The Shadow - "The Ghost of Captain Bayloe" (Old Time Radio)
The Shadow presents “The Ghost of Captain Bayloe,” originally broadcast February 5, 1939. In this surviving Mutual Broadcasting System adventure, Bill Johnstone stars as Lamont Cranston, with Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane; the episode is listed as No. 158.
After the freighter Northern Queen is wrecked near the waters of Bayloe Island, a survivor insists the ghost of Captain Bayloe seized the helm. Lamont and Margot follow the trail from a fogbound waterfront to a remote, rock-ringed island, where an old maritime legend conceals a dangerous mystery.
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
30:00 Closing
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Speaker 1: When the freighter Northern Queen is wrecked in waters marked
by the legend of Captain Balo, a survivor says a
ghost took the helm and drove her onto the rocks.
Lamont Cranston and Margot Lane join shipowner Commodore Ware at
a fog-bound waterfront, then follow the case toward remote Bayloe Island.
Speaker 2: This is The Shadow, episode.
Speaker 1: Number 158, The Ghost of Captain Bayloe, originally heard over
mutual on February 5th, 1939. Bill Johnstone is Lamont Cranston,
with Agnes Moorhead as Margot Lane. Ken Roberts is the announcer.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the original broadcast.
Speaker 3: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
Speaker 4: Your local blue coal dealer presents The Shadows.
Speaker 5: These half-hour dramatizations are designed to forcibly demonstrate to old
and young alike that crime does not pay.
Speaker 4: Our cast begins the first act of today's exciting adventure
with the shadow in just a moment.
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fuel for solid comfort. The Shadow, mysterious character who aids
those in distress and helps the forces of law and order,
is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the
only person who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs.
The only one who knows the true identity of that
master of other people's minds, The Shadow.
Speaker 2: Today's story, The Ghost of Captain Balow. The Ghost of
Captain Balow Come along, Cranston.
Speaker 6: We ought to find the mate of the Northern Queen...
and one of those waterfront saloons around here. I know
you'll be interested in hearing his story.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I will. Tell me, Mr. Ware... what happened
to the rest of the crew when the Northern Queen
went down?
Speaker 6: Lost every man jack of them. This mate we're looking
for is the only survivor. He just got port. The
Northern Queen was your biggest freight ship, wasn't it? Biggest
and best in the whole fleet, Cranston... It was smashed
to bits.
Speaker 2: How did it happen? I don't exactly know.
Speaker 6: I've heard some crazy explanations, but no facts. That's why
I'm so anxious to talk to this mate. Maybe he
can clear things up.
Speaker 2: You say the Northern Queen was smashed to bits. Where
did it happen?
Speaker 6: On an uninhabited island off the ship lanes in the
middle of the Pacific.
Speaker 2: Uninhabited? Off the ship lanes? Then what was your freighter
doing there?
Speaker 6: That's just what I've got to find out. There's something
strange about this whole business. Ten liners have been wrecked
in the same spot during a score of years.
Speaker 2: In the same manner. Here, Cranston. Let's see if we
can find the mate in this place. Hey, partner. Tell
him up.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: What do you have?
Speaker 6: There'll be little trouble mustering a ship crew in this saloon, eh, Mr.
Speaker 5: Ware?
Speaker 6: Yeah, a shout would bring you enough men to man
a boat from keel to bridge, Cranston.
Speaker 2: Oh, uh, here's my mate.
Speaker 7: Hi there, mate.
Speaker 2: I see you're still fit to ride a gale. Commodore Ware, sir.
Speaker 5: It's right pleased I am to lay an eye on
you again. I, uh, want to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Can we go in the back room there? Aye, sir.
Speaker 7: Right in here.
Speaker 2: It'll be nice and quiet. Here, sir. This is better.
Sit down, mate. Have a seat, Cranston. Thank you.
Speaker 5: I know you want to hear about the wreck of
your ship, the Northern Queen.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 2: Mate, give me the fact. That I will, sir.
Speaker 5: And it'll likely raise the hair on your head just
as it's whitened mine.
Speaker 2: What happened? What caused the wreck of my ship?
Speaker 5: It was Captain Balow who steered her on the rocks, sir.
Speaker 2: Captain Balow wasn't master of the Northern Queen, was he?
Speaker 5: No, but he rode the bridge the night she broke up.
Least wise, his ghost did.
Speaker 2: Ghost?
Speaker 8: Aye.
Speaker 5: The ghost of Captain Balow held the wheel and all
the men aboard couldn't budge it from his grip. That
strong he was.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 6: Now, what I want to know, mate, is what the
Northern Queen was doing.
Speaker 2: Off her course.
Speaker 5: We'd sprung a leak in our freshwater tank, sir. The
nearest land point was Balow Island. The skipper set the
Northern Queen to the wind and steered the course for
the island. The crew was again it, but it was
that or die of thirst. Gentlemen, if I knew then
what was before us... I'd have died a thousand times.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 5: Nothing, sir, till we were a few miles off the island.
Then Captain Balow's ghost took command. I most forgot, Mr. Cranston,
I don't suppose you know about Captain Balow. No, but
I'm very much interested. Well, sir, Captain Balow's been dead
these 20 years or more. He was the last of
the old square rigger skippers. It was the China trade
he was in. On his last voyage out of the Orient,
he carried two precious cargoes, a shipment of silver and
his beautiful young wife. Captain Balow was quitting the sea
to settle in South America. A happy pair they were, sir.
Speaker 2: None happier.
Speaker 5: His crew, though, was the muttliest collection of sea scum
ever to sail before the mast. Well, sir, they were
just off the island that's now called after him. Captain
Balo was at the wheel, his wife beside him. The
sea spray was washing her lovely face and she was
laughing into the wind.
Speaker 2: The crew was aft. Heads together.
Speaker 7: We're fools if we don't, I tell you.
Speaker 2: We could do it easy.
Speaker 7: Captain Bilo's got the silver locked in his cabin.
Speaker 2: Oh, we could make him give up the key.
Speaker 7: He'll never do it. How are we weaklings that we
can't make him do it?
Speaker 2: He's only one man and we're a whole crew.
Speaker 7: There's enough silver to make us all rich for the.
Speaker 2: Rest of our lives. There's a much prettier cargo on
the bridge beside him. His woman, eh?
Speaker 8: Aye.
Speaker 2: Silver comes from the earth. But a face like that
could only come from above. I want silver. Well, my
share goes for the other cargo.
Speaker 7: We share alike.
Speaker 2: We get the prize first.
Speaker 7: We argue about it afterward.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 5: While a happy woman laughed beside a contented man, the
crew crept slowly toward the bridge. The laugh was cut
short by the sight of the hard-faced maiden. Captain Balow
asked them what they wanted for.
Speaker 6: We want the key to your cabin, Captain Balow, and
we mean to get it.
Speaker 2: Give us the key. He ordered the men below, but.
Speaker 3: We came for that silver cargo, and you ain't putting
us off. Better give us the key, peaceful, or we'll
take it away from you.
Speaker 5: The skipper reminded him it was mutiny.
Speaker 2: We know what it is.
Speaker 7: You don't have to tell us.
Speaker 2: Mutiny are not winning, Commander, and you're doing... We've had
enough talk. Out for the key.
Speaker 5: Captain Balow told them they'd get the key over his
dead body.
Speaker 2: All right, then. Over your dead body it'll be, Captain Balow.
Speaker 7: Come on, men.
Speaker 8: Grab him.
Speaker 2: He's choking me.
Speaker 8: Bash him.
Speaker 2: Bash him.
Speaker 5: Well, the men fought like hungry wolves. Captain Balow's wife
stood frozen in horror.
Speaker 7: Hand me that belay and pen.
Speaker 8: Here you are.
Speaker 5: That ought to shuttle a swab. The blow from the
belaying pin stunned the skipper. He fell to the deck.
The crew were on him, snapping like a bunch of jackals.
Speaker 2: All right, lift him up. Here we come.
Speaker 7: There's no more now.
Speaker 2: Heave him over the side.
Speaker 5: Captain Balow was half conscious when they threw him over
the rail. He revived a bit when his body hit
the water. He saw his ship with his wife aboard
sailing away. Above the surge of the sea, he heard
coming back on the wind... the pitiful wail of his
lovely wife. Before the waters covered him up... Captain Balow,
with an oath on his lips... swore eternal vengeance on
all men who sailed the sea. Well, gentlemen, Captain Balow's
wife died soon after that. But he's had his revenge
many times over. He takes the helm of any ship
that ventures into the waters where he lost his life
and steers it onto the rocks of Balow Island.
Speaker 2: You think that's how the Northern Queen was wrecked? I
don't think, Mr. Cranston.
Speaker 8: I know. Oh.
Speaker 5: I'm not given to ghost stories, sir, but I saw
the Northern Queen's propeller frozen so her big engines couldn't
turn it over. There she rode, helpless on the tide,
straight for the rocks. She was smashed to bits.
Speaker 2: Why are you so sure the ghost of Captain Balow
took command? Because I heard the warning. Warning? Aye, sir.
Speaker 5: I was just going off watch when I heard it
plain as I hear you.
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 5: The pitiful wail of Captain Balow's wife. I knew then
the Northern Queen was done for. Another seaman and myself
put a small boat over the side and rowed away.
The other man died from exposure. I was picked up
five days later by a liner. That's why I'm here now, gentlemen.
And there's not enough money in all the world that'll
get me back to Balow Island.
Speaker 6: Well, the wreck of the Northern Queen is still a
mystery to me.
Speaker 2: Branson, what do you think? What do I think? Mr. Ware,
how would you and Mrs. Ware like to take a
trip on my yacht with Miss Lane and myself? Trip?
Where to? To Baylor Island. By George, it's funny.
Speaker 6: Here I am, owner of a fleet of ocean liners
I haven't been to see in years. Cranston, I'm glad
you suggested this voyage. Well, I'm glad you're enjoying it, Mr.
Speaker 2: Wendt.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, this salt air makes you sleepy.
Speaker 8: Mrs.
Speaker 2: Ware and Miss Lane have turned in long ago. Get
off on a suit.
Speaker 4: Coming, Cranston?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll join you below in just a moment. All right.
Good evening, Captain. Good evening, Mrs. Ware. Mr. Cranston. Yes, Captain.
Any orders for tonight, sir?
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 2: Supposed to do the same course. You haven't yet told
me where we're heading, sir. No, but so. You're in line, sir?
Not at all, Captain. We're heading for Baylor Island. Baylor Island?
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 2: You've heard of the place, I suppose? What seaman hasn't?
And why in heaven's name do you want to go
to that place, sir? I want to convince myself of something.
It's a dangerous voyage, sir.
Speaker 4: You think we might be wrecked, is that it?
Speaker 2: Not only that, sir. But it means trouble with the crew.
Speaker 1: And they find out we're heading for those haunted waters.
Speaker 2: Well, I hate to think of what may happen. Tell me, Captain.
Do you believe in this legend? Do you fear the
ghost of Captain Balow? Yes, sir, I certainly do.
Speaker 4: Before the curtain rises on Act II of The Ghost
of Captain Velo, a word about blue coal, the product
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Speaker 2: You be the judge.
Speaker 4: I know you'll agree with the verdict of thousands of
American families that there's no substitute for blue coal for
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Speaker 2: With less furnace attention.
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Speaker 8: Quiet a minute.
Speaker 2: Quiet a minute. I tell you, I saw the sailing orders.
The chief engineer told me it's a fact. We're off
from Baylor Island.
Speaker 8: Mr.
Speaker 2: Cranston must be crazy.
Speaker 8: Well, Mr.
Speaker 7: Cranston may be crazy enough to come here, but that
don't mean we have to stay.
Speaker 2: What do you mean? We can make Mr.
Speaker 7: Cranston turn the ship back.
Speaker 2: That's mutiny. You can be jailed for that.
Speaker 7: That may be worse than what may happen.
Speaker 2: We've got to do something. The old crew's on watch tonight. Leastwise,
not a man's asleep.
Speaker 5: They can't be far from that coast at Balow Island now.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't so dark, you could see it off
the port bow. That close? Aye. Suppose... Suppose Captain Balow
took command. I'll ask you for it. Yes, but I just...
I don't want to talk about it. What's that?
Speaker 8: Hear something? Yes. This is... You.
Speaker 7: Hear it?
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Sounds like a woman. That's it.
Speaker 4: It's her.
Speaker 2: Who do you mean? Captain Bailo's wife. That's the warning.
Speaker 3: He'll come out of the sea now, any minute.
Speaker 8: The ghost? Yes.
Speaker 2: We're lost. We're lost, I tell you.
Speaker 8: Immerse her. Keep quiet.
Speaker 10: There it is again.
Speaker 2: We've got to turn back. We've got to get out
of these waters.
Speaker 7: I'm going to tell the skipper.
Speaker 10: We've got to get out.
Speaker 2: Captain. Fill in there, you swab. Open the door.
Speaker 8: Quick, Captain.
Speaker 11: Here.
Speaker 2: What's going on here? I heard it.
Speaker 5: I heard it, Captain.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about, man? What did you hear?
Speaker 7: Captain Bailon did.
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 2: You men are letting your imaginations run away with you.
Now get below and stay quiet. No, no.
Speaker 7: I hear as plain as a ship's belt.
Speaker 2: We've got to get out of these waters. We'll all
be lost. What's going on, Captain? This man thinks he
heard the wail of Captain Baylor's wife, Mr. Cranston.
Speaker 7: I don't just think, sir.
Speaker 2: I heard it. The other men heard it, too. Oh,
that's nothing, man. Just the wind and the rigging, that's all. No, no,
you've got to believe me, Mr. Cranston.
Speaker 8: There's still time to save ourselves. You've got.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 8: Our engines.
Speaker 2: They've stopped. Call the engine room.
Speaker 8: Aye, sir. There, you see, sir? Oi, hello, Smithers.
Speaker 5: Aye, aye, sir.
Speaker 2: What's happened to the engine? We don't know, sir. They
just stopped dead. The motor started smoking all of a sudden.
Stand by. I'm coming below.
Speaker 10: Aye, aye, sir.
Speaker 2: Strange. The motors have all been shorted. They can't feed
the engine.
Speaker 8: I knew it. It's the ghost.
Speaker 2: He's taken over. We're lost. The ship's lost. Keep quiet, man.
Speaker 7: I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 2: The ship's on me. Don't go out there.
Speaker 4: Come back here.
Speaker 2: Captain, we've got to stop that man. He's gone mad.
Stop that man.
Speaker 8: Stop him.
Speaker 2: We're lost, I say.
Speaker 9: We're lost.
Speaker 2: Turn on the searchlight. Wing that light this way.
Speaker 10: Lamont, what's happened?
Speaker 2: One of our men leaped over the side, Margot. Leaped over,
you say, Cranston?
Speaker 8: Yes, Mr.
Speaker 2: Ware. Why? Our engine stalled. Poor fellow became crazed with fear.
Speaker 10: Oh, this is frightful, Lamont.
Speaker 2: I only hope we can find him in this heavy sea.
Here he is, Captain. Have you found him? No, I'm afraid, sir,
there's not much of a chance in a sea like this.
There's no sight of him.
Speaker 10: We've got to find him. We must.
Speaker 2: The men will do all they can up here. I've
got to go below and see what can be done
about our engine.
Speaker 6: What's our position, Cranston?
Speaker 2: We're just off the island, Mr. Ware. Is there much
of a drift? Pretty heavy one. And it's toward the island.
Speaker 10: That means we may crash if the engines aren't started.
Speaker 2: Mr. Ware. Yes, Cranston?
Speaker 7: Help me lower one of our small boats.
Speaker 2: Small boat?
Speaker 8: What for?
Speaker 2: I'm going over to that island. Le Mans. But what
good would that do? The place is uninhabited. Nevertheless, I've
got to see what's there.
Speaker 10: This is too dangerous. I don't want you to go
out there alone.
Speaker 3: You and everybody else on this yacht are in great danger, Margo. I...
I've gotten you all into it. I've got to try
and get you out of it.
Speaker 9: Well, if you're going out there, Lamont, I'm going with you.
Speaker 2: Here. Here we are, Margot. Leave the boat beached here
while we look around.
Speaker 10: Not much to see in this darkness.
Speaker 2: Oh, desolate place, isn't it? It's foolish of you to come, Margot.
You should have taken my advice.
Speaker 10: Lamont.
Speaker 8: Huh? Look.
Speaker 10: Look over there.
Speaker 2: What is it, Margot?
Speaker 10: Something's coming out of that clump of bushes. Oh, it's
coming towards us.
Speaker 2: A man.
Speaker 10: Sir Martha, could it be the ghost of Captain Balow?
Speaker 2: Don't be frightened, Margo. I've got my gun. Stand where
you are. I'll shoot.
Speaker 8: What do you want?
Speaker 7: Do you hear me, men?
Speaker 2: Keep away, I said. Who.
Speaker 8: Who are you?
Speaker 2: I've come from that yacht off there.
Speaker 8: Then you're not one of Yandy's men.
Speaker 2: Well, who is Yandy?
Speaker 8: The devil... A monster.
Speaker 2: Do you live on this island?
Speaker 8: I die on this island.
Speaker 10: We understood it's uninhabited.
Speaker 8: There are people here, but not above the ground.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 8: They're buried in dark, damp dungeons. Yet they live.
Speaker 2: Who are these people?
Speaker 8: Survivors of ships wrecked on the rocks here. Anybody that
ever sets foot on this island is never allowed to
leave again.
Speaker 10: Go away.
Speaker 8: Go away before it's too late.
Speaker 2: I want to know about those prisoners.
Speaker 8: Their lives are spent in darkness. All day they work
in the mines.
Speaker 2: Mines?
Speaker 8: At night they're locked in dungeons. Always darkness. Never fresh air.
Never light.
Speaker 2: Are you a captive here?
Speaker 8: Aye. Captive and slave. I was the skipper of the
Nellie Moth. She was wrecked here some 15 years ago.
I've been here ever since.
Speaker 10: But you're not confined to a dungeon.
Speaker 8: I've found a secret exit. I steal out at night
to watch the sea... And hope.
Speaker 10: Lamont, something will have to be done for these unfortunate people.
Speaker 8: There's nothing, nothing you can do. Go away. Go away.
Speaker 2: Can you take me to the dungeons?
Speaker 8: I can, but I don't think I should.
Speaker 2: Please, I think I can help.
Speaker 8: No one can best Yandy.
Speaker 2: Perhaps I can.
Speaker 8: Yes. All right, then. Come along and see how dead
men live. Careful. The guard is due along any minute.
Speaker 2: Keep close to me, Margo. The place is dark.
Speaker 10: I'm all right, Lamont.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 8: The gungeon's. They're just below this crevice. You have to
jump here.
Speaker 2: Let me help you, Marko. There we are.
Speaker 8: This is all the light we ever see. A single flare.
Speaker 2: Mark, look. Good heavens. Are these men?
Speaker 8: These are the ones that have gone blind from the dark.
They can't work. So they must die of slow starvation.
How horrible.
Speaker 2: How many men are here?
Speaker 8: Half a hundred.
Speaker 10: That's an awful amount.
Speaker 2: Men! Men! Look!
Speaker 8: Two from the outside world. They've come to help us.
There's no help for us. Careful. Here comes the guard.
Speaker 2: Get back, Margot.
Speaker 8: In here. He will pass.
Speaker 2: Get behind me, Margot. Tell me, men. Does this guard
have the keys to the dungeon?
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 10: What are you going to do, Lamont?
Speaker 7: Get those keys.
Speaker 2: Liberate these men.
Speaker 8: But how?
Speaker 7: Quiet, Margot.
Speaker 2: Here he comes. There.
Speaker 8: That's done it.
Speaker 2: Now the keys. Here they are.
Speaker 10: Open the dungeon. It's quick, Lamont.
Speaker 2: Yes, Margot. There we are.
Speaker 3: All right, men.
Speaker 2: Come on out. Come out. You're free. Don't you understand
what I mean?
Speaker 10: It's no use, Lamont. These men are afraid to move.
Speaker 2: There's only one way to free them. I must remove
the cause of their fear. Where will I find this Yandy? Yandy?
Speaker 8: Oh, you can't get near him. He lives and works
in rooms carved out of solid rock. Where?
Speaker 2: Show me the rock. It's useless.
Speaker 8: But if you want to try, come with me. Margot.
Speaker 10: You go on, Lamont. I'm going to open the rest
of these dungeons and try to cook these men out
of this train.
Speaker 8: Yes, you will be safer here. There won't be another
guard along before morning.
Speaker 2: Come along.
Speaker 8: Very well. But you will never get near Yandy alive.
He's guarded day and night.
Speaker 2: I've got to get him.
Speaker 3: The lives of those men, the lives of my friends
and crew depend on it.
Speaker 2: Can you make a route yet, Mr.
Speaker 8: Yandy?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 7: Yes, she's a yacht. A rich man's plaything. It'll soon
be his coffin.
Speaker 2: They got the engines going again, sir.
Speaker 7: Very well. Turn on the black beam. Short the motors.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
Speaker 8: That's got them.
Speaker 2: She's helpless on a tide.
Speaker 7: Now, turn on the magnal beam. Magnetize the rudder.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Got it.
Speaker 7: Hold it on it. Steer the rudder toward the rocks
on the north end of the island.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir. There.
Speaker 7: That's one more crew that will never be able to
tell of the mineral wealth of this island.
Speaker 2: Your secret is still safe.
Speaker 7: I've guarded it for 18 years. Since the day I
discovered it. No one will ever share the wealth or
know it exists.
Speaker 2: And another wreck will be chalked up to the ghost
of Captain Balo. Yes.
Speaker 7: Captain Balo has been a most convenient ghost. A most
plausible one. Nobody ever doubts him, it seems.
Speaker 2: What was that?
Speaker 8: I thought I heard a laugh.
Speaker 2: I heard it.
Speaker 7: Have you the radio key open?
Speaker 2: No, sir, I cut it before.
Speaker 8: You're lying to me!
Speaker 2: No, no, I swear I'm not, Mr.
Speaker 8: Yandy. No, Mr.
Speaker 3: Yandy, this is not a voice you can cut off
with a flick of a dial.
Speaker 8: Who are you?
Speaker 3: I am the Shadow.
Speaker 2: The Shadow?
Speaker 8: I've heard of him.
Speaker 2: He's the guy you can't see.
Speaker 3: Your use of the Captain Bailo legend is at an end, Yandy.
You've created havoc with your diabolically clever electrical inventions. Like
a monster, you've destroyed men because of your insatiable greed. Well, Yandy,
this is your finish. The sea will be well rid
of you. And poor Captain Baylor will rest peacefully in
his sea grave.
Speaker 8: What's that?
Speaker 7: They're slaves. They've escaped from their dungeons.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yandy, they're crawling out of the earth to vent
their just hatred on you.
Speaker 2: Turn on the heat ray.
Speaker 7: Burn them up.
Speaker 2: Burn them to a crisp.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 4: The tubes!
Speaker 2: They're all broken! My equipment is ruined! Completely, Mr.
Speaker 7: Yandy.
Speaker 3: My yacht is free of your clever magno-beam. And those
people down there will soon be done with you.
Speaker 2: I'm getting out!
Speaker 8: Out of my way!
Speaker 2: You're not getting on that boat you got hit in
the cold without us. I don't care what happens to you!
Speaker 8: Get out of here!
Speaker 3: Run, run, Yandy.
Speaker 2: The sooner to meet your doom.
Speaker 10: Lamont, are you here? Oh, Lamont.
Speaker 2: Yes, Margot. I'm quite all right.
Speaker 10: Oh, thank heaven.
Speaker 2: Look, Margot. Captives have taken their captor. They've got Yandy.
Speaker 10: They'll tear him to pieces.
Speaker 2: That would be little less than the fiend well deserves.
But I suppose we'll have to try and save him
for the law.
Speaker 7: Come along, Margot.
Speaker 2: We've no time to lose.
Speaker 6: Well, we've got all those men you saved from the
dungeons birthed below deck, Mr.
Speaker 2: Cranston. The poor devils don't know how to thank you.
Take good care of them, Captain.
Speaker 8: Aye, aye, ma'am.
Speaker 10: Have you found out yet what happened to Yandy and
his men, Lamont?
Speaker 7: Yes, Margot.
Speaker 2: One of the men just told me. But he waited
until we were well out to sea first.
Speaker 10: What did they do with them?
Speaker 2: Well, they didn't pitch them into the sea, as they
told us. They locked them in their own dungeons. And
it's too late for us to do anything about that now.
So we'll have to leave Yandy and his confederates to suffer.
Speaker 3: As long as their lives last, the terrible fate they
decide for others.
Speaker 4: Before you hear a preview of next week's Shadow Story,
here's John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating authority, with his weekly
tip on how to save yourself time, trouble, and money
in furnace attention.
Speaker 8: Mr.
Speaker 2: Barclay.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Ken Roberts, and good afternoon, friends. Just about
this time of year, your furnace fire may begin to
act sluggish, with the result that you don't get enough
heat upstairs. Now, in nine out of ten cases, this
is caused by dirt having accumulated in the flue passes.
If you tap the smoke pipe that leads into the
chimney and it sounds solid, then you can be sure
that accumulated dirt is the cause of your trouble. This
should be scraped away, and in extreme cases, it may
be necessary to pull the smoke pipe away.
Speaker 2: From the chimney.
Speaker 11: Another cause of a sluggish fire is dirt in the firebed.
So I suggest you let your present fire burn itself
almost out. Then slowly rebuild it with fresh coal. You'll
be surprised to find out what a difference in heating
results a clean fuel bed can make.
Speaker 2: And if you can't locate the.
Speaker 11: Source of any other furnace trouble which may arise, call
your blue coal dealer. He'll be glad to have a
trained John Barclay serviceman inspect your furnace. and tell you
immediately how any trouble may be corrected. There's no charge
or obligation on your part for John Barclay's service. So
always feel free to call your nearest Blue Coal dealer.
Speaker 2: I thank you.
Speaker 4: Next week, Blue Coal brings you one of the strangest
of all shadow adventures. At this time, we present a
dramatic moment from this new shadow story. The scene is
a hospital consulting room Margot is speaking with Dr.
Speaker 2: Anthony.
Speaker 8: Doctor.
Speaker 10: Doctor, you've got to do something. You've got to save Mr. Cranston.
Speaker 2: Miss Lane, I hate to tell you this, but Lamont
Cranston can't live through the night.
Speaker 4: What strange, frightful melody endangers the life of the shadow?
Be sure to find out next week when you hear
the shadow's newest adventure.
Speaker 2: Today's program is based.
Speaker 4: On a story copyrighted by the Shadow Magazine. All the
characters and all the places named are fictitious. Any similarity
to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The Shadow
Magazine is now on sale at your local newsstand.
Speaker 2: The Shadow Magazine.
Speaker 3: Crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
Speaker 7: The Shadow knows.
Speaker 4: Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal, America's finest anthracite,
will again present another thrilling adventure of The Shadow. Be
sure to listen, and be sure to burn Blue Coal,
the solid fuel for solid comfort.
Speaker 1: Our curtain closes on the shadows, the ghost of Captain Balo.
Follow the shadow for more classic broadcasts.