Shadow No. Now again comes radio strangest adventurer, the Shadow, mystery man who strikes terror unto the very hearts of shopsters, lawbreakers and criminals. Today on the air, Blue Coal brings you the Shadow's latest adventures hounds in the hills. In just a moment, the shadows exciting adventure will begin. Meanwhile, I have an important message for everybody. We are now in the midst of the most treacherous season of the entire year. But you can protect your family's health during this danger period by burning blue coal. For a blue coal gives you clean, uniform, healthful heat all winter loft, and its harmless blue coloring is your guarantee of better heat at less caught. So when you order fuel insists on blue coal is Pennsylvania's finest anthracite. Your nearest blue coal dealer will be glad to send you a trial time. Phone him tomorrow. High in the pine clad hills of North Carolina, where backwoods living is neighbor to palatial winter homes, there is a haunted mansion relic of former grandeur with no visible means of support. Old Sade Haggard, half demented creature and Jacob hunchback son live in one wing of the dilapidated old house. A pack of great vicious cross breed hounds guards the old place from intruden. It is early evening in the dim half light. Two figures, led. By one of the hounds, approached the house. I don't like him here. I want to go home. I been a little boy. You ain't afraid of my kid dog as I am. I'm afraid of your dog, and I'm afraid of you too. I want to go home to my mother's. I didn't want to go with you. Yeah, I kicked my dog. Wherever I go, you won't hurt you, not the longer with me you want. I'm not tell him what he do to you. If you got carlong. Jakie, my name isn't Jakie. My name is Jackie Nelson. Like you don't let me go home. My mother will be worrying. I'm not Jackie. Don't be stood a Sadie. I'm your mother, Oh, sadi him mother. I didn't know that, did you. You're not my mother. I don't believe there's other. Little boys here like you say. As of sense. Now say show you ah, it's me Jake. Yeah, he's Jake. Here what he was for? Adopt him and head he's back? Who's actually got work? Your mom? Who's that man? I don't be scared of him, Jicky. I don't like him. He's also looking. At Jackie and he's a hunch bit. His mother dropt you. When he has a little fellow like you, Hi dropt it. And we'll stird all over again with a new Jicky. I'll duck you. You won't be a hunchback like he is. Don't want to go home to my mother and daddy. I don't like anything here. Leave me alone, don't get me, don't cut me. Mom, you're crazy, old fool. You're getting again. Night drive Lamont. Your golf improving so Crimston. You don't always miss the ball, eh that fortification in North Carolina dust Field, Especially when you're the host, that's ruper. I thought you were always on vacation's Lamont. I've never heard of you doing anything except dabbling in that mysterious laboratory of yours. Yes, yes, I just dabble a little science, little chemistry, little psychology. Well, I said Sheriff. I hope I haven't done anything wrong. Perhaps, so you drive. Suy what is it, sheff? Another child's lost, gone over the cliff at the border trail. Another Yes, little Dickey Nelson this time, good Lord Sheriff. This is horrible child lost. Is that what you said, Sheriff, Yes, sir, fourth in less than two weeks on the trail over cliff. That awful. What is this trail getting? Well, it's a narrow pathway along the rim of a high cliff. It washes out so that a slip on the gravel starts. To slide right over the cliff. And you mean to say four boys been lost there in two weeks? Yes, it doesn't it strike you there might be something more than just say, causing the disappearance of these children. But what that I don't know, get ah, I'd like to look at this cliff. Hellok, girl, miss Transon. You see how the trail washes out down the cliff. That's a thousand feet straight down after the river at the bottom. Yeah, I reckon. The current must carry the body away. You haven't found a trace album. I don't suppose there's any doubt about what happened. To the boys. McLean when Bobby Mean had disappeared. Last week, we found a ball he'd been playing with. Do you call that conclusive? Well, this morning we snared up Dickie Nelson's cap that was caught on some shrubbery. Part way down the mountain. Mm or some. Of the colored folk around here think ghost on it got Yeah. See they were howling last night about their time Dickie was lost here? What kind of howling? Shutters durned to findos who they see? They heard it the three times the other bars were lost. But you know how they are cut it. Folks up here in the hills is superstitious. Yes, but what kind of a howl does a ghost make in this part of the country? Shutter? And that's what I asked about near they could describe it. It was like a dog howling a hound dog. Well, I've generally sound as a dog howling means dog. Yess, I'd better reverse the usual procedure the dog trailing a man. The dog's very mischidious. The moment it is, would you excuse me for a moment, shitar, Yes, certainly, my go. I think the shutter will look into business. True, But time go back to. The Housema goo, I wiless you I need help. My invisible state is the shadow I'm going to follow the clue of the dogs and see what it leads me. I want to go home. Don't cry, Dickie, don't cry? What's that? Who are you? I've come here to help you. You're Dickie Nelson, aren't you? Yes, sir? But who are you? It's so dark I can't see you. You don't need to see me, Dickie. Pretend I'm just a shadow. But you can hear me. Yes, sir, But I'm willing to go home here. You've got to be a man, Dickie. I'll try to get you home, but you've got to stop crying and help me. I'm scared. That's why. No, sir here, use my hankerchief. I you now, dry your eyes and wipe your nose. I want you to tell me something. Yes, sir. Are there any other boys here? Yes? Just reasom. How did you get here? I believe the ghost story, Dickie, and I looked for a ghost to howled like a hound, and then I just walked. But I didn't find a ghost. How if I find what I expected to find. A dog? In fact, glossism? Did they see you? No? Gid an old Sadie or Jakes. You. No, it's dark in here, but even with a light on, people can't see me because I've learned how to make them think they don't see me. I blind their eyes to me. Never mind how you must believe it, and don't be afraid of me. I'm your friend, Yes, trust me, Dickie. Perhaps I can find a way to get you and the other boys out of it. What somebody coming? He shrif find these kids here, the hangers, you're crazy old for it. Now, don't you touch my baby. He's my Jackie. He's Hugh before you came a hunchback. If you kill him, you'll be killing yourself. He's you, Jake. You keep away from me. Don't you touch me, Jake, don't touch that boy? Who's that? I hear this too, Give me that lamp. I hear it too, Jake, h nobody's in here with us, us and the kid. He got out? No, I'm still here. Voice. Ain't nobody willing? I heard it too. Oh that's nothing, Jake. I'm always hearing voice, and now you're hearing him away both please. Recon ain't a crazy A voice can scare me. I'm crazy like you. Then, voses ain't real. I don't put this ship out of the way, and then I'll get there. Don't help me with that, Jake. No, no, Now, I. Ain't scared of voices. It ain't reel, I said, who hit me? Look look at that place on my wristro. Well, Jake, I've been hearing voices for a long time, but I ain't never been hit by one. You've done it. Oh, I did not. I wasn't near you, and it was a kid. I never moved. I get you, Jake. Now, I'm going to give you a chance to save yourselves. Let this boy go. Bring the other voice here. I take them home. No, no, they're mine, They're mine, They're Dickey. No, I'll get rid of them my way. Please tell me I want. To go for trust me, Dickie. There's only one thing for me to do now, Jake, this is your last time, all right? Who's that you reckoned? Somebody looked at the kids after this. It must be damn the dude can slim coming to hide out? H h here, kim oh, Jake, he'll kill us both. He knows about my baby. Well what he don't know won't hurt him. Shut the door to the kitchen. Woman hurry up, he slip him. Man, don't see a word about my baby. Don't worry. Maybe I'm crazy too, but ain't that crazy? Well? What to get along, Jake? Hello, Duke, come here, Slim, hurry up? Shut the door. Okay, Duke, what a dump this is? That's better than being in jail up north. If we didn't have this hideout, that's where you'd be. Hello, old Sadie, come in, Duke. I'm fifty a gear. Shut up, not half with it all? Dan talk too much? Hey, he's staying for a while. Duke, what to throw you? I don't care. I lay off that guy, Slim Jake, and you too, old Sadie. Yeah, we're taking a little rest away from the cops. See turn the dogs loose in the yard around the house so they can chew up anybody that comes here looking for us. Go on, Jake, do it now, all right, Duke, just a minute, Jake? Who's that? Somebody? Didn't hear Duke? It's a voice again, Jake. They can't hear miss there? Crazy head voice again? Yes, Jake, that same voice. And the Duke can hear it too, can't you? Dukey? What's going on here? Who is that? You didn't hear, though, who's playing ticks on? Duke? Did you ever hear. Of the shadow? The shadow I have, Duke. I know that's the guy to talk to you, but you can't say. Him shout off your fool. Yes, Shadow, I've heard about you. I never believe what I heard, though. You can't believe it. Now listen, Duke, I'm here for only one purpose, to save. The lives of four little children. I don't believe him. Hit the lie. Shut up, I'm handling this. Go ahead, Shadow, go ahead, talk some more. Right, Old Sadie and Jake there put you in. A tough spot, Oh, Shadow. Old Sadie is crazy, well, shall we say, borrowed four little boys from places near here and made it appear that they were killed, killed falling over a cliff. It's a lie, and they was killed. I kill them and my ditt up their. Place, Duke. The old dame is by shut up. Jake here is almost as crazy as his mother, but he wants to kill the boys. Eh. Don't believe in, Duke. Either way, you'll be arrested for kidnapping. Heyduke, we don't want no part in kidnapping that shadow. Watch the property say, you'll let me take the boys away back to their homes. He won't be accused of kidnapping. And give you a chance to tip off the police. Away we are hiding out. Oh no, let them have it. Slim took the door. He went out the door. He's gone, doke, he's gone. We can't get them, ay, yes, we can. How the dog. If the shadow's a man, them dogs can follow his hands. If the shadow is a man, you mean, the dogs will trail them by his And even though we can't see him, he's right, doke, For we haven't got anything to give the dogs to smell, to give him the scent. Maybe he lasts up in the kid's room. Let's go and see. Come on, let's see. Yeah, let's look right here. He's too clever to left anything behind. Hey, where the boy gets that handkerchief? He's sniffling in the handkerchief? Huh eh, he never had no handkerchief when he come here? Who gave you this hank? Agive little boy? Man? What man? Man? Who spoke to me in the dark? You couldn't see him. No, he said, I hadn't believe he was here, although I couldn't see him, And then it's. The shatters, get the dogs. Get the dogs. They can get his son from that handkerchief and trail um that shadow can't escape this time, the. Shadows of adventure continues in just a moment. 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Here's another point, you buy American when buying blue coals. It is mined and prepared in Pennsylvania by the Glenolden Coal Company, especially for home youth. So for economy and cleanliness, start using Blue Cold tomorrow. Order it by name. Phone your nearest blue coal dealer. You will find him listed in the where to buy it section of your classified telephone directory under the name Blue Coal. Mad Lane, the killer are alive. Arrive and an old half four miles off the cliff road. The captain. Having a word back amount of telling me, hell, I've got my head hie. The caf say the coln Hi. Come an, I say, keep, but where we can see you. Don't try to hide behind the trees. If you think you can sneak back to. The house, all right, all right, slim, yeah dough. If Jake starts falling back and again anymore trying to lose us among the trees and the dog so he can go back to the house and finish off them kids, let him have it. Okay, boys, I wasn't miners, there wasn't okay, And come on, hey, you Jake. It does dog's level of time on us. Yeah, if you was alone. Yeah, but I'm with you. Hear that that dogs have got a shadow. It's lucky for us. He left his hanging him with the kid sought the hounds could get the stand in it. Yeah. Now, there's only one or two things for the shadow to do. Stand and be chewed by them beasts, or else, climb a tree. He's not invisible to a dog's nose. They can smell him. If he's climbed a tree. We got him. Thkay, guy's the dogs jumping round that tree right down? Say, well, what do we do now? Well, we can't do much while it's dark. What do you mean? I mean? We got to keep the shadow treed until it stay light. Yeah, but you can't see him whether it's light or dark. That's right. Maybe he's bigness after all. Listen, if we wait till daylight, then we can see where he is in the tree. But you can't see where he is. Yeah, but when he comes, he has to shake the branch he's sitting on. And when we see any of them leave shaken, we'll shoot right. At that place. A little bit like shooting at nothing. I know. If we don't get him that way, he has two other things to choose from him. Yeah, what's that? We can keep in tread until he gets so weak he can't work his invisibility gag anymore, and he comes down and then the dogs get him. Well, there's not in the door. But wait till morning. Then no, but we got to keep awake. Morning ain't far off, and then we'll see. Hey, Doug, I got to think, and sitting here last night, what about them kids? Well, Slim, what about him? We didn't thought it, But they can't find a kidnap and rap on it, not without evidence, Slim. No, but she. Oh I get it. No evidence? Eh, that's right, No kid, what do you think? Yeah, Jake kid don't. Want no evidence that as. Soon as we dispose of the man who calls himself the Shadow, no one will know. And then Jake Kid gets rid of the kid. That's right. Yeah, but how about Jake and old Sadie. I think they could disappear and not be missed. Yeah, that's what I thought. Hey, do look, we can see the whole tree now, but I don't see nobody. No, of course not. But he's there. Now watch carefully, Slim. There's no wind. Any limb or branch that moves may be the shadow. Yeah, so when something moves, let them have it. I get it. Hey, but how do we know when we get him he'll come down? Slim? You miss Slim? Take your time? Hey, what's that? I thought I saw a branch move. We're shooting at the shadow, Jake, and when he's unconscious of dead, we can see him all right? And then it didn't do so good yourself though? Those dogs are hungry. Yeah, I bet they looked nice from up in the tree waiting for their breakfast. How can you shoot him if you can't say him? Shout out, Jake, Take. Your time, Slim, Good morning, he's there. Good morning, Shadow. I hope you slipped well. Oh yeah, and you now watch close, Slim. Yeah? Yeah. Would it be too much for me to ask? How are the little boys? They're all right? Shadow, so far? That's good. Yeah, but I'll get rid of him, Slim. Get around the other side of the tree. I think he's low in the tree behind the true Okay, duke, we're taking carr of you first. Shadow, you know too much? Hell, what's funny? Shadow? I'm laughing at you. Duke. Oh yeah, you laugh different when I get my hands on you. Why don't you come up here and try it. I don't have to, you will come down. You have a long wait. Oh yeah, can't you say anything? But oh yeah, you're really quite stupid, Duke. Oh yeah, well I'm smart enough to get you out of that tree. Good. I was getting rather bored. A shut up, Slim. Go back to the house and get an X. This tree ain't too big to cut down. Very ingenious. Yeah, but the dogs it ain't safe to leave without Jake. The dogs they won't touch you. They're after the shadow, and Jake will keep them here. Show sure, I'd keep from here, shot and hurry back. Slim Siam, Okay, so I don't let them dogs come after Bayle keep the dogs here, Okay, watch it, hurry back. Okay, Father, the dog's dogs. They're gonna have to swim. They don't like him. I'll shoot him swim. Ah, guess you he didn't shoot him soon. Enough, Duke. Well, Jake, your dog's got Slim. I'm afraid you've lost most of them. Yeah, ma be awful mad. He's only big Tom left. But the Duke will shoot him. No he won't. His gun's empty. Let him go up that tree. Big Tom didn't get him. Now you're both up the tree. Agent. No, Jake, I'm standing right here behind you. I'll do what I tell you. Go over to that tree and tie Big Tom to it so that the Duke can't get down. Why should I? You want to get those kids out of the way, don't you. Duke won't let you? Yeah? Maybe, yeah, he won't let me. Maybe I want to tell him what I'm gonna do, Jake. Pull off this dog. Tie him up to your hearing. Tie him up. I'll not tell my tree your dope. Take him away. Listen, but he don't tie him there. You're half with well, Duke, we changed places. I'll get you. But the last thing I do. You're going to have plenty to do before we meet again. Cake come back here. You'll have plenty of time to. Think about that. Here's the men that say, don't get Who are there? My lord? What happened here? I don't know, sir. See this is the hunchback. Jeez, hello Jack, Juke sap in the trees. Yeah, I'll show him. Got him reckon. That dog won't attack anyone else you kill him now, for our friend will come down out of a tree. I'll be delighted to put a pair of hand many cops on to him. I've been looking for him in his partner for some time. From the looks of things, I won't need to put the cops on his partner. Well, Margo, you'll better go back to the cars. All right, Yes, I think I will. I I only wanted to see you. Yes, I'll go back, all right, man, let's take my away, Margo. Margo, oh, Allda mont the matter you all right? Yes, but don't speak my name here, Darling. I was so frightened when I got your wireless message. I thought it was the end to die. How the boys all right? Yes, all the boys are safe. They've been taken into town. A deputy sheriff took old Stadie along. Dicky Nelson is in one of the cars up the road waiting. Ola Mana. I feel so sorry for that poor old woman. So to wi Margo. She's demented. We must see that she's placed in an institution, not a prison, a place where she can satisfy her mother love mania with dogs instead of other people's children. Go to the car Margo, I'll meet you there. What are we waiting for, miss Lane? I want to go home to my mother's. Yes, a minute, Dickie, I'm expecting someone. Who. Oh, here he comes. Now, who is this young man? This is Dickie Nelson Dickey la Mont Cranston. Hello, mister Cston. Well, Dickie, I hear you had quite an adventure last night. Yes, a kind man came to my room at that terrible house, but I couldn't see him. Maybe you dreamt it, Dickie. Doesn't we keep it a secret just between us three. Yes, I think that's a good idea, all right, But that was. A swell dream. And here is John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating expert with some interesting information for you. Thank you, Ken Roberts. Good evening friends. The health and comfort of your family during this period of widely varying temperatures depends to a great extent on father. Your heating plant delivers steady, even heat when you need it, And the efficiency of your heating plant depends upon the proper use of furnace dampers. Here are some helpful hints on the proper use of these dampers. First, the turn or the smoke pipe damper should never be used for day to day control of heat. This damper should always be kept as nearly closed as possible without retarding the free burning of your fire. If you do not have automatic thermisat control of your furnace, the everyday control of heat should be left to your check damper, that flat like damper located on your chimney pipe, and the ash pipe damper. To get more heat through your house, close the check damper and open the ashpit damper. Always remember when one is closed, the other should be open. If the house is warm enough, close the ashpit and open the check damper. The proper location of these dampers is important. The check damper should be between the chimney and turn damper, the latter being between the check stamper and the furnace. If the dampers are in this position, they are properly placed, and if operated in the manner that I have just explained, you should not experience any trouble in maintaining an even temperature in all parts of your home. However, if you do have trouble. With your furnace, phone your nearest blue coal dealer and ask him to send a John Barclay's service man to your home. I thank you, Thank you, mister Barkler and friends. Take mister Barkler's tip. Phone your nearest blue coal dealer, have him send a John Barkler's service man to your home tomorrow. You have just heard a dramatized version of one of the many copyrighted stories which appear in the Shadow magazine. All the characters and all the places named or pysticians in the similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. As you so evil, so shall you reap ever. Crime, not. A shadow nose. Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal, America's finest stand for site, will again present another thwilling adventure of the Shadow. Be sure to listen, and be sure to burn blue coal, the solid fuel for solid comfort.
