January 4, 2024 • 29 mins
"The Shadow" was a popular American radio show that originally aired from 1930 to 1954. Created by Walter B. Gibson, the show featured the mysterious and enigmatic character known as "The Shadow." The character was first introduced as the host and narrator of the radio program, but he later became a crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making himself invisible to their sight.Here is a description of the show:Title: The ShadowPremiere Date: The series first aired on July 31, 1930.Format: The show was a radio drama that primarily featured crime, mystery, and suspense stories. It was known for its eerie and atmospheric storytelling.Main Character: The central character of the show was Lamont Cranston, a wealthy young man about town. However, Cranston also led a double life as "The Shadow." Using his ability to cloud men's minds and remain unseen, The Shadow fought against crime and injustice in the gritty urban landscape.Narration: The show was famous for its distinctive opening narration, delivered in a deep, haunting voice: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" This catchphrase became one of the most iconic lines in radio history.Cast: Numerous actors portrayed Lamont Cranston and The Shadow over the years. Orson Welles, one of the most celebrated figures in entertainment history, played The Shadow from 1937 to 1938, and his portrayal is often considered one of the most memorable.Episodes: "The Shadow" featured a wide range of thrilling adventures and mysteries. Each episode usually began with a crime or threat to society, and The Shadow would use his unique abilities to unravel the mystery, defeat the villains, and restore justice.Legacy: The radio show was immensely popular during its run and contributed significantly to the development of the superhero genre. The character of The Shadow also inspired a variety of other media adaptations, including novels, comics, films, and television series.While "The Shadow" radio show eventually ended its run in the mid-1950s, its legacy lives on, and it remains an important part of American radio history, known for its captivating storytelling and iconic character.
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Who knows what evil lurks in thehearts of men. A shadow knows ladies
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and gentlemen. Today's Shadow Adventures startsin just a moment, and as usual,
it is packed with hair raising thrills, but none can compare with the
thrill and relief that comes from beingsaved by a silvertown stop in wet weather
driving emergencies. What you need betweenyour car and rain drenched pavements are the
new good grit safety silvertown tires withthe life Saver tread. This truly amazing
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tread actually dries wet roads protect youagainst that hazard zone of motoring where a
slippery film of water on the roadmay make complete control of your car almost
impossible. That's because the never endingspiral bars of the Life Saver tread act
like a battery of windshield wipers.They sweep the water right and left,
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force it out through deep drainage grooves, make a dry track for the rubber
to grip. For safety's sake,make your neck's tires good rich safety Silver
Town. The Shadow. Lamont Cranston, a man of wealth, a student
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of science, and a master ofother people's minds, devotes his life to
righting wrongs, protecting the innocent,and punishing the guilty. Cranston is known
to the underworld as the Shadow,never seen, only heard. His true
identity is known only to his constantfriend and aid, Margot Lane. Today's
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story the Old People. Argentine FlightD eight calling Argentine flight D eight,
calling go ahead, D eight positionapproximately eighty miles southeast headwaters of the Amazon,
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flying nine thousand feet visibility, goodspeed two ten max report at four
thirty, Max report at four thirty. That is all calling Argentine flight D
eight calling Argentine flight D eight.What's the matter? To eight? Can
you hear us? Can you hearus D eight? Your four to the
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report? Have an hour overdue?D eight? Can you hear USD eight
calling Argentine flight D eight than anairliner shut, gentlemen, if you please.
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In spite of the disappearance of twoplanes D seven and D eight,
as superintendent of this airline, Iinsist that every effort must be made to
establish air contact with South America ADonce. Consequently, I am sending one
more plane to the Argentine in thehope that it will succeed. Whether D
seven and the D eight fail themod Are you still craning over those maps?
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What are you doing brushing up onyour geography in a sense? Yes,
Margot? And what country interests younow? Not a country, Margo,
A continent? South America. Oh, those Argentine planes that disappeared,
you're thinking of them, exactly,There's something very unusual about their disappearance.
What do you think happened to them? It isn't probable that three planes manned
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by the finest pilots in the worldand flying over a well marked course should
disappear unless they were made to disappear, made to disappear, exactly. I'm
convinced something other than natural causes madethem disappear. What That's what I'm trying
to figure out. It's possible theyreceived some message over their radios that took
them off their course their disappearance,But how will you find out for sure
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following the course of the three planesthat disappeared, You mean go to South
America? Exactly. I'm going topersuade the airlines to send through one more
plane for the particular convenience of ashadow. So you're planning to go down
the Amazon River? Yes, I'mgoing to pay a call on Superintendent mcwade
to the airlines and persuade him tosend one more plane through to the Argentine.
I, as the Shadow, willbe its sole passenger. Oh,
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no, you're wrong, No manwrong, Yes, you and I will
be at sole passengers. Look here, at Superintendent mcwade. Let me fly
a plane down to the Argentine andtry to find those planes that disappear.
I'm sorry, Jack, we cancelall South American flight. Yeah, but
Terry Kane a pilot on them Dnine. He was my best friend.
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I've got to have a crack atfinding No, Jack, we're not going
to risk anymore planes disappearing. Threeare enough. Why don't you let him
have a try it? At,Superintendent? Well, who are you?
I am the shadow? The shadow? But where are you? My name,
implies mister mcwade. I am inthe shadows, right here in this
room. Well, I don't understand. It's really quite simple. I've merely
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cast a cloud over your perceptions sothat you're unable to see me. Say,
I remember you're that fellow that noone ever sees. I'm flattered that
you know of midpilot. Yes,but what do you want here? I've
come to help you find those missingplanes. Ow, Superintendent mcwade, I
want you to commit the plane thatwas to have taken off for the Argentine
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tonight to leave on schedule. That'sout of the question. We've officially discontinued
our South American service. Then restorethe service unofficially for tonight. Why not,
Superintendent? Maybe this shadow knows something. I'll take a chance on flying
them down. I appreciate your cooperation, pilot, mister mcwade. I guarantee
how clear up the mystery of themissing planes within forty eight hours. You
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will do as I say, havea plane ready to take off tonight at
the scheduled hour. A woman willbought it. A woman? Yes,
who is she? I cannot tellyou that you must make no attempt to
discover her identity? All right,but how will we know? She'll be
wearing a long coat with the collarturned up around her face. She'll go
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right to the plane and bought it. You're coming along too, Oh,
certainly, pilot. I shall behiding in the rear of the plane,
the baggage compartment. Probably. Iwant your promise that you will make no
attempt to try and find out whoI am all right, I promise,
But what's the idea? Just thatI am the shadow, and the shadow
can only be heard but never seen. Margo, keep your collar up.
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Pilot can't see you. Just passedover the headwaters the Amazon. How that's
going to happen? Should happen soon? Tell the pilot to what is cost
careful from now on? Tell himto hold under the radio beam, to
be sure to put any variation inthat beam to me at once, expecting
an invitation to our fate, andwhen it comes, they're going to accept
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it. Look, look invlatory.You make the young American old like us
in paratory. Great man, we'rea goodly crying like baby territory. Hey,
your young people. No, no, don't you beam get away of
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good streaming. Nobody can hear youdown here by the Amazon. Now,
no American come by, just talkAmerican jungle. Let's I and Tom Freeman
make him come here like I makeyou come here in your era. All
off these whatever they are. Iam never I feel radio station. I
send you a radio beam sickness.I take you off your course. I
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bring you here to my laboratory caves, so you are lost in the world.
Let me up, Hold him tothe table, hold him down.
Now I to my experiment. Whatare you going to do? I make
you very old? You you want, yeah, maybe ninety years, maybe
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one hundred years old. Then you'llbe older than Anton. You don't know
what you're talking about. Oh yeah, all be showing me to our young
people. They laugh at me becauseI am old. So now I make
you alter than me. Then Ilook at you and I say to myself,
An, you are a very youngman, piers Man, olter than
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you. It is time for theexperiment. I make you very old,
misted old man. Yeah, Imake you very old man. What are
you going to do with me?What? What is that serum you're giving
me? It is resumed to makeyou very old? My body? What's
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happened to it? It is becomingcrystals and tense, like an old tree
that lives too long. Oh myboys, what's happening to my voice?
It is old? The crusty shummersthat go creak in the wind. I
can't breathe. I'm suffocating. No, you are old men. It is
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hard for old men to bread.Yeah, you are very old now,
I and and Freeman am young men. And you are old, very old.
Is an old peak on the radio. We heard another airplane is coming.
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Ah more people come fly over me. Huh, I need more young
America And for experiment, come Igo send out to radio beam to bring
the American here. I check themcome here. They think they listen to
radio beam from the Argentine, butthey listen to the Radiopeam I am for
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freemon send out to bring them here. Um make it more American town from
sky for my experiment. Ladies andgentlemen, while you're waiting for the climax
to the shadows exciting story, letme ask you one or two very important
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questions. Are your tires safe?Have you ever experienced that seconding feeling that
comes when a car skids out ofcontrol? Do you realize the havoc that
one blowout can play with life,limb and pocketbook? The shadow knows it
may take just one skid, justone blowout, to end your driving days
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for good. Yes, riding onflimsy, unsafe tires is a mighty big
gamble. You may win, butsuppose you lose. Don't gamble. Have
your car equipped with those amazing newgood rich silver towns because this new kind
of tire has what it takes tokeep you and your family off the accident
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list. Inside it has the famousgolden ply blowout protection that has already saved
thousands of motorists' lives. Outside,every new Silver Town has the sensational life
saver tread that gives you the greatestskid protection, the quickest, safest wet
road stops you've ever had in allyour driving days. Yes, the new
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good Rich Safety Silvertown is really twogreat tires in one, but it costs
you nothing extra, not of penny. Why guess about the condition of your
tires. For safety's sake, rideon Gudrich Safety Silver Towel. We're one
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hundred and ten miles southeast of theAmazon Headwaters. Now, Shadow and our
mysterious trend should be sending us aradio message soon. Oay, something's happening
with the radio beam. Radio beam. Yeah, it's become stronger all of
a sudden. So that's how ourunknown friend sends us our invitation by radio
beams. All right, Pilot,we accept his invitations. One of the
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beams signal he's sending Shadow. Letus start down now, Okay, I
hope I can find a dime toland on. Knock down there, I
thought so three things but disappeared.Say, my hat's off to you,
Shadow. You sure picked this spot. You've gone to land? Isn't the
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pilot? Well not as much asi'd like. Here we go, nice
landing pilot. Oh thank you,lady, Holy smoked. Look at that
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window. Look at him? Doesn'tthe tottering old men and women? Hey?
Hey, that one there, Iknow that face. That's the face
of Terry Kane, and old buddyof mine. Are you sure sure I
know his face anywhere? Only what'shappened to him? He was six feet
four and now he's little. Hisspeeches are all shrunken up. Why Terry
couldn't have been more than thirty,But now look at him. Why he's
old as Methusalem. All these menand women, all of them must have
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been transformed into broken old wretches bysome monsters. Hey, I'm gonna to
take off. You have to findout what's behind all this. Open the
door, let's go out and facethem. It's all right for you to
talk. Shadow, you hanging backin the shadows where no one can find
you. At my part, andthrow a cloud over the senses and remain
unseen. We'll save you from thesame fate. But police other people go
ahead, open the door. I'llbe with you. Hey, quit pulling
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as you meant your Jesus. Hey, pretty lady, nice lady, me
take her. Let's try. Hey, Terry, don't remember me, Terry,
young American, Imperator, make youal hadden me me Terry, have
pretty lady, Terry, you rememberme? Terry, young American? You
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pig. Come we show American howmuch we hate young men. P Rry,
Terry, call these guys off.Get off of me. Your watch,
shadow, Shadow, call them offfor you just swarming all over me.
Get him off. I tell yougo away, all of you get
away, off, got away.Your voice is frightening. I don't understand
where it's come. Get away,all of you get away. So it's
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a good thing to scare the moreshadow. They were biting and teckling at
me like a bunch of truthless mosquitoes. Bodies and brains and souls have all
been shrunk out of the fine.Who's that? That must be the gentleman
known as Imperatory. He's only ahalf pine himself. No, he's just
an undersized man. Must be aroundfifty fine, I tell you, bring
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your American to me. Now Imust step on myself. Ah, my
American friends, you can see me. Anthon Preman, I don't hear you,
old pilots. I talked with prettylady. It's a long time since
I've seen such fine and white skin, very long time. Don't touch me.
You are like other American ladies.Huh. You do not like me
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because I am not young. Huhbecause maybe you like this big pilot huh
because he is young all the righttime, making old older than me.
But mindself, you see them,But great man Anton Freemon is very great
man. Maybe then you would likeme more than him. Come, science
speaks, Bring your Americans to thelaboratory. Huh. Throw the American on
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the table. Nah, here Denil'scan do this to me. Yea look,
look, look at the useless strugglesthe young American, even a young
Americans can do nothing against old thebent of old men. There's a great
friend of shadow, now, lady. I thought he was gonna make everything
all right, like Gulliver in theLand of the Lillipussians. Hey, doctor
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Freeman, who Who's who? Saysthat I know the shadow wouldn't fail us
pilot, our friend. The pilotis like Gulliver in the land of Lilliputte,
small old men swarming over him andfastening him down. Who are you
Why I cannot see you because Iam hiding in the shadows, Doctor Freeman.
You'll see. I hate youth,and it's tons. I am afraid
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of growing old too. Doctor Freeman, Ah, you are old and bent
too. Huh. Yes, SoI learned to live in the shadows,
away from human eyes to conceal myage. Ah. But what I would
give for a serum like yours,to avenge myself with the scorn of robust
young people by making them older thanI am. Ah. You know about
my serum, yes, and Iknow how you can shrink the bodies of
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these people you make old, asprimitive people used to shrink the heads and
bodies of corpses. You're a brilliantscientist, doctor Freeman. Noah, all
by myself. I found the serumhere in the chunkle away from where there
are young people. Ah, butthey find me here, to those young
ones with the airplanes, Yeah,they're come flying over me here. So
you install a radio transmitter and sendout radio signals tricking the planes and flying
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here and getting lost, so they'dhave to make forced landing the right and
that they landed. I captured thepeople inside of them and made them into
old ben creatures that you see here. Can they ever be restored to what
they were? Never? Never?Aren't you afraid they might turn on you?
These hideous wretches? Oh no,no, You see that switch on
the wall. I only have tounlock it with his key and the way
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on my belt. I turned theswitch on. I escape under the minute.
I have turned a dynamite destroys theold people. Brilliant, doctor brilliant?
Yeah yeah, I show you nowwith the pilot, how brilliant tire?
Hey get away from me, DoctorFreeman, so brilliant as scientist as
yourself must have other medical wonders he'sdiscovered. Ah yeah, still another serum.
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I have another serum to do?What doctor, a sium to make
little men? Pick to make littlemen big? Yeah? What effect would
your serum have on these old people, doctor Freeman? It would make them
stupid monsters because they have no brains. Now, even, doctor Freeman,
have you ever thought of using thatserum on your self? And mind self?
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You could make yourself tall and big, taller than any young man,
taller than a young man, doctorFreeman. Think supposing you were to take
the serum yourself, making yourself talland strong. Ah, And then supposing
you transformed all your old creatures intomonsters, while with your brains and their
strength, you could conquer the world. Yeah, you you are, I
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think the tall and handsome doctor Freeman, able to conquer the world. Think
of it? Come try it?But can I give the serum to myself?
Right, surgeon like yourself can accomplishany miracle, Doctor Freeman, even
to giving yourself an injection of theserum. Are you are right? It's
a right in this battle. Wordthere's a mirror on the wall. Stand
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before it and give yourself the injection. Now you have a think, Master
of the world, doctor Freeman.Yeah, certainly that's worth any effort,
a little pain. Oh, yeah, you are right. I will do
it. How do you start?I show you I feel this class to
them. No, no, Ican't do that. Come, there's no
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time to hesitate. The whole destinyof the world is in your hands,
Master of the universe. Yeah,yeah, I will do it. Now
what I I inject the sum hi, Hi, I am you see I
am growing growing. You see mothermachree guys growing like a balloon blowing up.
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You see man in the shadows.I am growing, Yes, yes,
I see, Anton Freeman. Yourbody is growing. But your mind
is it growing too? Yeah?The inside my head, it feels like
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it. It gets big, big, like great crop, a ball inside
vacuum. Yes, doctor Freeman,a good description, a great rubber ball
inside a vacuum. You forgot thatyour serum to enlarge the body, would
enlarge every organ of your body,even your brain. Yeah, I will
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even be great genius. No,your genius will shrink and disappear. You
can enlarge the brain, doctor Freeman, but you can't enlarge the matter that
makes for intelligence. The larger yourbrain gets, the smaller your ratio of
intelligence. You're becoming a stupid,heartless, brainless monster like your wretched creations.
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Oh no, I would show you, Marco. Marco, quickly,
you and the pilot get to theplane, get ready for the take off.
What about you, lamon, I'lljoin you as soon as this monster's
destroyed himself. Hurry well, doctorFreeman, your serum works, doesn't it.
You're tall now seven feet maybe more, But you're stupid. I will
kill you men in the shovel.I doubt that you're too stupid to defend
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yourself now, even against your oldpeople. You forget the dynamite. I
will turn the switch, blow timeon you. The pieces tire, the
sid I will blow them up andyou first, Hi in luck the switch
that switch wraymen ha, come manin the shadows. He is afraid.
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Huh, Doctor Freeman, he's notafraid. Dynamite cannot hurt great pre doctor
Freemon, see already more than sevenfeet I am now. I turned the
switch. Shake your hand off thatswitch, Make me take it off.
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You think you can make gime,Doctor Friedman do anything very well, I
will make you take your hand offit. Take off your hand from that
switch. Ah, there you arenow, I feel you, Doctor Freeman.
Find where you are, and youcome to take my hand off the
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switch that show me where you arenow, the great doctor Freeman, he
even can kill someone. He cannotsleep now. I turned the switch that
set off the dynamite. Yeah,shutter in exactly two minutes, all people,
they all explode. You'll die too, of that dynamite goes off.
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No, the Great doctor Freeman.He lived even against dynamite shadow. Lie
to doctor Freeman, you are bigman, young too, huh. I
feel how big you are, butnot so big as me. I can't
cross you like paper backs. What'she doing to you? He's looking at
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me by touching me. Now he'scrushing me in his arms. I can't
hold up beside me, Pretty lady, carry like pretty ladies. I'll keep
the plane, leave it once andwe go off. So Terry, you
like me, Terry like pretty lady, very much like you too. You
do something for me, Hey,I do anything, but pretty lady.
Then you, you and your friendslet the American alone and attack the PARATORI
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imparatory too great. Oh no,he's just a big, stupid man.
Now look at him. He's makinghimself large so he can destroy you.
No, no, no, saveyou and get rid of the imperatory,
Terry, get rid of Anton Freeman. And then you like Terry, Yes
very much, all right, wedo it. We will attack doctor Freeman.
He looks. Look no more isimperatory, old man. He's a
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big man now, so he canhurt us. Come with no imparatory.
He can't hurt us, come away, can't can we show Imperatory how much
we hate him? Could? Oh? Why? Why? I'll go here
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with you? Goodness? Then youmade those wretches attack Freeman. He had
to let me go. Hurry,let's go to the plane. The pilots
out there now. It's another minuteor two. With his arms strengthening me
and I have been finished. AIafraid, I rather overestimated my strength against
the strength of a monster. Hisarms were like bands of steel. The
pilot's ready to take off into theplane quickly, Are you in Shadow?
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Yes, I'm with you. Allright, pilot take off? But what
about the old people? Merciful ifthey perish Marco, it's better the poor
wretches be removed as a scourch forme. Ears. Okay, here we
go. I'm too soon either,just in time. Freeman and his fantastic
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empire ended by his own devices,destroyed by the creatures of his own fiendish
creation, the creatures he had devisedto satisfy his own egotistical hatred. Well,
South American Air Service is safe onceagain. You have a listening to
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a dramatized version of one of themany copyrighted stories which appear in the Shadow
magazine. Now on sale at yourlocal newstand. The weed of crime,
there's bitter food. Crime does notpay. The Shadow knows all the characters
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and all the places named doffic Disiousand similarity to persons living or dead is
purely coincidental.
Who knows what evil lurks in thehearts of men. A shadow knows ladies
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and gentlemen. Today's Shadow Adventures startsin just a moment, and as usual,
it is packed with hair raising thrills, but none can compare with the
thrill and relief that comes from beingsaved by a silvertown stop in wet weather
driving emergencies. What you need betweenyour car and rain drenched pavements are the
new good grit safety silvertown tires withthe life Saver tread. This truly amazing
(01:19):
tread actually dries wet roads protect youagainst that hazard zone of motoring where a
slippery film of water on the roadmay make complete control of your car almost
impossible. That's because the never endingspiral bars of the Life Saver tread act
like a battery of windshield wipers.They sweep the water right and left,
(01:40):
force it out through deep drainage grooves, make a dry track for the rubber
to grip. For safety's sake,make your neck's tires good rich safety Silver
Town. The Shadow. Lamont Cranston, a man of wealth, a student
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of science, and a master ofother people's minds, devotes his life to
righting wrongs, protecting the innocent,and punishing the guilty. Cranston is known
to the underworld as the Shadow,never seen, only heard. His true
identity is known only to his constantfriend and aid, Margot Lane. Today's
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story the Old People. Argentine FlightD eight calling Argentine flight D eight,
calling go ahead, D eight positionapproximately eighty miles southeast headwaters of the Amazon,
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flying nine thousand feet visibility, goodspeed two ten max report at four
thirty, Max report at four thirty. That is all calling Argentine flight D
eight calling Argentine flight D eight.What's the matter? To eight? Can
you hear us? Can you hearus D eight? Your four to the
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report? Have an hour overdue?D eight? Can you hear USD eight
calling Argentine flight D eight than anairliner shut, gentlemen, if you please.
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In spite of the disappearance of twoplanes D seven and D eight,
as superintendent of this airline, Iinsist that every effort must be made to
establish air contact with South America ADonce. Consequently, I am sending one
more plane to the Argentine in thehope that it will succeed. Whether D
seven and the D eight fail themod Are you still craning over those maps?
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What are you doing brushing up onyour geography in a sense? Yes,
Margot? And what country interests younow? Not a country, Margo,
A continent? South America. Oh, those Argentine planes that disappeared,
you're thinking of them, exactly,There's something very unusual about their disappearance.
What do you think happened to them? It isn't probable that three planes manned
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by the finest pilots in the worldand flying over a well marked course should
disappear unless they were made to disappear, made to disappear, exactly. I'm
convinced something other than natural causes madethem disappear. What That's what I'm trying
to figure out. It's possible theyreceived some message over their radios that took
them off their course their disappearance,But how will you find out for sure
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following the course of the three planesthat disappeared, You mean go to South
America? Exactly. I'm going topersuade the airlines to send through one more
plane for the particular convenience of ashadow. So you're planning to go down
the Amazon River? Yes, I'mgoing to pay a call on Superintendent mcwade
to the airlines and persuade him tosend one more plane through to the Argentine.
I, as the Shadow, willbe its sole passenger. Oh,
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no, you're wrong, No manwrong, Yes, you and I will
be at sole passengers. Look here, at Superintendent mcwade. Let me fly
a plane down to the Argentine andtry to find those planes that disappear.
I'm sorry, Jack, we cancelall South American flight. Yeah, but
Terry Kane a pilot on them Dnine. He was my best friend.
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I've got to have a crack atfinding No, Jack, we're not going
to risk anymore planes disappearing. Threeare enough. Why don't you let him
have a try it? At,Superintendent? Well, who are you?
I am the shadow? The shadow? But where are you? My name,
implies mister mcwade. I am inthe shadows, right here in this
room. Well, I don't understand. It's really quite simple. I've merely
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cast a cloud over your perceptions sothat you're unable to see me. Say,
I remember you're that fellow that noone ever sees. I'm flattered that
you know of midpilot. Yes,but what do you want here? I've
come to help you find those missingplanes. Ow, Superintendent mcwade, I
want you to commit the plane thatwas to have taken off for the Argentine
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tonight to leave on schedule. That'sout of the question. We've officially discontinued
our South American service. Then restorethe service unofficially for tonight. Why not,
Superintendent? Maybe this shadow knows something. I'll take a chance on flying
them down. I appreciate your cooperation, pilot, mister mcwade. I guarantee
how clear up the mystery of themissing planes within forty eight hours. You
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will do as I say, havea plane ready to take off tonight at
the scheduled hour. A woman willbought it. A woman? Yes,
who is she? I cannot tellyou that you must make no attempt to
discover her identity? All right,but how will we know? She'll be
wearing a long coat with the collarturned up around her face. She'll go
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right to the plane and bought it. You're coming along too, Oh,
certainly, pilot. I shall behiding in the rear of the plane,
the baggage compartment. Probably. Iwant your promise that you will make no
attempt to try and find out whoI am all right, I promise,
But what's the idea? Just thatI am the shadow, and the shadow
can only be heard but never seen. Margo, keep your collar up.
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Pilot can't see you. Just passedover the headwaters the Amazon. How that's
going to happen? Should happen soon? Tell the pilot to what is cost
careful from now on? Tell himto hold under the radio beam, to
be sure to put any variation inthat beam to me at once, expecting
an invitation to our fate, andwhen it comes, they're going to accept
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it. Look, look invlatory.You make the young American old like us
in paratory. Great man, we'rea goodly crying like baby territory. Hey,
your young people. No, no, don't you beam get away of
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good streaming. Nobody can hear youdown here by the Amazon. Now,
no American come by, just talkAmerican jungle. Let's I and Tom Freeman
make him come here like I makeyou come here in your era. All
off these whatever they are. Iam never I feel radio station. I
send you a radio beam sickness.I take you off your course. I
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bring you here to my laboratory caves, so you are lost in the world.
Let me up, Hold him tothe table, hold him down.
Now I to my experiment. Whatare you going to do? I make
you very old? You you want, yeah, maybe ninety years, maybe
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one hundred years old. Then you'llbe older than Anton. You don't know
what you're talking about. Oh yeah, all be showing me to our young
people. They laugh at me becauseI am old. So now I make
you alter than me. Then Ilook at you and I say to myself,
An, you are a very youngman, piers Man, olter than
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you. It is time for theexperiment. I make you very old,
misted old man. Yeah, Imake you very old man. What are
you going to do with me?What? What is that serum you're giving
me? It is resumed to makeyou very old? My body? What's
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happened to it? It is becomingcrystals and tense, like an old tree
that lives too long. Oh myboys, what's happening to my voice?
It is old? The crusty shummersthat go creak in the wind. I
can't breathe. I'm suffocating. No, you are old men. It is
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hard for old men to bread.Yeah, you are very old now,
I and and Freeman am young men. And you are old, very old.
Is an old peak on the radio. We heard another airplane is coming.
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Ah more people come fly over me. Huh, I need more young
America And for experiment, come Igo send out to radio beam to bring
the American here. I check themcome here. They think they listen to
radio beam from the Argentine, butthey listen to the Radiopeam I am for
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freemon send out to bring them here. Um make it more American town from
sky for my experiment. Ladies andgentlemen, while you're waiting for the climax
to the shadows exciting story, letme ask you one or two very important
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questions. Are your tires safe?Have you ever experienced that seconding feeling that
comes when a car skids out ofcontrol? Do you realize the havoc that
one blowout can play with life,limb and pocketbook? The shadow knows it
may take just one skid, justone blowout, to end your driving days
(12:00):
for good. Yes, riding onflimsy, unsafe tires is a mighty big
gamble. You may win, butsuppose you lose. Don't gamble. Have
your car equipped with those amazing newgood rich silver towns because this new kind
of tire has what it takes tokeep you and your family off the accident
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list. Inside it has the famousgolden ply blowout protection that has already saved
thousands of motorists' lives. Outside,every new Silver Town has the sensational life
saver tread that gives you the greatestskid protection, the quickest, safest wet
road stops you've ever had in allyour driving days. Yes, the new
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good Rich Safety Silvertown is really twogreat tires in one, but it costs
you nothing extra, not of penny. Why guess about the condition of your
tires. For safety's sake, rideon Gudrich Safety Silver Towel. We're one
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hundred and ten miles southeast of theAmazon Headwaters. Now, Shadow and our
mysterious trend should be sending us aradio message soon. Oay, something's happening
with the radio beam. Radio beam. Yeah, it's become stronger all of
a sudden. So that's how ourunknown friend sends us our invitation by radio
beams. All right, Pilot,we accept his invitations. One of the
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beams signal he's sending Shadow. Letus start down now, Okay, I
hope I can find a dime toland on. Knock down there, I
thought so three things but disappeared.Say, my hat's off to you,
Shadow. You sure picked this spot. You've gone to land? Isn't the
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pilot? Well not as much asi'd like. Here we go, nice
landing pilot. Oh thank you,lady, Holy smoked. Look at that
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window. Look at him? Doesn'tthe tottering old men and women? Hey?
Hey, that one there, Iknow that face. That's the face
of Terry Kane, and old buddyof mine. Are you sure sure I
know his face anywhere? Only what'shappened to him? He was six feet
four and now he's little. Hisspeeches are all shrunken up. Why Terry
couldn't have been more than thirty,But now look at him. Why he's
old as Methusalem. All these menand women, all of them must have
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been transformed into broken old wretches bysome monsters. Hey, I'm gonna to
take off. You have to findout what's behind all this. Open the
door, let's go out and facethem. It's all right for you to
talk. Shadow, you hanging backin the shadows where no one can find
you. At my part, andthrow a cloud over the senses and remain
unseen. We'll save you from thesame fate. But police other people go
ahead, open the door. I'llbe with you. Hey, quit pulling
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as you meant your Jesus. Hey, pretty lady, nice lady, me
take her. Let's try. Hey, Terry, don't remember me, Terry,
young American, Imperator, make youal hadden me me Terry, have
pretty lady, Terry, you rememberme? Terry, young American? You
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pig. Come we show American howmuch we hate young men. P Rry,
Terry, call these guys off.Get off of me. Your watch,
shadow, Shadow, call them offfor you just swarming all over me.
Get him off. I tell yougo away, all of you get
away, off, got away.Your voice is frightening. I don't understand
where it's come. Get away,all of you get away. So it's
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a good thing to scare the moreshadow. They were biting and teckling at
me like a bunch of truthless mosquitoes. Bodies and brains and souls have all
been shrunk out of the fine.Who's that? That must be the gentleman
known as Imperatory. He's only ahalf pine himself. No, he's just
an undersized man. Must be aroundfifty fine, I tell you, bring
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your American to me. Now Imust step on myself. Ah, my
American friends, you can see me. Anthon Preman, I don't hear you,
old pilots. I talked with prettylady. It's a long time since
I've seen such fine and white skin, very long time. Don't touch me.
You are like other American ladies.Huh. You do not like me
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because I am not young. Huhbecause maybe you like this big pilot huh
because he is young all the righttime, making old older than me.
But mindself, you see them,But great man Anton Freemon is very great
man. Maybe then you would likeme more than him. Come, science
speaks, Bring your Americans to thelaboratory. Huh. Throw the American on
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the table. Nah, here Denil'scan do this to me. Yea look,
look, look at the useless strugglesthe young American, even a young
Americans can do nothing against old thebent of old men. There's a great
friend of shadow, now, lady. I thought he was gonna make everything
all right, like Gulliver in theLand of the Lillipussians. Hey, doctor
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Freeman, who Who's who? Saysthat I know the shadow wouldn't fail us
pilot, our friend. The pilotis like Gulliver in the land of Lilliputte,
small old men swarming over him andfastening him down. Who are you
Why I cannot see you because Iam hiding in the shadows, Doctor Freeman.
You'll see. I hate youth,and it's tons. I am afraid
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of growing old too. Doctor Freeman, Ah, you are old and bent
too. Huh. Yes, SoI learned to live in the shadows,
away from human eyes to conceal myage. Ah. But what I would
give for a serum like yours,to avenge myself with the scorn of robust
young people by making them older thanI am. Ah. You know about
my serum, yes, and Iknow how you can shrink the bodies of
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these people you make old, asprimitive people used to shrink the heads and
bodies of corpses. You're a brilliantscientist, doctor Freeman. Noah, all
by myself. I found the serumhere in the chunkle away from where there
are young people. Ah, butthey find me here, to those young
ones with the airplanes, Yeah,they're come flying over me here. So
you install a radio transmitter and sendout radio signals tricking the planes and flying
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here and getting lost, so they'dhave to make forced landing the right and
that they landed. I captured thepeople inside of them and made them into
old ben creatures that you see here. Can they ever be restored to what
they were? Never? Never?Aren't you afraid they might turn on you?
These hideous wretches? Oh no,no, You see that switch on
the wall. I only have tounlock it with his key and the way
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on my belt. I turned theswitch on. I escape under the minute.
I have turned a dynamite destroys theold people. Brilliant, doctor brilliant?
Yeah yeah, I show you nowwith the pilot, how brilliant tire?
Hey get away from me, DoctorFreeman, so brilliant as scientist as
yourself must have other medical wonders he'sdiscovered. Ah yeah, still another serum.
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I have another serum to do?What doctor, a sium to make
little men? Pick to make littlemen big? Yeah? What effect would
your serum have on these old people, doctor Freeman? It would make them
stupid monsters because they have no brains. Now, even, doctor Freeman,
have you ever thought of using thatserum on your self? And mind self?
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You could make yourself tall and big, taller than any young man,
taller than a young man, doctorFreeman. Think supposing you were to take
the serum yourself, making yourself talland strong. Ah, And then supposing
you transformed all your old creatures intomonsters, while with your brains and their
strength, you could conquer the world. Yeah, you you are, I
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think the tall and handsome doctor Freeman, able to conquer the world. Think
of it? Come try it?But can I give the serum to myself?
Right, surgeon like yourself can accomplishany miracle, Doctor Freeman, even
to giving yourself an injection of theserum. Are you are right? It's
a right in this battle. Wordthere's a mirror on the wall. Stand
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before it and give yourself the injection. Now you have a think, Master
of the world, doctor Freeman.Yeah, certainly that's worth any effort,
a little pain. Oh, yeah, you are right. I will do
it. How do you start?I show you I feel this class to
them. No, no, Ican't do that. Come, there's no
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time to hesitate. The whole destinyof the world is in your hands,
Master of the universe. Yeah,yeah, I will do it. Now
what I I inject the sum hi, Hi, I am you see I
am growing growing. You see mothermachree guys growing like a balloon blowing up.
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You see man in the shadows.I am growing, Yes, yes,
I see, Anton Freeman. Yourbody is growing. But your mind
is it growing too? Yeah?The inside my head, it feels like
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it. It gets big, big, like great crop, a ball inside
vacuum. Yes, doctor Freeman,a good description, a great rubber ball
inside a vacuum. You forgot thatyour serum to enlarge the body, would
enlarge every organ of your body,even your brain. Yeah, I will
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even be great genius. No,your genius will shrink and disappear. You
can enlarge the brain, doctor Freeman, but you can't enlarge the matter that
makes for intelligence. The larger yourbrain gets, the smaller your ratio of
intelligence. You're becoming a stupid,heartless, brainless monster like your wretched creations.
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Oh no, I would show you, Marco. Marco, quickly,
you and the pilot get to theplane, get ready for the take off.
What about you, lamon, I'lljoin you as soon as this monster's
destroyed himself. Hurry well, doctorFreeman, your serum works, doesn't it.
You're tall now seven feet maybe more, But you're stupid. I will
kill you men in the shovel.I doubt that you're too stupid to defend
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yourself now, even against your oldpeople. You forget the dynamite. I
will turn the switch, blow timeon you. The pieces tire, the
sid I will blow them up andyou first, Hi in luck the switch
that switch wraymen ha, come manin the shadows. He is afraid.
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Huh, Doctor Freeman, he's notafraid. Dynamite cannot hurt great pre doctor
Freemon, see already more than sevenfeet I am now. I turned the
switch. Shake your hand off thatswitch, Make me take it off.
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You think you can make gime,Doctor Friedman do anything very well, I
will make you take your hand offit. Take off your hand from that
switch. Ah, there you arenow, I feel you, Doctor Freeman.
Find where you are, and youcome to take my hand off the
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switch that show me where you arenow, the great doctor Freeman, he
even can kill someone. He cannotsleep now. I turned the switch that
set off the dynamite. Yeah,shutter in exactly two minutes, all people,
they all explode. You'll die too, of that dynamite goes off.
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No, the Great doctor Freeman.He lived even against dynamite shadow. Lie
to doctor Freeman, you are bigman, young too, huh. I
feel how big you are, butnot so big as me. I can't
cross you like paper backs. What'she doing to you? He's looking at
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me by touching me. Now he'scrushing me in his arms. I can't
hold up beside me, Pretty lady, carry like pretty ladies. I'll keep
the plane, leave it once andwe go off. So Terry, you
like me, Terry like pretty lady, very much like you too. You
do something for me, Hey,I do anything, but pretty lady.
Then you, you and your friendslet the American alone and attack the PARATORI
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imparatory too great. Oh no,he's just a big, stupid man.
Now look at him. He's makinghimself large so he can destroy you.
No, no, no, saveyou and get rid of the imperatory,
Terry, get rid of Anton Freeman. And then you like Terry, Yes
very much, all right, wedo it. We will attack doctor Freeman.
He looks. Look no more isimperatory, old man. He's a
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big man now, so he canhurt us. Come with no imparatory.
He can't hurt us, come away, can't can we show Imperatory how much
we hate him? Could? Oh? Why? Why? I'll go here
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with you? Goodness? Then youmade those wretches attack Freeman. He had
to let me go. Hurry,let's go to the plane. The pilots
out there now. It's another minuteor two. With his arms strengthening me
and I have been finished. AIafraid, I rather overestimated my strength against
the strength of a monster. Hisarms were like bands of steel. The
pilot's ready to take off into theplane quickly, Are you in Shadow?
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Yes, I'm with you. Allright, pilot take off? But what
about the old people? Merciful ifthey perish Marco, it's better the poor
wretches be removed as a scourch forme. Ears. Okay, here we
go. I'm too soon either,just in time. Freeman and his fantastic
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empire ended by his own devices,destroyed by the creatures of his own fiendish
creation, the creatures he had devisedto satisfy his own egotistical hatred. Well,
South American Air Service is safe onceagain. You have a listening to
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a dramatized version of one of themany copyrighted stories which appear in the Shadow
magazine. Now on sale at yourlocal newstand. The weed of crime,
there's bitter food. Crime does notpay. The Shadow knows all the characters
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and all the places named doffic Disiousand similarity to persons living or dead is
purely coincidental.
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