August 13, 2025 • 22 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Who knows what evil works in the hearts of men.
The Shadow Lord, the.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Shadow, the serious character devotes his life to righting wrongs,
protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty. Is in reality
the Mont Cranston, wealthy young man about town, student of science,
and master of other people's minds using advanced methods that
may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies. Cranston
(00:43):
is known to criminals and evildoers as the Shadow, never seen,
only hurt, as haunting, to superstitious minds, as a ghost,
as inevitable as a guilty conscience. Cranston's friend and companion,
the lovely margl Lane, is the only person who knows
to whom the unseen voice belongs. Today's story Murder in
(01:07):
a Flat d heady along.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Jack again Market the love God God is Kelly?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Come on over here, you're my I'm expected to see
them here.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You got room for wonder? You Marcres?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
What do you think of this?
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Fand why kid the hottest I'm.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
Still take the dream of my that's my ideals.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Why now necklace?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No? Oh yeah? Yeah keeps and I thought I would
cut off. Yeah, I had to break There was plain
joint on Fittyastree had.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
A bit about oh nobody said, you know what happened?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
The standards player joint just blew up and we don't
know yet how many.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Works I think was found a note name over.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
The bar to make Portento read it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, here it is.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He says.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
The only real music is the music of silent Yeah,
funny business. Okay, I'll report about the headquarters of St.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
The average.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Go on, Henry, toss that town front.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That's my feard.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I counted crossing that white line and I'm now then
they can pull over.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Oh, Henry, blow your heart.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But you're not supposed to blow your heart in the city,
My dear, you go back the antioid COVI.
Speaker 9 (03:10):
I don't care what the ant I know it can't
blow your heart.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That's I'll get over. That's what you say, my dear.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I was drying about fifty yards behind their car.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
They started to swing out of line.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
And blew their horns, and then it happened, this awful explosion.
Speaker 10 (03:35):
I tell you, I've had an am note.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Where'd you get this snow?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
After the explosion, I noticed it's lying in the front
seat beside me.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Somebody must have thrown it in through the window.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
What do you suppose it means? Officer?
Speaker 7 (03:45):
And let's look at it again. Let this be a
warning to you auto horns that playthings to the devil.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Silence?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
What does it mean, officer?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I don't know, mister, but if I way, you had
to forget.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I had a horn, you know, Margre.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's something very peculiar about these bombings, serious explosions.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I believed the paper had calls them. There's another one
last night that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Really it blew up in the river, Yes, the moth.
I was reading about it, and the paper says they
found a note mailed to a nearby duck something about
silence is the golden token.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Of true peace.
Speaker 10 (04:26):
Ah, it sounds like some crome.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yes, ard and sinister silence. That word has appeared in
every note, silence. The only other two that has been
found at all three bombings is a piece of U
shaped metal.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Now, I wonder if Margorol.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Was the mon You know what a tuning fork looks like,
don't you?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Quite certainly?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's laughing exactly, a piece of metal shaped like a
yule Look at this picture here in the paper. Divers
found that in the hold of the bombom Crater.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
You certainly looks like a tuning fork, all right.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I don't see manther, do I?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Margo?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yet I feel there's a link between the words silence,
these tuning forks, and the bombings. And if those are link, Margo,
I've got a hunch that this city may be in
for one of the most terrifying ordeals that has ever experienced.
Don't believe there'll be.
Speaker 10 (05:16):
More than drop a bombing.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I don't know what to believe, Margo.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm not play the Chicago already at get four.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I'm Chicago and.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Already at two for good bye, John, don't forget to
wire me?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Why there three Thursday five?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Mother, good bye son.
Speaker 10 (05:38):
I hope you have a smooth flie.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Shall we go married?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm glad to wait, Mother.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
I like to write and take off John Thomas away
from the plane. You don't sit on this side.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Doesn't just say dear.
Speaker 11 (05:47):
But I must admit that the roar of those motors
always makes me a hit nervous.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
John five John bomb.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Extra extra Read all about the latest mystery bombing. No
warning silence found at Central Airport. Extra Extra Latest.
Speaker 11 (06:16):
Sistory bombing sapples.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Believe right, is there's also a glody one of the farms.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, CHRISTI wisky stuck in the rectuss pasture. And this
note here was tasted on the police phone box next
to the back.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
The war of traffic is.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
A roar of doom, silence, silence, silence and infernal words.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But in every no refounds.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Yes, what's the laboratory report sogn what.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Explores a bomb?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
The farm's attached to a photoelectric cell. I wanna beat
here U shaped piece of the metal and I'm finding it.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
All the bombing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Uh see, well, how's at work?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, it's sort of like this commission of the laboratory
says that this U shaped piece of metal at the
tuning fork and the flat tuning for heirs, Well, it's
their tuning fork is placed of it. When the sound
of each flat vibrates that it breaks the light beam
of the ato electric tell it's attached to the bomb.
And when the light being broken stick a clause, the
bomb goes off.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I think I see what you mean, just like just
like your body breaks a light beam and opens the
door to some reay's no hotel.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yes, yes, that's the idea.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
There were sounds reported just before each of those bombing.
That's all of that trumpet at auto horn and that
fog horner, that flavor, and the noise goes airplane motor.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yes, I should have done it all right?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Whoever thought that one up is done by time? But
I still don't get these notes, these warnings about silence.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But there must be some reason why.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Well there's no lesson speaking.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
A shadow.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well what do you want?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
I'm busy, very busy, and.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I'm prat to have that many times bombing getting a head.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And I suppose you know all about them, all.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
These pieces of you shape music finding?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
How did you know that? Never mind? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Is that what a laboratory calls him? He flapped to him.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Look got to a photo let itself.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's the barn.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
When the sound vibrates the.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Fork and passes the farther cells like beam and that
and that closes the circuit.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And explodes the bar.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Very neat a commissioner, Very anything else I can do
for you?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Just one thing more, commissioner, Yes, do you realize what
all this means?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Why?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Because the notes has contained the word silence, you must
broadcast the general warning to the city at once. Use
the radio, use the newspapers, use any means of your command,
but warn the people immediately that there must be absolute
silence until the murderer is caught. They must not make
any musical instruments, blow the auto horns. In fact, they
must not do anything to make a loud noise of
any kind that might set off another of these tuning
(08:40):
fork bombs.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
For the penalty maybe death if we're done here. They
found one of the farmers. It is one of these first.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Pass Yeah, imagine it right here, at one of them.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
City of cars in the city.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I tell it's enough to give it a creek, certainly
is look up the avenue there here. It is the
middle of the day, amount of cars.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Or I haven't had my card at a garage since
the Free Commission of broadcast that morning. Think of it,
he said, even a squeaking break might stand.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
In a kingdom.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Come, or well, I can tell your kingdom, come and
be better than this. They don't find the guy that's
planning these bombs.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Soon the whole town's gone off. That's nothing, he's telling me.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I haven't slept before night.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Awful silence. It's like a wet blanket over your things. Day,
this day, and nothing stop.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I stop painting that for a Robert, I could scream nervous.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
How about me?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I can't stand the silence much longer.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I tell you, I can't.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Stand rob Remember Commissioner Westerns warning, no one knows where
the bombs are planning even a shot I know, I
don't even a shout, fight, an ef wap, but not
of death.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
That's what they're calling about.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's silly. But what do they call this? This awful
tomb will be cut? Robert?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Please come on, we're going out, start packing. We'll live
on the first tray where we're going. You makes no
Western has already tacked all the music stores, But I
I still believe you might have overlooked one. Several of
the stores I checked it sold human approps recently, but
only one was a knee plant that was purchased by
(10:30):
the Board of Education.
Speaker 11 (10:31):
It wouldn't look.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Not until we've checked every music store.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
In the city.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Now here's the list of stores. Well separate again. You
take these I have marked in the list. Now visit
the o best to Mogo.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Every minute moves as closer to the next explosion.
Speaker 11 (10:46):
Goodness, one morning about Roy deserted to speaker like that.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
Like I was moving to some body of the dead.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yes, it's it's like a plague, plague of silence.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
But we must be on our way, Mobo.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's not a moment to lose.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I meet you at the Andrews Music Store.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The first store we visited this.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
Morning was another one after you there?
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Oh suh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We haven't sold any blast tuning fork in months?
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Was there everything else?
Speaker 11 (11:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Miss, we're wholesale, you see.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
We only sell the music schools and such.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Even they don't buy two imports they are.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
What's that mister cunning fox?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Noways the paneled sheet music radios and record Maybe you'd
like a sheet music.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And uh, what can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Miss?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Nothing, frank you. I'm just waiting for someone, if you
don't mind.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh no, not at all.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
By the way, weren't you in here this morning?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
I was, Yes, I remember you now. He were were
the gentleman who wanted to know if we'd sold any
tuning forks lately.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Was that right?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
He said you hadn't, Yes, And.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
After you left.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
I did remember one sale, but that was to one
of our regular customers.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
And it was it was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That wouldn't be what you mean.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
No, I suppose not. No.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Doctor Badeaux is a very fine man, fine musician too.
He's brought a number of musical instruments from us. Course
he did strike me a bit odd.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Odd. What was odd?
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Well, doctor Badeaux wanting all of those tuning fogs for
the same pitch e flat?
Speaker 9 (12:24):
I believe it was e flat?
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Yes, but you know how musicians are. Surely you don't.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
No, of course not.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
But I I suppose I should see this doctor Videaux,
just for the record, you know.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
Oh would you like his address?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yes, if you'd be so kind, Yeah, sure, I.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I'd write it down for you, Doctor Andre Beddeaux, twenty two,
eighteen West ninth Street.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Nice, well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
And if the gentleman I'm waiting for you to arrive.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
While I'm gone, tell him to wait there.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
Yes, yes, his name is Lamont Cranston.
Speaker 11 (12:59):
If i'm paid, tell him to meet me at doctor Rideaux.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
What it's your eighteen you say.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Yes, doctor Rideaux.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Yes that is gud doctor Rideaux, doctor of music.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
But you have our and you, my dear, my.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
Name is Margoline, doctor, I'm a royal student.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Oh, musician. I'm so beautiful. Do come in, thank you?
This is my studio. Oh it's charming.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You teach you?
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Oh no, no, I I seld him to teach, my dear,
I am composer, great composer. No, I'm afraid that it's
still my own little secret.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
But then you wouldn't have time for a simple student
like myself.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Do know?
Speaker 9 (13:54):
No.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
On the contrary, my dear, it has always always been
my special pleasure to encourage, really tell him, especially a
beautiful talent.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yes, yes, well that's very nice, But I'm not awfully talented,
and you I don't really believe you'd be interested what.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
I have already decided.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
I would be interested, most interested.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
But first, you are just in time for a treat?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Where a treat?
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Well, I'm afraid I must go now.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
I just remembered an appointment.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
You should remember that before you interrupted my work. Now
that you are here, you shall remain on until it
is my pleasure to dismiss your You can't do that.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Sit down there.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I did not ask you to disturb me. But now
that you are here, you shall share a secret with me.
You like secrets, No, most young women like secrets. But
can't keep them. Rather think you shall keep this one.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
My dear, What is that? What? What did you say?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
You are wasting your birth?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
My dear?
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Really you are you?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Your sound proof? Completely soundproof?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
And now for my secret. You you see this beautiful
electric organ. Yes, the course of electric organ shall reveal.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
My secret, my greatest composition.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I shall play it for you now on this beautiful organ.
Oh pardon me just a moment, my dear, the door
seems to have blown open. Me an the luck with
the gods against Really, you don't seem to realize what
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a great honor I am this bolt bestow on you,
or you shall be my first and the last to
hear my greatest composition, my Symphony of Do I frighten you,
my child?
Speaker 11 (15:45):
I'm so sorry, but you are my own invited guests,
can't you my only guests? The lighting is quite poor
for shadows, my dear.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
There are no shadows in my two jobs. When more
before I pray my symphony for you? You see the
black box on that pedestal there?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Answer me, do you, yes? Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I see that box is my invention. It is a
bomb the famous others I have placed about the city,
and it shall permit you and me to die. You see,
my dear, into the final climax of my symphony. I
have written the final climax of life.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
It since No, Yeah, but enough of this program notes.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Yes, let us begin the performance.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
Yeah, listen, my dear, listen to the pale beauty of
the whole tone. Truly a feast, isn't it a feast
for just the two of us?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Three?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Doctor bdow, three of us?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
He told you where I were ree free? No, who speaks?
I am?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
The shadow is the shadow?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
We did hear, of course, my inner voice, my shadow,
the shadow of my poor weak conscion.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
We hear your court shadow, the.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Three of us. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
We've had an exciting time lately, haven't we bego you
the master?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I gosh shadow.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Is exciting, my shadow, and it has led up to victory. Yes,
we have at last won our war on noise, the
silent city.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Paced tribute to our course.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But why do why have we waited this war in
the city? Why these bombings?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why this terror?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
You forget so soon?
Speaker 10 (17:43):
What are four?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Conscience?
Speaker 11 (17:45):
You are shadow?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Yes, but once more I will tell you we have
been waging.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
The war, the war wars, the war for peace only.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
The true piece is a simple piece of silence. Yes,
but quiet, quiet conscience Highlands is the only way to fight,
be on happiness in the world today, this world of ours,
with its.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
War, it's chaos. It's noise, yes, yes, above all it's noise.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
How many of our bombs are still unexploded, bedou?
Speaker 6 (18:15):
How many three throughout the citim I forget the shadow,
and one here on the pedestal, waiting to play its
part in my symphony of Thailand, waiting for me to
play e flat.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But the three and the city, where did we leave them?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
What a poor conscience you are.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Shadow.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
One's conscience should not forget to us, yea, But I
will forgive you. Don't you remember the one we left
in the elevator shafts of the state building.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yes, I remember now, very clever of it was.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
And another we planted behind the times bill in the portamery,
But of course, how stupid from the firm in the
grim terminals.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Very noisy places, without a doubt, but.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Noisy no longer.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
The city of the Piland as a tomb, And so
long as it remains silence, so trule the bombs. But
now now my symphony reaches its climax. My work has finished.
Listen to the compelling beauty of the finale.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yes, here are those hones pushing up map map.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
It's the work of a mother.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I they know the craters of the malls, and now
now the.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
Finals p se.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And and if I know residues from the manalary.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But my symphony in silence.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
In there they mother just estamine.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Everything is a all right for the explode in them
There was.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
No explosion, but that the doors look lying there across
the keyboard.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Yes, good, quite dead.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It was Badeau's body pressing against the keyboard that caused
the rumbling you thought was an explosion.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Yes, I still don't understand what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
All the time I was talking to Badeaux, I was
standing beside the pedestal on which he placed the bomb.
When he started to play the organ, I disconnected.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
The photoel etc.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Cell from the bomb, making it harmless. Heart failure, My
dear Margo.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
A victim of his own hypnosis. He was so sure
that the explosion would occur that it did. In his
distorted mind.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
I think heaven is all over.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yes, the symphony of silence is over.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The terror is ended.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Once more, the city can return to its normal life
once more, as people are safe to work and play,
laugh and cry, free from the terror that has no
really driven the man. Yes, and once more a man
has learned that there is only one musician who can
play the cosmic music of silence and sound, the master musician.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Of them all, the composer of life itself. Let no
man tempt you into crime, for crime is like a
strangling serpent. It crushes him who feeds it most. Beware less,
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the serpent of crime Ensnare you in his poles. Remember
crime does not pay the shadow noe
Who knows what evil works in the hearts of men.
The Shadow Lord, the.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Shadow, the serious character devotes his life to righting wrongs,
protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty. Is in reality
the Mont Cranston, wealthy young man about town, student of science,
and master of other people's minds using advanced methods that
may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies. Cranston
(00:43):
is known to criminals and evildoers as the Shadow, never seen,
only hurt, as haunting, to superstitious minds, as a ghost,
as inevitable as a guilty conscience. Cranston's friend and companion,
the lovely margl Lane, is the only person who knows
to whom the unseen voice belongs. Today's story Murder in
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a Flat d heady along.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Jack again Market the love God God is Kelly?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Come on over here, you're my I'm expected to see
them here.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
You got room for wonder? You Marcres?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
What do you think of this?
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Fand why kid the hottest I'm.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
Still take the dream of my that's my ideals.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Why now necklace?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No? Oh yeah? Yeah keeps and I thought I would
cut off. Yeah, I had to break There was plain
joint on Fittyastree had.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
A bit about oh nobody said, you know what happened?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
The standards player joint just blew up and we don't
know yet how many.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Works I think was found a note name over.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
The bar to make Portento read it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, here it is.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He says.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
The only real music is the music of silent Yeah,
funny business. Okay, I'll report about the headquarters of St.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
The average.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Go on, Henry, toss that town front.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That's my feard.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I counted crossing that white line and I'm now then
they can pull over.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Oh, Henry, blow your heart.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But you're not supposed to blow your heart in the city,
My dear, you go back the antioid COVI.
Speaker 9 (03:10):
I don't care what the ant I know it can't
blow your heart.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
That's I'll get over. That's what you say, my dear.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I was drying about fifty yards behind their car.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
They started to swing out of line.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
And blew their horns, and then it happened, this awful explosion.
Speaker 10 (03:35):
I tell you, I've had an am note.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Where'd you get this snow?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
After the explosion, I noticed it's lying in the front
seat beside me.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Somebody must have thrown it in through the window.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
What do you suppose it means? Officer?
Speaker 7 (03:45):
And let's look at it again. Let this be a
warning to you auto horns that playthings to the devil.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Silence?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
What does it mean, officer?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I don't know, mister, but if I way, you had
to forget.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
I had a horn, you know, Margre.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's something very peculiar about these bombings, serious explosions.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I believed the paper had calls them. There's another one
last night that.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Really it blew up in the river, Yes, the moth.
I was reading about it, and the paper says they
found a note mailed to a nearby duck something about
silence is the golden token.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Of true peace.
Speaker 10 (04:26):
Ah, it sounds like some crome.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yes, ard and sinister silence. That word has appeared in
every note, silence. The only other two that has been
found at all three bombings is a piece of U
shaped metal.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Now, I wonder if Margorol.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Was the mon You know what a tuning fork looks like,
don't you?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Quite certainly?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's laughing exactly, a piece of metal shaped like a
yule Look at this picture here in the paper. Divers
found that in the hold of the bombom Crater.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
You certainly looks like a tuning fork, all right.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I don't see manther, do I?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Margo?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yet I feel there's a link between the words silence,
these tuning forks, and the bombings. And if those are link, Margo,
I've got a hunch that this city may be in
for one of the most terrifying ordeals that has ever experienced.
Don't believe there'll be.
Speaker 10 (05:16):
More than drop a bombing.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I don't know what to believe, Margo.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm not play the Chicago already at get four.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I'm Chicago and.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Already at two for good bye, John, don't forget to
wire me?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Why there three Thursday five?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Mother, good bye son.
Speaker 10 (05:38):
I hope you have a smooth flie.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Shall we go married?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm glad to wait, Mother.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
I like to write and take off John Thomas away
from the plane. You don't sit on this side.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Doesn't just say dear.
Speaker 11 (05:47):
But I must admit that the roar of those motors
always makes me a hit nervous.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
John five John bomb.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Extra extra Read all about the latest mystery bombing. No
warning silence found at Central Airport. Extra Extra Latest.
Speaker 11 (06:16):
Sistory bombing sapples.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Believe right, is there's also a glody one of the farms.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, CHRISTI wisky stuck in the rectuss pasture. And this
note here was tasted on the police phone box next
to the back.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
The war of traffic is.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
A roar of doom, silence, silence, silence and infernal words.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But in every no refounds.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Yes, what's the laboratory report sogn what.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Explores a bomb?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
The farm's attached to a photoelectric cell. I wanna beat
here U shaped piece of the metal and I'm finding it.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
All the bombing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Uh see, well, how's at work?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, it's sort of like this commission of the laboratory
says that this U shaped piece of metal at the
tuning fork and the flat tuning for heirs, Well, it's
their tuning fork is placed of it. When the sound
of each flat vibrates that it breaks the light beam
of the ato electric tell it's attached to the bomb.
And when the light being broken stick a clause, the
bomb goes off.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I think I see what you mean, just like just
like your body breaks a light beam and opens the
door to some reay's no hotel.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yes, yes, that's the idea.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
There were sounds reported just before each of those bombing.
That's all of that trumpet at auto horn and that
fog horner, that flavor, and the noise goes airplane motor.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yes, I should have done it all right?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Whoever thought that one up is done by time? But
I still don't get these notes, these warnings about silence.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But there must be some reason why.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Well there's no lesson speaking.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
A shadow.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well what do you want?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
I'm busy, very busy, and.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I'm prat to have that many times bombing getting a head.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And I suppose you know all about them, all.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
These pieces of you shape music finding?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
How did you know that? Never mind? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Is that what a laboratory calls him? He flapped to him.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Look got to a photo let itself.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's the barn.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
When the sound vibrates the.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Fork and passes the farther cells like beam and that
and that closes the circuit.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And explodes the bar.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Very neat a commissioner, Very anything else I can do
for you?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Just one thing more, commissioner, Yes, do you realize what
all this means?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Why?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Because the notes has contained the word silence, you must
broadcast the general warning to the city at once. Use
the radio, use the newspapers, use any means of your command,
but warn the people immediately that there must be absolute
silence until the murderer is caught. They must not make
any musical instruments, blow the auto horns. In fact, they
must not do anything to make a loud noise of
any kind that might set off another of these tuning
(08:40):
fork bombs.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
For the penalty maybe death if we're done here. They
found one of the farmers. It is one of these first.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Pass Yeah, imagine it right here, at one of them.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
City of cars in the city.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I tell it's enough to give it a creek, certainly
is look up the avenue there here. It is the
middle of the day, amount of cars.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Or I haven't had my card at a garage since
the Free Commission of broadcast that morning. Think of it,
he said, even a squeaking break might stand.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
In a kingdom.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Come, or well, I can tell your kingdom, come and
be better than this. They don't find the guy that's
planning these bombs.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Soon the whole town's gone off. That's nothing, he's telling me.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I haven't slept before night.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Awful silence. It's like a wet blanket over your things. Day,
this day, and nothing stop.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I stop painting that for a Robert, I could scream nervous.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
How about me?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I can't stand the silence much longer.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I tell you, I can't.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Stand rob Remember Commissioner Westerns warning, no one knows where
the bombs are planning even a shot I know, I
don't even a shout, fight, an ef wap, but not
of death.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
That's what they're calling about.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's silly. But what do they call this? This awful
tomb will be cut? Robert?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Please come on, we're going out, start packing. We'll live
on the first tray where we're going. You makes no
Western has already tacked all the music stores, But I
I still believe you might have overlooked one. Several of
the stores I checked it sold human approps recently, but
only one was a knee plant that was purchased by
(10:30):
the Board of Education.
Speaker 11 (10:31):
It wouldn't look.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Not until we've checked every music store.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
In the city.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Now here's the list of stores. Well separate again. You
take these I have marked in the list. Now visit
the o best to Mogo.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Every minute moves as closer to the next explosion.
Speaker 11 (10:46):
Goodness, one morning about Roy deserted to speaker like that.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
Like I was moving to some body of the dead.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yes, it's it's like a plague, plague of silence.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
But we must be on our way, Mobo.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's not a moment to lose.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I meet you at the Andrews Music Store.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The first store we visited this.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
Morning was another one after you there?
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Oh suh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We haven't sold any blast tuning fork in months?
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Was there everything else?
Speaker 11 (11:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Miss, we're wholesale, you see.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
We only sell the music schools and such.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Even they don't buy two imports they are.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
What's that mister cunning fox?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Noways the paneled sheet music radios and record Maybe you'd
like a sheet music.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
And uh, what can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Miss?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Nothing, frank you. I'm just waiting for someone, if you
don't mind.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh no, not at all.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
By the way, weren't you in here this morning?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
I was, Yes, I remember you now. He were were
the gentleman who wanted to know if we'd sold any
tuning forks lately.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Was that right?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
He said you hadn't, Yes, And.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
After you left.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
I did remember one sale, but that was to one
of our regular customers.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
And it was it was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That wouldn't be what you mean.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
No, I suppose not. No.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Doctor Badeaux is a very fine man, fine musician too.
He's brought a number of musical instruments from us. Course
he did strike me a bit odd.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Odd. What was odd?
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Well, doctor Badeaux wanting all of those tuning fogs for
the same pitch e flat?
Speaker 9 (12:24):
I believe it was e flat?
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Yes, but you know how musicians are. Surely you don't.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
No, of course not.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
But I I suppose I should see this doctor Videaux,
just for the record, you know.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
Oh would you like his address?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yes, if you'd be so kind, Yeah, sure, I.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I'd write it down for you, Doctor Andre Beddeaux, twenty two,
eighteen West ninth Street.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Nice, well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
And if the gentleman I'm waiting for you to arrive.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
While I'm gone, tell him to wait there.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
Yes, yes, his name is Lamont Cranston.
Speaker 11 (12:59):
If i'm paid, tell him to meet me at doctor Rideaux.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
What it's your eighteen you say.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Yes, doctor Rideaux.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Yes that is gud doctor Rideaux, doctor of music.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
But you have our and you, my dear, my.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
Name is Margoline, doctor, I'm a royal student.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Oh, musician. I'm so beautiful. Do come in, thank you?
This is my studio. Oh it's charming.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You teach you?
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Oh no, no, I I seld him to teach, my dear,
I am composer, great composer. No, I'm afraid that it's
still my own little secret.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
But then you wouldn't have time for a simple student
like myself.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Do know?
Speaker 9 (13:54):
No.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
On the contrary, my dear, it has always always been
my special pleasure to encourage, really tell him, especially a
beautiful talent.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yes, yes, well that's very nice, But I'm not awfully talented,
and you I don't really believe you'd be interested what.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
I have already decided.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
I would be interested, most interested.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
But first, you are just in time for a treat?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Where a treat?
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Well, I'm afraid I must go now.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
I just remembered an appointment.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
You should remember that before you interrupted my work. Now
that you are here, you shall remain on until it
is my pleasure to dismiss your You can't do that.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Sit down there.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I did not ask you to disturb me. But now
that you are here, you shall share a secret with me.
You like secrets, No, most young women like secrets. But
can't keep them. Rather think you shall keep this one.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
My dear, What is that? What? What did you say?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
You are wasting your birth?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
My dear?
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Really you are you?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Your sound proof? Completely soundproof?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
And now for my secret. You you see this beautiful
electric organ. Yes, the course of electric organ shall reveal.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
My secret, my greatest composition.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I shall play it for you now on this beautiful organ.
Oh pardon me just a moment, my dear, the door
seems to have blown open. Me an the luck with
the gods against Really, you don't seem to realize what
(15:31):
a great honor I am this bolt bestow on you,
or you shall be my first and the last to
hear my greatest composition, my Symphony of Do I frighten you,
my child?
Speaker 11 (15:45):
I'm so sorry, but you are my own invited guests,
can't you my only guests? The lighting is quite poor
for shadows, my dear.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
There are no shadows in my two jobs. When more
before I pray my symphony for you? You see the
black box on that pedestal there?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Answer me, do you, yes? Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I see that box is my invention. It is a
bomb the famous others I have placed about the city,
and it shall permit you and me to die. You see,
my dear, into the final climax of my symphony. I
have written the final climax of life.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
It since No, Yeah, but enough of this program notes.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Yes, let us begin the performance.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
Yeah, listen, my dear, listen to the pale beauty of
the whole tone. Truly a feast, isn't it a feast
for just the two of us?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Three?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Doctor bdow, three of us?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
He told you where I were ree free? No, who speaks?
I am?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
The shadow is the shadow?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
We did hear, of course, my inner voice, my shadow,
the shadow of my poor weak conscion.
Speaker 10 (17:10):
We hear your court shadow, the.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Three of us. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
We've had an exciting time lately, haven't we bego you
the master?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I gosh shadow.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Is exciting, my shadow, and it has led up to victory. Yes,
we have at last won our war on noise, the
silent city.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Paced tribute to our course.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But why do why have we waited this war in
the city? Why these bombings?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why this terror?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
You forget so soon?
Speaker 10 (17:43):
What are four?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Conscience?
Speaker 11 (17:45):
You are shadow?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Yes, but once more I will tell you we have
been waging.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
The war, the war wars, the war for peace only.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
The true piece is a simple piece of silence. Yes,
but quiet, quiet conscience Highlands is the only way to fight,
be on happiness in the world today, this world of ours,
with its.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
War, it's chaos. It's noise, yes, yes, above all it's noise.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
How many of our bombs are still unexploded, bedou?
Speaker 6 (18:15):
How many three throughout the citim I forget the shadow,
and one here on the pedestal, waiting to play its
part in my symphony of Thailand, waiting for me to
play e flat.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But the three and the city, where did we leave them?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
What a poor conscience you are.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Shadow.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
One's conscience should not forget to us, yea, But I
will forgive you. Don't you remember the one we left
in the elevator shafts of the state building.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yes, I remember now, very clever of it was.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
And another we planted behind the times bill in the portamery,
But of course, how stupid from the firm in the
grim terminals.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Very noisy places, without a doubt, but.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Noisy no longer.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
The city of the Piland as a tomb, And so
long as it remains silence, so trule the bombs. But
now now my symphony reaches its climax. My work has finished.
Listen to the compelling beauty of the finale.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yes, here are those hones pushing up map map.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
It's the work of a mother.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I they know the craters of the malls, and now
now the.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
Finals p se.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And and if I know residues from the manalary.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But my symphony in silence.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
In there they mother just estamine.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Everything is a all right for the explode in them
There was.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
No explosion, but that the doors look lying there across
the keyboard.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Yes, good, quite dead.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It was Badeau's body pressing against the keyboard that caused
the rumbling you thought was an explosion.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Yes, I still don't understand what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
All the time I was talking to Badeaux, I was
standing beside the pedestal on which he placed the bomb.
When he started to play the organ, I disconnected.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
The photoel etc.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Cell from the bomb, making it harmless. Heart failure, My
dear Margo.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
A victim of his own hypnosis. He was so sure
that the explosion would occur that it did. In his
distorted mind.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
I think heaven is all over.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yes, the symphony of silence is over.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The terror is ended.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Once more, the city can return to its normal life
once more, as people are safe to work and play,
laugh and cry, free from the terror that has no
really driven the man. Yes, and once more a man
has learned that there is only one musician who can
play the cosmic music of silence and sound, the master musician.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Of them all, the composer of life itself. Let no
man tempt you into crime, for crime is like a
strangling serpent. It crushes him who feeds it most. Beware less,
(21:40):
the serpent of crime Ensnare you in his poles. Remember
crime does not pay the shadow noe
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