The Shadow 048 - The Ghost of Captain Bayloe

Who knows what evil looks in the hearts of men. The shadow loads. Today's story the ghat of Captain Blow. Come along, crunching. We are to find the major for the Northern Queen and one of those waterfront saloons around here. I know you'll be interested in hearing his story. I'm sure I will tell me, mister. Where what happened to the rest of the crew when the Northern Queen went down? Lord to every man? Jack of him? This make we're looking for is the only survivor. He just got fought. The Northern Queen was your biggest fight ship, wasn't. His biggest and best in my whole freak trends? And he was smashed a bitch? And how did it happen? Now? I don't exactly know. I've heard some crazy nations, but no facts. That's why I'm so anxious to talk to this mate. Maybe he can clear things up. You say the Northern Queen was smashed to bits? When did it happen on an uninhabited island off the ship range in. The middle of the Pacific, uninhabited off the ship lanes? But what your fate are doing? That? That's just what I've got to find out there's something strange about this whole business. Ten liners have been wrecked in. The same spot during a score of years in the same manner. Here Crenson and say we can find a mate in this. Brain alight, what do you have? And be little trouble mustering a ship crew in this salon and mis to have shouts would bring you enough men? The man a boat from keel to bridge. Grander, Oh, here's my mate. Hi, their mate day, I see you're still fig to ride a gale. Hummador? Where sir? Right? Please? I am LENI again. I want to talk to you, and you go in the back room there, I said, right in here, it will be nice to cry. This is better town me everything. Thank you. I know you want to hear about the wreck you ship the Northern Queen. Here wait, give me the fact. That I will, sir, and it'll likely raise the hair on your head just as it's white and mine. What happened? What cause the RECOGNI ship? Twas Captain Baylow stayed are on the rocks. Captain Baylow was not of the Northern Queen, was he no? But he rode the bridge the night she broke up leastwise is ghasted. Of course, the ghost that Captain Blow held the wheel and all the men aboard couldn't budget from his grip. That's strong he was. Now. What I want to know, mate, is but the Northern Queen was doing off her course. It sprung a leak in our fresh water tanks. Sir. The nearest land point. Was below island. The skipper set the Northern Queen to the wind and stared a course for the island. The crew was again it. But it was that or die of thirst. Gentlemen, if I knew then what was before us, ha'd ha died a thousand times er. What happened nothing, sir, till we were a few miles off the island. Then cap'n Below's ghosts took command. I most forgot, mister Cranston. I don't suppose you know about Captain Below. No, but I'm very much interested. Well, Sir, cap'n Blow's been dead. He's twenty years or more. He was the last of the old square rigger skippers. It was the China trade. He was in. On his last voyage out of the Orient, he carried two precious cargoes, a shipment of silver and his beautiful young wife. Cap'n Below was quitting the sea to settle in South America. A happy pair they were, uh, none happier. His crew, though, was the mouthliest collection of sea scum over the sail of all the masts. Well, sir, they were just off the island that's now called after him. Captain Blow was at the wheel, his wife beside him. The sea spray was washing her lovely face since he was laughing into the wind. The crew was aft, heads together, wherefore that were gone. I tell you we could do it easy. Capt Bilo's got the silver luck in his cabin. Now we could make him give up the key. He'll never do it our way. We clings, and we can't make him do it. He's only one man, and we're a whole crew. That's enough silver to make us all rich for the rest of our lives. He's a much prettier cargo on the bridge beside him. He's woman. Aye. Silvera comes from the earth, but a pace like that could only come from above. I want silver on. My share goes for the other cargo. We share a lot. Come on, we get the prize first, we argue about it afterwards. Come on, while a happy woman laughed beside the contented man. The crew crept slowly toward the bridge. The laugh was cut short by the sight of the hard faced men. Captain Below asked them what they wanted for. We want the key, your cavin Captain Below, and we mean the. All of the men below. But we tied for the silver cargo, and you ain't putting us all. And it'll give us the key pieceful, and we'll take it away. From your skipper reminded him it was mutiny. You know what it is. You don't have to tell us fill today. I'm not winning command in and you'll be waiting up of the key. Cappin Belo told them they'd get the key over his dead body, all right, Then over your dead body you'll be Captain Below. Come on, man, where. Junk him? There fare? While the men fought like hungry wolves. Cap'n Below's wife stood frozen in horror. Hand me that blayon bed there you are. There on a struddle. A swap. The blow from the balame thin stunned the skipper. He fell to the deck. The crew were on him, snapping like a bunch of jackals. I loved him up. Any car run no more now heave him over the side. Tappin Below was half conscious when they threw him over the rail. He revived a bit when his body hit the water. He saw his ship with his wife aboard, sailing away above the surge of the sea. He heard, coming back on the wind, the. Pitiful wail of his lovely wife before the waters covered him up. Captain Below, with a notae on his lips, swore eternal vengeance on all men who sailed the sea. Well, gentlemen. Captain Below's wife died soon after that, but he's had his revenge many times over. He takes the helm. Of any ship that ventures into the waters when he lost his life and stares it onto the rocks of Balo Island. You think that how the Northern Queen was wrecked. I don't think, mister Cranston. I know I'm not given to. Ghost stories, sir, But I saw the Northern Queen's propeller frozen so her big engines couldn't turn it over. There she rode helpless on the tide, straight for the rocks. She was smashed to bits. Why are you so sure the ghost of Captain bailou to command? Because I heard the warning warning. Eye, Sir, I was just going off watch when I heard it plane as I hear you, But what the pitiful wail of Captain Below's wife. I knew then the Northern Queen was done for another seaman than myself. Put a small boat over the side and rowed away. The other man died from exposure. I was picked up five days later by a liner. That's why I'm here now, gentlemen. And there's not enough money in all the world that has get me back to Balo Island. Well, the wreck of the Northern Queen is still a mystery to me. Gregson, What do you think? What do I think, mister ware? How would you and missus Ware like to take a trip on my yut with miss lady and myself? Crip? Where to to Baloe Island? Oo? Why George, it's funny here. I am owner of a free devotion liners I haven't been to see in years. Gregson, I'm glad you sing Jester is boring where I'm glad you're enjoying it. Mister Ware. Oh, this sold here makes you sleepy. This is where miss Wayne have turned along Ago, get off follows to common gresson. As I'll join you belong just a moment, all right? Oh we do eat miss where mister Granton, captain any orders for the night's there? No, go to the same course. And you haven't yet told me where we're heading, sir, No, and so your mind's there, never talking. We're heading for Palo Island, below Island. Yes, you've heard of the place. I suppose what seamen heaven't? And why in Heaven's name do you want to go to that place? Sir? I want to convince myself of something. It's a dangerous boys, sir. You think we might be wrecked, isn't it not only that? Sir? It means trouble with the crew and they find out we're heading for those wonted waters. Now, I hate to think of what may happen. Don't make captain. Do you believe in this legend? Do you fear the ghost of Captain Blow? Yes, sir, I certainly do. Why I tell you I saw the sailing orders. He's engineer told me. It's effect we're off of Below Island. Mister Cranston must be crazy. Well, mister Cranston may be crazy enough to come here, but that don't mean we have to stay. What do you mean we can make mister Cranston turn the ship back. That's mute me. You can be jailful. That got me worse than what may happen. We gotta do something because the old cruise. On watch tonight least, why he's not a man's asleep. But they can't be far from that course as Valo Island. Now, if it is so dark you can see it off the port bell that's long. Suppose suppose Captain Blow took amand I've. Asked you for is but I just I don't. Want to talk about this. What yes? This hear it? Yeah? Like a woman said it, It goes your man, Captain Below's wife. That's the warning. He'll come out of the scene. How any minute the ghost, Yes, we're lost, will lost? Take any mercer klip Chriet. There it is again. We've got to turn back. We've got to get. Out of these waters. I'm gonna tell the skip us. We've gotta tell. Yes, yes, go away there here swamp, open the door? It here? What's going on here? You heard it? Get this? What are you talking about? Man? What did you hear? Captain Below's dead? Why? Men are letting your imaginations run away with you. Now get below and stay. No, I hear is plain as a ship's belga. We gotta get out these waters. We'll all be lost. What's going on? Captain? This man thinks here the wail of Captain Bailo's wife, mister Crampton. Might don't get things to I heard it the other minute of it too. No, that's nothing. Man just went in the rigging. That's no. No, You've got to believe me, mister Crenton. It's still time to see what you've done with it? Are engines they've stopped. Call the engine room. Hi, sir, dear you see this boy? Hello fellows? I answer, what's that to the engine? We don't know? Stopped there? The mother stopped talking all of a sudden. Stand by and cover it alow. Range. The motors have all been shorten. They can't feed the engine. I knew it. It's the girls. He's digging over we lost. This is all quiet, man, I'm getting out of here. This did don't go on there. Come back here, Captain. We've got to shot that man. Gone, man, shot that man. Show me a. Turn on the sect flight. I answer. We went after fort Wring. That light this way captain, one of my men leaped over the side. Marbro We propriate free. Yes, mister Ware, our engine store go kinda became praised with fair. It is frightful of mon and I hope we. Can find him in the toy see heston here, Yes, captain, have you found him? No, I'm afraid so. There's not much of a chance in a sea like this, there's. No side of it. We've got to find him. We lost the metal to all. They can up here, I've got to go below and see what's to be done. All right, what's her position, grandson? We're just off the island, mister Weir. Is there much of a drift for the everyone? And it's tard the island? That means we make crash if the engines aren't started, mister Ware. Yes, Granson, help me lower one of our small boats. Small boat. What's more, I'm going over to that island. But what good would that do? The braces are inhabited. Nevertheless, I've got to see what's there. If it's too dangerous, I don't want you. To go out there alone, You and everybody else on this you're a great danger. Margo. I've got you all into it. I've got to try and get you. Out of it. Well, if you're going out there and the mother, I'm going with you. He amo leave the boat beached here. We look around, not much to see him, miss done, desert pass. It's foolish of you to come, Mungo. You should have taken my advice. Eh, look look over that. What is it? Mother? Something's coming out of that top of bushes. Oh, he's coming to it. A man a month crapy to go to Danton, Dana. Uh, I've got my gun. Uh h, say where you are? I shoot? Where you? Who are dor hendy man? Give away a head? Ooh? Who are you? I'd come from that yacht off there. And you're not one of Yander's men? Who is Handy? A devil? A month to do? You live on this island? Uh? Die on this island. We understood this. I inhabited. Oh there are people here, but not above the crowd. What do you mean the parents in dark to han't dungeons? Yes? Tell me who are these people? Survivors of ships wrecked from the rocks here. Anybody that ever sets foot on. This island is never allowed to leave again. Go away, go away before it's too late. I wanna know about those prisoners. Their lives are spent in darkness all day. They work in the mines. At night they're locked in dungeons. Always darkness, never fresh air, never light. Are you are captive? Here? I captive and slave. I was the skipper of the Melimos. She was wrecked here some fifteen years ago. I've been here ever since. But you I can find you a dungeon. I've found the secret exit and steal out at night. To watch the sea and hope they're not something of happen to be done for these unfortunate people. There's nothing, nothing you can do. Go away, go away? Can you take me to the dungeons? I can, but I don't think I should please. I think I can help no one and best, and perhaps I can uh uh? I then come along and see how dead men live. Careful the guard is due along any minute. To keep close to me, Maco. This place is dark. I'm all right, the mother. What's that? The dungeons that are just below this crevice? And you have to jump here? I let they have to mucros. There we are. This is all the light we ever see a single flare and my duck. Good heavens are these men and these are the ones that have gone blinds from the dark. They can't work, so they must die, have slow starvation. How horrible. How many men are here? Half a hundred? We can awful the monk men men look two from the outside world. They have come to help us. No help for uh careful, it comes to God. Say back, muncle in the here he will pass. Get behind your muncle. Tell me men, do this God? Have the keys to the dungeon peers, are you going to do the mind? Get those keys, liberate these men? How right? Uncare it comes m. Uh uh there that's dunnes, not. The keys killing eye Open the dungeons quick, lamont, yes. Mama, here we are all right. Man, Come on, come out your feet. Oh don't you understand what I mean. It's no use, lamot. These men are pray them moves. There's only one way to feed them. I must remove the cause of death. Here wherever I find this yette, y andy. Oh, you can't get me. He lives and works in rooms carved out of solid rock. Where show me the rock. It's useless, But if you want to try, come with me. Mother, you go on the mot I'm going to open the rest of these dungeons and try. To cook these men out with these plans. Yeah, she will be shafer here. There won't pay another guards along before morning come along, but it will. But you will never get me, end your lives. He's got it nice. I've got to get him. The lives of those men, the lives of my friends and crew depend on it. Can you make her our chet withester andy. Yes, Yes, she's a yacht a rich man's playing. Soon be his coffin. They got the engines going against her everywhere. Turn on the black beam, shot the. Motor, Yes, sir, that's got him. She's helpless on her time. Naw, turn on the magno beam, Magnetize the rudder, right, got it, hold around it. Steer the rudder toward the rocks coming north end of the island. Yes, sir, Yeah, that's one more crawl that will never be able to tell of the mineral wealth of this island. The secret is still I'll say, I've guarded it for eighteen years since the day I discovered it. No one will ever share the work or no it exists. And another wreck will be choked up to the ghost of Captain Balo. Yes, Captain Blow has been the most convenient ghost, the most plausible one. Nobody ever doubts him. The scene. What was that thought? I heard a laugh? I heard it? Have you the radio key opened? Oh, sir, I cut us the phone. You're lying to me? You know it's well not Oh no, missy, and this is not a voice you can cut off with a flick of a diary. Who are you? I am the. Shadow Shadow, I've heard of him. He's the guy. I can't see your. Use of the captain below. Legend has had an Endandy, You've created havoc with your diabolically clever electrical inventions, like a monster. You've destroyed then, because of your insatiable greed. Well, and this is your finny here the sea will be well rid of you, and poor Captain Baylor will rest peacefully in his sea grave. What's that? The slave? They escape from their dungeons, Hendy. They're crawling out of the earth because. They just hatred on you can on heck Gray, I'm a friend them to christ right. They're all rocks. My equipment is drawing on plat Limoucy. Andy is free of your clever magno beams, and those people down there will soon be done with you. I'm getting mouth out of my way. You're not getting on that post. You got hit on the call. Without I don't care what happens to you. Take care of you. Run the sona to meet your tomb. Oh man, Yes, Smuggle, I'm quite all right. Don't thank heavin, Smuggle. The captives have taken their captain. They've got Yendy. You change the piece that would be a little less than the seam well deserves. But I suppose we'll have to try and save him for the law. Come along, Muggle, with no time to lose. Now we've got all those men you stayed from the dungeons birth below deck, mister Cranston. The poor devils don't. Know how to thank your Take good care of them, Captain. I am you cand out yet? What happened to Yann the month? Yes, Mogul, one of the men just told me, but he waited until we were well out to see first. What can we do with them? Well, they didn't pitch them into the sea, as they told us. They locked them in their own dungeons. And it's too late for us to do anything about that now. So we'll have to leave Yandy and his confederates to suffer as long as their lives last, the terrible fate they decide for others. The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pasee the Shadowlords