 You say there are demons and spirits in your mind twelve hundred feet below the surface of the earth For this much money. I'd like to see them Have gone Will travel Starring mr. John Daner as Paladin San Francisco 1875 the Carlton Hotel headquarters of the man called Paladin Quick you come in here in the room. Why are you so sneaky? It's matter of great great secret Mr. Paladin wish to see me. No. No. He already left early this morning quick You come inside. Oh, lady and judge tell miss Wong to hurry this morning Many room to make ready for new guests come on in matter of great importance will take only one minute of precious time Look, so it's with much American riding The powers belong to hey boy will make him very rich Chinese American riding say hey boy own two share of stock in silver mine worth very much money in few months Maybe worth hundred stars Mr. Paladin make gifted to hey boy Very important man with owner of mine give mr. Paladin 50 shares of stock for do special job Mr. Paladin leaves this morning to go to silver mine in Virginia city and before he leaves He give me to share of same stock. He's good I keep stock papers locked in special drawer here. I miss a paladin's room. He's big secret. Why do you tell miss Wong big secret? Oh Some day when stock worthy much money perhaps Hey boy Share with me see Wong Maybe yes Everywhere you go Across the country trip or across the street party you carry the fun with you when you own a Columbia Stereophonic high-fidelity phonograph There's a marvelous selection of seven new portable models in smart new color combinations at your Columbia phonograph dealer from which You may choose each one is a masterpiece of design and beauty More quality more features and more styling have been built into these sturdy portables than ever before How much fun you'll have enjoying all the wonderful new sound of stereo records? Regular records take on new beauty to when played on handsome Columbia portables You'll be amazed at the big console sound that is reproduced by Columbia portable Stereophonic high-fidelity phonographs. You'll thrill to the excitement of stereo one by Columbia Number one in the wonderful world of sound and Columbia portables are economical to prices start as low as 2495 see them and hear them at your Columbia phonograph dealer Samuel T Curry own two of the largest silver producing mines in the Comstock Loan He had hired me to help him solve what he called a peculiar puzzle I knew nothing of the details but accepted the job on the strength of a generous fee and the chance to visit Nevada's mushrooming metropolis Virginia City It was almost sundown when I boarded mr. Curry's private car in Reno on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad His canary colored coach was lavishly furnished with thick bright carpeting Drawn silk shades a crystal chandelier and even a marble bathtub Mr. Curry his wife and I enjoyed a festive dinner of quail and champagne as the train rounded the many curves and the crookedest rail line in the world Won't you have some more champagne, mr. Palladon? No, no, thanks, ma'am. I'm afraid I'm not much for drinking champagne Yeah, would you like some straight whiskey paladin Irish? Oh, that sounds mighty good, mr. Curry if you're going to have some I'll join you right over here in cabinet. Oh, I just love champagne Mr. Curry imported this specially for me. It came on a ship all the way from France around Cape Horn Cases of adjust for me. Oh, well, that was very nice of him, mr. Curry. He's good to me. All right Let's me have everything I want Except what I want my mr. Palladin ain't interested in our little family squabbles Even me he's got some important talking to do now. I know what you're gonna talk about ghosts No, ma'am. I don't you're such a handsome. Oh, well, I I know a lot of people who do believe in ghosts Mr. Curry doesn't either Looks like you hired the right man, Sam Yeah, now. Why don't you go in the bedroom and take a nap, Emma? You'll feel better when we get Virginia City I feel fine I'm going to have another glass of champagne Well, then would you be so kind as to sit in that chair over there and read a book or something so as we can talk alone Oh, all right Always talking business Well, what's this about ghosts mr. Curry? Well It all started about a month ago after the big fire and my consolidated Nevada mind You hear about that. No, I didn't it was a big one We lost 45 men 45 That's terrible. How'd the fire start? We don't know for sure Probably one of the men left a candle stuck against the timber Are you seeing big fires on the surface of the earth, ain't you? I mean big ones Yeah Then you know how frightful they can be But a fire hundreds thousands of feet below the earth in a mine No, that's a terrible terrible beyond words. Well, I can well imagine Well, sir, it uh, it was a lucky thing. We were changing shifts about the time it broke out or we'd have lost more men We did I was down in San Francisco at the time When I got up here it was all over Now, what are you laughing at? That was a gar pellet in oh, thank you I I suppose the ghosts you mentioned came after the fire Yeah But not at first After a few days we got some of the men to go back to work Cleared out the charred wood re-tempered most of the drifts and cross cuts But then a peculiar thing happened the men started complaining of ghosts What did these What what did these ghosts look like mr. Kerl? They never actually saw one I guess but the men said they heard somebody groaning and laughing Sometimes all their candles that go out at once a sudden wind blast could cause that Well, sure, but then one man said he felt somebody's hands around his neck all kinds crazy things I just can't pay men enough money to go down and work in that mine I presume then mr. Curry that That you hired me to look into this ghost business Well, if you're willing to do it and you clear this mess up for me I'll pay you with 50 more shares of stock in consolidated, Nevada Now, how much do you think your stock will be worth when you get the mine working again? Yeah, I want to tell you something paladin Only three people know about this Emma her brother down. He's my superintendent and myself Before that fire broke out our main shaft had reached the 1200 foot level As soon as the men had cut a drift at that level dan and me went down to get some more samples I think we tapped the biggest bonanza ever found under sun mountain The highest assay says it's worth 600 a ton. Wow. No wonder you want to get them in back in the mine Sam Did you know that except his name was sam clement stand? Yeah, yes, Emma. Now paladin when we start taking that hour up to the surface Your stock may be worth 500 a share Are you willing mr. Curry? You just bought yourself a ghost chaser Winston tastes good like a cigarette should because Cigarette comes from filter blend Filter blend is a mighty good reason for you to smoke Winston Because it means tobaccos specially processed for filter smoking a Winston secret You get Winston's own pure white modern filter plus the rich delightful flavor of fine tobacco There's filter blend up front up front ahead of the bed in a Winston cigarette comes from filter blend And makes Winston taste good like a cigarette should Winston tastes good like a cigarette should That night I was the guest of mr. and mrs. Curry in their palatial virginia city home The next morning we took a carriage to the consolidated nevada mine Located in the northeastern part of the city where most of the larger mines are found Their main buildings resting above the richest silver deposits in the world In the superintendent's office. I met mr. Curry's brother-in-law dan castleberry Who said that he would accompany me into the mine? We boarded the hoisting cage and the engineer lowered us down into the main shaft Do you ever go down to mine before mr. Palin? No not one this large We got 12 different levels in the consolidated 100 feet apart The humble mine next ours has 14 levels You know if you could hoist this mine out of the ground and stand it on the surface it'd make quite a tall building wouldn't it? It'd be the tallest I've ever seen Are there any men working down here today? No sir, not this morning We only have 12 men brave enough to work for us at all they come on the afternoon Can't get much work done in a mine this size of just 12 men Just a little maintenance on the timbers all We used to carry a 300 man a day Regular ghost town down here now though With real ghosts too Have you come across any I've heard them You'll hear them too Which level you won't stop at first Well, how about where the big fire started that'd be the next stop 700 foot level our ring engineer If you're landing high you can see better Big tunnel Yeah, it's dressed about eight feet high Did you charge beams or sacking quite a bit? They need replacing Well, you don't keep the timbers up the pressure there puts a lot of strain on them Don't hurt them You get a lot of warning from a cave What's that noise look down at your feet All right Rats best friend of mine I ever had See at one cocky's head up to you. They think we brought him something to eat And where do they get food down here? Mostly scraps from lunch pails Pickings been kind of lean lately though Some of these little boogers are regular pets They real help to us when it's about to be a cave and they give us plenty of notice. How's that? Oh the way they scamper about uneasy like looking for a place to hide There's crosscut up ahead You won't walk through there look around Well, how far does this main drift go back? About 20 odd yards or so Comes to dead end on the other side of the walls are humbled mine Listen They're hoisting the cage up Somebody signal engineer from down here, and we're not alone Somebody else is down here with us. It can't be pallet and there's only one entrance the main shaft And we're the only ones to come down since yesterday afternoon quiet Listen There they go Sounds like it's coming through that crosscut Let's go If we go through there and our lanterns get blown out, we'll never find our way back Ain't no telling that'll happen. It won't be any safer here. Are you coming with me? He's staying here alone. All right. Come on They stopped come out Show your faces. How you doing Dan? If you ain't busy give me a hand. I'm with you I got him I got him out I see if you can find the lanterns Then we'll get these ghosts up to the surface and find out who they are They're Lately we've been hearing a lot of talk about the new t hi T hi stands for temperature humidity index. It's a new wrinkle from the weather bureau Here at cbs radio. We have an li laughter index The li is at its peak every weekday evening in a great hour of comedy entertainment that reaches you right here on this station Among the headliners on our li are those veteran shortle champions amos and andy Every evening monday through friday here amos andy the king fish and all the other wonderful characters that people the amos and andy music hall There's another andy in cbs radio's laughter index andy griffith star of the broadway musical hit destry rides again On cbs radio andy griffith rides again and again over the strange doings of his fellow man in mischievously droll fashion And rounding out the amos and andy music hall and andy griffith laugh to the antics of berns and ellen and bob and ray You'll find them all on evening comedy time keeping cbs radio's laughter index high as a dizzy kite Dan found the lanterns and we made our way back to the main shaft He carried the limp form of the man i had tussled with and i forced the other one along with the hammer lock The engineer had lowered the cage back to our level after he had found it empty on the false alarm hoist On our signal. He brought us up to the sunlight and fresh air. Mr. Curry was still in the office when we got back All right, you get on in there Your ghosts mr. Curry Throw him over on the bunk dan. Looks like he'll be out for a while. Yeah, and it's for you. Have a seat in that chair Mr. Curry Ever see this man before No, I don't think so view dan No, they never work for us. Now. Where'd you find them in the mine yelling like banshees dan and I followed their voices And they jumped us Now what's your name? Speak up, mr. I'll work you over like I did your partner Oh You heard mr. Curry. Now. What's your name? Don't matter How did you get in the mine? Who sent you down there? I can't tell they'll kill me. They won't get a chance. I'll do it for them. All right I'll tell you all right now. Who did it? The humble mind I'll work for them. How'd you get over here? Weeks ago. We drilled through your side at the 1200 foot level Mr. Buster the owner came down said he was going to look around He waited until everything was quiet and went over I guess he found you had a rich vein because he took some samples Then he had the connecting hole caved in with dynamite I think I know the rest that darn fool belcher started the fire too. No, sir. Mr. Curry We didn't start the fire. That's something that just happened But after it was all over we drilled through one of the upper levels and started our ghosting Mr. Buster had us do that I guess it seemed to fit in after all those men were killed in the fire Yeah, belcher knew I had a bonanza. So if he scared all my men off he could take what he wanted That cheating fuzzy snake. I'll sue him for every penny he's got What do you want done with these men mr. Curry? Send them back to belcher No, no don't do that. He'll kill me sure. All right. I don't care turn them loose. I got no use for them It's belcher. I'm going after Now right now. I'm going down to san francisco and get my lawyers started on this You care to go with me peloton I like that very much. Oh I almost forgot Mrs. Curry told me to invite you to the big railroad ball tomorrow night here in virginia city Maybe you'd rather stay over for that Well It was all the same to you mr. Curry. I just assumed head back to san francisco Yeah, I don't say as I blame you Oh, by the way since emma will be staying here I'll see to it that we get steak on that train instead of that quail and plenty of irish whiskey Now that's one trip. I'm going to look forward to mr. Curry Oh, mr. Paladin welcome home. Thank you. Hey boy. Oh, you leave the bags outside in the court. Would you get them for me, please? Oh, yes, sir Oh, uh, mr. Paladin Yes, uh, did you see silver mine in virginia city? The one which belonged with uh stock papers the consolidated nevada Yes, I did. Oh, what do you think? We're making lots of money. Well, we'll have to wait and see. Hey boy It could be in a month or so that your shares your two shares will be worth a thousand dollars Oh Thousand dollars Thousand dollars. 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