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"The Shadow" was a popular American radio drama that aired from 1937 to 1954. It featured the character Lamont Cranston, who used his hypnotic power to cloud men's minds and become invisible as the crime-fighting hero, The Shadow. The show was known for its iconic opening, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
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00:00Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
00:17The shadow knows.
00:25Ladies and gentlemen, as we near the start of the happy holiday season,
00:29the Blue Coal Dealers of America wish you, the members of their vast unseen audience,
00:34the merriest Christmas ever.
00:36And they present as their special Christmas gift to you,
00:39a heartwarming yuletide adventure of the shadow.
00:47Before the shadow starts its adventure,
00:50I'd like to add my Christmas greetings to those of the Blue Coal Dealers of America.
00:54You know, their product, Blue Coal,
00:56is the modern equivalent of the old-fashioned yule log.
01:00You can depend upon Blue Coal to bring warmth, good cheer, and comfort to your home
01:0424 hours of the day.
01:07And with each order of Blue Coal is included the free extra home heating service
01:12of your friendly Blue Coal dealer.
01:14Is your bin well filled for the holidays?
01:18If not, phone your neighborhood Blue Coal dealer first thing in the morning.
01:21The shadow, mysterious character who aids the forces of law and order,
01:32is in reality the monk Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
01:36As the shadow, Cranston is gifted with a hypnotic power to cloud men's minds
01:40so that they cannot see him.
01:43Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane,
01:46is the only person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
01:49Today's drama, Joey's Christmas Story.
02:03Uh, was there any particular destination you would want me to drive you to, Mr. Cranston, hey?
02:08I'm looking for little Joey, the newsboy.
02:10Oh, well, if it's a paper you want, I could stop at any...
02:13Oh, no, we're looking for Joey, Shreevy.
02:15We have a special date with him that we keep every Christmas season.
02:18Oh, you mean like a lenderspool, huh?
02:20That's right, Shreevy.
02:22Every year for the past three seasons,
02:24we've taken Joey on a tour of the toy sections of all the department stores.
02:27Oh, well, now, ain't that nice.
02:30You know, this time of year, I get wishing I was a kid again myself.
02:34Ain't that silly?
02:35No, of course not, Shreevy.
02:37We all feel that way.
02:39You know, my friend and acquaintance, Big Charlie, of whom you have heard me speak?
02:43Yes?
02:44Well, him and me used to have some fun at Christmas time when we was kids.
02:48That is, uh, till Big Charlie spoiled it.
02:51Well, how was that?
02:52Well, he got a bandit from all the toy departments in the stores.
02:56But why?
02:57Oh, just on account of one peachy little thing he used to do.
03:01Well, what was it?
03:02Giving Santa Claus a hot foot.
03:04That was a fine thing to do.
03:07Oh, look, come on.
03:08There's a little joy on the corner.
03:10Stop your cab, Shreevy, will you?
03:13There you go, Shreevy.
03:15Hey, Mr. Cranston.
03:17Gosh, I thought maybe it wasn't coming.
03:19Well, how are you, Joey?
03:20I'm fine, thanks.
03:21Hello, Miss Lane.
03:22Hello, Joey.
03:22Are you all set for our little excursion, Joey?
03:25Well, I still have a couple of papers left.
03:26Oh, well, how many papers have you?
03:28Let's see.
03:29Two, four, six, six, seven, eleven.
03:30Eleven, my guy.
03:31Eleven, eh?
03:32Well, do you think five dollars would pay for them?
03:33Gosh, five bucks.
03:35Gee, Mr. Cranston, I...
03:37Ah, you shouldn't give me that more picture.
03:39Now, throw your papers away and we'll hop into the cab.
03:42Well, uh, would you...
03:43Would you mind if I don't throw them away?
03:45Oh, I mean, it's being almost Christmas and everything.
03:48Well, I like to give them away to some certain people who couldn't maybe afford to buy one.
03:52Why, sure.
03:53Go ahead, Joey.
03:54Gosh, thanks again, Mr. Cranston.
03:56Hey, Willie, here's a paper.
03:58Compliments are doing.
03:59Oh, he's a swell kid.
04:01Look at him.
04:02You'd think he was giving away a million dollars.
04:04That's just about what it is to him, too.
04:06Yeah, that kid is a regular character.
04:08I hope he saves a paper for me, hey?
04:10Oh, Shrevy, I don't think you're on his charity list.
04:13That's what I get for owning a cab.
04:15Well, I got rid of more but one, Mr. Cranston.
04:17Oh, good.
04:18Let's get into the cab.
04:19Okay.
04:19There it is.
04:21Well, why'd you save the one paper, Joey?
04:23Oh, that's me old friend, Hobo Sam.
04:26He gets a lot of good out of a paper.
04:28Really?
04:28How's that?
04:29Well, when he finishes reading, he wears it inside his shirt that keeps warm.
04:33And the evening records are warm as paper in town.
04:37They should advertise that.
04:39As I said before, that kid's a character, huh?
04:42Well, you tell us where Hobo Sam can be found, and we'll stop off there before we go to the stores.
04:48He's found a street away.
04:49Hey, look, there's my pup.
04:50Hey, would you please go slow past this corner, Mr. Shrevee?
04:53Oh, sure thing.
04:54Sure thing.
04:55Every evening of it helps, thank you.
04:57Hiya, Bob!
04:58Hello, son.
05:00Huh.
05:01He's been here most nice, though.
05:03I bet you that he's the best-looking street corner standing close in our whole world.
05:07Joey, how long has he been doing that job?
05:11Oh, ever since the holiday season started.
05:13He kind of needed a job, too.
05:15You see, he ain't been able to get much work the last couple years.
05:18Well, it's good that he's found something at Christmas time anyway, Joey.
05:22Yeah, that's what I told him.
05:24But the money he's been making on this job has gone out for back rent and bills and things.
05:28It ain't really Christmas money.
05:30Oh, so your prospects for Christmas are still none too bright.
05:34Yeah, Mr. Cranston, I ain't worried.
05:36Pop will find some way for us to have a good Christmas.
05:39You see, when he's worried like of anything, me and him take a walk down by the dock.
05:43And we sit on the pier and watch the water going by.
05:47You know, Pop says that watching the water like that makes him all easy inside again.
05:51See, I like going down there with him.
05:54Do you know what I mean?
05:55I know what you mean, Joey.
05:57Oh, I figured you'd probably...
05:58Hey, look!
05:59There's Hobo Sam!
06:00Hey, will you stop a minute, Mr. Shreevy?
06:02Yeah, to be sure, to be sure.
06:04Hey, Sam, wait a minute!
06:05I got something for you!
06:06Excuse me, kids, I'll be right back.
06:08All right.
06:08I got a paper for you, Sam!
06:10Lots of ads in it, too!
06:11It's about to play an overcoat!
06:14Oh, Lamont, I wish there was something that we could do for Joey's family as well as for him.
06:18We will, Margo.
06:19We will do something.
06:21But it can't be charity.
06:22They're much too proud to accept that.
06:24There must be some way to help, though.
06:26We'll find a way.
06:27Leave it to me.
06:28Okay, I'm ready, Mr. Shreevy.
06:31Well, how did Hobo Sam like the paper?
06:34Uh-huh.
06:35I say, would you glad to get the paper?
06:37Oh.
06:38Hobo Sam.
06:39Oh, oh, Hobo Sam, yeah.
06:41Yeah.
06:41Well, what's the matter, Joey?
06:43You seem worried.
06:44Well, I just found out something from Hobo Sam.
06:47Oh, what?
06:48He just told me that the father of one of the kids I've run around with was on his way to a house on Water Street.
06:53They'll miter a guy.
06:54What?
06:54A guy miter, did he say, hey?
06:56Did you get the address?
06:57Yeah, yeah.
06:5718 Water Street.
06:58Well, we better notify the police at once.
07:00There ain't time for that, Mr. Transon, but you could help.
07:02Oh.
07:03Well, you've got a reputation as a gentleman detective-like, and you could do something about this yourself.
07:07Well, I...
07:07What is a guy being mitered, Mr. Transon?
07:09Very well.
07:10Shrevy, 18 Water Street.
07:12And hurry.
07:20Are you sure you've got the right address, Joey?
07:24This is just an old deserted warehouse.
07:26I know this is the right place, Miss Lane.
07:28A lot of the men come here to play cards and stuff.
07:30Well, we'll see what's in this room here.
07:33Come on.
07:34Come on.
07:36Look at this room.
07:37Yes.
07:38Furniture broken and strewn all over the room.
07:41Well, there's been a fight here, all right.
07:43Yeah, this must be the place.
07:44This must be it.
07:45Look.
07:46Right there.
07:47Blood on the floor.
07:48Yes, I see it.
07:50No sign of a body, though.
07:51No sign of a body.
07:53No.
07:54Joey, what are you doing?
07:55Oh, just making notes in my notebook.
07:57I like to keep a record of how a detective works.
07:59This room looks as if a dozen minutes staged a brawl here.
08:02Looks like a dozen...
08:05More notes, Joey?
08:05Yes, sir.
08:06I can't make Hedda Taylor this thing.
08:09Dozens of clues and no evidence.
08:11Come on.
08:11Look here.
08:12What is it, Margo?
08:12A note.
08:13I found it on the floor.
08:13What does it say?
08:14Hurry to 19 West Street before another disaster occurs.
08:18Well, that's a mighty convenient message.
08:21They must have been expecting help.
08:23Come on.
08:24We're going to 19 West Street.
08:25Oh, there's the number.
08:3619 West Street.
08:37And I am attempted to add in a very unusual neighborhood this address is in.
08:42Yeah, it's just an all-boarded-up tenement house.
08:44Well, let's have a look.
08:46How can we even get into the place?
08:48The doors are all barbed.
08:50Yes.
08:51We may have trouble forcing an entrance.
08:52Oh, you think maybe the body's in the air, Mr. Cleese?
08:55I never make predictions in a case like this, Joey.
08:57No predictions.
08:59Well, how do you spell predictions, Mr. Cleese?
09:01Please, Joey, forget your notebook for a moment, will you?
09:03Yeah, but it's all in the line of duty, Mr. Cleese.
09:05Lamont, look up there by that window.
09:07There's a piece of paper tagged to it.
09:09Oh, yes.
09:10Get it for me, will you, Joey?
09:11Yes, sir.
09:12Lamont, what is all this about?
09:14Margo, I haven't the slightest idea.
09:16Here you are, Mr. Cleese.
09:18It's a note-off.
09:18All right, let me hear it.
09:20Please come at once to 66 Broom Street.
09:24Urgent.
09:25Hey, that's my address.
09:26That's where I live.
09:28Hurry, will you, hurry?
09:39Our spot is right on this floor.
09:41Up here's a sort of a storage place, like.
09:43Kind of an attic.
09:44Oh, I suppose we'd better look up there.
09:46Oh, Joey.
09:47What are you doing home so early?
09:49Oh, hello, Mom.
09:50I'm, uh, working on something.
09:51Oh, I get it.
09:52Look, Mom, please, please.
09:53Uh, this here is, uh, Miss Wayne, Mr. Cleese.
09:56How do you do, Miss?
09:56How do you do?
09:58Can you pop that on yet?
09:59Well, you know he has another hour to work in the corner.
10:02And what are you up to now, young man?
10:04He thinks there's a dead man up in the attic.
10:06A dead man?
10:08Bloody heaven.
10:08No, no, don't be alarmed, Mrs. McNulty.
10:10It's, uh, just a superstition.
10:12Well, whatever it is, I don't like it.
10:14Oh, don't you really think that there's a dead guy up there, Mr. Cranston?
10:17No, I don't think so, Joey.
10:19Yeah, but them notes and the blood and everything in the warehouse.
10:22What about them?
10:23Well, don't that mean somebody's dead?
10:25Not necessarily.
10:26But it does in all the detective stories.
10:28You read detective stories, do you, Joey?
10:30Well, sure, sure.
10:31I'm surprised at you, Mr. Cranston.
10:33I always thought that when the detectives saw blood and everything...
10:36But I'm not even sure it was blood.
10:37It was so blood.
10:38How do you know?
10:39How do I know?
10:40Didn't I cut my own finger?
10:42Ah, I suspected as much.
10:45Yeah, but wait a minute, what I meant to say was...
10:47Well, I meant...
10:47You mean you staged this whole thing just for our benefit, didn't you?
10:50Well, I...
10:51Joey, did you do that?
10:53Well, maybe I sort of said it that.
10:55What did he do?
10:56What are you up to now, young man?
10:58Just a little game that Joey played on us, Mrs. McNulty.
11:01A game that sort of backfired.
11:03Oh, gee.
11:04And I thought I had it planned so good.
11:06You did, Joey.
11:07You just made one mistake.
11:09Only one?
11:10What?
11:10Those notes were all in your own handwriting.
11:13The same handwriting you used in your notebook.
11:15What do you know?
11:17Am I a dope?
11:20What was that?
11:21Joey, is this part of your game?
11:23No, no, I don't...
11:25I don't know nothing about that.
11:26Well, we'd better have a look up here in this attic.
11:28Now, wait there, Margo.
11:29Hey, I'm coming with you.
11:31I should do it right ahead.
11:33Hey, it's Mr. Meisley.
11:35Oh, he's been hit on the head.
11:37Hey, that's a nasty wound.
11:39Who is he, Joey?
11:39Well, Mr. Meisley started a rich guy here in the neighborhood.
11:42And he's the meanest and scindiest one, too.
11:45I see.
11:46Now, what happened?
11:47What happened to you, sir?
11:48Uh, it hit on the head.
11:50Well, who did it?
11:51I don't know.
11:53The blow came from behind.
11:55Hit me.
11:56Robbed me.
11:57Hey, look.
11:58Here's his pocketbook on the floor.
11:59Let me see it, Joey.
12:00Here.
12:01Well, there's still some money in it.
12:04Ten dollars.
12:05How much money did you have, Mr. Murphy?
12:07Seventy-five.
12:10Seventy-five dollars.
12:11Oh, that's strange.
12:13If it was robbery, why did your assailant leave you the ten dollars?
12:16I don't know.
12:17I don't know.
12:19Oh, he's passed out again.
12:20Well, I wonder how the person who attacked him made his getaway.
12:24There are no windows in this room, and we were at the only door.
12:27Of course.
12:28Then it must have been...
12:29Huh?
12:30What were you going to say?
12:31Nothing.
12:32It must have been who, Joey?
12:33I didn't say nothing.
12:35Very well.
12:36You'd rather not tell me.
12:37We'd better get Mr. Murphy down to your apartment at once.
12:39Well, the wound isn't serious, but it might not be wise to move him until a doctor has
12:53had a chance to look him over.
12:54I'll phone for Dr. Collins right away.
12:56Oh, thank you very much, Mr. McNulty.
12:57Thanks.
12:58Now, Margo, if you could get me some hot water, please.
13:02Margo, I didn't know you were home.
13:03Hey, Pop.
13:04I guess you were so busy cooking, you didn't hear me come in.
13:07Well, no, Pop.
13:08I just seen you.
13:09Hey, Pop.
13:09Come on in here.
13:10Hello, son.
13:12What's going on here?
13:13Mr. Murphy.
13:14He got hit and robbed.
13:15Oh, well, no.
13:17That's too bad.
13:18Yeah, these are friends of mine, Pop.
13:19Miss Lane and Mr. Crancy.
13:21How do you do, Miss McNulty?
13:22How do you do?
13:23Mighty glad to know you folks.
13:24Well, I think we'd better be getting along, Joey.
13:27Yeah, I guess maybe you heard.
13:29But let's make a date now to go to the stores tomorrow afternoon, shall we?
13:32Oh, sure, sure.
13:33Thanks.
13:34Goodbye, Joey.
13:34Miss McNulty.
13:35Sure.
13:36Bye.
13:39What do you suppose happened to that man in a moment?
13:41I'm not quite sure yet.
13:43There are several things that are obviously not on the up and up.
13:46Wait a minute.
13:48What do you mean?
13:49Well, first of all, why should the crook, whoever he was, leave ten dollars in the man's purse?
13:56Yes, I thought of that.
13:58And secondly, how did he make his escape from that loft?
14:02And why was little Joey so upset by it?
14:04He almost revealed something to me up there, and then he changed his mind.
14:08Why do you suppose Mr. McNulty acted so strangely?
14:11I'm just as curious about that as you are, Margo.
14:14I don't believe his story about coming into the house unnoticed.
14:19Tomorrow, Margo, we're going to stop at Mr. McNulty's corner and have a little talk with Santa Claus.
14:24Well, there he is, Margo.
14:46What's your footing on this note?
14:47Uh, good afternoon, Mr. McNulty.
14:51Yes?
14:52Oh, I beg your pardon.
14:54I thought that this was Mr. McNulty's corner.
14:57Well, it was, Tim, this morning.
14:59Well, what happened?
15:00Oh, he didn't show up, so I got his uniform and location.
15:04Well, uh, where is he, do you know?
15:07Well, they got me, mister.
15:09Maybe he's up at the North Pole getting the reindeer ready for the big run.
15:14Here's the pot boiling.
15:15We should stop him for over the mammal thief.
15:18Well, Lamar, what do you suppose has happened to him?
15:20I don't know.
15:22Something is wrong, though.
15:23I think that the shadow has a call to make at the McNulty flat.
15:28Oh.
15:34Now, let me see.
15:36Is that two cups of flour or one cup of flour?
15:42Oh, dear.
15:45Mrs. McNulty.
15:47Who is that?
15:48Now, don't be alarmed, Mrs. McNulty.
15:50I've come here to talk to you.
15:52But, where are you?
15:54Who are you?
15:55I'm called the Shadow.
15:57Don't try to find me.
15:58I'm standing right here beside you.
16:01But by my power, I've hypnotized your mind so that you cannot see me.
16:05I, I don't understand.
16:07What do you want of me?
16:08I've come here to help you.
16:10How?
16:11How?
16:11Where's your husband?
16:13I, I don't know.
16:15Please have confidence in me.
16:17He's in trouble, isn't he?
16:18Yes.
16:19Tim is in trouble.
16:20Is it about money?
16:22Yes.
16:23Oh, yes, you do know, don't you?
16:25Not the whole story.
16:26Oh, Tim's a good man.
16:28A good man, believe me.
16:30And what he done, he done because, well, because of me and little Joey.
16:35Tell me about it, please.
16:36Well, last night, after the doctor come and took Miss Murphy home,
16:41Tim made me a present of $65.
16:44Did you, did you know where the money came from?
16:48No.
16:49I mean, I, I wasn't sure.
16:51I asked him about it.
16:53I asked him where he'd come upon such a sum of wealth, and he avoided the question.
16:57I see.
16:58What he could tell me was that this Christmas,
17:01Joey and I were going to have all the things he couldn't give us in the past.
17:05I understand, Mrs. McNulty.
17:06This morning, after he went to work, I, I found this note from Tim.
17:11It's sitting on the kitchen table.
17:13What does the note say?
17:15It says that he was the one that robbed Mr. Murphy.
17:21Oh, my Tim done that.
17:23My poor Tim.
17:24Did he explain why he did that?
17:26Oh, yes.
17:27That the money had been owed to him by Mr. Murphy for several years.
17:31He tried many times to collect it from him,
17:33but Mr. Murphy is, well, a kind of a stingy person, you see.
17:39So he chose that way of getting the money that was rightfully his.
17:43Yes, that was it.
17:45Oh, but he knew he'd done wrong in doing it that way.
17:49Tim knows that now.
17:50He knows that he's acted in desperation just for me and little Joey.
17:54That was the only reason.
17:56I believe that.
17:57It couldn't have been anything else.
17:59Now he's ashamed.
18:00And he's ashamed most of all because little Joey knows he'd done it.
18:04You see, there's a back stairway from our flat to the attic,
18:08and Joey knows that.
18:10And he knew that his pup had used those stairs.
18:12Where do you think your husband's gone?
18:14I only knew.
18:16Look, that isn't my only worry.
18:18What do you mean?
18:20I'm afraid little Joey's gone too.
18:22Why?
18:23He said he'd be home by two o'clock,
18:25and it's almost six now and no sign of him.
18:27And about an hour ago,
18:29one of his little friends come by to find out where he was.
18:33He told me that Joey hadn't been on his corner all day.
18:37Now, Mrs. McNulty, don't worry.
18:39Please.
18:40I give you my word.
18:41They'll return.
18:42And everything, everything will turn out all right.
18:46Well, what did you find out, Lamont?
18:54Joey's father was the one who robbed the man, all right.
18:56Oh, Lamont.
18:57Now both he and little Joey have disappeared.
19:00Oh, how awful.
19:01Oh, it's not that bad, Margot.
19:03I think I can find them on the docks at Water Street.
19:06Why'd you have to do that to Mr. Micey?
19:15I...
19:16I don't know, son.
19:17Golly, we didn't need the money that bit.
19:19Oh, Joey.
19:20Can't you understand?
19:22This year, I wanted you and your mother
19:24to have all the things I couldn't give you in the past.
19:27I've been a failure, Joey.
19:29A failure.
19:30Oh, that ain't no way to talk.
19:32You've been a swell pop.
19:33Whatever you've done, it's unbetter than anybody in the whole world.
19:37Even Santa Clausen.
19:39You're the best Santa I've ever seen.
19:41You've better even than the real one.
19:43Ah, that's nice to hear, Joey, but tell you so.
19:46Pop, I don't know what got into you.
19:49Don't you remember all the things you told me
19:51when we'd been down here by the river before?
19:53About college, and hope, and the future,
19:57and all the things you told me I should look for?
19:59That was for you, Joey.
20:01Not for me.
20:01Yeah, but I'm part of you, Pop.
20:04Whatever you are, that's what I am.
20:06And Mom feels the same way.
20:08We're all together.
20:10All for each other, aren't we?
20:12Joey is right, Mr. McNulty.
20:14Who was that?
20:15Who spoke?
20:16I did.
20:17Who are you?
20:17Men call me...
20:19The Shadow.
20:20The Shadow?
20:21Holy smoke, it's The Shadow, Pop.
20:23You heard of him, the invisible guy.
20:25The Shadow?
20:26If you've heard of me,
20:27then you both know that I'm here to help you.
20:29You hear that, Pop?
20:31The Shadow's going to help us.
20:32Yes, but how?
20:34I know of the trouble that you're in, Mr. McNulty.
20:37I know what you did to Mr. Murphy.
20:39Oh, he wasn't to blame for that on us, Mr. Shadow.
20:41Yes, I was.
20:42I was, Joey.
20:43But Mr. Murphy was a mean old man.
20:46He had plenty of dough,
20:47and he owed Pop that money for years and years
20:49and never paid it to him.
20:51That's why Pop's done what he's done.
20:52I know.
20:53I realize that, Joey.
20:54Well, what I did was wrong, Joey,
20:56and I must pay for it.
20:58I'm going to tell my story to the police.
21:00Oh, no, no!
21:01I don't think that would be necessary, Mr. McNulty.
21:04There's another way.
21:05A better way.
21:06Well, what is it?
21:07I want you and young Joey to go to Mr. Murphy's house.
21:11Tell him what you've done.
21:12Oh, he'd send Pop to jail for a lie.
21:14Oh, wait.
21:15Now, do as I say, please.
21:16I'll be there with you.
21:18I believe if you explain your reasons to him,
21:20honestly and sincerely,
21:22tell him why you did what you did to him.
21:25Even as hard a man as Mr. Murphy
21:27will listen to reason
21:29on this night of nights,
21:31Christmas Eve.
21:38I know it.
21:39I had a feeling that you'd done this to me
21:41from the very beginning, McNulty.
21:42But I've come to ask your forgiveness, Mr. Murphy.
21:45I've come here to ask you to understand
21:47why I did it.
21:48You robbed me.
21:49That was all.
21:49That's why you did it.
21:50But it was really Pop's money.
21:51Makes no difference.
21:53Turning you over to the police.
21:54We'll tell him it was Pop's money, too.
21:56Yeah, I'll never believe you.
21:57I'm the only one who knows about the debt.
21:59Remember that.
22:02That's where you're wrong, Mr. Murphy.
22:04You aren't the only one.
22:06Huh?
22:07Who was that?
22:07Oh, boy, the shadow.
22:09He's here just like he said he did.
22:11Now, where are you?
22:11I can't see anyone.
22:13I shall remain quite invisible to your eyes, Mr. Murphy.
22:15But you're going to hear me.
22:18And you're going to do as I say.
22:20I don't understand this.
22:22I know all about this episode of the stolen money.
22:25And I realize that Mr. McNulty was wrong in what he did.
22:28But his reason for doing it is one that I shall always admire.
22:32What do you mean?
22:33Mr. McNulty has a family.
22:35A fine family.
22:36A wife and son.
22:38He loves them both very dearly.
22:40Things have not gone too well for that family for a long, long time.
22:46You wouldn't know what that means, Mr. Murphy.
22:49You can't realize how a man feels when he wants to give everything to his loved ones.
22:54And he has nothing to give.
22:55No, that doesn't justify...
22:57Wait, let me finish.
22:59He never bothered you for that money you owed him.
23:02Although many times he needed it.
23:04Very much.
23:05Then Christmas time approached.
23:09He asked you for the money and you refused.
23:12That $65 meant the difference between happiness and despair to his wife and son.
23:19And what he did to you, he did for them.
23:23I see.
23:24Do you know what Christmas really means, Mr. Murphy?
23:27It's a time of forgiveness.
23:30Of man's good will to man.
23:32You must know that feeling.
23:34You must show it by letting bygones be bygones between you and the McNaltys.
23:38I see what you mean.
23:41I want whatever has stood between you to be forgotten.
23:46Tonight, that young boy is singing in the choir at the cathedral.
23:51I want you to join him and his family.
23:54Go with them to the church.
23:55Open your hearts and your hands in forgiveness to them and all mankind.
24:04Oh, that was so lovely, Lamont.
24:21The church, the choir, everything.
24:24Yes, it was beautiful.
24:28Oh, look, Lamont.
24:30It's snowing again.
24:32Soft, gentle snow covering the city with a blanket of white.
24:36See, that's almost like poetry.
24:39Yes, Joey.
24:41Poetry.
24:43Shall we walk home, Mr. Murphy?
24:45Yes.
24:46I'd like to very much.
24:49Come on, Mother.
24:50Of course, please.
24:51Golly, ain't that swell-away pop and mom and Mr. Murphy are friends and everything?
24:59Well, Joey, that's the spirit of Christmas.
25:03Peace on earth.
25:05Goodwill to men.
25:06Hey, Mr. Murphy, that's all right.
25:09I gotta make a note of that in my notebook.
25:11Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by The Shadow Magazine.
25:34The characters' names, places, and plot are fictitious.
25:37Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
25:40The ween of crime bears bitter fruit.
25:47Crime does not pay.
25:50The shadow knows.
25:54Next week, same time, same station, the Blue Coal Dealers of America bring you an adventure of the shadow chock full of frills and dynamic dramatic action.
26:02So be sure to listen.
26:02And be sure to phone your friendly Blue Coal Dealer for greater heating comfort at less cost.
26:09We wish you a very Merry Christmas on behalf of our entire cast.
26:22You.