April 12, 2025 • 30 mins
Original Air Date: January 12, 1941
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: The Shadow
Stars:
• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)
• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane)
Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: The Shadow
Stars:
• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)
• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane)
Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Who knows what evil in the hearts of men? The
Shadow not.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The thrilling adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
brought to you each week by the Blue.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Coal Dealers of America.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to old and.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Young alike, that crime does not pay.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is Jean Paul King pinchetting
for his sick pal Ken Roberts and telling you that
the Shadow starts his adventure in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
But first, are you starting off the right way.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
These cold winter morning?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Does your furnace send up quick heat the moment you
open the it will if you burn blue coal. What's more,
with blue coal, you'll have a truly comfortable, well heated
home all day long. So next time you order fuel,
be sure to ask for blue coal. You can get
blue coal and free information on low cost home heating
from your neighborhood blue coal dealer. Give him a call
(01:20):
first thing in the morning. The Shadow, mysterious character who
aids the forces of law and order, is in reality
l Monk Cranston, wealthy young man about town. As the Shadow,
Cranston is gifted with hypnotic power to cloud men's minds
(01:40):
so that they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion,
the lovely Margot Lane, is the only person who knows
to whom the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs to
day's story.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The ghost building.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Your own needs speaking. Yes, yes, we just completed pictures
of the ground this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
And in your story you can say that the building
we intend to erect will be the largest and finest.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
In the world. We're calling it the Coast Building.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
At it all, good bye, Amos House.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
And I Who are you?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
What are you doing in here now? I'm mister me.
Don't get excited. Who are you? You are the head
of the.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Construction company of this proposed new coast building, are you not?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
That's right now. Look, if you're a reporter, I've already give.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Them the story a reporter, I'll come ahead to warn
you not to erect that building.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh listen.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
If this is a prank, it's some pretty portico.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
This is not a prank.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It's simply a forecast of death and torture if the
present plans go through.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I don't know who you are. No, do I take
any struck in your fucker.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I'm sorry, but you're wrong on both counts. My forecast
will must come true.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You do know me, oh from where from the past?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
And slight wonder that you don't recognize me after all
this time. But one day, Jerome need, you will remember
me all too well.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You'll pay me back in full all that you owe me. Hey,
watch yourself, you almost missed that rivet.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I was just thinking, you're supposed to think you're supposed
to catch rivets.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Now, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Years from now when my kids says to me, what
did you have to do with putting up.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The largest bill in the world, And you'll say what
I'll say, A guy throw of it?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And I got the rent that guy thraw of it.
I caught the rivet. Then a guy thraw river touch
that when it's coming down. Oh, I didn't think totally
know me like that. Mike, My god, what's hot? A
barber's swinging the girl room? My boss, we're got that
(04:10):
light up there is back as turn. You don't see
the guy that stop.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
That brain quick forcana l it bine for ConA.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You hit him? He hit him?
Speaker 8 (04:17):
What his bolid.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Too many die and that's what Too many die on
this job.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
You gotta take chances in this business, Joey.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
I don't too many dead men. And the foundation of
this building. Now I got honor and the kids to
think about.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Ah, you're talking, screwy. We're safer up here than them
guys down on the street. Besides Anna, And then kids
get to eat, don't they sure?
Speaker 10 (04:43):
Don't worry I feed them. We're not from this job.
I'm going below and quit now. This cost building is jinx. Okay,
good luck, Joe, Yeah, alarm kids along, Joe, Hey, watch
your step, Joe.
Speaker 11 (04:56):
Hold on, you hold them on. I thought you weren't coming.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm sorry, I'm late. Margo.
Speaker 11 (05:09):
You know there's nothing duller than a dedication ceremony.
Speaker 12 (05:11):
I was beginning to think I had to sit through
it all alone.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
That's a fine thing to say, Margot. And I'm about
to introduce you to Robert Lewis, the architect who designed
this coast blind here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Where do you think you'd like to meet Miss Lane?
After that remark, ball, of course I would. I even
agree with his statement, how do you do? Miss Lane? Hello,
mister Lewis, Hey, this is a distinguished gathering.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Look who's among those present A good police commissioner.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Hello that wessn hell? Do you know Bob Lewis? Yes,
it's glad to say, mister Lewis, Thank you, commissioner.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
It brings you here, Commissioner, duty, use duty these things,
boy stiff, it waste half a day listening to an
old stuffed shirt like your own.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Need.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Take a lot of bows and watch him lay a cornerstone.
Speaker 11 (05:50):
Why, commissioner, is that a nice way to talk about
one of our leading citizens?
Speaker 10 (05:54):
Leading citizen. In my eye, Need is as crooked as
a corkscrew. If he didn't hold a high political office,
the judge would have thrown the book out of years ago?
Speaker 11 (06:04):
Is your friend with the need?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Now, ladies and.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to dedicate this glorious editor.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Although there were several.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Unavoidable delays in the buildings constructure, you have still finished
on schedule, and today I am justly proud to present
to our fair cities the world's largest an once modern structure.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
I would like it this get your life.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
What someone's cutting on the public address system standing beside?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
I shall continue your speech for you and tell the
truth about that great building of.
Speaker 11 (06:42):
Your Where is that boy it's coming from?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It is useless to have to find me. Oh, you
just have to listen. That's here what he has to say, Margot, that's.
Speaker 13 (06:52):
Better many months ago.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
I want your own Need not to try to erect
the Coast Building.
Speaker 13 (07:00):
These warnings were not heeded. In reciting the glories of
this building, mister Need did not mention one very important
thing that went into its construction human life.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Here is human life.
Speaker 13 (07:16):
The foundation of this building is not all steel, brick
and concrete.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
There is also blood, blood the men who died during
its construction.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's why.
Speaker 13 (07:26):
That's why it quiet.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
I have another warning for you, Jerome me, all of
you listening shall be my witnesses. The ghost that those
men who died will return to haunt.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The Coast Building.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
In fact, before too long, the Coast Building will be
known and.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Such ghost building.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Oh, good afternoon, Good afternoon him, mister Cranston is, mister
lewis in?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Please? Oh yes, come come right in. He's expecting you.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh, Bob, mister Cranston is here. I'm Bob's uncle John. Oh,
how do you do sir? This has been slaying well, Bob,
hell won't you come on into the study you. I
have some tea prepared, thank you.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Uncle John right in here, Lamont slain than Has anyone
learned how that voice cut in on mister Need's speech yesterday, Bob, Yes,
whoever it was.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Hooked up another mic on the line inside the building,
I see if you haven't learned his identity? No, won't
you sit on? Please? Thank you?
Speaker 14 (08:41):
Frankly, I'm worried, Lamart. I'm worried because the Coast Building
has meant everything.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Tony.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I uh, I don't know if I've ever told you
of my earlier life, Lamar, No, you haven't, Bob Well,
I was brought up in the orphanage.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Now.
Speaker 14 (08:55):
The only reason I tell you this is so that
you might understand how important this job has been to him.
You see, ever since I left the home, my one
ambition was to find success as an architect.
Speaker 11 (09:04):
Which you certainly have.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, I thought so until yesterday. Now I'm not so sure.
What do you mean, Bob Well?
Speaker 14 (09:11):
If the Coast Building turns out as that voice predicted,
if it is jinxed, then all my hopes are ruined.
Speaker 11 (09:17):
But surely you're not going to let an idle threat.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Bill is great triumph. I don't think it was an
idle threat. Why do you say that? Well, let me.
Speaker 14 (09:24):
Show you this personal message that I discovered in this
afternoon's paper. I chanced on it in the classified section. Here,
Yarl must read this were right there, right at the
bottom of pool.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Oh yes, to Henry Johnson, president of H. P. Johnson Corporation.
This is not a warning. It is a forecast, the
first of many to come. The ghosts of those who
died that the Coast Building might be erected will return
to day to claim their own.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Johnson has a suite of offices in that building. Surely
a thread is publicly couldn't be carried out? Has anyone
notified Johnson?
Speaker 14 (10:02):
I tried to reach him on the phone, that he
was busy, so I left word for him to call
me back.
Speaker 11 (10:06):
Perhaps we should go over there?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Oh this maybe know? Hello?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Oh yes, mister need what what I see? I'll be
right over. What's the trouble bom?
Speaker 14 (10:19):
Henry Johnson has just been found in his private office
in the Coast Building, stamped to death.
Speaker 15 (10:33):
Gone on seven aat flock Well, Mike and crowded step
in the rear of the corplace.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We'll make room for you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Bell, aren't you going home a little early?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Want to tell you the truth, Fred.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I read that briscal in the paper today, that one
that forecast death to everyone using the Express elevator at
exactly five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So I figured i'd beat the rush. Superstitious, No careful.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Well, it's a good thing that you're not superstitious, because
your watch is wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's exactly five o'clock. Now I've prisson everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
They can't knock home.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
This is the last window I'm gonna wash. See, fifty
five stories is too high up.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Stop grumbling? Will you listen? Did you see the paper
this morning?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
There was an ad in it.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
See that ad says a window clean is gonna do
a brody sometime today. And brother, I just ain't gonna
be that guy.
Speaker 16 (11:32):
No, sir, I my safety belts quest from your hands.
Speaker 12 (11:36):
I can't read that.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
The Coast Filming tenants moving out. Hey read all about it.
Speaker 13 (11:47):
Coast Building.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
They count Coast bilding.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
X ray egg luck, mister Need.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
I didn't ask you down to he cause us to
get your opinion on what's legal and what isn't legal.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It goes for you too, mister Lewis, submissioner.
Speaker 14 (12:05):
I'm not arguing with you at all. All right, there's
both miss Lane and mister Cranston here. No, I'm just
as anxious to solve this mystery as you are.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's true, Commission. All right, Cranston, just let me handle this.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
But I can't say that I think much of your
handling so far.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Western No, mister Need, most of those you toy with
this little statement for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Why evolved?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
What are you ratiosus on? Commission? Have you got anything?
Wait a minute, all of you. I've got a story
to tell.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Won't take long, but it definitely links you, mister Need,
with these mysterious debts.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Oh this is ridiculous, but go ahead, let's hear your accusation.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
I've been checking the newspapers to learn who was sending
in those fatal ads in the personal columns, and I
learned that they'd been sent from various substations and paid.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
For by postal money orders signed by different aliases.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Why does that care suspicion on me?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, in the first place, Need, I've known you as
a crook for many years.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Why is you what?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Your fatal mistake was brought about by over confidence.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
See the newspapers on orders from me did not pop
the last warning they received.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
They turned it over to me.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
What are you driving at? Western?
Speaker 10 (13:05):
This particular warning was addressed to Fuel Seaborn, president of
se Vaughn and Eddie, one of the few remaining tenants
in the building. It said that he'd be killed this afternoon.
Have you won, mister Seban not personally, I left word
formed to contact me. However, the warning wasn't necessary because
I have to would be murderer here.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
In my office.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Western. I demand to know why you say that?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Becauses I said before? Over confidence led to your paidal mistake.
This last message to the papers was paid for by
a money order signed by.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
A person named Dean D E N.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Dean.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
Now do you understand obviously Dean is need spelled backwards.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Dean, I'm beginning to understand.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Ah, tell me Western, was there any first initial accompanied
the name of.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
Dean as if you didn't know, Yes, my friend, the
first initial was j J for Jerome's or so.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
John what he was the one who wants me not
to put up the Coast building? He said, you pay
me back for what you owe me?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Who are you talking about me?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I can't see just you can't.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Say you're under a wrest for murder, and you can't.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Say, hello, commissioner Western speaking, Hello, Commissioner, Is this Joe Sebon?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You called me?
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Yes, Sibon, I did. I thought you ought to know
that I intercepted a newspaper ad today that or cast
you of being the next victim in the coast build game.
Speaker 15 (14:30):
Oh I see, well, I wouldn't worry about that about
were you? No one is going to kill me in
the middle of the afternoon in the world's largest office building. Besides,
my secretary's right outside the door.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And see who is that? What do you want here?
What place is that? Seb?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I told you I was innocent.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Commissioner, Well, commissioner, who's your murderer?
Speaker 17 (14:57):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
More from the ghost building in just a moment.
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Speaker 3 (16:24):
The words blue Coal.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And now we returned to the ghost building.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I realize that there's a slight penalty for illegal entry, Margo,
but it must be done.
Speaker 12 (16:45):
But I'd like to know how you came by that
bunch of skeleton keys lamonth Why uh?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
In my spare time, I whittleum in your spare time
in while here we are, May I have that flashlight? Please?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Thank you? You better stay close to me, Margot. All
these murders that have occurred here in the ghost building,
it's just possible that what I seek in mister Lewis's
office may be.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Pretty well guarded.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I won't's trade, don't worry. Well, let's have a look
in this desk.
Speaker 12 (17:21):
Yeah, hold a flashlight for you, yes, please, Lemand but
if a watchman or someone should see this light.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
They only checked this floor once an hour. I made sure. Then,
well we like so far? What are you looking for
a very important bit of evidence that I hope to
find hire, but doesn't seem to.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Hello, what's this? Is that what you were after?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
This letter?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
No, it isn't what I came after. But nonetheless it's
just about Cincius the case?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Why what din it?
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I haven't even looked at its contents. The address and
the envelope is all that I need.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I'll show you what they're doing. Answer me why are
you here?
Speaker 7 (18:05):
If you take that mask off your face, I might
answer you.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You'll answer me now I'll shoot. Now. Look, we haven't
any put out the place, like Margot, you h no,
it's no use, Margo. He's gotten away and we can't
break through this panel.
Speaker 11 (18:30):
Where could he have gone?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Be somewhere behind this wall? Did you see that pail
of blood leaning across the floor. I must have holded him.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
What can we do? I know what you can do, Margo.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Contact Commissioner Western at once, tell him to send a
squad amnto the ghost building, because I'm certain that another
murder will soon occur.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I'm going to pay a call on Robert Lewis's home.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That's the Shadow, Uncle John?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Uncle John? Is that you.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Tho? He came in?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And now? Let me see these windows on the ground
floor spaceless store PLESA. Sorry to interrupt your work, mister Lewis.
Who is it who's speaking to me? I am known
as the Shadow? Where are you? I don't see anyone.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
I'm standing right beside you, mister Lewis. But you needn't
father to look for me. By my hypnotic power, I've
made myself quite invisible to your eyes.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Why are you here? What do you want of me?
I would like to know where your uncle is, why
he's out?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Then perhaps you can tell me what I wish to
know about him.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Is he really your uncle, mister Lewis?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Of course, of.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Course he is lying. Now see here, I don't a
plan that you call your uncle is in reality your father.
Isn't this true?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
And you are not Robert Lewis. You are Robert Dean,
the son of John Dene, the man you call your uncle.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Then perhaps if.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I remind you of a letter it will help. A
letter addressed to you.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
At the Orphanage, postmarked nineteen hundred eight.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I've found it in your office. I'll dare you rifle
my office.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
I checked with the Orphanage and found that a Robert
Dean had been left there in nineteen hundred eight, at
the age of three, after his mother had died and
his father had been sent to prison to serve a
forty year term. He was sentenced for a tempted murder
on the person of Jerome Need, his business associate.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You you learned all this.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Your father was released in October of nineteen forty for
good behavior, and he has since made good his revenge
on Jerome Need. You can't prove that, oh, but I
can by the money order that he signed with the
name J. D.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Jerome Need could identify him too.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Why do you do this to me because you share
your father's guilt, your complicity helped him upon the murder. No, no,
you will those secret passageways in the building. I have
an idea that you even have blueprints, secret blueprints of
your work.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Now where are they? You'll never get those? Oh you
have them then in that draw that you involuntarily reach,
keep away from me.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
You shall never get the war.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, I don't put out.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
The light too late as the shadow too late to
see those prints and taking them till.
Speaker 14 (21:21):
We get them back to me.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
You'll never get them.
Speaker 13 (21:23):
No, and you won't get me.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Of course. Of course.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
I hated letting Lewis get away, But at least I
have the blueprints.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Margo, Yeah, take a look at them. What are those
circles numbers?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Well, number one was Johnson's office. Number two the elevator shaft.
Number three the window ledge from which the cleaner fell.
Number four Seaborn's office.
Speaker 11 (21:52):
What is number five?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's circle two?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Wait there, I'll look below, But that's the conference room
of the border crustees.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That must be the planned scene of the next murder.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Oh, Laman, do you really think?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Of course, Margo, if another vicious killing is to be
a burder, we must get to the ghost building at once.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Come along, Margo Westerns right down here.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Aman.
Speaker 12 (22:17):
I wonder why the Commissioner has stationed so many police
on this conference room floor.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
Something's happened.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I don't know. I hope we're not too late. Well,
there's Western, Commissioner in a minute, not so loud, Grants,
there's a meeting going on in there. I know. That's
why I'm here. You've got to stop that meeting in once.
Oh is that so?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Now?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Look, question, I happen to know that the next murder,
all murders in this building will take place in that room.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Oh you mean the ten board members all together.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Somebody's going to sneak in there and stab the ball.
I'm telling you the truth, Commissioner.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
And I'm telling you the truth, Maiden. Is directors are
holding a meeting in there at their request. They're not
going to be disturbed.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And that's my orders. And Commissioner, you know how I
love to break your order.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Get away?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Question, thanke. You have to your patient.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Once the room is full of a poisonous waves, open
the windows quickly those men I'll be alive. There's a
check that they might be. How is it done? I
would do? Don't talk before there we go. We're taking
as much of this as we can stand.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Right there, you're right Western, Yes, get some in in there.
Bring those directors out.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Talent.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Hell, what happened?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
A room is full of a poisonous gas. It must
have been released through the mentalating system. I don't know,
I hope, not having time to wait to find out.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Where are you going?
Speaker 7 (23:36):
The shadow is going to follow the secret passageway in
the blueprint that will lead him to the murderers.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Then that won't you?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Let me get you to a doc.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
No, son, wouldn't be safe for you. Besides, I'm afraid
it's too late. Wound is bleeding so much. There is
there anything I can do? Yes, yes, Robert, there is.
What is my plan? My plan of vengeance?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
You must carry it through, knowing that I can die happy.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
The shadow?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I see?
Speaker 15 (24:21):
You?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Remember me, mister Lewis? How did you get here? Your
blueprints were a great help, And now.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
That I am here, your plan of killing is at
an end.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Who is this man?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I'll not see it.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
I am invisible to your eyes, mister john Den, But
I'm familiar with all you've done, the victims you've claimed
in this building.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Who knows everything?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yes, well, he must know why why I killed need
sent me to prison.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I was an innocent man, an innocent man.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
My wife died of a broken heart when they took
me away.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
That is why I swore vengeance against mister Mead.
Speaker 16 (24:58):
I've ruined him by this, fllying his greatest dream.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Nonetheless, you and your son must both pay for your crime.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
No, no, not Robert. He mustn't suffer too. He was
your a compass, your willing accomplass. Let's see, I'm fortunate
to change my plans. Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I have a charge of dynamite planted down here for
just such an emergency as this.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I'm about to die anyway, and.
Speaker 16 (25:24):
If my son is to face the electric chair, I'd
rather he went out with me, taking all of us
with us.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I wouldn't advise you're doing that, mister Deane.
Speaker 16 (25:31):
You're too late, mister shadow. My son has slipped over
to the plunge that will set off the chart. See
even now he awaits my words.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yes, somebody you like that, mister Shadow. Don't touch that dynamite, Lewis,
go on, son, now the.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
Plunge of nose.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yes, nothing happened.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
No, I should have told you that I discovered your
dynamite and touched the precaution of cutting the wires.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I guess there's nothing enough to do now, gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Except to wait for the arrival of the police.
Speaker 15 (26:11):
And so before pronouncing sentence on you, John Dene and
your son Robert Dean, I would like to point out
to you and to all other members of society, no
matter how great a grievance you have against an individual
or individuals, you have neither a legal nor a moral
right to seek a personal vengeance to atone that grievance.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Your case is.
Speaker 15 (26:33):
An object lesson of a familiar phrase that cannot be
repeated too often.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Crime does not pay.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
And now before we hear from the Shadow again, a
brief word from John Barclay, America's home heating expert.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Mister Barclay, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Jean Paul King, and good evening friend.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
You know.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
Of all the letters I have received recently, one from
a man up state interested me particularly.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
He wanted to.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Know why his furnace fire kept dying out well in
the first place, A well kept fire doesn't die out
unless something's wrong with the draft, and the poor draft
may be due to any number of causes, such as
loose bricks in the chimney or block flue passages. So
I advised him to get in touch with his neighborhood
brew coal dealer immediately. Since then he writes me that
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a John Berkley trained serviceman discovered the trouble was a
leaking connection around.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The smoke pipe where it entered the chimney.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Naturally, this caused him a great deal of unnecessary inconvenience
until it was fixed. Well, I just thought i'd mentioned
this as an example of a common complaint. And in
case you're not entirely satisfied with the results your furnace
is giving you, let a John Berkley trained service man
give it the once over.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He can probably help you too. For this extra customer service.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Just phone your neighborhood blue corn dealer tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The
Shadow magazine. The characters, names, places, and what are fictitious.
Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
The weed of crime.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
There's bitter root Crime does not pay the Shadow nos.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Coal Dealers
of America bring you an adventure of the shadow.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
That will send thrills racing up and down your spine.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So be sure to listen and be sure to phone
your friendly blue coal dealer for greater heating comfort. At
lefts cough, this is Jane Paul King saying, keep the
home fires burning with blue coal.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
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Speaker 2 (30:27):
Thanks again for listening, and I hope you have a
great day.
Who knows what evil in the hearts of men? The
Shadow not.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The thrilling adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
brought to you each week by the Blue.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Coal Dealers of America.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to old and.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Young alike, that crime does not pay.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is Jean Paul King pinchetting
for his sick pal Ken Roberts and telling you that
the Shadow starts his adventure in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
But first, are you starting off the right way.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
These cold winter morning?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Does your furnace send up quick heat the moment you
open the it will if you burn blue coal. What's more,
with blue coal, you'll have a truly comfortable, well heated
home all day long. So next time you order fuel,
be sure to ask for blue coal. You can get
blue coal and free information on low cost home heating
from your neighborhood blue coal dealer. Give him a call
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first thing in the morning. The Shadow, mysterious character who
aids the forces of law and order, is in reality
l Monk Cranston, wealthy young man about town. As the Shadow,
Cranston is gifted with hypnotic power to cloud men's minds
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so that they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion,
the lovely Margot Lane, is the only person who knows
to whom the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs to
day's story.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The ghost building.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Your own needs speaking. Yes, yes, we just completed pictures
of the ground this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
And in your story you can say that the building
we intend to erect will be the largest and finest.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
In the world. We're calling it the Coast Building.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
At it all, good bye, Amos House.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
And I Who are you?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
What are you doing in here now? I'm mister me.
Don't get excited. Who are you? You are the head
of the.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Construction company of this proposed new coast building, are you not?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
That's right now. Look, if you're a reporter, I've already give.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Them the story a reporter, I'll come ahead to warn
you not to erect that building.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh listen.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
If this is a prank, it's some pretty portico.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
This is not a prank.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It's simply a forecast of death and torture if the
present plans go through.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I don't know who you are. No, do I take
any struck in your fucker.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I'm sorry, but you're wrong on both counts. My forecast
will must come true.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You do know me, oh from where from the past?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
And slight wonder that you don't recognize me after all
this time. But one day, Jerome need, you will remember
me all too well.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You'll pay me back in full all that you owe me. Hey,
watch yourself, you almost missed that rivet.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I was just thinking, you're supposed to think you're supposed
to catch rivets.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Now, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Years from now when my kids says to me, what
did you have to do with putting up.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
The largest bill in the world, And you'll say what
I'll say, A guy throw of it?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And I got the rent that guy thraw of it.
I caught the rivet. Then a guy thraw river touch
that when it's coming down. Oh, I didn't think totally
know me like that. Mike, My god, what's hot? A
barber's swinging the girl room? My boss, we're got that
(04:10):
light up there is back as turn. You don't see
the guy that stop.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
That brain quick forcana l it bine for ConA.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You hit him? He hit him?
Speaker 8 (04:17):
What his bolid.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Too many die and that's what Too many die on
this job.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
You gotta take chances in this business, Joey.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
I don't too many dead men. And the foundation of
this building. Now I got honor and the kids to
think about.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Ah, you're talking, screwy. We're safer up here than them
guys down on the street. Besides Anna, And then kids
get to eat, don't they sure?
Speaker 10 (04:43):
Don't worry I feed them. We're not from this job.
I'm going below and quit now. This cost building is jinx. Okay,
good luck, Joe, Yeah, alarm kids along, Joe, Hey, watch
your step, Joe.
Speaker 11 (04:56):
Hold on, you hold them on. I thought you weren't coming.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm sorry, I'm late. Margo.
Speaker 11 (05:09):
You know there's nothing duller than a dedication ceremony.
Speaker 12 (05:11):
I was beginning to think I had to sit through
it all alone.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
That's a fine thing to say, Margot. And I'm about
to introduce you to Robert Lewis, the architect who designed
this coast blind here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Where do you think you'd like to meet Miss Lane?
After that remark, ball, of course I would. I even
agree with his statement, how do you do? Miss Lane? Hello,
mister Lewis, Hey, this is a distinguished gathering.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Look who's among those present A good police commissioner.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Hello that wessn hell? Do you know Bob Lewis? Yes,
it's glad to say, mister Lewis, Thank you, commissioner.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
It brings you here, Commissioner, duty, use duty these things,
boy stiff, it waste half a day listening to an
old stuffed shirt like your own.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Need.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Take a lot of bows and watch him lay a cornerstone.
Speaker 11 (05:50):
Why, commissioner, is that a nice way to talk about
one of our leading citizens?
Speaker 10 (05:54):
Leading citizen. In my eye, Need is as crooked as
a corkscrew. If he didn't hold a high political office,
the judge would have thrown the book out of years ago?
Speaker 11 (06:04):
Is your friend with the need?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Now, ladies and.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to dedicate this glorious editor.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Although there were several.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Unavoidable delays in the buildings constructure, you have still finished
on schedule, and today I am justly proud to present
to our fair cities the world's largest an once modern structure.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
I would like it this get your life.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
What someone's cutting on the public address system standing beside?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
I shall continue your speech for you and tell the
truth about that great building of.
Speaker 11 (06:42):
Your Where is that boy it's coming from?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It is useless to have to find me. Oh, you
just have to listen. That's here what he has to say, Margot, that's.
Speaker 13 (06:52):
Better many months ago.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
I want your own Need not to try to erect
the Coast Building.
Speaker 13 (07:00):
These warnings were not heeded. In reciting the glories of
this building, mister Need did not mention one very important
thing that went into its construction human life.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Here is human life.
Speaker 13 (07:16):
The foundation of this building is not all steel, brick
and concrete.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
There is also blood, blood the men who died during
its construction.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That's why.
Speaker 13 (07:26):
That's why it quiet.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
I have another warning for you, Jerome me, all of
you listening shall be my witnesses. The ghost that those
men who died will return to haunt.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The Coast Building.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
In fact, before too long, the Coast Building will be
known and.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Such ghost building.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Oh, good afternoon, Good afternoon him, mister Cranston is, mister
lewis in?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Please? Oh yes, come come right in. He's expecting you.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh, Bob, mister Cranston is here. I'm Bob's uncle John. Oh,
how do you do sir? This has been slaying well, Bob,
hell won't you come on into the study you. I
have some tea prepared, thank you.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Uncle John right in here, Lamont slain than Has anyone
learned how that voice cut in on mister Need's speech yesterday, Bob, Yes,
whoever it was.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Hooked up another mic on the line inside the building,
I see if you haven't learned his identity? No, won't
you sit on? Please? Thank you?
Speaker 14 (08:41):
Frankly, I'm worried, Lamart. I'm worried because the Coast Building
has meant everything.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Tony.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I uh, I don't know if I've ever told you
of my earlier life, Lamar, No, you haven't, Bob Well,
I was brought up in the orphanage.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Now.
Speaker 14 (08:55):
The only reason I tell you this is so that
you might understand how important this job has been to him.
You see, ever since I left the home, my one
ambition was to find success as an architect.
Speaker 11 (09:04):
Which you certainly have.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, I thought so until yesterday. Now I'm not so sure.
What do you mean, Bob Well?
Speaker 14 (09:11):
If the Coast Building turns out as that voice predicted,
if it is jinxed, then all my hopes are ruined.
Speaker 11 (09:17):
But surely you're not going to let an idle threat.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Bill is great triumph. I don't think it was an
idle threat. Why do you say that? Well, let me.
Speaker 14 (09:24):
Show you this personal message that I discovered in this
afternoon's paper. I chanced on it in the classified section. Here,
Yarl must read this were right there, right at the
bottom of pool.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Oh yes, to Henry Johnson, president of H. P. Johnson Corporation.
This is not a warning. It is a forecast, the
first of many to come. The ghosts of those who
died that the Coast Building might be erected will return
to day to claim their own.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Johnson has a suite of offices in that building. Surely
a thread is publicly couldn't be carried out? Has anyone
notified Johnson?
Speaker 14 (10:02):
I tried to reach him on the phone, that he
was busy, so I left word for him to call
me back.
Speaker 11 (10:06):
Perhaps we should go over there?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Oh this maybe know? Hello?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Oh yes, mister need what what I see? I'll be
right over. What's the trouble bom?
Speaker 14 (10:19):
Henry Johnson has just been found in his private office
in the Coast Building, stamped to death.
Speaker 15 (10:33):
Gone on seven aat flock Well, Mike and crowded step
in the rear of the corplace.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We'll make room for you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Bell, aren't you going home a little early?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Want to tell you the truth, Fred.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I read that briscal in the paper today, that one
that forecast death to everyone using the Express elevator at
exactly five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So I figured i'd beat the rush. Superstitious, No careful.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Well, it's a good thing that you're not superstitious, because
your watch is wrong.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's exactly five o'clock. Now I've prisson everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
They can't knock home.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
This is the last window I'm gonna wash. See, fifty
five stories is too high up.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Stop grumbling? Will you listen? Did you see the paper
this morning?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
There was an ad in it.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
See that ad says a window clean is gonna do
a brody sometime today. And brother, I just ain't gonna
be that guy.
Speaker 16 (11:32):
No, sir, I my safety belts quest from your hands.
Speaker 12 (11:36):
I can't read that.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
The Coast Filming tenants moving out. Hey read all about it.
Speaker 13 (11:47):
Coast Building.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
They count Coast bilding.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
X ray egg luck, mister Need.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
I didn't ask you down to he cause us to
get your opinion on what's legal and what isn't legal.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It goes for you too, mister Lewis, submissioner.
Speaker 14 (12:05):
I'm not arguing with you at all. All right, there's
both miss Lane and mister Cranston here. No, I'm just
as anxious to solve this mystery as you are.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's true, Commission. All right, Cranston, just let me handle this.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
But I can't say that I think much of your
handling so far.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Western No, mister Need, most of those you toy with
this little statement for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Why evolved?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
What are you ratiosus on? Commission? Have you got anything?
Wait a minute, all of you. I've got a story
to tell.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Won't take long, but it definitely links you, mister Need,
with these mysterious debts.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Oh this is ridiculous, but go ahead, let's hear your accusation.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
I've been checking the newspapers to learn who was sending
in those fatal ads in the personal columns, and I
learned that they'd been sent from various substations and paid.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
For by postal money orders signed by different aliases.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Why does that care suspicion on me?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well, in the first place, Need, I've known you as
a crook for many years.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Why is you what?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Your fatal mistake was brought about by over confidence.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
See the newspapers on orders from me did not pop
the last warning they received.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
They turned it over to me.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
What are you driving at? Western?
Speaker 10 (13:05):
This particular warning was addressed to Fuel Seaborn, president of
se Vaughn and Eddie, one of the few remaining tenants
in the building. It said that he'd be killed this afternoon.
Have you won, mister Seban not personally, I left word
formed to contact me. However, the warning wasn't necessary because
I have to would be murderer here.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
In my office.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Western. I demand to know why you say that?
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Becauses I said before? Over confidence led to your paidal mistake.
This last message to the papers was paid for by
a money order signed by.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
A person named Dean D E N.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Dean.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
Now do you understand obviously Dean is need spelled backwards.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Dean, I'm beginning to understand.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Ah, tell me Western, was there any first initial accompanied
the name of.
Speaker 10 (13:52):
Dean as if you didn't know, Yes, my friend, the
first initial was j J for Jerome's or so.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
John what he was the one who wants me not
to put up the Coast building? He said, you pay
me back for what you owe me?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Who are you talking about me?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I can't see just you can't.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Say you're under a wrest for murder, and you can't.
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Say, hello, commissioner Western speaking, Hello, Commissioner, Is this Joe Sebon?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You called me?
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Yes, Sibon, I did. I thought you ought to know
that I intercepted a newspaper ad today that or cast
you of being the next victim in the coast build game.
Speaker 15 (14:30):
Oh I see, well, I wouldn't worry about that about
were you? No one is going to kill me in
the middle of the afternoon in the world's largest office building. Besides,
my secretary's right outside the door.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And see who is that? What do you want here?
What place is that? Seb?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I told you I was innocent.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Commissioner, Well, commissioner, who's your murderer?
Speaker 17 (14:57):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
More from the ghost building in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
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blue coal distributes a steady flow of even burning, long lasting,
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Speaker 1 (15:42):
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Speaker 2 (15:44):
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Speaker 3 (16:24):
The words blue Coal.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And now we returned to the ghost building.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I realize that there's a slight penalty for illegal entry, Margo,
but it must be done.
Speaker 12 (16:45):
But I'd like to know how you came by that
bunch of skeleton keys lamonth Why uh?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
In my spare time, I whittleum in your spare time
in while here we are, May I have that flashlight? Please?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Thank you? You better stay close to me, Margot. All
these murders that have occurred here in the ghost building,
it's just possible that what I seek in mister Lewis's
office may be.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Pretty well guarded.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I won't's trade, don't worry. Well, let's have a look
in this desk.
Speaker 12 (17:21):
Yeah, hold a flashlight for you, yes, please, Lemand but
if a watchman or someone should see this light.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
They only checked this floor once an hour. I made sure. Then,
well we like so far? What are you looking for
a very important bit of evidence that I hope to
find hire, but doesn't seem to.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Hello, what's this? Is that what you were after?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
This letter?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
No, it isn't what I came after. But nonetheless it's
just about Cincius the case?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Why what din it?
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I haven't even looked at its contents. The address and
the envelope is all that I need.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I'll show you what they're doing. Answer me why are
you here?
Speaker 7 (18:05):
If you take that mask off your face, I might
answer you.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You'll answer me now I'll shoot. Now. Look, we haven't
any put out the place, like Margot, you h no,
it's no use, Margo. He's gotten away and we can't
break through this panel.
Speaker 11 (18:30):
Where could he have gone?
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Be somewhere behind this wall? Did you see that pail
of blood leaning across the floor. I must have holded him.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
What can we do? I know what you can do, Margo.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Contact Commissioner Western at once, tell him to send a
squad amnto the ghost building, because I'm certain that another
murder will soon occur.
Speaker 11 (18:47):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I'm going to pay a call on Robert Lewis's home.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That's the Shadow, Uncle John?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Uncle John? Is that you.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Tho? He came in?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And now? Let me see these windows on the ground
floor spaceless store PLESA. Sorry to interrupt your work, mister Lewis.
Who is it who's speaking to me? I am known
as the Shadow? Where are you? I don't see anyone.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
I'm standing right beside you, mister Lewis. But you needn't
father to look for me. By my hypnotic power, I've
made myself quite invisible to your eyes.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Why are you here? What do you want of me?
I would like to know where your uncle is, why
he's out?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Then perhaps you can tell me what I wish to
know about him.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Is he really your uncle, mister Lewis?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Of course, of.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Course he is lying. Now see here, I don't a
plan that you call your uncle is in reality your father.
Isn't this true?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
And you are not Robert Lewis. You are Robert Dean,
the son of John Dene, the man you call your uncle.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Then perhaps if.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I remind you of a letter it will help. A
letter addressed to you.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
At the Orphanage, postmarked nineteen hundred eight.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I've found it in your office. I'll dare you rifle
my office.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
I checked with the Orphanage and found that a Robert
Dean had been left there in nineteen hundred eight, at
the age of three, after his mother had died and
his father had been sent to prison to serve a
forty year term. He was sentenced for a tempted murder
on the person of Jerome Need, his business associate.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You you learned all this.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Your father was released in October of nineteen forty for
good behavior, and he has since made good his revenge
on Jerome Need. You can't prove that, oh, but I
can by the money order that he signed with the
name J. D.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Jerome Need could identify him too.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Why do you do this to me because you share
your father's guilt, your complicity helped him upon the murder. No, no,
you will those secret passageways in the building. I have
an idea that you even have blueprints, secret blueprints of
your work.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Now where are they? You'll never get those? Oh you
have them then in that draw that you involuntarily reach,
keep away from me.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
You shall never get the war.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, I don't put out.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
The light too late as the shadow too late to
see those prints and taking them till.
Speaker 14 (21:21):
We get them back to me.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
You'll never get them.
Speaker 13 (21:23):
No, and you won't get me.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Of course. Of course.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
I hated letting Lewis get away, But at least I
have the blueprints.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Margo, Yeah, take a look at them. What are those
circles numbers?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Well, number one was Johnson's office. Number two the elevator shaft.
Number three the window ledge from which the cleaner fell.
Number four Seaborn's office.
Speaker 11 (21:52):
What is number five?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's circle two?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Wait there, I'll look below, But that's the conference room
of the border crustees.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That must be the planned scene of the next murder.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Oh, Laman, do you really think?
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Of course, Margo, if another vicious killing is to be
a burder, we must get to the ghost building at once.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Come along, Margo Westerns right down here.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
Aman.
Speaker 12 (22:17):
I wonder why the Commissioner has stationed so many police
on this conference room floor.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
Something's happened.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I don't know. I hope we're not too late. Well,
there's Western, Commissioner in a minute, not so loud, Grants,
there's a meeting going on in there. I know. That's
why I'm here. You've got to stop that meeting in once.
Oh is that so?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Now?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Look, question, I happen to know that the next murder,
all murders in this building will take place in that room.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Oh you mean the ten board members all together.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Somebody's going to sneak in there and stab the ball.
I'm telling you the truth, Commissioner.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
And I'm telling you the truth, Maiden. Is directors are
holding a meeting in there at their request. They're not
going to be disturbed.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And that's my orders. And Commissioner, you know how I
love to break your order.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Get away?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Question, thanke. You have to your patient.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Once the room is full of a poisonous waves, open
the windows quickly those men I'll be alive. There's a
check that they might be. How is it done? I
would do? Don't talk before there we go. We're taking
as much of this as we can stand.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Right there, you're right Western, Yes, get some in in there.
Bring those directors out.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Talent.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
Hell, what happened?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
A room is full of a poisonous gas. It must
have been released through the mentalating system. I don't know,
I hope, not having time to wait to find out.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Where are you going?
Speaker 7 (23:36):
The shadow is going to follow the secret passageway in
the blueprint that will lead him to the murderers.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Then that won't you?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Let me get you to a doc.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
No, son, wouldn't be safe for you. Besides, I'm afraid
it's too late. Wound is bleeding so much. There is
there anything I can do? Yes, yes, Robert, there is.
What is my plan? My plan of vengeance?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
You must carry it through, knowing that I can die happy.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
The shadow?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I see?
Speaker 15 (24:21):
You?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Remember me, mister Lewis? How did you get here? Your
blueprints were a great help, And now.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
That I am here, your plan of killing is at
an end.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Who is this man?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I'll not see it.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
I am invisible to your eyes, mister john Den, But
I'm familiar with all you've done, the victims you've claimed
in this building.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Who knows everything?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Yes, well, he must know why why I killed need
sent me to prison.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I was an innocent man, an innocent man.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
My wife died of a broken heart when they took
me away.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
That is why I swore vengeance against mister Mead.
Speaker 16 (24:58):
I've ruined him by this, fllying his greatest dream.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Nonetheless, you and your son must both pay for your crime.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
No, no, not Robert. He mustn't suffer too. He was
your a compass, your willing accomplass. Let's see, I'm fortunate
to change my plans. Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I have a charge of dynamite planted down here for
just such an emergency as this.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I'm about to die anyway, and.
Speaker 16 (25:24):
If my son is to face the electric chair, I'd
rather he went out with me, taking all of us
with us.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I wouldn't advise you're doing that, mister Deane.
Speaker 16 (25:31):
You're too late, mister shadow. My son has slipped over
to the plunge that will set off the chart. See
even now he awaits my words.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yes, somebody you like that, mister Shadow. Don't touch that dynamite, Lewis,
go on, son, now the.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
Plunge of nose.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yes, nothing happened.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
No, I should have told you that I discovered your
dynamite and touched the precaution of cutting the wires.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I guess there's nothing enough to do now, gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Except to wait for the arrival of the police.
Speaker 15 (26:11):
And so before pronouncing sentence on you, John Dene and
your son Robert Dean, I would like to point out
to you and to all other members of society, no
matter how great a grievance you have against an individual
or individuals, you have neither a legal nor a moral
right to seek a personal vengeance to atone that grievance.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Your case is.
Speaker 15 (26:33):
An object lesson of a familiar phrase that cannot be
repeated too often.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Crime does not pay.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
And now before we hear from the Shadow again, a
brief word from John Barclay, America's home heating expert.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Mister Barclay, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Jean Paul King, and good evening friend.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
You know.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
Of all the letters I have received recently, one from
a man up state interested me particularly.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
He wanted to.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Know why his furnace fire kept dying out well in
the first place, A well kept fire doesn't die out
unless something's wrong with the draft, and the poor draft
may be due to any number of causes, such as
loose bricks in the chimney or block flue passages. So
I advised him to get in touch with his neighborhood
brew coal dealer immediately. Since then he writes me that
(27:33):
a John Berkley trained serviceman discovered the trouble was a
leaking connection around.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The smoke pipe where it entered the chimney.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Naturally, this caused him a great deal of unnecessary inconvenience
until it was fixed. Well, I just thought i'd mentioned
this as an example of a common complaint. And in
case you're not entirely satisfied with the results your furnace
is giving you, let a John Berkley trained service man
give it the once over.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He can probably help you too. For this extra customer service.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Just phone your neighborhood blue corn dealer tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The
Shadow magazine. The characters, names, places, and what are fictitious.
Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
The weed of crime.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
There's bitter root Crime does not pay the Shadow nos.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Coal Dealers
of America bring you an adventure of the shadow.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
That will send thrills racing up and down your spine.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So be sure to listen and be sure to phone
your friendly blue coal dealer for greater heating comfort. At
lefts cough, this is Jane Paul King saying, keep the
home fires burning with blue coal.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
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Speaker 2 (30:27):
Thanks again for listening, and I hope you have a
great day.
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