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Presenting the transcription feature Superman up atthe sky. Look, it's the word,
it's a queen, It's Superman,and now Superman strange visitor from another
world has come down to Earth asthe champion of the Week and the oppressed.
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When we last saw him, Supermanand his character of Clark Kent within
the library of stone House in thesuburb of Brentwood, attempting to revive doctor
George Haven Beecham, world famous scientistand explorer, who had been struck by
a poisoned dart which came through thewindow outside. In the dark, mysterious
brown figures from the Jungles of SouthAmerica are besieging stone House in an attempt
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to recover the sacred Emerald of theIncas, which doctor Beecham brought back from
his latest expedition. Elsie, thedoctor's daughter, has banished, and so
has his native servant, ingred.As our story continues to day, an
hour has passed. The taxi driver, whom Superman found on the ground as
fled in terror to the cellar.Doctor Beecham is rapidly recovering as Kent ends
anxiously over him. Listen, whatwhat's that? Two o'clock doctor, to
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be daylight another couple of hours.How are you feeling? Oh, I'm
all right, I'm quite all right. But Elsie Kent? Where's my daughter?
Doctor? I don't know she's outthere somewhere. Can they've got her
those murders native? I don't thinkso, doctor. I don't know where
she is, but I don't thinkthey've got her. That taxi driver,
where's he? Scared out of hiswits? He's done on the cellar,
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Kent the door. They're trying again, blocking a stay back, doctor,
I'll handless. What are you doing? Man? Don't open it? Doctor?
Did you hear that? Elsie?Your daughter? There? Elsie died?
Miss Beacham? Oh, help meput that with you? Great Scott
singry, it's singry. Get himinside. He's dying. Close the door
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quick. He's been struck with poisoneddarts. Can you help him? Save
him? What you little brown men? They'd broken the house and carried me
away. Zingle followed him and thoughtthem all, oh, but he couldn't
escape their darts. Here then thehand can't write. Get him up on
the couch. I haven't there.How is he he's bad? I'm afraid
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no more syrup. Please dare speachhim? How did you know who he
was? Mister Kent? He toldme when he thought off the brown men,
he asked me who I was,And when I told him, he
said, you come quick. I'msingry. Oh, Dad, can't you
help him? Afraid I can't.I'll see it's too late, doctor,
you mean this the poison on thedarts acts fast. Oh, don't let
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him die. He saved my life. He did his duty. I'll see.
He's a faithful servant doctor. Look, I know, ken, I'm
afraid that's the end. Sure,there's nothing you can do. It's all
over, kid. We'd better carryhim the other room. All right,
that's it easy, there a closethe door. Can Oh it's so dreadful
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dead? What's it all about?What does it mean? I really think
we ought to know that, doctor. You started to tell me once before,
just just before the poisoned dart struckhead debate. No it Sai's all
right out sie, nothing happened tojust to graze and can help out quite
nicely. Oh are you sure?Oh? Perfectly? Look at me,
you're awfully pale. Naturally, he'sbeen through a good deal, miss Beecham.
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Yes, it's all due. Ireally think you'd both better sit down.
Yes, yes, here on theDavenport Elsie. Are you sure the
poorsingry really fought off the act landsfought off? What doctor as it land
Indians kent from the headwaters of theOrinoco. That's who those fellows outside are.
But dead? Please? What's itall about? Why were you hiding
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in this house? Oh, we'vebeen so worried. Oh it's a long
story. I'll I'll make it asshort as I can. Illison both of
you. You know what an emeraldlooks like? Why? Of course?
What's the biggest emeralds you ever sawor heard of? Goodness, I don't
know. Well, there's the starof the Andes and the Southern Plain.
They're pretty big. Striper, Nevermind, carrots, let's talk about inches.
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The stars about an inch across,and the flame may be an inch
and a half. What would yousay to an emerald carved in the form
of a statue? The statue ofa god would have to be pretty small,
three inches wide and every bit ofeight inches high. What a genuine
emerald? That big? Micter Peacham, It hardly seems possible. I don't
wonder your surprise, Kent. Well, that's what I've brought back with me
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from the jungles of South America,and that's why I've been hiding out back
of an electrified fence, guarded bythe most vicious pair of dolls I could
buy. But why Dad, who'strying to get the emerald back? The
asset Land Indians? Elsie? Forthousands of years, literally, it's been
the most sacred idol of the triumphDoctor reachum, How on the world did
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you get it? I stole it? Did you say you stole it?
I had to. It was theonly way I had to have that emerald.
You can imagine what it might beworth as a gem millions at least,
yes, probably, but entirely beyondits money value, which I don't
care a thing about because I meanto give it back eventually. It has
another value, completely beyond price.But I don't understand. But Elsie,
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thousands of years ago, the ancestorsof the act Lands were one of the
great nations of the Earth. Theywere called the Immortal people because they told
the emerald God. We don't knowmuch about them, but we know that
much. Come on, doctor dead, what did the emerald have to do
with it? That's what we've neverbeen able to find out. That is
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the great secret. You remember Pantherde Leon, the Spanish explorer, wa
he tried to find the Fountain ofyouth. Yes, just so, he
was following rumors he'd he'd heard ofthe secret, and he tried to find
it. But he failed. Andwhere he failed, I hope I may
have succeeded. Good heavens, doctorBeachamre, You can't mean it kent in
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some way. I don't pretend toknow how a great secret is wrapped up
in that emerald, carving the secretof the full life, the life without
any of the false that troubles today, without without greed, without envy,
without hatred. Possibly the secret oflife itself is hidden in that stone.
A doctor, what can you dowith it? Every inch of that
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little statue is covered with engravings,ancient writings, and you are trying to
decipher those writers. I'm trying,e'l sie. So far I have not
succeeded, but I intend to keepon working. Yes, but doctor,
and gets too dangerous. You can'tpossibly keep on working, Oh can't?
You don't understand if I can unlockthat secret, the secret of the immortals.
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In imagine what it will mean,not for me, but for the
whole human race. Dad, Whatis it? What is the secret?
Elsie? I? I haven't anyidea. It may be a formula,
a secret of chemistry or physics,something that was discovered once and then lost.
And you're sure it's contained in thecarvings on the statue? Well what
else? If not? Why didthe old tribes guarded so carefully? They
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knew too much? Com plain idleworship? Did you say the emerald was
in a safe upstairs? Yes?Would you like to see it? The
doctor? If I were you,I'd leave it there. We still don't
know what's going on outside. Hemade me right, Dad, you haven't
decided yet. How are you goingto go on tomorrow and the next day?
What you're going to do from nowon? He is right? Things
can't go on like this. Whatabout calling in the police, doctor,
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or taking the emerald to a museumand working on it there? Dad?
What's the matter? What is it? Doctor? Quiet? Upstairs? I
thought I heard something? Right?Heavens that was next upstairs? Doctor was
in that room? Quick? Oh? Yead be careful to seat. They've
brown in the side of the house. Look looks the whole second floors coming
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down after look out, Come back, doctor, stairway it's ducked off.
We can't get up that way nowthe backstairs. We may head them off.
Go ahead, doctor, You andyour daughter try the other way.
I'll stay here. You two maynot be able to get through here,
and Clark Kent might not be ableto bueether. But Superman can, and
it's time he tried. All upperfloors come right down, the staircase,
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ceiling and all. But it won'ttake long to clear up. Little thing
like that. Can't where are you? Oh we're blocked in. Can't where
are you? What? Something's happened? The wall must have fallen in behind
them. It's all right, I'mcoming. Can't the safe? Where's the
safe? What did they do?Almost through? Get this beam out of
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the way now, then if Ican get through that room, and I
think I can, is that you? I can't see a thing. Light
a match quickly? Half a second, doctor, there's the match. I
have one, great heavens, Lookthe safe. It's blown wide open.
Oh Dad, you can't get toit. The floor's all blowng away,
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just resting across a beam. Can'tThey've got it, blew the safe and
took the Emerald. The Emerald ofthe Incas has gone. Oh, mister
ken, don't try to get tothat window. You've fallen. Listen,
both of you. Don't you hearsomething? Listen? Yes, it's an
airplane. They're getting away in anairplane. But that couldn't be. There
isn't room enow, But they couldn'tget off the ground. I know an
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airplane engine when I hear one,and look there it goes. No,
it's an airplane, but not thekind you think, Miss Beacham, Doctor.
Look they're getting away in an autogyrow. Look up there, rising
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over the trees from the grounds ofStone House is a weird, ungainly object,
huge propeller whirling, ascending almost verticallyin the night air. Have the
brown men from the Dark Jungle madeoff with the Emerald of the Incas?
Is the secret of the Immortal Peoplelost beyond recall? Or will Superman recover
it? Be with us again nexttime and follow the story, and remember
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