August 3, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Who knows or evil in the hearts of men. The shadowers.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Once again, your neighborhood blue coal dealer brings you the
thrilling adventures of the Shadow, the hard and relentless fight
of one man against the forces of evil. These grammonizations
are designed to demonstrate forcefully.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
To old and young alike that crime does not fail.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
There is enough anthracite for all the lucky householders whose
homes are heated with hard core. These homes are enjoying
healthful warmth in every role, even though winter winds blow.
There is no need to cut down heat or close
off rooms and homes heated with defendable hard pull.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, sir, and you have a supply of hard coal
in your basement.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You are the boss of heating your house. You are
absolutely independent of any outside service.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Be glad you.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Heat with anthracite, the home heating fuel that never fails.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And remember, blue coal is the finest anthracite money can buy.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The Shadow, mysterious character who weighs the forces of law
and order, is in reality the monk cranston.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Worthy young man about town.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The Shadow uses it, if not a power, to cloud
men's minds so that they cannot see him. Cranston's friend
and companion, a lovely Marble Lane, is the only person
who knows to whom the voice of the Shadow belongs.
Today's story The Laughing Court.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So when I see you come in to the bar,
I says to myself. There's a nice sky, I says,
I'm a very keen judge of character. Yes, sir, so
when you're offered to buy me a drink, I accept. Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Say, by the way, mister, you ain't told me your name.
What kind of a place is this you took me to.
Looks like a lab or something.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
He says. You know what I enjoyed when.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
We got into the taxicab, Yeah, I sure enjoyed that driver.
Take it to thirty one Breakbrow Place, thirty one Black
prow Plate.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
See, it's been a long time since I had a
taxi ride.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Thirty one Blackbrow Place, just like that. So it was
nice of you to bring me here.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I've been sleeping in the park for gosh.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Say, what did you mean when you said we was
gonna conduct a little experiment?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
How'd you mean? Huh? Why ain't you talking to me?
You ain't sorry? Are you? Well? I'm talking? If you
don't wanna, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Why are you making in those test tools?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
What kind of stuff are you making?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Say?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What have I done?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Don't look at me like that. Hey, don't come any closer.
I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'll get out of here.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Here, fluck please, honey, out of here, Honey out? What
are you gonna do with me?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Go? Wait?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Hey, look, I do enjoy this lovely.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Cap drive with you? But will you tell me where
I'm going at this hour of the night.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Well, Lamark, if you knew, you'd get angry.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And not knowing makes me angry? Shreb Yes, sir, you
know where you're driving us? To let me see? Now?
What was the number in that place? Again, miss lay?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
And what wasn't thirty one? Black will place freeze?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, yes, thirty one black broth twice? Oh I'm such
a stupid.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We've been there twice today, and all the time I
keep forgetting a number.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I got to get a new memory system. I got
a cap.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
What was the old memory system? Treeving?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Oh, the old one is easy, you see, like take
for instant?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Wait wait, how are you going treev?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You take for instance to digits three and one, which
is the place we're calling to now. I hoos the
three up with my kid, which is three years old.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
And the one I remember is my take on how
in one year he's going to before the simple?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Ain't it elementary?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
How could you possibly forgotten the address of that system treating?
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Do you know how I got myself all mixed up
with my other kid, which is six o' it's not
your stupid, sreebe.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
If you're just as stupid as you do, I.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Still don't know where we're going. Why we're going to
this place at eleven thirtieth night? Well, if you're white,
till tomorrow at the apartment may be resch shreebe.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Now you've given it all away, Margot?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Are you taking the apartment hunting at this horror? You know?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I hate that, but Lamont, don't you see I wouldn't
take it unless you thought it was all right? I know,
but you know how I value your opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, why didn't you tell me sooner?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
I wanted to surprise you?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Okay, I'm hooked. What are you laughing about, schreevy? Well,
I was sick of mister Cranston.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
I was thinking how Dame's good twist, guys, right around
that little fingers, thick of twist.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That'll be about all from you, Shrev.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Don't talk so much, yes, sir, all right for you me, Criston.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
You're pretty jumpy tonight. Laman for's thematic?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh nothing, Margot, I'm just bored, that's all I know.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
You haven't had anything to keep you busy. No criminals, tracked.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Shreve.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Why just stop trade, Tredy, Why don't Johnson's Mister Kriston.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Said, I shouldn't, Park, I shouldn't so I ain't now.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
They would do down the march.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
You've heard treeby feeling.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm sorry, Shreebe. I'm in a bad humor tonight. No,
I know you ain't, mister krem like this. I am.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Oh here we are.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
This is the building thirty one Blackfel Place.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's thirty one Black World Place. That's why
I stopped. Thirty one Black Orld Place. Wait for Asrevee.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Okay, come on up the slight steps mark all right,
it certainly is a weird looking place.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Well that's just because it's dark.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Looks all right in the daylight.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Scring the superintendent's belly a right.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Uh, Margot. Uh won't he be angry at our disturbing
with this? Hoar?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Oh? No, he told me I could come back Tonight's
live a good apartment.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And what's so exceptional about this apartment?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Margot?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Am on?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
It has these high, old fashioned ceilings and the most.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Glorious view of the river.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, wow, what do you want? Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
You remember me? I'm Margot Lane.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I put a deposit down on one of the apartments here.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
So what No, he won't be angry.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Well, you said I could come back tonight to look
at it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I said you could come back this evening. It's so
I haven't thirty now, young lady who got me out
of bed? Well what did I tell you? Martha?
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Please, mister my name is Alaska. Please, mister Alaska. I
know it's very inconsiderate to bother you at this hour,
but couldn't we please see the apartment?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Well, come in, thanks, It's.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Down the end of this hall. Aren't there any lights?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The bulb?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Just find out this evening? Oh I see it here
we are just a minute now till.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I find the light switch.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Nice bright twas there?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
How do you like it?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Lamar?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Like it? I think it looks terrible. Of course the
place needs to be decorating, Yes, and badly when look
at the holes in the wall. What caused that? And
the previous tenant was to deathrup. He's a chemist. He
used this apartment as a kind of laboratory. The holes
and from some of his apparatus.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I see, well, what do you think to Mark?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Well, if you want it quiet, you certainly got it here. Yes,
and it's always like this, always nice and quiet.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
What's that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Someone thinks something is funny? All right, I'm gonna listen
to him.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
That doesn't tell me.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Come on, Mochael, I'm gonna see what this is all about.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
They're the one across that door, though.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Doctor Lorenz.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Heah, give me a hand.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Buddy's so tense.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So he had a convulsion or something.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Let's turn him over.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Here we are, Oh, it's see, it's faith lam get
hold of yourself.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Over its face la money, it's all twisted up as
though we were laughing.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Don't look at it. What are we going to do?
There's nothing we can do now. This man is dead.
What makes you think doctor Lorenz was murdered? Transton, I
don't know. Commissioner Whiston just a hunch. Well, there's not
a mark of violence on the body.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
If you'd heard that terrible art commissioner, you'd think something
was wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Too, Miss Lane.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'm sorry I didn't hear the last, but even if
I had, there's still not a bit of evidence here.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Not a single clue to indicate murder. Well, commission all right,
all right, now, you you alask him? Is my name Alaska?
I want to know about this. I told you nothing.
I was showing mister crast and the Slane that apartment
would have happened. Did the dead man, doctor Lorenz have
any enemies ask them?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
No, not that I know of. Who was the man
who occupied that apartment that Slaine was thinking of renting?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Doctor death stuff? But I told you that commissioner went
destrov and Lorenz. Now now I remember those names, that
partners on a mechanical lavatory. Didn't you know that? You
didn't ask me. I didn't ask you. Why did Destrof
move out of his apartment?
Speaker 7 (09:59):
He had a big argument with his partner, doctor Lorenz
about two weeks ago, only moved out the next day.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Then he the one must have done it?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Done what Miss Lane's.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Murdered Doctor Lorenz, Miss Lane.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
As yet, I'm not convinced that Lorenz has been murdered
in the second place. From what your cab drivers Reebe says,
no one had come in or out of this house.
Well maybe he's still hear them, Miss Laine. My men
have searched this house from top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well, I still Crimston, Please, I understand, Commissioner. Come on, Margot,
you're going on as h oh? Yes, Doc? What is it?
How long ago was this man supposed to have died?
We heard the laughing in the sound of a buddy
pulling about an hour ago. From my examination, you couldn't
have won her.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Are you trying to tell us to bring hearing things?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
All I can say is it's all pretty strange.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
What do you mean, doctas well? The buddy was as
stiff as a boat when I examined him. Brigamosis is
so far advanced you couldn't possibly have heard him laugh tonight.
What according to my examination, Doctor Lorenz has been dead
for twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The way the.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Medical examiner talked to me but didn't know what we
were doing, Lamont, how could the man be dead and laugh?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
The laughing corpse is pretty strange, Margo.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I think commissioner works in order to get a new
medical examiner.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, Margo, you remember when I went to turn doctor
Lorenz over. I remarked that the body was stiff, and
it does look.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
As if he'd been dead for some time.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But that terrible life Lamont, well that I don't know, Margo.
And Lorenzo's face was contorted as though we'd been laughing.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Margo, I believe it was Lorenz that we heard.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Why do you say that, Lamar, Now look at this.
It's the little box. It was like a jewel box.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, I think what's written inside the cover.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
You will laugh, but not from joy. You will laugh
and the life will be the life of death. The monk.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I found this little box lying on the floor and
Lorenzo's body before Western came.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
What do you suppose at the end of to morrow?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't know, Margot, but I'm going to find out.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
The shadow is going to pay a visit to doctor
Distros laboratory tonight. Perhaps there I shall find the solution
to the mystery of the laughing corpse. We shall see
(12:48):
if they formula of his character. The proper capult here
is there. Yea, I thought, I read it all up
and m it must bear my imagination.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It is more than your imagination, doctor Distrove. What who
is it? I can't see you. No man has ever seen.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
The shadow, doctor Distrove.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
The Shadow? Oh yes, I have heard of you. What
do you want of me? Have you ever heard this
phraised before? You will laugh, but not from joy. You
will laugh, and the laugh will be the laugh of death.
Where did you hear that?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
The Shadow has ways of finding things out? Doctor distrof
you'd better tell me what you know of the laughing death?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
The laughing death? He tell me, Shadow, has it already happened?
Is Lorenz dead?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It won't do you any good to pretend innocence.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Lawrence was murdered earlier this evening. Huh how did he die?
Tell me? I must know? You know how he died? Yes, yes,
I know, I know how he died, just as the
not swan. That's the notes. Then you too have received
a note not since last year? Er, so he has
made good, he said, I'd better tell you everything. Shadow.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Seven years ago, there was another partner in his laboratory
besides myself and Destaff, a man named Lepa. He was
incumbentent a jon god. When Lorenz and I perfected the
new fangula, we refused to give my share of the
prophets not to heat. At words, we dissolved the partnership
with Leeta. Then Lorenz and I opened a new laboratory
by ourselves.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
He threw him out.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Her call it that if you really only hinted us,
he was ruined no money nor credit.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And he was really a brilliant chemist.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
But undependable.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It was impossible for him to get work.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What happened to him that we do not know.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
He came to us and they to be taken back,
but we refused. Lorenz laughed at him, and I suppose
I did too. He was so ridiculous, wet threatened com
Yes with the laughing debt.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
He'd hear a note has come with the same words.
He will laugh, but not from joy. He will laugh,
and the laugh will be the laugh of death.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
See why did you run, quarrel? Why did you move
from your apartment? Oh you know that too, Yes, this drapile.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Well you see. Lorenz took these threats seriously, and I
did it first.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
But after nothing happened for so many years, I thought
it was just well a means of annoyance. And this
year no note came, and Lorenz was very much upset
and worried. He believed it meant that these all would
strike and you, well, I laughed at the whole idea.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I told Lorenzo that he wanted to go to the
rest of his life fearing a fully threat.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
He could, but I refused to bower about it anymore.
And this little words and I left in anger. I
see where does this other partner live? Why I think
that he?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh? What is this?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I did not notice it before, A small package addressed
to me.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Hm.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
My assistant was to put.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It on my desk earlier, and I had not noticed it.
Don't touch that box? Why it looks like a little
jewel box.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
A box similar to that one was found next to
laurens By. Oh yes, what was in its shadow?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Nothing dest off except that threat written on the inside cover.
Oh no, surely the words cannot hurt me. There may
have been something in the box when Lawrence opened it
upon a shadow. My scientific curiosity will not permit me
to allow this.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Box to go unopened. I have rubber gloves on it.
If it contains some strange type of poison it. It
cannot possibly hurt me. Desk off, I'm morning. You own
a shadow. I must open it. There there seems to
be a little push button here. There it's empty. Wait.
Here is a message written on the inside. You will laugh,
(16:44):
but not from joy. You will laugh and a laugh,
but the.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Laugh of death, the same note that Lorenz received. Yes, Destrof,
your life is in ancer. You must tell me where
people lives. Yes, yes, before he can complete his revenge,
I think that he leaves.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I think where should I put these bundles? M slag?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Oh, just set them down anywhere, sweebe. I'll put them
away when the rest of the.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Furniture come okay, Muslam, Well, don't drop.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Them right in the middle of the room, Sweevie for.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Your shet, Just to put them down anyway, you said.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Well, I went out of the way over there in
the corner something.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Okay, Hey, what are you gotting? These packages? Handbills?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Just odds and ends?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Screeebe? Yeah, how's that that's fun?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Now? Is there anything else in your cab?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, Miscelaine, a few more odds and ebrons. Mister Klants
is bringing them up.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Hey, open the door a.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Little wider some when I can't get through?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
All right, how's that.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
He's gotten these bundles? Muggle, He ain't anbost They hate one.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Put them down the man before he dropped them.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Not in the center of the room, mister Crasston, out
of the way in the corner.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
There, Treevy, Would you stop giving orders and do some
work around here?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Shortney? What could I do? What could I?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Well, there isn't anything else to do until the rest
of stuff gets here.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I should have been here an hour ago. Hey, you want,
I should go back to the old.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Apartment and get the moving faster you want?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That might be a very good idea, Shreevy.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Okay, I'll do it. I'll tell emmerting or to I'll
teach them a lesser al shoulder.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Now, don't get too rough of a moving man, Trevy.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Remember the iron hand in the velvet glove? Well, I
look what I never mind, Trev, hurry them up the
iron hand in the pelvic club. I guess that's a possible.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I'm going you short of everything except one thing. But
what are you gonna sit down while you wait for
the movies to get here?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Oh, I'll be too busy to sit down.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Lamont.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
But you know, now that I'm here in this apartment,
I'm not very keen on it.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You're not, No, isn't that just like a woman? What
about the high ceilings and the glorious view of the river.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Oh that's all right, Lamont.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
But well, this place gives me the creak. I can
still hear the sound of that marble laugh. First you
tell me you don't like the apartment, then you persuade
me to move here.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Well, Margo, the reason I wanted you to rent this
apartment is I believe that the solution to the laughing
corpse may still be here.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Well, that isn't gonna make me feel any better about
living here.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Has a police found anything new, Lamont?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
No? I report from the medical examiner on deathtro It's death.
That's the same as Forlornz death from causes unknown.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And there was nothing in the little box when Destrov
opened it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Not a thing except that note. Yeah, look for yourself.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Oh yes, it's exactly.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Like the little box you found in Lorenza's apartment. How
do you open it, Lamont, Here and give it to me.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
See you press this little button here in the center. Ooh,
what's not in Laman, I pricked my finger on something
shop when I pushed the butt. That's it, Margo.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
What that must be the way the poison was administered.
After Destro pressed the button to open the box, he started.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
To laugh the month.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Then you've yes a drug. Now I've got a tool.
Oh no, Lamont, Well, nothing's happened to me yet.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Why did you break the box?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Open the market?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I see here, Muggle, a tiny hypodermic needle. Can see
it in the cover.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
When the button is pressed, the person pushing the button
has given a dose.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Of poison and the finger hip.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Come on, let's get you to a job.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Wait a minute, Muggle, that won't be necessary. I'm gonna
be all right. But the needle must have been empty, moggle,
desk drop.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Got it all?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh, thank Heaven, you're all.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Right, I mugga, wag your phone. I've got a call
commissioned Western immediately the phone.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
What hasn't been installed?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You though? Oh well, I'll go to the corner of
the phone.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
I'll come in.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I just came up to tell you, miss Lane that
the decorators are coming in tomorrow. I'll see you later, Mogo.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
All right, the monster the decorators want to know if
eight o'clock will be all right for few.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Oh, yes, that'll be fine, Minthalaskan.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Oh there was something else I want to ask you about.
The plumbing in the kitchen doesn't work very well.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
And do you think that.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm Atthalaskin.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
What's the matter? Where did you get this little box?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I don't see that that's any business of yours.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Perhaps is more than you know.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Tell me let's do what do you know?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Him?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I had scream? No one will hear you.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
We're quite alone here. You you're the killer. You kill
a NDS and death trial.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I suppose I did. You'll know now, but it won't
do you any good to know you're going to die.
Oh go ahead, you'll frighten man in a moment. You'll
think it very funny, Yes, very humane. You lie, Yes,
you'll lie, you know, and you will die laughing.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Oh pleaseiness nottsome never die.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Ending to you, you and your friend mister crans all
too much, Miss Laine. You wanted to catch me, make
me pay for my crime.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I would never have prospected you if you hadn't given
yourself away.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
That's most unfortunate for you, Miss Laide what do you
mean you see I've brought you down here to my
laboratory in the basement to kill you.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh no, don't be unhappy you.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Laugh, because you'll never laugh.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'm preparing my secret formula to laughing death.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
No, leave one for you and one hypodemic for your friend.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Mister Pranston.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Please, I promise I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
You bad.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I can't believe that it won't do you any good
to try to get loose psyched up the precaution of
finding you very hype.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Now now everything is ready.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You don't don't come any closer.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Prepare yourself in the lane.
Speaker 9 (22:36):
It won't hurt very much, and you'll be so happy,
so happy, you will laugh and laugh and laugh, and
then you.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Will die something not hypodemic needle from her hand. This
is the end of your even work.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Bascom a voice shadow, Thank Heaven.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oh you partner Laskom. Yes, I was in partnership of
Lorenz and Dstros. Now I'm the only one alive. They
ruined me.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
They took everything from me.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Or out of your mind ascom. You blame them with
your own faults. No, no, they caused my downfalls. I
killed them. You are to revenge yourself.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You came here, got your too, put job a superintendent
them the same building in which they lived. Yes, I
disguised myself. They never recognized me of a brilliant mind, Lescom.
It's a great loss of civilization that you couldn't have
used it for good instead of evil.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The police will compel me.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Will never get me, Shadows talking. He had another need already.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
With the police, iprescom.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
So I say, two, lad shadow, I've already administered to
drug to myself.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
At least I have the last lad.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So you see, Marga, the plan was flishly well executed.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Well, how did you know where I was, Lamart?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
When I came back to the apartment after calling Western,
you were gone. I figured you were with the superintendent.
You remember, he came in just before I went on.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Yes, lask him off.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Whatever his name was, His real name was Vitor.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Vitor disguised himself and took the job here as superintendent
of the building so he could watch his.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Enemies death draws from Lorena.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
That's right, Margot, And he sent him a little boxes
with a hidden hypodemic needles.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Filled with a laughing death.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Huh or Lamont, just the memory of that terrible after
makes my blood run cold. And the look on Lorenza's
face when we found him.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh, Margot, we didn't really hear him laugh.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Why well, if that wasn't a laugh, what was it?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
But you see, the poison of the hypodermic needle was
very potent and worked very rapidly. It caught a sort
of convulsion that sounded like master And if.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
You're trying to tell me that the victims didn't enjoy
themselves and even go any farther, is that why the
medical examiner thought that Lorenz had been dead for some
time when he examined him.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yes, the poison called a sudden contraction of them muscles,
a sort of pseudo riga mortis.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
H pseudo riga mortis.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Oh do you think I understand what you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Your crazy answered? Oh, mister Crimson, Hello, is are you there?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Sure you? He's everything all set in the back, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Mean yes, Ms Slayne, all set.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Oh come on, mamma, let's go go where we're going
to look at a new apartment.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
To the new apartment.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Well, you don't suppose I'm going to live in this
place after what's happened here?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, we're moving.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
What again, That's the same thing I said, mister Crimston,
Ain't women be?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Miss Slayne.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
I was only about to comment, ain't women Wonderful? I
got out of that windo all right,
Who knows or evil in the hearts of men. The shadowers.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Once again, your neighborhood blue coal dealer brings you the
thrilling adventures of the Shadow, the hard and relentless fight
of one man against the forces of evil. These grammonizations
are designed to demonstrate forcefully.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
To old and young alike that crime does not fail.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
There is enough anthracite for all the lucky householders whose
homes are heated with hard core. These homes are enjoying
healthful warmth in every role, even though winter winds blow.
There is no need to cut down heat or close
off rooms and homes heated with defendable hard pull.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, sir, and you have a supply of hard coal
in your basement.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You are the boss of heating your house. You are
absolutely independent of any outside service.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Be glad you.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Heat with anthracite, the home heating fuel that never fails.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And remember, blue coal is the finest anthracite money can buy.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The Shadow, mysterious character who weighs the forces of law
and order, is in reality the monk cranston.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Worthy young man about town.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The Shadow uses it, if not a power, to cloud
men's minds so that they cannot see him. Cranston's friend
and companion, a lovely Marble Lane, is the only person
who knows to whom the voice of the Shadow belongs.
Today's story The Laughing Court.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So when I see you come in to the bar,
I says to myself. There's a nice sky, I says,
I'm a very keen judge of character. Yes, sir, so
when you're offered to buy me a drink, I accept. Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Say, by the way, mister, you ain't told me your name.
What kind of a place is this you took me to.
Looks like a lab or something.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
He says. You know what I enjoyed when.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
We got into the taxicab, Yeah, I sure enjoyed that driver.
Take it to thirty one Breakbrow Place, thirty one Black
prow Plate.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
See, it's been a long time since I had a
taxi ride.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Thirty one Blackbrow Place, just like that. So it was
nice of you to bring me here.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I've been sleeping in the park for gosh.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Say, what did you mean when you said we was
gonna conduct a little experiment?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
How'd you mean? Huh? Why ain't you talking to me?
You ain't sorry? Are you? Well? I'm talking? If you
don't wanna, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Why are you making in those test tools?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
What kind of stuff are you making?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Say?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What have I done?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Don't look at me like that. Hey, don't come any closer.
I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'll get out of here.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Here, fluck please, honey, out of here, Honey out? What
are you gonna do with me?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Go? Wait?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Hey, look, I do enjoy this lovely.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Cap drive with you? But will you tell me where
I'm going at this hour of the night.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Well, Lamark, if you knew, you'd get angry.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And not knowing makes me angry? Shreb Yes, sir, you
know where you're driving us? To let me see? Now?
What was the number in that place? Again, miss lay?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
And what wasn't thirty one? Black will place freeze?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, yes, thirty one black broth twice? Oh I'm such
a stupid.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We've been there twice today, and all the time I
keep forgetting a number.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I got to get a new memory system. I got
a cap.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
What was the old memory system? Treeving?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Oh, the old one is easy, you see, like take
for instant?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Wait wait, how are you going treev?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You take for instance to digits three and one, which
is the place we're calling to now. I hoos the
three up with my kid, which is three years old.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
And the one I remember is my take on how
in one year he's going to before the simple?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Ain't it elementary?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
How could you possibly forgotten the address of that system treating?
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Do you know how I got myself all mixed up
with my other kid, which is six o' it's not
your stupid, sreebe.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
If you're just as stupid as you do, I.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Still don't know where we're going. Why we're going to
this place at eleven thirtieth night? Well, if you're white,
till tomorrow at the apartment may be resch shreebe.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Now you've given it all away, Margot?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Are you taking the apartment hunting at this horror? You know?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I hate that, but Lamont, don't you see I wouldn't
take it unless you thought it was all right? I know,
but you know how I value your opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, why didn't you tell me sooner?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
I wanted to surprise you?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Okay, I'm hooked. What are you laughing about, schreevy? Well,
I was sick of mister Cranston.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
I was thinking how Dame's good twist, guys, right around
that little fingers, thick of twist.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That'll be about all from you, Shrev.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Don't talk so much, yes, sir, all right for you me, Criston.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
You're pretty jumpy tonight. Laman for's thematic?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh nothing, Margot, I'm just bored, that's all I know.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
You haven't had anything to keep you busy. No criminals, tracked.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Shreve.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Why just stop trade, Tredy, Why don't Johnson's Mister Kriston.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Said, I shouldn't, Park, I shouldn't so I ain't now.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
They would do down the march.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
You've heard treeby feeling.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm sorry, Shreebe. I'm in a bad humor tonight. No,
I know you ain't, mister krem like this. I am.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Oh here we are.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
This is the building thirty one Blackfel Place.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's thirty one Black World Place. That's why
I stopped. Thirty one Black Orld Place. Wait for Asrevee.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Okay, come on up the slight steps mark all right,
it certainly is a weird looking place.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Well that's just because it's dark.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Looks all right in the daylight.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Scring the superintendent's belly a right.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Uh, Margot. Uh won't he be angry at our disturbing
with this? Hoar?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Oh? No, he told me I could come back Tonight's
live a good apartment.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And what's so exceptional about this apartment?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Margot?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Am on?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
It has these high, old fashioned ceilings and the most.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Glorious view of the river.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, wow, what do you want? Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
You remember me? I'm Margot Lane.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I put a deposit down on one of the apartments here.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
So what No, he won't be angry.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Well, you said I could come back tonight to look
at it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I said you could come back this evening. It's so
I haven't thirty now, young lady who got me out
of bed? Well what did I tell you? Martha?
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Please, mister my name is Alaska. Please, mister Alaska. I
know it's very inconsiderate to bother you at this hour,
but couldn't we please see the apartment?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Well, come in, thanks, It's.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Down the end of this hall. Aren't there any lights?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The bulb?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Just find out this evening? Oh I see it here
we are just a minute now till.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I find the light switch.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Nice bright twas there?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
How do you like it?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Lamar?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Like it? I think it looks terrible. Of course the
place needs to be decorating, Yes, and badly when look
at the holes in the wall. What caused that? And
the previous tenant was to deathrup. He's a chemist. He
used this apartment as a kind of laboratory. The holes
and from some of his apparatus.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I see, well, what do you think to Mark?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Well, if you want it quiet, you certainly got it here. Yes,
and it's always like this, always nice and quiet.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
What's that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Someone thinks something is funny? All right, I'm gonna listen
to him.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
That doesn't tell me.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Come on, Mochael, I'm gonna see what this is all about.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
They're the one across that door, though.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Doctor Lorenz.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Heah, give me a hand.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Buddy's so tense.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
So he had a convulsion or something.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Let's turn him over.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Here we are, Oh, it's see, it's faith lam get
hold of yourself.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Over its face la money, it's all twisted up as
though we were laughing.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Don't look at it. What are we going to do?
There's nothing we can do now. This man is dead.
What makes you think doctor Lorenz was murdered? Transton, I
don't know. Commissioner Whiston just a hunch. Well, there's not
a mark of violence on the body.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
If you'd heard that terrible art commissioner, you'd think something
was wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Too, Miss Lane.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'm sorry I didn't hear the last, but even if
I had, there's still not a bit of evidence here.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Not a single clue to indicate murder. Well, commission all right,
all right, now, you you alask him? Is my name Alaska?
I want to know about this. I told you nothing.
I was showing mister crast and the Slane that apartment
would have happened. Did the dead man, doctor Lorenz have
any enemies ask them?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
No, not that I know of. Who was the man
who occupied that apartment that Slaine was thinking of renting?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Doctor death stuff? But I told you that commissioner went
destrov and Lorenz. Now now I remember those names, that
partners on a mechanical lavatory. Didn't you know that? You
didn't ask me. I didn't ask you. Why did Destrof
move out of his apartment?
Speaker 7 (09:59):
He had a big argument with his partner, doctor Lorenz
about two weeks ago, only moved out the next day.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Then he the one must have done it?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Done what Miss Lane's.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Murdered Doctor Lorenz, Miss Lane.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
As yet, I'm not convinced that Lorenz has been murdered
in the second place. From what your cab drivers Reebe says,
no one had come in or out of this house.
Well maybe he's still hear them, Miss Laine. My men
have searched this house from top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well, I still Crimston, Please, I understand, Commissioner. Come on, Margot,
you're going on as h oh? Yes, Doc? What is it?
How long ago was this man supposed to have died?
We heard the laughing in the sound of a buddy
pulling about an hour ago. From my examination, you couldn't
have won her.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Are you trying to tell us to bring hearing things?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
All I can say is it's all pretty strange.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
What do you mean, doctas well? The buddy was as
stiff as a boat when I examined him. Brigamosis is
so far advanced you couldn't possibly have heard him laugh tonight.
What according to my examination, Doctor Lorenz has been dead
for twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The way the.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Medical examiner talked to me but didn't know what we
were doing, Lamont, how could the man be dead and laugh?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
The laughing corpse is pretty strange, Margo.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I think commissioner works in order to get a new
medical examiner.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, Margo, you remember when I went to turn doctor
Lorenz over. I remarked that the body was stiff, and
it does look.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
As if he'd been dead for some time.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But that terrible life Lamont, well that I don't know, Margo.
And Lorenzo's face was contorted as though we'd been laughing.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Margo, I believe it was Lorenz that we heard.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Why do you say that, Lamar, Now look at this.
It's the little box. It was like a jewel box.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, I think what's written inside the cover.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
You will laugh, but not from joy. You will laugh
and the life will be the life of death. The monk.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I found this little box lying on the floor and
Lorenzo's body before Western came.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
What do you suppose at the end of to morrow?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I don't know, Margot, but I'm going to find out.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
The shadow is going to pay a visit to doctor
Distros laboratory tonight. Perhaps there I shall find the solution
to the mystery of the laughing corpse. We shall see
(12:48):
if they formula of his character. The proper capult here
is there. Yea, I thought, I read it all up
and m it must bear my imagination.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It is more than your imagination, doctor Distrove. What who
is it? I can't see you. No man has ever seen.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
The shadow, doctor Distrove.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
The Shadow? Oh yes, I have heard of you. What
do you want of me? Have you ever heard this
phraised before? You will laugh, but not from joy. You
will laugh, and the laugh will be the laugh of death.
Where did you hear that?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
The Shadow has ways of finding things out? Doctor distrof
you'd better tell me what you know of the laughing death?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
The laughing death? He tell me, Shadow, has it already happened?
Is Lorenz dead?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It won't do you any good to pretend innocence.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Lawrence was murdered earlier this evening. Huh how did he die?
Tell me? I must know? You know how he died? Yes, yes,
I know, I know how he died, just as the
not swan. That's the notes. Then you too have received
a note not since last year? Er, so he has
made good, he said, I'd better tell you everything. Shadow.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Seven years ago, there was another partner in his laboratory
besides myself and Destaff, a man named Lepa. He was
incumbentent a jon god. When Lorenz and I perfected the
new fangula, we refused to give my share of the
prophets not to heat. At words, we dissolved the partnership
with Leeta. Then Lorenz and I opened a new laboratory
by ourselves.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
He threw him out.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Her call it that if you really only hinted us,
he was ruined no money nor credit.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And he was really a brilliant chemist.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
But undependable.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It was impossible for him to get work.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What happened to him that we do not know.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
He came to us and they to be taken back,
but we refused. Lorenz laughed at him, and I suppose
I did too. He was so ridiculous, wet threatened com
Yes with the laughing debt.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
He'd hear a note has come with the same words.
He will laugh, but not from joy. He will laugh,
and the laugh will be the laugh of death.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
See why did you run, quarrel? Why did you move
from your apartment? Oh you know that too, Yes, this drapile.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Well you see. Lorenz took these threats seriously, and I
did it first.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
But after nothing happened for so many years, I thought
it was just well a means of annoyance. And this
year no note came, and Lorenz was very much upset
and worried. He believed it meant that these all would
strike and you, well, I laughed at the whole idea.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I told Lorenzo that he wanted to go to the
rest of his life fearing a fully threat.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
He could, but I refused to bower about it anymore.
And this little words and I left in anger. I
see where does this other partner live? Why I think
that he?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh? What is this?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I did not notice it before, A small package addressed
to me.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Hm.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
My assistant was to put.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
It on my desk earlier, and I had not noticed it.
Don't touch that box? Why it looks like a little
jewel box.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
A box similar to that one was found next to
laurens By. Oh yes, what was in its shadow?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Nothing dest off except that threat written on the inside cover.
Oh no, surely the words cannot hurt me. There may
have been something in the box when Lawrence opened it
upon a shadow. My scientific curiosity will not permit me
to allow this.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Box to go unopened. I have rubber gloves on it.
If it contains some strange type of poison it. It
cannot possibly hurt me. Desk off, I'm morning. You own
a shadow. I must open it. There there seems to
be a little push button here. There it's empty. Wait.
Here is a message written on the inside. You will laugh,
(16:44):
but not from joy. You will laugh and a laugh,
but the.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Laugh of death, the same note that Lorenz received. Yes, Destrof,
your life is in ancer. You must tell me where
people lives. Yes, yes, before he can complete his revenge,
I think that he leaves.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I think where should I put these bundles? M slag?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Oh, just set them down anywhere, sweebe. I'll put them
away when the rest of the.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Furniture come okay, Muslam, Well, don't drop.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Them right in the middle of the room, Sweevie for.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Your shet, Just to put them down anyway, you said.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Well, I went out of the way over there in
the corner something.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Okay, Hey, what are you gotting? These packages? Handbills?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Just odds and ends?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Screeebe? Yeah, how's that that's fun?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Now? Is there anything else in your cab?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, Miscelaine, a few more odds and ebrons. Mister Klants
is bringing them up.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Hey, open the door a.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Little wider some when I can't get through?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
All right, how's that.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
He's gotten these bundles? Muggle, He ain't anbost They hate one.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Put them down the man before he dropped them.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Not in the center of the room, mister Crasston, out
of the way in the corner.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
There, Treevy, Would you stop giving orders and do some
work around here?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Shortney? What could I do? What could I?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Well, there isn't anything else to do until the rest
of stuff gets here.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I should have been here an hour ago. Hey, you want,
I should go back to the old.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Apartment and get the moving faster you want?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That might be a very good idea, Shreevy.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Okay, I'll do it. I'll tell emmerting or to I'll
teach them a lesser al shoulder.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Now, don't get too rough of a moving man, Trevy.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Remember the iron hand in the velvet glove? Well, I
look what I never mind, Trev, hurry them up the
iron hand in the pelvic club. I guess that's a possible.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I'm going you short of everything except one thing. But
what are you gonna sit down while you wait for
the movies to get here?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Oh, I'll be too busy to sit down.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Lamont.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
But you know, now that I'm here in this apartment,
I'm not very keen on it.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You're not, No, isn't that just like a woman? What
about the high ceilings and the glorious view of the river.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Oh that's all right, Lamont.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
But well, this place gives me the creak. I can
still hear the sound of that marble laugh. First you
tell me you don't like the apartment, then you persuade
me to move here.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Well, Margo, the reason I wanted you to rent this
apartment is I believe that the solution to the laughing
corpse may still be here.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Well, that isn't gonna make me feel any better about
living here.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Has a police found anything new, Lamont?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
No? I report from the medical examiner on deathtro It's death.
That's the same as Forlornz death from causes unknown.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And there was nothing in the little box when Destrov
opened it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Not a thing except that note. Yeah, look for yourself.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Oh yes, it's exactly.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Like the little box you found in Lorenza's apartment. How
do you open it, Lamont, Here and give it to me.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
See you press this little button here in the center. Ooh,
what's not in Laman, I pricked my finger on something
shop when I pushed the butt. That's it, Margo.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
What that must be the way the poison was administered.
After Destro pressed the button to open the box, he started.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
To laugh the month.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Then you've yes a drug. Now I've got a tool.
Oh no, Lamont, Well, nothing's happened to me yet.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Why did you break the box?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Open the market?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I see here, Muggle, a tiny hypodermic needle. Can see
it in the cover.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
When the button is pressed, the person pushing the button
has given a dose.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Of poison and the finger hip.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Come on, let's get you to a job.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Wait a minute, Muggle, that won't be necessary. I'm gonna
be all right. But the needle must have been empty, moggle,
desk drop.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Got it all?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh, thank Heaven, you're all.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Right, I mugga, wag your phone. I've got a call
commissioned Western immediately the phone.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
What hasn't been installed?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You though? Oh well, I'll go to the corner of
the phone.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
I'll come in.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I just came up to tell you, miss Lane that
the decorators are coming in tomorrow. I'll see you later, Mogo.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
All right, the monster the decorators want to know if
eight o'clock will be all right for few.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Oh, yes, that'll be fine, Minthalaskan.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Oh there was something else I want to ask you about.
The plumbing in the kitchen doesn't work very well.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
And do you think that.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
I'm Atthalaskin.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
What's the matter? Where did you get this little box?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I don't see that that's any business of yours.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Perhaps is more than you know.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Tell me let's do what do you know?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Him?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I had scream? No one will hear you.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
We're quite alone here. You you're the killer. You kill
a NDS and death trial.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I suppose I did. You'll know now, but it won't
do you any good to know you're going to die.
Oh go ahead, you'll frighten man in a moment. You'll
think it very funny, Yes, very humane. You lie, Yes,
you'll lie, you know, and you will die laughing.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Oh pleaseiness nottsome never die.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Ending to you, you and your friend mister crans all
too much, Miss Laine. You wanted to catch me, make
me pay for my crime.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I would never have prospected you if you hadn't given
yourself away.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
That's most unfortunate for you, Miss Laide what do you
mean you see I've brought you down here to my
laboratory in the basement to kill you.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh no, don't be unhappy you.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Laugh, because you'll never laugh.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'm preparing my secret formula to laughing death.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
No, leave one for you and one hypodemic for your friend.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Mister Pranston.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Please, I promise I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
You bad.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I can't believe that it won't do you any good
to try to get loose psyched up the precaution of
finding you very hype.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Now now everything is ready.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You don't don't come any closer.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Prepare yourself in the lane.
Speaker 9 (22:36):
It won't hurt very much, and you'll be so happy,
so happy, you will laugh and laugh and laugh, and
then you.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Will die something not hypodemic needle from her hand. This
is the end of your even work.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Bascom a voice shadow, Thank Heaven.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oh you partner Laskom. Yes, I was in partnership of
Lorenz and Dstros. Now I'm the only one alive. They
ruined me.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
They took everything from me.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Or out of your mind ascom. You blame them with
your own faults. No, no, they caused my downfalls. I
killed them. You are to revenge yourself.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You came here, got your too, put job a superintendent
them the same building in which they lived. Yes, I
disguised myself. They never recognized me of a brilliant mind, Lescom.
It's a great loss of civilization that you couldn't have
used it for good instead of evil.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The police will compel me.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Will never get me, Shadows talking. He had another need already.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
With the police, iprescom.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
So I say, two, lad shadow, I've already administered to
drug to myself.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
At least I have the last lad.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So you see, Marga, the plan was flishly well executed.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Well, how did you know where I was, Lamart?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
When I came back to the apartment after calling Western,
you were gone. I figured you were with the superintendent.
You remember, he came in just before I went on.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Yes, lask him off.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Whatever his name was, His real name was Vitor.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Vitor disguised himself and took the job here as superintendent
of the building so he could watch his.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Enemies death draws from Lorena.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
That's right, Margot, And he sent him a little boxes
with a hidden hypodemic needles.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Filled with a laughing death.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Huh or Lamont, just the memory of that terrible after
makes my blood run cold. And the look on Lorenza's
face when we found him.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh, Margot, we didn't really hear him laugh.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Why well, if that wasn't a laugh, what was it?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
But you see, the poison of the hypodermic needle was
very potent and worked very rapidly. It caught a sort
of convulsion that sounded like master And if.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
You're trying to tell me that the victims didn't enjoy
themselves and even go any farther, is that why the
medical examiner thought that Lorenz had been dead for some
time when he examined him.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yes, the poison called a sudden contraction of them muscles,
a sort of pseudo riga mortis.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
H pseudo riga mortis.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Oh do you think I understand what you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Your crazy answered? Oh, mister Crimson, Hello, is are you there?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Sure you? He's everything all set in the back, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Mean yes, Ms Slayne, all set.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Oh come on, mamma, let's go go where we're going
to look at a new apartment.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
To the new apartment.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Well, you don't suppose I'm going to live in this
place after what's happened here?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, we're moving.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
What again, That's the same thing I said, mister Crimston,
Ain't women be?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Miss Slayne.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
I was only about to comment, ain't women Wonderful? I
got out of that windo all right,
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