The Shadow - "The Ghost on the Stair" (Old Time Radio)
The Shadow presents “The Ghost on the Stair,” originally broadcast December 29, 1940. This is episode 208 of the series, starring William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane.
A visit to a small Southern hotel—once part of a Civil War-era plantation—draws Cranston and Margo into a troubling local legend. With an old spinet sounding in the night, reports of a woman on the staircase, and frightened guests abandoning the hotel, The Shadow investigates its haunted past and unnerving present. Written by Jerry Devine for the Mutual Broadcasting System’s Blue Coal broadcast.
The Shadow presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.
Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:57 Original Broadcast
30:38 Closing
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Speaker 1: William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Marjorie Anderson as Margo
Lane lead this mutual Broadcasting System presentation.
Speaker 2: Of The Shadow.
Speaker 1: Originally heard on December twenty ninth, nineteen forty. It is
episode number two hundred eight, The Ghost on the Stair
Cranston and Margo visit a recently inherited small southern hotel,
once part of a Civil War era plantation and Confederate hospital.
The owners have been unable to keep their guests, while
a local legend recalls Becky Branch, a young woman long vanished,
and an old spinnet heard at night. When a guest
reports seeing a woman on the staircase and a composer arrives.
Seeking inspiration from the legend, Cranston begins an investigation. Jerry
Devine wrote the script for this Blue Coal sponsored broadcast.
We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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The Shadow, mysterious character who aid 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 on the Stay.
Speaker 2: It is evening.
Speaker 4: We find Margot and Themont seated on the veranda of
a small hotel. They are conversing with the proprietors Roger
Miller and his wife.
Speaker 3: Well, I should say that you and Roger have discovered
the ideal way to live, then.
Speaker 2: Yes, I should be quite content to change places with you.
Speaker 3: 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 5: Oh here, here, listen, old Patty crant.
Speaker 2: There's the cross I have to bear. Mango just doesn't understand.
Speaker 5: Oh I know you too well, my friend.
Speaker 2: Or is that so?
Speaker 6: Yes, you'd be running this hotel for five minutes when
up with Papa murder or a crime or a mystery,
and you'd be off to the races again.
Speaker 3: Well, if it's a mystery he wants, he wouldn't have
to leave the premises. But what do you mean, Roger, Oh,
forget it now.
Speaker 5: There you see one sniff and he's on the trail.
Speaker 3: 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: It's not really a mystery, Roger, Why don't you tell
him the whole story?
Speaker 2: Yes, please do.
Speaker 3: Well, as you know, about a month ago I inherited
this place with my uncle.
Speaker 2: Yes, I remember.
Speaker 3: 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: Well, why is that, Roger?
Speaker 3: Because there's a ghost legend, the jinks on the place,
a jinx that's lasted for almost one hundred years.
Speaker 5: We're not really a jinx, Roger.
Speaker 3: Now what else would you call it?
Speaker 2: Adela?
Speaker 3: We're not making a goal, but are we? There's only
one reason out for our failure, isn't there? No?
Speaker 2: What is this reason?
Speaker 3: It's the house itself, the evil reputation that affairs.
Speaker 5: Well, I may be a bit dull, but I don't
follow you.
Speaker 3: Well, this wasn't Alby'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. It was
in that period that the tragic event occurred that has
placed a curse and is dwelling down through time to
the present day.
Speaker 2: What was this thing? What happened?
Speaker 3: A young Union soldier was a prisoner in the hospital.
His nurse was the daughter of the house Lucky Branch.
You can guess what.
Speaker 5: Happened, they tell in love.
Speaker 3: Yes, the boy was fond of music. Every night Becky
Branch would play for him I'm the Spinnet. One night,
as she sat playing, the boys softly called out to her, Becky, Oh, yes, John.
Speaker 7: Doctor told me today that my wound was practically healed.
Speaker 5: Your wound, But John, that means.
Speaker 7: Yes, it means that they will be taking me away
from here, Becky, to a prison.
Speaker 5: No, No, they can't do that.
Speaker 3: They can and.
Speaker 7: They will unless unless what unless I can escape John.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's the only thing left here.
Speaker 7: If I can just get out of this building, I
have a good chance of reaching the Union lines.
Speaker 8: But John, for the bus.
Speaker 7: I'll come back for you, deer after the war is over.
You you know I will.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I do know that.
Speaker 3: Then will you help me help me to escape?
Speaker 5: Yes, John, I know of a way, a way for
you to get out.
Speaker 3: Young Becky Branch.
Speaker 2: Boss.
Speaker 3: Escape. Finally, after a tear for farewell, the boy prepared
to leave.
Speaker 9: I'll just keep playing, They'll think you're still here with me?
Speaker 3: John, all right, goodbye, darling.
Speaker 10: Goodbye, goodbye. Jo Oh, my dearest, my dearest, John, John, John,
what's happened John?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 5: Oh John?
Speaker 3: And that's the story. The boy was dead, stabbed through
the chest. No one who could have committed the murder
was to be seen.
Speaker 5: That sounds fantastic.
Speaker 3: Becky Branch's part of the attempted to escape was discovered
and she was banished from the community.
Speaker 2: But what does that have to do with the James?
Speaker 3: Just this lamonth 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 cause by a stapping.
Speaker 5: Well that is a story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that isn't all, Margo. Before each step 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?
Speaker 2: No, not yet me, I clear away of the glasses.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, it's thought very good. Yes, and now
amand if I haven't been too boring, that's the reason
why you should stay out of the hotel business.
Speaker 2: Well you've got a point there.
Speaker 3: Well, I think we have heard in if you'll excuse us, Oh, yes,
of course, coming it own?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I guess it is bedtime. Good night, Margot,
good night of own in the morning. Right, come on?
Do you believe that story?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Margo. There's always a legend that goes
with these old places. Some of them will fall. But
this one's true. So oh, I forgot you were here, Borgne.
Speaker 5: Well how do you know it's true? Boy?
Speaker 11: I've been here many years, ma'am. I've heard that music
many times you have, Yes, sir, I've even seen the ghost.
What goes the ghost that's always seen on the stairs
goose from Miss Becky Branch.
Speaker 5: Comand co Mond. Listen, Am I hearing things?
Speaker 2: No? No, I hear it too.
Speaker 11: There it is, sir.
Speaker 2: They're that old spinning playing again. Come on, muggle, we're
going to look into this.
Speaker 5: It seems to be coming from inside the house.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, wait here a moment until I locate the sound.
Speaker 5: That room is coming from that room right over there.
Speaker 3: Let's walk quietly now, must be heard.
Speaker 5: Come on, what if? What if it really is the ghost?
Speaker 2: Would you rather wait outside? Margles?
Speaker 3: No, stay right here. When I open this door, I'm
going to rush quickly into the room. If I encounter trouble,
you go for help. Yes, sorry, like here we go.
What is this? Why I beg your pardon? I I
thought that you were. I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 12: Oh that's quite all right.
Speaker 5: The matter you all right?
Speaker 3: Yes, of course, come in, Margot, keep on. I'm playing,
all right, just showing the young lady about. This is
the music room, I believe, Yes, I presume it is.
Speaker 13: I've only been a guest here since this afternoon, so
I wouldn't be sure.
Speaker 2: Oh I see, Please continue your playing.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 13: I have traveled many miles to play in this whole room.
Speaker 14: Why is that because of the legend of this house?
Have you ever heard of it? Yes, it was just
told you us a while ago. In fact, we thought
that you were.
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 13: You thought I was the ghost of Decki Bret. No,
but I have come here to seek inspiration.
Speaker 5: From her departed spirits. Oh I see.
Speaker 13: I'm a composer. I've come to this old room because here.
Speaker 5: I confess the presence of the department.
Speaker 13: Perhaps perhaps my music will even woo the ears of
the lovely ghost.
Speaker 15: Yes, yes, that's very interesting. The beauty of the music
of the dead is the uncomp.
Speaker 5: Someone in trouble here, come along.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's your ghost, the ghost a game.
Speaker 5: You must go down, Missus Turner.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I didn't mean to upstate everyone.
Speaker 16: He it was just so start.
Speaker 3: What happened? Old an, Missus Turner. I guess here at
the hotel?
Speaker 2: How do you do? Was it you that screamed, Misster Turner?
What was wrong?
Speaker 8: Well, but 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.
Speaker 5: The second floor.
Speaker 8: Yes, thinking it was missus Miller, I went to greet her.
When I reached the head of the stairs, there was
no one there.
Speaker 12: What why?
Speaker 5: No, it was such a shock that I well, I
just screamed.
Speaker 3: I guess was it you were down? No? Indeed I
was in my room, I see.
Speaker 12: Well are there any other women guests in the hotel?
Speaker 3: Roger?
Speaker 2: No, no others.
Speaker 5: Well, perhaps you just imagined you saw someone, Missus Turner. No,
I'm positive I saw a woman.
Speaker 3: Of course you did what she saw?
Speaker 5: The ghosts?
Speaker 13: The ghost, Becky Branch, what did you saying to the Simeon?
It was Missus Turner's privilege to see a very old
resident of this house the visit Becky Branch.
Speaker 15: What's he's saying?
Speaker 5: Are there really ghosts here?
Speaker 3: Of course not, that's not true, missus Miller. No, what
makes you so sure of that?
Speaker 13: If you want proof of my statement, mister Miller, just
be awake and listening at the witching hour of three.
Speaker 12: Why what will happen?
Speaker 13: You will hear music, lovely music played on the spinets
by the ghost that Missus Turner saw.
Speaker 12: Almost.
Speaker 3: I don't care, mister Simeons. You're 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: We can go to bed. We can lock our doors,
but we can't lock the ghost. Come come now, missus Turner,
come along, answer you to your room.
Speaker 3: You're right, Adele, come along, Margot right, we'll let these
good people.
Speaker 2: Get some sleep.
Speaker 5: I know, good night everyone, night in La Mond. Did
you really mean to make light of that little episode
on me too?
Speaker 2: He's the poor woman's mind.
Speaker 5: She really saw someone.
Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a more important question to
be answered.
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 3: 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: Yes, I noticed that he came to know the whole story.
Speaker 2: He knew much more about it than Roger Miller.
Speaker 3: Does I think, Margo, 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 ourgos.
Speaker 5: What was that?
Speaker 3: I hope I'm not including mister Simeon.
Speaker 5: Who speaks to me?
Speaker 2: Men?
Speaker 3: Call me.
Speaker 12: The Shadow?
Speaker 3: Where are you? I see no one.
Speaker 12: I'm standing right here beside you. I don't understand, mister Simeon.
Speaker 3: I have the power to make myself quite invisible to
your eyes.
Speaker 5: What do you want of me?
Speaker 3: Why are you here? I want you to answer a
few questions. What about?
Speaker 12: How do you know so much about the legend of
this old house? Where did you hear of Becky Branch?
Speaker 2: What is that to you?
Speaker 3: Answer my question?
Speaker 13: Mister Simeon, Very well, very well, I'll tell you I
was born in this house, mister Shadow. I've spent my
early youth here. I used to play on this very
same Is.
Speaker 3: There any evidence then, of this so called ghost.
Speaker 13: Oh yes, we heard her many times, many times she
played beautifully. Was she ever seen only as she was
seen tonight on the stairs.
Speaker 3: Do you believe this legend? Because I have very good
reason to believe it.
Speaker 13: Why on the second floor, by the staircase, my father
was found father dead to death?
Speaker 12: Who did it?
Speaker 3: Who killed him?
Speaker 13: He never found out? He died just as the young
soldier died on the very same spot.
Speaker 5: It was a blessing.
Speaker 3: Though I never liked my stepfather, you wanted him to die.
I didn't care. Why have you returned here?
Speaker 13: I am seeking inspiration, Yes, the inspiration that I lost
when I left here.
Speaker 5: Inspiration that can only be gotten from the spirit of
Becky Branch.
Speaker 3: Listen for her tonight.
Speaker 13: It usually comes from the cellar below, at the witching
hour of freed.
Speaker 12: 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.
Speaker 3: From the shadow.
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Speaker 12: And now.
Speaker 2: Back to the shadow, Yes, mother.
Speaker 5: What do you expect to find down here in the star?
Speaker 3: Well, according to mister Simeon, this is where the ghostly
music has come from. Here take this other flashlight.
Speaker 5: Did you learn anything else from Sinan?
Speaker 2: Yes, he lived here as a child.
Speaker 3: His stepfather was killed in this house, stabbed to death,
just as the soldiers stabbed, and he met his death
on the second floor landing by the staircase.
Speaker 5: Is that where the soldier died.
Speaker 2: According to Simeon, Yes, well.
Speaker 5: I'm standing down here. That looks like a musical instrument.
Do you you believe Simeon's story?
Speaker 3: 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. Tell us the older. He's calling
from upstairs. Let's get up there, Margot quickly.
Speaker 2: What is it, Grant, it's mister Simeon's.
Speaker 3: Not you better not look, Margot. It's Simey and he
he's been stabbed in the chest.
Speaker 5: Who is it dead?
Speaker 17: Yes, o lord, just like the Yankees soldier, Just like
what happened to him. The girl's down in death was
quiet here? Why were you calling up old? Look a
good heavens what happened? Simon was stabbed in the chest.
Speaker 2: Seat He's dead?
Speaker 3: How did it happen?
Speaker 2: I don't know when did you discover this ball? I've
just come walking down the hall. They were spitch out
like you see him now? I see Roger.
Speaker 3: You sleep on this floor, don't you? Yes?
Speaker 2: Did you hear anything so out of a struggle or
a fight?
Speaker 3: No? Not a thing.
Speaker 2: Oh well we better call the police at once.
Speaker 6: Well, that certainly was a fine investigational mon Yes, I'd
hate to see that sheriff in charge of a crime
wave ever hit this time.
Speaker 3: You'd probably handle it just as he did the night Margot.
He'd just say, I two the body win. Come back
in the morning when rustle up a cone?
Speaker 2: Is you doing?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: The meantime, the murder has a perfect opportunity to cover
up any traces of his crimes.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: I must say, though, that I haven't any more needs
to work on than the good sheriff had.
Speaker 5: No, mister Simmons, was your number one suspect in this
ghost business? Wasn't?
Speaker 3: In the moment, yes, I felt that he knew much
more about what went on here than he was willing
to tell.
Speaker 6: Maybe that's why he was killed, And that's quite possible.
But who could his murderer be. There are only four
other people in this house. Oh boy, god, missus, Turner,
Adele and Roger.
Speaker 2: Yes, Roger, did I hear you mention my name?
Speaker 5: Roger?
Speaker 3: Oh? Sorry, Margot, I didn't need to startle you. I
heard your voices, so I came in to see if
you didn't come at anything. No, I uh, I'm afraid
we haven't. Well, I guess we'll have to wait all morning. Now,
I'll say, why don't you two get some sleep? We
will presently Roger, Well, good night, good night night, Roger.
Speaker 5: Yes, Margaret, it's not strange the way Roger just popped
in here like that.
Speaker 3: Yes, there are several other points about Roger that need
clearing up.
Speaker 2: In my mind.
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: 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 it 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: What are you going to do? Ramant? Well?
Speaker 3: First of all, Simeon told me that the ghostly music
was always heard at the witching hour of free It's
almost that.
Speaker 2: Now, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, just about well, I think we.
Speaker 3: 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 light.
Speaker 5: That's all right, Laman, but stay near me.
Speaker 2: It's all all right.
Speaker 3: Oh follow me, take hold of my hands.
Speaker 5: We ever meet a ghost now, I'm afraid that.
Speaker 3: Oh, Margo, no, no, yeah, sit here on the stairs.
Speaker 5: Thanks?
Speaker 3: Was that there was a now outside the house.
Speaker 5: Oh we should get a sore throat or something. I
can't dish.
Speaker 3: Well, According to mister Simeons' story, it's time now for
the concert to be.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 3: Yes, quiet, now, see if we can locate the sound.
It's not coming from the music room, no, no, it
seems to come from up above, somewhere on the upper floors.
Speaker 5: Well, why don't we get there?
Speaker 3: Come on, Mago, something's happened up there.
Speaker 2: There's a light switch on the wall.
Speaker 3: Mugo, I've got it.
Speaker 13: It's Roger.
Speaker 2: Yes, call Adel quickly.
Speaker 5: What's happened to him?
Speaker 2: The same wound in the chest. He's breathing though, and
maybe a chance of saving him.
Speaker 3: Go please get get a dough. Yes, all right, man,
Now just take it easy, lie quietly, please, that's it.
Take it easy, I tell yeah, what are you trying
to say?
Speaker 12: Hush away?
Speaker 3: See hahs she?
Speaker 2: Where where is this passage?
Speaker 3: Roger?
Speaker 2: Roger?
Speaker 7: What happened to him?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Roger?
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 3: He's still alive with but we must I quickly call
a car. He must be gotten to a hospital at once.
It was much more important port to delay regained consciousness,
to call us at.
Speaker 5: Once all a month. This passage where he spoke? Did
he tell you where it was? No?
Speaker 2: But it must be somewhere in this hall. We'll try
all of these panels.
Speaker 3: I'll start this in all right, we can locate the
source of the ghostly music. I think our mystery will
be solved the.
Speaker 5: Month h the mon I think I found something. Come here, man,
what is it? See what decoration is loose? It seems
to pull down?
Speaker 2: Yes, wait, Margot, let me do it.
Speaker 5: I can do it. It's opening.
Speaker 3: That was a narrow escape, Margo. That knife almost plunged
into your body.
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 5: I don't understand.
Speaker 3: I'll release the weapon and show you the weapon that
also killed mister Simeon and wounded Roger Miller.
Speaker 5: Well, how is this done?
Speaker 3: Well, it's quite simple. This knife is really an old
bay in it. It's attached to that 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 passageway.
Speaker 5: Why, that's amazing. But lamm that doesn't explain the supernatural
happenings in this house.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know that that's something that we must do.
The music, Yes, and this time I'm going to trace
it to its sauce. It seems to be coming from
somewhere in this passage. You wait here, Margo. This is
a job the shadow.
Speaker 5: If I play, he'll return.
Speaker 9: He must return. But it's been so long did someone speak?
Speaker 8: I did?
Speaker 3: What are you doing in this house?
Speaker 9: Playing my spine?
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 5: Becky?
Speaker 3: Becky Branch?
Speaker 9: Job John, it's you.
Speaker 5: It's you. You've come back for me at last.
Speaker 3: You are, Becky Branch.
Speaker 9: Yes, don't you know me, Job, don't you remember me?
Speaker 5: I've gotten older.
Speaker 9: I've been waiting for you so long, so many years.
Speaker 3: You've been waiting here in this house, just.
Speaker 16: Didnight only in the night I return here. They sent
me away, John, They sent me away when you escaped.
You remember that night when I played for you.
Speaker 5: As you last.
Speaker 16: I was away for many years then I returned.
Speaker 9: No one in the village knew me.
Speaker 16: I could go and come as I pleased. So I
came to the house here at night by the cellar,
entered and played just as I'm playing now, hoping that
someday i'd.
Speaker 8: Play and would bring you back to me.
Speaker 5: Many years, many years, John.
Speaker 9: But it's all worth fine. Now you've come back to me,
You come back to me.
Speaker 5: I'm so glad. No, I won't have to.
Speaker 3: No, Becky Branch, you won't have to play anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm happy to hear that Roger's doing so well, Adele.
Speaker 5: He's doing splendidly. The doctor thinks he can come home
by the end of the week.
Speaker 3: Oh, you might be interested to know that some of
the older residents of the town arranged for a decent
burial for Becky Brann.
Speaker 5: I'm so glad and Dell. Did Lamont tell you that
he found an entrance in the cellar that Becky used
to use Enery's house, So that's how she got in here? Yes?
Speaker 3: 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. Miss Thank you, Ba.
Speaker 5: You know there's one point that you haven't cleared up yet, Lament.
Not the ghost on the stairs.
Speaker 2: Oh my, I'm afraid I have no answer for that.
Speaker 11: I can explain that, mister Craston, Yes, sir, that was
the real.
Speaker 4: Ghost, well from the shadow in just a minute. But first,
here's John Barclay, America's home heating Experts. Mister Barclay, Thank you,
Ken Robertson. Good evening, friends.
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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. But you men don't have
to let the ladies get ahead of you, No, 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'll save
money just by following the advice I've given thousands of
other householders. Ask your blue coal dealer for the free
services of a John Barclay trained serviceman. 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. So if
you've not already benefited from this free John Barkley heating service,
just phone your neighborhood blue coal dealer tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The
Shadow magazine. The characters' names, places, and plot or tacticians.
Any similarity to person's living or dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 12: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not
pay The Shadow note.
Speaker 4: 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. So be sure
to listen, and be sure to phone your friendly blue
coal dealer for a greater heating comfort at less Cock.
This is Ken Roberts saying, keep the home fires burning
with blue cold.
Speaker 1: The last notes fade on the Shadows the Ghost on
the stair. Follow the Shadow for more classic broadcasts.