1041 - The Ghost On The Stair (The Shadow)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
The journey into the realm of the strange and terrifie.
I hope you will enjoy the chamber, that it will
till you a little and kill you a little. So
settle back, get a good grip on your nerve. Where
are we going? You'll find out when we get there.

(00:48):
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
The Shadow Lord.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
The thrilling adventures of the Shadow are on the air.
These dramatizations are designs would demonstrate forcibly to old and
young alike that crime does not pay.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
The Shadow, mysterious character who aids the forces of law
and order is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man
about town. As the Shadow, Cranston is gifted with histotic
power to cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him.
Cranston's friend and.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the only person who
knows to whom the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Today's story The Ghost on the Stay. It is evening.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
We find Margot and Lamont seated on the veranda.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Of a small hotel. They are conversing with.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
The proprietors, Roger Miller and.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
His wife, and I should say that you and Roger
have discovered the ideal way to land in the month. Yes,
I should be quite content to change places with you.
I'd like nothing better than to spend my days just
sitting here on the veranda observing the daily light of
this delightful old southern town.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh here here, listen, No Pappy crane.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
There's the coss I have to bear. Mango just doesn't understand.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Oh, I know you too well, my friend.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Or is that so?

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Yes, you'd be running this hotel for five.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Minutes when up with papa murder or a crime or a.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Mystery, and you'd be off to the races again.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, if it's a mystery he wants, he wouldn't have
to leave the premise. No, what do you mean, Roger,
Oh forget it now.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
There you see one snift and he's on the trail.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Don't pay any attention to my facetious fam Roger. What
were you refering to? 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 (02:47):
It's not really a mystery, Roger. Why don't you tell
him the whole story?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yes, please do well, as you know, about a month ago,
I inherited this place with my uncle. Yes, I remember.
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 (03:01):
Oh, why is that, Roger?

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Because there's a ghost legend, the jinks on the place,
a jinx that's lasted for almost one hundred years. We're
not really a jinx, Roger, Now, what else would you
call it? Adele? We're not making a go, but are we?
There's only one reason now for our failure, isn't there?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:14):
What is this reason? It's the house itself, the evil
reputation that affairs Well.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
I may be a bit doll, but I don't follow you.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Well, this wasn't all he's a hotel, Margo. It was
originally a plantation one hundred odd years ago, was owned
by a family named Branch. During the Civil War was
used as a hospital by the Confederate forces. It was
in that period that the tagic event occurred that has
placed the curse and was dwelling down through time to
the present day. What was this thing? What happened? A
young Union soldier was a prisoner in the hospital. His

(03:42):
nurse was the daughter of the house Becky Branch. You
can guess what happened, they tell in love. Yes. The
boy was fond of music, and every night Becky Branch
would play for him on the spinet. One night, as
she sat playing, the boy softly called out to her, Becky, Oh, yes, John,

(04:04):
doctor told me today that.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
My wound was practically healed.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
Your will, But John, that means yes.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
It means that they will be taking me away from here, Becky,
to a prison.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
No, No, they can't do that. They can and they
will unless, unless, unless I can escape, John. Oh, it's
the only thing left here. If I can just get
out of this building. I have a good chance of
reaching the Union lines.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
But John, what of bus.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
I'll come back for you, deer, after the war is over.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
You you know I will, Yes, Yes, I do know that.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
And will you help me, help me to escape?

Speaker 5 (04:40):
Yes, John, I know of a way, a way for.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
You to get out, Young Becky Branch, part of his escape. Finally,
after a tear for farewell, the boy prepared to leave.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
I'll just keep paying. They'll think you're still.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Here with me, John, all right, goodbye, darling. Goodbye, goodbye, John,
my dearest, my dearest John, John John. What's happened?

Speaker 5 (05:16):
John?

Speaker 1 (05:18):
John?

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Oh John, And that's the story. The boy was dead,
stabbed through the chest. No one who could have committed
the murder was.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
To be seen that soundst.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Becky Branch's Partny attempted escape was discovered and she was
banished from the community. But what does that have to
do with the jinks? Just s laman. Since that day,
this house has passed through many hands, and each family
that has lived here, a mysterious death has occurred. Each
of these deaths has been caused by a stabbing.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well that is a story.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, but that isn't all, Margot. Before each death occurred,
the playing of the spinet was heard, the legend re enacted. Eh, well,
have you heard this mysterious music since you've been here? No,
not yet me I clear away of the glasses. Oh yes, yes,
it's very god yes, and now Almond, if I haven't
been too boring, that's the reason why you should stay
out of the hotel business. Well you've got a point there. Well,

(06:12):
I think we had in if you'll excuse us, Oh, yes, of.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Course, coming down, Yes, yes, I guess it is bedtime.
Good night Margo n good night ofwn in the morning.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Right, come on?

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Do you believe that story?

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, I don't know, Margot. There's always a legend that
goes with these old places. Some of them will fall,
But this one's true. So I forgot you were here,
bo done.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
But how do you know it's true?

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Now? 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 a goose that's always seen on
the stairs goose from missus Becky branch Am.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Come on listening? Am I hearing thing?

Speaker 1 (06:58):
No? No, I hear it too. It is they're that
old Spinnish playing again. Come on, muggle, we're going to
look into.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
This seemed to be coming from inside the house.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yes, yea, wait here a moment until I locate the sound.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
It's coming from that room right over there.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Let's more quietly, now you must be heard. What if?

Speaker 5 (07:24):
What if it really is to go?

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Would you rather wait outside? Moses? No, stay right here,
and I open this door. I'm going to rush quickly
into the room. If I an't counter trouble, you go
for help, all right, right? Here we go.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Why I beg your pardon? I thought that you were.
I'm terribly sorry. Oh that's quite all right, all right, Yes,
of course, come in maggo I see que I'm playing,
all right, just showing the young lady about. This is
the music room, I believe.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
Yes, presume it is. I've only been a guest here
since this afternoon, so I wouldn't be sure. Oh I see,
Please continue your playing.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
I have traveled many miles to playing. Why is that
because of the legend of this house. Have you ever
heard of it?

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yes, we just told you it's a while ago. In fact,
we thought that you were. I mean, you thought I
was the ghost of Decky Branch.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
No, but I have come here to seek inspiration from
her departed spilit Oh.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I see.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
I'm a composer.

Speaker 6 (08:53):
I've come to this old room because here I consents
the presence of the department. Perhaps perhaps my music will
even woo the ears of the lovely ghost. Yes, yes,
that's very interesting, the beauty of the music.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Of the dead.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Be someone in trouble here is come along. Maybe that's
your ghost?

Speaker 5 (09:26):
The ghost the ghost a game you must go down.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
I'm sorry, I.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
Didn't mean to upset everyone.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
He would.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
There was just so stark on what happened? All amounted,
Missus Turner. I guess there at the hotel? Or how
do you do? Was it you the screen, Missus Turner? Yes,
what was wrong?

Speaker 7 (09:42):
Well, I was on my way to my room, and
I happened to glance down the stairwell and saw a
woman coming up the stairs to the second floor. Yes,
thinking it was Missus Miller, I went to greet her.
When I reached the head of the stairs, there was
no one there. What No, it was such a shock
that I well, I just screamed, I guess was.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
It you were?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
No?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Indeed, I was in my room, I see.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well are there any other women guests in the hotel? Roger? No?
No others.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Well, perhaps you just imagined you saw someone, Missus Turner.

Speaker 7 (10:11):
No, I'm positive I saw a woman.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Of course he.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Did what she saw?

Speaker 5 (10:18):
The ghost?

Speaker 3 (10:20):
The ghost Becky Branch. What did you say, mit the Simeons?
It was Missus.

Speaker 6 (10:24):
Turner's privilege to see a very old resident of this
house the visit Becky Branch.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
What's he saying?

Speaker 7 (10:33):
Are there really ghosts here?

Speaker 5 (10:35):
Close? No?

Speaker 3 (10:36):
That's not true, Missus Miller.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
No, what makes you so sure of that?

Speaker 6 (10:40):
If you want proof of my statement, mister Miller, just
be awake and listening at the witching hour of three.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Why what will happen?

Speaker 6 (10:48):
He will hear music, lovely music played on the spinet
by the.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Ghost that missus Turner saw on the stairs.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Mister Simeon, not frightening us. So why don't you stop
your little game? Yes, we're all getting upset over nothing.
I'd advise that we all go to bed. I agree
the man.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
We can go to bed.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
We can lock our doors, but we can't lock the
ghosts off.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
Come come now, mister Turner, you're all come along. Answer
you to your room.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
You're right, an, come along, Mago right, We'll let these
good people get some sleep.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
I don't good night everyone in the moon.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
Did you really mean to make light of that little episode?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Oh me too, he's the foolman's mind.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
She really saw someone.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
I don't know. But there's a more important question to
be answered. I'd like to know just where mister Simeon
has acquired as extensive knowledge of the habits of the
so called ghost of Becky Branch.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yes, I noticed they seem to know the whole story.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
He knew much more about it than Roger Miller. Does
I think, Margo, that our mister Simeon is going to
be called on to answer a few questions by the Shadow?
Perhaps before all the night is over, we'll have ourg.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
What was that?

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I hope I'm not including mister Simeon who speaks to me?
Men call me the Shadow?

Speaker 5 (12:24):
Where are you?

Speaker 3 (12:26):
I see no one.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'm standing right here beside you. I don't understand, mister Simeon.
I have the power to make myself quite invisible to
your eyes.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
What do you want of me? Why are you here?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
I want you to answer a few questions?

Speaker 5 (12:43):
What about?

Speaker 1 (12:44):
How do you know so much about the legend of
this old house?

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Where did you hear of Becky Branch? What is that
to you?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Answer my question? Mister Simeon?

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Very well, very well, I'll tell you.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
I was born in this house, mister Shadow. I spent
my early youth here. I used to play and it's
very same.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Is there any evidence then, of this so called ghost?

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (13:12):
Yes, we heard her many times, many times, she played
so beautifully.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Was she ever seen?

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Only that she was seen tonight on the stairs.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Do you believe this legend.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Okay, I have very good reason to believe it.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Why on the second floor, by the staircase, my father
was found, my stepfather death to death.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Who did it? Who killed him?

Speaker 6 (13:44):
He never found out. He died just as the young
soldier died on the very same spot.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
It was a blessing.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Though I never.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Liked my stepfather. You wanted him to die, I didn't care.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Why have you returned here?

Speaker 3 (13:59):
I'm seeking inspiration?

Speaker 6 (14:03):
Yeah, the inspiration that I love when I left you,
Inspiration that can only be gotten from the.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Spirit of Pecky Branch. Listen for her tonight. It usually
comes from the cellar below at the witching.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Hour of three. 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 5 (14:53):
Now back to the shadow.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Um, Yes, Machael, what do you can take the fine
down here in the star? Well? According to mister Simeon,
this is where the ghostly music has come from. Here,
I take this other flashlights?

Speaker 5 (15:16):
All right? What did you learn anything else from?

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yes? He lived here as a child, His stepfather was
killed in this house, stabbed to death, just as the
soldier stabbed and he met his death on the second
floor landing by the staircase.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
Is that where the soldier died.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
According to Simeon?

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yes, hm, well I'm standing down here. That looks like
a musical instrument to you. Do you believe Simeon's story?

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well? I think he told the truth about living here
and his stepfather's death. But well, his talk of ghosts
was not very believable. He's calling from upstairs. Let's get
up there, Marco quickly. What is.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
It's?

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Mister Simeon? You better not look. It's Simmy and he's
been stabbed in the chest.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Who is it down? Yes?

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Lord, just like the Yankees soldier, just like what happened
to him, the ghost down the death wall.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Quiet, it's wrong here. Why were you calling our phone? Good?

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Heavens?

Speaker 1 (16:26):
What happened? Simon was stabbed in the chest? He said,
how did it happen? I don't know when did you
discover this boat?

Speaker 5 (16:32):
I just come walking down the hall? They was it?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Sound like you see him?

Speaker 5 (16:37):
Now?

Speaker 1 (16:37):
I see Roger. You sleep on this floor, don't you? Yes?
Did you hear anything? So out? Of a struggle or
a fight. No, not a thing. Oh well we better
call the police at once.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Well, certainly was a fine investigational money.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yes, I'd hate to see that share in charge of
a crime wave ever hit this song.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
He'd probably handle it just as he did the night, Margot,
You just say, I'll told good buddy Willie come back
in the morning when he can rustle up a corner you.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
The meantime, the murder has a perfect opportunity to cover
up any traces of his crime.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Exactly. I must say, though that I haven't any more
needs to work on than the good sheriff.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Mister Timmian was your number one suspect in this ghost business,
wasn't Eve the morning?

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yes, I felt that he knew much more about what
went on here than he was willing to tell.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
Maybe that's why I was killed.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's quite possible.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
But who could his murder it be?

Speaker 4 (17:34):
There are only four other people in his house. Oh boy, God, missus, Turner,
Adele and Rogers.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, Roger, I hear you mention my name?

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Roger.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh sorry, Margot, I didn't need to startle you. I
had your voices, so I came in to see if
you don't come at anything. No, I'm afraid we haven't. Well,
I guess we'll have to wait in the morning. Now,
I'll say, why don't you two get some sleep? We
will presently Roger. Well, good night night, Roger.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Lamon.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yes, Margot, it's strange the way Roger just popped in
here like that.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yes, there are several other points about Roger that need
clearing up in my mind.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (18:15):
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 in responding to
Bo's call for help? I thought of that too, 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 (18:33):
What are you going to do? Ramart?

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Well?

Speaker 1 (18:35):
First of all, Simeon told me that the ghostly music
was always heard at the witching hour of free It's
almost that now, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yes, yes, just about well, I think.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
We should stay up for that little recital. Let's sit
out here by the staircase.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
All right.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
I'm afraid I'll have to turn out this.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Light that's all right, Laman, stay near me all right, now,
follow me the hold my hand.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
Do you ever meet a ghost? Now? I'm afraid of that, Mango.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, sit here on the stair.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
Thank who is that?

Speaker 1 (19:11):
There was a now outside the house.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Oh we should get a sore throat or something.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
I kept.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Well, according to mister Simeons' story, it's time now for
the concert.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
To be.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
There is yes, quiet Now, see if we can locate
the sound.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
It's not coming from the music room.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
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? Does a light switch on the wall? Mango,
I got it. It's Roger, Yes, call itel quickly.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
What's happened to him?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
The same wound in the chest he's reading now and
maybe a chance to saving him. Go please get get
it down, yes, all right on him? Not just take
it easy and my quietly please that's it. Take it easy.
What are you trying to say?

Speaker 5 (20:15):
See? See where?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Where? Where is this passage? Roger? Roger?

Speaker 5 (20:24):
What to him? Roger?

Speaker 1 (20:28):
He's still alive at but we must have quickly call
a car. He must have gotten to a hospital at
once with much more important port Adelapay regained consciousness to
call us at once.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Well, the man this passage where he spoke. Did he
tell you where it was?

Speaker 1 (20:45):
No? But it must be somewhere in this hall. We'll
try all of these panels all started this in All right,
we can locate the source of the ghostly music. I
think our mystery will be solved.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
The mo the man, I think I found something.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Come, what is it?

Speaker 5 (21:01):
Wooden decoration is loose, needs to pull down yet?

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Wait, Margo, let me do it.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
I can do it.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh that was a narrow escape, Margo. That knife almost
plunged into your body.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
Oh what happened?

Speaker 1 (21:18):
I think we've discovered our weapon of death, Margo, knife. Yes,
we've also solved a murder that is over seventy years old,
the murder of Becky Branch's sweetheart Dad. I'll release the
weapon and show you the weapon that also killed mister
Simeon and wounded Roger Miller.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
How is it done?

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Well, it's quite simple. This knife is really an old
bay in it.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
It's attached to.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
That heavy spring which was released when the secret door
was opened. He 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 passageway.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
That's a but La Momba doesn't explain the supernatural happenings
in this house.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yes, I know that that's something that we must do music. Yes,
and this time I'm going to trace it to a source.
It seems to be coming from somewhere in this passage.
You wait here, Marga. This is a job of a.

Speaker 8 (22:20):
Shadow, exact play.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
He returns, it must return.

Speaker 8 (22:34):
But it's been so long old did someone speak?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I did? What are you doing in this house?

Speaker 5 (22:45):
Playing my spin?

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Who are you right, Becky, Becky Branch?

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Job? John? It's you, it's you. You've come back for
me at life.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
You are Becky Branch.

Speaker 8 (23:02):
Yes, don't you know me, John?

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Don't you remember me? I've gotten older.

Speaker 8 (23:10):
I've been waiting for you so long, so many years.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
You've been waiting here in this house, just did night.

Speaker 8 (23:19):
Only in the night I return here. They sent me away, John,
They sent me away when you were escaped. You remember
that night when i'd played for you as you last.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
I was away for.

Speaker 9 (23:34):
Many years then I returned. No one in the village
knew me. I could go and come as I pleased.
So I came to the house here at night by
the cellar ended and playing just as I'm playing now,
hoping that someday i'd play and would bring.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
You back to me. You've waited many years.

Speaker 9 (23:56):
Many years, Joe, but it's all worthwhile, and you've come.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Back to me. You come back to me. I'm no,
I won't have.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
No Becky Branch. You won't have to play anymore. Well,
I'm happy to hear that Roger's doing so well a.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Down, he's doing splendidly. The doctor thinks he can come
home by the end of the week.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Oh well, you might be interested to know that some
of the older residents of the town arranged for a
decent burial for Becky Brown.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
I'm so glad.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
And Belle did la Montage that he found an entrance
in the cellar that Becky used to you at any
of his house.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
So that's how she got into yes.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
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 position.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
Miss thank you.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
You know there's one point that you haven't cleared up yet, Lamont,
not the ghost there?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Oh my, I'm afraid I have no answer for that.
I canna sprain that, mister Cranston, Yes, sir, that was
the real ghost.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Today's program is based on a story copyrighted about the
Shadow magazine.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
The characters names, places and plot or tacticians. Any similarity to.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Person's let or dead is purely going to them.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not
pay the Shadow Lord.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Coal Dealers
of America bring you an Adventure of the Shadow, unequaled
for sheer terror and stirring dramatic actions, so be sure
to listen.