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Death Wears a Mask

The Green Hornet · April 11, 1944 · 29 min · 4,686 words

The transcript of “Death Wears a Mask”, an episode of The Green Hornet first broadcast April 11, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Green Hornet plays The Green Hornet free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Green Hornet. He hunts the biggest of all game. Public enemies who try to destroy our America. With his faithful Filipino valet Kato, Britt Reid, daring young publisher,

matches wits with racketeers and saboteurs, risking his life that criminals and enemy spies will feel the weight of the law by the sting of the Green Hornet. Wide with Britt Reid in a thrilling adventure, when fools rush in, The green hornets likes again.

Who wouldn't give Hitler the time of day, would you? No American would. And yet every day there are many of us who are giving him information a lot more vital through careless talk.

Remember the enemy has agents all around us picking up seemingly harmless bits of our small talk and fitting them into a pattern of deadly value. Therefore, it's best that we all follow a few simple rules to guarantee that no information will get into enemy hands.

If you hear it from someone, don't repeat it. If you see it yourself, don't repeat it. But if you read it in newspapers or magazines or hear it on the radio, you can talk about it to your heart's content.

Just remember that the enemy is listening to what you have to say. Think before you talk, because careless talk costs lives. And now, the green hornet. Whoa! Anton Wyckoff sat at his desk in the study of his home.

The desk lamp threw weird shadows about the otherwise darkened room. As he leaned forward over the papers before him, he failed to hear the door open and close, or to notice the dark figure that moved quietly and slowly toward him.

Suddenly, Wycoth became conscious of the other's presence and looked up, startled. Who, who's that? What are you doing here? Well, speak up. What do you want? What's the meaning of this? Say something. I can't see you very well, but...

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