The Shadow 024 - The White God

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The Shadow Lamont Cranston, a man of wealth, a student of science, and a master of other people's minds, devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty using advanced methods that may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies. Cranston is known to the underworld as the Shadow, never seen, only heard as haunting, to superstitious minds, as a ghost as inevitable as a guilty conscience. The Shadow's true identity is known only to his constant friend and aid Margoline to Day's story the White God. Gentlemen, the Navy Department has today asked me to give ship owners this message. We have today abandoned our extensive air and sea efforts to trace the missing yacht owned by Rudolph Hoyt, millionaire scientist, last reported in that region of the South Pacific, which has in recent months come to be known as the Graveyard of the Pacific because of more than fifteen disappearances of ocean vessels in that area within the past two years. Admiral CHAMPIONI we ship owners beg you to continue your investigation to clear up this mystery of the South Pacific. All this publicity of missing ships, especially the. Publicity about the White Yacht, has ruined our Pacific shipping. Why we can't even sign up a cruised ship on our. Office, I tell you, Admiral, this mystery must be cleared up at once. Gentlemen. Gentlemen, the Navy is just as anxious as you are to solve this mystery because of our naval operations in the Pacific. But we can't find a single explanation. May I make a suggestion, Admiral, What's that we don't bother to try and see where I am. Gentlemen, you can't see me. Well, who are you? I am the shadow? Shadow? Shadow? You're that that invisible man who's always helping the police and always working against crime. By right, sir, I do have the power of invisibility to conceal my being and my motions and assisting authorities in maintaining law and order and peace. Can you help us solve this mystery of the Graveyard of the Pacific? I think that possibly I can, gentle. You know something about it. I have a strong suspicion that the Graveyard of the Pacific is really the work of some individuals. It isn't logical that a group of modern ships, each one man by an expert crew equipped with the finest marine devices, should disappear unless they were made to disappear. And with a little help from you, Admiral, I think I can prove it. Well, what do you want of me? First, a fast cruiser to take me down to the South Pacific. Second, an airplane to cruise around among the islands. But you insist you must stay as a shadow. I'm sorry, sir, but my identity must remain unknown. Besides that, I feel that I will be of greater value to the venture if our enemies cannot see me. Very well, I think I can arrange it through Washington. How many will be in your party? A young woman named Margot Lane will be your visit passenger. I will be with her, but you will not see me. You will advise the crew of my invisible state is the Shadow, and tell them to obey my voice even though. They cannot see me. Anyone else coming. Now, just Margo Lane and the Shadow? Who is it? It's the Shadow? Margo? May I come in your cabin for a moment? Certainly you may lock the door now I'm inside. Now we're all alone. Yes, it's safe for you to become visible now as Lamont Cranston. Well, how do you like being an honored guest or a Navy cruiser? Very exciting, la Month, But how do you expect to find the Graveyard of the Pacific? No one knows where it is. Well, that's what I've got to find out. How I'm not quite sure yet? Is there any way I can help? Yes, Margo, this cruiser will put in at one of the South Pacific islands tomorrow. I'm going ashore. I may be gone a day or two or a week trying to get my information. Thank you to take close to the short wave set the moment I have any information, I'll contact you. Please as soon as you hear from me, do the thing I ask you to do at once, Margo Lane, Margo Lane, stand by for orders. Have a commander of the cruiser prepare a seaplane for I mediate takeoff. I'm leaving a silent where I've been for the last few days and returning the ship at once. I believe I know what happened to the missing ships. You will board the seaplane with me at the shadow. Where's the seaplane taking us? Taking us to an island on which there lives someone the natives call the White God. A witch doctor told me about him God. Yes, a witch doctor's description. It is obviously a man who has managed to overawe the ignorant natives with elemental experiments in chemistry, physics. Jee passes off a magic. Pilot. Pilot, what made the plane lurch like that? I don't know. Shadow. There it is again. Something's tugging at the plane. Tugging at the airplane. Cast The motors have gone crazy. I can hardly keep. Them going pilot were descending, you. Were being pulled down. We're heading caught that island. Right, Bago. Look the wreckage of boats crashed on the rocks, deserted in those coats. Yes, Margos, the great yard of the Pacific. Place enter the wing to the plane. The rimers have been thrown out. Yes, there goes to the white brings good the d into the sea. Pilot, can you level the plane off? Oh, I can't have a law. Will all be better than the plane at the bottom of the seas Okay, can't ready to jump. We're gonna hit the water. All President of the corrant, bark. Beteen your level off? So we landed on top of the water instead of beneath the pilot. Yeah, prayed for Ramona. I couldn't make it. Well. I suggest we make for the island there and they a visit a white god. Yay. So this island is the graveyard of the Pacific. The wreckage of those both convinces me that it is. Look at them piled up on the rocks, some. Of them out there in the cold. Yeah, they all look deserted. Yes, I don't feel soul, but I can't get it. What happened to the plane. It was like a magnet pulling us. What might be more truth than poetry? Who knows? What do you mean? I have an idea that this island is a huge magnet. Natural magnet you mean, because of rocks in them? No, a man made magnet. Are you kidding? No, I don't think so. There's no natural magnet strong enough to attract ocean vessels and cripple airplanes. What do you see this hill in the. Back of us. Yeah, ieses up like a sugar cone. I was noticing it from the air. There's a huge hole in the top of the hill. This must be an extinct volcano. I have an idea that it's been converted into a magnet, a magnet pulling ships to that destruction. Well, I'll be listening, drums, natives. This sounds like a big time going on the other side of that hill. Yes, let's called for a little expiration. I'll go you in the pilot wait here. Next, I'm not going to miss the fireworks. I'm going with you too, all right, if. You insist, you go around the other side of the island, come up through the woods I saw on the plane. We don't want to stumble into any cannibals. Okay, let's go. Let's hope they don't try to make a banquet of us. Yeah, we can see them all right from here. Here they are. Boy, you just look at those natives. There must be several hundred of him. You'll paint it up. Judging from those fires and that feast laid out on the ground, they must be having some ceremonial. Look from the top of the hill. Well, I'll be where did he come from? The White God? He came right out on the top of the hill. You're right, mango. Remember I told her that that hill was a nistick volcano. That means that the inside of it running down through it as a shaft through which the volcano used to erupt. He merely made his appearance by coming up through that shaft. See, the natives seem to think he's a god by the way they're acting. Exactly, he's made them think that he has some magic power by which he comes up right. Through that hill. Look, Holy Hills, the news are carrying a white man up the hill to him. That white man is Rudolph White. He look sending burning torches to the guy's body. Then they're going to sacrifice Height, sacrifice them, Yes, a human. Sacrifice to the white God. Stop tharton against the stop putting thought against place. Ah, mister hight ah our columns, why column? What are you doing there? Since beem dismissed as. Your assistant from the University of mister Height, I have become a god a cause, yes, a white god here at the mouth of this volcano, able to perform miracles of magic, even to pull great vessels and lighters from the causes, to see to my very feet. You recognize that magic, mister Heist. Recognize it? Of course I recognize it. It's the whole new application of principles of magnetism which you stole from me. Harsh words. To speak to a god, mister Height, you must be punished on burn him, apply the torches to his SPI. I have a I'll stop this torchure of. The fact that you are sailing with a range of my magnetic devices. We sheare fiate share coined off. But I am delighted to have had the opportunity of receiving you and your holley. What have you done with my daughter? Were the others from the earth, you will join them presently? Where are they? In the very bowels of this volcano. My friend, you mean you've thrown them down into mccrator. Precisely, are you? Ah, I will not a tempt fire, and mister White, the natives resent having the card of fuels. And now I killed two birds with one stone. First I remove you and become sole possessor of the secrets of my magnetic theory. There you mean. And secondly I satisfy the first of my subjects or the sacrifice siege Halla column hurl to the old pard the white God, troil down to the sacred polcano Mola. Surry, ladies and gentlemen, How will the Shadow defeat his enemy this time? In a few moments? Will continue this exciting story. But meanwhile, motorists remember this. The road you travel on may be perfectly safe when dry, but deadly enemies when wet. Yes, beware roads maybe skid traps when wet. Don't take chances, motorists, especially when you can now get a tire that will stop you quicker safer on a wet pavement than you've ever stopped before. And that tire is the new Gudrich Silver Town with the life saber tread, the never ending spiral bars of this life saber tread really go to work on a wet, slippery road Like a whole battery of windshield wipers. These bars sweep the water right and left. They force it out through the deep drainage grooves. This means your tire actually as a drier, safer road, serve to grit. This means real protection against the hazard. Zone of motoring. Think of the added security for yourself and your family from this road drying tire, and then remember that Gudrich silver Towns also offer you Golden fly protection against high speed blowouts. Is it any wonder that this new silver Town is called the safest thing on wheels? Don't buy any tire until you've at least seen this new Gudrich silver Town. Don't buy any tire until you've ridden on this new tire and discovered what it means to be saved by a silver Town. Stop calf of. Your footing going down this rope ladder. Yes, shut up, you slip, You're done for it. No foothold on the side of this crater. You think that's the way the White God came up out of this box? You know, up on this ladder. I'm sure of it. If I can care water below us, there must be some entrance from the sea into the bottom of the crater here, but he have doubted doubts. Come into the crater from the sea, then climb the rope ladder to the top. The natives think it's some hocus pocus. And the primitive mind is eager to believe anything that savors of the supernatural. Wait a moment, What is it? Wires? Look? There dozens of them embedded in the rock. The whole crater must be wired, the wonderful one. This must be the way he generates the magnetic force into the hills through these wires. You see. I told you this whole crater can be converted into a huge magnet. Yeah. I see the wires right here a grotto. Touch them. Oh, hang on the ladder, mar goom, Hang on your life. You took ye a night and I. Can't hold on shadow. Something's pulling me off the ladder. If you need to meddle on your off, Yes, my flying belt, then then take it off quick it. I can't get it off. He's putting off. The man. What happens to it? Oh? Please come out of the invisible favor alone. I want to see you. Right, that flying belt, the magnetism, and the mountain attracted it. It stashed him against the wall, to the hill. He's touching the wire, said, the. Whole magnetizing mechanism going, Margo. We're inside a huge, monstrous magnet that will pull everything metallic for miles around to. The struction the mud. The vibrations that are shaking me off. I can't hold on any longer. Water down below. Dive into it, Marco. Maybe we can find a way to swim out of here. Dive Marco. All right, the. Good I'm following you. Well, there must be must be a way to get out of here, out of the sea, and I'll find it before the mountain crushes the death too. Its vibrations, vibrations start. Yes, why God must have turned off the powers. I'm lucky for us. Oh the did you hear that? Yes, yes, it sounds like a woman. Look, Michael, there she is hanging on that gledge at the side of the cabin. Let's swim over and get her. Oh, seems more dead than alive. It must get on, all right, I can manage this border, all right, You've got it, all right, take it someplace we can bring her to it. Hear a story. I believe in you, mister shadow altho I cannot see you. Yes, I'm Rudolph Why's daughter. I was supposed to be sacrificed like all the rest, but I landed on the water and it broke my fall. Tell me my father, Do you. Know what whether is he? Yes, I'm sorry to say he's dead. As long as that fiendish White God exists, that monstrous magnetsist command, not a soul, not. A ship, for miles around the scene. He must be destroyed, and I need your help to do it. I'll do anything good. Wasn't your father engaged on some research with new applications of magnetism. Yes, had he completed them, magnetism would have taken the place of motors and steam engines and things. I thought so. Did he have any enemies in the world? Only one, a man named Lloyd Carlin who used to be his assistant. Then the White God is Lloyd Carlin, and he knew about your father's work in magnetic phenomena. He tried to steal them. I remember that, Miss Hoyt. Are you willing to help me try and destroy this monster? Yes? Anything good? Tonight. Then we'll show the White God and his natives a brand of magic. Magic the night, Margot, you, miss Hoyt, and I shall perform the magical. Feat of reviving the dead in a burst of glory. Careful, careful on the steps of the. Ladder this height, as Shadow, they're almost at the top, mister shadow. Will you tell me why you wanted me to wear this bulletproof vest? Be found on the yell. It's possible Colin has a gun and that vest might come in handy. And remember, a wooden boat is waiting on the shore by the woods. Run for it. When I tell you, I imagine Margot will be directing the search light from the yacht on to the top of the hill any moment. Now there it is. Now do you like shooting across the mouth of the shack, and we're. Ready for your return from the dead. Step out of the shaft under the rim of the crater. Look, the natives have seen me. I could hardly miss you in that searchlight. Now walk down to that ledge. I'll be with you all tho you and the natives cannot see me. Yes, mister Shad, Remember let me do the talking. A masculine voice coming from a reincarnated woman should prove quite a shock. Hello there, your voice has them all afraid. Just the effect I anticipated. Bring your white card to me, Heathens. Let me challenge him for what he is, A pile and murderous impostor. Will the natives understand that kind of language? Yes, I think so, Calin hears me. That's alls me. That's all I'm interested in. Where is this white guard? Come here, impostor and be exposed before your master be exposed. For what you are he becomes now, mister mister shadow, remember, don't be afraid, miss Hoyt, no matter what he does. Greetings, mister Carlin, what nonsense is this? Nonsense? Yes? Your voice, miss, Yes, I. Lost my voice temporarily when you threw me down into the crater, and when it returned it was the voice. Of a man. I'm in no mood for joking. You're hiding in the shadows and speaking for at least? Why there? Who are you? Where are you? Tell me? Oh, I'll shoot a waste of bullets shooting into the shadows, Carlin, mile. Hitch Off, you think you can shoot invisibility? Or shame? Colin? You a great scientist whoever. You are, you can't stop me from destroying at least white here as I destroyed her. Father, Come, come, all of you. That girl must be destroyed in the sacrifice to the White God. Throw her into the crater, I say, calm and destroy this woman. I am afraid your power over the Natives is slipping, Colin, and. I'll throw into the crate of myself. Keep away from her. Knuck me down where you are, getting you off the ground, Colin, God shouldn't get so long to ear kill. You wherever you are. He clut. My friends, Look, the white girl returns from the earth where you threw her. Why because the earth's angry with a white god. He rejects your sacrifices. The girl is you're you only God? I I am the White Guard. What I'll show you with a fire from my gun? What can see how much of a goddess she is? Can you see? Colin? Even gunfire can't destroy it? Must Therefore, Colin, your native disciples don't like to be disillusioned about all your claims to power. I shan't a solution, and. I'm already have first. Miss Hoyt returns from the all destroying sacrifice then your gunfire fails to fas her. What other magic have you to hold your followers? I'll soil shadow. He's running up the hill. He's running to the top of the crater. Start his magnetizing device. We must stop him. I'll shyl pos a powerful here shadow Shadow. If you starts that magnetizing device, will all be shaken from the crater. You are death and run your life, And so it runs the boat go through the woods, but. He's already at the top of the crane. Run run your life. I'm going to stop him if I. Can, my invisible prayer. When my magnetic mechanism shake you off. The hill to the lockspillow and crises you. No, no, I touched the wilds and time. Right beside you. Colin, I'm right beside you. You shouldn't have wasted so much time talking if you wanted to escape me. But you're too late. I started a magnet working. Dor point would have revolutionized all industry. With this invention, balls of steel have taken the place of dynamos and turbines. I untreads with as the planet, motors and engine. It resolved my. My read you you can cut it all. As an instrument of death and destruction, used it to bore the natives who did your fiendish bidding against the unfortunate soldier. You are here. The natives are coming to kill you, Carlin. They'll throw you down the crater. Who will die too? All of you are power of a magnicum cratius. Unless it turned off, it will vibrate the volcano at the crumbles. Yeah it you will die too. Who is there? Is I the shadow? But I thought, won't you killed with the rest of them when the volcano crumbles? Evidently not, Miss hot But you were up. There with Lloyd Carlin. I heard you talking to him as I ran for this boat. You heard my voice, But that was only a little way behind you, Like a simple trick of ventriloquisms. Carlin thought I was standing next to him in the ship when his own invention destroyed him and those unfortunate natives. Then that's the end of my father's invention. Shadow. Yes, miss With your father and Carlin gone, we must wait until another mind can conceive it again. Until then, the secret must remain entombed in the volcano of the White God. You have been listening to a dramatized version of one of the many copyrighted stories which appear in the Shadow magazine, The. Weed of Crime, There's bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The Shadow knows. All the characters and all the places named after Fitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental