March 29, 2025 • 30 mins
When a friend—who is the current owner of a former plantation now turned into a hotel—tells Lamont about a ghost legend, he becomes intrigued. The story goes that a Union soldier, held as a prisoner while recovering from a wound, fell in love with the plantation owner's daughter. One night, he attempted to escape, and the girl played the piano to cover the sound. Tragically, he was caught and murdered—stabbed in the heart.
Now, it's said that whenever the sound of a piano plays through the halls of the hotel, someone ends up dead. Terrified by the legend, no guests stay for more than one night. Lamont, skeptical of any ghostly involvement, believes there’s a real person behind the killings. Determined to help his friend and uncover the truth, he begins investigating the strange events haunting the hotel.
Original Air Date: December 29, 1940
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
Now, it's said that whenever the sound of a piano plays through the halls of the hotel, someone ends up dead. Terrified by the legend, no guests stay for more than one night. Lamont, skeptical of any ghostly involvement, believes there’s a real person behind the killings. Determined to help his friend and uncover the truth, he begins investigating the strange events haunting the hotel.
Original Air Date: December 29, 1940
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 (00:15):
Welcome to the old time radio NetCast network. I'm your host, Ryans,
and let's get into this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Who knows what evil looks in the hearts of men?
The Shadow Note.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Those running adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
brought to you each week by the blue cold Dealers
of America. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to
old and young alike, crime does not pay. Before the
Shadow begins today's adventure, let me ask you. Are you
householders starting the new year the blue Coal Way?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I hope so?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
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the blue coal way.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Is the easy way to heat your home.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Blue coal requires less attention, gives you greater heating comfort
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So phone your friendly blue coal dealer tomorrow. Won't you
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(01:46):
The Shadow, mysterious character of wid the forces of law
and order is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man
about town as the 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
(02:07):
Invisible Shadow belongs.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
The story The Ghost On the Stay.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It is evening.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We find Margot and Lamont seated on the veranda of
a small hotel. They are conversing with the proprietors, Roger
Miller and his wife.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
There.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I should say that you and Roger have discovered the
ideal way to live.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, I should be quite content to change places with him.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I'd like nothing better than to spend my days just
sitting here on the verandah, observing the daily life of
this delightful old southern town.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Oh here, here, listen, o, Patty cran.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
There's the cross I have to bear.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Margot just doesn't understand.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Oh I know you too, will, my friend. Yes, you'd
be running this hotel for five minutes when up with
Papa murder or crime or a mystery, and you'd be
off to the races again.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
But the mystery he wants, he wouldn't have to leave
the premises.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But what do you mean Roger.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Oh, forget it now, there you see one sniff and
he's on the trail.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Don't pay any attention to my facetious fam Roger. What
were you refering to?
Speaker 8 (03:11):
Oh, it's not very exciting the month. Our mystery is
why we can't get the guests to stay at the hotel.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It's not really a.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
Mystery, Roger.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Why don't you tell him the whole story?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yes, please do.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
Well, as you know, about a month ago, I inherited
this place of my uncle.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yes, I remember.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Since we've taken procession, no guest has ever stayed here
more than one night. What I said that, no guest
has ever stayed more than one night?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Well, why is that, Roger?
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Because there's a ghost legend the jink's on the place,
a jinx that's lasted for almost one hundred years.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We're not really a jinx, Roger.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Now what else would you call it?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Adel?
Speaker 8 (03:39):
We're not making a goal, but are we? There's only
one reason now for our failure, isn't there?
Speaker 10 (03:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
What is this reason?
Speaker 8 (03:43):
It's the house itself, the evil reputation of affairs.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Well, I maybe a bit dull, but I don't follow you.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Well, this wasn't all he's a hotel, Margo. It was
originally a plantation one hundred odd years ago. It was
owned by a family named Branch. During the Civil War
was used as a hospital by the Confederate forces. In
that period that the tragic event occurred that has placed
a curse on this dwelling down through time to the
present day.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
What was this thing?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (04:07):
A young Union soldier was a prisoner in the hospital.
His nurse was the daughter of the house, Becky Branch,
and you can guess what happened.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
They fell in love.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Yes, the boy was fond of music, and every night
Becky Branch would play for him. I'm a spinnet. One night,
as she sat playing, the boy softly called out to.
Speaker 11 (04:24):
Her, Becky, Oh, yes, John, doctor told me today that.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
My wound was practically healed.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Your wound. But John, that means yes, it.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Means that they will be taking me away from here, Becky,
to a prison.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
No, No, they can't do that.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
We can and they will unless unless what unless I
can escape John.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Oh, it's the only thing left here.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
If I can just get out of this building, I
have a good chance of reaching the Union line.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
But John, what a boss.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
I'll come back for you, dear, after the war is over.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
You you know I will, Yes, Yes, I do know that.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
And will you help me, help me to escape?
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Yes, John, I know of a way, a way for
you to get out.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Young Becky Branch fuses escape. Finally, after a tear for farewell,
the boy prepared to leave.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I'll just keep paying. No, think you're still here with me?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
John, all right, goodbye, darling.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Goodbye, goodbye, my dearest, my dearest.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
John, John John.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What's happened?
Speaker 10 (05:45):
John?
Speaker 9 (05:46):
John?
Speaker 10 (05:48):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
John?
Speaker 8 (05:53):
And that's the story. The boy was dead, stabbed through
the chest. No one who could have committed the murder was.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
To be seen. That sounds fantastic.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Becky Branch's party, a temper's escape was discovered and she
was banished from the community. But what does that have
to do with the James Justice Lamont? Since that day,
this house has passed too many hands, and each family
that has lived here, a mysterious death has occurred. Each
of these deaths has been caused by a stabbings. Well
that is a story, Yeah, but that isn't all Margo.
Before each death occurred, the playing of the spinet was heard.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
The legend re enacted, Eh well, have you heard this
mysterious music since you've been here? No, not yet, ye,
I clear away the glasses.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Oh yes, yes, it's not very good. Yes, and now
lamand if I haven't been too boring, that's the reason
why you should stay out of the hotel business.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well you've got a point there.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Well, I think we are turning, if you'll excuse us.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
Oh, yes, of course, coming it.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Own, Yes, yes, I guess it is bedtime. Good night, Margo,
good night of el the other morning, right? Goom on?
Do you believe that story? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't know, Margot.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
There's always a legend that goes with these old places.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Some of them will fall, but this one's true.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
So I forgot you were here, boy done.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
But how do you know it's true?
Speaker 12 (07:07):
I've been here many years, ma'am. I've heard that music
many times you have, Yes, sir, I've even seen the goose.
What goes the goose that's always seen on the stairs
goose from missus Becky brand.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Am, com on, listen, Am I hearing things? No?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No, I hear it too.
Speaker 12 (07:28):
There it is, sir. They're that old spinner playing again.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Come on, muggle, we're going to look into this.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
It seems to be coming from inside the house.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yes, yes, wait here a moment till I locate.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
The sound that room is coming from that room right
over there.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Let's walk quietly now, must be heard.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
What if?
Speaker 9 (07:52):
What if it really is the ghost?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Would you rather wait outside?
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Martles?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
No, stay right here, and I opened the door.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm going to rush quickly into the room. If I
encounter trouble, you go for help. Right here we go.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
What is this? Why I beg your pardon? I I
thought that you were.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Oh that's quite all right, the matter you all right?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yes, of course, come in, Margot, keep on.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I'm playing, all right, just showing the young lady about.
This is the music room.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
I believe, Yes, I presume it is.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
I've only been a guest here since this afternoon, so
I wouldn't be sure.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh I see. Please continue your playing.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
I have traveled many miles you play.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Why is that because of.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
The legend of this house? Have you ever heard of it?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Yes, we just told you us a while ago. In fact,
we thought that you were. I mean you.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Thought I was the ghost of Jackie Bray.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
No, but I have come here to seek inspiration from
her departed spirit. Oh, I see, I'm a composer. I've
come to this old room because here I.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Confess the presence of the department.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
Perhaps perhaps my music will even woo the ears of
the lovely ghost.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yes, that's very interesting.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
The beauty of the music of the dead is the uncommanded.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
That someone in trouble here come along.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Maybe that's your ghost, the ghost the.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Game you must go down with the colonel.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
I didn't mean to upset everyone was there was just
so start on what happened all amount?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Missus Turner?
Speaker 8 (10:05):
I guess there at the hotel?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
How do you do? Was it you that screamed Missus Turner?
Speaker 9 (10:09):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
What was wrong?
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Well, I was on my way to my room, and
I happened to glance down the stairwheel and saw a
woman coming up the stairs to the second floor.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Yes, thinking it was missus Miller, I went to greet her.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
When I reached the head of the stairs, there was
no one there.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
What.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No, it was such a shock that I well, I
just screamed, I guess was it you were there?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Indeed, I was in my room. I see, Well, are
there any other women guests in the hotel?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Ronda?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
No, no others.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Well, perhaps you just imagined you saw someone, Missus Turner.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
No, I'm positive I saw a woman.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Of gos. She did what she saw, the ghost, the ghost,
Becky Branch.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What did you say, Missilian?
Speaker 10 (10:51):
It was Missus Turner's privilege to see a very old
resident of this house the spisit?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Becky Branch?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
What's he's saying?
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Are there really ghosts here?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
That's not true, Missus Miller.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
No, what makes you so sure of that?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
If you want proof.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
Of my statement, mister Miller, just be awake and listening
at the witching hour of three.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Why what will happen?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
He will hear music, lovely music played on the spinet
by the ghost that Missus Turner saw on the stairs.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Mister Simeon, you're not frightening us, So why don't you
stop your little game?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yes, we're all getting upset over nothing. I'd advise that
we all go to bed.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
I agree the monk.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
We can go to bed.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
We can lock our doors, but we can't lock the ghost.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Come come down, Missus Turner, come along, I'll see you
to your room.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
You're right, Adele, Come along, mother, We'll let these good
people get some sleep.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Hi, good night, everyone want.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
In a month? Did you really mean to make light
of that.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Little episode on me too?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He's the woman's mind.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
She really saw someone.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
There's a more important question to be answered. I'd like
to know just where mister Simeon has acquired his extensive
knowledge of the habits of the so called ghost of
Becky Branch.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yes, I noticed that he seemed to know the whole Do.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I he knew much more about it than Roger Miller?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Does?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I think, Margot, that our mister Simeon is going to
be called on to answer a few questions by the Shadow.
Perhaps before the night is over, we'll have our gold.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I hope I'm not including mister Simeon who speaks to me? Men?
Call me the shadow?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Where are you? I see no one.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I'm standing right here beside you. I don't have this,
mister Simeon. I have the power to make myself quite
invisible to your eyes.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
What do you want of me? Why are you here?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I want you to answer a few questions. What about
How do you know so much about the legend of
this old house? Where did you hear of Becky Branch?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
What is that to you?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Answer my question, mister Simeon, very.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Well, very well, I'll tell you I was born in
this house, mister shadow. I've spent my early youth here.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
I used to play.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Is there any evidence then, of this so called ghost?
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Oh? Yes, we heard her many times, many times, she
played beautifully.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
She ever seen, only that she would see tonight under stairs.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Do you believe this legend?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Because I have very good reason to believe it.
Speaker 10 (13:58):
Why on the second floor, by the staircase, my father
was found, my stepfather, death to death.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Who did it? Who killed him?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
He never found out? He died just as the young
soldier died on the very same spot. Because it was
a blessing.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Though I never liked my stepfather, you wanted him to die,
I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Why have you returned here?
Speaker 10 (14:28):
I'm seeking inspiration, Yes, the inspiration that I lost when
I left here.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Inspiration that can.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Only be gotten from the spirit of Becky Branch.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Listened for her tonight.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
It usually comes from the cellar below that the witching
hour of three.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't believe that you've come back here in search
of an inspiration. Mister Simeon. You have another motive, and
when I learn what it is, let me warn you
you will receive another visit from the shadow.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
What is mister Simeon's true movie. We'll find out in
just a moment. But first, here's a question that's near
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Speaker 6 (15:30):
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Speaker 3 (15:33):
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Speaker 6 (16:05):
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Speaker 3 (16:07):
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Speaker 6 (16:26):
The words blue coal and now back to the shadow?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Yes, mother, what do you expect to find down?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Well, according to mister Simeon, this is where the ghostly
music has come from. Here, take this other flashlight.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Did you learn anything else from c Yes, he lived.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Here as a child.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
His stepfather was killed in this house, stabbed to death,
just as the soldier was stabbed, and he met his
death on the second floor landing by the staircase.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Is that where the soldier.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Died according to Simeon?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yes, oh, I'm standing down here. That looks like a
musical instrument.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You know.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Do you believe Simeon's story? Well?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I think he told the truth about living here and
his stepfather's death, but his talk.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Of ghosts was not very believable. He's calling from upstairs.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Let's get up there, Margot quick.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
What is.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Grandson?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
It's mister Simeons. You better not look mag It's Simeon.
He's been stabbed in the chest.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Who is it?
Speaker 12 (17:53):
Yes, lord, just like the Yankees soldier, just like what
happened to him. The ghost down the deathway?
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Quiet? Why are you pulling up phone.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
What happens?
Speaker 8 (18:04):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Simon was stabbed.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
In the chest. He's dead.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
How did it happen?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
When did you discover this ball? I'd just come walking
down the hall.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
They were stitch out like you see you now?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I see, Oh Roger, you sleep on this floor, don't you?
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Did you hear anything out of a struggle or a fight?
Speaker 10 (18:20):
No?
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Not a thing.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Well we better call the police at once.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Well, that certainly was a fine investigation, Lamon. Yes, I'd
hate to see that sheriff in charge of a crime wave.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Ever hit this Tom.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
He'd probably handled it just as he did the night. Margot,
you'd just say I told the body of Wing come
back in the morning when rustle up the cone?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Is you?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
In the meantime, the murder has a perfect opportunity to
cover up any traces of his crime exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I must say, though, that I haven't any more needs
to work on than the good sheriff.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Then, mister Simmon was your number one suspect in this
ghost business.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yes, I felt that he knew much more about what
went on here than he was willing to tell. Maybe
that's why I was killed, And that's quite possible.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
But who could his murder it be? There are only
four other people in his house. Oh boy, God, Missus, Turner,
Adele and Roger.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah, Roger.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Did I hear you mention my name?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Roger? Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Sorry, Margot, I didn't mean to startle you. I heard
your voices, so I came in to see if you
didn't come at anything.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
No, I'm afraid we haven't.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
Well, I guess we'll have to wait for morning. Now,
I'll say, why don't you two get some sleep?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
We will presently Roger, Well, good night, Good night night, Roger.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yes, Margaret, it's strange the way Roger just popped in
here like that.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yes, there are several other points about Roger that meet
clearing up in my mind.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Don't you think it odd that he didn't hear any
sounds when Simeon died? His room is right on that floor, Yes,
and why did he take so long and responding to
Bo's call for help?
Speaker 5 (20:02):
I thought of that too.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
If you don't mind, Margo, we won't be retiring for
some time yet. There are many things here that require
investigation before the night is over.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
What are you going to do? Ramant Well?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
First of all.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Simeon told me that the ghostly music was always heard
at the witching hour of three. It's almost that now,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yes, yes, just about well, I think we.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Should stay up for that little recital. Let's sit out
here by the staircase. All right, I'm afraid I'll have
to turn out this lde.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
That's all right, Laman, stay near me at all, follow me,
take hold of my hand. You ever made a ghost?
Speaker 11 (20:39):
Now?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I'm afraid that.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah. Sit here on the stairs. Thanks?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
There was a now outside the house.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
We should get a sore throat or something. I can't.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Well, according to mister Simeon's story, it's time now for
the concert to be a mom there, yes, quiet, Now,
see if we can locate the sound.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
It's not coming from the music room.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
No, no, it seems to come from up above, somewhere
on the upper floors. Well, why don't we get Come on, Mago,
something's happened up there. There's a light switch on the wall.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Mango, I've got it.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
It's Roger.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yes, call Adel quickly.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
What's happened to him?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The same wound in the chest he's.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Reading though, and maybe a chance of saving him?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Go please get get a dough.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yes, all right on man, not just take it easy
and I quietly please, that's it, Take it easy. What
are you trying to say?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
See?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Where?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Where is this passage?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Roger?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Roger to him, Oh, Roger, he's still.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Alive with but we must at quickly call a car.
He must be gotten to a hospital at once. It
much more important port a delay, regained consciousness to call
us at once.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
All amn this passage where he spoke? Did you tell
you where it was?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
But it must be somewhere in this hall. We'll try
all of these panels. All right, we can locate the
source of the ghostly music. I think our mystery will
be solved.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
The mon the mon I think, I come here?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Wooden decoration is loose.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
He needs to pull down.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Ye wait, mother, let me do it.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
I can do it. It's open.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That was a narrow escape, Margle.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
That knife almost plunged into your body.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I think we've discovered our weapon of death, Margle. Yes,
we've also solved a murder that is over seventy years old,
the murder of Becky Branch's sweetheart. I don't dad, I'll
release the weapon, and show you the weapon that also
killed mister Simeon and wounded Roger Miller.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
How is this done?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Oh, it's quite simple. This knife is really an old
bay in it.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It's attached to that.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Heavy spring which was released when the secret door was opened.
It was evidently put there years ago to prevent the
escape of men like Becky Branch's soldier, and through the
years it's taken the lives of all those who discovered
the passageways.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
But Lament that doesn't explain the supernatural happenings in this house.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yes, I know that that's something that we must do.
The music, yes, and this time I'm going to trace
it to a sauce. It seems to be coming from
somewhere in this passage. You wait here, ma'llg this.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Is a job for the Chattle.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
If I play, you return, you must return.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
But it's been so long? Did someone speak?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I did? What are you doing in this house?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Playing my spine?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Who are you?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Becky b.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Joh, John?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
It's you.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
It's you. You've come back for me at last?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You are.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Don't you know me? John? Don't you remember me?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
I've gotten older.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
I've been waiting for you so long, so many years.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You've been waiting here in this house.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
I just did night only in the night I return here.
They said me away, John, They sent me away when
you escaped. You remember that night when I played for you?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Because you're lay.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
I was away for many years. Then I returned. No
one in the village newly I could go and come
as I pleased. I came to the house here at
night by the seller entered and played just as I'm
playing now, hoping that someday i'd play and would bring
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you back to me. Many years, many years, John, But
it's all worth fine. You've come back to me. You've
come back to me.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
No, I won't have.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
No Becky Branch. You won't have to play anymore.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Well, I'm happy to hear that Roger's doing so well, Adele.
He's doing splendidly.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
The doctor thinks he can come home by the end
of the week.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Oh, you might be interested to know that some of
the older residents of the town arranged for a decent
burial for Becky Brown.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
I'm so glad, and Belle, did Lamont tell you that
he found an entrance in his cellar that Zacky used
to use anything?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
So that's how she got in here.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Oh, and we finally learned how the secret panel worked too.
When the panel was opened, the spring that held the
knife was released. After the stabbing, the door sprang shut,
returning the knife to its former positions.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
You know, there's one point that you haven't cleared up yet, Lamont,
what's the ghost on the day?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Oh, I'm afraid I have no answer for that. I
can explain that, mister Cranston.
Speaker 12 (27:07):
Yes, sir, that was the real ghost.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Well from the shadow in just a minute. The first
here's John Barclay, America's home heating expert.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Mister Barclay, Thank you, Ken Robertson.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
Good evening friends. You know, every good housewife takes a
kind of pride in her kitchen. She installs the best
cooking equipment she can afford, and she keeps her kitchen
clean and immaculate. Well, that's as it should be.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
But you men don't have to let the ladies get
ahead of you.
Speaker 11 (27:47):
Oh, sir, you can have your seller just as modern
and clean and immaculate. There's your wife's kitchen, and it
won't cost you anything either. As a matter of fact,
you will save money just by follow showing the advice
I've given thousands of other householders. Ask your Blue Coal
dealer for the free services of a John Barkley trained serviceman.
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He'll tell you, in a few simple words, just how
to bring the furnace you've had for years right up
to date. He'll show you the clean and easy way
to operate your furnace, and most important of all, he'll
show you how to cut down the cost of heating
your home. Though, if you've not already benefited from this
free John Barkley heating service, just phone your neighborhood Blue
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Coal dealer tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Today's program is based on a story copyrighted about the
Shadow magazine. The characters' names, places, and blot authecticians. Any
similarity to person's living or dead is purely going to them.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not
pay Shadow Load.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Cold Dealers
of America bring you an adventure of the Shadow, unequaled
for sheer terror and stirring dramatic action.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
So be sure to listen, and be sure.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
To phone your friendly Blue Cold dealer for a greater
heating comfort at less costs. This is Ken Roberts saying
keep the home fires burning with blue cold.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Who knows what evil looks in the hearts of men?
The Shadow Note.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Those running adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
brought to you each week by the blue cold Dealers
of America. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to
old and young alike, crime does not pay. Before the
Shadow begins today's adventure, let me ask you. Are you
householders starting the new year the blue Coal Way?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I hope so?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Because blue coal is America's finest home fuel. It gives
you steady, even helpful heat with the least effort for you. See,
the blue coal way.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Is the easy way to heat your home.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Blue coal requires less attention, gives you greater heating comfort
at less cost. What more, an order of blue coal
entitled you to the full benefit of extra home heating service.
So phone your friendly blue coal dealer tomorrow. Won't you
start the new year the easy, economical blue coal Way.
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The Shadow, mysterious character of wid the forces of law
and order is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man
about town as the 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
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Invisible Shadow belongs.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
The story The Ghost On the Stay.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It is evening.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We find Margot and Lamont seated on the veranda of
a small hotel. They are conversing with the proprietors, Roger
Miller and his wife.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
There.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I should say that you and Roger have discovered the
ideal way to live.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, I should be quite content to change places with him.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I'd like nothing better than to spend my days just
sitting here on the verandah, observing the daily life of
this delightful old southern town.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Oh here, here, listen, o, Patty cran.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
There's the cross I have to bear.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Margot just doesn't understand.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Oh I know you too, will, my friend. Yes, you'd
be running this hotel for five minutes when up with
Papa murder or crime or a mystery, and you'd be
off to the races again.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
But the mystery he wants, he wouldn't have to leave
the premises.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But what do you mean Roger.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Oh, forget it now, there you see one sniff and
he's on the trail.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Don't pay any attention to my facetious fam Roger. What
were you refering to?
Speaker 8 (03:11):
Oh, it's not very exciting the month. Our mystery is
why we can't get the guests to stay at the hotel.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It's not really a.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
Mystery, Roger.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Why don't you tell him the whole story?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yes, please do.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
Well, as you know, about a month ago, I inherited
this place of my uncle.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yes, I remember.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Since we've taken procession, no guest has ever stayed here
more than one night. What I said that, no guest
has ever stayed more than one night?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Well, why is that, Roger?
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Because there's a ghost legend the jink's on the place,
a jinx that's lasted for almost one hundred years.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We're not really a jinx, Roger.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Now what else would you call it?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Adel?
Speaker 8 (03:39):
We're not making a goal, but are we? There's only
one reason now for our failure, isn't there?
Speaker 10 (03:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
What is this reason?
Speaker 8 (03:43):
It's the house itself, the evil reputation of affairs.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Well, I maybe a bit dull, but I don't follow you.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Well, this wasn't all he's a hotel, Margo. It was
originally a plantation one hundred odd years ago. It was
owned by a family named Branch. During the Civil War
was used as a hospital by the Confederate forces. In
that period that the tragic event occurred that has placed
a curse on this dwelling down through time to the
present day.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
What was this thing?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (04:07):
A young Union soldier was a prisoner in the hospital.
His nurse was the daughter of the house, Becky Branch,
and you can guess what happened.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
They fell in love.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Yes, the boy was fond of music, and every night
Becky Branch would play for him. I'm a spinnet. One night,
as she sat playing, the boy softly called out to.
Speaker 11 (04:24):
Her, Becky, Oh, yes, John, doctor told me today that.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
My wound was practically healed.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Your wound. But John, that means yes, it.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Means that they will be taking me away from here, Becky,
to a prison.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
No, No, they can't do that.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
We can and they will unless unless what unless I
can escape John.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Oh, it's the only thing left here.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
If I can just get out of this building, I
have a good chance of reaching the Union line.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
But John, what a boss.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
I'll come back for you, dear, after the war is over.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
You you know I will, Yes, Yes, I do know that.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
And will you help me, help me to escape?
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Yes, John, I know of a way, a way for
you to get out.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Young Becky Branch fuses escape. Finally, after a tear for farewell,
the boy prepared to leave.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I'll just keep paying. No, think you're still here with me?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
John, all right, goodbye, darling.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Goodbye, goodbye, my dearest, my dearest.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
John, John John.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What's happened?
Speaker 10 (05:45):
John?
Speaker 9 (05:46):
John?
Speaker 10 (05:48):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
John?
Speaker 8 (05:53):
And that's the story. The boy was dead, stabbed through
the chest. No one who could have committed the murder was.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
To be seen. That sounds fantastic.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Becky Branch's party, a temper's escape was discovered and she
was banished from the community. But what does that have
to do with the James Justice Lamont? Since that day,
this house has passed too many hands, and each family
that has lived here, a mysterious death has occurred. Each
of these deaths has been caused by a stabbings. Well
that is a story, Yeah, but that isn't all Margo.
Before each death occurred, the playing of the spinet was heard.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
The legend re enacted, Eh well, have you heard this
mysterious music since you've been here? No, not yet, ye,
I clear away the glasses.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Oh yes, yes, it's not very good. Yes, and now
lamand if I haven't been too boring, that's the reason
why you should stay out of the hotel business.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well you've got a point there.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Well, I think we are turning, if you'll excuse us.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
Oh, yes, of course, coming it.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Own, Yes, yes, I guess it is bedtime. Good night, Margo,
good night of el the other morning, right? Goom on?
Do you believe that story? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't know, Margot.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
There's always a legend that goes with these old places.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Some of them will fall, but this one's true.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
So I forgot you were here, boy done.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
But how do you know it's true?
Speaker 12 (07:07):
I've been here many years, ma'am. I've heard that music
many times you have, Yes, sir, I've even seen the goose.
What goes the goose that's always seen on the stairs
goose from missus Becky brand.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Am, com on, listen, Am I hearing things? No?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No, I hear it too.
Speaker 12 (07:28):
There it is, sir. They're that old spinner playing again.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Come on, muggle, we're going to look into this.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
It seems to be coming from inside the house.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yes, yes, wait here a moment till I locate.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
The sound that room is coming from that room right
over there.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Let's walk quietly now, must be heard.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
What if?
Speaker 9 (07:52):
What if it really is the ghost?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Would you rather wait outside?
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Martles?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
No, stay right here, and I opened the door.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm going to rush quickly into the room. If I
encounter trouble, you go for help. Right here we go.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
What is this? Why I beg your pardon? I I
thought that you were.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Oh that's quite all right, the matter you all right?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yes, of course, come in, Margot, keep on.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I'm playing, all right, just showing the young lady about.
This is the music room.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
I believe, Yes, I presume it is.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
I've only been a guest here since this afternoon, so
I wouldn't be sure.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh I see. Please continue your playing.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
I have traveled many miles you play.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Why is that because of.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
The legend of this house? Have you ever heard of it?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Yes, we just told you us a while ago. In fact,
we thought that you were. I mean you.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Thought I was the ghost of Jackie Bray.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
No, but I have come here to seek inspiration from
her departed spirit. Oh, I see, I'm a composer. I've
come to this old room because here I.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Confess the presence of the department.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
Perhaps perhaps my music will even woo the ears of
the lovely ghost.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Yes, that's very interesting.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
The beauty of the music of the dead is the uncommanded.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
That someone in trouble here come along.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Maybe that's your ghost, the ghost the.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Game you must go down with the colonel.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
I didn't mean to upset everyone was there was just
so start on what happened all amount?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Missus Turner?
Speaker 8 (10:05):
I guess there at the hotel?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
How do you do? Was it you that screamed Missus Turner?
Speaker 9 (10:09):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
What was wrong?
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Well, I was on my way to my room, and
I happened to glance down the stairwheel and saw a
woman coming up the stairs to the second floor.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Yes, thinking it was missus Miller, I went to greet her.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
When I reached the head of the stairs, there was
no one there.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
What.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No, it was such a shock that I well, I
just screamed, I guess was it you were there?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Indeed, I was in my room. I see, Well, are
there any other women guests in the hotel?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Ronda?
Speaker 8 (10:36):
No, no others.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Well, perhaps you just imagined you saw someone, Missus Turner.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
No, I'm positive I saw a woman.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Of gos. She did what she saw, the ghost, the ghost,
Becky Branch.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What did you say, Missilian?
Speaker 10 (10:51):
It was Missus Turner's privilege to see a very old
resident of this house the spisit?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Becky Branch?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
What's he's saying?
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Are there really ghosts here?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
That's not true, Missus Miller.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
No, what makes you so sure of that?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
If you want proof.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
Of my statement, mister Miller, just be awake and listening
at the witching hour of three.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Why what will happen?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
He will hear music, lovely music played on the spinet
by the ghost that Missus Turner saw on the stairs.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Mister Simeon, you're not frightening us, So why don't you
stop your little game?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yes, we're all getting upset over nothing. I'd advise that
we all go to bed.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
I agree the monk.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
We can go to bed.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
We can lock our doors, but we can't lock the ghost.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Come come down, Missus Turner, come along, I'll see you
to your room.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
You're right, Adele, Come along, mother, We'll let these good
people get some sleep.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Hi, good night, everyone want.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
In a month? Did you really mean to make light
of that.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Little episode on me too?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He's the woman's mind.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
She really saw someone.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
There's a more important question to be answered. I'd like
to know just where mister Simeon has acquired his extensive
knowledge of the habits of the so called ghost of
Becky Branch.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yes, I noticed that he seemed to know the whole Do.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I he knew much more about it than Roger Miller?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Does?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I think, Margot, that our mister Simeon is going to
be called on to answer a few questions by the Shadow.
Perhaps before the night is over, we'll have our gold.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I hope I'm not including mister Simeon who speaks to me? Men?
Call me the shadow?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Where are you? I see no one.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I'm standing right here beside you. I don't have this,
mister Simeon. I have the power to make myself quite
invisible to your eyes.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
What do you want of me? Why are you here?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I want you to answer a few questions. What about
How do you know so much about the legend of
this old house? Where did you hear of Becky Branch?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
What is that to you?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Answer my question, mister Simeon, very.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Well, very well, I'll tell you I was born in
this house, mister shadow. I've spent my early youth here.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
I used to play.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Is there any evidence then, of this so called ghost?
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Oh? Yes, we heard her many times, many times, she
played beautifully.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
She ever seen, only that she would see tonight under stairs.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Do you believe this legend?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Because I have very good reason to believe it.
Speaker 10 (13:58):
Why on the second floor, by the staircase, my father
was found, my stepfather, death to death.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Who did it? Who killed him?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
He never found out? He died just as the young
soldier died on the very same spot. Because it was
a blessing.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Though I never liked my stepfather, you wanted him to die,
I didn't care.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Why have you returned here?
Speaker 10 (14:28):
I'm seeking inspiration, Yes, the inspiration that I lost when
I left here.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Inspiration that can.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Only be gotten from the spirit of Becky Branch.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Listened for her tonight.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
It usually comes from the cellar below that the witching
hour of three.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't believe that you've come back here in search
of an inspiration. Mister Simeon. You have another motive, and
when I learn what it is, let me warn you
you will receive another visit from the shadow.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
What is mister Simeon's true movie. We'll find out in
just a moment. But first, here's a question that's near
a home. Have you ever asked yourself how can I
cut down my coal bills this winter?
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Speaker 3 (15:33):
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Speaker 6 (16:05):
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Speaker 3 (16:07):
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Speaker 6 (16:26):
The words blue coal and now back to the shadow?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Yes, mother, what do you expect to find down?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Well, according to mister Simeon, this is where the ghostly
music has come from. Here, take this other flashlight.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Did you learn anything else from c Yes, he lived.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Here as a child.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
His stepfather was killed in this house, stabbed to death,
just as the soldier was stabbed, and he met his
death on the second floor landing by the staircase.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Is that where the soldier.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Died according to Simeon?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yes, oh, I'm standing down here. That looks like a
musical instrument.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You know.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Do you believe Simeon's story? Well?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I think he told the truth about living here and
his stepfather's death, but his talk.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Of ghosts was not very believable. He's calling from upstairs.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Let's get up there, Margot quick.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
What is.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Grandson?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
It's mister Simeons. You better not look mag It's Simeon.
He's been stabbed in the chest.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Who is it?
Speaker 12 (17:53):
Yes, lord, just like the Yankees soldier, just like what
happened to him. The ghost down the deathway?
Speaker 8 (17:59):
Quiet? Why are you pulling up phone.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
What happens?
Speaker 8 (18:04):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Simon was stabbed.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
In the chest. He's dead.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
How did it happen?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
When did you discover this ball? I'd just come walking
down the hall.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
They were stitch out like you see you now?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
I see, Oh Roger, you sleep on this floor, don't you?
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Did you hear anything out of a struggle or a fight?
Speaker 10 (18:20):
No?
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Not a thing.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Well we better call the police at once.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Well, that certainly was a fine investigation, Lamon. Yes, I'd
hate to see that sheriff in charge of a crime wave.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Ever hit this Tom.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
He'd probably handled it just as he did the night. Margot,
you'd just say I told the body of Wing come
back in the morning when rustle up the cone?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Is you?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
In the meantime, the murder has a perfect opportunity to
cover up any traces of his crime exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I must say, though, that I haven't any more needs
to work on than the good sheriff.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Then, mister Simmon was your number one suspect in this
ghost business.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yes, I felt that he knew much more about what
went on here than he was willing to tell. Maybe
that's why I was killed, And that's quite possible.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
But who could his murder it be? There are only
four other people in his house. Oh boy, God, Missus, Turner,
Adele and Roger.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah, Roger.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Did I hear you mention my name?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Roger? Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Sorry, Margot, I didn't mean to startle you. I heard
your voices, so I came in to see if you
didn't come at anything.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
No, I'm afraid we haven't.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
Well, I guess we'll have to wait for morning. Now,
I'll say, why don't you two get some sleep?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
We will presently Roger, Well, good night, Good night night, Roger.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yes, Margaret, it's strange the way Roger just popped in
here like that.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yes, there are several other points about Roger that meet
clearing up in my mind.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Don't you think it odd that he didn't hear any
sounds when Simeon died? His room is right on that floor, Yes,
and why did he take so long and responding to
Bo's call for help?
Speaker 5 (20:02):
I thought of that too.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
If you don't mind, Margo, we won't be retiring for
some time yet. There are many things here that require
investigation before the night is over.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
What are you going to do? Ramant Well?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
First of all.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Simeon told me that the ghostly music was always heard
at the witching hour of three. It's almost that now,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yes, yes, just about well, I think we.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Should stay up for that little recital. Let's sit out
here by the staircase. All right, I'm afraid I'll have
to turn out this lde.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
That's all right, Laman, stay near me at all, follow me,
take hold of my hand. You ever made a ghost?
Speaker 11 (20:39):
Now?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I'm afraid that.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah. Sit here on the stairs. Thanks?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
There was a now outside the house.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
We should get a sore throat or something. I can't.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Well, according to mister Simeon's story, it's time now for
the concert to be a mom there, yes, quiet, Now,
see if we can locate the sound.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
It's not coming from the music room.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
No, no, it seems to come from up above, somewhere
on the upper floors. Well, why don't we get Come on, Mago,
something's happened up there. There's a light switch on the wall.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Mango, I've got it.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
It's Roger.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yes, call Adel quickly.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
What's happened to him?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The same wound in the chest he's.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Reading though, and maybe a chance of saving him?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Go please get get a dough.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yes, all right on man, not just take it easy
and I quietly please, that's it, Take it easy. What
are you trying to say?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
See?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Where?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Where is this passage?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Roger?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Roger to him, Oh, Roger, he's still.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Alive with but we must at quickly call a car.
He must be gotten to a hospital at once. It
much more important port a delay, regained consciousness to call
us at once.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
All amn this passage where he spoke? Did you tell
you where it was?
Speaker 9 (22:22):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
But it must be somewhere in this hall. We'll try
all of these panels. All right, we can locate the
source of the ghostly music. I think our mystery will
be solved.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
The mon the mon I think, I come here?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Wooden decoration is loose.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
He needs to pull down.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Ye wait, mother, let me do it.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
I can do it. It's open.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
That was a narrow escape, Margle.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
That knife almost plunged into your body.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I think we've discovered our weapon of death, Margle. Yes,
we've also solved a murder that is over seventy years old,
the murder of Becky Branch's sweetheart. I don't dad, I'll
release the weapon, and show you the weapon that also
killed mister Simeon and wounded Roger Miller.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
How is this done?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Oh, it's quite simple. This knife is really an old
bay in it.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It's attached to that.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Heavy spring which was released when the secret door was opened.
It was evidently put there years ago to prevent the
escape of men like Becky Branch's soldier, and through the
years it's taken the lives of all those who discovered
the passageways.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
But Lament that doesn't explain the supernatural happenings in this house.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Yes, I know that that's something that we must do.
The music, yes, and this time I'm going to trace
it to a sauce. It seems to be coming from
somewhere in this passage. You wait here, ma'llg this.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Is a job for the Chattle.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
If I play, you return, you must return.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
But it's been so long? Did someone speak?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I did? What are you doing in this house?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Playing my spine?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Who are you?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Becky b.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Joh, John?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
It's you.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
It's you. You've come back for me at last?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You are.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Don't you know me? John? Don't you remember me?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
I've gotten older.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
I've been waiting for you so long, so many years.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You've been waiting here in this house.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
I just did night only in the night I return here.
They said me away, John, They sent me away when
you escaped. You remember that night when I played for you?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Because you're lay.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
I was away for many years. Then I returned. No
one in the village newly I could go and come
as I pleased. I came to the house here at
night by the seller entered and played just as I'm
playing now, hoping that someday i'd play and would bring
(25:30):
you back to me. Many years, many years, John, But
it's all worth fine. You've come back to me. You've
come back to me.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
No, I won't have.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
No Becky Branch. You won't have to play anymore.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Well, I'm happy to hear that Roger's doing so well, Adele.
He's doing splendidly.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
The doctor thinks he can come home by the end
of the week.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Oh, you might be interested to know that some of
the older residents of the town arranged for a decent
burial for Becky Brown.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
I'm so glad, and Belle, did Lamont tell you that
he found an entrance in his cellar that Zacky used
to use anything?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
So that's how she got in here.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Oh, and we finally learned how the secret panel worked too.
When the panel was opened, the spring that held the
knife was released. After the stabbing, the door sprang shut,
returning the knife to its former positions.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
You know, there's one point that you haven't cleared up yet, Lamont,
what's the ghost on the day?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Oh, I'm afraid I have no answer for that. I
can explain that, mister Cranston.
Speaker 12 (27:07):
Yes, sir, that was the real ghost.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Well from the shadow in just a minute. The first
here's John Barclay, America's home heating expert.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Mister Barclay, Thank you, Ken Robertson.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
Good evening friends. You know, every good housewife takes a
kind of pride in her kitchen. She installs the best
cooking equipment she can afford, and she keeps her kitchen
clean and immaculate. Well, that's as it should be.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
But you men don't have to let the ladies get
ahead of you.
Speaker 11 (27:47):
Oh, sir, you can have your seller just as modern
and clean and immaculate. There's your wife's kitchen, and it
won't cost you anything either. As a matter of fact,
you will save money just by follow showing the advice
I've given thousands of other householders. Ask your Blue Coal
dealer for the free services of a John Barkley trained serviceman.
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He'll tell you, in a few simple words, just how
to bring the furnace you've had for years right up
to date. He'll show you the clean and easy way
to operate your furnace, and most important of all, he'll
show you how to cut down the cost of heating
your home. Though, if you've not already benefited from this
free John Barkley heating service, just phone your neighborhood Blue
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Coal dealer tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Today's program is based on a story copyrighted about the
Shadow magazine. The characters' names, places, and blot authecticians. Any
similarity to person's living or dead is purely going to them.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not
pay Shadow Load.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Cold Dealers
of America bring you an adventure of the Shadow, unequaled
for sheer terror and stirring dramatic action.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
So be sure to listen, and be sure.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
To phone your friendly Blue Cold dealer for a greater
heating comfort at less costs. This is Ken Roberts saying
keep the home fires burning with blue cold.
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