Speaker 1: What evil works in the hearts of men?
Speaker 2: The Shadow.
Speaker 3: Now and now for another thrilling adventure of the Shadows.
Speaker 3: Today's story the Night Marauders. The Shadow, the serious character
Speaker 3: who furthers the forces of law and order, is in
Speaker 3: reality in the Monk Crimson, wealthy young man about town.
Speaker 3: The Shadow uses his hypnotic power to cloud men's minds
Speaker 3: so that I cannot see him. Cranson's friend and companions,
Speaker 3: the lovely Marko Lane, is the only person who knows
Speaker 3: to whom the unseen voice of the shadow below.
Speaker 2: As the scene opens.
Speaker 3: In our story, it is nice, dark, still night. We
Speaker 3: find ourselves the unseen observers of two vague figures, moving
Speaker 3: almost silently across the window sills and into a darkened
Speaker 3: bedroom where lies a sleep of beautiful girls at peace
Speaker 3: with the words them out of the sill. H oh oh, hello, darny, what.
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 2: Are you all right?
Speaker 5: Was it?
Speaker 3: A short powerful man, a monster but dreaming though?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: They rans like your whole room.
Speaker 4: That sounds like the Night Marauders.
Speaker 3: Margo, I'm coming right over as soon as I call
Speaker 3: Commissioner Western. Now, don't worry, I'll be right there.
Speaker 6: Goodbye, Yes, I guess so, my throat's a little bruise.
Speaker 5: Yes, one of them had your fingers wrapped around my neck.
Speaker 2: Horrible.
Speaker 5: I guess that's what's known as getting fingerprints the hard way.
Speaker 3: Now this is no joking matter, muggle.
Speaker 5: I'm aware of that every time I swallowed.
Speaker 3: Did you see what they look like?
Speaker 5: Only the one by my dead but I could hear
Speaker 5: the other one calling around the room.
Speaker 3: Oh, cray, what are the one by your bed looked like?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 5: The best description I can think of at the moment
Speaker 5: is Frankenstein's homely brought it?
Speaker 6: It is quite sure.
Speaker 5: What was long arms gonna.
Speaker 7: Really beat your feet?
Speaker 2: Want an ugly description?
Speaker 5: It was an ugly face.
Speaker 4: That's probably Commissioner Western.
Speaker 3: I asked him to come over, commissioner.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Question, how are you, miss Lane?
Speaker 5: All right now?
Speaker 8: Thanks? Oh?
Speaker 4: Where did it happen?
Speaker 5: Right in here in my bedroom?
Speaker 4: Did they take anything of value for a.
Speaker 5: Few years off my life?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 8: Tell me just what took place, miss Lane.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm a little hazy as to detail. You see,
Speaker 5: I was asleep and I was dreaming about punkin Pie.
Speaker 5: What honest punkin Pie? You know, the kind of mother never.
Speaker 9: Made ah, yes, miss Laine, but tell me about your
Speaker 9: waking moments.
Speaker 2: Don't you like punkin Pie?
Speaker 9: I adore punkin Pie, Miss Layne. But this is a
Speaker 9: police investigation, not a cooking press.
Speaker 2: I'll listen to your dream later, Margot.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: I was awakened by the realization that something was grasping
Speaker 5: my throat, and it incidentally wasn't punkin Pie.
Speaker 8: Miss Layne.
Speaker 5: Please, I started the scream, the man put his other
Speaker 5: hand across.
Speaker 4: My mouth, and then the other man ransacked your room.
Speaker 8: Is that right?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 7: How do you know?
Speaker 4: I ought to know the same.
Speaker 3: Two eternal nimrods have been driving Commissioner Western and his
Speaker 3: department slightly insane.
Speaker 2: It's not that bad, Grandon.
Speaker 4: We'll have them both under lock and.
Speaker 8: Key any day now.
Speaker 4: Oh, then you know who they are?
Speaker 8: Well, not exactly.
Speaker 4: Do you even vaguely know who they are? Well exactly, Commissioner.
Speaker 9: We know how they work and well, and you know
Speaker 9: their burs Yes, we know they. I mean the apartment
Speaker 9: always catches up with crimes.
Speaker 8: Ms Layne.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd like to catch up with these criminals myself. Commissioners,
Speaker 3: if you need a running mate, I wish you count
Speaker 3: on me.
Speaker 2: And all.
Speaker 8: Thanks, but I appreciate your offer. There is just one
Speaker 8: thing I think we should know before I leave, Miss Layne.
Speaker 7: Yes, Commissioner, I really do like funk and pie.
Speaker 8: Good night.
Speaker 5: Well it was a nice, chummy little investigation, but I
Speaker 5: failed to see that it proved anything.
Speaker 4: It didn't.
Speaker 3: And Western's pretty worried.
Speaker 5: Too, Lamont, I don't like that glint and your ry.
Speaker 5: Are you going to get mixed up in there?
Speaker 2: Definitely?
Speaker 4: Oh am, Now you go back to bed, Margo.
Speaker 3: I'll come over in the morning and we'll figure out
Speaker 3: how the Shadow can track down the night marauders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Margaret, you don't know how fortunate you were last night.
Speaker 4: What do you mean, lamar Reme, look at this newspaper.
Speaker 3: Night Marauders turned to murder. Yes, the body of John
Speaker 3: Kenyon was discovered this morning by his ballots. He'd been
Speaker 3: brutally murdered sometime before dawn to day.
Speaker 4: Due to the deep bruises on his throat.
Speaker 3: And the fact that his bedroom had been ransacked. Commissioner
Speaker 3: Western admitted that the night Marauders were unquestionably give.
Speaker 7: Thee oh man, it might have been a Yes.
Speaker 4: Margot, may I use your phone?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sure, I'm gonna ask Weston again if I can work
Speaker 4: with him.
Speaker 2: He doesn't want me.
Speaker 3: I'm going to work on this case by myself.
Speaker 6: You can't tell the mark.
Speaker 5: Maybe he'll make you a special deputy or something.
Speaker 4: Hello, pleased the pardon. I'd like to speak the commissioners please.
Speaker 3: Commissioner Weston, No, no, no, Western w E S t
Speaker 3: O N. You know the head of your department? Yes,
Speaker 3: Thursday Thursday operator said he tried to find him.
Speaker 5: That's fine. They're supposed to catch criminals and they can't
Speaker 5: even find their commissioner.
Speaker 3: Hello, this is Clemston, Commissioner. I just leart about the
Speaker 3: night Marauder's latest crime, and I'd still like to lend
Speaker 3: a hand in running them up.
Speaker 4: I think that I could.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see you are not running in school for
Speaker 3: detective man. Goodbye, nice fellow.
Speaker 7: Did you read this Lamont.
Speaker 5: Henry Burns, an employee of the city, is quoted as
Speaker 5: having seen two figures lead from Ken's window at about
Speaker 5: the same hour that the crime was committed.
Speaker 8: Good.
Speaker 4: That's something to work on.
Speaker 5: We wouldn't trying to do.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if the Shadow payde a call
Speaker 3: on Henry Burns tonight.
Speaker 11: Thanks for making sure I got home safely. I guess
Speaker 11: you can go now off to.
Speaker 12: Hano How until I take a look around your apartment,
Speaker 12: mister Burns, Now you're still neghbous, up from out nervous.
Speaker 4: How would you like to be locked up.
Speaker 11: All day in a room the size of a cigar box,
Speaker 11: an hour after hour, faced the inquisition of questions hammet
Speaker 11: at your head.
Speaker 8: Now they were only trying.
Speaker 11: How would you like it, Anthony? How would you like it?
Speaker 1: Say?
Speaker 4: Look, mister Burns, you'd better take it eat.
Speaker 7: I'll be dead before morning.
Speaker 12: And no one's going to kill you, mister Burns, not
Speaker 12: with me on the job. I'll be right downstairs.
Speaker 8: Good night.
Speaker 2: Wasn't well, mister Burns?
Speaker 4: Who said that?
Speaker 2: I did?
Speaker 4: But where are you? Who are you?
Speaker 1: I have the shadow.
Speaker 7: Shadow, I've heard of you, but I can't see you.
Speaker 1: I cloud men's minds so they cannot see me.
Speaker 7: Oh he did that to me?
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll see here, mister Burns. I haven't come here
Speaker 1: for any other purpose, and to act as your friend
Speaker 1: to help you.
Speaker 7: Please believe me somehow, I don't believe this shadow.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 1: Then tell me what you saw last night?
Speaker 4: Oh? I can't. I can't.
Speaker 11: I tell you, I just can't why.
Speaker 4: I was hoping that you'll be different.
Speaker 7: From the rest, But it's just the same series of questions.
Speaker 7: What did you see?
Speaker 3: What did they look like?
Speaker 1: Mister Burns? I came in with you and the officer
Speaker 1: that escored you hole. You told him you expected to.
Speaker 7: Die, Yeah, to die. Yeah, that's right, I expect to
Speaker 7: be killed. I'm not afraid to die.
Speaker 1: Since you're not afraid to die, mister Burns, Why shouldn't
Speaker 1: you tell me what you saw last night.
Speaker 11: And thought of it that way? As long as it's
Speaker 11: going to get me anyway, why shouldn't I tell?
Speaker 2: All?
Speaker 11: Right, I did see something. It was horrible, shadow horrible.
Speaker 2: I tell you, don't be afraid. Well, I I.
Speaker 7: Was walking home.
Speaker 11: I passed the apartment house where the murder was committed.
Speaker 11: I heard a weird call and unearthly sound from nowhere.
Speaker 4: I turned and saw two figures that appeared.
Speaker 11: Silently from a second story window. They slipped to the
Speaker 11: ground without a sound, and hurried, half running, half walking,
Speaker 11: disappeared in the shrubbery across the street at the edge
Speaker 11: of the pot. One of them was short, massive, unbelievably
Speaker 11: horrible to see and the other in his hands.
Speaker 1: What is that a piece of rock with some paper
Speaker 1: tied to it?
Speaker 7: I know, I know it's the Night Marauders. I know
Speaker 7: it's from them.
Speaker 1: Read it, Pick it up and read it?
Speaker 7: All right? All right, dead men and wise men say nothing.
Speaker 11: You have the choice of being either dead or wise
Speaker 11: signed the Night Marauders, Dead or wise.
Speaker 1: What's the note on the table?
Speaker 2: All right, it's the first clue.
Speaker 1: And from that very scrap of paper, the police may
Speaker 1: be able to get fingerprints. A hundred lives to the
Speaker 1: solution of these kinds may.
Speaker 4: Be a right.
Speaker 11: Maybe the police could find the night Mrads, hurry, take it,
Speaker 11: Take it to the police.
Speaker 7: That note may save my life.
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 1: And now, mister Burns, I suggest that you try to
Speaker 1: get some rest.
Speaker 4: The police are on.
Speaker 1: God, you're save it up here.
Speaker 13: I guess you're right.
Speaker 7: You go out this way, good night.
Speaker 1: Good night, rest well.
Speaker 7: Rest well, h dead man and wise men say nothing.
Speaker 4: Mister.
Speaker 2: Hold on?
Speaker 7: How you pick?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 2: Oh? Here we are? Oh?
Speaker 8: Look at the poor devil?
Speaker 13: Is he dead?
Speaker 9: Don't look at the body?
Speaker 5: I can't stand me?
Speaker 3: Quiet quiet, breeding a little quite, stand back?
Speaker 8: Bris can you hear me. Can you hear me?
Speaker 7: Shadow?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 8: A shadow?
Speaker 3: Oh, he's the guy behind the Riddle of the Night.
Speaker 8: Marauders Murphy Murphy, Yes, let me.
Speaker 9: I want to rist of every piece of jewelry that
Speaker 9: the Night waters and stolen from ever. Yes, have then
Speaker 9: ever turned up at the pawn shop chat. No, it's
Speaker 9: another piece we've been check going to be spent for mon.
Speaker 2: Yes, good morning, Commissioner.
Speaker 1: I believe you're looking for me for the murder of
Speaker 1: Henry Bird.
Speaker 2: Who's this the shadow, Commissioner?
Speaker 8: The shadow? Yes, but have this called recent once?
Speaker 9: Every squad car and tower action right now?
Speaker 2: Where What did you say, Shadow, Commissioner?
Speaker 1: I know you're having this trace. I was in Henry
Speaker 1: Burn's apartment. While I was there, a stone was thrown
Speaker 1: through the window. It had a note attached to it.
Speaker 2: We didn't find any note. I know you didn't.
Speaker 1: I have the notes. I'll send it to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'd better hang up now. You may trace this call
Speaker 1: faster than I anticipate. Goodbye, Commissioner.
Speaker 8: Wait, waits trace the call?
Speaker 9: Yes, squad car run away?
Speaker 8: Why not?
Speaker 3: The car came from the phone boots here in head class,
Speaker 3: here in headquarter.
Speaker 9: Where did you get him there was no one in sights.
Speaker 13: This is great.
Speaker 9: The shadow is now insulting the department with the department
Speaker 9: Old Nicols.
Speaker 2: Parks beautiful to night is.
Speaker 5: What good does it do?
Speaker 8: Mean?
Speaker 5: Don't be alarms, I'll behave you know the moms I
Speaker 5: made a dreadful mistakes last night? Well, I just remembered.
Speaker 5: It wasn't the kind of pumping pies that mother made
Speaker 5: at all?
Speaker 4: What wasn't the kind of punkin pies?
Speaker 2: What dreams?
Speaker 6: It was apple jump playing?
Speaker 9: That wasn't actually mean?
Speaker 5: I never made me think it was costant a driver I.
Speaker 3: Watch up A card blows pract Commissioner Western, you gave
Speaker 3: us a scare.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm sorry, commission I was just telling the month.
Speaker 5: It wasn't pumpkin pie at all. Last night it was
Speaker 5: apple dumpling?
Speaker 2: What was which I dream?
Speaker 4: Commissionating?
Speaker 9: Well there I recognize you too riding along, and I
Speaker 9: thought i'd give you a little.
Speaker 8: Tip on detecting miss Brampton.
Speaker 4: Really and what's that while you're driving.
Speaker 9: Around the part or a breath of fresh air, enjoying
Speaker 9: the sunset after a good dinner and.
Speaker 4: The very good dinner, it was two commissioners.
Speaker 9: I'm driving around of the park, because after analysis, I
Speaker 9: discovered that all of the climes of.
Speaker 8: The Nightmaders have taken place within a block of the park.
Speaker 8: What do you think of that?
Speaker 4: Where is that what you call a clue?
Speaker 2: Commissioner?
Speaker 8: Is that what I call it?
Speaker 9: It's the first significant fact we've on earth?
Speaker 5: Do you really think that the shadow is guilty?
Speaker 7: Commissioner?
Speaker 8: What else am I to think?
Speaker 9: He tried a misleaders today by calling up about some
Speaker 9: phony letter. And furthermore, I think he's right here at
Speaker 9: his part.
Speaker 8: Oh no, yes, sir, that's what I think, And I.
Speaker 9: Have a hunch we'll pick him up tonight.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm must be going bye bye.
Speaker 5: Oh maybe he's going to be you to the punds.
Speaker 4: After all, if you've got something.
Speaker 3: Demand you're white?
Speaker 4: Is a sheep?
Speaker 5: Did you hear that weird call?
Speaker 4: But what about it?
Speaker 7: That's the call I heard last night.
Speaker 5: I heard it while that man still had his hand
Speaker 5: on my throat, and when he heard it, he looked
Speaker 5: up and then let.
Speaker 3: Go Meetly, are you sure it's the same call?
Speaker 7: Oh the monk?
Speaker 5: Do you think I could forget one the tail of.
Speaker 2: That office series?
Speaker 9: Stop here, sir, came from over the end of the
Speaker 9: zoo and we're gonna walk a bit.
Speaker 4: We'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1: Very good, sir, don't you get longer?
Speaker 3: And Margo, On second thought, I think you'd better go
Speaker 3: back and stay in.
Speaker 5: The carriage all right, Oh but be careful a month please, I'll.
Speaker 10: Be as quiet as a shadow. Get back, Freddy, get back.
Speaker 10: You want me to kill your caves, don't you?
Speaker 13: Yeh, that's better.
Speaker 2: Now you stay over there where you belong.
Speaker 13: Fordy. You know, Faddy, your.
Speaker 2: Aws very interesting playmates.
Speaker 3: Oh you're a little rough once in a while, but
Speaker 3: when you figure it out, you're quite like a human.
Speaker 3: We've been friends for a long time, ain't Faddy.
Speaker 2: I remember when you friend here?
Speaker 10: Yes, you were just a little fellower. Now you're a
Speaker 10: full brown gorilla, the finest specimen in captivity. Why you
Speaker 10: weren't any bigger than jocko Ah, if you can only
Speaker 10: read Freddy, did you laugh too? Do you know what
Speaker 10: the papers said today, Freddy? They said that the Shadow
Speaker 10: killed that man last night?
Speaker 1: Yes, chilly fool. If the Shadow had just Frank to
Speaker 1: do what you did to that man.
Speaker 10: But why should he get credit.
Speaker 13: For those murders?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 10: But it's just as well, until you get more experienced
Speaker 10: forad yes, yes, then then no one will take for
Speaker 10: the hour.
Speaker 13: You know, Freddy, we can rule this whole city. And
Speaker 13: you know how ready you.
Speaker 2: Know?
Speaker 11: Now what's the matter with you?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 13: What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1: It's the shadow?
Speaker 4: Shadow?
Speaker 1: Where are you here in the cave with you and
Speaker 1: your gorilla?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 13: You're the man nobody can see?
Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
Speaker 1: I've been standing here listening to you to talk to your.
Speaker 10: Friends, Freddy, you've heard everything I said, Yes, and we
Speaker 10: keep us all.
Speaker 2: We talk to our animals there.
Speaker 10: They are more quiet when they hear our votes.
Speaker 3: Don't make a difference what we say, just so.
Speaker 10: Long as we charge.
Speaker 3: Now what I said meant nothing, Shadow, nothing at all.
Speaker 10: Now, now, Shadow, you and Freddy are locked alone in
Speaker 10: the cave, and.
Speaker 3: He knows you're in the cage.
Speaker 10: You may be able to apnotize my mind, so I
Speaker 10: can't see you.
Speaker 4: But you can't do it to.
Speaker 10: A gorilla, can't.
Speaker 8: You're right, I can't.
Speaker 10: Oh the shadow is gray, but you will be because
Speaker 10: in a minute time point to tell Freddy to kill you.
Speaker 10: But I thought maybe you'd like to ask me about
Speaker 10: the night marauders. Shadow may I present the night marauders,
Speaker 10: Little Jacko, the monkey, who isn't the cage down at
Speaker 10: the end, Freddy the Gorilla, and their trainer and brave closest.
Speaker 10: Tell because it's a pleasure to at last to be
Speaker 10: able to introduce.
Speaker 13: Us, even if it is only to a doom man.
Speaker 10: Yeah, tell me, Shadow, Will you.
Speaker 13: Be visible after Freddy kills me?
Speaker 1: M hm, that remains to be seen. But tell me
Speaker 1: more about your crime, Joseph Shancro.
Speaker 13: They're not crimes.
Speaker 10: They are adventures. They're not quiet prey quiet. It's man
Speaker 10: quite time, Shadow, I'm going to be a great power.
Speaker 8: Power through fear, is my mutto.
Speaker 1: Why did you turn to murder? I was tired of
Speaker 1: taking jewelry.
Speaker 2: I wanted a new adventure.
Speaker 4: I have all the jewelry I need.
Speaker 9: Right now, hidden beneath you, belief the kase you're standing in.
Speaker 13: But now Shadow comes the newest of my adventure. I
Speaker 13: am going to see you, jud.
Speaker 10: You know too much to be high as I'm tired
Speaker 10: of talking to Oh, this is going to be fun.
Speaker 7: There's many, amusing many now.
Speaker 10: The I am killed kill Penny kill?
Speaker 8: How did you hear it? Kill him? As to kill him? Well?
Speaker 1: Joseph Shanko, your power is gone. Your gorilla will no
Speaker 1: longer do what you want. You'll him, he will not
Speaker 1: obey you anymore, Joseph shank Here, I too know and
Speaker 1: understand animals. Freddy won't kill me.
Speaker 9: He will ready cheer him.
Speaker 10: You won't hear me coming in there with a slip.
Speaker 8: I'll put you the ribbons, Suddy.
Speaker 7: Then you know who you're not.
Speaker 10: You don't open the door, stay out, stay away from him,
Speaker 10: and you learn your masters here.
Speaker 7: Don't hit him? Then you you what I kill you.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 2: You like you know.
Speaker 9: You do what I say?
Speaker 4: Cheery, cheer.
Speaker 9: All right, say like me playing.
Speaker 8: Hey are you all right?
Speaker 10: Chris Laine?
Speaker 5: Yes, oh, commission Where did you buy those shop?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 8: I did.
Speaker 9: I are standing behind that tree just a second.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 8: I'm starting the cake door. Shadow is in here.
Speaker 4: It's a great moment for me.
Speaker 9: The gorilla is dead a night marauders or no more,
Speaker 9: and I have at last caught the shadow.
Speaker 2: Not quite good, Commissioner, Shadow.
Speaker 8: I was right here.
Speaker 9: I heard everything that went on between you and jord
Speaker 9: Of Kancrow. I know you're not guilty of murder, but
Speaker 9: still a lot of things I want to know about you,
Speaker 9: and you won't get out of that cage until I
Speaker 9: find them out.
Speaker 1: But I am our Commissioner. I came out when the
Speaker 1: gorilla escaped, and if you don't believe it, you'll find
Speaker 1: a bullet in the back of the gorilla that didn't
Speaker 1: come from your. Better luck next time, Commissioner Chris Layne.
Speaker 9: If if you were not here, I'd say a few
Speaker 9: things that no gentlemen should never say.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't mind you do say them, but let
Speaker 5: me first say thank you for saving my life.
Speaker 9: Well, I did my bit, but I'm afraid that some
Speaker 9: of the banks belongs to the Shadow.
Speaker 4: So help me.
Speaker 9: Someday I'm going to find out who he is.
Speaker 3: Lam I hurt shop. Really, he didn't hurt you today, No, Laman,
Speaker 3: he was dead before he got near me.
Speaker 5: The Commissioner saved my life.
Speaker 4: Well for that, Commissioner, I shall never be able to
Speaker 4: thank you enough. Sir, Are you wanting on the kill Lamont?
Speaker 9: In case the night Maaders has been solved and Lamont,
Speaker 9: except for a very bad break, I would have been
Speaker 9: able to introduce.
Speaker 8: You to the Shadow.
Speaker 2: Really, Commissioner, I can think of nothing.
Speaker 3: More interesting than to have you introduced me to the shadow,
Speaker 3: the weed of crime.
Speaker 1: There's bitter fruit. Crime does not say
Speaker 2: The shadow