who
Miss Betsy.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Tells us a nod scenish evil, much snoged than I.
I'll tell you it's.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
No. I can't rid there's something wrong with my eye.
But over the lightning stuck the coffin. Take it easy,
take your hands in your life. Who I guess her?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
I guess so it's it's better now.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No Mada, keep away from that coper. Oh, miss Bliss,
I didn't want you. Look.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Look on the floor beside the coffin. That's the harmonic.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yes, I believe it is, Margaret. Let me see, Darling.
Look look at this. It's for good.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
It takes it's a wire attacks to the coffin.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's leading out of that window over there, Yes, leads
up the side of the house. That bolt of lightning
was no accident. I mean this woman was murdered by
a wire from a lightning rod grounded on this metal coffin. Here.
There's a killer in this house, Margo, trying to wipe
out this whole tragic family.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
And you think that your friend Phillips might be next.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yes, come quickly, Mongo. He's the only member of this
family who's still alive.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
This is his room, Mongol, well set up is still safe.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
He's the Phillips. Phillips, wake up. It's Cranston Phillips.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
I don't think he's speaking.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The monk's hoods. Can you hear me? Let him say here?
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Don't just stand there wasting time here three four hours?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
But come on, doctor Sharp is a man. There's no
answer light on the Doctor Sharp's door. Look the windows open.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Yes, he's gotten away.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What's coming from? Look down there, Margo, Yes, this is a.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Man, honey, CAUs the tomb.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
But stop the shop and I need to stake him on.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I've got to shop him.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Oh, we'll never find him in that harbor.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Sm I know a way.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
What are you doing taking doctor Shop's coat?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Well, let the dogs lead us tow him. They'll follow
your sin.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Down.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I just can't speak, my doctor, come along do I
can't leave you here now?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
My running thank you?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
What's the matter of the towns. I'm running around and
they seemed to be puzzling. They've lost to them. Come on,
my honey, wait, don't talk that honey patch walk around father,
I'm thinking Colling pulling me down to him.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Where are you think you do?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Family? That ouse bugles buggle you are right. One more
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to kill then all will be gone. No one will know.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Grimston and the girls you.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
Too much, But I finished them. Yes, this is his room.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Now to finish my work. White madness from this house.
You two are mad as mad as they. Who's there?
The voice of the Shadow tells the story of your kills.
No voice can stop me. You kill the young bride
when you knew there was to be a child, it
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would have gone.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Mad like all the rest.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yes, I killed there and gave us too when he
found out what I've done. Now there's one.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Left, and I kill him.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You're killing her over.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
No, you can't stop me.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I do cous back. I run away now and I'll
be back. He away from that win me don't have
to escape. The saddle Shadow can use brute force against
madness as well as great skill.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
You right now, all Yes, the one I am.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
But I was pretty scared until you pulled me through of.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
That quick sand. And why did you let me think
you were cartour?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I wanted a killer to think so to surprise him
as the shadow just now, well you've gotten well that's
the moment. Is he all right now, doctor sharp?
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Doctor sharp?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yes, mister Granston, I gave him a hypodermic to make
him sleep until the police get here.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
But the mon that's your friend, Philip Landy.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Right, Mogael, he was a insaane killer.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
But I thought doctor Sharper, I mean him.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I don't blame you, miss Lane. I'm afraid I did
behave pretty strangely tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
It was partly my fault that.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
All this happened.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Well, I I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well. You see, i'd been the Phillip's family doctor for
a great many years. I knew all about Mss Betsy
and her strange demented son.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I realized that Phillips was upset about the strain of insanity.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
In the family, but I had no idea how dangerous
cause his condition was until a few months ago when
he called me late one half afternoon to say.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
That he he just killed his wife. She wasn't quite
dead when I reached her, but I couldn't say that.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Phillips made me swear that I would never reveal the murder.
I don't know why I promised. Perhaps it was because
the family had always been so close to my heart,
but I did. I helped him bury his wife in
the family graveyard. I was afraid to return to my
regular practice.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
After that, so I just lived on here and tried
to protect them all from the rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I kept Phillips drugged as much as possible. When you
and mister Penston came, my only thought was to get
you away as quickly as possible before you learned truth.
That's that Lamada was Philips who called.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
An actor to come here.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That was part of a very clever plan, Margaret. Phillips
was becoming more and more afraid doctor Sharp, afraid that
he would some day tell the truth, so he decided
to kill the rest of his family and plant the
evidence to make it look as though doctor Sharp as
the murderer. That's why he called me, so that I
would come here and be a witness to condemned doctor.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
And you mean that that whole telephone call was stayed.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That gave me my first clue. Incidentally, and I tried
to call into the village last night, I found the
telephone pulled out from the wall. With the others of
the family living just in the upper rooms. No one
could have done it but Phillips or you, doctor Sharp,
And you'd offer just before that to let me use
the phone.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Here's mister Kerstin.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I'm afraid Phillips was far meded than any of the
people that he tried to save from med He.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Was the maddest of all of all his pitiful, tragic,
lost family.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
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Speaker 2 (27:07):
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Speaker 1 (27:08):
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Savings Plan is in effect, make it a weekly habit
to visit your bank or post office. You can always
buy US savings bonds at either place. Buy them and
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hold them for your own future. And now the Shadow again.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The Shadow Program is based on a story copyrighted by
Street and Smith Publications. The characters names, places, and plant
or fictitious any similarity to persons living or dead is
purely coincidental. Again, next week, the Shadow will demonstrate that
the weed of crime, there's bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
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The Shadow knows.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Next week, same time, same station, Mutual don Lee will
bring you another strange and thrilling adventure in the shadows
daring battle against the forces of evil.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Be sure to listen.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
Remember, friends, the payroll Savings Plan is the easy way
to save because the amount of money you authorize from
your pay envelope is applied directly to the purchase of
your bonds. If you are not now enrolled in the
payroll Savings plan at your company, enroll now plan for
your own future security, buy and hold US Savings bonds
through the Payroll Savings Plan. This program was transcribed from Mutual.
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This is the Mutual don Lee broadcasting system.
Our next program was transcribed from an earlier broadcast on.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Mutual Who Knows what evil works in the hearts of men?
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The Shadow knows.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Once again Mutual Don Lee brings you the thrilling adventures
of the Shadow, the hard and relentless fight of one
man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed
to demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike, that crime
does not pay. You know, friends, there is no better
buy than the United States Government Savings bond.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Consider its advantages. It is the safest investment in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It will never be worth less than you pay for it,
and it grows in value with each year, paying you
back at maturity four dollars for every three dollars invested.
Not only that, if an emergency arises, your bond is
easy to redeem. You get back what you pay for it,
plus any interest that has accrued. So here you have
the prize investment in the world, the safest investment with
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the best return. Remember you can buy US savings bonds
through the regular payroll savings plan at any bank or
post office.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Buy US Savings bonds and hold them.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But now the Shadow, the Shadows.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Who aids the forces of law and orders. In reality,
Lamon Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Years ago on
the Orient, Cranston learned the strange and mysterious secret, the
hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see them.
Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
only person who knows to whom the voice of the
invisible Shadow belongs. Today's drama, A Bride War Black.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Hello, speaking mister Cranston, I have a long business call
for you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Go ahead. See hello, Lamont, this is Phillips. You remember me, Phillips, Yes,
of course. This is a surprise the mon I met
my family home. You've got to save me.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wait a minute, old man, come down. What is it
I know about your work the month people, You've saved it.
There's something horrible happening here you You've got to get
me out of here, hurry before it's Slayton. Where is
your home? Phillips? Well it it, Phillips. Can you hear me? Well?
No better again? Keep away from me, Phillips answer me Hello,
I can't stand me. Walt keep away from me.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Lamar, come quickly, getting me out.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Of there, Lamont, just pat through the right road.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Nothing the mud and swamp water.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We'll never get through the night. The road the village
has told this led to the old Phillips mansion, and
I checked with the college. Oh that's right.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You were in college together with first roommates.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
For two semesters. Oh, he's act of a swell guy,
one of the smartest in school and most popular.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Yes, I remember reading something in the Scatty column when
he got married.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
He always was very old southern family, planning on restoring
the old family home down here for his ride.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
What are people like Johnie?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh funny now you mentioned it. I really don't know
his parents are dead. But aside from that, I don't
never remember his mentioning his family at all.
Speaker 8 (03:52):
But well, this is the end of the hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So I see, and I guess I was still back
in school.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Yeah, okayhead there in the car light.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
What are those white stone slaps?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Looks like we've taken the road leading to the family
burial grounds.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Oh well, that's a lovely.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Entrance, doney, here's this smooth Well, at least it proves
he must be somewhere near the house. Oh, oh, it's
no use, darling. We're hopelessly stuck.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
You mean we have to wait through that stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There's no other way. And wait, I'll turn off the
car lights and you take the flashlight. Wall I get
the luggage.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Okay, hey, hey, wait a minute, I'm stunk it.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Matt nearly up to my knee, will hang.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Out to me. Let's get out of this hole. O.
The house must be up ahead, beyond this graveyard. Get
so huh com on mm the month.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
There's something alive.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Swimming down here.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It's a swamp rap.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh I kicked it and swimming away.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
Oh, I come on, and I'm walking over these grave
Hold the flashlights, steady. What's that?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I don't raise a flash light.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
The mond It is a huge man and he's waiting towards.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Us, his blood on his facing body.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
Uh uh, run away quick.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 9 (05:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
H the swarm there will get Are you all right?
He's pulling face telling in the swamp.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Pull the money's so horrible. His body is all cut
and bleeding.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Look shut.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The water's alive with.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Swimming swimming middle animals. Swamp. I'm hurry back to the car,
then drop down in the grandfather in the belly. Wait.
We look, they're swimming away.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The dog dropping up, heading around.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
If someone's coming, I can see it beaming on the
flashlights through the trees.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Thank goodness you came.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
What are you doing on this property?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Climb Lamont, Clamston, This is miss Lane. We're trying to
reach the Phillips mansion.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Have you seen a big man servant out here?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, we have shine your flashlight down there, Jeeves, you did?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Is that why you have a dog?
Speaker 8 (06:19):
You wire looking for him?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Poor jeevesh swamp rats God, your servant, the last of
the Philip's old servants, grandson of slaves.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Something happened tonight. He ran away.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Something happened.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
One is wise not to ask questions in this land
of death and decay. I advise you both to leave now,
while you're still strong and well.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'm glaid. That's impossible. Our car stuck in the mud.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Are you staying at the Phillips mansion.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yes, I'm doctor Sharp.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I've been the family's physician for many, many years. I
know what I'm saying. Please leave here at once. Do
you have any means of getting us out? Doctor Sharp?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
No, I guess you'll have to stay. We'll put you
up overnight. Come with me.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Here here we are.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I'll show you upstairs to your room.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Oh it's a tremendous old place, isn't it. It must
have been beautiful in his day.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Nothing stays beautiful here, miss Lane. The swamp land is messed.
Here are your candles. Last night's storm put out the
lighting system.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, I i'd like to see my friend Phillips before
we retire for the night.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I'm afraid that's impossible. I've given him drugs. He's a
very sick man. He'll sleep until morning.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Well what about his wife?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Then?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
His wife? Haven't you heard?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
No, I haven't seen Phillips since we were both in school.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Young Phillip's bride died shortly after they arrived.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Die. What happened to her?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Nobody else?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Like every living thing here, she just wasted away. It
sounds as though would do for another electrical storm tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
If I can use thee I'll call the village and
get someone to pull my car out in the morning.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
The phone's down the hall and that little side room.
But first i'll show you to your rooms. I'd like
to retire.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh very well, Come on, darling, as.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Soon as you've made your call, advise you to stay
in your rooms. Things happen here tonight, that it's better
you don't see.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Come doctors, if you don't mean ghosts.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I'm a scientific man, mister Krinston, are not easily taken in.
I've seen a figure roam in these halls at night,
a woman in a bridle gown and veil, not in.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
White but in black.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Are you saying that Philip's dead wife?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
That I don't know? She wears a heavy black.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Veil over her thing for somebody's tricking you. Doctor. There's
no one living in this mansion but Phillips and me.
Now the chiefish is gone. Don't tell them you haven't
tried to catch this ghost. Yes I have.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
It's impossible. You see.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I've come really quite close to her, but she always
disappears in these are your rooms.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
This is yours, miss Lane. Thank you. Doctor Canston is
next door, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Doctor.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Would you like to telephone now? I'll go down with you.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Uh no, doctor Sharp, I believe I'll wait until morning.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I didn't mean to frighten you, but don't leave these
rooms per half.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
By morning Phillips will be well enough to see.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I'm well enough now, doctor, scar Pillips. Lamont you calm Phillips,
it is you. Get me out of this house.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Come back with me. Phillips, you're sick. Come to your room.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
No, let me go, Lama take me away. Before to
late Phillips, I've given him sentiti. He doesn't realize what
he says. Munt you must save me. You you m here.
Let me help you get into his room.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I'm in charge here, mister Kranston. Please don't forget that.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'm sorry doctor Shop at this mamo isille.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You shouldn't have come here. You both must leave a gun.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Remember my warning. If you value your sanity, don't leave
these rooms tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Margo. So I'm not darling. You asleep?
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Oh no, darling, I haven't even cried.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Come on, But where have you been out? And was Friday?
Speaker 8 (10:15):
I went to your room just a little while ago
and you were gone.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I went downstairs to the telephone after doctor Shop and
Phillips left, and you said you'd wait till morning. I
wanted to throw doctor Shop off guard. Oh found something interesting, Margaret.
I found the telephone all right, torn out from the wall.
But you said set up has called you from me.
That's why the phone went dead.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Oh you know there is something you've been in this house?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I wa.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Yes, I I thought I heard it before when you
were downstairs.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
What's in the hall? Coming close? Play?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Don't open that door.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Give me in, Margo quickly, Oh doctor, you all right?
I can't see it. There on the flash of lightning,
the figure of a girl. If I saw it too.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
She's dressed in black and she's passing the door.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
She has a black veil over her face. It is
the ghost bride aft. The shop was white. Let's soon
find out, margaol come on, I wanna follow and see
where she goes.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
I can't see her anymore, And the music stated, now.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
They're on that lightning flash. She's the end of the hall. Putty, Margo,
run where is she? I can't see her, just disappeared.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
There's no one here, No mom, what's happened to us?
Here's this place driving us out of my mind?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
No, Margo, there was a bride wearing black. Look I
have proof. Something she dropped on the floor.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Look here, I'm hot.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
It's a bride's bouquet.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yes, a bride's bouquet, Margot of decayed dead Flower.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Friends, have you ever thought about the day when you
will own your own home or start your own business,
have you given thought to how best to provide a college.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Education for your children.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There's one easy answer. That's to buy US savings bonds.
These are the same bonds you bought during the war.
The only difference is in their name. Instead of war bonds,
the Treasury Department calls them US savings bonds.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They pay the same rate of interest. You receive four dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
At maturity for every three dollars invested today, and in
case of emergency, US savings bonds can be readily and
easily redeemed. US savings bonds, like war bonds, can be
bought on the payroll savings plan or at any bank
or post office. They are the same bonds you prize
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so much because of their high rate of return, their
easy conversion to cash if needed, and they're guaranteed safety. Yes,
the best investment in the world today, the best investment
for your own future is US savings bonds.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Buy them and hold them. And now back to the Shadow.
Forced to spend the night in a decaying old Southern
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mansion belonging to a friend, Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane
follow the mysterious figure of the ghost bride who wears
black to have her disappear in a blinding flash of
white eye. Yes, Margot, look dead flowers. It does prove
this well. Bride is no ghost. I don't know yet, darling,
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but I know someone who does, and I'm going to
make him tell the shadow. Now there is no sleep,
no rest for you, doctor Sharp, and this house filled
with fear. Who's that?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Who's in this room?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The voice of the shadow speaks to you over the storm.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
She can't be a ghost, no more a ghost.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And the bride who roams this house closed in black.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
You've seen the bride?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Who is she? Doctor? Who is this woman dressed in black?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Don't know? I won't tell you she's a ghost. Let
her alone.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yes, proof she is no ghost. Doctor.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But say something dropped onto the.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Floor, A bridal bouquet, Doctor Sharp, he says, Young Philip said,
why you're right, No, it's the truth. She brought it
here with her after the wedding, kept it until she died.
You attended her during her illness.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I did all I could.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
For I sat with her until the last breath, when
the sun's last rays fell across her bed in the
new room she'd learned to love.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
To war the sun's last rays the new room she'd
learned to love.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
What do you see?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank you, doctor Sharp. Now the shadow knows where to
find the bride in black model? Oh good?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
What did the shadow find out?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
The location of the room where Philip's wife died or
was suppostal died? Got the shops without meaning to him.
Come down the halliday quickly. The last rays of the
sun that RUMs of the room is in this wing
facing the west. The new room she'd learned to love
must be the one room I noticed they'd restored. I
saw the new woodworking windows as we came up over
the hill tonight.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Well, then it's down at the end of this hall,
here where the body in black disappeared.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
A look from us?
Speaker 8 (15:58):
Was the light coming from under that door?
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Play sticking my candle?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Light? Come on? What's a nursery?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
It's it's newly decorating in a shining cream.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
There's no one here when there are children's tide on
the floor.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Just block, you'll put down my toy.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Block.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Come on, that man in the door. You'll come to
steal my place. You'll come to track on my word.
Let me have the block smokle.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
That man is the chance my mother, Miss Betsy, say
your bad people come to this house.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Miss Betsy, your mother got a knife. That's hand. Oh,
I come to chill you please, and I'll go. I'll
kill you with my plane knife.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Oh Joey telling what happened.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
He's he's pulling, must have slipped somehow drove the knife
into his own body, so big and awkward.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
And he had the mind of a little child, he said.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
His mother, Miss Betsy, told him we're here the month.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Do you think this man with a knife could have
killed the servant?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Jass, I don't know, darlings. I just remembered something, something
out of the past.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Goodness, there's a door leading from this nursing into another room.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The new room most westerly.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Of hall, where the music is coming from the there.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Let's try the door.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Oh dolly, that's got the.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
One with the candle house, the compliment, the compliment, the body,
see sitting up?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
What you want was in here?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Hand me the candle, marbles, I have a mattress.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Well wait, I ain't sleek, see anyway, it's the bride
dressed in black.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
She's raising the veil.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Well, my mom.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
That's the face of an old, old woman.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
She couldn't be set aside.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No, wait, I'm gonna try something. Ms Betsy, Mss Betsy.
Is that your name?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yes, Miss Betsy.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
They always call me, even after I'm married.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Why do you wear black and sleep in a coffee?
Miss Betsy?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
In learning for my husband? He killed himself when our
first child was born.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Was that horrible creature her son?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Are you, Miss Betsy? Philip's older sister? You wrote to
him ad school? I remember a letter. Now I heard
your name. But you sleep in my coffee?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Here they're all hers.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We shall die, Miss Betsy? Have you ever seen this bouquet? Come?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
It's n.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Who David Chuliman? Before she dies?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Who did you dave it?
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Julian?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
It pretty no one who is married?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
He was going to have a baby?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Who that she never did?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
She died a baby?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You never had the baby?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Why?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
First all, we're all going into the bow.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Who are you afraid of telling me? Mispetcy, I can
save your life? Yes, yes, I'll tell you. W who
Miss Betsy.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Tells us a nod scenish evil, much snoged than I.
I'll tell you it's.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
No. I can't rid there's something wrong with my eye.
But over the lightning stuck the coffin. Take it easy,
take your hands in your life. Who I guess her?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
I guess so it's it's better now.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No Mada, keep away from that coper. Oh, miss Bliss,
I didn't want you. Look.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Look on the floor beside the coffin. That's the harmonic.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yes, I believe it is, Margaret. Let me see, Darling.
Look look at this. It's for good.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
It takes it's a wire attacks to the coffin.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's leading out of that window over there, Yes, leads
up the side of the house. That bolt of lightning
was no accident. I mean this woman was murdered by
a wire from a lightning rod grounded on this metal coffin. Here.
There's a killer in this house, Margo, trying to wipe
out this whole tragic family.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
And you think that your friend Phillips might be next.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yes, come quickly, Mongo. He's the only member of this
family who's still alive.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
This is his room, Mongol, well set up is still safe.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
He's the Phillips. Phillips, wake up. It's Cranston Phillips.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
I don't think he's speaking.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The monk's hoods. Can you hear me? Let him say here?
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Don't just stand there wasting time here three four hours?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
But come on, doctor Sharp is a man. There's no
answer light on the Doctor Sharp's door. Look the windows open.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Yes, he's gotten away.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What's coming from? Look down there, Margo, Yes, this is a.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Man, honey, CAUs the tomb.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
But stop the shop and I need to stake him on.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I've got to shop him.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Oh, we'll never find him in that harbor.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Sm I know a way.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
What are you doing taking doctor Shop's coat?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Well, let the dogs lead us tow him. They'll follow
your sin.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Down.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I just can't speak, my doctor, come along do I
can't leave you here now?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
My running thank you?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
What's the matter of the towns. I'm running around and
they seemed to be puzzling. They've lost to them. Come on,
my honey, wait, don't talk that honey patch walk around father,
I'm thinking Colling pulling me down to him.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Where are you think you do?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Family? That ouse bugles buggle you are right. One more
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to kill then all will be gone. No one will know.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Grimston and the girls you.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
Too much, But I finished them. Yes, this is his room.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Now to finish my work. White madness from this house.
You two are mad as mad as they. Who's there?
The voice of the Shadow tells the story of your kills.
No voice can stop me. You kill the young bride
when you knew there was to be a child, it
(23:25):
would have gone.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Mad like all the rest.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yes, I killed there and gave us too when he
found out what I've done. Now there's one.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Left, and I kill him.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You're killing her over.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
No, you can't stop me.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I do cous back. I run away now and I'll
be back. He away from that win me don't have
to escape. The saddle Shadow can use brute force against
madness as well as great skill.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
You right now, all Yes, the one I am.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
But I was pretty scared until you pulled me through of.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
That quick sand. And why did you let me think
you were cartour?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I wanted a killer to think so to surprise him
as the shadow just now, well you've gotten well that's
the moment. Is he all right now, doctor sharp?
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Doctor sharp?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yes, mister Granston, I gave him a hypodermic to make
him sleep until the police get here.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
But the mon that's your friend, Philip Landy.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Right, Mogael, he was a insaane killer.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
But I thought doctor Sharper, I mean him.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I don't blame you, miss Lane. I'm afraid I did
behave pretty strangely tonight.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
It was partly my fault that.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
All this happened.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Well, I I don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well. You see, i'd been the Phillip's family doctor for
a great many years. I knew all about Mss Betsy
and her strange demented son.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I realized that Phillips was upset about the strain of insanity.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
In the family, but I had no idea how dangerous
cause his condition was until a few months ago when
he called me late one half afternoon to say.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
That he he just killed his wife. She wasn't quite
dead when I reached her, but I couldn't say that.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Phillips made me swear that I would never reveal the murder.
I don't know why I promised. Perhaps it was because
the family had always been so close to my heart,
but I did. I helped him bury his wife in
the family graveyard. I was afraid to return to my
regular practice.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
After that, so I just lived on here and tried
to protect them all from the rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I kept Phillips drugged as much as possible. When you
and mister Penston came, my only thought was to get
you away as quickly as possible before you learned truth.
That's that Lamada was Philips who called.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
An actor to come here.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That was part of a very clever plan, Margaret. Phillips
was becoming more and more afraid doctor Sharp, afraid that
he would some day tell the truth, so he decided
to kill the rest of his family and plant the
evidence to make it look as though doctor Sharp as
the murderer. That's why he called me, so that I
would come here and be a witness to condemned doctor.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
And you mean that that whole telephone call was stayed.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
That gave me my first clue. Incidentally, and I tried
to call into the village last night, I found the
telephone pulled out from the wall. With the others of
the family living just in the upper rooms. No one
could have done it but Phillips or you, doctor Sharp,
And you'd offer just before that to let me use
the phone.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Here's mister Kerstin.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I'm afraid Phillips was far meded than any of the
people that he tried to save from med He.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Was the maddest of all of all his pitiful, tragic,
lost family.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
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Speaker 2 (27:07):
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Speaker 1 (27:08):
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hold them for your own future. And now the Shadow again.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The Shadow Program is based on a story copyrighted by
Street and Smith Publications. The characters names, places, and plant
or fictitious any similarity to persons living or dead is
purely coincidental. Again, next week, the Shadow will demonstrate that
the weed of crime, there's bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
(28:06):
The Shadow knows.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Next week, same time, same station, Mutual don Lee will
bring you another strange and thrilling adventure in the shadows
daring battle against the forces of evil.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Be sure to listen.
Speaker 9 (28:52):
Remember, friends, the payroll Savings Plan is the easy way
to save because the amount of money you authorize from
your pay envelope is applied directly to the purchase of
your bonds. If you are not now enrolled in the
payroll Savings plan at your company, enroll now plan for
your own future security, buy and hold US Savings bonds
through the Payroll Savings Plan. This program was transcribed from Mutual.
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