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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Who knows what evil works in the hearts of men,
A shadow knows.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Once again, we bring you the thrilling adventures of the Shadow,
the heart and relentless fight of one man against the
forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate, forcibly
to old and young alike, that crime does not pay.
As the income tax thing deadline closes in on us,
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we are acutely conscious of the fact that it costs
a lot to live in This the best news on earth.
But it may not be much comfort. But it is
an important fact that it costs an awful lot to
risk life, and this is a useless cost. The National
Safety Council points out that accidents every year cost Americans
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five billion to seven billion dollars. And this shocking financial
cost of accidents takes no account of the value of
all the lives sacrifice needlessly for that is beyond the price.
For the high cost of living. We do get some
pretty good things for the high cost of risking life.
We get tears, trouble, and pain. And that's a bad buy.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Now, the Shadow, the shadow wages the forces of law
and order, is in reality lamand Cranston, wealthy young man
about town.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Years ago in the Audient, Cranston learned a strange and
mysterious secret.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
They have not power to cloud.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Men's minds, so they cannot see him.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
only person who knows to whom the voice of the
invisible Shadow belongs. Two Day's drama, The Ring of malalay Ley.
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Having finished a business transaction in the Caribbean, Lamont Cranston
with Margot broke the long return trip with a sightseeing
stop over at the tiny, palm studded island of Pale Now, some.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Twenty four hours later, they're about to board the plane
that will carry them back to the States.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
As the motors start, Marco turns and looks back at
the sunny island.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Place is lovely, lovely to look at.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That is there's like so many dangerous things lovely to
look at.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It seems impossible. What's happened here in such a peacefuls part.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Remember outlooking we arrived the white sand, the palm trees,
Madame Jolan's picturesqu at a hotel on the rise beyond
the beach.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Yes, quite enchanting.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The month.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
I know very well what happened at the end, But
I still don't understand how the whole horrible business with
Timpkins and Madame Joln's started well.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Timkins was a beach comber Margot used to spend most
of his waking hours mooching drinks from Madame Jolnes.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
You know. One day, the day we arrived at Power.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
As a matter of fact, Timkins came to the hotel
to make Madame Jolan a business proposition. He wanted to
trade her free drinks for a customer, a lodger.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
For the night, and a very unusual lodger he is.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Madame Jolens watched his business, Timkins, the kind of trade
you like, Madame Jola?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Where did you come by stolen the beach?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Help?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
He steps bagagein Nne and asks me where a man
could take his ease without a tract too much attention?
He has reason for avoiding attention, then, Chimkins. His name
is Cosson, as he made himself known to me, and
the reason for his shyness is a strait.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
What is his trade?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Smuggler h loaded Madame Choldan, loaded with stolen goods.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Pour yourself a drink, Chimkins. Thanks, He ask me about
the ricks. What's your lowest figure, Madam Cholden. How much
is his loot worth? About a quarter of a million.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Not a bad price for a night's lodging, Uniti drink.
Then bring him up to number twelve. I'll have my
native boy Panka waiting to make him comfortable. His name
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mister Carston, number twelve, all said, Mallory, you are most
too kind. It wouldn't hear that's another word? Ah, you
are the proprietors. Yes, why don't you step in, mister Carston.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I'm happy to have you here. The name is Joel,
most grateful. He's happy to have you too. And his
name is Pampka.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Whose name the oversized native boy with a machete in
his hand standing right behind you.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
What are yours? Pamka? No? No cheps?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Hello?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Rich Man yeah, rich Man yeah, rich Man's done it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Wrap the machete, Tim, you know.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
The never dead malally malalily. Come take rich Man sola
away quick now we want no trouble. Man's timpkins. Clean
that machete. Listen and new Panker take his body out?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Is madam where I put him?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
What do you think the swamp across the roadway. Good,
no finding there, nobody no finding there? Now then soot
the man's baggage. Here we are. Oh will you look? Ah,
what a dream you will know? If anything with that
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corporal of a million chimpkins.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
This is the best stuff, only the finest dimond, three
memorals setting platinum.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
There'll be plenty in some despair for the three of us.
Three of us, you and me? Who's three paker?
Speaker 7 (06:58):
You didn't want the blood on your hands, and no me,
But you're not serious about giving that Scuba native the
third cut and dry. Don't want to mess with him,
knowing all he does, and him mad at us. And
there's the short patrol to deal with Rah. They have docs,
dubbles docks.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
But I tell you I leave it to me.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
I lend him how Look, we'll give him one of
the rings, one of the one. And what's more, this one,
Why that's the cheapest of the loft. It's a hunk
of brass, and kid let it be. I won't force
it on him and make him choose how man, how
I make up a table for him.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
These natives are foes met him.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I'll tell him to ring that his power over Melaalley,
the dwarf God, be careful, to be careful monkey with Malaleley.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He's sacred to him. He's a pile of either nonsense.
Oh he is.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
But just for saying he's sacred to the trust me
I landed. He's not going to leave you without some proof.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
We'll give him a little proof.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
He let them take a wish from Alalle, and whatever
it is, we'll get it for him. Whatever it is
at these prices made him Jay. I'd arrange anything, Henker.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, you took care of the good mister castin Tanker.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
The rich mister Carsten feet take care in swampig on
one find them out now we cut up money.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Huh. Three way hear?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Suppose I told you there was something on this way
especially for you, one thing for you. Allow, Well, what
is the A ring? A ring that is power of
a mar Lelly and Lily exactly. Put your finger on it,
give it a twist, and Mary Lelly delivered as quick
as a wink.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I did not here tell you of such a ring. Well,
now you hear, Now you see it. You mightn't persuade
made him Jay to give you a break. Would you
like it? In patient share of the loop, would your
boy if if I try it and it works, yes,
and you're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Yeah, put it on Navin twisted and say, Malalely, it
doesn't and MALALELEI will do as sure as you walk.
Anything you say, well, will ring kill for me, kill
course anything, anything.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
You're have desire. I wish. Oh it's it's going to
be a cloud. Oh out loud.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Then Malalely, you know police fellow who was bad to Bumpka,
go with Bumpka.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Break me neck of.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
That police fellow, captain Huber Malalely, Malaleli, break me the
neck of Captain Huber.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Joan, mister timm.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Or smile what is it?
Speaker 8 (09:54):
The ring?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
The ring?
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Give me a ring? I take it now, I think.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Then if you see to build yeah, yeah, This morning
I go.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
To his office.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
There he SIT's dead and how.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Is he dead?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
His neck is broken, unsign h Hooper's captain Hooper's broke
and twisted its snaff like the leg of a trapped jackal.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Because did you wish last night? So it was done
this morning? He pamka, just as I wished.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
So you want this ring now, Panca, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
instead of your cut off the loop. Yeah, yeah, the
daily is crossed. Yeah, take it in good luck? Yeah
now mine mine. Malalely is great. Malalely is great. Malalely
is great. Mister Timpkins, Adam, you're an indispensable man.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You are, Jenny Share, you considering generous me after all
you've done.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
And I know you said you'll arrange anything for the
sum involved r and stop shy of murder.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
But you didn't wipe the brave soul you are. You
went through with it. I went through with what with
breaking UBA's neck?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Me?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I broke Uber's neck? But didn't you? I thought you
did it? Did Please?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
I'm a man, not easier mean nurse. I don't excite me.
Don't play with me good teasing oranger? You killed the cat?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Didn't? I did mean it so well? But who did it?
Who did? Yesterday?
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Banker twisted that ring and wished him there of a Brooknnick.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Today his neck's broken? Who did he say? Who granted
this wish? Could be the things? And war? God is great?
What's right to the bobby door customers? This is a hopeful.
We don't want anybody here. I just think I know
it leave it to me.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yes, money, you've just arrived, and my name is de
mont Franceston. This is Marco Lay will only be here too.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
No room, glad if anything you consider.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Reason, I'm considered it reasonable to listen to what I
tell you. No room filled?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
That no room lucky the cat waits for us.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Yes, that's something of a beast, that lady.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well, if she didn't have any rooms still is.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
A nicer way to say it? Did not have to
say it at all?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
She did not have to tell you it's no room?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Because it's room hold on hotel?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Big plays unless there are lots of guess, oh.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Guess nobody. They're tall sapt Madame Ja? My name Tim?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Can she keep around one servant?
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Maybe two?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Was the big idea?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Nobody don't know much about Madame j idea.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Of a feeling they wouldn't like if they did. Driver,
you turn around here. I want to go back and
see if she couldn't possibly squeeze us in somehow among
her other hotels.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
And how where was ourselves into that particular one.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Maybe I like the view.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Who is there a stamper them in med Jo? What
do you want We want to talk to you. We
have something to tell you.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
All right, I open now what do you want to
show me?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Shy Pamphy's gone?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Just did you wanted to get skirtish?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Were you taking charge of the ring?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
No?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
We are.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Never say.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Why it helped me? Why you take ring?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Ysy boy? What do you mean? Yes?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
See you know you know twist the ring to kill me?
Speaker 8 (14:08):
You know, twist the ring to kill Pamka.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Back there you have the king Adam. Yes, come on wait.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Why best regards to the dwarf mester.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Leave me out, Madame, listen to me. Liter be good baby?
No no, please no, please, no, no, please no?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Kiss Who who broke window?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Who stand outside like bird and silver?
Speaker 9 (14:43):
Now?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
High out come?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Cannot be mad Lily cannot be dwarf. It's god hip cow.
Please please mother Lily.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
We'll return to the shadow in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
What's that child in your home going to grow up
to be a doctor, a lawyer, an artist, a builder.
But no matter what he does for a living, you
want to be sure he's just a good citizen. You'll
give your child the best education you can afford. You
will stand by through years of study, or training for
his chosen field. But what about the rest of it,
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This business of being a good citizen. It takes years
of preparation to emperor profession. Does becoming a good citizen
just happen? Of course, not that too, takes training, training
in the most formative years of a person's life, the
years he spends with the people who influence him most,
his mother and father. Yes, the training ground for Americanism
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is the American home. Education for citizenship should start before kindergarten.
As Mark Twain said, a little of citizenship ought to
be taught at the mother's knee in the nursery. Citizenship
is what makes a republic. Monarchies can get along without it.
But how do you teach the child these principles by
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living them. Respect your child's individuality and he will respect others.
Set your child an example by being the best citizen
you possibly can be yourself. Remember, a successful home is
the keynote to a successful democracy. And now the chadel.
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Madame Jolan and Timkins, the beach comber heard the screams
of the luckless pamp cut from inside a room twelve.
When the violence subsided, they cautiously opened the door to
find the native sprawled on the floor, his neck broken.
Timpkins efficiently took charge, ordering Madame Jolan to scrub the
carpet while he lugged Pampkin's corpse across the roadway to
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the swamp. For a few moments, silence reigned in the
sinister hotel, and then Margot and Lamont had returned and
were knocking on the lobby door.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
They must hear it.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
They're all dead.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Margaret, No, thank this door is off the lad off.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
This You're right it is?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Should we we just walk in.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
The way I know of to my Margaret, Adam Jolen,
Adam jolank you.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Possibility? Who get there?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
He gets only a burn roof?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And again maybe not where you're going upstairs to investigate?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
I wouldn't you want to stay here? And at the
first time of trouble make for the door, all right?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Be careful.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Strange place telling us there's no room in the hotel
has obviously emptied.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
He's here on the floor.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
But what.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
There's That's all I can do for you.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Oh, Madam Joan, you.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Know the girl that was here before with the gentleman
on too?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
And where is he?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
He is?
Speaker 7 (18:50):
He's I have to turn you down before I remember that.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
The situation has changed. Now I can accommodate. You can't.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Yes, twelve's empty. There was a man there, but he
isn't there anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Follow me, I said, follow me. You want a room,
don't you? I don't know. You don't know what are
you doing in my hotel? Of course I want a room.
What am I talking about it? Of course I do.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
And as I said before, follow me, number twelve one
of the best.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
After you, I don't have to examine to you. I
want you to see it. I'm proud of twelve, new carpeting,
new curtain. Yes, mother in.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
Washstand of you with the harbor and a good sick
double lockdown, make your shop at home in there?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Who's that?
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Timpkins has endurance and I always open down, says I know.
We've got a guest to tell the body this one.
Who's that girl looking? Before laying the name? I think
and a man friend?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I think he's about somewhere. Settle my share of the
book and get note. This is getting to our for Timpkins.
Oh no, what do you mean now? I mean you're
not going nowhere?
Speaker 7 (20:23):
You could leave an old woman in a spot like
miss Timpkins. They're an old woman's easiest I think you
can do to stop me. You're not a very bright boy, Timpion. No, no,
you're forgetting something. You're forgetting what I've got on my finger.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Ring.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Yes, the ring, the ring that I twisted for pampk,
the ring that I now twist for you. No stopping
too late, mister Tree. It's done, and I'm leaving all
the quicker aware someplace that Malaey can't find. Yes, good birth,
happy landing, mister Timpkins.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
And Willie. Look who's coming down the hall? How do
you turn to me? The help now, Timptons to a fail,
old lady.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Ring didn't come now you.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
He let it down the hole?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Get him?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Get can't?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Can?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Can?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Can you?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
By what happened?
Speaker 9 (21:34):
Who is my name is Cramston?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Yeah, what happened here?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Dwarf God? He's done for me for I can't explain it.
Time her time.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
And then to the top of the last flight of stairs,
adducked into this rond.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I tried to close that door there, but it quick
quick as a power in the.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
I can't fight it against the gods.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
A woman, an old woman, she should.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Favorite is Madame. Yes, my head and you are her mind?
Is the name a girl?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yes? What about her?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
She's got her locked up, she's fucked up.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Where where is she?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Sowhere?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I M.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Now get back upstairs, back to.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Miss Lane, Madame Joland.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Who's that? Whose voice was that?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
This is the shadow? Madame children?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Shadow?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Where are not in the dark corners.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Of this cellar? Where you're looking, Madame Joland, I'm right
here beside you.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
What do you want?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Information?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
But where you're kidding, Miss Lane, about the dwarf God Maloneli,
and about the ruthless murders that have been committed in
your hotel.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Yes, murders Malonelli. The Dwarf God did that. He killed
Pampa and Timpto.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You expect me to believe that a dwarf god walks
this island, Madame Joland.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
You can believe what you want, Shadow, But I know
what the.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Girl believes, girls Lay, she believes in the Dwarf God,
because right now Madalele is in the room with her.
What I love the ring Shadow, and Malaley is about
to crack a lovely neck.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Let me out, Let me out, Madam Joeln.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
The loon, the lord.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
No use nobody can. Who's a something sitting on the window?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Still?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
My life?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Lady?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Go away?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Whatever you are, go away.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Ring Ring has called ring what Ring Ring has called
Malalai work God world oh no, has called Malay to
take I.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Get away, get away, not this life, Malay.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
I'm not calling what is it?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
What is? It's?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
No God, you can be sure of that. Isn't that right?
Madam John come in and confessional crimes, old woman, come in?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I said, what's he doing here? The dwarf? God?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
He's here, jaw bidding Madam Joland here to take another
life for you.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
But he didn't materialize miraculously out of the unknown. He
was brought up here by you, from where you kept
him hidden since his escape from the penal colonnade. Yes,
Timkins thought he was tricking the native pumpker with the
ring of Malalele, didn't he, Madam Joland.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
But you went the beach comma one better.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You made district come true by producing a real Malalele,
a murder dwarf and the person of this poor freak here,
an escaped convict from the penal colony at Pollo. You've
been hiding in the cellar of this hotel against the time,
and you'd need his service. Now, yes, at your order,
he killed Captain Huber, then pump Cut and Timpkins, until
had he finished off Cranston and miss Lane, you'd have
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been in full possession of the loot who killed the
eleventeenh smote.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
It's a lie.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
I tried to keep the dwarf from killing. I hate bloodshed,
unrespectable woman. The dwarf is a maniac. He kills the pleasure.
Speaker 10 (25:54):
I couldn't tell the lion.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It drop that carton. Now you're going back your belong
When the police learned the whole story of the Ring
of Malaleley, I think you have company. Your dear friend
Madame Joland will personally accompany you back to the penal
colony at Gualo.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
All passes about me.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Always say goodbye to Powell.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
So beautiful.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
It's pretty wicked from all we saw, do you know, Margo?
And old legend tells us that the dwarf god malalle
ages ago made Powell the most beautiful island in the world,
but he inhabited it only with the wickedest people.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Malalele himself, you see, was a god of evil.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
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Speaker 5 (28:19):
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Speaker 2 (28:22):
Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Listen again next week, same time, same station, when the
Shadow will again demonstrate that the weed of crime there's
bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The Shadow knows. Next week,
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same time, same station, We bring you another strange and
thrilling adventure in the shadows, daring battle against the forces
of evil. The part of Lamontcraston was played by Bete Morrison,
Margot by Grace Matthews. This program came to you from
New York. Stay tune now for quick as a Fly.
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