The Shadow - "The Ghost Building" (Old Time Radio)
The Shadow presents “The Ghost Building,” originally broadcast January 12, 1941. In this Mutual Broadcasting System episode, sponsored by Blue Coal, Bill Johnstone stars as Lamont Cranston alongside Marjorie Anderson as Margot Lane.
Wealthy builder Jerome Need is ready to unveil the towering Coast Building when warnings of death and vengeance begin to surround the project. As accidents and public threats give the new skyscraper its sinister “Ghost Building” nickname, Lamont and Margot investigate the fears haunting its opening.
The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.
Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:44 Original Broadcast
30:17 Closing
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Speaker 1: Jerome Need is preparing to open the Immense Coast Building
when a mysterious enemy warns that the project will bring
death and vengeance. Construction accidents and public threats cast fear
over the new skyscraper, drawing Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane
into an investigation of the building, its tenants and needs.
Passed from January twelfth, nineteen forty one. It is the
Shadow The Ghost Building episode number two hundred ten, heard
on Mutual and sponsored by Blue Coal. Bill Johnstone stars
as Lamont Cranston with Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane. And
now we return to the original broadcast.
Speaker 2: Who Knows what evils in the heart of men? The
Shadow not.
Speaker 3: The thrilling adventures of the Shadow are on the air,
brought to you each week by the Blue Coal Dealers
of America. These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate, forcibly to
old and young alightened, that crime does not pay.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 3: Afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is Jean Paul King pinchetting
for his sick pal Ken Roberts and telling you that
the Shadow starts his adventure in just a moment. But first,
are you starting off the right way these cold winter mornings.
Does your furnace send up quick heat the moment you
open the drafts?
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So next time you order fuel, be sure to ask
for blue coal.
Speaker 2: You can get blue coal.
Speaker 3: And free information on low cost home heating from your
neighborhood blue coal dealer. Give him a call first thing
in the morning. 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 hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so that
they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs. Today's story the
Ghost Building.
Speaker 4: Your needs speaking.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, we just completed pictures of the ground this morning.
That's right, And in your story you can say that
the building we intend to erect be the largest and
finest in the world. We're calling it the Coast Building.
That's right, not at all. Goodbye, all this cows and I.
Speaker 4: Who are you? What are you doing in here?
Speaker 6: No, no, mister Need, don't get excited.
Speaker 4: Who are you?
Speaker 6: You're the head of the construction company of this proposed
new coast building, are you not?
Speaker 5: That's right now. Look, if you're a reporter, I've already given.
Speaker 6: The sin a reporter and come here to warn you
not to erect that building.
Speaker 4: Oh listen.
Speaker 5: If this is a prank, it's some pretty porticou.
Speaker 6: This is not a prank. It's simply a forecast of
death and torture if the present plans go through.
Speaker 5: I don't know who you are, nor do I take
any stuck in your.
Speaker 6: Fucking I'm sorry, but you're wrong on both counts.
Speaker 2: My forecast will must come true. And you do know me,
oh from where?
Speaker 7: From the past.
Speaker 6: It's like wonder that you don't recognize me after all
this time. But one day, Jerome Need, you will remember
me all too well. You'll pay me back in full
all that you owe me.
Speaker 2: Hey, watch yourself, you almost missed that rivet.
Speaker 5: I was just thinking, ain't supposed to think you're supposed
to catch rivet?
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking. Here's from now. When my
kid says to me, what did you have to do
with putting up the largest bill in the world. And
you'll seg what I'll.
Speaker 1: Say, I throw of it and I got the rift,
and a guy throw of it, and I got the rivet.
Speaker 5: Then a guy throw a river touch that when it's
coming down.
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't see to you nor me like that. Mike.
Look at watch out a barber swinging the girder.
Speaker 5: And my boss, look at that light up there as
back it's turned. You don't see the gut stop but
praying quick forgot the perfect bod.
Speaker 2: But Ghana get hit him.
Speaker 3: He hit him what his pal?
Speaker 5: Too many die and that's what too many die on
this job. You got to take chances in this business.
To me, I don't too many dead men in the
foundation of this building. Now, I got honor and the
kids to think about.
Speaker 4: Ah, you're talking, screwy.
Speaker 2: We're safe enough here than them guys out on the street.
Besides that, and them kids.
Speaker 5: Got to eat, don't They sure don't worry. I feed them,
but not from this job. I'm going below and quit now.
This cost of building is jinx. Okay, good luck, Joe,
Yeah along, kids, how aldom Joe, Hey, watch your step Joe,
hold on.
Speaker 7: Hold him on.
Speaker 2: I thought you couldn't come. I'm sorry, I'm late, Margo.
Speaker 8: You know there's nothing duller than a dedication ceremony.
Speaker 6: I'm beginning to think I'd have to sit through it
all alone.
Speaker 2: That's a fine thing to say, Margot, when I'm about
to introduce you to Robert Lewis, the architect who designed
this coach business, Dear, where do you think you'd like
to meet miss Lane? After that remark?
Speaker 9: Ball, of course I would.
Speaker 7: I even agree with his statement, how do you do?
Miss Lay?
Speaker 2: Hello, mister Lewis, Hey, this is a distinguished gathering. Look
who's among those presidents? A good police commissioner? Hello that Wesson? Hello,
mak Hello Bob Lewis. Yes, glad to say, mister Lawis,
Thank you missioner. Now it brings you here, commissioner duty, Yes,
Doty please?
Speaker 5: Things bore me stiff. It waste half a day listening
to an old stuffed shirt like Jerome mead. Take a
lot of bows and watch them lay a cornerstone.
Speaker 8: Why, commissioner, is that a nice way to talk about
one of our leading citizens?
Speaker 5: Leading citizen in my eye?
Speaker 2: Need?
Speaker 4: Is this crooked? As a cork screw all.
Speaker 5: If he didn't hold a high political office, the judge
would have thrown the book out of years ago.
Speaker 2: Rather, he's your friend, Mitter Need.
Speaker 5: Now, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to
dedicate this Laurius enter this.
Speaker 10: Although there were several.
Speaker 11: Unappointable delays in the building construction, we have still finished
on schedule, and today I am justly proud to present
to our fair city the world's largest and most modern structure.
Speaker 2: I would like it this time. We're not for your life.
What someone's cutting on the public addresses.
Speaker 8: What is no one standing beside the Need.
Speaker 5: I shall continue your speech for you and tell the
truth about this great.
Speaker 2: Building of your way. That boy it's coming from it
is useless to buy me. Oh, you just have to listen,
and let's hear what he has to say. Margo, that's better.
Speaker 12: Many months ago I wanted Jerome Need not to try
to erect the Coast Building.
Speaker 11: These warnings were not heeded. In reciting the glories of
this building, Lester Need did not mention one.
Speaker 6: Very important thing that went into its construction.
Speaker 4: Human life.
Speaker 2: Yes, human life.
Speaker 5: The found You know this building is not all steel
brick and concrete.
Speaker 4: There are also.
Speaker 12: Blood blood the men who died during its construction.
Speaker 2: That's from that to wh quiet.
Speaker 6: I have a lot of warnings for you your own needs,
and all.
Speaker 4: Of you listening shall be my witnesses.
Speaker 12: The ghost of those men who died will return to
haunt the Coast Building. In fact, they are too long,
the Coast Building well being known as the Ghost Building.
Speaker 2: Oh, good afternoon, Good afternoon him, mister Cranston is mister
Lewis and greeze.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, come come ride, and he's expecting you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Oh, Bob, mister Cranston is here roto.
Speaker 6: I'm Bob's uncle John.
Speaker 2: Oh, how do you do, sir? This is miss Slave
how well?
Speaker 9: Bob?
Speaker 13: Hello?
Speaker 7: Won't you come on into the study?
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 6: I have some tea prepared, Bob.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Uncle John right in here, Lamont, Miss Lane.
Speaker 2: Has anyone learned how that voice cut in on mister
Need's speech yesterday? Bob?
Speaker 14: Yes, whoever it was hooked up another mic and the
line inside the building.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see, but you haven't learned his identity.
Speaker 7: No, won't you sit down? Please?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 14: Frankly, I'm worried, Lamont I'm worried because the Coast Building
has meant.
Speaker 7: Everything to me.
Speaker 14: I uh, I don't know if I've ever told you
my earlier life, Lamont, No you haven't, Bob Well.
Speaker 7: I was brought up in an orphanage.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: The only reason I tell you this is so that
you might understand how important this job has been to me.
You see, ever since I left the home, my one
ambition was to find success as an.
Speaker 2: Architect, which you certainly have.
Speaker 7: Well, I thought so until yesterday, But now I'm not
so sure.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, Bob Well?
Speaker 14: If the Coast Building turns off, is that voice predicted?
If it is jinxed, then all my hosts are ruined.
Speaker 8: But surely you're not going to let an idle thread
ball this great triumph.
Speaker 7: I don't think it was an idle threat.
Speaker 2: Well why do you say that?
Speaker 14: Well, let me show you this personal message that I
discovered in this afternoon paper. I chanced on it in
the classified section.
Speaker 7: Herey Lamas, read this? Where is it right there?
Speaker 2: Right at the bottom pool? Oh yes, to Henry Johnson,
president of H. P. Johnson Corporation. This is not a warning.
It is a forecast, the first of many to come.
The ghosts of those who died that the Coast Building
might be erected will return today to claim their own.
Speaker 7: Johnson has a suite of offices in that building.
Speaker 2: But surely a thread as public as that couldn't be
carried out. Has anyone notified Johnson?
Speaker 14: I tried to reach him on the phone, but he
was busy, so I left word for him to call
me back.
Speaker 2: Perhaps we should go over there, and oh this may be?
Speaker 7: Is he no?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 7: Oh? Yes, mister need what what I see?
Speaker 2: I'll be right over.
Speaker 4: What's the trouble?
Speaker 14: Bob Henryson has just been found in his private office
in the Coast.
Speaker 8: Building, stabbed to death, gone down seventy flock, Well, I
can crowd in here, some three of the complaints.
Speaker 2: We'll make room boy bell, Fred, aren't you going home
a little early?
Speaker 4: We'll tell you the truth, Fred.
Speaker 5: I read that Cristol in the paper today, the one
forecast death to everyone using the express elevator at exactly
five o'clock.
Speaker 4: So I figured i'd beat the rush. Superstitious, No careful.
Speaker 5: Well, it's a good thing that you're not superstitious, because
your watch is wrong.
Speaker 2: It's exactly five o'clock. Now five o'clock. Listen, everybody six
not a home.
Speaker 6: This is the last one that I'm gonna wash. See
fifty five starties, just high up.
Speaker 7: Steph Grembling. Will you listen? Did you see the paper
this morning?
Speaker 2: There was an ad in it.
Speaker 6: See that ad says a winder clean is going to
do a broady sometime today.
Speaker 2: And brother, I just ain't going to be that guy.
Speaker 5: No, sir, Hey, hey, my safety built bust he come here,
hand it.
Speaker 8: I can't read your gods and the Coast Building tenants
moving out?
Speaker 6: Hey, read all about it.
Speaker 8: Coast Building become the Coast Building.
Speaker 2: Xtra x.
Speaker 5: I lock, mister need I didn't ask you down to
headquarters to get your opinion on what's legal and what
isn't legal.
Speaker 2: It goes for you too, mister Lewis Summissioner. I'm not
arguing with you at all.
Speaker 7: All right, it's both Miss Lane and mister Cranston here. No,
I'm just as anxious to solve this mystery as you are.
Speaker 2: That's true. Commiss all right, Cranston, just let me handle this.
Speaker 5: But I can't say that I think much of your
handling so far. Western No, No, mister Need Well, suppose
you toy with this little statement for a few minutes.
I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder. Why of all,
what are you racist on commission?
Speaker 4: Have you got anything? Wait a minute, all of you.
Speaker 5: I've got a story to tell. It won't take long,
but it definitely links you, mister Need, with these mysterious debts.
Oh this is ridiculous, but go ahead, let's see your accusation.
I've been checking the newspapers to learn who was sending
in those fatal ads in the personal column, and I
learned that they'd been sent from various substations and paid
for by postal.
Speaker 2: Money orders signed by different aliases.
Speaker 4: Why does that care suspicion on me?
Speaker 5: Well, in the first place, Need, I've known you as
a crook for many years. Why is you what your
fatal mistake was brought about by overconfidence? You see, the
newspapers on orders from me, did not publish the last
warning they received.
Speaker 4: They turned it over to me. What are you driving
at Wester?
Speaker 5: This particular warning was addressed to Duel Seaborn, president of
Sebonn and Eddie, one of the few remaining tenants in
the building. It said that he'd be killed this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Have you won, mister Seaburn.
Speaker 4: Not personally.
Speaker 5: I left word form to contact me. However, the warning
wasn't necessary because I have the would be murderer here.
Speaker 4: In my office. Western. I demand you know why you
say that?
Speaker 2: Becauses I said.
Speaker 1: Before all the confidence led to your fatal make This
last message to the papers was paid for by a
money order signed by a person.
Speaker 2: Named Dean d E E M.
Speaker 7: Dean.
Speaker 2: Now do you understand? Obviously Dean is need felled backwards?
Speaker 5: Dean, Eh, I'm beginning to understand. Tell me Western, was
there any first initial accompanied the name of Dean as
if you didn't know, Yes, my friend, the first initial
was j J for Jerome or so John Dee.
Speaker 4: But he was the one who warned me not to
put up the Coast building. He said, you pay me
back to what you owe me.
Speaker 2: Who are you talking about me?
Speaker 5: I can't say just, you can't say you're under arrest
for murder, and you can't say hello, Commissioner Western.
Speaker 4: Speaking hello commission Then is this Joe Sebon you call me?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Sivon I did? I thought you ought to know that.
I intercepted a newspaper ad today that or cast your
being the next victim in the coast building.
Speaker 15: Oh, I see, well, I wouldn't worry about that, I iro,
No one is going to kill me in the middle
of the afternoon the world's largest office building. Besides, my
secretary's right outside the door, and she.
Speaker 2: Who's that?
Speaker 4: What do you want here? See? What places is that?
Speaker 8: Gun?
Speaker 4: I said?
Speaker 7: Put the.
Speaker 4: S B. I told you I was innocent.
Speaker 2: Commissioner, Well, commissioner, who's your murderer? Now?
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Speaker 2: The word blue Coal. And now we returned to the
ghost building. I realized that there's a slight penalty for
illegal entry, Margo, but it must be done well.
Speaker 6: I'd like to know how you came by that bunch
of skeleton keys lamon.
Speaker 2: Why in my spare time I whittle in your spare time?
Speaker 4: Here we are.
Speaker 2: May I have that flashlight? Please? Thank you. You better
stay close to me, Margo. With all these murders that
have occurred here in the ghost building, it's just possible
that what I seek in mister Lewis's office may be
pretty well guarded.
Speaker 7: I won't stray, don't worry. Well, let's have a look
in this desk.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'll the flash for you, Yes, please command, that's
a watchman or someone should see this light.
Speaker 2: They only checked this floor once an hour and made
sure that well. Well, like so far, what are you
looking for a very important bit of evidence that I
hope to find him? But it doesn't seem to hell?
Speaker 7: What's this?
Speaker 2: Is that what you were after? This letter? No, it
isn't what I came after. But nonetheless it's just about
cinces the case.
Speaker 13: Why what did it?
Speaker 2: I haven't even looked at its contents. The address and
the envelope is all that I need. I'll show you
what you're doing here, Shaddy, Mago, answer me? Why are
you here? If you take that mask off your face,
I might answer you. You'll answer me now I'll shoot now. Look,
we haven't any put out that facelight, Mago dot why
you ah? No, it's no use, Margo. He's gotten away
and we can't break through this panel. Where could he
have gone? Be somewhere behind this wall. If you see
that trail of blood leaning across the floor, I must
have wounded him. What can we do? I know what
you can do, Margo. Contact Commissioner Western at once, tell
him to send a squad a mento the ghost building,
because I'm certain that another murder will soon occur. But
where are you going? I'm going to pay a call
on Robert Lewis's home as the shadow Uncle John?
Speaker 13: Uncle John?
Speaker 7: Is that you? So?
Speaker 15: He came in.
Speaker 14: And let me see the windows in the ground floor
space for a store.
Speaker 2: Sorry to interrupt your work, mister Lewis.
Speaker 4: Who was?
Speaker 7: Who's speaking to me?
Speaker 2: I am as the shadow? Or are you?
Speaker 7: I don't see anyone.
Speaker 2: I'm standing right beside you, mister Lewis, But you needn't
bother to look for me. By my hypnotic power, I've
made myself quite invisible to your eyes. Why are you here?
Speaker 7: What do you want to me?
Speaker 2: I would like to know where your uncle is, why
he's out. Then perhaps you can tell me what I
wish to know about him.
Speaker 16: What is it?
Speaker 2: Is he really your uncle, mister Lewis?
Speaker 7: Of course, of course he is.
Speaker 2: You're lying, I'll see here. I don't know the man
that you call your uncle is, in reality your father.
Isn't this true? And you are not Robert Lewis. You
are Robert Dean, the son of John Dean, the man
you call your uncle.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about, then perhaps if I.
Speaker 2: Remind you of a letter it will help. A letter
addressed to you with the Orphanage postmark nineteen hundred eight.
I found it in your office.
Speaker 7: Oh, dare you rifle my office?
Speaker 2: I checked for the orphanage and found that a Robert
Dean had been left there in nineteen hundred eight at
the age of three, after his mother had died and
his father had been sent to prison to serve a
forty year term. He was sentenced for a tempted murder
on the person of Jerome Need, his business associate.
Speaker 16: You you learned all this.
Speaker 2: Your father was released in October of nineteen forty for
good behavior, and he has since made good his revenge
on Jerome Needs. You can't prove that, Oh, but I can.
By the money order that he signed with the name J. D.
Jerome Need could identify him too. Why do you do
this to me because you share your father's guilt. Your
complicity helped him perform the murder. No. No, you built
those secret passageways in the building. And I have an
idea that you even have blueprints, secret blueprints of your work.
Now where are they?
Speaker 7: You'll never get those?
Speaker 2: Oh, you have them. Then in that draw that you
involuntarily reached.
Speaker 7: Keep away from me.
Speaker 2: You shall never get those Oh yes, I don't put
out that right too late as the shadow. Not too
late to see those prints and take them to Ma,
give them back to them. You don't never get them now, No,
then you won't get the horse. Course. I hated letting
Lewis get away, but at least I have the blueprints. Margo. Yeah,
take a look at them.
Speaker 6: What are those circle's?
Speaker 4: Number?
Speaker 2: Well, number one was Johnson's office. Number two the elevator chaft.
Number three the window ledge from which the cleaner fell.
Number four Seaborne's office.
Speaker 6: But what is number five?
Speaker 16: That circle two?
Speaker 9: Wait?
Speaker 2: I looked below. That's the conference room of the border crustees.
That must be the planned scene of the next murder.
Speaker 13: Oh lamon, do you really think of of course.
Speaker 2: Margo, if another vicious killing is to be a verdict,
we must get to the ghost building at once. Come along, Margo,
Western's right down here.
Speaker 4: My mom.
Speaker 12: I wonder why the commissioner has stationed so many police
on this conference room floor.
Speaker 13: This something's happened.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I hope we're not too late. Well,
there's Western Commissioner.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, not so loud, grandson.
Speaker 4: There's a meeting going on in there.
Speaker 2: I know that's why I'm here. You've got to stop
that meeting and once, Oh is that so?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: Look, question, I happen to know that the next murder,
all murders in this building will take place in that room.
Oh you mean the ten board members all together.
Speaker 4: Somebody's going to sneaky in there and.
Speaker 2: Stab the ball. I'm telling you the truth, Commissioner, and
I'm telling you the truth.
Speaker 4: Leaden.
Speaker 2: His directors are holding a meeting in there, and the
their request.
Speaker 4: They're not going to be disturbed.
Speaker 9: And that's my order.
Speaker 2: And Commissioner, you know how I love to break your order.
Speaker 4: Get away.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's the person I have on this question.
Put a handkerchief to your patient. Once this room is
full of a poisonous star.
Speaker 7: Holy Moses, was open the windows quickly?
Speaker 2: Those man I'll be alive. There's the chase that they
might be.
Speaker 4: How was it done? I don't talk to you for
there we go.
Speaker 2: We're taking as much of this as we can stand.
Come on, I was right there, You're right Western, Yes,
get some in in there. Bring the directors are help?
Speaker 13: What happened?
Speaker 2: Her room is full of a poisonous gas. It must
have been released with the event lating system. Are they dead?
I don't know. I hope not have time to wait
to find out.
Speaker 6: Where are you going?
Speaker 2: The shadow is going to follow the secret passageway in
the blueprint that will lead him to the murderers.
Speaker 7: That won't you let me get you to a doctor.
Speaker 4: No, Son, wouldn't be safe for you.
Speaker 6: Besides, I'm afraid it's too late.
Speaker 2: Wound is bleeding so much.
Speaker 7: That isn't there anything I can do?
Speaker 13: Yes, yes, Robert, there is.
Speaker 7: What is my plan?
Speaker 6: My plan of vengeance? You must carry it through, knowing
that I.
Speaker 2: Can die happy. What was that? The shadow? I see?
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 2: Remember me, mister Lewis? How did you get your blueprints?
Were a great help? And now that I am here,
your plan of killing is at an end.
Speaker 4: Who is this man?
Speaker 7: I cannot see it.
Speaker 2: I am invisible to your eyes, mister John Dean. But
I'm familiar with all you've done, the victims you've claimed
in his building.
Speaker 13: He knows everything, yes, everything, well, he must.
Speaker 6: Know why why I killed need sent me to prison.
Speaker 2: I was an innocent man, an innocent man.
Speaker 6: My wife died of a broken heart when it took
me away.
Speaker 4: That is why I.
Speaker 6: Swore vengeance against mister Need. I've ruined him by destroying
his greatest dream.
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, you and your son must both pay for your crime. No, no,
not Robert.
Speaker 6: He mustn't suffer too.
Speaker 2: He was your compress, your willing accomplass.
Speaker 6: I see when you forced me to change my plans.
Speaker 7: Yes, what do you mean?
Speaker 17: I have a charge of dynamite planted down here for
just such an emergency as this. Out to die anyway,
and if my son is to face the electric jet,
I'd rather he went out with me, taking.
Speaker 4: All of us with us.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't write you're doing that, mister Dean. You're too late,
mister Shadow.
Speaker 17: My son has slipped over to the plunge that will
set off the charge.
Speaker 2: See even now he awaits my words. Yes, how do
you like that, mister Shadow. Don't cut that dynamite, Louis.
Speaker 6: Go on, son, now the plunge of now, yes.
Speaker 2: Happened. No, I should have told you that I discovered
your dynamite and cut the precaution of cutting the wires.
I guess there's nothing enough to do now gentlemen, except
to wait for the arrival.
Speaker 16: Of the police.
Speaker 10: And so before pronouncing sentence on you, John Dean and
your son Robert Dean, I would like to point out
to you and to all other members of society, no
matter how great a grievance you have against an individual
or individuals, you have neither a legal nor a moral
right to seek a personal vengeance to atone at grievance.
Your case is an object lesson of a familiar phrase
that cannot be repeated too often.
Speaker 4: Crime does not pay.
Speaker 3: And now before we hear from the shadow again, a
brief word from John Barclay, America's home heating expert.
Speaker 13: Mister Barclay, thank you, Jean Paul King, and good evening friends.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 13: Of all the letters I've received recently, one from a
man upstate interested me particularly.
Speaker 2: He wanted to.
Speaker 13: Know why his furnace fire kept dying out. Well in
the first place, a well kept fire doesn't die out
unless something's wrong with the draft, and a poor draft
may be due to any number of causes, such as
loose bricks the chimney, or block flue passages.
Speaker 10: So I advised him to get in.
Speaker 13: Touch with his neighborhood Blue Coal dealer immediately. Since then,
he writes me that a John Barkley train serviceman discovered
the trouble was a leaking connection around the smoke pipe
where it entered the chimney. Naturally, this caused him a
great deal of unnecessary inconvenience until it was fixed. Well,
I just thought i'd mentioned this as an example of
a common complaint. And in case you're not entirely satisfied
with the results your furnace is giving you, let a
John Barkley train serviceman give it the once over. He
can probably help you too. For this extra customer service.
Just phone your neighborhood Blue coal dealer tomorrow morning.
Speaker 16: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The
Shadow magazine. The characters, names, places, and plot are fictitious.
Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 9: Weed of Crime Bear's Bitter Fruit Crime does not pay
the Shadows.
Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Coal Dealers
of America bring you an adventure of the Shadow that
will send thrills racing.
Speaker 5: Up and down your spine.
Speaker 3: So be sure to listen, and be sure to phone
your friendly blue coal dealer, or greater heating comfort at
left cost. This is Jane paul King saying keep the
home fires burning with blue coal.
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