The Shadow 006 - The Death Triangle

Who knows my evil relex in the hearts of men. Shadow knows. Blue Cold presents the shadow, the mystery man who strikes terror in the very hearts of shopsters, lawbreakers, and criminals. To day the death triangle, ladies and gentlemen, the Shadow will be with you in just a moment. In the meantime, I'd like to remind you of a well known fact. Cold colored blue means better heat at less cost. For when you buy blue Cold, you're getting the cream of all Pennsylvania anthracite. The harmless blue coloring with which blue Cold is trademarked is your guarantee a clean, even safe, dependable heat. All went along. Such heat ensures the health of your entire household. So when you order coal, specify blue coal, ask for it by name. Phone your order to your nearest blue coal dealer tomorrow. On this day, Descender twenty second, nineteen thirteen. By order of the authority of Devin'silan, you yeh Martin, I'll hear my sentenced to one hundred days in confinement solitaire and a hundred lashes in the presence of the assembled prisoners. As a warning to all who will attempt to escape. Let the punishment begin, I will find the devil who betrayed me one Eury's name, fool. See why. Hi, ladies and gentlemen, will interrupt this program of organ music to bring you a special news flash from our affiliated press service, New York, December twelfth, nineteen thirty seven. The Shadow has been found. Doctor James Evans, world famous child surgeon, told reporters this afternoon that a wounded man who claimed to be the Shadow forced his way into doctor evans private clinic and, at the point of a gun, forced him to remove a bullet. The wounded man then revealed that he was none other than that mysterious character who has waged a one man war against crime, the Shadow. Before doctor Evans could report the case to the police, however, the Shadow mysteriously disappeared. The famous surgeon believes the Shadow has little chance of surviving his wounds. Our organ recital now continued. Hello, Doctor Evans, speaking. Doctor Heavens, the man you claimed to have operated upon was a fake. The real Shadow has not. Been wounded the Shadow. You are the Shadow, Yes, Doctor Evans. You don't seem surprised not. I've been hoping you get in touch with me. That statement I issued was false. False. Come now, doctor Evans, A man of your high standing in the medical world does not issue false statements without very grave reasons. There was a very grave reason. I need your help. An old ac queen's of mine. Raymond Dubriel the plancier, has received a death threat. Have him notify the police. No he refuses to do that, then. Let him take the consequences unless, Doctor Evans, have you also received a death threat? Yes? I have. Before I made this call, I investigated your past, Doctor Evans. My past is a matter of public knowledge. If you were once a political prisoner on Devil's Island, you escaped twenty years ago with three other men, Raymond Dubriell, a banker, and Pierre Marterire, a concert pianist. Yes, but our convictions were reverse by a high court a year after we escaped. I know it was proved that you three were innocent. But what about the fourth man who escaped with you? A murderer, your covey. He was caught and sent back to Devil's Island after the escape. One of you betrayed him to the police. I don't believe that. Why else should he mark you for death? Then you know kove escaped from Devil's Island a second time six months ago. Yes, doctor Evans, then you're interested, you'll help. Yes, I will help, but only because your life is in danger. Doctor. The world canill afford to lose the skill and genius and has saved the lives of countless children. You overestimate, my important shadow. What will you help? Yes? When and where? Does Covey's warning say he will. Strike first at Gubriell's Long Island of state tonight? How do you know this warning came from Covey? Gubrielle received a miniature music box in the shape of a coffin in the mail this morning, a musical coffin. Yes, And when the lid of the coffin is raised, the music box plays a tune. A tune Gabriel, Martin, Coopey, and myself whistled as a danger signal when we were planning our escape from Devil's Island. Where is Dubrill Doctavens. At his Long Island estate. Martin is staying with him, and I am driving out there to spend the night. I had hoped you'd come and help. I will help you, Doc Devens tell Dubrill and mat and the shed will be there to night. Oh, good afternoon, miss Lane. Is mister Kreston his home? No, Miss Lane, he's not. You know where I can reach him? Well, he may be at his class. Off. Yes, nobody's seen him all day. Is there anything I can do? Be sure and stay here and Casey comes home, I'll call you on the phone, lady. Yes, miss, I've got to find him. I've got to. I've just got to. I've got to find him lot. Maybe doctor Evans knows more than he told the newspapers. His officer. He might be at home. Number thirty three. Yes, this is it, od I knew they'd shoot you someday. Yes, miss, is doctor Evans here? I must see him. I beg your pardon, miss, But are you another reporter? Yes, and I must see doctor Evans. It's important. It's a matter of life or death. I'm sorry, miss, but doctor Evans has nothing to say to the press. He's not at home. But I must see him. I must find him. I'm sorry. That car, that's doctor evans car. Why go at Liberty the same? Never mind, I'll find out myself. Jesse Jessey Okavis to followed that big black limousine, the one with the green cross on the license tape. What's a doctor's part, miss, I may have to break a lot of traffic laws and to go through red lights. Never mind, I'll pay the fines. Don't lose sight of that car for a minute. Okay, lady, but this is gonna be one fast ride. Further got so down that car turning in at that estate? You want me to do it? Go through the gates? No, no, stop here? Okay, here's five dollars. Hey, thanks, man. I wonder if this is just a wild goose chase. The mark couldn't be way out here note of. His wounded dying that car. It sounded like, oh but he couldn't be he. It is. It's it's the month, Lamont. What Heaven's say? Are you doing here? Oh? Lamont? And it wasn't true. You weren't shop Evans didn't operate on you. Oh so you heard that newspash too. The papers are full of it. I try to found you at the office, at home, at your club, everywhere. I'm sorry, Margot, I should have known your worry, but I've had a very busy afternoon. How did you get here? I followed doctor Evans's car. He just drove through those gates. What's happening, Lamont? Are you trying to find out why he said he operated on the shadow? Is someone impersonating you? No, Doctor Evans did that knowing I'd get in touch with him. He needs my help in a very special manner. Why is someone after him threatening in. Yes, also the owner of this estate, the banker, Dubriel, and Matan, a concert pianist, and you're going to help them. I'm interested in helping Evans. He's a great doctor and a great humanitarian. His life is in danger. Lamont. Now that I'm here, is there anything I can do? Yes, Margot, wait in my car. Keep your eye on the house. If you see a light go on and off twice in one of the windows, drive to the nearest payphone and notify the state police to come to the Debrill estate. I'll watch for the signal. Fine, I suppose there's no use my asking you to be careful, No, Margot, but. I'll try. I'll try to avoid really putting doctor Evans to the. Trouble of removing a bullet from the shadow. You Brill, stop panning on the table and casting Kovey. Oh, that's all very well for you to say, Evans. Your turn hasn't come, but it will if we treat sitting here, you or me or Mortain don't get cove when it comes to night, you will be the next on his list. You or Morton. Don't concern yourself about my fate, you, Breth. I am not afraid of Kve. How you change your mind if he manages to kill me? Martain? I wonder what it's like to die. What do you think, you, Breve, or do you ever think of anything but your fat stomach and your money? By you, gentlemen, this is no time to argue. It's something more important to tell you. What is it? Evans? I hear you had quite an experience today operated on this man who calls himself the Shadow. Yes, that's what I want to talk to you about. Now there's a man to Briel, this Shadow. He might save you from Kovey. Ah, what could he do? I've had the best private detectives in the country trying to find some trace of Covey ever since he escaped from Devil's Island again six months ago. Right away to Briel. I've always wondered who tipped off the police when Kove was hiding after he helped us escape twenty years. Of Jove was a murderer. We were innocent. Man also who betrayed me, Dubriel the time I tried to escape alone the first time, mat time. Now, listen to me. A moment ago we were talking about the Shadow. Well, he isn't dying. I didn't operate on him. I announced that, hoping the real shadow would get in touch with me and did he. Yes, And he's coming here tonight to help us. I've always been curious to see this shadow. You won't see him, No man has ever seen him. But he'll be here, Oh. Evans, for a man of intelligence, you're talking like a fool. The age of ghosts and mystic presences. Is around, Debriill wrong. Because I am a doctor, I can readily accept the fact that the Shadow is a master of the powers of mental suggestion of massive nosis. Recent experiments have proven conclusively that a rubbish. Allow me to convince him, Doctor Evans, I wha, what was that? Who spoke them? The shadow? Dubril. You do not accept the theory of my power of invisibility, but perhaps you will accept the fact for I am here. Sit down, Dubril. You look rather pale. If I am to help you, you will all sit down. Sit at that table there. I understand. There is little time to lose. I must know the whole story, the truth, if I am to help you. The word, the shadow says, said the matter? Are you third debrill? Well, why don't you talk about Dubris? Be quiet, mater, doctor Evans. I will help you if I can. But there is one gap in the chain of events leading up to this moment. I'll tell you anything I know. Shadow, Then tell me this. When and under what circumstance did Covey first threaten your lives. It was the last day we spent in the open boat in which we escaped from Devil's Island twenty years ago. Storms had blown us up our course, Our food was gone, our water was exhausted. Covey, the only one who knew how to navigate, was well. He was slowly dying from hunger and thirst. I still remember his pride, What water will be quare Covey? There is no water. The cask is empty. You lying to will, all of you You've been drinking my share. Give me that bucket, Give me a drink of that. Mad saltwater killing. What does it matter, doctor Evans? Seventeen days in this open boat, lights of storm, in days of blazing feet. What what I'm dying? I tell you, dying. You're not giving me my share, You're stealing my water. Where will you be that guy? I'm the only one that knows navigation to the patient. Cooky. It may rain tonight. We might as well be back on Dever's Island. At least there was bread and water there bird bird, a crust, just the crust of bread and water. Water. There's no bread, coffee. The last trust went three days ago. You're cheating me, killing me. You only brought me along to steal a boat. Now you're starving me to death. You don't want me to live, but I will live. I'll get you for this. I'll live to kill every one of you for this. You the breast mustan. You shuts, you're done. No, you know what you're doing. Okay, Look we go. What does it matter if we have no gune? I know? But don't you think the girl that will go part of my endors kept? Oh you're you're right an. Look to the west, it's land land at last. Right there to the southwest. You can see the sun of the mountains. We're saying, free of the come back away, Sit up, look look which I did land. They'll be pool and balls up plenty for everybody. You try to kill me, starve me to death, but I'm going to live. I'm going to live until the last one of you is dead dead. Yes, all three of us. And so you see that how it all began. And now Covey is free. And how to get a shadow? What makes you so sure it is? Well, it couldn't be anyone else. It's Covey, all right, he said. You breed that thing on the table, that long box shadow. Notice its shape. It's a miniature coffin, beautifully carved. Covey was a wood carver. He was always handy with a knife. But still it does not follow that he was the one. Except for one thing shadow. When the lid of the coffin it raised, It's the music box and that cune it played with the warning signal we used while planning our escape from Devil's arm. Remember, only the four of us knew it. You breed kove Evans and myself. Oh stop it, Heavans, Stop that couvering. Stop what I tell you. I can't find it. So you have a conscience heat to breathe? That danger refrain recalls the past, doesn't it? Stop talking about it? It looks as though Covey meant business, doesn't He don't sit there coniving over me. You forget your term maybe next maybe to night. Yet I am not forgetting anything to breathe. You'd better tell yourself to breeve. I'll get you a drink. A right, never mind, here said the counter. I pour it myself. O that tune? Where is it coming from? My smash to cover? It's the counter in your hands? Someone someone changes the counter? Come away? He didn't easier. He's been in his house to night to liver it. Go to my room. I don't want anybody, I say Kevy, I loved all alone. And ifore I come away, let him go, Doctor Evans, he shouldn't be left alone. Koby may carry out his match. Are you sure it is Covey? What do you mean it must be? It couldn't be anyone else. The coffin, the decanters are his warning. I know, but you said the four of you knew the signal. Are you sure it isn't one of you, of course not. I thought you said the shadow was here to else. I am, but I am content to let events lead themselves to a logical conclusion. You mean you won't use your power to save us from him? I shall use my power at the moment it is required, doctor Evans. Right now. For instance, look on the table, there is a note where the decantor was standing. Good ends compare has been here. Listen to this matter. You are the first, and you will die tonight, Raymond Gabriel. Ladies and gentlemen, The shadow will return in a moment. 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Blue coal burns steadily and evenly, sending a full supply of heat to the living quarters of your home even in the most severe weather. Get set for winter tomorrow. By ordering blue coal. You will find the name of your nearest blue coal dealer in the whet Tobiot section of your classified telephone directory under the name blue Coal. You brill, brill, wake up. I have come for you. So you've come cove Oh, you poor deluded fool. Do you think I got you? Kill me in my sleep? I've been awake, waiting here in the dark for you to come a little light hen. Yes, though you've grown up deer since I saw your last covey, and your hair is gray. That gun in your hand. Won't save your Dubrielle. If I die, I will take you with Meson. Cove I didn't steal your food in the open boat. I swear you also betrayed me to the police. You told him where to find me. And I am not the only one you betrayed, am I do Breer? You betrayed Martin the time he tried to escape alone, didn't you do book? Yes? Yes, but what do you care? Kove He wouldn't take me with him. But I did not betray you. Have you paid Mark Town for those hundred lashes and those hundred days of bread and water he got because you betrayed him or he doesn't know, he. Will never know it was I. You remember how we passed the long days in that open boat throwing nine. Don't pray God, Nakovey. We got so good we seldom missed. I'll shoot you, move, but Martin was the best. You may shoot me, do Breer, but my knife won't miss. Oh wait a minute, Kovey, I will make a deal with you. Listen, Covey, you are out to get heavens and mar Tantau. If you throw that knife, I'll shoot you, and you will never get them. You would help me kill Evans. I know he's here in the house. Yes, yes, yes, right, I hate heavens and not Tanto. I will help you get them. So you would betray doctor Evans to save yourself. Dubril the Shadow, Kovey, don't be afraid. He's only a man by some tricker can make himself invisible, but he's flesh and blood. Quick locked the door. We'll deal with him first. He won't get out girl. Now, now, Shadow, what can you do to stop us? Speak up? I dare you to speak. Listen where his voice comes from you, brill, then shoot quickly? No, no, no, the shot would bring heavens and my pn Throw your knife, Covey, make him speak. I won't miss Sneak up, Shadow, We will find you anywhere you can't get out. I am here in the corner the falconer. Throw your knie, Covey. Hey, hody, you miss Fuddy was there? No, only my voice was there in phylicisom. He's there in front of you, the brill Shoot shoot, yes, I will shoot now, hey, yes, I will shoot. But not the Shadow. He came here to help us catch. You, kove and he has your knife it's gone now, Kovey, you are helpless, and now I'll. Deal with you. Oh, you treacherous snack, you fool. You'll think I carry only one life. This one is for you. Oh you damn But I take you with me, will. You? Brill is dead, Doctor Evans. Cohen's kept his word worthy. Look fair on the floor by the window. Cohen Dobriel tried to save his life by promising to help that man kill you. Offer to help Kobe kill me. Look closely, doctor Evans. Remove the gray wake and the false beard. It's a matter, yes, Marta disguised as Covey, still alive. Breathing, Get away from me a once. Don't touch me. I'll hit you. I hit your both. Why did you do this? Pire? Why? I hated your brear because he betrayed me on devil Siland I hated you Evans because you have got the things that I always wanted, success, fame, glory. It was I sent the musical coffee, the warning note. I knew you'd think it was Kobe. I've got your brear, But Koby will get you, Evans. He's after you. He will get you, You will kill you. You won't matter. Stop breathing. Said yes, Doctor Evans, he is dead. You are quite safe now. You forget coven. No, Doctor Evans, I knew even when I phoned you today that it was not Kovey who sent the musical Coffin what I knew it was not Covey. It had to be Marta or Debriel. You stop them. Martin Dubrill were both criminals plotting to kill you. If I'd stop them, your life would have been in danger as long as they lived, hating you always for having attained the things that life denied them. But you forget shadow. Kovey may find me succeed where Martin fails. Never I learned the whole history of all of you before I saw you. Yes, everything, Doctor Evans, your escape from Devil's Island, after Debriell's betrayal of Martin that resulted in the hundred Lashes and his resolve for vengeance, and from the authorities of Devil's Island. I learned the truth about Covey's last escape. Yes, I see now, I see now why he hated us. But what about Covey. You are safe now, doctor Evans, safe from Covey. The chain of logic is complete. Three months ago, a bleached skeleton was found on a deserted beach at Trinidad. It has just been identified as the body of COVEI. 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The characters in this story are entire tacticious and a similarity to person's living or dead is purely coincidental. And that this time may you remind you to man your Christmas presents and cards early to secure delivery. Before December twenty fourth, there will be no post office service on December twenty fifth. The weed of crime, there's dick. Crime does not pay. The shadow No