The Shadow 042 - The Man Who Murdered Time

Who knows what evil looks in the hearts of men, The Shadow lows. While we're waiting for the first act of the Shadow's latest adventure to begin, I'd like to ask every motorist to do this. Take a ride on the new Gudrich Safety Silvertown tire. Say for yourself. Owurd grips wet slippery roads like you never felt a tire grip before. That's because the amazing silver Town Life Saver tread acts like a battery of windshield wipers, sweeps wet roads so dry you can light a match on its track for the quickest non skid stops you've ever had. Acquit your car with Quadridge Silvertown Tires. The Shadow, mysterious character who weighs frozen. To stress and helps the forces of law and order, is in reality La Mont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Cranston's brand and companion, the lovely Margot 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. Today's story the man who murdered time Ah Yes Juan mister Cranston on behalf of all the employees of the club. I wish to. Thank you for your generous New Year's gift to the personnel. Descried Orange Stewart. Happy New Year. The same to you, sir, and may I thank you too, mister Hughes for your gift. You verry welcome to it. Happy new year, Happy new Yet I wish I could have made it more Cranston, but it hasn't been a terribly good year me. I'm sorry to hear it. Jews. Oh, by the way, how is missus Hughes feeling these days? Poorly? Will the Doctor's a sanitarium safe? You may pull out of it next year. That's why I'm looking forward to the new year so eagerly. We'll use it. Sir. There's anything I can do in the way of financial assistance, thanks old man. But it won't be necessary. I expect to be out of debt very shortly, business improving. No trust fund is coming due in two weeks inheritance from my uncle Matthew. You know I'm. Delighted to hear a user well, only eight hours to a brand new year, and you hope for all of us amen to that are you're. Coming to my New Year's epody tonight. Don't you know why I meant to tell your Cransona, I'll be late. I got a call this morning from a second cousin of mine. Wants me to come to see him this evening. Brilliant scientist, but I suspect he's. Losing his mind. Oh, nobody claims to have invented a time machine. A time machine, it's a fantastic come used. Is anything really fantastic in the modern world of science? Thirty years ago, the notion that a human voice could circle the Earth without the aid of wires would have been called not only fantastic but impossible. Radio electric light airplanes all were called fantastic in their time, But to day they're accepted texts. Why not the time machine? I'm from Missouri anyway, I'm really going to see my cousin, not because of his alleged invention, but because he's dying. Well that's too bad. Yes, the port chaff got in an incurable heart condition. It's he told me that doctors don't give him more than a few days to live. Well, I've got to be all. See you tonight. The news only a miracle keep me away, Crimston, a miracle like the time machine. Well here will it? Think that's water there? You better know? Yes, yes, better used. Perhaps you better get into bed, Willard. Frankly, I didn't expect to find you up in about dress to kill dress to kill very good, that's an app phrase. Well why not? This is probably the last day of my life. I'm sure it's not as bad as all that, Willard. If you take therac so I'm cam used, I'll never see the new year. That's what you're really thinking. Know what I've done today? What Willard? The things I've wanted to do all my life, packed them all into this one long, glorious day. I've smoked two dollars cigars, eating the finest foods, fought thousands of dollars worth of completely useless things just for the fun of indulging myself. I'm broke. I am then how to borrow. Dear cousin, spend other people's money, incurrd enormous debts payable next year, next year, which will never come. I'm sorry? What are you sorry about it? I'm not matter of fact, I've just begun to celebrate and you must join me. Used absolutely insist I bought a marvelous sherry today, a. Rare vintage you ran. You needn't bother the sherry, John, Yes, sir, I have it here, sir, fine, fine. Put it on the table. I do it myself, that's all. John. Hey, you are yours? Drink hearty, thank you? How do you like it? Nectar ambrosia? Huh? That a peculiar flavor. It will go on you finish the Jews. Drink to my last day on her? Oh no, no, will it not to do my last day on her and yours, my dear cousin, true, my last day. Use. I told you that today I meant to satisfy every ambition I ever had. Well, I've left for the last my greatest ambition of all, to kill you. Who you? Who? You're joky thinks? So use? What have you ever done to you? What haven't you done to me? You've been a borne in my throat ever since we were boys together. I believe you, you you. I'd have been Uncle Matthew's fairhead boy, his favorite, his pet. He would have raised me in luxury instead of. You, who quarreled with him. You would have left me his money, not you. You're judas you had everything while I starved, scraped, suffered. I've brooded over that, my fine cousin a whole lifetime. And now this wonderful day, this last day of the year, I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you, not once for a thousand times. You see that machine in the corner, Calm down, that's my time machine. Your time machine. Yes, I remember you're saying. You know what this machine can do. It can prevent the future from happening, the future from happening. Holdana, look, will look? Let me call you a physician. I'll be a pool. Machine if you are. It's a scientific machine, not a madman's toy. Do you know how it works? Of course not. I'll explain it in simple terms. Use what is time? Why? Time is time? Time is like a railroad track, a straight railroad track. Use and the world is a train running along that track. On the track behind us lies yesterday, December thirtieth, The day we're traveling along that section of track we call December thirty first, And at midnight tonight, the train you are, the whole universe is scheduled to plunge straight ahead into January first of the new year. You follow me so far us, Yes, what is this to do with your so called time machine? Just this, Using a revolutionary principle of physics, my own discovery, my machine bends the straight track of time, curves it curves it so that the time track forms. A perfect circle. You'll fool. It's a scientific fact. I've done it, so mad, I say, Matt, listen to me. Use midnight tonight, when I turn on. The switch, time will instantly be curved back on itself, so that instead of continuing into January first, we'll go back twenty four hours. We'll live December thirty first over again and again and again like a phonograph. Need all caught in the grooves. If you believe that this day will never end, that you can make December thirty first repeat itself forever. Laugh your full you won't laugh long today. I've been especially careful to make it the fullest, happiest day of my life, because I'm going to live this wonderful day forever. I'll patch time in that groove and hold it there. The future will never come. I'll never have to pay my debts, despite my bad heart, I'll never die. I'll have to be as insane as you to believe that what you like a demonstrations out to the end, are you well? Go ahead, demonstrate that's the proper scientific spirit. Use, I'll set the machine to affect merely this house and ourselves. What incident of the. Last half hour do you want me to make repeat itself? Shoes, the butler, and the sherriff, Johann and the sherry. Eh, very good. And I want you to bear in mind that, just as time will. Be repeated here in this room for the next few moments, so can I repeat time throughout the whole world, not once, but again and again. Now let me adjust my machine. Yah, now the clothes. The circuit will scarry. John, Yes, I have it. Here's fine, fine, put it on the table. I do it myself. That's all John, Pretty good? Eh. The automatic circuit cut us off, and we're back in ordinary time again. Convinced. Use, it can't be. It's impossible. It's a trick, grief. You'll be saying that for all eternity. I'm are you cousin right? If you can, I can. I'm paralyzed. I can't get out of this chair. You feel pain, now, don't you? Use? Yes? Yes, horrible pale. You shouldn't have drunk for sherry. Use your grass contained the slow. Poison you see, no no help health. There's an antidote on the table. You see that little green bottle you is just beyond the reach of your fingers. It ironic if you could only move your arm fire is you try? Ah? You can dear me, how very very sad. All you can do is look at the antidote while you dye in agony. Please help me. I don't want to. Tire a little while now cut in a little while, almost midnight. You'll die just before midnight, and then I'll turn on my machine, set it to affect the whole world forever and time all over the world will slap back twenty four hours. Everybody in the world will live December thirty first, over again and again, forever and ever. You too, You you'll visit me again. Drink the poison cherry again, Die again, Live again, Die again. I am yours is the loveliest New Year's Eve party. I ever ta margo you beautifully. I wonder what's happened to yours? He said he'd be late. There comes in a year, ye lamar not yet. Line Man eleven. M a Lamande, where are we? I'm still in your arms, dancing with you. But it's not. The party, the New Year's Eve party in your apartment. How could that be? I don't know, Margo. What what was that awful crash? I don't know. But look around you, Margo. We're dancing in the Honolulu club. But we were dancing in the Honolula club right here last night, last night, at midnight, I mean, twenty four hours ago. Oh, I don't know what I mean. Keep dancing with me, mother, I've got to figure this out. Seems like a dream. Yet that's it, the mard, it's a dream. I dreamed through the whole day December thirty first, right up to midnight. Then that crash, and I. Woke up here in the Honolulu club. Mago, it wasn't the dream. I ta you? And what was it? The mark? I don't know. I don't know. But something's gone wrong. Move, something's gone wrong with the whole world, and. Everything seems all right in the marth. Moggo hold on to me, don't let go. Let's walk back to our table, all right, But I don't understand. Keep polling onto me, Nogo, You remember last night Just about this time, as we were dancing, a waiter accidentally dropped a whole tray pull of dishes for Yes, that's so. The month the mart it's happened. He dropped it, just as he did last night. Yes, I see it all now, Margo. We actually lived through December thirty first, we everybody, the whole world. But just as the last stroke of midnight came, something happened to time. Time. Yes, time snapped back twenty four hours. Instead of going on to January first, the world went back to the first moment of December thirty first. But nobody else seems to realize what's happened. Yes, that is strange. Apparently everybody's forgotten that they lived through the last day of the year. Why do we remember, Margo. I believe that the same power that makes me invisible to others has something. To do with this. What do you mean the monk? Years ago in India, I was studying with the Yogi priests. I developed my powers of concentration, my power of will, to such an extent that apparently this accident of time doesn't affect me. How long I'll be able to fight against it, I don't know, did I haven't your power mark? How do I remember too, Margle, because of the instant time flashed back. You happen to be dancing with me. You were in my arms within the hour of my will, my influence. No, just so long as you're touching me, you'll remember. Too, Holabaud, I can't believe. That I can. Well, then try it. Let go me go on, let go Marvel. All all right, you're write Lamar. You remember the Higgins, don't you? Yes, that's the Saturday. Well are very ancient with you? And I go down to. What am I saying? What happened? Hold him? Aren't you're holding me again? Marvel? Instant you let go of me. You said exactly what you said twenty four hours before when I grabbed you, you snapped back free of the new time Spelle. Then it's true, hold him on, I'm afraid. Don't let go, Lady Marvel. Oh but it's horrible. People will go on living through December to refer to it, Kennedy, never knowing, never realizing you Morsell, never be a. New Year, absolutely right. Unless this can be stopped, How can any one stop it? Nothing human could have caused a thing like this to happen. I'm not so sure. Margo Hugh has told me that a cousin of his, a brilliant scientist, claimed to have invented a time machine. That cousin of you may be responsible for what's happened to time. Who is this man? Where he live? You didn't say, I'll have to find him some way? And when I do, Muggo, it'll be as the Shadow. Perhaps the Shadow will be able to switch time back to normal, bring the new year to a world doomed to live a day which never aids. And just a minute the curtain rises on Act too of the Shadow's adventure. Meanwhile, a word, do you, motorist? Do you slow down passing the school? Do you pass up the. Cars on a hill? Do you come to a full stop at street intersection? The Shadow wonders. The terrific tour of debts and injuries indicates that too many motorists fail to exercise caution, fail to consider the other fellow play safe It pays. And motorists, here's one thing more. If you only realize the importance that safe tires too play in safe motoring, you wouldn't hesitate a minute to put the new Gudrich Safety Silver Towns with the Life Saver tread on your car. Po. Remember this new Silver town is much more than a new tire. It's a new kind of tire safety. On the inside it. Has the famous blowout protection of the good rich Goldenply, and on the outside it has the amazing new Life Saver tread, the tread that sweeps wet roads so dry you can actually light a match on its track. Yes, sir, that's lady Dry. So it's hardly surprising that Silver Towns will give you the quickest non skid stops you've ever had. Margot, keep pulling under me. We can walk. My apartment is in fire. Oh why don't you let me come with you? No, mother, this is the shadows. Job may be dangerous. I want you to be seen days in the world gone mad. Oh, we'll watch yourself. Streets is stripper with ice. Yeah, hold on me more tightly. What court here? What happens my cat? Here comes the cou somebody call. Hurt? Oh? How you remember Margot last night on this very spot. Same taxi, the same corner, the same poor woman struck down. It's happened all over again. Yes, Margo, and it will happen all over again every twenty four hours from now until doomsday. Which why think of that woman over and over? Unless I can put time back on its pack. Muggle, I must and hurry. Oh look at that poor man shivering in the doorway. There. He hasn't even an overcoat. He looks hungry for Marco. Remember last night. In a moment, he'll step out of that doorway and ask me for a diamond. Here's weirdness, could kill Give. Me a dim set. That's the colon freezing. Oh thanks, thanks. There's one thing I'm glad of, Lamont. He doesn't know. He doesn't know he's doomed to shiver and freeze and starve like that forever and millions liking. Millions of unfortunate shivering and starving all over the world. And I's that machine. I must find that machine. Right here we are, Muggle, don't bother to take me up. There's so much for you to do, so much Lamont. The doorman will let me in. It's exactly the same time we. Got home last night, this laying bad night, and it's Curry in the month, finds h cousin since times, repeating himself, I always say when. You will meet me on the afternoon at my club. He met me yesterday. We'll talk as we talked, then perhaps he be able to tell me what you're so pale? Don't it's funny thought witches to night. So if my strength, strength of my will were heading away, could it be that you've got to be strong? The world need your stink call. You're draining my power, my strength away. The wind is very biting this lad, Yes, it. Is said, Will you take me up to my apartment? Yes, you're miss gone, save pup stairs. Good Bye Marco until tomorrow. Tomorrow hepa comes. Mister on behalf of all the employees at the club. I wish to thank you for your generous New Year's gift to the list, to me, don't you here? Don't you want to say that? Meaning to you? And may I thank you too, mister Hughes for your DearS. You're welcomes to it. Happy new Year, Happy new Yeah to you, sued stop. I wish I could have been more Cranston, but it hasn't been a terribly good year. Cuse let me. Take your hand. You're merely repeating what you said twenty four hours ago, poorly listen to you made for a lot of who is your friend? That's why who is so eagerly bookless? He's not attuned to my will. I'll have to follow him, make him lead me to this cousin of his the death very shortly. I just concentrated. I will seem to be feeling. I must hold on until you visit his cousin. Convene you. It's impossible. It's a trick, a dream, and be saying that for all eternity. I'm getting out of here. Are your cousin, tid If you can. I can't. I can't. I'm paralyzed. I can't get out of this chair. Use you can you you're not paralyzed, horrible faith, There is no pain. You drunk, you're glass seeing the slow poison. No hell, hell, I have helped you use it. You are not poisoned. I substituted this antidote for the poison in the glass of sherry. Will have handed you. If you're not poisoned, I tell you, exert you will rejut it to mine. Try to get out of that chair, hold me, hold me not try. I've broken the grip of the time skull. A little I made something happen that didn't happen yesterday. You did something just now. You didn't do that. You take the antidote instead of the poisoner. Try try use. I heard the voice, the voice, but there's no one here, no one, but try try and said, cheer. Out the chair. I'm standing, I'm free afray. Thank the Lord yours? Can you hear me? Now? Who are you? You only will? I don't think you me holding me? Who are you? Never mind? Who I am yours? Get out of this house at once. Go to the home of your friend. Someone quenched you ought to attend the New Year's He potted there. Remember, call I yours. You don't need me to hold you now. I will you to know. A little why. It's almost midnight. You'll die just before midnight? Where am I? Who is that? Uh? You feel my power? Will it? I'm holding you fast? First, do you hear? I will submit to my will? It dominates you, It snatches you from the feel of that evil time. Still you cast over the world, and. I am powerless in the grip of some invisible force. And it speaks, who are you? Who? I have? The shadow? The shadow? Doctor Willard, You are guilty of the greatest crime ever perfectraated against mankind. You thought to condemn the rest of the world to an eternity of cold and darkness and soul. No, I didn't mean to do that. You wanted an eternal life of pressure of evil. You try to stave off forever the death that. Hung over you like a. Soul or a god. To satisfy yourselfishness. You tried to You did break the laws of nature, so you must be punished after will not to vunish. In a moment, I shall smash your devilish time machine, reduce it to sprinters and scrap, and the instant the machine is smashed, time will snap back to normal. Instantaneously. Time will take up where it left off when you put the machine into operation, and so will come what you thought to destroy forever that you year, the blessed New Year that means new hope and happiness for the good and the innocent people of the world, while for you it will bring what got the creed for you death. No, no, don't smash machine. Give me one day of life, just one. Then I'll smash it myself, not one on, not one, not. One stop. Eleven. Well, in the new year alone. Yes, Margo, the new Year, I lost. By yours. I'm started, friend to life. I don't know what happened to me. I feel as if I as if. I just woke up from a bad dream. I found myself running running up here. This is you. You're real. No, he's all right, Mango. You are all right, aren't you you? I guess I am what time is it? It's just that twelve o'clock that to use. Happy New Year, New Year, Yes, Happy new Year, Happy New Year. No matter exactly, Moon. It seems to me I had a dream too, the strangest sort of dream. Perhaps you did, Margot. Well anyway, Happy New Year, the month, Happy New Year. Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The Shadow magazine. All the characters and all the places named are fictician. Any similarity to person's living or dead is purely coincidentally. The Shadow magazine is now on sale at your local news staff. The weed of Crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay The Shadow node