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Well, it's fancy running into you here. I'm just kidding.
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How are you, my dear. I hope you're well. I
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hope you've managed to keep yourself yourself warm. My goodness,
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it's so cold out there, so unbelievably unforgiving. It makes
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me think sometimes when the weather gets like this, that
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I wish I could. I don't know, I don't. Oh,
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please help yourself to some tea, a blanket, blanket. I
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know these stone walls get very, very cold. I guess
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sometimes I wonder if I might want to run south
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for the winter winter. I always hear about that, and
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it sounds absolutely delightful, but I never have, and that
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that's what brings me reached to Tonight's stores. Run Faster
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because sometimes it's the only option we have, so enjoy
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and stay with us.
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And now a tale well calculated to keep you in
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soft spence in a moment. Act won a Run Faster
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written especially for suspense by Lowest Landauer. Funny how a
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guy can have all the ingredients for happiness you still
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want things that are wrong for him. The whole time
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I was in the hospital after flying in Korea, I
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kept telling myself how wonderful it'd be when Chris and
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I got married, a little white house, simple happy life.
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I got my discharge and we had the house and
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the simple life, too simple. The range station where I
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got a job was on a small emergency landing field,
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so I was supposed to double on tower work for
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emergency landings only if it weren't any build. My relief
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man and my brother Dink lived with us. Dink didn't
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know beans about flying, but he got the same charge
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I did just being around it. He was over at
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the field the night the big fog moved in. Chris
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was fixing the suffare I took on the midnight shift.
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Can you think two sandwiches will be enough?
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Sure?
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I got to put in a piece of cake. You
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didn't eat much dinner.
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No sandwiches will be enough?
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Well, I'll just put it in. You can't tell.
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You might get hungry the sandwiches are enough. What's the matter, darling,
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nothing's the matter?
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Is it the dog?
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What's the dog.
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Got to do with me?
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I don't know.
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You just you just thought so funny. Every time the
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weather's like me.
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Wait, wait, wait a minute, what's the master hold?
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It just a plan to here?
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And I thought he was in trouble for a minute.
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Oh, Bill's on duty. He take care.
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Yeah, Bill always gets him. But do I I sit
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in that jack night after night and what happens? Nothing?
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Is that so important?
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Important? Do you think I made a saw dust.
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Married life getting you down?
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Dave?
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Oh for crying out?
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I guess it must be pretty dull after Korea.
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I didn't say that thinking it all right? So I
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like a little excitement once in a while. Is that
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so terrible?
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No? I guess we're just different, that's all.
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It's not that. What then you wouldn't understand You weren't there, darling.
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Well maybe if you got away from planes, Chris.
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I don't want to get away from plane.
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That job is still open in Clinton. No, we could
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afford to build our own house in town if you
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took it.
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What's wrong with this house?
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Nothing? But we're so far away from everything?
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What do you mean far? Clinton's only two hours away,
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and there's Bill and dank.
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Kank should have young people.
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You've still got a few years left, Grandma. Anyway, he
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likes it here. Look at all the time he spends
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over the field.
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Oh honey, that brother of yours are like anything you did?
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You know that if you'd get this flying bug out
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of your system, Dank would probably get over too.
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I don't want to talk about it, but it's true.
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Day. I hate to keep harping up.
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Then, don't are you about finished with those sandwiches?
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You still have half an hour?
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Bill overslept this morning, but he asked me to relieve
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him early. He's a big date in Clinton tonight.
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Oh, Dave, that's my thing.
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What's the difference, Well, of course.
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It doesn't matter to build the house he keeps. He
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has no wife waiting around at home. I think he's
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being very inconsiderate. This is the third time this month.
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Look, I want to get over to the airport. Do
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you mind?
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The thermos is on the sink. You can fill it.
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I just washed it, all right, I broke it? Is
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that so tragic?
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Oh?
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Here it is?
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Yeah?
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I know.
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If we lived in town, we'd get one of the
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corner drug store in town.
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You wouldn't have a job where you take midnight suppers.
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Well we're not in town. We're living where planes come
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in and go out. You understand now, I have to
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bust a thermos bottle to get some excitement. I'll bust
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one every five minutes.
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I like that.
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Stick and getting thicker. Before I'd gone a dozen yards,
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our house was a shapeless blur behind me, and then
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it was gone. I thought of Chris alone back there,
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cut off from the world. I felt like a great
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a heel for acting up like that. A Bill cut
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out as soon as I got to the shack. Digg's
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wheelchair was close to the radar panel as usual, but
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there wasn't a blip inside as usual. Uh, something wrong.
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That's the same old stuff, Chris. Huh, yeah, it was.
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Because she's a woman date, I guess, so it's not
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so hot for her. Those shore isn't any company for
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her when he's not on duty. He's a sleeping her
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out on a date, and with you sleeping days, it
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really isn't much of a deal for her out there,
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especially with a crippleike near and slow things up on
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nuts And I think I'll check Mercury Midland.
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Radio calling La Mercury Airline. This is Midland Radio. You there, Hank,
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This is Mark.
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Where are lines? You're on? Early, aren't you? Dave?
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Yeah?
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Bill's given the Clinton girls a break, Hey, once with
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this thick.
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Stuff hasn't hit out here yet, but we're expecting it.
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What's your ceiling?
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Oh, about four hundred feet. It's dropping fast though, better.
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Watch it, Army beels Western. You weren't landing anyone without
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zero zero cards.
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Yeah, well maybe I'll have company.
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Could be.
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Indeed, someone's coming. Well, I don't watch anybody have any
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tough flying, but be good having a plain land here
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for a change, Dave. They're holding the minu at Hank
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kid brothers trying to say something. Oh hi, there, can
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I do something for you?
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Mister?
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Talk to you later, Hank? Something wrong, Denk, No, No,
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I'll call you back. Started took me by surprise that
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I didn't hear your car wasn't money when you're running
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a gas that's right. Well, walking's no fun in that math.
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I have a see. My name's Dave Coughin. This is
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my brother Dank. What's this place? This is the Midland
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Rain Station, Dawson Field. I didn't see no planes. You
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wouldn't see planes here on a clear night. We're just
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an emergency field, you too, huh, real cozy, Just me
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and you live here here in the station. No, no,
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my place is about a mile down the road here,
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all right? Sure, I am think here lives with us?
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You know we sail in that little white house tomorrow.
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I am, I'll be the neatest stack of flat jacks waiting.
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You ever saw you'a got any gas? I'm sure have.
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We have a pump in the front yard at your house.
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Huh you got enough of your tank to get down
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the road a mile or.
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That?
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Don't move? Maybe it ain't cash even, but don't move.
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Uh huh waited, Wait a second, let's see door.
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What's that thing?
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This is state phone book out for a number Clinton
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Gables Games garage. Here it is that the Clinton two five?
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What the shoe gonner?
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Door?
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Calling a toe car for? You don't need to walk
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all that weight to the pomp back in this weather.
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If there's something wrong with your car, may not may
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not even be as long as I said. They usually
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have called out call nobody. See there's no trouble. What
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was that number again? We see Clinton garage? Hey, you
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can give me that. Come on, Hey, what do you
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don't try tourting too? Where's that pump down the road
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a mile? Huh? Dave, that's all right, it feels there
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and here's a can. Mister, there's no need to ask
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at the house about using the pump.
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You just help yourself.
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But a mile huh, that's right in the front yard.
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Why should I lie to you? All right? One of
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Miles White House front house. Oh a real sweetheart.
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Huh yeah, Chris, Chris, Hello, hello.
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Operator, I was talking to my wife. Operator, you cut
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us off. I didn't well, look, will you ring her again? Please?
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Hurry it up?
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All right, hang up and I'll call you back.
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I wouldn't worry day. He was just a screwball. Yeah,
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come on, operator ring.
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Yeah.
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I wish there was some way I could get home now.
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It was a clear night.
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I'd take a chance covering for you. But I don't
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know the first thing about radar.
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Hello, Chris, operator, your line A house is out of order.
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We're working on it now. So the trouble is at
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this end.
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That's well, he's at the house with Chris. Well, how
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long will it take? Operator?
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I do not know. Five minutes an hour?
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Maybe I had to say, oh, yeah, will you get
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me Sheriff Grover?
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Did something happen?
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Operator, I'd like to speak to Sheriff Grover. Do you mind.
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Want me to keep trying?
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Yes?
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Please, I've got a warn Chris about that character. Each
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time I'd look at my watch, only seconds had passed.
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It seemed like hours. Something was happening. Hank didn't usually
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call me.
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Murdury Airlines calling Midland Radio. Do you there, Dave?
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This is Midland Radio. What's up, Hank?
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I want to know if you've heard from our flight
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five thirty five out.
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Of LA Negative. Why are they in trouble?
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I don't know. They haven't reported in over an hour.
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Five thirty five is not to do over here. I
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think they're off course.
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I can't say they didn't report over downs. Go with
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little falls?
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What de old to do?
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That's just it. We're not sure he was cleared out
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of here at eight thousand, but with the weather doing
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tricks out your way, he may have been trying to
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contact us for a change in his flight plan. Letter
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Stick close, boy, A lot of people in that thing.
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You're reading me, Dave, I'm not going any place.
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You should have gone to Clinton with Bill. I heard
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up having plenty of excitement over there. We heard some
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metal patient walked out of the big state hospital over
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there yesterday.
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Hank.
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I've got a call that may the or five three five.
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Now, I hope you're right, radio, I better catch it.
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Mark your airline flight five three five calling Midland Radio.
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Come in Midland aircraft calling Midland Radio. Repeat your identification,
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please go ahead five.
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Three five Mercury Airlines.
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So you read me Midland go ahead, Midland Radio to
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Mercury five three five, LA has been looking for you, buddy.
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What's your problem?
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Beat sweetbby TRN to get through four hours and a
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cent to five thousand landing clearance quick estimate fifteen.
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Minutes more fuel than it is, all brother, five three
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five from Midland. We're reporting present weather of two hundred
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feet overcast, visibility half a mile dropping altimeter setting two
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nine er. I went eighty three win from the northwest
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at five over couch. Report me in. We'll do Midland
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radio calling LA LA Mercury Airlines.
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Hear anything, dire.
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Yep, just now haink. I'll bring him in here in
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about thirteen thirty.
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Good. Now, if you even just pick up that lost metal, patient,
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we'll give you a merit badge.
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Patient. Oh yeah, there's no weather for a sick man.
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What's wrong with him?
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His hands?
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Hands?
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Yeah, he's a strangler.
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I sat there staring into the thick muggy night. Chris
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might be alone with a killer, and I couldn't go
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to her because of an SOS. I'd been waiting for
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all these months. Chris only a mile away. Heavy stuff
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outside seemed to crawl in the room as we waited, talking,
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just smoking and listening. I knew any minute the plane
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might call, but I wasn't thinking of planes now. I
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wanted that phone to ring. I had to know about Chris. Yes, sir, operator,
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how about my phone?
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My phone?
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Is it fixed? Jet?
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I told you i'd let you know, sir.
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Well, what about the sheriff.
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The sheriff, Oh, yes, sir, And the line's still busy.
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Oh, break in on him.
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He's talking to Harry Waller. I can't just bust in.
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Well, cut in on him. Operator, it's important.
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Well, all right, but she's gonna be sore.
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Cheff, get off fishline? Operator, can't you see I'm talking.
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I'm very sorry.
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So I tried to tell him, Jeff, this is Dave Cautin.
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I don't care who this is. She ain't got no
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call to be button in. Jeff.
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I'm in trouble. I've gotta have some help fast. There
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was a man here, sheriff what about him. Well, I
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think it's a strangler. They're looking for cleftand he there now,
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Oh that's just it. He's gone to the house and
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Chris is there alone.
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How you know he was a strangler?
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Well, the way he acted in his hands. He tore
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my state telephone book in half.
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Now, son, just calls a man strong enough to do that.
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Don't meet me. He's a criminal.
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He is the strangler, and my wife is alone. You
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got to do something, Sheriff.
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Okay, okay, I'll take a run over there.
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Oh thanks a lot, Sheriff right away.
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Huh sure, don't you worry, our son. I'll be there
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in half an hour.
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Hah, that'll be too late.
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Sonny, my old bust only ghosto.
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But Sheriff a half an hour, he could be there now.
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Meantime, why don't you call Lawn Miller.
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Operator? Would you get me lown Miller?
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Put mister Miller's on your second set?
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What are you talking about?
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Is out of body the same as yours.
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Mercury five three five calling Midland, Coming in Midland, Midland
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to five three five full up, pull up five three
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five execute miss approach immediately.
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Mercury five three five to midland.
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Low frequency radio is out, unable to locate out of
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manor over five three five. Pull up, fast, pull up,
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pull her up fast. The big ship just missed the
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shack by a few feet. The open windows rattled, and
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papers were wild all over the place. An airliner full
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of people hungering only a fields length from me and Chris.
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A mile away. A blip showed up all radar. He
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was close five three five.
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Landing instructions fuel almost.
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Out midland of five three five. Make a ninety degree
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turn to your right acknowledged.
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Race of the right, roger over.
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Midland of five three five. We have a target at
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five miles southwest of the fields. Take aheading of zero
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four zero degrees and remain at fifteen hundred feet over
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five three five, still with you can let me.
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Take him out of hand.
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Daddy visibility zero October a Roger five three five. You're
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approaching now at twelve, Chris. The guys waiting day uh.
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We are at ten to twelve, approaching at wait five
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three way for Pete's sake, come on, turba mine operator,
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I didn't you talk? Five? What are you the request?
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Where are you? Midland to five three five you're at
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two miles over. Is she all right? Is PRIs all right?
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You sure?
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Midland to five three five? You're one mile from touchdown? Over?
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Yes?
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I think? Answer me? Is is PRIs okay? I'm on now?
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Operator huh? Five three five? Turn to a heading now
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to the left of three zero zero degrees, a left
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turn three zero zero degrees, and descend to eight hundred
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feet over five.
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Three five eight hundred feet.
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Five three five. You're now at one half miles. Expect
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to intercept the glide path in half a minute. Let's
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show many story day By three five, you're now one
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quarter of a mile from touchdown. Set your flaps before
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intercepting the glide path. You're now approaching the glide path.
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Your heading should be three zero zero degrees. Adjust your
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rate of descent to six hundred feet per minute. Five
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three five. You are now on the glidepath. Glide path
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is very good. You're tracking on the center of the runway.
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Here it comes.
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You're on the center line. You're on the glide path.
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Approach is very good. Five three five touch down in
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three seconds. Center line very good. Glide path very good.
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Continue approach you at a little more, a little more
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you're on the glide path. You're on the glide path,
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you're on the ground. Take over visually, over and up.
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I'll give you this phoning operator. Operator, Yes, sir operator.
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What happened?
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I totally, I'm a gentleman. The whole thing is, what
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are your phoneus? In six foot? I can't get any end?
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Well, you must not have been trying. Did you need
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to try?
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Sake?
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Maybe your wife says there, are you crazy? Of course
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she's there. I couldn't see five feet in front of me,
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but I knew I was going to Chris, and I
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should have done that blindfolded. The blood was pumping in
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my head and fixtures straight through the fog curtain. Chris
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with dark bruises on her throat, Chris with her mouth
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going slack. Chris, Chris. There was a light on. I
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saw it in the dim outline of the house, and
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then I was on the porch right through the door.
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She was standing with her back to me, with the
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table and moving slowly around the end of it for
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the strangler. He had chris As scarf in his hands,
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and that's all I saw is I rushed at him.
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You have to stop.
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Your scar it belongs to you.
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From my scar. It's shoe kits.
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So you okay?
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A you all right? Baby?
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Oh Dave?
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I know, honey, it's all right.
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I'm glad you got her.
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I don't know how much longer I could have held out.
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You were fine.
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I tried to be gentle. He liked the scar, so
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I gave it to him.
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I don't know why I should.
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Have been afraid. It was just like a child. All
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he wanted was Gentlenessn't it something about him?
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I was scared.
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It's all right, baby, Oh darling.
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I wanted to hear so much. In the excitement, I
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forgot who could hurt you?
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What did you say?
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I said?
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In excitement? Yeah, I guess that's what it was. All right,
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That's what you wanted, wasn't it? Day No hone, That's
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what I thought I wanted. I'll call the hospital. Saft Spence,
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you've been listening to Run Faster. Written especially for Suspense
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by Lors Lendauer. Suspense is produced and directed by Fred Hendrickson.
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Heard in Tonight's story were Jimmy Blaine, Jimsy Summers, Bill Lipton,
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Roger de Covin, Bob Reddick, Ted Pavel, and Guy Rept
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Music supervision by Ethel Huber, sound patterns by Walter Otto,
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technical direction by Fred Cusick. This is due met Speaking.
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Listen again next week when we return with The Silver Shoe,
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written by Robert Reddick. Another tale well calculated to keep
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you in suspence.
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Ah, what better way to get your blood pumping than that.
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I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I did.
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I did. Oh, I do hope this wind lets out well.
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I have plenty of firewood and plenty of company, plenty
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of hot tea. I don't suppose I should can consider
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this a bad night at all. But what's that? Oh no, no, no, no, no,
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don't you worry a little bit about me. I'll be
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just fine, Honestly. The thing I'm most concerned with now
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is that you get yourself home to that warm bed
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of yours, where you can relax and drift away to
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the land of now. I myself need to get moving.
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The sun will be up soon. It will bring warmth,
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but not the kind that I can appreciate. No, I'll
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be going back to wherever it is I come from.
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So until tomorrow, stay will day and remember and be
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thankful for what you have.
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Any mumbling virey of Patent
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