April 26, 2025 • 30 mins
Original Air Date: January 19, 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 (00:17):
Who knows what evil works in the hearts of men.
The Shadow Road.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The thrilling adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
brought to you each week by the Blue Coal Dealers
of America. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to
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they set the stage for today's shadow drama, let me
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Phone him tomorrow, won't you. The Shadow, mysterious character who
aids the forces of law and order is in reality
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Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. As a shadow,
Cranston is gifted with hypnotic power to cloud men's minds
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. Today's story,
The Shadow Challenge.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Hello, No, no, I can't speak to him, and please
don't put more calls through operator. I'm busy working and
I don't wish to be disturbed.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Thank you. See there was a oh yeah, what was that?
I'm sorry to interrupt your work, Professor Rice.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Who is that? Who is speaking? I see no one.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I am called the Shadow, the Shadow.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I've heard of you. What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
That manuscripture translating, Professor Rice. It is a great value,
is it not? Yes, of course I want you to
give it to me.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Professor give you this manuscript?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Why?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Why that's impossible. It's not mine. It belongs to the museum.
It's a direct key you ancient into culture.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's why I've come here. I want that manuscript.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
See here.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I've always had a great respect for you, Shadow. You
worked for the forces of good against the forces of evil.
But now you're behaving like a common thief.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Give me that manuscript.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, no, very well.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I see that I must use other methods.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
What do you mean? What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
This is what I'm going to do, Professor Rice.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Shadow show.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
France to think that I believed you all these years
and you tell me.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
What a golf for you were?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just that an off day? That's all Mordel, even the
best of his experience. Though, besides, I'm not used to
playing in the sun.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
You weren't in the sun. You were in a nice
shady wood. You never saw the fair way all day?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Right?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Do we have time for a swim?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Oh good.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I've got to vindicate my athletic ability in something. You
ever change that headline down here?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Why not till I think of about the one?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Say by?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
All right?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Here?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, thank ye?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
That's hire North and straight story much storm read out
a hollow?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How bad was it to him?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
How many feet of snow?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Margo? You're talking like a tourist. Well they need is
a florry up note to call the headline like this?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Really?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Sure you get used to these headlines after you hear
i'go what I'll go look at this?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The story on the front page? Museum professor murdered by
the shadow by the shadow, That's what it says, Professor
Writes of the Costomopolitan Museum, was found dying in his
apartment late this evening by the police, and the deathbed
statement to commission a Western he described his assailants as
an invisible man who called himself the.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Shadow for the month. That's impossible.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
How do you explain. I have no explanation, But one
thing is certain. We're catching the next plane north. And
you say, commission in Western, that the dye men swore
that his assailant was the Shadow.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
That's right, Well, somehow I can't believe that.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh, look, miss Lane, facts are fact.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Well what Margo means the missioner is that she can't
believe that the Shadow would do such a thing. Well,
that's her opinion.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Me I think different.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
What do you mean.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I've always suspected that the Shadow was a criminal at heart?
Why otherwise, why would he always remain invisible? Oh? I
tell you he's a bad ah And this murder confirms it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
This manuscript commissioner, the one that the killer stole from
Professor Rice, what do you know about it?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Well, it's it's something that the professor was working on.
Rice and three other scholars are employed by the Cosmopolitan Museum,
specializing in I don't know restoration and recreation of ancient
Hindu culture.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yes, I'm acquainted with all of them, and there were well,
you probably know more about it than I do.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Anyway, this manuscript was very valuable.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
To them, But what value wouldn't have to anyone else.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
That's out of the department, Ms Lane. My job is
who put it to the corpus delected? And other words,
who killed Professor Rice. The answer to that is the
shadow and the motive Larsteny, my friend, good old fashioned larceny.
Shadow wanted that manuscripts and they killed the.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Guy to get it. Commissioner, I don't think that the
shadow had anything to do with it.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Look, I heard the accusation with my own ears just
before the erstwhile Professor Rice gave up the ghost.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Nevertheless, I can't believe the Shadow is guilty, and I
hope to be able to prove my point. How well,
with your permission, I'd like to go to the museum
and talk to Professor Rice's associates see what I can learn.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Go ahead, go ahead, my friend.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll leave the car here, Margo and believe that the
night entrance to the museum is in this wing.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
The month do you suppose that someone has discovered your
secret and is misusing it in the.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Shadow's name, that's possible, Margo.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
What else could it be?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, perhaps Western is putting the blame of the crime
on the sh shattle to excuse his department's inability to
solve the murder.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
What a horrible thing to do, the.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Supposition model, Well, we are have to ring for the watchman.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
What do you expect to find out here?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Lamon, Well, I want to talk to the other professors
and find out more about the missing manuscript.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yes, what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Good evening? We wish to see either professor Carter or
Hagen or professor Ammon. Yes, I know they're working here
this evening. Are you expected? Yes, yes we are.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh, that's come in.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Thank you. We seldom have visitors to slay our I
guess not. I must ask you to walk quietly.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Please. They do not like to be disturbed.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
You mean the professors.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh, no, not the professors, I mean those that live here.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Oh are the people live?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Did you see about the thinking has been? You know,
people staring at them through the day. Oh, yes, yes,
I can understand that. The does he the the statues
must appreciate your consideration for themselves.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh yes, yes, do you know that I watch over
them through the yes, the opposite, Yes, I must see you.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh well, thank you?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Yes, yes, it was nice of you to show us
the way.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Not at all, yank because I yes.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Good night, Hm cheerful fellow makes you feel right at home?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Well that's going man.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Oh but you, mister krast and I didn't expect to
see anyone.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'm sorry. This is miss Lane. Professor Carter, how do
you do?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Miss Laine? Won't you go into the office because armors there.
I have to consult a file. I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh yes, sir, thanks Professor Carter. Come along, bro, all
right here we come in.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh yes, yes, a tut mister Cranston, do come in.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Thank you. I don't believe you know, Miss Layne.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
No, I have never had the pleasure.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
This is Professor Ahmed Margot.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Professor?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I am most delighted to make your acquaintance. Won't you both?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Thank you. I spoke to Professor Hagen this afternoon. Did
he explain to you the purpose of my visit? Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
He did. You are interested? I believe in solving the
murder of our most worthy colleague, Professor Life. Yes, a
very noble endeavor.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I thought I might begin by learning more about the
manuscript that Professor Rice was working on when he was killed.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
An excellent beginning, Yes, what was its beaut The missing
manuscript was quite priceless in rarity, but its monetary value
was slight, indeed, because any attempt to resell it would
bring immediate arrests.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Well, Professor what within the manuscript?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I must confess that I do not know? You see,
it was one section of a single volume that the
thought of us was translating. Each of us took one
quarter of the work.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The work deals with ancient Hindu culture, doesn't it? Yes,
what if, by any chance, contain any secrets? Secrets of
that civilization which could be a value to someone today?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I fear that I am not at liberty to answer
that question with the Conston. Perhaps perhaps Professor Hagen might
be of greater service to you. He is our superior.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You know where is the professor.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
He's working in the laboratory upstairs. I shall be most
willing to go up and get him for it, but
I shall return in a moment with Professor Hagen, you
will excuse me, Miss Lakes.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Well, our Hindoo friend didn't appear to be too willing
to talk.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I believe he knows much more than he can to
tell the month.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I wonder if hm should we answer it?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well? I suppose i'd better Hello, I speaking, and this
is the month Cranston.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Then I can leave my message to you.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Certainly?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
The three men who once werefore one.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
More is about to die? Who is this? Who's speaking?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
The shadow?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
The shadow? Hello? Hello?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
What's the matter? The month?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That person on the phone called himself a shadow? Then
the person, Yes, professor, someone just called on the phone.
He said that one of you three professors is about
to die. It might be a crank, but we can't
take any chance to where the others upstairs and the laboratory.
You'd better take us up there at once, Yes, yes,
follow me up. These chairs come along. Imagine who's the
couple up there? Horycarnter.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Sounds like I'm a spot right in here?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
What's wrong with oh Margot? You got to stay out
of here. It's not a pleasant sight.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
What happened to Professor Hagen?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I found him?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So I'm the flower dying.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Was he still alive when you got here?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Could he talk to you? Did you learn anything?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yes? He told me that his attacker was an invisible
man who called himself that Shadow.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well, Margo, we now have definite proof that someone is
impersonating the Shadow.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Yes, the Markel. What can you do?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But don't worry, Margo. I've always used the power of
the Shadow to aid the forces of law and order
to help good conquer evil. Yes, I know, And now
that someone else has discovered my secret of invisibility and
is misusing this power, I shall travel to the ends
of the earth to conquer him. This, Margo, is the
Shadow's greatest challenge. I'm sure that I can meet it
and come out on top.
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Speaker 6 (14:54):
The month. Have you uncovered any clues and it leads
to the identity of this person who's masgrading as a
show shadow.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Nothing important. Nor in the past twelve hours, I have
received two mysterious unsigned messages.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Really, what about.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I'll read you one of them. It says, why don't
you inquire into the jealousy of the four who now
at two?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Is that refer to the four persons?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yes, and I learned that it's quite true. A great
jealousy existed. All four men, although they worked together, were
constantly vying with one another for individual glory.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Then that's why the original manuscript is divided among the
four exactly. Well, the month you mentioned that you received
two messages? What was the other one?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Right? I have it here? Listened to this? What were
the secrets to be found in the manuscript that was
being translated by the four who now are two?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
And did you learn the answer to their question?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Not very satisfactorily. I can only guess that these secrets
were of an accult nature, secrets of the ancient Orient two.
And it was in the Orient Margot that the Shadow
learned his secret of invisibility.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Yes, of course Lamont, who could have sent those messages?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I don't know his identity, but judging by the phrases
he used, they were written by the same man that
I spoke to on the telephone, the man who calls
himself the Shadow.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
But why should he be helping you?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I wish I knew In any case, Margot his messages
bear further investigation. So I think I shall begin by
paying a call on Professor's Carter and Ahmud as the Shadow.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Do you, by any chance have that feeling of uneasiness?
My dear Professor Carter, how do you mean we still
have in our trusted possession the remaining parts of the
manuscript that would make us shall I say, logical victim?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Then you believe of this armor that we two are
mark for death?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
That was not my statement. I merely point to the
past as the warning.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Of the future as the picture.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
If you don't mind, Professor, I've gott not hear any
more of your prophecies tonight, very well, what was that?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You'll pardon my intrusion, gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Who speaks?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I see no one?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Allow me to introduce myself. I am called the Shadow.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Shadow's coming.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
He's coming to kill us.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh no, don't be alarmed, Professor Carter, I shan't harm you.
I've merely come here seeking information.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
It is true. It is true, just as we have
heard you are invisible with the shadow? Yes, very interesting,
Very How do you achieve this invisibility by hypnotizing your minds?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Gentlemen, God, are you here to kills as you do
the others?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I did not kill the others, Professor Carter, that was
done by an impostor who used my name. And you
can both help me to trap this masquerading murderer. Help
you how by telling me what I wish to know,
by answering my questions. What are your questions? What precious
secrets were contained in the manuscript that was stolen?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Secret I did not understand.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
No evasions please, Professor Ahmud, you are both working on
sections of that book.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
What is it about?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
What mysteries of the ancient orient does it reveal?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I am afraid you have been nit and Bob, my
dear shadow, hasn't he? Professor Kard, Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You're lying, both of you lying.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yes, and your lies are most incriminating. You see, gentlemen,
I happen to know the circumstances surrounding the death of
Professor Hagen, and based on these circumstances, either of you
could have been his murderers.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's are true. You don't know what you're saying, shadow,
But I do so.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Shall we say, gentlemen, that it might be wise for
you both in the future to be much more careful.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Did you learn anything from Ahmud or Card?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Nothing? Definitely, they wouldn't talk, either one of them.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Well, what's to be done now?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm not sure I think that I'll take it? Hello?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Is this Lamont Cranston? Yes, I just want to tell
you that it is the four who now two? One
more is about to go?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Who is this?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know who this is, mister Crampston. I am the shadow. Hello, Hello, Lamon?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Was that the imposture?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yes, he's delivered another warning? What was another? One of
the professors is marked for death?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Which one?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
He didn't say? We must warm them both at once.
Come on, Mogo Carter lives right down the street. We'll
go to his place first. If he's all right, we'll
call Amman pre Mayor. But come quickly, we miss, hurry, Professor.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Carter, Professor Carter mondy before something's happened to him already.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
We'll soon find out. I use the skeleton key. I
hate to do this, but here we are. Come on,
Morro Professor Carter.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
A month look the living has been a.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Fine Yes, furniture overturned, lamps broken, But where is Carter?
I'll look in at the gotter, God, are you in there?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Any signed in Lamont?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
No, this is the only other room in the apartment
could have happened to her. Don't know quite obvious tho
that he was the one selected as the next victim.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
The whole thing becomes more baffling every minut Quite.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
The contrary, Margo, I think it becomes increasingly clear.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Before we came here, Margot, I was practically convinced that
either Carter or Ahmud was the one who murdered Hagen
and Rice. Yes, Margo, I felt that one of them
had learned something from their share of the manuscript that
made them kill to obtain the other men's copies.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
But how was the shadow impersonated?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That fits into a tomago? Very neatly. I learned the
secret of invisibility in the Orient. It came from an
ancient source, and one of those men could have learned
this secret from his manuscript.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
It is very logical. But now that Carter's yes.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
That leaves only Ahmud, and I think we should pay
a call on that gentleman. At once. We'd like to
see Professor A. Hmor Please. Oh, I'm sorry, sir, he's
not in his apartment. When do you expect him or
not for some time?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
He's been called out of town and expected When.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Did he leave a short time ago?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So did he say where he was going?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
No, Sir, he guessaid he's been gone for a debt.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Well, I guess that just proves armored guilt, doesn't it, Lamon.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I don't know, Margo. I've been reviewing the entire case
in my mind, and several new factors have occurred to me.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
What are they?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well, let's wait till we get into the apartment. We'll
talk over a cup of tea.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Yes, the moon. Look to see a note here right.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Under the door, a note.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Let me see it. Listen to this, Margo. The night
at the hour of midnight in the storage room in
the basement of the museum, the one whom you seek
can be found.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Does that mean a person who's masked rating is a shadow?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I think it does. What time is it, Margo?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
About twenty of twelve?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Well, if I don't want to keep our friend waiting,
i'd better be getting over to the museum.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Lamon. Suppose this is a trap of the killers, the
scheme to.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Do away with you if you did the other I'll
chance that, Margo. But I want you to get word
to Commissioner Western. Have him at the museum with his
men at twelve fifteen, Tell him that he will find
the murderer who has pretended to be the Shadow. Is
there anyone here? This is Lamont Cranston. Is there anyone here.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Who is that? Don't let me frighten you, mister Cranston.
I'm your old friend, the Shadow.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You are not the Shadow?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
No, how would you know that? Answer me?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I repeat, you are not the shadow I see?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And would your knowledge be based on the fact that
you yourself are the shadow? Would it? Mister Cranston, you
don't have to answer. I know. I've known for some
time now you are the shadow.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That makes you think so.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I followed the activities of the Shadow for many years.
I was most curious to learn his real identity. I
began keeping track of the people who were present before
and after all of his appearances.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I see, and after discarding many suspects, your search narrowed
down to me. Is that it?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
That's it exactly? And I am the only man who
knows the identity of the shadow.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Well, I must compliment you on your pevanness. I admit
to you I am the shadow, yes.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
But a very powerless shadow. At this point, having learned
your secret of invisibility, I've hypnotized your mind before you
were aware of me. This time, the real shadow is
visible and I am the one unseen.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
How did you learn my secret.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
From the Hindu manuscript?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Then you admit the murder of Professor Hagen, and Professor
writes yes, yes, Unfortunately they were in the way. Why
did you commit these crimes in my name?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Because I wanted to attract the attention of you, the
real shadow, and I succeeded. I let you on Mont
Creston with my phone called Anonymous Notes.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Why what was your purpose?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
My purpose was? It is to put an end to
your activities. After to night, mister Crinston, I alone will
be the shadow, and I shall capitalize on this power.
You are a fool.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Why do you say that, always.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Working for the powers of good, I shall take real
advantage of the name. With a check of invisibility, the
world will be mine.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I gather that I am to be the next victim
in your chain of murders.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Do put it bloodily?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yes, I should think that you would make sure of
your talents for invisibility before you attempted that.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
What do you read?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Unlike your other victims, my mind is not receptive to
your hypnosis.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
What are you saying?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I mean that you have been perfectly visible to me
ever since you entered this room, Professor Carter. You you
see me most clearly, and now, if you will observe closely,
I shall inspect you in the true out of hypnosis.
Look at me, Professor Carter, Oh, look at me. Oh no,
I am disappearing before your very eyes. You see, you'll see. Wait, wait,
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you can't do this.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You're just showing my power. Do you hear you're clotting
my mind.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Crist I am no longer crenched, and Professor Carter, I
am the shadow.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
So you'll think you tricked me?
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
You think you'll gay the upper.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Hand, But you're wrong, You're wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
That revolver won't be of much use. How will you
ever find your target?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I'll find you, I'll find you.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Try again. I won't miss this time. I believe that's
the police.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Corner you might have manna gun Let them come and
get me, and they'd better come shooting.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You'll have to break open the door. Commissioner, An beware,
this man here is armed.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Came out of here.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I'm warning you.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Keep out. You're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
See Oh he's been head, Commissioner. Come ahead, so you're
here too. I came here to apprehend that man on
the floor. He's the one who used my name in
killing Hagen and Rice.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
What what are you saying?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay, he's still conscious, ask him, Ask him all right?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Whie, Professor Carter?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yes he was my impersonator, Carter prosor Carter?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Is this true?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yes, that's true. How did you make yourself invisible?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I learned the secrets in the manuscripts I've.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Destroyed, Carter. Gotter is to me. You must know the identity.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
You have a real shadow, don't you.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Who is he?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
The real shadow is?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You'll never learn now, Commissioner, but I think you should
know this.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
In the future.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You must always believe one thing about me. The Shadow
at all times will be working on the side of
right and justice.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
We'll hear again from the Shadow in just a minute.
But first, here's John Barclay, America's home heating expert, mister Barclay, Thank.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
You, Jean Paul King and good evening friends.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You know, it's amazing how many people have the.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Idea that there's only one size of hard coal. Yes,
and I dare say just as many people think that
it makes no difference what size coal they burn in
their furnace.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
As a matter of fact, hard.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Coal is prepared and sold in several home sizes, and
it may be that one particular size, or possibly a
combination of sizes, will give you the best heat.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
For the least money.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Of course, many factors enter into.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
The choice of the size coal for your particular furnace,
factors such as chimney construction, draft conditions, and the size
of your furnace. At any rate, a trained John Barclay
service man can give a quick inspection of your heating
plant and tell at a glance whether or not you're
burning the right size coal.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
This free inspection is part.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Of the extra home heating service provided by your neighborhood
Blue Coal dealer. So remember, if you are not completely
satisfied with the results you're getting, maybe burning the wrong
SI's cold, just phone your neighborhood Blue Cold.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Either first thing in the morning.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The
Shadow magazine. The characters, names, places, and plot are fictitious.
Any similarity the person's living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
The weed of Crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not
pay the Shadow Load.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Next week, same time, same station, The Blue Coal Dealers
of America bring you an adventure of the Shadow that
will amaze you with its breathtaking thrills. So be sure
to listen and be sure to phone your friendly blue
coal dealer for greater heating comfort at less costs. This
is Jean Paul King saying keep the home fires.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Burning with.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Hello, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
I hope you enjoyed this presentation from the old Time
NetCast Network.
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Speaker 3 (29:55):
Thanks again for listening, and I hope you have a
great day.
Who knows what evil works in the hearts of men.
The Shadow Road.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The thrilling adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
brought to you each week by the Blue Coal Dealers
of America. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to
old and young alike, that crime does not pay. While
they set the stage for today's shadow drama, let me
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ask you a brief but vital question. Have you heard
about the new, easy, three way plan for better home heating?
It's the blue coal plan with the accent on convenient,
economy and comfort. Blue coal in your furnace means a
steady burning, longer lasting fire that heats your home comfortably
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upon blue coal. Your neighborhood blue coal dealer will be
glad to explain his three way plan for better home heating.
Phone him tomorrow, won't you. The Shadow, mysterious character who
aids the forces of law and order is in reality
(01:35):
Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. As a shadow,
Cranston is gifted with hypnotic power to cloud men's minds
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. Today's story,
The Shadow Challenge.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Hello, No, no, I can't speak to him, and please
don't put more calls through operator. I'm busy working and
I don't wish to be disturbed.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Thank you. See there was a oh yeah, what was that?
I'm sorry to interrupt your work, Professor Rice.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Who is that? Who is speaking? I see no one.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I am called the Shadow, the Shadow.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I've heard of you. What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
That manuscripture translating, Professor Rice. It is a great value,
is it not? Yes, of course I want you to
give it to me.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Professor give you this manuscript?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Why?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Why that's impossible. It's not mine. It belongs to the museum.
It's a direct key you ancient into culture.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's why I've come here. I want that manuscript.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
See here.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I've always had a great respect for you, Shadow. You
worked for the forces of good against the forces of evil.
But now you're behaving like a common thief.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Give me that manuscript.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, no, very well.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I see that I must use other methods.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
What do you mean? What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
This is what I'm going to do, Professor Rice.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Shadow show.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
France to think that I believed you all these years
and you tell me.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
What a golf for you were?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Why?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just that an off day? That's all Mordel, even the
best of his experience. Though, besides, I'm not used to
playing in the sun.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
You weren't in the sun. You were in a nice
shady wood. You never saw the fair way all day?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Right?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Do we have time for a swim?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Oh good.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I've got to vindicate my athletic ability in something. You
ever change that headline down here?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Why not till I think of about the one?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Say by?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
All right?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Here?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, thank ye?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
That's hire North and straight story much storm read out
a hollow?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How bad was it to him?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
How many feet of snow?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Margo? You're talking like a tourist. Well they need is
a florry up note to call the headline like this?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Really?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Sure you get used to these headlines after you hear
i'go what I'll go look at this?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The story on the front page? Museum professor murdered by
the shadow by the shadow, That's what it says, Professor
Writes of the Costomopolitan Museum, was found dying in his
apartment late this evening by the police, and the deathbed
statement to commission a Western he described his assailants as
an invisible man who called himself the.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Shadow for the month. That's impossible.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
How do you explain. I have no explanation, But one
thing is certain. We're catching the next plane north. And
you say, commission in Western, that the dye men swore
that his assailant was the Shadow.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
That's right, Well, somehow I can't believe that.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh, look, miss Lane, facts are fact.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Well what Margo means the missioner is that she can't
believe that the Shadow would do such a thing. Well,
that's her opinion.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Me I think different.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
What do you mean.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I've always suspected that the Shadow was a criminal at heart?
Why otherwise, why would he always remain invisible? Oh? I
tell you he's a bad ah And this murder confirms it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
This manuscript commissioner, the one that the killer stole from
Professor Rice, what do you know about it?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Well, it's it's something that the professor was working on.
Rice and three other scholars are employed by the Cosmopolitan Museum,
specializing in I don't know restoration and recreation of ancient
Hindu culture.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yes, I'm acquainted with all of them, and there were well,
you probably know more about it than I do.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Anyway, this manuscript was very valuable.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
To them, But what value wouldn't have to anyone else.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
That's out of the department, Ms Lane. My job is
who put it to the corpus delected? And other words,
who killed Professor Rice. The answer to that is the
shadow and the motive Larsteny, my friend, good old fashioned larceny.
Shadow wanted that manuscripts and they killed the.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Guy to get it. Commissioner, I don't think that the
shadow had anything to do with it.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Look, I heard the accusation with my own ears just
before the erstwhile Professor Rice gave up the ghost.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Nevertheless, I can't believe the Shadow is guilty, and I
hope to be able to prove my point. How well,
with your permission, I'd like to go to the museum
and talk to Professor Rice's associates see what I can learn.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Go ahead, go ahead, my friend.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll leave the car here, Margo and believe that the
night entrance to the museum is in this wing.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
The month do you suppose that someone has discovered your
secret and is misusing it in the.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Shadow's name, that's possible, Margo.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
What else could it be?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, perhaps Western is putting the blame of the crime
on the sh shattle to excuse his department's inability to
solve the murder.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
What a horrible thing to do, the.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Supposition model, Well, we are have to ring for the watchman.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
What do you expect to find out here?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Lamon, Well, I want to talk to the other professors
and find out more about the missing manuscript.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yes, what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Good evening? We wish to see either professor Carter or
Hagen or professor Ammon. Yes, I know they're working here
this evening. Are you expected? Yes, yes we are.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh, that's come in.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Thank you. We seldom have visitors to slay our I
guess not. I must ask you to walk quietly.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Please. They do not like to be disturbed.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
You mean the professors.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh, no, not the professors, I mean those that live here.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Oh are the people live?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Did you see about the thinking has been? You know,
people staring at them through the day. Oh, yes, yes,
I can understand that. The does he the the statues
must appreciate your consideration for themselves.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh yes, yes, do you know that I watch over
them through the yes, the opposite, Yes, I must see you.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh well, thank you?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Yes, yes, it was nice of you to show us
the way.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Not at all, yank because I yes.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Good night, Hm cheerful fellow makes you feel right at home?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Well that's going man.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Oh but you, mister krast and I didn't expect to
see anyone.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'm sorry. This is miss Lane. Professor Carter, how do
you do?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Miss Laine? Won't you go into the office because armors there.
I have to consult a file. I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh yes, sir, thanks Professor Carter. Come along, bro, all
right here we come in.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh yes, yes, a tut mister Cranston, do come in.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Thank you. I don't believe you know, Miss Layne.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
No, I have never had the pleasure.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
This is Professor Ahmed Margot.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Professor?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I am most delighted to make your acquaintance. Won't you both?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Thank you. I spoke to Professor Hagen this afternoon. Did
he explain to you the purpose of my visit? Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
He did. You are interested? I believe in solving the
murder of our most worthy colleague, Professor Life. Yes, a
very noble endeavor.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I thought I might begin by learning more about the
manuscript that Professor Rice was working on when he was killed.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
An excellent beginning, Yes, what was its beaut The missing
manuscript was quite priceless in rarity, but its monetary value
was slight, indeed, because any attempt to resell it would
bring immediate arrests.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Well, Professor what within the manuscript?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I must confess that I do not know? You see,
it was one section of a single volume that the
thought of us was translating. Each of us took one
quarter of the work.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The work deals with ancient Hindu culture, doesn't it? Yes,
what if, by any chance, contain any secrets? Secrets of
that civilization which could be a value to someone today?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I fear that I am not at liberty to answer
that question with the Conston. Perhaps perhaps Professor Hagen might
be of greater service to you. He is our superior.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You know where is the professor.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
He's working in the laboratory upstairs. I shall be most
willing to go up and get him for it, but
I shall return in a moment with Professor Hagen, you
will excuse me, Miss Lakes.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Well, our Hindoo friend didn't appear to be too willing
to talk.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I believe he knows much more than he can to
tell the month.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I wonder if hm should we answer it?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well? I suppose i'd better Hello, I speaking, and this
is the month Cranston.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Then I can leave my message to you.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Certainly?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
The three men who once werefore one.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
More is about to die? Who is this? Who's speaking?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
The shadow?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
The shadow? Hello? Hello?
Speaker 6 (11:46):
What's the matter? The month?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
That person on the phone called himself a shadow? Then
the person, Yes, professor, someone just called on the phone.
He said that one of you three professors is about
to die. It might be a crank, but we can't
take any chance to where the others upstairs and the laboratory.
You'd better take us up there at once, Yes, yes,
follow me up. These chairs come along. Imagine who's the
couple up there? Horycarnter.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Sounds like I'm a spot right in here?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
What's wrong with oh Margot? You got to stay out
of here. It's not a pleasant sight.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
What happened to Professor Hagen?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I found him?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
So I'm the flower dying.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Was he still alive when you got here?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Could he talk to you? Did you learn anything?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yes? He told me that his attacker was an invisible
man who called himself that Shadow.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well, Margo, we now have definite proof that someone is
impersonating the Shadow.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Yes, the Markel. What can you do?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
But don't worry, Margo. I've always used the power of
the Shadow to aid the forces of law and order
to help good conquer evil. Yes, I know, And now
that someone else has discovered my secret of invisibility and
is misusing this power, I shall travel to the ends
of the earth to conquer him. This, Margo, is the
Shadow's greatest challenge. I'm sure that I can meet it
and come out on top.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
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Speaker 1 (14:29):
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Call him tomorrow and now back to the shadow.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
The month. Have you uncovered any clues and it leads
to the identity of this person who's masgrading as a
show shadow.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Nothing important. Nor in the past twelve hours, I have
received two mysterious unsigned messages.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Really, what about.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I'll read you one of them. It says, why don't
you inquire into the jealousy of the four who now
at two?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Is that refer to the four persons?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yes, and I learned that it's quite true. A great
jealousy existed. All four men, although they worked together, were
constantly vying with one another for individual glory.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Then that's why the original manuscript is divided among the
four exactly. Well, the month you mentioned that you received
two messages? What was the other one?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Right? I have it here? Listened to this? What were
the secrets to be found in the manuscript that was
being translated by the four who now are two?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
And did you learn the answer to their question?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Not very satisfactorily. I can only guess that these secrets
were of an accult nature, secrets of the ancient Orient two.
And it was in the Orient Margot that the Shadow
learned his secret of invisibility.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Yes, of course Lamont, who could have sent those messages?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I don't know his identity, but judging by the phrases
he used, they were written by the same man that
I spoke to on the telephone, the man who calls
himself the Shadow.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
But why should he be helping you?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I wish I knew In any case, Margot his messages
bear further investigation. So I think I shall begin by
paying a call on Professor's Carter and Ahmud as the Shadow.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Do you, by any chance have that feeling of uneasiness?
My dear Professor Carter, how do you mean we still
have in our trusted possession the remaining parts of the
manuscript that would make us shall I say, logical victim?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Then you believe of this armor that we two are
mark for death?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
That was not my statement. I merely point to the
past as the warning.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Of the future as the picture.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
If you don't mind, Professor, I've gott not hear any
more of your prophecies tonight, very well, what was that?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You'll pardon my intrusion, gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Who speaks?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I see no one?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Allow me to introduce myself. I am called the Shadow.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Shadow's coming.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
He's coming to kill us.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh no, don't be alarmed, Professor Carter, I shan't harm you.
I've merely come here seeking information.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
It is true. It is true, just as we have
heard you are invisible with the shadow? Yes, very interesting,
Very How do you achieve this invisibility by hypnotizing your minds?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Gentlemen, God, are you here to kills as you do
the others?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I did not kill the others, Professor Carter, that was
done by an impostor who used my name. And you
can both help me to trap this masquerading murderer. Help
you how by telling me what I wish to know,
by answering my questions. What are your questions? What precious
secrets were contained in the manuscript that was stolen?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Secret I did not understand.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
No evasions please, Professor Ahmud, you are both working on
sections of that book.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
What is it about?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
What mysteries of the ancient orient does it reveal?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I am afraid you have been nit and Bob, my
dear shadow, hasn't he? Professor Kard, Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You're lying, both of you lying.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yes, and your lies are most incriminating. You see, gentlemen,
I happen to know the circumstances surrounding the death of
Professor Hagen, and based on these circumstances, either of you
could have been his murderers.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's are true. You don't know what you're saying, shadow,
But I do so.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Shall we say, gentlemen, that it might be wise for
you both in the future to be much more careful.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Did you learn anything from Ahmud or Card?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Nothing? Definitely, they wouldn't talk, either one of them.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Well, what's to be done now?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm not sure I think that I'll take it? Hello?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Is this Lamont Cranston? Yes, I just want to tell
you that it is the four who now two? One
more is about to go?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Who is this?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know who this is, mister Crampston. I am the shadow. Hello, Hello, Lamon?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Was that the imposture?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yes, he's delivered another warning? What was another? One of
the professors is marked for death?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Which one?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
He didn't say? We must warm them both at once.
Come on, Mogo Carter lives right down the street. We'll
go to his place first. If he's all right, we'll
call Amman pre Mayor. But come quickly, we miss, hurry, Professor.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Carter, Professor Carter mondy before something's happened to him already.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
We'll soon find out. I use the skeleton key. I
hate to do this, but here we are. Come on,
Morro Professor Carter.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
A month look the living has been a.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Fine Yes, furniture overturned, lamps broken, But where is Carter?
I'll look in at the gotter, God, are you in there?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Any signed in Lamont?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
No, this is the only other room in the apartment
could have happened to her. Don't know quite obvious tho
that he was the one selected as the next victim.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
The whole thing becomes more baffling every minut Quite.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
The contrary, Margo, I think it becomes increasingly clear.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Before we came here, Margot, I was practically convinced that
either Carter or Ahmud was the one who murdered Hagen
and Rice. Yes, Margo, I felt that one of them
had learned something from their share of the manuscript that
made them kill to obtain the other men's copies.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
But how was the shadow impersonated?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That fits into a tomago? Very neatly. I learned the
secret of invisibility in the Orient. It came from an
ancient source, and one of those men could have learned
this secret from his manuscript.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
It is very logical. But now that Carter's yes.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
That leaves only Ahmud, and I think we should pay
a call on that gentleman. At once. We'd like to
see Professor A. Hmor Please. Oh, I'm sorry, sir, he's
not in his apartment. When do you expect him or
not for some time?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
He's been called out of town and expected When.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Did he leave a short time ago?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So did he say where he was going?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
No, Sir, he guessaid he's been gone for a debt.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Well, I guess that just proves armored guilt, doesn't it, Lamon.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I don't know, Margo. I've been reviewing the entire case
in my mind, and several new factors have occurred to me.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
What are they?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Well, let's wait till we get into the apartment. We'll
talk over a cup of tea.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Yes, the moon. Look to see a note here right.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Under the door, a note.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Let me see it. Listen to this, Margo. The night
at the hour of midnight in the storage room in
the basement of the museum, the one whom you seek
can be found.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Does that mean a person who's masked rating is a shadow?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I think it does. What time is it, Margo?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
About twenty of twelve?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Well, if I don't want to keep our friend waiting,
i'd better be getting over to the museum.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Lamon. Suppose this is a trap of the killers, the
scheme to.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Do away with you if you did the other I'll
chance that, Margo. But I want you to get word
to Commissioner Western. Have him at the museum with his
men at twelve fifteen, Tell him that he will find
the murderer who has pretended to be the Shadow. Is
there anyone here? This is Lamont Cranston. Is there anyone here.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Who is that? Don't let me frighten you, mister Cranston.
I'm your old friend, the Shadow.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You are not the Shadow?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
No, how would you know that? Answer me?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I repeat, you are not the shadow I see?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
And would your knowledge be based on the fact that
you yourself are the shadow? Would it? Mister Cranston, you
don't have to answer. I know. I've known for some
time now you are the shadow.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That makes you think so.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I followed the activities of the Shadow for many years.
I was most curious to learn his real identity. I
began keeping track of the people who were present before
and after all of his appearances.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I see, and after discarding many suspects, your search narrowed
down to me. Is that it?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
That's it exactly? And I am the only man who
knows the identity of the shadow.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Well, I must compliment you on your pevanness. I admit
to you I am the shadow, yes.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
But a very powerless shadow. At this point, having learned
your secret of invisibility, I've hypnotized your mind before you
were aware of me. This time, the real shadow is
visible and I am the one unseen.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
How did you learn my secret.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
From the Hindu manuscript?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Then you admit the murder of Professor Hagen, and Professor
writes yes, yes, Unfortunately they were in the way. Why
did you commit these crimes in my name?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Because I wanted to attract the attention of you, the
real shadow, and I succeeded. I let you on Mont
Creston with my phone called Anonymous Notes.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Why what was your purpose?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
My purpose was? It is to put an end to
your activities. After to night, mister Crinston, I alone will
be the shadow, and I shall capitalize on this power.
You are a fool.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Why do you say that, always.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Working for the powers of good, I shall take real
advantage of the name. With a check of invisibility, the
world will be mine.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I gather that I am to be the next victim
in your chain of murders.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Do put it bloodily?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yes, I should think that you would make sure of
your talents for invisibility before you attempted that.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
What do you read?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Unlike your other victims, my mind is not receptive to
your hypnosis.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
What are you saying?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I mean that you have been perfectly visible to me
ever since you entered this room, Professor Carter. You you
see me most clearly, and now, if you will observe closely,
I shall inspect you in the true out of hypnosis.
Look at me, Professor Carter, Oh, look at me. Oh no,
I am disappearing before your very eyes. You see, you'll see. Wait, wait,
(25:01):
you can't do this.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You're just showing my power. Do you hear you're clotting
my mind.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Crist I am no longer crenched, and Professor Carter, I
am the shadow.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
So you'll think you tricked me?
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
You think you'll gay the upper.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Hand, But you're wrong, You're wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
That revolver won't be of much use. How will you
ever find your target?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
I'll find you, I'll find you.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Try again. I won't miss this time. I believe that's
the police.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Corner you might have manna gun Let them come and
get me, and they'd better come shooting.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You'll have to break open the door. Commissioner, An beware,
this man here is armed.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Came out of here.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I'm warning you.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Keep out. You're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
See Oh he's been head, Commissioner. Come ahead, so you're
here too. I came here to apprehend that man on
the floor. He's the one who used my name in
killing Hagen and Rice.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
What what are you saying?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay, he's still conscious, ask him, Ask him all right?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Whie, Professor Carter?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yes he was my impersonator, Carter prosor Carter?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Is this true?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yes, that's true. How did you make yourself invisible?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I learned the secrets in the manuscripts I've.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Destroyed, Carter. Gotter is to me. You must know the identity.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
You have a real shadow, don't you.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Who is he?
Speaker 6 (26:19):
The real shadow is?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You'll never learn now, Commissioner, but I think you should
know this.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
In the future.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You must always believe one thing about me. The Shadow
at all times will be working on the side of
right and justice.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
We'll hear again from the Shadow in just a minute.
But first, here's John Barclay, America's home heating expert, mister Barclay, Thank.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
You, Jean Paul King and good evening friends.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You know, it's amazing how many people have the.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Idea that there's only one size of hard coal. Yes,
and I dare say just as many people think that
it makes no difference what size coal they burn in
their furnace.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
As a matter of fact, hard.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
Coal is prepared and sold in several home sizes, and
it may be that one particular size, or possibly a
combination of sizes, will give you the best heat.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
For the least money.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Of course, many factors enter into.
Speaker 7 (27:27):
The choice of the size coal for your particular furnace,
factors such as chimney construction, draft conditions, and the size
of your furnace. At any rate, a trained John Barclay
service man can give a quick inspection of your heating
plant and tell at a glance whether or not you're
burning the right size coal.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
This free inspection is part.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Of the extra home heating service provided by your neighborhood
Blue Coal dealer. So remember, if you are not completely
satisfied with the results you're getting, maybe burning the wrong
SI's cold, just phone your neighborhood Blue Cold.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Either first thing in the morning.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The
Shadow magazine. The characters, names, places, and plot are fictitious.
Any similarity the person's living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
The weed of Crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not
pay the Shadow Load.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Next week, same time, same station, The Blue Coal Dealers
of America bring you an adventure of the Shadow that
will amaze you with its breathtaking thrills. So be sure
to listen and be sure to phone your friendly blue
coal dealer for greater heating comfort at less costs. This
is Jean Paul King saying keep the home fires.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Burning with.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Hello, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
I hope you enjoyed this presentation from the old Time
NetCast Network.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
For more great shows, go to otnetcast dot com. Don't
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Speaker 3 (29:55):
Thanks again for listening, and I hope you have a
great day.
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