The Shadow - The The Laughing Corpse

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3:01so that they cannot see him. Crenston's friend and companion are lovely marble names. It's the only person who knows to whom the voice of the shadow belongs. Today's story, The Laughing Corks. The Night of the Fire. So when I see you coming to the bar, I say to myself, there's a nice guy I says, I'm a very keen judge of character. Yes, sir. So when you offer to buy me a drink, I accept. Say, by the way, Mr. you ain't told me your name. What kind of a place is this? You're definitely two. Looks like a lab or something. You know what I enjoy when we got into the taxi cab? Sure, I sure enjoy that. Driver, take us to 31 Brackwell Place. 31 Brackwell Place. It's been a long time since I had a taxi ride. 31 Brackwell Place.

4:01Just like that. So it's nice of you to bring me here. I've been sleeping in the park for a gosh. Say, what did you mean when you said we was going to conduct a little experiment? What did you mean, huh? Why aren't you talking to me? You ain't sure, are you? Well, don't talk if you don't want it, I don't care. Why do you make it in those test tubes? I kind of stuff you make in it. Say, why are you looking at me like that? What have I done? All of them are like that? Hey, I'm coming to close you. I'm getting ready here. I'm getting ready here. What? What are you doing out here? What are you doing with me? Go away, go away. I'm going to go away.

5:07Oh. Margueruta, I do enjoy this lovely cab drive with you, but do you tell me where I'm going at this hour or the night? Well, Le Mans, if you knew you'd get angry. And not knowing me from the angrier. Shrivy, yes, sir. Do you know where you're driving us to? I'll let me see now. What was the number in that place you gave me, Slay? What was it? 31 Brackwell Place. Oh, yeah, yeah, 31 Brackwell Place. Oh, I'm such a stupid. We've been there twice today and all the time I keep forgetting the number. I got to get a new memory system, I got to get it. But the old memory system, Shrivy? Oh, the old one, Shrivy. You see, like, take for instance, what are you doing, Shrivy? Oh, excuse me. You take for instance, digits three and one, which is the place we're calling till now. I hooked a tree up with my kid, which is three and so old. And the one I remember is by taking on how on one year, he's going to be four. To simulate it. Elementary.

6:07How could you possibly have forgotten the address for that system, Shrivy? You know how? I got myself all mixed up with my other kid, which is six. Oh, I'm such a stupid. Shrivy, I've here just as stupid as you do. I tell you don't know where we're going. Why we're going to this place at 11, 30th night? Well, if you weren't till tomorrow, the apartment may be right. Shrivy, now you're giving it all away. Margot, are you taking me apartment hunting at this hour? You know I hate that. Oh, but Leblanc, don't you see? I wouldn't take it unless you thought it was all right. I know, but. You know how I value your opinion. Well, why don't you tell me sooner? I want to surprise you. Oh, okay, I'm both. What are you laughing about, Shrivy? Well, I was just thinking of Mr. Cranston. I was thinking how things were twist-cides. Right around there, little fingers, take a twist. It'll be about all from you, Shrivy. Don't talk so much. Yes, sir. All right, for you, Mr. Cranston. You're pretty jumpy tonight, Leblanc, but the matter. Oh, nothing. My land just bored, and so on.

7:07I know. You haven't had any to keep your good date. No criminals tracked down. Shrivy, why don't you stop? Shrivy! Shrivy, why don't you answer? Mr. Cranston said I shouldn't talk. I shouldn't. So are you. No, they would have done the march if I'd shrivy free. I'm sorry, Shrivy. I'm in a bad humor tonight. No, I know you ain't supposed to create a fight. I'll make that say yes. Well, here we are. This is the building. Stay one breath, we'll play. Yeah, yeah. It's 31 breath. Well, play, stretch wide. I stopped 31 breath. Well, play. Wait for a Shrivy. Okay. Come on up to 5, 10, come on. All right. My serving is a weird looking place. Well, that's just because it's dark. Looks all right in the daylight. Bring the superintendent's bell, will you? Yes, ma'am. All right. Uh, Margot, will he be angry at our disturbing with the star? No, he told me I could come back tonight to the department. What's so exceptional about this apartment, Margot? Oh, the month. It has these high old-fashioned ceilings

8:07and the most glorious view of the river. Well, I know. What do you want? Oh, you remember me? I'm Margot Lane. I put a deposit down on one of the apartments here. So what? No, he won't be angry. Well, you said I could come back tonight to look at it. I said you could come back this evening. It's 11.30 now, young lady. You got me out of bed. Well, what about you, Margot? Oh, please, Mr.... My name is Laskam. Please, Mr. Laskam. I know it's very inconsiderate to bother you with this, all, but couldn't we please see the apartment? Oh, well, coming. Hey. Stanley, under this hall, aren't there any lights? The boat just burned out this evening. Oh, I see. Here we are. Just a minute now till I find the light switch. Nice, bright place. See, how you like it, LeMonde? You like it? I think it looks terrible. Well, of course, the place needs to be decorating.

9:09Yes, and badly. Well, look at the holes in the wall. What caused that? Well, the previous tenant was Dr. Deathtrap. He's a chemist. He used this apartment as a kind of a laboratory. The holes are from some of his apparatus, more I've seen. Well, what do you think, LeMonde? Well, if you wanted quiet, you certainly got it here. Yes, and it's always like this. Always nice and quiet. What's that? I don't know. Someone thinks something is funny, all right? No, listen to him. The more... It doesn't sound like... Come on, Marco. I'm going to see what this is all about. Hey, LeMonde, of course I do it, too. That's a lorry, and... Here, give me a hand. My spot is so tense. So we had a conclusion or something. Let's turn it over. There we are. Oh, it's face. It's face, LeMonde. You're going to get pulled of yourself.

10:09Oh, it's face, LeMonde. It's all twisted up, as though we were laughing. Don't look at it, Marco. What are we going to do? There's nothing we can do now. This man is dead. What makes you think Dr. Renn was murdered, Plantman? I don't know, Commissioner Western, just a hunch. Well, there's another mark of violence on the body. Well, if you'd heard that terrible last commissioner, you'd think something was wrong, too. Miss Lane, I'm sorry. I didn't hear the last. But even if I had, there's still not a bit of evidence here. Not a single clue to indicate murder. Well, Commissioner... All right, all right. Now you, you'll work. I'll ask him, as my name... Oh, I'll ask him. I want to know about this. I told you nothing. I was showing Mr. Krantman this Lane that apartment would have happened. Did the dead man, Dr. Lawrence, have any enemies left him? Oh, nothing, I know. Who was the man who occupied Dr. Parpin? Miss Lane was thinking of renting. I'll get Destroft, but I told you that commissioner... I'll get Destroft and Lawrence. I'll remember those names, they're partners. I only have the chemical laboratory. Didn't you know that?

11:09We didn't ask, Quake. I didn't ask you. Why did Destroft move out of his apartment? He had a big argument with his partner, Dr. Lawrence, about two weeks ago. And he moved out the next day. And he is the one who wants to dump it. Done what, Miss Lane? Murder, Dr. Lawrence. Miss Lane... As yet, I'm not convinced that the rent has been murdered. In the second place, from what your cab driver, Shrieby, says, no one has come in or out of this house. Well, maybe he's still here, then. Miss Lane, my man have searched this house from top to bottom. Well, I still can't. Lawrence, then please, I understand, you may say. Come on, Muggle. You're going all right. Oh, my goodness. Oh, yes, Doc, what is it? How long ago was this man's first of that? We heard the laugh in the sound of a buddy pulling about an hour ago. For my examination, you couldn't have... What? Are you trying to tell us that we're hearing things? A lot, I can say, is... It's all pretty strange. What do you mean, Doc? Well, the buddy was as stiff as the board when I examined him. We were mortgages, so far, at least. And, you know, I've never done that.

12:09You couldn't possibly have heard him laugh tonight. What? According to my examination, Dr. Lawrence has been dead for 24 hours. The way the medical examiner talked to me, but didn't know what we were doing, LeMonde. How could the man be dead and rough? The laughing corpse. His pretty strange model. I think Commissioner Wicks can order to get a new medical examiner, but I think... So, you remember when I went to turn Dr. Lawrence over, I remarked that the body was stiff. And it does look as if he'd been dead for some time. That terrible laugh, LeMonde. What of that? I don't know, Margot. And Lawrence's face was contorted as though we'd been laughing. Margot, I believe it was Lawrence that we heard. Why do you say that, Margot? Look at this. It's like a little box. It's like a jewel box. Yes. It was written inside the cover. You will laugh, but not from joy. You will laugh and the laugh will be the laugh of death.

13:11LeMonde. I found this little box lying in the floor near Lawrence's body before Western came. What do you suppose it is, LeMonde? I don't know, Margot, but I'm going to find out. The shadow is going to pay a visit to Dr. Destro's laboratory tonight. Perhaps there I shall find the solution to the mystery of the laughing corpse. I wish you'd see if you found me that is correct. I'll be proper, kept away. I was there.

14:11I got by the door. It must be a man of imagination. It is more than your imagination, Dr. Destro. What? Who is it? I can't see you. No man has ever seen the shadow, Dr. Destro. The shadow? Oh, yes, I have heard of you. What do you want of me? Have you ever heard this phrase before? You will laugh, but not from joy. You will laugh, and the laugh will be the laugh of death. Where did you hear that the shadow has ways of finding things out, Dr. Destro? You'd better tell me what you know of the laughing death. The laughing death, if you tell me shadow, because of all the red things happened. Is the woman's death a pain? Won't do you any good to pretend innocence? The man's was murdered earlier this evening. How did he die? Tell me I must know. You know how he died. Yes, yes, I know. I know how he died. Just as the notes warn us. The notes. Then you do have received a note, not since last year. So he has made good use of it.

15:12No doubt about it. I'd better tell you everything, Shadow. Seven years ago, there was another partner in this laboratory besides myself and Destro. A man named D. Paul. He was incompetent. A drunkard. When Lorenzo and I took the name of the formula, we refused to give him a share of the puppets. Now, after he did well, we dissolved the partnership with the author. Then Lorenzo and I opened the new laboratory by ourselves through him. And I called the fact that if you really, you only hinted at us. He was earned, now money and now credit. And he was really a brilliant, chemist, but undependable. It was impossible for him to get wet. What happened to it? That we do not know. He came to us and begged to be taken back, but we refused. Lorenzo laughed at him and I suppose I did too. He was so ridiculous. We don't threaten him. Yes! We'd be laughing dead. Each year a note has come with the same words. He will laugh, but not from joy. He will laugh, and the laugh will be the laugh of death.

16:14I see. Why did you and Lorenzo quarrel? Why did you move from your apartment? Oh, you know that too. Well, you see Lorenzo took the effects seriously and I did it first. But after nothing happened for so many years, I thought it was just a means of annoyance. And this year, no note came. And Lorenzo was very much upset and worried. He believed that meant that he thought what was to come. And you? Well, I laughed at the whole idea. I told Lorenzo that he wanted to go the rest of his life fearing a fool. He said he could. But I refused to bother about it anymore. Just with the words and I laughed in anger, I see. Where does this other partner live? Or why I think that he? Oh, what is this? I did not notice it before. A small package is rest to me. My assistant must have put it on my desk earlier and I had not noticed it. Don't touch that box. Why? It looks like a little jewel box.

17:15A tiny box similar to that. One was found next to Lorenzo. Oh, yes. What was he in it, Shadow? Nothing, Gaston. Except that threat written on the inside cover. Oh, now surely the words cannot hurt me. There may have been something in the box when Lorenzo opened it on our shadow. My scientific curiosity will not permit me to allow this box to go unopened. I have rubber gloves on it. If it contains some strange type of poison, it cannot possibly hurt me. Gaston, if I'm warning you all on our shadow, I must open it. There, there seems to be a little push button here. There. It's empty. Wait. Here's a message written on the inside. You will laugh, but not from joy. You will laugh in the laugh, but laugh in the end. The same, no. That Lorenzo received. Yes. Gaston, your life is in danger. You must tell me where he holds him. Yes, yes. Before he can complete his revenge, I think he leaves.

18:16Yes, yes, yes. I think he leaves. I think he leaves. I think he leaves. I think he leaves. I think he leaves. I think he leaves. I think he leaves. Miss Lane. Oh, don't drop them right in the middle of the room, sweetie. Well, you said just to put them down anyway, you said. Well, I went out of the way over there in the corner, something. Okay. Hey, what are you doing in these packages, Ann, Bulls? Just odds and ends, sweetie. Yeah, how's that? That's fine. Now, is there anything else in your cab? Yeah, Miss Lane, a few more odds and evens. Let's miss the clansers bringing them up. Oh, okay. Open the door a little wider, someone. I can't get through. All right. How's that? He's gotten these bundles, Margot. Hey, hey, they're both staying here, what? Put them down the mountain before he drops them.

19:17Not in the center of the room, Mr. Clansion. Out of the way in the corner there. Shrieby, will you stop getting orders and do some work around here? Certainly. What could I do? Well, there isn't anything else to do until the rest of stuff gets here. I should have been here an hour ago. Hey, you want to go back to the old apartment and get them moving fast, do you want? That might be a very good idea, sweetie. Okay, I'll do it. I'll tell Emmertinger to I'll teach them all I should. Well, don't get too rough with this movie men's shaving. Remember the iron hand in the velvet glove? Well, I look what? I'll never mind, Shrieby. I'll read them up. The iron hand in a velvet glove. I just have to pause it. Margot, you'll try on of everything except one thing. What? What are you going to sit on while you wait for the movies to get here? Oh, I'll be too busy to sit down, Margot. But you know, now that I'm here in this apartment, I'm not very keen on it. You're not? No. Isn't that just like a woman? What about the high ceilings and the glorious view of the river? Well, that's all right, Lamont. Well, this place gives me the creep. I can still hear the sound of that horrible laugh. First you tell me you don't like the apartment, then you persuade me to move here.

20:20Well, Margot, the reason I wanted you to rent this apartment is I believe that the solution to the laughing corpse may still be here. Well, that isn't going to make me feel any better about living here. Has the police found anything new, Lamont? No. I report from the medical examiner on death drops death. That's the same as for Lawrence. Death from causes unknown. And there was nothing in the little box when Death took over it? Not a thing. Except that note. Here, look for yourself. Oh, yes. It's exactly like the little box you found in an orange as a apartment. How do you open it, Lamont? Here, give it to me. See you press this little button here in the center. Oh, it's not in the monitor. I'm breaking my finger on something sharp when I press the button. That's it, Margot. But that must be the way the poison was administered. After death, don't press the button to open the box. You started to laugh. Don't, Lamont. Then you... Yes, my drug. Now I've got it too. Oh, no, Lamont. Well, nothing's happened to me yet. Yeah. Why did you break the box open the box? Yeah, see him, Margot. A tiny hyperdermic needle.

21:21Conceal in the cover. When the button is pressed, the person pushing the button is given a dose of poison and the thing to sit. Don't, Lamont. Come on, I'm not going to get you to a doctor. Hey, wait a minute, Margot. That won't be necessary. I'm going to be all right. But you... It's a needle must have been empty, Margot. Desktop got it all. Oh, thank heavens. You're all right. Margot, wait for phones. I've got a call from the US in a media. Phone? What hasn't been installed yet, Margot? Oh, well, I'll go to the corner. Come in. I just came up to tell you, Miss Lane, that the decorators are coming in tomorrow. I'll see you later, Margot. All right, Lamont. The decorators want to know if eight o'clock will be all right for few. Oh, yes, that'll be fine, Mr. Laskin. Thank you. Oh, there was something else I wanted to ask you about. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see me in the kitchen. It doesn't work very well. And do you think it... Or, Mr. Laskin? What's the matter? Where did you get this little box? Well, I don't see the steps any business of yours. Perhaps it is. Margot, you know. Tell me. That's all my arms. What do you know? I'll save my health.

22:21All right. Scream. No one will hear you. We're quite alone here. You... You're the killer. You killed Lorenzo and Dexter. I suppose I did. You know now, but it won't do you any good to know you're going to die. No, no. Oh, go ahead. You're frightened, Margot. In a moment, you'll think it's very funny. Yes, very human. It's your life. Yes, your life. No, and you will die. Laskin. Oh, please, let's not... It's not a hotdog. I've never done anything to you. Oh, you and your friend Mr. Cranston know too much as Lane. You wanted to catch me. Make me pay for my crime. I would never have suspected you. You hadn't given yourself away. That's most unfortunate for you, Miss Lane. What do you mean? You see, I brought you down here to my laboratory at the basement to kill you. Oh, no. Don't be unhappy.

23:21Your lats, as you'll never lats you. Who are you? I'm preparing my script formula. The lats instead. No. Please, one for you and one for the lats. I'll make for your friend Mr. Cranston. Please, I promise I'll never see you this way. You're bad. I can't believe that. They won't do you any good to try to get loose. I took the precaution of finding you very high. No. Now everything is ready. No. Don't come any closer. Prepare yourself, Miss Lane. It won't hurt. Very much. And you'll be so happy. So happy. You will laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And then you will die. What? Something not hyper-demic needle from a hen. This is the end of your evil work, Baskham. Good boy, Mr. Shadow, thank heavens. So you were the third thought in the last com. Yes. I was in partnership with Lorenz and Deftos. Now I'm the only one alive. They're rowing me. They took everything from me. I'm out of your mind, Baskham. You blame them for your own fault.

24:22No. No. They caused my downfall. Also I killed them. You're about to revenge yourself. You came here, got yourself a job as a superintendent, and I'm the same building in which they lived. Yes. I disguised myself. They never recognized me. You're about to bring it to mind, Baskham. It's a great loss to civilization that you couldn't have used it for good instead of evil. The police will come and leave. We'll never get this. Shadow Sultan, he had another need already with the poison. No, Baskham. I said too late, Shadow. I've already administered the drug to myself. At least. I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. At least. I have the last laugh. So you see, Margaret, a plan was devilishly well executed. Well, how did you know where I worked, Lamont? When I came back to the apartment at the calling Western, you were gone.

25:22I figured you were with a superintendent. You remember he came in just before I went home. Yes, last night, whatever his name was. His real name was Vittor. Vittor disguised himself and took the job here as superintendent of the building so he could watch his enemies' death draw from the land. That's right, Margot. And he sent them a little boxing. With a hidden hypodermic, he was filled with a laughing death. All the Mont just a memory of that terrible aftermakes my blood run cold. And the luck on Miranda's face when we found him. Yeah. Margot, we didn't really hear him laugh. Why? But that wasn't the laugh. What was it? Well, you see, the poison in the hypodermic needle was very potent and worked very rapidly. It caused a sort of convulsion that sounded like after. And if you're trying to tell me that the victims didn't enjoy themselves, you needn't go any farther. Is that why the medical damage, what that Miranda did in dead for some time, an examinant? Yes, the poison caused a sudden contraction of the muscle disorder of pseudo-rigamotus. What? Sudo-rigamotus. Oh, she would think I understand what you're talking about, your crazy...

26:23...hahaha. ...and her in Margot. Hello, Mr. Cranson. Hello. Hello, is she reading? Oh, sure, you need everything, Margot said? In the back. Yeah, I mean, yes, Miss Lane, Margot said. Oh, come on, I'm on, let's go. Go where? We're going to look at a new apartment for me. New apartment? Well, you don't support them going to live in this place after what's happened here. Yeah, we're moving. But again, that's the same thing I said, Mr. Cranson. Ain't women, maybe? Well, Miss Lane, I was only about to comment, uh, ...aint women wonderful. I got out of that, would all right? Hahahaha. Hahahaha.