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Speaker 1 (00:05):
What evil.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
In the hearts of men? The Shadow, The shadow who

(00:29):
hates the forces of law and order, is, in reality,
Lamont Clanston, a wealthy young man about town. Years ago
in the audience, Clanston learned a strange and mysterious secret,
the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot
see him. Clanston's friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane,
is the only person who knows to whom the voice

(00:50):
of the invisible Shadow belongs. Today's comma death coils to
strike Maria, Maria, you have to keep playing that theme

(01:30):
record over and over again. No, we'll hut that thing
off at second and come in here. What are your baby?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I want to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, shut down, Maria over here next to me. That's good.
What's the matter, baby? What is it? Nothing? Do you
haven't enacting like yourself since we came to the stakes, Maria, I.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Can feel strange since we leave South America if I've noticed,
an you got to quit thinking about the jungle and
all that.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Maria. We're not in a South American engineering camp anymore.
We're here in the good old USA, I know, and
try to act more civilized. Will your baby. I just
lie around like that and listen to that crazy music
and the patroller all right there, Maria, Yes, do me
a favor. Will your baby take off those anklets and

(02:25):
all that native jewelry? Its coilsy give me the creep? Yeah,
I don't know. They remind me of snake.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Maria.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I asked you to stop playing that record. Maria, Maria,
get to stop. Lock in that room. You're playing at
the fool music room. Maria, Maria, what are you doing? Quick?
Stop it?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Stop that Maria, y oh, beer, I was only dune.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
What kind of dancing is that? Wriggling and slithering around
like that? It's crazy, Maria. You've got to stop it. Yeah,
you're upset.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
You look at me like something.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
He's a matter. Something's happening to you. I don't know
what it is, but it's been coming over you. We
left South America.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
You do not love me anymore?

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Is that he do?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Of course I love your baby, of course I do.
It's just to keep it. I think so funny lately.
You he loved me, I said, I did thing.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Comes here, I look, Maria, come here and kiss me, deer, No,
come here, deal.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Don't wind you run dring my not quite. That's me go,
let me go. That's the whole story, mister Clinston. Miss Lane.

(04:23):
I know it sounds a little peculiar, but it is
the truth. It is sort of the new assignment, isn't it.
Lam Yes, I don't think I've ever before been as
to help locate it.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's a little more than just said mister Crimston.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
You see, ever since I've been curated of the zoo,
I've tried to build up the reptal house. This morning
I received seven new species in South America, among us
a small and.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Very deadly snake, called it the scap cascogle.

Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yes, and when we took the crait out of the
up this afternoon, we did not find the.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Gay miss lane.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
Somewhere between the in the zoo, is there an isolated neighborhood.
It was there that the driver had to swerve to
miss an oncoming kind almost overturned.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
And you think that's when this make slipped out of
its great escape. Yes, detally, I sent my answerstant mad
and I don't have to search.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
But it has been almost four hours now and I
haven't heard a bird from Do you think the presses
tomorrow and fom mistake, and in trying.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
To capture him, was bitten deadly, said I possibly, I
don't want to call an appreciate the.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
News that the poisonous snake is lose my paws necessary, Penny,
I think you're right. Are you able to help a
search doctor by owing?

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Mo?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Good? Come on longer. It's almost dark now we've got
to get started immediately, Maria, come here. What if it is?
I've got to talk to you, Maria, I've got something

(05:57):
I have to say to you.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's easy if you have to say.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Look, Maria, this isn't easy for you or for me.
But something's been happening to you. I don't know exactly
what it is. I just know why it is. Why
it is because it's Billy and the way he was killed.
What do you mean that's the reason for the change
coming over you? The thing in the jungle that killed

(06:23):
our son, that's responsible.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Do you see that kills our funis responsible? You promised
me we would never have to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
We know it was a snake that kills Billy. We
didn't want to say it, but we know it was
a snake, don't we. It's been playing on your mind.
You've been thinking about it, brooding about it happens. Yes,
it's been in your conscience, in your heart. Yes, well
you've got to stop it, Maria, You've got to stop it.
It's doing something to you. It's changing you in a
terrible way. It is. It's making you act different and

(06:53):
look different. Why it's changing you into it? Sure, it's
back in your rum. I get rid of them. Whoever
it is so back in your room. We can't let
anyone see me. Yes, yes, my name is Malon south Molin. Yes,
I'm tired of trouble you, but I one of you

(07:13):
can tell me what is it? I know that sounds odd,
but it's about a snake.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
A snake it's escaped, severally negligent of us, I know,
but it simply got blocked and.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
With my shirts. Around here in the neighborhood, some way
it is. Yes, I'm sure it's around here some way.
You see.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
It's an important in South America and America. Yes, it's
called a castago and not a lot of snake.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
A female top brown color, even modern. How did you
find out? What did you say? They said? How did
you find out? Right? I don't know what you mean?

Speaker 6 (07:48):
But there's no reason to be alarmed a female catapolis.
You know, please, there's no reason to get excited if
you don't have to think I do.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Have it, but you'll never get Yeah, oh my, about
how you found out? You're not gonna do about. Nobody's

(08:21):
gonna find out about there nobody a plane said no,
it's amost seven doctors now certains almost.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Two hours now.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
This is the almost things possible to find a small
snake now that it's dark.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
When you don't, it's the things I'm an unastucture. Just
seen that discas Mamon.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
He had found the steak and had been satally bitten,
someone in this neighborhood would have at least have heard
him cry out of mister Clinton. I've got to get
back to the two. I'm going to note the pie,
all right, Doctor Margaret, I looks a little longer. Fine
Hie checked back the music as a good night, thank

(09:16):
you both, Good night doctor. What do you think tom.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Possibility Marlon will be back at the zoo by the
time doctor Rittenhouse gets there?

Speaker 2 (09:28):
It looks pretty bad. People don't just vanish in the
thin air. Sounds like music played on an Eastingian flude
which guy's in that house right there, there's one of

(09:48):
the two we haven't been to yet. I don't think
we better put our visiting that's house any longer. And whoa,
this is a thing neighborhood, isn't it? What is the
name played on the door?

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Margo are A Hassah.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Consulted an extensive sounding fortune teller stars undoubtedly a very
high class one.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
You mean, like an East Indian take here.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Take here, yes, Margot, probably in more ways than one. Yeah,
mister Hassan, that is correct. We're doing some investigating, Hassa.
A truck from the Zoo is carrying some reptiles, b
like it this afternoon and one escape this make escape.
The assistant great of the Zoo was supposed to have
been searching this neighborhood for the past six hours, but

(10:42):
he's disappeared.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Disappeared. Yes, we were wondering if you knew anything about it. No, no,
I know nothing. You haven't seen a man making inquiries
around the neighborhood. I have seen no one I see,
mister Hussaw. We heard some music just a few minutes ago.

(11:07):
I could have sworn it was an East Indian flute.
The guy and used the charm snake. You were mistaken.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
I played the music, yes, but I played it only
for my own amusement. You would bot me busy good night.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well that was done. Next, what do we do now?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I think we'll go next door, Margot, at the last
house on the block. We don't find anything.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
There, We'll be back to see mister r. H. Hussar again.
All right, may help me get him over the basement?

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Did you prove this man?

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I had to. He found out. He shouldn't have done
it as I had to. He knew about you, he
knew about Oh see, don't worry, Mary, we're going away.
We're trying to go away. Nobody will see you. I'll
carry him the rest of the way.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
But he will be lead to and then the police
will start asking questions.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Please, you'll never find this guy who's gonna burry him
down here in the.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Basement, all right here starting to shovel down here.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
I will help you, big s down here. H Now,
let's see here, let's check around here somewhere. What's the
matter here in the basement window? What are you fucking
in at him? Marie? We gotta get out of here, man,

(12:38):
We canna leave your body we got we gotta get
upstairs and stall him off. Come on, Maria, you can't
stay down there. Come on quick, stay and geors open

(12:59):
mount him.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
You think we ought to just break in this way?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Mark, You know there's someone down here, and yet they
didn't ask. That's on door the Maybe they couldn't hear.
Maybe they don't want people to see what they're hurting
in the cellar. Come on, class, they're not.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
Going upstairs again about itself?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Good chance to look around.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
M the flashest pitch down here so bad.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
We haven't a flash. I don't like this.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm feeling something down here.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
I put.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
That.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Oh Lord, the lad Yeah, a body of a man
might very well be Molin, doctor Rittenhouse's assistance. M moving

(14:00):
down here.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
It's a kind of wrap this coming from that coin.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Bok looks like a mongo looks very much like a snake.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
A few moments ago, the Mountain Mongo discovered the body
of the assistant Curator of the zoo in the cellar
of the house, only to look up into the gleaming
eyes of the deadly snake. They are standing in thick
color when suddenly confectly firing mm hm funny bookstip either

(15:06):
lost their want look to the window. Someone I see.
I'm really anxious for us not to find this body.
Can I like a match snake? Margaret, it's gone, says
they're not down here now. It must have been fighting away.
By the shot the steps, I don't know all I

(15:33):
could see with the eyes somehow they look almost humid.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
What terrible kind of thing have we gotten as helping too?

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Something a lot stranger? And we thought at first said, come,
let's see story.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
As I do. Let's present a.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Note off I Commissioner Western that we found Marlin's body.
Then search this apparently empty house and top the bottom.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
If we find it it really is empty.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
I'm going back and pay a visit to mister Hussa
this time this sepond.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Maria, Malia, where are you here?

Speaker 1 (16:22):
I am you?

Speaker 4 (16:24):
I been looking all over for your baby. Didn't know
whether you're happening the yacht or still down in the fable.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Only when someone was hiding that was me. I thought
it two of them in the basement looking at the body. Yeah, yeah,
I had to distract their attention somehow.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
I got him out of the basement anyway, and we
can go back and get the body. We'll put him
in the can.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
We'll get out of town. No, Bill, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
I Am not going back down there?

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Come on, baby, you can't stay here. Somebody's not going
to find you. No, I said, come on, let's me go, Peter.
The only way, Maria believe me. Go on my risk.
Come on, and I told you to let me go.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
You put me?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
I dis you, yes, yes, head.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
H what makes you wish the time with the dead

(17:53):
may time and head co brought India on a pleasures
and poisonous cole of couth America? What's here?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Who is.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
This?

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Sad?

Speaker 1 (18:07):
What don't know about the say that escape from the door?

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Right? I know that's escape? That is all?

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Hey, I do not have this?

Speaker 7 (18:16):
Take now?

Speaker 1 (18:18):
What about Paul and the greatest assission?

Speaker 2 (18:22):
You don't want it?

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Didn't have further law? No, no, I did not murther
if but perhaps.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
You know who did. But I talked him coming still coming?
Then his wife who lives next door?

Speaker 1 (18:35):
What about them? I show this man this this smile
and go into their hostage.

Speaker 7 (18:39):
Afternoon.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
He has not come up twice a coming and Anderson, man,
I do not know. There have been many fine things
going on over there. The girls. She is native of
South America.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
She acts very funny.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
She does not go out of the house. She never
go out since they come here from South America.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, and becaus weird. Guy, I don't think that a
girl or something that it was a matter of eshadow.
Go to them, find the girl, the same stake of girl,
the secret of lepto. Just what's hard.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
I'm tired and I will have time. I will go now,
But if you fly, the shadow will be back.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Ria. I gotta find every wor somebody else he went
this way, but the labor. Can I do it? Though?
I have a look at Yeah, I gotta find her.

(19:59):
Funny it's gonna happen over there doing any good ride,
I make it to take good?

Speaker 5 (20:14):
Got it?

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Hope Berries that you are you in that? Maria ass
to me, But I love having asked to me.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
I wish much would Cawn. I hate waiting out here here?

Speaker 2 (20:48):
You want You're gonna be waiting out of you got
the answer to this whole wild business model you have.
And he may be involved. It's more complicated that I
can't explain that, Margo. I want you to wait here.
The Commissioner Western you should be here in a minute.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
I'm going to find the killer Margo and the missing
snake that I'm very much surprised the shadow will find
them both together.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Maria, Maria, are you in there? Maria that?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
What are you doing in here? Your mate?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Who are you?

Speaker 1 (21:34):
What are you doing in my garagh? You're the right,
you're right? So you're the one.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
What are you talking about? You're the one who captured
you put her in that happen? You hit her in there?

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Why?

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I don't know what you mean? No, there's nothing in
that happen the tongs, there's something in the hamper. You're
better and put her in there.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Didn't care, but I thought they would be safer. Your
thought I.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Would be safe for you. Didn't believe things like this
could happen.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Why, I've never.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Seen any things I could report. I told if I
put it out of your thought, you gotta get her
out here. He's gotta take her out of her hand.
So I will be deating. You will be betting type already,
then bet now open that half way open. Nobody knocked

(22:34):
the gut out of my head that he was afraid
to open the happenhado. But I'm not kill. I'll let
her outset they let not hap yd a little ry
like God. Don't start up a point of taking out

(22:54):
I call you kill, No.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
You kill, and carrow.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's over.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
No one has killed. Only the snake is said. It's
poisonous onsoever. Now you must extract the poisons on your mind,
by the poison that makes you believe the terrible things
about Maria. So the true true, the true bribery. She was,

(23:37):
thought myself she was.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
She was cutting it before ail. It's not true.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
That picture of Maria was only a terrible distortion of
your imagination. There was only one snake Advise there now dead.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
So it was Maria you talked to ask you miss
the shadow?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yes, Margot, I found her off the garage.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
I got most of the story.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
I don't understand if Maria was presently all right, what
made Bill think she was.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Journey in the towns, he received a terrible shot from
his son, dis Margol. Young Billy was killed by a
pointon snake outside their money camp in South America. Terror
try to betwist Bill's mind. By the time they came back.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
To this country, he began to read snake like qualities
into every asked and jest to his wife's maid.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
But I still don't understand that's what mister has.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Had to do with the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Has found the snake in his garage, he hid it
in the hammer, hoping to collect the handsome reward.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Was what's gonna happened to him? Well, Margaret, when the
state takes all the facts in Bill's case into considerations,
I think Bill hand Down lead.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
The weed of crime and bit a boot. Crime does
not think the saddle no
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